Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, November fourth, twenty twenty five. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Giant BombCast presented by Diku Deals. I'm your
Speaker 1: host jan Oh Shoah, joining me co captain of the ship.
Speaker 1: He loves deals and educating me on how to spend
Speaker 1: my money properly.
Speaker 2: Jeff Grub, I'm always here for you, jam when it
Speaker 2: comes to that.
Speaker 1: I like how you asked everything was a question November four.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Grub exactly. I'm just reading the teleprompter as
Speaker 1: it goes. Speaking about the teleprompter, it is scrolling, just
Speaker 1: like he is scrolling through the river sticks. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I associate him with death, but I think
Speaker 1: he likes it.
Speaker 3: Bacala, I'm happy to wear that crown. However, is the
Speaker 3: head and it is very heavy, don't you know it?
Speaker 3: It does nothing but damage to my posture. How how
Speaker 3: goes it? Pal uh?
Speaker 1: Or what's the heaviest hat you have?
Speaker 3: I don't that's a great question. Probably a helmet, a helmet.
Speaker 3: Helmet is a helmet? A hat? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yes, hat.
Speaker 3: Helmets are hats. You heard of your first helmets? Hats?
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: I think if it's like a fool. If it goes
Speaker 2: over your face, it's not a hat. If it just
Speaker 2: covers the top of your head, then the helmet.
Speaker 3: Is a hat. Well, I the helmet, Yeah, they have
Speaker 3: like those half helmets, right, or like a motorcycle Yeah,
Speaker 3: motorcycle helmet can't be a hat, We can't can't be
Speaker 3: a hat? Can be a hat?
Speaker 1: What about the half kinds? Well, not like the full.
Speaker 3: Like well like right to half kids if they will
Speaker 3: long the little spike on the top. Yeah, yeah, Oh dear,
Speaker 3: we've we've covered a thing here, folks.
Speaker 1: Wait, here's our expose coming out straight after the bombiton.
Speaker 1: We're pivoting. We're no longer talking about games. We're talking
Speaker 1: about helmets and hats.
Speaker 3: Uh. But we all need to put a helmet on
Speaker 3: because we.
Speaker 1: Got the bad boy of games media. You got to
Speaker 1: put on protection when you're around him because he's knocking
Speaker 1: noggins all over the place and nothing else.
Speaker 3: I swear to God, like, yeah.
Speaker 4: Where your protection are? I'll hurt you. That's what we're
Speaker 4: doing there.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, John Merrell, kill you. We talked about you
Speaker 3: being scarier, didn't we didn't we talk about you trying
Speaker 3: to be scarier Mike.
Speaker 4: I thought that was scary.
Speaker 3: I just threatened to beat someone up, did you.
Speaker 1: I find that comforting because if, like Mike Minaughty is
Speaker 1: going to beat someone up on my behalf, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I call him.
Speaker 3: I think Mike is the third. Like.
Speaker 2: It's weird because I make you look a lot like
Speaker 2: Rick Steiner and yet your disposition is nothing like bark
Speaker 2: barkwolf man Rick stein Yeah.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe should open a Shonees and I'll just kind
Speaker 4: of naturally become hardened.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I think that's what happens, and that's how
Speaker 1: they became so tough. Is they bought a Shonees after
Speaker 1: their wrestling career.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you guys. Go ahead, Jen a in h.
Speaker 1: First, I just want to reiterate we were brought to
Speaker 1: you today by Deco deals dot Com. Head over to
Speaker 1: Deko deals dot com slash John Boum.
Speaker 3: Go ahead and.
Speaker 1: Save yourself some money, some sch money over there. Also,
Speaker 1: you can make a fun list. And I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to incentivize y'all, but you are going You have the
Speaker 1: ability to not only fill out a quiz to see
Speaker 1: which one of us you were most similar to. Uh,
Speaker 1: you can check out a bunch of lists we made.
Speaker 1: I guess you can also vote for a specific game
Speaker 1: that we will play on a UPF this month of November.
Speaker 3: Runner right now, just dance six? Hell yeah, hell ya?
Speaker 3: How can we even do that? I don't know.
Speaker 2: They Oh boy, I thought the outlawed Waggles, So I
Speaker 2: don't know those games even still coming out.
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 4: I think it's all kind of pretend to. I mean,
Speaker 4: at least by likes play it. They kind of just
Speaker 4: play the YouTube videos and dance a long.
Speaker 1: Really, I thought I got beef, and I've had this
Speaker 1: beef simmering in uh in the background, and Mike, you
Speaker 1: bring it up because you're the bad boy of games media. Sure,
Speaker 1: and I think I also want to dip my toes
Speaker 1: into being a bad boy. A couple of packs is ago,
Speaker 1: dear friend of the site, Mary Kish, sitting next to her.
Speaker 1: A gentleman walks by. He's wearing a leather vest. I
Speaker 1: look at Mary and I asked, Hey, you think I
Speaker 1: could pull that off? She almost does a spit take,
Speaker 1: looks me in the eyes as like, no, you, mister
Speaker 1: rogers coated motherfucker, you can't wear a leather vest. Go
Speaker 1: put on a cardigan or something. So I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to be on my side.
Speaker 3: We are terrified of Mary, so no, can't be on
Speaker 3: your side.
Speaker 4: Gets Mary? Are you in safe? Harry knows what's best
Speaker 4: for us. Come on, it's fine. On one of your
Speaker 4: likes on the Decue deals pages, fighting games. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think you like fighting games, but I don't know
Speaker 4: if I associate that to you.
Speaker 3: I don't remember putting fighting games down. So are you
Speaker 3: calling Deko Deals a liar?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Because I do like I like the reality is I
Speaker 2: just like about every kind of video games. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I love video Wait a second, I wouldn't have it
Speaker 2: stand out necessarily?
Speaker 3: Is what happened here?
Speaker 4: That we put down some temp once for Jeff and
Speaker 4: then he never like I definitely filled a man?
Speaker 3: Oh that could be Look, there is a world where
Speaker 3: we can update those Yeah, I mean I like to
Speaker 3: discover that world. But when I do discover it, I
Speaker 3: will let you know.
Speaker 4: Like RPGs, I mean you like RPG's fine, I don't
Speaker 4: know if that's like my good.
Speaker 1: Also was surprised by seeing RPGs, but then I thought
Speaker 1: about it more than mine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, No, I didn't. I definitely didn't put down
Speaker 2: RPG are you I was like, are you guy? Are
Speaker 2: you guys being serious?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah, I said, you guys believe.
Speaker 2: That I would put RPGs down there. I like RPG's fine,
Speaker 2: but you know, there's no way I would have.
Speaker 4: Of course, I know that's what happened. But I'm trying
Speaker 4: to be like, just in the one percent. I want
Speaker 4: to be like, you idiot, you don't like funny games.
Speaker 2: At RPGs, Like you don't even know me, monkey, I
Speaker 2: think that uh yeah, if something must have got lost there,
Speaker 2: I got mixed up or something.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, Mike, what would grub put down? What would
Speaker 1: you put down for Grub?
Speaker 4: I mean dad games, which we have a whole section
Speaker 4: of for sure, so.
Speaker 3: We have that making my own fun.
Speaker 4: In quotations, okay, then not reading Yeah bullshit, yeah bullshit?
Speaker 1: Ye just put last he loves bulls.
Speaker 2: Terry Kavanaugh just released a game about an egg trying
Speaker 2: to get up a platforms.
Speaker 3: It looks like a bunch of bullsh What do I
Speaker 3: call that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sure either I'm.
Speaker 2: Going to be like, we're early on the reclaiming slop ass,
Speaker 2: not inherently pejorative. Uh people, people are like having that conversation,
Speaker 2: like I already feel that way. Friends, slops a great thing,
Speaker 2: and I want more of it. Uh grub, did you
Speaker 2: put weird Japanese games?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 3: Because of that, I can believe. Yeah, yes, I think
Speaker 3: I put that.
Speaker 2: I put tutorials and then they put bad tutorials in
Speaker 2: there for me because they didn't want me to look
Speaker 2: like a complete asshole. And I appreciate that. Uh So
Speaker 2: some of the stuff got in there. That's why I'm
Speaker 2: like confused, because I definitely put down some things and
Speaker 2: they made their way into mind.
Speaker 3: You put down.
Speaker 4: I want to see what they edited it might have
Speaker 4: been to remember such a thing. I got it, I
Speaker 4: got it. I don't worry. I know how to pull
Speaker 4: up the document. Oh you like hand held gaming devices,
Speaker 4: That's it's true. Yeah, eating burritos alone games that feel
Speaker 4: and don't think. I think maybe the problem is that
Speaker 4: yours are too long. That's probably what happened there.
Speaker 2: They had to sort of translate that into eating burritos alone.
Speaker 2: That sounds like an RPG nerd. I'm Fine's okay.
Speaker 1: With you, you know, I always seeing that you put
Speaker 1: feel but don't think shit fucking Star Wars build. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you fucking shit, you do right.
Speaker 2: I don't even I don't even necessarily mean it that way,
Speaker 2: but yes, absolutely, yeah, let me just feel and not
Speaker 2: ever think.
Speaker 1: Speak about feeling and not thinking. I feel as coach
Speaker 1: tired because last week, boys, we were all together in
Speaker 1: New Jersey. We did the bombathon. We did twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: These two titans among men, I think slept the least.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Grub and mister Manatti here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we both slept none.
Speaker 4: But I made I was like much more obvious about
Speaker 4: probably bags. A lot of people are like, wow, Mike,
Speaker 4: You're the only person who didn't sleep at all, and
Speaker 4: I'd be like, I don't think Jeff slept either.
Speaker 3: He's just not a bit about I have a photo.
Speaker 3: I do have a photo I uploaded to our album. Okay,
Speaker 3: not sleeping, but it was, yeah, it was in France,
Speaker 3: like I like went up to the side and I
Speaker 3: did like some breathing and stuff like that. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: And it was like, yeah, I know for a fact
Speaker 3: Mike definitively did not sleep, and his ability to stay
Speaker 3: up is probably like the one takeaway from the trip
Speaker 3: that has me the most shook like.
Speaker 2: Because he's he's also the person to like he said
Speaker 2: to himself first to sleep last to a wake up,
Speaker 2: so they also to like that for that to be true,
Speaker 2: and then also can stay up the longest.
Speaker 3: It's it's surprising, perfectly balanced. I've I've found a way
Speaker 3: to make it make sense in my mind because it's
Speaker 3: like the inverse of like a bear hibernating and just
Speaker 3: sort of like his bear like tendency lost all disciplines.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, like I get it. Like the guy who
Speaker 3: regularly you will sleep twelve hours can like muster the
Speaker 3: twenty four hour strength to stay up. So I get that,
Speaker 3: and I guess that's how I've squared it. But I
Speaker 3: will say towards the end there, Mike, you fucking scared me.
Speaker 3: I mean you scared me just with like what you
Speaker 3: were kind of the way you were presenting. It was
Speaker 3: a Manati. It was a flavor of Manati that I
Speaker 3: was not.
Speaker 2: I think back when you were loopy, and I think
Speaker 2: Mike Manati Manatti was clinically insane.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there was a point there where we
Speaker 3: could have had him committed.
Speaker 1: The number fifty nine took over Mike Manatti and oh.
Speaker 3: Was the number that haunts of my family? Yeah, the
Speaker 3: power fifty nine. Yeah it was.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, look, I was leading in to it
Speaker 4: a little bit, but I was definitely pretty loopy, and
Speaker 4: it was things just came to my head.
Speaker 3: Gosh.
Speaker 4: The weirdest one was when I told I told jan
Speaker 4: you're nothing but a slept to me now somewhere one, Well,
Speaker 4: that's something a friend of mine in the tenth grade
Speaker 4: used to say all the time to make me laugh.
Speaker 4: And somehow that thing popped up to the front of
Speaker 4: my head. Shout outs to Mark Craikcraft's funny guy. You
Speaker 4: guys have like that eccentric high school friend who just
Speaker 4: kind of did things. I really admired that he was
Speaker 4: always like the last day of the month, I wear
Speaker 4: a suit to school. Everyone's like, all right, Mark.
Speaker 3: You do that? You know that kind of thing?
Speaker 4: The kid perchance, No, he wasn't a theater kid. He's like,
Speaker 4: he was my star trek buddy. If that if that
Speaker 4: helps at all, he was like.
Speaker 3: He doesn't, it doesn't help anything. I speaking of help,
Speaker 3: I must help my wife get into the house because
Speaker 3: I have locked around like a fucking asshole. Ah.
Speaker 4: This is incredible. Do you guys know Backlar's offices in
Speaker 4: the upstairs. Yes, So we were at Backlar's house and
Speaker 4: we go in, and I had been there before, so
Speaker 4: of course I started giving his bathroom once.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I blew up his bathroom once, that's right. And
Speaker 2: then I was like, all right, let's go take a
Speaker 2: look at the pinball machines.
Speaker 3: That was fun. But then later we were like started
Speaker 3: to looking around for real.
Speaker 2: And we went upstairs and we walked into Backlar's office,
Speaker 2: which had move like one room oversaw. I was a
Speaker 2: little bit confused, like, wait, this, this is not how
Speaker 2: I remember it. And then Mike comes in and just
Speaker 2: cannot believe that his office is on the second floor
Speaker 2: and not in the basement. So why was that so surprising?
Speaker 4: Chat Did anyone else ever assume that this was a
Speaker 4: basement office for some reason? It's not just me.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was just convinced the entire time I've been doing
Speaker 4: caught the Backlard that his office was in the basement.
Speaker 4: It just didn't like the destroyed in the discord Mike,
Speaker 4: if you looked at his door on the left hand
Speaker 4: side of our frame, the daylight hitting.
Speaker 2: That wall is so apparent to me. It's like that
Speaker 2: has to be a window right there.
Speaker 4: I think, I think in the I think in the
Speaker 4: old room it wasn't it was darker or something.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's what. I don't know for a minute, been
Speaker 3: there though, both you. Yeah, Well, the only thing I
Speaker 3: do is I did move myself from the corner of
Speaker 3: the room into the center of the room, as you
Speaker 3: guys know. And I think that's it though, like the light,
Speaker 3: there's nothing else there. I mean, I don't have to
Speaker 3: tell you, Mike.
Speaker 4: Just is it just because uh grub an excuse me?
Speaker 4: Dan are in the basement song? Just like putting everybody
Speaker 4: in the basements.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: You didn't think that, you thought you were the highest
Speaker 4: member of I was. I was, I was like, are
Speaker 4: you and your parents house?
Speaker 3: Mike?
Speaker 4: What about that chance? Always just in like some other
Speaker 4: robe like a kitchen or as He's easy to figure out.
Speaker 3: But no, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know why that like destroyed my whole worldview
Speaker 4: seeing Beckler's office not be in the basement.
Speaker 2: It was, and he was very like he didn't let
Speaker 2: it go for a while. Brought on this podcast like
Speaker 2: a week later. Yeah, we we we caught on video.
Speaker 2: We'll we'll, we'll cut together something special for our time
Speaker 2: out in New York. Uh yeah, I'm looking for great
Speaker 2: Oh man, god.
Speaker 1: Pizza is good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but there's like one thing that's bob me. I
Speaker 3: want my computer real bad. Yeah computer you Yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't have. Yeah, it's not like I'm sitting on it
Speaker 3: here and fucking just blaming anybody I'm dressing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, I'm gonna blame Isabella. That's the
Speaker 1: only builders name that I knew from our time in
Speaker 1: main Gear.
Speaker 3: Oh, I thought you.
Speaker 4: Meant I thought you meant the dog from Animal Crossing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's who he meant.
Speaker 2: Total would be the same person. We don't know for sure.
Speaker 2: She did a good job putting together those computers though.
Speaker 3: That was a lot of fun. That's great.
Speaker 1: They also like gave us spare stickers too, from like
Speaker 1: our cases. So I have like these scout blinged out stickers.
Speaker 1: Now it's great.
Speaker 3: I'm so exciting. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I guess some of my nephews and nieces and
Speaker 4: it was a good combination of like, oh well this
Speaker 4: is crazy.
Speaker 1: Oh oh oh.
Speaker 4: My niece came up to me as like some kid
Speaker 4: at my school news knows who you are, and my
Speaker 4: dad likes you.
Speaker 3: And they want an autograph, and I oh, talk about
Speaker 3: like big day for getting warm up.
Speaker 4: He's already too bad. My handwriting is terrible, but here
Speaker 4: we get.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did want to say, your signature is what's
Speaker 3: the word I'm looking for? Secondary level stupid? It's just whoop?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 2: Buddy back around to make fun of stuff like that,
Speaker 2: because I would be like, mine's not that great either,
Speaker 2: But I know Backgar's handwriting is good, so he could
Speaker 2: just really late you about it.
Speaker 3: I just what's going on there? But it just looks
Speaker 3: like a child's version of birds? What's happening?
Speaker 4: She was pretty bad at birds too, like you know,
Speaker 4: even like them for a bird. Wait a second, I
Speaker 4: do the fun thing where because I have the two
Speaker 4: eyes and I have the line for the team and
Speaker 4: audio to kind of make it look like a face.
Speaker 3: And that's I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Can you say that again?
Speaker 3: That doesn't make it any better? Time gangster m hm hereah,
Speaker 3: it's my sign that you see. It's like a mustache villain,
Speaker 3: a debaucherous double news. Oh man, you're speaking of main
Speaker 3: gear for real? What a tremendous. Oh my partner, and
Speaker 3: keep talking about excuses to like go back. So yeah,
Speaker 3: for sure, but you can go back now, right because
Speaker 3: I feel like we have not uh we should. We
Speaker 3: should be talking about this a lot more because it
Speaker 3: is another mechanism to support Giant Bomb. If you go
Speaker 3: to me slash Giant Bomb and you find something you
Speaker 3: like there, or you use Giant Bomb code at checkout,
Speaker 3: you are directly supporting Giant Bomb and you're also getting
Speaker 3: yourself a fine piece of PC equipment. So by my plate, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Mike's upset that no one's bought his plate yet.
Speaker 2: Mike, I legit considered buying a plate just to make
Speaker 2: you feel better, not telling you, would you do that?
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't like you one hundred dollars much.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Wow, I'm gonna keep that a bike of Christmas.
Speaker 3: Mike will remember that? Remember that?
Speaker 4: Come on, don't you want to plate of my dog
Speaker 4: on stitches spaceship?
Speaker 3: Plenty of my plates, Mikey, what's up? Yeah? What the hell?
Speaker 4: I plates because they're nondescript.
Speaker 3: Because the stay Devil people love the script just arcade,
Speaker 3: person arcade. What's not to like? Bud Blow in the
Speaker 3: dark green. Is the Devil more popular than Space Mountain
Speaker 3: these days?
Speaker 2: I think the devil is definitely more popular than your dog.
Speaker 2: If you put the Devil into the Space Mountain, I
Speaker 2: think people would.
Speaker 3: Have been like, all right, you can get a marker
Speaker 3: and just like generalized Satanism. You know, it's a very
Speaker 3: progressive church.
