Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode nine hundred June go
July twenty second, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: I am your host Chian show. What joining me? Co
Captain of the ship. His special meter is filled, so
he's going to hit up down triangle to hit a
sick grind.
Speaker 1: Jeff Bakour Oh, I don't even know what I'm doing
right now.
Speaker 2: I am out here, co captain of the ship. He's
wearing fun prints and he is a prince among men.
Speaker 3: Jeff Grubb Hey happy, nine hundred years old.
Speaker 1: Speaking about nine hundred years old.
Speaker 2: He is he is, He sees through time because he
exists past it Ian Rekerd.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be the last last pot Wait, no, that's
not true. Forget the whole thing. I was just gonna say,
never mind.
Speaker 3: Okay, what yeah, you're getting a new face.
Speaker 4: Well no, I was gonna talk about how after this
I'm getting my emplan it's gonna be the last one
without the hold of my tooth. But then I realized
I'm just getting the screw put in my gums today.
It's gonna be a few months for to so hold
your excitement. Folks, I'll have a tooth in a few months.
Good work, then, thank you, thank you, bad back.
Speaker 3: Down, don't worry about it. Yeah he was lying.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all right, off to a brilliant start.
But we can't start without the boy of games media,
and we actually can't start streaming until he kills his
stream that he accidentally left out for fifteen hours.
Speaker 1: I'm bad.
Speaker 5: I do bad things to good people. That's how bad
I am. Even bad things that bad people like some
like kind of good bad people. It's just pure bad,
bad on good bad on good action all the time.
Speaker 2: Mike Minatti, can you please do a cover of Rikishi's
theme song when he turned bad called bad Man?
Speaker 5: I don't know it goes no no, no, no, no,
no no no bad man.
Speaker 2: No fatwear, fat ware? We start learning fatwear?
Speaker 1: That's offensive?
Speaker 2: How is it offensive?
Speaker 3: At war? So it's like him and pretty hot and tempting,
is what I was talking.
Speaker 4: I'm not a hip start every podcast with a stink face,
a five way stink face.
Speaker 5: Cameras think don't like that? Oh camera, just shut my
butt in the camera. Yeah, just I mean this would
it be the first camera this week?
Speaker 1: Up?
Speaker 2: How be nine hundredth episode to the Giant BombCast, and
I'm very overjoyed to be to be spending it with y'all.
How's everyone doing.
Speaker 5: I can't believe I've been here for nine hundred episodes.
Speaker 3: I was waiting to see who would make the joke,
but he's.
Speaker 1: Been here the whole time. That was my intro. The
mistake You wait me, you you made a mistake.
Speaker 3: The first though, so kind of balance this out right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, my brain is just all over the place, like
the last couple of months I saw it.
Speaker 3: I just feel like a right two intros, back a lark.
Speaker 1: This again. No, no, no, we're doing it again. Here we go.
I'm not I'm not. I'm not upset. He's upset. We're
doing it. We're doing good. This feels this feels better.
It feels right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, we've were already on episode nine hundred and one.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is n.
Speaker 2: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday. Welcome to the Giant BombCast. July
twenty second, twenty five. I am your host, Chan Shoa,
and welcome episode nine one hundred.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: He is the Master of Prince because he's got printed shirts,
he's got blue prince. He is a prince among men,
and he is our king, but uh you know he's
royalty up in this this, this this house, Jeff Bruh.
Speaker 1: That's right, bow down, kiss the ring.
Speaker 2: Speaking about kissing the ring, he's all about smooches inside
and outside the ring, but only consensually, and only if
you if he agrees as well, because consent consent is
a two way street.
Speaker 7: Dan Reikert, I'm the smooch man, Dan, AND's what they say,
smooching around town.
Speaker 2: Good, he's smooching around town. H and he is around
town because he is the busiest man in games media.
He's also the busiest man of the owners here. Mister busy,
he comes from busy town. That's right.
Speaker 1: He drives an apple around. He's a little worm man.
Jeff Pakalar. Hey is that better? That was better? Hey?
Speaker 3: What's up that fan art?
Speaker 6: Better be done in like five minutes please, I need
to see.
Speaker 3: Is that the name of the worm mister Busy?
Speaker 1: No Richard scary thing? Yeah, I just remember busy town. Okay,
Uh it might be.
Speaker 2: But you won't catch this next man driving an apple
around because he hates them.
Speaker 1: Because he's a bird boy of games Media.
Speaker 2: He won't even be driving any type of fruit automobile
around here.
Speaker 1: Hot dog mobile, the Oscar Meyer hot dog van.
Speaker 2: Only for a bad boy, Mike Manatti, I'll kill you.
Speaker 1: What uh? If there's any food vehicle that Mike Manhatti
is driving around, it's gotta be a roast beef mobile.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, or or a giant bozzarella stick kind of
like the or buy a weader mobile, a mayonnaise cake mobile.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mike, I Oh, I had a devil I had
a bite of a deviled egg this weekend for the
first time.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, congratulations, good right, Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't do that. Yeah, Hey, Jen Jen Jen, Jen
Jen Jen, We're not doing it again. How do you
feel about the fact that we are now currently existing
in a K pop demon hunter's world?
Speaker 4: Okay, I have a question, folks, before you say anything
about it.
Speaker 7: I'm probably going to watch it tonight.
Speaker 1: Yo, this is the shit.
Speaker 7: Okay, back, Mary's making me watch it.
Speaker 1: Dib Dib discovered it like three days ago. He's probably
the one of the first eight hundred thousand kids to
watch it. Way more than that. Oh my god, it's
so fucking good. It's so good. Why is it so good?
Why did they just toss it to Netflix? I don't
underst Dan.
Speaker 3: This is the new Netflix animated children's movie.
Speaker 1: Right, that's popular. I think it's like I would call
it like a tween movie, a pre tweeny. No, you
still might like it, Dan, Okay, you watch it.
Speaker 3: It means you're an immature piece of ship.
Speaker 1: Kid.
Speaker 3: If it's so, you better watch out.
Speaker 1: Be careful. I mean, like, it's not just for kids
like I. I've I haven't seen it all the way through.
He's watched it like front to back like three times
in a row. He was sick last week, so he'd
he binged that, and he also binged this Gravity Falls
show on Disney. But friend of side Tim who recommended it.
But oh my god, oh my lord, this movie. And
it's like it's the it's the same studio that does
the Spider Man thing. Is that what? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I like those movies a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, tremendousous sony animation, sony animation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, I didn't know that, all right, I believe Yeah.
Speaker 7: Is it the same style?
Speaker 1: It's not the like comic book, but it does seem
like it has like a cap on the frame rate.
If that makes sense in the way that those movies do.
Speaker 7: If I know nothing about k pop, does that matter?
Speaker 1: No, you don't. You don't need to know anything about
k pop.
Speaker 7: Hunting No, but I've seen media.
Speaker 2: Okay, late, you put the you put the trap down?
What is it?
Speaker 1: Mike oh me? Yeah? Yeah. Do you know where K
pop's from?
Speaker 7: Korea?
Speaker 1: Which one? So North? This is how? Okay? Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, go on saying follow up?
Speaker 3: Kim Jong Ill invented k pop in nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 4: My grandfather fought deliberate Korea. I know about Korea. I
don't know who the Korean War was, but I assume
I don't.
Speaker 1: Know Korea was involved. I don't know. You ever see
mash No?
Speaker 2: Is that what mashes about?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, in Korea?
Speaker 1: Korean conflict?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's anytime I ordered a spicy tofu stoup and
it's too spicy.
Speaker 3: Green conflict down there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, spicy there, gang.
Speaker 2: This is how we announce, Uh, the five of us
are going to the next Black Pink show together.
Speaker 3: That's right, I would go to that. I like songs.
Speaker 2: That's the cape pop band. Dan, who's your favorite member
of Black Pink?
Speaker 1: Scary? Well? You know. One of them is a little
bit scary. Sure, Richard's scary. That's called a callback.
Speaker 7: How many Spice Girls can you name?
Speaker 1: Uh, there's scary spice Gosh.
Speaker 5: I feel like, man, if you had as I could do. Okay,
And now we're here, there's ginger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's scary. There's ginger.
Speaker 5: Man, I feel like I should be able to do
better than this. But there's baby Baby.
Speaker 1: I read to Spice World for the PlayStation one. I
should be good at that. You could name all the Dwarves.
You should name all the Spice Girls.
Speaker 3: They were the Dwarfs, the Dwarves in the nineties.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they are millennials, okay, yeah, if you want to
be I don't know if I can name three Spice
Girl songs.
Speaker 4: I mean, okay, trying to be was the obvious one.
Then there was oh god, what else?
Speaker 8: I mean?
Speaker 5: I assume there's a song called Spice World.
Speaker 7: There's there's a Spice of your Life song right.
Speaker 5: Half the word spice in it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Have you all seen that the Backstreet Boys are on
a doing a reunion show in the sphere right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I have friends. I would watch that flying on
a little thing that was cool.
Speaker 2: How much money do you think we have to pay
to just get like a minute of Sphere time?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Inside, but like we get to do the podcast, but
for like a minute?
Speaker 1: One minute?
Speaker 6: Yeah, how don't think with the back of are I
think we have to pay twenty five dollars and they'll
give us a minute.
Speaker 1: So there we go.
Speaker 4: I mean it costs like two hundred togo see a
Darren Aronowski thing when I went there, So that's to
view it.
Speaker 7: So I can't imagine.
Speaker 3: I just want to put the bomb logo on the outside.
Speaker 1: Yeah that would be cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, folks, if you know anyone that works at
the Sphere, get in contact. I want to know guys.
Speaker 1: It's it's the Dolans, right, don't they? Who are the Dolans?
Then the Nix and Rangers?
Speaker 2: I think I think, well, if you own the Knicks
or the Rangers, holler please gang speaking about music and
h watching shows. I need to get this off my chest.
And I know this is a video game podcast and
we'll get to the video game soon enough. But I
went and saw New Jersey Zone my Chemical Romance this weekend.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, Kemys, we thank you for your business.
Speaker 2: They had a whole elaborate story going on the whole
whole time, and I didn't understand shit about it. Apparently
my Chemical Romance created their own and I think this
mostly art.
Speaker 1: It's like a comic book writers.
Speaker 2: You know, he's a little comic book man, right, and
he made his own alphabet for the show.
Speaker 3: And then like the think the ones that did the
Spider Man theme song for that cartoon recently. That's a
children's show. Why am I asking grown men? I'll just
google it. You guys.
Speaker 4: Did they do the parade song? That's parade? Yeh okay,
I've heard that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh my god, stop it, Jan, can we don't
oh chemical roll?
Speaker 4: I remember seeing somebody do that at karaoke and I
was like, oh, I think I know that song.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's not a.
Speaker 1: Bit on Jen. I want to hear about your lovely experience.
Thank you, Jen.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I think it's been a hot minute since I've
went and watched like a concert of a band or
an artist I know, like front to back most like
maybe like ninety five percent of their geography and yo,
all the and I say this parenthesis positive please sure,
that's how fucking Freaks came out.
Speaker 1: Oh good that well, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, it's been so like last time I saw
like I think I saw like the Offspring and Simple
Plan and then another band, and it was a very
wide variety of like bro dudes and like their partners.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get people in their fifties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but here they were like elder millennials. Elder millennials
with their kids. Uh. Someone dressed up as like hot
Soune Miku black parade.
Speaker 3: There's always someone dressed up as hot Sunni Miku though,
come on.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: But then like you get you had your like white folks,
black folks, brown folks, is miscellaneous Asian folks, and I'm like, wow,
look at all of us coming together because we're all
kind of sad.
Speaker 1: Uh No, it's not a kind of said what do
you mean.
Speaker 2: It was like a celebration of sadness and pathetic not
like pathetic kind of said, were just like, yeah, emotional,
this is all parentheses positive.
Speaker 1: Yeah. When when my Keem came out, I was a
piece of shit. Okay, they was like, what's up? Did
it fix you? I have I have a delayed appreciation
for my Kemp because when I came out. I was
like programmed by the scene to like reject this very
popular and talented and very good band, even though they
were from my home state and they're they're excellent. I
really like they. I think they've transcended that genre of
music in a way that very few bands find a
way to beat.
Speaker 3: There as the time, right, they are still relevant, right,
and that proves it. I almost to get a Fallout
Boy by the way that does the spidy in this
amazing Friends, I think that's Patrick Stunt, that that piece
of shit arc that you talked about back of art. Yeah,
that happened with me with Backstreet Boys, where like you know,
I was like a young teenager or teenager and black
Backstreet Boys, that's a boy band. Gross And then that
I want it that way song came out.
Speaker 6: It was like their big new single after a while,
and it was like this huge event on MTV, and
I was just like, I legitimately love this song and
loved this band in this moment. It was like a
hot week where I'm like, Backstreet Boys are all right
by me. I still love that song.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 4: I think my chemical romance and like AFI and Fallout
Boy and that whole kind of.
Speaker 7: I guess it's probably just Emo.
Speaker 4: I was just fully and I mean I was still
not open to new music in general, but them specifically.
I judged the book by the cover and I saw them,
I was like, oh, this is not for me at all.
Speaker 1: I don't like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: A huge AFI guy in the nineties.
Speaker 2: Two things before we move on. One, after seeing Gerard
Way like shed the character when they went and did
the encore, because I guess these tours long lived the
Black Parade, So they did the Black Parade album front
to back and.
Speaker 1: Then they Yeah, it was very good.
Speaker 2: They did an encore about like five or six songs
of just miscellaneous MCR songs from time and whatever. But
when I saw him and I was putting like the
puzzle pieces together, I'm like, very theatrical guy, very nerdy
dude from New Jersey and and like the theatrics and
like singing. Well, I'm like, huh, this is just alex
Ebon yellow in a different font.
Speaker 1: It is bizarre, Alexo, is it not? It is? And
I'm like, didn't didn't nine to eleven inspire Mike him?
I think, isn't that the thing? I think? So is
that why it had to happen.
Speaker 3: So he got my chemical romance.
Speaker 1: So you're saying worth it is that what you're saying
is that you're saying, I just want to I mean,
we also got that Robert Patty The Lords right.
Speaker 2: Where it's like a surprise nine to eleven movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, surprise.
Speaker 6: Uh the lead singer of a f I is my
platonic ideal of what should look like.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is what almost could look like. My wife
was still in love with Davy Havock. Oh my lord,
just a strong look.
Speaker 5: I only think I said in the last like five
minutes during I was band talk, was my wife, because
back I said.
Speaker 1: It, you've a lot.
Speaker 2: And then like the the last thing I'll say about
the MCR concert, and I know that Welcome to the
Black Barid or the Black Paraid's song itself has been
mean to death. But there was a moment there and I.
Speaker 1: May have been, you know, a little bit high out
of my mind.
Speaker 2: But I was just standing there and I'm like, and
I didn't realize I just started fucking balling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so listen, I'm with you. There is something I've
talked about this with my therapist. There's something about seeing
bands from my childhood where I get emotional in a
way that I don't understand. Like I remember seeing Green
Day in like twenty like sixteen or something, and I
don't it was like the first time i'd seen them
in like ten years, and I was It's like I
was just like overcome with something and I couldn't describe it.
And it happens with a lot of nostalgia and I
don't know what it is. It's not a bad thing.
It's just a thing that I can't really explain. It
just sort of happens. Dan, you wouldn't understand that it's emotions,
but like I just feel like it's just what I mean,
there's something there. I don't know what it is, but
I would love to explore it more with you, Jan
maybe offline.
Speaker 2: I love to Yeah, it was, uh maybe it's like
the specific lyrics at the beginning of like the Black Parade.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then I was like I was looking around and
I'm like, oh, no one can see me cry right up,
please put it away? But then homegirl next to me,
Oh okay, actually third qualm all right. When a concert
is at a baseball park, do you consider that a
stadium show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's literally a stadium's.
Speaker 4: Football I consider sitting, I mean, by wrestling terms. I
think there's a stadium show.
Speaker 2: Okay, I guess for whatever reason in my head, a
ballpark is always a ballpark and not quite a stadium.
Speaker 1: But okay, stadium show. Well, if it's closed, it's an arena,
is how I got it?
Speaker 6: You can have if it's and it seats eighty thousand people,
it's a stadium.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, So because there's plenty of football stadiums that
are enclosed, I think.
Speaker 1: If it's hot, if it's like basketball hockey, it's arenas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty thousand people's in arena. Eighty thousand's like a stadium.
Speaker 1: Yeah, got it? Okay, Okay.
Speaker 5: I saw Superman this weekend, and I liked when they
fought at the baseball field that I go to see
the Guardians.
Speaker 1: That was nice. Oh they did.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, the whole movie was like very you know,
filmed in Cleveland, so I'm just recognizing things from Cleveland.
It was like a Where's Wadow of Cleveland locations the
entire time. So that's fun.
Speaker 1: Yes, I want to hear more about that for a second.
Jan did they play anything off of Three Cheers.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like they're Encore had like at least two
tracks from Three Cheers. Awesome.
Speaker 1: I think it's like thank you for the venom.
Speaker 2: And then obviously I'm not okay, and then I think
they did Helena, Yeah they did. But my qualm with
watching a concert in a stadium, specifically a baseball park
that sounds like ship It was okay, Actually there's not
enough room to dance, all right, the seat's too small.
Homegirl next to me, next to my partner, and I
vaping the whole fucking time, not even cool vape.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what's the cool vape weed tricks or something,
and I'm like, man like ripping fat clouds.
Speaker 2: But yeah, your boy just wants to dance. And like
stadium seats cannot.
Speaker 3: Which containing mission down on the down on the field.
Was there like general mission down there where you could
have gone down the right tickets.
Speaker 2: But like, well that's the problem, grub. It's impossible to
buy the right tickets anymore with Ticketmaster.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, And it's also like if you it's a park,
you're not sure exactly what the seating is gonna be,
Like who knows what the vibes are gonna be like
you're just kind of guessing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I guess so. You know, sometimes when you
go watch a concert and you're seated somewhere, the vibes
aren't right, but thankfully the vibes are right all around
the park.
Speaker 1: All. So, one hundred Gets opened for my Chemical Romance.
Speaker 3: The Lizard.
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know if y'all have ever heard one
hundred gets. It's something it is.
Speaker 2: It is like if you put tumblr online into like
if you translated the website with tumblr onto a vinyl.
Speaker 5: It was online, Like where were you finding that?
Speaker 1: Did you print it out the book?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: They seem more like an art installation than maybe like
an opening band, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, they they definitely seemed like an art installation because, uh,
one of the people of one hundred gets, there's only
two of them. I think she like just wore flip
flops on stage.
Speaker 1: There's only two people and one hundred gets.
Speaker 3: It's not one hundred people, it's one hundred gets.
Speaker 1: Bull shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what the GaX is like, are
we gonna be able to dance at arc that the
concert we're going to go to? Theahi Joe I need.
Speaker 5: To buy tickets, but almost certainly not. Okay, shit, yeah,
almost certainly not.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like, I have not done general
admission in many, many years, unless it's like a show
where there are no seats, which is only really like
for like the Summer at the Stone Pony stage, which
is at the beach. But like it's tough, man, I
get it, Jan, I'm with you, like, uh, put me
in a seat, you know, I'm there now.
Speaker 3: Stadium shows in general are not that appealing appealing to me,
and because of this these reasons, and.
Speaker 5: I do, yeah, prefer the amphitheaters outside because I remember,
like the see iron Man, and I was always in
these amphitheaters, and then lately they're always coming around like winter,
so it's got to just be at you know, wherever
the Penguins play or wherever the Cavs play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not as good.
Speaker 5: I don't like big loud metal shows inside of basketball arenas.
It gets kind of weird and hot and loud in there.
Speaker 4: I feel like I haven't been to a concert in years,
but I'm seeing nine inch Nails a couple of months.
Here are they known to be good live?
Speaker 3: I saw him once live, and I'll put it this way.
I remember it, and I don't remember a lot of concerts, so.
Speaker 7: It's a big crowd that's like the Assault Center.
