Speaker 1: Alopecia. What's your name?
Speaker 2: Is that the character from the Matrix reloaded?
Speaker 3: I don't know her name is Alopecia.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's the one that does the French guy does
the computer program name a person, Alopecia.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm I officiated? I think I
would know her name? Yeaheah, Alopecia. Do you Alopecia? Take
Michael with this.
Speaker 4: Thick head of hair and uh in the Matrix he
does the thing where he like makes the computer program
make persephone, make her come.
Speaker 1: They show they show the code like rushing into her vage. Crazy.
It was a crazy thing that really happens.
Speaker 2: It was crazy.
Speaker 1: What your name? Monica Belushi orgasm?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you guys, because you know I did not, I
will not, will not look up, Mary Marie.
Speaker 4: Look up Monica blushy pie orgasm. I guarantee you're gonna
get fucking all.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm gonna do ready.
Speaker 4: All right, here she's looking at Then this is Jake.
Jake we've been talking about. I'll do a new one.
What's the deal, Shaquill Baluchi. We're back with Firescape cast.
It's episode one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 3: I don't know high orgasm.
Speaker 2: What, Monica Belushi, It's reloaded.
Speaker 1: It is real. This is a real thing that happened
in the movies.
Speaker 4: She my Matrix reloaded. She's in a white dress that's
like a leather thing, or so, I think. I don't
remember it vividly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who could say?
Speaker 5: Who could say high orgasm into Google to pick up
code gasm.
Speaker 1: Pie? Yeah, yeah, okay, I'll just maybe it's a pastry.
She eats a pie and then it shows like a
wireframe of it, and then the shows like everything going
down into her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the Matrix code is going into her.
Speaker 3: This can't be true.
Speaker 1: I have you seen Matrix two?
Speaker 3: No, I haven't seen any of the first one.
Speaker 1: Oh this is true.
Speaker 2: Both and three are underrated.
Speaker 1: No, we watched him not too long ago. There, there's
there's some ideas there at least, Yeah, there is.
Speaker 2: Dorks love those movies.
Speaker 3: She's wearing a white dress, but she's just shooting.
Speaker 1: Yes she is, or so, I think. Who could say?
Speaker 4: I was up there with like Elizabeth Hurley cover of
be Dazzled for Me, Yes, different eras I was fully
I fully knew my bod though, and like Matrix came, you.
Speaker 1: Know, every impossibly gorgeous Brenette from nineteen ninety seven to
two thousand and three. What an era, Spanny era.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a Bombka thing. It was a Elizabeth thing,
and it was a Monica thing. I had a type coincidence,
and now I'm with alopecia and it's all perfect.
Speaker 2: You've not found it yet?
Speaker 5: Really wait, I don't know where it is you guys,
you have to understand that, like, I.
Speaker 1: Haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: Assumed its wearing a white dress. She's walking into a door.
Speaker 2: Oh are you're looking at images? No, you gotta do.
Speaker 1: The guy that does it to her, he's got a
weird matrix names like the knob gobbler or something like
in the matrix world. If you knew audio, Yeah, listen
with audio.
Speaker 4: I want to hear it for no reason. It's a
good it's a fine scene. Neo meets them in like
a cafe bistro kind of thing, and.
Speaker 3: There's a cafe. Yeah, I see the cafe.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. It teaches you a lot about
the uh matrix.
Speaker 4: If you click on an image that looks sort of
like what we're talking about, it'll keep giving you similar ones.
Speaker 5: I just don't understand she's walking into a room. Now
it's like fancy and it's got like two staircases.
Speaker 3: I went too far.
Speaker 1: He went too far.
Speaker 4: She's got to be sitting. She's eating a thing. He
he like basically programs. He's like proving to Neo that
he program things and then he programmed.
Speaker 2: He basically programs.
Speaker 5: She's sitting at a table, yes, yes, yeah, okay, keep
sitting at a table. Okay, her hands are like this,
she's blay, yep, yep, her eyes are looking down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. There's a guy. He's got like greased slick
back here the French.
Speaker 1: What is his name? Friend, he's a French Hobgoblin, French
guy matrix I'm gonna search for. Yeah, he's the Merrovingian. Yeah,
he's the merrow Vingian so close to Nobb. It was something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got he's one of the it's before you
meet the dude later and they're like, oh he's the.
Speaker 3: Arg Sammy slaphammers.
Speaker 1: Have we gotten to the pie?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Did he cut it because it's sexual?
Speaker 1: It's too sexy? Probably it's too we'll watch that in
December and do you.
Speaker 3: Think it's too hot? Like I feel like.
Speaker 1: There's a unity. I think you could be thirteen then, yeah,
it's just talking about sting anymore. Yeah, no, it's not.
Speaker 3: After that talking to Neo, I think they cut it.
Speaker 4: That's probably it anyway, fire backscape cast. I'm here with
Dan Reikert at.
Speaker 1: Very much. Wait is it her? Are you mixing this up?
What do you mean? Is it another lady in it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Does he do it to someone else in the cafe nearby?
Speaker 1: And my yes, yes, beautiful woman at Levye in the matrix. Yes, yes,
she's a patron at Levy, who the Marivingian described as
bourgeois and boring. And he's illustrating his speech about causality,
and he sends her a piece of chocolate cake containing
a cot orgasm that was like the blood code for
mortal kmbat for me afterwards, you met in the bathroom
for sexual encounter, heavily implied by his wife. Okay, so yes,
he gives the beautiful woman at Levy the pie orgasm.
Speaker 3: You guys send me on a goose chase.
Speaker 1: I had been Oh no, you look at Monica Bucci
a bunch.
Speaker 4: It was cake and a blonde woman, and I just
wanted it to be pie and Monica Belushi, which right
explains it. But yeah, I see James persephone, which I
believe was what's what's his name, Haiti's wife's name? Oh yeah,
play parallel there yeah, and then yeah, then she talks
to Neo the room.
Speaker 3: Okay, the cake is in her mouth.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3: This's the close up of the guy's face.
Speaker 1: We got Mandela affected with a pie orgasm.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, this is so my spank banks lying
on me for like thirty years.
Speaker 1: You vividly pictured this scene. So just fucking.
Speaker 3: Kind of looks like she's been drugged.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 5: Her mouth is open, her eyes are flickering. Uh huh,
she's breathing heavily.
Speaker 3: It's gone into the matrix. Oh my god, it wins
her fucking vagina.
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, there we go, and there it is.
Speaker 4: If I if I could control the matrix, that's probably
what I'd be doing, just sending orgasms to random people,
in sending her gin and soda to other people, and just.
Speaker 5: Watching the director was like, okay, so it's like all
the numbers and the directors going into her.
Speaker 4: Crotch Cowsi's always been just fucking avant garde.
Speaker 1: I guess let's.
Speaker 2: Give him a fucking comgasm. No, that's redundant.
Speaker 1: Mary.
Speaker 2: Hey, Mary, that's Mary Kesh. She's here too, trying to sorry.
Speaker 3: I that's like a wild way to start this. I
had no idea.
Speaker 2: But you've seen the First Matrix.
Speaker 5: I'm assumed everyone's seen the First Matrix. It's phenomenal.
Speaker 3: I also on HS.
Speaker 1: Okay, Kayla refuses to watch it because she thinks it's
an old guy movie.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've definitely not people who are way too
into the Matrix back in the day.
Speaker 2: But it's a you know, it's so crazy.
Speaker 5: That's a dog shit take and it's not even close
to the top ten of her dog shit.
Speaker 1: Tastes listening whatever ten of her dogshit takes.
Speaker 3: Every resident evil order.
Speaker 1: Okay, hey, well, if we're talking about dog shit takes
my family, I did just get done with my dad.
You need to do wor she got better at that.
So okay, Mike, so Dak coming here. Like I've learned
that if I make a cocktail, he will just mock
me incessantly. And like he was telling people, we're at
our friend Dave's fortieth birthday party this last weekend. He
was like telling people like, do you know for like
his drinks, he has like no no special measuring things.
Speaker 2: He has made we stink.
Speaker 1: Out to make sure they get to break it back.
So he was like mocking me for like the idea
of cocktails. So it's like, all right, no cocktails. Well
he's here, and I know if it's like I got
free Uddha bills the brewery, I got like a sponsorship
with them, but can't have those out because he's gonna
mock me. For me dancy have to be it. So
I go and I just buy twenty four pack of
like michelob Light, Like it's just like this is just
the most whatever, basic cheap ass beer. It's all the
matters to them is that it's cheap, and he's heard
of it. And I pull it out and I saw
drink and he's like, oh, you get your fancy trendy beer. Here,
you got your fancy get you And I said that
it's not fancy. It was like the cheapest beer at
the liquor store. And he goes, Okay, well no, it's trendy.
You gotta you gotta have the trendy beer. You gotta
do do you got to make sure you have the
trendiest beer, And I'm like, Dad, it's a fucking michelob Light.
What do you so? I guess it's just bud Light
cors like Miller Lite. Those are the only three acceptable
things you can drink. And just like Jack daniels.
Speaker 2: Us, of those three, in my opinion.
Speaker 1: They're all fine. It's it's all fine. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Did he did he not like bud Light when bud
Light was like controversial?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Which is the fucking crazy thing is like he is
very liberal. This guy hates Trump more than anyone I
fucking know. And that's saying something. It's just so you
wouldn't expect him to have these LIFs.
Speaker 3: It hates rich people even more.
Speaker 1: I think he loves deals so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, to be honest with you, it's like the only
take of his that I am like moderately aligned with,
which is like.
Speaker 1: The Bears, you sort of like Trump, right, Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean only this is Nixon eras. Uh. What I
like is the classism war, and your dad hates rich stuff,
and I think that there's part of that that.
Speaker 1: He hates pretension. I don't think he hates rich I mean,
I've never heard him talk about rich people specifically, he
just hates anything art that he perceives as artsy or
trendy or pretentious.
Speaker 5: And so I would like to interpret that as it's
a class war.
Speaker 3: It's us versus them. He hates billionaires. You know what, good.
Speaker 1: Job makes it sound a lot cooler than this is.
Speaker 3: I'm trying here.
Speaker 1: Let me bring him back down to reality here again
on the same trip.
Speaker 3: He was only here, you've here the two days.
Speaker 1: No, okay. By the way, the cigarettes he smokes. I
shown him to several friends of mine that smoke. None
of them have even ever heard of this brand.
Speaker 4: Would it piss him off if I ever see him again,
if I start making fun of what he smoke and
be like, oh, your fancy.
Speaker 1: Decades should do this be the decade cigarettes that this fucker.
We are getting gas at like a not great part
of town, like we were like right across from like
people were like openly doing drugs, like sitting on the ground,
like not too far from this part of town. He
finds a bottle of water on the ground by the
gas pump, and he lights up like it's it's the
only time I see joy in his eyes. He picks up.
He says, oh, my god, look and I was like, yeah,
it's a bottle of water. Who's it's full. It's sealed.
And I was like, yeah, he's on the ground at
the gas station and the shitty part of town like in.
He goes, yeah, but it's sealed. It's fine. I said,
you're gonna drink it, and he's like, yeah, be a
fool not to. And I was a dad, that's fucking weird,
and he goes, Dan, I can't fool. I can't imagine
a single person that would deal with that situation any
differently than I just did.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: I think they could, like the amount of stuff that's
on the outside of the bottle for being at any
gas station, no matter what part of town.
Speaker 3: It's rolling around in feces of all kinds.
Speaker 1: If it was on the ground in a beautiful park
that seemed well maintained, I would not drink water off
the ground because it was free.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's just what it is that just times
like it's like literally like every ninety seconds, there is
something like almost on that level or at that level.
So it's just like you will never exhale harder than
you know. I love him to death. Good to see him,
but holy shit when he leaves, it's just like, oh.
Speaker 2: What do you do for meals? When he's there? Like,
you're not going to the places that we go to
for getting Oh?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, now he would not appreciate the uh, what's that
that we love?
Speaker 1: Oh at Dario. Yeah, you know. The one universal though
is Lion's Tap. Everyone has Lion's Tap. That burger place
that we go to.
Speaker 5: Oh, that place is like a people's place institute that's
for like the average.
Speaker 1: Joe, but it's also like really fucking good. So it's like, yeah,
so I can take everyone there and they're all pleased,
But I don't even think about taking him anywhere. Like
he just wants to get like McDonald's, Like every time.
He's got some weird loop where it's like he fills
out surveys with fake email addresses every time he buys McDonald's,
and so he gets like a free buy one, get
one free sandwich thing, and so he has this like
endless like mobi a strip of free burgers that happens,
and he's very proud of it.
Speaker 4: So they're not they're not monitoring that someone's used that
email before.
Speaker 1: He's constantly I don't know if he's doing it like
I don't know if he's creating fake ones or he
has some way where he's just filling out surveys repeatedly.
And so every time he goes McDonald's he gets a
free sandwich.
Speaker 2: That's so much work for I guess, I don't know.
It's a free sandwich, but that's to.
Speaker 1: Make a new every time. Dude. This is the fucking
guy that goes around Kanas City and knows the best
trash cans to find cigarettes with unredeemed reward points, like
in the trash digging through to get cigarette things and
trying to put in rewards points like he will, like
will drive by like an old mall or something like
that trash can I can always find, you know, three
or four reward points in there.
Speaker 3: What absolute psycho behavior.
Speaker 4: If he put that to use in other areas, I
feel like he'd be save the world.
Speaker 3: He could save the whales.
Speaker 1: He will not. He wants to get a free frisbee from.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then cigarettes. I thought of him this weekend.
