Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday, July first, twenty twenty five. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and ninety seven.
Speaker 1: That's right, folks, I'm your host gen Oh Shoah joining
Speaker 1: me co Captain of the Ship for this week. That's right,
Speaker 1: he's been promoted to co Captain of the Ship. He's
Speaker 1: also CPO. Is that your title? But he's also the
Speaker 1: title that we know the most.
Speaker 2: The bird boy of.
Speaker 1: Games Media, Mike Manati.
Speaker 3: Hi, it's me and I'm a bad bad boy.
Speaker 1: That's right. Uh uh. He's You can find him on
Speaker 1: the front of boats, dancing and cheering on his team
Speaker 1: as they paddled down the river because he is so
Speaker 1: fast with with with riz and charisma. He's Aura dynamic,
Speaker 1: Dan record.
Speaker 4: The hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Jan That's right, you're on a boat.
Speaker 1: You're dancing. We got emotes for the summer. That's what
Speaker 1: all the kids are into.
Speaker 5: IoT, you're doing a Titanic reference. But then you just
Speaker 5: lost me with a bunch of stuff. I decided, I
Speaker 5: don't know what you're going for.
Speaker 1: I'll send a boat.
Speaker 4: I was on a boat like a week ago.
Speaker 1: Never mind, so long, I'll send you some links later
Speaker 1: Dan okay okay uh and and speaking about boats, he's
Speaker 1: keeping us all afloat. That's right, Jeff Backler.
Speaker 2: What's up? I actually was on a boat this weekend?
Speaker 1: Was that where the podcast was? No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no no. That would have been way better
Speaker 2: than the situation I was in. But great to be here.
Speaker 2: I'm excited. We've got a special guest, jan don't.
Speaker 1: We and that special guest that's right, call the Baja
Speaker 1: men from nineteen ninety eight to figure out who let
Speaker 1: the dogs out, because we got.
Speaker 2: The big dog right here. That's right.
Speaker 1: Man, Sorry scout.
Speaker 6: Yeah, hello everybody, Thank you for having me first video
Speaker 6: podcast I've been on for a while.
Speaker 7: Apologize for running late. It's all my faults.
Speaker 6: I'm like this Frankenstein collection of screens and Mike's and
Speaker 6: trying to get everything working.
Speaker 7: It's always a pleasure, man, Audio.
Speaker 1: Matt Rory, throw the Catholic guilt out the window, all right,
Speaker 1: No need to apologize for the next at least two
Speaker 1: and a half hours. I'm asking you to see your face.
Speaker 1: Happy to be around. I've used the Lord of the
Speaker 1: Rings deck that you gave me several times.
Speaker 7: Hey cool, I'm glad.
Speaker 1: Do I think I'm good at playing magic. No, I
Speaker 1: think I'm Garbo.
Speaker 6: Actually we gotta stream sometime. We can do little arena
Speaker 6: stream teach.
Speaker 1: How's everyone doing this week?
Speaker 2: Feeling good? Looking good, smelling good?
Speaker 3: Jen?
Speaker 2: Thanks for asking?
Speaker 4: Yeah, what are you doing? Smell wise different?
Speaker 1: Have you not been smelling good?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 1: Did you buy axe body spray?
Speaker 2: First of all, you know what when you live in
Speaker 2: New Jersey, axe body spray comes out of the faucet. Okay,
Speaker 2: is it that boy on?
Speaker 1: And now it comes like in some beaches they have
Speaker 1: like those sunscreen machines where you just step in and
Speaker 1: it like sprays. Those are six thick really like that.
Speaker 1: They're like an outbreak has matt situation, but sunscreen, you know, is.
Speaker 4: It natural where?
Speaker 5: You know, Like normally you go to Jersey or even
Speaker 5: like California or something, you go to the beach and
Speaker 5: it's just like water has a certain like look to it,
Speaker 5: you know. But then like you go to like Aruba
Speaker 5: or like you know, like an island or something, and
Speaker 5: it's like kool aid blue. It is like like is
Speaker 5: that just natural thing? Or is that a hey, get
Speaker 5: the tourist in type thing?
Speaker 4: Why is it that blue?
Speaker 2: Time? Out. Yes, you're asking two different things.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The first question was meant to almost imply that, like
Speaker 2: these islands and Caribbean islands are like doing something special
Speaker 2: to attract the tourists to their water.
Speaker 3: That's the natural state of the watt So that's.
Speaker 5: The thing, is like, what what is making it so
Speaker 5: much more just vibrant blue when you're on like a
Speaker 5: Caribbean island.
Speaker 7: Probably less run off.
Speaker 6: Like you know, if you're on a coast of the US,
Speaker 6: you've got a lot of rivers taking alluvial soil and
Speaker 6: taking it out to the ocean.
Speaker 7: So it's probably gonna be a little more dense and darker.
Speaker 5: But the oblivial soil dam river doctor, what's going on?
Speaker 2: It's right, it's what Mike is right. It's I believe
Speaker 2: he's right. It's what is in the water and all
Speaker 2: the you know, I don't know, sediment and crap that's
Speaker 2: in the water needles.
Speaker 4: It looks a lot better than the islands on the Yes.
Speaker 7: The islands are going to have like big mountain ranges with.
Speaker 6: Water offlow for the most part, so you're probably just
Speaker 6: from pure ocean water.
Speaker 1: Matt Rory, You you read the most out of I
Speaker 1: think anyone I know, because I always see reading a
Speaker 1: newspaper of sorts, oh yeah, or like a little tiny booklet.
Speaker 1: How do you think you'd fare in a spelling bee?
Speaker 6: Honestly pretty decent, but if you've ever watched like the
Speaker 6: real one, they gets really tricky. I'm really good at
Speaker 6: like crossing puzzles and spelling in general, but the stuff
Speaker 6: they pick it's always like some weird medical procedure from
Speaker 6: like the nineteenth century. That's twenty words twenty letters long
Speaker 6: for the last one, So I get pretty far. I
Speaker 6: got really mad in high school one time because I
Speaker 6: got called out and uh, and they wanted to know
Speaker 6: how to spell click. So I just said c l
Speaker 6: c K and you're like, no, the other one like.
Speaker 5: Clean as the definition.
Speaker 7: Bye, it's a bad bad call.
Speaker 1: But still that feels like, yeah, that feels like a
Speaker 1: bad called bad sportsmanship.
Speaker 6: Celebrity hominem from thirty Rock felt like I was on
Speaker 6: an episode of that.
Speaker 7: No it's the other one, but no, i'd i'd pretty
Speaker 7: decent that I spelling me. I guarantee you.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right, all right, I was a Disney
Speaker 3: World again. Yeah, I mean it was the week.
Speaker 1: Okay, no, no, no, no, before you get to that, Mike,
Speaker 1: you need to explain the airplane hiccup yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah this I got it here.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, because then I flew out on Friday. It
Speaker 3: was like a very early, like six am flight, So okay,
Speaker 3: so you know you book that, you book the return flight.
Speaker 3: It's like, all right, six am, yep, that's That's what
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about. So then the whole time one, yep,
Speaker 3: leaven very early on Monday morning. I'm gonna be able
Speaker 3: to work a full day. Don't have to worry about
Speaker 3: Monday morning this with Mitch or Mega man, It's all
Speaker 3: gonna happen. So I get up early early. Sure would
Speaker 3: have liked to slep more, but nope. Had to get
Speaker 3: out of that hotel, get to the airport, get there,
Speaker 3: have a nice chat with the lady taking my bag.
Speaker 3: Then she's like, oh, you're here twelve hours early. I
Speaker 3: was like what, oh no, no, so yeah that was that.
Speaker 3: Turns out my flight home was a six six pm situations. Yes, yes.
Speaker 3: The question from Jeff becklar.
Speaker 2: Hi first time, long time, How the fuck does this
Speaker 2: happen to any human on Earth?
Speaker 3: I guess I just I'll tell you what. I've had
Speaker 3: a few snaphews like this. It could be worse because
Speaker 3: like sometimes I go and like, oh, you're playing left yesterday,
Speaker 3: stupid sir. Yes, yeah, sometimes happened. That's one time. That
Speaker 3: was a one time.
Speaker 6: Do you not check in for your flights? Like I
Speaker 6: just checking twenty check in? Oh but how could you
Speaker 6: check in twenty four because you go twenty four hours ahead?
Speaker 7: You were twelve hours off.
Speaker 2: I love it because you usually.
Speaker 6: Checking checking twenty four hours ahead, like on the dot
Speaker 6: to get a good seat.
Speaker 7: I mostly go southwest, so that's southwest.
Speaker 3: It didn't I checked in, but didn't really matter. I
Speaker 3: had it was some smaller thing called breeze that flies
Speaker 3: out of cantidact Is.
Speaker 1: Just like one of those Disney Air airlines.
Speaker 5: No pretty convenient mix up though, because then that meant
Speaker 5: when we had our meeting midday, he got to take
Speaker 5: it from the et ride.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thankfully, my my one buddy works at Universal, just
Speaker 3: got me a ticket to go to Universal. So at
Speaker 3: first I went back to the hotel because I was
Speaker 3: able to get back in my room and sleep a
Speaker 3: little bit. But I just went to the Universe. I
Speaker 3: went to Universal studios merely went on et Uh. It
Speaker 3: was in the line while we took our call and
Speaker 3: they had to get on the ride. I was like,
Speaker 3: all right, but I can still hear you, but I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be on the ride for the that's like five minutes.
Speaker 2: It was how that worked.
Speaker 3: That was a really weird meetings.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what kind of financial outlay would all of you
Speaker 6: be in for twelve hours in an airport. I I
Speaker 6: can't see spending less than one hundred dollars on beer
Speaker 6: and food in twelve hours.
Speaker 5: No, you gotta go to the lounge. You gotta go
Speaker 5: to the lounge and then pay for a lounge.
Speaker 1: About it?
Speaker 5: Crackets, crackets, crackers is a cracket?
Speaker 2: A cracket.
Speaker 4: Then like open bar and stuff, the lounges is the
Speaker 4: way to go.
Speaker 2: You gotta pay for the lounge.
Speaker 5: You just get a credit card that gives you priority
Speaker 5: pass access and then you can just go into a
Speaker 5: bunch of different lounges.
Speaker 4: And it just saves you so much money. Well, that's
Speaker 4: assuming account a good credit score. If you travel, play.
Speaker 5: You open up a credit cards, travel benefits and stuff
Speaker 5: like that, and then.
Speaker 6: Lounges, Now, I mean you do you generally those credit
Speaker 6: cards you do pay for yearly, so you're still yeah,
Speaker 6: but they.
Speaker 5: Come with like three hundred dollars travel credit and stuff
Speaker 5: like that that pays for itself like immediately.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Look, I'm not getting paid by the company, so I'm
Speaker 5: not gonna be, you know, showing for it. I'm just saying,
Speaker 5: look into some good travel credit cards. It's changed my life.
Speaker 3: The only think of that that really sucked. Well one,
Speaker 3: I felt incredibly guilty because I couldn't do the shows
Speaker 3: that I'm supposed to be doing on Monday.
Speaker 2: But don't worry.
Speaker 3: We got Wega Man coming up now Wednesday evening gaming
Speaker 3: at Mike's at night. We'll play some of that new
Speaker 3: Dune game. So guilty about that. But then, like you know,
Speaker 3: having to pay extra Uber rides was annoying.
Speaker 2: Do you do you.
Speaker 4: Own a Sony Wega CRT?
Speaker 3: No. No, I'm a poser, I'm a fake.
Speaker 5: Okay, Mike, I will say, as as the chief content
Speaker 5: officer here at Giant Bomb, you do have permission to
Speaker 5: play Mega Man games.
Speaker 4: Since it's Wega.
Speaker 3: Man, that's okay, that's okay. I'm a product person. I
Speaker 3: think this might be more of a product and I
Speaker 3: think I think we're going to stick with Dune for
Speaker 3: for somebody points out a chat for some reason, I
Speaker 3: want to do a Saturday or Sunday stream and it's
Speaker 3: sega man that is dreamcast or Genesis stuff or Saturn
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 2: You know, Manati, Yes, you know how I feel about you.
Speaker 3: You love me.
Speaker 1: I don't have any conversation that starts that way.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure there's anything you could do that would
Speaker 2: make me not like you. I mean maybe there's something
Speaker 2: you could have said. I don't know, let's hearsay.
Speaker 3: Who knows.
Speaker 1: That is just like mysteriously gone from the record.
Speaker 2: Right like who knows what you've said behind closed. I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's still nothing that you could have ever have
Speaker 2: said for me to be upset with you. But that's true.
Speaker 2: So you know, look, I feel bad. I feel bad
Speaker 2: this happened to you. Uh it boggles the mind. I
Speaker 2: just don't get it. But uh, you know, what do
Speaker 2: you what have you learned from the experience? How are
Speaker 2: you gonna how are you gonna approach flight the next time?
Speaker 3: Because I want to say, like, I'm just gonna like
Speaker 3: double check a triple check. But I said that before
Speaker 3: because I've had is like this. It really was just
Speaker 3: like I got there. They said it was six pm,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, how can.
Speaker 6: That be.
Speaker 2: A three man?
Speaker 3: Man? I got up so early, you're back I got
Speaker 3: because I get to the airport early.
Speaker 2: Ye yeah, yeah, fel like I'm a flight Like those
Speaker 2: times are sort of seared into my brain a little
Speaker 2: bit in a way that yeah, you know, nothing seriously
Speaker 2: into my brain, but like flight times do.
Speaker 5: Like it's like that is one thing where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I know exactly when I need to be there, and
Speaker 5: I'm checking that all the time.
Speaker 3: They should be in military time. I've decided military tip
Speaker 3: all right, Yeah, just to subtract twelve from the number
Speaker 3: if it's over twelve, and you'll get there. It's I
Speaker 3: felt so smart when I learned that trick.
Speaker 7: What's what's doing?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 7: I'm doing alright?
Speaker 6: Been' been looking for work for a long time now.
Speaker 6: Games industry is kind of a mess, but I got
Speaker 6: some tires in the fire there. I also finally started
Speaker 6: up a Patreon, like you funding them on an a of
Speaker 6: COFIs and Patreons and everything like that. I'm mostly just
Speaker 6: trying to write more because I've been bored out of
Speaker 6: my mind looking for work, like sending out resumes.
Speaker 7: Into the ether. But yeah, my wife and I have
Speaker 7: started up a podcast. I've been doing a lot of writing.
Speaker 7: I need to put some more stuff up there this
Speaker 7: week with that's patreon.
Speaker 6: Dot com slash Matthew Rory And if you're a fan
Speaker 6: of properly petting puppies, I'm bringing it back. I'm gonna
Speaker 6: put it down to the dollar tier, so just sign
Speaker 6: up for a dollar. I need to start doing more
Speaker 6: than those cause even it's imagine getting back into doing that
Speaker 6: voice after like five years of not doing it. It's
Speaker 6: really tough. It's like I don't know if I have
Speaker 6: that kind of gene in me anymore. But I meant
Speaker 6: to send you a dog picture for this weekend and
Speaker 6: put it in a little folder. But I've met the
Speaker 6: cutest dog. I've one of one of the cutest dogs
Speaker 6: I've ever met my entire life on this weekend.
Speaker 1: So, Rory is something I've always been curious about with dogs,
Speaker 1: right with you and dogs specifically, is there like a
Speaker 1: top tier breed of dog or do you non discriminate?
Speaker 1: Is it just like the vibes alone of the.
Speaker 7: Dog vibes alone. Usually like all dogs are pretty cute.
Speaker 6: I find it's the weird inverse for personality of like
Speaker 6: cuteness to health, Like you know, everybody thinks plugs and
Speaker 6: French ball dogs are adorable, but then they're just really
Speaker 6: unhealthy and probably shouldn't be around.
Speaker 7: And then I like big dogs to love. Pippoles are great.
Speaker 7: I love pippoles.
Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on King Charles Cavaliers.
Speaker 2: I love them.
Speaker 7: Oh, I love them, trust me, I've seen pictures of dog. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I would. I would totally be in there.
Speaker 6: It's like every time I see one I had a
Speaker 6: girlfriend one time. Maybe watch every episode of Sex and
Speaker 6: the City so all I can call at King Charles
Speaker 6: Cavalier is Elizabeth Taylor Goldblatt and nobody gets it except
Speaker 6: for like get in the background.
Speaker 2: That's a good one though.
Speaker 7: No, I love them all, and I should mention before
Speaker 7: we move on.
Speaker 6: I am doing this like twenty five episode blog series
Speaker 6: about my favorite author. Oh, that's gonna be free on
Speaker 6: the Patreon. I just loved this guy, nam Kim Stanley Robinson.
Speaker 6: I figured it'd give me a little structure to my
Speaker 6: week to actually be working on something.
Speaker 7: Week two weeks so.
Speaker 6: More streams were writing I've been I've been bored as hell,
Speaker 6: but thanks for having me on.
Speaker 7: I appreciate it. I'm always I'm available anytime.
Speaker 2: You guys much to go. You've talked about it. Where
Speaker 2: where do where do people? Dot com?
Speaker 6: Patreon dot com, slash Matthew Rory should be there the
Speaker 6: Rory round Up. If anybody remembers the Rory Roundup from
Speaker 6: two thousand and five, I'll be very impressed. But that
Speaker 6: was one of the first shows I did for game
Speaker 6: Spot back in the day, The Lovely Oh do you know?
Speaker 6: I forget Tino's last name? He went on to design.
Speaker 6: He did the motion graphics for that show. In two
Speaker 6: thousand and five. He went on to make the UI
Speaker 6: for the character in Dead Space with the back pops out.
Speaker 7: He did that UI.
Speaker 1: You do you know? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Track on every single Filipino in the video industry. If
Speaker 1: you're out there, I already know what is?
Speaker 7: What does mean?
Speaker 1: Panoy is just like a Filipino? Okay, Matthew Rory?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: This is This has been circulating the website a lot.
Speaker 1: Where is the Philippines geographically located? Oh?
Speaker 7: That is definitely South Asia. I mean, if you want
Speaker 7: to get more.
Speaker 1: Set that, you're good.
Speaker 2: You sh the flying colors, not.
Speaker 7: Your graphic oriented.
Speaker 1: But would you say it's anywhere near the Caribbean?
Speaker 7: No, No, definitely Okay.
Speaker 5: I was reading about something in the Mediterranean like yesterday,
Speaker 5: and then I was like, is it Mediterranean or Caribbean?
Speaker 5: That's in like the Gulf of Mexico, Like I just Mediterranean?
Speaker 2: Is Europe?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 6: Yeah, near Greece, near Greece and all those other places.
Speaker 7: The Philippines.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't know to talk about the history of American
Speaker 6: American and colonialism, but we have.
Speaker 1: A no, let's go dog, Okay, Yeah, it.
Speaker 6: Was one of the first American really like, how would
Speaker 6: you call it? Jan like the only American colony we've
Speaker 6: ever had.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's like it's yeah, Puerto Rico adjacent. My
Speaker 1: boy Taft was governor there. Please, oh knows problematic.
Speaker 2: Glazing Taft again.
Speaker 1: It turns out all the presidents kind of are.
Speaker 2: But no way, look Dan three point zero, Rory, if
Speaker 2: you haven't been aware, Dan has entered a new stage
Speaker 2: of acceptance and tolerance and learning.
Speaker 5: And he's like, yeah, but no, it's it's about kind
Speaker 5: of like also not playing up as much when I
Speaker 5: don't know something, but also I need to be honest
Speaker 5: when I don't know something. That Mediterranean was just a
Speaker 5: thing that happened in my real off camera life where
Speaker 5: it's like that Caribbean or Mediterranean.
Speaker 7: Right, ask questions, ask questions when people get married.
Speaker 2: Me. No, not three point not three point Zeros is
Speaker 2: the thing. Here's the thing.
Speaker 5: I still don't know a lot of stuff. But I'm right.
Speaker 2: So that's fine. You're doing, you're doing, you're doing, You're
Speaker 2: doing fine.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to stifle your curiosity, Dan, I encourage it.
Speaker 5: I do know the Philippines thing I stuck in my head.
Speaker 5: I know it's not in the Gulf Mexico.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who knows?
Speaker 2: You didn't. A few other things that I would like
Speaker 2: to have a take up space up there. I'm margin
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm defragging the old noggin up there.
Speaker 2: We're getting there.
Speaker 1: I missed back to School. That was the fun show
Speaker 1: to edits one of us. Maybe you could do it
Speaker 1: one off episode one time.
