Speaker 1: Hey, Everybody's Tuesday, January twentieth, twenty twenty six. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the Giant BombCast, Episode nine hundred and twenty four. I
Speaker 1: am your host, jan At Shoa. This is the Jesse
Speaker 1: the Body Ventura of video game podcasts. You can extrapolate
Speaker 1: at home what that means joining me co Captain of
Speaker 1: the ship Jeff Grabe.
Speaker 2: I'm a turkey and I want to drink like the
Speaker 2: body Gobble, Gobble Gobble.
Speaker 3: He's got two kegs under his arm, just for funzies.
Speaker 4: Dan Reichert, No, man, I'm on that Starbars juice.
Speaker 2: Now, just move on, Just move on.
Speaker 1: The human epitome of Starbar and all fruity, joyous flavors.
Speaker 3: Jeff Beckler, that's you, just I don't you could have
Speaker 3: done better than that.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Starbursts melted down into a drinkable things
Speaker 3: Starars Way. That's a new sentence.
Speaker 2: It's basically just watery Starburst speaking about new sentences.
Speaker 1: He's constantly spouting them because he's so problematic, because he's
Speaker 1: the boy of games media. My like Manati, all.
Speaker 2: The hateful thoughts in my brain come out as mean sentences.
Speaker 2: Look Out everybody, especially people different from me.
Speaker 3: The fuck was that? Mike boy?
Speaker 4: We've interacting with Mike for like twelve minutes this morning already,
Speaker 4: and I feel like it's a weird mic day. Yeahually,
Speaker 4: get those?
Speaker 5: He finished his burrito early. I'm not got some lip smacking,
Speaker 5: but not enough and enough of what I need?
Speaker 3: Ony, what happened you wake up at ten am? What's
Speaker 3: going on?
Speaker 2: Wake up?
Speaker 1: I feel like mikey pretty good is in an interesting
Speaker 1: zone when he has not enough sleep and perhaps too
Speaker 1: much sleep. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my sleep schedule has been pretty rough lately, even
Speaker 2: worse than usual, like and just recover from holidays. Oh no,
Speaker 2: absolutely not. Uh yeah, I got.
Speaker 3: Why are you embarrassed by it? Oh you're not?
Speaker 2: This is you're not his dad?
Speaker 4: I mean until four am like every day this weekend.
Speaker 4: That's that's fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always am that for sure and stuff. Oh
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, absolutely, yeah exactly, So I got to dial
Speaker 2: that in at some point here, Uh for sure. But
Speaker 2: you know, so many I feel so cozy in bed,
Speaker 2: just playing games on my switch and watching stupid YouTube
Speaker 2: videos and whatnot. It's kind of just where I want
Speaker 2: to be. It's like, if I go to sleep it's like,
Speaker 2: I'm not optimizing my bedtime. But he is a very
Speaker 2: stupid thing to think.
Speaker 1: What are they on YouTube videos keeping you up? Mikey?
Speaker 1: What's on the Mikey algo.
Speaker 2: I've been watching a lot of Happy Complies people, a
Speaker 2: lot of Dark Soul's challenge run videos. Uh, specifically by
Speaker 2: JK Leeds. He's always like, I'm now, I'm gonna play
Speaker 2: Dark Souls one using only my fists, or I'm gonna
Speaker 2: beat the game only using throwing knives.
Speaker 1: That kind of thing you.
Speaker 4: Said, only using fists honestly picturing somebody moving the sticks with.
Speaker 2: Donkey conga. Yeah, there are people who do that, but
Speaker 2: now that's talk.
Speaker 1: About you know, it's a bit more realistic than.
Speaker 2: Is there someone that beat like eldering with a banana.
Speaker 2: They like turned a banana into a controller or something
Speaker 2: that's familiar that that's great. Uh No, these are I
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't want to like, I guess it'd
Speaker 2: be kind of needs somebody beats oldering with their feet.
Speaker 2: But no, it's like I beat it using only this
Speaker 2: spell that everybody says it's bad.
Speaker 1: But that okay, okay, okay, folks at home, you can
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff Grub, can you tell the folks at
Speaker 1: home how they can support us over here at giant
Speaker 1: bomb dot com.
Speaker 2: First, they need to know why they need to suppor us,
Speaker 2: because we're independent games media out here on our own.
Speaker 2: But you go to giant bomb dot com, slash join
Speaker 2: and become a premium member. That enables us to continue
Speaker 2: doing what we do over here. It ensures the safety
Speaker 2: and security in the future of independent games media, and
Speaker 2: also makes you part of something cool, Like we have
Speaker 2: a cool thing going on over here. You can be
Speaker 2: a part of it. You also get a bunch of goodies.
Speaker 2: I'll be putting out a new grub Snacks premium today.
Speaker 2: There's been one episode so far, and we'll be another
Speaker 2: one this week and all the weeks going forward. So
Speaker 2: tune in for something like that and ad free shows
Speaker 2: all those good things.
Speaker 1: Join us our house.
Speaker 2: That's why Mike Michael will threaten you if you don't
Speaker 2: join us.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think we said we need a tagline, joined us
Speaker 2: or else?
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I like that?
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, and like the logo. It's like line drawn
Speaker 1: Mike Manatti shaking his fists at you.
Speaker 2: I should smiling. It should be a that's the position, right,
Speaker 2: that's right, maybe like a truly warm smile.
Speaker 3: The duality of man.
Speaker 1: Also shuts out to our friends at main Gear, main
Speaker 1: Hear dot com slash Giant Bomb. Go buy yourself a PC.
Speaker 1: Go get a face plate by Mikey's face plate. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stop telling you to not or else I'll get you.
Speaker 1: All right. How's everyone else doing, guys?
Speaker 2: Okay, great? All right? Yeah, who's that? Man?
Speaker 5: My kids have had a second winter break, right, So
Speaker 5: they missed school on Thursday because of the snow day,
Speaker 5: and then they had a long weekend because of Martin
Speaker 5: Luther King Junior Day, and then today there was an
Speaker 5: extreme cold, wet weather day.
Speaker 3: It's like negative ten.
Speaker 1: Out, it's roped up. Yeah, I'm not leaving this house.
Speaker 4: It was last night. The door like wide open. It
Speaker 4: was awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great week off. So so they have off because
Speaker 3: of the temperature. Yes, yeah, yeah. Wow.
Speaker 4: Have you been in like negative double digit weather before?
Speaker 3: Of course?
Speaker 4: Okay, it's bad. I mean, like, but have you in
Speaker 4: full on like ski gear masks and stuff like I
Speaker 4: do ski gear?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, Like it's hard when you just want to go
Speaker 4: out to the mailbox or do a run, you know.
Speaker 3: I understand, Yeah, I just I'm surprised. I'm still surprising.
Speaker 3: I guess what what what? What temperatures are we dealing
Speaker 3: with here?
Speaker 2: Grow?
Speaker 5: So it's it's negative like five, and that's regular without
Speaker 5: the windshow.
Speaker 2: And then with the wind show, it's like it's like
Speaker 2: quite a bit more.
Speaker 3: It's like, my lord, yeah, it's not that bad here.
Speaker 3: It's only it's about eighteen degrees here today. And they
Speaker 3: expected to get colder.
Speaker 5: Pretty well, you know, that's when the bus was coming
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. Right now, I think it's a
Speaker 5: little bit warmer, do like this.
Speaker 3: This is a typical this for where Dan lives. It's normal.
Speaker 3: But I think, yeah, you know, yeah, it's it's rough.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can't live California ever.
Speaker 1: I can't. Guy.
Speaker 3: I know it's only Tuesday, but they're predicting an godly
Speaker 3: amount of snow this weekend for my area, and a
Speaker 3: lot of them middle.
Speaker 2: Getting the storm that we had. Yeah, it keeps swirling
Speaker 2: back and forth and stuff. Yeah, yeah, we had something.
Speaker 2: We had some good stuff happening here.
Speaker 1: It's it's forty seven degrees here and I thought, in
Speaker 1: my hands got cold.
Speaker 2: That's it's cold for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, propical, that is shorts weather. Brother, that's shorts.
Speaker 2: Shorts, Yes, shorts right now. And I did go outside
Speaker 2: for like ten seconds.
Speaker 3: I died, but yeah, I got it. I know I
Speaker 3: say this a lot, but the people going outside and
Speaker 3: zero degree weather with shorts and a hoodie, like, I
Speaker 3: just don't know who you are.
Speaker 2: Well, my name was Jeff, Nice to meet you.
Speaker 3: Back.
Speaker 4: It's like, here's the thing. Nine to nine. Some of
Speaker 4: the day you're inside, so you dress for comfort inside
Speaker 4: and sometimes that's shorts, and then you need to just
Speaker 4: go outside for something quick to get talking about or
Speaker 4: something you know.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about quick quickly.
Speaker 2: In the shorts and the hoodie. Recently it was very cold,
Speaker 2: like that's the fart furthest I would go like, I'm
Speaker 2: just going to even get gas for the week, pick
Speaker 2: up a few things inside the store, and coming back.
Speaker 3: That's that's even that I think is fine. I'm talking
Speaker 3: about people who are just like this is living.
Speaker 2: The full day outfil my line.
Speaker 4: My line is like around here because people are so
Speaker 4: obsessed with running and biking and stuffy, like even like
Speaker 4: it was like negative twenty the other day. I saw
Speaker 4: guys out running in the park and like wow, and bike, Yeah,
Speaker 4: people'll bike with the big ass fat tire bikes and stuff.
Speaker 4: It's insane.
Speaker 3: I get it. But when you start to sweat, it's
Speaker 3: like I can do that, right, Like you can do that,
Speaker 3: you can make that work, you can, you can live,
Speaker 3: you can. You know, that's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 3: But it's crazy. Yeah, I just it's all year round.
Speaker 3: I just can't. You know, hoodies, hoodies in the summer,
Speaker 3: shorts in the winter. We're an ass backwards culture.
Speaker 2: Are we?
Speaker 1: Dogs in the streets?
Speaker 2: That My car heater is not very good right now,
Speaker 2: and like twice I try to get it fixed and
Speaker 2: it's roth and am I trying to get through this
Speaker 2: winter before? I just probably have to just buy a
Speaker 2: new car. It's just that time. But like, uh, it's rough.
Speaker 2: I want to buy a car now, but the prices
Speaker 2: are really high because it's the winter and all the
Speaker 2: reasons where I don't know, maybe cars are just always
Speaker 2: going to be insanely expensive and bad again, So I
Speaker 2: don't know, would you have on that jeep? I'm not
Speaker 2: to be a bummer. No, it's not that many obviously,
Speaker 2: right A thousand, yeah, six thousand, sixty Oh you're seventy.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, don't. I would not accept that. What's happening.
Speaker 2: It's a jeep. That's the thing you got, Mike. I'm
Speaker 2: begging you. Next car has to be a Toyota. It's
Speaker 2: like we're super so it's a it's a twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: it's it is older. I just you know, I've worked
Speaker 2: from home since forever again, right sixty five, very much rough.
Speaker 2: I think what the problem is. Back when I lived
Speaker 2: in my apartment, it was parked outside all the time.
Speaker 1: I would get to it and like.
Speaker 2: But also the je jeeps are just there, just falling apart. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just what he is? A ship?
Speaker 1: Said Shi, Yeah, Mikey, what are you gonna do when
Speaker 1: people stop leaving rubber duckies outside?
Speaker 2: It is a bit of like a club that I
Speaker 2: don't want to leave, is actually the problem?
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, there's another name for a club you don't
Speaker 5: want to leave. Just searching for it, you can't quite
Speaker 5: come to my mind.
Speaker 2: Like the sucks, like the way big and everything.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: My dad joined the jeep cult a few months ago,
Speaker 4: but he absolutely hate quality of the duck thing. So
Speaker 4: when I was home for the holidays. I brought hundreds
Speaker 4: of little ducks and I put it inside his fuel
Speaker 4: cap thing. I put it underneath his mirrors. So I
Speaker 4: put him down. A bunch of ducks fall down. Good,
Speaker 4: the glove compartment. He loves that stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're doing the Lord's work there, and then happy
Speaker 3: for him. That was good, Mike, I'm not happy with this.
Speaker 3: You gotta do something. I'm a sixty thousand mile car too.
Speaker 2: Late, Like it's too late. He's right, he's got to
Speaker 2: move on from this car. But I I dumped I
Speaker 2: dumped like thousands of dollars into it this past year
Speaker 2: to be like, oh, this is gonna be the tune up.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be five years. And here I am already
Speaker 2: like this thing is just not doing it.
Speaker 3: So your car's pissing me off.
Speaker 2: I can't put any more money into it.
Speaker 3: Well, look, if it's if it's only got sixty thousand miles,
Speaker 3: it probably has some value. You just gotta get someone
Speaker 3: to like.
Speaker 2: You, Yes, exactly, So you're going, what's to buy my car?
Speaker 1: Color?
Speaker 3: Audience color.
Speaker 1: It's called anvil steel. It's like a nice little kind
Speaker 1: of grayish blue.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he still loves.
Speaker 3: When you when you twinkle your fingers like that. It
Speaker 3: really just adds are value.
Speaker 2: You've got a little sticker on the back of it
Speaker 2: of a monoo and it says my other car is
Speaker 2: a Monarou.
Speaker 3: Well that just devalue.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say that. Just I'll get rid of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: will you just like autograph it though, Mikey, Like just
Speaker 1: a gigantic autograph.
Speaker 2: Like the key, Yeah, like it only Tokodo, So what
Speaker 2: are you gonna get instead?
Speaker 3: I have a friends bought key is like, and they're
Speaker 3: very happy.
Speaker 2: Okay they fixed the thing.
Speaker 4: Did they fix the you can steal it easily thing?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Where you're at?
Speaker 3: Boy? The Kia boys thing. Yeah, that was very I
Speaker 3: think that was three years ago.
Speaker 4: Okay, but that's all fixed now, right, Yeah, they can't.
Speaker 2: Tell you, right.
Speaker 5: Is like a very popular, very big nicle. But I
Speaker 5: mean yeah, I just like that one just once. It's
Speaker 5: going to work forever. Suberu Yes, Toyota, yes, Honda yeah
Speaker 5: yeah yeah, like yourself for Honda Pilot budd Steps that
Speaker 5: we got in twenty twelve has had zero issues, continues
Speaker 5: to run one hundred and eighty thousand miles or something
Speaker 5: like that and just goes or.
Speaker 1: What if Mikey becomes a Harley guy?
Speaker 2: I like, no, No, my dad was a Harley guy
Speaker 2: in his forties and I did not like it.
Speaker 1: It was well, Mike, you know your birthday just passed
Speaker 1: December eighth. Maybe after another year this birthday, maybe you'd
Speaker 1: want to get a Harley.
Speaker 2: Well, because I'm turning forty, is that what you're saying? Yes,
Speaker 2: exactly that my dad had. No, I already have my
Speaker 2: mid life crisis. It was buying all these game two games,
Speaker 2: two games. Yes, that's my supertore five hundred dollars. That
Speaker 2: was my gracious, what car did you guys have like
Speaker 2: the highest miles on? Because I had a I had
Speaker 2: a Hyme Day Sonata that had when I sold it
Speaker 2: right before I got this minivan, had two hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty thousand miles on it.
Speaker 1: My car, my.
Speaker 3: Stacey, Stacey had a Civic, a ninety what was it
Speaker 3: a ninety or ninety one Stays or Civic something like that,
Speaker 3: ninety three she's here behind me. It was like to twenty.
Speaker 2: I think it had two hundred and twenty thousand miles.
Speaker 4: I can't imagine I've put more than thirty thousand miles.
Speaker 2: On the car. Are you've ever seen everything?
Speaker 4: No, I just and I haven't owned a lot of cars.
Speaker 4: I just don't drive bunch.
Speaker 2: Oh right, okay, but like thirty thousand's really low.
Speaker 4: When we just sold, when we just told we had
Speaker 4: for six years and it was like just add thirty
Speaker 4: oh wow, And that was drive away from Cross.
Speaker 2: Connectic five thousand miles a year on.
Speaker 4: Also a lot of that, right exactly. And working from home.
Speaker 2: I work from home, and yeah, but I'm like still
Speaker 2: because I dropped the kids off, so I'm getting to
Speaker 2: like six seven thousand a year miles miles. So yeah,
Speaker 2: like and thirty thousands even neither, I don't drop much.
Speaker 3: It's nothing. Yeah these days. Yeah, average is like twelve, right,
Speaker 3: the average.
Speaker 2: Is like that like the low end of the average,
Speaker 2: ten thousand miles a year. Yeah, God, I just I.
Speaker 1: Just want I know, I live in San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: if I moved to Los Angeles, it's the dumbest idea
Speaker 1: to get like a small pickup truck. I just want
Speaker 1: like a two seater, you know, not like a big
Speaker 1: truck truck for like purposes or just.
Speaker 3: For looking.
Speaker 5: Like for the same reason that he's trigging buzzballs and
Speaker 5: smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 2: Dan, He's just in that, you know it?
Speaker 4: You know what I heard Jans on that Pham roller lifestyle.
Speaker 4: Now I am Pham rollers.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 4: They get in there, don't they?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Because I had an existential crisis like I normally do,
Speaker 1: and then I thought, what if I go do run?
Speaker 1: What if I go and run the marathon with Dan
Speaker 1: in October? So you know, I put I put the
Speaker 1: stoves away because it's killing my lungs. Turns out, I
Speaker 1: don't know just casually running five k's in my backyard.
Speaker 3: I don't have a backyard. Uh. But yeah, Pham rollers.
Speaker 2: Y'all stretch like rolling the back right is that we're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 4: Fives are the big one for me. Thighs and it
Speaker 4: bands on the side like those are from calves too.
Speaker 4: If you cross one leg over, it gets in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I saw a K truck uh somewhere the other day
Speaker 3: and I instantly thought, of you. I couldn't believe I'd
Speaker 3: never seen one in person. They are so much smaller
Speaker 3: than I think.
Speaker 2: It's very tiny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like the truck bed size, it's still it's
Speaker 3: like a cyber truck.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, Wow, I could just like pick this
Speaker 3: thing up. I really, it's so incredibly small.
Speaker 1: Think about all I like I could put in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, truck, what you could fit three scouts? It's in there.
Speaker 1: She's getting pretty low phone rollers. Wow.
Speaker 3: Who knew?
Speaker 1: Uh, taking care of your body could feel so good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just find that one spot. You just lay
Speaker 4: on it for like thirty seconds and you feel like
Speaker 4: kind of just released.
Speaker 1: Is that going to help the gamer hump at all?
Speaker 3: You don't actually want it?
Speaker 2: Probably a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not great for spine stuff. I've talked to physical
Speaker 4: therapist about it, Like you're not really supposed to, Like
Speaker 4: you can do some very specific back things, but like
Speaker 4: it's more for big muscles on the legs and stuff
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 1: Actually, Mikey, look into doing scap push ups, not scat
Speaker 1: scap scap scap scap. I am hercules all again, All right, all.
