Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Giant BombCast September seventeenth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Welcome to John Podcast Episode eight fifty eight, powered by NZXC.
Speaker 2: I am your host. Cham Oh show up joining me.
Speaker 2: Co captain of the ship. He has collected all of
Speaker 2: the box and then someone. He's training the young gimmicks
Speaker 2: to be collective thunds and get trophies because the Grub
Speaker 2: household is a trophy household.
Speaker 3: Jeff Grubb, I'm also a co captain of a plane.
Speaker 3: I'll explain that later later this week. I can't say anymore,
Speaker 3: but I flew a jet, so you guys can watch
Speaker 3: that later this week.
Speaker 2: Are our own jet, our own man of the skies,
Speaker 2: the world traveler, our own mister worldwide. We call him
Speaker 2: Pitbull and we yelled Dolly every time he enters a meeting.
Speaker 4: Also, I'm right there with Grub on the box.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: I learned about the four an Astro's playroom. I played
Speaker 4: it and I looked at the leaderboards, and Grub you
Speaker 4: and I are literally like a few tenths of a
Speaker 4: second away from each other on the total leaderboard on Astrobot.
Speaker 4: So comes speed run time on Astro's playroom.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah right, and I'm ahead Dan, I
Speaker 1: was far away from the screen and details are left out,
Speaker 1: is all I'm noticing.
Speaker 4: We're literally like that, like we're that close, which means.
Speaker 1: Why can't closer? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: We're past Astrobot Current of the future. So we're gonna
Speaker 4: get on that once it releases.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to a tenth of a second. He's always
Speaker 2: close to you, he's always around you. He's always with
Speaker 2: an earshot because he's a close talker. No he's not,
Speaker 2: Actually he's he's the bad boy of games media from
Speaker 2: games Beat, like Manati.
Speaker 5: I think those four extra bots in Astro's play roum
Speaker 5: is a bunch of bull crap.
Speaker 1: Those don't count. That's not wow. Come over with the fire.
Speaker 1: It takes like fifteen minutes. Just go do it.
Speaker 5: I got my platinum and I didn't have to get them.
Speaker 5: They're not do you yo know I have to play
Speaker 5: more Astrobots. Yeah right, I'm going to get them. I
Speaker 5: just think it's a bunch of bull crap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the problems, don't you You don't you don't think
Speaker 1: that Seeing three hundred and five out of three hundred
Speaker 1: is cool. That's awesome.
Speaker 5: That reel one is cooler, no better, that's a real
Speaker 5: five out of three h five, doesn't.
Speaker 1: Does it still say three hundred underneath five?
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 5: I'm sorry Pokemon Red and Blue Brain, where it's like
Speaker 5: one fifty was a nice round number, then it's just
Speaker 5: one more because of Mew.
Speaker 1: That's cool.
Speaker 2: Speaking about cool, we have our own Mew of the website.
Speaker 2: That's right. Uh, it comes in and out. A little
Speaker 2: fairy adjacent the little uber powerful. You can find her
Speaker 2: underneath the truck. I've been told by urban legend Lucy
Speaker 2: James games Hi, Lucy, I forgot where I told this story,
Speaker 2: but I saw you over the weekend this past week,
Speaker 2: but one of the weekends, and then I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's not Lucy James. And then, for whatever reason, I
Speaker 2: decided the best course of action is to roll my
Speaker 2: window down and yell your name and then like a
Speaker 2: gunshot sound, and then like I just look at my
Speaker 2: rear view mirror and I just see you politely, like
Speaker 2: lean over, hello, Hello.
Speaker 3: She's used to the assassination attempt at this point, so
Speaker 3: it's not mattering after all.
Speaker 1: Oh oh my cat, what'd your cat do.
Speaker 6: It's just like you jumped into a box that she's
Speaker 6: trying to mess up. But no, so I had gone.
Speaker 6: I was having a weirdly productive morning and I went
Speaker 6: to Target. I bought a bunch of stuff to do
Speaker 6: my meal prep with, and then I saw you on
Speaker 6: the way back. I think I texted you with ah,
Speaker 6: but in like a nice way, and then you immediately bless.
Speaker 6: You went, oh my god, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't
Speaker 6: have yelled to you. That was really probably really scary.
Speaker 6: I was like, no, it's fine.
Speaker 2: It felt like I was in Cheers a hey, And
Speaker 2: that's that's my main goals. Just I just want to
Speaker 2: make everyone feel like they are Cheers or the hit
Speaker 2: show Becker.
Speaker 5: Now we're so mad at Becker. Hey, I got a
Speaker 5: weird package today.
Speaker 4: Oh you did?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder if any of you responsible. I said
Speaker 5: it was from a Peter. It was a dressed to
Speaker 5: a mic.
Speaker 2: Don't dock yourself again, please, I'm not talking to myself.
Speaker 5: It's out of the package already. It's a Noob's blanket
Speaker 5: from the Movie's just the poster of Noobes.
Speaker 1: God, you love that blanket much.
Speaker 4: He made everyone go into his hotel room to watch it,
Speaker 4: and then he's buying blankets of it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's funny, comfy.
Speaker 1: Who's Peter.
Speaker 4: It seems like that's probably a Backlar thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was probably probably Backlar.
Speaker 6: I thought you said move OBEs.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, it's his favorite movie Nubs for.
Speaker 6: Are you guys leaving the party to go watch this?
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, just kind of stay.
Speaker 3: We got we got several people to come with us,
Speaker 3: and they basically all dropped out except for Felix, who
Speaker 3: survived the whole thing. Everyone else is like, I can't
Speaker 3: handle this and left, like ten to twenty minutes watching news.
Speaker 5: And my hotel room. It gets my will while while
Speaker 5: I apparently had COVID.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I challenge my people this weekend to make it
Speaker 4: ten minutes into news, which you can watch in its
Speaker 4: entirety on YouTube, and even ten minutes then is very
Speaker 4: rough and a lot of people dropped out.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's bad. It's the worst thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Sabrina Carpenter on that blanket.
Speaker 4: No, no, she has one big moment in that, but
Speaker 4: she's not throughout the.
Speaker 1: Here's the whole movie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's the best actress in the movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, besides Get receiving odd mystery gifts from Peter in
Speaker 2: the mail.
Speaker 1: Why is it from Peter? I don't know that. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 5: I have no since address. I know where they're from.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna dos them.
Speaker 1: It was Dan Reichert that said it to you, Come
Speaker 1: on Jersey. Jersey was probably.
Speaker 5: We don't know DB's rol name could be. Peter really
Speaker 5: loved all our content. It was really up to speed
Speaker 5: with all the jokes.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: The thing is, if you look at our YouTube demographic,
Speaker 2: we hit a spike with an eight to fourteen year
Speaker 2: old demo.
Speaker 1: That's all because of demo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Lucy Howard, thanks, what's popping? O good?
Speaker 6: I went viral on pilot Instagram the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 6: which has been weird Instagram. So when I was flying
Speaker 6: to packs, I took a really good video of the
Speaker 6: storm that yeah.
Speaker 1: Thats up Dad video rules Yeah yeah, I was like,
Speaker 1: just like, as a as a dad, can I say
Speaker 1: very good video? Good ship?
Speaker 6: So I've gone viral on like dad Pilot, Instagram, nic
Speaker 6: and I had I'm having some weird interactions with bigger
Speaker 6: accounts who are trying.
Speaker 1: To steal my content? Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: I had this one Argentinian account that were like can
Speaker 6: we repost?
Speaker 4: Can we?
Speaker 6: And they were like can we use your real because
Speaker 6: it flew over storm. I think it was the storm
Speaker 6: that messed up Dan's place. And it was basically like,
Speaker 6: we look at hundreds of videos per day, yours won't
Speaker 6: be missed. And I was like, okay, well wow, you
Speaker 6: could just like retreat or whatever the Instagram equivalent is
Speaker 6: on you don't have to like take my video. But anyway,
Speaker 6: that's been like I don't know, I only ever used
Speaker 6: Instagram to post selfies, obnoxious selfies, and pictures of my cats.
Speaker 6: So it's a whole new world of becoming Instagram influence,
Speaker 6: but only specifically catering to the pilot market.
Speaker 2: Look at this video again right now, cro calm down,
Speaker 2: come down, It's really good.
Speaker 4: Well Mikey came in shoot Hot to the Mike test today.
Speaker 2: Yeah he did.
Speaker 3: He did well, mostly because we didn't tell him the
Speaker 3: code to get into the room, so he was I
Speaker 3: forget there.
Speaker 2: I forget that. He's not on our slack. Everyone else
Speaker 2: is on our slack, except that's his fault.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wait, it's not fun being left out.
Speaker 6: Wait, Mike, you have you slack it games b right,
Speaker 6: can't we just yeah? I do?
Speaker 4: Is like a oh yeah, we have other people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have other weasly have everyone except for him.
Speaker 1: No, I'm like weird about it.
Speaker 5: I'm like, that's like the one thing that I'm not doing,
Speaker 5: like like that's my one like thing of separation. We're like,
Speaker 5: I'm you know, I'm I'm there, but I don't totally
Speaker 5: work there yet because.
Speaker 4: I'm invited multiple times. Yeah, you have been invited several times.
Speaker 4: According to Turbo Sean, I think.
Speaker 2: Even Backlar sent you one. He was like, oh we
Speaker 2: should Mike in here.
Speaker 1: Was maybe you should be in there. Actually, why why
Speaker 1: were you so angry?
Speaker 4: Mikey?
Speaker 5: I was angry because dance is doing too well in
Speaker 5: the uh Fantasy Critic because UFO fifty he's got like
Speaker 5: a ninety one.
Speaker 1: But then you were all working me up.
Speaker 5: I was like, it's okay, I have Plucky Squire and
Speaker 5: you two are like, have you plate it because it's bad?
Speaker 5: He said, we didn't say it was bad. I was
Speaker 5: sweating here, like worried about that. It turns out it's
Speaker 5: like an eighty six, right, now my best friend Tamore,
Speaker 5: who's saying on Twitter, tweeted, play Plucky Squire. It's incredible.
Speaker 5: Turns out you two are just a bunch of cynical,
Speaker 5: funny duddies who don't know real joy anymore.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's a funny I'm a doddy, right, all right, Well,
Speaker 2: you know we talked about we brought up the games.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about games.
Speaker 1: There it goes.
Speaker 4: It's not bad, and no one said it was bad.
Speaker 1: Chat to me like, fuck off, my.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I agree, all right, we have a great
Speaker 5: dynamic lea tim Oh that's very funny.
Speaker 2: Okay, I haven't played Plucky Squire, but our own two
Speaker 2: Plucky Squires have boys.
Speaker 1: Yeah into it? Are you grub I'm like an hour
Speaker 1: and a half or so, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're probably where I'm at. I started up on
Speaker 4: a plane, played like an houri stop.
Speaker 3: You were just like this was for me. This game
Speaker 3: looks like it's for me for me too. Looks like
Speaker 3: a great like kind of a twist on the Zelda formula.
Speaker 3: For people that don't know, Plucky Squire is a little
Speaker 3: character in a book. It's like a hand drawn look
Speaker 3: that is fantastic, and then due to the events of
Speaker 3: the story, the character actually gets zooped out of the
Speaker 3: book and we can run around into the three D
Speaker 3: bedroom that the book exists in. It's a very cool
Speaker 3: concept that I was into. So that's that's the stage.
Speaker 4: So when you get out of the book, it's a
Speaker 4: tiny guy, big world thing, which I also love that
Speaker 4: platformer and twoty platformer. It's all this stuff that I like.
Speaker 4: It does a punch out section very early in the game.
Speaker 4: Oh now it's just punch out, and then Zelda it's
Speaker 4: got side scrolling, you know, platforming. The thing is first
Speaker 4: of all, I hate in the side scrolling parts. You
Speaker 4: got to use the fucking analog stick. I have a
Speaker 4: visceral like anytime you have to use it's like using
Speaker 4: an analog stick in a Tony Hawk game. It's like that,
Speaker 4: this is not right, you know. But all of the
Speaker 4: actual overworld Zelda type stuff is fine. It all looks incredible.
Speaker 4: The style is a plus in this game. I have
Speaker 4: found the actual Zelda overworld parts being just very I
Speaker 4: don't feels I'm drum Look, we've all played a million
Speaker 4: Zelda likes and stuff like that, and this is not
Speaker 4: one that would stand out. If it was not for
Speaker 4: the art style, the overworld Zelda stuff would not stand
Speaker 4: out in any way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the magic trick works.
Speaker 3: The actually the way the game looks when you're in
Speaker 3: the Storybook fantastic, the way it looks when you're in
Speaker 3: the Little Guy in Big World fantastic. Jumping between those
Speaker 3: two things is cool, but it's pretty much like you're
Speaker 3: just gonna do the thing that they put in front
Speaker 3: of you. Also, every sort of set new section you
Speaker 3: go to, at least so far in the game, has
Speaker 3: done the thing where it's like the camera shows you
Speaker 3: exactly what you're supposed to go do.
Speaker 6: Oh is that why people were subtweeting?
Speaker 1: I think that might have been what people that bought
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's it's maybe I don't hate it quite
Speaker 3: as much as some people, but I I mean maybe
Speaker 3: the fact that they mentioned it did set that off,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, this is kind of annoying. The problem
Speaker 3: is there's not much variation in like what you can do,
Speaker 3: so it's like it's showing you what you're gonna do,
Speaker 3: then go do it. That's where I kind of was
Speaker 3: getting at a little bored. I think it's just not
Speaker 3: keeping me engaged.
Speaker 4: I wanted it to use. Like it has certain gimmicks
Speaker 4: that introduces like almost like the Baba is you wordplay
Speaker 4: type thing where it's like you'll see there's a gate
Speaker 4: that's closed, and then you'll see words and say like
Speaker 4: the blank swung blank, and you find the word gate
Speaker 4: and open and you literally throw the word in it
Speaker 4: as you yeah, yeah, and it's you know, I wanted
Speaker 4: kind of more of that. So it like introduces a
Speaker 4: lot of gimmicks that just wind up not feeling like
Speaker 4: more than brief gimmicks, Like occasionally the book will turn
Speaker 4: vertical and it's almost like a contrast style. You know,
Speaker 4: a platform up in cinderfold. Yeah, that's clever stuff, but
Speaker 4: you know, you see these gimmicks a few times, it
Speaker 4: doesn't really take them super far, and then the actual
Speaker 4: moment to moment platforming and gameplay stuff is not super engaging. Creanted,
Speaker 4: we're not very far in.
Speaker 1: We're not very far in. Yeah, and that's when like
Speaker 1: maybe some of the stuff like lessons and opens up,
Speaker 1: Like for example, I'm like kind of holding back on
Speaker 1: this criticism where it's like they take controls away very frequently,
Speaker 1: like to be like here, let's tell a little story,
Speaker 1: or here is like to have the camera show you
Speaker 1: with what's going on, and it's it's like, I hope
Speaker 1: that goes away because it just is ruining all the
Speaker 1: momentum that this game has.
Speaker 2: How is this story so far? I know it's it's cute.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it. I put it in front of
Speaker 1: the kids.
Speaker 3: I put it in front of the kids for the
Speaker 3: preview period though, and they have not like been like,
Speaker 3: oh hey, what's happening with Plucky Squire Astrobot?
Speaker 1: They are like that is god.
Speaker 3: Kid comes from the school, runs right down here, doesn't
Speaker 3: say hi to me and starts playing astroby. Plucky Squire
Speaker 3: is like not really sort of hit them in the
Speaker 3: same way. I'm gonna give it another shot because I
Speaker 3: do think this is a game that a lot of
Speaker 3: kids probably will get into. And I think this, like
Speaker 3: I said, the story is cute and like the Moonbeard
Speaker 3: the wizard and he's like a hip, cool wizard, which
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. It's not working for me
Speaker 3: a ton, but I don't have any problem with it either.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just a lot of that. Here's this character
Speaker 4: who's like, oh, he's in the metal in his name
Speaker 4: is Thrash and he does. It's just like it's all
Speaker 4: just very kind of like lay up easy, just like
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's not doing it for me at all,
Speaker 4: that the tone of it. Steve doesn't like it either.
Speaker 4: Steve's been playing a lot of Astrobots, so yeah, it
Speaker 4: was fine right now. So Steve, you don't want to
Speaker 4: get on camera.
Speaker 2: But come on, we don't want to put kids on camera.
Speaker 4: No, Yeah, of course I'm going to keep playing it.
Speaker 4: It seems like a good playing game runs great on
Speaker 4: the Steam deck, so I will give it another shot.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I played like maybe an hour hour and
Speaker 4: a half on a flight and then I stopped and
Speaker 4: loaded the Wild Bastards skin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I played on the PC with like all the
Speaker 3: graphic setting, so it does look fantastic. But yeah, I uh,
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just not for me. I think
Speaker 3: it's probably what's happening here, especially based seeing a lot
Speaker 3: of these reviews. Although to be fair, I have talked
Speaker 3: to some other people that it's kind of said some
Speaker 3: of the same stuff we've been saying Dan, So it's
Speaker 3: I think there will be a little bit of a
Speaker 3: backlash year. I don't like it's gonna be some game
Speaker 3: that people think is trash, though. I just think I
Speaker 3: was a little bit disengaged by it.
Speaker 1: I'm right there, twee for the both of you. Perhaps
Speaker 1: I don't I like.
Speaker 3: Like sugary cuteness, though, if you have to, like give
Speaker 3: me like grim Dark or Blue Sky, like Creola colored
Speaker 3: cran Worlds, I'm going to take the creole of Colored
Speaker 3: cran world every time.
Speaker 1: So Kirby, Yeah, I love Kirby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mario like that's all my shit, So that's not
Speaker 3: really turning me off. I think it's just that they
Speaker 3: have that sauce on that side of things, and then
Speaker 3: when I'm playing the game, it's a little sauceless.
Speaker 1: That's kind of where I see I'm falling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not a verse to that. Something I love
Speaker 4: Astrobot Mario doesn't have to be super violent, crazy stuff.
Speaker 4: It's but yeah, it's just the gameplay itself has been
Speaker 4: a bit boring.
Speaker 2: Got it? Got it? Dan? You mentioned it well talking
Speaker 2: about games you might switch over to. But you've also
Speaker 2: been playing Wild Bastards.
Speaker 4: I beat it last night and I am immediately going
Speaker 4: to be starting up the new mode that opens up.
Speaker 4: This is a game that like a lot of what's Mike?
Speaker 4: Why is Mike doing? That's final?
Speaker 1: Because you said you beat it last night.
Speaker 4: Oh God, go back and watch what a for a
Speaker 4: whack off joke?
Speaker 2: God? Wow, I'm not going to ask you Mike check
Speaker 2: questions anymore. Okay, I don't know, I.
Speaker 4: Didn't know.
Speaker 1: You didn't keep it in.
Speaker 4: Go back and watch your face when I said I
Speaker 4: beat it last night.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that I have an expressive face.
Speaker 2: Okay, you can you concealed, don't feel just like else's parents.
Speaker 5: Look, I'm sorry, but over like on the game mess,
Speaker 5: I've been conditioned to laugh at this. The soundboard is
Speaker 5: nothing but people saying, you know, I beat it. Oh
Speaker 5: there's the one off jake like, oh you beat it?
Speaker 1: You beat it?
Speaker 4: In my mind.
Speaker 2: Exactly, I realized how much of a character I've become
Speaker 2: on y'all's podcast because boys clips that Sean is carrying
Speaker 2: it up and putting into a bank.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Dan, please continue.
Speaker 5: That didn't need to disrupt you by incredibly you cartoon
Speaker 5: like express.
Speaker 2: My face, you wild bastard of media.
Speaker 4: So back to business. I beat it last night. I'll
Speaker 4: beat it again.
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on what Mike works that games beat? Yes, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: I never put that together. Sus website, we cannot. Audio
Speaker 1: listeners don't work. This is only going to go on
Speaker 1: for another thirty or forty years. Just relax. We don't
Speaker 1: eat your comments. Okay, it's incredible.
Speaker 2: No no, no, give us the comments even if you
Speaker 2: don't like it. Just comments on anyway, like, okay, we're done,
Speaker 2: Dan Wild Bastards, you beat it. I beat it great.
Speaker 4: Yes, I love this game. I know some of the
Speaker 4: reviews were kind of like middling or you know seven's
Speaker 4: or you know, two out of five stuff like that,
Speaker 4: which I was very surprised to see because you know,
Speaker 4: I was playing a pre release with several people and
Speaker 4: we were talking like everyone I've talked was like, fucking
Speaker 4: loves it. And apparently not everyone loves it. But it's
Speaker 4: the spiritual successor to Void Bastards. You play that, it's
Speaker 4: a different like, it's much quicker. There's no U there's
Speaker 4: not a lot of stealth really at all in it.