Speaker 6: But I was in an arena for it, and I
think I saw him with so Corn. I think they
might have been it was like a warm time was
it was like a weird combo. I can't remember exactly
who it was. It could have been something else, but
I definitely remember them. They played in an arena and
they sounded phenomenal, and I like went home and was like,
I am going to get way more into nine Inch Nails.
Speaker 3: I think that's where I'm.
Speaker 4: At because like, I have an appreciation for them. I
definitely have grown to like like a lot of their stuff.
Speaker 3: And soundtracks they does with Atticus Ross.
Speaker 4: Right, that's the thing. I've gotten respect for Resnors certainly
over the years. And uh, you know, Bonk, you know
Bank loves concerts and shows. She's the one that like,
you know, she's usually doing you know, like the underground
metal shows and stuff that you know, if she knows
aren't for me.
Speaker 7: But she's like, hey, you want to see nine Is,
I'll go with you for sure.
Speaker 4: So I could see myself seeing them live and then
being like, I need to get way more into them.
Speaker 1: Everyone should go to a metal show with Bonk once
in their life, is what I say.
Speaker 3: Is what I'll put out there that sounds like a
good time.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: My favorite anecdote about Trent Reznor it popped up in
that Masters of Doom book where they're like he had
a like a Pentium one or something or forty six
maybe installed in his tour bust so he could play
Quake after every concert and that was how he partied.
And then that's why he was like or maybe it
was Doom, and then he did the soundtrack for Quake.
Speaker 1: I think that's how it went. He has a.
Speaker 2: Special kind of hero there for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. I was gonna say nine
is doing that tron Ares music, so you know.
Speaker 1: And also hear them there, I'm sure. And he's also
doing the intergalactic right yeah, busy, busy man. I feel
bad we we departed from your Superman c Yeah.
Speaker 5: I feel bad because I was I was derailing. Did
you want to interview immediately?
Speaker 1: So though? It's fine? Uh no, you do it right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was great.
Speaker 4: I thought I was trying because James Gunn, I find like,
even though I don't like comic book stuff and I
really don't like Superman, I have found that James Gunn
has surprised me kind of every time that like, oh,
I think I like his sensibilities of this stuff.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, Lollipop Chainsaw was sick and I'm here for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, big Lollipop Chainsaw fans. I just I liked how
kind Superman was. That was nice about it out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, does Superman have no killing people rule?
Speaker 1: Like Batman?
Speaker 3: He tries not to, but it's not as as Batman.
Speaker 1: You guys, he's killed so many people. Superman like he
made the world go backwards. You don't think that murdered
a bunch of.
Speaker 3: People, but I think that probably sent some mountains into space.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how do you guys handle it? When? Like does
it bump you out of I think this is a
maturity my part. When you go to a movie of
people and they like have the opposite reaction to the movie,
and I don't know. Sometimes I'm like, sometimes it puts
me in a weird place.
Speaker 1: I don't love it, I.
Speaker 5: Guess because this time it's like, you know, I want
with my family like cluding kids, my brothers, and they
all like that.
Speaker 1: Why it was like he's too woke.
Speaker 5: No, no, not like that. But like you know, some
of my other like friends, like all high school friends,
they also went and they are generally more cynical about movies,
and there's apartment It's like, maybe this one they'll like,
because I'm kind of cynical about movies too in some ways.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm was like, ah, movies.
Speaker 5: Are mid but I was like, Okay, this one I liked,
so Like I went up to where they are seeing
it was like, ha ha, would you guys think? And
they still hated it and thought it was lame. Yeah,
I thought maybe this one. I thought maybe this one
would push through.
Speaker 3: It's that rubs off on me for sure.
Speaker 6: I'm at a point now where, like even sports a
thing you're supposed to watch communally, I don't want to
hear other.
Speaker 3: People's opinions about what's happening in the game.
Speaker 6: I want to watch it by myself because I don't like,
you're not the coach, please saying what you think should
be happening on the field. It drives me crazy. And
I have the same a similar thing with like movies,
where it's like I'm gonna enjoy it in my silo
because I just want to feel how I feel.
Speaker 3: About it, and you're feeling about it probably aren't gonna
help me in that journey.
Speaker 1: I had something happen to me when I saw Children
of Men in the theater where I had seen it
with Stacy and we were when that came out. I
forget what what was it, like three h four maybe.
Speaker 7: Later later, maybe like six o seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously that movie like changes you as a masterpiece.
And I remember coming out of it with her and
we were like very into in our uh you know,
film brain mode back then, and they were like it
was it was a relatively empty theory. We'd seen a
really late showing and there was a group of people
who came out just going off on like that was
the most unwatchable trash I've ever seen you. Yeah, And
I remember like looking at Stacey and just being like,
I think we got to leave this planet. I think
we're gonna get out, Like we got to go somewhere
like this is.
Speaker 3: I have a similar thing exactly like this with a relationship.
Like I went with the girlfriend and her friends to
see Unbreakable, Yeah, and I walked out of it being like, Oh,
this guy just got what he was going for. He
completely understood like the assignment, like that he came up
with us on his own to explore this idea of
superhero mythology and it's brilliant and they just couldn't stop
making fun of me. His name was mister Glass. I'm like, Oh,
they just don't even get it at all.
Speaker 6: And it drove me crazy. And that's like one of
the three things I remember about that relationship is being
pissed off that night because they didn't get the movie.
Speaker 1: But then he kept making movies and who was the director?
Speaker 7: Yes, Yes, of course Trap is a very good movie.
Speaker 1: Though I heard like the meter started to tick back
up in the last decade. But like fun movies, the
Village was a movie. I feel like The Village is
the one that threw me like I'm not watching his
ship ever again. The Village. I have a friend who
used to say that The Village was probably him just
getting back at everyone who made fun of him in
high school, just like forcing them to go see this
movie and then doing that.
Speaker 5: I've seen two m Night Shyamalan movies, The Six Sets
and The Last Airbender.
Speaker 1: So you know, a.
Speaker 5: Big disparity and quality between this.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I'm a big fan of m
Night and then I forgot that I blocked out the
Last Airbender out of my memory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, but I he did.
Speaker 7: That to you, Signs. I think is like ninety percent
great movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I'm I'm like at.
Speaker 6: A point where where I mostly accept like what he's
going for and it's good or bad. It's like, okay, yeah, Signs.
I'm like, all right, I enjoyed that movie. So then
ninety percent kind of clicks over. It's like, that's just
an enjoyable movie for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I like in the theater, I remember being a super
tense time and like obviously in retrospect or mistakes made
with that movie, but up until like the ends and everything,
it was a really tense, memorable theater experience.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Yeah, that's that's how I feel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, say what, Lex Luthor is a mean jerk?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is this is the one Nicholas Holt
didn't get cooked in all good for?
Speaker 6: Is there a list of movies Nicholas do if I
google Nicholas Holt cuck movies while I get away?
Speaker 7: Yes, Have I seen him?
Speaker 1: Man? Yeah, yeah, I guess he gets cut by Dracula.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's I try to think of a pun there
of cocking Dracula.
Speaker 6: Move over, Clark. You used to be Hollywood's number one cuck.
Now it's Nicholas Holt. All right, I'm on Reddit now.
Oh yeah, that's going on here.
Speaker 2: All right, well we should get going with the podcast.
But real quick, I think m Night Shyamalan. Uh you know,
I'll forgive him for creating the beash that makes you
old because in that movie Old, right, that's what it's called.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there is a character named mid
size Sedan and that's just that's.
Speaker 1: Just that's some.
Speaker 6: Do you guys remember anything about his what's the one
where the ladies in the pool, lady in the.
Speaker 1: Water in the water fish or something.
Speaker 3: No, that's the that's a different movie where someone the fish.
Speaker 6: This is one I wanted to go, yeah wait, yeah,
this is yeah the shape of water, right, this is
the one where a guy like does by bicycle curls
in just one arm, so he's got one giant ripped
arm in a regular other arm.
Speaker 3: And I remember seeing that being like, well, I'm not
watching this ship. That's gross. I hate looking at this guy.
Speaker 2: So, uh, there's there's maybe too many pool movies because
that reminded me of the movie Night Swim where the
pool changes him.
Speaker 4: That's the one Bailey was telling us about. Right, yes, yes,
he was really swim.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you need to.
Speaker 3: Watch Nicholas hold with John Arbuckle, the Old Garf movie.
Oh he is a drake Odie sperm in that one
comic stripe. That's the most cock coated character of all that.
Speaker 1: Please John Arbuckle. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: All right, video games speaking about cocks.
Speaker 1: No, there's no way to do that was like, yeah, okay,
uh yeah, he's he's okay.
Speaker 2: There's no way to transition cocks into Pokemon friends. This
is a new mobile case that launched this morning after
the Pokemon direct. I showed up at six am and
no one was there on the Google Meet. What the fuck?
Speaker 1: Guys?
Speaker 3: Well you couldn't have streamed anyhow because Mike was still streaming.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think everyone's just done with Pokemon, right,
like it's over. I think it's done it.
Speaker 2: I think it may be cooked and not in like
the cool fun way.
Speaker 6: Uh well, there's cooked as bad cooking is good. You're
either the chef or your thing being cooked.
Speaker 4: Pokemon go is still a big thing because I was
just in Wisconsin with my sister all week and she
was cashing all sorts.
Speaker 1: So he's talking about the gyms and the Pokemon yea, yeah,
Pokemon going.
Speaker 6: Gets mad at the Pokemon Company when they do stuff
like this because it's like a Pokemon direct and people
are like, wow, direct suck, and Nintendo's like, we didn't
do this.
Speaker 3: This is the Pokemon Company, leave us alone.
Speaker 1: Did they call it a direct?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think it's called it Pokemon direct.
As a Pokemon director poke you on presents, it might
be Pokemon present.
Speaker 1: Now everyone get to the bottom of this, Jeff, don't worry.
Oh ship all right.
Speaker 10: In the main frame just sucks, but you've got characters now,
Like I feel like this is unlived, you know, a
new level.
Speaker 3: And some people episodes like brings some special guests and
like a big fan fair. We're trying to make the
worst episode it presents.
Speaker 1: Damn it, torect you piece of ship.
Speaker 3: I'd like to watch everything said.
Speaker 2: Pokemon Friends is you know those ads, those mobile game
ads that you'll get about like, oh, connect everything through
one line, or like just guide the character through there.
They basically did that, but with Pokemon, and you have
a limited amount of puzzles you can do in a
day because it's supposed to be like stimulating brain puzzles
for you, brought to you by Pokemon. And I completed
the six puzzles today and then I deleted the app
afterwards because there's nothing else I could do it until tomorrow,
and then I continue to race the horse girls.
Speaker 1: But that's it.
Speaker 2: That's that's all this game is. I know that Pokemon
is targeted towards children, and I know that Pokemon friends.
In the little trailer that they had during the Pokemon
presents this morning, it was a mother and son guiding
her son through puzzles. So sure, that's that another thing
that is not for me, and I think I am
continuing to walk away from Pokemon.
Speaker 3: Especially some of these puzzles look really like barren. They
look like really I don't sauceless.
Speaker 2: Yes, they are not dripping in swago, definitely tough grub.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, look at this.
Speaker 3: So it's like, oh my god, they look like flash games.
Speaker 2: Yes, they are equivalent to flash games. Very very very
bare bones. So again I understand it is probably targeted
towards children and not.
Speaker 6: No chan, let's make fun of this. This is embarrassing.
This sucks. Look, this is not okay for this company
to put out in twenty twenty five as a representation
of their brand.
Speaker 2: The Pokemon Company does a lot of curious things to
to maintain their brand. And you know, at least in
games media, the notice a lot of our peers and
friends are picking up the older Digimon Cyber Sleuth game.
You know what, I think it's fucking time.
Speaker 1: I think it's fucking time for Digimon to knock Pokemon
off its high horse. It's time for.
Speaker 5: This game costs thirty four dollars.
Speaker 7: It does this Pokemon friends thing. I'm looking at the
puzzles right now.
Speaker 3: No, it's frue way, it's free.
Speaker 5: It's dollars for switch and extra twenty four dollars for
a full game.
Speaker 3: Oh, you can buy this on switch.
Speaker 1: You're playing on mobile.
Speaker 6: And there's DLC is puzzle puzzle on pack one? Okay, yeah,
you ca get puzzle packs one and two for twenty
six dollars.
Speaker 2: Yes, there are, there is DLC if you want to
keep playing the puzzles h and as Grub said, it
is how much twenty.
Speaker 6: Six twenty six dollars on top of the ten dollars
for the Space version on switch.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, no, that's bad, don't do that.
Speaker 3: That is three and a half Nintendo switch to Welcome tours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just looking pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's it's disappointing me. I don't know if
Grub has the any of the Pokemon stuff in today's.
Speaker 1: A tiny bit.
Speaker 3: I was going to ask you about it.
Speaker 1: Okay, well we'll talk about it later then. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so far, the Pokemon Company is not doing much
to uh win me back.
Speaker 1: Especially. We knew this.
Speaker 6: We knew this present would always be kind of lackluster.
That fans that are in the no Sean was saying,
like these this one that happens at this time of
year is always an update on stuff that no one
here is going to care about. And he was right, so,
but still it kind of stinks that this.
Speaker 2: Is the one thing that I married about. No, I
don't give a shit about mega evolutions.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, god, I hate oh my god, oh my.
Speaker 3: Said that, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: But this task is gonna be another place for me
to complain that my my press credentials got turned down
for Pokemon Worlds and a time.
Speaker 1: Because you didn't.
Speaker 4: You have not respected the companion pass.
Speaker 7: Bad for Jansen. You disrespected that.
Speaker 2: I hate that you shoot right.
Speaker 1: I saw my buddy this weekend, Jan who's the big
Pokemon card freak, and he was just like he's liked,
you don't even know what's going on now, And I.
Speaker 3: Was like, all talk that way whenever I thought, just
have like this shell shocked look on their face, like boy,
like they've always.
Speaker 1: Come back from war, right, Like they're always constantly facing
the worst incident of Pokemon retail cards.
Speaker 3: I just can't reintegrate into society. Yeah, they're constantly should
It's like it's insane.
Speaker 1: But you know because he used to say, like, yeah,
I used to get a lot of boxes from Pokemon Center, right,
and now even that is like in impenetrable in a
way that they are all sort of like rudderless and lost,
and like they're always looking for someone who just has
like sealed boxes from a from a from a series
a couple you know, years ago or whatever. And he's
he's talking to me, He's like, dude, I think I
might have like sixty K worth of sealed box. I'm like,
what's happening? Are you jeopardizing? Like what's going on? He's like,
I just don't. He's like every time I leave it
in the in the closet, it just goes up and
up and up and up. And I'm just like, I
don't know what to tell you. Man, you're like really
invested deep in the like sealed wax. I don't know
what to do with you.
Speaker 3: But have you ever seen the card section at a target?
Like it always looks like it's bare ransack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like the Yeah, it looks like some
sort of tornado has rippen a tornado.
Speaker 3: Like card packs like all over the place, on the floor,
all of them mixed together, just something behind bulletproof glass.
Yeah it should be. Yeah, it's crazy. There's there's a
Walmart near where I place.
Speaker 1: I play hockey, and every now and then did and
I will go and just kind of like see what
the card situation is. And they've like they've buried it
behind all of these massive, like moving crates. It like
it's it's completely inaccessible and no one's telling you not
to go there. But like we sort of kind of
do sometimes and you're just like I got cut again.
Something cut me on the way while I was reaching
for that box. It's okay, you know. You know how like.
Speaker 2: Some some grocery stores, like after like a storm or
like a natural event, will be like, hey, we're out
of this.
Speaker 1: There's no toilet paper, there's no shampoo. So many Barnes
and Nobles card stores, game stops and targets in my
air you have put up signs at the front door
saying there's no Pokemon cards. Go away, Yeah, go away.
Speaker 2: It's it's weird. It's a weird pandemic. Also, and I
don't know what MoES in your area. The next to
the scratcher machines at grocery stores, there's now also Pokemon
vending machines for cards.
Speaker 1: They're constantly sold out.
Speaker 3: What oh like okay, I was imagine bars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, buy to buy like Lucy's to buy loose packs.
Loose packs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me about the boo boos.
Speaker 1: What's the deal. They're just these little like monkey freaks.
What we did?
Speaker 3: And it's beanie babies.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, except they're in blind boxes. Yeah, and they're cooler.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, sure, I'm not judging their aesthetic.
Speaker 1: I think you were for a second.
Speaker 3: You compare, I think beanie babies are great. All right,
guess who was really into beanie babies? We know, we know,
believe it or not, it's just me.
Speaker 1: Were you did you have the Princess Diana one?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I had Princess Die.
Speaker 5: I had better, I had once better than Princess Die.
Speaker 1: Come on, what's that mean? Like the Challenger Explosion.
Speaker 5: Beanie baby that I had them for all the tragedy.
Speaker 1: I have the super real nine to eleven.
Speaker 5: Beanie baby that nobody knows about.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'm glad that I'm a little bit
younger than Mike that beanie babies missed funny, but that's
not the only thing that missed me. Yesterday Mike Manati
missed me and grub all over the place and finished
his journey through the original, well not the original, but
the first Missed game.
Speaker 5: Well, we think we played the we beat the remake
of Missed, And then I'm so glad this wasn't a
false memory of a time that my older brothers showed
me how to beat Missed at like five minutes. Uh,
I was like, I think you could do that, so
then like it's like, yeah, once you find the solutions,
you can't just beat the game right away. So once
we beat the remake, we just went to the original
MISS and played through it and saw the ending there.
I really enjoyed playing through MISS.
Speaker 6: I thought, yeah, I had a great time. I thought
it was a very vibean. Yeah, just a smaller game
than you're thinking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I tell you what I.
Speaker 5: Assumed, because you know, it's it's like an old one
of these kind of playing click or puzzle games. It's
gonna be really obtuse and confusing. It's actually one of
the more logical and straightforward one of these that I
have played. We were able to, like, honestly, the one
time we really needed help was when we did a
sort of bonus added on chapter later that was kind
of just sequel bait.
Speaker 6: And that's really we were just kind of like ready
for the string because you had beaten the game. We
were kind of just doing that for fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like the solution was just like we had to
walk over.
Speaker 3: There and see the colors and then we figured it
out of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, basically it was like running up with gets sign.
But yeah, just like you know, the actual game of
Miss Frosty forward, but still in a very satisfying way.
I loved all the biomes, like the different ages slash
the books you go into each of them looked cool.
They all had a central theme, like the forest one
and the the one that was all based around sounds
was actually really neat, even though it had one of
the more confusing puzzles with the tunnel train thing. Yeah,
that's just a game that I always wanted to be
able to beat, and I'm super glad we did. I
had a ton of fun playing on the site, and
I'm very excited to jump into Riven, the sequel to
miss we.
Speaker 2: I suggest folks check out that stream or all of
Monday Mornings Missed with Mitch because it is a very
fun time. Mike is also very smart. Never get stuffed.
Speaker 3: It was fun to just watch them like kind of
like figure some stuff out. It's a good time.
Speaker 2: At the tail end of yesterday's stream, we checked out
the original Missed.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, What the fuck?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Jan, it seemed like you really had no full
concept of like how the game worked. Off to say,
it looked way shittier than I remember as well.
Speaker 5: There was a time where that was the prettiest looking game.
Speaker 1: Yep. Ever, it blew all us away.
Speaker 5: But it's so funny because you know I started it. Yeah,
like an original MISS you're not walking around the space,
it's just you're clicking around and moving to different pre
rendered images.
Speaker 1: At one point, Jan's like, so it's just pictures.
Speaker 5: Yep, Yeah, that's right. I'll tell you what though, I'm
such a sicko that part of you is like, oh,
maybe this is how we should have played it.
Speaker 3: I was into it very quickly. Yeah, I think we
should still do it for Riven, to still do the remake,
but that is supposed to be.
Speaker 5: Amazing for Rihy. I've heard very good.
Speaker 2: Things about it, exactly fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 1: Proud of you, thank you, mister Baklar.
