Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Giant BombCast. It's June twenty fourth, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. I did this out of order, so welcome
Speaker 2: to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and ninety six.
Speaker 3: I am your hosts a.
Speaker 2: Little bit foggy mentally and in the weather that I'm having.
Speaker 2: Jan Ochoa joining me though co captain of the ship.
Speaker 2: His collars are pressed and clean.
Speaker 1: Jeff Crumb Audi, Hey, yeah, I started a new breathing
Speaker 1: technique to help with brain flogg You breathe less oxygen.
Speaker 1: It's for the birds. I don't need anymore.
Speaker 2: Speaking about birds. I would like a quick update on
Speaker 2: his birds situation.
Speaker 3: Dan Riker Uh. Paul, the guy who's like eighty and
Speaker 3: lives on my street, came and knocked on the door
Speaker 3: the other day and he's like, hey, I cut down
Speaker 3: a tree and your lawn, uh, because it's gonna help
Speaker 3: with airflow. And I think he asked me if I
Speaker 3: cut down the tree, and he was like, I don't
Speaker 3: know sure, And so he cut down a tree, is like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna cut it down. It'll help with like woodpeckers,
Speaker 3: it'll help with the airway. Between you and your neighbor.
Speaker 3: You just need to carry it down to the backyard
Speaker 3: once I'm done. And I just didn't want to talk
Speaker 3: about it, so I said, yeah, yeah, I'll do it,
Speaker 3: and I didn't. There's just a tree that's cut down
Speaker 3: and chopped up on the side of my house now,
Speaker 3: and I don't want to do anything with it.
Speaker 1: Sounds like you got worked.
Speaker 3: No, I'm fine with that tree up.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: It's the side of my house. I don't even ever see.
Speaker 3: It's on a huge hill. I don't go. I can't.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a tree shop pervert came to your house
Speaker 1: and made you deal with his mess.
Speaker 3: Yes, he lives down the street. He was just he does.
Speaker 1: Like trees live on every street in America.
Speaker 4: Dude, if someone came to my house and was like,
Speaker 4: I'm chopping down one of your trees, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna cut your legs off.
Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't even do whatever you need to do.
Speaker 3: I don't want to talk about this.
Speaker 2: Chops is a cut of meat, and we've got the
Speaker 2: most delicious cut of meat here. That's right, he's our
Speaker 2: own filet mignon. Jeff Beckler. Oh, that's very nice.
Speaker 4: Of you to say I love that cut of meat,
Speaker 4: even though I'm trying to slowly but surely eliminate red
Speaker 4: meat from my diet. I appreciate you giving me the
Speaker 4: best cut.
Speaker 2: Thank you. And last, but certainly not least, I didn't
Speaker 2: give him my second, my check question. So I think
Speaker 2: he's still a little bit perturbed with me. Uh So, instead,
Speaker 2: I'll give him this. He's not only the games media,
Speaker 2: but speing about meat. He's the mediest man in games media.
Speaker 2: He's the rarest of rare. That's right, he's just past blue.
Speaker 2: He's still believe in the the hemoglobin is stripping off
Speaker 2: of my like.
Speaker 5: All that red meat is bad for you stuff. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm sure that's true to a point, But is that maybe.
Speaker 1: It's empirically there's no debate for only chicken. It's like
Speaker 1: the like the one that's like slight turkeys Turkey was
Speaker 1: Turkey's actually yeah, listen, sure.
Speaker 4: Whatever, yeah, whatever you need to tell yourself. I mean,
Speaker 4: red meat is very bad for you.
Speaker 1: I don't know, okay, but you don't believe you're right.
Speaker 1: It's just the way that Americans eat. You're wrong like that.
Speaker 5: I could definitely see us eating so much red meat
Speaker 5: that it has.
Speaker 3: Definitely, I think I think that the short version I
Speaker 3: did just get back from Casey, so barbecue happened a lot.
Speaker 3: I had burnt ends, which is definitely red meat, and
Speaker 3: I had pulled pork, which I do again. This is
Speaker 3: this is a genuine question here.
Speaker 1: Three question.
Speaker 5: It's actually confusing Dan because there's a whole ad campaign
Speaker 5: calling it the other white meat.
Speaker 1: But apparently it's a lie. Maybe.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, commercial healthy pork's less healthy than like chicken
Speaker 3: and turkey, yorks?
Speaker 1: But more fat? Is that just because of fat content?
Speaker 1: It's just fattier pork.
Speaker 3: Rbably the issue makes sense, you know what.
Speaker 1: I don't know for sure. That might be what they
Speaker 1: were talking about at that time. And we know with
Speaker 1: like fat is not as bad for you as we
Speaker 1: once thought. It's hey, you know what, food still confuses me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's kind of disturbed me that everything
Speaker 2: I learned about the food pyramid maybe empirically wrong.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was also a lie.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was that was done by Big milk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Big milk and and the wheat farmers trying to get
Speaker 1: eat more bread. Yeah, and the corn people. You have
Speaker 1: some thing seventeen bowls of cereal a day, according to
Speaker 1: this irregular I don't I don't want anyone to like
Speaker 1: leave this podcast thinking pork is somehow white meat.
Speaker 4: We cannot allow that to be said. It is most
Speaker 4: certainly not sure.
Speaker 2: What do you think are the odds someone listened to
Speaker 2: GB at night and thought maybe I'll try a silica pack.
Speaker 3: I think stand by it. I am not going to
Speaker 3: back down on that. I am right about that. I
Speaker 3: am objectively right, and I did not suggest anyone eat one.
Speaker 5: Okay, what's the benefit of eating one?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 3: It's just so don trivia thing that you can't eat them.
Speaker 3: I've ever eaten one. I'm not curious about paper. You
Speaker 3: should Why would you? But you can and you'll be fine.
Speaker 1: You could eat a lot of things that aren't food
Speaker 1: that won't kill you.
Speaker 2: Know.
Speaker 1: The point is stupid.
Speaker 3: But the interesting thing is that everyone thinks that do
Speaker 3: not the thing that says do not eat all over it,
Speaker 3: and that's the one thing people know about it. You
Speaker 3: can just eat and it's fine.
Speaker 1: But that's right, What do you mean fine? Though?
Speaker 2: You know we're gonna stop this conversation right now.
Speaker 1: More likely because the tree Jesus.
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Speaker 2: just waving high?
Speaker 5: No, Jeff's Jeff's wife is on the camera giving him
Speaker 5: a donut.
Speaker 1: I'm waving. Get some donuts. Yeah, thank you. You got
Speaker 1: a cream field one. Yeah, the donkeys. Thanks best, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: The YouTube.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dan, if someone came to your door and was like, Hey,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna break all your windows, is that it right
Speaker 4: with you?
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that?
Speaker 5: No, that's different, Come on back along, come on, that's different.
Speaker 4: You realized in order for the first step in the
Speaker 4: experiment to work, you have to take the most extreme example.
Speaker 3: And the old that is super friendly and lives down
Speaker 3: the street and always does everyone's lawn stuff all the time,
Speaker 3: and it's very nice. I doubt he's trying to swindle
Speaker 3: me by cutting down a tree.
Speaker 4: Just okay, it's just not okay, it's just not okay.
Speaker 4: I don't like that he came to your house and
Speaker 4: was like, I'm cutting your tree down.
Speaker 3: I think he was doing a favor because they're selling
Speaker 3: the house next to mine, and he does a bunch
Speaker 3: of lawn and stuff for everyone. But he's doing no.
Speaker 3: He's a nice man. Paul is good. He's he likes
Speaker 3: talking a lot.
Speaker 1: God bless Paul. Paul.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Paul, I was in the Kansas City. I
Speaker 3: saw the dog thing. Remember my mystery dog.
Speaker 1: The dog that you were that you remembered from when
Speaker 1: you were a child and your dad.
Speaker 3: Remember I think we had my dad on a few
Speaker 3: years ago we never had a dog. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we had a dog named Ringo. I distinctly remember when
Speaker 3: I was a child we had a dog named Ringo.
Speaker 3: He's like, we never had a dog. I've never once
Speaker 3: had a dog. We did fucking have a dog. I
Speaker 3: was right, he was wrong. I was at the lake
Speaker 3: with my mom my, dad, my mom's husband, my sister
Speaker 3: is all at my niece, and so we're sitting around
Speaker 3: and it came up and Mom's like, yeah, we had
Speaker 3: a dog named Ringo. And I was like, yes, holy shit,
Speaker 3: because remember I showed a picture and my face wasn't
Speaker 3: in it, and it was all like, oh, Dan made
Speaker 3: up this dog. No, I had a dog named Ringo,
Speaker 3: and the story behind it's just very weird and depressing.
Speaker 5: So basically my Crappa get I was like, it's.
Speaker 3: Dark and a weirder way in a more so Okay,
Speaker 3: my mom had a dog named Bo before Ringo when
Speaker 3: she got married to my dad, and she had had
Speaker 3: Bo for seven years and loved this little dog named Bo.
Speaker 3: Apparently Bo got out and ran away, and they went
Speaker 3: to the animal shelter found them, and my mom and
Speaker 3: my dad went to go pick up Bo, and my
Speaker 3: mom was like, oh, thank god, Bo's alive, both safe.
Speaker 3: But the animal shelter said, okay, well for the services
Speaker 3: and everything, you just get's eighty five dollars to take
Speaker 3: them home. And my dad wouldn't let her take her
Speaker 3: beloved dog home because he wanted to save eighty five dollars.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, so my mom secretly got Ringo because
Speaker 3: she went the dog and could not bring her beloved dog.
Speaker 1: Mike, this is worse than your grandfather. Shoot all the
Speaker 1: dogs you want. Come on, this is crazy, wouldn't my
Speaker 1: mom told the story?
Speaker 3: My dad laughed. Oh my god, my sister called him
Speaker 3: a monster to his face.
Speaker 4: Oh that's putting it lightly. I'm sorry, but that's really dark.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I told you, Yes, we joke about my dad's cheapness
Speaker 3: and stuff.
Speaker 5: But ooh, man came up really well in the last voice,
Speaker 5: bailed dump truck.
Speaker 4: Like his stock was on the up and up. And
Speaker 4: now that dropped this Paul lore. I feel like I
Speaker 4: hate him.
Speaker 3: Look, look, I tried for an accurate portrayal of my
Speaker 3: father and the good and bad.
Speaker 1: You know, Oh that's so gross, Paul the dude.
Speaker 5: But the way, So then your new dog was a
Speaker 5: secret from Paul the entirety.
Speaker 3: She got him just because like she loved dogs and
Speaker 3: one of the dog. But you know, Dad would never
Speaker 3: approve it because it costs money. Here's the here's I
Speaker 3: think the problem. I found that my dad, I don't
Speaker 3: think recognizes dogs or pets as a thing of value.
Speaker 3: Because even just last summer. He was here when Bok
Speaker 3: was out of town. I just had my surgery and
Speaker 3: my dad came up to kind of like, you know, nicely,
Speaker 3: came up to kind of watch every I was telling
Speaker 3: him to not leave the door open because the dogs
Speaker 3: were gonna run away, and he when he was out
Speaker 3: smoking and he's like, oh, it'll be fine if they
Speaker 3: run away. Just tell your wife that that you know,
Speaker 3: it is my fault. And it's like the problem isn't
Speaker 3: my wife's going to get mad at me? The problem
Speaker 3: is I would like to not lose my beloved dogs.
Speaker 3: I just don't think I think he thinks of them
Speaker 3: as like I don't know, like a CD that gets scratched,
Speaker 3: like you know, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah he does he see dogs, is he No, they're real.
Speaker 3: He he does not think about them or care about
Speaker 3: them or pets in general. He hates any time, like
Speaker 3: there was a dog in the lake maze and he
Speaker 3: just he's just angry anytime he's around dogs because they're
Speaker 3: an inconvenience and this is the.
Speaker 5: Thing that's gonna take Paul dal Chat is happy.
Speaker 1: I was back on board.
Speaker 4: I was back on board with Paul, and then I
Speaker 4: found out he thinks dogs are disposable, and I was like,
Speaker 4: and I was like, whoops, I gotta do it one ad. Uh,
Speaker 4: he's a broke that's broken. That's just broken thinking. Imagine
Speaker 4: leaving the shelter, saying goodbye to your dog, say goodbye. No, no,
Speaker 4: I'm not saying him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh that's that's horrific.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I did have a dog. My dad just forgot
Speaker 3: and so when he said I didn't have a dog,
Speaker 3: he was wrong. So yes, I did have Ringo. I
Speaker 3: don't know what happened to Ringo, but uh, yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't want to.
Speaker 1: Know what happened to Ringo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah, I'm okay.
Speaker 3: I don't know how we pivot out of that.
Speaker 1: I got to join everybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, oh back where you go? Ahead, you go first,
Speaker 5: you got something.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure you've been paying attention to the weather news.
Speaker 4: Uh, and you're aware everyone who's listening to this show
Speaker 4: that in the big, big portion of the United States
Speaker 4: is undergoing an incredible heat wave. The heat dome, the
Speaker 4: heat dome, if you, you know, get fucked summer people.
Speaker 4: This is what you asked for.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it is what you voted
Speaker 1: for this.
Speaker 4: Is what you voted for, and now it must summer. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you ranked Summer number one instead of Zoran like you
Speaker 4: should have. Anyway, my air conditioning is fine. I remember
Speaker 4: when I was getting my roof for place, someone was
Speaker 4: in the attic and they're like, hey, your air conditioning
Speaker 4: up in the attic has a tube that is disconnected,
Speaker 4: and maybe you want to like pop that bad boy
Speaker 4: on there a little tighter so that you're not losing
Speaker 4: any cool air as it circulates to your upstairs. So
Speaker 4: I like that happened like in February. I kind of
Speaker 4: forgot about it yesterday. It's one hundred and one degrees here,
Speaker 4: and then you start to realize that, like maybe the
Speaker 4: air could be better.
Speaker 1: So I went in my attic last night. I went
Speaker 1: in my attic.
Speaker 4: Must have been I don't know, ninety eight up there,
Speaker 4: and like, I don't know if you guys have been
Speaker 4: in a scary attic when it's sort of dusk.
Speaker 1: Did you ever do that?
Speaker 3: Have those here?
Speaker 1: You know? I have addicts.
Speaker 4: I instantly turned into like water, like my body immediately
Speaker 4: in that one X Men movie exactly.
Speaker 1: Uh. And then I went into the ocean.
Speaker 4: No like water automatically started coming out of my body
Speaker 4: to the point where like I was just up there.
Speaker 4: It's a it was a kind of heat that I
Speaker 4: could not understand and instantly out of my forehead just
Speaker 4: like water was just like like someone turned a faucet
Speaker 4: out of the center of my forehead.
Speaker 1: It was fucked. Man, don't do that. Bad time to
Speaker 1: go to an attic wheneber I hear about addicts.
Speaker 5: I just think about that treehouse of horror, horror, truss
Speaker 5: of terror I can have. I feel like it should
Speaker 5: be terror because like the r Yeah right, it's not.
Speaker 1: But I always just.
Speaker 3: Think of the bart evil in the.
Speaker 5: Attic yish heads.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I like that one. Uh hey, this is
Speaker 2: what it looks like outside my window.
Speaker 3: It's just that's beauty.
Speaker 4: You just took a picture of a cloud.
Speaker 3: That's really good.
Speaker 1: Just oh, is that fog? Yeah?
Speaker 3: It fog?
Speaker 5: Or is it's fog.
Speaker 1: It's San Francisco. It's fog.
Speaker 2: It's San Francisco Daily City.
Speaker 3: So it's fog. What's the name of the fog. It's
Speaker 3: got a name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got a whole name and everything, like yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, you can't name fog. Yeah, you clearly can
Speaker 1: it has a Twitter account? Wait the fog? Yeah, has
Speaker 1: a is alive.
Speaker 3: It's just got a name.
Speaker 1: It's got a name and has a Twitter account. I
Speaker 1: didn't say it was a live.
Speaker 5: Shout.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not worth eighty six dollars though, right.
Speaker 5: Everyone was posting their ten top movies from the century
Speaker 5: so far.
Speaker 1: I bet everyone would like it if I did that.
Speaker 1: I think like is a strong word.
Speaker 5: I real quick figure this out from Yeah.
Speaker 3: Let's century and do it for real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the last twenty five years.
Speaker 3: Hecky, it's the New York thing that everyone's doing. I
Speaker 3: did mine. Yeah, well he's setting it up. Well, do
Speaker 3: you have an account? You have to have an account
Speaker 3: to do it?
Speaker 5: I'm on here now. First off, National Treasure, what's happening.
Speaker 5: I think that's a fun movie. I think I agree
Speaker 5: with you. I agree with you. The best idea Joe's
Speaker 5: movie of this century is still easily.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the best uncharted movie too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, gosh, this is gonna be because I kind of
Speaker 5: gave up on movies halfway through this century so far.
Speaker 3: That's what I was thinking. Movies were two thousands.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, let's put let's not put all of them
Speaker 5: get Lord of the Rings. That the Fellowship of the
Speaker 5: Ring in there for sure.
Speaker 1: That actually is the best one. Glad you like that
Speaker 1: one the best?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's Disney the Disney things? Coco for sure. Coco
Speaker 5: is phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Coco's if it was like any of the Pixar Disney ones,
Speaker 2: I think i'd put up.
Speaker 5: Is from This Century, sos Wally.
Speaker 3: Is really good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I might do those three like toy stories you
Speaker 5: could get in there too. God, it's kind of Pixar heavy,
Speaker 5: like Disney was doing some good stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Good here, Mike, Mike, I'll read my ten and tell
Speaker 3: me if any of these would be on yours. Okay,
Speaker 3: I got The Raid, Uncut, Gems, The Wrestler, The Dark,
Speaker 3: Night Walk, Hard Mission Impossible, Fallout, Annihilation, there will be Blood,
Speaker 3: Creed and mcgruber.
Speaker 2: Well, I think I'd put Creed in mine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, learning how many movies are made in the nineties.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, yeah, I like I like watching a group
Speaker 5: with you. I don't know if I put.
Speaker 1: It no, of course not, of course not. It's like
Speaker 1: in my top twenty five for sure.
Speaker 3: Grebo was your top ten.
Speaker 1: It's wet, hot American Summer Before Sunset, Children of Men,
Speaker 1: The Social Network, Moneyball, everybody wants some three exclamation, Yes,
Speaker 1: I love it. I love that movie too. Man, It's
Speaker 1: so good and people under rated star like it's not
Speaker 1: about anything, and I'm like, you're actually a dumb person.
Speaker 1: First Man Oppenheimer, Black Klansman, and Boyhood, which I.
Speaker 5: Know I do. I don't like that might be a
Speaker 5: me thanking spirit You're not.
Speaker 1: I've heard that before. The Spirited Away is the one.
Speaker 1: I'm like, really debated.
Speaker 5: Put In has to be on there. Moneyball is a
Speaker 5: good pick. Actually, I do like Moneys.
Speaker 1: The one is like the actually actual movie I watch
Speaker 1: every time I see it. If it's on g if
Speaker 1: it's that something's ass at a bar, I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go watch Money.
Speaker 5: Moneyball, and Ford Versus Ferrari the dad movies of the century.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, bub I'm kind of surprised you didn't put Interstellar.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I was like right there with Interstellar. I
Speaker 1: like Interstellar a lot, but that one's something about that
Speaker 1: is almost a guilty pleasure. I don't know. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't really know how to describe it. I love Interstellar, though.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try and do mine real quick, Mike, Well,
Speaker 2: you've I.
Speaker 5: Try to do any of the superhero ones. There definitely
Speaker 5: were something I liked a lot. I liked Batman Begins
Speaker 5: a lot. Actually, I like really good, yeah begins.
Speaker 1: Dark Knight's really good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's very good.
Speaker 1: I love The Dark Knight Tomorrow. I watch it. The
Speaker 1: more I'm like, there's a link in my Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5: I did like Top Gun Maverick a lot. That was
Speaker 5: like when the movies in the last five years that
Speaker 5: made me feel anything that one's like the best, Like,
Speaker 5: let's go test my new stereo equipment.
Speaker 3: Oh movie? Yeah, sure, that's the new like Matrix DVD. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, we got surrounding them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I can't think there's any like, I don't know more
Speaker 5: more Oscar movies that I really liked.
Speaker 2: That's this is your list, Mike.
Speaker 5: For me, I might love liked some of them.
Speaker 1: Trying.
Speaker 4: I like to know parasites my Oscar movie.
Speaker 1: Did that Crawler win an Oscar?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: It should have though, which is weird one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that's a great movie.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. It's like really weird, but I like it.
Speaker 5: Thank you, chat Avatar. The Way of Water I did
Speaker 5: Debate The Way of Water. Yeah, Water, I love The
Speaker 5: Way of Water. I watched that like five times. Okay,
Speaker 5: I got I need one more.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 5: I hope I'm not forgetting something. Uh gosh, all the
Speaker 5: big My Galaxy Quest is like ninety nine. Yes, so
Speaker 5: I don't okay, I'm not doing Guards to the Galaxy.
Speaker 5: Stop trying to push it on me. New York Times. God,
Speaker 5: so minus one was pretty good.
Speaker 1: Special Fallout as a good call, Dan, That's like, yeah, tremendous,
Speaker 1: It's perfect. It's perfect. Yeah, I think I'm I think
Speaker 1: I'm more. Did you do Mad Max Fury Road, Mike,
Speaker 1: I can? I considered that, you know what, You're right, Jeff,
Speaker 1: that makes very good. That's actually the one I think
Speaker 1: I might feel worse about not putting on my eyes.
Speaker 3: I considered Mad Max and John Wick, but I did
Speaker 3: think first action movies Go. Fallout is like the best
Speaker 3: I've seen in a very.
Speaker 5: Long all Right, I think I have my ten. I
Speaker 5: hope I'm not for getting something.
Speaker 1: I read it again. I want to, yah know for
Speaker 1: sure it's.
Speaker 5: Mad Max, Furry Road, Avatar, The Way of Water, Spirited Away,
Speaker 5: Creed Leelo and Stitch Wally Up Cocco, The Lord of
Speaker 5: the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring, and of course
Speaker 5: National Treasure.
Speaker 4: You had me for the first like three Yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't think you had me at all.
Speaker 1: But that's fine.
Speaker 3: That's Cis is amazing, Creed might be Coco.
Speaker 5: To be clear, if Coco is maybe the best movie
Speaker 5: on this list, Coco is insanely good.
Speaker 1: I was checking my letterbox. Coco is the one I'm like, like,
Speaker 1: I was looking for five stars and like Coco was
Speaker 1: the first one for a very long time that I
Speaker 1: have five stars.
