Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, January twenty seventh, twenty twenty six.
Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode nine hundred and twenty five.
I'm your host jan Oh Shoa joining me cole Captain
of the ship, Jeff Grube.
Speaker 2: I just got a terrible feeling. Dan's been in a
really good mood going into the podcast. He's been sharp. Dan,
You've been very funny so far. I think this is
gonna be a good show for you. I just realized
there's a strong chance that, like since yesterday, he beat
my score in secretory, and that's going to ruin my life.
So okay, I got chills over here, say I.
Speaker 3: Wish that was the case, Grub. I'll tell you now
you got nothing to worry about.
Speaker 2: I tried. All right.
Speaker 3: We will talk about something in a bit that maybe
could change things, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: That's right, you heard him just now, folks. He is
the looming threat to all of your high scores and
your best times again.
Speaker 2: Riker that to me.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, the human Ramikin, that's right, the holder of
all things, Jeff becklar.
Speaker 4: Oh, Jan, what a what an intro? The human Ramikin?
Speaker 2: It's what's a ram what's a ram In with you?
Speaker 4: I believe a ramik In is just like a small
condiment container. I don't really know that's the definition.
Speaker 2: That's just what I google it, okay, which can't be
what you mean?
Speaker 1: Rum and Cube, Rummy cube, the game Little Domino things
with the colors and the numbers on.
Speaker 2: Him, Rummy Cube.
Speaker 4: Ramikin sounds like someone's last name more than it sounds
like Josh.
Speaker 2: I'm the star of the New Spider Man. Yeah, you know,
I went.
Speaker 4: I went to high school with Barry Ramigan.
Speaker 2: Died, sweet little Ramikin. Oh he's such a good boy.
Speaker 1: Oh, and speak about sweet good little boys. He's not one,
because he's the bird boy of games.
Speaker 5: Mediati Hi, I'm like, Manati, it's still snowing.
Speaker 2: I'll chat the chicken.
Speaker 4: Oh all right, that's how you passed the time in
the snowstorm. Listen, they're calling for another fucking storm.
Speaker 2: Boys, Really, really, what does that mean for all of us?
For meright? This sounds like being punished or something. I
don't know.
Speaker 4: It's a hyper specific forecast, but I trust it nonetheless.
Speaker 2: Like the snow Are you all okay? Left the house
in days? Like, yeah, I'd like to, I'd like to
go out there. But it's not just a lot of snow.
It is also like four degrees now, like it is
as cold as it's gonna get. It's weird hearing.
Speaker 3: You guys maybe having it worse weather wise than we
do right now. We were like in the like negatives
and stuff, but it's not that crazy this time of
year for that.
Speaker 2: But like you guys have the snow that missed us,
that went south of us? Oh really, yeah, we got
it was a huge band like that kind of went
like from the Texas up through the northeast and it
kind of missed Minnesota for the most part. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: I had some neighborhood kids shovel my driveway yesterday, so
that was good. I don't want to brag or get
yelled at for overpaying. I don't know, as there's like
three of them to asked for forty five, and I
was like that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I get yeah, I gave them eighty. I was like,
forty five. Good for you.
Speaker 1: Actually, I got a question right hell yeah, like maybe
the nineties, maybe early two thousands, if you ask kids
to run errands for you like that, I know you'd
give them cash.
Speaker 2: Did you like them for Bob Cratchit is that kind
of what we're talking about here. Yeah, but Mike, how
did you pay them? Wait? Is there a person in
your life that you know that has more cash on
him than Mike Manati? Like, Mikes never likes flush. He's
ready to go with He's ready to go. I could
also see.
Speaker 4: You giving out like Sacagawea coins too, being like the
fucking asshole.
Speaker 2: When my neighbor kids kind of started like shoveling mine,
I wasn't even really asking. They just kind of started
doing it. That's fine. I was like, well, I don't
have cash, can I then mow you guys? And they
didn't have that, So I had to go to the
store and go to the ATM and get cash to them.
Speaker 5: And just to make it clear that no good deed
goes unpunished. And I've been thinking about this too. Someone
chat did mention that eighty isn't divisible by three.
Speaker 2: Well, they can fight. They can fight about themselves exactly
for them. They're doing that.
Speaker 5: They're doing a bunch of driveways. There's gonna be a
haul at the end. They're gonna buy by themselves.
Speaker 4: You're like you're like, thanks for solving my problem. Here's
a problem your own.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, there's gonna be there's gonna be disagreements in
a business. They got to figure this out. Now, that's
great and tell the other one. Oh, Mikey.
Speaker 1: Were these like like siblings or like just a collection
of kids.
Speaker 5: More like teenagers. I think it was they think they
were friends because I just saw like because randomly on
Facebook of all things, or someone just like, hey, my
kid and his friend is out Shelby driveways. Message me
if you want them to do your driveway. I was like, okay,
I'll do that, and they're like, sure enough, these show
up at my door.
Speaker 2: All right, I'll get to it.
Speaker 6: What do you mean Facebook? What are you talking about? Yeah,
I'm just there's like organization stuff on old of you.
Speaker 2: If you want to do something in your town, the
Facebook groups for your town are better than just about
anything else.
Speaker 4: So that it was like a face like your your
town group or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's like a town group in Facebook, and there
are sometimes some permanent pertinent information in there that look
I don't like it, but well yeah, stuff can be
organized in there, and there's like it's weird because there's like,
I wonder if every town's like this. There's like a
couple of people who have somehow become almost more important
than the mayor because they're in charge of the Facebook
group for the small down and they wheeled an unbelievable
amount of power now right, Like they're always talking about
like issues like oh we were not maybe calls, some
numbers and whatnot, and I think people fear them in government.
Speaker 2: It's interesting. That's funny.
Speaker 1: Oh man, movies that reflect small town culture of this
time is going to be very weird when they have
to include like the Facebook group, that War of the Worlds,
the ice cube one, right, of course.
Speaker 2: The only one that matters. Yeah, that last year? Wait
was that last year? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think, oh boy, wow, have you guys tried using
Amazon drones to get you stuff?
Speaker 2: No, not yet. When I do, I will definitely try
to hack them, but we are mere minutes away. I
think from the Chris Pratt like reprise of that whole idea.
Speaker 3: For Rebecca Ferguson being in that, I saw her, you
are better than this, Rebecca Ferguson.
Speaker 2: She had just like taking a check during the pandemic, right,
that had to be what that is so yeah, which case, yeah,
good for her. But yeah, yeah, is she the voice
of the AI? She is the AI.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, she's very good in Glow. I've liked
everything she's been in. All right, folks, we'd be remiss
if we didn't touch on this. I know that we're
a video game podcast, but there are real things happening
in the world. I know that we're all upset, We're angry,
we're scared. I'm terribly angry about what's going on in America,
and I know that we all feel lost, so lost
when people are being persecuted an outright murdered for exercising
their rights as Americans to protect their neighbors. I myself,
I'm a child of immigrants. I live in an area
that is densely populated with immigrants and people of color.
And I'm not gonna lie when there is a fear
in the back of my head where something could happen
to my parents, my neighbors, or even myself. But the
thing that I hold onto is hope and the knowledge
that there are more of us than there are of them.
I know that we are stronger together. We've seen our
friends and our peers across the industry do what they
can to support the folks in Minnesota and other organizations
mobilizing to help all of those affected. So we are
also joining that with our friends over at Minmax and Dan.
If you could let the folks know at home how
we are going to collab and team up with their
dear friends over there.
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of mobilizing, Jeff Grub, how would you feel
about getting on a plane on Friday.
Speaker 2: I'm feeling pretty mobile. Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Okay, I can blow up a mattress for you. You'll stay
here and at five pm Central on Friday, Grub and
I are going to go over to min Max's studio
and we're going to join up in the same room
me Jeff Grubb, Ben Hanson and Jacob Geller, and we
are going to do the Giant Bomb Cross min Max
Ice Out charity stream. We're going to be going for
a while. We got some plans here. We're gonna raise
money for those affected by what's happening here in Minneapolis
and Minnesota. And by the way, you should definitely take
seven minutes watch the video that Hanson made and put
up on It's incredible. If you just need like a
concise video that's just kind of straightforward. There's not a
lot like you know, he's not narrating over it. He's
just kind of showing what's happening to maybe send a
too family members or friends who don't really understand the
severity of what's happening here in Minnesota. Check that out.
Share that. It's a fantastic video. So we got some plans.
It's all coming together hot here. You know, got a
group Jack going on with and Grab and Hanson got
some plans. Look Grub, this is Hanson's idea. This was
not mine. You're just gonna get a full blight.
Speaker 2: That's the plan.
Speaker 3: You're just going to play a full blight while we're
at the men Max Studio. I don't know, and he
won't tell me. I talked to him this morning and
I said, hey, you know, we got to do a costume,
like that's.
Speaker 2: An important part of Blake. Lady's a huge part.
Speaker 3: Way ahead of you. So he's already got a costume
for you.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I know the console. I'm not going to say that,
but h I look forward to that. And also I
teased the secretory thing earlier. I mean held the nucleus
of the score War of Sectory has Grab and Geller
will all be in the same room together. We'll let
Hanson play too. That'll be nice. L sure, yeah, yes, yes,
So the plan is and we're working out all the
details and everything. It should be simulcast on min Max,
on Giant Bomb on all the channels and everything. Jane,
you're gonna chat with Hanson about that. Get that all
going and everything. But yeah, multiplayer stuff incentives things like that,
we're gonna be raising money for a good cause and
please tune in and help again. That's the Giant Bomb
in min Max Ice out charity stream. That's Friday, five
pm Central on min Max and Giant Bombs channels.
Speaker 1: Yes, shouts out to Ben Hanson. I have always loved
the whole crew over at min Max, and that video
concisely explains the situation that is hattening, and also share
that with folks maybe that are outside of video games,
because I feel like Ben took that into account when
he made that. Now the impossible pivot about talking about
video games, I.
Speaker 5: Might I might have a blike club overture to start
off first, says we're a little bit on the top
up a blike club, but you know, yeah, a possible
pid fuck ice by the way and everything. Absolutely so yes,
thank thank you Dan and Jeff for representing.
Speaker 2: Us out there.
Speaker 5: Speaking of blike club, I don't suppose I can persuade
you boys to just tell me what platform this thing
is on. I am struggling a bit mightily with emula
so far. The only one I got working is the
PC engine.
Speaker 2: C D it that one? I mean, do you just
tell him the console? The Dan I was, I always
thought she's telling the console. I don't think its three
it's three to Oh oh that's the hard one. No
two seconds? Okay, really what are Yeah?
Speaker 5: Well, because retro art, it's not just one of the
I can't get opera whatever it's called just to work,
and like you don't need it from retro I just
ran from retro arts.
Speaker 2: There's like that. Talk to me. Yeah, it's the emulator.
You need bios.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're gonna have I think I have bios to me,
I have three years, you could have I have three No.
Speaker 2: We looked up the cost of this. Oh it's none
of us have heard of before. My brother in law
like several meals off of families. Yeah, Wow, we're getting
cheap now, so you would underst We can't just throw
around cube before money. All right, come on.
Speaker 3: It's more than cube before, it's more something more money,
Yeah right, I mean, look, I always assumed it was
three d oh.
Speaker 5: Honestly, MSX. You only know what the MSX is because
of metal gear.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, of course, the reason anybody knows what that thing.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: Whatever, Now I can play Brondo of Blood whenever I
want to.
Speaker 2: Good, Yeah, talk to me.
Speaker 3: I'll get your set up and then we'll get your
games working on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you'll you.
Speaker 1: But but Mikey, the only inside info that I have
is that you're gonna look so freaking cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gotta look real cool. Great?
Speaker 1: What have they led you astray with that? You look
so cool?
Speaker 2: It looking cool?
Speaker 5: It does not matter. It's still a pain in the ass.
I don't care how I look. I'm gonna a Cola shirt.
You think I care how I look?
Speaker 2: You know, I have to say there.
Speaker 3: Is an optional, Like I'm a nice guy, Mike, there
is a part of this co assume that's optional that
I just think would be pretty cool if you did.
But you know, we can't force anything. Do you know
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just like, there's no way he does it,
but it would be cool. Don't think it could be cool.
I just don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just don't think he puts on the whole costume
before we even say the game, because even with the costume,
you won't recognize.
Speaker 2: What you're about to play. Oh yeah, of course, there's
no fucking way. Uh huh playton Madden. This is awesome,
It's gonna be yay, it's the borrow.
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, I mean, look this The reason we
do this is for this reaction, Mike, So come on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to get Stonewall, I can't. I'm in
a motive. Man doesn't like God.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what you say. Well, that's why you're
getting emotional dog.
Speaker 5: Yeah all right, well okay, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I cannot gotta ask why was it with me? Suddenly?
All your's four consoles you have to guess from, say,
the usual. I've only got that many three D O games, right,
I don't think so. The assumption is I would have
figured it out if you said it was three d oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just don't be looking through like the game library.
Speaker 2: Of the three d Well.
Speaker 5: I know more about the three d Oh than most people,
and I still don't know what and keep knowing less.
Speaker 1: What did three d Oh go from being like a
console platform to like a publisher.
Speaker 2: Was that like a quick pivot or was that like
it was always kind a little bit of both, because,
like the three d Oh, the idea behind it, and
I vaguely remember, is that EA wanted to like have
like an open ish platform that was separate from Nintendo
and then the rest of them Nintendo and Sega, and
so three do was going to sort of be this
spinoff thing that the guy that created EA was going
to have, And but they were always going to also
publish games. I think so, yeah, because.
Speaker 1: My knowledge of three d Oh is of them publishing
very shitty PS two games.
Speaker 2: That it bought from Costco. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Battle Tanks is not tear I like Battle Tanks. Hey,
I liked war Jets. I think that's what it was called.
Speaker 2: Somehow.
Speaker 5: There are two hundred and forty six three D games.
That's like almost as many as the N sixty four.
I almost believe that. Yeah, it's a little bit more
than half of what the N sixty four has.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. Are those Army Men games bad? No, they're
not great of ok ones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they led to Portal Runner, which everyone still talks
about it.
Speaker 2: It took over to right again. The streets are rampant
with portal Runners.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, yes, all right, moving on along. Last week
I had a promise from Grub that this would be
the last time he'd talked about Secretory for a while.
And now that promise is brought to my feet again,
this time by Dan. Dan, what is the Sectory update?
Speaker 3: It is the last update, I promise. Actually it's not.
We're lying.
Speaker 2: It's but I got I got fifteen million points now,
So yeah.
Speaker 3: I saw that arm upset about it. I played a
lot this weekend and did poorly. But uh, you all
have been hearing about this game a lot from us,
and we want more people playing it. We want more
people gunning.
Speaker 2: For our scores.
Speaker 3: So we have two hundred codes for Sectory on Steam
for the next two hundred new Giant Bomb Premium subscribers
that is monthly or annual from this moment. Let's mark
the time stamp if you are a new subscriber to
Giant Bomb the next two hundred, and we'll let you
know when they're gone, you will get a code for
Sectory in your inbox.
Speaker 2: Lovely. Yes, good job And if you if you do that,
hit me on the sub on the forums, I will
make a thread and if you've got a better score
than me, let me know and I'll try to come
back and try to beat your score because I want
more people playing this game.
