Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday. Welcome to the Giant BombCast. December third,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, Episode eight hundred and sixty nine. Giant
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Speaker 1: And that's about as much as I can promise you
Speaker 1: on this episode. I think I might, I might quite
Speaker 1: quit this episode.
Speaker 2: What's wrong? I'm not.
Speaker 3: I don't know if there's anything wrong. I don't feel
Speaker 3: like it. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, I know. I was just saying, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna let these boys handle this one mostly, and so yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm here. That's what I can promise.
Speaker 1: It's okay, We'll just like politely. Yeah, Dan, it's it's
Speaker 1: all on you. New news man, breaking news here. Dan
Speaker 1: record is on the case.
Speaker 5: That's just in the Vampire Survivors is good?
Speaker 3: Who there?
Speaker 2: It is all right?
Speaker 5: Emails the news up top this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, Dan.
Speaker 1: What's the email address?
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Speaker 2: So an extra bad today, everybody. Oh that's oh that
Speaker 2: was I'm sorry sorry for that noise. That was just
Speaker 2: the bad blood flowing through me and hitting all the
Speaker 2: bad points. It makes me, It makes me moan.
Speaker 3: You're shot? Do you your bad point? Yeah? You said
Speaker 3: you're quick quitting. I gotta juice this but up a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 2: You know what, what's happening with your blood?
Speaker 5: The bad blood? Like that pay per view you know
Speaker 5: views ago we had war games? Do you see the
Speaker 5: new day?
Speaker 1: Oh god, I can't wait till that happens to us.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Who's the Who's the one, Who's the who's like the
Speaker 1: sad one? Who's the big ee you? You admit you
Speaker 1: be the big eie and we'll be super mean to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Should check the post I put up
Speaker 2: on Blue Sky just now.
Speaker 5: I remember them just roasting me for over five minutes
Speaker 5: straight because I fucked up the intro of their podcast
Speaker 5: and so it's like, no, I've seen how me and
Speaker 5: these guys can be. They just raked me over the
Speaker 5: coals for five straight minutes. They're way funnier about it
Speaker 5: with me, though.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember listening to that and just thinking like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is so weird because I know one of them
Speaker 1: very well. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a really incredible piece of work last night,
Speaker 5: and that was very good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, glad to see that. You know, a good,
Speaker 1: good episode of wrestling all around.
Speaker 2: Huh, it was, it was, it was a good one.
Speaker 2: Enjoy that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, grewub what quiet quitting? Why don't you feel like
Speaker 1: it today? It's because did you have too much turkey?
Speaker 1: Did you not have enough turkey?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's definitely part of It's the long weekend,
Speaker 3: right at the four day weekend, and then you get
Speaker 3: to the end of it, you're like, well, I didn't
Speaker 3: get to do all the things I thought I was
Speaker 3: gonna do, and then now I gotta go do the
Speaker 3: things I don't want to do. And there's still plenty
Speaker 3: of things I want to do work, but barely get
Speaker 3: to do some of those because we're so busy. So
Speaker 3: uh yeah, it's I'm like I'll just come in like.
Speaker 3: Another part of it is like I just you know,
Speaker 3: I'm playing a game, not gonna be able to talk
Speaker 3: about it. So I'm like, I should I should have
Speaker 3: made time for these other games, but I was having
Speaker 3: fun playing that, So I don't know. It's just I'm
Speaker 3: gonna come in here with not much to talk about,
Speaker 3: right Yeah. So yeah, that's the mood that got set
Speaker 3: as we were getting started. I'm like, and you guys
Speaker 3: were having fun. I'm like, I'm not for me.
Speaker 1: Oh man, you thumbs down us like.
Speaker 3: You yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh man, power bomb me through a table real quick.
Speaker 3: I do have some some questions about the weekend it was.
Speaker 3: There were a lot of movies that came out. Uh,
Speaker 3: did you got any of you guys see Gladiator too?
Speaker 2: I want to? I want you to.
Speaker 1: Did you all participate in Clicked but did not plan Clicked, Clicked,
Speaker 1: Glick and then Wicked? Yeah, well you know I do.
Speaker 1: That's clicked Dad. That sounds like a better weekend than
Speaker 1: how the reviews look. Oh the Wicked? No, no of
Speaker 1: Gladiator too?
Speaker 2: Oh? I thought that was just to be okay.
Speaker 1: I think that's what exactly what it was. It is
Speaker 1: just okay.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like they're like it takes like four people
Speaker 3: to replace Russell Crowe and you never want to.
Speaker 2: Be in that situation for sure. Sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what was the other one that came? Oh mona
Speaker 3: tu Did you ever get around to seeing that? Mic?
Speaker 2: No? Someone, not yet because both my brothers like saw
Speaker 2: it during the week and I just wasn't able to
Speaker 2: go one because they saw it at a m and
Speaker 2: the other one because he didn't invite me. Uh but no, no,
Speaker 2: not yet. Everybody's like, everybody seems to be like it's fine,
Speaker 2: So I don't know. Maybe there's people who are more
Speaker 2: down on it than that made a zillion dollars. There's
Speaker 2: that a lot of really yeah, how about that little.
Speaker 3: Ton of money? Yeah? Amd it opening all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Molwana one's like the most streamed movie
Speaker 2: or something right like across maybe all platforms because kids
Speaker 2: just watch Mowana on repeat or something. So yeah, people
Speaker 2: are dying for Mawana.
Speaker 1: Do you think like the little gimmicks of the world
Speaker 1: have a positive perception of the rock right now versus
Speaker 1: like adults that watch movies.
Speaker 2: Are they saying red one yes, talking about yeah that
Speaker 2: kids want nothing but Red One Merch for Christmas did
Speaker 2: come out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had to kick it out of the theaters
Speaker 2: because it was causing riots because people were demanding more
Speaker 2: Red One.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pitchforks to get into more Imax theaters changed the world.
Speaker 1: At my local theater, they had replaced all the Wicked decorations,
Speaker 1: all the Gladiator decorations with Red One decor I just
Speaker 1: on a whim, I looked up the seats available for
Speaker 1: any Red One potential screenings. Not a nothing, No, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean there was nothing but availability. So you know,
Speaker 1: let that call your expectations.
Speaker 5: But Dock and I have been chasing this dragon of
Speaker 5: Christmas Eve. We were in Jersey a few years ago
Speaker 5: and we went to cheese factory. We had cocktails, then
Speaker 5: we had Edibles, and then we saw Avatar two and
Speaker 5: we don't remember anything of that movie. We just remember
Speaker 5: having an incredible time the whole time. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 5: and so we've been wanting to you know, so this
Speaker 5: this year, we're gonna be in Jersey and we're looking
Speaker 5: at the movies that are coming out, and we want
Speaker 5: to see nas Faratu. But I think that comes out
Speaker 5: Christmas Day and we want to do the Christmas Eve
Speaker 5: thing like the Avatar totally. It looks like our best
Speaker 5: option might be Sonic three. So go to the cheesecake
Speaker 5: factory and get high and watch Sonic three.
Speaker 2: But it sounds all right, start doing showings for Christmas
Speaker 2: Day releases on Christmas Eve night, though I.
Speaker 5: Thought I looked so far, AMC doesn't have him listed
Speaker 5: or anything. So Sonic three is the plan unless No
Speaker 5: Saratu opens up. So so do I need to see
Speaker 5: Sonic two to understand it?
Speaker 3: Unheard?
Speaker 2: No, you should go see Craven the Hunter. What's that tree?
Speaker 3: That's a random Spider Man villain getting his own movie.
Speaker 2: It's like that's bad though, right.
Speaker 3: Well it's not, you know, listen in your opinion.
Speaker 5: Okay, is it supposed to be a good movie?
Speaker 2: Probably not.
Speaker 1: Look, friends, do you remember that Madam Webb came out
Speaker 1: this Web Connected us all? No, No, this year and
Speaker 1: that's a lie that part.
Speaker 2: No, it's twenty twenty four movie.
Speaker 3: No, it is weird that like hell Divers came out
Speaker 3: this year, right, doesn't that feel like another era of gaming?
Speaker 5: And been at wealth coming out this year?
Speaker 2: Is weird?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I remember it because that kind of like started the Flag.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too. That's where I'm at with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, was like because there's that big rush early in
Speaker 2: the year of like a lot of great releases like
Speaker 2: Infinite Well, Persona three, Final Fantasy, La trow Prints of
Speaker 2: Persian and then Hell Divers, So like I kind of
Speaker 2: remember all of those happening. Madam Web though, God, that
Speaker 2: actually came out last February. That's insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah it is. Do we know if Craven is
Speaker 1: plugged into that side j verse?
Speaker 3: I think so. I think they all are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, is Kristin or Kirsten? The one in Spider
Speaker 1: Man Kirsten?
Speaker 3: Kirsten?
Speaker 2: Okay. And who's the one who was the teenage Detective?
Speaker 2: That's Chris Kristen. Kristen, And there are more than just
Speaker 2: one Kristen, like many Kristens. They're less Kirstens, fewer Kristens. Okay, gotcha?
Speaker 2: And Kristin the teenage Detective is Anna and she was one.
Speaker 5: From Deadwood, the one that powers Booth killed in Deadwood.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm never gonna watch Dead Wine now. If
Speaker 2: they kill a woman, no, he just like bangs on
Speaker 2: her head until she gets concussed and is bleeding a bunch.
Speaker 5: I don't know if she dies. Uh, she's a teenager
Speaker 5: and a sex worker, and he just beats the ship
Speaker 5: out of her.
Speaker 2: Sounds a little sad, looks good.
Speaker 3: Don't get ripped off like that, anime mic, So you're
Speaker 3: probably be fine.
Speaker 2: That's something.
Speaker 1: Then, Oh god, what are you guys talking about?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Also, she is in Assassin Creed one, remember, Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: the reason we like found out.
Speaker 3: That it was like, oh, you're actually in a computer
Speaker 3: simulation because she like dropped that spoiler before it came out, right.
Speaker 2: That's so, that's so weird that Assassin's Creed did the
Speaker 2: celebrity casting like only really one time, and in the beginning.
Speaker 3: They did in the first three because they were clearly
Speaker 3: contracted for the first three, and you could tell she
Speaker 3: wasn't contracted for the next one because they fucking killed
Speaker 3: her and.
Speaker 2: They had a I don't care what they said. That
Speaker 2: had to be a wreckcon plot twist or she was
Speaker 2: a templar all along and that's why we killed her.
Speaker 2: I was like, she seemed pretty cool to me.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I definitely felt like, hey, let's save
Speaker 3: some money.
Speaker 5: Yeah, was she that thame I mean she was like
Speaker 5: Sarah Marshall around then, right, I knew who she was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I was a huge fan of Rocky Mars.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, Buffy Is that like Buffy?
Speaker 3: Why? Because it's they both aired on the c W.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to say Veronica mar was a CW joint.
Speaker 3: Yes it was, Yeah, but uh yeah yeah it's it's
Speaker 3: I guess. And they star blonde women doing adventurous things. Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, See, you can't get your women straight.
Speaker 3: That's embarrassing.
Speaker 2: Let's put out the mic. Check see how Mike does
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 1: Oh god, all right, friends, any how, Thanksgiving was good?
Speaker 3: Okay, across the board.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let me let me run this by you and
Speaker 5: see if this seems as wild to you as it
Speaker 5: was to me. And every we're going to the poll Zone.
Speaker 5: We're going to the pul Zone. Do we have a
Speaker 5: theme for the pol Zone?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5: So my dad, who you know has been on this
Speaker 5: website and beloved Paul Record. He has lived in the
Speaker 5: same place for twenty five years, the same house, and
Speaker 5: he's been getting increasingly annoyed that when he goes out
Speaker 5: to smoke, his neighbors sometimes are coming unto their house
Speaker 5: at the same time, and we'll talk to him. And
Speaker 5: he doesn't want to talk to his neighbors. They're all
Speaker 5: very nice and everything, but he doesn't want to do
Speaker 5: stopping chats. And I told him, Dad, you have a
Speaker 5: back deck. I've said this for years. You have a
Speaker 5: back deck. Go smoke on your back deck. He's like,
Speaker 5: now that there's something weird with the door. Yet you
Speaker 5: have to like put a wooden thing there to lock it.
Speaker 5: I don't want to mess with it. And I was like,
Speaker 5: all right, maybe you get a new door. And I
Speaker 5: kept telling him every year, get a new door. Instead,
Speaker 5: he chose to without telling anyone, sold his house.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait wait, he couldn't get weird of his neighbors.
Speaker 3: Wait that because he had to talk to his neighbors.
Speaker 5: Yes, the primary thing was he needs more solitude because
Speaker 5: he doesn't want to talk to his neighbors when he smokes.
Speaker 5: He also didn't want to get a door fixed, so
Speaker 5: he sold the house without telling anyone. Here's the other
Speaker 5: fun part. He has to be out in less than
Speaker 5: a week. He doesn't know where he's going. What he
Speaker 5: didn't consider the like having to find a new place.
Speaker 3: He gets to be homeless. He's going though.
Speaker 5: His plan right now is he's moving into an extended
Speaker 5: stay smoking hotel until he finds.
Speaker 2: The next place.
Speaker 5: What about his stuff, He's going to put it in
Speaker 5: a storage locker.
Speaker 3: I think he's I don't think he ever moves out
Speaker 3: of there.
Speaker 2: I think that's where he's Many of us brought up
Speaker 2: this concern.
Speaker 5: He's like, gon'll be fine, It'll be fine. I'll find
Speaker 5: a place that's fine. It's fine, he says. Look, I
Speaker 5: won't go into super specifics and numbers and stuff. He
Speaker 5: is operating off the assumption that everything costs the same
Speaker 5: as it did in like nineteen ninety two. He's like,
Speaker 5: I'm not moment to miss until it's perfect, and I
Speaker 5: want it for this unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Put it this way.
Speaker 5: When I was going to Boston with him and we
Speaker 5: were going to split a hotel, he's like, all right,
Speaker 5: find something near Fenway, and I want to spend more
Speaker 5: than sixty dollars a night. We don't need to go
Speaker 5: to your bits. You want to go to the Ritz
Speaker 5: or something. No, just find a normal guye hotel that's
Speaker 5: a dad. Literally, no place is going to be sixty
Speaker 5: dollars A name so imagine that to house standards into
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Oh no, yeah, So that.
Speaker 5: Was a big conversation all week with him.
Speaker 1: He did he like the house selling? Did he what
Speaker 1: can he take it back?
Speaker 5: He tried, after he tried, after the inspection, and after
Speaker 5: the contracts were signed. He decided there was going to
Speaker 5: be a hole to do to move and told the
Speaker 5: realtor like, oh, I don't want to move, and she's like,
Speaker 5: you can't do that. He's like, well, can you just
Speaker 5: ask him if maybe we can just cancel the thing?
Speaker 5: And then the buyers got mad at him, and so
Speaker 5: that's awkward too.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course it's a whole to do to it's
Speaker 2: like the biggest to do. I know. He did not
Speaker 2: think about any of this, so he did, but he
Speaker 2: did go to a realtor like, yes, the realtor, Yes,
Speaker 2: I helped himselves.
Speaker 5: And he's working with him now and finding the next spot.
Speaker 5: So he's things are hopefully in motion. I'm keeping up
Speaker 5: with them.
Speaker 3: I don't did anyone think of like just replace the
Speaker 3: door or I brought it up every year when he
Speaker 3: would increasingly complain about this, and he would get very frustrated.
Speaker 2: And that's not an option. I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 2: Not gonna do that.
Speaker 1: An he has Paul thought about like putting on headphones
Speaker 1: and maybe that's the reason why he wouldn't talk to anyone.
Speaker 2: Uh No, he just needs more solitude, he said solitude,
Speaker 2: But is his solitude? Keep using that word like he's batman.
Speaker 5: No, who is the most solitude of anyone I've ever met?
Speaker 2: Needs more solitude? It's yes, this this.
Speaker 5: Came up a lot, so, uh that's what I'm dealing with.
Speaker 3: It's kind of unfortunate because I think they moved the
Speaker 3: Ted Kazinski house so he can't move into that. That's
Speaker 3: a bummer for sure.
Speaker 2: Sure, absolutely, yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I know, no chat talking about concerning Yeah, No,
Speaker 5: we're all concerned. We all brought up concern. This is
Speaker 5: a even by his standards, this is a crazy leap.
Speaker 2: So we're all checking in on him. That's nice to you,
Speaker 2: but like he's kind of he kind of deserves what's coming,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 5: I mean it's baffling. It is wild behavior, and uh yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm trying to help him with it. We're all trying
Speaker 5: to give him some tips and stuff. But what I
Speaker 5: helped if he brought this up with anybody before you sold. Yeah,
Speaker 5: just like I like the surprise aspect of it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they would have they would have tried it. Told me
Speaker 5: it's a bad idea, because it's a bad idea.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh man, Paul, Paul, Okay.
Speaker 2: I didn't pay me. I mean you would have to
Speaker 2: pay me because that's somebody else. But you couldn't pay
Speaker 2: me to move again. I hate moving so much.
Speaker 1: I hate it.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, oh yeah. Is he gonna make you like
Speaker 2: go over there and help them pack all this ship
Speaker 2: into that storage container?
Speaker 1: I did go through.
