Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday, June sixteenth, twenty twenty six. Welcome
to the Giant BombCast, Episode nine hundred and forty five.
I'm your host, Jan Ohoa, joining me as always co
captain of the ship, Jeff Grub howdy.
Speaker 2: I'm happy to be here. Although I also forgot how
to podcast, Jan.
Speaker 1: Speaking, he's never forgotten how to podcast because he dang
started them.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: He was pressing them to wax before it was cool,
Jeff backlar oh Man.
Speaker 4: That's I guess a compliment.
Speaker 3: Jen, there was one in there somewhere somewhere.
Speaker 1: It's cool to press stuff to wax. It's like, I
don't know how it's done.
Speaker 3: Still, it's true.
Speaker 4: I did have the first podcast. Everyone knows that. It's
very exciting to be talking to you on By my account,
what is the three thousandth podcast I've ever done. That's
today two. So that's right.
Speaker 3: Uh you for a while, yep.
Speaker 4: Me and Joe this is when he was cool. Uh,
this is when he was making people eat roaches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, j B and j R. That's that's what we
called Joe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. It was JIB and Junior is what
we did. It was sick.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, you know time time just you know,
corrodes us all. I guess it comes for us all
and uh, you know we don't talk anymore. Whatever, it's
not a big deal. I don't just thanks for having
me today.
Speaker 3: Jan, I'm happy to have you, and I'm happy to
have games media.
Speaker 1: That's right, he's ripping his glasses off because he doesn't
need to see you because you're doggy.
Speaker 3: Still steaming, like thirty minutes ago. How much steam does
my body absorb and still release?
Speaker 1: God is absorbing the steam. I think it's just increasing
the heat.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He breathes like that lady from middle Gear Solid five
though through his skin, so it makes sense for him.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're quiet.
Speaker 4: Are you one of these people who like do a
really poor job of drying off after a shower?
Speaker 1: What do you mean people that do a poor job
at drying off?
Speaker 4: Like my idiot son, it's not a really who like
will take a shower and be like I'm dry and
then proceed to like jump into his bed soaking wet,
like allow, Yeah, kids love that move so.
Speaker 2: Better even better, they like doing that to my bed.
Speaker 3: It's like yeah, cool, cool. I don't think I have
that problem.
Speaker 4: Or maybe you I feel like you hold on to
some of that moisture more than you'd like to.
Speaker 3: How many towels? Yeah? Just one? I have two in rotation. Okay, okay, no, no, no,
no question.
Speaker 4: Mike only owns two towels. That's the answer to your question,
whether or not you asked.
Speaker 1: Well, now I know that that's great. I'm glad, uh fantastic,
and folks, maybe Mike can afford a third towel if
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if I just stubbed over macho man promos in my
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it'd be cool, but all right
now it would be very well, it'd be very cool.
Speaker 3: Mike came up with the idea for the new This
is the Run while we were.
Speaker 2: At Disney, and you should have saw his face when
he was, like, I have it.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 4: I've discovered everybody. I feel I feel like we didn't
make a big enough deal about how we all like
slipped into a macho.
Speaker 3: Man co state. Yeah you state it was. You did
more than anyone, like we all did. For sure. It
kind of lasted for you. I wasn't there when this happened.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was doing it when I got back to
Jersey too, Like I could not stop. I discovered the
less I strained myself, the more comfortable it is to do.
You just gotta do a little quiet.
Speaker 2: It's like you're just sort of like, oh, whisper.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to because if you strain yourself, Like
every time I see Dan Soder do it, I'm like,
oh my god, this poor guy's nodules right, like it's
certain there. So he's gonna need corrective surgery. Train his nodes,
get those nodes working together. In Harmon, we were I
mean I had lost my mind and my senses and
my faculties at that point in the SGF.
Speaker 3: We were shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it didn't help. After like two nights
of GB at night and then like kind of a
bummer talk over with the Xbox showcase that the only
thing to help power us through is the power of
macho man Randy Savage. Also, we just had burgers too.
Oh we're kind of lethargic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I have a couple of things to say
real quick though.
Speaker 1: Dan Record is out on assignment, and also happy birthday, birthday, birthday.
Speaker 3: Mike him. Your things that you wanted to say? Oh, well,
first off, I just want to let everybody know that
the Misbust have a new assignment. We are heading to Mysterium,
which is the annual Missed Fan Convention and Portland. I
wanna be careful here. I get you out at every
time I say this. Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, or gone.
They don't like it. Okay, gone is gone. I'm not
gonna do that anymore. Got it? Or again, Portland, Oregon?
Everybody the Misbusters. The convention's going from July twenty fourth
to July twenty sixth. We're gonna be there on Saturday
the twenty fifth. We're gonna have a panel, a fun
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to know about getting tickets orf you're looking for hotels,
anything like that. Yeah, really looking forward to this. You know,
a fun little fan convention we can go to to
celebrate our new Missed fandom. It's gonna be a good.
Speaker 1: Time, very very cool. Thank you mister Minatti for putting
that into action. You put Greb and Eye into the
ORB and then we all rolled together on the track
and we're going to wind up in Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 3: Beautiful, beautiful, not the other thing. I had to say, Yes,
it's what it is. Two tows not enough. Everyone seems upset.
Look as long as you're watching them, like every time,
you're good. Yeah, I washed. I live alone. I mean,
towels am I supposed to have? I don't know. I
don't know. I moved on. Yeah, I forgot about it already. Yeah,
you know.
Speaker 4: Usually like if you ever have someone visit, you want
to give them one. But I guess you've got only
room for one visitor.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to pretend like if I were single,
I would not I would have more than two towels.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I'm not. I don't know. It's
the point one more for a guess. I mean, guys,
there's like one guess that's coming and they can. Yeah,
you know, I have two towers, bring their own towel. No,
I have two towels. We're set, and.
Speaker 4: If one of them gets soiled, what kind of situation
are we in?
Speaker 3: I have a washer dry, Like, how long does that
process take? You think you got two hours out?
Speaker 1: Sometimes? Yeah, depending on how thick the towel is it
takes forever to dry? I have super thick boys crap.
Speaker 4: I just realized something. Yeah, what's up, dude, I'm upset.
I'm upset.
Speaker 3: Dan's not here. I know clip that.
Speaker 4: Because because I did something this weekend, then I feel
like he would he would have opinions on it. I
kind of felt like it was very much for him
when I was there.
Speaker 2: Okay, can we can you lay it out for us?
We'll all like say what we think Dan would say
about this, and then we'll go find out at one point.
Speaker 1: Okay, and we all have to do our best Dan voice.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: The theme for me this weekend was one word, and
that word is sports. Okay, sports. We did sports. Obviously
there's professional sports, and then we we I saw a
banana ball game, Guys, I could tell banana ball is
sort of how I imagine like the inside of Dan's brain
is operating at all times.
Speaker 1: Well, it's like yea Harlem Globetrotters, but for baseball, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean it's okay baseball. I mean I guess the
games they play the games for real, but like there's
a lot of like there are a lot of gimmicks.
There's a lot full of gimmicks.
Speaker 4: It is nothing but gimmicks, to the point where it's
not even baseball. That you're about to pay more attention
to the gimmicks than you are the actual baseball, which
I do have like a bit of a problem with
on its face. People think like, oh, Baglers is gonna
shit all over banana ball like he does, and you
know what, Oh you're not. I'm not gonna shot on it.
I mean I am a little bit, but I'm not
going to like fully shit on it because look, we
all know baseball in its current form, the MLB is
an inferior product. It's not great, it's boring. Like obviously, okay,
that's fine. But like the fact that banana ball exists
does mean that baseball was meant.
Speaker 3: The fact that Harlan Globe Trotters exist means that basketball
is a ship your sport. This is so much bigger
than the Globe Trotter.
Speaker 2: This is this is this is what saya balls is
like part of baseball's current resurgence across the boarder and
then it just doesn't have if it is right.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing, right, I'm going to admit, like there
are rules that are genuinely interesting, right, Like if if
someone in the crowd catches a foul ball, the players out.
Speaker 3: I think so, I think that's interesting.
Speaker 4: Other things are dumb as hell, right, Like like there's
no walks, right, so if someone has ball four, every
player on the defensive team has to touch the ball
in order for and and and the and the person
who would running first gets to go as far around
the bases as they want until everyone touches the ball. Yeah,
on it like that sounds fun on paper, but someone
got hurt doing it, Like it's.
Speaker 2: It creates a lot I was gonna say it creates
a lot more opportunity for weird plays and that's code
for injuries.
Speaker 4: Yes, so it's not so everyone uses the Globe Trotter's analogy,
and I think it's like, I don't think that does
it justice because this is this is like competitive is
like where the Globetrotters is.
Speaker 3: Just sort of what they say, this is.
Speaker 4: This is theater as well. I don't want to say
it's most certainly theater.
Speaker 3: The matches are not worked though, right.
Speaker 4: But the matches are not where like the generals aren't
going to like fumble the ball eleven.
Speaker 3: You might not like you might not see the Savannah
Bananas when you get growing. There's so many teams.
Speaker 4: I did not see the bananas I saw, honest, who
were they clowns.
Speaker 3: The Indianapolis Clowns.
Speaker 2: No, it was the Party Animals. Yeah, sure, yeah, that's.
Speaker 4: The Coconut Men, half a Coconuts, the Waisi.
Speaker 3: There's other leagues too. There's like Compuni League.
Speaker 2: There's one where it's like they have a rule where
for a half or maybe it's like three minutes, the
ball is playable anywhere. So like if it gets sent
out like way into the crowd and falls on the ground,
so one from the audience can run and throw it
to a player and try to still try to get
them out.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, that's that's good stuff.
Speaker 4: I like that there's no bunting allowed. I like that
there's I don't know, they keep going on about they
have ten rules and I can only really remember about
three of them.
Speaker 3: But look, it's fine.
Speaker 4: Right, there's trick plays and you also don't have runs,
like you just win the inning, so whoever wins the
inning gets a point and.
Speaker 3: Then it's like magic play. It's sort of like that.
Speaker 4: And then also, uh, there's points for like trick plays,
which is just sort of like, I don't know, like
the the entire experience kind of like makes you not
pay attention to the baseball though, which I think they
really have to find tune. Apparently they sold out Yankee
Stadium like everywhere tickets and it was not as intense
from what I gathered, because this was too much. Okay,
this was just too much. The music is playing for like, uh,
you know, it's the it doesn't stop, it's turned up
to eleven and they don't finish any songs. It was
like the most attention deficit disorder experience I've ever Like
someone who designed banana ball, like went on a roller
coaster and after the first drop, they were like, what
if we made a whole baseball game just that drop.
Speaker 2: Or just like there should be dancers.
Speaker 4: It was just like by the end of it, I
just I like I was exhausted just by a burg
of like sitting there.
Speaker 3: It was just too much.
Speaker 2: It is to me, it's like a very cool thing
that all of these just not good enough MLB players,
like these kids like they have an alternative to go
to to make money, and I love.
Speaker 3: It, right, I love that too.
Speaker 4: Especially for this weird crossover demographic where like theater kids
and baseball players, like they somehow are both of them secret,
which against the odds. And now they have a place,
and I guess I started to think about the financials, right,
and I'm just like the park I was at was
maybe like nine or ten thousand people. I think it's
only like thirty five bucks. So I'm trying to understand.
Speaker 3: I mean, they money very well on social media.
Speaker 4: They do totally you know again, like I'm just interested
by it. And apparently they just sold their broadcast rights
to Disney, which is obviously huge.
Speaker 3: Okay, They've done a thing there. I mean, you know,
concessions and everything. They're coming to Cleveland and it was
a thing where like my brothers had me and everybody
enter the ticket lottery just to get tickets. Oh it
is so I'm going to that game. And like that
they sold out are where the Guardians play here. So yeah,
I mean it's like people are ravenous for these bananas.
Do you think part of the appeal is the low
price tag?
Speaker 4: Well, it's just successible and that's great.
Speaker 3: I mean, anyone's right.
Speaker 2: It takes like three like YouTube shorts to be like, oh,
I have a favorite player. I like the guy on
still two pitches and stuff like that, and then that's
like fun for the whole family. And then then it's
like now if you're like the head of a family,
Oh I can get my family into baseball. It's scar
gunder too, right, Like, yes, yeah, it's it's like a
four quadrant thing.
Speaker 3: I don't think it.
Speaker 2: I don't think it like lasts like I think ten
years from now, be like I think we go, we
remember remember banana ball. That's not me like the saying
like that's you know, a failing of it. It just
feels like very hot in this moment.
Speaker 4: Sure, yes, and I think you experienced a firsthand because
it is so insane, right, like like I couldn't even
imagine going like to two games in a week, like
you would.
Speaker 3: Be in a coma. You would like, I don't think you.
I don't think they expect.
Speaker 2: I think the whole idea is like we'll come around
every once in a while and it feels special. Yeah,
it probably maintained that for a while, you know, and.
Speaker 4: Like people of all ages, right, they did like three
games for the weekend Friday Saturday, Sunday. Yeah, and like
I like, I can't.
Speaker 3: Even imagine anyone being like, I'm going to go to
two out of.
Speaker 4: The three, Like you'll die, You'll just die. Yeah, You'll
die in front and they'll just have to scrape you
off your seat because you're dead and you will have
died your heart exploded. It's too much input. And yeah,
I mean, but it was fun. I had a decent time.
I did not have a hot dog, but.
Speaker 2: For not having a hot dog, which I appreciated that
you were in the hot dog zone.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, you're right, Like, if I'm not going
to have a hot dog at a baseball game, it
probably ain't gonna happen. Yeah, we're almost halfway through this
year and my numbers at at zero. It's stuck at zero,
and I'm sorry for that.
Speaker 3: John's beating all of us. Apparently he's in like the
forties or fifties. Why why isn't here in the hot
dog channel?
Speaker 2: I think so, I make sure that I bet he's
just saving it because he just knows it's going to
be very number.
Speaker 3: Need those numbers bad?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, go ahead, Well you're you're.
Speaker 3: I'm just like a four or three I'm a piece
of ship pathetic.
Speaker 4: These guys are doing choreographed dances. They're like they're there.
It's crazy. It's just too crazy. I don't know what
else to say. I was blown away, but the entire thing.
Speaker 1: How did Dib feel about witnessing this like fancy baseball?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: He said he liked it.
Speaker 4: He was very you know, he brought his glove hoping
that he could participate in the foul ball situation. Unfortunately,
there's way less foul balls than you than you might expect. Yeah,
he thought it was fun. I don't, you know, I
think he I think Grub's right though. I think his
thing was like cool, I'll do that again next summer.
You know, you know, I don't need to go back.
Speaker 3: Would you go to the hockey equivalent of this or
would you find that offensive? Uh?
Speaker 4: Like, show me what it looks like with hockey. I
just don't know, Mighty ducks. I think I think what
that looks like is like the three on three All
Star Game.
Speaker 2: It's pretty on three, but then like there's a little
net on top of the regular net.
Speaker 3: Two goals. Yeah, I think I think everyone in the
everyone in the croud you get a laser pointer to
mess with people.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, you know it's violence, but I don't know,
you know, Uh, sports should have summons, you know.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you get to summon e Frey? Yeah, bahamas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, you know, obviously
I was thinking about that, right, and I'm like, how
how would you this translate into into hockey, a relatively
perfect sport. I don't know, Like, I just I just
don't know how you do it to that. But that's
fine whatever, Yeah, it was. It was very interesting.
Speaker 3: I think, like the.
Speaker 2: Defensemen don't get sticks, they get paintball guns and they
just try like.
Speaker 4: Out, you know, like I don't know what we're trying
to get into. But that's two goalies.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know. Oh yeah, a goalie team.
Speaker 4: I think I've seen that as a goof somewhere.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Of course the goalie doesn't have skates.