Speaker 4: I'll have you know, right, come on, can you imagine
Speaker 4: how bad it would be if like satan was really
Speaker 4: came in. It's like, all right, first to go, all
Speaker 4: you people who bathed light of me. You thought that
Speaker 4: I was fun to know. You're the first to get
Speaker 4: the poker on the butt.
Speaker 3: I'm a chill ass dude. What's that you worship the house,
Speaker 3: oh whip where you worshiped a mouse for your entire life? Well,
Speaker 3: haven't talk like a Californian from s NL whip on
Speaker 3: Space Mountain.
Speaker 4: Hero I still haven't renewed or started up by Disney
Speaker 4: Plus again, that's how good of a person I am.
Speaker 3: Wow. Wow, we posted.
Speaker 1: If you go to main gear dot com, slash giant
Speaker 1: bombs the r O right backler, Yep, that's it. You
Speaker 1: can look at all the cases that we put out
Speaker 1: so you you can see the brilliance. Shouts out to Jerem,
Speaker 1: Shouts out to Tim Nicholas, Shouts out to the folks
Speaker 1: main gear that helped Dan make his Shouts out to
Speaker 1: me because I'm good at photoshop for making money.
Speaker 3: Yours is really yours really is a lot and it's great. God.
Speaker 3: I love Penn and Pixel hip hop is They're so
Speaker 3: they're so good.
Speaker 1: Gang anything else?
Speaker 3: Uh you want you want to talk about before we
Speaker 3: get going with the show.
Speaker 4: Even No, Yeah, do you guys go to Shonies when
Speaker 4: you were kids? I like what road Every road trip
Speaker 4: was like, we're going to Shony one here. It was
Speaker 4: just a change restaurant that was it's kind of a Denny's,
Speaker 4: but I don't know. It felt more like a warm
Speaker 4: hug than Denny's. Mobe just because I was a kid.
Speaker 3: Same.
Speaker 2: I like the Betel, Yeah, I felt like a respite
Speaker 2: on the road. I don't know, it's it's a It's
Speaker 2: a nice restaurant.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was the first place where I ever had French
Speaker 4: toast sticks. And I was like, this is sweet.
Speaker 3: God, You're like, man, we are just different people.
Speaker 2: I don't remember mine too, but only because I was
Speaker 2: working at Burger Kings when the Burger King invented French toasticks.
Speaker 3: So yeah, oh no they still wow. Okay, I'm just glad. Uh.
Speaker 3: Mikey got to see his first youth hockey ice hockey game.
Speaker 4: Man, that was great because we showed up to yeah,
Speaker 4: DIM's hockey game when it was like in progress, pretty deep,
Speaker 4: and literally as we walked in, he got.
Speaker 3: A breakaway and score a goal. It was awesome. And
Speaker 3: then there was a kid fight. There's a kid fight.
Speaker 4: Later it was great.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: I mean it was you know, child child violets, but.
Speaker 3: They hit a kid better another kid, right, yeah, but
Speaker 3: the best was like it's it was. It was a
Speaker 3: typical for that league, like new these kids never fight
Speaker 3: their ten right, but like your face it's like you're like,
Speaker 3: what what's happening right now? Is this okay?
Speaker 4: Were someone to jail, like we need to leave.
Speaker 3: He looked for the nearest exit.
Speaker 4: Man. That's great because like you know, everyone's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: let's let's go watch tim uh uh uh grub and
Speaker 4: jin like oh, we got to the groceries and dad
Speaker 4: was it was just straight up like I don't want
Speaker 4: to go. It sounds boring, but he would have loved
Speaker 4: the kid fight. I think, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, probably good.
Speaker 3: He wasn't there. It's probably too much. Got some stink guys.
Speaker 4: So you'd be cheering them on.
Speaker 3: Again, Bombiton, fantastic event.
Speaker 1: Shouts out to to to y'all watching, whether or not
Speaker 1: you were able to throw in a sub or a
Speaker 1: kofee uh kofi. We We appreciate all of y'all, and
Speaker 1: I also just want to give another special shouts out
Speaker 1: to the Chuck Turbo, Sean will Crosby, Tim Nicholas for
Speaker 1: helping out and all the folks in main Gear. What
Speaker 1: a lovely space. It just worked. It was just yea,
Speaker 1: all the bells and whistles and even more. And I'm
Speaker 1: I apologize for probably all of us blowing up that
Speaker 1: one bathroom that was closest to the studio.
Speaker 3: I did my best to clean up after myself when
Speaker 3: I could. Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But hey, you know what we can take away from
Speaker 1: this bagels right one?
Speaker 3: Two? Whatever?
Speaker 4: However many Coast bagels, Oh my gosh, oh gosh, guys,
Speaker 4: I they order bagels and the one time I ate
Speaker 4: three of them, you would have thought that I, like
Speaker 4: was a man versus food situation.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: I want to make clear I was on your side
Speaker 4: for this, Mike being like this is not a big deal.
Speaker 3: It's not it's just there's something fun, harmless.
Speaker 4: I never had East Coast bagels, and they were super good.
Speaker 4: I was starving. I didn't really eat breakfast, and then
Speaker 4: like of course didn't. There was a special god French
Speaker 4: toast again. I like French toast flavors. Apparently there's the.
Speaker 3: French taste your family French toast.
Speaker 4: Now backward did put the bagels away, and I had
Speaker 4: to not tell him by what them, but whisper to
Speaker 4: Jeff about how I was sad the bagels were gone.
Speaker 4: Something Jeff spoke up for me, like my big brother,
Speaker 4: I have brought back out.
Speaker 1: He saw this interaction happen like without thinking grub just
Speaker 1: like Mike wants another bagel, Like Mike just looks down
Speaker 1: as like I do.
Speaker 3: Them what good stuff? Good stuff? All right?
Speaker 2: It was just a reflex like that's what like when
Speaker 2: the just like when the kids say they want something
Speaker 2: like well then I we'll just make that happen.
Speaker 3: That we have this power.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, here, my poor brother A j was you know,
Speaker 4: like the meme like oh, he asked for no pickles.
Speaker 4: He did have to do that constantly for me because
Speaker 4: I was too shy to go out myself, and my
Speaker 4: parents would make him be like, you have to remake
Speaker 4: this because my idiot brother will not enjoy the flavor.
Speaker 3: Of Where does that come from? Do you think that's
Speaker 3: just the nature of your personality or is it like.
Speaker 1: I'm pain I'm painfully shy.
Speaker 3: I think I was shy.
Speaker 4: I think and the bagel thing, I was worried about
Speaker 4: being judged, which I was correct about. That was.
Speaker 2: Everyone else in the room, anyone talked about for the
Speaker 2: rest of the day.
Speaker 3: It's true. Well, it's just because we talked to other
Speaker 3: people from the area and we were and they were like, three,
Speaker 3: huh if most people were flumm exh point.
Speaker 4: Of conversation, Yeah, you know what, because obviously I'm not
Speaker 4: a shy person, but I am deeply non confrontational.
Speaker 3: I think it's this. It was like a situation.
Speaker 4: I'm like, this person might be mad at me that
Speaker 4: I want them to make me like that already made
Speaker 4: me a sandwich, and I'm like, I don't want this
Speaker 4: one that seems deeply insulting and upset.
Speaker 1: For sure, I have all right, boys, anything else and
Speaker 1: any other like there.
Speaker 3: Is something else. There's so always something else. I you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know what wiki.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gosh, Chuck keeps asking us because I apparently it
Speaker 2: works when we say stuff.
Speaker 3: Uh, and so I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 2: There's the Wiki Street Team that you can request to
Speaker 2: join in the discord. Just go do that and help,
Speaker 2: like any sort of help is going to be welcome.
Speaker 2: You stuff out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, help preserve the because you know, we're making a
Speaker 4: new site. There's the wiki on the old site. We're
Speaker 4: trying to preserve that. But you know, help is needed.
Speaker 4: Take some hands, say whether you know how to code
Speaker 4: or that stuff or there's you don't and you can
Speaker 4: find other ways to help.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just join the street team.
Speaker 2: And if you were like watching that, you're like, Wow,
Speaker 2: this Chuck guy's like pick up the slack from these
Speaker 2: idiots who won't just promote themselves.
Speaker 3: And you did a really good job.
Speaker 2: We'll show him some love by helping him out with Yes,
Speaker 2: that'd be a good way to do it.
Speaker 1: Or yeah, you can head to BombCast dot com slash
Speaker 1: wiki w I k I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the repo I think on GitHub one of
Speaker 2: those get repositories.
Speaker 3: It's that's very important, you know, the site relaunch. We
Speaker 3: are closing in on a date. We're not ready to
Speaker 3: say it just yet, but it's very close. It is
Speaker 3: fast approaching. So it's also a good time to remind
Speaker 3: everybody to check those emails if you've not opted into
Speaker 3: the transfer of your user data from UH, you know,
Speaker 3: fandom serve vers to ours. That's what we need to
Speaker 3: be able to do UH in order for you to
Speaker 3: have control over your account when we make the transition,
Speaker 3: so that there's also going to be another email between
Speaker 3: now UH and the end of the year that you'll
Speaker 3: have to like get and sort of take a look at.
Speaker 3: If you already opted in, you're good. You don't have
Speaker 3: anything to worry about. But just expect another email at
Speaker 3: some point that's gonna put you in the in the
Speaker 3: right direction for for making the jump with us. But
Speaker 3: it's it's coming, it's coming. We're we're almost there. We're
Speaker 3: we're in the let's say like we're like in the
Speaker 3: seventh inning. If you want, can you.
Speaker 1: Can you say can you look into the camera and
Speaker 1: say we're an endgame?
Speaker 3: Now we're an endgame? Now?
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: Thanks doctor Strange. Yeah yeah, it so yeah. Thank you Chuck,
Speaker 3: and thank you everyone for for bearing with us as
Speaker 3: we uh as we get to the finish line here,
Speaker 3: folks looking exciting though.
Speaker 1: I'm gang if you are a premium member you do
Speaker 1: have access to the Premium site beta, and I will
Speaker 1: tell you uh as someone that has spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time in the back end of the existing site.
Speaker 1: Now I am so ready to move on.
Speaker 3: It'll be I thought you're gonna say something about a
Speaker 3: cup of coffee in the big time there coffee on
Speaker 3: that server. Put it all over that.
Speaker 2: Voices everyone can do. You just have to whisper while screaming.
Speaker 1: It's that in a Kermit I feel like people can
Speaker 1: do a macho man in a Kermit voice.
Speaker 2: Everybody sports, everyone can at least say I'm Kermit. Defrog
Speaker 2: anything past that, it might fall apart.
Speaker 3: But everyone can always do that. Who's Kermit right now?
Speaker 3: Who doesn't sound like Kermit?
Speaker 2: And I was gonna be like, so sorry, but that
Speaker 2: also upsets me so sorry for us, Mike, sorry.
Speaker 3: That you guys must endure. I'm sorry. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: I agree it should be AI voiced Kermis.
Speaker 4: You're right, fuck, oh geez alright, oh god, it's like
Speaker 4: the Coca Cola Corporation has doubled down on AI commercials
Speaker 4: and it's so a Polar Bears if they don't even
Speaker 4: do the Polar Bears because they know that would be
Speaker 4: a back comparison point.
Speaker 2: So it's just every other mammal from the Animal Kingdom,
Speaker 2: like rap it and they all you can, like obviously
Speaker 2: tell that the AI is pulling from the Koala Bear
Speaker 2: from sing when they get to the Koala Bears, it's like, oh, you're.
Speaker 3: Just copying that.
Speaker 2: It's and there's like fifty cuts because they can only
Speaker 2: have these very short clips because that's all the all
Speaker 2: these programs can do so far unless you build your own,
Speaker 2: and they're not going to fucking do that. It's terrible.
Speaker 2: It's terrible.
Speaker 3: I hate it.
Speaker 2: And I say this to someone who loves Coca Cola
Speaker 2: Christmas commercials because I'm a fucking mark Yeah, and it's like.
Speaker 3: You are ruining this for me. Even the commercials are
Speaker 3: getting ruined.
Speaker 4: You ruined Coca Cola Christmas Komer Souls for the love
Speaker 4: of God with your freaking creepy AI. Santa Claus to
Speaker 4: jumps have some pride.
Speaker 1: You are the inventors of the modern idea of Santa Claus.
Speaker 1: Like that the Coca cola is like when you reach
Speaker 1: your Santa Claus. It's the Coca Cola Santa Claus.
Speaker 3: And the idea that you wouldn't like be proud of
Speaker 3: that and treat it well is insane to me. Insane. Well,
Speaker 3: I should get real problems. But still as far as
Speaker 3: our computers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Disney, you're listening for Mike, make me the new Kerment.
Speaker 1: I can hold it for a little bit longer than
Speaker 1: just saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you do.
Speaker 4: Also have to be a puppeteer, because like it is
Speaker 4: always the guy puppeting and doing.
Speaker 3: This podcast right now? So many bottle time? Can can
Speaker 3: you do?
Speaker 4: Like a Richard gear Chicago thing? Like you were, You're
Speaker 4: over us pulling all our strings as we're doing the podcast,
Speaker 4: Like oh yes, so yes, I yes, they both. I
Speaker 4: asked the both. I guess they both read for it,
Speaker 4: the gun, the gun and the gun. Yeah like that, sure, okay,
Speaker 4: thank you got all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I got all that.
Speaker 3: I did not at a certain point understand anything he
Speaker 3: was saying.
Speaker 1: So it's okay, I understand, and I understand it's time
Speaker 1: to talk about video games.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, yes, so yes, they felt so Yes, they
Speaker 4: felt so Yes. They both retored the gun, the gun,
Speaker 4: the gun, the gun.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, they both retore the gun for the gun.
Speaker 1: Cicero speak about Chuck and designing in the new website,
Speaker 1: helping Chuck out with the wiki. Chuck was a fantastic
Speaker 1: DM during the bombathon when we checked out the war
Speaker 1: Frame nineteen ninety nine Operation Orias Orius Orias, there's like
Speaker 1: oreous table top configuration of Warframe. Grub Minatti and I
Speaker 1: were playing it. Let me tell you, I had a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. I had fun doing it.
Speaker 2: That's the first time I've ever tabletopped rpg'd. I've never
Speaker 2: partakeed the partook. I've never done that before, and it
Speaker 2: was a lot of fun. I love rolling dice to
Speaker 2: see if I get to do things.
Speaker 4: I don't know what's my problem, but I like whenever
Speaker 4: I'm playing one of these, I'm like, I hope there's
Speaker 4: as many like status yeah or whatever checks as possible.
Speaker 3: I just want to be checked.
Speaker 4: I think that's one of the things I liked about
Speaker 4: Borers Kate three. It was like all the times like
Speaker 4: roll a dice. I'm like, hell, yeah, I want to
Speaker 4: roll a dice.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize how much the D and D and
Speaker 1: tabletop stuff just spoke to the theater kid energy that
Speaker 1: it has been like dormant inside of me of like, oh,
Speaker 1: we were very funny. Oh thank you.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you were talking Joshua clips when you're
Speaker 4: being bent Star Wars.
Speaker 3: That was good.
Speaker 1: I don't remember referencing the Holy Spirit, but I guess
Speaker 1: I did as Ben's Star, that's right. Yeah, folks, we
Speaker 1: have been cutting out some of the segments from the
Speaker 1: Giant bombiton. You will lose a little bit of the
Speaker 1: fluff and banter in between, but we did cut out
Speaker 1: the tabletop segment as well as a bunch of the
Speaker 1: other segments. They should all be up on the Giant
Speaker 1: Bob YouTube right now. I just wanted to call out
Speaker 1: us playing this tabletop game because I kind of want
Speaker 1: to finish that mission at least, and I agree the question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have to still save a person or something, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Whatever, Yeah, you guys figure out the mission stuff. I'll
Speaker 2: just keep rolling and doing all the fun stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, all of it was fun, and you know,
Speaker 1: in the future, if there is an appetite for it.
Speaker 1: I would like to do more tabletop stuff on this website.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think there's a good complimentary sort of thing through
Speaker 2: the other stuff that we do, and it would.
Speaker 3: Probably be worth looking into more.
Speaker 2: We have a lot on the table stuff we have
Speaker 2: to do, so no promises, but I just really enjoyed
Speaker 2: myself and I think this would be a good crew
Speaker 2: to run with.
Speaker 3: So yeah, let's let's try to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe maybe Dan can continue to take a nap
Speaker 1: just for the sake of.
Speaker 4: He was really being like, I want to try it,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, I don't want to discourage him trying
Speaker 4: to things, but I just don't see him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Jeff, at.
Speaker 4: This point, I want to discourage him. Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 4: You want to see him do it? Okay, No, no, no,
Speaker 4: I want to discourage him. It's like, yeah, you could
Speaker 4: do that in your own time. That's fine.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go do work over here. So Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was fine. It worked out great. I think it went
Speaker 3: really well. Yeah, it was a ton of fun.
Speaker 1: Also shouts out to our friends of Digital Extremes for
Speaker 1: a sponsoring that segment. Uh, just like the three of
Speaker 1: us were Dispatched to Go Save Someone Jeff Grubb. This
Speaker 1: morning you checked out episode one of Dispatch. I'm super
Speaker 1: curious about this game because it's blowing up.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, like something like a million copies sold and
Speaker 2: a little bit over a week. I was aware of
Speaker 2: it because it has quite the voice cast. Speaking of
Speaker 2: tabletop roleplaying games, Critical Role is partly responsible for this game.
Speaker 2: Like their their badge comes up as like one of
Speaker 2: like when the credits start, it's ad hoc games, which
Speaker 2: I believe didn't look into it, but I believe that
Speaker 2: is former Telltale people and certainly feels like one of
Speaker 2: those games. And then they work together with Critical Role,
Speaker 2: who helped to fill out the cast. And I think
Speaker 2: that combination and really, like, you know, just the marketing
Speaker 2: power of Critical Role. This game just had the attention
Speaker 2: of a huge number of people. And then it is
Speaker 2: high quality, it's well done, it is quite good. So
Speaker 2: I think that those combination of factors helped us get
Speaker 2: over the top. I wasn't exactly sure what to expect.
Speaker 2: I had a vague idea of sort of a select
Speaker 2: your own story sort of thing, and that's certainly what
Speaker 2: it is. The setup is you are playing as the
Speaker 2: third and a line of Iron Man like superheroes. Your
Speaker 2: grandfather created this suit. You had a small fortune to
Speaker 2: sort of maintain it. But your character runs out of money,
Speaker 2: the suit gets damaged. He doesn't know how to fix it,
Speaker 2: so he's got to retire, and then this group approaches him.