Speaker 5: Right time, Mike, I give you that said we're getting weird, Mikey.
Speaker 5: I know you guys, and you nailed it.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: I knew right away pretty typical, Like you got that.
Speaker 4: I still say I'm weirder, which is insane.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you guys can both be equally weird. I
Speaker 3: don't think someone has to win that. I also think
Speaker 3: Mike sometimes, you know, big boys, big girls, we just
Speaker 3: keep shitting our head, right.
Speaker 2: We just you laugh. That means it's good. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: I this says this on the doc, but I don't
Speaker 1: believe you, Jeff Grubb. I'm just gonna be you wrote that.
Speaker 1: I wrote that. Yes. On our document of the run
Speaker 1: of show, it says last secretory update. I promise, I promise.
Speaker 1: I don't believe you.
Speaker 5: I mean, look, I got I beat Jacob Geller, so
Speaker 5: I like, that's what I've been going for and I've
Speaker 5: done that.
Speaker 2: Now. Now the problem, here's the problem is he had
Speaker 2: twelve million. I have twelve million. I have a larger
Speaker 2: twelve million than he does. In this geometry wars A
Speaker 2: colonial people are lost. For some reason, they haven't heard
Speaker 2: us talk about this. For the last month, I was
Speaker 2: on a really good and I could see myself doing better.
Speaker 2: And it's like I thought I'd beat the score and
Speaker 2: I'd be like, oh God, thank god I could put
Speaker 2: it down. I put it.
Speaker 5: I beat the score, and now it's still all I
Speaker 5: kind of want to play, which.
Speaker 2: Is I grew.
Speaker 4: When did you beat Geller's score last night?
Speaker 2: Last night?
Speaker 3: Oh you should.
Speaker 4: I was playing this morning and it did look different
Speaker 4: than I saw.
Speaker 3: Oh you motherfucker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if you want to.
Speaker 4: Got four ten million this morning, so of.
Speaker 2: Course you did. You're right. We're back in it. We go, okay, Like,
Speaker 2: what was your run? Like Dan? It was nuts.
Speaker 4: I just decided it's like I got time for like
Speaker 4: one run and I I just got in there and
Speaker 4: I had some coffee. It was just the right level
Speaker 4: of like caffeinated and just locked in and it went great.
Speaker 4: I beat the one crazy boss that morphs in a
Speaker 4: way I've only seen once before, and I got past that.
Speaker 4: I loaded everything up all the way. I didn't focus
Speaker 4: on blaster uh. And I was just going nuts with
Speaker 4: the strikes. I was just changing everything together, keeping that
Speaker 4: strike combo, going, beating every boss, dying at all. I
Speaker 4: just did everything right basically, and like that's the run
Speaker 4: you hope for.
Speaker 2: Yep, and I was. I was having that. And I
Speaker 2: had the last boss of section four.
Speaker 5: I think I was at maybe section five, and I
Speaker 5: had him down to one hit and I died on
Speaker 5: the hit. Had I beaten him, I would have been yes,
Speaker 5: fourteen fifteen. I was like, I have a friend of
Speaker 5: my leaderboard who's eighteen million, He's in the top ten,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, I think I'm kind of on that
Speaker 5: pace right now. The part the other world, now, that's
Speaker 5: the other thing is like I was, I had a
Speaker 5: couple of runs. Now, I was telling you where I
Speaker 5: had ten million in like twenty minutes, and it's like
Speaker 5: this run I had here twelve million in thirty two ish.
Speaker 2: Minutes, and it's like, oh, so this wasn't even my
Speaker 2: best pace. Now, obviously there's some like risk reward of that,
Speaker 2: Like I was focusing so much on keeping my strike
Speaker 2: combos going that I was losing some ability to get
Speaker 2: like a more powerful ship early on, and that made
Speaker 2: me more vulnerable later. But it's like, Okay, there's a
Speaker 2: balance there where I can kind of get in between
Speaker 2: and maybe get one of these higher scores. So all right, well,
Speaker 2: what the hell We'll be talking about sectory for the
Speaker 2: rest of our lives.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep, I'm currently in the lead of all of you.
Speaker 4: You and Geller, so yes.
Speaker 2: Yep, got us both beat yep, everyone.
Speaker 4: Get back and everyone.
Speaker 2: Yes. I'm like, I was so close to keeping that going,
Speaker 2: that one last hit and I died. Oh that's frustrating.
Speaker 4: I had one of those. Yeah, I'm technically like thirteen
Speaker 4: point nine million, and I was like just about to
Speaker 4: be that last section of the whole challenging run in right.
Speaker 2: So yeah, all right, cool, great, wonderful, Thanks Dan, No problem.
Speaker 2: You could just you could just admit he's the better man, Jeff,
Speaker 2: That's okay, No, it was you know what got me
Speaker 2: in there to do this run is I knew you
Speaker 2: mentioned that.
Speaker 5: You guys were talking about it on your podcast, The
Speaker 5: Fire Escape with Mary, and you guys were saying that
Speaker 5: some hateful things just because I threatened Mary, saying she'll
Speaker 5: never get ten million, and she's like that filled me
Speaker 5: with hate and h Then you guys went off for
Speaker 5: a little bit, like I'll go show them right now.
Speaker 2: So this is a terrible.
Speaker 4: Feeling you've we're both absolutely destroying Mary.
Speaker 2: So you know, so that does it? Thank you? Dan,
Speaker 2: appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Uh, Mikey backlar any interest in diving back into sectory.
Speaker 1: I mean, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get I don't want to I
Speaker 2: don't want to become like them.
Speaker 3: I guess like in right, Yeah, Like it's like I
Speaker 3: play it still a good amount. I just don't let it,
Speaker 3: you know, consume me.
Speaker 4: You're not serious about it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am not serious that I enjoy it. It's
Speaker 3: fun when I'm a little stoned, not seriously. Uh yeah,
Speaker 3: we're not serious people. I agree, I'm and like, uh,
Speaker 3: Dylan things it's fun to watch. He won't play it.
Speaker 3: He's like scared of it. He's like, this is too
Speaker 3: too much. I'm gonna watch you play, dad, And I
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's too much for the gen Z mind
Speaker 2: absolutely cannot comprehend.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't it be like customer Like, isn't the whole thing
Speaker 4: of the gen Z mind like just no attention span?
Speaker 4: And just wait, I guess you need the attention span
Speaker 4: for secretory, right or is it the opposite way since
Speaker 4: it's such constant stimuli, Like.
Speaker 5: I just want to choose to believe that we're better
Speaker 5: than than something. Still, that they did focus their attention
Speaker 5: on this, we be screwed.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The millennial mind, uh has witnessed enough atrocities and horrors
Speaker 1: that it can consume and take.
Speaker 2: The same time. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, nine to eleven
Speaker 2: leads to being good at sectory.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's they're making a coin.
Speaker 1: That's we could it could have just left it at that, Mike.
Speaker 2: You can put that on the store page if you want.
Speaker 1: All right, well, I've been playing Vital Shell. Vital Shell.
Speaker 1: It's a it's another Vampire Survivors like okay, uh this one. Uh.
Speaker 1: The graphics straight looks straight up out of PS one.
Speaker 1: Instead of just being an endless gauntlet like Vampire Survivors
Speaker 1: is you are progressing through waves, but you're leveling up
Speaker 1: in a similar structure. As you eliminate more enemies, you
Speaker 1: are getting more little xp orbs. But the difference here
Speaker 1: is that there's a lot of health being dropped. And
Speaker 1: also you have a cool boost feature, at least with
Speaker 1: the base mech that you have, and as you use
Speaker 1: your boost, it's on a small cool down timer. You
Speaker 1: blast out like a little AoE attack that pushes enemies
Speaker 1: away from you. You are also earning like a special attack,
Speaker 1: and similar to Vampire Survivors, as you are upgrading, you
Speaker 1: were upgrading different things like your rate of fire, your
Speaker 1: health regen, critical strikes, but you're also getting cool sick
Speaker 1: weapons to throw on your little mech and this game
Speaker 1: quickly got overwhelming, but because of the horrors that my
Speaker 1: millennial mind has witnessed over the years, Mike, don't mention
Speaker 1: a horror, please. I'm like, by the end of the
Speaker 1: run I did this morning, I was like, I had
Speaker 1: an energy sword, I was shooting a chain gun, and
Speaker 1: then rockets were just raining from the sky. And there's
Speaker 1: some thing about this specific mech PS one aesthetic that
Speaker 1: really clicks and jives with me versus other like polygonal
Speaker 1: human trying to replicate like Resident Evil one PS one
Speaker 1: style that I dig more in Vital Shell.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, looking at this night guy,
Speaker 4: like from the key ard, he looks like a character
Speaker 4: in a like a bad PS one fighting game, like
Speaker 4: a criticom or you know right.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yea the Venus or straight out of like
Speaker 1: a shitty PS one game. Parentheses positive like when you
Speaker 1: access your save data, they're just it's just a PS
Speaker 1: one memory card on the menu. So more things like
Speaker 1: this gang.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, even the timer has the font of like
Speaker 2: soul Blade or so soul Ledge. I should say, yeah,
Speaker 2: just yeah, it looks like those games a lot. Yeah, Gosh,
Speaker 2: I suck cause like as seen as you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: another Vampire Survivors. I kind of internally roll my eyes.
Speaker 2: Then I'm like, oh, but it looks like a PS
Speaker 2: one game. And now I'm like looking like, eh, I
Speaker 2: want to I just bought it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this one has been constantly in our mentions, constantly
Speaker 1: been emailed because folks think that this would be the
Speaker 1: new obsession for Dan and Grubb. Maybe it's a cry
Speaker 1: for help because they're concerned about sectory.
Speaker 4: We're still too deep. I think it's might just be
Speaker 4: getting deeper knowledge pod.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. I'm like itching to go back.
Speaker 3: Oh no, but oh yeah.
Speaker 1: It does look one hundred percent like Armored Cores one,
Speaker 1: which just tickles me. I am interested to see how
Speaker 1: zany it gets the further in and the more characters
Speaker 1: you unlock. I still only have the base mech suit
Speaker 1: or whatever. I just want you. But this got me
Speaker 1: thinking about mechs. It got me thinking about Austin Walker,
Speaker 1: and just like Giant Robot Suits, was Zone of the
Speaker 1: Enders good or just like my childhood?
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, okay, it looked incredible, It ran great,
Speaker 4: and just moving around felt like I had no fucking
Speaker 4: time for for mech games most of my life. That
Speaker 4: one I found time for and I was like, okay,
Speaker 4: it's just too much fun to play.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, okay. Jeehoti was what the mech suit was called, right?
Speaker 3: Or was that the yeah.
Speaker 4: You were like God or Jesus or something. I don't know,
Speaker 4: oh JHOOTI probably yeah, or your mom.
Speaker 1: God Jesus or the Catholic agenda continues the JEHOODI on
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 2: It does sound like Booty, Mike. This is a good joke.
Speaker 1: Oh, speaking about Booty, there's a certain song that involves
Speaker 1: going from the top and making it drop. But I'm
Speaker 1: not playing God. Mikey has just fried my brain today. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's okay. Never apologize for being you, Mikey. Or sometimes Well,
Speaker 1: another game that I've been playing that looks weird and
Speaker 1: perhaps is going for a PS one aesthetic is from
Speaker 1: the Top Gang. This feels target it, you know. During
Speaker 1: the mic checks, Mike said something targeted towards me. But
Speaker 1: this I think is for sure targeted because this is
Speaker 1: a rogue light, a card based rogue light that involves
Speaker 1: bay blades.
Speaker 2: It's still have been meaning to play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought it was a wrestling thing.
Speaker 4: From the title, but right not.
Speaker 2: Why would you think that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, because you know you launch a bay
Speaker 1: blade from the top of the arena.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever seen a bay blade in
Speaker 4: my life.
Speaker 2: I've heard I've heard the one person. I want us
Speaker 2: all to have a bay blade tournament. I want to
Speaker 2: know how to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm probably going to see Dan the soonest if we're
Speaker 1: looking at the calendar, Yeah, wherever we go, we're going
Speaker 1: to have a bay blade tournament. If we have a
Speaker 1: little meet up, bring your bay blates.
Speaker 3: But we got to use the the arena with the
Speaker 3: teeth on the side. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeh wait, I thought this was a generational thing. I
Speaker 4: thought I was just too old. But then Backlar knows it,
Speaker 4: do you children?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: So modern children, It's a thing.
Speaker 3: It's like coming back hard.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, okay, yeah, Dan will soon be a
Speaker 1: bay warrior, but sure.
Speaker 3: From the top.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting mechanic because instead of choosing like a
Speaker 1: specific class, you're kind of juggling different tops or like
Speaker 1: different It's not a bay blade game, but it might
Speaker 1: as well be a bay blade game. So I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna call the different units that you're controlling bay blades,
Speaker 1: so you're different encounters. You have a stamina system, and
Speaker 1: your stamina is linked to health pips, not health points,
Speaker 1: but health pips. So if you have three hearts, you'll
Speaker 1: lose a heart once you run out of stamina. And
Speaker 1: your stamina is affected by getting hit, avoiding hits, or
Speaker 1: get straight up getting knocked out, so your heart pips
Speaker 1: are kind of just lives. And so far, there are
Speaker 1: several different oddball bay blade types. One of them is
Speaker 1: just like a tank where as soon as you activate
Speaker 1: activate the ability, you are holy shit, Dan, that map
Speaker 1: that you just sent me looks horrifying. Uh, your tank
Speaker 1: bay blade just activates a shield, and that bad boy
Speaker 1: is heavy so he can't get knocked out. Another top
Speaker 1: that they have in the game has like a very
Speaker 1: fast dash and the shape of the top is good
Speaker 1: at scooping' your enemy bay blades and knocking them out
Speaker 1: of the arena. I kind of don't like the visual
Speaker 1: filter that they have on it. It kind of looks
Speaker 1: like like a comic book, where like it's a bunch
Speaker 1: of like the little circles like a mosaic, almost making
Speaker 1: the look I had to turn it off because it
Speaker 1: was making my head hurt. It's a very interesting game.
Speaker 1: It has like the progression is similar to Slay the Spire,
Speaker 1: where you were going down a map where they're forking paths.
Speaker 1: You'll have mini bosses, you'll have shops. At the shops,
Speaker 1: you can buy a new bay Blade, you can upgrade
Speaker 1: your different abilities, or you can repair your bay Blade.
Speaker 1: They're kind of going for a story in here as well,
Speaker 1: kind of like Inscription. I'm not necessarily driving too much
Speaker 1: with the story, and I just want to let it rip.
Speaker 1: But it's fun for what it is. There's some light
Speaker 1: controlling when you are in the bay Blade battles themselves,
Speaker 1: where you're kind of pointing your mouse to a specific
Speaker 1: location in the little bay Blade arena and affecting the
Speaker 1: movement of your bay Blade.
Speaker 3: I kind of.
Speaker 1: Don't like some of the battle encounters when you get
Speaker 1: to like a mini boss or an enemy encounter where
Speaker 1: they're using the more defensive style bay Blades that just
Speaker 1: sit there, because then it's just no fun. I want
Speaker 1: the wild, wacky spinning around, dashing at each other, encouraging knockouts.
Speaker 1: But I do want to do a quick look of
Speaker 1: from the top just to show it off in most.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be great. Can I ask? So I'm looking
Speaker 2: at the video and I'm wondering, like, how digital versus
Speaker 2: analog is it? Like?
Speaker 5: Is does it feel like it's doing math in the background.
Speaker 5: That's just like this thing does this, and therefore when
Speaker 5: it interacts that it's going to take down a certain
Speaker 5: number or is it more like physics based or is
Speaker 5: it somewhere in between on the spectrum.
Speaker 1: It's somewhere in between where it doesn't feel like you
Speaker 1: were seeing too many dice rolls, and a lot of
Speaker 1: the different bay blades that you're using or tops that
Speaker 1: you're using have various different stats, but it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like there's dice rolls happening in the background. It does
Speaker 1: feel like there is a good balance of physical analog
Speaker 1: action happening in between the tops that you were affecting
Speaker 1: and that the enemy is affecting.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I think that's what I would want from this.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, you're balancing what you do have to
Speaker 1: worry about, like the weight of a top or how
Speaker 1: light one is, because then that can get you knocked
Speaker 1: out very quickly. The different abilities that quickly pop off
Speaker 1: in the different tops you can get are bonkers because
Speaker 1: you'll start with a base, one that has like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a cool dash.
Speaker 3: This one is like a tank. But then you'll have
Speaker 3: a bay blade that.
Speaker 1: Just shoots other bay blades out, or then another one
Speaker 1: that will shoot like glaciers up from the bottom to
Speaker 1: upend your enemy.
Speaker 3: It's very interesting.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I necessarily like the visual presentation
Speaker 1: of it, but I am having fun and it's very
Speaker 1: weird that game developers are now just making bay blade
Speaker 1: games and I encourage it. Yeah, speaking about Nope, Nope,
Speaker 1: Mikey has just thrown me for a loop today. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know, almost only keep blaming me. No, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep blaming you, Mikey. Jeff Grubb. You have been
Speaker 1: playing Super ten Pin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we got a little bit of a
Speaker 2: theme going. You were talking about an old game new
Speaker 2: and has old stylings. This is that for an N
Speaker 2: sixty four bowling game.
Speaker 3: Just lit up.
Speaker 2: But it's on Steam right now.
Speaker 3: Edit rules.
Speaker 2: It's so good. So imagine all the stylings of San
Speaker 2: Francisco Rush, but as a bowling game.
Speaker 5: Okay, So the menus are all basically just lifted from
Speaker 5: that game, and then you go in there and you're
Speaker 5: doing bowling, and then it's a little bit like Kirby's
Speaker 5: Dream Course, which I think while I'm enjoying it so much,
Speaker 5: where the bowling ball has a bunch of things you
Speaker 5: can do to it. So, yeah, you're setting up the shot,
Speaker 5: you're selecting your power level, and you're shooting out there.
Speaker 5: But there might be like a gap in the bowling
Speaker 5: lane and then there's a ramp going back and forth,
Speaker 5: and if you hit the ramp at the right time,
Speaker 5: you might.
Speaker 2: Be able to go into a power up. That adds
Speaker 2: a bunch of extra speed to your shot, which makes
Speaker 2: it so if you hit that front pin, you're almost
Speaker 2: guaranteed to get a strike. And the best part is
Speaker 2: you got after touch, so you're able to control it
Speaker 2: on the lane. And then there's risk rewards, so you
Speaker 2: get that extra speed, you're gonna maybe just kind of
Speaker 2: like loop it in there so it hits that front
Speaker 2: pin just right. Well, if you do it too much
Speaker 2: or not enough, there are still the gutters on the side,
Speaker 2: and so it's just like trying to like hang on
Speaker 2: by your fingernails as this thing flies down the lane.
