Speaker 1: Wait, I'm standing in front of it. I'm standing in
front of the camera. I'm not there.
Speaker 2: You just starting plugging things more going live, I don't
break something. I was looking for things to unplug, but I.
Speaker 3: Like a.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: I could. I could tell it was upsetting Mike, and
I like that part.
Speaker 2: I was looking for things to unplug, but I didn't actually,
God damn, it was fine ten minutes ago. You should
hang on, we'll figure this out. Leave it all in.
Just just plug everything back in? What do I do?
Speaker 1: Uh no, that's not no, that's not well no, not
a camera, not a camera just not working. Well wait,
plugg did Yeah, it's got a white light on it.
Speaker 5: Go towards it, go towards the white.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's blinking. I'm not plug I'm I'm plugging. Replug. Okay,
it's your time you because dad, it's okay.
Speaker 4: Trying to get you at the de Greaser. Did it
take so that you don't have to play a blake game?
Speaker 2: Up there? Buddy? Lights up there? Here we go, Hey,
there we go. Look at that.
Speaker 4: It's Tuesday, January seventh, twenty twenty five. Welcome to the
Giant Podcast, Episode eight hundred and seventy two. We've assembled
our own fantastic foursome here.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 4: We have the invisible man here because I don't. I
only see women in nb's because men are trash. Jan Achoa,
that's me. That's the host co captain of the ship.
He's thicker than the thing. He's an unmovable wall made
of rocks, pebbles, and other pieces of granite. Jeff Grubb,
I'm orange and rock card.
Speaker 5: Let's go.
Speaker 2: That's right. That's right.
Speaker 4: He's the stretchest man and the baddest man in games media.
Mister fantastic, bad tastic Mike Ma naughties.
Speaker 2: It's me. I'm going to stretch around and choke you.
Speaker 4: I got it, you got the I didn't right. He's
so hot. He's unplugging everything because of the heat. Sinks
and all other flammable material.
Speaker 2: Uh, they're falling out. He's so shoot.
Speaker 1: Teeth like my dad's shoot teeth are falling out. Well,
there goes my camera. Don't come back.
Speaker 4: He's so hot. The cameras can't track him. Dan Rekert, how.
Speaker 6: Am I gonna do Blake Club with all this happening?
Speaker 2: Jeez?
Speaker 1: This is all the work, isn't it is I'm also
shoot six, so but I'm gonna goddamn do Blake Club
on Wednesday.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: Hello, Hi, Happy New Year, gentlemen, Happy Christmas, Happy Honka,
happy whatever you celebrate. Happy New Year to everyone at home,
Happy New Year to you boys. How's the hanging? How's
it going besides Dan falling apart?
Speaker 6: I'm fine. I've never been better.
Speaker 7: No, look, yeah, let's just get to it, because I've
been I've been waiting anxiously to hear this story for
a bit. Now, then, what happened when you try to
cook asparagus?
Speaker 1: Okay? Based on what I posted? What do you think happened?
Speaker 2: Oh it's okay, okay, yeah, let's go around the horn. Okay.
Speaker 7: So yeah, my favorite theory. I don't know if it's
possibly true. So so you said, you said on a
Blue Sky that you accidentally you try to cook asparagus
and accidentally ate a lot to greaser. My hope is
that you like cooked it in too much pam spray
and thought it was greasy, so you put some greaser
in to balance it out.
Speaker 6: I think it's number than that.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, did you just think the greaser was good? Anti?
Speaker 6: I didn't know what it was until I ate a
bunch of it.
Speaker 5: No, dearn Okay, okay, good, yeah, I have no Clearly
you didn't know what it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is what happened. Okay, looks too happy about this, Okay.
Speaker 1: So okay, I'm doing a healthy thing because I was
deeply unhealthy all through the holidays, you know, as many
people are. And I'm not like resolutions guy necessarily, but
I did need to like start getting things ready for
marathon training, and I need to not be totally out
of shape and eating like an asshole.
Speaker 2: So I got a Whole Foods.
Speaker 1: I got a dietitian I went to, and I was
just like, hey, tell me what to do, tell me
what to buy, tell me what to make.
Speaker 5: How many vats of mac and cheese can I still eat?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: They got no noodles I got. I went to Whole Foods.
Speaker 1: I got so many fruits and salads and like just
good stuff. So I'm making like, uh, I got a
carbie with some natural fats breakfast. I got a salad
alid for lunch, and then I'm making chicken soufi chicken
and veggies for dinner.
Speaker 6: That's all good, right, that's all good stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right now, the salads, I've never been a salad
guy really as far as making them.
Speaker 6: That's been going gangbusters.
Speaker 1: I've been making salads and it's grabb been chopping up
avocados and peppers and putting all sorts of Green Goddess
dressing and pecans and that.
Speaker 2: Goddess d Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6: So the salads, oh man, just going gang bus.
Speaker 5: Are you sure that the Green Garden of salad dressing
is not down dish soap?
Speaker 2: No, they don't whole foods.
Speaker 1: It was Annie's Green Goddess dressing, all right, And that's
all been great. So I had like several days of
lunch salads under my belt and then I got the
chicken breast and I did the thing.
Speaker 6: Well, I guess the chicken.
Speaker 1: The chicken actually went almost okay outside of the almost fire.
But it wasn't the chicken that did the degreaser. So
the degreaser was the asparagus. So I'm trying to do
everything right here, so like everyone will just googled and
doesn't know what Google's I fucking googled, and I was like,
how to do good asparagus in air fryer and it's like, okay,
it seems pretty simple. You just you toss it in
some olive oil. You can spray olive oil on it,
get some salt and pepper on it. You throw it in,
you know, three seventy degrees, put it in another six to
eight minutes.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 1: I've used the air frier to reheat taco bell a
million times. I know how that thing works. I can
do that with asparagus and something healthy. So I go to, uh,
the chickens finishing up in the souviete over here, and
I'm like, all right, it's time to do the asparagus.
And oh, the basket's not in the air fryer. What
the what the hell? And so I look around and
it's in the sink. Oh, and I think like, oh, okay,
I know it's probably too big for the Okay, First
of all, what me explaining this right now is giving
it more thought than actually happened. Because what really happened
was I'm like retroactively applying thoughts to what happened.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Watch this verifying concept? Yeah, applying thoughts.
Speaker 1: So what really happened was I went over to the
sink and I looked down and the baskets in there.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry so much. Do you mean remembering?
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm not, because I'm describing it as if
there was the thought process, but there was.
Speaker 5: You know, he's editorializing his memories.
Speaker 1: Like if I'm trying to justify it retroactively, I could
be like, oh, it was probably sitting in the sink
because a Bonka just washed it and it was just
drying out, because you know sometimes like bigger stuff that's
not for the dishwasher, you'll wash and then you put
it upside down on a towel or something near the
sink and it dries out again. To be fair, none
of those thoughts were in my head at the time.
They are now trying to justify it. But I went
up and I just grabbed the wet basket and I
grabbed it, and I guess I thought it was just
water or something in there. I threw all these faragus
in there. I threw it in the thing. It's heating
up the sparagus.
Speaker 5: I dab it with like a paper towel first or
anything that.
Speaker 1: I just put it from the sink into the blue right.
Speaker 6: I didn't pay that much attention.
Speaker 1: So no, I think it's actually I know, I looked
at the bottle and this was like clear, it's like
Don Platinum Degreaser or something.
Speaker 4: It's also very odd Dan that you're calling it specifically
Dawn de Greaser versus dish soap.
Speaker 1: I don't know what any of that's. I just I've
read the bottle. That's what it says.
Speaker 5: Like, Okay, yeah, I think it might be a slightly
different product.
Speaker 1: Sure, So I put the basket in the thing with
the asparagus, with the whole bushel of asparagus in there.
But then I go to do the h I go
to do the chicken, and as I'm like getting the
chicken ready, I'm taking the bag out of the souv
and all that, and I'm putting the pan on the
stove there and then I start smelling something that's like,
oh is there. I'm just like clean the kitchen or
something very strong soapy. What the camera went out? Okay,
very strong soapy type smell, and like what the hell
could that be? And it's just going for minutes and
I'm like, I don't know, smells good in here? And
then I can't remember at what point I went upstairs
to Bunk's office and uh, I was like, hey, did
you like wash the the air basket, air fire basket
or something.
Speaker 6: She goes, it was in the sink.
Speaker 1: It was decreasing and I was like, and she she
knew she could like smell that, like something was happening
and hearing the beat and I'd be, well, yeah, well
it's the asparagus is cooking now. And she's like, was
the degreaser in there? And I was like, ah, I
don't know him. She was like, you should go take
the asparagus out of there. That's going to taste horrible,
and uh, you should put the basket back in the sink.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, Okay, you know what. I feel like you're
gonna continue the story, so my question could wait? Go ahead?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Well so I go down, but I just
look a bushel of asparagus was like five bucks.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, what the fuck was that? You hate it? Everyways?
Well okay, that's what that was my question. Well okay,
so yeah, so wait, yes, you went up.
Speaker 5: And talk to Bianca, yes before ingesting it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was still and then and then.
Speaker 5: I remember seeing on the social media platform saying you
ate degreaser. Yeah, so I'm just wondering how we bridge
this gas. This is a this is a chasm that
I'm yes, I understand, I.
Speaker 1: Can explain this too. So I go down. She was like,
that's gonna take a starre while. You should dump that
this fergus out. And I went down and I was like, ah, man,
it's like I was like five dollars a bushel. Sorry,
my camera keeps going out, and so I just open
up the thing. I take all these fergus out, I
throw it on a plate, I dump out the degreaser.
I spray some water in there, and I wipe it
down and I put the asparagus back into thinking like
I think that, like you know, like the way you
kill bacteria and chicken is you heat it to a
certain temperature. I thought, at a certain point, maybe if
I just went a little a couple of minutes past
what it suggested, it would turn off the degreaser.
Speaker 2: And so that's why you're the human torture. And I
put it.
Speaker 1: Back in, and while it's cooking, I was doing my research.
I looked at the bottle and it just said like
if swallowed quickly, you know, drink a bunch of water
to dilute it. It didn't say like you're gonna die,
call poison control, and I'm sure right, there's no worst
case scenario here, and so I cooked it.
Speaker 6: It still smelled like soap.
Speaker 1: The worst case scenario is wasting five dollars, right right.
I still got that Paul Riker gene in there. It's
like the devil Jane from Canada.
Speaker 2: Just poison to make sure we don't lose money.
Speaker 1: No, it just said I did so I it said
just drink water, So I made sure I had water
with it.
Speaker 2: Actually I think I had.
Speaker 1: A mountain dew, but it was liquid and better liquida.
Speaker 2: It powers it up.
Speaker 1: So No, I tried to force myself through the whole
bushel of asparagus. I got sever like probably five plus
stocks in and it like I was trying to tell
myself like, Okay, I'll just pretend it's like a seasoning
or something.
Speaker 6: But it was just like I was just eating soap and.
Speaker 2: Effects only go so far.
Speaker 8: You weird eight soap For a while, what was Mike saying,
I'd it's not weird, I might.
Speaker 7: Need a weird one. Good good audience the DAN for
the first time I ever.
Speaker 2: Congratulations one of the Who is Weirder Poles has a
definitive winner, a single vote for eighty six Dan zero
mic but no harm done? Right, And I learned it
might be harm done. I'm a harm done.
Speaker 5: Like over the holiday, I definitely got the sense that
Dan thinks that the teenage mutantats turtles Christmas caroling thing
you do is the weirdest thing in the world. Like,
and I'm just like, oh Dan, oh, honey, buddy, no
a little.
Speaker 2: What was endearing? No, that's not his weirdest thing. I
thought that was okay, all right, yeah, it is a
daring well.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, okay, my pot too. I do have
thoughts about soap, like I.
Speaker 5: Write it down.
Speaker 2: Is it so clean? How could eating it be bad
for you? Is that I'm that part of it?
Speaker 5: Just bleach your insides, get rid of the covid Well
that is like I was thinking about this recently because
like I switched to a loofa situation in the shower.
Speaker 1: I used to just always be a bar soap guy,
just rub the bar right on the skin. And I
switched to a loofah a couple of months ago, And
every time I use it, I'm looking at it and
I'm like, are you read?
Speaker 2: Do I put this in the washing machine?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Do I put this.
Speaker 6: In with the laundry?
Speaker 5: Do I?
Speaker 6: But then I think like, wait, no.
Speaker 1: It's just all it touches is soap, So it's always clean, right,
Like soap can't be dirty?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: So like, okay, are you supposed to wash a loofa
okay a while?
Speaker 5: After a while? How about like what a towel is
like after you use it like twice, and how kind
of it gets pretty gnarly after like because it's like
wet and body stuff.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you talk the loof after a little bit, like, hey,
what's a little bit? Uh, I'm like six weeks nikki face,
two months?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm kind of a direct bar of soap? Guy?
Is that okay? I always happened?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're not sharing a bar of soap with anyone?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah exactly.
Speaker 6: I got my own shower.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I don't need to translate.
Speaker 7: How does this translate to? So it's good to digest soap?
Is what you're saying that because it's clean.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying there was nothing on the bottle that
said it was poisoned. I was also worried it was flammable,
because anytime I'm working with heat, I am just in
full panic mode. So I don't think it's that harmful.
I'm not going to keep doing it intentionally, but I don't.
I kept waiting for something to happen, and I just
went through about a food poisoning, you know, I just
kept waiting.
Speaker 6: For the crazy bathroom visit or something. It didn't happen.
Speaker 7: You can't not learn a lesson from this just because
you didn't get sick.
Speaker 1: By the way, this whole scenario as a Bonk and
I were doing the debriefing afterwards, she was.
Speaker 6: Trying to find the word for how she felt.
Speaker 1: She I think we landed on disbelief and she was
just laughing and she's like, I've been with you for
ten years, how is this still surprising?
Speaker 2: And that's beautiful, that's romance, baby. Yeah.
Speaker 1: She was like kind of impressed. I think I think
impressed the word yeah, yeah, interesting.
Speaker 5: Cast in an impressive way. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just I just really wasn't ready.
Speaker 7: That's why I screamed though, my God, like that I
wasn't ready for the part where you intentionally digested all
the soap.
Speaker 6: Well, because I thought I would it all off. I
thought I burnt it all off with.