I was going, uh, yeah, I did I didn't. Okay,
you said no, you didn't. I was like, you're not
in here. You don't know when I'm thinking about Paul Reikert.
Speaker 5: I was uh going to different sales, uh to look
for VHS tapes and I found in this like old
store that had all the old stuff, they had a
Joe Camel cup and it was in the original packaging
that said thank you for redeeming twelve thousand points, like
here's your Joe Camel cup. And it came and it
had like a little slot for a pack of cigarettes.
And the pack of cigarettes was gone, but the Joe
Camel mug and the packaging was in the store. And
I think that's funny because to me, I was like,
somebody redeemed twelve thousand Joe Camel points so they could
get a custom Joe Camel mug and cigarette. They took
the cigarettes out and then never took anything else, and
then they probably threw.
Speaker 3: The package away.
Speaker 5: And I thought to myself, and I thought to myself,
like that really feels like something Paul Reiker would do,
which is like buy something with points and then only
smoke the SIGs.
Speaker 1: Well, I told you, he will sell like anytime somebody
has Like if he goes to someone's house and they
have Crown Royal, he will ask for the bad like
the velvet bag comes in and sell the bag on
ebayl like shit like that. It's I took a risk
with him this weekend where it's like, I know better
than to try to introduce him to anything, because he's
just not gonna like it if he doesn't come upon
it himself. He's not like he's watched the entirety of
Breaking Bad, he told me seven times now. But he
never ever will watch a new movie or anything ever ever, ever,
So I was like, you know what, I think I
finally have a movie I can recommend to him. I
think I think if there's ever a movie he would like,
it's Sinners because he loves the blues, like old like
Delta blues and stuff, and the movie is very heavy
on that. And one of his favorite, like the person
he's seen a concert more than anyone is Buddy Guy,
who he's involved in the movie.
Speaker 3: I won't make Those are two solid reasons.
Speaker 1: Yes, And I was like, and also like when I
was grown up, he like read a bunch of like
Stephen King, and so he is like enjoyed like kind
of spooky stuff in the.
Speaker 3: Like from Dust Till Dawn.
Speaker 1: Uh, he just talks about it. He has watched the
Samahak scene a lot of times.
Speaker 5: Mike, you actually do have something in com all right, whiches.
Speaker 1: We know exactly where the sex scenes are in most movies.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, forty nine minutes in Amazing.
Speaker 1: I could go without the part where Tarantino's deep throat
in her foot, but you know whatever, Yeah, maybe you could,
but it changed me for I can't get off. I
can't get off about it now. So I had him
watch Centers, and to his credit, like he just he
will never ever watch a new movie really, and Dad,
I give him the hard sell on him, Like, Dad,
if there's ever a movie you would like, it's this.
And a couple of friends heard me saying this. You
know friends that you know around here, Mike. And so
we had a couple of friends come over and it's like, Okay,
we'renna make a night.
Speaker 3: He watched this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had like a watch party, and he just
watched it all with really no emotion whatsoever. And then
I turned to him afterwards and he goes, yeah, it
wasn't for me. Wow.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 1: He's the only person I've ever.
Speaker 2: Heard being indifferent, well not indifferent, like but seven.
Speaker 1: You watch a movie and not have some thought on it.
Speaker 4: I know people who hated it, but I know a
lot of people fucking love I love that movie. But yeah,
that's a that's a I love that he didn't He
waited until the end to say it.
Speaker 1: Why can he did react when Buddy Guy showed up
on screen. He was like, hang on, what's going on now?
Speaker 3: And like he wasn't paying attention until then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard to talk about that without spoiling the movie,
but that's a very funny timing in the movie for
him to finally percoss.
Speaker 1: Yes. Uh, oh god, I love that movie.
Speaker 4: The first time I watched that, we were I was
deathly sick on my birthday.
Speaker 1: Was it last year? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sinners was came.
Speaker 4: Out last year. I finally watched in September last year.
And have I told you guys about mega bed in
our apartment?
Speaker 1: No? We made up the three D Vampire Survivors, right,
we do.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: We have a double decker air mattress that we inflate
and we'll like push it up against our sectional couch
and then I put up a couple of chairs next
to it, so it becomes a mega like the living
room becomes one.
Speaker 2: Big like money palace bed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we do that when we have like nothing to
do over the weekend, we want to watch a bunch
of movies and it's just like it's like a cozy.
Speaker 5: Big I call it, yeah, and I call it mega bed.
Speaker 1: Mary does that, but she calls it mega bed and
she just watches old rallies that she likes a lot.
Speaker 3: You guys miss it. The birthday President event of the season.
Speaker 1: He loves watching him do that from twenty sixteen. He
was on fire.
Speaker 2: He's about the front of Elizabeth Warren. This is iconic, Honey,
you get the mad.
Speaker 1: Rewind I want to hear it again, damn it. Oh
but uh, I like that we've modernized this joke with Mary. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I liked it better when I liked Nixon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all did.
Speaker 3: I prefer to be a Nixon maxer. I don't if
you were.
Speaker 4: You, Uh yeah, we did mega bed it. And I
was really sick last year for my birthday, so we
ended up up. I was like, all right, I'm gonna
make a bunch of hot hotties and we finally watched
Centers on megabed. So basically, okay, we also put the
coffee table at the base of the air mattress. So okay,
if you're looking at it from a bird's eye view,
like a floor plan of an apartment, you guys know
where our sectional couches.
Speaker 3: Actually need this detail.
Speaker 4: Because it's real cozy. It's it's not really sectional.
Speaker 1: Times times depth come on.
Speaker 4: Nine by four on one side and six on the
other where the chase loungees, and then the way bigger.
Speaker 1: I bet it is.
Speaker 3: It's the biggest. I can't do it. I can't do it.
Speaker 1: Mega bed so great. Everyone agrees, So great, everyone agrees.
Speaker 2: Many people have been telling me they love my Mega bed.
Speaker 3: My heart no good.
Speaker 1: So this is.
Speaker 4: Anyway fond memory watching Sinners with that it was fun
damn actually speaking of speaking of like, did I hear
through the grapevine that you've only recently discovered or started
caring about credit card points?
Speaker 1: Oh? Where did this come up? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Someone mentioned it recently and I honestly forget who.
Speaker 1: No, it's not a new thing at all. I love
getting credit card points. It's great. No, nud's specifically email like, uh,
that came in?
Speaker 2: I don't think we're using it tonight?
Speaker 1: Well, No, Basically, it's stemmed from a thing where it's
like usually when Bonk and I get if we go
out to a dinner like Ladaria or something and there's
a bunch of friends rather than you know, cause trouble
for like you know, like, oh can you split this
five ways? And very specifically for the waiter.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're such a fucking team player.
Speaker 1: It is like, that's just an added bonus that's not
wait before you get every.
Speaker 5: Time I'm in a fucking business meeting or anything with
friends and someone's like, let me be the bigger person,
and we're all like, we know this is for the points.
Speaker 3: You come.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I let me say, from personal experience, three nights
a week, it's not that hard to split checks anymore.
Toast point of system makes it really easy. Anyway, I
appreciate where you're getting from.
Speaker 3: It's not you're not hurting anyone.
Speaker 2: Favors.
Speaker 1: We're moved and making it easier for anyone part. It's
not an altruistic thing.
Speaker 3: Don't the idea that you wanted to start with it and.
Speaker 1: Strike it from the record, struck strike it from the record, truck. Okay,
here's I like getting credit card points? Me and bank
like getting credit card points. And so we will go
out to these dinners sometimes with big groups of friends
and they will be you know, larger bills and stuff
like that, and we will always say we will lead
with this. We will say, does anyone want to pay
and get the credit card points? If nobody else wants to,
we will put it on our card and you can binmo.
We always lead with anyone else take this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's honest. It's an honest exchange.
Speaker 1: It is. And if anyone ever like, no one ever
does it, but everyone did be like yeah, hell yeah,
I get those points, but no one ever wants to.
They just been makes it easier or whatever, and then
we get a bunch of points because it's an expensive dinner.
So that is where that came from. It's become a
running joke at Giant Bomb because maybe during some business dinners,
I was like, hey, we're just gonna like put this
on the company card anyway, how about I do it
and let's put it in as a reimbursement and you know,
like that type of thing. That's why it's kind of points. Yeah, yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's it interesting.
Speaker 1: Trust me, there's plenty of weirdo unreasonable things people can
get me on. This is a relatively normal one. Yeah,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: My friends point and we'll take we'll take turns like
my there's like two really good friends that we get
dinner with all the time, and we'll kind of rotate
through and take turns paying for the points.
Speaker 6: Hm.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we set we set the no pun intended
table stakes when we say we're like, yeah, like who
wants to get.
Speaker 1: These absolutely yes offered up. That's not weird.
Speaker 4: No, it's not weird. I honestly wasn't like trying to
say you were. I saw an email come through about
something that said, like, Asktan about the points story, and
I don't.
Speaker 1: I think it's become one of those things where it's
like people heard like, you know, ten percent of something
and they've like, oh my god, you just learned about
credit card points or whatever. It's like, yeah, no, I've
been years, Yeah I paid.
Speaker 4: We're we're all booked in October for my first time
to go to Italy, both of our first time to
go to Italy.
Speaker 1: That's even impossible that it's your first time there.
Speaker 4: It seems yeah, Yeah, I can't wait. We're doing We're
doing a few cities and then stopping over down in
Tuscany in k near Rata, So I can't wait for it.
But yeah, no, I like hadn't spent credit card points
for a while, and I was like, oh shit, the
points are going to cover the round trip and a
hotel in one of the cities.
Speaker 1: It was perfect.
Speaker 3: That's really cool that you could squeeze that much out
of it. I feel like I'm not.
Speaker 5: Very good at this, but I travel a lot for
work and I never can get a flight out of
my points, and I'm really I fly all the time.
I'm going to France tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Do you have well, now, listen, if you have like
a who's your credit card through?
Speaker 3: Oh, it's just a basic Chase one.
Speaker 2: I did Chase.
Speaker 1: To book through Chase, you get Chase points and then
you also get the sky miles like you get both
and then you can transfer in between there. You gotta
be smart with that stuff. I haven't paid for a
flight and god knows how long.
Speaker 4: Also say, yeah, if you don't book through Chase, you
don't get the same like multiplication of the.
Speaker 1: Recently, but it's still better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so annoying because the UI is really fucking annoying.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, oh, it's worth more points.
Speaker 1: Like compared to Yeah, yeah, but throwing money away.
Speaker 4: In terms of airline miles, I feel like you need
way more airline miles to beat to.
Speaker 2: Chase points.
Speaker 4: Credit card points are worth more than airline miles, if
that makes sense. Yes, I feel like you need to
accumulate more airline miles than credit card points in order.
Speaker 3: Can I use my airline miles and Chase points or no?
Speaker 1: You can transfer Chase to most major airlines, so like,
if you needed there have been times I've needed fifteen
thousand more miles and I just transfer from Chase.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh man, this show is gonna be awesome when we're
even older mortgages and more points.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm not good with stuff like that. I don't like
to do it.
Speaker 5: And I also like, I think I like to make
really silly purchases on a whim and I can't be
like bothered with uh, you know, with points.
Speaker 3: Oh guess what I bought. I bought a dual slushie maker, what.
Speaker 2: Like from a seven to eleven.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of like that juice but you can
put slipper in it. And you can make your own
alcoholic slushies. And it has two and then the glass
goes in the center and then you can spin it
and push both at the same time and it makes
us swirly slushy. Oh okay, So I made a pina
colada and I made a strawberry dacker.
Speaker 3: Ye frozen both of.
Speaker 5: Them and then spun it and made a pina colat
of like strawberry dockery drink.
Speaker 1: Oh that sounds real good.
Speaker 3: It's one of the greatest purchases of my life.
Speaker 2: Is it set up right next to your CRTV in
the kitchen.
Speaker 5: It's set up remotely close to my CRT in the kitchen.
But it was a crazy heat spike this weekend in Portland.
It was like one hundred degrees. So I set the
hot tub to eighty degrees and then I made dakeries
and drank them in the cool pool.
Speaker 3: That's what I call my hot tub when I turn
it cold.
Speaker 4: Oh oh okay, yeah, okay, So eighty degrees would cool
you off in a heat wave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just trying to do the math.
Speaker 1: I haven't got an a p one a bit, Mary.
I do think you went over as CVHS tapes now,
and I have to ask you, are you still looking
for the mask?
Speaker 3: I got it?
Speaker 1: You got it? Okay, Okay, then I'm gonna cross that
off the list because I frequently look at like VHS
lots and stuff like that. So appreciate you're looking for.
Speaker 3: I appreciate your effort. I am looking for some things
right now.
Speaker 1: Write it down.
Speaker 3: What do you got, dumb and dumber?
Speaker 5: I might have that, okay, yeah, but you probably don't
want to relinquish it.
Speaker 1: You know what, I'll say this that you when you
come here for a Game of the Year, I'll show
you what I've got. If there's anything you're looking for.
Speaker 3: You gave me Doctor Doolittle, I didn't. I felt like
it was like a pity. I felt like it was
a pity.
Speaker 1: I wasn't going to watch that one, but I was like, here,
I can give that the marriage you get free. You
pick one, you pick one.
Speaker 3: Probably he probably fucking like got it for free and
was like, listen, I thought of you, and I just
wanted you to have this VHS that I.
Speaker 4: Just send me like five its fun monkey and doctor
Doolittle He's like, what are you drinking?
Speaker 1: Gets all right?
Speaker 4: I was making one the monkey's getting wasted on the
rail of the cabin.
