Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Tuesday, January sixth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Giant BombCast. I am your host, jan
Speaker 2: O Showa. Welcome to John BombCast, Episode nine hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty two. Joining me as always, co captain of the ship,
Speaker 2: Jeff gru Hey.
Speaker 1: Happy to be here. Jan twenty twenty six. We did it.
Speaker 2: Nothing hurts to him, whether it's five giga hurts or
Speaker 2: two point four giga hurts.
Speaker 3: Damn Rekert.
Speaker 4: There's a six now. I was in my router settings
Speaker 4: and they make a six WiFi. Now, yeah, here's this
Speaker 4: is six?
Speaker 3: Oh real wi Fi?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is that a match with cat? Wait?
Speaker 6: Wait?
Speaker 3: Wait does this joke work? It's it's it's Wi Fi Balboa?
Speaker 4: No, No, because he's I mean, it's a bad Joey.
Speaker 4: It's a bad joke, but you understand where it came from.
Speaker 4: I get where you're going with nodding vigorously, but I
Speaker 4: think you're.
Speaker 1: Like also, like, are you talking about the six giga
Speaker 1: hurts bandwidth or you talk about Wi Fi six two different?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I went in my settings there was two point four
Speaker 4: five and six now yeah, so you're.
Speaker 1: Talking about okay, so yeah, you're talking about six Giga hurts, Yes.
Speaker 4: And the sixth Rocky move. Yeah, just keep on stumbling
Speaker 4: out of the gates.
Speaker 2: God, I forgot what was going to introduce backlar As,
Speaker 2: But Jeff, Backlar's here. Hey, Jeff, I can't blame you, Jan,
Speaker 2: that was rough. Really come back from something like that
Speaker 2: by saying it was a bad joke. Yeah, but life
Speaker 2: tells a bad joke. It's kind of like charming. Still,
Speaker 2: you didn't.
Speaker 1: Soften it at all, Dan, It just hurt more.
Speaker 5: Acts.
Speaker 3: I wasn't trying to charm you, Fellas. I was just
Speaker 3: trying to say a bad joke. You know what.
Speaker 2: Okay, I should have taken that into consideration, you know, Dan, Uh,
Speaker 2: we'll well, we'll start it, we'll start again. Well we're
Speaker 2: not gonna start the whole show again, but uh, give me.
Speaker 3: A chance on nothing hurts to him.
Speaker 2: Uh. He loves grafts and scales and stats, Dan, record.
Speaker 1: That's men.
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Speaker 3: Boys, it's Toy Toy six. I haven't seen y'all. I
Speaker 3: mean I saw y'all yesterday, but it's been a minute.
Speaker 2: I've been sitting at this desk during the break thinking
Speaker 2: like what if?
Speaker 3: What if I I want a podcast? I want to.
Speaker 4: Talk You're not doing You get into this flow doing
Speaker 4: it every week, and then all of a sudden games
Speaker 4: are coming out. You're not on Zoom calls and Discord
Speaker 4: calls and podcasting all the time.
Speaker 3: It is a weird period. It always has been.
Speaker 1: I played old games and then I did. I did
Speaker 1: get dressed up in my knuckles costume just to take
Speaker 1: a photo.
Speaker 4: Like I was wondering what possible reason. I was like,
Speaker 4: is there an ad he was recording? Why would he
Speaker 4: need the knuckles?
Speaker 1: I just I was just missing it, just to feel alive,
Speaker 1: Just to feel alive. Yeah, I was missing not playing
Speaker 1: leisure suit Larry, Like that's what I was missing.
Speaker 5: Don't play les Larry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was not playing exactly. You don't know what
Speaker 3: we're doing our free time.
Speaker 5: Mikey I got a rug.
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 1: Okay, well, very skeptical of the rug, like maybe the
Speaker 1: most skeptical anyone's ever been of a problem.
Speaker 5: Mike, tell them, like, tell him the whole arc here
Speaker 5: your problems. I get a blank text with my friend
Speaker 5: like do you want a rug? And I'm like, boy,
Speaker 5: I don't know. I get to see a world where
Speaker 5: this becomes a big problem for me, where I don't
Speaker 5: like the rug and it's just I have hardwood floors,
Speaker 5: hang on, I want to be pepurt here.
Speaker 4: So you said a big problem for you where you
Speaker 4: don't like the rug. You could just sell it or
Speaker 4: give it away.
Speaker 5: Right exactly. Now that's my problem, se No, it was
Speaker 5: my friend's problem. He's responsible for this unwanted rug. And
Speaker 5: now I'm just going to claim responsibility for that wills
Speaker 5: and everywhere for a reason. It's a whole thing. Plus,
Speaker 5: I was like, can I see the rug? And he
Speaker 5: said no, I don't wait. That's weird because I don't
Speaker 5: want to unfurl it because I don't want to be
Speaker 5: world What is that? He had a picture of it
Speaker 5: fur old. It was hard to get a good idea there.
Speaker 1: Who is this friend? Is he really your friend?
Speaker 5: Oh, he's been my friends. It's high school. Yeah, his
Speaker 5: game weirdly also furl and no, it's not the poop
Speaker 5: City slam of jam a guy.
Speaker 3: Friend do you refer to. That's not in the games industry.
Speaker 3: It's just poop city.
Speaker 2: That's all of your friends. It wasn't just one person.
Speaker 2: It was a collective gym showt.
Speaker 5: So my instinct was to say no. But then I
Speaker 5: started having like big rug fomo, like what if this
Speaker 5: rug is just beautiful and immaculate and it was free?
Speaker 5: And I say no, I'll get the rug. I'll get
Speaker 5: the rug. It's like, okay, by the way, there are
Speaker 5: two runners, do you want them as well? And I'm like,
Speaker 5: I think I got.
Speaker 1: To explain to Mike what a runner.
Speaker 3: Was that was under the rug that keeps it from
Speaker 3: like slipping around?
Speaker 5: Right Yeah, no, no, no, it's like in rugs basically
Speaker 5: and walk away.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, oh my god, this still keeps getting worse,
Speaker 5: right all right? I'm like felt like Lando caw Rizzy
Speaker 5: in here. Ah ha, So I was. I was kind
Speaker 5: of like worrying.
Speaker 3: There's no place for bad jokes here.
Speaker 5: I was just fretting and worrying about this rug. He's
Speaker 5: coming over to hang out. He brought the rug. It's
Speaker 5: big thing, unfurled, it perfect size, matches the color room.
Speaker 5: It's gorgeous. It has changed everything. This drug is the
Speaker 5: best he does.
Speaker 3: Tie the room together.
Speaker 1: Together.
Speaker 5: Your picture of my rug now, like Mike, the public
Speaker 5: can never see it.
Speaker 4: This needs to be a giant mystery to everyone except yea,
Speaker 4: so good.
Speaker 1: It looks like it like you must have bought the
Speaker 1: rugs specifically for your house. Everything. It's great.
Speaker 2: Okay, Mike, I have to ask, did your friend furl
Speaker 2: Are these rugs already cleaned?
Speaker 5: It seem pretty clean. They were his parent, so they're
Speaker 5: older responsible, right, So yeah, so I I clean the
Speaker 5: runners went perfectly down, like the two areas they possibly
Speaker 5: could have. I set a picture I put in our
Speaker 5: general chat.
Speaker 1: You guys tell me.
Speaker 3: That person.
Speaker 1: It looks so good.
Speaker 5: It really has just tied everything. And like I was
Speaker 5: thinking about getting like new wood floors or carpet because
Speaker 5: like it was kind of looking crappy in there, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't have to do that anymore. Now
Speaker 5: I'm room looks delightful.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, it just really all fits now, So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 4: bomiton and send him for next year.
Speaker 3: Is we show a picture of the rug.
Speaker 5: This is a bit more resuport that we go at
Speaker 5: a cross country road trip.
Speaker 3: Don't tell you that. How hard is it to make
Speaker 3: a rug? Can we sell a rug?
Speaker 5: Can we make.
Speaker 1: In the Middle Persian? Like that?
Speaker 3: You're so many for centuries back.
Speaker 7: I know it seems intricate and complicated, but there's so many.
Speaker 2: Rug stores here that are like, maybe front's money laundering.
Speaker 3: Why can't we have a rug.
Speaker 1: And ask we could do mouse pads, which is the
Speaker 1: rugs of.
Speaker 3: Nerds that is just based on Mike's rug would be wow?
Speaker 5: Okay, wait you guys. Do you guys get those videos
Speaker 5: of people cleaning rugs by the way now on some stuff,
Speaker 5: they're very satisfying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I do. Are these like
Speaker 1: with the ones where they're like hitting it with a.
Speaker 5: Wire or no, they're like throwing all sorts of different
Speaker 5: colored goop on it and like really like grinding the
Speaker 5: A couple of those. Yeah, they'll come in like just
Speaker 5: pure shit, brown colored. And then they're working for a
Speaker 5: while and you see a care bear. All of a sudden, Uh.
Speaker 1: I had my little Columbo mystery happened to me over
Speaker 1: the holidays.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 1: I got like at a point where I'm like, I
Speaker 1: was remembering a lot of old friends from high school's
Speaker 1: faces and like first names. I've begun. I started forgetting
Speaker 1: their last names and stuff like that. These are acquaintances
Speaker 1: for the most part, all my close friends. Obviously it's fine.
Speaker 1: But I was like, I wish I had my yearbook
Speaker 1: and I never I don't think I ever had my
Speaker 1: senior yearbook. So I went on eBay and I found one.
Speaker 1: I put in little like seventy five books, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm not picking that up.
Speaker 3: So I put in an offer, you found.
Speaker 1: Your own yearbook on eBay, not my personal yearbook?
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I like your school. That is bright.
Speaker 3: I'm looking for myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. It was like, clearly someone who buys
Speaker 1: and sells all kinds of books, like dad, that's their
Speaker 1: whole account.
Speaker 4: So they have to have one's ninety nine from two
Speaker 4: thousand and one. That's strange, right.
Speaker 5: I don't know why.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my brain's not accepting this.
Speaker 1: No, there's a reason. So I got the book and
Speaker 1: I'm flipping through it, and I was like, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of remembering, Oh yeah, I don't even think I submitted
Speaker 1: my like senior pictures to the books. I was kind
Speaker 1: of like a little bit rebellious at that point on
Speaker 1: kind of a shit. Uh. So they used my my
Speaker 1: my photo for my my student ID. And so I'm
Speaker 1: flipping to that part of the section where it's the
Speaker 1: student ID photos all clumped together, and I found myself
Speaker 1: and on the picture was written, Hi Jeff, And I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, wait, so I email I like first, like,
Speaker 1: let's just do this. Maybe the person who I bought
Speaker 1: it from was someone I went to school with. So
Speaker 1: I messaged them and I was like, did you write
Speaker 1: anything in the book? And the person's like, my people
Speaker 1: do not write anything in the book? Like oh you
Speaker 1: have people.
Speaker 7: I love that.
Speaker 1: So it's like, all right, we got to I want
Speaker 1: to like solve this mystery. Who wrote this? Whose book
Speaker 1: was this? How'd this get here? And I'm like kind
Speaker 1: of like flipping through and there's a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: written and like most of this stuff was written on
Speaker 1: the people from the year before me. So I was
Speaker 1: a senior this year, and most of the stuff was
Speaker 1: written on like juniors, like oh this guy is hot
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and you know, this guy's a nerd.
Speaker 1: A lot of the guys that she thought was hot
Speaker 1: were indeed hot. So I'm like, man, I can I
Speaker 1: piece this together? Could I maybe start asking around to
Speaker 1: some friends and be like, hey, do you like here's
Speaker 1: a message? Do you think you recognize this? And as
Speaker 1: I'm doing it, like my family's over and I'm flipping
Speaker 1: through it and I flipped through to a page randomly
Speaker 1: and look at a picture and it just says underneath
Speaker 1: the picture, this is me.
Speaker 3: It's like that's so weird.
Speaker 1: And it's like, as we were discussing, like how are
Speaker 1: we going to figure this out? And I basically like
Speaker 1: turn to the group and I'm like, well, miss three solved,
Speaker 1: do you.
Speaker 3: Remember this person?
Speaker 5: That's what they want you to think? Whoever wrote that?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I kind of recognize this girl? I
Speaker 1: kind of, yeah, her face is familiar to me. And
Speaker 1: then I started like looking at some uh I googled
Speaker 1: her and found her Facebook profile and two of her
Speaker 1: friends that like were mutuals. Oh yeah, I was close
Speaker 1: friends with them, and I bet you like we're in
Speaker 1: a circle, and like she was what we were acquaintances
Speaker 1: and so I like google it and it's like, yes,
Speaker 1: this is a person who did die and she sold
Speaker 1: that someone must have sold off all her books, and
Speaker 1: so it's like, because that's how this book ends up
Speaker 1: on even right, Otherwise it just like wouldn't like we
Speaker 1: get thrown away or something like that. And it was like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: so I'm like I want to like eventually like reach
Speaker 1: out to some of her friends and see if they
Speaker 1: want this book. But it was kind of like this
Speaker 1: weird like roller coaster of like, oh, this is exciting
Speaker 1: what's going on here? And it's like, oh, obviously surely
Speaker 1: something like that could have happened.
Speaker 7: But surely you you I mean that must have lost
Speaker 7: your mind at some point, right it did.
Speaker 3: Yes, Steph rotted up.
Speaker 1: She was like that could be it, Like you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to you know, someone moved and just
Speaker 1: got rid of all their books. Was kind of right,
Speaker 1: it was. It was wild to kind of go through
Speaker 1: all that. It's like a bummer. Like I was kind
Speaker 1: of getting there, like, oh, that'd be awesome to talk
Speaker 1: to her or whatever. It's like I'm not gonna have
Speaker 1: a chance to do that. But like, like I said,
Speaker 1: I was close friends with some of her friends, so
Speaker 1: might reach out to them and you fix the ending
Speaker 1: of this story.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dan, tell the joke again from the beginning.
Speaker 4: So why if no, no, I'll tell you. I'll tell
Speaker 4: you a winter Break story for me here. Uh my
Speaker 4: sister Kayla you may know on this website. I go
Speaker 4: to her place and we play Little Gears on PlayStation
Speaker 4: five and I can't hit a single fucking active reload.
Speaker 4: It is like way way off. And remember Kayla's favorite genre.
Speaker 4: She is beat securo every why old how good she is.
Speaker 4: We've talked about how she beat most of Second Row
Speaker 4: on a PlayStation portal. I did like three completely botched
Speaker 4: active reloads and I'm usually very good at those, and
Speaker 4: I was like, hell, do you have game mode on?
Speaker 3: And she's like, what's game mode?
Speaker 4: And I was like oh, and it was like an
Speaker 4: older TV and like she definitely never checks a setting ever. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And I went in there and I turned it on
Speaker 4: and she's like, oh, this feels way better.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Destroyed like every from game every like Neo, every Soul,
Speaker 4: like two with the gravity room.
Speaker 3: Weights on, like.
Speaker 1: That's why she did that fight and one want attempt
Speaker 1: at your house because she was had the weights off.
Speaker 4: But she beat all those games with style, without any
Speaker 4: like with awful like the worst input LAG I've ever
Speaker 4: seen by far.
Speaker 7: That's that. That's not. There's like there's a lot of
Speaker 7: memes online of like LAG in real life kind of stuff,
Speaker 7: just bumping into doors and whatnot.
Speaker 1: That's not.
Speaker 3: I have evolved into a higher being.
Speaker 1: So when Chet said, tell how Chat solved this, Dan,
Speaker 1: is there anything specific there that you that you can
Speaker 1: remember or maybe.
Speaker 3: Not Chat solved this?
Speaker 1: She says, tell them how Chat solved this?
Speaker 3: Dan, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's nothing.
Speaker 2: Now stop taking credit for Dan's Yeah, she's nuts.
Speaker 5: Chat looked all up.
Speaker 3: Right, because we couldn't find it because it was like
Speaker 3: buried and.
Speaker 1: It was like an older I could not find an
Speaker 1: obvious note like a relatively new term in some of
Speaker 1: these TV So.
Speaker 4: I did get the model number from the back of
Speaker 4: the TV, and Chat looked up that specific cratic Okay, yeah, yeah, insane?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: Any other stories from like the holiday break?
Speaker 1: She's still good?
Speaker 5: You got any I got any more fun ones?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Just think may see I have any more people die? Let
Speaker 1: me think that didn't during the break. No, but I
Speaker 1: went to about you again. I guys, we gots we
Speaker 1: got to do together.
Speaker 2: We have he's two hundred dollars to take a course
Speaker 2: at Benny Hannah.
Speaker 4: We have a competition. Let's all go to a hibachi
Speaker 4: and let's tell the dude. They're all fun dudes, all
Speaker 4: the cooks and so they do the volcano, they do
Speaker 4: the train and all that stuff. Just tell them like, hey,
Speaker 4: we want five shrimps each and we will score. We'll
Speaker 4: have a scoreboard for who catches the most shrimp.
Speaker 3: Yep, I will catch the most shrimp.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I would love to.
Speaker 7: Habachi has lost a lot of it's allure.
Speaker 3: To me, was very upseting.
Speaker 1: Div is very much on the Hibachi wagon these days.
Speaker 3: He believes in magic.
Speaker 7: Still, Well, I don't know if it's magic. I just
Speaker 7: think like I don't know. Sometimes I just don't want
Speaker 7: to go through the motions.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: They do it every day, literally do zero emotions.
Speaker 3: No, there's there's motions. Okay.
Speaker 7: I I look. I grew up on habachi. Okay, I
Speaker 7: got roots deep down in Habachi.
Speaker 3: Family, exactly. The leeds run deep.
Speaker 1: The first Haibachi kitchen was opened in New Jersey. I
Speaker 1: made that up. Listen, listen.
Speaker 7: I'm just you know, every time we got to eat,
Speaker 7: telling us like, let's go to Habaji, and it's like, buddy,
Speaker 7: we can't go four times a month. You can't do that.
Speaker 7: Can of course, it's got to be special. It's just
Speaker 7: got to be special.
Speaker 3: Right, It's just gotta for my sister's birthday. So yeah,
Speaker 3: that was like the regular.
Speaker 1: Right, and you know, look, it's fun. Here's what I'll say.
Speaker 7: I don't like the fact that it's such a roll
Speaker 7: of the dice of who you're gonna sit with if
Speaker 7: you know, if you're not with a big party, if
Speaker 7: you're not with a big party, right, which is why
Speaker 7: I will only go to hibachi with at least five
Speaker 7: or six people.
Speaker 3: One, two, three, four five.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'll go with you guys for sure.
Speaker 5: Okay, but you get randos.
Speaker 7: But sometimes you get randos and then you get randos
Speaker 7: who like bring the vibes down, the vibes up. Some
Speaker 7: times they can bring the vibes up.
Speaker 5: I want to.
Speaker 1: I would be like, you're you're like, you're kind of
Speaker 1: being oversensitive. But it has happened to me once.
Speaker 3: It happened to me numerous times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was that. It was we went to Mexico
Speaker 1: for like a vacation in Mexico. Yes, we went to
Speaker 1: Abachi at like an all inclusive resort in Mexico, and uh,
Speaker 1: these people that sat with us decided they were our
Speaker 1: best friends for the rest.
Speaker 3: Of the vacation.
Speaker 1: We didn't want that, We want to be these are
Speaker 1: reasonable qualms.
Speaker 3: Yeah, simp okay.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, I remember going to to
Speaker 2: Vegas in my adult life and having a very fun time,
Speaker 2: went to like a fancy buffet, and then the couple
Speaker 2: next to me and the person I was with at
Speaker 2: the time, it was like actively going through a breakup,
Speaker 2: and like the waiter was trying to like solve and
Speaker 2: soften the impact.
Speaker 3: It was like, is it so much birthday? Do you
Speaker 3: guys want mimosas on me?
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, so this guy is like trying to joke around
Speaker 2: and laugh and pouring the mimosas. Meanwhile, like these two
Speaker 2: people are just staring daggers at each other. Is terrible.
Speaker 3: They did not enjoy the ex benedict that day.
Speaker 1: No I didn't.
Speaker 3: It doesn't.
Speaker 4: I've been to a million about You's the one notable
Speaker 4: person that sat with me was I'm sitting there and
Speaker 4: probably I'm probably sixteen the year two thousand and this
Speaker 4: big guy starts talking. He's across the table and I
Speaker 4: heard him talking to his family. He's like, oh yeah.
Speaker 4: So when I was teaming with Foley and I was like,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, just like my ears perk up like crazy.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm sorry, what is this?
Speaker 4: And he keeps talking toim like he's clearly talking about
Speaker 4: being a pro wrestler and he's a big dude, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, who the fuck is this guy. I was
Speaker 4: reminded of this a year or two ago a Dark
Speaker 4: Side of the Ring episode about herb Abrams UWF. If
Speaker 4: you've seen this wild Thing Steve Ray, he has a
Speaker 4: Wikipedia article that's who this guy was. He was supposed
Speaker 4: to be the Hulk Hogan of the UWF, which was
Speaker 4: a haunted promotion if you look that up. And so
Speaker 4: he starts talking too, like yay, I'm gonna get back in,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm gonna send I gotta send some stuff
Speaker 4: to Vince. I gotta And when he said that, I
Speaker 4: got up. I'm like sixteen. I walked over and I
Speaker 4: was like, I'm sorry. You're a wrestler and he goes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know you used to be. I used to here's
Speaker 4: me with Foley. He had like pictures in his wallut
Speaker 4: of him with Poley, you know, before phones and holy
Speaker 4: It's like him and Cactus Jack.