Speaker 2: Matt about.
Speaker 1: Matt, thank you President.
Speaker 4: I think he was a big apea. Yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 6: Last pamp I'll say My podcast is called Why does
Speaker 6: This Make Me Cry? It's about watching a ship that
Speaker 6: makes me cry all the time and I can't figure
Speaker 6: it out. So my wife is now my therapist for
Speaker 6: this podcast. We got to do another one, but the
Speaker 6: first episode is about why I cry at Air Force
Speaker 6: One and that's the last.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's actually really interesting. Why do you think you cry?
Speaker 2: We go into it, dude.
Speaker 6: It's a half hour long podcast where I'm talking about it.
Speaker 6: You the one scene that I'm talking and I don't
Speaker 6: want to start this off with just me pipping stuff.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, I do go on.
Speaker 7: There is a scene in that.
Speaker 6: Movie I can do like basically the almost line by line,
Speaker 6: Like you know, air Force one is run out of
Speaker 6: chaff and they're getting this mischell shot on the Russian
Speaker 6: jets and this one guy Halo two says throughout of countermeasures,
Speaker 6: they're not going to make it. I'm going in and
Speaker 6: he just flies in there and blows himself up for
Speaker 6: somebody he's never met. He blows himself up for Air
Speaker 6: Force one like a secret Service agent taking a bullet,
Speaker 6: which is a great thing I remember now because that
Speaker 6: happens in the Line of Fire by Wolf Kang Peterson,
Speaker 6: same director, same little motion taking a bullet.
Speaker 2: For the president and that made you cry.
Speaker 6: It does every time, dude, I get choked up. Halo two,
Speaker 6: he goes out, he goes out like blaze a glory.
Speaker 7: It's beauty.
Speaker 2: So what so so what is it about? Is it
Speaker 2: that sacrifice?
Speaker 7: Noble sacrifice? For sure, you listen to the whole podcast.
Speaker 4: Did armagedon noble sacrifice?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: You know, maybe he did at the time.
Speaker 2: Randy Quaid and Independence that we talked about that one too.
Speaker 6: We have a whole list We're gonna make, like, hopefully
Speaker 6: a lot of these. So we have another one coming
Speaker 6: up this week. We got to figure out a topic
Speaker 6: for it. But it's fun. It's called Why Does This
Speaker 6: Make Me Cry? Available on all major podcast platforms.
Speaker 1: Awesome. Now, I love it thinking of the movies that
Speaker 1: made me cry.
Speaker 6: I think I have a whole list here Man, Whale Rider,
Speaker 6: Whale right, Whale Rider makes sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm more interested in the things that, like typically maybe
Speaker 2: would not make you cry, Like I don't know anyone
Speaker 2: who ever cried at the end of Air Force one.
Speaker 6: We've got a whole list of men. I'm not gonna
Speaker 6: spoil too many of them.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm curious to hear one more. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: like one more weird one.
Speaker 7: Okay, let's see what we got here there.
Speaker 6: I was reading a book called, uh, Goddamn Lonesome, and
Speaker 6: it just hit me like, battleship battleship dude, at the
Speaker 6: end of all those military Yeah, when the guys off
Speaker 6: the board game, Yes, when all those World War two
Speaker 6: guys are coming out to start up the battles pretty good.
Speaker 6: It is a good moment.
Speaker 3: It's not Okay, I'm gonna shipped. They could stick this ship.
Speaker 1: No way, No, I'll get wait wait, wait the one
Speaker 1: with Rihanna.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, uh.
Speaker 6: The speech the speech in Star Trek Next Generation where
Speaker 6: the tenant Commander Data has a correct lieutenant Wharf when
Speaker 6: Lieutenant Commander Data is acting captain and he comes to
Speaker 6: and he castigates them for being like disruptive, and then
Speaker 6: he says, I'm sorry if I've ended our friendship every time,
Speaker 6: that's great, And it's kind of sufar getting into why
Speaker 6: am I like this because I can't afford therapy unemployed?
Speaker 2: Did I?
Speaker 1: Maybe I should just do that? Maybe I should just
Speaker 1: start another podcast.
Speaker 2: We won't guess you want to be Rory's therapist is no, no.
Speaker 1: No, no, let's just like Daisy Chain this, like you
Speaker 1: know you'll want as Rory's therapist. Rory can be mine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll all be We'll all be worse off for
Speaker 6: it at the end, even more damaged.
Speaker 5: Hear about the time I thought a movie finally made
Speaker 5: me cry a couple of years ago. Yeah, yeah, so no, no, no,
Speaker 5: it was well it's it's stupid, believe it or not.
Speaker 5: But it was Creed three and like I've never cried
Speaker 5: during movie one caveat being at the end of that
Speaker 5: fast seventh thing when it was like an actual touching
Speaker 5: the music, I actually died.
Speaker 4: So that's the thing.
Speaker 5: Fiction doesn't make me cry, and so like the real
Speaker 5: life circumstances cry. But anyway, fiction I think might have
Speaker 5: almost made me cry from excitement at the end of
Speaker 5: Creed three because I was very high and it was
Speaker 5: getting ready for the big fight against the Diamond Dame
Speaker 5: and he was coming out in the music and I
Speaker 5: was like, I'm so ready for this fight. But I
Speaker 5: thought my eyes were watering, and then I realized I
Speaker 5: had just been eating like buffalo wings and I had
Speaker 5: been rubbing my eyes, and so I did have this
Speaker 5: moment of being really high and then suddenly being really
Speaker 5: aware of my eyes being wet.
Speaker 2: Wait, am I.
Speaker 5: Crying during a movie for the first time? Or did
Speaker 5: you just get buffalo sauce?
Speaker 2: You fucking trap setting motherfucker? What you just It's just
Speaker 2: three steps forward, two steps back, man.
Speaker 4: Though, I think that that could have been shoot tear Dude.
Speaker 7: I got overwhelmed too, like I just got.
Speaker 6: Sometimes it's flooded with emotion and it's just like it's
Speaker 6: too much, and that's.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is about video games, right.
Speaker 3: I am real quick. I hate to bring things back
Speaker 3: to Taft. Okay, every time that came up, all chat
Speaker 3: Everton was that's the guy he got stuck in the bathtub,
Speaker 3: and that story is just not true. He was a
Speaker 3: big guy, but William Howard Taft never was stuck in
Speaker 3: a bathtub. Stop spreading that mass lie. It's a lie, Jeff.
Speaker 3: The truth matters.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, I think, Uh, I think what we've learned is
Speaker 2: that wrestling could probably make you cry as well. Well.
Speaker 5: Con No, So here's the thing, and it has, but
Speaker 5: again with the caveat that it's it's never the storyline.
Speaker 5: It's always the real circumstances, Like I have guys have
Speaker 5: had to retire young because they got injured, and that's
Speaker 5: a real moment. And so it's like, it's not like
Speaker 5: I didn't cry when you know, Cody finished the story,
Speaker 5: you know, when he beat Roman reigns a scripted outcome
Speaker 5: or whatever. I cry when like someone has to, like
Speaker 5: like Daniel Bryan has to sit in the ring and
Speaker 5: and talk about how you can't wrestle anymore because his.
Speaker 2: Neck is fucked. Yeah, that's again.
Speaker 5: Deaths and stuff like that will will absolutely get me
Speaker 5: a Letterman retiring. I cried when Letterman retired, you know,
Speaker 5: like that type of thing.
Speaker 2: Sure a good goal to reach before the end of
Speaker 2: the year. I would love for you to cry at fiction,
Speaker 2: But can that.
Speaker 5: Be a taught thing, Like I mean, I'm not I'm
Speaker 5: super not against it, and I'm.
Speaker 7: Not for sure. This watch of the stuff on my list,
Speaker 7: and you should watch it. Show him, well Rider, if
Speaker 7: you don't cry at that speech, and well Wrider, you're
Speaker 7: not a human being.
Speaker 2: I believe En Hanson.
Speaker 5: I remember yelling at me because I said iron Claw
Speaker 5: didn't like make me sad.
Speaker 4: It's like, but that's true.
Speaker 2: Isn't that a true story?
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 4: But I knew the story. I knew it was gonna
Speaker 4: go bad.
Speaker 5: And it's like, like, it's a sad story in real life,
Speaker 5: But I didn't like cry or feeling.
Speaker 2: You still can't believe people chose to make that movie. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I want you to cry at fiction.
Speaker 4: And I'm again not against it. I would embrace it.
Speaker 2: I just don't called empathy when you when you talk
Speaker 2: like you don't have empathy, you sound like a psychopath.
Speaker 4: But can you can I learn? Is that a steel
Speaker 4: that can be learned?
Speaker 2: It's living your life on the world.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look in real life stuff, I have that like
Speaker 5: when tragic things happen in your life.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's a.
Speaker 3: Huge problem like that.
Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's troubling.
Speaker 3: You have a bit more of a window between fiction
Speaker 3: than other people. And that's fine, right, It's okay. I
Speaker 3: mean this is someone to get weird. But this goes
Speaker 3: to the whole Like you've never been attracted to a
Speaker 3: cartoon character, sure.
Speaker 2: Well, where they don't exist. I think here, here's what
Speaker 2: I think that there's something going on right, and this
Speaker 2: isn't bad. I'm not like criticizing you, but maybe an
Speaker 2: explanation of why you're unable to have empathy for fiction
Speaker 2: or to relate to characters on the screen is perhaps
Speaker 2: you repressing something in your own life where you've like
Speaker 2: not allowed yourself to feel things for like other people.
Speaker 5: Or perhaps absolutely it's just when I know it's fiction.
Speaker 2: It's like if.
Speaker 5: Modern mortal combat fatalities that are so gruesome and everything,
Speaker 5: I just think they're hilarious. If I see violence, I
Speaker 5: am mortified and turned white.
Speaker 2: You know, like, we'll get there, We'll get there, We'll
Speaker 2: get there.
Speaker 7: I feel like I've got as far off track.
Speaker 1: Video games. Someone mentioned a video games so I guess
Speaker 1: now we're a legally obligated to start talking about video
Speaker 1: games on this podcast. We gotta. I haven't been able
Speaker 1: to play too many things because of the move You notice,
Speaker 1: for those watching the video, it's Cardibal mes Burke here. Yo.
Speaker 1: The movers I was able to hire were probably the
Speaker 1: three most uh unique individuals in the world.
Speaker 2: Damn lucky.
Speaker 3: I also thought they were the three stooges. Damn gup
Speaker 3: be like it was one of them curlyer, the other
Speaker 3: one had the kind of both.
Speaker 1: One of them did have a bowl cut though.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it was mo It sounded just like
Speaker 2: Dan on the on the rematch.
Speaker 1: But it was so funny because like one of them
Speaker 1: like looked like he was trying to be too handsome
Speaker 1: because he was wearing a dress shirt and a leather
Speaker 1: jacket the whole time he was moving stuff and then
Speaker 1: looking cool. And I'm just thinking, bro, like, you have
Speaker 1: no one to impress here, Like I'm already impressed that
Speaker 1: you're doing all this. Please do you need a shirt
Speaker 1: to change into? I will give you a shirt.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then he just like after the day is done,
Speaker 1: he comes to me because like I have like a
Speaker 1: husky tool chest here that's just full of stationary and
Speaker 1: he just like looks at me. He's he's like super
Speaker 1: duper Russian, and he goes like, uh, my friend, I have.
Speaker 2: One question for you.
Speaker 1: Why the toolbooks?
Speaker 2: What are you doing there?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, it's it's just full of post
Speaker 1: it notes and and fun pens and cables, no tools,
Speaker 1: no tools? Interesting, Okay, do that you know you can
Speaker 1: put other stuff. It was great. It was great. And
Speaker 1: then like the head mover guy was just trying to
Speaker 1: drop knowledge darts all over the place. But he was
Speaker 1: one of those like big dudes that like, uh, he
Speaker 1: sent his like two other mover dudes to like do
Speaker 1: do some hard stuff. And then he pulls out like
Speaker 1: one of those heavy weight lifting belts out of his backpack,
Speaker 1: and he like floor like I don't know how to
Speaker 1: describe it, but it's like he was putting on a
Speaker 1: cape dramatically. But then he just like tucked it around
Speaker 1: his like tummy, and then one of those cody belts,
Speaker 1: one of those like cody belts, yeah, to help him
Speaker 1: like lift the heavy things. And then he was just
Speaker 1: saying the whole time. He'd go up and down and
Speaker 1: like he would keep talking as he'd go down the
Speaker 1: hallway of like you should be happy of the things
Speaker 1: that you have here. I'm proud. This is a good place.
Speaker 3: I'm proud.
Speaker 1: Like Okay, thanks man, all right.
Speaker 2: Those guys are monsters.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: They do a lot of stuff on their back like
Speaker 2: with like rope. No, they.
Speaker 1: Exact, Mike, I was getting there. They were. They did
Speaker 1: the thing where they had like the big boxes and
Speaker 1: they'd put the small boxes in the other boxes. It
Speaker 1: was great, very good pack jobs. I highly recommend if
Speaker 1: you're moving stuff across the country, perhaps you shouldn't just
Speaker 1: throw it all on one guy's back. But in Death
Speaker 1: Stranding two they continue to do that. And Dan reichert,
Speaker 1: you have finished Death Stranding two.
Speaker 5: I did, and I'm gonna be careful because you know,
Speaker 5: people don't like hearing specifics, and I'm not gonna say
Speaker 5: specifics here. I'm just gonna say, what's that, Beckler?
Speaker 3: I don't think you Oh, people, people are mad at
Speaker 3: Dan for his very minor in fresh thank you say?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, people say I'm on board everything I've said
Speaker 5: previously about loving this game, and everything holds true, maybe
Speaker 5: more so now because I really think the last three
Speaker 5: to four hours of that game are the most Headayo
Speaker 5: Kajima things I've ever seen in my life. And I'm
Speaker 5: you know, people, oh, what about the end of the Middle
Speaker 5: Year Solid two?
Speaker 4: Way wilder than that.
Speaker 5: I don't think anything rates even remotely to the end
Speaker 5: of a Death Straining two, And I'm not gonna go
Speaker 5: into specifics. I'm just gonna say it was several hours
Speaker 5: of me just being like smiling or laughing or just
Speaker 5: jaw open, just like, what are we doing? Folks like
Speaker 5: it is fucking great.
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 7: Mostly cutscene?
Speaker 5: There is a part where the puppet tells you, like, hey, Sam,
Speaker 5: just so you know, there's gonna be a long cut
Speaker 5: scene coming out, which I love in Kagema games when
Speaker 5: they just straight up say like hey, press the circle button. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 5: like the puppet is just like, dude, it's gonna be
Speaker 5: a long one. And there's a decent amount of gameplay
Speaker 5: after he says that, but there is a long cut
Speaker 5: scene after that. I don't think there's anything that's like
Speaker 5: three hours of straight up cutscene or even anything on
Speaker 5: the level of like the end of MGS four, But
Speaker 5: you know it's broken up by bits of gameplay, but uh,
Speaker 5: it really goes places.
Speaker 3: I guess I'm curious then, you know, like with the
Speaker 3: story and just the game, do you think there's room
Speaker 3: for it? Do you think you want a death straining
Speaker 3: three or you think you know he's gonna move on?
Speaker 3: You want to see him move on more.
Speaker 1: Of this world.
Speaker 5: You know, he did that interview in GQ recently where
Speaker 5: he talked about like he really has to think about
Speaker 5: how many more games he has in him because he's
Speaker 5: all take three or four years now, and you know,
Speaker 5: he's a certain age and everything, and he has to
Speaker 5: really consider every project, and like considering there's OD and
Speaker 5: Phisiant that have already been announced, it's like, oh, right,
Speaker 5: I don't know if there's room for Like it does
Speaker 5: leave things in a way where it's like there's an
Speaker 5: interesting angle for a sequel or a third one, but
Speaker 5: I don't know as of right now. OD and Phisiant
Speaker 5: both seem far enough away to where it's like I'm
Speaker 5: just fine with those being the next ones, you know,
Speaker 5: and those both being new things is very very intriguing
Speaker 5: to me.
Speaker 1: You know, I haven't gone the chance to dip back
Speaker 1: into death straining too, but I absolutely adore this Garay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like it's such a way where like I not
Speaker 1: that I feel like I'm immune to Kojima's bullshit. I
Speaker 1: think before I replayed MGS five maybe two years ago,
Speaker 1: and then I after replaying it, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I think I get everything now. MGS five. I regret
Speaker 1: leaving that off of my like top ten of the century,
Speaker 1: but holy smokes, he's going for stuff here and then
Speaker 1: rediscovering Destraating one and now playing through Destraating two. With
Speaker 1: like the lens that I have. It is just insane bullshit.
Speaker 1: And I think Kochiba is one of those people that
Speaker 1: revels in the fact that he probably has some vision.
Speaker 1: Of course, he has a vision for the story that
Speaker 1: he's telling and the means that he's telling it, but
Speaker 1: he probably revels off of the fact that there are
Speaker 1: so many people pulling a different strings of like, no,
Speaker 1: this is what this means, that's what that means, this
Speaker 1: is what this is. But like the gameplay, it it's
Speaker 1: just something so meditative to kind of just zone out
Speaker 1: and walk. I saw a video of someone traversing the
Speaker 1: environment and that death training too. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to spoil anything, but Dan, you talked about the the
Speaker 1: coffin thing. Yeah, I love the coffin skateboard thing. I
Speaker 1: saw someone using that in conjunction with another item that
Speaker 1: you get in the game UH, and they were kind
Speaker 1: of just flying kind of.
Speaker 4: What I'm very curious about this.
Speaker 1: They were there obviously like breaking the game in in
Speaker 1: uh based off of using the two items in conjunction,
Speaker 1: but it was like, how are you doing this? And
Speaker 1: I don't know if Kajima intended it, but it is
Speaker 1: great that it is these two items, the metal coffin
Speaker 1: and then the other thing where this person is just flying.
Speaker 5: I mean that reminds me of like, you know, when
Speaker 5: Breath the Wild came out, and just like people were
Speaker 5: figuring out ways like let's use stasis and stand on
Speaker 5: a tree and fly across them.
Speaker 4: Like I love that shit. Like I think Breath the
Speaker 4: Wild is probably like the.
Speaker 5: Ultimate with that stuff, or here's the Kingdom too, But
Speaker 5: like the fact that some of that exists and Death
Speaker 5: Straining two is awesome, and you know, I'm done with
Speaker 5: it now. Bianca has been working on so I've been
Speaker 5: watching her and talking to her about it, and it's
Speaker 5: just there's different ways you can approach it. Like you know,
Speaker 5: with me, I would find random stuff on hills and
Speaker 5: stuff and I would just oh and trust cargo. What
Speaker 5: I'll get a few likes, somebody will take that or whatever.
Speaker 5: She is spending hours and hours every night just everything
Speaker 5: she finds. She is delivering everything she told me last night,
Speaker 5: She's like, it doesn't matter how far it is, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna get my likes, I'm gonna get my stars. She
Speaker 5: could leave Mexico any moment, and she's like I'm staying
Speaker 5: in Mexico until I have five stars with everything, and
Speaker 5: it's I don't know, there's something meditative and very very
Speaker 5: satisfying about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am curious for grub to get into it,
Speaker 1: because there's aspects of death Straining two that I feel
Speaker 1: like is right up is Ali in terms of like
Speaker 1: driving and like the mud and and just like traversal
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. For folks that are skeptical over death Straining
Speaker 1: two and may have had their reservations over Deathtraining one,
Speaker 1: Mike Noddy may be included, just give it. Just give
Speaker 1: it a shot, because it's a it's something else and Dan,
Speaker 1: I would love maybe next week if I can power
Speaker 1: through it to do some.
Speaker 5: Type of the spoiler cast, I'd beat it, and like
Speaker 5: I don't even know where I would start. It really
Speaker 5: reminds me of when I beat Meddle Year Solid two
Speaker 5: and it's like, boy, I don't know if I'd be
Speaker 5: able to explain this, Like now I think I can
Speaker 5: do it, but like you know, in two thousand and one,
Speaker 5: I don't think I under none of that was getting
Speaker 5: through the head.
Speaker 6: There the same way though it was just you had
Speaker 6: the same kind of like the last four hours, like
Speaker 6: the rest of the game, it's like you can kind
Speaker 6: of get it. The villains are over the top and
Speaker 6: anything like that. But then you're fighting the president on
Speaker 6: a fucking harrier and I'm glad he has the ability
Speaker 6: to stick the landing in some way.