Speaker 1: It's been a while.
Speaker 3: I watched him monkey kind of while I was cooking, because.
Speaker 2: He started to be able to hear animals.
Speaker 4: He discovers the the monkey has a drinking problem, and
he goes out of the cabin and the monkey's like
swaying on the railing with like a like an unmarked jug.
Speaker 1: He's like, what are you drinking?
Speaker 2: He's like Geeta Rades.
Speaker 1: So weird thing to specifically remember.
Speaker 3: I know, you know what you know? That's the vagina
scene from the Matrix.
Speaker 4: Well, noah, I get that, but yeah, yeah, I know
plenty of vagina scenes, but there's only one gatorade scene
that I know.
Speaker 2: Sorry, what are the vses do you need?
Speaker 3: That was really distracting. Uh, Matrix two.
Speaker 1: Now that that was peak right there.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to get all of the double oh seven's.
Speaker 3: So I have gold Finger Golden Eye.
Speaker 1: Well, you're not gonna.
Speaker 2: Get all is it?
Speaker 1: Is it Connery or is it the Brason? Gold Goldfinger
was conn of? Well, I think she's she's mixed up though,
which I am.
Speaker 3: I am mixed up.
Speaker 5: Uh, the the logo doesn't have it just says double
O seven on it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it's which ones are they?
Speaker 1: Either Sean Connery or Pierce Brosen. If it's gold Finger
or Golden Eye.
Speaker 3: I think it's Pierce bros.
Speaker 1: Okay, it'd be him, Natasha and fam k Oh, I
haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 4: Oh, I gotta watch hars bros. And he's got a
silence ppk.
Speaker 1: Well, do you know the weird thing about the cover
in the mouth? No, okay, look up, Yeah, Mike, you
don't even know that. Okay, look up Golden Eye cover. Okay,
movie the movie right, not the game. They both count. Okay,
I just searched it and uh, it's like a weird
optical illusion thing.
Speaker 2: Oh it continues into his finger.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, yeah, it looks like his mouth like if
you just kind of like look at it. Weird.
Speaker 2: I've never seen that before in my life.
Speaker 1: Looks like he's got a bunch of shit in his mouth.
He looks like that.
Speaker 4: Bell's palsy at the moment, like yeah that's oh yeah, yeah,
choose I get that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it looks like he is like a really long chin.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have never seen that.
Speaker 1: Good movie. We want it makes more sense for VHS. Oh,
we watched something that would have been very VHS era
last night. Have you guys heard of a man Hunter?
It was Michael Mann and it is a Hannibal Lecter
movie from like five years before Silence of the Lamps
or maybe like four years. So Brian Cox from Succession
plays handible Electer, okay, and it's Michael Mann, the heat director,
and it is it's based on Red Dragon, the book
about Hannibal Lecter, and so it's just like very Michaelman,
kind of just drenched in style and very eighty soundtrack
and everything really solid. It's it's you know, the Hannibal
elector helping an FBI, the FBI guy who caught him help.
Speaker 3: Is it a psychological thriller?
Speaker 1: I called that. Yeah, it's a it's a man hunt
for a for a murderer that's like killing families and stuff. Yeah,
it's it was It was cool. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: I love a good like uh, sometimes I want to
turn my brain off and I don't want to think
too much and I just want like a fun evening ride.
Speaker 3: I don't want it to be like too intense. So
I also watched something recently that I think maybe you
guys would like if you haven't already seen it, it's
called They Will Kill You, and I've not heard of this.
I would be careful.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's spoilery, but I think the visual
style of it is what makes it so interesting. I'm
surprised that no one's I don't know if this film
did very well, but it's very it's very fun. So
the premise, and I'm gonna be very careful with it
because I think there's lots of like twists and turns
in it. But just like the simple premise of it
is like there's a girl like staying at a place
and then they all just start trying to kill her,
and that is like the general premise, So I don't
think that's a spoiler. But the action scenes are so
sick and surreal, and she's good, like she's.
Speaker 3: Not going to go down without a fight.
Speaker 5: And I was blown away by the direction of this,
like the director was on a tear doing this.
Speaker 1: We got Patricia ar kadd She's great and I have
not seen Heather Graham in anything since I feel like
twenty years ago.
Speaker 3: She's good at it too. Probably you will not like her.
It's great.
Speaker 5: I think I don't always do these like big old recommends,
but Dan, I think this is one I'm going to
toss your way as like a I'd like to see
what you'd think of this, But I will preface this
is not a like I think there's a plot hole
like three four, So.
Speaker 1: Don't do that.
Speaker 3: This is a This is an action slashy.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 3: Why is why? They just keep fighting each other for
like an hour and a half and then it's over
and I loved it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever complained about a plot
hole or noticed one.
Speaker 5: I don't think you would, but I think I'm just
I'm I'm prefacing I wouldn't even notice to kind of
lower the barrier of like this seems ridiculous. Would the
police have ever considered this? And it's like, yeah, that's
a classic.
Speaker 1: Dan is the lover of face off. It's just like
everything needs to make sense.
Speaker 4: I recently watched rewatched Once upon a Time in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: I need to rewatch that. I bet I would like
it more.
Speaker 4: I did still hold up well, so I didn't like
it the first time I saw it, and then I
thought I talked about this. It's become my plane movie
when I'm not playing a game or reading, three hours
just vanishes because it's like it's very Scorsese. I know
it's not Scorsese, it's Tarantino, but it's Scorsese pace. It's like, really,
someone's driving down like the Penga Canyon and it's like
the music playing. Then they go to the Valley canyon.
It switches song. It's like a very la love story.
So then it switches songs and all of a sudden,
it's a new character. No, no, no, I'm saying like, yeah,
it's like, are you is that a boy meets World reference? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I don't know any other form of topanga.
Speaker 4: No, it's like a it's a neighborhood. Oh yeah, I
might be mispronouncing. Apologies to the Angelino's that listen to us.
I don't know if there are, but it's funny seeing
that movie when you finally meet the Manson family cult.
There are so many actors who were about to get big.
Speaker 2: Sidney Sweeney. I think Dakota Fanning, Mikey Madson before she.
Speaker 1: Did, Al Fanning, Dakota has been around for a while.
Speaker 4: Al Fanning, Mikey Madson before she did. Is it Mikey
Mikey Madison before she did Anora. Mikey Madson ago, not
Mike Madison, right, Michael Madsen died two years ago or something.
Oh god, no, Mikey. I think it's Mikey Madison who
did Anora.
Speaker 2: Okay, sure she is one of them too.
Speaker 4: She is the one who gets fucked up at the
end by the dog and then gets let on fire
and falls into the pool. But that movie has problems,
for sure, But it has become like there's something about
the pacing.
Speaker 2: We've talked before, like no movie should be three hours.
Speaker 4: Sure, there's something about the pacing of that movie where
it's just this collection of short stories that's tied together
by this historical event. And it was the third of
Tarantino's like revenge movies, after Django and and Glorious Bastards,
where he's like he's well sorry, he's specifically his alternative
history Revenge where he's rewriting it so they like machine
gun Hitler's face rerisles, so the slave rescues the love
of his life and kills all the plantation owners. And
then this one, they go into the wrong house and
Cliff Clint Booth and Rick Dalton end up killing the
people who in real life murdered Charon Tate and her
friends and the baby. But like, yeah, not a perfect movie,
but I don't know what it is. It makes three
hours melt away on a plane, so I downloaded. It's
on Hulu, So I downloaded on Hulu before every flight,
and like, if I'm done with MEGABONK or Tower Dominion
or whatever or we like doing whatever, I'll be like,
all right, I'm gonna Oh, we've got three hours left
in the flight.
Speaker 2: I could probably finish the movie right now. And it
kills it.
Speaker 1: Can you guess what my father's problem with that movie is,
because he did go to see that.
Speaker 2: It's too lot of them.
Speaker 1: No, he went to see it because he's fascinated with
Charlie Manson and those stories.
Speaker 2: And oh he's only in it for like a second.
Speaker 1: No, he's just like, none of that stuff happened at
the end.
Speaker 3: It's not real.
Speaker 2: Of course, seen any other Tarantino.
Speaker 1: No, you know, because he hates hated them since pulp
fiction busy things. Uh, Tarantino is being artsy just to
be weird by making it. It was all out of order.
He's just been artsy and weird.
Speaker 4: I've rewatched a lot of Tarantino in the last few years,
and I've actually been like not loving at.
Speaker 1: All with a reservoir dog is not too long ago,
and it's still fun.
Speaker 3: Once upon a time, watching like an actual art movie
with your dad.
Speaker 1: I made him watch a net I would hate you too.
He got two hundred dollars for it. Oh geez, not enough. No,
no twitch chat.
Speaker 2: Okay, because I haven't. I still have not watched that movie.
Speaker 3: Does he like scary movies?
Speaker 1: He doesn't like anything? Yeah, just in general.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what a fil day look like if you had
to describe it.
Speaker 1: Not having to leave the house or do anything or
put on pants or take a shower or anything.
Speaker 2: And what's he doing at the house. Literally nothing.
Speaker 1: He's sitting in his pajamas selling baseball cards and he's
got ceing in on TV.
Speaker 3: He wakes up, but he has something cool for breakfast,
like a.
Speaker 1: Cigarette, and then he scores himself a ten out of
ten on his family guy's rest right before he goes
to bed, and like.
Speaker 5: For lunch, he has something cool like a cigarettes, maybe
a bit of chocolate, one red wine.
Speaker 1: We go on the terrace with our cigarettes.
Speaker 2: We do one red Wine two red Wine chocolate.
Speaker 1: Are at all the time.
Speaker 3: Well, that's fun.
Speaker 1: Verry European.
Speaker 5: I did see Hokum, which Mike you recommended me. No,
Jake Decker recommended.
Speaker 3: We're gone. Sorry, I actually there are different.
Speaker 2: Guys recently, so I'm surprising that.
Speaker 5: Well we swapped you for Jake. And it's funny because God,
Jake is going to listen to this. When I saw
Jake at Summer Games Fest, I said, I saw Hocum.
Mike recommended it, and Jake looks at me goes I
recommended it, and I said, oh right, you were there is.
Speaker 4: Dan getting abducted by a.
Speaker 3: Huge splash of light.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening. You got the cactus cat tree, Yes.
Speaker 2: I've seen that.
Speaker 1: Asked me what I wanted for my birthday and I
just this for my cat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got them Mario mushroom one. Sorry Hokum. Anyway,
I don't think Jake is recommended to me. I will try.
Speaker 3: Not recommended Hokum to me. And it's very good, and
so I think you would like that. Mike.
Speaker 5: I thought it was really good for anything about it.
It's got that guy from Parks and reck in it
Chris Pratt, Rob Low, Adam Adam Adam you from The Regular,
the average Joe looking guy from seven.
Speaker 1: Sorry, yes, Adam, Adam Scott, Adam Scott and.
Speaker 5: He uh he plays like an unlikable guy who is
a writer and he goes to a hotel. Jake explained
it on the last episode, so I will go into
it all over again.
Speaker 3: But anyway, it's witches.
Speaker 1: Oh cool. I don't know if I've seen like I've
seen Blair witch. I don't think I've seen a lot
of like witch based.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 5: It was a good recommendation, Mike, thank you for thank
you for the wreck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're welcome. I love home, I have to The
witch is good. Oh weapons is a witch and that's yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Witches are in right now. So yeah, it's Hocum is
a witch too.
Speaker 5: But I think it's I think it's a little sneakier
and a little bit more freaky about what's going on
because he's in a hotel room and they're like, don't
use the dumb waiter, and he totally uses the dumb.
Speaker 3: Waiter, which you should not do, and then the witches there.
Speaker 4: It reminds me of the scene when Lucas the kid
in Haunting a Hill House goes into the basement, gets stuck.
Speaker 2: Dumb waiters are scary.
Speaker 5: Matilda, Uh sorry, it's in my head.
Speaker 3: The girl the spot, thank you, I was getting there.
Did you see my brain turning?
Speaker 1: Did she die?
Speaker 3: She did?
Speaker 1: She was my age.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a total it's a total heartbreak.
Speaker 5: I loved I loved Harriet the Spice so much that
my family called me Marryott the Spy. And I would
wear a rain jacket with a mirror in it nice
and run around my neighborhood taking.
Speaker 1: Notes, solving crimes, peeking in windows.
Speaker 3: Listen for the Way to the World. Crushed my soul.
Speaker 5: I was so creative and I ran around like a
little cutie pie trying to solve crimes.
Speaker 4: I rode my bike around and I got a new
bike and I ran it. I was admiring it, and
I ran it into the back of a parked Camaro
and catapulted over the camaro onto the hood and fell
off and had to act like nothing happened.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Oh my god. Isn't that also from a
movie like the Wayne's World scene. It seems like something
that would happen in blank check.
Speaker 1: Ah, God, I love that. I honestly my whole life.
I've just I saw blank check it in blank Check.
I think it did well. No, he got his bike
did get fucked up.
Speaker 3: That was the whole reason he got That's why they
gave him a blank check.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, that kid just had the light, didn't he.
Speaker 3: I think it's funny. I saw somewhere and not to
bring it back to this, but the White House recent
craziness that happened was saying that it kind of seems
like what would happen if an eight year old magically
became president in a Disney movie.
Speaker 1: Thetest possible version of that likely's Richie Rich fucking made
it like Mount ruschmore of his own head, and that's
fun you know.
Speaker 3: I think his parents did that.
Speaker 1: That's the thing.