Speaker 2: And also making sure you hit all the possible upgrades
Speaker 2: on your path down so you can get the best
Speaker 2: chance for a strike. It just it feels great, It
Speaker 2: looks great, sounds great. I'm surprised at that I did
Speaker 2: not hear about it until I think someone mentioned it
Speaker 2: in chat last week or something like that, and I'm.
Speaker 5: Like, I'll check this out. And I've been playing a
Speaker 5: little bit of it since then in between rounds of Sectory.
Speaker 5: But this is the other game I most want to
Speaker 5: be playing.
Speaker 4: Right, I mean, Greb, I'm looking at this and it's
Speaker 4: doing a lot of things. I like, it's got the
Speaker 4: thing where it's like, oh, what if there was like
Speaker 4: three hundred pins in this one. It's got things where
Speaker 4: you're getting the upgrades like exploding ball and gravity ball
Speaker 4: and stuff like that. This looks I need to play
Speaker 4: this a sap.
Speaker 5: It's just it's just well thought out in every way
Speaker 5: where it's like, oh, they made they just everything that
Speaker 5: they could think of that would be fun.
Speaker 2: They threw it in there. It's just fun at every
Speaker 2: turn I.
Speaker 4: Do, all two hundred megabytes of it.
Speaker 3: The pen action we were just good. We got good
Speaker 3: pen action. We have good pen action.
Speaker 5: I will say the action is maybe maybe more focused
Speaker 5: on the ball action versus the pen action, but when
Speaker 5: you do hit the pens, it's satisfying it bounce around.
Speaker 5: I know, I listen. I know how you need your
Speaker 5: pen action and this.
Speaker 2: Game's gonna deliver it for you. But uh, yeah, the
Speaker 2: focus is on the ball.
Speaker 1: Speaking about fun around every corner. I have been enjoying
Speaker 1: watching your streams of this game, Dan, you have been
Speaker 1: playing seci row.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I feel like I've had enough people in
Speaker 4: recent months talk about it and tell me I should try,
Speaker 4: Like Kayla was telling me I should play through it.
Speaker 4: I was playing punch Out like a week or two ago,
Speaker 4: and I was realizing, like, wait a minute, actually, I'm
Speaker 4: really good at like reacting quickly the things and recognizing
Speaker 4: attacks and stuff like maybe maybe now he's the time
Speaker 4: to try this. So you have like four hours into it, uh,
Speaker 4: really enjoying it. But like I did two two hour
Speaker 4: sessions of it, and both of them went the same way,
Speaker 4: where it's like I start out, get to a new area,
Speaker 4: having a lot of fun, hit a roadblock, like you know.
Speaker 4: In the first stream it was the ogre, and then
Speaker 4: the next one it was the big drunk guy with
Speaker 4: the sword, and both times I die, like you know,
Speaker 4: ten times, I'm like fuck this. You know, I'm doing
Speaker 4: everything right. I like I'm blaming the game, you know,
Speaker 4: it's like, oh, this is the game's fault. Is surely
Speaker 4: it's not my fault. And then it's just like you
Speaker 4: get out of that mindset and it's like, no, no,
Speaker 4: this is an incredible game. I'm fucking up. I need
Speaker 4: to be more patient. I need to learn different ways
Speaker 4: to go after these guys. And I've been doing like
Speaker 4: that moment when everything clicks together, like when I fought
Speaker 4: the big drunk guy with the sword, it's like I
Speaker 4: had a run where it's like, all right, I snuck around,
Speaker 4: I took out all the ads around him. I saved
Speaker 4: the NPC to help me until they were all gone.
Speaker 4: I went in. I had all my you know, flashs
Speaker 4: or whatever. And then you just are patient and you
Speaker 4: recognize the attacks. You know when to move, when to perry,
Speaker 4: when to like it's god, damn it, it is a
Speaker 4: really really good game. I still I still don't believe
Speaker 4: that I will beat it. I honestly think I will
Speaker 4: get to a point where.
Speaker 3: That's why you fail.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 4: Is like all these like gaming challenges and stuff like,
Speaker 4: if I stick with it, I get really fucking good. Second,
Speaker 4: look at punch Out, look at all this stuff. You know,
Speaker 4: it's like it's just it is incredibly frustrating when it's frustrating,
Speaker 4: and unlike elden Ring or Bloodborne, the other two like
Speaker 4: souls likes I've beaten or I guess the only two
Speaker 4: souls likes I've beaten. You can choose it, you can
Speaker 4: over level, you can grind, and this is the one
Speaker 4: where you can't. And that is so fucking intimidating to me.
Speaker 4: And seeing Kayla, you know, struggle, you know for months
Speaker 4: with that last boss. Granted she was going through like
Speaker 4: eighteen different forms of input lag without realizing it, but
Speaker 4: it still seems really fucking hard. So I don't know,
Speaker 4: I don't I don't expect to beat it, but I'm
Speaker 4: definitely going to try to keep moving forward.
Speaker 2: It's still not at a point where like it can
Speaker 2: maybe all super quick with you, but you know, you
Speaker 2: also kind of have to enjoy the idea of a
Speaker 2: boss might take you forty tries, and like that's a
Speaker 2: process and it's a learning thing, right, Like, you're kind
Speaker 2: of close to Madam Butterfly in the one path and
Speaker 2: that was the boss. I think I died to the
Speaker 2: most and it was something like forty five times. But
Speaker 2: I mean I enjoy that, all right, I enjoy Like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm getting a little bit better.
Speaker 1: I'm doing this. Should I do this? Definitely should try
Speaker 1: this item here? Things like that.
Speaker 2: I will say, I it may be something for you
Speaker 2: because you're kind of at a part where there's two
Speaker 2: pass right now. You're sort of in that weird flashback thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you could keep going down the main path for
Speaker 2: a while and you get some upgrades from that that
Speaker 2: maybe will help out on that pack. Because Madam Butterfly
Speaker 2: is hard. I think most people consider her the first
Speaker 2: really big roadblocks, right christ Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, she
Speaker 2: can be a tough one.
Speaker 4: I am having an easier time this time than when
Speaker 4: I played it originally because I refuse to parry the
Speaker 4: first time I played this game when it first came out. Oh,
Speaker 4: it turns out that it's like playing Mario without jumping. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it really is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really because like even like even when once
Speaker 2: you kind of learned how the health bar works, like, yes,
Speaker 2: you take down their health by hitting them with the sword,
Speaker 2: but it's really about filling up that other meter and
Speaker 2: that's how you just take off like a whole like
Speaker 2: bar of their health, right.
Speaker 4: And learning things that like what is the deal where
Speaker 4: it's like the lower their health is, the more stagger
Speaker 4: damage they take.
Speaker 2: Or something like that you need to Yeah, so you
Speaker 2: do need to get some hits on them, not so
Speaker 2: much to lower their health to kill them, but the
Speaker 2: lower their health is, the more the slower the stagger
Speaker 2: deterior rates.
Speaker 1: Is kind of the way that it works. Nice see Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So you know you want to get those hits in
Speaker 2: when you can, so you kind of have to be
Speaker 2: doing both. You gotta get the Perrys in. You have
Speaker 2: to kind of get your hits in. So that's why
Speaker 2: a lot of fights it's kind of like Perry Perry,
Speaker 2: swing right, get a hit in that kind of thing. Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: Now there's still like some things Dan for like I
Speaker 2: don't know if cheesing is the word, but like you
Speaker 2: have those tools now, and there are just some bosses
Speaker 2: who are weak to specific tools and things like that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's definitely not like you know, dark souls
Speaker 2: where you can't just go over level where you can
Speaker 2: like get this person to come and help you at
Speaker 2: the fight and you can only throw fire pots at
Speaker 2: him stuff like that.
Speaker 4: And yeah, not just over leveling. Like I again, Bloodborne
Speaker 4: and elden Ring are the two souls Likes I've beaten,
Speaker 4: and not only over leveling. I was summoning the max
Speaker 4: amount of other players I could in every boss fight
Speaker 4: and hiding in a corner. So it's like I've never
Speaker 4: really taken the time. I've never done a good job
Speaker 4: in a from boss fight. You know, I guess Armored Corps,
Speaker 4: but like, you know, I don't know if that's considering.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think out of all the Souls Born games,
Speaker 1: Sekuro is still my favorite. Like I finished elden Ring,
Speaker 1: but like, I don't think I enjoyed my whole time
Speaker 1: through it. But Sekiro just like something so satisfying, and
Speaker 1: maybe it's just being like a ninja samurai guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah was cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, I just I Yeah, I absolutely
Speaker 2: love that challenge arising to it. It's I think it's
Speaker 2: easily my favorite of the FRUMS games, even more so
Speaker 2: than an Elder Ring. I still constantly thinking about it.
Speaker 2: Was watching Dan play it, and I was It's just
Speaker 2: like I should gonna play Sacaro again.
Speaker 3: I miss it.
Speaker 2: It's just so freaking satisfying. And like, you know, I
Speaker 2: you know that drunk guy. I struggled on him just
Speaker 2: as much as you did, I think that first time,
Speaker 2: and part of me is like, man, I just start
Speaker 2: back now, because I bet I would just annihilate him.
Speaker 2: I also never realized there was that guy there. You
Speaker 2: can help me dance, You're that's crazy A little bit better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have the coolest feeling though, like something that
Speaker 4: like used to absolutely annihilate. Like I think about this
Speaker 4: all the time with Mike Tyson. You know, Mike Tyson,
Speaker 4: thirty years in that game of just annihilating me and
Speaker 4: me never getting close. And now it's like I can
Speaker 4: do it ten times in a row right now, no problem.
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, you really do get the group, especially
Speaker 2: because you know there's that system where there's like that
Speaker 2: red flashing symbol and in most games that would just
Speaker 2: mean to press this button symbol. In this game, it
Speaker 2: means one of few things is gonna happen. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: the thrust that you can do the mckeii counter. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's a sweep and you need to jump, or maybe
Speaker 2: it's a grabbing you just need to dodge. So it's
Speaker 2: like and I kind of like that. It's not just
Speaker 2: like the Batmanic Missiga. I will push us not just
Speaker 2: just then that pay attention. Something import is gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Can you read it? So you kind of like you
Speaker 2: get into this mindset, like, Okay, if they sort of
Speaker 2: lunge their arms backwards, it's gonna be some kind of
Speaker 2: a thrust. They're sort of like arching, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a sweep, and the kind of opening up their arms,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a grab. We just kind of internalize
Speaker 2: all this game. He's such a signals.
Speaker 1: He's in like coach mode right now. I think you
Speaker 1: should have like a whistle around your neck sweatsuit.
Speaker 2: I love it so much. It's just like one of
Speaker 2: my favorite games.
Speaker 4: Even if I can't be even if I fall off
Speaker 4: or whatever, next time I play it, it's like it
Speaker 4: is undeniably an incredible game. It would just sell me
Speaker 4: and my own degustration stuffing me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not to not to glaze y'all real quick, but
Speaker 1: I think I've become a better gamer because of y'all.
Speaker 2: Wow, we lift up our friends here, that's what we
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not not just with puzzles, but just like playing
Speaker 1: games in general. And I feel like there is a
Speaker 1: discernible uh shift in terms of like, oh I am
Speaker 1: good at this now. Holy smokes, it's because of the
Speaker 1: chuckle heads around me, isn't it? That's all that missed time?
Speaker 4: Next up is a marathon, Jane.
Speaker 1: You know what it could be? It could be uh, Mikey,
Speaker 1: you have been playing a soul's like of sorts nine Souls.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Actually, like in this game even basically advertised itself as much.
Speaker 2: It's two D secoro. That's a lot of what's going
Speaker 2: on here now. Aesthetically you are like a cat of
Speaker 2: a race of cat esque yeah. Uh and there it's
Speaker 2: kind of sci.
Speaker 1: Fi e mixed in with all that uh sort of
Speaker 1: you know, uh, ancient Japanese culture stuff.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a metroid vein. Yeah, so you have
Speaker 2: some of the move of stuff, but it's a lot
Speaker 2: of it is focused on this very pery focused combat.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I was crazy or is it Perry remember that
Speaker 2: from my next stream title thank You? But yeah, I
Speaker 2: you know, thinking about Secoro and also sort of missing
Speaker 2: Silk Song at BET. I've had an itch for another
Speaker 2: one of these difficult Metro venus. This one is always
Speaker 2: kind of brought up in that hall in like vein
Speaker 2: in terms of you know, like, oh, what's the hardest
Speaker 2: Metroid Venia ever?
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: So I was looking forward to this and it has
Speaker 2: been delivering, especially on the boss fight front, where you
Speaker 2: just have these bosses that are absolute dances. It was great.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, it's a bit different than the
Speaker 2: Secro where it's just like, oh, Perry, their health goes.
Speaker 1: Down when you parry.
Speaker 2: You can very you kind of immediately do this dash
Speaker 2: move that then leaves a sort of print on them,
Speaker 2: and then you activate that and it's a bomb. So
Speaker 2: you kind of do these parry strings and then counter
Speaker 2: with that, and that's kind of the dance involved in
Speaker 2: this game, and it feels very good when you get
Speaker 2: that off. It's it's yeah, it's been a big game.
Speaker 2: It's a bit talky for a metroid. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: It just turned me off of it because I tried
Speaker 2: it and I was playing, I was having an okay time.
Speaker 2: I just couldn't get past the early parts because it's
Speaker 2: like I was just bored. I think, yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 2: it's like it's well done and like I am interested
Speaker 2: in all these characters now, right, but there's a bit
Speaker 2: of like, Okay, I'm going back to my home base
Speaker 2: to get this upgrade, and also three people probably want
Speaker 2: to talk to me, and after a while it's a
Speaker 2: little bit of a drain. Is something you're not necessarily
Speaker 2: looking forward to tell you kind of turn the corner
Speaker 2: again where I'm so I am so attached to these
Speaker 2: characters now that I do like it, but I definitely
Speaker 2: prefer more of the Hollow Night system of you know,
Speaker 2: there's characters talking sometimes, but a lot of the lore
Speaker 2: and the story is very understated. This game is really
Speaker 2: pushing all of that to the forefront. But again it's
Speaker 2: not a detriment to it. It does present some pacing issues,
Speaker 2: especially early on, Jeff, Yeah, because you do have to
Speaker 2: kind of do this whole intro thing before things that
Speaker 2: I don't really get going.
Speaker 3: I don't know what.
Speaker 1: About the game just I immediately bounced off after it
Speaker 1: started opening up, after like the kind of opening sequence
Speaker 1: of you being trained supported away, just something about the
Speaker 1: combat I just didn't quite click with. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's because it was like a two D thing
Speaker 1: or there was just something off about it for for
Speaker 1: me personally, but I did find it to be very
Speaker 1: very talky. Maybe it's the whole cat thing for me.
Speaker 2: Maybe Catt someone says that it's their foxes, and that's
Speaker 2: blowing my mind.
Speaker 1: Are they foxed? I think there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the cats, the cat I don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, the combat has been feeling really good to me,
Speaker 2: And like the Perry window feels just about right where
Speaker 2: what's the too is if you just kind of get
Speaker 2: the perry, you'll take damage, but it's a damage that
Speaker 2: will reach in to the point where you lost it, right,
Speaker 2: and then when you get the perfect perry, that's when
Speaker 2: they're you know, it's like the folle Okay, now you
Speaker 2: can counterattack thing, so kind of like in separate right
Speaker 2: where there's a Perry window and you can get like
Speaker 2: a kind of a thing or you can get like
Speaker 2: the big thing.
Speaker 1: And uh, that feels really good.
Speaker 2: Again. Like I'm pretty deep into the game, I'm probably
Speaker 2: gonna beat it soon. Some of these late game bosses
Speaker 2: it just felt super satisfying where you know, I'm finding
Speaker 2: a guy and there's like knives going everywhere, so it's
Speaker 2: like swing swing, turn to my left block block and
Speaker 2: then someone's a clone and you can only count this
Speaker 2: one by jumping and doing an air dodge and jump
Speaker 2: off him. And then I dashed through this person. Do
Speaker 2: my special tag again. It's that dance and when it's clicking,
Speaker 2: it feels super satisfying.
Speaker 1: Quick it a lot quick pulse check here Mount rushmore paarying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, George Washington, thirty three has got to be up there, right, yeah, yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: expedition I will I will throw in knife paying from
Speaker 2: residval four.
Speaker 1: That's just kind of cool to say.
Speaker 2: Also that yeah, yeah, same same, yeah, hatchet pair instead
Speaker 2: of knife Perry, uh for sure. Gosh.
Speaker 1: Now I'm trying to think, like, what's the fourth you know.
Speaker 3: What actually feels really good?
Speaker 4: No one ever talks about the soul caliber Perry. If
Speaker 4: you do that, if you tap a and forward and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be it could be like Street Fighter
Speaker 2: three even yeah, yeah, yeah. If I think about fighting
Speaker 2: game Perry's, I am actually think third Strike and I
Speaker 2: think I might actually go there because that's because you think,
Speaker 2: you know, you have that famous moment, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so yeah, I think I think I'll do that. People
Speaker 2: don't know. Just look Google moment thirty seven and you've
Speaker 2: seen it before.
Speaker 1: Speaking about getting better at games because of just osmosis
Speaker 1: through y'all and pairing.
Speaker 3: I am curious about trying a fighting game out. I
Speaker 3: want to.
Speaker 1: I want to explore, and but I don't know should
Speaker 1: I go in full hog and like get a fight stick,
Speaker 1: or should I just get.
Speaker 2: Like a pad or you want to play by six
Speaker 2: or over rated? Like controllers are very good at this stuff.
Speaker 4: Now get a good Genesis fight stick and play balls
Speaker 4: three day?
Speaker 1: Yeah there it is all right, yeah, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: Sense Let's PLI Let's just six is still kind of
Speaker 1: the one. I think it's good, Okay, Okay. I I've
Speaker 1: always been curious about a hit box as well. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'll I'll pick up one of those.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you wanna try like something like that,
Speaker 2: or like you know, you're talking about the level less controllers.
Speaker 2: Is that what you mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because like I don't like a stick or whatever.
Speaker 2: Play on a keyboard. That's where it came from. So
Speaker 2: it's like it's like try it on the keyboard first,
Speaker 2: and see if you like it.
Speaker 4: And then that's the ones with just buttons, right y. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I have seen images of those, and I've never once
Speaker 4: understood how do you move?
Speaker 2: Like what is the like the button? The button it's
Speaker 2: like a dpad. Yeah, so there's like deepad but they're
Speaker 2: shaped in a weird way. It's not like your fingers
Speaker 2: are resting on all of them at all times, right,
Speaker 2: because they do duke and movements and other things.
