Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, It's Tuesday, November twenty fifth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Holy smokes. Welcome to the Giant BombCast, presented to you
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Speaker 4: Jeff Backlar, Hello, Hello, smoke drugs.
Speaker 1: And speaking about smoking drugs. He's smoking drugs. He's smoking games.
Speaker 1: He's the bad boy of games media because he's smoking himself.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: He had to take his glasses off because he's producing
Speaker 1: too much money. Hate my Manaughty.
Speaker 2: Smoking is the lead cause of lung cancer. All right,
Speaker 2: I meant vape drugs. Sorry, that's right, vape drugs. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's a short week here at giant bomb dot com
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving over here in the States, so excuse us, folks
Speaker 1: if we're starting the podcast at skoch earlier to accommodate
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Speaker 1: That was great.
Speaker 3: That's a highlight every year. It's fun to do, and
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Speaker 5: So yeah, I love doing.
Speaker 6: That also, and next year we could be in the
Speaker 6: top three. We're not that far behind Studio Wildcard. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 6: you hear that.
Speaker 2: Studio Wildcard, We're coming for you much better than you
Speaker 2: your pieces of Shavan Diesel, We're coming for him.
Speaker 1: Wait, why is Ben Diesel's dreaming now he's in He's
Speaker 1: in Arc two apparently, Oh right, right, that's a real
Speaker 1: video game.
Speaker 2: Sure huh.
Speaker 4: Also, what is it about Studio wild Card that they
Speaker 4: like love extra life?
Speaker 2: Like, what is the deal? I think just represent I
Speaker 2: think it's laundering.
Speaker 4: You can get some sort of embezzlement.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're probably stealing from the kids. Honestly, listed right
Speaker 6: now and just put us at three.
Speaker 4: We're calling you out Arc people.
Speaker 2: Who's one and two Magic the Gathering.
Speaker 6: Number one with a little bit over two million. Number
Speaker 6: two is Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons and Dragons. They've
Speaker 6: raised a half million, and Studio Wildcard at one.
Speaker 4: Seven names.
Speaker 3: The names isn't the same as Magic the Gathering. I
Speaker 3: thought that was the company that I know.
Speaker 4: That's that's that's Dungeons and Dragons.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, but the boat.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 6: Audio listeners need to understand the hand gesture he made
Speaker 6: very it's not dismissive, but close, very close.
Speaker 3: Gesture to make my brain leave my body. When I
Speaker 3: heard the praise.
Speaker 2: Good for that. I'm going to my high school twentieth
Speaker 2: reunion tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Michael done. We're not done going through the plugs yet,
Speaker 1: all right? Have I opened the floor yet?
Speaker 3: No, Mikey's always on the Mikey mode. Come on, it's
Speaker 3: it's a plug time with Mikey.
Speaker 4: It's always time with mike all right, he's got I
Speaker 4: thought we had moved on to so I'm with you,
Speaker 4: but I'm.
Speaker 2: Sorry for the record.
Speaker 3: We listed an embargo for a game yesterday and Discord
Speaker 3: and Mikey came in on a private conversation was still like,
Speaker 3: that's my birthday, so it's not just on the air, all.
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Speaker 2: And then I still have to I still have Just Dance.
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Speaker 1: And then there's the description dancing of course, oh yeah yeah.
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Speaker 4: You can just sleep sleep through it.
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Speaker 1: the holidays it coming up. Go buy yourself a PC,
Speaker 1: or go buy yourself a face plate that we made.
Speaker 1: Don't buy mics though, Buy everyone else's.
Speaker 4: Did buy one you would want?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: Lucky my dog didn't actually die the other week. God,
Speaker 2: it felt really bad about that. Oh that's she's on there.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, right, okay, but you know, yeah, all all right, Mike,
Speaker 7: you can buy a plate.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Second one?
Speaker 1: Holy smokes? What else we got?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: I think now it's time.
Speaker 6: I've been reeling since Dan pointed out the fact that
Speaker 6: I have a paid subscription to Dancing sucks.
Speaker 2: That's uh. I don't like the thought.
Speaker 3: It I don't dance, but I did. It does seem
Speaker 3: like it's traditionally been a free activity, something you just
Speaker 3: certain dances.
Speaker 6: Right, It's like it's so like famously for you for
Speaker 6: your mind, or and your ass will follow, or is
Speaker 6: the opposite, for your ass in.
Speaker 5: Your mind will now for your mind, your ass will follow.
Speaker 1: I blue skyed you to cancel it, and I don't. Yes,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, Yes, I it's I still see it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do it. But uh, I hope i'd
Speaker 2: like the idea of yeah, it's funny. If it's funny,
Speaker 2: it would.
Speaker 1: Be funny, like we both forgot to cancel Fortnite Crew
Speaker 1: for however long a.
Speaker 2: Few a few dozens of months. My kids did get
Speaker 2: to just dance.
Speaker 6: A little bit, so uh they maybe we'll see they
Speaker 6: were playing some of the paid ones.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Mike.
Speaker 3: Crew again, I'm backing the crew. I'm getting those V
Speaker 3: bugs everyone.
Speaker 1: I don't care whatever one I was doing. I want
Speaker 1: to hear what Mike wanted to talk about. I spent
Speaker 1: forty dollars on Scratchy. Mike, so tomorrow is your high
Speaker 1: school reunion?
Speaker 2: Thirty bucks on Scratchy. I'm sorry, No, I want to
Speaker 2: talk about it follows you around. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess Scratchy makes the most sense. He's one most.
Speaker 1: War to talk about stuff. You wants a chance, he.
Speaker 2: Gets mad at me again. My bat my twentieth high
Speaker 2: school reunions tomorrow. You're old. Wow, I'm sure I'm old. Everyone.
Speaker 2: Twenty years ago is when I graduated high school. Twenty
Speaker 2: years is some change.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just did my I just did my twenty fifth.
Speaker 3: Oh I didn't do my twentieth because it's like, I
Speaker 3: think people just do Facebook for the organizing now, and
Speaker 3: I'm not on Facebook.
Speaker 2: So that's why I keep Facebook all No, you don't.
Speaker 2: That's well if you want to do things like my
Speaker 2: deep love of Zuck, like the only organizational tool that
Speaker 2: anybody over the age of thirty five years is though
Speaker 2: it just does.
Speaker 4: That's not true.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You're not on your side with this. Maybe this is
Speaker 2: a Midwest thing, but everyone that like does any of
Speaker 2: that stuff is on Facebook these days.
Speaker 4: Just okay, I misheard you. Yeah there is so.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I only found out about that through someone who had
Speaker 4: a Facebook.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, no organizational tool people use for these things.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess what are they going to do otherwise?
Speaker 2: Call everyone?
Speaker 4: No, But I think it makes sense because when Facebook
Speaker 4: was popular among our generation, that's when the sort of
Speaker 4: roots were, the seeds were planted, the roots were sort
Speaker 4: of established. So you have the best chance of casting
Speaker 4: a net and catching you know, as many fish if
Speaker 4: you stay there.
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
Speaker 4: There it makes sense. Fuck Facebook, but yes, it makes.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, this is not an endorsement.
Speaker 1: I'm record clean.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like I just you know, it's a brewery,
Speaker 2: though it's not the brewer. If all the pinball machines.
Speaker 4: Back, oh, can we come to your They.
Speaker 2: Have jaws and d and d and uh the weird
Speaker 2: avatar one that takes your picture. They show all the
Speaker 2: pictures and they every picture that is somebody looking very
Speaker 2: confused because they told them it's take their picture.
Speaker 4: Of that at the start of your game. I just
Speaker 4: want you to know that I would Does it make
Speaker 4: you blue?
Speaker 2: The pictures?
Speaker 4: They oh, that would be fun.
Speaker 1: I don't know what. Maybe they do.
Speaker 6: I'll report back to Yeah, okay, I'm on the ground
Speaker 6: reporting about whether or not you get blued.
Speaker 3: We we did get our Avatar tickets for the new one.
Speaker 3: They were almost selling out a parent the memories of
Speaker 3: going to the theater for the first one who went
Speaker 3: to Cheesecake Factory got very high and drunk and really
Speaker 3: had a good time for like four hours.
Speaker 5: So we're doing the exact same thing this year.
Speaker 3: There's a cheesecake factory in the mall where we have tickets,
Speaker 3: a big Dolby Digital imaction.
Speaker 2: Ever perfect day. You're describing dance a cheesecake factory.
Speaker 3: Take the edibles at the cheesecake factory, get a bunch
Speaker 3: of bullshit cocktails, sneak some ship into the theater, and
Speaker 3: you're just sunk in that chair, reclining for like four
Speaker 3: hours a bunch of horse shit. You're gonna just yeah,
Speaker 3: but it's just gonna be a great time for like
Speaker 3: four hours.
Speaker 1: I be with the each other.
Speaker 3: Then That's why I when we were doing our timing,
Speaker 3: I was like, I gotta be back for the nineteenth.
Speaker 2: We got plans.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be on the eighteenth. Eighteenth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Okay, we could like maybe see if there's
Speaker 2: like an early showing that we can somehow talk our
Speaker 2: way in four hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Speaking about movies, I y'all know me. I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm a theater kid in high school. Love musicals.
Speaker 1: Holy fucking ship. I saw Wicked two for Good or
Speaker 1: Wicked for Good and it might be the worst movie
Speaker 1: I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Oh no, very vastly different things the pinions about this.
Speaker 1: It is so unnecessary of a movie. I understand that
Speaker 1: act is definitely the weaker of people don't like.
Speaker 2: Was it more focused on rom Tom Tugger or what? No?
Speaker 1: And they still weren't brave enough to show buttholes Okay,
Speaker 1: Wicked cut.
Speaker 4: Play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, didn't like it, and I'm curious, like that's weird.
Speaker 2: I don't remember everything I disliked the movie. What I
Speaker 2: was ted So calling Car fifty four or whatever. It
Speaker 2: was that really bad like remake of the old TV show.
Speaker 2: We went to go see that with my family and
Speaker 2: me my brother came out and being like that was amazing,
Speaker 2: and my family looks shell shocked.
Speaker 6: They're like they've just been through nom My.
Speaker 4: So tomorrow I'm gonna be in Virginia and They're all
Speaker 4: going to see it, and me and Dibb are like
Speaker 4: gonna go bowling or something instead. And my mother in
Speaker 4: law is like the largest Wizard of Oz freak on earth.
Speaker 4: It's hard defining characteristic. The only thing I can like
Speaker 4: communicate successfully to with her.
Speaker 6: Does she know that ted Lasso is an adaptation of
Speaker 6: the Wizard of Oz, that this is something recently really
Speaker 6: well you Wizard of definitely, Yeah, is kind of a
Speaker 6: diet Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 4: So okay, give me like the quick pitch here.
Speaker 6: I mean, like, I think, like the one guy who's mean,
Speaker 6: he needs to get his heart. There's a whole bunch
Speaker 6: of things. He always says, I'm not in Kansas anymore.
Speaker 6: He's from Kansas. He's in a land that is unfamiliar
Speaker 6: to him. Brett Goldstein, who plays that the mean soccer player.
Speaker 6: He explained all this. He's like, no, I definitely was
Speaker 6: just adapting the Wizard of Us. This character is that
Speaker 6: I didn't deep into it. Yeah, but if you want to,
Speaker 6: like like built bridge a new conversation with her, there
Speaker 6: you go.
Speaker 2: That's a free one from me to you back.
Speaker 4: Interesting. I don't want to talk more than I have to.
Speaker 2: Sure say, emergency in the pocket in case you need it.
Speaker 1: I'll bring that.
Speaker 2: During my regunion. Though I haven't seen ted lasses, I
Speaker 2: might not be able to hold that conversation though. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they got even more fun.
Speaker 4: Like you know how Brett Goldstein's character I haven't seen this,
Speaker 4: but you know.
Speaker 2: How character Mike has some ted last and energy. If
Speaker 2: I was going to have to watch a TV show today,
Speaker 2: I think ted Lasso would definitely be like one of
Speaker 2: the first round picks. I think ted Lasso is very sweet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the first season, there was a specific scene. During
Speaker 3: the second I just had to tap out. Do you
Speaker 3: remember there was like singing during a funeral?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well stop watching all Yeah it was worth it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I hope I outlived Dan. I was just like, it's
Speaker 2: singing at his funeral because you.
Speaker 3: Don't know, I will have armed guards.
Speaker 2: The singing heightst that dance funerals stick you in what
Speaker 2: should I sing? What should I say? It is? Probably
Speaker 2: would you wish up pot a star something?
Speaker 3: My one Wicked association is when I lived in New York,
Speaker 3: the bar across from the Wicked Theater is where me
Speaker 3: and Alex Boniello and friends would always go to watch
Speaker 3: pay per views. So like I remember like those first
Speaker 3: a w pay per views, like that first double or
Speaker 3: nothing and stuff just being like super into Cody versus
Speaker 3: gold Dust, and also just so rounded by people in
Speaker 3: Wicked cosplay, like people dressed the Wicked wedge, full green
Speaker 3: faces and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I felt so bad really not enjoying this movie because
Speaker 1: there were so many people like faces painted green pink dresses.
Speaker 4: Did the audience like it?
Speaker 1: I don't know, like you normally can kind of tell
Speaker 1: when there's like a positive swelling of something happening, and
Speaker 1: sure she just it just fell flat for me now, Dan,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm.
Speaker 2: Sorry, and like I probably don't have a light to
Speaker 2: stand on here. Guess I didn't see this movie, but
Speaker 2: I'm still suspect of your movie opinions. After you said
Speaker 2: you kind of liked that last Jurassic World thing. My
Speaker 2: dad text me he liked that a lot.
Speaker 1: He liked it. Yeah, yeah, scar Joe in a in
Speaker 1: action film Jonathan Bailey the hottest man in America or
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 3: I got a My dad texts me to tell me
Speaker 3: he liked Dress World Dominion a lot, and then he
Speaker 3: followed it up with the most dad joke I could
Speaker 3: imagine where He's like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really good.
Speaker 3: Although, you know, with Scarletton and I was hoping to
Speaker 3: see a topless of saurus.
Speaker 2: Jesus, It's like, boy, I meant your standards.
Speaker 1: I wasn't ready.
Speaker 3: That's usually genuinely funny that one wasn't.
Speaker 1: Ready to get to games yet. But uh, topless of saurus.
Speaker 4: I mean he should be putting jail temporarily.
Speaker 2: I feel like, take all dinosaurs are topless.
Speaker 1: I guess, okay, video games. Huh, well we'll talk about
Speaker 1: those now. Uh speaking about Oh that's not on here,
Speaker 1: never mind uh speaking Oh no, no, no, there we go
Speaker 1: speak about topless. Uh. Several characters in this video game
Speaker 1: will occasionally take off their top Jeff Grub, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Dispatch, which you finished today.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I finished the last episode of the first
Speaker 6: season today, I UH made a lot of choices. I'll say,
Speaker 6: like I remember in older Telltale games being confronted with
Speaker 6: like really tough choices, maybe a little bit more frequently
Speaker 6: than than uh then happened in disc. There was still
Speaker 6: quite a few, but it was just a lot of
Speaker 6: times it's like, you know, choose this character or that character,
Speaker 6: and it wasn't like, oh, choose this person to live
Speaker 6: or this person to live and the other one will die.
Speaker 6: There's some of that, but maybe a little bit less frequently,
Speaker 6: and I think that's probably to the game's benefit, where
Speaker 6: it's like you you're not feeling like you're put into
Speaker 6: a corner by the game. You just feel like you're
Speaker 6: becoming part of the team and making choices, and that
Speaker 6: it really all comes together in that last episode where
Speaker 6: they're really good at making their superhero action bullshit look phenomenal.
Speaker 6: It looks really cinematic, really well done, like a high
Speaker 6: budget TV show, and then that like closes the deal
Speaker 6: on a series that already had very great characters that
Speaker 6: are very easy to get attached to. And again, because
Speaker 6: you are making choices and it may like their emotional
Speaker 6: states can kind of live in your head a little bit.
Speaker 6: I think you get a little bit more attached to them,
Speaker 6: and yeah, it really delivered. I don't know if I
Speaker 6: did the right thing, but I definitely made all the
Speaker 6: choices I wanted to make, and we'll live with them.
Speaker 6: And it's one of those games where it's like, I
Speaker 6: know that there are other paths, and I'm like academically
Speaker 6: interested to understand how it was put together, how the
Speaker 6: designers like decided like what would factor into any of
Speaker 6: the Indians you might get and stuff like that. But
Speaker 6: I don't want to replay the game because I played
Speaker 6: the game and that's my story and those are my choices,
Speaker 6: and I'm like super happy to live with those consequences.
Speaker 6: Very curious to see how they continue some of the
Speaker 6: threads from the very end into what is inevitably, inevitably
Speaker 6: going to be a next game, because this is a
Speaker 6: very successful game.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, is there going to be a canonical choice?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 6: I think they're gonna have to deal with, Oh, there's
Speaker 6: these two things that happen here at the end. I
Speaker 6: bet they'll have some cute way of dealing with that
Speaker 6: so it doesn't get too complicated, sure, but there's definitely
Speaker 6: some questions up in the air.
Speaker 2: See the mass effect to a comic thing again, right, yes,
Speaker 2: just clean it all up in there, yeah, grub.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to when we get to Game of the
Speaker 1: Year because I want to hear about your process with
Speaker 1: when it comes to the choices. I haven't peeped the
Speaker 1: last two episodes of you playing through this, but I
Speaker 1: do want to see the commonalities of where our brain
Speaker 1: may potentially go, because there was times in that game
Speaker 1: where I thought I'm making very good choices and then
Speaker 1: things went to shit and I'm like, oh, yep, okay, yep,
Speaker 1: god dispatch. If we haven't already talked about the performances
Speaker 1: of the voice acting cast, it really really shines in
Speaker 1: those last two episodes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh yeah.