Speaker 3: Mike, I told you I left Coco in the theater, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know I'm upset, but it was not. But no,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't my like. It wasn't like I don't
Speaker 3: like this movie thing. I was enjoying it. It was
Speaker 3: just we were high and there was a guy being
Speaker 3: weird walking up and down the aisle with like like
Speaker 3: fingerless gloves and black clothing on. Uh bog was like
Speaker 3: a discovered I shoot up the theater and we left.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 3: So but it is good for what I saw.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe try to watch Coco again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't, Okay.
Speaker 2: Plus my top ten movies of the twenty first century,
Speaker 2: This is all just like Top of the Dome, and
Speaker 2: I feel bad that I was kind of trying to
Speaker 2: dunk on Quentin Tarantino and the mic check because I
Speaker 2: have Django unchained.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, everything everywhere.
Speaker 3: All at once.
Speaker 1: I still hadn't seen that.
Speaker 3: Oh grab, you'd like it. I know I would a
Speaker 3: little over a pretty good.
Speaker 2: Avengers end game. I had to have something to you there.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. I still cry whenever Cap picks up the ham.
Speaker 1: That was definitely the best theater moment. Yes, most the
Speaker 1: hypest moment I've ever experienced in a movie.
Speaker 2: Absolutely god Zilla minus one. Yeah, yeah, Greta Gerwigg's Little Women.
Speaker 2: I love that movie. Hey, Sir char Dan perfect Joe,
Speaker 2: Oh God, Timothy Shout is actually really good at that movie.
Speaker 1: Straighten everything. He's a homie like, he's awesome.
Speaker 3: It seems all right.
Speaker 1: He used to he used to customize Xbox three sixty controllers.
Speaker 3: He's all right, it's funny. He's Bob Dylan Way. I
Speaker 3: saw that it was really good.
Speaker 2: I have Fury Road Creed uh, and then the last
Speaker 2: three are movies I rewatched a lot, and I'm interested
Speaker 2: to see what everyone thinks Scott Pilgrim versus the World. Oh,
Speaker 2: you're gonna make a mad Zodiac.
Speaker 1: Oh I love people. It's good. Oh Dan, you would love.
Speaker 2: Zodia love Venture. Yeah, I should see it. Yeah. And
Speaker 2: then this is the only like I should have looked
Speaker 2: up if Romeo plus Juliet, I think that's like nineties,
Speaker 2: that's ninetiesses okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Pre Titanic as far as like Leo stuff, right, I'm.
Speaker 1: Guessing it might as well be the same time. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then my last movie, The Wachowski's two thousand and
Speaker 2: eight Speed Racer.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I do really want to see that Rules.
Speaker 1: That's another one I watched like five times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I fucking love speed Racers. Is Creed like the
Speaker 5: one you're gonna say cloud out lists? I'm saying seems
Speaker 5: to be on most people's lists.
Speaker 3: That our Creed is probably one.
Speaker 1: I think I've never seen it. I love Creed. I
Speaker 1: didn't put it in my list, but it's it's awesome.
Speaker 3: It's one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 5: I like Trucky About Boa a lot too, but I
Speaker 5: wasn't going to put to Rules.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I consider putting them both on there, but it was like, look,
Speaker 3: Creed's definitely better than Belboa. It is.
Speaker 5: It is, it clearly is. But I think like Creeds
Speaker 5: existence almost hurts about because it's even better.
Speaker 3: Like late that, if someone said Creed was the best
Speaker 3: Rocky movie, I would be like, I can absolutely see
Speaker 3: that it's.
Speaker 1: The best made one other than maybe the first one one.
Speaker 3: It's it's like actual best film. I think it's definitely
Speaker 3: between Creed one and Rocky yea yeah for sure, ye
Speaker 3: all right, right, yeah, of course, course of Centers, and
Speaker 3: really like Coogler a lot. He's very good.
Speaker 4: Watch everything from how Could You Go? Twenty five years?
Speaker 4: And just pick the ten just like that during the podcast,
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I'm sure I forgot something. I'll kick
Speaker 1: myself over.
Speaker 3: My entire letterbox history and I looked at all my
Speaker 3: top right like sorted by decade by rating.
Speaker 1: I think I.
Speaker 4: Feel like I've got half of it, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know we.
Speaker 4: Got I don't know if it's I don't know if
Speaker 4: it's fully conclusive.
Speaker 1: Time I commit, Man, it's all right, got the prestige?
Speaker 2: Yeah, great one, Okay, yeah that's one there.
Speaker 1: Get out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I almost had to get out on mine.
Speaker 4: Spider Man Across the Spider Verse.
Speaker 5: That's all.
Speaker 4: The second one, the first one better good, good, The
Speaker 4: Grand Budapest Hotel, the dark night, wet hot American summer.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 1: That is a good pick again Dan, Is it for
Speaker 1: Dan the Wrestler?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was great.
Speaker 4: Children of Men ye yeah, Parasite yep, and Big and
Speaker 4: big Fish.
Speaker 3: Okay you hate big Fish? Like yeah, Aaron Osky, do
Speaker 3: you hear about what his next movie is going to be?
Speaker 1: No? What was?
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 3: Sounds kind of amazing. He hasn't started shooting yet, but
Speaker 3: it's going to be. The Rock is set in like
Speaker 3: the late nineties, and he's gonna be starring as like
Speaker 3: one of those like you know, motivational Tony Robbins type
Speaker 3: gurus and like some like depressed guy gets like totally
Speaker 3: and to like like can't you see the Rock? Because
Speaker 3: he is just kind of that guy. It's just kind
Speaker 3: of that like incredibly charismatic, but there's also an element
Speaker 3: of bullshit.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, like it's all a lie kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Like a Tom Cruise Magnolia character. Like, right, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be awesome.
Speaker 1: That's interesting.
Speaker 5: That's saying this, And I'm glad let this be. For
Speaker 5: some reason, I thought you meant like they were remaking The.
Speaker 3: Rock like Conder, don't do that. I'm surprised you. No.
Speaker 1: F One with Brad Pitt has an eighty eight percent
Speaker 1: on Rotten Tomatoes. Really, and I'm like, I don't need
Speaker 1: another dad movie in my life. But I guess I'm
Speaker 1: going to the theater. Boys. I almost couldn't believe that
Speaker 1: was the movie. I know it feels fake. You're like,
Speaker 1: you're like, what, who's that director? I gotta hear some Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh shit, I didn't realize that. Oh, I gotta go.
Speaker 1: His movies are just they are all They're all beautiful oblivion.
Speaker 1: Like that movie is kind of like it's so cliche
Speaker 1: that with Tom Cruise, But it looks awesome that there's.
Speaker 5: A new Pixel movie and no one is seeing it.
Speaker 4: But oh my god, I have to see this movie, Mike.
Speaker 4: You would love my enthusiasm. I must see it.
Speaker 5: You think it's it's bombing hard, like yes, Disney pie
Speaker 5: to any review wise, okay, people paying mind.
Speaker 1: To see it very poorly. It's like they're worst ever.
Speaker 4: I think kids movies like that. I mean again, they're
Speaker 4: not just kids movies, but they're obviously like, you're bringing
Speaker 4: your kids to see that movie? Right?
Speaker 5: I think it's hard with these sci fi movies.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I also think like it's I don't know
Speaker 4: if kids like really love I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of combination for that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't even my kids have never heard of this.
Speaker 1: I think if I brought it up, they would not.
Speaker 1: They'd be like, what are you talking about it?
Speaker 5: I mean, I do this sounds like such an old
Speaker 5: man take probably, but you know it's like that Leland
Speaker 5: Stitch remake, which isn't that good? Makes the zillion dollars
Speaker 5: and yeah, people, you're yeah, exactly, that's the thing, and
Speaker 5: here's yeah you mean, boy, new things are a hard
Speaker 5: sell these days.
Speaker 1: Huh yeah.
Speaker 4: Plus they I mean I feel like I buy the
Speaker 4: transit of property, would have been exposed to some of
Speaker 4: that marketing through having a ten year old, and I
Speaker 4: just we didn't know about it only until we were
Speaker 4: on Disney. Plus being like here's a sneak peak of
Speaker 4: this movie, right, Yeah, it.
Speaker 1: Just feels like it's like a like mismatch right now,
Speaker 1: because like new movies are not doing well anywhere except
Speaker 1: for like centers, like right like centers, the one that
Speaker 1: could pop off.
Speaker 2: Like the Minecraft Movie. I watched the Minecraft Movie over
Speaker 2: the weekend.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, what happened?
Speaker 3: Solid three out of five?
Speaker 2: Really, Jan, I think I really enjoyed it and I
Speaker 2: wasn't even under the influence of anything. I just sat
Speaker 2: there watching.
Speaker 1: It's been on repeat for like a month.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I I was. I was telling I,
Speaker 2: first of all, thank you everyone that tuned into my
Speaker 2: moving fund razor stream.
Speaker 1: It was fun some BTS stuff. Yeah, there's more.
Speaker 2: There's so much more on so many hard drives. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I was talking about it. If your boy can
Speaker 2: like lose enough weight, I think it's just about growing out.
Speaker 2: My I just want to be Jason Momoa from the
Speaker 2: Minecraft Movie for Halloween. Wait a minute, Jan, I remember
Speaker 2: Wrestling Mania with you. You want to go down to Samoans.
Speaker 3: Okay, well you said you want to be Roman Range
Speaker 3: just as a person, but you'll be Jason Momoa for Halloween.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll be Jason Momoa and then afterwards it will
Speaker 2: be an easier transition to.
Speaker 3: Being Roman Race. We start lifting. Yeah, yes, yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna change all my teeth.
Speaker 5: Jeff and I will be Jack Black level whole group
Speaker 5: costume going. There is a chicken jockey.
Speaker 1: He doesn't need to do anything. That's perfect.
Speaker 5: Dan will be the chicken jockey and back or could
Speaker 5: be the chicken.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There, there we go.
Speaker 3: Does you have to I have to piggyback on back
Speaker 3: alone for the night? Okay?
Speaker 1: Absolutely?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: The magic word?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, So now we talked about video games of
Speaker 2: this video game podcast. I almost forgot what we were
Speaker 2: doing for a second. Movies, movies, folks. Normally we save
Speaker 2: the biggest game to chat about right before break, but
Speaker 2: this game is so big and so odd that we
Speaker 2: got to talk about it at the tippy top of
Speaker 2: the video game segment. That's right, I am talking about
Speaker 2: deaf Stranding two.
Speaker 3: Oh my, oh boy, I am. I've talked about it
Speaker 3: a lot when I did the preview for game Spot
Speaker 3: in the thirty hours I did in Japan. I'm well
Speaker 3: past that now. I think I'm like, on the homescreen
Speaker 3: it says I'm like eighty something percent of the way
Speaker 3: through the game now, so I'm late game at this point.
Speaker 3: So I'm curious. You know, I've got additional thoughts past
Speaker 3: the preview stuff. But jan you've been. Where are you
Speaker 3: at now?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Where's everyone at? Is what I want to know?
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, our count.
Speaker 1: I'm not barely started. Actually, I didn't have much time
Speaker 1: for it. I got the idea.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you do, though, I don't know
Speaker 3: if you No.
Speaker 1: No, there's not gonna be anything new or weird in
Speaker 1: this game after what I've played so far in the
Speaker 1: first couple of hours, I'm sure I have a question.
Speaker 4: I feel like I've I know, almost next to no
Speaker 4: thing about any of death stranding to lower storyline.
Speaker 3: Whatever it is, and we should say we're not going
Speaker 3: to go into real spoiler stuff.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: What I'm saying though, is that, like, but what I've
Speaker 4: been able to sort of discern and extract from the
Speaker 4: reaction online is that I've seen reviews all over the place.
Speaker 4: I've seen people who are like ten out of ten.
Speaker 4: I've seen people say like this is a sixth at best.
Speaker 4: I don't know what's happened.
Speaker 3: I mean the Metacritic it is sitting in like a
Speaker 3: ninety right now, so I think it's there are some outliers,
Speaker 3: but it is getting some really really overall pose to
Speaker 3: get outliers. This game is a wild, weird game like
Speaker 3: the first one, and god knows, you know, I took
Speaker 3: a turn on it. I went from hating it to
Speaker 3: loving it like this, Oh you did that?
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't remember that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, this is not a just like mainstream everyone's
Speaker 3: gonna love it. There's nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like no, let's be clear, open critic at
Speaker 1: ninety is game of the year contender. That's this isn't
Speaker 1: like Game of the Year contender. This is you don't
Speaker 1: get a ninety and not be like in the conversation
Speaker 1: for that, like that's really hard to do.
Speaker 3: This is like it's like this and blueprints. Right, Well,
Speaker 3: we'll see how it's sticks the landing, because I do
Speaker 3: have some complaints. Well, I'll get around to that.
Speaker 1: That's part of this.
Speaker 3: I feel like it does kind of spin its wheels
Speaker 3: a bit now that I'm I'm very far. It introduces
Speaker 3: some plot points early on that are like and you've
Speaker 3: probably all kind of seen the big ones, like at
Speaker 3: the beginning, here's like, oh shit, what happens here? And
Speaker 3: then you know, you'll go forty hours and it's kind
Speaker 3: of barely touched on, and I'm assuming near the end
Speaker 3: I'm probably gonna get a lot of info dump type stuff.
Speaker 3: But narratively, I definitely like it more, just because I
Speaker 3: like the characters a lot more than the first games.
Speaker 3: But the actual through line of what's happening, it's like
Speaker 3: you're connecting Australia and Mexico. It's and then there's you know,
Speaker 3: wacky characters and stuff you meet in between. You'll get
Speaker 3: backstories about everyone and things like that, but like the
Speaker 3: actual moment to moment is kind of just like, you know,
Speaker 3: hey Higgs is back, here's Troy Baker, but like it's
Speaker 3: just still kind of unclear. Again, I'm I'm not done yet.
Speaker 3: I'm probably like eighty plus percent done, but like he
Speaker 3: just kind of shows up and is wacky and does
Speaker 3: some evil looking stuff and then there's a big boss
Speaker 3: fight and stuff. But it's like, narratively, it's not super
Speaker 3: grabbing me unless it really sticks the landing here, but
Speaker 3: I don't really care because it's just so enjoyable. Moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm with you, Dan. I think I'm
Speaker 2: about like fifteen to twenty hours in because the last
Speaker 2: time you and I checked in, I was like around
Speaker 2: ten eleven, and then I kind of fast tracked the
Speaker 2: stuff that you said to go investigate and the overall narrative.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm super in love with, but
Speaker 2: the character is more than anything. I think I'm latching
Speaker 2: on too harder.
Speaker 1: Seems like the cast is really good, Like the cast's
Speaker 1: characters hanging out with one another is really solid.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I we Dani.
Speaker 2: You and I were like talking a little bit more
Speaker 2: about Death Stranding two before we went live, and I'm
Speaker 2: trying to place for myself at least whether or not
Speaker 2: my evaluation of Death Stranding two is more so informed
Speaker 2: by them addressing some of the friction points I had
Speaker 2: with des Stranding one, because like you, I was not
Speaker 2: sold on Destraining one until the director's cut came out,
Speaker 2: and then I gave it another shot, and then I
Speaker 2: think I just similarly had approached it with less preconceived
Speaker 2: notions and a general understanding of like, this is just
Speaker 2: gonna be a weird game, like I shouldn't expect anything
Speaker 2: like metal gear ish, maybe some of the common tropes
Speaker 2: that Oojima does, but like coming into Destraining two, it's
Speaker 2: I don't want to use the metaphor of it's like
Speaker 2: riding a bike because that's a very simple process compared
Speaker 2: to anything you really do here and the experience of
Speaker 2: playing this game. But I'm from the jump enjoying it,
Speaker 2: and I think a lot of that is tied to
Speaker 2: I think the individual characters being a little bit more
Speaker 2: fleshed out versus how they're initially introduced.
Speaker 3: I in the first one. Yeah, and the first one,
Speaker 3: I just feel like they're so many times where it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: you go to meet a single character and it's just
Speaker 3: a bunch of, you know, exposition dump type stuff that
Speaker 3: doesn't really make that much sense. But like, since you
Speaker 3: do have a crew that you're kind of flying around
Speaker 3: with or I don't know, it's flying, it navigates the
Speaker 3: tar currents, the dh Fema Jellen, there is a crew
Speaker 3: of people that you're on there, and just seeing the
Speaker 3: interactions between all of them is much more interesting than
Speaker 3: just lower dump type stuff one on one, which kind
Speaker 3: of took over the first game. They're they're great characters,
Speaker 3: all of them, though, you know, I love uh tar Man,
Speaker 3: Rainy Tomorrow and Jan did I I didn't over sell
Speaker 3: doll Man to you, did I know? He's the best?
Speaker 1: Is it possible to oversell him?
Speaker 3: No, he's such a cool dude.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know how the boo boos have taken off?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Sorry, what's that I know about this?
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Okay, let do not know this one
Speaker 1: within arm's reach. What is it?
Speaker 2: They're like these little furry creatures. People go google goga
Speaker 2: the it's not just Emma's thing. This is like everyone
Speaker 2: this is and you're stealing it now.
Speaker 1: But that's okay. Emma invented La boo boos.
Speaker 2: No, she did not invent La boo boos.
Speaker 1: They're called La boo boos.
Speaker 3: Yes, La boo boos l a b u b u.
Speaker 3: Are they doing well for her?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe Emma spending too much time acquiring La boo boos.
Speaker 2: But anyway, uh, La boo boos are these things?
Speaker 3: That's a lot of thing.
Speaker 4: Boo boo you can because it's pretty great.
Speaker 2: Can I tell y'all what the fake ones are called? Yes,
Speaker 2: they're called laf hoofoos.
Speaker 1: They're probably better it just like what do you call it?
Speaker 1: What were those babies? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Kind of y'all remember like kid robot Like okay, anyway,
Speaker 2: these are like in blind boxes. People are going google
Speaker 2: gog over them. You can find them in pop marts
Speaker 2: or like resellers.
Speaker 1: Are they soft or plastic?
Speaker 3: Soft? Except the face?
Speaker 1: The face, and wait to see how we get back
Speaker 1: to stranding too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean no, no, no, most follow follow me,
Speaker 2: grub along with me. People have so many of these
Speaker 2: bag charms and other stuff you buy from PopMart. I
Speaker 2: need a shoot doll Man to hang off of every
Speaker 2: single bag I own.
Speaker 1: Doll Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, it's doll Man. It's tar Man, die hard Man.
Speaker 1: You're right, you're right, or you're right. I should have
Speaker 1: been on board with that a long time ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the that's the gimmick. Hot cold Man was
Speaker 3: in peace Walker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you did not undersell him at all, Dad.
Speaker 2: I thought he'd be a little bit too much like
Speaker 2: what's his name in God of War twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: Oh head Man, headman, h fucking fujin What was it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it was fujinir.
Speaker 3: I hate that fucking guy. Thank you. That's what I
Speaker 3: thought doll Man was gonna be like. But he's total
Speaker 3: opposite of a mirror. He doesn't spoil any puzzles, and
Speaker 3: he's just a friendly, fun guy to talk to whenever
Speaker 3: I go to take a nap. I talked to doll
Speaker 3: Man about his day first, and he's just helpful and
Speaker 3: empathetic and sweet and kind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then okay, this is another conversation we're having
Speaker 2: before the podcast started. But like after getting to see
Speaker 2: Kojima in the flesh and kind of see his temperament
Speaker 2: on that red carpet that Dan and I went to
Speaker 2: where we interviewed Ben Starr, and he was very upset
Speaker 2: with Dan for some reason. Yeah, maybe he just doesn't
Speaker 2: like the French who knows Kojima just seems like a
Speaker 2: very put together person that this type of game and
Speaker 2: all of the stuff in it. I just I am
Speaker 2: so curious about what that directing process is.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, like you have to wonder how much these
Speaker 3: actors know about stuff, because I got start of asking
Speaker 3: the actors who played Rainy, like, hey, you know that,
Speaker 3: you know, you take a shower with the puppet and
Speaker 3: that keeps the puppet from aging and stuff. And it's like,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, she probably don't know about that, Like
Speaker 3: Dollman tells you about that, it's not I doubt she
Speaker 3: doesn't have any lines about it. Dollman's just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I shower with raining. It keeps me young, all right.
Speaker 3: She doesn't even know that, I guess.
Speaker 1: Uh okay. As far as the gameplay mechanics, sco can
Speaker 1: I ask it? Like to me, it seems like it
Speaker 1: is des Stranding one, but they made the combat much better,
Speaker 1: so there's a better like sort of flow between the
Speaker 1: two states of I'm delivering and I'm building infrastructure, and
Speaker 1: now I'm going to fight stuff and that's fun and
Speaker 1: I'll get back to building. It just feels like it's
Speaker 1: all connected a little bit better. Is that the gist
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, It's kind of the best for me in terms
Speaker 3: of a Kajima game, because, like, the thing I don't
Speaker 3: like the most about metal Gear and dest Stranding is
Speaker 3: the stealth is the sneaking. I'm not patient, really, I
Speaker 3: just like every one of those games, I just fuck
Speaker 3: up immediately and then I have to shoot everyone. This one,
Speaker 3: you can just start shooting everyone from the beginning if
Speaker 3: you want to. But if you want to be stealthy,
Speaker 3: which I know a lot of people do, those mechanics
Speaker 3: are there. You can sneak around the tall grass and
Speaker 3: strangle guys with the strand and do decoy hollow grenades
Speaker 3: and all that stuff, or you can just go in
Speaker 3: with some big dumb guns and you know, trank grenade launchers,
Speaker 3: which is a hilarious concept, and you can just treat
Speaker 3: it like an action game and it works great for that.
Speaker 3: So honestly, in terms of just that, like moment moment
Speaker 3: action and enemy encounters, this is my favorite of any
Speaker 3: Kajima game.
Speaker 1: Wait, so you I just I'm not.
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to Dan three point out here a
Speaker 4: little bit, like you hate Stealth, but you.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I love the idea, just like I'm
Speaker 3: bad at it. It's just like I don't know, you know,
Speaker 3: I like the story, and I like the world and
Speaker 3: the characters and stuff. It's I know, I don't just
Speaker 3: playing No, I don't even playing it. I'm just bad,
Speaker 3: Like I just wind up. Most of my Metal Gear
Speaker 3: playing time is like hiding in an alert is going off,
Speaker 3: and then somebody finds me again, I shoot them and
Speaker 3: then I've never been a Metal Gear game without killing
Speaker 3: like at least four hundred people.