Speaker 5: I had some box there from back in the day,
Speaker 5: and I helped go through a bunch and find a
Speaker 5: bunch of stuff to donate and all that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's why you found That's why you're digging
Speaker 2: up some some fundsies.
Speaker 5: Was posting, Yeah, tapes on the floor behind me that
Speaker 5: I'm going to get digitized.
Speaker 1: So does Paul want to move and be my roommate
Speaker 1: in l A?
Speaker 2: Jan want that? Jan don't for so many any reasons.
Speaker 2: Usually Dad is all for your self destructive ideas.
Speaker 3: Something destructed.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? That only made him stronger? Mike,
Speaker 2: shut up, quiet, Jan God intervened, wouldn't happen?
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Gave me an debilitating fear of a medical condition that
Speaker 1: could come at any moment. Yes, yes, okay, I.
Speaker 3: Like Chad describes it that Paul accidentally sold his house.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that's not an accident. You have to go
Speaker 1: through hoops for that.
Speaker 2: He's sending me updates. There's there's some leads that are
Speaker 2: maybe it could be something, but oh boy, got a
Speaker 2: few days.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I don't like the idea. Well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: now think of it. Jan and Paul drum Kind ninety two,
Speaker 1: Jane and Paul living together like Charlie Day and Danny DeVito.
Speaker 1: That's there.
Speaker 3: You go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like Paul stories make me feel extremely
Speaker 5: straight laced when I tell them.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, yeah, it definitely helps you on the
Speaker 1: whole being weird thing that thank you. Can we run
Speaker 1: a bowl?
Speaker 2: Does this help me against Mike?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: No, we ran the poll earlier. You're still losing quite
Speaker 2: a lot. But okay, they ran it after the Kristen Curson.
Speaker 3: That's not that's not true.
Speaker 1: That's not true. Your gas lighting everything.
Speaker 2: There's a new one. What's this? Oh? I sold only
Speaker 2: the first one did What did happen here? Why is
Speaker 2: this that there? I talked about my bad blood?
Speaker 1: Thanks to.
Speaker 3: Thirty to twenty five, Mike has won the more Weird poll.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's our wild very big favor, thank you.
Speaker 3: Right before that, Dan won forty four to seventeen. So
Speaker 3: something did happen. There was a shifting after the Kurston thing, so.
Speaker 1: We'll check in before the emails. We'll see who knows
Speaker 1: what could happen? Yeah, after Dan does the news because
Speaker 1: Grub's quite quitting this episode. Yeah, boys, and the other
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving tales happened.
Speaker 2: I can't pop that sweet potato castrole.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, you never had it?
Speaker 2: I apparently I had.
Speaker 5: It last year and had a similar like holy shit,
Speaker 5: but this time I had marshmallows melted in it, and
Speaker 5: I had no It was pecans and sweet potatoes and marshmallows,
Speaker 5: just some aldi so it was just like standard ass stuff.
Speaker 5: But it was so fucking good. This is like a
Speaker 5: new revelation for me. I love it, sweet Potato.
Speaker 3: I think I'm still a piece of pumpkin pine in
Speaker 3: the fridge. I'm gonna go get that. We're done here.
Speaker 2: I'm almost out of my leftovers. Which is sad. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I have to go out into the world and
Speaker 2: eat more real food.
Speaker 3: I'm making turkey sandwich too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, oh man, I'm getting excited about leftovers again.
Speaker 1: I was on the road this Thanksgiving, so I didn't
Speaker 1: have a proper Thanksgiving dinner. Do you think it's like
Speaker 1: weird if I just have one this week?
Speaker 2: No? No, no friends givings and no no, no, but myself,
Speaker 2: oh self givings.
Speaker 3: Those those things. Can you can do that anytime? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Maybe chicken instead of a turkey.
Speaker 1: No, no, Mike, I'm meal prepping for the month. Baby.
Speaker 2: Are you a spatchcocker.
Speaker 1: It's recently you're more of a spatch cocker. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because then you can just get the spine for the
Speaker 1: gravy easy right now.
Speaker 2: It's smart because you got the neck, you got the
Speaker 2: spine and maybe the wink tips and that's everything you need.
Speaker 2: Oh good. That was That was my job, was a gravy.
Speaker 2: I made gravy. So it was fun. I made it rue.
Speaker 2: It started for like thirty minutes to get it dark.
Speaker 2: That was fun.
Speaker 3: It's nice.
Speaker 1: It's nice, uh, gentle mispatchcock patchcock the fun word, Dan
Speaker 1: And what do you think spatchcocking is it is a
Speaker 1: method of cooking a turkey? Will help you out there.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm going to give it an actual shot. This
Speaker 5: is not I'm not playing anything up. I'm going to
Speaker 5: actually try to pickure this out. And you tell me
Speaker 5: how said some words that were keywords in there.
Speaker 3: I wonder if you were listening.
Speaker 5: I just heard spatch and cock. So I'm going to
Speaker 5: assume it's a method of coating the exterior of the
Speaker 5: turkey before baking it. With you take like a spray situation.
Speaker 5: It's like, you know how you can put olive oil
Speaker 5: in a spray bottom and spray it to kind of
Speaker 5: like misted things. I think it's a way of putting,
Speaker 5: like if you want to do kariaki or soy sauce
Speaker 5: or like a fun like just get dispatches of it
Speaker 5: on the outside, just to do a missting, just to
Speaker 5: get the soy spatches on the skin of the chicken
Speaker 5: before you bacon.
Speaker 1: Are sa not a bad guess? Are spat dan in
Speaker 1: your head?
Speaker 3: What? What?
Speaker 1: What are spatches?
Speaker 2: Like splotches?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the cousin of splotch.
Speaker 2: There's cock. Come on now, Sehn, you got that you
Speaker 2: you described basically like brining a bird. Basically that's a
Speaker 2: little bit different.
Speaker 3: Then then spatch cockings taking out the spine so that
Speaker 3: the bird cooks it more evenly.
Speaker 5: You wouldn't want the spine in there anyway.
Speaker 2: Sure, well, then scratch cocking's for you, buddy, who wants
Speaker 2: the spine. Well, if you when you spatch cock it,
Speaker 2: you can't put stuffing in the bird because you know
Speaker 2: there's no cavity anymore.
Speaker 3: It's also extra work before you put it.
Speaker 1: The other gotta so dispatch cocking, you rip out the spine.
Speaker 1: You basically do a fatality zero yeah, yeah, okay, all right, guys,
Speaker 1: here's here's here's the plan. All right, I'm doing these
Speaker 1: cooking videos on the side. I'm gonna go become a
Speaker 1: cooking influencer, right and then we're gonna we're gonna plant
Speaker 1: the seeds right around October. Will be like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: here's my top tubes for Thanksgiving. You got to sub
Speaker 1: zero your turkey. And then that's when we do it.
Speaker 1: That's that's when we infect.
Speaker 5: Everyone's minds to.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh gens I came back from Japan, uh specifically Osaka.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, games I guess I was just gone for
Speaker 1: a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah that sounds Jeff. Everyone's gone fine.
Speaker 1: It was fine without us. Don't tell me.
Speaker 2: That someone some some were saying I was like that.
Speaker 2: You guys can't say that. Some were saying it was
Speaker 2: much better everybody. I'm loud quitting that.
Speaker 1: I was graciously invited by Capcom to visit Osaka, Japan
Speaker 1: to check out Monster Hunter Wild's couple. There are a
Speaker 1: couple of us. Jake Decker was included. Go check out
Speaker 1: Jake Decker's preview on GameSpot dot com right now. Jake
Speaker 1: breaks down our experience. Their video is incoming too many
Speaker 1: real life family problems and real life problems that I
Speaker 1: didn't have time to work on it. But let me
Speaker 1: tell y'all, I think this is my first time visiting
Speaker 1: a studio and kind of seeing more of the behind
Speaker 1: the scenes type of stuff MOCAP. I don't understand how
Speaker 1: it works. I understand how it works in concept of
Speaker 1: like putting the little spheres on someone and having like
Speaker 1: a million cameras watching them, but in the way that
Speaker 1: technology has progressed. It is so insane because with the
Speaker 1: Ari engine, what the Capcom dev team is able to
Speaker 1: do is they will have these two actors act out
Speaker 1: uh hunter animations uh and monster animations, which is absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: So like the hunter stuff, completely understand. It's a guy
Speaker 1: pretending to swing a big sword doing some of the
Speaker 1: fun animations. They had a bunch of mattresses and crash
Speaker 1: pads around. So some of the animations are for shoot
Speaker 1: where a guy is like full on lunging, and that's great,
Speaker 1: that's cool. But then the wild part is that some
Speaker 1: of the monsters are also are also mo capped, so
Speaker 1: like the Big Bear or.
Speaker 2: Something might bring in their dog and put some pink
Speaker 2: punk balls on it.
Speaker 1: It is a dude full on acting like a monster,
Speaker 1: and he's he's going for it.
Speaker 6: If you have a fun job, Dan, you'd be so
Speaker 6: good at it. You need to quit too, all that
Speaker 6: that's my job just gonna be me wait too. I'll
Speaker 6: be working here soon if you won't quit.
Speaker 1: But it's it's so funny because like with with mo
Speaker 1: cap and like you know, I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: like the Last of Us stuff where like there's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, like we're on this emotional journey and
Speaker 1: I'm not discounting that right of of the Last of
Speaker 1: US actors going through the motions and the scenes there,
Speaker 1: but it is to be more impressive to see a
Speaker 1: Japanese man just scowling his face and just just like
Speaker 1: snarling and growling and crawling on all fours to become
Speaker 1: a monster. It's so impressive, guys, because then they will
Speaker 1: take these animations and then because of the Ari Engine,
Speaker 1: they can like immediately throw them into the game and
Speaker 1: see how they would look and make like minute adjustments
Speaker 1: so they'll be.
Speaker 2: The automatically interpolate the animation data.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: This is how they made that Donkey Kong Country show.
Speaker 2: Dan really.
Speaker 5: What I saw watch it for the eighteenth time and
Speaker 5: with a new appreciation, and it.
Speaker 1: Was really really really cool because they they took their
Speaker 1: craft very seriously and because like, uh, the same guy
Speaker 1: that was the monster immediately switched characters and switched his
Speaker 1: vibe because then he became your palaco And it was
Speaker 1: a little bit unnerving. I skated on Blue Sky earlier today,
Speaker 1: but this guy goes from like snarling on all fours
Speaker 1: to like being like a little catman and it kind
Speaker 1: of now makes me feel some type of way about
Speaker 1: my Palaico that it's actually a Japanese man hiding underneath there.
Speaker 2: It's got better than a soul.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yo, Capcom fire gone off on all cylinders, Like
Speaker 1: that team behind Monster Hunter knows what the fuck they're doing.
Speaker 3: Guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got a limited tour of the studio, so
Speaker 1: we saw the motion capture stuff. We had like a
Speaker 1: five hour demo of the game, and I'll talk about
Speaker 1: that in a second, but they showed us the audio
Speaker 1: mixing room that they mixed Resident Evil a couple other
Speaker 1: Capcom games. And the way that they were live demoing
Speaker 1: the synths in the game to properly show off the
Speaker 1: different weather seasons was so wild and like so much
Speaker 1: attention is put into it, like they were adding layers
Speaker 1: and layers of like synths eighty style since and hiding
Speaker 1: that underneath like an orchestral score to evoke like all right,
Speaker 1: now you feel uneasy because now it's like the stormy season,
Speaker 1: and now you feel a monster coming. The wildest part
Speaker 1: of the tour was visiting the fully studio of Capcom,
Speaker 1: and for folks unfamiliar, fully work is when you take
Speaker 1: a bunch of mishmditting Dave Foley. Mick Foley's there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but there's like a bunch of different miscellaneous things, and
Speaker 1: like a couple audio engineers and musicians will mash a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff together to create sound effects for movies, games,
Speaker 1: et cetera. But this team is so goddamn cool because
Speaker 1: they were looking at the monsters that are gonna be
Speaker 1: in Monster Hunter Wild's and they were like, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't have a real instrument or real thing that
Speaker 1: like sounds like what we think that thing sounds like,
Speaker 1: so let's just make an instrument. And then they pulled
Speaker 1: out like something that looked like a Drew McIntyre style
Speaker 1: Claymore and it wound up being an obo or like a
Speaker 1: trombone style thing, and Charles Hart was there and I
Speaker 1: guess he plays the trombone and then he was like,
Speaker 1: so do you guys like worry about like landing on
Speaker 1: precise notes? And then the kind Japanese later was like, no,
Speaker 1: not at all. This is completely random, but we just
Speaker 1: had to make this because this is what we felt
Speaker 1: like it needed to sound like. And it looked like
Speaker 1: it was just a bunch of peevs, sea pipes and
Speaker 1: like hoses put together. And she was just.
Speaker 3: Another cool job, just random killing fully artist instrument maker.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, some of those rooms are so cool.
Speaker 5: Like you'll go into some of there will be tiles
Speaker 5: and it's like here's gravel, here's asphalt, here's sand, and
Speaker 5: like here's like you know, you're just stopping around in
Speaker 5: the making it. Like that's a cool hell.
Speaker 2: Disney World used to have an attraction where you got
Speaker 2: to be a fully artist. It was great. They played
Speaker 2: they played a short movie they made with Steve mart
Speaker 2: Martin show is like a horror thing and first they
Speaker 2: like play it without the sound effects, and they picked
Speaker 2: people from the audience to go to the different folly
Speaker 2: stations and they got to add in the sounds and
Speaker 2: then they play the movie with the sounds.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. And yeah, they they
Speaker 1: pulled out like a treasure chest with a rubber glove
Speaker 1: and like an accordion stepper hose thing just.
Speaker 3: Friday night to me.
Speaker 1: That yeah, and they were like, yeah, you know, we
Speaker 1: just sometimes just fluts around and make stuff just for
Speaker 1: the sake of making stuff, whether it's for this game
Speaker 1: or for future games. And it's funny because the the
Speaker 1: little obo thing or trombone thing that they made, it
Speaker 1: just sounded like but then like because of their audio engineer,
Speaker 1: they did like a live demo where they showed us
Speaker 1: the same footage of the monster they were trying to
Speaker 1: make a sound for. Uh, And then like after maybe
Speaker 1: two three minutes of editing, I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: now I see what y'all were going for, right, And
Speaker 1: it's so interesting that like they think about the so
Speaker 1: many different aspects in terms of sound design when it
Speaker 1: comes to these monsters, because they were like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: monster has is kind of like a lion comes sweeping in.
Speaker 1: There's like a proudness to it. And then but the
Speaker 1: instrument they make sounds like shouts out to the team,
Speaker 1: So goddamn cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds amazing.
Speaker 1: Don't vog will eventually come out, But guys, the game
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter Wilds, holy shit, Holy shit.
Speaker 3: It feels like a culmination of current of modern dig
Speaker 3: capcom in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent, boys, I think it is a front
Speaker 1: runner for early Game of the Year twenty twenty five contenders.
Speaker 2: It's start talking about me.
Speaker 3: No, no, we can, Yes we can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we we can't talk about twenty twenty five Game
Speaker 1: of the Year before we've done twenty twenty four Game
Speaker 1: of the Year.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 1: I only played five five hours of it, but within
Speaker 1: those five hours, I was like, holy shit, like this
Speaker 1: nice game is cooking. Yes please?
Speaker 2: What were you playing on? How was performance? Because that
Speaker 2: was like the one thing bumming me out about that
Speaker 2: PlayStation five beta.
Speaker 1: So I was a little bit bummed out when we
Speaker 1: rolled into the room because we did play them on
Speaker 1: PlayStation fives. Performance was pretty okay. They had us play
Speaker 1: on picture mode, so favoring resolut rather than frame rate.
Speaker 1: There was still some pop in occasionally, but performance wise
Speaker 1: it was completely fine. I was waiting for it to
Speaker 1: like fall apart, but throughout those five hours you held
Speaker 1: up completely fine. We didn't check out any multiplayer stuff.
Speaker 1: We're pretty locked into like just solo hunting, but checking
Speaker 1: out from the very beginning of the game. We hunted
Speaker 1: a couple monsters that were available in the beta or
Speaker 1: the demo that came out a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: but we had full range of the different weapons, and
Speaker 1: I was looking at all these weapons and I was
Speaker 1: thinking like, all right, now is the time to experiment.
Speaker 1: Like I got like the top minds at Capcom right
Speaker 1: here that could probably guide me. But I just went
Speaker 1: with a hammer. I just went with a hammer, and
Speaker 1: I was just swinging for the fences.
Speaker 2: Hamber respond because you do that like just like kind
Speaker 2: of bunk bunk bunk bunk bunk move at a certain point.