Speaker 6: And I see someone in Chance like, oh comment on
Speaker 6: like some of the criticism. It's it seems cynically designed
Speaker 6: to tap in the like that we have violence and
Speaker 6: hot characters and you fuck, and it's like, yeah, but
Speaker 6: they do it all pretty well, and it's like, I
Speaker 6: don't have not all of my art needs to be
Speaker 6: uh like high minded and it doesn't all need to
Speaker 6: be oh so well thought out in like, oh they're
Speaker 6: not they're not going to our base instincts. Sometimes delivering
Speaker 6: all my base instincts is a positive, and I think
Speaker 6: they all are year because the characters are hot, the
Speaker 6: violence is fantastic, it's very enthralling, and the characters do
Speaker 6: fuck and there's just nothing wrong with that. I think
Speaker 6: this is a really solid one of those maybe cynical,
Speaker 6: cynically designed once it's done by people who know what
Speaker 6: they're doing.
Speaker 1: This is why I think Sinners really work this year,
Speaker 1: because yes, of course there's violence. It's a fantastical situation
Speaker 1: where there are vampires invading a small town, but also
Speaker 1: people just want.
Speaker 3: To fuck all right, Yeah, Jane, that movie. You know
Speaker 3: how I famously didn't pick up on like horny vibes
Speaker 3: and certain movies. Yes, I watched Sinners and I was like,
Speaker 3: this is a horny vampire movie. Good job, Dade, Well,
Speaker 3: thank you? Noticeably horny?
Speaker 2: Is it when she's spit in his mouth? Did that's
Speaker 2: Did that tip you off?
Speaker 3: And all the fucking Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, get Danny, Jeff, Do you think I'll like,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't really usually go for like Invincible
Speaker 2: or the Boys like I Yeah, like, yeah, okay, that's fair,
Speaker 2: but you haven't watched those things, right, So it's like
Speaker 2: these are opinions based on like how you feel about
Speaker 2: that genre as a whole. I see I've seen things
Speaker 2: like yeah out of context. So it's absolutely not like
Speaker 2: I don't have like a fair critique of it. But
Speaker 2: I just you know, I look at my boy. That's
Speaker 2: not for me, is my I'm certainly going to try
Speaker 2: this at least I think of all three of those,
Speaker 2: this is the one that I think would most likely
Speaker 2: win you over. And I don't think it'll be that.
Speaker 2: I don't think it'll have a tough time doing so.
Speaker 3: I have heard The Boys is good and that I
Speaker 3: would like. Bomp Bok knows me very well and she
Speaker 3: knows I hate she hates superhero stuff too, but she
Speaker 3: told me to watch Peacemaker. I like that, and then
Speaker 3: she watched The Boys and she's like, it's actually really good.
Speaker 1: You would like it, Like would I like The Boys?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you would like there's a strong chance. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 6: maybe not, but like you know, it's a little bit
Speaker 6: like Carl Urban almost winking at the camera with how
Speaker 6: like I'm a shitty little guy, and but I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think it would probably win you over. I saw
Speaker 2: cliff where the mean guy was like told people can't
Speaker 2: save these children from his crashing airplanes. Bad pr Then
Speaker 2: I saw a clip or that mean guy laser the
Speaker 2: guy through his penis and he slowly died out and
Speaker 2: writhe on the floor. I saw one of the mean
Speaker 2: guy made a guy go into an oven and cooked
Speaker 2: him alive. He's a bad guy. Yeahah, he's the villain. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I don't like want to I don't want to
Speaker 2: watch villains torture people constantly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that's not you know how that stuff
Speaker 6: happens where people share the most shocking thing, Like, that's
Speaker 6: not ninety nine percent of the show, But I get it.
Speaker 6: I think this one will not have that sort of
Speaker 6: feeling for you. No, No, you're definitely mean guys, but
Speaker 6: you are focused on building the Z Team the Motley Crew,
Speaker 6: which is you know, it's a suicide squad. Again again,
Speaker 6: I think these are things that when you hear them
Speaker 6: on paper, it's like, uh gross, But is it really.
Speaker 2: Called the Z Team? Yeah? Yes, I think that was
Speaker 2: a weird localization thing. And Dragon Ball Z where like
Speaker 2: they were like they tried to name like the squad,
Speaker 2: the Z team or something like that. You could tell
Speaker 2: it was the most added and post thing ever, like
Speaker 2: they were the fucking power Ragers. This Z Fighters, that's it,
Speaker 2: the C Fighters. Like go, I was like, I'm part
Speaker 2: of the Z Fighters. Like who calls them the Z Fighters?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? To try to justify White's
Speaker 2: called dragon Ball Z. Where did the Z cup from?
Speaker 2: What's the Z being? They never answered, We'll never know.
Speaker 1: Gohan died in that one timeline, so who knows. Yeah, yeah, Dispatch,
Speaker 1: I think Jesus Christ. I was not expecting it to
Speaker 1: like immediately rise up the ranks of my personal top ten,
Speaker 1: but it is hovering around the very tippy top. It's good.
Speaker 1: It's very good, Jesus Christ. Don't want to spoil anything
Speaker 1: for anyone. Go check it out. It's an easy thing
Speaker 1: to just zip through in.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was surprised, Like Chat was like, oh, there's
Speaker 6: a man. This is when it played out completely differently
Speaker 6: to the point where it's like in the gameplay sections
Speaker 6: where again you're sending out these heroes on calls and
Speaker 6: managing stuff, kind of similar to a souped up Assassin's
Speaker 6: Creed Brotherhood mechanics. That game is really old. I don't
Speaker 6: know why is that my touch stuff? But just that's
Speaker 6: that's what that's what I go to for a while
Speaker 6: because right but it's like even there, I was like
Speaker 6: doing something and it's like everyone chat. It was like
Speaker 6: that played out way differently for me, Like someone else
Speaker 6: showed up and you didn't even see them at all.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, okay, cool. And again I'm.
Speaker 6: Curious to see how that stuff is worked, how that works,
Speaker 6: or how that's decided upon by the game. But again,
Speaker 6: I just love love owning my story in these kinds
Speaker 6: of games and be like, no, this is these are
Speaker 6: my characters, and this is how it played out, and
Speaker 6: I'm going to take that to the next one.
Speaker 1: I'm curious, Beckler, please go ahead.
Speaker 4: The I was gonna say the the gameplay stuff is
Speaker 4: just still.
Speaker 1: Not hitting with me.
Speaker 4: I I I just am not.
Speaker 6: I got into it by the end, I was, I
Speaker 6: was pretty into it, but I can't get it. There's
Speaker 6: it's not there's how I shake.
Speaker 4: Out when I'm when I finished the end there, But
Speaker 4: like I love this story so much that it's like, uh,
Speaker 4: it is.
Speaker 6: It's what am I story on too, Okay, so like
Speaker 6: it'll get more complicated and you'll definitely be overwhelmed where
Speaker 6: it's like, oh, I actually don't have enough heroes to
Speaker 6: send out on all these calls, so I need to start.
Speaker 2: Triaging this stuff. And I think it gets more interesting
Speaker 2: the more times they do that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I guess maybe I'm I'm trying. I'm
Speaker 4: trying to just predict, like where the complexity's gonna go
Speaker 4: with that sort of thing, and I'm just like, I
Speaker 4: don't even want to see it. I'm just being I
Speaker 4: guess I'm being a bit of a funny duddy with that,
Speaker 4: but but yeah, I'm not. You know, I wonder if
Speaker 4: they would like they don't give you an option to
Speaker 4: skip that part, do they? No?
Speaker 2: Right, No, No, it's because a lot of story happens
Speaker 2: in there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, stick with at least through
Speaker 2: the third episode and see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna fin I want to see how this ends,
Speaker 4: so I'm absolutely gonna finish.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I again, I think I alluded to this either last
Speaker 1: week or the week before. But if you are at
Speaker 1: all a fan of Doctor Doom and villains wearing a
Speaker 1: iron mask, you need to llast see the end of
Speaker 1: Dispatch because of Matt Mercer's character. Holy smokes, that guy.
Speaker 2: He really he chewed up the scenery in that last
Speaker 2: episode for sure.
Speaker 1: Freaking knows how to know act. Huh.
Speaker 2: I turned it on, Mike.
Speaker 1: You brought up dragon Ball, and dragon Ball always reminds
Speaker 1: me of Dragon Quest and you've been playing dragon Quest
Speaker 1: one HD two D.
Speaker 2: They have the same artists. Man. Yeah, I actually I
Speaker 2: finished dragon Quest one, which is part of the dragon
Speaker 2: Quest one plus two HD two D collection, and that
Speaker 2: was a really fun romp. It's nice too, like you
Speaker 2: can see why, like they bundle these two games together
Speaker 2: because just playing through the first games fifteen hours so pretty,
Speaker 2: you know, fast paced for one, these might still felt
Speaker 2: like a full game on its own, for sure. And
Speaker 2: I never played the original, but it's been fun. I've
Speaker 2: been going back and watching old playthroughs of it, getting
Speaker 2: a sense of what has changed and kind of like,
Speaker 2: you know, the biggest things. Uh, even though you're still
Speaker 2: just one dude in this game, you don't have a party.
Speaker 2: In the original game, you always fought against one monster also,
Speaker 2: and here it could be a whole party of monsters,
Speaker 2: so you still to worry about things like AoE attacks
Speaker 2: and it kind of complicates things as that dimension to it.
Speaker 2: The other thing, too, is like they do more here
Speaker 2: to connect This game like gets part of a trilogy.
Speaker 2: It makes a lot of references to Dragon Quest three,
Speaker 2: which actually takes aways before this, and it clearly leads
Speaker 2: up to Dragon Quest two, which is, you know, part
Speaker 2: of the same package. So seeing them, okay, I kind
Speaker 2: of like trilogilize is that a word? They trilogialize things more.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of that.
Speaker 2: People watching those playthroughs and being like wow, this, yeah,
Speaker 2: this looks even older than I thought, right, because even
Speaker 2: looks kind of older than a Final Fantasy one because
Speaker 2: its a little bit before that. Yeah, when you like
Speaker 2: they're in the castle, I'm like, oh, that's the same
Speaker 2: layout of the gorgeous place I'm in. That's interesting seeing
Speaker 2: this stuff still translated relatively faithfully. Even though they added
Speaker 2: a lot of story stuff, they added some other kind
Speaker 2: of sequences and events. So I think it's a really
Speaker 2: fun way to do that remake where I'm so kind
Speaker 2: of curious to go back can play the original and
Speaker 2: see what's that that's like. But I'm also glad I
Speaker 2: got to experience it in the way I did. You.
Speaker 2: This is one still right you're talking about are you
Speaker 2: going right into two? You're gonna do some other stuff first?
Speaker 2: Probably not going right into two. I think I think
Speaker 2: I can use a little bit of an RPG break prop. Plus,
Speaker 2: Like Metroid is soon and I'm gonna be on vacation,
Speaker 2: so I'm definitely not gonna have time to play through
Speaker 2: another RPG. And I hate like stopping midway through a game.
Speaker 2: And I know that once Metroit Prime four is out,
Speaker 2: like that's the game I'm gonna play. So I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna probably futs around with some other bs, maybe even
Speaker 2: just play Super Metroid again or Metrod Prime one. Get.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Uh, Mikey, I have a hankering to play through another
Speaker 1: j RPG before the year ends. Do you think I
Speaker 1: should try Dragon Quest one?
Speaker 6: I can I recommend one instead? Just like because it's
Speaker 6: one I'm curious to hear you guys talk about.
Speaker 2: I think it's chat. You can help me out here.
Speaker 2: It's like Waste of Dump.
Speaker 1: It's this king King of Dump.
Speaker 2: Yeah, King of Waste, King of Dump or something like that.
Speaker 2: We should suit him first of all.
Speaker 6: But that it's like basically an Earthbound inspired RPG where
Speaker 6: you play as a trash can man.
Speaker 1: Yes, several people have recommended this to me.
Speaker 2: Kingdom of the Dump, thank you? Yes? Have you been
Speaker 2: interested in Trusten the Sky at all?
Speaker 1: Jan? I have the the remake remaster and I played
Speaker 1: through maybe like two three hours, and I think maybe
Speaker 1: the dialogue kinda is a little much for me. It'sn't much, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I don't know, like I normally have a very
Speaker 1: high tolerance, you know what, I should go check out
Speaker 1: Demon School folks are right, that has tiles and everything.
Speaker 1: But I do want to check out Kingdom of Dump.
Speaker 1: I hear that is also kind of adjacent to a
Speaker 1: chrono trigger.
Speaker 6: I tried to go see that on Steam and I
Speaker 6: opened my Steam and I still had the thigh crushing
Speaker 6: game that you sent me. Jams onto the bus the
Speaker 6: thigh bush.
Speaker 2: Kingdom of Dump is.
Speaker 5: Just cheap to crushing.
Speaker 1: You just watch GoldenEye, that's right, But this one's.
Speaker 5: Rhythm on the top. My goodness.
Speaker 1: Another game that I've lost a good chunk of time to.
Speaker 1: And this continues. The games I'm researching for Casino Week
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six is Slots and Daggers. This is
Speaker 1: a roguelike slot machine game, very different than gosh but
Speaker 1: what was the was a buckshot roulette the other Yeah yeah, okay, yes,
Speaker 1: yep uh Slots and daggers.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 1: It is a roguelike slot machine game where you pick
Speaker 1: three of your tiles that will show up on the
Speaker 1: slot machine and they can be an offense weapon that
Speaker 1: does physical damage, one that does magic damage, something that
Speaker 1: heals you, gives you coins, or gives you an overshield
Speaker 1: type type of delio, and you go from encounter to
Speaker 1: encounter in a rapid ashen where you are just kind
Speaker 1: of like spinning to win. And some of the tiles
Speaker 1: will have a skill check, so the crossbow in it,
Speaker 1: the target will be moving around and as soon as
Speaker 1: it hits the center that's when you want to click
Speaker 1: to get critical damage and the most damage there will
Speaker 1: be like a gigantic berserker buster sword, where as soon
Speaker 1: as a meter reaches the very top, that's when you
Speaker 1: do the most damage. I wound up completing a full
Speaker 1: run of it within like the span of maybe like
Speaker 1: two three hours, and that comes from getting leveling up
Speaker 1: because from each run there is a greater currency of
Speaker 1: chips that you can use to unlock boon like power
Speaker 1: ups that persist from run to run, so you'll have
Speaker 1: one that is kind of like will revive you if
Speaker 1: your HP reaches zero, and another one that will give
Speaker 1: you certain will give you damage reduction from physical attacks
Speaker 1: or magical attacks. It's a it's a very fast paced game,
Speaker 1: and I think a better one of the ones that
Speaker 1: have attempted to incorporate a slot machine mechanic, because later
Speaker 1: on you start with three slots or whatever, and then
Speaker 1: you can buy upgrades to open it up to like
Speaker 1: a full five of a slot machine stuff.
Speaker 6: In that situation, do you still just need to make
Speaker 6: a line of three three or four three or four okay, yeah,
Speaker 6: in like right next to each other. It's only like
Speaker 6: one lane, so it's not like a full slot machine
Speaker 6: where you have like three different lanes of like top
Speaker 6: mid bottom.
Speaker 1: It's just the singular one. It's a very rapid pacede game,
Speaker 1: and I think if you set this game to the
Speaker 1: fastest speed possible and turn your brain off, you can
Speaker 1: just kind of like rinse through it. Some of the
Speaker 1: encounters get a little bit more challenging because they will
Speaker 1: do you'll be setting up a build where you have
Speaker 1: so much shield, but the shield only negateshysical damage, and
Speaker 1: then you come across someone that is doing nothing but magic,
Speaker 1: so you kind of just wind up getting rinsed. I
Speaker 1: had a very broken build at the very end of
Speaker 1: the run that I completed, where I would do physical
Speaker 1: and magical damage with a hammer, but because I'd be
Speaker 1: maxing out so much, I would wind up bonking them
Speaker 1: on the head, so the enemy would be stunned so
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be able to do anything, and then my
Speaker 1: life reagin also was maximized in such a way where
Speaker 1: even if I did get hurt, I'd recover everything the
Speaker 1: next turn. Slots and daggers. Really fun, quick small game.
Speaker 6: Can I recommend one more game for you to try
Speaker 6: out jan In maybe that might be similar to these.
Speaker 2: It's called side effects. Have you seen this effect? So?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like is that the weird pill game?
Speaker 6: Yes, It's like a bunch of guys who are look
Speaker 6: like they might be locked in a hospital and they
Speaker 6: are playing a pill roulette game where they're like wagering
Speaker 6: their pills their medications.
Speaker 1: Well, what do you guys think of me?
Speaker 2: It has four player PvP and I think maybe this
Speaker 2: looks like we just only flip a coin though, because
Speaker 2: it might not be interested otherwise. No, a, there's other
Speaker 2: there's other luck based things he'll be into. Yeah, Roulette's close.
Speaker 4: Don't mean too much into this recommendation.
Speaker 2: Janet's Oh yeah, I was completely random.
Speaker 4: This is This is just exactly what we think of you.
Speaker 1: Clover Pit is the game that I was thinking of originally.
Speaker 1: This lash right right, God, so many casino games. What's
Speaker 1: the next casino game you think we're gonna get like
Speaker 1: a hot Bingo one.
Speaker 4: I think the.
Speaker 1: Bring it back.
Speaker 3: This is Vegas by Midway looked incredible. Imagine Midway making
Speaker 3: an open world casino action venture game. That is there's
Speaker 3: many reasons I hate the death of Midway. This is
Speaker 3: maybe number one.
Speaker 2: Game in Farsar.
Speaker 6: Should do a new preview of that in April because
Speaker 6: there were so many previews of This is Vegas. I
Speaker 6: remember in magazines.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, man, that looks so cool.
Speaker 4: I want to say, uh this it feels bad. The gambling, sure,
Speaker 4: mostly for you, jan I think you know, like, uh
Speaker 4: I don't I think you you you you You always
Speaker 4: joke about it, but it's like we're trying to fix you.
Speaker 4: We're trying to fix your gaming, you know, Like, uh,
Speaker 4: is it stay broken? That is actually the city slogan
Speaker 4: of Las Vegas. Yes, stay broken?
Speaker 1: Brother. I feel like every friend, I'm trying to convince
Speaker 1: them to find an excuse to go to Vegas with me. Uh.
Speaker 1: Like I realized that F one was in Vegas this
Speaker 1: past weekend and I was I was talking to Nicky, like,
Speaker 1: why didn't you tell me we could have went? We
Speaker 1: could have gone to Vegas and watched F one and
Speaker 1: then other done other things in Vegas. Stay broken, That's right.