Speaker 4: The way. Yeah yea, but yeah, mechanically like Grub, the
Speaker 4: action in the in the gun play and stuff like
Speaker 4: that is world's World's better.
Speaker 1: That's the first thing I noticed. It's like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: fun to shoot in this game, like and I'd like,
Speaker 1: and I get it. I'm shooting on lethal bullets. But
Speaker 1: if someone walked in the room and saw what I
Speaker 1: was doing, like, oh, you're just killing some people, like.
Speaker 3: Oh, someone around with an assault rifle ye under barrel
Speaker 3: grenade launcher, but it's a trank grenade launcher, you know.
Speaker 1: I do like that.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm the stupid ass. I was like, I feel
Speaker 5: better about this, like an uh Arkham Dark Knight where
Speaker 5: you're running over people in your car, but it's like
Speaker 5: it has like a like an electric shield about, like
Speaker 5: it's just knocking them out. Sure, they're like rag dolling
Speaker 5: into a concrete wall. I'm like, they're safe though, you're
Speaker 5: just sleeping.
Speaker 3: Grab. I think there's an item that I'll speak to
Speaker 3: you later in the game which I love using, which
Speaker 3: you know this is I guess it's spoiler in terms
Speaker 3: of an item you can make later.
Speaker 1: So mute if you won't bother me, might be bother
Speaker 1: others though, So yeah, go ahead for.
Speaker 3: A second if you want to. It's called the Coffin Board,
Speaker 3: and it is a like weird metallic cyber coffin that
Speaker 3: you surf on and if you only use it within
Speaker 3: the kiral network, it utilizes the chiral network. So but
Speaker 3: you can hold R two to accelerate. So it's basically
Speaker 3: a snowboard coffin that like it rides tars like as
Speaker 3: you're riding it, it's like a splatoon like tar thing
Speaker 3: underneath you. And so when I'm going up these snowy
Speaker 3: mountains and stuff, now I'm just surfing a coffin with
Speaker 3: tar underneath it. And it's like you can jump and stuff,
Speaker 3: and there's ramps and go off button, a pop up
Speaker 3: says extreme Square and I'm back and you do a
Speaker 3: SSX track and it's fucking fun.
Speaker 1: Now, can I I'm sure you saw this, but let's
Speaker 1: break a little news here. Uh did you see the
Speaker 1: latest crossover between Death tran Domin?
Speaker 3: What are they doing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, delivery makes sense, order Domino.
Speaker 3: Listen. There's a pizza chef in the game. It is
Speaker 3: not down branded, but I've been staying in the ways
Speaker 3: of pizza condo or something. Jan. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you have any pizza spinning a dough, but like get
Speaker 3: dough and so I've got like an em Bison Psycho
Speaker 3: Crusher where I like throw pizza dough. You get a
Speaker 3: rubber pizza that you can fucking throw to knock dudes
Speaker 3: out and stuff, and the pizza can fold up and
Speaker 3: put it in your grenade pouch so you don't have
Speaker 3: to carry it down your back. The pizza chef's awesome.
Speaker 3: You have a pizza fight with them at one point. Fuck,
Speaker 3: it's really good.
Speaker 1: It sounds stupid and awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know what, We're gonna put up a
Speaker 3: post tomorrow night at Embargo of something that I ran
Speaker 3: into that I don't know if anyone else has run into,
Speaker 3: because there's a specific circumstance you need, you'll see, So
Speaker 3: keep an eye on our socials.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Really, it should only happen to you based on
Speaker 1: what happens in there. So yeah, yeah, it's really interesting.
Speaker 1: It was really Oh yeah, I see what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: But yet there's just every moment I pick it up,
Speaker 3: I never know what kind of like, you know, it
Speaker 3: could be a normal delivery, and it's just like some
Speaker 3: hologram tells you, look, thanks, Sam could really use this stuff.
Speaker 3: And then sometimes it's like, oh, I'm having a pizza
Speaker 3: fight and learning pizza fighting techniques and roundhouse kicks that
Speaker 3: shoot dough out and or doll Man. Will at any moment,
Speaker 3: this game could do something that could just absolutely delight
Speaker 3: or confound you. And I love just like that. Knowing
Speaker 3: you know, you play a lot of games, you expect
Speaker 3: certain things like these are how games work. This one
Speaker 3: kind of turns a lot of it on its head
Speaker 3: and you kind of don't know what to expect.
Speaker 1: The apparently the pizza character's name is Higgs. Is that right?
Speaker 3: No, Higgs is Troy Baker.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, Higgs Monahan has the same surname as the
Speaker 1: founder of Domino's.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, did I see? Yes, there is a hot
Speaker 3: Sunni Miko type thing that gives you a hat and
Speaker 3: it's like a rabbit hat, and but I put it on,
Speaker 3: and I was so confused because all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: every time Sam was gonna do something, he would go Peco, Pecko, Pecko, Pecko,
Speaker 3: And I was like, why does he say pecko with
Speaker 3: every like instead of grunting, he would say pecko When
Speaker 3: he punched, he would say Pecko. And It's like, what
Speaker 3: the fuck? And then I realized that's what the anime
Speaker 3: lady says, so if you wear the anime hat, Sam
Speaker 3: just says peco all the time. I don't know what
Speaker 3: the fuck that's about.
Speaker 1: I sound I'm delighted and confounded. Dan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the person's name is Yusada Pekkora, but maybe uh,
Speaker 5: it's the vtuber's name, so you're saying pecko in honor
Speaker 5: of this vitoh okay.
Speaker 3: I also have a camel hat that's just a full
Speaker 3: and big, lumpy camel thing, and I guess there's water
Speaker 3: in there, so Sam gets thirsty. It's like a beer
Speaker 3: hat where it's like there's he can drink from the
Speaker 3: camel hat and it keeps you in the desert. It's
Speaker 3: it's better for you and you can carry more stuff.
Speaker 3: There's so much weird shit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, are you pro v tuber now? It's he been
Speaker 5: a no no, but you'll give him a slide there
Speaker 5: for the v tuber inclusion.
Speaker 1: I think it took off.
Speaker 3: I'm not mad about YouTubers. I just never think about
Speaker 3: them in any context.
Speaker 1: Once he wouldn't rescue one for eighty five dollars.
Speaker 3: Meant something to someone, I will.
Speaker 2: I want to go back to the characters for a
Speaker 2: second because yesterday during Gamess Mornings, Greb, you brought up
Speaker 2: a story about how Charlie Cox felt like an imposterous fraud.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like like a fraud's amazing. Apparently you know he didn't.
Speaker 5: He did like a daze maybe of his dialogue for
Speaker 5: Exhibition three, three and four hours. It probably didn't think
Speaker 5: about it much after that, and all these people come
Speaker 5: up with him, like you you are incredible in that game.
Speaker 1: He's like, I don't play games.
Speaker 5: I'm nerd. I do not I feel like I do
Speaker 5: not deserve these accolades.
Speaker 2: But like I just want to highlight how like in
Speaker 2: this game specifically, you got Hollywood ass actors in it,
Speaker 2: like you get Elf Hanning and LEAs to Do, and.
Speaker 3: Like everyone's really good.
Speaker 2: Shioli Katsuna is rainy and like everyone just like really
Speaker 2: well written. I like hanging out with everyone, and I
Speaker 2: don't know, maybe it ties into and I didn't think
Speaker 2: Death Threating Too would be my found family game of
Speaker 2: the Year, but like, I.
Speaker 3: Think it might be because I love hanging out with
Speaker 3: these goobers.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The group photos of all the characters sitting together
Speaker 1: is one of the things that makes me want to
Speaker 1: play this game. The most it's like, look at that
Speaker 1: guy with the guitar sitting next to the doll man,
Speaker 1: and all the guy with the bandana. I don't know
Speaker 1: if all these guys are actually friends, but it makes
Speaker 1: it look like that, and I'm interested.
Speaker 3: It's almost like, you know, Kaujim is really good at
Speaker 3: just putting together these like on site weirdo casts and like,
Speaker 3: you know, I think about like Foxhound in the first
Speaker 3: Meddle of Your Solid I think that is my favorite
Speaker 3: assembly of like rogues gallery of bad guys. I think
Speaker 3: they're all interesting and awesome together. It's like that, but
Speaker 3: it's for your good guys on the ship that you
Speaker 3: like hang out with and talk to all the time,
Speaker 3: and it's it's just it is a genuinely very think crew.
Speaker 1: I think you made that point in a preview Dan
Speaker 1: that in the first game, all these cool characters were
Speaker 1: like you go talk to them on their own as
Speaker 1: you have these conversations with them and they're neat. But
Speaker 1: now they interact with one another. Does that interaction like
Speaker 1: build to something? Does it really feel like they are
Speaker 1: like a they are a family at a certain point.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I compared it to Arrested development of season four, right,
Speaker 3: I couldn't get the actors together and the ensemble stuff
Speaker 3: from the first three seasons. That's what it feels like.
Speaker 3: And there are these occasional objectives where it's like, hey,
Speaker 3: go meet with the crew on the bridge, and I
Speaker 3: look forward to those because I look forward to every
Speaker 3: cut scene where it's like Sam walks in and they're
Speaker 3: all in there talking about something and tar Man's tarcats
Speaker 3: flying around doing weird stuff and you hang up doll
Speaker 3: Man on his little like hook and he oversees everything,
Speaker 3: and I just I'd love, like this whole cast is fantastic,
Speaker 3: especially your crew on the Magellan, and you do see
Speaker 3: like you see backstories of doll Man, you see backstories
Speaker 3: of Tarman. You kind of learn why Tarman doesn't have
Speaker 3: his hand and what's going on with that cat and
Speaker 3: all that stuff, and it's I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: You texted me when you've got some Dollman stuff because
Speaker 1: you knew I would appreciate it, and I was very happy.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, yeah, I got to get there what
Speaker 3: I told you specifically, I don't remember if that was
Speaker 3: a spoiler anybody.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I'm sure it could be. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't have to talk about any of it, but
Speaker 1: it was just like every little tid that was like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, man, it's I genuinely love it. And for
Speaker 3: the complaints that I have about, like, you know, again,
Speaker 3: the narrative itself. You know, if you just looked at
Speaker 3: it on paper, it's not like thrilling necessarily, but the
Speaker 3: moment to moment, whether what you're doing or just even
Speaker 3: if it's a thing a scene that like is a
Speaker 3: story cut scene that doesn't really make sense or move
Speaker 3: anything forward much, it's all done with such style that
Speaker 3: it's all just fun to watch, you know. So I'm
Speaker 3: never I'm really never bored with this thing. There are
Speaker 3: some things that seem a little superfluous that you know,
Speaker 3: like early on it in use is like oh you canna,
Speaker 3: you know, start up these mines and you can build
Speaker 3: monorails to like move large amounts of cargo from you know,
Speaker 3: station to station, and it's like, oh, that's a that's
Speaker 3: a big new thing. But it's you can utilize it.
Speaker 3: It doesn't it's not annecessary thing at all. It's easy
Speaker 3: enough to just load up a truck with stuff and
Speaker 3: drive to the next area.
Speaker 1: Yea, yeah, but what if I spend hours, now, hours
Speaker 1: building up infrastructure like I've been doing that roadcraft.
Speaker 3: It's fun as hell. I will have nights where it's like,
Speaker 3: all right, I'm gonna start with like us story mission,
Speaker 3: so I make some progress, but then I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: sink in here, uh, and I'm gonna do hours of
Speaker 3: just building these fucking highways out. And like there's mechanical
Speaker 3: stuff like the zip lines, which were really fun in
Speaker 3: the first one. It's smarter now where it's like, as
Speaker 3: you're making them, you can adjust the angle so it's
Speaker 3: like it doesn't have to be direct line of sight.
Speaker 3: You can make it so like, oh, if the beam
Speaker 3: needs to go up over a hill or a mountain,
Speaker 3: ohmar around or just fun stuff where it's like I
Speaker 3: set a couple on a river bank and I set
Speaker 3: the angle to like go over the river, so Sam's
Speaker 3: like flying over the river and it looks all cool.
Speaker 3: It doesn't just have to be point A to point B,
Speaker 3: you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love I love hearing you talk at him.
Speaker 4: Man, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: Good job, Dan.
Speaker 2: I guess everyone would know this anytime I use the
Speaker 2: zipline and sometimes just writing ziplines in general in the
Speaker 2: game are just fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just like hoot and holler, He's like whoo, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like the skit from I Think you
Speaker 2: should leave where it's like he's just here for this zipline,
Speaker 2: and like the means of transportation now are just like
Speaker 2: it just feels like, Okay, you definitely learned that maybe
Speaker 2: walking the whole game is not the most fun, So
Speaker 2: let's just incorporate and throw at you all these different
Speaker 2: means of like getting from point A to point B. Greb,
Speaker 2: you brought up the point of like combat and everything. Uh,
Speaker 2: I've kind of been trying to play super stealthy and
Speaker 2: I've also been having a pretty okay time and it
Speaker 2: doesn't feel like the game is getting in my way
Speaker 2: for trying to do that. So if you do want
Speaker 2: to approach some of the missions or situations not guns
Speaker 2: blazing or trank guns ranking, you can sneak in and
Speaker 2: there's a thing you do with doll Man to scout
Speaker 2: out the area that's just great. The yeah, yep, yep,
Speaker 2: it's just so it's just so dub of like sure,
Speaker 2: like in one of the Assassin's Creeds, you could have,
Speaker 2: like you send out your falcon, but what if you
Speaker 2: threw out a small doll Man really high in the.
Speaker 3: Air, floats in the air, tags enemies for you, and
Speaker 3: then when you pull them back, He's like, did I
Speaker 3: do okay?
Speaker 2: Sam?
Speaker 3: Did I do a good job? Yeah, doll Man, you
Speaker 3: did a great job, buddy, oh Man. I found to
Speaker 3: Grub and it is just just a backstory. I think
Speaker 3: it's just how Dollman became the doll Man or whatever.
Speaker 3: So mute for thirty seconds if you don't want to
Speaker 3: hear some Dollman origin story stuff here. But I texted
Speaker 3: Grub out of nowhere saying, okay, I thought this chapter
Speaker 3: title Puppets was going to be metaphorical, but it's actually
Speaker 3: an extremely earnest recollection of this fucking puppet losing his
Speaker 3: wife to a tar tsunami and him and his daughter
Speaker 3: go ghost hunting for her soul. But the mom's ghost
Speaker 3: freaks out about K pop and tar people drag Dollman
Speaker 3: and his daughter into the ground, and his daughter dies
Speaker 3: and her corpse is preserved in a swamp. I can't
Speaker 3: life a puppet. And I said, nopoilers overpoilers, overpoilers, over.
Speaker 3: Yeah fucking awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like honestly, guys, like I really thought that Expedition
Speaker 2: thirty three was a lock from my game of the year.
Speaker 2: I love where the story goes and again found family.
Speaker 2: It's mighty whole stick.
Speaker 3: But Dollman alone, Yes, I want like that racting Clank
Speaker 3: where they had the clank missions where he went and
Speaker 3: did puzzles.
Speaker 1: I just want to give me a PSP game Captain
Speaker 1: Dollman's Treacher tracker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, got and the voice acting like honestly, his
Speaker 3: voice everything. He's just such an endearing character. I just
Speaker 3: I love that little dude. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, we'll We'll probably talk more throughout the week about
Speaker 2: death Straining. Two were playing on doing a quick that
Speaker 2: will drop sometime tomorrow. I Dan, I do want to
Speaker 2: like power through and just do a spoiler cast, but
Speaker 2: it's it's one of those things where I just kind
Speaker 2: of want to go down our individual notes apps of like, hey,
Speaker 2: this was.
Speaker 1: Weird, right Wait speaker cast.
Speaker 5: Did you beat Expression thirty three?
Speaker 1: Jan, yes, yes, oh we need to do that. I
Speaker 1: don't do that. Yeah, I believe in k I'm close
Speaker 1: you Oh really yeah, I've been playing NonStop?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, are speaking about Expedition thirty three. Uh, Backler,
Speaker 2: I think you're the one to put it on the list.
Speaker 4: I think I'm towards the end of Act two, Okay,
Speaker 4: I can't be that much longer. I don't know who knows.
Speaker 4: I only wanted to bring it up because there, you know,
Speaker 4: I love this game. The more and more I play it,
Speaker 4: the more I just like cannot put it down. Uh,
Speaker 4: I don't want to spoil the one thing that you
Speaker 4: find out. I guess after Act one where they just
Speaker 4: introduced men Star. I thought that was like the funniest
Speaker 4: thing of like what they basically do and that game.
Speaker 4: I want to sure, can we write you know what
Speaker 4: I'm talking about?
Speaker 5: Yeah, don't know spoilers.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna spoil that, but it's just so funny
Speaker 4: how ben Star is sort of like inserted into this crew.
Speaker 4: I thought that was amazing. And then there is a
Speaker 4: scene between his character and Minoco where he's convincing this
Speaker 4: like furry Minoco guy to join their expedition and he's like,
Speaker 4: absolutely not. What do you mean I'm not joining your thing?
Speaker 4: And then he's just like there's gonna be fighting, and
Speaker 4: then they have this like back and forth that lasts
Speaker 4: maybe fifteen seconds, and it's the funniest. It's the funniest,
Speaker 4: like vine like I legitate, it's hilarious. There they cut
Speaker 4: each other off real quickly talking about fighting.
Speaker 1: And I just was like, what is this game?
Speaker 4: It's man, where we started and where we are now
Speaker 4: is h is very weird. And I think that is
Speaker 4: the best and maybe most confusing part about this game
Speaker 4: is that the tone is all over the place. Sure,
Speaker 4: and for me like that has only that's the only
Speaker 4: line of criticism, the only bit of turbulence that I've
Speaker 4: experienced during this whole thing. I still won't act like
Speaker 4: I've got a strategy. I don't know if I'm making
Speaker 4: the best use of luminas and all the peak pictos
Speaker 4: and ship I'm probably not. I'm probably doing the you know,
Speaker 4: five digit damage, but I'm not. I'm like a four
Speaker 4: digit andy guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, leave me alone, right, you're having a good time, Yeah, obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm loving it.
Speaker 5: I what's your party? Who you're playing with?
Speaker 1: Uh? Well, so I only have like six people?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I got Monoca Viros.
Speaker 1: I'm like Versa Minoko. Okay, so many people in chatsplaying
Speaker 1: Monaco wrong okay, no, it's Monoca. Uh.
Speaker 4: And then like the the first three female characters you
Speaker 4: meet in the beginning, I'm all, they're all in my
Speaker 4: like crewe. I'm in a part now where we're like
Speaker 4: separated though.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you're you're making pretty good
Speaker 5: progy's there. Yeah, I've been. I still think about this
Speaker 5: game NonStop since I finish it, like a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks ago. I really want to. I I keep pushing
Speaker 5: about the spoiler cast because I just have so many
Speaker 5: thoughts about the game and the ending and all that
Speaker 5: stuff that I want to get out there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, back, yeah, Well I try to finish it.
Speaker 1: You guys do a spoiler cust next week while I'm out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how I probably have.
Speaker 3: You're pretty close my ex.
Speaker 4: So I'm playing it through like the Xbox Ultimate thing, which,
Speaker 4: by the way, my goodness, it's the Year of Our
Speaker 4: Lord twenty twenty five. Why is this app still occasionally
Speaker 4: a dumpster five?
Speaker 1: Did you talk about the cloud streaming stuff.
Speaker 4: The x note just the Xbox app on PC? Like,
Speaker 4: are you streaming from your like local Xbox? No, I'm
Speaker 4: I'm downloading the game the game Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, can still be terrible. Yes, look like the
Speaker 1: cloud safe stuff.
Speaker 4: Like I go back and forth between a serious x
Speaker 4: and I pis and for the most part it's been
Speaker 4: pretty far. But yesterday, you know, I had like two
Speaker 4: hours and I'm like, hey, I'm gonna play through more
Speaker 4: of this game.
Speaker 1: I boot it up and it's like, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: What do you You don't have this game error error?
Speaker 4: And it took me forty five minutes to figure it out.
Speaker 4: And it was a series of like restarting, on installing
Speaker 4: the Xbox app, on installing Expedition thirty three, reinstalling that, Like,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, it is not great. It is still showing
Speaker 4: its ugly facey and it's the reason why I'm like
Speaker 4: I used to feel good about getting Xbox games and
Speaker 4: being like, all right, I've got it on PC. Even
Speaker 4: if it's Xbox tainted, it's fine. It'll still do what
Speaker 4: I needed to do. But no, it is. It still
Speaker 4: has its issues.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: It's insane. And they like but be says they're in
Speaker 1: their launcher when that launcher actually works better. But they're like,
Speaker 1: we'll shut that down and just go with Xbox. Ah,
Speaker 1: you should have just moved everything over there still.
Speaker 4: And there's just it's just like the worst messaging too,
Speaker 4: Like there's still legacy apps in the in the Microsoft
Speaker 4: Store that you can get that have no current contemporary functionality,
Speaker 4: so like there's just all this garbage still over there.
Speaker 4: I still want that, the rog Xbox thing, I'm not.
Speaker 4: I still want that, but I mean hopefully, hopefully.
Speaker 1: What that signifies is when that thing comes out, they
Speaker 1: will solve a lot of these problems and improve it,
Speaker 1: because otherwise, what's the point of that fucking thing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is me holding my breath. What were you saying?
Speaker 3: And didn't they just add like Steam integration into the
Speaker 3: Xbox app so you can load your Steam games for.
Speaker 1: That that will be as part of the Xbox app
Speaker 1: that comes out with this rog Ally thing. So that
Speaker 1: hasn't happened yet. I don't think they did it. They
Speaker 1: let me just don't have this morning that people maybe
Speaker 1: maybe it happened this morning, Okay, Cool?
Speaker 3: You don't see what possible use case outside of like
Speaker 3: the rock Ally thing, Like why would I?
Speaker 1: Because eventually eventually they're thinking maybe you can have the
Speaker 1: Steam Steam on your Xbox console and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: It'll be one unified app. I don't know. They also
Speaker 1: they wouldn't hate having your information in their apps, so
Speaker 1: and it might like load XRA epic games as well.
Speaker 1: So having one launcher that knows where all your games
Speaker 1: is something people sometimes ask for.
Speaker 3: But it kind of has that storefront thing where it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: do you want to lunch Steam? Do you want a
Speaker 3: lunch checks box?
Speaker 1: You know, right, exactly?
Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic. Well, going from one JAREPG to kind of another,
Speaker 2: Jeff Grubb, you have continued to play through Paper Mario
Speaker 2: the Thousand Your Door.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm on the last boss fight in that game,
Speaker 1: and I got too tired and had to put it down. Also,
Speaker 1: I think I need to rethink my badge situation, yes,
Speaker 1: because it's like I think I have some badges that
Speaker 1: are just completely worthless in that fight, and that's not
Speaker 1: great to have. But boy, I was like, man, I
Speaker 1: put the game down thinking because you get to the
Speaker 1: end of a chapter and then I was I mentioned
Speaker 1: this to like, you want to start up a new chapter,
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, it can't be as good as
Speaker 1: the last one, And then throughout that game it always
Speaker 1: is as good or better than the last chapter, and
Speaker 1: so when I did pick it back up here, thinking
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to get my momento back, that
Speaker 1: wasn't a problem. I just of soared through to the
Speaker 1: end of that, to the end of that game, and
Speaker 1: it's it's really nice. I was also playing it because
Speaker 1: I heard about people complaining about two D graphics on
Speaker 1: the switch to S screen and how it can cause
Speaker 1: some ghosting issues. I don't think that game quite has
Speaker 1: like a lot enough fast paced action to like see that,
Speaker 1: but there were some cut scenes where the background was
Speaker 1: moving pretty fast, and I think had I, like brought
Speaker 1: out a magnifying lens, maybe I could have noticed something.
Speaker 1: But boy, it's really I kind of don't know what
Speaker 1: people are talking about. In most cases. I tried some
Speaker 1: other games as well, but yeah, A thousand Your Door
Speaker 1: is really fantastic. It is as good as everyone always said,
Speaker 1: and the characters continue to meet throughout the end there
Speaker 1: are really excellent. It's just and it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: quirky and funny and warm and in a way that
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, why can't all of their RPGs, The
Speaker 1: paper Mario RPGs have just been this over and over again,
Speaker 1: they really got it right here, all these fun goomba
Speaker 1: characters that have hats and stuff like that. It's such
Speaker 1: a simple thing and they won't even do that anymore.
Speaker 1: But yeah, a thousand year door thumbs up. Really enjoy it.
Speaker 5: Ye, who are you kind of rocking as your main
Speaker 5: partner in this endgame stuff?
Speaker 1: You know, I kind of have to flip and flop
Speaker 1: between different ones depending on the scenario, But Vivian is
Speaker 1: kind of my go to A lot of times. She
Speaker 1: does a good flame attack that attacks everyone and causes
Speaker 1: ongoing damage, and that ongoing damage kind of pierces through defense,
Speaker 1: so even if like the initial attack doesn't hurt them,
Speaker 1: the fire damage will at least do something over time,
Speaker 1: and that's nice. But I like all the characters. I
Speaker 1: kind of I try to start with a goombella so
Speaker 1: I can always do the tattle ability so I can
Speaker 1: get the HP for the enemies and things like that,
Speaker 1: especially on these big boss fights at the end of
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if they make another paper Mario on the switch
Speaker 5: to in it somehow still isn't just more like this,
Speaker 5: I am going to lose my mind.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a lot.
Speaker 5: I probably shouldn't expect it. It certainly lost cause, but
Speaker 5: the fact that they did remake this game brought it
Speaker 5: out and everyone is just like.
Speaker 1: We like this better.
Speaker 5: It's clearly better if once again we get somehow another
Speaker 5: like sequeled a sticker Star or some other new thing
Speaker 5: that's sort of weird.
Speaker 1: It just isn't this again. And it's just a combat too,
Speaker 1: because Origami King is a good game except for the combat.
Speaker 3: That's It's unfortunate because like even when Paper Mario is
Speaker 3: sort of going downhill after game Cube, it's like I
Speaker 3: always took solid and like, well, okay, Mario Luigi, I'm
Speaker 3: still getting my RPG Mario Kick. And then with Brothership,
Speaker 3: that was the first time I was like, I don't
Speaker 3: think I like this. So they're kind of both in
Speaker 3: bad spots right now.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Brothership kind of came and went last year.
Speaker 5: Huh, that was a big I didn't even try it
Speaker 5: because I just didn't hear anything great about it though.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm not speaking for an opinion, but.
Speaker 1: It seems like that was a big letdown.
Speaker 3: I played a couple of hours and I was like,
Speaker 3: this is not hidden for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it kind of it was a bummer for sure,
Speaker 2: speaking about circling back to things that now may be
Speaker 2: hitting Mikey, you've been playing a lot of Splittoo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I finished that Splittoon three campaign. It was
Speaker 5: it was fantast I think it was so.
Speaker 3: Good, Mike. I assume that uses the same gyro control stuff.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah. Yeah, it's just like it's all the same
Speaker 5: controls of Platoon and a lot of those mechanics that
Speaker 5: just in these levels built for a single player experience
Speaker 5: in like a very thoughtful and interesting way. So you
Speaker 5: actually when I finished that, I know there's the delC
Speaker 5: for three that's supposed to be good, but I'm like,
Speaker 5: I never finished twos either or and I heard the
Speaker 5: DLC for that was great. So I'm actually now in
Speaker 5: the middle of Splatoon two single player campaign. Uh, and
Speaker 5: then when I finished that, I'll do the Octa expansion there,
Speaker 5: and then I'll do side Order for Splatoon three. Even here,
Speaker 5: it's like interesting the differences between Splatoon three and Splatoon twos.
Speaker 5: Splatoon two. These levels are sort of long, and they're
Speaker 5: they're generally kind of like similar, Like I go through
Speaker 5: this level, beat up the enemy, shoot them, you know,
Speaker 5: Splatoon three is much more bite sized levels. Every level
Speaker 5: kind of has its own gimmick, and those are really neat,
Speaker 5: maybe even better. Actually, there's a there's a part of
Speaker 5: Splatoon three and look, this is a mild spoiler. This
Speaker 5: game's very old, but I just have to say it
Speaker 5: because I think Dan's gonna like this a lot. Remember
Speaker 5: it's putween three of the band for the group, right
Speaker 5: with Big Man and the girls, and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 5: big Man's a big Manta Ray. Well, during this campaign,
Speaker 5: you fight all the people in that group, and the
Speaker 5: last one you fight is Big Man, the Manta Ray,
Speaker 5: the boss fight against them, he just turns into that
Speaker 5: shadow good thing from Mario Sunshine.
Speaker 3: Wait they make just that? Wait are talking about Gooper Blooper?
Speaker 3: Are you talking about Shadow Mario?
Speaker 1: No Shadow Cooper Blooper.
Speaker 5: It's just that giant Manta No, no, no, no, remember no, no,
Speaker 5: not that Remember that part that one mission in Mario
Speaker 5: Sunshine where it was just the shadow of Manta Ray
Speaker 5: going along outside the resort and you had.
Speaker 3: To show it breaks up and it's that thing. Wait
Speaker 3: did they call it that or is it just like
Speaker 3: clearly that I don't know a million different just that hell, yes, okay.
Speaker 3: I did want to play that at the airport and
Speaker 3: on the flight back yesterday or whenever I got back,
Speaker 3: but I figured with the gyro stuff, I would look
Speaker 3: crazy on the plane, so I chose not.
Speaker 5: I mean, you can't turn it off, just take it
Speaker 5: it jewels, But I like it, you know, fortoon. It
Speaker 5: feels really good with the job even like the end
Speaker 5: of three. There's like good cut scenes like you know
Speaker 5: it kind of I don't know it, like the production.
Speaker 1: Chill, dude, chill. I'm downloading it. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna play this weekend. Yeah, and I've heard I've
Speaker 3: heard some people say that the auto expansion for two
Speaker 3: is maybe the best single player stuff they ever done.
Speaker 5: And then Side Order on three is very good too.
Speaker 1: So I'm just going through all of it. I'm having
Speaker 1: a great time. Yeah, I've been. I've always meant to.
Speaker 1: This is a good excuse switch to Splatoon, all right,
Speaker 1: that's happening on my vacation. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, just in case you needed uh to know all
Speaker 2: of the fun features of the switch to while you're
Speaker 2: playing through all these Switch one games, Dan Reicher, Thankfully
Speaker 2: you've been hitting the books by continuing to play through
Speaker 2: the Nintendo switch to Welcome to Her.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing that I couldn't look crazy on
Speaker 3: the plane play a Flailey gyroscope game. So I was
Speaker 3: looking studious and learning about the hardware of the switch too.
Speaker 5: I was doing the Marocca thing on the plane.
Speaker 3: I didn't That's the thing was games I wouldn't do.
Speaker 3: I was just doing quizzes on the flight back, basically,
Speaker 3: even like there was one where it was the kickstand
Speaker 3: and you have to like set it up at like, okay,
Speaker 3: see how close you can get to a thirty degree
Speaker 3: angle with the kickstand, And I was like, I probably
Speaker 3: look crazy here the guy next to wondering why.
Speaker 1: I'm wait, it could tell the angle of the king.
Speaker 3: Yes, I thought it was just going to show me pictures, oh.
Speaker 5: The gyro I'm very alarmed that I apparently have significantly
Speaker 5: less social shame than Dan, because I act I literally
Speaker 5: was just on the plane shaken these things like Morocca.
Speaker 3: No, No, I could put on a list. I can't
Speaker 3: do that. Yeah. So I'm excited about switch to hardware
Speaker 3: for an entire plane RUD.
Speaker 5: But I am.
Speaker 3: Excited now because all I have now is many games,
Speaker 3: and that seems like a lot of fun. So then
Speaker 3: once I go back to it, I'll have a bunch
Speaker 3: of fun nis. Also, did I think I want to
Speaker 3: speed run Welcome Tour? I think that'd be a.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as a joke, right, everything we do is a joke.
Speaker 3: There is a scene where it's like there's the stamp
Speaker 3: Rally speed run, which is just like how fast can
Speaker 3: you get all the stamps in the Welcome Tour? And
Speaker 3: then they are the minigame ones, but I think the
Speaker 3: stamp one would be funnier. So I do want to
Speaker 3: get on a on a leaderboard for nintendolcome.
Speaker 5: So far, the number one time on stamp Rally is
Speaker 5: twenty five minutes and forty nine seconds.
Speaker 3: I think I can beat that. I know where those
Speaker 3: stamps are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, shout out to TCB Trio for that wreck.
Speaker 3: I'm going to look into it. I have a note
Speaker 3: to do that. Yeah, that's what that fun.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 3: I'm a pro Welcome to our guy. That's which The
Speaker 3: big switch looks real good. I like skating over the screen.
Speaker 3: The mini games are fun. I do Lost and Found
Speaker 3: and bring it back to the welcome desk and everyone
Speaker 3: likes me.
Speaker 5: There A lot of your appreciation for games is like
Speaker 5: the people in it are.
Speaker 1: Nice to me.
Speaker 3: I just like nice people.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 5: I agree.
Speaker 3: Nice people are all man the welcome tour folks. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're all good people for sure. They're up standing dudes.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, that is something I've yet to check
Speaker 2: out on the switch to but maybe maybe if I'm
Speaker 2: in the mood to go back to school, I'll do that.
Speaker 2: But guys, I've been thinking about this. Of all the
Speaker 2: miscllaneous things to get into this year, I really want
Speaker 2: to get into Yo Yo's. So I'm very glad Dan
Speaker 2: and Mike that you two have checked out Pipistrello and
Speaker 2: the Curse Yo Yo.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was playing this on Mega Man Monday Evening Games
Speaker 5: at Mikes that night yesterday.
Speaker 3: But Mike, I think it's funny because you have to
Speaker 3: say the full title every time, Otherwise it just sounds weird,
Speaker 3: like you want to do the whole thing every time.
Speaker 1: A lot of people showed up last night.
Speaker 5: I watched, and we're kind of confused that I wasn't
Speaker 5: playing Mega Man, including my son.
Speaker 3: Apparently, Like Mike, I'm gonna be so disappointed if you
Speaker 3: ever played Mega Man on Mega Fan. You're not Monday Morning,
Speaker 3: do Monday Morning Mega Man.
Speaker 5: After many it is my favorite series, so my one,
Speaker 5: like regular Block, I might want to play Megabits. Pip
Speaker 5: Ostrello is super fun. I'm usually very skeptical of these
Speaker 5: Zelda town Oh slander and yeah, but no, this is
Speaker 5: a ton of fun. It It doesn't just swap in
Speaker 5: a yogo for a sword with some games. You know,
Speaker 5: I love Star Tropics a lot. It's not like there's
Speaker 5: anything specifically yo yo y about your yoyo in that game.
Speaker 1: It's just your attack.
Speaker 5: Here. You can hit it off of angles uh unlike
Speaker 5: this where walls connect.
Speaker 1: Because you can only throw it north, east, south and
Speaker 1: west right. It can only go in cardinal directions right but.
Speaker 5: Point it just feels so good and as long as
Speaker 5: like the next angle is close enough to it, and
Speaker 5: kind of keep doing that for a while.
Speaker 1: You can't even just throw the yo yo.
Speaker 5: But if you do that, you're kind of without the
Speaker 5: yoyo until it either you wait a while it'll respond
Speaker 5: to or you have to go and get it. So
Speaker 5: I don't usually want to do that, but just bouncing
Speaker 5: the yoyo against these walls feels fantastic.
Speaker 3: And they'll set up a bunch of enemies, like clearly
Speaker 3: in a row where it's like you're gonna get that
Speaker 3: satisfying moment of throwing it against like and take there
Speaker 3: like eight things and there's coins everywhere.
Speaker 5: It's great as as it's like really neat progression mechanic.
Speaker 5: It's got a couple things. It has basically the bad
Speaker 5: system from Paper Mario or from Hollow Night, you know
Speaker 5: that kind of thing. But there's also a skill tree
Speaker 5: and there's a shop, and the way it works like
Speaker 5: you buy your next like kind of passive upgrade thing
Speaker 5: like plus one attack power, plus more health. But there's
Speaker 5: always a negative side effect to it too, so it's like, okay,
Speaker 5: get plus one attack power forever, but it's gonna be
Speaker 5: minus one health until you pay off this debt that
Speaker 5: you have, and it's all I get to go back
Speaker 5: to this perspect off the debt. It's just fifty percent
Speaker 5: or whatever of all the money collect now is going
Speaker 5: towards paying this debt until that's paid.
Speaker 3: Off, and then that will move the negative thing.
Speaker 5: Right, so then you don't. But then at that point
Speaker 5: it's like, well, now I need to kind of work
Speaker 5: towards another one, so you almost always have some kind
Speaker 5: of negative effect, so you canntinuing to make your character
Speaker 5: permanently stronger. I think that mechanic of it is really interesting.
Speaker 3: They reminded me al most of the shop in Link
Speaker 3: Between Worlds, because wasn't that a little thing where it's
Speaker 3: like you could pay to rent or at a certain
Speaker 3: point you could own it.
Speaker 5: I don't know if yeh, it almost sounds more like
Speaker 5: that than it actually is, because again, there's it was
Speaker 5: almost like effectively you had the item and it just
Speaker 5: kind of kept from having inventory clutter basically for a
Speaker 5: while because you eventually you just bought the while you
Speaker 5: had in there was no negative effect here like you're having.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's really good. I the aesthetics, I'm a
Speaker 5: little bit I'm not sure on It's like, you know,
Speaker 5: it's one of these things with a lot of these
Speaker 5: retro games. I know, this is more Game Boy Advanced
Speaker 5: inspired than anything. And there were a lot of colors
Speaker 5: they could use there, for sure, and those games sometimes
Speaker 5: were very colorful, but there is something about the sixteenth
Speaker 5: bit era and they can only use so many colors
Speaker 5: that kind of kept the palette in control. Sometimes here
Speaker 5: it's like we have all the colors, and some of
Speaker 5: the characters seem a bit overdesigned and things like that,
Speaker 5: So you know, I don't It's bright in a good way,
Speaker 5: but it's also over designed in other ways too, And
Speaker 5: it also does you know this the game is not
Speaker 5: like super big on story. I know this is maybe
Speaker 5: a bit of a me thing, but I play these
Speaker 5: games sometimes I'm like, we don't need this much set
Speaker 5: up in the front end for this yo yo game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt that too. It's like the first like
Speaker 3: twenty minutes at the least, there's just like, Okay, I
Speaker 3: really don't need all this. It's more like every time
Speaker 3: I start linked in the past, it's like, yeah, I know,
Speaker 3: you're a prisoner in the dungeon. I'm at my way,
Speaker 3: don't worry about it. I just want to play the game.
Speaker 3: It's like that times ten.
Speaker 1: Right, And I mean, that's yeah, that's all I need.
Speaker 5: As much as I like Minished Cap at that point,
Speaker 5: in terms of those kind of Zelda games, it was like, Wow,
Speaker 5: let's let's get moving here, everybody. I would like to
Speaker 5: play some Zelda now.
Speaker 3: Yep, I'm with you. Mike it's I'm a sucker for
Speaker 3: any kind of just like, hey, this is clearly a
Speaker 3: Zelda like. This is clearly a throwback thing, even like
Speaker 3: Blossom Tails, which is more of a just one to one,
Speaker 3: like you've got a sword and you're getting like hook
Speaker 3: shots and stuff and boomerangs. This has its own flavor
Speaker 3: to it for sure, like aesthetically like, the gameplay stuff
Speaker 3: is very kind of Zelda inspired, but it has enough
Speaker 3: unique things like with the yo yo and the shop
Speaker 3: type stuff and the upgrades that like, it's not just
Speaker 3: another one of.
Speaker 5: Those you know right right, and again, the game Boy
Speaker 5: ADVANCEDNSS of it is fun. There's even a mode where
Speaker 5: you like, can I click in your sticks and it
Speaker 5: zooms out and you're actually playing the game on a
Speaker 5: game Boy Advanced looking system. You can turn it around
Speaker 5: and still keep playing the game.
Speaker 2: So that's neat all, right, I still might want to
Speaker 2: check this out.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed watching Mike play and like anytime he hit
Speaker 1: the yoyo on an angle and it did the thing,
Speaker 1: I popped because.
Speaker 5: Very satisfying mechanic that always felt good, And just like
Speaker 5: the general like layout of the puzzles and things like
Speaker 5: that felt interesting. I like the overworld being a city
Speaker 5: instead of just some big grassy field that switches things up.
Speaker 3: To buying fast travel points. I think is cool.
Speaker 5: Yes, I did lose a lot of my money retrying
Speaker 5: this arena constantly that I probably just wasn't strong enough
Speaker 5: for yet, and then that upset me. But that was
Speaker 5: a skill issue, I admit.
Speaker 2: Uh, well, it was something that definitely was not a
Speaker 2: skill issue for you. Yesterday, Mike would replaying through Missed
Speaker 2: because Greb and I were trying a backseat game, but
Speaker 2: you just were on top of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell you what.
Speaker 5: I've been wanting to play miss on the site forever,
Speaker 5: mostly just because I liked the stupid idea of calling
Speaker 5: something Monday Mornings Missed with Mitch. I honestly didn't think
Speaker 5: much about it if it would be good content or not.
Speaker 5: Uh So, I'm glad it actually seemed like it was
Speaker 5: a fun time. I know, I enjoy myself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike, I assumed you were like a longtime fan
Speaker 3: of Missed and you wanted to show it off. But
Speaker 3: then I saw like the comments being like, Wow, he's
Speaker 3: taking to this really quick. Becau's really figuring out these
Speaker 3: puzzles fast. And so like I didn't realize, is this
Speaker 3: your first time playing it?
Speaker 5: This is my really really it is. When Miss came out,
Speaker 5: I definitely sort of wandered around. I don't think I
Speaker 5: had any idea what to do. I think I found
Speaker 5: because I think you can beat the game in like
Speaker 5: ten minutes if you know exactly what to do right away.
Speaker 5: So I think at one time I did that for
Speaker 5: fun again, way back then. I don't remember how I
Speaker 5: did that, but I always like thought Miss was cool
Speaker 5: and admired it. But the time it was a bit
Speaker 5: beyond me, and I just never went back. Really, but
Speaker 5: I'm always so fascinated by it because it was this
Speaker 5: big important thing in video games. That was when people
Speaker 5: were still really excited about integrating all this live action
Speaker 5: video the pre rhetic cut scenes. It was this big
Speaker 5: driver of CD ROMs and CD rum drives and gaming,
Speaker 5: and you know, it was a good It was a
Speaker 5: franchise for a while. There were five of these games
Speaker 5: and the spin off with Uru. So my brother AJ
Speaker 5: always liked them and it just sound know, there's a
Speaker 5: vibe to it too that I thought was cool, and
Speaker 5: that's what I really enjoyed the most. When we were playing,
Speaker 5: there's this weird isolationist but Pete tranquill Missed vibe. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's it's doing its own thing there, and I just
Speaker 5: really enjoy its.
Speaker 1: People talk about cozy games. This is cozy to me.
Speaker 5: Sure, just kind of walking around these sort of puzzle
Speaker 5: games or adventure games.
Speaker 3: That's what I like.
Speaker 2: You know, this is due to my own ignorance because
Speaker 2: I never checked out Missed growing up or had any
Speaker 2: real exposure to it. But Mike, watching you play through
Speaker 2: MI yesterday, I couldn't help but think, oh, this is
Speaker 2: what blue Prints is doing.
Speaker 3: Huh yeah, that's exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know, I think that was the still
Speaker 5: like the best single set descriptor of Blueprints. And it's
Speaker 5: hard to do because that games a lot of things,
Speaker 5: but calling out a roguelike mist, I think it's kind
Speaker 5: of the best way of getting to the essence of
Speaker 5: what Blue Princess. Okay, yeah, it's a lot of that here.
Speaker 5: Now we are playing the remake, and the big difference
Speaker 5: there is that you are just you know, walking around
Speaker 5: a fully three D world. The original game it was
Speaker 5: all pre rendered. You're just kind of moving from scene
Speaker 5: to scene by clicking around the screen. But I heard
Speaker 5: that the remix was good. I know some people want
Speaker 5: me to play the original, but the remikes good. It
Speaker 5: runs very easily on ann stuff. It's widescreen, and it
Speaker 5: still has the original FMV acting in it, which is
Speaker 5: I think a core part of that experience, right, all
Speaker 5: these games you want to see all those people who
Speaker 5: are just working at the studio and whatnot.
Speaker 1: I love that shit.
Speaker 3: It's fun when you play a modern game and it
Speaker 3: makes you realize that a game you've overlooked, you know,
Speaker 3: from the past. It's like, you know, when I first
Speaker 3: played Star New Valley and I was like, what a
Speaker 3: great idea of her game. This is very fun. Oh
Speaker 3: I should have played Harvestman. Okay, got it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I wonder I brought me hopes that the
Speaker 5: little bit of that Blueprints pop off trickled down to
Speaker 5: miss the a little bit, and if not, maybe Denerald
Speaker 5: showing off here.