Speaker 4: Is Richie Rich's Christmas Wish the same plot as blank Check.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Richie Rich's Christmas wishes?
Speaker 3: Just watch Richie riches Quick's.
Speaker 4: Talk about McCully right, which one is that Christmas Wish
is sequel? Is Richie Rich the character in blank Check?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: No, is Richie Rich a movie.
Speaker 3: Richie Rich is.
Speaker 5: A movie with mccullay Culkin where his family is like
billionaires and they have Mount Richmore and this is their
son and for his birthday they give him, uh, like
a full roller coaster.
Speaker 3: He has no one to write it with because he
doesn't have friends.
Speaker 1: But then Blank checks a whole different movie.
Speaker 3: Bank Check is a nobody different. You can collect me
if I'm wrong, Like check is it nobody?
Speaker 4: Okay, But here's just confusing, Dan, Why were you also
thinking of Richie rich just now?
Speaker 1: Because they were both movies from nineteen ninety four that
were about kids that got a bunch of money. Well,
because we were talking about the Big Boy Birthday party
at the White House, and I was like, way too
much money by comparison, the Richie rich thing of like,
oh okay, making his head a mountain is like quaint
and cute.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: Okay, That's probably what was happening in my head as well,
just not I didn't realize it.
Speaker 1: That was weird to me.
Speaker 2: I was like, why did Dan also just go to
Richie rich I didn't know they're saying the same. I
have a yeah, I have an image in.
Speaker 4: My head and Richie Richie goes down this very long
slide from like his bedroom window.
Speaker 1: That's fucking blank Check.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're mixing them up.
Speaker 1: He's got the fucking big boxing gloves in the boxing ring.
He's got the big wall of TV's with all the
and stuff.
Speaker 2: I've been playing those two movies for a while.
Speaker 4: Whenever one of the cat whenever one of the girls
is like laying on the ground and I go up
and start quote unquote scritching their chin, I say, scritchy
scritches Christmas Wish and uh, I don't know where Christmas
Wish came from though, maybe because mcaulay Culkin's in it.
Speaker 3: Where are you having a stroke your memory?
Speaker 1: The one where the child has a thirty two year
old girlfriend?
Speaker 2: Oh, who's the thirty two year old girlfriend?
Speaker 3: Are you big?
Speaker 2: And who's the child? Kieren mcarrilly No, mcaulay Culkin is rich?
Speaker 1: You rich? Right? Yes? Oh? Okay, blank Check is a
different kid that I was probably dead or something out. Okay,
maybe it's just like Brian bonsall Is he's in a
band now, wow.
Speaker 2: Okay that guy.
Speaker 5: Okay, Dan, if you were go back to thirteen year
old Dan, yes, I do every day. If I gave
you a million dollars, but you're thirteen, what would you
do with it?
Speaker 1: Blank check?
Speaker 3: What would you do with it?
Speaker 1: Blank check? Big house slide, going down, go kart thing,
boxing club thing, big screen, thirty literally the same thirty
two year old girlfriend? Yeah, just what would you do
with it now? Blank check? He's not kidding when like
it's the dream.
Speaker 3: Right wall of TVs, A slide that goes.
Speaker 1: Through what I've been trying to do my entire adult
life is just like I just want the blank check life. Yeah,
play games for work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're you're three quarters of the way there. You
need to go cards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he really beat me in terms of he had
it young.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to talk about video games. Okay, we're
back talking about video games. But Dan, you have an
offer for Mary?
Speaker 1: You said, Mary. We took a little break between segments
here and I went into the storage room, and I
do have an offer for you, or a gift I
can hold on to. Oh my god, it's not dumb
and dumber. It's your choice of equally well regarded comedies
on VHS. You can have either Deuce Big Low Male,
or you could have Nutty Professor to the Clumps.
Speaker 4: I know exactly which one she's gonna pick. Magahead probably
all Rob.
Speaker 1: Current. She became became a fan fan, a big.
Speaker 4: Fan of the Bell Hop from Home Alone two now
also trumps in.
Speaker 1: That actually she loves homelone two.
Speaker 2: You love that movie, cheeks bony.
Speaker 3: Bob, Cliff, I actually do love that movie.
Speaker 4: I literally I'll text Mary on a Friday at like
midnight Eastern and I'll be like, cheeks bony Bob and
she'll text back and.
Speaker 1: All Cliff, I was fucking dying. We watched that like
years ago, me and Bunk did. There's that part where
he's throwing so many full ass bricks off a rooftop
at this human man's skull. He would be just crushed.
Mortal Kombat Fatalent.
Speaker 4: There's a YouTube compilation. I think that it's like they've
done one for each movie. It's like the number of
times they would have actually died. Oh sure, yeah, Like
you probably could have died when they dropped a an
iron straight on your face down a garbage laundry shoot.
Speaker 1: Deeply concussed, when the paint bucket comes down into your face, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, No, it's when Marv is on the ground
at the garden level of the Brownstone.
Speaker 2: He's like here because he sees about to throw another way.
Speaker 1: That he sees the less.
Speaker 2: The sound effects like.
Speaker 3: The bricks sound effects are good. I love folly.
Speaker 4: Speaking of lyrics, I'm learning speaking of bricks, Dan, Yes,
you have a new brick in your living room?
Speaker 1: What what kind of lead in is that?
Speaker 2: The steam machine?
Speaker 1: That's not a brick?
Speaker 2: Well tell me what?
Speaker 1: Tell me what it is? That is a I love
this thing.
Speaker 2: That's in a cool way like that's a No, that
was that?
Speaker 1: You were talking about hardware, which people do universally call
a brick a broken and no.
Speaker 2: Sure, let me start over.
Speaker 1: Yeahyeah, give me a better one. Okay, you know it's
not a brick. That's also shitty.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, hold on, Dan, do you have an offer
for me? Can you tell me about the steam machine?
Speaker 1: I'll let you play it when you come over here.
Speaker 2: Oh sick, thank you? Yeah you have a steam machine?
Speaker 1: I do. I've had it for uh coming up on
a couple weeks now. It has been taking up all
of my time. If you're listening to this, there is
a video up on Giant Bombs YouTube. I spent the
last couple of weeks putting together and editing and shooting
and testing things for so I've been That is the
thing I have been doing for the last couple of
weeks is just fucking around with the.
Speaker 3: Steam Machine and what have you been playing on it?
Speaker 1: I've been trying to test everything, you know, I did,
you know, obviously, I start with like a bunch of
like modern graphically intensive games. The first thing I downloaded
was Double seven First Light, and I tested it and
I tested it, you know, versus the forty ninety laptop
versus a Steam Deck. So I was just trying to
get a sense, you know, versus gonna PlayStations. In the video,
I do a rundown if I show five different devices
playing Desk Stranding two and you see like the price
associated with each one, which we'll get to and what
you get for that basically, So that's that's a big
question we'll get to. But in terms of running games,
I found that it will run a lot of modern
games at four K sixty not all it like Requiem
ran fucking great, that our engine is unbelievably good and
looks great on the Steam Machine. There are some like
even like weird ones like Last of Us Part two Remastered,
which is you know, years old. At this point, I
could not get that to run at sixteen unless I
went down to like low low settings and like fourteen
forty P. I have found that most games, almost with
that exception, if you run them at fourteen forty P
and do some tweaks of the settings, you know, like
ray tracing will kind of hurt the frame rate. You know,
certain things will hurt the frame rate, but you can
get most things running in a way that look really
good and they're running at sixty frames a second. So
as of right now, yeah, pretty much everything I tried
you could get to a good spot with, and anyone
who gets it, I would say fourteen forty P is
like the magic bullet for me. I think they set
it to be default ten EIGHTYP for games just so
everything runs looking great, running great, but you can, like
you can crank most things up. So yeah, I played
a lot of like recent games like that did the
emulation stuff. I followed the exact same emulation guide I
did for my Steam Deck. Works exactly the same on
the Steam machine. It's the same. Uy, if you've ever
played like docked with your Steam Deck or Steam Big
Picture Mode on a PC, like it's just a super
readable UI. It works great.
Speaker 3: Can you show me.
Speaker 1: I can grab it if you want.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to.
Speaker 1: Say, okay, okay, okay, bap.
Speaker 4: So yeah, actually funny. Now we have an email later
I'll save that. I noticed there's a head crab sticking
out of the alien the xenomorph.
Speaker 2: Now you notice that out of his mouth. That's new
to me.
Speaker 3: He probably got it as a gift or some shape
probably found it.
Speaker 2: I don't it looks Why is it gold.
Speaker 3: Spray painted?
Speaker 4: It is he spray paying things gold? That's that's the
always sunny bit. When Frank has Charlie's Max spray painting
the chair gold. He's trying to make it look like
it was dipped in gold. Oh, it's a cube, not
a brick.
Speaker 2: He just hit himself in the face.
Speaker 1: Well, I just sounds liked it while it was in
sleep mode for the first time, So I'm blaming you
if it breaks it. I've been to try that so
really quick.
Speaker 4: So you're about to show us, yes, correct me if
I'm wrong. Just to set the stage for people who might,
for whatever reason, not be aware. The idea is that
this is like Steam's console to accompany the handheld that
is a Steam deck and your PC as the like
uh triumvirate of places to play games via Steam.
Speaker 1: I want I want to say they said it was
six times more powerful than the Steam Deck.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, And when you lift it, I'd like for
our audio listeners for you to describe it.
Speaker 1: Well, hang on, which face plate do you want? Because
I have three that I got the two terribile one
that comes with the three. So do you want the
felt red? Do you want the walnut or do you
want the standard?
Speaker 2: I like walnut?
Speaker 1: You want that's the one felt But I've been going
with I will to fix this all right? You want
to see it now?
Speaker 3: Yes, I want to see it.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's like a perfect cube. The speaker.
Speaker 1: It's a little bigger than a game cube. It's heavier
than a game cube.
Speaker 4: It Yeah, it looks like if you took half of
a head. It looks like if you took half of
a Series X.
Speaker 1: It is exactly that. In fact, in the video I
put I put it right next to a Series X.
It is almost like exactly.
Speaker 2: The USB slots are on the bottom on that as well,
and so that that is the.
Speaker 1: Thing it has. You got Ethernet on the back, you
got display port, so you can do a couple of
monitors out you got two USB's, you got a USB
C power, and then up front you've got the two
USB a's and then you've got a micro SD right there.
So it is. It is absolutely a console. And the
reason it appealed so much to me when I first
heard about this was like, I mainly play PC games.
You know, it's usually in games, it's usually what you
get the codes on stuff like that. So I've got
like a laptop or desktop hooked after my TV at
all times. I have forever now, and it can just
be paying the ass, like Windows fucking sucks, and things
that worked one day can be broken by an update
the next day, like I always had that problem with
like oh audio is not working again, guess I'm not
playing this game until I fiddle with this for thirty
minutes or the screen is flickering or something weird is happening.
So this is like the simplicity of the Steam deck
put into a little box that you plug into your
TV with an HDMI cable and the controller works great
with it. It is like you can set it to
like gyro mouse mode. It's got the track pads for
the mouse the keyboard input is actually a lot better
than expected on the Steam controller, so it is absolutely
accomplishing the thing and it's trying to do, which is like,
don't worry about having a PC connected to your TV.
If you want to play PC games in the living room,
it is fucking great for that.
Speaker 4: And like I guess also another part of the peal
is that you could be playing your Steam Deck on
the commute home and then turn it off, sync with
Steam Cloud, and then you could get into your living
room and keep playing where you picked up from.
Speaker 1: The That is a video I shot a few hours
ago where I just started a new file on Sonic
Mania on my Steam Deck. I beat one level, I
closed the game out, I immediately booted up my Steam
machine and boom sync with a cloud. There you go.
So it is just like it is just talking to
each other. It is like Steamed just works really really well.
And this ecosystem working together with a portable and a
like home console, it's it's fantastic.
Speaker 4: It's like the promise of the switch, but the power
of the like docking the switch, the power is not
going to jump up that drastically as turning your Steam
Deck off and then going to your living room to
play the Steam Machine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like power wise, realistically, I think this probably
sits somewhere around a base PS five Oh okay, I
mean I think I think that's what I would say,
because like, you know, Base PS five can do four
K sixty certain games like I play a Requiem on
I guess it was PS five Pro, but it maybe
it's somewhere in between PS five and PS five Pro,
but it's you know, it's definitely not I've got a
fifty eighty desktop. It does not run things that well,
so it lies somewhere in the kind of like current
console space in terms of power.
Speaker 2: I would say, And I do want to ask, is
it public?
Speaker 1: How much it costs?
Speaker 3: I wait, I want to guess it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you were hearing this podcast, it is public.
Speaker 2: It's public now. But I thought I thought they did not.
They have not announced before.
Speaker 1: No, I think they acknowledged vs some like press releases
and stuff, just like acknowledging like conditions leading.
Speaker 5: When we talked about it on the podcast last I said, well,
it has to be like around five hundred bucks because
if it's too expensive it'll be ridiculous. But that's before
PCs went crazy every and now every and now everything.
Speaker 2: Dude, the thunderby yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the hor moves straight is open again?
Speaker 6: Uh he.
Speaker 3: What am I saying?
Speaker 2: Hey, you're always thinking of this team.
Speaker 3: Deck is like eight ninety nine now, which is nuts.
Speaker 1: Right, So take that? Okay, So if the steam deck
is I think it's that's like seven eighty nine. I
think the base steam decks like seven eighty nine.
Speaker 3: Also really expensive, but the old expensive. Yes, it's fucking expensive,
so I'm gonna up it.