Speaker 1: I will continue to stay broken, Jeff Grub just.
Speaker 4: Like broken as you as you want to be. Before
Speaker 4: your your segue here, I wanted you to hear this
Speaker 4: first intervention. Majong Majong is becoming a big deal in
Speaker 4: my town. And all the ladies they're getting together, they're
Speaker 4: drinking their wine quarters times, and they're playing Majong.
Speaker 6: Do they have those Majong dealer tables that like automatically
Speaker 6: deal out the bricks and they like come out of
Speaker 6: the ground or whatever.
Speaker 4: You're describing what sounds like Ai, Jeff, I don't want
Speaker 4: to read any of this. This is the future.
Speaker 1: I almost bought of these tables.
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 1: What's that? I almost bought one of these tables that
Speaker 1: like auto shuffles your tiles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen them. They look cool. I think, uh no,
Speaker 4: they're gonna go lo fi with this, but uh I
Speaker 4: actually have a porcelain Majong set that my mother used
Speaker 4: to use, I guess in her forties and fifties and whatnot.
Speaker 4: We're gonna pass it down from one generation to the next.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they've got the current cards. I
Speaker 4: know you have to like subscribe to like the International
Speaker 4: Majong Council, and you get your like play cards. You
Speaker 4: find out like how the rules have evolved. You're you're
Speaker 4: fully aware of this gen Yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's an there's new kickoff rules this season.
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, they added a pitch timer. I get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's porcelain. It's porcelain Majong good I thought was
Speaker 2: supposed to be made from bones or something.
Speaker 4: I made up the word porcelain. It could be made
Speaker 4: up of anything at ivory.
Speaker 2: He is a criminal, yeah, I mean of us, would
Speaker 2: we die should we turned into masjong? This want please?
Speaker 4: I don't know the origin, but this ship, this set
Speaker 4: is super old, so it's entirely possible it's made from
Speaker 4: some sort of uh taboo bone. But yeah, they're they're
Speaker 4: bringing it back, and Jan, you are more than welcome
Speaker 4: to sit in on a couple gab fests. I'm sure
Speaker 4: I may or may not have.
Speaker 1: Accosted a friend asking her why she didn't invite me
Speaker 1: to Bingo night because I wanted to go to Bingo night.
Speaker 1: So now I may just go to Jersey to play
Speaker 1: majong with the lovely ladies of Jersey.
Speaker 4: Is that's gonna right pronunciation majong?
Speaker 2: I don't know, Okay, just different every time that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dan, we bring you out to Minnesota. Finally I'm
Speaker 3: taking you to a meat raffle.
Speaker 1: This is like I thought you guys wanted to help me.
Speaker 1: It feels like a healthy way to.
Speaker 3: Get it if you're taking home a metric ton of bacon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there may have been a time at my underground
Speaker 1: Majong games where.
Speaker 4: That's that, honestly, of all the poses to get frozen topier.
Speaker 1: Back.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're back.
Speaker 1: I may one one of the nights, maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit too much alcohol flowing through the systems that instead
Speaker 1: of playing we spent a solid hour practicing how to
Speaker 1: reveal a winning tile set and just slamming it on
Speaker 1: the ground and just doing it with the most flair.
Speaker 3: So Jan, I want to play this with you because
Speaker 3: my only experience is was it I can't remember what
Speaker 3: game it was, or maybe it was just Windows that
Speaker 3: had the fucking majong thing where it was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it was stacked up and you just got to pick
Speaker 3: the one on the edges that match. And my understanding
Speaker 3: is I think thanks to Yakuza or shinmu is you
Speaker 3: sit down to play actual majan and it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is not what I was told.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like poker, okay, I would like
Speaker 1: to play it. Yeah, so if if you all know
Speaker 1: the basics of poker, you can pick up on majong
Speaker 1: very fast, or at least the kind that I play.
Speaker 1: I know that there are different rules and regulations depending
Speaker 1: on the style, but like, Yo, they got a tile
Speaker 1: that's like Dragon of the North, and that shit just
Speaker 1: sounds cool.
Speaker 4: Right east West Bam crack right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know he knows the things. He knows the
Speaker 1: things it's making me are you're making me feel some
Speaker 1: type of way, just like and Roger last week made
Speaker 1: me feel some type of way and Dan Rickert, you
Speaker 1: have since checked it out. I played it.
Speaker 3: I beat it like you. I don't want to say
Speaker 3: too much. I think you you said it well like
Speaker 3: he's kind of what it's about, and uh yeah, it's
Speaker 3: when this and consume me. I guess this was the
Speaker 3: year that it's like, oh man, I actually tried out
Speaker 3: some of these like kind of personal uh.
Speaker 2: Games for impact.
Speaker 1: Yeah you got impact that, yeah, yeah, I got that.
Speaker 3: Cracking cancer, yes, yes, absolutely, but yeah I never had
Speaker 3: a child with cancer, but I have had an elderly
Speaker 3: relative with dementia, so I was able to relate to this,
Speaker 3: and uh yeah, it's it was very effective and it
Speaker 3: it got across what it was trying to get across
Speaker 3: in a way that only a video game could because
Speaker 3: in what it's trying to convey about memory and you know,
Speaker 3: dementia and things like that, it's like the gamification, for
Speaker 3: lack of a better word, was necessary for the way
Speaker 3: they were telling this story.
Speaker 1: So yes, very very effective.
Speaker 3: Like you said, Jane, it was like less than an
Speaker 3: hour or maybe closer to forty five minutes. Jane, you
Speaker 3: made Bunk cry. I'm never gonna forgive Ah, damn fuck you,
Speaker 3: Jan h God, damn.
Speaker 2: It, damn it.
Speaker 1: I'm on the ship control. I've been Mikey.
Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna hurt you.
Speaker 1: Jan. Nothing can I've already done it. Yeah again Dan,
Speaker 1: I'm happy that you checked it out, And if folks
Speaker 1: out there are curious, I still highly suggest it. It
Speaker 1: is like less than an hour complete content. Warning though,
Speaker 1: if you are a father, if you have a family
Speaker 1: member that suffers from dementia Alzheimer's, tread very very lightly
Speaker 1: because it will quickly pull on all of those heartstrings
Speaker 1: incredibly fast, just like Mike Manati tried to pull a
Speaker 1: tablecloth from underneath someone's table set at dinner one time.
Speaker 2: It almost worked, except for all this stuff falling. Man, Man,
Speaker 2: you do something about that stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Mikey. You've also been playing Metroid Prime two echoes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am deeply ashamed for as much I like
Speaker 2: Metrod it ever actually beat Metro Prime two or three.
Speaker 2: And I kept just waiting for them to release these
Speaker 2: games on the switch like they did with the Prime one.
Speaker 2: Like I get, I did give up hope until basically
Speaker 2: this buff like, well, they aren't doing that huh. So
Speaker 2: finally just decided to play Bettroy Prime two, at least
Speaker 2: on my own. It's becoming clear I'm not gonna have
Speaker 2: time to do three as well, unfortunately. But my Schoy
Speaker 2: Prime two has been very fun time. It's wild because
Speaker 2: I like Betroy Prime one so much and it's like, well,
Speaker 2: look they made another one thing they did.
Speaker 5: Out of the bunch of stuff to it.
Speaker 3: Then yeah, they're not quite as fun of an experience.
Speaker 2: That's it's not quite as fun and like the big
Speaker 2: thing and this was the conversation the time is, oh,
Speaker 2: they added like lead to the Pastyle light World dark World,
Speaker 2: which is a good idea that the problem is they
Speaker 2: made the dark world push back quite a bit and
Speaker 2: that you're always sort of taking taking damage unless you're
Speaker 2: in these bubbles. And in my mind was like, oh,
Speaker 2: so like eventually I'm gonna get the armor where I
Speaker 2: don't take much damage this I got armor at one
Speaker 2: point and it was like, now you take less damage
Speaker 2: in there. I'm like, oh, so it's still kind of
Speaker 2: like you know, you see the poort of the dark World.
Speaker 2: Instead of being like, wow, I'm gonna go in the
Speaker 2: dark world, it's like a shit I'm gonna do some
Speaker 2: stuff in the dark world, and like only now some
Speaker 2: fifteen hours in that I get the shield and it's
Speaker 2: basically I'm at the key hunt. Now I'm at the
Speaker 2: end of the game. And now it's like, hey, now
Speaker 2: you have the light shield and you don't have to
Speaker 2: worry about the ticking damage even though at this point
Speaker 2: compared with all my energy canisters, and you're fine.
Speaker 6: You're right though, though you still the whole idea of
Speaker 6: Metroid is eventually you just become you overpower everything, and
Speaker 6: that means you don't have to think about it again.
Speaker 6: And even just having to think about it feels a
Speaker 6: little bit right. It's Unmetro, right, it's like both like
Speaker 6: nothing but it's not some huge deal. But you know,
Speaker 6: even like the light world dark world stuff, it doesn't
Speaker 6: feel quite as lead to the pasty good, like, oh,
Speaker 6: the thing I did here impacts what happens in the
Speaker 6: other one.
Speaker 2: There's a bit of that. Mostly it's just kind of
Speaker 2: like there's two maps that are similar but different, and
Speaker 2: you kind of bounce back and forth between them. Now,
Speaker 2: like the map itself, like the areas are really cool,
Speaker 2: Like the third main one I was at is kind
Speaker 2: of like this sky temple thing, and it was a
Speaker 2: lot more sort of like space like space station y
Speaker 2: looking and very kind of like sci fi electronic, Like
Speaker 2: you know, Metric probably want to think about the organic stuff, right,
Speaker 2: and that's what looks cool, and here's like, oh, this
Speaker 2: is a different vibe, and I'm definitely into That's like,
Speaker 2: the game still just looks amazing. The areas are super cool,
Speaker 2: and the music is fantastic. It might even be a
Speaker 2: better soundtrack than Metro Prime one. There's a tons of
Speaker 2: amazing tracks, so it's like it's most it's mostly still
Speaker 2: that game, but it is interesting. It's like ninety five
Speaker 2: percent of the way there, and that last five percent
Speaker 2: is the difference between a very good video game and
Speaker 2: a video game that a lot of people are gonna
Speaker 2: be like, that's the best game ever.
Speaker 1: Man, ask why. Uh it's taken a while for you
Speaker 1: to to kind of circle back to the rest of
Speaker 1: the Metroid Prime series.
Speaker 2: It is a bit of that where it's like they
Speaker 2: just they are quite as good as Prime one. A
Speaker 2: lot of times it's like, yeah, even though I haven't
Speaker 2: beaten two or three, I'll be like, I'm gonna play
Speaker 2: Prime one again, actually, so.
Speaker 3: Prime one is damn near perfect outside of some backtracking
Speaker 3: near the end and everything.
Speaker 5: But even then, just going to I don't.
Speaker 2: Mind that because it's like, you have all the upgrades,
Speaker 2: that grades, you're the master of the world.
Speaker 1: YEP.
Speaker 2: I was actually somewhat surprised that this game does the
Speaker 2: same thing with the key hunts, because I was worried
Speaker 2: they would have taken that criticism and be like, oh,
Speaker 2: we shouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: I like that it's the end of the game. Now
Speaker 2: go explore that entire world you've opened up with all
Speaker 2: your upgrades and find these keys. And as you do that,
Speaker 2: you're gonna find energy cancers, you're gonna find missile upgrades
Speaker 2: and all this other stuff. I think it's actually kind
Speaker 2: of a neat part of the equation.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll ask you a question, a fellow Metroid fancier.
Speaker 3: I've been thinking a lot about Metroid lately, and I
Speaker 3: want to find some common ground here because we've had
Speaker 3: our fights about Mario and what's mainline? No, what do
Speaker 3: you let me just throw this out. I've never vocalized
Speaker 3: this in my life, and I just want to see
Speaker 3: if this is okay. Oh boy, mainline Metroid let me
Speaker 3: name this and you tell me if we're all in
Speaker 3: agreement here, I think we might be able to be.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of side you know, side off, you know,
Speaker 3: ball and hunters and stuff. Okay, Metroid one, and I'm
Speaker 3: also gonna do a Slash zero mission on that. Okay,
Speaker 3: okay two, Slash returns the game boy win, I will
Speaker 3: say returns.
Speaker 2: Okay, Slash returns.
Speaker 5: I guess Slash returns.
Speaker 3: Sure, that's a remake Super yeah, Fusion, Yeah, Dread Yeah,
Speaker 3: Prime one, two, three four.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I know people you don't like it. No,
Speaker 2: it's not.
Speaker 3: It's just a weird other thing. It's another not it's.
Speaker 2: Not you when you beat Metroid Dread and it gives you,
Speaker 2: like the back the pictures from other games, one of
Speaker 2: the ones you get is for other Really, I got
Speaker 2: I think I'm on your side there, Like guys, it's
Speaker 2: about Sorry, it's Maine.
Speaker 3: Is not mainline. No, that was a weird side thing.
Speaker 3: We're gonna give it a team ningen see what the
Speaker 3: theay do with it? Okay, we're gonna give it.
Speaker 2: We're good. Let's get some developer worked on it. You
Speaker 2: think like mister, Nintendo made Metroid Dread.
Speaker 3: No, it was what's called wait, but also the chan
Speaker 3: here's this Dread isn't mainline?
Speaker 1: What the fuck are you talking?
Speaker 2: I was dread? Absolutely? Is this literally Metroid five at
Speaker 2: the beginning?
Speaker 1: Not mainline?
Speaker 2: Hunter's his mainline? Also, no, why not.
Speaker 6: Because it's not a Metroid venue, right, yeah, Metroid vee,
Speaker 6: but it isn't. Don't you just go in there and
Speaker 6: like into arenas and shoot, No, it's more than that.
Speaker 6: It's it's more than that.
Speaker 2: I can't remember just why I played so much multiplayer.
Speaker 3: The multiplayer d one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of the ones.
Speaker 2: I yeah, yeah, but they had a whole single player
Speaker 2: campaign thing I mean was it? Was it a Metroid
Speaker 2: venue style campaign? It was? It had elements that wasn't
Speaker 2: as Metroid looking, Okay, I think frankly, like to me,
Speaker 2: the only ones that aren't mainline are Federation for Pinball.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I stopped with besmarching the pinball.
Speaker 3: It's fantastic saying it's bad.
Speaker 5: It's just saying it's not mainline.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't care.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and that's like the more respectable opinion for sure.
Speaker 2: So I was cannon but not Mainline. I don't understand
Speaker 2: why other reps on Mainline except that people don't like it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a big part of it. I'm sorry that
Speaker 6: that's affecting it. But also it's just it feels so
Speaker 6: different than the rest. I'm in between on it. I
Speaker 6: think I would lean towards it not being canon, but
Speaker 6: or Mainline should say obviously it's obviously Cannon but whatever.
Speaker 2: Came out, right, yeah, there you go. It's better way.
Speaker 6: As soon as Metroprime two came out, I beat it then.
Speaker 6: And then Metric Prime three was a weird one where
Speaker 6: it's like I was just playing the Wei so much
Speaker 6: less at that time and hearing it's like, oh, and
Speaker 6: they got a bunch of these Federation goons here who
Speaker 6: are going to be talking you up, and I just
Speaker 6: was not in the mood for it in that moment.
Speaker 6: And then the time passed and it's like, oh, I
Speaker 6: should go back to that, do I want to get
Speaker 6: the we out? And now it's like, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I should have played it when it was available on
Speaker 6: Prime Hacks like right away. But then I did the
Speaker 6: same same.
Speaker 2: Thing Mike did, where I'm like, I'll just wait until
Speaker 2: it comes out on switch, and here we are it's
Speaker 2: still not on switch.
Speaker 3: I remember it being I haven't played it since what
Speaker 3: two thousand and eight or whatever, but I remember liking it.
Speaker 3: I didn't love the motion gimmicks, but it's a good
Speaker 3: metric game. Okay, Prime two not my favorite.
Speaker 1: Speaking about Prime two and Metroid Prime in general, two
Speaker 1: of these hooligans went to a physical uh store to
Speaker 1: check out the store demo of Metroid Prime four. Beyond
Speaker 1: our game.
Speaker 2: I'm a fancy I'm a fancy bitch. Yeah, I went
Speaker 2: to I went to Walmart because I'm a man of
Speaker 2: the people side of the earth.
Speaker 4: So what is the demo?
Speaker 2: It's beginning of the game. Beginning of the game.
Speaker 4: So it's like what I played in New York.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, go ahead to describe what we did. And Mike
Speaker 6: sweaging because he played he could tell us, well, I
Speaker 6: liked how fast it was.
Speaker 2: There's like a little bit of dialogue, was like, oh,
Speaker 2: there's a war, and then immediately landed on a planet
Speaker 2: and it was almost it was like a little bit haloly, like, oh,
Speaker 2: these two sides are already fighting and I'm kind of
Speaker 2: joining the fight. And there was like a bit of
Speaker 2: people be like, wow, Samus is here, and it was yeah,
Speaker 2: a pretty combat heavy section, but also it is clearly
Speaker 2: like the cinematic opening and it was very exciting. And
Speaker 2: oh my god, this is like the first time since
Speaker 2: like the GameCube era, and I'm like, wow, one of
Speaker 2: the best looking console games out there is actually a
Speaker 2: Nintendo game. I can't believe how stunning this thing looks.
Speaker 2: It's a switch to version. It's the art and the
Speaker 2: tech this time. It's like the really good. It runs
Speaker 2: so smooth, it looks just the best looking game on
Speaker 2: the console, right, Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it's the
Speaker 2: best looking tone game we've ever seen. It's just I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, in terms of like the graphical fidelity, there's
Speaker 2: other games that like use the art to make up
Speaker 2: the designs. Yeah, just like it's funny because I am
Speaker 2: playing so much Metroid Prime to just some of the differences,
Speaker 2: like oh, going in and out the morphball is really
Speaker 2: snappy in this one, even compared to the original games,
Speaker 2: Like you don't even really it's yeah, but you don't
Speaker 2: even lose as much as your momentum. You kind of
Speaker 2: like keep walking as you're coming in and out of it,
Speaker 2: like even you know, you still lock on, but they're
Speaker 2: the boss is like the big boss you fight at
Speaker 2: the end. He has these weak points you have to
Speaker 2: sort of move your radical within the lock on stick,
Speaker 2: kind of like the We game. Yeah, Metroy Prime three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was just a really slick demo.