Speaker 1: It was great, It was absolutely great. They this was
Speaker 1: available in the beta. But you are able to take
Speaker 1: out a second weapon out on your hunts that you
Speaker 1: keep on your sacred Your sacred is your mount. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like a lizard chocobo thing kind of replaces
Speaker 1: the dog that you had in Monster Hunter Rise. And
Speaker 1: I personally wasn't using it too much, but then after
Speaker 1: chatting with the devs for a bit, they were saying,
Speaker 1: even if you don't like using other weapons per se,
Speaker 1: like you don't want to carry two different weapons out
Speaker 1: on a hunt, Like say you're really tied into the
Speaker 1: long sword and you want to have a ranged weapon,
Speaker 1: you don't have to. You can still roll in with
Speaker 1: two hammers, not dual wielding, but you roll in with
Speaker 1: your normal hammer, and then say the monster is giving
Speaker 1: you a little bit of trouble, you go to your
Speaker 1: sacred switch out, and then you have a hammer that
Speaker 1: inflicts like status effects, status ailments. So now you're poisoning
Speaker 1: a monster, you're electrocuting a monster, or maybe the hammer
Speaker 1: you went out on your hunt originally't isn't super effective
Speaker 1: against the monsters, so then you have the ability to
Speaker 1: quickly switch out there. The Sacred absolutely amazing. This is
Speaker 1: going to change hunts on This is going to change
Speaker 1: hunts moving forward because the Sacred is absolutely amazing. Like
Speaker 1: I said, it's your mount. You get it very very
Speaker 1: early and on the game almost immediately, And the best
Speaker 1: thing about it is that it kind of is like
Speaker 1: a safety I need a break mode because you just
Speaker 1: hit up on the dpad, you call it automatically mount it,
Speaker 1: and from there, your Sacred is just kind of roaming
Speaker 1: around while you are fighting a monster and kind of
Speaker 1: like avoiding all the obstacles and avoiding all the attacks
Speaker 1: so you can heal up. You can sharpen your weapon
Speaker 1: if you have to, you can eat a ration if
Speaker 1: you have to, fire off an SOS flare, so you
Speaker 1: can get a little bit of a reprieve from the
Speaker 1: hunt while you're in it. Also, it has an auto
Speaker 1: feature where say you're in that phase where the monster
Speaker 1: is now heading to another location because you've finished fighting
Speaker 1: it in one specific zone of the map and it's
Speaker 1: fleeing to another one. It's not ready to face death,
Speaker 1: just like all of us, right, speak for yourself. The
Speaker 1: you hit follow on the Sacred, and the Sacred, depending
Speaker 1: on the pace you want it to, will like just
Speaker 1: gun after the monster or slowly go after it. And
Speaker 1: while you're doing that, and while the Sacred is like
Speaker 1: on its autopath to the monster, you can still kind
Speaker 1: of steer around of like, oh, I can pick up
Speaker 1: these herbs, I can pick up these bugs, and then
Speaker 1: the like the little gun launcher thing on your arm
Speaker 1: is a big component in this game, so while you're riding,
Speaker 1: you can can arm it and wind up like graping
Speaker 1: different supplies so you can get an herb, you can
Speaker 1: get honey or like the miscellaneous bugs. It isn't like
Speaker 1: the sling bugs in Monster Hunter Rise. I did miss those,
Speaker 1: but having your Sacred as a form of mobility was
Speaker 1: just so fucking great, y'all, and I can't understate it.
Speaker 1: S flares work a little bit differently as well, since
Speaker 1: we were in a single player environment and we weren't
Speaker 1: connected to a network. The SOS flares are cool because
Speaker 1: you can just summon ai companions for any hunt, and
Speaker 1: you know they're not going to work as well as
Speaker 1: human for shoot players, but if you need a little
Speaker 1: bit of assistance, maybe you're struggling a little bit, they'll
Speaker 1: pop in. And sometimes they are like the story characters
Speaker 1: that you are actually with, which is fun. So you'll
Speaker 1: see like characters that you're interacting with and cutscenes and like, oh,
Speaker 1: hey you're here too, cool, sick. Great. They really emphasize
Speaker 1: not going back to your camp or your hub world
Speaker 1: a lot in this game. They emphasize a lot on
Speaker 1: making these portable campsites that were throughout the world, or
Speaker 1: just embarking on a hunt or a new quest immediately
Speaker 1: from your existing quest. So you'll finish a hunt and
Speaker 1: your companion will be like, hey, you want to do
Speaker 1: something else, we're out here, you want to just scour
Speaker 1: the environment, just do like a research quest, and you're
Speaker 1: free to do that, which I think is great. They've
Speaker 1: really streamlined the hunts overall as well. Like I kind
Speaker 1: of got fatigued playing Monster Hunter worlds because sometimes as
Speaker 1: hunts would go on way too long, they would go
Speaker 1: for like twenty thirty minutes, and.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, I definitely felt that way Yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: mind those every once in a while, but it was
Speaker 3: I felt like most of the ones I wanted to
Speaker 3: be doing were getting to be that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these maybe I'm just so freaking good at the game,
Speaker 1: or maybe because probably very early in the game, but
Speaker 1: you know MLG and everything. These hunts were taking like
Speaker 1: anywhere from like eight to ten minutes, which was kind
Speaker 1: of refreshing because of the focus system that they've added in.
Speaker 1: And I've always had a problem with Monster Hunter that
Speaker 1: there's no hard lock on right with a monster here.
Speaker 1: When you hit focus mode, you're kind of like tank
Speaker 1: controls in a way where you are only attacking forward
Speaker 1: and straight on or kind of like auto targeting the
Speaker 1: monster in front of you. And the focus and wound
Speaker 1: system is great because say you are attacking a monster's
Speaker 1: leg a lot, and you will eventually create a wound,
Speaker 1: and if you hold down your focus mode and you
Speaker 1: hit your focus attack on the wound, you'll do a
Speaker 1: lot more damage on the monster than you would just
Speaker 1: randomly swinging at the different various body parts. Also, it's
Speaker 1: a good way to hunt and farm for specific monster
Speaker 1: parts that you need for your armor and your weapons
Speaker 1: and everything. I don't want to spoil anything, but the
Speaker 1: armor in this game. I know the fashion and Monster
Speaker 1: Hunter is a big thing, y'all. You'd be styling and
Speaker 1: profiling in this game, like there is an early monster
Speaker 1: that I suggest, two early monsters, I suggest once this
Speaker 1: comes out, or maybe there's a bigger beta that you
Speaker 1: just need to go out.
Speaker 2: There's always a bigger beta.
Speaker 1: There's always a bigger beta. You gotta immediately fast track
Speaker 1: because and complete that armor set because you look so
Speaker 1: fucking cool and out of place in this world of
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter, and then you can make your palico look
Speaker 1: super dumb. Yeah, it's great. I honestly can't wait for it.
Speaker 1: And it seems like they've, you know, even from the
Speaker 1: beta and from like the language that they were talking about.
Speaker 1: They're they're trying as as hard as possible to streamline
Speaker 1: the multiplayer process as well, because that was that was
Speaker 1: a real challenge in worlds, especially if someone was not
Speaker 1: up to date where with where you were in your story.
Speaker 1: It was just a big hassle. But guys, Monster Hunter Wilds,
Speaker 1: I cannot fucking wait for February. I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: wait for February.
Speaker 2: It's it's weird. Because I'm still always like, oh that
Speaker 2: those are games are coming out next year, but now
Speaker 2: we're in December, so next month, next year, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait. I cannot wait for a more Monster Hunter.
Speaker 1: And you know, maybe maybe now is the time that
Speaker 1: we'll we'll have an actual Monster Hunter. Mondays in our time.
Speaker 2: Now is the best time.
Speaker 3: It was the best thing you wait in Japan?
Speaker 1: Oh mm hmm. Honestly, fucking cone Beanie, guys, that's great
Speaker 1: convenience store stuff.
Speaker 5: How far were you from an eleven right.
Speaker 1: Across the street?
Speaker 5: Say yeah, yeah, oh yeah, and there's another one right
Speaker 5: across that street.
Speaker 2: I'm sure yeah.
Speaker 1: And then there was like we were also across the
Speaker 1: street from a Coco eacha Banya, so like just like
Speaker 1: the Japanese curry, and then like shots out, shouts out
Speaker 1: to the gang. Jake Decker was there. Andy Cortez from
Speaker 1: kind of Funny Charles Hart shouts out to my boy
Speaker 1: Charlie and like just good, great time, fantastic time eating.
Speaker 1: But Andy was very hesitant about trying out Coco curry
Speaker 1: because he's a big fan of a curry spot here
Speaker 1: in SF. And then Jake and I were like, dog,
Speaker 1: you got to try this. This shit's all over that
Speaker 1: in back back at home, and we were both fans
Speaker 1: of that spot at home, and then like Andy takes
Speaker 1: one one spoonful of the curry and my man's face
Speaker 1: just falls and we're like, oh, no, you don't like it.
Speaker 1: He was like, no, this is amazing. This is the
Speaker 1: best plate of curry I've ever had.
Speaker 2: It's not so good.
Speaker 5: It's like one of those is where you take a
Speaker 5: bite and you're like mad almost. We're like, Jesus, how
Speaker 5: does this a real thing?
Speaker 3: I bet it wasn't as good as the curry I
Speaker 3: had in Disney.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jeff, I'm here for you, but I felt
Speaker 1: you seething underneath. Mike.
Speaker 7: Uh, you know we could go to a Coco Eachibania
Speaker 7: while we go to l A. Yeah, I'm just saying
Speaker 7: we haven't figured out a place for a team dinner yet,
Speaker 7: so you know.
Speaker 2: I would do that, Yes, and you don't. Were you
Speaker 2: going to go? And why don't you go to the
Speaker 2: place where fashion sits? Okay, I'm sorry now it.
Speaker 3: Was close enough. Instead, that's awesome, we want to go,
Speaker 3: but you've been awesome, fantastic place again, Like it was
Speaker 3: also less pressure this time because uh, the gracious folks
Speaker 3: at Capcom provided like a bus.
Speaker 1: Straight from the airport to the hotel. It's nice and
Speaker 1: like shouts out to Kyle from Capcom because he like
Speaker 1: acted as a tour guide the whole time. It felt
Speaker 1: it felt fun funny because we were on like a
Speaker 1: little field trip for game journalists and games media people
Speaker 1: and folks. I don't no one else that was on
Speaker 1: the trip is listening to this podcast.
Speaker 3: Which one smelled.
Speaker 1: No, no, no one smelled no one smelled great. Andy.
Speaker 1: Andy's Andy's fantastic. I love Andy. I think we're the
Speaker 1: bad boys. I think yeah, I think we're the bad,
Speaker 1: bad boy cool guys.
Speaker 2: Jordan Middler, of course that's not Dan Middler. What what
Speaker 2: makes you think this sham?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 3: They put him in a special computer in the corner
Speaker 3: with the Dunce cap and that's yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: Did you sign an extra waiver?
Speaker 1: No, because like I'm not saying that's you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying something like games media people ain't be swagged out.
Speaker 3: Or but like okay, you were, you were the bad
Speaker 3: the good influence for a good time.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'm not even saying that but this has
Speaker 1: never happened to me before. Where Like the group immediately
Speaker 1: divides into two and one, just like normal dudes, just dudes,
Speaker 1: been dudes shots the normal dudes shouts out to normal dudes,
Speaker 1: We're allies with normal dudes.
Speaker 3: But then.
Speaker 1: They look over at where I'm standing and it's like me,
Speaker 1: it's Andy, it's Charles, it's Jake. I'm like, huh huh.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, where are the.
Speaker 3: Cool guys are?
Speaker 2: God?
Speaker 1: And then I was thinking about this of like, this
Speaker 1: is just how we are. Huh, this is how giant
Speaker 1: cool guys did.
Speaker 3: What did you do?
Speaker 2: You gonta do karaoke or something? Cigarettes? I didn't smoke cigarettes.
Speaker 2: What are we talking about?
Speaker 1: I didn't mistakenly buy twenty packs of mental cigarettes in Japan.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make you all get into smoking cigarettes
Speaker 1: while we're down at LA smoking.
Speaker 2: No, that's not getting into smoking. That's bad. What do
Speaker 2: you make your mistakely? But what did you did? You
Speaker 2: also accidentally sell your house? What's going on here?
Speaker 1: Joke's on you, Mike. I don't own a house.
Speaker 2: You got me, You got me? You can make one
Speaker 2: out of all your cigarettes?
Speaker 1: Uh, one of the fondest memories uh is is going
Speaker 1: to karaoke and then finding out at karaoke that he
Speaker 1: was unlimited drinks.
Speaker 2: Whoa, they can't do that. What do you mean you can?
Speaker 1: Anything's unlimited if you can keep paying for it. Don't
Speaker 1: close you light outside and it's next day. We only
Speaker 1: paid for two hours. We were there for four hours,
Speaker 1: but they didn't bill us for the other two hours.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, and we just kept we just kept drinking.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, Jake Decker, I know, Jake Decker
Speaker 1: comes off very well and composed. Jake Decker has the
Speaker 1: voice of an angel. You need to hear that man
Speaker 1: sing Rolling Stones. I was like, Jacob Decker, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: But then Charles Hart, God bless this man's soul. Hearing
Speaker 1: him sing popular from Wicked one of the highlights of
Speaker 1: the trip. And then Charles Hart and I singing Leave
Speaker 1: the Door Open by Silk Sonic Bruno Mars and Anderson
Speaker 1: Pack singing that together karaoke fantastic, ten out of ten.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 2: Are they part of the bad boys?
Speaker 1: Charles is a bad boy?
Speaker 5: Now, okay, yeah, I've been on a million of those,
Speaker 5: like press trips where it's like, let's meet in the
Speaker 5: hotel lobby at eight am, and we'll go over to
Speaker 5: the studio and you go down there and you can instantly,
Speaker 5: even if you don't recognize a single other media person,
Speaker 5: it's like, oh, here's the eight dudes, all awkwardly sitting
Speaker 5: in a circle, facing each other, all looking at their
Speaker 5: phones and not talking. But in that situation plenty times
Speaker 5: I think I found the crew. Okay, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: We also stuck out like a sore thumb compared to
Speaker 1: everyone else in the hotel. Also got bye, Mike, just
Speaker 1: te me wearing pants? Yes, Oh okay, Oh my god?
Speaker 3: Oh did you get some salvage? Okay, all right, you
Speaker 3: got some suffrage, denim.
Speaker 1: This is first segment is already going on long. Okay.
Speaker 1: I split off from the group and Jake was like,
Speaker 1: where are you going? I was like, I need to
Speaker 1: go buy pants, and he's looking at my pants and
Speaker 1: he's like, what are you talking about? Andy's like what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Other people are like, you're buying
Speaker 1: pants here. I'm like, I gotta go, And I walked
Speaker 1: thirty minutes out of the way and I get lost
Speaker 1: inside this mall because the store that I bought these
Speaker 1: genes from that I finally got from Nicky. Over the weekend,
Speaker 1: they had another story in Osaka, and I was superjuiced.
Speaker 1: I had a great experience when I visited them in
Speaker 1: Tokyo and I was like, Yo, your boy's gonna load
Speaker 1: up on jeans and shirts. It's gonna be great. And
Speaker 1: then I walk in the dullest experience of my life.
Speaker 1: Everything there was all super skinny. My thick thighs could
Speaker 1: not fit into anything. They didn't have overpriced the white
Speaker 1: T shirts. They didn't have any jean jackets. I was gonna.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, like, you know what, Alex Bonnello bought
Speaker 1: a pair of Onny Denham when we were there. They
Speaker 1: looked good. I'm gonna go buy those too. They didn't
Speaker 1: have those.
Speaker 3: I don't have those.
Speaker 1: They didn't even have the cool Hawaiian shirts that I bought.
Speaker 3: They just have like regular jeans and regular expensive jeans.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, guys, I'm not about this, not about wow.
Speaker 1: And then jan yeah, and then I joined the group
Speaker 1: and Jays like penciled.
Speaker 3: Rejoined proud of that one.
Speaker 1: Okay, he's proud of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, still laughing, And then Shaky look at him. Shake.
Speaker 5: You can't here listeners. He's shaking and biting his finger.
Speaker 3: Second he said you panciled, and that's also pretty good
Speaker 3: on my finger.
Speaker 1: He's slapping his thigh. Now, oh my god, his eyes
Speaker 1: are popping out of his head.
Speaker 3: Turn into a cartoon character himself.
Speaker 1: Now he's levitating because he smells pie chilling out on
Speaker 1: a window. Uh that was that was Japan, Oh Soka, Japan.
Speaker 1: The video is gonna come out. I swear to god
Speaker 1: it's something a good time. I'm looking forward to that
Speaker 1: game though. I think we should all go to Japan together.
Speaker 2: That would be great love that never been.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, y'all would oh my god, guys, we
Speaker 7: would eat so much, so we wouldn't spend that much.
Speaker 3: I would. I would not take my ocepic that week.
Speaker 5: Now, Mike, would you with all your like? Because you
Speaker 5: know we are the weird food guys here. And I
Speaker 5: wonder like because the first time I went to Japan,
Speaker 5: I remember thinking like, all right, I got all my
Speaker 5: weird food hang ups and stuff. But my first time Japan,
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna eat everything. And I was going with
Speaker 5: timp Terry and I was like, just show me where
Speaker 5: to eat, and I'm not gonna do any special no,
Speaker 5: none of this, none of that. And I eat everything
Speaker 5: and some of it was weird, some of it was gross,
Speaker 5: but some of it was like, holy shit, I'm so
Speaker 5: glad I tried that. This is not one of my
Speaker 5: favorite foods.
Speaker 2: Would you do? I don't think I'm gonna be that adventurous.