Speaker 1: But because this is good.
Speaker 5: And then the Riven remake, which is the sequel to
Speaker 5: this game, which at this point I'm pretty comfortable with saying, yeah,
Speaker 5: we're gonna play that after this. Oh yeah, people love
Speaker 5: that Riven remake a lot, so I'm excited to get
Speaker 5: there too.
Speaker 1: I did look to see if there was a Mad
Speaker 1: Dad subtitles and there's just there's nothing out there for
Speaker 1: using the old F and V, which is a roll bummer.
Speaker 1: But uh, what what happens if you don't use the
Speaker 1: old F and V? Did they re record that stuff
Speaker 1: with new actors?
Speaker 5: So what they? I think it's just three D models
Speaker 5: that that's original was in the remake? Right, No, it's like, look,
Speaker 5: we were okay getting rid of the you know, slide
Speaker 5: show walking around stuff that you gotta have the pre
Speaker 5: render FM the people, Yeah right, yeah, yeah, but it
Speaker 5: is weird that the subtitles don't work when you do that.
Speaker 1: But they said they didn't do the timing for it,
Speaker 1: and they were like, maybe we will do it one day.
Speaker 1: And that was years ago and they haven't updated about it.
Speaker 5: No, I don't think that's happening.
Speaker 1: No, it's not. It's definitely okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, speaking about building upon the DNA of an existing game,
Speaker 2: last Friday for upf grub, Mike and I played FBC Firebreak,
Speaker 2: which is building off of the combined Universe of Control
Speaker 2: and Alan Wake, as well as I guess the gameplay
Speaker 2: DNA of something kind of like a Left for Dead.
Speaker 1: And then just Sam Lake weirdness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like you gotta wet your brothers or you
Speaker 2: gotta wet your bros hop in the shower together because
Speaker 2: you got covered.
Speaker 3: In sticky notes.
Speaker 1: Yes, I.
Speaker 2: Continue to play this game after we we did on UPF,
Speaker 2: and I think my enjoyment severely lowered because I was
Speaker 2: no longer playing with friends. I was just playing with randos,
Speaker 2: and it's it's kind of difficult to get into this
Speaker 2: game because the still the level progression is a little
Speaker 2: slower than I'd like it to be a lot too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and the developers have addressed that to to like you said, Grob,
Speaker 2: ramp it up and kind of increase that speed. But
Speaker 2: the problem is, uh, it feels like for me, there's
Speaker 2: so much to do that it's really hard to coordinate
Speaker 2: with a lot of randos just jumping in to the
Speaker 2: game because it is so objective heavy of you got
Speaker 2: to go do this, and then you got to go
Speaker 2: all the way over here. You have to do this
Speaker 2: task to unlock the next task. And even when we
Speaker 2: were playing together, it was it took a little bit
Speaker 2: of time to get acclimated to what everyone should be
Speaker 2: doing right, and the game doesn't like it has three classes,
Speaker 2: but it lets you jump into missions with whatever formation
Speaker 2: you want. But I kind of feel like you absolutely
Speaker 2: need someone to be like the water the splash brother
Speaker 2: guy or the water pricing.
Speaker 5: Well, there's that whole mechanic. First off, in the first level,
Speaker 5: people were catching on fire. I had to put him out,
Speaker 5: Then the other one I had to splash the post
Speaker 5: it notes off them where they just basically died.
Speaker 1: It's like, what would we have done if I wasn't
Speaker 1: You got to go find a shower and it's like
Speaker 1: that's not the same thing as well, Okay, someone needs
Speaker 1: to fix this breaker box. Why I could just do
Speaker 1: that automatically or everyone else could just do the QTE right,
Speaker 1: And that's that's like makes sense where it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, we need someone to get wet and no
Speaker 1: one else has any other way of doing that. It
Speaker 1: doesn't feel I'm disproportionately important, which yes, seemed crucial. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I do think maybe.
Speaker 5: Los Pectations helped me with this because going into it
Speaker 5: kind of just hearing pretty bad things yeah about the game,
Speaker 5: and it helped that Jan knew what was going on
Speaker 5: a bit to help us out, So I was having fun,
Speaker 5: but it was also constantly little befuddled by some of
Speaker 5: the choices. The most egregious thing was we're doing this
Speaker 5: pretty long mission and you know, every like ten minutes,
Speaker 5: it's changing up what exactly our objective is and it's
Speaker 5: kind of a little confused and get reaculated. Then we
Speaker 5: go into this really big room with a lot going on,
Speaker 5: and there's already a ton of enemies that are all
Speaker 5: making a lot of noise and we're fighting them. And
Speaker 5: while this is happening, some guy over the radio is
Speaker 5: trying to explain the complicated thing we need to do
Speaker 5: in this room, and it's just like, I didn't get
Speaker 5: any of that, Jen, please tell me you know what's
Speaker 5: going on, And thank god you did. But if you
Speaker 5: did it, I don't. I guess I would just die
Speaker 5: and give up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a rough first mission to start with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the first mission like any and it's
Speaker 1: like you just go in this room and there's a
Speaker 1: lot it's like a lot of new ideas. And I
Speaker 1: appreciate that the game has a lot of ideas. I do.
Speaker 1: I think it's like, Okay, that's one way to make
Speaker 1: one of these stand out, but it's it's it's probably
Speaker 1: not enough to overcome that that that none of them
Speaker 1: really gel in a way that feels great and it
Speaker 1: can be kind of convolution and you can feel the
Speaker 1: first impression it makes of like, oh, this is what
Speaker 1: I'm doing here, I didn't even realize that is pretty
Speaker 1: rough and it's not so fun. On the other side
Speaker 1: of that that it's like, well, it was clearly worth
Speaker 1: butting our head up against the game not knowing how
Speaker 1: to convey that information.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's difficult because you want to have these objectives,
Speaker 5: I guess, but I do think part of why I
Speaker 5: left for Dead Work so well is that, you know what,
Speaker 5: what you're all doing is relatively simple. You're fighting zombies
Speaker 5: and you're moving to the next place. Maybe sometimes it
Speaker 5: switches things up a bit here. I think the second
Speaker 5: mission was much better when it was mostly just yeah,
Speaker 5: take out all the post it notes, and sometimes that
Speaker 5: means fighting a giant monster made out of post it notes, right,
Speaker 5: But that was showing a lot better than that first
Speaker 5: mission of like, first, you know, repair all these things,
Speaker 5: then fill up the barrels and move the barrels down
Speaker 5: and toss the barrels into this. It's just is this
Speaker 5: game there, the control flavor aspect of it. I do
Speaker 5: enjoy that.
Speaker 1: For the objects of power showing up, Honestly, red light
Speaker 1: green light thing is a really fun idea.
Speaker 3: It was very stressful, but I like that a lot.
Speaker 1: And then like getting a powerful gun that shoots out
Speaker 1: a bunch of like shredded metal and blowing up those
Speaker 1: objects of power. That was that felt great? Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: There's some cool stuff in there.
Speaker 5: Tina saying Jen may have dropped us into the third
Speaker 5: mission there, that one with the barrels.
Speaker 1: I don't know if if they're confused, it's like like
Speaker 1: level three is what they were hearing. But I think
Speaker 1: that was like, oh, it's it's made for level three.
Speaker 1: And then we tried like the easier versions of some
Speaker 1: of those levels. I don't know whatever it maybe maybe
Speaker 1: it did, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when I popped into a Rando game, I had
Speaker 2: popped in at level three because that's what was suggested
Speaker 2: to be able to move on to the next level.
Speaker 2: If that's the case where you have to like adjust
Speaker 2: the difficulty and play through these multiple times. I could
Speaker 2: see again, real old folks, Yeah, real crusty, because yeah,
Speaker 2: after a while, and we eventually settled it into the
Speaker 2: rhythm of it. That first mission took close to an hour,
Speaker 2: if not a little bit more.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: And there's shorter versions of those levels, but then you
Speaker 1: don't progress if you do those simpler ones.
Speaker 5: I don't think, Oh my god, I'm like, I was
Speaker 5: like just looking on Steam charts, right, I was curious, like,
Speaker 5: how many people are playing night Rain still night Rain
Speaker 5: a lot?
Speaker 1: Eighty like eighty eight.
Speaker 5: Thousand concurrence right now on Steam eighty eight thousand.
Speaker 3: I want to circle back to it. Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 1: I liked it a lot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to fire break meanwhile, is one hundred
Speaker 5: and ninety four?
Speaker 1: That is it's not real. It's coming back from that really,
Speaker 1: that is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's kind of just it's toast gees.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's you. Yeah, that level.
Speaker 2: Like the leveling process, and because like some of the
Speaker 2: I think what would make this game super fun is
Speaker 2: just having like a bunch of abilities popping off at
Speaker 2: all times, and it takes so long to even get
Speaker 2: to that second page of abilities to get like a
Speaker 2: better shotgun or like access to grenades.
Speaker 1: Is it cross platform?
Speaker 5: So okay, yeah, so yeah, look it's on game Pass
Speaker 5: and PSM plus I know, okay, so even.
Speaker 1: With that, Steam is usually isn't affected by that stuff.
Speaker 1: There's a rematch is on both of those as well.
Speaker 1: And Mike, what's rematch is numbers on Steam, let's see rematch.
Speaker 1: Steam charts rematches at least on on game Pass, but
Speaker 1: I think it's on both.
Speaker 5: Prematch is at sixty, like sixty two thousand, So yeah,
Speaker 5: okay again, you know it feels like at one thousand
Speaker 5: short it is at two hundred.
Speaker 2: That's well, speaking about one game we played on UPF
Speaker 2: to another game we're going to be playing this week
Speaker 2: on UPF rematch, this is like Human Rocket League, right, yep, some.
Speaker 1: Would call it football. No, no, no, match doesn't sound right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 1: I miss not an eighty movie game now, but Rematch
Speaker 1: is interesting.
Speaker 4: It's a world where an invisible force field surrounds a
Speaker 4: soccer pitch, and that is one of the things I
Speaker 4: feel like is the one of the coolest parts of
Speaker 4: this game, where it has this arena soccer sort of vibe.
Speaker 4: It is uh, it's made by slow Clap who did cefu?
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of that kind of like technical
Speaker 4: sort of there's not fighting in this game, but the
Speaker 4: but if you can imagine a soccer game playing like
Speaker 4: it was designed by fighting mechanics people, it starts to
Speaker 4: make sense, it does. I think I think this game's
Speaker 4: pretty good. I think it's I think it's almost equal
Speaker 4: parts frustrating and satisfying because I think there's a few
Speaker 4: quality of live things that maybe need to be sweetened
Speaker 4: over for me to really really really.
Speaker 1: Jump in.
Speaker 4: With with, you know, with everything right. The camera controls
Speaker 4: are a little weird, and I've still not fine tuned
Speaker 4: them in a way a lot camera lock I've been
Speaker 4: searching for that there is I've not discovered. Yeah, And
Speaker 4: you know, I think that's why there seems to be
Speaker 4: this sort of like developing argument of like what's the
Speaker 4: best way to control this game on PC, whether it's
Speaker 4: key mouse and keyword or controller mouse and keyboard was
Speaker 4: working really well for me, Yeah, and I think I
Speaker 4: might start to go that route. I think what's hard
Speaker 4: about this game is it's sort of you know, the
Speaker 4: play to really effectively play well as like a three
Speaker 4: or four or five person team and have good experiences
Speaker 4: with teammates is you need people to like understand through
Speaker 4: balls and kind of like, really, I guess have a
Speaker 4: fundamental soccer.
Speaker 1: I was playing with Randos. I don't think I got
Speaker 1: the ball passed to me once.
Speaker 4: It's crazy, and you can call for the ball too,
Speaker 4: and you can kind of like lead people in the
Speaker 4: right direction. I think the shooting mechanic is very cool
Speaker 4: because it's sort of this like third person thing where
Speaker 4: you have to like target the radical to where you
Speaker 4: want to and then kind of cook a shot and
Speaker 4: let go and work it that way. The juggling stuff
Speaker 4: is interesting. It's just sort of it's it is approachable,
Speaker 4: but a little bit deeper than you might think with
Speaker 4: the technicality and the kind of like arsenal of soccer
Speaker 4: maneuvering you have at your disposal while you're playing it.
Speaker 4: I I'm a jury still out for me on it.
Speaker 1: I enjoy it.
Speaker 4: I've played a lot with Dibb, who loves soccer and
Speaker 4: was and loves Rocket League, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is a shoe in and he was like, I
Speaker 4: hurt the scurry one more time.
Speaker 1: Let's play again. Let's play again. Let's play one more time.
Speaker 4: You know, so there's that that's going on, which I
Speaker 4: guess is better than just hating it all together. So
Speaker 4: so yeah, I mean, how did you find it?
Speaker 1: Grub Yeah, I mean I found myself thinking I'd rather
Speaker 1: be playing Rocket League most of the time. Not that
Speaker 1: I think this is a bad game. I just like
Speaker 1: think that, uh that you know, there's more depth here,
Speaker 1: and Rocket League limits what you can do in terms
Speaker 1: of like what your character is actually capable of. You
Speaker 1: can't do a rainbow kick to yourself, like where you
Speaker 1: tick it over in the back of your head in
Speaker 1: a lance in frontia and you do a sweet move
Speaker 1: like you could do that, or like there's no button
Speaker 1: combo that just does that. You can maybe you can
Speaker 1: maybe get so good to get the card to do that,
Speaker 1: but that's a different thing like that. There's a huge
Speaker 1: skill ceiling there, Like the scale floor required to play
Speaker 1: rematch is much higher. I think now. I still think
Speaker 1: I was having a good time when I was playing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially when I got in goal and like that there,
Speaker 1: because it's like unlike Rocket League, it turns you into
Speaker 1: a goalie, like you stand back and you use your
Speaker 1: hands and you can like die dive back and forth,
Speaker 1: and I felt like there, it's like, you know, I
Speaker 1: have decent reflexes for something like that. That's where I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, at least here, I feel like I
Speaker 1: can contribute to the team and not scrub too bad.
Speaker 1: And then when you do scrub, it feels really bad
Speaker 1: because oh I like down the whole team. But I
Speaker 1: was still having a pretty decent time. So I think
Speaker 1: I might be in a similar place to Dib.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, there's good.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, Goldtending I think is really good.
Speaker 4: There is a for my taste too charitable, of a
Speaker 4: sort of like forgiveness zone of what a goalie can
Speaker 4: kind of get away with, you know, just sort of
Speaker 4: like sucking in just by like a proximity sort of situation.
Speaker 4: I think overall it speaks to like the physics in
Speaker 4: this game just being a little wonky and kind of
Speaker 4: like just not you know, just sort of their own laws,
Speaker 4: like they kind of exist on their own planet that
Speaker 4: don't really they're very close to Earth, but they're not Earth.
Speaker 4: One to one was what we were gonna say.
Speaker 1: Dan.
Speaker 3: Now you know we are playing Friday, We're playing in
Speaker 3: the UPF against men Max.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh okay, cool.
Speaker 3: Sarah Janet and Leo. So I think we're gonna do
Speaker 3: it three on three on Friday. Do I need to
Speaker 3: a put in a bunch of practice time? I haven't
Speaker 3: played it? And b do I need to know how
Speaker 3: soccer works?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: All you need to know about soccer is ball and
Speaker 4: net good. But like the sides, ic, no need to
Speaker 4: know not in not in this version of it. In
Speaker 4: real soccer, there's a lot of rules.
Speaker 1: There's no rules. I don't think there's like even like
Speaker 1: fowls right, you can go nuts.
Speaker 4: I would play the tutorial like a lot there's and
Speaker 4: it's not just there's an opening tutorial and then you
Speaker 4: can dig down on a more granular level. Okay, that
Speaker 4: stuff I think will be helpful for you. I you know,
Speaker 4: it's tough. It's like you you for me, it's frustrating
Speaker 4: because it's like I know what I want to do
Speaker 4: in this game and I'm just not able to do it.
Speaker 4: And maybe that's a practice skill issue thing who knows, but.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: That's that's always going to handcuff you and a frustrating
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 1: I think the difference is is like in Rocket League,
Speaker 1: I want to do the thing and I know why
Speaker 1: I'm not good enough, and I just got to like
Speaker 1: try to get better at like doing the combination of
Speaker 1: buttons that I already have at my fingertips. Here it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm forgetting a button. I need to
Speaker 1: be holding down LB and the pass button to do
Speaker 1: a lob pass, and then I hold down RB in
Speaker 1: the pass button to do a different kind of pass,
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, I got to keep all that
Speaker 1: in my head, and it's just I'm not there yet.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a lot of sports games, so it's like,
Speaker 1: not like this something I'm holding specifically against rematch. But
Speaker 1: for me, this is so Rocket League coded that I
Speaker 1: was kind of going there expecting like this is going
Speaker 1: to be simple, simple, simple, and all the complexity, all
Speaker 1: the depth would become what can you do with this
Speaker 1: simple set of tools? And it's like here, now the
Speaker 1: tools are a little bit more complicated. Do you want
Speaker 1: to try to take the time to get good at that?
Speaker 1: And I guess I kind of do. I think this
Speaker 1: game is still fun and worth that, but at this
Speaker 1: point it's still mostly an exercise and frustration for me.
Speaker 4: You're right, I was surprised with how kind of inaccessible,
Speaker 4: it is, right. I was surprised with like, how out
Speaker 4: of the how much out of the gate You're sort
Speaker 4: of lost.
Speaker 1: A little bit.
Speaker 4: That's even with a little bit of that tutorial.
Speaker 3: That's unfortunate because like I have for a long time
Speaker 3: wanted to see some form of return to like you know,
Speaker 3: jam Blitz just kind of that like, oh, grub, I
Speaker 3: know you're not like that.
Speaker 4: This is less that though anyway.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like that's the thing. I saw some people invoking
Speaker 3: the name of like jam and Blitz and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and I've always wanted that to come back as Arcade
Speaker 3: Sports simply.
Speaker 1: This is definitely an Arcade soccer game. It definitely is, but.
Speaker 3: It's not Sega Soccer Slam or Mario Stra.
Speaker 1: There's not like power ups and stuff like that. Right,
Speaker 1: there's still power ups, but it definitely it reminds me
Speaker 1: a lot of Sega Soccer Slam.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, I mean, you know, I just
Speaker 4: we're just I just feel like we're gonna constantly avoid
Speaker 4: doing this for hockey again. And it's just like at
Speaker 4: every given turn Mario Sports see the slow clap, like
Speaker 4: someone just do it for me. People are making like
Speaker 4: roguelike hockey games, and it's like, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: We got to get the global South into hockey. Until
Speaker 1: that happens, I just well, I get it.
Speaker 4: You know, you twisted the knife pretty deep when you
Speaker 4: asked if there was icing in this game.
Speaker 1: Damn that hurts.
Speaker 3: I know. That's not I represent sports things that don't
Speaker 3: triggered me.
Speaker 4: Yes, taste the tape was really good, but like you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's it's not exactly what I'm looking for. But hey,
Speaker 4: we'll see.
Speaker 2: All right, gang, that about does it for video game talk. Uh,
Speaker 2: And we're gonna go get to the news right after
Speaker 2: we take a quick bricky break after I do this
Speaker 2: on the virtual machine. Now, this is Jeff Crab with
Speaker 2: our NEWSPPP.
Speaker 3: Jeff Grubby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got some news first up, breaking news. Saw
Speaker 1: some super chats come on, came in. We'll get to
Speaker 1: those before the end of the program. Everybody to hang
Speaker 1: in there, all right, So let's start here. AMD UDNA
Speaker 1: graphics architecture to power next gen Xbox and PlayStation. AMD's
Speaker 1: next generation U DNA graphics architecture, succeeding our DNA four,
Speaker 1: is expected to power the GPUs of both the future
Speaker 1: Xbox and PlayStation consoles, placing them a generation ahead of
Speaker 1: the Radion RX nine thousand series in capable of handling
Speaker 1: demanding trip A titles like GTA six. Is what this
Speaker 1: story said here. Leak suggests you DNA will offer a
Speaker 1: twenty percent increase in faster performance per blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: see you. All that stuff doesn't matter. Basically, the story
Speaker 1: here is these companies are making next gen consoles, and
Speaker 1: both of them are sticking with the AMD partnership, and
Speaker 1: AMD has a new grad like they're not going to
Speaker 1: do just like a slightly updated version of our DNA four.
Speaker 1: Now it's our DNA five. It's going to be No,
Speaker 1: they have a whole next gen architecture, so it'll be
Speaker 1: in that line, but significantly more powerful. They're not changing
Speaker 1: things up a lot, essentially, and I don't think many
Speaker 1: people were expecting that, although we does feel like at
Speaker 1: a point we're going to like reach a certain point
Speaker 1: where they look around, like, wait, should we try to
Speaker 1: really change things up with our next maybe Xbox, not
Speaker 1: necessarily PlayStation. I expect PlayStation to kind of just stay
Speaker 1: what it is because it's working for them. But there
Speaker 1: was talks of maybe Microsoft going with a more mobile
Speaker 1: like processor risk architecture Risk five or something like that,
Speaker 1: And it doesn't sound like they're doing that at all.
Speaker 1: They're just going to make another Xbox. Does that sound
Speaker 1: appealing to you all?
Speaker 5: H I am just so curious how they're going to
Speaker 5: present this thing, what it's going to be like, you know,
Speaker 5: you say, oh, this a new architectures look better? What's
Speaker 5: that actually going to look like?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 5: What is that?
Speaker 3: What is that?
Speaker 1: Buzz reel sizzle, real trailer look?
Speaker 5: You know, like switch To had a challenge convincing people
Speaker 5: that it's new hardware was exciting, and at least they
Speaker 5: had the trick of we're not that used to seeing
Speaker 5: a lot of Nintendo games at sixty fps, and like
Speaker 5: four K still an Xbox as well past that, Like,
Speaker 5: you know, I I guess it's lucky that they'll have
Speaker 5: a GTA six, Like, look how this looks on the
Speaker 5: next Xbox. I suppose, But boy, it just seems like
Speaker 5: it's gonna be a challenge for this company that's not
Speaker 5: in a great position and also keeps firing people and
Speaker 5: it's supposedly going to be firing more people soon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a story that was popping up that I
Speaker 1: include that here in the rundown doesn't look like it.