Speaker 4: I know Voyd Bastards had more of that. This is
Speaker 4: more you're dropping into these combat encounters, these tiny like
Speaker 4: arena fights sometimes they're over in ten seconds, like each
Speaker 4: one of these bastards. Basically, you're going through space, you're
Speaker 4: collecting your crew, you're dropping out on these like wild
Speaker 4: West planets, and everyone on your crew has a stunt,
Speaker 4: which is like an ultra and if you pick up
Speaker 4: juice on the field, you can use your stunt. So
Speaker 4: some of them are like those are some of my
Speaker 4: favorite things. So like Smoky is this like Smoky fire
Speaker 4: Skeleton guy and his stunt is three random enemies on
Speaker 4: the stage we'll catch on fire. So sometimes you'll drop
Speaker 4: down and the three enemies are like these three coyote
Speaker 4: type things that die pretty quickly, so you can literally
Speaker 4: start a level, grab some juice, pop your stunt, and
Speaker 4: then you know they're all dead and you go back up.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it is kind of confusing at first because
Speaker 4: it is throwing a lot of stuff at you and
Speaker 4: it's not holding your hand. Everyone I've talked to you
Speaker 4: that's played this has had the first like hour be like, okay, wait,
Speaker 4: so what's the stuff that's persistent. What's this like planet level,
Speaker 4: what's this galaxy level? It is there's a lot of
Speaker 4: different systems at play, but if you just play the game.
Speaker 4: I think within an hour, less than an hour, it'll
Speaker 4: all kind of click and it's just the loop is
Speaker 4: incredible as just like dropping down quick Encounter is very
Speaker 4: easy to back out at any point it once you
Speaker 4: figure out what is persistent, Like you pick up these
Speaker 4: ace cards and those are like persistent perks that even
Speaker 4: if you die, you keep all that stuff. It's there's
Speaker 4: there's like over I'll say there's over ten bastards you
Speaker 4: can get, and there's only one of them I really
Speaker 4: don't like. But it's great when like you see the
Speaker 4: enemies in the stage, you're gonna be like, oh, it's
Speaker 4: all these animals. It's snakes and coyotes, and I've got
Speaker 4: this one guy who's like a trapper and his stunt
Speaker 4: is when you pop it, you will subvert one of
Speaker 4: them and turn them to your side. So you can
Speaker 4: really kind of break the game in a lot of
Speaker 4: cool ways if you prepare correctly, and a lot of
Speaker 4: these characters can get overpowered with the aces and everything
Speaker 4: in a fun way. But yeah, really really satisfying loop,
Speaker 4: really great, great another great great Steam That game made
Speaker 4: a flight fly by for me. Yeah, it's if you
Speaker 4: like void bastards at all. I like this more than
Speaker 4: void bastards, and I was pretty upse with that up time.
Speaker 1: I used to it real quick. So you're like the
Speaker 1: core loop here is for the gameplay. For the gunplay,
Speaker 1: I should say, you're going out there, you're shooting, You're
Speaker 1: trying to find this juice? Is it? Like what do
Speaker 1: you can do to get that?
Speaker 4: That's just your ultra. Like if you don't want to
Speaker 4: go your ultra, you can just go around, like okay,
Speaker 4: uh Spider Rosa is this character who's got double pistols,
Speaker 4: and you just go around. You can just kill everything
Speaker 4: and then you go back up to the planet. The
Speaker 4: loop you're trying to do on each planet is they
Speaker 4: will have bonuses, so like scattered across the map, almost
Speaker 4: like a board game type thing. There will be Here's
Speaker 4: an ace, which is that persistent thing. Here's money, which
Speaker 4: a sack of money which you can spend just on
Speaker 4: this run. Here's if you go over to this thing,
Speaker 4: you can destroy a roadblock, which a roadblock is a
Speaker 4: part on the map that like you'll encounter a bunch
Speaker 4: of enemies. If I pick this thing up, I'll subvert
Speaker 4: half the enemies at this roadblock. So when you go in,
Speaker 4: a bunch of them will be on your side, so
Speaker 4: it's like that board game level. And then you drop
Speaker 4: down into these combat encounters, kill a bunch of things,
Speaker 4: and then try to move on to get the next
Speaker 4: bonus before you get to the like warp that warps
Speaker 4: you back up to the galaxy level, and then you
Speaker 4: progress through like the sector, which is you know, like
Speaker 4: in a rogue light where there's just like, here's this
Speaker 4: area you have to go through, and at the end
Speaker 4: there's a level where you get another bastard, another person
Speaker 4: to join your team. Basically, that's the general loop, and
Speaker 4: it's again it sounds confusing, and when you start it
Speaker 4: feels confusing, but once once it clicks, it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is an awesome, awesome loop.
Speaker 3: And you're talking about like the map, like the going
Speaker 3: from level to levels sort of like an FTL or
Speaker 3: one of these other ruguelikes that has the sort of
Speaker 3: on a map.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, cool, exactly.
Speaker 4: That's the galaxy level, and then the planet level is
Speaker 4: like a board game kind of branching paths and enemies
Speaker 4: and bonuses and stuff. Yeah, and then the actual FPS
Speaker 4: combat at the lowest level.
Speaker 3: And you think that is like solid in and works
Speaker 3: for you. Like it's just fun to go in there
Speaker 3: and shoot things.
Speaker 4: Super fun. Like the actual like on the ground type
Speaker 4: stuff is really like you're like hacking security, so like
Speaker 4: all these turrets and stuff are working for you. Like
Speaker 4: there's just you know, I got this one character, Brimstone
Speaker 4: that's she's like a preacher and she's got a minigun,
Speaker 4: and I put all these aces on her, so like
Speaker 4: all of her bullets have fire on them, but also
Speaker 4: her stunt heals me with every bullet. And now when
Speaker 4: I get shot, there's a seventy five percent of health
Speaker 4: coming out. So like even if I'm taking damage, I've
Speaker 4: built turn away where it's just like health power ups
Speaker 4: are flying out of for like crazy, and all of
Speaker 4: my bullets are like burning them and healing me. It's uh,
Speaker 4: really really cool stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna give this a try.
Speaker 2: I wasn't super I didn't really catch on to Void Bastards,
Speaker 2: but everything you're talking about here dan very very enticing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's it'll be my top ten of year.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure Void Basterds had that like oxygen mechanic
Speaker 3: right where it's like you had limited oxygen each time
Speaker 3: you went on a ship. Is is there something equivalent
Speaker 3: to that or is that sort of just scrapped here.
Speaker 4: So when you're on the planet level, basically there's turn
Speaker 4: so there's a day and night cycle, so you know
Speaker 4: you're let's say, okay, this these two caricters. By the way,
Speaker 4: you can drop several bastards down to the planet level
Speaker 4: at one time. So let's say you have four and
Speaker 4: you're moving them around separately throughout the map, and each
Speaker 4: one will have like this person can move six spaces,
Speaker 4: this one can move four spaces, and you can level
Speaker 4: that type of stuff up and everything, and if you
Speaker 4: take too much time, these these dudes will come down.
Speaker 4: It's like a McNeil guy or like these like sons
Speaker 4: of the Bad Guys or whatever will come down on
Speaker 4: horseback and they will chase you. And those are like
Speaker 4: tougher encounters. So basically, if you spend too much time
Speaker 4: fucking around on the planet level, these tougher enemies will
Speaker 4: warp down and then chase you on the map, and
Speaker 4: if they get to you, you have to have like
Speaker 4: an actual FPS like showdown with them.
Speaker 1: Okay, very cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, speaking about dropping down into a planet.
Speaker 2: A game that we've been playing here on the website,
Speaker 2: something very twee, very twee, very lighthearted. Is Warhammer forty
Speaker 2: K Spice Marine two? Holy smokes, y'all? Yeah, this game
Speaker 2: I want. I don't want to play as much of
Speaker 2: it because I want to play most of it on
Speaker 2: the website, but I can't stop thinking about Space Marine,
Speaker 2: and I hate that it's infected my brain. I hate
Speaker 2: that I'm thinking about Warhammer.
Speaker 6: Are you going to stop painting?
Speaker 2: I'm terrible at painting. I'm terrible at craft, so probably
Speaker 2: not funny.
Speaker 1: Funny, Yeah, I think if you believe in yourself a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, Mooky is kind of like a craft. Uh,
Speaker 1: this this game is nothing.
Speaker 5: Mike, I don't know, but so internally giggling about the
Speaker 5: beating it last night.
Speaker 2: Well, I want to beat it together with my best
Speaker 2: friends on the website and beat it in public, okay,
Speaker 2: on this website live god. Warhammer turns out. I don't
Speaker 2: know if the nerds were hiding this, but Warhammer's pretty cool.
Speaker 6: Are you saying the Warhammer nerds a gatekeeping Yeah?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. Did none of you play the
Speaker 1: first Space Marine then.
Speaker 6: Played Dark Tide.
Speaker 1: I played Dark Tide and Vermin Tide a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dark Tight and Vermin Tide.
Speaker 3: We should we should just go back to the whatever
Speaker 3: the Dark Tide that's the space one that yeah, because
Speaker 3: that's a lot of fun too, and.
Speaker 1: I like the Left four Dead stop play.
Speaker 3: But this is this is really hitting very hard for
Speaker 3: me because it's just like this does have a good
Speaker 3: core combat loop of here's a bunch of of enemies
Speaker 3: coming in you in you know, kind.
Speaker 1: Of waves as you work through the level, yes.
Speaker 3: And you're gonna pick up guns around level or you're
Speaker 3: gonna have your load out whatever you want to use,
Speaker 3: and then like you're gonna shoot them as they get close.
Speaker 3: You're going to start hitting in with the chainsword or
Speaker 3: your big knife, and then if you kind of get
Speaker 3: a little overwhelmed, you'll hold down on your melee attack
Speaker 3: and you'll do a big stop you kind of knock
Speaker 3: them back, and then you shoot them with a gun
Speaker 3: and then you execute them and in that time you
Speaker 3: probably lost a little bit of your shields. But now
Speaker 3: that you're executing them, that recharges your shields. What I
Speaker 3: kind of don't need anything more than that, especially when
Speaker 3: it's all goofy and bloody and awesome and the guys
Speaker 3: are yelling crazy stuff like for the Emperor and you're emperors,
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ and stuff like that, and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm having a good time.
Speaker 4: In the co op part of it. It really does
Speaker 4: remind me of like all the fun I had. Like
Speaker 4: I know, some people don't like when you compare it
Speaker 4: to Gears of War, but play this game. It's going
Speaker 4: to remind your Gears of War. But the co op
Speaker 4: my favorite time is doing that. Yeah, it's both the
Speaker 4: gunplay and the like the melee stuff works really well.
Speaker 4: That's the thing Gear has never had, is like really
Speaker 4: solid melee stuff, but this has a decent like you know,
Speaker 4: holding RB to kind of like knock people back and
Speaker 4: then you can do that like RT shoot execute thing.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: You know the co ops have really zero vibes and
Speaker 4: things like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, realizing that you like, oh, we have different power ups,
Speaker 3: so different ultimates, like you had the scream and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: i have a buff for all of us, a buff zone,
Speaker 3: so I'll just lay this down once things get a
Speaker 3: little hairy. And then they changed that up and we
Speaker 3: did a level where you get a jet pack and
Speaker 3: I just went jets forever and a bit like it
Speaker 3: was yeah, so good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I had a really awesome butt stomp video game
Speaker 5: Butt Stomps Future sixty.
Speaker 1: Four absolutely Yoshi's Island. Yeah, you could be the hover
Speaker 1: and shoot or you can do the butt stomp and
Speaker 1: and like you could cover these wide chasms because the
Speaker 1: the the jump with the with the jet pack takes
Speaker 1: you up super high and then you can.
Speaker 3: Kind of butt stop all the way across the level
Speaker 3: and it just jets you down to the ground and
Speaker 3: it feels so awesome. So it kind of feels like
Speaker 3: one of those games we're like, all right, we have
Speaker 3: this world of like big dudes shooting things.
Speaker 1: Let's just do things that we think are cool.
Speaker 3: And that's what it feels like they did at every turn,
Speaker 3: And right now I'm like, yeah, that this is also
Speaker 3: very cool.
Speaker 4: And the balancing on the default difficulty, I think it's
Speaker 4: perfect because like we're dying on occasion we have to like,
Speaker 4: oh shit, I gotta come re by you. But like
Speaker 4: it's not like it's the type of thing where we
Speaker 4: could beat it the first time. You go ahead and laugh,
Speaker 4: Mike and then I actually laughed at that one.
Speaker 2: That was.
Speaker 4: But like it wouldn't be that difficult. But then, like
Speaker 4: I'm liking it so much like Gears, it might be
Speaker 4: fun to go back on like you know, the hard Yeah,
Speaker 4: I love doing that on Gears, like once you kind
Speaker 4: of really know how the game flow works and the
Speaker 4: weapons and everything.
Speaker 2: But yeah, what you said about the difficulty, it's interesting, Dan,
Speaker 2: because like sometimes I'll be beating my head against and
Speaker 2: repeating a second sus to be come.
Speaker 1: On, I threw this word forever. God, we can't say
Speaker 1: this word anymore.
Speaker 3: We got we got to put the word in the Nope,
Speaker 3: I can't say that bucket where we put the C word.
Speaker 5: Yeah, rhys at that place where plate bid works.
Speaker 1: Yeahs away.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, you know, difficulty is really well balanced because
Speaker 2: you're not repeating a level or a segment multiple times.
Speaker 2: Checkpointing is very generous.
Speaker 3: Also, It's like I think guys are right, like it's
Speaker 3: right in that good balance zone where most of the
Speaker 3: time we are just shooting the shit or or I'm
Speaker 3: just like zoning out like oh this is fun just
Speaker 3: to shoot guys, and then occasionally it's like okay, time
Speaker 3: to walk in. Uh, here's what I'm doing. Here's Oh,
Speaker 3: I see you guys fighting over there. I will put
Speaker 3: down my buff zone for you guys so you guys
Speaker 3: can get buffed up and survive this encounter. And then
Speaker 3: I'll go over here try to reload my AMMO, and
Speaker 3: then if I die, can someone come save me? And
Speaker 3: like we're actually talking to each other about the actual tactics.
Speaker 3: Occasionally it's not constant, which I think is the right
Speaker 3: fit for the fuel of the game and kind of
Speaker 3: what I wanted from it.
Speaker 4: I feel like, like like a Fortnite or Hell Divers,
Speaker 4: those are other ones where it's like, you know, as
Speaker 4: you're going from point A to point B or whatever,
Speaker 4: you can just kind of chat and catch up with
Speaker 4: the friends and stuff. But then there are moments it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: we actually really have to coordinate and play this video game,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 2: I hope for fans of Warhammer that the story is
Speaker 2: hitting them because it's completely bouncing off of me because
Speaker 2: it all seems so dense.
Speaker 3: There's an arch magos who who's on a helicopter and
Speaker 3: it crashed and then but they thought it was an accident,
Speaker 3: but then he got like super stabbed and so they're like, oh, no,
Speaker 3: he was betrayed. So we have traders, and now we're
Speaker 3: going after some traders, and the trader for a story
Speaker 3: like this has to be a character we've met before, right,
Speaker 3: Isn't that how that works?
Speaker 2: So do you guys think it's probably gonna be us
Speaker 2: or something?
Speaker 1: You know, gonna be one of us? One of us?
Speaker 4: Do you know that in the Warhammer world that the
Speaker 4: orcs paint their cars red because it makes them think,
Speaker 4: because they think it makes the car faster, and because
Speaker 4: they believe it works.
Speaker 1: Red shift.
Speaker 4: I was talking Nni Caravella apparently is a big Warhammer guy,
Speaker 4: and he was explaining a lot of this stuff and
Speaker 4: he's waiting.
Speaker 2: For that to hit you, Dan, because like, the only
Speaker 2: other person on this website that's talked about Warhammer is
Speaker 2: Vinnie Caravella.
Speaker 4: I've never heard Anny bring up war Hammer once in
Speaker 4: my life, but we had a longer conversation about it
Speaker 4: last night, and uh, yeah, the Warhammer Lowarers sounds pretty
Speaker 4: like fucking weird and fun.
Speaker 5: Are you gonna like because it doesn't Mahardy love that
Speaker 5: the RTS Warhammer games a lot, and you like and
Speaker 5: now you like Warhammer.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe check this. Ever played a total war game?
Speaker 4: Dan, I want to build a big es days now.
Speaker 1: Those total war games are very fun.
Speaker 3: I haven't played one since like my PC in the
Speaker 3: late early two thousands or whatever, Rome Rome, I played
Speaker 3: total and that was.
Speaker 1: What about it? Very cool?
Speaker 5: We'll talk about Donna war a lot is like one
Speaker 5: of the best artist games ever?
Speaker 4: Is that the Warhammer one? That's the Warhammer one?
Speaker 2: Speaking about Warhammer offshoots, uh, I have been heavily considering
Speaker 2: checking out Warhammer mcconnicus because that is the x colm
Speaker 2: like Warhammer game and like you know, your boy likes tiles.
Speaker 2: Your boy like tactics, and that's why I've put more
Speaker 2: time into tactical each Wizards.
Speaker 6: Great game.
Speaker 1: Great game, y'all.
Speaker 2: I think this is I keep shuffling stuff around in
Speaker 2: my like top five. I think this is gonna be
Speaker 2: in the top five for Tiles of the year, for sure,
Speaker 2: Tiles of the year. Lucy, you've you've been playing a
Speaker 2: bit of this, haven't you?
Speaker 6: Yes, I have, but I haven't. I was playing it
Speaker 6: on the way to pack. Jellybean, I swear to God,
Speaker 6: get off.
Speaker 1: My She's a star.
Speaker 2: Jelly bean, please get off my head.
Speaker 6: Drones. Yes, I just really like the vibe of it.
Speaker 6: It's so funny, it's really well written. Like I don't
Speaker 6: I never thought I would play a tactical game where
Speaker 6: I actually am excited about cutscenes. I'm usually more excited
Speaker 6: about tiles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but no, it's great, good.
Speaker 6: It's very funny. Also, just like you know, it's very
Speaker 6: I think once you get into it and like once
Speaker 6: you're doing runs and stuff, it's it's very frictionless in
Speaker 6: terms of like experimentation with restarting things. And also it's
Speaker 6: just really cool to breach a bloody door and then
Speaker 6: kick someone to have a window.
Speaker 3: Yes, uh, defastration that the defense definstration record, defenestration, defenestrate d.
Speaker 4: E F E N I S t R A t
Speaker 4: E E.
Speaker 2: He's already he's already disqualify because he is not the eye.
Speaker 2: He didn't say defenestrate first, and then I don't have
Speaker 2: it in front of me. I can't. I can't tell you.
Speaker 3: Probably I think it was not an eye, was an
Speaker 3: e Yeah, ship, okay, defend that straight. Yeah, that means
Speaker 3: throwing people out windows, which is this is a definestration
Speaker 3: based game which rules.
Speaker 1: It's so fun.
Speaker 3: They know how fun it is to just blast someone
Speaker 3: with magic, have him fly through the window. The window
Speaker 3: makes the crashing sound, and then they're just gone. And
Speaker 3: they even make the point of like, oh, there's a
Speaker 3: little thing out there that kind of like keeps them
Speaker 3: floating in air so they're not dying, which I don't
Speaker 3: really care. But the game is like making a deal,
Speaker 3: like I're not killing everybody. I'm like whatever, I just
Speaker 3: like throwing them out windows.
Speaker 4: Appreciate mooting them out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a real quick and speedy game.
Speaker 2: Like Lucy's spot on about it being frictionless, because if
Speaker 2: you don't care about any of like a little side chat,
Speaker 2: side banter, and you just want to skip through it,
Speaker 2: you completely can. And it doesn't quite. It doesn't really
Speaker 2: affect your story too much other than adding a little
Speaker 2: bit of flavor text to everything.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Greb.
Speaker 5: Lost audio halfway through laughing at something you hate bet
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 2: Fun great. I hope he doesn't. I hope he keeps
Speaker 2: on recording anyway. Tactical Breach Wizards. It's it's just so
Speaker 2: fast and so good. It hasn't hit me. It doesn't
Speaker 2: quite operate at the speed that an Into the Breach does,
Speaker 2: but it is also scratching that itch, and this further
Speaker 2: worries me, y'all for the prospects of a future Final
Speaker 2: Fantasy Tactics remaster.
Speaker 6: Because oh, you'll lose yourself to it.
Speaker 2: No, not because I'm gonna lose myself to it, but
Speaker 2: because I think it's gonna I'm it won't be for
Speaker 2: me anymore because I fell off games like Triangle Strategy
Speaker 2: because it was just like too heavy and too ensconced
Speaker 2: into like the old form of like tile based tactics
Speaker 2: and hasn't moved forward. The Tactical Breach was just like
Speaker 2: saw Boom boom boom along with Into the Breach and
Speaker 2: like other modern Tactics games. Yeah, yeah, I kind of
Speaker 2: want more x com But at the same time, I'd
Speaker 2: be curious to check out modernizing Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced
Speaker 2: and seeing if they can beef up that snowball fight.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 2: Well, well, Grub is still away fixing his audio woes.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about a game he has absolutely no interest in. Astrobot.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, he's back, nuts, I got the.