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, it would beat my score because it's bad. Same,
you'll beat me real fast. But I like that game
with great deals really good.
Speaker 1: Okay, I thought you were going to say you liked
being beat like that and I didn't want to.
Speaker 4: Hey, that's my kink getting beaten that Sectory.
Speaker 2: That's it, saw me Sectory. There you go.
Speaker 1: That's a sound clip put on the box. Step on
me Secretory, very very.
Speaker 3: Bond dot com slash join. Yes, go there sign get
your code.
Speaker 1: Yes, we marked the timestamp for ourselves. Twelve twenty three
Eastern moving forward nine twenty four.
Speaker 2: A m Pacific. Uh chuck, No, that also thing you
just said.
Speaker 3: Also shout out to Chimo the developer. Yes, Secretory for
providing that very very kind of and again killer game.
Speaker 2: We want more people playing. Yes, were they impressed by
my score? Did they talk about my score. Uh, sorry,
didn't come up.
Speaker 4: Somehow didn't come upright.
Speaker 2: They must have just been busy, Okay, sorry.
Speaker 1: Uh Dan, you have been playing another game that I
feel like is occupied a lot of your time, just
like Secretory and going from Secretory to sect e Row
and you've you've been climbing the mountain. You've been fighting
eyes on kites, people summoning lightning.
Speaker 2: It's it is doing things to me.
Speaker 3: I've never felt a game due to me before, like
when I beat That was a weird way to put it.
Speaker 2: But uh, we get it. A lot of people, including yes,
Guinea Tiroh.
Speaker 3: Yes, Mike you were you were trying to phonetically spell
it out in my chat last night.
Speaker 2: Is it, guineachierro there we go that fight.
Speaker 3: I've been loving this game from the Actually no, it's
been such a process from the beginning of just like
the beginning.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm giving it a college tribe blah blah blah.
This is too hard.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna try to run past everyone to like,
you know, learning it and learning and learning it. Now
I'm actually starting to get confidence in it and then
running into things that I'm hearing are like real skill
checks and things like that, like the Ganezeiro fight, the
one with the lightning on.
Speaker 2: Top of the tower.
Speaker 3: It's just fucking incredible. I spent almost two hours on
that boss fight, just getting roasted time and time and
time again. But every time it's like, Okay, I'm a
little further, a little further. Who I beat Phase one?
Who face, who's pretty rough? O? Okay when he does that,
sometimes he does the sweep now and now I can jump, Oh,
I got that, And then like, oh, I can peek
into the third thing. Oh, there's this mechanic with the lightning.
I can't figure this out.
Speaker 2: This is crazy.
Speaker 3: And then you figure it out and you feel like
a god, Like I fucking love this game. I'm thinking
about it all the time. I'm probably like, what, twelve
fourteen hours in or something like that. I feel like
I've got quite a way to go. I think I'm
about to fight the monkey. I think that's where I'm heading.
But I beat what Oh the monkey. I love the monkey.
I know the gimmick with the monkeys, so I'm but
I have been surprised, like the kite guy surprised me.
But even like some of the fights that I heard
were like early on difficult things like a lady marmalade,
I beat her without a too much trouble.
Speaker 2: Butterfly, Yeah, that's the one. I don't think they think
that's a Paddington character. That's something else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think I used the snapseeed one, so
I didn't even really find it that necessary.
Speaker 2: It's just I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3: It is exactly what I wanted when I decided to
play this, where it's like, okay, I wanted to feel
like a modern punch out, and that is what.
Speaker 2: It feels like in the best possible way.
Speaker 3: I thought that night guy on the bridge last night,
and like I knew there's a gimmick to it, and
you know, normally, like with my chat stuff, I'm saying like, oh,
I'm not worried about spoilers here, I know about the monkey,
I know about all this stuff. But then there's like,
oh wait, I can tell there's a gimmick with this
guy here. I would like to figure it out myself,
and it's just so satisfying when you figured it out.
I mean this, I really want to beat this game.
I'm not promising I'm gonna be it yet, but like
I think it's well on track to being one of
my favorite games ever, and I think it's wow, maybe
definitely my favorite drum game, or I could see it
head in that way, like I love elden Ring, but
I never got good at it. So like I've never
had that feeling in a game where it's like, yeah,
I'm good at this game, you know. I I just
eat through and cheese through. But like now I'm like
I'm learning it and I'm playing it right, and it's
a it's just amazing.
Speaker 2: Did did you ever play Liza P?
Speaker 3: I did not, But like this might this this feeling
might start turning me into a sicco with this stuff,
Like I'm curious Eliza P.
Speaker 2: I'm curious about Neo.
Speaker 3: You know, like Cayla plays a ton this stuff and
so you know I might ask her like some of
her favorites. So it's just, uh, yeah that the Gina
Tiro fight is a real like that's the highlight for
me where it's like that feeling I had when I
killed him and I'm like, there's that moment before you're
celebrating too much because it's like, Okay, there could be
some bullshit and he comes back to life.
Speaker 2: For one last guess.
Speaker 3: But then you see it like boom and it's like
shnobe execution, and I just felt, I don't it wouldn't
even goosebumps. It was just a wave of just like relief, you.
Speaker 2: Know, coming over me.
Speaker 3: It's just there's nothing like it. I adore that game, amazing.
Speaker 5: Gosh, it's just watching him play it. I kind of
miss it. It is the best, it's the best melee
action game ever. Just yeah, absolutely, it feels so freaking good.
Nothing has felt quite like that sense it has for me.
It's a little bit ego. I'm gonna be playing Liza
p very soon probably whoa, Okay, yeah, man, I am
kind of just craving this feeling gain. I got a
little bit of it from Nine Souls, for sure, a
bit more than a little bit. Nine Souls gave me
that feeling pretty well, even though like that was the
game that I wish was more boss fights, even less
Metroid Vane, as much as I usually love Metroid Vane.
That get specifically, I'm like, oh no, no, give me
more boss fights, give me more two three phase fights.
And I'm like you said, I love that feeling of
kind of crawling and inching closer to victory, and at
first it seems insurmountable, and you keep getting a little
bit better, and then when you finally climb that mountain
and feels so freaking good. I think you can beat
this game. A lot of people say this. If you
can beat Annie Truro, you can beat any boss in
this game. It's just it's it's a matter of persistence.
You have to enjoy that feeling that we're talking about it. Oh,
something is difficult and you get better of at it.
If you're somebody like gets really frustrated at that or
it kind of becomes a slog to you, then it's
not for you. But I love that kind of just
learning process and that improving And this game doesn't have
like run backs or kind of other things like some
of the other Souls games.
Speaker 1: EAD.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think of both of what you describe.
Like I get the frustration, but I also genuinely enjoy
the getting better thing, and like it makes me feel
good that, Like you know, several people have told me
now that like, based on how I'm playing and progressing,
I will be able to beat this game. I think
the thing in my head it makes me think that
I've thought for a long time that I can't beat
it is watching Kayla attempt the last boss fight a
million times and fail out because I know she's so good,
and she's like, I just can't beat this boss. But
now that I know she was playing that entire game
with like six full seconds of input lag, sure it's
not as hard as it was looking.
Speaker 1: So she's like, man, we got to put Kayla in
something because like that level of time dilation, she's prepared
for something.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think we have to keep the
weights on her a little bit should be too powerful.
Speaker 3: Otherwise, watching her stream Expedition thirty three now and just
every one of those like chromatic bosses or bosses that like,
oh we recommend level sixty party for this, she's beating
it like level eighteen. It's just like, so now I
put game mode on her TV and she's like, oh,
that immediately feels way better.
Speaker 2: And now she's just a notice cooking every game. It's incredible. Damn.
Speaker 1: I always knew that she was the rock Lea of
the extended giantlese Yes, God, now I want to pick
up again.
Speaker 5: And so I kind want of just play it again.
But it hasn't beat it.
Speaker 2: I've not been.
Speaker 4: I've played a good amount of it, maybe like eight hours,
and then I was just like just stopped. I know,
I like it, but my memory of it is that
it's a lot more manageable than the other Front games,
right where it's like where I found a lot of
the other ones just sort of I don't know, there's
a lot you.
Speaker 2: Don't have to like build a character in this one,
so it's like you to worry about like getting the
right build, or like you're not worried about am I
failing this because I'm under leveled? Am I failing this
because I don't have the right you know, I'm not
using my build correctly? It's like no, your character is
the character. So then that from that point of view,
I would call this more manageable. Yeah, well, now the
way hasn't beaten it.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to announce our new feature, back Hero, which
will be starting.
Speaker 2: It's more linear, right, Like I.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't call it necessarily there's a yeah, I don't know,
there's a couple split paths, but it really is.
Speaker 2: It is that whole like, Okay, you're not going to
get somewhere. Maybe you shouldn't be. There could be a
little bit of that.
Speaker 5: There's some things that level you up, Like you could
go find more Gord seats so you have more keels
and you can maybe unlock like a new even like
the like the special arts and whatnot. None of that
is as important as just getting good at parrying.
Speaker 2: I mean there's a linearity thing, you know.
Speaker 3: I the thing that kind of overwhelms me at times,
Like last night, you know, I'm going into a new
area after the Cantiro fight and it's like, Okay, well
there's that path there I don't recognize, and here's this
path down there with the monkey hanging on a tree,
and here's this tower of there. So it's like I
kind of have that like it's like, oh, which way
do I go here? Like I want to do all
the side stuff. So it's like it is a little
bit overwhelming to try to like, Okay, I gotta remember
that that path was there. I'm going this way. I
don't want to forget about that because that might be important.
So like that's a little tough for me with the
game with with no map and no quest log or
anything like that. I just don't trust my own like memory,
and so I'm afraid I'm missing stuff. That's That's the
only thing that I'm kind of overwhelmed with.
Speaker 1: The other great thing about Securo you got that grappling hook.
Just sick as hell, all right, gang, Moving on to
another game that is that I feel like is going
to be occupying a lot of time. Yesterday we published
a little preview of hands on time with Resident Evil Requiem.
I got some hands on time a couple of weeks ago.
Go check out that video grab and I kind of
get into the game and my thoughts and feelings on it.
But boys, I just wanted to just bring it up again.
This game has got a bank so fucking hardy, it's
gonna be so fucking cool. If folks haven't seen the video,
just real quick. They are basically mashing up Ari four
remake with Village where you when you were playing as
Leon S. Kennedy, you feel emboldened in such a way,
in such a fucking badass because this this motherfucker traded
in is knife for a Porsche, a Hamilton watch, and
a hatchet.
Speaker 4: That's a pretty good deal, all.
Speaker 1: Three things which were prominently featured and displayed in My
My Little demo.
Speaker 2: Is the Hatchet branded as well, like the wat Yeah,
I seeps. I've glad we all had our own joke
for that chat. This was your favorite.
Speaker 1: Hit Star Star seven, I did like Backlar Supreme Hatchet.
That would be pretty kind of sick. Yeah, but yeah
you are. You can parry as Leon, you can sneak
up and do stealth kills as Leon, and like we
showed off in the video, a lot of the kills
that Leon can do or like contact sensitive. So if
you like boop someone, if you shoot someone and they
wind up kind of staggering across like uh, like a wall,
a corner of pillar, and you get the melee prompt
to finish them off or to do a melee kill,
you'll take advantage of whatever they are like stuck on.
And the thing that we've brought up several times now
is in the showcase, we saw that there was a
zombie doctor wielding a chainsaw in my demo. When I
shot the dude, he dropped the chainsaw, but the chainsaw
was still on and whirrying, so it was just circling
around the floor going crazy. I tried to pick it
up at first, and it cut Leon's ankles and hurt me.
But then another zombie picked it up, and as she
was about to swing at Leon, as she like arcs back,
the chainsaw gets stuck in a different zombie. This game
is gonna be so freaking crazy, y'all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that segment right there is the thing that keeps
sticking with me. It's like, Oh, there's so much programmatically
happening with the physics and the weapons and the zombies
that you could see why they wanted Leon in there
as well. They didn't want to just do one or
the other. It's like, we need the kind of action
stuff to show off all these systems that we're building,
and that's exciting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and for folks that are would would miss the
ri seven Ari Village gameplay that is all prominently featured
with Grace. That is all first person, but you can't
switch the third person. In Grace's gameplay, You're gonna get
like a bunch of puzzles. She isn't as kitted out
at least to start maybe as Leon is, so you
do have to be a little bit more precious with Ammo.
But Grace has this mechanic where she has these syringes
that she can suck up infected blood, and I don't
know how the science is.
Speaker 2: She just does science.
Speaker 1: Does she just does science, but she can craft bullets
and health and these injector thingies out of blood. How
that works, I don't know, but it's fun, it's cool.
I don't know if every environment is going to be shared,
but at least in that opening segment at the psych
word echion place, it is a shared environment that Grace
and Leon are traversing together. So whatever Grace doesn't take
care of, Leon is there as like the janitor to
clean it all up.
Speaker 5: It's interesting to see, like just how much they are
committed to the two different play styles. So the point
where like Grace has more like the again resid evial
seven and eight inventory system and Leon just has the
residue before inventory. I find that almost that's kind of
fascinating as all that still feel cool and like it's
fun switching or is it a little strange, like, oh,
there's two games in one here, it's kind of weird
to switch between them.
Speaker 1: I think tonally, the way that they're doing it makes
sense where like the characters, because we've come to learn
at this point that like Leon is just a badass, right,
and yeah, coming off of seven in Village, we're kind
of just attuned to how those resident Evil games play
and I don't think it's I don't think they clash
at all. I think it's a good mix at least
how it's been paced so far, because at the end
of Grace's segments, I was kind of feeling a little
bit like tired at how scared I was and how
tense I was, and all of that gets solved because
then you get like a bombastic Leon section afterwards. You
can see it in the video we put out, but
there is like this gigantic, blobby, big boy, goofy dude
that is roaming the halls. And with some of these
bigger enemies, they're not just static. So you may encounter
a big boy as Grace in one part of the map,
but that guy is roaming around. He is like constantly
moving around, so you may see him occupy a different hallway,
be in another room doing his own thing, and you
can't really do anything to him as Grace. You just
got to run the other way or just like stealthy
way out of it. But then you encounter that big
boy again as Leon, and from the fucking top rope
Leon just throws a hatchet straight into that dude's noggin
and it is just absolutely satisfying. This game's out in what.
Speaker 2: Three A month? A month? A month's February twenty seventh,
a month from today, oh literally a month A Yeah.
Speaker 5: My other question is kind of about like the setting
you're in like a hotel at least in what you
were playing, Is that right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a it feels like it's a practice
psych ward that also doubles as like a fancy mansion
because some of the zombies you come across are like doctors, nurses, patients,
and then like what looks like hotel guests or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I don't know if this is the
only say in the game, but like it is the
setting kind of working for you?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 5: Does it seem like it might have as much juice
as the Raccoon City Police Department or the Spencer mansion
or you know, the castle and resume four.
Speaker 1: I'm getting the vibe that this isn't the main location
that we're going to be at the whole game, because
at the end of my demo segment, I'd already explored
the whole map that was presented. So I'm assuming that
we're going to shift locations or at least another part
will be unlocked. But yeah, I didn't get the vibe
that this was like, oh, we're still here, this place
is boring.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was great. It was very captivating the whole time.
Speaking about Resident Evil, Mikey, you've been playing Resident Evil seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I played through that game this weekend. Had a
good time.