Speaker 3: It was great. I really enjoy those streams. So I'm
glad we're let's just keep doing it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there's there's plenty more Miss games. Some people
say I should play Uru, which was the online game
and then was taken offline, but apparently somebody's still running
a shard of it, and by someone it might be
Cyan like the people who made it.
Speaker 1: There's like an official.
Speaker 5: Online server for Uru still, so I don't know how
to look into it.
Speaker 1: Can that together? Like I, it's online right to each
other and it sounds close to Ubu baby steps were
like the first dude you meet goes u.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, this is ages beyond miss Then I think
later they called it missed online Uru or something.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's I was like, looking at the timeline,
that sounds right.
Speaker 1: I'm not an Uru historian yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go, There we go. Looking at the
original miss it looked like it was it was pulled
from a specific time, just like Why to Roll looks
like it is pulled.
Speaker 1: From a very very specific time. Grub Yes, Why to Roll.
Speaker 6: Is a three D platformer sort of roll the ball game.
You'll be familiar with this concept if you've ever seen
Super Monkey Ball. It is Marvel Blast Ultra or Marvel
Marvel Blast Ultra. Yes, it is very much just trying
to be one of those, and uh, it feels pretty
good now. It's it's also like throwback visually. It's got
four x three, it's got the CRTI fuzz on top
of the filter and kind of a low polygon count
and the vibes kind of like go into the sound
effects and the music as well.
Speaker 1: It looks like it takes place in the Beetlejuice cartoon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, Honestly, you've kind of like stripped a
lot of the monkey stuff out of Super Monkey Ball.
It's kind of like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's what this is doing.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, so I'm playing this, I'm like, is
the monkey stuff like kind of a big part of it?
And yeah it is, But but this is still really
fun and control is great.
Speaker 3: It feels really good.
Speaker 6: And it's always fun to like get into the rhythm
of it and being able to like do shortcuts because
you're like, I think I can bounce the ball and
kind of like make the whole stage flip up and
knock the ball over there and get over that huge
cast and even though I'm not supposed to and get
a really good time on this.
Speaker 3: That still works. It's really cool.
Speaker 6: And these games they always work like it feels like
you're tilting the world, but apparently you're actually controlling gravity.
And once you realize that, that also kind of opens
up some possibilities in the game. Being able to like
accommodate that just means that it's a really well made
one of these. So yeah, you're a super monkey ball
fan and you've played all those y two role is there.
It's not like going to win over anyone new. It's
it's definitely four people who like these kinds of games
for sure.
Speaker 2: Well let's keep the ball rolling to another game involving balls.
Golden Tea Arcade Classics. Yes, so this is a.
Speaker 6: New one of these classic game collections, and it reminds
me a lot of the sort of arcade archive games
where it's like, hey, these are just the arcade ROMs emulated,
we're not going to try to like recreate them for console.
There are a lot of quality of life stuff added,
so you don't have to at least what I've played
so far. In that first Golden Tea game, you just
spam the coin game the coins into the machine and
you don't have to worry about it, like being like, hey,
this could be your last shot unless you put more
money in.
Speaker 3: It's like it's all good on that front, and it's seamless.
Speaker 6: It's not going to get in your way and interrupt things,
so you're just playing it as a golf video game.
Speaker 3: And then for the controls, because Golden Tea is a
track ball game or track. Yeah, track ball.
Speaker 6: They make it work so that your hand is the
left stick and you can only put it on the
ball when you hold down the B button. So you
hold down the B button and now your hand is
actually on the track ball, and then you could pull
it back and at that point you can like let
go of be if you want to sort of reorient
and like go on your four swing and go in
a different direction.
Speaker 3: So they've accommodated for all of that.
Speaker 6: It is pretty difficult to dial in like how much
you should be hitting the stick, because it's just it
translates to the ball in a kind of weird way.
I'm sure you can get used to it. I was
getting a little bit more used to it as I
was playing. Overall though, it's like, yeah, these are the
golden t Arcade golf games. And if you were like
obsessed with that franchise, like there are people out there
who are, it's it does the thing. But if you're
like coming to video games for a video game golf game,
they're just better options. There's so many different golf games,
and a lot of them are built for consoles, are
built are built for Steam Deck that I was playing
on and trying to translate that to a controller wasn't
like the best experience necessarily.
Speaker 5: I think they did a good job with it overall, though,
going yeah, that's a hard thing, you know.
Speaker 1: There are too many track ball games.
Speaker 5: I think about the weird song to Hedgehog track ball
game all the time, and I used to want to
port of it so badly, And then when I played
it finally when we were at Galloping Ghost, I really
liked Yeah, but I was like, oh, I can see
why they never reported this. It kind of kind of
need a track ball it's hard to do it without.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We also played the Super Monkey Ball game there with
the banana controller.
Speaker 1: Oh that's fantastic. H Yeah.
Speaker 3: But I mean it's a really well done collection.
Speaker 6: Otherwise, it has all the Golden Tea games and they're
up to a certain point at least I don't know
if it's the latest one in there, but there's a
lot of them in there, and the ports are really
well done and like navigating, like getting around and having
all the settings like easily available because again, like you're
going to these arcade arcade ROMs, all that stuff is
really well presented. So I think it's a decent collection.
I'm at a point where I might even do a
quick look of it, so we'll see.
Speaker 5: Maybe that is there, like one that the Golden t fense, Like, oh,
that was the best golden tea.
Speaker 6: So yeah, because there's like people like playing leagues and stuff, right,
and like it is their game that they go to
their bar and they play.
Speaker 3: It's like the equivalent of darts. At a certain point.
I bet they have one that they consider to be
the one.
Speaker 5: What's what's the street Fighter three third strike of the you.
Speaker 4: Know, the other bar staple was always Big Buck Hunter.
And I passed a machine in Wisconsin this weekend and
like they're just like crazy, like piranha plants and tornadoes
and stuff. You're shooting Now It's like when did it
make the turn from like we're shooting elk to if
you oh yeah.
Speaker 6: I think it's the mobile game influence, right, because so
many somebody that audience is like playing mobile games. I
think they have to like there has to be more
going on.
Speaker 1: There is a competitive Big Buck Hunter scene.
Speaker 5: Actually, the documentary about it, I think at one point.
Speaker 2: They have a big competition. I forget where it is,
but it's in the US and it's like surprisingly very
punk looking, and I think we should go. Yeah, we
should definitely make the expedition one day if they're still
doing that in the near future. But in the past,
recent past, Jeff Backlar, turns out you're the first person
to finish Expedition thirty three.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. I'm a really good gamer.
That's why I finished games first before anyone else.
Speaker 5: We all say, yeah, yeah, not the last one here
to beat it still, Jeff grub.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 6: I'm not beating man, I'm not gonna play that game.
I'm joking.
Speaker 1: Don't kill me. I just have to preface this conversation
with how good I am, so that you'll all be
able to understand where depressed? Did you die?
Speaker 7: Did you doubt how you're playing the game?
Speaker 1: Did I dodge? Yeah? You mean, was I not blindfolded
the entire time? Is that what you mean?
Speaker 5: He's trying trying to see he's trying to call you
off for dodging.
Speaker 7: The coolest we all ever met yes week in dodging.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, for the so my instinct is always.
Speaker 7: To parry, okay.
Speaker 1: But but there's certain attacks where I'm just like, I'm
a dodge boy. For for somebody, fine, that's fine. Like,
you know, I would say I wish there was a
stat meter that I would I would venture to bet
my parry to dodge ratio.
Speaker 2: Is like, I don't know, four to one, five to one.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
Speaker 5: I mean, I always try to prairie, but there's a
lot of strings attacks and once you missed the first parry,
well then you may as well dodge.
Speaker 7: That's smart.
Speaker 6: It's the way you're supposed to play because you can't
get the perry counter attack.
Speaker 7: The point.
Speaker 1: Totally smug.
Speaker 4: As soon as you said that, I was like, oh, yeah,
what's the point in pairing If you don't get the
counter exactly, you still.
Speaker 1: Earn an ap point, right, Like most of the time
that was ulish. It's because it's also an easier thing
to recover from and perform dodger mechanic objectively.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's like, wow, I did not even consider that
that would have been a lot easier.
Speaker 1: When you beat it, you'll understand what I'm talking a motherfucker. So, uh,
you know, I guess I'm like, honestly really surprised I
finished this.
Speaker 5: You know, it's there's a lot of people who I
don't think would be fans of these kind of games
that are into it and have seen it all the
way through. I mean Dan Reikert, right, it's you know,
my both of my brothers, who don't normally play through
arpg's on turn based once too often anymore.
Speaker 1: Both of them got through this.
Speaker 5: It's funny how like the thirty five hour playtime I
think is a big component of that, because that's now
suddenly very breezy for one of these games.
Speaker 1: So here's my first question. My game cock says twenty
two hours. Oh you're a good gamer. Again, I called
that app.
Speaker 7: Skipping all that great side content.
Speaker 1: But but my Xbox counter, the app on PC says
one point four days, and last time I checked, those
two are not the same amount of.
Speaker 3: One sounds more rights, Well, okay, the in game counter
would be more accurate, right, is that.
Speaker 1: It would be? But twenty two even like skipping.
Speaker 5: All the side stuff that'sn't been really short for a
first much.
Speaker 3: Side stuff is like there's a lot of optional dungeons
you can do, Like obviously things like the jumping Puzzles.
Speaker 5: Act three has a ton of optional Just.
Speaker 6: Go with the twenty two hour thing. Mike that's going
to make it more likely that I actually will play
through this. Yes, it's like I bet he could have
beat it in twelve hours.
Speaker 1: Jeff.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, now it's so pretty.
Speaker 4: A reason I definitely went through is because I think
Mike said, like, listen, this is going to be coming
up at Game of the Year, and I feel like
it was the same way with fire Skims, like all right,
people are gonna be talking about this. I should I'll
give it a shot, and now Grub I can pass
that along. It's definitely going to come up a lot
of Game of the Year, like a lot, a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, didn't you also say publicly that Grub. Didn't
you publicly say like this is guaranteed to win Game
of the Year someone.
Speaker 5: Yes, he did. He promised me that you're muted. Just
audio is breaking. Yeah, all right, I'll translate for him.
Speaker 1: I did say that. Yeah.
Speaker 5: But now I played a game maybe by Nintendo that
I really like, and I'm sure.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, it's not winning Game of the Year. No,
Bonanza's yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh well it's July twenty second, boys, we have to
we have a little bit of time left in the year.
Last time I checked. But what did you what did
you come?
Speaker 5: You know, obviously we don't want to talk about spoilers
and which with the ending, there's a lot of that.
The ending is somewhat device. I think most people like it.
It's something yeah, weird.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a very fresh take on doing the
thing it did. I think the sort of like idea
is not new, but it has a different approach at
delivering that exposition, which I found novel and enjoyable. I
was not like moved in a tremendously powerful way. I
was like, oh, this is just like pretty solid storytelling.
I'm happy with how they did it, and I enjoy
the ideas there. I have a lot more questions I
like whenever I complete something like this, and I like
the parts that I'm over obsessing now are like some
of the other minutia of the storytelling of like but
why the expeditions and like, you know what I mean,
Like I understand the big picture, I think I do,
but I don't understand some of the more granularities of
like like why were they sending people out in this world?
Like I don't the garmage, I like kind of just
don't also get I guess like on face and we
can't talk about too much. I'll tell you what that
spoiler cast now that you yeah, we're not gonna I
don't want to get into it. Like again, I feel
like we're talking about it in a pretty broad way.
Speaker 5: Yeah right now, yeah, yeah, but yeah, we'll do that
spoiler cast for sure.
Speaker 1: But just like, you know, so what do you think?
You thought it was really good? You liked that, it's
it's excellent, It's fucking awesome. It's this game's fucking awesome.
What are you talking about? Of course, it's so freaking
it's amazing. I even had like a normy friend of
mine hit me up over the weekend and he's like,
I'm having dinner with some jackass who's telling me that
Clear Obscure is the best game he's ever played in
like a decade. Is he full of shit? And I'm
just like, NIC's legit. This guy sounds like he knows
what you're talking about. Like yeah, I just think, uh,
you know, I think the whole paint stuff is like
very just like that for whatever reason, like that's what's
sticking to me. That like just that aesthetic and that
whole idea is.
Speaker 2: Very Splatoon that you're a squid kid yourself.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if I would call myself a
squid kid certainly that but yeah, yeah, I'm an ink boy,
you know, you know, I'm an inky man. And I thought,
I think, uh, I think the characters, the performances are
all very very strong and well above average and well
beyond what I was expecting. It was your main team Monoco.
Speaker 5: Oh you're an you like the feet?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I just he reminded me of Dan
a lot.
Speaker 5: Dan doesn't like him, That's funny.
Speaker 1: Like Dan just seems like hunched over with a big
face of hair, and I'm just sort of like, yeah,
that's that's Monoca. That's Dan. Dan's Monoca. You know, like
you might as well just put like, you know, a
wooden plank on your face and your costplaying halfway there
as Minoco.
Speaker 11: But about feet, all right, you know, I I do
think this game like is a lot more charitable than I.
Speaker 1: Was anticipating it was gonna be. Where you know, I
was like, oh, fuck, the barrier to entry here and
the sort of like attention to your load out and
your pictose and your loo and all that stuff is
going to really really. Uh uh, you sort of like
barricade me in a way where I'm unable to progress,
And none of that turned out to be true. Like
the the longest I spent on any fight, you know,
was maybe like four times or five times, and I
I just kind of like was able to persevere and
get to where I needed to be without overly obsessing
over spinning all those those plates. Uh so, yeah, I
played Verso, Luna and Monoca were like my main three
I'm a big fan of, you know, see, just want
to put that out there. And then uh yeah, and
then may I was just like, I'm like, you're annoying many.
Speaker 5: I was like, Maya was my carry on my team.
I think most of my damage was coming from Mayo
for large portions of the game.
Speaker 1: Towards the end, something happens where like I feel like
I did not see how powerful she like got for
whatever reason, like she started doing stuff that I did
not do. I feel like something happened. I'm like what.
I also dressed her up real dumb, and I gave
her like what are the little furry boys? I gave
her like a castil haircut and put her in like
a dumb dress and I was just like, look at
this idiot running around and I yeah. But but then
at the end where you're like, oh, okay, there's something
she's doing special things now, Uh yeah, I was sort
of surprised that because I did not I did not
deliberately you know, build out her her load out that way.
All the characters are great. I love it. I love
esc I thought was awesome, very good boy. I love
the uh the the sort of energy of the Curator
and all that ship. I thought that was cool as hell.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: I still, you know, the manner we can talk about
in the mansion whatever it's called in the spoiler cast.
But yeah, I very very few points criticism that. Again
we can get to in the spoilercast if we if
we ever wound up doing it. I think like the
whole like flag storytelling element like didn't fully land for me.
There's a kind of yeah, I mean that some of
that stuff's interesting. Some of that stuff is sort of
like this kind of conflicts with like what the other
you know, narrative that's going on. I just thought there
was a lot of like midair collisions narratively speaking, which
is fine. It's this game's tremendous it's barely really anything
to knock it. Uh yeah, I really love it and
now for me, it's definitely the game to beat for
this year, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, well, speaking about jerrorpgs and RPGs, the Master
of all Things role playing games, this seems like an
interesting pick, but Dan I have on the list here.
You've been playing wizard Quest.
Speaker 4: I played, I experienced wizard Quest. I don't know if
anyone's heard of this one professor Ticklebitz told me about this.
Speaker 7: It's in Wisconsin Dell's. Have you ever been there?
Speaker 4: Well, okay, so it's like a big ass building that
you go in and give you basically a shika slate.
Speaker 7: It's like an iPad thing.
Speaker 4: And you go around and there are wizards that work there.
They they're real people and you can talk to them
and everything, and there are four realms you can go to.
Speaker 7: There's like Earth Air.
Speaker 1: I went to Google Google.
Speaker 4: Wizard Quest and look at that, like this is some
labor of love shit like sculptors and like it was
like very impressive inside like.
Speaker 1: An escape room, Like what did you do?
Speaker 7: I mean, that's under selling it.
Speaker 4: It is like an escape building with like a full
lore and you're doing quest for these characters. So you
go up and you find this fucking turtle that's a shopkeeper,
and then he's telling you to go find these firebats
or this family of salamanders and stuff. There's a big
guy named shard on Us and I thought like, wow,
his name.
Speaker 1: Is shot on us on Us.
Speaker 4: He's a big troll guy that sits in the thing,
and I thought like, well, that's weird that his name
is shard on Us. But at one point I had
to go find like a hidden troller something and I
had to crawl between his legs and then he just
starts farting on my fucking heady Okay, yeah that was intentional.
So it's like it's cool because like you have to, like,
you'll start quests on the iPad, and to prove that
you actually got to the thing you were supposed to find,
it could be on a different floor, a different realm.
You have to be like, all right, so the shopkeeper
or this blacksmith, you know what color is the jewel
or whatever that that he was working on or whatever,
and you type in and you get credit for the
quests and then be like all right, well these you
gotta find these salamanders, and you have these torches which
are like black light things, and you'll have to like
go around and look for like salamander footprints and things
like that, like in the actual environment, like you're kind
of under something. It's awesome. I thought it was going
to be some Yeah. I thought it was going to
be just this kind of like really corny thing or whatever.
But it is so elaborate. It was so much work
went into it. And by the end, it's like a
two hour experience. And by the end we had done
a ton of quests and everything, and me and Bonk
and Kayla we were just like, let's just walk around
and like look at this stuff, because like there's so
many just little miniatures and giant statues and sculptures and stuff,
and like a whole like woods area and everything. It's
just a really really impressive thing. I just have like
a deep respect for what they pulled off there. And
I guess it started in like the early two thousands,
which would have been before iPads and stuff, which makes
me wonder if it was like a pen and paper
thing or something or.
Speaker 7: What's that.
Speaker 3: Did they use Nintendo DS or something?
Speaker 1: Sidekicks?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know how how they did it back then,
but it's like it is. It is just a really
tremendous thing. If you ever happen to find yourself in Wisconsin, Wisconsin.
Speaker 6: On Google Maps right now looking up how long it
is for me to get to the Wisconsin Dallas And
then I was going to ask you, damn yeah, would
this be appropriate form like age wise in terms of
enjoying it for my children?
Speaker 1: I think it would be.
Speaker 4: I think it would be ideal for them because I
saw a lot of families and kids and like them
running around and being like surprised that they like they
found and it is like a lot of like decoding stuff.
It's like you're you're doing it. It's a lot of
video game stuff.
Speaker 7: Going on there in a real you know, kind of structure.
Speaker 6: That's ten hours for a dry we'd have to like, well,
we go through Chicago, so we made a trip like
stop in Chicago, hangout, going through Wisconsin Del's, and then
make a trip back.
Speaker 4: I will say in general, Wisconsin Dell's is an amazing
vacation location for a million there's a bunch of.
Speaker 3: There's a Ripley's, believe it or not, a bunch of
other stars, a fucking.
Speaker 4: Upside down replica of the White House that's guarded by
transformers and the Predator. Look up to Wisconsin. I'm not
gonna look up. Just look up top Secret Wisconsin Dell's.
I think that's the Yeah, it's just a fucking upside
down white House that's guarded by transformers.
Speaker 1: It's fucking weird. This whole city is, it's gimmick city.
Speaker 4: USA got to drive the Pyramids and UFOs and it's
the whole The main thing is a billion water parks,
so I mean, there's just so many fucking slides. So
the most extreme water rights I've ever gone on a
couple of days ago.
Speaker 7: It is awesome. We had an absolute blast there.
Speaker 4: People are saying it's like a better Brandson, Like it's like,
imagine Branson with better gimmicks, less of the country horseshit
and more about just like fun gimmicky vacation does ransom.
I don't know Branson is Oh wow, that must be
said that was like the vacation destination in the Midwest.
It's they said on The Simpsons, it's like Last Vegas
if it was run by Ned Flanders.
Speaker 1: So it's a lot of very hokey country. It's where
Silver Dollar City is and stuff.