Speaker 2: It's like with a proposition. It's a pretty lady, blonde
Speaker 2: superhero who's kind of flirtatious, and you're like, You're like,
Speaker 2: what what's going on here? And she's like, well, I'm
Speaker 2: here to offer you a job. Even though they do
Speaker 2: kiss or I suppose that's one of the choices you
Speaker 2: can make. The idea is they're going to set you
Speaker 2: up as a dispatcher to help manage a crew of
Speaker 2: superheroes responded to things sort of in real time. Think
Speaker 2: the Assassin's Creed Brotherhood mechanic of dispatching assassins out to missions,
Speaker 2: but a little bit more engaged. And then if you
Speaker 2: do that, they will bring back your suit and make
Speaker 2: you a superhero again. So I did the first chapter,
Speaker 2: the first episode. This is an episodic game, just liketale
Speaker 2: telltales games have been in the past, and I think
Speaker 2: that the storytelling the acting, and the sort of the
Speaker 2: setup is all super well done, and like the blocking,
Speaker 2: the animation of the characters, the visual style all really
Speaker 2: jumps off the screen.
Speaker 3: It's got a strong.
Speaker 2: Cell shaded comic book look, but with a lot of
Speaker 2: details still. And then the character designs themselves are just
Speaker 2: really strong. Although at this point we have had so
Speaker 2: many of these, Hey, the classic superheroes you know and love,
Speaker 2: filtered through a different lens, so like here's the stand
Speaker 2: in for the Human Torch, and here's the stand in
Speaker 2: for the Invisible Woman and all stuff like that. So
Speaker 2: it's another one of those. But I'll say this one's
Speaker 2: at least on par with like Invincible in terms of
Speaker 2: its character designs. The one thing that really stuck out
Speaker 2: for me in terms of like, oh this is maybe
Speaker 2: a little bit even more engaging than your typical Telltale game.
Speaker 2: It has all the you made a choice, you made
Speaker 2: a tough choice that now this person's going to remember
Speaker 2: that stuff and it's gonna have effects on the story later.
Speaker 2: All that stuff is there, But as far as the
Speaker 2: dispatching mechanics, it's got this cool thing where like you
Speaker 2: have a team of superheroes on the bottom and then
Speaker 2: you get a mission, and the mission has a description
Speaker 2: of like, hey, you need to be smart and negotiate
Speaker 2: with someone, and then maybe you have to like give
Speaker 2: a speech, and so you might want to have like
Speaker 2: charming abilities. And then the characters have a sort of
Speaker 2: one of those pentagonal chart that tracks their power level.
Speaker 3: I think the back of.
Speaker 2: A Marvel or an X Men card from the nineties,
Speaker 2: where it's like your power level, and it's it covers
Speaker 2: a certain part of this chart. You don't know what
Speaker 2: the mission's going to require, but it's also going to
Speaker 2: have a part of that chart that it fills out,
Speaker 2: like its requirements. And then so you send out superheroes
Speaker 2: that you think are a good fit based on the
Speaker 2: written description and based on their abilities, and then once
Speaker 2: they get to that mission, you check in on it
Speaker 2: and it overlays your hero or if you have two superheroes,
Speaker 2: sort of their combined power over that that bar or
Speaker 2: that that chart, and then it shows what the mission requires.
Speaker 2: And if it completely overlaps, that means you're going to
Speaker 2: succeed one hundred percent of the time. But if it
Speaker 2: doesn't completely overlap and a little part of it sticks off,
Speaker 2: sticks out, it'll tell you were, your percentage chance of succeeding,
Speaker 2: and then a little ball will bounce around inside of
Speaker 2: the requirement like the skill check, and if it lands
Speaker 2: inside of where your heroes cover, you pass, and if
Speaker 2: it lands outside of that, you fail. And I just thought,
Speaker 2: that's like, ooh, this feels really nice. It's snappy, easy
Speaker 2: to understand. It kind of still does the thing that
Speaker 2: Telltale games are strong at, where it's like I'm thinking
Speaker 2: about the mechanics in my head, I'm reading a description,
Speaker 2: I'm making choices based on what I think these characters
Speaker 2: can do, and then I get a little bit of
Speaker 2: a reflection of that in the game itself, and I
Speaker 2: just thought that, hey, this is enough to sort of
Speaker 2: put this game a little bit further over the top
Speaker 2: compared to the long run of Telltale games, where maybe
Speaker 2: that way of doing things grew a little long in
Speaker 2: the tooth.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm quite into it so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm happy you streamed that this morning. Grab I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to go back and check that out. I'm
Speaker 1: super interested in this game. I feel like, for as
Speaker 1: much superhero content as there is out there, there still
Speaker 1: isn't like the best amount of games and based off
Speaker 1: of how you're describing this, I need to check this out. Also,
Speaker 1: it makes me really miss the Marvel Ultimate Alliance series.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was one thing I thought maybe
Speaker 4: we would do during Bonton. Maybe another time is due,
Speaker 4: like one of the X Men Legends game. Mostly just
Speaker 4: that Jan can be Psyclops. That might be a fun
Speaker 4: for a player thing to do at some point.
Speaker 3: Right, But yeah, yeah, Marvel Heroes was a thing for
Speaker 3: a long time. We got stuff like that. I think that,
Speaker 3: you know, this is not anything.
Speaker 2: Really close to that, but you know, an expression of
Speaker 2: like superheros being like, hey, people come to these characters
Speaker 2: for the storytelling as a vessel for that. This seems
Speaker 2: like a pretty well done version or take on that idea.
Speaker 1: Sure, And like I'm still excited about the Wolverine game
Speaker 1: coming out next year, But I don't know. When I
Speaker 1: think about the X Men, I think of more of
Speaker 1: them as a group rather than just someone solo Dollo.
Speaker 1: But exciting to hear about Dispatch. This is episodic, Yes.
Speaker 3: It's episodic.
Speaker 2: It's I think I just like Telltale games of the past,
Speaker 2: although I think the release schedule is a little bit
Speaker 2: more rapid than you might remember from Telltale where it'd
Speaker 2: be like two months between episodes. I think they're doing
Speaker 2: two episodes at a time, and they seem to be
Speaker 2: coming out every couple of weeks, two episodes every week.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Michael O'Leary and chat.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, I hadn't really kept track of that
Speaker 2: because it was like I wasn't even really going to
Speaker 2: play this game. And then as it got more and more,
Speaker 2: buzz I checked into it, and I think five and
Speaker 2: six episodes five and six.
Speaker 3: Are out today as this podcast. What's coming out?
Speaker 1: Cool?
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 1: Going from dispatch to extractions, mister Minatti, mister Grubb, and
Speaker 1: I believe a couple of other folks yesterday checked out
Speaker 1: Arc Raiders.
Speaker 3: I'm super curious.
Speaker 1: Would I like this game?
Speaker 3: Have you played many extraction shooters?
Speaker 1: Jan No, but I hear like, if there's one to
Speaker 1: get in on the ground floor of the genre, it
Speaker 1: may be this one.
Speaker 3: It definite.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, this is like the newest, spiffiest one.
Speaker 4: It's pretty new player friendly. We had Christian who's been
Speaker 4: playing a lot of it sort of shurpass us around.
Speaker 4: But even if he wasn't there, you know, you have
Speaker 4: like these missions that kind of like lead you to
Speaker 4: mechanics and you kind of guess, so, yeah, like yeah,
Speaker 4: the game just it felt really good. It it looked
Speaker 4: really good, and I was getting definitely understanding the loop
Speaker 4: where you're just going in and you are just looting things.
Speaker 4: And sometimes you're looking for things because oh, I need
Speaker 4: to make a weapons station back at my home base
Speaker 4: I can make more upgrades, or I need wires for
Speaker 4: this quest. And sometimes you're just looking for whatever, may
Speaker 4: be hoping to find a really good gun and hope
Speaker 4: you can hold onto that as long as possible. And
Speaker 4: then there's these arcs, and these are kind of the
Speaker 4: AI enemies, computer enemies, and they are machines. There's drones
Speaker 4: and those you can kind of take out relatively safely,
Speaker 4: but there's really big ones, like these giant four legged walkers,
Speaker 4: and it's like, oh, maybe we better just avoid those
Speaker 4: guys right now. I don't know if we how that
Speaker 4: fight is going to go down. Then there are also
Speaker 4: other players, right so you know, sometimes you're gonna fight them,
Speaker 4: something's gonna attack you. Sometimes you might just wave them
Speaker 4: off and kind of hope for the best. It's not
Speaker 4: like a Battle Royale. There even though like so much
Speaker 4: of it, like that it's not necessarily about attacking the
Speaker 4: other players. I mean, the only benefit to it is
Speaker 4: that you get their loot, which may or may not
Speaker 4: be all that useful.
Speaker 3: There's probably enough loot.
Speaker 4: Just in the map for you in a lot of ways,
Speaker 4: in terms of stuff you can carry, because you can't
Speaker 4: only carry so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could see the future of those confrontations where
Speaker 2: maybe you didn't want to fight the big walker, so
Speaker 2: you'll let that other crew fight it. If they win,
Speaker 2: then you attack them when they're done, when they're weak,
Speaker 2: and you take the stuff that they might have got
Speaker 2: from it, or maybe they get killed taking.
Speaker 3: Down the walker, and you finish it off. And it's
Speaker 3: like that. You can see the interesting dynamics there.
Speaker 2: I'll say that when I was playing, I was like,
Speaker 2: this is pretty good, and then when I was done,
Speaker 2: I began to I do I feel an itch to
Speaker 2: go back, especially hearing it runs really well on the
Speaker 2: steam deck, and I think that solo queuing for me
Speaker 2: would be pretty fun in this game, where it's like
Speaker 2: I'll just like run, I just want to upgrade.
Speaker 3: My stuff, you know.
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed early on in Call of Duty just
Speaker 2: doing the like upgrading my character by playing the game
Speaker 2: and unlocking all the weapons and all the gear for
Speaker 2: each weapon and stuff like that, and this game being like, well,
Speaker 2: that's actually part of the loop of you can go
Speaker 2: through the and upgrade your character's home base faster if
Speaker 2: you go out and have a good run and get
Speaker 2: all this extra you know, mats and materials, and it'say, oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: I think I want to do that.
Speaker 2: So I'm beginning to understand why the loop is so appealing.
Speaker 2: I'll go back another time and let's see if it
Speaker 2: really actually sinks its hooks into me. But at the
Speaker 2: very least, it's like this one has made the appeal
Speaker 2: of extraction shooters apparent to me.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did go back to do some solo queuing
Speaker 4: when we were done, and I did like that. It's
Speaker 4: a bit of a different experience for I think you don't,
Speaker 4: you know, And I always like this those battle royalgus
Speaker 4: or things like that, you can kind of just go
Speaker 4: it's not like, all right, let's make sure we're all together.
Speaker 4: Here's what I think we should do. What do you
Speaker 4: think we should do? Sort of a thinking, you know,
Speaker 4: it's like being at a theme park by yourself instead
Speaker 4: of being with a group of people. I have a
Speaker 4: little You don't have to have a little committee all
Speaker 4: the time. Just you just go on that side. And
Speaker 4: even like the interactions with other players seemed a bit
Speaker 4: more dynamic, whereas when there's a bunch of us, it
Speaker 4: almost it felt a little bit more shoot on site.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's just me being trigger happy, I don't know,
Speaker 4: but when I was playing by myself, there was more like, Okay,
Speaker 4: this person's literally doing an emote that says don't shoot.
Speaker 3: I guess I won't.
Speaker 4: There's another person just sitting there looting something.
Speaker 3: Why not target? Come on? That's what you know.
Speaker 4: You hear somebody trying to extract by getting on a subway,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, I'm just gonna go down there and
Speaker 4: shoot them with a shotgun as they think they're getting
Speaker 4: away in the subway. And I do that, and I
Speaker 4: feel like a little stinker. But it's fun the game.
Speaker 4: When we were playing all of us, it made being
Speaker 4: a coward more fun than it's ever been for me.
Speaker 4: Because there's one part we were in this hallway kind
Speaker 4: of surrounded by these windows looking outside, and on either
Speaker 4: side of the hallway. Other teams pincered us and we're shooting,
Speaker 4: and before I could even do anything, Jeff and Christian
Speaker 4: were down, and I was like, well, there's no way
Speaker 4: I'm going to be able to save them.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna you just got a new good gun, right.
Speaker 4: I had this awesome shotgun. I don't want to lose,
Speaker 4: because that's what happens is you lose that loots. I
Speaker 4: just like dove through the window and just started running
Speaker 4: and let those two teams fight each other and I
Speaker 4: got out of there.
Speaker 3: So that felt good.
Speaker 1: Now, Okay, do you all think this is going to
Speaker 1: hurt or help Marathon when it comes out at all?
Speaker 4: Hurt big time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, hurt. Like this isn't going to be like a
Speaker 1: good on wrapper for people to get introduced to like
Speaker 1: extraction shooters.
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a good arm right
Speaker 4: for people to be introduced to art greaters and to
Speaker 4: keep playing that. I don't know, because when I tried Marathon,
Speaker 4: that was the first time I try an distraction to shooter,
Speaker 4: So maybe just the whole thing was a little weird
Speaker 4: to me. I wasn't getting it at all. It didn't,
Speaker 4: you know, even though like you know, bungee shooting feels good,
Speaker 4: and that was there. I didn't think the enemies were
Speaker 4: very interesting. The encounters I was having with the players
Speaker 4: didn't feel that good. Even the world itself felt a
Speaker 4: little surprisingly flat. The app based stuff is not nearly
Speaker 4: as nice as it is in Arc Radors or you
Speaker 4: have a real sense of that kind of place right
Speaker 4: in setting.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe they're doing some.
Speaker 4: Work over there, right because they push that thing back.
Speaker 4: There's going to be another test at some point. I'm
Speaker 4: curious what people think. But I mean, how many of
Speaker 4: these kind of teams can there be because we sort
Speaker 4: of saw what the Battle Royal is like. Maybe a few,
Speaker 4: so maybe there's a room for another one of these.
Speaker 4: But I think our Creators is going to be it
Speaker 4: for a lot of people.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think that for Marathon to get a
Speaker 2: benefit here, it's going to have to have something that
Speaker 2: really sets it apart and makes it feel unique, because
Speaker 2: it can't just be like, well, we're super welcoming, so well,
Speaker 2: our creators already welcomed everybody, and yeah showed up for
Speaker 2: that and it sold really well, so you kind of
Speaker 2: have to face that. And then if it's like, I mean,
Speaker 2: my question would be like, what could that possibly be?
Speaker 2: Because if you're super into this now, because our creators
Speaker 2: and you going to try some real sick oh shit,
Speaker 2: Tarkoff is still there. Yeah, and it's gonna be coming
Speaker 2: to Steam here soon. It's not on Steam yet, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be coming to Steam here soon. And if anything,
Speaker 2: it might destroy our Raiders and Marathon will never even
Speaker 2: stand a chance because now that thing is just the biggest.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think Marathon's in.
Speaker 3: A tough spot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I feel like on top of Tarkov, there's
Speaker 1: also the other behemoth that if Arc Raiders absolutely blows
Speaker 1: up kind of takes over, like as the hot game
Speaker 1: to stream or people are watching on Twitch, that Fortnite
Speaker 1: is just going to come in and create an extraction
Speaker 1: mode for folks. And speaking about Fortnite, Mike Manatti, you've
Speaker 1: been checking out Simpsons in Fortnite.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's one way to pull my boomer, ask
Speaker 4: beck In. I suppose it did one thing if it
Speaker 4: was just like the Simpsons Battle Pass with some characters
Speaker 4: you can buy, but the whole map is spring filled.
Speaker 4: And I'm a sucker for the games where you just Springfield.
Speaker 4: It's even like when you start playing, like like it's
Speaker 4: like the intro goes through like like it says Battle Royale,
Speaker 4: but it's in the style the Simpsons introuse when you're
Speaker 4: on the bus, right, yeah, and the bus goes through
Speaker 4: and then you see all Springfield, like going back to
Speaker 4: Virtual Springfield or the PC in the mid nineties and
Speaker 4: then Hit and Run. Of course, any games that have
Speaker 4: like all of Springfield there, it's neat. So you know,
Speaker 4: just say, d were we dropping boys Camp Krusty Like
Speaker 4: that's that's pretty neat. So yeah, just seeing all of
Speaker 4: it there, realize like that is is a good amount
Speaker 4: of fun. You know, Fortnite is still a really fun game.
Speaker 4: Ill said, I haven't seen like it's not like some
Speaker 4: of these updates where you're able to introduce items from
Speaker 4: the property itself to make it interesting. Like I know,
Speaker 4: when of those power rangers you could do a megazort thing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: maybe maybe there's more here. But the only like simpsonsz
Speaker 4: item I've come across is that fish with three eyes
Speaker 4: and it does like what a lot of.
Speaker 3: Ice that game do.
Speaker 4: Let's you kind of blink forward Nightcrawler style a little
Speaker 4: bit there, but you know, I did get the battle
Speaker 4: pass because I want to be Homer, and of course
Speaker 4: Homer is the last thing on the passele. Now it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: you got me. I guess I have to play a
Speaker 4: lot of Fortnite now, I guess that's why they do
Speaker 4: these things. Huh. Most gun is coming soon as an
Speaker 4: item Joe, so his shotgun I kind of like, right, just.
Speaker 3: Have like a revolver behind the bars.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I'm about to unlock March.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 4: March is like the mainly weapon she gets is a
Speaker 4: vacuum cleaner, which I'm just going to tell myself is
Speaker 4: a Simpsons Arcade reference.
Speaker 1: Do they have Homer's car as like a vehicle?
Speaker 4: I don't know about his because the whole map is springfold.
Speaker 4: I saw all the cars kind of look like that.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I've been to the Simpson's house one time and I
Speaker 4: was running around there and that was fun because there's
Speaker 4: you know, each room, you know, Flanders House right by it.
Speaker 4: I was even inside Millhouse's house at one point. It's
Speaker 4: just fun details all over the place. So yeah, just
Speaker 4: like the aspect of dropping on the map and riding
Speaker 4: around seeing most Tavern, seeing you know, seeing the power
Speaker 4: plant all those iconic locations is super neat Yojo.
Speaker 2: What do you plan on PC? Okay, I downloaded on
Speaker 2: switch to I'm like, oh yeah, I could just play
Speaker 2: this on switch to Cover and I'd be like a
Speaker 2: good way to check in on Fortnite.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I kind of forget I can do that
Speaker 4: as well. I yeah, no build mode still, I once
Speaker 4: I once I had that. I don't know if I
Speaker 4: could ever go back. I don't know if I ever
Speaker 4: want to build again it.
Speaker 3: Fortnite. Oh, I did.
Speaker 2: Play a lot of Fortnite in this past week, but
Speaker 2: it wasn't any of the Simpson stuff. It was K
Speaker 2: Pop Demon Hunter Live Event Tycoon, which is a community
Speaker 2: created game where it's an idle game. You have to
Speaker 2: punch a block or shoot a block to get dollars
Speaker 2: to come out, and then use the dollars to upgrade
Speaker 2: your stage and your house and to buy new instruments
Speaker 2: to record new albums, and then you sell those albums
Speaker 2: to get new fans, and then if you get twenty
Speaker 2: five million fans, you could start a live event, which
Speaker 2: just means giant versions of your characters singing with the
Speaker 2: Hunters characters around the world.
Speaker 3: It was like it.