Speaker 5: They're shaped different because it's a it's a fighting game,
Speaker 5: and up doesn't move them. Up it jumps, so it's
Speaker 5: like it's like unless you're playing a three D game,
Speaker 5: and it's like that's a little bit different, but it's yeah,
Speaker 5: it's set up with that in mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hardcore. It's hard core. I wouldn't I think
Speaker 2: getting a leverless before you just beside it you really
Speaker 2: like fighting games is kind of like when you go
Speaker 2: and buy the really expensive driver before you've like hit
Speaker 2: the holes exactly. Buy the equipment when you need it,
Speaker 2: not not not beforehand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like's right, fantastic. I thought we were just talking
Speaker 1: about driving a car through like a fake hole the
Speaker 1: wall that we just paint. God, I want to do
Speaker 1: that to someone someday speak about fighting games. Uh, Dan Reiker,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be embarking on a fighting game later today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Rivals of eighth two.
Speaker 4: I never stopped talking about Rivals of eighth or two.
Speaker 4: I know, I'm sorry, you're such a sad I know.
Speaker 4: It's like Grub with Sectory. It's me with Rivals of
Speaker 4: eighth or two.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: I will occasionally get tapped by Twitch rivals to compete
Speaker 4: on their stream, and that causes me to play games
Speaker 4: I normally wouldn't like Minecraft, squid games, and so now
Speaker 4: it's Rivals of eighth or two. And it's like I'm
Speaker 4: on a team three guys, and I think they specifically
Speaker 4: wanted like someone who's never played it like me, have
Speaker 4: some like middle tier guys, and then like professional global
Speaker 4: you know, competitive dudes or whatever. So that's the plan. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm doing that after the BombCast today, I just hope
Speaker 4: to not embarrass my team. I them mad. It was
Speaker 4: my main It's like a bug man that can make
Speaker 4: a big pillar of rocks, and he can make rocks
Speaker 4: and throw them. I did some training last night with
Speaker 4: someone on my team. He was very nice. Uh, but
Speaker 4: even then it's like, I don't know anything about Smash
Speaker 4: Brothers competitive because you know, I've only played all items
Speaker 4: all bullshit, no one knows what they're doing, and so
Speaker 4: like even like the terms he was using when we
Speaker 4: were training, He's like, Okay, well you're f you know
Speaker 4: your f dah strong attack is this them?
Speaker 1: Mmm?
Speaker 4: I think that's probably means F is forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's your that's your forward air. You're yeah,
Speaker 2: you're near your neutral air.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's It was fucking insane when Extra Life, when
Speaker 4: you guys were over here and was it Mitch, you
Speaker 4: and Kate played some ultimate. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 4: seen a no items Smash Brothers fight until then, And like,
Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever seen anyone block and Smash
Speaker 4: Brothers any guys blocking and like doing fighting.
Speaker 2: Game spot and dodging and things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, every I've played hundreds off, not thousands of hours
Speaker 4: of Smash Brothers.
Speaker 2: I played thirty hours straight once.
Speaker 4: I it's it's been the game where Nintendo characters throw
Speaker 4: poke balls at each other my entire life. So it
Speaker 4: was wild whole other side of it. But that's all
Speaker 4: I say. I will do absolutely terribly this afternoon.
Speaker 2: Somehow, I've never played Rivals of Eighth two. I played
Speaker 2: a bit of the first one and enjoyed. Okay, I
Speaker 2: always have the same problem with all these Smash Brothers
Speaker 2: inspired games that I'm just ultimately like, I think I'd
Speaker 2: rather play Smash Brothers actually still, But I've heard some
Speaker 2: for good things about this one for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember back in the s F studio anytime
Speaker 1: in between streams, recordings podcasts, nine times out of ten
Speaker 1: I would find Ben Pack playing the original Rivals of
Speaker 1: Ether by himself at a dark room in the studio.
Speaker 4: It seems really deep, like there are like a lot
Speaker 4: of mechanics to it. I mean, I can see if
Speaker 4: you're into that. It seems like a very good one
Speaker 4: of those.
Speaker 3: Is Rivals of Ether, the one that had like a WWE.
Speaker 2: Crossover All Stars Prosser is the one that had like
Speaker 2: all the indie game characters in it. It did, but
Speaker 2: I was of eighth or one had like or he
Speaker 2: was in it, right, I don't think is in the
Speaker 2: second one, So there's yeah, I think Chevi Night was
Speaker 2: in brol or something.
Speaker 1: Okay, not this one.
Speaker 2: I don't know if eight there's two as any cross
Speaker 2: They've all been the same thing in my head for years,
Speaker 2: So that's where I'm at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, moving on last game that we have
Speaker 1: here on the dock at Jeff Grubb, you talked about this,
Speaker 1: i think during the mic check, but Rhythm Doctor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a rhythm game very similar kind of
Speaker 2: in terms of terms of style or like energy to
Speaker 2: Rhythm Heaven. But you play as a doctor who treats
Speaker 2: his pavements through rhythm games, and it like introduces all
Speaker 2: these cool mix ups to how it will work where
Speaker 2: it's like sometimes uh, the EKG machine you're using to
Speaker 2: monitor their heart, like you're trying to match up their
Speaker 2: heart rhythm and go on the seventh beat or something
Speaker 2: like that. Uh, it'll mess up or get interference because
Speaker 2: of whatever disease they have, and so it's like it'll
Speaker 2: begin throwing static at you or a remix of the heartbeat,
Speaker 2: but you still need to be going on the normal beat.
Speaker 2: So all this crazy music will be happening over here,
Speaker 2: and you still got to keep the one, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 2: six seven in your head, and it just like creates
Speaker 2: this really cool thing where it's like I'm playing the
Speaker 2: game in my head over here, all this insane shit's
Speaker 2: happening on the screen and it's really well done. And
Speaker 2: then of course they mix it up. There's it's like
Speaker 2: Rhythm Heaven. It'll be like one where it's like, ah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's about hitting on the seventh beat. This one's about
Speaker 2: keeping the clap. So it's happened one clap here you
Speaker 2: do the second clap?
Speaker 3: Boop boop.
Speaker 1: Are you fixing the clap as well?
Speaker 5: You're I've treated the clap. Yes, I'm I healed the
Speaker 5: clap through claps. It's it's really good, really well done.
Speaker 2: I used to play. I'm playing on the on the
Speaker 2: computer with the space bar is my only input. It
Speaker 2: is making me like mis Rhythm Heaven. I think I
Speaker 2: still prefer Rhythm Heaven's structure of like here's a weird, bespoke,
Speaker 2: insane mini game situation where it's you know, four boys
Speaker 2: in a choir, or or you're on building a robot
Speaker 2: in a factory. I still love all that stuff. But
Speaker 2: this hospital setting with these sort of scaled back eight
Speaker 2: bit aesthetic is working for me as well. I'm certainly
Speaker 2: enjoying it. There is a two other things.
Speaker 5: I did get some stuff in my po box one
Speaker 5: of those things was this Atari Jaguar controller that has
Speaker 5: a USB dongle. So if you guys want to make
Speaker 5: me play a game on the computer with an Atari
Speaker 5: Jaguar controller Jaguar.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, what we should make that happen?
Speaker 1: For audio listeners, grow, can you describe what this controller
Speaker 1: looks like?
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't.
Speaker 5: If you asked me before I had this thing, if
Speaker 5: I could name it from I would be like, I
Speaker 5: think it's got a bunch of like phone buttons on it.
Speaker 2: And yeah, so it's got three face buttons, a B
Speaker 2: and C option and pause, and a D pad and
Speaker 2: then below that is the one through nine number pad
Speaker 2: on the controller itself.
Speaker 3: This thing is nuts. I never understood what those were.
Speaker 3: I think that was.
Speaker 2: I think like some people would like kind of like
Speaker 2: old games, like like I think click over and stuff
Speaker 2: will do this. You can put it overly on top
Speaker 2: of it. So suddenly they'd be like, oh, you're playing
Speaker 2: like a ship game. This one's fire torpedo, and this
Speaker 2: I had a clicko. I had a clicko vision.
Speaker 3: That's what we had.
Speaker 2: We had the adaptor for to you play Atari games,
Speaker 2: and that had a dial controller and a number pad
Speaker 2: controller and I had the number pad controller. I used
Speaker 2: it once. Maybe it's in television in television, Yes.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's what it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Jackwart did that. I don't know this otherwise,
Speaker 2: like what would Bubbzy possibly need with?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: What the Aliens versus Predator? I don't think was using
Speaker 2: one through nine?
Speaker 1: Would those be used for like passwords or codes for
Speaker 1: likes or whatever?
Speaker 2: Sure some stuff did that, Yeah, but it's like does
Speaker 2: that need to be built into the goddamn controller? That crazy?
Speaker 2: That's really insane.
Speaker 5: The other thing is I bought this kind of sight
Speaker 5: unseen the second went on on sale without thinking about it,
Speaker 5: and only recently I learned they only made one and
Speaker 5: eighty five of them. It's the fortieth anniversion, fortieth anniversary
Speaker 5: edition of the eight bit dough Ultimate two controller, and
Speaker 5: it's the fortieth anniversary edition.
Speaker 2: Of the ne S release in the United States.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 5: It's like he's got these like dates down here and
Speaker 5: stuff like that that represent like other console launches in
Speaker 5: Nintendo history. That aesthetics like a little bit, but everything
Speaker 5: else about it's really nice. I like the colors it
Speaker 5: lights up red and the wells and stuff like that
Speaker 5: looks real nice, and then it's got a great like
Speaker 5: neys pattern on the dock that it comes with. Also
Speaker 5: comes with a dongle that you can plug into the
Speaker 5: ne E S and just use this controller on the
Speaker 5: originals hardware if you want, which I.
Speaker 2: Thought was really cool.
Speaker 1: Interesting interesting, yes, yeah, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty cool. I think we'll have a maybe make
Speaker 2: a social post about this controller. Yeah, well, I bought
Speaker 2: over Blood. I own this now too. I'm I'm glad
Speaker 2: you did very nicely. It's it's worth having good work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, preserving history there, good job, Mikey. Yeah, yeah, you go.
Speaker 3: We're over blood, brothers.
Speaker 1: I can't follow y'all down that path of collecting. You're
Speaker 1: gonna play over Blood too? Yeah yeah, okay, folks at home,
Speaker 1: many are folks here. Any other things you'll want to
Speaker 1: talk about before we take a brick and break any
Speaker 1: other games or whatever.
Speaker 2: No, someone told me to try out this a merchant's promise,
Speaker 2: which is just like you play as a merchant who
Speaker 2: has to like physically move all your goods from one
Speaker 2: city to the other in a cart, and like you
Speaker 2: could take one path and it's like that's the shorter path,
Speaker 2: but there's no real road there and you have to
Speaker 2: like go over hills and stuff like that, and there's
Speaker 2: another path, but you have to pay a fee to
Speaker 2: use this nice road. You have to pay the king
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 5: And I started it up and it seems really intimidating
Speaker 5: because it's got a lot of confusing elements to it.
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna play a bunch of that. I'll come
Speaker 5: back next week and talk about it then. So whoever
Speaker 5: was telling me to check that out, I'll report back soon.
Speaker 3: There's not some of the South Park in Fortnite? How
Speaker 3: was it we? Oh yeah, we.
Speaker 1: Played Fortnite last week on UPF.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think just like coming off the incredible integration of Simpson,
Speaker 3: this is feeling yes, much less than so, you know,
Speaker 3: there's fun, like you know again, it's more. It's honestly
Speaker 3: just more of like seeing people who have no exposure
Speaker 3: to South Park understanding drips and drabs and like selected
Speaker 3: you know, ephemera from.
Speaker 2: The get high.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like hey, you know, and then like we were
Speaker 3: where I forget where we were, and someone had like
Speaker 3: a mister Hanky like figurine at a restaurant and I'm
Speaker 3: just like and like I'm just it's just so weird
Speaker 3: to like extract like eleven percent of South Park and
Speaker 3: that's all you know of this entire thing. It's wild.
Speaker 3: I don't know one thing I do. I did want
Speaker 3: to bring up real quick about four Nite. Apparently there
Speaker 3: is like a Ferris Bueller Ferrari in a like Easter
Speaker 3: Egg in Fortnite. At some point, we showed Dylan Ferris
Speaker 3: Bueller's day off yesterday for the first time. Oh, he
Speaker 3: loved it. He loved it. He walked that last scene
Speaker 3: with the Ferrari going through the glass.
Speaker 2: He was triggered.
Speaker 3: He's like, I know this, I know what this is.
Speaker 3: And we're like, what, what's happening? How is this how
Speaker 3: absorbing culture works now? And he's like, no, I know
Speaker 3: that this that this car goes through a glasshouse and
Speaker 3: it's in Fortnite, And I'm just like, what do you
Speaker 3: really like this?
Speaker 2: This sounds like me watching a lot of like adult
Speaker 2: movies and realizing that I knew the references from Simpsons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, which you know what Simpson's is our Fortnite.
Speaker 3: If we're being completely outmost right, that is what it is.
Speaker 3: That's how we absorb and exactly like it's how we
Speaker 3: absorbed probably like movies from the thirties and forties because
Speaker 3: they were played on in this series. And what is
Speaker 3: really the difference when it gets when you get right
Speaker 3: down to it, but the fact that like he was
Speaker 3: watching this entire movie and he's loving it, and then
Speaker 3: the second that Ferrari goes through the glass window, he's like,
Speaker 3: I know exactly what this is. Meanwhile, I we like
Speaker 3: only found one video on YouTube that had maybe four
Speaker 3: hundred views that was documenting this easter egg about there
Speaker 3: is anybody under know more about this?
Speaker 1: Like did it have to do with that season where
Speaker 1: they were doing all these like movie tie ins, like
Speaker 1: the Tarantino stuff, the Back to the Future stuff.
Speaker 3: So I said to him, like, buddy, you gotta understand
Speaker 3: where we're coming from here. Okay, you're saying you know this,
Speaker 3: and he knew. He definitely knew it because he's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that goes to the garage, like I know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: So he definitely saw it. We saw a very we
Speaker 3: saw Okay, Danny and Chest as well. This happened sixty
Speaker 3: years ago in game how I said, dude, like, what
Speaker 3: what do you He's like, maybe I saw like a
Speaker 3: YouTube highlight reel where someone was like something going through
Speaker 3: all the Easter eggs and this showed up in it,
Speaker 3: And because his brain is just complete sponge mode, he
Speaker 3: just sort of you know, what else is he filling
Speaker 3: in there besides Eminem's and popcorn? But like, yeah, I guess,
Speaker 3: I guess he just like remembered it. I couldn't believe it. Unbelievable. Uh,
Speaker 3: turns out Fairs Bueller is a pretty good movie for
Speaker 3: a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I didn't think about it, but it's like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, my kids get a little bit older, that'll
Speaker 2: be a perfect movie. They just they're one of their
Speaker 2: first live action movies that they actually cared about was
Speaker 2: The Mask. So that's where we're okay. They liked quite
Speaker 2: a bit.
Speaker 1: Back are or how ready are you that there is
Speaker 1: a possibility in the world that the first time Dib
Speaker 1: may consume Jaws could be through Fortnite.
Speaker 3: You could fix that there?
Speaker 2: Right has its references. I feel like there's been references
Speaker 2: to Jaws in Fortnite.
Speaker 3: I feel like, hey, there has to be right, and
Speaker 3: I feel like most things have gotten found their way
Speaker 3: in there by now. I don't know he already played
Speaker 3: the Jaws pinball machine.
Speaker 2: So he kind of knows, like your stands, it's out there.
Speaker 1: But there's a shot the problems. Yeah, if I said, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna need a bigger boat, would he understand where
Speaker 1: that came from? Or maybe not?
Speaker 3: If we probably not.
Speaker 1: If we started doing the show and just had like
Speaker 1: vertigo zooms, would you get that reference a.
Speaker 2: Great vertigo zooms ring you when you move the camera
Speaker 2: in a parallax and then it's shark in real life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Brody's on the beach and he's just y. Yeah
Speaker 4: I called those something else.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, huh yeah, the bigger
Speaker 3: both things. He wouldn't know, but he just knows that
Speaker 3: like Massachusetts and Cape cod and sharks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was like dom everyone is, oh yeah
Speaker 1: the motif. Uh, folks looks like that about does it
Speaker 1: for games. But there is a quick look out on
Speaker 1: the website now Memory Meo, Memories in orbit start that.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, this is the metroid vein I did. I
Speaker 2: was quick look with with Chuck. Chuck piloted. It's a
Speaker 2: good quick look. Uh, it's a it's a Metroidvania in
Speaker 2: the very much in the Hollow Night style. They're trying
Speaker 2: to be hollow night and I'm still early. It's not
Speaker 2: it's not grabbing me super well, but uh, I think
Speaker 2: I need to just stick with it a little bit
Speaker 2: further because the stuff that Chuck was showing me, It's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: clearly there's a ton more here, and I bet I
Speaker 2: get an upgrade or two more and I'll be right
Speaker 2: there with it.
Speaker 3: You could say he's he's wrong. Yeah, he's not around
Speaker 3: this week. He's just wrong.
Speaker 2: He just led wrong. Yeah, he fled because he was
Speaker 2: so wrong. Stick to what you know, stick to what
Speaker 2: you get back in the website minds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he was Upsetti Spaghetti because of the thing
Speaker 1: that you, uh and I are recording with him.
Speaker 3: Uh, Grub.
Speaker 1: He was just so upset about that and then messing
Speaker 1: up the first quick look.
Speaker 2: With him first. Uh, there's an io problem and I
Speaker 2: got kicked to the side. He brought and brought Grub in.
Speaker 2: That's okay though, because I forgot his last name when
Speaker 2: they came up in the beginning. All Right, folks, we're
Speaker 2: gonna go take a quick bricky break and we we'll
Speaker 2: be back with the news right after the zimmer Feld.
Speaker 3: Is that what you said?
Speaker 1: Yeah, quick, uh again another quick pulse check. How many
Speaker 1: we motes do y'all think you have in your house
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 4: Seven?
Speaker 3: Seven?
Speaker 1: Grub just got up and left. I definitely have two somewhere,
Speaker 1: just do know where they are. That's a pink one.
Speaker 2: Have a pink one?
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, looks like a sex toy, it does, Grub.
Speaker 1: You said the magic word, a pink one. So now
Speaker 1: we can do the news.
Speaker 2: Is over all?
Speaker 1: Right, product, there were no products targeting that because no
Speaker 1: one's found it yet, at least.
Speaker 5: No one that was going to see all right, I
Speaker 5: have some news here. Let's start off with this one.
Speaker 5: High Guard didn't pay for that final spot at the
Speaker 5: Game Awards. You might have heard that if you listened
Speaker 5: to the show like a month ago where we said.
Speaker 2: That, Like I was like, yeah, you remember that.
Speaker 1: When I saw this circle circulating around, I'm like, didn't
Speaker 1: we know that already?