Speaker 5: I did not play this one back when it came out. Well,
I played it once at the E three it was
at and only in the VR demo, and I was
so scared that the poor booth attendants there basically had
to hold my hand the entire time. And I think
when the game came out either, there was a lot
of hype about how scary it was. I was just like, Nope,
not gonna do it. I don't know, Like, I'm a
lot better with scary games now. I don't find them
as scary. There are some things that many, but there
are some things where it is almost as easy as
a switch. You can't to tell yourself to stop being like,
you say this thing about yourself so much that it
must be true. You think you're afraid of scary games,
then I play scary games and I'm like, it's a
video games still. Really it's fine, especially if I'm streaming
and I don't know something about that be It's the
same if.
Speaker 2: You're playing it with somebody else in the room, it's
not quite as scary. You get through it anyway.
Speaker 5: This is definitely probably the scariest or evil game I played,
but even still, it was mostly playing a video game,
and the stuff that made it scary was fun. Even
jump scares used to be like, well, it can be scary,
but it better not have any jump scares, And now
jump scares are sort of fun too. There's like one
moment where I really let my guard down is where
I was in the house where the mother is and
I'm like, ah, she's over, I know where she is,
she's on the other side.
Speaker 2: I'm fine. I'm like walking around, I'm talking to chat
two to two.
Speaker 5: I go up some stairsly just she just jumps out
in front of me, and I legitimately just scream. I
reflexively paused the game. It was just like, oh, yeah,
it was it was fun. My heart was racing up.
Bit I was caught off guard. And you know, it
was it was funny how the game got me like that.
Speaker 3: I was watching and it's like we talk a lot
about how Mike is just it's it's a shame that
it's just so funny when he gets mad, but it's
also very funny when he's scared.
Speaker 2: So it's just like Mike emoting strongly is always very funny.
Speaker 3: But the reflective pausing thing, it brings me back to
like the old PlayStation ones. I used to go and
have a sleepovers at my friend's place and we're in
like junior high or whatever, and he would literally play,
like you know, if like r E two came out
or whatever, we we'd rent it and then he'd be
playing with the PlayStation in his lap. We would play
in the basement with the lights off, but he would
have it in his lap and then like a jump
scare would happen and he would literally just hit the
power button.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you gotta be careful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But it was as recent as Residuval eight came out,
when I was like, oh, I don't play res Evil games,
I'm afraid, and then I had to review that one.
Speaker 2: So playing that one and then I think, you.
Speaker 5: Know, like Razzie before remake, obviously I love that and
this I played a lot of these now we played
two and three remake both good to remake is just
absolutely fantastic, and I was curious how this one would
stack up, and like really favorably. There's a lot here
that's super neat, especially the setting, the whole kind of
bayou creepy family and house thing. Reside has a lot
of the oh, this enemy's chasing you thing, But Daddy
really stands out.
Speaker 2: The moment where he breaks through that wall. Super neat stuff.
Speaker 5: The gate, you know everyone's talked about the boats not
didn't bother me a ton, But the first half of
the game, where you're running from Daddy and the mother,
it's certainly stronger than the back half with the kind
of saw room moment and the boat and all that stuff.
It's not terrible or anything. It's just it's more interesting
when you're dealing with the House of Horrors and all
of that stuff. But boy, it's just it still is
like historically interesting too. Knowing that this franchise was that
Resident Evil and then there was this and it was
so back to basics. It feels so much more like
Resident Evil One. It's kind of almost a smaller scale
in a way that's really pleasant. You are worried about
things like inventory management and an amo. It feels like
an actual survival horror game. It's you know, being about
ten hours long. It's just a very fun weekend.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're tuned difficulty wise so so well. And it's
like yeah, yeah, you know, there was that whatever they
call their direct or whatever a couple of weeks ago,
and then between that and watching Mike play, it's like,
I'm so in the mood and so ready for ro Quiem.
It's like I'm setting rules for myself on this one.
It's like not watching any videos or gameplay of this thing.
I'm not going to stream while I'm playing this game.
I'm not gonna play it on Steam deck. This is
going to be like I play at night and the
best case you know audio and best TV. I got
lights out, you know, like, just I really want to
get all the way into.
Speaker 2: It the way it was intended. I was so excited
for it, Mike, what was your favorite weapon was the Magnum. Yeah.
Speaker 5: There's like a system in this game where you find
these collectical coins. Uh, and then like, you go to
this trailer and the like bird cages with numbers on.
I'm like, oh, I can get things. Of the coins,
of course, the most expensive one for nine coins is
the Magnum. So I was saving all my coins. I
wasn't getting any of these other upgrades, and I get
the ninth coin. Oh great, I got my ninth coin.
I'm not going to go back to the trailer right now.
They'll push ahead a little bit. Then immediately did a
boss fight. Then after that it was like, oh, you're
kind of a point of no return now, And I
was so mad, and I was playing as a different
character in a boat for three hours. I was grumbling
the whole time, only to realize that I basically had
like no time left to play as Ethan anyways. And
also once I did, they brought the cages back and
I bought my Magnum and I got two.
Speaker 2: Hope bullets for it that I used on the final boss.
I'll tell you what it photomacing shit, all right.
Speaker 3: Chad says Mike goes, and I quote, oh, I don't
need the Magnum right now.
Speaker 4: Just that later was that the was this the one
with like the the labyrinth and the Marble Maze stuff.
Speaker 2: No, wait, Marble may I don't think I know what
you mean. The one you rotate in a little Marble?
Was that for remake? Now, I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the game, just of that. I liked like that,
all right, can we do that?
Speaker 2: You perplexes?
Speaker 4: But I wanted, like, just in the creepy house.
Speaker 2: About a cracker barrel. You'll probably get one there. I
did that cracker barrel.
Speaker 4: Imagine those pretty creepy house.
Speaker 5: I wish the game did have more puzzles actually, kind
of like when there's a good amount of those in
this game, even every.
Speaker 2: Once in a while.
Speaker 5: Here there's this shadow puzzle thing where you had to
move in objects so it looked like a bird or something.
Speaker 2: That was in the beginning, right.
Speaker 5: There's a few of them throughout, and it's easy, but
it's fun. I could have, excuse sneeze, trap it all
the way over here, sneeze, and my god, I came
out of nowhere, thank you. But yeah, a few more
puzzles would have been nice for sure. But yeah, very
very fun playthrough. Uh gosh, I'm at a point now
where I'm like, which was he have I not played?
Because I haven't done zero, Code Veronica Original two, which
is so supposed to be great, and six, I mean,
I know, I don't know when.
Speaker 2: But they're still a part of it.
Speaker 5: Just wants to do this six play through before uh
nine comes out, which is again literally a month, so
I don't know. Uh but boy, something about six and
it's terribleness is calling to me.
Speaker 1: It might be a play club sickness. I've never played six,
and I want to, and I feel like I need
to play.
Speaker 3: No, you don't want it's I played cal and I
went through all the five together and had a good time,
even though five is definitely a flawed game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, co ops always fun, you know.
Speaker 3: And we started playing it and like there's four whole
ass campaigns and we intended on doing it more. We
did one of them and it was like.
Speaker 2: You did Silver the Hedgehog.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did the Silver one together. Yeah, yeah, and
we're just like we're good. We don't like I've played
all of these fucking games. That is just the one
where it's like it's so long and it's so bad
that it's like it's hard to do.
Speaker 2: What was happening at Capcom that led to six?
Speaker 5: Did they just get that weird Xbox three sixty era
pivot to Western market sensibilities and studios, and they just
kind of got really overboard with everything should kind of
be like a Michael Bay movie. It was kind of
their style at the time, like like tying an onion
to your belt. Uh So, yeah, I think just they
lost their way there, which I mean seven was kind
of it wasn't even just a pivot for Resident Evil.
It seemed like a pivot for Capcom in general. Right,
it was a big part of it. Yeah, like let's
get back in our bullshit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were like the switch to HD was really expensive,
so like we gotta make we got to have bigger games,
and the bigger games mean make Western American style games,
and no one wanted.
Speaker 1: That, all right, gang Well, moving from two spooky games
to possibly another spooky game, mister Backlar, you checked out
the re Animal demo.
Speaker 4: It's pretty cool that, Like I don't know, it's cool,
like scary games come out all the time. It's not
just like it's great, you know, I get it. Your
game's ready when it's ready. And I played through the
re Animal demo.
Speaker 2: So this is the Tarsia or Tarsier the developer.
Speaker 4: They sure, however you want to pronounce it, I'm assuming
one way is the right way. They're a Swedish developer
behind the first two Little Nightmares games, which I enjoy,
and it's very much the same vibe. I don't know
the politics of like how three separated off and these
guys went their own way.
Speaker 2: I don't know, if you know, the people didn't really
like three though that much.
Speaker 4: Apparently, Yeah, the other two three definitely feels like it
was not made by them. Uh you know, so take
that for for what you will, but uh, this is
this one is very much in the same vein as
you know og Little Nightmares.
Speaker 2: It is, Uh, it is just a.
Speaker 4: Sort of like silent, very black and white noir like scary,
you know, kind of tag along you know, uh what's
the name when you know, like like what I go
was right where you're just like an escorting Yeah, like
it's a.
Speaker 2: Cinematic platform hashtag or you know parentheses three D.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I mean that's what you're getting here
and there. There's a really satisfying level of creepiness these
you are You start off sort of wandering the ocean side,
you dock at this rocky sort of area and you
just enter this abandoned, weird, fucked up factory and you
start to explore and you start to find these like
skin suits of very upsetting looking creatures, and before you
know it, you're being chased by one.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of extended the demo.
Speaker 1: I really dig it.
Speaker 2: It's uh, I you.
Speaker 4: Know, the I don't think this is going to break
the mold of what you uh are have come to
expect with these kinds of games. And you know, through
another prism of like the Limbo and the Inside games,
and I think they're all related in some capacity.
Speaker 2: But this felt good.
Speaker 4: This seemed to have a really solid mix of like
stealth and a little bit of puzzle solving and just
the right kind of right amount of like fucked up
visuals that I'm this is now more substantially on my
radar than it was before. Yeah, I uh, and you know,
I like, I just don't think it's interesting, right, Like
this is not departing that much from Little Nightmares in
a way where you're just sort of.
Speaker 2: Like, is this Little Nightmares three?
Speaker 5: I think for a lot of people, this is gonna
be the real Little Nightmares three?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there's a really satisfying I think the thing
here is like this is like a super said they
do this, you know, all their games are like little
people with like oversized bosses and like oversized creepy looking,
deformed kind of humans and already doing that in like
I think this this demo was maybe a half hour
forty five minutes tops. Yeah, I dug it, It's on
my radar. Re Animal, let's go. I'm excited.
Speaker 2: Full game at February thirteenth. Yeah, very very soon.
Speaker 1: Well, going from something with nightmarish looks to it to
something that looks like it's straight out of a cartoon.
Jeff Grubb, you've been checking out Escape from ever after?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this kind of you know, sometimes I'll open up
the Steam deck and I did like kind of get
Sectoria to a place where I could put it down,
so like I should play a different video game. And
I went to the Steam Store and I saw this
thing and it is like very quickly you can kind
of clock it as oh that is trying to be
not just paper Mario, but specifically the thousand Year Door.
And you know, my first initial thought is I've seen
this before. What I usually expect to happen is for
a developer to be like, we want to make our
favorite game, and we're gonna spend a lot of time
on it. And I think what often happens is they
spend so much time like creating all the assets and
creating these settings and these these characters that they don't
worry about the pacing too much. What they do is
they're like, we just want to luxuriate in this world
with our characters. And I get that, but it often
gets to a point where it's like I am losing
interest because the story or the propulsion of the gameplay
is not really moving forward all that fast. This game
does not have that problem. It just goes and goes
and goes, and it spends a hot like couple of
minutes setting up just the story, and then you're onto
like the first main area, and the game seems like
it's gonna be set up like a thousand year door
where it's these vignettes. You go from one little town
that has a problem that you're gonna get involved with
to the next. And I'm still early on, but I
could just tell the game it has it, It has
the stuff, it has the juice, It has all of it,
and uh, it looks great, like they really nailed the
paper Mario vibes. I think the characters while looking generic
because they are all fairy tale characters, like you are
a prince who goes to kill a dragon and the
dragon of course gets shrunk down, and Joyce joins your
team and has all the bowser joining your team energy
that you often get from a Mario RPG game. Yeah,
they're just really nailing all of the fundamentals here and
kind of making me want to play like I don't
want to put it down. I'm very like stuck to
the game, which is not something I usually expect to
feel from one of these indie homages to their favorite game. Well,
speaking about indie homages, you've also started Mike Mike. When
you try to say something, you're muted.
Speaker 5: I thought I was gonna sneeze again at one point,
as I say, I love thousand your door. So I'm
curious to see this. I think I think we're gonna
we're gonna do a quick look of this one, right, Jeff,
so you can show me this one. That'll be fun.
Speaker 2: It's worth people seeing, like in person. We'll talk it through.
It's really good.
Speaker 5: You played bud Fables, because that was I think that's
the most popular of the Mario paper Mario likes, and
it is good. I didn't finish it, but I was
enjoying that one.
Speaker 2: Yes, same, I played it, was enjoying it didn't finish it.
It was you know, it was just kind of got
lost in the sauce a little bit. I think they like,
just kind of get I think I had that exact problem,
and it's not too much of a problem because there's
people who want that for a game, just to spend
time steeping in all of its most familiar elements. But
this game's not doing that, and that's keeping me attached
to it a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I think, uh, greb, going from one homage to another.
You've also been checking out Cleared Hot.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad you said the name because I cannot
remember that name every single time I try to think
about this game, I'm like, it's the Helicopter one. What's
you roll all down? I know I wrote I had
to look it up before I wrote it. This is
the Desert Strike, like, this is the Desert Strike, Like, yes,
I those there used to be four genres, right, there
was Mario Out Sports, Double Dragon and Nuclear Strike Slash
Desert Strike, and we would take like, yeah, exactly, and
this was just like one of those games that was
just always there. EA always put out one of these
third person, nice symmetric helicopter arcade attack action games, and
then they just went away because you know, they kind
of ran their course and they couldn't figure out how
to build on top of that fundamental gameplay to keep
them complex enough for modern games. This is somewhere in
between where it's like it's not trying to be a
full on modern game, it's trying to be like a
Desert Strike. There are a handful of other elements to
add to that complexity to keep you interested in what's
going on. A big part of it is like just
a little bit of physics and a rope system, so
you can drop your rope and pick up your friendlies
and then they can get on the helicopter, unless your
helicopter's full, in which case you could pick up you know,
like eight people, have them sit in the helicopter, and
then you could still pick up one more on the
rope and then you kind of have to fly them
back to the base, but not don't fly so fast
that the rope flies up into the propellers and kills
your friends. Oh it's that sort of thing where it's
like you can just pick up a truck fly at
the enemies, like stop, and then let go of the
truck and it'll just fly into the enemies and sort
of like roll like a bowling ball through them. It's
that and that stuff is adding very much to my
enjoyment of this. I liked the Desert Strike games like
they were okay, I always wanted to play them more
than I actually enjoyed playing them. This is actually haling
like in a way. I always wanted those games to hit.