Speaker 4: Then ho, dan, I want someone to approach like I
want an older gentleman to approach you at a bar
and be like.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, buddy, how do you keep the marriage alive?
How do you keep the romance alive? And you story?
Speaker 4: All right, well, grub you your train got derailed?
Speaker 2: How was that? Yeah, it was fine.
Speaker 5: It was not a big deal. It was It was
a little scary in the moment. Yeah, I was on
the Christmas train. We were going to the North Pole
with the kids, and and that turns out that's like
fifteen minutes away in Ohio. And no, not the not
the shoot North Pole. Thanks for asking. Okay, yeah, uh yeah.
They just dressed up into a little town in Ohio
kind of like the North Pole. And then you go
from one spot to there.
Speaker 2: Do the kids think it's the shooting north Pole?
Speaker 5: Some of the kids do, some of them. Emmy was
definitely like, this ain't the real North Pole. Okay, all right,
I'm kind of fun.
Speaker 2: Anyways, they play along a little bit.
Speaker 7: Look, at no point in my young childhood did I
think that that Mickey Mouse costume person was actually Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 2: But we all play along. It's fun.
Speaker 5: Yep, exactly, it's playing along. It's a good time. The
kids are enjoying it. Until as soon as you pull
in there, uh, the whole train starts rocking in a
way that does not feel normal and begins to.
Speaker 2: Lean just slightly to the right.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: And so I grabbed the kid. Then the table started
to slide as we were bumping more. I'm like, oh,
we were leaning way more than I thought.
Speaker 2: Are the kids reacting here?
Speaker 5: The kids? The kids, it was like bumpy, but like
not so bumpy that I think they were like immediately
assuming fight or flight, like, but but I did, uh.
And then I think once I grabbed the kids, they
were like, oh, okay, you know, they don't know what
to do. They just kind of freeze. So yeah, I
grabbed them. And it's sort of like was skidding to
a slow stop, and the back half of the train
was still slightly on the tracks. The front half of
the train was still slightly on the tracks, and we
were just part of this part of the part that
like bowed out.
Speaker 2: So we had to get off, and we had to
get out of that car.
Speaker 5: We went up to some of the other cars and
they gave us the option to like just leave and
go get an uber. So I'm like, I'm doing that,
And turned out there was a bar right there, Winking Lizard,
which is a tavern a beer establishment.
Speaker 2: This is how.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 7: I got I got mad that Jeff just just said
it's like a B Dubs, which isn't wrong, but you
should have like clarified that it's way better.
Speaker 5: Also, I'll say my personal history with Winking Lizard has
not been as pop as.
Speaker 2: Some Winking Lizard.
Speaker 5: We we would go to Winking Lizard for like the
they had like two dollars paps blue ribbons and on
Wednesdays we'd go there everywhere and then. So my association
was with the kind of crowd that shows up for
two dollars paps blue ribbons, and that's what I associate
Winking Listen.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's possible for the company that you keep listen.
Speaker 5: I know it's not Winking Lizard's fault. I'll tell you what.
It came in clutched this night when my train derailed.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So yeah, I just went. I took an uber
an half an hour back to the train station to
get the van anout half hour back to drive. It
was really snowy. It was like a blizzard, so it's
pretty wild. But no, you know, six hundred people on
the train, no one got hurt. They it did take
them a long time to get the buses to bring
most of the people back to their cars because most
people did not get off to get an uber. So
I'm glad that we did not wait around for that.
But yeah, this was the last train of the season,
and it is the only time that this has ever
happened to them, So just a very, very weird thing.
They've been doing this for like ten years. Yeah, I
was just unlucky.
Speaker 2: Maybe they should have put decrease or on the train tracks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that hasn't hurt anybody before, I know, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Mike, did you have any near death experiences?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 7: No, I think my holidays were comparatively pretty boring. I
just got sick at New Year's for a bit. I
just had like a science infection, So it was just
a good excuse to stay inside a bunch, right, I
didn't have to go to a New Year's party, which
at that point I'd already seen everybody anyways, So yeah, no,
I don't know. I saw about these these Christmas decorations
behind me. I'm starting to feel bad about that, so
I gotta start cleaning things and putting stuff away and whatnot.
Speaker 5: But different Christmas.
Speaker 7: I got a Star Trek, the next generation Christmas train.
Speaker 2: Not Christmas train, just a train, a model train. Ooh,
that's exciting, that is very cool.
Speaker 1: Got my casey Joe's from Dad. That's build up in
the freezer now I want.
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, I'm gonna do that every year for Christmas.
And I ate it all and I'm like, I might
do it every month. It's so damn good.
Speaker 1: Also incredibly good in the sub Yeah.
Speaker 2: I had it for Christmas Eve, which was nice.
Speaker 7: I just boiled it and then I put it out
in like a little sheep pan and coated it with
the sauce and then put it in the emph but
to kind of like tack up and get some taste.
Speaker 2: It was fantastic. Nice.
Speaker 4: I got myself a terrible gift. And I realized I
share a lot on this podcast. I'm not going to
share this one. I fuck it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: So, as y'all know, I bought too many cigarettes in Japan,
and then I thought all right, I don't know how
to get rid of this. Maybe I can pawn it
off on a friend, just give it to them. And
I did that during the Game Awards. But I still
have a whole other card. And then I'm like, you
know what, what are other ways in? Just nicotine? And
I pop over to the local gas station and uh,
don't worry. Uh, And I'm like, huh, what's that thing
that says zin?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: I I I buy a package of Zin. And then
I realized that their tobacco or nicotine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're your zin head now.
Speaker 4: No, it's not to It's just a pouch that you
stick in your gum. And then I was two minutes
into a pouch. I felt like you reaching a plane
of zen. Sure, yeah, and then and then I felt
like dying. And then I persisted, and then I felt
kind of okay. And then I, uh, I'm not saying
I had built up a small dependency over the short
period of time, but I was like, this is kind
of nice. Despite wanting to throw up, I'm on the
last pouch.
Speaker 2: Now. I promised everyone that I stop.
Speaker 5: You want to hear how that's Tucker Carlson's favorite God
damn it. We got our own talker now, whoa, yeah,
all right, all my friends are ingesting poison this year?
Speaker 2: Great, that's right, okay cool?
Speaker 4: Uh. I also went camping, but before camping, pro move, folks,
if you're camping somewhere far away, go fucking stay in
a hotel the night before, because then you'll be already
charging shit after a dry Yeah, but I stayed in
Palm Springs, and I didn't realize that the hotel that
I booked was very very very very very lgbt Q.
I a friendly because after I went back to the
car to go grab some stuff, and as soon as
I hop into the elevator, there were three men in
leather gimsuits and they wished me happy New Year. They
were very friendly. They asked if I wanted to slice
a pizza.
Speaker 2: I declined.
Speaker 6: Was it three guys in a gimsuit holding a pizza?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 4: One of them had like a cool dog mask, though,
and then I felt compelled to ask, like, where do
you get that? Because that kind of looks cool? But yeah, yeah, fantastic.
I'm glad we all had a pleasant holiday.
Speaker 5: Do you think it was Do you think that was
also a chain together a cosplay like that time we
were having that lunch and we saw those people together
and we were like, oh are they are they sexual
deviance or are they doing a chain together?
Speaker 1: It was so weird because nothing else about them screamed
sexual deviant. They were dressed like just normal ass clothes,
but just like a weird chain situation between them.
Speaker 5: Uh huh?
Speaker 2: Do you okay?
Speaker 4: These these men in these leather gimsuits, they didn't have
like proper shoes on. Are like leather or those types
of leather suits? Are they like onesies? They got built
in shoesies?
Speaker 2: Yea.
Speaker 7: I saw like a TikTok or something of like some
lady cosplayer who was in a kind of a onesie
and she just like took like she like unzipped something
on like the bottom part and just tilted it and
like two leaders of sweat came out of it. And
that's how I'm thinking about with these gipseys TikTok.
Speaker 2: Yes, nothing sexy about.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on that scene in the Jackass
movie where they're on the treadmill and they sweat into
that student then drink it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't one. Oh it's like a whole cup
give me a break.
Speaker 7: It was definitely a TikTok or a Facebook or what
TikTok or one of those TikTok ajacent things that every
social media platform they just became TikTok.
Speaker 2: Well, soon will become TikTok.
Speaker 7: You're not gonna try to pin anything weird on me today, Dan,
I'm not gonna take it. Don't anybody come in here like, well,
there's a difference between weird and dumb.
Speaker 2: No, there's not. Those are not two exclusive things. Something
can be dumb and weird, not weird.
Speaker 6: I'll take dumb.
Speaker 2: I might be the weird one. That's right. It is.
Speaker 5: It is dumb to put the asparagus in the thing
without checking what the liquid was. It is weird to
know what it is and then eat it like that.
It's just two different that.
Speaker 2: There was also lazy.
Speaker 1: There was some logic that, well, I didn't have other asparagus.
I didn't have backup asparagus.
Speaker 2: You just don't eat exparagus.
Speaker 5: That one night was I gonna.
Speaker 2: Have not my toothell out? Weird were insane trying to
fix the camera. I think everything I did was reasonable.
This is our own No, no, it's not. You can't
think that. That can't be your take away from it.
Speaker 1: Well, considering literally everyone that knows me thinks that was insane,
even for me, maybe they're all wrong.
Speaker 4: You know, Dan, I've known you for quite a while
as well. That is not the most insane thing. Thank you,
Thank you.
Speaker 5: I think it's just weird you didn't have asparagus in reserve.
Speaker 1: I mean, I had Brussels sprouts, but I had not
done the research on how to properly prepare it yet,
so I didn't feel comfortable.
Speaker 2: He just put it in there with some salt and pepper,
and so that's.
Speaker 5: How you do all the vegetables in the air. Fiar.
Speaker 1: We all can't be the same temperature and time.
Speaker 2: Maybe the time is different, but you can check it.
Speaker 4: Hey. Game of the Year came out over the holiday break.
We recorded those podcasts while we were all down in
Los Angeles. Uh, and I suggest you go check those out.
We did four days of podcasts, three days of categories,
and then day four we crowned our Game of the Year.
A lot of fun discussions, fun times. We had one
of my favorite games of the years that I've done here.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we also snuck in a little Secret Santa at
the tippy top of day four. If you're a podcast listener,
I suggest you check out the YouTube video for that
because you need the visual component of the secret Santa
gifts that we all got for each other. Special shout
out though to Ash audio engineer that helped us out
and hung out with.
Speaker 2: Us the whole time.
Speaker 4: I was not expecting someone to to have a live
audience of a really nice and neat mixer dude, and
then Zach for joining us on day two to help
switch cameras and everything.
Speaker 2: As always.
Speaker 4: Special shouts out to Emma as well. Let's talk about games.
Speaker 5: Should put a game on.
Speaker 2: This lit.
Speaker 4: Ca well Dan figures out his camera woes. I have
to tell you guys about my newest addiction, and no
it's not Zen because I've kicked that habit because of
Jeff Grubb. Thank you, You're welcome. I'm gonna name my
third dog after you. Marvel Rivals Folks has dominated my
game time, my gaming time out during the break. I'm
playing too much of this game. I've not touched competitive
at all. I'm just matching it for fun. I'm just
playing for fun and having fun. Go figure. I know
that it's gone the bad rap initially because.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's an Overwatch clone. Oh I'm so sick of Marvel.
Speaker 4: But as someone like like I've mentioned previously, i'd never
got into the Overwatch boom. I am a fan of Marvel,
and I do enjoy that there are an obscene amount
of heroes to choose from that, and there's some light
variety because my TikTok algorithm won't show me cosplay ladies
with sweat dripping out of their boots, but it will
show me different character showcases or character tutorials in Marvel Rivals,
and I'll see one of those, and then I'll hop
back into Marvel Rivals and just like, all right, let's go.
Speaker 2: Check this out. Oh, I'm really good at this.
Speaker 4: And over the span of like the two weeks two
week break, I every two three days I would switch
to a new hero and think that I'm absolutely amazing.
But I'm still too scared to hop into competitive or ranked.
But man, it's just so damn fun. Like God, I
don't care which class or I'm playing as like whether
it's the tank DPS or the healing class, because I
feel like all of them are so well balanced enough,
and because since I'm just doing the quick matches, people
don't know anything about team comps, so we'll have a
team full of tanks and then no one has the
ability to heal and all right, I guess I should
heal someone or try and heal as many people as possible.
So I'll just want to pop it in as Cloak
and Dagger or my girl in a snow and then
we'll have a little rave.
Speaker 5: It's great. I'm having so much fun, guys.
Speaker 4: I would really enjoy playing with y'all again.
Speaker 7: We should do that again, especially once the Fantastic Four
come out. I'm trying to check my like Overwatch snobbery
a little bit, like I have like two minds of
the whole we're releasing four heroes at once thing, and
like just how many heroes they release with, because I'm like,
you can't possibly balance four heroes at once.
Speaker 2: That's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: And they're like, you're right, Mike Mana, we don't care, right, And.
Speaker 7: I'm like, yeah, maybe that's part of the problem with
Overwatch is that they cared so much about violence. Now,
the part of the reason why they cared is because
there is such an influencer culture around Overwatch, and there
are some people watching these videos and like those people
would be like, well, this this hero is trashing. This
hero is good. So everybody'd be like, well that must
that's correct then, and that matters to what I'm doing
playing in Silver Teer, right. It became this big problem.
So yeah, maybe it's better just to discard that. I
definitely want to play more. I know there's another complaint
I hear about the game is just that the servers
aren't amazing and sometimes the lag can be kind of
if you hear there. I don't know how much of
an actual problem that is, but I'd be down to
play with some more for sure.
Speaker 5: Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I got the chance to talk to some of the
Marvel Rivals team during the TGA's actually and very cool
dope team through and through, and one of like the
design principles or developed for principles that someone had told
me was like, yeah, I just told my team to
just like fucking make a dope ass game. We'll figure
out all the balancing shit later. And that's why I
love that they're just gonna drop four new characters, four
different classes. Uh this Friday Grub. I think you and
Finelle yesterday we're talking about the possibility of maybe some
of the characters being paired together, just because that's how
Cloak and Dagger are. But no, it looks like there
could be four individual characters for individual characters.
Speaker 5: Yep. Yeah, they all look really really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they all look hot.
Speaker 5: They look hot as hell.
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh no Dan, Yeah, oh that's good.
