Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, October eighth, twenty twenty four. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and sixty one,
Speaker 1: Powered by NZXT. I am your host, empowered by Friendship,
Speaker 1: cups of coffee, your listenership, and pictures of cute dogs.
Speaker 1: Jana Choa, the cutest dog in games media, the cutest dog,
Speaker 1: and he's got two dogs in him.
Speaker 2: Jeff Kraub, Well rap rop Detroit? What Detroit? What scooble
Speaker 2: cy young? You kidd be with classic? Get out of
Speaker 2: here with that horror shit? That's right, Shit Detroit? What
Speaker 2: that's right? That's right.
Speaker 1: He's he's all, he's all juiced, he's all amped from
Speaker 1: watching America's pastime and think and speaking about America's pastime.
Speaker 1: We have America's uh past, present, and future.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: We're officially announcing today that Dan Reichert is announcing his
Speaker 1: bid for mayor of We haven't decided where yet, but
Speaker 1: we're announcing.
Speaker 2: Ita Minnesota, mayor of Minnesota.
Speaker 1: The mayor of Minnesota. We haven't decided the.
Speaker 2: Yearical position mayor of Minnesota, but.
Speaker 1: We're teasing it. This is like an announcement of an
Speaker 1: announcement re announced.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, twenty twenty eight. Absolutely, rights, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Danny, you're still running on the no bees policy?
Speaker 2: Or are we good on bees? Now? It's good to
Speaker 2: be winter.
Speaker 3: It's getting colder out, so I think bees are gonna
Speaker 3: be less of a problem. So I'm not gonna be
Speaker 3: thinking about bees until they appear again, and then I'll
Speaker 3: remember that bees exist.
Speaker 1: What's a Yeah, what's a winter problem in Minnesota? Besides snow?
Speaker 3: It's the problem Minnesota, all right, all right, yeah, that's
Speaker 3: just yeah, the roads, the freezy cold, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: It's bad.
Speaker 1: And just as we're talking about cold and freezy, we've
Speaker 1: got the iciest man, we've got the meanest person in
Speaker 1: games media. That's right, the bad boy from games beat
Speaker 1: Mick Manny.
Speaker 4: My baseball team lost in a mass that's right, Detroit.
Speaker 2: What okay, We're one and one.
Speaker 4: That was the one game you had to win and
Speaker 4: it was still clushing.
Speaker 2: It was a good game. Yes, it was.
Speaker 4: A good game as long.
Speaker 2: It's a weird bubble.
Speaker 3: I live in I saw pictures of Mic and grubbed
Speaker 3: together in the stands of an event, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's there like a house show and.
Speaker 2: Go on fair and safe assumption. That's fine. We forgot
Speaker 2: the actual sports exist.
Speaker 1: Yes, why don't we have more wrestling shows than baseball stadiums.
Speaker 2: I feel like it'd be.
Speaker 3: A fun thing, like like the Eric's era and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, and Shay Stadium had a couple of big
Speaker 3: shows and things like that like used to happen more now. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I feel like aw's run a couple in baseball stadiums
Speaker 3: and rare rumbles recently have been The Arizona Cardinals stadium
Speaker 3: was one, and let's there'd be more. Diamondbacks might have
Speaker 3: been one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like the physical stadiums in general,
Speaker 5: more constant concerts happened by one even more.
Speaker 4: I think they're always neat there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel like like the angle at which the
Speaker 2: stands are are angled in a baseball stadium maybe not
Speaker 2: great for wrestling.
Speaker 3: That's why the rumble has the big like curveh you know,
Speaker 3: like where where was it? We went to the Brown
Speaker 3: Stadium for SummerSlam?
Speaker 2: Right right? And that was good?
Speaker 1: Okay, that was good, Mike Greb I appreciated monitoring and
Speaker 1: watching your date happened yesterday, had.
Speaker 2: A very good time. Yeah, it was it was awesome.
Speaker 2: It was a jelly.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh wow, look at these two chums chumming.
Speaker 2: And it was like fifty degrees out. It was, you know,
Speaker 2: like fifty eight or whatever. It was Christy and and
Speaker 2: uh we drank a lot. It was good.
Speaker 4: That's bought the dreams from God.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybels is supposed to be closed on Mondays, but
Speaker 2: they actually opened up because the baseball game is happening.
Speaker 2: So good barbecue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't been following baseball this season.
Speaker 2: What's what's the baseball? And looking like show show very
Speaker 2: good still apparently the Yankees are very good, but they're
Speaker 2: struggling a little bit because Aaron judgesn't it doesn't hit
Speaker 2: in the playoffs apparently, and Tigers have had the best
Speaker 2: team since August. So I'm really hoping, hoping they could
Speaker 2: pull this off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Nolan Ryan still playing, Yes, Okay, he's got to
Speaker 3: be old now.
Speaker 2: Yeah he's a hundred, but he still throws a hundred,
Speaker 2: so that they may could be good by the hundred
Speaker 2: for one hundred.
Speaker 1: Is very Bond still playing, Uh yeah, wow, wow, he's
Speaker 1: still on the ro He.
Speaker 2: Changed name of Kerry Bonds and he's white now and
Speaker 2: plays for the Tigers. WHOA, yeah, it's pretty pretty cool
Speaker 2: how that worked out? Yeah, Bonds?
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Kerry bonds again.
Speaker 1: He changes Yeah, right right, you just add a beat
Speaker 1: to someone's name and they're a completely different person.
Speaker 2: That's right. They can't be trading any time. I knew
Speaker 2: he was immediately. Gee what what what name? Could I add?
Speaker 3: Beat?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 2: My own.
Speaker 4: Think?
Speaker 6: Not?
Speaker 2: Your own? Names would be mine?
Speaker 1: At least he's up front with you know, with it.
Speaker 1: He's he's not where we know Mike at this point.
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 2: Is everything else cool?
Speaker 1: Is everyone else doing fine? Else?
Speaker 2: How are you doing?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, you know, we're fine.
Speaker 1: I I made this discovery last night.
Speaker 2: All right, all right? Okay?
Speaker 1: Uh the margarita buzzball, right, bix is very well with
Speaker 1: orange juice. Oh yeah. Yeah. I also remembered I don't
Speaker 1: like sweet liqueur or liquor. I uh I. I do
Speaker 1: like dingy dark bars. I'm still on the fence on
Speaker 1: whether or not I like for net. I re remembered
Speaker 1: that vodka red bulls are very dangerous but oh so delicious.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also still don't like clear alcohol because brown is
Speaker 1: good for the get down.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 3: It is like a case of the Golden Idyl puzzle word.
Speaker 3: It's like, Okay, I have to write down all these
Speaker 3: things and figure out which thing he drank at this
Speaker 3: murder scene.
Speaker 1: But yes, over the weekend, I went to our dear
Speaker 1: friend Emma Five's weading, lovely, gorgeous wedding, the most the
Speaker 1: most well planned wedding I've ever do. Yeah right, I
Speaker 1: told this on Game Me Us yesterday. But we were
Speaker 1: by a train track, and I was worried, like that
Speaker 1: the the proceedings would be interrupted constantly by a train.
Speaker 1: And then we get to the vows and it gets
Speaker 1: to Emma's and then I'm just thinking, I'm just so
Speaker 1: worried because like, Emma looks great. It's been a great day,
Speaker 1: whether in ally's beautiful, I look beautiful. But that's besides
Speaker 1: the point. I shouldn't be trying to steal the show
Speaker 1: from the bride. Anyway. Emma starts her vows in the
Speaker 1: whole time I'm on pins and needles waiting for this
Speaker 1: train to pass by. And then she finishes her vow.
Speaker 1: They exchanged the ring and then the train goes and
Speaker 1: then everyone at our table was like, that's Emma fight
Speaker 1: for you schedule.
Speaker 2: I am dead set that she did. I believe that
Speaker 2: she does see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm also half convinced that there wasn't a shoot
Speaker 1: train and that it was all the work.
Speaker 3: Oh it was a wedding train.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a wedding train, because like there were giant hedges
Speaker 1: and I never saw the actual train.
Speaker 3: Oh oh okay, good sound system.
Speaker 2: Good sound system. Maybe yeah. Maybe.
Speaker 3: One of the funniest things I've ever seen. In apologies
Speaker 3: if you've heard this before, is going to a wrestling
Speaker 3: event like rural, like a small town Minnesota, and the
Speaker 3: Honky Tonk man was there and he went out. It's
Speaker 3: clearly a thing where Honkey Tonk got paid a couple grand,
Speaker 3: come out there, you know, sing a song, you know,
Speaker 3: do his finisher without bumping for his own finisher, and
Speaker 3: then leave. And he comes out there clearly not into
Speaker 3: being there. And it's add like a street fair thing
Speaker 3: and it's by train tracks in some little town and
Speaker 3: he comes out and he just wants to get through
Speaker 3: his like little two second promo so you can get
Speaker 3: the match done and go home. Fucking train comes by
Speaker 3: immediately and it's the longest train that's ever existed, and
Speaker 3: so you just see Honkey initially get like really pissed
Speaker 3: off and look at this train like all right, hahi,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of playing the crowd like, oh got
Speaker 3: to wait for this train, and then it just keeps
Speaker 3: going and keeps going, and he just goes into like
Speaker 3: turn buckle, leans against the turn buckle, watching him like
Speaker 3: do the mental math of like when am I getting
Speaker 3: the fuck out? Like am I just gonna leave? Do
Speaker 3: I need to do this promo? I will get on
Speaker 3: a plane right now. It was like a five minute
Speaker 3: train Honkey talk ran getting so pissed.
Speaker 1: I love that the Honky Tonk Man is a reoccurring
Speaker 1: character in your life, Dan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been in a lot of places in your life.
Speaker 1: Mainly that that was the night I drank with Oh yeah, Dan,
Speaker 1: I remember last this past mania you running it into
Speaker 1: him at the bathroom.
Speaker 2: I forgot about that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I find out he had to heat with Adam Cole. Yeah,
Speaker 3: was a costing fans in the bathroom for wearing Adam
Speaker 3: Cole's shirts.
Speaker 1: Talking maddest ship to part, perhaps the nicest guy in
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't think that Cole knows yet. Heat
Speaker 3: with honkey.
Speaker 4: I bet things going.
Speaker 2: On, you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm on Adam's side on this one.
Speaker 3: I think generally an argum mentioned with the honkey, unless
Speaker 3: it's Jerry Lawler, I'm gonna take the anti Honky Tonks.
Speaker 1: Side, anti Monky side. That's that works on so many levels.
Speaker 1: It's great, gentlemen, anything else before we get to the.
Speaker 5: I should have some like fun goose to share about yesterday,
Speaker 5: but we've mostly just had fun.
Speaker 2: It's mostly just n Yeah. Yeah, it was cool. It
Speaker 2: was we just kind of you watched the game. I
Speaker 2: was like there were a lot of Tigers fans at
Speaker 2: the stadium, but not in our section. I was isolated,
Speaker 2: but I tried to like tone it down a little bit.
Speaker 2: It was very hard when the three run home run happened.
Speaker 2: I kind of exploded after that.
Speaker 4: He just a lot, which is fair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I punched him in the arm quite hard.
Speaker 2: But it was like it was crazy because that home run,
Speaker 2: it like was hit very hard. It was up in
Speaker 2: the air for like seven seconds or something like that,
Speaker 2: and it's like you could hear everyone stop breathing, and
Speaker 2: then when it finally lands, only like me in the
Speaker 2: section screaming and everyone else is dead quiet. It was
Speaker 2: a it was a good cathartic moment.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I I want to give a special shout out,
Speaker 1: specifically to Nicky Grayson for letting me crash at their place.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, and putting up with my drunken hijinks as
Speaker 1: I'm writhing around their floor at like three am in
Speaker 1: the morning, uh, getting very emotional about the state of
Speaker 1: my life. But also they showed me the steepest hill
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Oh wow, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: That was great.
Speaker 1: They just asked, you want to see it, and I'm
Speaker 1: like sure.
Speaker 2: It was part of the writhing dealing with seeing this hill. Man,
Speaker 2: that was a steep hill. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought hills were my thing as a
Speaker 1: San Francisco and I'm like.
Speaker 2: God, I have other places have hills. This is all
Speaker 2: I have up that hill.
Speaker 3: Shawn Michaels Undertaker, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: Sorry, No, we went driving up that hill, and then
Speaker 1: we're driving up that hill and we went to the
Speaker 1: turnout and then I had like a very good cup
Speaker 1: of spro.
Speaker 2: Anyway, video games, I.
Speaker 3: Still don't know if I've heard the shoot version of
Speaker 3: Running Up That Hill Michaels Undertaker version.
Speaker 4: It's not as good as that. Yeah, it's really good.
Speaker 4: That's crazy that.
Speaker 3: I've only heard that in context of Shawn Michael's Undertaker.
Speaker 2: Like, that's one of the best promos ever. The original
Speaker 2: versions so good.
Speaker 4: I'm saying, I don't know.
Speaker 2: You did you go to the original? I thought it
Speaker 2: was like eighties? Do you say em?
Speaker 4: I may not know what m is. It's like a
Speaker 4: bit electronic. It's like kind of I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I've heard of Kate Bush.
Speaker 1: Song you, I mean you you have because of the running.
Speaker 3: Up the wrestling version that's not by her, or it's
Speaker 3: by her, it's not sung.
Speaker 2: By her who sings that version? Is it placebo?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 5: I think it was originally in Vampire Diaries because I
Speaker 5: remember listening to it on Spotify and it was like
Speaker 5: Vampire Diaries or whatever it was official soundtrack.
Speaker 2: Placebo like that band from the two thousand. Yeah, guess
Speaker 2: it would be on all right, ye weird?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, Jeff Grub, I haven't heard of
Speaker 1: this game Pinball Spire or What's What's happening?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh one of these video games where they
Speaker 2: take pinball and then they kind of make it in
Speaker 2: an adventure game where you're exploring a larger map, and
Speaker 2: you know, similar to Yoku's Island Express, a little bit
Speaker 2: more like pixelated in its presentation, but it feels really good.
Speaker 2: The pinball stuff feels very accurate, very physical, and the
Speaker 2: character that you play as this little I guess you
Speaker 2: play as the pinball board, but your guy that you're
Speaker 2: knocking around, it's just got little big eyes and he's
Speaker 2: a ball. That's it. And it is pretty good because
Speaker 2: it gives you these small sections of a pinball table
Speaker 2: and you could pause the game at any time, but
Speaker 2: clicking in the left stick and that gives you a cursor,
Speaker 2: and then you can hover over all of the elements
Speaker 2: of the table and it tells you what they are
Speaker 2: and kind of what you need to be doing to
Speaker 2: get them to do the thing you need to do
Speaker 2: to progress. The thing about pinball tables a lot of
Speaker 2: times is there's a lot of complicated elements and you
Speaker 2: need to take time to figure out what they do
Speaker 2: so you can get a high score. So here it's like, well,
Speaker 2: that knowledge is in the game. You can figure that out. Now,
Speaker 2: it's just comes down to execution. And then on that
Speaker 2: side of things. They got like a Man of Magic
Speaker 2: system where you can slow down time and if your
Speaker 2: ball guy is on one of the flippers while you
Speaker 2: slow down time, it'll give you the trajectory, the estimated trajectory,
Speaker 2: like the little dotted line to show you where it's
Speaker 2: gonna go, so you can really just dial in and
Speaker 2: feel really good about the shots, and it's a pretty
Speaker 2: like it all just feels really good together. And then
Speaker 2: once you get through one of these sections of the table,
Speaker 2: most of the time, between like one or two sections,
Speaker 2: you're gonna get to one of these save zones where
Speaker 2: you could just save your progress and then you go
Speaker 2: to the next one. So it doesn't feel like one
Speaker 2: of these ones where and as you're moving up vertically,
Speaker 2: let's say you have a bad shot and it goes
Speaker 2: right down the middle. It's there's not gonna be a
Speaker 2: time where it's just like goes down five boards and
Speaker 2: you lose a ton of progress. You can lose a
Speaker 2: little bit of progress, you can't lose a ton. So
Speaker 2: it mostly feels like, Okay, I'm just kind of moving
Speaker 2: through this table here and it's yeah, it's really well done.
Speaker 2: I've played for a couple hours on Steam Deck. It
Speaker 2: runs really good on there, and if you're someone who's
Speaker 2: like in the mood for pinball at any time, I
Speaker 2: think this is a good one of these, especially if
Speaker 2: you like Yoku's Ilen Express, which I liked a lot.
Speaker 2: I don't think I loved it, like that was the
Speaker 2: Metroidvanu one. There has been a lot of Metroid Veanu
Speaker 2: stuff here, but there are like you can see like
Speaker 2: these lanes. Sometimes going across the table, You're like, how
Speaker 2: do I access that? It's like, oh no, that's something
Speaker 2: you're going to do in another room and it's going
Speaker 2: to loop you back around through here and you're gonna
Speaker 2: be able to get all the coins inside that.
Speaker 4: So it's a sonic spin ball, Like it's a sonic
Speaker 4: spin ball Like, yeah, lovely, lovely.
Speaker 3: I like the idea of Yoku's Island more than I
Speaker 3: liked playing it, I think. But looking at hearing you
Speaker 3: talk about this and looking at the image, it almost
Speaker 3: has like.
Speaker 2: A dead sales type dead cells.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this looks like a good Steam Deck game that
Speaker 3: I should probably have on there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it kind of feels like, you know, if Nintendo
Speaker 2: made a Kirby pinball, like expiration game for the Super Nintendo. Okay,
Speaker 2: it kind of like reminds me of like kind of
Speaker 2: what that would be like. So yeah, pretty pretty pretty
Speaker 2: happy with this, pretty impressed by it. And I think
Speaker 2: if I were to present it to back of Art,
Speaker 2: you know, it's video game pinball, so he's immediately going
Speaker 2: to have some animosity toward it, but I think he
Speaker 2: would like mostly give it the thumbs up of approval.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's really interesting.