Speaker 1: To Okay. Actually, before we do that, let me say,
because there are different models.
Speaker 3: And bundle tiers, Yeah, which one of Yeah.
Speaker 1: There are two consoles and each one has a bundle option,
So let's just go with Like, I'll just tell you
there's a five hundred and twelve gigabyte version and there's
a two terr BYT version. Which one are you have?
I had the two terr BYT bundle, So let's guess
the five to twelve the base Yeah, yeah, no take equation,
just the consopt no controller, no controller.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, no controller.
Speaker 1: Just the bundles are adding a controller or the two
terabyte one you get two face plates, the one show
for the base five to twelve.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was gonna say eleven hundred.
Speaker 1: Split the difference ten forty nine.
Speaker 3: Hey, what close? Is out going over?
Speaker 2: So the two terabyte is what thirteen?
Speaker 1: I tell you? So yes, the twenty well, hang on,
the five to twelve is ten forty nine US dollars.
The bundle with the controller is eleven twenty eight, So
you're you're getting a little because the control is usually
a hydrid, so you're you're saving like twenty twenty five
bucks or something on the controller.
Speaker 2: And two terabyte is what?
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 4: I just said thirteen hundred, but now I'm thinking it's
more if the controller is twelve or you said the
controller with the controller's eleven?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: Okay? See the five to twelve is taste five to
twelve with the controller is eleven twenty eight eleven twenty eight?
Uh for two terabyte? What is that?
Speaker 4: Four times the memory? Yeah, let's say okay, actually I'm
going to raise that's a thirteen fifty.
Speaker 1: Okay, Mary, what is in it again? Two terror It's
just the two terribi console four.
Speaker 4: Times the base memory basically, And what did you say, Mike?
Thirteen fifty.
Speaker 1: Is that what I said.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, thirteen thirteen fifty one, Bob, I'm sorry you're
both over.
Speaker 1: It's thirteen forty nine.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, I understand you were exactly on the money. Yes, okay,
and so yes, the bundle of the two terribike and
the bundle both come with the two face plates, but
then the controller comes with the bundle, which is fourteen
twenty eight. Jesus.
Speaker 2: The fourteen twenty eight is if you got like the
that's the top.
Speaker 1: Bundle, the two terabyte, it's the controller, it's the three
face blades. Yeah, so it is. Fuck. Let me let
me ask you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if if you did not were not reviewing it,
which one would you have bought? Would you have bought
any of them? And if so, which one would you
have gone for? Which do you think would be worth it?
Speaker 1: I probably would have bought one. This is a very
appealing thing for me.
Speaker 4: The concept itself is very appealing because I use my
steam Deck anti piece. I use my steam Deck a lot,
and I use my PC more than anything. To have
a middle thing there where it's comfortable is like what
I want. So the concept is very appealing.
Speaker 1: And that's what I said in the giant bum video
is that, Like, I think for this to make sense,
you have to like be very much like find the
concept appealing and also have disposable income, because this is
like this is not cheap. But again, that's not just
a vowel thing. That's an intended thing. That's the so
any thing that's like everything, what if the.
Speaker 3: Peace breaks, do you think you could just replace it
or you in troble.
Speaker 1: I did talk to Steam like you know, designers at
Valve about this today and it is customizedable. You can
go in there, you can put in an M two,
added storage and stuff like that. Like they're very friends
le to tweaking stuff. They were even talking about people
doing like de soldering and stuff that people have done
that with like Steam decks, like they are open to that.
In fact, like the face plate thing, I asked them
if they were going to be creating a bunch of
new face plates and they're like, no, we just kind
of made the two for the bundle, and they just
know people like they're going to share the files for
people to make their own, to print their own to
you know, like they're just fully like, yeah, people are
gonna do their custom ones like it's just four magnets
that hold it on so.
Speaker 2: I can match it to my controller that matches the
paint in my apartment.
Speaker 1: You absolutely could, yes, so but yeah, to answer your question,
I would buy one. I I'd probably do the five
twelve because I feel like I could do the juggling
enough of like, all right, I'm done, I don't need
call of duty on this thing. I'll you know, download
this one hundred gigabyte game until until I beat Bond,
and then I'm gonna uninstall Bond and free up a
bunch of space. But like it's also obviously this thing
is going to be amazing for a lot of the
stuff we play, like a mean to the hollower, like
a lot of indie games and stuff. You could load
this fucking thing up with a million retro games, indie games.
You can also just put the micro SD card in there,
like in a five hundred and twelve gigabyte microSD card,
and it just works so like you can get to
you can cross that bridge if you want to. So
I probably would have bought the five twelve gigabyte.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was gonna say that sounds like the most
appealing to me.
Speaker 4: With the controller I guess you don't know, Like, actually, wait,
that's another thing I should ask. I'm assuming this is
just compatible with whatever controller you want to use, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: You can bluetooth anything. You can use, like eight bit
dues you can use. I mean, I do love the
Steam controller now, and like you don't need the dongle.
It's all like it has the receiver built into the
box itself. So it's just it's gonna be nice to like,
you know, I do want to buy more controllers and
like that way a lot of times, Like Lego Party.
I like playing Lego Party, but I run it off
a fucking laptop, and every time Windows has fucking forgotten
all of my controller sinks and all this stuff, and
I have to like spend twenty minutes setting it up
every time. Now, if I just I want to buy
some more Steam controllers, and just like these are the controllers.
Turn it on. It plays great, it looks great, these
controllers work with it perfect. It's a major like ease
of youse situation.
Speaker 2: With this what's been your favorite game that you played?
Speaker 1: To be honest, it's been so like with making this
video and everything, I just was trying and recording so
many different types of games. Like I have not gotten
to the point where it's like I'm sitting down and
playing through this entire game on here.
Speaker 3: It's just joint.
Speaker 4: Is there a game that while you are doing the
review that you're like, oh fuck, I can't wait to
actually once I'm done with the review, sit down with
this game with a Steam machine.
Speaker 1: I mean, one thing I really like is just the
idea of like, you know how much I like emulation
and retro stuff, and you know you can do that
on a computer. I'm done to the million times. But
like again, you're dealing with Windows, open up retro arts,
you know, full screen. It s think the controllers see
if anything funky happens. Now, it's just like the UI
makes it so much smoother. If you've ever done emulation
stuff on a Steam deck. It's just like my dad
was here and he mentioned something about playing kN Griffy
for Superintendo, and like, now that's a two second thing
instead of like, okay, hang on, let me get this
working and stuff. But yeah, as far as like, you know,
modern games and stuff, I realize like, oh shit, I'm
right at the end of meaning of the hollower, Like
that's gonna be a perfect one to go back and
forth between the steam Deck and the Steam Machine on
like any indie stuff is going to run like a
dream obviously. I think us three appreciate a good plane game.
Speaker 4: I think the dream of the Steam Machine is that
you're on a flight home and you're getting toward the
end of a game that you've been really enjoying on
the flight, and then you're like, well, fuck, now we're landing,
and then you turn it off and you get home
and you finish it from the comfort of your couch
once you're settling at home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, sounds really nice. You could do that with
the PC, to be clear, but.
Speaker 1: Like there's something about possibly, but like the amount of
steps that you add just really you know, like that
takes the wind out of my sales a bit. One's like, Okay,
I know I can do this, but I'm download extra
stuff and I.
Speaker 4: Don't want to sit in my computer chair after I've
been in a anconomy seat on a plane all three hours.
Speaker 1: Uh, Like it sounds I think both of you would
love this. I think you know, Mary, I know you
all the time.
Speaker 5: It's in my wheelhouse. Uh, I think I would love this.
I think it would work really well as well as
my my evening living room computer. I think that's what
it's designed to be, is like my casual computer. I
need like my beefy game computer for streaming. But like,
to me, this is like a really easy and my
I have a computer downstairs in my living room, but
it's going on seven years old and so like I know,
it's not gonna live forever, and it turns off randomly.
Speaker 1: It simplifies to like, you know, I've had the PC
connected to the TV and living room since like nine
or whatever, and it's just like you also gotta have
the Bluetooth keyboard, you got the Bluetooth mouse, you can
get the little shitty you know, handheld one, but like
this controller kind of eliminates the need for a lot
of that, although it is also super fucking easy if
you want to play things with keyboard and mouse to
just plug in a dongole, do a blue tooth thing
and you can do that as well. But like I
was playing Mike, I was playing Command of conquer Red
Alert two from the couch. I am playing fucking Reddler
two from the couch with the controller. It's pretty fucking good.
Speaker 4: God, I imagine how many fucking Prism tanks you could
have the patience to build up if you're laying on
a couch she set out a computer check or mirage
the forests you make of mirage thanks between your base
and the enemies.
Speaker 1: It is a it's a tricky one to talk about because,
like I mean, if we're just talking about it removed
from price and everything, it is just like everything I
say about this is going to be super glowing, and
it's hard to even call it a criticism the price,
because again it's not this is not a valve thing.
This is a state of the world and technology thing.
But it's fucking expensive, so it is like so hard
to like. For instance, Kayla, my sister, who like she
would love to be able to play peak with us
on Giant Bomb. You know, she she played it once
when she was over here. She joined the stream and
it was fucking hilarious. She has never played or downloaded
or installed a PC game in her life. She's never
just like owned a PC until she started streaming, Like
this would be perfect for her and her needs. But
like I'm not going to tell Kayla to like, hey,
go spend over a thousand dollars on this. You know
it's there. You really got to have my CPOs Land comment,
and you really got to have the desire to play
PC games in her TV.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my brother has would my brother I would love
this even more than I would, But he's got four kids.
I don't know if I can recommend he gets this
so he can play the games he likes, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think it will definitely become my
most played gaming machine period. Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great, Like sounds good. I just got to
scrounge up thirteen hundred forty five forty nine dollars good,
damn it.
Speaker 1: I want you to because I want to hear you
talk about it because I think I think if you
got one, it'd be like, m that that was worth it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure i'd be I'm sure i'd feel like
it's worth it once I get it. But that like
is a steep stairs to climb to get to that point.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just spending five thousand on a chimney
repair right now, and it's not nearly as fun as
the fucking steam machine we had.
Speaker 4: We had to replace the fucking boiler in our basement.
It was the worst thing ever. I'd be rather the Boiler.
Speaker 1: Can't fucking know you can have like Fourer, Steam Machine.
Boiler can't play Total War Warhammer three. Have you tried? Ah?
Speaker 2: No, there's some Uh, there's some what do you want
to call it? Carbon monoxide?
Speaker 1: Down there?
Speaker 4: You you finished Double seven first Light We talked about
last episode.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts now that you've seen the whole thing?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you guys had played it, and I hadn't played
it at all because I didn't know that I had it.
And now I have played it and I played through
the whole thing. I I think I feel little differently
than you guys. I've really enjoyed it, but I think
it was a little clunky towards the end, and I
got stuck several times to the point where I was like.
Speaker 3: Am I bad at games?
Speaker 5: And then Minati came into my stream and was like, oh, yeah,
I got stuck here too for ten minutes.
Speaker 1: Which part, well, he's bad at games too, that is true.
Speaker 3: Maybe we're both shit.
Speaker 1: Was the worst gamer Giant Bombyah.
Speaker 3: There was an area where we were shooting a place
up at the very final and there were two snipers
behind two areas.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it's like an office and you're going around
like a curved thing with like three tears, and.
Speaker 5: The guy keeps saying, I'm not gonna be able to
get around this. I'm gonna have to be creative, yes.
Speaker 3: And I was like, cool, So there's probably like a
tube I have to shoot, or like there's something sneaky,
and so I get one of the snipers and I
cannot figure out the other sniper and I'm getting killed
by it and I'm trying to run past it and
I'm trying to figure it out. It turns out the light.
Speaker 5: But at no point before I think was I like
really prepped and trained to shoot the light, and so
I just didn't think about it and I got stuck there.
Speaker 3: I also got stuck at a.
Speaker 5: Later part where it was like hurry up and catch
up to the main bad guy. Here's a maze, and
I got stuck there too.
Speaker 1: I had several points near the end where I was like,
I was the story was clearly wrapping up, and I
was ready to kind of get to the end, and
then it was like there's one part where it's just
like you're walking through another like kind of maze type thing,
and it's just like holding your watch vision and trying
to see what glows and be like, all right, I'll
press that. Okay, now I can walk through this door
and now I okay, now I'll press that one and again,
you know, also.
Speaker 3: Like and he's also like, I better hurry up and
save Monty Penny or whatever. But it's like, what is
that what's her name?
Speaker 1: Monty Python, but you like combined it with money penny.
Speaker 3: She says it, sorry he says it because he's British.
He's like, I don't know how you actually say the name.
I also thought he was trying to say ma'am to
that one lady, but I think her name.
Speaker 4: Is mom ma'am when he's calling him, like that's how
they say basically, but that's how they say ma'am man.
Speaker 3: But is he calling her ma'am or is he saam
but British style mom?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, And it's.
Speaker 3: Well anyway, the lady.
Speaker 5: He's stuck and I'm lost in a maze, and he's like,
I better hurry up and save Monty Penny or whatever,
and I'm like, I don't know where I'm going.
Speaker 3: Laughing at me.
Speaker 1: Monty penny money, Like, what do you pay with?
Speaker 2: What's the he says it, he says it.
Speaker 3: I'm saying it like he says it.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't think that you just like the game.
Speaker 2: I think you have a terrible British accent. Anyway, I
absolutely know the part you're talking about.
Speaker 4: Like I said this on the last episode, I'm like,
I still think the games that it's best when io
is playing to its strengths, which is sandboxy stuff. Stuff
was fun, if not even sandboxy stuff, but like things
where there is the a modicum of room for improv.