Speaker 3: And I was like, that's fucking nuts. And he's like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get back in. I'm trying to get
Speaker 3: back in WF. You know, I'm ready to go. I'm
Speaker 3: still you know, gas in the tank or whatever.
Speaker 4: And I told him, like, I do video production stuff,
Speaker 4: like I would love to put together a sissle real
Speaker 4: for you. So for a while I was going back
Speaker 4: and forth with this guy on like putting it together
Speaker 4: a vignette. I remember it was just like, okay, so
Speaker 4: it's gonna be flames, and it's gonna be the text
Speaker 4: that says, like wild thing Steve Ray. I probably have
Speaker 4: the notebook somewhere with all of these notes. And so
Speaker 4: I went back and forth. I made like storyboards and stuff,
Speaker 4: and he was all into it, and I was convinced
Speaker 4: I was gonna get him back into the WUF.
Speaker 3: And so we were.
Speaker 4: Supposed to meet at a Border's books one night to
Speaker 4: We're gonna meet up there, get some coffee or something
Speaker 4: and then go like shoot the vignette. And so me
Speaker 4: and my friend Charlie, who is going to help me shoot,
Speaker 4: We're sitting there waiting for this wrestler. It was before
Speaker 4: cell phones, before we had cell phones, and so it's like, Okay,
Speaker 4: we're supposed to be here at six or whatever. He's
Speaker 4: not showing up. We wait like an hour and a half.
Speaker 4: We go home and he told me he emailed me.
Speaker 5: Sorry.
Speaker 4: I was taking my son home from football practice and
Speaker 4: he has a cast on and I had my son
Speaker 4: try to fill my car with gas and somehow the
Speaker 4: spiggott got into his cast and he filled his cast
Speaker 4: with gasoline, and so we had to go.
Speaker 3: To the hospital.
Speaker 4: So sorry that we weren't able to make it for
Speaker 4: the vignette shoot.
Speaker 3: And then we just flaked on me for the rest
Speaker 3: of Like.
Speaker 7: It sounds like does for the best though, right.
Speaker 5: His episode of Dark Side of the Ring was titled
Speaker 5: Cocaine and Cowboy Boots.
Speaker 4: Yeah, This and Forever, And then watching the Dark Side
Speaker 4: of the Ring and I was like, why does this
Speaker 4: kind of look for the Bachi guy.
Speaker 7: I believe I believe the guest story though.
Speaker 5: No, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's too crazy not to have happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, today's episode is also called Coke Canan Cowboy Boots.
Speaker 5: Did I ever tell you all? I thought that Disney
Speaker 5: invented hibachi, Yes everything probably YEA like one because the
Speaker 5: I went to one was the Japan and Epcot, and like,
Speaker 5: I was like, Wow, what a crazy, amazing concept. Only
Speaker 5: Disney could come up with this. Then like a few
Speaker 5: years later they opened her botch she had our mall,
Speaker 5: and I was like.
Speaker 3: Oh, I feel like a damn fool.
Speaker 4: Mike, when you said I was in Japan at asked Epcot,
Speaker 4: my first thought was I thought Mike said he hadn't
Speaker 4: been to Japan.
Speaker 5: Nay grub and I went to a cheesecake factory the
Speaker 5: other day after we were at Games Done. Click for
Speaker 5: a brag that.
Speaker 3: Great kiss.
Speaker 5: Yes, uh, Jeff got this like small bites appetizer of
Speaker 5: these like honey chicken and biscuits. Those were insanely good.
Speaker 1: They were really good.
Speaker 3: I did choose factory before Avatar three, and that was
Speaker 3: quite good. It was.
Speaker 4: I had a good time. Yeah, overall, definitely was not
Speaker 4: as good of a time.
Speaker 3: As the last one. I thought, yeah, yeah, it was,
Speaker 3: but I enjoyed it. I still enjoyed three. It's weird
Speaker 3: how similar it was to two. Kind of the same
Speaker 3: movie but with a hot fire lady. Yeah, it's They
Speaker 3: should have had more of the hot fire light.
Speaker 5: They should have had more of fire and as Actually
Speaker 5: you could have called this movie The Way of Water
Speaker 5: as well. The best I don't want to do spoils,
Speaker 5: but the best scene by far was the Whale Council.
Speaker 2: Yes, actually, yes, oh yes I would. I would learn
Speaker 2: to swim just to witness the whale Council.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think the next movie should just be like a
Speaker 5: cord drama with the whales, twelve angry.
Speaker 4: Whales, Jack Lemon as a whale.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, I would love it. I would love it
Speaker 5: so much.
Speaker 3: We did our Avatar ritual.
Speaker 4: We went cheesecake factory, bunch of cocktails, bunch of edibles,
Speaker 4: and then just like sat down in a recliner watching
Speaker 4: for four hours. Bonk said, I got back home and
Speaker 4: I've never done this in my life. I got back
Speaker 4: home and I just calmly walked up the stairs, fully clothed,
Speaker 4: laid down like just like some sleeper agent, like I
Speaker 4: got activated laid down, fell asleep, fully clothed, and slept
Speaker 4: for thirteen straight hours.
Speaker 7: What because of all the drugs and stuffy Yeah yeah,
Speaker 7: the calies.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he probably got the chicken carbonare or so. I
Speaker 5: think was like three thousand hours. Very sleep, I get it.
Speaker 5: It's like that. We had a great time. A game's
Speaker 5: done quick though as well.
Speaker 1: Yay.
Speaker 5: Jeff and my brother AJ went up. We got to
Speaker 5: see some good speed runs, like a Hollow Night Kingdom Cards.
Speaker 5: That one was a ton of fun. We caught the
Speaker 5: end of the Mario Sunshine speed run that was super neat.
Speaker 5: It's a good time. I'm glad to keep doing those
Speaker 5: in Pittsburgh lately. It's really fun to be able to go.
Speaker 1: It's convenient.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: It's great out there though. Yeah, it's it's a good time.
Speaker 1: Everyone's so nice and it's cool to be in that environment.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I just see this in chat, and I
Speaker 2: don't think I've agreed with the sentiment in chat this
Speaker 2: strongly in quite a while. Some Epinada eater says that
Speaker 2: Dan is the true ton mock Toe and you know what, all.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah is that an avatar? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Watching it, I was like, are these guys brothers. Who
Speaker 3: is this? Why is that scorny weaver? Why is she
Speaker 3: a kid?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: I just have no idea.
Speaker 4: What dude, I don't remember ship from the second movie
Speaker 4: or the first movie, so it's it's a brand new
Speaker 4: thing every time I see one.
Speaker 7: That's probably for the best, too, right, you're not there
Speaker 7: for the story?
Speaker 1: Come on, no, Mike, did you notice any sense in
Speaker 1: the the rhythm arcade room at Awesome Games Done? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Awesome Games done quick? Because I noticed human body odor just.
Speaker 5: Look like you kind of like you prepare for the
Speaker 5: worst with these things, and generally it's too bad. But
Speaker 5: there's two arcade rooms. There's a general arcade room that
Speaker 5: had like some fighting games. That's some weird beer pong
Speaker 5: like arcade game that was fun, not too bad. But
Speaker 5: the rhythm room that's where you know the nerds are
Speaker 5: building up the sweat. There's a little rough in there.
Speaker 3: All the rhythm game.
Speaker 7: It's such a stereotype, but it's just like but it
Speaker 7: just always it happens.
Speaker 4: But it is such a stereotype that you would think
Speaker 4: that it's just people are aware of it at this
Speaker 4: point and care about it. Is it that they don't
Speaker 4: realize it, or that they don't care about it, I think,
Speaker 4: but we all take showers and ship like I don't
Speaker 4: I don't well understand how this happens.
Speaker 2: In my head, I'm thinking these people, uh, and I
Speaker 2: don't say that in a derogatory way at all.
Speaker 1: But these gamers, these gamers.
Speaker 2: Will will will spend so much time isolated doing their
Speaker 2: own thing at home that now that they get to
Speaker 2: be in a collective place, in a collective space with
Speaker 2: other gamers, they're just so excited to go that they
Speaker 2: forget to shower.
Speaker 4: But even like, why I live at home, I'm not
Speaker 4: always out among people, but like you still want.
Speaker 3: To shower every day because it feels fucking gross.
Speaker 1: I I feel like being like smelling good is like
Speaker 1: top tier three, like one of my three favorite things
Speaker 1: in the world. Like I love to smell good and.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, you think there just glows. I think it's
Speaker 3: it's a.
Speaker 1: Combination of factors. It's it's going to be people who
Speaker 1: are socially awkward for a variety of reasons. People are
Speaker 1: nose blind for a variety of reasons. Don't notice, don't care.
Speaker 1: It's all kinds of stuff. You know, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to pick on any one individual characteristic, but.
Speaker 4: I will say it's not just gamers, like a lot
Speaker 4: of it's the same thing.
Speaker 5: If not, it's a lot of things where maybe a
Speaker 5: person doesn't go out much, but this one thing is
Speaker 5: really excited to them, so they're going out for the
Speaker 5: first time ever and they are socially not prepared.
Speaker 3: But even if they're just at home, Like, doesn't it just.
Speaker 5: People three times a day? If I can.
Speaker 7: Really three times, but it's happened, it's happened. I just think, uh, yeah,
Speaker 7: I don't know. I don't have an explanation for this,
Speaker 7: but I but I don't think people are self aware.
Speaker 1: You're giving people.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's the first time that people are sweating?
Speaker 2: I don't know, the first time where I'm not sweating.
Speaker 3: Body crying.
Speaker 2: It's happening, all right, gang, I guess we should talk
Speaker 2: about video games.
Speaker 3: Oh oh man.
Speaker 2: During the break, my headphones hit the gogsler and I
Speaker 2: cued one of the buttons, and then I to no
Speaker 2: one and to myself, I started doing a segue.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: God, Jeff Greb you were talking about being Colombo earlier,
Speaker 2: but you were also double O seven because you played
Speaker 2: Double O seven everything or nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like thinking, oh my god, I put
Speaker 1: that PC to the side that has my save for
Speaker 1: that game, and I've been meaning to just play through it.
Speaker 1: I wish I would have had that saved just on
Speaker 1: the Steam deck. That would make a lot easier for me.
Speaker 1: But it's like, Okay, I have it all hooked up
Speaker 1: because I was finishing that Cleveland Gaming Classic video edit,
Speaker 1: so Mike, I'll just get it set up on there.
Speaker 1: It took me a second to actually find the save
Speaker 1: file for Dolphins. I updated Dolphin and it was all
Speaker 1: upset about that, but I did, thankfully still have it
Speaker 1: played through. It got to that motorcycle level where you
Speaker 1: drive onto the trains bridge. Yeah, that's really exciting.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: There's another one not too long after that where Shannon
Speaker 1: Elizabeth is that her name, Shannon Elizabeth, the lady from
Speaker 1: Maxim magazines back in the day. She falls off a
Speaker 1: cliff and you have to like dive after on the
Speaker 1: cliff and you have to like dodge these like wooden
Speaker 1: planks and other cliff faces, and you have to shoot
Speaker 1: guys while you're falling, and that's like pretty intense and cool.
Speaker 1: It does it does these scripted moments that are often
Speaker 1: like thirty seconds long. Really well, that game's still is
Speaker 1: a lot of cool stuff. There is, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff that doesn't age well where it's these
Speaker 1: open zones where you're driving around from one point to
Speaker 1: another and there's a timer and there's not a lot
Speaker 1: going on, and it's kind of like weird because you'll, like,
Speaker 1: it won't feel chaotic, it won't feel too exciting, but
Speaker 1: there is a timer counting down, so you're supposed to
Speaker 1: get to this place fast. So they'll put these segments
Speaker 1: where you're clearly clearly supposed to like drive through a
Speaker 1: building and drive through this office in all the glass,
Speaker 1: and it's all supposed to be breaking but it just
Speaker 1: feels like you're breaking the law for no reason because
Speaker 1: it's not like anyone's chasing you or you're shooting at anyone.
Speaker 1: You just wanted a really short way to go from
Speaker 1: one side of the city to another.
Speaker 5: Uh. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying it. I'm glad I'm continuing to play it.
Speaker 1: I should have that done this week so if we
Speaker 1: want to do a new punishment, I'll be ready.
Speaker 4: I'm sure there are things that have aged poorly, but
Speaker 4: like keep in mind, like that was over twenty years ago,
Speaker 4: and so like that, the like cinematic action scene, specifically
Speaker 4: the bridge thing in like two thousand and five. I
Speaker 4: was like, You've got fucking flamethrowers coming out of the thing,
Speaker 4: You're sliding underneath the truck, you're chasing jaws. Like I
Speaker 4: just remember that being like one of the coolest like
Speaker 4: set piece moments or sequences i'd seen on that like
Speaker 4: the PS two era.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was really cool because it like does
Speaker 1: just give you a point you're supposed to go to,
Speaker 1: and there's kind of a maze of roads, so it's
Speaker 1: up to you to sort of find the fastest route
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, I did spot that shortcut, and
Speaker 1: then it has a really cool ramp and you're jumping
Speaker 1: off of it and you feel cool. So yeah, the
Speaker 1: cinematic stuff is by far the best part about it,
Speaker 1: and that stuff does hold up because you don't don't
Speaker 1: actually get a ton of that anymore. It's a very
Speaker 1: different kind of game.
Speaker 3: And they made like a custom Bond movie for a
Speaker 3: game with all the voice actors and stuff.
Speaker 1: It was cool. Yeah, I'm going to meet Maya right
Speaker 1: now in New Orleans. So yeah, that's a real video game.
Speaker 2: Cool cool speaking about older video games, I have no
Speaker 2: idea what this is the Out Foxies.
Speaker 1: Well, and you're gonna find out what this is very soon.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to do something about this dance.
Speaker 4: This is this is my go to on the I
Speaker 4: discovered this on the main cabinet when I was just
Speaker 4: like kind of going through everything, I was like, what
Speaker 4: the fuck is the Olt Foxies and says nineteen ninety
Speaker 4: four and namco on and.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. You knew about it from next I
Speaker 1: like it just got released, so I was re released
Speaker 1: for them.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: No, we've done this running thing every time, like we
Speaker 4: do the fire Escape stuff. Me and Mike, we always
Speaker 4: just sit down and play a bunch of Out Foxies.
Speaker 4: It is basically like Smash Brothers from.
Speaker 1: Nicha Protos Smash Brothers. Yeah name so.
Speaker 4: And it's like the setup is almost kind of like
Speaker 4: a Bond type thing where there's a bunch of like
Speaker 4: these kind of like type killers where it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: here's this assassin, here's this guy in a wheelchair that
Speaker 4: can like, here's here's a.
Speaker 1: Pair of twin. It's a pair of fraternal twins.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, here's a monkey named Dweeb that wears a
Speaker 4: suit and top hat and uh huh.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's so you're running around.
Speaker 4: There's just guns and flamethrowers and rocket launchers and there's
Speaker 4: like a circus level and a submarine level and like.
Speaker 3: The levels have evolution. Yeah, it's like powerstone stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, where it's like the ship is like, oh, a
Speaker 4: window cracks and then it's sinking and then sharks come
Speaker 4: in and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And the helicopter like falls through the floor and like crashes. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Cool, cool, it's cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, it's it's genuinely fun and it came out
Speaker 4: on it is like eighteen dollars, which is nuts.
Speaker 1: But it's an archive archive release, so like it's just
Speaker 1: the release of the arcade game, but you could start
Speaker 1: playing immediately. It does like when you're playing single player,
Speaker 1: does the arcade thing of wow, this is really easy.
Speaker 1: Three fights later, this is literally impossible, Oh my god.
Speaker 5: So in those quarters.
Speaker 4: But it's one of those as Arcade archive things that
Speaker 4: they they're good at bringing a lot of like more
Speaker 4: obscure stuff to switch and other consoles, so very happy
Speaker 4: to have.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, they've done like the five hundred Arcade arc
Speaker 1: archive games now or something that's crazy.
Speaker 5: I want they all to do like a big collection
Speaker 5: at some point. I don't know, but uh, yeah, I've
Speaker 5: heard of this game now. I don't remember the name
Speaker 5: of Foxy's what a name. I've heard about this game
Speaker 5: for its prototype Smash Brothers elements that I would like
Speaker 5: to actually try it so I might get this.
Speaker 3: I don't know the Foxes in the game.
Speaker 5: No, I think they're just like clever, like they out
Speaker 5: fox people. They're the out Foxy. Okay, all right, all right,
Speaker 5: the out foxers Foxy.
Speaker 1: It almost sounds like a Game Boy Advanced. Look. I
Speaker 1: mean it's obviously an arcade game from nineteen nine. Ye oh,
Speaker 1: but it's the way that the way that like the
Speaker 1: pixels sort of like swim around and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: It's like it's and.
Speaker 1: It's rendering so much because the levels are gigantic. They're enormous,
Speaker 1: and the characters can get very small, especially if you're
Speaker 1: on the opposite.
Speaker 3: Sides and level it's like super wide.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then like the camera does a good job
Speaker 1: of like sort of panning and zooming like a Samurai
Speaker 1: showdown or something like that. It just feels, i don't know,
Speaker 1: exciting and cinematic in a way that it doesn't make
Speaker 1: sense necessarily for what's happening because it's so goofy a
Speaker 1: lot of times, but it's goofy and it's just a
Speaker 1: really good way.
Speaker 2: That sounds great. Okay, yeah we should. We should check
Speaker 2: this out on the site. Yeah, le's get out foxing
Speaker 2: talking about outsmarting things. Mike Minatti, Jeff Grubb, and myself
Speaker 2: have been out smarting Miss three the Exile.
Speaker 3: Take that shit. Yeah, Brad d.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we finally started Miss three for Monday Mornings Missed
Speaker 5: with Mitch. I've been excited for this one because I
Speaker 5: have so many memories of my brother Agy loving this
Speaker 5: game and still being like young enough that I was
Speaker 5: intimidated by it, so I would just watch him play
Speaker 5: it every now and then. And it's been nice playing
Speaker 5: the remakes of Missed and Riven right, and they look
Speaker 5: very nice, especially the Riven remake. Beautiful. But there's something
Speaker 5: about this game just being run off of scum VM,
Speaker 5: so it's like emulation to make it run on new computers.
Speaker 5: So just runs really well, but looking the way it did,
Speaker 5: it's still just being really impressed by the way this
Speaker 5: game presented itself for some Turn of the Centure style
Speaker 5: PC game featuring FMB characters and these kind of pre
Speaker 5: rendered diorama slideshowed things that you're moving through. It's a
Speaker 5: really pretty game. I love the way this thing looks.
Speaker 3: I dig it a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, you did break my brain yesterday during the
Speaker 2: stream when you mentioned every time we enter a new
Speaker 2: book everything is just batshit insane mouse trap levels of
Speaker 2: being set up.
Speaker 3: But you eventually understand it like three minutes later.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're just walking around like, oh, they share a
Speaker 5: lot of switches and buttons, levers and sybils and I
Speaker 5: don't know what any of the meat and none of
Speaker 5: the work. How is this ever gonna make sense? So,
Speaker 5: and I heard this one has a bit more that
Speaker 5: missed one setup of you're going through these different book
Speaker 5: slash islands and each one is going to kind of
Speaker 5: have its own self contained puzzles where it's riven. We
Speaker 5: were in this like one area. Yeah, but he has
Speaker 5: a lot of backward that was really cool as well. Yep,
Speaker 5: but I definitely like this setup. And you know, like
Speaker 5: having bred Dirt there, he's a really good actor, and
Speaker 5: then having the familiar faces, you know, this this family
Speaker 5: of a book writing fuck ups that we all love
Speaker 5: now uh later, I'm into the lore as it were.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I had a really good first stream of
Speaker 5: that really felt good, solving lots of puzzles. You two
Speaker 5: are just on fire with the backup, just all sorts
Speaker 5: of good stuff. You were eagle eyed on those those
Speaker 5: spare pages. Jam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I said yesterday, it's just gonna be downhill
Speaker 3: from here.
Speaker 1: Good starting just a center slows up for failure, is it?
Speaker 3: F and B.
Speaker 4: Brad Duruff like you see him, Man, I can't imagine
Speaker 4: another actor in history that in my brain fits an
Speaker 4: FMB game more than Brad.
Speaker 5: Durroff, right, like Tim Curry and him.
Speaker 4: The Tim Curry is like a little too well known though,
Speaker 4: like you know, Command of Copper is lucky to get him,
Speaker 4: you know, like Brd Derham feels like he'd be in
Speaker 4: a million games from nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2: Who's the star trek guy that was in the poker game?