Speaker 2: It's like I'll try something, but with sushi, right, No, No,
Speaker 2: I mean it's not that I'm not I'm fine with
Speaker 2: just you. I don't like it, like it doesn't gross
Speaker 2: me out or anything. I just don't like sushi. I
Speaker 2: tried it again in Japan. I guess if people want
Speaker 2: me to, I just don't really.
Speaker 3: But it's like, you know, Japan's got all the foods
Speaker 3: you get anywhere. They just make it better than everywhere else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not really that worried about it. I'm sure
Speaker 2: I'll find things to eat, right, Like, you know, I
Speaker 2: could eat because I could eat ramen, I can eat curry,
Speaker 2: I can eat the takatsu whatever, right, all that's tons
Speaker 2: of They have kf season Fridays also, so whatever I.
Speaker 5: Think Koko Ybani, I think you'd like a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, the spice was so curry grub. The spice was
Speaker 1: so good.
Speaker 3: I know. It's like I am like, I've been laying
Speaker 3: the groundwork for we should take the family to Japan
Speaker 3: in several in a couple of years. It's that's gonna
Speaker 3: be a little bit tougher than Disney to pull off.
Speaker 2: A couple of years.
Speaker 3: They have what's that they have?
Speaker 2: Kirby's there, Okay they.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like you know, in like three to five
Speaker 3: years is what I'm thinking, Like, try to you know,
Speaker 3: get save up, go there. Stefph is unsure because she's
Speaker 3: like she's she doesn't like seafood, and she's imagines that's
Speaker 3: all they have. No, No, I don't know, there's no
Speaker 3: I know, right, I started explaining that and now it's like, no,
Speaker 3: it's not just like different kinds, Like they really do
Speaker 3: have some of the best food in the world. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to lay the ground work and we'll see
Speaker 3: if we can make it happen.
Speaker 1: Speaking about Kirby, the specific mall that Capcom brought us
Speaker 1: to because Capcom had a store there. They had just
Speaker 1: opened a Kirby Cafe.
Speaker 5: That people in the game game. I know that now
Speaker 5: because I played it with Mike.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. We did cook people.
Speaker 1: Yes, so goddamn cute. This was like a little gotcha.
Speaker 1: I was fantastic.
Speaker 3: Uh all right, did you guys do that Kirby Star allies?
Speaker 3: We did?
Speaker 2: It was fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's got a weird game, as Kirbys do, but
Speaker 5: it was a lot of fun in the double tap
Speaker 5: to run run. It's weird and take some time to
Speaker 5: get used to, but it is good. I see why.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 3: Thanks for sure bringing them through that, Mic ye with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking about games that are good, Mike Minatti, you've
Speaker 1: been playing Dragon Quest three h D two D.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I still been playing a lot of this. This has
Speaker 2: kind of been my my go to game for the
Speaker 2: holiday weekend, right kind of playing it not just like
Speaker 2: for sleepy time. Even when I get up, especially on
Speaker 2: those holiday days, I didn't really have to go and
Speaker 2: do anything. I just kind of stayed in bed a
Speaker 2: while longer. It's like, can played more Dragon Quest three
Speaker 2: because it is just absolutely delightful, especially this the kind
Speaker 2: of like fun mid part of the game where it
Speaker 2: opens up. It's suddenlyys like you need to go get
Speaker 2: all these orbs there's all these orbs you need to
Speaker 2: get and they're all around the world. And if you
Speaker 2: play the game without the kind of guiding on like
Speaker 2: how it originally is, it's it's neat because you sort
Speaker 2: of have to go wander around and actually explore and
Speaker 2: talk to townspeople and they kind of give you clues or
Speaker 2: tell you where to go, and that's fun. That's how
Speaker 2: I did it when I played Dranquest three back when.
Speaker 2: But this issue two you remake does have the we'll
Speaker 2: just tell you where to go things, So it's also
Speaker 2: fun because your world map just has all these circled
Speaker 2: locations and you know you can just go there and
Speaker 2: it'll get you going in the right direction. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: just I do really you know, that's not something you
Speaker 2: have too much in JRPG specifically, it's kind of like
Speaker 2: more open section where it's like there's like six different
Speaker 2: threads you can pull on. Now there's generally more go
Speaker 2: to this town, this dungeon, this town, this dungeon, and
Speaker 2: there's side things you can do to kind of break
Speaker 2: it up. But I really do like this structure. That's
Speaker 2: a big part of why this game is so point
Speaker 2: and the world map is a lot of fun because
Speaker 2: it is just the world, so you are going to
Speaker 2: places like it's version of Australia, right, And one of
Speaker 2: the kind of more fun ones is you go to
Speaker 2: the New World and it's you know, just the North America,
Speaker 2: and you find a guy who wants to start a town,
Speaker 2: so you have to have a merchant in your party,
Speaker 2: and then you leave the merchant behind with him to
Speaker 2: start the town. And now every like so often when
Speaker 2: you go back to the town, it's a bit more
Speaker 2: developed and there's more things to do there, and eventually
Speaker 2: that leads to you getting another orb too. Just a
Speaker 2: bunch of delightful stuff in Dragon Quest. Really really pleased
Speaker 2: with this HG two D remake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish I had more time to check it out.
Speaker 1: But there's too many RPGs this year.
Speaker 3: There's too much, And that's how much. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 3: holding like so many half started half begun games, half
Speaker 3: finished games in my hands, and I'm like, it's stressing
Speaker 3: me out, so I'm like, I'll just start something new instead.
Speaker 3: But and then I see something like dragon Quest three
Speaker 3: I'm interested in, and then I start I'm like, I
Speaker 3: could finish this and this and this, and I just
Speaker 3: feel guilty.
Speaker 2: So is Brothership one of those? Are you kind of
Speaker 2: like done with Brothership?
Speaker 3: You want to brother Brothership is one I want to
Speaker 3: keep playing a little bit. Yeah, but it's not not
Speaker 3: a priority, especially as we get closer to the Game
Speaker 3: of the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not like a thousand your door for you.
Speaker 3: Because because you'll hurt me.
Speaker 1: Yes, speaking about finishing off little bits grub you put
Speaker 1: on here Laura Lai and the Laser Eyes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I started this one up because I'm like, I'm one.
Speaker 3: This is one of the ones I thought I might
Speaker 3: like the first game of the yeartime. Yeah, first time,
Speaker 3: and I'm still pretty early and I'm not. I'm like
Speaker 3: looking for the puzzles. Yeah, well I'm not. I found
Speaker 3: like one, and then I've found like a book that
Speaker 3: just has a bunch of puzzles in it and it's
Speaker 3: like there's no way to enter the answer. So I'm
Speaker 3: just sitting there going through this book, uh, answering these
Speaker 3: problems in my head one after another, and you.
Speaker 5: Should wrap those down because they're elsewhere.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, got Yeah, that's that's that's the thing.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm not a huge note taker I'm not
Speaker 3: a note taker at all in life, and especially with
Speaker 3: me when I play games. Yeah, I'm pretty good at
Speaker 3: keeping a lot of stuff in my head. I'm getting
Speaker 3: the sense I'm gonna have to write down stuff in
Speaker 3: this one. So there is a note feature on the
Speaker 3: Steam deck when you hit that left use damn, so
Speaker 3: I'll misplace it. But I'm like, I got I guess
Speaker 3: I am looking for some uh maybe tips to like
Speaker 3: find some puzzles in the world that I can actually
Speaker 3: interact with. Uh, I'm I got one on the wall
Speaker 3: where it's like it says order and there's a picture
Speaker 3: that's out of place, and I'm working on that one,
Speaker 3: trying to figure that one out. I thought I had
Speaker 3: a couple of good leads on that and either thing worked.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing, Like
Speaker 3: I'm kind of lost.
Speaker 1: You kind of just got to poke around some stuff
Speaker 1: you'll quickly learned doesn't matter to you in that moment, Like, right,
Speaker 1: don't worry about any of the posters for in the beginning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're kind of like moving past everything really quick.
Speaker 3: I'm like, eventually I'll just stumble into the thing I'm
Speaker 3: supposed to be working on it.
Speaker 5: Follow if you see red in the world, that's gently
Speaker 5: pushing you towards things that matter.
Speaker 2: I feel as yellow you would have known.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely put some white paint on this. God damn. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right. I like it's vibe. I'm like, it's the
Speaker 3: puzzles I am solving that I can't input anything for.
Speaker 3: I'm having a good time solving those. But like this
Speaker 3: is weird. I'm like, am I playing the game or not.
Speaker 5: It's very difficult, Like I was not able, Like I
Speaker 5: love stuff like that, and I had to tap out
Speaker 5: at a certain point, but like I very much respect
Speaker 5: what it's doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's like that's to me, that's like very
Speaker 3: enticing because these are the kinds of puzzles that I
Speaker 3: find I really enjoy throwing myself at, and I consider
Speaker 3: myself pretty good at them. So I'm like, I want
Speaker 3: to see if I can be up to this challenge,
Speaker 3: and uh yeah, so far, it's like I'm just struggling
Speaker 3: to find the puzzles and that that always irks me sometimes.
Speaker 3: Although it's not so far here, it's like I think
Speaker 3: I'm just not on this game's wavelength yet. Sure.
Speaker 1: The game may also be longer than you expect it
Speaker 1: to be grubbed because I thought I'd made decent headway
Speaker 1: and progress and then I look at the in game
Speaker 1: in progress, I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, well done.
Speaker 1: Thirty percent of this game.
Speaker 3: Shit, yeah, it seems like there's a lot to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Uh speaking about little updates, Dan, you have
Speaker 1: a bunch of little updates on miscellaneous games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just yeah, all the way in the Vampire
Speaker 5: Survivor's whole again, I've restarted it and I'm like thirty
Speaker 5: hours into it again. I'm like, oh, yeah, this is
Speaker 5: probably one of my favorite games of all time. Casavania stuff.
Speaker 5: I think I'm at the very end of unlocking everything
Speaker 5: for that and that level and all of the stuff
Speaker 5: that goes into it is such a like, like I
Speaker 5: like all the maps and Vampire Survivors, but this is
Speaker 5: one that feels like a game in itself basically, And
Speaker 5: so yeah, absolutely loving that still Call of Duty, also
Speaker 5: playing a bunch of that, played a bunch with Kayla.
Speaker 5: It was real fun, Like brought a laptop and she
Speaker 5: was on the big screen. Just double XP weekend, playing
Speaker 5: a shit ton of.
Speaker 2: That Prestige I Prestige in a call of Duty for
Speaker 2: the first time ever.
Speaker 5: I've proceid rehearst time since like maybe Modern Worker two
Speaker 5: or Call of Duty four, Like, it's been a long
Speaker 5: fucking time, and I Prestige. I'm like halfway to another prestige.
Speaker 5: That game is so fucking good.
Speaker 3: It's really fun.
Speaker 2: I definitely, but I like it. It's very it's a
Speaker 2: lot of fun. Yeah, the weekend with the double x
Speaker 2: P was cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they added the prop hunt and I'd always heard
Speaker 5: about that and I hadn't really played in.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I tried and didn't love it. It's just like a
Speaker 5: lot of like watching people run around and shoot it
Speaker 5: barrels and cones.
Speaker 2: You know, did you see that? Did you see the
Speaker 2: clip of my brother trying to shoot somebody as a
Speaker 2: toilet for a while and missing? That might sell you on.
Speaker 2: It ended up being play the game and like this
Speaker 2: toilet is just like going. It's like they're they're like
Speaker 2: opposite sides of a pool table, right, It's kind of
Speaker 2: like he's trying to just toilet as it's jumping up
Speaker 2: and down. I was dying.
Speaker 5: Outside of that, obviously, I was traveling, so a lot
Speaker 5: of steam deck like Vampire Survivors called it with Kayla,
Speaker 5: and then I joined her streams for she beat Metal
Speaker 5: Gear Solid four, which is still just I think the
Speaker 5: best story I've ever seen in a game. Uh, And
Speaker 5: I saw her beat Silent Hill too, So now I've
Speaker 5: at least seen most of Silent Hill too. I think
Speaker 5: I have a lot more respect for now that I
Speaker 5: kind of understand. Oh, it's more than just a spooky town.
Speaker 5: It's actually unbelievably sad. Oh yeah, yeah, learning about like
Speaker 5: neither of us like the credits rolled and both of
Speaker 5: us were like, what the fuck was that? And then
Speaker 5: people explained it to us and we were like, oh,
Speaker 5: that's real sad. Yeah, that was some pretty uh harsh
Speaker 5: rough themes for a game to be dealing with, and
Speaker 5: uh wowsers. It seems like they did a mostly good
Speaker 5: job with that.
Speaker 3: I think that's the response they were going for.
Speaker 2: Yow wowsers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the back of the box quote. You can
Speaker 5: use that for the rikers.
Speaker 2: Oh God, I really like Silent Hill to remake, and
Speaker 2: that kind of get a little bit further away from
Speaker 2: having been in and or closer to the end of
Speaker 2: the year, I'm like, that's pretty high in my estimation
Speaker 2: for the year. Actually it's not quite like, you know,
Speaker 2: a top three contender for me, but it's going to
Speaker 2: be high up there. I was really impressed with that.
Speaker 1: Ma I'm with him, Mike.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not used to the idea of like the
Speaker 5: dude I'm playing in a game being shitty. I'm used
Speaker 5: to playing games. It's like you're the hero, You're the
Speaker 5: doom guy, You're the cool, solid snake, you know. And
Speaker 5: this is like at the end of this and learning
Speaker 5: like what this guy was, it's like, I don't like
Speaker 5: this guy.
Speaker 2: And I was controlling him. That sucks.
Speaker 5: Like I'm not used to that, and that was pretty
Speaker 5: interesting to see. But yeah, that dude sucks ass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's he sucks. James sucks. Yeah, yea god
Speaker 1: him in his stupid hair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, looks like a dope.
Speaker 1: He looks like what actor does he look like? I can't.
Speaker 3: He looks like a goo goo doll? Right, he looks
Speaker 3: like a.
Speaker 2: Goo goo doll?
Speaker 5: Or maybe the who is the guy in Game of Thrones,
Speaker 5: the brother the mances brother. Oh jam It's like a
Speaker 5: dopier version of that dude, right, yeah, okay, cards a great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, definitely yeah, I believe in Harvey Dent.
Speaker 2: Harvey Dent too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, God, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: That game seems a good I don't know if I
Speaker 5: would enjoy playing it so much, because you know, I
Speaker 5: tried back in the day and it was just frustrated
Speaker 5: how many fucking locked doors there were. But then like
Speaker 5: hung up on these locked doors, like, yeah, there's so
Speaker 5: many locked doors in that game. There's so many.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know there's much more than in like
Speaker 2: a classic Resident Evil way more like in the apartment
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 5: And my friend rented it back in the day, and
Speaker 5: like we got in the apartment complex, I'm like, fuck this,
Speaker 5: Like we were gonna play it all weekend and beat it,
Speaker 5: and like we just both got so annoyed to the
Speaker 5: locked doors and stuff.
Speaker 2: I think the roommate makes it pretty clear, like you
Speaker 2: get this key, you go to that door.
Speaker 3: I would say.
Speaker 2: The mechanics, like, you know, besides all the psychological stuff,
Speaker 2: I liked the battle mechanics pretty good, the kind of
Speaker 2: ducking and weaving and dodging, and no, it's almost a
Speaker 2: little I don't want to overseew this, a little punch
Speaker 2: outiness to it in terms of like knowing the tells
Speaker 2: and when you should hip back, especially because you know
Speaker 2: you AMO is scar so a lot of time you
Speaker 2: are just using your board with a nail on it
Speaker 2: or whatever you have, right, Yeah, exactly, it's kind of
Speaker 2: it's fun. It's fun. Uh so Yeah, yeah, I want
Speaker 2: to clear, be clear. It's not like punch Out.
Speaker 3: Really, it's more like Calisto protocol.
Speaker 1: Probably more like protocol. But yeah, you're talking weave and
Speaker 1: you pick your spots, put it on the box. It's
Speaker 1: like punch out.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like that poker game Jeff bought. It's the
Speaker 2: it's Halo with.
Speaker 5: Chips, Halo with Chip reviewed that Stacked with Daniel whatever
Speaker 5: the guy's name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with chips. People didn't see this. Yeah, this is
Speaker 2: the greatest box quote of all time. Decided stacka it's
Speaker 2: not gonna go with It's like the Madden of poker.
Speaker 2: It's Halo and Chip says Stacked could be the Madden
Speaker 2: of poker games.
Speaker 3: Nigel Goodman esp in the magazine and then Halo with
Speaker 3: Chips credited to Maxim Magazine. Maxim Magazine article.
Speaker 2: I gotta know if there's more cos.
Speaker 3: It's not the review. If not, but nobody wouldn't be
Speaker 3: right it's probably in the it's probably in the preview,
Speaker 3: or or maybe like a like they had like an
Speaker 3: E three special with this game at E three. I
Speaker 3: guess it would have been yeah, something like that, or
Speaker 3: it could have even like been in like some real
Speaker 3: player media or something that they like saw the game
Speaker 3: and called it that.
Speaker 2: Okay, guys, I'm handling with chips poo peo pew. He's great.
Speaker 3: He's dual wielding a kembo chi.
Speaker 1: We need to stop describing for audio listeners what Mike does.
Speaker 3: They know?
Speaker 1: By the way, Mike still hasn't stopped floating from the pie.