Speaker 4: It's uh, it's a very Midwestern, kind of conservative version
of Vegas. It was definitely the only place I ever
got to go on vacation to as a kid.
Speaker 7: It's fine.
Speaker 4: It's lame, though, like Wisconsin Del's is a million times better.
But yeah, just look up any pictures of Wisconsin Del's.
It's a bunch of water slides, a bunch of gimmicks,
but really really cool stuff. Really really had.
Speaker 5: A great Calahary there, all right.
Speaker 4: That's where I said, I stay at Calahary. I didn't
know it was that like a uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have one here.
Speaker 5: I like Kalahari because it's very oh yeah yeah, indoor
water park resorts thing.
Speaker 1: I heard the word casino. It's the name of the
city is Wisconsin. Dell's Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: Der motto is to you gott a Dell's.
Speaker 1: Oh everybody, oh happy nine hundred. It was. It was
the fucking first.
Speaker 4: Like I used to love water slides as a kid,
but I've been to water parking forever. The first time
with this new water slide tech, Oh my god, it's
the ones.
Speaker 1: We're doing tech. What do you mean?
Speaker 3: What s spin tech where you fucking stand in like
a vertical coffin and the bottom drops.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I haven't been one since again Brandson, Whitewater
and Branson in like nineteen ninety four when it's just
like shitty slides that you get concussions on. Uh here,
it's like you stand on this thing and a voice
is like three to two one, and then the floor
is just gone and your body is just pinging scent
way too fast and a dark tube and it's just
you are fucking rattled by the end. I love to
me and Kayla did every single water slide and everything great.
Great time went to the Timbavady Wildlife Resort. We got
to you know, pet girafts and all sorts of shit,
like we're really.
Speaker 3: Good family vacation spot.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm on this like it's it seemed like a great,
great family spot for sure, but also as a forty
one year old man, it was awesome.
Speaker 6: If we went like in the fall and it was
a little bit colder. Are there sounds like there's plenty
of like indoor water park A.
Speaker 7: Ton of them are so.
Speaker 4: Kalahari had a big outdoor one, and they had a
big indoor one and they're doing like a seventy five
thousand square foot expansion of their indoor stuff.
Speaker 5: So, like to be clear, Jeff, there is a Kalahari
an hour from you that.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I know, but like I want to do
all this other stuff as well. Yeah, and we are
looking to get out of town.
Speaker 2: So yeah, as someone that doesn't know how to swim,
I've never really been able to enjoy a water park.
Speaker 1: It's a lazy river. Oh we wee, lazy river. It
was great. Could there's there's lifeguards at the receptacle that
will help assist you. Let me tell you.
Speaker 2: I went to a water park because it was an
Altar servers field trip as a little reward, and I
went into the wavepool. I went a little bit too
deep and then my friend had to pull me out.
Speaker 4: Also, Jan the entire time, all weekend, I was in
water that I could have drowned in. Really was just
the wavepool like all the others. It's a lazy river.
Seven's three feet when you get to the bottom of
slide stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You could round there.
Speaker 4: But well, I know, but you can also stand up,
you know. Sure, Yeah, it's not like a risk if
you can't swim, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Okay, thank you for that, Dan to head over there.
Speaker 4: I also be like cheese, Holy shit, I ate so
much cheese and drank a lot of beer this weekend.
Speaker 1: It was a good time.
Speaker 2: You sound like you're lifting that you're living that drifter lifestyle,
just going to cheese and water parks, just like Mike
Minatti did last night on Mega Man. He played not
through but a little bit of The Drifter.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I played like two hours, which I bet is
you like about a third of the game, maybe maybe
a bit more than that. Jeff just recommended this to
me earlier that day because it's very LucasArts pointing click
adventure game coded. He knows how much I like those.
This is a newer game though, but with that pixelated
art style and a point and click interface.
Speaker 3: With like the mouse cursor and the font of like
a LucasArts game. They aren't trying to hide anything there.
They're like, we are making one of those.
Speaker 5: Right, But it's also not nearly as obtuse or confusing
as one of those. Or everything's contact sensitive, so it's
it's pretty easy to find the things that you should
be clicking on even like the dialogue systems, it's just
like icons of things you might want to talk about,
so pretty straightforward.
Speaker 1: But I'm liking this quite a bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like the story here is that you are this
kind of drifter who's back in his hometown for his
mom's funeral. So he's got to see, you know, his
sister and his ex wife and you know, everything's kind
of awkward. But before all of that happens, he gets
caught up in something weird with a bunch of Sam
Fisher looking people abducting homeless and killing people, and he
maybe gets framed for it, and then they try to
kill you and you die. It works, they kill you,
but then like time rewinds a bit. If you ever
played ghost Trick, fine, if it has sequences, yes, it
has those sequences. You're in a situation and you have
to kind of solve a puzzle or else you die.
Every time you die, you just go back, so you
kind of keep trying things until you finally figure out
the situation. So like one of them, I was captured
and I'm in a hospital and I'm handcuffed to the
hospital bed and I'm being interrogated. Then a nurse comes
in to refill my saving solution right then like a
few minutes later, I die, So it's like, oh, she
poisoned me. So now you're kind of in this Groundhog's
day loop of like trying to figure out how to
get out of that situation. So mixing those segments in
with the more traditional pointing click puzzles is really cool.
It's fully voice axed. It seemed the voice.
Speaker 1: Thatting is good.
Speaker 6: It seemed fun in those moments, Mike, like, did you
were you feeling do you feel like, Okay, we're going
back to begin the beginning of the loop, and now
I have a good idea of what to do this time,
because that sounds exciting as opposed to the idea of like,
oh we're doing this again and I can't figure it out.
Speaker 3: That could get frustrating. But it felt like you always
had a new idea of what to do next.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and like again that's uh, you know, that's
part of the game, right, So, and it's usually these
pretty short loops to where it happens, and at certain
point you can, you know, skip a dialogue box. You
can you know, if it's something you heard alt right,
you get through that part pretty quickly, so no, I
always thought those parts were pretty enthralling. I was enjoying
the story. I kind of want to see where it's going.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so definitely something I'm going to.
Speaker 5: Continue playing on my own. I want to see this serially. Again,
I love these games growing up, and I know people
are still making these kinds of games, and Watchet Games
or Watchet Games makes a ton of these and I
haven't necessarily checked them out, so you know, probably shame
on me for not looking at the games inspired by
the games that I loved in this modern age. But
I'm definitely enjoying this one. And I think anybody who likes,
you know, lookas starts Veture games, or you like to
gost trick Man Detective, or you just kind of like
an interesting kind of mystery story should look at The Drifter.
Speaker 3: I think you could be excused for missing that this
one came out because it came out the same day
as Don't Donkey Kong Bonanza, So yeah, kind of easy
to miss this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty recent, but really recommend it.
Speaker 2: Well that sounds bananas, but you know what is more
bananas than that? Mike Manatti, Dan Ryker Jeff Grub now
Donkey Kong Bananza. I'm a little jelly. I'm a little jelly.
I haven't checked it out yet. It sounds like y'all
are having a ball with this.
Speaker 4: It is I think maybe the fastest time to fun
I have seen in a video game, maybe ever, just
I guess. I don't even know if you could call
it a tutorial room because never does you know, the
action never stop since it's like, oh, here's how you
do this. If anything, it's just a little pop up
being like here's how you do a chunk jump. Yeah,
just puts you in a fucking room and you just
go nuts and it's immediately fun. There's like five seconds
of just like here's the island they're on. Oops, an asteroid.
All right, go fucking nuts, and that's all you're doing.
This entire game is just going fucking nuts and destroying everything,
like Grub, are you doing?
Speaker 7: Much like I find myself looks.
Speaker 4: I'll see a mountain or like a hill, and I
won't even have I'm not going towards the yellow exclamation point.
I don't even have a specific banana or anything I'm
going for. I just go up the hill and I
just start spamming. Just ah, just fucking up everything, going up,
sideways down all the way through. It turn into Bananza monkey,
just tearing up a whole fucking mountain. And along the way,
I'll get like, you know, twenty different things. You know,
I'll get a bunch of gold, I'll get some banandium
chips and bananas and all that.
Speaker 7: But I'm just like, are you doing it without direction too?
Speaker 1: Sometimes? Yeah?
Speaker 6: In fact, I'm kind of like, yeah, the spirit overtakes
me for sure in this game more than a lot
of other games. And to the point where that is
how I'm playing it overall, where I am. I am
aware of the yellow thing the waypoint telling me where
to go next, and I have that in mind, but
I am just sort of like playing it on a
vibe level of I just feel like this thing in
front of me needs to be destroyed. I'm gonna punch
the hell out of it. Oh cool, I did find
a banandaum thing. I did find a bunch of other stuff,
but now that's destroyed. I'm just going to keep moving
to that yellow thing now. And oh, another thing distracted
me and I'm punching that and I'm not like worried
about one hundred percent of the game at all on
this first playthrough, just because it is such a get
in the vibe of this game, feel it out and
get on its level and just go, and it's made
to be played that way. It feels like, and it's
so good on that level that I'm having a great time.
And I'm also aware that I'm leaving all this stuff
behind that I'm gonna get to come back to later
when it is time to be like, I fully know
everything about this game. Now I have all the abilities,
a fully up upgraded of Donkey Kong, and now I
can come back and really tear these levels apart and
find every last thing.
Speaker 3: And I love that it's really really good on that level.
Speaker 4: That's exactly what I'm doing, is like I'm just general
in general senses. I'm pointing Donkey Kong in a direction,
sometimes towards an objective, but I am not doing like, well,
I got to get a hundred percent on this layer,
this sub layer before I move to the next. I'm
doing the exact same way where it's like I'm gonna
move through what feels like a natural pace and then
there will definitely be time it's very easy to fast
travel around and go between the layers and all that.
I will one this game completely, like it's so much fun.
It's no fucking way I'm not doing that. And there
are tools there where it's it's easy have to buy
maps and stuff for like, you know, bananas you haven't found,
so like, I think it's going to be a very
fun one.
Speaker 7: But I it does something that almost reminded.
Speaker 1: Me of Breath the Wild and that I really appreciate
where it's like, you know, when you start Breath the
Wild and you get out of that first thing and
it's like your first objective is kill Gannon, you know,
and it's like, oh, okay, well head out and see
what happens with that.
Speaker 4: This for the first objective here is find more bananas.
I fucking love that where it's like, all right, got
my marching orders, let's just go where this takes me.
Speaker 6: Man, it shifts later to get to the planet core
and that's always there as well.
Speaker 4: And yes, and I love the map screen if just
you're going down and I just got the first part
where it does kind of split like there's a light
you want to go to the snow area or the
forest area and like there is the divide you know.
Oh man, I'm just loving every second. I've got like
one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 6: But is now yeah, keeps getting better, Dan, Like, so
you're at that at that point, I'm like, I love
this game and now I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, oh boy, it's all I can think about. It's
all I want to do.
Speaker 1: It's it's so.
Speaker 3: It just keeps getting better and better each level and
each power you unlock.
Speaker 5: About Zebra, yes, yeah, Zebra is very I like Zebra lot.
One of the best songs too, is the Zebra Song.
Speaker 3: It's a musical, Yeah, Like that's it's a It really
is kind of a musical where Pauline is singing these
songs about these characters.
Speaker 1: Are these special powers that you have.
Speaker 6: You can activate that at any time, and her singing
powers are central to the game, and I like that.
That's like a really fun idea. But more than a
lot of other Nintendo games, this one just kind of
wears on its sleeve that it is taking bits and
pieces of every other game that Nintendo's made, and a
bunch of other games, like this is just Mario Odyssey
and a lot of stru and a lot of the
ways that it's truck structured, and then they just like, Okay,
now let's put all the Donkey Kong stuff on top
of that and build it in a different direction, and
it works really well. You could tell that they are like, Hey,
we know this stuff already functions the way we need
it to for one of these games. Why rebuild it.
Let's focus on making a bunch of new fun stuff.
And that paid off because there it is so dense.
There is so much going on in every level, so
many things to discover, to the point where and like,
it also opens up the opportunity for you to play
it how you want and the quick look, which I
don't know if that's up yet, but people see I'm
playing it and I'm showing Mike some of the levels
I'd already played, and there's a point where it's like, oh,
this is how you get to the next stage or
get to the boss to get to the next stage.
And I did not do any of the sequence that
the game says is required to get there. I apparently
had found my own way.
Speaker 3: I'm like actually going through screenshots and movies trying to
find like, what did I even do? How did I
get here?
Speaker 5: It's kind of breaf of the wild in that way,
a little Mario Odyssey in that way. I'm really deep
into the game. I think I'm beginning to brush up
towards the ending what I love, Like, you know, just
the base mechanics and all that stuff is so fun
that I don't get tired of it. But it does,
you know, always build on that. And sometimes it's new
abilities with the bonanzas. But a lot of times, oh,
I didn't think about interacting with the world, yes, with
my abilities in this way, or I didn't expect terrain
to react to it this way in this level. Now
all these really fun and smart things. Yeah, it's just
it's absolutely incredible. It's better than I was expecting. And
I love Odyssey so much. I was just already expecting
the moon here. Yeah, it's a it's better than I imagine.
I can't believe how well executed this idea is.
Speaker 4: I'm excited because, like I feel like, since I wasn't
able to play this weekend, since I was on the road,
like I'm pretty early, right, if I if I'm.
Speaker 5: Pretty year relatively early? Still yeah, like still first third,
I'd say, yep.
Speaker 4: Oh good, Okay, that's great, Mike does the Uh, there's
small apples, but then there are like big, beautifully rendered apples.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's bullshit.
Speaker 5: I was expecting a banana situation. I knew what I
signed up for.
Speaker 1: What the fuck are all.
Speaker 5: These apples doing in this game?
Speaker 4: Because the bananas look like crystals, you know, so maybe
you can make that separation with the apples.
Speaker 7: It looks like a big ass apples.
Speaker 1: Just apples. What the hell is this?
Speaker 5: Don collocs apples now to those even drow in the
jungle apples.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, ship into the city. He's been a new
dog city before he tried apples.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the big apple.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, yeah, I was upset about the apples, but
it's okay.
Speaker 1: I'll forgive it.
Speaker 7: Did you all flip the BNA buttons?
Speaker 1: No? No? No?
Speaker 5: Because oh because Dan, Look, it makes so much sense
the way now.
Speaker 4: I understand, down is down. I get that, but it's
also very easy to wrap my head around. Well, right
is down, and then the normal jump buttons, the normal
jump button.
Speaker 1: That feels it's way.
Speaker 3: Better to get used to the jump button, not B
and B.
Speaker 7: That was weird when I saw that setting.
Speaker 4: I always go through the settings before I started a
game and I saw the swap BNA, and I remember
from the preview being like, hey, over here is kind
of weird, So I swapped it.
Speaker 1: Have not looked back. It feels great that way. That's fine.
Speaker 5: I have such a controller chameleon though. If you you
can put the jump on whatever you want to, I'll
get used to.
Speaker 7: It wherever you went to. All right, R three is jump.
Speaker 5: I mean, if the game was designed with that in
a way that made sense, they are, but surely did
it just a mess of me?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 5: But if a game put R three on jump, I
bet there beers. I mean, Breath with the Zeta games
have jump on X and it's a little weird. It works,
I get it.
Speaker 7: I like I had to look at the controller to
figure out where X was.
Speaker 1: I do too.
Speaker 4: We've got Yeah, it's fucked up, like everyone has the
Xbox thing burnt into their brain.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the thing you said Mike about like learning the
systems and like learning the material science of the game,
Like there's a chemistry system also like Breath of the Wild. Oh,
this material material interacts with that material in a certain way.
That is I think the fundamental reason the game keeps
getting better because I am there's so many systems to
get used to and figure out how they work. So
now when I do go back to earlier levels, a
possibility space has opened up so much that it just
really feels like the game is clicking in a way
that it clicked immediately. Dan's right, it is fun in
the first half second you press that jump button, you
press the roll button into a jump, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, oh man, it's so good.
Speaker 3: They just like, relatively recently have I really had to
sometimes think more about the structural integrity of the clumps
of earth that I'm picking up sometimes, Dan, have you
heard about my jump tech?
Speaker 1: No? Yeah, he's got a good jump tech.
Speaker 5: So the highest jump you can do in the game
does this spin No, so you do the double jump.
Speaker 1: But whatever you're at the height of a jump please
called a chunk chunk. Do a chunk jump.
Speaker 5: But then do a down smash attack because when you
do that, he actually flips in the air a little bit.
So start that animation that counts Kitsel out of that
with a real role that's your max site.
Speaker 7: Oh like Mario three D whirl, like do the butt
something dive types.
Speaker 5: I've been breaking some puzzles, like, there's been some misses
where it clearly wants me to do something and I'll
do that and just skip it and it feels so good.
Speaker 1: That's got to feel amazing.
Speaker 6: Oh the Sonic boom knuckles jump. And the director of
this game is the director of Sonic Adventure Games.
Speaker 4: So wow, Yeah, have you tried the co op mode?
Speaker 1: No? I did?
Speaker 3: I did it with the mouse version? Did you do
like the game share version?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 4: I did it with Kayla sitting next to me, or
I guess she was, Yeah, she was on her switch
to so I guess I was doing local game share Yes.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, So what was that like?
Speaker 6: Cause we did it where Addie was on the controller
and then Emmy got the joy consons was using the
mouse and was like sucking up the materials and then
shooting him out by making Pauline sing Is it the
same thing when you do me?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 4: And maybe there just might have been a Kala factor
going on of her just hitting as fast as possible
and creating like I couldn't see what was happening on
the screen the amount of shit she was doing, So
maybe that's just the Kala factor.
Speaker 1: It seemed like too much.
Speaker 3: That is the thing about this game.
Speaker 6: It's like, I bet it's Sometimes it might be difficult
to watch because Donkey Kong just gets in that ass
of the level and gets surrounded by the material and
dirt and stuff, and the camera has like look through
it and see a silhouette.
Speaker 3: But when I'm playing, I fully understand what's going on.
Speaker 6: I know where he is. I never feel lost. Sometimes
the camera does just feel a tiny bit wonky. For
as much as is happening, it works shockingly well, so
it kind of.
Speaker 7: Has to be that way.
Speaker 4: The amount you can go into curials and stuff, like,
there's no way the camera is going to be perfect, right.
Speaker 5: The fact that it works like this well is shocking. Yeah,
I'd never feel lost or I don't know where I am,
And sometimes you like going underground helps you see things
in a weird way. It is still such a Donkey
Kong game. Some people worry that this was some big
reboots just because of the redesign. There's still all these
references and elements from Donkey.
Speaker 3: Kong Symphony played at one point, like there's a.
Speaker 5: Whole Sticker Bush Symphony level, Right's you know, there's a
mindcart madness style level at one point, and you have
things like the barrels that are omnipresent everywhere. It's just
that absolute joy. It is just the kind of Nintendo
stuff that Nintendo does best. Uh obviously our first grade
switch to game, and whenever this system is said and done,
it will still be one of its best games. Absolutely, Dan.
Speaker 6: Every time you get one to one of those blue
crystal guys, do you rip off their faces because they
don't care?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 4: I feel bad because I got trained early on, because
it's like I would hit the button with the the
kongs and they would high five, and it's like, oh,
hell yeah, I'm not going to accidentally hit these like
fun little monkeys and get HI five and a thumbs up,
and all of a sudden, those blue dudes with the eyes,
I'm just like punching off the bottom of their fucking
face like a Ricchio kill. And it's like, yeah, it's
fu great.
Speaker 3: You could just grab them, rip off their face, and
then use the chunk to destroy the rest of their body.
Speaker 1: It's coral. Do you know you could rip them apart?
Speaker 3: You rip them apart with your digits, with your monkey fingers.
Speaker 1: It's so good going in for a handshake with you
anymore grub thinking about ripping off faces. You're right, Jack's fatality.
Speaker 2: This sounds fantastic. It feels like it I need to
play this game and maybe it'll fix me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I can.
Speaker 2: Tell that every time I see I'm scrolling through whatever
and I see someone streaming this game, it's just smiling
ear to ear.