Speaker 2: Because that's another person.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, John fas Franks Branson freaks Frandi yeah, yeah, freaks.
Speaker 3: Uh well, speaking about.
Speaker 5: Star Trek is a Star Trek voyager. I thought you're
Speaker 5: still talking about him for a moment.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I'm I'm sorry. Mikey.
Speaker 5: He played a serial killer crewmate that had to get
Speaker 5: put to the brig because he kept killing people.
Speaker 3: Mikey, how do you do an escape rooms? Do you?
Speaker 3: Have you ever done any of those?
Speaker 2: Because I feel like you're very sharp when it comes
Speaker 2: when we've been playing these MYSS games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've only ever done one. It was at Universal
Speaker 5: and it was a Jurassic World themed one and it
Speaker 5: was super fun. I would like to do more of them,
Speaker 5: but uh, the crews I'm with there, they're not interested.
Speaker 5: A lot of times. I don't know. I think some
Speaker 5: of them are intimidated by I think some of them
Speaker 5: think it'll be lame. I want to do more escape rooms.
Speaker 5: There we go. That's a goal for this year. More
Speaker 5: escape rooms.
Speaker 2: Him higher, Well, this is attainable, you know, like we
Speaker 2: do this for sure. I told me what Disney.
Speaker 5: Disney was gonna build a whole actual Missed Escape island
Speaker 5: back in the ninth Really, we're going to just bury
Speaker 5: people to an island and miss puzzles, the cup, get
Speaker 5: the at the end of the day. See how they did.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, Well maybe you can team up with Jeff
Speaker 2: and Dibb because those two boys have been playing Escape Academy.
Speaker 7: It's funny, Like the more I watch contemporary television, I'm like,
Speaker 7: this is an escape room video game. This TV show
Speaker 7: you know, Mystery Boxes. Yeah, yeah, Like everything is just
Speaker 7: sort of formulated around that, Like you have this now
Speaker 7: that he did probably the ultimate escape room game.
Speaker 1: By the way, I just heterosexuality.
Speaker 3: You brought it up. I gotta I gotta do.
Speaker 7: A bit of a detour on that if you watched it. No,
Speaker 7: I've not watched it, but I'm a big I'm a
Speaker 7: big fan of the director creator because he was involved
Speaker 7: in Letterkenny, one of my favorite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should watch it and then I should get
Speaker 1: you on some grubs next. We should discuss it there.
Speaker 7: I'm happy to watch it. I know I'll enjoy it.
Speaker 7: I just it's very funny to me that, like, in
Speaker 7: no sort of meaningful way has the NHL sort of
Speaker 7: been like this rules you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like it's like they're talking about it, but behind closed
Speaker 1: or close closets.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're obviously jazzed about it, but they're probably so
Speaker 7: terrified to admit that they're jazzed about it, which busses
Speaker 7: me off in a sport that like, look, I don't
Speaker 7: I would never accuse any of the big sports in
Speaker 7: America to be overly progressive, but like, I don't know,
Speaker 7: a part of me is sort of like hockey seems
Speaker 7: like it would probably get first place in that category.
Speaker 1: And not that used to help from like a diversity aspect,
Speaker 1: because they're not going to get a lot of racial
Speaker 1: diversity in hockey. Maybe you could get some other stuff
Speaker 1: up in there.
Speaker 4: So context, it sounds like a gay hockey show. Is
Speaker 4: that That's exactly what held it. Okay, I got the context.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's it's like it's I'm trying to think of
Speaker 1: a hockey player. She will know Wayne Gretzky and Mario U.
Speaker 1: Do you know so the two best players if they
Speaker 1: were teenagers and gay for each other? Now you know
Speaker 1: the show?
Speaker 4: Okay, whole Yeah, I had a threesome with Wayne Gretzky
Speaker 4: and Mario Lemu.
Speaker 7: Okay, I understand sure, all right, look the theater of
Speaker 7: your mind, whatever you wish Sidney Crosby. There you go.
Speaker 7: He's still so yeah, it's it's wild, right, so like
Speaker 7: you know, you get like pockets of it, like pockets
Speaker 7: of like hockey enthusiasts podcasts and where like the guys
Speaker 7: are like super jazz about it. It's really fun, very
Speaker 7: funny stuff to watch. Anyway, we'll uh, we'll just leave
Speaker 7: it there.
Speaker 3: It's it rules.
Speaker 1: I'm very happy to start with.
Speaker 7: Okay, so, uh, I don't know what happened one day.
Speaker 7: Uh you know, our break was rough, not rough, but
Speaker 7: like people were sick the whole time. I'm the only
Speaker 7: one who managed to dodge every bullet. So I escaped it.
Speaker 7: I escaped the germs. We were supposed to go away
Speaker 7: for a couple of days, we had a camp. We
Speaker 7: had a cancel a lot of plans, so we're home
Speaker 7: a lot and I don't know what you got any said,
Speaker 7: He's like, I want to I want to do.
Speaker 1: Escape room video games. Where are they? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I kind of only.
Speaker 7: Know about one escape academy. Thank you for sponsoring bomba time,
Speaker 7: but the sequel rather right. But I didn't know, and
Speaker 7: I was looking for a game that had you know,
Speaker 7: local couch co Op and DIB and I blasted through
Speaker 7: the entirety of Escape Academy, and.
Speaker 3: I gotta say it was great. It was.
Speaker 7: It was a lot of fun. Man, oh man, was
Speaker 7: this like such a delight, a surprising delight to go
Speaker 7: through really clever puzzles, nothing to you know, when you're
Speaker 7: playing a video game, obviously you're just like you could
Speaker 7: just you know, you can invent and create rules and
Speaker 7: magic and do whatever you want. Obviously some of this
Speaker 7: is not based in reality, but logical enough and sort
Speaker 7: of loocid enough and have a through point that did
Speaker 7: not frustrate us.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: They do let you like grab a hint.
Speaker 7: If you need, which I thought was like a really fun,
Speaker 7: you know, little additive and and we had I think
Speaker 7: we used once where we were just completely a little
Speaker 7: too impatient. But you know, it was about ten hours
Speaker 7: all said, Uh, you know, I was really surprised. I
Speaker 7: kind of did not know exactly what to expect. I
Speaker 7: had seen, I had read some really good stuff. I
Speaker 7: know you guys enjoyed what you play of that upcoming sequel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and I liked how to Play the first one,
Speaker 1: which I never finished. And then that's the sequel was great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and believe it or not, like they are they
Speaker 7: they very competently like tell a bit of a fun
Speaker 7: narrative story through the entirety of the thing, right where
Speaker 7: you basically are like, you know, the game starts off
Speaker 7: and you're just doing like a run of the mill
Speaker 7: kind of junkie escape room. Lo and behold, it's like this,
Speaker 7: you know, audition to become an escape you know, professor
Speaker 7: or expert.
Speaker 1: Then you get sort of enrolled in this game. It's
Speaker 1: much more about being in this school. In the school right, yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: they had a ton of school stuff in there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you you know, you enroll and then you
Speaker 7: uncover the the sort of conspiracy about the founder of
Speaker 7: the school and someone who was trying to take it over.
Speaker 7: And it was a lot of fun, really cool diversity
Speaker 7: with puzzles and just really getting you to think. And
Speaker 7: I gotta say, like, you know, dim and I just
Speaker 7: sitting there with a no pet writing down symbols and
Speaker 7: clocks and faces and statues and numbers and colors and
Speaker 7: cryptics and all this thing.
Speaker 1: It was it was a lot of fun. It really
Speaker 1: got us through this break.
Speaker 7: In a really positive way. And like I said, we
Speaker 7: do through it. I think it maybe three days.
Speaker 1: It was awesome.
Speaker 3: It was all we wanted to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and now we're jones in for the next one
Speaker 1: for sure, but this was great. Highly recommend if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a couch co op thing. Would you think
Speaker 1: he was like the perfect age to sort of like
Speaker 1: grock this or do you think he was like like
Speaker 1: a like a year ago. Would would this have been able?
Speaker 1: It was something he would have been able to do.
Speaker 7: I think he would have stumbled a little bit more.
Speaker 7: That's a good question. I think he is really in
Speaker 7: the Goldilock zone for this sort of stuff. I mean,
Speaker 7: I know I say that every day, where like he's
Speaker 7: just sort of becoming older and more mature. He's doing
Speaker 7: this thing now where like he just discovered like, oh,
Speaker 7: you can give insults when you cough through them, right.
Speaker 3: So like incredible.
Speaker 7: So he's like so you know, like Stacey couldn't figure
Speaker 7: out how to use something on the YouTube TV and
Speaker 7: doing it's just like, oh, you just.
Speaker 3: Got to click that boat up there, Boomer.
Speaker 1: Just like this. He's aging.
Speaker 7: So it's funny as hell. But anyway to your to
Speaker 7: your question, yes, perfect age for it. I think, you know,
Speaker 7: two years in either direction you can get away with it.
Speaker 7: But he definitely was driving like he's like, okay, we
Speaker 7: know this, we know that, you know, writing down notes
Speaker 7: on on the on in the notebook.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, it was.
Speaker 1: It was just a lot of fun.
Speaker 7: I I I know this next one's coming on, I
Speaker 7: guess sometime this year.
Speaker 1: But I've not seen anything else. I've not seen anything
Speaker 1: else at least you know, couch co op split screen
Speaker 1: like to me that that that was a big pre
Speaker 1: record acape simulator. I have no idea if that's.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think we saw that one, but I don't think
Speaker 7: it was couch co op. I could be mistaken, but
Speaker 7: I don't think that jumped out as a as a
Speaker 7: possibility unfortunately. But I can't recommend Escape Academy. And I
Speaker 7: think it was super cheap. I think it was like
Speaker 7: five bucks.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so escape a simulator says online co op,
Speaker 1: does not saying about local co ops.
Speaker 7: So yeah, a lot of games had that online, right,
Speaker 7: But yeah, oh thank you Zachi Portal two. We've played
Speaker 7: a lot of Portal two together, so that is, like,
Speaker 7: I guess, the most escape room adjacent sort of.
Speaker 1: Thing you can do.
Speaker 2: Uh, but yeah, lovely, lovely, Well, we I have on
Speaker 2: the list here winter Break games back lar, since you
Speaker 2: were just talking about a winter Break game, Dan grub Shall,
Speaker 2: what other games y'all dip into during the winter break?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I figure it's like leading up to Game of
Speaker 4: the Year stuff. It is just such a mad dash
Speaker 4: to play as much of the new stuff as possible
Speaker 4: to talk about it, and then like as soon as
Speaker 4: that's over in the Game of the Years, like in
Speaker 4: the can I just get in the mood to like, Okay,
Speaker 4: what is just some straight up backlog stuff that I
Speaker 4: have not, you know, played in a while. And an
Speaker 4: easy one was Mario Galaxy two because I've been putting
Speaker 4: off that Switch two version that came out fairly recently,
Speaker 4: and I had not played Mario Galaxy two since it
Speaker 4: came out, and I remember playing it and if you remember,
Speaker 4: you get one hundred and twenty stars and then it
Speaker 4: unlocks all the Green Stars where it like populates all
Speaker 4: the old levels of the Green Stars and just like
Speaker 4: platforming challenges to get to them, and then there's two
Speaker 4: extra stars you can get. And I never got the
Speaker 4: last star back in the day because I didn't know
Speaker 4: you had to like save up these star bits the
Speaker 4: whole game, and I was just kind of spraying them
Speaker 4: around willy nilly, and so I was like, I don't
Speaker 4: want to grind ten thousand star bits just to get
Speaker 4: this last star. So finally I got the final star
Speaker 4: I have never gotten in a Mario game this Winter Break,
Speaker 4: and it.
Speaker 3: Was fucking hard.
Speaker 4: It's that level, the perfect run if you remember the
Speaker 4: super long fucking level you It's like a daredevil run
Speaker 4: thing where you have to get hit die so no
Speaker 4: checkpoints get hit once you die. It is a nightmare.
Speaker 4: Took my die like forty plus times on it. Finally
Speaker 4: got it and felt great to finally finish that. And
Speaker 4: then the other one was I got the ayn Thor
Speaker 4: and I was like, well shit, I mean three yes,
Speaker 4: seems like that that would be like the prime use
Speaker 4: of something like this. So I just played through Link
Speaker 4: between Worlds for the first time. Oh yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 4: I want it just a few nights ago. Fucking great,
Speaker 4: still just incredible. And also I mean the.
Speaker 1: Second you start playing it, right, it's like it feels
Speaker 1: so good. You're like, oh my god, move around this
Speaker 1: game is fantastic. And then it just stays great the
Speaker 1: entire time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and just all the things they did with the
Speaker 4: format that like, you know, because I remember when they
Speaker 4: announced it, I was like, man, Link the Past is
Speaker 4: like maybe my favorite game ever, Like do I just
Speaker 4: want like is this just gonna be the same thing?
Speaker 4: It's the same map, and it's like no, they do
Speaker 4: so many clever things, like they've got the wall merged
Speaker 4: thing that's a fun gimmick and everything. But then you
Speaker 4: remember all the things they do with the rabbit guy,
Speaker 4: or like you can rent all the items whenever you
Speaker 4: went to instead of finding them in dungeons, or you
Speaker 4: can buy them permanently for like eight hundred rupees. You
Speaker 4: can do the dungeons and whatever level or whatever order
Speaker 4: you want. Like all these things that like would later
Speaker 4: go into things like you know, Breath of the Wild,
Speaker 4: like a staminameter that that yeah, determined your bow and
Speaker 4: bow and arrow and your bombs instead of a finite
Speaker 4: amount of stuff that you have to farm and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. There's just so many little things in that
Speaker 4: game on top of it just looking and playing so
Speaker 4: great and what a perfect use of the thor I
Speaker 4: had some weirdness I guess, like on the three DS,
Speaker 4: it's Azahar, I think is the uh R game that
Speaker 4: runs it. I think there's some funkiness with that, like
Speaker 4: sometimes when I would do a save state thing, it
Speaker 4: would crash, so I would have to rely on like
Speaker 4: hard saves. But ultimately, you know, it was an incredible experience.
Speaker 4: I remember really liking that final boss too. The final
Speaker 4: fight was that's a.
Speaker 3: Really funny one for me, going into the wall and
Speaker 3: shooting arrows, and yeah.
Speaker 5: Like because like you can never you go in the
Speaker 5: wall the entire game, but you can never attack in
Speaker 5: the wall, and all of a sudden you can now
Speaker 5: like shoot the arrow and I'm like, whoa, this is
Speaker 5: blowing my mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, super super fun. So yeah, both of those were
Speaker 3: just fantastic. To go back.
Speaker 1: I was kind of looking, they're doing the same thing
Speaker 1: as Dan where it's like the sprang up the game
Speaker 1: of the Year, and wanted to kind of go in
Speaker 1: a different direction and kind of loaded Star Wars Outlaws
Speaker 1: back up on the switch. But then that reminded me
Speaker 1: that I never really played much Jedi Survive, So I
Speaker 1: went back and played some of that, and I'm continuing
Speaker 1: to play that and really enjoying it. It's uh runs
Speaker 1: great now on PC with a really good PC obviously,
Speaker 1: but yeah, like they really improved the performance now to
Speaker 1: the point where it's like, oh, this is fantastic. I'm
Speaker 1: getting like two hundred frames per second, so that's great.
Speaker 1: And and then like just you, I like the structure. Actually,
Speaker 1: I like going back to the bar, the cantina and
Speaker 1: meeting all the characters there. They're wild. But I'm still
Speaker 1: relatively early because then I did. I'm I played so
Speaker 1: much Secretory over the Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was playing it in the car when we were
Speaker 5: driving to and back from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I might. I'm trying to get in the I
Speaker 1: was playing on my Steam deck Sectory. Uh, spend time
Speaker 1: with your friend. Well I was supposed I could do both,
Speaker 1: but they were you. The brothers were up front talking
Speaker 1: to each other. I was alone in the back. It's
Speaker 1: more important to catch up this goddamn Jacob Geller. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm I was I love this one night. It took
Speaker 1: like four or five days to get back to a
Speaker 1: point where I was getting good runs. So Sectory it's
Speaker 1: Geometry Wars. We talked about it during Game of the Year,
Speaker 1: but it's a Geometry Wars with like an updated structure,
Speaker 1: and it's just really well thought out in every way.
Speaker 1: I had like a top seven and my score was
Speaker 1: number seventeen in the world, and I did that specifically
Speaker 1: to beat Jacob Geller, who is a YouTuber, a great
Speaker 1: YouTuber essay Snieze does stuff or at mid max. He's fantastic.
Speaker 1: And then a few weeks later he came back and
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, I got you a ten million. I
Speaker 1: have twelve million. He's basically up in the spot I
Speaker 1: was in. I'm down to like number fifty. It took
Speaker 1: like four or five days to get back to a
Speaker 1: point where my runs were anywhere close to that anymore.
Speaker 1: And then I was getting a bunch of runs in
Speaker 1: a row where it's like I'm right there. It's late
Speaker 1: and my hands are starting to hurt. I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: a thing where I'm going to go to bed and
Speaker 1: I guarantee i'll wake up tomorrow the synapses will all connected, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'll crush it my first run and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: right back in the garbage. Yeah, And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is rough. I'm like, I really and I'm like
Speaker 1: looking at the time, getting close to coming back from break.
Speaker 1: I spit my whole break playing this goddamn game. Now
Speaker 1: what have I done? But it's so good. Every time
Speaker 1: I'm in there. It really is just the mind clears.
Speaker 1: You're just engaged fully with all the action happening. It's
Speaker 1: so good at having those different It sounds like a
Speaker 1: small thing, but all the enemies having different attack patterns
Speaker 1: or different movement patterns. Once they're all happening at the
Speaker 1: same time and you have to consider all of that,
Speaker 1: it's so overwhelming to the senses that I find it
Speaker 1: very pleasurable. Yeah, so the thing is like a great game.
Speaker 4: You still like, I've played so much of this fucking
Speaker 4: game for months now, and I'm still like, in the
Speaker 4: last week I realize like, oh, those little purple fuckers,
Speaker 4: I keep dying to them because when you kill them,
Speaker 4: that's the revenge bulit thing where it comes up. So
Speaker 4: like now I know to just get the kind of
Speaker 4: way I'm attacking.
Speaker 1: And just keep moving. And it's like God, once you
Speaker 1: start like getting in the oh, just keep moving, find
Speaker 1: the path in front of you that's clearest, like plow it.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, that's key. I know.
Speaker 7: I'm very late to the party. I do like that
Speaker 7: you discover all the personalities of the enemies as you go, yes, right,
Speaker 7: where like some are explosive and you can use them
Speaker 7: as to your advantage. Some of them are like you know,
Speaker 7: editor ones, right, and then it's really amazing. That game
Speaker 7: is amazing. I've not I don't know how well I'm
Speaker 7: doing with it. I guess like the best run I've
Speaker 7: done is like fifteen minutes at this point, because I'm
Speaker 7: still kind of early.
Speaker 3: But are you doing it on the the earliest difficulty,
Speaker 3: Like there's challenging and there's experience, which one do you
Speaker 3: do experience?
Speaker 7: I think I'm doing experience.
Speaker 4: You should definitely do experience first until you've beaten it
Speaker 4: times in the movie Challenging because like challenging, I've played
Speaker 4: so much of this fucking game, and like, yeah, Boks,
Speaker 4: the main one I talked about it is we every
Speaker 4: night pretty much played like I played it for like
Speaker 4: four hours last night, and we've plateaued at like the
Speaker 4: load to mid six millions, which is about.
Speaker 3: What you get if you beat experience.
Speaker 4: And so I am trying to unlock that next level
Speaker 4: where you know, grub you and Geller are at and
Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure out am I just like prioritizing
Speaker 4: the upgrade stack wrong?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, what do you do? Because miss I do.
Speaker 1: Here's like the really discouraging thing. I had a thirty
Speaker 1: four minute run, which is I looked at the time,
Speaker 1: that's as long. I think it's longer than Geller's run
Speaker 1: and I was only at nine million points. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna be my best time ever. It's there, I'm it's
Speaker 1: it's it's just right. So there's multiple ways to gain
Speaker 1: score the score upgrade obvious. I didn't do it once
Speaker 1: on that run. I was like, I'll do it when
Speaker 1: I get a chance, and then of course I died
Speaker 1: before I had like really gotten to that mode where
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, now I'll just keep doing the score
Speaker 1: up and they let you do the score as many
Speaker 1: times as you Infinitely, it's the one that has the
Speaker 1: infinite signed by.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then there's also like the dash multiplier of like if
Speaker 1: you keep your dash going and you keep dashing into
Speaker 1: the next year striking.
Speaker 4: I think that caps at five on experience and I
Speaker 4: just realized nine. I was like seven to eight. I
Speaker 4: was like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so caps at ten on on challenge, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: but but and I feel like I was doing that constantly,
Speaker 1: So I'm like, what was I doing different in my
Speaker 1: I think it was like a thirty ish minute run
Speaker 1: for my ten million points versus my nine million run
Speaker 1: in thirty four minutes. And it's like, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: I was just like my build wasn't exactly the same,
Speaker 1: But I just I thought I was dashing just a much.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I need to like actually go back
Speaker 1: in and start engineering this score and understanding what is
Speaker 1: really like getting you the most bang for my buck?