Speaker 6: Ya, So I have questions. Can you get the Platinum
Speaker 6: without completing all of the challenge levels.
Speaker 1: No, OK, I'm doing it.
Speaker 3: There's fun which there's one one or two that were
Speaker 3: I think we're kind of like fifteen or twenty tries
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 1: Which one is giving you the hard time?
Speaker 6: Lucy the circle pricks circle?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 6: So the problem is is that I have really bad
Speaker 6: repairitive strain injury that is really really exacerbated by the
Speaker 6: dual Sense. And so yes, the Dual Sense, Thank you
Speaker 6: PlayStation provided by PlayStation. They did give me the Astrobot
Speaker 6: Juel Sense. Oh, it's great.
Speaker 5: I bought one like a scrub that came in yesterday,
Speaker 5: though it still made me happy.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 6: I know, I love it, but it's like I physically
Speaker 6: can't use that controller for extended periods of time, especially
Speaker 6: in like a I don't know, like I'm playing stuff
Speaker 6: on my PC where I've gone back to the Elite
Speaker 6: series too. I feel like I bitch about this control
Speaker 6: all the time. I definitely don't mean too. I'm just
Speaker 6: like really sad that it just is non suited to
Speaker 6: my particular ergonomics.
Speaker 2: I started feeling a little bit pain in my arms
Speaker 2: because of playing Astrobot on the dual sense as well,
Speaker 2: so you're not alone, Lucy.
Speaker 4: Is it Is it the displacement of the sticks and
Speaker 4: things like that, or what do you chalk it up to?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think maybe the placement of the sticks. But also
Speaker 6: the thing is as well, is that the main thing
Speaker 6: I do on the Elite for comfort is I use
Speaker 6: the back pedals for face for the face buttons that
Speaker 6: when you are playing a game way tappen a a lot,
Speaker 6: for example, is great because it's still you can just
Speaker 6: like relax and do it. Actually playing an elden Ring
Speaker 6: that way, it was really fun.
Speaker 4: I put Dodge and Run on a back one.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But the thing is is that I do not want
Speaker 6: to spend two hundred dollars to potentially not have an
Speaker 6: issue with the dual sense edge, you know.
Speaker 4: Sure do you have? Things on the back are really like?
Speaker 4: I like these better than the Elite ones because I
Speaker 4: use the Elite for elden Ring and it's nice, but.
Speaker 6: Like they they feels like it's going to come off. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, these are like in there. I don't even know
Speaker 4: how to stick these out, but yeah, I have actually
Speaker 4: liked these a lot. They're nice. But I played all
Speaker 4: of Astrobod with the non edge one because it looks
Speaker 4: like Astrobod.
Speaker 6: Because yeah, the thing, like it's a cute controller. I
Speaker 6: love the haptics. I think Astrobot obviously is the one
Speaker 6: game that really utilizes those the best. However, Yeah, I
Speaker 6: just I physically, I physically cannot.
Speaker 1: So I beat. I beat the game, got it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, good, we can continue.
Speaker 6: I finished the game. I rolled credits those. Oh my god,
Speaker 6: I almost cried.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of like it's like that Avengers Portal
Speaker 5: moment a little bit there.
Speaker 1: It's very very good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I have the platinum in playroom. Playroom for
Speaker 6: some reason. I guess back then my wrists were stronger.
Speaker 6: Now they feel the withering of age.
Speaker 1: You had those like speed Rim levels, but those weren't
Speaker 1: really like you.
Speaker 6: Didn't have to get those platinum for those. You didn't
Speaker 6: have to do this to the platinum.
Speaker 1: Okay, interesting, Yeah, yeah, it was just finish.
Speaker 6: All of them and collect all the bots or whatever.
Speaker 5: Right, and like like the very last al the game
Speaker 5: is like another one of those shape levels, and it's
Speaker 5: it's not really the hardest love in the game too long.
Speaker 4: It's not quite like It's not a Champions Road Mario
Speaker 4: type thing or anything, but it is one of the
Speaker 4: more difficult levels.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 5: This was I had a double check after I got
Speaker 5: the platinum. This is, in fact the first platinum I
Speaker 5: ever got.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I just I just normally don't really care,
Speaker 5: Like I like finish games and I will like one
Speaker 5: hundred percent them in terms of what the game thinks.
Speaker 1: That means sometimes what it usually is.
Speaker 5: And it was even kind of like this in Astrabat too,
Speaker 5: so always like here's the hooden trophies, to go find
Speaker 5: a guide and find out what those are, and then
Speaker 5: just do what the guide says, like go, you know,
Speaker 5: make a lower cross and theast to drake take a
Speaker 5: picture together so you can get a trophy. And the
Speaker 5: stuff like that does nothing for me, and I usually
Speaker 5: just don't even care. But like I just it was
Speaker 5: like a thing. I just like Astrobot so much. I
Speaker 5: think it deserves it. And plus, like you know, my
Speaker 5: friends are all getting the platinum. I want to be
Speaker 5: some loser who doesn't Wow, and I did.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, Wow, Mike you've never done Mike, you've never
Speaker 4: done speed run stuff on Astrobot. You should try when
Speaker 4: it put out the levels, participate in that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it'd be fun to do that with you.
Speaker 5: It's just funny, like just because I did met me,
Speaker 5: yet I didn't exist.
Speaker 1: He didn't to him.
Speaker 2: No, we were talking about this briefly during while we
Speaker 2: were playing Space Marine two yesterday. But I think Astrobot
Speaker 2: is like, as soon as that speed run stuff comes out,
Speaker 2: I think that is going to be the thing that
Speaker 2: makes it break big, because it's already starting to pop
Speaker 2: up on like my various social media channels, Like I've
Speaker 2: seen more clips since I mentioned it yesterday on TikTok
Speaker 2: where people are approaching some of these challenge levels in
Speaker 2: like the weirdest fucking way possible and like why would
Speaker 2: you do that? Not that they're being more efficient per se,
Speaker 2: but it's like you're making this harder on yourself by
Speaker 2: like not throwing the duck. Throw the duck. Damn it,
Speaker 2: the goddamn duck, and thank you for knowing what I mean. Also,
Speaker 2: it highlights the thing with me where I would love
Speaker 2: to do like a simultaneous stream showing all of our
Speaker 2: p O vs UH attacking a level, because I want
Speaker 2: to see how different our brains are I already know
Speaker 2: that they're radically different. But it's funny because when I
Speaker 2: got to that specific challenge level where we have to
Speaker 2: use the rubber duck to uh, that.
Speaker 1: Was one of the hardest ones. By the way, that one.
Speaker 2: I love that one.
Speaker 1: That's the way you kind of spotty. Yes, Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: like the water sprays out and it's like where the
Speaker 1: water is gonna go on a piece of ship.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that one. It's not like, yeah, go to hell duck.
Speaker 4: I hope that's not one of the speed run ones
Speaker 4: because that.
Speaker 1: Is rough so many times now.
Speaker 3: I kind of hope it is because my memory.
Speaker 5: Yeah, by Donald's ears, while you talk sh about ducks,
Speaker 5: it looks like you're just touching.
Speaker 1: Actually, it looks like I'm playing with my nipple.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Emmy got credits last night.
Speaker 2: Lovely.
Speaker 3: She needs she needs help occasionally whenever she does one
Speaker 3: of those challenge levels, she's like, doesn't want to give up.
Speaker 3: She's like, can you do this, Marty, And then they
Speaker 3: just don't think they can do the bosses. I'm like,
Speaker 3: if you could do the rest of this, you can
Speaker 3: do these.
Speaker 1: Because they're big and scary.
Speaker 6: The one thing I will say and please within context,
Speaker 6: because I can imagine this getting taken out of context
Speaker 6: so easily. Is that, Like, I think, after repeated failures
Speaker 6: at things like bosses, I think there should be some
Speaker 6: kind of like more assistance, especially because this game is
Speaker 6: so targeted towards kids, and like I spoke to Tima
Speaker 6: Sobe on Friends per second, and they were like, we
Speaker 6: we approached this game with the fact that we know
Speaker 6: this is going to be a lot of kids first game,
Speaker 6: and I think maybe for the next Astrobot there should
Speaker 6: be a little bit more handholding or at least an
Speaker 6: option for it for kids. Because yeah, if she's saying that, like, oh,
Speaker 6: I'm afraid I can't do the bosses, even if she's
Speaker 6: been empowered, Like if the bosses is going to put
Speaker 6: her off, just.
Speaker 5: Give her, give her an extra heart, the gold Mario
Speaker 5: thing that thes do her Mario have right where it's
Speaker 5: like you feel ten times here, the pea wing when
Speaker 5: it comes in. Yea, she did, though mostly I helped
Speaker 5: her with one time when you would do the spinning
Speaker 5: wheel on the thing on the on the final boss
Speaker 5: fight and some monsters come out, she gets scared by that,
Speaker 5: So I helped her with that. Other than that.
Speaker 3: She beat the entire final boss by herself though, so
Speaker 3: really really impressed, and then she's like, Okay, well can I.
Speaker 1: Keep playing it? Yeah, dude, yeah, you can be playing.
Speaker 1: There's a lot more to do if you really want
Speaker 1: to get all the bots. Yeah. I mean she's got
Speaker 1: like two hundred and twenty or something like that.
Speaker 5: So I know we I know we can't because spoilers,
Speaker 5: but I wish like we could all say what our
Speaker 5: favorite bot was or something at least.
Speaker 4: Really there's a lot. Mute it if you want, I'll
Speaker 4: say mine right.
Speaker 2: Hold on, all right, all right, spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
Speaker 2: Let me change the thing. Uh, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about this. I'm going to time this out. It is
Speaker 2: nine fifty six for me right now. We're going to
Speaker 2: talk about this for two minutes. Okay, okay, all right,
Speaker 2: we started. I'll tell you when now.
Speaker 4: Incredible, crisis.
Speaker 1: Incredible.
Speaker 4: I saw that fucking dude show up and it said
Speaker 4: like stressed salary man or something. I was like, there's
Speaker 4: no way, there's no way. That's a game only I
Speaker 4: have talked about for like twenty five years. Like mana,
Speaker 4: he hadn't heard of it. I made him play it.
Speaker 4: There's no fucking way and it is. It's before that,
Speaker 4: it was mister Mosquito favorite.
Speaker 1: Okay, is that the one you guys thought I would talk?
Speaker 1: I was like yeah, I was like, okay, did Jen
Speaker 1: get mister Mosquito?
Speaker 5: I texted Dan when I got the incredible crisis, the one.
Speaker 4: I couldnot fucking believe that.
Speaker 1: But and you guys all definitely called it. Level four's
Speaker 1: boss word would be Loco Roco. Right, Oh my.
Speaker 4: Jesu, it's a full on.
Speaker 1: Roco level completely is Loco Roco? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh god, I popped so hard for the persona ones.
Speaker 1: And then the legend of Dragoon Dude. Dragoon Dude.
Speaker 5: There's like a whole Level five trio there. That's but
Speaker 5: uh my, my big one. I was like, there better
Speaker 5: be some Ridge Racer and we straight up got lady
Speaker 5: and I was like, oh they got Ridge Racer Lady.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, So that made me very happy. Why were
Speaker 1: there so many wipeout dudes?
Speaker 4: Wipe out?
Speaker 1: Hey, I've never thought about a human being once we
Speaker 1: think about wipeout.
Speaker 4: Wipe out, But I think wipeout is very important to place.
Speaker 1: No wipeout cars, yess that they're dressing up as I
Speaker 1: don't know matter.
Speaker 5: I think it was just a point of like, well,
Speaker 5: you know how, like there's like six monkeys and like
Speaker 5: sometimes okay, we got thirty.
Speaker 2: Seconds a hundred yeah, I lost my ship ye. Also,
Speaker 2: oh my god, the dark Cloud kids. I started like
Speaker 2: Batista Shi the controller.
Speaker 5: I laughed went up because like before, Jeff was like,
Speaker 5: you know, it's like a shame Tony Hawk's not here,
Speaker 5: and it was like the last bought I got except
Speaker 5: for the s first bought.
Speaker 1: Was he was very late.
Speaker 3: I got Tug basically just Tony Hawks. Although there is
Speaker 3: a chance it could be the style.
Speaker 1: We're done.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't have done it too.
Speaker 2: Okay, spoilers are over. No, you're right, all right, Astro
Speaker 2: bought good game. That's definitely gonna The best bot is
Speaker 2: probably a lock in terms of a category, right, best bought,
Speaker 2: best power up probably right?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes yeah. Spoilers boilers are done.
Speaker 1: Best best speed run time. It will be me. I'll
Speaker 1: win the game.
Speaker 2: We'll see, all right, all right, all right, we're talking about.
Speaker 4: You room first. It's good speed urns alread built in
Speaker 4: if you want to.
Speaker 2: Practice, Mike, were you streaming then, Also, it's like my.
Speaker 1: First streams everything.
Speaker 5: I was still streaming on the PlayStation five even right
Speaker 5: if I didn't have things set up or hooked up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I just picture you in like a Ripley
Speaker 4: cryo chamber until, like you know, late.
Speaker 5: It's time to entertain. Damn I come out. They say
Speaker 5: I'm self centered. I don't think people didn't exist until
Speaker 5: I met them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Sometimes I think Damn Truman shows himself and that
Speaker 2: we all are in like cryostasis until we're needed.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Sure, I appreciate you all doing that.
Speaker 5: By the way, incredible work on the Colonne video chat.
Speaker 1: I was very out.
Speaker 5: Yes, all people are like, wow, MICU, Sir Mike so
Speaker 5: wild and weird in Germany, He's a problem.
Speaker 1: Glad people were finally able to see some of dance
Speaker 1: over there. Look, I watched it.
Speaker 4: No, it wasn't that bad. I was like, I don't
Speaker 4: really hear the mic Beacon. I don't think I'm yelling here.
Speaker 2: Yes he did, because I had to adjust so many
Speaker 2: levels on those I.
Speaker 4: Didn't the moment of realization I watched that whole thing
Speaker 4: with Bonk was that like I'm walking around asking all
Speaker 4: these questions, trying to figure out how this stuff works.
Speaker 4: I didn't even think about the fact that I was
Speaker 4: in a museum, Like that's like the point is like
Speaker 4: that you can just read about it on the walls.
Speaker 4: That's like it's everywhere us.
Speaker 1: Is this a tree? Is this coming from a tree?
Speaker 3: As you're standing underneath the trees and in front of
Speaker 3: the picture of a tree and very much just tree based,
Speaker 3: everything around you was a tree.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was pretty funny.
Speaker 4: I don't be able need to explain stuff to me.
Speaker 1: This is a working right, got me pretty bad, dad,
Speaker 1: But I learned about that on Space.
Speaker 4: Marine last year. It took a while, but we got there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 2: Please check it out. Very fun times. I'm still working
Speaker 2: on the uncut Chocolate Museum cut.
Speaker 5: Like most of the video, it was an eventful trip
Speaker 5: to the chocolate.
Speaker 2: I think we're lucky that the Perfume Museum was closed
Speaker 2: that day because then this this travelogue been like five hours.
Speaker 1: That means we can't scream in the church.
Speaker 2: You couldn't, but we can find Troy Baker in the Troy.
Speaker 4: Baker said, licked my asshole, asshole in a church because
Speaker 4: of us.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I lit a candle. Uh, Okay, is
Speaker 2: this is this bad? We got some like Christian adjacent
Speaker 2: people on this podcast right now or formers.
Speaker 6: I was raised Catholic, same school.
Speaker 2: Okay, we went into I forget the name of the
Speaker 2: church already, something dumb.
Speaker 1: The colon, which apparently is like one of the biggest
Speaker 1: ones in the world, right one.
Speaker 2: Of the found nothing going inside this spiritual place anyway, literally,
Speaker 2: but you know, there's a candle, there's a bunch of candles.
Speaker 2: You're supposed to give a little donation to light the candle.
Speaker 2: I tried to own Apple Pay a candle.
Speaker 4: I don't think they wouldn't read it.
Speaker 6: I don't think the church is up to date on contact.
Speaker 2: They got they got, they got contact.
Speaker 1: They do.
Speaker 2: So then I was like, all right, well my Apple
Speaker 2: pay isn't working. Let me try my car. Still a candle,
Speaker 2: and I tried my card and then I was like,
Speaker 2: I thought like, oh, well maybe I can give cash,
Speaker 2: but all my cash is American, so.
Speaker 1: You don't get a candle. He took a candle.
Speaker 7: Anyway, from so excited about how you're gonna be a
Speaker 7: hell with him, I will say a pre oh my god,
Speaker 7: I'm tweating.
Speaker 1: I'm like messaging the hope.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, yeah, I used Apple Pay to get a chocolate,
Speaker 4: but I started the disco instead.
Speaker 2: And you didn't get a chocolate.
Speaker 4: No, I got no chocolate.
Speaker 5: And I tried doing it, wouldn't take my car or whatever.
Speaker 5: I wanted a second disco.
Speaker 3: The lady that came up explained like she was like
Speaker 3: did she not see the music was playing that? You
Speaker 3: got the music plan, right, I.
Speaker 4: Want to get chocolate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, right, you wanted a chocolate, you got
Speaker 1: music instead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got music instead. Chocolate is a feeling. But yeah,
Speaker 2: go check that Travelog video out. I'm gonna keep plugging it.
Speaker 4: Until around till the end.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, to the end, lovely, lovely time. I was
Speaker 2: sad that I missed the puppet bar, but then I
Speaker 2: saw the footage of the puppet bar.
Speaker 6: He didn't smell the puppet boss, so you're fine.
Speaker 4: Can you smell that smell bad?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: It was like musty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like it was summer European musk, Like there's.
Speaker 3: Like an unsavory mold growing somewhere you can't see, but
Speaker 3: you could smell it because it's hot enough.
Speaker 4: But also like very beer mixed in with it. You
Speaker 4: know that kind of good.
Speaker 6: I think that usually that bar is so busy, it's
Speaker 6: like so sweaty that the wools are wet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's so humid a table outside. Yes, that
Speaker 1: was nice.
Speaker 3: It was important that we saw that puppet though. It
Speaker 3: was Yeah, Tronics autotics.
Speaker 5: I was very excited about the tube intron. I was like,
Speaker 5: that could be me if I wasn't a real person.
Speaker 5: Well that's what you were until you were you start
Speaker 5: being frozen. Yeah, yeah, Dan is our Geppetto. It turns out, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he kind.
Speaker 1: Of looks like Geppetto.
Speaker 5: Once you get older, you'll be a very good geppettoizing puppets.
Speaker 4: He's a puppet dad. Yeah, it makes Pinocchio, but Pinocchio
Speaker 4: is a puppet.
Speaker 2: Well, but that was a real buppet.
Speaker 1: His creator Geppetto Drew Care a real boy. So we
Speaker 1: would just say it's dad, God, why do you hate
Speaker 1: traditional families like.
Speaker 6: You hate you hate your care?
Speaker 4: What do Drew Cary have to do.
Speaker 1: With any of this?
Speaker 4: He's rumble, He's a hall f Geppetto.
Speaker 1: He was jeepetto what he's in.
Speaker 6: The Sims house party. He hears that it's rocking and
Speaker 6: he just has to turn up.
Speaker 4: He was eliminated from the two thousand of a Rumble
Speaker 4: by Cane.
Speaker 1: But I was getting sky racy last time. I was
Speaker 1: watchings so many random things in thirty seconds. He kills
Speaker 1: it on that he's a great host.
Speaker 4: On correction, Cane didn't eliminated him. Cane goozled him, and
Speaker 4: he got scared and said, Drew carry got eliminated himself
Speaker 4: from the rumble.
Speaker 1: I'd be scared too, Okay, yeah, I'm gonna get your goosel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd be scared goose? What that?
Speaker 6: What is that?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 4: You're setting up for jokes on this goose? There's a
Speaker 4: goozle button in space marine if if a xenomore jumping?
Speaker 6: Yeah, goozl sounds like what's what's like another word for
Speaker 6: a taint?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, I think there is another word. That's what's
Speaker 5: incredible about that word?
Speaker 1: I think that's the only the meaty bridge or something
Speaker 1: like that. You made that up. Never heard that before.
Speaker 1: I've heard that. That's when I was chat thank you
Speaker 1: for saying so many times stole Christmas.
Speaker 2: Oh that's good, that's good anyway.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Drew Carrey was in a four TV movie of Geppetto,
Speaker 2: where Julia Luis Dreyfus is one of the fairies and
Speaker 2: Usher is in the.
Speaker 6: Movie Merry Christmas xbox Huh A.
Speaker 2: Good, Drew Carrey does not look good in this wig.
Speaker 6: Can you put it in Chat please?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Way?
Speaker 1: Uh? Here where is chat geetos by the way?
Speaker 4: Oh no, wow, that's stupid looking. Yeah, but Julia Louis Dreyfus.