Speaker 5: Well, and this is I honestly, I think the way
Speaker 5: they do this ending is better than MGS two's ending, because, like,
Speaker 5: I love what they're saying and doing with the end
Speaker 5: of MGS two, But the format is a lot of
Speaker 5: greenheads talking to each other, you know, it's a lot
Speaker 5: of that is like a lot of just like put
Speaker 5: it this way, I was taking a lot of screenshots
Speaker 5: on my PS five during those last few hours, like
Speaker 5: there is shit to look at in the last few
Speaker 5: hours here that you would not possibly predict.
Speaker 1: You highlighted this in the Quick Look Dan, and I
Speaker 1: didn't realize this when I was playing in my time
Speaker 1: with a game. But if you fail at a boss
Speaker 1: fight or encounter, you could just select the option pretend
Speaker 1: I want.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pretend you want, Like, all right, just move on
Speaker 4: to the cut.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 7: I like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So so that is pretty sick. You know.
Speaker 1: There are times with the original Death Stranding where I
Speaker 1: kind of feel like it was a little bit of
Speaker 1: a slog with some enemy encounters and I wish I
Speaker 1: could have just skipped it. But it's just hilarious to
Speaker 1: see that option.
Speaker 5: But there's also like way more varied boss fights in
Speaker 5: this one. I think, like you know, in DS one,
Speaker 5: there was a lot more of just like there's tar
Speaker 5: everywhere and there's a goofy thing that's mad at you,
Speaker 5: and like there's there's a few of those here, but
Speaker 5: there's deff only some variety for sure that I appreciated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, you know, the first game was pretty lonely,
Speaker 1: like a super isolated experience, and folks know me at
Speaker 1: this point, but like, I love a gang. I love
Speaker 1: having a motley crew to run around with. And the
Speaker 1: fact that Kachiba has convinced some top of the line
Speaker 1: actors to just like lend their likeness and just hang
Speaker 1: out in this weird ship is pretty pretty frickin' awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they're game for it.
Speaker 5: Like I love seeing all these interviews and stuff where
Speaker 5: like Norman Rita is describing what it's like, you know,
Speaker 5: to to work with Kajima, and he's like yeah, Kajima
Speaker 5: will be like, you hold the baby and then you
Speaker 5: cry and be like what am I crying about?
Speaker 4: And Kajima will be like, well, you know the.
Speaker 5: Strand and you know the you know the world, and
Speaker 5: this guy okay, I guess like the Strand?
Speaker 7: Of course, don't you know about this game?
Speaker 6: Is like how because I've been watching a few Terrence
Speaker 6: Malick movies and he's you did like The Thin Red
Speaker 6: Line and you did you know The New World and
Speaker 6: Treeabli and things like that, and every movie he makes
Speaker 6: sometimes has some actor coming out. For the New World
Speaker 6: it was Chrisopher Plumber and for Tree of Life it
Speaker 6: was Sean Penn. They said they shot like three movies
Speaker 6: worth of Seanpen and he's in it for like five minutes.
Speaker 6: He's apparently always pissed off. I'm curious, Like, I know,
Speaker 6: Death Stranding is probably way more intense kind of pipe
Speaker 6: production pipeline than a movie is, especially with Malach just
Speaker 6: going off through his own thing. But I'm curious if
Speaker 6: that I'll leave anybody on the cutting.
Speaker 7: Floor like or there was a big part. Yeah, I'm curious.
Speaker 6: I know most of these are kind of cameos unless
Speaker 6: you're part of the main cast, but I'm just curious
Speaker 6: if everybody just didn't work out.
Speaker 3: There are there are.
Speaker 5: Without saying specifics, there are characters that wind up being
Speaker 5: bigger deals than I thought they would be Throughout parts
Speaker 5: of this game that I thought was like, okay, is
Speaker 5: this is a name, this is this is a fun
Speaker 5: cameo thing. But it's like, Okay, actually this is more
Speaker 5: important than okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I think I think utilized everyone in a really
Speaker 5: great way. And obviously there're ones like George Miller and
Speaker 5: stuff that's just a likeness in the same way year
Speaker 5: in WD del Toro where it's like they're not doing mokeap,
Speaker 5: they're not doing the Boys or anything, but like it is,
Speaker 5: we'll just be like, that's Gerymad del Toro. That's the
Speaker 5: director of Drive, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: For uh, For as much as I'm enjoying guest Straining two,
Speaker 1: I can't help but have that like itch inside of
Speaker 1: me of like I wonder what the director's cut is
Speaker 1: gonna look like or be like, because it feels like
Speaker 1: Kojima was more sure of himself and the team had
Speaker 1: figured things out more of like how to formulate death
Speaker 1: Stranding two versus the original where it's like, Okay, here's
Speaker 1: all this stuff here, we can see to the weird
Speaker 1: things in the first one. Here's a gun if you
Speaker 1: want to just shoot things, there you go.
Speaker 5: That's a huge part of why this one, I think
Speaker 5: is so much more playable for someone like me. You know,
Speaker 5: it's like I think, you know again, watching Bianca play
Speaker 5: and like she's very stealthy and she's walked out. She's
Speaker 5: taking everyone out with the strand and all that stuff,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, oh boy, I'm approaching these like Fantom Pain.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm going in there.
Speaker 5: Maybe I'll make a watch tower, maybe I'll throw a
Speaker 5: doll man up to scope things out.
Speaker 4: But then I'm going in with.
Speaker 5: An assult rival, with an underbarrel grenade launcher, a trank
Speaker 5: grenade launcher. So it's, you know, it's healthy.
Speaker 1: That makes me like, Mike, you were so doll man coded.
Speaker 3: Though I know I'm going to try the game, right,
Speaker 3: I hope everyone knows I've dialed back the fuddy dysis
Speaker 3: the game actually came out, because I haven't played yet,
Speaker 3: so I don't know. I will get there, I'll give
Speaker 3: it a go, and I will give everyone a report
Speaker 3: on what I actually think about it.
Speaker 5: Okay, there's a particular ten second clip that I clipped
Speaker 5: from my PlayStation thing and I've been texting to friends
Speaker 5: that I know have beaten it, and it is just like,
Speaker 5: it's kind of the moment near the end of where
Speaker 5: it's like, okay, we're just going all the way here.
Speaker 4: Here's a very This won't make any.
Speaker 5: Sense out of context, but anyone who's beaten it, it's
Speaker 5: the part where it made me think of James Brown.
Speaker 5: That's when it was just like, oh, okay, we're off
Speaker 5: the rails, let's do it. There's a good god people
Speaker 5: would be it will know. I don't want to say
Speaker 5: much more, but it's a very James b oh.
Speaker 1: That just motivated me to get to just fast track everything.
Speaker 5: Billion guesses you wouldn't guess in what context the James
Speaker 5: Brown thing comes up.
Speaker 1: Uh, Okay, you know there's there's plenty of tar still
Speaker 1: in Death Stranding two, and it looks like a bunch
Speaker 1: of paint or ink on the floor and walls, which
Speaker 1: is appropriate because Mike Manatti, you have been playing Splatoon two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm actually just still playing through Splatoon single player campaigns.
Speaker 3: It's actually been my main switch to experience right now,
Speaker 3: because plasuon three had a big update to like look
Speaker 3: a lot better on the switch to. I think Splatoon
Speaker 3: two quite as that, but it's still a good looking game.
Speaker 3: But I know these are just kind of cozy and
Speaker 3: fun and simple. It's what's weird. This Platoon two campaign
Speaker 3: definitely not quite as good as three. The levels are
Speaker 3: a lot longer and more straightforward. I basically I'm playing
Speaker 3: this so that I can then go to do this
Speaker 3: Platoon two expansion, the Octox match, which I hear is
Speaker 3: maybe the best of them. Yeah, then I could go
Speaker 3: try the side order for Splatoon three. Yes, it's basically
Speaker 3: just my killing time to Bonanza And I don't know
Speaker 3: if you guys seen like there's metal people doing previews, yeah.
Speaker 5: And glowing, glowing, they're evoking the stuff you want to hear.
Speaker 5: But you want to hear Mario wattas, do you want
Speaker 5: to hear Red Faction Gorilla? That's the stuff people are
Speaker 5: Red Faction?
Speaker 3: Yeah. I saw I saw to like a two D
Speaker 3: section that just looked like Donkey Kong Country and they're
Speaker 3: just playing the music. Yes, that's cool, they're just playing
Speaker 3: the music. They're playing my favorite song from two, the
Speaker 3: uh gosh and a Sticker Bush Symphony, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: let's go. I'm gonna play the Heil out of this. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so you know, but maybe meanwhile, I I enjoy being
Speaker 3: in the Platoon solo campaign waiting room.
Speaker 5: I think I did the two Platoon two single player
Speaker 5: stuff and thought it was really good. So that is
Speaker 5: on my short list of things. And like, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm just looking for play on the Switch too right now.
Speaker 5: So that's that's on the shortlist for sure. I'm glad
Speaker 5: to hear it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, it's fine, it's fun. Uh.
Speaker 1: Speaking about shortlist this, I feel like due to a couple,
Speaker 1: not a couple, but like, uh, maybe a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, I may have willed this game into existence.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I have briefly checked out Persona five the Phantom X. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is the gotcha Persona and mobile games blow my
Speaker 1: mind or games that are designed for mobile just because
Speaker 1: I know that gen should impact and gosh, what are
Speaker 1: the other means?
Speaker 7: Contail Skyrail, hon Kai.
Speaker 3: Star Rail, Star Rail and the newer ones Endless zero.
Speaker 3: That's right, Endless Zone zero. All disease are here.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, these are full ass games. Like if
Speaker 1: I was not in this profession and I kind of
Speaker 1: just wanted like a flavor of a j RPG or
Speaker 1: like a hack and slash game, I could totally uh
Speaker 1: explore that in these these games. And in the brief
Speaker 1: time that are spent with Persona five the Phantom X,
Speaker 1: it does feel a little funky that it's like a
Speaker 1: supposed to be a grand sweeping Persona like story, but
Speaker 1: it still has gotcha elements. But in the time I've
Speaker 1: spent with it, I just keep thinking, Oh, this is
Speaker 1: just this is just a Persona game. How are they
Speaker 1: gonna make money off of this? That's how they got you, exactly,
Speaker 1: Matthew Rory. That's how they got you. And I've so
Speaker 1: far been not tempted to spin to win, but I
Speaker 1: do want to do a quick look for this this week.
Speaker 6: I do believe, if I'm not mistaken, that that game
Speaker 6: immediately went to like the top ten grossing games mobile
Speaker 6: games of like of the current moment. I think it
Speaker 6: immediately became like a billion dollar kind of revenue stream farm.
Speaker 6: So I could be playing that entirely out of my ass,
Speaker 6: but I think I saw that somewhere recently. No people
Speaker 6: are going to say I mean, I enjoyed a little
Speaker 6: of Ginchen that I played. My big problem with it
Speaker 6: was A and B would switched around and I couldn't
Speaker 6: get over that until they patch that through, and by
Speaker 6: that time it had already been out for a few months.
Speaker 6: But they seem like very high quality games for free
Speaker 6: if you don't want to worry about like getting your
Speaker 6: team super organized or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes me wonder what, like how our at
Speaker 1: lists divided the development team if they had like a
Speaker 1: smaller team working on this, or this was one of
Speaker 1: their bigger teams. If folks are looking for another gotcha game,
Speaker 1: I found another one that had been playing. I didn't
Speaker 1: put this on the run of show, but Ricci City
Speaker 1: is another Gotcha mong, Gotcha Majong game. And yeah, if
Speaker 1: if Mike didnner a take over the Monday mornings or
Speaker 1: the Monday evenings, we would have had Monday Morning Majong
Speaker 1: with Jan So we're safe for now speaking about jerrpgs,
Speaker 1: this is the most exciting development folks. I tuned in
Speaker 1: for this whole stream. I've been seeing the Blue Sky updates.
Speaker 1: Dan Reiker, you have been playing and enjoying Claire Obscure
Speaker 1: Expedition thirty three.
Speaker 5: I am excited to tell the internet about this game
Speaker 5: I found. Did you know that turn based RPGs can
Speaker 5: be very, very fun?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I've heard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really really good.
Speaker 2: I can't believe I beat you to the punch on
Speaker 2: this one. I never do. So you've been playing it, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm like almost dumb with it?
Speaker 4: Oh shit, okay, yeah it's uh.
Speaker 5: Look, it was something like I feel like enough people
Speaker 5: through Osmosis. I've just like people have been like very
Speaker 5: positive on it. It's like, oh, Dan, if there's ever
Speaker 5: one you're gonna like, it's this one. Because I like
Speaker 5: Martin Luigi, like Paper Mario, you know Mario all that stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they're right, this is I like the story, I like
Speaker 5: the style, I like the combat. I like every I
Speaker 5: like the running around. I like the cool overworld where
Speaker 5: it's almost like tilt ship guys running around. If I
Speaker 5: can turn into a big fat guy that can run
Speaker 5: over rocks. I like every single thing. But I think
Speaker 5: I started it up and I immediately like kind of
Speaker 5: the setup and the story and everything, and then my
Speaker 5: first fight was like I knew this game was very French.
Speaker 5: But then a fucking mine fights me first mine and
Speaker 5: then when I saw the animation of him like building
Speaker 5: the like wall up, Oh that looks really that's cool,
Speaker 5: Like this game's got a cool style to it, and
Speaker 5: that's killed this to get out of me. Actually I've
Speaker 5: run into two mimes in this game.
Speaker 4: Out of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, on.
Speaker 5: The stream I would with the VODs up on on
Speaker 5: the YouTube page, there was a boss I ran into there,
Speaker 5: uh and it whooped my ass the first time, to
Speaker 5: the point where it's like, man, I'm gon have to
Speaker 5: grind for a while here, and I think I maybe
Speaker 5: got one level up and I went back and I
Speaker 5: was like, ooh, actually, okay, I found a new way
Speaker 5: to kind of approach this and that's working a little better.
Speaker 5: And on the third time I beat them, and that
Speaker 5: is like that's an ideal you know, progression there, it's like, whoop,
Speaker 5: my ass learned a little bit beat them.
Speaker 3: It's so cool because like, yeah, you don't necessarily need
Speaker 3: to just grind little. It's not just a stats game
Speaker 3: because there's so much customization you do with the pictos
Speaker 3: and things like that, but so much of it is
Speaker 3: you could just proof force it if you get really
Speaker 3: good with the Perrys and the Dodges.
Speaker 5: And there's so much to learn, like everybody having their
Speaker 5: own systems here where it's like, okay, so I'm really
Speaker 5: learning that, Like with my l I want to do
Speaker 5: the virtuo stance that has so much fucking damage. Then
Speaker 5: I'm realizing like, okay, well if I use this person
Speaker 5: to mark them and then I'm using virtuos and then
Speaker 5: I'm doing shit, ten damage does not cost them much
Speaker 5: ap And now I've got cl in cl awesome, got
Speaker 5: that crazy scythe stuff and everything, and I'm like trying
Speaker 5: to wrap my head around like Okay, I'm certain to
Speaker 5: understand like the Foretel like load them up with Foretel
Speaker 5: and then consume it. But then it's like, okay, I
Speaker 5: gotta figure out the sun phase and moonface stuff and
Speaker 5: how to trigger twilight phase and utilize that. Like there's
Speaker 5: a lot of just systems that you're learning, and then
Speaker 5: you figure once you've learned them, it's like, well, now
Speaker 5: how does this playoff of this? And how am I
Speaker 5: gonna like And then when it all clicks, it's just
Speaker 5: like holy shit, it is so satisfying. I'm into every
Speaker 5: cut scene I am into where the story is going.
Speaker 5: Characters are fantastic, this growth, the counters.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing.
Speaker 5: I will never fucking dodge in this game. I will
Speaker 5: not die. Oh, dodge and then you'll learn the timing. No, no, no,
Speaker 5: I'm learning. I'm fucking parrying every fucking thing. And if
Speaker 5: I fail, that's fine. I'm gonna go back there and
Speaker 5: I'm know the timing a little better the next time.
Speaker 5: And if you get the bing bing bing that that
Speaker 5: parry and you do the everyone goes out there and
Speaker 5: hits it and takes a shield down or something. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's just like I'm so fucking hyped about it.
Speaker 2: Aren't There certain things you have to dodge.
Speaker 4: I will Okay, the one thing, I will die.
Speaker 5: Just sometimes you'll kill one of those those big fuckers
Speaker 5: and they'll like the fall on you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look he's already dead.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: I got right, But the power can give you an
Speaker 2: ap point.
Speaker 3: But if the guy's gonna drop on you.
Speaker 2: Right well, or he dies right either right. Yeah, this
Speaker 2: is great. I'm happy to hear it. I I mean,
Speaker 2: even for me, where I only have like a very
Speaker 2: surface uh comprehension of like all of their systems, where
Speaker 2: like the foretail stuff, I'm like, okay, it's dark out,
Speaker 2: it's light out whatever, Like even that stuff, you can
Speaker 2: kind of like, uh, you know, just sort of, I
Speaker 2: don't know, get your make your way through without spending
Speaker 2: too much time obsessing over.
Speaker 3: The rocket and stuff. Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's great that there is that kind of
Speaker 2: layered complexity to it, that all these separate systems on
Speaker 2: top of systems, and yeah, the game fucking.
Speaker 6: Rules man after question, I didn't make anybody mad on
Speaker 6: bo guy, but I did let people know that I
Speaker 6: uninstalled this as soon as the first tutorial came up
Speaker 6: with parrying because I hate parrying so much.
Speaker 7: Is there a slider for making that easy?
Speaker 5: Or let me let me touch on that too, because
Speaker 5: like I per I know that's a big controversy right now,
Speaker 5: people talking about paying and like Perry slop I in
Speaker 5: like from games and especially like this is why I
Speaker 5: couldn't do Securo. You can't just you know, cheese it
Speaker 5: by leveling up, Like that's how I beat Bloodborne, That's
Speaker 5: how we get Eldon. The ring is I just get
Speaker 5: way overpowered. Second row is like you gotta fucking learn
Speaker 5: how to pair yeah, And I always struggle with that
Speaker 5: and from games, and I never was a pery guy
Speaker 5: in from because it's like, I think there is something
Speaker 5: about like there's other things to there's positioning and the
Speaker 5: camera and there's there's a lot more going on than
Speaker 5: just hitting a button at the right time, And so
Speaker 5: I always sucked at at.
Speaker 4: Parrying in those.
Speaker 5: This one it's literally like you're watching the thing and
Speaker 5: once you kind of owe the audio cue or the
Speaker 5: visual cue or something, all you got to do is
Speaker 5: hover your finger over that RB and just time it.
Speaker 5: It's not anything else like, And I'm just saying that
Speaker 5: it's one who's not great at pairing. I know, like
Speaker 5: people get awesome at it, and from games I struggle
Speaker 5: with it. I don't struggle as much. I think it's
Speaker 5: actually kind of a nice balance.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 6: Now I really appreciate the games that have I forget
Speaker 6: which game I was playing, I think I do. Maybe
Speaker 6: somebody's gonna talk about Doom to do Doom game, but
Speaker 6: that has a pairing clider like sensitivity, so you can
Speaker 6: just make it as big as you want, and the
Speaker 6: pairing is pretty easy to do.
Speaker 3: I can't remember there's a slider in this one, but
Speaker 3: there's definitely like a story I got a story mode
Speaker 3: where the window is much bigger.
Speaker 4: Yeah, says here.
Speaker 5: They updated the game for story mode, making raising okay,
Speaker 5: the perry windows wider story mode.
Speaker 2: That's huge. I think I've noticed that when I go
Speaker 2: from playing on my PC to playing in the family
Speaker 2: room where I have a PC connected to a television,
Speaker 2: I have worse timing on that than I do here.
Speaker 2: And it's probably an input leg thing.
Speaker 6: That's I never got good at rock bands, Like I
Speaker 6: always play a guitar here too, on a CRT, and
Speaker 6: even with the lack adjustment, it just never clicked for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like that's the I I kind of wish,
Speaker 2: like I thought I had convinced myself, and maybe it
Speaker 2: was just sort of like, you know, I'm kind of
Speaker 2: like you know, placebo effect, But I was convinced that,
Speaker 2: like you know, adding points into the luck category was
Speaker 2: like somehow or defense was like somehow increasing my parry juice.