Speaker 6: You fight up until like that kind of big mech
Speaker 6: like mini boss and gets Metroy.
Speaker 2: Did there's metroids in this metro game apparently, Yeah, they
Speaker 2: just show up. Yeah. I was actually surprised to see
Speaker 2: that so early in the demo. But yeah, it.
Speaker 5: Sounds like the demo jan that we saw in New York.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think you go through the battle and then there's
Speaker 3: that boss fighter.
Speaker 2: That's that's what I was assuming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had the setup where you could do the
Speaker 3: mouse mode thing. I don't know if you guys know,
Speaker 3: I was just using a prop and okay, but but
Speaker 3: there's the boss where there's specific spots you need to hit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of force that islex guy showed up
Speaker 2: and there like and that's like something. There's a whole
Speaker 2: beam thing. But it was weird to like be excited
Speaker 2: for a store demo again. It felt very two thousand
Speaker 2: and three. Yeah, not done that in a long time.
Speaker 2: I used to love going to kiosks at stores and
Speaker 2: playing games before they were out. Not done that in
Speaker 2: a minute.
Speaker 1: Did you get anything else while y'all were at the
Speaker 1: store or did you just got.
Speaker 2: Batteries to or place in my my smoke detectors? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a.
Speaker 2: New shirt for the reunion. Actually they want to look
Speaker 2: at a shlub. Yeah. And then I had to get
Speaker 2: some Christmas lights because of course all my ones from
Speaker 2: last year aren't working, the outdoor ones, and they like
Speaker 2: barely had any, but they had enough so and I
Speaker 2: didn't put them up yesterday. And now of course it's
Speaker 2: raining today. God damn it. What a day.
Speaker 1: Sorry, what a day for vikeys. Going from what y'all
Speaker 1: are saying is a very maybe arguably the prettiest game
Speaker 1: on the switch to another visually over stimulating game. Jeff Grubb,
Speaker 1: you've been playing Sector?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, this is.
Speaker 6: The geometry Wars like Rogue Light game that is fantastic.
Speaker 2: It's really well done.
Speaker 6: It's made by former House Smart people and so like
Speaker 6: what are something that they did like Start Us, Superstartists
Speaker 6: HD and a bunch of other of those PlayStation Arcadie
Speaker 6: style games, and that lineage is obvious here because they
Speaker 6: fully understand what makes one of these shooters really good.
Speaker 6: They understand what makes Geometry Wars good in terms of
Speaker 6: like the different kinds of enemies you face and them
Speaker 6: having different behaviors and how those how you get like
Speaker 6: maybe three types of enemies on the screen at the
Speaker 6: same time, and one of them is just moving around randomly,
Speaker 6: another one will go right at you, another one will
Speaker 6: be repelled by your bullets or whatever, so you have
Speaker 6: to like constantly be adjusting and moving around. And then
Speaker 6: it has like boss fights, so it goes from like
Speaker 6: Geometry Wars into something that feels a little bit more
Speaker 6: like a bullet hell game. And no matter what, in
Speaker 6: either sort of mode, it it feels fantastic to just
Speaker 6: like get in the groove and lose yourself in the
Speaker 6: game and begin just moving your guy around so you
Speaker 6: can avoid all the damage and doing your best to
Speaker 6: collect the little giblets you get from blowing up an
Speaker 6: enemy so you can upgrade your character and take on
Speaker 6: even bigger bosses. I'm super into it's got really It's
Speaker 6: obviously it obviously has super like depth to it in
Speaker 6: terms of the strategy. You kind of learn something new
Speaker 6: each round that you try to apply the next go around.
Speaker 6: And that isn't just about like, oh, when the game
Speaker 6: sets you up in the tutorial, it tells you the basics,
Speaker 6: and then there's other things like how does this upgrade
Speaker 6: system work? Or what happens when I get all the
Speaker 6: letters for this word on the bottom right of the screen.
Speaker 6: Doesn't tell you that stuff. So, yeah, you're learning those
Speaker 6: basic fundamentals of how the game works, but you're also
Speaker 6: just again learning those enemy behaviors and learning ways to
Speaker 6: keep yourself safe and kind of recognizing the patterns of
Speaker 6: how the world changes. That's one of the things that
Speaker 6: does different than Geometry Wars, at least I think I
Speaker 6: don't remember Geometry Wars doing this where the app will
Speaker 6: be like a diamond to start, and then all of
Speaker 6: a sudden it'll be like, okay, we're going to open up,
Speaker 6: and it pops open, and then another part of it
Speaker 6: will turn red and in a few seconds that part
Speaker 6: of the map will go away, and if you're in
Speaker 6: that part of the map, you just instantly die.
Speaker 2: So you're like, okay, I got to get out of there.
Speaker 6: Or if there's a pickup over there, it's going to
Speaker 6: now be shot to the other side of the map,
Speaker 6: and you begin learning all these things and beginning to
Speaker 6: recognize all the indicators the game gives you of like oh,
Speaker 6: there is a power up over here. There's a little
Speaker 6: bomb on the ground over there, so go kind of
Speaker 6: swoop around, go get that, get your upgrade, come back
Speaker 6: over here, and while you're doing that, try to kite
Speaker 6: the enemies so they begin to kind of curl around you,
Speaker 6: so then you can swoop back around into the bomb
Speaker 6: and hit the bulk of the enemies with the like
Speaker 6: right where the bomb is exploding, so you can get
Speaker 6: the most damage all at once. And I'm just I
Speaker 6: keep playing it over and over. Runs great on the
Speaker 6: Steam deck. It looks fantastic when you play it on
Speaker 6: a real PC with a big monitor as well, And
Speaker 6: it's one of those ones I think I'll probably probably
Speaker 6: be playing daily through the end of the year.
Speaker 3: Lub is the is the draw to keep playing, Like
Speaker 3: for me, Giontry Warris is very much one of those like, okay,
Speaker 3: score everyone has this game. Everyone's on the leader board,
Speaker 3: Like are you just doing like a marathon mode type
Speaker 3: thing and trying to get a high score or is
Speaker 3: that the deal?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Right now, I'm trying to like get through the game
Speaker 6: because there's like, uh, there's levels. It seems like although
Speaker 6: each time you go in there, I'm there seems like
Speaker 6: a random possibly like a random draw of bosses you
Speaker 6: face the first time around, So it's not like, oh,
Speaker 6: here's a set boss that you're going to excuse me
Speaker 6: going through, like in a typical Rogue Light. But I
Speaker 6: want to like progress past all that stuff and kind
Speaker 6: of see what's the next boss and like how do
Speaker 6: things get complicated more complicated from there? So I'm still
Speaker 6: playing it a little bit like a Rogue Light. There
Speaker 6: is a story mechanic. I've not seen the leaderboards yet,
Speaker 6: although I think there probably will be one if you
Speaker 6: actually complete the run, and I will be interested to see, like, oh,
Speaker 6: I completely like missed this whole concept that someone else
Speaker 6: was doing that enabled them to get like four times
Speaker 6: my score or something like that, and I'll be I'll
Speaker 6: be interested to see at that point if I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 6: a run is let's say forty men, it's can I
Speaker 6: justify doing that over and over again to kind of
Speaker 6: do that score competition, which is something that I really love.
Speaker 2: That's why I play Geometry Wars. It's as well, we'll
Speaker 2: see just from watching you played, I wonder if you
Speaker 2: feel this at all. Do you feel like our old
Speaker 2: men eyes having a little bit more trouble of these
Speaker 2: kind of games keeping track of it and seeing everything.
Speaker 1: Not me, baby, I think it takes.
Speaker 6: It took me a little bit more time to like
Speaker 6: get my sea legs for this kind of game than
Speaker 6: it would have in the past.
Speaker 2: I think. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean again, once I understood everything, it's like, now
Speaker 6: I know what I'm looking at.
Speaker 2: But I think in the past though, it would like
Speaker 2: would have groped that a little bit quicker, a little
Speaker 2: bit faster.
Speaker 6: So yeah, it's overwhelming, but in a really good way.
Speaker 6: So it's like, yeah, I kind of want to be
Speaker 6: overwhelmed visually by a game like this.
Speaker 1: For the font pervs out there, this is I may
Speaker 1: I maybe think type faces of the week in terms
Speaker 1: of games, some of.
Speaker 2: The Jacob Geller's number five in the world, Sorry jam Jesus.
Speaker 5: Really yeah, there, I got home and to go after
Speaker 5: I should get in there.
Speaker 1: Oh okay. I like the as you transition stages or
Speaker 1: as like the boss is about to come up. The
Speaker 1: warning signs that flash underneath the battlefield grab. I think
Speaker 1: that's really a nice touch.
Speaker 2: I mean that's how smart house style really and you
Speaker 2: know they're out out of there now it's a different company,
Speaker 2: but they still bring a lot of that that finish
Speaker 2: arcade style to it, and it just looks phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I think I'd be so fine with title cards popping
Speaker 1: up in my real life demark or denote like important
Speaker 1: things of like all right, podcast and other other things
Speaker 1: like I just want yeah, poop, I just want things
Speaker 1: in my my real life. Mike Minatti, last night on
Speaker 1: Mega Man, you checked out Kingdom Come Deliverance too, and
Speaker 1: I need to know if this is something I should
Speaker 1: check out before the end of the year. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, Where do you fall on the red Dead redemption
Speaker 2: to debate? I'm with these hooligans, man, I'm the.
Speaker 4: Only one here likes Red Dead Redemption to no, I
Speaker 4: really really like it too.
Speaker 2: It came around on it a little bit.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't hate it, but the stuff that
Speaker 3: I didn't like, I know where you're going with this, Mike.
Speaker 5: With a Kingdom Come Deliverance thing.
Speaker 3: The reason I will never try this game is I've heard, Hey,
Speaker 3: you know all the stuff you hated that Red Dead
Speaker 3: Redemption too. It's like that but ten times worse and
Speaker 3: Kingdom Come Deliverance.
Speaker 2: So general, I guess, I don't know if it's worse,
Speaker 2: but it's definitely. It's a slow intro that's very story
Speaker 2: and character heavy, but I really enjoyed it, like they
Speaker 2: do a good job with the characters. I'm kind of
Speaker 2: stunned how pretty the game in the world is too.
Speaker 2: I guess I kept thinking like, oh, people are making
Speaker 2: a realistic kind of medieval time fourteen hundreds game. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be so kind of drab and gray, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: these fields are pretty. There's lots of colorful flowers and
Speaker 2: grass and just just in general very good looking game.
Speaker 2: Like the character their faces and the facial animations really
Speaker 2: well done. So yeah, so think about it being visually interesting.
Speaker 2: Kept my attention. Again, I'm already even though this is
Speaker 2: a direct sequel to that last game that I did
Speaker 2: not play. Yeah, I'm getting invested. I mean, it's there's
Speaker 2: part of me that wished I did because it is
Speaker 2: telling me what happened in the game, and I'm getting
Speaker 2: an idea for but part of me like, which is
Speaker 2: I was there and maybe really saw all that stuff,
Speaker 2: you know, like the idea of like, hey, this is
Speaker 2: like an outer Scrolls game that's maybe less like RPG
Speaker 2: and more story focused. I see why people are into that.
Speaker 2: And you know, there's elements where I had to make
Speaker 2: a potion early on and I was like, did you
Speaker 2: do the apothecary st I was like, oh, so I'm
Speaker 2: going to like, you know, go on my menu and
Speaker 2: like click a couple of buttons. Like no, I went
Speaker 2: to like a hut and like had to like lower
Speaker 2: the pod onto the fire and below the fire and
Speaker 2: grind the sage into the thing. I'm like, oh, some
Speaker 2: people aren't gonna like this. I think it's kind of neat,
Speaker 2: though I think it's it is immersive, It is interesting.
Speaker 2: I've crafted things in the menus a million times. I
Speaker 2: liked that I had to this. One of the things
Speaker 2: you can crack is a safe potion. This game has
Speaker 2: ache ribbons and like it'll it'll save for you when
Speaker 2: you quit the game always, and it'll save when you
Speaker 2: ever go to sleep or there's certain story beats. But
Speaker 2: you can't really save scum unless you have these potions,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, that's kind of interesting. So it's all
Speaker 2: these things, and I know that there's a part where
Speaker 2: the game really does open up and you can get
Speaker 2: off the main story path if you want to. I
Speaker 2: wasn't there, and I don't even know if I'm close
Speaker 2: to that, but just doing this main story stuff, I
Speaker 2: was enjoying myself. Did you start?
Speaker 6: Did you get to the point where it's like Henry
Speaker 6: was like working and like kind of trying to get
Speaker 6: a job in a Newish town to him and there's
Speaker 6: a big wedding happening that he's he's trying to like.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I think I think after that because that's.
Speaker 6: Where that's where I'm at, that's where I stop playing it.
Speaker 6: It's like I kind of am interested because there's like
Speaker 6: this that concept of like you need to get into
Speaker 6: this wedding, and now it's like I think you have
Speaker 6: a bunch of choices about how you accomplish that, and
Speaker 6: it's like this big kind of royal wedding essentially very concept.
Speaker 2: Because like yeah, because the guy got ship thrown on
Speaker 2: him and we're like we ship at least like shit
Speaker 2: and think and no one takes it seriously, we need money.
Speaker 2: So that's where I am.
Speaker 6: Yes, okay, so you were you were going right to
Speaker 6: that then, okay, you're basically round the press.
Speaker 5: Something I thought was interesting.
Speaker 3: Uh, It's just I was watching Bank play some of this,
Speaker 3: and it's like she did the main story up to
Speaker 3: a point and then she got to like the potion
Speaker 3: crafting stuff.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it was.
Speaker 2: The story I heard that made me want to play it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so in depth, like all the potion
Speaker 3: stuff that she basically at that point stopped playing it
Speaker 3: as like a single player story based game, and just
Speaker 3: it was a potion crafting simulator, like she ran a
Speaker 3: potion store, and so every time I walked by the screen,
Speaker 3: she's just like mixing potions, she's putting stuff for sale,
Speaker 3: and she's turning it into like a shop simulator in
Speaker 3: the midst of this, you know, larger adventure single player game.
Speaker 1: That was cool that you can even do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah's cool.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the kind of thing where it's like that
Speaker 6: doesn't sound too much like Dead Redemption two to me.
Speaker 6: This is the kind of thing where it's like you
Speaker 6: can pick a system and get lost in it and
Speaker 6: the game will accommodate you a little bit, so I
Speaker 6: might I might go back and just play a little
Speaker 6: bit more and see, like if it clicks a little
Speaker 6: bit more for me. Because I did, it did not unclick.
Speaker 6: It was not something that repelled me. I was into
Speaker 6: most of what it was doing.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, yeah, I think I want to go back there.
Speaker 2: I think I want to actually keep playing for a bit.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it definitely isn't exactly what I
Speaker 2: thought it was going to be. I'm a bit a
Speaker 2: little bit surprised by it, and it really does just
Speaker 2: kind of have quality, you know, right there with Desher two.
Speaker 2: If you don't like it, it's like, oh, it's a
Speaker 2: lot of quality here. Maybe it's in a way that's
Speaker 2: maybe like the Jigsaw puzzles and put in the way
Speaker 2: that you care for, but the this is well crafted.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thank you, mister Minatti. Last game we
Speaker 1: have here arguably is the most game and the most
Speaker 1: confusing thing out of everything I've played this year. We
Speaker 1: have a quick look up for it now on the website.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Kirby Air Riders.
Speaker 8: What the fucking came back from nom It's just like
Speaker 8: my tolerance, my tolerance for just like Nintendo Horseshit is.
Speaker 3: It's not just tolerance, it's like embracing and loving. I
Speaker 3: love whacking Nintendo Horseshit or even just like games that
Speaker 3: are just bombarding you with stuff all the time.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 3: This was the one where I found the line I
Speaker 3: think and like the thing is as the more I
Speaker 3: play it, the more I'm kind of.
Speaker 5: Like, wait, am I starting to like this?
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 3: It's goodly played much of the first one, So tell me,
Speaker 3: like how much it attracts.
Speaker 1: Well, calling it a slow burn isn't accurate because it's
Speaker 1: just like, I don't know, a raging wildfire that occasionally
Speaker 1: catches you, right, it's.
Speaker 2: A rage wildfire that will eventually like catch a city
Speaker 2: on fire. Yeah, Like it's a whole city trial on fire.
Speaker 1: Right. I haven't played the original one from the game cube,
Speaker 1: so I can't speak.
Speaker 6: To you that, So I mean, like, it's very similar
Speaker 6: in terms of mechanics to the first one. But then
Speaker 6: all the insane accoutremont that Sakari has added into his games,
Speaker 6: like through all the Smash Brothers games, all that stuff
Speaker 6: is basically here as well. You're constantly unlocking stuff, You're
Speaker 6: constantly earning some currency or some other thing, and they're jummies.
Speaker 3: Like there's a whole sumption for gummies at the point
Speaker 3: where like, what the fuck is just the mode where
Speaker 3: I look at gummies?
Speaker 1: You can swing them around with your sword.
Speaker 3: I know, you can suck them in, you can zoom in,
Speaker 3: you can just like I guess this is just the
Speaker 3: gummy mode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's that's all there is to that one.
Speaker 1: I think, sure it.
Speaker 6: It is the kind of where it's like I think
Speaker 6: City Trials is so overwhelming visually that it feels more
Speaker 6: complicated than it is, and the fact that I think
Speaker 6: it might be extremely simple always confuses me.
Speaker 2: It's like there's so much going on. I must be
Speaker 2: missing something.
Speaker 6: It's like, no, I think you actually have a full
Speaker 6: grass upgrade your your machine and your character and go
Speaker 6: play a mini game.
Speaker 3: But then the minigames are like you're either gonna like
Speaker 3: eat a bunch of p andngs of like pasta.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, Elliott, that s thumbs up. We love that.
Speaker 3: Just race straight ahead and don't turn. It's like, I
Speaker 3: don't know, drag race.
Speaker 1: Are you just.