Speaker 2: We did?
Speaker 5: Okay, but but it's confirmed again and again Imron said
Speaker 5: it like a couple of weeks ago. Paul Tassy's reporting
Speaker 5: it and that's what really popped it off. Uh yeah,
Speaker 5: they it was selected by Keighley for that last spot,
Speaker 5: and everyone's going like that's impossible.
Speaker 2: He should know better. Wow. Well, well, I want to
Speaker 2: pause it this and I don't want anyone to freak
Speaker 2: out or anything here, But perhaps Jeff Keighley is out
Speaker 2: of touch. Yeah, I think that's a likely scenario, Mike.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And also it's like, uh.
Speaker 5: I think he probably played the game, thought it was
Speaker 5: pretty good, and thought from the makers of titan Fall
Speaker 5: two would go a long way, not realizing goes like
Speaker 5: that's great. We want titan Fall three, not whatever this
Speaker 5: live service stuff is, because it's another live service game.
Speaker 5: It has still been radio silent since this happened. I mean,
Speaker 5: louch Monday, right Monday. I think we next month the
Speaker 5: squad together, we do a launch day stream of High Guard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I long. I think that's where we're at. Like
Speaker 2: right now, it doesn't they haven't said a single thing
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 5: I think there's a chance, you know, it'd be weird
Speaker 5: if they didn't at this point because it's getting so close.
Speaker 5: But they haven't said a single thing about now. It's
Speaker 5: it's free to play, right, so it's not like this
Speaker 5: weird thing where you're gonna have to like get people
Speaker 5: ready to spend some money and apex Legends definitely had
Speaker 5: a here it is out of nowhere. It just launched
Speaker 5: and it did really well for that game. So maybe
Speaker 5: they're hoping to could sort of replicate that a little
Speaker 5: bit after whatever happened at the Game Board's happened to
Speaker 5: this game. But we should try this game out if
Speaker 5: it does launch on Monday and see for ourselves. I
Speaker 5: bet the people are priming themselves up for a redemption
Speaker 5: story here, like, Oh, I actually do like this game.
Speaker 5: I don't care what the haters say.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to do that. I want to like it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I like character like I've gone back into Marvel Rivals.
Speaker 1: I could maybe go for another character shooter. Do you
Speaker 1: think Healey did the mental calculus about like what that
Speaker 1: last spot at the Game Awards can do to a game? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I wonder I having hurt that he could hurt a
Speaker 2: game more than help it, right, I don't think that
Speaker 2: occurred to him?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I mean because really, like when you're setting
Speaker 5: up your show, you're excited. You're like, Hey, this is
Speaker 5: I'm in LA. I'm Jeff Keeley. You're a bunch of
Speaker 5: developers from the Los Angeles area. We're friends, like we
Speaker 5: probably see each other and we're in the same circles
Speaker 5: all the time. I'm gonna do you guys a solid
Speaker 5: I like your game. People are gonna love it's no
Speaker 5: one's thinking it and like, and then people are gonna
Speaker 5: freak out because it wasn't it was the one last thing,
Speaker 5: and it wasn't exactly what they wanted obviously. It's like,
Speaker 5: you flip it around, make that the second last thing.
Speaker 5: He may make Fates of the Old Republic the last thing.
Speaker 5: And I think that solves most of the problems right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that solves pretty much all of them, except, like,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe we're not even talking about this game
Speaker 2: at all, like honestly at that point, right I maybe
Speaker 2: like would not remember what High Guard even is now.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's better than it kind of being a punchline,
Speaker 2: which is sort of the case right now. And it's
Speaker 2: one where hey, maybe the joke's on all of us.
Speaker 2: Maybe the game's gonna turn out. And it's hard because
Speaker 2: the game can't just come out and actually be good.
Speaker 2: It has to come out be good and find an audience.
Speaker 2: It's two things. Those can both be difficult with concord,
Speaker 2: right because you know, that's what we're all thinking of.
Speaker 2: I think the whole industry is still staggered from Concord's
Speaker 2: just absolute abysmal performance that game. It was not that
Speaker 2: bad to actually play, right, Like, whether he's where you
Speaker 2: think it was good or great, the quality to play
Speaker 2: your base ratio was heavily out of balance. So how
Speaker 2: good does high Born have to be to kind of
Speaker 2: have its hard hi guard? Oh got high Born? How
Speaker 2: good does it have to be to like really latch
Speaker 2: onto an audience here with its you know, middling presentation, right, Like,
Speaker 2: that's the reason why it showed poorly is that the
Speaker 2: presentation of it is not inspired.
Speaker 1: And I'm hearing on the streets that Overwatch two is
Speaker 1: picking up a little bit more traction is but like
Speaker 1: I feel part of that is because people are at
Speaker 1: least familiar at this point with a lot of those
Speaker 1: Overwatch characters. Maybe is about the newer ones and Marvel
Speaker 1: rivals just has the name recognition of Marvel. It does
Speaker 1: feel like an uphill battle for any of these character
Speaker 1: shooters to like now get you into the world and
Speaker 1: get you invested. My question, did that deadlock? Did that
Speaker 1: ever come out out?
Speaker 2: I think it is still technically in early access. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but people are spending a lot of money on it
Speaker 2: and has a lot of players, so yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 2: that's like, that's kind of you know, that's almost more
Speaker 2: in the Mobis Space than Character Shooter. It's obviously a
Speaker 2: combination of the two for sure. Yeah, so that's a
Speaker 2: it's an interesting cause. And it's Valve, which you know,
Speaker 2: is it always a guarantee remember artifact?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah it's Valve.
Speaker 2: No, there's no monetorization. And Deadlock that's crazy, what a
Speaker 2: weird thing. It's a focus, it's still it's it's enclosed.
Speaker 2: Batis like you can only play if you get invited, right,
Speaker 2: but there's still it has so many players. Oh man,
Speaker 2: that's a weird, weird, weird thing.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, we should we should do a double feature.
Speaker 1: We should do a high Guard and then Deadlock, all right,
Speaker 1: and then by deadlock. We just watched the Deadlock voice.
Speaker 4: Sure sounds great.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize. So right now, someone mentions out that
Speaker 2: high Guard is just a sitting Yes, that's crazy. That
Speaker 2: can't be on purpose, even if it's subconscious, it's not great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then that's the thing that people don't want another Overwatch.
Speaker 2: If they're gonna they want Overwatch, they'll go to Overwatch too,
Speaker 2: which is better than it has been.
Speaker 1: And I know that we share our fair share of
Speaker 1: bad puns and stuff, but come on, guys.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I think you nailed jam. This thing has
Speaker 5: an uphill battle. It's got it like every win, it
Speaker 5: has to take every win.
Speaker 2: It can't have any l's and it just already out
Speaker 2: of the gate had one of the biggest els we've seen,
Speaker 2: you know, not on the level of a Concord, but
Speaker 2: like since Concord in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: And I mean, like you know, uh, like barring the
Speaker 1: dumbass that was that absolutely kneecapped his game split Gate two,
Speaker 1: which then became split Gate What arena?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just make a first person shooters great against
Speaker 2: your problems with that.
Speaker 1: A loser anyway?
Speaker 4: Is the Riot one still big.
Speaker 2: Valerioue Yeah, Yeah, that's its own orbit, Yeah, on its
Speaker 2: own found a niche by being like the counterstrike meets
Speaker 2: hero shooter thing, and it's a good combo and it
Speaker 2: gets to live and you know, their whole orbits with
Speaker 2: all the stuff they have for esports and everything.
Speaker 1: It helps. Yeah, but with split Gate. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know the original one had like a gigantic audience. Maybe
Speaker 1: that was because of the pandemic, Like, yeah, it tapered
Speaker 1: off very quickly. Uh, and they couldn't ever capitalize. And
Speaker 1: sure again the game's rep was hurt by the CEO.
Speaker 1: But I I don't know, even that game that had
Speaker 1: some familiarity couldn't catch on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just not a lot of a blue ocean
Speaker 2: in this space. It's all just the deadly shark infested waters,
Speaker 2: and no matter where you go, you kind of can't
Speaker 2: get away from that reality. Speaking of Marathon's release date
Speaker 2: may have been accidentally shared early on the Xbox Store update.
Speaker 2: It was confirmed for March fifth, twenty twenty six. The
Speaker 2: game's forty dollars. It's coming to PS five, Xbox PC. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Last couple of play updates on the
Speaker 2: play test people seemed a lot more positive about it.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's positive enough, But I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's bungee.
Speaker 5: It always feels like it has a puncher's chance of
Speaker 5: being like, oh, that's the best feeling shorter.
Speaker 2: Of the year. I don't know, for so long.
Speaker 3: Tighty dollars, forty dollars.
Speaker 2: For a while, I was like, oh, Arc Raiders is
Speaker 2: going to eat things lunch. But maybe our readers has
Speaker 2: done some good groundwork here because Arc Raiders is forty dollars,
Speaker 2: So now people are kind of used to the idea
Speaker 2: that you pay for one of these. It's not just
Speaker 2: inherently free to play. It's gotten a lot of people
Speaker 2: used to the entire genre of extraction shooting, and it's
Speaker 2: also been out long enough that people might be looking
Speaker 2: for a different flavor of it. Maybe I still think
Speaker 2: there's a bit bit of an uphill climb here, but
Speaker 2: again it's bungeee. If it plays well, if they fix
Speaker 2: things from that first disastrous alpha, they might still have
Speaker 2: a decent shot here of having something. I'm the number
Speaker 2: one selling game on Steam right now. I mean Marathon is,
Speaker 2: you know, before it comes out pre orders, number one
Speaker 2: selling game on Steam, and they do that by dollars,
Speaker 2: So it's forty dollars, you know, the other game. The
Speaker 2: other things on here are like Quarantine Zone, the Last
Speaker 2: Check for sixteen dollars, a new zombie game that's yeah,
Speaker 2: Magic the Gathering Arena is making a ton of money.
Speaker 2: The steam Deck is actually the number one thing, though
Speaker 2: Marathon's right behind that.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a little bit worried. I know that there
Speaker 1: was some AI art caught in like I guess early
Speaker 1: iterations of the game or whatever. I'm curious to see.
Speaker 2: Stolen stolen art, right, they had stolen art, yeah, and
Speaker 2: other artist stuff without their permission, and that caused a
Speaker 2: big problem for him.
Speaker 1: I'm curious if they've been able to untangle all of
Speaker 1: that or because that would be another thing to hurt
Speaker 1: the game if it has a successful launch and everything,
Speaker 1: which I hope it does h only for it to
Speaker 1: then be like hampered by oh no, my art was stolen,
Speaker 1: or maybe there was like AI usage in other parts
Speaker 1: of the game.
Speaker 5: Maybe I think there was there's big enough backlash there
Speaker 5: that it sounded like they knew they had to do
Speaker 5: right by that artist. And I think that all that
Speaker 5: stuff was settled and they you know, they touched the
Speaker 5: stove and the stove was really hot. You hope they
Speaker 5: learned that they don't touch the stove again. So hopefully
Speaker 5: all that stuff is untangled and.
Speaker 2: It cynically, I mean, Urca kind of proudly has the
Speaker 2: AI voices, right even though they made a zillion dollars,
Speaker 2: they still aren't replacing those with real people or anything.
Speaker 2: So people will stomach a certain degree.
Speaker 1: Of that slop. It seems like, at least in this genre.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Keith, the.
Speaker 2: Division three boss Julian Garritty was talking I think I
Speaker 2: might have talked about on last week's episode. He's like, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a really really big game, and then
Speaker 2: he left a week later. He went, He's going to EA.
Speaker 2: He is now in charge of Battlefield. He's going to
Speaker 2: be helping out with Battlefield six and.
Speaker 3: Stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, people move around. If I was at Ubisoft,
Speaker 2: I would also want to go to a different corporation.
Speaker 2: It sucks that it's like, oh, do I work for
Speaker 2: the one that's kind of falling apart slowly and is
Speaker 2: being propped up over there by Tencent, or do I
Speaker 2: go this one that's being propped up by Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 2: Kind of a mess in corporate games production these days, sure,
Speaker 2: but Battlefield is the very least. It's like one there.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, EA's not giving up on that anytime soon,
Speaker 2: and you'd be soft who knows. It's so fick all
Speaker 2: over there. Who knows what they do in the future. Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Do.
Speaker 2: I think like if Battlefield six just came out, it
Speaker 2: seemed like I had a really hot start.
Speaker 5: It did have a really hot start, it did very well.
Speaker 5: Now the word around that game is cooled off significantly.
Speaker 5: I don't know if people have been listening to this show,
Speaker 5: especially in the new segment, for long enough, they've heard
Speaker 5: this ups and downs with big games like this for
Speaker 5: years and years, and it's like, I don't know, for
Speaker 5: a six month period, it's the worst thing that's ever happened.
Speaker 5: In the next six month period, it's back, just like
Speaker 5: we're talking about with Overwatch two being back right that
Speaker 5: was in the dumpster after it came out. Battlefield does
Speaker 5: feel like it's in a down period, but it's perennial
Speaker 5: these kinds of games. They'll find a way to bring
Speaker 5: it back and keep people interested, right right, And.
Speaker 2: I mean, is he filling in, like you know the
Speaker 2: spot that was left o opened by his and Paula's passing.
Speaker 1: Is that what's happening here?
Speaker 2: There's none of that was brought up.
Speaker 5: I don't know, it seems like that's possible, but it
Speaker 5: feels like that happened pretty quickly if that was the case,
Speaker 5: So no indication that that's exactly what happened. Digital Eclipses
Speaker 5: Disney Afternoon Collection retro compilation has finally been rated for
Speaker 5: the Switch and Switch to mikey.
Speaker 3: You get it.
Speaker 2: Let's go Rescuer right there? Tails Yep, let's see here
Speaker 2: the Ductails Rescue Rangers one and two, tail Spin, Dark
Speaker 2: Wing Duck. It's is Duckhaale's one and two as well.
Speaker 2: I didn't say no number two there. There is some
Speaker 2: speculation that like Digital clips has done stuff like this before,
Speaker 2: and they've added additional content when they did that, maybe
Speaker 2: like they could add the Genesis version of Tailspin is
Speaker 2: what people are thinking. Do you think there's any chance
Speaker 2: of that that game's bad? And also it's made by Sega.
Speaker 2: What if you're going to do sixteen bit? There's like
Speaker 2: a there's a goof Troop game for the supernesoena play
Speaker 2: that was made by Capcom and it's very good. It's
Speaker 2: basically like a co op Zelda kind of thing, very
Speaker 2: puzzle focused, so that would be amazing to have on there.
Speaker 2: You can also just like throw in the there's a
Speaker 2: little Mermaid Capcom game for a nes that you could
Speaker 2: throw in as well. But even if it is just
Speaker 2: the games in the original, that was a really good collection.
Speaker 2: Some of those games, especially Ducktails, are just all timers
Speaker 2: since they came out back in twenty seventeen, and it
Speaker 2: bummed me out then that there wasn't a switch version.
Speaker 2: So if this is finally happening, I'd be so happy
Speaker 2: just being able to play through Ductails over and over
Speaker 2: and over again, like I don't get really good. Maybe
Speaker 2: even speed run Ducktails. I think that would be a
Speaker 2: ton of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to see that.
Speaker 2: Forts A Horizon six's release date may have been revealed
Speaker 2: early by an in game ad. An allegend in game
Speaker 2: ad basically said the game is gonna get early access
Speaker 2: starting May fifteenth.
Speaker 5: It'll launch in earnest on May nineteenth. Oh yeah, that's
Speaker 5: that's right, that's true. That's when that game is coming out.
Speaker 5: I think Fable will then come out in like late summer, August, September.
Speaker 5: I can't remember exactly. I just have late summer in
Speaker 5: my head. But we'll be finding out probably a lot
Speaker 5: more about these specifically, that's this week, right, they're doing
Speaker 5: the Xbox Developer direct where they're talking about this game,
Speaker 5: they're talking about Fable, they're talking about that game Freak,
Speaker 5: maybe Soulsborn game that I can't remember the name of
Speaker 5: right now, and then and then there is the secret
Speaker 5: fourth game that is probably that Double Find game Kill.
Speaker 2: January twenty second, one pm Eastern is when this direct
Speaker 2: is happening. Well, there you go, so we'll get all
Speaker 2: those details probably then that Hey, that's sooner than I
Speaker 2: was expecting for Forts of Horizon six, which I'm definitely
Speaker 2: in the mood for, so going to Japan, I want
Speaker 2: to see it. Yeah, absolutely, Again, I'm curious, like the vibe,
Speaker 2: just how festival it is. You know, we always laugh like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's on social media. Really people are always are always
Speaker 2: like I hope that is, you know, not toned down,
Speaker 2: just changed. Are kind of paralleled a bit in this
Speaker 2: direction or that direction, just shift it right. My fear
Speaker 2: is that it's going to be like we used a
Speaker 2: I to make it look like you're writing I guess
Speaker 2: the dragon. That's the vibe of those games for sure,
Speaker 2: whatever voice that was.
Speaker 1: But you know, if this game is good, it could
Speaker 1: be really good, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: Monster Hunter Wilds reportedly runs runs much better on PC
Speaker 5: when all the DLC is installed. Some Reddit users like
Speaker 5: we're noticing, Hey, I'm going to install or I'm gonna
Speaker 5: log into my count on your PC.
Speaker 2: So I could do some stuff in Monster Hunter Wilds.
Speaker 2: And they were doing the same stuff. And when the
Speaker 2: first guy was playing, he was getting like thirty frames
Speaker 2: second or less. And then when the second guy was
Speaker 2: playing on the same PIEC on his account that happened
Speaker 2: to have all the DLC, he was getting like eighty
Speaker 2: frames per second.
Speaker 5: They both were like, wait, what's That's not a tiny difference.
Speaker 5: That's been two or three percent we're talking about here. Yeah,
Speaker 5: And so these guys are like, wait a second, let's check.
Speaker 5: And they allegedly built a tool to stop the game
Speaker 5: from che for checking if you own the DLC. So
Speaker 5: when they did this, the guy, the original guy who
Speaker 5: was getting twenty thirty frames per second started getting like
Speaker 5: eighty frames per second.
Speaker 2: So now we're early on I think Digital Foundery.
Speaker 3: I don't know this.
Speaker 5: They've done the video yet. It's like they're like out
Speaker 5: there like, hey, we're gonna check it. See if it
Speaker 5: says real base.
Speaker 2: He says that Digital Foundery went into details that apparently
Speaker 2: this only affects towns maybe, Okay, Okay, so there's some
Speaker 2: parts of the game where this is a problem. Okay,
Speaker 2: so let's say problem you're in that game, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: so is it is it a.
Speaker 3: Bug where it's constantly checking for the DLC because it
Speaker 3: presumably you do that. It's it checks in ones, it
Speaker 3: calls home once.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, is it a bug or is it
Speaker 2: like just an inefficient way of of them doing things.