Speaker 3: He smelled.
Speaker 2: No, pretty good. I don't even like pie.
Speaker 1: Mike Manati speaking about things you do, like though you
Speaker 1: have been playing Mega Man ever, cade actually don't know this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well so so tam got set uh I think
Speaker 2: the street Fighter one that they came out with and
Speaker 2: talked about it, and then I was like, oh, I
Speaker 2: was looking. I was like, wait, there's a Mega Man
Speaker 2: one of these, and I like Mega Man a lot.
Speaker 2: So I just asked them nicely and they sent me one.
Speaker 2: So that was great. And it's right over there behind me.
Speaker 2: If you're watching what these are, they're kind of miniature
Speaker 2: little bar top arcade machines. This one comes with the
Speaker 2: two Mega Man arcade games, which are kind of like
Speaker 2: just boss rushes and they can co op played, which
Speaker 2: is neat. It has Final Fight, Strider Nice in the round,
Speaker 2: and one shooting game. I forgot always forget the name
Speaker 2: of the shooting game, like a shmump of some kind.
Speaker 2: So like the Street Fighter wants all those like fighting games,
Speaker 2: this is more like capcom other more actiony arcade games,
Speaker 2: which is a lot of fun stuff. I love Final Fight,
Speaker 2: I love Strider, and obviously I love the Mega Man's
Speaker 2: so and you know, playing it it feels good. You
Speaker 2: got one set of you know, the joystick and the
Speaker 2: buttons there, but you can also connect controllers to it
Speaker 2: through Bluetooth or whatever, so you can't do two player
Speaker 2: on some of the two player games, but also weren't
Speaker 2: anything else. I just love it as a decoration, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it looks nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I got the street Fighter Arcade one up, and it's
Speaker 5: just like I played it like once or twice, which
Speaker 5: is gotten a track screen for Street Fighter going all
Speaker 5: the time.
Speaker 2: I like that. Yeah, yeah, is that anytime I'm streaming
Speaker 2: now or something? I get to pick one of these
Speaker 2: games that just kind of let it play in the
Speaker 2: demo mode back there, and I think it looks nice.
Speaker 2: I can actually swap out the Marquee because it's megamun
Speaker 2: right now, but it also came with the Marquee cards
Speaker 2: for I think Final Fight and Streider. I'll probably just
Speaker 2: keep Mega Man in there because that's you know what
Speaker 2: I like. I like the ARKDE one up stuff for sure,
Speaker 2: and this is smaller than that obviously, right, but let's
Speaker 2: think about this. Is you just take it out and
Speaker 2: it's all there. The RKE one up doesn't require quite
Speaker 2: a bit of putting together for as much as you
Speaker 2: do actually play these things. For most people, part of
Speaker 2: me is like, look, the RK one up is already
Speaker 2: a smaller version. I know it's more of us freestanding
Speaker 2: arcade thing, but I'm like, yeah, this thing is almost
Speaker 2: more convenient in some ways and gives me a similar
Speaker 2: experience and it's easier to kind of move around and stuff.
Speaker 2: But the ever cade they take cartridges, like you could
Speaker 2: buy cartridges and there's two cartridge slots so I could
Speaker 2: get more games.
Speaker 5: They have the affordable thing too that Yeah, the everricade
Speaker 5: cartridges and stuff. They did they send it to you
Speaker 5: after you said you liked Mega Man on this podcast.
Speaker 2: No, I just had to reach out to those specifically
Speaker 2: because Tam talked about Industry Fighter.
Speaker 5: I always want to try something I have always enjoyed
Speaker 5: Mega Man. Let's just see if that works. Okay, okay,
Speaker 5: I don't understand. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I love jacking in.
Speaker 2: We know everybody yeah on that street. Fine, but no,
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you to ever came for said to
Speaker 2: be this thing. I like it a lot.
Speaker 1: I think it's very neat, fantastic, fantastical.
Speaker 3: I bought another Chinese handheld.
Speaker 2: What do you you got me on these things?
Speaker 3: I kinda I kind of like, just did it in
Speaker 3: a fugue state. Let's see if I can. I can't
Speaker 3: remember what it's you exalt like I just in a meeting.
Speaker 3: I just bought it before I knew what I was doing.
Speaker 3: Hang on, let me see here.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think second got found in the ceiling. If you
Speaker 2: like quiet, quitting your consciousness.
Speaker 3: Exactly, it's the trime, the trime you brick handheld, it's
Speaker 3: called a brick, but yeah, it's right exactly. I got brick.
Speaker 5: Oh, I see it. It looks like an analog.
Speaker 3: Yes, and it's apparently very good. I think retro game
Speaker 3: cour did a video on it, and I was watching,
Speaker 3: I'm like, I want it, and then I just bought
Speaker 3: it kind of without thinking I don't need it.
Speaker 1: Do I want to get bricked up?
Speaker 3: I think you might want to get pricked up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to get breck It's I.
Speaker 3: Wish it had the like the burgundy color with some stock.
Speaker 3: It looked really handsome, but I ended up getting the
Speaker 3: white one. It's it's it's on its way. But most
Speaker 3: of I'm just like I thought I was done. I
Speaker 3: thought I was not doing this anymore, and apparently I'm
Speaker 3: never done, so I might as well just give in
Speaker 3: and go back to my old ways.
Speaker 5: They feel good to put together, and then you get
Speaker 5: all the cores work and everything.
Speaker 3: And like yeah, all this stuff like just yeah, it's
Speaker 3: like a part of that is is very it's animal crossing, right,
Speaker 3: it's just setting up a world.
Speaker 5: But there's different use cases for each one of these.
Speaker 5: I think, like I know, in my pocket isn't like
Speaker 5: a Chinese handout. That's like more of a like crazy some.
Speaker 3: Like some are like the you know really high quality
Speaker 3: and you got to keep them nice, take care of.
Speaker 5: I want to play for a man, Yeah, I want
Speaker 5: to play through a full game. I'm doing that on
Speaker 5: the unlocked pocket. I want to throw something in a bag,
Speaker 5: and that's the sp thing that pulls up you are
Speaker 5: going into a steam room.
Speaker 2: I'm you got the joke.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like some are good for that, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 3: well that will got a bit sweaty. We'll see how
Speaker 3: it does. But yeah, I do find myself like picking
Speaker 3: up these for different use cases for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. These also make like good gifts for theies in
Speaker 1: your life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're like relatively affordable. Yeah, you know the
Speaker 3: I guess you could like clone like one SD card
Speaker 3: and clone it yourself, so you don't like buy the
Speaker 3: preloaded dusty card from Like that's how keep Retro does it.
Speaker 3: Like you could just pay a little extra and they'll
Speaker 3: just send you an SD card. There's a bunch of
Speaker 3: games on it, and I did do that. I do
Speaker 3: like that, but it is also fun setting it up yourself.
Speaker 3: But once you start doing it as gifts, there's a
Speaker 3: handful that are like these are cheap and they come
Speaker 3: set up. Just get those and send them out to friends,
Speaker 3: and most people appreciate, especially if they have the Easy
Speaker 3: UI installed already.
Speaker 5: I find a lot of them are afraid of Nintendo
Speaker 5: pursuing them because they'll have like every game except for
Speaker 5: like nothing first party Nintendo.
Speaker 3: So you just that's a recent development. Yeah, they used
Speaker 3: to not care and last couple of years weird, huh,
Speaker 3: a little less a gung ho on including Nintendo stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: God, I'm just looking at all these dumb handhelds I
Speaker 1: don't need, but I kind of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think I'm like, I'm looking for
Speaker 3: one more after this will probably be has a much
Speaker 3: bigger screen. I think. I think we're kind of getting
Speaker 3: to that point where they're gonna have like seven eight
Speaker 3: inch screens on these that will be relatively affordable, so that.
Speaker 5: When I see Chad saying, oh, I wouldn't mind collecting
Speaker 5: these except the batteries and all of them are taking
Speaker 5: time bomb, Wouldn't that be great if I don't use
Speaker 5: the like any kind of the the gas line of
Speaker 5: my porch because I'm afraid it's gonna blow out my house,
Speaker 5: and then eventually my house blows up because I just
Speaker 5: have way too many.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, you're gonna have to move into that hotel
Speaker 2: or whatever. Smoke I'll start smoking, I guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, Dan, if you need any packs of cigarettes,
Speaker 1: I may or may not have you. Okay in l
Speaker 1: a boy speaking by smoking cigarettes, you may be inclined
Speaker 1: to you his mouthwash after that, just like the game
Speaker 1: I've been playing, and I beat Mouthwashing?
Speaker 2: You beat it?
Speaker 3: How long was it?
Speaker 1: And half come back? I thought we lost the show Mouthwashing.
Speaker 1: I clocked in about two and a half hours. Grub.
Speaker 1: I know you were talking about doing a stream on
Speaker 1: Wednesday and or Thursday of trying to cap off some
Speaker 1: miscllaneous Game of the Year candidates.
Speaker 3: Maybe this could be one of that.
Speaker 1: The list is a first person horror psychological game.
Speaker 3: You are.
Speaker 1: You take control of a couple of people on the
Speaker 1: spaceship the.
Speaker 3: Toll Bar And said, and also I follow up to
Speaker 3: that fish game I played during ah guest.
Speaker 1: Maybe the same devs.
Speaker 3: I mean, we'll look it up.
Speaker 1: Mouthwashing. I really really enjoyed it and the story it
Speaker 1: had to tell. For folks that are a little bit
Speaker 1: squeamish and get a little spooked too easily. There are
Speaker 1: a couple jump scares, not too much in there that
Speaker 1: will ruin your night or ruin your day, or increase
Speaker 1: your blood pressure too much. My gripes with a game though,
Speaker 1: is for the most part, you're just going from point
Speaker 1: A to point B, talking to your crew, figuring out
Speaker 1: small little puzzles. Is the bits where they introduce now
Speaker 1: you kind of got a stealth around aspects of the game,
Speaker 1: or else you will have to restart a level, or
Speaker 1: maybe they suddenly give you a weapon and you have
Speaker 1: to clunkily use that weapon, and sure it's probably designed
Speaker 1: instea away where it is supposed to be clunky, but
Speaker 1: that kind of hampered my enjoyment of the game. The
Speaker 1: story that they have to tell absolutely basshit insane. The
Speaker 1: game is called Mouthwashing. But you are on a spaceship
Speaker 1: deliver like a delivery ship, and you are just a
Speaker 1: cargo ship, and you're a crew of five, and you
Speaker 1: figure out the different dynamics that descend when you kind
Speaker 1: of get marooned in space with four other folks and
Speaker 1: limited supplies start to get scarce, and maybe there's some
Speaker 1: funky jazz going on in between the characters. If you're
Speaker 1: looking for a quick two and a half hour, three
Speaker 1: hour scary, spooky game to cap off the year. Highly
Speaker 1: highly recommend mouthwashing if you're looking for an existential crisis
Speaker 1: game and you don't want to play a long game
Speaker 1: like a thousand X resist or metaphor and you just
Speaker 1: want to slowly disassociate in space about if this is perhaps,
Speaker 1: uh you'll only ever measure up because of your mistakes,
Speaker 1: then that is for all right.
Speaker 3: I think this is from the dove the data how
Speaker 3: fish is made. So if you watch that a few
Speaker 3: weeks back that we played and we're interested, you got
Speaker 3: to follow up.
Speaker 5: I was what you said in mouthw washing and trying
Speaker 5: to picture what it was, and it made me think,
Speaker 5: would it be good DLC for powerwash simulator if you're
Speaker 5: a little dude in a gross mouth and you got
Speaker 5: to clean up teeth and like really get in there,
Speaker 5: get the.
Speaker 3: The string guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, guy run in there with some power hose, black remover.
Speaker 3: Stuff, ginge of vitis.
Speaker 5: That might be I don't like two stuff, but like
Speaker 5: I feel like that would be satisfying, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think if they do it in like a stylized
Speaker 3: way a little bit, so it's not like photorealistic mouth
Speaker 3: that I'm in.
Speaker 2: No photo people like that are yeah, ye.
Speaker 3: Put me in the mouth.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: This game passed. Uh, definitely passed my my screenshot test
Speaker 1: of playing through it, because as I kept hitting F
Speaker 1: twelve I was playing, was like, Damn, that's a bar.
Speaker 1: Damn that's a bar. Damn that's a bar one of them.
Speaker 1: This is a little bit like game. This won't give
Speaker 1: you any spoilers, though. One of the characters is just
Speaker 1: saying I hoped I could raise my children to be
Speaker 1: better than their old man. And then I was like, God,
Speaker 1: damn it, this fucking game. I didn't want to think
Speaker 1: this hard. I didn't want to feel this hard. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go take quick bricky break and then we'll
Speaker 1: talk about the news right after this grub. Is there
Speaker 1: anything I can do to get you to do the
Speaker 1: news segment? What if I play the music, I'll work
Speaker 1: them up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you get them?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, he's alive.
Speaker 1: He's shaking the ropes like my taste.
Speaker 3: I'll no, no, no, now, of course not all right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We got some news here from softworing not really considering
Speaker 3: Eldering two development from software director Hittiteka Miyazaki says the
Speaker 3: studio is not currently considering an Elderring sequel. Miyazaki mentioned
Speaker 3: the studios working on diverse projects, but didn't provide specific details.
Speaker 3: You know, the game did very well. Elden Ring twenty
Speaker 3: five million copies sold, and it continues to sell, will
Speaker 3: continue to sell for years. They had the DLC that
Speaker 3: was very successful this year after the DLC. I'm a
Speaker 3: little bit it's a little bit easier to understand that
Speaker 3: because it's like, Okay, now, this does feel like a
Speaker 3: package that we can just sell for a long time
Speaker 3: and they don't need to rush into elder Ring two.
Speaker 3: I think when eld Ring one first came out and
Speaker 3: it was doing so, it's like, well, obviously they just
Speaker 3: do elder Ring two next, because that'll be the thing
Speaker 3: that just does so well. But seemed like it took
Speaker 3: way longer for them. It did take way longer for
Speaker 3: them to make this one than any of their other games,
Speaker 3: and I think maybe they were like, let's try some
Speaker 3: other stuff in the meantime. Well, Eldering continues to do
Speaker 3: its thing. That's fine for them. How do you got
Speaker 3: how are you guys feeling about you know, the future
Speaker 3: from soft in the games they might be making.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still am curious, like, because can they really
Speaker 2: go back to more of that Dark Souls Bloodborne?
Speaker 1: Right? Uh?
Speaker 2: Sekao slightly smaller scale now or even the next game
Speaker 2: is not Elder Ring two, is it's still something of
Speaker 2: that scale, like well, now, hey yeah, it's blood Born too,
Speaker 2: but it's that scale of Valor Ring. It's a giant
Speaker 2: open world now, because that's what people really really really liked, right.
Speaker 2: I know some of the Souls die Hard still prefer
Speaker 2: that Dark Soul style for sure, but I'm not like
Speaker 2: expecting Dark Souls four or something like that. I mean,
Speaker 2: they have a completely new trick up their sleeve, right,
Speaker 2: But it's it's very hard in this industry to scale back, right,
Speaker 2: Everybody expects bigger, bigger, and bigger, especially when you were
Speaker 2: kind of reaping rewards from that. They're in a position
Speaker 2: where they can kind of do what they want to
Speaker 2: a degree. It'll be very interesting to see what that is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they.
Speaker 1: Go back to you Armored Corps.
Speaker 3: They'll do another Armored Corp. Yeah they will.
Speaker 2: I bet they will. I mean but even then, right,
Speaker 2: like Armored Core six the best knowing Armored Corps, but
Speaker 2: it did to do twenty five million copies, like freaking
Speaker 2: the name for elden Ring Metal Chaos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think that they probably just sprinkle in
Speaker 3: a couple of different things here in the next uh
Speaker 3: you know, five six, seven years where it'll be there
Speaker 3: probably will be something a can to a Dark Souls.
Speaker 3: They probably do go back do something that way. In
Speaker 3: the meantime while they began prototyping the next big massive
Speaker 3: open world game, whether that's elden Ring two or something else,
Speaker 3: but that'll take a really long time, and they seem
Speaker 3: to want to keep things fresh and have a you know,
Speaker 3: a game every couple of years. That's what they've been
Speaker 3: able to do. And I think they're going to kind
Speaker 3: of keep trying to do that. And I think, you know,
Speaker 3: they will set the scope appropriately, right, Like the problem
Speaker 3: is the next thing if it's not a big open
Speaker 3: world thing, actually probably we won't sell twenty five million copies.
Speaker 3: But that means just scope it appropriately and know what
Speaker 3: it is and try to hit your audience really hard.
Speaker 3: And then as you are approaching to do an ald
Speaker 3: Ring two or whatever, at that point, you didn't like
Speaker 3: waste all your money expecting the next one of these
Speaker 3: games to do twenty five million copies. That would be
Speaker 3: a problem. New PlayStation handheld report has been backed up
Speaker 3: by Digital Foundry. Now. Digital Foundry corroborates Bloomberg's report that
Speaker 3: Sony is working on a new PlayStation handheld. Sony's handheld
Speaker 3: console is still in the early stages of development and
Speaker 3: years away from release. Digital Foundry has heard rumors about
Speaker 3: the handheld for several months. The future of offering a
Speaker 3: handheld in home console options seems likely for Sony. Microsoft
Speaker 3: is also working on handheld gaming prototypes, but any potential
Speaker 3: device is also still years away. So it's like a
Speaker 3: lot of smoke here. Now. It's interesting. It's like everyone
Speaker 3: hears about this, and also it's very early in development
Speaker 3: at the same time, so not like people are like
Speaker 3: steaming prototypes. It is, no, they're considering doing this, but
Speaker 3: they must be so serious about it, and everyone is
Speaker 3: hearing about it.