Speaker 2: But that sort of remains to be seen. I do
Speaker 2: think the one issue I have with the battling and
Speaker 2: the parrying is that sometimes when an enemy's turn to
Speaker 2: attack happens, the camera angle is very sort of like
Speaker 2: unforgiving and maybe even awkward. You're unsure as to who
Speaker 2: in your team is receiving the attack. I kind of
Speaker 2: like don't know right away. I find that to be
Speaker 2: maybe more backloaded in the second half of the game
Speaker 2: where I find it to be an issue. But but yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, god damn, I just I'm at a point
Speaker 2: right now where I'm like, it's like every it's I
Speaker 2: could tell they're just juicing me up for like the
Speaker 2: last thing, and I'm just I'm running into fools like
Speaker 2: left and right, and I'm just like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: Monoco's like sixty eight right now, Like what are we doing?
Speaker 2: We had like let me do this painter shit, like
Speaker 2: let me get to the to the end or whatever
Speaker 2: it is. I don't know, I haven't done it yet,
Speaker 2: but I love it. I love every second of it.
Speaker 2: It is tremendous.
Speaker 5: It's kind of incredible how how good the story is
Speaker 5: without being like, you know, cause I've tried to start
Speaker 5: way more j RPGs and turn based RPGs than i've finished,
Speaker 5: and a lot of times it's just like, you know,
Speaker 5: two hours in, it's like I don't fucking care about
Speaker 5: this kingdom and it's hierarchy or whatever like or what
Speaker 5: the magic is like this you get into it, like
Speaker 5: people kind of warn me, Oh, it's a little talking
Speaker 5: at the beginning.
Speaker 4: It's not even that bad. It establishes like here's the deal.
Speaker 5: Okay, well we're gonna die when we're this age, and
Speaker 5: she's gonna paint the thing, and then we send these
Speaker 5: expeditions out and then the other stuff like they build
Speaker 5: so much with like finding the diaries of the previous
Speaker 5: expeditions and everything, and all the conversations at the campfire
Speaker 5: and everything. They all just get their shit in and
Speaker 5: get out. And it's very economical with that, which I appreciate.
Speaker 3: I should not be this happy about another person liking
Speaker 3: a game, but my heart is full. This is good.
Speaker 4: It's just a great game. There's no denying.
Speaker 2: And he's gonna blow through it because that's the kind
Speaker 2: of freak he is, right, and so that means we
Speaker 2: can have our Yeah, there's I have so many questions
Speaker 2: still about like some of the things that they kind
Speaker 2: of established to be true in the lore and then
Speaker 2: you like bump into a direct contradiction to what they
Speaker 2: just sort of established, and I'm.
Speaker 8: Likewown to you guys, like you know, and I love
Speaker 8: everything about it, but there is stuff because you know,
Speaker 8: I obviously suspend my disbelief and I want to be
Speaker 8: up in the lore, and but then I'll see things
Speaker 8: that I'm just like, I don't understand why you're doing this.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: You just told me this can't happen, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: and and all the Mansion ship. I just don't know
Speaker 2: what's happening there. Well, maybe I'm assuming I'll get there's
Speaker 2: gotta be some kind of narrative payoff, right, So.
Speaker 3: Jeff Grubson in our chat, I might refuse to play
Speaker 3: it now just to be a real ship during the
Speaker 3: Game of the Year. If he's a hardliner, like.
Speaker 2: Do say something where it's like guarantee this is gonna
Speaker 2: be uh to me?
Speaker 3: Because I was like I was talking about the Game
Speaker 3: Awards specifically where I said I think Death Training two
Speaker 3: is a front runner. Not because I think he Lea
Speaker 3: does funny business. I think like people just associate death
Speaker 3: strand it's the same. Do you mean what it is good?
Speaker 3: It takes two principle, right, were that like one Game
Speaker 3: of the Year at the Game Wars because it's associated
Speaker 3: with the game Awards and just but people are voting,
Speaker 3: it's kind of like seems to be my number two
Speaker 3: or number three pick, and it's a lot of those.
Speaker 2: But that's where a split fiction, right has like an
Speaker 2: underdog kind of chance where it's like, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 4: Wins this year.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna win, I know, but it's funny because
Speaker 2: split fiction is so much better than it takes two. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but yeah, this is this.
Speaker 5: Is turning out to be a very like right now,
Speaker 5: I think it's blueprints Destranding two and thirty three that
Speaker 5: are like, boy, these.
Speaker 3: Are all going to be still rips.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's still Metroid Prime for Donkey Kong, right right, gosh.
Speaker 1: I also want to check out more of Night Rain,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to team up with Randos maybe something.
Speaker 3: It's so weird because it seems like ours, like people
Speaker 3: in our circle don't talk about that game anymore, which
Speaker 3: also makes you feel like, oh, abust the fallen Off.
Speaker 3: They look at the Steam charts, it's still like one
Speaker 3: hundred thousand people are playing it, so it's doing really well.
Speaker 3: It's just kind of I don't know, I'm interesting to
Speaker 3: talk about as a game.
Speaker 1: Sure, I mean, like, you know, it's it's like the
Speaker 1: Battle Royal problem right where it's like, yeah, you can
Speaker 1: only talk about so many good rounds or wins that
Speaker 1: you've had based off of like night Rain. And I
Speaker 1: feel from my loose following of the scene or the
Speaker 1: meta right now is that there is kind of a
Speaker 1: streamlined way to go about doing going through the nights
Speaker 1: in night Rain now that it may just be less
Speaker 1: interesting for people it's been Max.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no thinking about Game of the Year here, and
Speaker 5: I just mentioned Blueprints as one of my top three.
Speaker 5: I think something that's going to hurt Blueprints when it
Speaker 5: comes time to Game of the Year is that even
Speaker 5: the people who loved it the most, and I consider
Speaker 5: myself someone.
Speaker 4: Who love love, love that yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It goes so so deep into like if you want to,
Speaker 5: like everyone has that moment kind of halfway through the game,
Speaker 5: or you know, you could be twenty thirty hours in
Speaker 5: where you're like, oh my god, I'm just discovering things
Speaker 5: left and right, and then you beat the game, you
Speaker 5: see credits and it's like, well there's so much more,
Speaker 5: and it goes so so deep that like, I don't
Speaker 5: know if I've really met anyone who's done all things
Speaker 5: like I need to figure out the whole history of
Speaker 5: this this region and put together everything, and like there,
Speaker 5: I don't know anyone who didn't end the game by
Speaker 5: just being like all right, I think I've Yeah, I've
Speaker 5: gone as far as I want to go with this. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, and like that's kind of like a versus
Speaker 5: like credits roll after a big boss fight, and some
Speaker 5: are like Destranting two is throwing a bunch of crazy
Speaker 5: shit at you for hours and then you're like gay Bravo.
Speaker 5: Blueprints is kind of the more like Okay, I think
Speaker 5: I've I think I'm done. I love that game, but
Speaker 5: I think I'm done.
Speaker 3: You know, there's so many people in that kind of
Speaker 3: like completionist realm out right, and I think like they
Speaker 3: are a little weird out by blueprintces. Like you know,
Speaker 3: beating the game is like forty percent of the effort
Speaker 3: and there's like so much more beyond that. But you know,
Speaker 3: I it's still super high up there. Mee, I don't
Speaker 3: want to beat Blue Sprints at some point, Yeah, get
Speaker 3: a race on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Matthew Rewery, have you been playing anything that you
Speaker 1: want to talk about?
Speaker 6: Like I said, I've've been getting back in a little streaming.
Speaker 6: I did US stream last week we did I did.
Speaker 6: I am going to beat Splunky two's secret stuff this year.
Speaker 7: I've made it my goal. I've anybody recalled.
Speaker 6: I said I was going to beat Splunky two this year,
Speaker 6: just the regular game, and I thought I was going
Speaker 6: to take me months, and I did the first time
Speaker 6: I tried it earlier, like March.
Speaker 7: You can find that I'm on a YouTube channel.
Speaker 6: But now there's like this seventeen step process of getting
Speaker 6: to the hidden Cosmic Ocean and Splunky two, and I've
Speaker 6: made it my goal going to do it this year.
Speaker 6: Twitch dot tv dot Matthew doc Phail's gesture, I guess,
Speaker 6: and then a lot of Division two. Still Division two.
Speaker 6: I still play pretty much every day. I've been a
Speaker 6: big resurgence and support for that game. Like Massive Games
Speaker 6: is Massive Machine, it's massive putting out a lot of content,
Speaker 6: put on a dealc not too long ago, Battle for Brooklyn,
Speaker 6: and this one is just kind of numbers to go
Speaker 6: up because I have like pretty much every exotic and
Speaker 6: I've done everything in the game. But I just still
Speaker 6: find the way that game plays to be really really fun.
Speaker 6: So it's kind of my meat and potatoes game still
Speaker 6: Magic the Gathering. I'm kind of set in my ways
Speaker 6: at this point, and then I do need to get
Speaker 6: back into Blue Blueprints as well. I have an idea
Speaker 6: for a weird streaming series with all these weird epic
Speaker 6: games that get added to my account on Epic. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I've been I've been sicking of the meat and potatoes lately,
Speaker 6: but like you said, mostly reading a lot while I've.
Speaker 7: Been looking for work. Like I just kind of I
Speaker 7: enjoy reading a lot more than video games right now.
Speaker 6: But still time in my heart for the old, the
Speaker 6: old Country.
Speaker 1: Matthew Rory. I need to tell you that I thought
Speaker 1: of you. I think last years Games Calm because I
Speaker 1: sat in on a demo or presentation for a Dying
Speaker 1: Light to update. Yeah. I couldn't folk the whole time
Speaker 1: because I was just thinking what what Rory would think
Speaker 1: of this?
Speaker 7: I will probably love it.
Speaker 6: They're doing a new Dying Light, I want to say,
Speaker 6: or are they still making deal c for Dying Light too?
Speaker 7: I think I don't know.
Speaker 3: There's a new one Dying Light the Beast or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the one, I said. Okay, how was it yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It reminded me of that Sonic the
Speaker 1: Hedgehog game where he turns into a wereg oh unleas
Speaker 1: unleast Yeah, yes.
Speaker 6: Did you and I do that stream or rebeat Dying
Speaker 6: Light too? And how ridiculous it was at the end
Speaker 6: of that game, like it was I don't know if
Speaker 6: it was you or just be solo with a guest
Speaker 6: or something like that, but that was a ridiculous ending
Speaker 6: to a game, like really put off the rest of
Speaker 6: the game, kind of a you're basically fighting like a
Speaker 6: Goku level of Superman or something like that.
Speaker 7: But it might not have in you maybe to me,
Speaker 7: and I guess I forget. I'm pretty sure it was
Speaker 7: a giant bam.
Speaker 1: Though I remember watching you fight off hordes of zombies.
Speaker 1: Maybe not in Dying Light? What was or it might
Speaker 1: have been Days Gone?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, those were Days Gone. I also really
Speaker 6: enjoyed that game. I'm surprisedly remastered it for PS five,
Speaker 6: but if you haven't played, it's pretty decent.
Speaker 1: I would like God this year this year has been
Speaker 1: pretty good for games. H Yeah, I love that little check.
Speaker 3: In so I first halfway through let's go oh my.
Speaker 1: Gosh, okay, bets here right now before we talk about
Speaker 1: the last game on the list. Are we going to
Speaker 1: see spoon Heaven this year?
Speaker 4: Yeah? They said yeah.
Speaker 2: Today Xbox Rock ally depends on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this year, Matthew, we're talking about God, I don't remember.
Speaker 3: Of the game.
Speaker 1: You You enjoyed Hollow Night right, the first one?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got really far into that on my switch.
Speaker 6: I didn't ever beat it. I got past the three
Speaker 6: dudes at the bottom of that long vertical spot, and
Speaker 6: I kind of lost a little.
Speaker 1: Bit, but I did.
Speaker 6: I've tried to replay it a few times. It's just
Speaker 6: the early game like map finding stuff is really annoying.
Speaker 6: We don't have a mini map. I am looking forward
Speaker 6: to Silk Song though, but yeah, All the Night. It's
Speaker 6: a great game. I wish I could go back and
Speaker 6: finish it, but it's kind of a lost track and
Speaker 6: I started all over.
Speaker 1: Fantastic, fantastic last game I have here on the list,
Speaker 1: Mike Elevator Action Invasion, Yeah, so what.
Speaker 3: I yeah, I know, I know. I was actually taken
Speaker 3: to a cool arcade in Orlando called Arcade Monsters. Uh
Speaker 3: so I was checking all sorts of things. One of
Speaker 3: the more fun games though, Is this modern? Remember Elevator Action? Yeah,
Speaker 3: they made they made a new one. It's just more
Speaker 3: of a traditional gallery shooter. You have the guns with
Speaker 3: a ton of kickback. I think it's supposed to actually
Speaker 3: have elevator doors that open it closed on the screen,
Speaker 3: but that wasn't working. But uh, it was basically like
Speaker 3: they made a House of the Dead. But with Elevator Action,
Speaker 3: it's always funny because you're like in a building, you're
Speaker 3: fighting a boss or something or something taught to you,
Speaker 3: and then it always like up up to the bilding
Speaker 3: and it's like if only there was an elevator, Like,
Speaker 3: how can we take care of so you get the elevator.
Speaker 3: It did do one dy thing though that I liked,
Speaker 3: where if you are both kind of shooting within the
Speaker 3: general area, a circle happens around your bullet spots. It's
Speaker 3: kind of double damage, so you're it sentitized to like
Speaker 3: kind of be targeting the same things in it. And
Speaker 3: I thought that aspect of it was pretty fun. But
Speaker 3: besides that, there's just all sorts of wroth, you know,
Speaker 3: god bless roth rills.
Speaker 1: Do you know what?
Speaker 3: People making interesting new arcade games because they had like
Speaker 3: the roth Rills NBA Jam. It was just NBA Jam
Speaker 3: and that was fun. Like the roth Rills Motorcycle game
Speaker 3: that's basically just cruising blast on a motorcycle and that
Speaker 3: was fun too. They also had god the weird Sega
Speaker 3: Racing series Initial D or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's like, you know, it looks like, you know,
Speaker 3: one of their Daytona things or whatever, but it's a
Speaker 3: story based game and it's only in Japanese. So I'm
Speaker 3: playing this story based Japanese racing game in like the
Speaker 3: full out like car Machine and everything. That was a
Speaker 3: fun time.
Speaker 5: And I didn't know they made an NBA Jam NBA Superstars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. It's just an NBA Jam and it
Speaker 3: was super fun.
Speaker 4: I want to play this great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great. I mean I assume every Dave and
Speaker 3: Busters in the world is gonna buy that.
Speaker 1: Sure, there wou When when you all go to an
Speaker 1: arcade or you know, like a Dave and Busters round one,
Speaker 1: do the employees get weird about I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys want up recording it or taking pictures, but like,
Speaker 1: do they get weird about that?
Speaker 3: For y'all? About why do they get weird about what.
Speaker 1: Like recording like the game, like recording a friend. I
Speaker 1: don't whatever think.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think that's happened.
Speaker 1: Because I went to a round one yesterday. I was
Speaker 1: dropping off a family member and then I was like, wow, well,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a couple of crane games here I
Speaker 1: might as well partake. And I had just like I
Speaker 1: had the OSMO on me, and then I was just
Speaker 1: like recording myself doing it. And then like an employee
Speaker 1: comes to me and like they're the most gen z
Speaker 1: person in the world. I thought they were gonna call
Speaker 1: me unk and then they just say like, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't record the crane games.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I can see that, Please put it away.
Speaker 6: I believe that, Yeah, because it can be they can
Speaker 6: be manipulated of them. I have like trends because aren't
Speaker 6: they basically like saw machines or like.
Speaker 7: One out of every five designed to market.
Speaker 2: I think you're.
Speaker 6: Right, so that could be you're not allowed to recording
Speaker 6: a casino, and that's the most casino like game of
Speaker 6: you know all.
Speaker 2: I think Rory's right on the nose here.
Speaker 3: I don't want you to expose the scam.
Speaker 7: Yes, crane crane games are I've I've learned to stay away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had a lot of pinball there back lare
Speaker 3: on free play, so that was exciting.
Speaker 2: But that is exciting. I don't really get sick of that.
Speaker 2: I usually have to be dragged away from that kind
Speaker 2: of situation. So it's sort of a mixed subject for me.
Speaker 6: You know what, I would appreciate a place that has pinball,
Speaker 6: even if it's paid, but has those little screws in
Speaker 6: the back all the way down instead of all the
Speaker 6: way up, so that goes a little slower and I
Speaker 6: could play a little better, a little longer, because every
Speaker 6: every pinball machine has those little screws on the back
Speaker 6: that goes up and down for height, and at the
Speaker 6: max height there's just way too fast for me.
Speaker 4: I'm fortunate.
Speaker 2: Well, you're supposed to have it calibrated to a certain degree.
Speaker 2: I believe it is like seven degrees.
Speaker 3: I want to say, I never knew about these screws,
Speaker 3: just all standard.
Speaker 7: Look at the back of a pinball machine. Sometimes I
Speaker 7: see one, Yeah, that goes up.
Speaker 2: Now the legs they have them on all four legs.
Speaker 2: They're these sort of like adjustable height pillars.
Speaker 4: Did you make it like a forty five degree angle.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you could be a little shallower than most of
Speaker 6: the way the bars have them set up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: They are. I do believe, and you know, maybe I'm
Speaker 2: not one hundred percent accurate here, but I do believe
Speaker 2: there is like a certain universally agreed upon angle that
Speaker 2: all pinball machines is sort of be sitting at. It
Speaker 2: makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that being said, no one will stop me from
Speaker 1: playing great games. I did win at two of them,
Speaker 1: and I only spent eight dollars.
Speaker 2: That's not bad. Yeah, and you were entertained.
Speaker 1: I was entertained. I was like, I'm very good at
Speaker 1: this and I wanted to put it up on the
Speaker 1: GB Socials until this young man told me I couldn't.
Speaker 3: So should you should have? Do you know who I
Speaker 3: am them?
Speaker 6: I was asked not to take a picture of my
Speaker 6: dog the other day, and I was like, do you
Speaker 6: know my whole deal?
Speaker 7: It's my whole deal, dude.
Speaker 6: It was really weird because we were like outside on
Speaker 6: the street at a bar a patio and I was
Speaker 6: just like, Oh, your dog's a really cute and it
Speaker 6: wasn't really that cute, and I was just like taking
Speaker 6: a picture of it, like, please, don't take the pictures
Speaker 6: of the dog. Likes totally fine for me to pet
Speaker 6: it and like say hi to it and everything else.
Speaker 6: And I was just like, are you worried I'm gonna
Speaker 6: take your ig views or something like. It wasn't like
Speaker 6: don't take pictures of us. It was specifically not the dog.
Speaker 6: And I was very weirded out by it. Very nice
Speaker 6: guy apart from that, but it was like, I don't
Speaker 6: know your dogs will have bodily autonomy?
Speaker 7: Do they not? The way I touch him?
Speaker 2: That's right, folks. And with that, we're gonna take quick breaking.
Speaker 1: Break and Mike Manatty will be back with the news. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's fine, it's fine. You know what, Matthew Rory. You
Speaker 1: can take all the pictures of any dog I am near,
Speaker 1: and we should get Yes, I'll bring my pup over
Speaker 1: faded to black. No, that was a that was a
Speaker 1: good lift. That was that was very impressive. Thoughts here, Well,
Speaker 1: that's the breaking news story. Penny has returned home to
Speaker 1: Mike Manatti's home. Uh, his mom has returned his stream deck.
Speaker 1: Now what do we do?
Speaker 2: That's what I call my dog?
Speaker 1: You need the news? I can look at this docum. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Dan takeaway. Start with the first news story that Mike
Speaker 1: has written out here.
Speaker 5: Okay, actually I put together the news every week and
Speaker 5: he reads it. But I can I can do I
Speaker 5: can actually read it here if we want.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Former Blizzard president and Xbox Exact says Xbox needs to
Speaker 5: pick their lane and stick to it. That's coming from
Speaker 5: Chris Scullion at VGC, that's right. Former Blizzard president Mike
Speaker 5: Yabara says Xbox should decide what its identity should be
Speaker 5: going forward instead of trying to be a jack of
Speaker 5: all trades. You Saie Yabarra. He served various roles in
Speaker 5: Microsoft for twenty years. It culminated in a role as
Speaker 5: corporate vice president on Xbox Live and Xbox Campas before
Speaker 5: becoming Blizzard president for three years. He took to x
Speaker 5: to give his views on Xbox's current situation. It's tough
Speaker 5: to see Xbox confused about who it is and what
Speaker 5: it should be. Youbora wrote, some great people there. Still
Speaker 5: they need to figure out what needs to Mike take
Speaker 5: it about it.