Speaker 2: Was cool, poorly designed one of these, and yet still
Speaker 2: like a ton of fun because it's like just this
Speaker 2: free little move that someone made in the game using
Speaker 2: the assets from K Pop Demon Hunters, and the girls
Speaker 2: were happy with it, and I have to have a
Speaker 2: fun time.
Speaker 3: So is it because they license the skins like your
Speaker 3: people can community create that stuff? Is that why it's okay? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely so.
Speaker 2: Uh like when you're when we were making the albums,
Speaker 2: it's like they were recording songs, they weren't able to
Speaker 2: use any of the Hunterricks songs, so they just used
Speaker 2: other songs from the game, right, Uh, but you know,
Speaker 2: the Hunters characters were there, you know Ka Pop Demon
Speaker 2: Hunter's characters are there, and yeah, like they couldn't bring
Speaker 2: anything that wasn't already done by Epic themselves. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, the producer character or whatever, the manager,
Speaker 2: he's not in the game, so we don't have him
Speaker 2: running around at least as far as I know. But yeah,
Speaker 2: they just kind of use what they had, and then
Speaker 2: there was a bunch of of genera unreal engine assets
Speaker 2: to make it to fill out the rest of the world.
Speaker 3: And okay, people do this. It's been a bit of
Speaker 3: a let's call it a Fortnite time out, and we've
Speaker 3: not I've not seen the Simpson stuff yet. I want to.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna check that out. The last thing he was
Speaker 3: really into was that steal the brain Rock game, which, right,
Speaker 3: probably will we got into this mess in the first place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, I the kids definitely asked about
Speaker 2: something along those lines.
Speaker 3: And like, well, I don't know if they have that yet. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not ready for that personally. Yeah, it just sounds
Speaker 3: like this K Pop one is the community created one
Speaker 3: is maybe a little bit more like cerebral, not cerebral charitable.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's a good it's a good
Speaker 2: clicker in the way that all clickers are going.
Speaker 4: Yeah, gosh. The last he said clicker. The last Simpsons
Speaker 4: game was tapped out, which you just can't even play anymore.
Speaker 3: But it made a ton of money while it was going, Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's cash out.
Speaker 4: I wish they made like a non like you have
Speaker 4: to wait twel four hours to do like things version
Speaker 4: of that game. I could just play now because there's
Speaker 4: something funny out that Also, the car Homer's car apparently
Speaker 4: you can buy that in the shop, which I mean,
Speaker 4: I imagine means it's an eat.
Speaker 3: You can use it in Rocket League. Yeah, that's actually okay.
Speaker 3: So there's like a separate mode where you drop into
Speaker 3: Springfield or is that just what the map is?
Speaker 4: That's just what the map is. The map is just
Speaker 4: Springfield right now, like the whole things. There's like Evergreen Terrace,
Speaker 4: there's Camp Krusty. There's something called like the Doughnut District
Speaker 4: with a bunch of the shops.
Speaker 3: Uh, this reactor. Yeah, so what do you think? Like
Speaker 3: I get, like, you know, the Zoomers in the Alpha,
Speaker 3: they know what's the Simpsons are.
Speaker 2: So like they don't have any money, so they don't
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. They don't matter right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, I say, I've never been super duper into
Speaker 1: the Simpsons, and I'm like, yeah, maybe like a middle
Speaker 1: millennial here, but I can see the value in it
Speaker 1: and it blowing up because of all everyone else having money.
Speaker 1: Like you said, Grub, I.
Speaker 4: Forget, Disney's invested like billions of dollars into Epic games,
Speaker 4: but I think, you know, I think Epic as they know,
Speaker 4: and they kind of do one for you, one for me.
Speaker 4: So it's like your Power Rangers, Old Sup Power Rangers
Speaker 4: and then K Pop Demon Hunters and now Simpsons and
Speaker 4: the next one will be la Boo boo or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think they Oh, I don't know
Speaker 3: if one each other, you know, yeah, that'd be all right. No, No,
Speaker 3: put Fargo in Fortnite, got it? I want them muppets
Speaker 3: just have a machine gun.
Speaker 4: It is there's a part of so this is maybe
Speaker 4: this is a Laboudo that's like, oh, so Barts just
Speaker 4: that's an assault rifle.
Speaker 3: It is shooting people. Now you're you're right, it's weird.
Speaker 3: You're right, it's weird. I do think though for me,
Speaker 3: and again maybe I'm just like hyper rationalizing, but like
Speaker 3: there is such cartoonishly nonsensical gun play in for like yeah, again,
Speaker 3: like I'm not trying to find reasons. It's not even
Speaker 3: like on Charter where on charge you's obviously marking like
Speaker 3: thousands of fools over and over and over again, and
Speaker 3: it's just like that's what the game is. There's something
Speaker 3: I don't know, and maybe I'm just drinking the kool
Speaker 3: aid with what Fortnite is sort of able to just
Speaker 3: get away with with very clearly being a third person shooter.
Speaker 3: But there is something about it that I'm just like, Man,
Speaker 3: it's it's just maybe it's like a nerfification of everything.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it feels like, yeah, you're right, I look.
Speaker 4: A lot of it's just because hey, it's really popular,
Speaker 4: so the brands are just going to embrace It's. Yeah,
Speaker 4: a part of me it's like, maybe the gun should
Speaker 4: look slightly less like real guns. Maybe it should really
Speaker 4: be nerfy, just because I don't want to be like
Speaker 4: a well somebody think of the kids thing. It's fine,
Speaker 4: but there's and they can slowly kids play, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: For sure, and they could slowly do you know over
Speaker 3: a long period of time. I feel like they could
Speaker 3: just make it so cartoonish, like.
Speaker 2: I could not imagine Mario in here holding assault rifle,
Speaker 2: Like I just couldn't imagine that so weird to me,
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: Shadow, shadow strapped up.
Speaker 4: I mean a lot of it is still just remnants
Speaker 4: are the fact that this was originally a zombie like
Speaker 4: survival co op game thing, right. That's where a lot
Speaker 4: of this is still coming from, even now with the
Speaker 4: fucking Simpson's Crossover event where you can run into Darth
Speaker 4: Vader and Peter Griffin and the Red Ranger and just
Speaker 4: all this insane stuff. So but you know that it's
Speaker 4: it's been a good reason to go back to Fortnite.
Speaker 3: Why not, that's a.
Speaker 1: That's a dream blunt rotation you just mentioned, Mike Manatta.
Speaker 1: You've also been continuing your trek through Lumio's City with
Speaker 1: Pokemon Legends zaw.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I rode credits on it, and then
Speaker 4: I was like, oh and I can move on to
Speaker 4: something else button what if? And then I kind of
Speaker 4: kept playing it and I did all the I did
Speaker 4: the main post game missions too, which.
Speaker 3: Is kind of just continuing the royal stuff.
Speaker 4: For another quote unquote fifteen ranks, you can see kind
Speaker 4: of the final story beats, and then you know, I
Speaker 4: don't want to spoil anything, but then you can do
Speaker 4: a battle and you can capture an important Pokemon, and
Speaker 4: then that's kind of really it for the main quest.
Speaker 4: There's still things that could do, like I haven't finished
Speaker 4: that Lady's research stuff, I haven't done all the side quests,
Speaker 4: but I kind of did the main endgame stuff.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that game actually really worked for me.
Speaker 4: It turns out, even though it is still kind of
Speaker 4: janky and weird, like I like the real time battles,
Speaker 4: but there's so there is a lot of like this
Speaker 4: kind just kind of stuck on the side of this building.
Speaker 3: Is it moving properly?
Speaker 4: Like you know, there's like supposed to be stealth with
Speaker 4: approaching these people, and that feels weird and not great
Speaker 4: as I'll get out, But fighting the Pokemon it feels good.
Speaker 3: The post scheme.
Speaker 4: Stuff to scale super well. Like when I was doing
Speaker 4: like that fifteenth fight my Pokemon, We're all in like
Speaker 4: the nineties in terms of level, and I was still
Speaker 4: fighting people were kind of in the seventies, So I
Speaker 4: was like, Okay, I feel like this end game sus
Speaker 4: should be getting more difficult, and it's actually mostly a kickwalk.
Speaker 4: Even the part of the day where I had to
Speaker 4: get my challenger's ticket by fighting everybody, it's like all
Speaker 4: these trainers would still have little fifty nine Pokemon. So
Speaker 4: it's beginning to feel more like a chore that was
Speaker 4: pushing through a little bit because I did want to
Speaker 4: see the rest of the stuff there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I did it. Endgame difficulty in Pokemon has
Speaker 1: always been a problem just across the board, with all
Speaker 1: their titles, But Mikey, would you say it's worth it
Speaker 1: to go through it to finish up those the rest
Speaker 1: of those ranks.
Speaker 4: You get a couple of cool Pokemon for doing it,
Speaker 4: if you care about that. And even outside of doing that,
Speaker 4: there's a couple important Pokemon you can catch too, And
Speaker 4: I caught one of them and I had them in
Speaker 4: my party and.
Speaker 3: That felt fun. So yeah, I mean it was me.
Speaker 4: It's like I was enjoying this game. I kind of
Speaker 4: do actually want to keep playing it, and I still
Speaker 4: felt a little cheated early on when the game like
Speaker 4: skips you skips a bunch of rankings for you. It's
Speaker 4: I kind of you kind of get them back here,
Speaker 4: I suppose in a way. So yeah, but uh, there
Speaker 4: was something to this game for sure. I don't think
Speaker 4: it was amazing or anything, but it is definitely the
Speaker 4: Pokemon game that I clicked with the most since like
Speaker 4: the DS era.
Speaker 3: Probably. Yeah, so I was.
Speaker 4: I was pretty pleased all and all, and I'm excited
Speaker 4: I liked I liked the Legends side series a lot.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I still have too much hope
Speaker 4: for the main series. I'm not sure. I'd be curious
Speaker 4: to try it, but every time they kind of do
Speaker 4: slightly different.
Speaker 3: Things here with legends. I am here for it.
Speaker 4: Even though like this game was more of a Pokemon
Speaker 4: X and Y sequel than I was expecting. I kind
Speaker 4: of like digging into the lures, like, oh a lot
Speaker 4: of these characters did show up.
Speaker 3: In X and Y.
Speaker 4: Huh yeah, or like it relate to them? Oh interesting?
Speaker 4: I apparently did not remember much of what happened in
Speaker 4: that one.
Speaker 1: Speaking about Pokemon, one of the incentives was to revive
Speaker 1: grow into the Pokemon Center and revive Pokemonday Night combat
Speaker 1: with Sean and I, and that is we hit that goal.
Speaker 3: We hit all the goals really fast actually.
Speaker 1: So that will be coming soon to your internet's gang.
Speaker 1: The goal get me to worlds. I want to be
Speaker 1: a Pokemon champion, going from poke balls to ball balls.
Speaker 1: Mike Manatti, you and I have been playing ball pit.
Speaker 1: You played this last night on Mega man.
Speaker 4: I did this one's been getting a lot of buzz.
Speaker 4: It's been an insane year for roguelikes, roguelikes, whatever you
Speaker 4: want to call them, So you're not mad at me,
Speaker 4: but this one has still managed to pop off and
Speaker 4: get a ton of buzz and I didn't tylely I
Speaker 4: was getting into. I knew it was kind of arcanoid slash,
Speaker 4: breakout slash alleyway adjacent, but it's also it's a lot
Speaker 4: of Vampire Survivor's DNA, Like that's the specific brand of
Speaker 4: roguel like you're getting here in terms of, you know,
Speaker 4: you're kind of beating up a lot of enemies, you're
Speaker 4: picking up the XP, and then you're leveling up and
Speaker 4: getting boosts from that. But it is all in this
Speaker 4: kind of you know, you have these balls that you're
Speaker 4: shooting and kind of a shoot them up situation like
Speaker 4: twin stick style, but you know, they bounce around these
Speaker 4: very block shaped enemies, very much like a breakout or
Speaker 4: an arcanoid, and then you're getting bonuses like special balls,
Speaker 4: like this ball is going to make us every time
Speaker 4: you hit a block, it's also going to send a
Speaker 4: laser out to every other block on a horizontal line,
Speaker 4: or this ball is going to poison every ball it hits,
Speaker 4: so it kind of takes, you know, some ticking damage afterwards,
Speaker 4: and then the balls can eventually kind of evolve a
Speaker 4: combined with each other into super balls, and you get
Speaker 4: all this other wacky stuff so that feels great. Then
Speaker 4: there's some progression between all of it where you kind
Speaker 4: of are building out a city, so you're making resource
Speaker 4: tiles or buildings, and then you do another kind of
Speaker 4: arcanoid mini game, seending people out to these things to
Speaker 4: collect the resources or work on the buildings, and eventually,
Speaker 4: if enough people hit a building, you make that building
Speaker 4: and you unlock a new character or a buff or
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that part of the game I don't like as much.
Speaker 1: But maybe it's just because I generally just hate base
Speaker 1: building of any sort.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, your base you're anti base building. I didn't
Speaker 4: see that.
Speaker 2: You're not a chance the only one I've heard say
Speaker 2: this that they're not as enthralled with that part of
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 3: I've heard that a couple of times. Mike, you do
Speaker 3: enjoy it, though, Yeah, I like it. I think it's
Speaker 3: an interesting flavor.
Speaker 4: I think it, you know, kind of carrying some of
Speaker 4: those mechanics into that part of the game, which sometimes
Speaker 4: can be somewhat basic.
Speaker 3: So I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: I know what you mean, though, it is it's busier
Speaker 4: than it would be if it was just like, hey,
Speaker 4: you level it up because you have experience points, here's
Speaker 4: a new character.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I was trying to debate whether or I
Speaker 2: was going to start playing this, and it was like, so,
Speaker 2: I'm at a point of the year where I'm like
Speaker 2: looking for any excuse not to play something so that
Speaker 2: it doesn't take my time. And I was like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: you know, there's other games like this that I like
Speaker 2: the whole package, so I'll just stick with those. But
Speaker 2: I don't know, it sounds like it's a little bit
Speaker 2: more split chat people going back and forth about it.
Speaker 4: You need to try ball pitch, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of watching you play last night, Michael Litel
Speaker 2: was like, oh, I should try this game.
Speaker 3: You, of all people grub should check how ball. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was stucking that too. Yeah, all right, I'll do.
Speaker 3: So the part you're talking about is like, is that
Speaker 3: with the with the building stuff, is that like the
Speaker 3: it felt like it was like a farming thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a little bit like because there's there are
Speaker 4: like the resources, and like the wheat fields, your character
Speaker 4: will pass through it and collect it, but then other ones,
Speaker 4: like the forest, you'll bounce off it. You'll get a
Speaker 4: thing of wood and you'll need that to build the
Speaker 4: other buildings on there and you kind of like are
Speaker 4: moving these things around to try to.
Speaker 3: Play in it.
Speaker 4: So, Okay, my guy's gonna bounce off this building and
Speaker 4: hit that and then bounce into the forest and collect
Speaker 4: the resource. Now it's a to do. I think it's
Speaker 4: so fun to do. But I can see why some
Speaker 4: people are I wish.
Speaker 3: You could play. Yeah, I mean, no, that's what they want.
Speaker 3: That's fine. I was wondering, like, oh, I wonder why
Speaker 3: I like this still, what if this wasn't here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like the ball bouncing or people bouncing in
Speaker 1: that just feels clunkier than it does when you're actually
Speaker 1: playing the game. Game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the game super fun though, very you know, the
Speaker 4: progression was nice, like, you know, each time was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm getting a little better at this, and I'm got
Speaker 4: Sometimes he plays games, it almost feels like a little
Speaker 4: too generous and easy in here. It's like, no, I
Speaker 4: just lost because my build wasn't good enough, and I
Speaker 4: have to learn more about what I should be looking for,
Speaker 4: which balls I should be leveling up and combining into
Speaker 4: better balls. Kind of. It's also very Vampire Survivors and
Speaker 4: that there's a bunch of different levels, so you know,
Speaker 4: I beat one level, it's hardly I beat the game.
Speaker 4: I'm going to unlock more of them. At the end
Speaker 4: of them, there's these boss fights that was then it
Speaker 4: kind of really felt like a shmup. Like I had
Speaker 4: this skeleton guy coming down towards me, and his weak
Speaker 4: point was in the back of his head, so, you know,
Speaker 4: very arcanoidea. I had to only kind of hit him
Speaker 4: from the back by bouncing my balls ast to the
Speaker 4: back wall and then into its crown.
Speaker 3: But they're like the.
Speaker 4: One time I had these balls that uh.
Speaker 3: I'm saying balls a lot. No, it was the implication
Speaker 3: of what you were saying, Judge.
Speaker 4: But like the one time I had like all these
Speaker 4: balls that like would just phase through things so they
Speaker 4: want to bunce around. It was very easy to came
Speaker 4: just we were doing straight shots and took them out,
Speaker 4: uh right away. So yeah, uh, I immediately got to
Speaker 4: appeal this. I think I definitely want to play more
Speaker 4: against been an insane year for these kinds of games,
Speaker 4: with Eighties two and Mega Magic and Monster Trained two
Speaker 4: and Nubby's Number Factory and just so many of these uh.
Speaker 4: And yet you know, I'm not really tired of it.
Speaker 4: As long as they keep making good ones, I'm still
Speaker 4: ready to show up for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like there was another one that we're forgetting.
Speaker 4: There was rack coin, which is more of a test right.
Speaker 3: That was the slot machine one.
Speaker 1: Oh god gosh, clover Coinstar, Clover pitched Clover clever Coinstar.
Speaker 3: Go to the bank instead and do it. Just cant Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're better off. They'll take a cut. It's not worth it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And to wrap off the first segment here, folks,
Speaker 1: we have the let me see if this works, No know,
Speaker 1: I hope it doesn't break anything. The Dad game of
Speaker 1: the Week the week Mars First Logistics.
Speaker 2: Why Yeah, people have been telling me to check this
Speaker 2: out for a while now. They're like, hey, grub here
Speaker 2: that you need another Dad game. Here it is, Uh,
Speaker 2: it's Mars First Logistics. And I don't know what I
Speaker 2: thought it was. I guess it's mostly what I thought
Speaker 2: it was, but it's a little bit more bite sized
Speaker 2: than I guess I was expecting. It's a banjo KAZOOI
Speaker 2: nuts and bolts like in that you are assembling vehicles
Speaker 2: to perform tasks and mostly take objects from one side
Speaker 2: of the map to the other and you could kind
Speaker 2: of build the the your your vehicles at any time.
Speaker 2: You just hit a button you could start editing them.