Speaker 2: Right, Everyone's gonna have to have one of these, you know,
Speaker 2: you know, this stuff is like seven years maybe away,
Speaker 2: but that's about the time where, yeah, you're definitely gonna
Speaker 2: need to have one of these on the market.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, by seven years, you absolutely have. Now, when
Speaker 1: I went down to Sokal to go to Disneyland and Universal.
Speaker 1: Over Thanksgiving break at my hotel, this dude had uh
Speaker 1: busted out a gigantic gaming laptop and had like a
Speaker 1: controller and everything, just hanging out in the lobby and
Speaker 1: then I was also kind of getting some quiet time
Speaker 1: and I bust out my Steam deck. He walks over
Speaker 1: and it's like what what is that?
Speaker 2: Well, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: And like do you have good news for it? I'm like, sir,
Speaker 1: let me welcome you to the future. This is a
Speaker 1: Steam deck. And then he's like, wait, what you could
Speaker 1: play PC games on that? And then he was like
Speaker 1: can you can you mod that thing? Can you put
Speaker 1: stuff in that? I'm like, you could pull whatever you want.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think, Mike, you're right. PlayStation Xbox moving forward,
Speaker 1: they're going to need one of these, Like a handheld
Speaker 1: that's going to need one. It's going to be it's
Speaker 1: going to be a skill you have to have going forward.
Speaker 1: At some point it might be the only skill. Isn't
Speaker 1: it wild that like VR was not the thing that
Speaker 1: panned out, but handhelds were.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good call by Nintendo.
Speaker 3: Huh yeah yeah yeah, yeah, Like I think I always
Speaker 3: kind of felt that way where it's like, if there
Speaker 3: is this thing that could be something, but please just
Speaker 3: give me a cool handheld. But obviously that to me,
Speaker 3: So yeah, i'll, we'll, I guess see at some point
Speaker 3: what this thing looks like. There is still chance maybe
Speaker 3: it never does come out, or this version of it
Speaker 3: doesn't pan out. But I think that if they continue
Speaker 3: to like really focus on the PlayStation brand, they will
Speaker 3: always have a PlayStation console that goes under your TV.
Speaker 3: But there's an audience increasingly clearly that does want the handheld,
Speaker 3: so you have to serve them there.
Speaker 2: What do you say, I've been seeing even more switched
Speaker 2: to rumors popping off two in the periphery here. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you've taken any stock of those, Jeff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some leaks of the joy Con that look
Speaker 3: a lot like Joycon, and there is what like apparently
Speaker 3: some third party peripherals are already on sale and things
Speaker 3: like that in some areas that they think is based
Speaker 3: on official specs from Nintendo. So yeah, I mean that
Speaker 3: stuff's happening. A lot of stuff could have been like
Speaker 3: in the works for a very long time, like to
Speaker 3: the point where Nintendo was like, hey, we will provide
Speaker 3: certain stuff on this date, and here it is and
Speaker 3: then actually, no, no, now Nintendo is moving the Switch
Speaker 3: to release later, but those things are still getting ready
Speaker 3: to come out as if that thing was maybe going
Speaker 3: to launch in late twenty twenty four. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: they got to talk about it soon. They do. We
Speaker 3: know they're talking about it before the end.
Speaker 5: Of March, but we're excited to reveal that we will
Speaker 5: be revealing the Switch too during the countdown to the
Speaker 5: Game Awards.
Speaker 2: It is everybody Thursday something. Wow. Yeah, what a scoop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dan, Dan's really been out there hitting the pavement
Speaker 3: to make this happen.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm very proud of that for you. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3: PS five ads limited time PS one boot up and
Speaker 3: customizable themes based on previous consoles. Sony has released a
Speaker 3: PlayStation five update celebrating the brand's thirtieth anniversary that allows
Speaker 3: players to customize their consoles designed with themes based on
Speaker 3: different PlayStation generations, PS one, PS two, three, four, five,
Speaker 3: and a thirtieth anniversary theme. The update includes features like
Speaker 3: the PS one boot up sound in the startup sequence
Speaker 3: and customizable visual and audio options for the home screen.
Speaker 3: So you could just make your PS five startup like
Speaker 3: a PS one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and that rules.
Speaker 3: Yep, that is a very cool thing.
Speaker 2: That's great. Thirtieth anniversary has been pretty good. Yeah, why
Speaker 2: is this limited time though? Like is that gonna go away?
Speaker 2: I just I always wanted to sound like a pis.
Speaker 3: You should keep that PS Yeah. It's weird, like like
Speaker 3: you install that, you get it ready, and then eventually
Speaker 3: it's going to not do that anymore without you doing anything.
Speaker 3: That's weird. It feels like if you just keep it
Speaker 3: set to that, it should keep working.
Speaker 5: I feel like I haven't poked around to the current
Speaker 5: state of themes and stuff because I got the pro
Speaker 5: and I made me realize, like, oh I didn't even realize,
Speaker 5: like you can put these like dynamic Like it's just
Speaker 5: a bunch of like on your old laser micro chips
Speaker 5: and stuff back there, and I want to see what
Speaker 5: other option through.
Speaker 3: Yep. Now they got a bunch of based on the
Speaker 3: old PlayStation consoles. Yeah. But yeah, that that thirtieth anniversary
Speaker 3: video they did was very goodly well done. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 3: some people, some Bloodborne fans are are reading into.
Speaker 2: That because it's like reading anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's just like it takes persistence or something
Speaker 3: like that, and it's like they're talking about playing the game.
Speaker 1: What they're talking about it they're talking about Yeah, because
Speaker 1: all right, persistence in the souls like who is weirder
Speaker 1: Dan Mike or Bloodborne fans? That be incredible if we
Speaker 1: turn this around so that TAM always loses.
Speaker 5: What did they have any twisted the Medal in the
Speaker 5: thirtieth anniversary?
Speaker 2: I think so, yeah, a video It wasn't an astrobot
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Twist the Medal with PlayStation but of course yeah.
Speaker 2: Was was that one of the ones that was in
Speaker 2: the credits and people think it's going to show up
Speaker 2: in some other DC or something like along with Rayman
Speaker 2: I forget? Oh really, But you're right. It's very strange
Speaker 2: because that, Yeah, that's very placed, decent associal I mean.
Speaker 5: There was a time though, like a year probably like
Speaker 5: nineteen ninety five before Crash Bandicoot where I picked for it, like, oh,
Speaker 5: sweet Tooth is like the mascot of PlayStation, and then
Speaker 5: Crash was kind of unofficially that you know, there was
Speaker 5: that show.
Speaker 2: Not too long ago that people actually liked. So yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Strange, uh, Club Mochi. Mochi has a giant limited edition.
Speaker 3: It's actually they say ginormous Kirby plush for one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty dollars big.
Speaker 2: We're talking a home.
Speaker 1: It's a big boy.
Speaker 3: Okay, oh okay, here are the specifications. It is uh okay.
Speaker 3: It's fourteen inches high twenty eight.
Speaker 2: I think I want like love sack size, but it's
Speaker 2: it's thirty five inches in length, so that is why
Speaker 2: that's like three feet.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's not checking pretty big. It's pretty big, but
Speaker 3: it's not a love sack, so sorry.
Speaker 2: Love sack baby of se.
Speaker 1: There it is all right.
Speaker 3: Players are accusing Tencent's latest game of copying. So these
Speaker 3: Horizon series, you see this, Yeah, Light of Motoram developed
Speaker 3: by playeris Quest.
Speaker 1: Every time I've googled this game, I keep putting Light
Speaker 1: of Motrin, very different results.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ten cents tenset did this. Yeah, this just looks
Speaker 2: exactly like Horizon Zero, like you would think.
Speaker 5: Screenshots of it are Horizon like. It's mechanical dinosaurs, it's
Speaker 5: the bow and arrow, it's the hair.
Speaker 2: It's holy just like.
Speaker 1: The like American like buildings, like the enemies, like the
Speaker 1: robot animals are just straight out of there's a bowl.
Speaker 3: With like the horns like just pointing a slightly different direction.
Speaker 3: And that's the only difference.
Speaker 5: Can they If you're going to rip something off, at
Speaker 5: least do an interesting ip.
Speaker 3: Actually, Horizon I decided for us that no, we should
Speaker 3: really all get into light up the motor ram. What
Speaker 3: do we do though?
Speaker 1: What it just like appeals to us in some weird way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, Yeah. It is a little different than the gameplay.
Speaker 3: It's got survival elements, you build a base. That stuff
Speaker 3: is not in Horizon necessarily, so uh, you know, it's
Speaker 3: gonna play a little bit different. But boy, the way
Speaker 3: it looks is just straight up Horizon zero done is
Speaker 3: so wild.
Speaker 2: It looks like it might play more like Monster Hunter.
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, what if this.
Speaker 1: Like kind of steals all the thunder from that multiplayer
Speaker 1: Horizon game that they're working on.
Speaker 3: That is real, there's a chance that it does. I
Speaker 3: think there's a chance that does way better because this
Speaker 3: could very easily end up being against an impact sort
Speaker 3: of situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but it's funny because at the time we're like, oh,
Speaker 2: get your impact is like Breath of the Wild, and
Speaker 2: you know that seems so innocent now compared to them.
Speaker 3: That was right, That was like just like the flavor
Speaker 3: was similar. This is just exactly the same in terms
Speaker 3: of looks all right, let's keep moving here. It's time
Speaker 3: to move on, says PlayStation veteran shoe Hay Yoshida as
Speaker 3: he leaves after thirty one years. Shoe Hay is a veteran, obviously.
Speaker 3: He basically is there from the beginning of PlayStation. He
Speaker 3: started in nineteen ninety three, which is if you do
Speaker 3: the math, before PlayStation one came out, and he's been
Speaker 3: working there ever since. For a while there he was
Speaker 3: the head of PlayStation Worldwide Studios, more recently been in
Speaker 3: charge of the indie relations between PlayStation and external indie studios.
Speaker 3: And now he's like, no, I'm just moving on, and
Speaker 3: he's not retiring, he said. He says he wants to
Speaker 3: stay in games, but just not at PlayStation and like,
Speaker 3: you know, now's a good time to get out right
Speaker 3: where it's like, you know, you have been there for long.
Speaker 3: The PlayStation is on top of the world. The indy
Speaker 3: relationship has actually been repaired a little bit in the
Speaker 3: last couple of years, thanks in large part due to
Speaker 3: what he's been doing where they were complaining a few
Speaker 3: years back, and that's sort of calmed down a little bit.
Speaker 3: So yeah, him being like, yeah, I'm gonna do my
Speaker 3: own thing, and he could do whatever he wants. So
Speaker 3: I'm curious to see what he does next. I think
Speaker 3: there's a chance though, he might end up at like
Speaker 3: Netty's or ten Cent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was taking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe there's a reason why started putting out light
Speaker 1: of motor.
Speaker 3: In Yeah, exactly. Tencent likes to hire intensent and and
Speaker 3: he's like to hire a lot of Japanese developers in studios,
Speaker 3: and he's got a relationship with a lot of those people.
Speaker 3: So he would be a very valuable.
Speaker 2: Executive, I think, because I mean the other thing too,
Speaker 2: is I don't know, I get wanting to move on,
Speaker 2: but gosh, you've been there forever. You must have a
Speaker 2: pre secure position there, a pretty cozy position. I feel
Speaker 2: like one of those companies are maybe offering him a
Speaker 2: lot of money.
Speaker 3: Yep, I think so too. Uh okay. Xbox says it's
Speaker 3: still blocked from selling and launching games from its Android app.
Speaker 3: Google says it isn't. This is this one came from
Speaker 3: Chris Gollan of VGC. I just kind of got copies
Speaker 3: of this here. Xbox and Google provide a conflicting statement
Speaker 3: on whether Xbox can sell and launch games from its
Speaker 3: Android app. A US judge issued a permanent injunction October,
Speaker 3: acquiring Google to open its Android marketplace to competitors and
Speaker 3: allowing third party Android app stores. Xbox promise players that
Speaker 3: it would do that, and it's I said it would
Speaker 3: start like doing that in November. November's coming gone. Now
Speaker 3: Xbox says that a or yeah, they said a new
Speaker 3: like a reverse excuse me, a reverse injunction has been placed.
Speaker 3: That is happening because Google is they're what's it called
Speaker 3: when when you have a court case and they're trying
Speaker 3: to appealing it. They're appealing it. And while that's happening,
Speaker 3: Microsoft is actually not able to have its own app store.
Speaker 3: Google basically came back. It's like that, that's not true.
Speaker 3: They've always been able to do that. I think that
Speaker 3: the problem is that neither company's especially saying is yes Google.
Speaker 3: Apparently a Google doesn't allow you to do that. You
Speaker 3: just still have to give a cut to Google. And
Speaker 3: what this original court case was saying, is you no
Speaker 3: longer have to do that. You can go out and
Speaker 3: make your own app store, put it on Google Play,
Speaker 3: and take all the money for yourself. And that's what
Speaker 3: Microsoft is really saying that they were going to launch.
Speaker 3: So it's in this weird place and I kind of
Speaker 3: come back to with all this stuff where I always
Speaker 3: come back to, are you guys going to care that
Speaker 3: you can suddenly buy games on your mobile phone from
Speaker 3: Xbox directly?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: This stuff is always so much just mega corporations arguing
Speaker 2: with each other. Yeah, and I have a hard time
Speaker 2: following it. And OK, it's like, I'll let you I'll
Speaker 2: let you all sort that out. I guess this seems
Speaker 2: very important to you, so you have fun?
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I don't feel the immediate rush of like,
Speaker 1: oh man, I gotta buy that game right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean even like I suppose if this is
Speaker 3: what I need to install to play Call Duty Mobile
Speaker 3: in the future, at some point, I'm like, one's the
Speaker 3: less time I played Called Duty Mobile. That's like for
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks when it came out. But yeah,
Speaker 3: some people will do that. They'll just kind of find
Speaker 3: themselves ending up in this store and that's what Microsoft want.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this is not an exciting proposition to be personally.
Speaker 3: GOG plans to preserve Warcraft one and two even though
Speaker 3: Blizzard is delisting them. GOG will continue to support Warcraft
Speaker 3: one and two after they're delisting from its storefront on
Speaker 3: December thirteenth. The games are part of Gog's preservation or
Speaker 3: persev excuse me, a preservation, Yeah, preservation program, ensuring that
Speaker 3: compatibility with modern systems will continue. GOG will use its
Speaker 3: resources to maintain compatibility despite their delisting. So basically what's
Speaker 3: happening is those new games, new versions of the game
Speaker 3: came out. Blizzard's not going to be doing much with
Speaker 3: the old versions anymore. In fact, they are delisting them.
Speaker 3: Gog's saying in our on our side, we will handle
Speaker 3: some of that for these games going forward, even though
Speaker 3: you know, I don't think you're gonna be able to
Speaker 3: buy them anymore, but if you own them, we will
Speaker 3: ensure that they have that compatibility remains, which is a
Speaker 3: cool thing that God does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's weird for Blizzard to just straight up
Speaker 2: pool these things. I know they did their recent remass
Speaker 2: but you can let those so on its own. I
Speaker 2: can't imagine that sales of these Gog versions were really
Speaker 2: cutting into the sales for their new remasters. They could
Speaker 2: have just let that well enough alone. It is nice
Speaker 2: that the Warcraft went into Gog versions are discount right now.
Speaker 2: You can use the discount code make Warcraft Lift Forever
Speaker 2: one word, so you can kind of buy those now.
Speaker 2: If you're worried about it. I will say that, you know,
Speaker 2: Warcraft fans could be pretty particular and they have a
Speaker 2: lot of issues with those new remasters. I was playing them,
Speaker 2: and I thought they were good. The new graphics whatever
Speaker 2: you can put on the old graphics, maybe you probably should.
Speaker 2: I thought they played well. But like I said, Warcraft
Speaker 2: people have a million little issues with things sometimes and
Speaker 2: they have a very particular idea of how things should play.
Speaker 3: Right, and at the very least it's like, yeah, why
Speaker 3: not maintain that if it's possible, And that's what they're doing. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Star wars Hunters is coming to PC in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Star wars Hunters was the that switch and mobile game
Speaker 3: from zinga kind of a hero arena shooter sort of thing.
Speaker 3: R Katie Shooter had a bunch of fun looking characters.
Speaker 3: I thought it played pretty fun on the Switch now,
Speaker 3: but it's expanding coming to PC, and yeah, I'm glad
Speaker 3: to see this because it's, oh yeah, this game must
Speaker 3: be working and the strategy worked, and now they have
Speaker 3: the possibility to expand it to PC.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like to try it. It kind of you know.
