Speaker 1: Hey, everybody is April twenty first, twenty twenty six. Welcome
to the Giant BombCast, Episode nine hundred and thirty seven.
I'm your host, jan Oh Shoa joining me co captain
of the ship, joining me as always. He's riding the
twos and the threes because I'm on the ones. Jeff Crubb, Yeah,
I got the back up here. I feel everybody.
Speaker 2: I feel bad for Janet Shoa because he's he does
have to sort of captain this ship and he like
tries to get us on task, and we all kind
of like just we goof off, but we also just
like talking to each other. We're like, Channe'll tell us
when it's time to go, and when he has to
actually tell us it's time. Ago, you could tell he's like,
I don't want to be the buzzkill guys, but we
need to start the show, and he it's hard for him.
Speaker 3: I can tell, and I appreciated you.
Speaker 1: It's like wrangling my own little group of kitty cats,
and I'll do it every single week if I have to.
Speaking about kitty cats. He's the coolest cat in town.
Ian Riikert, that's me, Hi, Hi, Drane. How's it going bud, great, fantastic.
I have something to talk about the weekend, but I'll
talk about that during the emails. Actually, because we have
the hater of all cats, anything Feeline is not fine
with him.
Speaker 4: Jeff Beckler, Hey, what's up, Jan? I'm still stoned, still
stone from four to twenty.
Speaker 3: Man, that's right, I said, brother, that's right. We're gonna
green out today, the green twenty.
Speaker 4: It's a leap year for four twenty this year, what
does that mean? Goes into the following day. So everyone
who celebrated yesterday is still stone today. That's hown works
every four hundred and twenty years.
Speaker 1: Damn, just like Jesus predicted exactly. He has risen and
Jeff Backlar is high and he's never getting high because
he's grounded because he is the bad boy of games.
Speaker 3: Mood Mike Bnati, Hi, I like you.
Speaker 5: And I like you like you always so weird?
Speaker 3: Yeah you got weird.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know, if you're listening out there and you're
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Speaker 1: I hear all these other podcasts talk about call to actions.
I think we should have a couple more call to actions.
Go like like it and then go like another video.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 1: I think it genuinely does help us out. It would
would make Chuck very happy. It would make Sean very happy.
It would make Will very happy. Every time. People don't
know this, but every time a video gets liked, Will's
mustache curls.
Speaker 3: Just a little bit more. I need yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Every little like increases the millisecond that Chuck floats whenever
he smells a pie. And don't you guys want to
see that at home? Don't you want to know that
she provided pie floats to Chuck. Mike It likes for
Mike as well.
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Speaker 1: Look look at the space, Look at that guy, Mike.
I just liked two videos just now. Oh oh, I
like four.
Speaker 3: I like four the audio listeners missing out here? Holy
s oh my lanta, Mike. People just liked ten videos each. Okay, folks,
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now we don't have to talk about what we ranked.
But yeah, that's that's on the website. Boys gang, how's
everything going, how's everyone doing good?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I did. I did the Red Eye situation for
a play. I tried to in and out weekend for
the first time ever where it's like, I'm just gonna
try to do forty eight hours in a town and
come back, and it's like, overall, I think I'm positive
on it because it doesn't feel it. It's I just
went with a backpack, you know, to Vegas for forty
eight hours and it was great. But it's like you
get back and you do the Red Eye thing, It's like, oh,
that does kind of it does kind of fuck you up,
but it's worth it. I told uh, I was telling
my Debaucher's Vegas story of these guys before I went
on the air. I was in a suite that had
a free candy situation, and I ate so many sour
Patch kids and Skittles that I threw up and that
was not TI. I threw up. Did you really grow up? Yeah?
The next morning, yeah, because you're like, well, I kind
of thinking I was. I really fucked up. The whole
food situation was. I was in Vegas because I sounds
like it. Yeah, I assumed a night one it would
just be like they would have like real food in
the press box and stuff like that, and they didn't
for like a couple hours. It was just like pretzels
and potato chips and cheese ites, and so I kept
like grabbing bags at that. So I didn't eat anything
all day. And I get there and I'm like, all right,
gonna go nuts on some burgers and stuff, and it's like, oh,
they're not out yet. I guess I'll just get a
bunch of bags of chips and then they'd keep it.
They didn't come out, and I kept drinking soda and
eating chips and everything. Uh, And it wasn't like alcohol.
They didn't have alcohol up there, so it was just
chips and stuff was all I was eating all day.
And the next day I had a friend who had
an empty spot in a suite, like if you had
pe sweet thing. They had like an unlimited concession stand
for free and including sour Patch kids and skittles, and
I just ate those the whole fucking day. And so
my entire color work intake for the day was sour
Patch Kids, skittles, and beer. And then I read eye
home and I woke up at like five in the
morning just puking, like and it was not like a
hangover drinking puky. It was definitely my stomach is on
fire because of how many fucking Sour Patch kids.
Speaker 5: I ate it happened.
Speaker 1: It's did you realize you may being too many Soua
Patch kids during the consuming process?
Speaker 3: You know, I was in cloud nine. I was in
cloud nine. He doesn't know what.
Speaker 5: And then as I was like.
Speaker 3: The show was wrapping up, I went to go pee.
A lady that works at the stadium was like, better
fill your pockets about the show's almost over, and I
wasn't going to, but then she told me to. She
enabled me.
Speaker 4: This lady, I figured, with her skin red, does she
have horns pointing out of her?
Speaker 1: She was a very nice now, very nice lady in
a suit. Follow a question about this lady's appearance, was
she maybe tiny? Does she look like she was made
out of a jelly or gum and covered in sour cream?
Speaker 3: And I wasn't gonna get any more because I was like,
I had too many Sara Patch kids. And then she
said that. I was like, I'd be rude not to
so I went up there and I just went fucking
nuts and just filled all my Pocketay was literally like
Homer in that Simpsons episode, like leaving just bulging shorts
from fucking sour Patch kids and stuff. But then I
didn't want to carry them out loose, so I had
to get like a loose bag, and I'm carrying around
like a trash bag I got from my concession stand
filled with candy through Las Vegas. It's you're the.
Speaker 4: Kind of person that I'm like, Dylan, don't don't go
up to that guy, you know, like in the bucketration,
You're like, leave that guy with the loose bag of
Skittles alone in a zip you.
Speaker 3: I don't know what deal.
Speaker 4: They're gonna name a fucking disease after you, man, diabetes.
Speaker 3: Dana Beates, Well, I'm better. I think I got most
of it out of my system. I got a lot
of sleep, so I think I'm on the upsloe being
healthy again.
Speaker 1: But Dan, your your teeth. You you were talking in
the mic check about how you went to the.
Speaker 3: Dentist right before this this morning again, how you know
the candy factors into that some what lifetime I realized
today I was there getting the bite adjusted again because
my teeth keep hurting. And I looked at my layout
thing of all my teeth, you know, it's like, okay,
this one has crowned as crown crime crann. And then
they had one that just had a big, like cartoon
crack in it, and I pointed at it because I
don't remember having work done on that. I said, what's
that and they were like, oh, that's a you've got
a tooth with a fracture in it. But the other
stuff was higher priority, so we'll get to that, so
crack in it right now. So that's gonna have to
be a you should just eat paste.
Speaker 4: You you're sending not only your dentist kids to college.
I feel like you're sending people on your dentist street.
You're just sending to college.
Speaker 2: I think we could do like this could be a
huge sort of service we do to the public, where
if we just clip that out and send it to
people before they go to the dentist and be like,
play this for your dentist, and then whatever they're gonna
say to you, you could feel better. Oh you don't
floss enough, trust me, Nothing compared to this.
Speaker 3: Is I do floss and I brushed and everything. I
just do a lot of other real bad stuff to it. Yeah, yeah,
we got that.
Speaker 4: I think you man your whole, like I want all
my teeth out and have like cyber teeth or whatever
you want on it.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 4: Now, you're you're fully within your right to request that
kind of ridiculous A four.
Speaker 3: Percent they do it in Vegas. It's like nine thousand
dollars upper, nine thousand dollars lower. They just got all
your teeth and they give you these bionic teeth I'm
thinking about it gets a lot.
Speaker 5: Of sensation when you do that, though, good what tooth?
What sensations you have my teeth besides pain? I guess yeah,
if your your sensations are mostly painful, maybe you like
fun tickles, Like what are you getting your It's like,
oh the sick it's yeah, it's it's pleasurable, Dan, you
don't have the pleasure teeth.
Speaker 3: What are you feeling on your teeth? That's fun, you
know when you crunch on something nice? Right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's doing right here.
Speaker 2: All Okay, the amount of tooth trauma Dan has. I
don't blame him for feeling this way, but it makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, how much of it is self inflicted?
No one can know, but yeah, I feel bad.
Speaker 5: I feel well.
Speaker 3: Well, dad got peer pressured at the end there, like
the fine.
Speaker 2: Just getting the microphones into our mouth now to make
this podcast really sing?
Speaker 3: No, yeah, because like I know where this mic has been,
and I know where that mic has been.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm older, all right, gang. Other than the teeth stuff,
how's everyone else?
Speaker 2: Uh, ADDIE's actually having teeth pain, like she's she was
like her molar's coming in. It's and it's like, oh,
this is one of those things where she's in a
great deal of discomfort and some pain and there's just
nothing you could do about it. You're like, yeah, this
is just gonna happen. You need to just go through this.
That's a rough position to be in. Its parent, You're like, oh, yeah,
I guess here's some tail and all. I guess we'll
try that. And then I have to send her off
to school. So I'm kind of waiting for the call
from the teacher being like she's been crying all day,
come pick her up.
Speaker 3: So, man, yeah, tea stuff's not fun. Oh here's fun stuff.
I got an idea. I got some marketing plans now
that I learned over the weekend. Let's just in the
middle of any conversation we're having insert Snickers ads. Okay,
does that work? I think people like that. I think
we should do that. I think we need to be
doing like thirty times more ads and make them as
intrusive as possible.
Speaker 5: Let's be sure to highlight their dental benefits.
Speaker 1: Who yeah, yeah, in the middle of one of our
very important game discussions, we should just flash like a
slimjam ad instead.
Speaker 3: No, we need to cut it out and cut out
the conversation. I don't think people should be able to
hear the content. I just do the ads.
Speaker 5: A joke about it, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3: Wrestlemanting was fucking bad.
Speaker 2: Their strategy for making more money from wrestling is to
take something that was already pretty bad and make it
worse and just about every way.
Speaker 4: But how do you mean? I don't know, because you know.
Speaker 2: You know, you grew up like remembering all these awesome
entrances from these wrestlers, and it's like they were tiny, icic, iconic.
Yeah yeah, what if they're what if they paused in
the middle to tell you about Snickers?
Speaker 5: Shut the fuck up and backler.
Speaker 3: Here's where it gets crazy because we come from like
the old pay per view era where you pay, they
get your money and then you watch a wrestling show. Right, Yeah,
here's it's all confusing. Now it's a thirty dollars ESPN
aff you're already paying, and then so the home viewer
is getting a million ADS and the people who pay
the ticket price of this year were fucking insane. We're
talking many thousands of dollars if you're like anywhere on
the floor or whatever. So and it's the two night things.
If you're a family, imagine that much you're spending.
Speaker 5: There and no families go there?
Speaker 3: What do you mean are a ton of families? It
was like half families. I would say, yeah, he was.
And then like during entrances, like in the middle of
an entrance, the guy's music will cut out. Snickers ads
or whatever Capital One or the General or whatever ads
are blaring on every screen an Allegiance stadium, and then
they come back, they start the guy's music up again
and he's doing his taunts in the ring and crazy,
it was so fucking aggressive on top of all the
stuff on the ring, although like they had a fucking
crypto guy some bills, some crypto billionaire pay to sit
at commentary for the women's championship match, and they didn't
have him on a mic, so they just him sit
next to the commentators because he pays. Insane, the most
aggressive greedy bullshit, Like in an industry that has always
been known for aggressive, greedy Carnie bullshit, now it is
just like past parody. It is fucking insane. Yeah, I
guess it's not surprising, right, it's not surprising. No.
Speaker 2: No, the current owner ownership, no, yeah, I mean the
previous ownership was bad and now it's worse.
Speaker 3: In every way.
Speaker 2: I didn't watch a second of it, but all the
stuff I was getting on social media was like, yeah, cool,
good decision to spend my time elsewhere, for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking about stuff spending time elsewhere, I've been, you know,
perusing the streets of San Francisco and Oakland, and I've
been going to a couple more bars, not in a
sad way, folks at home, in a fun way where
I'm like, oh, I appreciate the craftsmanship of cocktails once again, specifically.
Speaker 3: A good martini.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you a gang. Let me tell
you I absolutely adore eclectic, weird bartenders, and I think
sure there was like a period of time, specifically in
San Francisco, where they were prevalent and a little bit
too much. I think we have now reached a middle
ground where there are still too much but you're cool
meta dude over the weekend shouts out to Trick Dog.
Go to Trick Dog if you're in San Francisco. One
of the best bars. I think I got voted like
one of the best bars in the country. But uh,
I'm with my friend the person I'm I'm going to
this bar with. They introduced me to the bartender. Bartender
just like holds his fist up, just goes put up dog.
Speaker 3: I'm bones. Oh cool? Like yo is that short? He's bones?
Speaker 1: And I was like, yo is that short for somethings?
Like nah, it's just bones, And like yo is that
with with a Z? It was like no, but maybe
it should be with the Z.
Speaker 3: Is his mcoy.
Speaker 5: It might not be as cool as you think. This
could be a star trek thing.
Speaker 1: But what I do want to shout out is I
like flights are fun, right, A flight of beer, very
fun flight. It's like the sampler of alcohol. But the
more fun thing is a flight of tiny teenies. Jeff Backlar,
I thought of you during this A right, okay. We
had a regular martine. We had a regular Martini's one sure,
second one big ass blue cheese olive sure, third had
some palm.
Speaker 3: A palm rindedn't it palm like cheese? It was a
dirty cheesey martini.
Speaker 4: Were these all gin or vodka?
Speaker 3: Vodka? Well? I chose so you could do either or
yeah no, I'm.
Speaker 4: A vodka guy too, so you so. The first one
was just like a standard one with.
Speaker 5: Olives, yeah, yep.
Speaker 4: And then like dirty dirty though, or just like.
Speaker 3: Normal dirty, dirty dirty.
Speaker 4: Then one with blue cheese, which don't knock it if
you've never tried it. I know on its face it
sounds like, hey, what's this blue cheese doing in my cockten?
It sounds like a ranch soda? Yeah yeah, but it plays,
it plays. And then a parm rine. Wow, no olives
with the parm rine, No olives, no olives, just the
parm rine.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I had a pickle beer, which was crazy delicious.
Speaker 3: It was good.
Speaker 1: Again, don't knock too, try it. I'm not one for
pickles too much, but I had it and I greatly
enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm talking it to the list of like you
know what next. I don't know when, if, and when
any of the boys will be back in San Francisco,
but I'm like, I want to take them to my
special places. Yeah, speaking about special places, everyone is good
in their special places over the weekend before we get
to video games.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I've spent most of my time outside, which
is nice. I have to say that, right, I have
to say going outside is nice. Yeah, if you like it,
don't look.
Speaker 3: I mean I do.
Speaker 2: I do, but it's like reluctant because it's like every
time I go outside, I'm like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do feel better.
Speaker 5: This is stupid.
Speaker 2: That makes me feel better. I wish, I wish I
could just still feel better laying down doing nothing, but no,
going outside does work. It was like doing yard work
and stuff. Still I this, uh my robot lawnmower saga
continue where it's like it's working now, but it's not
doing a good job anymore, and I'm worried I'm gonna
have to start mowing my lawn the manual way against
so I replace, Yes, I'm like, Okay, I need to
replace these blades, and I did you know it comes
with little razor blades you put in there. I replaced them,
and uh it's yeah, I think you know, the grass
got too long, so the batteries were fucked to begin with.
Speaker 3: So I waited too long.
Speaker 2: And I'm hoping it's like it just needs to get
through like a couple of good mos and then once
it gets to a good baseline, it'll do a good
job of maintenance. But we're not getting over that hump.
It's it looks it looks bad out there. It looks
worse than when the grass was just long. It's a
patchy and weird. Uh So, yeah, I spent a lot
of time trying to diagnose the problems with a robot
that's supposed to make my life easier, which is, I
don't think the point of getting a robot for your birthday.
Speaker 3: How much is a lawnmower? What kind of lawn more?
Are you talking about a replaced or get a new
one or something?
Speaker 2: So if like I were to get a lawnmower, would
probably spinning a minimum of like fifteen hundred to like
to like get something that's going to be decent at
this point. The robot mower, I mean just kind of
like we I would like probably go all out and
get like a decent you know, maybe entry level riding
more at this place.
Speaker 3: Yeah yard, Yeah, yeah, riding sounds fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the that was the choice. It was
riding lawn mower or the robot.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you make it so terrified to to try
and own a home eventually.
Speaker 3: And the maintenance.
Speaker 5: I mean, some people like mowing their lawn. You know,
it's fine, you Mike, what do you do? I pay people,
he pays to help.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 5: I get it. I don't like it, but it's fine.
It's worth it to have a lawn, all right.
Speaker 3: Yeah I would. I would.
Speaker 4: I feel like I would prefer I don't know. I
don't know what's more environmentally friendly. I'm sure it's not
watering a lawn for six months out of the year,
eight months a year.
Speaker 3: That seems bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would, I would. I would do, Like, I
don't know, is terf a thing that you could do?
Speaker 3: You can't do it almost no way that the HOA
would be cool with that. I'm a h I am.
Speaker 2: I do and it's pretty chill, but I don't think
they're gonna let me put in fake but I don't.
I do like having the lawn. We don't have to
we don't have to water it because there's a lake
right over there and that just it just happens. No
one's got springing, no, no, yeah.
Speaker 5: There's I just no, I've never seen anybody like I
don't have to water lawn.
Speaker 3: And it's pretty much thrust all of Ohio.