Speaker 1: They are reportedly going to lay off even more people
Speaker 1: from Xbox specifically. I think the last round of Microsoft
Speaker 1: layoffs kind of nicked Xbox a little bit, but didn't
Speaker 1: do much with the ones before that clearly certainly did.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right, it's it's it's this weird thing
Speaker 1: where they you know, the whole marketing campaign is everything's
Speaker 1: an Xbox. We'll talk about their the VR headset here
Speaker 1: in a little bit about all that's an Xbox now too,
Speaker 1: from from Meta and so they essentially have moved past
Speaker 1: the need for the Xbox, but they're gonna make another one.
Speaker 1: And you know, at a certain point, does it just
Speaker 1: become like a Panasonic v VCR that's just like another
Speaker 1: VCR on the shelf, And does that make sense, like
Speaker 1: consoles are such a specialized thing. I don't know. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'll say I'm relieved that they're not leaving the hardware space.
Speaker 1: I do think PlayStation will need a little bit of
Speaker 1: a check in terms of making sure they don't go
Speaker 1: completely off the rails with Hubris, But I don't know
Speaker 1: how much of a check this is actually going to
Speaker 1: be And I don't know do I need an Xbox
Speaker 1: next Generation. I really like using my Xbox A Series X.
Speaker 1: It's a good console to use, but I don't think
Speaker 1: about it much beyond that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I start to like tuned out every time we
Speaker 2: start talking about the next generation of consoles, just because
Speaker 2: of how right, what does it even mean? Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't want to say underwhelming. This current next gen has
Speaker 2: been but like PS five is about to be five
Speaker 2: years old, right.
Speaker 1: It's characterless, It's it's it's like, yeah, it just doesn't
Speaker 1: have any character.
Speaker 5: I did like the phrase current next gen.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's so dumb because no one knows
Speaker 2: how to talk about it.
Speaker 4: But that's that actually tracks though.
Speaker 3: To say that. But like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: The only console I'm currently excited about is the switch to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I do not, Oh gosh, I don't think about
Speaker 5: my places if I have my Xbox Series X like
Speaker 5: at all.
Speaker 1: At the moment, I'm just thinking someone pointing out in
Speaker 1: chat that we're halfway through the two thousands, we are
Speaker 1: a quarterway through this century, which I suppose is why
Speaker 1: shut the un New York Times did that the top
Speaker 1: one hundred.
Speaker 5: Uh, it's finally time to give way of water.
Speaker 1: It's uh huh, Chuck build a tool on Giant Bomb
Speaker 1: where people can vote for their favorite games of the
Speaker 1: century so far. That's an easy ask. Yeah, that's easy.
Speaker 1: Let's just do that in this afternoon, and then I
Speaker 1: want that's everyone's favorite game of the century so far.
Speaker 1: Go Dan Reikert.
Speaker 3: Wait, you go around, because I made an actual list.
Speaker 1: Jeff go up. Don't thinking, Oh, Prince Person lost crown?
Speaker 1: Good Jana choa Shadow of the Colossus. Jeff Becker, what
Speaker 1: was the question? I know, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's too much pressure. Don't come back to pick one.
Speaker 5: You have to pick one or bad things are going
Speaker 5: to happen the next ten seconds.
Speaker 1: Got to show it to you. Just resident Evil Village,
Speaker 1: very good.
Speaker 3: Pick between one and one hundred. One seventeen okay, Well
Speaker 3: one is Breath the Wild is the best of the
Speaker 3: last twenty five years. Number seventeen is Red Dead Redemption
Speaker 3: the first one. Okay, and I.
Speaker 5: Will say Super Mario Odyssey.
Speaker 3: There we go. Oh, you mean the third best game
Speaker 3: of this uher century. I'll also throw in Dead Cell.
Speaker 1: Oh I love Dead Cells. There's a lot of Dead
Speaker 1: Cells disrespectors among us. Jan did you know that? Including
Speaker 1: it's not incredible?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What yeah?
Speaker 5: I know this is with me.
Speaker 1: Sean Turbos doesn't like Dead Cells.
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, I mean the forty fourth best game
Speaker 3: of the last twenty five years. A forty four is
Speaker 3: pretty good. It's a It makes the hundred below Lost
Speaker 3: Crown but above San Andreas.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5: They added all that Castlevania stuff to it, and I'm like,
Speaker 5: surely this will make me like Dead Cells more and
Speaker 5: not really.
Speaker 1: We already have a database of how much where can
Speaker 1: it possibly be?
Speaker 3: What about Hades? Where does Hades?
Speaker 1: Oh? Haities is super high up there?
Speaker 3: Oh, let me see where Hades is. Hades is the
Speaker 3: eightieth best game since Do.
Speaker 1: You think Haities is worse than Dead Cells?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's below Ninja Guide in two thousand and four,
Speaker 3: but it's above Crazy Jackson.
Speaker 1: Wait, so where's retnal?
Speaker 3: Let me see? That was the seventieth best game of
Speaker 3: the of this.
Speaker 5: I do like jeffard I, it's hater's only like proportionally
Speaker 5: uh huh, Like.
Speaker 1: The number one hater move is well, compare it to
Speaker 1: this thing. Yeah, that's the best way to argue. Right,
Speaker 1: it's the worst in the best. Yep, all right, it
Speaker 1: might be Hey, guess what. Back to the weather talk,
Speaker 1: it might be too hot to play your switch To
Speaker 1: on the go. This week, a heat wave is sweeping
Speaker 1: across the United States, bringing high temperatures to millions. As
Speaker 1: record breaking temperatures are expected in North America and Europe
Speaker 1: this summer, it's important to be mindful of using handheld
Speaker 1: gaming devices like the switch To or the Steam Deck
Speaker 1: in the heat. Nintendo recommends using the switch in ambient
Speaker 1: temperatures between five and thirty five degrees. That's in that's
Speaker 1: woke temperatures. It's forty one to ninety five degrees fahrenheit
Speaker 1: and freedom temp. If the device gets too hot, it
Speaker 1: has an automatic sleep function to prevent overheating. This can
Speaker 1: occur if the events are blocked or the unit is
Speaker 1: used in hot environments. I kind of want to test this,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to break my switch to.
Speaker 2: You have another one, Grub just bust that bad boil.
Speaker 1: You could just steal the other one from I did
Speaker 1: actually end up opening the second switch to. I knew
Speaker 1: would hey go yeah, now they were a switch for household,
Speaker 1: and Emmy's still using hers constantly for not Minecraft. All right,
Speaker 1: Nintendo has fixed it's London underground ad which claimed that
Speaker 1: Metroid Prime four was out now turns out that's not true.
Speaker 1: They were lying they I guess they just removed the
Speaker 1: photo Shop player that they clearly just borrowed from the
Speaker 1: Mario Kart one and left on top of Metroid Prime,
Speaker 1: and they got rid of the out now part and
Speaker 1: it just says does it say twenty twenty five or
Speaker 1: coming soon twenty five? Yes? There it is. Yes. The
Speaker 1: original poster may have had twenty twenty five hidden underneath
Speaker 1: the out now message. So still coming this year?
Speaker 3: Dan REICHERT, Huh, it's not until I have it in
Speaker 3: my hand, not until I'm playing it on my screen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it still counts against you even if it's
Speaker 4: not in this moment.
Speaker 3: You will dave it's available, then I lose. But I
Speaker 3: don't think it's gonna come out this year.
Speaker 1: When do you guys think this game is out? I
Speaker 1: asked a check for their thoughts for Game Morning. I
Speaker 1: think we'll get that poll later. But it's like I said,
Speaker 1: like maybe I already asked that, but it was like summer,
Speaker 1: fall or holiday.
Speaker 5: I always associate November with Metroid because just because of
Speaker 5: Metric Prime. Still, I think that makes sense. Not December. Oh,
Speaker 5: if it's December, we're gonna have that one of those
Speaker 5: really fun not eligible for game awards, but we're gonna
Speaker 5: remember it next year kind of things.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like metroc Prime is if you ask
Speaker 3: me to name like a winter Break game. I remember
Speaker 3: getting the Platinum GameCube and Metroid Prime for Christmas and
Speaker 3: like O two and just playing the hell out of
Speaker 3: it all winter Break. Like there's something about Metroid that
Speaker 3: it's like, maybe it's Fernander or Our Drifts or something,
Speaker 3: but it seems winter.
Speaker 1: That's how you say it. Yeah, Flander Drifts. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And they announced like the Mouse Double Mouse Joy con
Speaker 2: Switch game is coming out August, right.
Speaker 1: Did that get a date? Drag to Drive or Drag
Speaker 1: Across Drive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna say October for Metroit.
Speaker 3: Okay, twenty twenty five. Damn.
Speaker 1: We don't want to get this out of it.
Speaker 4: I love how serious you are about it.
Speaker 1: Then it's you're.
Speaker 3: Really on it.
Speaker 1: I listen every day last year, every day he becomes
Speaker 1: slightly more possibly correct and it drives me insane. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out of my mind if it comes to
Speaker 1: Billboard said twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: They just reaffracted that before the Billboard did lie.
Speaker 3: Just trust every billboard.
Speaker 5: I can't think of anybody who trusts billboards more than you, Bro.
Speaker 1: That's like a very specific and accurate assessment van recordboard marketing.
Speaker 1: We should get a billboard, Yeah, I would love that.
Speaker 1: We should bring Greig Miller got one for his birthday once.
Speaker 3: I think, Yeah, folks out there, like if you live
Speaker 3: in just some like weird rural area with a stretch
Speaker 3: of highway and you know it's cheap, I would love
Speaker 3: for us to get up. We have.
Speaker 1: There's a giant digital like mega bright like the digital
Speaker 1: billboard right next the highway, not far from where I live.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look into that and see if we can
Speaker 1: get one on there.
Speaker 2: Do we know anyone that I don't know works for
Speaker 2: whoever does the billboards for Times Square? Because I don't
Speaker 2: want to pay for that, because that's very expensive.
Speaker 1: I bet I bet they make you pay.
Speaker 2: No, of course, I would just think it's hilarious. We
Speaker 2: do one of those videos like people do of like.
Speaker 3: Oh I just made it onto this show, and the
Speaker 3: show has.
Speaker 2: A billboard and it's just like the five of us, Like.
Speaker 1: Man just like looking lost. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3: Please give me the homey hookup.
Speaker 1: Mario Kart World producer says it didn't seem necessary to
Speaker 1: add characters from other Nintendo games. The producer of Mario
Speaker 1: Kart World, koy k Yeah Yeah Yeah Bookie, explained why
Speaker 1: the game doesn't feature crossover characters from other Nintendo franchises
Speaker 1: unlike Mario Kart eight. He stated that the development team
Speaker 1: felt non Mario characters would be incongruous in a Mario
Speaker 1: themed world, weren't necessarily giving given the existing wealth of
Speaker 1: Mario characters and costumes. Wasn't necessary blah blah blah. Yeah
Speaker 1: but who cares.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I kind of get it because, like, especially
Speaker 3: with all the costumes and everything, like and and adding
Speaker 3: all these like if you can be a para bitty bud,
Speaker 3: you know, I think between smash brothering all out or
Speaker 3: having a bunch of weird, obscure Mario characters, I think
Speaker 3: I would take the obscure Mario characters.
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying. I'm enjoying the cast of characters that are
Speaker 1: that are in this game as it is. For sure,
Speaker 1: if they introduced a bunch of Nintendo characters though over
Speaker 1: the next five years, I would also be happy, Like
Speaker 1: there's plenty of room for them.
Speaker 5: I don't think it needs to be like Super Smash
Speaker 5: Brothers cart but I did like an eight when you
Speaker 5: know you'd get one here and there. Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 5: You know we get the DC O, d DLC. Hope
Speaker 5: we get link. I hope you get some other surprises
Speaker 5: the game. You know when Metroit Prime for because they'll
Speaker 5: give me Sam miss and a Mario Kart. Finally, it'd
Speaker 5: be fun.
Speaker 2: I want the new design of Donkey Kong. We have that,
Speaker 2: but like with like the the overalls and everything that costume. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's well, there's only one costume for Donkey Kong right now.
Speaker 3: It's just space for Donkey Kong. I think they're.
Speaker 5: Gonna maybe add more.
Speaker 3: All right, it's good. I played a lot. I had
Speaker 3: the family test over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Really fun with friends and family.
Speaker 3: It's just a lot of local four players stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was a lot of fun, a lot of I
Speaker 3: found that people, even like casual people that don't play
Speaker 3: a lot of games, like my sister Katie and my
Speaker 3: dad Knockout Tour. People love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I'm surprised, but uh yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like I think my early problems with it
Speaker 1: were just like I enjoyed playing Mario Kart eight Delox
Speaker 1: so much just as a game on its own by
Speaker 1: myself and like just like getting into the racing and
Speaker 1: uh here, it's like, now, this game they clearly just
Speaker 1: made to be played with part like at parties or
Speaker 1: online with friends, and in that context it's always really good.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, Kyle and I one of those nights
Speaker 3: I was home, we just like sat on the couch
Speaker 3: and loaded up a room and said to the discord
Speaker 3: like hey, join and we just played for like hours
Speaker 3: and it's just a blast. That's yep, so good multiplayer
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 1: So related leaked Sonic Racing crossover officially unveiled, bringing Nickelodeon
Speaker 1: stars to the track. Nickelodeon and Sega have officially announced
Speaker 1: their Sonic Racing Crossworlds collaboration, which will feature SpongeBob SquarePants characters, vehicles,
Speaker 1: and a track. Future Nickelodeon content from The Avatar and
Speaker 1: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universes is also teased. The
Speaker 1: Nickelodeon characters will be available in the Digital Deluxe Edition
Speaker 1: or via a season pass, which also includes Minecraft content
Speaker 1: and characters from Sonic Prime. The game is set to
Speaker 1: be released on September twenty fi. This is a game
Speaker 1: that I had a lot of fun playing at Summer
Speaker 1: Game Fest. I thought that that collaboration with SpongeBob looked
Speaker 1: very cute and fun. But it does kind of rub
Speaker 1: me a little bit the wrong way, where, hey, this
Speaker 1: is a series that once had all of this cool
Speaker 1: Sega stuff in there, and is this in there in
Speaker 1: place of that, And that's a I do view that
Speaker 1: as a little bit of a bummer. But I have
Speaker 1: no complaints about SpongeBob.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I thought you were on the wrong side of history.
Speaker 1: No, I stand with SpongeBob.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Also, I may have accidentally changed my input games Jay,
Speaker 5: and let me know if I ruined everything with my microphone.
Speaker 5: But uh, yeah, I'm the same, Jeff. I don't know, like,
Speaker 5: it's a little cute to have these characters in They
Speaker 5: have multiple Nicktoon card games.
Speaker 1: They had their shot. Uh, there's two of those yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I'm such an old Sega ahead that
Speaker 5: you know, what I'm hoping for is more old Sega characters, right,
Speaker 5: like give me the give me the freaking uh guy
Speaker 5: from Golden At in there, and three of Rage characters.
Speaker 3: And real Mike.
Speaker 2: We all know that you're clamoring for Vector Man to
Speaker 2: be in the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, I don't like no joke.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know la Comic Zone guy.
Speaker 1: Comic Zone guy. They're bringing back Comic Zone and that.
Speaker 5: Stuff, you know. And we've got some say A characters announced.
Speaker 5: I know how soon a Meeku counts as a stay
Speaker 5: a character. Maybe you know, I'm the ones that I
Speaker 5: care about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the Space Harrier guy just running next to everybody.
Speaker 1: That'd be cool.
Speaker 5: Great, Yeah you know, yeah, I get yeah, I put
Speaker 5: Joker in there. Of course, it put each of the
Speaker 5: on get the newer people.
Speaker 2: Oh that Joker, I'm sorry I was the first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joker, Joker.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they got Joking Phoenix in the movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's who I think of the game.
Speaker 3: Act That makes me sad.
Speaker 2: How come no one had Joker or Joker folio do
Speaker 2: on their New York Times Top ten?
Speaker 3: I know, weird that was left off suspiciously.
Speaker 2: Okay, I get it, I get it all right. I
Speaker 2: might put a Star is Born online thinking I kind
Speaker 2: of like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me something, jum Jan Milandro and Chat says, uh,
Speaker 1: Times Square Billboard, you could submit an image that displays
Speaker 1: on a rotation. Individuals a hundre fifty dollars, and for
Speaker 1: brands it's two hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3: What the fuck? I'll do that right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what does that even mean?
Speaker 3: Again?
Speaker 1: Just like a slideshow like you up there for five
Speaker 1: seconds every hour or something like that. But I feel like.
Speaker 4: There's eighty thousand screens in the screen.
Speaker 1: Okay, guys, it's one comment and chat. I don't have
Speaker 1: all the details, all the answers. All right, Well, here
Speaker 1: coming for the King Jesus. There's five of us.
Speaker 2: We all pick a direction to look at for a
Speaker 2: couple hours and then shot shot north. Okay north, I'll
Speaker 2: take west.
Speaker 1: No, this means we have to go to Times Square.
Speaker 1: I'm out there's.
Speaker 3: A there's an Olive garden there, guys.
Speaker 1: Oh, we'll meet you at the Olive Garden Times Square.
Speaker 1: I'll be right.
Speaker 5: Fuck a restaurant there, can get some donkey sauce.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm.
Speaker 3: So excited to have a mustard on a hot dog.
Speaker 3: I'm genuinely excited about that. I have not had the
Speaker 3: opportunity yet, but I didn't have mustard a few times
Speaker 3: over the weekend. And like a hot dog, hot dog
Speaker 3: gonna soft pretzel. Those are those are so happy.
Speaker 1: So happy, that's say forty, I know, like a grown ass,
Speaker 1: fucking man. I'm so excited to one day have mustard
Speaker 1: on a hot dog.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 2: The Mustard Arc is now out on YouTube.
Speaker 1: It's sure, by the way, everyone go check that out. Yep,
Speaker 1: all right, leaked? Or no, I already did that one.
Speaker 1: Arc system Works is hosting a showcase this week featuring
Speaker 1: the next project by Guilty Gears creator. Arc system Works,
Speaker 1: known for its fighting games, will host a showcase on Friday,
Speaker 1: June twenty seventh, announcing new titles and projects. This includes
Speaker 1: a new project from Dice Kate Ishawatari, creator of the
Speaker 1: Guilty Gear series. While a new Guilty Gear title is possible,
Speaker 1: it's not confirmed. Guilty Gear Strive came out in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one did very well on Steam, outperforming even games
Speaker 1: like Street Fighter five and Tech and seven at the time. However,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, dokay other details. There's also like a
Speaker 1: rumor I don't know if there's any juice to this
Speaker 1: that Arc system Works is going to work on a
Speaker 1: Hotel Dust game, but Nintendo I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know that's that was mentioned this morning. I saw somewhere
Speaker 1: and I was like, what does that mean. Apparently they've
Speaker 1: made games that are like similar to Hotel Dusk in
Speaker 1: the past, and that like popped up around the time
Speaker 1: of that Hotel Dusk the trademark getting renewed or something
Speaker 1: like that. So I think people are drawing connections where
Speaker 1: there might not be any. But either way, I'm ready
Speaker 1: to see some more stuff from Arc system Works. What
Speaker 1: are they doing right now? They have to con.
Speaker 5: Right, yes, but a new project is the creator of
Speaker 5: Guilty Gear the same guy who created Blaze Blue, because
Speaker 5: that's another ARC thing, I assume, so I would like
Speaker 5: another Blaze Blue. I always like blays Believing more than
Speaker 5: Guilty Here apparently, no, that's not the same person. I
Speaker 5: don't we'll find out.
Speaker 2: I was talking to Christian a bit Christian from Argentina,
Speaker 2: do you think ARC system Works is just done with
Speaker 2: Dragon Ball Fighter Z Fighters for now.
Speaker 1: Like that game, I bet you would think we would
Speaker 1: get another one, say, oh, come back around. They're going
Speaker 1: to do Marvel first, right, the Marvel's gonna be taking
Speaker 1: all that energy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, But what I'm saying is like they're
Speaker 2: probably pausing on whatever work they would have been doing
Speaker 2: for another dragon Ball game in favor of this current license,
Speaker 2: which is Marvel.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think that's that team. So yeah, don't don't expect
Speaker 5: that anytime. Fighters to Fighters with even more zs.
Speaker 1: The director of Hotel Dusk Works at arksis, Oh, so yeah,
Speaker 1: is there some other thing like about master compilation. I
Speaker 1: think there was just a a the Hotel Dusk trademark
Speaker 1: got renewed, and that like that's right, popped people off
Speaker 1: in a bunch of different directions. I don't know if
Speaker 1: anything's actually going to happen there. All right, another showcase
Speaker 1: next week, rasting Evil, Requiem, Pragmata and more to appear
Speaker 1: at Capcom Showcase that is happening in two days. It's
Speaker 1: gonna happen on Thursday at three pm Pacific time, six
Speaker 1: pm Eastern forty and it's it's gonna be one of
Speaker 1: those capcom showcases, mostly just an update on stuff we
Speaker 1: already know about, Probably not too many new announcements, but
Speaker 1: who knows. They have a lot to show off though
Speaker 1: more from Monster Hunter Wild's more from street Fighter six.
Speaker 1: I did check out Elana what's her name in Elena
Speaker 1: thank You? And street Fighter six on switch To and
Speaker 1: that was cool. But yeah, they have more characters coming there.
Speaker 1: Pragmata and Residuvil Requiem will also show up there. This
Speaker 1: is probably where they show off the the video demo
Speaker 1: that I got at Summer Game Fest for for Requiem.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, think about that. That.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now I'm like a little bump because like I
Speaker 5: already saw that, but yeah, they're gonna want to show that,
Speaker 5: right that's not public yet, yes, exactly, so it's good sot. Yeah,
Speaker 5: people enjoy that part because you know, there's a lot
Speaker 5: of rumors about what else is in Requiem, and it's
Speaker 5: even clear that they're holding back, and I'm wondering if
Speaker 5: we're gonna like see that stuff now or if that's
Speaker 5: still coming a little bit later.
Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit later is now go ahead, gri
Speaker 1: because I was gonna make a joke that if Pragmata
Speaker 1: is a secret Mega Man game. Mike's not allowed to
Speaker 1: play it on Monday even.
Speaker 3: Gaming anywhere else anywhere else played on the misshow Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask, is it too early to expect
Speaker 3: to see anything more from uh the Okami sequel?
Speaker 1: Too early?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That cames out next year.
Speaker 5: Six a year comedy.
Speaker 1: It definitely had a year.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Definitely a nope, no year. I thought,
Speaker 1: I swore they talked about a year at the SGF.
Speaker 1: All right, well, fair enough.
Speaker 5: I'm at the official web page for I don't see
Speaker 5: anything about.
Speaker 1: It, okay, all right, they announced it was indevelopment. Well
Speaker 1: they showed it to us at Summer Game Fest, which
Speaker 1: we're allowed to say.