Speaker 5: And also I asked Google if Kate Bush is DM,
Speaker 5: and it said no. Kate Bush is not EDM, but
Speaker 5: for music is considered to have introduced electronic music to
Speaker 5: a generation of music fans.
Speaker 2: Was she like the first dj ass tits? The original?
Speaker 1: I can't even play along with this work? No wonderful
Speaker 1: right ej as tits is a genre of her own making,
Speaker 1: genre defining and breaking.
Speaker 3: So Kate Bush is to e d M what like
Speaker 3: George Clinton was to FUNK.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: No, let's just go with that. Not everyone agrees.
Speaker 6: Not just not M.
Speaker 2: Electronic dance music run by Kate Bush are very far away.
Speaker 3: I'm trusting my friend Mike.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that when I think the d M,
Speaker 1: I think of Z and that doesn't necessarily line up
Speaker 1: with Kate Bush.
Speaker 3: Lord Z yeah er DJ, Now that'd be cool.
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, you're right, Dan, You're right on this one.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: He was tired of doing evil. He just thought, I
Speaker 2: want to make it you Fay turned for Lord's nice.
Speaker 2: It's tired of running up that hill.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's frozen, just.
Speaker 2: The tribal chief. Okay, okay, I can't hear though, you
Speaker 2: can't hear. He can't hear.
Speaker 4: The conversation was so bad. His computers dying.
Speaker 2: He know.
Speaker 1: He he went to go listen to some actual E
Speaker 1: d M. He wants to go do some research. He's
Speaker 1: gonna go find that out.
Speaker 2: For us.
Speaker 3: People still say techno or is it they say house
Speaker 3: now right?
Speaker 2: Or trap? No? Trap, trap is different rap.
Speaker 3: There's just a bunch of nouns that are genres.
Speaker 1: Now, I guess trap music, Mike is music that I
Speaker 1: really like. And uh, once you hear it, you would understand.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this, I understand why Jan would like this
Speaker 1: based off of what I know about Jan that it
Speaker 1: does a.
Speaker 5: Song ever, sample Admiral Akbar saying it's a trap that'd
Speaker 5: be pretty good.
Speaker 1: No, no trap, trap bom.
Speaker 2: A trap that's like trap. Yeah, she's actually a trap star.
Speaker 2: I definitely can hear us now, I can hear you. Now,
Speaker 2: you guys have heard me.
Speaker 4: Now I hear you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, were not on topic. No, no, we we've gone
Speaker 2: straight to the emails. You know that's a good idea.
Speaker 2: Straight to the emails is right in this show.
Speaker 4: I guess how Someboddy and Jets say I yearned for death.
Speaker 2: Email.
Speaker 3: The last song I heard was I was watching an
Speaker 3: O three rod drugs.
Speaker 1: They'd so pinball spires seems great, Grubb. Do you think
Speaker 1: your experience would be improved if you got to play
Speaker 1: it in TAT mode?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Uh yes, of course mode is always superior when
Speaker 2: you're playing one of these pinball games. But it works
Speaker 2: really well, uh you know, across the screen on a
Speaker 2: steam deck. But uh yeah. I think every game, if
Speaker 2: it has any sort of verticality to it, should support TOTE.
Speaker 2: I want to turn my TV sideways? Oh yeah, let
Speaker 2: me do that. Yeah, we turn everything sideways.
Speaker 1: Clip boys in the days sitting sideways. I have continued
Speaker 1: to play a lot more of Kill Night. I've actually
Speaker 1: beaten the first level, which took me a very only
Speaker 1: the first only one time only one time off and God,
Speaker 1: this is one of those games where it feels like
Speaker 1: all of all of my brain is power is being
Speaker 1: used because you really do have to rely and get
Speaker 1: used to the rhythm of firing off your weapons when
Speaker 1: you need them, because as soon as you're reloading, you
Speaker 1: start to notice, like, oh shoot, I'm really really low
Speaker 1: on health. Let me like do the quick suck button
Speaker 1: instead of the active reload.
Speaker 2: To power up my guns.
Speaker 4: I ever gently looked at the camera. Is what I did.
Speaker 5: N't knew what he was doing with that one.
Speaker 1: This Uh, I think that this game has though that
Speaker 1: I think a lot of other.
Speaker 2: I does Hades have a perry if you get the shield?
Speaker 2: Does it right? Probably?
Speaker 1: But like it's like a Captain Yeah, like a Marvel.
Speaker 2: Pery game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have that dash like reflect thing that's more
Speaker 5: of a reflect move.
Speaker 2: Yeah right.
Speaker 1: I'm such a big mark for any time you get
Speaker 1: a weapon that gets rid of a projectile, because I'd
Speaker 1: gotten so used to the bigger sword that you start
Speaker 1: kill Night with. And for folks that missed last week,
Speaker 1: it's a dualstick bullet Hell roguelike Delio set in Hell
Speaker 1: and but everything switched up and how I started attacking
Speaker 1: levels when I got a different sword that has a
Speaker 1: much smaller area, uh that hit box, but you destroy
Speaker 1: projectiles that get thrown at you, and then it just
Speaker 1: switched up the format entirely.
Speaker 2: And the thing that stinks is that.
Speaker 1: I felt like I'd hit a wall because I couldn't
Speaker 1: complete some of the objectives that it outlines for you,
Speaker 1: like get nine and ninety nine kills in a single layer,
Speaker 1: and I'm still not quite sure what they mean by layer,
Speaker 1: because I thought that meant the level, but then it
Speaker 1: would keep resetting, so I'm still a little bit fuzzy
Speaker 1: on that or other objectives like you need a five
Speaker 1: hundred kill streak and then you need to parry someone.
Speaker 1: And I kept trying to get to a point where
Speaker 1: there is like a specific enemy in a map that
Speaker 1: pops up, but I keep losing it. But it turns
Speaker 1: out if you keep grinding away at these specific levels,
Speaker 1: you can unlock enough currency and use that currency to
Speaker 1: unlock that objective and complete it versus actually shoot doing it.
Speaker 1: Kill might still highly recommend. It's one of those games though,
Speaker 1: where like my eyes get super blurry after staring it
Speaker 1: because I'm staring at it for so long. Also, I
Speaker 1: just really dig the style of it. This is another
Speaker 1: year for like goodass style games. A lot of strong
Speaker 1: style out there, Absolutely a lot of strong style out there,
Speaker 1: really hard in Japan, just like these boys hit hard
Speaker 1: in Dragon Ball Sparking Zero.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I just started this and mostly out of curiosity
Speaker 2: because it's getting pretty good reviews, and think a lot
Speaker 2: of it's nostalgia, like it's fun, it's fun, Like I
Speaker 2: get it. But I think given the people who like
Speaker 2: it will be like, yeah, I'm here because I'm flying
Speaker 2: around and I feel powerful. I don't think there's gonna
Speaker 2: be a ton of least Okay, at least in the
Speaker 2: single player campaign. I bet you could take this online
Speaker 2: in like ranked mode and have maybe a lot of
Speaker 2: fun there. I'm just like, not, I'm not gonna be
Speaker 2: there for that most likely. So I'm playing through the
Speaker 2: campaign and it just feels a little spartan and weird,
Speaker 2: where I'll be fighting Ratits and I'm like, Okay, we're
Speaker 2: in this fight, and I battling and I know how
Speaker 2: the show goes. He's like, that's gonna be kind of
Speaker 2: a stalemate and he's gonna take the kid Gohan and
Speaker 2: kidnap him, and it does that. But after like the
Speaker 2: battle ends in this like weird, abrupt way that doesn't
Speaker 2: feel in any way cinematic, and then it plays cut
Speaker 2: scenes that are just stills with stuff you read in
Speaker 2: a little bit of voice acting, so that stuff's not great.
Speaker 2: But then when you actually are in the battle, it's, uh,
Speaker 2: I'm flying in, I'm punching a bunch of times. Then
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get some time to retreat so i
Speaker 2: can charge up my key. And then once you have
Speaker 2: your key charged, while you're actively charging it, you get
Speaker 2: the options to do you know, kamehameha or or a
Speaker 2: spirit bomb and later on and all that stuff, And it's, uh,
Speaker 2: that stuff feels cool, but I'm not like falling in
Speaker 2: love with with what I'm doing. It just kind of
Speaker 2: it's like a basic way to engage with the stuff
Speaker 2: that looked cool on television, and as a delivery mechanism
Speaker 2: for all that, it's kind of unassailable. I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's doing exactly what you want if you want to
Speaker 2: feel like you're part of the show. Anything more than that, though,
Speaker 2: it's I don't know, it feels like a game that's
Speaker 2: punching above its weight a little bit. It feels like
Speaker 2: a see that because they're doing everything cool and and
Speaker 2: it looks great and the characters models are so on
Speaker 2: point that it's like un its way into a bee
Speaker 2: and uh yeah, I'm kind of flying with that to a.
Speaker 5: Certain I'm largely so I really respect fighting games that
Speaker 5: just have very large rosters, and this game has like
Speaker 5: one hundreds playable characters like that, and I'm kind of like,
Speaker 5: I kind of whoa, I respect that.
Speaker 2: And apparently it's got a bunch of modes as well,
Speaker 2: so it's like the campaign I'm doing, I bet is
Speaker 2: like a fraction of the percentage of what most people
Speaker 2: are going to engage with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the way you describe the story mode reminds me
Speaker 3: of like when you do the like historical like forty
Speaker 3: years of WrestleMania modes. That's okay, you do the match
Speaker 3: until the point where there was like the V and
Speaker 3: Q finish or the interference, and then it's like a
Speaker 3: cut scene of this thing. It's like, okay, well, I
Speaker 3: guess the match is over now.
Speaker 2: It feels very in line. Honestly, dragon ball and wrestling
Speaker 2: are the same thing already, so yeah, it's kind of like.
Speaker 5: That it'd be weird because, like I remember, even back
Speaker 5: in the PCE two era, I was kind of tired
Speaker 5: of all these games just retelling the story of Dragon
Speaker 5: Ball Z, so in terms of doing that campaign, but
Speaker 5: like so much of it is super now, which I've
Speaker 5: consumed very little of. But like I see, just like pictures,
Speaker 5: I'm like, Ohky has blue hair and red hair and yeah,
Speaker 5: white hair, and I don't.
Speaker 2: And there's yeah, beus. He's doing his thing.
Speaker 5: People like Brus, That's fine, he seems fun. Like I
Speaker 5: know some of this new lord like part of me's
Speaker 5: kind of interested in learning about it. Other part of
Speaker 5: me is like, it's gonna be weird to like first
Speaker 5: retread ground, I like tread a dozen.
Speaker 4: Times and then all of a sudden get to this
Speaker 4: new shit. I have no idea about.
Speaker 1: Grub is the story laid out that you can kind
Speaker 1: of just choose where you jump in or do they
Speaker 1: start you.
Speaker 2: At the very beginning, when I started it, I was
Speaker 2: like new game, and there was one option called Goku,
Speaker 2: and I selected that, and yes, I selected the Goku option,
Speaker 2: and which is always dangerous, but I did it, and
Speaker 2: I immediately went into fighting rabbits and it was the
Speaker 2: beginning of Dragon Ball Z. So I bet you onlock
Speaker 2: more story modes and there's other options on that screen eventually,
Speaker 2: but as it's presented initially, it feels like this is
Speaker 2: where you're supposed to start if you want to learn
Speaker 2: the basics, and uh, you know, they give you a
Speaker 2: really quick short tutorial there. It's a complicated them I
Speaker 2: think in terms of like anything you could be doing
Speaker 2: at any one moment, and you kind of I'm like,
Speaker 2: the tutorial is good at introducing like what the buttons do,
Speaker 2: how to use them, when to deploy them. I'm still
Speaker 2: pretty lost on so I'm trying to play the campaign
Speaker 2: because of that, in case maybe one day we did
Speaker 2: want to like play multiplayer and see what that is like.
Speaker 2: And it's like, okay, I'm still kind of I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to do this, and this feels like
Speaker 2: the only option really, So I'm gonna fight rabbits and
Speaker 2: now I just beat up what's his name? The bald guy.
Speaker 2: Dude was Goku's brother. Goku's brother the very beginning, yes
Speaker 2: especially yeah, Goku like holds him and Piccolo does his
Speaker 2: sniper shot through both of them go oh, I forget Yeah,
Speaker 2: now I'm your dad. Number one kidnapping of all time.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's fine. Gohan Is now
Speaker 1: has two dads. It's okay.
Speaker 2: I remember from.
Speaker 4: The one and it's not good.
Speaker 2: Seanna Chet. This is kind of the feeling I was getting.
Speaker 2: He said, this is an odd one for newcomers to
Speaker 2: play in twenty twenty four. It's not really intended to
Speaker 2: be an entry point. It's supposed to be a PS
Speaker 2: two ass homage game because that's what the Budocai fans
Speaker 2: have been begging for for over a decade. This one
Speaker 2: million percent feels like fan service over everything else, and
Speaker 2: specific fan service for fans of those games and Dragon
Speaker 2: ball Z. And I think you know someone who likes
Speaker 2: Star Wars Outlaws because I think they did a really
Speaker 2: good job with the fan service there. I get it,
Speaker 2: and I kind of begrudge it. I don't begrudge it
Speaker 2: at all. Yeah, like do that that is almost certainly
Speaker 2: the right choice for this video game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I I remember checking this out and really walking away
Speaker 1: very positive at Summer Game Fest because of everything that
Speaker 1: I saw. I think I did that same intro mission
Speaker 1: grub where you fight rat It's and then the stills,
Speaker 1: And I wasn't as bothered by the stills because I think,
Speaker 1: just like you said, Mike, I've just seen this so
Speaker 1: many times that we don't need to devote like a
Speaker 1: good chunk of time to this, Like let's just see
Speaker 1: the stills and button through the dialogue. Something that they
Speaker 1: are doing that is interesting in this game is they're
Speaker 1: kind of doing a Marvel's what if where they will
Speaker 1: give you certain scenarios and then you could see an
Speaker 1: alternate reality of how they play out. So instead of
Speaker 1: Goku dying with Ratits, maybe Goku perhaps lives and then
Speaker 1: you explore that mini alternate reality. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: many points they do this throughout the game.
Speaker 2: I've only seen it once. And it's like do I
Speaker 2: work with Piccolo or not? Like that was the first choice,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I'm like, the what if is
Speaker 2: don't work with Piccolo? And what would that? What would
Speaker 2: that have been like? And I'm like, Okay, that might
Speaker 2: be interesting, But my first time through, I'm like, I
Speaker 2: don't know. It feels like I'm supposed to still work
Speaker 2: with Piccolo because that makes sense for the flight. Why
Speaker 2: wouldn't I I picked the thing that makes sense, so
Speaker 2: it does give you a reason to go back. I
Speaker 2: don't know how appealing that's going to be, because I
Speaker 2: still think these fights are mostly gonna feel the same,
Speaker 2: like in terms of like what you're doing. Maybe some
Speaker 2: of the options change a little bit, but I have
Speaker 2: to explore that and see.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see because I think they also showed
Speaker 1: off at Summer Game Fest, and I haven't seen much
Speaker 1: chat or hype about this. Is folks being able to
Speaker 1: make their own scenarios with their own characters and kind
Speaker 1: of like in that WWE SmackDown style of like hey,
Speaker 1: like kind of like a mini GM mode, but instead
Speaker 1: of like running a full campaign, you're just running a
Speaker 1: certain scenario and like, hey, you have to fight this character.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm sure you have.
Speaker 1: To fight as this character against these three characters. So
Speaker 1: I'd be interested to see how people wind up making
Speaker 1: their little, mini weird scenarios.
Speaker 2: It's also very much like bashing toys together in a
Speaker 2: good way and so giving people more ways to express that.
Speaker 2: That's a good idea.
Speaker 1: I think it's very ballsy. Also to have such a
Speaker 1: gigantic Okay, thank you, that's.
Speaker 3: Pretty good Mike, I'm outing that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: You must be a joy to watch movies with.
Speaker 4: Again, I didn't mean.
Speaker 3: It for James Compress conferences after my birthday.
Speaker 5: Greenberg appreciated that, by the way, two months until my
Speaker 5: birthday as of right now today, Thank you, Thank you for.
Speaker 3: Very serious about that after your shoot shoot, children talk
Speaker 3: about their own birthdays as much as Mike naughty grown up.
Speaker 2: It's about equivalent. Okay, that's almost exactly equal.
Speaker 5: I don't want to be what trouble Dan records of
Speaker 5: what tweety at me while you guys are talking about dragon.
Speaker 2: Doing that.
Speaker 1: Okay, I I do appreciate the dragon ball ziness of
Speaker 1: this to have such a deep roster and to acknowledge
Speaker 1: because Dragon Ball as a whole, I feel like has
Speaker 1: really tried to erase everything about g T. And then yes,
Speaker 1: like there are GT characters in this right, I believe
Speaker 1: I saw Baby is involved.
Speaker 5: Oh babies, because usually they'll at least keep you super
Speaker 5: saying for Goku and because people like those designs. But yeah,
Speaker 5: putting Baby in there, that's that's pretty rare. What's Baby's gimmick?
Speaker 4: He's just the bad guy of GT.
Speaker 2: And cannot be putting Corner.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I don't know. I never watched GT.
Speaker 2: Don't.
Speaker 4: I read a Wikipedia about it once?
Speaker 3: Is Z like the Attitude era and that there's all
Speaker 3: sorts of more like it's gone on for many many
Speaker 3: more years and covers this wide swat the stuff. But
Speaker 3: people still just talk about Z all the time.
Speaker 4: Yes, people talk about Super now people like Super still
Speaker 4: but like.
Speaker 6: Z.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah, early Super is like uh Super Sena
Speaker 1: era Ena. Yeah, all the stuff GT was ruthless aggression.
Speaker 2: Oh not good?
Speaker 3: Okay, Wow, this is a director now.
Speaker 1: No, no, okay, okay, the better the better comparison for
Speaker 1: GT DAN is it is the w W E c
Speaker 1: W era.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yes that's not good at all. Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: exactly exactly there like a Bruno Samarto was their anime
Speaker 3: before Dragon Ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dragon dragon Ball was Bruno samar Tina.
