Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Jihant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and eighty one.
Speaker 2: Today's March eleventh. Happy three eleven day to those that
Speaker 2: celebrate the color of this podcast is not Joe Cheese yellow.
Speaker 2: I'm your host today. Jan Michoa joining me. Co Captain
Speaker 2: of the ship is not here because he's tummy hooks,
Speaker 2: But instead we've got he's hanging by the water cooler.
Speaker 1: If you need to.
Speaker 2: Know how to print something at the office, he's there.
Speaker 1: He's hanging out in his cubicle.
Speaker 2: Your favorite coworker and mine Jee back along.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you for that intro. Jan.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: I've got my arm rested atop the Poland spring bottle.
Speaker 3: I'm holding a coffee in the other hand, and I
Speaker 3: want to know would you.
Speaker 2: Do this weekend? That's right. We have the Master of weekends.
Speaker 2: The weekends run through him throughout the week because that
Speaker 2: is the vibe and the energy he carries with them.
Speaker 2: It's always a Friday or Saturday somewhere with him. Damn writrs.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: I was worried you were going to intro me as
Speaker 4: the guy who knew the stuff about the printer because
Speaker 4: I've never once known how to connect to a printer ever.
Speaker 2: Shocking. Yeah, what about like in college?
Speaker 1: No, what do you mean?
Speaker 4: Why am I using a printer in college to an essay?
Speaker 5: I wrote an essay?
Speaker 1: I feel like essays.
Speaker 2: Dam have you ever printed anything ever?
Speaker 5: Um?
Speaker 1: Yeah, return labels sometimes? Okay?
Speaker 2: Sorry, Jen, go ahead, Yeah, okay, no, yeah, that's something.
Speaker 2: You never had to write an essay for your film degree,
Speaker 2: an elective or a script for a film. I kind
Speaker 2: of just got credit for.
Speaker 1: Stuff I did on the side anyway, what does that mean?
Speaker 4: A couple of times I did a pre wreck was
Speaker 4: Western sieve, and I did have a guy from the
Speaker 4: call center job I was. I paid him a hundred
Speaker 4: bucks to write an essay for him and he did so.
Speaker 4: I did that a couple of times. Yeah, okay, all right,
Speaker 4: my degree. I can't stress this enough that Yeah, all
Speaker 4: we all know, just in case you didn't know.
Speaker 2: I do know that he's the baddest man in games media.
Speaker 2: That's right. He's anarchy on the streets. Maybe the Mowana
Speaker 2: branded sheets like Mianati.
Speaker 5: Well, gee, whiz everyone. I think that we would just
Speaker 5: have a much more grand of a time if we
Speaker 5: toppled the government.
Speaker 2: Playful anarchy is a good character. I love this a lot.
Speaker 2: This is yeah, this is what. Uh, this is what
Speaker 2: Dean amber John Moxley, Dean Ambrose would have gone over
Speaker 2: if he just kind of adopted his g whiz mentality.
Speaker 1: He's the death rider of Giant Bomb.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, he's all of the death riders in one.
Speaker 5: Mainly pack, a bit less of utah, but mostly definitely
Speaker 5: a lot of pack.
Speaker 2: Mike k me with a death triangle. It's been too.
Speaker 5: Long, commercials, big trouble over, OK, anarchy trongle, isn't it.
Speaker 3: I want to read the Spotify autumn subtitle thing on that.
Speaker 2: What was that? He was doing an imitation? It was
Speaker 2: very good. It happened to you, and then I delivered.
Speaker 2: I almost called you Mac instead of Mike. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: I'm thrown for a loop. Now I don't I don't
Speaker 2: know how to proceed with this podcast, but I do
Speaker 2: know how to proceed with some news, and uh, I'll
Speaker 2: just play this shop all right. It's not the news
Speaker 2: news yet, but we do have some news for you
Speaker 2: folks listening, watching live or the archive at home. If
Speaker 2: you've noticed, we've been doing some things we've been testing
Speaker 2: some things out here at gb h Q along with
Speaker 2: the Game Spot homies and the Fandom peeps, where uh,
Speaker 2: you know, we're kind of streaming continuously across all of
Speaker 2: these channels, and this has been a strong, concerted effort,
Speaker 2: a lot, a lot of a lot of moving parts
Speaker 2: behind the scenes. And as I try and get some
Speaker 2: visual accompaniment up, going to defer to mister Backlark, mister
Speaker 2: Reikert to explain what we got going on for y'all, Well,
Speaker 2: not all at once.
Speaker 3: Well, isn't that convenient that this is the day I
Speaker 3: have to be here and talk about the brand new
Speaker 3: thing that we're going to be starting this Thursday. We're
Speaker 3: calling it the Power Block. This is a combined effort
Speaker 3: between Giant Bomb and Game Spot and Fandom where we're
Speaker 3: gonna be having live stream days ranging in four or
Speaker 3: six maybe more hours a day of streaming content that
Speaker 3: you are all very familiar with and have come to
Speaker 3: love over the years. And we're gonna be starting things
Speaker 3: off on Thursday morning with a new imagined version of
Speaker 3: Jeffrey Grubb's Game mess Morning Show. Are we gonna say this?
Speaker 4: I think we got I was gonna say we can
Speaker 4: scoop grub here, But I think he also accidentally said
Speaker 4: it on the air before, so it might already be
Speaker 4: out there. But yeah, let's go ahead. Who wants to
Speaker 4: announce the name back? You're gonna do You're gonna do
Speaker 4: it all right, folks. Grubs News Show no longer Game
Speaker 4: Mess Mornings every weekday except for Tuesday, today, the BombCast day.
Speaker 4: It will be game breaking news coming to you at
Speaker 4: noon Eastern. Game Breaking News will kick off the power
Speaker 4: Block every day, and then after that we will launch
Speaker 4: into the day's programming. We've got, you know, several different
Speaker 4: things kind of lined up. You've probably seen all of
Speaker 4: them already. You've seen you know, Grubs Gimmicks on Wednesday
Speaker 4: followed by Blake Club Mondays right now, or you've got
Speaker 4: gb Kids followed by Reikert Roulette. We're gonna have a
Speaker 4: kind of an open block after the BombCast starting next week,
Speaker 4: so things will be like moving around. Not there are
Speaker 4: a few things that are set in stone. The BombCast
Speaker 4: is going to be set in stone. The dump truck
Speaker 4: on Thursday is set in stone. Fridays is going to
Speaker 4: be upf for vengeance, things like that. But we will
Speaker 4: have the ability to slot things in and out, to
Speaker 4: move things around. So if you see something not beyond
Speaker 4: this week that was on last week or vice versa,
Speaker 4: don't worry about it. All the standard shows are gonna
Speaker 4: be there and then we're gonna have fun with the
Speaker 4: other blocks. But that will be the Power Block every
Speaker 4: day from Une Eastern two five pm Eastern is the plan.
Speaker 4: Or you know, sometimes it'll go along, sometimes it'll in short,
Speaker 4: but generally we want this to be a thing you
Speaker 4: can just your at work, have us opening a tab.
Speaker 1: We will have programming on throughout the day.
Speaker 2: Speaking about the Power Block. If folks direct their eyeballs
Speaker 2: to the screen, now there's a little teas at the
Speaker 2: logo we got going on and Dan Power Block is
Speaker 2: not just going to feature GB folks. It's going to
Speaker 2: be people across the board right yes.
Speaker 4: In fact, this Thursday, the first official day of the
Speaker 4: Power Block, you will see the debut of the Game
Speaker 4: Spot show. That will be Kurt John Luke and Jake Decker. Typically,
Speaker 4: what are you laughing at, Jane? Are you laughing at GameSpot?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, No, I'm laughing because I love that crew so
Speaker 2: much and since I've been going to the office more.
Speaker 2: I'm getting more of a glimpse into the let's say,
Speaker 2: how art is made.
Speaker 1: And let me.
Speaker 2: Tell y'all, I'm very very excited for everyone to get
Speaker 2: their eyeballs on what the game Spot crew has been
Speaker 2: cooking up. Yeah, they've added a soundboard and just just
Speaker 2: just stay tuned for the first Game Spot Show.
Speaker 4: Yes that will be Yeah, Thursday after game Breaking News
Speaker 4: will be the debut of the Game Spot Show. And
Speaker 4: we've also seen Tam and Lucy playing some split fiction lately.
Speaker 4: They'll be continuing that. But yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, it's really cool. I think like it's you.
Speaker 3: Know, we have to figure out, you know, new ways
Speaker 3: to kind of like do content and figure out the
Speaker 3: best use of like the time we have and what
Speaker 3: we can do with it. And I'm very excited and
Speaker 3: I really again, I know I said this on the
Speaker 3: Dumb Truck last week. There's so many moving parts of this,
Speaker 3: uh and not a lot of people at all. So
Speaker 3: thank you to everyone who is a part of this.
Speaker 3: And it's it's sick, it's super sick. I'm really excited,
Speaker 3: very proud of everyone, and I hope you enjoy it
Speaker 3: because that's what we're doing now. To be clear, all right,
Speaker 3: we're gonna have a lot of everything's gonna be available
Speaker 3: after the fact as well, so you'll be able to
Speaker 3: enjoy that content wherever you probably originally saw it. Some
Speaker 3: things are going to wind up on GameSpot's YouTube channel,
Speaker 3: some stuff's going to wind up on a Giant Bombs
Speaker 3: YouTube channel. But you will be able to watch everything
Speaker 3: that we stream. There's never gonna be something that you
Speaker 3: actually miss. And yeah, it's a really exciting new chapter
Speaker 3: in what we're doing here. So thank you everyone again.
Speaker 3: And it's exciting. Shit, get excited. I am this is
Speaker 3: me excited. I'm very tired, but I am excited. It's
Speaker 3: tiredness with excitement behind the tired If that makes sense.
Speaker 4: You should be excited and the tiredness is understood. Jet
Speaker 4: back Lark is this guy. Let me tell you about
Speaker 4: this guy, Jeff Backlark, and how much work and time
Speaker 4: he is put into making this thing happen. Also, your
Speaker 4: son is smart and has a bright future. I just think, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, the Backlard plan is just just the best.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 4: I think your son is a well rounded kid. I think,
Speaker 4: you know, he's probably great on the rink. He's great
Speaker 4: in roadblocks. I just think he's uh get started on
Speaker 4: academics yours. No, no, no, he's probably doing great there. I
Speaker 4: don't have the report card, but just Jeff, I think
Speaker 4: you're doing a great job, and I.
Speaker 1: Think you should keep doing what you're doing. Yeah, what what.
Speaker 3: Is going on?
Speaker 1: What do you what? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Juff J But no, no, no, nothing but nothing, no, no,
Speaker 4: thank you. I appreciate available on Sunday. Nothing became available
Speaker 4: on Sunday that I expenced and uh was approved.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: So uh he got one of the wretched things.
Speaker 3: He's glazing my son because he bought a do WICKI.
Speaker 1: No, this is apropos of nothing. What are you talking about.
Speaker 1: I just think you're all great cool.
Speaker 3: I thought you were genuinely like gonna have a nice moment.
Speaker 3: I thought you're gonna have like a nice moment to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, that's what I was saying, the nice
Speaker 1: things about you and your son.
Speaker 3: Right, But it's all because of a dumb ass retro team.
Speaker 4: I guess when you put there, that seems like a
Speaker 4: wild coincidence. But yeah, it's just a coincidence. But yeah,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 3: Don't ever lie like that.
Speaker 2: Again, what a serendipitous moment we had here on the podcast.
Speaker 3: That's how we express emotions through transactional events.
Speaker 1: It works out great.
Speaker 4: But uh yes, no foreshoot Backlarer has been doing a
Speaker 4: ton of shit to make this thing go off the ground,
Speaker 4: and we've just been kind of heads down on the
Speaker 4: content and planning and all that stuff, and uh yeah,
Speaker 4: this is gonna be very fun.
Speaker 1: I think we're all very excited about it.
Speaker 2: Also, I can already see threads across the internet. Nothing
Speaker 2: is going away. Okay, we're renaming Grubs News Show. The
Speaker 2: BombCast is still here, Dump Truck is still here, BCR
Speaker 2: is still here, Brad already left. Okay, nothing is changing,
Speaker 2: We're just adding more stuff. You get Morse options at
Speaker 2: the buffet now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think going away is the government as it falls apart,
Speaker 5: paveway for the new world Order.
Speaker 1: You do that in the Mickey voice, Please God.
Speaker 5: That's gonna collapse and showing out the earth.
Speaker 3: Why while he got delicious, Why are you so bad
Speaker 3: at Mickey? That seems bad?
Speaker 2: Mickey?
Speaker 4: I love how Yeah of the Mickey voice I've heard
Speaker 4: in my life just comes from Mike Manatti.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard shoot Mickey talk. Ever, I've heard Mike
Speaker 1: Natti do this ale. You've never to Disneyland together, you
Speaker 1: can Mickey.
Speaker 5: It's again once again, it's not that you've never heard
Speaker 5: Mickey Mouse talk. It's that you have never absorbed Mickey
Speaker 5: Mouse talking the probably one hundred times it's happened around you.
Speaker 1: It's possible, it's possibility, it's possibly.
Speaker 2: I am sure that I have a video clip somewhere
Speaker 2: on a hard drive of a Mickey voice happening in
Speaker 2: your vicinity.
Speaker 1: We went on the Mickey Mouse right together. He talked
Speaker 1: to he's talking during the ride.
Speaker 5: Yes, you says to me.
Speaker 3: It's that voice, that's Mickey, Like, that's the voice, you know,
Speaker 3: the voice.
Speaker 1: Talks to.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: There's there's two reasons I came on the BombCast today
Speaker 3: all three because grubs. Yeah that's one.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 3: Obviously it's great and advantageous talking about the Power Block
Speaker 3: debut on Thursday, twelve pm Eastern nine pm nine am Pacific.
Speaker 3: But also because I I think I pooped next to
Speaker 3: Eli Manning.
Speaker 1: Okay, where.
Speaker 2: So at your house?
Speaker 3: No, No, he wasn't here, but our kids play hockey
Speaker 3: in the same league together, and uh, my child played
Speaker 3: his child in a hockey game and he was there
Speaker 3: and uh we pooped together.
Speaker 1: You know it was him, like you know the shoes
Speaker 1: like who he is.
Speaker 2: I know because I know who he is.
Speaker 1: But they're not like last bathroom dividers, like.
Speaker 3: Well, it was like, let's just say, it's a situation
Speaker 3: where it's like I I just know what happened.
Speaker 1: You peering between the slot and the door.
Speaker 2: Nothing like that.
Speaker 3: Come on, Dan, come on, let's keep it straightnment. Well,
Speaker 3: I just you know, just like sort of you you
Speaker 3: leave a bathroom, you see someone outside the bathroom, and
Speaker 3: you're like.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, okay, did I bet Dylan played better than
Speaker 1: his son?
Speaker 2: Right? His daughter? No comment?
Speaker 1: Okay, very diplomatic.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you said a lot by not saying anything. Well,
Speaker 2: I believe in no comment.
Speaker 1: I believe what I believe in now you.
Speaker 2: Do, which is nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Uh gosh, I I like. I like both of these
Speaker 2: new fun dumb logos. Uh oh, very good, very good
Speaker 2: work across.
Speaker 3: The I have another one for you that's not the one.
Speaker 3: I sent you a different one, but that's fine. Put
Speaker 3: up in a break where.
Speaker 2: Did you send me that one in slack.
Speaker 1: Okay, I like those logos a lot.
Speaker 3: Of sparks, the shout out to uh, to Dan hour,
Speaker 3: to h to Jerem helping us whip up all this
Speaker 3: amazing art and relatively brief amount of time. Tremendous work.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, Also, along with a new name to the morning
Speaker 2: news show, it will also be getting new music.
Speaker 1: Uh and y'all will hear that debut on Thursday as well.
Speaker 5: Now, work on me, bears, We're not yummy like them anymore.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry everybody, it's over.
Speaker 2: That's right, The yummy era a giant bomb has ended.
Speaker 3: Okay, nothing is delicious anymore.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Uh Uh.
Speaker 2: I do hope you leave a delicious life, just like
Speaker 2: I hope Lady Gaga lives one as she rides away
Speaker 2: on her suitcase.
Speaker 3: Yo, I gotta say that new album is It's all right.
Speaker 3: I'm a hugelyah.
Speaker 2: I know that it was a big deal when I
Speaker 2: saw one. Matt Piscatella of Sircana quoting Lady Gaga's Abracadabra
Speaker 2: song Na, there's a lot.
Speaker 4: Of Is it the same Abercadabra that Eminem sampled with his.
Speaker 1: New single Okay, Miller, Okay, I thought I heard.
Speaker 5: I thought I heard that some kids were saying that
Speaker 5: Lady Gaga is just reheating nachos with the album and
Speaker 5: apparently some new phrase they say, reheating.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Would you like to comment on the state
Speaker 2: of contemporary music? Mike Andati?
Speaker 5: I have no comment. I've not listened to the album.
Speaker 5: I just thought that I heard some kids were saying
Speaker 5: it was reheating nachos.
Speaker 2: Kids don't eat nachos anymore. Kids, fucking kids.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Look, I understand where maybe some of that commentary comes from.
Speaker 3: I think it's like more of a pivot into like
Speaker 3: eighties dance kind of stuff too, in a really satisfying way.
Speaker 2: But no, it's not.
Speaker 3: I don't call it reheating nachos. Every every artist with
Speaker 3: their iterative albums is reheating nachos.
Speaker 2: To some degree.
Speaker 1: It is jos, this is.
Speaker 2: Just a nacho thing for you, like I guess it.
Speaker 5: So my uh, my grandpa is a cop, so he
Speaker 5: got all of this. All the cops dealt in government cheese.
Speaker 5: That was like the currency they exchanged for favors because
Speaker 5: they would all just get access to it. So my
Speaker 5: Grandma would make these nachos with the government cheese, and
Speaker 5: they were just the best nanchos.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, government cheese. Yeah. Wait, is that a real
Speaker 1: thing and not just saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, coverment cheese is real?
Speaker 3: I thought only bugs bunny had access to that? What's
Speaker 3: going on here? What is government cheese?