Speaker 3: Trying to get Is there any strategy to the upgrades
Speaker 3: you're getting?
Speaker 2: In city trial or idea everything.
Speaker 6: And get everything and then and then the game will
Speaker 6: be like recommend a a mini game that you're your
Speaker 6: build is probably best for.
Speaker 3: Is that you're just putting on the slot machine there right,
Speaker 3: Like it's not even like a you might get something
Speaker 3: totally different. You might there's a boss fights and weird races,
Speaker 3: and there's like a melee fighting mode, and it's like
Speaker 3: the amount of I thought this was a racing game
Speaker 3: and the amount of times it was just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: here's just like an arena boss fight or something.
Speaker 5: What the heck are we doing here? Like not in
Speaker 5: a bad way?
Speaker 3: Parentheses maybe positive question mark confused. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I enjoyed the road trip mode mostly because it's like
Speaker 6: hearing Jane, you played through it, you said it was
Speaker 6: like a three four hours maybe two two hours tops two?
Speaker 2: Okay, I must be getting right near the end of it.
Speaker 2: I'm like level three or whatever.
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, Then, because I've played for at least
Speaker 6: like an hour and a half, I thought.
Speaker 1: Maybe are are you talking about the levels in terms
Speaker 1: of like the new biomes that pop up after you complete?
Speaker 1: Like I guess the map it goes to a yes, Oh.
Speaker 6: Okay, then all right, Well either way, I'm like enjoying
Speaker 6: it because it's like there's all these mini games that
Speaker 6: I probably would not like go select from a menu,
Speaker 6: but when they're served up as an option. In the
Speaker 6: road trip mode, which is just like Kirby goes forward
Speaker 6: on the road, there's three characters in front of.
Speaker 2: You on the road.
Speaker 6: You pick one that you want to run into, and
Speaker 6: that they will give you an option of, like this
Speaker 6: will be a race, or this will be the PNGU
Speaker 6: food eating game, or this will be the RC pro
Speaker 6: Am mode. There's that in this game as well, and
Speaker 6: it's okay, well I want to do RC pro Am
Speaker 6: and you go select that and it's a great Now
Speaker 6: I'm playing this mode that I probably would not have
Speaker 6: interacted with too much otherwise, and if it doesn't over state's,
Speaker 6: well welcome. I'm like, oh, this is a pretty good
Speaker 6: way to get in this game and try all the
Speaker 6: stuff that has to offer.
Speaker 3: Grub, I think this might be a telling thing about
Speaker 3: age here. Okay, so the RC pro Am mode, the
Speaker 3: top ride or whatever it's called, what is it?
Speaker 2: When we're yeah top race, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Grub, what control method did you pick?
Speaker 6: I chose so that left always turns my cart left.
Speaker 6: It's not direct control.
Speaker 3: That's what I was gonna test Jan who was revolted.
Speaker 3: And this is the it's the RC pro am difference.
Speaker 3: There isn't it the RC pro am difference.
Speaker 2: That's what you can only find that on giant bomb
Speaker 2: dot com.
Speaker 3: I guess to talk about RC pro am, I guess
Speaker 3: I'll figure myself now or something.
Speaker 2: Biker mice from Mars for Super Nintendo Super off Road.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh, I love Super often.
Speaker 2: That's a sign that you're gonna die. And if you.
Speaker 4: In a few years are like that, what I'm afraid.
Speaker 2: I don't make the rule.
Speaker 4: I just have good like arcade cabinet, three wheel kind
Speaker 4: of pizza hut you know stam the nit button.
Speaker 2: I'm really glad to tend obayed this game. I think
Speaker 2: it's fun. It is. It's ridiculous the fact that this
Speaker 2: game got a sequel. It's like, boy, anything could get
Speaker 2: a sequel, sure any moment.
Speaker 1: You just never know. If anything this game makes me
Speaker 1: raises more questions about Sacarai as a person, and I'm
Speaker 1: wondering has he what what kind of cars is he
Speaker 1: going into? How is he driving? And then what is
Speaker 1: his experience like going into Oh Okay, what is it
Speaker 1: like for him to just walk into a normal city, Like,
Speaker 1: what is he doing.
Speaker 2: Trials? It's a road trip, Like you should get him
Speaker 2: on our road trip, all.
Speaker 1: Right, because like every time I pop in the city Trials,
Speaker 1: every different instance is vastly different than the previous run
Speaker 1: I had done, because the game will just be something
Speaker 1: completely different of like now there's a chichartic chicken in here,
Speaker 1: that's a ropot, go attack it. Or there'll be one
Speaker 1: where there's a giant mothership or ufo floating around gets
Speaker 1: somewhere very high so you can jump on it. And
Speaker 1: other times I'll just be running around as Rick, just
Speaker 1: collecting a bunch of power ups, only to eat a
Speaker 1: bunch of p andngs later, and I think I'm having fun.
Speaker 3: I think I'm starting to. It's the sheer amount of
Speaker 3: stuff that you're knocking and doing and seeing.
Speaker 5: It's like impossible to get bored.
Speaker 3: But it also just throws me for loop because like
Speaker 3: I've played a lot of racing games, I've played a
Speaker 3: lot of arcade, yeah, cart racing games and stuff, and
Speaker 3: it just speaks a language that I don't know where
Speaker 3: it's like I finally started to like come to grips
Speaker 3: with the like, okay, there's not a gas button. I'm
Speaker 3: used to that now. This is how I drift around
Speaker 3: turns and stuff. And then like unlock a new car
Speaker 3: and it's like, hey, none of that shit happens with
Speaker 3: this car, Like what, yeah, what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: To Yeah, I love how like the second most recommended machine.
Speaker 1: Of course, they're not called carts here.
Speaker 2: The machines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like the warp store is the one the default
Speaker 1: when you start with that teaches you all the mechanics.
Speaker 1: But the one that I've gravitated to is the washing
Speaker 1: machine looking one. I think the wagon stef one that
Speaker 1: doesn't boost, right, it doesn't boost, which is danger mechanics game,
Speaker 1: and the other some of the other machines will be like, hey,
Speaker 1: this will transform if you wiggle it, so be selective
Speaker 1: with how you like do the quick spin. That's the thing.
Speaker 3: I'm still confused. I played a few hours of this
Speaker 3: game now, and it's like I don't know, like do
Speaker 3: I spin, do I suck? What do I like?
Speaker 2: What? Like?
Speaker 3: Like I know if I do the wiggle, it'll like
Speaker 3: knock people off, But then it's like there's things where
Speaker 3: it's like I'll just see a bunch of icons of
Speaker 3: fucking like there's six mushrooms above my head? Are those
Speaker 3: items I can use? And then there are ones that
Speaker 3: like a copy Is this a copy ability or is
Speaker 3: this just showing me a picture of a thing I killed?
Speaker 3: Like I don't really know what's happening, So.
Speaker 1: If it'll have like an icon over it, and folks,
Speaker 1: that's how it is to live in your thirties. But
Speaker 1: there's an icon that will show if it is a
Speaker 1: power up, but generally just hit everything, So I'm like
Speaker 1: constantly trying to quick spin into everything because it just gives.
Speaker 2: You that little yeah.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing. It's like it's very obvious when
Speaker 3: like you have a special because you got the blinking
Speaker 3: bar you hit why and it does the big sword
Speaker 3: thing or whatever. But then there's stuff where it's like
Speaker 3: the copyabilities, where it's like, okay, so wait if I
Speaker 3: just pass, like, how am I getting copy abilities.
Speaker 1: From other racers or from the enemies from the normal.
Speaker 2: Because the game I get confused because the game's too
Speaker 2: simple again, because there's only one button. You're supposed to
Speaker 2: hit the same button that you used to break.
Speaker 6: And boost when you go up to an enemy, I
Speaker 6: think you hit that and that sucks them in, and
Speaker 6: then once you have them sucked in, you hit that
Speaker 6: same button again to use that power times.
Speaker 3: If I want to suck, I have to slow down, like,
Speaker 3: well you gotta do.
Speaker 2: Let just quick suck like.
Speaker 1: I think you gotta see it. Another hour long direct
Speaker 1: explaining the.
Speaker 5: Understand understand.
Speaker 2: One hundred and seven minutes of directs for this.
Speaker 1: Even I still don't know how to play it.
Speaker 2: I'm still lost on a lot of it.
Speaker 3: At any point, is there like, okay, Mario Kart, I
Speaker 3: have a red shell. It's floating above my head. Is
Speaker 3: that ever the case? Or it's like because some of them.
Speaker 3: I looked up all the icons. I looked at the
Speaker 3: Legendre's like this is the sword one, this is But
Speaker 3: each one of them have different rules. If you're breaking
Speaker 3: and you hold back on the analog stick, you'll shoot
Speaker 3: a ball or something, and soon when it's automatic fire
Speaker 3: whenever you pass something like, am I supposed to know
Speaker 3: any of this?
Speaker 2: Just keep playing it?
Speaker 1: I guess you just you just gotta enter in a
Speaker 1: flow state. Dan, just keep going. You just gotta you
Speaker 1: just gotta keep spinning and sucking. That's the Sacharai like
Speaker 1: m O.
Speaker 6: All this stuff is the reason that I think so
Speaker 6: many like young people like the original because it.
Speaker 2: Is like candy.
Speaker 6: It looks like candy, it kind of plays like candy,
Speaker 6: and then there's this insane language that it speaks that
Speaker 6: you can become the master.
Speaker 2: Of if you.
Speaker 6: And the kids love that shit. They love to be like,
Speaker 6: I understand this thing that when my parents walk in
Speaker 6: the room, they're like, what is even happening. I don't
Speaker 6: know the first thing about what is happening on the screen.
Speaker 2: LetterOne.
Speaker 6: How my kids were, They're interested in it, They're kind
Speaker 6: of they're still not sure about it.
Speaker 2: I think they're interesting.
Speaker 4: They started playing Fast Fusion that in the switch to
Speaker 4: Launch game like an F zero clone, so they're playing a.
Speaker 2: Lot of Fast Fusion. The kids can't get enough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the more that I talk about this
Speaker 1: game with other people, I think the more that I
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 2: A budge, Yeah, I'm just like like the Lobby of
Speaker 2: Friends from there, you could do a race, so you
Speaker 2: can just play one of those mini games.
Speaker 3: Real original Kirby's.
Speaker 2: Yes, he was involved. Yeah, I think he's saying the
Speaker 2: entire time.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, like that's I've always struggled with just basic
Speaker 3: ass Kirby controls because every single thing you suck up
Speaker 3: has different like I always have to pause and look
Speaker 3: at them, like okay, BF does that, and like Smash
Speaker 3: Brothers had the same thing where it's like there's just
Speaker 3: so many contextual things with like a couple of different
Speaker 3: buttons that don't speak the language of other games in
Speaker 3: their genres, like old Kirby games don't speak normal platformer rules,
Speaker 3: Smash Brothers doesn't normal fighting rules, and air Riders doesn't
Speaker 3: speak racing rules.
Speaker 2: Like this guy just that they all but they all
Speaker 2: speak similar to each other. Y. Yeah, he's in his
Speaker 2: own language, he's.
Speaker 1: In his own lane, and I love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little break the menu being so Smash Brothers
Speaker 3: down to the announcer and then like cracking up every
Speaker 3: time I picked them.
Speaker 1: Like, what's the.
Speaker 2: That's very similar to the first game? Was the first
Speaker 2: game's menus and all that Werek melee. It was exactly
Speaker 2: like the same style of Smash brother as Melee. So
Speaker 2: now this all looking like Smash Brothers Ultimate. Uh, it tracks,
Speaker 2: it's consistent. I'm only familiar with like the I guess
Speaker 2: the bigger Kirby characters, so like the deeper cuts that
Speaker 2: this game has. I'm like, you don't know about Rick.
Speaker 2: I know about Rick. It's just like goo and La
Speaker 2: La Gooey I didn't know about those are like proto
Speaker 2: Kirby because they were like from before Kurby.
Speaker 1: Right, that was like an early half game in Who's
Speaker 1: like the Dragon Ball Kirby knockoff, He's like Gooey, No
Speaker 1: Fighting Joe, Fighter Joe, knuckle Joe.
Speaker 2: It's just one of the endemisic and copy from to
Speaker 2: get the fighter ability. I think at first in Kirby's Superstar.
Speaker 2: I don't think fighter was in Kirby's Adventure. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: like knuckle Joe.
Speaker 1: Knuckle Joe looks like a fucking freak.
Speaker 2: I don't want to cross, I said, we like knuckle Joe.
Speaker 1: Y'all can like knuckle Joe. Like knuckle Joe.
Speaker 2: Where's my words? I believe I do.
Speaker 5: I really like all the p andgs of food.
Speaker 3: There's so many tropical rice.
Speaker 1: Here's some niggar, so many not just gobble that ship up.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 2: I like sixty of him. I don't give a ship.
Speaker 1: Sure, Yeah, we gotta have like either a T and
Speaker 1: T or a UPF where we just go balls to
Speaker 1: the wall.
Speaker 3: I'll get back in there. I appreciating this game.
Speaker 1: But like I think, like I don't quite understand Sakarai.
Speaker 1: I've never gone into smash just because no, I'm not
Speaker 1: like a fighting game person. But maybe, oh how.
Speaker 2: I like this maybe a bit more right away because
Speaker 2: I speak his language more because I play some.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I love his brain because why the funk
Speaker 1: would you make Kirby which doesn't really quite make sense
Speaker 1: when you think about it, and then a penguin with
Speaker 1: a gigantic hammer, and then you have La booboo and
Speaker 1: La La like Dan mentioned, but also, hey, here's just
Speaker 1: a fucking hamster. Yea Rick shout out.
Speaker 6: To Rick shut like the fish too, Yeah, there's a
Speaker 6: fish from Kirby's dreamland too as well.
Speaker 2: I think, I think the fish and Rick. And then
Speaker 2: there was a third animals an octopus or is that two?
Speaker 2: That was three outs?
Speaker 1: And then there's like a weird like I think it's
Speaker 1: a Japanese but he excuse me, he she beat it up.
Speaker 1: It's like a green duck with a bald spot. I
Speaker 1: don't remember sometimes you.
Speaker 2: Just try your yuck.
Speaker 3: You'll just turn into UFO and have no idea why.
Speaker 3: It's like I got my phone.
Speaker 2: It's like the bullet bill ability, I think from Mario Kart.
Speaker 2: How do I get that?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, that happened?
Speaker 6: Is it like the part time UFO character? Because how
Speaker 6: laboratory made that? I wonder if he's I don't know.
Speaker 2: It was a copyability and some in the kids, right,
Speaker 2: that's right, Yeah, you're right, bunch.
Speaker 1: I also love how seriously the story mode, the road
Speaker 1: trip mode takes itself.
Speaker 2: Opening.
Speaker 3: That's the thing too, is like whenever you put up
Speaker 3: like Smash Ultimate or whatever, and there's this huge anime
Speaker 3: ass cut scenes like wait, he's taking this seriously right,
Speaker 3: It's like, wait, no, I think the whole development funny.
Speaker 1: It's somebunny day.
Speaker 2: When you were watching me and k to play the
Speaker 2: game without a Smashburgs Ultimate without items.
Speaker 3: I had never watched someone like I've never pressed the
Speaker 3: block button in my life.
Speaker 1: And Smash Brothers.
Speaker 3: I've played thousands of hours probably Smash Brothers. I've never
Speaker 3: played with items off. I've never seen anyone play with
Speaker 3: items off, and I've never seen anyone use the block button,
Speaker 3: and you guys played it like it was a completely
Speaker 3: different game.
Speaker 1: It blew my mind. What kind of fun It's very
Speaker 1: love it, love it, Love it all right, folks, That
Speaker 1: about does it for video games. We're going to take
Speaker 1: a quick bricky break and we will be back with
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Speaker 1: This is Jeff, Jeff.
Speaker 2: Paudy.
Speaker 6: Everybody, I have news for you. Let's get into it.
Speaker 6: An entire PS five now costs less than sixty four
Speaker 6: gigabytes of d d R five memory, even after a discount.
Speaker 6: The rise of AI is causing a massive surgeon prices
Speaker 6: for PC components like d d R five RAM due
Speaker 6: to increased demand for memory and storage. We've talked about
Speaker 6: this a bunch on various shows, but the price keeps
Speaker 6: going up and the expectation is it will be even
Speaker 6: more expensive next year. This is worth bringing up because hey,
Speaker 6: the PS five uses DDR five memory, as does the
Speaker 6: Xbox series X and switch to that's the memory that
Speaker 6: is like for the main system memory.
Speaker 2: GPUs would use even.
Speaker 6: Faster memory, which is also affected by this. Frankly, this
Speaker 6: caused a lot of speculation recently and some you know,
Speaker 6: maybe you know if you're reporting on like oh, Xbox
Speaker 6: doesn't have a lot of memory in stock, like on
Speaker 6: their shelves ready to be used for their production, while
Speaker 6: PlayStation is a few months supply, so the Xbox could
Speaker 6: go up in price again very soon, you know. Jess
Speaker 6: Cordon over at Windows Central reported that they say they're
Speaker 6: good for now, they didn't provide a timeline. I'm probably
Speaker 6: thinking that either way, both these companies probably don't have
Speaker 6: enough stock to get them through next year, so they're
Speaker 6: probably going to be hit by these prices and whether
Speaker 6: or not they eat those costs, Man memory got.
Speaker 2: Real fat, real expensive, real ratings. This is like doubling
Speaker 2: in price, and in a lot of cases it's even
Speaker 2: more than that. We're expecting it could double again by
Speaker 2: the end of twenty twenty six. So the you know,
Speaker 2: the reasoning for this continues to be ai just like
Speaker 2: all the world's ales are because of AI. Right now,
Speaker 2: it seems like and that's not going to go away.
Speaker 2: Even if the bubble burst like that, demand's probably still
Speaker 2: going to be there for a little bit.
Speaker 4: Oh man, a friend to the site ed Zitron, had
Speaker 4: an interview with the Choppo Boys about AI, and I
Speaker 4: just got it is like two hours of the of
Speaker 4: the most sort of like foreheads slapping white knuckling nails
Speaker 4: on a chalkboard, analysis of our current uh you know,
Speaker 4: psychotic infatuation with this.