Speaker 2: Sprinklers are really rare, really but yeah, but especially up
here where it's like I am, you know, like I said,
like five hundred feet from the lake or whatever, and uh,
it really does just yeah, my super green grass all
the time. You know, we do a little bit of
extra to it. But yeah, that's that's not too much
of an effort. So it's like, hey, I can have
a nice yard if I want to without having to
worry about all the like wasting too much water. But yeah,
that springtime getting over the hump, it's like, oh, I
do have to put quite a bit of energy into
this to get it into a decent shape.
Speaker 4: In the beginning every year, every year, the sprinkler guy
gotta do this song in the dance with the sprinkler
guy who wants to put new sprinklers in, and I'm
just like, what's wrong with the ones that are in there?
And he's like, he's like, oh, they'll break, they'll bust,
and you know you got to clear it. I'm just like, buddy,
I don't want new sprinklers just yet until there's just
like a pool of mud in my front lawn.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: He's like, all right, and I'll put a pool of
mud in your fucking.
Speaker 3: Fall, know if I have sprinklers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so so yeah, I feel like it's you know,
it's a it's it's a nice thing to do to
like keep it nice.
Speaker 3: I mean there, but I think I might have sprinklers,
but I'm not sure.
Speaker 5: From sprinklers.
Speaker 3: If I do have them, they've definitely never been on
since I've lived here. But there are like things in
the lawn that look like what's that weird hole for?
Speaker 5: You know? Far as to come? Okay, we got a
back or veto all right.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say taking care of alone, Uh sounds
like a scam and that's appropriate because during UPFU, most
of us were able to play scam lines. I just
want to talk about it briefly. Very fun game. There
was about seven of us there. Most of the crew
Backler was out on assignments, so we pulled in Bailey
Myers to join us, and we had a great time.
And I'm glad that our friendship in and like uh
bonds are strong enough to sustain all of the lying
that happened. The only type of pat a little bit.
I didn't lie once at all. It was it was
kind of like observing now how much Will was trying
to manipulate everyone and turn everyone against us.
Speaker 3: Wow, you know. And then the same thing with Sean,
Sweet Sean was was pulling the strings the puppet as
through the whole time Grub. This is one of those
games where you can only talk to people via the
phone and you can only talk to one person at
a time during these mini games.
Speaker 1: So the games will range from like trying social deduction
and lying to each other. For instance, like you will
have a shape and you're supposed to help or maybe
lie to the other person on the line to figure
out what shape you both have.
Speaker 2: Yep, it's the It's like there's a lot of you know,
prisoner's dilemma stuff in there. There's just a lot of
game theory and it's all about yeah, we're working with
or working against the other people and sort of trying
to gauge how willing they are to work with you
or if they are lying, and uh, it's it's really
smart because it's very quick games.
Speaker 3: It goes very fast. The points system is not like.
Speaker 2: Out of Whack where if you win one game you're
gonna be super behind. You have a chance of catching up.
So everyone like felt like they were in it, and
it really did encourage everyone to like along. You know,
there's a I watched that documentary that Holding Ideas did
about the Beast Games, which is his uh mister Beast's
take on Squid Games, and he their game design for
that game show is pretty bad, where like they didn't
give people incentives to like lie in a lot of them,
and this does not have that problem. Everyone was eventually
incentivized to sort of being a I'm like, we were
playing the Prisoner's Dilemma one, which is, hey, if we
press the green button, we're both going to get three points.
If if we both press the red button, we're going
to get one point. But if I press the green
button and you and you press the red button, I'm
gonna get zero points. And you're gonna get five points.
And I was starting out like, let's just always press
the the green button. Guys like that's you know, do
what's best for yourself, then the other person. That's beautiful
mind game theory stuff. That's the best thing. Very quickly
you could see the scores of the people who are lying,
mostly Bailey just shooting ahead of everywhere else. And I'm like, okay,
we have to lie. And so Mike up and he's like, hey,
I'm gonna press the green button. I'm like, oh, buddy,
I'm sorry, but yeah, me too. And I pressed the
red button and I got my first five points. I
was like, well that felt nice.
Speaker 1: Well funny you mentioned that, Grub, because like in the
first game we were playing, you were very adamant about
I'm not lying, I'm just letting you all lie to yourselves,
and that quickly changed from games onwards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's multiple strategies, right. There was one where it's like,
I'm I'm a bad liar in this game. People are telling,
so I'm gonna tell the truth. But I can tell
I can gather information about when other people are lying,
and so division among other people. So I'm like, tell
me who told you that, oh they're lying to you.
And I always told the truth on that and it
would cause people to go back and have these conversations
and break through agreements that they had and that also
benefited me. And it's like, oh, this is a really
cool way of getting people together in a different kind
of multiplayer game. And I thought it just kind of
boiled down to its most component parts and worked surprisingly well.
I think we all had a good time despite the
fact that we were lying and screwing each other over
for an hour and an hour half or whatever we did.
Speaker 3: I struggle because it'd be like there, it'd be like
Jan or Mike or whatever on the other line, and
it'd be just so earnestly sounded just like hey, okay,
like they are we really gonna We're gonna be bud
buds here, right, And yeah, Like I as much as
I like control and stuff like that, it's like, man,
I don think he'd just lie to his face like
that and him over like that's that that hurt? Yeah,
but like some of it was fun, like the ones
that would mask your voice. Yeah, so you're trying to
figure out there, like you because I've never thought actively
about like anyone's speech patterns or things like that, but
like somebody would start talking like like that sounds like
kind of how Bailey talks.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: I think Jan does that, like when he says hi
to me or something like that. That was interesting that
one that one did not help me at every would
immediately do it.
Speaker 5: Was me, I don't know because my speech pattern is
so recognizable, or the audio maasking just was not enough
for this distinctive voice. But everyone's immediately just like bike
like shit.
Speaker 2: I said hello and so I still know who don't
know who it was. I said hello, and they're like, wait,
that's grub. Just from Hello, I could tell it's grub.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: So I started doing I started like talking in a
high pitch voice, trying to hide it, and everyone thought I.
Speaker 5: Was Mike, Oh wow, that looks I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, this is really funny. I like also try to
use my goggsler to hide my voice more. I'm like,
I want to like see if I could really.
Speaker 3: Hide my voice. That didn't work.
Speaker 2: It was definitely patterns and stuff, but yeah, the high
pitch voice did work.
Speaker 3: I tried to keep singing under the sea, thinking people
would think it was how far do you get in
that one under the se.
Speaker 5: Little Yeah, we gotta get back we gotta get back
Lar into two scam lines.
Speaker 1: We've got to run it back one time for the
one time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly funny.
Speaker 3: Because I Backler does these voices that I feel I
could could really fudge around with the whole everything.
Speaker 5: Just yeah, just uh do that whole thing as one
of your famous characters do it as the entire time.
Speaker 3: But then we would know, we would know that will.
Speaker 5: Get feels speakls here.
Speaker 3: We'll have to invent new people for yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, okay, yeah, we'll have to get Nikki. I
feel like Abby would be very yeah. Yeah uh speaking
about lying in things tied to lying why lying can
lead to hatred folks at home, So don't do it
too much because Mike Manatta, you've been playing, and I
believe this is safe to talk about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, yeah, yes it is. I see the reviews up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you've been playing Diablo four Lord of Hatred yep.
Speaker 5: This is the second Diablo four expansion. I got some
early access to this one, didn't play through it or anything,
but was able to make the new class a Warlock
and check out the campaign for a good while here.
Now I'm like kind of like, okay with Diablo four.
Up to this point, I always have a good enough
time playing it, I don't find it interesting enough to
like really stick with seasonal characters and dive deep. The
combat kind of like devolves to me into just like
I don't you know that moonnight go random bullshit thing.
I feel like I'm kind of mashing buttons and a
million things are happening. I know there's more nuance to that,
especially at higher difficulties, but it at least playing through
the campaigns isn't as engaging as playing a Diablo two
campaign or something like like that. But in this one
I was having a pretty good time so far. The
warlock is a really cool class. I was a little skeptical, like, okay,
another kind of castor you know, magician thing, how does
this feel different? And they have a lot of you know,
like fire spells and they summoned demons things like that.
Even just beyond the aesthetics of it, some of the
stuff it was doing was neat, Like my one of
my big spells would make a fissure and then fire
would explode out of it when it clicks. So where
if I click booms. But then the neat thing is
if I did another one, like the old fissure would
still be there for a little bit. So if I
cast somewhere else, I'd make a new fissure that explodes,
but the old fissure would explode too, so for it
kind of places around and do a ton of damage
over all wider area. Then another point, I was like
summoning a like a demon head that was just shooting
like a flamethrower kind of wherever I put it. So, yeah,
the moosset seemed pretty fun. The story was moving along
at a good pace. There has a very nice recap
in the beginning, because even I'm like, what happened in
that last expansion in the main game, something about a
devil and an angel? Right, so caught me up. Good
there you you immediately go on a boat to a
new city. The boat sequence was kind of fun, and
then the city itself seems like really big, much bigger
than a Diebo city has felt, and it also has
a good vibe. Sometimes everything in Diablo is kind of
just like it's shitty in this place, that's sleep right
in this place. It's like, oh, it's like this kind
of court Town, and like, you know, there's obviously a
corrupt undercurrent, but it's pretty to look at for a bit,
and the uneasiness comes in other ways and just showing
piles of wooden boxes and sand everywhere or something, you know,
so aesthetically it looks nice. But yeah, I was having
a good time with it. I bet I'll enjoy playing
through that campaign again. I don't I don't know if
this is like peak Diablo or anything like that for me,
but I was into it.
Speaker 2: I want tom short of of Mike doing the voices
for like Decord Kane explaining the world Diablo.
Speaker 3: It's shitty.
Speaker 4: I love that, Mike. I just want to bottle that up.
Speaker 1: You know, we should put that on a bumper sticker
actually just Mike's space and then just go shit, it's
pretty rough.
Speaker 5: It's pretty rough here. Then you'll it's shitty, then you'll die. Probably.
Speaker 3: Hey if that could apply to our real life place
of residence right now? Uh?
Speaker 1: Like, do you ever play these Diablo games like multiplayer
or is this purely a solo dolo experience for you?
Speaker 5: I all my memorable experience with what the games have
been me solo dolo ing. Uh, right, Like even like
I'll do some multiplayer stuff like du dungeons with my brothers. Honestly,
like most of that happened when Diablo three was a
console game and it was suddenly a really good couch
co op experience. It just kind of felt like Gaunt,
like a modern one of those Gauntlet games. That was
the most fun it's ever been co op. Otherwise, I
don't know, I could I get into that stuff a
little bit, but again, a lot of that is sort
of more almost end gaming. It's just kind of a
different how the game feels because like Diablo two, Diablo one,
the game was playing the campaign that was the game
There's obviously a lot of post game stuff too, for sure,
but to me that felt like the experience. And then
in the kind of Diablo three Diablo four world, the
campaign is almost like I don't say tutorial, but almost
feels like a prelude to the quote unquote real game,
which is the seasonal content and like getting all these
cosmetics and going up to Torment level fifteen to get
your super delves or whatever all that stuff is called. Right,
I think we could become life service games, right, and
that that that is the model here and that that
is going to be the model. Then doing these big
expansions like this, I mean, you know, that is a
nice thing to do. I'm glad we still get these
big content drops and it's not just stuff slowly getting
dold out and less interesting ways. We do get huge
story beats.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 5: That guy with the voice from Uh, I don't know
he's he was he was sitting sixteen. He's a major
character in this one again. So I liked having him
back because he was kind of out doing his own
thing during the last expansion, So him being back was nice.
Speaker 3: Is it Ralph in a sense? Dud Dude's So it's
got a good voice. It's got a good voice. He
was good in The Green Knight as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's the Green Knight.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, wow, Mikey with a movie. Okay that that.
Speaker 5: Movie had semen in it.
Speaker 1: Well, going from the depths of uh.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, Michael, Jesus stop coming.
Speaker 3: I didn't hear what you said, Mike, but don't don't worry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I gotta go pick up a child who's not you.
What else do you know? You wizard peek into your
crystal ball for us.
Speaker 3: Bye, guys, we'll be right back. Okay, by this what's coming,
He's not going to leave leaves. No, that's good, that's good.
Speaker 5: It'll okay.
Speaker 4: The layout someday, someday, let's see, let's time him go.
Speaker 3: Well, this is perfect it Las Vegas, do long, sir long.
Speaker 1: I agree, this is perfect because I think Jeff Grubb
is still early in uh a game that I think
we're all very far to, if not completed.
Speaker 5: If not talking about being.
Speaker 1: Mas that's right, Mada p Mags, as it is known
in the streets boys gang. I think this would be
a ten out of t ten or a five out
of five game if it had one thing, one more
thing in it motorcycle. No, no, no. I've since completed
the game. I absolutely adore it. I like where the
story winds up going and everything a little cheesy little.
It feels like it's like a popcorn like Blockbuster style game,
but it doesn't overstay. It's welcome to the thing that
I need this to do. Because in the quick look, Mike,
you alluded to, Oh yeah, by the time I finished
this game, I had like eight dashes or boosts that
I would just zipping all over the place, and the
way that the game futz is around with gravity because
you're in space, those dashes go a very long way.
It's very fun how they mess with that and the verticality.
It would be five out of five for me if
they had given h a ground pound ability, if they
gave him, if they gave him a butt stomp with
his boosters, it would be perfect, primarily because I think
it would lend its very well to the overall mobility
of the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but what about what's her face, Deanna? That would
like screw up her positioning?
Speaker 5: No, she's a little lit Yoshi, but Thompson Yoshi's island
and mark on him and he's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's got enough hardware on the back there
where I'm sure it could like modify itself to right.
Speaker 5: She doesn't have real needs, so she'll be fine, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the best part of this game is that
she's not a person.
Speaker 3: You know, there's no escorts of whatsoever. You never have
to worry about her dying, like, yeah, that is great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And and the fact that like you don't have
to really care about her well being, you know, at
least Hugh seems to. I mean, I'm not I've I've
only finished that Big Boss in the Times Square. That's
that's as far as i'm But like, it's just yeah,
she's just it just doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: She's her her.
Speaker 5: You know, disagree, disagree, disagree, I mean protected at all Cross.
Speaker 3: Yes, I would.
Speaker 4: Faced with the same dilemma, I would also protect her.
I I think I think she's she's very funny and likable.
I think that's everything about her is pretty cool. But again,
you know, it's sort of just like at the end
of the night, if it was you.
Speaker 5: Or me again, make another one of you, if it
was you or a random actual child.
Speaker 3: Me.
Speaker 5: All right, well, I don't want to.
Speaker 4: I don't want to go I don't want to experiments
with you right now.
Speaker 1: No offense to a regular decular child.
Speaker 3: But like what there there?
Speaker 1: They won't be able to hack into a robic there
will be They'll be no use to you, is.
Speaker 5: What you're saying.
Speaker 4: Yes, Yeah, that's what he's saying.
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying. Yes, that is the hot take.
Thanks for Mike. Everybody like this video. Please like all
the videos, even if it doesn't have Mic on it. Please,
but holy smokes, gang, at the end, it's been a
very long time since I've felt compelled to go back
through a game and try one hundred percent or hit
up a new game plus. But like, just the gameplay
loop and just how it feels has me hooked in
a way where I don't want to leave the world.
I guess the moon yet with Pragmata, and it just
hid me.
Speaker 3: Oh go ahead, dan oh No, I was gonna say,
they make it easy if you want to do that,
where it's like it's it's so easy to go back to, like, Okay,
this place, I have three out of five of these boxes.
I'll just work back there immediately. Very it's a very
fun one.
Speaker 1: And I on top of Diana and Hughes' relationship, like
I like that it doesn't get too muddy with introducing
other characters, and I like that Cabin is just stuck
there in your little shelter and doesn't do too much.
He's charming enough. And then when you get more training
missions because you find the broken cabins in.
Speaker 3: The world, I feel bad, my little struble and there's
like a spar some stuff like that, and you seems
like a poor little guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah for him, uh oh right. Moving on from Pragmata.
We have kept Jeff Grubb's seat open and he is
not replaced, But Jeff Bakalar, you have been playing Replaced.
Speaker 3: Yes, I certainly have.
Speaker 4: I owe it to myself to play some of this game,
because I've been thinking about it on and off for
what feels like the better part of five years or so.
I mean, my gosh, when did they first debut this thing?
I can't even remember. I always remember it was like
an Xbox thing, like some sort of showcase or whatever
it is. And obviously you know it launched on game Pass,
so so there's that connection following through. Replaced is finally out.
It is on game Pass like I said it is,
and again, uh, we can all agree. This game trailer
real well like what not many games trailer as well
as a game like this for folks at home.
Speaker 1: This is like the two D cyberpunk Blade Runner that's
looking that's right.
Speaker 4: It is a nineteen eighties sort of alternate history cyberpunk,
sort of pixely side scroller where you play as the
body of the return No no, no, stay with me.
You play as a body that is being controlled by
an a I after some sort of military experiment goes
haywire and I believe the world is left like I radiated. Okay,
and that's the setup. Like you say, it's like that
two point five D side scroller, So it's a three
D world, but you're sort of only moving through single
plane in it. You do get to go up and
down stairs in the foreground in the background, which adds
a little bit of dimensionality to it, but that is
the sort of the broad strokes of the gameplay. I'll
say this before we get into like what I actually
think about. This is one of the most visually strikingly
impressive games I've seen in many many years. Nothing looks
like this. A lot of games try to do a
sort of visual storytelling kind of thing, a visual style
that chips away this, but this is the most realized
and well executed hybrid of that. Pixel y with tilt shifty,
with like real world assets as well or real photo
realistic assets as well, incredible stuff. Nothing looks like this again.
Art direction is superb, the character designs are super compelling.
It is truly like unlike anything I've really ever seen.
Speaker 5: There is combat.
Speaker 4: It is basically like Arkham Arkham style. Right where you
are dodging some attacks countering others. There is not a
combo counter, but you do gain the ability. You find
a weapon and that becomes like a it's a gun,
but you use it as a baton until you unlock
the ability to like use your attack melee attacks to
earn the right to shoot one bullet right, So like you,
your combos don't get counted, but they are used to
sort of fill up this gun icon, and once you
max out that your character can shoot, and it's a
pretty devastating blast when you when you when you earn
the right to shoot. So here's so that's I think
the combat is well executed enough. I find that enjoyable.