Speaker 7: This is this is also a game I cannot play
Speaker 7: far away.
Speaker 1: I play it high, but I.
Speaker 7: And I just sort of like, I just sort of
Speaker 7: drift off though when i'm you know what I mean,
Speaker 7: I'm like, I'm looking through the screen right now.
Speaker 3: Nothing matters.
Speaker 7: I can't play it far away on the couch looking
Speaker 7: at the TV. I have to play it in my
Speaker 7: hands are on the monitor in front of.
Speaker 1: Me on the I have the I have better luck
Speaker 1: playing it on the monitors sometimes big right here.
Speaker 7: Real low input, leg that whole thing, Like, yeah, far away,
Speaker 7: your cook, what's the difference between? So I know what
Speaker 7: missile is is strike just the intensity of the bullets
Speaker 7: you're default firing.
Speaker 3: No is the dash, it's the trigger.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So so strike will get you for a
Speaker 1: longer dash, so that's crucial like later on when it's like, man,
Speaker 1: there is longer fifty thousand enemies between me and that token.
Speaker 1: If I had like a longer dash, it get well,
Speaker 1: eventually you're gonna get a dash. It's so long that
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to basically go across most of
Speaker 1: the screen and that enables you. Yes, you began strike
Speaker 1: a strike multiplying over and over and over again. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1: And then also it makes it makes the explosions larger
Speaker 1: thing and you can get it a blaster. That's no,
Speaker 1: that's the blast of way from doing a strike. God
Speaker 1: there is.
Speaker 3: Your standard shot.
Speaker 4: Yes shot, so miss It was better for like crowd
Speaker 4: control because that will go home around blaster, I find
Speaker 4: better for especially some of the mini boss like taking
Speaker 4: out those points away where Yes, mostly, but it's crucial,
Speaker 4: which Mary just told me about chaos, which that can
Speaker 4: you get that card deck It randomizes your stack upgrade
Speaker 4: so suddenly blaster could be your first I didn't know.
Speaker 3: This kind of nuts. Yeah, I like it's incredible.
Speaker 1: It's really really good. I mean, it just is so
Speaker 1: immaculately designed. It is someone has thought about this kind
Speaker 1: of game their entire life, has made these kinds of
Speaker 1: games over and over and over again, and it's just like,
Speaker 1: let's use only the shit that works and kind of
Speaker 1: feeds into everything else. It's incredible. Glad we got it
Speaker 1: on the Game of your list.
Speaker 3: Have no spoilers, very spoiler fantastic.
Speaker 2: Speaking of all the Game of the Year podcasts are
Speaker 2: have been out, so I suggest you go listen to them.
Speaker 2: Shouts out to Sean for doing the lord's work and
Speaker 2: editing all those bad boys speaking about games that kind
Speaker 2: of spending maybe arguably too much time in gang I
Speaker 2: set out this winter break, I'm gonna go play Ghosts
Speaker 2: of Yota. I'm gonna go play Sands of blake manor
Speaker 2: gonna catch up in all these things I didn't get
Speaker 2: to play.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll get into sectory.
Speaker 1: You can't go into any of those.
Speaker 3: I didn't do this this, believe me. I was smashing
Speaker 3: the goons and Di that's a big water bottle. That's
Speaker 3: toupid Dan.
Speaker 5: You look like baby Herman from who's a Roger Rabbit.
Speaker 7: Does look like a prop from a cartoon.
Speaker 1: It looks like looks like an entire it looks like
Speaker 1: an entire barrel of oil.
Speaker 7: No, but it's like it's like when someone is comically thirsty,
Speaker 7: that's what they drink.
Speaker 1: You know, what were you playing?
Speaker 2: I played too much Marvel Rivals over now, character.
Speaker 1: Or skin is it? Is it Loky, Lady Loki or whatever?
Speaker 2: Oh, Lady Loki is blowing up. All these people that
Speaker 2: have never played Loki before are now suddenly playing as
Speaker 2: Lady Loki. Also, she's taller than regular Loki.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't that make her worse? Like, isn't there more of
Speaker 5: her to hit?
Speaker 2: Yes, but because she's hot, people.
Speaker 3: Just want to play as her.
Speaker 5: Manna Rogue recently right.
Speaker 3: Yes, So here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Gang in class base shooters like this, Like Overwatch Marvel Rivals,
Speaker 2: I only ever play support, I only ever played DPS.
Speaker 2: I never played Tank or Vanguard whatever it's called in
Speaker 2: Marvel Rivals. But on a whim, I decided, like, you
Speaker 2: know what, let me go check out Rogue. I really
Speaker 2: like the X Men, so let's try it out.
Speaker 3: And gang. Let me tell y'all.
Speaker 2: I went I went Sicko mode and I don't know
Speaker 2: specifically why, but something just clicked about having a little
Speaker 2: bit more damage and kind of just being mad, annoying
Speaker 2: to everyone and just ISO just straight ISO's zone defense,
Speaker 2: getting people out of the way, annoying, being able to
Speaker 2: solo three healers and separating them away from the team
Speaker 2: and annoying them so much that I get an angry
Speaker 2: DM afterwards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's such a great feeling. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I have played a bunch of Marvel rivals at this point,
Speaker 2: and I've yet to ever dip into competitive or ranked
Speaker 2: because I just remember how I got as a person
Speaker 2: when I was doing that with League of Legends. You've
Speaker 2: learned to respect yourself more exactly. So I'm just going
Speaker 2: into quick match. You know, it's very cash when people
Speaker 2: get upset, he spaghetti whatever, it's fine. But Gang, for
Speaker 2: whatever reason, I am just clicking as a tank with
Speaker 2: Rogue in such a profound way. There was one match Gang.
Speaker 2: There's one match, and the game mode was just like
Speaker 2: a control point where you're just getting control of his
Speaker 2: own right. I don't know how this happened. I got
Speaker 2: forty kills. You don't get that many kills in Marvel
Speaker 2: Rivals and then like, I shit you not your boy
Speaker 2: was getting MVP.
Speaker 3: Pretty cool?
Speaker 2: Nice, And if anyone else plays Marvel Rivals out there,
Speaker 2: you know, generally the DPS person or the duelist will
Speaker 2: generally get the MVP because they're racking up all of
Speaker 2: the kills in that match. But I don't know what
Speaker 2: it is gang, it just clicks in here. And also
Speaker 2: Gambit is very fun to play.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: They got the voice actors from X Men ninety seven
Speaker 2: for Gambit and for Rogue.
Speaker 3: It's really good.
Speaker 1: Oh more Marvel Rivals. Yeah, here's the thing though, appealing
Speaker 1: to me, like love being annoying in those games.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing like I don't consider myself the best
Speaker 2: at video games, but I think I'm very good at this.
Speaker 2: Like it's I watched I was watching like a video
Speaker 2: with a friend, uh, and he was just watching over
Speaker 2: my shoulder, and I was like parsing out all the
Speaker 2: information and all the tech they were trying to teach.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile he's saying.
Speaker 3: Like, what the fuck are you watching? Dog?
Speaker 2: Like this shit doesn't make sense? What's going on here?
Speaker 2: You're counting timers, you're counting cool downs who am I anyway,
Speaker 2: it's it's uh. I posted this on Blue Sky. But
Speaker 2: Rogue has uh because her ability in the comic books,
Speaker 2: if she touches someone, she can steal their ability or
Speaker 2: at least like disables them for a little bit.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: In Rivals, Rogue has a dash forward, which is a
Speaker 2: grab and once you if you make contact, you steal
Speaker 2: that character's abilities. But the I just made the best
Speaker 2: fucking grab because there was There's a character Angela. She's
Speaker 2: in the Thor universe, originally from a different one. She
Speaker 2: is a flying character. I jumped off of a platform.
Speaker 2: She's about to fly and take off, and then I
Speaker 2: just grab her mid air and just steal hell from her.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 2: Also, Blade is sick as hell in this game, y'all
Speaker 2: place this character added.
Speaker 5: The scheme already has forty five characters they've been Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm still not including Psychclops even even that many people.
Speaker 5: And it's impressive and it never will.
Speaker 3: Did I did?
Speaker 2: I corner a dev at the TGAU talking about like,
Speaker 2: why would you put my boy slide Colops in?
Speaker 3: I may have. I may have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was the response. I need to know what
Speaker 1: was the reasoning? Panic?
Speaker 3: Uh? Probably because like you scared of me is what
Speaker 3: it is? You know?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Oh you got forty didn't want to get it wrong?
Speaker 3: And then at you Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: Uh gig, We're gonna take a quick bricky break and
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Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, I'm ready.
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Speaker 2: And we have more video games to talk about.
Speaker 3: Oh but one more thing about Marvel Rivals.
Speaker 2: Daredevil is also sick. I think I mentioned this briefly
Speaker 2: during the Game of the Year Awards, but like holy
Speaker 2: like he's blind in the game too. It's great, it's
Speaker 2: super sick.
Speaker 5: It's cool MVP more like MVG Most Valuable Gooner.
Speaker 3: Well, that was quite the leap. What the hell, Mike?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Funny during the break, now here's the thing I saw.
Speaker 4: I saw Mike smirking to himself while Dan was talking,
Speaker 4: and I looked in the chat and he gave that
Speaker 4: joke to the chat and got nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he also did it to us during the break
Speaker 1: and Backlar was like, oh, that's gonna play, and so
Speaker 1: for him to immediately throw him under the bus, it's
Speaker 1: the funniest thing that's happened so far. I know it.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. That Yes, oh man.
Speaker 3: That was that was quite the leap, Mike.
Speaker 2: Uh, kind of a jump and kind of a big hop,
Speaker 2: just like these two have been playing lately. I love
Speaker 2: this cute little frog guy. Is how how is the
Speaker 2: game though? How's the hops? How's the tie? It is?
Speaker 3: It's real good.
Speaker 1: We could talk about the first half of the game
Speaker 1: because the embargo is not up quite yet, and he said, uh,
Speaker 1: the developer, so we could talk about the first half
Speaker 1: and say that we have the game. It is out
Speaker 1: in six days.
Speaker 3: I think I'm just through the desert stuff. We're going
Speaker 3: to talk about all that, right, I think so, yes,
Speaker 3: I think should I played a few hours? Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Chuck beat it and he said it was
Speaker 1: like ten and a half hours, so I think we're
Speaker 1: both still in the first half relatively speaking.
Speaker 3: Uh, the the controls.
Speaker 1: The movement are so good, it's so on point. So
Speaker 1: this you play as little Frog. You can jump, you
Speaker 1: do like the the Mario sixty four style triple jump
Speaker 1: sort of thing. I think he's got like a jump
Speaker 1: and a dive. Yeah, he's got a wall run. He's
Speaker 1: got a tongue that can like use it and be
Speaker 1: used as a grappling hook, and you can like swing
Speaker 1: and then if you are swinging and you jump off
Speaker 1: at like the right tangent and hit the ground, you'll
Speaker 1: carry forward a ton of momentum and you can use
Speaker 1: that to like jump and dive and carry the momentum
Speaker 1: forward even further. It's really really it just feels really good.
Speaker 1: And then I think the game around it does a
Speaker 1: good job of sort of emphasizing how fun it is
Speaker 1: to move around without getting in the way too much.
Speaker 1: At least so far.
Speaker 3: I do like the format of it.
Speaker 4: I do, like how you know, you're basically getting these
Speaker 4: drips or whatever they're called, like these purple yeah things
Speaker 4: like instead of your stars and you know, big open
Speaker 4: hub worlds and stuff like the desert and everything. I
Speaker 4: think the thing I'm struggling with sometimes is maybe it's
Speaker 4: the momentum is a little more loosey goosey than I'm
Speaker 4: used to in a three D platformer, because like there
Speaker 4: are just times where it's like I will do the
Speaker 4: grapple and I'll try to grapple into a wall run,
Speaker 4: and sometimes I don't know if it's the momentum or
Speaker 4: the angle, but like I'll like cling to the wall
Speaker 4: because the game will think I want to do a
Speaker 4: wall jump instead of a wall run, and then I'll
Speaker 4: just fall to my death. Like I've had a lot
Speaker 4: of times where that's happened, like numerous times in a row.
Speaker 4: Like when it works, I think it all feels really
Speaker 4: good because you get that momentum going, you can do
Speaker 4: the jump and dive to the next thing, and once
Speaker 4: you're chaining grapples together and all that, it can be great.
Speaker 4: But I have had a lot of death that I
Speaker 4: kind of felt were just like, oh no, I don't
Speaker 4: think the game could tell I was trying to run
Speaker 4: here or interesting just misreading stuff and a little bit
Speaker 4: of jank. I've gotten caught in some stuff, oh eve,
Speaker 4: one of the parts where there's like the hay bales
Speaker 4: where they kind of burn and you have to like
Speaker 4: follow and wall jump up.
Speaker 1: I don't think so it continued my save from the
Speaker 1: demo a long time ago, and I'm not sure. So
Speaker 1: I kind of got like a little like how far
Speaker 1: into this game am I? Even? So, No, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I did that yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it'd be silly to expect like a
Speaker 4: Mario level of polish from obviously a smaller team like this,
Speaker 4: But as someone who's very, very used to Mario platforming,
Speaker 4: I was getting a little frustrated with a lot of
Speaker 4: just like oh, I just wanted to do the wall
Speaker 4: jump back and forth, but it thought I wanted the backwall,
Speaker 4: and then I just jumped to my death or like
Speaker 4: lose a ton of progress falling off a thing like.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was bumping into some stuff there, but not enough
Speaker 4: to like sour me on the game.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep playing for sure.
Speaker 1: Cool. Yeah, I don't know if I've hit as much
Speaker 1: of that stuff, I definitely feel I know what you
Speaker 1: mean by the looseness of the physics a little bit.
Speaker 1: To me, it's like when you do have that momentum
Speaker 1: from like swinging into a run, he just goes to
Speaker 1: the point where it's like, oh, I'm sort of just
Speaker 1: reacting to what's happening. And I think that there's enough
Speaker 1: movement capabilities that no matter what was happening, if I
Speaker 1: threw myself off a ledge, I had a really good
Speaker 1: chance of consistently saving myself, which is always what I
Speaker 1: like in these games, kind of like go too fast
Speaker 1: and suddenly you find yourself in a spot of trouble.
Speaker 1: Can you get yourself out of it by just like
Speaker 1: reacting without thinking? And I've done that a bunch of times,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of where I'm really enjoying the game.
Speaker 2: Nice, nice, lovely. Speaking about embargoed games, this one I
Speaker 2: believe we can also talk about and I'm excited to
Speaker 2: hear about this. Well, Romeo is a dead man.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, yeah, backler, Uh, you know we played up
Speaker 4: through a certain amount. Did you get through the mall?
Speaker 3: I got through the mall. Okay, so you're you're probably
Speaker 3: passed me.
Speaker 4: I kind of got to the mall and uh started
Speaker 4: introducing like the Bastard system stuff like that. But you've
Speaker 4: played a bit more if you want to start with
Speaker 4: that backler.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, So man, it's been a couple days since
Speaker 7: I've touched this game, so I'm gonna have to like
Speaker 7: backtrack a little bit. This is a Grasshopper manufacturer Suda
Speaker 7: fifty one, uh clusterfuck.
Speaker 5: Of a game.
Speaker 7: I think it's positive, yeah, no parentheses positive. I think
Speaker 7: like it's been a minute since we've gotten what I
Speaker 7: think is like the pure, uncut, unadulterated sort of like
Speaker 7: Suita fifty one experience. It's been a minute. I want
Speaker 7: to say. It's what was the last What was the
Speaker 7: last game where he was like.
Speaker 3: Let die, Let it die? Was that weird? Like was
Speaker 3: it free?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That they have a new one of those coming, don't
Speaker 1: they with Uncle Death or whatever? Skateboarding? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So, uh, this is not let It Die. This
Speaker 7: is much more in the vein of like a No
Speaker 7: More Heroes kind of narrative, uh, action adventure type of game.
Speaker 7: It is, I mean, stylized is such a stupid way
Speaker 7: to describe it. It is just over the top in
Speaker 7: like kind of every way that you could conceive, uh,
Speaker 7: to the point where I'm just sort of like overwhelmed
Speaker 7: with unpredictable graphical choices, sound choices. Like there's just so
Speaker 7: much going on in this thing. So obviously there's no
Speaker 7: complaints from like the fidelity point of view. Uh, what
Speaker 7: you were actually playing feels very much is a third
Speaker 7: person action game that you know, for me, for my
Speaker 7: experience so far, as controlled pretty well, I think it's
Speaker 7: got a lucy sort of like almost like a Dead
Speaker 7: Rising feel to it at times with in terms of
Speaker 7: like these whenever I think of like controlling Frank in
Speaker 7: Dead Rising, I think of something that's like real slippery,
Speaker 7: if that make sense.
Speaker 1: Like there is a bit.
Speaker 7: Of like an ice like you're on ice kind of thing,
Speaker 7: and there is a maybe it's that's also like the
Speaker 7: sixty frames per second.
Speaker 1: Kind of like.
Speaker 7: Thing that you sort of get a as a as
Speaker 7: a byproduct of that, you know, to the point where
Speaker 7: you are kind of slashing and hacking zombie enemies where
Speaker 7: you kind of can't follow what you're looking at because
Speaker 7: there's so much particle effects. There's so much kind of
Speaker 7: like anarchy have happening on screen, but you long story, sure,
Speaker 7: you are basically someone who has to find your love
Speaker 7: interest through time and space, and.
Speaker 3: You're doing it.
Speaker 1: I got that right, and you are.
Speaker 7: Doing it with the help of this like galactic council
Speaker 7: called the FBI.
Speaker 4: On a spaceship that you return to and it's all
Speaker 4: pixelated like they.
Speaker 1: Are actually the female body inspects this time.
Speaker 7: It's very Yeah, I don't know, I think like there's
Speaker 7: just so much and there's like a really I guess
Speaker 7: it kind of like surprising amount of variety in the
Speaker 7: in the places you'll visit and the sort of modes
Speaker 7: you'll you'll encounter. The Upgrade Tree, the Upgrade system rather
Speaker 7: is like three different sort of tiers of experiences, where
Speaker 7: like one of them is like you're sort of doing
Speaker 7: a pac Man style maze crawler where every time where
Speaker 7: you spend currency to move, your move an icon through
Speaker 7: a maze, and every time you touch like a heart,
Speaker 7: you get the help an HP improvement, but you can
Speaker 7: only move as far as you're willing to spend of
Speaker 7: this currency you have.
Speaker 4: It's like you're buying like the fuel, like the stuff
Speaker 4: you get in the main game is basically your fuel
Speaker 4: for the mini games to move.
Speaker 1: The guy right. Yeah, it's it's wild.
Speaker 7: I mean I've I've had two bost encounters that I've
Speaker 7: felt were pretty satisfying and over the top. I am
Speaker 7: enjoying what I am playing so far. I I this
Speaker 7: is so fresh and sort of strange, and it's just
Speaker 7: the right kind of lunacy for me.
Speaker 4: It's just like the opposite of like you know, all
Speaker 4: these games now like Yota and Last of Us where
Speaker 4: it's like, oh, there's like no hud, it's super immersive.
Speaker 4: It's like, no, this is like the most hud, Like
Speaker 4: there's a million so much shit happening on the screen
Speaker 4: at all times. And like black Lay said, there's just
Speaker 4: times where like the whole like visual style will change it.
Speaker 3: I will say, the moment to moment.
Speaker 4: It feels very three sixty So like back Lar when
Speaker 4: you said Dead Rising, It's like, yep, that tracks for me,
Speaker 4: Like yeah, it feels like a shadow.
Speaker 5: Of the damn.
Speaker 3: It feels like a you know, Dead Rising style, which
Speaker 3: you know, to.
Speaker 1: Be clear, no more heroes, just the is the real
Speaker 1: anchor point like Shadows. I love.
Speaker 7: I didn't play the remake of Shadows of the Dam.
Speaker 7: But I you know, I know that's like one of
Speaker 7: the only games I actually finished twice in its generation
Speaker 7: where I.
Speaker 3: Was just fun.
Speaker 7: I love that game. But yeah, there's very much that,
Speaker 7: and I don't think, uh yeah, I don't think there
Speaker 7: should be an expectation of like an evolution that leaves
Speaker 7: that so far in the rear view. Uh. I do
Speaker 7: think for all of the complicated systems at play there,
Speaker 7: like I've been able to wrap my head around it already,
Speaker 7: which I thought was surprising, especially considering how stoned I've
Speaker 7: been while playing this game.
Speaker 4: The other one I wasn't able to figure out was
Speaker 4: the mini game upgrade thing, where it's like I'm gonna
Speaker 4: put the green ingredients in here, and I'm gonna put
Speaker 4: the red ingredients in this machine, and like I couldn't
Speaker 4: tell what the fuck was going on there. But then
Speaker 4: there's a whole like curry making simulator to like make
Speaker 4: your health items better and stuff like there's you so.