Speaker 2: Man didn't listen to that, did they, Like, was there
Speaker 2: anything that really stuck after you?
Speaker 6: There's some things I learned like in the last week
Speaker 6: that's like, oh, this is why it's definitely a bubble,
Speaker 6: but well, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe well, I mean it's a you know, I think
Speaker 4: the bubble part, uh, I think is very sort of
Speaker 4: like surface level at this point, right, I think, Uh,
Speaker 4: the thing that he was talking a lot about is
Speaker 4: just the psychotic pace in which these data centers are
Speaker 4: being constructed, the environmental uh you know, implications of it,
Speaker 4: the community implications of it, and just how there seems
Speaker 4: to be like so many checks being written that will
Speaker 4: never be able to be cashed in a way. That
Speaker 4: is certainly troubling. You know, I don't know, We've been
Speaker 4: saying this for like over a year now, and now
Speaker 4: I feel like the the well, this won't be bailed out.
Speaker 4: The headlines are starting to come out and it's just.
Speaker 6: Like yes, I said that, and the government was already like, well,
Speaker 6: we just can't let this collapse, though, so what are
Speaker 6: we going to do?
Speaker 1: Break?
Speaker 4: It's a good Listen, it's pretty long, but you know,
Speaker 4: Ed's real good at uh, you know, watering it down
Speaker 4: and kind of you know, communicating and yeah, it's it's nuts, man, Believe.
Speaker 6: The thing that really hit me was so these companies
Speaker 6: have to report like things to investors, like the the
Speaker 6: investments they make in their technology and how that's depreciating
Speaker 6: over time, Like what like what value are you still
Speaker 6: getting from a GPU that you bought from Nvidio like
Speaker 6: three or four years ago. And one of the things
Speaker 6: that they're doing is like, no, we're still using those
Speaker 6: and like we're going to depreciate them at like a
Speaker 6: normal rate, as if it's like a forklift that will
Speaker 6: last for twenty years, when in reality, those GPUs that
Speaker 6: cost six thousand dollars a couple of years ago, you
Speaker 6: can now get on eBay for like one hundred dollars
Speaker 6: because Nvidia is just putting out new ones that are
Speaker 6: so much more efficient and so much faster, and they've
Speaker 6: increased the cadence at which they're releasing those things. So
Speaker 6: the effectively, if all of that is true, these companies
Speaker 6: that are saying, hey, these things are depreciating at a
Speaker 6: normal rate are lying to investors at a really in
Speaker 6: a really kind of negative way where it's like, oh,
Speaker 6: their heads should roll at the end of this because
Speaker 6: this is now fraud. But all the companies are doing
Speaker 6: it across the board.
Speaker 4: So he was yeah, he wasn't talking. Yeah, he talked
Speaker 4: a little bit about depreciation for sure, but also talked
Speaker 4: about how like all of these like highly specialized GPUs
Speaker 4: that are just like, once they aren't being used for
Speaker 4: what they're being used for, they just become almost worthless, right,
Speaker 4: And it's like yes, and then it's like a year
Speaker 4: or two, yeah, and then it's like then what then
Speaker 4: you have all this silicon, all this stuff that is
Speaker 4: just like waste, like I the the just you know,
Speaker 4: completely unadulterated, unregulated, wild rush to build and construct with
Speaker 4: with no regard for humanity or or human life or
Speaker 4: any of like funk all the consequences. It's just so
Speaker 4: shortsighted and wildly frustrating in a way where it's like, no,
Speaker 4: we we will never have nice things going this way,
Speaker 4: like it's just anything. Yeah, it's just rinse and repeat
Speaker 4: and who the fuck cares? And it's the next generation's problem.
Speaker 4: What do I give a ship about it?
Speaker 2: I think I saw nik what somebody's making the the
Speaker 2: Ai grill, the brisk it Ai is going to cook
Speaker 2: our meat.
Speaker 4: Your joke has been replaced.
Speaker 2: Now I feel like a joke. You're obsolete.
Speaker 3: We were all jumping about you know, our fridges don't
Speaker 3: need Bluetooth, and how quaint we had it.
Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah that was probably the stupid fucking Internet
Speaker 2: of Things. That bullshit. Oh god, I go for it now.
Speaker 1: I was at to dinner with friends last night and
Speaker 1: the topic came up of Hey, remember War of the
Speaker 1: Worlds came out this year.
Speaker 2: I'll never forget the only good thing that happened this year.
Speaker 4: I cannot wait for the Chris Pratt version of that.
Speaker 6: Amazon's got another one where Chris Pratt's just sitting in
Speaker 6: front of a screen for the whole movie.
Speaker 3: They're making another one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tier for it. I saw the trail. It's not
Speaker 2: related to War of the Worlds.
Speaker 6: It's just the exact same style of movie where he's like,
Speaker 6: there's a lady on the other side of a phone
Speaker 6: call and he's sitting in a room.
Speaker 2: He's kind of being like portrait or trial. That's right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: prove his innocence. He's like a bat. If someone puts
Speaker 2: you on a computer, is like, use the internet to
Speaker 2: prove your innocence for this murder or will kill you
Speaker 2: in an hour.
Speaker 3: I think the internet would prove my guilt and a
Speaker 3: lot of things.
Speaker 2: So we got this, Dan, You just sit back. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh he's dead now, all right?
Speaker 6: Next up, Vampire Crawlers, a first person deck building Vampire
Speaker 6: Survivors spinoff, is coming next year. This is one of
Speaker 6: the things announced that that Xbox Partner preview that happened
Speaker 6: last week. Ponkel has announced the Vampire Crawlers, a first
Speaker 6: person card game and spinoff of Vampire Survivors, set for
Speaker 6: release in twenty twenty six on a bunch of the platforms.
Speaker 6: It'll be day one, available on game Pass. They basically said,
Speaker 6: we want to take the idea of the core pillars
Speaker 6: of Vampire Survivors. They would describe those as accessibility, immediacy, affordability,
Speaker 6: and replayability and apply those to other pre existing genres.
Speaker 6: In this case, excuse me. In this case, it's a
Speaker 6: dungeon crawler but with card modifiers and then a bunch
Speaker 6: of other stuff. It looks pretty cool.
Speaker 3: A trailer that sounds very good.
Speaker 2: That's how we get Dan into the dungeon crawling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dungeon crawling, like Diablo is a dungeon crawler, right,
Speaker 3: It's a little bit different than that. The dungeon crawlers
Speaker 3: Wizardry wizards.
Speaker 5: Okay, maybe I'm not an crawling.
Speaker 2: I think Jessica Cogswell over a game Spot did a preview.
Speaker 2: She got it. I think she got to play it
Speaker 2: and seemed like she.
Speaker 1: Liked it to look at this a lot.
Speaker 2: Oh, this got a fantastic look.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, I will definitely play this.
Speaker 2: Other things announced as part of that a partner preview
Speaker 2: included EM and M will hire Agent forty seven to
Speaker 2: kill Slim Shady in Hitman's next Elusive Target mission, but.
Speaker 3: Sold concept of his last album that came out like
Speaker 3: six months ago or something.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he.
Speaker 7: Knows slim Shady though, right, you see, slim Shady's the
Speaker 7: Kfe brother you see, well there's three He's got three
Speaker 7: kfee in real life exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm confused by what's the difference between, Like, I
Speaker 3: know slim Shady is the like wacky pop single version
Speaker 3: of him, but then what's the different Marshall Mathers is
Speaker 3: this name? Then who's Eminem?
Speaker 2: That's just this mc handle right, that's.
Speaker 3: Okay, so normal mc eminem, but then wacky real slim
Speaker 3: Shady and.
Speaker 2: The dad is Marshall Mathers or the dad.
Speaker 5: Who wants to kill his ex wife?
Speaker 1: Yes, that's seventh.
Speaker 2: Just a hitman for hire, like you know, for the government.
Speaker 3: I thought he was on the up and up.
Speaker 1: You got enough money, like you can hire.
Speaker 6: Any No, the government does not employ any hitmen. No,
Speaker 6: there are no, that's not an official job in the military.
Speaker 6: He's been a contract killer.
Speaker 2: Like okay, but like like, hey, I need you to
Speaker 2: kill this nun like is he just gonna do it?
Speaker 2: Are you calling?
Speaker 3: None?
Speaker 2: No, Dan, that's a separate conversation thread.
Speaker 6: It just seems like a funny sentence to say, I
Speaker 6: mean I think he's I think they probably justify it
Speaker 6: by saying he's probably got a code like no women
Speaker 6: and children, that sort of thing, Omar from the Wire,
Speaker 6: but he definitely has killed. Yeah, like Omar from the
Speaker 6: Wire exactly.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and the vegans I played, all the people
Speaker 2: I killed seem to be bad, right and right, but.
Speaker 6: It is, uh the but he was like a hired
Speaker 6: contract killer. That's part of this organization that is essentially
Speaker 6: like a shadow CIA, So you're not too far off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but like thing we try to kill Castro
Speaker 3: with like exploding cigars and ship, like don't we.
Speaker 1: Do we do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have assassins.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you wouldn't call him hitman because that's what's
Speaker 6: the difference. A freelancer. A hitman is a freelancer who's
Speaker 6: kind of like hired a contract killer. Yeah so illegal,
Speaker 6: yeah right, but if the yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, either way.
Speaker 2: I think this elusive target is popping off soon. Let's
Speaker 2: see here.
Speaker 6: A paid cosmetic pack, the Eminem versus Slim Shady Pack,
Speaker 6: will also be released the same day for five dollars.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't want Eminem to release a disc track
Speaker 1: on me, but maybe I do. Maybe why like no
Speaker 1: to him?
Speaker 6: No, these are weird partnerships. Yes, you're right, I don't
Speaker 6: get it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell you.
Speaker 2: So why is it?
Speaker 3: This is weird timing? If it was like a week
Speaker 3: before the album came out or something, that's why. Sure
Speaker 3: it was the whole concept knows?
Speaker 4: Who knows how these things come together? Yeah, making games
Speaker 4: is probably.
Speaker 2: Just hard and so a little bit longer than they
Speaker 2: were thinking.
Speaker 1: Eat hot wings with the bald guy instead. You don't
Speaker 1: have to make a video game thing.
Speaker 4: Has he not done that yet?
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: Okay, they have.
Speaker 2: Some people who just like I couldn't do it. There's
Speaker 2: gotta be some celibrities like I can't eat spicy food.
Speaker 2: That's not an option for me.
Speaker 1: So make me a hitman level.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the second step.
Speaker 2: You think you think Slim Shady has crones?
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why he's so angry Marshall does Marshall.
Speaker 3: This whole beard era of eminem is weird. He's got
Speaker 3: like a Hollywood Hogan beard and it's just a weird.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Wait, Mike, do all your people in your
Speaker 6: life to have crones?
Speaker 2: Through your butt. Brothers. No, just by one guy's my
Speaker 2: one friend's dad who has crones calls me that he's
Speaker 2: really problematic.
Speaker 1: Though far go ahead. Does he think you have you
Speaker 1: and your friend are more than friends. That's why he's
Speaker 1: also calling you guys. But brothers.
Speaker 2: No, he would not talk to my Fred anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's real problematic. Uh.
Speaker 6: A far crime TV series starring always Sonnies Rob Mcalleni.
Speaker 6: I can't recrospect his new name, Rob Mac. I guess
Speaker 6: has been an Is there stories out there? His wife
Speaker 6: and kids didn't want him to change his name, whatever,
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 4: My assumption. My assumption is that everyone was butchering the
Speaker 4: pronunc pronunciation of his name, right. But yeah, a lot
Speaker 4: of people said, I didn't know that's what he said. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's what he makes sense.
Speaker 6: Because it's not written out in a way where you
Speaker 6: would immediately go, oh, that's just MacAllen.
Speaker 4: It's twenty years too late, but it makes sense, you
Speaker 4: know exactly either way.
Speaker 2: He's working with FX.
Speaker 6: They have ordered anthology TV series based off ubisofts Far
Speaker 6: Right video game franchise. The show, which will stream on
Speaker 6: Hulu and the US and Disney Plus internationally. Will be
Speaker 6: produced by Rob Mack via More Better Productions and Noah Hawley,
Speaker 6: who's done Fargo and Alien Earth via twenty six Keys.
Speaker 6: Mac has also set the star in the series. Both
Speaker 6: producers praised the far Cries Cry franchises, existing anthology.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah nature and how it it's worked.
Speaker 1: I like the Fargo guy, yeah too. Noah Holly's Great
Speaker 1: Alien Earth was in okay, first two episodes.
Speaker 2: I've not watched it, but I've heard mixed things, but
Speaker 2: a lot of good things. But I assume they just
Speaker 2: adapts Far Cry three first, right, probably who knows.
Speaker 6: I mean, you just get that guy, right, just go
Speaker 6: get that actor, uh Nacho whatever from.
Speaker 1: Better Better Called.
Speaker 4: That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 3: Jack Black would have himself a time as a far
Speaker 3: Cry and it would probably be insufferable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna happen eventually, see it. We've been safe
Speaker 2: from Far Christ hashtag wive. No Black has been a
Speaker 2: bed as for his powers of all the agrees, but
Speaker 2: for Christ, they had to deal with that for a while.
Speaker 2: Feels he's like far Christ six And I assume whatever
Speaker 2: it's expand alone was for a while. Now, Yeah, what
Speaker 2: what was the expand alone for six Did they do one?
Speaker 1: They always do?
Speaker 2: They always not did? Yeah, I don't know, but we
Speaker 2: are overdue for a new one that probably pops up soon.
Speaker 2: It is the yan far Krist was twenty twenty one? Okay?
Speaker 2: Interesting was that the cult one No?
Speaker 3: Five five six was the Jared Letto one six guys
Speaker 3: from Breaking Back?
Speaker 1: Wait was Jared Letter?
Speaker 3: No, it's just everyone seems like Jared Letto.
Speaker 2: And yeah, our Kings of Leon's yeah, one or the other.
Speaker 1: I guess they did thirty Mars. Do not be smirched
Speaker 1: the Kings of Leon.
Speaker 6: No, I'm saying the guys, the characters in that game
Speaker 6: look like the Kings of Leon were a call or
Speaker 6: more of a cult. I should say, all right, there
Speaker 6: is no longer in need to protect her. Farah may
Speaker 6: be stronger in Prince of Persia. The sansa Time remake
Speaker 6: leak suggests that previous part was a quote. Leaked internal
Speaker 6: Ubisoft presentation suggest that the upcoming remake of princip Persia
Speaker 6: The Sands of Time, which is apparently going to launch
Speaker 6: early next year we might see it at the Game Awards,
Speaker 6: will significantly enhance the character of Princess Farah, making her
Speaker 6: a true ally who can fight independently. Unlike the original
Speaker 6: two thousand and three games where players had to protect Farah,
Speaker 6: the remake will modernize the combat and allow Farah to
Speaker 6: fight on her own with her bow, eliminating the need.
Speaker 2: To protect her. I'm all for that. Sands Time is
Speaker 2: like like one of my favorite games. I love this.
Speaker 6: Holy shit, Yeah, this is a game that I kind
Speaker 6: of hold holy this doesn't This doesn't bother me at all.
Speaker 2: I think this is probably going to be a positive
Speaker 2: change for that.
Speaker 3: I mean, any game where they remove of a thing
Speaker 3: where you have to protect another character, I'll never be
Speaker 3: upset about that.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 6: So it's like, okay, cool, they're making some edits here,
Speaker 6: probably some smart choices. It seems like they understand the
Speaker 6: game that they have. I hope we see that game soon.
Speaker 6: I would love to see that at the Game Awards
Speaker 6: and I.
Speaker 1: Want to see it soon selfishly. So it opens up
Speaker 1: the door to a Warrior Within remake, just so, just
Speaker 1: so I can hear that God Smack song.
Speaker 3: Was it just okay?
Speaker 1: In my head?
Speaker 3: It was like every time that thing is chasing you
Speaker 3: or is it just a commercial?
Speaker 5: And I'm thinking or the commercial, but I think it
Speaker 5: was the game too.
Speaker 2: Yeah do hakka. I know because my friend would always
Speaker 2: yell at me because I would tell him how I
Speaker 2: don't approve of that warrior within game. He's like, it's
Speaker 2: cool because metals in it, and then he would just
Speaker 2: scream the name of the monster that chased you, and
Speaker 2: I could throw up the horns, like get in my
Speaker 2: face and scream and make me uncomfortable and wear a
Speaker 2: Metallica shirt. I'm going with him to the reunion. I'm working.
Speaker 2: I'm a little worried.
Speaker 1: Is he the butt broe?
Speaker 2: This is no, this is a fixer.
Speaker 4: I have a question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got quite so.
Speaker 4: So this is the person you're describing, is like the
Speaker 4: fucking villain in a nightmare.
Speaker 2: Sleep paralysis de man.
Speaker 4: And you're like, hey buddy, Hey, nightmare buddy. You want
Speaker 4: to go to the reunion together?
Speaker 2: Yes, he has to me, and I'm not gonna say no.
Speaker 2: He's my friend fixer.
Speaker 5: It's like this sounds like Harvey Kai telling the fixer.
Speaker 2: That's right. Actually we do call him the fixer. That
Speaker 2: is this full name, and it's uh capital X higher
Speaker 2: the lowercase X higher case X lower case.
Speaker 1: X two x's three X like in that movie.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, a song named Fixer that Metallica does that
Speaker 2: we named Yeah. Ever since you said do Hawke, I
Speaker 2: think it do Hawk mish by Romstein.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing he likes.
Speaker 2: He likes them too.
Speaker 6: Good good, Uh, all right, so Prince Person might be improved.
Speaker 6: Valve confirmed Steam Machine will be priced like a PC
Speaker 6: with the same level level of performance.
Speaker 2: We did talk about this a little a little bit
Speaker 2: last week.
Speaker 6: This is a little bit of a focal point ongoing
Speaker 6: from the announcement of this.
Speaker 2: Every time it comes up.
Speaker 6: Price is now the first and only real question anyone
Speaker 6: continues to talk about. We are getting trickling information about
Speaker 6: this of a It's not gonna be price like a console.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be price like a PC. Something that you know,
Speaker 6: I Valve told you guys, I think to your face, right,
Speaker 6: Jan and Dan, they kind of basically said, like, this is.