There are parts in that game where there is very
much a clear solution to the action puzzle they want
you to solve.
Speaker 2: That wholsome momentum.
Speaker 4: I died like eight times in a row in certain
spots when you're escaping the office, Like midway through the game,
I was like, oh this, I first got the right
the laser pen no pen rockets.
Speaker 1: The pen missile thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to use this, but that whole section
was like three hundred dudes.
Speaker 4: And also like I can only throw so many guys
in these electrical panels on the wall whatever, So like
I still.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you at all.
Speaker 4: I think I owe still is not to the point
of like a naughty dog with their uh set peace momentum.
Speaker 1: But I also like, I still see it as a
huge win in terms of like that was not their
bread and butter. The bread and butter was like sandbox stealth,
and then for them to like basically do like set piece,
big action see stuff like it's a lot better than
I expected to be the first time.
Speaker 3: I'm impressed.
Speaker 5: And I think that's why we were so hyped on
it was because it was unexpected. I don't think people
expected it to be as good as it was.
Speaker 3: I am happy with it.
Speaker 5: I think what I'm saying is, is I up to
my expectations because you guys were so hyped on it,
and when I played it, I was like, oh, it's
pretty good. I think it's pretty good. I think it's
it's like a it's a good game I would love.
I'm really hoping and I think when the game ended,
they were like, Bond will return, and so it's like,
I'm really excited for what they do next with this series.
I'm glad that I think it's done quite well for
them with sales and that's great.
Speaker 3: I want them to take another crack at this. I
think it was good overall. My favorite part was the
area where you're like going to a fancy schmancy resort
Vietnam and it's it's sick.
Speaker 5: The whole thing, getting into areas that you're not supposed
to get into because it's like private, getting the guy
alcohol because he's too drunk and they won't serve him
having sex.
Speaker 3: It's great, favorite, and I didn't think they would do that.
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask Patrick, Patrick, what's his name?
Speaker 1: The actor? Awesome?
Speaker 4: What I thought?
Speaker 3: I thought the performances were good.
Speaker 1: What is going on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's amazing, Like I could see him being
Bond now, like a young Bond.
Speaker 5: I don't know a lot about Bond, but I liked
the bond isms. I think someone gave him a you know,
like a drink and like made it the way he makes.
Speaker 1: It and stuff. Origin thing of like like the girl
I think was like, oh the second is shaking that start,
It's like, what are you talking about? Yeah, stupid, it's
a solo thing with Han Solo. Oh your name is Solo,
you're by yourself? Okay, it's stupid. Yeah, and.
Speaker 5: And actually say so, I wrote down a bunch of
I was wondering, like if I were a game reviewer
and I needed to have a headline for my review,
I wrote down a bunch and I was hoping you
guys would fuse them.
Speaker 1: Oh god, okay, okay, I'll be I'll go in to
my old review out of their mode here.
Speaker 4: But yeah, make sure make sure you're reading off like verbatim,
like Double O seven first.
Speaker 1: Light is colon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you don't have to say.
Speaker 3: The colon, it's the bottom part.
Speaker 1: The subhead, the subheed. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: And sometimes I'm not a They're gonna be like different
than maybe you expect.
Speaker 1: But just we'll tell you type we don't. Okay, here
we go, the red pan out, Here we go.
Speaker 3: Did I like first Light? Let's just say I'm fond,
very fond.
Speaker 1: That sucks. That was good.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 2: Four I I love that. That's like an eight, that's
in the spirit long.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a long walk to get to the jail.
You can be longer, I know.
Speaker 6: I like.
Speaker 3: The new Double O seven left me shaken and stered.
Speaker 1: Okay, really really good. It's not bad. That's that's an eight.
That's a nine for me. I'm going up for that one, okay.
Speaker 3: Is the new James Bond worth the money penny? Yes? No, no,
just normally I didn't want you guys to bring it up.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to effect the score.
Speaker 3: Is the new James Bond worth a money penny?
Speaker 1: You just up again?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Also, there shouldn't be multiple sentences, and no, this is
a two.
Speaker 3: Half of them are multiple senses. I told you to
let that go.
Speaker 4: Dan, what's your favorite? I thought that was at nine
as well. Those were all really good.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to hear you go up next time.
I'm writing a review.
Speaker 1: Thank you? Are you more?
Speaker 3: I have several more?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I want to hear them all.
Speaker 3: The New Bond gives gamers a license to thrill.
Speaker 2: I've actually seen that one.
Speaker 3: That's four I've never written before.
Speaker 1: Three.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you actually have disappointed me with that last one.
I have to say, I'm disappointed in you.
Speaker 3: We'll try again.
Speaker 1: I like this segment.
Speaker 5: In the new Double oh seven. Your dreams become a reality.
Drive the fastest cars, shoot the biggest guns, and have sex.
Speaker 1: That's a one. That is a one.
Speaker 3: But like too long.
Speaker 4: That is so fucking long, and like wait to say that,
I like have seemed.
Speaker 3: Okay, how about I'll cut out the first part. Drive
fast cars, shoot big guns, have sex with girl.
Speaker 1: That's a twelve year old boy wrote that. That's not
that's a one that market James Bond.
Speaker 3: That's who I'm trying to get.
Speaker 1: To click on this launch, trying to make twelve year
olds five.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, a couple more.
Speaker 1: Oh God, do you like.
Speaker 3: Do you like air Vents? Well, I have the fucking
game for you.
Speaker 1: I kind of like that. Thank you. I think that's better.
That's that's an intro to a paragraph. I think that's
a that's that's a great interest.
Speaker 5: I can don't think I can discern the two. All right,
last one, The Spy Who Lagged Me?
Speaker 1: What are you saying? Like, that's not a bad tough one?
What does that mean?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 3: Well, the game didn't really lag for me. Yeah, I know,
but The Spy Who Shagged Me.
Speaker 4: Is a popular movieing that the game that you played
for the review that they are reading in the moment
lagged you just because it rhymed.
Speaker 2: If I was pissed, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Learning in a vacuum. That's not a bad subhead, but
it doesn't apply to anything game. I gotta say no
on that one. Go back to which one did you
like the most?
Speaker 2: I have to commend This game left me shaken. Answered,
that's really the one before that I like too, but
I forgot it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, after that.
Speaker 2: This game is worth the money.
Speaker 1: No, No, that wasn't it. It was it wasn't This
game is worth the money penny. It's like, do you
think that this would be worth buying or the money
penny if you purchased it?
Speaker 2: Yes, I do believe it. Would like to call in
return format.
Speaker 3: Apparently I write them like a joke.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm making a magazine here, Mary, we gotta,
we gotta be there.
Speaker 3: My first one was did I like First Light? Let's
just say I'm fond, very fond.
Speaker 1: I'll bump that up a couple of points, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Well those are my subheaders that while
I was playing it.
Speaker 1: They're always happy to help you. Uh yeah, yeah, let's hope.
Speaker 2: You also played a game called Tara Tara Tech Legion.
Speaker 3: I'm really excited to talk to you guys about this.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: This is Vampire Survivors but you get to make your
own Lego vehicle. Oh imagine like a Lego Mindstorm vehicle.
Speaker 5: It's a brick and it's got all these little slots
and you can attach guns to it. Some guns are
really powerful, but that maybe they have like a very
cone vision of you, and some do less damage, but
they have a three sixty damage of you, and some
they'll be like, hey, this is just to ram people.
It's just it's just to destroy things that you run into.
And this is a windmill and it'll saw things if
you get into it. And then you just click them
onto your car in different ways. You can put them
on the front, the back, the side. You can make
a monster vehicle that looks absolutely stupid as fuck.
Speaker 3: They're like vehicles where you're like that shouldn't exist.
Speaker 5: And then you just go into like swaths of enemies
and you just mow them down and consume them with
all of your blades.
Speaker 3: It's really sick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So you like when you level up, like using
it in Vampiresurvivus terms, when you level up in Vampire Survivors,
you're like you either get a new weapon, or you
get an upgrade to an existing weapon, or you get
like a modifier in this it's like, okay, it looks
like okay, tu.
Speaker 2: You get a new block to put on the vehicle.
Speaker 5: You get three, so it gives you, like usually an upgrade,
and each of those three it's like a slot machine.
You get three options and you pick one.
Speaker 3: And it does that three times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna buy this right now.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm glad. I think this is like what
they call a bullet heaven because you're the one like
spitting bullets out at everybody. By the end of this game,
it's it's unbelievable how hard it gets.
Speaker 1: But I think that's good.
Speaker 3: And there's mini bosses.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I excellently just bought a bundle that includes a
game I already owned, Deep Rock Survivor.
Speaker 1: Good for you.
Speaker 5: Sometimes sometimes on Steam, the bundle is cheaper than buying
the game, so you might have actually bought the cheapest version.
Speaker 1: I just put.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 1: I just put an image of this in our discord. Mike,
look at it and let me know if it does
the same thing. You're brained to mine, because I immediately
wouldn't play this game. Yeah, yes, yeah, it's this. I'm
gonna put this on the Steam machine. This be a
great one to try play.
Speaker 5: I'm raving about it right now because of the customization.
The different vehicle types that you can make are pretty vast,
and so like, I made an absurd vehicle. I should
take a screenshot of it to show you guys. But
like Lego blocks, you can say you can pick as
one of your options. I just want like a bunch
of extenders for my vehicle. And so you can make
like long pieces that shoot out of the front of
your vehicle or the back or the sides. Then you
can put like windmills on them or guns and just
mow people down. I have one that drops mines, and
so as I'm shooting people and just running around as
they're chasing me, there's blowing up in the mines behind me.
It's really fun. Oh, you can increase your boost, which
is very important because you want to boost through these enemies.
If you get stuck in a round of enemies, that's
usually how you get killed, and you want to upgrade
your defenses as well, and your health upgrades. You end
up just compounding shit on top of your vehicle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, Okay, so it's clear when
you're building the vehicle out you're adding blocks onto it.
It shows you you basically have a working preview of
what the vehicle will look like once you come out
of that pause screen. However, yeah, is it clear Do
they make it clear how it's going to actually drive,
like drive slash, affect your offensive skills, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think this game is very lenient that if you
make an absurd vehicle that probably like might not be
able to drive, usually it lets you it like just
it skirts reality enough that you can still have fun.
Speaker 3: One time, I just.
Speaker 5: Gave myself one wheel and I fell over and I died. So, like,
you have to make a working vehicle.
Speaker 3: Does it need to make sense in the world? Not
really that much bends it a little bit.
Speaker 5: If you add a shit ton of stuff on your vehicle,
you are slower, like you're heavier, so you probably don't
want to add absurd unness serious stuff. That being said,
I have added a shit ton of stuff, had a
really heavy, slow vehicle, and it didn't matter because I
was shooting rockets out of my ass and I was
just killing everything, so it didn't matter.
Speaker 3: I didn't need to be fast.
Speaker 5: I've had other builds where I've been like, I'm going
to keep my vehicle really sleek and be fast and zippy,
and I put a lot of my upgrades into boost,
so I was super fast and just mowing things over.
Speaker 3: It's up to you how you want to build your vehicle.
Speaker 5: But what's so fun is you're not just like this
is the upgrade I want, like Vampire Survivors, Like you're
just picking between three things in this game. You are
clicking these things into place in your vehicle, and it
gives you this same serotonin that you'd probably get from
building a vehicle in Legos.
Speaker 3: It feels really good to snap them into place.
Speaker 1: Let me ask, so, like, I assume you're leveling up
and it's giving you the opportunity to do this, Is it,
like does it break up the gameplay? Because that as
part of like I guess that's the positive and negative.
With the Vampire Survivors, three things pop up, you just
mindlessly kind of pick one, like okay, back to the races.
Does it Is it weird for pacing in terms of like, oh,
I leveled up in the middle of this like crazy fight,
and now I gotta like lego this thing together.
Speaker 5: I would say like towards the end of the game,
when you don't get them very often. You know, because
at the beginning you get upgrades really quickly because you're
picking up all the little googles. Towards the end, you
don't get them very often. I can be like surrounded
by enemies and have a mega enemy. They usually give
you like a super enemy to attack towards the end,
and when I get an upgrade, then nothing.
Speaker 3: It's like elevator music and I'm I'm like, oh, what
rocket do I want?
Speaker 5: I need to prepare my brain to hit continue because
I am going back into the fray with nine thousand
dps coming at me the second I hit continue, so
I do need to get back into the zone.
Speaker 6: I like it.
Speaker 5: I like the fact that I get to pause, collect
my shit, think about it. You can even and this
game is so kind. You can completely dissolve your vehicle
and rebuild it at anytime. There's no punishment for reclicking
all of your stuff around. It also is really smart
where let's say you have something that is a three
to sixty view, but you block half of it. It
lets you know, it tells you that you're only getting
fifty percent of what that gun can do. So I've
I've put a giant gun on and then realized I
needed to reconfigure my whole vehicle done it. I've taken
like five minutes to do it, and then I get
back into the boss fight and I have to like
get my shit together to attack everything.
Speaker 3: It also has upgrade tiers per person.
Speaker 5: That you're playing, and there's different people that you can
play that give you different types of vehicles with different goals.
Speaker 3: So it has a long.
Speaker 5: Play, Like you could play this game probably for like
eighty hours and it doesn't feel like it's the same game.