Speaker 1: Looks great, always looks great, beautiful woman.
Speaker 2: No, that's an inappropriate segue, Jeff Grub Yards Rising, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: It's a metroid vana based on Yars Revenge, the Atari
Speaker 3: game from Howard Scott Warshaw who also made ET. And
Speaker 3: I always think about that because in the early days
Speaker 3: of G four they didn't have a lot of bumpers
Speaker 3: between shows. So a thousand times I saw Howard Scott
Speaker 3: Warshaw come on in the TV and be like, well.
Speaker 1: Thanks for watching G four.
Speaker 3: I made the worst game of all time ET and
Speaker 3: with some consider to be the best game of all
Speaker 3: time Yards Rising. I'm like, well, or Yurs Revenge. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I've never heard of that game, what are you talking about.
Speaker 3: I've seen it since it's you know, a really cool,
Speaker 3: interesting shooter for the Atari. This is way forward kind
Speaker 3: of taking that foundation and saying let's make a different
Speaker 3: kind of game and that being a Metroid Vana, and
Speaker 3: then sprinkle in some references to yours and it has
Speaker 3: like kind of the same structure in terms of the story,
Speaker 3: and then it has references to a lot of other
Speaker 3: Atari stuff where you fight a boss called like the
Speaker 3: Missile Commander, which I like, and the Metroid style save
Speaker 3: spots are the space war machines. Those are the first
Speaker 3: arcade machine, those big yellow monolists with that kind of
Speaker 3: like stand out towards you or whatever.
Speaker 1: That's cool. I like that stuff.
Speaker 3: It is a very solid Metroidvenya in terms of you
Speaker 3: feel good progressing and getting new abilities and finding new
Speaker 3: stuff on the map, and they just give you the
Speaker 3: waypoint of where you're supposed to get to next. You
Speaker 3: gotta find your own way. There's it's just like hitting
Speaker 3: all of the it's painting by numbers a little bit
Speaker 3: in the genre, but I found that that.
Speaker 1: Still works for me. Mostly. The issues are there are
Speaker 1: like loading screens between like just from walking from one
Speaker 1: like cell of the map to another sometimes and that's
Speaker 1: like why does this game need loading screens. It should
Speaker 1: be much faster than that.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if it does that on every platform,
Speaker 3: but it was doing for me on both the Steam
Speaker 3: Deck and on PC. And then the movement's it's kind
Speaker 3: of stiff, like it's not like you're not gonna feel
Speaker 3: as cool as you do in METROI Dread or definitely
Speaker 3: like Prince of Persia The Lost Ground. Those games are
Speaker 3: s tier Metroid venyas this is just like a solid
Speaker 3: entry in the genre, and yet I think it's it's
Speaker 3: still kind of cute and mostly delivers. I did get
Speaker 3: past like the first map, and then you unlock a
Speaker 3: second map to explore, and I've definitely lost my momentum
Speaker 3: with the game in the second map, and now I'm
Speaker 3: not sure if I'm going to finish it. Almost to
Speaker 3: beat it, I'm not sure if I'm going to finish
Speaker 3: it now because of that. But this is another game
Speaker 3: where like you're playing as kind of a hip young
Speaker 3: hacker girl and they talk too much. All that stuff
Speaker 3: is pretty bad. I don't like that stuff. But my kids,
Speaker 3: especially Emmy's been really into it, so like they sent
Speaker 3: me like a little yards rising a care package and
Speaker 3: she just took all that stuff like, this is mine now.
Speaker 3: She really cares about it, so maybe because of her
Speaker 3: we'll see through to the end. But yeah, it's kind
Speaker 3: of hard to recommend because there's so many good metrode
Speaker 3: venyas sure, and yet if you were like a true
Speaker 3: Metroid Venue Sico and then I guess if you have
Speaker 3: any sort of nostalgia for Atari games, which I gotta
Speaker 3: imagine is a very small portion of the audience at
Speaker 3: this point. But it worked on me to a certain degree,
Speaker 3: So yeah, a pretty good way forward. Metroid Venue a big.
Speaker 5: Problem for me just looking at it when they revealed it.
Speaker 5: I just thought it was kind of an ugly game.
Speaker 5: I don't know what you will playing it if that
Speaker 5: bothered you.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: It's like bland and colorful at the same time. I
Speaker 3: don't guess, I don't know how to describe it too well,
Speaker 3: but you're like, I don't think it looks great. But
Speaker 3: it didn't bother me too much.
Speaker 1: When I was playing.
Speaker 2: Uhh, when the gimmick took the yard stuff away, did
Speaker 2: you say it's not mine, it's yars now?
Speaker 4: Of course?
Speaker 1: Yes, of course, yeah, she got she got a mug.
Speaker 1: This says yards rising. Now she's like, this is my mug.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you need a mug for special
Speaker 1: yards Cereal? Yeah? Uh huh. I'm enjoying my stulf in
Speaker 1: that game, even if it's like I probably won't finish it.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay. It was crucial that I delivered that joke
Speaker 2: because I would play into the next Seguae Dan just
Speaker 2: like I needed to deliver that joke. You've delivered, you
Speaker 2: deliver at all costs in this new game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was when I went to the Economi event
Speaker 4: in London. They had Metal Gear Solid Delta, they had
Speaker 4: Silent Hill two and also they had this Delivered All Costs,
Speaker 4: which the embargo was a little later for that one.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I spend some time with it. It's uh,
Speaker 4: it's isometric and it really reminded me of like the
Speaker 4: first two GTAs in terms of you're driving around, but
Speaker 4: it's not like a super violent game. It's not a
Speaker 4: crime game necessarily. It's you are delivering stuff and it's
Speaker 4: got a really really weird sense of humor. It's very
Speaker 4: kind of setting that like almost like Fallout, like fifties
Speaker 4: idyllic type thing. But yeah, dialogue was like making me
Speaker 4: laugh a lot. It's genuinely funny. And then the missions
Speaker 4: are really weird where it's like, Okay, I got eighty
Speaker 4: of these stinky melons that I'm trying to sell, but
Speaker 4: nobody wants to buy them, so I need to drive
Speaker 4: it around the map to like I'm going to spray
Speaker 4: pesticide on these melons to get the bugs off them,
Speaker 4: and then I'm going to take it to like a
Speaker 4: paint place and paint them to look like new watermelons,
Speaker 4: and then I'm going to try to sell them back
Speaker 4: to the guy who didn't want to buy them. And
Speaker 4: as you're driving around, there's just so many physics and
Speaker 4: like the watermelons are falling out and you need to
Speaker 4: have like a minimum of you know, twenty thirty whatever
Speaker 4: melons before you get there. But it's all that physics
Speaker 4: based stuff. You got this floppy live swordfish like strapped
Speaker 4: to the top of your corn.
Speaker 1: Incredible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And here's the thing. Everything is destructful. So you're
Speaker 4: just driving through houses, You're just destroying all these fences.
Speaker 4: Like I'm a big for anything where it's like you
Speaker 4: can just destroy anything. Yes, And this is a lot
Speaker 4: of just like heavy cool physics on these trucks and stuff.
Speaker 3: Right, that's what that's gonna be my question, because that's
Speaker 3: what that's why I think it sounds awesome and I
Speaker 3: have a sucker for that stuff. Like when the truck
Speaker 3: is like turning in corners, like you feel like it's
Speaker 3: almost gonna flip over and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Is it that sort of.
Speaker 4: Thing absolutely around and destroying all this stuff and they
Speaker 4: know it. I think they know the physics is the
Speaker 4: star of this game because like one of the missions is, oh,
Speaker 4: we got to deliver these balloons as this marketing stunt
Speaker 4: for this company, and so they're going to trap fifty
Speaker 4: balloons to your truck, which means like you go over
Speaker 4: a ramp and it's your truck is like flying through
Speaker 4: the air because all these balloons, and it's it's funny,
Speaker 4: it's fun it's it's very just kind of snappy. You
Speaker 4: can get out of your truck and there's like little
Speaker 4: you know, platforming sections and stuff like that. But yeah,
Speaker 4: was making me laugh a lot, and just driving through
Speaker 4: the map and destroying shit was super satisfying.
Speaker 3: You know what reminds me of in terms of the
Speaker 3: look and the feel is that Downhill Mountain game. The
Speaker 3: biking game you take downhill. This looks like the that
Speaker 3: where you're taking trucks uphill, but it has the same
Speaker 3: like isometric view and things. It kind of like looks
Speaker 3: pretty similar to Yeah, god, this looks very interesting.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 1: What did they say when this is out? Because on
Speaker 1: Steam it says to be announced.
Speaker 4: That I don't know if they announced. I want to
Speaker 4: say they definitely announced the release date for like Silent Hill,
Speaker 4: right that's out there. Metal He did not have a
Speaker 4: release date, and I think this did not have a
Speaker 4: release date. Okay, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: We need more sword fishing games.
Speaker 4: Mount Rushmore Swordfish. It's just the Donkey Kong Country Dredge.
Speaker 4: I think, Oh yeah, look.
Speaker 5: Like we already did Mount Rushmore a fish subsections of fish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we wants a lot of fish, y'all. I don't
Speaker 2: know if y' all know this. Yeah, someone didn't like
Speaker 2: that idea, folks. We got a couple more games we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about right after this preaky break and
Speaker 2: Jeff Grove will hit you with the news right after
Speaker 2: we take a quick nap starting now.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it's the podcast. We're back.
Speaker 2: We still have video games to talk about. I was
Speaker 2: dreaming of uh uh the three headed dog Cerberus. It
Speaker 2: is a beast? Uh? A demonic beast? Isn't a demonic beast?
Speaker 4: It's always bad in video games like Devil May Cry,
Speaker 4: it's a bad dog.
Speaker 1: But no, it's not bad in hades.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's demonic. Sometimes it's altered your beasts, and sometimes
Speaker 3: I am your beast.
Speaker 1: Really feel Mike, other people automate? Am I that expressive? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can read you. It's fine, Listen, this is problem.
Speaker 2: When I was hanging out at Disneyland, I was told
Speaker 2: by Bailey that, like, hey, it is very apparent that
Speaker 2: you like none of these alcoholic beverages that I'm making
Speaker 2: you try. I'm like, you're right, I don't like pickle
Speaker 2: juice anyway. Damn. I also do like pickles. That's why
Speaker 2: I didn't try it. I am your Beast, I've heard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it is cool. It is one of those
Speaker 4: like extremely fast paced, like kind of bite size like
Speaker 4: missions where it's okay, you're gonna go in here, there's
Speaker 4: nine guards you need to kill, and you are sprinting
Speaker 4: super fast. It's doing like first person Park Corp stuff.
Speaker 4: It's kind of how I wanted Mirror's Edge to feel,
Speaker 4: but it didn't because Mirror's Edge is muddy and boring.
Speaker 5: UH is doing a whole series about how great Mirrors
Speaker 5: Edge is and has a lot of bad opinions. So no,
Speaker 5: Mirror's Edge maybe best game in the three sixty era.
Speaker 5: Continue that's insane.
Speaker 4: Okay, So it's very easy to like you run along wires,
Speaker 4: enough trees and stuff like that. It's just very very snappy,
Speaker 4: good FPS mobility stuff. But then also you know you're
Speaker 4: jumping on a dude's head to kill him, and then
Speaker 4: like grabbing a knife off the ground, throwing the knife
Speaker 4: into a dude's head, and then that dude's gun flies
Speaker 4: up in there and you grab the gun, you shoot another
Speaker 4: dude to throw the empty gun at a guy, all
Speaker 4: while you're sprinting, and it all works really like I
Speaker 4: don't know if it's just like doing a lot of
Speaker 4: like kind of am assys stuff to make it all work.
Speaker 4: But I never felt like I had to like super
Speaker 4: dial in everything. I could just kind of bam bam bam,
Speaker 4: bam bam bam bam, almost in like that Neon White
Speaker 4: type of way, you know, whereas you know about that
Speaker 4: length of levels. I would say roughly, you know, short levels.
Speaker 4: But it also does the Neon White thing I did
Speaker 4: not like, where it's like this super fast paced game
Speaker 4: with all these missions and then between them there's just
Speaker 4: a bunch of story stuff I don't really care about,
Speaker 4: and it's it's very like it made more sense in
Speaker 4: El Paso Elsewhere, which you know, another strange scaffold game,
Speaker 4: because that was a max pain story type thing. Sure
Speaker 4: this is very like, oh, you're like this X like
Speaker 4: CIA type guy or whatever, and there's just like it's
Speaker 4: just text on a screen with voiceover, and it's like,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm playing pac Man. Between levels,
Speaker 4: I don't want to be like, yeah, then I saw
Speaker 4: the pretzel and then I ate the predzeelon Man, It's like, no,
Speaker 4: I just want to go to the next level. This
Speaker 4: is that type of game where I just want to
Speaker 4: play the next thing, and I feel like I have
Speaker 4: to sit through this thing. Between almost every level, there's
Speaker 4: these cut scenes.
Speaker 2: Can you skip them at all?
Speaker 4: Or I didn't. I wanted to give it a shot.
Speaker 4: Uh okay, but I do want to keep playing the game.
Speaker 2: I heard.
Speaker 4: I heard it's pretty short, Like I think you can
Speaker 4: beat it in like an hour or so, which reminds
Speaker 4: you of like Children of the Sun kind of the
Speaker 4: same thing where it's like, I love remember that like
Speaker 4: Sniper game with the cult and all that, yeah, shortish levels,
Speaker 4: a certain finite amount of enemies you got to kill
Speaker 4: and strategize with, and then there was story stuff and
Speaker 4: Children of the Sun and I was like, all right,
Speaker 4: let's get to the thing again. But I mean, look,
Speaker 4: that's my biggest complaint. That's not that bad because the
Speaker 4: actual like moment. Oh no, maybe my biggest complaint is
Speaker 4: I did not see leaderboard stuff, which for this feeling,
Speaker 4: like you know, Children of the Sun did. Neon White
Speaker 4: did like these you know, short like really kind of
Speaker 4: almost like stunty type levels of like look how fast
Speaker 4: I can do all this stuff and the you know.
Speaker 5: Because that was like the best part about Neon White,
Speaker 5: and I was so good at them that you two
Speaker 5: quit playing the game.
Speaker 4: I didn't know you played that.
Speaker 5: Top On in the World, top On jur in the World. Actually, okay, yes,
Speaker 5: why I stopped playing?
Speaker 1: Mike.
Speaker 6: You're right, so, like, are you better or worse than
Speaker 6: Alex Bonelo?
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have to be better, No, there's wait, well
Speaker 1: he didn't compete open.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's probably got to invite on slack, but you
Speaker 6: didn't get the invitation.
Speaker 4: I think he was still in cryo sleep at that point.
Speaker 2: That's right, right until we like spring up, until we
Speaker 2: Chris Pratt Passenger style woke you up from your sleep
Speaker 2: like that movie.
Speaker 1: O God, because Amazon like time travel movie.
Speaker 6: No Passengers was a full cinematic release with Jennifer Lawrence
Speaker 6: the mad prop isn't it my problemaic? Like it could be.
Speaker 5: Fixed as Trevor Lawrence because she's hot, because he's lonely,
Speaker 5: they just wakes her up to be alone with him forever.
Speaker 5: But like at the end of the movie, she's fine
Speaker 5: with it and they're happy, and it's the total bullshit apparently, yeah.
Speaker 6: Huh yeah, oh yeah, the whole that whole movie could
Speaker 6: have been fixed with her waking up first. That was it.
Speaker 6: There's like a YouTube video where someone was just like,
Speaker 6: if she woke up first, it would be fine, But
Speaker 6: then the rest of it is like, oh, that's.
Speaker 2: Uh. I want to really liking a lot most of
Speaker 2: the story stuff in El Paso elsewhere, so I'm curious
Speaker 2: if I will resonate at all.
Speaker 4: With I'm Your Beast, I just feel like nel Passo,
Speaker 4: it was more of an actual like you know, there
Speaker 4: were cut scenes and stuff and and and a story.
Speaker 4: This is like everything I've seen has been text on
Speaker 4: a screen, you know, very kind of stylized, just voiceover stuff.
Speaker 4: And I didn't really need it in this game. So
Speaker 4: but but but the moment to moment like mission stuff
Speaker 4: is very very well done.
Speaker 2: Speaking about moment to moment stuff getting nailed. Really No, no, no,
Speaker 2: see sick jan Brain not good now exactly. Field's a
Speaker 2: mystery of Lucy James.
Speaker 6: What about it? So no, it's uh no, I know, No,
Speaker 6: I'm about what I was in. I haven't played in
Speaker 6: a few days. But it's if you're into stadd Us,
Speaker 6: your Harvest Moons, your Animal Crossings, a hot new bombshell
Speaker 6: has entered the villa and its fields of mystery, and
Speaker 6: it's and it's better than the other ones because yeah,
Speaker 6: there are hot characters.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 6: No, I never really got into Stardu. I think Starred
Speaker 6: You is isn't like I got into it. What was
Speaker 6: the friction with Starred You? I think there's just like characters,
Speaker 6: characters went hard enough. But with fields of mystery. I
Speaker 6: think they just did a lot of quality of life stuff,
Speaker 6: a lot of really good onboarding stuff. I like the
Speaker 6: nineties anime way like character design, and also the fact
Speaker 6: is magic and so it feels way more manageable, and
Speaker 6: the town actually feels way more lived in, Like there's
Speaker 6: a weekly D and D session that you can go
Speaker 6: and check in on because everyone goes to the pub
Speaker 6: on a Friday night, so it's like being back at
Speaker 6: home and it's great. No, it's really cute. I it's
Speaker 6: in I've said this multiple times, but I think it
Speaker 6: is the best early access game I've ever played in
Speaker 6: terms of Polish, in terms of content, and they have
Speaker 6: a roadmap and they're introducing a bunch of stuff and
Speaker 6: it's realio. So I just want to mention because I
Speaker 6: don't think I've talke about it on the BombCast, but
Speaker 6: it's it's like twenty bucks two, it's fourteen.
Speaker 5: I think it's like the least early accessy early access
Speaker 5: game I played.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 5: The only thing that would even make me know it
Speaker 5: was early access was in the beginning when it's like
Speaker 5: pets aren't in here, yeah yeah otherwise.
Speaker 6: Or the thing yeah hot limited in past four.
Speaker 4: H space is for like ten or something. Yeah. I
Speaker 4: normally never play early access games. I like to wait,
Speaker 4: but this one, Yeah, Lucy, you're right. It feels like
Speaker 4: I probably played fifteen to twenty hours of it, and yeah,
Speaker 4: you wouldn't even know it's early access.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: I've heard some people saying it's like a decent point, like, hey,
Speaker 5: why not just play Stardoo Valley. You know it's it
Speaker 5: is this game anyways, it's so feature rich that but
Speaker 5: also Starduo Valley, at least to me, almost kind of
Speaker 5: got a little bit of feat your creep like that
Speaker 5: just won't stop adding things in that game, even though
Speaker 5: like everyone kind of wants them.
Speaker 1: To go and make Honta chocolate. Deary. He's like, nah,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep adding stuff to start.
Speaker 2: It's the Noman's Sky problem where I want to go
Speaker 2: back to No Man's Sky and I want to really
Speaker 2: try out stard You for the first time properly, but
Speaker 2: there's so much in it that I don't know what
Speaker 2: guide to follow at this point.
Speaker 4: I always thought that was Destiny, because I like Destiny,
Speaker 4: but it's like I haven't played any the expansions to too,
Speaker 4: and it's like I would be so confused. I'm sure.
Speaker 5: So there's something about fields and mystery and it kind
Speaker 5: of just has the essentials right now.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's all I need.
Speaker 5: Actually, this loop is very good kind of as is,
Speaker 5: and you know it's early access. They're going to add
Speaker 5: things and that's all fine and danny, but just yea,
Speaker 5: as it is now, I find it very satisfying.
Speaker 3: Chatter saying you're in this is an insane complaint, Mike.
Speaker 3: I think I know what you're saying, and I think
Speaker 3: I tend to agree with it.
Speaker 1: I kind of want the.
Speaker 3: Game to just be the game and not give me
Speaker 3: so much stuff that I feel over not overwhelmed, but
Speaker 3: just like if it feels bogged down, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I really do think so.
Speaker 6: Like Concerned Ape is working on Haunted Chocolate Tear as
Speaker 6: well as like updating Stardu, but then Chucklefish, who are
Speaker 6: the publishers of Stardu but not the developers, they're working
Speaker 6: on Witchbrook, which is the other one that I'm really
Speaker 6: excited for, which is basically like, uh, stard you but
Speaker 6: you're in a magic school. Okay, it looks pretty cute,
Speaker 6: but it's like there's just never any updates about it,
Speaker 6: or like they update about it really really rarely. And
Speaker 6: it looks so cute.