What I'm struggling to really stay jacked in on is
the kind of expositional, raggy storytelling that this game is doing.
And I wish I wish the storytelling delivery matched the chops,
the visual chops that the game this sort of sort
of has it in my opinion, wastes the time very
slowly dragging through unskippable dialogue and you have to read
a lot and that's okay, but there's no way to
advance it, and game seems like it wants you to really,
you know, really make a meal out of every dialogue
interaction that's going on. Some dialogue is fast forwardable and
kind of skippable, which you will want to do because
you can read much faster than the words are appearing
on screen. But like I said, it is, yeah, it's
it's it's a little rough, and there is a pace
to it that is.
Speaker 3: Just I don't know, it's just a little just a little.
Speaker 4: Too sluggish for me. I wonder if that's a thing
that they maybe kind of patch in and I don't know,
maybe a little bit of feedback, who knows. So again,
it's it's the developer's decision to kind of like position
it that way. So I think that's fine, right, and
that's what they want. But it does feel like a
bit of a slog. But again, like visually speaking, like
there's it's an incredible The animations in the game are
really incredible because the characters themselves, they are not a
lot of pixels, but they have this realistic sort of
flow and body movement to them that are that is
really really cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the AI is named Reach and your body that
you play is named Warren, and there is a lot
of like self dialogue between your your character and reach
the AI, and it's mostly you the AI talking to
you and you just sort of listen and the AI
is controlling you, so like you'll, you know, you'll murder
like a bunch of gang members in the A is
like I'm sorry, Warren, I had to do that.
Speaker 5: We had to kill all these people.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: So there's that, but yeah, it's I think, you know,
I think the story is the story is not really
grabbing me, but I do think the way it is presented,
uh and the kind of like all the other things
that that that make up the parts of this game
are probably what's gonna keep me hooked in and kind
of see it through to the end. It's got an
incredible sound design, like really really awesome detail to attention
to detail. There such a really intoxing energy, intoxicating, sorry
energy to the whole thing. I just wish the story
was a little bit more kind of special, a little
more important, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's not like a Metroid Venous style at all.
You're just like going from level to level or is
there anything open world?
Speaker 4: As far as I can tell, there's not much of
that mechanic there in the game. There is a couple
you know, you do eventually reach this sort of like
dystopian refugee town and you're meant to go around kind
of ask some of the people in there, like, hey,
what's your deal? Can I do something for you? There's
a couple fetch quests peppered in throughout that experience, but
it is just you know, and like so, you know,
the first ninety minutes or so, you know, you're just
doing the left to right sort of thing for what
feels like forever, and none of that gets really impressively
complicated or fun. The puzzle it's very very very light
puzzle solving to the extent that you're just sort of
like moving. It's that saying, like move this to the
edge just so you can climb up to the wall.
Speaker 5: And it's like.
Speaker 4: You're just gonna have to start off with something a
little bit more cerebral there for me. But again, I
think the style this thing is dripping with such distinct
and impressive style that it's probably enough to get me
all the way to the end.
Speaker 3: I will.
Speaker 4: It is opening up where I'm at now, and you
do need like kind of interesting characters. I think the
characters are definitely stronger than the story overall. This one
dude Tempest, who's sort of this like eighties you know,
hair metal dude who drives a a sort of like
Mad Max creation that rides on rails, and you you
have to, you know, do some missions with this guy.
It's yeah, I think I think there's a I think
all the points were just sort of dumped into the
style of this game, and maybe some were not pumped
into the kind of moment to moment run around. So
we'll see how it goes. I I do feel like
I'm going to finish this. I've I've heard it's not
incredibly long, so that's definitely a plus at this point
for me. But yeah, that's replaced, you know, a little
bit of a disappointment, I think, so far from me.
But again, you it's honestly worth the price of admission
just to see what this freaking thing looks like, because
it is tremendous.
Speaker 1: Speaking about tremendous this this tremendous father right here already.
Back on the podcast, Jesus Age christ A, School's not far.
Speaker 3: She's back. She's chilling, Greb.
Speaker 1: We talked about Pragmata very briefly. You did a launch
of a class Friday. Anything you want to share about
PRAGMANA or if you dug deeper into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've played what I've played on the launch. Look,
I had to play some other games, but what I
played there was excellent.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: It is just a well crafted game. They knew what
they were going for, they deliver on it. It's got
a ton of style. I do love the characters, their banter,
their conversation, the relationship very authentic, feels very real.
Speaker 3: And then it's not.
Speaker 2: Just feels real, it's like, oh, it's also interesting.
Speaker 3: I think that the rewards.
Speaker 2: That they give you sort of the loop of hey,
go to this next checkpoint, and then once get to
that checkpoint, you can return to the hub and we're
gonna give you a chance to upgrade and get some
cool goodies, and those goodies also have their own related
upgrades associated with them or currency. It's just yeah, it's
a it's a video game, ass video game that has
all of the extras stapled on top of it in
terms of style, character, storytelling, uh, music, just general vibes
that elevates it above just being a video game ass
video game, not that that would be some shame. Yeah,
just another Capcom win. I'm just so, I'm really infatuated
with what I've played so far.
Speaker 1: It makes me nervous for Onny Musha because then it
would just be like one of the best years for Capcom, right.
Speaker 5: They got.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they said a month or anything with.
Speaker 5: No just this year, so probably later, probably later this year.
Speaker 1: Well, let's keep things in the Capcom world. Because Mike Manatti,
you have been playing Resident Evil two? Is this the remake?
Speaker 3: You've been playing?
Speaker 5: No, sir, this is the PlayStation one.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, been in the big resume mood lately, obviously
since Requiem came out. And I know I played Resumel zero.
What's a funny jan.
Speaker 3: I just see Kayla booing in the chests.
Speaker 5: It's incredible. But yeah, you know, there's a few of
them I haven't played yet, and one of them is
the original too. I played the remake a couple of
years ago and loved it too. Is supposed to be
an all timer game to something. At the time I
da'tven consider playing because I was tower these games. There's
that the games always just seemed to timiding. I always
assumed that they were like the hardest games ever for
some reason as well. Right, so it's fun to could
go when there finally dig into it started with Claire,
did the Claire play through, then the Leon play through,
and boy, it's just still awesome. It's still so freaking cool.
It's so much more approachable than I thought it would be.
If you're weird about Tink controls, boy, that immediately just
feels good in this game and makes a ton of sense.
The RPD, the pre runner backgrounds, that stuff still looks awesome,
and it is like the the A B stuff is
cool and it's a bit more intricate here than even
in the remake in terms of, Okay, you're gonna do
stuff in the A playthrough with Claire and then Leo's
gonna have different experiences are kind of to e the
repercussions of the things Claire did. You're not gonna have
the same boss fights necessarily even But yeah, it's just like,
it's weird playing a game after almost thirty years of hype.
And I'm like a big nineteen ninety eight and gaming guy.
If you've asked me, like, what's the best year for
video games, I'm like, nineteen ninety eight. We had halfway
and awkward time, Metal Gear, Solid Grinfin Dango, and I'll
go on and on, and this is this is one
of the games that is brought up and I'm like,
and that one that I didn't play yet, now I
have played it. It's freaking cool, even like it's funny
because like the voiceid thing is definitely better than resuvo ones,
but it's still pretty cheesy and also like bizarrely Canadians
that part of it is Also it's like the one
guy goes yeah, yeah, there's a famous some guy goes sorry, Like.
Speaker 3: It's just.
Speaker 5: Directs, right, because in this one, mister X only shows
up in the bleep the b play through, yes, which
is interesting. That's like a different wrinkle there. The game's
got me a couple of times, especially like the first
few hours when I was playing as Claire, I just
like walked by a window and some plants reached out
and grabbed me and I freaked out for a moment.
Then there's the I don't even know how I forgot
about this. I feel like I knew about this, but
you're like the interrogation room with the one sided mirror.
I'm in there. Then all of a sudden a liquor
jumped through it and I lost my shit. I freaked
out there for a moment.
Speaker 3: But even just the dog that's the dog window moment
of two, I think, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: It's classic. But even just like the the tension because
of the survival horror stuff. There was a point where
I got my inventory is limited and I had to
carry a couple of bees with me, so I was like,
I'm just not gonna take a healing item this time.
It's gonna be fine. And then of course I get
beat up a bunch and I have like no health left.
If something tickles me, I'm gonna die. And I'm like, okay,
there's gonna be a safe soon, I'm gonna be fine. Well,
sure enough, here's cuttinge And now mister X is like
on this fucking narrow bridge with me, and it's like
where I need to go. Like my strategy mixed mister
X every time has been just let him hit me
once and then I'll get by It's okay. I'm like, well, shit,
that's not gonna work. So I'm like, you know, like
take control jukeig, which you can only juke so much
because of the lack of strifing and I just kind
of like start going right, then I go left, and
I prayed to God somehow mister excited to do the
longest to wind up ever and it's just kind of
squeeze there, beauty, and it was exhilarating. Yeah, the game
is still so freaking fun, uh steph. Yeah, definitely. Uh
still just one of the best residevils. There's a lot
of really good Resident Evil. I don't like it quite
as much as the remake, just because the remake has
it has better puzzles. The puzzles in this game are
kind of simple. A lot of very simple block pushing
puzzles things like that, and you know, there is something about,
you know, actually being able to aim at a zombies
head or leg and do stuff with that. Even though
like the tank control shooting stuff still feels fine. It
feels good. It works in a game designed for it,
for sure.
Speaker 2: And pre rendered backgrounds. I mean, come on, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: Your backgrounds are so fucking cool.
Speaker 3: It's awesome for a replay of two remake because I
only played three one because I never played the original
two and I love to remake, but I did it
as Leon And is it a significantly different thing as Claire.
Speaker 5: It's just it well it's again in the remake. Yeah,
good enough, but also you kind of get the sort
of true ending when you do both of them back
to back. There's a little bit extra at the end
there and it's worse. And that's the case here as well.
And I was kind of a little surprised by how
much it was and I was just I don't know,
it was still exhilarating. Man still still.
Speaker 3: Has wonder like the steam cloud still has my save
from bet. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case. Yeah,
it probably does. Mike.
Speaker 2: Remind me the PlayStation one, one campaign on one disc,
another campaign on the other disc.
Speaker 5: Is that how yeah, that's right here? Uh, well my
one's in there, but yeah, here's my Claire's on discshoes.
So I try to put disc two in first. But
as Claire, then Leon would have been here Leons in
my PlayStation two right now. Backwards compatibility, God, is there
anything better than these PlayStation cases that can hold more
than one disc?
Speaker 3: Big boys?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Like, oh, I had this really weird moment where
I was playing the game and the disc looked pretty good, right,
I had no issues, no startering. Then I was in
a cut scene and the camera's just stuck on this
one character and then mid sentence had just stopped. I
was like, oh, that's not good, and like the music's
still playing, but she just wasn't going to her next line.
He's just kind of standing there, like, all right, I
guess I'm parking threes of the game. But let me
try taking the discout and looking at As I took
the discout, I kind of wiped it as I wasn't
looking and I was streaming this, the character just moved
her head and then everyone in my chat was freaking out.
Oh yeah, so I cleared the disc like put the
disc back in, but I'm getting ready to restart the game.
But just putting the disc back in the games like
and next line and the scene's just going.
Speaker 3: Real hardware, all right.
Speaker 5: We just we loaded, we loaded in the next line
of one and zeros that we're good to go again.
Speaker 4: Those black discs man, yeah right, but I can anyone
see anything.
Speaker 5: So it's really good. Still got a few Classic Redivils.
I got to play Original three. I gotta play Coveronica,
the Revelations and Dicks, and then.
Speaker 3: I'll be like any of any of those.
Speaker 5: Uh no, I don't think.
Speaker 2: That's interesting, Like it's not gonna hold up. But at
the time, I remember really enjoying it on the Dreamcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to me, that's.
Speaker 5: One of those Dreamcast games that people like, loved and
heaped praise on that. Yes, people kind of don't like anymore.
It's a talk about it's an echo defender of the future.
Speaker 2: Like, I bet you're going to like it because with
all the context and with all the really I mean yeah,
with the realization of where that series goes. Yeah, it's
gonna just be a fun little bit. Oh we got
another one of these?
Speaker 3: Would you do the Dreamcast version? Or they made that
PS two one not long after?
Speaker 5: I have the I have the Dreamcast versions. My brother
had that game. I still have his copy, so I
kind of just want to play that. And uh for
RESI Evil three the original. I have the GameCube version
of that, so I'll probably play it on there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, right, people forget it's rare, right, the
GameCube two and three a little bit more expensive. I
can never see those. Yeah, it was just weird because
the GameCube was so much more powerful. But it's like
it's not a remake. It's just the old one.
Speaker 5: Right, because yeah, they remade one. Then they're like, and
now we're just going to Port two three and co
Ronka X made sense. It was technically that generation, but boy, just.
Speaker 2: Only RI two on GameCube is like one hundred dollars, and.
Speaker 3: They have just been printing so much money with that
series in so many different ways since the beginning. Basically
I don't know, put them out again on game sure, whatever.
Speaker 5: And it's it's work Like, this isn't a series I
like had much affinity for it when I had to
review Resume Lake Village, you know, just a few years ago,
whenever that came out at the time, it's like no
one else is able to do it. I'm not really
resival guy, but I guess I'll review this one kind
of like since then, I've slowly just been calling my
way through it, and it's been a ton of fun,
So I don't think it's too long scoring jump into
o G three. It's like just like one of my
favorite series now, and I'm like even trying to think, like,
can I name five video game series that I think
are better than Resident Evil? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the party, pal, yeah, if we try good ship,
did you try right now?
Speaker 5: Year Megan my final fantasy. I know you don't agree
about being a fantasy. That's better than it's.
Speaker 3: Better, it's more, Yeah, it's more. No, Yeah, every metal
your game is an incredible game. Meddle Year never had
six or even five like every numbered Medalid.
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true. Good point. Yeah, but yeah, it's close,
it's close between more.
Speaker 5: But there's more resident evils. There's a lot more of them.
It's nice. Sure, it's nice to have more of them, the.
Speaker 3: Three that come to mind right away, or just Marios
Elda Medal Year.
Speaker 5: I'm stretch Troid even though it doesn't rest and fumbles
the side. What I don't worry about that.
Speaker 1: Mystical Ninja goim on right, Oh yeah, I forgot about
on Yeah, yeah, okay, let's just Dynasty Warriors of course,
of course, of course. Well we can ruminate and marinate
on this more. But let's stick around this time period,
because Jeff Grebb, you are ready for the you're ready
to blow past spring because you have been looking at
Summer Kart sixty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Summer Cart sixty four is another one of
these flash rom card cartridges that you can put on
your sixty four to read stuff.
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 2: I have a damn what's the other one called ever Drive?
I had it never Drive, and it works great, especially
in the Analog three D. After I got an update,
everything worked. But the Summer Cart sixty four is the
preferred one now, and I could tell, like, first of all,
it's open source and relatively affordable. But it's open source,
it's constantly getting updates, and it has like pretty good
sixty four d D support, which is not something that
I have ever really messed around with, especially on a
real in sixty four hardware. So I got you know
that Myriat shut down recently, which was the big repository.
Speaker 3: Of all these ROMs, and people were downloading stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeahs as I've been told by nefarious individuals.
Speaker 3: Criminals, criminals have told us.
Speaker 2: So I talked to those criminals and they had me
some translated patched in sixty four sixty four d D ROMs,
and I got that loaded up on the Summer Cart
and it was really easy to get that thing patched
up and updated to its most recent stuff. That also
gave me an excuse to update the Analog three D two,
its most recent firmware, which supports the Nintendo Switch in
sixty four controller, which is fantastic. Yes, so yeah, got
all that going and booted up a dose in the
Giant missed around with that.
Speaker 5: For a little bit, as you do.
Speaker 2: I booted up yeah, SimCity sixty four, which is a
sixty four D D game. Yeah, and it's like this
is like and like it was great. I boot up
SI sim City sixty four for the sixty.
Speaker 3: Four D D D DDD D. Yeah, sixty four d D.
Speaker 2: And the first character that pops up is mister Wright,
you know, the character from the SimCity for Super Nintendo.
And he shows up in links Awakening and stuff like
that where his friend does Mister Left does That's right.
And it was like, oh, yeah, this is one of
those things where as a kid, the sixty four D
D was this a mythical thing that was going to
change the sixty four that I loved so much, and
it was finally going to deliver on the promises of
what people are getting with CD based systems. And it
never came out. It got canceled. It came out in Japan,
but it never came out here. And I've never after
all these years, after like looking forward to it for
so long, never really messed around with it, and getting
to see it's like, yeah, these are pretty much just
still Nintendo sixty four games. Like there's some stuff happening here,
but none of the promise was really delivered on because
the thing just didn't take off. It didn't have any
support whatsoever. So there's like seven games, and yet it's like, oh, yeah,
you could see the glimpses of the future of these
games eventually coming out on GameCube, like Animal Crossing or
whatever and getting a completely different take on it. I
don't think Animal Crossing was a sixty four D D game,
but yeah.
Speaker 3: Still yeah.
Speaker 2: The Summer Chart is very well made, works really well,
very basic, but everything's presented very well where it's here's
a simple menu system. It has a ton of customization
features that you can access from the on screen display
the on screen menu, so you don't have to do
stuff on your computer and then take.
Speaker 3: It back over there.
Speaker 2: It's just really well thought out, and I see now
why people recommend it as the go to cartridge if
you want to just have all your n sixty four
games on one thing.
Speaker 3: It's really well done. So yeah, highly recommend. It's got
the fantastic colors. I got the blue US and one.
That's fine, yeah, because I got it because initially with
the Analog three D, the ever drive wouldn't work on it,
and that first week yeah, and like yeah, and immediately
they had at work. But it's like, well, no, I
just have this thing and it is. It's a solid one.
I like it for sure, the d D stuff. I
remember when they were first showing Madora's mask screenshots and magazines, yes,
and they were calling it like, you know, like Zelda
sixty four to two or whatever, and they were just, yeah,
you're gonna have to buy this new thing. It's like
a two hundred dollars add on for the sixty four.