Speaker 6: It definitely happened to me, Like I felt myself going
from like being in kind of a mood like something
was happening. And then when I was playing this game,
and I'm like, I'm a joint and of course I'm
enjoying it, but uh, you know, I'm like overwhelmed with
with with joy. And then at a certain point, I'm
like I felt myself physically smile and you didn't stop
the rest of the time I was playing.
Speaker 4: It is like like something is happening inside my brain
when I play it, Like I'm feeling fireworks go off,
yeah with the neurons, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, folks, We're well, we're all gonna go
watch the fireworks together. We're gonna go gather in front
of the carousel and then meet there and then afterwards,
Jeff Grubb is going to deliver us the news and
take quick.
Speaker 1: I gotta leave, so see you on the dumb truck.
Every love you think about the.
Speaker 6: Challenger was really funny, And we are back.
Speaker 2: Scouts, stop scratching the couch behind me, Pets.
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, Scout, stop it.
Speaker 5: Scott, live your life and listen to them, Scout dog,
couch up.
Speaker 2: No, don't, don't, don't mess up the couch. It's old,
all right, gang, Welcome back to John BombCast, episode nine hundred.
You know you know you know what we're missing?
Speaker 1: Ackler back on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, back, yes, Jeff Backler. But I was going to
say new music. I think now that we've reached episode
nine hundred, I think we need new music for the
segments specifically.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's get a new theme song.
Speaker 5: Is that sack relation? Should I not say that?
Speaker 1: So we just got this theme song like a couple
hundred episodes ago.
Speaker 7: This was like twenty twenty two. We started doing this
version of it.
Speaker 5: See yeah, basically, since I haven't listening it's been that one.
I'm over it.
Speaker 1: All right, Well we have like a tambourine to this one.
Will that just switch it up for you? Good?
Speaker 5: That'd be good.
Speaker 7: You got new game Mess Mornings music from Tom Monda.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and we all got a brand new overlays
for game Miss Mornings, very very I didn't realize how
Persona looking it was that.
Speaker 5: I was that that tickle because it looks so Persona
looks great, looks amazing. But even the artist is like,
I never played Persona. I was like, that's funny, because yeah,
we've accidentally got very Persona code with that.
Speaker 1: Uh well, it's time to get to the news.
Speaker 2: This is Jeff Crabb with a news Jeff.
Speaker 6: Crub Yeah, that's right, Hello, everybody, I have some news
headlines for you. From Software reportedly has another unannounced game
that could release next year. From Soft is reportedly developing
an unannounced multi platform game.
Speaker 3: The codeame is FMC.
Speaker 6: Their code names are I don't think rarely. Are they
acronyms or something like that, and they all seem to
start with the letter F. I don't know if someone's
decoded that or whatever. But this is not The Dusk Bloods,
which is the from Soft game that has already been
confirmed for twenty twenty six. The Switch to Exclusive that
is a multiplayer focused or multiplayer heavy game. I guess
we don't really know yet, we'll have to see for
ourselves at that point when it comes out. This is
a different game that is also coming from from Software
and maybe even coming before the Dust Bloods releases.
Speaker 1: Gang. What what do you think it is?
Speaker 3: Or I guess what do you want.
Speaker 1: It to be? Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, say yeah that's what I want? Is I
want so I just I just beat Zekero and Molesports
for that for the best ending.
Speaker 1: It's sycle bait. There's cycle bait at the end of
that game. Give me the sequel.
Speaker 5: And now I know Activision published the first game, but
my understanding is from Soft just owns that eyepiece.
Speaker 3: I think they think that's right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so they don't necessarily to be involved. I love
Soecoro so much. It's my favorite from Soft game, even
more than that Out to Ring and I freaking loved
out and Ring. Uh yeah, I I just want Soekero too. Now,
maybe that's kind of lofty. Maybe something like an Armored
Core six expansion or Definitive edition is more likely. That'd
be fine. That's a good game too. I see you
said that. One rumors is Dark Souls three remastered. That's
a little weird to me. I played that game recently.
I don't know what the heck you would remaster that
game already just looks as good as it possibly needs
to in every way. That's a twenty sixteen game, Jeff,
I remember you said this about Doom twenty sixteen, like
when it came out, like, oh, this is as good
as games need to look. I think we're kind of right.
I think twenty sixteen games in general don't really need
to be remastered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't need they you know, they do it
because they'll sell and make more money.
Speaker 1: We get it.
Speaker 6: But I'm with you, like I don't feel an urge
or need for this one. In particular, Fire's Rubicon expansion.
I would love that, but I don't know. I don't
know if that's something that they want to do.
Speaker 5: I would almost rather you just start working on another
Armor Corps.
Speaker 2: Did Armored Corps six sell well so well, like a
couple million copies?
Speaker 5: You know they didn't do Elder Ring numbers are probably
even secero.
Speaker 1: It's the best time an.
Speaker 6: Armor Core game by a lot, for sure. Yeah, don't
I don't think a rushing back to Yeah, that feels
like it wants every eight to ten years sort of game,
you know, maybe ten years actually, you know, I'm really
glad they went back to it. It is one of
my favorite games. It's so good. But do we get
another one this quickly or even an expansion? I don't know,
but this one probably will be a single player game
because they have they've already had Night Rain, they have
dust Bloods, so people are craving that from from Soft.
Maybe this can deliver something along those lines. One thing
for sure, nothing along the lines of Elden Ring, like almost, yeah,
so far away from that.
Speaker 1: It's definitely noting. Yeah, it's not out Ring too yet,
especially because.
Speaker 5: Miyazaki is directing dust Bloods, so he is busy with that.
So that's the thing. That's the kind of thing is
he is directing that game, So like, what is this
other game? Could he possibly also directed it? Because you
wouldn't need him for a seker Road too, I assume,
or for you know, an Outer Ring too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wasn't there like rumors like a couple of months
ago that Miyazaki was experimenting or thinking about making like
a turn based game or like an RPG.
Speaker 5: There was something about that or he said he wanted
to something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think it was an interview, so that that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think whenever developers say that kind of stuff interviews,
that's like the next next thing after whatever they're working
on now and whatever they're planning on.
Speaker 3: But I don't know, maybe now we'll see.
Speaker 6: The new Pokemon game is getting a Nintendo switched to
hardware bundle. Nintendo and the Pokemon Company have announced a
new Nintendo Switch two bundle featuring a download code code
for the switch to version of Pokemon Legends ZA. It
will be priced at five hundred dollars, and it will
be available on October sixteenth, the same day that the
game releases. The bundle may replace the limited time Mario
Kart World Bundle, So I think I still think that
Mario Kart Bundle will be back every year for the
rest of our goddamn lars, because that's what they did
with Mario Kart Bundle on.
Speaker 3: Switch one and it worked really well.
Speaker 6: But I think this sounds plausible, and that maybe that's
why they said it was limited, but already bundling a
Pokemon Legends game with with Switch too, you know, at
the somewhat dis kind of price, you know of where
you get ten dollars twenty dollars off the game whatever.
It is a little surprising, but I think that means
the switch To is gonna be massive this holiday, that
this bundle is gonna be hard to find.
Speaker 5: Right, And I think it really solidifies that. Yeah, but
you know it was it was kind of obvious. I
know some people thought there might be some other big
holiday game, there's another holiday game.
Speaker 1: But Legends z A is the game.
Speaker 5: Even though it's Yeah, even though it's also Switch one game,
it is still the big switch To holiday game.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, scarlet and Violets sold gangbusters that game freak
don't really need to do squat or take anyone's constructive
criticism into account anymore. But I don't know. I think
maybe this is a vote of confidence from Nintendo other
than knowing them knowing that this is going to be
like a cash cow.
Speaker 1: I mean sure, it.
Speaker 6: Also like hits the quadrants, right, So we got we
opened up with families with Mario Kart d cam binances
for the Sikohs. They'll have a bunch of other updates
of stuff like for like Nintendo fans, there's a Curby
I Am coming to Kirby DLC and Mario parties happening
this week and stuff like that. But it's like, where
is the game for kids? And and Pokemon is not
just that it's the game for kids. So it's just
going to hit that quadrat quadrant in a really hard way.
Switch two is already selling three times faster than the
Switch one in Japan. When this bundle comes out, it's
probably gonna start selling even faster than that.
Speaker 3: This is going to do very well for them.
Speaker 2: Have y'all seen any like Switch twos out in the wild,
like just like eating stock at places.
Speaker 3: Not in stock so target A couple of times, I've
seen some Switch one, some switch lights, never a switch to. Okay,
that makes sense. People are still tracking those things down like.
Speaker 6: They're not they're not so rare that like the secondhand market,
the scalper market is blowing up, but it's still hard
to find them all right. PlayStation and Arc system Works
Marvel game will be will debut at EVO. Marvel Tocan
Fighting Souls will be available at EVO Las Vegas from
August first through the third. Attendees like Turbo Sean and
I think it is Jason Fonelli going out there as well.
Speaker 3: I think you maybe maybe he was a maybe right.
Can play a four character team from a roster of
six Marvel characters, including Captain America, iron Man, Storm, star Lord,
Miss Marvel, and Doctor Doom and receive a collectable pen.
I'm ready to hear what people think about this game.
I bet they're gonna like it because it looks pretty good.
But do we know when this game is coming out?
I think it's twenty twenty six, right, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5: Think it has anything more specific than that. Yeah, I
just I definitely want to see some more characters, especially
you know, a four v four game, They're gonna need
a lot of ROSS members, and I know we are
gonna get a bunch, and I want to start seeing
some of those. I want to see py coops from
my boy Jan for sure.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta have them there. Gotta have a good
amount of xbol to have some fun weird picks. I
want to see some people I've never heard of, right,
I always kind of like those characters in these games.
Speaker 1: Let's see here.
Speaker 6: Saber Interactive is indeed working on a hell Raiser game,
and this is going to be for the PS five,
Xbox MPC Saber and Boss Team Games are creating Clive
Barker's hell Raiser Revival and it is not an asymmetrical
multiplayer game. It's a single player survival horror action game
for those previously mentioned platforms. This is what people were
hoping for when this game was getting teased, and you know,
I think we were a.
Speaker 1: Little hopeful that Saber would.
Speaker 3: Do go that route, and they have.
Speaker 6: I think a hell Raisers survival horror game sounds interesting,
and I think sabers a little bit on a roll
with being able to make these adaptations make sense on
like a and this is a not a pejorative B
B game level where it's like, hey, no, we're just
making a video game. We have this license. Let's smash
them together and just take the fun stuff and take
the good stuff from the license, like they did with
that Warhammer Space Marine two game. So yeah, and like
what looks like what they're doing with the Jurassic Park game.
They're making a ton of stuff. They're also making Turrok,
They're making they're making still making Nights of the Old
Republic two.
Speaker 5: They have a Republic two the Nights of Republic remake.
Speaker 3: Thank you Knights of the Old Republic remake was t
uh so they're busy over there.
Speaker 6: But I'm I don't know. I think that this sounds
like a good fit for them as well. Any I
don't know any Hell Raiser super fans here. I like
that movie.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, me, you're definitely penhead coded for sure.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I know everything about hell Raiser. I'm a
hell Razor myself. That's what the fans call themselves. It's
what's your favorite centa bite? Oh?
Speaker 1: All of them? Eagerly.
Speaker 5: I would have to say the first one though. Can't
you ever forget your first sink sinko bite?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: My sinko bites out there at the top of the.
Speaker 5: Yeah, shout out saw the other fellow hell Raisers.
Speaker 1: I've never liked hell Raiser the movie.
Speaker 4: So the first one I remember thinking it was there's
some interesting like bad guy designs and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: But uh, maybe I just saw it too.
Speaker 1: Old, like I would have more of impact. I was
a kid when I saw it.
Speaker 2: Maybe for me too, Yeah, I only saw hell Razor
one four years ago.
Speaker 3: You do have to be a child to appreciate the
psychosexual aspect of Hell Raiser, I think so.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I did never really appreciate it on my fifth
viewing when I was much older.
Speaker 6: All by the way, Yeah, Pokemon's upcoming theme park was
inspired by isolation during the pandemic, says Junichi Masuda, chief
creative fellow at the Pokemon Company, announced Poke Park Canto
It's Canto region, right Canto, a new Pokemon theme park
that will open next year as part of Japan's Yomi
Yuri Land. Developed in response to pandemic induced isolation, the
park aims to incentivize outdoor activity and foster communication among fans,
fulfilling Masuda is a long held desire for a place
where people can gather and interact through. Pokemon Park will
feature a Pokemon Center, Pokemart, and Pokemon Gym, a strong
emphasis on physical, tangible experience the experience of Pokemon, unlike
digital interactions of games like Pokemon Go. So I'm gonna
I'm gonna go to get pet the Pikachu, right and
like they're just statues whatever. Yeah, park is the key
word here. This is very much like a park park.
Speaker 5: There's a couple rides like you know, Ferrisville kind of things,
But I don't think you're going to Disneyland or something
like that.
Speaker 6: So you mean like park is in like city park?
What do you what's the distinction you're making here?
Speaker 2: Well, not like a theme park, right, right, is going
to be right going to a suburb suburban park, I
think with installations, I feel like wizard Quest, the place
where Dan went maybe more elaborately designed.
Speaker 3: The public park was wizard Quest.
Speaker 5: It was mostly a place for social gathering and relaxing
outdoors as opposed to a place to go on theme
park rides.
Speaker 6: Like it's like downtown Disney with just with just a
couple of Pokemon stores.
Speaker 3: Maybe a lot.
Speaker 5: More green or in juice, but yeah, but more greenery. Okay, right,
because it's a park, I think there's like a gibli
park in Japan. It's also kind of like that's really
not very ride focus. It's more vibes focused. Because Universal
in Japan at least maybe also does have the park
rights for Pokemon. Right, we're doing that more traditional kind
of thing.
Speaker 2: That being said, Pokemon company, send us to the Pokemon park.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I want to see this sounds really cute.
Speaker 2: Think of all the fun shenanigans I can film these
three fuckos doing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll pet the poke, the Pikachu or developer Moon
Studios explains why No Rest for the Wicked may skip Xbox.
Moon Studios, the developer of the RI series, is prioritizing
PS five, PS five pro and Switch two versions of
its game No Rest for the Wicked, putting Xbox at
the back of the queue due to quote market conditions.
CEO Thomas Maller, who I think we've documented before a
little bit, a little bit of a weirdo, stated that
supporting both Xbox Series X and Series S takes more
time and resources in a PS five slash PS five
port pro port, and the studio wants to prioritize features
like co op and a full release sooner. He dispelled
the notions of a quote shakedown and the idea there
is that he and his team were shaked doing a
shakedown on Xbox, telling it common sense to focus on
the platform with the most users. Moon Studios recently secured
publishing rights for No Right Rest for the Wicked from
to Take two, making them fully independent. I think the
people the reason people might be thinking that this is
a shakedown is that they're not putting on Xbox because
they want to get better terms for Microsoft. So they're
refusing to put it on there until Microsoft comes to them.
I don't know if that's right, only because I'm not
sure how antsi Xbox is to go talk to this
guy anymore. But that's just a hunch. Mike, you're a
big ri fan. I know you've paid attention to the
studio before. Do you have like any thoughts on this?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: Yes, you know, Microsoft Xbox did publish the two or games,
and this was around of time where Xbox was buying
up everybody, and they did not buy up Moon Studios. Instead,
they almosteem kind of happy to let them go go
off and do their own thing. And that's where you know,
Moon Studios was with Take two instead, and then Take two.
Speaker 3: You know, seems done with them as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so right, The scuttle butt was that allegedly very
difficult to work with Moon Studios, specifically it's leadership. So yeah,
I think I agree with that. Jeff, I don't think
Xbox is coming is all that concerned about no rest
for the Wicked, a game that I don't think is
has that much buzz. This was the game where he
complained about being review bombed when it wasn't being review
bomb but just got n Negger views because people didn't
like the recent update. He's kind of involved himself into
the cultural cultural war at different points, right, and you
can guess what side he's on. So yeah, I don't know.
The whole thing is really weird. And look, honestly, like,
I don't blame any studio for just skipping Xbox, Like
that's completely reasonable, Like, yeah, you only have so much money.
I think it is definitely more important to get your
game on PlayStation instead of that, So that aspect of it,
that's fair.
Speaker 3: It's no rest for the Wicked one of the Hades,
like Mike, I guess.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a top down action game. It's much more
souls born coded than Hades.
Speaker 1: Is it there with SpongeBob in it?
Speaker 5: No SpongeBob SquarePants insight in this one, I'm afraid.
Speaker 1: Okay, here is one of those. Though.
Speaker 6: There's that SpongeBob reference in Tony Hawk, and I was like,
is there a whole SpongeBob stage because I think that's
what they're teasing, and turns out there's not.
Speaker 3: It just like turns to the SpongeBob for a half second.
Speaker 1: Uh all right, real quick.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to talk about the Pokemon presents from
this morning, just real, real quick.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, what happened there?
Speaker 6: Because it doesn't seem like much other than I included
a couple of stories, but beyond that, what happened there?
Speaker 2: It opened with them talking about the Pokemon Worlds event
in Anaheim later this year, Pokemon Concierge having another season.
That's that very pleasant twee show on Netflix. I think
they're also doing something with the walls and grommet people.
But then I blacked out for like a minute or two.
Speaker 5: You hate that stuff?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it comes here, playmate, I could.
Speaker 2: It's stop motion okay, which there's there's like a difference
for me. I don't care if there's a defined similarity.
I don't fucking care. But Pokemon Champions is the thing
that I wanted to talk about. It is the competitive
one v one or two v two Pokemon mode and
this is going to come out on not only the
switch switch to probably but also mobile. And the interesting
thing about this is that they of course said, there
is the functionality to transfer poke your existing Pokemon from
Pokemon Home, so you could get your Pokemon that you've
you've had for generations and uh, the ones that you
specifically trained up, but they will also be like it
seems like a streamline kind of training for Pokemon, where
you just give them the stats you want them to have,
and that for me is going to be insane because
I don't for as much as they have streamline stuff
with like bottle caps and all different candies to get
your ivs, your EV's correct and the nature's correct exactly,
I don't have the time for that. So if I
can just pick the specific pokemon and give them the
specific move sets and like the specific like stat spreads
that I want and need for some of my zany ideas,
then by all means, please give that to me. I
also hope that game Freak or whoever is developing this
game just puts in like a proper spectator mode, because
it is kind of insane that you need like a
hacked version of the game to like do like a
proper like shoutcasting type of thing, right, because I'd love
to dust off the dust and bring back Pokemonday Night
Combat to the website. I just can't be asked to
slog through Scarlet and Violet, even though it does run
better on the switch to I just don't want to
do the whole breeding stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's a lot.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of time, right, that's like hundreds of hours. Right,
it's not just it's sped.
Speaker 1: Up, for sure in comparison to how it used to be.
Speaker 2: But like, I just don't want to have to like
breed like a chain of like three generations of Pokemon
to get one specific move onto someone just to try
out the tech.
Speaker 5: See, you know, I have liked Pokemon. I used to
like a lot.
Speaker 1: More I have.
Speaker 5: I've never been able to play it like that. I've
never been able to care about what you're saying. Yeah,
it's never been my thing. I got a couple of
breaking news things here, Oh please bring them. Ozzy Osbourne
died whoa just a little bit after that final concert thing.
Speaker 6: He's the for kids who didn't know he was the
star of an MTV reality show, Oh dear, yeah.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, yeah Ozzy Osbourne. This is some Sky
news somebody linked in chat so like that's things that's legitimate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, poor health for for years now. Yeah yeah, it's said.
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh VIDI back to video games, so I splicate too,
is like going back to beta? Right, you had a
full launch.
Speaker 6: They we're gonna make its great again, and now then
so hard they're backed up being batas.
Speaker 1: They said it was awesome, got them grub.
Speaker 6: Yeah, listen, I only said it because he would hate
it specifically.
Speaker 1: Oh so there you go.
Speaker 5: There's here's there's my interruptive breaking news break.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 6: Well, good luck to the people that make that game
and not that guy specific some of them, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Some of them. Fuck that dude specifically.