Speaker 1: I consider this an unk game, mostly because my uncle
commandeered my PS one that he got me for my
birthday so he could play those Desert Strike games or
I don't know if they were the Desert Strike games,
but something similar on the ps There was a.
Speaker 5: PS one was it? That wasn't Jungle Strike? Why were
they striking on the PS one? I get it up.
Speaker 2: It could have been Jungle Soviet Soviet was one.
Speaker 5: Soviet Strike sounds right to me now because I think
Jungle Strike was still as genus Jules.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Nuclear Strike one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, clean, so it must be PlayStation yeah, yes it
was Nuclear Strike. God.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing this box and hating it because I
couldn't play my own games because my uncle was playing
Nuclear Strike.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: So here the order was Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, Urban Strike,
Soviet Strike, which is also on the PlayStation, and then
Nuclear Strike, which yeah.
Speaker 2: And that was it. Then it just ended. Uh that's
too bad. Yeah, I did not play Mega Copter. It's
just like a back in the day PC version of this. Yeah.
Oh no, yeah, this sub sits on Steam. I'll check
it out well.
Speaker 1: Speaking about the PS one, Mike Minatty has been playing
a game that looks like it is ripped straight from
the PlayStation one. You checked out vital Shell last night
on Mega Man, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Jane, was it you who brought this one up last week? Yes?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So this is the game that looks like a
PS one or even say a Saturn game with you know,
mechs and a little bit armored core one ye, a
little bit even virtual on. I'll say the game plays
very much the Vampire Survivors thing that we were walking around.
You're automatically shooting your guns, you can't aim them, but
generally you let them go and you killing me say,
drop a currency that helps you level up and you
get new guns and abilities and stat upgrades. You know,
I'm not as much of a sicko for the Vampire
Survivors as some of you all are, but I was
still enjoying this quite a bit for for for that playthrough.
For one thing, I just I love that early PS
one vibe. They have the music that goes along with
it too, right, that weird kind of what people call it,
like like jungle use.
Speaker 1: That kind of jungle beats kind of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's just it's just it's so very drum
and bass.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very drum and bassy of like mixed with like
a piano being oddly like calming. So the vibe, we're
just absolutely immaculate with that and all the chunky graphics
and everything. The menu look straight out of PS one,
where you have like the icons and it's on a
rotator and you're just rotating to look at a memory
card for your save files and things like that. And
you know, the mechs were a bit differently. The first
one was was somewhere standard, but he had a shield,
so he had a bit more defense. Then the other
one was like, oh, every time he reloads, it's a
good thing. So you're doing builds where you can reload
as much as possible. Then throw one was more of
a mage and when he dashed, he left behind a
fire trail stuff like that. I really liked where the
boss is actually because at the end of each run
you would fight a mech that you would then unlock,
and I thought that was actually kind of interesting instead
of just doing the typical I'm running in circles around
this group of enemies, not as a boss, and it
becomes a little bullet helly even as you're dodging their attacks.
Speaker 2: So that was a nice spin to it.
Speaker 5: So yeah, if you're looking for one of those and
you have an affinity for that era of gaming, like
I do, I think vital Shell is a pretty easy reckon.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, uh something that is kind of a
I don't know whether or not to recommend it, but
we did celebrate it yesterday because yesterday was High guard Day.
Speaker 2: My fellow High Guardians.
Speaker 1: With sub High Guardians Guardians a galaxy. Oh I don't
want to be that ride, no, but you can summon
your bear, your panther, your horse out anywhere as long
as there's space. Dan Grubb, Mikey and myself attempted our
best to play high Guard.
Speaker 3: It's one of those games it seems to be a
whole genre now where you play with a bunch of
people online and you do a bunch of boring chores
and then you die. I don't know why this is
a popular genre. I don't like it, and I'm uninsulted.
Speaker 2: Immediately, I was like, there's something here in terms of
the movement, and I don't even dislike the characters, but
playing the game, I don't like that it is so empty,
the three v three. I'm surprised that the team that
did titan Fall wouldn't have had just like mobs for
you to clean up while you're on your way to
one of these these chores that you're supposed to do, Like,
just give me a few like stupid things to shoot
that I can also get crystals from other than just
hitting these crystals. Yeah, keep your voice down with the crystals.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's just I don't know.
Speaker 5: Maybe if I really stuck with the game, I would
like enjoy this sloop a bit. It seemed a little fussy,
especially like there's like this whole like defend your base
phase in the beginning, reinforce the walls.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of like, why don't you just do that?
Speaker 5: Why don't you just reinforce the walls that you think
should be in reinforced? Are these really interesting decisions that
I'm making on which walls to siege?
Speaker 2: But it wasn't here. It's not weird at all. Siege.
Speaker 1: It's like a smaller contained environment, right, and like the
phases in between matter versus here.
Speaker 2: Because it's smaller, you like funnel the enemies into a
certain way, and like you want them to come in
this direction, and you want to put up a path
that is resistant to them so they come the way
you want. And here that there's so much openness and
all these different directions thing come from. It's it's not
the same.
Speaker 1: The map doesn't feel like it. The map is huge,
but it also feels like it doesn't quite matter because
like the phase, the gathering phase of loot and then
waiting for the shield Breaker to spawn. Most of the
time in our experience, the shield Breaker was like somewhere inside,
so it's not like you can camp somewhere and like
snipe someone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and like I wasn't like when we were
in that gathering phase, It's not like I ever saw
an enemy. Yeah. I was always always able to just
walk up to any treasure chest I saw, go get
it without any pushback whatsoever. So why not I guess
that's that is just like who's going to get on
their mount and run around fast enough to upgrade their
character and get a little bit of an advantage that's
not super interesting. I want to like that should be
there should be a little bit more pushback there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it's just it's hard to get a
sense of is this a me thing that I'm just
not interested in this kind of game or their actual
design problems here? You know, it's part of me wants
to be generous to think it's more of the form.
Or if I want to play one of these, I
will play an Overwatch or a Marvel. If I'm going
to play something that's kind of a hero shooter elements,
I'd rather it feel more like a hero shooter.
Speaker 2: Yea.
Speaker 5: These other games like this, even APIs Lunch is a
bit where you have a hero and they have like
an ability and an alt and those don't even seem
necessarily that important. They kind of come up so infrequently.
It is mostly just you know, you shoot people, and
you shoot people in these very specific situations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I just I wasn't quite understanding the flow, and I
don't know if I felt so intrigued like oh no,
there's something here. I just got to push through it
to want to push.
Speaker 1: Like it feels fine, it looks great. Oh yeah, yeah
it can like there's some light mantling there. There's definitely
DNA from Apex legends in there. But yeah, I didn't
feel like the abilities really mattered. I think it may
have hindered sometimes. Maybe that was just me throwing a
defensive ice wall in front of myself when I meant
to be pushing forward. But I think a lot of
us were forgetting like, oh right, we have abilities, yeah.
Speaker 2: Which you know, when I had my knife ability as
the kind of girl that can go invisible, it's like,
oh it's fun to shoot the knives out at people, uh,
for sure.
Speaker 1: But but I I can't imagine playing this game with
randoms though, especially when the squads are only three people,
because then it's it highlights instantly if you are dropping
the ball or if someone's kind of like a jerk
on your team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be pretty obvious, like the where the
weakness is at, and that's a I think it's gonna
it's gonna trun off a lot of people who are
who just want to have fun with these games. It's
free to play, right, Yeah. Yeah, So it was you know,
realte I mean, there was a course of tutorial and
the tutorials probably a little long because you know, there
is so much going on, because it's not just it's
not just stuffing we're talking about like also, yeah, go
get the crystals and then sell them to a guy
at a shop for other things and get shields, and
you lose the shields, but you can buy more shields
and upgrade your weapons, and after the one attack phase
you can buy better shields, and it's you know, some
people crave that complexity. Here's the reason why the you know,
the the Dota twos of the world are super popular,
and maybe this will find a similar audience, but that
that kind of thing has not really ever been I
don't know.
Speaker 1: It's like, like, you know, we're talking about trying to
do Deadlock this Friday for UPF and I dipped into it,
and there's a lot of stuff going on in Deadlock
as well, But I feel like there are different things
to engage with each step of the way, much like
a Mobia versus here. There are different phases, but it's
not like there's anything like major happening. It's just like
a lot of waiting, right, Like grub, I didn't even
think about how this game would be improved if there
were just like little mobs to shoot in between, and
by the time we were done with our time with
High Guard, it felt like it was more useful to
actually just go mine for the crystals or vesper or
whatever it was called, rather than actually like looking for
different items in the chests.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I'll put this way.
Speaker 5: This game just had like a control point mode, right,
That's something you played more like Overwatch too. I'd probably
rather play that mode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I think I'm just a little bit
confused about, like early on, by what the game wants
me to be doing to have the most fun with it.
If it was putting us in close proximity and creating
opportunities for us to use our ultimate frequently and getting
a lot of juice out of that, Like I had
one character where it's like she was a I was
supposed to go forward and do recon, and she has
one cool special ability where it's like, you throw the
eagle up and if people move around you, you're gonna
spot them and you'll be able to see them through walls.
That's fine. Her ultimate was that the eagle goes up
and now you take control of it like Assassin's Creed,
and then you fire down these like slow moving shots.
I'm like, okay. It took me a while to be like, okay,
I'm gonna only really be able to take advantage of
that in very obvious, long prolonged team fights, because if
I try to use it in any other situation, they're
just gonna run away and they'll get out of my range.
And the eagle moves very slowly and the shots move
very slowly, so it'd say, okay, this is very situational,
which is fine in a lot of these games, but
there's not a ton of characters. And even then, there
wasn't like a lot of like, oh, this is the
obvious character you're gonna go to if you want to
feel this in the game. I was gonna maybe need
to spend a lot more time with it to figure
that out, and I just wasn't feeling the desire to
do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that ability, in particular, I feel like, is kind
of hard to pull off when there are just three opponents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to like have them clump together and
try to do the damage that way, and it's yeah,
that's usually not gonna happen in this game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I don't know, it's it feels perfectly fine,
it looks Yeah, I just don't think. I also uninstalled
it afterwards.
Speaker 4: It I'm kind of crazy that, like a lot of
these kinds of games now, they just have a very
finite limited amount of time to make that impression. Yeah,
and then if they don't make the impression, they're kind
of cook right, Like you know, it's I don't know
what to make of that. I just think it's it's
just kind of the reality for these things, right, I mean.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's rough out there, and it's
you know, there's a lot of discord. Some people are
like everyone was just judge this game because they're they're mean,
and like, oh, it should be get a chance, and
actually it's good. I don't know, it's I think people.
There's definitely gonna be some of that. I think ultimately
people are going to just react to the game based
on how they feel about game. This game might have
an audience, but I just don't know if this thing
is going.
Speaker 2: To appeal to some people.
Speaker 5: It might, it might, but yeah, it's it's put the
whole you know, is last thing at the Game Awards.
What did that do for this game? Was it a
good thing that got that many eyes? Or was the
expectation thrust upon it unfair? Is that a bad situation?
You know, we'll never see the alternate reality where the
other thing happened. Is there a world where this game
could be a giant hit?
Speaker 4: I don't Well, no, I don't think. I think the
game the last thing in the Game Awards gave it
the attention to give it almost one hundred thousand concurrence
at the start, and perhaps without that exposure it doesn't
have that.
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 4: People I don't think people sour on it more easily
because of that.
Speaker 2: I think it had benefited.
Speaker 4: From an initial sort of like attention, but I don't
think it would at any differently.
Speaker 2: I mean, I do think that the rush to be
one of the reviewers for this game on Steam happens
because people want to like like express their displeasure with
it being the last thing in the game awards. I
think that is stuff affecting its initial reviews. But uh yeah,
I don't think it's fate would be all that different
in any other situation.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we as a collective would have
played it right.
Speaker 2: It's not for us. I don't think it's for any
of us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm curious to see if folks that are
super into Rainbow six Siege, if like this is like
tickling any of those.
Speaker 2: Juices. You don't tickle juice? What am I saying? You
can tickle juice? All right? Cool?
Speaker 1: If it's like scratching that itch, right, because I know
like Siege players have been kind of upset over the
last like year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's in a weird place. I haven't played it
in forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right, Well, happy High Guard Day to
those that celebrated.
Speaker 2: We hope you had a good day yesterday. Folks.
Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick bricky break and we
will be back with the news right after this.
Speaker 2: This is je Brob. I thought, oh, he's got up
news to share with you. Hello, everybody, let's do some news.
Let's start with a couple of smaller things, just kind
of quick updates from things we talked about elsewhere. Uh.
And they had that Mario movie direct over the weekend,
and Yoshi and Birdo were both featuring the trailer, and
the trailer was about Yoshi. Erto was in there. Mouser
was also in there. Mouser from Mario too, with the
glasses and everything. Oh, I gotta see this way. Yeah,
your guy. And he's a cool dude. Yeah, hold on
the glass with his sunglasses and his bombs sunglasses in
the bombs. He was basically the Mario universe's Beuta Bomber.
He was very cool.
Speaker 1: Okay, I I don't know what I'm trying to connect
here yet, but one of the Afty brothers is in
this movie, correct.
Speaker 2: Yes, Kim Benny Safe Bowser Junior. Of course.
Speaker 1: The other Saftie brother made Marty Supreme and that character's
full name was Marty Mauser. Oh, ship's been here this
whole time.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm trying to connect the universe now?
I see it? Is this the dinosaur? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Where the fuck is Mauser? Oh? He's like google it, okay,
and I don't see him. Okay, I'll google. That's graouser
in in the trailer.
Speaker 5: And what I like about this trailer is that if
you only saw this trailer and then we're asked to
name what you think this movie is called Mario Galaxy,
is not what would come up? I'd be like, oh,
this is the Mario Honesty, it's a super Mario Brothers
two USA movie. Shy guys, I see there's a lot
of two stuff. I mean, there's a lot of World,
there's a lot of Odyssey. Even have BB Mario BABYG
showing up for a frame that they are holding so
few things back that at this point, I'm like, oh,
Warrios definitely, if he's in this only the stinger or
he's the setup for the next one, there has to
be something for that at this point.
Speaker 1: We talked about that yesterday. Do y'all think they avoided
the Odyssey name because of the Christopher Nolan flick later
in the year.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, incredibly good chance the next one is
just called Super Mario Odyssey at this point.
Speaker 5: Okay, you can't do World after you've done a freaking Galaxy, right,
that's going back.
Speaker 2: That's smaller. Uh, beck, are you have a pain?
Speaker 4: I'm just grimacing in my seat. I'm not exactly sure why.
I just, you know, I don't know, Like I feel
like Nintendo's spending too much. They're they're wasting their money.
They're wasting their money spending time on this. Everyone's gonna see.
It's gonna make eight billion dollars. Just shut up, I
don't care.
Speaker 2: I feel like they're probably paying a minimal amount. They're
letting the Hollywood studio that is desperate to continue working
with them handle most of those costs. I bet you know,
Like it's fine.
Speaker 4: Like I was perfectly whelmed by the first one, and
I'm sure I'll be perfectly whelmed by this one.
Speaker 2: Just when I am just going to show up for
the references. Yeah, show me if you're gonna put Mouser
in there, You got me, Like, I want to see
it is work going to be in here? Please, I mean,
let's do it. That's what that first movie was.
Speaker 3: I remember seeing like all the punch out stuff in
the pizzeria at the beginning. All right, this is made
by people who have played video games.