And I would look at these screenshots and it just
looks like, yeah, Okarina, Like what the fuck? Well no,
it's got this whole clock thing and all that. But
then it just worked on sixty fours. Well what were
we trying to do? Right?
Speaker 2: I remember like one story about it, and it must
have been like talking to someone at Nintendo.
Speaker 3: You know how these products get like blown up.
Speaker 2: The idea was like you can have persistent worlds where
you pick up an object and then you drop it
on the ground and you come back a year later
and it's still there on the ground because the system
holds it into memory, because you can rewrite to these
these disk cartridges and stuff. And I'm like, Okay, that
sounds cool. And it's like, I don't know why I
was so excited about that, but I was.
Speaker 3: But then fast forward to like Breath the Wild, and
you still have to do a blood moon thing to
take care of that, you know.
Speaker 1: Yes, lovely, lovely, Well, boys, I'm almost ready for the
summer because I just I just want to like kick back,
go to a beach, perhaps you know, be friend or
you know, hang out with you all on a beach.
Maybe run into the likes of perhaps Hai Hachi Apollo Creed.
Maybe go to Cocaine Mountain and visit James Brown and
right right, not his ghost but his ghost friend.
Speaker 3: His friend's a little ghost pet. Yeah, his little ghost pet.
Speaker 5: Pizza.
Speaker 3: Yeaah u pizza.
Speaker 1: Jeff hasn't been able to stop tweeting or posting about
Ugu pizza. Just him just go and again, scanned all
over the place. Folks, we're talking about to Adaci living
the dream and we're specifically referencing Dan's Island and we
had a very fun quick look. I suggest you go
check out but Grub you've been playing it. I believe
the Gimmicks have also been playing at a bunch. I've
fired it up. It's just a happy, fun times gang.
It's just so fucking goofy it is.
Speaker 2: I think it might be a perfect game for kids
seven to eleven in that range, especially so Emmy's nine
and because of her vision and some other issues, she
struggles with reading, and this game is such a good
tool for that, specifically because everything that she puts into
the game, it can read back to her. Oh so
it's like if she gets the spelling wrong, it's like, oh,
what's going on here? And she's almost asking for no
help playing this game whatsoever. I'll have a lot of
games like this where like, Okay, they're going to really
be into it, and then a lot of it is
and this is Minecraft, this is everything it is. Every
twenty to thirty minutes, there's something else they need help with.
These games are more complicated than you would think. They
want to figure this stuff out, but it's just out
of their grasp. In a lot of they don't have
the built in sort of fundamental so playing games for
twenty years that we all have that is not Tomodacci Life,
Tomodacci Life. They have both of them. It's seven and
nine have been playing pretty autonomously for the last four
or five days, almost as much as they possibly can get.
Speaker 3: Their hands on. It's are they staring an island because
it's not like you're not playing it, so they just
have their own islands.
Speaker 2: I'm in for two copies, Dan, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: You can't do the family thing is you can like lend,
but then you couldn't play at the same time.
Speaker 2: Only one person at a time, So they will sit
next to each other and both have their own islands,
and they're kind of just doing They're doing their own things.
But they are using every available feature. They're going into
the palette houses and making stuff. They've made little pets
for their characters. They are They're just they're using it
all and I'm just kind of blown away. But by
like they've needed very very very little help here.
Speaker 3: Cool have they done any of the because there is
there's not a lot of online stuff. There's like not
any real sharing or anything. There's not really online play.
But there is that local you can like share items
you've made, me's things like that. Have they messed around
with that at all?
Speaker 2: So they they just discovered that this morning, or maybe
it was yesterday and so they haven't. But they on
the school ride when I was taking to the school this morning,
they were talking to each other and Emma it's like,
I made Rainbow Surprise, which is one of the dessert
the desserts that she made, which is just a cake
that is colored like a rainbow. And ADDIE's like, I
want that, and she's one of that since they started
playing the game. It's one of the first things Emmy made.
And he's like, I'll send it to you when we
got home from school today. ADDIE's so excited. So yeah,
they're using every single feature here. And I've been paying
attention to the Tomadacci Life reddit, which is surprisingly popular.
People have been on there for a long time, thousands
of users all the time, and there is a little
bit of a disappointment of some of the features that
are missing. Some of the musical aspect, there's some other
stuff like quirky questions. There's things missing that we're in
Tomodacci Life for the three DS that aren't here.
Speaker 3: Which you can see those features on Mary Me Tomadauci,
a premium show we're making with Abby Russells. She's and
we've seen a lot of quirky questions and stuff on
that show exactly. We've seen a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh yeah, So, I mean, is this one
of those times where Nintendo's kind of like phoning it in?
And I don't think that's what's happening here. I do
get the hunch that they have a lot of this
stuff lying in wait and they're going to update it,
but that's no excuse. What is here is a really
solid game. I think the worlds feel very alive. The
mees are like much They have a lot more internal
lives of their own where they are just deciding to
do stuff and you don't have to force everything and
they can't they can mingle out in public where that's
not really a ton. There's not really a ton of
that in Tomodachci Life for the three DS, and I
think that aspect of it has just made them be like, Yeah,
this is exactly how I want to play a game,
and Tomodachi Life Living the Dream facilitates that at every turn.
So I've barely been able to play it myself because
they are not stop on it.
Speaker 3: I was really impressed by like the Island Builder part
because like I kind of assumed it was going to
have more requirements in terms of like currency and stuff
like that, Like you do need to buy like okay
unlocks the bench. Now I have to use this money
to get a bench, but like you don't have to
buy a lot of stuff, and you're also constantly getting
money in that game, so at any point you can
just go into that Island Builder and completely reshape. It's
so easy, just like I'm moving this house over here.
And that's something now that it's out. Is like when
I was playing it for review, which you can read
my review on the website, I would make tweaks and
stuff like that where it's like, all right, I'm gonna
make this a stretch of beach that Apollo Creed can
can live on, or I'm going to move this over here.
This will be the shop district over here. But then
I've started seeing more images online and people like have
completely rent, like completely changed the initial layout of just
like this big central island with like kind of beach
roads and stuff like that and whole sections of town
and it's like, oh shit, okay, I guess you really
can kind of go nuts with that. I want to
explore that more.
Speaker 2: It's also really intelligent about it, where when you are
building these new houses as you new me's and they
move in or like let's say they move in together,
and you're now you got to build a bigger house
so that they have space to live together. So it's like, okay,
I got to have this bigger house, so you're taking
up more space. It's kind of made my road system
a little bit weird though. Meat will just be like, hey, uh,
do you want to like build the roads and in
a way that just looks right and does it look bad?
And you just pay like a nominal fee in the game,
and we'll just have it done and it's like yeah,
you click one button and suddenly it builds a nice
graded road system that just looks natural, and it's oh wow.
The kids didn't have to like figure that out. The
game is ready ready to meet them where they're at
and kind of keep things looking professional and right.
Speaker 3: It's oh yeah, a preview, it's like, hey, I was thinking,
here's kind of what I was picturing and it's like
there's the road systems, like you just hit this button
for forty bucks and you're good.
Speaker 5: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's fantastic. So yeah, just very happy with it.
And again it's exactly how they want to be playing games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've recreated. I had to rewatch Marry Me Tomadacci
episode zero. I think that was a creation episode to
kind of replicate how Abby lovingly crafted all of our mees,
because I'd like to just post the different social tableaus
that happen on socials. Uh, if y'all have any suggestions
for other mes you want on the island, Osama bin Laden,
If you guys have any other suggestions for mes you
want on the island.
Speaker 2: The first one I tell you what I haven't been
able to play yet my island. You know the scene
from the beginning of a Naked Gun where Frank is
undercover and he beats up all of the evil leaders.
Speaker 3: Of the world.
Speaker 2: I just want to make that scene, but maybe with
Suber instead of Frank Drevin. Okay, yeah, yeah, that's that's
that's my dream.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Actually, you know everyone gets a me Dan,
who would you like to join gb.
Speaker 3: Island, Osama bin Laden chance regretting start the episode over
there we go, Hey everybody, it's Tuesday. Jeff Baklor.
Speaker 2: It's funny because the kids don't do any of that.
They don't do the famous mend. They don't do uh,
they don't do It's all just like their own creations,
like they just have. Yeah, Mike is very muted like you.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm just muted.
Speaker 3: Was all it was.
Speaker 5: That's all I had nothing to say.
Speaker 3: Uh, Backlar, Who would you like on Giant Bought My Island?
I would like.
Speaker 4: John Cusack?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Mike Minatti, he's thinking, so do we
have he can't help it. Do we have three different No?
Speaker 5: Seven of nine for Star Trek Voyager.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 4: Three people all chose Osama bin Laden, and I chose
High Fidelity. High Fidelity's own John Cusack a terrorist in
his own right for sure. Yeah yeah, wait he's is there.
There's nothing problematic with John Cusacksack.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, what did he do?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 3: Did you hear what he was? He's not making any
movies anymore. There's a there's a reason I love his
sister to Joe Cusack. Can I make a me look
like the twin Towers.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna go take a quick bricky break,
maybe a longer one, and just examine things that we've
said today.
Speaker 5: Death may not be back.
Speaker 4: Go pick up your child to bring her back to school.
Speaker 3: Bring her back, have them call you. We're gonna go
take a bricky break, and maybe we'll be back with
the news, uh after the Before we get to the news,
I also just wanted to bring one more thing, a
little show and tell.
Speaker 1: I bought these headphones. I don't know if I like them.
They're the costs Porta Pros. I got some like, got
some cool pads on them.
Speaker 5: Are they wireless?
Speaker 3: Yes, these are wireless, so.
Speaker 2: I didn't know they made wireless Porter pros. I'll tell
you what Porter Pros were the first It was fifty
dollars when I first got them, And it was the
first time I realized audio could be like really good,
to the point where I was hearing things in like
Pink Floyd songs and I'm like, oh, I've never heard
this instrument in this song before.
Speaker 3: Oh, I should be investing in better headphones.
Speaker 1: If folks at home can like help illuminate me on
what particularly makes a good headphone. I would like to
know because I'm still on the fence and whether or
not I like these.
Speaker 4: Swaggy the wired ones are like like Grub said, they're
very highly regarded.
Speaker 5: Yeah, especially at the price point exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyways, let's get to the news group.
Speaker 3: Thank you janat show.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get into the story that broke right
before we got started here Today Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
price update starting today.
Speaker 3: This is a blog post over there.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna read the blog post for everybody so
we can all be caught up. Starting today, Game Pass
Ultimate drops from thirty dollars to twenty three dollars a month.
Speaker 3: Ooh what a deal right.
Speaker 2: PC Game Pass will also drop from sixteen to fifty
to fourteen dollars a month. Prices may vary by region,
but beginning this year, future Call of Duty titles won't
be joining Game Pass Ultimate or PC game Pass at launch.
New Call of Duty games will be added to Game
Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass during the following holiday
season about a year later, while existing Call of Duty titles,
titles already in the library will continue to be available.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will continue to have access
to hundreds of games on Xbox console and PC, including
current Call Duty titles, in game benefits, blah blah, all
the other stuff. So it's just they're taking Call of
Duty out and they're charging less. I think that this
is going to be effective in this moment because that
last Call of Duty I'm checking for what scientists call
it sucked shit, yes, and that is going to make
it kind of a pretty easy decision in this moment
for people to be like, Okay, this doesn't matter. And
I think a lot of people who do show up
for game Pass call of Duty either doesn't matter or
they're already getting game Pass so they have online play
on Xbox and then they were going to buy Call
of Duty anyway. So I see why this all makes
sense for Microsoft from a positioning game Pass as best
they can. But this does sort of break the contract
right of You're going to get all of Xbox's first
party games in game Pass ultimate no matter what, and
now there is an exception, so it's like, Okay, what
is this thing really? I guess how much does that matter?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, It's kind of like how does PlayStation It's
like instant game catalog or something where it's stant library
is what you do. Yeah, something like that where it's like, yeah,
you know, it's not saying it's this comprehensive thing. Uh,
but like that was the thing game pas. They used
to be able to say that, and now it's and
there's something. There's a tier game Pass that is like that. Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a Select Games and it's like a
tier down from the what wasn't thirty dollars and it's
now twenty three dollars.
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, I mean, not to mention they seem
to have come through quite the bit of trouble to
acquire a big, old gigantic company just to decouple the
thing from game Pass. I mean, look, you you you're right, Grub.
You could not have chose a more strategic moment to
decouple Call of Duty from game Pass because it was
so bad last year. So I think that's a that's
a much easier pill to swallow. I don't know, I yeah,
And I think your assessment is spot on about like
most normy game pass people not really giving a crap
about what they're not. Their thing comes with it. They're
gonna be you know, the the Call of Duty people
are going to buy that thing, and it's not really
going to matter to them, So I think it really
what it nets out is like this is probably how
it should have been the whole time, maybe.
Speaker 5: Right, Well, it's kind of weird thing, right is I
think maybe Call of Duty was sort of that last
chip to play of Well, let's see if this grows
game pass in a substantial way, and it kind of
it kind of didn't, and now you're retreating from that,
and it's it's nice to see the price go down.
It's novel, especially these days, to see the price for
anything go down, but it does feel like an admission
the game pass is never going to grow again, and
they're gonna keep it around. They're gonna, you know, make
the money that they can from it. But it almost
sort of feels like the end of the road in
some ways.
Speaker 2: So it's temporary, right, Like it goes down in price
now and we know it just floats back up natural time.
Like we're talking five years here, maybe before where this
thing is thirty dollars again, like maybe longer than that,
but at some point it's going to be thirty dollars again.
Speaker 3: This is a.
Speaker 2: Temporary reprieve in a in a solution to a to
a problem, but it's not a solution to the problem
of game pass, which is people do not want to
engage with their game purchases in this way.
Speaker 3: Necessarily.
Speaker 2: They do still want to own stuff. Getting a Steam
collection is still way more appealing to more people who
engage in video games than having this sort of game
pass rental idea. So yeah, it's yes, the price going
down is going to help for some people. I'm sure
it will make some difference, but this is not suddenly
going to change the fortunes of game pass. I think
that's pretty sentenced doone at this point?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well so all right, So there is an internal memo
right that leaked Lewis had last week, in.
Speaker 2: The last couple of weeks yea words, they were having
serious conversations about doing this exact thing.
Speaker 4: Right, So, I don't know, like it does seem I
wonder like where along the sort of line of thought
this was decided. Right, Certainly, this is not a thing
you'd like figure out in a week or two.
Speaker 2: I mean, because New Boss as a stamp on things,
so it's like accelerated. But you're right now, it's this
is conversation that I bet has been got ongoing for
a long time, and Nasha Sharma comes in and puts
her foot down, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I also and and like you said, like
it's it's obviously game best can't be like the future
of this business.
Speaker 5: Model, right, So, like, uh.
Speaker 4: Everything, every every time something like this happens, a large
grain of salt is just sort of, you know, floated
along with it, because it's like, how long is this?
Is this a mechanism to just keep this thing floating
along for a certain amount of time? What is the
real sort of big picture here?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yep, well kind of we'll see what it does. I mean,
I think it was Jordan Midler on Blue Sky's like,
now watch this year's call of duty is going to
be awesome.
Speaker 5: Right, yeahs be fantastic. Are we saying what that's gonna
be this time around with modern warfare?
Speaker 3: I'm sure they are, but I can't remember. I do
not care.
Speaker 5: Black ops eight, right, this one is supposed to not
be as two, right, just to what it would go
back to the numbers. There hasn't been a call of
duty six yet, right, just call it that was there?
Called duty five? Yes, called duty five? World at War
that is.
Speaker 3: I don't think no, no, no, no, I don't think the
five was on the box. I don't think it was
Call of Duty colon World of War, Mike, look it up.
I don't think it says five. I played a ton
of that game. I don't remember that game. I don't
remember tapping a five in that headline?
Speaker 4: Do people still regard game pass like? Is the value
proposition of that whole thing?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 4: That's still like delivering in a in a meaningful way.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 3: You got to pick your battles better, mikey, come on, he's.
Speaker 5: Had a goddamn five in it. No, they didn't. No.
Speaker 2: I think you maye think of a vanguard which has
a V at the beginning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's there was a five there.
Speaker 3: Back, I'm gonna get black Ops five out of five,
and I think it was just Cold War, wasn't it.
Speaker 5: They don't like the five, there's no five? No, what
did I make up this fucking five?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 5: It is the fifth?
Speaker 3: One?
Speaker 2: Shit Backlar to answer to answer your question, the meme
of the best deal in gaming that has flatlined? No one,
No one talks that way anymore, because, for one, you
look fucking corny. If you're still saying that. But the
other one, it's it's just not true, but it's it
is definitely still one of those things where people can
sit down do some math and be like I think
Marino was doing some math in chat a little bit ago,
and he was saying it wasn't worth it.
Speaker 3: To him at like around two hundred and forty dollars
a year or whatever it was. Uh, And it's but.
Speaker 2: Some people go, Okay, I'm buying enough games in this
ecosystem that that does make sense. That is still happening
to a certain degree, but it's not in the growth
user acquisition period of they have clearly underpriced this thing
to get more and more users. They hit their ceiling
of thirty to thirty five million subscribers, it's not going
over that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Years ago now, Phil was saying when he was still
the boss that, uh, this is it's you know, a
fifteen percent chunk of our business or thirty percent chunk
of our business, some percentage of our business, and it's
always going to be there. So he was already saying
that it was flat lining.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's changed. Cool.
Speaker 5: That's like, oh, Mike was thinking of Battlefoot, I want
to be clear about what what I was wrong about,
and I was wrong and Dan was right. Dan was right,
Dan was right to go ahead, put on your fucking
soundboard in Son of a Bitch.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 5: I I just thought that Call of Duty or what
were which is the fifth Call of Duty? I thought
it was Call of Duty five with there was.
Speaker 3: Like the big red one, there were other ones. It
is the main line series.
Speaker 5: Yea, yes, that's for sure. Maybe maybe magazines were just
calling it call of Duty five for so long that
I thought that was the thing until I got.
Speaker 3: A real name.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll uh, we'll make us make a clip of that.