Speaker 3: Okay, So like things Bob Beckland, Folks.
Speaker 1: At home, if you have never seen the original dragon
Speaker 1: Ball with kid Goku just dragon Ball rules, continue listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast, but also watch that show at the
Speaker 1: same time.
Speaker 5: They have kid Goku and not think there's any other
Speaker 5: dragon Ball like o g characters, which is said like
Speaker 5: not even like Evil King Piccolo, which you think we
Speaker 5: can maybe make it in there.
Speaker 2: Where is little kid krilling? I need more little kid.
Speaker 4: Rill little shit? I liked him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Krillin is the strongest human being, all right, and
Speaker 1: I think you all need to acknowledge that.
Speaker 2: And that's why he deserved a robot wife exactly.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna guess that epic rap Battles of History isn't
Speaker 5: really hit with the kids anymore. But the Superman had
Speaker 5: a pretty good line where he said, I'm killing it,
Speaker 5: you're krilling it.
Speaker 2: I thought that really got him.
Speaker 3: Mike, I did I dream this or did you do
Speaker 3: a gamer rap thing on YouTube?
Speaker 2: Yeah? He did dream that.
Speaker 4: That's not real. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: Grab it.
Speaker 3: If I wanted to search for this dream on YouTube,
Speaker 3: what would.
Speaker 2: I look up? Gamer rap Mike Manati, gamer rap Mike Manatti. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the gamer rap, the gamer rap Mike.
Speaker 5: You find that I didn't actually like spend money to
Speaker 5: license that background beat or anything.
Speaker 4: You can't just play that out.
Speaker 6: You mic calm got I'm good, I get it. Not
Speaker 6: your cheese, bitch.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 6: I'm a gamer podcorn crowd. When I'm in Jack Winding aloud.
Speaker 6: I captured the flag. When sugar I get all the.
Speaker 2: It goes out for another three and a half minutes.
Speaker 2: Just keep playing it, Please keep playing it. Let me
Speaker 2: live in the background.
Speaker 6: Because I'm too cool. I only put a book them
Speaker 6: on in middle school. I always win a fight being
Speaker 6: online on land with droplets, sister ponder ring what is
Speaker 6: a man? I like to bash sony because they are down,
Speaker 6: but to eat pizza because of this round. They like
Speaker 6: my girl's blonde and their T shirt. We see puts
Speaker 6: the speech. I screamed shot and gets always I'm always
Speaker 6: put to scream. That's not I played no counter strike
Speaker 6: because me and your mom were up all night and
Speaker 6: me in g t A. They don't bess with me,
Speaker 6: they say, out of my way. My famous score exlips
Speaker 6: is yours?
Speaker 2: If they eve.
Speaker 6: When anna shut, spread your butt to shove it R game,
Speaker 6: okay if your best not squeal?
Speaker 2: Oh boy, man, what if this is the podcas that
Speaker 2: ends us?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: I gotta listen to more. E m that was great.
Speaker 2: You can put it back on. We're good.
Speaker 1: It's good, Mike. It's good, it's good, it's good. It's good.
Speaker 1: Now on Mike Manati's has been playing Resident Evil three.
Speaker 2: Put him back on Mike. Mike has to do with
Speaker 2: their butts.
Speaker 4: It just to spread up and shove the wet chuck
Speaker 4: up there.
Speaker 3: The nuts chuck that seems counter intuitive.
Speaker 4: And shove it up, grab that nun chuck and yeah,
Speaker 4: you know what, it's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Really good Mike good pizza because it's round. Yeah, we should't.
Speaker 1: We should remaster that, like like Taylor does, but like
Speaker 1: Mike's version.
Speaker 4: Mike's version, well they do the shield.
Speaker 5: It does that because then she doesn't have to like, uh,
Speaker 5: share any money with the original like distributor or whatever.
Speaker 2: That's why, That's why you would do it too.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm going to d m c A you
Speaker 5: guys for playing that.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: I think we should open the next live show with
Speaker 1: like a mini rap show.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that'd be good.
Speaker 1: Like I'll open for Mike and then I'll just do
Speaker 1: the one piece rap and then Mike and I can
Speaker 1: do in the end and then we end with the
Speaker 1: gamer rap.
Speaker 4: I like to be good the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, here we go something, I'll do a live rendition. Look,
Speaker 5: I'm actually kind of impressed. That there's not actually anything
Speaker 5: problematic that I did there fifteen years ago or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's just I'm restrained, and I think the rhymes are good.
Speaker 2: It's really fun. You kept on the beat the whole time.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, you didn't get to the end where
Speaker 5: I just started listening off sequel games to finish it off.
Speaker 2: It's good. Well, okay.
Speaker 5: That this is all on the up and up. I
Speaker 5: bought the licensing fee for that backing track.
Speaker 1: See chat read your butts was restrained.
Speaker 5: I told somebody to shove a week boat up there.
Speaker 5: Ask you guys are fine.
Speaker 2: They take take your weird shove, but it's a completely
Speaker 2: fine thing.
Speaker 1: You're fine, everybody, Okay, all right, Mike MINAUGHTI Resident Evil three,
Speaker 1: tell me about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the remake.
Speaker 5: You know, I've been kind of playing through some a
Speaker 5: lot of resieval games because for a while I was
Speaker 5: a big baby, and then it like zombies and I
Speaker 5: only played a couple of them, and then gosh, you know,
Speaker 5: you know, I loved four remake last year, and I
Speaker 5: played through the Resident Evil remake that first came out
Speaker 5: on GameCube it's on steaming places, and Resuble two remake
Speaker 5: and gosh, they're just very good at doing these remakes
Speaker 5: of Resident Evil games. So the kind of first spooky
Speaker 5: game I played, uh for October, and Russell did it
Speaker 5: for our Gameless Game club that Jeff and I have
Speaker 5: on our kind of stuff is remake, which I.
Speaker 4: Was interested in because this is the one that people
Speaker 4: seem to have less love for. There's kind of some
Speaker 4: complaints about the pacing and some of the stuff that's
Speaker 4: not in the.
Speaker 5: Origin, but like, I was kind of excited because one,
Speaker 5: I never played the original Resident Evil three, I don't
Speaker 5: know if I will, and two like like that's like
Speaker 5: the piece of game criticism that usually ages the worst
Speaker 5: is like, oh, this game's too short. It's like at
Speaker 5: the time, it's like, yeah, you can see how that's
Speaker 5: a problem. You buy a thing for sixty bucks or whatever, yes,
Speaker 5: some expectations, and then like you know, a few years later,
Speaker 5: if it's just something you get in a Humble bundle
Speaker 5: for like ten bucks with fifteen other games, it doesn't
Speaker 5: really matter that Resident Evil three is six hours long.
Speaker 5: And as this six hour long almost kind of roller
Speaker 5: coaster ride, like you know, much yeah, much.
Speaker 2: More fast paced.
Speaker 5: It's a lot of fun because it still just has
Speaker 5: those Resident Evil two mechanics get a bit fit more
Speaker 5: fast paced.
Speaker 7: You have this.
Speaker 4: Dodge thing going on there and it just goes right.
Speaker 5: It is like way more of like if Michael Bay
Speaker 5: did a Resident Evil game, just kind of more set
Speaker 5: piece based, not as many puzzles, not like super pure
Speaker 5: action like a Resident Evil four, but certainly getting closer
Speaker 5: to that than what Resident Evil two is. I still
Speaker 5: really liked it as something that I played through in
Speaker 5: a couple of sessions. Jill Valentine very cool character. It's
Speaker 5: always just fun playing as her. Very good boss fights
Speaker 5: with Nemesis, especially some of the ones in the middle.
Speaker 5: There's like that bit where he's kind of like running.
Speaker 5: It circles around you, like on the sides of buildings,
Speaker 5: and you have a grenade launcher with like the mine bombs,
Speaker 5: like shoot it in front of him. Then when it
Speaker 5: hits him, he like goes like, you know, falling to
Speaker 5: the ground. You have to shoot his weak point for
Speaker 5: a while. Just all feels very satisfying. It's still a
Speaker 5: very good looking game. God, that Ari engine is absolutely stunning.
Speaker 3: So I think you're playing it now is probably the
Speaker 3: best way to enjoy it, because, like it was pretty
Speaker 3: quick after RI two remake, which was just such a
Speaker 3: huge experience. It was so so well done, and then
Speaker 3: you know, coming right off the heels of that, with
Speaker 3: it just being shorter and also like didn't have a
Speaker 3: huge wow factor of RI two suddenly being like that,
Speaker 3: it was hard to not compare it, you know, And
Speaker 3: now it's like removed from that comparison and the price
Speaker 3: point step we talked about, like I could see it
Speaker 3: being easier to enjoy it was. It was never bad.
Speaker 3: It was just like a little like just down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but like somebody has to be the Resident Evil
Speaker 5: three in that series. I guess right, They can't all
Speaker 5: just be the best games. Ever, there's still a lot
Speaker 5: of the stuff. Again, like I never played Resident Evil three,
Speaker 5: even the original. Like my very like uninformed thing was like,
Speaker 5: isn't doesn't that game just take place in the same
Speaker 5: place as Residual two and you go into the police
Speaker 5: station for a bit is all it is?
Speaker 2: It's pretty neat.
Speaker 5: My favorite thing about it is that there's still like
Speaker 5: locks with combinations in there, and they have the same
Speaker 5: combinations as in Resuval too. And I had like my
Speaker 5: like post notes from when I played Residue to last year.
Speaker 5: Still on my test, I was able to actually just
Speaker 5: use these stuff.
Speaker 1: Open up these locked crazy whatnot. So that was fun.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, hell yeah. Well going from one whoreor remake
Speaker 1: to another. If you missed BombCast Revengetions. Last week, Dan
Speaker 1: and I chatted about our time playing Silent Hill to remake.
Speaker 1: I've been playing a little bit more of it, and
Speaker 1: I just want to reiterate that I think it is
Speaker 1: a fantastic remake of it. The acting is really top
Speaker 1: notch in this, and I know that there is the
Speaker 1: reverence for a little bit of the cheese and the
Speaker 1: specific character models from the original Silent Hill too. But
Speaker 1: I think the way that Bloomer's adapted this and shouts
Speaker 1: out to Bloober for working really hard. Oh god, Mike,
Speaker 1: I've been worried about that. It's okay, it's okay, we're
Speaker 1: still rolling. I think they have done a really, really good.
Speaker 2: Job at it.
Speaker 1: I still think that the fog is a little too oppressive,
Speaker 1: and at some point it's like watching a movie that
Speaker 1: doesn't need to be in black and white, of like, all.
Speaker 2: Right, we got it. Yeah, it's a plot point the fog.
Speaker 1: There's symbolism for this okay cool. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I want to finish it, mostly because I've seen that
Speaker 1: there are multiple endings to this game, and they've also
Speaker 1: added a couple more endings from the original set of endings,
Speaker 1: uh from the the original game, and god, I just
Speaker 1: don't know if I want to go through everything going
Speaker 1: on in Silent Hill two and how sad and dower
Speaker 1: of a story it ultimately winds up being, and then
Speaker 1: to get an even worse ending. I remember Jess was
Speaker 1: particularly worried that I kept sucking around and like looking
Speaker 1: at the knife in the original game, because apparently that
Speaker 1: affects your.
Speaker 2: Emission.
Speaker 1: There's there's a yes, my knife, who's out there? And
Speaker 1: she thought because I kept looking at it, it would
Speaker 1: signal to the game that I was thinking of some
Speaker 1: very unaliving stuff with James the character, and I.
Speaker 2: Was not cognizant of that at all. We don't want
Speaker 2: him to d sinc. No, we don't want it.
Speaker 1: We don't want him to dcinc at all. So I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit worried of because I'm assuming that those
Speaker 1: meters are all still invisible, that you don't see any
Speaker 1: of the choices, and how it's gonna affect your ending and.
Speaker 2: I just I just don't want the bad stuff. Guys.
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna be bad, but I know, yes,
Speaker 1: that's what I want. Just give me the dog, all right,
Speaker 1: boyos uh one more game to chat about before we
Speaker 1: go to break and Mikey and I have been playing
Speaker 1: through this.
Speaker 2: And me and Dan have too. We should start Dan,
Speaker 2: what do you think of metaphor refantasio? Boy?
Speaker 3: It speaks to the history of uh uh, intimacy and capitalism.
Speaker 2: Yeah, religion is bad? Get weird?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's about It makes me think about colonialism a lot.
Speaker 3: WHOA like the way it deconstructs things. Yeah, and there's
Speaker 3: no ludo narrative dissonance.
Speaker 2: Oh that's the best part. Garrative dissonance.
Speaker 3: Yes, turn based on we Wow.
Speaker 4: I just absolutely crumbling that astrob. It's that game of
Speaker 4: the year anymore.
Speaker 2: Huh oh wait, playing this game? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Playing this game? Nerds on it? I know you're not
Speaker 2: a nerd.
Speaker 5: Boy, this game is very, very good, and yeah you
Speaker 5: expect it, right, the persona team really doesn't miss. But
Speaker 5: I was like I was a little skeptical, like, oh,
Speaker 5: we're just going to make a fantasy Persona how daring.
Speaker 5: It's so clearly from those people, and it has a
Speaker 5: lot of those persona trappings, but a lot of it
Speaker 5: is a bit different than you're expecting, and a lot
Speaker 5: of it is different in some pre significant ways. Like
Speaker 5: the battle system here is uh is quite different. Like
Speaker 5: you still have to exploit enemy weaknesses to get extra turns,
Speaker 5: but there's like a resource for that now, and it's
Speaker 5: for your entire team. Like in the Persona games, especially,
Speaker 5: somebody play a lot of them. They almost it almost
Speaker 5: started to get a little bit easy with just how
Speaker 5: comfortable I was, like, okay, weakness week this weakness, they're
Speaker 5: now using all out attack.
Speaker 4: It doesn't really work like that here, you know.
Speaker 5: Because of that, battles seem a bit more interesting, bit
Speaker 5: harder even, And that kind of ties into the job system.
Speaker 5: And I love any rpg with a job system, which
Speaker 5: is just like a class system that you can kind
Speaker 5: of change out at any point. And there's usually a
Speaker 5: way to get abilities from one job you've like mastered
Speaker 5: to a certain level into the other one, and that's
Speaker 5: here too, So you can be like a Knight who
Speaker 5: has all these physical skills, you can still use that
Speaker 5: one healing spell you had from back when that character
Speaker 5: was in the healer class. So just mixing and matching
Speaker 5: these abilities, and you have to specific ones because like
Speaker 5: instead of personas, this is what you have. So depending
Speaker 5: on what your archetype is, that's what your elemental weaknesses
Speaker 5: are going to be, and that's what abilities you're going
Speaker 5: to have in your arsenal. So there's a lot of
Speaker 5: times where I'll like do a fight and I just
Speaker 5: am not like, Oh, turns out what I brought here
Speaker 5: is not really gonna work. So when I lose, I
Speaker 5: actually do have to rethink that stuff and set up
Speaker 5: my team quite a bit, which again in a persona game,
Speaker 5: usually I just go in there with whatever I want
Speaker 5: and I'll pro probably figure it out eventually. There's a
Speaker 5: lot more going on her in terms of the strategy.
Speaker 1: Especially in terms of beginning a fight from the jump,
Speaker 1: because you do have the option to scan your environment
Speaker 1: and you can see the level of enemies and if
Speaker 1: like they're proportionate to where you are, if they're gonna
Speaker 1: be a little bit tougher. But there's also like a
Speaker 1: they have the persona ambush type of thing where if
Speaker 1: you sneak up in an enemy, you can kind of
Speaker 1: break their guard down, and then the game will prompt
Speaker 1: you when it's time to initiate the actual fight, because
Speaker 1: you could just kind of meleey away at an enemy
Speaker 1: until their guard meters down and then you're like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's jump them now. And I really like that aspect
Speaker 1: because I love jumping people.
Speaker 5: Right, and that's like, you know, all that persona like
Speaker 5: style stuff is great. But when it feels the best
Speaker 5: because when you push that button after you kind of
Speaker 5: do the hack and slashing and then the're in the air,
Speaker 5: you push that button like flashes to one of your
Speaker 5: characters like faces with this like evil like let's get
Speaker 5: them grinded, and then it goes straight into the battle
Speaker 5: with that incredibly good battle music, and of course the
Speaker 5: music is good, just having like some of that hack
Speaker 5: and slash flavor in the field when you're doing the
Speaker 5: dungeon crawling and if you're stronger than an enemy, you
Speaker 5: don't have to fight them and get into a boring
Speaker 5: battle where you're just going to match the attack, but
Speaker 5: you just kill them right there on the field like that,
Speaker 5: and not super satisfied with Mario RPG. Kind of like
Speaker 5: Mario RPG Infinite Wealth. You know you can kind of like,
Speaker 5: oh quickly through those battles. Yeah. Boy, the voice acting
Speaker 5: and just the characters in the writing, like all that
Speaker 5: stuff is hitting very strongly. And I'm only to be clear,
Speaker 5: I'm only like ten hours into this game. I'm not
Speaker 5: super far ran, so I haven't. But the game keeps
Speaker 5: adding stuff.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 5: I know some people like, oh, like, maybe the game
Speaker 5: won't click to you quick for you unless you're forty
Speaker 5: hours in. I can understand how there's gonna be new
Speaker 5: stuff being added to the game. But at least for me,
Speaker 5: it clicked pretty early and by ten hours I had
Speaker 5: like done like the first real dungeon, and like the
Speaker 5: social stuff and the calendar stuff is opened up for me.
Speaker 5: So still feel like a full game. And I'm you know,
Speaker 5: grocking it and really appreciating all of it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you, Mike, at ten hours in,
Speaker 1: I mean, ten hours in any game is a big investment.