Speaker 4: He's back.
Speaker 3: They have to figure out what needs to change and fast.
Speaker 3: Yobar continued, I'm a big fan and will always bleed
Speaker 3: green checking the team off from the sidelines. Pick your
Speaker 3: lane and stick to it, as by Fall or what
Speaker 3: he thinks xboxould do should do. Your Bar said he
Speaker 3: felt it should focus on being a publisher rather than
Speaker 3: a console manufacturer. I always got weird vibes from your
Speaker 3: Bar during his brief stint at Blizzard Entertainment there for
Speaker 3: a few years. Yeah you hate him, right, No, it
Speaker 3: hates a strong word, but the vibes were a little
Speaker 3: bit with weird. Yeah. Yeah, So it's one of those things.
Speaker 3: It's like I don't know if he's saying anything that's
Speaker 3: super intry here. I don't know why he's saying anything
Speaker 3: at all though who asked him?
Speaker 2: But that's my point, Like it's like, okay, buddy, thanks
Speaker 2: for like the uh, you know, unique insight that only
Speaker 2: you could somehow provide about a thing that everyone fucking
Speaker 2: knows exactly.
Speaker 3: Like it's I don't know if it's burning bridges. But
Speaker 3: I can't see how this helps him at all.
Speaker 7: I don't know what he even means.
Speaker 6: Like they have so many studios and so many different
Speaker 6: developing teams, Like what are they supposed to focus on?
Speaker 7: Like one genre or something like that, Like there.
Speaker 3: He means I think he means uh, Because so you know,
Speaker 3: they are still making a new console, and they are
Speaker 3: partnering with rog Gley for a portable. They're putting their
Speaker 3: name on a quest. Now the thing is the rog
Speaker 3: Atli thing in that Quest thing. Those are very low
Speaker 3: risk investments for them, right, they aren't making those machines
Speaker 3: they're putting They're slapping an Xbox logo on it and
Speaker 3: like some software shell.
Speaker 1: Right when did they announce the whole Meta Quest partnership
Speaker 1: Because that just came out of nowhere for me, like
Speaker 1: last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like that was the straw that broke
Speaker 2: the camel's back. Thoughfore the impetus of this conversation. Sure,
Speaker 2: right like after you see that happen, you're like, okay,
Speaker 2: they're doing Xbox, you know this kind of okay, Well
Speaker 2: maybe they are strangled spreading themselves a little tooth in,
Speaker 2: but still.
Speaker 7: Happened today. Like I thought today was going to be
Speaker 7: like a huge brown of layoffs.
Speaker 3: Haven't seen There are supposed to be a ton of
Speaker 3: layoffs at Microsoft, and we are expecting them to impact
Speaker 3: Xbox this time around. I haven't seen anything about those
Speaker 3: going happening now.
Speaker 6: It looks like Blue Sky today. Maybe there's a bunch
Speaker 6: of LinkedIn got Olino's LinkedIn. Whenever anything happens for me
Speaker 6: is always like oh shit, right, believe.
Speaker 2: It's a godless place, not fun.
Speaker 3: I believe the people are saying turn ten. It's looking
Speaker 3: like they might be shut down. Who does the votes
Speaker 3: forts of motorsport games? Not her Rizon the forts of Motorsports.
Speaker 7: There, Brian Meckburg. I don't know if he's still there
Speaker 7: or not.
Speaker 3: I think he moved on, but yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 3: think clearly the you know, the publishing stuff is going
Speaker 3: to be important for Xbox. They're not abandoning the consoles yet.
Speaker 3: We still none of us really know what that next
Speaker 3: console is going to look like. We're hearing some things
Speaker 3: about that. Let's see what that is and how really
Speaker 3: invested in it they are. Maybe it's the last Xbox
Speaker 3: I don't know. But they're definitely gonna be making money
Speaker 3: by selling Call of Duty and Halo and Gears of
Speaker 3: War on every console including PlayStation. All right, Ninteito nots
Speaker 3: to switch one price increases in Canada amid us train tension.
Speaker 3: This is from Andy Robinson a VGC and again this
Speaker 3: is concerning switch one stuff, not switch to. Nintendo is
Speaker 3: referred to eraise prices for many of its products and
Speaker 3: services in Canada due to market conditions. Affected products include
Speaker 3: the Nintendo Switch O end model, the normal Switch, switch light,
Speaker 3: physical and digital switch games, and Switch accessories. Other Nintendo products,
Speaker 3: including a mebo and Switch online memberships also see price increases.
Speaker 3: Nintendo said to switch you, along with the successor software,
Speaker 3: remain at their current price points. New pricing information will
Speaker 3: be shared on the Nintendo Canada website on August first. Gosh,
Speaker 3: the switch one raising prices for that thing at a
Speaker 3: time where it's it's it's wild because normally the old
Speaker 3: stuff gets cheaper when you think how it works.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is this It is this part of Nintendo just
Speaker 1: wanting to increase bang for their buck of like, hey,
Speaker 1: we want to clear all these.
Speaker 2: It's because of the weird trade tension.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, it's real. Quicks, come down to that.
Speaker 1: Real quick tand away from video games.
Speaker 2: Jesus you get political.
Speaker 1: No, I've been radicalized. These motherfuckers are increasing the cost
Speaker 1: and lowering the quality of my fucking coffee.
Speaker 6: I've heard what I've heard everybody's complaining about Dutch Brothers
Speaker 6: and I hate coffee, but I've been hearing a lot
Speaker 6: of this going around, Like.
Speaker 2: Wait, what's happening, Jen, what's happening on the ground there?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, the beans are stuck on the boats
Speaker 1: back all are so the freshness is like the overall quality,
Speaker 1: it's just sitting there.
Speaker 2: They're getting stale.
Speaker 1: Note whenever I do the bloom of any bag of coffee,
Speaker 1: and I circulate around a bunch of different local roasters, scout,
Speaker 1: I know I'm getting worked up. It's okay, Daddy's okay.
Speaker 1: But like it's okay any of these local roasteries. Like
Speaker 1: I'm talking to the to the homies and they're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: like this bag of green beans, like it's just been
Speaker 1: sitting here, but we got a roast anyway because we
Speaker 1: got orders to fulfill. Wow, it's fudged up. Fuck you
Speaker 1: tear rips and you know Trump obviously bitch, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: dumb bitch anyway, Sorry, Mike, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Oh oh good, next up here. Donkey Kunk Bananza developer
Speaker 3: finally confirmed by Nintendo, sparking questions over when Switch twos
Speaker 3: three d Mile will Arrive. This is by Tom Phillips
Speaker 3: at IGN. The title is finally confirmed to developed the
Speaker 3: team behind Donkey Kunk Bananas but Bananas Bonanza, and as
Speaker 3: many fans had suspected, the upcoming switch to Blockbuster is
Speaker 3: being made by the team who previously worked on Super Mayo.
Speaker 3: Otists what presentation affected by a g and ahead of
Speaker 3: a new Donkey Kunk Bananza hands on preview and title
Speaker 3: said that the same staff he worked on honestly also
Speaker 3: developed this new DK title. The confimation comes after Nintendo
Speaker 3: previously held off from stating which of its teams were
Speaker 3: behind the game, even after Bonanza was playable publicly at
Speaker 3: the switch Tos global launch tour. I'm not surprised, but
Speaker 3: there were there were some holdouts there who uh were
Speaker 3: still somewhat skeptical that this could possibly be or that
Speaker 3: this team had to be just straight up split off
Speaker 3: and it was a new team with maybe some veterans
Speaker 3: from that Odyssey team. But no, this is the next
Speaker 3: game from the people who made Super Mario Odyssey. It's
Speaker 3: not surprising. Are any of you worried now about what
Speaker 3: this means for when we're going to get that three
Speaker 3: D Mario game?
Speaker 5: No, I mean, no way, they've just been it's been
Speaker 5: on the back burner. Oh, we'll get to that after
Speaker 5: Donkey Kong. Like, I'm sure it's well on the way,
Speaker 5: and I'm sure it's going to be great. I don't
Speaker 5: know how they operate with their teams or whatever, but
Speaker 5: they're not gonna let Mario be like some B team product.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: No, no, but the timing is pretty Wait another year
Speaker 4: or two, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, there are some people who were like, oh,
Speaker 3: maybe we're still getting a three D Mario game this year.
Speaker 3: That seems less likely. And I will say, you know,
Speaker 3: some people like, well maybe next year.
Speaker 2: Maybe.
Speaker 3: I do think some people maybe need to get prepared
Speaker 3: for the potential of no three D Mario till twenty
Speaker 3: twenty seven or.
Speaker 2: And I do think people forget. I know, it's the
Speaker 2: difference between two and three D, but like there is
Speaker 2: maybe some sort of I don't know, reasoning of like, well,
Speaker 2: you got your wonder, you got your Mario fixed with
Speaker 2: something it wasn't the three D one.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I mean to.
Speaker 5: Me, it's like, Okay, the team is team behind Odyssey
Speaker 5: is making a three D platformer in like the Mario universe.
Speaker 5: It's like, Okay, yeah, you've replaced Mario with a monkey.
Speaker 5: It's it's fine, It's gonna be great and hit kind
Speaker 5: of the same notes and have some fun new wrinkles
Speaker 5: and stuff.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: No, I'm exactly the same. The other interesting thing here
Speaker 3: is that Nintendo, it's weird that they won't just tell
Speaker 3: us right away like so many people, so many other people,
Speaker 3: if they were in charge of this would at the
Speaker 3: very beginning of that first trailer be like from the
Speaker 3: team that brought to Super Mario Odyssey. But Nintendo's go
Speaker 3: to answer whenever they're asked who what team's making game
Speaker 3: is always say wait till it comes out and read
Speaker 3: the credits, at least alone. The fact that they answered
Speaker 3: this at all is something.
Speaker 2: Look, occasionally they exhibit like very alien behavior, you know,
Speaker 2: occasionally that I'm saying, they just sort of like they
Speaker 2: they just they are vibrating at a different frequency a
Speaker 2: lot of the time.
Speaker 6: Well, they got famous in the eighties or like not
Speaker 6: having credits because I didn't want people to get poached,
Speaker 6: if I recall correctly, that.
Speaker 3: Was a that was a regular video game industry practice
Speaker 3: at the time, honestly, But yeah, they were definitely big
Speaker 3: into that as well. Then they're still bad about crediting
Speaker 3: everybody to this day, so they're yeah, they are, just
Speaker 3: they want people to just think of things as being
Speaker 3: made by Nintendo, right, Nintendo made sure? What do you
Speaker 3: mean a Mario team. It's just all Nintendo, who's game freak.
Speaker 3: We don't know them what they're making a game for
Speaker 3: PlayStation or whatever, who cares. So it's a little bit weird.
Speaker 3: But I'm glad that they at least did come out
Speaker 3: and say this, even though I don't know. It seemed
Speaker 3: it seemed blaked int to me from the beginning.
Speaker 5: I mean, most importantly, Bury, the lead here chat did
Speaker 5: say something about wrinkle Kong is in this game, which
Speaker 5: I don't think has been confirmed yet. Still no funky.
Speaker 5: I'm looking for confirmation of Wrinkley Kong. If Jack and like,
Speaker 5: but she's dead, she was a ghost. But like, if
Speaker 5: this is back in time because Pauline's a kid, this
Speaker 5: could be before she died, you know that's true.
Speaker 3: What if this is the Kriaky Kong fails timeline that I.
Speaker 4: Want to get the Donkey Kong historia.
Speaker 3: Exactly. Actually, I think Donkey Kong Country was the Kreaky
Speaker 3: Kog fails timeline, you Wi being the Creaky Kongo succeeded.
Speaker 5: This is what This is way more interesting to me
Speaker 5: than the Zelda timeline.
Speaker 3: I am very excited for this game. This is gonna
Speaker 3: be dot here a couple of weeks. I cannot wait.
Speaker 4: Tony Hawks and Donkey Kong coming out in.
Speaker 1: A few weeks.
Speaker 4: Good July.
Speaker 3: I am excited for July.
Speaker 1: How is Skate four not out yet?
Speaker 3: I think skateboards miss the boat in by boat, I
Speaker 3: mean the cruise ship level until the ext pro Skate
Speaker 3: three that I'm going to be partying and all a.
Speaker 1: Sudden god.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Fans slam the Altars after discovering evidence of undisclosed jen
Speaker 3: AI in images, text, and translation. This is by Vicky
Speaker 3: Blake at Eurogamer. Players have hit out at the Altars
Speaker 3: developer eleven Bit Studios that their AI prompts were discovered
Speaker 3: in both subtitles and flavor text in the game. It's
Speaker 3: intimating a routine use of large language models without disclosure.
Speaker 3: Since Jerry twenty twenty four, FALF has required games that
Speaker 3: use pre or live generator AI to divulge this as
Speaker 3: part of the Steam distribution agreement. One such example, an
Speaker 3: in game screen that's presumably there to look all sci
Speaker 3: fi and scientific begins with Sure, here's a revised version
Speaker 3: focusing purely on scientific and astronomical data. The studio did
Speaker 3: have a statement for this. They said, we've seen a
Speaker 3: wide range of accusations regarding the use of AI generated
Speaker 3: content in the Altars. We feel it's important to clarify
Speaker 3: our approach and give you more context. AI generated assets
Speaker 3: were used strictly as temporary work in progresses during the
Speaker 3: development process and in a very limited manner. Our team
Speaker 3: is always prioritized meaningful, handcrafted storytelling as one of the
Speaker 3: foundations of our game. Blah blah blah. This one's interesting.
Speaker 3: It's it both it sucks and it feels like you're
Speaker 3: going to use temp stuff. Maybe it should just be
Speaker 3: the most obvious temp stuff in the world, like just
Speaker 3: the right just the word temporary, don't accidentally keep it
Speaker 3: in your game.
Speaker 5: And then that's really funny because sometimes that does happen still,
Speaker 5: like like we've seen this temporary billboard.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm a feeling this happens a lot more than
Speaker 6: than people know, like coming from like we didn't do
Speaker 6: anything like that. At NOUL, But I have a feeling
Speaker 6: like small I don't know the team that made the alters,
Speaker 6: but I'm a feeling like small teams will be doing
Speaker 6: this a fair amount going forward and trying their best
Speaker 6: to yeah, take it out hopefully right.
Speaker 3: I can almost understand if they're frustrated, because you know,
Speaker 3: this is being all this AI stuff is being deliberate
Speaker 3: and promise to these develop persess it's going to help
Speaker 3: them with game development and blah blah blah, and you know,
Speaker 3: I guess from their perspective, like, well, that's what we're doing,
Speaker 3: and everybody mad and they hate us. Everyone's mad and
Speaker 3: hates them because it looks bad and it's a crappy
Speaker 3: product and it's you know, if we're going to help
Speaker 3: game development, it can't be at the expense of quality.
Speaker 3: But this shure seems like a further warning for a
Speaker 3: lot of these developers that this stuff is just incredibly
Speaker 3: toxic right now and you have to be incredibly careful
Speaker 3: with it.
Speaker 4: I mean, it reminds me of like the NFT stuff.
Speaker 5: It's like when yeah, everybody was trying to do that
Speaker 5: and gamers were just like largely roundly just like hey,
Speaker 5: fuck this.
Speaker 4: We don't want this, like they're doing it what.
Speaker 2: They I you know how.
Speaker 1: In Gmail, how it'll create create the separate tabs for like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is your promotion stuff, this is social blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I normally just ignore the promotions, turn those off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm scrolling through and Louis Vuitton Folks is offering
Speaker 1: a free NFT if you buy a bag right now.
Speaker 7: Oh shit, hitting right at the top of that curve,
Speaker 7: no doubt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seriously, way to stay current?
Speaker 3: Alrighty here next up, Square Inix will make more turn
Speaker 3: based games and recognizes the success of clarib Scure Expedition
Speaker 3: thirty three. Yes, not many salty, outrageous success coming for
Speaker 3: claib Scare Expedition thirty three. The game had potential, but
Speaker 3: it's likely exceeded all expectations in twenty twenty five. So
Speaker 3: much so a square Unitch investor is reportedly pushing for
Speaker 3: Square Nex to shift yours back to turn based games,
Speaker 3: using Final Fantasy and drag Quest as examples found. Fantasy
Speaker 3: Peerist would probably love the return of a purely turn
Speaker 3: based foul fantasy game, according to a translated post from
Speaker 3: Ganke one score Innich investor is pushing for the company
Speaker 3: to return to its roots. At the Square Nix chairs meeting,
Speaker 3: one investor said they would like the new Dragon quest
Speaker 3: of ful fans games to be turn based and highlighted
Speaker 3: Expistitition thirty three success example. Square Anks responded that they
Speaker 3: are aware of Expedition thirty three and believe that command
Speaker 3: based RPGs are the origin of Square Inx. They value
Speaker 3: the genre of command based RPGs and plan to continue
Speaker 3: delivering such games in the future. Now, the Square Enix
Speaker 3: does still make turn based games, but it's usually I
Speaker 3: don't say it's not Triple A, but you know, it's
Speaker 3: Bravely Default too, It's Octopath Traveler too. But you know,
Speaker 3: with Final Fantasy sixteen in particular, the language was very
Speaker 3: much like, we need this game to reach a bigger audience,
Speaker 3: so therefore it can't be a turn based game for nerds.
Speaker 3: You know, that was essentially what they're saying.
Speaker 4: It's not reductive.
Speaker 1: Well, but like, the part that doesn't make any sense
Speaker 1: to me is that it feels like a lot of
Speaker 1: other studios kind of doubled down on turn based, like
Speaker 1: like a Dragon switched from like a brawler to turn
Speaker 1: based action and got received a lot of success, and
Speaker 1: we saw when Square was pivoting for Final Fantasy sixteen
Speaker 1: to be all action RPG. I don't know personas doing
Speaker 1: Gangbusters or continues to do huge ass numbers, and that
Speaker 1: is still and has been a turn based game. I
Speaker 1: don't fucking understand Square.
Speaker 6: I was so disappointed by Final Fantasy sixteen. I hope
Speaker 6: they do kind of take some of this to heart.
Speaker 6: Like I barely got through the first like zone of sixteen.
Speaker 6: It was aggressively bad looking on PS five.
Speaker 7: Which is kind of stunnying, like it didn't run very well.
Speaker 6: But I'm a huge fan of Final Fantasy in general,
Speaker 6: and I've played pretty much all those games. Man, if
Speaker 6: you want to see some thirsty behavior, go to a
Speaker 6: game shop and try to find some Final Fantasy Magic
Speaker 6: the gathering product. It is crazy what people are doing
Speaker 6: for that shit.
Speaker 7: So Final Fantasy has no problem being.
Speaker 6: A platform or you know, it still is has a
Speaker 6: huge amount of people very interested in what they're doing.
Speaker 6: But I think sixteen, especially in fifteen two, wasn't like,
Speaker 6: you know, they've been missfiring on their main series, So
Speaker 6: maybe take a take a few years off, make a
Speaker 6: smaller one make something like Final Fantasy ten. I'd love
Speaker 6: to see Final Fantasy ten three.
Speaker 7: How about that go back to the well, let's.
Speaker 3: Do it even with a Dragon Quest. They haven't said
Speaker 3: much about Dragon Quest twelve since announcing it a few
Speaker 3: years ago, but they are kind of priming us to
Speaker 3: get right for gameplay changes. So I think people were
Speaker 3: been worrying that series. But you know, stay turn based
Speaker 3: even longer than Final Fantasy was going to do a shift,
Speaker 3: and who really does want that? Yeah, I guess you know,
Speaker 3: when Claire Obscurer was a hit and also metaphor Refontazio
Speaker 3: last year and things like, you know, the like a
Speaker 3: Dragon series, I was hoping that this was gonna wake
Speaker 3: Square up a bit that. You know, I get it
Speaker 3: some people are going to see a very normal turn
Speaker 3: based system and maybe find that a little doll or
Speaker 3: not for them. But you can do things to make
Speaker 3: turn based combat more exciting and feel more modern and
Speaker 3: interesting to other people. And doesn't you know you don't
Speaker 3: have to directly copy what Claire Obscure was doing with
Speaker 3: parrying and things like that, but you know, you've got
Speaker 3: creative people working there, creatively figure out a way to
Speaker 3: make your system stand out and be engaging. Also, I
Speaker 3: definitely hope the next Final Fantasy goes back to that
Speaker 3: system a bit and isn't just another weird genre diversion.