Speaker 2: I mean, at the very least, it's causing problems. It
Speaker 2: needs to be fixed, So yeah, I think so, yeah.
Speaker 5: Really it's checking. Yeah, like there is checking every frame.
Speaker 5: That would be very bizarre. Digital Foundery says it seemed
Speaker 5: like a bug. So hopefully Capcom just sees this and
Speaker 5: fixes this. They are claiming like they're not gonna have
Speaker 5: similar issues when Resident Evil Requiem launches, because it's using
Speaker 5: the same engine.
Speaker 2: It'll have DLC all their games have, so hopefully that's
Speaker 2: not a problem. This game has been out for like
Speaker 2: almost a year now, right, and that is I don't know.
Speaker 3: So if you have the guitar, it's better.
Speaker 5: If you have every apparently every piece of DLC you
Speaker 5: own makes it check less soay me bitch.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, there you go, get the guitar to make
Speaker 2: your game run better.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: Sega announced his Sonic thirty fifth anniversary plans to celebrate
Speaker 5: Sonic's legacy, Sonic Sega has announced the plan for a
Speaker 5: high energy slate of anniversary programs.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's gonna have a bunch of stuff. We'll see exactly
Speaker 2: what it looks like. But they're promising to do a
Speaker 2: lot with this the franchise. They're also doing the same
Speaker 2: thing for Puyo Puyo though Pooya Puyo's thirty fifth anniversary,
Speaker 2: so will.
Speaker 3: Have a lot to say. Yeah, exactly, well done. Okay,
Speaker 3: I guess we're still here, Sonic.
Speaker 2: We should just kill two birds of Winstone and release
Speaker 2: Doctor Robotix.
Speaker 1: Me being the scene too then absolutely.
Speaker 2: Got what the game. Seriously, though, it is about time
Speaker 2: for that sequel to uh to Sonic Frontiers, right. I
Speaker 2: want to be shocked if we see that at some
Speaker 2: point this year. It was released four years ago, So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that. Honestly, man, I'm surprised he's only thirty five.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. I would I could have sworn
Speaker 3: old old remember that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, ninety one.
Speaker 1: Ninety one was the first Sonic Yeah, because the same
Speaker 1: year Supernintendo came out. So I was I was there
Speaker 1: that Sonics turning thirty five this year? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 3: Am I the same age as Sonic?
Speaker 1: Apparently?
Speaker 2: Are you Sonic?
Speaker 3: I'm not ready for that. You seem younger than Sonic.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank god, thank God to hold on to mindy
Speaker 1: do you feel about chili dogs? Jan I love chili dogs.
Speaker 2: But it's just stacking up?
Speaker 3: Are you allowed to do a thirty fifth anniversary if
Speaker 3: you've only been relevant for like eleven of those years?
Speaker 2: Wait a second, now, you said good, maybe relevant?
Speaker 5: Come on, but he's only been good for eleven You're
Speaker 5: right there, you go if that seems like a lot,
Speaker 5: just like however.
Speaker 3: You want to position it, is fine. The truth came out, though.
Speaker 1: You know, now that I'm thinking about it, I do
Speaker 1: tap my foot and look at you guys, and I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for you.
Speaker 4: Yes, Sonically, we are going to figure out who the
Speaker 4: rest of us are. Obviously tails Sonic franchises. If we're
Speaker 4: just like the video game character of Giant Bomb.
Speaker 3: You know, And so I still want to be big
Speaker 3: the cat. You have your grub calls. Come on the dreams. Jen,
Speaker 3: You're cooler than Sonic too.
Speaker 1: Growing up I thought Sonic was pretty cool.
Speaker 4: He's the coolest if we're doing the Sonic am I robotic.
Speaker 2: Yeah you wish, wow, you of.
Speaker 6: Today something to aspire to, baby, Okay, aspire to be
Speaker 6: so you get what those woodpeckers you put them into
Speaker 6: a robot and have that rud that baby, we'll see.
Speaker 2: An idea.
Speaker 1: I think you're more of a Silver the Hedgehog guy.
Speaker 2: Damn Dan, I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2: Actually he's the one six What was Silver repeating in
Speaker 2: that one boss fight? It's like, oh god, it's like
Speaker 2: I can't lose or something. Some things they might be,
Speaker 2: Uh they've been remaking games to uh, you know, we
Speaker 2: had generations before that, we had colors. Maybe they'll do Unleashed.
Speaker 2: People seem to think that one's good. Now apparently what.
Speaker 3: Could they do? What could they do that would be awesome?
Speaker 2: And I don't know. People just accept Unleashed Now.
Speaker 3: The movies are good and that's about it right now.
Speaker 2: Sonic is good. Yeah, that's the best Knuckles.
Speaker 4: I kind of like Frontiers.
Speaker 1: Is the movie Sonic three.
Speaker 3: The movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's a comple three D glass is good. Actually,
Speaker 2: you'll be uh, all right. I'm just saying we've never
Speaker 2: played a Mario game on Blake Club.
Speaker 3: That's all all right.
Speaker 2: Mario is just saying it can be arranged. That's not bad. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just weird. I don't think I ever understood it.
Speaker 3: When I was playing.
Speaker 2: Just imagine what am I supposed.
Speaker 3: To be doing.
Speaker 4: A kid whose whole personality was loving Mario games, and
Speaker 4: all I said, Oh, there's a new one for Superintendent
Speaker 4: called Mario is Missing the Great and you rented and
Speaker 4: so what why is it asking me these questions?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 4: Why is it trying to teach me things?
Speaker 5: Japan dominance continues as Switched to fuels forty percent market
Speaker 5: growth in Japan.
Speaker 2: It sold nearly four million units of the Switch to did,
Speaker 2: becoming Japan's fastest selling console and accounting for over half
Speaker 2: of all home consoles sold that year.
Speaker 5: It also was like, they have the top twenty here
Speaker 5: collected by using various day available data. The top ten
Speaker 5: is like directly from the source that tracks this. It's
Speaker 5: physical only, but it's a good glimpse Nintendo is let's
Speaker 5: see or these games? Oh yeah, all but one of
Speaker 5: them are Nintendo switch or switch to games and mots around.
Speaker 2: Why is number four on the PS five and then
Speaker 2: if you go the whole top twenty, it's all but
Speaker 2: two of them. So yeah, goes to Yoka was like
Speaker 2: we number fifteen here. Yeah, it's it's just a Nintendo
Speaker 2: dominates in Japan, and it's like not just like oh
Speaker 2: that's some extra pennies. It's a significant market for them
Speaker 2: in a way. It's like, Okay, why.
Speaker 5: Isn't Sony focused on It's like I think even if
Speaker 5: Sony did focus on Japan, they wouldn't get these kinds
Speaker 5: of results.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just where that that market is. It's just
Speaker 2: Nintendo obsessed and it's working out for them very well.
Speaker 1: I yeah, sorry, Greb, but after seeing Squid Games, Minecraft
Speaker 1: and the Latin American audience because of Dan and his
Speaker 1: best friend, she'd be Doki. Course, I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: what the Minecraft scene is like in Japan because it's
Speaker 1: wild that Minecraft on Switch has such a strong presence
Speaker 1: on this chart.
Speaker 2: It's big everywhere, but yeah, it's especially big in Japan. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: it's three hundred and fifty thousand units sold on the
Speaker 2: switch alone last year. It's pretty good. You'd be shopped
Speaker 2: this updating three classic Far Far Cry games to finally
Speaker 2: run at sixty frames per second on modern platforms. It'll
Speaker 2: be Far Cry three, Far Cry three Blood Dragon, and
Speaker 2: Far Cry Primal. They are all set to receive updates.
Speaker 2: You know you'd be second Blood Dragon rules.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this is the sentence Primal like, yeah, those
Speaker 3: games are yeah, yeah, I guess the Primal thing is
Speaker 3: what threw me.
Speaker 4: Off when I fell off.
Speaker 2: The last one I played was Primal, and I was like,
Speaker 2: I think I'm done with this. Which map was Primal
Speaker 2: we're using? Was that first four?
Speaker 3: It was four?
Speaker 2: Oka, that's that's what those games are.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't.
Speaker 2: It was actually so geographically, Yes, obviously it's all cave manny,
Speaker 2: but it was like layout skin.
Speaker 5: But it was like the layout, the geography was exactly
Speaker 5: the same. Okay, that's what they were doing. It was like,
Speaker 5: let's make a second game using all this stuff again,
Speaker 5: and yeah, tiers of the game exactly when park Primal
Speaker 5: just here to the cave.
Speaker 2: So we're playing Primal and thinking like this is going
Speaker 2: to really shake things up and somehow being like a
Speaker 2: cave man didn't shake up the frists. Like this is
Speaker 2: the same thing, sbo Zil.
Speaker 1: You know, I talked about it last week. Maybe there's
Speaker 1: a reason we don't have that many caveman games.
Speaker 4: I mean there is literally a game called games. I
Speaker 4: like it.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, don't make don't make me bring up the Flintstones.
Speaker 2: I'll do it. They already did this for Far Cry
Speaker 2: for last year last April, and they got an updates
Speaker 2: and now they're just kind of doing it to the rest.
Speaker 2: They're probably getting ready to well, they are getting ready
Speaker 2: to reinvigorate this series because remember Rob mc rob mac
Speaker 2: excuse me, Rob Mack is making that show with Noah
Speaker 2: Hawley on FX, the Far Cry Show, and Rob Mack
Speaker 2: is going to be the star of it.
Speaker 3: It's yea, the villain or the protagonist?
Speaker 2: Good question, which would which would be better?
Speaker 3: Villain?
Speaker 1: Say more about the villain?
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, right, But it's like I want someone who's
Speaker 2: like as a huge presence.
Speaker 4: Do you want like Gary Busey.
Speaker 3: Gary Busey, Oh my god, have you seen lately? You don't? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And Far Cry?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: FARCREI six was twenty twenty one, so it's gotta be
Speaker 2: time for five Christ seven to at least be announced
Speaker 2: this year. You'd think that just like just look, they're
Speaker 2: kind of working in that direction. And again we always
Speaker 2: say Far Christ part of that trio of Far Cry,
Speaker 2: Assassin's Creed and Ghost Ricon that went with ten Cent
Speaker 2: to they knew Ubi Soft that they actually care about.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they're definitely doing more far And we didn't
Speaker 2: even get like the expand alone for Far Christ six
Speaker 2: like all the other ones got right, So right, yeah,
Speaker 2: there hasn't been anything Far Cry really for a hot moment.
Speaker 4: There, I'm sending here thing the actors i'd want to
Speaker 4: see as as a villain, and you know there's once
Speaker 4: again Willem Dafoe and stuff, but one that just popped
Speaker 4: in my mind obviously can't happen, but imagine how much
Speaker 4: fun Bill Paxton would have had as a bark Cry
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, just wild eyed Bill Paxton.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gaming's greatest villain villain we played Jack Thompson and
Speaker 2: the GTA movie.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I celebrates Hitman's Hitman three's fifth anniversary by announcing cross progression.
Speaker 2: Finally for World of Assassination, I have a decent progression
Speaker 2: in like four different platforms for that game, like PC, Xbox, PlayStation,
Speaker 2: and Switch, and uh, I'm like, okay, when I go
Speaker 2: to like bring one of them forward, I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna be the PC version I have the most progression in.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this is pretty cool. I I like this
Speaker 2: game a bunch, and it will be nice to have
Speaker 2: all of my unlocks available on all the platforms. Yeah,
Speaker 2: did they ever fix that Switch to version? Because yeah,
Speaker 2: I liked the idea of being able to play that
Speaker 2: version with all unlocks. But that thing was kind of
Speaker 2: rough at launch. A. Yes, it was weirdly rough compared
Speaker 2: to a lot of other stuff that was like surprisingly good.
Speaker 2: They made some updates to it, and I think they
Speaker 2: made some improvements. Whether or not they got it to
Speaker 2: where it should be, I have not checked recently.
Speaker 3: I should uh.
Speaker 2: And then finally, Valve has significantly rewritten steams rules for
Speaker 2: how developers must disclose AI use. Basically, it's like this,
Speaker 2: I was building that like game release tool for US,
Speaker 2: and I was using Visual Studio to do it, and
Speaker 2: I noticed you kind of can't not use AI when
Speaker 2: you're using Visual Studio these days, It's like, oh, we
Speaker 2: know what line of code you're trying to write, Just
Speaker 2: hit the button and we're gonna finish it for you.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, okay, I'm gonna do that. It's I'm
Speaker 2: gonna write this anyhow, I'll just hit the tab and
Speaker 2: it's gonna finish it for me.
Speaker 5: That stuff's built right in valves. Like anything that's about
Speaker 5: saving you time or like efficiency, we don't really care
Speaker 5: about that. It's generative AI creating art assets from whole
Speaker 5: cloth that we want you to disclose. So that's really
Speaker 5: what they're trying to get at here, although people some
Speaker 5: people are like, no, we still want to know any
Speaker 5: sort of AI usage at all, And I think valves
Speaker 5: like that, it's not what we're going for and kind
Speaker 5: of defeats the purpose because it's gonna be like unreal
Speaker 5: just gonna have the stuff built in right, it's just
Speaker 5: gonna be there. And so if you make an unreal
Speaker 5: game or we're gonna have them all disclosed because there's
Speaker 5: the tools are there and it's an unreal game, it's
Speaker 5: I think I want to know, you know. I guess
Speaker 5: I wouldn't hurt to just have them be able to
Speaker 5: say exactly and explicitly what's in there's what's being used.
Speaker 5: But yeah, they're trying to get at a very specific
Speaker 5: thing here, and that is, hey, are you creating art
Speaker 5: from whole cloth for your game?
Speaker 3: And that's what people care about.
Speaker 2: So yeah, some people are gonna like, you know, want
Speaker 2: to know about any of it. But yeah, like some
Speaker 2: of that, Like you know that the auto programming stuff, right,
Speaker 2: I mean there's been variations of that for a bit,
Speaker 2: you know, at least for me, it definitely is this
Speaker 2: generative stuff, right, even you're not even necessarily being in
Speaker 2: the game, if you're like using it test the baseline
Speaker 2: of your concept art or right dialogue assets. I want
Speaker 2: to know about that too, because I think that stuff
Speaker 2: still impacts the final result. Yeah, you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: a tricky thing for them to have to define this properly,
Speaker 2: especially when some you know, there are a lot of
Speaker 2: people who are like, oh, they shouldn't do this at all,
Speaker 2: the Tim Sweeneys of the world raising a fuss, right,
Speaker 2: Uh So it's it's a weird. It's strange that it's
Speaker 2: so treacherous for them, But this seems like a good
Speaker 2: I don't want to say compromise but this seems.
Speaker 1: Like the right way to do it.
Speaker 2: It probably just is like, oh, this is one refinement
Speaker 2: in figuring this stuff out, and there's probably several more
Speaker 2: steps of them actually like dialing in what they need
Speaker 2: to do here to get the proper uh you know,
Speaker 2: sort of disclosures. And yeah, we're just in the middle
Speaker 2: of that process because things are changing so fast. All right,
Speaker 2: that does it for the headlines I have here in
Speaker 2: front of me. Janacho, it back over to you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jeff Grubb. Folks, We're gonna take another quick,
Speaker 1: pricky break and we'll be back with emails super chats
Speaker 1: right after the.
Speaker 3: BombCast.
Speaker 1: A giant bomb dot com is email. Just send your
Speaker 1: emails to You can write in about any and everything
Speaker 1: you want to avoid a social interaction and pretend like
Speaker 1: you're texting someone. Email us, you got a fun quiz.
Speaker 1: Email us you've got five questions as you ask every
Speaker 1: single weekend.
Speaker 3: I only read one of them.
Speaker 1: Email us and gang y'all have been emailing us, so
Speaker 1: thank you for emailing. Anytime I get an email to
Speaker 1: the BombCast address that is directed towards someone, I will
Speaker 1: try my best to forward to them, whether it's about
Speaker 1: odd Facebook, marketplace postings that you think they'd be interested in,
Speaker 1: or other miscallaneous things. Send them our away, so thank you.
Speaker 1: First email the show comes from Greg from Bama gb Crewe.
Speaker 1: Last week's show, there was a discussion about belts and suspenders.
Speaker 1: I grew up with a family of farmers, so I
Speaker 1: have to ask how does the crew feel about overalls? Tangentially,
Speaker 1: while thinking about overalls, I went to see if there
Speaker 1: were any comfy versions and I found swoveralls pants plus overalls. Jan,
Speaker 1: is this a bad idea or a great idea? I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about getting some, but these are a hondo a pop.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Chance when you can pull off overalls here right?
Speaker 1: We we wore them for like the dumb truck at
Speaker 1: PAX once.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I felt like I was I felt like
Speaker 2: I was working it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I've done some wallowe g outfits before and the overalls
Speaker 4: were kind of comfy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like overalls.
Speaker 5: I like them better on other people more than me.
Speaker 5: Like I think they're cute. I think overalls are cute,
Speaker 5: and I'm I approve of them.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 1: I know that this is a safe space where I
Speaker 1: will not be en, but listen, y'all. I just got
Speaker 1: a type. All right, see someone se see someone in overalls,
Speaker 1: I'm like, respectfully, god, Mario, oh really, yes, yes everyone
Speaker 1: has seen the Disney Dreamlight quick look at this point.
Speaker 3: Oh right, I don't know. I gotta go look. Okay,
Speaker 3: is it like a horny is like a.
Speaker 2: Horny yeah, an incredibly horny thing.
Speaker 3: Well, I think like there's you could do like sexual
Speaker 3: sex sexy overalls like side boob and stuff like that. No,
Speaker 3: that's desecrating the beauty of overalls. I think overalls just
Speaker 3: sound very inconvenient for like having to use the restroom
Speaker 3: and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Wow, I mean they mostly the ones for dudes have
Speaker 1: a fly, so you know, just okay, that's not the
Speaker 1: butt flap though, right.
Speaker 3: No, but no, but no butt flap.
Speaker 2: They don't find me go completely basically overall lists to
Speaker 2: go poop, yes.
Speaker 3: Like uh like uh, you know, every now and then,
Speaker 3: like I'll have a female friend who's like, I'm rocking
Speaker 3: a romper or jumper sort of thing, and my first
Speaker 3: thing is like, how you pissing in that? Yes, they're
Speaker 3: getting buck ass naked to go to the bad and
Speaker 3: they're like it's terrible, and I'm like cool, Fashion's cool.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think this is like a similar
Speaker 3: sort of predicament, which, look, I get it. I think
Speaker 3: you know, fashion current fashion is not my favorite at
Speaker 3: the moment. It comes and goes. It's cyclical.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we should sell Romp hymns in the Giant
Speaker 2: Bomb store for men.