Speaker 5: It's just it was a lot like velveta. To be honest,
Speaker 5: is this like where do you get it?
Speaker 1: Like at the state House?
Speaker 6: The government? How do you Why are they making cheese?
Speaker 6: Is it like a treasury? What it's it's I think
Speaker 6: it's a program to help the poor. Was what it's
Speaker 6: supposed to be? Oh, I know what kind of cheese
Speaker 6: you're talking about?
Speaker 1: Now? Okay, go and cops. Yeah, cops get cheese.
Speaker 5: Well they get some access to it somehow, perhaps not
Speaker 5: totally on the up and up, and.
Speaker 3: Everyone knows cops get coppers get infinite bullets and infinite cheese.
Speaker 5: No, that's such a strong word. Did Can you really
Speaker 5: steal if you don't even believe in the government, that
Speaker 5: it can't be its property exactly?
Speaker 2: Hell?
Speaker 5: Yeah, anything if I choose not to believe in it?
Speaker 2: Oh no, what if we accidentally turned Mike Manatti into
Speaker 2: a shoot anarchist.
Speaker 3: I'll get behind that. Whatever. It's better than whatever the
Speaker 3: hell he was before.
Speaker 5: No one knows the adult the anarchic political leaning Mike, Mike,
Speaker 5: while we're sharing news, can I can I game break
Speaker 5: this this news that you are actually Banksy?
Speaker 2: That'd be awesome.
Speaker 5: That was the artist that?
Speaker 1: What do you mean on the hood? What do you
Speaker 1: mean that artist was the Obama?
Speaker 3: That shepherd fairy dumb ass?
Speaker 1: Do we want?
Speaker 2: Who's weird?
Speaker 5: What kid was? I know what it is.
Speaker 3: It sounds like you just watched Exit through the gift
Speaker 3: shop and then that was the entirety of your art culture?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 5: Is that something about Disney ex.
Speaker 2: Guys, guys that the whole the whole place is a
Speaker 2: gift shop?
Speaker 5: Though, Mike, is that great about it? I love that
Speaker 5: about it.
Speaker 3: Somebody you're entering, you're entering, existing and exiting through the shop,
Speaker 3: living in the gift shop.
Speaker 5: To be clear, as I am anti government, still very
Speaker 5: pro Disney World, still very much in favor of that.
Speaker 3: All right, the before we pivot, though, have you ever
Speaker 3: heard anyone in response to like hearing banks you say
Speaker 3: that was the artist?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: I could identify a banks piece. I went to Mario
Speaker 5: Day yesterday at a bar. I took the day off
Speaker 5: to I could go day drinking from Mario.
Speaker 3: That's a that's a holiday where you come from anarchy.
Speaker 2: He said, f f you to the man, I'm gonna drink.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: They had Plumber Porter. They had a special Mario beer
Speaker 5: there for the day. So that was fun.
Speaker 2: Uh. Yes, if if you want to see any of
Speaker 2: Mikey's adventures, he was posting about it, skating about it
Speaker 2: on Blue Sky. But Mike, I need to know more
Speaker 2: about how this bar celebrated Mario.
Speaker 5: They had a band there and the you know, it
Speaker 5: was like, uh, what would you call it? It was
Speaker 5: a normal well but they had a band, but the
Speaker 5: band also had a trombone and a saxophone along with
Speaker 5: the guitars and.
Speaker 2: Still a band. What do you mean?
Speaker 5: But you know what a band has a couple of horns.
Speaker 2: There's like a different Chicago, Yes, yeah, just Chicago.
Speaker 5: It was a good band. But they're playing a bunch
Speaker 5: of songs, Mario songs. And at one point they were like,
Speaker 5: now listen up, everybody, this is going to be perhaps
Speaker 5: a slightly more obscure one. And if you know what
Speaker 5: song it is you get a twenty five dollars gift
Speaker 5: card which is a local retro gaming store, and I'll tell
Speaker 5: you what's to be five seconds to recognize the theme
Speaker 5: of Laura from Silent Hill two because I am a
Speaker 5: professional gamer dot com copyright twenty twenty five. So I
Speaker 5: got my gift card and I was just beaming the
Speaker 5: rest of the every people coming up to be like, wait,
Speaker 5: what was it. I didn't know what it was. Oh,
Speaker 5: I thought it was from Dish I th aw from that.
Speaker 5: I was like, listen, listen your simpletons, you fools. No
Speaker 5: Silent Hill two, Now get out of my sight. I
Speaker 5: canep saying the look at you. It makes me sick.
Speaker 3: It seems like they missed a lot of like SKO
Speaker 3: opportunities to make it makes some fucking real bangers, if
Speaker 3: I don't mind saying, so, oh.
Speaker 5: That's a bangers. They did Golden. I like the pose
Speaker 5: menu music there for a bit. There's a lot of it.
Speaker 5: So they're aquatic ambiyon some dokey kunk Country was out
Speaker 5: of control. That was so good, Coconut Mall, Mario Kart
Speaker 5: at one point. There's a lot. They did a very
Speaker 5: good job, so very good this was there where you live. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: this was a shot the Birdfish Brewery in Columbiana, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Check it out.
Speaker 5: If you're uh, you're from their parts. The good beer,
Speaker 5: good vibes. What's the pinball machines?
Speaker 1: Back will?
Speaker 5: What's the pinball machines?
Speaker 3: You plany or you just looked at them today?
Speaker 5: I did not. I played a bunch before. They have that.
Speaker 5: They have like the better version of that new Jaws
Speaker 5: machine that I love. That's my favorite machine right now.
Speaker 5: But they got they had a bunch. They have the
Speaker 5: stranger things. They have the Iron Maiden, they have that
Speaker 5: wild West one that's that's famous rush. They had all
Speaker 5: sorts of stuff there.
Speaker 3: Cool man, I'm proud of you, Bud. You did a
Speaker 3: good You did a good thing yesterday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I took work off to go drinking in the
Speaker 5: middle of the day.
Speaker 4: Well, we thought that was going to lead to you
Speaker 4: not being able to talk to Samoa Joe because it
Speaker 4: sounds like that's the time that he needed to record yesterday.
Speaker 4: But it turns out British pr people don't know about
Speaker 4: American daylight savings time stuff, and so he got double booked,
Speaker 4: so little programming.
Speaker 1: Note that did not happen.
Speaker 5: But that's how it went.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going to see if we can make it
Speaker 4: happen again. But it was a thing that he was
Speaker 4: doing with OURGG studio and they just had him for yesterday,
Speaker 4: so I might just ask him if we can just
Speaker 4: do something on side. So if he is not on Thursday,
Speaker 4: it's because there was a double booking for that day.
Speaker 4: So we'll try to figure it out. So maybe maybe
Speaker 4: the hope is alive that Mike Manatti will talk to
Speaker 4: Smoa Joe.
Speaker 5: Silly Europeans.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, speaking about silly Europeans. They make a
Speaker 2: couple of games.
Speaker 1: Now, sure, what do you mean?
Speaker 5: Why what game has Europe ever been?
Speaker 2: Eight? I'm assuming Joseph Ferris is European.
Speaker 1: He seems very European.
Speaker 2: And you know, when I was at the Split Fiction event,
Speaker 2: he seemed very tired because he took a plane from Europe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll do it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put one in one together and say that
Speaker 2: Joseph Ferris maybe European. He made a silly game called
Speaker 2: split Fiction.
Speaker 1: You thought he was tired. He's just a shy guy.
Speaker 1: He was probably just.
Speaker 2: Being Yeah, that's what everyone says.
Speaker 1: About doesn't like being perceived at all, Like, yeah, just
Speaker 1: like me.
Speaker 2: Right, you and Joseph Ferris share a lot of similarities.
Speaker 5: I interviewed him. We had a great time as well.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 5: Nice.
Speaker 2: I've been playing a little bit more of Split Fiction,
Speaker 2: uh as As Dan mentioned at the top of the show,
Speaker 2: Lucy and Tam are going to continue playing through Split
Speaker 2: Fiction that continues this Thursday. But some of y'all have
Speaker 2: also been playing it or continuing to play it.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: I'm probably about halfway through with BNK. How many hours
Speaker 4: in are you, Jane?
Speaker 2: I'm about like, uh, I don't want to spoil anything
Speaker 2: because the set pieces are very short. Yeah, I would
Speaker 2: say like four or five or so hours.
Speaker 1: Yes, myself, I.
Speaker 2: Think we're eight.
Speaker 1: I want to say it's a good game.
Speaker 5: It's great.
Speaker 2: It's really good.
Speaker 1: It's very fun. It feels like it's just a straight
Speaker 1: up it's a roller coaster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a roller coaster, right, It's just that
Speaker 3: that's kind of what it is. I've been playing it
Speaker 3: with Dib and.
Speaker 1: How's that been going.
Speaker 3: He's so yeah, right, he's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 3: It has opened his eyes in a way that, like
Speaker 3: I think Astrobot kind of did where like it's like
Speaker 3: when you've been eating like the shitty chocolate your whole life,
Speaker 3: and then you get a taste of like European chocolate
Speaker 3: and you're just like, this was always around, I just
Speaker 3: never just never ate it before, and like that's what's happening.
Speaker 3: He plays Fortnite, which is a good video game, he
Speaker 3: plays that a lot, but he played three hours of
Speaker 3: this and he said, this is the best game I've
Speaker 3: ever played in my entire life. Now he's almost ten,
Speaker 3: So what does he know. He's just a dumb don't
Speaker 3: be hard on him. Yeah, okay, I like the angle
Speaker 3: of you enjoying him and glazing. I don't like the
Speaker 3: angle of you defending him against me. I feel like
Speaker 3: that this is where we have to draw the line
Speaker 3: a little bit. All kidding aside, He like, think about it, right,
Speaker 3: he's never experienced something like this, He doesn't know. He
Speaker 3: like he the fact that these things are happening simultaneously
Speaker 3: on screen, trading back responsibilities, the variation of gameplay, which
Speaker 3: he really can't appreciate in the way that perhaps we
Speaker 3: can with just what goes into having to do something
Speaker 3: like that, Everything working relatively flawlessly right, feeling good.
Speaker 5: Like with roadblocks, right, where almost nothing is deliberate. Everything
Speaker 5: that's deliberate.
Speaker 3: Roadblocks has officially been banned in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Sold.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's what we told them. But it's it's
Speaker 3: our house for sure. We just were done with that ship.
Speaker 3: We're just done.
Speaker 1: What is that? Someone who doesn't really know roadblocks? What
Speaker 1: is the like? Is it just is it bad transactions?
Speaker 3: Or yeah, it's like predatory and fucking weird, and it's
Speaker 3: a it's a it's a marketplace for like deviant uh
Speaker 3: like dark pattern behavior, oh Jesus. And it preys on
Speaker 3: you know, a sort of like slot machine mentality for
Speaker 3: little kids. And I can't really, I can't really come
Speaker 3: up with one redeeming factor about the entirety of roadblocks.
Speaker 3: Maybe it teaches some math with like having to figure
Speaker 3: out how much you have to spend on something forte
Speaker 3: though yeah, and well yeah before you know fortnite is
Speaker 3: it is not predatory as much as roadblocks is experiences.
Speaker 3: I mean it's roadblo is just it just seems like
Speaker 3: an accident, is Yeah. So so that's the sort of
Speaker 3: quick digest on that. But split fiction, Uh, yeah, like
Speaker 3: truly has like changed it is. It's like consuming it.
Speaker 3: Like we played one session three and a half hours. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we just we couldn't stop. We just you know, And
Speaker 3: and the story is pretty good and or at least
Speaker 3: accessible enough for him. I'm not a huge obviously, it's
Speaker 3: not super cerebral. There's not a lot there. It's the
Speaker 3: weakest part of the game for sure. But for him,
Speaker 3: like he gets it. He understands what's happening, you know,
Speaker 3: and it's it's like it's like almost violent, you know.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like just not violent enough, but also
Speaker 3: enough action to really like capture him.
Speaker 4: Did he sell it when the there's that kind of
Speaker 4: funny turn at the end of the pig sequence.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: That he he like couldn't unders like that's the I'm
Speaker 3: glad you brought that up. I almost forgot about it.
Speaker 3: He he like couldn't understand the sense of he was like,
Speaker 3: how is this game like funny? Like I've never had
Speaker 3: something trying. Yeah, he was just like, oh my.
Speaker 1: God, we're hot dogs.
Speaker 3: Like he just he just could but like think about it, right,
Speaker 3: like if you've never had the taste of that European chocolate.
Speaker 2: You don't know, well, I.
Speaker 3: Guess if it's it's just crazy and like it and like,
Speaker 3: you know, Stacey has been watching us playing. She's you know,
Speaker 3: we've gotten a lot of like pops from her too,
Speaker 3: like all around tremendous, what a tremendous game surprise, like
Speaker 3: even surprising where you're like, all right, you know we're
Speaker 3: gonna have like a and it takes two with a
Speaker 3: different sort of theme, different kind of trappings. But no,
Speaker 3: there's just something bigger and better and just wildly over
Speaker 3: the top of this thing.
Speaker 5: It's a bit more uncharted asking about in terms of
Speaker 5: game polay, but just in terms of that constant set
Speaker 5: piece pacing of it, right, which is what makes it
Speaker 5: kind of exhilarating. And I like the it takes two
Speaker 5: a lot. In some ways there is something too, perhaps
Speaker 5: say it's more methodical, a bit more puzzle focused. This
Speaker 5: is maybe a bit more set piece in action focus.
Speaker 5: Still plenty of puzzles and things like that, but it
Speaker 5: is just a game that you never stop playing because
Speaker 5: you're tired of it for a bit, because why I
Speaker 5: gotta do something else now, like go to sleep or gug.
Speaker 5: You know, you'll go make dinner or something. It's a
Speaker 5: hard game to put that, especially like once you go
Speaker 5: through the trouble, like getting that person there, we're gonna
Speaker 5: play through it. You just want to buckle in and
Speaker 5: enjoy that ride for as long as possible.
Speaker 4: And no one is doing this as popular as co
Speaker 4: op play has always been, going back to like early
Speaker 4: arcades and ness and stuff, like, no one has made
Speaker 4: it their whole like kind of mission statement as a
Speaker 4: studio to like this is our thing, this is our
Speaker 4: bread and butter, and they have gone so hard on it,
Speaker 4: and it's like it's almost shocking no one did this before.
Speaker 4: But I'm so glad that they're doing it, and they're
Speaker 4: doing it at such a high level because like really
Speaker 4: they they do it like no one else.
Speaker 3: Well, it's also like the fact that they had the
Speaker 3: advice or consult or whatever it is that they you know,
Speaker 3: allowed it to be playable with two people with one
Speaker 3: person owning it.
Speaker 1: That's like so smart.
Speaker 3: That's a huge part of this that I feel like
Speaker 3: is under discussed in a in a significant way. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like even you know that there's like an arena side
Speaker 3: story seeing where you're like passing around this bomb and
Speaker 3: the amount of like shouting and and group worked in
Speaker 3: a tann of way that you have to do is
Speaker 3: like so involved the title okay, like sport it was
Speaker 3: it was like playing a sport like it was absolutely exhilarating, like.
Speaker 5: The credibly engaging. It's one of the most video games
Speaker 5: you can play.
Speaker 3: Yes, holy shit.
Speaker 2: I like when I'm trying to think of like co
Speaker 2: op experiences that have really hit big, it's probably split
Speaker 2: fiction a little bit of it takes two but the
Speaker 2: only thing that comes close to that.
Speaker 5: I was like, all right, Dan, are you gonna make
Speaker 5: the cook he's a crew jump or a by I
Speaker 5: gotta give you a moment here.
Speaker 2: It's it's something like overcooked, because like overcooked, you you
Speaker 2: have that same like uh thing where like all right,
Speaker 2: you have to do this to help me, and then
Speaker 2: I have to do this to help all of us,
Speaker 2: and we have to navigate this weird world we're going
Speaker 2: in or like moving out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah whatever. Play it been Yes, yes, familiar,
Speaker 1: I have them forever.
Speaker 5: It's like a two D co op thing where like
Speaker 5: you're just too kind of non the script dudes, and
Speaker 5: one is slightly taller than the other. You can jump
Speaker 5: on each other and you just that's basically it Like
Speaker 5: the entire games world and puzzles are around this fact
Speaker 5: that you kind of sometimes you need to jump on
Speaker 5: top of each other and whatnot. It's a it's a
Speaker 5: pretty fun time.
Speaker 1: Anyone play. Yeah, I love that's a good co op one.
Speaker 2: I was like, I also like snipper Clips. I think
Speaker 2: grub is a fan of as well. Yeah, do y'all
Speaker 2: think since you know, uh a split fiction is doing
Speaker 2: pretty well in terms of sales, do you think we're
Speaker 2: going to see like a triple a copycat of sorts.
Speaker 5: Maybe, like maybe like from net ease or something, although
Speaker 5: they've been pulling back right like yeah, like who's that
Speaker 5: company is making that Horizon clone? Somebody like that, Oh,
Speaker 5: she's gonna make something. I don't think shameless.
Speaker 3: I think that's a fair question. I think there's I
Speaker 3: think there's room in the market for it for sure.
Speaker 3: So I also think the bar is very high, right.
Speaker 5: The problem is they're almost so good at it that
Speaker 5: it's like, what do we have to offer to this space,
Speaker 5: except like, I guess we're just another one of them,
Speaker 5: especially if you know he he's like just gonna keep
Speaker 5: making these and parties kind of like, I hope that
Speaker 5: they do. So you're like, well, we're gonna release one
Speaker 5: in like maybe the three year gap between these, and
Speaker 5: hope people care about that too. Maybe maybe that works.
Speaker 4: But the thing is, it's like, as much as the
Speaker 4: story stuff doesn't really land, and it's just the writing
Speaker 4: seems a little little pedestrian, it's like the game does
Speaker 4: have so much heart to it just as a game,
Speaker 4: like you can tell this is made by creative people
Speaker 4: and a million fun ideas were thrown into this, even
Speaker 4: if the story itself isn't really hitting, Like there's just
Speaker 4: so many ideas in the gameplay.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about the two main characters?