Speaker 5: So they comedy mixed up with one Musha.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, my bad, Yes, I was getting commedy mixed
Speaker 1: up with Anniemusha. O. Comedy's not out for like seventeen years.
Speaker 3: I was talking Aboudama, right, yeah, definitely, yeah, they're gonta.
Speaker 1: Uh is then on this short list?
Speaker 5: That's strange?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Animusha I thought was out like this year. Maybe. Okay, man,
Speaker 1: that's my that's my brain just doing tricks on me.
Speaker 1: I know they both start with the right yeah, and
Speaker 1: then the kind of end eyes too. I gotta keep
Speaker 1: that in mind. That's a big part of it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Skate's early access release window has been narrowed down EA
Speaker 1: Skate reboot is slated for an early access release in
Speaker 1: summer twenty twenty five. A major play test update is
Speaker 1: scheduled for July second, and players can register as a
Speaker 1: Skate Insider until June twenty seventh to participate. This update
Speaker 1: will bring significant improvements, including presentation improvements, a higher player
Speaker 1: limit of one hundred and fifty, more missions and challenges,
Speaker 1: a streamline tutorial, and additional character customization. Full Circle The
Speaker 1: developer has confirmed that Skate will will require a permanent
Speaker 1: online connection connection blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is a game that I think people are still
Speaker 1: kind of concerned about because the rumblings coming out of
Speaker 1: people who have been in some of these tests have
Speaker 1: been a little bit like it's not there yet, but hey,
Speaker 1: they're promising improvements. Maybe this one will change things around.
Speaker 1: But it does sound like they are trying to, like
Speaker 1: barrel towards eventually releasing this game, maybe even this year.
Speaker 2: Still, I feel so bad for skate because I feel like,
Speaker 2: you know, partially because of this website, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of hype for Skate Flour. And then in that process
Speaker 2: of Skate Flour being developed, teased, shown, tested, and everything,
Speaker 2: Tony Hawk came back mm hmm and reminded everyone that
Speaker 2: Tony Hawk is.
Speaker 1: Yes, but what jan are you a skate person? Because
Speaker 1: I was never a skate guy. Okay, So when people
Speaker 1: were saying they want Skate four and now this game
Speaker 1: is going to be skate but like it sounds like
Speaker 1: it's gonna be skate but like you just hang out
Speaker 1: online and do skate stuff, and everyone's like, that's not
Speaker 1: what I want. I'm like, well, how is it gonna be?
Speaker 1: How is it different? Like what would you be doing
Speaker 1: different in like your ideal version of Skate Flour. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: I think it's just like the trick lines and everything.
Speaker 3: The people in the same way that.
Speaker 2: People that have continued to play Splatoon are like freaks
Speaker 2: with Splatoon. The people that have continued to play Skate
Speaker 2: or freaks with it because they've turned the physics into
Speaker 2: something like Tony Hawk. But in terms of what I'm
Speaker 2: looking for when I say I want Skate four is like,
Speaker 2: I kind of want that smooth control with like flicking
Speaker 2: the analog sticks to like pull off tricks that.
Speaker 1: I assume that this is going to have all that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but you know, none of.
Speaker 3: The other.
Speaker 2: Skate clones or games inspired by skate have necessarily pulled
Speaker 2: off good enough physics that kind of rides the line
Speaker 2: of feeling Arcadie and feeling sim ish. Because there was
Speaker 2: that Gate Skate game, skating game that came out I
Speaker 2: think last year that it felt pretty close, but it
Speaker 2: could it didn't quite capture all of the miscellaneous random
Speaker 2: stuff that like the Skate franchise brings because like skate,
Speaker 2: you know, they really play up the fact of like
Speaker 2: being a skateboarder and like trying to get on magazines,
Speaker 2: getting the right angle.
Speaker 3: Of a trick and everything. What was that game? I
Speaker 3: went to an event for that session that sounds.
Speaker 1: Gre's Skater Skater Excel or Session.
Speaker 3: I think it was Session. I believe it was Session.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was very skate like, which I've always been
Speaker 3: a Tony Hawk guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I hope that this game does deliver.
Speaker 1: I I like the idea of hanging out on friends,
Speaker 1: but hanging out hanging out online with friends and skateboarding
Speaker 1: and setting stuff up and then they're being at as
Speaker 1: long as there's actual constructed missions as well along alongside that,
Speaker 1: and players can just mess around with those things if
Speaker 1: they choose to do so. I mean, to me, it
Speaker 1: sounds like a pretty good setup, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not a skate guy, so I'm not the one
Speaker 1: that they have to figure out and please all right,
Speaker 1: Xbox is Surprise. Mediquest three S VR headset is out now,
Speaker 1: but supply is quote extremely limited. Xbox and Meta have
Speaker 1: partner to release a limited edition Mediquest three S Xbox Edition,
Speaker 1: available for four hundred dollars. The bundle includes a custom
Speaker 1: one and twenty eight gigabyte Mediquest three S matching Touch
Speaker 1: plus controllers, a limited edition Xbox Wireless controller and Elite Strap,
Speaker 1: three months of Meta Horizon Plus, and three months of
Speaker 1: Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. So the idea is this is
Speaker 1: just a Mediquest three S kind of in the same
Speaker 1: way that the Xbox Asus rog ally is just a
Speaker 1: rog but you use this to access Game Pass and
Speaker 1: to stream games through the cloud to your headset. With
Speaker 1: the Xbox controller, which some of the people can do
Speaker 1: right now. But since everything is an Xbox, why not
Speaker 1: call everything an Xbox. It's kind of what they're doing here.
Speaker 1: I don't know there.
Speaker 4: Everything is in Xbox is just like we're going to
Speaker 4: put the sticker on everything.
Speaker 1: I mean it literally is what's happening with this? Yes,
Speaker 1: it's strange, I mean to me when I hear it.
Speaker 1: The supplies extremely limited. It kind of feels like a test,
Speaker 1: like they're going to see if people care about this
Speaker 1: sort of thing, and my guess is they won't. I
Speaker 1: don't care about this. Yeah, I mean, well it does
Speaker 1: have an elite strap. Uh shit, I didn't consider the
Speaker 1: alien strap.
Speaker 4: So I think we got to like redo the calculation.
Speaker 2: Make you know you're okay with that with your your significant.
Speaker 1: Get consent first. Absolutely.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Uh, I guess you know. I'm not really worried about
Speaker 1: playing my Xbox in general, much like I said, I
Speaker 1: enjoy using it when I do. But them finding other
Speaker 1: ways to like bring Xbox into my life so far,
Speaker 1: and nothing's been as compelling as the rog ally, and
Speaker 1: even that is only compelling to a point because I'm
Speaker 1: like that's just a PC handheld, which I've had a
Speaker 1: bunch of years now, and this one, I guess I'll
Speaker 1: have to get my hands on to see if I
Speaker 1: care about any of the improved they've made to that experience.
Speaker 1: But as it stands right now, it's like, Okay, I'm curious,
Speaker 1: but that's the best you got from me. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's gonna do it for the news though. So
Speaker 1: jan I'm handing the show back over to.
Speaker 3: You, folks.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take another quick break, you break, and after
Speaker 2: that we will be back with emails and super chats.
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Speaker 2: Simon from Saskatchewan has continued to write in Thank You
Speaker 2: Simon Simon writes in oh a BombCast, the Mandarin word
Speaker 2: for egg is dan. Coincidence. Yes, there's a very unpleasant
Speaker 2: egg dish in part of China involving urine. Not gonna
Speaker 2: say here though, although I found it called Dan the
Speaker 2: thousand year egg dish repulsive, it's worth looking up if
Speaker 2: you don't know what it is. Can be rude to
Speaker 2: refuse food in China, so I felt like I had
Speaker 2: to eat it. The reason we eat chicken eggs instead
Speaker 2: of duck and turkey eggs, although also delicious and healthier
Speaker 2: for us, is because chickens need less space to lay eggs,
Speaker 2: they do it faster than other birds, and they don't
Speaker 2: have strong maternal instincts over their eggs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're like, fuck it, I don't care eighty six dollars.
Speaker 1: No, let's see what I care.
Speaker 2: The state that produces the most eggs is Iowa, followed
Speaker 2: closely by Ohio.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Eggshell color doesn't mean anything in terms of healthiness or taste.
Speaker 2: It's based on genetics and usually the feather color around
Speaker 2: the hen's ears. Now there are those like shoot ears
Speaker 2: or is that your like hen's ear is like a
Speaker 2: word for anus for chickens.
Speaker 1: I think it's for It's definitely a euphemism for anus.
Speaker 1: You got it.
Speaker 4: I'm not happy with the chicken anatomy. Can we just
Speaker 4: skip over this part?
Speaker 2: Kloaca eggs last longer in the fridge. Many places around
Speaker 2: the world think we're weird for putting them in the fridge. Also,
Speaker 2: it's best to wash, slash, rinse your eggs before cracking them.
Speaker 2: Think of where it's been parentheses. The kloaca negative negative
Speaker 2: eggshells are great for the garden, and they're good source
Speaker 2: of calcium for plants. They're not good in an omelet.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the content. Simon from Saskatchewan ps. Can Paul
Speaker 2: be a regular feature on Giant Bomb? Generally seems like
Speaker 2: a cool dude, seems like the Midwest guy you'd.
Speaker 3: Like to have a drink with.
Speaker 1: Wow, Simon, dogs do I didn't know that?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: I know, I don't know, So you're gonna change your
Speaker 4: tune after the beginning of this podcast.
Speaker 3: He could be good to have drinks with. I've had
Speaker 3: thousands of drink Yeah, and just protect your dogs, you know.
Speaker 3: Actively hurt any dogs. But yeah, just indirectly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just didn't do the lever on the trolley problem.
Speaker 1: All Ye, he just didn't pull the trigger. You're right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not going to defend that he bought the gun
Speaker 4: and the bullet eggs.
Speaker 5: Just yes or no?
Speaker 3: Doesn't that have to be a whole thing? Again, Dan
Speaker 3: three point zero doesn't entertain this. But chicken eggs were
Speaker 3: never in chicken's asshole?
Speaker 1: Well, yes it was.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's what that's the whole That's why I said
Speaker 4: a different chamber that the whole thing is klok is.
Speaker 1: One chamber where it all happens.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, so it said the piss and ship and
Speaker 3: eggs is all the same hole.
Speaker 1: That's listen. I'm no expert, but that's my understanding of
Speaker 1: what a coloache is versus genitaliaand.
Speaker 3: That and I don't need to elaborate.
Speaker 1: It's also proof there's no god.
Speaker 3: So we should eggs.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Like, what if we should eggs? What if
Speaker 1: we should eggs?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: What if we were Yeah, that's what we do, then
Speaker 1: it's normal.
Speaker 4: That exactly I was going to say, especially based off
Speaker 4: the hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. Sure, that'd
Speaker 4: be weird if we started tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow, like that would be in the news, right headlines.
Speaker 1: Humans around the world shooting eggs explicably. If you started
Speaker 1: shooting whole eggs and it didn't hurt, didn't cause any problems,
Speaker 1: would you tell anybody? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Like if I just went to go take a ship
Speaker 3: and I look down and they're like six eggs in
Speaker 3: my toy, Like yes, And it's like.
Speaker 4: The question isn't what would you tell anyone? The question
Speaker 4: is would you cook them.
Speaker 1: Three eggs and this economy?
Speaker 3: I would. I would tell Bianca, and then I would
Speaker 3: do a video call with a doctor.
Speaker 1: Sure, okay, I would call my video call. This isn't
Speaker 1: worth traveling the video call. I just hold up hut
Speaker 1: the finger in there? Yeah, okay, you're in.
Speaker 2: Say you had to go, you decided to go to
Speaker 2: the er. Would you bring those eggs or would you
Speaker 2: just tell them?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Bring It's like you know when like your stomachs having
Speaker 3: weird stuff and they ask you to bring in like
Speaker 3: a fecal sample or whatever. They would want to see
Speaker 3: the eggs to quest diagnostics.
Speaker 1: And you go to the er and there's another guy
Speaker 1: cross the room with a basketball of eggs and looking
Speaker 1: at each other. You too, what a weird zombie movie
Speaker 1: that is?
Speaker 4: That's a disease that makes you ship eggs?
Speaker 3: I would watch that.
Speaker 1: That's fucked up.
Speaker 2: Man's like, all right, next email, it is a little
Speaker 2: bit of a serious one. This comes from Dave in Roseville.
Speaker 2: The heads up there after that, Yeah, this is a
Speaker 2: little bit more real, gang, Dave from Roseville rights in
Speaker 2: Becoming the better version of you is hard. Dan's recent
Speaker 2: journey into becoming his upgraded self has inspired and both
Speaker 2: enraged me. Small amount of context. I'm forty and I've
Speaker 2: just now realized I've pretty much pissed away most of
Speaker 2: my life. So I've made the effort to become my
Speaker 2: two point zero, I must say, though doing so requires
Speaker 2: so much paperwork from therapists, psychiatrists, the doctors and Jim's.
Speaker 2: You all have been with me through so much that
Speaker 2: could be a short story in of itself. If this
Speaker 2: gets read, tell me how you crawled out of the
Speaker 2: darkness and at least started the journey of being a
Speaker 2: better you. If not, thanks for all you do. Dave
Speaker 2: from Roseville, now soon to be ex sad sack of shit.
Speaker 3: I know, davirom Roseville wonderful. I don't know. I'm sure
Speaker 3: it's different for everyone. I don't know. With me, it's
Speaker 3: I always like self improvement and everything. And I think
Speaker 3: over the years, even those who probably watched me for
Speaker 3: a long time realized that, Like, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: things I like about my father that I got from him,
Speaker 3: and there's a lot of things that drive me nuts.
Speaker 3: And over the years, I've seen the things that drive
Speaker 3: me nuts and I've seen them in myself, and I've
Speaker 3: been like, oh shit, I don't want to make other
Speaker 3: people feel like that, because this is genuine infuriating. Because
Speaker 3: like there's the stuff that is like infuriating in a funny,
Speaker 3: fun way and stuff like that, and I'm fine with
Speaker 3: keeping that. But then there's also stuff where it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I don't want to be closed minded like this. I
Speaker 3: don't want to be you know, a certain way. So
Speaker 3: like recognizing the things that frustrate me, I guess and
Speaker 3: him specifically, and doing everything I can to you know,
Speaker 3: excize that for my own personality. That's that's been a
Speaker 3: guiding thing for me.
Speaker 2: I would say, yeah, Dave, as someone that is completely emotionally, mentally,
Speaker 2: spiritually still fractured. I would say what you're doing already
Speaker 2: is steps enough, and any type of progress is progress.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be days, weeks, months where it feels like
Speaker 2: a certain Blake Club episode where there's zero proggies, but
Speaker 2: like every incremental step is still a step forward. And hey,
Speaker 2: even you writing this email and taking some of those
Speaker 2: steps of like getting a therapist, a psychiatrist, even thinking
Speaker 2: about going to see a doctor for physical health and
Speaker 2: going to the gym is good because also you want
Speaker 2: to do this for yourself.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah, it's got to come from there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh. For me, it's always been like a natural
Speaker 1: process because what happens is I always find myself kind
Speaker 1: of moving away from things that I dislike. And there's
Speaker 1: nothing I dislike than me from five years ago where
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh man, I did that man?
Speaker 3: That sucks.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be that guy anymore, and so
Speaker 1: I'm always trying to like be better than that person.
Speaker 3: That I used to be.
Speaker 1: That kind of annoys me. So it's like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna keep trying to improve or self reflect at
Speaker 1: the very least and try to find the way to
Speaker 1: deal with these problems, which usually is just put a
Speaker 1: little bit of work in, try to have a little
Speaker 1: inner strength and find yourself and be a little bit better.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think it's normal and healthy to look
Speaker 3: at past versions of you, and I think, like, you know,
Speaker 3: I look back, you know, even five ten, the different versions,
Speaker 3: and I'm just like, oh man, what a dumbass? What
Speaker 3: did I And what a dumb ass I think. But
Speaker 3: I think that's a good sign that you're looking at
Speaker 3: that with open eyes, And I think it's.
Speaker 1: Better than the people who don't seem to ever self reflect.
Speaker 1: I do feel better than those people.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah.
Speaker 2: And also, Dave, if you know you're you're looking for
Speaker 2: tips or miscellaneous things to do in the process of
Speaker 2: improving yourself, I would highly suggest go read, Go go
Speaker 2: read more, and and maybe read something out of your
Speaker 2: normal wheelhouse, even if it's something simple like a cookbook,
Speaker 2: just because there could be like fun little things to
Speaker 2: introduce into your life that you could get from stuff
Speaker 2: as simple as like a cookbook. Maybe be a little
Speaker 2: bit wary of the type of stuff you're reading, because
Speaker 2: sometimes some of these improve your life books are kind
Speaker 2: of a little bit of a snake oil because they
Speaker 2: just want to hoodwink you into paying for courses or whatever.
Speaker 3: Don't do that. A lot of them, though, are just
Speaker 3: like you know, because I've read plenty of them too,
Speaker 3: with like anxiety and things like that. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 3: of them you could just like they've got like three
Speaker 3: or four ideas of like here's the way you can
Speaker 3: you know, if you have a panic attack to you know,
Speaker 3: calm down or whatever. And then it's like it's padded
Speaker 3: out to be a full book, and it's like I
Speaker 3: normally wouldn't be one to just like Sparks notes something
Speaker 3: or cliff notes or whatever. But like a lot of these,
Speaker 3: like self help ones are just like Okay, you're just
Speaker 3: like this is way too much here, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yet yo, Dave, feel free to send in
Speaker 2: progress along to the BombCast, I demanded. Yes, yes, I
Speaker 2: think was May or June mental Health Awareness month.
Speaker 1: We're doing it again. Let's do it again. It may
Speaker 1: never mind then, don't don't get in touch with us,
Speaker 1: nice Mike, But.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, it's an important thing. I know
Speaker 2: that we've we've been very vocal as of late about
Speaker 2: politics and stuff.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Fuck ice.
Speaker 2: But also at the same time, I think dudes, specifically
Speaker 2: dudes in our demo should talk about their mental health
Speaker 2: more to destigmatize it.
Speaker 3: Yep, it's not to me that, like, because I feel
Speaker 3: like there have been so many huge strides forward in
Speaker 3: that in recent years, and like it's I can't imagine
Speaker 3: not being open about how you feel about things with
Speaker 3: the people around you, you know, with your friends, with
Speaker 3: your family, or your loved ones. Like that just seems
Speaker 3: like the most unhealthy thing to not just.
Speaker 1: Be completely you only get on what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, talk to people about how you're feeling.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, go watch High School Musical three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we're saying.
Speaker 5: Some of you are saying, Dan, I want to wat
Speaker 5: High School Musical with you.
Speaker 3: We should do a film.
Speaker 2: Okay, I know this is a long list now of
Speaker 2: film in forties, but we have to do here, starting with.
Speaker 1: The Angels and Demons, Angels and Demons and then a
Speaker 1: Ricchio interlude, finishing it off with the Da Vinci Code,
Speaker 1: and then at the High School Musical trilogy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, okay, Gang, moving on?
Speaker 2: Uh Peter Wrights in Hi, I'm watching Dan play Sonic
Speaker 2: O six and just need to know mount rushmore volcanoes
Speaker 2: and games.
Speaker 3: Tecan is one of them, right obviously, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: Tecan Boy Techon might be number one. There's the one
Speaker 3: on the lunch in Kingdom and Mario Wataseee. That's a
Speaker 3: fun one because you go up there, oh yeah, a
Speaker 3: good one, Dan, yeah or something right, like you put
Speaker 3: food and there's like a soup and a boss fight.
Speaker 3: So honestly, Teking I think Teching is number one.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, I'm trying to think of other volcanoes
Speaker 1: in video games.
Speaker 3: Oh, the volcano resid Eval five that Wesker is falling.
Speaker 1: In Death Mountain is a volcano that you go into
Speaker 1: the breath. That's dormant volcano, and there's lava in there.
Speaker 3: Death Mountain. There's lava in every fucking dungeon, Okay, with volcano,
Speaker 3: with a volcano. I'm sure this probably is in the
Speaker 3: scientific explanation. But I picture a volcano. You need a
Speaker 3: big hole at the top and it needs to be
Speaker 3: filled with bubbling, brewing lava. And that's not what.
Speaker 1: Uh, Death Mountain mountain looks like.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It's not a bowl of lava, correct, But it's a volcano.
Speaker 3: No, I wanted to look like the baking Soada volcanoes. Okay,
Speaker 3: like it needs to look like this with a hole
Speaker 3: on top. I want a mashed potato volcano.
Speaker 1: But that's that's gonna limit you because there's only so
Speaker 1: many cartoon volcanoes and video games. Dragon row Stylin's got one, right, good, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Dragon Roo Styland's fine. Yeah, although it's not like is
Speaker 1: it Mount rushmore Worthy? I don't know?
Speaker 3: All right, well, this is great.
Speaker 2: We've we've loosely picked some Alex and Bendigo Australia has
Speaker 2: given us all homework to do before the next BombCast
Speaker 2: evening Bombers.
Speaker 3: I'm sending you.
Speaker 2: I'm sending you all homework of a metal album to
Speaker 2: listen to. Oh Dan You Get From Beale Street to
Speaker 2: Oblivion by Clutch bluesy hard rock. I'd be surprised if
Speaker 2: you haven't tried this band already. I have not heard
Speaker 2: you've heard of Clutch, Jan Thank you Praise. Armageddonism by
Speaker 2: Blood Command, pop punk inspired fun Mike gets Ziltoid the
Speaker 2: omniscient two thousand and seven version by Devin Townsend. It's
Speaker 2: a musical about an alien that tries to destroy Earth
Speaker 2: in search of the Best Cup of Coffee. Devon's very operatic.
Speaker 2: If you like Iron Maiden, you should like his voice.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's a good call for Mike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I was worried about Mike's choice.
Speaker 1: That one sounds perfect for him.
Speaker 2: Jerf Mariner by Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas one
Speaker 2: of my favorite albums. Okay, grub giving your preferences for
Speaker 2: a Colorado night, there's really only one choice. Absolute everywhere
Speaker 2: by Blood Incantation. Enjoy the black Hole Bud.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm going in deep.
Speaker 3: I expect full.
Speaker 2: Essays on your assignment for your assignment next week. Don't
Speaker 2: actually do this. Alex and Bendigo Australia. All right, praise armageddonism.