Speaker 6: Agreed, You have to imagine seventeen is pretty well development,
Speaker 6: at least predevelopment. I'm curious what they can do now
Speaker 6: to pivot. But yeah, card based battlers put it brought,
Speaker 6: write it down. You know, somebody's send that note over.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, fancy Star Online episode three too. Uh? Next
Speaker 3: up here. Band Dynamico Summer Showcase airs this week. This
Speaker 3: is from Marcus Stewart at Game Informer Welcome Back. Game Informer.
Speaker 3: Ban dy Namco is holding a summer showcase this week
Speaker 3: on Wednesday, July second. The digital event will feature new
Speaker 3: information upcoming games, as well as a couple of exclusive reveals.
Speaker 3: The showcase begins at twelve pm Specific three pm Eastern.
Speaker 3: In terms of new announcements, a trailer teas is the
Speaker 3: reveal of a new My Hero Academia game and exclusive
Speaker 3: trailer reviewer for Toa in the Guardians of the Sacred Tree.
Speaker 3: The showcase will feature a gameplay deep dive for Digimont
Speaker 3: story Time Stranger I believe they're also going to be
Speaker 3: talking about coding to Shadow Labyrinth, that pac Men, metro
Speaker 3: Vina things, some other stuff there. But yeah, they have
Speaker 3: a lot of games coming. I wouldn't expect too too much. Again,
Speaker 3: the new announcements is probably gonna be anime gamers. I'm
Speaker 3: sad to say, I don't think this is where I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get my Ridge Racer revival now. But you know,
Speaker 3: bandonkil they've been doing pretty good lately. I would say
Speaker 3: they have found a good niche for themselves, but they
Speaker 3: still are able to explore around that a bit. And
Speaker 3: obviously it's sometimes they get to publish insane bangers like
Speaker 3: an Elden Ring and that does pretty well for them.
Speaker 3: I imagine, Yeah, something may baby Gosh, that's that's tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Are we gonna do a watch at twelve pm? We're
Speaker 3: gonna do a watch over for that.
Speaker 1: Oh, we might be delight clubbing.
Speaker 3: It might be Delight clubbing. And again I'm not expecting
Speaker 3: too much. I'm expecting something kind of like that Capcom
Speaker 3: presentation that happened last week, right, I think crazy Arc
Speaker 3: Tempered Arc Tempered Bandy Namco Summer Showcase WW two K
Speaker 3: two twenty five is coming to switch to late this month.
Speaker 3: Chris Gollan at VGC switch You version of W two
Speaker 3: K twenty five is coming later this month. The game
Speaker 3: will be released on Switching on July twenty third, and
Speaker 3: we'll come in three direct editions, similar to those on
Speaker 3: Plastation and Xbox formats. I mean, these games do come
Speaker 3: to switch, but they, you know, usually kind of look
Speaker 3: pretty rough. I imagine this time around they might get
Speaker 3: a pretty decent boost by having a prettier version on there. Dann,
Speaker 3: are you gonna go back to the island on your
Speaker 3: switch to?
Speaker 5: I don't think I went back to the island after
Speaker 5: that quick look or that stream that we did. Uh,
Speaker 5: don't that the game? The base game is pretty good now,
Speaker 5: but those modes are not great.
Speaker 2: Say it.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of at a low point in terms of
Speaker 4: wrestling interest right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I say that I.
Speaker 7: Am because of the scen stuff I've been hearing nothing about.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's been the wrestlmaning was weak, the Sena
Speaker 5: arc has not been that interesting. Honestly, AW is kind
Speaker 5: of doing it and there's actually a lot of things
Speaker 5: that are rubbing me the wrong way about WIT are
Speaker 5: you this year in particular, AW, it's getting some momentum again.
Speaker 1: So if you pick.
Speaker 5: Between the two rails shifted much more.
Speaker 7: AW, that's healthy for the community for sure.
Speaker 3: Super Mario Strikers is the next GameCube title coming to
Speaker 3: Nintendo Switch Online plus Expansion Pack. This is also Marcus Stewart,
Speaker 3: a game reformer. Super Mario Strikers originally launched on the
Speaker 3: GameCube in two thousand and five. That makes it the
Speaker 3: twentieth anniversary this year. An extreme soccer game starting the
Speaker 3: cast of the Mushroom Kingdom and if So Plus Expitch
Speaker 3: Pack subscribers can play Mario Strikers when it arrives on
Speaker 3: July third. Hey, it joints the already available win Waker,
Speaker 3: Soul Coaber two, and F zero g X. I think
Speaker 3: that this is one a lot of people are going
Speaker 3: to be excited about. Definitely one of the more popular
Speaker 3: multiplayer offerings on the GameCube. I've enjoyed the GameCube emulation,
Speaker 3: even though it does have some problems input lag. The
Speaker 3: one that really bothers me is the analog sensitivity, especially
Speaker 3: in win Waker. For some reason, that one got me there.
Speaker 3: But maybe some of that stuff is going to be tuned,
Speaker 3: tuned a little bit. Maybe we'll get an update to
Speaker 3: the whole service when this releases. Man, And if you're
Speaker 3: going to play some Super Mario Strikers on your switch tes,
Speaker 3: I might.
Speaker 5: I never really played too much of it back in
Speaker 5: the day. Fantastic at big size, but like, I'm open
Speaker 5: to it.
Speaker 1: What's the max amount of players you can do?
Speaker 7: I think it's three four imagine.
Speaker 1: Okay, well maybe we should play soccer again against mid max.
Speaker 6: Strikers is fantastic to me. I think that game is
Speaker 6: really really good. It's one of my favorite game cube games.
Speaker 6: Just really tightly played and great power ups and everything
Speaker 6: like that. So I'm looking I would I'm not going
Speaker 6: to buy a switch to for this, but I would
Speaker 6: definitely play more of that.
Speaker 7: It's a great game.
Speaker 5: I think it's interesting like when they launch like GameCube games,
Speaker 5: like this is just like one game they're launching, and
Speaker 5: I feel like in the past, like you know, any
Speaker 5: Ass or Superintendo, it's like, here's twenty fucking games, and
Speaker 5: it's like, yeah, at this point, it's like I've heard
Speaker 5: of or played you know, maybe half of these. But
Speaker 5: now with like the gamekeep once each drop. I think
Speaker 5: feels like kind of like, oh, oh okay, now that's here.
Speaker 5: You know, it feels like more recent than a bigger deal.
Speaker 5: I'm excited about more game stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's still some stuff coming that they have already
Speaker 3: talked about, like they announced like these games are coming,
Speaker 3: and this is one of them. Like I rembleming, Chip
Speaker 3: Robo Mario Sunshine was there. So there there there is
Speaker 3: more coming. I hope it's not a one one a
Speaker 3: month drop, right. I hope it gets something else this
Speaker 3: month for GameCube n S. So I hope they do
Speaker 3: not add Cube of War on there. I cannot afford
Speaker 3: to have the price of my Cube of Wore Go down.
Speaker 3: That's a big investment.
Speaker 2: Products that would that would be a big deal for you.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Yeah, it'd be a best bad day.
Speaker 1: Mikey Uh.
Speaker 3: Missed of Cyan Worlds lays off more staffs is from
Speaker 3: Rachel Caser at games Beat Sion worldsycling studio behind adventure games.
Speaker 3: Missed and Riven revealed today that is laid off more
Speaker 3: staph in the second round of job losses in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: It didn't disclose exactly how many staff had been laid off,
Speaker 3: but updated a contact sheet to reflect those of its
Speaker 3: staff who were still in need of work. Studio previously
Speaker 3: laid off twelve STAPH members in March, which amount two
Speaker 3: a round half of its staff. GEZ. In a statement
Speaker 3: issue at the time, the leadership said they were in
Speaker 3: a tricky spot where we were having to weigh the
Speaker 3: future of our studio against the month month realities of
Speaker 3: game development, and twenty twenty five also stated they were
Speaker 3: offering severnth packages to those who had been laid off.
Speaker 3: You know, layoffs are always terrible, I know, especially this industry.
Speaker 3: A lot of time it is just like people being
Speaker 3: greedy and trying to cut offs to increase profits elsewhere.
Speaker 3: I think Cyon it is sadly a case of not
Speaker 3: selling enough copies of Mist and Riven as they need
Speaker 3: to keep things going and getting work lined up for
Speaker 3: whatever it is they would do. Nest, I think it's
Speaker 3: a shame because I mean, I'm enjoying that Mystery make
Speaker 3: a lot. I've heard people say that the Riven remake
Speaker 3: that came out I believe last year is even better,
Speaker 3: and it's you know, it's a small studio though, so
Speaker 3: it's a tough time for maybe these kinds of games.
Speaker 6: They also had another AI kind of bungle with their
Speaker 6: Firmament game that came out a few years ago, which
Speaker 6: it has less than a thousand reviews on Steam. And
Speaker 6: I know that AI was a big kind of problem
Speaker 6: for people with that game too, So I'm not sure
Speaker 6: that game really hit for them in any kind of
Speaker 6: meaningful way.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it sucks, Yeah it sucks. They like I said,
Speaker 3: they have they do kind of release this contact sheets
Speaker 3: with those being impacted by it for prospectible employers to
Speaker 3: look at at least, So I don't know. I hope, uh,
Speaker 3: I hope things turn out well for all in there
Speaker 3: and wishing them, wishing them the best.
Speaker 7: Based in the.
Speaker 3: Sion Worlds, I mean, I assume, so I assume. So
Speaker 3: I think that's right. Uh No, I'm trying to look
Speaker 3: it up because I'm a sick.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: Sign Worlds is headquartered in No Mead, Washington.
Speaker 6: So so weird they were originally British, right or from
Speaker 6: the UK. I want to say that original games were
Speaker 6: developed over there.
Speaker 7: Maybe I could be weird.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're wrong.
Speaker 3: I think they were from Spokane, Washington. If I'm looking
Speaker 3: at this correctly, it might be somebody else, somebody man.
Speaker 3: No worries though, but that is it for the news.
Speaker 3: Jan I am handing the show back over to you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mike Minatti. What a lovely news segment. I
Speaker 1: learned so much about the current state of video game
Speaker 1: nude job helped. Yes, yes, yes, you started started the segment.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Dan, thank you, thank.
Speaker 7: You real quick.
Speaker 1: But I'll be well, that's perfect, Matthew Rory, because we're
Speaker 1: going to take a break and we'll be back with
Speaker 1: emails and stupor chats from YouTube if we got any.
Speaker 1: In a bit. These are the emails for the show. Emails,
Speaker 1: uh Ry, you can put it.
Speaker 6: This is the obviest thing I've lifted in like a
Speaker 6: year or two.
Speaker 1: That God, that that I appreciate the craftsmanship that went
Speaker 1: into making that sign for folk audio listeners. Matthew was
Speaker 1: holding up the wooden metal sign that was displayed on
Speaker 1: the BombCast table. God, the things you could you feel
Speaker 1: someone with that.
Speaker 6: I could probably just work out with that and have
Speaker 6: that be my Boddy workout that I'm desperately behind on.
Speaker 1: Just do some squats or some like kettle Bell Bomb
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Speaker 1: your emails to write in about any and everything. You
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Speaker 1: a giant bomb dot com. Uh wait what is this? Uh? Exclusive?
Speaker 1: Cody Roads to portray Gyle in the Street Fighter movie.
Speaker 3: Man, that's not real.
Speaker 2: It's a Roman.
Speaker 4: And Cody is Gyle. They're gonna fight the movie, aren't they.
Speaker 1: Oh they're gonna and Jason Momoa is there as well.
Speaker 5: Oh my gods. Okay, Cody and the trailer for Naked Gun.
Speaker 1: Oh really cool.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that movie.
Speaker 1: Uh that source website isn't trustworthy. Okay, all right, thank you,
Speaker 1: Michael O'Leary. We will. We will keep our eyes peeled
Speaker 1: for any new movie movie updates with Street Fighter. God
Speaker 1: fifty cent is going to be in that movie? What
Speaker 1: the hell is going on? Yeah?
Speaker 3: It's ballarrog I believe.
Speaker 1: Who's directing that.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: The guy from Late Night with the Devil is Bison?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Wait David dem mash Chain, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yea, I saw someone post that today. I don't know
Speaker 5: if that's confirmed.
Speaker 7: I could kind of see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see it.
Speaker 6: Murder that's really good too. He's really good on that.
Speaker 6: We need to catch up on murder, but it's a
Speaker 6: really good show.
Speaker 1: They should uh fire fifty cent because fifty cent is
Speaker 1: like trash and just make some moa Joe ballrog make
Speaker 1: some moojo any character.
Speaker 4: Put some mojo in everything?
Speaker 1: Yes? Please? Yeah? What a cool guy anyway? Uh podcast balls?
Speaker 1: What bombcasta giant bomb dot com is email a dress?
Speaker 1: First email comes from Aaron uh in Phoenix. Howdy bomb
Speaker 1: pokes cowboy emoji. I found out Jane and I share
Speaker 1: a birthday October eleventh. When I found out, I immediately thought, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm probably good at video production kung fu like he is,
Speaker 1: just because we share the same birthday. I have no
Speaker 1: skills in avy whatsoever and have never tried. We do
Speaker 1: share the same birthday as wrestler Rakishi, but also the
Speaker 1: wrestler Taz to email Jones over here in sixth grade.
Speaker 1: I found this out and started walking like he did
Speaker 1: because I thought it was cool. I still walk like him.
Speaker 1: If I'm ever feeling myself to this day, do you
Speaker 1: ever think you're just like someone for sharing something as
Speaker 1: inconsequential as a birthday. I'm a Yoyo person. So Jan,
Speaker 1: by my reasoning, you should be inherently good at yoyo.
Speaker 1: Let me know if you ever do want to get
Speaker 1: started truly. Aaron from Phoenix PS shouts out to my
Speaker 1: sweets and season City YadA da.
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna say, but this has been going on
Speaker 7: for like five thousand years.
Speaker 6: With horoscopes gues. People do believe that they are matched
Speaker 6: with people like them on their birthday.
Speaker 1: So yeah, again I'm wrong.
Speaker 7: In general, it's going on for a long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you, but I don't believe birthday is Tupac.
Speaker 4: So you can start calling me the Tupac of Giant Pomp.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have.
Speaker 1: I mean he's been.
Speaker 2: It is with no great irony that I share a
Speaker 2: birthday with the Undertaker.
Speaker 1: But no, you know that kind of makes sense.
Speaker 2: I guess you know what it's like, why right?
Speaker 1: Were?
Speaker 2: I guess presentationally maybe a little like not anything else
Speaker 2: from what I understand.
Speaker 4: I share one with podcast with both of you.
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 3: Let's see, I've got Nicki Minaj and Lauren Phillips.
Speaker 1: Well, Nicki Minaj, there's no shortage of similarities.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's like looking into a mirror.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Matt. Do you share a birthday with a celebrity?
Speaker 7: Martin Luther apparently that was what.
Speaker 6: Yeah, of the ten not to tend to seventy two
Speaker 6: things he nailed to the door of the church. That's
Speaker 6: a good one. I was just reading about that throughout him.
Speaker 6: He got called it the Vatican to to talk about
Speaker 6: his reformation plans, and they called it the Council of Worms,
Speaker 6: and I was like, I think that's what it was,
Speaker 6: the Council of worms, because there's a town called Council
Speaker 6: of Worms for worms.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so that's my fun.
Speaker 6: Martin Luca Trivia, he got called to the Vatican to
Speaker 6: talk about reformation and they called it the Council of Worms,
Speaker 6: like breaking out. No, it's a town in Italy, a
Speaker 6: thing called worms.
Speaker 7: I believe could be making that right.
Speaker 5: I got Laurie Metcalf from Roseanne Nice. Okay, the Joiner
Speaker 5: from the Royals, Yeah, okay, the Sandman, Oh.
Speaker 3: Now there we got Actually, yeah, you are a lot
Speaker 3: like the Sandman.
Speaker 4: The Ultim Warrior and the Sandman share my birthday?
Speaker 2: Wow? Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Minati Rory, do you share a birthday with a wrestler?
Speaker 1: From what you can discern here orange.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well yeah, that's yeah. We got a we
Speaker 1: got a wrap group right here.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I a wrestler. There's got to
Speaker 3: be some wrestlers born in December eighth, but I don't
Speaker 3: see it. Sammy Davis Junior. Maybe Jim Morrison. There you go, Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: That's pretty sick, all right. Next email comes from Matt
Speaker 1: in the UK High Bomb Crew. It was just on
Speaker 1: a long drive for work and I passed a billboard
Speaker 1: that was half concealed by a fallen tree. The only
Speaker 1: part of the billboard that was visible just had the
Speaker 1: words next Generation of Cheese.
Speaker 3: I don't know why that got. That's like some man
Speaker 3: great revolutions.
Speaker 1: On it, and it left me with questions. I feel
Speaker 1: only you guys can answer. What is next generation cheese?
Speaker 1: What features would you.
Speaker 4: Like to see?
Speaker 5: She could go a long way because I think Easy
Speaker 5: Cheese has been kind of just been in its wheel
Speaker 5: since the early nineties, and I could I could use
Speaker 5: an Easy Cheese renaissance right about now.
Speaker 1: I think you're right there, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. What they asked, what jenn of ches are
Speaker 3: we in right now? I think we're in cheese two point.
Speaker 1: Oh, No, we got to be in like at least
Speaker 1: three or four cheese.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cheese has been around for a while, okay.
Speaker 3: I guess okay, so like we had the first cheese
Speaker 3: ever was just we accidentally separated way and and and
Speaker 3: the you know, the milk solads all this stuff. So
Speaker 3: we you know, we pushed together. We had cheese, and then.
Speaker 1: We got back.
Speaker 3: That's right. Then we learned about like aging and salting
Speaker 3: and flavoring the cheese. More you got your two point oh,
Speaker 3: then like three point oh more recently is when we
Speaker 3: started adding. The more we're getting stuff like American cheese
Speaker 3: and blue cheese. I guess we had blue cheese for
Speaker 3: a while by accidentally. No, oh, I love blue cheese.
Speaker 3: Everyone's surprised by that. By oh, yeah, give you that
Speaker 3: moldy cheese. Put a little honey on it. They got
Speaker 3: something going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're gonna say, there, Jen, I was gonna
Speaker 2: ask Dan, have you partaken in blue cheese? Dip.
Speaker 5: I'm a big wing guy, and I will always ask
Speaker 5: for like, oh, we'll give you one thing a ranch,
Speaker 5: one thing in blue cheese.
Speaker 4: Just gip it, give me two ranches.
Speaker 3: Okay, give me that have.
Speaker 2: You tried it?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 5: I have Spring Street Tavern, my favorite wings place Northeast Minneapolis.
Speaker 5: I tried it there and people swear by it. I
Speaker 5: don't think it's disgusting necessarily, but definitely I won't take
Speaker 5: it over.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't blame people who do, because you know,
Speaker 3: it does have that flavor, Like I don't know why
Speaker 3: I like it, because it's like, yeah, this stuff tastes it's.
Speaker 2: Weird that it goes with wings. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 2: how to put it. Yeah, it's just good.
Speaker 3: I put it on a cracker and I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a weird bite to this. I don't know. Uh,
Speaker 3: let's say cheese four point zero right now, but what's
Speaker 3: cheese five point Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 2: God shaking real risks with cheese.
Speaker 1: Chili's.
Speaker 2: Chili's is taking real risks. How triple dippers, baby.
Speaker 3: Triple dipperss? Is that too far?
Speaker 2: What does that mean? Like?
Speaker 1: The CEO of Chili's has revitalized the chain, franchise guy
Speaker 1: or the restaurant chain, and people are going crazy.
Speaker 2: For triple But what's a triple dipper?
Speaker 1: It's like an app like an appetizer play you pick
Speaker 1: three apps and you get those the freaks that I
Speaker 1: hang out with, maybe just get uh two orders of
Speaker 1: like their weird mozzarella sticks that are like kind of
Speaker 1: like Bucks.
Speaker 2: Oh but so they're not so they're not doing anything unique.
Speaker 1: No, but like it's the cheese is pretty consistent. You know.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you. This was the stuff crust pizza
Speaker 3: more of a revolution for cheese or for pizza. Pizza
Speaker 3: can't a pizza.
Speaker 2: The former, I love the latter.