Speaker 1: They're very obvious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't want to try to choose my
Speaker 3: words here. I feel like they're both like equally annoying
Speaker 3: in their own right.
Speaker 1: You don't like that the women women? Oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: was saying it's woke.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we just imagine if they were like wrestlers, like you.
Speaker 2: Know, a tag team, it makes sense. Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, Like I think they like they're just like both
Speaker 3: perfectly annoying to each other, you know, like they're like
Speaker 3: like the venn diagrams like split right in the center.
Speaker 3: They're just like perfectly annoying and to each other in
Speaker 3: a way where I'm just like I did.
Speaker 5: Roll my eyes when it was the whole, like I
Speaker 5: love the city because the country is boring. It's like, well,
Speaker 5: I think the country's bearing. The city is just too
Speaker 5: gosh darn loud. Like I get it, they're supposed to
Speaker 5: be opposites.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hang out with either of them.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean the science fiction writer at the very beginning,
Speaker 5: when there was like small talk on an elevator for
Speaker 5: ten seconds, she had a doors like I don't really
Speaker 5: do small talk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, you're a jerk.
Speaker 3: She seems unrealistically like stand offish.
Speaker 5: Unrealistically stand offish, Like even like three hours in, I'm like,
Speaker 5: I feel like these two a bit enough that the
Speaker 5: bonding should start. Now you're like still at each other's throats,
Speaker 5: like there should be some cuming together here.
Speaker 2: So it's just like such a funny part of this.
Speaker 5: This amazing game good, it's so good, Like what's about
Speaker 5: how AI sucks? I like that about the story.
Speaker 2: So that's yeah, I uh, I'm thinking of like what
Speaker 2: game i'd like to see this and like, you know,
Speaker 2: you have your co op shooters. I was thinking like, oh,
Speaker 2: co op Uncharted would be cool, but it wouldn't do
Speaker 2: enough that split fiction is doing.
Speaker 5: We already had that. They made that Star Trek co
Speaker 5: op shooter gay that I'm the only person who liked.
Speaker 1: Oh right, it was like you is adjacent? Yeah, all right?
Speaker 2: Speaking about one co op game to kind of one
Speaker 2: Monster Hunter Wilds, I've been spending some more time in this.
Speaker 2: Jimmy jam Dan, you inspired me. I did yes by
Speaker 2: you saying you picked up the insect glave. I also
Speaker 2: picked up.
Speaker 1: I complained about it. I complained about the insect clave.
Speaker 1: Why did you do that?
Speaker 2: Because I remember having an okay time with it during
Speaker 2: Monster Hunter Worlds and then like I was just thinking, like, okay,
Speaker 2: I know this game works now, like I understand a
Speaker 2: combo here and there kinsects. Sure, that's the thing I've
Speaker 2: I kind of get and playing this game with an
Speaker 2: insect glave it becomes a completely different game because I'm
Speaker 2: just used to hammering away and just like pressing a
Speaker 2: button and like, look I hurt the monster. But with
Speaker 2: the insect glave kind of having to manage a bit
Speaker 2: more and then it becomes full anime because of like
Speaker 2: the verticality that it introduces. And then I just love
Speaker 2: just being like a Tasmanian devil and just going like
Speaker 2: carving down. It's like back with it. Also, because I've
Speaker 2: only ever used a hammer, I can never cut off
Speaker 2: monster parts. I kind of have to depend on my
Speaker 2: pala coo to do it, and sometimes it doesn't do it.
Speaker 2: Most of the time it doesn't do it. So having
Speaker 2: a blade turns out helps for cutting things.
Speaker 1: You're just way more mobile now than with the hammer.
Speaker 2: Way more mobile, like I can jump around. I feel like,
Speaker 2: sorry to throw an anime around there, like an attack
Speaker 2: on Titan character.
Speaker 5: I understand that reference a little bit.
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm an animated I know, I only it's yeah,
Speaker 3: it's fine.
Speaker 5: There are you still in the midst of the story campaign, Jan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm still in the story. I'm gonna say this.
Speaker 2: I haven't been paying attention to Squat.
Speaker 5: Well not much to pay attention to. I'm like towards
Speaker 5: the end of the story, and I am feeling relieved,
Speaker 5: Like the story I thought started off pretty terrible. Then
Speaker 5: there's a middle section there. I was like, okay, mare
Speaker 5: I can get into it now. I'm at the tail
Speaker 5: end of it again, and I'm just so ready for
Speaker 5: it to be done. So much of it focuses on
Speaker 5: that snot nosed, brat kid that I just find hopelessly annoying. Like,
Speaker 5: I'm not always anti the kids are annoying. I don't
Speaker 5: like kid characters, but this one is just very annoying
Speaker 5: and wide eyed and always on the verge of tears
Speaker 5: or something. And everybody's treating this kid like an adult
Speaker 5: and bringing him along even though he can't fight. I'm like,
Speaker 5: lead the kid back. The kid doesn't think, why is
Speaker 5: the kid here? It's a child?
Speaker 1: Every Dark movies like why are their kids here? Almost
Speaker 1: most Disney movies though, Mike. But yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Said, I just said, I'm not always against the kid thing.
Speaker 2: It's usually fine.
Speaker 5: Fine, this kid's fucking annoying. I don't like him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh not. A is not my favorite character, and
Speaker 2: I also have a tolerance for pluck sometimes.
Speaker 1: Mike.
Speaker 2: Are you said you're relieved at almost finishing the story.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm glad that the story is almost so. For second,
Speaker 5: just fight monsters. I love fighting monsters, and that's great.
Speaker 5: It's sometimes in the story. You get to fight monsters,
Speaker 5: and that's fantastic, But there are some stretches where it's
Speaker 5: just characters kind of walking talking about things. And I
Speaker 5: don't know. I think I saw a quote from the
Speaker 5: one of the Muster guys who's like, oh, one of
Speaker 5: the reasons why our audience expanded so much is because
Speaker 5: we focus more on story. I don't I don't believe that.
Speaker 5: I don't think that's why. I think a lot of
Speaker 5: other changes happened that got people on board. I don't
Speaker 5: know if these ten hour story based campaigns are doing
Speaker 5: a ton Maybe they are, right. People do like to
Speaker 5: have characters. I like to latch all the things. Sure,
Speaker 5: there are some characters here. They're fund up though. That
Speaker 5: what the wub wubb who talks eloquently, what is his name?
Speaker 5: I like him. He's a nice guy. He's a mix
Speaker 5: between Stitch and an Walk but with the personality of
Speaker 5: that one mouse night from the Chronicles of.
Speaker 2: Narnia and an ass that won't quit and then ask.
Speaker 5: That won't quit, Barge, you got to ask that won't quit?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 5: There's Jema, and everybody likes Gemma, but otherwise a lot
Speaker 5: of people that I'm tired of hearing.
Speaker 1: Talk I do like the Hammer lady in Uh, yeah, Sty.
Speaker 5: She's fine. I can't remember naming Claire, Is that right?
Speaker 1: I don't remember either?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Mike, have you have you tried co op
Speaker 2: at all?
Speaker 1: Or fire had?
Speaker 5: My brother, a Christian uh who's played on this site
Speaker 5: a bit has has has jumped in to help me
Speaker 5: here and there too, So yeah, it's it's it is
Speaker 5: fun when you're playing with people, for sure, And that's why,
Speaker 5: you know, that's why I want to just get to
Speaker 5: the part where I am just going out and constantly
Speaker 5: fighting monsters and constantly you know, grouped up with people.
Speaker 5: Because even right now they're playing, they're they're joining in
Speaker 5: when I'm fighting, but a lot of times that means
Speaker 5: that they're waiting for me to progress through cutscenes so
Speaker 5: then they can join my next fight.
Speaker 1: So so forth back, are you were going to say something?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to wrap my head around like the
Speaker 3: takeaway that I feel like I'm I'm I'm hearing from
Speaker 3: a lot of people that.
Speaker 2: It's just kind of fine.
Speaker 5: It's it's weird because like every time it happens, almost
Speaker 5: every time I start talking about it, where I seem
Speaker 5: like negative on it, but there's a lot about it
Speaker 5: that is very good. Like when you fight monsters that rules,
Speaker 5: that is amazing. It feels so good. The monsters look
Speaker 5: so good. They are just these moments that happen are amazingly. Like,
Speaker 5: you know, I was fighting this one kind of dragon
Speaker 5: thing Rathlos and can brief fire and I could block
Speaker 5: it with my My sword is so big, it's also
Speaker 5: a shield that I was bringing fire and I block
Speaker 5: it and like in that moment, the camera kind of
Speaker 5: like like zoomed in on me a bit, and it's
Speaker 5: just this really cinematic, cool looking thing of this fire
Speaker 5: just completely like spreading across me as I'm like bracing
Speaker 5: against it, and then that happens. And if I, you know,
Speaker 5: time this kind of upwards being just right, I can
Speaker 5: get the monster off kilter and I could jump on him,
Speaker 5: and oh the fighting feels fantastic. But there are just
Speaker 5: so many obvious problems to talk about. We even talked
Speaker 5: about the performance, which is still you know issue, like
Speaker 5: the game just looks like butt on my computer, right,
Speaker 5: it does not look very good.
Speaker 4: Is it still a massive pain in the ass to
Speaker 4: actually get co op going on this.
Speaker 5: It's like, I think I've got it figured out. Mostly
Speaker 5: it's just there. Wordage is very bad, right, It shouldn't
Speaker 5: be like this series that has been known for co
Speaker 5: op for a long time. The fact that you're like,
Speaker 5: I think I've got to figure it out is insane.
Speaker 5: It should just be like join a game, host a game,
Speaker 5: like I don't even World is the one I liked.
Speaker 5: It was just like every single time it's like, wait, okay,
Speaker 5: so you haven't seen that cut scene, so we can't
Speaker 5: join up yet.
Speaker 1: It's just it sucks.
Speaker 5: A confusing thing for at least initially, is that like
Speaker 5: there's different kinds of parties, at least two of them,
Speaker 5: and it's like, what's the party so that we could
Speaker 5: fight monsters together because there's like link party, and then
Speaker 5: there's you know, guilt and some other things. So it's
Speaker 5: still a little confusing. You can get you can get
Speaker 5: I can get over it a little bit. But yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm a little I'm a little surprised we haven't made
Speaker 5: us a bit more elegant. I I wonder if that
Speaker 5: process is easier after everyone you're trying to play with
Speaker 5: has completed the story. Mike, like you said, because then, uh,
Speaker 5: even when we tried checking it out, like two weeks ago,
Speaker 5: Sean and Christian were waiting for Grub and I to
Speaker 5: progress through the story so they could join for those
Speaker 5: specific hunts, and then I don't think there were Maybe
Speaker 5: there was one mission where Grub and I were able
Speaker 5: to sync with each other because we were in a
Speaker 5: similar part of the story. But I don't want to
Speaker 5: any of the negativity to take away from like fantastic
Speaker 5: set pieces in the game. There are moments where I
Speaker 5: do feel like a super cool badass, even when I
Speaker 5: summon the AI hunters to to help out, like the
Speaker 5: story hunters or whatever, and there they wind up using
Speaker 5: weapons I would never use, Like one of them always
Speaker 5: brings like not the small gun but the long gun large,
Speaker 5: and then he just like peppering the monster with like
Speaker 5: a million bullets, and then I try and like use
Speaker 5: that weapon.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm like, all right, this, I have no fucking
Speaker 2: clue how this works. It's great, I'm having a good time.
Speaker 2: I do want to keep playing through it more, and
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'd like to play with you all more.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we should all do some hunts. I can
Speaker 5: jump in there and help you with some of these
Speaker 5: story hunts that you're working your waist through for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, if anything, I should try and finish
Speaker 2: the story, get that out of the way, and then
Speaker 2: we can just pick and choose.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it'll be exactly. It'll think it will be a
Speaker 5: lot easier for us to make contentable fun at that point.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite monsters, early, early, early in the
Speaker 2: game is the monkey that farts, Dan, have you seen
Speaker 2: that one? I have not.
Speaker 5: No, Oh, you love the farting monkey.
Speaker 1: Sounds solid.
Speaker 2: We love the farting monkey. Speaking about monkeys, Mike Minatti,
Speaker 2: you've been playing Donkey Kong ninety four.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So on Friday, kind of ahead of Mario Day,
Speaker 5: Nintendo dropped two new game Boy games to Nso Donkey
Speaker 5: Kong ninety four just called Donkey Kong, but we say
Speaker 5: ninety four to differentiate it from you know, Donkey Kong
Speaker 5: the K game and Mario's Pitcross. And this might be
Speaker 5: the best drop of NFL games we have ever gotten.
Speaker 5: You've said that before, No, these are good ones. Yeah,
Speaker 5: this stuff is so good. Like I was playing through
Speaker 5: some long jerpyg tales of graces zephyry Mas there I
Speaker 5: have completely stopped for now because I am just playing
Speaker 5: Mario's Big Cross Donkey Kong ninety four. Donkey Kong ninety
Speaker 5: four I have played before, and it was already just
Speaker 5: one of my favorite games. It is so good. Like
Speaker 5: the whole kind of gimmick here is that at first,
Speaker 5: it just seems like, oh, they ported Donkey Kong, the
Speaker 5: our gay game to the game boy. You play through
Speaker 5: all those levels, and then once you do, it just
Speaker 5: keeps going. You slowly realize like, oh, I have like
Speaker 5: interesting moves I can do here. I have the side jump,
Speaker 5: and this is before Mario sixty four. This is the
Speaker 5: first time you have that Mario side jump. You can
Speaker 5: do like the backflip into a backflip jump. So then
Speaker 5: it becomes this kind of puzzle platforming thing. Or in
Speaker 5: each level there's a key, there's a door, Gotta get
Speaker 5: the key, and gotta get the key to the door,
Speaker 5: and they're all like basically like one one screen ish long.
Speaker 5: Some are, you know, bigger, they scroll up, they scroll
Speaker 5: to the right, but they're all relatively small levels, but
Speaker 5: there's a ton of them. And then after every three
Speaker 5: levels you have some kind of Donkey Kong boss fight
Speaker 5: and some of them are more like spins on the
Speaker 5: original Donkey Kong formula again of just get up to
Speaker 5: the platform and avoid the stuff he's doing. Some of
Speaker 5: them become more like Donkey Kong Junior, where you have
Speaker 5: the vines and everything like that. Then other ones are
Speaker 5: this new thing where it's more of a boss fight
Speaker 5: where he's throwing barrels and you have to grab the
Speaker 5: barrels and then throw them at him. It is just
Speaker 5: so well done, perfectly executed. Probably the best puzzle platformer ever.
Speaker 5: I would have to think up on that. Oh, definitely,
Speaker 5: it's the best game Boy game. It is the best
Speaker 5: game for the original game Boy. Play it before, but
Speaker 5: even now, just can't stop continuing to play my way
Speaker 5: through it again.
Speaker 4: I agree, And I had not played it until it
Speaker 4: came out of like the three DS camera was the
Speaker 4: Virtual console or the Ambassador program or whatever. But yeah,
Speaker 4: so I played it probably twenty years efter came well,
Speaker 4: it came out in ninety four, so whatever that is,
Speaker 4: it's it's awesome. It holds up great. I played through
Speaker 4: like when I got the Analog Pocket. That was the
Speaker 4: first game I played through on it. It was just like, oh, man,
Speaker 4: this game is just kicks ass holds up great, and
Speaker 4: that's removed from the usual Nintendo nostalgia I have because
Speaker 4: I didn't play it back in the day.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I'm with you on that mic.
Speaker 4: And then also you discovering pacrosse that that it feels
Speaker 4: good to me.
Speaker 5: Well, it's because Jeff has always talked about how much
Speaker 5: he loves pitcross when I'm doing shows you talked about before,
Speaker 5: and I would I swear I've tried a couple of times,
Speaker 5: and for some reason, I didn't get it, and I
Speaker 5: don't know why, because this time I just like watched
Speaker 5: the little tutorial and it's like, you know, a minute
Speaker 5: long and it explains it perfectly. I don't know why,
Speaker 5: but this time I just absorbed in the information and
Speaker 5: it was off to the races. It was like, oh,
Speaker 5: I understand this. People don't know. It's, you know, this
Speaker 5: kind of grid based puzzle thing.
Speaker 2: For people that don't know pacross. People you ever heard of.
Speaker 5: Pit cross, guys, But I'm gonna I'm gonna lay it
Speaker 5: down for you here.
Speaker 3: Teach us teach us.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, It's like there's like numbers on the top and
Speaker 5: to the left of this grid that kind of gives
Speaker 5: you an indication of where the bucks are. It's like
Speaker 5: mind sweeper but better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Sudoku for idiots.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who loves both?
Speaker 1: At a high level, they both are a lot of
Speaker 1: puzzling out at.
Speaker 3: A high level. You fucking whatever do you mean?
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: At a high level, like the.
Speaker 1: Super hard versions, like beating every fucking Pacross three D thing,
Speaker 1: like you know, without anything.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Puzzles are like my thing, Like I can absolutely business.
Speaker 3: I know when I think logic puzzles, I think of you.
Speaker 3: I think I went through like a percross like year
Speaker 3: in like twenty ten for sure, So I understand where
Speaker 3: you're come from. I just want to make this a
Speaker 3: doka joke.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I've got a precross lifestyle. It's not across.
Speaker 3: Becrouse defines who I am as a person.
Speaker 4: But Mike, across three D that's the next step for you.
Speaker 4: Oh you put it on your phone? Scary, No, it's
Speaker 4: that's awesome.