Speaker 2: I speaking about looking cute and hot characters. Mike Manati,
Speaker 2: tell me all about you talked about this a bit
Speaker 2: last week Marvel Versus Capcom two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know that Marvel Versus Capcom Fighting Collection came out,
Speaker 5: and there's so many games in there, and I want
Speaker 5: to play them all, but I can't stop playing marvelsus
Speaker 5: Capcom two still. It really is just one of the
Speaker 5: most fun fighting games ever, and like having it now
Speaker 5: with good net code is incredible. The fact that I
Speaker 5: can't just play people online and it can be intimidating
Speaker 5: to do that. There are a lot of people out
Speaker 5: there who've been playing this game for twenty five years,
Speaker 5: and it's a game of a very high skill ceiling.
Speaker 5: But even then, I'm having more than a lot of
Speaker 5: fair matches. There's almost something kind of it's kind of
Speaker 5: like an unspoken rule with Marves's cap On two Character Fighters,
Speaker 5: where there's a top tier of like very good characters,
Speaker 5: your your magnetos and storms, sielocked teams, things like that.
Speaker 5: But a lot of people will kind of wait to
Speaker 5: see what you're picking. And if you're not picking those characters,
Speaker 5: if you're picking more mid tier low tier, they will
Speaker 5: kind of match your freak a bit.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now I'm not promising that, right, You're still probably gonna,
Speaker 5: you know, play some obnoxious top tier teams and you know,
Speaker 5: if you're gonna play Ross cock on too, you got
Speaker 5: to get ready to get floored every once in a while.
Speaker 5: And it's kind of part of the charming, part of
Speaker 5: the fun. Go ahead, Jeff, question, did.
Speaker 1: You get wasler?
Speaker 6: Oh shit, I was just to ask that I was
Speaker 6: waiting for an opening?
Speaker 4: Yeah, is that like a goosel?
Speaker 6: Have you been been hit by the wazslow?
Speaker 5: I have not been hit by the wozzler. Justin Wong
Speaker 5: is making people refund the game. He just choice them
Speaker 5: so badly.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 1: He's top on the leaderboard apparently, as there's like a
Speaker 1: leaderboard like overall leader board on all platforms. I guess now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: have you seen the Steam reviews?
Speaker 7: The Steam reviews are so good to explain, Like Dan,
Speaker 7: you'll still seem confused by this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Justin Wong, famous fighting game pro like from
Speaker 3: moment thirty seven.
Speaker 1: Just yes, He's been a top tier performer in just
Speaker 1: about every fighting game for decades now. He was huge
Speaker 1: in Marvel Versus Capcom two when it was it's prime.
Speaker 1: Now it's back. He has gone online on Steam, on
Speaker 1: PlayStation and on Switch and it's under the name Wasler,
Speaker 1: and it's just killing everybody that he plays, just destroying
Speaker 1: him so bad that people are like that my first
Speaker 1: mattress against this guy called the Wozzler, I got hurt
Speaker 1: so bad.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to refund the game. And there's like
Speaker 3: twenty or twenty five reviews like that on Steam or
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 4: I respect that's experience. How was that good of the game.
Speaker 4: That's all I would do.
Speaker 5: Yes, it is a credit, like go watch his videos
Speaker 5: on you because it is incredible seeing like high tier
Speaker 5: Marvel versus Capcom two play. It is just wild the
Speaker 5: things that you can't do with this game, where again,
Speaker 5: you have like three characters, you can call them for assists,
Speaker 5: you can combo supers into supers. It is just wild
Speaker 5: what you can do when you're really get this game.
Speaker 5: But you know, it is fun for me to do
Speaker 5: something stupid like I'm gonna just play a team with nothing,
Speaker 5: but girls who wear hats and like find ways to
Speaker 5: kind of make that.
Speaker 1: Work like type we get it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have the fam hataals and I can go
Speaker 5: in there and I can like figure out my own combos,
Speaker 5: and I can go online and I can win some
Speaker 5: matches and still have fun doing that stupid thing too.
Speaker 5: It's just, it's just it's a fighting game that I
Speaker 5: absolutely fell in love with back when it came out
Speaker 5: around two thousand and it is still magical to me,
Speaker 5: and I'm so happy to have this modern release of
Speaker 5: it that I can easily play now.
Speaker 2: Fantastic. Thank you, like Minadi, Lucy James, you put up
Speaker 2: here Farewell North. I have no idea what this is.
Speaker 6: It is a little in the game about grief where
Speaker 6: you play as a dog and you are you go
Speaker 6: up to some Scottish islands with your owner who has
Speaker 6: recently lost their mum and everything in the color palette
Speaker 6: is blue and gray, and sometimes she gets really stricken
Speaker 6: by her own grief and can't continue, so you have to,
Speaker 6: as a dog like help her out and solve little
Speaker 6: environmental puzzles and basically bring joy and color back. And
Speaker 6: as she's on this mission to kind of release her
Speaker 6: mum's ashes. Very like it's very I don't know, just
Speaker 6: like a very soothing but also very Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 6: a big game by grief, and so it's like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I don't know, be in the right head space for it,
Speaker 6: I would say, but it's very nice and he plays
Speaker 6: a dog and it's.
Speaker 5: I don't immediately I don't mean to immediately go into
Speaker 5: a silly place with this, but I like, I'm thinking
Speaker 5: about a thing about Code Grandma, where Dan Reiker it
Speaker 5: has to spread my ashes in Disneyland at like specific places,
Speaker 5: and like it's also a stealth game because you had
Speaker 5: to get past secure it's on the snook Cay. Like
Speaker 5: we all have stupid ideas for video games, right, like
Speaker 5: usually like that doesn't actually make sense.
Speaker 1: I think this is the best I've ever had.
Speaker 2: Someone cut this out of the podcast and send it
Speaker 2: to John Drake right now, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Grandma, when someone is trying to secretly spread ashes at
Speaker 3: Disney World, in case you're wondering.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, isn't that funny? Very thing they have to
Speaker 1: shut down.
Speaker 5: Rise because they have to clean the ashes because it's
Speaker 5: not sanitary.
Speaker 1: It's like, Grandma, in.
Speaker 2: That instance, do you like empty the vacuum first and
Speaker 2: then suck up the ashes. And then do you give
Speaker 2: the ashes back to the person?
Speaker 1: I think, I think you may waiver. You're right, you
Speaker 1: lost and see, yeah, you lost your rights to your
Speaker 1: grandma's ashes once you jump it on the tea kettle
Speaker 1: teapot ride or I wouldn't do it anyone to do
Speaker 1: it all because it's spins.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, what does.
Speaker 1: He spread ashes? That's what you're going for.
Speaker 6: If you really hate someone, you can put them in
Speaker 6: It's a small world.
Speaker 1: Yes, I like that song. It's a world of laughter,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: You've been playing Planet Coaster to planet can talk about
Speaker 2: the video game.
Speaker 5: I got to do a preview event for this where
Speaker 5: I played this on parsek, which isn't a super ideal
Speaker 5: way to play a menu game, right, but still I
Speaker 5: was having fun though. The whole thing with Planet Coaster too,
Speaker 5: at least the big thing is water parks. You can
Speaker 5: build water parks, so you can build kind of hybrid
Speaker 5: coaster and water parks. You can do fun things like
Speaker 5: have a roller coaster loop, go through part of your
Speaker 5: water parks, slide and things like that. Any I think
Speaker 5: that's just tickling me, especially since water parks kind of
Speaker 5: inherently have that like fun you know, tiki summer vibe
Speaker 5: a lot of the time. So just designing that stuff
Speaker 5: feels relaxing and like I'm on vacation.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: It's like you can even like make the outline of
Speaker 5: your pool that you can maybe set up like one
Speaker 5: big upper platform that has four different slides coming down
Speaker 5: it and they're all kind of interweaving, you know. Played
Speaker 5: a couple hours and then gets super deep into it.
Speaker 5: But just that basic idea planet coaster, which was probably
Speaker 5: the best thing park simulator ever in terms of like
Speaker 5: making rides and all that other sim stuff, you know,
Speaker 5: managing the economics and your staff and all that other stuff,
Speaker 5: and just adding this water park business to it seems great.
Speaker 2: Very excited, lovely lovely. I appreciate the restraint mic and
Speaker 2: switching over to the topic at hand. It really felt
Speaker 2: like you were fighting a war within yourself, just like
Speaker 2: you've been doing in World of Warcraft, the war within.
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring this up.
Speaker 5: Because I'm just leveling through it and it's one of
Speaker 5: the most enjoyable leveling experiences I've had in a world
Speaker 5: of what makes it's.
Speaker 3: Just leveling in World Warcraft enjoyable as opposed to not enjoyable.
Speaker 1: So World warcut.
Speaker 5: Usually struggles with story, right, that is usually its problem.
Speaker 5: That's where it could kind of be a mess. A
Speaker 5: lot of the times that culminated and the bad expansion
Speaker 5: shadow Lands, where we went to the Afterlife and it
Speaker 5: turns out the Afterlife is still a place where you
Speaker 5: fight level fifty five bears and things like that. It's
Speaker 5: kind of just stupid and depressing. And this was doing
Speaker 5: a good job of folding in recognizable characters and actually
Speaker 5: giving them meaningful story arcs. That is progressing things forward.
Speaker 5: Part of it is just what zones are you in?
Speaker 5: Are these places interesting? Kind of the big one I
Speaker 5: was in is this big underground cave place where all
Speaker 5: these kind of dwarf robot people live and also coballs
Speaker 5: and they're like they love candles and there's like a
Speaker 5: problem with the cobals. So everything was just very interesting.
Speaker 5: You know, the combat is very snappy and fast paced
Speaker 5: World Warcrafts, so going around fighting things was good. It's
Speaker 5: just paced very well and honestly, like you know, a
Speaker 5: couple months ago found Fancy fourteen's expansion came out, and
Speaker 5: I generally like found fanacy fourteen more than World Warcraft.
Speaker 5: I do think fourteen released kind of a week expansion.
Speaker 5: I think World of Warcraft has released a very good one.
Speaker 5: Now there's been some complaints of people who are further
Speaker 5: along with me about this new feature Delves, which is
Speaker 5: kind of this hard solo content. They've been tuning that
Speaker 5: and adjusting it, having really followed up on it, but
Speaker 5: there's been some complints online about that. I think kind
Speaker 5: of with just like the vibe of the expansion, everybody
Speaker 5: seems to be enjoying, and I'm enjoying it a lot.
Speaker 5: So I'm pretty happy with the war within so far,
Speaker 5: and I'm excited to continue progressing through it.
Speaker 2: Last game we have to talk about here is very important,
Speaker 2: and I don't mean to alarm anyone. I know that
Speaker 2: I speak about a lot of alarming behavior all the time, folks.
Speaker 2: I don't actually have a gambling problem. I don't have
Speaker 2: a wead problem or substance abuse problem, but I do
Speaker 2: have a problem with Pokemon God damn it both. Some
Speaker 2: more regionals with this past weekend, and holy smokes, folks,
Speaker 2: I dig the format. The VGC formats where we kicked
Speaker 2: the legend that we defenestrate the legendaries out the goddamn window.
Speaker 2: Who the fuck needs them? Because ladies and gentlemen, I
Speaker 2: don't mean to alarm anyone, but people have found the
Speaker 2: little Freak strategy something that I broke the case wide
Speaker 2: open and last gen sword and shield. No, was that
Speaker 2: the last one's sword and shield. The Sinino Minchino strategy
Speaker 2: where you can take down any and everything has applied
Speaker 2: in folks, what has what have we found out about
Speaker 2: Pokemon family is most important? The thing that will take
Speaker 2: down a pseudo legendary from Gen one, will take down
Speaker 2: Dragon Knight is mousehold, a group of four mice sticking together.
Speaker 2: That's right, folks. Congrats on winning your first regionals. Buddy.
Speaker 2: This is all to say, who the fuck is this? No?
Speaker 4: Sorry, it was a phone.
Speaker 1: I thought I was.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 2: I said something super bad that I needed. Company's calling
Speaker 2: the Pokemon they should call me. God damn it. You
Speaker 2: want a commentator, you want a color commentator for one
Speaker 2: of these regionals. Hit up your boy. I will freak
Speaker 2: the funk out. I will be the Moro Ronalo of Pokemon.
Speaker 2: Please give me this chance. Goddamn it.
Speaker 1: If you won't let me compete in regionals.
Speaker 2: Because I have to with so many goddamn points and
Speaker 2: plays strategically proper, let.
Speaker 1: Me commentate over they've God damn it.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna shoot hot. I'm sorry anyway. This is
Speaker 2: all to say, Uh, the Pokemon Gym is being renovated.
Speaker 2: We're gonna recruit Sean to help run the gym. I'm
Speaker 2: telling him this now.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I didn't ask him about this, to talk to
Speaker 2: him about this, Chopper, No, because Yo, we got we
Speaker 2: gotta go to regionals because it's gonna be in Anaheim,
Speaker 2: and then it's gonna be in San Francisco. We have.
Speaker 6: This could be Pokemon, it could be high school musical.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yes, better on it. Yes, that's the
Speaker 2: only good thing golf courses are for.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: And then then I learned, I apparently what we're talking
Speaker 5: I don't know what we're.
Speaker 1: Talking about all.
Speaker 2: Then I learned that friend of the website, Jenny Nicholson,
Speaker 2: is also into Pokemon. So I'm like, all right, dog,
Speaker 2: you be Sean. We gotta go to regionals. We gotta
Speaker 2: win or have some type of showing.
Speaker 1: But also Pokemon Company you.
Speaker 2: Want a commentator. I won't do it pro bono. I'll
Speaker 2: do it for like a sandwich, pay for accommodations or
Speaker 2: somethingshake hot talk.
Speaker 1: In a handshake, baby, that's what I'll work for.
Speaker 2: Just let me do it anyway, mousehold great fun competitive Pokemon.
Speaker 2: Never been a better time than right now, folks, am
Speaker 2: I okay, no, Jeff Grub news.
Speaker 1: I'm more conte.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I can't go for this Pokemon crap something. Oh god,
Speaker 2: it's not working right.
Speaker 1: It's all breaking.
Speaker 2: It's also great to see Guard hump back in like
Speaker 2: the top usage charts.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't stop saying that. I think I
Speaker 1: was just talking to my children in bed last night.
Speaker 3: They were like, hey, all right, you gonna know it's
Speaker 3: time for sleep, but you got to hear some important news.
Speaker 2: Guard Chomp is back, Grub real quick. Last Pokemon thing
Speaker 2: today for today. I swear I hope the Gimmicks will
Speaker 2: grow up in a world where we will never see
Speaker 2: in cineroor in the top usage charts again. To have
Speaker 2: in Cinero dominating.
Speaker 8: That you're imagining there six of the top eight teams,
Speaker 8: that's insane. We need imagine, we need an answer to
Speaker 8: cineraor please, I said, let's just put.
Speaker 1: Them down, all right, just kill that, kill them? Uh
Speaker 1: news new leak suggests, Okay, well, all right, last guess
Speaker 1: what do you guys think the name of the switch
Speaker 1: two is going to.
Speaker 6: Be well looked at the.
Speaker 1: Switch too.
Speaker 5: If your name for the switch could also be a
Speaker 5: name for a hypothetical pro model for the switch, it's
Speaker 5: a bad name and it's not going to be the
Speaker 5: name you didn't it.
Speaker 1: Leak suggests.
Speaker 3: The system is in full production with retail boxes that
Speaker 3: have a big number two on the side, not poop,
Speaker 3: but the big to the the the you know, the
Speaker 3: integer on the side, with workers expected to and they're
Speaker 3: making each workers making one thousand per day. These are
Speaker 3: where these leaks are coming from. The console's rumor to
Speaker 3: be slightly larger than its predecessor, with a smaller bezel,
Speaker 3: Black and white Joycon controllers also expected to have better
Speaker 3: battery life. AI features Nvidia DLSS support and a dual
Speaker 3: screen design. Media Sorry, thanks that people have talked about
Speaker 3: this is not like that's not I mean by dual
Speaker 3: screens design with the TV like there might be support
Speaker 3: for that, but these are like things that people have
Speaker 3: speculated on recently and not necessarily coming from the side
Speaker 3: of the box, Like this is just like the list
Speaker 3: of features that people have mentioned before for the switch to.
Speaker 3: The things that that did come from the apparently from
Speaker 3: this leak is slightly larger, smaller bezel, black and white,
Speaker 3: joy cons big two on the box. Yeah, a switch
Speaker 3: to is probably I mean, at this point, Nintendo has
Speaker 3: done a lot of like, hey, what is Apple kind
Speaker 3: of doing? We'll put ee in here somewhere, so yes,
Speaker 3: I and it's like, well, now Apple just kind of
Speaker 3: calls her stuff like Max Promax, and then there's always
Speaker 3: a number to indicate that this is the new phone.
Speaker 3: I'm not surprised that the den was just like, you
Speaker 3: know what, let's just go with the number that seems.
Speaker 1: Forget this time.
Speaker 5: You know, like this form factor might be their thing
Speaker 5: for a while, Like there could very easily be a
Speaker 5: world where there is a switch three, so you may
Speaker 5: as well just get on that numbering train.
Speaker 2: Now what if it's just called the two though?
Speaker 1: The two? I mean I want to hate it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, you know, because they have a console with
Speaker 6: the Wii and then one called the number two, Like someone.
Speaker 5: Taint couldn't be the headlines when it sells out everywhere,
Speaker 5: children are upset that they didn't hit the it stole Christmas.
Speaker 3: There it is, Yes, it is. Switch to is probably
Speaker 3: something we will hear about sooner rather than later. His
Speaker 3: thing is in full production now, and probably we'll do
Speaker 3: something here soon. May Switch two's out there somewhere right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and uh there, you know there was that reporting a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago that.
Speaker 1: Hey, Nintendo is like filming the commercial for this thing,
Speaker 1: or filming like the maybe.
Speaker 2: The first trailer. I hope that the person they're featuring
Speaker 2: in these trailers is actor extraordinary Italian extraordinaire Stanley Tucci.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and then like they'll flash the take good,
Speaker 2: they'll just flash the two on screen and then he'll
Speaker 2: just like look at the camera and smirk and.
Speaker 1: Like are the Beji still alive?
Speaker 3: They could say that their song that the deuce there's
Speaker 3: only one left?
Speaker 1: I think, is the two gonna be Roman numerals.
Speaker 5: It's gonna look like the joy CON's like snapping into.
Speaker 1: Apparently it's just a it's actually just the check the
Speaker 1: Arabic number too.
Speaker 2: You can't see that, That's what I say.
Speaker 5: Cut to check the jan first and then they By
Speaker 5: the way, one of my favorite things ever is when
Speaker 5: you like ask, like, stupid people, do you think they
Speaker 5: should they should teach the rated Yeah, the Arabic. They're like, no,
Speaker 5: I know that rules old honey basically invent in math. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we'll see this thing probably could pop up in a
Speaker 5: video here the next couple of weeks or it's a
Speaker 5: wild Yeah, we've been We've been waiting for this shoe
Speaker 5: to drop for so long. The fact that like it's
Speaker 5: in mid air now and it's approaching the ground right,
Speaker 5: it's gonna crash.
Speaker 2: We have to ask I need answers here, price assumptions.
Speaker 6: Three fifty four.
Speaker 4: That sounds five hundred.
Speaker 5: I don't think there's a world where it's less than
Speaker 5: four hundred these days now, Like the place Station five
Speaker 5: pro has shocked me so much.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, way, it's less than four hundred anymore. Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Could see it being five hundred now, the grub said it.
Speaker 6: I don't want to put that energy out in the world.
Speaker 1: I know it's kind of our manifesting. I know by
Speaker 1: saying that, we're also kind of making them aware of
Speaker 1: the fact that they could probably get away with it. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're listened to West, we're in the tendol jill right,
Speaker 1: don't Yeah, they don't listening, they're invalid.
Speaker 2: Four twenty four to twenty do it at four twenty
Speaker 2: just yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Think between four or five hundred.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be supress if it's like four forty nine
Speaker 3: ninety nine or something like that. Four hundred okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll see If it was four hundred, I feel like
Speaker 3: we're getting away with something and that's probably what they
Speaker 3: want us do.
Speaker 4: What was the switch at launch? Was it two fifty
Speaker 4: three hundred, three hundred and the O lead is still
Speaker 4: three hundred right, three fifty three fifty.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, increase the price to sell you the O
Speaker 1: lead screen? Right right?
Speaker 4: We'll still do again.
Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely, because we have like.
Speaker 5: We finally got like those new switch bundles have been
Speaker 5: waiting for, and it's just still bundled with Mario Card
Speaker 5: eight Deluxe.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I can't even make it a more exciting bundle anymore.
Speaker 3: Australia got the Mario Wonder bundle, but not a cool
Speaker 3: we get. I think we have different ma Get like
Speaker 3: bundles with maybe two games.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now I think the bundle is only three hundred in
Speaker 3: stead of three fifty. Like with the game that they
Speaker 3: still would kind of charge you most of the price
Speaker 3: of the game for these bundles, and they stopped doing that.