Speaker 2: And they do give you blueprints to like solve certain tasks,
Speaker 2: but a lot of times, so at least so far
Speaker 2: early on in the game, they are making me come
Speaker 2: up with my own solution first, and then afterwards they'll
Speaker 2: give me sort of an optimized blueprint to succeed at
Speaker 2: that task. There was one where it's like, just take
Speaker 2: this box to this point. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: build a little claw machine on the back and I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna drag it across the Martian surface and go
Speaker 2: for it. And then I got there, and then they
Speaker 2: gave me a little blueprint that was like, had these
Speaker 2: hydraulic lifts, so I could sort of build an arm
Speaker 2: and lift it off the ground and then drive across.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, okay, that's cool, and it unlocked the
Speaker 2: hydraulic lifts for me, so now I could use those
Speaker 2: of my own designs. It got really interesting when it
Speaker 2: was like take this steel beam to this space and
Speaker 2: don't just drop it off. You have to drop it
Speaker 2: off in a vertical way so that it actually like
Speaker 2: sits up and sits in this box and then we'll
Speaker 2: accept it. So I kind of had to build a
Speaker 2: claw to grab it, and I put that claw on
Speaker 2: a sort of rotating wheel, and then I had like
Speaker 2: a little catcher a bit of like PVC piping to
Speaker 2: catch it. So I picked it up, I rotated it,
Speaker 2: I loosened to drop it onto that PVC catcher, and
Speaker 2: then I had that on one of those hydraulic lifts.
Speaker 2: So I lifted it up and it began standing up
Speaker 2: and sort of leaning against the PVC piping, and then
Speaker 2: I drove into it to sort of set it upright
Speaker 2: inside of the acceptable thing. And I was so excited
Speaker 2: when it worked. It was, Oh my god, this is
Speaker 2: exactly what I want from this game. I was able
Speaker 2: to like come up with that idea, execute on it,
Speaker 2: and then like like succeed all in about ten minutes.
Speaker 3: I'm like, that's about the right amount of time.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be spending hours and hours on
Speaker 2: these designs, at least not to just like do something
Speaker 2: simple like dropping off a steel beam.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's hitting the spot.
Speaker 1: I just wish I still had access to, uh, maybe
Speaker 1: a television show where you just bust idioms and and
Speaker 1: miscllaneous things and have a team of engineers to help
Speaker 1: you out because I feel like you have a top
Speaker 1: of your life.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes I would.
Speaker 2: I would love to be on a Battlebot team and
Speaker 2: just be like, can I come up with some ideas
Speaker 2: and let's see if we can.
Speaker 3: Figure them out? Yeah? I may actually be able to
Speaker 3: get us a team on battle Bots. Yeah. What a
Speaker 3: weird departure that would be this you're describing this. I
Speaker 3: was like, I feel like I need to be like
Speaker 3: huddled around a grill watching you understand, Like that could
Speaker 3: use a flip kind of thing, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely is just like, let's be clear, I
Speaker 2: am not good at these games. Uh Like, It's not
Speaker 2: like I have some great technical engineering mind. I have
Speaker 2: a simple caveman monkey brain.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Short, Well, I mean, I mean I do eventually succeed
Speaker 2: at the goals, but in an inelegant way. I just
Speaker 2: think it's good when these games are like that's that's fine,
Speaker 2: be an elegant, we don't care, just get the job done,
Speaker 2: and that still feels really good.
Speaker 1: Okay. I know that because of the Bambathon, we have
Speaker 1: several themed weeks up ahead of us. I mean, well
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Sixty fifty two weeks a year, buddy, we can let's
Speaker 3: got well. I was going to.
Speaker 1: Say, if we can't devote a whole week to it,
Speaker 1: perhaps a day where we have science Fair project. I
Speaker 1: would like that and we just try to do stuff
Speaker 1: like throw an egg off the roof or like build
Speaker 1: a bridge out of like popsicle sticks or something like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, just for you. That looks really cool.
Speaker 2: So it has multiplayers multiplayer, and I think I decided
Speaker 2: during this that I am going to set up a
Speaker 2: stream and we're going to play some of this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would like that because this looks and it
Speaker 4: has a steep kind of art style that's sort of
Speaker 4: like so shady ISHU.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know if you call this, but
Speaker 3: you're feeling I'm feeling it too. Man. I am rendered weak,
Speaker 3: I am, I'm i am. I'm no match to the
Speaker 3: draw of this game. You know.
Speaker 2: It's got like it's got that flat shading and to
Speaker 2: like have a stylish, stylish stylistic excuse me, look at
Speaker 2: like Mars, and that makes it run really well on
Speaker 2: something like the Steam deck. I think, like a real,
Speaker 2: real Dad game should be able to run on a
Speaker 2: lot of different machines. Should be able to run on
Speaker 2: an e machine from Best Buy.
Speaker 4: Yeah about Rush war games that take place on Marsh, Doom, Red.
Speaker 3: Faction, Red Faction, Guerrilla. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, a total
Speaker 3: recall for Super Nintendo. There's not a Doom part where
Speaker 3: you're on Mars. I said Doom first. I'm sorry the
Speaker 3: first Yeah, yeah, not Doom. Doom Now, Doom is very Mars.
Speaker 4: I mean Doom the twenty sixty one feels more Marszie, right,
Speaker 4: if you you could play the original Doom and not
Speaker 4: really no, you're on Mars. Let's be clear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wa right, do play because it's a cool idea
Speaker 2: of like unleashing hell because you were digging for energy
Speaker 2: on Mars, like that idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the O G doo. Yeah dude, yeah, the original
Speaker 3: You're on Mars. Yeah for this episode at least. I mean,
Speaker 3: but but they're right, like they don't knock you over
Speaker 3: the head with that information. I feel like you're not Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: you would. You wouldn't know, you wouldn't know.
Speaker 1: Look at us learning things.
Speaker 3: It's incredible. What was the fourth game for this mount Rushmore?
Speaker 3: I can't think of anything. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe this one. I guess it might just be this one.
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, maybe it's this one.
Speaker 1: There you go, Mars First Logistics.
Speaker 3: Biker mice from Mars the Game folks.
Speaker 1: Oh, that about does it for the first segment of
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Speaker 3: This is Jeff Grab with Jeff Crabb. Yes, it is hello,
Speaker 3: I have news. Let's uh, let's.
Speaker 2: Do something different. Just go in the order that I
Speaker 2: wrote it here. Nintendo Switch two's phenomenal launch continues as
Speaker 2: it clears ten million more than PS four and PS
Speaker 2: five the Nintendo switched and that's like. As of this point,
Speaker 2: I should say, the switch to has had a record
Speaker 2: big breaking launch, selling ten point three six million units
Speaker 2: by the end of September, surpassing the launch sales of
Speaker 2: the original Switch PS four and PS five. This led
Speaker 2: Nintendo to raise its hardware forecast for the business year
Speaker 2: to nineteen million units and its operating profit by fifteen
Speaker 2: percent to two point four billion. The America's accounted for
Speaker 2: thirty five percent of Switch to sales and Japan or
Speaker 2: twenty two point six percent. That's three point six eight
Speaker 2: and two point three five million, respectively, despite stock straits
Speaker 2: in Japan that continue continues to still very well there.
Speaker 2: This is, you know, probably worth pointing out the like
Speaker 2: the Switch two has been readily available and something like
Speaker 2: the PS five was hardware constrained, but you still have
Speaker 2: to sell these things when you put them out, and
Speaker 2: it is doing just about as well as it could be.
Speaker 2: I think the way to look at this is it
Speaker 2: has certainly continued the momentum that the Switch one built.
Speaker 2: It didn't miss a step, and it seems, you know,
Speaker 2: for all intents and purposes like it is going to
Speaker 2: do very well as long as it can maintain this rate.
Speaker 2: That's still there's still questions there, but early on people
Speaker 2: were wondering, hey, higher prices, all this other stuff. These
Speaker 2: numbers continue to say that doesn't matter, and people are
Speaker 2: showing up for.
Speaker 3: The switch to right.
Speaker 4: You know, so far, the console itself hasn't had to
Speaker 4: you know, there's the initial high price, but they haven't
Speaker 4: raised it yet, even though they were flirting with that.
Speaker 4: I know for a lot of people it's like, oh, this,
Speaker 4: you know, first year of software is as good as
Speaker 4: the switch ones. Well, sure, almost nothing is, but just
Speaker 4: looking at itself, I mean, you know, Mario Kart World.
Speaker 4: I know, like there's some people like, oh, I know
Speaker 4: this is good, but it's still a good game, and
Speaker 4: it's a Mario card bonanza. It's fantastic. Some of these
Speaker 4: switch To editions have been fun Pokemon Legendsza. I know
Speaker 4: that's on the you know, the switch one, but for me,
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people that's a switch To game.
Speaker 4: It's a ton of fun there, and there's just been
Speaker 4: you know, I think they've been benefiting so much from
Speaker 4: a lot of these heavy hitting andy games coming out
Speaker 4: in this launch window, like Soak Song and like Haiti
Speaker 4: Su and even I think Ballpit I heard is very
Speaker 4: good on a switch To. Like you know, I've been
Speaker 4: playing my switch To NonStop. I've been feeling very good
Speaker 4: about it. Yeah, and not a spoil a story. We're
Speaker 4: gonna get to you later.
Speaker 1: But Animal Crossing is looming in the background, and I
Speaker 1: could see folks wanting to pick up a switch To
Speaker 1: before it gets like super insane or maybe more challenging
Speaker 1: to get one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like they could go up. Yeah, I actually don't understand.
Speaker 3: I don't get it. I don't understand. Why don't I
Speaker 3: don't understand. This thing costs so much more than it
Speaker 3: rightfully should. There's nothing really to play on it.
Speaker 4: Oh there's nothing to bonanza so good.
Speaker 3: That's not true anymore as much as it was at launch.
Speaker 3: It's just a lot of money. I just thought people
Speaker 3: have no money. I was under the assumption no one
Speaker 3: had any money, and I don't. I think there's something
Speaker 3: that's still not squaring about this.
Speaker 4: I mean, my point of view, the price of this
Speaker 4: thing is looking pretty good compared to an eight hundred
Speaker 4: dollars PlayStation five Pro or whatever, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess, but not compared to like a
Speaker 3: Steam Deck. I mean, I realized it's it's the it's
Speaker 3: not they're Nintendo games. You can't play them anywhere else.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 1: I think with a Steam Deck, for as popular as
Speaker 1: they've become, even with the normies out there, there is
Speaker 1: still that added layer of like, oh, it's a PC,
Speaker 1: I'm playing PC games. I'm still kind of intimidated by
Speaker 1: versus like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's the momentum of like having the switch already
Speaker 2: and probably having a lot of games for it, and
Speaker 2: this thing playing it better, so like there's.
Speaker 3: Better than the first switch. Well that so that is
Speaker 3: almost exclusively because this is.
Speaker 2: More readily available. Yes, the supply is better. Switch one
Speaker 2: probably would have done equal to this, But I think
Speaker 2: they're I think that that this system is the first
Speaker 2: one really ever to kind of hit what is possible
Speaker 2: if you have unlimited supply. This is about as fast
Speaker 2: as you could sell if you're one of these devices
Speaker 2: at this price, So you know it's it's going to
Speaker 2: continue to do fine. I think it's just gonna probably
Speaker 2: pick up pace because, as you said back, the case
Speaker 2: is not wasn't great for it early on, but all
Speaker 2: the people that don't care or recognize that they're getting
Speaker 2: it now will be worth it because they'll have it
Speaker 2: for Bonanza and Mario Kart, and then they'll already have
Speaker 2: the device when all these other games come along.
Speaker 3: Well, all those other games are coming, and that probably
Speaker 3: will win a lot of people over. I do wonder
Speaker 3: if Animal cross.
Speaker 2: Seeing getting an update won't move the needle as much
Speaker 2: as I would expect an Animal Crossing thing to do,
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe, well, we'll talk about that in a moment.
Speaker 4: Do you think there are a large amount of people
Speaker 4: who are like, I want to get this out because
Speaker 4: I do worry the price is gonna go up.
Speaker 3: I think that's a measurable number.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a fair number of folk. Yep,
Speaker 1: that may be in tune with the world.
Speaker 2: I think it's hard to think that way for the
Speaker 2: vast majority of people because it's so unpredictable. Although I
Speaker 2: think it's becoming more predictable that prices will go up,
Speaker 2: like every day there's a new reason why it might
Speaker 2: go up. And sure, I think the last update on
Speaker 2: tariffs is that we are back to the original status quo,
Speaker 2: like before what what do you fucking call it? Liberation day?
Speaker 2: Before Liberation Day? Tariffs? Like, so we're back to that point.
Speaker 2: So all those companies that moved production to Vietnam to
Speaker 2: avoid Chinese tariffs are like, well, shit, I guess we
Speaker 2: shouldn't have done that. So does that mean prices will
Speaker 2: go back down?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Now, SSDs and memory is gonna get way more expensive.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say SSTs rams gonna get more expensive, and
Speaker 2: that's just going to keep causing all these things to
Speaker 2: go up in price over and over again.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Think that the early adopters were always going to show up.
Speaker 2: I think it still is a test this holiday to
Speaker 2: see what happens next for this thing. See if the
Speaker 2: families show up for it at this price.
Speaker 4: Wait till Kirby air Riders comes out. Your son of
Speaker 4: a bitch, that's gonna You're right, it's gonna go wild
Speaker 4: three times as much as they already done.
Speaker 1: Mike, say, bitch the cool way.
Speaker 2: Its lawsuit to get slayered. He kept streaming pirated Switch
Speaker 2: games and taunted, I could do this all day, beauch.
Speaker 3: I think it's what he said, let go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it did not go great for him. I think
Speaker 2: it would have been better if it was you, Mike.
Speaker 2: Nintendo has won a lawsuit against streamer Jesse Keegan letsa
Speaker 2: say Keegan, also known as every Game Guru, who illegally
Speaker 2: streamed pirated Nintendo games before the release. Keegan had streamed
Speaker 2: at least ten leaked Nintendo games over fifty times since
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, including Mario Luigi Brothership, which is the
Speaker 2: one that Nintendo focused on. Basically, they won a case
Speaker 2: at court where this guy, now, oh seventeen five hundred
Speaker 2: Nintendo was even like, we could have asked for a
Speaker 2: lot more, but we're just gonna ask for the latest infringement,
Speaker 2: which was Mario and Luigi Brothership.
Speaker 3: This guy really.
Speaker 2: Taunted Nintendo and was saying things like You'll never be
Speaker 2: able to take me down because I have a thousand
Speaker 2: burner accounts on Twitch, So if you take me down,
Speaker 2: I'll just come back and do it again. He also said,
Speaker 2: you don't know about me. You might run a corporation,
Speaker 2: but I quote run the streets.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Wow, my god. You know what this
Speaker 3: folk heroes out there. You know, I'm live in for
Speaker 3: the rest of us.
Speaker 1: I haven't been on Nintendo's side lately with like a
Speaker 1: couple of their other tigious things, but you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm on their side of this one.
Speaker 3: It's just like the dumbest criminals, like the dumbest like,
Speaker 3: oh my god.
Speaker 2: These are they're they're warrior poets, just out there fighting
Speaker 2: for us, trying to show us how it's done.
Speaker 1: These guys who we have on the streets then fucked.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, the streets might be fucked. Actually getting
Speaker 3: off at seventeen to five doesn't sound so bad.
Speaker 2: Right, because a lot of others in similar situations. I
Speaker 2: guess this is like someone who was kind of an
Speaker 2: end user, although he was creating content, so that's a
Speaker 2: little bit different. Nintendo typically doesn't go after end users.
Speaker 2: They go after the distributors, these websites, these repositories. So
Speaker 2: those ones have been charged millions of dollars just one
Speaker 2: person who was.
Speaker 3: He's just annoying. He was just annoying, right, He.
Speaker 2: Was just annoying, and now his wages will be garnished
Speaker 2: for the rest of his life. He basically is a
Speaker 2: Nintendo Nintendo is a contractor. They just get his money,
Speaker 2: and so, yeah, this guy's not going to be in
Speaker 2: that situation. Animal Crusty New Horizons is getting that Nintendo
Speaker 2: Switch to Edition and a huge free update switch To Edition. Basically,
Speaker 2: it's tacking on a five dollars up up charge so
Speaker 2: you can get the new version, the switch to Edition
Speaker 2: complete with the game for sixty five dollars. It will
Speaker 2: it will have enhanced resolution, JOYCN two mouse controls, expanded
Speaker 2: online play for up to twelve players, and a megaphone
Speaker 2: item for in game communication where you can like, yell
Speaker 2: the name of one of your villagers and they'll be like,
Speaker 2: I'm over here.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It feels like that could just be a menu option too.
Speaker 2: And there's switch to camera support, so that's like the
Speaker 2: list of improvements. We've seen other games get those improvements
Speaker 2: for free, so this is.
Speaker 3: A little bit weird.
Speaker 2: But also five dollars feels like, well, they've charged more
Speaker 2: than that for others.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm in between on this.
Speaker 2: I guess I was a little bit excited to find
Speaker 2: out they are still doing stuff for that Animal Crossing game.
Speaker 3: Right though. And then there's the free update which adds
Speaker 3: a bunch of.
Speaker 4: Stuff yeah no, yeah, and you can go over that
Speaker 4: because I think that's the thing here. Is that really
Speaker 4: all the stuff that like the Animal Crossing heads that
Speaker 4: I know the people who aren't going to upgrade to
Speaker 4: a switch to until they need to because of Animal Crossing.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, even just I was talking to
Speaker 4: them out like a Halloween party, they're gonna be fine
Speaker 4: just with the switch one still because all the actual
Speaker 4: news stuff they care about is still coming to that
Speaker 4: version of the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the atendo knows that. So this to me,
Speaker 2: feels like an acknowledgement that maybe this team, who I
Speaker 2: believe is the Splatoon team, maybe they were prioritizing a
Speaker 2: Splatoon first because both of those franchises are super important at.
Speaker 3: Nintendo now, and they're like, let's get let's get.
Speaker 2: Splatoon out early and then we can wait on the
Speaker 2: next version of Animal Crossing. So they kind of flipped
Speaker 2: it should have been a new Animal Crossing first because
Speaker 2: that the most recently got Splittoon three from them. Yes,
Speaker 2: some of the things in this free update, this is
Speaker 2: version three point zero. It will be released for both
Speaker 2: the Switch and Switch to versions. It includes a new
Speaker 2: hotel run by Kapin and his family. Increased home storage
Speaker 2: so now you can have nine thousand items I think
Speaker 2: it was five thousand before. A new dream location called
Speaker 2: Slumber Island for creating multiple islands. You can like then
Speaker 2: like edit those islands, like where the waterfall is and
Speaker 2: stuff like that in a way that maybe you couldn't.
Speaker 4: Four.
Speaker 2: Let's see here new collaboration content with brands like Lego
Speaker 2: but also the Legend of Zelda. There's and like just
Speaker 2: generalized Nintendo stuff, and that includes if you're an NSO member,
Speaker 2: you could bring a retro console into your house and
Speaker 2: play old video games inside of Animal Crossing. I think
Speaker 2: they said it was like one game per console though,
Speaker 2: and I was like Ice Climbers for the nes So,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm trying to get my hopes up
Speaker 2: too much of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean that was really neat in the
Speaker 4: GameCube game.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad to have it back.
Speaker 4: It's it's a little different when I could just push
Speaker 4: the home menu and now go to my NSO thing
Speaker 4: and play.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but still it's neat having it in there.
Speaker 3: Boy, it's it's wild. I was pretty I was.