Speaker 1: You're like chiseling away at a block and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's starting to look like a three D e Swan
Speaker 1: or something. It is, So it's exact same concept it's
Speaker 1: just like you're just doing it and like it's three.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 5: It's okay, Yeah, there's a whole world of pitcross open
Speaker 5: up to me. It's so satisfying. Like trying to figure
Speaker 5: out what the picture is. It's kind of funny on
Speaker 5: the Game Boy because you know, it's like solo detail,
Speaker 5: Like at the end, I'm like, what is that? Then
Speaker 5: they're like it's a swan. I'm like, okay, if you
Speaker 5: say so, gay boy. But just like fingering out things
Speaker 5: on my own, like okay, like if if if one
Speaker 5: of the roads says there's nine that need to be
Speaker 5: blocked out, there's only fifteen, then I know I can
Speaker 5: at least chisel it out that middle one because there
Speaker 5: has to be one of them. Do you Like, there's
Speaker 5: all these kind of like systems you build up in
Speaker 5: your mind like that that kind of help you get
Speaker 5: through it. And sometimes it looks hopeless because like in
Speaker 5: the beginning, you get some freepie's like, oh, the very
Speaker 5: bottom row is fifteen, that's all filled in. You know,
Speaker 5: that's all filled in. Then you kind of work your
Speaker 5: way from the bottom to the top. Then the other
Speaker 5: one's like, oh, I don't even know where to start,
Speaker 5: and then it just slowly all comes together and every
Speaker 5: you know, you have thirty misses to do it, and
Speaker 5: if you miss mess up, you lose time on the
Speaker 5: clock and that exponential, right, So you mess up like
Speaker 5: three times, you're starting to lose a lot of time.
Speaker 5: So it gets risk to just guess. But every once
Speaker 5: in a while, if I am stuck and I'm like, well,
Speaker 5: if I was to guess this one, right, that was
Speaker 5: just no, you don't guess, never guess. Oh, it's the
Speaker 5: thrill of the guest every time. Sometimes it ruins everything,
Speaker 5: but sometimes it really gets that ball rolling.
Speaker 4: The best feeling is when it's just like you've been
Speaker 4: staring at a thing and going line by line for
Speaker 4: like fifteen minutes. I can't see where a single thing
Speaker 4: is that I can confidently put down, And then you
Speaker 4: just have one and all the Domino's falls like yeah,
Speaker 4: oh and this and that's and that and that's this.
Speaker 5: You're done. Oh I fucking love the cross. Yep, So gosh,
Speaker 5: it's it's been fun. It's funny because like call it
Speaker 5: Mario's pitcross is still generous. Every once in a while,
Speaker 5: the thing you get is like a goomba, but even
Speaker 5: still just that little bit of Mario flavor. But I
Speaker 5: appreciate that he's here.
Speaker 2: Speaking about discovering games that have been around for a while.
Speaker 2: This is this is not a cry for help. I'm
Speaker 2: complet deletely fine. Today is March eleventh, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: I don't have a newspaper to show you the date.
Speaker 2: I'm not being held against my will. But I may
Speaker 2: have downloaded Magic the Gathering arena over the weekend. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's fine. And I may have also purchased some some
Speaker 2: cars as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's okay.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm having a pleasant time learning about Magic
Speaker 2: the Gathering. Maybe I'm liking it because they've decided to
Speaker 2: just become Fortnite and throw every possible ip at the wall.
Speaker 5: Got the spots parts car, didn't you?
Speaker 2: I don't have them yet. I don't think they're available yet.
Speaker 2: But if they do become available by me, I will
Speaker 2: a five thousand percent by it because I love memes
Speaker 2: and SpongeBob.
Speaker 1: Dan. You you look upset. I am why just I
Speaker 1: expect more from jam Oh.
Speaker 3: If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black, what
Speaker 3: is the problem?
Speaker 1: Not a nerd.
Speaker 3: That is your tagline. I can't take that away from you.
Speaker 4: Didn't you You thought you were picking up magic cards
Speaker 4: yesterday and wound up being potatoes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I got locked out of my apartment building.
Speaker 4: Yeah, while you were locked out, we were talking about it,
Speaker 4: and I posited that potatoes are better than magic the Gathering,
Speaker 4: and I do think I had some support. I had
Speaker 4: a potato last night, and while I was eating the potato,
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm so glad I'm into this and
Speaker 4: not magic.
Speaker 3: Wait, potato just like eating potatoes, a shoot potato, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like a chip a fry.
Speaker 3: However, I roasted them. But yeah, is better than magic
Speaker 3: the Gathering the card game.
Speaker 1: Do you agree?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Pole, It's just a weird thing to compare
Speaker 2: as all.
Speaker 1: Your potatoes aren't nerdy.
Speaker 5: I mean most people see some of us don't care
Speaker 5: if things are nerdy or I don't either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know everyone knows that I might be a
Speaker 1: huge nerd might be how dare you even? I know?
Speaker 5: But boy, I still get worse up every time you
Speaker 5: talk about Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 1: But you're the only one. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, everyone agrees Lord of the Rings is dogship, but.
Speaker 2: I feel like.
Speaker 1: Your opinions are good.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing. I think it's funny.
Speaker 3: I get the comparison is funny in itself, But I'm
Speaker 3: also coming from a place where I'm like, hey, I
Speaker 3: don't really know magic the Gathering, Like I know all
Speaker 3: what it is. I know, but I don't. I've never
Speaker 3: like allowed it to uh wash over me. Uh, And
Speaker 3: I suspect maybe I would like it if I allowed such.
Speaker 2: A thing to happen.
Speaker 1: It's probably really fun.
Speaker 2: It's probably good, right, it's good.
Speaker 4: I probably would get right, I would get irresponsibly into
Speaker 4: it if I allowed myself to Sure, Yeah.
Speaker 3: So so Jan, the level of which you've decided to
Speaker 3: allow it to wash over you? Is it a safe
Speaker 3: amount so far?
Speaker 2: Yes, I've only bought like one starter deck that another
Speaker 2: friend recommended are Our dear friend Matthew Rory also said
Speaker 2: that he would help guide me through the process as well.
Speaker 2: Jason Finelli has also offered his guidance John Carson's Magic.
Speaker 2: That's Carson's a freak as well. And let me tell y'all,
Speaker 2: for anyone that has ever been magic curious, Magic the
Speaker 2: Gathering Arena has a fantastic tutorial to run you through
Speaker 2: the process completely free. You can't spend money, I believe
Speaker 2: to to get certain card packs. But if you're looking
Speaker 2: to learn how to play the game, and you're a
Speaker 2: little too shy to go to your local card shop
Speaker 2: or for local card shop doesn't exist, then you get
Speaker 2: one hundred percent learn through that.
Speaker 1: It's it's because they're fucking dropping this Avatar the Last
Speaker 1: Airbender deck in a couple months.
Speaker 2: That's fine, I need it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm I'm waiting for that final Fantasy stuff to
Speaker 5: come out, which I've already pre ordered a couple of
Speaker 5: those packs. So what's that happens? The thing is, obviously
Speaker 5: I want to collect the real cards, that's better. But
Speaker 5: when I actually want to play Badge it together, it
Speaker 5: is a much better experience for me to play Arena
Speaker 5: and yeah, you know tapping cards. Who can get their
Speaker 5: head around that right when I'm supposed to tap and
Speaker 5: when they get untapped, And there's like fIF there's like
Speaker 5: twenty five or more verbs on the cars that all
Speaker 5: do different things too. When it's the video game, you
Speaker 5: just hover over the thing and it tells me to
Speaker 5: do and then it also just does it for you anyways.
Speaker 2: And you know what. You know, our dear friends over
Speaker 2: at kind of Funny. They've also been getting into Magic
Speaker 2: Blessing and snowbike mic and I thought, like, you know,
Speaker 2: if I were to get into magic, maybe I could
Speaker 2: pop over to the kind of Funny Studio. They come
Speaker 2: over to SF Studio and we have ourselves a little game.
Speaker 2: Perhaps we could do a draft. I know Jake Decker
Speaker 2: bought a Lord of the Ring box that we were
Speaker 2: supposed to do a draft with, but that uh timing
Speaker 2: never worked out, So maybe we can wind up doing
Speaker 2: that again. Perhaps. Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, snow bikel doesn't always come off as like a
Speaker 3: big nerd.
Speaker 5: I mean he's also a game for anything, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: he'll try.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Dan, what's your read on snow
Speaker 1: bike Mic? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I don't think MT.
Speaker 5: I don't think you.
Speaker 1: Even know what a snow bike is or how to
Speaker 1: use it. Ambient nerd, right, that's what I'm saying. It
Speaker 1: sounds like like an outdoorsman.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but I think Mike's right. He just has
Speaker 2: that like DTF quality to him.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: He played King of Hearts and liked it, right, which
Speaker 5: I respect him.
Speaker 3: That's cool. I like Snowbikeael listen, just tell me mm
Speaker 3: hmm you think this will replace any of your other habits?
Speaker 2: Which, okay, I have a bunch of habits. Which habits
Speaker 2: are we talk the new one? No? So I I
Speaker 2: positive this to it to to blue sky and then
Speaker 2: what Nicki Grayson? Let me let me go try and
Speaker 2: find their reply. Okay, but but but speculate amongst yourselves. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's about walking. Maybe you shouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: That's good for you.
Speaker 4: I am thinking, you know, I sometimes see elements of
Speaker 4: myself or my father and myself. And he started smoking
Speaker 4: at forty, so I got a few months left to
Speaker 4: get into smoking. I want to follow his footsteps. Okay, Dan,
Speaker 4: you should not get into smoking. But Nicki Grayson replied
Speaker 4: to me when I was seeking advice how to get
Speaker 4: into magic?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: And then in another skeet, have you heard of cigarettes?
Speaker 2: It's pretty good, Nikki. So you know it's it's which
Speaker 2: which is the worst one to Perhaps I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: any hesitation smoking? Yeah, okay, Well I'm almost out of
Speaker 2: the Japanese ones, all right, and then those run out.
Speaker 2: I can't get cool menthols here in California because of
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom and now he's starting a podcast sleazy fuck.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it to be in office.
Speaker 5: I didn't have to cool off of uh the Lacana
Speaker 5: cards a little bit. It was like, man impending a
Speaker 5: lot of money on this game that I don't I
Speaker 5: don't really play this game very often. People don't remember
Speaker 5: where Kana was the Disney matchic to Ketch.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, we all remember.
Speaker 5: We remember. I got all these cards, and I'm like
Speaker 5: running out of places to a put them. It's like
Speaker 5: it's like a I can't buying it, mostly for just
Speaker 5: the dopam rush of opening though, and then after that
Speaker 5: I'm stuck with these things. I'm like, well, what do
Speaker 5: I do with it now?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: No, like I mean, yeah, I never took you for
Speaker 3: someone who's playing Lorcana.
Speaker 2: I was just like, oh, yeah, I think we always
Speaker 2: there's the great lie back of are the great lie
Speaker 2: is that we're going to play more?
Speaker 3: Yeah, one day I'm gonna play.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, everyone buys up Pokemon cards looking for like, you know,
Speaker 3: the arts of the full arts. They're looking for all
Speaker 3: the stuff they want.
Speaker 1: Well okay, no, so.
Speaker 2: So Sean asks, how come I haven't like partied up
Speaker 2: with him and gone into Pokemon TCG. And it's because
Speaker 2: buying the physical shoot cards now it's not impossible, but
Speaker 2: it's just there's so many fucking people out there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you get trampled in a costco.
Speaker 2: Right exactly. Uh, backler, I don't know if you've seen
Speaker 2: these at your local grocery stores, but in the same
Speaker 2: way that they have like the kiosks with like that
Speaker 2: you can buy a lot of tickets or scratch offs
Speaker 2: at Yeah, they have Pokemon card ones.
Speaker 1: Oh what are we doing?
Speaker 3: Why are we not regulating that?
Speaker 2: Exactly? And then I saw two fellas like just standing
Speaker 2: next to one just like I don't know what they
Speaker 2: were trying to do staring at this machine, because I've
Speaker 2: seen people like they'll weigh packs, right, yeah, like with
Speaker 2: a scale, but you can't do that with a fucking
Speaker 2: vending machine. They're trying to eyeball it out, like what's happening.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're.
Speaker 2: Trying to like hack into the mainframe or whatever or
Speaker 2: try and like input some type of code for it
Speaker 2: to just vomit out cards, but they were trying to
Speaker 2: do some underhanded stuff there. But yeah, because of the
Speaker 2: state of the scene of Pokemon TCG. That's why. And
Speaker 2: magic cards generally are available everywhere I go.
Speaker 3: Right, people are they don't seem as freakish with the
Speaker 3: Pokemon stuff. I just had a visual that I want
Speaker 3: to talk about out loud, Like remember those old cigarette
Speaker 3: machines with those little plungers I used to plate the
Speaker 3: let's just let's just put Pokemon cards in that jan
Speaker 3: You look puzzled because you're probably too young to know
Speaker 3: what that looks like.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what a plunger?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like a plunger you would pull out, you know,
Speaker 3: like a pinball plunger.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, like those sticker machines.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, because I remember.
Speaker 4: When I was growing up, my mom was a Chili's waitress.
Speaker 4: I used to go seere there and there'd be the
Speaker 4: whole like half the restaurant was a smoking section, and
Speaker 4: I had those things. It's like, yeah, just buy your
Speaker 4: cigarettes and Chili's and eat your chicken tenders.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, those are like like obviously smoking horrific, But like
Speaker 3: those machines are cool in a vacuum, like that machine
Speaker 3: is cool.
Speaker 2: Nobody, no one on this podcast be offended by this.
Speaker 2: Have y'all ever been on an airplane where smoking was allowed? No, No,
Speaker 2: not a planet.
Speaker 1: I've been on planes that have ashtray things, yes, yeah.
Speaker 5: Like carryovers, but no, it might happen. I was really young,
Speaker 5: but I don't remember people smoking on an airplane I
Speaker 5: was on.
Speaker 4: I distinctly remember, like, you know, going to restaurants and
Speaker 4: like them being like, oh, you know, we don't have
Speaker 4: anything available. We have a couple in the smoking section,
Speaker 4: and like having to do that and be like, oh wow, this.
Speaker 1: I remember the smoker here having a smoking section, separate room,
Speaker 1: and it was far old, old enough to drink. And
Speaker 1: then there would be like super smoky bars like the
Speaker 1: Red Balloon, my main bar where my parents met. Like
Speaker 1: you go in there for night at the Red Balloon,
Speaker 1: and you come out and like, those clothes are not
Speaker 1: just going to shrink for a week, but you put
Speaker 1: them in a hamper and it just seeps into everything else.
Speaker 5: That's just how the world smells like a good while there.
Speaker 3: I'm filled with so much regret now.
Speaker 1: I just just.
Speaker 3: Like going to shows in the nineties, just going on
Speaker 3: like punk rock shows and like coming back and you
Speaker 3: just smell the way you smell and You're.
Speaker 2: Just like, throw me in the trash.
Speaker 1: This isn't going to help the narc accusations against me.
Speaker 4: But when I was probably nineteen twenty, I went to
Speaker 4: a Parliament Funkadelic show and.
Speaker 3: You said that in the man I'm the coworker. I
Speaker 3: cannot believe the way you just say Parliament.
Speaker 1: Date with p Funk and Saint Louis. I've gone to shows.
Speaker 1: I know George Clinton. He probably doesn't remember me, but
Speaker 1: it is all to say.
Speaker 4: One of the first times I saw p Funk, there
Speaker 4: were people in front of me that I was like,
Speaker 4: what is that smelling?
Speaker 1: Asked my friend Charles, like, I think that's weed.
Speaker 4: And I was so concerned about someone smoking weed at
Speaker 4: a p Funk concert. I thought, oh no, I hope
Speaker 4: I don't get high. And also should I talk to
Speaker 4: someone about this? Should I alert security? At a p
Speaker 4: Funk concert the entire band is on acid?
Speaker 3: Cop, you're such a cop?
Speaker 1: Try?
Speaker 3: Yeah, how did you find yourself at that show?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: That's my point.
Speaker 3: My point is you found yourself in a spot where
Speaker 3: you actively went to the show but still had those
Speaker 3: like narc ass cop nuances.
Speaker 1: It was a weird tendencies.
Speaker 4: It was a weird confluence of me being open minded
Speaker 4: and liking like weird like funk music and stuff, and
Speaker 4: also me growing up in Kansas with very afraid of
Speaker 4: weed stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like the arsonist that grows up to
Speaker 3: be a fireman. I don't understand.
Speaker 4: Good now, all right, we're cop Now have shelter tonight
Speaker 4: in place?
Speaker 1: Slip fiction with my wife? Does that?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Watch some Severance.
Speaker 2: We cannot get into the Severance talk today.
Speaker 1: No, we're episodes and I don't know what people are
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we're like chill chill. We didn't even make
Speaker 3: it through episode one because my wife falls asleep. Now
Speaker 3: this is where I'm at in my life.
Speaker 5: I had a good time drinking yesterday, but there was
Speaker 5: a certain plain I just got sad. I'm like, I
Speaker 5: get like, like when I'm back alone in my house
Speaker 5: after drinking, I'm like, I'm just like sad. Now becoming
Speaker 5: a sad drunk weed instead.
Speaker 2: I don't know, ye, I think you should be doing weed.
Speaker 1: We will make you anxious. I've definitely never been sad.
Speaker 3: Alcohol is depressing. What are we talking about?
Speaker 2: While drunk's summer birthday? We are hot boxing a car
Speaker 2: Who's summer birthday, Jeff summer birthday?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, it might be during my shoot birthday too.
Speaker 1: We're hot boxing a bad wait.
Speaker 3: Honestly, Manat's like stoned arc is like well overdue.
Speaker 1: Would be crazy. Don't like it.
Speaker 2: But that's the thing, Mike.
Speaker 3: Like alcohol, it's alcohol's rough, Bud.
Speaker 5: I'm probably just gonna drink less and also not two weeks. Still,
Speaker 5: that's fine. I could be sober, That's okay, look at me,
Speaker 5: I'm fine. I got all these video games and Mickey
Speaker 5: Mouse's al tay.
Speaker 3: Okay, I bet you'd I bet you would see I
Speaker 3: bet stone Manati. Okay, I'm just putting this out there.
Speaker 3: Even though we will never be illegal, never be legal
Speaker 3: in Florida for as long as you we are all
Speaker 3: collectively alive, going to Disneyland, Stoned World, whatever is in Florida,
Speaker 3: you might that might change shit for you, Bud.
Speaker 5: I might go to Florida this weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. Someone says, I've got to figure
Speaker 2: it after.
Speaker 5: This if I'm gonna make that trip happen.