Speaker 1: I think is the difference now. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: with with no price decrease on the olet at three fifty,
Speaker 1: the next thing is going to be more than that,
Speaker 1: So they're going to charge four hundred for it. It
Speaker 1: is always coming in as much as an old Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be more than a noelet, all right.
Speaker 3: Astrobot had a solid commercial start in the US, according
Speaker 3: to research firm Sircana. Mattpis Caitel kind of came out
Speaker 3: and helped alleviate some concerns Sony's PlayStation five exclusive. Astrobot
Speaker 3: had a successful launch week, ranking second in unit sales
Speaker 3: in the US and becoming the week's best selling accessory.
Speaker 3: The controller did specifically, games industry dop is Head Christring
Speaker 3: had previously reported a solid UK launch for Astrobot, with
Speaker 3: the first week sales twenty one percent higher than Retching
Speaker 3: and clink Rift aparts debut in twenty twenty one. That's
Speaker 3: the number that only twenty one percent higher, But I mean,
Speaker 3: how do you guys feel about that? That seems like I.
Speaker 1: Can say, doing better than retical no matter.
Speaker 5: I mean, I know there's more places five is out
Speaker 5: there and whatnot, but yeah, you know it's yeah, there
Speaker 5: were a lots were doing out there. Winters of the
Speaker 5: Kingdom watched out, but it still didn't really like immediately
Speaker 5: outpace the Breath of the Wild or anything like that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's just hard to tell because like solid that you
Speaker 5: want that to mean solid, but sometimes we're in a
Speaker 5: world where things need to overperform to matter a.
Speaker 1: Lot of the time. That's a little bit. It's not
Speaker 1: the worry.
Speaker 3: Definitely not overperforming. I asked Mattis Kittel, does this mean
Speaker 3: it's everything's gonna be okay?
Speaker 1: I was kind of joking. He answered, He's like, well,
Speaker 1: okay and not okay subjective and all.
Speaker 3: But for what it is, I think it's off to
Speaker 3: a good start, not like a oh my god, this
Speaker 3: changes everything start, and not not a look what they've
Speaker 3: done to my boys.
Speaker 1: Start. It's fine, a fine start.
Speaker 6: It's fine, but no, hang on, I mean, team of
Speaker 6: sixty five, I know, but also.
Speaker 1: Like, once we put it all in the context.
Speaker 6: Yeah, within context. So the fact that the yen has been.
Speaker 1: Yes, and and that that's this is and that's all true.
Speaker 1: It's just like, I think what I was looking for here,
Speaker 1: what I was really like hoping to dream, daring to dream,
Speaker 1: is that this would be the kind of game that
Speaker 1: could sort of come in and reset what people expect.
Speaker 3: From games and what these companies think they need to deliver.
Speaker 3: So we aren't waiting an entire generation to get the
Speaker 3: next naughty Dog game. Obviously Naughty Dog will keep doing
Speaker 3: their thing, but some of these other studios might be
Speaker 3: freed up if this game really overperforms to do more
Speaker 3: stuff like tim of Soby, And I don't know if
Speaker 3: that this is going to change that.
Speaker 5: Narrative that It's just hard because there's a whole generation
Speaker 5: of PlayStation fans that, for the most part, have a
Speaker 5: very specific idea of what a PlayStation studios game is.
Speaker 1: In this, you know, in a lot of ways, isn't that.
Speaker 5: But I'm sure a lot of them are jumping onto
Speaker 5: Astrobot and having a good time. There's just so many
Speaker 5: barriers about what it means to have, you know, be
Speaker 5: a wider hit and you know it's a game that
Speaker 5: is supposed to appeal to kids, and how much how
Speaker 5: many kids are playing a lot of PlayStation five these days, Right,
Speaker 5: It's one reason why I kind of criticize both PlayStation
Speaker 5: and Xbox maybe dropping the ball a bit and kind
Speaker 5: of leaving behind that demographic because it is an important one.
Speaker 5: But you know, the bright side, because it is such
Speaker 5: a diffriendly game, this game will probably get a bigger
Speaker 5: holiday boost than other PlayStation titles.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a lot of people. I think it's
Speaker 3: gonna do very well on this in Christmas. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: the reviews will kind of have that word of mouth.
Speaker 1: It will help it carry it through the holiday. So
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about things.
Speaker 2: For those people criticizing the game for not being their
Speaker 2: stereotypical PlayStation game. When you think about and put on paper,
Speaker 2: this is the most PlayStation game. It is the most criticism.
Speaker 2: It's got all those triple as that you desire. Yeah,
Speaker 2: think about it. Look inside your hearts. You hear the
Speaker 2: bow in there and everything.
Speaker 1: It's all right.
Speaker 3: First details on EA's new Battlefield revealed, including the modern
Speaker 3: setting that they're going to return to. Electronic Arts revealed
Speaker 3: a bunch of details The game will return to the
Speaker 3: modern setting that was similar to Battlefield three and four,
Speaker 3: so not like the near future.
Speaker 1: Like twenty forty two was.
Speaker 3: Even it will also be ditching the one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty eight player matches and the specialist system that kind
Speaker 3: of got away from the class based system that the
Speaker 3: series was no for. They're going back to class based,
Speaker 3: they're going back to sixty four player battles, and they're
Speaker 3: just focused on trying to get this one right because
Speaker 3: they're like, Hey, this is, you know, super important to us.
Speaker 3: And Vince Sampella is the one answering all these questions
Speaker 3: and making these statements. He has taken over Battlefield after
Speaker 3: twenty forty two didn't perform the way they wanted it to.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, I'm having a hard time getting excited about
Speaker 1: a Battlefield these days. I don't know about you all same.
Speaker 4: I never I was never done.
Speaker 3: I know you're a big fan. Yeah, I tried to
Speaker 3: like Battlefield a few times. I have had some good
Speaker 3: times Battlefield. It's never been for me though.
Speaker 2: It's too much chaos for me.
Speaker 4: It's smart to go back to basics, though.
Speaker 5: I think here right, and I understand the desire to
Speaker 5: kind of switch things up a lot, but at this point,
Speaker 5: like it has been a long time since Battlefield for
Speaker 5: it came out, right, it seems like a long time anyways,
Speaker 5: So definitely doing one more in that mold.
Speaker 1: I think that's going to make sounds.
Speaker 4: I think it's going to resonate with people another Bad Company.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think are far removed now from that to
Speaker 5: ever happen.
Speaker 1: I think I will remove on ago.
Speaker 2: I think we're removed enough where it'll feel like a
Speaker 2: fresh idea to a whole new audience.
Speaker 3: Well, I think I think if they do the like
Speaker 3: I've heard that they were working on a Battlefield Bad
Speaker 3: Company remaster once Vince sam Pelic sort of like started
Speaker 3: getting more involved and he's like, let's actually put that
Speaker 3: to aside because we're gonna do that. Let's do it
Speaker 3: like huge, let's really.
Speaker 1: Bring it back. So they kind of have that back
Speaker 1: behind a break glass in case of emergency.
Speaker 3: But I think if they do like a really solid
Speaker 3: remaster slash remake of Bad Company, that could set that
Speaker 3: up for the future of like, Okay, now this is
Speaker 3: a whole new avenue for these games going forward again.
Speaker 3: But they did that with Dead Space and that didn't
Speaker 3: work out either. I mean, even though that game did fine,
Speaker 3: they're not going to make more dead Space.
Speaker 5: So remind me people liked Battlefield one the World War One.
Speaker 3: Yes, that one's I think I'm one right now is
Speaker 3: still the most frequently played, which it has the most players.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: Skate is officially launching into early access next year. Skate
Speaker 3: and Playtest has been in play test for over a year,
Speaker 3: will release finally early access for everybody next year.
Speaker 1: Full Circle.
Speaker 3: The developer provided limited information about their early access release,
Speaker 3: such as platforms, but interested players can sign up on
Speaker 3: skate Insider for more information. I think this is probably
Speaker 3: a good idea for this game, especially with the kind
Speaker 3: of game they're trying to make with Skate here, where
Speaker 3: it's going to be a hangout, collaborative sort of game,
Speaker 3: where it's like, Okay, we're gonna get eighteen people in here,
Speaker 3: and one of these players is just going to start
Speaker 3: building obstacles in up skate park in front of all
Speaker 3: these other players, and everyone else could take turns doing
Speaker 3: tricks off of it. I think that's a cool hangout idea,
Speaker 3: but there's probably a lot of like headaches and what
Speaker 3: does that actually look and feel like that early access will.
Speaker 2: Help solve right, Yeah, that's a part of skate that
Speaker 2: I don't quite care for. I would just love to
Speaker 2: find lines with a crew and just like try hit
Speaker 2: a rail a bunch of times or just jump off
Speaker 2: a bunch of things in that like break bones mode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I just run around like in a Yeah
Speaker 1: what is that just a hanawling?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh right, that's another name for the goods right, yes, Oh,
Speaker 1: let's see.
Speaker 5: Man, I felt bad that, like I just never played skate.
Speaker 5: I should get interested. And you know what really got
Speaker 5: me interested in the skating video game world this week
Speaker 5: was just Tony Hawk being like, yeah, we're talking with
Speaker 5: Activision again and really helping something manifests over there.
Speaker 3: Speaking of which Tony Hawk claims he is talking to
Speaker 3: Activision again, Tony Hawks pro Skater is celebrating its twenty
Speaker 3: fifth anniversary this year, and Tony Hawk has hinted at
Speaker 3: anniversary plans. All cavealed that he is in discussions with
Speaker 3: Activision regarding the franchise and that something special was in
Speaker 3: the work for fans is how he phrased it. That
Speaker 3: could mean anything. People like who are trying to be
Speaker 3: a little bit less optimistic. Are saying maybe it's just
Speaker 3: like a re release of the soundtracks or something like that.
Speaker 1: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm getting my hopes up. Tonyaks pro Skater one plus
Speaker 3: two was the best selling Tony Hawk game. They should
Speaker 3: make another one because I bet it could do well
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 4: And three makes so much sense, Like I really hope
Speaker 4: it's that.
Speaker 5: I mean three four makes sense first, and then Thug
Speaker 5: one and two, Thug two, three or four makes it's
Speaker 5: like slightly less of a slim duck than one and
Speaker 5: two because four does switch up the formula so much
Speaker 5: and you're kind of having no it's still good. I'm
Speaker 5: just saying, like one and two they were able to
Speaker 5: just kind of put all those levels and make it
Speaker 5: feel like one game in a way, that'll be a
Speaker 5: little it's gonna be a little bit more awkward in
Speaker 5: a three and four package.
Speaker 4: They should still do it. It would be more celebrated.
Speaker 5: It's a reason why they and the Project eight.
Speaker 6: Which was which was the one that kind of like bomb.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the peripheral one. You know, like, I don't know,
Speaker 5: maybe they're gonna be like, let's just make a new one.
Speaker 5: Let's just use that Tony one and two end gene
Speaker 5: Al though that was like Carrie's Visions. Who's now a
Speaker 5: Blizzard company, So I don't know, maybe it's not them
Speaker 5: making anymore. But uh, you know, First Scare five was
Speaker 5: an absolute disaster, but maybe it is time to do
Speaker 5: a new game and just kind of look at that
Speaker 5: remake and make one of those, but with new levels one.
Speaker 4: If they just did three would be incredible.
Speaker 1: If it was just three, that's my favorite ones.
Speaker 6: What about Tony Hawk's soundtrack, like uh that we were
Speaker 6: when we were young festival, but just for bands who
Speaker 6: are on the Tony Hawk soundtrack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would go to that, like we would all
Speaker 1: go right, yeah.
Speaker 6: Golder, just Superman on repeat.
Speaker 1: I'll buy my first vape.
Speaker 6: When I went back to the U, Well, hang on,
Speaker 6: you guys went to the UK too, You would have
Speaker 6: seen it. Were you surprised at how many people of vape?
Speaker 5: A lot?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: Like I I was out the other day and I
Speaker 5: was with people who were too drunk, and like one
Speaker 5: guy lost his vape and he was like very mad
Speaker 5: at but I was like, that's my vape.
Speaker 1: This one like the one other girl coup is like
Speaker 1: he's had that vape for three years. I just wanted to.
Speaker 5: Be like, oh, okay, cool, you're Mike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh that's a real tough problem.
Speaker 5: But it's got a lot of emotional attachment to Vague
Speaker 5: completely on his own.
Speaker 1: I don't feel bad.
Speaker 6: So they banned. They banned flavored vapes in San Francisco.
Speaker 6: So you just never see anyone.
Speaker 1: Vape, favorite rapper to flavor vapes.
Speaker 6: Okay, enough and so yeah, like God, going back to
Speaker 6: the UK, I was so surprised at how many people vapest.
Speaker 1: That was a ton of it.
Speaker 5: You're right, I guess I didn't even I mean, there's
Speaker 5: a lot of people who vape in Youngstown, Ohio. Also
Speaker 5: did be clear, so it didn't completely shock me.
Speaker 2: I've is this a big thing in the UK? Lucy
Speaker 2: people doing two? Did that ever make it?
Speaker 1: Sure? Zen Zin?
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 3: So these are like the pouches, the nicotine pouches that
Speaker 3: has become a very popular thing in the last couple
Speaker 3: of years, especially like apparently among finance bros.
Speaker 1: That there's anything to do about it. That went very
Speaker 1: viral a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: No, but I'm like, uh, Tucker Carlson was like they
Speaker 3: don't want you doing this because it raises your testosterone.
Speaker 3: And then like in the middle of a video, sure
Speaker 3: I saw put four pouches in his gums or whatever.
Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, you do not seem like the bastion
Speaker 3: of testosterone over here.
Speaker 6: But sorry, I'm familiar when people do that in the UK.
Speaker 6: Definitely do like little laughing.
Speaker 1: Gas like Noxio galaxy gas.
Speaker 4: You can just buy.
Speaker 2: Those over Huh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think legally, well, is this not just nitrous
Speaker 1: oxide or what is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the dentist gimmick, right, that sounds safe. Whip its
Speaker 2: very unsafe tooth that yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: Bungee is reportedly considering a forty dollars price tag for Marathon.
Speaker 3: If you don't remember, that was the price of both
Speaker 3: hell Divers too oh and Concord. Oh yeah, so uh,
Speaker 3: I don't who knows what the right answer here is.
Speaker 1: This is going to be a big expensive game. It
Speaker 1: will they will have to make money on it. But boy,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is the answer either.
Speaker 5: It's like you want to think, well, it's Bungee's next game,
Speaker 5: there's gonna be so much inherent interest. And then then
Speaker 5: I remember when like Valve made their first game in forever.
Speaker 5: It was Artifact and if bombed big and a lot
Speaker 5: of people forget that game even existed. So there's no
Speaker 5: sure things in this industry, that's for sure. And it
Speaker 5: seems like it seems like these days, unfortunately, so many
Speaker 5: people are disconditioned when it comes to online multiplayer shooters
Speaker 5: that they don't have to pay for them. And there's
Speaker 5: a lot of ones that they are playing right now
Speaker 5: and not pay for that they enjoy a lot. That's
Speaker 5: just a very, very hard ask and you can get
Speaker 5: away with it. We saw hell divers to do it,
Speaker 5: but it's rare. It's a difficult proposition, and you know, look,
Speaker 5: I think that Concord had more problems than costing forty dollars. Right,
Speaker 5: There's a lot of things going on there. But still
Speaker 5: I think this can't be a final decision. They must
Speaker 5: be modeling this one over a lot.
Speaker 3: Still, Yeah, I think even if it's just like, let's
Speaker 3: try something a little different, So does it look like
Speaker 3: the same playbook every time? Even that feels like, Okay,
Speaker 3: they put more consideration into this. Then here's another live
Speaker 3: service game for Sony. It's forty dollars again, because that's
Speaker 3: what we do kind of want to seem like there's
Speaker 3: like a living, breathing person behind the wheel that company
Speaker 3: and just charging forty dollars again would not indicate that
Speaker 3: to me. That said, you know, free to play is
Speaker 3: dominating shooters like across the board and has been for like,
Speaker 3: that's not a news splash. That's been the case for
Speaker 3: many years now. We just got tone talking about Battlefield, Like,
Speaker 3: you guys think the next battlefield is that a seventy
Speaker 3: dollars game.
Speaker 5: There's a sacond door or something, but there might be
Speaker 5: a free to play battle Royal moos.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the war Zone thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's probably that's probably the answer for them.
Speaker 3: For Marathon, they don't have that same luxury, that same
Speaker 3: luxury they already have, Like Destiny is full like free
Speaker 3: to play now, right, Destiny too, so that's their free
Speaker 3: to play one.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Steam launch to families allowing user gamers to share their games.
Speaker 3: I really like this because I do have multiple Steam
Speaker 3: decks in my house now and it works very well
Speaker 3: except for if you were trying to play the same
Speaker 3: game at the same time.
Speaker 1: There are ways around that.
Speaker 3: If you start it up airplane offline. Yeah, it's whatever.
Speaker 3: The reality here is I'm not going to be doing that.
Speaker 3: What I will be doing is sharing my library with
Speaker 3: my kids. And now when they want to play something
Speaker 3: at the same time as me, it no longer kicks
Speaker 3: me off of my game or I kick them off
Speaker 3: of their game. We can play two different games at
Speaker 3: the same time.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And that's that's very nice. I think this is this
Speaker 3: is probably what most of these companies should go for.
Speaker 3: I would like a little bit more freedom to be like,
Speaker 3: it's a multiplayer game, you want to play it all
Speaker 3: in your different systems at the same time and go
Speaker 3: play with your like, you know, your cousins across the
Speaker 3: you know, in the other state.
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to buy three copies of
Speaker 1: a game just to play multiplayer. But I get why
Speaker 1: they are kind of drawing the line there. Anything Is
Speaker 1: this anything you guys would ever use?
Speaker 4: I definitely do use it a lot. We've got a
Speaker 4: couple of Steam decks here, and like you know, there
Speaker 4: are little tricks you have to do. Like Bianca and
Speaker 4: I have both been playing Wild Bastards constantly, frequently, like
Speaker 4: at the same time, and you just have to airplane mode.
Speaker 4: It yep, that's just kind of how that works. But
Speaker 4: that's everything else works perfectly fine, you know, yep.
Speaker 1: It's uh.
Speaker 3: And this is a I've been using this for a
Speaker 3: few months now in the betas branch esteem but now
Speaker 3: it's going to be off for everybody, So go ahead
Speaker 3: and take advantage of that.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then let's see here I used the same headline there.
Speaker 1: What is the story?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Oh yes, Uh, this should the headline for this. Whoever's
Speaker 3: doing the headline should be let's talk about PlayStation six already. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Sony Interactive Entertainment remains committed to consoles as the core
Speaker 3: of its business, despite increasing efforts to expand into PC
Speaker 3: and mobile gaming markets. So Niho the yeah Hidioki Nish
Speaker 3: you know who is one of the co CEOs of
Speaker 3: Sony Interactive Entertainment, came out and.
Speaker 1: Like said this thing. I'm like, well, why do you
Speaker 1: need to clarify that.
Speaker 3: I think we all just assumed PlayStation consoles was going
Speaker 3: to be the future of the business. I think what
Speaker 3: they're really saying here is we are going to keep
Speaker 3: growing heavily into PC and mobile a lot, and that
Speaker 3: does not mean PlayStation the console is going to go away.
Speaker 3: But I don't think that they think the future is
Speaker 3: necessarily consoles. It's just like they're present and they're going
Speaker 3: to continue that momentum forward and they're looking for growth elsewhere.
Speaker 3: But there's definite gonna be a PlayStation six. I don't
Speaker 3: know you guys think there will be a PlayStation seven
Speaker 3: or eight, because I think it will be.
Speaker 6: We will all be in the cloud at that point.
Speaker 1: Sure we will. The consoles won't be.
Speaker 5: I'll be in a cloud, yes, locking dead, Yeah, it
Speaker 5: won't need you anymore.
Speaker 2: So then it will go back into your pod.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, I'll be It'll be started by.
Speaker 6: Speaking of Matrix is getting put into cinemas again for
Speaker 6: the twenty fifth anniversary, MAB.
Speaker 1: Would it be?
Speaker 5: It would be nice if we were just batteries just
Speaker 5: laying in our pods. Would I would super.
Speaker 4: Stay in the matrix if that was the case, This
Speaker 4: team team stay in the Matrix. What you're doing out there?
Speaker 6: But would you would you know, you would stay the Matrix,
Speaker 6: but you wouldn't know that it's the Matrix.
Speaker 4: I A yeah, And if anyone tried to explain to
Speaker 4: me about the real world, I'd be like I just
Speaker 4: would absolutely rejected in my brain. That's weird, that's not true.
Speaker 5: We have weird sweaty raves there, like you have to say,
Speaker 5: you get you can chased.
Speaker 6: By a little robot sperm thing. No, I'm not interested
Speaker 6: in that, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Those pattered clothes look really cozy though.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, uh, just right. It is weird that he
Speaker 5: eould has to clarify this. And yeah, there's gonna be
Speaker 5: a PlayStation seven. I bet there'll be a PlayStation eight.