Speaker 1: But do you feel like this has got it hooks
Speaker 1: into you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Absolutely, And yeah that the hooks were in pretty early on,
Speaker 5: even when it was like clear, I'm like, you know, okay,
Speaker 5: this is a lot of more of this setup stuff,
Speaker 5: and it's being story driven and I'm not really interacted
Speaker 5: with all the mechanics that this game is going to have,
Speaker 5: but so like the story is paced. Well, yeah, it's
Speaker 5: a slow start compared to video games, compared for jerrpg's
Speaker 5: not really even compared to Persona games. I think that
Speaker 5: this probably gets going almost faster in oh yeah some ways,
Speaker 5: like even early on, when you're not like you don't
Speaker 5: have all mechanics, you're still in a dungeon, you're still
Speaker 5: doing the fights. You unlock that job archetype system pretty
Speaker 5: early on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think other than Persona five Royal, this has
Speaker 1: a very very quick and very strong start. You get
Speaker 1: your kind of summon mechanic of your persona or your
Speaker 1: your I forget what they're called, your archetec.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just so fucking metal. There were so many
Speaker 1: times when I'm playing this game and it's just stimulus
Speaker 1: overload because.
Speaker 2: Someone just took off.
Speaker 1: All the the style guides at Atlas and was like, no,
Speaker 1: let's just do everything. Let's literally do everything. And like
Speaker 1: the music, like Mike mentioned that battle theme, it's not
Speaker 1: my normal cup of tea, but I am chugging this
Speaker 1: shit by the gallon.
Speaker 4: Oh good, this weird kind of chanting thing.
Speaker 5: And then it gets like very epic and yeah, like
Speaker 5: it starts off as so that you're not expecting. Then
Speaker 5: it builds into what you probably would expect from this
Speaker 5: kind of game. It sounds so good. Again, this cast
Speaker 5: is already fantastic. I love that, Like every persona game,
Speaker 5: like their first party member is usually some kind of loser,
Speaker 5: dufist guy, best friend who I never actually like.
Speaker 4: And here like that, the first person who joyed your team.
Speaker 4: He is just a cool dude. I like him a lot.
Speaker 4: Then the next one, Halkenberg this night all Haukenberg is
Speaker 4: cool as hell. Just very good characters so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I especially like when you rank up your social links
Speaker 1: and it's just like the most stylized. It's like the
Speaker 1: second it's number two on the mount Rushmore of video
Speaker 1: game DAPs, right, it's immediately right after Cyclops and Reu.
Speaker 1: But then it's just like giant texts, Okay, fine, it's
Speaker 1: it's two and three. It shares that and it's just
Speaker 1: like a just firm ass handshake.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you're cool.
Speaker 1: This is the stupidest comparison I will make about this game,
Speaker 1: but it is like watching hot Rod and pop Star
Speaker 1: right oh and realizing, oh, this is this is a
Speaker 1: lonely Island joint. They're using all the tools that they
Speaker 1: have and they're this is a lonely ass Island movie.
Speaker 1: And that's what this is with Persona of like they've
Speaker 1: taken every single thing that is hit in the previous games,
Speaker 1: and they've kind of this is still a lengthy, beefy game,
Speaker 1: but they've like cut out a lot of the fat,
Speaker 1: like you don't have as many social links here, and
Speaker 1: I kind of enjoy that, and it does make it
Speaker 1: feel like the relationships that you do have with your
Speaker 1: party are more impactful. I love the Little Dude, Mike,
Speaker 1: have you gotten the Little Dude yet? I think I
Speaker 1: know for the demos it's a little mouse guy. Yeah
Speaker 1: ah oh.
Speaker 5: His voice was so good when I played it at
Speaker 5: a summer game fest because against the archetypes, it looks
Speaker 5: like a little night But in my demo he's like
Speaker 5: a major archetype and he was just like before he attacks,
Speaker 5: like think me, no mage, I know something of the
Speaker 5: spouse And I was like, that's kind of a cool line.
Speaker 5: I like this guy, like this game.
Speaker 1: Goes so fucking hard, it goes so fucking guard and
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it.
Speaker 4: It does.
Speaker 5: And you know, you talk about the social links, and yeah,
Speaker 5: there are as many, but they feel more impactful to
Speaker 5: how they tie into the game here. In the persona games,
Speaker 5: increasing your social links is how you get stronger personas.
Speaker 5: You can maybe unlock some special ones, but here it's
Speaker 5: tied into those archetypes first unlocking them, which is important,
Speaker 5: then eventually powering them up. So yeah, I think you
Speaker 5: get a more kind of a more satisfying power boost
Speaker 5: in the field with them.
Speaker 1: The funny thing that I can definitely see a younger,
Speaker 1: perhaps collegiate person playing this game and maybe this is
Speaker 1: their entry into like the Atlas universe and seeing like, oh.
Speaker 2: Man, the bad guys are called humans. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: humans are bad? Oh then bro.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there is a lot of that meta stuff, Like
Speaker 5: it's like they talk about, oh, there's this utopia kingdom
Speaker 5: where people aren't as racist, and that's like, oh, are
Speaker 5: they talking about not our Earth but maybe Unearthed of
Speaker 5: some kind.
Speaker 4: I'm very intrigued. I'm very into Oh.
Speaker 5: I'm like I've been playing it on my raw ally,
Speaker 5: which I talked about how I like my raw Alley before,
Speaker 5: and they sent me an X. Well, I do appreciate that,
Speaker 5: And like I was playing it on the old one
Speaker 5: before and it was sucking through that battery pretty quickly.
Speaker 5: It h it's a lot better with the battery on
Speaker 5: the X and it's you know, looking very good on there.
Speaker 5: There's like a little bit of maybe like lesser frame
Speaker 5: rate when you're in those more popular towns areas, which
Speaker 5: isn't all that much of a problem. When I'm in
Speaker 5: like the Dudgeons and the fights, it looks fantastic. So
Speaker 5: I'm very happy playing it on there.
Speaker 1: I've not tried this out on the steam deck yet.
Speaker 1: My attention has been wrapped and I just want to
Speaker 1: see it on like the biggest TV possible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I still need to actually try it that way
Speaker 5: because I've actually only been doing it there. With RPGs,
Speaker 5: I usually prefer playing them handheld in one way or another.
Speaker 5: So much so I did all of Persona three reloaded
Speaker 5: our reload on my normal rock See.
Speaker 1: I seem like I was thinking I got to circle
Speaker 1: back by the end of the year to Persona three.
Speaker 1: You your hand is up grub.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was good. You finished it. I just wanted
Speaker 2: you to be acknowledged that I have a question, but
Speaker 2: finish your thought first.
Speaker 1: I was fully intending to go back and try and
Speaker 1: clean up all the other RPGs before the end of
Speaker 1: the year for Game of the Year season. So I
Speaker 1: thought about going back to Persona, thought about finally finishing Rebirth,
Speaker 1: but man, playing this though, it's one of those delios
Speaker 1: where maybe Rebirth is too much, maybe we didn't need
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 5: I still like Rebirth a lot, and I kind of
Speaker 5: like its bloat in a weird sort of way. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but this, I think this is probably the most important
Speaker 5: RPG to finish before the end of the year.
Speaker 4: Now absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 2: That's like a dragon, But go ahead. I love that freak.
Speaker 2: But I don't know grub that's that's fair. Uh okay, Mike,
Speaker 2: you're ten hours in jan How long did you say
Speaker 2: you were in I'm like forty now, okay, ah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The things that do have me curious about this is
Speaker 2: the storytelling and how it uh you know, Dan was
Speaker 2: joking earlier. It's like, oh, it's saying something about politics
Speaker 2: and religion. But I have heard people like say exactly that,
Speaker 2: have you gotten a flavor of that mic and how
Speaker 2: much is do you feel as like actually a cogent
Speaker 2: commentary and stuff that might be interesting to me as
Speaker 2: someone who likes that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: I think it's very deliberate with that religion. I haven't
Speaker 5: gotten a huge sense of that. But again, there's you know,
Speaker 5: there's like different races of people in the game right now.
Speaker 5: It's very clear from the beginning, like, oh, some of
Speaker 5: them are you know, treated as second class citizens, and
Speaker 5: some people are upset about that, and maybe other some
Speaker 5: of the kind of people there's there's sort of a
Speaker 5: Game of Thrones thing going on here. People are vying
Speaker 5: for the crown. So some people are gonna use that,
Speaker 5: you know, the satisfaction maybe on their side, but they're
Speaker 5: not going to fall through with it. It's a very
Speaker 5: big part of what's going on the story.
Speaker 1: I also think the antagonist, is your main antagonist, is
Speaker 1: really well done because sometimes in persona games it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of vague as to like, all right, who are
Speaker 1: we fighting? What are we fighting? But here just from
Speaker 1: the jump is like, no, that motherfucker. He's bad. He's cool,
Speaker 1: but he bad.
Speaker 5: Right, I mean, when you start the game, it like
Speaker 5: shows you the cut scene of from doing a bathing Dan,
Speaker 5: Do you have a problem wopecker.
Speaker 3: I it's crazy right now. Normally they're always pecking, but
Speaker 3: like I'm hitting the walls. I'm muting because I'm being professional,
Speaker 3: but I'm banging on the walls, and I feel like
Speaker 3: the woodpecker is like challenging me and like hitting back
Speaker 3: harder as I'm hitting. I need to go check the
Speaker 3: side of my house. I'll be back.
Speaker 2: Keep talking about anime.
Speaker 4: God, what if Dan got killed by a.
Speaker 1: Woodpecker, that's the only thing they probably they'd befriend him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I say, hi, okay, so there. I mean every
Speaker 2: time I ask someone this, they pretty much agree to
Speaker 2: be listen. I like like a Dragon, and I like
Speaker 2: Super Mario RPG and I liked I remember liking Final
Speaker 2: Fantasy six.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think the thing that these days it's like if
Speaker 2: it is super talky before I'm getting into fun stuff. No,
Speaker 2: that's like it's.
Speaker 5: It's hard because to me and I play a lot
Speaker 5: of RPGs, I'm like, I think this one gets going
Speaker 5: pretty fast. Actually, yeah, but you know people are gonna
Speaker 5: have different tolerances for that, Like for you, I'm not
Speaker 5: sure it might still seem talkie. It also that it's
Speaker 5: all really good talkie again, right, very good. Right if
Speaker 5: you're playing in English, just a presentation looks nice. A
Speaker 5: lot of things are intriguing and straightforward. It doesn't have
Speaker 5: some of the it doesn't have some of the Kingdom
Speaker 5: heart stuff, let's say, of nonsense. Everything is intense and
Speaker 5: a lot but also understandable.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I do get a little intimidated by hearing one
Speaker 2: hundred hours long, but you know, I spent sixty hours
Speaker 2: in like a Dragon or something like that, so it's
Speaker 2: not impossible for me. But yeah, I have I'm gonna try.
Speaker 2: I just got it on those Steam deck I'm gonna
Speaker 2: install it there. Hearing it runs pretty good there at
Speaker 2: locked to thirty with the HDRS, so I'll check that out.
Speaker 1: I was gonna recommend for folks that if anything that
Speaker 1: Mike and I have said about metaphor, if you've seen
Speaker 1: all of the glowing reviews, go check out Jessica Cogswell's
Speaker 1: review on GameSpot dot com.
Speaker 2: Very very well written.
Speaker 4: What are your for RPGs? Holy shit? What a year?
Speaker 1: But if any of this has been interesting, please go
Speaker 1: check out the demo. And I think you'll learn very
Speaker 1: quickly whether or not this game is for you, or
Speaker 1: even it's stylistically, because I wasn't immediately wowed by the
Speaker 1: setting or the story. I was just like you might have,
Speaker 1: like I don't really want fantasy, but the style alone,
Speaker 1: and like the voice acting and just the way and
Speaker 1: the type of story they were telling. It was just like,
Speaker 1: all right, let's log in baby.
Speaker 5: By the way, and not that the main character is
Speaker 5: super talky, but I'm so glad it's not a sign protagonist.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of so over that. Like, look, so I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Percent of three.
Speaker 5: There's nothing you can do to make me think that
Speaker 5: this tiny Japanese sixteen year old teenager is Mike Minahi
Speaker 5: right in name, or like I don't like, I do
Speaker 5: not project onto these sound protagons. It never works that way.
Speaker 5: They always say that I don't think I'm Gordon Freeman.
Speaker 5: I don't think I'm Crono. Characters are just talk now,
Speaker 5: unless you're like a Mario or something like that.
Speaker 2: When the character treats there's sort of like a skateboard,
Speaker 2: then I relate to them. Otherwise, of course that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. Faster Dance Alive or could be a
Speaker 2: bunch of woodpeckers in the suit.
Speaker 5: Oh shit, Dan, Dan, Dan, are you the real Dan?
Speaker 5: Or are you a bunch of woodpeckers wearing your flesh
Speaker 5: like a suit?
Speaker 3: I saw him. I saw the goddamn thing. Disheartening because
Speaker 3: I literally last week spent several thousand dollars and stolen
Speaker 3: intimidators on the side of the house, so it's all
Speaker 3: these spinny metal things and everything, and got all the
Speaker 3: previous holes patched up. Nineteen holes got patched up. There
Speaker 3: are birds living in the walls. Spend thousands of dollars
Speaker 3: and now it's right back, and it's like pissed off,
Speaker 3: and it's like making a statement right.
Speaker 5: Now when I don't mean to get duck care dude,
Speaker 5: are you considering killing the woodpeckers?
Speaker 3: I did ask someone in my family who knows about
Speaker 3: how stuff and you know, actual handy stuff, like.
Speaker 2: What do I do?
Speaker 3: And he's like, all, hell, you just gotta just just
Speaker 3: shoot him, just shoot him. And it's like, well, hey,
Speaker 3: I don't have a gun. Be I like birds and
Speaker 3: animals and don't want to hurt them. See, uh, meterally illegal,
Speaker 3: I believe, so, like several reasons. I don't want to
Speaker 3: kill the bird, but.
Speaker 2: Can you can you like shoot him with nerve darts
Speaker 2: to annoy them? Like is that illegal? It's probably also illegal.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, like ray bottle annoying them.
Speaker 3: Well, it's like the thing is, it's on a big hill.
Speaker 3: So even now, I just I ate ship and a
Speaker 3: bunch of leaves out there trying to check because like
Speaker 3: I'm trying to like scoot down the hill to see
Speaker 3: down anybody just slipped and fell. There's no foots that now.
Speaker 3: I did get a picture of the woodpecker. I okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you'll be able to see much here, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very few things more intimidating to birds than gun.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's right on the other side of my
Speaker 3: wall there, I see the little guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dan, when you say you've installed intimidators, I do
Speaker 1: just imagine a like guns pointed out at like where
Speaker 1: the woodpecker would be.
Speaker 2: Imagine like spinny like Marandy Savage faces that.
Speaker 3: You know, they're like Lisa Frank like glittery like spinny things.
Speaker 3: It's uh, yeah, I got four of them.
Speaker 2: God damn it. Half I don't know what to do together, bud. Yes,
Speaker 2: I learned to live with them dinner.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you should max out your social link with
Speaker 1: the woodpeckers, maybe the archetype.
Speaker 2: Maybe like do something to the mama woodpeckers so when
Speaker 2: her babies are born they imprint on you and like
Speaker 2: assert your dominances like your family's now. Yeah, dad become daddy,
Speaker 2: become daddy Dan.
Speaker 4: It's word that they like your house. So it's more
Speaker 4: than just the trees that are back there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they should just go to town on that. Is
Speaker 3: that the thing that heat now too?
Speaker 2: It doesn't like hurt folks.
Speaker 3: Is there any percentage chance I would like metaphor re fantasio?
Speaker 5: No, okay, try it, you don't try it, okay, Like, oh,
Speaker 5: it should just.
Speaker 3: Be one of those things where I try to expand
Speaker 3: my horizons.
Speaker 5: And I guess I know, but it's like you did,
Speaker 5: like like a dragon, but I guess.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The goofiness a lot there. This is a keeps taking
Speaker 5: itself very seriously. Yeah, I think you have a hard
Speaker 5: time with that.
Speaker 2: You play fire them games. I can't remember.
Speaker 3: I like fireing them a lot because I like, I
Speaker 3: hate everything, but the battles. The battles are awesome. I
Speaker 3: hate having to go, you know, touch a face and
Speaker 3: hang out in a castle or whatever.
Speaker 2: You know, you're not real gamer. That's all I want
Speaker 2: to do. I just want to touch faces and hang out,
Speaker 2: reach out and face Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3: Why I like Advanced Wars too. It's like, let's just
Speaker 3: do a bunch of col battles. That's very face touching
Speaker 3: twenty seconds of anime talking in between. I can handle.
Speaker 3: But I don't want to relationships.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, it is don't just don't do it.
Speaker 2: But maybe maybe I also don't love making relationships and
Speaker 2: video games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no dating in this one, which I think
Speaker 5: some at least I think right, and I think that
Speaker 5: some people are not into that.
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, I don't need that in every single.
Speaker 2: Line, Yeah, I don't. I don't need that. I don't
Speaker 2: need that.
Speaker 4: We could just be friends, and we could just be friends.
Speaker 1: We can just like, you know, lean a head on
Speaker 1: a shoulder and then that's it, and that's fine.
Speaker 3: While we were talking about that, I was scrolling through
Speaker 3: the list of Atlas games and I realized this fucking
Speaker 3: company has been around since nineteen eighty seven, across every
Speaker 3: console possible and I don't think I've played any of
Speaker 3: their games. I think most of them I probably just
Speaker 3: saw anime box art.
Speaker 2: Did you play Catherine? That's anime?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: No, I did not.
Speaker 5: Catherine was the persona team or at least persona people
Speaker 5: involved in that. So yea, I bet some people who
Speaker 5: made this game works on Catherine.
Speaker 3: They did Friday the thirteenth for any As, which I
Speaker 3: played with the friends place.
Speaker 2: Briefly.
Speaker 3: They did Amazing Tator on game Boy, which looks fund
Speaker 3: but then the rest looks very anime.
Speaker 4: They're played Jack Bros. For the Virtual Boy. Oh no, sorr, Wait,
Speaker 4: what's Jack Brother Jack Bros.
Speaker 2: That's just stretched.