Speaker 1: This looks really cool. Yeah, it's fucking cool. Steam page
like gifts videos are sent Horizon. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The vehicles look like a cross between stuff you make
in Tiers of the Kingdom with Ultra Hand and I
don't know if you guys remember Dead Rising three you
make those like Va motorcycles with blades them, yes, between those, Like, yeah,
this looks rad. It literally just finished downloading while we
were talking. I'm gonna I might play it after this.
Speaker 5: I think it's I really do recommend it. I don't
think it's that expensive. I bought it in the bullet
Hell Steam had a sale recently for bullet Hell Games,
and so I bought it on sale. It's it's ten dollars,
so I think even when it's not on sale, I
think it's a good price point for how much gameplay
you can get out of this. My last cell is like,
there's this thing called a diamond grinder that you can
put on the front of your vehicle and it basically
just dissolves anything that touches it, because it's just like
mowing them. And I just kept getting diamond grinders, and
my last vehicle was like nothing but eight diamond grinders.
There was no guns, it had nothing, and I had
to touch it, had to come at me from the front.
Speaker 3: And order be dissolved. I died. I didn't make it,
But what a fun game to be able to make
such an absurd vehicle that's only grinders and it's like,
probably not long for this world, but it allowed me
to live my fantasy of just this absolute disgusting grinder
vehicle that I loved playing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to play this the uh I got Yeah.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize that it wouldn't just make sense, it
wouldn't give me another copy, but I already had Deep
Rock Survivors, which I still love.
Speaker 3: That it doesn't give you another copy, but it's cheaper,
makes sense.
Speaker 2: But I got it for nine dollars because I already had.
Speaker 4: If you don't have Deep Rock Survivors and you're into
Bulls Heavens, you should get Deep Rock Survivors, because that
was my segue. I don't have any new games since
Double seven First Light to talk about, but I flew
to and back from Seattle a couple of weekends ago,
and the Megabank I still maintained might be the best
playing game of all time. I think my flights there
and back to Seattle which are not that bad, like
five Hours was megabonk and Once upon Time in Hollywood.
Speaker 2: But Deep Rock Survivors still really fucking good on my stay.
Speaker 1: Back, and like I keep wait and it keeps happening
when like oh Amana the Hollower or something I'm working
on for work is coming out. So but like, yeah,
I'm going to games Com. I got a Germany flight
coming up, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Tara Tech is going to give this year.
It's going to be a good plane game. It's great
on a steam deck. It They have made it so
that the controls are so comfortable with a Steam deck.
I was very happy with click a clacking around my
little vehicle and building it on my Steam deck.
Speaker 3: And I will be playing this a lot on a
plane tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Nice. Good, thank you for the wreck. That game looks red.
I'm glad. I'm glad.
Speaker 3: I want everybody to play this.
Speaker 1: This is going to be a test the oh yeah yeah,
now that I'm actually done with like all the like
you know, covered stuff with the Steam machine and I
can just play a game on it, I think this
would be a great first one to really kind of
dive into.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get in there all right. Do you guys want
to talk about emails?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, As always, you can write into fire scape cast
at gmail dot com if you want questions read on
the show. We have a bunch tonight we're going to
get into. That's firescape cast at gmail dot com. Mary,
do you want to read this?
Speaker 2: First one? From regular emailer Wes from Baltimore?
Speaker 3: What a doco, Danny Zuko? What is the correct way
to open a box of cereal and then dispense the cereal?
Cheers your cons West from Baltimore.
Speaker 4: So I put this in specifically because I didn't know
there was more than one way. So this is making
me suspicious that there.
Speaker 2: Is more than one way.
Speaker 3: There's sickos out there that rip open the cereal.
Speaker 1: Wait, hang on, what because I think I've been fucking
it up my entire life.
Speaker 2: So okay, can I feel like I open it the
way it's designed to be?
Speaker 1: Open? The box part of the bag part?
Speaker 4: This is I think he's talking about both. Like, you
get a brand new cereal and you want to make
a bullet. How do you get the cereal out?
Speaker 1: Okay? You put your finger underneath the like nub part
of the cardboard and then you pull back, and then
it rips like a two thirds line.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is why I wrote in.
Speaker 1: And then you got to flop the other part up,
but it doesn't stick together anymore, so.
Speaker 2: So you you pull Okay, the tab that folds over
on top of the cardboard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you rip that? Yeah, and it always fuks up.
Speaker 2: Oh No, I I like I open it like an
envelope like that tab. That's okay?
Speaker 1: So are you starting from the edge and center.
Speaker 4: I'm getting my finger under the center and then carefully
opening the top so like it still is a big
one big flap.
Speaker 1: I think the careful might be the division here.
Speaker 4: The way you describe it sound like you're pulling the
specific middle time.
Speaker 1: I'm not like pinching the thing and pulling it back.
I'm getting like a couple of fingers in there, and
I'm like flopping it up and then it tears.
Speaker 2: What gotcha, I don't know, it doesn't matter. And then
I'm opening the bag.
Speaker 4: I'm grabbing the middle of the I'm grabbing the middle
of the bag and I'm pulling it gently, so on
one to one, and then I'm opening the bag of cereal.
Speaker 3: Let's say two virgins decide how to get into their
first vagina, like if you're opening a bag of Doritos to.
Speaker 1: Put style and the other. But then also sometimes it's
just it just happens all at once, and it's like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, but I do it on one end of
the bag, so then you I only ever open up
ideally one half of the top of the bag, so
it pours out evenly, one half of the top of Yeah.
Speaker 2: So like if you got a bag of Doritos, go
to one edge. Yes, yes, yes, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't need the whole thing. I think we're
on the same page. I'm just more patient. You're better.
Speaker 3: Wait, so you only open one end of the bag
and then you pour it.
Speaker 2: If you're looking at it, yeah, it's like if you're
looking from a up, top down view of.
Speaker 3: The bag, like we're talking about your big bed.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be uh it's I got like I have
my this thing. It's it's gonna be like that. It's
not gonna be like that.
Speaker 1: Open it's up with you.
Speaker 3: In aerial views today, every time you're trying to describe something,
you're like, so.
Speaker 1: If I was like on the ceiling architect, is what's
going on here?
Speaker 3: That my giant fed?
Speaker 4: Whenever we see apartments, or like when we're looking at
hotels while we're traveling we see the floor plane, I'm like.
Speaker 1: I don't what is this gonna? I mean, I enjoy
a good map.
Speaker 3: What's the skim mac look like?
Speaker 1: Classic alopecia? That's so her.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna send her a come pie soon. What So
is there more than one way to open a bag
of cereal box?
Speaker 3: I think you can rip it.
Speaker 1: Oh, here's a great prank if you're fine being kind
of an asshole. Okay, okay, So you're at a friend's
place or whatever, or family member's place. You take the
bag or take the box of cereal. You take the
bag out all the way open it. If it's not open,
it's this would be crazy to do with a full one.
This is like when you do it like a quarter
or something. You pour all the loose cereal into the box.
Oh right, throw away the bag and you kind of
hold it and you just kind of pop the bottom open,
you know, you just haven't open and then you slide
it back on the shelf. So I'm going to get
my breakfast here in the morning. You pull it off
the shelf, all the cereal comes out the bottom loose,
fucked annoying.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do that to you in December.
Speaker 1: Funny, do you guys eat cereal regularly? Still? I get
this cattalina crunch fucking proteins.
Speaker 2: Every once in a while, get like a special K,
the dried strawberry one.
Speaker 1: Everyone like no sugar.
Speaker 5: I have a girlfriend who always eats the special K cereal,
but she takes the frozen the dried strawberries and picks.
Speaker 3: Them out to do that.
Speaker 1: I would do that. I can't do.
Speaker 5: She doesn't like the taste of dried fruit, but she
doesn't like special K plane. It's got to be special
K with the berries.
Speaker 2: And then she has a flavor from the strawberries.
Speaker 1: We don't want that.
Speaker 3: She likes the flavor of the berries, but she doesn't
want the pen.
Speaker 4: Tell you something funny, dried fruit have way more sulfight
than anything you're ever gonna drink or eat. So that's
actually if if like you're one of the people who
tries to avoid sulfites, dried fruit are one of the
world fights.
Speaker 2: It's a whole thing.
Speaker 4: It's it's just a lot of people try to avoid
them when they're drinking a certain beverage and they have
a lot of misconceptions about it.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, well, you eat dried fruit.
Speaker 1: This is one of your things.
Speaker 3: Is like a thing. What were you gonna say about cereal?
Speaker 1: Oh? I can't do dried fruit and I can't do
lucky terms marshmallows. It's just like there's something about.
Speaker 2: It.
Speaker 1: I haven't had a U I guess I get that,
but I like them between chalk and styro.
Speaker 3: I love it, And I also like oops all berries.
Speaker 1: That's the best.
Speaker 3: Crunch.
Speaker 2: We should do a tear ranking of cereal.
Speaker 1: Peanut butter crunch. I haven't had that.
Speaker 3: I like that to fruity pebbles, good crisp, cookie crisp.
I think cookie crisp change really was for me.
Speaker 1: I was two. There's two junk.
Speaker 3: Food I don't think it tastes like cookies.
Speaker 4: Two junk foods they have changed the flavor of and
I like in my life, and it decimated me. One
was cookie crisp. I want to say it must have
been I must have been twelve years old and they
changed the flavor. It's still good, but I was like,
this is a very different Uh, this is it?
Speaker 1: Actually?
Speaker 4: It used to taste like, and look like and feel
like actual mini cookies where the chocolate chips stuck out
at random angles. They felt like organic thing, not organic,
but like felt like they weren't made in a factory
even though they were. They changed them when I was
like twelve, into things that felt more like muffin tops
with dots of chocolate in it. The other thing is
the Snyder's Cheddar pretzel bits. They changed the flavor. I
want to say six years ago. I used to eat
those all the time. From something that tastes like actual
cheddar to this thing that tasted like cheese whizz Now it.
Speaker 1: Said, like they just cut up your mouth. Those like
the taste is good, but holy crap, the Snyder's.
Speaker 3: All American cereals do. In Australia. When I live there, I.
Speaker 5: Could not find an American cereal to save my ass.
They don't let them there because they're so bad for you.
They're like the whole the whole country is like, no,
they're not allowed in here.
Speaker 3: These are bad free.
Speaker 1: Mike is probably too young to remember this. Mary, I
wonder if you do. Teddy Grams had breakfast bears. No, no, no, no,
do you remember Teddy Grahams breakfast Bears?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: They were a cereal. They like chocolate, chocolate, cinnamon and honey,
and it was fucking great. Think it.
Speaker 3: I loved uh Teddy Grams, and I loved the cereal.
But I my mom. This was like an era right
where like the moms bought the stuff. I didn't get
to choose my cereal.
Speaker 5: My mom chose the cereal that was in our household,
and it was fruity Pebbles was like the best I
could get.
Speaker 3: Most of the time. It was like cheerios.
Speaker 2: Cheerios are still a classic, though they're like the vanilla
of ice cream.
Speaker 5: Honey honeynut cheerios are regular cheerios because regular cheerios are
for psychos.
Speaker 2: I love regular.
Speaker 3: You have to have some sweet in there, no, or
you're just drinking toast.
Speaker 1: You've got to be shitting me. Do you guys know this?
Sargento balance breaks that are like little it's just like
cheese blocks and like nuts, and like it's just a
kind of like a little protein snack back thing, like
some wheat thens, some tiny wheat thens. I have these
every fucking day. I love them. I'm just finding there
is a fun balanced breaks subset and it is City.
It's Teddy Grams, Honey, it is Holby jack blocks and
mixed fruit snacks. These are three of my favorite fucking things.
I'm ordering literally like ten of these right now. Mixed
fruit sacks like Brax right now. It looks like a
little like orange slice fruit snacks and stuff. I am,
Oh my god, this sounds fucking great.
Speaker 5: Remember a cereal called Hidden Treasures that sounds familiar. They
looked they were like some of them would be empty
and some of the ship a hidden treat.
Speaker 4: Yes, oh, you.
Speaker 3: In our household.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm looking at hidden treasures and sprinkle spangles.
Oh man, I forgot about all these hidden treasures. That's right,
I remember these. I was. I remember hidden treasures as well.
That's fun mistake of the factory.
Speaker 4: Do you remember bug City the candy? Did you guys
ever get that? They tasted like sweet tearts? But they
came in a plastic container which was wrapped in cellophane
and then once look up bug City once you were
done eating all the bugs. The idea was that you
could use it to trap and have pet bugs because
there was oxygen holes in the top lid.
Speaker 1: Oh weird.
Speaker 5: That's camp come out in like two thousand and four,
when you were like eight years old.
Speaker 2: I was in two thousand and four. How old do
you think I was in two thousand and four? For real?
Speaker 1: Oh my god?
Speaker 2: Ten BUCKSA he was awesome. I was thirteen.
Speaker 1: I'm almost thirty five. I'm not a child. Stop making
fun of me.
Speaker 2: But Bucks, they don't make anything.
Speaker 3: Babies upset?
Speaker 2: All right, teky Wes, you cut, That's what he said
to me.
Speaker 1: At first.
Speaker 4: All right, Next one, Dan, you wonder what is there
a way we could true I think this is all relevant.
I did cut a couple of things where they were
flattering us, saying we're the best podcasts in the world.
Speaker 2: They appreciate what we do for them. They what would
their life be without us in their ears? But if
you want to read this one from Mike.
Speaker 1: Yes High Escapees. I had an interesting question to pose
after buying a reson before remake again recently on Steam
after owning it since launch on PS five. The original
four is arguably my favorite game of all time, and
my new purchase got me thinking about the total number
of times I bought the original throughout the game's history.