Speaker 4: I was pretty surprised by this because they haven't really
Speaker 4: updated this game much. When I was a giant hit,
Speaker 4: I assumed that it was just like, yeah, let's make
Speaker 4: the next one and maybe that'll be the big twenty
Speaker 4: twenty six game. Then you know, that'll be the flagship.
Speaker 4: So now getting this, I'm like, Okay, so I guess
Speaker 4: maybe we.
Speaker 3: Aren't getting Animal Crossing next year?
Speaker 4: Is that reading too much into it?
Speaker 3: I don't want to feel that way, But what is
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty six game? Because I'm still life baby.
Speaker 2: I guess yeah, it's all about that, right, Maybe they
Speaker 2: do already have Tomadacci life. That's a good point, and
Speaker 2: maybe they are thinking those overlap too much. I get
Speaker 2: the sense that this a lot of the stuff in
Speaker 2: here is probably updates that were always going to happen
Speaker 2: for when this was probably a switch pro and it
Speaker 2: was going to come out years ago, and then they
Speaker 2: delayed the switch pro and then ended up not doing it.
Speaker 2: They did a switch to instead. They're like, let's just
Speaker 2: save the animal crossing update for that first year. So
Speaker 2: I think a lot of this work could have been
Speaker 2: done for a while. Obviously they would have taken that
Speaker 2: time and done more to it to sort of specify
Speaker 2: it specifically for the switch TO. I guess what I'm
Speaker 2: getting at is there's a possibility that this work has
Speaker 2: been done for a minute and that they are also
Speaker 2: working on a new animal crossing that could come out
Speaker 2: as early as like early twenty twenty seven. So that's
Speaker 2: possibly hopium, but maybe that's the case.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, by the way, you see there's a new metroid
Speaker 4: prime Fortow that looks amazing, and I'm assuming everyone the
Speaker 4: internet is complaining about it or something.
Speaker 2: I definitely was like, I definitely glanced at the comments
Speaker 2: and being like, all right, what are they complaining about.
Speaker 2: I have not seen anything yet, But you're right, that
Speaker 2: does not mean that the gosh, it's it's a month.
Speaker 3: Wait today, like an hour ago, I'm seeing the trailer. Yeah, trailer, Mike,
Speaker 3: are you shaking?
Speaker 4: I'm going to be able to play a new Metro
Speaker 4: Prime in a month. I am so freaking excited. Looks
Speaker 4: so freaking good. Oh my god, this looks so I
Speaker 4: think it came out at the same time that Dick
Speaker 4: Cheney did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one door closes, that's how that. Huh, gosh, it
Speaker 3: just keeps on giving. The desert doesn't have as many
Speaker 3: things in it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like she goes through it in like two seconds.
Speaker 4: It's amazing and it looks super fun and gosh, the
Speaker 4: when when you shoot. She shoots out of this tunnel
Speaker 4: into the desert and it's the coolest looking tunnel I've
Speaker 4: ever seen. There's all these middle flappy things like, and
Speaker 4: she like shoots through. She doesn't cure a slide. There
Speaker 4: is so much do to this. Oh yeah, I cannot.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't like that on your SI bagel four bagels,
Speaker 3: let's go. I don't want you doing anything for bagels
Speaker 3: Metroid prime four at all.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want four bagel deep Mikey. All right,
Speaker 1: that's too.
Speaker 3: Much more bagel for bagel, Mikey.
Speaker 4: The beyond, I Metroit Prime four beyond is for beyond three.
Speaker 3: Bagels, that true prime four bagels. Listen, what you would
Speaker 3: you have rather have done? Ten bagels or one hundred nuggets?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: You know what I like. I think one hundred nugs
Speaker 3: and ten bagels are like kind of equal. That's what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. Ten bagels is a lot, a lot of bagels.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something.
Speaker 4: Fours a lot sounds like four nuggets, though I don't
Speaker 4: know how anyone does.
Speaker 3: The forty nuggets is a lot. I don't know how
Speaker 3: you guys did that. I still think about that. I
Speaker 3: still and then didn't Vinny say like his eyes vision
Speaker 3: got blurry?
Speaker 1: Yeah he stopped.
Speaker 3: Most body.
Speaker 1: Maybe I had started that earlier, I could have done
Speaker 1: one hundred in the one sitting versus like later when
Speaker 1: we did it, because like my my body just tunes
Speaker 1: off like eating sometimes.
Speaker 3: Can I get the red Lobster expert on the on
Speaker 3: the on the podcast right now to do some back
Speaker 3: of the napkin. Math and let me know how many
Speaker 3: cheddar Bay biscuits equals one hundred nuggets? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Are you accounting for the fast Wi Fi in the
Speaker 4: cold bruise?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: I am, okay, just making sure I'm going to one
Speaker 4: nugget equals I think three nuggets equals to cheddar babis.
Speaker 4: It would be my guest three nuggets.
Speaker 3: I thought it was. I thought it would be more.
Speaker 3: But that's fine, three nuggets, I think.
Speaker 4: So we're talking about thirty three cheddar baby, thirty three.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you I probably had, like at a Thanksgiving
Speaker 4: meal without thinking.
Speaker 3: I've had at least ten cheddar Bay biscuits. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say I've seen someone do twelve without even missing,
Speaker 3: not even realizing it. You'd be like, oh, I guess
Speaker 3: I done, did do a dozen of these?
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: The cheddar Bay's in me? Yeah, I would. That's the
Speaker 3: only competitive eating. Yeah, you're my cheddar Bay chedd Bay
Speaker 3: all day baby. You don't ever bring those up in
Speaker 3: all of your your shilling for this beautiful.
Speaker 4: I see cheddar Bay all day. Sometimes to say cheddar
Speaker 4: Bay all day supportant as the fast Wi Fi or
Speaker 4: the cold Bruise or the hot CEO.
Speaker 3: But I would take the Bay Biscuits over the fast
Speaker 3: Wi Fi any day of the week, twice on some
Speaker 3: I want to be clear, this makes me want to
Speaker 3: go to Red Lobster so bad. It's just get those biscuits.
Speaker 4: Every time we talk about we got to stop giving
Speaker 4: this juice away for free.
Speaker 3: You want to go to a crab boil now?
Speaker 4: Thigh is so fast.
Speaker 3: All the red Lobsters have closed near me though, there's only.
Speaker 4: We should not have jazz. I did see that one
Speaker 4: I was like, oh we saw that. We saw that
Speaker 4: Margaritaville that apparently is also hotel.
Speaker 3: Having its own bar of god.
Speaker 1: Vitelly just like blew my mind when he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: like people do will do a bar crawl at the.
Speaker 2: Markaville hotel bar crawl from floor to floor. You said
Speaker 2: people do that. We are going to do that one day.
Speaker 4: I want to be clear. Elevator every time, what.
Speaker 3: If we got what if we started the top and
Speaker 3: go down? Can It's fun? It's like a ride.
Speaker 1: No, we should We should just roll dice to see
Speaker 1: which floor we have to go to.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, if if we went to that Red Lobster
Speaker 3: in Times Square. I just don't know how I could
Speaker 3: have ever forgiven any of you. I just like we
Speaker 3: get well on that New York he was great, very thankful.
Speaker 3: Shouts out to the homies that helped us out. And
Speaker 3: we just complaining about the WiFi. Though. Can I tell
Speaker 3: you something that would that might make you upset? And
Speaker 3: this is only going to play for us if it
Speaker 3: needs to be on the podcast, so be it.
Speaker 1: I got a text back.
Speaker 3: Oh oh okay, okay, Well maybe I'm just maybe I'm
Speaker 3: a ghost. Maybe that's where it is. Maybe I have
Speaker 3: been sixth sensed and had no idea. Well this be
Speaker 3: Will this be a thread on the video? Some people
Speaker 3: will eventually get out of this. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 3: you should do that though. Yeah, okay, let's make it
Speaker 3: sure anyway, folks, how about it? Anyway?
Speaker 2: The US Patent Office is going to re examine Nintendo's
Speaker 2: patent on summoning characters and make them battle. It seems
Speaker 2: like people raised enough of a stink that this relatively
Speaker 2: rare thing of the USPTO looking at one that they
Speaker 2: approved and re examining it is going to take place.
Speaker 2: So what the next steps here are I don't know,
Speaker 2: but I guess that there's a chance that Nintendo could
Speaker 2: lose this, not that they were ever going to be
Speaker 2: able to like wield it in a broad way, although
Speaker 2: you know, if you have it, you could sue anyone
Speaker 2: and claim this is your basis and then it has
Speaker 2: to go to court and that could cause costs for people.
Speaker 2: So they could have still weaponized it. So maybe it's
Speaker 2: a good thing that there's a chance the USPTO will
Speaker 2: make them think twice before doing that. Nintendo is releasing
Speaker 2: a Zelda Breath of the Wild vinyl box set less
Speaker 2: engaged demand for physical soundtracks.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's thirty four tracks for the double LP, that's
Speaker 2: fifty dollars. There's an eight LP set with one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty tracks for one hundred and ninety five dollars.
Speaker 2: This releases a test case for Nintendo, according to Bill Trennan,
Speaker 2: vice president of Player and Product Experience, to gauge demand
Speaker 2: for physical soundtracks in the US and to bring video
Speaker 2: game music to a broader audience. Trennon also mentioned the
Speaker 2: Nintendo Music app blah blah blah. This is weird because
Speaker 2: Nintendo has not really ever done this. There's Pokemon. Pokemon
Speaker 2: has had some.
Speaker 3: Soundtracks at least here separate enough, right.
Speaker 2: It's separate enough that, like, you know, although maybe it's
Speaker 2: not separate, maybe the good experiences over there translate because
Speaker 2: Nintendo's involved in the business side of the Pokemon company,
Speaker 2: so maybe they heard good things and it set their
Speaker 2: mind a mind at ease. I have always been curious
Speaker 2: why Nintendo hasn't done this. It felt like a like
Speaker 2: easy merchandising. I assumed it was them being concerned about
Speaker 2: some of the laws around if you release music physically
Speaker 2: in America, then you become open to some rules about
Speaker 2: being able to have your music covered illegally. Who That
Speaker 2: was always speculation. This should kind of be a good
Speaker 2: opportunity for people to be like, yeah, we really want this,
Speaker 2: and maybe Nintendo will start doing a lot more of it.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Mike, what do you think Nintendo music
Speaker 2: fan vinyl record?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's gonna be lucrative enough for them, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, you know you sell calendars, right, like, why
Speaker 4: not also do these vinyl things. They're very they are trendy,
Speaker 4: and they're fun because they almost more so than a
Speaker 4: thing to play music. They're collectible, they look nice, they
Speaker 4: have great art. It's just neat to own these things. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think this is going to do well. I'm just
Speaker 4: going to be a lot more of them, even though
Speaker 4: like a Breath of the Wild one doesn't necessarily do a.
Speaker 3: Ton for me.
Speaker 4: I like that game's music in the game, it's not
Speaker 4: necessarily something aside from that one trailer track, right, that's
Speaker 4: not even in the game. It's not music that I'm
Speaker 4: seeking out outside of the game constantly, you know. I like,
Speaker 4: I bought a bunch of like kind of like third
Speaker 4: party unofficial Nintendo vinyls constantly because they look cool and
Speaker 4: the music is amazing, and that.
Speaker 2: What happens Awakening CD set from Japan, because they sell
Speaker 2: these things in Japan, you haven't brought them here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I would happily give that money to Nintendo
Speaker 4: instead if they just you know, put the effort in
Speaker 4: and make you know, And I hope they do, and
Speaker 4: I hope they like go back. Hope it's not just
Speaker 4: for their most recent biggest hits. I want them to
Speaker 4: give me a star Tropics vinyls things like that, right.
Speaker 1: Have they have?
Speaker 3: I imagining Splatoon being on vinyl before.
Speaker 2: It might have been, it would have been just in Japan.
Speaker 2: Well not maybe not just in Japan, but certainly not
Speaker 2: in America or the West broadly.
Speaker 1: Spell it makes sense.
Speaker 3: You can just see them doing the fun color stuff
Speaker 3: with the line all right, yeah, yeah, definitely. I do
Speaker 3: think it's much more of a collectibles kind of thing, sure,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, like, uh yeah, I feel
Speaker 3: like starting with the vinyls yeah to me, like that
Speaker 3: is the thing that has transcended, like the fun function yeah,
Speaker 3: and more the display, you know, charm of it all.
Speaker 3: It's all I mean.
Speaker 4: Jeff got me a record player a few years ago
Speaker 4: with my birthday, and I just dove very deep into vinyl.
Speaker 3: Do you do it a lot? Do you play vinyl
Speaker 3: a lot?
Speaker 4: I don't play vinyl lot. I do sometimes, but like
Speaker 4: you know, definitely not a lot. Definitely not have to
Speaker 4: justify the money I have spent on the records themselves.
Speaker 4: But actually it feels good.
Speaker 3: It's fun. They do look nice.
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 4: I like having this great box of my records and
Speaker 4: you know, it's everything from some weird Jimmy Buffett thing
Speaker 4: I saw I found a cheap too, you know, the
Speaker 4: soundtrack the Star Fox sixty four and then some weird
Speaker 4: out things of iron made in It's just like this
Speaker 4: is this is me at a box.
Speaker 3: I like that? Okay cool. Uh.
Speaker 2: Digital ownership must be respected, says the UK Parliament as
Speaker 2: it debates to Stop Killing Games campaign.
Speaker 3: Uh. Really there was a sum back and forth here.
Speaker 2: At the point is is that this is actually being
Speaker 2: discussed by people who have their hands on the leave
Speaker 2: of powers in some of these major markets, and like
Speaker 2: the specifics are still being argued. There's one side that's
Speaker 2: certainly like, hey, to do anything about this, we would
Speaker 2: have to change consumer laws and we really don't want
Speaker 2: to have to dive into that. A lot of people
Speaker 2: arguing that the current consumer laws don't do enough to
Speaker 2: protect people who spend money on a product that could
Speaker 2: be taken away from them if these companies do not
Speaker 2: adequately do the work to ensure that a game is
Speaker 2: playable after the servers go offline. All that stuff not settled,
Speaker 2: and if anything, it seems like the government doesn't seem
Speaker 2: like it's going to budge on these specifics. I think
Speaker 2: what is happening here though, is certainly these companies have
Speaker 2: got to be worried that it's even gotten this far
Speaker 2: to the point where the UK Parliament is discussing it
Speaker 2: openly publicly as a matter of public debate, and there's
Speaker 2: a strong chance that this will just force these companies
Speaker 2: to realize, oh, the money we were spending to do
Speaker 2: this is actually worth it because it avoids regulation forcing
Speaker 2: us to do even more that we wouldn't want to do.
Speaker 2: So let's just kind of step up our game a
Speaker 2: little bit. We've already seen Ubisoft bring uh. I think
Speaker 2: The Crew or The Crew two, one of those games
Speaker 2: got updated to have a little bit more of an
Speaker 2: offline mode.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And that seems to be it seems to have been
Speaker 2: a direct response to this, So some just get a
Speaker 2: little loud and you might be able to see some
Speaker 2: improvements to the way that this world works.
Speaker 3: Uh. And I think that's some good news there.
Speaker 1: Hey. Also, if you're in America, fucking go vote.
Speaker 3: Yeah you can vote today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah that I'm allowed to vote in the New
Speaker 4: York election.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, you're just there're allowed. Yeah. Listen, you tell
Speaker 3: them you had three bagels. They will probably insist that
Speaker 3: you that you vote. Yeah, every didn't vote while you
Speaker 3: were there?
Speaker 2: What the it's right, what the heck your ballot was
Speaker 2: in the bagel.
Speaker 3: It's all good.
Speaker 4: Ballot back Clark, Can I move over there and open
Speaker 4: up a bagel place called Bagel Ballot. We'll have like
Speaker 4: the hanging Chad will be our signature bagel.
Speaker 3: Oh man, hot res. I just I just like a
Speaker 3: like a like a voting themed bagel story.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a pizza come out, come out that voting. It'll
Speaker 4: be fun, deconstructed like that back of art.
Speaker 3: It's not fair. So also, were you implying Mike that
Speaker 3: you're moving in with Baclar. That's the least of this
Speaker 3: stories problem. He said that Backlar is going to adopt him. Fine,
Speaker 3: we can. We can skip that part of it. That's
Speaker 3: the easiest to believe. The least believable part is that
Speaker 3: we're opening a bagel store that we are competing with
Speaker 3: every corner in New Jersey and New York. I have
Speaker 3: the hanging chad.
Speaker 4: What the hanging chad? Or our very special pizza bagel
Speaker 4: the dominion voting scandal, that's my favorite. That that's a
Speaker 4: hot ref to working the imagine imagine the lines on
Speaker 4: election day.
Speaker 3: Imagine imagining going out of business.
Speaker 1: And then Mike, you could also run a schmear campaign
Speaker 1: O a big way, jan Ship, Come I got one
Speaker 1: of those a week. Come on, wow, I feel like
Speaker 1: it was a million dollar joke.
Speaker 3: Mike Man, unacceptable that you didn't think of that first.
Speaker 3: Came every other way.
Speaker 4: Don't turn it into a negative on me.
Speaker 3: It's a positive for our business. You're like, oh, I
Speaker 3: have a voting voting themes bagels so busy.
Speaker 4: Try to get you to accept that. I could have
Speaker 4: been thinking of that myself.
Speaker 3: Man, Jim, thank you, I save the business. Don't worry.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep going. We already talked about the
Speaker 2: Simpsons in Fortnite, so we could skip that. Amazon's Lord
Speaker 2: of the Rings mmo has reportedly also been canceled. They
Speaker 2: were going to do a new MMO that this is
Speaker 2: a company that's already done other MMOs.
Speaker 3: Like New World.
Speaker 2: They seem to be less interested in this because it
Speaker 2: was going to still require a ton of work to
Speaker 2: get it across the end, and they had a lot
Speaker 2: of people working on games in general, and they are
Speaker 2: I don't know. It seems like to me they're losing
Speaker 2: interest in that also. I just don't Lord of the
Speaker 2: Rings feels like it's in a weird spot to be
Speaker 2: super investing in. I know that Amazon continues to do
Speaker 2: a TV show, They're probably going to do more stuff
Speaker 2: in the future, but I don't know, like it feels
Speaker 2: like a low tide for that to me. But Mike,
Speaker 2: you have your finger on the a little bit more.
Speaker 4: I mean, I was sa surprised because Amazon is retreating,
Speaker 4: I think, I mean, New World isn't going to stop
Speaker 4: getting updates.
Speaker 3: Even right, So that was their break quesh.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, is in a weird place right now. You know,
Speaker 4: we have those Hobbit movies. Sorry Jen, but for most
Speaker 4: people they didn't hit. That Amazon show was expensive and
Speaker 4: people watched it for a while.
Speaker 1: There was an anime movie recently too, right.