Speaker 5: But it is like a thing like man twenty years
Speaker 5: from now. Gosh, things changed a lot in the last
Speaker 5: twenty years in terms of what's been going on with
Speaker 5: with consoles and everything else. There's already a stagnation problem
Speaker 5: with them in some ways, and some of that is
Speaker 5: maybe not super material. How much is that actually bot
Speaker 5: of people? I don't know, but it is going to
Speaker 5: continue to be a problem. How different is the PlayStation
Speaker 5: six gonna feel from a PlayStation five, which does in
Speaker 5: a lot of ways, doesn't feel that different from a
Speaker 5: PlayStation four, you know, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 5: exactly what the future looks like, but maybe at some
Speaker 5: point twenty thirty years. I don't know, it's not you
Speaker 5: know box you plug into your TV with an HDMI port.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think what this really just says to me is
Speaker 3: while I wasn't thinking about like, well, they're going to
Speaker 3: be a PlayStation six, it seems like they're thinking about
Speaker 3: a world where maybe there wouldn't be So they're preparing
Speaker 3: for a bunch of different contingency plans. Not that they're
Speaker 3: they're activating those contingency plans. They're just like, no, this
Speaker 3: is the future of our business still, but mobile PC
Speaker 3: that's where we're growing. And you know, they kind of
Speaker 3: have to tell their investors places where they're growing. So
Speaker 3: that's part of this conversation as well. Now, the other thing,
Speaker 3: the other reason to talk about PlayStation six is there
Speaker 3: was a report, separate from what the co CEO was
Speaker 3: saying publicly, This is a report that PlayStation was going
Speaker 3: to maybe work with Intel or maybe broad Comm instead
Speaker 3: of AMD for the chip base for the next system.
Speaker 3: They actually ended up settling settling once again on AMD
Speaker 3: because of backward compatibility being such a huge importance to them.
Speaker 3: Can imagine all those games that people have purchased, they
Speaker 3: want to carry those forward to keep people in the
Speaker 3: ecosystem that's driving that decision.
Speaker 1: But to speak to your.
Speaker 3: Point, Mike, sounds like the PlayStation six is going to
Speaker 3: be a lot like the PlayStation five, which was a
Speaker 3: lot like the PlayStation four.
Speaker 1: So good news for backward compatibility. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: It does feel like maybe consoles are stagnating a little bit.
Speaker 7: M hmm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels boring, Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1: But uh, I don't know. As long as the games
Speaker 1: continue to be good.
Speaker 2: PlayStation y'all act with enough hubris already just add something
Speaker 2: weird to it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they did. The dual sense was clearly
Speaker 1: the thing this.
Speaker 5: Time handled Oh yeah yeah, like the orange and purple orange, the.
Speaker 2: Levels, an astrobot where you have to use one of
Speaker 2: the power ups to pull something up.
Speaker 1: How hard?
Speaker 2: Just add that to the box.
Speaker 6: How do you move a PlayStation five?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 6: How do how do you move it from?
Speaker 1: Like you just bear put on like late text gloves.
Speaker 1: You have to touch that.
Speaker 6: Weird like say your moving house. How do you and
Speaker 6: you threw away the PS five box?
Speaker 4: The box always keep the box inserts all that stuff.
Speaker 1: That box is so flimsy environments and why are you
Speaker 1: keeping the box good to just collect them. I kept
Speaker 1: my box.
Speaker 4: I have historically always kept them to move them because
Speaker 4: I moved them constantly. Okay, and yeah, it's just the
Speaker 4: safest way you keep the inserts, keep the bags, all
Speaker 4: that stuff.
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, you're talking. When you see the inserts,
Speaker 1: you mean like the phone.
Speaker 4: The things that are like they fit the shape of
Speaker 4: the console.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, gotcha?
Speaker 4: All right, Yeah it makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have enough space to keep boxes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to have one.
Speaker 5: I have mine underlip that I have my astro boxing
Speaker 5: chore box, and it's like, I like this box and
Speaker 5: I think I just need to throw it away.
Speaker 1: Anyways, I can't look like this.
Speaker 6: People are selling the PS five box for thirty dollars
Speaker 6: on the box.
Speaker 3: The boxes will maintain, they will retain their value over years,
Speaker 3: That's definitely true. They'll get like you could sell a box,
Speaker 3: an empty box for a Nintendo of sixty four, probably
Speaker 3: for like sixty bucks. Right now, I'm like, ah, that
Speaker 3: space that's taking up over the course of twenty years
Speaker 3: is not worth sixty dollars to me.
Speaker 1: It's kind of what I saw.
Speaker 6: You can buy a special carrying case to the PS
Speaker 6: five for forty bucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get Pelican case or something. But about the
Speaker 1: value of my All right, I checked the thing in
Speaker 1: the back seat and just whatever, let it roll around.
Speaker 1: Let's back there with the kids.
Speaker 4: I did eyeball the PS five, even the like newer
Speaker 4: slim one than I have when we were going to
Speaker 4: packs because astrobot code just came in and I was like,
Speaker 4: do I try to pack this thing? And it's that
Speaker 4: seems like a risky proposition.
Speaker 6: Jinx Monson, who's in Chicago, like a famous very famous
Speaker 6: drag queen, uh takes PS five with them every where
Speaker 6: they go.
Speaker 1: Wow, like a lot of space. Uh that does for
Speaker 1: the news. I'm handling the show back over to you,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Ochoa.
Speaker 2: Fantastic. I'm gonna need to take another quick breaky break,
Speaker 2: to just take a power nap, and then we'll get
Speaker 2: back with some emails right after this, and we're back
Speaker 2: with electronic bell.
Speaker 1: Emails.
Speaker 2: BombCast bomb dot com is the email addressed to send
Speaker 2: your emails too. You can send an email about any
Speaker 2: and everything, whether you want to have a question about
Speaker 2: a game, something that's been bugging you perhaps, or whatever
Speaker 2: I I feel like. Next week I'm going to start
Speaker 2: another segment, a sub segment within the email segment, which
Speaker 2: is the best newsletter we've been signed up for because
Speaker 2: you hooligan's at home won't stop. I keep thinking that
Speaker 2: I have an emergency, but no, someone has just signed
Speaker 2: me up for yet another fishing newsletter.
Speaker 1: We can do a tier list of newsletters that were
Speaker 1: signed up to. I'd like that.
Speaker 2: God Like, I'm gonna scroll through some right now. Someone
Speaker 2: treats us like their own personal Twitter. I enjoy that.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that you're back in posting.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's cool. That's actually smarting to do that. Yeah, tween,
Speaker 1: I wish I should do that.
Speaker 2: Folks, we could visit Dollywood for two days for the price.
Speaker 1: Of one day of the year from forward.
Speaker 2: So I let's go to Dollywood. Yeah, we could go
Speaker 2: to farms dot com. Uh, you know about the new
Speaker 2: green equipment. It takes the center stage during an auction.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, it's shoot Green. This is a Disney blog
Speaker 2: that I feel like is just maybe in cohoots with Mike.
Speaker 2: But anyway, we're gonna read the real emails, the emails
Speaker 2: that you the folks at home right in about first
Speaker 2: email is A is a complaint, folks, not about any
Speaker 2: of us. Don't worry. No one ever complains about us. No,
Speaker 2: no one has ever done that. No one has ever
Speaker 2: in a comment speaking negatively.
Speaker 4: I complained about Mike. I saw people say that I
Speaker 4: did pronounce ponko correctly on the Germany Traveloge and Mike
Speaker 4: and Bailey were like, oh, I can't believe you said ponko,
Speaker 4: And it turned out I was one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 5: All right, Okay, look, first off, like you've It's not
Speaker 5: like you freaking like looked into it and found out
Speaker 5: how they pronounced it in Japan.
Speaker 1: Sinks.
Speaker 5: Okay, great, so that's how they say it in Japan.
Speaker 5: I look, I've never heard anybody and this isn't me,
Speaker 5: This isn't an English moment. I have never heard anyone
Speaker 5: say ponko.
Speaker 4: How do you say?
Speaker 2: You say it?
Speaker 1: Jeff? How do you say it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: If I was looking at I would have said panco? Wait?
Speaker 6: What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Ponco crumbs again? The outside is Ponco crumbs, which is
Speaker 4: how I ordered it and how I've always said it.
Speaker 4: I've made stuff with Ponco crumbs before. And mister shep
Speaker 4: over here by not. He was like, oh, what an idiot?
Speaker 4: Dan thinks it's Podca was like, yeah, Dan is an
Speaker 4: idiot about this. Everyone thought I was an idiot.
Speaker 1: I was right.
Speaker 6: I've never said that word out loud.
Speaker 3: I don't think yeah, I think that's really Actually the
Speaker 3: answer to that question is I've never thought about that
Speaker 3: word enough to say it in my life.
Speaker 4: I watched a.
Speaker 1: Lot of food YouTube. Okay, I just never heard ponko
Speaker 1: before you got YouTube that what language was the food
Speaker 1: YouTube that you were watching? In English?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Patrick from Brighton writes in, Hey bombsters, writing in from
Speaker 2: the UK, if you'll want a five pro with such
Speaker 2: luxuries as a disk drive and the stupid little bit
Speaker 2: of plastic, they'll let you stand it up right. It
Speaker 2: will apparently cost US consumers eight hundred and seven ninety
Speaker 2: nine six ninety nine for the console, seventy nine ninety
Speaker 2: nine for the disk drive, twenty nine dollars for the stand.
Speaker 2: It would cost me eight hundred and twenty nine euro.
Speaker 2: That is pounds pounds, pounds pounds, I don't know currency.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, no, no, it's you know we've left right.
Speaker 2: Right, right right, so we would never Euro.
Speaker 1: You never use euro.
Speaker 6: No, I never use euro.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: That is one thousand dollars and seventy one thousand and
Speaker 2: seventy six dollars and fifty one cents. I try to
Speaker 2: come up with a more elegant way to ask this,
Speaker 2: but what the actual fuck yours stick? Your sticker shook? Patrick?
Speaker 4: I mean you can just move to like Lis, you
Speaker 4: moved to America. It's not that hard, right, Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sam K would say yes.
Speaker 6: Do you know I just found on a lawyer.
Speaker 4: You and Damn and Daniel desire. It seems like the
Speaker 4: biggest pain in the ass ever. Was it more or
Speaker 4: less than the price of a play station five pro?
Speaker 6: More? Multiple times?
Speaker 1: Figure?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: No, it's yeah. The UK is getting like the Cosey Lives.
Speaker 6: Do you know that? That's what we call it, Cosey
Speaker 6: lives costo.
Speaker 1: Costing cost of living.
Speaker 6: Because he lives. Yeah, it's expensive. Like I went home
Speaker 6: just before packs after games Calm and I was like
Speaker 6: Jesus Christ, I you know, sad, sad.
Speaker 2: Sorry, sad, sad, but it's too much.
Speaker 1: It's too much. But I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are still going to pay for it pro oh yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: but people are going to buy.
Speaker 3: It still and so this is just what the prices
Speaker 3: are going to be. They might, you know, people we've
Speaker 3: talked about the PS six could be seven hundred dollars,
Speaker 3: could be six hundred. Still they like, they might try
Speaker 3: to find ways, but it's not gonna be less than
Speaker 3: six hundred.
Speaker 1: There's no way.
Speaker 3: And really I have I have a hard time seeing
Speaker 3: it being less than the PS five Pro. So I
Speaker 3: don't think it'll be less than seven hundred all things considered,
Speaker 3: but we'll see.
Speaker 1: So this is just them trying to get more out
Speaker 1: of these systems, and really what choice they have left
Speaker 1: because they got to put so.
Speaker 3: Much hardware in there so that you can begin to
Speaker 3: see a difference in these games, because otherwise, you know,
Speaker 3: they were showing stuff off between the PS five and
Speaker 3: the PS five.
Speaker 1: Pro, and they were the exact same games.
Speaker 3: They just sometimes ran at a better frame rates sometimes
Speaker 3: and they're well, and this one has better image quality,
Speaker 3: and no one could see.
Speaker 1: It without them zooming in. So they have to put
Speaker 1: a lot more stuff in there, and that means they're
Speaker 1: going to have to cost more to get people excited,
Speaker 1: and you have to get excited to spend this money
Speaker 1: in the first place. It's like this vicious cycle.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm just kind of getting used to this
Speaker 3: being the new norm.
Speaker 2: Speaking about the new norm, divorce is dominating the email inbox.
Speaker 2: Actually this comes from Mitchell. What's up, Duders, I've been
Speaker 2: listening since two thousand and eight. Hey. Thanks. Anyway, my
Speaker 2: parents got divorced because the law vikings to Norse by
Speaker 2: Northwest on the PS one is really fucking hard.
Speaker 5: Yea, The full truth and you need to laugh at
Speaker 5: your parents' story is oldest time.
Speaker 2: The full truth is only slightly more complicated than that.
Speaker 2: It's simultaneously one of my earliest gaming memories and one
Speaker 2: of my earliest memories of my parents having a blowout argument,
Speaker 2: and one of my earliest memories period with twenty five
Speaker 2: plus years of hindsight, this is very funny to me. Mitchell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that is pretty funny. Yeah, I call
Speaker 1: you Mitch. Mitch.
Speaker 5: I wonder is that, like, are you able to play
Speaker 5: that game? Have you ever gone back to lots of
Speaker 5: vikings too or is it too hard because of the
Speaker 5: whole you know, causing your parents to get divorce thing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go try to play this with Steph and
Speaker 1: see if we're strong enough, we're strong dangerous apparently, go
Speaker 1: for it. But I believe in us. I believe in
Speaker 1: our love.
Speaker 2: We didn't have a theme for D week because I
Speaker 2: guess we're rolling down the alphabet. It's not gonna be divorce.
Speaker 2: Fos don't want divorce week.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things we could do. There's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with it. I still love each other.
Speaker 5: Guys, three three divorced parents versus you two, so we're
Speaker 5: winning great divorce.
Speaker 1: You do out number me fair enough.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, alright, sorry that my parents are still together.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, well we got we got two Christmases.
Speaker 5: And oh yeah, yeah, I get mine. Mine happened like
Speaker 5: after high school, so I was already I think it
Speaker 5: was like.
Speaker 6: Three months old, so it was great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was four years old. I remember ship. It's easy.
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, it's definitely harder for me to take video
Speaker 1: of me.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, really good timing on that one, though.
Speaker 1: I know I'm a comedic genius.
Speaker 2: Here, Bob, you'll get two Christmases and two of every
Speaker 2: holiday if you want. We'll just do it anyway, all right.
Speaker 2: Next email comes from Kyle from Virginia. Hello, Bombers at
Speaker 2: my work. We have a small little Starbucks like coffee shop.
Speaker 2: The coffee shop has an espresso machine that they are
Speaker 2: getting rid of because it's quote unquote broken. No one
Speaker 2: involved with the coffee shop has any idea what's wrong
Speaker 2: with it. It would be worth my time to take
Speaker 2: that broken espresso machine and try to get it working
Speaker 2: for use at home. Thanks for all you do. I
Speaker 2: greatly appreciate all of your content and you always seem
Speaker 2: to bring me joy. Kyle from Virginia. Kyle, don't listen
Speaker 2: to these two. Don't do it. It is a fool's
Speaker 2: errand is because it is a commercial espresso machine that
Speaker 2: is not equipped to work. And the home place you
Speaker 2: would need to plummet to your seat directly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, so you have to have a full like
Speaker 4: like water it, yes.
Speaker 3: Like a dishwasher, like just replace your dishwasher with the
Speaker 3: fucking espresso.
Speaker 1: Machine, Kyle.
Speaker 2: Your house is not equipped to supply that much water
Speaker 2: on a constant basis. That's why home espresso machines are
Speaker 2: different than regular commercial espresso machines. Now, I wanted to
Speaker 2: flip that bad boy and sell sell it to another
Speaker 2: coffee shop. That is a thing you should do not
Speaker 2: saying that I have done that and may have nickel
Speaker 2: and dimed a mom and pop coffee shop when they
Speaker 2: were in need.
Speaker 1: But yes, you man, I love toxic Jan.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey, you know scumbag Jan had a lot
Speaker 2: of time on his hands.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Maybe you acquired a commercial espresso machine from a lovely
Speaker 2: old lady that decided to not charge you because she
Speaker 2: thought you were very charming, and then you sold it
Speaker 2: to a bomb and pop coffee shop. That that's how
Speaker 2: I got my top loader in the ass.
Speaker 4: Yeah, me too, Yeah, I recently, I was like, I
Speaker 4: did the exact same lady just gave it.
Speaker 6: What did you say, your toploaded in the one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, toplad.
Speaker 1: Entertainment system, I said.
Speaker 6: So I got toploaded in the ass.
Speaker 1: No, I got that would be bottom loaded. Come on,
Speaker 1: what are you what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Jesus? Well, no, I guess the top would Oh yeah top.
Speaker 6: Okay, child will say.
Speaker 1: That happened, Yes, thank you? Okay the old lady? Yes,
Speaker 1: deeply into pegging, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2: I don't know how we made this pivot as a website,
Speaker 2: but here we are proudly.
Speaker 1: How many more letters do we get the pe pe Wait, everybody.
Speaker 2: All right, well okay, next email comes from Sean from Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 2: What's up, crew, So, with the recent release of Marvel
Speaker 2: Versus Capcom two Arcade Classics and the upcoming Arcade Fighting
Speaker 2: Collection two got me to wonder if you could take
Speaker 2: any characters out of any game genre and do it
Speaker 2: in a tag battle match versus Capcom Marvel versus Capcom style.
Speaker 2: Who's your team? Who you're gonna save the world with?
Speaker 2: Thanks Shawn from Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 5: Blasto and mister Mosquito.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, incredible Crisis Guy and Blasto.
Speaker 1: Blast that's really good. Kirky Masterson and Tiger Woods Pickman.
Speaker 6: Yeah, a hundred hundreds of pickmen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, like a rat what is the like
Speaker 2: swarm of rats called rat a rat king of pimen.
Speaker 6: But but the rat king means that they're all tied together.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I got a rat king of piman right here.
Speaker 1: Look at them, they're all tied together.
Speaker 5: I don't want to see like the pickman versus all
Speaker 5: the little serve bots now very similar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a rat king of pickmen, a rat king
Speaker 2: of rabbits, a rat king of minions, and beetlejuice. Okay, yep, yep,
Speaker 2: that is my team. Uh, hey, Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice.
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't like it.
Speaker 6: I think, hey, you just said it three times.
Speaker 5: I wish I like that. I wish I still felt
Speaker 5: joy in my heart from movies.
Speaker 1: But it did. It did very little for.
Speaker 6: Again everyone, Matrix is coming back in theaters for the
Speaker 6: twenty fifth anniversary.
Speaker 1: It's gonna say it had.
Speaker 5: To bother you too, where like they didn't want Beetle
Speaker 5: Juice to be in the movie. For Also, he just
Speaker 5: literally said I have to go to the bathroom and
Speaker 5: walked away from the scene.
Speaker 2: I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't funny. There's a lady going around trying
Speaker 1: to kill him. You start to get him out of
Speaker 1: the scene. I'm sorry, I really.
Speaker 2: Like you know what.
Speaker 1: That's it. A lot of people are good in the movie.
Speaker 1: The writing is terrible.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I actually I liked dead Pool Wolverine. I thought that
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. So that does very Recently.
Speaker 2: I did not like that Pool and Wolverine, despite being
Speaker 2: a marble free.
Speaker 1: I cried at La La Land the other night.
Speaker 2: Huh moved by white people saving and preserving jazz.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, listen a little god mostly like those that
Speaker 3: character is like such a dip ship for that stuff,
Speaker 3: but the movie does know it at a certain point.
Speaker 3: I liked how they showed that the last flashbackup, like
Speaker 3: here's what life could have been, and it's clear that
Speaker 3: they both would have chosen it if they really had
Speaker 3: the opportunity to.
Speaker 5: There are there's a scene in law where like he's
Speaker 5: like the guy like sort out enjoyed like some new
Speaker 5: like fusion jazz band thing, and like he's like it's
Speaker 5: like the point is like the Two Cares show, like,
Speaker 5: oh wow, can you believe how I sought out for
Speaker 5: this garbage? And I'll say that they're like, I think
Speaker 5: this sounds pretty good.
Speaker 1: Work an legend.
Speaker 5: It's fine, that's kind of fun. I don't see what
Speaker 5: the problem with this is. But oh I am very
Speaker 5: excited about Megalopolis.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, did you hear the a the Amazon AI staff?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: No, okay, So they for this movie. Apparently they were
Speaker 6: working on some AI tech at Amazon so that audience
Speaker 6: members could ask Adam Driver a question, because there's a
Speaker 6: point where he talks to the audience in the movie.
Speaker 6: And so when they were doing like the film festivals.
Speaker 6: They had a person in real life three D space
Speaker 6: talk to Adam Driver, and then they tried to do
Speaker 6: it so that people in the audience could do it
Speaker 6: with AI, and then Amazon canned the whole team.