Speaker 7: Much grow you grow zombies in a spaceship garden and
Speaker 7: then you cross breathe those zombies. Me at this game,
Speaker 7: this game, this game, I just think this this games
Speaker 7: just got so much sort of like I don't know,
Speaker 7: it's just got stuff in this one.
Speaker 1: It is weird. It is so strange.
Speaker 7: It is like, you know, you're like, oh, you're doing
Speaker 7: like a cool sixteen bit whoa, Okay, now you're doing
Speaker 7: like crazy like vapor waves. Like there's just it's all
Speaker 7: over the place, and I don't know. For me, I
Speaker 7: kind of kind of think it's like a carnival of
Speaker 7: fuckery in the best possible way.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: That is where it shines, as like all the suit
Speaker 4: of stuff is where all the personality is because like, yeah,
Speaker 4: the moment to moment is very like light attack, heavy
Speaker 4: attack and then you can aim a gun and shoot,
Speaker 4: you know, so it it is the moment to moment
Speaker 4: is kind of that just kind of like three sixty
Speaker 4: action game thing, but it is all wrapped in so
Speaker 4: much suda that you can't help but be kind of
Speaker 4: like taken back by it and in a good way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I you know, I do think.
Speaker 7: You know, again, we're only so many hours in and
Speaker 7: it's like I do see I do Like you know,
Speaker 7: when you grow the bastards and you could use the
Speaker 7: bastards at your at your disposal, right, So you're sort
Speaker 7: of like saying and they have these cool downs, and
Speaker 7: these bastards are just sort of like turrets, right, They're
Speaker 7: like they're like zombies that turn into turrets or a
Speaker 7: zombie that like blasts a laser beam in five directions
Speaker 7: out of their body for a second. So you know,
Speaker 7: you do have that layered sort of combat in your
Speaker 7: arsenal as well. You can choose between different guns and
Speaker 7: different sword slash lightsaber weapons and swap between those. At
Speaker 7: the same time, you can upgrade all of those in
Speaker 7: their own individual sort of paths as well. There's just
Speaker 7: a lot I'm with you, like the moment and on stuff.
Speaker 7: You know, definitely feels like that. There's and you're you're
Speaker 7: also juggling not just between the spaceship eight bit world,
Speaker 7: you're also juggling a sort of like real world and
Speaker 7: then an upside down, like a digital upside down right
Speaker 7: with the regular world that you have to collect parts
Speaker 7: of a key for. It's man, I wouldn't want to
Speaker 7: have to explain this to people in a way that
Speaker 7: you know, puts them in in in a sort of comforting,
Speaker 7: uh position. It's It's it's one of those things where
Speaker 7: it's like you have to watch this just to experience it,
Speaker 7: to play it. Uh, I'm excited to see see it
Speaker 7: all the way through though. I think it's really exciting.
Speaker 3: There's also like a million wrestling references in Wow.
Speaker 4: At one point, the girl Juliette said something about, like
Speaker 4: you could call us the n w O and it
Speaker 4: does the caps like the.
Speaker 1: In the case in the opposite case, it was like
Speaker 1: capital N right.
Speaker 3: In one of the currencies, like the Emerald Flosion, which
Speaker 3: is a wrestling movie.
Speaker 7: And I do think they are tipping the hat to
Speaker 7: like back to the futures very specifically a lot of
Speaker 7: times like you are you're sort of on this quest
Speaker 7: with your ghost grandfather helping you, and he is represented
Speaker 7: by the patch on the back of your jacket, and
Speaker 7: that is like an animated person.
Speaker 1: He is in caps.
Speaker 7: His spirit and personality is alive and well inside your jacket,
Speaker 7: which that fucking rules. It's also like it kind of
Speaker 7: surprised me with how like wildly gory it is at times, right,
Speaker 7: like especially the game over screen is like Raiders of
Speaker 7: the Lost Arc melting face stuff where you're just like, wow,
Speaker 7: I was expecting that what happened? What's going on?
Speaker 1: But it works.
Speaker 7: Everything works in this, and I think that's it's really cool.
Speaker 3: It's excited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad this is the thing.
Speaker 3: I want to see this.
Speaker 5: February.
Speaker 1: I don't know something, it's February.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, February eleventh. There you go coming up.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, just a cyber Valentine's Day. We're gonna
Speaker 1: need it the most.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I hope there's a Prince of Cats in this game.
Speaker 2: I'm sure, Like it's possible, you know, Yeah, it's possible. Man, Lovely,
Speaker 2: Lovely lovely. It sounds like my Jam Just like Mike Manatt,
Speaker 2: he's been playing one of the most my Jam games.
Speaker 3: Uh, you've been playing Blood Born?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, this is actually my final incentive when I
Speaker 5: did my Kingdom Heart's Marathon stream for our Extra Life
Speaker 5: was that I would PLAYCE again because over the last
Speaker 5: couple of years I played through all the other uh
Speaker 5: from Soft Souls Like Games, the Dark Souls, the Demon Souls,
Speaker 5: Secoro of Donown Ring before this was the only one
Speaker 5: I actually had played before I played this back when
Speaker 5: it came out. I played all the way through it.
Speaker 5: I remember I liked it, but I was never one
Speaker 5: of those like this is the one of the best
Speaker 5: game ever kind of people. So coming back to it
Speaker 5: now through I've done all these other ones, it was
Speaker 5: a very different experience. Like the first time, I was
Speaker 5: struggling so much, right because I just wasn't use these
Speaker 5: kind of games. How I played all these other ones,
Speaker 5: it's almost bizarre how relatively easy the game. It's like,
Speaker 5: I still die, but mostly the stages, Like there were
Speaker 5: very few bosses that would be like more than two
Speaker 5: maybe three attempts for me anymore. But it didn't mean
Speaker 5: like it was like more boring. I just actually really
Speaker 5: liked that flow state I was getting into. It was
Speaker 5: also the person time I did the DLC, and the
Speaker 5: DEALC is the best part of the game, Like all
Speaker 5: the bosses in that one, Ludwig the big horse guy
Speaker 5: with the giant you know blue blade that's in all
Speaker 5: these games, Lady Maria, the the orphan, like, those fights
Speaker 5: were all immaculate and they felt good. So it was
Speaker 5: worth doing again just to finally play all of that
Speaker 5: DLC stuff. Also, thirty freaths per second, I thought that
Speaker 5: would really bother me. When you first start the game up.
Speaker 5: It bothered me, and then you get used.
Speaker 1: To it very quickly.
Speaker 5: Actually, it's not an issue, like not even like to
Speaker 5: the point where like, oh, every time I start the
Speaker 5: game up again, a guy get used to it again.
Speaker 5: It's like no, I like got used to it kind
Speaker 5: of forever with the game. As much as I complained
Speaker 5: about thirty frames per second and I do it was like, don't, don't,
Speaker 5: don't not play this game because that's a roadblock to
Speaker 5: you in your mind, because I'm gonna wait for a
Speaker 5: PC port that probably isn't happening for years. Still, just
Speaker 5: go find a way to play Bloodborne now. It's fine,
Speaker 5: You'll get used to that frame rate. It's still a
Speaker 5: very pretty game in a lot of ways. And you know,
Speaker 5: the atmosphere, the whole kind of Victorian evil spooky where
Speaker 5: wolf vibe of the game still works. Wonder it's probably
Speaker 5: it's probably more interesting to me than the usual dark,
Speaker 5: mid evil tone of the usual from software stuff.
Speaker 1: I think Andy Cortez bought a like fifteen hundred dollars
Speaker 1: PlayStation four to that would like unlock the frame rate
Speaker 1: that was hacked or something so you could play it
Speaker 1: in sixty frames per second? Are you saying that that
Speaker 1: was maybe a misuse of fun? Sorry, I'm sorry he
Speaker 1: did what he bought like a very expensive PlayStation that
Speaker 1: was so you could sick Well, that's real sicko stuff.
Speaker 1: I didn't know he was that.
Speaker 5: Well apparently like just normal PS four emulation is also
Speaker 5: just getting there anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah that and like the last year that's it's gotten there.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, so you know you could go you can
Speaker 5: look at that avenue as well. Actually, the reason one
Speaker 5: of reason why I even like did this was because
Speaker 5: I was able to buy a physical copy of the
Speaker 5: game for super cheap over the holidays. I was like, ah,
Speaker 5: let's plug this.
Speaker 7: At least you got one physical game for cheap.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're still reeling at my Burning Rangers just from
Speaker 5: that block.
Speaker 7: No, I just, like I said, I just want you
Speaker 7: to haggle. I want you to get these guys down. Man.
Speaker 5: I haggle a little bit because I hate haggling.
Speaker 7: But I know, yeah, but you Disney haggle, which is like,
Speaker 7: here's my wallet, give me back what you think I deserve.
Speaker 5: I'm buying like three things you like ten dollars.
Speaker 7: That's my handle bellad parking hate tell me when it's
Speaker 7: worth What do you mean you hate haggling?
Speaker 5: I don't negotiat I want to buy.
Speaker 7: You are at a trade show, which is by definition
Speaker 7: the the you know, epitome of of of haggling.
Speaker 3: There's there's no rules, Mike, you can make no rules.
Speaker 5: That's a completely different skill set that I have never
Speaker 5: invested in or be interested in my life.
Speaker 7: I think, yeah, you're the bad boy, and I think
Speaker 7: because of said bad boy a status you could get
Speaker 7: away with more, you could charmed.
Speaker 5: I'm telling you, man, it's not about charming though. That's
Speaker 5: what I don't like about it, because I saw this
Speaker 5: the first time I went. I was a guy. I
Speaker 5: went to his booth, I bought like three things, pay
Speaker 5: normal price. I was very nice and polite guy behind me.
Speaker 5: It's like a real big jerk about it. Really like
Speaker 5: I'm looking up on this site, taking up too much
Speaker 5: time to like this is worth this? But and he
Speaker 5: says fifty bucks because of it, it's bullshit. We should
Speaker 5: not reward bad behavior and assholary.
Speaker 3: What do virgins.
Speaker 4: It's also like, you know, because sometimes I've been to
Speaker 4: a million game stories where it's like, Okay, I know
Speaker 4: how much this game is worth and it doesn't have
Speaker 4: the case.
Speaker 1: Mike does that. Mike every time Mike checked the price
Speaker 1: of the thing.
Speaker 5: If it's not that price, I won't buy it from them.
Speaker 5: That's what I do.
Speaker 3: Was it in like pristine condition.
Speaker 5: The Brain Raiders. Yeah, yeah, it's a great condition. Look
Speaker 5: at the manuals in there. Okay, okay, Mikey.
Speaker 1: The flip side of that, he's not like like mister
Speaker 1: Magoo and this, No, I.
Speaker 2: Will say Mikey. Sometimes also the sellers themselves kind of
Speaker 2: dis yeh.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 5: But you don't have to match people's dickery just to
Speaker 5: get along in the world.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 7: We're talking right, we're talking about protecting your neck. We're
Speaker 7: talking about protecting yourself.
Speaker 1: That there was like guys like this is my son's collection,
Speaker 1: and I think the sun is here's another one that died.
Speaker 1: I think he said about like his whole family to
Speaker 1: sell this stuff, and they were super nice and cool.
Speaker 1: And there's another obviously just like a family operation. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's the Midwest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well people, maybe your maybe in your coastal game convention,
Speaker 5: elitist game convention. I don't know. That's my resolution is
Speaker 5: actually plays some of these games I bought that cost
Speaker 5: too much money.
Speaker 2: Mike, And you've been playing a lot of games, and
Speaker 2: another one you've been playing is Final Fantasy Tactics the
Speaker 2: Evilies Chronicles.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is kind of my big holiday game, finally
Speaker 5: diving into this. As much as I love Final Fantasy,
Speaker 5: I've never played much of Tactics, any version of it.
Speaker 5: So really excited that they announced this remake, And then
Speaker 5: even when it came out, I didn't quite get to
Speaker 5: it right away. It was just busy with other things.
Speaker 5: This is a perfect opportunity. After I'd beat Metric Prime four,
Speaker 5: I put this in and Yeah, it turns out this
Speaker 5: is a fantastic video game. I can see why everybody
Speaker 5: has always been really excited about it. And I'm also
Speaker 5: like the remake the god the voice acting, it's so good,
Speaker 5: and it's just you know, all looking good and running well.
Speaker 5: So it just seems like they did a really good
Speaker 5: job with all of that stuff. I'm not familiar enough
Speaker 5: with the base game to notice like smaller changes or
Speaker 5: script changes and things like that, but just what I'm
Speaker 5: playing is a fantastic experience. The story is super interesting.
Speaker 5: It's always fun when you get to in other chapter.
Speaker 5: There's always some some some kind of intrigue happening. I'm
Speaker 5: always to get to the next bit of story content,
Speaker 5: and I like that. It is a game where I
Speaker 5: have to grind a bit. Games with job systems usually
Speaker 5: are that. So you have to get those job points
Speaker 5: you can level up your jobs. I don't know why,
Speaker 5: but getting job points somehow even more exciting than getting
Speaker 5: experience points.
Speaker 1: No, we're not wrong, We're not wrong with you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you know, I get the point now where
Speaker 5: like builds are really coming together, Like I've gotten to
Speaker 5: a ninja, so I have a bunch of people that
Speaker 5: can dual wield weapons. Now, yeah, I've got summoner, I
Speaker 5: got arithmetician, And I know I've been told that that's
Speaker 5: maybe good. I look at it and it's scary and
Speaker 5: confusing to.
Speaker 1: A new island and mess and this. Eventually you're gonna
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 2: It's the year of Calculus, guys. We're gonna get really
Speaker 2: into math this year.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like it.
Speaker 5: I'm in chapter I just started chapter three now, so
Speaker 5: I've been making some pretty good proggies in there. I
Speaker 5: think tonight I'm gonna spend a lot of time actually
Speaker 5: grinding out some more job points to get there, because
Speaker 5: you know what, they're grinding, do like I'll hit some roadblocks.
Speaker 5: At the end of chapter two, there were a couple
Speaker 5: of Yes, they're pretty therefore. There was one where I
Speaker 5: had to fight Goff garyon and then there are also
Speaker 5: two like time may just casting slow on people, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, Okay, do I need to like take down
Speaker 5: Gaff gary in as fastest post because he's so tough
Speaker 5: and he can heal himself, Or do I need to
Speaker 5: like figure out a way to take out these time
Speaker 5: ages right away because if they slow my party, I'm
Speaker 5: basically dead. Just figuring out all these little things and
Speaker 5: sometimes even changing out my party jobs on the fly
Speaker 5: to better suit what a battle's going to be like,
Speaker 5: you can't just even like a normal Final Fantasy a
Speaker 5: lot too. You can kind of just brute force it.
Speaker 5: You could push x a lot right, and then it's
Speaker 5: only boss is where you're casting spells and thinking about
Speaker 5: things here at every battle, you're making a lot of
Speaker 5: meaningful turn by turn choices.
Speaker 1: It's worth it to have like someone who knows the
Speaker 1: game really well to like ask them questions. Was just
Speaker 1: definitely something I was doing when I was trying to
Speaker 1: be like am I supposed to be grinding this much,
Speaker 1: I feel like I am, and they're like, yes, that's
Speaker 1: totally normal. In fact, you should find a place where
Speaker 1: you like grinding and kind of like lean into it.
Speaker 1: Them like, okay, great, that's what I was doing. So
Speaker 1: it's just like sanity checks every once in a while
Speaker 1: is important, and someone who knows the game really well
Speaker 1: it can help with that.
Speaker 2: Fan fantastic, But that's not it for games folks. If
Speaker 2: you listened to day four of our Game of the
Speaker 2: Year deliberations, you may remember that Mike Manatti rode very
Speaker 2: hard for two point Museum, so he went back and
Speaker 2: played two point Campus. Mikey, yes, it's the verdict.
Speaker 5: Yeah, most not a low two point museum. I'd actually
Speaker 5: not played the previous ones. First was two point Hospital,
Speaker 5: then was two point Campus, so I thought, I check
Speaker 5: out campus. I think running a school would be more
Speaker 5: fun than a hospital. Hospitals are sad, you know, this
Speaker 5: is what bad things happened there. Nothing bad happens at
Speaker 5: a school.
Speaker 3: Hospitals are way better than schools. Better I would live
Speaker 3: in before. I hate schools, yes, yep.
Speaker 5: So I was just curious to see, like what the
Speaker 5: differences and similarities would be and starting it up like
Speaker 5: very similar. You're sort of building rooms for specific needs,
Speaker 5: you know here instead of building like you know, an
Speaker 5: like research room or a cafeteria or a souvenir room,
Speaker 5: build a dormitory, build a lecture hall, build a classroom,
Speaker 5: student rec center. So that stuff all felt okay, Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: these these systems seemed very similar. First we started feeling
Speaker 5: a lot different was when I went to the next campus,
Speaker 5: because these games you have multiple maps you go to.
Speaker 5: When I went to the next campus, like the first
Speaker 5: one was more of a general it was like a
Speaker 5: science school than the next one was a culinary school.
Speaker 5: I was like, ooh, how is this going to feel different?
Speaker 5: And not too different at least, you know, from the
Speaker 5: a couple of hours i'd play. Things going to change
Speaker 5: up all that much the same when I went to
Speaker 5: my third school, which was like a robots school, whereas
Speaker 5: a two point museum, Like the different museums I was
Speaker 5: building had kind of very different mechanics going on. A
Speaker 5: lot of that tied into the expeditions, which is a
Speaker 5: whole system not here where you were sending out employees
Speaker 5: to go find exhibits or fish for your aquarium. Or
Speaker 5: whatever to bring back and then put on display in
Speaker 5: your museum.
Speaker 3: So yeah, there's like a lot of that DNA there.
Speaker 5: But somehow it it almost feels like two point Museum
Speaker 5: is the game that this was all building up to
Speaker 5: in some way, like this was the best use of
Speaker 5: the systems that they did develop there, haven't ma said that.
Speaker 5: I'm still having a lot of fun with Campus, just
Speaker 5: even like doing satisfying things like actually making a copy
Speaker 5: paste dorm room like you actually would in real college,
Speaker 5: making one dorm room, making as small as possible to
Speaker 5: fit in two beds in the desk, right, and then
Speaker 5: just copy pasting that. So I had a whole dorm
Speaker 5: like row there. I don't know why. Some of that
Speaker 5: stuff's just very satisfying. And the whole two point aesthetic
Speaker 5: and vibe it's kind of chill. It's trying to be funny,
Speaker 5: but not like, you know, obnoxiously, So it's just got
Speaker 5: this weird British sense of humor in the background that
Speaker 5: is amusing and I enjoy that. So yeah, I think
Speaker 5: I might even check out some more of Campus. Kind
Speaker 5: of want to go back to Museum because they have
Speaker 5: added some stuff to that game since I last played it.
Speaker 5: I'm a big fan of this series now I'm very
Speaker 5: curious to see what we are going to get next
Speaker 5: from them. Two point Maul gets thrown around a lot,
Speaker 5: super fun, great especially I think mall and nostalgia is
Speaker 5: going to be at all time high. Is more and
Speaker 5: more than clothes. So yeah, it's a good.
Speaker 1: Time if they If they do two point theme park,
Speaker 1: it has to be like a roller coaster builder first, right,
Speaker 1: It can't just be like focusing on the themes and.
Speaker 5: Stuff like that, because like when there was sim theme park,
Speaker 5: that one was not as like you made Roy coasters,
Speaker 5: but not to the level of a Rocoon or a
Speaker 5: Planet Coaster. Now it was much more management stuff really okay,
Speaker 5: which it's hard because you know, stuff like Planet Coaster
Speaker 5: does just have all that management stuff right, and I
Speaker 5: almost feel like you skip theme park. I feel like
Speaker 5: Planet Coaster just has that on lockdown on it.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Cemetery there you go, indeed, Yeah, yeah, it's a very quiet,
Speaker 2: chill place.
Speaker 3: To hang out at.
Speaker 1: That would get me to play that, Mikey, there you go.
Speaker 5: Okay, we'll get a dark edge.
Speaker 1: I like it right there, hire various goths to do
Speaker 1: tasks for you.
Speaker 7: Yes, more goths and dev please get them.
Speaker 5: From the hot topic at two point mall.
Speaker 3: Oh there we go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, hot topics are not as scary as they
Speaker 2: used to be. I'll say that they used to be
Speaker 2: full of goths, but now they're just full of people
Speaker 2: wearing anime t shirts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very anime heavy, right, Like you know, first it
Speaker 5: was full golf, then you had that Nightmare before Christmas
Speaker 5: era and influenced culturey. Now that same brand has opened
Speaker 5: up the other store. Guy can't think of the name.
Speaker 8: Lunch box, lunch box box, lunch and that's where like
Speaker 8: a lot of that's why they put all of the
Speaker 8: Disney and like the Harry Potter and Lord of the
Speaker 8: Rings stuff.
Speaker 5: Now, so like last stuff is not.
Speaker 1: In probably the favory stuff has to go to hot topic, okay,
Speaker 1: right exactly.