Speaker 4: That actually might be easy.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: I'm a little upset at you guys, though, because good
you know, you didn't you didn't take one second to
congratulate me, uh being the basketball fan that I am.
You didn't say, like being the die hard fan. Yeah,
well yeah, up, I just it's fucked up. Right, like
you know you're the guy.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean, like your orange microphone cover that that's
for the Knicks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's just I don't know, it's
how upset it wasn't back of art.
Speaker 2: It seems like everyone was, even people who may not.
I'm not talking about you, obviously, there's other people who
are not as into it as normal. We're very excited
about the Knicks.
Speaker 4: I like couldn't avoid being sucked into the gravitational pull
of this thing.
Speaker 1: Everyone basketball team in the New York area. There's no
other team there, there's no other team.
Speaker 3: Uh you know.
Speaker 4: Look, I used to have a team. They used to
play in the same building as the Devils. They were
called the New Jersey Nets, and they went to Brooklyn
and they turned their back on the great state of
New Jersey. So I had to be a Knicks fan.
And this whole time I have really been following the team.
I just gotta say, like, I love Jalen Bronson.
Speaker 3: He's great.
Speaker 4: Like I you know, I didn't know any I didn't
know who he was until two weeks ago. But but
just like takes, that's all it takes. But just like
you know, watching videos of him and hearing I'm talking,
he seems like a really cool New Jersey born dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, there it is. Oh, okay, okay, there it is.
Speaker 1: There it is.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm I'm happy for you. That was That was
a lot of fun. That was a good series.
Speaker 4: No, no, I mean, look you when you've been a
fan as long as me and you've been waiting for
a championship finally come home. You know, I don't know,
I barely know anyone alive who saw the laugh One
and the.
Speaker 3: Devils to the Curb. You don't need him anymore.
Speaker 1: The who now all he sticks in the crash?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, we're not We're not doing that so fast.
But we are throwing the Vegas Golden Knights in the
trash because that's where they belong.
Speaker 3: Thank you. That was great.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, so you have sports weekend? Did any
World Cup?
Speaker 3: Oh? Hell yeah? Alright? Oh oh wait no, obviously, I've
I know you like soccer. I just wasn't sure if
you'd time for it. No, I like so mad. Dan
is so mad. We're doing all this sports talk as
soon as he's gone. Man, Yes, I called him biker.
That's weird. That is weird.
Speaker 4: I I do genuinely love soccer. Uh these I will
be honest, those two basketball games are probably the first
two games. I'm talking games three, four, and five, the
only games I've watched in a very long time. But
I was, I was a big fan. But yes, the
hockey was good too. I do not like the Golden
Knights or their fans. That's right, I said it out loud,
you staying don't know the rules yet.
Speaker 3: You said the same thing on game mess yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah they are. Why are the gold Knights
so hated? I'm like, well, here, let me list the reasons.
Speaker 4: Like, honestly, it's more it's I'm also I'm also glad
they lost more for like the whole tax thing.
Speaker 3: I know that of course brought up the tax. Yeah,
I know that's a weird.
Speaker 4: Thing to bring up, but like, I don't want players
to have this weird incentivization to like go to tax
free states to play. Even though they did they have
won the majority at the Cups in the last decade.
I'm just saying, like, no, you could do it, and
you could do it with a team that doesn't have
this weird sort of collusion behind it.
Speaker 2: So basically basically players there they get these big contracts
eight nine, ten million dollars, and then there are states
where it's like there's no no state tax, so you
can get to keep a lot more of that money.
Speaker 3: So those deals are worth more in those states.
Speaker 4: People are Yeah, chat, the tax thing is not exclusive
to hockey. It's all it's all this, it's all.
Speaker 2: The Yeah, but like it's the the cap is like
right in that zone where it really makes a difference.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So big sports weekend for me, Huge knicks Van
Jeff Backlar that's right.
Speaker 2: Congratulating congratulations, Yes, the first one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so thank you?
Speaker 1: All right, Any any other shenanigans you'll get up to
or you like to share withs okay, just canery h
I I'd love to do a quick thing before we
move on to games and hit up a my photo
role to see if I did anything.
Speaker 3: Yo, Okay.
Speaker 1: I have long been a proponent and evangelist for the
d g I Osmo pocket three correct right.
Speaker 3: Gimb Jimmy Jamie, Yes, uhh.
Speaker 1: I think the superior camera though, or at least more
fun for me to use, is the d g I Nano.
Speaker 3: Look at this little guy, that's oh my god, that's
a camera. That's a camera a Pokemon but also perverts camera.
Speaker 1: It has like a little screen with it, so if
you flipped this Jimmy jam on, it connects to this
guy and then you could see on this little monitor
where you go and and like there's a magnet here, Scout, please,
it's not time for you to share.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Wow, So listener Jan is holding Is this a new
action camera from the DJI people?
Speaker 1: Like been a couple of months now. It's like the
size of a thumb. I would say, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: It's really cool. Grub ruined it for me immediately by
calling it the perverts camera.
Speaker 4: Oh no, you you don't have to only be a
pervert with it.
Speaker 3: I assume, yeah, you could be any kind. It's you know,
the choice of perverts everywhere. But I have a I
have an insta what is it an insta?
Speaker 1: Go?
Speaker 3: Yes? Similar?
Speaker 4: Yeah, similar idea with that. Yeah, but the quality on
it's garbage. How's this one?
Speaker 3: It's pretty good. It'll show up to like four K sixty.
Speaker 1: I was looking at some footy the other day and
then you know, you got to have a variable ND
filter on it.
Speaker 3: Jimmy Jims, is that magnetic just slip pop on. Yeah,
it's neat. It's cool.
Speaker 2: Cool, Yeah, I think it's magnetic, so it does just
pop onto anything like.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there's like a magnet on the back piece of
like the camera component and on the bottom of it
as well. Really neat tool. You should become a theme
park blogger with that. I have thought multiple times, mister
Manati about that.
Speaker 3: Let's do it. Let's expense it exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1: Boys, nothing else to share, So I think it's time
to get into video games on.
Speaker 3: My giant bomb merch order was delivered.
Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, will This would be fantastic for games calm. Actually, also,
this last thing I'll say about this has internal memory
as well, like one hundred and twenty day, so that's
like a two hours on four K for you there.
Audio is also pretty good. I turn off any type
of calibration on not calibration stabilization on it because I
don't like the virtual jitteriness. But I start to get jittery.
Speaker 3: Boys.
Speaker 1: Now that my character, my guy is in Marvel Rivals.
That's right, Cyclops is here. We played a little bit
on upf God bless Mike Manati and Jeff Grubb for
parking onto that character and letting me play. And I'm
still sorry to Mike Manatti that I didn't let him
try Cyclops.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's an important day for you. I get it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, you earned it. I continue. I then continued
to play more Marvel Rivals than I intended to.
Speaker 3: Wait, what do you think? How is your how's your boy?
I think he's a great DPS character.
Speaker 1: They they haven't stopped rolling out characters, right, They'll have
maybe two a season now, But for me personally doesn't
normally jive well with me. I liked Rogue a lot
when she came out, I noticed, but as like a
DPS character, just like hit scanning, and for folks that
don't know what that is, a Marvel Rivals specifically, instead
of having to like trail at target, it's you're just
pointing your cursor and clicking and then generally that's the hit.
Speaker 3: No travel time for projectiles or yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, no physical representation of the of the projection.
Speaker 1: I think they did a very good job at translating Cyclops.
And I know that Cyclops kind of had like a
revitalization and a renaissance after X Men ninety seven, and
I think they do very very well to give him
nice mobility in the game, to make him useful, and
like just the laser ricochets, ricochets and stuff just makes
me excited to get back into Marvel Rivals, which I
already had spent too much time in.
Speaker 3: But overall, sick as fuck boys.
Speaker 2: He was scary whenever he was on the other team,
and that was probably like a lot of Marvel Rival
heads where it's like there are a lot of people
who play a lot of Marvel Rivals and are just
generally good at the game, but he seems powerful, just
seems like when he gets that ultimate, it's super scary,
like it happens very fast. Obviously part of that is
like I'm kind of used to a lot of the
ultimates from the other characters, so I know what to
do in this one. I was just like, oh, what
is that? And then I evaporated. So yeah, scary guy
right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can be played at most ranges. Short is
like a little bit tougher just because your laser beam
you're not laser beams. Your eye beams do better at
long distances, But the ricochet ability is pretty neat. You
can pick off or like get like a last hit
very easily. You know, when Cyclops has to protect his
eyeballs because he lost his glasses protective glasses, he can
occasionally get what Jeff Grubb is getting, get a little
bit of sensory overload.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, Jay, that was good. That was good. Thank you. Thinking.
Speaker 2: So this is the banana ball of video games talking
about too much, too much input. Sensory overload is one
of those ones that I actually did pop up on
social media. It seemed like the developer like found out
like an angle through probably advertising like with the platforms,
but then also just like getting onto the algorithm by
being like, hey, if you have like neurodivergent stuff, watch this.
And then it's like then they show the gameplay of
the game and it's you're falling down the tunnel. And
there's a lot of games like this, and there's a
lot of like MUDs or like Minecraft, they're like this,
but you're falling down the tunnel and then there's objects
or you know, obstacles that are spinning and you kind
of have to dodge them, and the game kind of
plays with that by having the like the objects slide
into frame from the opposite side of like where the
tunnel was sliding into frames, so it kind of could
feel warbly and odd and like a lot. Yes, it's
it's an overload. It like I and my brain instantly
locked in when I saw this. I could not look
away from the clip, and I was like, oh, I
can't wait to play that. So now there's a demo
and I'm playing it, and I just started playing it
and I did like two hundred and fifty runs back
to back.
Speaker 4: In this this is an ebsol epilepsy detector.
Speaker 3: That's what this game is.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, dude, I didn't even watch the trailer.
Speaker 3: Man, yep.
Speaker 2: I think that's what For a lot of people, it's
going to be like, this is so off putting, and
for me it's like, oh my god, my brain's been
quiet for the first time in forty two years.
Speaker 3: That's that's. This is what it takes. Yes, this is
what it takes. You were epileptic, though you probably you
will never.
Speaker 2: Find But clearly I'm not the ship that I like,
will like subject myself to in video games. Yeah, I'm
doing all right. This game is just like, hey, dodge
the things. But then they have a score system and
there's leaderboards, and basically the closer you get to the obstacle,
the more points you get. It's like, oh, that was
a daredevil level of distance, or that one was a
death wish. And so you get to a point where
it's like, okay, you have the tiny little mouse like
right radical on the screen, and as long as that's
in the clear, as long as you're aiming at the
open air, you can go even between the tiniest little spaces.
So I'm like flying like there's like one box, like there.
Speaker 3: It's cubes.
Speaker 2: It's Vauxel based. There's one cube that's in the center
of this like tentacles that are spinning, and I'm like
going along with it and starting to feel the flow
and aiming for that. And I'm trying to do that
back to back to back to back to maximize my score.
Speaker 3: It's very good. Oh it feels very good.
Speaker 4: I really think you would like Geometry Dash.
Speaker 3: Oh I do. Yes, I've liked Geometry Day, Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2: I there was a game just like it but called
The Impossible Game way back. Oh yeah, and so yes,
when I saw Geometry Dash, I'm like, oh, that's just
that game, And I'm surprised to hear it's popular with
the kids, but I'm glad it is.
Speaker 3: Greb.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Jeff Minter games, because I
feel like visually it's sit close to the sensory overload.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like them a lot, but I think my
thing has always been like they are overloading on the
visual senses. I kind of wish the gameplay would match
that even more. And the gameplay is a little bit
like you know, old style arcade, like moving stuff around,
and sometimes it gets very hectic, and really it's almost
like a reverse of this where there are enemies climbing
up the tube that you're on in a Jeff mentor
game like Tempest or whatever, and then they start coming
very fast and you feel like you're up here on
the edge finding them off. Something about the sensation of
falling and objects flying at you like it's primal, and
it really just does make my brain like click into
place in a way where it's.
Speaker 3: Like I have to deal with this. I have to
deal with this. I have to deal with this, And
I like that.
Speaker 1: Nice nice ye, Mike Manatti, I think.
Speaker 3: That's real quick part of Steam Next Fest.
Speaker 1: The demos out now, A lot of demos out, yes,
and there's one I'd like to talk about as well.
But Mike Manatty, I think I realize why you were
having trouble sleeping, because you're so you're busy playing games.
So many games on this rundown, Mike, I don't.
Speaker 3: Know from sg Yeah, a lot of them are embargos
from SGA, and I promise I won't go into all
them super long, but a lot of neat ones I
wanted to talk about.
Speaker 1: Well, I'd like to start with Clive Barker's Hell Raiser Revival.
Speaker 3: What about that? Yeah, this was where at Sabers booth
at SGF. I look, I know very little about hell Razer,
but this game is a first person uh horror thing,
so you know, kind of in that Resident Evil seventh style.
There's there's a bit more going on with the combat,
like you can kind of like absorb elements and shoot
amount of things like that kind of thing. But yeah,
I was like, you know, I'm in the building, walking
around kind of solving puzzles like, oh, there's a safe,
look around for the code for for the safe. It's
also pretty like mind bendy, Like there's a sequence where
I was kind of like going through the same building
over and over, and each time the loops start again,
it looks more like hell of course psycho sexual. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes,
there's definitely that. Lots of like boobs, but like disturbing boobs.
Disturbing boobs. We can't name the podcast that, right, I
want to really bad. I know you can. I think
that's fine. Disturbing you know, people just like the enemies
are screaming very crass things. Like one of the ladies
was trying to chorus me to come out out of hiding.
She's like, come on out, I'll jerk you off. Ha ha.
Speaker 2: Oh boy man, these cine bites are horny.
Speaker 3: It was fun, like, you know for you know, these
first person or games pretty popular now. This seems like
it could be a good one of those.
Speaker 2: Okay, why do I immediately associate video game characters that
will jerk you off with that vending machine from that
back of our game?
Speaker 3: Oh tomic art, Yeah, tomic art, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Because you can, right, that's what it does. Okay, because
it does do that in a game. Waiting for the sequel.
Speaker 1: Let's go anytime now, Mikey any other hit me with
some more SGF games if there are any.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so a couple more from uh so Nintendo kind
of a boo where they're showing off some indies and
whatnot coming to switch to uh One of them was
Order of the Sinking Star. This is the new Jonathan
Blow joint. I think it also has a demo and
Steam Nextfest if you want to check this out. So
this is the block pushing game, right? Was that a
show like if you will? If if you played The
Witness and it's like, oh, it's like these kind of
just you know, dot puzzles and it just sort of
builds on that and edge twists and makes it more complicated.
This is that, but with block pushing, and I think
that's neat. If you if you told me to like
name things you do in a video game, after I
got through jumping and shooting, I bet I would get
the block pushing pretty quickly. And you know it's like
sometimes it's like, oh, push this block to get out
of the way and make a path, or put a
block on this switch you can open the door. But
then different areas have more wrinkles to it. Like won,
there's a mirror and you kind of push a button
the mirr will sort of reflect you onto a different
place depending on where you are, where characters will have
different gimmicks, like one character would automatically pull any block
she came in contact with, right. You know, it's that
there's also a decent amount of freedom in terms of
like it kind of put me in this place where North, East,
West South were all different kind of worlds with their
own set of levels, like it kind of bounce back
and forth between them. Yeah, it seems like a pretty
fun puzzle game.
Speaker 2: I'm a huge The Witness fan, not a huge Jonathan
blowfan poster on social media or whatever, but yeah, I'm
like looking.
Speaker 3: At this game.
Speaker 2: It's I man, I don't know, I don't need much
of an excuse these days to like skip one. I'm
looking at it, and it's not doing a lot for
me looking at it, like trying to remember if I
felt the same way about The Witness.
Speaker 3: I don't think I did.
Speaker 2: I thought The Witness looked immediately like ooh, I need
to see what's going on there.