Speaker 5: Okay, No, it's is it good?
Speaker 2: Are you recording?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 2: How are you bad?
Speaker 5: Mic?
Speaker 2: Dan? Oh?
Speaker 5: Hang on, he looks like a bad ape.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's going on that this mic? Okay, yes, is
this good? It's bad? Oh?
Speaker 4: Uh, stop your audio report.
Speaker 5: You ever see that image with human Yeah?
Speaker 2: There we go. Oh yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 5: That's what Dan looks like right now.
Speaker 6: Okay, I guess I could just hold this.
Speaker 5: You can just point a view decreasing.
Speaker 2: Okay, uh the for audio list, there's Dan has switched
to a phone.
Speaker 5: A phone for his camera. He was gone for a while.
When Jam was talking about a game, Dan very rudely
just left to go do this and yeah, and now
he's still trying to fix it. The camera was way
up close to his face. We were seeing his mouth
and his eyes.
Speaker 6: It's a wide you know, Okay, look at that.
Speaker 2: That's all good. Yeah, yeah, it's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Marvel Rivals is great. I think there's something for
everyone there. No matter what type of character action shooter
you enjoy, there is a character for you. That being said,
I hate everyone that plays Iron Man the guy except
he was fun except Dan. Also, it's just so hilarious
how frail spider Man is and how terrible I feel
every time like I'll take out a spider Man.
Speaker 2: Why yeah, because like no.
Speaker 4: Because spider Man's like oh Peter Parker on no group responsibility.
Speaker 1: Oh, spider Man is a character. Oh no, I I
meant to say he sucks in the game as a character.
But I also I very much think spider Man the
character sucks.
Speaker 5: Ass.
Speaker 2: Oh yes.
Speaker 1: I had to stop watching that No Way Home movie
that everyone said was even if you don't like Marvel movies,
try this. It's like I never stop a movie halfway through.
I could not make it through that. There's a homecoming?
Speaker 6: Is that homecoming? What was the first one with the
new guy?
Speaker 5: It was Homecoming?
Speaker 6: I couldn't make it through that.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's not a great movie. I don't Yeah, whatever,
but spider Man is a cool guy. No, he's got
me two whiney, I.
Speaker 6: Think idiot kid, Like, I just why am I rooting
for this guy?
Speaker 7: Man, you have very you have very narrow views on
what kind of heroes you like. Snake, that's yeah, your
entire Joan the hero is is based entirely on eighties
action movies.
Speaker 4: Thinking about eighties action movies, Mike Manati, I see that
you beat it Indiana Jones.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 7: Yes, uh, that's something I was kind of doing through
the holidays. There was finishing up Indiana Jones. It was
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: It's interesting.
Speaker 7: I hear a lot of different like people having peaks
and valleys with the game, like like Jeff started kind
of mellow and got high on it by the end.
Dan started off pretty high seats like and then kind
of fell off it to even finish it.
Speaker 2: It's a really good it's a really good game.
Speaker 6: But then it made me swim and I had an
instant death snake section.
Speaker 2: But I was like, that was they didn't want to
see the ending.
Speaker 1: I want you play the ending. And I was like,
oh man, that was pretty good, yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 2: Huh yeah that the end stuff is great. I don't.
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna spoil anything there, but like some of
the some of just like the shots that you got
from it, I was like, Man, this wasn't a movie.
Uh this this would breathe some iconic stuff. Probably they'd
be showing us off forever. Good good, good good stuff there,
Like the final kind of boss fight I thought was
all really neat. But yeah, like I feel like I'm
weird because I was just basically like, I like this,
and then I liked it the entire way. I never
got to a section of the game where I thought
the quality dipped or maybe even got significantly better. I
know some people maybe don't like the third area and
some of the kind of boat stuff you do there,
but I'm a big fan of the boat stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie jungle cruise, right, you.
Speaker 5: Know, yeah I could have guessed that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so that was making me happy.
Speaker 7: It is funny because like, the game's not doing any
particular thing amazingly well, but it's just the right balance
of all this familiar stuff. And it's a bit of
a unique balance of all this familiar stuff. The expiration,
the puzzle solving, right, the action that just feels really
good and it feels very Indiana Jones. It's a big
part liking the game is just I like Indiana Jones
a lot, and it feels awesome to have, you know what,
does feel like the best Indiana Jones story that I've
seen for me since Fate of Atlantis and then you know,
going back, you know, maybe since Last Crusade. Right, we're
talking movies. So I was very pleased with it. I
had a good time with that. I hope they do more.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that that Indian really does bring everything together, amplify
like it amplies the stakes, introduced some like last new
cool things, and yeah, I was really really happy with it.
It's it's a good game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't checked it out yet, but I intend
to soon.
Speaker 5: You got you got game pass again, right, it's on there.
Speaker 4: I got game Pass again because someone said just do it.
Speaking about game pass, yes, God about game Pass. Something
that I checked out real quick last night and I've
seen the interwebs talking about it pervently during the holiday
break is nine Souls Grub.
Speaker 2: You checked this out briefly, right, I did.
Speaker 5: I I'm gonna say I bounced off of it. I
kind of feel bad about that. A little bit, because
everyone seems to love it so much, and it's Metro Advane,
it should be my thing. I I don't know, I
just I don't remember a ton of it. But what
I remember thinking is like, some of these gimmicks are
just not working for me, not clicking for me. And
there was other Metro Adveners I wanted to play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'm in the same boat. I think
I'm quicker to bounce off. I've maybe spent like two
or so hours in and it's pleasant. I do enjoy
the character designs and how it looks. Yeah, sure, based
off of like any screenshots that I've seen, the game
quickly derails like Grub's Holiday Train into like a different
type of story, and I'm not necessary really clicking with
the story. Maybe the Metroid venus I click with kind
of just dump you into the action faster.
Speaker 2: And is that what it was?
Speaker 5: That might be what it was for me, And that's
that's a shame, because that's always what it is with me.
I thought I thought it was interesting this time.
Speaker 4: Never mind, Uh, yeah, it just took quite a while
to get in there. I do enjoy the pair the
pairing system. That was fun and like the talisman blowing
up stuff that you get early on in the beginning. Hey,
anytime you can parry like a big, gigantic character or
a boss, I'm all for that, Mike. I'm curious, though,
how would you feel if Mega Man could parry?
Speaker 2: Hmm?
Speaker 7: You know, like initially, I'm like Megnae doesn't need a perry.
Then they gave Samus a parry and that ship felt
real good.
Speaker 6: A Mega Man.
Speaker 2: You kind of have that with the z X games,
especially Advance, you know what. Pretty good. I would love
to see them go like lean really deep into that. Actually,
I think it'd be fun, like.
Speaker 7: Even like to the point where you have like the
eight Boss stores just kind of around the world. And Yeah,
I'm actually surprised they haven't dived further into that world.
There must be some there's so many Mega Man fan games,
somebody must have just basically have made one of those
at this point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm also bum grub that I haven't really clicked
with Nine Souls more than I did. Maybe's stick with
it a bit more because I do enjoy the look.
It's a pleasant cat looking person. But yeah, I don't know.
After some other metroid veins they came out last year
as well. It's kind of hard to just stick with
one that isn't immediately grabbing me speaking about I think that's.
Speaker 5: What the thing is, was sorry. That is the thing
with metroid Vein is that maybe the reason I like
them so much is I am usually caught in their
web immediately like it, just like they throw me in
the world, give me some stuff, be like, all right,
maybe will either take the stuff away with the abilities,
or we're going to make it very clear that if
you just go a little you're gonna get something cool,
and then that's going to enable you to get another
thing cool. I'm like, okay, I'm in the loop. Let's go.
And I just didn't feel that with Nine Souls right away.
And again that's my impatience and stuff like that. But
that's just what I like for Mitroy Venus.
Speaker 7: Real quick, somebody somebody found the sweat video. It was
It was just on Twitter. It turns out, did you
guys want to watch it and react? Yeah, there's no
pornography on Twitter. Yeah, I send it to the I
send it to our channel here. You sure you don't want.
Speaker 2: To watch it?
Speaker 7: It's boy, it's even more than I remembered. I think
she stressed up like a Evangeline character.
Speaker 2: What's that show called Evangelian?
Speaker 4: Yeah, geez, get cultured man, Joel Austin over here, huh. Well,
you know, watching videos on Twitter can be very tricky,
whether or not it is going to be adult content
or something else.
Speaker 2: But Dan, I'm.
Speaker 1: Assuming this is you Tricky Madness. Yeah, Ben Hansen told
me about this. It's in early access. It's only got
like two stages. Just look up any image or two
seconds of video of Tricky Madness and tell me what
you think of IT'SX. It is like it seems like
legally actionable SSX.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, big ass.
Speaker 1: Floating snowflake score multipliers. Just the way you're doing the
tricks and everything, it's exactly what. Like, I love snowboarding games.
I love you know, cool borders and ten eighty and
all that stuff. SSX is always my number one like
go to, and so just playing a new thing that's
being made now that is just straight up SSX makes
me happy.
Speaker 2: So I didn't like Deadly Dissent.
Speaker 1: I thought that one was like we're adding like weird
like temperature gear and stuff like.
Speaker 6: That's that's not what I want for my SSX at all.
Speaker 1: It's very early access, but just playing it, it's like, oh,
they got the feel right. It feels like SSX. Uh
So I will be monitoring this as it keeps going forward.
But I've been playing on the Steam deck. Works great there,
but it's just got like a race thing and a
show off mode.
Speaker 6: That's pretty much Yet.
Speaker 5: What is the agreed upon on best SSX?
Speaker 2: Okay, Tricky.
Speaker 1: I firstly did that top twenty, top one hundred of
the last twenty five years thing, and some people were
mad at me that I put three instead of Tricky,
and it was something I had to consider because I
love both of them. Tricky is like a much better
version of one, and I like the uber moves and
all that stuff. Three, with the whole like one mountain
thing and the branching paths, I just thought there was
more there to three. But I couldn't argue anyone saying Tricky.
They're both incredible games. I think people are pretty split
on that. I'm team three, but I think it's yeah.
I think it's a dead heat. I got I got
to bring up the sweat thing one more time to
defend myself. Everyone's like algorithm algorithm. It was on Twitter.
Somebody just retweeted.
Speaker 5: It my feet Okay, too much, I might be.
Speaker 1: I have to.
Speaker 2: When everyone comes out me like this around it.
Speaker 6: Kind of feels like we're not coming at you too hard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we moved off.
Speaker 2: Yeah about so no.
Speaker 1: Take away from this episode where ye ye help your
cause you're seeing me.
Speaker 2: This is helping, This.
Speaker 6: Is helping Mike.
Speaker 4: Someone run a pole in the chat now, because I
think it is a little weird. How gleeful you are, Mike,
and how how worked up you're getting. He's vibrating.
Speaker 7: I'm always vibrating. You know this about me? You see
me in person. I don't even watch the video yet.
Speaker 2: I'm good. That's what you mean.
Speaker 1: You a gun point to watch the entirety of them.
You can just past them.
Speaker 2: I just it just a surprising amount of sweat. It's gross. Okay,
all right.
Speaker 5: Many people have voted that you're not weird about sweat, Mike.
Don't worry.
Speaker 2: Many of the fantastic double Dan didn't get any votes.
Speaker 4: When we get to pull being weird, well, Dan, uh,
you know we talked a bunch about the asparagus. Did
you feel the need to apply mouthwash after eating a
bunch of that.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Mouthwashing. Okay, this is one of those things that I
thought that, like, okay, uh, I didn't look too much
into it before I played it. I was just intrigued
by like the look and kind of the way people
were talking about this game and stuff. You know, people
weren't spoiling anything, but just like the vibe around this game.
Speaker 5: Have you played how Fisher made?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: Were you in the stream when I played that?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, no.
Speaker 1: No, So I was like, I'm just going to download
this site I'm seeing. It was the break I had
some time. I heard it was just a couple hours long,
and I was like, you know what, even if this
is not my type of thing, like I figure because
I know it was a talkie story based thing, but
I was like.
Speaker 2: It's two hours.
Speaker 1: I can and that's a movie, you know, which is
why you know, something like a thousand times resisted metaphor.
I couldn't just get my toe into that. That's a
much bigger commitment. Yeah, holy shit, I love this game.
Mouthwashing was fucking awesome and incredibly well told story. There's
just a handful of characters that are all extremely interesting
and fleshed out. I mean there's almost no like real
gamey part of it. It is just kind of like
walking from thing to thing and seeing these vignettes kind
of play out and very kind of non linear storytelling,
you know, pull fiction style, but yeah, just the mystery
of what happened to the ship, and then like learning
about all these different characters, and there is a lot
of like you know, it's not full on like wrestling
style like hel Babyface turns. It's much more subtle than that,
but there is like oh, okay, I'm this guy. And
then it's like wait, I think I suck, and it's
like what this kuy sucks. It's like, wait, don't know,
that's actually kind of a sad story. That's actually, oh,
that's kind of a sympathetic story. That's It's there's just
a layer of depth to the characters in this game
that I am not used to in games, because maybe
a big part of it is because I don't seek
these type of games out. I'm sure you're a thousand
times Resists and all those, you know, I have plenty
of deep characters, but I don't my tone in there
that much.
Speaker 6: I don't see it much.
Speaker 5: So that's like there's a lot of a thousand times
resist games either, Like.
Speaker 2: Sure, but I don't just go leazy.
Speaker 1: I'm like, look, obviously, there's a bunch of like deep
deeper characters and stories and games that I haven't seen.
This one I just really really thought was incredibly well done.
The esthetic was incredible, but more than anything, just the
characters themselves. I was just like, awesome, this is this
is fantastic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do want to check it out now.
Speaker 7: I am instantly drawn to the PS one style aesthetic,
of course.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I was always planning on playing this
because I really did enjoy how fish are made. I
believe that's how with.
Speaker 6: The same developer.
Speaker 5: That's from the same developer. Yeah, and that's like another
one that's like, is that forty five minutes an hour
that's also worth playing. It's weird and fun, and yeah,
that's a good one to like just maybe put on
to begin a stream or something like that. So this
one's weird.
Speaker 1: It's not like, you know, I didn't know if it
was gonna be like a horror game or anything going in.
I wouldn't call it that. It's not a scary game.