Speaker 2: I like playing that.
Speaker 5: Simpson's Fortnite season right as run around and being like
I remember that episode, I remember this video game. I
mean there's some stuff here story wise. I like the
idea of Toad being jealous of Yoshi. I think that's
kind of funny. That makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can see like, oh, it's this new wacky sidekick.
He's just part of the group.
Speaker 4: Now, you know, you know what, let's do this exercise.
Is there anything predominantly the first one that you would
that you would hope that they like learned maybe a
lesson and and and correct a little bit in this
second go I saw someone in chat say stop with
the eighties music.
Speaker 2: No way they're gonna stop doing that. You like it,
but yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 4: Kids like it because I don't think kids know it.
Speaker 2: I think it's no. My kids are like, well, now
when they hear like one of the Mario movie songs,
I can't think of an example.
Speaker 1: They're like this from Mario, it drives me crazy. I
need a hero, right, yeah, I need to hear that's
from Mario. Guys from Shrek, Yes, Trek two is so
spoken for that one. I was kind of a gas
that they dare use I need a hero The worst
was I think in the soundtrack you can hear the
composer made this really cool medley of donkey cut country
music for the Secrets where they enter the Kong Land.
Then of course that got replaced by take on Me
or whatever. It's it's it's it's it's cringey, but take
on Me is the one that they.
Speaker 2: Definitely say that's from Mario at least it's not.
Speaker 3: The music video was a sketching pencil.
Speaker 2: In terms of like the story, I don't know, like
what do you what are you gonna do? I just
don't care if I want some like a pathos, like
just make it uh, make arnold, make the characters grow
and change in a satisfying way that they did in
the first one. But just it was so rote that
I don't I don't know you killed Donkey Kong, Kill
Donkey Kong.
Speaker 5: I want to say some kind of commitment of clarification
of the Mario Peach relationship, while I either want him
to be specifically friend zone or I wanted to move
to the next step. Finally, this weird knowing that it's
been in for the last forty years. It's it's too much.
Speaker 2: You need screen for Mike Manati Chicken.
Speaker 4: You need sweet release from their sexual tension, is what
you're saying.
Speaker 5: Yes, is a sexual tension, it's kiss tension, it's kiss tension,
whatever you want to call that.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's like it's it's barely peck on the cheek tension.
And we're talking about it.
Speaker 1: Is it's gonna be like arm around Mario and then
like you at the end of.
Speaker 2: Mario World and there's fireworks with the hearts. Yeah, but
it's always like this is your reward. It's never just
like I want to kiss you because I have an
attraction to you right now, because that's how I feel
about you.
Speaker 4: I did enjoy Mario's family digging on him.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 5: Give me more than the family. Yeah, that was that
was the best thing that they added that the game.
Speaker 2: It's because it was Charles Martinez. This guy they're like,
he can't voice acting, do like regular voices, and then
he does like most of the voices in the movie. Yeah,
that's insane. He'll do everything else.
Speaker 1: I want. I'm okay, not I want. I'm gonna predict
the end. Stinger is warrior. He sitting on a throne.
They're just gonna rip off the whole Thanos reveal in
the m c U. But as he gets up to
like walk towards the camera, he's gonna fart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good. Don't you think they'll that's actually other?
Speaker 4: Ut, I feel like Kirby will just like show up.
Speaker 2: I think that they start doing that, they're gonna have
to go towards like a Smash Brothers like Connecting Universe,
and they could, but I don't know if they're ready
for that yet.
Speaker 4: But yeah, and Kirby can't hold a movie by himself.
We just all all agree, you can barely hold the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly true. You too. Oh yeah. He had a
long running television show where he did not talk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's right back at you, okay. It had a
sick theme song.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, King D sounded like Colonel Sanders and there
was a villain named s Cargoon and guess what he was.
Speaker 2: That's pretty sick. That's really good. Hey, we talked about
that ray Man. I think somewhere Mike I might have
mentioned to you, like they instead of doing a ray
Man remaster of like the older games, they were going
to do one for ray Man Legends. That is probably
still happening. But there's also ray Man thirtieth Anniversary that
got rated I think by the Australian Rating Board. I
didn't write it down here. Atari is listed as a
publisher and developer, which means that would probably be Digital
Eclipse doing like a collection or maybe like one of
their gold Master series things for Rayman and then and
the name ray Man thirtieth Anniversary suggests it's probably like
a look back like that, So yeah, pretty cool, that'd
be great.
Speaker 5: Rayman one is like, if such a pretty game has
a lot going for it, it's way too hard, and
that's something you can adjust relatively easily with a remaster package,
but just adding some checkpoints and getting rid of lives
and things like that, adding a rewind feature. They don't
think ray Man two is actually one of the best
three D platforms for that era. You could like play
the N sixty four version of that on nso, but
that's not the version you want. You want something based
off the Dreamcast version with the voicelected cut scenes and
things like that. There's even some of the portable games
from that era as well. So yeah, I would love
a ray Man collection of some kind. Actually, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 3: I never played the Rayman games, and I don't know
if it's because like they didn't like reviewing any of them,
so once you got to like legends and origins, those
are the only ones I played. I never played any
of the original ones, and like, I feel like they
probably got like in the sevens and eights in reviews,
so I.
Speaker 2: Probably two was reviewed very very well. Yeah, okay, very well.
Speaker 3: Then I'm thinking, like, I think I just always thought
he looked stupid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet you probably think me, But I love
how stupid he looks.
Speaker 1: I think I think I always love like this dude
winding up his fists and building momentum, but he doesn't
have an arm to actually build up the momentum.
Speaker 2: It's not really we'll find him like immediately appealing. But
I also just I do like the way he moves
around and he's charming. I like him over because.
Speaker 3: Of his origins and Legends were really good.
Speaker 1: I thought because of Rayman, I I always thought I
could use my hair as a helicopter.
Speaker 2: I think you still can.
Speaker 5: I remember when his Auto Runner was like the one
mobile game a lot of people liked, right, whatever Jungle
Run or something everybody really like that MN Auto Runner
for a while now right, Yeah, uh okay, let's see
here next door. Grand Theft Auto six may not have
a physical version on day one the excuse series to
avoid leaks. Take two in Rockstar may delay the physical
release of Grand Theft Auto six to prevent spoilers and leaks,
according to a report citing an insider. The insider claims
Take two has no current plans for a physical edition
at launch, suggesting it will debut digitally first. The physical
version could follow a few weeks later, or as far
out as early twenty twenty seven. This is likely due
to this game leaking and then trying to avoid that. Yeah,
it also helps with like preventing a huge number of
people selling their game when they're done done playing it,
Like it will put a huge dan to the secondhand
market for this game all in one go. Yeah, And
I will say, if any game can get away with this,
it is certainly Grand Theft.
Speaker 2: Auto six, So why wouldn't they? This also says to me, like,
if they're thinking, hey, we can get away with this,
they can obviously get away with one hundred dollars. This
game is going to be expensive and digital only at launch.
Speaker 3: Do you think part of it is to like, if
people own it digitally, they will be more prone to
jump into online over the years.
Speaker 2: I mean the game, yeah, it's already there, exactly. Yeah,
they don't want people to have to like go find
their disc and put it into the system.
Speaker 3: Or if they told if they can't access it and
spend money in the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's got a bunch of benefits for them,
and it stinks. Yeah, it's like a.
Speaker 5: Little bit surprised just because you would think they would
want this game on Walmart's store shelves for like Christmas, right, Yeah,
that is a lot that would.
Speaker 2: Sell around then. But yeah, they probably can still just
get away with it.
Speaker 1: Do you think that if it was going to be
physical day one, that there would be a market for
people trying to perhaps rob Walmart's and other brick and
mortar stores to get the game early.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that this if there was a
game that was going to encourage people to go to
extreme lengths to get it before anyone else, it is
this game. But I just don't I don't think that's
what's motivating Rockstar definitely a major thing back in the day.
Speaker 3: I would definitely go to Walmart's in the middle of
the night and Rob games came out, not Rob that
I would try to like social engineer my way into
getting a game.
Speaker 2: I would do.
Speaker 3: I would go like three am, because that's some people
like that super don't give a shit or there.
Speaker 2: If I knew it was like a twenty four hour Walmart. Okay, yeah, yeah,
they were all twenty hours back in the day.
Speaker 3: So like, if the game is coming out on Tuesday,
but I knew like Monday the shipments were coming in,
I'd go in. I'd ask someone at like three am,
be like, you know, like two nights before, be like, hey, yeah, no,
I heard I heard their selling those I heard there,
and I saw a lot of reports online that people
were like, you know, they're in the back, they're just
not on the shore, like and I can buy one
of those that try to get one that way.
Speaker 2: I respect. I've done that a couple of times. Yeah.
I think it only worked for me once at a Walmart.
But yeah, it was fun. Uh yep, So we'll see
grand theft thought of six still a lot to be said.
That game is now it's later this year, right, it's
not May anymore. When when was it like its fall now.
Speaker 5: I think the one Walmart game I got like that,
like they just kind of put it out a day
early was Mario Galaxy and it was amazing.
Speaker 2: So that's a good one. Yeah. November nineteenth, twenty twenty six,
we'll see who got the pbacy critic backler. I did, Okay,
I could pay off or hurt you. I bet that's
the only two ways it can go.
Speaker 5: That's fine, But I don't know. I was pretty confident
it was going to come out last year too.
Speaker 2: I'm like this, and of course they did. I was
an idiot in the towards the effort of correcting things
and updating things. I talked about PlayStation maybe having a
state of play in February. I said February twelfth, and
I said the week of February twelfth, because then I
looked at the calendar and feb February twelfth was a Monday.
Then I looked again, No, February twelfth is a Thursday,
so it probably is that day. But let's keep saying
the week of February twelfth. They do have to kind
of update us saw in a bunch of their games
we already know about and I would expect that to
be the big bulk of this. That could be Sorrows,
but it's it's probably also to con TOCN and it
probably also marathon. Marathon's so close, they probably do update
us about that here and then I would expect surprises
as well. But you know, we'll see. We're at that
time of the year where they probably want to like
set up some things for twenty twenty six. But even
like the big things, like I don't think Wolverine shows
up here as well. They had a thing about Wolverine
last year. We probably don't get that again until later
in the year when they're much closer to releasing it.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty dedicated Wolverine one, right, Like that's it.
I would expect Scator, Yeah, yes.
Speaker 2: I think. I mean, there's always the chance they throw
it into like you know, the first initial trailer into
a regular state of play to attract a lot of
eyeballs to a state of play. But then yes, that
thing gets its own dedicated thing as well. Down the line.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's that two D Metroidvania God of War that
we all still want to hear about. There's a couple
of Square Enix games that are very PlayStation affiliated fifty
seven remake Part three, and of course Kingdom Hearts for
and Keenum Hearts for Us has to come out of
its hibernation at some point here and show us something again,
and you know they'll probably still even be like, yeah,
I don't forget about Resident Evil Requiem. That's you know,
played that on PlayStation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a good point. Yeah, yeah, some.
Speaker 5: New things hopefully that we're not expecting as well, because
it is a little bit right now, like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorrows. I mean there's token as well, things happening.
I want more.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else on my Kajima's side that like
could be coming out?
Speaker 2: Pissant, Yes, piss Ant is the yeah, kojimas that's far away.
He also has O D he's working on with Microsoft,
so that wouldn't be here. I don't know, probably not. Yeah,
it's too soon for a director's cut of what you
McCall it right too. I mean, was it a year
after the first one? A couple of years. He's the director,
he cut it. Why would he have to uncut it.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have any power there, That's the thing.
Speaker 2: I assumed to cut it for a good reasons, like
the studio metaled like, like, what's wrong?
Speaker 1: Do you already cut it? That was the director's cut?
Oh uh, Chat is pointing out Ghost of Yota multiplayer
could be introduced with sush.
Speaker 2: Yeah they did. They did promise that, right, that that
is for sure coming. So yeah, that probably doesn't show up.
Maybe maybe another PC port of something now sure? Yeah, okay,
well that's gonna be happening.
Speaker 1: What is my my bold, my bold prediction. We're going
to get an ape escape game. I would like that
based off of nothing, based off of this.
Speaker 2: Off of nothing, and who's gonna make it? Jan All right,
let's see your PlayStation will report. Oh that's the one
I just did. Two unreleased Virtual Boy games are coming
to Nintendo Switch as part of the Nintendo Switch Online
exp pack. Nintendo announced the initial launch lineup of the
Virtual Boy games coming to Nintendo Switch and switch to
on February seventeenth. Still have not gotten my Little Plastic
Coaster yet, hopefully it's on its way. Let's see here
that that was one hundred dollars of course, and that's
what you need to play these games on your Nintendo
Switch and switch to that you pop into this Virtual
Boy thing anyway, they're gonna have two unreleased games including
let's see here, what are they the Well, they had
the ones that were previously released Teleroboxer, Collected Pinball, Red
Alarm Golf, Virtual Boy Warrior Land, and then three D
Tetris and The Mansion of Innsmith and all of those
will be there at launch. And I think, are those
the unreleased ones? The Mansion Terris? No one of them
has to be bound high because I one was a
racing game.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, it's got an a bound high because
that's a game that they finished. And I played it
like people just have it floating around. I played it
at a GDCI or something.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this is cool. Zero Racer and
D Hopper Zero Racers and d Hopper. You know what
d Hopper is. It looks I'm going to resist. Oh
my goodness.
Speaker 1: It looks like no, no, no for having a good
time today.
Speaker 2: It looks a lot like what's the bunny robot jumping
game for PlayStation Jumpy Flash. It looks like a top
down jumping flash. Uh so, but you can have three
D effects. You guys know how the screen on the
Virtual Boy works. I learned this in the last week
or two because the slow mo guys did a video
about it. Do you know how this fucking thing? Guess
what the resolution is of a virtual boy screen? Oh,
one of those numbers is way too high? Oh the horizontal,
I guess. Okay, so way too You said eighty less
than that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I said eighty by sixty.
Speaker 2: Keep saying a number until you guys get it. For twenty,
I don't know. Four is too high. Keep going lower
than or number of pixels. It's fucking one. It's one pixel?
Why now do you know how that's pixels can make
a straight line of pixels that flashes like a million
times a second oneaggeration.
Speaker 4: It's like one of those Stroby things. It's a Stroby thing.
Speaker 2: And then there's a mirror in there that oscillates back
and forth like like several times a second like. And
then what that does is it shoots the beam at
your eye and creates that wobbly back and forth and
it doesn't so fast. It completes one actual image. So
it's like a was a mad seems like too much effort.
You're to leave the company after creating this beautiful monster.
Speaker 1: Wait, it's like a zoo trope that a very similar effect.
Speaker 2: You know, what is that persistent? It's a vision, the
persistence of vision, sort of optical illusion. They do that. Yes,
it's incredible. That is incredible. One of the unreleased games
is not Bound High, the already leaked, completely done Virtual
Bloy game that's floating out there. Really it's right, it's
zero racers and d hopper. Yeah, okay, zero is like
a it's like a kind of an arrow gage or
something and f zero but you're flying around. So yeah,
they're trying to release a bunch of more games throughout
the year though, so it won't be every every Virtual.