Speaker 2: I thought. Okay, anyway, we're all gonna take a collective
Speaker 2: suff break to just decompress, air out our clothes. You
Speaker 2: don't have to sit in the smoker section, but you
Speaker 2: can go wait for a table and we'll be right
Speaker 2: back with the news.
Speaker 1: Breaking news. Jeff Backlar has a thing. It's a funny thing.
Speaker 2: Hit Us showed my kid booger Man.
Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, you want to say you're a good dad.
Speaker 1: I mean, hell yeah, another great game. Finally kid's gonna
Speaker 1: get some culture.
Speaker 3: He was, I forget what it was, Oh because of
Speaker 3: the pigs in split fiction and farting the rainbow. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And he's like, Dad, imagine a game where like all
Speaker 3: you do is fart what and throw boogers?
Speaker 1: Although boogers are a finite resource.
Speaker 2: Finite of course you get the chilli.
Speaker 3: I show him gameplay of booger Man, and he's just
Speaker 3: like I couldn't tell if he thought it was funny
Speaker 3: or if he was just like, man, am I glad
Speaker 3: to be born now? Or some or whatever it was,
Speaker 3: but he did say, he's like, oh, this is just
Speaker 3: the original skibbitty.
Speaker 5: The look undanser to be clear about scibbity toilet is
Speaker 5: exactly how the generation than us thought of.
Speaker 1: Booger Man was a real video game.
Speaker 3: Listen, listen, you like you have to put yourself. Well,
Speaker 3: this should be easy, put yourself in the shoes of
Speaker 3: a ten year old. I was played Boogerman and just imagine,
Speaker 3: like what that meant?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Like it came from a good place, sure, and it
Speaker 3: was also funny. Anyway, Boogerman, we still think about you.
Speaker 1: I just think I.
Speaker 4: Think the first time I heard the word pussy was
Speaker 4: because of Boogerman. I was reading the instruction manual of
Speaker 4: Boogerman in the car while my mom was coming out
Speaker 4: of the grocery store, and she looked at the manual
Speaker 4: and there was something like Queen Puss or something like
Speaker 4: the word puss was in there because Boogerman Booger's parts
Speaker 4: and all that stuff. And my mom's like, what is that? Like,
Speaker 4: she was like what did I just get?
Speaker 1: Like what is this game?
Speaker 4: And I was like, what do you It says something
Speaker 4: about pussy in there. I was like, what what does
Speaker 4: that mean? And no, look at this, it's just about
Speaker 4: fun booker stuff. And she's like, oh, okay, but she
Speaker 4: thought it was about something InCred.
Speaker 3: I did not think that's where that was going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where that went. Yeah.
Speaker 4: She also wouldn't let me rent final Fantasy seven because
Speaker 4: she thought it was a porn game.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, yeah, Hey, Jeff Beckler, I don't think
Speaker 2: we've caught you up on this during the voicemail dump
Speaker 2: truck program, but I just want to ask you, this
Speaker 2: is Tony Hawk better than all of the Final fantasies?
Speaker 1: Backler?
Speaker 2: You know this? Yes, thank you?
Speaker 1: Of course Backlar thinks that a man of taste.
Speaker 3: To be fair, I've not played a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Fast of course, Mike blow me off like that, you
Speaker 2: know what, Yes, I'm gonna take it anymore.
Speaker 4: Guarantee the majority opinion would say that Tony is better than.
Speaker 3: Majority opinion is always the best one. Well, I played
Speaker 3: the newest one, Tony Hawk. No, the final Fantasy won
Speaker 3: That was LARPing as like Game of Thrones or whatever
Speaker 3: it was for Like, sure, yeah, that was all right.
Speaker 3: I'd rather be playing Tony Hawk.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you say that about almost any video game.
Speaker 4: I'd rather be playing Tony Hawk.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, please get me out of here, all right.
Speaker 2: Uh, Jeff job with the news, but he's not here,
Speaker 2: So Mike manaughty with the news.
Speaker 5: Yes right, Jeff Grubbs got the bug, but don't feel snubbed.
Speaker 5: I'll give the news a rub.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: He did write all these stories in here for yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm a I'm a poet and I didn't know it. Uh.
Speaker 5: Xbox launching partner Gaming Handhold this year. Report claims Microsoft
Speaker 5: plans to release an Xbox branded handhold device in late
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five through an oh EM partnership and outside
Speaker 5: companies producing it. Microsoft is working closely with them on
Speaker 5: the software integration code named Keenan. I can't wait to
Speaker 5: see what is co named Kel. The device will resemble.
Speaker 3: Xbox Wait a second, Wait a second, Wait a second,
Speaker 3: Wait a second, Mike, you are delivering the news like
Speaker 3: a fucking morning DJ and I cannot handle it.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 3: I like it. It's awesome, though, it's if you're just
Speaker 3: like putting in these little quiz It's just so sick.
Speaker 1: Keenan, that's interesting.
Speaker 3: Can you do the trafficking weather after this?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: In Honestly, if this thing is co named Keenan, I
Speaker 5: feel like there's a very good chance that the next
Speaker 5: like home console is co named Kel. Like they're being
Speaker 5: funny about.
Speaker 1: Its right now. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: The device will resemble Xbox consoles and feature an Xbox
Speaker 5: Guide button. Is speculated to be PC oriented, running Windows
Speaker 5: and supporting PC game Past Team and the Microsoft Store. Additionally,
Speaker 5: Microsoft aims to launch its next gen console in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty seven. I know, I saw another report saying that
Speaker 5: that next Xbox console will also basically be a PC.
Speaker 5: But this kind of you know, Xbox software on top
Speaker 5: of it. Does this sound like a good direction for
Speaker 5: Xbox to take to u all? Do you think maybe
Speaker 5: that handheld PC gaming space is a little spoken for
Speaker 5: with the Steam Deck and stuff like the Asis rug Alley,
Speaker 5: do you think Microsoft can still make waves there?
Speaker 2: See? I keep making the statement that I think PC
Speaker 2: gaming has never been in an easier place for people
Speaker 2: to get into it, like a Steam deck and the
Speaker 2: Asis Roger. But even my friends that are a little
Speaker 2: bit more open to technology will still kind of confine
Speaker 2: themselves to the console ecosystem. But I bet if those
Speaker 2: same friends saw an Xbox console that would be able
Speaker 2: to lay not a bunch of PC games, but open
Speaker 2: up to like game Pass or maybe you could get
Speaker 2: Steam running.
Speaker 1: You could probably get an emulator running on.
Speaker 2: These guys too, then they would be more open to
Speaker 2: it because it has that Xbox branding. I'm more interested
Speaker 2: in this than another Xbox console.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and they've also been saying like this
Speaker 3: is a PC with an Xbox like they've been saying
Speaker 3: there for twenty years. I feel like, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: in some variation, but yes, you're right. Also presumably right,
Speaker 3: Microsoft is like there is something that like Microsoft could
Speaker 3: probably do in the way of like getting Windows to
Speaker 3: work right on a mobile device in a way that
Speaker 3: like no one else has really been able to thread
Speaker 3: that needle.
Speaker 4: I mean, right, I don't like that rock ally X
Speaker 4: does a pretty good job of that, I think.
Speaker 5: I think it does too, damn. But then I hear
Speaker 5: a lot of people talk about Windows on the rock
Speaker 5: ally X like it's the.
Speaker 3: Devil, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I feel like I've heard a lot of people still, I.
Speaker 3: Feel like I've heard enough of two where like the
Speaker 3: unique fact like there is a thing where like Microsoft
Speaker 3: could get away with saying like, oh, but no one's
Speaker 3: gonna do Windows on a handheld like we will be
Speaker 3: able to do.
Speaker 5: And then I do think at some point Microsoft needs
Speaker 5: to make a more specific kind of Xbox E or
Speaker 5: gaming based version of Windows right kind of yeah, a
Speaker 5: sort of similar but different operating system that is just
Speaker 5: going to be friendlier for these kinds of devices. We
Speaker 5: clean the handheld end the next console.
Speaker 4: Wasn't that kind of the plan though, when it's like
Speaker 4: Windows had that weird pivot where it was just like
Speaker 4: the when the boxes on the screen that it wasn't
Speaker 4: the normal start man for like that was for tablets
Speaker 4: and everything that tries to put that on PC's as well.
Speaker 4: Briefly before you know, you can always like turn it off.
Speaker 4: But the phones, the Windows phones, the Xbox even changed
Speaker 4: its dash at the time to kind of be congruous
Speaker 4: or that for what it was called.
Speaker 3: They seem extraordinarily fragmented, where like none of their teams
Speaker 3: are none of their products are really talking to each
Speaker 3: other in a productive way.
Speaker 1: Like who's done drive? I shut that shit down?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, someone take when one drive out back?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 2: Like what are we doing?
Speaker 3: Stop doing that? Windows.
Speaker 2: The Windows experience.
Speaker 3: Right now is it's like it's pestering, it's annoying you.
Speaker 3: It's always wanting you to like use shit you don't
Speaker 3: want to use, leave me alone. Don't be the initiator,
Speaker 3: right like, don't be proactive. I'm sick of Windows being proactive.
Speaker 3: Let me do what I want. Stop suggesting shit, Okay,
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 1: You know, Clippy is still on the machine.
Speaker 5: Clippy still clippies in the walls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he'll have his revenge one day.
Speaker 5: Clearly, Xbox has lost a lot of ground to PlayStation
Speaker 5: this generation, and they're kind of just pivoting to being
Speaker 5: more of a software company anyways. So they still want
Speaker 5: to produce hardware. I think, perhaps taking a different avenue there,
Speaker 5: making these things more set basic. Yeah, getting to the
Speaker 5: handheld space makes sense. PlayStation probably also certainly working on
Speaker 5: a handheld of their own, So it's gonna be interesting
Speaker 5: what that all looks like, especially in the world w
Speaker 5: you know, there is still a switch gonna be a
Speaker 5: switch to So now you are once again, maybe more
Speaker 5: directly competing with Nintendo. How does that go?
Speaker 4: It is a lot because I think about it now
Speaker 4: and it's just like I have so like got the
Speaker 4: rock ally, the Steam Deck, the switch, the analog that
Speaker 4: you know for they all have like different little like
Speaker 4: use cases like I feel like, oh, this one's got
Speaker 4: the better batteries, so I'll take this on the long flight,
Speaker 4: or this one is a game Boy game, so I'll
Speaker 4: play it on this thing, or this one's got better emulation,
Speaker 4: this one can do Windows. I can do Fortnite on
Speaker 4: this one without doing any weird shit. Like, I just
Speaker 4: hope it doesn't get over complicated. It almost feels like
Speaker 4: remember when it was just like Netflix and Hulu, and
Speaker 4: then it was everything got fucking complicated. It was great
Speaker 4: for a little bit there, but it is starting to
Speaker 4: be a bit much.
Speaker 5: All right, We'll see how that all goes. Heyoko Jama's
Speaker 5: latest step stranding two trailers here with the confirmed June release.
Speaker 5: They unveiled the new trailer at south By South of West,
Speaker 5: confirming a PS five really stated with June twenty six
Speaker 5: Digital Leuxe and Clutch's editions with Early Excess on June
Speaker 5: twenty fourth, We're also announced a worldwide def Stranding Strands
Speaker 5: of Harmony music tour starting in November. Was also revealed.
Speaker 5: Jan and U, Dan, you watched this with Grubb, you
Speaker 5: reacted to it. There's a video that.
Speaker 4: I watched it for the reaction that I watched your
Speaker 4: reaction last night on your stream.
Speaker 5: Look, I tried to react to it, and like I was,
Speaker 5: I already turned a guess a little bit when I
Speaker 5: saw the trailer was ten minutes long.
Speaker 4: I was surprised that you were surprised by that. Have
Speaker 4: you never seen Adeo Kajima trailing?
Speaker 5: Man, I don't know, just ten minutes, that's a little.
Speaker 1: It's Mike.
Speaker 2: I was with you when Dan suggested we should do this,
Speaker 2: and I thought like, oh, why are we going to
Speaker 2: take like three four minutes out of the show? And
Speaker 2: then I saw it was ten minutes, and then increased
Speaker 2: my apprehension until I started watching.
Speaker 1: You know how many times I watched a twenty seven
Speaker 1: minute trailer for Meddal Years, allid Twins next in college,
Speaker 1: Give me all you got of that?
Speaker 5: That's not that's not a trailer anymore.
Speaker 1: That was pretty much every cute in the game.
Speaker 5: But I remember that one. That one was wild. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so Dan, you liked the trailer, then.
Speaker 2: I liked the trailer. And I followed a similar trajectory
Speaker 2: to Dan with my experience with Death Strainding where the
Speaker 2: original when it originally came out, I'm like, what the
Speaker 2: fuck is this? Why am I Norman retis? And then
Speaker 2: the director's edition came out or director's cut edition came out,
Speaker 2: and then.
Speaker 1: I don't know what why? Then I started to get
Speaker 1: it same.
Speaker 4: Time, because it's not like the director's cut actually really
Speaker 4: added that much of consequence. It was just we were
Speaker 4: removed from the expectations of it and the mystery. It's like,
Speaker 4: and then we just met it on its own terms.
Speaker 2: And right, really fun game because I think I then
Speaker 2: like detached it from like, oh, this is a strand game.
Speaker 2: I'm playing with a bunch of people, and now it's like, oh, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: I'm just walking and and and Norman Reatis is occasionally
Speaker 2: grunting and this is interesting. Yeah, yeah, it is okay, cool,
Speaker 2: I fell down a hill. That's funny. My pizza box
Speaker 2: is now on the fucking floor.
Speaker 5: I have not had that turnaround with that trending yet.
Speaker 5: Maybe I need to go back to the original. This
Speaker 5: STROWU to me, was mostly just a series of incomprehensible
Speaker 5: images and words I have to.
Speaker 1: Do this, okay.
Speaker 2: And I think it's hitting me specifically at a fantastic
Speaker 2: point because I just watched like all of David Lynch's
Speaker 2: films sharing the past, so like seeing this and like,
Speaker 2: oh no, yeah, that all makes sense.
Speaker 4: You asked this, Jan, I think you're the qualified person
Speaker 4: on this podcast. I answer this what is more incomprehensible
Speaker 4: death stranding or Kingdom Hearts.
Speaker 1: Kingdom Hearts okay, well, I mean I don't necessarily disagree
Speaker 1: with that, Okay, but you'll complain about the death stranding part.
Speaker 5: Kingaharts is fun to play, and.
Speaker 1: You know, Duck said, I will say, with Donald Duck
Speaker 1: and guest Randing, Donald Duck or Normans come on the pole.
Speaker 1: I have no feelings about.
Speaker 2: Mike. I'll go Donald Duck on that one.
Speaker 5: But thank you, thank you. I appreciate it. Kind of
Speaker 5: there's something there that's a similar energy. I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: know what it is.
Speaker 1: They or something.
Speaker 5: So yeah, hey, that's coming out this June. That's a
Speaker 5: big game for people to look forward to.
Speaker 3: And specifically because I'm pretty sure I have it in
Speaker 3: Fantasy Critic, then good luck.
Speaker 5: Let's that Donald Duck destroying Norman Retas in this poll very.
Speaker 2: I mean, Norman Reata is just come on.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go to bad for Norman? Really?
Speaker 1: Who will?
Speaker 4: Besides maybe the only I've only seen him in dest Randing,
Speaker 4: and it's I like it not because of him necessarily.
Speaker 1: The Walking Dead franchise will go to bad for Norman Retis.
Speaker 5: Uh, Yesterday was Mario Day, but it was also the
Speaker 5: thirtieth anniversary of Krono Trigger the I on JPG. Squarenex
Speaker 5: is promising commemorative projects, but it's announced various projects to
Speaker 5: celebrate sugar thirty anniversary. What the projects are is not clear,
Speaker 5: but they could include a new game, merchandise, or new
Speaker 5: releases re releases. Fans have long requests at a remake,
Speaker 5: but outside of ports, the game has not been revisited
Speaker 5: as frequently as Final Fantasy for Sugar, released in nineteen
Speaker 5: ninety five for the snees, was developed by a dream
Speaker 5: team her and Nubusakagucci usually Hori and a Kiratriyama. When
Speaker 5: the Cronacross sequel came out nineteen eighty nine, a remake
Speaker 5: of that came out in twenty twenty two. So yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, credl Trigger is super beloved. They've never done
Speaker 5: a lot with it, and it sure seems like at
Speaker 5: least a new version of the original Crow Sugar is due.
Speaker 5: That is a game that you cannot play on modern platforms.
Speaker 5: There's they had a bad mobile version and they ported
Speaker 5: that over to Steam, so it's on Steam.
Speaker 4: The asport was so good got me into a classic JRPG.
Speaker 4: I think it's the best JRPG I've ever played. That
Speaker 4: d S one's awesome.
Speaker 5: I think I think for most people it's it's for
Speaker 5: a lot of people it's the best APG they ever played,
Speaker 5: because it kind of is just the best JRPG. It's
Speaker 5: a beautiful as incredible music, great character is a fun
Speaker 5: battle system.
Speaker 1: It's paced very well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's actually a lot shorter than a lot of
Speaker 5: other JRPGs, and that works to its benefits. So yeah,
Speaker 5: every you know in it. If if you don't think
Speaker 5: you like JRPGs, this is still the one that you
Speaker 5: should try. And I hope they do something to to
Speaker 5: re release it again. I don't know if I need
Speaker 5: the whole HD two D treatment for this game. May
Speaker 5: maybe I'm a bit of a purist there, but just
Speaker 5: some way to present it to a new audience.
Speaker 2: I wonder if they haven't tried to go back to
Speaker 2: Chrono Trigger, because it kind of was that perfect storm
Speaker 2: of all the elements firing off and the right people
Speaker 2: in the right time and place in their careers for
Speaker 2: this game to pop off the way it did. I
Speaker 2: will say I think Crona Trigger is better than Tony
Speaker 2: Hawk pro Skater five.
Speaker 1: I will thank Jan you know what, Jan, Yeah, that's fair. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: there we go very big of all of you. It's
Speaker 1: better than Project Date. Wow. Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 3: There's actually a soft spot for Project Date in my heart.