It is unsettling. There's definitely some stuff you have to
do at times, or it's like, oh well I don't
like this, Oh I got to go do that again.
I don't like the sounds on that happens like it's
I have never played anything like it, and I really
was over the moon about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for folks that have played in completed Mouthwashing, I
think one of the most unsettling moments for me is
when you have to turn a bunch of cranks to
get to to get.
Speaker 2: The right flow.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't want to spoil anything.
Speaker 6: Mine was having to feed something ofttimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like that very good game. But I think you're right, Dan,
because I don't know. I love Metaphor. It was my
number one game on my personal list, But thinking about
how much time I spent with it, I would go
back and do that all again. But I just something
about Mouthwashing and only spending like two and a half
hours with it just just so like it felt more powerful.
But maybe that's because like I treat it like a
movie of like this is a brief and concise, tight experience.
If anyone has any other REX similar to Mouthwashing, please
send them my I.
Speaker 5: Was gonna throw this out as well. Yeah, I like
to get the year started. I'm like, I would like
to just go beat a video game, and you know
it would help with that if it was like an
hour to two hours long. And I was just thinking,
I'm like, I was gonna put out, Hey, please give
me some recommendations. I'm gonna start with a mouthwashing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll try it, just to get the vibe of it.
And like, I just played the whole thing in a
day and I was walked away super satisfied.
Speaker 5: Yep, but everyone has any more recommendations, Like you know,
tiny Terry's in a short hike. Things like that. Gave
me some more of those.
Speaker 2: Oh, I got a short one for you, grub that
gets right into it.
Speaker 5: You don't please?
Speaker 6: You know what I started again?
Speaker 5: I bet it was very short. Go ahead, please?
Speaker 2: Are you still in the tutorial a couple of hours?
It's I decided to start Red Dead two again. Why
I'm ready for the turn? I joined my side.
Speaker 5: It's good.
Speaker 2: I embrace the turn.
Speaker 1: I embrace the like coming at it from like reevaluating
something in a different space, removed from expectations. I mean,
we saw it Apple with desk stranding, and I was
glad to do that that was a very positive experience
for me to go back and appreciate it. And it's
the exact same situation with Red Dead two. I mean,
I'm not saying I'm gonna I'm not suddenly pro Red
Dead two or anything, but I'm saying I'm in the
right space now where it's I am wondered from the
expectation I do.
Speaker 2: I am meeting it on its own terms.
Speaker 1: I'm not so because I'm play do the tutorial and
stuff now and I'm remembering how I felt the first time,
where it's like, why is it taking me this long
to open this cabinet and grab this can of beans
and stuff? But I'm expecting it now this time. Also,
I'm playing it on PC and that game in four
K at one hundred and twenty frames a second. Holy shit,
that game is what seven years old now, and it's
still just like, how does it look this incredible? So, yeah,
I'm playing it in a totally different circumstance now. I'm
you know, I'm at the camp. You know, I've started
like hunting and things like that. It's still kind of
teaching me the systems. There is still a lot of
stuff that I'm like oooh boy. Okay, so to grab
stuff for my horse cargo, I got to hold this
and then do this, and then to do this I
got There's just so many goddamn systems and control things
to remember.
Speaker 5: But have you considered I know a lot of you
guys don't normally do this, but have you considered mods
to like make it more your thing?
Speaker 2: I looked at it.
Speaker 1: I saw there were saves where it's like, oh, let's
get it past. Uh, here's a save file that puts
you past the opening. It's like, now, if I'm going
to do it, let's do it.
Speaker 5: And I did look at to like that either, but
like I would maybe some fundamental systems to the game.
I would do that.
Speaker 1: I glanced to see if there's like, oh, speedy animations
or something like that, and there might be something like that.
But I just at a certain point decided, like, let's
just do it proper and just see if I can
meet it on its terms this time. So well, see,
I mean, I just kind of looked at the calendar
and I was like, outside of like Donkey Kong Country,
you know, re release, there's not a whole lot coming
out in the.
Speaker 2: Next few weeks. It's been nice.
Speaker 6: I'd beata games in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 5: I should just play those.
Speaker 6: Yeah, those are still super fucking fun.
Speaker 4: Where did you beat those two Castlevania games.
Speaker 6: On my Steam deck and the Dominant collection jam that's right, Yes.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's the decrease serves with you. You never
mentioned the part where you cut yourself with a state knife,
by the way, or filled.
Speaker 6: The room with smoke.
Speaker 1: The smoke was not from the decrease or that was
from the chicken. Yeah, that was several that's what's that.
That was in the Sioux VD. No. I went to
go see it in the pan afterwards, but I sprayed.
I looked again, I googled it. I was like, do
I put the oil in first or do I heat
it up first? And they're like, heat it up first,
then put the oil in and then quickly put the
gimmick in there. And I did it, and real quick
it just started smoking everywhere. It's probably too hot too, no,
because I've seen that before and I know my stove
runs a little hot. So it said do medium high heat.
So I did a little blow medium, thinking I was
airing on the side of caution and it's still just
filling up. Hey, oil is touchy, like this is yeah,
but everything need to oil. So it's like I don't
know how anyone cooks anything. So anyway, well we're talking
about Castlevania. Yes, I beat Don of Sorrow and Portrait
of ruin Mike. I was kind of inspired by you
because I thought like, oh, i'll boot up Donna Sorrow.
I'll see how it handles kind of the touch stuff
and everything and whatever. And then Mike, You're like, no,
I beat all three of them, and it's like, oh shit, right,
these aren't that long really, even like getting the super
endings like I did the real endings of Don and
Portrait and uh oh shit, there's just so much fun.
Speaker 2: They're like seven or eight hours each. Even if you
do the real.
Speaker 1: It's interesting to go back and be like, oh right,
Don of Sorrow was the first one on the DS,
so like that did have a little bit of drawing
the seals and breaking the gammicked up gets gimmicked up
a little bit, and Portrait are ruined. I don't think
there was any touch screen stuff in Portrait. I can't imagine.
Speaker 5: I think they got the backlash from people being like
this is just get in the way like that was
in the reviews to be like useless touch screen stuff.
So they always sort of overcompensated for those things and
then follow up yeah yeah, and they'll do that with
Order Ecclesia too. That's where it's like, oh, the formula
is getting a little bit stale, so now that we're
going to greatly vastly change up the formula with the
Order of Eclacy.
Speaker 1: And I remember loving Order. I remember that being like
a pretty difficult one, so I think I am going
to move on to Order. But overall, I'd say I
like Don Better. I really just love that soul system
that was an Aria of Sorrow also where you just
killed things then you get their powers. Portrait does the
gimmick where you're swapping between the characters and there's some
interesting things you can do there and how they play
off each other and do tag team attacks and stuff.
Speaker 6: But ultimately I think I like Don Better.
Speaker 2: I remember really liking some of the boss fights and
Portrait like it was neat how you have a kind
of there's like the death boss fights and it kind
of had these phases that made you switch between the
two characters and then like I think at the end too,
because you have to the final boss fight isn't just Dracula.
It's like Dracula and Death. Yeah, so it's a two
v two Like that's pretty meant.
Speaker 1: It's a Tornado tag against Dracula to tag, right exactly?
Speaker 2: Did you do the I think you had to for
the the right ending, But that optional Richter fight that's
real hard.
Speaker 1: Well, you don't have to do that. That's just to
get the vampire killer, that's right. So the thing you
have to do to get the real ending is you
have to get that sanctuary spell for Charlotte, and you
have to like the vampire those two sisters right right.
Speaker 2: Right right, all that stuff. Yeah, did you do the
optional Richter fights?
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I got the whip that like homes
in the like Nebula whip or whatever. So I just
got just like whipping down at him. Those games kick ass.
They were just like second, Oh, they're just so good.
Order is also a ton of fun.
Speaker 7: The formula swap is nice and it is definitely the
hardest one, which kind of makes things interesting.
Speaker 2: It's just a fantastic collection. So glad they did that
and absolutely killed it.
Speaker 1: It's just, Yeah, I've been watching Kayla play through Symphony
for the first time. So while she's been playing Symphony,
I've been playing these on the Steam deck and it's
just I'm thinking about like those seven games, specifically Symphony,
the three g b as, the three DS ones, and
now that they're all in these collections, they're all easily playable.
Speaker 2: It's just like, what a killer set of games.
Speaker 5: The Weird one.
Speaker 2: It's what you can't play it on switch. It strives
me crazy, I.
Speaker 6: Know, but you can play it on Xbox and PlayStation.
Speaker 5: Is doing a follow up to Bloodstain.
Speaker 6: I hope so, because I fucking love blood Saying too.
Speaker 5: Blood Sain is really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I think so. I think that's Mike.
Speaker 1: I saw you said you like Curse the Moon a lot.
I I did to the ny Style one and its.
Speaker 2: Sequel to that too. That one's that was great also,
it's just the best.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mike, Mike Banada, you've been playing your own collection
of older games here. I see you've been playing Fantasy
Star one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so well, I finished Dragon Quest three HD two
D and had a great time, and like once I
was done with that and it was still sort of
this holiday break, I'm like, I still actually just want
to play old j RPGs. It turns out and the
Sega Ages version of Fantasy Star one was on sale
on Switch, and this is you know, so this was
a Master System j rpg came out just one year
after Dragon Quest is still very much like influenced by that.
Speaker 2: It's very early on.
Speaker 5: I think there's a there's like a chance someone listening
doesn't actually know what the Master System is.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, the master System was so that was Sega's
console before the Genesis. It was like their NS competitors,
their eight bit console. And it's weird because, like, you know,
playing this, this isn't doesn't it doesn't have like retouch
graphics or anything. The Sega Ages version. It is just
that game.
Speaker 7: But it's like, oh man, this is like looks noicely
better than any any S game would. There's just it's
just more colorful. You don't have as much. Maybe the
screen flickering was a thing that was there it isn't,
but yeah, the Master System was more powerful than the Nies.
It just still wasn't as big of a hit because
Nintendo was so big.
Speaker 2: Unless you in Brazil yeah, they loved the moss, they
loved the master system there, but no, gosh, I just
that was such a fun sort of thing to do,
especially Christmas week, every night was playing through this very
old JRPYG. And the Second Age's version does have some
nice quality of life stuff like it has a whole
Sake ages mode that turns down the encounter rate a
bit and increases the XP and gold you get from
each fight, so still compensates, so you still will go
through a dungeon and get the same amount of experience
and money that you should get, just without having to
grind out quite as many fights. You know, me, I
don't mind grinding that much. But it still is a
nice quality of life thing. There's just like easily accessible
menus that explain what all the spells and all the
equipment do. It's still, you know, a very old RPG,
so having a guide online to kind of give you
a little help.
Speaker 5: What to do.
Speaker 2: You could be very old school and just go and
blind and explore and talk to every townsperson and kind
of figure it out. But it's yeah, I don't mind
having that guide help me there. What state is like?
You know, back then this game had that first person
dungeon crawling thing right where it's like, whoa, it looks
like it's like three D kind of because you know
you're going down these corridors, you're turning left and right.
Some any games did that.
Speaker 7: I think, like the Friday the thirteenth were, uh, Fester's
Quest I think has some.
Speaker 2: Of these you know what I'm talking question?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Fester, there's Quess and I'm like, there's still
something charming about all this.
Speaker 1: Oh god, Bester's Quest Minatti Blake Club, he could be Fester.
Speaker 2: Makeup. Oh my god, it is Fester's Question that bad? Yes,
the only has a kid? When I had all the patients.
Speaker 5: Owned well, everybody required it. I don't know if I
actually owned it.
Speaker 2: Everybody in Fester's Quest so fucking bad. Yes, though the
music's good. Oh that'd be so good. Okay, I'm already missed.
I won't say anything. I don't say anything.
Speaker 7: That quest, Mitch's Quest that I already looked like Uncle
Fester the first time I tried to be quant I
probably still have the white makeup. Great, but yeah, it
was just a really pleasant play through the Fantasy Star one.
The whole aesthetic a Fancy Star is really nice to
kind of colorful space thing. I don't know what you
call it, but you know when Dragon Ball, like where
Balma lives, everybody lives in like these giant domes or capsules,
Like it's dome sci fi. It's not quite Jetsons. It
doesn't have that fifties Americana spin to it. It's this
eighties anime. Everyone's living in domes and they're all like
colored purple. I like that aesthetic a lot. So Fantasy
Star's cool. I wish it would make a you know,
all these new all these franchises coming back, and I
love Fancy Star Online. I'd love they made an actual
new like single player Fancy Star.
Speaker 2: Jereviygy.
Speaker 7: I played four before the jeffyd Genesis and that's awesome.
Haven't played two or three. I know people don't like three.
I might do that, but yes, I beat that, and
I still still jan. My craving for Classic Jeripeg's was
not satiated.
Speaker 2: Mike. You talk about the the circular houses, and you
know what else is circular? Maybe spherical even Yes, this
is where you fill in the blank. Oh, I say
earth that's right, earthbound, that's right, Earthbound.
Speaker 7: Gosh, I still just craved more. Especially I love playing
these games in bed.
Speaker 2: Its kind of my cozy, like, oh, I'm gonna play
an hour or two of a JRPG and then I'm
gonna fall asleep. And Earthbound has been such a blind
spot for me as somebody who loves Nintendo and JRPGs.
I've started it many times before in the past, like
ever since, like the Super Nintendo was originally a thing
of renting it. I always had a little bit difficulty
getting too far into it, and now, especially you know,
during when I was sick, I played a lot of it.
I almost beat it. I'm like, I'm almost.
Speaker 7: There already, and yeah, I'm totally getting it. The quirkiness
is really fun. It's not like it's never like a
hilarious game, right, but it's.
Speaker 2: A lot of like, eh, yeah, sensible, yeah, a lot
of sensible chuck, Like you know, just realizing, Oh, I
started in one nets.
Speaker 7: Then I go to this town called like like two
food or something, and then three I'm like, oh, I
get it. They're just numbering the town's. Ah, that's that's neat, right.
Speaker 2: You go talk to a dog in the store, and
the dogs like I have been possessed by the spirit
of the game developer.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna explain to you how equipment words that's good's
that's very good. I think what helps too is that
I've played so much more like Dragon Quest now, and
that's really much more what this is like. It's a
lot like Dragon Quests more so than it's like a
Final Fantasy per se with some of that old school stuff.