Speaker 2: A PC, you should think of it as a PC.
Speaker 6: They continue to say that now they're like getting maybe
Speaker 6: a little bit more specific, although we certainly cannot glean
Speaker 6: a price from this. They said, if you were to
Speaker 6: build a PC with similar performance, this is going to
Speaker 6: be priced like that.
Speaker 3: So starting to wonder my early thoughts on the you know,
Speaker 3: five twelve slash two Terrorby versions being six fifteen eight
Speaker 3: hundred might be a little lot.
Speaker 2: I'm going up to that.
Speaker 6: I am also going up Dan, I was between six
Speaker 6: hundred eight hundred, I think. Now I'm like, yeah, eight
Speaker 6: hundred two one thousand is kind of where I'm at now.
Speaker 2: It's like, you can see why it might cost a thousand,
Speaker 2: but boy, it just seems like we're taught like the
Speaker 2: market penetration is gonna be pre limited at four figures.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, it's I'm trying to think like a laptop
Speaker 6: with similar specs those those are probably like twelve hundred
Speaker 6: to fourteen hundred, right, So, so I think you start
Speaker 6: to you know, taking out some of the miniaturization. Obviously
Speaker 6: they are still miniaturized with this thing. It's really small,
Speaker 6: but that that's not They're not.
Speaker 2: Going to like reduce their or have their cost skyrocket
Speaker 2: because of that.
Speaker 6: They probably thought about that, take out the screen, take
Speaker 6: out the battery, save some money here or there. We're
Speaker 6: probably talking about eight hundred if for Lucky, So we'll see.
Speaker 6: We'll probably get information on that here relatively soon, but
Speaker 6: they probably come in the new year and talk about
Speaker 6: the price.
Speaker 2: Then, right, we're not going to get another Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: at least the rams real cheap these days. Yeah, yep, that.
Speaker 4: They pre bought it, they.
Speaker 6: Will at least be able to command, you know, a
Speaker 6: large orders where they could save some money on their components.
Speaker 2: They're going to be a big vendor for whoever they
Speaker 2: work with. But that's not going to do enough to
Speaker 2: push those RAM prices down. Uh Okay, let's see here.
Speaker 6: Nintendo starts removing player made bikini chef from Kirby air Riders.
Speaker 1: I believe Nintendo is censoring the players.
Speaker 6: Nintendo woke actively removing player created machines designs machine designs
Speaker 6: from the Kirby air Riders machine market. Something we didn't
Speaker 6: talk about at all, but there's a market where people
Speaker 6: can make their own machines and sell them to each
Speaker 6: other with in game currency that to pick the character
Speaker 6: Chef Kawasaki in a bikini the meme. The meme originated
Speaker 6: from twenty twenty fan ar and players quickly used the
Speaker 6: my Machines mode, which allows for creative asset manipulation, to
Speaker 6: upload their own bikini Chef Kawasaki I thought Mike's nipple
Speaker 6: design was even more received.
Speaker 2: But yeah, right, I put on the market. I'm not stupid,
Speaker 2: that's right. You're not attempting fate there, yeah, I mean, honestly, see,
Speaker 2: it's not even that loute. It's so funny, come.
Speaker 1: On, yes, fun Why Why is a Nintendo trying to
Speaker 1: body shame? Chef Kawazaki?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exact, that's a good point. Why are they evil?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think there was There was a multiple variations on
Speaker 6: this early on, and there was one in a micro
Speaker 6: bikini that was very skinny, and I think they got
Speaker 6: rid of that one. I think the one in the
Speaker 6: normal sized bikini is still on the store. And then,
Speaker 6: of course since then, people have added a bunch more.
Speaker 6: There's a gold rush now on bikini Chef Kawasaki. Uh,
Speaker 6: nearly half of us kids went in in game currency
Speaker 6: this Christmas. I was gonna ask you guys, if someone
Speaker 6: got you like v Bucks, would you be upset?
Speaker 4: Would you be as an adult man?
Speaker 5: As an adult I.
Speaker 2: Guess I mean I would be. There's worst gifts. I
Speaker 2: don't have those that Roe Bucks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't want uscratch, it was like.
Speaker 3: Fucking thirty bucks. I'm still looking at Scratchy in that story.
Speaker 1: Every day since that is insane.
Speaker 3: Not quite, it's like twenty six, twenty seven or something. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it comes with Scratchy, comes with Itchy as a little companion,
Speaker 3: and he follows you around and you.
Speaker 1: Get the axe.
Speaker 2: If it was Pooshy would be having a different conversation.
Speaker 2: I would get Poochy immediately, I'd be I'd be right there.
Speaker 2: I didn't get MO. Like. Look, I bought the battle
Speaker 2: Pass and I which was basically like buying missions and games,
Speaker 2: so I kind unlocked the things I was. I did that.
Speaker 2: I got my homer like, I gotta stop there. I
Speaker 2: looked at MO and they did the thing because I
Speaker 2: have of course, I have some V bucks left over
Speaker 2: from when I had to buy the things. If I
Speaker 2: just buy a bit more, I can get MO. Stop stop.
Speaker 2: I don't need MO in Fortnite and.
Speaker 3: You got you got sexy Flanders now right.
Speaker 2: I got sexy Flanders, I got normal flanners. I got
Speaker 2: marge yep, I got the like Simpson's version of the
Speaker 2: Banana and the fish guys.
Speaker 5: Oh the Professor Frank, that.
Speaker 2: Is like missions. That's a different thing that.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Oh the blanky, blanky as a person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually might be close to professor fake. Maybe
Speaker 2: I should look at that, I don't know, make a
Speaker 2: laugh and make a think it's.
Speaker 4: Yeah all that to say, uh yeah, I guess I'd
Speaker 4: be okay with that as a I mean, like that
Speaker 4: is the currency though, if we're being honest, Like I
Speaker 4: want to know how much of this percentage of kids
Speaker 4: want v books right, Like that to me is.
Speaker 2: Like, because I know minef senieces like it. I find
Speaker 2: it a little sad if I was a kid, and
Speaker 2: like even if I was a kid, somebody got me
Speaker 2: a gift a gift cards to toys or us, I
Speaker 2: think that's kind.
Speaker 1: Of I don't know, like for for kids now, like
Speaker 1: that's like the main.
Speaker 2: Kids want this. This is this is one of the
Speaker 2: things they Yeah, we do, and I think that's I
Speaker 2: think it's a shame. Well I'm over with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I mean, like you know, I think you
Speaker 4: just you just sort of shovel all that under the
Speaker 4: video game category is how I'm sort of rationalizing it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for me, like the disconnect would have been like
Speaker 6: cosmetics in the game in a game will never mean
Speaker 6: as much.
Speaker 2: To me as a new experience or a new game.
Speaker 6: So it's like, yeah, I want all that money or
Speaker 6: that like you know, gift capital to be put towards
Speaker 6: getting a new thing. But kids feel differently now. They
Speaker 6: want they want to show off in the game they're
Speaker 6: playing the most. They're just not the same person that
Speaker 6: I'm right.
Speaker 4: They feel different, and I think, you know, they are
Speaker 4: probably getting that same dopamine thing you're describing through that
Speaker 4: mechanism as well. I mean, but I also you know,
Speaker 4: he had his birthday back in April and the kid
Speaker 4: got almost like twenty thousand V bucks as a result
Speaker 4: of it, and I was just like, Okay, this is
Speaker 4: too much. This is insane. It's Dick's gift cards and
Speaker 4: V Bucks. That's the only thing kids get for their
Speaker 4: birthday as far as I'm aware. But no, like, you know,
Speaker 4: he wants new shoulder pads. He wants to get a
Speaker 4: new stick, like he there are other things outside of
Speaker 4: that that are like, oh, okay, that's.
Speaker 2: Stocking stuffer to me, Like there's some v busts in there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I probably will do exactly that.
Speaker 2: The kids play, well, it'll get mind coins or whatever. Minecraft.
Speaker 2: What do you all get them that.
Speaker 1: What does a currency and Minecraft do for you?
Speaker 6: Well, so there is a store where you can buy
Speaker 6: a lot of cosmetics that the Minecraft company Mojiang or
Speaker 6: mo Yang, I don't know how to say it, that
Speaker 6: they will make. But also there is a it's similar
Speaker 6: to Roadblocks, where there is a custom store where the
Speaker 6: community can create their own stuff and sell it in
Speaker 6: the store, and there are access to it. Yeah, very
Speaker 6: variations on the games. There's mods that completely change how
Speaker 6: everything works. There's a bunch of other create a character stuff.
Speaker 6: But then you can also download the stuff off the
Speaker 6: internet for free and installed in the game yourself.
Speaker 2: So that's still going in parallel to all this. But
Speaker 2: the kids want to get mine coins to buy that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I was wondering, because the version of
Speaker 1: Minecraft I have in my head is just super duper open.
Speaker 1: You just find a map or a mode.
Speaker 6: You probably play the Java version, right, Yeah, so the
Speaker 6: kids these days usually are playing Bedrock. But one of
Speaker 6: the reasons I talked about recently building a PC for
Speaker 6: Emmy is I want to get over to Java so
Speaker 6: that I can we could just use mods and do
Speaker 6: all all the stuff.
Speaker 2: Ye, get all the skins, get all the skins that way, so.
Speaker 1: You can fight one hundred or one hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine Spaniards.
Speaker 3: And she will be friend. GiB Doki read yes.
Speaker 6: Uh, all right, last story here, Hideo Hideo Kojima pays
Speaker 6: tribute to late actor Udo Kir. Rest in peace to
Speaker 6: Udo Kir, who passed away this past week. The German
Speaker 6: actor Udo Kir, known to video game fans as the
Speaker 6: villain Yuri and Command and conquer Red Alert, has died
Speaker 6: at age eighty one. Here was supposed to be in
Speaker 6: od They were going to film that next year. After
Speaker 6: some delays, not going to be able to do that.
Speaker 6: A real shame is one of those character actors that
Speaker 6: every time he pops up, he's got that voice right
Speaker 6: and that accent.
Speaker 3: He's this asshole rich guy Ina and yeah, do not
Speaker 3: go in there like that guy.
Speaker 6: Yeah right yeah so yeah, like iconic moments that you
Speaker 6: instantly recognize when you see him.
Speaker 2: So just real rest and peace, wrestful trails to Udo here.
Speaker 2: All right? That does with the headlines jan the show's
Speaker 2: back over to you. Uh.
Speaker 1: While I was skinning through Udo Kere's IMDb, I learned
Speaker 1: that there was a Pitch Perfect spinoff TV series, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with that information. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna have to go take a quick, pricky break
Speaker 1: and then i'll be back watch it all and ready
Speaker 1: to talk. It's only six episodes. I'll be ready to talk.
Speaker 2: To forget about me. Jan Let's start out a cappella group,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: When I came back from break before in the last break,
Speaker 3: none of you were here, and Mike was here, and
Speaker 3: as I walked up, his eyes were closed. He didn't
Speaker 3: see me walk up, and he was singing a song
Speaker 3: about how he was all alone on the call, and
Speaker 3: it was just my hear.
Speaker 1: Hey, Mikey, Mikey, Yeah, you're ever alone, You're never alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, We're always with you, just like that song for
Speaker 2: Found Fantasy nine exactly.
Speaker 1: That's what I was going for. Folks. We'll see you
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Speaker 1: got some kind words, you want to tell us more
Speaker 1: things about the about Vermont by all means right away,
Speaker 1: BombCast John bomb dot com. First email of the show
Speaker 1: comes from Tommy from Virginia. Hey, BombCast. When the Legend
Speaker 1: of Zelda Tiers of the Kingdom first came out, I
Speaker 1: bounced off it after a few hours. I could tell
Speaker 1: it was a great game overall, but I couldn't get
Speaker 1: into it. I recently got he switched to though, and
Speaker 1: decided to give it another go. I'm now over forty
Speaker 1: hours in and having a blast. Are there any games
Speaker 1: that you struggle to get into but eventually loved after
Speaker 1: trying again? Sincerely, Tommy from Virginia.
Speaker 4: Yes, oh yes, yes, Tommy from Virginia. Fallout three, Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: fall three. That was like my first Fallout and I
Speaker 4: tried it when I got it, and then it just
Speaker 4: wasn't speaking to me. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: I was just like, you know what, I'm an adult,
Speaker 4: now I can try a thing again. And I did
Speaker 4: and I finished the game, and that got me really all,
Speaker 4: you know, caught up in the Fallout business. If it
Speaker 4: wasn't for just me being an adult and being mature
Speaker 4: about the situation, I'd never play another Fallog game that
Speaker 4: you go romance stuck.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's tranding. For me, that's the one, all right, yep.
Speaker 2: I tried Earthbound so many times before I finally got
Speaker 2: into it. Like I played it back when it was
Speaker 2: like a newer game. I rented it, like on the
Speaker 2: E shop. I think I got it, you know, on
Speaker 2: the SNS Classics. Basically every time I had access to
Speaker 2: that game, I would try it again because I thought
Speaker 2: it was a game I should like. For some reason,
Speaker 2: I always get like a couple hours in it would
Speaker 2: fall off it and just gosh. Sometime within the last
Speaker 2: year on NSL, I finally was like, no, I want
Speaker 2: to play through this game. So I did, and it
Speaker 2: just totally got me this time, just asolutely hooked me.
Speaker 2: And now I am like one of those people who's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's one of the best SNS games. It's one of
Speaker 2: the best RPGs. It's timeless, it's fantastic, but it's like
Speaker 2: so much more fun to be the person a person
Speaker 2: who loves earthbounds out of being a person who is
Speaker 2: like I don't quite get Earthbound, but yeah, it just
Speaker 2: took decades to get there. I think, yeah, go ahead
Speaker 2: and jam.
Speaker 1: It was dead cells for me, Like I really I
Speaker 1: remember Jason A Striker waxing poetically about dead cells so much,
Speaker 1: and then when I eventually checked it out, I cannot
Speaker 1: initially like really parse out or it just didn't feel
Speaker 1: good initially, and then I think a couple months later,
Speaker 1: I just it came out for the switch or I
Speaker 1: picked it up on the switch, is what happened. And
Speaker 1: then it, for whatever reason, it just starts to fall
Speaker 1: into place and click with me. And then I spent
Speaker 1: an obscene amount of hours in that game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think this happens pretty frequently, so much so
Speaker 6: that it's like just it feels like normal process. So
Speaker 6: there's maybe like a lot of games, but the one
Speaker 6: that maybe comes to mind is Guardians of the Galaxy,
Speaker 6: where it's like I tried it right when it came
Speaker 6: out and was like, ah, so.
Speaker 2: Wrote and familiar.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I'm gonna get into it, and
Speaker 6: then I feel like later in the year, not that
Speaker 6: much later though, but I gave it another try and
Speaker 6: it was like, you know, I just like some of
Speaker 6: these characters a little bit. Let me see where it's
Speaker 6: gonna go. And by the end it's like, oh, I
Speaker 6: really film that with that game.
Speaker 1: Lovely fantastic something that popped up last week on the
Speaker 1: podcast was Mikey talking about how we are all coded
Speaker 1: in the goat sauce and folks, several people have emailed
Speaker 1: in about goat sauce. Email comes from anonymous Hey bombers.
Speaker 1: Once a week, I'm charged with the duties of transporting
Speaker 1: goat sauce. No, not that goat sauce, the other goat
Speaker 1: sauce milk. Every now and then I will fudge my
Speaker 1: math or get distracted by a certain podcast, and this
Speaker 1: will lead to me overflowing a tank and me being
Speaker 1: in the splash zone, literally getting coded in raw goat sauce.
Speaker 1: I am really writing into thank you for one of
Speaker 1: the funniest ongoing parts of my week. At some point
Speaker 1: in July twenty twenty four, I was driving in this
Speaker 1: truck worth more than my house, transporting a volume of
Speaker 1: goat milk worth more than my car, listening to Mikey
Speaker 1: talk about his mouse Mingle account on the dump truck.
Speaker 1: When Bailey dropped a you couldn't water board that out
Speaker 1: of me, I was laughing so fucking hard I had
Speaker 1: to pull over until I could breathe. When I was
Speaker 1: in a condition that I could drive safely again. I
Speaker 1: noticed I was in front of a local landmark, and
Speaker 1: now every week I can't help but chuckle when I
Speaker 1: pass it. My question to you all, do you have
Speaker 1: a unique landmark, smell, sound, et cetera that is a
Speaker 1: trigger for a positive memory. Thank you for being legendary.
Speaker 1: Sick Cunnies. Oh shit, can I say that Australian parentheses positive? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 1: Please keep please keep me anonymous. All right, you sick Cunney.
Speaker 2: You got all from Australia.
Speaker 4: You're like, I've never heard that from an Australia. Like,
Speaker 4: is that just like.
Speaker 1: Close to cummies?
Speaker 4: We know what it's too close to?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow smells. I Yeah, I definitely have this.
Speaker 6: There's like a like lotions that I'll like small It's
Speaker 6: be like, oh that reminds me of like you know,
Speaker 6: the perfumes or whatever that Steff wears or something like that,
Speaker 6: and they'll be like step me off and be like, okay,
Speaker 6: yeah that's positive.
Speaker 2: I have a loving family. That's pretty cool. Yeah. That's
Speaker 2: the one thing you guy should know about me is
Speaker 2: my family loves me. It's for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I go to like AMC, now that's usually where
Speaker 3: I see movies. It's like that smell of the session
Speaker 3: every thing, Like you know, when I work there. It's
Speaker 3: like the same smell from like nineteen ninety nine when
Speaker 3: I was working there to now. So it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: moves back to those memories of just working at the
Speaker 3: movies with my friends.
Speaker 1: I can't think of a positive memory. I only have
Speaker 1: a negative association with the smell of cream cheese frosting
Speaker 1: of when I used to work at a cupcake shop
Speaker 1: and that I swear was haunted.
Speaker 5: Oh that's a good gimmick for a cupcake shop.
Speaker 1: They their favorite gimmick was unfair employee practices and safety
Speaker 1: and also bad gimmick, perhaps hazing new employees and pretending
Speaker 1: to be a secret shopper or a very disgruntled customer.