Speaker 1: All right, folks, look forward to more metaphor refend has
Speaker 1: you talk. We're gonna have a BCR later this week
Speaker 1: dedicated to metaphor. We got Lex Luti on deck, Jessica Coggswell,
Speaker 1: and we're also gonna try Turbo Shawn on myself will
Speaker 1: also be there in Mike if you if you want,
Speaker 1: there's always a spot open for your baby.
Speaker 4: We'll see.
Speaker 5: We'll say I said, I'm only ten hours and I
Speaker 5: want to play more, so if I maybe something new
Speaker 5: to say about it. But if there's more informant people
Speaker 5: than me. I might see the floor, We'll see. And
Speaker 5: we're also gonna try I love seeing myself on contents,
Speaker 5: I might chub anyways, And if.
Speaker 1: We don't get this, Mike, we're gonna try and get
Speaker 1: my boy Michael him on the pod as well to
Speaker 1: talk about metaphor and how much it has made Michael
Speaker 1: and I cry. Uh, And folks, we're gonna have ourselves
Speaker 1: a good cry. We're just gonna we've beat the first segment.
Speaker 1: We beat it, folks, and now we're gonna cry. And
Speaker 1: then just like every time, and then we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about the news. Right after this, Dan take us away
Speaker 1: with an emotion in your face, like.
Speaker 2: Like that breaking news, break news.
Speaker 1: Jeff gru has been risked away to a different place
Speaker 1: in time, a different place in the universe. He is
Speaker 1: now reporting live from the Dark Universe.
Speaker 2: That's right. I got my Dark Universe hat from from
Speaker 2: a community member from.
Speaker 4: Nobody who knows. Yeah, it's a mystery. Oh it's not
Speaker 4: supposed to be a mystery. Okay, all yeah, alright, Gool,
Speaker 4: I'm glad you were here to save me. Well, thanks
Speaker 4: for the hat.
Speaker 2: Anyhow, you know I can't get this out of my head.
Speaker 2: I learned like a Roman Empire fact of the week
Speaker 2: like happened to me where I'm like, oh, romance. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, why is it called romance? So I like,
Speaker 2: I looked it up. It's because romance was an idea
Speaker 2: that happened in the Middle Ages of like a night,
Speaker 2: like courting a lady, and that all of those books
Speaker 2: were written in the Romance languages, which are based on Latin,
Speaker 2: which come from Rome. And I'm like, wow, that's that's
Speaker 2: weird and it's all about room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mid medieval Wait what is Middle Ages same as Medieval?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, okay, yeah, yeah, cool, all right, and here's
Speaker 2: some news. Thanks for dealing with me. Why I couldn't
Speaker 2: get that out of my head or I had to
Speaker 2: get that out of my head. Halo's three four to
Speaker 2: three rebrands and confirms multiple games coming using the Unreal Engine.
Speaker 2: Halo developer three four three Industries is no more is
Speaker 2: being rebranded to Halo Studios and announce that's working on
Speaker 2: multiple Halo games developed with Unreal Engine. Five of the
Speaker 2: switch to Unreal aims to address issues experience with Halo Infinite,
Speaker 2: specifically the number one complaint which was there is not
Speaker 2: enough content coming out frequently enough. This will be able
Speaker 2: to make that easier because one the tools will be
Speaker 2: easier to work with, and two they will be able
Speaker 2: to hire more people who are more familiar with Unreal
Speaker 2: Engine because those people are out there and slip Space.
Speaker 2: The engine they were using before was proprietary and everyone
Speaker 2: had to be trained on how to use it. The
Speaker 2: studio also says they're making changes to its culture and workflow.
Speaker 2: In fact, they're like developing a huge program to improve
Speaker 2: that while also making tools and best processes to work
Speaker 2: on Unreal Engine. As far as Halo Infinites concerned, it
Speaker 2: will continue for now with some updates for now, but
Speaker 2: it is certainly not the future of Halo in any way.
Speaker 2: In this moment, I was to talk about that game
Speaker 2: is gonna last for ten years all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they stopped talking about that a few years ago. A
Speaker 2: long time ago.
Speaker 1: Greg, we talked about this yes day in game mess
Speaker 1: and initially I was kind of like, Okay, this is cool.
Speaker 1: They can pump out more content. But now I'm thinking
Speaker 1: from the dev side, and now it just seems like,
Speaker 1: all right, we can exploit people faster and get rid
Speaker 1: of them faster to find cheaper labor.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, clearly these companies are trying to make more
Speaker 2: but will also paying the least amount possible. But the
Speaker 2: good side for developers are or is now come work
Speaker 2: at Halo Studios, and the work you do here will
Speaker 2: be transferred or the skills you learn here will be
Speaker 2: transferable to every other studio that uses Unreal Engine, which
Speaker 2: is way more than the one that use slip Space. Now.
Speaker 2: Of course, those skills also were transferable, but just not
Speaker 2: in the exact same way. So I think this will
Speaker 2: be more enticing the candidates. So there's some upside for
Speaker 2: everyone involved here. But yeah, they definitely want to get
Speaker 2: more juice out of squeezing their employees from this, clearly,
Speaker 2: but Halo needed something, They needed some changes, and this
Speaker 2: feels like a big reset that could provide the foundation
Speaker 2: for something in the future. I don't think this guarantees
Speaker 2: anything like Halo's big return is not a guarantee now,
Speaker 2: but it feels like it's increased the odds of that happening.
Speaker 5: And the whole reason that you announced this was a
Speaker 5: fancy video. I mean, this is a recruitment drive more
Speaker 5: than anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're hiring a lot of people as part of this.
Speaker 5: They said, Yeah, what what do you think they mean
Speaker 5: by multiple Halo games? I like it, but the only
Speaker 5: things I can think of is, oh, so the next Halo.
Speaker 5: Then there were rumors about remaking Halo one again, and
Speaker 5: then maybe a separate for you to play Halo Battle Royale. Finally,
Speaker 5: maybe it's those three projects.
Speaker 2: I mean, Halo Mobile and that Gem was saying that
Speaker 2: on the show yesterday as well, that I'd so I
Speaker 2: think they would count that as something. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: it's it's probably like that spread that you mentioned there.
Speaker 2: There could be a chance that it's like and you know,
Speaker 2: there will be a very story heavy spin off of
Speaker 2: the Halo universe or something like that, or maybe even
Speaker 2: Halo Wars returns again. Yeah, I think they did.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like that and like I like the idea
Speaker 3: of that, and Gears Tactics more than I liked playing them,
Speaker 3: you know, Gears Tactics as.
Speaker 2: That two of them or Halo Wars, right, yeah.
Speaker 5: But it was never like it was never three four three.
Speaker 5: Now Halo Studios making those, I guess they're part of it.
Speaker 5: But like Creative Assembly, yes, yeah, totally so I guess,
Speaker 5: you know, maybe I.
Speaker 3: Remember when they announced to Halo Wars too. They announcement,
Speaker 3: people were like, really another one of those.
Speaker 2: That's true, man, most of those people do not play
Speaker 2: those games.
Speaker 1: Slip Space or did Halo Wars use the slip Space
Speaker 1: engine or nothing else.
Speaker 2: They probably would have used whatever Creative Assembly uses for
Speaker 2: Total War I would imagine, right, is that them? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, but still, like, you know, this
Speaker 2: is just them saying there's multiple Halo games in the works.
Speaker 2: Obviously Halo Studios probably working on most of those, and
Speaker 2: they are very likely traditional Halo games in most ways.
Speaker 2: But I mean, what's the Halo game you guys most
Speaker 2: want to see from them that would get you the
Speaker 2: most excited? Because I don't know, I was happy.
Speaker 5: If it is the thing, it's like, just like make
Speaker 5: one of those that other people seem to like more,
Speaker 5: I guess, but people will play, yeah, I mean it
Speaker 5: maybe make the story a bit better, right, like they've
Speaker 5: had problems with kind of uh. I mean, they almost
Speaker 5: kind of have the Avengers endgame problem, right, where like
Speaker 5: Halo three, finish the fight, well, you finished it, and
Speaker 5: then everything you've kind of tried to do since then
Speaker 5: story wise has been that tries to move things forward
Speaker 5: has been a bit of a struggle, and you kind
Speaker 5: of set up things like Evil Cartana that people don't
Speaker 5: really embrace, and you.
Speaker 2: Kind of like, I don't know what we're going to
Speaker 2: do with this.
Speaker 5: It kind of has a wet fart of a solution
Speaker 5: if you just new characters that people don't really glom onto.
Speaker 5: So it's it's really difficult to do another Halo set
Speaker 5: like that, Like maybe maybe you need to do another
Speaker 5: Halo Reach thing. Maybe you need to do a prequel
Speaker 5: or an in Betweekle kind of thing set before the
Speaker 5: end of Halo three and get us something and that
Speaker 5: kind of you know how we get a million Star
Speaker 5: Wars things that are in between Empire Ships back and
Speaker 5: Return of the Jedi.
Speaker 1: Maybe you gotta do a little bit of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe we need a Halo squeakal or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Squeakle. That's I.
Speaker 1: I would love another odious, cheap approach.
Speaker 2: To the smaller scale one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, smaller like I don't hot take, y'all.
Speaker 2: I don't care about master Chief, no.
Speaker 4: Character.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he has an interesting backstory but doesn't really ever
Speaker 5: seem to play into things too much.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: The one thing I really didn't like about Infinet was
Speaker 3: just the way the story was presented. Well, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't care about the story either, but the way
Speaker 3: it's presented is just a hologram talking at you about
Speaker 3: space stuff, and I was so bored every time it
Speaker 3: made you do that.
Speaker 5: But I did really like the open world approach to
Speaker 5: that game, and I thought the grappling stuff but really good.
Speaker 5: I thought multiplayer was a ton of fun. I had
Speaker 5: some gripes with a Yeah, they weren't releasing a content
Speaker 5: to the speed a lot of people were used to.
Speaker 5: And I didn't love some of that daily challenge stuff, right,
Speaker 5: like oh, kill five people with a pistol, and I
Speaker 5: don't want to use a pistol. That kind of stuff
Speaker 5: is annoying. So I don't think you need major adjustments
Speaker 5: to just make a more popular Halo game. Part of
Speaker 5: problem is that, you know, like that fan base did
Speaker 5: turn against three four three, and I think that's why
Speaker 5: you have the name change. In a lot of ways,
Speaker 5: something about just the title three four three industries somehow
Speaker 5: became toxic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they had to change a name.
Speaker 5: I guess the only thing you can change it too,
Speaker 5: So you're very clear on what you are is Halo's studios.
Speaker 1: Just give me a bad Batch style game. Were the
Speaker 1: Halos please Republic Commando?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Do that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, just make a Republic comanda with the Halo I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: we had something kind of like there's a little bit
Speaker 5: of that vibe in Halo Reach.
Speaker 4: If you kind of push that more, that could really work.
Speaker 2: Like I just want to good squad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, yeah that or maybe time maybe time
Speaker 4: jump and let's play as somebody else. Right, what does
Speaker 4: the Halo universe look like one hundred years in the
Speaker 4: future and we're like a new generation of Spartans. There's
Speaker 4: a different characters and different problems happening now.
Speaker 2: Yep. And I think the most basic thing they can
Speaker 2: do is kind of what we said first, make another Halo,
Speaker 2: but where there is enough content coming out frequently enough
Speaker 2: for the multiplayer that people kind of can't complain about that.
Speaker 2: I think if there was a new handful of maps
Speaker 2: every three months, that would go a long way towards
Speaker 2: keeping people happy.
Speaker 5: So I think the one technological thing you can do
Speaker 5: to get people excited is just show them an entire
Speaker 5: Halo and say, this whole thing is an open world
Speaker 5: you can walk from like, you can walk completely around it.
Speaker 5: You can start the here, go through the whole thing
Speaker 5: and get back to where you were and still.
Speaker 2: More than one place, which didn't bother me, but bother loves.
Speaker 5: Well, if it's one big halo, they can make get
Speaker 5: multiple biomes. Yeah, I didn't care about that, but it
Speaker 5: was another piece of ammo for the haters. So sure
Speaker 5: put a fire level.
Speaker 4: In there or something.
Speaker 2: Yep, some lava and a beach, all right. Sega has
Speaker 2: announced an Alien Isolation sequel. Sega is developing the game
Speaker 2: with a Creative Assembly again. The first Alien Isolation came
Speaker 2: out in twenty fourteen, has become quite a cult hit
Speaker 2: over time, and now Sega is returning to that with
Speaker 2: with Creative Assembly and Creativesembly says that they are early
Speaker 2: in development, so probably several years away, if not more
Speaker 2: than that. But I think there's a smart move. It
Speaker 2: feels like the kind of game that would if you
Speaker 2: released Alien Isolation today and had a little bit more
Speaker 2: of a strong editing hand. That feels like the kind
Speaker 2: of game that would extremely pop off today. So I
Speaker 2: think a sequels a good idea. I want to play
Speaker 2: the original pretty badly. One of the things that scares
Speaker 2: me is this like you know thing flowing out there.
Speaker 2: It's like eighteen to twenty hours long. Yeah, it seems
Speaker 2: long for that, yep, and it is. That's what everyone says.
Speaker 2: It's it's long for that game with what it's doing.
Speaker 2: And you know why they do that back then, because
Speaker 2: you got to make it worth it's got to compete
Speaker 2: with every other game on the shelf. And I think
Speaker 2: people are more a little bit more okay today with
Speaker 2: games just being what's best for them. Clearly, they would
Speaker 2: probably still trying to make it feel pretty robust. But
Speaker 2: I bet this one is not going to be eighteen
Speaker 2: to twenty hours long, or if it is, they'll have
Speaker 2: some more more variety to keep it interesting. But yeah, hey,
Speaker 2: I think it's a good move for Sega and Creative Assembly.
Speaker 2: You know, Creative Assembly was working on, as everyone remembers,
Speaker 2: imlaments hyenas, which never came out. I know it's devastating
Speaker 2: to you, Dan, a huge hyenas fan. Hyenas Mark, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Hyenas Mark, absolutely, but this is like, okay, well, we're
Speaker 2: not working on that anymore. Kind of in a bad way.
Speaker 2: Our total war games continue to do what they do,
Speaker 2: but we need to work on something else. This is
Speaker 2: the right answer, I think for that team. Red Dead
Speaker 2: Redemption and Undead Nightmare have been announced for PC. Rockstar
Speaker 2: Games has announced the release date for the long awaited
Speaker 2: PC version of the original Red Dead Redemption, which never
Speaker 2: came to PC before. The open world western game will
Speaker 2: be bundled with its zombie themed expansion, Undead Nightmare. It
Speaker 2: is coming to the rock Star Store, Steam and the
Speaker 2: Epic Game Store on October twenty ninth, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: so by the end of this month you can finally
Speaker 2: play Red Dead Redemption on your PC. It'll have four
Speaker 2: K resolution, HDR ten support, and full keyboard and mouse functionality.
Speaker 2: It'll also have like a sweet up support for like
Speaker 2: Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR three point zero and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, so you get frame generation. Although this game
Speaker 2: should run just about on anything, they just released it
Speaker 2: for switch, so if your PC is stronger than a switch,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be fine. That's hot. Yeah, I more, yeah,
Speaker 2: more chances to play Red Dead Redemption. Great. I think
Speaker 2: that game's pretty fun. I've never actually played on Dead Nightmare,
Speaker 2: So maybe this.
Speaker 4: Would be a good chance to go back a Dead Nightmare.
Speaker 5: I really I only played through it once, like Backman
Speaker 5: came out, but I really liked Red Dead Redemption one.
Speaker 4: That game hit me very hard at the time.
Speaker 5: I am kind of curious to go back to it
Speaker 5: and see if it still hits that hard. It's been
Speaker 5: a while, but oh, I'm kind of like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: kind of feeling some nostalgia for og Red Dead Redemption.
Speaker 5: I want to get to Mexico and have that song play.
Speaker 3: I only played through it once, but I have considered
Speaker 3: it like the best game of that three sixty generation,
Speaker 3: and that was a stack generation that edge the well
Speaker 3: definitely not that, but they should have made a They
Speaker 3: should have made a sequel the Red Redemption that game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, would we get into red that Redemption two
Speaker 5: Defender mill it's three against one here, Yeah, you're not
Speaker 5: gonna win, ye?
Speaker 2: What about her?
Speaker 4: Better worse than Horizon for bidding West Horizon?
Speaker 2: I think I'd rather play Horizon. Should we have Wild
Speaker 2: West Week? Oh god, wild at Sunset Riders would be fun?
Speaker 3: Wow, Guns Total Overdose Rising Zan Samurai Gunman.
Speaker 2: Outlaws from Lucas Arts a Cowboys simulator, like probably a
Speaker 2: bad one of those on Steam.
Speaker 4: That SPERANDOS three is actually pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the one of us goes to a bar with
Speaker 1: a mechanical bull and we just see how long we
Speaker 1: can stay on.
Speaker 2: A mechanical bull.
Speaker 4: Once it didn't didn't last too long.
Speaker 3: Done in the bunch, and I always suck at it.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is a game Cowboy thirty thirty came out
Speaker 2: earlier this year. What is this a match three? Okay?
Speaker 2: All right? Microsoft is seeking feedback from studios that do
Speaker 2: not put their games on Xbox. Xbox Research Division is
Speaker 2: expanding to collaborate with game makers. The initiative aims to
Speaker 2: address pain points and improve future tools and services. Open
Speaker 2: to all members of games studios, including non technical staff.
Speaker 2: They are seeking feedback from studios not currently releasing games
Speaker 2: on Microsoft platforms. Basically, they're like, hey, why aren't you
Speaker 2: putting your games on Xbox? And so, yeah, they're going
Speaker 2: to try to get some feedback here and they probably
Speaker 2: will hear a few things like, hey, you could improve
Speaker 2: your response time when we ask you questions about getting certified,
Speaker 2: because we have heard some studios say that. But I
Speaker 2: imagine a lot of studios are gonna be like, well,
Speaker 2: we're afraid if we spend that money, we won't make
Speaker 2: it back by putting on Xbox. And if people say that, like,
Speaker 2: what does Microsoft do to fix that?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Say, do they say please or start offering more checks?