Speaker 3: I think that'll be very funny warning right, yes, yeah,
well let's get on that.
Speaker 5: Let's do something else. Let's do the Osama bin Laden things.
Speaker 3: You just don't have the reference.
Speaker 4: The Osama been a big h during the break Oh
Sama bin Laden single player spin off Splatoon Raiders comes
to Nintendo Switch to this summer, and they.
Speaker 3: Won't believe who's in it? Quick?
Speaker 5: Is he as quid as her kids up?
Speaker 3: And it's got tentacles behind that beard. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was working out in the gym this morning and
I was like looking at my phone and I was like,
what app is this giving me a notification? I was like, oh,
the Nintendo Today app Splatoon Raiders gets its date.
Speaker 3: It is coming July twenty third.
Speaker 2: They announced it on the Nintendo Today app, something that
they are wont to do for some reason. Uh, this
is the single player focused Splatoon Raider Splatoon game. It's
unfair to call this the single player game because all
of them have had single player modes, but this is
focused on single player. I'm I watched that trailer and
I was like, is it my ADHD, my processing or
is it is the trailer just not getting across exactly
what kind of game it is. I bet it's the former.
Uh do you guys have any idea what kind of
game this is?
Speaker 3: And watch that? Oh I didn't.
Speaker 5: There's a fog of war opening up on that map.
So so in all, and I liked the uh Splatoon
single player campaigns a lot. They've been really good. Yes
they're failed, but they've always been kind of like, go
to this level, and the levels are usually like tubes
floating in space, and it's very structured levels, kind of linear.
Do your low poles, do your shooty thing here? It
was big, open areas, there was there's you know, there
was a map and kind of like things on the
map to see. So that was the vibe I was
getting is that there's maybe not open world, but there
is a much more openness of some kind going on here.
Speaker 2: I'll kind of read some of this brief description. In
this fourth installment of the series, players take on the
role of a mechanic rating the Spearholite Islands for treasure,
using mechanical gadgets and ink splattering weapons to fight Salmanids.
The game will feature return arning characters. Blah blah blah, there's.
Speaker 3: New amiebo blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Platoon Raiders also supports online and local wireless multiplayer for
up to four players in cooperative play, and it will
be Yes, it'll be part of the July release, alongside
another July release, Rhythm Groove, which of course is a
switch one game.
Speaker 3: This is a switch to game.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I think we still have yet to like
get the full rundown from them and like what the
moment to moment will be. But yeah, it does look
like it has open zones. I bet you do kind
of go out on raids and collect resources, come back
and upgrade that enables you to go further out into.
Speaker 3: The open zones.
Speaker 5: But I think making an contrackson shooter without the kind
of fun part of the other people being in the matches.
Speaker 3: I just wouldn't be surprised and wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 5: It's like, I want to be optimistic because again, I
like those Splatoon single player campaigns a lot. This is
clearly a bit different from that. I hope there's still
something And it's interesting because you know, we already had
them add another single player campaign to the to the
three with side it's almost a Rogue Light mode that
was like the more rogue light ish one. It feels
like this almost could just be another one of those
because it's those characters again, it's big Man, Fire and Shiver.
But yeah, is this a standalone fifty dollars so which
is budget title these days? Fifty dollars with prices, no,
no multiplayer component asides from the.
Speaker 3: Co op along with it.
Speaker 2: So I'm update sarious the multiplayer for three when they
do that, right, Like, when they when they put this
game out, they probably have an.
Speaker 3: Update for three.
Speaker 5: I mean they updated three when they get a switch
to edition of it. A little bit, but I don't
know what else. You update it well and again like
new comment. Yeah, this isn't necessarily coupled with that though.
Maybe you in lock things here you can then access
in there. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe find excuse me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had assumed that this was like another one
of those roguelike modes, but I guess I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it being a standalone fifty dollars game
to me, just it's got to be building on that
in some significant ways.
Speaker 3: But I don't know. I think we are.
Speaker 2: While they are talking about this in Nintendo Today and
giving it a date. You know, they have this, they
have Groove, They allegedly might have a Star Fox game
coming out, even maybe before these games, So there's got
to be some point where they kind of maybe talk
about some of this stuff and tell us what to
expect from all of them.
Speaker 5: It's strange because I mean, you know, at some point
before this game comes out, you think there's gonna be
a direct of some kind. But see, we have just
sort of been getting these Nintendo Today drops in the meantime.
Speaker 2: And there's not been a like a full real Nintendo direct,
a traditional directtions a main line direct as they say,
since September, and.
Speaker 5: There's like you know and again like Platoon Raiders, your
Yoshi's and your rhythm heave and so I'm not to you.
That's all well and good people are going to want
to hear about what the big game is this year,
if it's that Alkaret Time remake and or more. We
got to kind of have something to look forward to
here soon.
Speaker 2: Uh well, I mean, on that note, a bunch of
Switch two games are on the way and haven't been
announced yet. There was a recent flurry of rating board
updates for both first and third party to Switch to titles.
One of those games in the ratings flurry was Splatoon
Raiders got a Peggy seven. At the same time fire
Emblem Fortunes We've got a Peggy twelve. So it's all right,
that's ready to come as well, though I think we
can probably expect that later in the year. But then
there was a bunch of like third party ports and
other games that got announced one way or another, whether
that was through the THHQ Nordic website, with a bunch
of unannounced games pages that we don't know what they are.
A lot of them probably are ports, and a lot
of other ports that did get raided, including like Hell
is Us, Devil May Cry, Five Hunters, Yeah, Devil Hunter edition,
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which will now have maybe
a native version instead of the cloud version, Diablo for
Lord of Hatred. There's a lot of stuff. These are
the kinds supports that could easily just get announced anywhere,
but there's enough of them sort of being held back.
These games, none of them, I don't think, have been
officially announced in any way. That does feel like a
lot of these companies holding them back from yet another
partner direct, another mini direct, maybe a full direct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's piling up, so I think we can expect
one soon.
Speaker 2: Is it separate from a big direct direct in June
where they kind of have their traditional E three timeframe
where they do kind of go all out and announce
what else is coming from them this year? Maybe, or
maybe these all just show up there, or maybe they
don't show up in a direct at all. It's hard
to tell, but it does feel like Nintendo's overdue to
begin giving us more information about what they what we
can expect from them later this year. All right, let's
see here, Capcom says Matta Pragmata is off to a
strong start, with one million sold in its first two days.
Capcom's new sci fi action adventure, Pragmata, has sold over
one million copies despite being a new ip. It just
took two days to do so. Capcom credits the success
to early marketing initiatives like releasing a playable demo and
a day one launch on the Nintendo switch To. That
they did say that, and that is curious because it's like, oh,
the switch to contribute that much to it. Getting over
a million copies sold in two days sounds like it
might have. So that is them already maybe building momentum
off of the positive word amount they built with Resonating Requiem,
which didn't seem to like just destroy the world on
switch To in terms of its sales, but it did
well enough.
Speaker 3: Maybe they're procketing Grace though it runs great against that
is it the Ari engine for Pragmata.
Speaker 2: It is the moon yep m So, like I think
people are now starting to believe, like, hey, when Capcom
puts one of those games out on the switch To
at launch, you can have faith that it's going to
run well instead of having to like walk on eggshells
and wait for Digital Foundery to tell you it's all right,
although they were right there.
Speaker 3: Doing that right away. Reputation that's awesome exactly.
Speaker 2: I think it's the kind of thing where it's like
that if they keep delivering and there's no missteps, that
stuff built up over time and a bitefits all these
third party games, but especially Capcom's, which Capcom has said
explicitly one of their strategies for this next generation, for
the current generation we're in, is to support the switch
to a lot more So, this is them paying that off,
and it it paying back toward them as well.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna look at Capcom's other stuff. I
didn't realize that Monster Hunter Stories three came out on
systems other than the switch to or the switch. I
don't know why I assumed that that was like locked
to that, but I guess it's everywhere else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Monster Hunter's like traditionally like a not tradition, but
often a portable first one. Yeah, that's the kind of
thing where I think it does have a strong association
with Nintendo at this point.
Speaker 3: But because I think that one did do very.
Speaker 1: Well on Switch Yeah, because that's one of the Capcom
games that have come out this year that we haven't
really checked out, and it's it's intriguing me more and
more as the weeks go back.
Speaker 3: I would I would love to hear what you think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, especially Yeah, somebody who complains about the production values
of Monern Pokemon games. This thing seems like it has
productive looks.
Speaker 3: Beautiful, yeah, yeah, gorgeous.
Speaker 4: But you guys like you, guys like me, where there's
something going on when you play this game that I
every now and then we'll just I don't know why.
I mean, maybe you can help me understand why. But
every now and then I just hear I just see
like the Lost Planet title screen.
Speaker 3: I and I sometimes all playing it thought like, oh,
this is like if Lost Planet was fun?
Speaker 4: Yes, Like that's I think That's what I'm getting at right.
It's like it's like, how close were were we to
like Lost Planet being this and good?
Speaker 5: And I bet there was one pitch from somebody or
one conversation like why don't we just close game Lost Planet?
And like they had to kind of fight against it
in the in the world that brought you that game
is called Pray Why, Like I'm shocked they didn't all this.
Maybe the fact that it didn't take place on a
planet saved us.
Speaker 3: How about this? How about this?
Speaker 4: I know, uh the I'm reading the description of the
story you just reported on grub when I when I read, uh,
young development team? Are we talking like young people or
a team that was assembled recently?
Speaker 3: I think it's a combination of the two.
Speaker 5: I think when they started development on this, it's the
game I made them old.
Speaker 4: I wonder like, if Lost Planet did never existed, does
this game exist like in a weird timeline? Like I again, Yeah,
there's something I again, like I, we all seem to
like can't exactly put our finger on it other than
saying the word vibes.
Speaker 3: It's like, what is it? What is There's a lot
of big boss fight, it's a lot of mechanical and
you're in a big chunky spacesuit. There's chunkiness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then the circumstantial aspect of it of like, uh,
Capcom has their core franchises that always do well, and
the last time that they were making original ip was
that Lost Planet time. Yes, and they did a bunch
of those and then that sort of fizzled out or
in some cases crashed and burned and they were treated
back to all their core things and now they're reintroducing
that concept of new IP and this one's like last
time I felt that way was Lost Planet, but.
Speaker 3: It's hitting so much more now, Like even like Knitsagama
and stuff like this is this thing. It's just better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, everything they're just working right now. It fixed me, doctor, Thanks.
I think I think them all better now. They made
three of those games they did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't like that.
Speaker 5: It's like Capcom's lost generation now when you think about it. Yeah, right,
and like they kind of they did better than a
lot of people because they had early hits like Dead
Rising and Lost Plane and then by the end it's
like res Evil six and the Bionic Commando reboot.
Speaker 3: People don't remember and weird.
Speaker 5: Shit like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, people get sensitive about it. But like Japanese
companies were figuring out the HD era and Capcom to
its to its credit, like tried a bunch of stuff
and some of it worked. Yeah it didn't, but I
think it like really hurt when it did it because
when it did not, because those games were relatively way
more expensive than the previous generation to create, and so
It's like I think they got a bad taste in
their mouth and then they pulled back. And now they've
spent so much time building up their tech and their
know how for their own engine and made it so
versatile that it can work in all these different kinds
of games, that they've built a business model where they
can attempt those things again and and it really helps
that when the game comes out it sells a million
copies in two days. It's like it's hitting and it's
probably more business friendly to them at the same time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those Lost Planet games did some I remember the
first one specifically had had a motion blurring kind of
thing going.
Speaker 3: A lot going on there. It was very much that
like thirty Frames a second era. It's also when I
think of games to do like egregious obvious boss week points,
the Lost Planet is the first one I think of
because everything was glowing prestual on something's back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how's the bloom?
Speaker 3: Bloom?
Speaker 2: There was a cyber connect too, is like a Japanese
developer that they sold their tech to all these other
studios and it was just like, we can add bloom
to your game, and all these games have the exact.
Speaker 3: Same bloom Bloomint.
Speaker 5: I'll take side order of the Havoc physics engine please.
I don't know, we'll figure out what we're gonna do
with that. Just throw it in there. Just have it.
Speaker 3: We need it. No, every game needs to have Havoc.
Have Havoc, all right.
Speaker 2: Next story here, S and K is releasing a modern
Neo g O a e S the Advanced Entertainment System
console with unrivaled authenticity and seventy pound game cartridges. We
think it's going to be ninety dollars game cartridges in
the United States.
Speaker 3: This thing is pretty neat.
Speaker 2: It's two hundred and fifty dollars, or if you're Mike Minatti,
one thousand dollars and.
Speaker 5: It's uh.
Speaker 3: And two capavores. That's right.
Speaker 2: And it's a recreation, a sort of reissue of the
original Neo Geo hardware. Now it isn't It is a
different chip. But it's not an FPGA exactly, and it's
not a emulation box, just a PC that is running
an emulator. It is an ASIK chip.
Speaker 3: They haven't really said exactly what they mean by that,
but it's you know, it's a specific chip built for
this purpose.
Speaker 2: And we'll have to see how authentic it's going to
be in terms of oh, is it cycle accurate and
all that stuff. But for now it seems pretty promising.
And one reason to believe it's going to be pretty
accurate is the games that they are reissuing as well
work on original hardware. They'll work on here, they'll work
on original hardware. It's all just kind of a neo geo.
People have been pretty excited about this. Obviously, S and
K fully owned by NBS, almost like NBS himself basically
owns it, not just Saudi Arabia, but NBS does person
like his his like there's like the public Investment Fund
for Saudi Arabia, and then there's NBS Industries, which is like,
I SK that's the thing that owns S and K.
So yeah, it's basically him personally, and that definitely rubs
people the wrong way because they have slavery in Saudi
Arabia and he had a journalist killed. I frown upon
those things, but it's one of those situations where uh,
if like S in, you could try to hurt S
and K and try to hurt MBS by not purchasing
S and K, and I don't blame anyone for doing that,
but it would only hurt s and k NBS makes
all his money because you buy plastics and he owns
the petrochemical industry and the oil industries. So it's complicated,
it's nuanced, and I don't blame anyone for being sick
to their stomach about this stuff. But I think this
thing looks pretty cool, and I cannot help that I
feel that way.
Speaker 3: It is cheaper than every time I ever saw NeoGeo,
which was just in a magazine in the back for
an ad for some weird import place, and every game
costs like six hundred dollars, so always looking at it,
this has to be a typo every month. There's no
way I caused this much. Did you ever? Like?
Speaker 2: For me, it was like I could want this thing,
of course, but I'm never gonna, like entertain the idea
of actually ever owning one, because I'm never gonna be
able to save up that amount of money as a kid,
and I'm not gonna ask my parents. No, I don't
want them to think that video games could be that expensive.
I don't want them to know about the neog.
Speaker 3: I didn't think I could be in the same zip
code as someone who owned one of those things like
crub what you.
Speaker 4: Just said unlocked some repressed memory Like yeah, where like
you hit a certain point where you're just like, oh,
Mom and Dad don't want you to know. I don't
want you to know this thing that I know, but
if you I'll be embarrassed about the cost.
Speaker 3: Of it all.
Speaker 4: It was probably around uh like a PS two where
I where I was buying it right, where it was like,
this is not what I want for my birthday. This
is a thing that I'm gonna have to think. It
was maybe three hundred dollars right or whatever.
Speaker 3: It was. Wow, what just happened to me? So I
feel like I'm in therapy, which is something just happened
to me.
Speaker 2: I mean like when you go from like having did
every political conversation with your parents, like of navigating their
willingness to buy you stuff to trying to like shift
to you buying the stuff yourself. It's a yeah sort
of transition, right, It's almost traumatic, Like Okay, I guess
we gotta it's a like a buy up GameCube.
Speaker 4: It's yes, It's it's like a loss of innocence in
a way too, where it's like I have agency. I'm
going to spend my money on the thing, and I
don't need your approval on the matter, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: It was also don't look at me. I'm scared to
admit I'm bad. It was so scary every fucking time
because the only way I could get new consoles if
I traded in everything I had of the previous generation.
So it's like, I'm already I wanted to Segacy D
and I traded in my NES in every game, and
it's like, all right, well, hopefully the Segacy D is
going to be better than the NES and it was not,
and that so it's like you have to do so
much research and you were so worried, like PlayStation Saturn,
which one's gonna be the better one? Here, I'll go
with this because I'm trading it my Superintendo and my
Sega Genesis for this, Like scary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, God, I was so dumb doing that stuff. Yeah, however,
I know you're right. Yeah, it was nice for Neo
g O. There's a lot of ways to play those games, everybody. So, yeah,
if you don't want to get this thing, mister, I
have all those Neodo games on my superstation, right now
and they work real well, so you have a lot
of options out there. The collector's market is pretty excited
about those games getting reissued, though they were expensive to
begin with and they're just not like there's a ton
of them out there, to the point where people are like,
just get the arcade boards instead, and there's a way
to like rig those up to work on neo geos.
I'm like, that sounds pretty in depth, but people are
out there.
Speaker 3: Doing all kinds of crazy stuff for neogos.
Speaker 2: Yep, all right, Mind's Eye Studio, The saga continues.
Speaker 3: Everybody.
Speaker 2: Mind's Eye Studio staff takes a legal action saying management
installed invasive surveillance software. Basically, the story here is that
the IWGB Game Workers Union is working with employees at
Build a Rocket Boy, which is the Mind's Eye Studio,
to basically sue Build a Rocket Boy for installing this software,
which is called terror Mind without fully explaining all of
the data it was going to be keeping, which you're
you're aware of like European regulations. Big no, No, that's
a big problem. You've got to tell everybody, like what
data you're keeping. They have to agree to it. Uh,
And this is the kind of thing where it's like, oh,
is this the sabotage you're talking about, the self sabotage
of you just being a bad company. Yeah, the story
around Mind's Eye way more interesting than the game itself.
Speaker 3: You know, you're going to regret your words. Indeed, when
they that mission comes out, I want to do a stream.
We all get a we're all wearing a fedora, and
we're gonna get to the bottom of.
Speaker 1: This, and we're gonna find out that's pretty good if
we can expense the fedora.
Speaker 3: Sure, let's all doesn't get to the bottom of it.