Speaker 1: And it's a good game. But I think Trigger is
Speaker 1: a great game.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, I yeah, So you know, re releasing Crono
Speaker 5: Trigger in some way, and you know we had the
Speaker 5: Cronocross remester not too long ago, that makes sense. A
Speaker 5: brand new Chrono game. I think a lot of people
Speaker 5: still want that and want to see what that is.
Speaker 5: It's hard to imagine what that even looks like. Right
Speaker 5: Soccer Fucci is doing his own thing. Ugi Horri is
Speaker 5: still a square Enix. Actually, Kiriyama fortunately or Torri Alm
Speaker 5: excuse me a unfortunately passed away, So you can't bring
Speaker 5: those elements together again. And I'll think people necessarily just
Speaker 5: want another game like Crono Cross. That was part of
Speaker 5: the thing of Cronocross was it was so different from
Speaker 5: Crono Trigger. It was kind of a sequel through a
Speaker 5: few references and connective narrative ties, but largely its own
Speaker 5: thing that works for the Final Fantasy series a lot.
Speaker 5: I don't know if people want another Square Knicks series
Speaker 5: where there's slight connective tissues that we call it Chrono
Speaker 5: and we're supposed to get excited. So maybe Crona Triggers
Speaker 5: and Crona cross are not one offs but two offs.
Speaker 5: But still, let's get Crona Trigger remade, remastered or something.
Speaker 2: I have a question for y'all. Is Frog from Chrono
Speaker 2: Trigger on the Mount rushmore of video game frogs?
Speaker 1: Maybe George Washington look so good? Frog Frog ger.
Speaker 4: I like the Acarina frogs, but that's kind of a
Speaker 4: group of frogs. There's individual frogs. I think Frog might be.
Speaker 5: George Washington, might be George Washington. Great Ninja, green Ninja,
Speaker 5: not a bath from.
Speaker 1: Slip slip, slippy toad yeah slippy Yeah, but Frog got
Speaker 1: Frog's theme.
Speaker 2: There's there's a frog in that Star Wars Jedi game.
Speaker 5: Right, everybody liked that little guy, that little freak.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, all right?
Speaker 5: Next up here Andyan Jones in the Fantastic Circle. Excuse me,
Speaker 5: Jeff Grub must have just wrote that the Great Circles
Speaker 5: PS five release date may have appeared online. PS five
Speaker 5: release date for the game, which released in twenty twenty
Speaker 5: four on Xbox inn PC, may be out there. French
Speaker 5: retail sources indicate a physical release of April seven, HEH
Speaker 5: twent twenty five, suggesting a simultaneous digital release. Game received
Speaker 5: positive reviews upon release, with critics praising its adventurous elements
Speaker 5: in blockbuster fields. Developer Machine Games is working on story
Speaker 5: dealc called The Order of the Giants, which is also
Speaker 5: set to launch this year. This is, of course, a
Speaker 5: part of Microsoft's multi platform expansion strategy. I liked this
Speaker 5: game a good amounts when it came out on Xbox,
Speaker 5: it was on PC. I'm hoping that more people discover
Speaker 5: it once it hits PlayStation five.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think this will have a fantastic second life.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's so weird with a lot of Xbox
Speaker 5: games because it's hard to get a sense of if
Speaker 5: it was successful or not, because one, they're not going
Speaker 5: to share sales numbers, and two, like sales numbers wouldn't
Speaker 5: tell the whole story anyways, because game passes a thing.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I wonder if even they really know how to
Speaker 5: measure a game's success or not. So okay, so tell
Speaker 5: us the game is a success, like with High Fi Rush,
Speaker 5: then they'll dismantle the studio anyways until somebody else scoops
Speaker 5: them up. So I hope that game was a success.
Speaker 5: I would like to get at least one sequel to it.
Speaker 5: We'll see what this story DLC is all about, are
Speaker 5: you guys much for like big story DLC drops that
Speaker 5: that never really has totally been mind a while, It.
Speaker 2: Can never like cultivate the momentum for it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, like that for whatever reason, was like
Speaker 4: Layer of the Shadow Broker, you know, like that era the.
Speaker 2: Nervous then for me is the one that like is
Speaker 2: the exception to the rule, I think.
Speaker 1: But yeah, A Bribon one was good. Shivering Isle awesome. Man.
Speaker 5: See when I played Oblivion, shivering Isles had already been now,
Speaker 5: so like it was actually the first thing I accidentally
Speaker 5: did in that game was I discovered, So I was
Speaker 5: like level two doing Shivering Isle.
Speaker 4: I think my favorite game like story DLC was probably
Speaker 4: Fallout three because they had like five of them. They
Speaker 4: all were in like different locations, the pit, the UFO one,
Speaker 4: they all had like their own kind of gimmick, right fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Because I think the timing matters to the time distance
Speaker 3: between right is like important.
Speaker 5: It works. We I feel like we don't get those
Speaker 5: kind of big DLC story based drops anymore like we
Speaker 5: used to, Like you know, foul Face seven remake got
Speaker 5: one of them, but then Rebirth They're like, we're not
Speaker 5: doing that this time. The first Spider Man game got
Speaker 5: a bunch of them. It's Spider Man two, Like, we're
Speaker 5: not doing that anymore. So some ways, it seems like
Speaker 5: it's maybe becoming a little old fashioned, if anything. Yeah,
Speaker 5: get expand alone, so people just start working on the
Speaker 5: sequel now, et cetera, And so.
Speaker 3: It seems like we're on the the other side of
Speaker 3: the heyday.
Speaker 2: Of that for sure.
Speaker 4: I started playing something that had a reorder quest, which
Speaker 4: that brought me back to like Arkham City, you know,
Speaker 4: or Arkham City was like even weirder where it was
Speaker 4: like you know, game Spot and Walmart and or game Stop,
Speaker 4: you know, had different ones for that. But like, yeah,
Speaker 4: when I saw pre order Quest, I was like, man,
Speaker 4: I haven't thought of.
Speaker 1: That in a while. Usually it's like you know, outfits
Speaker 1: and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: I real quick on Indiana Jones. I think about that
Speaker 3: game a lot still because I'm still recommending it to people,
Speaker 3: and I it's it's not my place to say. I know,
Speaker 3: it's all. It's not a brand new conversation. I just
Speaker 3: can't get past like the feeling I had finishing that
Speaker 3: game and just wondering what it would have been like
Speaker 3: fully third person. There's just a part of me that, like,
Speaker 3: for whatever reason, I know, again it's my opinion, does
Speaker 3: not matter. I am in no standing to comment directly
Speaker 3: on it, but I wonder what it would be like
Speaker 3: in third person, Like that game flirts just enough with
Speaker 3: it where like you see yourself enough and you know,
Speaker 3: I just I don't know. I really just cared a
Speaker 3: lot about that during my play. I don't know why
Speaker 3: I couldn't shake it. I just thought about it a lot.
Speaker 2: Do you think they just wanted to avoid any potential
Speaker 2: comparisons with like Uncharted?
Speaker 1: Is why?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Because the character matters so much. The
Speaker 3: fact that you're Indiana Jones matters a whole hell of
Speaker 3: a lot. It matters way more than the fact that
Speaker 3: you're Nathan fucking Drake.
Speaker 4: You know, if they could ever do like was it
Speaker 4: Village and uh are seven that eventually had the like, oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if it's in
Speaker 3: the DNA. I think Machine Games is like, you know,
Speaker 3: the Wolfenstein shooter thing they don't know will break them somehow,
Speaker 3: I don't, you know, joking, but like you know that.
Speaker 2: Like Young Bloods was like the co op one right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Swear there was a third person mode in that, but
Speaker 1: I could just be imagine. I never played. I remember, yeah,
Speaker 1: thart of it and dropped off pretty quick.
Speaker 5: Yes, earlier conversation about co op shooters. We kind of
Speaker 5: forgot that, Like Machine Games was fantastic made one and
Speaker 5: no we really seemed to care.
Speaker 1: Uh all right.
Speaker 5: A new uh Lego Mario Kart set aimed at adults
Speaker 5: has appeared online ahead of an official announcement. The Lego
Speaker 5: Mario Kart Mario and Standard Kart surfaced online and Nintendant
Speaker 5: later confirmed these details. Comprising one and seventy two pieces,
Speaker 5: it's rated eighteen plus due to build complexity, and is
Speaker 5: priced at two hundred and fifty dollars AU. Is that Australian?
Speaker 1: Yes, I ordered it. I think it was like one
Speaker 1: sixty nine in the US.
Speaker 5: I could not do the conversion in my heads. I
Speaker 5: appreciate that the set features of build up a Mario
Speaker 5: figure in his iconic cart along with a stand for
Speaker 5: dynamic display desipay to be officially revealed on hopes probably.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So anyways, Also that Lego game Boy thing is expected
Speaker 5: to come out about a five Daniel, Like all these
Speaker 5: video game Lego things, you did go ahead to pick
Speaker 5: this one up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like Lego stuff in general. I just put
Speaker 4: together the Jaws set and that was a fun one.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: That's cool. The problem is these things take a lot
Speaker 1: of space, and I put together a lot of them.
Speaker 1: I think, Mike, when you came here, you might see me,
Speaker 1: And they take up space. My millennium falcons in my bathroom. Big, well,
Speaker 1: you don't throw it out, what you're done?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: I keep the boxes too, and all the I shit
Speaker 3: you not. I heard someone genuinely say that they throw
Speaker 3: them away. No, not that they throw them away. But
Speaker 3: asked me because you know we've built like the Mario
Speaker 3: TV yes, and all the ship around the house. And
Speaker 3: like someone was just like, well you're done, Bill, why
Speaker 3: like you know the.
Speaker 2: Older person yeah, boomery. I was like, fucking for real.
Speaker 4: What but when you do a lot, like I've done
Speaker 4: every one of the Nintendo Ones, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 4: great the Nintendo Ones.
Speaker 1: I've got the space above the fireplace downstairs. I'll just
Speaker 1: put them all up there. Got space for a couple
Speaker 1: more maybe.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: But then it's like, okay, I'm done the jaw set.
Speaker 4: I do the globe thing, and I do the falcon
Speaker 4: and all this shit. It's just like, these are this
Speaker 4: is things.
Speaker 3: This is Lego's biggest achilles heel. Yeah, this is the
Speaker 3: biggest problem, aside from the like wild amounts of plastic
Speaker 3: that they used. But like that, yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 3: There's a ceiling.
Speaker 4: I've sold some when I'm done with them where it's
Speaker 4: just like all right, I had my fun with this.
Speaker 4: This bat batmobi always on display for a year, and
Speaker 4: now I'll just sell it fully assembled and just be like, hey,
Speaker 4: here's the box too.
Speaker 3: Glue it before you sell it.
Speaker 1: I've heard done glue stuff.
Speaker 2: Now I think there's glue it.
Speaker 5: He breaks it, you break it a part again when
Speaker 5: you sew it, so people can put it back together.
Speaker 4: I think when I've moved out of Connecticut, i sold
Speaker 4: a handful of them. I think I just gave him
Speaker 4: to total like full, and then because that that proves
Speaker 4: like hey, look it's you know, it's yeah, it's got everything.
Speaker 2: You give them a.
Speaker 3: Little sledgehammer and you're like, this is what you'll need
Speaker 3: when you get home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh they need to slow down on these.
Speaker 4: And I'm glad they're slowing down on Ambo's because it's
Speaker 4: just like things that I just keep buying and it's.
Speaker 3: Like, all right's there's still Ambos, there's.
Speaker 1: Still they don't make too many any man, but well,
Speaker 1: yeah I miss them.
Speaker 5: Uh Tell's switch two upgrades revealed by the FCC amebo
Speaker 5: speaking of faster Wi Fi and more so. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: we're kind of got some uh more ideas about this
Speaker 5: system between NFC support so you'll have a meebo, a
Speaker 5: second USB se port on top for charging, and Wi
Speaker 5: Fi six support. I wonder, you know, the NFCU support.
Speaker 5: I wonder how much love that's going to get or
Speaker 5: if part of that is just well, this system has
Speaker 5: to be backwards compatible if I'll switch one game, so
Speaker 5: we gotta have that, and you know, an NFC uh
Speaker 5: ports or whatever reader thing probably isn't that expensive.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine I with with how weird the stuff
Speaker 2: for the switch to may be I don't imagine. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's another excuse to sell things, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe this is a good time for me.
Speaker 1: But to make a.
Speaker 3: Comeback, stop putting put radio the radio antenna whatever. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's like eleven cents. It's like, you know, like you're
Speaker 3: just on there by default.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I think it maybe is just a matter
Speaker 5: of making sure that this system is as backward compatible
Speaker 5: as possible. And I'm sure there will still be some
Speaker 5: games that have some amoebo support, like you know, Echoes
Speaker 5: of Wisdom. I think did do something if you put
Speaker 5: a zelda a meebo on it. I don't think they
Speaker 5: made a news Zeda. I think there were like a
Speaker 5: couple outfits you could get.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one of tho things where you can scand
Speaker 4: like three ambo a day, like Breath of the Wild
Speaker 4: and Tears the Kingdom did.
Speaker 3: But yeah, nothing really, Dan, I gotta say, buddy, first
Speaker 3: time I went to your apartment in Manhattan, I'm like,
Speaker 3: you know, you live in an apartment and and it's
Speaker 3: not that big. No one has big apartments of Manhattan.
Speaker 3: I get in, I'm like looking at your dogs.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, that's cool. I look around and.
Speaker 3: I'm greeted with this ameebo.
Speaker 2: Shrine, and I'm just sort of like, do I gotta
Speaker 2: get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1: It's a lot more now, and the thing is like
Speaker 1: all the new ones that just kind of keep in
Speaker 1: the packaging. So it's like it just takes up so
Speaker 1: much more space, and it's like you don't have any plan.
Speaker 1: I don't like buy stuff to sell it. So it's like, no,
Speaker 1: they're just one filling upward tubs in my storage room,
Speaker 1: Like there's just.
Speaker 3: One wrong above Funko pops Buddies.
Speaker 1: Hey, now, don't they things you can't take back? I've
Speaker 1: been That's why I said it. I believe it, and
Speaker 1: I mean it.
Speaker 5: I know I'm a mild funk pop defender, only a
Speaker 5: mild one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No one's a full blown defender.
Speaker 5: No one's that much of a sa.
Speaker 1: Folks.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, supposedly you switch, you has Wi Fi six
Speaker 5: instead of the Wi Fi five in the original switch.
Speaker 5: Aside from recognizing that's a larger number, I don't really
Speaker 5: know what that means, but apparently that means the Wi
Speaker 5: Fi will be a bit faster the Steam deck ole
Speaker 5: that has Wi Fi six Yeah, yeah, which is better. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it could have been better, but I guess we'll take
Speaker 5: what we can get there. Hey, we're not that far
Speaker 5: away from that April second big kind of coming out
Speaker 5: party for the Switch to so soon we're gonna finally
Speaker 5: learn a lot more about this thing and the game's
Speaker 5: coming out for it, and that's exciting.
Speaker 1: What other colors do you think they're going to have
Speaker 1: at launch?
Speaker 5: They might not have any additional color. Well, I'm trying
Speaker 5: to think the original Switch they did have more than.
Speaker 2: Just the red and the Joy had the gray and
Speaker 2: the red and blue.
Speaker 1: There was a gray option that was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah that's what I got because I I wanted
Speaker 2: my Switch understated.
Speaker 1: Classy yeah class.
Speaker 5: Uh. RoboCop Broke City is getting a sequel this summer.
Speaker 5: Standalone sequel called Unfinished Business, set to release this summer
Speaker 5: for Places of five, Xbox Series, x NUS and PC plays,
Speaker 5: will reprise the role as Alex Murphy battling heavily armored
Speaker 5: mercenaries in Omni Tower, a high tech housing complex. So yeah,
Speaker 5: this Rogue City was a surprisingly good game that it
Speaker 5: came out in November twenty twenty three. But I think
Speaker 5: doing a standalone, expand alone kind of thing for that
Speaker 5: will be neat. Apparently there might be some flashback sequences
Speaker 5: where you play as a normal bass Alex Murphy before RoboCop,
Speaker 5: which part of me is like, that's kind of neat
Speaker 5: in other parts like, who wants to play is just
Speaker 5: Alex Murphy because playing that demo for Rogue City, the
Speaker 5: best part of the game was being RoboCop and just
Speaker 5: lifting people up and throwing them like one hundred feet
Speaker 5: across an alley or something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, better than I think people expected it to be.
Speaker 4: And it seems like they did that Terminator game that's
Speaker 4: pretty well received, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so good Niche They gotta find more yeah
Speaker 5: eighties action movies to turn into decent video games.
Speaker 1: I support that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a comedy sequel doesn't mean Clover Studio will only
Speaker 5: focus on sequels in future. Kamiya says a Clover Studio
Speaker 5: head that Ki Kamya clarifies that the studios work on
Speaker 5: an ecomedy sequel doesn't mean they'll only focus on existing
Speaker 5: ip Kamya and Kento Koyama, who left Platinum Games to
Speaker 5: form Clover's emphasize that they're open to various possibilities, including sequels,
Speaker 5: spiritual successors, and entirely new ip. The key factor for
Speaker 5: them is whether a project is interesting and whether they
Speaker 5: can cloverize it, adding their unique touch. I love them
Speaker 5: things they cloverized. While their first project isn't a comedy sequel,
Speaker 5: Commya stresses that this doesn't limit their future endeavors and
Speaker 5: that they're not solely focused on sequels. So that's nice,
Speaker 5: even though I'm sure there's a lot of people who
Speaker 5: would be happy if they said their next project was
Speaker 5: a beautiful Joe three or so.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, the first thing.
Speaker 3: I really wish they would have waited to say this
Speaker 3: until after that game came out.
Speaker 1: Uh, I am.
Speaker 5: I am excited to see that Okami sequel. Makes me
Speaker 5: feel guilty for not having finished Okamia. I might even
Speaker 5: go back to.
Speaker 1: That one comedy game.
Speaker 5: It's a very long game. Yeah, yeah, it's a pretty game.