Speaker 2: Batting their eyes? Yeah? And also yeah, like, as Octo
Speaker 2: points out, there just doing this now, it feels like
Speaker 2: this is something you should have been addressing for for
Speaker 2: years now. Yeah, I guess that begs what were they
Speaker 2: doing before to ensure that Microsoft or the Xbox is
Speaker 2: a place that people want to put their games out
Speaker 2: because clearly just being like we're selling a ton Xbox,
Speaker 2: this has not been a winning compelling argument.
Speaker 1: Are they just doing this with the studios they don't
Speaker 1: want to buy?
Speaker 2: Yes? I can't think so, yeah, they'll just buy the rest? Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess this is how you keep safe from them
Speaker 2: buying you is you talked to them about this and
Speaker 2: then you know what.
Speaker 1: If what if we start saying we're not going to
Speaker 1: put our podcast or any of our videos on Xbox,
Speaker 1: will they take us out to lunch?
Speaker 2: Then that's a good idea. There we go, There we go.
Speaker 1: I just wanted Big Phil to like come up to
Speaker 1: us and be like, guys, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Well, my arnold Palmers looking a little empty here, looking
Speaker 2: a little dry over here. Fill me up? There we go,
Speaker 2: film me up, Phil, there it is, fill them up.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: Google has been ordered to open its Android app store
Speaker 2: to competitors. A US judge has issued a permanent injunction
Speaker 2: ordering Google to open its Android marketplace to competitors. Google
Speaker 2: will not be allowed to block third party Android app
Speaker 2: stores or restrict access to their full catalog of games
Speaker 2: and apps. Basically, you could always put whatever you want
Speaker 2: on the Android App Store for the most part, except
Speaker 2: for other app stores. That was the one thing that
Speaker 2: was blocked. Now you could install those on Android sideload them,
Speaker 2: something that Amazon App Store did forever ago. But most
Speaker 2: people don't do that. The vast majority people are never
Speaker 2: going to do that. In fact, most people are probably
Speaker 2: not not even going to install third party stores from
Speaker 2: Google Play. But now you can. And this is maybe
Speaker 2: most interesting for our purposes because well one Microsoft has
Speaker 2: said that they are going to make a mobile app
Speaker 2: store for their games so that they can have the
Speaker 2: Call of Duties and Candy Crossaga in there. And now
Speaker 2: maybe the way to get those games will be as
Speaker 2: through this new Microsoft app store on Google Play. But
Speaker 2: the long term implication here potentially is, well, if the
Speaker 2: government believes that competition is best served by allowing other
Speaker 2: stores onto digital stores that already exist, what is the
Speaker 2: difference between the Android app store and the PlayStation store, Like,
Speaker 2: why couldn't Microsoft put their store on PlayStation store?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What is the legal reasoning that that wouldn't be the
Speaker 2: exact same thing? So they could? It feels like it's
Speaker 2: slowly marching towards a world in which stores are forced
Speaker 2: to open up to everybody. And now suddenly the company
Speaker 2: that owns Call of Duty can have their own app
Speaker 2: store on the PlayStation store and you have to buy
Speaker 2: Call of Duty directly through them, And that means that
Speaker 2: PlayStation no longer gets the thirty percent cut. Oh that's
Speaker 2: a possibility now, it feels like, and at least that's
Speaker 2: how it's going to work on mobile. That is exactly
Speaker 2: what's happening here, That these companies are going to have
Speaker 2: waste that they no longer have to give the thirty
Speaker 2: percent cut to Google. And eventually probably iOS iOS won
Speaker 2: their court case in a different core. But epics, I
Speaker 2: think appealing that. Meanwhile, Google is gonna going to appeal this,
Speaker 2: and this stuff's far from settled. But in this moment,
Speaker 2: I think this is part of the long term play
Speaker 2: from microsoftware. Theyor like, we'll get so many games and
Speaker 2: then if the regulation changes and we can have our
Speaker 2: own app store on these other on these other platforms,
Speaker 2: we'll do that and that will be how we how
Speaker 2: we win the future.
Speaker 5: So does that lead to things like Microsoft being able
Speaker 5: to say, Hey, I'm putting We're putting game Pass on PlayStation,
Speaker 5: whether Sony likes it or not.
Speaker 2: Yes, Wow, what at least a form of it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Greb, what about they just make more games and
Speaker 1: just put them out in normal styles?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Right. This continues to be like the best criticism
Speaker 2: of Microsoft in this moment. It's like they seem like
Speaker 2: they're playing this legal long game and hoping that regulation
Speaker 2: is friendly towards them. And meanwhile, they have a lot
Speaker 2: of people who want to spend money on their games
Speaker 2: if they would put out games worth spending money on.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it continues to be kind of frustrating, but
Speaker 2: that they also might be right about this. It does
Speaker 2: feel like this is the way the wind is blowing.
Speaker 2: Was right fall this year last year?
Speaker 5: No, last year, this was you say it was suicide
Speaker 5: squad and skull and Bones and uh and concord for
Speaker 5: the big flops.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that flops. Yep.
Speaker 5: Maybe the Starfield expansion. I don't know how it's actually doing.
Speaker 4: I thought it would be poorly.
Speaker 2: Oh, I thought very poor. Yeah, like that's I got
Speaker 2: like a fifty eight right now. Yeah, it's rough. Uh.
Speaker 2: Xbox co founder Jay Allard has joint Amazon. Jay Allard
Speaker 2: is back. Let's talk about Velocity Girl. Xbox co founder
Speaker 2: Jay Allard joins Amazon as vice presidents a vice president
Speaker 2: of its Devices and Services team. He said he doesn't
Speaker 2: even really it's like too early to even talk about
Speaker 2: what he's going to be working on, but he says
Speaker 2: something new.
Speaker 3: I was not aware of Velocity Girl, but I'm now
Speaker 3: looking at their wiki. This is Jay Allard's band.
Speaker 2: Oh wait? Did he name his band Velocity Girl? Oh wait?
Speaker 3: When I looked at Velocity Girl, I just see a band,
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 2: Saw that girl was from the Xbox three sixty reveal
Speaker 2: event when he started talking about like the other kinds
Speaker 2: of people are going to be getting Xbox three sixty.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be Velocity girl, and she's gonna be designing
Speaker 2: skateboards that other people using the games because she's not
Speaker 2: playing the games. Oh, sitting on being cool. This is yes,
Speaker 2: this is full hoodie and blazer j Aller. If you
Speaker 2: picture him in your head when you close your eyes, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 3: I don't remember girl.
Speaker 2: No, I remember either like Velocity, lots of girl and
Speaker 2: and then God like Lord time or something was like
Speaker 2: the hardcore game player and there's the other guy who
Speaker 2: really like h yeah their personas. Yes, you could go
Speaker 2: take these back to Mattha Marshall.
Speaker 4: Yeah, gotcha. Okay, Yeah. What do you think is what
Speaker 4: are they doing? Amazon? Probably something stupid.
Speaker 2: They're probably making handheld right, yeah, why not because Amazon?
Speaker 4: Because you could just because they have money, you could
Speaker 4: make one and put the Amazon name on there and
Speaker 4: it might be all right.
Speaker 1: Plenty of knockoff Chinese handhelds on Amazon or ready.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think you know when you think about amazon
Speaker 2: strategy long term, that their motto has always been your
Speaker 2: margin is our opportunity. So when they look around, they
Speaker 2: see like, well, so Valve is already subsidized in the
Speaker 2: Steam deck, but that's not the only player in town.
Speaker 2: All these other ones have to sell for higher amounts
Speaker 2: of money because they cannot subsidize. They're not going to
Speaker 2: make money from selling games. We one can make money
Speaker 2: from selling games, and two we can subsidize the cost
Speaker 2: of the hardware because we make enough money that in volume,
Speaker 2: we'll make that up and it will be fine. So
Speaker 2: they could come in with a very competitively priced handheld
Speaker 2: PC gaming device that is exactly as powerful as anything
Speaker 2: else on the market. They could buy enough from AMD
Speaker 2: to make it make sense. I think that's probably what
Speaker 2: they're going for here.
Speaker 1: Is that Amazon mmo still popping off New World?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not popping off, but I think it's doing
Speaker 2: fopping off.
Speaker 4: I think it's doing fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's better than any of their other games.
Speaker 2: But they also have recently said that they are like
Speaker 2: trying to get out of just being in MMOs. They
Speaker 2: want to make other kinds of games. And they're making
Speaker 2: a Lord of the Rings mmo.
Speaker 6: Ye.
Speaker 4: Still, that's like, don't we have in Lord of the
Speaker 4: Rings momoll?
Speaker 5: Yeah, lotro still out there somehow, but yeah, they're making
Speaker 5: a different one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Lord of the Rings Online is what low tru
Speaker 2: stands for.
Speaker 3: If your elder schools online still a thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very big thing, actually very popular, makes a lot
Speaker 2: of money for him, I think, uh yeah, uh, Jay Allard,
Speaker 2: I'm just glad he's sticking around and still involved in games.
Speaker 2: I hope he's still wearing hoodies and blazers, I would imagine, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I hope so yeah, but yeah, just saying like he did, well,
Speaker 2: we'll not discuss the specifics yet, just new ideas, that's
Speaker 2: all he's saying. But it's it's vice president of Devices
Speaker 2: and Services. That is basically what he did when he
Speaker 2: was in charge of Xbox three sixty. So I could
Speaker 2: see him trying to design an Amazon handheld that then
Speaker 2: has like reminiscent of Xbox Live in terms of its
Speaker 2: presentation for the services.
Speaker 5: I wonder if like a bit of a racism on now,
Speaker 5: Like Amazon's probably working on these, Xbox certainly working on
Speaker 5: one of the station probably too, PlayStation probably working on
Speaker 5: one of these. So yeah, like everyone's going to try
Speaker 5: to get these things out there. It's going to be
Speaker 5: interesting to see what they all look like. And meanwhile,
Speaker 5: Switch Too will probably come out before any of them. Maybe, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it'll be interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really excited for the switch to you to
Speaker 1: come out, because I just want Nintendo to make a
Speaker 1: bonker's decision and then it just lands with everyone and
Speaker 1: then everyone else is playing copycat for the next five years.
Speaker 2: Afterwards, you'll get your You'll get your weird wearable or
Speaker 2: your weird desk clock that watched you sleep.
Speaker 1: God please, you'd be the goddamn watch Nintendo watch me sleep, Daddy, Nintendo.
Speaker 2: There it is. Ubisoft acknowledges buy out reports, says we
Speaker 2: regularly regularly review options.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: There was a report that the Gimo family was considering
Speaker 2: taking Ubi soft private in conjunction with Tencent, like Tencent
Speaker 2: would help fund the process of taking Ubi soft private.
Speaker 2: That seems to probably be a serious conversation. You'd be
Speaker 2: stopped to downplaying it though, because obviously, if it's not settled,
Speaker 2: it could have massive effects on its stock price, would
Speaker 2: send it up more than likely, and if they you know,
Speaker 2: they probably want to kind of keep that stuff in
Speaker 2: control for now until it's actually something that is going
Speaker 2: to happen. But yeah, I mean, mostly this is interesting
Speaker 2: because Ubisoft is a massive employer of people who make
Speaker 2: video games, and it just feels like they are in
Speaker 2: the toughest position they've been in, and they've been in
Speaker 2: a lot of tough positions, So how are we feeling
Speaker 2: about the future of you be soft look in real
Speaker 2: Dower Boys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hate that they actually made one of the
Speaker 5: best games this year in Prince of Persia The Last Crown,
Speaker 5: But like that, you know doesn't right, Like you know,
Speaker 5: like that doesn't really matter because like the actual game
Speaker 5: that was supposed to hit from them, the big Star
Speaker 5: Wars Open World thing, just didn't. And like, what's going
Speaker 5: to change really in the market for the next time
Speaker 5: they want to do one of those. The only real
Speaker 5: card they have to play is as has his Creed
Speaker 5: maybe far cross when they put it on one of
Speaker 5: those out but even that seems like it was slipping
Speaker 5: a bit. It seems like the only solution here is
Speaker 5: to just ride that Assassin's Creed train until it goes
Speaker 5: off the rails again. What has happened before, We know
Speaker 5: that you can oversaturate with Assassin's Creed. There's no reason
Speaker 5: why won't happen again. And you know there's rumors that no, no,
Speaker 5: only are we getting SSS Creed Shadows early next year,
Speaker 5: but remake a Black Flag later in the year. And
Speaker 5: then there's like a million ore hecks would be the
Speaker 5: next year Assassins Creed Infinite.
Speaker 2: It's still a thing. I don't hear them talking about
Speaker 2: it anymore. It's they've not really talked about it in
Speaker 2: any real way. So if it happens, it probably happens
Speaker 2: when that So Black Flag comes out next year, but
Speaker 2: so does Invictus the multiplayer. Uh god, when that happened
Speaker 2: three Assasins Creed games next year? Cool, So that that'll
Speaker 2: probably be the the when that that launcher happens infinite
Speaker 2: whatever that actually turns into whatever? It is a portal
Speaker 2: or yeah, just is it just the thing that Call
Speaker 2: Duty is where it's there's the Call of Duty app
Speaker 2: and all the games live in there now or does Yeah?
Speaker 5: I have no idea what they had actually really means. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but like, you know, don't feel great. I feel like
Speaker 5: something drastic. I don't know if it's literally this with tense,
Speaker 5: but you know, I don't know if they're gonna be
Speaker 5: able to be a public trade company of stock prices
Speaker 5: keep going down and it's going to stop that immediately.
Speaker 5: Is Shadows delivering strung, which it could do, but it
Speaker 5: is going to be in a busy month and there,
Speaker 5: you know, we just see a lot of games not
Speaker 5: really hitting like they should. So this game comes out
Speaker 5: and misses the mark even.
Speaker 2: A little bit.
Speaker 5: That could be another disaster for Ubi Soft. And they
Speaker 5: don't really have anything to point to to be like,
Speaker 5: well just wait for you know, the Star Wars game
Speaker 5: that we're working on, the Avatar game working on the
Speaker 5: we're going to have that point on too. Is just
Speaker 5: more Assassin's Creed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's the end of the rope, because I mean,
Speaker 2: all the other things missed before this, Like we only
Speaker 2: even talk about how bad Skull and Bones did because
Speaker 2: it was so obvious it was going to do bad.
Speaker 2: But it's like, you know, you spend ten years making
Speaker 2: that thing and it crashed and burned, but and you
Speaker 2: knew that was gonna happen, So you were kind of
Speaker 2: waiting for these two other games to save you. And
Speaker 2: of course they're not gonna do that.
Speaker 1: Really, Kubowski in the Giant Bomb chat, I think they're joking,
Speaker 1: but I think this could be a legitimate thing. But
Speaker 1: what are the chances of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Speaker 1: getting involved?
Speaker 2: I mean, we saw that that's not impossible.
Speaker 1: We saw the news stories of them wanting to increase
Speaker 1: their steake in Nintendo.
Speaker 4: Then then it turns out they actually lowered it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they actually apparently they reduced their steak in Nintendo.
Speaker 1: They heard they heard game mess yesterday and.
Speaker 2: All right, we scared them off absolutely. I mean I
Speaker 2: think that is the point here with this ten Cent
Speaker 2: story is that the Guimo family feels like if they
Speaker 2: partner with ten Cent, they can control this going forward,
Speaker 2: take it private and have some control because they feel
Speaker 2: like Tencent just once the investment, they don't want to
Speaker 2: take over, Whereas like in the meantime, if the stock
Speaker 2: price does keep going lower, there could be a lot
Speaker 2: of other entities out there that are looking for hostile takeovers,
Speaker 2: where like they will just buy up all the stock available,
Speaker 2: force themselves onto the board and kick the Gimo family out.
Speaker 2: So this is what they're trying to avoid.
Speaker 5: And I don't want Ubisoft to go away again. Like
Speaker 5: you know, Prince of Person is very good this year.
Speaker 5: That Beyond Good and Evil remaster was very well done,
Speaker 5: Like they make good yeah, right, so you know I
Speaker 5: want that ship to get figured out. Basically, I don't
Speaker 5: know if ten sent money is what does it? But
Speaker 5: I just don't I don't want them to go completely
Speaker 5: under or get taken over by a company that's just
Speaker 5: coming in to look and like split them off and
Speaker 5: sell their assets.
Speaker 4: And iPod.
Speaker 1: Did they cancel that Immortal Phoenix Rising sequel?
Speaker 5: Yea that yeah, that never technically announcement, so that got canceled.
Speaker 2: Like yeah.
Speaker 5: In terms of like future stuff Beyond Good and Evil too,
Speaker 5: we still think that's happening. It's still teased and that
Speaker 5: Beyond Good and Evil remaster, there's like Easter Eggs about it.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure. I'm sure they're still working on some
Speaker 2: version of that.
Speaker 1: Learning how to code is very challenging for Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Speaker 2: That's right, it's gonna take some time.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Finally Uh sued switch modschip maker uh denies claim all
Speaker 2: of Nintendo's claims and will seemingly take on Nintendo without
Speaker 2: a lawyer. Orian Daily, a switchmad chip seller, denies Nintendo's
Speaker 2: claims in a lawsuit and will represent himself without an attorney.
Speaker 2: At least so far, you're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 2: It's a bad idea, especially against Nintendo. Nintendo file to
Speaker 2: complain against Daily elecging he continued selling modded consoles and
Speaker 2: meg switches despite being warned to stop. Daily denies wrongdoing
Speaker 2: un less seventeen affirmative defenses, including fair use and invalid copyright.
Speaker 2: Man good luck. The case moves to the discovery process,
Speaker 2: where both parties gather evidence, with Daily representing himself, so
Speaker 2: probably going to be pretty challenging to figure out how
Speaker 2: to navigate that. Meanwhile, Nintendo's lawyers will be at Daly's
Speaker 2: house being like requesting his emails and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and with the backing of the law to be able
Speaker 2: to do to make that happen. So anytime he has
Speaker 2: incriminated himself could be it's going to go very bad.