Speaker 4: Amazing.
Speaker 6: Think of what they took from us.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I think it's still gonna be completely
Speaker 4: bad ship. Yeah, should not wait?
Speaker 1: Alright not next email?
Speaker 2: Uh comes from Alison in Alabama. Hey, love y'all. Quick
Speaker 2: question for a theoretical five hundred dollars Would you rather
Speaker 2: be really really itchy for thirty minutes or really really
Speaker 2: hot for forty five minutes? Both actions would leave no
Speaker 2: lasting injuries or wounds, i e. Cuts, sunburns, dehydration, et cetera.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if I like the thing what's hot is like,
Speaker 5: there's also the fear. It's like, oh, this is gonna
Speaker 5: kill me. So if I that wasn't there, like, oh,
Speaker 5: if I don't worry about passing out or something, I
Speaker 5: guess I could be really hot for forty five minutest.
Speaker 6: I hate.
Speaker 2: I hate being I hate it too. That's a fun
Speaker 2: sound clip some seated James.
Speaker 6: I Oh my god, no, because sometimes, like I get it.
Speaker 6: It's just a weird patch here on my upper arm.
Speaker 6: Every so often I get a really severe itch that
Speaker 6: like hurts, and I'll have to be like ah and yeah,
Speaker 6: I couldn't deal with that for thirty minutes.
Speaker 5: Also, like when you're itchy, there is like that kind
Speaker 5: of like relief, like feel good moment when you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if it doesn't go away, it's terrible.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I know there's no lasting damage, but you can like
Speaker 3: it's yourself so bad that you scratch yourself so bad
Speaker 3: that you like start to watch yourself raw, get in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: I feel like I've scratched myself for thirty minutes, so
Speaker 2: I think I could do it already.
Speaker 1: Listen, I'm believing your your capability to scratch yourself.
Speaker 6: Like where are you itchy though? Are you itchy all
Speaker 6: over over?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're gonna be hot all over that'd be hot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've go with hot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'd be uncomfortable but not the worst.
Speaker 2: Yeah, forty five minutes feels like a long time, but
Speaker 2: it would be a long time.
Speaker 6: But that's the thing though, No, because I go to
Speaker 6: the spa, right, and I say in a steam room,
Speaker 6: because that's the thing. Is it humid? If it's you.
Speaker 3: Maybe hot, they just said hot, but it's gonna be
Speaker 3: uncomfortable hot no matter what.
Speaker 1: I assume.
Speaker 5: It's like a like a sun beating down on you
Speaker 5: in an open field and a really hot day, kind
Speaker 5: of hot.
Speaker 1: Like I had a bit.
Speaker 5: I went to some kids soccer games, some of the
Speaker 5: nephews and nieces of Saturday, and like they just played
Speaker 5: this big, unshaded field and you know, it was a
Speaker 5: pretty hot day. You just kind of have to sit
Speaker 5: out there and just kind of take it for a while.
Speaker 5: It's pretty rough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess. I like wrestle Mania when it was
Speaker 2: here in Santa Claara. I baked for more than forty five.
Speaker 4: I got a sunburn on my eyeballs.
Speaker 2: What too?
Speaker 4: Yeah. I just like remember, like like an hour after
Speaker 4: it got dark, I was like, why my eyes so itchy?
Speaker 4: What's going on? And I was like, oh, I was
Speaker 4: just like staring and like the sun was coming down
Speaker 4: and reflecting off like a metal thing too. And I
Speaker 4: think I burned my eyeballs.
Speaker 6: You can, Yeah, you can really badly sunburn your eye lids.
Speaker 1: Which who.
Speaker 2: Last couple of emails. This one comes from Mattias from Sweden.
Speaker 2: Aloha BombCast. Here are some random thoughts and questions that
Speaker 2: have spawned in my brain due to me listening to you.
Speaker 2: Did Lucy sleep on an opportunity when she didn't name
Speaker 2: her hypothetical game publisher Lucy James Juicy Games for Fantasy
Speaker 2: Critic League. When Grubb says a foreign name or word
Speaker 2: predominantly in Japanese, it makes me think of when Brad
Speaker 2: Pitt's character Aldo Raine speaks what he claims to be
Speaker 2: Italian in the two thousand and eight Quarantine nor Lami
Speaker 2: in Glorious Bastards. I hope you. I hope you also
Speaker 2: will henceforth. Also, should there be a show where Jeff
Speaker 2: and Mitch coasting lude games on Thursday called Minati's Thursdays
Speaker 2: grubbling out best regards Mattias from Sweden?
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, We're We're gonna beat. It is the name
Speaker 4: of the feature, you know what.
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna say. I still don't understand what a
Speaker 6: Fantasy Critic League is, and I just I never remember
Speaker 6: to log in back last doll. Thank goodness you're here
Speaker 6: from me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lucy, the bad news you I think you are
Speaker 3: if you asked so, if you lose you have to
Speaker 3: play the.
Speaker 1: Worst game on anyone's list. Where it's right.
Speaker 3: Now is you have a few slots you gotta picture.
Speaker 3: I think it would be the Skull and Bones.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 4: Who's projected to win by a large margin right now?
Speaker 1: Well, that that does projections, don't I think it's Nikki.
Speaker 4: I think it's your.
Speaker 5: Gap is closing already since last time with oh yeah,
Speaker 5: you had a pretty good day with some two big
Speaker 5: hits an empty Slotstone Fantasy Critic Thought Games.
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, recent hits A Dan hit very hard
Speaker 1: with UFO fifty and frost Punk two and Astronaut and
Speaker 1: yeah with an Astropod.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I got good place for Punky Squire. But
Speaker 5: you're too scared me there for a little.
Speaker 1: Yeah that you actually that's actually a really good score
Speaker 1: for that game.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's what.
Speaker 1: Well, and god you have a paper Mario A thousand.
Speaker 3: Your door as well, Dan eighty nine, Yeah a good get. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's I think Dan's kind of probably hasn't locked up.
Speaker 4: But so you're all gonna been mowah when I win. Right,
Speaker 4: that's how this works. Call of duty can be risky.
Speaker 4: Call of duty sometimes gets negative points. Now it seems
Speaker 4: like people are high on this one, so it'll be
Speaker 4: probably going to be fine.
Speaker 3: Actually, the reality for me if to win Mario Luigi
Speaker 3: Brothership has to be like very good, and then nev
Speaker 3: and Microsoft Flight Simular twenty twenty four also have to
Speaker 3: both be like.
Speaker 1: Nineties to have a shot.
Speaker 5: I need Being to the Hallower to come out this year,
Speaker 5: and I need Indy and Jones' The Great Circle to
Speaker 5: maybe overdoor, like I.
Speaker 6: Need Hollow Stock song. Okay, like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely last two emails of the show. This
Speaker 2: one comes from Nikolai from Australia. Hey, BombCast crew, I've
Speaker 2: just completed my tour of the US. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you know this, but the fast food in America
Speaker 2: is not so good and seems to have zero seasoning. Raisin, Kenes,
Speaker 2: Wendy's and Popeyes probably take the top spots. But this
Speaker 2: are doing a lot of the work. Your KFC is
Speaker 2: so much worse than Australia. It feels like you guys
Speaker 2: are missing out on the secret herbs and spices. Do
Speaker 2: you guys like overseas food or does it have too
Speaker 2: much going on for you guys?
Speaker 1: Okay, now to be clear.
Speaker 5: I haven't been to Australia, but in Europe the fast
Speaker 5: food definitely less seasoned than in America. Definitely less salt
Speaker 5: going on in the Germany McDonald's than in the one backhime.
Speaker 4: Mike and I also were in London for like twenty
Speaker 4: four hours and had both KFC and McDonald's in London,
Speaker 4: and KFC had the Kansas Barbecue tenders, which like, okay,
Speaker 4: I got to see what the hell Germany thinks Kansas
Speaker 4: barbecue is and they were fine. But yeah, there's not
Speaker 4: enough seasoning in salt on stuff and flavor in the
Speaker 4: European ones I've been too.
Speaker 3: And this is like America like is nothing but super savory,
Speaker 3: well flavored food if you go anywhere like outside.
Speaker 1: Of these fast food places. But fast food is like
Speaker 1: very you're safe for the most party.
Speaker 5: It's most nominal freezing canes. Specifically, they don't put enough
Speaker 5: salt on their tenders.
Speaker 1: Sauce. The sauce is doing all of the heavy lifting there,
Speaker 1: that's true, but it's a very good sauce.
Speaker 4: Texas, that's good.
Speaker 1: Popeyes Popeye isn't out of seasoning for you.
Speaker 2: Top spot is what they said.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, pop is incredible.
Speaker 6: Now, yeah, the the gravy in KFC in the UK
Speaker 6: is phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, I don't think I got any It came
Speaker 5: up as a sauce and that weird to be out.
Speaker 5: For some reason, I don't want to think of gravy
Speaker 5: as a sauce, even though it is. It's like clip
Speaker 5: should be a separate thing.
Speaker 4: That clip of you eating a lindoor chocolate at the
Speaker 4: chocolate factory and the and the travelog and you've been like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is what I imagine fruit to be. Like, wait,
Speaker 4: we have a completely weird like you think you might
Speaker 4: into an apple and then there's like a bunch of
Speaker 4: goo comes out.
Speaker 5: A lot of water gets released. It doesn't that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we know. Yeah, but if you've bitten to me,
Speaker 1: I would goosh.
Speaker 4: Like the tidal wave of liquid coming It's like, no,
Speaker 4: it's juicy grape.
Speaker 5: It's like a lot of water in there and it
Speaker 5: kind of like explodes in your mouth. And I hate that.
Speaker 5: That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't like that's his whole thing is. He doesn't
Speaker 1: like the the how watery, the good juice. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: Kind of wet. What about raisins.
Speaker 5: Are I'll eat a raisin like, I don't love it,
Speaker 5: but I can eat a raisin yet. Dry fruits are
Speaker 5: definitely way better than raw ones.
Speaker 4: For strawberries, like.
Speaker 5: I know, strawberries aren't quite as wet other things. No,
Speaker 5: but I don't want a strawberry bananas.
Speaker 2: Are you okay with bananas?
Speaker 1: No, but they're not as wet as there was.
Speaker 4: But so I'm not.
Speaker 5: Not really very wet, more fibery, fibrous.
Speaker 1: This is making linden or starchy litter. Chocolates are awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, okay, look on the look on those. I
Speaker 5: know that I'm just kind of weird and I want
Speaker 5: don't like chocolate that much. Into don't like that liquid
Speaker 5: explosion no matter what. I didn't like gushers as a kid.
Speaker 5: I just don't like liquid centers in things. It's kind
Speaker 5: of weird to meats gross dry centers. Only only the
Speaker 5: dryest centers from my parched centers.
Speaker 4: Chats us Dan's food takes walks so Mike's food taste
Speaker 4: could run. It is so weird to not being the
Speaker 4: weirdest person on a podcast.
Speaker 1: I am that is insane.
Speaker 5: No, I am absolutely not weirder that Dan, Why is
Speaker 5: it weird that the German chocolate factory doesn't talk about
Speaker 5: the lake?
Speaker 4: I didn't know the chocolate factory was implicit Yeah, complicitly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can't say that word anymore. Guys, what are
Speaker 2: you doing?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: Goes in the complicit bucket? Sorry? All right?
Speaker 2: Last email of the show. Jesus H. Christ. Uh. Since
Speaker 2: we got really into Space Marine, a lot of folks
Speaker 2: have written in about Space Spice Marie Lore and this
Speaker 2: comes from Jamie Ireland. How is it going? Bomb Crew?
Speaker 2: During your unprofessional Friday's playthrough of Space Marine two, Dan
Speaker 2: came up with an idea of for a quiz where
Speaker 2: players get up me something is the name of the
Speaker 2: Spice Marine chapter from the Warhammer forty k universe or
Speaker 2: a pro wrestling stable on the independent scene. So here
Speaker 2: it came up with one. I made it a little
Speaker 2: bit more challenging by including wrestling stables from around the world,
Speaker 2: not just from American indies. All right, first one, you
Speaker 2: guys ready, sure, Yeah, let's do it, all right. I'm
Speaker 2: not keeping score, you keep score for yourselves. Black Templars, Warhammer.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Warhammer.
Speaker 2: Like Warhammer you're correct. That is from Space Marines, Blood Warriors.
Speaker 5: Or Wrestling Wrestling Stable Warmmer wrestling from Dragon Gate.
Speaker 1: Oh jeff, you hear that.
Speaker 5: Damn mister, I know everything about wrestling, about World War
Speaker 5: two wrestling.
Speaker 3: He doesn't know anything about anything other outside of American
Speaker 3: wrestling on the record about Oh.
Speaker 1: That's right, I forgot he's racist.
Speaker 4: It's not gonna work that way.
Speaker 3: Mike, Mike's hot because thirty five to twenty seven, Mike
Speaker 3: is currently weirder in the most recent pole.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: I always lose poles.
Speaker 3: Because previously Dan got by far Dan was the weirder
Speaker 3: one the last time we did this is it.
Speaker 5: That's really what threw people over the fact that I
Speaker 5: don't like things with wet centers like everyone everyone else
Speaker 5: in the world is allowed to say. It's I'm a
Speaker 5: texture person, but I don't like wet, weird, watery food
Speaker 5: and I'm a freak.
Speaker 1: Now, what's the next one?
Speaker 5: Jent, Golden Storm Riders, Warhammer. I think pro wrestling. That
Speaker 5: sounds like some new japan ship right there.
Speaker 1: That's so wordy it's hard to say. I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with wrestling, Okay, what if I just
Speaker 2: say all of them moving forward, it as like a
Speaker 2: spice Marite. Yeah yeah, okay, okay, uh, this is in
Speaker 2: fact wrestling for the Okay. Next one is Order of the.
Speaker 4: Neo Solar Temple, that Hammer, war Hammer.
Speaker 2: Warmmer Wrestling, and Chakara.
Speaker 1: Awesome. Okay, Leader of the Damned Warhammer.
Speaker 6: For all of these, because they all.
Speaker 1: Could, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go wrestling.
Speaker 2: It is in fact Warhammer. Hey, okay, this one I
Speaker 2: heard about Sisters of Battles Wrestling, Space Marine Alley.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've got any of these, right, Raven
Speaker 4: God Warhammer.
Speaker 1: That is a wrestling stable that specifically predicts the wrestler.
Speaker 2: Raven that's his flock. Come on now now, now he's
Speaker 2: got the guard. Okay, it is in fact the Space Marines.
Speaker 2: The next one is Magical Sugar Rabbits Wrestling. I'm going
Speaker 2: with Warhammer just to say it is wrestling from Tokyo
Speaker 2: Joshi Pro.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: This one Death Hawks war.
Speaker 6: Oh it sounds like but it could be wrested wrestling.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with wrestling. It is space I think
Speaker 1: I'm winning, by the way, all right.
Speaker 2: Next one is Disciples of the New Church.
Speaker 4: That is wrestling.
Speaker 5: That's Warhammer. I don't think you would say church wrestling.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: It is wrestling. That's the person I heard. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: n w A and t NA. Next one is Arion
Speaker 2: Champions Warhammer.
Speaker 4: I don't go with the Warhammer, Warhammer wrestling, Warhammer, okay.
Speaker 2: Next one is Contra Unit slang wrestling, Yes, major League wrestling.
Speaker 2: Next one is Nights of Thunder, war Hammer, Warhammer Wrestling,
Speaker 2: Warhammer Dead Final Stretch here, Folks Psycho Circus.
Speaker 1: That's a kiss for.
Speaker 5: That's one of the Barks and Marvels's capcom too.
Speaker 4: There was the Kiss team in wrestlers. I'll say wrestling.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be wrestling. Yeah. I don't think there'd be
Speaker 1: circuses in warm wrestling.
Speaker 2: It'd be really fucked up circuses though. Uh. It is
Speaker 2: wrestling from Triple A Final four here, Doom Lee Juddon.
Speaker 1: Could be.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with wrestling, Warhammer, Warhammer.
Speaker 1: Wow. Both legions have been Warhammer, and I was wrong
Speaker 1: each time.
Speaker 4: Vultures Squad Warammer.
Speaker 1: Isn't there a Ravens squad already? War Hammer Wrestling wrestling.
Speaker 2: It is wrestling from ring of Honor, oh owich and
Speaker 2: then Nemo Sirs.
Speaker 3: Warhammer, Resident Evil okay, wrestling wrestling uh uh, I'll go
Speaker 3: with Warhammer.
Speaker 2: With that it is Space Marines okay. And final one,
Speaker 2: thank you Jamie I from Ireland for putting this all together.
Speaker 2: The final uh Faction or Warhammer is United Empire Wrestling.
Speaker 1: Wrestling wrestling, Yeah, wrestling.
Speaker 2: It is wrestling from New Japan. Yeah right, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: thank you everyone, And congratulations whoever the heck won that
Speaker 2: quiz that was?
Speaker 1: That was tough. That was actually really it's fine. That
Speaker 1: worked better. I thought it would.
Speaker 4: They weren't from four companies I know, so I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Uh. And that about does it for emails this week?
Speaker 2: What have we got going on? We got Game mess
Speaker 2: Mornings popping off. We've for the most part, returned to
Speaker 2: a regular week as far as I know. Have a
Speaker 2: jojo I think we have a JoJo's from Jeff Jeff's
Speaker 2: from last week. That is up on the website if
Speaker 2: you missed it getting posted. It is up on the
Speaker 2: site now. Gameless Mornings for the rest of the week.
Speaker 2: Voicemail Dump Truck Blight Club continuing on Mikey, how are
Speaker 2: your eyes.
Speaker 5: They're feeling a little dry. I might need to do
Speaker 5: a lot of blinking tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Again, continues to deliver.
Speaker 1: It's perfect.
Speaker 2: We will have a We're switching it up on Friday, folks.
Speaker 2: We're going to do games mornings and then BCR and
Speaker 2: then UPF. It turns out it might be a little
Speaker 2: bit more fun to end the week with unprofessional Fridays
Speaker 2: versus a podcast. We'll be talking about more games on Friday,
Speaker 2: Thursday or Wednesday. We're gonna try and do a grub bag.
Speaker 2: We've been meaning to do a little bit of catch
Speaker 2: up playing some games that we've been talking about on
Speaker 2: the website. Grub I may have to talk to you
Speaker 2: about Thursday because I totally forgot. I gotta go.
Speaker 1: So on Thursday, is gonna face me in Marvel. We're
Speaker 1: gonna stucking me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 5: I got ladies with hats and they're ready to fight.
Speaker 1: Also this week, uh, the Little pamp Ever.
Speaker 2: Also this week, the Cologne, Germany travelog video is up.
Speaker 2: Please check it out, Please watch it again. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: ask you to just leave a comment, Just leave a
Speaker 2: comment and do a thumbs up, just just just that.
Speaker 4: A'go correct Mikey on the Ponco thing.
Speaker 5: Absolutely not a lot of loan words have different pronunciations
Speaker 5: here than they did in their origin countries.
Speaker 2: And folks, what do we learn today? We've learned that
Speaker 2: Mike Mananti is the biggest fan of the movie here.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2: We learned that Lucy James is big on dad Pilot Instagram.
Speaker 2: We learned that maybe Jeff Grubb and Dan Record might
Speaker 2: be a little too funny in the Dudy. We also
Speaker 2: learned that Dan beat it last pause for Mike. We
Speaker 2: learned that Garth Chomp is back, that there's a big
Speaker 2: two on that god dang box from Nintendo. We also
Speaker 2: learned about the intricacies and the intimacies of the meat
Speaker 2: Bridge and about the gooch that stole Christmas fantastic. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna name the podcast that today. I cannot, It's
Speaker 2: no possible way to do that. We also learned about
Speaker 2: liquid explosions and how much they bother Mike Manatti and
Speaker 2: how much that is tied to fruit.
Speaker 5: That's It's the water World stunt show in Universal Studios, Hollwood.
Speaker 1: Those are great liquid explosions.
Speaker 2: Thank you for clarifying that, Mike Rowaddy, Sean Grab.
Speaker 4: Those are great liquid explosions.
Speaker 2: Please, those are great liquid explosions. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: soundbites from today. Share your favorite soundbites with us on
Speaker 2: the internet, folks, because we'll see you next week for
Speaker 2: another episode of the Giant BombCast. I've been Jan, he's
Speaker 2: been Jeff, he's been Mike, he's been Dan. She's been
Speaker 2: losing you at home. I've been doing great talk Amont Company.
Speaker 2: I'm still talking to you, color commentator. Do it.
Speaker 1: What are you scared of? Imagine a braid? Imagine this
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 8: Going like, Holy God, damn and son are I'm colladerating
Speaker 8: that whole time.
Speaker 1: That's all this God.
Speaker 2: We'll see you next week for another episode of the
Speaker 2: Giant BombCast.
Speaker 1: I love you, Wow.