Speaker 4: Yes, Witness for me was instantly intriguing this. Yeah, and
especially the way Mike just even talks about it. I
mean he sounds really like Luke warm on it.
Speaker 3: Mike, No, No, I don't know. I mean I liked it.
I I'll tell you what. The voice acting was oddly bad.
I think it's maybe temp stuff. Oh sure, weird right,
And that's like the thing like there's like the Jonathan
blowness of it, right.
Speaker 4: The Banana ball of developers. Yes, they act complimentary.
Speaker 3: Well, it's just it's just enough. It's like, it's kind
of where I was going with that, right, It's more
like watching a guy doing batting practice by himself in
an empty field. Yeah, it's kind of sad, but he
knows you're looking.
Speaker 4: I guess for me, it's like, uh, I need to
be sold on, like the evolution of where this guy
is going right where you're like, oh wow, the winness
seems like so.
Speaker 2: Big and and and open right and big and yeah,
a lot of ideas, Yeah, pushing blocks.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed the game. I think if you like puzzle
games of that style, I think this is going to
tickle your brain in a very similar way. Again, I
think it's got to steam next vest.
Speaker 1: Demo out, So yes, I'd like to be tickled, okay,
but maybe not by this over there. Jeff Beckler, You've
also played a game at SGF that you can now
talk about.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I didn't play many games, but this one we we
can talk about now Turm Raider Legacy of Atlantis.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't love what I played. Where are you at
Rador again? Like remind me, like your yeah, you're a guy,
that's what I'm a trader guy.
Speaker 4: I was not.
Speaker 3: I was not.
Speaker 4: Really compelled in a in a very deep way.
Speaker 2: With what I was the remake of the first one, right.
Speaker 4: Yes, I believe so, yes, yes, that's right. Which you know,
I think the part that I played like it didn't
really ring any bells, so I assume that it's just
like a different kind of interpretation. It is a very
long time since they played the first one, I think, though,
But nothing really struck me as like, oh wow, this
is I you know, there was one like Raptor.
Speaker 3: Part that I was felled familiar.
Speaker 4: Sure, so yeah, I think it it fell a little jankie,
It felt a little JANKI I think there's a bit
more polishing that's got to go on with this game,
for sure. I think, uh, you know, it looks great,
controlled fairly well.
Speaker 3: I just wasn't very moved by the moment to moment
of it all.
Speaker 4: And there was a lot of this, like you know,
every twelve steps you take, there's like eleven flowers to grab,
and I'm just like.
Speaker 3: I don't want to do that. I don't know doing this.
Speaker 4: There's just like grabbing all the bamboo and the flowers
and the gold, and like, I just I.
Speaker 3: Don't know craft. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 4: What I experienced is a very short This was maybe
like forty minutes total, and it was two separate sections.
Speaker 3: Is it like, is it like the original Tumana where
it's largely kind of like jumping platform.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the parts that I played were that they were platforming,
and like those were fine, and I enjoyed like those
very specific things. I just think the game the game
just feels a little rough around the.
Speaker 3: Edges right now.
Speaker 4: I think it's it was. I think it's it was
in a condition that was suitable for previewing. I'm not
saying it was broken or anything like that. I just
I'm curious to see if there's a bit more polished
left to apply on the surface of this thing.
Speaker 3: As is.
Speaker 4: I guess I would still try it out and start
it and see where we go. And but I was
I did not walk away from that thing being like
I can't wait, which obviously is the thing that I
was hoping to be able to be able to say
for for for this game. But yeah, you know it's Look,
I do think that first game certainly needs a remake,
aside from the sort of you know remasters, Yeah, remasters, right,
Coda paints on those things, like this is definitely overdue
for that. So I think that has me, you know,
remaining somewhat whelmed by what's going on here. But from
what I played, uh yeah, I'm know exactly psyched how
to look was it a It looked great? Yeah, it
was on they you know, it was running on a
high MPC and you know, yeah, it's just uh you know,
and there was an interesting sort of chase sing with
a t rex and two raptors. I do think it's
cool now that, like all I am seeing in more
contemporary media that like we're all in agreement about the
bird dinosaur things. So now dinosaurs have like feathers. I
think that's cool.
Speaker 3: We're coming around, We're coming around, not fully fully feathered out,
but like yea, like how many of them have feathers?
Sure have feathers?
Speaker 4: Sure whether their feathers localized to one part of the body.
That's the right thing, which makes sense. Maybe they just
had like, you know, armpit feathers. Sure, maybe there's just
like uncle feathers right smelling exactly. So yeah, I don't know,
not not exactly like over the Moon, but you know
I do. I it has not depleted my tomb Rader tank.
I'm still I'm still here for it. So we'll look
to see when that comes out. I believe twenty twenty
seven is when. Okay, I've got to see of Atlantis. Yeah,
plenty of polished time.
Speaker 1: Any other games coming out of SGF that we can
now talk about.
Speaker 3: There was one more from SGF on my list, and
that is Demi and the Fractured Dream. Okay, another one
I played at Nintendo's situation. This is a Ana Purna
published joint. This is a wind Waker like actually cool.
It definitely has that sort of art style, even has
like I knew, I knew what I was going for
when I killed an enemy and there was those kind
of like wispy swirly cloud things that came out of
him when he died. I'm like, oh, that's that's the
wind Waker. Thing for sure. I even had the like
the giant decu leaf thing where I, you knowlider the
big gust of air and I was not there, but
like write that and then I was on a platform
on water and shot it and it propelled the platform,
that kind of thing. This is also in the next
vest by the way, so you can download a demo
for this on Steam right now. The like the fighting
was a bit faster paced, right, a bit more like
dodge rolley and stuff like that. So that felt good.
It was just a short time. I played sort of
insided dungeons. I don't know, but there's an overworld element
to it, like in a traditional Zelda game. But just
why I played in that demo, the wind Waker vibes
were sort of immaculate, and that's my favorite Zelda game,
so I thought, I thought this one was pretty neat
and worth checking out. That's a DEMI in the Fracture Dream.
Speaker 1: I want to check this out because I think as
a society we have long lost the art of sliding
on vines entry branches a la Tarzan, and I see
that in this trailer and I want to get to
at least that that's fair.
Speaker 3: How like, do you have a sense of like, how
like big this game is. Nah, that's it's kind of
my question, right, Like, okay, so we're kind of being
wind Waker. Are there islands? Because again I was just
kind of indoor what seemed to be a dungeon, So like,
what's the what's the what's connecting these areas as a
sort of dungeon to dungeon? Is there an overworld? Not sure?
So I'm curious to play more this one even.
Speaker 2: But like the progression does seem like item based unlocks right.
Speaker 3: Where you like you need Like like I.
Speaker 2: Was like looking at this trailer, it looks like as
like a feather that can blast like a frond or
whatever down one thing I had. Yeah, and that tool
is necessary to sort of like progress, and it's it's
kind of sounds like it's going to have to be
like a full Zelda game.
Speaker 3: I hope it is. I think it'd be awesome, just
like straight up was doing a lot of that stuff, right, Yeah,
I hope strap overworld with dungeons would would be amazing.
But like, you know, what I can report on is
that the game felt good, felt good, okay, good good, okay,
cool cool cool.
Speaker 1: Another game that felt good to play is something that
I checked out and is also part of the Steam
Next Fest. Slave Blade One guess what this is similar to?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, slave rhymes with bay Yes, that's right.
Speaker 3: This is another spinning top game. No way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was another bay Blade like or inspired game
that came out Gosh earlier this year. I think it
was called From the Top.
Speaker 2: Yeah that sounds right, but now but now it's Pride,
so we need Slave Blade instead.
Speaker 1: That's right, King and Queen and non binaries out there,
Happy Pride month.
Speaker 3: But Sleigh Blade.
Speaker 1: I it kind of immediately enjoy this more than From
the Top, which was that other bay Blade inspired game.
Here you were using your mouse to kind of point
where your top should go, and you're worrying about rpm.
There are power ups that pop up. It's still very
early from what I've been able to surmise from the game.
You spend the day in like three different stages, so morning, afternoon,
in the evening, and you can choose to spend that
either visiting a shop, doing a random encounter like going
to a gotcha machine, going to a shrine to level up,
or the neat thing with your bay Blade. And I'm
just gonna call them bay blades. You can mow alawn
for money, which is funny.
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: So you get a patch of grass and then so
your your bay blade will go to whoever your mouse
cursor is. So you can also build up momentum by
like kind of spinning it around, and then you can
want one of the mini games to earn money and
level up. Is mowing a lawn with your bay blade.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 1: I think this actually nails the feeling of of what
I would want a bay blade game to be better
than from the top because there's a little bit more
direct control there. Also, I just kind of enjoy this
overall art style better. I haven't looked up as to
when the projected release date is, but I'm excited for
more bay Blade games. That being said, sleigh Blade Steam
next best demos out now. I highly suggested if you're
a fan of bay blading and letting it rip?
Speaker 2: Is this the one that's like more PS one visual inspired.
Speaker 1: That was from the top from the top, from the
top right, very minimal PS one. Yeah, look this a
little bit more. There are more colors in this one.
Speaker 2: First of all, Okay, I'm looking at it now okay, yes, yeah,
this one looks more like you know, indie game aesthetic
is kind of what comes to mind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is great, and it has like a small
overworld that at least where it is right now feels
a little bit cumbersome because you're still using the mouse
pointer to direct where to go and everything. But that's
stuff that can get hammered out. Another game full of
colors and fun things is Yoshi the Mysterious book Boy.
Speaker 3: Thought I was gonna have no interest in this game.
I kind of wrote it off almost immediately.
Speaker 2: It's Tab's favorite switch to game. Mike was probably watching
it plays like, yeah, it's the best game.
Speaker 3: Yeah man, that's funny because I have a sab connection
with another game later, but this lot, this game is
just charming and fun. I enjoying it. I'm getting close
to sort of finishing it, or at least rolling credits,
kind of documenting the first six chapters worth of those
little creatures. You know. Dan reviewed this one, talked about
it a bit, so it's it brought up. But I'm
just kind of surprised that that I'm enjoying it, because
I'm somebody who has not really liked many of these
other Yoshi games. I didn't like Wooly World or Crafted World.
They just didn't stick with me at all, And I
thought the whole time i'd be like, I'm mad that
this isn't a traditional two D platformer. I'm not really
thinking that. I'm just having fun going into these these
pages and kind of exploring, and you know, each each
level has its own gimmick tied to whatever animal you're
trying to document. It's fun messing around with that sort
of seeing what you can do. I like that it's
kind of an end goal. You get sort of futs
around and look around, and I do a little bit
of that, but I'm mostly like I'll try to just
get to the end goal. If I discover some other
things along the way, that's pretty good. I don't have
to go into this with some mega completionist mindset that
have a good time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does seem like it's very supportive of the
completionist thing though, where it's like there's a ton to
find and it does seem very rewarding. So I've seen
a lot of people doing that. Yeah, I'm with you, Mike.
Where I think I started, I'm like, oh, I kind
of just like it's got so much good going for it,
where this expiration and you know, and that's just like
gameplay expiration, Like what.
Speaker 3: Can this do? Is so good?
Speaker 2: In the world, of course, it's always in these ocean games.
Looks really nice. Like I just had like sort of
one more element to it to kind of get me
over the hump here, to keep me super engaged, and
then I just kept poking at it. I'm like, you
know what, No, I'm kind of glad. It's this this
speed that it's set at where it's like just come
in here, hang around. You can't really get damaged. You
can maybe get annoyed by an enemy, but that's fine.
That's part of the expiration process. And because of that,
it could be this very specific thing about like, hey,
just find out what these creatures are all about, find
all the ways that you can make them do stuff,
and if you want to spend more time messing around
with that, there's probably some stuff that you missed the
first time around. So I really think that's a smart
take for this whole idea of what Yoshi can be.
Speaker 1: Cool another platformer, Mike and Grub This pertains to you
as our resident bubbsy guy. But Mike, you have been
checking out Bubbsy four D. Yeah, just sort of played
through this during the weekend. I've actually been playing a
lot of Demon Tides, which is for Braz's other three
D platform came out this year, and that's the bigger one.
It's much much more robust, ye, much more robust, and
has the kind of a Bowser's Fury style of all
the Eelands, so it's a bit open world. It's funny
playing Bubbsy because it's very it's very clearly and it
should be.
Speaker 3: It's smart. Oh, this is just that game with sort
of some bubbzy coats of paint on it in more
linear level base. But because that game controls well, this
game controls really well. It was a good time. Some annoyance.
It's like they do a lot of these half pipe
sections when you're in that ball form. Those are always
kind of a little jinky and weird. I kind of
have this complete with Demon Tides two where they focus
on their characters a lot, and there's like a decent
amount of the writing, but none of it's ever very
good and it doesn't pop off the screen. Now. No, it's
not like there's a ton of it, but there's enough
of it where I'm like, I think there should be
less of this because this kind of I don't know,
isn't really doing anything for me to plus it. But
just in terms of the moving around and the jumping
around feels great again. You know, the idea of like
a kind of three hour three D platform, that's sounds cool.
I don't take that. Yeah, it's fuzzy. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: I've been surprised to like more and more people picking
it up and uh kind of feeling the way I
felt where it's like, man, the moving around this game
is so good. It's so expressive, and it's kind of
a pretty decent Sonic game.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't have too many issues with the halfpipes, the cannons, yes,
like having to like overcompensate and not really understanding why. Yeah,
but I mean I it always like led to situations
and these are canon moments where it's like you're blasting
over like half of the stage and so there's these
big chasms and you got to get to the other side,
and it's like I would always like come up short
or whatever, and then I'd have to do a couple
of like weird platform and things to maybe save it,
and every time I got to do that, I'm like, well,
this game's still good because that part is the best
part of the game. But yeah, the cannons were very
broken for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's fun. I definitely think if anybody played
this and enjoy and hasn't tried demon Tized, you should
definitely be trust good. I bet that's a surprisingly big
game on I guess you sort of buck away at
that and probably be beating that within the week.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, another game, mister Minaudi, that you've been playing
that I really enjoy the look of and I hope
that to hear positive things about it. Tether or Geist.
This is a Celeste like heather Geist. Yes, red emotional
damage climbing up a mountain, oh.
Speaker 3: Right, current. I mean even to the point of there's
red little collective bulls floating around and you have to
grab one and then touch the ground to fully collect it. Right, Like,
it's not strawberries in here, it's some kind of flower thing.
So yeah, they're very much going for the selest thing
I think instead of having anxiety. It's unclear yet, and
my head canon is she has crones actually, like that
she just like, well grab her telling me be like
oh no, not right now. Right, Everyone's like, oh, my
condition makes it kind of like maybe you shouldn't go
on this quest. But yeah, they haven't specified what it is,
but I'm deciding it's crones, and I think I think
my pal here just need some sky Rizzy and that
might help her out there. The question for sky Rizzy, Yeah,
Skyrizzy sounds like a video game name anyway, saying it's
called that, I don't know how to say. It's just
like the traditional dashing. The kind of gimmick here is
that you have this sort of spirit clone and it's
tethered to you. You can send this spirit form out
but only as far as the tether goes, and then
teleport to where it is right so, and then depending
on how many charges of that that you kind of
acquire through the level, you can kind of use that
to do your tricky platforming. And there's there's other wrinkles
and different things like in the second world. There's there's
these mushrooms you can kind of like bounce through the
mushrooms things like that. So again, very much that celest
style of these kind of like single screen or two
screen platforming challenges, So you know, maybe it's a little derivative,
but it's very good at being one of those. Yeah,
it seems good. Yeah, I've not seen a Celeste to
myself anywhere. If it exists, I don't know, that would
be a surprise to me. So if you have that
Celeste fever, this is definitely going to feel that void.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: It has the gorgeous Pixar even it has the chill music.
Really just is sort of hitting all of those notes.