Especially like the one thing that I bet will great
people and even great to me a little bit is
the strict inventory stuff. Whreach character has their own inventory
and it's kind of limited, and even key items and
they like equipped stuff you have is gonna take up
slots there, so constantly sort of juggling the equipment and
transferring it between people, you have to like call your
sister and she'll send somebody to pick up stuff don't want.
So that is maybe a little bit of a hassle,
But otherwise the charm still holds up really well a
lot of ways. It holds up lot better than a
lot of the other sixteen big games. The translation is
really good, and maybe that's just because like having the
translation be a little bit off, which always happen with
these games works really well for Earthbound because the whole
thing is kind of off anyways, But yeah, super having
fun with that. I'm trying to figure out I want
to just do Mother three right after this, because I'm
I'm still a SAP and I'm holding out hope that
we just actually get Mother three released here someday. I
don't have a problem with, you know, doing a fan translation,
but you know, I would prefer to do an official release.
Speaker 5: M h, all right, have a question, Yes, why was
the Earthbound box big?
Speaker 7: Because it came with a strategy guide because they were convinced, guy,
we kids.
Speaker 2: Will get lost.
Speaker 7: And you know again, I am like, I do have
a guide open on my phone a lot of times
when I'm playing the game, just to make sure I
know what I'm doing. But yeah, I wonder that too
as a kids, Like why is this so big? I
seemed to came like a multi tab or yes, I
think that's what I assumed.
Speaker 5: I saw like multiple characters in the art and I'm like, oh,
it must be a multi tap, must be a multiplayer game.
Oh shot friends, and then very much.
Speaker 2: A single player thing. Yeah, just it just came with
the guy that's kind of nice. That's smart speaking about
round things. These are occasionally round. And Dan, I'm gonna
assume you put this on the duck berries.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys like mester alities like the fruits. Yeah,
like blue black, straw rasp.
Speaker 2: Like the.
Speaker 1: Right, Like you did not put berries berries things I've
known about, but I've been comfortable with banana this my
whole life.
Speaker 2: I've never really thought about berries before. Wait no, this
is this is the stuff that goes on the top
of the show.
Speaker 1: I know, but I just wanted to like make sure
there was a specific shout out for berries, because like
I got this like multi pack of berries. I got
one that's just strawberries and one that's blue black and
rasp and I will just like normally I would just
go eat a bunch of Starburst or something, and now
I only have healthy food in the house.
Speaker 6: I'm doing this whole health gimmick.
Speaker 1: And I was just like, eat a couple of raspberries
and I'm be like, this kicks ass. It has so
much flavor in like one berry, it's got a fun texture.
They got like a little weird hairs on him. It
is like, seriously, I'm like over the moon about berries, right,
now sayone else.
Speaker 7: Imagining Dan is like a hutter gatherer and like a
tribe just being so excited about the berries coming.
Speaker 5: I'm actually imagine the exact opposite, like all these other
people are hunting, hunting and gathering like berries, and he's
just like, what the fuck's that? And then like finally
forty years later he tries when he's like, oh, well,
this is what you guys were doing.
Speaker 2: I was only eating taboo.
Speaker 1: I had so many opportunities because Ben Hanson at his
old place, he used to have a raspberry bush and
like berry guy. Well, yeah, whenever we'd be like walking
into his house, like we'd be coming back from somewhere,
he would just pick a raspberry off and eat one
and try one of these, just try one.
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, you just picked it right off of
the bush. There's no way that's safe. And now that
I need a bar code on my food. Yeah, So
now that I know they're safe.
Speaker 1: And I just bought it from Whole Foods from the
Amazon Corporation, I'm like, oh, ship, this is fucking incredible.
Speaker 5: What what how do the peanuts get the shell? Is
that what you were?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: That was I haven't thought about yeah, I thought about.
Speaker 2: I haven't thought about. That's not weird, Okay, say raspberry raspberry.
Speaker 5: Okay, now, let's I I this is what I always
get hung up on this one because it's always weird.
How to spell this one? Dan, you're good at spelling.
How you spell r A S P B E R
r y? Yeah, rasping in there, sneaks in there. It's
like the extra R in February, the Wedness day. Yeah,
what any yesterday?
Speaker 2: That's okay? Okay, yeah, no, just a big, big berry
guy now, all right? Cool shouts out to the barrio.
I guess.
Speaker 1: Also, my nutritious dietician lady said the cheese sticks are good,
and so I just I eat a bunch of cheese
sticks now and it's healthy.
Speaker 6: I know, I know, I know. Yeah.
Speaker 4: God, well, I'm I'm glad that that berries are lighting
up your life. But it seems like Mike Manatti's soul
is still dark, perhaps for the third time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just started Dark Souls three, actually, just last
night I did. I did Dark Souls one and two
last year and enjoyed then. Dark Souls two definitely has
some weirdness to it. That's like one of the best
things about starting Dark Souls three is just that a
lot of the Dark Souls two weirdness isn't really there.
It just immediately feels a little bit better to play.
It's just snappier. All the move and stuff. It was right,
the characters aren't like perfectly magnetized onto me when they're
swinging around. So yeah, I don't have a ton to say,
just like, this game is still very pretty, by the way,
because it's just a bit newer than one and two.
I think it Rigel came out like the Xbox one
PS four era, so still gorgeous. Lots of ton fun
lighting stuff. I am doing a dexterity build this time.
Speaker 2: That's exciting.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm off the strength train. I'm dual wielding skit
scimitars or something. So I'm like, it's a little bit
of an adjustment because I'm dodging instead of blocking, and
i don't have range, and I'm attacking multiple times that
kill people, and I'm attacking very quickly. But yeah, so far,
just very impressed with Duxels three. I am excited to
dive much deeper into that.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, I love a good Decks build. You a
lot for arrows and stuff. I don't think anything. I mean,
I think in general you're not don't really want to
be using bow and arrows and dark souls, except like
kite people and the cheese stuff.
Speaker 1: So is it like an agility to get choge run
It's like a speed agility type situation.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, dexterity, yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 5: And stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well if you get terms of the ice, like, yeah,
so you're gonna use like the more swim weapons, yeah,
kind of a thing instead of like a giant berserker's sword.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 4: I assume you need a lot of deckstery to be
swift because I think birds dual wheeld wings to fly.
And I haven't developed the rest of this segue.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go go. I'm just gonna go rogue
and just toss it to Grub who's been Yes.
Speaker 5: Good job. I do not remember who recommended rogue flight,
but someone maybe in chat did. It is a star Fox, like,
it's still a handful of those recently, and I think
this one is so So there's two paths people take
when they're making a real star Fox, Like right, They're like,
let's just make fucking star Fox again. And I respect
that and I want that, but this one's like, no,
let's take starfucks and like as if we were going
to make it today. But it's still clearly starfux. So
it's you know, on Rails Shooter, you got the cursor.
I guess, I guess it's kind of like RES. I
don't know why I don't like Res.
Speaker 2: But I I don't because it's not that good and
it's overrated.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for all those ravers out there, no rave, No,
I would rather go to the Gathering of the Juggalos.
I mean it, of course, Well that would be fun.
That'll be funny is what they probably like wrestle like more.
Speaker 5: But Rogue Flight is uh, it's got like, hey, eighties
anime aesthetic and that it's actually pretty good. I think
there's a bit too much story. I just I ended
up skipping the cut scenes get right into it. Uh,
but the action is very intense. They send just waves
of enemies at you. Does it has a good combo
system where as long as you are killing enemies, but
then so much time, you know, it makes the ping noise,
and the ping increases in frequency like or the you
know in the in pitch every time you get another
part of the combo. So it's like ding ding d
ding like and that of course always feels good. It's
got It's pretty complex in terms of like what you're
able to do at any one time. You know, you
hold a to fire your weapon, you're firing your weapon constantly.
You of course can paint enemies with the radical to
by holding down left trigger to lock onto them and
send missiles at them. Yeah, it's one of those games.
But also if you do a right stick, if you
press forward, you'll boost forward. If you right stick right
or left, you'll do like this tailwhip move that sends
your thrusters whipping behind you, and like it can like
destroy anything that gets caught in that path. So it's
like you're just like whipping an energy beam at this
group of enemies and they all just blow up and
it goes in slow motion and it looks really cool
and it feels very cool. There's power ups as long
as you don't die, you keep your power up from
level to level. So now I've got you know, a
bunch of things around me firing laser blasts, and I
have a spread beam. Now it's solid. It is definitely
just another one of these, but I think it's my
favorite of the games that are trying to be like
Star Fox.
Speaker 1: I mean in terms of another one of these, like
this is the genre, I would like more ones of those.
I feel like that it's like that Tony Hawks and
Twisted Metals, like I want more of those. That's not
even genre because they made like a handful of series
that were good and they stopped making.
Speaker 6: Them, and I want more of them.
Speaker 5: Yep. And I think that this is this is showing
me that this there's more to tap into here. I
I think I'm still on my first run. I'm assuming
that because it's called Rogue Flight through some like rogue
like elements to it.
Speaker 2: But I have Steam. It has the roguelike tex Okay.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, I could see how that could be
pretty cool, is what I'm like. Wh Star fucks as
a rogue Light. That's just what they should do, I
guess with Star Fox two technically kind of a rogue
Light in some ways.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 6: I love that we can just talk about Star Fox
too like it's a real game now, because it kind
of is.
Speaker 2: Of thedt in a while.
Speaker 6: Honestly, that was like shocking when they said that, Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's cool, but I recommend it. It almost messes me up.
Speaker 7: Like this game came out of October and it looks great.
It has like you know, very positive steam reviews. It's like,
I never heard anybody talk about this scary the first
Heart make games what one more thing because I look
at this and I see, like, like again that eighties
anime psaker talking about, like, oh, I love the way
that looks. I liked it a fantasy Star And is
this me being a nostalgic asshole really liking that more
than a modern anime? Look almost like I was watching
a lot of anime when I was a kid. I
guess I was definitely around it. Is it just maybe
aesthetically more interesting.
Speaker 2: In some way? Or am I a jer preferences right?
Speaker 5: I think it's a little bit of a column A,
a little bit of column B. I think it is
nostalgic jerk in the fact that, yeah, it feels cool
to see that. Then you saw maybe like in a
magazine as a kid, and it was maybe a little
bit elusive. But I also think in some ways that
and you know, this is me being outsider, but this
is like when I look at anime, it does feel
like it's homogenized in a lot of ways, a lot
of similar influences affecting all of the anime aesthetics out there. Yeah,
and so that's why I look at many of them
like this kind of looks like a lot of the
other stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The same thing with film, right, there's like a whole
like decades of film that look exactly a doubt, nothing
is discernible, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like things that look like that one Daft punk
music video.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like this looks like you uh, speaking of that,
you mentioned when I was talking about Castlevania, something about
how like there was a ship to more anime style
that like people didn't like, Like I don't remember, like
what were you referring to.
Speaker 7: The portraits, like the character portraits and stuff, and starting
in Dawn of Sorrow, Yeah, there's like that bland just
kind of like very flat anime style, whereas before that
in Symphony, in the the Gameboy Advanced Wines, there's that
very style. I forget the artist's name, but it's the
box artists that Box looked at those games.
Speaker 6: Did the GBA ones have that too?
Speaker 7: The GBA once had it, and then Dawn of Sorrow
and Portu Room like shipp at Heart to this really
like very flat bland. Okay, it's weird because they look
like Fox Block like Fox Kids characters, but they're still
like naked demon ladies and like cutting them in.
Speaker 2: Half and stuff.
Speaker 7: Okay I could, and then they course stressed a bit
an order of Ecclesia. Yeah here, I'm gonna yeah, I'm
gonna find you like uh the box art for Ari
You Sorrow and the Donna Saurrow.
Speaker 5: You'll see to find the find the right one for
Donna Sorrow.
Speaker 6: The box on the box. Yes, I love that one.
Speaker 5: I want to get that. I want to get that
copy of that game.
Speaker 2: Act actually do that too. That's so, folks.
Speaker 4: I think it's time to take a quick bricky break
and we'll be back with some video game news.
Speaker 2: I think I might go check out Disco Elysium for
the first time.
Speaker 5: I was playing that a few months back and really
got back into it. I should finish that game because
I think it's really good.
Speaker 2: Grub. You know what we actually have to do is
you and I have to play Balder's Gate three together.
Speaker 5: Why do we have to do that?
Speaker 4: You and I have to complete the story together, so
Mike Minatti will get a tattoo of your choosing.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is correct. Now, Mike's copetent.
Speaker 5: We won't do this, and for a good reason, but
I think we could do it.
Speaker 2: Just do whatever you get due to fill the just
kind of see credits. Right, Yeah, no, I'm not gonna
accept cheating. Okay, but what if it's like, yeah, glitch
like glitchless? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, do you want to see it? Do you
want to sign a an unbiased third party to decide
what we're.
Speaker 2: Doing is absolute? Maybe? Maybe?
Speaker 4: Okay, Well we'll ask who's who's playing as am I
played a lot of Ballerskate three, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I have Yeah, but I have a brother who has.
They would love to see me get a tattoo.
Speaker 2: He'd be somewhat partial and partial.
Speaker 5: Three?
Speaker 2: Okay, can we with the tattoo?
Speaker 1: You know how like with Blake Club, you know that
you don't know the game typically unless uh, like you're
on the air starting it. Can it be a thing
where can we shoot a thing where we go into
the tattoo parlor and Mike doesn't know what the tattoo
is going to be?
Speaker 2: No, I am definitely gonna vet it.
Speaker 5: I kind of I'm still partial to the one that
we all enjoyed. I don't know if you guys remember it.
Speaker 6: I don't remember it.
Speaker 5: It is uh, upside down upside down pineapple with the
Mickey Mouse ears.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to be clear.
Speaker 7: Look, look, if it's something ridiculous, I just will do it.
You'll call me a liar, and I'm not good at
my word. But whatever, I thought you liked that one.
Now I'm like, I thought that was right right on
the line of no, that's a bit much. It's a
bit much, Okay, you can keep it hit.
Speaker 2: That pineapple is a signed to swingers that you're ready
to swing.
Speaker 5: Yes, that you're there just gearing aud At the grocery store.
Speaker 2: They'll yeah, what swinger.
Speaker 4: Swinger couples will put a pineapple upside down in there
and their shopping carts to signify to other people they're.