Speaker 4: No one cares, right, So, yeah, a lot of or whatever,
Speaker 4: a lot of it's just kind of happening. It's being
Speaker 4: thrown out there, and it's like, is any that's ever
Speaker 4: gonna hit? Like there's gonna be that Hunt for Golla
Speaker 4: movie and it's you know, it's like a lot of
Speaker 4: the original people are back. Yeah. I still don't know
Speaker 4: if I have anything from that, right, really, Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: a real thing that's happening. Let's because it is stupid
Speaker 4: because it's a real.
Speaker 3: Yeah movie, come on I watched it.
Speaker 2: I watched that show and I think I got like
Speaker 2: an episode and a half in and there wasn't a
Speaker 2: single time that anyone smiled, and it just like was
Speaker 2: so oppressive. I'm like, I get that, like we are
Speaker 2: maybe going away from snarky characters quite a bit, and
Speaker 2: that's what we're trying to get away from, but that
Speaker 2: Lord of the Rings shouldn't feel oppressive from the word go,
Speaker 2: Like there should be a moment where Hobbits are doing
Speaker 2: something stupid that I can enjoy, and there wasn't any
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 3: It is crazy, I mean, even to the same effect
Speaker 3: in some capacity like those two like Game of Thrones
Speaker 3: and Lord of the Rings. Is the speed in which
Speaker 3: they kind of fell off, Like that is kind of
Speaker 3: it is kind of wild.
Speaker 1: You know what astounds me though, is Game of Thrones,
Speaker 1: like the House of the Dragon. The new season's coming
Speaker 1: and they have another spin off in the works or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they.
Speaker 3: Keep making it, but like I know, like one person
Speaker 3: excited about it, But I'm that's the same for Star Wars,
Speaker 3: like they completed the main story and everything else doesn't
Speaker 3: feel like it matters as much.
Speaker 1: But while we're talking about all of these huge franchises
Speaker 1: and IP continuing to go and who the fuck cares y'all?
Speaker 3: The Walking Dead it's still happening. Yeah, Dariel Dixon is
Speaker 3: no longer in Paris, he's moved to Spain. He's in
Speaker 3: Spain with Carol.
Speaker 5: Now this guy, what, I'm just just becoming a space
Speaker 5: Oh that's wild, But you know, Lord of the Rings
Speaker 5: and video games have been that's been especially rough.
Speaker 4: Gallam is maybe the most famous bad video game of
Speaker 4: the last several years. That Shire game happened, and nobody
Speaker 4: like that. So all that and then yeah, Amazon like
Speaker 4: they fired like seventeen thousand people lot them from games.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's it's what always happens with these
Speaker 4: big tech people get involved in games. It makes a
Speaker 4: big push and put a lot of money into and
Speaker 4: then they just eventually retreat. In The MMO space is
Speaker 4: just also weird right now, especially if we're talking about
Speaker 4: that traditional hot bar style mm which World of Warcraft
Speaker 4: and from phasey fourteen seemed to just kind of have
Speaker 4: locked up for the most part. You can do maybe
Speaker 4: something new with survival mechanics, like that Dutent game.
Speaker 3: I've made sure to check back in on that. Are
Speaker 3: people still playing that dudent game? Is it still doing well?
Speaker 4: I don't know. There is a Lord of the Rings mmo.
Speaker 4: Now Low tro there's Low Tro and it is quote
Speaker 4: unquotably still going.
Speaker 3: But it is right, very old.
Speaker 4: It's never been updated quite as much as a World
Speaker 4: of Warcraft is. It has a very dedicated following of
Speaker 4: the people who that is their game, kind of like
Speaker 4: it's that Star Trek Online area too, right, there are
Speaker 4: these kind of games that that that is still.
Speaker 3: Is that still like blow EverQuest like in terms of
Speaker 3: the amount of players in engagement or are they probably around?
Speaker 4: I would I would guess certainly better than EverQuest too. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Lord Troch just got a new expansion. And the whole
Speaker 4: thing with Lord of the Rings online was always that
Speaker 4: it was concurrent to the game. So I don't know
Speaker 4: if they actually caught up to Frodo throwing the ring
Speaker 4: in the volcano. So I have no idea what they
Speaker 4: were thought the pitch was gonna be for this, it's
Speaker 4: new Lord of the Rings MMO.
Speaker 3: I am not shocked it's not happening.
Speaker 4: I don't think too many people ever had faith in
Speaker 4: it or are sad it's not going to be a thing.
Speaker 4: I love Lord of the Rings. I would love to
Speaker 4: see some exciting Lord of the Rings games and projects again.
Speaker 4: I'm also somebody's like, hey, I still have those movies.
Speaker 4: We got some neat games. I gotta go play Shadow
Speaker 4: of War. Still, I'll I'll just do that.
Speaker 3: What about Mike the Hobbits in Fortnite?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know they're gonna do that, but
Speaker 4: we're gonna definitely like.
Speaker 3: Give them a gun.
Speaker 4: They're gonna give Gandalf a gun at some point. That
Speaker 4: just makes sense to me and almost certainly.
Speaker 3: Hey, I just want to shoot Elijah Wood as a character. Okay,
Speaker 3: is y'all think Harry Potter and Fortnite's gonna happen? Yes,
Speaker 3: it sounds like it's going to huh.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's it. We don't have to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Jk Rowling.
Speaker 4: I think somebody were here. Somebody was saying when I
Speaker 4: was I could have sworn.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe I'm trying. I'm careful what I
Speaker 3: thought I heard that it's a rumor. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think it's supposed to happen soon, but yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: not tapped into that scene. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Last story here, Kojima says that if he'd known the
Speaker 2: Watshowskis wanted to him to make a matrix game, it
Speaker 2: could have happened. Hideo Kojima denies knowing about an offer
Speaker 2: from the Watshowskis to create a matrix game in nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety nine. That is what a former Konami vice president claimed,
Speaker 2: and that they also said Kojima was like there, but
Speaker 2: maybe he didn't quite realize what was happening, or it
Speaker 2: was a little bit early for Star Trex at that point. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe it was starstruck. I mean we do, like we
Speaker 2: know as a matter of this is that he's going
Speaker 2: to like connect with the Wachowskis now right, and we
Speaker 2: should like probably get scans of them in that machine
Speaker 2: any second, Like.
Speaker 4: Oh sure, like you know, I mean Kujuma was doing
Speaker 4: like Zone the Anders and Melger saw it too in
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety nine. I imagine I'm glad we got those things. Yeah,
Speaker 4: instead of him matrix game. I'm glad we got entered
Speaker 4: the matrix. It's not amazing, but I'm glad that game.
Speaker 4: It's not I remember having fun with it a big deal.
Speaker 4: They market the Crazy it was Path of Neo the
Speaker 4: MMO or was that the that's the sequel. And then
Speaker 4: there was the Matrix Online, which I think is the
Speaker 4: only place you ever got to see Morpheus's canonical death
Speaker 4: was as an in game event in the Matrix Online.
Speaker 3: If I'm all that.
Speaker 2: Stuff, seriously, they all look that like all that stuff
Speaker 2: is cannon and stuff like that. And then and then
Speaker 2: the final boss fight of was it enter the Matrix
Speaker 2: was not cannon or maybe this is Path in Neo
Speaker 2: and they're like, so the Wachowskis came on screen and
Speaker 2: we're like, hey, we're gonna break cannon, but we want
Speaker 2: you have a fun boss fight.
Speaker 3: So here you go. It's like, oh it's fun, Okay, cool, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a good time.
Speaker 1: I know that the Waowskis are listening because I'm just
Speaker 1: going to boldly claim that we are their favorite video
Speaker 1: game podcast. Just make another speed Racer movie. Please about
Speaker 1: that movie?
Speaker 3: Rule please speed Race.
Speaker 2: I think that's like the most recent, most timeless movie,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like it just feels like
Speaker 2: that could have been made at any point in history.
Speaker 2: It's just like swag it yeh, swag popping off the screen.
Speaker 3: All right, that's it.
Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety nine though, that's that's like before Kojimo was
Speaker 2: like like everyone, Dow, we watched.
Speaker 4: Lot of stuff before your solid that's right from your
Speaker 4: Solids that was like, yeah, I mean that would be
Speaker 4: like make Matrix one was ninety eight.
Speaker 3: I think you're right.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's like I feel like they're all too
Speaker 4: busy with other things to be worrying about collaborating already.
Speaker 4: You gotta you gotta make a bunch of sequels for
Speaker 4: the next decade or so. How fun was that?
Speaker 3: That does it for the news. I'm handing this show
Speaker 3: back over to you jan folks.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take another quick bricky break and we will
Speaker 1: be back with emails and YouTube super chats right after this.
Speaker 3: LORDA Creble's right, make a Ridge Racer movie? Do that?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm right on it.
Speaker 4: Not yeah, I mean yes, you go to that chair.
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Speaker 1: in five questions and I choose one of them. Travis Wright, sin,
Speaker 1: if you had no milk like substance available, what like
Speaker 1: would would be? Would best get the job done? For
Speaker 1: assembling a bowl of cereal? Travis and Fargo, so all
Speaker 1: to milks? Nothing like that?
Speaker 3: I would go with you, I'd go dry. Well, that's
Speaker 3: not the question. The question is like, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I think it's like fine as an answer to
Speaker 2: get us started. But then let's say you did have
Speaker 2: to put a liquid on there, Like would you be
Speaker 2: okay with water?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: No, No, I think something about that feels wrong? Would
Speaker 1: would did ice cream be too close to milk?
Speaker 3: Yeah? That's that's that's basically milk.
Speaker 2: People put beer in their cereal in movies and TV shows.
Speaker 2: They're not And I've never done that, but I wanted to.
Speaker 2: I feel like I should try because I bet it's
Speaker 2: better than I'm expecting. To me, it sounds it sounds
Speaker 2: repulsive to me.
Speaker 3: I coffee, maybe coffee. I think coffee. There's something to coffee,
Speaker 3: coffee everything. Let's go with coffee. Show me coffee.
Speaker 2: You get like one of those like breakfast cereals that's like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is a donut. It's like donut O's, and then
Speaker 2: you're stalking your donuts and coffee.
Speaker 3: Speaking of donuts, guys, we had too many donuts.
Speaker 4: It's good. We had two doughnut deliveries.
Speaker 3: Had main gear we had available to us was let
Speaker 3: me count five dozen donuts.
Speaker 4: What I'm sorry. I will not accept your indignation. There's
Speaker 4: no way you could have possibly not known we had donuts.
Speaker 3: There's donuts.
Speaker 1: There's percent possible because I was just flooded in nugs.
Speaker 3: That's striking. You're still deep in your in your nug comba.
Speaker 2: I think I was notified the donuts arrived. Did not
Speaker 2: realize it was all like that. They were like, they're there,
Speaker 2: went over to the room, found one. I had one
Speaker 2: donut and it was very good.
Speaker 3: Well, I felt so bad because Sean from Maingear, who
Speaker 3: helped design a lot of the art the packaging of
Speaker 3: like everything, brought in two dozen like, oh, I don't know,
Speaker 3: fourteen minutes after the Finelle donuts or and I was
Speaker 3: just like a donut buddy, I'm so sorry, And he's
Speaker 3: just like, uh, I'm like, ah well, someone only shout donuts.
Speaker 3: No shouts out to Brent though, and Brent's wife.
Speaker 1: Those chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 2: My god, you know what they do with the sea
Speaker 2: salt on top that hits so good?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, easy peasy, Oh my gosh. Can I
Speaker 3: just hang out there just to get like free snacks
Speaker 3: occasionally apparently like they've got days where where ship pops
Speaker 3: off and like some real serious pizza shows up.
Speaker 1: Damn if I have a pot, look here, it's just
Speaker 1: it's just me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a pot, you know what I mean? God?
Speaker 1: Okay. Alternatively, I would say yogurt for cereal. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I was thinking that to Jim. That's
Speaker 1: kind of milk. Is that kind of milk?
Speaker 3: It's kind of milk, it's kind of liquid. It's not
Speaker 3: really liquid. It's not really milk. It's a plasma.
Speaker 4: Plasma, do you guys do you guys hear her from
Speaker 4: Jim say plasma when you hear the word plasma plasma.
Speaker 1: No, I think, But now that you said it, I
Speaker 1: think of one of the Godzilla movies. I think Godzilla
Speaker 1: two thousand.
Speaker 3: Oh they, oh my god.
Speaker 4: They yeah, they think of a plasma blade Godzilla minus zero?
Speaker 3: Oh baby, I'm so fucking ready in ject that ship
Speaker 3: into my veins. Do you think coffee coffee? Are coffee?
Speaker 4: Jan Who's gonna be the other monster shows up in
Speaker 4: minus zero? You think they're going master? You think they're
Speaker 4: gonna go.
Speaker 3: Doora they can fill.
Speaker 1: They can't go to Gitara this fast.
Speaker 4: It's too soon. It's too super mecha Godzilla, but they
Speaker 4: might do. It's super mecha gods.
Speaker 3: You do Mecca.
Speaker 1: Godzilla And like World War I'm assuming it's like around
Speaker 1: World War Who's was like real like.
Speaker 3: The military industrial complex sort of style?
Speaker 1: Who is the.
Speaker 4: Only that's the giant enemy crab from Kenji to he
Speaker 4: was a burger store?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's the uh the pterodactyl?
Speaker 3: The bird that's Ralph Dan? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think I think ro Dan could be. That's a
Speaker 4: good villain. Just let's just finally get that Gamera crossover.
Speaker 1: For Love of God.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now's the time.
Speaker 1: You know what if I were to if I were
Speaker 1: to trust anyone, I would trust the Godzilla minus one
Speaker 1: team to introduce Ultra.
Speaker 3: Ye, I need to watch.
Speaker 4: We went to the there's like a anime figurine store
Speaker 4: in Time Square. We walked in and the one thing
Speaker 4: that I almost wanted to get was the Gamera figurine.
Speaker 4: That looked amazing. He was shooting lasers out of his mouth.
Speaker 4: Looks so freaking cool.
Speaker 3: Who's the When I had the machine in my house,
Speaker 3: there was I thought it was fake, but it was real.
Speaker 3: There's one that like eats smoke. There's there's he like
Speaker 3: sucks on like a tailpipe. He sucks on like okay,
Speaker 3: who is it? Yes, chat Chat had that. That's not me. Yes,
Speaker 3: literally sucking the smog out of like a plant. He
Speaker 3: looks like yeah, he looks like toxicity. Come to like
Speaker 3: this thing. This thing's fucked up.
Speaker 4: Like, do you have any room in your arm for
Speaker 4: like New God? Do you want to see them try
Speaker 4: to do something to you just want to play?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 2: I think they could do like one of each, right,
Speaker 2: like bring back a classic one in the movie and
Speaker 2: then introduce a new one and see what sticks.
Speaker 3: I'd be fine with that. Yeah, I love this ship.
Speaker 3: I got it's fine. Kind of love Godzilla. Yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 1: I love Godzilla god yeah, I I I would only
Speaker 1: want them to introduce Mathra. If Mathra is just a
Speaker 1: friend from the jump.
Speaker 4: You don't want to Matha might be bad. Maths gotta
Speaker 4: be chilly.
Speaker 3: Should be the Vegeta and like become good.
Speaker 1: I know Matha is more like a Boma.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I need to see like the original Mathra movie because
Speaker 4: apparently it's actually quite a banger. I like it even
Speaker 4: before Godzilla is involved. But I need to Yeah, Matha, Yeah,
Speaker 4: most of these.
Speaker 1: Most of those are available on Max the one to
Speaker 1: watch for HBO.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they also there's also like those free channels
Speaker 2: on two bees built into your TV, like two B's,
Speaker 2: the two B's of the World and Google TVs, and
Speaker 2: there's usually just like a Godzilla movie channel. These are
Speaker 2: just playing constantly, and I try to put put that
Speaker 2: on every once in a while.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 1: I really dislike where they went with like the New Godzilla,
Speaker 1: like the twenty fourteen series and how now it's just
Speaker 1: hope with Kong and I like Kong, but the terrible Yeah.
Speaker 4: I like the first con Godzilla movie. I did not
Speaker 4: see the second one.
Speaker 1: Just bad, just bad, and then it inspired that terrible
Speaker 1: video game that we subject to.
Speaker 3: One of our friends inspire.
Speaker 1: All right. Next email comes from Mike from Loveland. Hello,
Speaker 1: Bombus Grandees. The funniest name for a drink is cheer wine.
Speaker 1: It's named like root beer from an alternate reality. Your
Speaker 1: challenge is to cheer wine. Some video game names like
Speaker 1: Hit New Release, Conflict, Pasture six, Love the Show, Love
Speaker 1: You All.
Speaker 3: Mike from Loveland, punch Out should be called stereotype fight. Oh,
Speaker 3: stereo fight, that sounds I still like it. I like
Speaker 3: Stereotype Fight.
Speaker 1: The most. One of those is when people would get
Speaker 1: my dear friend Mois's taveris mixed up with Austin Walker
Speaker 1: on the Bombthon and then someone just called him Houston
Speaker 1: Runner and he's just gonna stick with me forever.
Speaker 3: Now there's Austin, Austin Locker and Houston Runner. Uh, there's
Speaker 3: our boys. I like exercise.
Speaker 2: You called NHL two k or yeah, you call that
Speaker 2: iced Knes Simulator twenty twenty six, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 4: I think like ballped is already doing it. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: straight respect to just do that right away. Mm hmmmm hmm.
Speaker 4: Monster Train is close, but not enough, because that is
Speaker 4: just what it is. Yeah, there's no there's no there's
Speaker 4: no cheer.
Speaker 3: It's just the one.
Speaker 2: Mario Brothers is also like this because it's like, that's
Speaker 2: already just Italian siblings, right, that's already the name of that,
Speaker 2: So Italian siblings.
Speaker 3: Italian siblings are right.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Moving along, Let's let's read.
Speaker 1: Two more emails. Mike from Long Island rights in I
Speaker 1: just remembered Oklahoma as a state. Any thoughts on Oklahoma ever?
Speaker 3: Been? Everything? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think the only time I ever think about Lahoma
Speaker 4: is when Jr. From wrestling was talking about it. Otherwise,
Speaker 4: not so much, I think, apparently because he's got some
Speaker 4: stuff I don't like.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry to say I'm not thinking about Oklahoma. But
Speaker 4: there's that musical.
Speaker 3: Right, Oh yeah, but are you thinking about that musical
Speaker 3: a lot, mikey or you know, you know me more
Speaker 3: than you might think that. For whatever reason, that play
Speaker 3: comes up as like a plot point a lot in
Speaker 3: like stuff. I think I agree. It's just sort of
Speaker 3: like it's like, oh that I was a Broadway version
Speaker 3: off version of I think.
Speaker 4: The climax of that movie is like a Citizen's Trial,
Speaker 4: and it's like frame, it's really weird. Great to think
Speaker 4: about the citizens Trial. When I just saw like a
Speaker 4: recording of it and it was got a Hugh Jackman
Speaker 4: was the lead in it, I'm like, Oh, he's nice
Speaker 4: in that.
Speaker 3: He's a nice guy.
Speaker 1: Loves to sing.
Speaker 3: Oh I do.