Speaker 7: High eventually one pixel one pixel wide, just changing a lot,
really fat, yes, yes, changing like like they were like
the virtual Boy has a frame rate of like one
point seventy five million frames per second.
Speaker 2: Technically it's amazing.
Speaker 4: It didn't like kill anyone or like.
Speaker 5: Just assumed it was giving them cancer, right, yeah, still
is yeah, Yeah, I mean, like how did they test
this without like making people flop around on the floor
and stuff.
Speaker 2: I don't they know the right people? Mm hmm. Okoy
just knows, he knows. This is the same and this
was like the late eighties. No, it's yeah, that mid
nineties was still basically it's basically look, eight dollars is
five dollars.
Speaker 4: The mid nineties is also the eighties.
Speaker 2: I didn't really start until like ninety five. Yeah, come on.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing a virtual boy at my local Toys
r Us and wanting to try out like the little
Kiosk station.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the one time my mom was like, no,
that is the order your eyeballs. I played that?
Speaker 4: Was it?
Speaker 3: Mario Blast? Was that the one where he's thrown Mario Clash?
They had that a funk Land and I played like
ninety seconds of it and felt terrible.
Speaker 4: How do you feel about I was out of David
Busters a couple of weeks ago, and you know they've
got these communal like meta headset vas.
Speaker 3: A lot of those those are everywhere there's it sucks.
Speaker 4: This whole hockey team was there. They they're not going
to play it, so they're all just like face swapping.
Speaker 2: I just it's not great. They swapped like while they
were there, like from one person to the next. I
was thinking, it's like, oh, someone has used this previous
in the day, someone cleans it and they put a
different I'm thinking of like those like three D like
Ghostbuster installations or whatever. Is different.
Speaker 5: It's more like a bad arcade machine that happens to
have a headset on it.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, I mean, it's just it's so good. I
just I am I obviously have an overly irrational that
sort of stuff. I just I can't. I can't handle it.
And they're all they all just do it and then
they just they hand it over to the next person.
Speaker 2: Their sweating. It's discussed thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Kids at my local Dave and Busters, next to those
arcade machines with like the VR helmets, they'll have like, uh,
the saddest pile of Lysol wipes, and one time, I
swear to god, they were out of like the little
plastic baggy container that they're in to keep them moist,
so they were all just like sopping on the table
they were next to.
Speaker 2: It was good stuff. It's not the best. Uh. What
is the best? Is Walmart? Right? Everybody loves Walmart And
they could have leaked Nintendo Switch Online's next GameCube games.
The retail Walmart has potentially leaked the GameCube classics Metroid
Prime two and Pickman two that has been added to
Nintendo Switch Online Service or Switch to users as an
image on their website showed the unannounced games on the
NSO roster.
Speaker 5: Yeah I've been too well, but Pickman two's on the
Switch already, and they kind of like single handily ported
it over, which I imagine has some coutremonts in it
that this you know, just emulated version of pick and
two won't have, right, Yeah, that Metroit Prime two again, like, well,
it's just gonna be poor there, So you're not going
to get a you know, not that I was ever
expecting this game to get a graphical makeover like Metroy
Prime Reymaster got, but some of the other stuff, like
you know, having the normal dualstick control set up instead
of the tank control than huge. Actually all right, and
you know I can handle the tank control stuff. And
Metro Prime one and two stille. I bet a lot
of people there's no going back for them on that one.
So yeah, I wish these two are two game games
that don't excite me a ton of seeing them coming.
Speaker 3: I am excited that too, because I've been thinking about
it for a while and I didn't know if they
were going to do a remaster or something.
Speaker 2: But like this is a good excuse to play Oh
Me Trick two. I played it recently and it's fantastic. Uh.
I just don't know. This is the way to play
PRIMEAX PRIMEX. Yeah it's PRIMEAX that Uh yeah, Dan do PRIMEX. Yeah,
so that's that we could expect those Probably this usually
works out. It's just weird. I don't know Native decides
to hey that they were they had those Metro Prime
two and three games, but they worked on to some
degree U following Metro Prime one remaster. How do they
decide like it's more effective for them to put it
in NSO versus selling those games separately. It's weird. I
don't know how they make their decisions. Uh Okay. A
Nintendo direct dedicated to Tomadauci Life Living the Dream is
coming this week. I woke up today, I'm like, oh
my god, I missed it. Uh it's Thursday. It's happening
on Thursday. So I did not miss that. I just
had a bad dream.
Speaker 3: There's no way that's not going to be a hilarious direct.
Speaker 2: I bet there's going to be so much dumb shit
in there. I cannot wait. And we'll talk over it.
That's in nine am Eastern times. So we'll get up,
get on that looking forward to it. To handle that one. Jeez,
we're no problem. You could just say that you all
handle that one. You all handle that one. There you go,
all right?
Speaker 5: They did say, no, good you guys have to be there.
Speaker 2: It's nine am, Like you could do it one day.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Mike, I start my day seven.
Speaker 2: O'clock my time. That's yeah. That on a late sn o'clock.
That's awful. Why would you do that? Get some stuff done? Yeah?
I get nothing done before work. No, the first thing
I'm doing every day is when you guys see me,
That is for sure. What do you hmm? How can
I put this pounce sounding like a total in the morning? No,
I just wonder, like wonder for you. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe trying some sort of like adjustment would benefit you
and your sort of lifestyle. Maybe you feel better As I.
Speaker 2: Went to a fan at eleven last night, I guess when
I fell asleep three yeah, four thirty am.
Speaker 5: Finally fell asleep for five and a half hours before
doing stuff. Every time it wasn't taking I would play
a game or watch a video. Maybe that's the problem.
Speaker 2: It wasn't taking Are you one of these people who's
like sleep just happens to me.
Speaker 4: I don't know where it comes from.
Speaker 1: Maybe the over stimulus is keeping you from sleeping.
Speaker 2: Bedroom I haven't had in the bedroom for like fifteen years,
but I love the screens in the bedroom. There's depend
screen time. Don't don't do that.
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to. Yeah, again, like I just wonder.
I'm just hope. I'm hopefully wondering, right, Like maybe this
kind of changes. Not that you lead a bed lifestyle,
No one's accusing you of that. I just wonder, you know,
maybe there's something that changes for the better and you find.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't want to change you at all.
I'm happy with the way you are. You show up
to work and I want you to the first thing
you do each day is to see us. That's fair.
Speaker 5: As far as I went the morning, I don't feel
like I'm ready to take the day all the time.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if it's morning when you're showering,
parado iguards doing okay, one hundred thousand concurrent players on
day one, thirteen thousand negative refuse though, Yeah, we definitely
think people kind of just rushed out to, you know,
maybe punish the game one for one reason or the other.
I think a lot of people genuinely don't like this
game one.
Speaker 5: Hundred times, man times real quick, Okay, I read one time.
I'm sorry, I'm taking this back. I think this is
what I think. This is all it is. I read
once that genetically some people are predisposed to be night
people because back with lived in caves it was more
efficient for the group to have people who are wired
to stay up later, so then they can warn people
about predators.
Speaker 2: So I'm just that what you're doing. Yes, well, who
called me sometimes at night? Feel like, hey, I think
something's bad's coming your way? Watching out?
Speaker 4: If you want us to call you a head trogo lit,
we could do that. Can change your TI title, It's fine.
Speaker 2: I would like that. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I've just descended from that branch of the humans
who are the night watch. I'm a night watch.
Speaker 4: I'm a night guide too. You think I go out
in the sunshine, What are you talking about? Come on,
I'm a night man the right time.
Speaker 2: If I had like no external like scaffolding of a
life on which I had to like have responsibilities, I
would sort of like form like water into a puddle
into a shape. That would be like someone who wakes
up at noon and go success at four am like
that that would be my natural You know, I agree.
Speaker 5: You know how many people can possibly like, like like
want something from me at two am?
Speaker 2: It's nobody. It's great, that's good. It's all Mikey time. Okay, yeah,
selling me on it.
Speaker 1: But what if you move Mikey time to waking up
every day at five am?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What if you moved Micy time to everyone else on
Earth time? That's amazing. Then all those people are up
and they're gonna want to bother me.
Speaker 2: You do a thing? No, no, you could.
Speaker 3: I set my phone to like between like six am
and like nine thirty am. It's all on a focus
mode where I don't get any notifications, don't can buy me.
That's just time where it's like I can get up,
I can work out, I can eat, I can have
my coffee, I can shower and all that stuff, and
then it's just like the rest of the day. You're
like you're done, You've done all the productive stuff for yourself.
Then you can just focus on the other stuff. Doesn't
that sound a baling No?
Speaker 2: No, that sounds really That sounds cool, But I personally
get more done. If I start a project at nine pm,
I'm going to get more done on done on it
than if I started it at nine am. And my
brain works better at night. So if I'm going to
work on stuff for me that's important to me, I'm
gonna do it into the night.
Speaker 3: The only thing is if I'm working on something late
at night and I'm really into it and everything, it's
like it's hard to turn it off and wind down.
Speaker 2: And there's problems with everything. Yeah, absolutely there is.
Speaker 5: Also there is the aspect of I never feel like
I got enough sleep almost it's every time it is
still gotta really drag myself out of the bed no
matter what time it is, almost even with the seep path.
Same that aspect is not like I'm getting better sleep,
but I still am Like question for.
Speaker 1: You as a fellow seapappy, when you're do you throw
it on as soon as you get in bed or
as you were trailing off to snoozy town.
Speaker 5: It's gotta be like when I think I'm actually gonna
fall asleep, I think, or if I'm really going to
give it a good try, because the seapap rips up
and if it's like if that thing's been on my
face for an hour and I haven't actually fallen asleep,
it's kind of intense at that point, like it thinks
I should be asleep, so it's really blasting me with
the nose oxygen.
Speaker 2: It's kind of uncomfortable. High guard, So high guard, Yeah whatever,
I guard. Blizzard announces four showcases over the next two
weeks for World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, and Diablo. Okay, yeah, Mike,
you're our Blizzard correspondent. What do you what are you
expecting from all this?
Speaker 5: I think this is kind of their way to highlight
and talk about stuff that's gonna happen to these games
before blizz Con happens later this year, where we're gonna
get kind of probably new game announcement, it's new major
expansion announcements in a war Warcraft is It's Midnight expansion
coming up pretty soon. I'll Overwatch they always have heroes
popping off, Hartstone will always have an expansion, and then
Diablo also has a big expansion coming out as well,
and we had like one new character come out for
that with the Paladin. We know there's gonna be another
class that's gonna be a part of the what Lord
of Lord of Hatred expansion, so they might announce what
that class is here. So yeah, there will be interesting
stuff there. These won't be huge, giant, you know, earth
shattering news things. Although Diabo thirtyth anniversary spotlight, they have
not remastered Diablo one officially. There's some fan mods and
things like that, So if I was like to really
hope for something, maybe Diabolo one will get the same
treatment that Diablo two got. I thought that Diablo Too
remake was actually fantastic, super good, so I would love
to see something happen with the first Diablo, which is
a little rough to play right now. With the original
there are some fan mods, but even then there's some caveats,
so yeah, I'd like to see something there. And also, yeah,
Diablo to Resurrection to get a switch you update, that'd
be great.
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to play Diablo for a bit now,
Like I don't know why I suddenly have that itch.
Maybe I just want to point click at things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean if yeah, if you just want to
do point click, I think starting up Diabolo four and
playing as the paladin the new class. That's fine.
Speaker 5: I did that, and I finally made my way through
the campaign to the last expansion while doing that. Yeah,
I almost wish it was like, actually a little bit
more to it. The game, even like when you're trying
to play on whatever high difficulty you wanted to, unless
you're doing the riffs or whatever, the game kind of
feels a little autopilot a lot. It's like giant, huge
explosions happening every two seconds, and some of it is
not necessarily making me feel things as much as Diablo two,
where it.
Speaker 2: Looks more boring.
Speaker 5: It looks like I'm just swinging a sword mostly, But
for some reason it meant something to me.
Speaker 2: These four games, Uh, do you feel like they need
to be the focus of the of Blizzard before they
get back to something like figuring out what the future
StarCraft is?
Speaker 5: Yeah, like I said, like, yeah, absolutely mean these are
their games right now. I wonder like how many people
were playing Hartstone. It seems like it's been so long
since that thing had its big right moment, But World
of Warcraft to Yablow and Overwatch are still all have
tons of players, not much else happening for them right now,
but yeah, pretty soon that's going to change. There's rumors
that there might even be a StarCraft shooter coming. There
could be something else completely new as well. Uh, you
know with World War Cup, it's never just the the
new expansion cycle. There's always what is Classic up to,
right and right? So I think Legion Classic has been happening,
which to me is weird because Legion still feels like
something newer. Maybe Mister Pandaria Classic is what they're actually
at right now, yeah, which is strange. So, yeah, they
did Legion remix, so Mister Panderia Classic, which is weird
because it's a that situation where the next expansion is
war Wards of Drain or the expansion that people didn't like,
but it's the next one in the cycles, so that
you have to do freaking.
Speaker 2: Classic. That's so weird to have to be stuck in
that reality where it's like, we have to relive this
moment of people hating this, but we have to release
it because that's just what's next for this whole game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get back to your Garrison and Mikey since uh,
Grub and Dan are going to be out and dead
Luck does take a lot to get into do you
want to maybe perhaps try to get back into Overwatch
this Friday. Oh, I'd be super happy to play Overwatch
for sure, for sure, for sure. Yeah, I've been wanting
to check out. There's been a lot of newer characters
that I haven't gotten to play as yet. It's so
weird because Overwatch is a game that I was playing constant.
All of these actually as one point where games I
was playing every day for a period of like years,
So it's kind of weird to see them sort of
go on without me in a way.
Speaker 2: I definitely want to jump back into World warcat once.
Midnight is out last thing here. Banjo recompiled. Banjo Kazuoi
was decompiled for P well so that it could be
then recompiled for PC. That work has been done, and
now if you have your own backup of the game,
you have to have the copyrighted material yourself. Bring that
to this thing. You can now get on GitHub. You
inject that ROM, you your backed up ram into this thing,
and you could play through Bancho Kazuoi in wide screen
and with all kinds of other bells and whistles on PC.
And this will open it up to all kinds of
mods and stuff, Like we did that super Mario sixty
four thing a little bit ago where that enabled us
to we could play that co op multiplayer all because
someone did the decompiling and recompiling, and now Banjo will
get the same treatment. So this looks pretty cool. People
have been playing this. It looks really nice.
Speaker 3: The sixty four decompiled stuff has been great. There was
the it's been awesome Akoreena time. The ship of Parkinian
thing is fantastic. They're done a time with Mario sixty four. Obviously,
like the rare replay version of Banjo is good, but
I bet this is way way better.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and uh yeah, this is like such an
obvious one of these to do. So it's a very
nice to see because we still a fun game.
Speaker 2: Yep. All right, that does it for the headlines I
have over here, Jan I'm handing the show back over
to you.
Speaker 1: Fantastic Greb, Thank you so much. We're gonna go take
another quick bricky break and we will be back with
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Speaker 2: If we have them. See huh.