It's called tether geist'. It's it's fully out. This isn't
a deem next thing. There is a demo though, it's
on switch as well. I just added it to my account.
You would like it, grub. I exactly top.
Speaker 2: One hundred game of all time for me for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely gorgeous game. Before we wrap up games and
have talk about the last game that we have here
on the rundown, just visibility sake, folks, there's a quick
look out for NBA the Run grub.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Dan, please check that out. Grub quick thought.
Good yay, nay.
Speaker 2: When you're playing the b ball, when you're bouncing the
ball and then shooting it into the hoop. It all
feels real nice, Like we definitely struggled in that quick look,
which is kind of like really the first time we
picked it up, we tried to briefly on our Steam
decks when we were out at Summer Game Fest, but
we were like trying to see it, like hot, what is
it like to like pick this up and just want
to do the stuff we would do in this game's
you know, a predecessor. The thing that really inspired it
NBA A Street Volume two or any of the NBA
Street games. And it was frustrating to be like, okay,
can we just play against one another? Oh, there's this
mode where it's like, oh, play against friends, and then
like he would join and he would put him automatically
on my team and say, I don't I don't know
if we can do this and if we even if
we could, which we never were able to figure out.
It was so frustrating to figure out that it's like
that's a mark against this game. Clearly, this is not
what it's trying to do. It is instead trying to
get you online in playing three v three matches where
you're like you pick your character like you did in
an NBA Street but the other two characters are played
by other humans, and you're going up against other teams
of three people, and that, you know, I'm glad that
that's there. That's cool, that that does feel very modern.
It feels like this, which I think is a forty
dollars game, a good thing to focus on. But that's
not how I played NBA Street. I went over to
Joey Feslo's house after he got incredibly high after his
shift of managing a burger king, and we'd play the
NBA Street volume to all night long and then watch
Family Guy because we were very cool people, you know, yes, right,
and like we got to play local on the same screen,
and I picked my team and he picked his team,
and you know that that was the way to play that.
And I just don't think this game has that at all,
and it kind of it really should from the jump.
If it's something they add later, great, but it really
should still if you're gonna do that thing, fully be
the thing and then add the new stuff on top
and tell us why it's so cool to go online
in these three v three matches, entice me instead of
kind of forcing me. That's where I ended up.
Speaker 1: Another thing video out on the website. Now, Chuck and
I did a quick look for everything is crab, the
animal evolution, rogue light. Guys, what if spore was vampire
survivors And that's what it is.
Speaker 3: It could have easily had been like right, that's that's
after the space section is and then it just comes that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I also love this is based on one of
my favorite science factoids, which is like Nature's developed crab
like creatures independently six times.
Speaker 3: Oh that's what that's about about the crab thing about
the crab thing. Crab is the ultimate like destination for
all of them, yes, for all, Yes, it just keeps
happening over and over again, like why and.
Speaker 1: That's why I will eat all crabs, because I will
prevent their uprising.
Speaker 3: All right, snow crabs, dungeness.
Speaker 1: Blue kings, the King, the King. They have no control
over me. But Jeff Beckler and Mike Minatti YouTube did
a little quick preview of Control Resonant and that is
out on the website as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly is Yeah, another thing, we both got to
play this pretty lengthy demo at SGF. They let us
capture about a fifty minute chunk of it. Driff and
I talked over the I really enjoyed that game. That
combat is feeling really good. It's a great mix of
the combat and that kind of floaty double dash, double
jump lift yourself up the air platforming that is super fun.
And just all the control remny weird stuff is hitting
really well, and that like the customization you have with
your wetbon where you just have this rod but it
can take different forms. So I had it as kind
of a battle acts, and the alternative form was this drill.
I just hold this button down. I'm just like drilling
into these enemies. And it felt super satisfying doing that. So, baby,
it's good that. I think.
Speaker 4: The thing that I came away from it was like
convinced that, like this change in in style, uh is okay,
It's gonna be okay, especially like third person shooting to
third person fight action, right is Uh, It's it's great.
Speaker 3: I still has all the stuff that you're coming to
these games for us what you're yeah, and.
Speaker 4: You know, obviously leaving the oldest house, you're like, oh man,
I'm not going to have this cool, little fucking weird
and and no, the weirdness is there. It's kind of
like turned up to you know, you know, yeah, a
lot of like, you know, fun visuals that you know,
certainly call back things like Conception with like the folding
streets and stuff like that in Manhattan.
Speaker 3: It's dope, it is really.
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a lot to kind
of unravel with the story. Of course, who can ever
tell why that stuff is, but uh no, I think
I think it's uh it seems like a lot of fun.
And I feel good about the the theme and the
direction in terms of the gameplay that's going. So that's
all I wanted to have coming out of that.
Speaker 3: And feeling good about it. And it's like two months away,
is it? Yeah? Three months away? Three is this part
of the September flood? Yeah, is cool. It's like it's
at ground zero of that. It's like right in the
middle of all of that. Sick. I think it's a
twenty fourth Yeah, hell yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: Uh well, I'm very excited to check out Control Resident.
Go peep the video if you're curious out there, folks.
But last game I have here on the rundown Jeff Grubb,
Mike Minatti, you two have beat Double O seven First Light.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, Mike, that ending which we are not going
to spoil it at all or anybody pretty good. Yeah, Yeah,
they nailed exactly what they were going for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the story and stuff like, and the characters
were really working for me in this game. Well them
that I liked a lot and just sort of you know,
mixed with that gameplay feeling so that maybe like maybe
the game doesn't exactly like build on that gameplay a
ton to the point where it's like, oh, we're constantly
doing some new things, but they kind of give you
some power fantasy trips there at the end that are
really satisfying. But gosh, yeah, just really enjoyed, really enjoyed
my time with that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just u there's a ton of confidence obvious throughout.
It sort of culminates in the best way possible where
it's like, oh man, they really established who this character
is and like what he's about, and you're you're fully
on board by the end, and then yeah, you're like
I'm definitely like, let's get the next one. Let's see
the next one. I know people are worried about those
headlines a few weeks back where Amazon says maybe we
won't work with Iowai and the next one. I think
Iowai has the license for the next two James Bond games.
Speaker 3: So really, okay, good, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's good, that's comforting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm still playing it. I I don't know. There
was a big update that came through the other day,
and I don't know if this changed the splash screen
sound or my progression in the game did, but I
am furious it went from Bennett to like some other
fucking thing. And I'm not excited to boot.
Speaker 3: Up the game anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but I can call you anytime you boot
up the game and I'll.
Speaker 3: Just do that bat up. Oh my god.
Speaker 4: It's like how much I'm not joking when I said
this the first chills just something about it's just chills,
and you're like, I'm getting back in it. I really
like where I'm at. I just got to after like
the ship graveyard area. I'm beyond that now and I'm
hitting up the next part of the game. I knew
I knew the actor who played Greenway. He was playing
Greenway from Snatch.
Speaker 2: He's like a lot of stuff, He's in a lot
of stuff stuff.
Speaker 4: But it cemented in my brain as Saul from from
from Snatch, which you know, it was very cool.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I'm I'm a.
Speaker 4: I did have a I did get I did get
locked out of a part in the game last night.
I was putting when when Bond's apartment is being shot up,
is someone trying to assassinate him? Uh one of the
like run to cover things. It just locked me and
I could not move. Oh wow, okay, yeah, you know
whatever's HEAs.
Speaker 3: And kind of strange like an optimization, like the game
has those kind of cloud effects and even like I
was like, all right, I'll turn in a medium I'm
like very like nice PC, and it would still just
tank the frame anytime. Something one time I was playing
and it wasn't a problem.
Speaker 4: Yeah, whenever you're playing any video game, close Discord.
Speaker 3: Discord, and you guys always use DLSS, right.
Speaker 4: Like yeah, depending on if I think the game needs
it the way, like right.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's like the first thing you should just
turn on. You don't have to turn on frame generation,
but turn on DLSS at least and put it on.
You put on the maximum settings so it's still is
going to look fantastic. But I mean you could put
it on balanced as well, and you're not gonna be
able to tell.
Speaker 3: The dandemically mad. Although it reminded me of the thing
I am furious about that. I need to rant them
that before we move on to please segment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's let's hear it.
Speaker 3: I want to kick my superstation into the sun. What
what's okay?
Speaker 1: First question, real quick before we move on from from
Double O seven.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Chris Parson from Aftermath Parsons Yeah, person, what the fuck?
Brain Highlight Reel has a fantastic article about how every
game should let you throw a gun at an enemy
and I it's God.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: They just made a video game and then like put
a bunch of stuff on top of that's core to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It is perhaps my favorite evolution of like the Hitman combat,
and there's a lot of it in Double O seven, right,
like advancing the gunplay and the hand to hand stuff,
but just being able to throw an empty gun and
then stunnying a dude temporarily just adds so much to
the fluidity of the combat and like the jazz of
it all.
Speaker 2: Who's the Who's that? There's a social media account chat
make you can help me out. That does cool gameplay,
and like from soft games or action combat games. They
run through and they do all the awesome stuff in
the cameras moving, and all of a sudden they like, yeah,
obviously did it live and it's very impressive. People started
doing that with Bond, where like, hey, I'm gonna run
through this area in a minute, and I'm going to
go in there and blow up something with my watch,
and then I'm going to shoot those guys in the
head and move right past them and then shoot the
next ass in the leg and then run up to
him and punch him so his gun flies up lands
on my hands. Then I'll use that gun to kill
the next two guys. And it looks so slick, so
like produced that it's kind of unbelievable that that is
kind of possible in the game. And that's what they
really nail. Yeah, Sony Legends, Yes exactly, yea, that user
go ahead.
Speaker 4: They get They give you a really awesome sort of
like asset pack of box sort of like stage.
Speaker 3: To just animate so smoothly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, really impressive cinematic stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sino Like Sooney Legend did the Bond stuff, but
people are doing similar stuff to what Sunny Legend does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like watching those videos because it kind
of inspires me to go back and mess around with
a different toolkit, because like I'll just get so used
to using like the laser or like I personally liked
the camera shockwave thing, but like them, going back and
being more creative with some of the encounters is really neat.
But Mike Minatti, I want to hear why you want
to throw your gadget into the sun.
Speaker 3: The superstation is that sort of mister style PlayStation one
kind of console. So Mike came in with that. A
kid has the dock with the CD ROM drive, and
I just I know it's an enthusiast piece, but it
has just been such a freaking headache to just go
through the list of problems you've had. Well, first, it
wouldn't connect. It wouldn't send a signal to my monitor
if I tried different HDMI cables. That's something every time
there's a problem. It's not the first thing I try,
the second thing, I tried, the third thing. It's like
the seventh thing I try, maybe something will happen. Where
I just wasn't getting a signal, So I was doing
different hdmis. I was trying different monitors it, you know,
and my brother, who's techier than I am, was over
and finally he like, jiggled something, got a giggled it
something lot that that's great, And like the documentation in
that thing is so awful. It doesn't come with a manual. Okay,
it's twenty twenty six whatever, there's a QR code. The
QR code sent you to a quick start guide. There's
no quick starting this thing. That's not happening. And like
there's no PDF of a big manual. It's a link
to a YouTube video of a guy being like, here's
how it works. And I'm like, look at a singer
and watch this. I have this specific problem, and why
would the answer for that?
Speaker 2: It's a mister, So you can google anything that you're doing.
And that's what I did, and so I had much
I didn't have many headaches setting it up. I did
have some once I started using the very specific console
mode UI that is still being added, that's in beta.
But as a mister, it's worked pretty well for me.
Did you you got the controller working eventually?
Speaker 3: No, never got that happening. Try what do you mean that? Wow?
Because it never was sinking. It's like, oh, well, no,
put a but to press this button to sink on bluetooth.
That didn't work. Well, if that doesn't work, plug a
keyboard into it and push F eleven. I wasn't recognizing
the keyboard. And then he just like, well, what's let's
put the new bias or whatever on the flash drive thing. Okay,
so he does that. It took him like five times
for that to successfully be put on the flash card
or whatever. Put that in. That fish is sewing and
now it's not sending a signal to the AHT my again,
I can't make anything. Did you jiggle?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I was jiggling like I spent like thirty minutes. I
actually just had to stop because I was getting so
shoot on what I can't think about this thing anymore?
What about instead? Like, uh, just like knowing what you're doing?
Have you tried? You tried that? AH knows what he's doing.
He knows what he's doing, and look, he's making more progress.
He's gonna come over again. The HG issue sounds like
there's something wrong with the hardware. Yeah right, yeah, it's
and I don't know what else it could be, like
that's weird. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah that is that is weird.
Speaker 2: I mean you fixed it sounds bad, yeah, jiggle Giggling
should not fix things.
Speaker 4: Giggling is usually a symptom, right, It's like, oh, there's
something wrong you do sound like my dad a little bit.
I just gotta I mean.
Speaker 3: It's just grew up, like yeah, like I google what
to do, like right, and just that it doesn't work,
and it's like, well, what's the other thing I can try?
And then that doesn't work? Then again it's always like
the fifth thing we can try and desperation. Maybe then
it's just that exhausting me.
Speaker 4: Right, and then you and then you can never remember,
like you can't repeat the crazy the you know, list
of steps you did that created the solution and I
can't replicate that.
Speaker 2: But the troubleshooting these things is always so incredibly frustrating.
Speaker 3: So maybe I don't know, maybe I'll get over the
end of the setup and it's all going to be
worth it, or maybe the thing is just actually broken
it doesn't work. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I say, we get rid of h d M. I
when are we getting rid of HDMI?
Speaker 3: What are we doing instead? I want to what do
we have?
Speaker 2: What do we use on our GPUs? What's that called DisplayPort?
DisplayPort is way better?
Speaker 4: DisplayPort has the latches.
Speaker 2: There's only scare me though, I don't have the latches,
but I mean I don't hate the latches either.
Speaker 3: Can we can we just run it over ethernet? Can
we just do that? Hey?
Speaker 1: If everything wants to just be like US video chilling, Yeah,
it is the same thing, right, Why don't you like
USB C I don't like because all the.
Speaker 2: Different every chord is different, Like it's the same thing.
It's like, no, it's fucking like this part can't do videos, can't.
Speaker 3: Do It's like, all right, I plug U SBC and
it's like, well not that kind of USBC already has
a cre like we already give it. Should how much
more specific to we have to be?
Speaker 2: It's very as we wait because they like that's that
was their middle ground is you can do all this
other other stuff, but it's to be the same spec
on the outside, so you can't tell what's what I
hate it.
Speaker 4: You're right, You're absolutely right, grub. We had this fresh,
clean slate and we fucked it out again, just sucked
it up again. We're like, no, no, we'll make it blue,
will be blue. So that's telling you know, it'll be fast.
And everyone just stopped agreeing on that, and it's just
it's the worst is that there's four point zero now, right,
but it's still USBC.
Speaker 3: Yeah I think so, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm grab
my my last resort here at some points, like I
might just like go to your place with it, give
it to you. I'll be I'll be back in a week.
I put this thing to have video games on it.
I don't know. Yeah, all right, that sounds good, fan fantastic.
Speaker 1: Well that wraps it up for video games boys, at
least the ones we have on the docket here. Don't worry,
folks at home. We're gonna get to all the great
news that is right around the corner, uh, in this burgeoning,
beautiful industry that we occupy. We'll see on the other
side of this pricky break with that.
Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, Yeah, I got news, and most of it's
pretty shitty. So let's you know, we're gonna start with
a good, good story back lar. Fishing week is upon
us everyone. Next week we're gonna do fishing week.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Here at Giant Bomb. I got my dream Cast fly
Cast controller that I'm gonna use to play Sega Bass fishing,
and I'm looking forward to doing that. Uh, there's gonna
be a bunch of fishing games on the website next week,
so tune in. It'll be a good time. I think
we have some merch even, right, Mike happens right, I'm trying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to, like, I'm trying to, like, just
get the logo and show it on my phone because
it's really Actually I can pull it up Mikey if
you want. Yeah, I get that logo to tease it. Yes,
we'll have some new merch. There will be new shirts,
a tank top, even a couple a couple of fishing hats. Yes,
it'll be the tank top. Babysper Mikey's shoulders too hairy,
but tank talks are great for people who can pull
them off. Yeah, another bucket hat, another trucker hat. It's
gonna be gonna be a good merch drop. We are
all excited to go fishing. Hey, everybody bring your worms
or else you're gonna squirm because you didn't get these
amazing deals on new merch at store dot giant bomb
dot com. Uh, you've heard the man. Yes, you sound
spoken like a true fisherman. Yes, we cast your line
or feel the brine. We're gonna pickle our enemies.
Speaker 1: That's right, We're gonna tenderize you through the power of
acidic liquids.
Speaker 3: For this amazing art, Mike, this is Nick Toilet helped
us out with this our giant bomb fish bomb logo,
which I love this new fish bomb guy. He's very good. Yea,
yes of the fish bomb.
Speaker 2: It's fantastic. Can we make tackle boxes?
Speaker 3: Mike? Why don't you make tackle box from our supplier?
Believe not? Yeah, Jeff beautifully modeling the hat right now.
It's great. Thanks, good, good job, looks great, fantastic.
Speaker 2: I have been doing research into figuring out how I
can make it so chat can talk to a c
man the entire week. Like it's some progress there. Everybody like,
I think we're gonna be able to make it happen,
but we'll see.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The next news story less cool xboxes reset has come
crashing down on the studio specifically, so a lot is
happening here. It feels like the story's still evolving. By
the time we get to next week and we do
this again, I'm sure there will be a lot more
details and some of the stuff won't have panned out
the way that we're talking about it now. But the
Verge reports that Ninja Theory employees, we're told that the
studio is closing, although they are hoping Microsoft can find
a buyer, and that seems to be where that's left
off right now. In fact, there seems to be multiple
studios in this situation where they are negotiating with Microsoft
and Xbox to try to figure something out because otherwise
they're going to get closed down. The other studios there
being Compulsion and Double Fine. So like there's other stuff
happening here. We'll get into all of it. Right now,
it just feels like they are focused on their biggest
games and everything else is in trouble. Let's say last
week Asha Sharma had that reset Menmi about like the
hundred days at Xbox and then the next one hundred
days which is going to be this aggressive reset, and
she gave some examples off there's only a three percent
profit margin, which is basically nothing. You can make more
by putting their money into bonds or whatever. They also
like are losing five hundred million dollars a year compared
to what they used to make annually, even though they
spent twenty billion dollars over the last five years. And
so one of her solutions to this is, let's invest
even more in the biggest games, so Halo Gears.
Speaker 3: Elder Scrolls.
Speaker 2: They want to get Fallout out faster, so more money
towards that stuff. And there was no mention of any
of the other studios, and now those mentions are coming.
It seems like, yeah, seems like it's going to be
real bad for a lot of these a lot of
these teams, And that is what I've heard. I tried
to look into this a little bit. Sounds like these
layoffs are going to be massive, major, big, a big problem,
and it's going to get all of the studios kind
of across the board. So things aren't looking great over
at Xbox, which I think we were kind of feeling
that despite them trying to put a brave face forward
or a liar's face. Xbox back, Baby, Xbox is back,
exclusives are back, We're super into this. It's going to
be different this time. And every time we go like,
what do you mean, how is it going to be different?
And it's like, oh no, it was always the same,
and that always meant cutting costs cause they just don't.
They can't make this business work otherwise. So, yeah, how
are you guys feeling about this?
Speaker 3: How are you reading all this? What do you expect
to happen next? It's incredible the uh it's like they
because they they had Ninja Theory show us their new
game they were reviewing. That's the ge.
Speaker 4: Get over right, Like, what the fuck is going on there?
Speaker 3: They don't know and it seems like they don't. They
they're constantly course correcting based off of I don't know,
maybe orders from above, but you know, like no matter
what they say. They obviously, uh pulled Years of War
E Day from PlayStation at basically the last moment very now.
Speaker 2: There was also the reporting about the Halo trailer. What
is going to be in that state of play? They
pulled it and got Sony big mad at them about
that because they did that at the last minute as well.
Speaker 1: It just seems so insane because if they're gonna well,
I mean, they did do those things with Gears and Halo,
I don't think they're actually concerned or know what they're
doing in order to like make profit, right, because we've
seen Fortsa do incredibly well on PlayStation that I am
only assuming that Halo and Gears would do the same.
Speaker 4: Well overhead, right, Like, that's what it is. Like, if
they're not making money, it's because they're just not overcoming
their overhead. But what I don't understand. I guess that's
the craziest not crazy. Here's my question to you, Grub
and to everyone you can answer after Grub.
Speaker 3: Okay, keep that order.
Speaker 4: Please, Like do you think this trans do you think
this trickles down to?
Speaker 3: I mean, and who is not connected? Right?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: I feel like everyone who who watches that Xbox showcase
gets sort of jazzed in their own way. And do
you think there is like any kind of you know,
fallout to like the average person who like, maybe these
stories don't manifest and make their way to that person
in the same way that the sort of gravitational pull
of the showcase does. Like I'm trying to understand the
kind of like the pr machinations of this whole thing
and how ill planned and the timing of it all
is just seems so so poorly thought out. Like what's
your take on that stuff?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean that, like that's the she's clearly going for
cheap pr pops like repeatedly, and and like the last one,
she doesn't think about all that much once she's past it,
and so once it's time to do the next thing,
she's back at copilots saying, hey, let's all right, I
have these problems.
Speaker 3: What can I do? How can I message this?
Speaker 2: And then you end up with we might be closing
the studio a week later after after just announcing its
new game, which is completely unhinged. That is so like
so easy to lose confidence in the company like that
when they stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jan, Well, like I know that we joke
around about like Microsoft consulting co Pilot all the time,
but like.
Speaker 3: I'm not joking. I think that's what I think, that's
what they're doing.
Speaker 2: It's like, don't worry, everyone will forget there's what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Pull their heads out of the sand and out of
their asses at some point, right, like there has to
be someone doing a tempt check eventually.
Speaker 4: I mean, just go ahead, Beck, are you just going
going out there saying what you're saying in the showcase
knowing full well what hammer's about. What shoes about to drop,
but they're really disgusting. I think they might not have known.
I think they might have gotten on the other side.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think they might have got on the other
side and look, their pants are going right.
Speaker 3: Fucking less than one week or whatever.
Speaker 2: But they always knew, like they always knew like they
were have to cut costs. I don't think they knew
the specifics of how they were going to do it
until she got on the other side and started like
asking copilot, literally, Okay, here are my problems. Here's what
the studios are making. She just feeds in all that
information and it's like, well, here's the hard choices, here's
what you're gonna have to do.
Speaker 3: I'm not joking. I think that's what's happening over there
talking about that pr angle, and that's that's where And
I hate saying that, Like there's like a world of
the normies I imagine where yeah, maybe nothing that we're
gonna know, but then there's that like enthusiast level and
not like super enthusiasts, but.
Speaker 4: People who know the minority, right, Like the people who
don't know are the minority, I feel like at this point.
Speaker 3: Right, but like so that's why I'm like Double Fine
and like you know, and I don't mean for this
to come across as like you know, I don't know,
crass or something, but like Baby Compulsion, you close that
and that flies under a lot of people's radar. But
a Double Fine that is such a story kind of
well liked and respected studio that does all of these things.
Like I just you, I don't know if you're gonna
ever get that stink off you if you're if you
close down Double Fine. Yeah, that's exactly. And it's.
Speaker 2: The audience for Xbox right now is just like kind
of die hards and if they're trying to break back
through into like the slightly more casual audience people who
like or people just like video games and would say, hey, okay,
I can get this game on Xbox. If I want
to console, then all right, I'll get an Xbox. But
it's like all like all the vibes are off because
it's these people that are the biggest fans are constantly
defending things in the most crazed way possible because they're
always trying to justify every action is making sense, and
it just it drives everyone away, like and like normal
people too. Normal people can sense that they know they
don't know the details. They don't know the specifics of
why it's weird.
Speaker 3: All they need to know is.
Speaker 2: When they look over there seems weird. Look over at
Nintendo and everyone's having fun with Pacopia. That's a different vibe.
And so it's it's kind of this huge mountain that
I don't know and I haven't thought that they've been
able to get over for the last little bit. And
that's where where it was always like, how are you
going to solve all these other problems beyond exclusives are back,
which just does very little, just.
Speaker 4: You know, all of these all of these ten poles
right there, they're in a way, they're just sort of
pep rallies, right, And I just can't grapple with the
fact of, like, in less than in no less than
like ten days, you have this like massive, massive fallout
that's following what otherwise was. I don't know, I don't
want to, I don't I don't think like people came
away from the Xbox showcases like all xboxes back up right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it wasn't bad.
Speaker 4: But it wasn't like, oh, that's it really is baffling,
just baffling. And how do you expect to ever I mean,
not that it had any semblance of existence before last week,
how do you ever expect to earn back any semblance
of trust? I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I mean that's the thing.
Speaker 2: Or maybe they don't care because there's reporting out of
is it the intercept somewhere? I can't remember that Xbox
is going to get spun off or they're looking into
making it stand on its own or finding a new
external partner that can sort of take over the cost
of running.
Speaker 3: Next Microsoft gets rid of the idea, I meaning Microsoft's
done with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's private equity time or something
like that, Like it could be that bad.
Speaker 1: But that's that doesn't save it, right, No, no, don't
save it.
Speaker 3: But I mean.
Speaker 2: Microsoft is that Microsoft doesn't care about it because they
might be getting.
Speaker 3: Rid of it for good, right, And I mean, I
just there's only so many people who are going to
be able to buy this Xbox be buying it. Well,
I mean it'll be that or it'll be like or something. Right,
They're going to want Call of Duty and they're gonna
want Blizzard and they'll like, oh, we have an obsidian
as well. I guess are they allowed to make the
new fallout? Maybe not? Then oh well they.
Speaker 2: Go too yep, I mean, and it's not I don't
think Microsoft sells Activision or.
Speaker 3: Along with it. Oh yeah right right the Blizzard might
be also, yeah yeah, maybe Blizzard.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, So in that case, it's like you start
to talk about be that's the part of that then too,
because okay, that's where it gets weird.
Speaker 1: Can I can I call it quick owners meeting? I
know Dan's not here, but can I call it quick
owners meeting? Everyone listening, turn your ear off?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, wait, we can't buy Xbox? No, I think
it's a loss of our budget. We didn't get enough
credit card bonus points for Dan.
Speaker 2: He can't for us even just fifty points behind even
his balance of credit card points, which all other points
quiver in the way.
Speaker 1: Yes, right, okay, I thought it'd be fun to buy
Xbox today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be a good goof does it? Ninja theory?
Like they have a big business just selling their or
they have a business selling their tech, right, the motion
captures stuff, isn't it? Or is that not? Is that not? Nothing?
Speaker 2: I mean, but that's like it's not nothing. But I
do think that these studios are being judged by their
P and L sheets, like the profit and loss right,
and here's how much it costs them to make a game,
and here's what their last game made, and and hey
what why did they why did it only make that much? Well,
but everyone got it for free and game pass. But
we're like, what can that studio have done about that?
Speaker 3: Nothing? So we're still still got a punch of studio that.
Speaker 2: This is the story of Microsoft n Xbox making their
own bed over and over and over again and having
to sleep in it over and over again, and then
the studios once again kind of paying the price here.
It's uh yeah, I think after their fiscal years over.
So at the end of the month, probably early in July,
we start hearing about the Hammer coming down, and it's
it's gonna be kind of a.
Speaker 3: Blood back, right, But there's just there's nothing that's going
to come and solve these problems. So the Seventh Gears
of War, whatever it is, is not going to change
the foundations of the Earth. I mean, you know, the
Halo one remake, that beef that'll probably do well once
the next HAILI come out, people gonna suddenly love that
more than they liked Infinite? Is that going to solve
the major problems Infinite have where it's just difficult to
make enough content for that game to keep people satisfied.
Outer scrolls still very far out ball out. They say, oh,
we want to make fault Okay, well, how right, Like yeah,
unless you have Obsidian do it. And again, maybe you do.
And maybe that's what saves them, although maybe just the
fact that they have ac output help.
Speaker 2: Subsitians put out five games since they've been acquired, where
a lot of each other studios put out one maybe one?
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, right, And that's like a problem the whole
industry is having, right, Like, you know, I don't mean
to just like like be like, I know people hate
when I bring up, Oh, PlayStation is going to have
similar problems someday. But let's you know, ten years from now,
they're gonna look at a Naie Dog and be like, hey,
that studio released one game in the last fifteen years
or something like that. Right, we spend one hundred million
dollars on them every year. Why why do we do this?
There's it's just kind of a scary proposition for the
entire industry.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, there's going to be someone that takes over
leadership that isn't as like tuned in and it's just
a numbers person, right, and that may make that same
decision that you talked about, Mike.
Speaker 4: Yeah, isn't it amazing that like even the head of.
Speaker 3: Xbox just seems to have like not a lick of power.
Speaker 4: Right, Like yeah, I know, Like that's what I've been
thinking about through all this too, where it's just like
you're the boss and you.
Speaker 3: Power kind of got spin up by Phil though, like
you know, you spent like literally.
Speaker 2: Spent twenty billion dollars they said, over the last five
years trying to make all these changes, and all they
got for it was making five hundred million dollars less
per year, right that right?
Speaker 3: Rough? And that is wild how that happens. How you
get called duty everything and everybody is like so like, well,
this is going to be a big monopoly, this is
a big problem, and it's actually, oh we're making Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that number does exclude what happened with with Activision.
I think they're they focused on Xbox studios there, but
that's weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but what we're spending the money they
spent with the Yeah, they obviously were no, no.
Speaker 2: Because the twenty billion dollars is not that money. That's
a whole other seventy way. There's a whole other seventy
billion dollars on top of that that involves activisions.
Speaker 3: So yeah, okay, right, it's a.
Speaker 2: Lot of money, right, And you know, the whole idea
is you spend that money and then the profit margin
of the business is way up here at like fifteen percent,
which is really really good, and instead it's down at
three percent, and the whole reason they spent that money
in the first place. But you convinced it, it's like
it's just gonna sit there, you know, like we want
to like make some money from that money, and they're
making less money than they would have from just about
any other way they could have spent it.
Speaker 3: And that's that's it. Just it seems like it was
all cook the moment game Pass didn't do what it
needed to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when game Pass didn't turn into Netflix, it kind
of yes, And you know part of that is like
had it been PlayStation doing game Pass the exact same way,
could it have like gotten over that hump. Maybe, But
maybe even still't probably.
Speaker 3: Not, No, I don't. I don't think even if it
was a PlayStation they could have done it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah, it kind of seems like not the
way people want their games. For the most part, you'd
Beisoft had three hundred eighty three hundred and eighty workers
of facing job layoffs as well as they're closing a
bunch of studios. They closed Winnipeg and Belgrade. Don't nod
is that studio that made God? But they do a.
Speaker 3: Bunch of like the walking.
Speaker 2: Simulator games and the adventure games trend Yeah remember me,
thank you. They are gonna run out of money by November,
so just to everyone's looking around right now, and then
a tough position. They are looking for new investment because
I believe they are owned by Tencent, and Tencent does
not plan to spend any more money on them Jesus,
which is something that's happened over and over again with
these big especially the big Asian companies, the ones in China,
the one ones in Japan, especially the ones in China,
though buying studios, saying that they're going to support them,
and then just changing their mind and be like no
more money for you and these companies are often like
working on games, like what are we gonna do? This
is what's happening with the Nagosti who was former RGG.