Speaker 1: Fun stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh well, gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I hate hazing. Everything about hazing, the concept of it,
Speaker 2: the execution of it. I think it's one of the
Speaker 2: worst constructs that humanity has ever created.
Speaker 1: It's real dumb.
Speaker 4: Do you have understand experience or what.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think I've ever even done any hazing.
Speaker 6: Or if if I got a whiff that something involved hazing,
Speaker 6: I would, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's part of the reason words, like, there's
Speaker 3: a million reasons why. I just like, as soon as
Speaker 3: I went to college, I was like, I'm not a
Speaker 3: frat guy. I want nothing to like. I would actively
Speaker 3: if I had a friend in the dorms that was
Speaker 3: like rushing or pledging or whatever for a frat I'd
Speaker 3: be like, oh, I think less of you now, Like
Speaker 3: it just seems like the dumbest shit. It is like
Speaker 3: weird stuff the whole culture, you know.
Speaker 2: People like I've agreed to let these people humiliate in
Speaker 2: the you know, the me me for their pleasure, so
Speaker 2: that I can be in their clubs those.
Speaker 1: That's the thing.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, someday I'll get to be the one
Speaker 2: who pretends they're better than their people. I'm like, cool,
Speaker 2: you have fun with that.
Speaker 1: Mike Manatti. Do you have the email or the run
Speaker 1: of show in front.
Speaker 2: Of you and this was one you're highlighting right now?
Speaker 2: Would you like for me to read I'll put my
Speaker 2: classes on. I think I'm done emanating so much body
Speaker 2: heat that I fogged them up.
Speaker 1: I would like you to read it. And this is
Speaker 1: the last email.
Speaker 2: Of the show. Yeah, another Australian. Hi, guys, I was
Speaker 2: really excited for Hades two, hoping for a deep dive
Speaker 2: into some of the more obscure characters from Greek mythology,
Speaker 2: which the game has definitely excelled at. But unfortunately they've
Speaker 2: completely over. They completely looked over one of my personal favorites.
Speaker 2: It's not mentioned much, but Achilles actually got a younger
Speaker 2: brother named Baffatis, and like his brother, their mother dipped
Speaker 2: him in the river sticks as well. She held Achilles
Speaker 2: by the ankle, but Baffatis was held around the groin,
Speaker 2: so that's where his weakness was.
Speaker 5: Everyone's weakness.
Speaker 2: Everybody's heard about Achilles heel, but I bet none of
Speaker 2: you know about the faddy's nuts.
Speaker 4: It's pretty good.
Speaker 2: I love AO, gotcha also love and.
Speaker 1: Stuff fun in uh South Australia. Uh well, thank you
Speaker 1: Mike for creating that emailoffy wouldn't it wouldn't have hit
Speaker 1: the same because I read it before. No, I get it.
Speaker 2: I know we had to do that.
Speaker 1: I did not see it coming. That is not an
Speaker 1: example of hayaik no no, that's friends bike prodding one another,
Speaker 1: which is fun.
Speaker 2: Difference.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, shouts out to Australia bombcasta Giant bomb
Speaker 1: dot Com. Uh is the email just to send your
Speaker 1: emails to thank you to everyone. We've been getting a
Speaker 1: lot more emails as the weeks progress, and I feel
Speaker 1: like that is a sign of good vibe. So I
Speaker 1: hope you're you are enjoying the podcast out there. It
Speaker 1: means a bunch to me, specifically because gosh, it weighs
Speaker 1: on me. Uh, mister Minatti, hybe with some YouTube super
Speaker 1: chats if we got all that's.
Speaker 2: The thing that I do too. Yeah, I do read
Speaker 2: those absolutely. I have got those ready to go. They're
Speaker 2: right here. I just I'm so excited staring at them
Speaker 2: instead of reading them at all. No, bot Night says,
Speaker 2: are Resident Evil games Metroid veanias? I mean not not really.
Speaker 2: It's like or Zoda games Metroid Venias, right, Like there's
Speaker 2: other similar there's other games I have backtracking and like keys,
Speaker 2: but they're not quite Metroid Venias. I don't even know
Speaker 2: if I can articulate here, right. I think it's because
Speaker 2: there's no platforming. I think you got to have platforming.
Speaker 2: That's the difference between the soda. Are are there weapon
Speaker 2: keys and Resident Evil like weapons that I think No,
Speaker 2: that's the issue, right, is that it's just keys although
Speaker 2: that's a bit of a problem. Another problem I was
Speaker 2: having with Metroid Prime two is that almost all of
Speaker 2: the upgrades I got felt more like keys essentially. Then,
Speaker 2: like the other part, they have to balance it, they
Speaker 2: have to be both. Yeah, it's like okay, yes, it's
Speaker 2: like okay, yes, this dark beam is a weapon.
Speaker 1: But also the most important thing is that it.
Speaker 2: Opens up the dark doors. That's why it actually matters.
Speaker 2: I mean, the super bombs are always kind of like that,
Speaker 2: Like who uses super bombs in combat? You use them
Speaker 2: to open up the super bombs exploration. Yeah, uh on
Speaker 2: Drace R three or five, Miami says disappointing, and Dan
Speaker 2: and Jurff are running away from the grind in missing
Speaker 2: quote unquote the dance stream.
Speaker 1: Still love Also, what do you.
Speaker 2: Put your expastry or just case your twenty x mixed trees?
Speaker 2: Mis mine's going up right now. But yeah, you two
Speaker 2: are cowards. It's okay, I so love you, but you
Speaker 2: know you're cowardly. You disappointed us.
Speaker 4: It's worth dancing at Alex's house.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's not the same though, because did you dance?
Speaker 2: It did?
Speaker 1: Did Alex put on sexy? And I know it?
Speaker 4: No but there was just like a lot of like
Speaker 4: euro pop heavy metal, like I was. I was moving
Speaker 4: for five hours, like for sure if you pay, I
Speaker 4: was just I was go back. Oh well, I don't
Speaker 4: I think the archive there is no archive. We're working
Speaker 4: on that actually, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're working.
Speaker 4: Yeah you could see me moving. I'm moving for five hours,
Speaker 4: so you guys got to catch up to me.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, shaken out, there will be an opportunity
Speaker 1: where all of us will be together in person, so
Speaker 1: maybe we just.
Speaker 6: There's an opportunity that I won't cancel, just dance, plus so.
Speaker 1: More so that God will forget about it.
Speaker 3: But accumulatively in my life, I wonder if I've danced
Speaker 3: more than one hour.
Speaker 1: In your entire life.
Speaker 3: I don't think I have like a like a wedding,
Speaker 3: you know, but it's can you hear all this?
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna stop talking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, let's talk about Danny. You though they
Speaker 4: can't talk. I guess like this is great for an hour.
Speaker 4: There's just no way, the dude, no way, that's graat.
Speaker 3: I didn't dance at all until probably my first time
Speaker 3: dancing was at a wedding.
Speaker 5: I think my sister's wedding in like twenty nineteen, and the.
Speaker 3: First time I ever danced, and I've done like it's
Speaker 3: only been at weddings, and it's been like five times
Speaker 3: for maybe like a song or two.
Speaker 5: I think, so that probably less than an hour.
Speaker 4: I guess what we need to do is find out
Speaker 4: what qualifies as dancing.
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, I mean it is like you.
Speaker 4: Know that that's I don't know what to do with
Speaker 4: this information. I just think it's a little I think, so.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just feel like you just say, Kansas, move on, right,
Speaker 2: you know, people don't know.
Speaker 3: Because in college, like people would always go to the
Speaker 3: clubs and go to the dance floor.
Speaker 4: Yeah lose a Kansas story. Yeah, but it was illegal
Speaker 4: to dance there. But that was the whole you know,
Speaker 4: overcoming the problem. Right, I just don't know what to do.
Speaker 3: I just don't like everyone else goes out there and
Speaker 3: they're doing all these crazy moves and stuff. It's like,
Speaker 3: how did you, like, how do you know what to do?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: Like the you mean, like the line dancing you just
Speaker 2: go to the bars and no any means any dance.
Speaker 2: This is like the same thing that he says about
Speaker 2: d and d. It's like you're allowed to just do
Speaker 2: your own thing. Like, yeah, here's the thing. I'm a
Speaker 2: terrible Like I would be awful at improv. I I
Speaker 2: just know I would be fucking terrible. Doubt that.
Speaker 4: No, No, I don't agree with that either. I think
Speaker 4: you're wrong about that too.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: We tried like an episode of replay once a Game
Speaker 3: Informer was like a gimmick episode where it was like
Speaker 3: us in the future, So it was like a replay
Speaker 3: twenty fifty or whatever, and we're just like kind of
Speaker 3: play future versions of ourselves. And I just deer in headlights,
Speaker 3: had no idea what to do. Be funny, just being
Speaker 3: myself on a thing.
Speaker 1: How Yeah, Like that was then, Dan, you're a new hole.
Speaker 1: You're a brand new Dan.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I kind of don't think I can do improv. No way.
Speaker 4: I've never I've never danced.
Speaker 2: I like dancing. It was fun. We had a good time.
Speaker 2: When we got done, I think all three of us
Speaker 2: were like, we feel better.
Speaker 4: It feels good dancing to move around.
Speaker 1: Listen. I love dancing, all right, dance any and every
Speaker 1: opportunity I get to dance, I'll.
Speaker 2: Dance, just dance.
Speaker 4: I can't not dance. Sometimes I wish.
Speaker 1: It seems fun.
Speaker 3: People seem like they're having a good time.
Speaker 4: The only thing about me is the way I walk
Speaker 4: exactly when I hear a sort of oh yeah, I
Speaker 4: d can confirm I was dancing. We danced up a
Speaker 4: storm at Chuck's wedding. Yes, dancing, I believe you can't.
Speaker 4: If I hear some sort of beat in the distance,
Speaker 4: I cannot not bop my head to it.
Speaker 1: How do that?
Speaker 3: But that doesn't count, Like I'll do some of this,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: Like it's it's the it's the early signs of dancing,
Speaker 4: like if you're capable, the hips gotta get involved and
Speaker 4: the hips.
Speaker 6: Going, man going, all right, right, this is going on
Speaker 6: the timer, Dan, when.
Speaker 2: You saw that started?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Conell by more seconds of dancing.
Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa, whoa, he's hitting the floss everyone. Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you just keep dancing. The buddy.
Speaker 2: You look like a bad Frankenstein.
Speaker 1: He looks like the chef Kawazaki star.
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, yeah, all right, next super check. Conain Kosama
Speaker 2: says jan Jarthan Bailey voices a character in fil Fantasy fourteen.
Speaker 2: That's true, he's gart Yeah. I love that he's oh
Speaker 2: he's good. Yeah, yeah, that's a good character. I love
Speaker 2: Jonathan Bailey. Yeah yeah, I'm glad he has success because
Speaker 2: he will always be garraha tia to me.
Speaker 6: I discovered that water Boy in Dispatch is the guy
Speaker 6: that did that funny Lanky Kong video where d.
Speaker 1: K Rapp the first time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one of my favorites. So yeah, it was
Speaker 2: people like Joe Evr. I'm like that recognized that name
Speaker 2: and then I looked it up. I'm gonna watch to
Speaker 2: funny idea. I just love how positive everyone's favorite trade.
Speaker 1: So true.
Speaker 2: Man, he's the leader without.
Speaker 1: Nothing.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: By the way, we've been graduated from my mic not
Speaker 3: working to now it's just doing high pitched sounds into
Speaker 3: my ears directly random.
Speaker 2: I think the I think the government is a teching
Speaker 2: day with like electro beams. The democratic clouds are right
Speaker 2: over his house right now. Something the woodpeckers have begun
Speaker 2: their next stage. Okay, we got wild war here zombie
Speaker 2: porn' says shout out Jad, Mike and grub for just
Speaker 2: dance tming last PF. You guys should show the world
Speaker 2: that there are three people at Giant Bom who have rhythm.
Speaker 2: We have rhythm.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank god rhythm. I thought we was gonna say
Speaker 1: we did it. Yeah, No, we're good, were good, We're set.
Speaker 1: We're heroes, fan fantastic. Thank you everyone for the YouTube.
Speaker 1: Super chats. What we got going on the rest of
Speaker 1: this week? Boys, nothing is what we got. That's not
Speaker 1: true that we're doing a flight club and this is
Speaker 1: the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I have it all prepared.
Speaker 1: Come on, a liar, you're a fucking liar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how dare you say nothing's happening?
Speaker 1: Because then this is where we build it up, and
Speaker 1: it's like, but after this, we a little after this,
Speaker 1: we have a Tuesday Blake Club Tuesday. That's right before
Speaker 1: mister Minatti leaves for his little vak. He's going to
Speaker 1: hit the Hollywood back lots and hit some Hollywood back
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. It's not cunnies.
Speaker 2: No, you can't say you're not Australian. You don't have provisions.
Speaker 1: He said it like five.
Speaker 2: Times, knowing beat it or not. I thought he would.
Speaker 2: I thought he would understand the why he can't say
Speaker 2: it more than boy he said, you would.
Speaker 6: Feel but call anyone that he can't use it against someone.
Speaker 6: But I think if he's just stating the word.
Speaker 1: I'm going to start whenever we're in person together, I'm
Speaker 1: going to start entering a room and I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: saying where the cunny's atop it? You're not gonna say
Speaker 1: that doing? Oh god, Dad, what is happening?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: Just he's de Res?
Speaker 2: All right, we should just kick Dan?
Speaker 1: Just no, don't don't please it. Just mute yourself. He's
Speaker 1: getting Deres.
Speaker 2: Everyone it's tobor Oscar super tighter real quick, says yeah, Grub, Mike,
Speaker 2: get Jay, kick ass. Thank you so much for Judio,
Speaker 2: shouts out to Antonio.
Speaker 1: Wednesday in place. Since we're doing it, Dan, you don't
Speaker 1: have to flos Okay, he has to. We have a
Speaker 1: best of darkest of Dan's popping off, edited by Derek Stone.
Speaker 1: Thank you Derek. Popping off on Wednesday because we were
Speaker 1: taking Thursday off. We're gonna be re broadcasting an older
Speaker 1: episode of the Dump Truck. Which one it'll be it'll
Speaker 1: be a surprise, the Redump, the Rejump. And then also
Speaker 1: this week we got some a couple of fun little
Speaker 1: VIDs pop up off cut together the stuff from grub Snatch.
Speaker 1: That is gonna be a premium video for the premium
Speaker 1: members out there. It's gonna be it's gonna be a silly,
Speaker 1: silly little thing, not a full on video, just like
Speaker 1: a little horror trailer I cut together. And then later
Speaker 1: in the week Friday. Two things popping off on Friday,
Speaker 1: the New York vlog of our time together, hanging out,
Speaker 1: hanging and clanging in New York, eating some za, doing
Speaker 1: some other miscllaneous things. We're gonna finally pop off in
Speaker 1: New York as well. Mike Minatti tell me about store
Speaker 1: dout giant bomb dot com this Friday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, keep keep an eye out. Starting tomorrow, everybody, we
Speaker 2: are going to be doing a Black Friday sale on
Speaker 2: the store store dot giant bomb dot com. So there
Speaker 2: will be a store wide discount, but there'll also be
Speaker 2: some items that will be more heavily discount, some inventory
Speaker 2: clearing that we are trying to do there. There's also
Speaker 2: gonna be one new waite, one new item that's gonna
Speaker 2: go up to sale, something that we've actually had ready
Speaker 2: to go there, and now's the time we're gonna show
Speaker 2: that one off. So keep an eye out. Should be
Speaker 2: some exciting stuff, gonna be some good discounts, so this
Speaker 2: will be your your time to stock up on your
Speaker 2: your mugs, or your aprons or your shirts. You know,
Speaker 2: all the fun new stuff and a lot of the
Speaker 2: old stuff too, so plenty of sales. Keep an eye
Speaker 2: out storretu giant on dot com probably gonna run through
Speaker 2: till till Monday. Everybody, and folks, again, we are having
Speaker 2: a site freeze next week as Chuck migrates everything over
Speaker 2: and does the finishing touches on the new website, as
Speaker 2: we punt the old website into the stratosphere. So again,
Speaker 2: a site freeze will be happening next week. If you're
Speaker 2: subscribed to the RSS feeds your premium member there, don't worry.
Speaker 2: You'll still be able to get your all your hot
Speaker 2: audio of a premium free stuff gang. Thanks Thanksgiving this week,
Speaker 2: Am I forgetting anything?
Speaker 1: By the way, that.
Speaker 2: Sounded pretty comprehensive.
Speaker 6: There was maybe another video we were working on, but
Speaker 6: maybe don't announce that you had some studio or maybe
Speaker 6: you did say that.
Speaker 2: I can't remember, but maybe yeah New York.
Speaker 6: Okay you say that, Okay, I was I was paying
Speaker 6: something else more important. Oh yeah, you fixed this way better.
Speaker 6: That's actually what I was looking at it is, like
Speaker 6: dam was in chat saying that happened.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what, Maybe there's just maybe some electronic interference there.
Speaker 2: Probably USB weirdness because USB's power. Yeah, yeah, Toto, we're
Speaker 2: also the super Chat says merge master. Can I get
Speaker 2: some tall clothing? I don't know, I'll look into it.
Speaker 2: Mike only respect shorties, so sorry.
Speaker 1: Shouts out to my short kings queens, and nb's out there,
Speaker 1: and short Grandma.
Speaker 2: Is out there, holler drinking Grandma, anti water club.
Speaker 1: Anti water water club. All right, folks, Well, hey, happy
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving to those that are celebrating that in the States.
Speaker 1: And I will speak for all of us here that
Speaker 1: we are thankful for you listening at home, premium members,
Speaker 1: non premium members, for however long you've been rocking with us.
Speaker 1: We are deeply, deeply appreciative for all of y'all. Shouts
Speaker 1: out to Chuck, shouts out to Sean, Shouts out to
Speaker 1: well Crosby doing our social stuff. He's been Jeff, he's
Speaker 1: been Jeff, he's been Mike, he's been Danny. You at
Speaker 1: home have been absolutely gougeous. And maybe I'll stop saying
Speaker 1: the Australian word. He shout. I think I might well
Speaker 1: see things worry for another episode. Thanks Camping for this
Speaker 1: so brave.
Speaker 2: I love you. Goodbye,