Speaker 2: Yet we're pretty close to Marvel Rivals releasing here, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I feel like that might be taking over that
Speaker 2: that space pretty well. But so maybe maybe Hunters can
Speaker 2: have a little niche there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's definitely like Marvel Rivals is like a big
Speaker 3: jugger not and this is like a cool little thing
Speaker 3: off to the side. I think that's definitely the case here.
Speaker 3: Crash Team Racing nitro Fueld is coming to game Pass
Speaker 3: this week. Microsoft plans to add Crash Team Racing nitro
Speaker 3: Fueld to game Pass on December fourth. It's happening a
Speaker 3: little bit slower than I was expecting a lot of
Speaker 3: the Activision games getting added to game Pass.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I thought this would be much much sooner
Speaker 1: or a more rapid cadence than it's me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Spind it trip Beat, I've heard. I didn't play this
Speaker 2: when it came out. But I heard it's very very good,
Speaker 2: so I will probably check it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Same, And a game like this on game Pass
Speaker 3: would be the kind of thing like, oh, this can
Speaker 3: do very well there, all right, last story here. Nintendo's
Speaker 3: NS version of Tetris is coming to Switch Online this month.
Speaker 3: The NES version of Tetris will be available on Switch
Speaker 3: Online on December twelfth. This marks the first official re
Speaker 3: release of the nineteen eighty nine home console version. Game
Speaker 3: features two modes, A type and B type. Blah blah.
Speaker 3: Everyone remembers this. Yeah, it's a shame that this was
Speaker 3: not included in part of that Tetris history game Tetris
Speaker 3: Forever that Digital Clips did a few weeks back that
Speaker 3: I really really enjoyed. But at least it exists somewhere
Speaker 3: and Nintendo Switch Online, Hey, I'll play it.
Speaker 5: There cameos from Marion Luigi where was? I feel like
Speaker 5: this is the version I played? Is this a really
Speaker 5: common one? Had the same box art as the game
Speaker 5: Boy one? Maybe not there there was a tingin.
Speaker 3: And tingin did the one the black cart of it?
Speaker 2: It must not be the black cartridge one then, yeah,
Speaker 2: because that's not your ten carts. There's no way Martin
Speaker 2: the Leeds were in that. Okay, Yeah, it's cameos weird. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's look, I mean it's neat to get it on there.
Speaker 2: But does feel like with n s O, like if
Speaker 2: you get one thing, you don't get another thing because
Speaker 2: the drip feed is so slow. Boy, are there already
Speaker 2: a lot of ways to play Tetris on my switch?
Speaker 3: Yeah? This is that is a good point where that's
Speaker 3: definitely what I was thinking. I saw. It's like good,
Speaker 3: finally a way to play Tetris on Switch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, give me Star Tropics too, damn it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that seems unlikely.
Speaker 2: Dora's Revenge whatever the hell's name is they like they
Speaker 2: added a bunch of those Genesis games recently.
Speaker 3: Does seem like they're still doing stuff with Nintendo Switch Online.
Speaker 3: Part that might just be, hey, we got to fill
Speaker 3: in some of these gaps until Switch Too is out,
Speaker 3: and this is the way they're doing it. So yeah, Actually, like.
Speaker 2: I liked the end I played. I play these whole
Speaker 2: games a lot, actually, so I go into the libraries
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 3: That's one of the things I did actually over the
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving holidays play a bunch of Donkey kong Land. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Donkey kong Land too. Would you guys the last thing
Speaker 3: before we move on here? Uh, you guys expect like
Speaker 3: a big expansion to Nintendo Switch Online when Switch two
Speaker 3: comes out, where they try to like repackage that.
Speaker 5: I hope they, I mean everything that's already available. I
Speaker 5: would hope Stay is available. I hope we wait again
Speaker 5: and for them to start no virtual consoling this thing
Speaker 5: up that won't happen.
Speaker 2: GameCube is what I want.
Speaker 5: I want Gamecubee I have, I have.
Speaker 2: I don't expect GameCube. I just don't think it's happening.
Speaker 2: I think I think that they're happy taking those games.
Speaker 2: If they're going to give them to us again, they
Speaker 2: are going to remake them, a remaster them like they've
Speaker 2: been doing with Metre Prime. We'll just Mansion and uh
Speaker 2: when right, like like that's that's a path there. That's
Speaker 2: the kind of weird thing. I don't know if I
Speaker 2: expect a big spans and I hope we get a
Speaker 2: bunch of more games, but I don't think they're going
Speaker 2: to be really adding consoles beyond the N sixty four,
Speaker 2: the DS on WEU like they could do DS. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I wish the figure out a way to to do DS.
Speaker 2: You know, there's some older weird consoles love to see,
Speaker 2: like get turbographics, get the Master System right and sixty four.
Speaker 3: I would love to see Saturn right.
Speaker 2: Sadur would be amazing. But I mean Turbographics was on
Speaker 2: the Wii, right, we have Turbographics virtual probably.
Speaker 3: I think Turbographics does probably happen eventually.
Speaker 2: I hope, so that would that would rule. There's a
Speaker 2: ton of good turbographics games. You can do Tterbographics CD
Speaker 2: games like Rondo Blood, which would be absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3: That'd be cool, and then you can finally play Rondo
Speaker 3: Blood on the switch.
Speaker 5: There's the weird Caslvania collection that because there was the
Speaker 5: one old Caslavania collection that had all the old games,
Speaker 5: and then there was the one on PS four that
Speaker 5: had Rondo Symphony.
Speaker 3: Right Symphony, yes, and that's not on switch to this.
Speaker 2: Day, okay, because those are just PSP ROMs basically from
Speaker 2: that Dracula X chronicle. So that's why that's only on
Speaker 2: pay Station four. So you cannot play Symphony a Night
Speaker 2: of Rondo Blood on like a switch. An Xbox or PC.
Speaker 2: Symphony is on Xbox.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, Xbox Xbox three sixty yeah, Xbox Live version. Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is that backwards though? Like, could you play it on It's.
Speaker 3: That's actually how I first played it. It's solid one
Speaker 3: Xbox one, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But there should definitely be a new castve collection
Speaker 2: for Rondo and symphony that yes, yes, yeah, clearly.
Speaker 3: All right, that does it for the headlines, Jan, I'm
Speaker 3: handing the show back over to you.
Speaker 1: I see a crude image stretched out and pasted in
Speaker 1: this doc. Uh so I'm gonna need to erase that
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Speaker 3: When I was sitting with the other dad's a bibity
Speaker 3: Bobby Boutique, waiting for the girls get their hair done.
Speaker 3: I definitely consider writing into an email to BombCast at
Speaker 3: giant bomb dot com.
Speaker 5: Oh, you probably have to be around just dads frequently
Speaker 5: that like you don't have anything in common with right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is that weird?
Speaker 3: I mean that that happens occasionally. It's I just I
Speaker 3: need my solitude, is what I think in those moments. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I consider selling my house.
Speaker 2: I started smoking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you see, I start smoking and still in my house.
Speaker 1: Yes, Hello, bomb casters and bomb trackers. Last night, in
Speaker 1: the wee hours before I woke up, while I was
Speaker 1: drifting in and out of sleep in between the dream
Speaker 1: world in our own I thought of a thing. I
Speaker 1: felt it both too funny and too stupid not to share.
Speaker 1: So here it is. Boz Lherman ranks. Top five boz
Speaker 1: Lherman Movies Number five, sing Dance, number four musical the Movie,
Speaker 1: number three, Friends, season four, episode seventeen, the one with
Speaker 1: all the singing, Number two, sing Dance to Revenge of
Speaker 1: the Songs. Number one, Blade Runner twenty forty nine. Jade
Speaker 1: from Seattle or j from Seattle.
Speaker 2: I need this one, explained to me. I don't get I.
Speaker 1: Also needed explained to me. I thought this was a
Speaker 1: bit from last week. You guys talked about boz Lehman. No, no, no.
Speaker 3: No, I was I don't remember any boz Lerman.
Speaker 2: Who's boz Lerman? Did uh? I remember? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What's the Mulin Rouge?
Speaker 1: Yeah? The new Elvis film?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so stuff I would like. Yeah, mostly it's all
Speaker 2: on the Dan REKERU.
Speaker 3: Who else? Thank you?
Speaker 2: J from Seattle.
Speaker 1: Good email, Good email, Mike. What would you rate that email?
Speaker 2: I would give it three giant Mike Batistas out of seven.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, we have a live email coming in.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's doing this.
Speaker 5: I think I do. It's not a hacker.
Speaker 1: Someone is someone who's hacked the main frame someone. Well,
Speaker 1: I know who's doing this? Okay, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: I mean who could say all right, I'll let this
Speaker 1: email come in.
Speaker 2: Thenfore you there? There you go. I got that. I got.
Speaker 1: Next one comes from Joshua, Newfound, Newfoundland Gaming Time Travel mission.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, bombers. Your mission is as follows. You have
Speaker 1: to go back in time and lead development on a
Speaker 1: successful game and have it be just as successful, if
Speaker 1: not more successful, in that timeline as it wasn't ours.
Speaker 1: You were going to replace whatever key figure figures lead
Speaker 1: development on your chosen game, but you will have access
Speaker 1: to people with skills that would be considered industry standard
Speaker 1: for the time, since they don't expect you'll be able
Speaker 1: to actually master the technical skills yourselves within the confines
Speaker 1: of this hypothetical. Which game do you choose and why?
Speaker 1: Good luck? Good hunting? Josh from Newfoundland Twist Metal too,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a safe one. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say maybe Tony Hawk pro Skater too.
Speaker 2: I I'm gonna mess it up because like Tonya's for
Speaker 2: Skater two, you really got to make sure that they
Speaker 2: get the physics right, and that could be a it's
Speaker 2: a very sensitive thing.
Speaker 3: Like it's like you mess that up a little bit
Speaker 3: and it feels wrong. We did one already though, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's true.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure off. I want to pick a
Speaker 2: game with like a ton of people in it and
Speaker 2: hope that like my incompetence won't matter. But I'm just
Speaker 2: being charge, so it might matter more.
Speaker 1: Or a game with very few people in it, where
Speaker 1: uh not like I have us to do organization wise,
Speaker 1: but there might be more expected of me, I might
Speaker 1: actually program something.
Speaker 3: I'm the question said, you don't need to program it,
Speaker 3: you'll be fine. Yeah, you have access to people that
Speaker 3: could do. Basically, you just need to be the Steve
Speaker 3: Jobs playing the orchestra saying the game needs to be
Speaker 3: like this.
Speaker 2: I think Steve Johnson's bullshit, though.
Speaker 3: Well, you definitely will need it to be bullshit. I'm
Speaker 3: just saying. I'm just saying, you've gotta be a conductor,
Speaker 3: that's all. You don't have to play an answer.
Speaker 5: I would just have to be the Jaffy on Twist
Speaker 5: Medal too, and I think I can do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I tetra some I'm like if I went
Speaker 3: back and uh, you know pageant Off Alexi pachet Off,
Speaker 3: I had to like be in his position. But I
Speaker 3: know even more so what this game needs to do,
Speaker 3: like because there's some ideas that you weren't in this
Speaker 3: in this original version that I can help out with.
Speaker 2: So yeah, maybe if I was in charge of that
Speaker 2: kill zone launched over Placetation four, it would not have
Speaker 2: been any less successful.
Speaker 1: Shadow Fall, Yeah my game higher Yeah, come on, absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's a hypothetical.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. I've grounded and really kills liberation for PSP
Speaker 2: at least, I'll just.
Speaker 1: What can you do?
Speaker 2: Haes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, ok, maybe I could do hayes. Okay, alright, all right,
Speaker 1: all right. Next email comes from Andreas Nilssen in Andreas
Speaker 1: in Sweden. They write in about flying. Hi, have you
Speaker 1: ever dreamt that you have the ability to fly? I
Speaker 1: had a dream like that in my early teens and
Speaker 1: still my best dream by far. If I combine all
Speaker 1: my erotic dreams so far, they still don't compare. I'm
Speaker 1: still waiting for my second flight dream only almost forty
Speaker 1: years later. Sad face, have a great address in Sweden.
Speaker 5: You gotta learn how to lose ad dream. Flying is
Speaker 5: like the go too fun.
Speaker 1: It feels real as hell. Yeah, I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: wake up though.
Speaker 2: Yeah you do usually like crash at some point it
Speaker 2: wakes you up. Yeah, I think I like did at
Speaker 2: one time, just like this, and I remember it was hard.
Speaker 2: It was almost more like I was kind of floating
Speaker 2: along the ground, and like it took a lot of
Speaker 2: concentration to keep keep I was about the say to
Speaker 2: keep it up, to keep going.
Speaker 3: I yeah, I don't have dreams, I have the ability
Speaker 3: to fly. It's more like I've been afflicted with flying
Speaker 3: and I can't really control and I'm like floating into
Speaker 3: the air. So yeah, I problem the affliction of flight. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Can I ask you all something? Yeah? Yeah? Do you
Speaker 2: do you have a lot of erotic dreams? I don't,
Speaker 2: And I feel like it's weird. I feel like I
Speaker 2: should have more.
Speaker 3: I knew we I'm glad we all did it.
Speaker 2: You just wanted to talk about yours.
Speaker 1: So it's like I feel like that should be like
Speaker 1: I felt like that should be like a.
Speaker 2: Very commenting to dream about. It doesn't happen that often.
Speaker 2: I think we should all just be quiet. Let Mike
Speaker 2: keep talking. I asked you a.
Speaker 1: Question, all right, Next email, it's about the origins of
Speaker 1: the Tanuki myth. High BombCast crew belated, Happy Thanksgiving and
Speaker 1: upcoming holidays. Hope you all Thanksgiving break went well. Writing
Speaker 1: in based on an old quick This is a fat email,
Speaker 1: by the way, it start paying attention old quick look
Speaker 1: that made its way back into the Giant Bomb infinite
Speaker 1: feed on the break. When playing the original Mister Goiman
Speaker 1: arcade game, Dan mused about just where the myth about
Speaker 1: the Tanuki have having giant balls came from being a
Speaker 1: bit obsessed with tanuki myself. After all these years, I
Speaker 1: have the answer. The myth comes from a mix of
Speaker 1: metal smithing history and good old fashioned puns. In the
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one book Knowledge about Steel, author Shigeo Okuwa
Speaker 1: describes the taiale originating from metal workers in Kanazawa Prefecture
Speaker 1: working on gold leaf. These smiths would commonly used tanuki
Speaker 1: pelts as a cushion for hammering out gold balls kin
Speaker 1: no tama in Japanese.
Speaker 4: Mike least before, I don't have erotic treat This is
Speaker 4: a different type of eroticism, though, as a result between
Speaker 4: the inherent malleability of gold, the smith's skill, and the
Speaker 4: durability of tanuki pelts, it was said that the Kanazawa
Speaker 4: smiths could turn even a small portion of gold into.
Speaker 1: A sheet they'd spread into an area eight tatami mats
Speaker 1: add in how kintama is slang for terms of testicles
Speaker 1: in Japanese. These sheets of gold leaf became heavily associated
Speaker 1: in turn with tanuki, their size transferring to the conception
Speaker 1: of tanuki balls. In turn, as an added result, tanuki
Speaker 1: became associated with wealth, then good fortune, further entrenching the
Speaker 1: connection to the idea of to the idea of tanuki
Speaker 1: having giant balls of its own independent a bit of folklore.
Speaker 1: As far as the statues you see across Japan, it
Speaker 1: turns out their popularity is much more recent phenomenon, coming
Speaker 1: into vogue during the post war period thanks to ceramics
Speaker 1: craftsman Tetsuo Fujiwara, who crafted a series of tanuki statues
Speaker 1: to welcome then Emperor Hirohita to Fujiwara's town of Koga
Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty one. Uh sorry, email, I forgot to
Speaker 1: write in your name, but thank you for telling us
Speaker 1: about balls.
Speaker 3: It sounds a lot like how things get like started
Speaker 3: at giant bomb dot com, where it's like just a
Speaker 3: bunch of guys doing like that sounds like balls, and
Speaker 3: then suddenly that's the whole thing there.
Speaker 2: You guys ever see pom Poko? Yeah, yeah, yeah, balls. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's funny because it's like it's did GHIBBLI just making
Speaker 2: another one there, very good animated movies, but like a
Speaker 2: central theme here is that these raccoons have balls that
Speaker 2: get very big. Yep, oh you like stand on them right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they could do lots of things with them. They turn
Speaker 2: them into parachutes quite a bit so they can fly.
Speaker 1: Do you have dreams of this?
Speaker 3: No, now that would be erotic?
Speaker 2: All right, right, no, it's not a clear.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay. Next to email comes from Stephen K. C. Bombers.
Speaker 1: I'm upgrading my computer for the first time in eight years,
Speaker 1: ten seventy to a forty seventy. Two questions One, do
Speaker 1: you have a game that you all that always gets
Speaker 1: installed on a new PC? Two? You have a go
Speaker 1: to game you like to replay when you upgrade your
Speaker 1: PC to unofficially benchmark the improvements? Thanks Stephen Casey.
Speaker 5: We're past the Crisis era, right, Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Actually still pretty fun to play Crisis on a new PC.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's we're definitely past that. I don't know,
Speaker 3: because it's like it's stop being as fun, right because
Speaker 3: there's a certain point games look pretty good on them
Speaker 3: just about they still look pretty good on a ten seventy,
Speaker 3: like that's the thing.