So yeah, the financial situation on the ground for a
lot of studios very precarious, and if you're over Xbox,
even worse than that. All Right, Nintendo racked up the
biggest audience during the Showcase Showdown over the last couple
of weeks, but just barely. It had something like three
point seven million concurrences or excuse me, three point eight
million concurrence, while Summer Game Fest had three point seven
million peak concurrence. Did you guys hear any buzz outside
of your normal video game circles from Summer Game Fest?
Speaker 1: No, a little bit of Zelda stuff, but I yeah,
real actually said. The biggest thing grub outside of like
these circles that we occupy in Kingdom Hearts. For yeah, Like,
I think it cannot be understated the effect of Kingdom
Hearts and the reach to the normy audience. And I
know that it gets mean to death like oh it's terrible,
it's bad games, or it's like stupid Disney baby stuff,
but the reach of it is wild where I had
friends that I didn't even know played games, posting on
their stories on Instagram and other stuff.
Speaker 3: Of like, oh my god, Kingdom Heart's four finally.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's crazy something yeah right yeah, same with Zelda.
Speaker 3: Actually, like I feel like I feel like Normie friends
would have been interested in that, but like, what are
they except for the fact that you know it exists
almost to get excited about, Like, and that moment kind
of happened with the leaks, which maybe didn't reach the normies,
but I don't know. Yep. The only the only thing
that came through was like the Halo remake. Okay, yeah,
that's how interesting my friends are. Remake that was announced
like six months ago. That's the one that they were
talking about. And it's good.
Speaker 2: Any any buzz about God of War laufe from anyone
in your normy circles because.
Speaker 3: Not for me, no, no particular. I haven't even heard.
I haven't seen my normy friends much. It's been mostly
still working even since we got back right catching up
for everything, So I'm not sure what's going on out there.
Speaker 2: Okay, God of War law Fay. The trailer reached about
ninety point five million people. The Residuable Code of Veronica
or Residual Veronica.
Speaker 3: Excuse me.
Speaker 2: Their trailers reached about seventy point nine million. Yeah, these
these things are pretty big. But it does feel like
those Resident Evil and God of War right there on
the border where it's like, oh, they don't need to
breakthrough to that general audience.
Speaker 3: That'll happen when the game's come out.
Speaker 1: I I mean, I think we touched on it very
briefly on the mini bomb cast we put out last week,
where we temporarily snapped out of the macho man fugue state.
I think I've like temp. I think I've turned around
on God of War, lau Fay. I think I'm excited
for it. I think it's just, uh, they just presented
it in maybe not the best way to andy state
of play. Like if it was just the action sequences
and then like edited down bits of that story and
taking out the R two prompt, I think it would
have hit better.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm I'll just need to play it, That's all I'll know.
Once I start playing. It's like, if that combat is
really engaging, I bet I'll be super about it. Yeah, agreed,
all right, a couple more stories here, EA, formally launches
a dynamic in game advertising business, as in like the
ads will update, you can go update your campaigns and stuff. Yeah.
EA announced the EA Advertising Platform is centralized platform that
lets brands purchase and measure integrations across EA games. The
idea is like, oh, we have a lot of inventory
on these billboards in our sports games. Although it definitely
seems like this will eventually and maybe quickly expand beyond that,
they've done previous campaigns that must have been more maybe
designed on their things, with Vslo's Red Bull, Exminity Peacock,
and Mountain Dew, and they're like, those are the examples
people should be thinking of, like what's possible. But now
we have a platform that you can go use as
a marketer and just sort of sort of set your
goals and all this stuff, and it works with our
Frostbite engine and you can start putting.
Speaker 3: These ads everywhere. Now.
Speaker 2: They're not saying it's going to disrupt gameplay, but I
do think it'll show up in like menus everywhere, Okay,
And just it's like, man, how can't selling video games
just be the business?
Speaker 3: Why does it always have to turn to this?
Speaker 1: How close do you think we are to one of
EA sports games introducing an actual commercial break where AI
announcers will be like, and this game brought to you
by cheese.
Speaker 3: It's she feels like I could do that. Yeah, yeah,
that's like the thing. It's like there's a pointment. It's like,
you know what if you want to put a billboard
for Monster Energy Drink and Madden in your soccer game
so that I don't know, you can fund a Titan
Fall three. Sure, but that's not like how it ever acts,
shall we works, It's just gonna the ship will bleed
into everything. We somehow still won't get cool games, so
they'll still complain about profits going down and introduce more
generative AI bullshit, or to say, well, we're only using
it for our concept is you're bleeding dude wipes. Put
sky Rizzy ads in there. Oh yeah, nothing is everything.
Make sure my crones doesn't keep me down or prevent
me from leading my life the way I would like
to look at me. I'm on a walk with my
dog and I'm smiling because I'm on climbing a mountain.
I didn't think it was possible before, but thanks to
sky Rizzy, nothing is holding me back. Now even everything
all right, Well, we talked about Kingdom Hearts.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about it a little bit more. The cloud
versions shut down last week. About the Squall versions. The
Squall versions though those are still going strong. You can't
can't touch them and you'll have to buy new versions
to keep playing. Squaring its delisted and disabled the Nintendo
Switch cloud versions of the Kingdom Hearts games on June ninth,
coinciding with the announcements of the native Switch and switch
to editions. Some of these are on Switch, some are
and switch to. The affected releases are I'm just you know,
it's all the Kingdom Hearts games that were on the cloud.
Speaker 3: I'm not reading these fucking names.
Speaker 4: Look at this.
Speaker 2: Wow, that sounds like two point five Remix, two point
eight Final Chapter Prologue plus Remind or that's three plus
Remind and the Kingdom Hearts Integram Masterpiece.
Speaker 3: You got us a that's an unseerious company over there. Yeah,
try to get you love silly names if on some
bullshit that you like, right, I wouldn't, okay, I wouldn't
want no Runner three hundred and fifty eight over two days.
I think it'd be awesome. We're going through piles of
mud grub. You love it, you love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: I like the ideas, like it's like we're going to
defend these games, but just being like it would be
if it's stupid that you like, but it is stupid,
let's be very clear.
Speaker 3: Sure it's stupid. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If this was like Metal Gear three hundred and fifty
two over whatever the number is, Dan would eat that.
Speaker 3: Shoot up two. That is true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was Kojin. He absolutely would.
Speaker 3: Your Chain of Memories, he'd eat that shit. I'm surprised
that doesn't exist already.
Speaker 2: Basically, if you bought those games before to play on
the cloud on Switch one and it would have worked
on Switch to, obviously they won't work anymore. So what
do you get, Well, you get fifty percent off the
chance to buy the new games that are native on
Switch and Switch to. Kingdom Hearts HD one point five
plus two point five remix for Switch and Switch to
that is available. You have to buy that now to
actually continue playing the thing that you've already bought previously
that no longer works. Kingdom Hearts HD two point eight
Final Chapter Prologue for Switch two, Kingdom Hearts three plus
remind for switch to and Kingdom Heart's Collection one through
three for switch You can get any or all of these,
uh and play them on your switch to. And I
get that some of them, those last three are switched
to only, so it's like, okay, you bought those previous
games on switch one. Maybe there should be some kind
of upgrade fee. Fifty off doesn't feel like enough though,
it should be kind of minimal, right.
Speaker 3: This is weird, stupid upgrade. It's weird now, Yes, it's weird,
and they're the squarence isn't the wrong. I do want
to say you should not have bought cloud versions of
those games, Okay, victim blaming Mike Minatti, like cloud versions
were always bad and stupid, bad time to clear, they
should not have sold them. They also should not have
sold them all. Sure, sure you.
Speaker 4: Were dumb for doing the thing you did a long
time ago.
Speaker 2: I mean, no one recommended buying the cloud versions. Is
just about any game on Switch one. I've never I
don't know anyone who this effects. I don't like to
meet that.
Speaker 1: We don't know how much of a bind you'd be
in because I feel like these, Mike, these came out
in the PS four right, Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 3: These these remakes, I think some of them might have
been on PS three. Well, they're just fun story, Jeff.
They lost like the code. So these remasters are actually
kind of remakes remade, uh, at least one from the
ground up. They're very good. They're very good versions of
these games to play. So even at Yea, even then, Jane,
it was like, Okay, I understand why there's maybe a
cloud version of three. What do you mean you can't
put Kingdom Hearts one and two on a Switch one? Yeah? Right,
So it was it was annoying even then that it ever.
Speaker 2: Existed and they could because now they've done that. Yeah,
they've done exactly that with those two games.
Speaker 3: So weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is just Square Knicks kind of always tripping
over their own dick here a little bit so.
Speaker 3: Trip dick Squaring Nicks, Yeah, tripping dicky what we call them. Uh.
Speaker 2: The original Switchy Shop has been drastically improved in a
new system update. Nintendo's latest Original Switch system update, firmware
version twenty two point five point zero, has dratic, dramatically
improved the console's notoriously sluggish E Shop and boyd be
like what timing just when it's stuck be the busiest
that shop's ever been.
Speaker 3: Finally they fixed it, but who's it gonna say. Finally
they fixed it right in time, right before rhythm Hea.
Speaker 2: It comes out right the day they're gonna need it
the most. Yeah, man, that thing was okay on day one,
and by the end of the system's life it was
really rough to use that e shop. It wasn't ever
as bad as like the we U e shop, which
had a fun little fake like a like game that
you could play while it loaded, because it took so long,
but fine, this one definitely kind of got much worse,
and it was a relief to have the switch to
glad that they kind of didn't just let this linguish
forever though. So yeah, that's something, all right. That does
it For the news stories that I have righten here,
it's the things are a little bit quieter other than
all of the horrors because we're post SGF and kind
of we're approaching a lot of summer breaks for a
lot of these big studios and publishers, so not a
lot happening. But yeah, that's the news.
Speaker 1: Back over to you, jam fantastic, Thank you grub and hey,
another reminder if you missed it at the top of
the news segment Fishing week. Next week, we're gonna take
another quick bricky break and we will be back with
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Speaker 2: The grub guesser. I'm pretty sure I have one.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I didn't give an update on like where
I'm at with with some hardware problems I've been having
because I one mic have his is a center stage
there for his problems, which are more important.
Speaker 3: The superstation I understand.
Speaker 2: Yes, my retro tink stopped working. I came back from
Ye and the very expensive Rexfortank, which I did not
expense on like some people, I found, was not turning
on and I really wanted to turn on because I
just got a Magic PS two. I got a PS
two over here that I got a hard drive for
that happens to have some of my game backups on there,
including all the Sly Cooper games. And the idea was,
I'll get this running and it's time and at the
time is now for the Sly Cooper games. So I've
once I got this up and going, I was going
to do the Summer of Grub, which is now that
the kids are on break, I can do some stuff
in the morning more frequently. And I was gonna start
streaming like one game, like for an hour a couple
of days in the morning each week. And I think
Sly Cooper should be it. I think I'm gonna do Sly.
Speaker 1: COOPERI Sly Grubber, Sly Grubber. There we go, right, lovely,
lovely God. I love those games so much. Let's see
Josh in Minnesota right in Greetings Bombers. I keep seeing
more and more entries into the Italia series, but I
don't know or even listen to anyone who plays them.
There seems to be thirty games in the series, so
it must be popular, but that is largely invisible to me.
What series are you are in?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 1: You all's as blind spots? Also, can we get someone
to check out some of these series is out and
report back?
Speaker 3: Best? Josh in Minnesota, Man, I have always thought this
about Tellia, and like, you know, I'm a bit of
a JRPG siko and this's just this franchise that everyone's like, yeah,
it's pretty bog standard. There's like forty entries in it.
I'm like, well, somebody, yeah, got to be it's gotta
be fans that sometimes I'm like, I should just play
one of these same I don't know, but it's so
hard because it's like, I don't know, I haven't played
Zeno Gears yet. Right, there's so many JPGs, Right, there's
always gonna be some big ones I still haven't gotten
to forget.
Speaker 1: For me, it's the Trails series. I hear everyone talking
about the Trail series and how great it is.
Speaker 3: Right, See, like Trail Series is kind of just like
Ali with more prestige, right, Like people play those games
more so it's like there's already twenty of those. Dude,
tell me you played all the Trails games and you
still need more. Well, here's a tellia. I guess. I
don't know. Blind spots.
Speaker 1: I guess some of the early first person shooters as well,
Like didn't really touch Doom or Quake much because I
didn't have a PC. So that's like a little bit
of a blind spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I never played the Gothic games and
that remake just came out. I don't know if that's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that got remake quite a bit. My blind
spot is Sly Cooper.
Speaker 3: There we go. The big one.
Speaker 1: Actually, early double Find games like full throttle and stuff
like that.
Speaker 3: Well the leak we called that LucasArts back then. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
we got I gotta make you play Grim Fandango at
some point the game Grim Dango, that's right.
Speaker 4: Now, never a shortage of those puns. I don't really
have blind spots. I'm more of a blind ignored spot.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, like, uh, certainly ignored, but I
have more like blind oceans.
Speaker 3: Beautiful. Guessing you weren't into the LucasArts adventure games either
back No, it was you played a monkey one I played.
Speaker 4: No, But Grim Fandango is part of that, right, that's
part of that. There and there you go.
Speaker 3: Big fan of Grim Fandango of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks man, that feels good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean it's not even worth me mentioning because we
just don't have enough time left in the bogas.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I mean there's there's one like I don't know, like,
there's certainly franchise I haven't played. I don't know if
I can call them blind spots. I just kind of
don't care. Like I never played the Resistance games that much.
I played a bit of the first one and wasn't
wasn't feeling it, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was trying to take your inspiration Mike about you
cataloging your stuff. And I did start to go through
like like I think I started at like NES and
I was just going through maybe like one hundred games,
and I was like, oh wow, I definitely touched way
more than I thought I did, you know, just by
virtue of like renting and whatever.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And back then, like beating
a game didn't seem as important to being like I
played that, and it kind of does now, right Like
in the NES when you were a kid, How many
of those games are you going to roll credits on?
Not exactly?
Speaker 1: All right, next email I forgot to write this emailer down,
but they write in. I thought I saw Jeff or
someone who looks like him wearing a giant bomb shirt
at a Banana ball game in New Jersey. I wanted
to say hi, but missed the opportunity.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I wasn't there.
Speaker 1: I think you met me yeah in Jersey, yes, yes, yes, So.
Speaker 4: It's funny because I was wearing Gian Bomp shirts. Someone
the one saw it was like, oh, jive Bob, and
that was it.
Speaker 3: It was That's that's sweet that.
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, it's too hot.
Speaker 3: I remember.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 3: That is what I always say. I'm like, yeah, they
really fell off. Yeah there washed, but sure it was it.
Speaker 4: The Lucha Deer outline.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, I.
Speaker 2: Got my my garden flag. Everybody, I'm gonna put it out.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited. Hell yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Gonna go replace whatever beautiful things Steph put out there
with this.
Speaker 3: I just don't tell her. Yeah, oh no, I'm not
going to. I'm gonna see how long notice? All right?
Speaker 1: Speaking about mister backlar b Dog rites in from Colorado,
Yo Yo. Bomb crew be Dog from Colorado. I've been
going back through the d K streams and need to
put my two cents in on who should be blighted.
First off, Chuck is a straight up g spending two
weeks in juvie. Editor's note here, Chuck is not allowed
in this vote.
Speaker 3: Owner's only true. Yeah this one, yeah, this one's just owners. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Second off, none of the existing Blake cruise should be blighted,
because we will see Dan get kicked around again in
the future. Jan is a kind person but likes pain.
It'll not be fun to watch him squirm what what? Anyway,
Jeffy B deserves it because he called us. He called
all of us dumb and would be the most entertaining
person to watch whind about having to play a video
game now?
Speaker 3: Multiple times he called everyone ugly.
Speaker 4: I called them ugly, not dumb.