It's mine sig noir. That mission is never coming out, right,
You're going to regret your.
Speaker 5: It's the proper legal names of the people he suspects
from his illegal in office monitoring.
Speaker 3: You think, what the are we talking about?
Speaker 1: Do you think he didn't realize that he was doing
the corporate infiltration?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's delusion, of course he is.
Speaker 5: You got too many people told me it was the
greatest thing ever because he made GTA on line and
got a bunch of money. So now he came in
fathom failure. There's got the other people's fault. Everyone's out.
It's a classic everyone's out to get me. Yep, he's
got to prove it. And like we're laughing at him,
that makes him more mad. But he'll show us.
Speaker 3: He is gonna show us. It's gonna rule.
Speaker 5: I know, crazy people work.
Speaker 3: Now, imagine if this man had a fedora on those Yeah,
that would I would buy it.
Speaker 2: Mark Gerhard, who's not Leslie Bensay's, but he's the CEO
and it works closely with Leslie Benza's who was the
guy that was at the Grand Theft Audio, worked at
Theft Auto and all that stuff, and sued Take Two
and sued rock Star.
Speaker 3: And there was a big falling out there. Uh.
Speaker 2: The suggestion has always been that rock Star and Take
Two we're interfering with mind's eye. Yeah, and your heart
was yeah, your heart was saying, uh yeah, organized espionage
and corporate sabotage. That's a direct quote. Those are the
terms that he used. And as Dan and Mica alluding to,
there's that mission that they're gonna put out that has
the names of the people responsible for the corporate espionage
and sabotage.
Speaker 3: Oh you wait, you're gonna have egg on your face journalists.
Speaker 5: The mission? What is he what does he think's gonna happen.
We're gonna be like, well there, oh we were wrong,
we apologize. Do you think where this goes to court,
a fucking judge is going to have to play this mission?
Speaker 2: Yes, that would be the dream. That would be amazing.
I guess to stream it on twitch?
Speaker 3: I would love it.
Speaker 5: What's going on? All right?
Speaker 3: So bad news? Bad news? Back?
Speaker 2: Here's some good news. It sounds like the cult in
sixty four Shooter buck Bumble is really coming back games.
The studio behind Kroc is hinting at a revival for
its cult in sixty four Shooter buck Bumble that came
out in nineteen ninety eight. Recently, Argonauts they reissued Kroc.
They did a collection of Croc games that's also theirs.
And then about a week ago someone was like, hey,
uh people are doing all this stupid stuff. You should
just go, you know, emulate buck Bumble, just go get
buck Bumble, and Argonauts is like, uh no, we own that,
not ubi stuff that would hurt us. And everyone's like,
what do you talk about. It's not like we can
go buy that right now. And then they got kind
of quiet, and a week later they started putting out
teases of like black and white Bumblebee colored stripes dancing
around to different music. It's like he's back and the
key the reference in here might be mister buck Bumble himself.
Speaker 3: Wow, God, it's so weird. Like we joke about the
theme song and stuff like that. But like, oh, when
that game came out, there was nothing there. It wasn't like, oh,
this is good for its time, Like no one cared when.
Speaker 5: It came out.
Speaker 3: It was another like three years later it's like, oh,
hell yeah, buck Bubbles. It kind of wished it was Glover,
which is sort of a sad thing. Better than Glove.
The Skase scenario was bad.
Speaker 2: When they reissue this, it might be you know, if
they fix up the controls. It's not like some terrible game.
It's like a weird a scent clone. Kind Yeah, there
we go make people sick with buck Bumble have that
music playing the entire time.
Speaker 3: Good association there.
Speaker 2: PlayStation has started telling UK and Iron players Ireland players
to verify their age by June to keep certain features.
Sony is notifying PlayStation players in the UK and Ireland
that mandatory age verification starting in June twenty twenty six
will be required to continue using search and certain features
like messaging, voice chat, and broadcasting. Players can verify their
age now via QR code using Sony's service provider YOT,
with options including mobile number, facial.
Speaker 3: Scan, or ID.
Speaker 2: If age verification is not completed, communication features well on PlayStation,
the PS app, web, and discord, as well as broadcasting
to platforms like YouTube and Twitch will be blocked. This
is a trend across the globe. It's happening more and more.
Everyone's like, hey, every time you do this, it feels
like one of these third party verification companies you use
gets hacked and takes all of our data and we
blame you company who forced me to do this, And
they're like, it's not us, it's that company. So we're hey,
wash our hands of it. H It's kind of a
shitty situation, definitely. I deal with some of this in Ohio.
I'm showing Mike how I have my Blue Sky's like, hey,
can't read your DMS unless you send us your ID,
and I'm not going to send you my ID.
Speaker 3: That is crazy. I've been using the.
Speaker 2: Internet for thirty goddamns for thirty years. I'm not doing
this now, but it's coming, and it seems kind of unavoidable,
and it just feels like it's going to keep spreading
and these are the kinds of headaches it's going to introduce.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you use it for Blue Sky.
Speaker 2: You had to can't read my DMS unless I do
use a bunch of workarounds. Wh Yeah, that there's a
state Ohio. There's an Ohio state law about certain platforms,
and platforms interpret it in different ways. Blue Sky is
interpreting it as as long as we don't let you
communicate directly through DMS, we're in compliance unless you send
us your ID and verify your age. And I'm I'm
not going to do that. Whoa, I mean, it's like,
look at what I'm posting. You could tell him a
forty forty two year old man, forty three year old man.
So just yeah, forty four is in chat club forty
four club drop the forty four's there. Yeah, this stuff
is gonna I mean, there's laws like this all over
different states that I know, Mississippi has them. There's a
handful of United States states that have this already, and
that that patchwork is going to make it even more annoying.
They're just going to do at a certain point the
lowest common denominator and whatever state has the most traconian laws,
they will comply with those and apply them across not
just the United States but the world.
Speaker 3: Because it'll be easiest for these companies. And that's going
to be again huge headaches. Is this gay Burn's fault?
Speaker 5: I think this might be Gabo with yeah, yeah, yeah,
what he did with the driver's license.
Speaker 3: Okay, moved on to discord and stuff. Okay, yeah, yeah,
spread of Gabo.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see here. UBI stuff confirms Assassin's Creed
Black Flag remake reveal. They were like, hey, you know
this is coming, but we're going to tell you more
about it anyhow. On April twenty third, at six pm
Central European Standard time. I never know what that is,
maybe summertime, but yeah, nine am Pacific time, they will
be telling us more about Assassin's Creed Black Flag. We've
mentioned this so many times at this point, I'm just
kind of following up so people know that it's actually
real and actually going to get announced. Although I don't know,
occasionally I do get in the mood for Assassin's Creed
for it's a decent game.
Speaker 5: It's a great game. Yeah, like back then, Dan shick
in your head.
Speaker 3: No, I mean I like any Assassin's Creeds back then,
but I super didn't like Black Flag. Really he hates shanties.
The chanties were annoying. There were a lot of stealth
missions where somebody spots you and it ends the mission like, Yeah,
it's everything I disliked about Assassin's Creed. Plus like bad Sailing's.
Speaker 5: Okay, sailings. The sailing is good. I get the other
things so bad sailing. The sailing's fun. I like Windwaker,
no good look said Ubi Soft the tiny I'm already
in trouble because of the freaking Neo jo here real
bad on that one. I'm house said, uh.
Speaker 2: Shoe Hey Yoshida says he was fired from his role
at PlayStation as studio president because he quote didn't listen
to Jim Ryan. He's like, yeah, Jim, he wouldn't say,
I like what they disagreed about or what like Jim
Ryan was asking him to do that he didn't do.
But if you remember, shoe Hey, Yoshida was the president
of PlayStation Worldwide Studios and then one day he just
wasn't he was in charge of indie games and indie
relationships at PlayStation, and it's like that always felt weird,
that felt like a demotion, and he's suggested as much before,
but this is the first time he basically said he
was fired from that role. And this is a reminder
as always that play the internal politics of the higher
corporate echelon within PlayStation has always been a pretty tough
political game. And you know, you think of Sean Leyden
one day just announcing that he's done and leaving the company,
and they didn't have a successor announced probably a similar situation,
and that was him people people's surmise in a power
struggle with Jim Ryan and Jim Ryan winning out there
and then now that kind of having having any effect
on Yoshida. Yeah, look, Jim Ryan's legacy does feel like
he got powered, didn't know what to do with it,
made a bunch of live service live service games, and
now PlayStation's paying the price, and stories like this certainly
make it feel like, oh, that was a mistake in
a lot of ways, because Shuehey is beloved and it
did seem like his instincts on games were mostly correct,
and it feels like had he not been fired. I
can't remember the timeline. We might we might still have
Japan's studio, and it seems like PlayStation could use at
Japan studios these days.
Speaker 5: Sure, all right, last.
Speaker 2: Story here, Tony X pro Skidar three plus four developer
lays off ninety employees or up to ninety employees Iron Galaxy,
but alt Tony ex Prostkater three and four, they've worked
on a bunch of other stuff. They worked on Metroit
Prime four or no excuse me, Metro Prime remake, and
now they are saying, hey, because of the global climate
of making video games, we are going to have to
lay off up to ninety employees after they laid off
around sixty six last year. And I think I would
point to like blue Point getting closed down by PlayStation
as if blue Point doesn't make sense, all of these
other United States based work for higher companies that do
ports and do remasters and do remakes also probably don't
make a lot of sense. And the reason for that
is it's you know, you could point to AI, but
also these big companies are just going to studios in
other parts of the world that are more affordable. And
even if Iron Galaxy finds a million ways to reduce
their costs by laying people off, they're still going to
be less attractive, excuse me, than like a virtuos that
can do the same the same project at what is
likely a fraction of the cost. So that's the global climate.
A company like that finds themselves and they're they're just
kind of trying to reel and.
Speaker 3: Make it work.
Speaker 2: They're not shutting down. But the future of a studio
like that based inhere, where they're mostly based in Chicago,
I think I think they've worked for hire or work
from home. Uh yeah, I don't see how that continues
to work right now with the way games are going.
Speaker 5: I feel so bad for this. Yeah, I mean they
just they've done a lot of great work. I like Proscacy,
but for a lot Rumbel First was great, which yep,
the shame they could that couldn't work. They did good
work on or Instinct. Yeah, as a support studio, all
these giant like successful games that they worked on. I mean, god,
they worked on the last of US remasters for carrying
out Loud Crashed Batykod four. H Yeah. If this doesn't
make sense here, it's just rough because the quality is good,
and that's not what's being rewarded yepp.
Speaker 2: It's it's a shame rumble versus that one where it's like, man,
that just Epic who paid for that game so they
could do whatever.
Speaker 3: They want with it.
Speaker 2: The thing they should not have done with it is
kept it exclusive to Epic Game Store. Had it been
on Steam, I think we'd still be playing Rubble Verse today.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Okay, that does it for the news. Jan I'm handing
the show back over to you, folks.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick bricky break and we will
be back with emails, super chats and grub another installment
of grub.
Speaker 6: Guess sir oh right after this break and break. These
early emails for the show.
Speaker 5: Emails.
Speaker 1: BombCast giant bomb dot com is the email address to
send your emails to. You can write in about any
and everything. You got a fun quiz, you got some
fun nice words to say, you got just a question,
or you need a recommendation. Reach out to us over
here at giant bomb dot com. BombCast giant bomb dot
com email address. Gang say this every week and it
happens every week. We've again lots and lots of emails,
so much so that I can only fit so many in,
but I am still incredibly appreciative of those that come in.
First email comes from Mike from Loveland, Jan parentheses and
the others. Tournament of Champions seven is over. The champ
has been crowned. What is a niche competition? You were
deeply invested in? What is a niche competition?
Speaker 3: You have entered?
Speaker 1: Love the show, Love you all, Mike from Loveland. Now,
I don't want to spoil from you.
Speaker 4: Jan.
Speaker 2: I know you wrote that one and so you could
talk about tournamented Champions.
Speaker 1: Now, now, I don't want to spoil anything for folks
that may have been behind, all right. Tournament of Champions
is the ultimate cooking competition, all right, because you take
the top contenders from Top Chef Chopped, all these other
ones and you throw them in this in a battle
dome of sorts against the randomizer and against each other.
The final four this year ultimate cinder Ella's stories. People
that have always been the bridesmaid, never the bride of
cooking competitions. I don't want to spoil the final four
because there's a big thing that come out of it,
and also the ultimate winner, holy smokes. Finally, finally, getting
their due.
Speaker 3: I like the Food Network too much. I think it's
because it's replaced the WW in my brain. But how
do you watch the show? Is it? Is it on cable?
Is Max the One Max formally known or HBO Max
formally known as Max the one.
Speaker 1: To watch for HBO has them understood on?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Because the thing is gang like. You need to start
from season one of Tournament of Champions because there is drama,
not actual drama between the chefs. There's there's like stories
that are organically unfold and I love how every chef
has like their little tagline their fight name attached to
them as well. So it's great, it's fun. Any any
niche competitions, y'all really dig what's that?
Speaker 2: What's that Japanese Strong Person show?
Speaker 3: Like it's like strong physical one.
Speaker 2: I've only seen clips of that, but that's the one
I'm most interested in. That seems like a good time.
Just a bunch of strong people who are kind of
seem very friendly and like supportive of one another.
Speaker 3: Like that's the energy for me. Uh another competition, Yeah, yeah,
I'm not.
Speaker 5: I think the last time it's weird because it's like
college football, which is not niche. But I only care
about the pop Tarts Bowl, like single one that matters
to me and who wins it. Yeah, the pop Tart you.
Speaker 3: Gotta know about this back is that.
Speaker 5: You never saw the memes of the pop Tart mascot
going into the giant toaster and getting eaten by the
winning team.
Speaker 3: They kill pop Tarts and he's really yeah, they're real
happy about it.
Speaker 5: The first year that guy, the pop Tart mascot, this
stupid face brought up a science says dreams do come
true or something. Then he got lowered and then man
like an actual pop Tart and the winning team like
just dug in like mid Summar style or whatever.
Speaker 3: You really need the very online show to come back sometimes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be helpful. And this is during college football. Yeah,
it's a bowl game. It's a bowl game, like one
of the big ones. Like I think Notre Dame said,
we're not doing that.
Speaker 5: It's one of them.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's to make them stronger, right, Yeah, I didn't invest.
Like when I used to go to Royals games grown up,
they would do the thing where it's like the ketchup
the mustard and the relish thing would run around or
like anything where you get assigned like, hey, this is
your representative for your section, like you know, Minion time style.
Speaker 5: Yeah exact, Yeah, yes, I agree one million percent. There's
like I'm told I am in a tribe and this
is your tribe leader over there. I love that man.
Yeah yeah, yeah, it's bad. It makes me un comfortable
by itself.
Speaker 1: I don't know how, Gang, but I need to wind
up on the Food Network somehow. I don't think I'm
the best chef by any stretches I imagine.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've look, I'm not taking anything away from
your culinary ability, but it seems like they let all
kinds of people on that network.
Speaker 2: Dan, I don't think you're gonna have a problem. I mean,
don't they do gimmicks all the time. Wouldn't there be
an episode of one of these shows where they bring
on the familiar schefts and be like, all right, this time,
the inspiration is video games. Here's our guest judge Jane
Choa from Giant Bomb. We're only using fish juice, you know, Jen,
your time to shine?
Speaker 3: Gang, I shit, you not.
Speaker 1: I have crafted. I mean, we we've all probably crafted
our own strategies for for for game shows. But I
know the ins and outs a fucking Guys grocery game
so fucking bad. I know how those aisles are designed.
Speaker 3: I know how to do this.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing people, people don't tell you me
becoming a better gamer, I think, is also just conditioning
me for for a clean sweep at Guy's grocery games
one day.
Speaker 5: All right, what are you going for first? What's the
first item going in your cart?
Speaker 3: Baby? You gotta go for the proteins, you know, okay,
SuperM Like if I have a bunch of supermarket sweep
knowledge and strategies, would they translate to Guys Grocery games
at all? Like just filling a cart with turkeys?
Speaker 1: At the very end, they'd be like, hey, this is
like an alternative sweetener used in alcohol that's a primary
ingredient in tequila. And it'd be like a gave, So
you would have to find out where where the gave
is in the grocery there?
Speaker 5: Got it?
Speaker 2: Is there a video game that's like Guys grocery games,
like a cheap friends slop game on a Steam I would.
Speaker 5: Love That's so yeah, it'd be fun. So it's so
hard when games try to like stimulate the idea of
judging cooking.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, yeah, but I I I guess I mostly
just want the challenge of running through a grocery store.
Speaker 3: That's mostly what I want.
Speaker 4: See, I don't want to be on the show. I
want to host the show here basically, I just I
want to be Ryan Seacrest and and be allowed to
tear into contestants on Wheel Offorge.
Speaker 3: Oh, you would be really good. I want to be
able to.
Speaker 4: Just go completely uncensored and tear these people limb from limp,
like that's what I want deep down in my heart
of hearts so badly. Oh my god, I fantasize about it.
Back once a week, Beckler.
Speaker 2: In the next couple of weeks, I'm I'm gonna try
to sit you down with me on a discord call.
We should watch an episode, maybe even like an infamously
bad episode of Wheel of Fortune. I just want to
put out that time.
Speaker 3: We need to do that for this week.
Speaker 1: American Idol and back Home. No so so.
Speaker 4: I used to watch them a lot of American Idol,
and I didn't I didn't feel I didn't feel good
about making fun of people who didn't realize they couldn't
seure just because it felt like, uh yeah, like it
just seemed unnaturally mean, where it's like I want to
be mean to people who make very bad decisions and mistakes,
and like just yeah, it's the list of things you
can do to upset me.
Speaker 3: On wheel of Fortune knows no bounds, so they should.
Why don't they have a game show with multiple hosts,
because that's I mean, we all fortune kind of does
I mean no, no, no, Like at the same time,
I have not said a word in forty three years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one time they led her host was like when
Wayne left Garth in Wayne's World, where her head seemed
like it was just going to explode.
Speaker 3: What about and Temple? You had Kirk fog and.