Speaker 1: I would gladly rock a romp him. Mike, can we
Speaker 1: make our own ripoff version of swove Rolls? Because I've
Speaker 1: seen swove rolls for years, but I am not about
Speaker 1: to pay one hundred plus dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah that sounds awesome, but I'm looking at him man.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, I don't. I bet we can't. Not nuts,
Speaker 1: all right, Okay, thank you Greg from Bama. Next email
Speaker 1: comes from Nico from Finland. Dear Bombers. First of all,
Speaker 1: I would like to thank Mike for mentioning Looney Tunes
Speaker 1: Duck a Muck for the Nintendo DS a couple.
Speaker 3: Of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I think it was Voicemail Dump Truck. He listen all
Speaker 1: your shows, so I'm not entirely sure which one it was.
Speaker 1: I had no idea that this game existed, so of
Speaker 1: course I had to go to YouTube to investigate. Man,
Speaker 1: based on these videos, they just don't make games like
Speaker 1: this anymore. They just had to go to huto dot
Speaker 1: net finish auction site to see if there was a
Speaker 1: copy available. It turns out there was. It only costs
Speaker 1: ten euros and it was located at my good friend's neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Even better, my friend bought it for me. So now
Speaker 1: I have an obscure DS game all the way that
Speaker 1: is based on the nineteen fifties Daffy Duck cartoon. All
Speaker 1: thanks to Mike.
Speaker 3: Yay, good job Mike.
Speaker 1: Anyway, all the best of the team. I've been listening
Speaker 1: to you guys for a few years now, so I'm
Speaker 1: happy that you all want independent and get to do
Speaker 1: exactly what you want. Giant Bomb, keep up the great work.
Speaker 1: Best regards, Nico from Finland. PS Can I get an
Speaker 1: update on Mike's yodeling skills? Oh? Okay, okay, sure, God
Speaker 1: coming in cold? Okay, we sound like a terrorist.
Speaker 3: It doesn't change, Nico. The answer is terribly. It's going terribly, Mike.
Speaker 3: You you sound insane. I'm not sure much worse than
Speaker 3: what you just did. Uh. Back to the drawing board,
Speaker 3: there was there was a lot of tongue involved there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like what the like?
Speaker 1: They were doing. I think they tongued a lot because
Speaker 1: it's you know, there's a lot of stops and starts
Speaker 1: to their sounds.
Speaker 3: I think, uh, ethnically, you got to stay in your lane.
Speaker 2: You know, it's from the Nordic.
Speaker 1: Is not Nordic, that's more.
Speaker 2: German.
Speaker 1: Yet it was like it's like a Dutch thing.
Speaker 2: Is Nordic?
Speaker 4: The three countries that kind of dangle down, Yeah.
Speaker 1: You're Norway, Finland and Yeah countries.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they dangle down, they dangle up right.
Speaker 2: I think they look like they're dangling down.
Speaker 3: It's a glass half empty thing.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, good job, Mike. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: check in again on the yodaling couple months.
Speaker 3: He'll be clear, bad job, Mike, be very clear, very
Speaker 3: bad job.
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate the courage and yodling.
Speaker 3: What about that?
Speaker 1: I was asked?
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Next one comes from Matt from Essex connetic Hey Bombers.
Speaker 1: For the past six months or so, I've been helping
Speaker 1: my ten year old son steps On with a YouTube
Speaker 1: channel where he posts videos of himself playing the VR
Speaker 1: game Gorilla tag, setting up steam VR, teaching him the
Speaker 1: video editing basics and messing around with mods has been
Speaker 1: a great bonding experience for the whole family. Recently, we've
Speaker 1: done his first few live streams, which is mostly him
Speaker 1: and some friends messing around shouting. But he's encountered his
Speaker 1: first troll. A guy accused him of using illegal mods
Speaker 1: because his arms look too long. His arms are long
Speaker 1: because I set set it up and my arms are
Speaker 1: considerably longer than the average ten year old. This dude
Speaker 1: even went so far as to make a YouTube video
Speaker 1: about it, calling my step son a toxic creator. For context,
Speaker 1: my step son is ten and his channel has forty subscribers,
Speaker 1: has noted YouTubers do if you have advice on how
Speaker 1: to best deal with trolls. I'm telling him to let
Speaker 1: it go and ignore the troll. But that's not the
Speaker 1: easiest thing for a ten year old. Thanks for all
Speaker 1: the great stuff over the years, Matt from Essex, Connecticut.
Speaker 3: I mean, respectfully, Matt. I feel like this is the
Speaker 3: reason why there is an age limit on YouTube channel creation, right, Like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to wag the finger here, but you know,
Speaker 3: it might surprise you to know that DIBB has asked
Speaker 3: me to make a YouTube channel for him about forty
Speaker 3: three thousand times, and I've said, no, not yet, You're
Speaker 3: not there yet. Again, that's not what this is about.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, no YouTube channel, no trolls,
Speaker 3: So I don't know, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 3: a very young ye, yeah.
Speaker 2: The only choice is to ignore it. So it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's it sucks that it's hard to do, but lesson
Speaker 2: learned early.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't have much advice to offer because even as
Speaker 3: an adult, the occasional negative comment or whatever will still,
Speaker 3: like I don't know, sit in my head for much
Speaker 3: longer than it needs to, despite knowing to just get
Speaker 3: over it.
Speaker 4: So a ten year old, right, I've always liked the
Speaker 4: phrase like don't take any criticism from people that you
Speaker 4: wouldn't take advice from. And so it's like some Yahoo
Speaker 4: making like anti you know, kid youth, like who's this joker?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: Whose you know? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's without saying uh to be clear, like that definitely
Speaker 3: goes without saying but I you know, I think like, uh,
Speaker 3: there's got to be some interference that puts a boundary,
Speaker 3: you know, between very young kids and the unbridled nature
Speaker 3: of the Internet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Internet's not going to change.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know, maybe just remind your step son,
Speaker 1: Matt that you're doing this for fun, so just to
Speaker 1: engage with like the fun aspects of it of like,
Speaker 1: you know, so just turn off comments, right, just yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he could do that, but it's not for everyone.
Speaker 4: Like the idea of like being online and putting stuff
Speaker 4: out there, because it's like I've seen so many people
Speaker 4: over the years in the games media that just like
Speaker 4: every comment, you know, they tears them up and everything. Look,
Speaker 4: if you can't take bad comments, don't put stuff out
Speaker 4: on the internet. I mean that's just it's gonna happen, you.
Speaker 1: Know, or don't read comments perhaps, yeah, yeah, yeah that's
Speaker 1: completely fair.
Speaker 3: All right, moving on to the next email.
Speaker 1: But before we move on, who the fuck is trolling
Speaker 1: a ten year old?
Speaker 2: Get as? It's gonna be another kid, right, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's me. I'm getting. I'm getting I think I'm gonna
Speaker 2: call him the Detroit Red Wings. Can I answer this
Speaker 2: real quick? I don't know what's tickets?
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, this is but he wants something
Speaker 1: for sure, it's.
Speaker 3: We could we could use a backup goalie. Tonight, are
Speaker 3: you free?
Speaker 1: This is here?
Speaker 4: Make a YouTube channel on kid?
Speaker 3: The YouTube.
Speaker 4: Will yeah, what's that a lot more? I'm gonna do
Speaker 4: a YouTube channel where I just shipped on children trying to.
Speaker 3: Be YouTube see tickets. I told you, yeah, there is
Speaker 3: There is like funny stuff there where like people will
Speaker 3: completely anonymously like critique kindergarten drawings, uh and be scathing
Speaker 3: and that's funny and that's funny, you know, but you're
Speaker 3: not like doing it to this kid's face and the
Speaker 3: kid doesn't know about it. So I endorse this channel, Dan,
Speaker 3: and I support it. Would you like an investor? Yes? Yes, okay,
Speaker 3: let's talk after the.
Speaker 1: Show here, all right. Moving on to the next email.
Speaker 1: This one comes from Travis and Fargo. Travis writes in
Speaker 1: five questions, I just choose one. Travis writes in what's
Speaker 1: something you like to hear other people rant about? For me,
Speaker 1: it's got to be about Lord of the Rings lore.
Speaker 1: I personally can't get enough of that.
Speaker 3: Just I do like, like god like extended conversations about
Speaker 3: things that don't matter, because.
Speaker 4: It's just a fun careers out of that, it turns out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly the fun exercise in debate. You know, I
Speaker 3: enjoy that low Steaks. I think Low Steaks is really
Speaker 3: where people can shine in their improv talents and kind
Speaker 3: of have fun with it. So I will listen to
Speaker 3: anyone rant about something completely pointless and meaningless. I think
Speaker 3: it's it's everyone could use that kind of exercise in
Speaker 3: their life.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's definitely like episodes of Nitro and Raw
Speaker 4: from like nineteen ninety eight nineteen ninety nine. It's like
Speaker 4: there's just so much dumb, weird horseshit and also the
Speaker 4: occasional really good thing, and it's like it's just very
Speaker 4: fun to hear people talk about and joke about.
Speaker 1: I like when Backlar gets upset about something and rants
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good, that's good. I like specifically people complain
Speaker 2: about bad Star Wars movies. I don't know why it's sick,
Speaker 2: but I always like hearing those rants. They're always rritating
Speaker 2: to me. Yeah, bad bad movies in general. Yeah, like
Speaker 2: there's that one about the little kid who came up
Speaker 2: with an assassination plot to kill his neighbor. I can't remember,
Speaker 2: like the Book of Bill or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I never watched the movie. Never would, but listening to
Speaker 2: people ran about how bad it is on the internet,
Speaker 2: I'll watch that every time.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 1: Alternatively, I like when people talk about a movie they
Speaker 1: really really like.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 3: Uh, sorry, this just reminded me, speaking of which, just
Speaker 3: to go back a little bit to Ferris Bueller Settle
Speaker 3: Settle a meaningless rant for me, Truy, we watched this movie.
Speaker 3: You know the scene where the principal receives the flowers
Speaker 3: and he uses the flowers to take out the dog.
Speaker 3: Do you know the dog that is from behind the
Speaker 3: fact you ever Talkspueler. What my Mike? You can see
Speaker 3: yourself out of this conversation? Yeah, all right, so everyone,
Speaker 3: so fine chat remembers you guys don't remember what I'm
Speaker 3: talking about. Say, like the dogs, there's like a Rottweiler
Speaker 3: or a pit boll and it's giving Rooney the p
Speaker 3: the principal, right, they have a mini feud and they're
Speaker 3: sort of like Roadrunner Wiley coyoteing. I guess that's kind
Speaker 3: of what first Bueler is. It is a Wiley Coyote
Speaker 3: and Roadrunner movie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And he takes the flower pot and he walks towards
Speaker 3: the backyard and you don't know anything. The next scene,
Speaker 3: there's a shattered flower pot and the dog is like
Speaker 3: passed out.
Speaker 2: Oh he hit it on the head. Hit the dog
Speaker 2: on the hell.
Speaker 3: I always assumed that he fed the flowers to the
Speaker 3: dog and it got the dog sick, and the dog
Speaker 3: just passed down from being sick.
Speaker 2: Now, yes, had they shown like the remains like it was,
Speaker 2: his head would be passed out in the flower pot,
Speaker 2: of that's the joke they were going for.
Speaker 3: Exactly. I had this wrong for, like you find and
Speaker 3: I felt like such a fucking asshole because I'm just
Speaker 3: like but then I'm like, wait a minute.
Speaker 2: There, that's just your good goodness, Like you could never
Speaker 2: assume someone would hurt a dog like where I was like,
Speaker 2: I couldn't just food right, exactly.
Speaker 3: I couldn't cats. I couldn't get on board with like
Speaker 3: them being like, oh no, we're implying that this man
Speaker 3: threw a flower pot at a dog's head, rendering it unconscious.
Speaker 3: Anyway I could go, we could talk about that for
Speaker 3: forty five minutes. That's a good thing to hear people
Speaker 3: rant about. Thank you for the question.
Speaker 1: I don't think Mike you would like Ferris Bueller as
Speaker 1: the person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: That's why I never watch it. He kind of sees
Speaker 2: the irritating Ingle Apple in it. You would have a
Speaker 2: lot of criticisms I'm not going to school today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, my god.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he would instead of learn. That's great.
Speaker 1: I think he would be team Cameron for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because Cameron's in bed at the start of the
Speaker 3: movie getting out for anyone, not even my best friends.
Speaker 3: While you're talking about.
Speaker 2: The movie, I was like, am I going to take
Speaker 2: a nap today? That's what I was thinking of about.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I shouldn't. I shouldn't, all right. Next
Speaker 1: email comes from Organ jan I challenge you to learn
Speaker 1: how to swim love Organ? Fine, all right, I'll do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Next email comes from h Or. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I want to read this. F E is what they
Speaker 1: wrote it as, but I'm remembering the email. I screw it, Okay,
Speaker 1: Happy New Year's Should I not?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Just it?
Speaker 3: First time? Long time.
Speaker 1: Just caught up on Giant Bombcasts episode nine hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty two, and I thought i'd contribute to the Dial
Speaker 1: dough Sheath conversation. As a prior law enforcement officer who
Speaker 1: completed many search warts. Yes, most people have their dildos
Speaker 1: and other sex so it's just floating around in their
Speaker 1: dressers or besides their table drawers. Larger quantities are often
Speaker 1: found in a chest in the bedroom or a box
Speaker 1: slash duffel bag in a closet. Very few, if any,
Speaker 1: or sheaths glove up. F E from Michigan.
Speaker 3: Okay, a perfectly reasonable email. Okay, just facts and factoids.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's right.
Speaker 3: I mean he talks about a cache of dildo's. Interesting
Speaker 3: but sure, you know I believe anything here, all right?
Speaker 1: And final email of the show comes from Chris from
Speaker 1: what state is essay that Sacramento from some other South
Speaker 1: South Australia, Australia. That's that's on me, Gang driving, Chris
Speaker 1: writes in driving through the South Australian countryside with my
Speaker 1: family this week, I thought this would make a great
Speaker 1: game for Dan and Backlar and possibly Grub to compete
Speaker 1: in twenty names of towns or Pokemon highest score wins.
Speaker 1: And these are South Australian towns. Mike, you know too much,
Speaker 1: so I'm sorry that you're not there. I only know
Speaker 1: the first gen town. That's fine.
Speaker 2: I'll sit out.
Speaker 4: You know what, I don't think it's the town. It's
Speaker 4: the Pokemon.
Speaker 2: Pokemon versus South Australian towns. Oh, I get it, I
Speaker 2: get it. Yeah, I guess I might know some Pokemon
Speaker 2: I could set out.
Speaker 3: Mike, what about you? Answer last? Okay?
Speaker 1: I want you to be included, all right? First one here?
Speaker 1: Uh now, one of these is the Pokemon. One of
Speaker 1: these is a South Australian town. Okay, okay, Amora or Barrabbah.
Speaker 3: Jesus, wait wait what one is a Okay, one's a Pokemon,
Speaker 3: the Pokemon. I'm going with, Dan, I have no idea.
Speaker 2: You said, what was the first one?
Speaker 1: Laura, that's Amura.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with that being the Pokemon.
Speaker 1: Jeez, I have no idea. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't see. That's the thing. It's like the last
Speaker 2: four or five gens of Pokemon. I maybe remember three
Speaker 2: from each of them anymore. Uh yeah, I want to
Speaker 2: say I think Amora is the Pokemon.
Speaker 1: Grub and Mike, you two are correct. Amra is the
Speaker 1: Pokemon probably like a heart or something. I don't know sure.
Speaker 1: Next one, Beltana or bell toy. Beltana, bell toy.
Speaker 4: Bell toy is the pokemon.
Speaker 3: I agree, I agree, Sure.
Speaker 1: You're correct, all right? They listed twenty. Let's let's speed
Speaker 1: through these. Arrow Kuda or buckle Boo.
Speaker 3: Shit, buckle Boo is definitely Australian town.
Speaker 2: It's a water type pokemon.
Speaker 3: If I'm wrong here, game over, Okay, Buckleboo.
Speaker 1: Is the town.
Speaker 3: Ye okay, all right, that makes the most Australian sense.
Speaker 3: Share them or free Gone share them or free gone
Speaker 3: free Gone sounds like a Pokemon.
Speaker 1: I think that's right. Yeah, I think there's a freae Gone.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with the other one. Share them.
Speaker 1: Share them is the pokemon?
Speaker 3: Would it?
Speaker 1: Would it help if I said both of these in
Speaker 1: an Australian accident?
Speaker 3: No, one of them. Hawker or Nimble.
Speaker 1: I can't do it. Harder or Nimble.
Speaker 2: I don't think say the first one again the Pokemon
Speaker 2: say these words, they immediately leave my brain like they
Speaker 2: have no effect on me.
Speaker 3: It's not super effective. The second one is the is
Speaker 3: the pokey person.
Speaker 1: Nimble is a Pokemon. Yeah, I'll tell you what. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna blump myself in with them. I've got nothing
Speaker 1: I'm going. Yeah, Nimble is the pokemon.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Actually, I'm just gonna skip ahead to a couple of
Speaker 1: the ones I think are Funny Mandura or Marini.
Speaker 3: Mandura or Marini.
Speaker 2: Marini sounds so much like a Pokemon versus my door,
Speaker 2: which sounds like a town. Yeah, I'm going to Marini
Speaker 2: is the Pokemon, aguess Marini water type, although it could
Speaker 2: just be a coastal town of US.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean god, no, Yeah, I'll go with the boys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Marini is the Pokemon. Okay, okay, oh row.
Speaker 3: Rou or ara correo a u or aur correo Zelda character.
Speaker 2: Or a correa.
Speaker 1: Or a correo.
Speaker 2: To answering this and I lost it all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's about the Yeah, does Australia suck.
Speaker 2: Is the Pokemon and Cory is the Australian.
Speaker 3: Let's all just go with grub.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great, Crub incorrect is the Pokemon and we've all
Speaker 2: we all just off the cliff, all right.
Speaker 1: Thank you Chris from South Australia. One more, Chris, croc
Speaker 1: alor or croc a doc fuck you. Crocolor is the
Speaker 1: is the pokey man.
Speaker 2: This is the one ground type and water type Crocolor
Speaker 2: crocka dot.
Speaker 1: I'll say.
Speaker 2: Crocodile.
Speaker 1: I agree with jer.
Speaker 2: I'll go the other way. Crocod doc is the Pokemon,
Speaker 2: Dan you, but I'll be quiet over there.
Speaker 1: I don't know crocolor is the Pokemon. Yeah, folks, stay tuned.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a live podcast from Buckleboo, Australia within
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 3: That was the only reasonable one in the entire quiz.
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Folks, thanks for sending your emails in BombCast. Giant bomb
Speaker 1: dot com is the email dres. Send your emails to
Speaker 1: Mike Manatti. Hit me with any YouTube super chats. Andrew
Speaker 1: Panton says, you discover a gaming time machine that can
Speaker 1: fix an old bad game or guarantee of future releases
Speaker 1: great restruction. What do you go and what is the game?