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from parts on Known Hey Dudes, First Time, Long Time
Jeff and Jan briefly talking about Papa Murphy's on Game
Mess Mornings inspired me to write in for those of
you that don't know, Papa Murphy's is a taken bake pizza,
meaning you buy an uncooked pizza and then take it
home where you have to cook it yourself. The pizzas
still cost ten to twenty dollars because of this. When
my wife and I lived out West, we were certain
it was a money laundering scheme, as it's more expensive
than Domino's are Little Caesars without any benefits. We also
discussed it with several friends and the consensus was no
one has ever gotten a pizza there, but there's numerous locations.
Only question to you is what businesses are you certain
are money laundering fronts?
Speaker 2: And why? Thanks dirty hip hippie crias.
Speaker 4: So you you so you you you buy an uncooked pizza?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, frozen pizza. Basically, it's like it's like in
a fridge, so it's like a little bit fresher than frozen.
It would be one of the benefits that they would
tout as a reason it's more expensive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they make it there right, like in house and
then freeze it. It's not like shipped to a market
or something.
Speaker 2: That's right, I think. I think so.
Speaker 1: It's like not quite rock hard frozen, but it's not.
I get it almost there.
Speaker 2: And yeah I've had it one am I then who's
had it? I've had it. I've never heard of it.
Speaker 3: I think, Okay, I got it one in college and
I was like, okay, this is like a good frozen pizza.
But it's like you still you drive to a place,
you're spending more, and you still got to cook it.
It's like it's just kind of a confusing business model.
It's I don't like if you handed me a popa
Murphy's pizza right now, cooked and ready to go.
Speaker 2: I'd eat it and it would be good.
Speaker 3: But like I'm I'm either going to get like Jets
delivery or I'm going to buy some tombstones or whatever.
Speaker 2: You no, frozen I've gotten out of before.
Speaker 5: I don't even get it. Frozen pizzas. It's like the
one food that you can't just call somebody be.
Speaker 2: Like, hey, could you get me one? And they'll bring
it to me Like all food. Now, that's true. But
even while it was like the one, frozen pizzas, I've
gotten really good and they're and they're much cheaper than delivery. Yeah,
I got to feed a family. I'm doing frozen pizzas
all the time. I don't know, suow sure. I can't
believe you don't love your family enough to buy them
with fresh pizza. Oh no, kids, Do you hear how
much I gave those kids and show them by driveway? Yeah,
that's a lot of pizzas.
Speaker 5: That's a lot of and they better not be spending
it on a tombstone red barren bullshit.
Speaker 2: I mean still good.
Speaker 3: That's like the thing that with like dive bars around here.
Is hedgies pizza where it's just frozen pizzas that like
every bar has and they'll just like throw it, even
like bars that don't really have food menus or whatever.
It's like, yeah, well we got an ovin your hedges
and it's good as hell.
Speaker 2: People in chat, we're bringing up an interesting point, uh,
because Papa Murphy's isn't frozen, and because it's not parir,
they could sell in grocery stores and people can apparently
use their Snap benefits to purpursos. So it's like, Okay,
it's like this one way to get a decent pizza
without having like you can't use your Snap benefits of dominoes.
I guess I don't know. I'm trying to look up
and see if this is all right, But people seem
to be under the impression and that that's one of
the reasons this exists, is it. I want to have
an answer for the question though, it's like, what's what's up.
Speaker 3: Oh, there's a place in Minnesota. I've seen that, Like
it's just a claw machine place and it's like literally
just claw machines go in here, and here's a bunch
of like off brand Pikachu's in one, and then here's
some with some shitty candy and another.
Speaker 2: It's like there's one of the Japanese ones. It's all
the jez not.
Speaker 3: Even that, it's just like no, it's just like fifty
normal claw machines that you'd see anywhere else, and there's
never anyone in there, and like that. That seems like
it might be a front.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just a cash business because you just putting dollar
bills into those things. Anyone come by and do that.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, there's a lot of I don't know if
it's like this for y'all, but there's a lot of
car and rug stores around me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how many rugs of people need? I got the
one time ever got a Ruggs because somebody like forced
it on me. It was fantastic.
Speaker 2: It's great. Everybody's a good rug. They're all so impressed. Everybody.
Speaker 5: The house has really come together. But there was a
place in my time that was a curtain store and
it was looked really scary. It was on a corner
and I was like, I think that's a front. I've
never seen anybody in there. I think the mafia is there.
And then when it changed businesses it became literally a
fucking Tombstone store. Not the pizza. I mean for people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people can enjoy Tombstone pizza. Mike.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's how we can train, like rickyel oh, yes, disrespectful, Jam.
Speaker 2: You have to you have to watch it, Jam.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch that movie and then time out my
own audio recording to sync up with y'all.
Speaker 2: You used to do a film in forties for our
film and film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, oh, that was a good joke, Mike,
all right. Moving on Travis and Fargo, rights in, Travis
Right said with five questions, I picked one of them,
Travis rights in this week, I just became a dutch
Oven guy. What kind of person have you become lately?
Speaker 2: Now? Do you think by Dutch Oven guy, I think
you don't have the kind of guy who puts a
person's head under the covers and farts. I think you're
gonna be that guy. Maybe it's his kids, you like.
Speaker 4: The Dutch really took one on the chin there with
that joke, right, yeah, oh, the Dutch can take it now.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about. I just know
that you Dutch. I think that's that's good to keep
it that way a thing with someone like you have
to fart and you're in bed with someone and you
put their heads under the covers and then you fart
under the covers, sort of like you have to put
a Dutch oven into with coal and cook it that way.
I see, that's funny. I have a Dutch.
Speaker 1: Baby that's like a fat pancake, right it is, Yeah,
that's grub.
Speaker 2: You like the gimmicks, but it's especially like, okay, touch baby,
touch baby, touch baby, kind.
Speaker 5: Of fortunate like names like that. I said in between
a break here that I saw people were making stories
from the Nuremberg Toy Fair, and I was like, I
don't think you could do anything.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I know it's still with Tout and things have to happen.
Brand is very strong, but Nurremberg Toy Fair. I just
can't take that serious.
Speaker 1: I know what kind of guy I've become lately. I've
become a running guy, and I don't know how to
act because like I was on Strava and then our
dear friend Alex Boniella told me, no, go get on Runna,
but run is owned by Strava. I'm looking at all
these different watches to try and like find out which
is the best one to track my running. I got
fitted for shoes. I have this like running belt. Now
I have you you.
Speaker 3: Got one of the other the ways belts put your
phone in and stuff like that. Yep, yeah, Boniella tried
to get me on run a due Strava is fine. Okay, okay,
now you're on the hooka train. Helka is great.
Speaker 1: On the Hoka train. I felt like I disappointed the
guy at the running store with how flat and wide
my feet were. Now I got shorts with tights in them.
I'm so aerodynamic.
Speaker 2: Do you have an Apple Watch? What kind of watch? Situation?
I haven't figured out to watch situation. Yeah, it's a
great choice. It's a big choice. There's a lot of
options for it, just like the square screen of the
Apple one though, coming on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't like square faces.
Speaker 2: Oh right.
Speaker 3: A lot of marathon runners love the garment watches and
they're circular.
Speaker 1: Okay, Uh, here's my thing. I think all running shoes
should have flames painted onto them, like.
Speaker 2: Like Prime in the Michael Bay movies.
Speaker 1: Yes, because I think that is like a natural like
uh placebo effect of like okay, if my feet are
on fire, I think I'm gonna run.
Speaker 3: Fasterhes are fun because you can just get whacky with them.
They're all neon and crazy colors and stuff like. That's fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a bullshit that, like, Okay, you see fired,
that's fast. You see you see lightning and that's fast.
You see ice and you assume slow. I just can
go pretty fast. It's real slippery, I don't think.
Speaker 2: But the ice is the ice going fast? You can
move fast on ice, skater? What what? What? What? What
makes fire so fast? Fire does a move? No, I
you know, I don't disagree with you. But the flames
coming from behind it and then by product, Yeah I
get it.
Speaker 4: It's from you're going so fast that you're producing flames
behind you.
Speaker 2: That's where soil you start freezing. I do want Mike
to appreciate that none of us are making jokes about
how he's defending a certain state of water right now. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're fast at anything except the violating human rights
and being slipping a lot of duty cosplay pieces sons
of bitches.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, you were gonna say, jan So the next
decision you're to have to make of your training is
once you get those real long runs, Uh, you got
to decide hydration or you gotta get You can get
bonk breakers, which are like little gel things to give
you electrolytes and stuff that they're tasty, but you keep
them in that little waste thing and every like every
few miles wherever you.
Speaker 2: Have utility belt, just call it a utility belt. That's
what it is. It's just a little like waistband thing. Yeah,
it's a man's utility belt. I get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But then you gotta decide, are either to be
a vest hydration guy or you're gonna be a guy
that has like the super utility belt with the tiny
little water bottles that go in there. So I got
the backpack and you got hoses that come over. I
got one that pouch and a pouch of water. So
I do like like an electric electrolyte thing here and
then just normal water here, dual straws going to town.
Speaker 1: Oh that that sounds nice. I have a friend that's
a runner and in his like because he has one
of those vests, Uh, he just fills it with celsius
and that sounds insane.
Speaker 2: Oh that is an energy dream. Yes, yeah, that's a bad.
Don't do that. Yeah, no, I wasn't gonna do that.
Speaker 3: It's tough because like on a long run, you if
you it slashes around and it ways you down a
little bit. So there's an inclined like I want to
drink as much as possible so I feel lighter. But
then it's just in your bladder and you have to
pee by like you didn't actually get rid of but
it doesn't slashing around as bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now it's slashing in you all right. Next even
think I'm a fish sauce guy. Oh hell yeah, Mikey,
let's go sauce guy, fish sauce. Okay, yeah yeah sau
yeah yeah. Add mommy, yeah yeah, mommy.
Speaker 5: And I've just been a little dash of that here
and there and things, especially my my Asian foods.
Speaker 2: And good h Have you all become any other type
of guy lately? No, I'm drinking that time type of
guy I am. I don't think there's any more new
guys in my future. Back Larry drinking wine.
Speaker 4: I'm drinking more wine. Yeah, that's about it.
Speaker 2: I do want to be a I want to be
a bouldering guy. I did I happened Alex Hanold climb
that stupid fucking and I know, I know, like for him,
that was probably like he was just playing that up
because it just looked like he was treating that ship
like a ladder. Yeah, and just went straight to the time.
He had no issues whatsoever. But I was, Oh, cool,
climbing looks great. I don't want to go to a
climbing place where I have to be like on belay
and have someone hold the rope for me. My understanding
is I could just boulder, and that is climbing a
weird thing, like five feet off the ground. So if
I fall, I fall on a soft little pad. Yeah,
it's angled, weird and you got the pats. Have you
tried it before, I've done I've done it. Yes, I've
only done it before.
Speaker 3: I guess I don't have a super strong forearms or
anything like. I don't know your situation, but it's fucking hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah you should. There's climbing be hard.
Speaker 4: Yeah you go to the climbing gym.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Uh, into close are cool grub.
Speaker 1: I've seen a bunch of my friends are into bouldering. Uh,
and then one of them works out at a climbing
gym that has a bouldering treadmill.
Speaker 2: So oh that's cool man.
Speaker 1: It's like a vertical wall with like the climbing peg
that is just constantly like spinning. Yeah, so he has
to like change the.
Speaker 2: Grim sounds like dk King of Swinging on GBA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, all right, Rich writes in, Hey, guys, I
don't know if it's too late to make this request,
but my daughter's birthday is on January thirtieth, mine too,
for that matter, but she stole it from me, being
born six weeks early. She's fourteen now and thinks Mike
is really funny. Can make some happy birthday to Karris.
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 1: Thanks all, thank you all. Have a good week.
Speaker 2: Rich. It's also Travison Fargo's birthday today, do you I'll
do you want better? Here? Here we go listen up.
Oh gosh, how this comes up? I'm gonna it? Should
I think you turned all the stuff? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, get a little bit closer, mikey, a little
bit closer. There you go every birthday, Carris.
Speaker 2: Put on birthday? Have you see the cute thing going
around where everyone's like texting their partner, I want to
half half a coconut, bitch. This is I'm bringing couples together. Yeah, yeah,
that's right. That was adorable.
Speaker 4: It's all the rage this Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, you know instead of Mike, can we sell
necklaces on the store that instead of those like broken hearts?
Speaker 2: You combine? Yes, by half a coconut. We got to
my Valentine's Day. You have a three D printer.
Speaker 1: After you're done printed dragons, get to work.
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go. There's so many dragons
in the queue. Dragons getting a dragon right me?
Speaker 4: I personally, he's getting four.
Speaker 2: I'm getting more. You paid for the printer though. That's
the deal. Those are the terms I agreed to.
Speaker 1: All right, let's read two more emails here three three more.
This one comes from Levi in Utah. Hey, GB, this
is for you Jan You talked about wanting a small truck,
and I think you should get an eighties Subaru Brat,
throw some big wheels on it, get those backwards facing
seats installed, and you'll have the coolest car in the crew.
Levi from Utah, man speaking of trucks. After the those
teenagers shovel my driveway, I was like, I need to
go out.
Speaker 2: I've been this house.
Speaker 5: Literally like this entire week, and it's a weird feeling.
It was going to go eat somewhere, that's gonna go
to subway. It literally like, as I was waiting to
turn into it, a Camo cyber truck pooled. It's literally
like I'm just going.
Speaker 2: I was just like I'm anymore and I went to art.
It was a good choice.
Speaker 3: Walk doctor Manati, you no paid for you definitely.
Speaker 2: He definitely has a truck that he's proud of it.
It's not a fucking cyber truck at least. Well it
prevented you from going. I just I'm not going. I'm
not going to be in I'm not going to be
the only other guy in here aside from the man
who owns a Camo cyber truck. I just I couldn't
handle it.
Speaker 4: But what if he stole it from some douche bag.
Speaker 5: There's no way I bet that was the registered owner
of that vehicle.
Speaker 4: Damn value so much it's sewing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, making sure charging for like like some of
the features they were giving away for a long time.
They started charging nine dollars a year for that or something.
Everyone's like, oh, the sales projections for next year are
gonna be real bad. It's like it wasn't even just
a cyber truck. He's like, I've camoed it out. You live,
you live in Ohio suburb idiot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you when you get one of those, you
kind of have to I think you kind of have
to go all in on the madness. I think just
keep yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Seth Rowins talking about a cyber truck.
Speaker 2: No, no, so he's.
Speaker 3: Got one, and he talks about like him and Becky
Lynch like driving their kids to school and stuff, and
people will like drive by on the freeways and flip
them off, and he will like pull over and get
out of the car and be.
Speaker 2: Like, I don't agree with the politics. I just like
the brand. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: They're like a pretty liberal couple, but like he just
likes cyber trucks and he will just like confront people
like Seth Rawlans confronting you on the road over his
cyber truck.
Speaker 2: If I ever see them, I definitely am going to
flip them off so I can get that. I want
that show.
Speaker 4: I know two people with one and they are most normal,
and I don't get it that most they're they're pushing
a boulder up a Hill.
Speaker 2: They are just not you know, it's not easy. They
lost a lot of money on that thing, so appreciates
like ten thousand dollars a day.
Speaker 1: Dan sent me a picture of the super Brat and
this thing looks noise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Brat's cool, Brady, the Chad. It's like, Jan,
I want you to like, like, I want to drive
to a marathon.
Speaker 2: Do you drive me?
Speaker 3: And I'll get in one of those back facing seats
there and then.