Speaker 2: Down at the grocery store.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: On cruises, they'll their doorkay, huh, you'll get a picture
of it.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it'll do. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you get a tattoo of one with Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 6: That is very funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's funny. For like three reasons like
the fruit thing, the Mickey thing. Yeah, okay, that's good.
Speaker 5: Kind of across the board there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, alright, I need to go take a take a
brick break, and we'll be back with some video game news.
Speaker 2: Just gonna sit outside and think for a bit. See
after that, Jeff Grub News. I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 5: What if it what if it was the spaceship Earth
sphere with Mickey Mouse here, That sounds like a tattoo
you would agree to?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 7: The problem is like, that's so close to just the
tattoo I've always wanted to Actually don't that's space symbol.
That's yeah, you always just call it off now off
now birth is the Spikey ball, right, that's right, Okay,
we had the golf ball.
Speaker 6: I don't do something normal that he would.
Speaker 7: Like if it's up, I'm not gonna let him tattoo
something ridiculous on spaceship Earth balls and then like a
long tunnel like.
Speaker 2: Space. Yeah, oh yeah, that's great, that's a pen.
Speaker 5: Anyway, News PlayStation showed up the CS and said TV
TV TV they had a bunch of movies and television
shows to talk about. I guess ghosts of Sushima Legends
anime series is coming to Country Role in twenty twenty seven,
which is in a real year. Hell Divers feature film
is in development at Sony Pictures until Dawn Live action
film releases on April twenty fifth, set in the same
universe as the game, as I guess I would assume. Yeah,
new Lego Horizon Adventures music video has been teased. Horizon
Zero Yeah, I don't know, guys. Horizons zero don live
action film is in development. Retells Aloy's origin story.
Speaker 7: That's interesting because they were making a show that was
gonna make a whole prequel show and they canceled that
and like, let's just make a movie based off the game.
Speaker 2: That'll be a lot easier.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Everything always heard about that show is they had
a lot of problems back, you know, one way or
the other.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: The Last of Us location based immersive experience is is
improve proof of concept phase. I guess it's like one
of those like VR things.
Speaker 2: Or like a escape room, like remember the Void at the.
Speaker 5: They still have the voids around places, right.
Speaker 2: They don't want that? Why would anyone want that?
Speaker 7: You don't want to go into the world of the
Last of Us where you're you're you're living a dirty
camp and zombies kill your friends, and then the other
humans also kill your friends, and then you get sad
about it.
Speaker 2: Already.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: The Last of A Season two is releasing in April
on Max, and they released a new teaser trailer. Uh yeah,
lots of I mean we've known for a while that
Sony's been like, hey, we have a movie division, and
we have a game division that's doing very good. We
should make movies based on those games. It doesn't seem
like they're abandon in that anytime soon soon. It sounds
like they're doubling down.
Speaker 6: Yeah, breaking news. I did just buy the stupid box
John of Sorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, smart, smart, It really was gosh.
Speaker 7: Now you need to get that Batman Arkham City Game
of the Year addition to go next to it.
Speaker 2: What was that one that was the one like this
just plastered in like box. Is that the Armored edition thing? No,
that's the wee year It's just the Game of the
Year edition for us DAN your.
Speaker 5: Armored Division, a Game of the Year Division or Batman.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: In Vidio announced the next gen RTX fifty ninety and
fifty eighty GPUs A and d also announced their new GPUs,
but there's just more details on the Nvidia ones. The
fifty ninety is going to be two thousand dollars, the
fifty eighty is going to be one thousand dollars. The
fifty ninety is going to be twice as powerful as
the forty ninety. Yeah, they're gonna have DLSS four ready
to go for The includes multi frame generation, which generates
up to three additional frames per traditional frame.
Speaker 6: So Prub, you're my guy for this stuff. Since you
know this stuff, Well, do I need to get this?
Speaker 5: So you don't. You definitely don't need to get this.
You're you have a forty ninety in your system, and
games have already mostly not taken advantage of the forty ninety,
so you don't need it. When do I need it?
I mean if I were in your shoes, which I
guess I am exactly because I have the same exact
computer that you job and job I listen, if and
Video wants to send us one, I'm gonna take it.
Speaker 2: If that's a.
Speaker 6: Good I will also adopt that stance, yead.
Speaker 5: If I have to buy one, I'm gonna be waiting
until the sixth series.
Speaker 7: The sixty series, So I'm I have a thirty seventy T, right,
TI I have. I've been actually paying attention to this.
Normally video cards is all over my head, but I've
been following this announcement. I went to upgrade this year,
and I'm pretty happy with that fifty eighty price one thousand.
That seems reasonable. Actually, I think I was there myself
for a lot worse. Yeah, I feel pretty good. I
didn't buy a Plastation five pro is how I feel.
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, there's also like as Sean and Chass
pointing out, but they announced the fifty seventy TI, the
fifty seventy. The fifty seventy is apparently going to have
about forty ninety performance at five hundred and fifty dollars.
It will also have DLSS four. So you know, if
you have a super high refresh rate monitor that does
four K and you want to get one hundred and
twenty two hundred frames per second in four K, maybe
the fifty ninety makes sense at that point. But if
you're only playing at one hundred and twenty frames per second,
and now I say only because that's you know, like
that's crazy, but only one hundred and twenty frames per second.
You're probably fine still with the forty nine.
Speaker 6: It's funny. I'm a frame rates now, Mike. I know
you are too.
Speaker 1: In like thirty to sixty, I can tell immediately. I
just want to barf at thirty sixty to one. It's like,
I think I can notice, but it's not anywhere.
Speaker 5: Near the diminishing returns on that is massive. And I'm
even realizing, like thirty to forty five is actually where
I'm at. If I play it forty five on the
Steam Deck, it's a little bit harder for me to
tell the difference between forty five and sixty a little bit. Yeah,
not impossible, but yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: Lenovo reveals new Legion Go handheld. Lenovo is launching the
Legion Go S, a handheld gaming PC that will be
the first outside of Valve to ship with the Steam
Os platform. The Legion Go S is a new and
improved version of Lenovo's eight inch handheld with a one
and twenty hertz variable refresh rate screen and a new
AMD rizing Z two go chip. Lenovo will also ship
a Windows version of Legion Go S. That version will
be seven hundred and thirty dollars. The Steam OS version
will be five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: The steam US version has less RAM and less less storage,
about half the storage, but it probably will have very
similar performance even with the less RAM because the RAM
is needed for running Windows in the background and stuff
like that. So that's why the Windows version is a
little bit more pricey and beefy. Lenovo's also going to
have the Legion GO to later this year, So the
Go S is happening now and that'll have this improved chip,
and then the Go too will have an even more
improved version of that chip. This Z two extreme and
they haven't set a price or anything like that. But yeah,
I had I try to have the Lenovo Legion Go.
It's big and beefy and weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah you brought that to was it the Game Awards
last last year?
Speaker 5: Yeah? That must have been it, right, Yeah, that sounds right,
because I was I think I was trying to like
finish up. No, maybe it was Summer game Fest.
Speaker 2: Summer game Fest. Yeah, yeahah, that thing is gigantic.
Speaker 5: It's gigantic. Yeah, But I mean, I guess I'm glad
that other companies are starting to launch with Stemos that'll
keep that as a a reason for Windows to improve
its experience on handheld, because steam Os maybe could eat
into that market share a little bit on this side
of things and force some competition there. Yeah, let's see. Also,
Acer announced the Big eleven inch eleven inch handheld. That
is massive.
Speaker 2: It's got likes too big.
Speaker 5: It is absurd, Yes, and you should look up pictures
of people holding it if you haven't. But it's like
they're holding I don't know, a slate from the scent
down from God. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's a Steely It's a steeally Steely.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it steely and from Giza. Yeah. Delta Rune chapter
three and four will launch this year, according to Toby Fox.
Toby Fox took the Blue Sky Blue Ski and reconfirmed
that both those episodes will launch this year.
Speaker 2: Mike, have you have you played any of the Delta
Roun chapters. Yeah?
Speaker 7: I played Delta Rooe chapter one. It was really good,
and I think, I you know, I know, chapter two
came out. I think I was a little bit like,
I think I want to wait till maybe the whole
thing is out now, and then maybe even replay chapter
one and just play through it as a full game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad that that that is happening. Oh yeah,
check it out once it's all there.
Speaker 5: Yep, is chapter four the final chapter?
Speaker 2: Or I think so? I think I think that's right,
but maybe I'm not sure. Chap can maybe help me there.
Speaker 5: Uh US has blacklisted ten Cent over alleged ties with
the Chinese military. Tencent, a major player in the video
game industry, is facing problems due to alleged ties with
the Chinese military. The US Defense Department has blacklisted the company,
which could result in it being delisted from the US
Stock Exchange in other markets. This news has already impacted
ten Cents shares and could have significant financial consequences for
the company and its subsidiaries, which includes Riot Games Tenseit
also faced scrutiny over its board members serving on rival
companies boards and its ownership stakes and other game developers
like From Software and Ubisoft. Yeah, go ahead, I.
Speaker 7: Just will say real quick, apparently there's gonna be seven
chapters of Delta Rous. Oh yeah, yeah, okay, we got
to waste we got a ways to go there. Well,
this is interesting thing because like what could be the
repercussions of this. There's Tenset has you know, investments and
whatnot in so many games.
Speaker 5: Now, yeah, it's uh, I mean, it could be a
situation where it's similar to like you know, byte dance
in TikTok, or they might be forced to sell or
something like that. Probably not going to get that far
or ten cents like this is this is clearly a mistake.
Let's get this figured out. It's probably not a mistake.
But I don't know how rigid the United States government
wants to be about this. But it's possible that this
could have ramifications of a lot of money that a
lot of developers are relying on comes from ten Cent
that could dry up, go away, or at least like
cool off, and that could be a problem for a
lot of people making games. But yeah, this is going
to be it's only going to get more complicated with
the new administration that is going to want to increase
the rivalry with China and there's going to be a
trade war and that trade or could manifest as things
like this where companies countries do things to cause problems
for major corporations based in each of these countries. So yeah,
this is probably only going to get more complicated in
the next year or two, court docks revealed Call of
Duty games cost up to seven one hundred million dollars
to make. The development costs for Call of Duty titles
Black Ops three, Modern Warfare twenty nineteen and Black Ops
Cold War were revealed to be between four hundred and
fifty million and seven hundred million dollars. These figures were
revealed into court filing that include post launch support and content.
In comparison, the last of US Part two cost around
two hundred and twenty million dollars to developed. I think
Spider Man to that one was three hundred million, right,
I think that's what that was aid. I mean, I
get it makes sense. You can do things fast, you
can do them inexpensively, or you could do them good,
and you could choose two of those. And they always
put out a Call of Duty every year and they're
pretty decent. So the only way they could do that
is spend a lot of money. But I guess I
didn't think it would be seven hundred million year, so.
Speaker 2: Loney, So much of that is the post release support
that's being accounted in this too. All the new content,
all just people monitoring things and fixing things, keeping the
servers going. But woof, I'm excited that.
Speaker 7: You know, within ten years we were going to get
to that billion dollar Call of Duty game.
Speaker 2: Can see what that looks like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's probably not too far off because I mean
this is a black Ops Cold War which was was
that twenty twenty?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's right. Yeah, so we worked a
couple past that because.
Speaker 5: And then there's been a lot of inflation since then.
So oh boy, we might be at the billion dollar
Call of Duty game right now. Hell yeah, but we'll
find out. Ex and A Purna video game staff to
absorb former Take two indie label Private Division. This is
I think this got reported this morning, so it's kind
of catching up on this as we were getting ready
to start. I'll try to do my best here and
former and A Purna Interactive staffers who resigned last summer
will take over the portfolio of Private Division, a label
formerly owned by Take two Interactive Software Inc. Private Division
was sold in November to Heveli Investments, a private equity
firm based in Austin. Velli struck a deal with x
Anna Purna staffers to fund their new company and place
them in charge of distributing the former Private Division titles,
including Tales of the Shire and Kerbal Space program series.
Some of the twenty employees inherited by Heveli when it
purchased Private Division will be laid off as part of
the new arrangement. That's kind of crappy, but yeah, this
is a weird one because these people were working at
a different Private Division or different indies publishing label over
at Annapurna. That stuff kind of fell apart. They all
left together and it was like are they going to
start their own thing? It's like kind of they're going
to take over Private Division. So just this weird way
of like keeping Private Division going.
Speaker 2: It's like a weird shuffling around of all these people
in entities, right, yes.
Speaker 5: Just overall. Yeah, a bizarre moves snacked Edge. It says
in chap let's see Bilotro mod Jimbo, those big naturals.
It's a lot funnier and safer for work than it
sounds that this is someone that just said this to me.
You ever see those big naturals mods for like games
like Skyrim. Someone did one of those for Bolatro. But
it's just more of a joke where.
Speaker 2: You ever see the Big Natural's mod for Skyrim. I
can't say that.
Speaker 5: If you ever like search mods for Skyrim on YouTube,
it's unavoidable. Everyone's like, this is, of course what you want.
So it's like a kind of a meme in the
Monding community. So someone made a mod for Bilatro that
gives all the jokers big naturals, all of them.
Speaker 2: What about like, like, what does that look like.
Speaker 5: Most of them? Okay, I'm sor one hundred and twenty
two of the one hundred and fifty cards in the
game now have honkers.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, it's mostly just.
Speaker 5: Like they drew chalk on there or whatever. It made
it like, made it look like, Yes, it's very funny.
It says right here, no nipples are visible. Dan to
pay ten dollars extra. It's the nipple DLC from the
Saboteur do the same thing on you?
Speaker 2: Okay? At it?
Speaker 5: Yeah? And then I was gonna say fantastic fourig Marvel Rivals,
but we already talked about that.
Speaker 4: Oh but yo, during the break, I watched the Invisible
Woman character.
Speaker 2: This is trailer fantastic, Yes, the Invisible Woman. Is it
just the Invisible Woman? Is that her name?
Speaker 5: I think it's both because she's married to mister fantastic right, so.
Speaker 2: Oh so it's like this is incredible. Is also Alasta girl? Yes?
Speaker 5: Yes, now we explained in distance, so he understands. Great.
Speaker 2: God, she looks so good. She can use force fields
and like her old is amazing.