Speaker 5: Sure was more of a supervisor. I would say, okay,
what about Guts? Michael Malley and Mot.
Speaker 3: Was just the cop was just the ID.
Speaker 4: I didn't see disqualifying people from the Agro crack because
they stepped over the line.
Speaker 5: You can't roll all right, we can't just do whatever
we want up there on that crag.
Speaker 3: Just saying mo is the cop of guts? I think,
I'm I can't believe this is what ends us and
divides us. Not anyone say a bad word about mo
that's insane.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Let's let's let's walk it back to me going
completely nuts over idiots on wheel of fortune.
Speaker 3: I guess we could do it? Uh where we Yeah,
it seems it sounds like we could do something like that,
grub I would love that. Okay, okay, fantastic. I'll put
it on your calendar.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, moving along. Next email comes from Daisy, Hey, duders,
how the hell do I play games with my husband?
My husband isn't much of a gamer, but we do
enjoy playing games together, especially when we can be in
the same room that isn't our shared office. Both work
from home. The problem is I'm more of a console gamer,
and we don't really have multiple gaming setups. We've already
played all the expected ones, like It Takes Two Split
Fiction Away Out, MARIOCARTI, Mario Party, Blank Orbitals I don't
know what they meant by blank Orbitals is already on
our radar. I've heard PC might be the place to be.
Having almost no experience with PC gaming, are there many
couch co op games and decently affordable ways to get
a setup going in the living room? Love from the
seven oh seven Daisy ps for context, We're rocking one
PS five, a switch to and switch one, two Mac mcpros,
one big TV in the living room, one small TV
in the guest room, two monitors in the office, an
old Xbox one, a wee with a couple of game
cube controllers, and a Nintendo sixty four.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, I mean there's definitely more co op games
out there. Look into some beat them up.
Speaker 3: See not much more, though, It's yeah.
Speaker 5: I would say, hey, maybe try to play single player
games together, actually, especially if you're in a row. Oh yeah,
Grob and I just played through all of Bully for
the a Durance run. And I say, I know a
lot of people who kind of play through games like
that with a partner or a friend, or you're just
on the couch. Maybe you passed the control around every
once in a while, even just one percis control er.
It's kind of I don't know, it's fun to watch.
That's how we played there. I feel like I played
the miss games because we were all working together on.
Speaker 3: Stuff until dawn. Like those games are that that you
everyone take a character or whatever, like, okay on these characters,
you're these some of the Telltale games are like that.
As well. Yeah, uh, Bonk and I Slay the Spire
too has been like I really thought it would be
more gimmicks, side mode or something like that, but it's
like you're just playing the full ass game with someone.
So it's fun strategizing, like trying to get your builds
to compliment each other like that. That's been very surprisingly fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if there's like a story that maybe appeals to
your husband, Daisy, like y'all could sit back and enjoy
that together. Like I've heard of a lot of couples
do playing through Expedition thirty three because you know their
partner significant other isn't into games but really likes the
look of it, really likes a story. So maybe dive
into something like that.
Speaker 3: Just don't do what it takes.
Speaker 4: Two They already did it, but they did they had
what it touched altogether. Okay, I glossed over that fact.
If you survived that, your marriage can survive anything.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: Travis and Fargo writes in Every week since in five Questions,
I choose one. This week, Travis writes in from how's
it going to our video games art? What questions are
you tired of answering?
Speaker 5: Oh? Boy, I kind of like a how's it going.
I'm gonna be honest. That's fine. I'll tell you if
you're interested in my life, I'll tell you about a
little bit that's okay. Games are thing, sure, super tiring,
hot Dog Sandwich.
Speaker 3: Right, sure, Diheart movie.
Speaker 5: Yeah those are dumb.
Speaker 3: Yes. I feel like any wrestling fan has faced a
lifetime of you know it's fake, right, you know, yeah.
Speaker 5: My least favorite and it's not doesn't come up as
much anymore. But if if I told people about my job,
they'd me be like, so PlayStation or Xbox, and I'm like,
I don't care. Actually they're good, I guess, or they're
both bad, depending on the day. They're often in equal sections,
like whatever, it's their they they're they're boxes that play
Bay games. It's fine.
Speaker 3: You could be my therapist. Back in New York to
would say hello or Mario, which one's better?
Speaker 5: I don't care. Shut up the same question when you
talking about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, back in my seene at time, Uh, it was
always like what TV and I would just say I
would just say a brand.
Speaker 5: I would just I wouldn't even I would just.
Speaker 4: Be like Samsung, Yep, yeah, it's just Samsung. It's just
them and they figured it out and that's the one
to buy. And I'll tell you a different answer tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, it's yeah. It's like LG. No one knows
what the LG stands for, but it's that life's good.
Looks good, looks good.
Speaker 3: Let's get them.
Speaker 5: Let's go all right.
Speaker 1: Yaoi Bunga rights into the show. I was a fantastic name.
I always love to hear from you, Yawi Punga.
Speaker 3: It's very fun.
Speaker 1: Hey, bomb boys, I got that new superstation Mister made
by takiud On, so it's finally time to play all
the games I've missed out on parentheses. I did not
own any of the consoles it covers other than the
N sixty four, so I need help. What games am
I missing out on? I'm open to big, well known ones,
the obscure or fan translated, whatever you think is worth visiting.
I feel like there are a lot of cool or
weird games that have just been completely just completely fallen
out into the dust bin of history, and it'd be
great to experience a few of them. Thank you for
the help and great show each week.
Speaker 5: Yea rising Zian Samurai Gunman one. Yeah, that one Incredible
Crisis on PS one. You may have seen us play
that with Gamera Gamera on PS one, Sam two thousand, Yes, yes,
that's an absolutely wild one.
Speaker 1: Power Shovel I played that a little bit a few
weeks back on that was the like the Heavy Machinery one, right,
the Heavy Machinery one.
Speaker 2: That's an arcade game. So it's like Harry pick up
and playing. I was digging up all like the currying,
put it on the plates and stuff like that. That's
really fun.
Speaker 3: Actually, Tail of the Sun, Yeah, sure, Colony War's red Son.
There's a bunch of Sun games.
Speaker 5: But play silent Bombers like Metal Gear Solid Bomber Man.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 5: That's a PS one game. Uh yeah, just PS one
alone has so many amazing, really weird eight out of
ten or may maybe sometimes even surprising nine out of
ten games that are really just play all the fix
games one and two. That sure, oh, man should buy
this power power Shovel controller from Tito for two hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: I can't, man, Man, I had to do the thing
with that super station because like everyone for the last
like four months has been posting like oh got mine,
got mine? And I still like I keep emailing like
when's mine coming, and that, well, you chose to bundle
your thing with the super Docs, so you had to
something or other. And I finally like, I have to
pay two shipping costs now so I can get it. Now,
I have to do thirty five dollars for the dock
and thirty five dollars for this, like whatever, I just
want to get the fucking thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I regret song at the time, and now I'm just like,
I'll wait. Apparently the operating system isn't even there yet
or something.
Speaker 3: Like how else were we gonna play PlayStation games?
Speaker 5: The big problem? I'm like, you can I have my
PS two plugged in like an idiot right now?
Speaker 3: Oh it's embarrassing.
Speaker 5: Yeah I have that. Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh right.
Speaker 1: Moving on a long Darien from Toronto. This goes out
to the midwesterners Quad City style pizza.
Speaker 5: Have you had it?
Speaker 3: Any? Good cheers?
Speaker 5: What style? Style? Apparently not, I don't think any of
us have had Quad City Iowa, Illinois, hand tossed well
flavored crust, spicy sauce, and toppings, especially finnyl laced sausage
placed under a heavy layer of cheese, all caught cut.
Speaker 2: Into long thin strips with scissors, my fucking scissors.
Speaker 5: Why does that we have the guys the pizza roller
will do this too. That seems way less convenient than
the pizza roller.
Speaker 3: There's a picture of someone here cutting it with scissors.
How this upsets you?
Speaker 5: Yeah? So this is yeah, this is something like it's
probably good Southern Illinois. I see why I say Quad.
It's where these four states meet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've not had this.
Speaker 5: I bet it's fine, although some of these pictures. Boy,
that cheese could use some more browning. Maybe that's Wikipedia's fault.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I could be there in five and
a half hours if we want to do that today,
if we're gonna taste test, I don't want to do
it today. Near me. Let me see if there's any
Quad city style pizzas near me.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 5: Apparently, Like there's just a sausage layer and it's like
a fenely Italian sausage a I r too? Yeah, me too, sausage.
Speaker 3: Wrestler sponsored by Pizza Sausage.
Speaker 5: Like that's not what I meant. Like a layer. You know,
there's a layer of sauce and a layer of cheese.
There's a sausage layer. I don't think they just sprinkle.
Speaker 3: It on like like one big circle of sausage.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's what How do they do they
mean when they say layer? Just the sausage is typically
a thick blanket of lean fennel flexed Italian sausage, sometimes
ground twice. It's spread from edge to edge, so that
aspects winning me over.
Speaker 3: Is like an herb.
Speaker 1: It's like alb. It looks like an onion.
Speaker 5: It's almost like a seed fenel. It has a little
bit of that anise fla. It's very nice. It's it's
what makes Italian sausage tastes like Italian sausage.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's got like a little liquorice.
Speaker 4: Ok Yeah, I put it with Caraway's right.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, Fennel huge in cooking competitions.
Speaker 5: It's true that I'm out, are right?
Speaker 1: DW from Seattle Rights and Hey Bombers. What do you
call the genre of games where the goal is to
go up like ice climbers, getting over it, baby steps
of Cairen, et cetera. Often suggestions up them ups or uppies.
Speaker 3: Struggle ups is really good.
Speaker 2: I think I just call them vertical platformers.
Speaker 5: Honestly.
Speaker 2: I mean that's ice Climbers was a vertical platformer. Yeah,
like Verdies, Verdies going vertical. Yeah, VERTI I was getting
mad at genre names. I finally saw Project Hell Mary
this uh this weekend.
Speaker 3: But you did.
Speaker 5: It was great, it was fantastic. I thought it was
a first, the first movie I saw that made me
feel things in a while.
Speaker 3: I liked that.
Speaker 5: Okay, what does that mean? I think I go a
lot of movies. I'm kind of just numb at the images,
and well, you hate them all happening at me? Yes,
because you hate them all? Yeah, well very good.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, No, that's fair too. I'm glad you felt
something I did.
Speaker 5: But like there's a part of me that like still
feels disenfranchised because like this is just a movie and
it's like, oh, it's you know, it's a bit uplifting
and it's like kind of as a happy ending, and
then everyone's like it's that's a hopecore movie, and I'm like,
back in my day, man, the movies that were sad
were like called grim darkers, and now we have a
special name for the movies that just don't make you
want to go hurt yourself after you see them.
Speaker 2: The part of that is like we're always just colonizing stuff,
so like new like new people come along. They're like,
I just discovered this thing, and yeah, just ignore that.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 5: I'm shocked by how some of the stuff I assume
is online lingo is actually real life. I was at
the subway and like some like high school girls came
in and they were just talking about like, oh my god,
you were rage baiting me so hard. Oh oh, this
is a popular thing that like high school kids says
rage bait.
Speaker 3: It's not if it's on TikTok. It's their lingo. Yeah, man, okay,
and the internet's popular.
Speaker 4: Yeahs now they have that's the one with the email right,
just like but like rage bait used to be such
like that is such a four chan thing and now
that is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't that you don't hang out with a
lot of young people.
Speaker 5: It sounds like, but that is, uh I do.
Speaker 4: They're like younger than that, they're Yeah, I mean everything
all vernacular is online terminology. There's no there's no separation.
Speaker 5: Actually is everything. Everything's blank bait and blank core and
yeah maxing maxing, Oh yeah, I'm neck maxing guys. Look
at whoa what was it? We like, there's a picture
of us with the actual models at that one thing
at PAX and people are like, oh, you guys are
getting sogged. I look at that. It's like, yeah, yes, yes,
the professional models are more attractive than us. Call out everyone.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that though. I mean, see this
cow duds over here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, are you aware of Michael Manatti?
Speaker 5: You see this?
Speaker 3: I mean, like for Mike, you see the fucking jovial
nature of this man. You see how much of a
bad boy he is? Uh call that Jovi ma, that's
what they actually have. That's like if you're entertaining to
people and it's so Joe Yeah yeah, okay, that like
class clown type stuff, right.
Speaker 5: Max Chester.
Speaker 2: Maxine is like, if you if your attempt to impress
people is to like be charming, If you're not, if
you're if you're not winning people over by simply being
the alpha, you're a jester.
Speaker 3: That's the only thing.
Speaker 4: There is a try hard There is a try hardness accommodation, right.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, exactly. That's what they're trying to say.
It's like that's trying to you're debasing yourself. Yeah, you
should just be reading medical studies to make your jawbones
destroy something.
Speaker 5: Mike manaughta, you have a question, what's going on with
this residiaval code Veronica ad Jeff? Oh did you see that? Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, okay, do you want to describe it to the
audience listeners?
Speaker 1: Okay, Mike, are you scrolling through the internet while we're podcasting.
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 5: It's just flying out there? Now, God bout a gage.
I know I'm a piece of ship, but come on,
just show the show, Jeff.
Speaker 3: I'm trying.
Speaker 7: Uh, Man, that sucks to show people. Actually, I will
say this on the top. It says day one little
black book black is bolted. Uh, Claire is checking her
makeup sitting on a person and that maybe and I'm talking.
Speaker 3: A person is a person of color. But why why
is this? Yeah? Why, that's the pertinent question.
Speaker 5: But why?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: And this is a photo?
Speaker 3: I think this is a shoot photo shoot, uh, for
this magazine.
Speaker 2: I can't show you guys the magazine because I might
give away some stuff from the game we're gonna do.
But I opened this up and I saw that, and
and friends, I was confused by this image of Claire
at Redfield doing her makeup not acknowledging the fact that
she is sitting on a black person.
Speaker 5: But what is ad? Yeah, but the AD's calling to
it by bolting black. What buddy, this isn't an ad,
This is editorial magazine.
Speaker 3: Oh you know what? This is Insight. Okay, that actually
I looked at the bottom. That actually makes a lot more.
I have that issue in my house. I subscribe to
that magazine.
Speaker 5: What is Insight? So let me tell you.
Speaker 3: Insight was a thing where it's like some some exact Obviously,
I had the brilliant idea of like, all right, what
if we took these nerdy game magazines, but we put
super stars on the cover, like The Rock and the
girls from Son of the Beach and like, I know,
like d Basically it's yeahs like The Rock I think
was on the first of The Rock holding It in
sixty four controller I subscribed with the first episode or issue.
I think it lasted definitely less than a year because
I got a thing in the mail saying, hey, we're
going out of business, so we're just gonna make this
an e GM two subscription. Right yeah, it is like, yeah,
what's what the racism? I think that's that's just a
happy circumstance for these.
Speaker 1: Things, like we could just do that merit in an
American publication.
Speaker 3: Yes it was, it was, Yes, it was aw So
it would literally be like we interviewed these six women
that are on Son of the Beach about dead or
alive beach volleyball? What's it like avin boobs? How would
that be in a game? Or just the dumbest shit
ever it is.
Speaker 1: It is not a latex suit. If you look closer,
it is just a dude in shorts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a dude in like biking shorts, and he
is he's looking away and there's no other word other
than objectified. This this man is being turned into an
object by this photo shoot.
Speaker 1: All right, well that's crazy, you know.
Speaker 3: Bombast crazy, a giant bomb dot com is the email
addresses in your emails too, right in about any and everything?
Ask questions, Uh, what is what am I seeing there?
That looks like?
Speaker 2: This is the ad on the back that I won't
make you guys guess, because I'd say it's kind of
It's an advertisement for video game review dot com. It
is a woman in a towel who looks sad in
the doorway as a man looking away from her. Hold
his hand down. I don't have time for you. I
have to read these video game reviews.
Speaker 3: That was a whole genre of video game ad in
the nineties. Eggs. It's like my hot wife phone has
sex with me anymore because I'm playing too much bubble
bobble or whatever. Yeah, we could solve all of these problems. Brother,
all right, boncas johnbomb dot com is the email a
dress send your emails to thank you everyone for writing in.
Apologies if we didn't get to your email, but appreciate
all of the effort. Speaking about effort, Jeff Grub, what
time is it? It's time for you all to guess
a video game ad.
Speaker 2: We call it grub guestser I have two for you, guys,
because I think this first one again might be pretty easy.
If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I think you guys will
get this first one close to quickly chat. Yes, close chat.
Speaker 3: Let's just go for it.
Speaker 2: So I will describe it for audio listeners. This is
an advertisement with a man who has a looks like
a broken nose. There's a bandage on it and in
big bold text it says real e.
Speaker 3: F in fans. Now, can we ask guys what some
questions like like, for instance, well again, let me throw
out real quick just for audio listeners again.
Speaker 2: Uh that that that that's it. I blocked out the rest.
It's black and white. Uh what video game is this?
Sometimes I ask publisher, I'll ask something else, this is
a video game ad?
Speaker 3: Now this he's a guy with a kind of like
a black eye and a nose thing like his nose
got busted.
Speaker 5: Is let me ask? Is this deceiving?
Speaker 3: Like is this a thing where it's like this is
for a fighting type of game or is it like, oh,
this is for a Kirby or something.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I would say it's a combat style game. Yes, ready
to rumble boxing. It is not ready to rumble boxing
real Efen fans.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm trying to think I was getting I'm always
like I always feel stupid because jests. I was like, this,
don't get it really easy. Then it's like I don't
a picture of a circle and it's it's like summer
never dies, And I'm like I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I just think you guys collectively we'll
get this one. It's hard to hard to say this
is not virtual.
Speaker 5: This is not Tecand what does the fans have to
do if anything? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Related, this is wrestling related, all right, So then yeah,
hardcore Revolution is e c W.
Speaker 3: I think hardcore revolution Revolution. I believe that it was easy. Yes, yes,
it's easy. It's EA c W.
Speaker 2: There you guys, go and you can kind of see
there's some other ones. I can't remember who that one
is supposed to be because I think these are actual wrestlers.
There's like, yes, and then again I can't remember who
that first one is supposed to be.