Speaker 2: Yeah right it's like right, yeah, it's like an El Camino. Yep, Bratt, yes, yes, kindless,
I get okay, all right.
Speaker 1: Last email of the show, and we were actually asking
for this. This one comes from one paytent. Hey guys,
I was listening to last week's BombCast when Mike mentioned
my secret ranking list of GB members.
Speaker 2: What the fuck?
Speaker 1: Some of y'all wanted to hear it, so I figured
i'd share contrary contrary to what Mike said, this is
just based on how much I've interacted with y'all. Why
judge based on online personalities I've watched over the years
when I can judge you on our very limited interactions,
I r L.
Speaker 2: Number. I've been picking those up in the last week after,
Mike said something like I've been getting in the trenches
and doing some likes on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Uh starting at number one, chuck.
Speaker 2: That, yeah, chucking his wife. So yeah, I've made a
fool of myself.
Speaker 5: At that dinner, I like it was like I had
to go bathroom, but I'm gone, but you better let
me pay or at least pay half.
Speaker 2: And I left by grocery store discount card. Just that
is an all time story and I'm never gonna get
sick of here. I got back in the chair, my
ass like scrape the tablecloth next to our table. It
almost took the entire thing out with it. It's rough.
Speaker 4: I still can't get over that. Like what is less
like an actual credit card? But like you can license.
Speaker 2: Blueish that's all it is. They were like a library card.
I don't understand.
Speaker 5: Look, I'm not gonna defend I'm not gonna defend it.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: News top of the list for that alone, but is
also a great guy ten out of ten. Him and
his wife are lovely.
Speaker 2: Number two. It's just not fair. Yeah, yeah, that's like
a buff you know.
Speaker 1: Uh huh Number two me, shit, No need to worry
your second follow each other in IG has liked my
post pro buzzball bonus points for Scout. Oh, I guess
I have the Scout buff as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah that really helps. Number three grub Oh sue, okay,
you I gotta say I do go to I tried
to be The bronze Medal of Friends is under protest.
Speaker 1: Peyton I g follow it has liked my posts as well.
Did tell Mike to get rid of me once on
Blake Club was looking out for his bros so fair
later publicly apologized, so we're cool.
Speaker 2: Okay, really that's good enough for third Yeah, I apologized.
Speaker 1: Number four backalor because changed this week started following me
automatically jumped up.
Speaker 2: Two spots, so you can be bought.
Speaker 1: I like the Mikey voice, but he has bad Lacroix takes.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm going right now, babe, it's not it's not
even open. Look it's open.
Speaker 1: Number five Sean not even sure if he has an IG,
but he does tease Mike about me, which I enjoy.
In number six, Dan no social media follow demanded Mike
to ask me what I think of him once already,
along with a stern photo of him. He does speak
highly of New Orleans, so we probably do better if
he met my silly criteria. Anyway, thanks for all you do.
From a longtime fan. I hope this was fun. If
not well best.
Speaker 5: That's Jaydon I'm back. I think he might have gone
down a slock. I think he just said New Orleans
and she does not like that.
Speaker 2: New Orleans.
Speaker 3: Hello, wait, wait, place, Jane. How do you say the
nut that starts with a P. That's not a peanut,
it's p r whats Oh you're fuck Jan. She's from
New Orleans, not pray Leans, prollleins. Probably my West Coast sensibilities.
I can't change myself.
Speaker 2: Move me up. I know how to say proballs like
the list as is. I think, how do you say
you know, Dann? How do you say it?
Speaker 3: I mean, I just say New Orleans just wants I
think someone said New Orleans they don't want to do
the like you know, but.
Speaker 2: You're not doing the lens?
Speaker 5: Yeah, the lens don't justify the Leans here all right
down now right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: List By the way, I can assume that I am
presumed to be on the top of that list.
Speaker 2: I don't know the one.
Speaker 1: There is a one, all right, Mikey hit me with
some super chats if there are.
Speaker 2: That's the thing that I do. Yeah, yeah, super chats
for sure. God, should I have Steph write a raked
of you guys? Yeah, I don't be fun man. Okay,
it's totally fair now, Uh sure, Mikey is probably at
the top.
Speaker 5: See all right, MiGs says, Dan is the mostly hot
like Dan is the muff highly paid.
Speaker 2: Wall pick dead. Yeah. Oh yeah. We the caught Kofi thing.
Speaker 3: We were looking at different ways to do different things
when we went independent, and that was one that like,
it's nice when people bring it in, but just like
logistically and everything, we were gonna buy screens and put
it behind us and have it be like physically and related.
Speaker 2: The cameras to pick it up and stuff like it.
Speaker 3: We got one and tried it and then didn't really work.
So it's just like, yeah, I mean, the Kofi is
still active and we very much appreciate when people contribute there,
but yeah, that's just not We're not doing that.
Speaker 2: Tyrant Faal said.
Speaker 5: Randomly heard an old Deadlock podcast, talked about how bad
dance SNS games tastes were. Dan, can you now pick foul?
Fantasy three Slash six cart out of the lineup.
Speaker 3: What I oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, I know
exactly what they're talking about. There was a picture of
Chris Saban on a TNA episode they were talking about
and it's him as a kid, and in the background
you see there's a SNS with a game in there.
I didn't realize it was Chris Saban at first, and
they couldn't figure out what the game was. So Johnny
messaged me the blurry picture and I was like, oh,
I don't know if that's NBA jam or if that's American
Gladiators because in the picture of the kid had a
bunch of sports trophies and I thought it might be
a sports game. So I had some really good choices there.
And then when I heard it was Chris Saban, I
know he's a j RPG dorc and instantly I was
able to recognize Secret of Evermore and send it to him.
Johnny was very impressed, so actually, I super know what
the fuck I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: You go, there, you go.
Speaker 5: The Secret Evermore was made in the West, so it
doesn't have the stink of all those nerdy JRPGs.
Speaker 2: Necessarily.
Speaker 3: I also hated my cousin tried to get me into it.
Speaker 5: Mixy's back and says, backlare in breakfast, there you go
after this dragon thing is run out, back Lare, that
could be your next family enterprise.
Speaker 2: Back Law can't print that, breakfast, He kind of can't.
It was like pancake batter, you could that's basically printing.
Yeah it is.
Speaker 4: I'm sure. I'm surprised there's not one. Now you said it.
I want pancakes, Yeah, yeah good. I do like the
people who could make fun art with the dyed batter.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Rules. Do you guys prefer like a big like
the fluffy pancakes? Like?
Speaker 5: Or do you like the kind of I kind of
like mind when a little texture in there? I know
what you call it, a little twosome. I don't know
little almost a gritty, but like, I know what you're saying,
substantially think I mostly like I can go either way.
Speaker 2: I like all pancakes for the most part, but I
think I lean fluffy.
Speaker 4: I think girl, have a Dutch baby. I'm telling you
have a Dutch baby. It's going to change your life.
Speaker 3: Well, is that like you've been to a Ruba? Is
that like the Dutch pancakes and a Ruba. That's a
big thing there.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's really fun pancakes.
Speaker 4: They're crazy, they're almost crape adjacent. But the Dutch baby
is cooked in the oven like a bowl.
Speaker 2: It's like a pancake bowl, really good stuff. I really
have become more of a waffle guys. I get older,
I gotta have those crispy edges. Uh.
Speaker 5: Vivreene says during the bombathon, I asked you all to
do a Mexican wave, and Sean was offended and Uk
it is when you go around stadium and raise her hands.
Speaker 2: You always call that the wave over here. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
that one. It's just that way.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I get mad about the wave sometimes, like I'll
be I'll be yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, like sometimes how much is going on? Sometimes I'm
like watching a baseball game and it's like a close game.
It's interesting.
Speaker 5: I feel like I feel like the crowds just trying
to entertain themselves.
Speaker 2: So it's like.
Speaker 3: Call of wrestling crowds. Yeah you're saying like that type
of thing.
Speaker 2: Yes it is, Mike.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I am relating to you on
this on such a deep level. I cannot begin to
describe to you how aligned I am with the way
you feel about the wave. Whenever I see a wave,
I think the crowd is stupid. I think all the
I think everyone in the crowd is just dumb. They've
lost interest in the sport that they've paid money to
go see and they'd rather do this bullshit. I could
not agree with you.
Speaker 5: One appropriate time to do the wave, as if you're
like at a concert or something and the act is
thirty minutes late, because of course they are, and then
you're bored like that. Yeah, what we could do the
wave right now? Not at the bottom of the ninth. Everybody, please,
if I saw.
Speaker 4: If I saw them do a wave at a Devil's game,
I'd leave there.
Speaker 2: You go, you've a camouflage cyber truck just pulled in.
Speaker 3: I participated in every wave I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: When I was a child, I waved as a child,
But now I am a man, I've waved as a man. Yeah,
I'll do the wave. It's never distracted me. But also
I get there's a time I've never seen it done
at the at the bottom of the ninth, But I
haven't been to that many bases. My bottom and I said, exaggerating,
But you know, yeah, zombie Porne says, when you're all
putting backlar in a boat, boat collar a skipper.
Speaker 4: I actually am a fan of boat stuff. I do
like that together we should do boat stuff.
Speaker 2: Boats often wine. Now you're turning into hardy Yeah, yeah,
I mean it seems most endangered.
Speaker 4: I just didn't danger of becoming maharty.
Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, like I I hate cruises.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to do cruise stuff, but I do like, uh,
you know, I have a friend who has a has
a boat on the Jersey shore.
Speaker 2: We do that a couple of times a mo. I
like that. It's fun, it's nice cool. It's nice to
have a friend with a boat. Yes, yeah, I would
want one for myself. Ever, too much work, too much
Steff brings it up, and I'm like, if you take
care of it and do all the work for it, right,
it's another job.
Speaker 4: Like when I hang out with them, half the time
we're on the boat. Half the time, they're like cleaning
up because of the boat. It's terrible.
Speaker 2: You don't want to do it's too much work. Crispy
Tortillas is can't wait for you all charity stream fuck
I thank you, Chrispy tortilla. I'm looking forward to it.
Do you want to drop those deats again with Jeff.
You're heading out on Friday. I'm at PM Central, yes, right,
five pm, that's six pm Eastern. Yes, we'll be doing it.
It'll be on Just go to job bomb dot com.
You'll see it there.
Speaker 3: You'll see some boats. We're so like like this is
coming in hot. We're getting stuff all organized and stuff.
We're researching charities.
Speaker 1: All this flight yesterday for the flight on Friday, So keep.
Speaker 3: An eye on our socials on mid Max's socials. Details
will come, But like Friday, five pm Central is the plan.
Speaker 2: Casey Jones says, when is fishing week? Making art for
it now, we had a general idea, but like I
don't want to say any because the year is going
to be so malleable because we have so many other
things happening that we'll let you know as we get closer.
But we are trying to get everything like that that
came out of the Bombit don done in like the
first half of the year, so soon ish, we'll let
you know yes day and.
Speaker 3: I have flights booked for one of our excursions, so right, yeah,
some trips coming.
Speaker 2: Out yeah, I forgot about that plane ticket. Yeah, making
plans to start recording the Endurance Run hopefully pretty soon
here as well. Yep, real soon, yep, yep. Oh, I
gotta go get on a train. Then there you go again.
And then JD.
Speaker 5: Camp says, it's Wien or week in Portland? Should I
get a Korean corn cheese dog or a tocado dog
hot dog?
Speaker 2: Should I eat this week one? I'm so smart that
it last a week, Like you don't have to like
try to plan your whole day around eating fifteen different
hot dogs. Yeah, yeah, I would try to as many
as you as I could, though. It sounds great.
Speaker 3: I think on the Taco Bell Subredded, somebody put a
hot dog inside of a chili cheese burrito from Taco Bell,
and that just sounds real fucking good.
Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with that. That's all those things are
in the Bible. Yeah. Probably, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 5: I probably passed. I probably passed, although I did have
my first Korean corn cheese dog in LA within the
last few years, and boy that was good.
Speaker 2: I liked that, didn't Germany? Wasna tell? Yeah? Yeah, we
haven't done video. Yeah, were one in LA before that? Even. Yeah,
that's right, we did.
Speaker 5: There was a place in Trimmy right by our hotel
where we did that. Yeah, not too far from where
we met dj Astets. I hope she's doing well.
Speaker 3: Yes, I hope she's doing I follow her on Instagram.
Wells at it turns out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, email in your ranking of everyone, please, Mikey anymore
super chats or is that it?
Speaker 2: That's it? Thank you? Everybody appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, everybody boores what we got going on the
rest of this week. We mentioned the collab charity stream
that we're doing this Friday, five pm Central with our
dear friends over at mid Max. Dan and Grub are
going to be at mid Max h Q doings. Yes,
Taylor Jacob Geller will be there. You'll think you're going
to get into any like in person sectory shenanigans.
Speaker 2: I brought it up immediately. We're all going to be
in the same room, the man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got to do a thing where we each
get like five runs and stuff and everyone be nice
to Hanson.
Speaker 2: What if he's a ringer, What if he's a secret ringer?
He's not super not No, he doesn't know what controller is. Yeah,
we were talking.
Speaker 3: About the blight thing, and I brought up the idea
of maybe Hanson getting blighted as an incentive, and he
was like, this would not be fun to watch, even
on a like He's like, I am terrible at good
games that are well designed. It would not be fun
to watch me play a bad game, So grab me
getting blighted.
Speaker 1: Okay, after today, Greb, you're right, the mist Busters return
for Monday Mornings. Missed with Mitch on a Tuesday, get
it out.
Speaker 2: We've done one on a Monday actually.
Speaker 1: And then Mikey is also it's his turn at the
wheel for another blightening round.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, Tomorrow, voice tomorrow. It's only a day.
Speaker 1: Way voicemail, dump truck on Thursday, upf on Friday. We're
probably still gonna play deadlock, but if we're not having fun,
we may pivot and then Game of Mornings popping off Wednesday,
Thursday Friday, right, grib.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it might be. I should be able to do
it Friday, maybe before I leave for my flight. Let
me double check, will I'll let you.
Speaker 1: Ever, ever, don't don't push yourself to do that. Don't
want you to miss a flight. You should be okay,
but we'll see maybe we can uh maybe, well we
could figure something out. There is a resident Evil hands
on preview on the site. Another quick look should be
dropping after the podcast today for from the Top. That
is the Bay Blade Rogue Light Game.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Also, the film and Forties is dropping this Friday. We're
gonna drop it Friday morning for you folks at home,
so you can prepare your weekend plans.
Speaker 3: Audio track as always, So if you find a way
to stream the story of Ricky, perhaps on any internet
sites that archive movies and things like that that you
can stream, yeah, you can find it. Make sure you're
watching the English dub. That is a critical element of
the story of Ricky. Critical, it's very important.
Speaker 2: Interesting. Okay, First of a, I'll eat shit, uh, Gang,
anything else we got going on this week that we
forgot about.
Speaker 5: Now it's more stuff that we've been preparing. This's gonna
be coming out even next week I think as well.
Another plan so uh yeah, yeah, stay tuned. Everybody.
Speaker 1: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Well that about does it for the show. Gang,
he's been Jeff, he's been Jeff, he's been Mike, he's
been Dan, I've been Jann. We'll see you next week
for another episode of the Giant Podcast.
Speaker 2: Until then, Mark Nice good bo