Speaker 2: I want a dumb future where a crime boss. Rockade
Speaker 2: City Too is somehow a game of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's really funny. Actually, hm hmm.
Speaker 4: The Links Awakening was good.
Speaker 2: Oh, shut the hell up. All right, fine, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: just do it.
Speaker 3: Then.
Speaker 2: I wish that Metro Prime four was good. There, that
Speaker 2: was the game of the year.
Speaker 1: Soon spoilers, dude, come on, people, Sorry, I think.
Speaker 3: I wanted like brutal legend to be good. Uh little better, Yes,
Speaker 3: a good idea, yeah, and in a good first hour
Speaker 3: where I'm like, oh yes, and then you know, the
Speaker 3: rest of the game just sort of happened. I would
Speaker 3: like to do that, please, thank you.
Speaker 2: I was so excited for Fantasy sixteen. I know it's
Speaker 2: not a bad game, but I certainly wish it was
Speaker 2: more interesting than it and I wish it was like
Speaker 2: some big like kit and.
Speaker 1: I don't know, uh, I want to live in a
Speaker 1: world where chaos Legion became the runaway success for Capcom
Speaker 1: because I fucking love that game even to this day.
Speaker 4: I heard someone bring that up in a long time, jeez.
Speaker 1: Or or a god hand is like a major godhand?
Speaker 3: Sure? Yeah yeah, uh like any more super chats?
Speaker 2: Oh craps, did you answer, Greb?
Speaker 3: What are you?
Speaker 2: I went Metric Prime four? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: All right answer yeah.
Speaker 2: Remember Bro says, just curious how often are you approached
Speaker 2: by Wait second, actually I remembered Dan, I have a
Speaker 2: question for you. Yes, it's not about its quality, but
Speaker 2: you kept talking about a robot who sounds like Final
Speaker 2: Fantasy for no, no, no, about Metric Prime for I
Speaker 2: found he said, there's a robot that sounds like John
Speaker 2: Kennedy or not John F.
Speaker 4: Kennedy.
Speaker 2: Robert was I did. I did not pick up that.
Speaker 2: I don't did that robot sound that much like people?
Speaker 4: They're like, holy sh he does?
Speaker 1: Does he?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: I see it? It would not occurred to me, A
Speaker 2: Dan not said at first. But he's got he's got
Speaker 2: like a croaky voice for I think I thought you
Speaker 2: meant JFK expect. We've got to look forward to that, Okay,
Speaker 2: r f K.
Speaker 1: I get it, Okay.
Speaker 2: Trummer bro says, just curious. How often are you approached
Speaker 2: by someone who wishes they.
Speaker 1: Could do what you guys do? How do you react? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm like, what am I gonna? It
Speaker 2: is a little walk right over? I just like I
Speaker 2: just say, yeah, I enjoy it a lot. That's what
Speaker 2: I say every time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, very aware of how lucky we are, not take
Speaker 4: it for granted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's like the nieces, and specifically it's not
Speaker 2: to be a bit like you know, it's like I
Speaker 2: don't want to tell him like it's not gonna happen
Speaker 2: for you, but I want to be like it's it
Speaker 2: took a lot of luck and I don't even know
Speaker 2: if this kind of job is going to exist though
Speaker 2: by the time you're an adult.
Speaker 1: But do you know, do you guys ever encounter anyone
Speaker 1: though that is kind of like super agro about It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it could do this better than you, broke.
Speaker 4: I definitely, I'm not in person, but those types are
Speaker 4: out there on the internet for sure. In person, it's
Speaker 4: just very salty that it didn't work out for them,
Speaker 4: and so you take it out and everyone who did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've met a couple in person that have said
Speaker 1: I could do that. Bro Shut the fuck up, dog
Speaker 1: do it. Cyber from Saskatchewan says idea Bible club slash
Speaker 1: Bible school. Three bad Bible Games are Mikey, Jan and
Speaker 1: Dan worried about excommunication. I haven't done bad education games yet.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm not too worried about that.
Speaker 2: If they if they sent over some Bible game right
Speaker 2: now and told me to dress up, I mean I
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to dress.
Speaker 1: Up as Jesus.
Speaker 2: I'll dress up as most now you know.
Speaker 3: I ever tell y'all.
Speaker 4: Jesus? Why not?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So uh in middle school, I've told you all. I
Speaker 1: I was like in drama club in high school. But
Speaker 1: in middle school, since I went to a private school. Uh,
Speaker 1: we had several Jesus plays and I played Jesus.
Speaker 3: He did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome, but it was the worst costume because
Speaker 1: it was just like a terry cloth robe that they're
Speaker 1: sticking on a kind of uh chunky sixth grader that
Speaker 1: is like growing into his body with the worst wig,
Speaker 1: worst wig and worst beard in the world.
Speaker 3: May may he and the chads at Jansass it's righteous
Speaker 3: Gemstone just think it's.
Speaker 4: So funny that fugitive hunter War on Terror is right
Speaker 4: there for a potential black club and the funny like
Speaker 4: the most obvious possible costume that we'll never ever do. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: I like making a sweat every once in a while
Speaker 2: that we're about to make you dress up like Osama
Speaker 2: bin La. Next one here is frumps Door lex Ohdoda
Speaker 2: from a migz. First here says Jeff Backward. Did you
Speaker 2: find the basement keys yet?
Speaker 3: Oh? Come on, man, but listen, I'm a I'm an adult,
Speaker 3: and at some point you just gotta say to yourself, look,
Speaker 3: these fucking things are gone. If they show up one
Speaker 3: day like a lot of things do. I'll be happy
Speaker 3: about it, but I can't live my life prisoner to
Speaker 3: the idea that I've lost my keys. They're gone, They're
Speaker 3: not coming back. If they do, great, If they don't,
Speaker 3: so be it. There are other ways to open doors
Speaker 3: and locks in this world.
Speaker 1: People are very concerned about this key that you misplaced,
Speaker 1: because when I ran into a friend of the sightly
Speaker 1: to wallin during game Awards, the first thing she asked
Speaker 1: me was, did Jeff ever fight his keys? No?
Speaker 2: Ship? Yeah, I'm sorry you don't remember. Was this on
Speaker 2: a BombCast dumb truck? It was like a whole week.
Speaker 3: It's been on a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2: You've gathered. He lost his keys of the base.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, what's the key? For no good reason? It
Speaker 3: was sitting on my right.
Speaker 2: There and then looked away and then it wasn't that right?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's crazy pretty much on the I mean, I
Speaker 3: mean it was started in an inexplicable way. Uh, don't
Speaker 3: don't force.
Speaker 2: Me to relive it.
Speaker 3: It's just so.
Speaker 2: It's it's been hard for you to get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I just got over it.
Speaker 5: We're picking that it's a place that hasn't been suggested
Speaker 5: to you, and in fact everyone should just go message
Speaker 5: him right now and tell him places that he probably
Speaker 5: hasn't looked that he should look.
Speaker 4: Has anyone suggested under his hat? H?
Speaker 3: I don't think so know, because that would be a
Speaker 3: physical impossibility. It has a better chance of being up
Speaker 3: my asshole. I have taken my head off since I
Speaker 3: lost the key. It was not there. It just sucks.
Speaker 3: But look, you know you haven't scooped since then? Is
Speaker 3: the thing which is true potentially the reason for my
Speaker 3: backup and blockage. But we'll cross that mageh we get there.
Speaker 1: You need something to unlock that blockage.
Speaker 3: Okay, go on the key, but the key? Yeah, what
Speaker 3: a paradox.
Speaker 2: Snorm relaxing says, it's still jam youary, where's the jam
Speaker 2: stream for our boy?
Speaker 1: Jan? Every stream a lot of them are jam streams. Uh,
Speaker 1: we got it.
Speaker 2: You have to play Fantasy fourteen at some point the
Speaker 2: Final Dynasty, So I don't know if we I mean
Speaker 2: there's ten days. I don't know if we're starting that
Speaker 2: this month, but that one's probably gonna be sooner rather
Speaker 2: than later.
Speaker 1: Sooner rather than later, Jimmy jam yeah, yeah, And I'll
Speaker 1: be there and I'll follow you. Around, It'll be we
Speaker 1: good time.
Speaker 2: You guys.
Speaker 4: Ever noticed that Mike used to give a ship to
Speaker 4: the liquids stuff and now he's drinking liquid made it
Speaker 4: as soon.
Speaker 1: I like, I'm contemptively got ahead of it and said, look,
Speaker 1: I had the Rooper want to Dance.
Speaker 2: It's really good. And now I order these on Amazon.
Speaker 2: I want a book that's the toils of Mike Manati.
Speaker 2: The things he needs to get out ahead of in
Speaker 2: life are insane.
Speaker 3: I want your problems. I want your problem.
Speaker 1: This is.
Speaker 2: Okay. Look, I like I like your tastes like roop beer.
Speaker 2: It's good, got ten calories, not much a snitch of
Speaker 2: an aftertaste. It's fine, and it is too expensive. I
Speaker 2: still stand by that everyone's like more expensive. It's clearly
Speaker 2: costs more than like a Lacroix. You're paying for branding.
Speaker 3: All and Lacroix is just like recycled toilet.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 2: I was off the lacoin Dre. My girlfriend get me
Speaker 2: back on it because she gets that lemon cello Lacroix,
Speaker 2: And now I've developed a taste.
Speaker 3: For it, and I don't know, want no offense to
Speaker 3: you and yours, but that is a rancid flavor I.
Speaker 2: She has. She has like a raking system for all
Speaker 2: of you. Just be careful. You're gonna.
Speaker 3: Above one of you, all right, doesn't that also does
Speaker 3: not matter? But I feel like for us, Yeah, every time,
Speaker 3: every time you guys see each other, she's like, Dan moved.
Speaker 2: Up a spot. I want an update. I want an
Speaker 2: update soon.
Speaker 1: I have to ask her.
Speaker 2: Pretty Usually it depends on how mean you are to be.
Speaker 3: Ship.
Speaker 2: It really does pretty poorly.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you always follow like, but I know how
Speaker 3: much he really loves me.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you say to pretty well. I think that's true.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 2: I think it's usually doing pretty high. Does Backlar's mic
Speaker 2: voice hurt or help him?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I bet it hurts. I better bet it hurts a little.
Speaker 3: I can live with that. It's worth it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I could live with that.
Speaker 2: Make sure, because it's like something watching live. I don't
Speaker 2: know she's been texting right now live. No, No, she's
Speaker 2: you know, I'm to rescue rate your shirt she got me,
Speaker 2: Thanks baby, thank you.
Speaker 1: Has anyone ever tried that poppy soda? Poppy?
Speaker 2: I thought about it.
Speaker 4: That is very expensive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's health.
Speaker 2: They tried to say it was a health drink at
Speaker 2: first because it has pre biotics, and then they're like,
Speaker 2: well it doesn't really do, but we're still going to
Speaker 2: keep it in there. Yeah, free biotic. I have some
Speaker 2: of Ben's Stiller's weird healthy soda. It's not very good.
Speaker 1: His root tastes bad.
Speaker 3: Is it sparked?
Speaker 1: Still?
Speaker 4: Star Wars juice is really good, but it is. It's
Speaker 4: pretty expensive.
Speaker 2: Drink water.
Speaker 3: It is the Star Wars juice. Like meant is it
Speaker 3: marketed as like a healthy thing, like how much sugar?
Speaker 4: It's marketed as colors and flavors from natural sources. Starbursts
Speaker 4: happen in nature, zero sugar, starbards tree, But there's like
Speaker 4: fake sugar, right, zero sugar, zero carbs, a good source
Speaker 4: of vitamins twelve, and probably a gave.
Speaker 1: All these things are using a gave sweetener.
Speaker 2: Now right, I'm so exhausted by a gave. Probably fucking plant.
Speaker 4: It's carbonate water and then two percent or less of
Speaker 4: apple juice, concentrate, vegetable juice, natural flavors, green tea. Extract
Speaker 4: the alpha toasiferal acetate. That's vitamin E, vitamin B three,
Speaker 4: vitamin B five, B six by A ten. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't see no aspra tame or anything which those is
Speaker 4: giving you cancer.
Speaker 3: The fruit I think I'm still a spin drift solid.
Speaker 3: I can't get enough of it.
Speaker 1: Sander liked it.
Speaker 2: It tasted too much like the actual fruit they would
Speaker 2: put in, like I had that weird too much.
Speaker 1: So since I've been on this like health kick, right,
Speaker 1: I'm like looking at tracking macros, I learned what a
Speaker 1: fucking macro was. Proteins all that jim Jimmy jams uh
Speaker 1: do you'll think there? And protein, I feel like has
Speaker 1: become a gigantic buzzword right before that has been around forever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but we have our protein pop tars. Like latest
Speaker 5: marketing scheme is come get a big cup of chicken.
Speaker 5: You need your protein, eat a fucking cup of our chicken.
Speaker 4: I'm not kidding. Literally, yesterday grub I went through the
Speaker 4: Chipote Lane which is where you drive through, and.
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 4: They have the new high protein bowls that I got
Speaker 4: one of those. And then I went to Starbucks and
Speaker 4: they had protein Macho latees and I got one of those,
Speaker 4: so that was okay.
Speaker 3: Night. I was gonna ask or their protein sodas.
Speaker 1: I have not seen that yet.
Speaker 3: I mean there has to be you can carbonate like
Speaker 3: a milkshake that are like a protein shake, you.
Speaker 2: Can do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's something like I put two scoops into my
Speaker 4: oats in the morning, So that's like fifty fifty grams
Speaker 4: approtein on top of the twenty that's already in the oats.
Speaker 2: You know, So start the neighbor. Yeah, there you go,
Speaker 2: proteined up, all right. Uh, next up is MiGs. You
Speaker 2: just says blogg it and then no, no, we don't
Speaker 2: what the fuck that's from leisure Suit Larry.
Speaker 1: That's uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, got it. Oh that game is ruined.
Speaker 5: Patrick Warburton For me, I can't a guy I hear
Speaker 5: pretty frequently in kids movies.
Speaker 2: And it's just like, oh no, I'm getting fleshed back
Speaker 2: ye leisure Larry. Yeah, because all the jokes about him
Speaker 2: revolve around sex of animals.
Speaker 4: So when he's in Utopia too, they should have done
Speaker 4: some betting on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they should have stopped him.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The pillowtoile that says you all say the b were
Speaker 2: too much for five straight dudes. Now listen and everyone's
Speaker 2: the defense that is ninety me and I like I
Speaker 2: get it, but like we've never used it. We've never
Speaker 2: used it on anyone that is a woman.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't like that.
Speaker 2: Would I use it for them?
Speaker 3: Does that anymore? But we hear you, Yeah sure.
Speaker 1: But also Mikey says it in a funny way, and
Speaker 1: that's pretty funny. But he says it in a funny way, pretty.
Speaker 2: Funny when he does it.
Speaker 3: No, we only use it when someone's being a bitch.
Speaker 3: So return toilets.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the feet.
Speaker 3: Goddamn understood.
Speaker 2: All right, that's it, Thank you so much, everybody. I
Speaker 2: appreciate it.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Uh, you're no diffact. The only b word I have
Speaker 2: for review is bud. You're by bud.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thanks, Mike cool, you know what you're my bud.
Speaker 3: Buds.
Speaker 1: We put on the rest of this week. We don't
Speaker 1: have to figure it out. Yeah, yeah, I saw Monday week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll missed. We took Monday off yesterday, so we have
Speaker 1: yet to plan the rest of the week. But safe
Speaker 1: to say game this morning's popping off Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, right, grab,
Speaker 1: that's right, Ye, we'll.
Speaker 3: Be back with that show for the rest of the week.
Speaker 1: We will have a voicemail Dump Truck episode on Thursday,
Speaker 1: probably on professional Fridays of some sorts. Yeah, we should
Speaker 1: be Fanta Critic on Friday. Yeah, we'll see if we're
Speaker 1: ready to go do that because stuff be popping off,
Speaker 1: of stuff is coming out. But tomorrow, gang Grub, you
Speaker 1: finally get your turn in the blightning round. Oh no,
Speaker 1: a while ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's shocking. I'm not finished with it yet. I'm
Speaker 2: just a bad gamer. What can I say?
Speaker 4: Blighting around? Blink and you'll miss it.
Speaker 2: Send me my stuff, do that right away, Dan, Yes, God,
Speaker 2: you're wanna look so cool. I don't want to think
Speaker 2: about I I still can't, except that I don't have
Speaker 2: to worry.
Speaker 1: About leisure suit Larry anymore. It was a lot.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing that you're free of.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy about it as well, because that game's
Speaker 1: audio is the worst mixed thing in the world.
Speaker 3: Anything else popping off or things we want to talk about.
Speaker 2: There is that Neo quick look that Chuck Towski how
Speaker 2: it did. So if you are a Metroid Vina fiend,
Speaker 2: like a lot of us are, check that one out. Please, Yes, Yes,
Speaker 2: more quick looks probably planned throughout the week. I want
Speaker 2: to do one for the Babe Aid from the Top
Speaker 2: game as well as maybe we'll check out or we'll
Speaker 2: do a quick look of Vital Souls Vital Shell what
Speaker 2: was called vital shell Shell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that looks neat.
Speaker 2: I want to play that. We should probably do a
Speaker 2: quick look of Secretory eventually. Dan, Yeah, that is.
Speaker 4: I tried to streaming a little bit of it. It
Speaker 4: is like a bitrate murderer, it is.
Speaker 2: I had it working pretty good eventually, but it's like
Speaker 2: you have to really dial it in. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean it's kind of shocking how few videos there
Speaker 4: are because I'm trying to find new strategies and stuff.
Speaker 4: I'll search for it and it's like, man, no one's
Speaker 4: fucking putting us out there, and it's like the best
Speaker 4: one of these ever. So yeah, i'd be up for
Speaker 4: that gang.
Speaker 1: And we're also gonna try and get some missed happening
Speaker 1: because I need it or else I'm gonna get stupid, right,
Speaker 1: Like I gotta miskeeps me smart.
Speaker 2: You have any of my brain games, it's my brain age. Yes,
Speaker 2: all right, I think that about does it.
Speaker 1: For this week's episode of The Giant Bobcast, he's been Jeffy,
Speaker 1: He's been Jeffy, he's been Mike, he's been Dan, I've
Speaker 1: been Jid.
Speaker 2: You at home doing great?
Speaker 3: Wow, look at this man.
Speaker 2: He's he's double pistons. Lick what desk? He's gonna stop him.
Speaker 2: He's invincible, just like.
Speaker 3: You at home, folks.
Speaker 2: We'll catch you next week for another episode of the
Speaker 2: Giant Bobcast.
Speaker 3: Good boo,