Speaker 3: Yep, just a dumb thing. Man, I don't know, man'.
Suplicate two had nothing going and no one was talking
about that, nothing near what Splicate one had at its peak,
which felt like it was.
Speaker 6: Going to turn into a thing, and then that burned
out really quickly. So okay, well, good luck to them,
all right. Leaked Battlefield pick confirms full name with a
real event reveal event allegedly close. It's going to be
called Battlefield six and on July twenty ninth, according to
a now deleted social media post, they'll have some more
to say about that about the game. At that point,
or at least in that timeframe. There's going to be
an event, and it's going to be a kin to
those Call of Duty next events. They have annually where
they announced all the stuff happening in the game.
Speaker 3: So they're treating Battlefield six like a really big deal,
equivalent to Call of Duty at least so far, and
they have big ideas about this game one hundred million players.
There sounds like there's going.
Speaker 6: To be a free to play mode that is equivalent
to war Zone, so a Battle Royale. Do you guys
feel like Battlefield's about to come back and take over
the world or what?
Speaker 4: I feel like, I haven't heard people excited about Battlefield
since like three I'm sure that's going back too far,
but I just feel like it's not talked about the
same it used to be like Battlefield and Call of
Duty head to head November in the early twenty tens,
and I just don't hear anyone excited about Battlefield anymore.
Speaker 5: No, I say, one had a little bit going yet.
Speaker 6: But what did one have one head like, all right,
we're back. It was not like this is the new
you know, nineteen.
Speaker 3: Forty two or three or four. It was, oh, at
least this, at least we have gotten another good one.
Speaker 6: It's not like established in the cannon the way where
like people are like, oh, one is the new flag
bearer for the franchise. It was like sort of like
a you know, a reprieve from other worst games. And
then since then they've missed the mark mostly. Twenty forty two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm and twenty forty two were both pretty
big misses. It seems like that's two in a row
in these days. That's a decade, right basically, So yeah,
I just you know, it can always work all of
a sudden, I guess I'm a I'm very curious to
see what they got, because what do you do suddenly
make it stand out? Is it just a bad one?
Speaker 3: Oversaw on that is being overseen by Vince Sampella, who
is the respond Call of Duty guy, and then Shape
Its Legends and Titan Fall.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the guy who made Grant the thoughto just
made a very exciting brand new video games is called
Mind's Eye.
Speaker 6: To hear about that, Yeah, well, okay, right, what you're
saying is one guy can't necessarily change things. I think
you're right about that, so we'll see. I've never been
a huge battlefield guy. I've enjoyed playing them here or there,
but I've always been like kind of waiting for them
to reach a level where it's like, oh, here is
It's still Battlefield, but now it's cooking for all these people,
and of course you could get to one hundred million players.
I haven't seen that happen. Maybe maybe this will be
the one where they figure it out, but I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be set in modern times. There's gonna be
a bunch of stuff kind of connecting it. There's four
developers working on it.
Speaker 1: Like the modern warfare of sorts of modern I.
Speaker 5: Do think it's actually been a bit since they did,
because you know, there's slightly futuristic, and then at five
was world War Two. Again everyone's mad on one, which
was lady, it was World War One.
Speaker 3: That's why it was.
Speaker 5: So it has I guess it has been e bits.
They've just done modern warfare, you know. So you know,
if they really positioned it as the sequel to Battlefield four,
how many people are still thinking about Battlefield four? Maybe
some we'll see, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Bet that community is like really thinking about it a lot.
Speaker 1: Bad Company, mad Company three?
Speaker 5: Oh what you were saying that E was a bad company?
Speaker 4: Yeah, bad company, bad company?
Speaker 1: Uh some of someone please give me the io of that.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, the only battlefield game I really
have a lot of experience with isn't really a battlefield game.
Speaker 1: It just has the DNA of one.
Speaker 2: But I really enjoyed the finals from like two Finals
was fun.
Speaker 1: That was a fun month or two we played that.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, that game is still going, it turns out,
and yeah, I don't know. It was always very intimidating
for me to have like the gigantic battlefields with like
a Humongo sixty four plus players, because I could just
never get a grasp on anything.
Speaker 6: Sure, my finals is from end Bark, which is uh,
the guy that started that studio is the one that
used to be in charge of technology at EA, and
so yeah, and Dice he was actually the Dice guy, right, right,
was the and he like the frost engine guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's the guy that was like, everyone's gonna use
frost Engine at EA, and then he left and didn't
have to use frost Engine himself anymore. So how about that?
Speaker 1: And about that?
Speaker 5: You know what I do like about Battlefield is that
that song. Every time I hear that, Yeah, even like
even like the new trailers, right, they'll always like play
just that drum beat at the end I'll be like, hell, yeah,
actually I do care.
Speaker 3: Uh you be Soft Ubisoft has been confronted on the
stop Killing Games petition and yieves Gimo tried to like
sound diplomatic. He's like, yeah, I mean this is something that.
Speaker 6: We are aware of and we're trying to deal with
and it's a challenge. And I think that's like him
kind of putting on the the honey while in the background,
the UH industry groups that represent companies like you Be
Soft are doing the vinegar and they're like, this is
this can't work, this will destroy the industry. They're like
lobbying politicians in Europe hard I guess. For a reminder
of the Stop Killing Games initiative is a petition that has
been some by enough people that the European Union, regulators
or lawmakers I'm not sure how it all works over there,
have to take it under consideration, and it being the
idea that video game companies have to prod provide some
remedy when they sell you a video game so that
if it goes offline, there is some way for you
to continue enjoying it, whether that is private servers or
something else. Either, why the EU has to consider it
and I'll say I'm of like two minds on this slightly.
I get that it's probably challenging for these companies, and
the other mind is I don't care, and they should
have to They should be forced to have to consider this,
I think, and bringing in regulators to force them to
do that to me sounds like a completely fair thing
at this point, right.
Speaker 5: And I mean if, like, you know, conquence consequence of
that is that they make fewer live service games.
Speaker 1: Oh no, right, gosh, what are we going to do?
Speaker 2: Game?
Speaker 6: Hardly a threat even for people who like live service games.
They already have their live service games, so no one's
going to be freaking out about that. Nintendo is bringing
back its mysterious online play test from last year.
Speaker 3: Yo, we're going to as a team swing around and
build things.
Speaker 1: I thought we're going on to the red Lobster, are.
Speaker 5: Troubling to the lobster buddy, A big lobster in the sky,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: What you mean.
Speaker 5: Oh, on someday, we're all going to the coldest bruise
casts WiFi, uh, Fantasy drafts with the boys cheddar Bay
all day.
Speaker 2: Let's get on my deathbed I need whoever is with
me to like just get Mikey on the phone or
get Mikey there and like don't worry buddy.
Speaker 3: Or smook you out and let you die in a
red lobster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Mike Manati has to be there to just
say the coldest bruised.
Speaker 4: You know, you can be like an efficient for someone's wedding,
Like we should offer a service for fans where it's like,
if you're dying, we will come and just stand around
your bed and do bits.
Speaker 2: Like have you all seen that clip of like a
therapy mini horse and it's just.
Speaker 7: Yes, I love that horse and it does that little
flourish at the end.
Speaker 1: It's incredible mini horse. Yeah, it's a little.
Speaker 4: Fucking horse that like it it wakes up patients from
anesthesia and oh my god, I just send this the bank,
like okay, yeah, uh oh oh wait no, I just
showed it to our sitting next for it's just a
fucking horse with a keyboard and you wake up to
a fucking horse going like running it snout all.
Speaker 1: Over like the keys like a musical keyboard.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, And I hope they don't tell the people
that that's gonna happen, so as you come out of anesthesias.
Speaker 7: What's that sound?
Speaker 1: What the fuck's that horse?
Speaker 5: Nobody has a hotter CEO than the lobster.
Speaker 2: The lobster, the red lobster.
Speaker 1: That's the lobster. We're in the test.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you still can't talk about it,
even if, let's say you were in it and played
the video game a lot, and you've been dying to
talk about it for a long time and they just
won't let you. But we're gonna get into it again
and all of us will play together, and hopefully they'll
let us talk about it this time. It seems like
they're letting in a lot more people. Yeah, seems interesting.
Speaker 1: So I just posted an important link in the chat
for those who want to say the horse thank you.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: The horse is going to town.
Speaker 3: Le's last story here Netflix.
Speaker 1: Wait what you said a horse? This is a little Sebastianah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you just is a many horse different than
a pony. It's that's not a pony.
Speaker 1: Right, that's just different horses different than a pony. Yeah.
Speaker 3: God should not have given us these powers to make
many horses.
Speaker 5: This horse definitely needs to be in the room when
I die.
Speaker 1: What the sound on the flourish at the end.
Speaker 3: That's a mini Horse for Hires story. And really I
just want to include this because of this incredible headline here.
Netflix green lights Assassin's Creed series.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 3: It's about power, violence, sex, and greed. Oh shit, guys,
keep finally making a show like that.
Speaker 1: It's so different from every other prestige TV. What are
you talking about? Why would you say that? Stupid?
Speaker 6: It's a live action series helmed by Emmy nominees Roberto
Patino and David Weiner.
Speaker 3: Wait is that the.
Speaker 1: Mad Men guy?
Speaker 3: It can't be right. Yeah, they're making one of these,
or allegedly they're gonna make one of these.
Speaker 1: We'll see it.
Speaker 3: I'll believe it when I see it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, whatever, I didn't Dan, Have you heard it's about power, violence, sex,
and greed.
Speaker 7: Oh oh well, okay, it's wow.
Speaker 5: They made an Assassin's Creed movie like ten years ago.
Speaker 3: With Fastbender like a real movie star.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, you made a Prince of Persia.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's not terrible.
Speaker 5: It's not crazy.
Speaker 3: But it's not just saying that because Disney made it.
Speaker 2: Oh god, I was gonna ask because you have like
fondness for bubble Boy because Jake Jill and.
Speaker 3: He's a big Jake Jilly fan.
Speaker 5: No, Jill and Hall is okay. Sometimes he's bad, sometimes
he's not great.
Speaker 1: Night Crawler is awesome, amazing.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I don't know if I loved
him as mysterious.
Speaker 1: I know it was having a great time his mysterious.
Speaker 7: Is he a spider Man as a mysterio?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh wow? And I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think I want a mystery to be more of
a goober.
Speaker 1: Okay, it was amazing. Oh, go ahead. Is this a
series or a move movie? Serious? Serious?
Speaker 5: Serious, it's a series. They don't make movies anymore. No
one likes those. You gotta make your prestige TV show.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, okay.
Speaker 3: You gotta be a last of us. Yeah, you two were.
Speaker 2: Talking about this yesterday during Game mis mornings. But Electric State,
the Millie Bobby Brown Chris Pratt movie.
Speaker 3: The Netflix Bomba, What the fuck was that ship?
Speaker 1: He was terrible.
Speaker 3: I couldn't even watch.
Speaker 6: It looked like dog shit, Like immediately looked like dog shit.
Speaker 2: I have like high tolerance for like really cheesy movies,
and like, you know, I'll watch whatever superhero movie and
kind of walk away.
Speaker 1: Okay, this was like.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, we should do movie punishments sometimes because I
want to force you guys to watch the Apple and
you got I can't get you guys to do that.
Speaker 6: Could tell you you're just not gonna do it unless
I force you. So okay, Well, punishment and make that happen.
Speaker 1: It is worse than The Gray Man. Uh.
Speaker 3: And that was another one from the same directors, right,
the Avengers directors.
Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, and they really did a good Avengers
movie and good community episodes.
Speaker 1: What happened? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Netflix is just kind of poisoned for good writing. I
don't know.
Speaker 1: Show you all like is what's that?
Speaker 3: Yes, but I haven't seen it, so I don't know.
Speaker 7: I'll see it tonight.
Speaker 3: I think that does it for the headlines. Jan I'm
handing the show back over to you.
Speaker 2: Fantastic Well right after this quick bricky break, we were
going to read some emails and some YouTube super chats
if they've come in, and then we'll add the show
forever until that happy. These are the emails or the
show Therapy Horse Giant Wellcastigiant bomb dot com is the
email addressed to send your emails too, And folks, thank
you so much for all the lovely emails that have
been hitting the mailbox. Legitimately for shoot actual emails. I
don't know what to do because we're getting so many.
They're they're rivaling that of the voicemail dumb truck, which
gets an obscene amount of calls every week. But now
we're getting an obscene amount of emails. So thank you
listening to that have been listening for all nine hundred
episodes that are sending some emails in or newer listeners. Hey,
you know what you should also do? Give us a
good old, cheeky thumbs up somewhere. Give us a review
some where, you know, not just a shoot thumbs up
like Dan is giving us, but like whatever platform you're
listening or watching on too.
Speaker 6: Friend, burn an episode to a CD and hand it
out the strangers on the subway.
Speaker 7: Make a giant Bond mixtape.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, And if you would need an elevator pitch,
just be like, Hey, if you've ever needed five friends
to yell at you for two plus hours, here you go.
Speaker 1: There you are.
Speaker 2: We cover the whole spectrum of friendship. That's right, We
got the cute one. We got the hot one, we
got the silly one, we got the smart one, and
we got the weird one.
Speaker 1: Who's who you at home decide? We're all dipshits? Though
I'm not hot one?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 2: Well, I met from Atlanta rights and how will we
all know who the bad boy is?
Speaker 1: This fucking horse is just this salbeign On. Those two
love it so much.
Speaker 4: I hope that when I get the implant thing done today,
I come to from the horse.
Speaker 3: Oh there's other videos, there's so many, Okay, yeah, that's
those holes gimmick.
Speaker 2: How much do you think it would take to rent
a therapy horse?
Speaker 7: Just get our own horse mask?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Do you think like like might probably know someone with.
Speaker 1: A therapy Definitely.
Speaker 4: There was a period where I was trying to do
a thing with a monkey and I was like, I
got a monkey guy, so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Which, let's go break in a horse that's finally in
the wild. That'd be a good feature, like punishment race
breaking horses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh no, the or the punishments evolve from playing
a game then playing a movie. Now, She's just like, REU.
Speaker 7: Have any of you started your punishment games yet?
Speaker 2: I talked about this last week on the bomb.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna keep asking, I'm gonna keep.
Speaker 5: Assling, and I'll probably tomorrow will start playing out her
Wild's on my personal Yo.
Speaker 1: She's Island.
Speaker 6: I've downloaded grub everything or nothing. I was waiting for
my steam deck to rive. It's arrived, and now I
got to reinstall.
Speaker 1: The you know, the steam deck stuff to the playoff games.
It's a keep.
Speaker 3: This week has been distracting.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: First email comes from Matt from Atlanta. Why do people
hate pop figures? Thanks Matt from Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Oh, like funko pop. I assume that's what matters.
Speaker 6: It's a company issue that they're popular and they look
cheap because they all use the same fundamental thing. So
everyone's like oh, and no one wants they're collectible to
feel super common, and so it's easy to have a
backlash year toward that of like, oh, like everyone has these,
and then that turns into the like your mind just
mainly clicks into like oh I hate that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see God, I know you first, Mike.
Speaker 5: I've always been a mild funko pop defender. I do
think that for a lot of people like us, it
has become a thing that friends and family like gift us, right,
because they'll see like, oh, well, yeah, I know that
Mike's a nerd who saw Guardians of the Galaxy. So
here's a Groot. But you know, I'm I don't know,
I'm like I do like Groot, so sure, thank you.
Speaker 2: I go back and forth on Funko pops. I have
like a set of the New Days Funko Pops that
I really enjoy. But then when I saw the customized
one that Dan made that was a good one, I
was all the way back on board of this would
be a fun gift to give someone, not a Funko
pop of themselves, but of yourself that you give to something.
Speaker 4: Yes, person who won the Funko Pop of me did
not have an idea who I was.
Speaker 7: That was that was possible outcome.
Speaker 5: Yes, that Funco Pop store in Hollywood is actually kind
of fun.
Speaker 1: They like it.
Speaker 7: They did a good job with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The only thing I don't well, I mean there's
several things I don't like about Funko Pops other than
like a cheap plastic and then like they just litter
store shelves, Like I don't know how y'all's local game
stops are.
Speaker 6: But it's held up by Funko Pops like bearing Funko Pops.
Speaker 5: That's more of an a ditment on Game Stop, but
it does. It's not a great look for Funko Pops either.
For sure, there was there.
Speaker 6: Was that moment a couple months ago, maybe years where
I remember Funko Pop was like, oh shit, we made
too many of these. We're gonna throw a bunch into
a hole in the ground and started again, and it
was like, Oh, okay, they're in an et situation. So
I'm an indictment of and game Stop.
Speaker 7: I think, how did funk Co Fusion do?
Speaker 3: It's the biggest thing in the games.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone cares.
Speaker 5: Mega Man's in that game. It's the secret Mega Man game.
Speaker 3: Everything's a secret Mega Man game.
Speaker 1: Doctor Light shut up in the Drifter after you left.
Speaker 6: I saw it, actually, and I saw excited you were, Mike.
You're in trouble because that's a Mega Man game.
Speaker 3: Now game.
Speaker 5: I don't look, I haven't beat the game yet. I
think I don't think it is, Doctor Light. If if
I find out it is, I'll report back and I
will flog myself.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, as long as you understand Punishment's okay.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you all know about this, but
Mike you probably do because they're Disney adjacent. But Bunko Pop,
I think, is owned by the same company that makes
Lounge Fly backpacks.
Speaker 5: Oh that makes sense and I believe you.
Speaker 2: So, like you know how there's Funko Pops about everything. Yeah,
there are these collectible little backpacks. They're too small to
be like very useful, but there's launch fly backpacks of
virtually every media property.
Speaker 1: The O. J. Simpson trial, probably the Challenger explosion.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's a callback.
Speaker 2: Like I see one right now online of like, oh,
this is Jason vor Hughes.
Speaker 1: Right, that's great.
Speaker 5: Well that Disney specificly has gotten really into them and
they will have one for every Disney ride a movie show.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's actually insane. There's probably fiftyly Low and Stitch
ones alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. It is insane. That being said, maybe
we should get backpacks on the website. Next email comes
from Travis and Fargo. Travis, I've been ignoring some emails,
but I still read them. Hi, Jana the GB crew.
Today is my eighteenth wedding anniversary. I have to give
Ah gigantic shout out to my amazing, wonderful, talented, beautiful,
supportive kind do good or spouse Whitney or Winty?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Is it Windy or did he miss type his lovely
wife's name.
Speaker 6: I think we have to go with Windy, his lovely
wife Wintyre.
Speaker 2: You're lovely on account of three let's say congrats Windy? Okay, one, two, three?
Speaker 1: Congra?
Speaker 5: Is that like some guy from pop Bye who likes cheeseburgers?
Or is that that's wimpy? She's so nice.
Speaker 2: She even plays video games with me, even though she's
not a big gamer. And please tell her that once again,
I'm sorry for hoarding the loot in Borderlands to all
those years ago. Is the Travison Fargo.
Speaker 7: We got a lot of Fargo fans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, our fagots over there, right. That's so good.
Speaker 2: Congrats Windy. We're gonna put on a shirt that says
happy eighteenth anniversary win tea just for you, Travis.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Ex email comes from Sean from Denver, Colorado. What's up, everybody?
So ups driver? I'm a ups driver and I'm out
here every day. One of the things that drives me
nuts and grinds my gears is for some reason, when
you're on the main road, everybody knows how to drive.
Everybody that knows how to drive, people stay on the left,
people stay on the right because of the dotted lines.
As soon as I get in a residential area, everyone
drives in the middle of the road, same rules, but
nobody seems to follow it. What is an everydaything that
makes you just want to tear Jan or Jeff's hair out?
Speaker 1: Hey? Ps, I would say mine, but I don't have
any hair either.
Speaker 6: Part of the Ball and Crew. Nice, I got one,
and it is. It's driving related. And maybe you'll know this,
especially you're in Denver. And that's really I noticed this
when I was living in Denver in Ohio where I
learned to drive. There's a thing where the light is
green and you're turning left and it's a big intersection,
and so it's green, and so you can pull out
into the intersection so that when it starts to turn
yellow or goes red, you're like, well, I'm already out here.