I've purchased and played Ari four in GameCube, Xbox, thirty
sixty WE PS four, Switch, PC, DVD, rum, Steam, and
even had the awful iPhone version from two thousand and
nine for total of eight distinct separate purchases. The Wei
version tops the list as the most fun gameplay in
my opinion, as it is the only one that actually
alters the way you play based on inherent controller differences.
Curious to know what game, if any, have you all
bought multiple times and do you have a definitive version
you prefer over others? That's a great question, Mike. Honestly,
I think ARI four, especially for this group, it'd be
hard to top that because of the sheer number of
re releases. And I've definitely had all the ones you
just mentioned, reviewed most of them probably. Yeah, the Wei
one is good. We went solid, like better than you'd expect. Yeah,
the other games a few come to mind. I have.
Speaker 4: I have played Haities on several different platforms, because like,
I played the shit out of it on Switch to
begin with, and then that was the first time I
came across it, and then I was like, well, it's
on PlayStation and Xbox now, so I might as well
play it on both platforms, and then also on PC.
So I have that that's a more modern one. Same
thing with Rogue Legacy. I played the first Rogue Legacy
on PS four, and then it came to the first time,
and then it came to Xbox one, and then I
was like, oh, I could plan a Vita, I could
plan a PC. So I think it's like roguelikes, is
the general answer for me. I don't there's something about
replaying them on a different platform as opposed to just
starting a new save file.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's got to be reson four.
Speaker 1: Member said, three's got to be out there for me,
like they've done that a few times. They did the
HD Collection, well, they did the first release, they did
the HD Collection, they did Subsistence, they did the Master Collection,
I feel, and they did Delta like a full remake.
So that's going to be up there.
Speaker 3: Which one's your favorite.
Speaker 1: Any of them that are based on these Subsistence one
because that's the one that changed the camp, although not
so Subsistence on PS two at the thirty frames per second,
so I would say the one on HD Collection or
Master Collection because that's the good camera plus the good
frame rate. Delta's very good too, though I like Delta,
but I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still think I like Subsistence the most.
Speaker 5: I even played the original Resident Evil one, but I
know that everyone says that remake is like the definitive
way to play that game.
Speaker 1: I if I play the original PS one release of that,
it is purely for nostalgia. If you were to play
it now, I would say, just do remake. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think Resuval the franchise is probably the one I
own the most games of across like including repeats across platforms,
because I have resumeable remake on I have the original
Gamekeey version still. I have a downloaded on PS four.
I think I have it on PC as well, and
that's just the remake. I also have the original on
two different platfor firmst PS three backwards compatibility memory serves. Yeah,
and then get to the GameCube games, you get to
residual four. I have a bunch of different units of.
Speaker 1: I mean, Akerina, time's going to get up there now.
Because you had the original, you had the GameCube one
on that we'd the silver disc. There were two different ones.
There was the silver one that you could get with
they had the four games on it, and then there
was the Master request. Those were two different GameCube ones.
So that's three. There's the three DS one upcoming remake
that's at least five, Akarinas.
Speaker 2: And ninteto switch online.
Speaker 1: Basically just it's the sixty four.
Speaker 2: But like it, like to his question, like I have
it on that platform technically, sure?
Speaker 1: Sure? Yeah.
Speaker 4: Also I don't know about that remake. I'm sure it'll
be good, but like next I'm not sure it'll be good.
Speaker 1: I'm very curious about it. Yeah. Star Fox sixty four
is another one. Which will probably be talking about next episode.
But that once had a bunch of remakes. I don't.
I've only ever played the original zero if you ever
played that was also kind of a remake.
Speaker 2: They need to remake Star Fox Adventures.
Speaker 1: No they don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I've bought different versions of.
Speaker 5: Lion King, Disney's Lion King the game multiple times, but
nothing beats that original Sega version.
Speaker 3: And that's probably just pure nostalgia. But even though I'll
play it and I'll buy it for emulators or buying
remakes so I could play it on Steam, the Sega
version is just the best.
Speaker 2: I was looking through the games in my Steam library.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I got all the big ones with
the first couple of Mortal Kombats, because like you know,
that was on every console that'd be like Genesis, Superintendo
Game Gear. I had a bunch of those. There was
like the Midway Arcade Treasures, the Legacy collection stuff, like
I bet I've played Mortal Kombat one on like eight
to ten different consoles. Yeah, I think those are my
big ones.
Speaker 4: Well, and then you have a live game pass where
it's like I probably I have access to a bunch
of games there that I didn't realize in serious X.
All right, thank you, Yeah damn it, Thank you, Mike
from Florida, all right, last one tonight, Hi Eskapees. I
am a longtime listener of the show and a recent
fan of Giant Bomb. Because of that, I have delved
into older clips and videos of Giant Bomb and have
heard the name kato'brien's referenced several times. This entire time,
I have thought Katobrian was some sort of cool games
media person who's apartment you guys would just hang out
at to get drunk and have a good time. It
wasn't until very recently I tried googling this person to
realize you guys were talking about a bar. This is
not the first time something like this has happened to me.
For a long time, I thought the NBA referee Tony
Brothers when referred to, was an actual pair of brothers
that were referees. Has there ever been something you convince
yourself was simply true because you made a one time
conclusion about it, only to be shocked later on.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 4: The Tony Brothers thing is funny because he refed a
couple finals semi Eastern Western Conference finals.
Speaker 2: This year is before the final.
Speaker 4: But yeah, like I was just talking about earlier Dan,
when you were still away for the break Mary and
I came back. I think I figured out where I
was getting Richie Rich's Christmas Wish. So I so blank
Check is a movie from nineteen ninety eight four, okay,
nineteen ninety four, in which so it was Richie Rich.
Speaker 2: But blank Check is.
Speaker 1: Not mcaulay culkin. Correct.
Speaker 2: But it's about a kid who comes across this.
Speaker 1: Guy runs over kids bike and it was like, hey, whatever, hero,
here's a blank check. Whatever, just don't fuck me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then Richie Rich is mccullay culkin who just
has rich parents and gets to build like the house
of his roller coaster.
Speaker 1: I think that no, no, no, no, I think you're
fucking like he lives in a mount rushmore of his head.
Speaker 4: Okay, However, I remember I go up to my cats
and scratch their chin, and I say, Richie Rich scritchy
scritches Christmas Wish. There's a movie in nineteen ninety eight
starring Neil Patrick Harris that was direct.
Speaker 2: To DVD called Christmas Wish.
Speaker 4: And I can only assume I'm conflating all three of
these movies in some weird amalgam of.
Speaker 1: Even Macaulay Culkin. I know, David Gallagher, this is the
Oasis guy Liam.
Speaker 2: No, that's Liam and Nole's what.
Speaker 4: No, don't make this more confusing than it already is. No,
I think I'm conflating like three different movies because I
just had it in my head that there was a
movie called Richie Rich's Christmas Wish.
Speaker 1: There apparently there is. Yes, I'm looking at Wait, that's
what you just said. I'm looking at the IMDb paid
for Richie Rich's Christmas Wish.
Speaker 2: So you guys made me feel like I didn't know
shit earlier when.
Speaker 1: I said there wasn't either of the movies we were discussing,
and we.
Speaker 3: Were talking like a mental tangent about a movie that
we weren't discussing.
Speaker 2: But is this sequel to Richie Rich?
Speaker 1: I mean maybe, but Macolay Colkin's not even it?
Speaker 6: Okay, that oatis g B movie with like some random
people did a sequel to Richie rich In the ninety Yes, No,
gallaghery is Richie rich In nineteen ninety eight?
Speaker 1: And can I also say I scratch my cat's chin?
Speaker 5: Yes, it's also got the girl from Harriet the Spy
is the girl who died, the one we talked Richie
Riches Christmas Wish.
Speaker 1: Is, Yeah, nineties is one big not of I know her.
Speaker 3: I remember her face. As soon as I saw her.
I was like, that's her.
Speaker 1: I mean Martin Mule like, yeah, we got we got
some stars in Christmas Wish.
Speaker 4: Clearly, my nineties I was starting many careers. I was
saying earlier, I'm not.
Speaker 1: A ship this fucking guy. Hang on, Richie rich from
Christmas Wish, the oasis guy. I also is in all
the Kingdom Hearts games plays Reku and Young Zi. Okay,
every Kingdom Hearts. Wow the fuck? What range Richie rich
all the Stars.
Speaker 2: He played mccullay Culkin, He was Zeya Noort, he was
an Oasis.
Speaker 1: What the fuck?
Speaker 4: This guy's the most talented person ever. Clearly, I was
just saying earlier that like being born in ninety one
does not. I don't think it makes me a nineties kid.
I don't remember it well enough. I clearly I don't
remember the nineties well enough where all of these things
are just one big nostalgia slash confusing memory, not where
they're all blending together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your brain's fucked up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it's weird.
Speaker 3: You don't know where you are.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch this now, which one all of them?
Speaker 2: Richie Riches, Christmas Wish.
Speaker 3: Here's nobody knows that movie except for you, I know.
Speaker 2: Apparently.
Speaker 5: I would say, like for me, it's probably like finding
out the things that I've been pronouncing for years and
pronounced strong, like folly and folly and.
Speaker 3: Recpcs and Reese's Pieces.
Speaker 5: Sure there's others, but sometimes I'll just say something and
someone will say, why would you say it like that?
Speaker 3: And I will say, that's the way we say it.
That's just that's just how we do it down here
in Ohio.
Speaker 1: Some of that is like reccs is something that I
know others besides you do. But some stuff is just
like a merryism, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I cannot say colloquial little Yeah, clearly coloquil.
Speaker 1: Now there's a there's a few.
Speaker 4: I said this a few years ago, and this is
a weird one I never really registered or never really
thought about. I think Kenny Rogers and Kenny Loggins were
the same person in my memory for like growing up.
When I found out that they were very different, like
Kenny Loggins did top Gun sound rock versus country. Yeah yeah,
and Kenny Rodgers very much the Gambler. I was like,
oh wait, I always kind of in my head assumed
they were the same one because the name has the
same cadence.
Speaker 1: Well, Kenny Rodgers also did weird stuff like that what
condition my condition was in? From big Lebowski like that
does not sound Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I think that was one of my big ones too,
when I found out there were different people. But I
do I do still feel like people have epiphanies where
it's like I did not know that was like an
actual different thing or same thing or whatever. But like
I didn't realize Ed Harris is the son of Richard Harris,
the actor is the son.
Speaker 2: Of the actor.
Speaker 1: I don't think I knew that either.
Speaker 4: Richard Harris played Dumbledore the Priest and kunt of Monty Cristo.
He was in Patriot Games as the IRA leader, and
then Ed harris Is portfolio speaks for itself, but I
believe he's his son. I there's a lot of celebrity
nepo stuff I did not harsh from weapons. Yeah, yep, yeah,
there's a lot of stuff like that. Well, thank you,
Joshua from Vancouver, Washington.
Speaker 1: That's our show.
Speaker 4: That's fire Escape Cast gmail dot com. If you want
your question read on the next episode or two or three.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: We've also got fire skate Merch dot com is up
and running. Let me double check that like I always do,
but I think I figured out the hover stuff fire
skate merch dot com. You can get your banana hammocks
for your dingoes this summer. Yeah, it works. Fire skate
merch dot com. There's banana hammocks. There's a Merry Christmas
Usico candle. There's a tight I shirt, some shorts, is
a hat, water bottles, whatever you want. Some coasters don't
get the one with you about the author. I actually don't.
I don't know what that's about. That dorky Christmas hats.
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Speaker 1: Giant bomb dot com. Hopefully I'm done with my light
club by the time this goes up. We'll see space
Ace still. Yep, it's space Ace. It's the coming up
on the longest one we've ever done. It's hell every day.
Other than that, definitely check out the steam Machine video
I put it on Giant Bomb. That was a fun
one for me, just kind of one man set up
shooting editing, kind of did the old editing chops and stuff. Again,
it was very fun for me to just go super
heads down on a big project like that. So check
that out on Giant bombs YouTube. Nice Mary, what about you?
Speaker 5: I will be out of town for a little bit,
but usually I'm streaming on twitch tv.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: But you can follow my adventures on my travels on
my Instagram while I am out and about for work.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll be back in a couple of weeks with
episode one thirty six getting farther into the summer.
Speaker 1: We have more games to talk about.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm going to play.
Speaker 1: Tech No Tara. I'm also going to play that. I
don't know what setting Mary Tara tech Legion. Sorry, I
can always tell what game Mary's playing because likea no
matter what time of day, I look at like a
friend's list, you were just playing it. I don't know
if you're leaving your steam deck on all the time
all day. It's funny, it's actively playing games all day.
But says it right now? Let me check when you
go to friends.
Speaker 2: No, it's funny. It'll say all the entire workday that
Mary's playing game games.
Speaker 4: It's had a job she'd be should be doing. She's
just like it's playing tech playing Tara tech Legion.
Speaker 1: What is it saying now, Dan playing? You are not
online right now?
Speaker 3: That's not true. I'm playing Taro tech Legion, this entire stream,
this entire podcast. I've been playing it.
Speaker 1: Have you really? Is that why you last? During emails?
Speaker 3: You guys, you guys gotta see this car I'm building.
Speaker 2: Request what are you requesting? Zoom is requesting?
Speaker 1: Allowed your requesting zoom to share? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I would like to share my screen.
Speaker 1: No, don't make Jake have.
Speaker 2: To edit more.
Speaker 4: Send the send a pic of the the car to
the discord. Uh, that's our episode Thank you everybody for joining.
We'll be back in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you coming, see you later.