Speaker 3: Maybe someone will know. Here's another one after that, New Jack.
It's New Jazz, Saman New and Salmon.
Speaker 4: You go.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of these people at the Horse. They
got the whole magazine that there was three pages and
a row. Okay, so then here is the next one.
All right, Can you guys tell me what game this
is an ad for. There is a passage there on
the right. Let me open it up for myself so
I can read it for people. But the big sort
of draw. The thing that's gonna draw your eye is
a big close up on an eyeball. It's someone's eye
right there with eyelashes and everything that's right in the
center of the page. And then there is a description
there on the light the left there that says perspiration,
dilation of the pupils, trembling, nausea, loss of appetite, dry mouth, kinetic.
Speaker 6: Is.
Speaker 2: So it's not Connecticut, It is not wipeout is parasite, Eve,
This is not parasite.
Speaker 5: This is not the ad.
Speaker 3: Also that was around all the time with the eye
with the eyelashes ripped off and the blood coming down.
That was it was like a photos It was awful. Yeah,
you guys can see here. It's a mature rated game
for the PlayStation one. Yeah, I feel like.
Speaker 4: I almost I almost approach the is like their Jeopardy
clues now because I'm not gonna know the game, but
I'm going to use the context clues in a way
that like, well obviously the e c W thing, but look,
the dilation of pupils is in red. I wonder if
that has any sort of like interesting was well you
are not ready, right?
Speaker 1: There was that so you'll frame us too early?
Speaker 3: Right, this is not fatal frame.
Speaker 4: There was another there was another horror thing from that.
So this so look at the place. It's the PlayStation
and I'm assuming right, Yeah, because what was the game.
Speaker 3: What was the It was a game. It's a horror thing.
Block It made me think, photo, it's.
Speaker 5: Not this is not clockedower you take a fear effect
because there's no lesbians on the said.
Speaker 3: Yes, we don't know this is lesbian because this is
fear effect. Everybody.
Speaker 4: Actually, that's two for two for Backlar today. By the way,
you look at me, go uh so with an assist
I think I think Mike and I.
Speaker 5: I said, it's not.
Speaker 3: Because I was.
Speaker 2: One of the things I blocked out here was symptoms
of fear right, that the effects of fear right. So yeah,
and then it has all the images here on the
other side of the page. But yeah, that's an ad
for fear effect, one of the rare ads for fear
effects that does not focus on lesbians.
Speaker 4: The trick that was like a stationary camera stuff too, right,
that was I think we had a.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that probably had a fixed camera.
Speaker 5: Yes, that game looks really good.
Speaker 1: Still, Hey, you know what, you know what shouts out
to lesbians?
Speaker 3: Huh absolutely, I mean worked, it worked in the advertisement.
Speaker 2: But just cool people across the board. Absolutely, all right,
that was grub Yes, sir, thanks for playing. Everybody, We'll
good you guys again next week.
Speaker 1: Fan fantastic. Thank you Jeff Grub for that lovely little game.
I get all my fashion advice now from lesbians. I
don't trust dudes. Oh yeah, any of it.
Speaker 3: I don't like it. I don't like it.
Speaker 1: Mike Minatti, hit me with some YouTube super chats please
if we.
Speaker 3: Have any we do.
Speaker 5: Flobble Tron says Jane and Dan should really play the Warriors.
It's a great brawler with fantastic atmosphere, has shoot pouch
co op and a two D side score of brawler
game within a game. My game is Game of the
Year two thousand and five. I reviewed it.
Speaker 3: I liked it a lot. I thought it was a
really cool thing. I would have liked to see more
kind of cult classic movies turn into modern video games.
It's a cool idea.
Speaker 4: I mean, for sure, I would love to just play
a Diehard one game like you follow every scene.
Speaker 3: In Time one.
Speaker 5: That seems like that would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I reviewed. I gave it an eight point eight. I'm
looking at my review right now. Wowat I like him.
Speaker 5: Martin Hallis says pragmat I'm more like swag Matta game
has stop. It's a good looking game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1: A lot of chunky tech, yeah.
Speaker 3: But fast chunky tech fast yeah yeah yeah, just like
that's me.
Speaker 5: Shift Zombie Porn says, you guys know what there is
to do in Denver? I'm going there tomorrow apparently. Good
luck with the whole getting poisoned thing, Grubb or.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: Dinver's a great city. There's lots to do. I guess
there's the like sixteenth Street, Mack.
Speaker 3: I think that's right. That's like an outdoor area. It's
really nice.
Speaker 2: They've really built it up, but gets kind of busy, hectic.
I don't know what you're in the mood for. If
you like pepsi products, there's a lot of that. It's
a pepsi city. I was telling Michael the other day,
like our pepsi cities, and that's one of them, because
I think they have a headquarters there, so oh yeah,
comes out of.
Speaker 3: It, comes out of the faucet.
Speaker 2: You could smoke a lot of weed in Denver, and then.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of breweries as well, so get fucked up.
I guess that's maybe what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Daniel Bradley says, tuned in late so sorry, this was
already addressed. But if I rate The Giant Bomb the
Giant Bomb Podcast five stars, does that mean it's only
as good as Metro Prime four? Like than that? Yeah,
favorite joke original, which is the best part, Miggsy says.
Excuse me, says Jeff Grubb. Will you ever go back
to our Zet? Uh?
Speaker 3: God? Did I not finish it?
Speaker 5: Joseph Farrymore.
Speaker 2: I have the controller for it, and I always meant
to go back to it.
Speaker 3: Let's do that. Yeah, I'll find sometimes too. That for sure.
Speaker 5: That's one of those games. Every time I see it,
like it's on sale and like Blue Gun like reposts,
more people play our Zette. It's good Brandy. Brandy says,
I finished Residueval six this weekend, all four campaigns finally done.
It sucks real bad. You've gotta play it. I'm gonna
play the game eventually. It's gonna be the last one
I play if and look, maybe we'll make content out
of it. But if I get to it where it's
my next one, I'm gonna have to play that game
on my own.
Speaker 3: No, you have to save it.
Speaker 5: Let's get it go. Well, let's get to six. Thing
moving here because I want to play the fucking game.
Figure out it.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: We should draw names from a hat.
Speaker 3: Oh, which campaign and which partner we have? Okay, yeah,
that's pretty.
Speaker 5: Fun, makes he says, Jeff Grab Mike Manatti, where do
I find the Giant Bomb Bully pay Through? Nowhere? Yet
it's my hard drive? Yeah, we have, we have, we
have uploaded to a server. It still needs to be edited.
So that's for the endurance run everybody, which means every weekday,
a thirty ish minute episode will go up of us
playing through Bully. You'll you'll you'll know when that's starting.
We'll make a big stick about it.
Speaker 1: But not yet.
Speaker 5: It's not like in a couple of weeks yet, more
time than that still, but yeah, pretty soon there that
will start uploading. And that's not uh, that's not going
to be like a premium exclusive thing or something. Everybody
will be able to watch the Bully Yeah yeah uh.
Amy Winehouse of Leaves says, if you haven't seen those
evil too, mad mister X is gonna give it to you,
do yourself a favorite, look up a video. Uh fuck
ice much love from Saint Paul. Thank you, Amy Winehouse
shouts out to Amy. Huh m hmm, what a name
by good Maxy, says, says Jeff Backlar. Any fiber in.
Speaker 4: The hood yet, no, uh yeah, fiber in the hood.
Speaker 5: Like the Internet fiber not like Oh.
Speaker 3: Hell no, I would have been on that.
Speaker 2: Yes, any of us Scott fiber that didn't have fiber,
You fucking people wouldn't hear the end of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be all we would be talking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, yeah, I mean it continues to just get
war some wris over here. I don't understand what's going on. No,
there's no fiber in the hood yet.
Speaker 5: Sorry, thank you for asking, though, moving with will maybe,
he says Janchoa. Can Osama Riker join in the island?
Speaker 3: Huh Remember we were talking about Osama bin Laden a
lot on this dude years ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just get that in then. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then there's because your beard looks like his.
Speaker 5: On the island we're talking about originally with that's right, Yes,
blame mcassa, says buck Bumble. I don't know why, like
every type of buck bumble too, Kevin's.
Speaker 3: Back was the bee not named buck Bumble?
Speaker 5: Absolutely Bubble was Kevin the bee? Yeah, Kevin the b
No that's the Cheerios b right, what's that fucker's name back?
Speaker 3: It's your die Hard game right there? The trilogy for
the Diar game right there.
Speaker 5: Ye trilogy, but the trilogy to for this one.
Speaker 2: Actually it doesn't follow. It doesn't follow the movie. You're
still you know what I'm saying because I never I
never played at.
Speaker 3: Three and it was three different genres. The first one
was the third person shooter, second one was a light
gun game that you could use the gun con for,
and the third one is this insane, fucking violent, crazy
taxi for Diehard with the vengeance. It's awesome. I love
Diehard t so like in New York City like the movie.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's just.
Speaker 3: Vehicular manslaughter, like non stop, like wiping chunky blood off
the thing with like a bad Sam Jackson impersonator, and
there's like a it is a weird fucking game. I honestly,
one of my favorite PS one games is Diehard Trilogy. Okay,
second one too, called Viva Las Vegas that was sent
in Vegas and obviously not tied to the movies, but
Diehard trillity.
Speaker 5: That's what this one, and that's my thing is like
I don't even I didn't know Diehard Trilogy to existed
till like five years ago, and I had the first
one and liked it a lot, And I still don't
really understand what it is. It doesn't sound like it's
the three different gameplay modes thing again.
Speaker 3: It's it's a totally different thing. Like I remember reading
the reviews and being like, this is not what I want.
But there's also Diehard Arcade, which is done my deca,
done my cap. I remember that a lot of like
early you stuff like pre you should move qut stuff. Yeah,
all right, mikes.
Speaker 5: He's back and says Dan, When will you bring back
Jason to any of the Giant Bomb podcasts? Would be
cool if he part time in Giant Bomb, though, bring
a striker into something, I think so I love I
love a striker. I'd love to catch up with them.
Yeah he's awesome, make me, he says Jan. Do you
have a hot dog code for us?
Speaker 1: A hot dog code? Kay, just like we wouldn't shut
up if the fiberless members of the team had fiber
If I could get you a couplon code for hot dogs,
you would have known twelve years ago.
Speaker 3: All right? For hot dogs though, those are basically free,
aren't they? I mean, right, the only other.
Speaker 1: Word out of my mouth that I say most frequently
other than the random bullshit, it's just dog.
Speaker 3: Why don't I have a hot dog code? Good point?
I had a Nathan's hot dog in Vegas and it
was the first time had one a while and still
pretty good. That's good. Yeah, good hot dog.
Speaker 5: Yeah that dog zombie porn, says the local news person
here was talking about people taking breaks from their phones
and calling it digital raw dogging. Wait wait, wait what
say that? A local news person here was talking about
people taking breaks from their phones and calling it digital
raw dogging. Is that we're to say TV doesn't makes
sense digital raw dogging?
Speaker 3: No, that's the thing.
Speaker 4: What this is demonstrating is that the hellscape in which
we all currently occupy dictates that everything must have a
funny fucking phrieze about it.
Speaker 3: But you can't just put down your phone. It has
to be digital raw dog.
Speaker 5: Making us to have a clip.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it may be well, Jan careful there, buddy,
some of them might accuse you of being old.
Speaker 2: Okay, no means you're doing the thing without protection, so
without I understand, and I.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I share the frustration with everyone. It's like it's like,
oh my god, you sneezed without it, you're raw dogging sneezing.
I get it, I understand. Like what's happening? Like its
fucking dumb as hell.
Speaker 5: It's kind of funny when we said raw dogging flights, right,
that was kind of funny, but like, yes, that was
so far he steps from move now, But mikey, what
it is?
Speaker 3: Everything? All everything is now is everyone trying to be
the one to be the funniest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, get fucking hopecore movies.
Speaker 4: Now, exactly like everyone And because our society has valued
virality in such a way that it forces everyone to
just compete with language and vocabulary. Manbody, I am, I'm
home raw dogging.
Speaker 5: It's awesome for Mike. Likes for Mike. Please like this
video and all other giant on videos.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's right, just load up the video. Just just
scroll that bad boy. I think phone raw dogging is
not using a case or having a screen protector. Yeah, sure,
that's exactly. Yeah morning in.
Speaker 4: Your pocket, your raw dog and your your your pixel.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, we got I got a cover
on my mic.
Speaker 2: People say I'm raw dog in my mic no, this
it's a cover, but you got that.
Speaker 3: I got this. Don't don't break it now, don't do that.
Speaker 5: Don't do that. It's trying to get pull this thing off.
I guess it's some.
Speaker 3: Seven bees with the condom off are horrifying to look at.
You don't want to see it, Okay, just.
Speaker 5: Just like a gaping mouth in there.
Speaker 3: It's gross. It's so gross.
Speaker 5: One more here. Christian Uh says, hey, Grub, thanks for
the jokes. He was a big fan of a certain
kind of humor. You were going out there for a bit.
Speaker 2: Those weren't jokes, could be anything. I couldn't keep a
straight face.
Speaker 5: Got one more here? Jay Titch says one like equals one?
Mic oh, ship, we don't want more?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 5: Okay? No more likes that actually got the no, no,
don't listen, I mean I mean more. Mike Maxing, Yeah,
this is the bike.
Speaker 3: Cor That's that's right. He is the rye back of
the team. Like me more?
Speaker 5: No more? Yeah? Yeah, like me more? Dot com peast
mode activated?
Speaker 1: All right, Mike? Is that it for YouTube super chats?
It sure is fantastic.
Speaker 3: That's Uh.
Speaker 1: That brings us to the end of the show. Gang
what do we got going on the rest of this
week Monday or not Monday? Well, yes, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Game Mess Mornings, pop An alf Right, grib Yes, we'll
be back.
Speaker 3: On Wednesday, Thursday, Friday beautiful beautiful.
Speaker 1: Speaking about being back on Wednesday before Dan heads the space, Uh,
Sean and I are opening up. Get your morning workout,
get in where you fit in pokem Monday Night Combat
rolls right after Games Mornings straight into space because Dan Reikert,
the blakening round continues.
Speaker 3: God, I forgot. And then there's a whole fucking rocket
skate Maze.
Speaker 5: You have to play that hard video game for like
forty minutes before you get to that part that you
need to learn.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's fun for everyone. Yes, that's great. He's going
to really push this whole like, well, it's just bad contents.
We should just skip it now.
Speaker 5: Thing and everybody's stopping a good time, Dan, and I
want to be clear, you have not played as much
of this game yet as I had to play a virtuo.
So all right, I hope.
Speaker 3: People like those thirty minutes for the next for the summer.
Speaker 5: Good you better get good, buddy.
Speaker 3: I have no promises on that.
Speaker 1: I heard on like a show somewhere that someone said
it was like a postgame interview was Tournament Champions, and
they asked him, one.
Speaker 3: Of the cooks, how'd you feel after that battle?
Speaker 1: And then they had said like, man, I'm just a
bundle of nerves, and then they looked at no one
else in the room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we did my mon like he's ruferencing virtuos. Realize, No,
that's just our unique bubble.
Speaker 5: Uh, that's a good point.
Speaker 3: We're rich in the chance, says Dan's chief content officer,
should be able to pull the plug on a season
of Blake Club.
Speaker 5: Yeah that go over real well, dude, that that'd be great.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Speaking about great, we have a great guest lined up
for the voicemail.
Speaker 3: Sorry start interrupt. I'm legit getting sick of that game.
Wouldn't be mad if Dan chickened out and quit. Wow, geez,
look at all this Wow.
Speaker 5: People say that.
Speaker 2: About every Black Club game because they're bad games.
Speaker 3: We're clamoring for the end of this. Wow, it's one
or two. It's one or two clamors here because we
have Mike Manati, please introduce our special guest for this Thursday.
Speaker 5: We have brought him to you, lazy gentlemen. We got him.
My strategy of just screaming bring me bat mcbustles on
content has finally worked out. Matt mcmuscles is going to
be joining us for the dump Trunk. I have never
seen a fella more excited to dump in my life everybody.
So yeah, I'm super excited to be on a show
with Matt. I think everyone's gonna love him. He's a
fantastic person, makes fantastic videos. He just did a video
about the Virtual Boy over on his YouTube channel, so
checked out his what Happened with the Virtual Boy. Very
excited that Matt is going to grace us with his
skeleton presence.
Speaker 1: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. And then after voicemail Dump Truck, The
Hottest Dating Show continues with Mary Me, Tomodacci Friday Gang
upf I believe we got a grab bag going on,
So we'll have a variety show of goodness for you boys.
Anything that I missed out of I guess we're gonna say.
Speaker 3: I'm fine saying this. Now. We are halfway through a
recording of something an emergency demo derby that we are recording.
Somebody brought something to my attention from a demo derby,
and so we immediately pulled out the old PS one
and that'll be a in the near future, maybe maybe
this weekend or soape we can record that. Hell yeah,
yeah yeah, quick looks potentially dropping left and right folks,
will We'll let you know when those happen. Oh, we
have two new super chats. Uh, Mikey, can you hit
me with him real quick? Once from Christian. One is
from Rogue seven oh two.
Speaker 5: That's right, Rogue says, Hey, Jen Jolly b is doing
a collab with Found Fancy fourteen starting today. Sure check
it out and get some merch before you start playing
Found Fancy fourteen.
Speaker 1: Ah, man, I gotta get the wheels rolling on this
show then, huh yep uh.
Speaker 5: Christian says, I'm super tired of Dan having to repeat
parts of that game all the time.
Speaker 3: Interesting many people are saying, I've heard.
Speaker 5: Dan Christian has so many bad opinions.
Speaker 3: Christian to worry about what Christian? I think he's got
great opinions.
Speaker 5: I like this, folks.
Speaker 3: That does it for this week. That has been another
episode of the Giant Bomb Cast. He's been he's been up,
he's been Mike, he's been Dan shouts out the Chuck,
shouts out to Sean, shouts out to will I the
jan We'll see.
Speaker 5: You next week for another episode of the JOT Podcast,
and tell that good start Marks don't drink juice.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you.
Speaker 5: Raw says he's free to start spacemans anytime. Penis