I got to get out of the way and just
go at that point, because there's a second before it
turns green for the lane going in the other direction,
the perpendicular direction.
Speaker 3: In Denver, no one did this. They were all like,
we're good little boys and girls.
Speaker 6: We're gonna sit way back at the line while it's green,
even though I'm turning left, so that we have to
wait for an opportunity to turn left when a car
like breaks, so there's a break in the car line.
Speaker 3: And that drove me crazy. It's like, you should just
pull out into the lane so that at least two
or three cars can make that left turn at the
end of the green light.
Speaker 1: And they never did that. Oh yeah, drove me.
Speaker 3: Bananas.
Speaker 1: I had one in Wisconsin here, whereas after Wizard Quest
we went we really went at ice cream and everything
closes at eleven.
Speaker 4: It seems, and it was like ten fifty four or something.
We're like, all right, that's a reasonable time.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: We passed the couple ice cream pla where people were sweeping,
because that's the universal sign of like, hey, we're trying
to close this place to fuck up. Found a place
there were people in there, ordering had to open sign on.
We're like, okay, we're good to go here, got in
people in front of us. It was like four or
five adults and like five kids and they start sweeping.
It's like past eleven. Of this point, we feel weird
about being even behind them in line. All these fucking
kids are taking samples of the ice cream and.
Speaker 7: I want that one. I'll give me the Superman one.
Speaker 1: I want that one.
Speaker 4: They're just taking fucking forever, and you can tell these
people are like actively getting annoyed, and like one of
the people is like asked us, like, hey, can we do.
Speaker 1: You know what you want? Can we get you started
on what you want?
Speaker 4: Like yeah, yeah, And then this fucking family with all
these kids sits down to eat.
Speaker 1: Inside the place.
Speaker 7: Oh why kayl.
Speaker 4: We're like, oh, these fucking assholes, And you could tell
everyone's like, we just want to go home.
Speaker 6: I didn't even walk into a store the other night
because I got there fifteen minutes before they were going
to close.
Speaker 3: I'm not even going.
Speaker 1: To go in.
Speaker 4: YEP, that was my mood. Had Dad funk O Lane
when I worked there, it'd be like two minutes before close.
And you see somebody walking across parking lot with a
giant cardboard thing of like old dirty nes games that
we're gonna have to clean.
Speaker 7: It's like, oh, you motherfuckers, yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I carry too much rage with me
when I drive.
Speaker 3: Oh you are you do your road rager?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I try and like rein it in, but sometimes
I think that is when I cuss the most. Sure
he's just like boneheaded decisions on the road or in
a parking lot, and I'm like, you fuck her, like
whether it is obviously when you have a parking lot
where all the cars are like angled in a certain
way to denote, oh, this is one way, uh parking lot,
and then some dumb ass comes careening the other way
and it makes a face at me for being in
the middle, and no, fuck face, it's your fault.
Speaker 5: Yeah, anyway, I don't have much road rage, even though
someone almost hit me yesterday when I was going to
subway because like I had to like turn off the
tiny road to get on the main road and then
immediately turn left to go on a subway and someone
who is leaving subway and they wanted to go left right,
but you know, so like I turned right onto the
road and then I'm gonna immediately turn least. I know
it's a little fast my maneuver here, but so I'll turn.
Speaker 1: Off to the subway.
Speaker 5: This guy is still like I guess he thought I
was gonna keep going ahead room, so he just started
going onto the road and he looked at it was
gonna hit me.
Speaker 1: So I had to can like swerve into the grass
and the.
Speaker 5: Thing a little bit. I was a little scary even then.
I was like, gosh, darn it.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty similar Mike, where it's like I'm just saying
I usually let things go gole driving.
Speaker 5: I think you apollo it. You're a very apologetic driver.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like especially when I met I remember like
you were with me when I had made a mess
up and because someone was in I don't I say,
you don't have a blind spot when you're driving, but
in my van, it's got kind of one of those
thick bars holding in the windshield and there was a
car right there and I didn't see them and I
messed up and I almost ran into them. And I
was like, oh, I fucked up. Please know that I
know I fucked up. I'm so sorry. Yeah, very apologetic
when that happens.
Speaker 2: When someone cuts me off out of nowhere and you know,
no no signal or whatever, just to speed through, or
they'll try and like cut through a couple of lanes
and then we all wind up at the same red light.
I always will look over and just think to myself,
be happy with yourself.
Speaker 1: Do that as thoughts.
Speaker 3: You know that Simon.
Speaker 2: From Saskatchewan rights in high BombCast quick NHL quiz.
Speaker 1: For all of you.
Speaker 2: Backlar and Grubb better get the first question if you
know the answers. Don't shout them out, though, please, because
I'd be interested to hear other people's answers. We're gonna
do very well on this, especially because Backlar's uh not
here answers are further down the email. First question only question,
I'll skip the bonus question. What are the original six
hockey teams? You need both the city and the team name.
Thanks full content signed from Saskatchewan, New York Rangers.
Speaker 1: Yet there? Okay?
Speaker 5: I bet the Chicago Blackhawks. Yes, yeah, any of those
those guys might No, he made that after the movie
much later.
Speaker 1: Or two more? Three more?
Speaker 5: Are the Pittsburgh Penguins that old nore like.
Speaker 6: I think there were a second wave for third Oh,
it's gotta be some Canadian stuff the Toronto.
Speaker 1: Leaves.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I know it sounds it sounds so stereotypical.
Speaker 5: It can't be right. But nope, that's right. Aren't there
a hitman? Now that's a minor league team.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 6: I think i'd say Canadian Football League team.
Speaker 5: There's there's Uh, Quebec's gotta have one. Montreal Montreal probably
has one. The Montreal screw jobs.
Speaker 1: This was even more moose.
Speaker 3: No Montreal Canadians.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 8: Interesting.
Speaker 5: Interesting.
Speaker 6: It works because it's French Canada and so it's like, yeah,
the Philadelphia Flyers.
Speaker 1: What's that negative?
Speaker 2: No, I'll give you well, no, if I give the city,
you'll give it away.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 3: Uh, there's one more on the East coast and one
more in the Midwell black Lars team the Devils. Right now,
that's a relatively newer team.
Speaker 5: Oh shit, okay, one more on east coast, one on
the west Midwest Midwest Midwest makes sense. Let's see, we
did Chicago. I don't know, but I don't know what
Indianapolis is is.
Speaker 3: There would be no, no, no hockey team in Indianapolis.
Speaker 5: There's noget team in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, do they have a team? No,
Saint Louis.
Speaker 3: They do a hockey team. It's the Blues. You're not
an Original six team.
Speaker 5: New Orleans.
Speaker 1: No, no hockey team.
Speaker 2: There a couple more guesses and we'll just give the answer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I might need it. I think I
think I'm talking.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, so the the East Coast team is New
England in the New England area. We do Boston, Boston. Yeah,
what's Boston's team?
Speaker 1: What is Boston?
Speaker 5: That is a great question, Bruins.
Speaker 6: There you go, and then the last one is my
team guys.
Speaker 1: Of course. That cool.
Speaker 2: Well done, guys, Thank you. Signed from Saskatchewan. I didn't
know Oakland had a hockey team.
Speaker 1: That was part of the bonus question.
Speaker 3: Oakland has a hockey team?
Speaker 7: Had had?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okayhead yes, yeah, yeah, Cal from butt fuck nowhere, Western Australia.
Speaker 1: Rights in high terrorists parenthesis positive. That's thank you, new
one talking to me.
Speaker 2: I think second time emailing, hopefully first time being read
on the pod. I've recently become a gaming handheld SICKO
and currently owned fifteen unique handheld devices. These include trim Ui, Brick,
Ambernick r G three five x X, Retroid Pocket five,
Retroid Pocket Flip two, Retroid Pocket Classics, Steam Deck, Lenovo,
Legion Go, Nintendo Switched, Nintendo switched to Nintendo two D
sxl gk D Pixel two, ambernick urged three five xx Cube,
jow Kitty V ninety. That sounds fun our do boy
mew Mini A thirty.
Speaker 1: As dealing with.
Speaker 2: All uh with all the games in Firmer was becoming
slightly unruly and Windows sucks and wanted to format all
the SD cards that I plugged into it. I decided
to set up a Linux, Ubuntu Martian and dual boot
into that whenever I need to mess around with anything
retro gaming related. Whilst I'm happy with all these little
doo dads except the V ninety, my bank account is
less happy and my time actually spent playing games has
dropped drastically. This time was filled mostly by tinkering and
troubleshooting instead, which I found that I greedily enjoy or
greatly enjoy. What if any gaming handheld hobbies have y'all
tripped and fallen into love the pod? And if I
ever complete complete it, and if you want to, I'd
be happy to send you a spreadsheet layout and the
Python script I've been writing that helps you analyze your
very own gaming related data to provide insight into your
gaming related habits. Al from buttfuck nowhere Western Australia.
Speaker 3: Sure, why not send that to us when you have it?
And he said gaming adjacent hobbies that like like this
that you've fallen into. I definitely and this is me.
Speaker 6: Although I've made a concerted effort to be less worried
about the tinkering. I am going to get these things
to play games, and you know that's what I'm like
focusing on Mother three still and I have a little
bit of free time, and why I played Rye Gar'm like, yeah,
I'm just going to play one of these games and
instead of just setting them up all the time. Although
I think that's right, that setting things up is enjoyable.
It is that is a hobby of people like that
sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: But when things go wrong, it can be in the
most annoying way where it's like I finally got the
like SD card image exactly how I want it, where
it's like, okay for anything as sixty four gigabyte card,
I can just clone this and it's got all my stuff,
and I cloned it for a million different things. Finally
got it work and after like weeks of like troubleshooting
and stuff, and I'm playing and for some reason, I
want to play vector Man the other day and I
was like, why isn't vector Man on here? Like in
my genesis thing, like almost every this is gonna be
ecept for Vecterman. And then I realized no game Boy
Color games past s who were on there, which there
aren't even any that I want to fucking play. Woe
you have Betrayal on game Boy Color and if I
want to, I can just do it a million other
different ways.
Speaker 1: But now it's like, oh, I need to reclone all these.
Speaker 4: Fucking cards to put on vector Man and post S
and game Boy Color games, Like I have to get
them perfect, and they all have to have box art
and all the fucking hot keys and everything.
Speaker 1: But the tinkering is fun.
Speaker 4: But I do like once they're done, and it's just like,
all right, I just have magic little you know, game
machines in every room.
Speaker 5: I definitely got more into physical collecting for old games
than like getting into the portables, even though like there
is a convenience there, there is something about actually owning
them that I like more. I feel like I'm actually
much more likely to play these games, Like someday when
I finally play Skuys of Arcadia. It's gonna be because
I put it in my drink as my GameCube, and
not because I get an emulator going just yeah.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, like mother Thie the translation, or even if I
found one, I will probably play on one of these
little guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, well yeah that one for sure. It's a
physical copy of that for us.
Speaker 6: I definitely agree with people when they're like this hobby
of collecting and getting emulators set up or getting the
handhelds is not conduced to actually playing games. But I'm like,
I'm just gonna push through that. I don't care that is,
that's a weakness. I just need to pick a game
and play it, and I've been getting better about that
recently for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The analog pocket fucking great. That's a lot of
Pocket's amazing.
Speaker 4: But it's so good that like I don't take it
with me to travel and just because it's like what
am I bad?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I keep it on its not to stand the dock.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Like I'll play it if I'm home, but
like when I'm traveling, I'm always just tossing one of
these cheap o guys and there which these Trimui bricks
were on sale for like forty two dollars with free
shipping recently, so I bought a bunch more these guys
are the bricks are great?
Speaker 2: I love these bricks. Squad get bricked all right. Next
email comes from Sorry I didn't write your name. Here's
a game one. Who's your favorite band slash artist when
you were sixteen?
Speaker 1: Oh? Probably Corn give you the white stripes.
Speaker 3: Oh man, that's a good choice.
Speaker 1: Mine was Iron Maiden.
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh, funny you should say that.
Speaker 1: Two. Are they still around today, still making music or
touring in some capacity? I don't know. I think that's
quite Jack White definitely.
Speaker 5: Mine is, although the drummer Nico McBrain retired recently, but otherwise, yeah,
they're still around.
Speaker 1: Three Are they still your favorite?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: I think Jack White still does some really good stuff.
Solo last album is real good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mine is Iron Maiden, Yes, and yes, but not
everyone has a good taste as as me and Mike Manatti.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Listening to some seventh son Tony Hawk, right, Yeah, they
got one of their best songs too, missed the Midnight
in their great stuff. Well, when that came on, I
was like, hell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, someone sent Rich had sent in a custom RECERD
and the ninety nine Dragons action figure they had made,
and I think I put this.
Speaker 4: Somebody put that in then I am immediately turned around
in the car and showed it to Kaila and she
was like, who made that?
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I just saw on the discord.
Speaker 1: Who is Rich?
Speaker 4: I need to give Rich the credit. Rich incredible work.
That is unbelievable looking.
Speaker 2: Yes, they do custom action figures, which is definitely a
sentence I just wrote. So I made one for Record
and the ninety nine Dragons. I'm a big Bruce Tim fan,
and your graphic designer did a great job with that
art style. Anyway, thanks for being good guys. Chuck is
my new favorite after telling Dan to make a save
on UPF, although if Mike Sing's Man of War Brothers
of Medal, he is my favorite.
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 5: As much as I love iron made in I'm not
super well versed in other medal of that.
Speaker 1: Ilk Oh that's fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2: If you want to see more of my work, it's
on Instagram at send Henchman twenty one. No pressure, have
a bit of pride in it. Good shit on you, Rich,
That stuff looked really cool. Jacob from Wichita rites in,
is it worse to be a Jabroni or Pukester?
Speaker 1: Please elaborate?
Speaker 4: Uh, pukester is worse. Yeah, I feel like that.
Speaker 7: That's like a hulkster thing.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: You could say jee Broni in almost an endearing way.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeahs.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I've started hearing jar bonymore. I
think it's from maybe a sign that was misspelled that
I heard about on deadlock or something. But calling people
jar Bony's is very funny to me. Jar bonies, fukes sers,
little pukes.
Speaker 7: Ers, hulksers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fuck them yeah, never a whole kid, no get it?
Speaker 2: Never, Never fuck that guy. He can go fall down
some stairs. Kevin from West Baltimore, Tennessee rightes in. I'm
watching one of the Sonic movies with my six and
four year olds. They really like Knuckles voiced by Idris Elba.
This begs the question, when do I show them the wire?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 2: How do I break it to them that Knuckles is
in charge of slinging coke and dope in Baltimore, Baltimore
for Avon Barksdale Love. Kevin from West Baltimore, Tennessee, sent
from my android, who is.
Speaker 7: The Omar of the Sonic the Hedgehog universe.
Speaker 5: Uh, get me, give me, give me like three personality
traits and I'll help you of Omar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he lives by a code, kills drug dealers with shotguns.
Speaker 1: Scar on face. I okay, brust Bad is Omar? Yeah? Okay, yeah,
sure is. Ruge isn't in the movies? Right? No? Not yet?
Speaker 3: Was there a tease Sonic three? Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, no, no, that was Amy. T's that Sonic three?
Speaker 3: Amy? Really, she's not in there yet. Okay, you're right, yeah,
I was you? Like Sonic three, Sonic pre is awesome.
I don't remember ship about it. I remembering.
Speaker 1: The Wire's really good. I watched it all again a
couple of years ago, and.
Speaker 6: It held up like one for you, because when I
like rewatched Breaking Bad, I was like, that's great, but
it's not as good as I remembered.
Speaker 4: I haven't done Breaking Bad in a while, but yeah,
the Wire, it's like it is an interesting time capsule
because like even just the whole first season, being like
the pay phone code and stuff like that is very
just like now, but it just show that feels very
real in a way that shows back then, did not feel.
Speaker 2: This email comes from scad from Huntsville, Alabama. Duters of
the bomb excluding accents, Are you guys self aware of
any words you have ever pronounced strangely, either from the
region you grew up in the way a friend or
family member said it, or because you've only ever read
the word but have never said it aloud. PS asked
Grub to say, Grub, do you have the emails in
front of you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, hang on me, let me get it right here.
Speaker 6: Uh ask, I'm gonna control out of Ask Grub to say, okay, yeah,
I ran across Galilelo Galilei at Summer game Fest. I
was saying Galilei low as a gala Galilei lowly or
something like that.
Speaker 3: I added an extra.
Speaker 6: Thing in there when I was saying this name one time,
and it definitely sounded very funny. But I've never said
any other word incorrectly ever, so never I can't really
to this.
Speaker 2: Uh pss tell Dan to start making fun of Mary
on Fire Escape anytime she also says across uh, what
will these oh those Ohioans mess up next? Shaking my head,
you tell her Mary is scary.
Speaker 5: Across this, oh god, I do it too, go across
the streets.
Speaker 2: Regional stuff too, ship, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 5: I do always, like I can't think of examples, but
are always times where if I'm reading something out for
a show or something, I come across a word. I'm like, well,
I've read that word a lot, read it in my mind,
but now I'm about to say it, and here it goes.
Speaker 6: The first time I said a finite, I said fin it.
Speaker 4: It's a good word to say, yeah, definitely. I like suffice.
Suffice is another good one. People say I say wrong,
I totally disagree.
Speaker 3: Again and I saying Epona from Zelda, I.
Speaker 4: Only said I've never said Epona. And this has come
up on podcasts for like twenty fucking years. People always
tell me I'm wrong, but then people have told me, actually,
I'm right. They are like musicals and stuff like put
out by those elder people and everything, and there's a
part where they're singing Epina song and it's like it's Epina.
Speaker 5: I don't care you're wrong.
Speaker 7: I'm right about this. You are wrong now I do.
Speaker 5: I was always a big Hillian guy. When I was
playing rough of the While again, someone said no, I
say yeah, I say Heli, and someone I say hilly
in and then some guys said highly in.
Speaker 3: You know what, I remember it.
Speaker 6: Now we have a fan for game mess and their
name is highly Intelligent. So they're like, oh, it's highly intelligent,
but it's it's spelled this older thing. I'm like, okay,
so now I can remember it.
Speaker 5: I always say heilly intelligence. It doesn't make much sense.
Speaker 2: Then I mispronounced a lot of words, especially with the
regional dialect thing and having my hair parents be immigrants,
there's a lot of English can be challenging. Sometimes I
didn't get clippered from them though.
Speaker 1: There you go. That that's all Jane told me. Baby,
all right.
Speaker 2: Final email for the podcast. This comes from Jarin from Mississuga, Ontario, Canada.
And also sometimes I just like to mispronounce words to
fuck with people.
Speaker 3: It's good engagement, right because people want to correct you
so bad that they write right in.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, Like I don't like saying arkanine the
pot they eat and I was not podcast pokemon. I say, wow,
that's the epic tome of hyper Bowl right there.
Speaker 4: That I regan. I'm sorry, Oh I don't like anymore.
You stole it. The Carlos Mencia of Giant Bomb here.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, that is the worst thing you've ever said.
Speaker 1: I know it is.
Speaker 5: I had it coming. It's okay, I had it coming.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 7: Oh man, mind of Minati coming soon.
Speaker 1: We could just be.
Speaker 2: All like the shitty comedians from Comedy Central of that
the other one follow Chappelle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, can I be? I'll be Ron White, Sure. I know.
Speaker 4: That's kind of maybe why I picked him, because he's
one of the better ones of like that era of comedy.
It's going to be the puppet man.
Speaker 1: Oh, Dunham, Yeah, that's backler.
Speaker 6: You're just being cruel this episode.
Speaker 5: By the way, Dan, speaking of puppets, I heard somebody
say that you misinterpreted that doll Man showering thing. That
means somebody say that, yeah, what do you think I
haven't played yet. Do you think that perhaps it's not
literally showering with that lady and say he's being showered by.
Speaker 1: Her effects or whatever it is.