Speaker 2: But Nintendo continues to just be punting with the hounds
Speaker 2: against anyone and everyone. And I get the MiG switch
Speaker 2: being like a pirating device, like that is the point
Speaker 2: of that whole thing. I get them going after that,
Speaker 2: But uh, they're going to make an example out of you,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna need a lawyer to avoid some like
Speaker 2: all out salting of the earth of your entire life.
Speaker 2: Becase Nintendo doesn't seem like they're gonna hold off all right,
Speaker 2: That does it for the news. Jan I'm handing the
Speaker 2: show back over.
Speaker 1: To you fantastic folks. We're gonna take another quick bricky
Speaker 1: break and we'll be back with some electronic mails right
Speaker 1: after this. Folks, we've decided to make the executive decision
Speaker 1: to replace all of the segment music with Dan just
Speaker 1: just waggling a bunch of joysticks. Dan play the email waggles.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's that's on this song. I bet you could
Speaker 3: tell the difference between Super Nintendo sixty four and GameCube
Speaker 3: buttons if you really listened.
Speaker 4: I remember SNS was up being super clicky.
Speaker 3: See here's here's Americans and as emails. It's not real,
Speaker 3: you're super Amicon.
Speaker 4: Week.
Speaker 2: That's good stuff. It does sound like crabs fighting.
Speaker 3: Do the A and B and sea buttons feel different?
Speaker 2: That's A and B. Here's the C.
Speaker 4: Sound pretty similar?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1: On the A and B so and have like a
Speaker 1: different give And for some reason, I feel like Nintendo
Speaker 1: would get mad at this still.
Speaker 2: Probably Yeah, yeah, like dare you Pyoto wasn't happy with
Speaker 2: your buttons?
Speaker 1: Looking click the buttons you're supposed to gently press the buttons.
Speaker 1: Bombcasts a giant bomb dot Com is the email addressed
Speaker 1: to send your emails too.
Speaker 2: That's right, Scout.
Speaker 1: You can send virtually any and everything you want to
Speaker 1: hide from a public interaction and just pretend like you're
Speaker 1: texting someone. Write us an email, tell us about the
Speaker 1: public place that you're at, Scout, please, uh, first email
Speaker 1: comes Okay, all right, we get it, dude, Chill, chill,
Speaker 1: first email. It comes from Cooper in San Hoseay, what
Speaker 1: do you want?
Speaker 2: I compare your scale? Okay?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: Hey, there folks in the same vein as Dan talking
Speaker 1: about which ones are mainline Mario games. I wanted to
Speaker 1: know his thoughts on which ones are mainline games for
Speaker 1: the Metal Gear franchise, and if he and Grubb were
Speaker 1: to do a metal Gear Solid akin to metal Gear Scanlon,
Speaker 1: which games would you two be playing in order to
Speaker 1: play through this whole series. Thanks for the concert source
Speaker 1: of entertainment over the years, Cooper and san.
Speaker 3: Jase seazy and I think we pretty much did it
Speaker 3: with meddle eear scallon. You do the number games and
Speaker 3: ground zeros.
Speaker 4: That's okay, Wait, no, there's no way you don't consider
Speaker 4: peace Walker.
Speaker 3: I consider peace Walker cannon story wise, but I've never
Speaker 3: played it.
Speaker 2: I kind of considered it the way he's never played it, Mike,
Speaker 2: and it's on a portable.
Speaker 3: Stat It's kind of like the Mario Land stuff where
Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, okay, they exist.
Speaker 2: Insane and nonsensical, especially since Ground Zeros is a direct
Speaker 2: sequel to it with like the same characters, and like
Speaker 2: it doesn't make any shirts.
Speaker 3: And port You got to know the story of peace
Speaker 3: Walker and I've watched the how.
Speaker 2: Would we do that? I wonder watch the.
Speaker 3: Cut scenes for a couple of hours instead of holding
Speaker 3: a goddamn PSB for eight to ten hours or whatever
Speaker 3: it is?
Speaker 4: Why? But why isn't it mainline? It's literally made by.
Speaker 3: It's canonical and the story is cononical, right.
Speaker 2: So why is it mainline if it's canonical? Some PSP.
Speaker 4: No room from the PSP, you and your weird thing
Speaker 4: with portable?
Speaker 3: I love DS, I love g B A, I love
Speaker 3: three DS. Uh Vita suck PSP is okay, right?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Why is? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Why is your feelings about the platform matter if something
Speaker 5: is mainline or not because.
Speaker 2: It's not a real one. Like put it this way.
Speaker 2: I was at that e three, what was at eighth nine?
Speaker 3: Whatever it was press conference Uh, the Sony one and
Speaker 3: Kijima came out and he was talking about how mainline
Speaker 3: peace Walker was, and he was like, no, this is
Speaker 3: like the real deal, next Meddle Year game. It is
Speaker 3: Metal Year Solid five. And if it really was Meddle
Speaker 3: Year Solid five, why do they make a metal Gear
Speaker 3: Solid five?
Speaker 5: So you don't believe Kajima now, so we don't have
Speaker 5: to worry about what Shagar Mimo said about Yoshi's island, right,
Speaker 5: he went.
Speaker 2: To the source and the source just said, well.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying, He himself kind of went back by
Speaker 3: making it. I think him calling Meddle Year Solid five
Speaker 3: meddle Year Solid five, I think that was kind of
Speaker 3: a like okay, yeah, we all know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Nintendo Museum and put Yoshi in the I don't.
Speaker 3: Think until you showed me footage of him putting that
Speaker 3: display together.
Speaker 2: You conceded last week. What did that concede that? I
Speaker 2: don't think I did.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think I conceded anything.
Speaker 1: I really I pray to God that Dan considers me
Speaker 1: mainline or else I won't.
Speaker 3: You'll never acknowledge me your top line mainline. Absolutely, yeah, But.
Speaker 5: Like sometimes series don't number and then they number again
Speaker 5: like Assassin's Creed did that a bunch of times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they did that to sell the most
Speaker 2: copies possible without making you're worried who didn't play? Like
Speaker 2: that's a marketing decision, is the reason that's called.
Speaker 5: Five Kandamart says it all the time too, And I
Speaker 5: know you don't, but ye, where they have mainline entries
Speaker 5: on portable systems though, So that's why it's a good
Speaker 5: analogy here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure I've heard peace Walker is good or
Speaker 3: I've heard it's the greatest game of all time based on.
Speaker 5: Certain Yeah, I don't think that either. I'm not even
Speaker 5: a big peace Walker fan. But quality has no bearing
Speaker 5: here on if it's a mainline or not. Of course
Speaker 5: it's a mainline Metal.
Speaker 2: Ga I will here.
Speaker 3: Here's something I'll do, is that I because I know
Speaker 3: you can play peace Walker. That's not on the collection,
Speaker 3: but you can play it on the HD collection. It'll
Speaker 3: be on the next collection with online. Okay, Well, my
Speaker 3: sister's going through Metal Gear games now, she's almost done
Speaker 3: with three. If peace Walker is a thing where you
Speaker 3: can easily hop here's the thing. Can you just like
Speaker 3: party up and then play the whole game together or
Speaker 3: is it just like everyone's a lot of boss.
Speaker 4: You can do a multiplayer you know, Yeah, that might
Speaker 4: be a good way for me to do.
Speaker 2: You could you.
Speaker 5: Could you could very easily play multiplayer, is yeah, because
Speaker 5: you kind of like go mission permission. You could just
Speaker 5: like have four people do a boss mission real quick
Speaker 5: or something like that.
Speaker 3: But it was not like, can you play the whole
Speaker 3: game co op because I think I remember being a
Speaker 3: confusing thing.
Speaker 5: I think so, I think you you might have to
Speaker 5: regroup for each mission.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I did not worry about the cost of when I
Speaker 4: played it.
Speaker 1: Oh maybe the padre has got to get back and
Speaker 1: connect over some peace walker, you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, that can be fun.
Speaker 3: I'm not against the idea of it, especially since, like
Speaker 3: I think that I started it and I played like
Speaker 3: an hour of it, and I was like, I hated
Speaker 3: the whole like monster hunterrification of it, where it's like.
Speaker 4: Individually the monster horrification that I also did not love.
Speaker 3: But then they kind of did that with five, and
Speaker 3: I fucking loved five. So now that I'm like open
Speaker 3: to that idea more of like these individual missions and stuff,
Speaker 3: I am open to the idea of becoming a peacewalker guy,
Speaker 3: but as of now, I don't think it's.
Speaker 1: A real What about Acid? You want to do Acid?
Speaker 2: I reviewed Acid one or two, did not love those. No,
Speaker 2: something that's what you say that explains why it's not real?
Speaker 2: What other than I did play and I didn't play it.
Speaker 1: I noticed something about the handhelds that you prefer, Dan,
Speaker 1: what's that tony poo poo.
Speaker 2: Game Boy gay? I know?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like the first Game Boy at all.
Speaker 3: I don't like mobile games. I specifically like GBA DS
Speaker 3: three bs.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: I owned the game gear, but the game gear kind
Speaker 3: of sucked and I.
Speaker 2: Play uh for if I were to play all the
Speaker 2: middle Gear games, I would also play Revenge, so I
Speaker 2: don't care if it's not manly.
Speaker 1: We have a podcast that that game is named after it.
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, yes, this is great? Yeah all right.
Speaker 1: Next email comes from Matt from Murphreys Bro, Tennessee. Hey guys,
Speaker 1: my son needs yet another Xbox controller after stick Drift
Speaker 1: is showing up again. Is very wireless option with Hall
Speaker 1: sensors that I should get instead of just another Xbox controller.
Speaker 1: I realized that they're more expensive, but at this point.
Speaker 1: It seems like a good investment. Over spending seventy dollars
Speaker 1: over and over again. Thanks yeah from murphres Bro the
Speaker 1: eight it do?
Speaker 2: What is are the the Ultimates? The Ultimate Ultimate? It's
Speaker 2: ultimately Yeah, yeah, it's this one, but not not actually
Speaker 2: this one. The one for the PC at least at
Speaker 2: launch didn't have hall sensors, but the Nintendo one with
Speaker 2: the Nintendo buttons did have hal effect sensors, So yeah,
Speaker 2: go grab those. That comes to the stand. It keeps
Speaker 2: a charge all the time. It's so nice. As soon
Speaker 2: as you pick it up, it turns on and then
Speaker 2: you shake it to turn on the Nintendo switch, which
Speaker 2: is an amazing party trick and some people still don't
Speaker 2: believe it to this day.
Speaker 3: It's not true. I own that controller. I own a switch.
Speaker 2: I've done it on my life.
Speaker 3: Doesn't turn on, my.
Speaker 2: Mister, Well it turns. It turns on all my misters.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about. When I shake.
Speaker 1: It anytime anytime, okay, audio listeners, anytime there's a pause
Speaker 1: after someone says something. I just need you to look
Speaker 1: at the non existent camera.
Speaker 2: Dash or whatever. Yeah, Sean, if you can could include
Speaker 2: an image or a link to an image in the
Speaker 2: description of Dan doing that. Maybe maybe we can make
Speaker 2: it a gift or something.
Speaker 3: Uh one, just the classic mic.
Speaker 2: Here he's all right, oh there is, but that's another take.
Speaker 2: If you heard dirty joke right there. I like when
Speaker 2: you shake a lot too. Okay, yeah, can you do
Speaker 2: it clean. Let's do a clean one of that. Let's
Speaker 2: do a clean one of that. Shake one. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: really good. Say something vaguely sexual. Hang on, all right, come.
Speaker 1: Wow, you're just like Michael Keaton is beeple juice.
Speaker 2: That's good stuff.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: The range on din right here? Vague, very very subtle.
Speaker 2: Thank you? Yeah, what references.
Speaker 4: This good show?
Speaker 2: Maybe he just wanted someone to arrive.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: Next email, Uh, that's the best joke from a Golden
Speaker 2: Girls when what's her name's Rose? I think it's talking
Speaker 2: about when her husband died and she's like, I was
Speaker 2: so confused because he kept saying, honey, I'm going, I'm
Speaker 2: going instead of you know, I'm all. It made me
Speaker 2: laugh a lot. He died during sex, that's an important part. Yes,
Speaker 2: y going?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, that's your Golden Girls update for the week.
Speaker 1: Next email comes from sent from Yahoo male for iPhone.
Speaker 1: I'm watching this past week's voicemail dumb Truck, and when
Speaker 1: you brought up Mike and Dan being taught hibachi via
Speaker 1: Benny Hanna school, I couldn't help but mentally picture them
Speaker 1: showing up for class wearing a Mario hat Dan and
Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse ears Mike. In my opinion, you guys could
Speaker 1: actually convince them to train and then have a hibashi
Speaker 1: showdown during the Game Awards to settle their long standing
Speaker 1: Mario versus Mickey beef. Since I'm writing this to the
Speaker 1: BombCast mail bag, what challenges would you guys envision for
Speaker 1: such a grill off?
Speaker 2: I mean clearly distance, tossing into my mouth food, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Day might be better at that. I think I'll be way
Speaker 5: better at like knowing when the meat is done.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man.
Speaker 3: I chopped up a sweet potato yesterday and air pride.
Speaker 3: I made sweet potato fries legit to get a health Oh.
Speaker 3: I'll tell chef Reactions all about this on Thursday and
Speaker 3: impress them.
Speaker 2: But I am trying to like.
Speaker 3: Redo the diet a little bit because I realized it's
Speaker 3: been all Japanese candy and beer for like the last
Speaker 3: two weeks and garbage, food, garbage, sleep. So I'm like,
Speaker 3: I bought broccoli, I bought sweet potatoes. I'm trying to
Speaker 3: like because I don't eat veggies at all, So I'm
Speaker 3: trying to like at least one thing a day.
Speaker 2: Have some veggies is okay, So wait, sweet potato, you're
Speaker 2: you're gonna classify as a veggie.
Speaker 4: Yeahs are good, They're good, they're.
Speaker 2: Good for you, but they are like what's like level
Speaker 2: one of like if we're talking about health foods, like
Speaker 2: they got.
Speaker 3: A little from what I was doing, you know, like
Speaker 3: nothing but taco bell and Dominoes last week.
Speaker 2: Level level from that, sure, but it is a long
Speaker 2: way from leafy green.
Speaker 3: Well, then right after this, I'm going to make a
Speaker 3: thing of broccoli florets in the air fire and put
Speaker 3: a bunch of seasoning and stuff on. It's gonna be great, small.
Speaker 2: Thought.
Speaker 3: They're supposed to be very nutritious, they're souper, are good
Speaker 3: for you. Probably it's a step up, I'm sure from
Speaker 3: what I've been doing. So I'm trying to like just
Speaker 3: some vegetables, asparagus. I'm going to get into trying to
Speaker 3: make it.
Speaker 2: What's that really easy to over do asparagus day and
Speaker 2: be careful. I like Crispy.
Speaker 3: I like Crispy, So I think I underdid the brocoli yesterday.
Speaker 3: But trying to trying to figure out like a better
Speaker 3: diet approach thing, because like I got the whole like
Speaker 3: running thing down. But it's like, you know, you can't
Speaker 3: outrun a bad diet and stuff like that, and I got.
Speaker 2: A bad diet.
Speaker 3: So I think give me, give me a week or
Speaker 3: two and I'll basically be chef reactions.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know what, Yeah, I can't wait. Also, you
Speaker 1: can eat a good chunk of vegetables raw. It's also fun.
Speaker 4: No, don't do that.
Speaker 2: Day you don't, I will eat it. I will eat
Speaker 2: a raw onion like it's an apple.
Speaker 3: Apple next week. Can you bring ahead of right now?
Speaker 3: Do you have a head of bccoli?
Speaker 1: I have a raw onion in my friend.
Speaker 2: No, No, we.
Speaker 3: Have to we have to see Mike reaction. It's going
Speaker 3: to close my eyes and Mike, mikerooper. Mike be a trooper, Mike,
Speaker 3: are you a professional? Mike is going to get give
Speaker 3: redded fuel.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna look a big boy here. You can
Speaker 2: do this.
Speaker 4: You you're the one who wanted this content you want.
Speaker 2: It's the idea that the onion is too juicy and
Speaker 2: it's gonna be to.
Speaker 5: Water so much gross water is going to come out
Speaker 5: of there. It's going to be disgusting.
Speaker 2: I mean, god, it sounds appetizing. Get right up on
Speaker 2: that mic with it.
Speaker 1: I got two things though, I got like a jar
Speaker 1: of raw garlic.
Speaker 2: Let's just like Prepptis Mussolini would just eat like a
Speaker 2: bunch of garlic clothes god like chips.
Speaker 3: Oh so delicious. That's nice. Mike be a big boy. Okay,
Speaker 3: can my hands down, Mike.
Speaker 2: No, you're both.
Speaker 1: Do we want like me to eat like a white
Speaker 1: onion or a red onion?
Speaker 3: Did you take a bite out of one like an apple? Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: folks at home onon Mike, you can do this.
Speaker 2: It's not a whole onion, Mike, it's just yeah, pretend
Speaker 2: it's cheese.
Speaker 4: I couldn't look.
Speaker 2: He turned away as it was happening. Did you hear
Speaker 2: the at least, Mike, he's gotta do it again. Now
Speaker 2: you're gonna make Dan do it again. You gotta watch
Speaker 2: no terrible Okay, we're gonna need a clip of this
Speaker 2: to show chef reactions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, honestly, I think that's going to
Speaker 3: be among the least of the crimes, uh, for chef reactions. Which,
Speaker 3: by the way, if you were calling in with voicemails
Speaker 3: for chef reactions, we did realize that he did not
Speaker 3: hear the flavor Crystal story on the first episode, So
Speaker 3: if anyone wants to que him up for that with
Speaker 3: a voicemail, there you go. Yeah, well, we'll have some
Speaker 3: good stuff for chef reactions on Thursday.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but my mom used to tell
Speaker 1: me if I started feeling sick, I just had to
Speaker 1: eat half of a raw onion and I'll feel better.
Speaker 1: So I've just been doing that since I was a kid.