Speaker 5: So well, yeah, and it's like now you can just
Speaker 5: bump it down to like ten eighty and still like
Speaker 5: crank everything to ultra and it's like, yeah, that looks incredible,
Speaker 5: you know exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's like yeah, I guess so, Like it
Speaker 3: does come down to, like when new games come out
Speaker 3: that really push things, it's like, okay, that's nice to
Speaker 3: have the new hardware. It's not as fun as the
Speaker 3: Crisis era, unfortunately.
Speaker 5: I always try to make sure I have like you know,
Speaker 5: Red Alert, like especially with the remaster now, but all
Speaker 5: the old Man of Conquerors are on Steam so that's
Speaker 5: when it doesn't push the polygons. But it always has
Speaker 5: to be installed.
Speaker 1: You know Minecraft for both questions, they just get a
Speaker 1: good texture pack. Look at that thing.
Speaker 3: Seeing Yeah, man, I'm want to do some more Minecraft
Speaker 3: with the art exalating.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I have heard people say like cyberpunk kind of like
Speaker 2: the New Crisis.
Speaker 3: And a lot of it also runs on anything to
Speaker 3: it runs on Steam Deck pretty well, so it's just
Speaker 3: it's not the same.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 5: I kind of do the same thing I do with
Speaker 5: all these Chinese handhelds is like, all right, let's get
Speaker 5: all these ans ROMs in here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's honestly is like RetroArch is like the first
Speaker 3: thing I put off. Ye ye are a couple of
Speaker 3: more real quick I said the word RetroArch, and subconsciously
Speaker 3: I clicked and opened it right, it's my system.
Speaker 2: Bar.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at that.
Speaker 1: Boy.
Speaker 2: Do you do the blue background the PlayStation three style?
Speaker 3: One? Oh? No, I should though, cross media bar, cross
Speaker 3: media bar a good ui.
Speaker 1: Uh. This next email comes from Phil from Anaheim. Hey, Jan,
Speaker 1: I've had some young coworker's birthday party waiting for people
Speaker 1: to arrive, and it's already past the dinner reservation time.
Speaker 1: So I'm writing you per your request instead of standing around.
Speaker 1: It's your favorite milk tea, Phil from Anaheim, sent from
Speaker 1: my iPhone.
Speaker 3: It's uh shay a milk t I don't know anything
Speaker 3: about TI as evidence by the time I put a.
Speaker 1: No, it doesn't fit into the milk tea category, but
Speaker 1: like the greater genus of it.
Speaker 2: Sure, Yeah, I don't want milk in my tea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm me too, all right, Dan, your question not
Speaker 3: a big time. I don't want milk on my table
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 1: Get away, sorry, Sean, Sorry Sean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, get Sean and Wisconsin away from me.
Speaker 1: I need you guys to respect Shawn's culture.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 2: No, no, I'm not going to bring that up.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay. Christ and Suffolk England writes in Hello
Speaker 1: bomb Cast, what will Mario's new gimmick be in the
Speaker 1: next Big three d adventure Mario. Okay, Sean, I think
Speaker 1: everyone expects it will be an open world of sorts,
Speaker 1: But is that enough of a change for a series
Speaker 1: where every new game is based on shaking up the
Speaker 1: feeling of traversial traversal? My theory riteable donkey.
Speaker 2: Con no no.
Speaker 1: Ps. My four year old son has been curious about
Speaker 1: Mario games after playing the wonderful Assist mode in Mario
Speaker 1: cart eight Deluxe, So Dan in particular will be pleased
Speaker 1: to hear I load up Super Mario Sunshine as his
Speaker 1: first proper Mario jump game. Yes, keep up the good work,
Speaker 1: Christ from Suffolk, England.
Speaker 5: It's gonna it's gonna ruin him because you're giving him
Speaker 5: a jet pack to start with. You know, it's gonna
Speaker 5: be like he's jet packed list the entire rest of
Speaker 5: the series.
Speaker 1: What if what if Mario rips off Astrobot.
Speaker 2: Oh and he gets feet lasers.
Speaker 1: He gets feet lasers. He finds like others Marios.
Speaker 5: Now, if they're gonna do that gimmick, they just give
Speaker 5: him Flood again. It'd be insulting to flood if Yeah,
Speaker 5: they should.
Speaker 3: Do a mouse level though, where he can shrink down Jesus.
Speaker 5: That I mean that world, the big small world and
Speaker 5: three and sixty five.
Speaker 3: Could he just like change? No, yeah, exactly, That's what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about. Honestly, Astro should have a new level
Speaker 3: with that too. There should have been like five levels based.
Speaker 2: On that crazy world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yeah, I don't know. How do you guys
Speaker 3: feel about Super Mario Brothers Wonder these days? Because I
Speaker 3: really still love it.
Speaker 5: I like it a lot, but you know, it's kind
Speaker 5: of how I felt going in. It's like this will
Speaker 5: be a fun little side thing, but it's not the
Speaker 5: next Nameline.
Speaker 3: How did you what?
Speaker 2: That is nothing to do with the question, Yeah, why
Speaker 2: are we talking about We're talking about.
Speaker 1: You, son of a what?
Speaker 2: Whoa what? I wasn't like?
Speaker 3: Now, how do you feel about whether where it fits
Speaker 3: into the Mario no that I was?
Speaker 5: That's how I feel I think about Wonder, That's how
Speaker 5: I feel about it.
Speaker 2: That's how you just think about its mainline.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's a good side it's a good side thing.
Speaker 3: Oh my god god. Yeah, move on, because I was
Speaker 3: gonna try to have a real conversation with my real
Speaker 3: human friends and Dan Reichert's here. I forgot about that.
Speaker 2: I stand by what I said. Yeah, it's stupid.
Speaker 3: Okay, look, go play Stacked in this podcast.
Speaker 2: Check my review.
Speaker 3: It's it is still mostly wrapped by the way.
Speaker 1: It's uh there we go stacked Stacked till Bilotro could
Speaker 1: run all right. Final email of the show. This comes
Speaker 1: from uh rick No, not Ricky from New Mexico. Nikki
Speaker 1: from Los Angeles, Hi, first time, long time. A couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago on the BombCast, I asked Dan Reikert
Speaker 1: for food recommendations in the city of Kansas City. He
Speaker 1: told me to go get Casey Joe's from Country County
Speaker 1: County Road ice House. I went there and I got
Speaker 1: the Burnt Ends. It was really good. It was tasty.
Speaker 1: I had a good time eating. I also got an
Speaker 1: ic cocktail. Nicky from Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Hell, yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 5: Everyone thinks, understandably that my food opinions are to.
Speaker 2: Be cast aside.
Speaker 5: I get it based on many things I've said, But
Speaker 5: I'm from Kansas City. I know the barbecue.
Speaker 2: Nick you.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you enjoyed the Burnt Ends. They're incredible. They're
Speaker 5: also really good souvied I got a new suvieed machine
Speaker 5: and they sent him to you and a vacuum sealed thanks,
Speaker 5: So you just PLoP it in there for a little bit.
Speaker 3: Pop, PLoP them in the Suvi sixty for a couple hours.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I should get Sam that's h Christmas Vi.
Speaker 2: That'd be fine everything what's google is about that?
Speaker 1: But then you're gonna get a vacuum steeler.
Speaker 2: Though, sure you do. You do need one of those. Also, look,
Speaker 2: I gotta go back to the Mario Wonder thing is
Speaker 2: that's like, oh, Dann's getting them all so riled up.
Speaker 2: To be clear, that's not a bit. Dan one hundred
Speaker 2: percent believes that super Mario Wonder.
Speaker 3: He's not a he's not working us.
Speaker 5: I believe it's a very good opinion. It's not an adult.
Speaker 2: It's not because like in his mind, like these games
Speaker 2: have to like keep getting progressively bigger something to him.
Speaker 2: So so they did that three D game goes back
Speaker 2: to a two D game that can't count the three
Speaker 2: D World.
Speaker 5: Three D World is one of the best Mario games,
Speaker 5: and it's a side. One side is not a national That.
Speaker 2: Is the stupidest one that is by far because that
Speaker 2: doesn't even make sense with your own logic. Really, that
Speaker 2: one is just wild. Want would put you in the deck?
Speaker 3: Yeah he would, he would stop on it. Actually not
Speaker 3: an erotic way either, it would. His logic for that
Speaker 3: one is it is a follow up to three D
Speaker 3: part of the three D which is a handheld game,
Speaker 3: and so it's like that can't count in his mind.
Speaker 5: But it's a different structure. It's not the big like
Speaker 5: open the hub stuff.
Speaker 2: Yes, part ends are Yeah, they're pretty good, Jeff. Did
Speaker 2: you order mine yet?
Speaker 3: Yes, they are on the way there did my season season,
Speaker 3: but fr seasoning the Fri season is the thing you
Speaker 3: said to get. I had to like do a certain
Speaker 3: amount anyhow, because at certain levels before you can order
Speaker 3: delivery or free delivery or something like that.
Speaker 2: So I threw at they get some sauce bottles and
Speaker 2: stuff the sauces.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yep, I and then I'm basically do the
Speaker 3: exact same order for myself. And that's gonna be Christmas dinner.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, last night.
Speaker 3: I need to get on the casey Joe's damn, just
Speaker 3: just win a bet against me and I have to
Speaker 3: buy it for you.
Speaker 5: That is a good bet. Winning thing, like a fun thing.
Speaker 5: You wouldn't necessarily splire jump for yourself all the time.
Speaker 5: But yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: What if we just do that for team dinner? We
Speaker 1: just get that delivered to lay That would be great
Speaker 1: Nicky's house. Sorry, Nick, I'm volunteering your house. Yeah, uh, folks,
Speaker 1: that does it. For emails, BombCast a giant bomb dot
Speaker 1: com is the email address speaking about Nikki speaking about
Speaker 1: the last email or happy related birthday to our own
Speaker 1: Nicki Grayson, Happy birthday, birthday. Everyone guess how old Nikki
Speaker 1: turned forty?
Speaker 2: I know, I saw their their their skied about it. Okay,
Speaker 2: I can't answer. That'd be cheating.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well everyone at home, go go right
Speaker 1: twenty nine.
Speaker 3: Okay, come on, Mike.
Speaker 1: He was supposed to be an interactive thing where we
Speaker 1: asked people to comment and we boost engagement.
Speaker 2: Come on, they said it in chat too. It's fine
Speaker 2: worked on this podcast on the podcast talking about bring
Speaker 2: energy because everybody else is quiet, quitting or loud quick.
Speaker 2: They don't have my bad blood hitting their bad points
Speaker 2: and getting them all worked up. I'm sorry. If you
Speaker 2: want me to be the bad boy of games media,
Speaker 2: well here.
Speaker 1: I am smoker right now, have a neurotic dream right now?
Speaker 2: Yeh never that though, I don't know how that.
Speaker 3: Used the game Brio engine, like like fucking oblivion.
Speaker 2: Quite a bit.
Speaker 1: God, I want to be Halo with chips that.
Speaker 2: How many times did they tell you it was Halo
Speaker 2: with chips? The press release was really just like, Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is the next big thing.
Speaker 1: What do we got going on for the rest of
Speaker 1: the week. It's the week before the Game Awards, folks,
Speaker 1: so uh, most meetings, So meetings plenty. Uh, if you
Speaker 1: haven't heard by now, we somehow have been entrusted to
Speaker 1: do the pre countdown Game of Awards stream before the
Speaker 1: proper Game Awards. So these two hooligans will be talking
Speaker 1: to people on the streets. Uh. I'll be running around
Speaker 1: with with stuff and I have be in my ear.
Speaker 1: I have bes and Darrears. Tam Lucy will be handling
Speaker 1: the main stage along with Emma. That's why that's why
Speaker 1: Backlar has been been of his His brow has been
Speaker 1: so furrowed because he's in.
Speaker 2: So many meetings.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also GB at night next week we're doing one night.
Speaker 1: We're bringing the couch back. Uh, look forward to fun
Speaker 1: segments shouts out to Wendy. Everyone throws some dubs in
Speaker 1: the chat for Wendy. She'll never see this, but hey,
Speaker 1: just do it for me. This week, Wendy, we got
Speaker 1: a we were doing blake club.
Speaker 2: Oh check, Lucy, I would love to, Okay, what was
Speaker 2: up with? What was up with last Monday? When all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, You're like, guys are doing blake club
Speaker 2: in five minutes, making sure you're good? And I was like, what, No,
Speaker 2: I'm not good for that.
Speaker 5: Because I live and die by the calendar, and so
Speaker 5: I just wake up every day and like what am
Speaker 5: I doing today? And I look at the calendar and
Speaker 5: I will come on Monday. And I had a blake
Speaker 5: club thing there. I was like, oh, I guess we're
Speaker 5: doing that.
Speaker 2: Who put that on the calendar?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I figured that's what I was doing.
Speaker 1: I was so confused, like what, no, what I can't
Speaker 1: do blake club? Like the site page was already live,
Speaker 1: like Lucy's getting suited.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I was like, I just wanted the calendar and do
Speaker 5: what it tells me.
Speaker 1: Probably a voicemail dump truck grub game mess yes.
Speaker 3: Yep, YEP, game mess for the rest of this week.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do Marvel Rivals for upf.
Speaker 3: Oh sure I do that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I really there is an ultimatum. Chat's reminding me here.
Speaker 5: Alex Navarro, the god of Blake Club, did give an
Speaker 5: ultimatum that if I don't start my Blake Club game
Speaker 5: by the second Tuesday in January, I'm getting a third
Speaker 5: game attached to my things.
Speaker 2: So we got to get Lucy suited up. Say that
Speaker 2: sounds like a you problem.
Speaker 3: I don't really care.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: I told him it's kind of out of my control,
Speaker 5: but he didn't seem to care.
Speaker 2: In whom I'd argue with God again?
Speaker 3: Problem?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, we we got stuff planned for a Game
Speaker 1: of the Year, folks, Do not worry.
Speaker 3: Do not worry.
Speaker 1: I know, no big stage show, but we will be
Speaker 1: having fun with that. What we learned today, I didn't
Speaker 1: learn squad. I didn't retain any information today because I
Speaker 1: forgot how to podcast.
Speaker 3: Folks.
Speaker 1: Did I hit record?
Speaker 3: I did hit record?
Speaker 1: But that about does it for the Giant Bomb cast
Speaker 1: this week? Oh gosh, should we pre record next week's
Speaker 1: podcast because we'll be traveling.
Speaker 2: And we're gonna be going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, should we just do a traveling Tuesday. Right, So
Speaker 3: I guess we just recorded Monday.
Speaker 2: Do a Monday Jimmy Jam, I just do it Monday again?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, all right, okay, okay, God, next week,
Speaker 1: This week is going to be so busy. Next week
Speaker 1: is going to be the rest of the year. The
Speaker 1: rest of the year is going to be so after
Speaker 1: next week, I feel like it's gonna slowly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if we get on the other side of our
Speaker 3: our work in LA, we can maybe have a breather.
Speaker 1: Or we do a Tuesday mini from my hotel room.
Speaker 2: Those those are fun.
Speaker 1: Those are always fun. Yeah, specifically has to be my
Speaker 1: hotel room for one reason. But we watched movies in
Speaker 1: either back of or Mike's hotel room.
Speaker 5: That's right, that's right. What are we gonna make Mike
Speaker 5: watch this time?
Speaker 2: God, I'll make a COVID again this time I give
Speaker 2: it to all of you.
Speaker 5: But there was something we made and face off, there
Speaker 5: was something that he hasn't seen. Oh, noobs, he hasn't seen.
Speaker 3: No, he hasn't seen. He has to see nibs in
Speaker 3: the nowshole, which is the only way to really watch it.
Speaker 3: I'm the authority on that.
Speaker 2: It was at the pickle draft for something that was
Speaker 2: showing a nowshule, and I just had to like message Dannim, like, Dan,
Speaker 2: I want you to know the New Soul was such
Speaker 2: a good idea. I'm very very impressed.
Speaker 3: But I don't have such warm thoughts about it.
Speaker 2: Not as much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, folks, that about does it. Will see you
Speaker 1: next week, probably for another episode of the Giant BombCast.
Speaker 2: He's been dead, he's been Mike, and he's been bad
Speaker 2: and he's been grub.
Speaker 3: I've been jan you, I've been be.
Speaker 2: Watch lass than the ten Dogs tonight. You can't plug
Speaker 2: stuff on this show. Christian told me to. Christian said,
Speaker 2: I had to. I don't want Christian man at me.
Speaker 2: Christian told me I walk off a bridge. Would you
Speaker 2: walk off a bridge? Yeah, Christian, walk off a bridge.
Speaker 2: You'd be so satif I did that?
Speaker 1: Well, what if it was like a small bridge though,
Speaker 1: like you wouldn't be in any danger?
Speaker 2: Pretty hurts though. I just fell over and broke my
Speaker 2: wrist when I went skating. If there was like a
Speaker 2: height involved.
Speaker 1: I die.
Speaker 2: Mike.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to send this to our little discord,
Speaker 1: but after that five hours playing with the dual sense
Speaker 1: control of my wrist hurt and I did eat a
Speaker 1: banana that morning, so I didn't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: telling you all that's your problem, my baby wrist.
Speaker 3: Because of the sense feel better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going Talco with Cha Bania next week.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I