Speaker 5: I think I love ninety eight percent of different types
Speaker 5: of cheese, and I love like some good age like
Speaker 5: are just an old fancy like going to Germany and
Speaker 5: going to a nice cheese shop and having all that stuff.
Speaker 5: But still I had to like Desert Island, you only
Speaker 5: get one cheese the rest of your life. Honestly, it's
Speaker 5: the fucking ballpark just farted into a little plastic tub.
Speaker 5: Like that's like the nacho ballparks or resembleslidjackle Bells is
Speaker 5: very very similar, and like I do think that's my
Speaker 5: favorite cheese.
Speaker 2: I would take fresh mozzarella.
Speaker 4: It's great, Sure, that's fantastic.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would go bree probably really.
Speaker 3: Been a bit of pepper Jack guy recently.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, you can string cheese now.
Speaker 4: I got a bunch of that in the front. I've
Speaker 4: been going nuts.
Speaker 3: Something good.
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 1: When I worked at a different sandwichhop, have AARTI always
Speaker 1: made me want to party.
Speaker 6: Parties my go to for jan How do you feel
Speaker 6: about this? I usually buy like a half pound to
Speaker 6: a three quarter pound of turkey cracked pepper turkey breast.
Speaker 7: When I go to the deli.
Speaker 6: I had a but I never quite be able to
Speaker 6: finish it because that's like a good I don't like
Speaker 6: a huge amount of meat on my sandwiches, like a
Speaker 6: few slices, so I always wind up having like five
Speaker 6: day old slimy turkey. A friend of mine said to
Speaker 6: freeze it between parchment paper and just bring it out,
Speaker 6: serving by serving, and I'm curious.
Speaker 1: I tried it.
Speaker 7: I'll let you know how it goes. But I don't know.
Speaker 7: Most frozen meats don't really quite taste the same after
Speaker 7: you do'n freeze.
Speaker 4: In my find, yeah, agreed, they're cooks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the what's that Mexican cheese that's.
Speaker 3: Spilled real weird?
Speaker 4: Is weird?
Speaker 2: Because like the waka yeah yeah cheese that that's not
Speaker 2: bad that cheese slaps.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was. Actually I went to the the Mexico
Speaker 3: Restaurant in Epcot on the on.
Speaker 1: I don't like that it's called the Mexico Restaurant.
Speaker 3: I called that. It's called the Sun on hell In
Speaker 3: that's Mexicans in the Mexico Pavilion. It does one of
Speaker 3: my favorite things, which is you're inside a building, but
Speaker 3: it pretends like you're outside at night.
Speaker 2: Like the Oh yeah they do that. Oh is it?
Speaker 2: Oh right, I've been to that one and it's like
Speaker 2: in the pyramid thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a restaurant there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Oh.
Speaker 3: My friend's made fun of me because I kept calling
Speaker 3: it dinner and talk about how it was the evening
Speaker 3: even though it's like two o'clock, and I was just tricked,
Speaker 3: all yeah, exactly, Dan.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the cheese that we had at packs
Speaker 1: when we had dinner with Mary?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, hallomy cheese.
Speaker 5: Cheese, the grilling cheese, honey on it.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 7: How do they make what is it made out of?
Speaker 7: How does it grill milk?
Speaker 5: It's like it's like it's it's like eating a pencil
Speaker 5: eraser and tasting pencil a lot of that in high school.
Speaker 2: You know what was it called? Again?
Speaker 6: H I believe? Yeah, I have a rack of that
Speaker 6: in my fridge. I don't know what to do with it.
Speaker 7: I got to look at grill it up.
Speaker 1: Question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a mustard question.
Speaker 5: I'm going to eat a turkey sandwich right after this
Speaker 5: podcast is done and mustard and I'm in a mustard
Speaker 5: phase right now?
Speaker 3: Is arc is?
Speaker 5: Some say I also usually before the mustard arc began,
Speaker 5: I have this Taco Bell branded avocado ranch sauce that's
Speaker 5: really good to put on like a turkey sandwich. Can
Speaker 5: avocado ranch and mustard coexist?
Speaker 3: Or yeah, put ranch on the one bread and put
Speaker 3: some mustard on the other. But I bet that'll taste good.
Speaker 4: Okay, nothing weird about.
Speaker 2: That band your horizonspan.
Speaker 7: You go to TJ's and get some garlic aol and
Speaker 7: when you.
Speaker 4: Say that stuff, it's very like it is.
Speaker 2: People people have bounced off TJ's. I feel like in
Speaker 2: in in the last half decade or so saying it's
Speaker 2: all like mid and whatever, invating like it's super cheap.
Speaker 2: But there are diamonds in the rough that are still
Speaker 2: out there. Folks. You got to know where to look.
Speaker 2: Some new things have come out in the last three
Speaker 2: three years or so. We're going to do a rating
Speaker 2: of all the TJ snacks. What's TJ Trader Joe.
Speaker 3: See, I don't have I don't got one of those.
Speaker 3: I haven't a got wah the German thing that they
Speaker 3: did that call these all these all these what nuts.
Speaker 4: I had my first belt last weekend.
Speaker 7: Whoa branch out there? How did you like it?
Speaker 2: It was good?
Speaker 5: And so it's ordered because Bonka I had a little
Speaker 5: picnic by the lake and I said, let's get some
Speaker 5: pop Belly.
Speaker 4: That's a chain that's actually a really good sandwich chain.
Speaker 5: And they had a b l T A and so
Speaker 5: it's a BLT plus a Percado and and she's like, oh,
Speaker 5: you gotta get mayonnaise on that. That's you know, like
Speaker 5: that's a critical part of the BLT. I did not
Speaker 5: know that. This being my first and this being Dan
Speaker 5: three point zero, I said, yep, put that MAO right
Speaker 5: on there, and I did, and it was delicious. So
Speaker 5: it was a twofer at once, my first belt and
Speaker 5: my well, no, not the first time.
Speaker 4: I've had mayonnaise. I've had alia, but.
Speaker 2: It was really your first belt.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, Dan, you just like unlocked the memory of
Speaker 1: this regular. This is before the Daily Gang. I worked
Speaker 1: at a different sandwich place that also sold a b
Speaker 1: L t A. But there was this one guy that
Speaker 1: insisted on calling it.
Speaker 2: The black like that.
Speaker 1: I am Les Mulligan and he would dap me up
Speaker 1: every time. He was like, what's top jad? He daped
Speaker 1: me up and goes like, let me get one of
Speaker 1: them bats.
Speaker 6: There's a restaurant he wrestled, does a bat which is bacon,
Speaker 6: arugula tomato. And I find out, Okay, the problem is
Speaker 6: some bots. And I hate to say this sounds sacrilegious.
Speaker 6: Sometimes I put way too much bacon on there, like
Speaker 6: it's hard to even get through a bite.
Speaker 3: Like that's the only thing I'm interested.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 2: I feel like bacon is not overly expensive in the
Speaker 2: point in the way that they have to be conservative
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, A stomachs or pig excuse me, pig.
Speaker 3: I knew that that was just a slip of the tongue.
Speaker 3: I know where bacon comes from. Please don't make our
Speaker 3: for thread hunt Reddit.
Speaker 2: No, you're good, you're good.
Speaker 1: We don't have to worry about you. I mean, we
Speaker 1: know that spam comes from spam elopes.
Speaker 3: Spam elopes. I got, I got a few aging right
Speaker 3: now in the basement.
Speaker 2: Uh weird? Okay cool?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, took the bit too far. Mark from Glasgow
Speaker 1: writesin Hello Giant Bomb. Tenshu has come up in conversation
Speaker 1: a conversation a few times in recent months, and given
Speaker 1: the extremely high profile of Ninja's this year, I felt
Speaker 1: the need to express a passionate opinion of mine. The
Speaker 1: Tenshu franchise has been ripe for a reboot for a
Speaker 1: long time, given the conspicuous lull in the more traditional
Speaker 1: format of stealth games for a decade plus. With Ninja's
Speaker 1: being quite popular so in Vogue, it feels like there's
Speaker 1: never been a better time than now to reboot a
Speaker 1: candidate for best stealth franchise of all time. Furthermore, the
Speaker 1: Tenshu ip is currently owned by From Software, with people
Speaker 1: responsible for making Sekiro the game with a dude swinging
Speaker 1: from a grappling hook on the cover owning the franchise.
Speaker 1: I personally feel it is nothing short of rude that
Speaker 1: we have heard nothing Tenshu related for so long. The
Speaker 1: mechanics of Sekuro applied to a more stealth focused game
Speaker 1: would be absolutely fantastic. And I feel like it's a
Speaker 1: total no brainer to make that lateral transition. I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts on the subject. It's the good
Speaker 1: work mark from Glasgow in Melbourne.
Speaker 3: Oh you know, man, you never say never, but it
Speaker 3: just feels like it didn't happen now, especially you know,
Speaker 3: it's difficult because from software, Yeah they own Tenshu, they
Speaker 3: also have this thing called Sekero Yeah success. Yeah, this
Speaker 3: boy is that good. And it's like, if they're gonna
Speaker 3: make a game like that again, like, why wouldn't it
Speaker 3: be Secoro branded and not instead of Tenchu branded. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 6: I'm curious about the allegation of it being the most popular.
Speaker 6: It say, the most the best stealth franchise of all time?
Speaker 7: Okay, not the most come on now, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean it came out the same year as Metal
Speaker 3: Gear Saw.
Speaker 7: Too that people love.
Speaker 6: Yeah, does not have the kind of cultural cachet that
Speaker 6: I think this might be. Well, that could be wrong,
Speaker 6: would you uh ow, there's ten lovers out there?
Speaker 2: What would you say?
Speaker 1: I would say splinter Cell probably pure stealth. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like Cooper, does you know, I think you might
Speaker 1: be right? Did I think maybe more Sly Cooper heads
Speaker 1: out there than ten.
Speaker 4: Shoe Yeah definitely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, God I love Sly Cooper.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like cool TENU, cool game, and.
Speaker 3: I would like to see it come back. I would
Speaker 3: be surprised.
Speaker 6: They had they had a play based on Tenshu play
Speaker 6: stage play adaptation ten Tie Wow.
Speaker 1: I feel like uh, I feel like with Ninja's the
Speaker 1: interest is kind of shifted away from the stealth aspect,
Speaker 1: like even in like Assassin's Creed Shadows, like you don't
Speaker 1: have to do.
Speaker 5: Prefer Yeah, Ninja guid in two thousand and four, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: there's no stealth involved there.
Speaker 4: You're just doing cool ship. Like that's the better Ninja
Speaker 4: stuff I think.
Speaker 2: And I mean, we should do a Mount right.
Speaker 1: I know we don't do BCR anymore, but we should
Speaker 1: find a way to do an EP on a slow,
Speaker 1: slow week, to do like Mount rushmore of Ninja's Oh oh.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be it's a big I mean I think
Speaker 3: that new Ninja Gaidem in the news Shnobi are coming
Speaker 3: out the same month or something. Like that rage and
Speaker 3: Batman cultural appropriation. Yeah, I don't think he's a real ninja.
Speaker 1: As much as I love Naruto, I don't think Naruto
Speaker 1: is making the mount rushmore great.
Speaker 3: Fox Yeah, Bab's scientist.
Speaker 1: Okay, gang, moving along? We did get I do want
Speaker 1: to check in. Did anyone do their homework and listen
Speaker 1: to the metal band they were recommended last week?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: I did. I forgot the name of it, but I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed it. Anything with a female lead singer that
Speaker 1: is adjacent to pop punk, I will eat eat it up.
Speaker 7: Sure.
Speaker 2: I also like listen to a lot of other people's
Speaker 2: recommendations too, So thank you email or whoever that was.
Speaker 2: That was very, very kind of recommention.
Speaker 7: Who to give you? I forget?
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: The one I've been listening to is Blood Incantation sounds.
Speaker 1: Cool, which was pretty sick. Let me look up mine
Speaker 1: real quick.
Speaker 4: Actually remember this.
Speaker 3: I don't remember this either. Don't worry, Dan, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Uh mine was Blood Command.
Speaker 2: Listen to that. I feel like Grub got Devin Townsend
Speaker 2: right right? No, no, no, Blood Grove got Blood Incantations.
Speaker 4: I think maybe Mike did.
Speaker 1: Mike, Yeah, Mike got Devin Townsend, Devin Towns Yeah, I
Speaker 1: right now, oh right, let's see, let's go up up up. Uh.
Speaker 1: We got an email from Eric from Saint Louis. You're
Speaker 1: jam You may or may not be aware of this,
Speaker 1: but if you are in the company of two, but
Speaker 1: you are in the company of two weasels, allow me
Speaker 1: to explain. A few we weeks ago, before the launch
Speaker 1: of the Switch to one, Jeffrey the untrustworthy Grub looked
Speaker 1: straight into a camera and said that if Captain Toad's
Speaker 1: switched to upgrade allowed for online co op, he would
Speaker 1: stream it alongside Mike the accomplished Minati. Well it happened
Speaker 1: with the upgrade, but nary a word from these two
Speaker 1: weasels about the stream. So Jan, I think you just
Speaker 1: need to add it to the schedule without their approval.
Speaker 1: That'll make them show up. We must hold these villains accountable.
Speaker 1: Eric from Saint Louis sent from my iPhone.
Speaker 5: My bad.
Speaker 2: Now, I want to do that.
Speaker 3: I keep meaning to play Captain toa It just hasn't happened.
Speaker 3: Uh it's gotten busy. Yeah, for sure, I'm gonna hip
Speaker 3: the excuse for everything, But I do want to play
Speaker 3: some captain to maybe that can be a mega man
Speaker 3: some nights if I can get jeff to join me.
Speaker 1: Speaking about recommendations, al Riley from Indiana sent in a
Speaker 1: lot of recommendations for other media as well. Real quick,
Speaker 1: good tidings, great bombinos on the latest last episode eight
Speaker 1: nine to six. Alex from Australia gave you a metal
Speaker 1: album to listen to you for homework and you just
Speaker 1: rolled with it. Reading that email was really opening the
Speaker 1: floodgates for you guys who live to recommend media. So
Speaker 1: I've taken the opportunity to prescribe each of you an anime.
Speaker 5: Oh dudes love recommending anime.
Speaker 7: It's only three hundred episodes.
Speaker 5: More than any other form of media. Anime guys will
Speaker 5: let you know what you need to watch.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna try and speed through these grub
Speaker 1: Despite appearances, Jeffrey Michael Grubb is bit a bit of
Speaker 1: an enigma. A taste maker. He is known to enjoy
Speaker 1: some dragon Ball, but he doesn't give the impression of
Speaker 1: a guy who spends a lot of time with anime
Speaker 1: these days to you. I recommend Ping Pong the animation.
Speaker 1: It's got sports, it's got music, it's got an endearing
Speaker 1: old lady. It's got an unconventional art style atypical for anime.
Speaker 1: These eleven episodes are my gift to you. Okay, eleven
Speaker 1: episodes can do Mike, He's the Disney guy, He's the
Speaker 1: Mega Man guy. He likes light things and doesn't like
Speaker 1: dark things or being alone in them. I get the
Speaker 1: feeling he's dabbled in anime, but not dug deep. It
Speaker 1: is with that in mind that I recommend Keep your
Speaker 1: Hands off Isoken, following a group of young folks who
Speaker 1: just want to make anime. It's equal parts funny and inspirational,
Speaker 1: has some fascinating inside baseball. It's a real gem.
Speaker 3: Okay, he backled, pup your hands off of Isokin. Everyone,
Speaker 3: He's mine backlart. There are those who call him the coworker,
Speaker 3: and there are others who call him the king of anime.
Speaker 3: He has a whole show about it, though you might
Speaker 3: not know since it's been a month since the last episode.
Speaker 3: I'm not counting you. Are you new on this week?
Speaker 3: New on this week?
Speaker 1: You? I recommend Vinland Saga. It's got spirit, it's got metal,
Speaker 1: it's got deep character study, the real things to say
Speaker 1: about Humanity's proclivity towards violence and revenge in the challenges
Speaker 1: of passivism in a violent world. This, my friend, is
Speaker 1: for you, thank you.
Speaker 2: A lot of animes have metal bud Okay, just putting
Speaker 2: that out there, but I will check this out.
Speaker 1: All right, Jan, you know this, You know this one
Speaker 1: was actually the hardest for me. Honestly, it was downright stressful.
Speaker 1: Jan is a worldly man, Thank you. It has tasted
Speaker 1: all coffee, smoked all cigarettes, and sipped all the buzzballs.
Speaker 1: As the youngest of the group, I get the feeling
Speaker 1: you've seen the most anime and it's hard to figure
Speaker 1: out which would what would taste fresh to a developed
Speaker 1: tongue to you, I recommend mob Psycho one hundred. It's funny, said, introspective, uplifting,
Speaker 1: and just all around tasty stuff. You may have already
Speaker 1: seen this. If not, smoke it up I have. It's great.
Speaker 6: These are like two mixed metaphors here, like he's going
Speaker 6: for a somalia thing first and then smoke it up,
Speaker 6: like is he a bud tender for anime?
Speaker 7: I don't don't get the.
Speaker 2: A bud tender, Hey man, I love that word.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that could be awful.
Speaker 1: Last recommendation, Dan, what do you recommend to the man
Speaker 1: who hates everything? I don't think Dan hates everything.
Speaker 7: To you.
Speaker 1: I bestow the gift of Satoshi Cones paranoia agent, thrilling, surreal,
Speaker 1: unlike anything you have ever seen. The only naked woman
Speaker 1: is an adult and it's very much earned. At twelve episodes.
Speaker 1: Twelve episodes, it's only about four episodes long. This is
Speaker 1: a show for adults. If you watch four hours long.
Speaker 1: This is a show for adults. If you watch it,
Speaker 1: you can talk to Kujima about it and look cool
Speaker 1: with the deepest sincerity imaginable. Riley from Indiana, Thanks Riley.
Speaker 7: Very long, detailed email. That's a really good one. Riley,
Speaker 7: thank you.
Speaker 2: That Yeah. Last email of the show.
Speaker 1: This comes from I'm going to say Miko from Finland.
Speaker 7: Hi.
Speaker 2: Giint Bomb.
Speaker 1: Team Grub talked on game As Mornings about Charlie Cox's
Speaker 1: experience working on Expedition thirty three. A similar situation happened
Speaker 1: in Finland where two A List actors Marty so solo
Speaker 1: Ati in Alan Wake two in Control and Peter Franzen
Speaker 1: Costcola Brothers and Alan Wake two, gave interviews after the
Speaker 1: release of Alan Wake two s in particular, it was
Speaker 1: very surprised but also happy about the new fan base
Speaker 1: of young men he gained who previously had no interest
Speaker 1: in his films. He also shared how his children's friends
Speaker 1: suddenly became eager to meet him and asked about the
Speaker 1: game development process. Sossolo had no knowledge of video games
Speaker 1: when he joined Remedies Project and was initially very confused
Speaker 1: and unsure about how his performance would appear in the game.
Speaker 1: His face some challenges with voice acting and motion capture
Speaker 1: at first, but in the end he was satisfied with
Speaker 1: his performance. When asked if he would make take on
Speaker 1: more video game roles, he laughed and said he'd be
Speaker 1: available if he could find the time. What's Giant Bomb?
Speaker 1: What's the Giant Bomb team's opinion on using famous actors
Speaker 1: in video games? Who's your all time favorite and your
Speaker 1: least favorite? Thanks for the great show? Nko from Finland and.
Speaker 7: The Stone Sweeping Ducks.
Speaker 4: I forgot she was in that.
Speaker 7: Oh she was in there for one day and disappears.
Speaker 6: That's one of those disappointing Like I don't know what
Speaker 6: the schedules worked out, but by default.
Speaker 7: Emma Stone and Sleeping Ducks because she's adorable.
Speaker 2: No shit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's weird because they're talking about making a movie
Speaker 6: of that game now, and I'm like, well, does she
Speaker 6: come back?
Speaker 7: Probably not, she's an Oscar winning actress, but yeah, but
Speaker 7: a fault.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think she makes it back.
Speaker 5: I really liked it when it was a novelty, when
Speaker 5: it was like, yeah, Bruce Willis for Apocalypse and we
Speaker 5: got David Bowie for Amicron the Nomad Soul like such
Speaker 5: like oh, their likeness and their voice and everything like Now,
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know. I think I think Kajima
Speaker 5: does a great job with it with deatht Randing, although
Speaker 5: it's like I was thinking about it with like the
Speaker 5: Yoji Shinkawa art and everything, where it's like, yeah, all
Speaker 5: the desk Randing art looks incredible, but it's like, Okay,
Speaker 5: that's just lay us to do. That's just Norman Readis.