Speaker 2: Doesn't work.
Speaker 4: Your mom lied to you.
Speaker 2: I don't get I I rarely get sick. Huh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, most people only get sick sometimes.
Speaker 2: True, some people like get sick old time.
Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, Uh, do you like that?
Speaker 4: Mic?
Speaker 3: Do you want to do it? No, Mike, would you
Speaker 3: rather do that or bite of an apple?
Speaker 2: I don't think you can see the difference.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like I'm kind of like confused.
Speaker 2: Well, because it's not about the flavor, it's about the
Speaker 2: juiciness and they're both like juicy orbs. He hates juicy orbs.
Speaker 2: It's his number one least favorite thing.
Speaker 4: An apple is a similar thing, very similar thing. Yeah, whatever, hell.
Speaker 2: Do you fruit or not? Water balloons? Would you like water?
Speaker 2: Would a water balloon? Mic like the wave?
Speaker 1: How did you feel about the tide pod drama when
Speaker 1: children were eating tide pods? Me?
Speaker 3: Like, what do you think I indorsed it? Or did
Speaker 3: they realized I had to like position if you kept
Speaker 3: playing the gamer wrap? He endorses it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the problem. My kids saw a tide proud
Speaker 2: the other day and for shoot, her eyes basically dilate
Speaker 2: and she's like, what is this? No, you can't eat
Speaker 2: tide does look good? It does look good. It does
Speaker 2: look very appetizing.
Speaker 5: T is so cool and apple has more water than
Speaker 5: a pool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, off the beat, move over, move over, Lynn Manuel.
Speaker 4: In the eye of a slurricade, there is hot.
Speaker 1: Alright, alright, let's one more set of emails before we
Speaker 1: got get on out of here.
Speaker 2: I'm so proud of you, Mike.
Speaker 4: I saw that from Nikki from worms right, or what's something.
Speaker 1: I present to us? The Fargo five time with Travis
Speaker 1: Traviy has blown up the Travis here from Fargo has
Speaker 1: blown up the email meta. Instead of getting one of
Speaker 1: their emails on the show, they have now five of
Speaker 1: them because they just fire off quick questions exploit the
Speaker 1: BombCast email meta. I'm gonna ask five of their questions
Speaker 1: right here, right now.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 1: Are you brave enough to rank every UFO fifty game?
Speaker 2: Not yet?
Speaker 3: I haven't played.
Speaker 2: I haven't played them all. Yeah, but I mean I
Speaker 2: will be at that point. I'm very brave. All right.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a revenge. It's waiting to happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, God, yeah, I haven't watched much adult animation.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 1: I haven't watched much adult animation, but I've recently seen
Speaker 1: Primal Scavenger's Rain and Blue Eye Samurai, which are very
Speaker 1: different from each other. Each has strong aesthetic, memorable characters,
Speaker 1: and intriguing storylines. Are there any mature animated series you've
Speaker 1: enjoyed that you would recommend?
Speaker 2: Bible Black? I knew it. I knew it. That's that's
Speaker 2: a that's a it's a porn one, Dan, Is that
Speaker 2: not what adult animation refers to tell you? What we're talking.
Speaker 5: About is it's kind of fucked up. We talked about
Speaker 5: anime and only referred to it as adult animation.
Speaker 2: I have to say, is this all anime?
Speaker 1: Primal is in neither is okay?
Speaker 4: I like Rick and Morty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess that's how you checks out.
Speaker 4: I just want to see.
Speaker 1: How you're The first season is really good.
Speaker 2: I do enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Hey, I still enjoy Family Guy.
Speaker 3: The first ten seasons of like Simpsons in south Park.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Home Movies is you know what else still
Speaker 2: holds up really well? God to love Home Movies.
Speaker 5: I saw a whole movies is fun. I saw a
Speaker 5: clip of the Simpsons movie, and so is that that?
Speaker 5: When that came out, I remember thinking like, man, I
Speaker 5: wish they made this during like the golden era of
Speaker 5: the Simpsons. And now that movie is so much closer
Speaker 5: to that era than it is to like the weird Simpsons.
Speaker 4: Coming out today. I'm glad they did the movie when
Speaker 4: they did. I guess.
Speaker 1: Is like all of the cartoons that are targeted towards adults,
Speaker 1: like Bob's Burgers, is that adult animation?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean yeah, that's for like broader audiences, that inclusion.
Speaker 2: What about people.
Speaker 4: Really like that? The Pressed Horse Show?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I've.
Speaker 3: Heard I would like King of the Hill in Futurama.
Speaker 3: I've never seen.
Speaker 2: Great. Yeah, I think you'd like Futurama. Dan probably would. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of the Netflix animated shows, like the
Speaker 1: Legal Legends one is pretty arcane, really good, is pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cyberpunk one is good.
Speaker 2: There, it's a very pretty main character there.
Speaker 1: Okay, next question from Travis here, it's time for Giant
Speaker 1: Bomb to answer the question that has been burning up
Speaker 1: the internet for months.
Speaker 2: Do you wash your legs? Yeah? I think we talked
Speaker 2: about this. You do. Yeah, I mean, if I'm in
Speaker 2: the shower, I'm gonna wash my legs. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2: Bust be clear. It is a pain, and it's also
Speaker 2: and I do also believe when dermatologists say it's pointless.
Speaker 2: But I do it because it's it's there, and I
Speaker 2: have the soap. Why wouldn't I do it? But dermatologists
Speaker 2: all like, like, you don't need to do it that often,
Speaker 2: like once a month is enough. But I wash my legs.
Speaker 3: Okay, ye, you're already in there, clean all You're already
Speaker 3: in there exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now, people are chats very upset because Cudding, Nicky and Sean.
Speaker 4: I don't know what part they're upset about, we said
Speaker 4: we do.
Speaker 2: They definitely are on the side of like most people are,
Speaker 2: where it's like this is not even a question of
Speaker 2: course you wash your legs, like yeah, but uh, I
Speaker 2: also having kids. I shower every other day now, but
Speaker 2: for the most part unless I'm going out, and then
Speaker 2: I'll shower of course before I go out. But like that,
Speaker 2: I think that is also something people can't handle. And
Speaker 2: it's like, now that's you're You're fine, Like I'm busy,
Speaker 2: I'm very dissy. Now I wash my face.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, I got a shower at least once a day,
Speaker 5: maybe twice. I feel like I get stinky.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, I get that. But it's like
Speaker 2: my skin gets so raw if I shower, like especially
Speaker 2: twice a day, like which I have done at some
Speaker 2: point recently, and it's like, oh my god, my skin's
Speaker 2: so dried out. This suck.
Speaker 1: You're just scrubbing the shit out of yourself with hot water.
Speaker 1: Is that why I'm scrub it cold showers?
Speaker 2: I start with a hot shower, then go to cold
Speaker 2: at the end.
Speaker 5: No wonder you don't like the shower, Well, I love
Speaker 5: the shower. I mean we got them in there staying
Speaker 5: there for forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, yeah, it's the best thing.
Speaker 5: It's like, I'm like, check in on me. If I
Speaker 5: don't shower for single the morning, I might be depressed
Speaker 5: or something.
Speaker 4: I might need help.
Speaker 2: Okay, I just gotta ask Turbo.
Speaker 3: Sean says in the chat, this is the guy telling
Speaker 3: people to just rinse dishes instead of washing too.
Speaker 2: Who is he referring to. I think he's referring to me,
Speaker 2: which is not my position. My position is if you
Speaker 2: are pre washing, that's just washing, and you don't also
Speaker 2: need to put them, okay, in the dishwasher, because if
Speaker 2: you want to water over it and you're good. No.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: If you if we're using soap and water to scrub
Speaker 2: it and then you put in the dishwasher, you're just
Speaker 2: wasting a lot of water. But if you if you
Speaker 2: rinse it that you barely need to rinse because of
Speaker 2: the dishwasher is very effective. But if you don't rent
Speaker 2: all the food parts off, then the food gets in
Speaker 2: the little trap in your washer, and if you don't
Speaker 2: clean that out, every couple of weeks. It gets super
Speaker 2: nasty in there.
Speaker 4: So someone says that you once said just hot water
Speaker 4: is enough.
Speaker 2: I definitely have never said that. I used to work
Speaker 2: at a wing place and uh, like we would wash
Speaker 2: the filthiest dishes you've ever seen. But of course you
Speaker 2: have to use soap. It's covered in oil. That's how
Speaker 2: you get oil off with soap.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well I used to go.
Speaker 5: I had to work one of the like industrial dishwashers
Speaker 5: on my work at the pizza place.
Speaker 4: Those are so fun and it's like it's like a
Speaker 4: giant lever yep one.
Speaker 2: It's a little so much pressure, like it's clean instantly. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Then you lift it up and there's just this giant
Speaker 5: cloud of steam that comes up. I wish I had
Speaker 5: one of those. They wash the dish is fun.
Speaker 1: Have you all ever gone to a wine bar and
Speaker 1: they have one of those fancy they look like a
Speaker 1: bunch of feather dusters, but they're used to dry the
Speaker 1: wine glasses.
Speaker 4: Oh no, oh, I think I know you talked about it.
Speaker 3: You know, it was the most fun thing when you
Speaker 3: work and standard AMC. When I was there, was you
Speaker 3: opening up the big ass ice machine and there's like
Speaker 3: a canoe paddle that you take. Yeahol like break up
Speaker 3: all the ice.
Speaker 2: It's awesome. You know.
Speaker 5: Like the bars have like that sink with just the
Speaker 5: blue water and they like put like the glass in there,
Speaker 5: like just take it out like it's clean. Now, do
Speaker 5: you guys trust that that blue water sink?
Speaker 1: When I go to a bar, I understand that I'm
Speaker 1: going to be drinking grime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I sort of accept it, like I'm do I
Speaker 2: believe that it's completely free of bacteria? No? But do
Speaker 2: I think there's enough bacteria on there to harmy? Also?
Speaker 1: No, if you drink enough alcohol, it'll wash out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's disaffectant. Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 1: My favorite thing over the weekend was Nicky and I
Speaker 1: door dashing food after we got back to their place
Speaker 1: and they needed my face to confirm for the payment,
Speaker 1: so they just like rolled me over and held my
Speaker 1: phone over my face.
Speaker 4: Oh just like it's like it's like a stealth gage mission.
Speaker 1: Impossibly Yeah, aging forty seven, Nikki, it's.
Speaker 5: Like alone in the dark where I had to cut
Speaker 5: that guy's arm off it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's exactly like that. Okay, two more questions from
Speaker 1: Travis here. Would you rather have Danny Treyo's contact info,
Speaker 1: or a miscical polling ball that guarantees at least three
Speaker 1: strikes per game, plus free nachos at the concession stand.
Speaker 4: Free nachos only you want me over one? God.
Speaker 5: Oh, We're at the baseball game yesterday, and I normally
Speaker 5: I like to get concessions, but definitely ate so much
Speaker 5: barbecue at Mabels. I didn't even get my hot dog,
Speaker 5: which is traditional. But at one point somebody like came
Speaker 5: back in the row front of us with nachos, and
Speaker 5: I was just like, just I thought about how good
Speaker 5: nachos are really the whole next I was like, God,
Speaker 5: I'm not hungry. Holy shit, notch.
Speaker 2: I wish I was hungry at that. I went home
Speaker 2: and I didn't even eat dinner because I was still
Speaker 2: full from Mabels crushed me.
Speaker 3: Plus, I bet we're like one degree of separation from
Speaker 3: Danny Treo anyway, So I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been one of a lot of video games
Speaker 2: we can make that happen to be the bowling ball.
Speaker 4: Bowling ball, bowling ball, bowling ball. We wants the bullet ball.
Speaker 1: Also, this doesn't guarantee just because we have Danny Treyo's
Speaker 1: phone number that he'll know it's us or yeah.
Speaker 2: And I don't really know what I want to do.
Speaker 2: Get him on the couch.
Speaker 5: I guess we're getting his number his Oh, we're getting yeah,
Speaker 5: his contact in Yeah, you know, but Danny Trail is nice.
Speaker 2: What'd be cool to like know what his email address is? Funny?
Speaker 1: Oh sure, I think he'd. I think the whole time
Speaker 1: he'd be on the dumb truck, he'd just be like
Speaker 1: leaning over a table and being like, you guys are
Speaker 1: so silly, and he'd be.
Speaker 4: He think I'm a silly goose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then he's email at email dot com.
Speaker 1: But he'd throw the most like brilliant knowledge of darts
Speaker 1: to end the podcast would be great. Oh yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: Final question, which counts as the final email here. Do
Speaker 1: you have any clothing items that make you feel beautiful, confident, cool,
Speaker 1: or straight up sassy?
Speaker 2: No. I like the Columbia hiking boots. That stuff got
Speaker 2: me for Christmas? Uh yeah, well especially now when I
Speaker 2: wear them with the ankle high sucks and I scrunched
Speaker 2: him down around my ankle like the gen Zers do,
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, hell, it looks pretty good. I look
Speaker 2: like a character it's gonna go do something adventurous in
Speaker 2: a nineties movie.
Speaker 3: There are the few times I wear a suit, like
Speaker 3: if I'm like at a wedding, like when I appreciated
Speaker 3: my Hearty's wedding and right, they get a nice suit
Speaker 3: and everything like okay, Like wearing it, I was like,
Speaker 3: I see why, Okay, this does feel good. It feels
Speaker 3: like I'm you know, this present says like okay a
Speaker 3: serious person, you know, sure I do, like yeah, especially
Speaker 3: the suit jacket can't pull off the like the jackets
Speaker 3: off and now I'm just in the shirt and tie.
Speaker 5: Don't like that look at all? Sure, so I where
Speaker 5: the jacket? Long after I'm kind of like, you know,
Speaker 5: not comfortable in it anymore.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hot. But whatever, Mike, I will say.
Speaker 1: When I did see where a blazer was it over
Speaker 1: the at the Game Awards over a gamer shirt.
Speaker 4: Rocketeer shirt, right, a rocket shirt? Games beat stuff?
Speaker 1: Yeah, games beat stuff. I took you five points more seriously.
Speaker 4: I understand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, oh damn, Mike, he needs me.
Speaker 4: This business now gonna be a place.
Speaker 1: I think because I'm still a little bit I got
Speaker 1: still a little bit of like the Tommy Chubs. Anytime
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a tank top and I crossed my arms
Speaker 1: like boob up, I'm like, look good today, baby, But.
Speaker 2: Then I looked down.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, maybe I shouldn't have a donut today. Anyway,
Speaker 1: That about does it for emails. BombCast a giant bomb
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Speaker 2: Boys game as.
Speaker 1: Mornings Wednesday tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with chef reactions on Thursday.
Speaker 8: Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, don't know, Lucy's Blake Club on Friday, Friday.
Speaker 2: Earlier on Friday, is that your watch? We're doing Sparking
Speaker 2: zero on Thursday Thursday.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's just go through it by day by day
Speaker 1: instead of no, let's pick people love that. Okay, yes, Dragonball,
Speaker 1: Sparking zero. We're gonna play a bit of it on
Speaker 1: the website on Thursday, and then we'll have voicemail dump truck.
Speaker 1: Like Dan said, with chef reactions. Still plenty of time
Speaker 1: to get your food related calls. In seven oh seven
Speaker 1: Exit Flu, We're gonna have a metaphor Refentasio podcast review
Speaker 1: cast on BCR this Friday. Dan is gonna lead the
Speaker 1: charge on that. Yes, yes, right, yes, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of fun people on that podcast.
Speaker 3: Sean says the mini travelog of me and Japan should
Speaker 3: be up later today or in the morning, pending the
Speaker 3: upload speed and just check expectations. Most of the time
Speaker 3: I was in Japan, I was not allowed to film
Speaker 3: because it was on a floor of the Antenno Museum
Speaker 3: that was not allowed filming. So I was able to
Speaker 3: get a few little shots and stuff like that here
Speaker 3: and there in Japan. So don't expect a you know,
Speaker 3: thirty minute Germany travelog or anything like that, but you
Speaker 3: should have something coming from Sean later today or tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Also, there should be I'm hoping it can come out
Speaker 1: this week. In interview with the writer of Mighty Amorphine
Speaker 1: Power Rangers, Rider's rewinded that I did two weeks ago
Speaker 1: some fun stuff popping off in that in Boyosyos. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try to vamp as I reset thisg no no no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no no.
Speaker 2: Hold on that reminds me my recording broke in the
Speaker 2: first segments. We definitely gotta do a clap at the end. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we always have to do it. Clap, Yeah, I know,
Speaker 2: just just really have to do it. Okay, all right.
Speaker 4: Don't gets Jeff shit when he misses up his recording.
Speaker 4: It was mad at me.
Speaker 2: They know that I feel guilt.
Speaker 1: Yes, almost too much of it, because you're a sap. Boys,
Speaker 1: what we learned today only a couple of things. We
Speaker 1: learned that. We learned that we were all comforted by
Speaker 1: the wiggles and waggles of analog sticks. We learned that
Speaker 1: Kate Bush is the godmother of edium. We learned the
Speaker 1: Mike Minatti god bars. And we also learned that outside
Speaker 1: of Dan Record's house or Lisa Frank style intimidators, folks,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be intimidated by reaching out to a front today.
Speaker 1: Reach out, touch some goddamn grass, Go soak the sun,
Speaker 1: feel the rain on your skin. God damn it, and
Speaker 1: drink some water. You have been beautiful today. Everyone has
Speaker 1: been beautiful today. I am proud of you, folks. That
Speaker 1: about does it for today's episode of the gay BombCast.
Speaker 1: He's been Damn Richer, and he's been Mike Manatti, he's
Speaker 1: been Jeff Grebb, you have been beautiful at home, and
Speaker 1: I've been gentlemen.
Speaker 7: We'll see it actually fall another episode of the show.
Speaker 7: We might be able to get Bruce Campbell on something actually,
Speaker 7: oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, we got to direct.
Speaker 2: Oh he's a Michigan boy. No no, we got a direct. Fine,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah for sure. Yeah, all right, we'll see you later. Goodbye.