Speaker 5: So hot topic has like chainsaw Man and you know,
Speaker 5: the Digital Circus or whatever.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's.
Speaker 7: Still around, Like I can't survive.
Speaker 1: Right, They're like one of the few things that are
Speaker 1: in most malls that still exists, Like the Sabarro isn't
Speaker 1: even open anymore. But hot topic is Spencer's. There's there's
Speaker 1: still a lot of Spencer's topic. Yeah, and I like,
Speaker 1: you walk into Spencers and it's I remember having to
Speaker 1: walk a few more feet before I got.
Speaker 3: To the dill do.
Speaker 5: Now it's like pretty much it now it's.
Speaker 1: Dil Doo forward at this point.
Speaker 5: So, I mean, it's probably what they're selling most of
Speaker 5: is probably the dolls and the sleeves from actual user
Speaker 5: for gags. Wait, I think often for gags. I mean,
Speaker 5: at least when I was in the first Bill Doos,
Speaker 5: people would buy people second toys from Spencer's as a gag.
Speaker 5: I don't know people are using them just.
Speaker 1: The way that you lingered on the word sleeves.
Speaker 7: Mike, just yeah, I thought I thought that's what you
Speaker 7: keep your dildo in. Yeah, okay, s Spencers every day
Speaker 7: coming start. I need to start salting people by calling
Speaker 7: my sheep.
Speaker 5: They probably should have shees. It's word that they kind
Speaker 5: of just float around.
Speaker 3: Still, we know, as far as we know, who knows.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think people are just raw dogging them
Speaker 1: in their sock drawer.
Speaker 3: I think they have like a.
Speaker 1: The iPhone sock, like a velvet velvet casey.
Speaker 5: Repurposing the remote sleeve. All right, I have news.
Speaker 1: Uh ce, yes is happening? There was what are they doing?
Speaker 1: I was just activated? Oh my god.
Speaker 2: The funnest thing, the funnest thing I saw is there
Speaker 2: is there dildo tech at CES.
Speaker 7: Before before I my departure, that was an emerging category.
Speaker 1: Uh, in more ways than one.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 7: At some point it was the second VR was a thing.
Speaker 7: Everyone's like, we're gonna try and funk stuff now, and
Speaker 7: CS for like two years in a row was like, yeah,
Speaker 7: guess what, you go want to fuck technology as much
Speaker 7: as you want to play with it, don't you?
Speaker 1: And that was that was the thing for a while.
Speaker 1: The best was c NEET and its hesitation, uh, where it's.
Speaker 3: Like do we cover this? Do we cover the fuckable robot?
Speaker 7: It's like yeah, I mean like people like it's okay
Speaker 7: people fuck people do these things like you probably should.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: That was a big kind of scandalous conversation.
Speaker 4: They had a booth at one of the later E threes,
Speaker 4: like in the like maybe twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, where
Speaker 4: it was like a Naughty America VR booth or something
Speaker 4: like on the outskirts of one of the halls, and
Speaker 4: it's like they had demos set up and so it's
Speaker 4: just like you're looking and it was like busy. There
Speaker 4: were like a ton of people all around this headset.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, just right in the middle of a show.
Speaker 3: For it was word like whacking off, but like.
Speaker 1: It was like official, like approved butt tumblers right there
Speaker 1: in the middle of.
Speaker 3: The exact things exactly. Yea, yeah, yeah, that was a
Speaker 3: weird thing to see on a show. Flour something miss
Speaker 3: like no pad.
Speaker 5: Indeed this is that is ladies, but hole interesting what
Speaker 5: I was at Gaysbeat. I would love I would love
Speaker 5: Dean there because like technology is technology. So he just'd
Speaker 5: be like, oh, hey, I'm gonna check out. He's like, yes,
Speaker 5: I'm Abi Soft and I'm heading over to Vixen and
Speaker 5: they've got some uh some VR sex stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I mean, has the Dean has
Speaker 1: the energy of you know in Minority Report, the guy
Speaker 1: that's like getting the lap dance and the cops break
Speaker 1: in and he's like, oh, I didn't do it. He's
Speaker 1: got the energy of that. How many rings this Dean Rock?
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: There was a the Third three party that had attendees
Speaker 4: including Sasha Gray and Hull Cogan.
Speaker 3: Who's that first one, I'm not familiar. Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twitch streamer, Yeah yeah, Okay. The best thing I
Speaker 1: saw was a raiding hat that has a solar panel
Speaker 1: on the roof of the hat so you could walk
Speaker 1: around and charging your stuff, so it literally harnesses electricity
Speaker 1: like raiding but just like just like.
Speaker 5: Bortal Combat branded item.
Speaker 3: No, it's just a hat that looks like it should
Speaker 3: be anyway you stuff.
Speaker 1: What's the Lego stuff? Apparently cool, there's they're they're calling
Speaker 1: it like smart bricks.
Speaker 7: Uh, there's just bricks, Lego bricks with like chips inside
Speaker 7: of them, and uh, they're going to be using anything
Speaker 7: called play Engine, And I think it's just like a
Speaker 7: what end the same like toys, like Toys to Life
Speaker 7: sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: So like, oh, if you like maybe have it like
Speaker 1: on a certain like pad, if you had it on
Speaker 1: the Scott what's the damn spirro spin off? My Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just Lego dimensions.
Speaker 7: Okay, I mean it's not it's like sound effects stuff,
Speaker 7: lighting effects stuff. I did they they explored some of
Speaker 7: this with the man Ario stuff, right, I mean yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: There's a little bit that doesn't seem super.
Speaker 7: I mean I'm keeping CS beyond arms length here, and
Speaker 7: I feel like this is the one thing that is
Speaker 7: permeated into the normy conversation about what has come out
Speaker 7: of that show so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so right when you get to the sick
Speaker 1: out stuff, like the PC Harward stuff, it is kind
Speaker 1: of grim because of everything that's happening over there. Intel
Speaker 1: does have a new PC chip that is Panther Lake.
Speaker 1: I think I think it's Panther Lake. And really the
Speaker 1: whole thing with this is this is them.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: They name them all after real lakes. There's not a
Speaker 1: Panther like we're getting closer to like Brian Fantana made
Speaker 1: up colognes and yeah, Intel's architecture sex Panther Lake. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: like definite Intel Core Ultra series three chips that they
Speaker 1: are going to plan to use for handheld PCs, So
Speaker 1: they're going to try to get into that game alongside
Speaker 1: a m D and I guess Nvidia if you count
Speaker 1: the switch to and so it's like there's one of
Speaker 1: their GPUs, one of their good discrete GPUs is built
Speaker 1: into this platform now, and that'll be nice to have
Speaker 1: some competition in that space space that I still am
Speaker 1: very interested in seeing how it grows in Nvidia had
Speaker 1: DLSS four point five, which I think this is like
Speaker 1: also indicative of where we're at. Where it's like their
Speaker 1: big announcement was an improvement to the technology that you
Speaker 1: can get on all of their rtx GPUs that you
Speaker 1: already own, because you're probably not going to be buying
Speaker 1: a new one. They're going to be insanely expensive. They're
Speaker 1: cutting production by thirty percent for this year. They're bringing
Speaker 1: back the thirty sixty. Apparently crazy when I saw that.
Speaker 1: Why bringing back the thirty sixty. Can you imagine like
Speaker 1: what that's going to cost If that thing is like
Speaker 1: five hundred to seven hundred dollars in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: how gross that's going to be to CE. So that's
Speaker 1: where we're at, so instead be excited because for a
Speaker 1: DLSS four point five, if you have a fifty series,
Speaker 1: you get all the bells and whistles, including six X
Speaker 1: frame generation, which will play nice. So it's like they
Speaker 1: can generate six frames for every one frame. Latency's got
Speaker 1: to be bad on that because latency is kind of
Speaker 1: noticeable on frame generation already, but I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: in some games that won't matter. But they did also
Speaker 1: talk about a g SINC Pulsar, which is the new
Speaker 1: new new generation of g SNC where they are using
Speaker 1: some strobing back like technology that I didn't understand. Basically,
Speaker 1: they're trying to get it to a point where it's
Speaker 1: like you're going to have super high fidelity motion clarity
Speaker 1: up to one thousand frames or a thousand hertz of
Speaker 1: refresh rate so that you can get like awesome experiences
Speaker 1: in esports, games and stuff like that. So I want
Speaker 1: to see it, But like whenever I've done anything from
Speaker 1: sixty to one hundred and twenty and then one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty to two forty, I the the sort of
Speaker 1: like return on that is less and less with every
Speaker 1: new frame per second. I'm not sure if I'm going
Speaker 1: to notice the difference between two forty and one thousand.
Speaker 1: Is that and that's going to rec Is that going
Speaker 1: to require hardware to play along with that? So I
Speaker 1: think if you have I believe you have a newer
Speaker 1: GPU from them, you'll be fine. You will need a
Speaker 1: new This is a whole new series of monitors and
Speaker 1: like Asis and Acer and a handful of others are
Speaker 1: going to be making them and like you know, motion clarity,
Speaker 1: that is the one place where it's like, oh, we
Speaker 1: have a lot of great technology. Oh, let's look so good.
Speaker 1: And HDR is really good motion clarity, which like from
Speaker 1: frame to frame has actually not been as good as
Speaker 1: it's been on the best CRTs at the end of
Speaker 1: the CRTs up to this point. This sounds like this
Speaker 1: might actually do something about that. But again, I've only
Speaker 1: begun to look into this. No one's seen it outside
Speaker 1: of their demonstrations at CEES, So let's get some real
Speaker 1: world experience and see what happens there. Resident Evil requiems
Speaker 1: in Vidia trailer. As part of all this did tease
Speaker 1: a big new environment, let's see. Capcom released a new
Speaker 1: video Resident Evil Requiem Yes, showcasing the game's path, tracing
Speaker 1: visuals within videographics cards, and offering offering a glimpse of
Speaker 1: a new city environment. Likely ren Wood in Insider Claims
Speaker 1: suggested that the game will feature big open levels. This
Speaker 1: might be that part of the game, Like, obviously we've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of corridors that are not big and open,
Speaker 1: but there were some rumors that they would have big
Speaker 1: open areas. Sounds like the city could be something along
Speaker 1: those lines, although I would not expect open world. Open
Speaker 1: zone is probably what we're talking about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting watching this because, you know, like Rezievil three,
Speaker 5: you're in city streets a lot, but it's Raccoon City.
Speaker 5: It's mostly deserted, it's all monsters. Here, we're seeing, you know,
Speaker 5: people walking through a normal kind of city with actual
Speaker 5: people walking around. Yeah, in this trailer at least, it
Speaker 5: obviously looks absolutely insanely gorgeous. So hopefully it'll actually look
Speaker 5: like that when we're playing the game or The R
Speaker 5: engine has felt pretty heavy on games, especially games that
Speaker 5: do open up. I'm just hoping we don't really have
Speaker 5: those issues with R E nine.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see here, Sony AI patent will see PlayStation
Speaker 1: games play themselves. Players are stuck. People are freaking out
Speaker 1: about this ghost player AI technology for PlayStation games that
Speaker 1: would allow an AI generated version of the player character
Speaker 1: to demonstrate solutions to puzzles, called guide mode. People pointed
Speaker 1: out this has happened in Nintendo games for years and
Speaker 1: years and years and years, called super Guide They I
Speaker 1: think they had a patent on this. Maybe it wasn't
Speaker 1: the same solution. This is using AI whatever that means.
Speaker 1: I think Nintendo just like plays like has like scripting
Speaker 1: that just has them do it for you automatically and
Speaker 1: shows you what it looks like. So yeah, this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff is going to pop up more and more frequently.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, I just won't use it. That's
Speaker 1: kind of how I feel about it. And I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know why people are freaking out necessarily. The
Speaker 1: Witcher three is reportedly getting a surprise new expansion this year.
Speaker 1: Reports suggest that CD Project Red is working with the
Speaker 1: team that is over at Fool's Theory that is remastering
Speaker 1: the Witch one or remaking the Witcher one, and that
Speaker 1: team is also making an expansion for the Witcher three
Speaker 1: that'll be out in May. This is according to some
Speaker 1: analysts in Poland and some insiders in Poland who seem
Speaker 1: to have like a lot of reporting on on this
Speaker 1: game in the studio. To me, this is not that surprising.
Speaker 1: Feels like the kind of thing that we're gonna see
Speaker 1: more of. If you have a game like the Witcher
Speaker 1: three that just sells forever and ever, and you want
Speaker 1: to like get people excited about some other things happening
Speaker 1: in that series, like the eventual Witcher four, which is
Speaker 1: coming in this Witcher one remake. Why wouldn't you do
Speaker 1: something like this? Is this something that you guys are
Speaker 1: interested in?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean I like Twitcher three a lot. I haven't
Speaker 5: even played the other DLC and apparently that Blead and
Speaker 5: Wine is like the greatest DLC ever created for a game, right,
Speaker 5: people like that a ton, So there'd be a lot
Speaker 5: of interest in another one of these. Yeah, especially you
Speaker 5: know if it gets received. Well, yeah, it makes I
Speaker 5: think it makes a ton of sense. I don't want
Speaker 5: to say this is almost like more exciting than a
Speaker 5: Witcher four because you know there's a ton of potential there.
Speaker 5: But you know, people know, people know Witcher three, they
Speaker 5: understand that game's systems. Just giving them some more content
Speaker 5: in that world is going to be really appealing to
Speaker 5: a ton of people.
Speaker 3: Maybe this is the opportunity I take to dive into
Speaker 3: the Witcher three.
Speaker 1: It's good, Joe, Yeah, people and people love those DLCs,
Speaker 1: so it's like, if this can keep that going in
Speaker 1: any way, people will be very excited, would be my guess.
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter Wilds on Nintendo Switch two. Evidence grows, including
Speaker 1: a glimpse of how it could run. Data Minors reportedly
Speaker 1: found references in a recent PC update for Monster Hunter
Speaker 1: Wilds that suggest Capcom maybe planning a release for the
Speaker 1: Nintendo Switch two. The uncovered tech strings and graphic presets
Speaker 1: point to a potential Switch two port running at thirty
Speaker 1: frames per second with d LSS enabled. One reported graphics
Speaker 1: option for the docs switch To suggested the game could
Speaker 1: run at ten ADP with better fidelity than the PC's
Speaker 1: very low preset. This aligns with Capcom's strong support for
Speaker 1: the switch to so far. They said as much like, Hey,
Speaker 1: we want to put everything on the switch To. I
Speaker 1: think this is the one that people are still surprised
Speaker 1: by because of its performance on PCs, and so it's
Speaker 1: like what is that look like? But of course they're
Speaker 1: also trying to update it for PCs still and make
Speaker 1: it run better on there. Maybe this is part of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be funny either way. Like this comes
Speaker 5: out and is a mess, it's like, Wow, what the
Speaker 5: heck are we doing here? If it comes out it
Speaker 5: runs great, it's almost like, well, how'd you make that happen?
Speaker 5: Why was this such a struggle on high end PCs?
Speaker 5: And now it looks pretty good on Switch too. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean it makes sense to do it. Part of
Speaker 5: me almost wishes we would just get a Monster Hunter
Speaker 5: rise To, something specifically made for the Switch. I think
Speaker 5: that was a bit more straight to the gameplay, like
Speaker 5: that one was not a story focus. That was a
Speaker 5: bit more my gym.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on that, where it's like I
Speaker 1: would be more excited if we were talking about it
Speaker 1: rise To or you know, the equivalent on Switch. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they probably aren't ready for that, and this is they
Speaker 1: probably intended to support this game for a very long time,
Speaker 1: and this is part of that.
Speaker 5: Even just like a I switch to edition, I would
Speaker 5: actually be pretty into that. I'd be pretty excited to
Speaker 5: see that game a better frame right on switch.
Speaker 1: To cool over the holidays. Double seven First Light was
Speaker 1: delayed by two months. It's now in the timeframe basically
Speaker 1: the same day that grant that thought of six was
Speaker 1: supposed to come out, really a day later, but they
Speaker 1: took that time once that game was delayed to delay
Speaker 1: their own game get a little bit of extra time.
Speaker 1: This is IO Interactive's first game that's not a hit
Speaker 1: Man in quite some time. I think it looks promising,
Speaker 1: but I bet they need every day they can get
Speaker 1: to sort of polish it and make sure it's as
Speaker 1: good as it possibly can be, because my understanding is
Speaker 1: make it a game like this is the kind of
Speaker 1: thing where like you can get some highs, some high
Speaker 1: highs into your game, but not all of it's going
Speaker 1: to come together in your first entry. It's always the
Speaker 1: sequel that gets all the benefit of learning everything. So
Speaker 1: I bet they want to avoid as much of those
Speaker 1: low lows as they can, and a few extra months
Speaker 1: can probably help with that. So we'll see. And then finally,
Speaker 1: Final Fantasy nine character designer Toshiyuki it a Hannah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it a Hanah. There we go quits Square Enix. He
Speaker 1: said it was time. He's with the Square Inix for
Speaker 1: over thirty years and he basically just said, yeah, now
Speaker 1: is the time to go. And that's a long time
Speaker 1: to be anywhere. And I'm sure it's like this is
Speaker 1: just a normal sort of thing of hey, let's let's
Speaker 1: retire or get out of here and move on to
Speaker 1: something new. But also probably finally on the call f
Speaker 1: in a Final Fantasy nine or doesn't mean anything for
Speaker 1: a Final Fantasy I was kinna.
Speaker 3: Say he's leaving because they didn't remake Final Fans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe, I don't know. Maybe not.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know if this has much to do like,
Speaker 5: I don't think momb Busy nine remake is happening anymore,
Speaker 5: to be honest, I don't think. I don't know if
Speaker 5: this has too much to do with it Still sad.
Speaker 5: I love his art and like the sort of more fanciful,
Speaker 5: kind of fun, colorful affect that he brought the foul
Speaker 5: Fantasy nine as opposed to you know, No More is
Speaker 5: a bit more realistic, darker take. I think that's what
Speaker 5: makes nine stand out so much to me. So I
Speaker 5: love his art a lot. I hope as a freelancer
Speaker 5: he'll get to contribute to other games. He can still
Speaker 5: contribute to Square Phoenix games as a freelancer if he
Speaker 5: wants to. But yeah, he's done a lot of great work.
Speaker 5: He definitely deserves to get to call his own shots.
Speaker 1: Last thing I didn't include there was a canceled Mega
Speaker 1: Man golf project from twenty eighteen. They were gonna make
Speaker 1: a Mega Man plus Capcom golf What and that sounds awesome?
Speaker 1: It sounds it sounds very good. Like it was going
Speaker 1: to center on Mega Man, but I guess we have
Speaker 1: other Capcom stuff with Phoenix, Like leaked concept art came
Speaker 1: out yesterday. I would love to have seen this.
Speaker 5: He would have been a character. Oh this would have
Speaker 5: been amazing. Oh oh, here's Frank West using like a
Speaker 5: baseball bat with barbire on it as his golf club.
Speaker 1: It's our fault for not doing for Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: two D sort of like desert golf kind of thing.
Speaker 1: It's our fault for not having Golf Week back in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen to really show them how important this, because
Speaker 1: yeah is what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Honestly, I think I prefer they just made it
Speaker 5: more like a real clock gate with that kind of
Speaker 5: stuff though.
Speaker 1: Make it Mega Man Legends Golf and go from there.
Speaker 5: Conceptart looks cool though clearly running on the Mega Man
Speaker 5: eleven engine. I think it looks like, yeah, they should
Speaker 5: have done that.
Speaker 3: That does for the news.
Speaker 1: Back over to you, fan Fantastic gang.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take another quick bricky break and we will
Speaker 2: be back with emails and YouTube super chance, have we
Speaker 2: got any We'll see you right after this.
Speaker 7: We do.
Speaker 2: Emails BombCast at Giant Bomb dot com is the email
Speaker 2: addressed to send your emails to. You can write in
Speaker 2: about any and everything. I appreciate every single email that
Speaker 2: gets sent in. Thank you for all the kind words.
Speaker 2: Thank you for all the happy New Year's and the
Speaker 2: happy holidays. Let's get to the first email, and that
Speaker 2: comes from Mike from Loveland. Happy New Year to lowis
Speaker 2: bombus grandes say that should be Jigantes. New Year has
Speaker 2: me thinking about the passage of time.
Speaker 3: What most of the crew falls along.
Speaker 2: The spectrum of millennial except for Backlar, who I think
Speaker 2: is a member of the silent generation in a Korean
Speaker 2: war bet correct, thank you for your service.
Speaker 1: What does that even fucking mean?
Speaker 5: Really old?
Speaker 3: I'm seven years old.
Speaker 2: Turbo Sean is like Doogie Howser compared to y'all. He
Speaker 2: often loves the same series as the rest of the crew,
Speaker 2: but finds a different entry to be the iconic one,
Speaker 2: sort of like how everyone's favorite SNL cast is the
Speaker 2: one they had in high school. What are some examples
Speaker 2: of long running series where your favorite entry is based
Speaker 2: on the age you played it and not the actual
Speaker 2: comparative qualities it possesses. Love you love the show?