Speaker 4: What a great game for healers. What a great game
for healers.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Maybe that's why this game works so well is
because it's so fun to play a healer. So yeah,
that helps. All right, that's all the news I have.
Although you know, we were all for a while, a
bunch of stuff happened. I guess most people were on vacation.
But they're like, you know, ce yes started there a
bunch of stuff. We'll catch up.
Speaker 2: What's going on? The switch to the joy cron having
a mouse sensor.
Speaker 5: Yeah, stuff like that. So yeah, so there's been endless
swim two leaks.
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought I heard mouth, and then my
brain said he must mean mouse like a computer mouse.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's what that that that that is what I heard.
But I was expecting him to say that, so maybe
I wait, so is it mouth or mouse?
Speaker 2: Mouse? Mouse mouth?
Speaker 5: So there's been a there's been a. Well, I mean
that the switch one has a mouth sensor. Uh, because
that thing on the bottom of the of the one
joy Con is a little I R swick. Yeah, so
I already have mouth sensing technology. Yeah, the switch two
leaks have gone crazy. Basically, we know just about everything
about the hardware, including the fact that the left Joycon
is going to have a h here. I have the
right joyc on here, but whatever, No, here's one left
joy Con is going to have a sensor here, an
optical sensor that looks like it could be for tracking
mouse movements. And the reason people think that is because
there is a like pad here and here at the
top and bottom of the inner rail of the joy Con,
so it'll be easier to move it around on a surf.
And then you would use the left of the Z
L and L buttons as like left and right click.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: So the assumption is the thing's going to have mouse
support right out of the box. And that makes me
want Mario paint real bad.
Speaker 6: The first thing I thought it was Mario yep, almost.
Speaker 5: Like there should just be Mario paint included in the box.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh they can add that, weird Mario and Mario
sn s game that we never got to n.
Speaker 2: S O now yeah, yeah, there you go. Yep, that
was the only fan right, I'm dreaming big, I like add.
Speaker 5: Sixty four d D do the expansion pass and give
us all the.
Speaker 2: Mario Artists series or whatever.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there's like four four games or something like that.
Speaker 2: What if it's just a barcode scanner?
Speaker 5: Yeah, reader, Holy shit, that does it for the news,
Jen shows back to you.
Speaker 4: Uh, I'm realizing this show still needs to cool off.
It still hasn't recovered from the first segment. So we're
going to take another quick brick brick and we'll be
back with your email.
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Speaker 1: That whole break, Mike was just yelling at us to
watch the sweat video, not kidding that Mike has worked
up about the sweat video.
Speaker 5: All right, I am, I have it here. Should we
just count it down? And I'm not doing it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, grub on one, let's go. Yeah, okay, three
to one.
Speaker 2: That's sweat. That's a lot of sweat. That's so oh
my god, that's so much. Maybe would hold it in, right, Yeah,
you've got nowhere else to go? Oh it stops.
Speaker 5: Oh, I've watched it three times now.
Speaker 2: Disgusting.
Speaker 4: But why are you smiling so much as as we're
all watching it though?
Speaker 2: You know like it's a Sometimes you just don't know
what else to do with your mouth. You know, I
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Speaker 4: I just got a mac Minnie. I need to get
a new mouse and keyboard. What mouse and keyboard you have?
I do not need a gamer mouse. I need a
mouse that is comfortable to use. I want a thucky keyboard,
thanks Nikky.
Speaker 1: I think I have a thought keyboard. It's a key
cum Backlar recommended it, so it's a a keyboard nerd thing,
but it's good. It's aron something ether Yep.
Speaker 5: You know. I want to get one of those IBM
in keyboard like uh Re manufacturers that they have though,
the ones that were super clicky that you probably used
in school, right, I love those, So I wanna wanna
get one of those for your thacky keyboard. And I
don't know, just get a go get a Logitech mouse.
Still last you a long time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have Logitech mice. I have just the G
five O two whatever. I love this thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a great mouse. I like it so much
that this is my second one because like, at one
point I just clicked it too many times, so it
wore down. I had a like I was on Razor
stuff and I never liked it. Like all my my
Razor keyboard and mouse it breaks. They always wore down
real fast. The logistic tech stuff here has worked much better.
You have a Logitech keyboard also, it's great.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So do you guys like have a favorite thing
on your desk because I got like a handful of
thing so like I would never swap these things out.
My my mouse is the is the Logitech G seven
oh three light speed, which means it has the wireless
charging so I never ever ever ever have to think
about the wire or charging it or batteries and it
just works forever. The pad itself sends out a little
electrical radio frequency that spends a little thing in here
that gives it enough of a charge to like always
be charging the battery that is in there. But it's
been here for years, I've never plugged in. Is wireless
okay for a mouse?
Speaker 2: Like, yes, let's just do wired. Worry about latency.
Speaker 5: In about about five years ago, the wireless connection for
mice and keyboards got good enough for gaming. And the
thing about this is the light pad, the light speed
pad that actually charges this the radio is right in
the pad, so it's traveling, you know, six inches, so
I've never had any issue with it. I also really
like my sound blaster Katana. I think it's called the
speaker bar. The thing sounds so so good. It's the
V two, the second version of that. I would never
use another speaker. It's so convenient, easy and low profile.
Speaker 2: I haven't actually had like a speaker connected to my
computer in a long time.
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Speaker 7: I'm like, oh, just even though I live alone, so like,
just use headphones. Just use headphones all the time. That's fine,
that's fine, a comfort, big and comfy. The guy that's
padding here, I default.
Speaker 5: To the to the headphones constantly, but I'm like, uh,
I always like him. Oh yeah, I'm turning on the
speaker and it just sounds awesome.
Speaker 2: I just like these gel pads for my keyboard and
mouse or go stuff.
Speaker 6: I haven't in sixty four analyg stick.
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Speaker 5: I like my epid alter as well.
Speaker 2: I like my Jurassic Park Raptor claw can opener. Oh
that sounds that's fun. Yeah, Like I pretend to like
scare a portly little kid with it. Yeah, it's good.
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no tour since the K and knights is silent, please
be mad?
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Speaker 6: Good point.
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definitely a coward when it comes to this.
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kode tour no tour.
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Speaker 2: IF's the case. If the K silent, shod' just be
it's just that they'll be spelled kode tour. But it
should be pronounced oh tour no because night Well, the
K doesn't have.
Speaker 5: The K like the K is implant because like all
these are representing the words, So we're saying that it's
representing the Knights.
Speaker 7: I think no tour is better. Yeah, I gotta be honest.
I like saying code tors so much. I'm not willing
to give it up.
Speaker 2: It's like it's by far the best we had a
team players acronym and gaming rights.
Speaker 6: The podcast really taken away.
Speaker 2: This all to infinity until we just start calling it
poopy Shoop. That's the name.
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Speaker 2: That's where this is going.
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think I just enable Alex and Bendigo Australia Rights. In
I was thinking about ving Rate, how Ving Raims should
have been Eric Gordon Lord. So I thought I'd ask.
Speaker 2: You who else he should have been to.
Speaker 5: He should have been Jack from the movie Jack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Francis Ford Coppola is Jack. He should have
been in Face Off.
Speaker 2: You should be.
Speaker 6: I'm just about to say, you should be a Mission Impossible.
Speaker 5: He should have been one of the little women in
Little Women.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He is in Leland Stitch. So now I wonder if
he's in the live action Leland Stitch that's coming out.
They should have ving Rams be in the live action Leeland.
That's the rock gets to be in the live action Mawana.
I think that he should be in the live action
lean It's ditch. Yeah, it's only fair.
Speaker 5: Are you in a live action Moana?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yes, oh you're sitting the set photos. It's weird.
It's weird ving range should in an Arby's commercial.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well that's good news for you. Uh yeah.
My step saw the Rock on the TV last night
because I had Netflix on, uh, and she's like, oh,
why why is he still slumming it with wrestling? Like
he's got to go like back to ground all the
time because he always messes up in Hollywood, so he's
always got to retreat to wrestling to go there.
Speaker 6: And just totally undo like a year's worth of storylines.
Speaker 7: Yes, right, basically went there to be like, to be clear,
I'm not fighting any of these people.
Speaker 6: And then chuck a bunch of tequila and immediately drive
his giant truck.
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, that was my second favorite alcohol brand on
the show, after Real American Beer.
Speaker 1: I have both bottles, both flavors of Teremuna upstairs. I
will not have real beer.
Speaker 2: It's not bad on his line for for a shelf tequila,
It's it's not I gotta.
Speaker 6: Say everyone doing Cogan was the funniest in the world.
Speaker 4: So fucking money, Uh is I may be asking the
wrong people.
Speaker 2: I am asking the wrong people. I want you ask anyways.
Is his men's skincare brand yeah.
Speaker 1: On Instagram, he's always saying that it's very good. Okay, cool,
I'll just take I'll take his word for it. An
energy drink thing already done? Zoa, that's a big Dwayne
energy drink, right, yeah, yeah, boy? The rocks really just
a lot lately, isn't he?
Speaker 5: Thanks too much?
Speaker 4: God? I was so wishing the Undertaker fucking fell off
his stupid bike.
Speaker 6: Why Ria doesn't need take her?
Speaker 2: But what are we doing? Doesn't need the rub Jesus
all right?
Speaker 4: Next email comes from Jordan in Lansing, Michigan.
Speaker 2: Is am I Michigan, Michigan.
Speaker 5: Michigan is where Michigan states are.
Speaker 4: I only know three states in the United States. It's frankly,
I think we have too many.
Speaker 5: Hey, Lancing is the capital of Michigan, so you'll remember
it for next time.
Speaker 7: Some people want to add a bunch of more states.
I've been hearing, but that's what we don't talk about,
that old count.
Speaker 4: Hey bomb friends, what's the silliest way to heal your
character in the video game? Food and sleep always give
me a chuckle, But for me, it's hiding behind cover
for ten seconds to recover from gunfund It's funny I
hope you all had a RESTful break after Game of
the Year Shenanigans who absolutely deserve it, cheers Jordan from Lancing, Michigan.
Speaker 1: I do like that. There was like a decade after
like Call of Duty started doing it that every game
was like, Oh, that's.
Speaker 6: How you healed?
Speaker 2: Is you just wait a few seconds? Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think the first thing I saw was it was
the shields only in Halo, and then everyone's like.
Speaker 2: That's great, let's just have that. Yeah, yeah, oops, all shields.
Speaker 7: I like it what you about Echoes of Wisdom, but
the whole like taking like laying on a bed in
the middle of boss fights cover a little bit that
was pretty good.
Speaker 1: I really liked. And is it just in Village? I
think maybe Biohazard Year seven did this too. Or you're
just getting hacked up by chainsaws and stuff. You just
pour some liquid on your hand in your fine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the liquids on the hand of Resident Evil is
the one I was thinking, just wash your hands, you'll
be yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the herbs are kind of funny too,
Like Resident Evil has a lot of funny You're eating
a brown egg.
Speaker 7: Right, uh, wall meets the classic right like I just
attack this wall and it destroys and there's just a
roasted turkey.
Speaker 1: Also final fight style like trash can turkeys are also
very Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean like games are like let's try to be
realistic and like Indiana Jones, like here's just just put
tape on everything, put some medical tape on it. You'll
be fine.
Speaker 2: Even that's a bit silly.
Speaker 4: I do enjoy like the quick injection from in some games,
just because I would never do that in real life,
even if I felt bad. Minus pen maybe yeah, I
do like.
Speaker 2: Like sound Hill too, right, like you just pick up
these syringes and you're just like, well, here we go.
I feel bad.
Speaker 1: I find it so funny in an again, I think
like Skyram and Oblivion and stuff do this where it's
just like you'll have an inventory full of a billion
things that like like fuck Castlevania.
Speaker 6: I've been playing these DS ones and I'll go in,
like during a boss.
Speaker 2: Fight, I'll go in.
Speaker 1: I'll eat like a plate of spaghetti and then like
a thousand year old egg and like, well there's like
weirdly like full meals in Casavania, a lot of pasta
dishes and turkeys and yeah, like ten thousand calories worth
of food.
Speaker 4: No, that's that's what I love about Breath of the
Wild and Tears of the Kingdom of Like you'll just
pausemid fight and like link, just eat all these apples
peas animated.
Speaker 2: You see.
Speaker 4: Games are great. Yeah, games are great. Maybe maybe we
should revamp the healthcare system to just eat a bunch of.
Speaker 1: Food firestock infinite, just like finding full hot dogs and
trash cans and just.
Speaker 2: Sure you know, yes, I said breath with a wad.
I don't mean to do a tangent here, but did
you see what the Rolling Stone top fifty? I agree
with number one. Yeah, number one's fine breath.
Speaker 7: While a lot of this was fine and I was
gonna generally be okay with until somebody pointed out to
me there's not a single three D Mario game on
Oh that's insane.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that tops like number five of all time.
And I'm like, yeah, that's so predictable though, right, Yeah,
of course I don't really agree with that.
Speaker 2: You know me, I was indignant that we sports is
on it.
Speaker 6: I think, you know, that is a big thing.
Speaker 4: That is a big thing we I know, I know
that we have a BCR plan for this week, but
I feel like maybe we should pivot and talk about
this Rolling Stones top fift what we.
Speaker 5: Could probably do both real quick because we weren't going
draft this week.
Speaker 1: We didn't wan't have time to gloat about me winning
handily and Fantasy Critic, we.
Speaker 2: Don't make that quick and maybe it's such a good
job share.
Speaker 6: I didn't lose.
Speaker 2: That's all that matters. So Lucy playing Skull and Bones,
playing that, we'll make it happen.
Speaker 1: What I love it.
Speaker 2: It is like Lucy like doesn't see them, like what
was that?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: I don't know what?
Speaker 4: All?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: Next email comes from AMP and this is actually timely
based off of what Dan talked about. I'm playing through
Indiana Jones and he keeps reminding me of playing Red
Dead Redemption two in first person mode. They're both kind
of clunky and you have to pull open the drawers,
et cetera, et cetera. Maybe you guys should try Red
Dead Redemption two again.
Speaker 2: Thinks so well, got.
Speaker 5: Good news for you for Dan. I did try Redemption
two again. Uh was it last year or your Extra
Life last year? For Extra Life last year?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: And when I did that, I was willing to be like, Okay,
let's let's try. And then the second the game was
like here here, follow this guy. I'm like, okay, I
have a plan. I'll go over in this way and
kind of cut them off. They're like, well you you
didn't follow the guy? Game over? Yeah, okay, I'm just
I do not like this game. This is a game
that beat like is repulsive to me in a lot
of ways.