Speaker 3: There was a time when you called him dumb too.
To be fair, I'm sure you thought they were dumb.
Also stuck by Bye for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah that sounds actually I don't.
Speaker 3: Care about being dumb ugly though. Oh no, I don't
want that back.
Speaker 4: That's probably true.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, beat Dog Colorado. We're working on
getting that vote happening pretty soon, everybody. Yes, yeah, we
just talked about it.
Speaker 1: Let's see Cooper and San Jose rights and hey, folks.
Dan has been bringing up m d K quite a
bit in the past couple of weeks. So when can
we expect a show of Mike, Dan and Kayla playing
through the game.
Speaker 3: Oh fun, You know, I never I never played much
of the first one. I had m d K two
on the Dream k K two is better and that
ruled right. Yeah, I like that. What kind of game
is m d K I've seen it? Third person shootery
running gun sort of thing. Yeah, it's wild, it's they
don't make them like that anymore, for sure.
Speaker 2: Sure it's it is like that, like shiny entertainment? Was
that still shiny?
Speaker 3: Or did they was the first one? Then the second
one was? Like god? What was it not by aware?
Speaker 2: Did Perry not make the second one? Did they Perry
not make it a good one?
Speaker 3: That's funny? As Finn that one's not him aware? I
thought I made that up? Yeah, buy it? Aware it
did m d K two about man, I don't think
I like a single shiny game. Then I'm trying. Now
I'm trying to thing, Yeah, you probably don't. What about
Wow nine? Sure? Oh my god, wow wild nine? Okay damn.
Speaker 1: That comes from Cooper and San Jose. They sign off
saying love y'all and fuck Ice. All right, last couple
emails here, Uh let me read two more, Travis and
Fargo writes in. Travis writes five questions in I choose
one of them. If you want to get on into
the show with your emails, have a fun gimmick, Travis
writes in, say you're going to a friend's house for
a board game night, the gracious guest you are you
bring a six pack of adult beverages and your favorite
pie you baked from scratch. At the end of the night,
there's half a pie in two unopened drinks left. Who
gets those or what's the process of deciding?
Speaker 4: Host gets everything?
Speaker 3: Host gets everything unless they say, oh do you want
to you want to take the sea? Yeah, Like if
host is like, I'm not gonna eat that, please just
take it? Then yeah, yeah, but I would I would
leave everything generally. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: If it's like if it's like there's fifty beers left
and it's like you sure you want all this, I'll
take it.
Speaker 3: We'll take some.
Speaker 2: But if they want it all at that point, I
would still leave it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Just see someone taking like a single beer, like this
is my single I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Fill road If someone wants a road beer, I'm not,
of course. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If it's like, uh, I don't know, like an artisanal brew,
for sure, of Like, okay, you're more of a beer
guy than I am, you take this. Yeah, But if
it's a friend that often hosts the game nights or whatever,
I'll feel more inclined to like, oh no, here, just
take it.
Speaker 3: Just take it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yield to the host.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 1: Food is tricky though, because sometimes they don't want the
food and like it might be too much. So if
they say take the food, take the food.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh again more oftentimes the host will be like, nah,
take some. And then you you know, you get that
tuppleware that you're brought and left like car for situations
like this, you go out, you get it, you bring
back prepared for this moment.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know I need to I need to air
some grievances and I've been like marinating on this.
Speaker 3: For a year. You've got a superstation also.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, all right, this, I just need a vibe
check here, and I'm pretty sure the vibe check is
negative here. But you have a family gathering, perhaps it
is Thanksgiving or the holloway in my family. Uh, to
any family. Let's just say say a family we're observing.
Speaker 4: All right, that changes the calculus, but go ahead.
Speaker 1: It's one thing if the host family is cooking ninety
percent of the food, right, and like we're talking big proteins,
so big birds, big hunks of meat, very involved dishes, right,
and then other family members come bring a very small
offering for the table, very light on the labor, but
before everyone starts digging in, they bust out their to
to put food in the tupware before dinner has actually started.
Speaker 3: Get the fuck? Yeah we're talking.
Speaker 2: Are these people hypothetical? This doesn't exist, This doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: This has happened.
Speaker 4: Shut up, dude, this and and they're not called out
on the spot.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: It's more like there will be shocked looks from the
host family, perhaps myself staring at them, like what what
are you doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What are you doing that? That's not a real thing.
Speaker 2: You just you just Yeah, it's like it's like unholy almost,
like it is against God.
Speaker 1: And like I see some people saying it's a Filipino.
Speaker 5: Thing, but like I don't know gang, Like I'm a
just a philip other Filipido family party, and like the
tup aware or the packing of food will happen after
every Yes, that's what.
Speaker 4: We've all agreed on. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if it's like the whole thing, like I
was expected to take I'm leftovers. Okay, Sure, that's fine.
There's gonna be a lot of food. That's the whole
idea I'm playing with that.
Speaker 4: If someone were to do that before anyone's eating anything,
no man.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, oh, I mean okay, if that is your
food and you're like, I'm not hungry right now.
Speaker 3: For some reason, I want to say that even I
don't know, and then I just know it just feels bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, get it, No matter what, You're not hungry now, Okay,
other people are and they get that before tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And again this is before like anyone has sat down
to eat and anything, sometimes before all the food is
even out.
Speaker 2: So yeah, bringing your own tupperware to is actually crazy.
Speaker 3: I can never do it right, right. Maybe having similar
feelings to like dance credit card, I was gonna say.
Speaker 2: I was like looking for the credit card points thing.
I definitely was. I couldn't figure out to square it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, right, it's like not every not everything is
an opportunity to mind max your life. Yeah, and it's
kind of I can't live that way.
Speaker 1: Speaking about Dan, we are last email has a lot
to do with Dan, and it's funny that he's not
here today. Let's see hello bomb dudes. First time, long time,
I was listening to the premium Bonus dump Truck, and
I myself am an unconventional college student. I decided to
go to college at twenty nine as an interactive digital
media major, and I'm now entering my senior year. What
made me decide to take the plunge was when I
was listening to old bombcasts during the pandemic in hearing
how Dan spent his time at college, which made me
think to myself, If Dan Reiker.
Speaker 3: Could do it, why can't die.
Speaker 1: I currently have a four point zero GPA and have
made the Dean's list every semester, which is something I
never would have believed I would have ever achieved.
Speaker 3: In high school.
Speaker 1: This experience has led me to join a D and
D group and an esports team and make some great
friends out of it. So I wanted to ask if
they're any media personalities you listen to that inspired you
to take big life chances. Thanks to everyone at GB
for giving me the courage to take the plunge. Strive
to make a better future for myself, even if the
job market is looking bleaker and bleaker by the day.
Signed Bongola gear X from Northeast Ohio.
Speaker 3: PS.
Speaker 1: Everything Backler said during that bonus dump is absolutely true.
Said Everyone's thought, Yeah, these dummies are all ugly.
Speaker 3: I think it's exact words. I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 4: Only during the premium because they can all hear it. Yeah,
that that less the audience. And if you pay us,
you're attractive. Yeah, you pay us or whatever you want
to be. What the fuck did I say?
Speaker 3: There's no way to know I did. I did. I
was listening to a podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm like, if this Jeff Backler guy can have a kid,
I can handle that.
Speaker 3: So that was for real.
Speaker 2: I definitely was listening to those podcasts and like, like, listen,
you got a lot of you guys were having kids
around the same time, and it was just like it
gave me confidence. It was like never like that's the reason.
The reason is because I had sex, Like that's actually
the reason I had kids. But the reason I was
like felt I know, right, I'm sorry. I didn't want
anyone to know. It's worse the when I found out
Goofy had sex. But it's like, yeah, when I was
listening to everyone, it's like, oh man, I feel very
similar to these guys and they're all they're like the
conversations they're having, I can handle this.
Speaker 4: So yeah, definitely that yeah, yeah, no, I think what
is that? What is that called it's like shared. Yeah,
you sort of like offload your anxieties on the Yeah,
And I think that's that's good. That's that feels good. Yeah,
it does.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I really like how when I first came across Dan Trachtenberg,
it was on The Totally Rad Show and just hearing
him talk about movies and you know, with Jeff Kanada
and Alex Albright shouts out to Jeff Kanada in hearing
him talk about movies and how much you shades them
to see his success now and like directing a lot
of the U or I guess all the new Prey
movies or Predator movies is really.
Speaker 3: Cool to see. Yep. Yeah, definitely. Any other inspose out there,
I don't think I got any I can think of
at the moment. I'm sure it exists, but I can't
think of it in this moment obviously. Right.
Speaker 4: Well, we used to podcast together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Talk Talk too inspired me this on that thing?
Speaker 4: Well, sorry, Mike, what the fuck was that? We're not
gonna We're not gonna let go jam, We're gonna.
Speaker 3: No, I was gonna call attention to it.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool, cool, go ahead.
Speaker 1: That was the most forlorn, sad dad cover of spit
on that that.
Speaker 3: That was insane, like.
Speaker 2: Just my shame actually overcoming you in the moment halfway there,
like yes, I'm doing.
Speaker 4: That was that was a car accident at seven miles
an hour, But you had so many chances to pull
up and just fucking turn and you were like, Nope,
I'm gonna lethargically go through this.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: No, I don't apologize, don't yeah, just sit with it. Yeah,
say it again.
Speaker 4: No, I just I just think you had a lot
of time. You had so much time to abort, and
you were like, I'm going through it.
Speaker 2: It's something about like the slow moving crashes that are
even better than you think, more confident read of it
will work better.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I think.
Speaker 4: How do you how dare you have that idea?
Speaker 3: Do you do it as? Yeah? No, so much that yeah,
no no no the top. I don't feel good. I
don't feel good. Uh yeah, okay, all right, you're broken. Hey,
super station broke me? All right, okay, chat mine works great.
Speaker 1: Happy for you, Mike Manati. You can make it up
to me by reading some YouTube super chats if we
have any If people haven't refunded them back.
Speaker 3: Sure we grub guests now or is that after super
hit well crubgress whatever. Jance says, we we will, I
should do it, I should do that? What do I guess?
I'm sorry, I'm a piece of shit. Stops spitting on
that thang. Da says, tows on families, food on towels.
It's up to you. Yes, thank you for the towel
funds everybody. Rio Roku says, thanks for bringing up the
Knicks back are san Antonio san Antonian? I'm still bummed
over here. I'm bummed too. I think the Cavs could
have beat San Antonio in that series if we didn't
get destroyed by the Knicks. But didn't they get swept
by there? Oh yeah, well we had that really bad
loss at the beginning. We were demoralized after that, that's what. Yeah,
like the biggest comeback in history or something. And got
caught with an unregistered wee in his car. Yeah, and
I'm like, man, why does he have a gun? He
can't shoot?
Speaker 4: Oh, that's pretty funny.
Speaker 3: In the middle of the playoffs happened, No, it happened
after post or maybe maybe during the finals. But he's
done playing oh okay, damn, Like that was good. You
made up for spitting on that thing, thank you. Yeah
for shire. Zombie porn says, did Backlor have hair when
the Knicks won in seventy three? Oh no, actually the
last year? Actually yeah.
Speaker 4: I mine started going in the in the late sixties,
so sure.
Speaker 3: Cool. You know it's been a minute, right. Has there
ever been a single giant bomb like Stafford who's born
in the seventies? Yeah, yeah, like a few of them. Really,
I was born in twenty nine. People are trying to
think it's like, yeah, it's most of the thinkers and Vinnie.
I don't al I bet alex is eighty. I think
alex is eighty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, I'm eighty two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, grubs eighty three, I'm eighty three. You were talking ages, right, yeah,
you got all my back?
Speaker 4: I done?
Speaker 3: Oh my, Sianica, I don't know what it says. Is
anyone going to see The Furious in cinemas?
Speaker 1: I don't tell that. Might it looks cool, it looks
the new Fast and Furious. No, no, no, no, it's like
a martial arts movie.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I just heard its name for the first time the
other day and I was like, I thought they already
named one that.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, cool? Uh but story five this week
and then I'll be seeing that so oh of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gon We're gonna take the kids to see
that after the garage sale.
Speaker 3: So Migsy says, this is a hell of a one here.
What what did Mina h do to marry DPK? I
think it's a reference to Mary's neck hurting after she
played me to the hallowere on a hammock. And I
don't have any updates on her. She died I twitch
last night might have been a weekend after. That's what
it works. Zachary Foard, thank you for joining Giant bum
Premium on YouTube. Appreciate that. Uh you can do that. Also, everybody,
you'll get access to uh our shows at free and
all the premium shows over on YouTube if you also
want to do that, So thank you again, Zachary. For
Tono Neckusma says, buy Xbox, cowards, here's the first fiver.
All right, I'll buy Xbox, but only the part that's
made making a new Crimson skies. Oh what's up? Fine,
we'll buy Xbox.
Speaker 2: God, we'll do a heist on that one guy that's
trying to buy Spirit Air. We'll take all his money
and then we'll buy Xbox.
Speaker 4: With that money, we could Oceans eleven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we buy both of them and just swap
the names Spirit consoles and Xbox.
Speaker 4: The player lines, yeah xboxes alright, Xbox.
Speaker 3: That is an Xbox.
Speaker 1: Yeah wow, Okay, if we buy Xbox, Mike, I think
you get the booty name.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it might be our Booty'll just be Mike Booty, right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Mikey, it would be Mikey Booty Mikey.
Speaker 1: But it's like with an I for whatever reason, get
fancy and ten.
Speaker 3: Derek says, put this towards the buying Xbox. Fun you
now we have too much money? Yeah, becoming con on
Neckama says two podcast points for the Squall joke that
somebody I don't.
Speaker 2: Even remember Kingdom Hearts Cloud version and he said, well
what about the Squall version. Oh that's funny, Jam, I'm
sorry I missed that.
Speaker 3: Thank you job, Thank you Mike. That's great.
Speaker 1: Three podcast points to you.
Speaker 4: WHOA, I didn't realize they cost a compliment.
Speaker 3: Daniel Bradley says, just tuned in and two towels is wild? Mitch.
Are they also old more than five years at least
get two more for guests. How many house guests do
you guys think? I'm Mike, Mike, Mike.
Speaker 4: Are your towels? Are they like so old and washed
that they're hard?
Speaker 3: No? Look, look, look I'm not like keeping track of
They're fine. They're not five years old, they're not disty,
They're just normy towels. I got a target, all right,
They're fine. Okay, I really mad at you. I'm just asking.
Speaker 2: I like the aesthetics of a stack of freshly clean
towels like something. I'm just sitting there like that, like
and see like four or five of them. It's like, oh, man,
I'm set. I don't have a linenset. All right, I'm fans, Mike.
If I were in your situation, I don't. I just
highly doubt I would.
Speaker 3: Have more than two towels. Sorry, where I would put
the other two towels? There's yeah, who who can tell?
Who can?
Speaker 1: Well, now that you got rid of the other desk, Mike,
there's like some space at least floor.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Mike when you say these things, and now
I can't help but think about like your entire home
being you know, turned upside down by the weight of
a single extra towel.
Speaker 3: My brothers were over the other day. We're doing our
Disney podcasts and mustle times like, Mike, I take a
picture of this is a thing in my mouth and
show people. I was like, no, I got I kind
of just have a pile of costumes over here right now,
from fucking Blake. I was like, I want to take
a picture of your Blake Club costume. I'm like, no,
I don't want to. Got mine in that closet over there. Yeah,
oh god, ship, you guys are the master of disguise
to me.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, it's some bad news to tell you about
what happened in New York just a second ago. Hang
on what No, no, no, nothing nothing z porn name
was Pistachio Disguising.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who is Pistachio disguising? You're a master of disguise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they told everyone about nine eleven.
Speaker 2: No, no, the main character's name was Pistachio Disguising.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, that.
Speaker 3: Movie is unbelievably bad.
Speaker 2: It's insane how bad it is that though, I mean, yeah, sure.