Speaker 2: I do think of the clubs Oklahoma Ceity bombing first,
Speaker 2: because that happened when I was like just kind of
Speaker 2: like starting to pay attention to the world and was like, Oh,
Speaker 2: this is this is possible. Our next first building and
Speaker 2: destroy that building.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one of the first bad news things. I can
Speaker 4: remember that and yeah, oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fertilizer does this What do you mean it's Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was a very strange event.
Speaker 3: Oklahoma is the pot state or the pan state. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a pan It's got a pan handle. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: sorry to handle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the one it's like right next to Texas in
Speaker 2: the flat part of Texas creates that handle.
Speaker 3: It's probably the state I think about the least. It's
Speaker 3: North Dakota or South Dakota. For me, I think about
Speaker 3: the least think about Fargo. I think about the hockey
Speaker 3: the lands. One of them has about Rushmore. We constantly
Speaker 3: are doing that. Uh By.
Speaker 2: Right when we were moving to Denver, stuff had to
Speaker 2: spend a couple of weeks, like doing some training in Tulsa.
Speaker 2: So she lived in Tulsa for about almost two months,
Speaker 2: so she has some experience there. But that's very Memorablesa's all.
Speaker 3: Right, fine, just that's the city motto. It's fine, It's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, folks, right in about a state or a region
Speaker 1: of the world that you barely think about that occasionally
Speaker 1: pops up in your head.
Speaker 3: Tell me more about Vermont. Vermont's amazing.
Speaker 1: Vermont.
Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, you're nuts. Yeah, you know Vermont is
Speaker 3: that you know about Bernard Sanders Okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I just I just associate him as just
Speaker 1: like this omnipotent being that I just want to he's
Speaker 1: that too.
Speaker 3: But he's also senator for Vermont. Yeah, Vermont's dope. There's everything.
Speaker 3: Apparently Vermont has the best. I think Vermont has the
Speaker 3: longest life expectancy in the country.
Speaker 4: Low bar, but yeah, I think I respect Vermont because
Speaker 4: it took a while for it to be a state,
Speaker 4: even though it was surrounded by states.
Speaker 3: I think like for a.
Speaker 4: While they're like, no, we're good, Like they just wanted
Speaker 4: to be a country. And I think eventually is like
Speaker 4: peer pressure got to them or something. I don't know,
Speaker 4: it's something like that.
Speaker 3: When did it become a state? Oh, I mean it's right.
Speaker 4: There, nineteen eighty one. That's pretty early actually, but like
Speaker 4: it was, you know, it's right there with everybody. It's
Speaker 4: right there with all the other right exactly. There's something
Speaker 4: about the moon. There's something about Vermont like holding on
Speaker 4: for a little bit in hell.
Speaker 2: Now it looks like the last of the original because
Speaker 2: that was a thirteen colony, right I believe. So, no, not,
Speaker 2: Vermont is not one of the third yet it's the
Speaker 2: fourteenth state.
Speaker 3: It wasn't. It was the first date at it.
Speaker 4: So there, yeah, that's it, even though it was like yeah,
Speaker 4: it's just right there with everybody else, I mean yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: and then.
Speaker 3: They're yeah yeah. There are five states that became states
Speaker 3: after the Nintendo Corporation started doing business. Well that was
Speaker 3: like eighteen ninety. That was eighteen ninety is yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: So I mean Alaska and Alaska and Hawaiian and Oklahoma
Speaker 3: wasn't a state till nineteen oh seven. Really is the
Speaker 3: forty sixth state? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, what is the state's part of the something? The
Speaker 2: states that's that your let's see Oklahoma territory in Indian territory.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not looking at the specifics. I'm
Speaker 3: just looking at a list. What are the four states
Speaker 3: after Oklahoma? Guys?
Speaker 4: Four states after ok Blahoma, Okay, the West Virginia split
Speaker 4: happened before that.
Speaker 2: For Wyoming, Wyoming is two before, it's forty four. Was
Speaker 2: New Mexico that is forty seventh, Mike right after Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: So then Arizona that's forty.
Speaker 4: Eight hey, okay, then in Alaska, Hawaii, and the last
Speaker 4: two were obvious, right yeah, last Hawaii, Yeah, yep, that's
Speaker 4: right around Maniacs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good job guy. You've had the freak Azoid theme
Speaker 3: song stuck in my head?
Speaker 1: Do you like the freak to I love Freakazoid. I
Speaker 1: think that's one of my favorite cartoons.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 2: Liked Freakazoid, and then as time went on, it was like,
Speaker 2: oh I like that way more than I.
Speaker 3: Really same thing, same thing. Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's why they only had two seasons because think all
Speaker 4: the kids didn't realize they liked it until it was canceled.
Speaker 3: No, I realized back then even then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, remember the villain with like that, His mart were
Speaker 1: always a kimbo.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that. His sidekick was
Speaker 4: just like that cop played by Ed Asner, who's just
Speaker 4: kind of like would show up like, Hey, you want
Speaker 4: to go to the fair?
Speaker 1: Do you want to go to the fair?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, check out.
Speaker 4: What's his name be? Bexter Baxter, Baxter Blackman. Their computer
Speaker 4: Ace was surfing on the Internet, then got zapped in zyberspace.
Speaker 4: He turned in to a freakazoid. He's strong and super quick.
Speaker 4: He drives the villain's crazy because he's a lunatic Dexter Douglas.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys, all right.
Speaker 1: Last email of the show comes from Jacob Jacob thank
Speaker 1: you for writing in, and Jacobs prepared a quiz for us.
Speaker 1: We also got another quiz, but I'm gonna save that
Speaker 1: one for next week, when I.
Speaker 2: Hope it's not what we're the last five states added
Speaker 2: to the United States.
Speaker 3: One such am.
Speaker 1: If you were to open a bagel themed restaurant. No,
Speaker 1: that's not what they're writing about you. The other quiz
Speaker 1: will save next week when Dan is back from assignment.
Speaker 1: But Jacob writes in as a fellow New Jersey resident
Speaker 1: to Jerff, I'm sure he is aware of the dumb
Speaker 1: names our neighboring states have. If he's on this week,
Speaker 1: please have Jeff answer last for these, particularly Pennsylvania. Here
Speaker 1: are groups of three town names, and you have to
Speaker 1: find the fake one. Have fun, all right? First set
Speaker 1: of three blue ball intercourse for play. Yeah, one of these.
Speaker 4: One of these is fake. I think there is an intercourse. No, Christian,
Speaker 4: I can't play arc raders with you. Yeah, Christian, clearly
Speaker 4: not listening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm play. I think four plays. The
Speaker 3: one that is not real? You are four play is fake? Hey? Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I'm just I'm just just ship here. I I
Speaker 3: have no no you answer last? What he said?
Speaker 1: Okay, got it?
Speaker 3: Next group of three big dump, bird in hand rough
Speaker 3: and ready.
Speaker 4: Oh, burd in hand almost for sure.
Speaker 3: Big.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say me too. Burdenhand sounds so much like one.
Speaker 2: I asked, what was the first one?
Speaker 3: Again?
Speaker 1: Big dump? Big? Big?
Speaker 4: I want big Dump's gotta be one. I think it's
Speaker 4: that third one again? What's the third one?
Speaker 3: Rough? And ready. I don't think there's ready. What do
Speaker 3: you think?
Speaker 1: Back theah?
Speaker 3: I agree, I don't think there's a rough and ready?
Speaker 1: All right? The fake one is big dump.
Speaker 3: We were right about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, alright. The next group of three, I don't know
Speaker 1: how to pronounce this. Oh, Li tits, Brown's hole, Okay, Virginville?
Speaker 1: Which of the three.
Speaker 3: Big for the brown hole? Is that what it said?
Speaker 3: Brown's hole seems right.
Speaker 4: I know Virginville is real because that's where you're from. Listener,
Speaker 4: that's a joke from a Celebrity Jeopardy. I don't know
Speaker 4: if there's really a latits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's real. There was the the petite something.
Speaker 4: I'll take a or something.
Speaker 3: That's different any show. I don't know if he ever
Speaker 3: said that. It feels real.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the tits might be real? And where are the
Speaker 4: other two?
Speaker 3: Again? Sorry, Brown's whole, brown holes, Brown's hole in Virginville.
Speaker 4: I feel like he got browns hold because he saw
Speaker 4: a naked gun recently. I bet Brownce hole is not real.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna between Virginville. I think that's yeah. You are.
Speaker 6: The the the brown Brown's hole, Virginville spectrum fill there.
Speaker 3: Somewhere, yep.
Speaker 1: I live right on the border. The answer for the
Speaker 1: fake town is Brown's hole.
Speaker 4: Go alright, I know it couldn't fill meet your brown hole,
Speaker 4: shouts out to all my virgins out there.
Speaker 1: All right, A couple more groups here. The next grouping
Speaker 1: is Normalville, Cake, Pillow.
Speaker 3: These are all very believable.
Speaker 4: I guess, like what you want to be over, I'm
Speaker 4: going with pillow.
Speaker 1: But like in New.
Speaker 3: Jersey, there's also so many like I don't know, I.
Speaker 4: Don't have to was the one again normal normal vill
Speaker 4: Like like, uh, like.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with normal Vill?
Speaker 4: Did anyone else wrote I like control? But anyone else
Speaker 4: rolled their eyes when she's like, I'm from a town
Speaker 4: called ordinary and it's like, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Bet nothing ordinary happens there? Of course.
Speaker 1: All right, your y'all's answer is pillow and normal.
Speaker 3: Ville, said normal Ville and Pillow, Pillow Backler Pillow.
Speaker 1: The answer is cake.
Speaker 3: Nobody Cake is pillow? P I L L O W?
Speaker 3: Or is there some like pillow like the pillow? Damn cake?
Speaker 4: I thought it would absolutely be a town day cake.
Speaker 1: I mean, of course there has to be a cake
Speaker 1: in though maybe not yeah, maybe not in Pennsylvania. All right,
Speaker 1: next one is next group is little Kansas, East Texas,
Speaker 1: Jersey Shore.
Speaker 3: Town in Pennsylvania called Jersey Shore. I don't know what
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do with myself.
Speaker 2: Although I say East Texas because I believe in beautiful
Speaker 2: things like Jersey Shore Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but although there could be a town I guess
Speaker 3: in the most eastern portion of Pennsylvania that would call
Speaker 3: itself Jersey Shore because it butts up against I guess
Speaker 3: New Jersey. So chaos is back on the menu.
Speaker 4: Boys, I feel like there might be a Jersey The
Speaker 4: idea of East Texas does sound really stupid.
Speaker 3: No, there's there's that kind of ship all over this
Speaker 3: dumb ass country. Sure, yeah, but this one there's like
Speaker 3: so many things that are so stupid. Yeah, I'm I
Speaker 3: yield my time here. I don't know I'm going to
Speaker 3: the ET. I'm going with ET East Texas. Okay, I'll
Speaker 3: get on that bammagon truck question. All of those are real.
Speaker 1: What the fow?
Speaker 3: I hate Pennsylvania more than I thought I could accept.
Speaker 4: Like the birds, it's not another thing we have in common. Uh, Jersey,
Speaker 4: Ohio is hating Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Pennsylvania is so unnecessary. I just it's long to
Speaker 3: drive through it. It's enormous and mostly forgettable. I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's funny because we have very different ideas of Pennsylvania,
Speaker 4: because the Pittsburgh side and the Philly side are so different.
Speaker 3: I do love Pittsburgh. I love the city of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: I will, Yeah, I do, I do. And you know what, Philly,
Speaker 3: for the most part, is pretty cool too. Yeah, I declared,
Speaker 3: I'm joking around, but no, I'm not. Everything else. Can
Speaker 3: we can just delete? Just delete Gettysburg?
Speaker 4: I get just driving go to Gettysburg would be interesting.
Speaker 1: That's what everyone is saying. I gotta go to Gettysburg.
Speaker 1: You need the address.
Speaker 4: Hang out with some union ghosts.
Speaker 1: All right, Uh, let's see former groups here, let's be through.
Speaker 1: Next group is Fauxville, Shartletsville, Lickdale.
Speaker 7: Lickdal, Shirtlessville is just come on the shirtless Ville or Shartlessville, Chartlesville.
Speaker 7: The thing was Shirtless's shortless and it's okay.
Speaker 3: Well that's money, it's all the money for p A.
Speaker 3: I think I need Charlesville.
Speaker 4: What was the last one, uh, Lickdale. I need Lickdale
Speaker 4: to exist by default, say that the first one wasn't real?
Speaker 4: Whatever that was.
Speaker 3: Now I'll go with I'll go to Lickdale. Why not back?
Speaker 3: Did you have any The fake one is Fauxville. That's
Speaker 3: the one the first I win, all right, Sylvania is
Speaker 3: getting me mad. The next group is Hazards Youth Climax.
Speaker 4: I bet there's a climax. H Hazards youth Pennsylvania sounds right?
Speaker 4: Actually had if.
Speaker 3: It sounds too rare, I'm going youth. I want there
Speaker 3: to be a hazard. The answer is youth. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to detect the pattern here in this game. Uh it's
Speaker 3: too late, but I am. I think are right. Next
Speaker 3: one is Natty Glow, Peach Bottom, down Dog, peach.
Speaker 6: Bottom, grow peaches is what my answer is.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say peach bottom. What's the other one? Down
Speaker 3: down Dog?
Speaker 4: I'll say don dog, peach Bottom. Wait wait, wait wait,
Speaker 4: none of the above, none of the above, none of
Speaker 4: the above.
Speaker 3: I'm going none of the above, Natty Glow.
Speaker 1: The answer is down Dog.
Speaker 3: I thought I figured them out.
Speaker 1: Two more here, second and last grouping is broad Top,
Speaker 1: Light Purple, Grimes, Grimes.
Speaker 3: I'm going with light purple. That's insane. Yeah, light purple.
Speaker 3: Love that, Oh my god, light I'll do the mikey thing.
Speaker 3: I'll say none of the above. For this one.
Speaker 1: The answer is light purple, wow.
Speaker 3: Is wild? Come alright? I thought beautiful.
Speaker 4: Somehow it was more unhinged than brown hole or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then this one is specifically uh you you may
Speaker 1: have the advantage here, mister backl are. Jacob brights In
Speaker 1: finishes off and one New Jersey one. So I'm not
Speaker 1: just ragging on p a Buttsville trash purgatory. Ah boy,
Speaker 1: is there really a trash New Jersey?
Speaker 4: There has to be, you know, you can change names,
Speaker 4: be proud of it.
Speaker 2: I'll go with Buttsville because I had that one. Of
Speaker 2: course there should be a Buttsville.
Speaker 3: I sy there's not.
Speaker 4: Out of sympathy. I'm gonna say trash.
Speaker 3: I don't know the answer. I hope it's trash.
Speaker 1: Trash is the correct answer. That'd be a bit much.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start trash New Jersey, trash town.
Speaker 4: I can see, I can see trash down. We take
Speaker 4: care of your trash and trash down, just trash, no way.
Speaker 1: I honestly could keep going, but don't want to eat
Speaker 1: up too much time. Thanks for all the last and
Speaker 1: congrats on independent love. Jacob P. From the Mountains of
Speaker 1: New Jersey and once again, folks, you and home can
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Speaker 3: We do.
Speaker 4: Just just you hear though, this is this is how
Speaker 4: I found out about Dick Cheney. Dine was in Big
Speaker 4: Crystory seven said heart goes out to grow today. Can't
Speaker 4: be easy to lose a fellow member of the Oops.
Speaker 4: I shot my friend in the face. Club stays straw.
Speaker 3: Up America and I'm so sad about it.
Speaker 4: Uh Alkavesha is off topic, but grub what were the
Speaker 4: PC specs used for the Outer Worlds? Too quick look
Speaker 4: love y all? Yeah, I know that quick Look looks
Speaker 4: a little chuggy. I don't remember it looking like that
Speaker 4: when you were playing.
Speaker 3: The I'm not sure it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something must have gone wrong with the captured and
Speaker 2: I'm sorry for not getting that fixed.
Speaker 4: It was like right after we before.
Speaker 3: It's right before we went out to the trip everyone,
Speaker 3: but I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're trying to do a last minute almost not
Speaker 2: a double check the settings, So yeah, don't. The PC
Speaker 2: specs were fine and it was running fine for us.
Speaker 2: When we were looking at.
Speaker 4: It, and then Chris Quinn says, is juiced fruit racing
Speaker 4: blight worthy? For a Mikey, I don't know much about
Speaker 4: that game. What the heck is that juice?
Speaker 3: Just that I think that's like a bad switch cart racer.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I think I might have it.
Speaker 1: They do much for that fruit seemed mm.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, yes, m m. You could racist, You could racist
Speaker 3: and apple in this game. Richard Scary worm?
Speaker 4: There there, Richard scary pinball board backalre, Nope, not yet.
Speaker 4: What can I be the fucking worm for Richard Scary
Speaker 4: and Fortnite?
Speaker 3: Give them a gun? I want to see Arthur from
Speaker 3: PBS with a gun.
Speaker 1: Arthur's about to be coming because they cut his funded
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right? Wow? Is that? Is that a sign
Speaker 3: for the All right?
Speaker 1: Thank you Mike for reading all of those super chats,
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Speaker 1: What do we got going on the rest of this week?
Speaker 3: Boys? We got gay Mess Mornings Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 1: Yes, Light Club tomorrow going to be ever so slightly
Speaker 1: earlier in the day.
Speaker 3: It is going to be out like right after game.
Speaker 3: Mess Mornings right after.
Speaker 1: Game Mess mornings Thursday. It looks like the dumb Truck
Speaker 1: is also going to be a tad early as well,
Speaker 1: just an hour earlier. And then for unprofessional Fridays, we
Speaker 1: have upf fox Hunt Fridays, and then I think we
Speaker 1: may have a special guest for that. Folks, keep your
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Speaker 1: We gotta get some things sorted out, so that may
Speaker 1: be up and down this week. But also if you
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Speaker 1: specific portion of the bombaiton. Hey, thanks to y'all for
Speaker 1: checking it out. I really appreciate it. I had, I
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I'm sill recovering.
Speaker 1: I'm not nod.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of penis in that dispatch game. I
Speaker 2: failed you, everybody. Yeah, there's the there's a really funny
Speaker 2: sensor mode where the black bar just has to hover
Speaker 2: all around the strings. The penis is just everywhere.
Speaker 3: It's great. Is it? Is it like human or is
Speaker 3: it aliens?
Speaker 2: Because it's like a superheroes like green skin penis. But
Speaker 2: I didn't see the penis.
Speaker 3: I'm just so this is not a DIB game.
Speaker 2: I think you went on the sensor bar like you'd
Speaker 2: have to see it and like be because it's like
Speaker 2: kind of funny at that point. But I think it
Speaker 2: I'm imagining is that is portent like a portense that. Uh,
Speaker 2: it probably deals with some spicier subject matters, so.
Speaker 4: I would say it's probably I've not seen it myself.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, you ignore my question? Is there other genitalia?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I was like, you mean other than penis? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 3: vaginas wow?
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, well all right, well you know up,
Speaker 8: what's he gonna be on dumb Truck Thursday?
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