Speaker 2: So I like it. I think it's fun to be
a cowboy.
Speaker 5: Oh weird. I know.
Speaker 2: The thing is, I do want to play.
Speaker 1: It is not like when I played it the first time,
I was like, I'm gonna be rooting too and shooting everyone,
killing everyone cowt And like now that I've played, I've
beat the game and I know who that character is.
And by the end, I was like, I feel like
I played the character wrong, Like I'm gonna play a
little more properly.
Speaker 2: Just that I think.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's definitely kind of like they can't. It's like
doing Koe Tour as a sith right, Like, I'm sorry,
what I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Story? Oh excuse me, a no tour? What did I say?
Poopy pe or whatever poopy shoots please come on poopy
shoots even say shoots it's a shoop.
Speaker 5: Maybe that is another thing that I had an issue with,
where it's like, you know, it's from the team of
a Grand Theft Auto. I want to be able to
go make my own fun and the.
Speaker 2: Game does not care about I keep thinking about what
we want.
Speaker 1: When we were I think it was during the Game
of the Year stuff where it's like he played it
as like a Cowboys simulator and like, I'm trying to
see it.
Speaker 2: That way now, you know.
Speaker 7: I guess like it read that one like that to me, Like,
and I'm somebody never really cared that much about g
TA or that sand boxy stuff. Like it was like, oh,
like I'm playing a Western and it's just really good
at being a Western and you kind of have this
open world and in service of that, but I wasn't
necessarily going around even doing the thing everyone did, like
I'm gonna tie up a person and put them on
the train tracks are I was like, no, I mostly
kind of here for this narrative experience and for this
character stuff, and that all hit really well for me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the problem with me it was always
like there's the suggestion the possibility is everywhere the train
is going right there, I'm gonna go get on that
train and I'm gonna hijacket and I'm gonna rob everybody
on there. And you can kind of do that a
little bit. And I think there's parts of the story
maybe where they do exactly that. But when I tried
to like just naturally do it, it's like it felt incomplete.
It felt like an incomplete thought where, yeah, they didn't
think about what if someone actually did that, how are
they gonna interact with it? Just nothing happens.
Speaker 2: It's just weird.
Speaker 4: Sure, I like cowboys, I still don't like Red Duad.
Maybe I'll maybe one day I'll go back. I think
i'd be a bad shoot cowboy. Yah, yeah, I agree, Yeah,
we all know you would. I think i'd be a
good cowboy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see it. Yeah, yeah, thank you. Yeah.
I think I think I'm a wild shot. Who knows
what kind of cowboy?
Speaker 1: Mike, do you think you'd be better as a shoot
cowboy or deployed military person.
Speaker 7: There's like a lot of things you can do as
a deployed military person. They wouldn't necessarily to put me in.
Speaker 2: You're in the field with a gun, like.
Speaker 5: You'd be a great chef on like a navy vessel
or something.
Speaker 2: Combat combat.
Speaker 1: What do you think that would you between the cowboy
and these cowboys have combat too?
Speaker 2: Yeah? But was that the right horses in the wagon?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Like we have a stage coach. Oh, you see the
movie Stage Coach? It was fun.
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm sure it's very problematic. It's the black
and white Cowboy movie, but you know interesting. Yeah, I
guess I'll kill a modern military person. Probably might work
out slightly better for me. I'm afraid I'd not do either.
Speaker 6: Fast forward a couple months and he's war Zone.
Speaker 2: Operator.
Speaker 4: Yeah, out with like an upside down pineapple tattoo and
Mickey's on his gun.
Speaker 2: It's a charm, all right.
Speaker 4: Speaking about Mike Manatti, we have an email about Mike Manatti.
Speaker 5: I love the show.
Speaker 2: Hello, Bambas.
Speaker 4: Every time someone travels to a theme park with Mikey,
they seem so glad and thankful for having him there
for the rest of the crew. What is a place
or situation that you could go with the rest of
the GB crew and they'd say, oh, thank god we
brought you. Love the show. Love the show, Love you all.
Mike from Loveland.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was like, I was thinking I might not
have an answer to this because most of the time
I'm like I don't want to entertain people. But I
think I would be pretty good in like a really
bad like if the building was on fire, I could
get you all out was getting derailed if something bad
was happening, and you just need someone that could lock
in in that moment and then as soon as over
would be useless, I'm your go.
Speaker 7: Mix, Like, yeah, sure I need that because I would
be like your kids. I am somebody I do just freeze,
and I'm the exact opposite where I'm frozen most of
the time. And then a train starts to derail, I'm like,
all right, let's go in action. Make sure everyone's okay.
Like that's yeah, that's where I excel.
Speaker 6: Uh, Jan, you've been to wrestlating with me? Is that
for one hundred percent?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: I feel confident that I'm a good wrestle guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm someone that gets very shy when I have
to like pass through security and everything. And then Dan
was like, let's just walk on the floor. I'm like okay,
and we did.
Speaker 2: It was great. It works more than it doesn't. I've
been doing that for decades.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Dan has a really good like like saunter to him,
and then like when we passed through security, I'll just
be like and then just keep going.
Speaker 5: And it's like, all right, I think, yeah, could we
all just walked into the Netflix party, right?
Speaker 2: H what are you talking about? Sure?
Speaker 6: I mean no, we all got our wristbands properly.
Speaker 5: We were on Netflix. Yeah, And I think that Nikki
did it with the most confidence, clearly, right. And I
think I I got in, I was fine, but they
definitely noticed me and like, and they tried to stop me,
but I just walked too fast. So I think I
was pretty bad at it, so bad that I ruined
it for Sean for like ten minutes. He couldn't also
do it. But I think all of you pulled it
off without any issues.
Speaker 6: And then I stole my.
Speaker 5: Nice Yeah.
Speaker 2: All right, I don't know Jan what about you? Where's
your thing?
Speaker 4: I don't know, like a GB at night set, I'm like, hey,
I need you here now, all right?
Speaker 2: Cool? This is what we need to.
Speaker 4: Uh. Even though I do less now, I still feel
like I need to be in the room when it's
happening in the room where it happens. Thank you, h
Wynn Manuel Mitchaudie. All right, final email of the show.
Thank you everyone for sending your emails to we we got.
We had an abundance, a cornucopia of emails over the
holiday break, and I appreciate all of them. But last
one comes from Josh the Canadian. Happy New Year, Bombers.
Last year you helped me wrap my head around the
analog pocket and ways to play old games. Thank you
again for the advice. You saved me hundreds of dollars
and potentially a huge headache dealing with counterfeit carts. I
need your advice one more time. There are beach read books,
but what about beach play video games. Maybe they're brainless games,
short and length, or have super happy vibes, whatever.
Speaker 2: You think fits.
Speaker 4: I'm heading to Mexico to lay on a beach for
a week, and I'm looking for a good beach game
to help me relax.
Speaker 2: It unwined.
Speaker 4: For some reason, playing retro games on the pocket while
playing on a beach is tickling me in the best ways.
Thanks in advance for helping me, helping to tickle me.
But you love, Josh the Canadian.
Speaker 6: You know what is a great unwined game on the pocket.
Donkey Kong ninety four.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, oh sure, it looks great, plays great, it's
just a fun, breezy time.
Speaker 6: That's a great one for that.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Mario Golf fite size as well, Mario what Mario Golf.
That's a great one.
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: Now I don't think they're necessarily asking specifically for analog
pocket games.
Speaker 2: Or are they.
Speaker 1: They say at the end of playing retro games on
the pocket while laying on a beach is tickling me.
Speaker 7: You're right, You're right, okay, so yeah, yeah, gosh, kindinety
four is such a great pick. I mean Tetris like
Tetris the X would be very good for that of course,
right or be off beat? Get zoup remember so yeah, yeah, yes,
get Zoop Soup.
Speaker 5: On a podcast over the break, I talked about Zoop
Warriorare yeah the person without a doubt Warrior. You know
what I did is I found a bunch of English
translations of games that never came out in America and
I put those are the first ones I put in
my anali pocket and I started going through those. That's
a good time, I got it.
Speaker 2: I got it. Okay, you play bock tie because you're
on the beach, there's gonna be so much so.
Speaker 1: You don't have No, No, that's not going to work
on the analog pocket. It will if you get the
shoe cartridge.
Speaker 5: If you get the shoe cartridge, which we're talking about,
what do you get?
Speaker 7: Oh right, you have in the car? Yeah yeah yeah,
get bucked. You get a back tie cartridge, you'll be fine. Yeah,
it's a day I should play Snatcher two.
Speaker 5: Our phones have I bring this up every time, but
I just like want to like check again. Our phones
have light sensors. Can they use can emulators use that
to emulate the buck tie cartridge? I hope that's possible.
If anyone knows, let me know. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sean says, yes, okay, all right right, cool, okay, cool cool?
Speaker 4: Any other beach game? Rex, I don't know. Sports games
in general I think are good.
Speaker 2: Race not Wave Race sixty four, just Wave Race, the
first one that came on a game boy.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, uh, it's actually pretty good.
Speaker 1: Actually, bring a switch and play Mario Sunshine on Page
or or played Tonyaks pro Skater two on the GBA.
Speaker 2: Got the game that pretty good one, pretty good good one. Yeah,
all ride folks. That does it for emails.
Speaker 4: Bombcasta giant bomb dot Com is email addressed to send
your emails too.
Speaker 2: It's our first week back. Boys. Yeah, miss I missed.
I missed everyone listening. I miss you three.
Speaker 4: I missed Tam Nikki, Sean Bacalar and the whole gang
as well. Yeah, bunch of bunch of fun stuff popping
off this year. Huh what stuff is in the works tomorrow? Uh?
Speaker 1: Blake Club with games sitting next to me, Terminator three,
Rise of the Machines will begin. I am sick, and
I have been feeling myself sicker throughout this very podcast,
and we'll see what kind of shape I'm in. But
if something is not falling off of my body tomorrow,
I will be doing Blake Club. We also were gonna
have an early start tomorrow. I believe it's eleven Central noon.
Speaker 5: Eastern, right after games mornings.
Speaker 6: Yeah, directly after game mess morning. If we will be
going into Blake Club.
Speaker 5: So you guys just get set up and I will
just pop in the room with you when I'm done.
Speaker 6: That makes sense, Yeah, okay, yep, do you guys know that.
Speaker 5: Tony Hawk's American skate Land came out on Game Boy Advance.
Speaker 1: Right, there's skate Land and then Wasteland. It was two
different Game Boy Dance one was different and the DS
one was different.
Speaker 2: Y ya, I know the DS one right is great,
but what's the GBA one even like it's still isometic?
Speaker 5: S yes, because they did. I remember playing Tonics first
Skater four on the g BA. That one was isometric.
They just kept doing it. Thug is on g B A.
Speaker 2: I had no idea, that's awesome, Skateland, that's Wowlan was great.
Speaker 5: Skatelands is maybe my second favorite Tony Hawk.
Speaker 2: Wow. I would have liked that way more than American Wastelands.
Oh yeah, I don't want to play Thug really bad.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 6: Every time Tony Hawk comes some conversation, I want to
play Tony Hawk.
Speaker 5: I I just play it like once a week, just
to like feel something. God one plus two is so good.
But so skate Land. I play that a lot.
Speaker 2: That's another thing with that list. The Tony Hawking was one,
and I'm like, I've guess I'm got Tony Hawk's on here.
Speaker 6: Oh that's not the one, weird you picked?
Speaker 2: It's great first, Skater one is still a great game,
but come.
Speaker 6: On two or three or the one three? Yeah, I
got three.
Speaker 2: I would have just put one plus two at this point.
Yeah that's fine too, honestly.
Speaker 7: And yeah, well, like the list evesides like, it was
like a combination of like, you know, influence and how
well they hold up. Sure, but still come on okay,
Yeah and Mario no three day.
Speaker 2: Yeah or whatever.
Speaker 4: Voicemail dump truck popping off. Later this week, we will
have a BCR where we will go over the Fantasy
Critic results. Perhaps we'll also talk about the Rolling Stones
Top fifty video games and maybe upf will be Marvel rivals.
Since The Fantastic four is dropping on Friday Day, Jeff
Grab we got Game Mess Mornings popping off Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll be back for the rest of the week
for sure. The first episode back from break was yesterday.
It was a good time. So yeah, be sure to
listen to Game most mornings everybody.
Speaker 4: Folks, And if you missed it, our Game of the
Year podcast or deliberations are already out there on YouTube.
They're on podcasts. Days one, two, and three are full
of fun categories. Some bonus categories pop up along the
way as well, and then day four we crowned our
top ten games of the year in twenty twenty four,
the Gentleman, you know.
Speaker 2: What we learned. You can't cook with degreaser.
Speaker 4: You also shouldn't unplug too many things while the show
is going, and I'm never doing zin again.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jeff Grubb, welcome. You should always buy.
Speaker 4: Some backup asparagus because oil can be tricky, and there
is in fact a lot of sweat in that boot.
Barcodes on food and make them safe. And Mike Manai
brings the lout to this podcast because together we are
overwhelmingly positive and you know what we learned, berries ups,
And that does it for the Giant BombCast this week.
Thank you for joining us for episode eight hundred and
seventy two. I've been Jan, he has been Dan, he's
been Mike, he's been Jeff Grubb, and this isn't stopping.
So I'm just gonna quickly, hastily go to this routing
thing because I hate this. Go Xlara, I should have
left this in twenty twenty four. I'm gonna do that
now the music's gone and I'm gonna play the.
Speaker 2: Music to make us go away. Goodbye everyone. I love
the guest lists dot Com slash word Marino.
Speaker 4: Okay, special special special shouts out to fucking the Ace
of the team, the unspoken member of the team Marino
for fucking sorting out all of our bullshit and everyone
else is bullshit and formatting her properly.
Speaker 2: Let me let me see some ms in.
Speaker 5: The chaff Marinos.
Speaker 1: Even if Marino put the horizon picture on for my
astrobot number one, you got me.
Speaker 4: We'll see you next week for another episode of the
Giant Bobby Cast Wheel.
Speaker 2: I might be the weird one. Wow, that's me. I
don't it's not weird.