Speaker 4: I mean, either way, he said, she showers with him
and the core fall rain keeps him young.
Speaker 5: So I don't tell you what when I I'll play
this game. Eventually, I'll get to the bottom of this
shower fiasco.
Speaker 3: Oh, I want to make it, want to make clear
I don't care.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 5: It's become Jeff Grubb's favorite phrase lately.
Speaker 1: It's good nihilis. Yeah. The problem is it makes Mike
MANAUGHTI care more.
Speaker 5: No, No, I care so much about about my friends
about that.
Speaker 2: This is the Giant Bomb Don't Match Me challenge. Below
are five questions that relate to Giant Bomb's history. Everyone
listening has five seconds to come up with an answer
that doesn't match Jan's answer. If you do, you're out
bonus hard mode for the listeners at home. Don't match
any of the other dude's answers as well, that's a
little bit difficult.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Uh so I'm gonna read the question and then I'll
go one, two, three, and then uh, you three will
say your answer.
Speaker 1: I'll say my answer.
Speaker 4: Wait, so are we saying it in order? Are you
gonna que us each up individually?
Speaker 2: We'll go Grub Dan Manatti Okay, Then I don't go last. Okay, great, Okay,
So again, if any of you match the answer that
I have, uh, you're out for the for the game.
Speaker 1: Is it trivia? No, No, it's just naming things. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Number one, Name any Blake game, Blake Club game.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to go first? Should I just
say it? Yes?
Speaker 3: Batman Dark Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But that was the one I was gonna say, uh uh,
Superman sixty.
Speaker 3: Four, Mike, Mortal Kombat Mythology, sub Zero, You're lucky because
I thought in my head, bubzy Okay, I was I
was almost gonna say bub z okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was trying to. I was thinking of going
the Batman Dark Tomorrow route. But then I felt in
the the ether that someone was gonna try and go there.
Speaker 1: All right. Name any Giant Bomb game of the year.
I have mine. I'm gonna go for it. Chickory Bubg
Tears of the Kingdom and I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: You're out.
Speaker 7: Okay, the Game of the Generation.
Speaker 1: Of course, Chickory comes to save me again. You on
that grab? Can I blame you for that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: That would not have happened.
Speaker 7: Did that happen?
Speaker 2: Name any professional wrestler that has contributed or appeared.
Speaker 1: On Giant Bomb content. I have mine. Okay, I'm gonna
go with hmm.
Speaker 3: Now I'm blanking on names. Uh, I'm gonna go with
the what what's what's our friend?
Speaker 1: Guy? Were's the mask?
Speaker 7: You gotta say it?
Speaker 3: Okay? Uh, we can of google his name real quick
because I'm just blanking on it.
Speaker 1: Grub, I'll tell you that you're out then, God damn it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh no, thank you, chat, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll go Jeff Jarrett.
Speaker 5: I was gonna go Jeff Herrett, Adam call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Number what have we got, Jeff? Yeah,
I forgot about that. That's like a fun dotch on
the belt. Number four, Name any Giant Bomb Co Owner.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna say Jeff Current, Yes, Dan Reichord, Janet Choa.
I was gonna say Jeff Mackler. All right.
Speaker 2: Number five, name any Giant Bomb endurance run game. I
have one in my head.
Speaker 1: Uh, Persona four shin move.
Speaker 5: Oh those are definitely the only two.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 5: What else have they endurance ran? They were doing like
all Castlevania, But that was Vinnie Vaney. That's not like
an endurance run. Okay, so they did percent of four.
Speaker 2: You can say any of those two, Mike, does that
count as an endurance run?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, I mean you could say Persona four as well.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's just like I'm hoping you didn't pick it,
but he did.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, you want to pick shen MoU.
Speaker 5: Look at you. You don't like Shenmu. I'm gonna say
shen MoU. Trigger wow. Shouts at Patrick and Ryan. All right,
and congratulations on the independence. In nine hundred episodes of
the BombCast, Jared from Mississuga, Ontario, Canada, I don't care
if I'm mispronouncing Mississuga, Mike Manati. If we have any
super chats, hit me widow. Absolutely, I do want to
do an endurance run at some point.
Speaker 1: I think that would be good.
Speaker 2: I came up Ben Pack and I were cooking up
this idea where he wanted to train for a marathon
using video games to help train him, and then I
thought we should call it the endurance Run.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 5: Yes, let's see q T I pixel just super chat,
no message, thank you. Wiley Jenkins says, I was disappointed
enough of Mario Kart World that I was questioning buying
my switch to Docty Kong. Bonanza made me glad that
I did. Yeah, I think a lot that Bonanza really
is definitely the first amazing game for the switch shoe,
So I know that a mustlat of difference, But I
wonder if it would have made some people feel better
if this was an actual launch game.
Speaker 1: Again, maybe that's pedantic.
Speaker 5: Are you guys a little surprised that there is already
as loud at least of a anti Mario Kart World
contingent as there is.
Speaker 1: It's weird.
Speaker 7: It's fine. People are gonna be playing it for ten years.
It's it's gonna do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's it's just because it was the
only thing at launch right, so like a ton of
focus was on it. If it was not doing it
for people, you're gonna hear about it. The other games
people can ignore, but when it's the one game for
your five hundred dollars system, it's kind of easy for
people to, you know, be harsh on it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it would have bothered me. Again, I've
never been a giant Maririocart fan, but you know, I
did have all sorts of Switch one stuff to go
back to. I did spend a lot of time playing
Split two single player campaigns, then replaying Odyssey and Breath
of the Wild and stuff like that until we got
Donkey Kong. And I feel like, you know, with with
Metroid Prime Air riders other things. We're gonna have a
pretty good clip here now, boat Night says, can I
play Donkey Kong bonanza? If I've never seen the TV show,
how many Coca that references have you seen so far?
Speaker 1: Dan? None.
Speaker 7: I haven't gotten to Bluster Kong yet.
Speaker 5: He'll be there later, it is Dan, It's wild that
you thought that was a real picture.
Speaker 3: I would have lived in the realiful world where that
is possible.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it looked real.
Speaker 5: He was like in a completely different art style and
graphics quality that everybody else did.
Speaker 1: That school.
Speaker 3: Well, they want to be accurate to Bluster Kongs.
Speaker 5: We decided Donkey Kong, but Bluster Cong can't touch that.
Speaker 12: Damn it from the Skatchewan does Does it annoy you
when people complain about sci fi movies not being scientifically correct,
it passes me off.
Speaker 5: Example, Dune sucks because the ecology makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Those uh my friends who didn't like the Superman movie,
they definitely like had some plot holes that they had
problems with.
Speaker 1: I hate that. Yeah, I can't. I'm trying to remember
what it was. It was.
Speaker 5: It was not smart. I didn't like it.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I definitely.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: Usually disliked this because I think part of the fun
is as a viewer, you get to watch a movie
and if something like that happens, be creative yourself and
come up with your own headcannon to explain why that's possible.
That's fun to me. I enjoy doing that. Why don't
you do it instead of being like, Nah, that's not possible.
Speaker 3: It's just stinks.
Speaker 1: Specifically with Dune.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a world where like people gave up using
computers because of what they would do, so they just
have someone very smart do the calculations, but they get
them high as shit.
Speaker 1: First. Yeah, I remember what it was.
Speaker 5: Now, it was like, well, how come no one cared
that Clark Kent wasn't around the biggest news day of
the year. I was like, I want to be like,
just imagine there's a scene that you didn't see where
he called in sick exactly. Yeah, but it's fine.
Speaker 1: Ool man. You know who's the hella fucking cool that
I had no idea about in the Superman movie? Mister Terrific.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's kind of the breakout there.
Speaker 3: Everyone seems so cool. That guy was in one of
those X Men movies, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: He played Darwin, who was supposed to be one of
the most indestructible X Men and they killed him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they poor in that. I will say.
Speaker 5: You know what my my favorite thing about the Superman
movie was, I think my brother brought this up, was
that kryptonite actually works and enfeebles him unless he thinks
a way around it. The worst thing about Superman Returns
was the whole thing was Lex Luthor made an island
out of krypto ight to slop Superman, and then he
just kind of grits his teeth and pushes an island
of kryptonite into the sun.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, that ain't his weakness, then, yeah,
if you could.
Speaker 6: If if something's my weakness, I can't get out of bed,
I'm not pushing.
Speaker 5: Yeah right now, I don't want to see if grinning Beck,
I know that's bullshit. Oh yeah, so I'm reading these.
Next one is Wiley Jenkins. You know what's bad news.
Speaker 3: If Dan walks into your hospital room with the doctor
I meant to and a horse. I'm gonna now if
it's just Dan, bad If it's Dan and a horse,
there's a chance I'm gonna survive here magic.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, uh to one Freeman says, grub, are you
a Red Letter Media fan?
Speaker 1: They just did the Apple. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I saw people pointing this out that they talked about
the Apple on their the Best of the Worst or whatever,
and I was happy to see that. I am specifically
someone who says I don't get Red letter Media. They're
very popular and I'll watch the stuff and I don't
I don't get I don't like it.
Speaker 5: I can like them. I love the Plankett reviews back
in the day, and I like some you know what
I say.
Speaker 3: I never loved the Plankett reviews.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see, I U said. I thought those were funny.
Speaker 5: You know what I say about my friends though, it's like, oh,
it kind of buns me out of like their opainon
by movies very different me, even with like things like
I I don't want to watch a video of people
who don't like a movie that I like or like
the movie that I do like, and I think that's
a failing, Like that's not a good thing. And like
obviously in the gaming world there's a lot of that also,
But yeah, just watching people I don't know talk about
why something sucks that I think doesn't suck. I'm not
you know there may be a little citical in a
way that I'm cynical about movies too.
Speaker 1: That's fine.
Speaker 6: You know what it is for me is like I
was I watched their and or season one reviewer I
tried to and then they said something that's like, oh,
we just watched different shows and they liked it. I
think they ended up liking it. But it's like the
complaint you have here is this thing where it's like, well,
I know why that happened and why, and you don't.
So we just are viewing things differently in our mind.
And so at a certain point, why am I watching
this if it's not gonna be able something I can
match up against and have a mental conversation with.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they just did something for Back to the Future
and that I liked. Okay, okay, yeah, just talk about
why back to the Future is great. That's why when
it's like some universally pan movie, I think I watched
them talk about like that New Mummy reboot before I
even see it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, sometimes it's kind of fun.
Speaker 5: To people slam a bad believer.
Speaker 1: Sure, I get it, And I think.
Speaker 5: They reinvested themselves in wise ways, right, Like I think
their production quality is very good.
Speaker 3: They're good at what they do, for sure, It's just
not for me.
Speaker 5: Next up is from Dubious Foods. His best wishes to
Ozzie as he visits that great, that great lobster in
the sky. All the coldest bats, the hottest bats, cheddar
bat biscuit, all day baby bats.
Speaker 8: And of course drafts with the boys, fantasy bats.
Speaker 1: Come on, Mike these audio listeners, Mike and not has
overcome with emotion. He is not.
Speaker 6: Really, It's a beautiful moment actually that we get to it.
He popped himself so hard. I'm sure you made himself
so emotional. He's crying.
Speaker 5: I never had a hard time trying to get a
senseence out.
Speaker 7: You're supposed to laugh that hard when you say rest
in peace?
Speaker 5: Now, grugs.
Speaker 2: This.
Speaker 5: Does Grub care that the Detroit Tigers are good?
Speaker 6: I do, Yes, I've been watching some games here there
when I when I can. I don't have a fan
dual sports Detroit here in Cleveland, but I find ways
to watch it. And uh yeah, I've been tracking the team.
They're in a little bit of a slump right now,
so and that's always works. And when they start hot
and cool, off in the middle of this season. Oh,
are they going to be able to get it back?
Speaker 3: We'll see. It's a good team, though.
Speaker 1: I care because I'm mad. Well.
Speaker 5: The Guardians had a real bad stretch there. Yeah, but
now they're bouncing back a bit. So they're back at
second place, just below five hundred.
Speaker 3: But right, but the you know, the the Tigers are
twenty games above five hundred, so it's gonna be a
tough hill to climb for them to win that division.
Speaker 1: We're probably gonna win the division, but you're a wild card.
Speaker 5: Maybe, Yeah, but even then, how they're like other divisions
doing so much better than the Central I don't know.
I was looking really good about the season for a
while there. Now I'm feeling less good. But we could
keep this current momentum up. We'll still have a chance.
Speaker 1: We'll see, all right.
Speaker 5: Next up here is from h cone own. Kosama says, Jan,
did you get to open any final Fantasy cross MATCHIC
to gathering cards and if not, any plans to Yes.
Speaker 2: I got this Mogle's Valor yesterday. Uh, and then I
opened all of them. I didn't do it on stream.
I couldn't wait. I was trying to line up friends
to do it with me, and I couldn't make the
timing work. But I do want to play like shoot magic. Hey,
if you play magic at San Francisco, get at me.
I don't know where to go because I experienced a
little bit of social anxiety playing shoot card games with someone.
I guess I could just go to Rollery's house.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 5: I just I just remember I have these Commander decks
I haven't open in Apparently they each have like a
good one of the special packs or something special in them.
Can I open one? Can I open a pack? Guys?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 1: No? Yeah, we're not gonna stop.
Speaker 3: You go for bud.
Speaker 5: Come on, where's the good stuff? I was told there's
something good in here?
Speaker 1: What the fuck?
Speaker 5: I don't see anything special.
Speaker 1: I just see im.
Speaker 5: Here's the cards that's good? Is it in here? There's
a cool card?
Speaker 1: That's a cool card.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm confused. I don't know what else supposed to find
in here. Never mind.
Speaker 1: Ignore me.
Speaker 5: Oh that is cool, though, I do like you shout
out to Yestola. That's a cat lady.
Speaker 3: But like wave, this podcast, anything ended?
Speaker 1: Uh we uh.
Speaker 4: The KOFE Leader of the Month is a three way
tie right now. Oh, we have a little over a
week left in the month, so there's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be a dark horse that comes out of nowhere, and.
Speaker 7: It could be Cody g drum Kid ninety two and
Jag or tied.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: So if we get one of them pulling ahead or
someone else, you will get to choose the pre stream
and break image for the month of August. So it
is a tie at the end in I guess three images, okay,
but but something top it and take it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, as folks have been emailing or messaging me
about spell table and playing magic that way, uh might
explore means to do that.
Speaker 1: Of the website, I found something. I found it.
Speaker 5: Oh god, there is something cool in here, a collectible.
Speaker 1: Well, what's going on with Mike today? He's on one.
I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm like a little bit worried.
Speaker 4: He was weird that time last week, but he just
had a camera up his ass, so I kind of
like chalk.
Speaker 3: It up to that maybe that permanently ruined him, improved him.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Something up there they okay, but he's got not even
on this podcast anymore.
Speaker 1: No, that's kind of shitty.
Speaker 5: Like look like like, this is the this is the
deck that comes with that Ishtola card, and then I
also got that ish Toola card.
Speaker 1: Great buddy, I'm so sorry to save us. And you
got the famed sword Men seek Free.
Speaker 2: Just mute him, all right, folks, What Mike is that
in for super Chats? Yeah, you could have told me
that a long time ago. And then we've taken the
show back.
Speaker 5: I got to more of these if you want me
to open them.
Speaker 2: What do we got going on the rest of this week? Boys,
morning's popping off?
Speaker 6: Yeah, and real quick, I'm uh, I'm gonna stream a
game that I'm gonna start this week and we'll try
to play for the least the next couple of weeks. Uh,
And I have a pull up in Premium General in
the discord.
Speaker 1: What should I play through on the site? Everything or nothing?
Speaker 6: You're well, I'm gonna be playing that, don't worry about that.
But on this the options are Skies of Arcadia, Chrono
Trigger or pans are Dragoon Saga and it's pretty close,
although Skys.
Speaker 3: Has a pretty early lead. I'd be open to all
of those. Help over Panther Dragons Saga. I have a
shoot copy I'll play it some day instead.
Speaker 6: Or pants are Dragon Saga or Chronochrono trigger, but I
lean towards Panthers dragoon.
Speaker 3: So you guys want to do that.
Speaker 1: We'll see, aren't we We're updating?
Speaker 4: Uh, the the Friday upf plans right, arling and audible.
We we had something on the schedule that we have changed.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're gon we're gonna do Mario Party. Well, burst
back into work and was like, we're doing this, and uh,
I guess we're gonna do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I may give a hot tag to someone else that
is well versed in Mario Party and.
Speaker 3: You can try to make that happen, and it would
probably be mean me, a foil to me, is it? No,
don't worry about.
Speaker 1: That, you know, I'll just like that. He's excited.
Speaker 5: Nah, I think it's Bailey.
Speaker 2: Fuck ding ding ding ding ding ding? All right, God,
oh tomorrow gang Not only does pit my record continue?
What are you doing, Mike? Put it away? Put it away?
We're not done with a podcast?
Speaker 7: Whistle?
Speaker 1: What is it? What is wrong with him? It's just
a little. It's soft.
Speaker 5: You will barely us keep going.
Speaker 1: It's soft. You will be able to notice.
Speaker 2: Uh uh tomorrow, Pip, my record continues.
Speaker 1: I'm noticing a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as well as the Rocket League Divitational.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the Divitational. You guys should this.
Speaker 2: DIB is going to go one v one against all
of us, and if he manages to beat Dan, h
DIB is going to design.
Speaker 1: A shirt that Dan has to wear for the determined
amount of days. Did I agree to this?
Speaker 7: I thought it was he ran the table.
Speaker 2: Nope, nope. Uh, well, okay, maybe if he runs the table.
Speaker 1: Uh No.
Speaker 3: I don't want it to be on me that Like,
if I don't try hard, Dan has.
Speaker 1: To do something.
Speaker 4: He's going to kick my ass. But the odds of
one of us be to him are there. And I
think he has to run the table for him to
get a prize. You got to teach these kids. I
think if he beats you, he should get it.
Speaker 3: And we'll just make it.
Speaker 1: I say, if he runs the table, you put up
to an owner vote and see what we say. What
the fuck is my doing? I hate it. I don't
like any of this.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then Friday Game of Mornings and then we've called
an audible and upf and we're going to do the
new Switch to Mario party stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, did they switch?
Speaker 3: Like the caffeine that they put in your drinks?
Speaker 1: Mic?
Speaker 3: Like, what is going on here? Are you on new drugs?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Actually, should be completely normal right now?
Speaker 2: Should man? I woke up on Monday not feeling great,
and I don't know what I'm feeling now. But folks,
thank you, thank you, thank you so much for a
wonderful time. I hope you've enjoyed this podcast somehow.
Speaker 4: And I swear if they put me under for the
fucking two thing and I come to and it's Mike
with a whistle doing Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 1: The horse is there.
Speaker 4: I'm fine with the horse. I'd be thrilled.
Speaker 1: With the horse playing a keyboard. Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: If you've been listening for all nine hun really it's
more than nine hundred episodes, but nine hundred plus episodes
of the Giant BombCast, or whether you've been a recent listener,
a laps listener, I appreciate and I love.
Speaker 1: You, love you, we love you love nothing.
Speaker 2: Okay, that does it. We'll see you next week for
another episode of the Giant BombCast. Oh, next week is
gonna be a little bit funky because a lot of
us are gone it's just to.
Speaker 1: Be a backlaar. We're scared on Monday.
Speaker 5: In fact, oh so so uh Jen, you're not going
to be here right No, now, we won't start riving.
But Jeff maybe mean you can look at pissed.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, well we'll get pissed with you.
Speaker 5: Get we'll get pissed.
Speaker 7: I believe I'm sharing a hotel room with one Mike Manatti.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's so.
Speaker 5: I'll bring my tin whistle.
Speaker 1: I swear to God, it's going up your ass. Okay,
what separate rooms. It's not the same money. It's for
other reasons, folks. He was Jeff, he's Jeff. He's dead,
he's been, Mike, I've been Jan shout out to you
at home. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: We'll see you next week for another lovely episode of
The Giant Bombcash good bye, Wow Hey yeah
Speaker 1: Stop it