Speaker 5: I mean, it looks awesome in his art style. But
Speaker 5: I kind of liked seeing his take on like here's
Speaker 5: revolver oslau Er Solidsing. Here's like, you know, a totally
Speaker 5: original character, you know, And I do feel that, like
Speaker 5: like with movies, I think once they started like having
Speaker 5: big name voice actors take over a bunch of roles
Speaker 5: that like he used to just be voice actors, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of like not well known celebrities. Then all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, you've got, you know, like Will Smith being
Speaker 5: a fish or whatever.
Speaker 4: You know, is he Nemo?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, he was U shark Tail? Was that him?
Speaker 4: Oh maybe that's I remember reading like an article back when.
Speaker 2: Not Nemo?
Speaker 5: No, yeah, everything like, oh yeah, that's I could see
Speaker 5: why they'd be frustrating for like a voice actor by trade,
Speaker 5: and all of a sudden, it's like, just because you're
Speaker 5: not that like super recognizable, you're not going to much work.
Speaker 4: So I see that argument.
Speaker 3: It's not that he Southern did a bad job as
Speaker 3: Snake and soft Fire, but I really disliked the cast
Speaker 3: change there. Even Yeah, there's some ways to justify in
Speaker 3: that story, but still I didn't like it.
Speaker 5: Narratively, you there's definitely way you could have had both.
Speaker 5: But yeah, they look, I get it. Twenty four is great,
Speaker 5: but you know.
Speaker 3: Solid I think the best one ever is Phil Hartman
Speaker 3: as Blasto.
Speaker 2: Yes, and what's that from.
Speaker 3: Blast PlayStation one game. Yeah's some big space guy named Blastom.
Speaker 3: It's just Phil Hartman quipping the entire time.
Speaker 5: It's not a likeness, but he's just like the voice,
Speaker 5: like a very trimic glure voice. It's yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Then the worst one is Ronda Rowsey, Sonia Blade and
Speaker 3: Mortal Kombat eleven. Oh yeah, it's bad. It was like
Speaker 3: a recast. They already had a talented voice actor doing
Speaker 3: that character in their games, and they just made it
Speaker 3: significantly worse for no reason. Nobody was like, oh I
Speaker 3: didn't care about more a combat, but now that Ronda
Speaker 3: Rowse he's involved, let me get on board.
Speaker 1: And I liked that story. And anytime like Ronda or
Speaker 1: Sonya Blade opened her mouth and like, it was just
Speaker 1: the abysmal performance from Ronda Rowsey.
Speaker 4: Jesus, it was so distracting.
Speaker 3: Oh they had Megan Fox be a character.
Speaker 4: That was pretty rough too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the best job still to this day
Speaker 2: is JK. Simmons and Steven Merchant in Portal two.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah that was good. Oh it makes me think of
Speaker 3: the Spider Man games. Yeah, Topey Maguire doing like he
Speaker 3: was just clearly like this isn't important whatever, like X wait,
Speaker 3: millions of people are gonna play this game Toby, he
Speaker 3: actually easy to do, a good job, didn't care. It's
Speaker 3: almost endearing how lazy his performances are.
Speaker 4: I've pretty is kind of an asshole.
Speaker 5: What way, there's there's a there's a pr guy in
Speaker 5: games has been around for a long time, and story
Speaker 5: about how we had to kick him out of a
Speaker 5: bowling alley once.
Speaker 6: Oh, another couple options here, I'm googling around a little bit.
Speaker 6: Aerosmith with Revolution X.
Speaker 7: Definitely that was kicks ass.
Speaker 6: That arcade, yeah, midway and then uh, kind of one
Speaker 6: name keeps on popping up.
Speaker 7: Fred Durst in the Fight Club game was.
Speaker 5: Apparently Lincoln was in that too, Abraham Lincoln good twist.
Speaker 1: Uh. I mostly don't have a problem with celebrities getting
Speaker 1: cast in games as long as you know they're taking seriously, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's that's my point, jan is that like, for the
Speaker 2: most part, they all understand and how important it is
Speaker 2: and they take it seriously.
Speaker 5: Especially you get like like Samojo and ya oh, he
Speaker 5: plays games, he gets it, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Somo is also good in Suicide Squad.
Speaker 3: He's good in Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I just don't want voice actors to be put
Speaker 1: out of a job because like ye Triple A. Celebrities
Speaker 1: are like going to games as like a paycheck just
Speaker 1: because man, they're like, you know, Matt Shipman front of
Speaker 1: the site, very prolific voice actor. But like other voice actors,
Speaker 1: it just like they just get it in a way
Speaker 1: that screen actors for your normal screen actors just don't
Speaker 1: get that transition.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, screen actors do themselves really well, like they
Speaker 6: usually if you have a celebrity in your game, you
Speaker 6: wanted to hear like this sound like a celebrity, But
Speaker 6: professional voice actors can change their voice and do all
Speaker 6: kinds of crazy stuff when they probably like they take
Speaker 6: it as.
Speaker 5: An art for him, like Ben Starr is Indiana Jones
Speaker 5: was way better than Harrison Ford would have been.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hell yeah yeah, But we had her on the
Speaker 1: couch with Ben Star. Ben Star was more cordial when
Speaker 1: we had him on the couch than when Dan and
Speaker 1: I saw him on the red carpet. Who's weird? Jennifer English,
Speaker 1: she was really great and her work is my ol fantastic.
Speaker 1: You know shadow heeart, Mike, you still can't fix shadow Heart.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I did, am I I'll show you my
Speaker 3: savee file sometime Tuesdays.
Speaker 1: All right, gag, that about does it. For emails. BombCast
Speaker 1: at giant bomb dot com is the email address to
Speaker 1: send your emails to Mike Minati's throwing on the glasses. Now,
Speaker 1: if we have received any YouTube super chats.
Speaker 3: Yes we have. We got to feel here, starting from
Speaker 3: Canine Biscuits, who says you are forced to teleport one
Speaker 3: fellow Giant Bond member into a super sexy hair I'm
Speaker 3: anime and the rest of the crew have to watch
Speaker 3: that anime for twelve episodes. I think I know what
Speaker 3: a sexy hair anime is just from context. Uh, Like,
Speaker 3: I don't think it's not porn. I think it's just.
Speaker 6: High school It's just a bunch of high school girls.
Speaker 6: You're like a high school guy usually that kind.
Speaker 1: Of stuff, like a tenshi muyoh sure, yeah yeah, so
Speaker 1: I mean it would it would obviously be fine to watch.
Speaker 3: Dan do it, because he would suffer and like want
Speaker 3: no part of it.
Speaker 1: Right, I think, no, I I transport you, Mike, oh yeah, wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: just because I want to see the hijinks and I
Speaker 1: want to see you turn comically red.
Speaker 3: Like okay, it's just a lot of blushing blushing the anime.
Speaker 3: Ok yeah, and then like nosebleeds ye oh right, yeah,
Speaker 3: just bleeding everywhere. My thing is I'm going to bleed
Speaker 3: out of all the orifices.
Speaker 4: Oh christ, I don't want to see the end of
Speaker 4: this hair an.
Speaker 3: There we go. That's my bit. Uh. Last geek says
Speaker 3: when is jan going to get on cameo? My birthday
Speaker 3: is coming up and I want him to tell me
Speaker 3: he's proud of me.
Speaker 1: I thought about this the other day and I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's absolutely zero people that would ever want a cameo
Speaker 1: from me.
Speaker 3: No, I don't take my referral. Already got you already
Speaker 3: referraled me. The trade has to move on chance, the
Speaker 3: next bug the next little buggy behind me?
Speaker 1: All right? Uh okay, yeah, I guess I'll join cameo.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sybio says Dan with a high real hustle style
Speaker 3: game show work and depth stranding. Also shout out to
Speaker 3: the big dog Matthew Rory.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know again.
Speaker 5: Like Zelda as far as open world game, Zelda has
Speaker 5: the most you know options for a lot of things.
Speaker 5: But dest Training has got a lot of weird items
Speaker 5: and stuff and a lot of weird interactions you could do.
Speaker 4: There could be something there.
Speaker 2: Dan, do you think you'd have to be a like
Speaker 2: end game.
Speaker 1: To do like that?
Speaker 5: Pard is like most of the wackier stuff is kind
Speaker 5: of like as you go further, Like you're not getting
Speaker 5: the coffin board in the first ten hours, you know, No, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: The last one here is from Arnold Diva Karen, Sorry
Speaker 3: I horribly pronounced that. Shout out to Matt for mentioning
Speaker 3: Brian Eckberg. Remember him being Game spots go to editor
Speaker 3: for reviewing all of EA sports games a long time ago.
Speaker 7: He was he went on to turn ten. I think
Speaker 7: he left for somewhere else.
Speaker 6: Ifull he's safe and and doing good things in the
Speaker 6: game industry, is a good guy who's there When I
Speaker 6: started a game spot in two thousand.
Speaker 7: And four, man, the diaspora of those little giant bomber
Speaker 7: game Spot editors has been really fun to watch. So
Speaker 7: I hope you're doing well.
Speaker 3: Brian.
Speaker 7: That name is Eckberg.
Speaker 6: He went by Meckberg as a social media handle, so
Speaker 6: that's why I got confused.
Speaker 5: Rory when you said he went on to turn ten,
Speaker 5: Like legitimate first thought was how old was he?
Speaker 4: When he was a game.
Speaker 7: Little baby does for it, right, I know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, says he's a prodigy. Get literally turning ten years old.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, oh yeah, we had.
Speaker 7: Some young kids at game Spot. There was a guy
Speaker 7: named Avery who came in. He who was like nineteen
Speaker 7: or something like that. It was as a handful.
Speaker 1: Well how old was like Navarro?
Speaker 6: When I was just gonna say he started like sixteen. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you started writing really early. I was seventeen when I
Speaker 6: started publishing game guides to those so I can honestly
Speaker 6: say I've been in this business for almost thirty years.
Speaker 6: But given the shape of the games industry, maybe it's
Speaker 6: time to find something else. And you have an interview
Speaker 6: on Thursday, so send me good, good prayers and hopes
Speaker 6: something like that.
Speaker 7: It's really fun opportunity for me. I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 6: But but yeah, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Well that's it for the super chats, So thank
Speaker 3: you so much. Everybody appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Back to you, Jam, thank you everyone for the YouTube
Speaker 1: super chats. We definitely do appreciate them and all of
Speaker 1: the support. Speaking about support, Matthew Rory, where can people
Speaker 1: go support you on the internet?
Speaker 7: Patreon, dot com, slash Matthew Rory.
Speaker 6: Like I said, I'm pretty good on cash for now,
Speaker 6: like to the end of the year, so it's not
Speaker 6: really gonna be a lot of paid stuff. But if
Speaker 6: you want to send me a little tip jar or
Speaker 6: something like that, I'm gonna put properly petting puppies down
Speaker 6: to the dollar tier, I think, and then we have
Speaker 6: some like weird podcast outtakes and higher tiers. But if
Speaker 6: you just want to subscribe and read what I'm putting out,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna do another long essay about my favorite author
Speaker 6: this week and do some other just kind of writing
Speaker 6: that comes to mind, and then the podcast will be
Speaker 6: every week as well.
Speaker 7: Hopefully my wife and I just need to sit down
Speaker 7: and do the second episode. But yeah, it's really fun.
Speaker 6: Been enjoying kind of getting back into writing, because when
Speaker 6: you've been unemployed for like a few months, it's kind
Speaker 6: of like there's only so many video games you can play,
Speaker 6: which is a weird thing to say on Giant Bomb,
Speaker 6: But yeah, I'm trying to be a little more accountable
Speaker 6: about writing stuff every every week and doing some more
Speaker 6: funny puppy stuff. I had a Holy mac ll The
Speaker 6: first thing I want to do when I switched this
Speaker 6: Patreon thing down. Is put up the most adorable pug
Speaker 6: I've seen in fucking years on that.
Speaker 7: Oh a dollar will get you in YO.
Speaker 2: Did you all see they patched pugs? What's like the dog? Yeah,
Speaker 2: they got like the fixed the breathing.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, what do.
Speaker 1: You mean like they don't you still have your like
Speaker 1: smoosh face pugs. But now yeah, shiamarrow. They put ethical
Speaker 1: pugs that have like a little bit of a snout.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 6: I would get behind gene editing to make dogs more healthy.
Speaker 6: I know there's all these Chrisper stuff about making people
Speaker 6: smarter and everything like that, but make dogs healthier and
Speaker 6: live longer.
Speaker 1: Go for it. Just put it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, use your Chrisper.
Speaker 2: I mean that's kind of what they're doing with the
Speaker 2: with breeding, right, like they kind of are engineering them
Speaker 2: in some combatis.
Speaker 7: Well with Christopher.
Speaker 6: I mean, you can actually put cells into an adult
Speaker 6: and have those be what's the.
Speaker 7: Word for it.
Speaker 6: There's a big long word for like inherited by the
Speaker 6: offspring epigenetics. You can actually do that and have the
Speaker 6: animal offspring. Because before gene editing you can do that,
Speaker 6: it would only affect the person they're putting something into
Speaker 6: so exciting times, I totally just go sign. It's go
Speaker 6: crazy right now. It's a wild world.
Speaker 7: Just do whatever you want, make terminators on them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think athletes should take steroids. Have
Speaker 2: you not heard about the Enhanced Games?
Speaker 7: Enhanced Games?
Speaker 6: There's a dude trying to make steroid legal, uh the
Speaker 6: Olympics for steroid users in America, and he wants it
Speaker 6: to happen this year and he is going forward with
Speaker 6: it and.
Speaker 2: The Enhanced Games.
Speaker 7: It sounds just like, I mean.
Speaker 2: I love the thing that I'm like making a joke about.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh no, it's totally too crazy. Look, you know,
Speaker 2: if Dan's allowed to have a three point zero, a
Speaker 2: pug should be allowed to have a two point Oh.
Speaker 1: So there we go, there we go. Have y'all heard
Speaker 1: of banana ball? Yes?
Speaker 2: Is that that's like the Harlem Globe Trotters for baseball? Yeah?
Speaker 3: But yeah yeah yeah, man, gosh. I try, me and
Speaker 3: my brothers try to get tickets from the coming to
Speaker 3: town so we could take the kids, and like like
Speaker 3: five different adults in our group we're in the raffle
Speaker 3: or whatever it is, and none of us got in
Speaker 3: and it is hot.
Speaker 2: I I think it is, like I'm perfectly okay with
Speaker 2: it existing. You just don't like baseball, well, I don't
Speaker 2: like baseball, but they're trying to like make baseball interesting,
Speaker 2: so that's that's a noble effort. I just think there's
Speaker 2: certain things in this life, like uh, country music and
Speaker 2: wearing flip flops with jeans, and just there's certain things
Speaker 2: are just never going to be for me.
Speaker 4: And I think how to share that email say I'm
Speaker 4: the one who hates everything.
Speaker 2: And that's not I dislike a great deal of things.
Speaker 2: But look, I'm again happy it exists. It's fine, it's
Speaker 2: not for.
Speaker 1: Me, Okay, okay, Uh folks, that about does it for
Speaker 1: the show the rest of this week. Oh, Matt, may
Speaker 1: I give you a suggestion? Sure start a substack as well.
Speaker 6: You know that ownership of that whole place is kind
Speaker 6: of they're kind of like there.
Speaker 2: So Rory, he meant invent your own version.
Speaker 7: Of an engineer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you can look it up. It's it's it's
Speaker 6: not like a higher moral stands for me. But they're
Speaker 6: definitely like free speech absolutionists, which other people say they
Speaker 6: are and then or not obviously, but they they allow
Speaker 6: some pretty hemous stuff on.
Speaker 2: There's that ghost platform.
Speaker 6: To Yeah, that's a weird one that's based on GitHub.
Speaker 6: I believe I did a lot of research into like
Speaker 6: what to put this platform.
Speaker 1: Mom.
Speaker 6: I just kind of like Patreon has a good CMS
Speaker 6: and everything like that, and everybody seems I haven't have
Speaker 6: a thing already. But sorry, Jane, I didn't want to
Speaker 6: bum me out in face for putting stuff up on
Speaker 6: the internet, but just some of the leadership stuff they
Speaker 6: said about who they're gonna allow on.
Speaker 7: There has been a kind of patrio at least has
Speaker 7: all the pornography I want.
Speaker 1: There you gosh, Matt Matt Roger Rory, Matthew Rory.
Speaker 3: Folks.
Speaker 1: The rest of this week, it's gonna be a little
Speaker 1: bit of a short week because of the holidays this Friday,
Speaker 1: So Gay Mess Mornings popping off Wednesday and Thursday, hosted
Speaker 1: by Mike Minatti.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep doing the news. No one can stop me.
Speaker 2: I can't wait for tomorrow to watch you do it.
Speaker 2: I just love you a lot, Mike.
Speaker 3: I think is this the first time ever there's a
Speaker 3: Game Mess Mornings without Jeff Grubb.
Speaker 1: NICKI and I did like a fake Game ass Mornings
Speaker 1: where we wound up talking about the Food Network, Cinematic
Speaker 1: universitys Mornings.
Speaker 3: Yes, fake Meth Boys.
Speaker 1: Uh, tomorrow, no Blight Club and we're waiting until Grub
Speaker 1: is back to start DAN season, so instead we'll be
Speaker 1: doing a Dlight Club with Kayla sitting Shotgun I guess
Speaker 1: or tomorrow.
Speaker 5: He's the Guitar rooman expert. You know, I adore guitar Man.
Speaker 5: I've beat in many times. Kayla has beating on master mode.
Speaker 5: She can like sing all the songs word for word,
Speaker 5: like she's she's the one that'll that'll guide mitched through
Speaker 5: Guitar Rooman.
Speaker 2: Hell.
Speaker 1: Yes. And then later on Wednesday, that's right, we missed
Speaker 1: Mega Man, so we're gonna do Wega Man. Mike and
Speaker 1: I are going to check out Dune Awakening.
Speaker 3: That's right, some MMOs Survival. So people seem to like
Speaker 3: this game, so I'm curious to try it out.
Speaker 1: Mister Backlar s how you raise a finger?
Speaker 2: Yes, While we're promoting a lot of different things, we
Speaker 2: should send people to our discord to help Chuck Tawski
Speaker 2: out with the Wiki Street Team. That's right, we're rebuilding
Speaker 2: this wiki. Oh, I guess people don't know that whole story,
Speaker 2: brick by brick. If they have not, they were not
Speaker 2: able to tune into the premium Discord town Hall, which
Speaker 2: will be up in its replay form on Friday.
Speaker 1: Is that correct, Jam, Yes, that is correct. That's right.
Speaker 2: So head on over to the Discord, and I believe
Speaker 2: Chucksy's gonna maybe unlock that channel for everyone, not just
Speaker 2: premium people. But we do need some of that help
Speaker 2: that was offered up at the beginning of this new Journey,
Speaker 2: new chapter in Giant Bomb to help rebuild that part
Speaker 2: of the site. A lot of cool stuff happening down
Speaker 2: the road on the horizon, so so go do that.
Speaker 1: Speaking about the horizons voicemail dumb Truck this.
Speaker 2: Week with super I Patch Wolf.
Speaker 1: That's right. Oh, we got all the dogs this week,
Speaker 1: so seven oh seven Exit flu send your voicemails in
Speaker 1: and we can chat about them with John later this week.
Speaker 1: Anything else, I'm forgetting boys.
Speaker 5: Next week on the Pomcast, we will have Garrett Martin,
Speaker 5: edit in chief of the newly announced Endless Mode. If
Speaker 5: you want to look that up. That is Elliest Gaming
Speaker 5: is now relaunched as Endless Mode. Look it up and
Speaker 5: we will have Garrett on next week.
Speaker 1: And fantastic once again, Thank you so much Matt Rory
Speaker 1: for taking time at her day and sitting with us
Speaker 1: for a couple of hours.
Speaker 2: Goofen and Gabin, folks. That about does it for the podcast.
Speaker 1: He's been Mat, he's been Dad, he's been Mike, he's
Speaker 1: been Jeff, I've been Jad and you at home have
Speaker 1: been doing great. That's right. I'll open up the cameo.
Speaker 1: It'll be me and scout whatever you want out to
Speaker 1: say too. There we go.
Speaker 2: I'll use my fling, use my leg.
Speaker 3: Thank You's dance like I'm too lazy until next week.
Speaker 2: Goodbye,