Speaker 3: I just just this just.
Speaker 4: The Dana Carvey Wow, okay, Cary seventy one folks, whoa
no way, really, that's really that's crazy.
Speaker 3: What's his second biggest roltter being Garth or am I miss?
That's no.
Speaker 4: Yes, Church Church Lady, Church lady.
Speaker 3: That's just a yeah. I never did more of Church,
and I'll tell you what it counts. I never count.
I kind of never got it with Church Lady. I
don't know if I ever thought Church. I know, if
you were funny, I.
Speaker 4: Don't know if you were the intended audience at the church.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like Reagan era comedy stuff like that.
Speaker 4: And Garth for sure. Everything else though he's seventy one.
Speaker 2: If you google Dana Carvey, you know how it does
like the movies, they're known for a thing.
Speaker 3: It does. Go Wings World, then Master of Disguise. Oh
that's a legacy, baby, that's a range.
Speaker 2: I know him for being Bill Clinton with the teats
at the beginning of the d Dana.
Speaker 4: Oh hell yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: That's good stuff.
Speaker 4: I do think the longer time goes on the Dana
Carvey Show does become more important.
Speaker 3: So, I mean that's the part of people than that
show ran comedy. Yeah, all right, let's see zombie porn,
says Rumors state that the Steam Machine goes up for
pre order soon next to weeks, with review units sent out.
Grubb bleak once between now and the end of the
show to confirm you have a review unit. Okay, yeah,
I'll do that, all right. Everyone's zoom in on Grub's eyes,
all right. Ge Nitro says, what motivated Grub at doing
that awesome retro game review with Beatle Adventure Racing plans
for more?
Speaker 2: Uh depression and I needed an old video game and
I played that and it turned out it ruled, and
uh yeah, Beatle Venture Racing was was just like, play
it and oh my god, it holds up so well.
And in the previous weeks were like, hey, maybe we
could just be cool if we just wrote some retroviews.
And I was inspired. So just kind of ran over
the next day and wrote that up really quick and
got it.
Speaker 3: Up on the same People were into it, so we're
gonna do more of it. Everyone.
Speaker 1: Also, go check out the shirt that Will made for
the review. Very very sick, very slick production going on
in there.
Speaker 3: They said shirt. I'm like my territory short. Yeah the short, Yeah,
the short's good. Yeah. Zombie Porn said so my mom
made food for dinner party, and someone else took her
dish and started packing up her food for them to
take home while we were still eating.
Speaker 4: I mean, I just you gotta take guys, you got
to remove these people from your lives. I just it's okay.
It's okay to just like not invite these people back.
They'll get it after a while.
Speaker 3: Did you did you ever go to like a family
gathering or party where like you got a bill at
the end? Stop it had someone like that in our
family where it was like at the end they came
up to my parents like all right, so like Michael
had two cheeseburgers.
Speaker 4: Stop it.
Speaker 3: They kept tract to that degree. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Is that that's worse than what I It's not that
hard to just be a person.
Speaker 3: That's not like, you know, we like they were there,
they were lovely people, and I you know, the family,
I loved it. Sound like but like, you know, what
do we what do we remember about them? Right? Like,
it's not like they're gonna get repered for that ship now.
Speaker 4: I really just think some people, like their social sort
of barometer is just completely borked. Like it's just it's
just not collaborated. It's just calibrated. Sorry, Like it's just
it's it's it's off, it's bonkers, it's wonky. It needs
to return to factory settings. Like, I don't know what
to say.
Speaker 2: The worst part of that situation is your dad pays
for the cheeseburgers, but you know who's getting to keep
the credit card points?
Speaker 3: Th e.
Speaker 4: That is the worst part of it all, Isn't it
so terrible?
Speaker 3: And I don't know that. I was like, oh, may
I have a weird version of this story?
Speaker 4: And I'm pretty sure Mikey ordered his burger well done
and that's you know, seven dollars more.
Speaker 3: Gangs. They eventually pivoted to just everybody is going to
be told what they need to bring to the party,
and that's a much.
Speaker 4: More accept Yeah, do a pot, look, don't build people.
Speaker 3: Did you should have been like, oh, there's no room
for tip?
Speaker 4: What do I doe?
Speaker 3: Did your dad review them, Mike, Oh, well that was
my mom's family, so my dad reviewed them very harsh,
lots of tips and jokes. Throughout my life he would
still and I'm like I'm going over there. He's like, oh, boy,
bring bring some fies or something.
Speaker 4: Taxi is not even the word for that. There's gotta
be what's the what's the word that's beyond tacky?
Speaker 3: It's I don't know, because it was like, you know,
they were a couple and they didn't have any kids.
They had, you know, two incomes coming in something like
the Tinks. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah? Or is that a
date two income? No dou double in something for tinker Bell? Yeah? Cool.
I knew we would get there. I didn't need Hornet says.
May have been discussed before, but did any of you
buy the ambernik RG rotate? It seems neat. I thought
about it, but I got it. I got it. I
can't buy it. I gotta stop one, I gotta stop.
This one's cool.
Speaker 2: This one is cool, and it's more about not playing
the games, which is great because I don't have time
because I have so many of these, I don't have
time to play the games on them.
Speaker 3: Maybe this is the one I should get. Maybe yeah,
probably yeah. I do have to say.
Speaker 2: It's a rotating screen. Then it reveals the controls underneath.
Speaker 4: It's it's a fun gimmick, but an unnecessary one. Perhaps
it's definitely the thing I realized on this SGF trip
and why it was. It was very short, right, we
were kind of in and out there, especially me you.
I came into you later, but like, man, I just
I'm not playing any of these retro consoles. Man. The
only thing I did, the only thing I want, I brought.
I brought my rog ally, I brought my you know,
thor right, and I'm like, oh, I'm gonna do some game.
And you know, the only thing I did was play
Waking Shadow the Glasses on my PC with a later.
Speaker 3: That's all I did for like twenty minutes. The only
thing I did. It's insane.
Speaker 2: I mean, especially like on a trip. Though I always like,
I'll bring my stuff in all have time to play.
Speaker 3: I never. I never had the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not gonna give it an travel miles.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I stopped ringing things like I used to bring a
book to read. Also, stop doing that. Yeah, no time,
no time.
Speaker 3: Uh. That's it for the super chats, Thank everybody.
Speaker 1: Thank you, mister Minati, Jeff Grubb. It's time for the
podcast within a podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome everybody to grub guesser. I have your first
image here. As always, this is from an old video
game magazine ad.
Speaker 3: I want you guys to tell me.
Speaker 2: What this is an advertisement for for our audio listeners.
The image I just sent to these guys is a
hot dog? Certainly is that's it? It's a hot dog
and it says B one period uh and it does
cross two pages, so it's it's a long boy. What
is this an advertisement for?
Speaker 3: One?
Speaker 4: Fond feels very PlayStation?
Speaker 3: I was getting game Boy color vibes from the font
For some reason, you want.
Speaker 1: To screen for everyone watching the podcast?
Speaker 3: What the hell? Okay, I'm trying to get Is there
any biggy where you turn into a hot dog? I
mean sides from a much later with freaking split fiction,
But I don't think that's for this. I know it's not.
Speaker 1: Nobie Boyboy introducing blank on, blank on.
Speaker 2: Sixteen blanks, fifteen foreign countries to blank on and then
turn anybody into a hot dog is how that thing ends.
There's too many identifiers there.
Speaker 3: I'll give you anyone a hot Is this a god game?
They might be.
Speaker 2: They might be being a little bit more literal than
the actual game is about turning someone into a hot.
Speaker 3: Okay, mentioned like visiting cities? Is it a countries? You know?
Fifteen four foreign countries? Is it? Was it a strategy
game of some kind?
Speaker 2: Uh, Jan's definitely closer sports game.
Speaker 3: Is it a baseball game? Hot It's a sport game
of a type. Is it a racing game? It's a
racing game. Okay, okay, now we're cooking on gas physic countries?
What game would you visit a lot of countries while
you were racing around? Why is it a something about
wacky racers? It's not wacky racers. Is it a need
for speed of some kind? It is not need for speech.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, mm hmmmm, what is what racing
game deserves? Hot dogs?
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of what racing game is has
like an international flair.
Speaker 2: I think I would describe this as the hot dog
of racing games, as someone that likes hot dogs.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that means me neither. Yeah. Is
it automodelista. It is not automodelista at it?
Speaker 1: Okay, you said you said automotalista. Mike, you said, what
other ones do you say?
Speaker 3: For speed? I said, don't no. Marrio cart right is
not no. It's also it is not Mario Kart. The
fact that I'm talking about going to real countries. Makes
me think it's more of a shoot racing game than
a cart racing game. Is it a Colin McCrae game.
Speaker 2: It is not Colin McCrae. That's okay, ship, I'm supposing
you're definitely right to be thinking about how you're going
to fifteen countries around the word world for sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, right, why are we going to these countries? Is it?
It's not ridge racer. Ridge Racer never did that. It's
not ridge Racer, right, it is not rage Race. Yeah,
do you think so? I didn't think so. Is this, man?
Speaker 1: Is it that downtown or downhill jam game for the PS?
Speaker 3: It is not a downhill game. This is a PS
two era game.
Speaker 2: Is that what we're you guys were right in the
the previous era era of like the p S one
and sixty four eras one?
Speaker 3: Is this just beatle adventure racing? You son of a bitch?
It is not That would have been real funny. Oh oh, okay?
Speaker 4: Is it Twisted Metal?
Speaker 3: It's cruising World. It is a world, not Twisted Metal.
It's cruising World. Cruising World.
Speaker 2: I'll be glad to show you guys the whole thing here,
But fucking nothing then absolutely nothing.
Speaker 3: Oh this is such a Yeah, the hot dog is
just a fucking a red hair red herring man.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's one one who approves this, right, right? And
so I was trying to read the copy introducing Cruising
World on Nintendo sixty four. Sixteen exotic cars, fifteen foreign
countries to race them through, and enough tricks to turn
anybody into a hot dog.
Speaker 3: What I hate this? I hate what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: You got paid to make this, You've got paid a
lot of money back then to make sh like this.
Speaker 3: Wow? All right, next one, all right for audio listeners,
this one? What this is? Yeah?
Speaker 2: This is rough, guys, but we got to get through
this one together. So there is a man in stirrups
at the at the hospital, and there is a doctor
holding something and he's that is connected to an umbilical
cord that does go between the man's legs, and the
guy is going to.
Speaker 3: Cut the umbilical cord. I know this? What is this
an advertisement for? What is it? I think?
Speaker 4: I know it's very very much.
Speaker 3: Ringing a bell.
Speaker 4: I just need a minute, okay, because he's if you look,
he's also covering the tattoo.
Speaker 3: Yeah his arm. Yeah, it's for the game Boy sp
the tribal Mario one, the tribal tattoos back. I do
get the sentence for hardware for some reason. Is it
for hardware, Jeff? Something along those lines. Yeah, yeah, is
it the worm light? This one is not the worm light.
Speaker 1: Also, for folks at home, a lot of this image
is obscured right now, Yes, a lot of different parts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you didn't leave any Japanese texts. That just says
time almost, and I almost did. I double checked. Ah man, Okay,
Like party's trying to think, like, well, what could this
be based off of what's happening? And I feel like
that's just the right.
Speaker 4: I'll say that maybe there's more to that than you think. Actually, Wowa,
there's more to what.
Speaker 3: This.
Speaker 2: I'll say this ad makes way more sense than the
last one.
Speaker 3: It's not trauma.
Speaker 4: It's I know, it's I think it's I think you're right, not.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 2: It's a peripheral, Jeff, it's a peripheral. Okay, what are
they getting at.
Speaker 3: With this ad? Oh? Oh, it's it's wireless. It's wireless.
They're cutting the cord. They're cutting the cord.
Speaker 2: Is it is an advertisement for a wireless controller, the
Freedom Shock to with nine hundred mega hurts of RF
wireless controllers.
Speaker 4: It's Pelican. It's Pelicans. Pelican, that's what this Pelican made.
Like every plastic case.
Speaker 3: Thing you ever bought in the in the nineties and
two thousands. Look at that. The ship so ugly.
Speaker 2: Yes, their ship is ugly, and it's like actually kind
of the ugliest thing on this very disturbing ad.
Speaker 3: Right, and is a krame. Oh my god, this guy,
Oh my god, Tuesday, it's Pelican. It's a Pelican accessory.
Speaker 4: I can't believe they got Jason Lee to play the nerves.
Speaker 2: It does look like they get Yeah, I'm the cup
cord with the PlayStation two Freedom Shock two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there you go, chat Pelican, right, girl, repellan
everyone Pelican was this just like third party accessory manufacturer
that they made everything from, like mostly plastic stuff. It
was just like cases are like, oh, story, your memory
cards in this. I'm sure they made memory cards also.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, they made all kinds of stuff, especially
in the PS two area era. That was when they
were the busiest.
Speaker 2: All right, that doesn't for cup guess or thanks for playing, guys.
You guys did very well. We'll be back with another
episode next time. Back to the podcast. Outside of this podcast.
Speaker 4: I gotta say these are getting increasingly more disturbing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of that's okay, all right, everybody, Thank
you Jeff Greb for that. I'm gonna have to take
some time to wipe that from my memory. What do
we got going on the rest of the week? Boys,
It's going to be a lighter week, folks at home.
We are taking Friday off to observe Juneteenth, so the
week will end on Thursday.
Speaker 3: Rest assured.
Speaker 1: Business will pick back up next week because it will
be fishing week, so we have a stacked impact week
for that. Pokemonnday Night Combat pops off tomorrow as well
as the space Ace Blightning round. Guys, I think he
might actually do it this week. He could actually do it.
Speaker 2: Thank you good, he's got he has all the pieces.
He has all the pieces.
Speaker 1: Voicemail dumb Truck to end the week, and then Game
Us Morning's popping off Wednesday and Thursday, right, Gobe.
Speaker 2: That's right, looking back, looking forward to get back to it.
Speaker 1: We may potentially have some more quick looks popping off,
but we do have a bunch of videos popping off
on the website. Left and right mentioned it at the
tippy top. There's an NBA the Run quick look, a
preview for Control Resident, and then a quick look for
Everything is Crab as well. Also, the Bully Endurance Run
continues for the rest of this week. It concludes with
episode twenty five. If you're a Premium member or YouTube member,
you are already seeing those episodes. Nine Lives of Mister
Mistopha Fleas also returns next week. Gang, we just need
to give Will some more time to recover because Will
was deceased. For a moment of last week, I pushed him,
sweet boy, let's see anything else I'm forgetting.
Speaker 2: Gang, I don't think so. Yeah, but he's right though.
Be ready for fishing week. Everybody, get your tackle boxes out,
get your cool bucket hats on, and just look cool
with us.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah. Also, Mikey, you mentioned it at the top,
But the Mystbusters are going to be going to Mysterium
a missed convention. Somehow we're there. The convention goes from
July twenty fourth to twenty six, but our panel will
be only twenty fifth, so you know, go buy a ticket,
come hang out with us, Come support fun, little niche conventions.
Speaker 3: If you are near Portland, Oregon, um or travel from
across the country, what the hell hard we're doing.
Speaker 1: I'm use use your credit card points to buy tickets
to see us in Portland, Oregon. U Oh yeah, folks,
I think that about does it for the show. We'll
see you next week for another episode of the Giant Podcast.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be fishing week.
Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna reel it in and we're gonna have
a show.
Speaker 3: Because that's a Jeff, that's the chef.
Speaker 1: That's but Mike, I've been Jan shouts out tough Sean
for editing the show.
Speaker 3: Shouts up to Dan, shouts up the shot, shouts out
so well, Shouts out to you at home.
Speaker 1: You know what, you're looking great, Pride months.
Speaker 3: We'll see you next week. Good by
Speaker 5: M HM.