Speaker 4: Mike from Loveland is Linked to the Past. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's always my go to. But also I was like
Speaker 4: the perfect age and it was like the most nostalgic.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It's yeah, I bet there's not many like Zelda fans
Speaker 5: are in their twenties right now who would think Linked
Speaker 5: to the Past is the best fair I could probably
Speaker 5: it's probably a fair amount, but you're right, the majority
Speaker 5: would be other games they play when they were and.
Speaker 3: Even I would probably say Breath of the Wild ultimately,
Speaker 3: but like linked to the Past is that choice? You know?
Speaker 5: It's not weird because there's some series like like Mario,
Speaker 5: Like I think the best one is Mario Odyssey. I
Speaker 5: think it's the last one. Still, not necessarily the ones
Speaker 5: like Ooh Laid when I was a kid.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: For me, I probably have more of reverence for Final
Speaker 2: or not Final Fantasy. Mega Man Battle Network versus the
Speaker 2: regular Mega Man.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that one's interesting because like to me, it's
Speaker 5: like Mega Man three, Megna two, megahn X, like you
Speaker 5: you bring up Bound Network. Sean likes legends, like that's
Speaker 5: the one that he's I think is the most nostalgic
Speaker 5: for right, So yeah, there's a little bit of a
Speaker 5: shift there for sure. I want to a Final Fantasy
Speaker 5: because I feel like people around my age usually it's
Speaker 5: one of the PS one ones are Superintendo ones that
Speaker 5: they think is absolutely, yeah, the best, but like part
Speaker 5: of me is like, I mean, you know, they're really
Speaker 5: like young twenty year olds are like fifteen, man, that's
Speaker 5: the best one. I think comes close to it. I
Speaker 5: don't know, I.
Speaker 3: Would say for me, if we're doing Final Fantasy, I
Speaker 3: like ten.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ten is also really good, Like that's yeah.
Speaker 3: I wonder if young gamers definitely go to Meddle Year five.
Speaker 1: That's such a weird series because everyone kind of plays
Speaker 1: them all and stuff, So I wonder how much how
Speaker 1: much do younger gamers like Metal Gear Solid is almost
Speaker 1: like there are a lot of twenty something Metal Gear
Speaker 1: Solid fans these days.
Speaker 5: I feel like he.
Speaker 3: Gets brought up a lot in terms of just like,
Speaker 3: you know, how prescient two was.
Speaker 5: And you know, I bet Resident Evil would be a
Speaker 5: good one for this, because a series that has had
Speaker 5: like all time entries throughout multiple decades of existing.
Speaker 4: I mean a good example Kayla. Granted she's probably not
Speaker 4: the standard anything, but she is younger and she just
Speaker 4: played through all of them, and she thought Village was
Speaker 4: her favorite.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like I I was like, I love Rezu he remake,
Speaker 5: but like after that, like the first Residue remake on
Speaker 5: the GameCube, I'm like, that is so peak, that's amazing,
Speaker 5: And I wonder if the younger people still feel as
Speaker 5: much about that or to them, like Rezu wil To
Speaker 5: remake or Resil seven is signific.
Speaker 7: I feel that way about four, Mike, I mean, like me,
Speaker 7: that's freaking yeah, no or the original when're talking, because
Speaker 7: that's the spirit of what this Yes, the most psychotic
Speaker 7: emailer wrote, it's like that.
Speaker 1: Playing that on on GameCube for me was just like
Speaker 1: I was seared into my memory. I mean that's the
Speaker 1: one where it's like I really I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 1: love Resident Evil terms yeah right, yeah it zeld Us
Speaker 1: the poster child for this question. It's Seldon, Everyone's favorite Seldos,
Speaker 1: the one you play when you were twelve. The sentence
Speaker 1: that people said for forever. I think that's changed a
Speaker 1: little bit recently because of the Breath of the Wild,
Speaker 1: but there's a reason that that sentence was always said
Speaker 1: about this, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Because was my favorite, you know, come to mind immediately,
Speaker 3: and I was like what you know, ten and fourteen
Speaker 3: when they came out, But then I was.
Speaker 1: Like nine to eleven as I was playing Links Awakening,
Speaker 1: and that's like what I was like figuring out video games,
Speaker 1: and so that's for me. It's that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's let's ask some uh, some zoomers what their
Speaker 5: favorite romance of the Three Kingdoms is.
Speaker 2: Really give it away, like what's your's favorite Italia game?
Speaker 3: Oh Rizza?
Speaker 1: Now, Now for for zoomers, it's what season of Fortnite
Speaker 1: was your favorite?
Speaker 4: But they can't even go back and play them because
Speaker 4: games don't stay around anymore.
Speaker 5: That's why they're so justaltic. For god, that SIPs and season.
Speaker 3: Was it was great, and I stopped playing immediately after
Speaker 3: it was done.
Speaker 5: They played a little bit more because they had some
Speaker 5: back to the Future stuff in this season, and I
Speaker 5: like back to the future, but not nearly as much
Speaker 5: as that.
Speaker 1: It's barely it's barely a seasoning, you know.
Speaker 5: But I bought that dark brown skin because I sure
Speaker 5: you like Doc Brown.
Speaker 3: Damn, and thinking about that, and then I don't even
Speaker 3: know what that is, but I like that joke.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 5: I have no idea that whole series is bathly because
Speaker 5: there's so many of them. They all get like seven
Speaker 5: out of Ted's and they just look.
Speaker 3: You're talking about their omnia seas.
Speaker 5: About Dave Hotels, and I just wonder what it's like
Speaker 5: to play it a Telly game, But I don't know
Speaker 5: if I have the courage to do it.
Speaker 7: Check it out together series, I'd watch that version.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't think they know.
Speaker 2: What is.
Speaker 5: A tellier. A tellier. I'm not pronouncing the R.
Speaker 3: Tell you.
Speaker 2: I cannot pronounce this emailer's name first name, so I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna say, uh person. Jorgensen writes in Hello boys, Jam,
Speaker 2: I need help. A new restaurant selling Filipino food opened
Speaker 2: in my neighborhood in Copenhagen. Hearing you talk so lovingly
Speaker 2: about Filipino food makes me want to try out, but
Speaker 2: I know nothing about it. Can you give me some recommendations?
Speaker 2: They don't have that many items, so I have linked
Speaker 2: their menu Google Translate. I'll report back organ Seen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Yo, Yo, Jorgenson,
Speaker 2: you gotta go go to Tombayan, all right. Tombayan means
Speaker 2: like a place to hang out. Go get yourself some lumpia.
Speaker 2: They'll call it spring rolls over there, little egg rolls Delicio,
Speaker 2: So get yourself. The okoy okoy is kind of like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's our version of a lot ca,
Speaker 2: but it's a sweet potato instead of a regular potato.
Speaker 2: Can't go wrong with thee other of the crispy chicken
Speaker 2: or the sweet pork barbecue. I'm looking at their menu here,
Speaker 2: but if you want to feel a little frisky, baby,
Speaker 2: go with the beef. Got it because that's it. Brased oxtail, peanut,
Speaker 2: peanut butter stew. Real delicious.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: When I I went to New York, Bailey and I
Speaker 2: had a little bit of a cultural exchange. I had
Speaker 2: some Jewish food and I'm like, well, we gotta do
Speaker 2: the flip side of this. I'm gonna make you eat
Speaker 2: Filipino food. Homegirls Brave. We had the She liked it.
Speaker 3: She was dope.
Speaker 5: Jeny Jen, you're a sweet potato.
Speaker 1: Oh you know you're you're a little egg roll.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: The the other part of that joke would be, if
Speaker 2: you're a Filipino sweet potato.
Speaker 3: It's ube because Mikey, you bet you bet.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: Next email comes from Jamie from Colorado. Man, they're really
Speaker 2: going to make a strategy football game with xcom elements.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you mean like, do you mean soccer American football?
Speaker 3: They spelled it American football.
Speaker 1: It's got to be American American football is more turn
Speaker 1: based based.
Speaker 3: There were some like mutant league football type like inspired
Speaker 3: by a game.
Speaker 4: I think this game exists. I think it came out
Speaker 4: like ten years ago or something. It was called it
Speaker 4: a blood Maybe I'm thinking a blood bowl. That sounds maybe, right.
Speaker 3: Is that kind of what it is? It's turn based, right.
Speaker 4: Because I remember, because I remember being excited about a
Speaker 4: game thing like, oh shit, it's it's mutant league football,
Speaker 4: and then there were tiles and I was like, ah.
Speaker 1: I think it was.
Speaker 5: But yeah.
Speaker 1: Blood blood Ball two from twenty fifteen is a strategy game,
Speaker 1: board game, single player multiplayer fantasy. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Blood Bowls three from twenty twenty three has mostly negative
Speaker 5: recent reviews for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: So well, Blood Bowl two's got most very positive.
Speaker 5: So okay, so it is it's best, All right, play two?
Speaker 5: There you go?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well maybe about check that out. I
Speaker 2: like tiles and football most of the time. Andrew in
Speaker 2: Rochester rights in, Hey, duders, what examples do you have
Speaker 2: of making your own fun and games. You can basically
Speaker 2: be anything you come up with that isn't intended the
Speaker 2: intended way to play a game. For example, in the
Speaker 2: Seiphen filter to multiplayer, my sister and I would take
Speaker 2: turns making a bullet hole design somewhere in the level,
Speaker 2: and then the other player had to find it. Anothere
Speaker 2: I have would be what I would turn on sheets
Speaker 2: in Jedi Outcasts, spun a bunch of enemies and Jedi
Speaker 2: and then turning the AI back on and watching them
Speaker 2: fight in large battle. W Thank you for the years
Speaker 2: of great content and memories.
Speaker 3: Keep up the great work.
Speaker 5: See I'm too lazy for that, sus Ie. Small things
Speaker 5: like just making my character dance or like shoot a
Speaker 5: gun in rhythm to whatever music's happening, especially in Mega
Speaker 5: Man because it's like very rhythmic and melodics. I'll just
Speaker 5: go it's like whatever, especially if it's an elevator there's
Speaker 5: like some downtime or something. Even when I was playing Bloodborn,
Speaker 5: constantly just like shit me my character around to make
Speaker 5: it look like he's dancing or doing something that gets
Speaker 5: a giggle out of me.
Speaker 4: When we got the first Twisted Metal and we did
Speaker 4: a thing where like I would play as Outlaw the
Speaker 4: cop car, and I would hide somewhere in the city
Speaker 4: level and he would just it was almost like a
Speaker 4: roleplay type thing where you he would drive around the
Speaker 4: city trying to like avoid me, and as soon as
Speaker 4: like I saw him on my split screen, I would
Speaker 4: like chase after him and try to kill him and stuff.
Speaker 1: I would just install a random amount of mods into
Speaker 1: like Oblivion or Skyrim and then kind of just see
Speaker 1: what that would happen. And I would almost invariably end
Speaker 1: up with like the sex worker mods and I would
Speaker 1: try to use those to like get enough money to
Speaker 1: buy a house, and that was always a good time.
Speaker 1: I would have sex with any lizard person that wanted to,
Speaker 1: and it was they paid well.
Speaker 7: I clipped that, come on, you got that. I spent friends,
Speaker 7: spent a lot of time in sandbox stuff, which I
Speaker 7: guess is not you know, which is obvious, right, But
Speaker 7: like I spent so much time in Tear Down with
Speaker 7: the Plasma swords stuff, and then a lot of like
Speaker 7: early GTA five of just like you know, bringing in
Speaker 7: custom soundtracks and just sort of like driving.
Speaker 1: Around vising it. That kind of thing where you're just
Speaker 1: sort of like relaxing. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I think it was also the year Dylan was born,
Speaker 7: So I was like a nervous wreck and I need
Speaker 7: and I found a lot of like cathartic detox time there.
Speaker 3: I remember Perfect Dark you could do like the Sims
Speaker 3: where like not the Sims, but you know the sim
Speaker 3: simulant characters, so you could do like one control characters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and now like, okay on the Red Team is
Speaker 4: going to be three of this sim and so we
Speaker 4: would do rules where it's like we couldn't shoot each other,
Speaker 4: and like we had I think like pacifist Sims or whatever,
Speaker 4: so they wouldn't like attack directly. So we would put
Speaker 4: remote minds on the Sims and then send them after
Speaker 4: each other in some way and you'd have to like
Speaker 4: detonate them, like that was the only way we were
Speaker 4: allowed to kill each other, or something like making our
Speaker 4: own loves.
Speaker 1: Like that might per friend. I had a ton of
Speaker 1: that stuff for us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my friends thought we did invent like our own
Speaker 5: mode and Smash Brothers where you only play as mister Gaman.
Speaker 5: Watch you can only do that hammer attack that's like
Speaker 5: one through nine and each one of different parts, and
Speaker 5: like the nine is the insta kill and sometimes would
Speaker 5: do some damage, like one would heal a person. It's funny,
Speaker 5: like you play this game, you start creating like your
Speaker 5: own vernacular and language around it, because like a six
Speaker 5: would kill somebody if like they were at like two
Speaker 5: hundred percent. So sometimes we'd be like, oh, good six
Speaker 5: will do instead of the nine. But you can still
Speaker 5: like do all the dodging and stuff. But it's just
Speaker 5: this thing. If you accidentally hit somebody with any other attack,
Speaker 5: then it's like this ceremony or all the other player
Speaker 5: stop it, dude, the rigging the bell taunt while the
Speaker 5: other two players go at the center and then whoever
Speaker 5: got hit gets a free hammer strike on the other person.
Speaker 5: And like sometimes it's the nine and that's like the
Speaker 5: big deciding factors. Yeah, we call it hammer time. It's
Speaker 5: a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: You talk about like live matain vernacular grub. Have you
Speaker 4: gotten the part in the Mortal Kombat Legacy collection when
Speaker 4: they're talking about.
Speaker 3: The origins of Toasty, I don't think so.
Speaker 4: They were playing it was like Dan Ford and the
Speaker 4: sound guy, the Toasty Guy, and I think ed Bone
Speaker 4: would play play action football against each other frequently, and
Speaker 4: like he said, Dan Forden would always say, like as
Speaker 4: the characters were like going up with the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 4: he'd be like, no, I predict you're about to get toasted.
Speaker 4: And then it became a thing where he would just
Speaker 4: start going like I predict toasty and then like one
Speaker 4: just like, hey, do you want to like put dumb
Speaker 4: stuff like that in the games?
Speaker 3: Like all right, and so like the toasting.
Speaker 5: I had a actually the rug guy when he brought
Speaker 5: the rugover, I showed him my Analog three D and
Speaker 5: we did play some Morecombat trilogy on there and that
Speaker 5: was a great time. Yeah, seeing the toasty come up,
Speaker 5: it says like.
Speaker 3: A still hits easy later. Man.
Speaker 5: By the way, during the break, I admired the rug
Speaker 5: for a bit. It looks fantastic.
Speaker 4: I've been the picture. Yeah, I can't imagine. Don't show
Speaker 4: the people, Do not show the people, Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Put in our discord Dan, you you are a brilliant
Speaker 2: man because you came up with rug mousepads. And I
Speaker 2: did see that at a museum over the over the break,
Speaker 2: anyone wants to peep that looks fun?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Josh in New York right soon I heard on the
Speaker 2: Game of the Year podcast that Dan had never played
Speaker 2: Quake and Jane had never played the original Doom, and
Speaker 2: it got me thinking, what are the most famous slash
Speaker 2: well regarded games that you've never touched? For me, it's
Speaker 2: Skyrim in World of Warcraft.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Oh, I guess it's World of Warcraft and I've
Speaker 1: never even touched it.
Speaker 5: You've never touched World war Craft? That's interesting. Yeah, huh, gosh,
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think, like, not never even touched because
Speaker 5: you know, I'm like, oh, I haven't Beaten, Golden and
Speaker 5: I and I've touched Golden and I. I've touched it
Speaker 5: in all sorts of places. Okay, Oh, I'm sorry, Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, right in the Golden Gun all right.
Speaker 2: I didn't write the emailer down, but this is for Backlar.
Speaker 2: They write and just wanted to let you know what
Speaker 2: New York has pretty has pretty regular bay Blade tournaments,
Speaker 2: and looking at the listing for the latest tournament in
Speaker 2: New York City may be discord. So Dylan wants to
Speaker 2: go to more events. This is where to look. I'm
Speaker 2: relatively active in the Portland scene and we have casual
Speaker 2: night at a game store out in the area, so
Speaker 2: it's worth looking at the New York City Discord to
Speaker 2: see if there are any casual nights there as well.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, uh, in an era of like you know,
Speaker 1: preteen screen overload.
Speaker 7: Right, this game this very analog, very hands on games.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, murdered radles. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 5: I forgot I Actually you.
Speaker 3: Look at the anime, The Blade anime.
Speaker 1: Which he's binged all the way through.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go, I am this.
Speaker 2: May be one of the older older seasons, but Moses
Speaker 2: split the Red Sea using a bay Blade.
Speaker 7: No shit, Okay, I have to go back and find
Speaker 7: out which episode that is. I feel like I would
Speaker 7: have heard about it. Yeah, Like it's so refreshing to
Speaker 7: just like have him have friends over and they just
Speaker 7: like battle for an hour.
Speaker 1: Like an hour is a long time, dude.
Speaker 7: I gotta say, like that arena he has with the
Speaker 7: teeth around it, with the with the the sort of railing, it.
Speaker 1: Is so sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it will respin them.
Speaker 1: Dude.
Speaker 7: It is like you're battling, You're just like and there's scoring.
Speaker 7: There's like points scoring that makes sense now and like
Speaker 7: you get you know, a blast is not as much
Speaker 7: as an extreme takedown like or whatever it is where
Speaker 7: you knock the dradle out of the top.
Speaker 1: Out of the way, out of the arena. It's awesome,
Speaker 1: it's great. I hope it never goes away.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm well, I mean you got to be do
Speaker 7: it in person, like, no, I know, next time we're
Speaker 7: in person, could we bring up bring a set like that.
Speaker 1: Someone's got to have something.
Speaker 3: Dude, I totally a right, it's cool. It is very
Speaker 3: very cool.
Speaker 7: I I bet, I bet he seems Bay coded right
Speaker 7: for sure. You know what's crazy is like, uh so
Speaker 7: he he bought a bunch We got a bunch of
Speaker 7: them for him, like maybe three years ago. I don't
Speaker 7: know if this is just like a fork for for
Speaker 7: bay Blades, but whatever it is. Now, the tops of
Speaker 7: the they are so much they're better made, they they're
Speaker 7: easier to assemble. They're just like stronger units. Their explosions
Speaker 7: are more impressive. Like everything about where bay Blades is
Speaker 7: at right now rules.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love that he's into it. It's
Speaker 1: all he wants to do.
Speaker 3: You've heard the bone Yellow commercial? Right, yes? Okay, want
Speaker 3: to make sure I send it to Jan. I don't
Speaker 3: know if people. Yes, I had it ready if we
Speaker 3: need it. Okay, okay, has anyone here not heard the
Speaker 3: bay Blade commercial?
Speaker 1: I heard it, Okay, yep, It's fantastic.
Speaker 3: It's very rips.
Speaker 1: It does yeah letter rip like that's it.
Speaker 7: I mean that was the game of the holiday season
Speaker 7: for sure.
Speaker 3: I Okay.
Speaker 2: In in the pockets of time where I wasn't playing
Speaker 2: Marvel Rivals, I actually was looking at bay Blade stuff
Speaker 2: and I saw someone made a key Blade hilt launcher
Speaker 2: and looked.
Speaker 7: And and like we got And then someone was like, yo,
Speaker 7: you can three D print your own like attachment to
Speaker 7: the ripper. And You're like, oh, okay, there's just a
Speaker 7: lot going on here and now, like every now and then,
Speaker 7: I'm like, what are the new ones that are coming out?
Speaker 1: Like, I'm just it's fun. There's it's I don't know.
Speaker 1: It is a toy that delivers. Like remember you like
Speaker 1: remember we were growing up, it was like crossfire with
Speaker 1: the ball.
Speaker 7: Right, Like you're like, oh well that game was like
Speaker 7: cool for like fourteen minutes and then you're like I
Speaker 7: get it. This ship just keeps slapping. It's just you
Speaker 7: never know what you're gonna get. The teeth are the
Speaker 7: railing is what what an improvement? What a quality of
Speaker 7: life upgrade? I can't say enough amazing stuff about it.
Speaker 1: It's awesome.
Speaker 7: Bacca Gun is different, right, No, those are the Yeah,
Speaker 7: that kind of sucks because.
Speaker 1: That's dumb and stupid. Okay, it's not dumb and stupid.
Speaker 7: I feel bad to shoot on Baka gun because Dylan
Speaker 7: was all about them too when he was really young.
Speaker 3: But they're impossible to fold up, like you they they're
Speaker 3: a little.
Speaker 1: Too far. I got a ship on it.
Speaker 7: Like they're balls, right, and then you have like you
Speaker 7: need like the dexterity is to to get them back
Speaker 7: into their spherical shape is very difficult.
Speaker 1: You never really get back together. What are what are they?