Speaker 5: It's still a very pretty game, so definitely want to
Speaker 5: go back to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm glad that Clover's exists. I'm curious to see what
Speaker 5: they come up with over there. I was a mistake
Speaker 5: of her, but I thought that this was like now
Speaker 5: a part of Capcom again like the original Clover was,
Speaker 5: But no, it is an independent studio that is just
Speaker 5: working with Capcom, so future projects don't even need to
Speaker 5: be Capcom ip necessarily, except you know, do beautiful Joe,
Speaker 5: Yes Joe, come on, come on more anti coolactic. The
Speaker 5: heretic profit info has come about. This is Naughty Dog's
Speaker 5: upcoming game. It's at two thousand years in the future
Speaker 5: and an alternate timeline that split from Mars in the
Speaker 5: nineteen eighties, where a new religion has evolved. Lead and
Speaker 5: Neil Druckman has been developing the game for four years,
Speaker 5: detailing an intricate mythology of the religion's expansion over millennia,
Speaker 5: but as well assume the role of a bounty hunter
Speaker 5: straighted on a desolate planet center of this religion with
Speaker 5: the goal of uncovering its mysteries and escaping the game.
Speaker 5: If What's by Toe's like Halfway two and Monkey Island,
Speaker 5: whoa wait a second here, those are just two of
Speaker 5: my favorite games. We'll focus on exploration and being lost
Speaker 5: in a confusing world different from Nidok's previous works. Like
Speaker 5: the Last of Us, Druckman acknowledges the game's religious themes
Speaker 5: might be controversial. That expresses this fascination with exploring such
Speaker 5: concepts in a sci fi setting. Here's a quote now
Speaker 5: for Druckman, with the Last of Us Too. We made
Speaker 5: a lot of creative decisions that got us a lot
Speaker 5: of hate. So the joke is that, hey, let's do
Speaker 5: something people won't care about as much, like faith and religion.
Speaker 5: I am all for tackling the subject of religion, and
Speaker 5: you'll Druckman has had some takes on this stuff before, though.
Speaker 5: That makes me a little worried what exactly the game
Speaker 5: is going to say about religion, more specific religions.
Speaker 3: The religion is going to be like the Church of Porsche,
Speaker 3: So I don't really think it's like maybe more of
Speaker 3: the consumerism religion than.
Speaker 5: He said some things before that had a bit of
Speaker 5: a sad what he said, A bit of a zion Zionists.
Speaker 5: I don't even remember science spent to Zionist.
Speaker 2: You didn't know how to say the words zion You
Speaker 2: know there's some words you mostly just read.
Speaker 1: I read the news. I read the news, all right.
Speaker 5: I'm not necessarily listening to NPR as much as maybe
Speaker 5: I should.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 5: But yeah, there's you know, when all this stuff was
Speaker 5: happening with you know, Gussa and Palestine and whatnot.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5: So uh, I'm not maybe as incredibly wellformed as I
Speaker 5: should be, so I'll be careful.
Speaker 1: But I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: I didn't know he was. He was loud about that.
Speaker 5: There was something about that, and that's why people are
Speaker 5: perhaps a little on edge on what he has to say.
Speaker 5: I think that's a topic of religion, so that's fair.
Speaker 1: Uh, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 5: He got me a little bit by saying his main
Speaker 5: sources of influence are Half Life two and Monkey Island.
Speaker 5: So I hope the game's fun, but I also hope
Speaker 5: that it doesn't have idiotic takes about some very important
Speaker 5: and u devastating issues in the world right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The video leak revealed Sony is working on AI powered
Speaker 5: PlayStation characters. Sony's scoring AI driven characters. The leaked prototypes
Speaker 5: showing ay from Horizon for Ben and West. Responding to questions.
Speaker 5: While the AI quality is currently not on par with
Speaker 5: traditional development and no shit, Sony is hyping it describing
Speaker 5: as a prototype developed with Gorilla Games. The expression of
Speaker 5: AI is generating industry attention, as nearly half of gay
Speaker 5: developers are using generative AI tools. This cutrasts with criticism
Speaker 5: Activism received for using AI imagery and marketing that that
Speaker 5: was a story last week when they had AI images
Speaker 5: for fake video games just to try to gauge interest
Speaker 5: for them. I don't know if you all have seen
Speaker 5: this video. It's like the worst version of the MILO
Speaker 5: prototype for.
Speaker 4: When there are a few things I can think of
Speaker 4: that I would be less interested in than having a
Speaker 4: like chat GPT conversation with Aloy.
Speaker 1: And that video is just like, who is this for?
Speaker 5: What do I have to talk to Aloy about? We
Speaker 5: got nothing in common.
Speaker 1: I don't like it when she talks in the game.
Speaker 2: But but here's here's the thing, and like, you know,
Speaker 2: I've played like a baby's handful of hours of the
Speaker 2: Horizon games. Isn't the whole.
Speaker 1: Point is that she's fighting like evil robots.
Speaker 5: That have taken over the dudes the earth? Yeah yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: So there's a dissonence there. It's like not the voice right,
Speaker 5: some AI slop and it sounds as far from realistic
Speaker 5: or human as possible. I just have no idea what
Speaker 5: the purpose of this. I know that it gets executives
Speaker 5: rock hard and they see this ship.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it Ai is definitely like the the VC
Speaker 3: Boner of the decade. Listen, listen, though, Mike, you're telling me,
Speaker 3: I know, I know the answer to this. You walk
Speaker 3: into disney World, right, you walk into Disney World, and
Speaker 3: if you could engage with an Ai Mickey to like
Speaker 3: have your uh just decide where to go first in
Speaker 3: the park, like oh heard the remark, you know, and
Speaker 3: tells you like there's not a long way at whatever here,
Speaker 3: you would love the ship out of that.
Speaker 5: Oh, they absolutely. He had a thing called my Pal
Speaker 5: Mickey and like the two thousands, it was a doll
Speaker 5: that interacted with a bunch of like NFC readers, place
Speaker 5: arout the park and the doll would talk to you
Speaker 5: and be like, oh yeah, the parts of the Caribean
Speaker 5: doesn't have a very long line right now. Huh kind
Speaker 5: of thing. Oh Yeahessey is absolutely gonna try getting in
Speaker 5: on this slop. Also, they all are you know?
Speaker 2: That was my point is that you're gonna love it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I love it. I think I
Speaker 1: may not like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like they tried introducing right Mike, like, uh AI
Speaker 2: checkout stands that, like we're absolutely hated throughout the parks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there's stuff like that. I mean, Genie Plus
Speaker 5: was using AI to like try to give you all
Speaker 5: these recommendations on what you should do your day and
Speaker 5: sort of retreated from that. We're all just gonna be
Speaker 5: stuck in this heuscape of people throwing random darts on
Speaker 5: the AI board to see what sticks and realize very
Speaker 5: little does, and then we're just gonna further fall down
Speaker 5: to our dystopia.
Speaker 3: Just fucking cure cancer. Just shut the fuck up and
Speaker 3: fucking cure cancer. Okay, you want to make you want
Speaker 3: to make you want to make all these screensaver, you
Speaker 3: want to make AI generate screensavers fromuntil the end of
Speaker 3: goddamn time, Go ahead, but cure fucking cancer. First stop cancer.
Speaker 5: But what if you could talk to Aloy about her day? No,
Speaker 5: just just just it's not a real person, there's no day.
Speaker 3: And I also hope, like you know, I don't I
Speaker 3: understand everyone is like hyper horny to inject some semblance
Speaker 3: of AI into their thing. When AI has become this
Speaker 3: like dumpster catch all category for everything, not dissimilar to
Speaker 3: like HD and four K and adding a plus to
Speaker 3: the end of your dumb ass fucking thing, But like,
Speaker 3: what are what's the plan humanity? Is the plan to
Speaker 3: like just eliminate every job on earth so that either
Speaker 3: there's universal basic income or is it like you're gonna
Speaker 3: fucking need someone to pay for the shit you're selling.
Speaker 3: And if nobody's working, there's no fucking money. So who's
Speaker 3: buying the shit you're selling? If all it is is
Speaker 3: robots talking to each other? What are what's the plan.
Speaker 5: The government?
Speaker 1: What's the plan?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like we've had like years, decades even
Speaker 2: worth of literature and media pointing exactly to where we're
Speaker 2: at right now, right, Yeah, what's the plan? Show me
Speaker 2: your plan?
Speaker 3: Show me your roadmap?
Speaker 5: Is that you're gonna go home and turn on your
Speaker 5: TV so you can talk to Aloy about the backstory
Speaker 5: to Horizon and there's gonna be so much Okay, all right,
Speaker 5: that's your entertainment.
Speaker 2: Now excuse my language. The same fucking chuds that complain
Speaker 2: about how Aloy looks are gonna fire this thing up
Speaker 2: and whip it out.
Speaker 1: And jerk.
Speaker 5: It's so fucking hard it's going to immediately get turned
Speaker 5: into weird things like that, right, we.
Speaker 2: Know.
Speaker 5: Ah, last thing here, blizz Con is back. Bliz Entertainment
Speaker 5: announced that bliz Con the Ultimate Say and they're also.
Speaker 1: Gonna whip it out at bliz Finally it's back.
Speaker 5: It's returning to the Anahi Convention Center. Gonna be September twelfth.
Speaker 5: September thirteenth used to happen more around early November. It's
Speaker 5: interesting because they don't just always do blizz Cons anymore.
Speaker 5: Of course, Uh, the first time they didn't do it
Speaker 5: was because of the pandemic, but then there was all
Speaker 5: the you know, the issues happening at Blizzard, and then
Speaker 5: it got sold to Xbox. Even since then, the last
Speaker 5: one was in twenty twenty three, So now it is
Speaker 5: kind of like, oh, they don't do one of these
Speaker 5: unless they kind of maybe feel.
Speaker 1: Like they have some stuff to show off and talk about.
Speaker 5: So perhaps we are going to get at least one
Speaker 5: big Blizzard announcement here, a new game watch Overwatch there,
Speaker 5: they'll be overwatched stuff, and I don't think we're gonna
Speaker 5: get like Overwatch.
Speaker 2: Three.
Speaker 5: People seem to be happier with Overwatch. In a while,
Speaker 5: you know, they'll talk about the next World of Workouts expansion,
Speaker 5: which we already know is called Midnight. I believe they'll
Speaker 5: talk about, you know, a Harpstone thing and whatnot. But
Speaker 5: you know, maybe this is where you hear about a
Speaker 5: new StarCraft or some new ip, something biggish like that.
Speaker 5: I have to say, of all the kind of gamey
Speaker 5: conventions I have covered, I have always had the most
Speaker 5: fun at BlizzCon. They have always put on a pretty
Speaker 5: good show and experience there. It doesn't hurt that it
Speaker 5: is literally right across the street from Disneyland. I was
Speaker 5: gonna say, yeah, I've always had a good time at
Speaker 5: bliz Con, so they're doing that show again. I would
Speaker 5: like to be able to go. I don't know if
Speaker 5: any of you have much of an interest in bliz Con.
Speaker 5: I don't know how many Blizzard games you're consuming.
Speaker 2: I have an interest in Disneyland, so if given the opportunity,
Speaker 2: I'll hang out at blizz Con for a bit.
Speaker 5: And Hey, the Overwatch stuff there they have is usually
Speaker 5: pretty fun because there's like a separate esports arena, so
Speaker 5: they'll do stuff with that and you get to try
Speaker 5: out the new heroes or whatever. And you know there's
Speaker 5: a time there where I was like especially at at
Speaker 5: games beat, Like my beat was Blizzard almost because they
Speaker 5: were so popular with oh yeah, the Blizzard beat because
Speaker 5: Overwatch and Harvestone were popping off, or to workout was
Speaker 5: still popular. So so much of my time was just
Speaker 5: covering blizzards. So it was very productive times that I
Speaker 5: had at blizz Con. Uh all right, that is the news, Jen,
Speaker 5: I'm handing this show back over to you. That's what
Speaker 5: Jeff said.
Speaker 3: Hey Mike, that was amazing. Oh for real, like really good.
Speaker 3: I love you, buddy.
Speaker 5: Oh, I appreciate that. I love you to thank you.
Speaker 2: Great news.
Speaker 1: Dan.
Speaker 2: Also, good job. I don't want you to go without
Speaker 2: loving this second.
Speaker 3: So no, no, Jan, thank you, Jan, No, no, no,
Speaker 3: He'll he'll take that back.
Speaker 2: Sorry Dan, Sorry, Dan.
Speaker 1: Now you used to back. Larry's just such a nice guy.
Speaker 2: You know, time, time change, people change. What can I say?
Speaker 1: You can win them over.
Speaker 5: In the third segment, Dan, I believe such a good
Speaker 5: job with the emails. Okay, thank you, Thanks, Let's see
Speaker 5: how it goes.
Speaker 2: That's right, folks, we'll be back with emails right after
Speaker 2: this quick break. If you pick up one piece of
Speaker 2: trash for the class, you get five podcast points. See
Speaker 2: you right after this. Emails on cassigiant Bomb dot com
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Speaker 2: we may potentially read it on air. I love and
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Speaker 2: also digging through the spam folder because Gmail has suddenly
Speaker 2: become fucking trash and as putting a bunch of not
Speaker 2: spam and the spam anyway. First email is about deaths
Speaker 2: Straining two and comes from Rich. Can Dan explain what's
Speaker 2: going on in that trailer?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, well I'll stop moving uh they Rich continues.
Speaker 2: My takeaway was solid Snake is smuggling brain dead, brain
Speaker 2: dead pregnant women with his zombie army, but is also
Speaker 2: a puppet. Then an Ouz Colossus wears metal gear Rex's
Speaker 2: head as a hat. Is this just Hideo Kojima saying
Speaker 2: he's taking his stuff back after the breakup. The daylight
Speaker 2: savings time just messed with my attention span, so I
Speaker 2: missed everything. Thanks everyone, and have a good week.
Speaker 1: Rich.
Speaker 4: I think the only thing I could say with any
Speaker 4: confidence based on that is that I don't think Solid
Speaker 4: Snake is also the puppet.
Speaker 1: I think the puppet is a different entity than Solid Snake.
Speaker 1: Oh like doll man puppet? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Or is he saying like a metaphorical puppet, because I
Speaker 4: mean Solid Snake was a metaphorical puppet of the government
Speaker 4: and metal You're solid of course.
Speaker 5: Symbolism symbolism, symbol that's right.
Speaker 2: No, there's none of that here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I don't have any pucket idea what's going on
Speaker 4: in that story or the first nor will you ever
Speaker 4: watch every scene, heard everything that that game, I'm to say,
Speaker 4: and I had a good time with it. Couldn't tell
Speaker 4: you a single foot What did you like about the game?
Speaker 4: Walking around, building roads, He's got good walking around, He's
Speaker 4: got great walking around. The ziplines were fantastic.
Speaker 1: Hyah, I like a zip line, Yeah, I do like
Speaker 1: the the the tripping gun that was fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the the like bolo thing or whatever, Yeah, that
Speaker 4: was good. Yeah, it's just it's a fun game to play,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: I'm still stuck on the whole David Lynch comparison, and
Speaker 3: I feel like that's David Lynch.
Speaker 2: No, No, I think at one hundred percent makes sense
Speaker 2: because a hundred like a bunch of people will watch
Speaker 2: a David Lynch film and be like that was weird.
Speaker 2: I liked it, right, I can not be able to
Speaker 2: explain anything from it.
Speaker 4: It's very funny to me that the first objective indust
Speaker 4: randing is take the corpse of your president mom to
Speaker 4: the top of a volcano for cremation, if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1: It's just very funny. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I did David Lynch and Hadeo Kajima ever meet? Almost
Speaker 1: certainly right at some point, I don't know. The good
Speaker 1: question loves meeting holly people, and he's usually very successful.
Speaker 2: But on the flip side, does it work where David
Speaker 2: Lynch would have liked to meet?
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 2: I think so because because he would have just been like,
Speaker 2: oh here's another weird guy, all right, cool? Yeah you
Speaker 2: think they would have like bonded in their weirdness. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because I think, like, like weird energy respects weird energy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well David.
Speaker 4: Had lunch with my wife and I've met Kajima, so
Speaker 4: we're just a couple degrees of separation.
Speaker 2: There we go, It technically has happened. Then the other
Speaker 2: power of friendship. Next email comes from Jeff in Quebec. Surprise,
Speaker 2: The BombCast is now subtitled by AI. What are the
Speaker 2: little adjectives in parentheses next to everyone's name used to
Speaker 2: describe their tone and personality? Example Mike parentheses chirpie. This
Speaker 2: reminds me of Disney Dan parentheses naive.
Speaker 1: No, that's gross. There's no MAO on that. No, it's
Speaker 1: Jan gross. No, you've read that wrong.
Speaker 2: Jan amazed ever realize how it's actually YouTube advanced but
Speaker 2: without ads, so it's advanced. Shut the fuck up, Jeff
Speaker 2: from Quebec? Is that true? Was this like a converse? No,
Speaker 2: he's just positing.
Speaker 3: No, I'm saying, are is the bomb? Guest subtiped oh
Speaker 3: on Spotify again.
Speaker 5: I bet backer will get amused a lot, or like
Speaker 5: annoyed annoyed amused not I want to say.
Speaker 1: Belligerent, No, not belligerent, No, belligerent that's not no.
Speaker 5: Grubs would be like agro okay, yeah, yes, yes, and tauntingly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean pretty pretty solid.
Speaker 5: It's pretty solid for shoot when he's being sincere shootingly shootingly.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Uh. I'm trying to think of one for
Speaker 2: Nikki because I Nikki has a bunch of just sayings
Speaker 2: that they're always dropping. That I just gives me a
Speaker 2: small pop.
Speaker 5: Starting to talk like Nikki and like my person in
Speaker 5: all life, how I picked up a lot of their mannerisms.
Speaker 5: I'm saying, makes you think all the time, thinking.
Speaker 2: Constantly was almost like a a twang. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I just love the way Nikki talks, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: There's but there do you do you hear that? There
Speaker 3: is like almost like a Southern thing going on there?
Speaker 5: So there's like a waight's what you're trying to say?