Speaker 1: Like the balls and they're like the monsters.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there are these little figures that they they arrived
Speaker 7: when you buy them, they're in a ball. It has
Speaker 7: the The game is like a card game where you
Speaker 7: get like you know, HP attacks and whatever. But when
Speaker 7: you throw them out on the ground, they unravel and
Speaker 7: they instantly pop into the character they're meant to be.
Speaker 1: But like you can't back together. They're really hard for
Speaker 1: and they're for kids, and it's like what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: It's like unfurling a rug. It's the non starter.
Speaker 3: No one can do it.
Speaker 5: No one can do it.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, once unfurled, never furled again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yes, uh.
Speaker 2: Last two emails here, Hey, gang, how many cookies is
Speaker 2: too many cookies?
Speaker 3: I'm going through a rough stretch. My girlfriend dumped me,
Speaker 3: I got laid off from my job, and my way
Speaker 3: to cope is eating sweet treats. Look for me.
Speaker 2: There's a delicious bakery down the street for me that
Speaker 2: only sells cookies. So I have been I have been
Speaker 2: indulging more often than before. So my question is simple.
Speaker 2: How many cookies is too many cookies to eat in
Speaker 2: one night? For reference, they aren't huge cookies, but they're
Speaker 2: certainly not small either, about the size of two chips
Speaker 2: a hoy cookies on top of each other, but pretty
Speaker 2: dense impacked with philis.
Speaker 7: Okay, email or I'll say this. I understand you're going
Speaker 7: through a moment, and you know sometimes you just got
Speaker 7: to eat the whole ice cream. I get it, Like
Speaker 7: that's fine. I just think at some point and it's
Speaker 7: tough for us to say how many cookies are too many?
Speaker 7: Because you're getting it from a bespoke bakery and oftentimes
Speaker 7: bespoke bakeries. You're looking at the size of cookie you're
Speaker 7: talking about. I feel like you're looking at like two
Speaker 7: fishy to three hundred calories of cookie or some extra
Speaker 7: butter in there.
Speaker 3: There's no nutrition facts on.
Speaker 1: Those bad boys. It's uncharted territory. It's whatever goes.
Speaker 7: So they're making those taste delicious and amazing, and they
Speaker 7: probably have a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: So for this, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I can't put a number on it, but.
Speaker 1: It's not because like if I were to go pick
Speaker 1: up some chips ahway, just as an example, I would
Speaker 1: probably pick you up three. And then if it's like
Speaker 1: if I do that multiple times in a day, suddenly
Speaker 1: I've eaten nine twelve cookies in a day and say,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that happens so fat.
Speaker 5: You don't want to get to I ate a package
Speaker 5: of blank. That's when it's a real Exactly. The thing
Speaker 5: with the cookies is that they're going to ultimately make
Speaker 5: you feel worse because they're not good for you. You
Speaker 5: need to channel that energy, you know. I know it's
Speaker 5: like a generic but you know the breakup gym guy,
Speaker 5: you know, that's more productive way of channeling someday.
Speaker 3: Okay, actually making you feel.
Speaker 2: Better because I started seeing a trainer over the break
Speaker 2: and gang, I think this is the year I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get stupid sexy and hot.
Speaker 5: You're alway stupid sexy and hot. I'm not stupid hot sexy.
Speaker 3: But like, yeah, eat the cookies now. But then, like
Speaker 3: I don't know, go to the gym. You don't feel
Speaker 3: bad after going to the gym.
Speaker 1: You just do both both day.
Speaker 3: Oh here's what you do. Go get a protein shake
Speaker 3: that is cookie flavor. Yeah yeah, they'll just sort everything
Speaker 3: out or oats even yes, you know it's code though.
Speaker 4: No, Jan do you want to run a marathon with
Speaker 4: me in October? I'm on my own fitness journey right now.
Speaker 3: How many miles is a marathon?
Speaker 4: Twenty six point two? Jesus Christ, come to Minnesota run October?
Speaker 3: How cold is it in October? October is fine?
Speaker 4: Although I did do a half marathon in October two
Speaker 4: years ago and it was forty degrees when I started it.
Speaker 3: That sounds good, right way? Okay? Yeah, yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, I'll think about it. Dan is fine. I'd
Speaker 3: love to host.
Speaker 1: Steph did get me a shirt? That has a heater
Speaker 1: built into it. So now I have a shirt I
Speaker 1: have to charge.
Speaker 3: Hell, that's cool.
Speaker 1: It's got the little it's got the little like glow
Speaker 1: up icon on it. Yeah, there's a little but.
Speaker 3: It is that the name of the brand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a big like hockey parent thing. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's got it's got the hoodie he kind of built
Speaker 1: into a flannel on the outside. And and then yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, I didn't realize there's a button, so
Speaker 1: I kept plugging in him like nothing's happened, like, oh look,
Speaker 1: there's a button right there. And then outside a bunch
Speaker 1: was doing a bunch of things that kept me more blue.
Speaker 1: I's got like three different things you can cycle between. Yes, red, blue,
Speaker 1: and white is the every level America. Okay, yeah there
Speaker 1: it is so uh it is dumb, though, to have
Speaker 1: a shirt you have to charge that. That is it
Speaker 1: is fun dumb.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And and of course somewhere somewhere out there, someone
Speaker 7: has to be burned.
Speaker 1: Severely by one. Someone's definitely got like the shape of
Speaker 1: the grill inside of the shirt on their.
Speaker 7: Back, the coils whatever, the coils, yeah, uh huh cool, okay,
Speaker 7: fun stuff.
Speaker 3: My vest has ram in it.
Speaker 1: Now awesome, at least something does Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh all right, final email of the show before we
Speaker 2: get to super chats. Uh, Mike, I don't want to
Speaker 2: enrage you, Okay, I need you to keep calm during this,
Speaker 2: all right, heyo miikey uh tim fromiole. Right, So the
Speaker 2: Jabbroni's over at the besties are claiming they are the
Speaker 2: baddest boys of games media. Oh no, are you bad enough,
Speaker 2: dude to show them who the real bad boy is?
Speaker 2: Clip from a statement from Chris plant I'll go ahead
Speaker 2: and play this. Oh wait, wait, can anyone hear that?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, okay, one second, let me just do something
Speaker 3: at recorded something.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 7: They said that exactly. They said it specifically, where the
Speaker 7: bad boys.
Speaker 1: The baddest boys?
Speaker 3: Okay, hold on, hold on, sorry sorry sorry.
Speaker 7: Just got flash there just because that is such a
Speaker 7: specific phrasing.
Speaker 1: Fresh Dick didn't give you warning back Large didn't say
Speaker 1: he was gonna step on our toes like this. There
Speaker 1: was a.
Speaker 7: Smoke signal that I was meant for something else.
Speaker 3: Can you'll hear this? Okay?
Speaker 6: So I went to sleep wondering how we would give
Speaker 6: an award to people for the best the best. We
Speaker 6: used to give people the Golden Marcus Phoenix. I think
Speaker 6: we did that once we did it were actually physically
Speaker 6: I don't to anybody, right, and I don't think they
Speaker 6: actually accepted it. I think that's the other problems my.
Speaker 5: Understanding the bad boys of games.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Then I had this dream last night, and.
Speaker 5: Because they're trying to get people trophies that we.
Speaker 6: Would give people bronzed versions of ourselves. But in my dream,
Speaker 6: like we were kind of dipped in bronze.
Speaker 1: It was carbonit han solo kind Yeah.
Speaker 6: And a few questions came to mind. One, how much
Speaker 6: would it more like the fucking nerds of games media?
Speaker 6: Of the four of us they get well, well, the
Speaker 6: w they accept it, you know, yeah, not Walter. Which
Speaker 6: ones more valuable ranked? Is it platinum?
Speaker 1: Gold, silver, bronze?
Speaker 5: Is that what we're should do?
Speaker 7: That?
Speaker 6: I think?
Speaker 2: Okay, that was the other of the clip. It doesn't
Speaker 2: seem as egregious as the emailer wrote in. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I was canceled like three times this episode.
Speaker 5: That's bad. That's nothing.
Speaker 3: He called me the most valuable gooner.
Speaker 5: Yes, I did do that, but then I still the
Speaker 5: golden I go to dick joke.
Speaker 3: It's let's let's be clear, folks.
Speaker 5: It is a form.
Speaker 7: It is an active aggression, as moderate as it might be,
Speaker 7: it is a it is a an.
Speaker 5: Active vice, and it shall not stand. It will be
Speaker 5: met with the equal and equivalent force.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 7: I was thinking asymmetrical crub. Oh yes, I will wipe
Speaker 7: them from the face of podcast. Come way over the
Speaker 7: top on this, but I'll yield.
Speaker 1: To Manata here. It's your it's your stick.
Speaker 5: They're called the besties because they're the best at being
Speaker 5: non controversial and tame, is what I said.
Speaker 1: Oh and then the bad boy would know too, Oh boy.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Uh mister Menotti, the bad beauty, would
Speaker 2: you hit me with some YouTube super chats if we
Speaker 2: got would love.
Speaker 5: To as soon as I switched my account to the
Speaker 5: Giant bomb once I can look at such things. I
Speaker 5: was too enraged, enraged in the moment. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 5: here we go from uh Migsy says this avatar two
Speaker 5: and three good. I found one to be okay, well
Speaker 5: the three D I think two is significantly better than one,
Speaker 5: and then three is probably closer to one's quote.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I have to see one again. I don't know if
Speaker 5: I like one or three more two is the standout
Speaker 5: one for sure though.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I'm curious, right because it's like, I don't
Speaker 7: we said this last time, right, I don't remember one
Speaker 7: almost at all, aside from just like Geo Vini Rabisi.
Speaker 1: Showing up and then unobtainium. Yeah fift I try about scientology.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was weird, right, So regardless of the thing
Speaker 7: that I can't remember one, seeing two is fine in
Speaker 7: a vacuum, yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they stop recap it. They stopped
Speaker 2: talking about unobtainedum real quick. They just want whale juice now, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, whale juice Unobtainedum, welcome whale brain.
Speaker 5: Come well. Jake Sally's general thing. He was a dude,
Speaker 5: he became he's put in the body of the nave
Speaker 5: and he decided to stay as one of them and
Speaker 5: help that instead. Right, that's the important remember Avatar.
Speaker 7: Also, before we go to the next super chat, I
Speaker 7: do have breaking news out of CS. There is a
Speaker 7: five hundred dollars jerk off machine called the Handy that
Speaker 7: is getting a lot of a lot of play, a
Speaker 7: lot of a lot of a lot of love.
Speaker 3: You get an email I see a video. The first
Speaker 3: result is a video from a former coworker of yours.
Speaker 7: Uh, mister Backlar, you remember our buddy here right, Yes,
Speaker 7: he's doing this thing jiggle.
Speaker 1: It is jiggling all the way from Vegas handy to
Speaker 1: pro is an overclockable sex toy.
Speaker 5: Something you don't want to open.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna rip my dick off.
Speaker 3: I don't want that too fast.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we gotta strip all these out for the ram inside.
Speaker 7: I think the clear white thing in the thing and
Speaker 7: the sleeve.
Speaker 3: Do you know what do you think?
Speaker 1: Buddy?
Speaker 3: That just doesn't We don't put.
Speaker 5: Your penis in the clear part. Still, it can't just
Speaker 5: only pee that strap.
Speaker 1: The clear part is the penis sheep.
Speaker 7: We have a hand we have hand ergonomic Yeah, but
Speaker 7: not going that.
Speaker 5: I don't like where the guy stretches it.
Speaker 3: I just got to that.
Speaker 1: Oh a video you guys watching.
Speaker 2: Christmas came a little late this year. Boys, you know
Speaker 2: the boy is over a c S. I kind of
Speaker 2: need like a field report from he would know what.
Speaker 1: To do this thing. Yeah, how many r p ms handle? Okay? Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's your industry gooter, Michael Hyam. Sorry, I just don't
Speaker 1: know how you use this thing, your mother, you know
Speaker 1: what you do? Listen though, Okay, the Jernyov mechanism is
Speaker 1: attached to what looks like, you know, a JBL speaker.
Speaker 3: It does speaker respects.
Speaker 4: Okay, So the stroke length is anywhere between zero and
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty five millimeters.
Speaker 3: The American what's that?
Speaker 1: What's that? An American penis sentiz Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 4: The pro model will go up to four hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty millimeters a second on the stroke speed.
Speaker 1: I don't My Dick's gonna fucking time travel. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to do that. What's happening? You're getting some real.
Speaker 3: Ship with this thing? Eighty it hurts. Get the flap.
Speaker 3: You can't overclock the standard, you can only overclock the pro.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 5: Imagine if we turned the handy into a time.
Speaker 3: Of I just I just don't understand, like you jerk
Speaker 3: yourself off into the past.
Speaker 1: Just shows up and range at rome. Who's fais is
Speaker 1: that quickly from the future.
Speaker 5: Bathroom?
Speaker 3: You come too hard and there's just a Veloci wrappro
Speaker 3: in front of it.
Speaker 1: I just don't like the speed. I feel like friction
Speaker 1: is a problem there. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Man, you'm looking at the officials website. Now, it's got
Speaker 3: all the specs.
Speaker 1: I don't like it when he stretches it.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: Hey, if it's worth it, I'll pay it.
Speaker 5: I don't think it could be worse this or freaking.
Speaker 1: We can't call this.
Speaker 4: Do you see the fucking gift on the Okay, hang on,
Speaker 4: can someone put that back in the chat? It's the
Speaker 4: handy dot com slash door and go to the handy tube.
Speaker 4: I was wondering why you needed Wi Fi and sure enough,
Speaker 4: there is an anime lady that just wax you.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be scripted, right, it's gonna have script thing
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's gonna work with anime ladies.
Speaker 4: It is exclusively anime ladies. In this gift, they're showing, hey,
Speaker 4: I don't want to one's young go nuts is not
Speaker 4: this is not the clip for the episode.
Speaker 1: How you're gonna fuck cartoons?
Speaker 3: Goddamn?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, un next super chet please please tell me,
Speaker 2: oh yeah right uh.
Speaker 1: From oh yeah, you're getting your favorite tele deldonics. That
Speaker 1: is a great world.
Speaker 5: I had to approve that word like twenty times.
Speaker 3: Chat like wait wait wait, wait wait wait, this is
Speaker 3: the handy too. Yeah, it's the secret electric boogaloo.
Speaker 5: Yeah all right, Blade Runner says, Jan, I can't believe
Speaker 5: you got excited to watch a.
Speaker 3: Cop oh cyclone. We're not doing this today. Okay, we
Speaker 3: are not doing this.
Speaker 1: He's trying to stay positive.
Speaker 5: Then you don't deserve it today, Blade Runner said, smart
Speaker 5: bricked up, and then Blade Renner said a live reaction
Speaker 5: and if Jan watching the trailer, please, So yeah, what
Speaker 5: there's a there's like an X Men Avengers doomsday trailer.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, they're they're they're doing these little teaser things.
Speaker 2: They did one for Chris Evans coming back as Captain America.
Speaker 2: They did one for Thorn, the sky Rizzy commercial, Yeah.
Speaker 3: The sky Razy commercial.
Speaker 2: And now they did one with Professor X fuck him,
Speaker 2: Magneto great and Cyclops the Best Boy.
Speaker 5: Uh and does James Marson do it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It's James Marsen and he's wearing the Cyclops gear from
Speaker 2: like the comic books, and it looks like they're kind
Speaker 2: of emulating a panel from the comics, which I am
Speaker 2: very excited to see, even if he's in this movie
Speaker 2: for five minutes, because there's too many people in this
Speaker 2: movie as long as I hear a good optic.
Speaker 3: Blast, I'm good.
Speaker 5: Okay, oh god, yeah, oh he looks sweet. Okay a minute, yes, yeah,
Speaker 5: but yeah, god, it's funny. How like they were like,
Speaker 5: we can't put these people in their original caution the ridiculous,
Speaker 5: And now like they've been putting these characters in their
Speaker 5: original costumes thirty years later or whatever, and they look awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Right.
Speaker 5: Then the next episode, Antonio Morales, who says, legit hung
Speaker 5: out with the girl only because she had resume before
Speaker 5: and really stoped hanging out with her once my cousin
Speaker 5: had it. I'm sorry if you're listening well, And then
Speaker 5: it makes he says Jeff Backlard. Do you get old
Speaker 5: keyboards and retro bright them?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm I'm not into that.
Speaker 7: I I know that is that's like they do that
Speaker 7: with like ne es, Like it's when plastic yellows, they
Speaker 7: like bring them back.
Speaker 4: To yea like a little tub and it's got you
Speaker 4: leave it like the sun for a bit, or like
Speaker 4: in a like UV strips around it or something.
Speaker 5: It's like a special light thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I've seen people like restore old consoles and they
Speaker 5: ture that and it and saying how it gets rid
Speaker 5: of the yellowing.
Speaker 3: It's like a lot you have to do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well you have to because you have to take
Speaker 5: everything out of the console, like every medical component has
Speaker 5: to just be that plastic you're putting.
Speaker 1: I just got my Super Nintendo and any A spec
Speaker 1: for the first time in twenty years from my childhoods
Speaker 1: and yeah they're both hell yellow as crazy, yellow as hell.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking about this, but I'm like whatever
Speaker 1: at this point. It works, right, it works.
Speaker 7: You can send I mean, I don't know what the
Speaker 7: price is like, but for something like that, if you
Speaker 7: really cared about the thing, I would almost like send
Speaker 7: it off to a professional service that does it.
Speaker 1: Timothy Shalame does it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, on the side, you know, I just yeah
Speaker 7: to do that yourself. And it's it's a lot, but
Speaker 7: uh yeah. For keyboards, now, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 7: It's funny, keyboard. That color for a keyboard is probably
Speaker 7: more sought after than than not want.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean, because the first keyboards were
Speaker 5: surrounded by so much secondhand cigarette smoke that they all
Speaker 5: became that color immediately. It's just nice.
Speaker 1: It's just like that's all it is. Settling on the bless.
Speaker 2: I think if the if Marty Supreme was not coming
Speaker 2: out Christmas Day, I think we could have jumped on
Speaker 2: the press tour because that boy was everywhere. And can
Speaker 2: you imagine an episode of blike Club with Timothy shallow.
Speaker 4: May entrance to a podcast appearance at one point, like
Speaker 4: I would get along with Timothy's shallow May.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Just we all have to wear like Knicks jerseys and
Speaker 1: it'll be fine.
Speaker 3: That's fine, see your kid.
Speaker 5: That's it for the super chats. Thank you so much,
Speaker 5: everybody appreciate it. Boys.
Speaker 2: What do we got going on this week? Game US
Speaker 2: Mornings popping off Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, finally on the show tomorrow. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good one everybody, So, uh.
Speaker 5: Blake Club tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We always do the run tonight today. If you're watching this.
Speaker 1: Lab, we're gonna do run happening today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, voicemail dump truck on Thursday. Unprofessional Friday's plans are
Speaker 2: still up in the air. I think we wanted to
Speaker 2: try and do Anthem, but it turns out you can't
Speaker 2: get it anywhere.
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 2: Also, go ahead, if you've missed the Game of the
Speaker 2: Year podcast I suggest you go ahead and go get
Speaker 2: all of that, consume all of that. Also shouts out
Speaker 2: to Sean for for editing all of those bad boys?
Speaker 2: Am I missing anything?
Speaker 1: He's working on the music episode still right, Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that that's still coming, But he did so much work
Speaker 1: editing everything else. It'll come when it comes.
Speaker 3: Everybody speaking about.
Speaker 2: The doing a gurgantuan amount of effort to edit stuff.
Speaker 2: Shouts out, as always every damn year, to Marino for
Speaker 2: helping put the list together. Also shouts out to for
Speaker 2: helping edit them. Got a bunch of lists and actually
Speaker 2: I got I just got one yesterday.
Speaker 3: So might have a late one coming into based on
Speaker 3: a textile a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: Okay, that'd be more.
Speaker 2: It'll be worth it, worth the way. All of them
Speaker 2: great this year. Absolutely love all of them. Shouts out
Speaker 2: to everyone to also volunteer their time to write a list.
Speaker 1: All our All of our lists are on the site
Speaker 1: as well, so if you want to see any of
Speaker 1: our like extended thoughts about any of the games we
Speaker 1: talked about on the podcast or whatever, people have been
Speaker 1: checking those out and really appreciating them. So thanks for
Speaker 1: saying the nice tests.
Speaker 2: Go go visit the website. Also, if you have wiki experience,
Speaker 2: go help out Chuck. We mentioned at the top of
Speaker 2: the show BombCast dot.
Speaker 1: Com PHP if you know anything about it, if you've
Speaker 1: ever worked with Wikipedia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's any any of all that stuff. But Gang,
Speaker 2: I think of that about does it. For this episode
Speaker 2: of the Giant BombCast. He's been Jeff. He's been Jeff,
Speaker 2: he's been Mike, he's been Dan. I've been chanting you
Speaker 2: at home.
Speaker 5: I've been downs.
Speaker 3: Let's see you next week, Barb. Another episode up. Good
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