Speaker 2: I think, no, No, you're right about there is a
Speaker 2: southern it's a southern California thing. I knew that was gone.
Speaker 2: I knew that was so Yeah, makes you think, makes
Speaker 2: you think, Yeah, I want you to know.
Speaker 5: I read your newsletter and I quit piano lessons once too,
Speaker 5: and under much much more reasonable, much less reasonable situation
Speaker 5: than you did, So don't feel.
Speaker 1: Bad about it. Quick guitar lessons almost immediately. Yeah, these
Speaker 1: lessons are kind of boring. It's like, man, I'm either
Speaker 1: going to be self taught or nothing. My fingers aren't
Speaker 1: going to move like that. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Did you was your music classes like solo dolo so
Speaker 2: like one on one or like in a one on
Speaker 2: one piano thing?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What do you think would have changed that?
Speaker 1: Like, may may entice you to do it if your
Speaker 1: instructor was cooler, if.
Speaker 5: My fingers correctly, they're able to come to my place
Speaker 5: to teach me whenever I wanted.
Speaker 1: To come on, I learned bad.
Speaker 5: It's like this is something I had to do at
Speaker 5: five o'clock every Wednesday for the foreseeable future. I just
Speaker 5: don't know.
Speaker 2: So you were forced to do this?
Speaker 5: No, no, I I paid this person. I wanted to
Speaker 5: learn piano.
Speaker 1: But at college.
Speaker 3: Oh jesus, what the hell? Like I understand a parent
Speaker 3: uh in you know, uh enforcing this on a child.
Speaker 3: You're going to learn piano. You're but like there has
Speaker 3: to be some uh willingness to accept the information of
Speaker 3: like music theory and to like unders.
Speaker 5: Wanted to learn piano. I did it wants to enough?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess there have, but there has to be
Speaker 3: like some openness to the to the the thing, right,
Speaker 3: Like you can't just be like I want to get
Speaker 3: better at being a carpenter or something, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, piano is difficult because there's so much like
Speaker 5: learning to play piano. It's such a long process before
Speaker 5: you're actually playing songs, and like you're playing piano like.
Speaker 1: This tin whistle thing.
Speaker 5: Pretty quickly, I could play a song on a tin
Speaker 5: whistle and at least felt like I was approximating being
Speaker 5: a musician.
Speaker 7: Why is that thing within arms reach at all times?
Speaker 7: What is happening right here? I got my Yeah, this
Speaker 7: is my D. This this is my first one, my
Speaker 7: beginner one. This is the woody it kind of has
Speaker 7: a deeper sid. And then right over here this is
Speaker 7: the big boy.
Speaker 2: This is the big D all of yours.
Speaker 5: And he said, this is this is right here. It's
Speaker 5: called a low D actually, but I like to call
Speaker 5: it the big deep.
Speaker 3: Be fun fun, Yeah, that's the word. They first came
Speaker 3: into my mind.
Speaker 2: Mike, do you know how to play the ukulele?
Speaker 5: No, my brother does. He had to play it out
Speaker 5: a wedding one time. I'm terrible with Uh, string instruments.
Speaker 5: Never figured out a guitar or anything like that.
Speaker 2: I don't have the long strength to play any wind instruments.
Speaker 2: I Uh you mean wind, yeah, or brass. I played
Speaker 2: tuba in high school, and uh, that's so impressive, Like,
Speaker 2: I'm shoot impressed, boxious. It was it was a bad
Speaker 2: It was a it was a wrong choice because it
Speaker 2: was just like I'm gonna do what everyone else does,
Speaker 2: but have to carry around this giant metal contraption while
Speaker 2: I'm doing it.
Speaker 5: And also all the parts I play are boring bass
Speaker 5: backing parts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you've got more tuba energy than anyone I know.
Speaker 5: I know it's not shocking to anybody that I played to,
Speaker 5: but I know tuba energy.
Speaker 2: That's good. He has since entered a rehabilitation program. Uh,
Speaker 2: and I am his sponsor here. So Travis and Fargo
Speaker 2: has a couple emails and it has not gone out
Speaker 2: to me the Travis is misbehaving.
Speaker 1: So we have a bunch of emails this week.
Speaker 2: Actually, but I'll read one of Travis's. Does the younger
Speaker 2: generation have a wonderwall? A song where if you're at
Speaker 2: a house party and there's a guitar laying around there's
Speaker 2: like an eighty percent chance someone will start playing it.
Speaker 4: One thing I've noticed with generations younger than me, like
Speaker 4: at weddings and stuff, is if like a pop punk
Speaker 4: thing comes on, everyone loses their fucking minds.
Speaker 1: If there's a fallout boy or a what a good Charlotte?
Speaker 2: Or why is that weird?
Speaker 1: What do you mean? I guess because it wasn't a
Speaker 1: thing when I was younger, but it was. I hated
Speaker 1: it though, Okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Guess what are we saying?
Speaker 4: It's by how popular it is, because like it'll come
Speaker 4: on and it'll be like, oh, I thought people lated
Speaker 4: this song like everyone's freaking out singing it and stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know when Yeah, I guess that's just you, like,
Speaker 3: you know, understanding popular culture. I guess in a public way.
Speaker 3: I guess that's you know, it's like some one or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, A lot of people chan say maybe mister bright
Speaker 5: side by the Killers. I could see that the generation.
Speaker 5: I could see that. I karaoke mister Bright's side quite
Speaker 5: a bit. So I guess I'm guilty of it too.
Speaker 3: I mean, I do think like my Chemical Romance and
Speaker 3: Blink one eighty two and to some degree or maybe
Speaker 3: with older people Green Day, like, are without a doubt
Speaker 3: that thing that you are describing, Dan there is.
Speaker 1: I just were getting angry every time I even saw
Speaker 1: my chemical romance like a picture. You know what, I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm saying. This is like the weird Paul record programming
Speaker 4: that I was raised with.
Speaker 1: Dan, I said, wouldn't do it now. I said, the
Speaker 1: emails were your big chance.
Speaker 4: When I see a new thing, like I see someone
Speaker 4: on SNL that I'm like, I don't know who this
Speaker 4: person is and I don't get it.
Speaker 1: But I'm not like girl. I used to be gir
Speaker 1: because my dad taught me girl.
Speaker 3: You know, I like, no, but you could be girl
Speaker 3: at like uh, I don't know, uh even good Charlotte Gerr.
Speaker 2: I can get behind you know, but I'm with you
Speaker 2: on that. But like my chemical romance.
Speaker 1: Oh, I remember deeply them in Lincoln Park and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. I just couldn't see.
Speaker 2: Now now some ship high school man that's afy the
Speaker 2: few pants, I can't.
Speaker 1: No, I listen to corn or Lincoln Park or any
Speaker 1: of that stuff. I was just hearing it.
Speaker 3: You know, Well, well, okay, no, because I'm with you
Speaker 3: there on Lincoln Park. But I think I just I know,
Speaker 3: I know, look, it's a generation. That's a generational thing, okay,
Speaker 3: but like but like conflating blink and Lincoln Park is
Speaker 3: like dumb.
Speaker 2: I think I know.
Speaker 4: I'm saying, like anything that was made after nineteen seventy
Speaker 4: eight I was just told was not really.
Speaker 3: And I'm the old guy. And I'm the old guy,
Speaker 3: got it.
Speaker 1: God, this is a great regret of mine.
Speaker 4: In the nineties, when I was getting in to like
Speaker 4: to hear rage against Machine or Sound Garden that back,
Speaker 4: Oh I like this, my dad would be like, well,
Speaker 4: it's not real music, and I'd be like what. So
Speaker 4: like I was like mocked for liking new music, and
Speaker 4: so I think I just kind of built this defense
Speaker 4: thing of like all new stuff is bad. And then
Speaker 4: as I got older, I was like, man, there was
Speaker 4: so much great stuff in the nineties. I wish I
Speaker 4: could have listened to more Pearl Jam and Sound Garden James.
Speaker 2: And you know which I was free to listen to
Speaker 2: that I was, yeah, like, all right, fair enough, God,
Speaker 2: I'm seeing both of those bands this summer and I'm
Speaker 2: so fucking excited. MCR sure oh h. And I don't
Speaker 2: know why I decided to do this, But I decided
Speaker 2: to buy Lincoln Park tickets in Brooklyn just because.
Speaker 3: Popeye Popeye.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 3: Of course there's a there's a tour this this, oh
Speaker 3: it's uh this Summer, The Offspring, Newfound Glory and Jimmy
Speaker 3: World okay, which is like an interesting trio there. Dan
Speaker 3: hates all of those.
Speaker 1: B I did hate all those.
Speaker 2: I will say, uh, I don't think I'm gonna assume
Speaker 2: gen Z parties don't have uh someone ready to play guitar.
Speaker 2: It's someone like saying past me the ox chord or
Speaker 2: whatever some Spotify ship and when we play this AI
Speaker 2: DJ or something. But people will fucking go insane if
Speaker 2: panic at the disco starts playing.
Speaker 1: That's one of them.
Speaker 5: True.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know their songs are like sentences. You know.
Speaker 4: I was deeply annoyed by any band that wrote songs
Speaker 4: about being like sad or whining or any what are
Speaker 4: you doing that?
Speaker 1: Millionaire?
Speaker 2: You also know that's all seventy What do you mean
Speaker 2: that's all rock.
Speaker 1: Is Zepplin and skinnered and stones.
Speaker 2: Yeah they have problems, do there?
Speaker 1: I not depending it.
Speaker 4: I'm just like I always hated whenever any musician complained about, like,
Speaker 4: what are you talking about being sad you got your millionaire.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, yeah, you're not allowed to have problems.
Speaker 1: I know, I know they like trust me as I've
Speaker 1: gotten older.
Speaker 4: It's like I used to that was my big thing
Speaker 4: with Lincoln Park, Like, oh yeah, I'm sure there's super millionaires.
Speaker 1: Yeah, life stuck. I'm sure they got a real tough life.
Speaker 1: And then it's well, okay, you know what.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I realize how wrong that thinking was.
Speaker 2: I'm okay.
Speaker 3: If you just stop admitting it too, I'm okay, if
Speaker 3: like you just stopped talking about how it used to
Speaker 3: be like that, we.
Speaker 1: Would have got along great back then back.
Speaker 2: Let me also say, fuck Paramore starts playing at a
Speaker 2: fucking flugs people are eight eight fucking minds. I believe it. Man,
Speaker 2: hell yo, Hailey Williams.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 2: Next email comes from Ryan and San Jose. Uh, hey,
Speaker 2: folks in the same vein as Tony Hawk's pro skater,
Speaker 2: what would each of your games be? What would Jane
Speaker 2: Cho was blank blank be? Love y'all Cooper from San Jose,
Speaker 2: h Jana Cho's new crippling addiction?
Speaker 5: Uh like Manati's Disney Day planner.
Speaker 2: Oh, it'd be a fun like theme park. Sim that'd
Speaker 2: be cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, figure out, like what are you gonna You
Speaker 5: gotta get your reservations for dinner at so and so date,
Speaker 5: and if you want to get to get a br guest,
Speaker 5: you gotta make sure you get up at five o'clock
Speaker 5: to get that reservation. But for echoes and what's your backup?
Speaker 5: You might be going to the Liberty Tree tavern if
Speaker 5: that one falls through.
Speaker 1: Jeff Grubbs Mini Van, Oh yeah, Dan Record's car combat.
Speaker 2: Everyone is axel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a thousand.
Speaker 1: That's a party.
Speaker 3: Uh, Jeff Backlar's Major Grievances.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good, that's very good.
Speaker 2: Second level is locker room hot dogs. Oh that's some
Speaker 2: boss battleship right there. Nikky Grayson's make you think. Yeah
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, Turbo Shawn's uh furry collection.
Speaker 1: Collection. Sorry shots, sorry, shot, it's a joke. It's a goof.
Speaker 2: Alright.
Speaker 1: Shoemaker's Nat drive.
Speaker 2: Nass, it's nas but to Tony Hawks, so would please.
Speaker 3: Vinnie Caravella is complex wiring.
Speaker 1: Or TriCaster.
Speaker 2: No no, no, Vinnie Caravella is fast eating.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: Fast, I mean I fast and no, I've never seen
Speaker 5: anybody eat faster than my dad.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 5: That's Italian. How do we get your dad through the
Speaker 5: meal very quickly?
Speaker 1: How do we get your dad to like enter a
Speaker 1: eating competition with Vinnie? I don't think that's It'll be
Speaker 1: too short. It'll be too short. Yeah, won't last long enough.
Speaker 5: Everyone's gonna put their.
Speaker 1: Buddy Alex Navarro's thinly disguised disdain.
Speaker 2: That's really good. That's really good. Lucy James's Sleepy Time.
Speaker 1: Jason a striker's backpack Twizzlers. I love that. It's very good.
Speaker 5: Or Hussein's bloodborne your name, how great it would be
Speaker 5: if there's more blood.
Speaker 2: That's good. That's all very good. All right. Last email
Speaker 2: of the show, once again BombCast at giant bomb dot
Speaker 2: com is the email. Sorry, I just saw Matt Matt
Speaker 2: Rory's you play, and then I'm thinking Matt Rory's wide monitor,
Speaker 2: Matt Rory's.
Speaker 8: Matt his missing shoes, Matt Rory's unnecessary robe, Matt Rory's
Speaker 8: floor meal, couch fart.
Speaker 1: I love.
Speaker 3: There is a lot with Rory, bobcast, broken dirt bike gego.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say Matt Rory at BombCast dot com.
Speaker 2: BombCast a Giant bomb dot Com is the email addressed
Speaker 2: to send your emails to. I love and appreciate everyone
Speaker 2: emailing last email. The show comes from Simon and Saskatchewan
Speaker 2: and they have a trivia fun fact that I didn't
Speaker 2: believe was real and I have not done the research
Speaker 2: to see if it's a shoot or not. Dear BombCast,
Speaker 2: I love trivia and wanted to share a fun trivia
Speaker 2: effect each week Trivia Fact of the week, first week
Speaker 2: of March. They have not written the second or third
Speaker 2: fun fact, so Simon, I'm waiting. Canola as in cooking oil,
Speaker 2: is an abbreviation for Canadian oil low acid. Genetically modified
Speaker 2: type of rape seed plant is a yellow flower and
Speaker 2: is beautiful in the summer when there feels full of them.
Speaker 1: Well thanks Simon from.
Speaker 5: Were we basing a letter on grape seed?
Speaker 4: Literally googled what is canola? And I saw the answers like, oh,
Speaker 4: I could see why they did some rebranding.
Speaker 5: But no one went in rape seed oil.
Speaker 1: Weird? Yeah, OK, yeah.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite like Korean bancha, like the little
Speaker 2: side dishes, is like rape flour, so you know.
Speaker 1: Wow, we could really brand some things better. We can
Speaker 1: change names. We can do that.
Speaker 2: A word like that. Yeah, that's surprised.
Speaker 1: I know Samon and canoe oil last night. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like that's a good high or high smoke point oils low.
Speaker 1: I forget, I forget which one's getting now.
Speaker 4: So you don't do all you don't do all of you,
Speaker 4: don't do all of you new canola Yeah, yeah, avocado's
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And speaking about changing names, folks, if you missed the
Speaker 2: announcement at the beginning of the show, we are changing
Speaker 2: the name of Game Mess Mornings too, game breaking News,
Speaker 2: as well as unveiling the Power Block this Thursday. That's right,
Speaker 2: pretty much almost all day at least four to six
Speaker 2: hours of constant streaming, constant programming from here, from us here,
Speaker 2: our homies at game Spot, our friends at Fandom. We're
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Speaker 2: Do not fear all the same stuff that you've grown
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Speaker 2: bomb cast, BC, r U p F. That is all
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Speaker 2: hanging out with us. Thursday, we will have can we
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Speaker 4: Don't don't touch that dial because that's the thing now,
Speaker 4: you don't have to hop between streams. Don't touch that dial, right,
Speaker 4: there's no dial to that.
Speaker 1: How do we modernize it. Don't touch that tab that
Speaker 1: X yeah, I want to bring back. Don't touch that dial.
Speaker 3: That was a good don't don't Yeah, don't close that tab.
Speaker 1: Don't close tab work? Wow, don't close that tad works? Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't close that tab. That's why you're the big brands here.
Speaker 5: What about.
Speaker 4: Maybe go back to the drawing board on that one,
Speaker 4: you know where, just saying you could brand things a
Speaker 4: little better.
Speaker 1: This Thursday.
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Speaker 3: Real sad, I like it.
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Speaker 2: Do not worry for game breaking news. On Thursday. We
Speaker 2: will also have the debut of the Game Spot Show,
Speaker 2: which is a bunch of pure fun that the homies
Speaker 2: have cooked up over there. Tam and Lucy are going
Speaker 2: to continue their playthrough of Split fiction, and then I
Speaker 2: believe we're capping the day off with a regular decular
Speaker 2: episode of Voicemail Dump Truck. And then yeah, that'll just
Speaker 2: be how things move forward going on. Everything will be live,
Speaker 2: everything will also be archived, So don't trip, Chocolate Chip,
Speaker 2: We'll cover you there. Uh, friends, anything else to say
Speaker 2: about the power Block?
Speaker 1: It gonna be fun, Yes, for a long time. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be great.
Speaker 2: You know, we're we're what.
Speaker 3: Do they say, what's the phrase? Where we're building the
Speaker 3: plane while we're trying to fly it also at the
Speaker 3: same time, so it's gonna be interesting to see all
Speaker 3: that coming together.
Speaker 2: But yeah, super super dope and hope you enjoy a
Speaker 2: lot of hard work has gone into this all over
Speaker 2: the board, and folks, that does it for another episode
Speaker 2: of the Giant BombCast. We'll see you next week for
Speaker 2: another episode. Until then, he's been Mike, he's been Dan,
Speaker 2: he's been Jeff, I've been Jad and you at home
Speaker 2: are doing great. Look at those socks you're wearing today,
Speaker 2: Holy smokes. Okay, Dan, we didn't all right, oh the
Speaker 2: feet okay, all right, No, we didn't need to see
Speaker 2: the other one, all right, Well, have a good day.