Speaker 2: I do love some pop punk inspired stuff. All right,
Speaker 2: moving on. Uh, let's see, Oh we have another quiz.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, this one comes from Matt in Scotland. Let
Speaker 2: me pull up the uh the answers here. Hey, Bomber's
Speaker 2: been an on and off listener since I was fifteen.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, what the fuck does that even mean?
Speaker 2: I don't Oh my god, fifteen Wow.
Speaker 1: Oh they're fifteen and a half now, so.
Speaker 2: Right, Wow, it's only it's been a few months and
Speaker 2: now I teach English literature to teenagers. What God wow,
Speaker 2: I Home homeboy and I are probably around the same age.
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 2: One of the best, slash worst parts of my job
Speaker 2: is the slang, which I am now an unwilling expert
Speaker 2: on so much so here's a quiz with a series
Speaker 2: of hypnw words that you can test yourself with to
Speaker 2: make you feel old and disconnected from the youth. Enjoy
Speaker 2: and keep up the great work. Matt from Scotland. Okay, uh,
Speaker 2: basically we're there's twenty six words. I'm gonna say the
Speaker 2: slang and you you'all tell me what you think it means. Okay,
Speaker 2: no real scores for this will work together.
Speaker 4: No, scores don't matter. Points don't matter.
Speaker 2: Let's go all right, yes, yes, whose line is it anyway?
Speaker 2: Rules number one Sigma.
Speaker 4: Cool, just like someone who's like doing it right Max.
Speaker 2: Final boss Okay, generally we got that right. It means good?
Speaker 2: Uh Beta.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Like, uh, I'm sorry? What was that? Mike yep?
Speaker 2: Week number three skibbity evil okay bad? Sure sure sure
Speaker 2: for mewing one that's.
Speaker 1: Like putting your tongue to the top of your mouth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like it's touching your face in a like a
Speaker 4: soothing way.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's like the wrizzler.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the rizzar's probably you and constantly. Yeah, no, it's
Speaker 1: it's just like the proper tongue placement in your mouth.
Speaker 2: Well, according to this quiz, it means looking good.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right. Yeah. It's named after a doctor
Speaker 1: named Mew or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, uh oh I get what you were saying now, Mike,
Speaker 2: ha ha, I don't know how to pronounce this one, Phantom.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's what you hold the old company when you
Speaker 5: buy it from them.
Speaker 4: Uh. I think it's like uh when you when like
Speaker 4: you remember you used to grab like someone's food and
Speaker 4: like snack inspector that.
Speaker 1: I think that's right back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're.
Speaker 1: Like yeah fan tax though I betant so someone who
Speaker 1: bummed like bummed like food off a friend in a
Speaker 1: video once on YouTube or something.
Speaker 5: I always just do the poison testing A poison tests
Speaker 5: all they had the poison right here, Okay.
Speaker 1: Phantom is an American content creator and he's done stuff
Speaker 1: with what's the big you twitch guy that like the
Speaker 1: biggest twitch guy I show speed the other one Ky sanat.
Speaker 1: Yeah he was on and I think he ate food
Speaker 1: once he says phantom tax.
Speaker 4: Right, okay, all right, well it's not phantom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's phantom.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sus suspicious, but it also but it is, but
Speaker 4: it's also sometimes skewed with like a sexual innuendo.
Speaker 1: Sure you're being like, you're being sussy.
Speaker 2: Well when you add baka twists sussy baca, yes of course.
Speaker 2: All right, well that's not on the list. Seven negative
Speaker 2: aura just bad vibes, right, self explanatory, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: xbot heat yes.
Speaker 3: Actually number eight mad lit that's just Mike mananti.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So you can take brittlet, you can take American litter
Speaker 5: youn take mad lit.
Speaker 2: Okay, that means stylish. I'm gonna skip through some of
Speaker 2: these because these feel a little bit old. Thirteen looks maxing.
Speaker 1: That's what you're trying to, like, do weird things to
Speaker 1: you to make you yourself as handsome as possible, to
Speaker 1: make yourself an alpha that attracts females.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I'll take it. It means being attractive nineteen chougie, slow, chugy.
Speaker 1: Man could be. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 5: I can't even think of it. I can't even get
Speaker 5: wonder on to connect with another one in my brain
Speaker 5: with some kind of word association. It's and then he
Speaker 5: could possibly.
Speaker 2: Mean it means out of date and trying to be trendy. Okay,
Speaker 2: some of these other words, the words I'm skipping, mad
Speaker 2: lit epi, mog big l no, cap bust an eight
Speaker 2: op ohio bet.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wait, what is is that? Just when you're calling a cat?
Speaker 2: It's a filler? No, that's yeah, that's a filler expression
Speaker 2: for excitement or laughter. Let's see because of samoa Joe, Yes,
Speaker 2: what about jittle yang.
Speaker 3: That's not real.
Speaker 1: That's a dessert at at the Filipino fast food restaurant
Speaker 1: that you like jan.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that is correct, but it also is an
Speaker 2: attention grabber.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can call someone agitle yang. Actually,
Speaker 1: don't do that, Yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 2: And last one here but foodolu fetula hoogantula, Hey, I mean.
Speaker 1: What's foretula hoodigan?
Speaker 4: I think it just means like it's like it's just
Speaker 4: like okay, it's like nonsense, right, tan brainrot.
Speaker 2: This one is the most specific one because it means
Speaker 2: someone overweight and seeing as less than oh it's me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that is.
Speaker 4: Such a stud is too many syllables for that, but
Speaker 4: tula tugan.
Speaker 2: I just don't know how to read properly. All right, Well,
Speaker 2: thank you Matt from Scotland for that. A couple more
Speaker 2: emails here, we'll skip a hip hop quiz because Mike
Speaker 2: is on the phone. Travis and Fargar Wrights in which
Speaker 2: of you has a favorite video game that has the
Speaker 2: lowest Metacritics score? I think I really like for shoot
Speaker 2: like the Bouncer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not bad.
Speaker 1: What's the Bouncer's metacrit score?
Speaker 3: Alright, bullet Witch total overdose, I mata critic.
Speaker 1: This is like hard like I just don't like. Keep
Speaker 1: this in my head. Metacritic form the Bouncer is sixty six.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's pretty good. Actually, know what, The First
Speaker 1: Twisted Medal is a favorite video. The First Twist Medal
Speaker 1: is going to be good, right? I like Star Wars
Speaker 1: Bounty Hunter a lot. That one. I don't know if
Speaker 1: do I love it? Though? It's a sixty eight, so
Speaker 1: Jan's got me beat there? Oh wait, that was remaster
Speaker 1: sixty five for the original.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, it's hard. This is a hard one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 2: Uh all right, okay, well we'll just move on to
Speaker 2: the last two emails of the show. This one comes
Speaker 2: from Jeff from Quebec. Hi, folks of chatting with the
Speaker 2: front desk Juter whilst checking in, and somehow through the
Speaker 2: small talk, he let me know he really likes detectives
Speaker 2: and paranormal and so on. I didn't feel like asking
Speaker 2: about the esoteric, so I asked, who's your favorite detective?
Speaker 2: The question stopped him. It suddenly felt very serious. He
Speaker 2: didn't have an answer ready yet. Obviously he has a favorite.
Speaker 2: I just confronted him with the fact, and he had
Speaker 2: to choose silence. He smiled and said in a soft
Speaker 2: but confident voice. Batman, So, using your new friend's very
Speaker 2: broad definition of a detective, who's your favorite detective?
Speaker 1: For me?
Speaker 2: I guess it's Laura Croft. Jack Bauer, cheers Jeff from Quebec.
Speaker 3: It's hard to pick Jack Bauer if he's ever.
Speaker 4: He's well, Batman's more of a detective than Jack. I
Speaker 4: like Batman too, but Jack Batman is like he does,
Speaker 4: get labeled the detective more than some people creative detective
Speaker 4: like detective comics.
Speaker 1: It's Colombo. He's the best detective.
Speaker 5: Uh, it's Monk's Columbus, the best detective. People have died
Speaker 5: on Colombo's watch, right, Like, sometimes it takes Columbus so
Speaker 5: long that yeah, that that murderer will murder another person first,
Speaker 5: and that's that's that's bad.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: I don't want that happening to me. But people die
Speaker 5: on Batman's watch all the time. I want, like, I want,
Speaker 5: I want a detective for more of a kids show thing, right,
Speaker 5: inspector gadget, then.
Speaker 1: You're definitely not going to get He inspects crime that
Speaker 1: looks like crime, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Jimmy McNulty from the Wire, that's a good one.
Speaker 4: It's I have two answers. It's Monk and oh, someone
Speaker 4: said Eddie Valiant from Who Frames Answer Mars.
Speaker 1: Mars is my favorite detective. Any value was a drug.
Speaker 1: He's a private eye.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a private eye. Like, he's a great character.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I really.
Speaker 2: Did I ever tell y'all when I cried when I
Speaker 2: found out that Encyclopedia Brown was a white kid.
Speaker 1: No, that's very funny, you cried, mom, buddy.
Speaker 5: To Encyclopedia Brown was a white kid.
Speaker 2: Well, I well, yeah, but he's like a little white
Speaker 2: detective kid. And I bought the books thinking like, oh,
Speaker 2: whose last name is brown? That like me?
Speaker 3: And then my mom showed me a cover of a
Speaker 3: different one of like, no, he's a white kid. It's
Speaker 3: like I thought he.
Speaker 2: Was like me.
Speaker 3: His first name is actually Encyclopedia. Probably yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1: Youson lost the Dog the Buster Douglas. It was very
Speaker 1: sad he was from Michigan like me.
Speaker 3: I like psych a lot, psych.
Speaker 1: Chargers welcome.
Speaker 5: That seems I could have guessed that you like psych
Speaker 5: a lot. Dannel parenthesis positive mostly it does.
Speaker 3: Your tone does not sound sounds like a Professor Laton.
Speaker 3: Professor Layton's a detective, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Professor Layton's pretty sharp.
Speaker 5: Professor Phoenix writes like it seems like an idiot, but
Speaker 5: he always gets to the right place eventually. What Phoenix
Speaker 5: Wright does in those video games is really more like
Speaker 5: being a detective being a lawyer.
Speaker 2: A lot of the time is House kind of att.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, all right.
Speaker 1: That's why I call him House because it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna do shock Holmes, but for sick people.
Speaker 2: All right, gang, That about brings us to our last email.
Speaker 2: This one comes from Bent and Banger Northern Ireland, a team.
Speaker 2: F Yi, I've started saying Jeff's Instagram user name in
Speaker 2: my head in the style of Pink Pony Club by Chapel.
Speaker 3: Rohan Jeff Grobby Grub.
Speaker 1: I think great, that's gonna be my head now.
Speaker 2: I think that says the shell to be the new
Speaker 2: mic Many Mike, Mike maynaughty, nothing, potential.
Speaker 1: No, and that that the reality is. I actually it
Speaker 1: won't get stuck in my head because I don't actually
Speaker 1: need to sing my own name all that often.
Speaker 4: Yeah, only one person seems to feed off that.
Speaker 2: I guess it also works. Alice points out it also
Speaker 2: works with Jeff Mackler Jeff. Oh, that's good too, right,
Speaker 2: Thank you, Matt and Banger that's his name, you know.
Speaker 2: Once again, thank you for sending your lovely emails to
Speaker 2: bombcasta giant bomb dot com. Mike, can I ask you
Speaker 2: to read some super chats?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Absolutely, here, I thank everybody for sending these in. During
Speaker 5: the show today, Martin Hollis says, I'm a weirdo who
Speaker 5: has a big retro game collection. Do I buy a
Speaker 5: physical copy of Man Mind's Eye to have it where
Speaker 5: it may not be playable in ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, also buy Xbox games. Apparently Kelsey Lewin on the
Speaker 1: thing was saying like they'll get four copies of Xbox
Speaker 1: versions of third party games and they sell maybe one
Speaker 1: of those. No one's buying those things, so.
Speaker 5: You should get those, so you wait like six months
Speaker 5: here so the thing's really cheap, and then buy a
Speaker 5: physical copy of Mind's Eye. I think you could go
Speaker 5: for Mine's Eye, like anything under twenty five dollars kind.
Speaker 3: Of stealed concords like there is a certain yeah appeal
Speaker 3: to that right up there. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Nice, Okay, here's what from stime catch one can't disregard
Speaker 5: the ps of my email with that new lore, poor ringo. Also,
Speaker 5: will Dan eat thirty bananas when Donkey Kong releases? He
Speaker 5: said he could do it in a previous episode.
Speaker 3: I mean there needs to be a personal incentive, but
Speaker 3: I'm not saying no.
Speaker 1: I mean, could we do it Donkey banana stream where
Speaker 1: you try to eat as many bananas as you can
Speaker 1: just for pride.
Speaker 3: Aaron Barf, you need like money in pocket for each one,
Speaker 3: but I talked Bananathon, I would do it all right, maybe.
Speaker 1: I'll talk to chat if they want to like incentivize
Speaker 1: you or something a little bit. I don't know. We'll
Speaker 1: come up with something.
Speaker 3: Can't you shoot die from eating too many bananas? We're
Speaker 3: gonna find anything too much.
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out it would have to be way
Speaker 1: more than you actually physically could eat.
Speaker 5: Let's look into this everybody before we just have Dan
Speaker 5: die from eating banana?
Speaker 1: What do you what do you think is gonna like,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna eat ask you mister, just gonna blast
Speaker 1: him with a firecracker in his face. You're not damn
Speaker 1: record safety advisor, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you get asked, but you're like you're afraid of fruits.
Speaker 1: So like like, what do you mean? All right, we'll
Speaker 1: get a beat you. We'll get he seriously could die.
Speaker 1: Can't fucking die from eating bananas? No, I think you
Speaker 1: could die from eating enough of anything? But force feed him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think you'll literally just croak?
Speaker 3: Well, what if his tommy explodes?
Speaker 2: He?
Speaker 1: I mean they die from drinking too much water.
Speaker 3: To hold your way for a week. You remember hold
Speaker 3: your Wii for a Wii?
Speaker 5: I remember that hold your Wii for a week.
Speaker 3: So when the Wii was new and it was hard
Speaker 3: to find, So the we killed someone some fucking rady
Speaker 3: know somebody. It was like a radio station or some
Speaker 3: local thing where they had a contest called hold your
Speaker 3: Wii for a wi where he had to drink a
Speaker 3: bunch of water and whoever held it longest got a
Speaker 3: free round. And this lady died. No, she had something weird,
Speaker 3: poisoning or kidneyn manfunction or something like So, yeah, trying
Speaker 3: to get a we killed her.
Speaker 4: The most abundantly available console in the.
Speaker 3: Hard find.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right, she should have died, you should Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. Never mind.
Speaker 5: Benny Killer says, shout up to my eight year old
Speaker 5: son Jack, his first baseball tournament. He's a big giant
Speaker 5: on fan and we listened to you guys all weekend.
Speaker 5: Keep it with a great work. Love this jimp on
Speaker 5: Era Pete from the LeBlanc. Congratulations to Jack.
Speaker 3: Let's go shark.
Speaker 5: Yeah Jack, My poor nephew was his. He's had two
Speaker 5: baseball tournaments, like the local town one, then the all
Speaker 5: star team for the counties, and both of them he
Speaker 5: gets to the he's doing, They're doing really well, and
Speaker 5: then they get to the final game and they can't
Speaker 5: quite pull it off. It was rough on Saturday because
Speaker 5: it was you know, like ninety six degrees. He had
Speaker 5: to play in three of these games in that one day.
Speaker 5: I was on there for two of them, and that
Speaker 5: was bad.
Speaker 1: Four hundred bananas is what Chad says. I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: starting to die. Yeah, like ten, like we're ten maybe
Speaker 1: ten again at most ten.
Speaker 5: Al says, I like how christians last name is from Argentina.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, and then I do like that and then
Speaker 5: makes it easy for me.
Speaker 3: He says.
Speaker 5: I just want to say I loved having you back
Speaker 5: on the main cast. Backalar love you man. Just put
Speaker 5: the phone away during movies. The Woodpeckers can wait hashtag.
Speaker 5: Dan was right, Oh boy, this whole thing again.
Speaker 1: That's it's not the argument still never was the argument.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, exactly. No one understands it.
Speaker 1: This is why is okay.
Speaker 4: This is why, this is why people are okay with
Speaker 4: January sixth, because you were specifically it's okay with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you very much, Breeze.
Speaker 3: That's very sweet of you to say bananas so cheap.
Speaker 1: Because we get them from countries that that's all the export.
Speaker 1: We kind of forced them the cell to us cheap.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's like ninety nine cents for like six of them.
Speaker 3: It's insane. Yeah, what.
Speaker 5: The bananas are very popular, the most popular fruit, right,
Speaker 5: I don't know. I think it is as popular in
Speaker 5: other countries as they are here. I would say apple
Speaker 5: is the default fruit in here, but I think a
Speaker 5: lot of places it's not all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think globally bananas probably are maybe oranges or
Speaker 1: the other cheap.
Speaker 4: There's there's no way bananas are cheap without widespread human suffering.
Speaker 1: Clearly, Yes, banana. Yeah, Branana Republic's got their name somehow.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. Oh yeah, do you
Speaker 1: guys play Tropico?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, but I like the box art. It's got the
Speaker 3: guy that's always like.
Speaker 1: Ah, you know, yeah, we should make dan a uh yeah,
Speaker 1: a dictator?
Speaker 4: And where and where do you land on the blood
Speaker 4: fruit banana? Mike, the blood fruit banana? Oh, I'm not
Speaker 4: a fan of that one either. No, No, for really yeah,
Speaker 4: very stinky. Pretty well, they're not as bad as apples.
Speaker 4: The gross they get on machine you step in them,
Speaker 4: and I don't like that.
Speaker 3: How many bananas have you stepped in. What what did you?
Speaker 3: A banana? Which way?
Speaker 1: The long way? The long way?
Speaker 5: It had to condom off already, so.
Speaker 4: I I will say a a very sort of like unripened.
Speaker 4: The banana is disgusting. Yeah, I can't even wrap my head.
Speaker 3: Let's let's get through the rest of these.
Speaker 1: That was it?
Speaker 2: That was it?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: People aren't sending us any more money for some reason.
Speaker 3: All right, gig, what do we got going on this?
Speaker 3: The rest of the week?
Speaker 2: Games Morning's popping off from Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Correct,
Speaker 2: mister Greb, that's right.
Speaker 1: We'll have a death Stranding quick look as well.
Speaker 2: Alters quick look Blake Club again tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Mike, is this the week?
Speaker 1: A boy?
Speaker 5: It can't be. Sorry, it's feeling like I've been doing
Speaker 5: nothing but playing Rascal for my entire life.
Speaker 1: Like I have just stuck at this game. It's gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember last time I was playing the
Speaker 1: same game this long.
Speaker 5: It hasn't beenlogy. They think if I had this many episodes,
Speaker 5: I thought that it's been that long, But it just
Speaker 5: it feels like it.
Speaker 3: Mike, you know what you need to do? I just
Speaker 3: the calendar so I do think you're gonna beat it
Speaker 3: this week.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: It didn't seem like you had that much left for
Speaker 3: Rascal and then Grub. You're out next week, right, I'm
Speaker 3: out next week.
Speaker 6: You guys should do that. The Delight Club that you
Speaker 6: guys have, the Taru Mitch, Oh Mitch, which Oh I
Speaker 6: should bring Kayla in on this. She's the expert on
Speaker 6: guitar roo Man. Yeah, Delight Club with guitaro Man could
Speaker 6: be fun.
Speaker 1: Okay, that would be good. Yeah, I want to.
Speaker 5: I don't. I could emulate it, but.
Speaker 1: Copy you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, because that's one where Lag would be
Speaker 3: fucked on that. So if you can make it, yeah,
Speaker 3: even if you can split it out. I don't know.
Speaker 5: Iasically don't like getting of these games online, but I'll
Speaker 5: make an exception for for the content.
Speaker 3: You should be able to get it for about one
Speaker 3: hundred or less.
Speaker 1: Oh, guitar Man's expensive. Oh yeah's expensive. Yes, it's like
Speaker 1: ninety bucks. Well, i'll tell you, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I'll do it anyways, for the love of the game.
Speaker 2: We also got voicemail Dump Truck this week with our
Speaker 2: dear friend Abby Russell. Make sure to go call into
Speaker 2: the show have voicemails specifically for Abby if you missed
Speaker 2: it yesterday, yesterday was Mornings Monday Mike, what is the title?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 5: Yesterday was Monday Mornings. Missed with Mitch, all right, and
Speaker 5: then of course we had Monday evening gaming at Mike's
Speaker 5: at night.
Speaker 2: I did see a comment saying, thank god you're not
Speaker 2: doing this in the afternoon, because that would change the
Speaker 2: show dramatically.
Speaker 1: It sure would.
Speaker 5: We ain't doing that. Although again, if for some reason
Speaker 5: Dan or Jan ever have to host Mega Man, it
Speaker 5: just easily becomes Mega Dan or Mega Jan.
Speaker 3: Ooh, I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: We could do that way.
Speaker 2: We announced it earlier. But this upf we will be
Speaker 2: playing rematch against min Max, so please tune in too
Speaker 2: that you'll have to train up because I know that
Speaker 2: Janet Garcia actually watches soccer and is a big fan,
Speaker 2: So like y'all, y'all need to like see cup and
Speaker 2: like get ball is life or whatever?
Speaker 3: He is your hands. I know that much. There we go,
Speaker 3: There we go. That's you're the goalie but.
Speaker 2: On the controller though, all right. And then finally, folks,
Speaker 2: for our premium members out there, we will be doing
Speaker 2: a town hall this Thursday on Discord. Got some announcements
Speaker 2: and then some other housekeeping to get out of the way.
Speaker 2: Is also a way for you the community to ask
Speaker 2: us questions directly. You can always ask questions, throw some cues.
Speaker 2: There's a Q and a channel for premium members on
Speaker 2: the Discord. I will a lot of us try and
Speaker 2: pop in on that and answer some miscllaneous cues as
Speaker 2: long as we can answer them.
Speaker 3: Folks. That about does it for the rest of the show.
Speaker 2: Anyone else got anything else they want to say?
Speaker 3: No, sick?
Speaker 1: They know they hydrated? It's really hot out.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, uh, please stay hydrated, hydrate or die rate folks.
Speaker 2: That about does it for the show. See you next
Speaker 2: week for another episode of the Giant Bobcast. He's been Mike,
Speaker 2: he's been Jeff, he's been Chef, he's been dead, I've
Speaker 2: been jan We'll see you next week.
Speaker 3: Good bye, better but.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna stop recruiting, gonna stop you Tube,
Speaker 2: gonna come back up on all of us to clap,
Speaker 2: beep and raid. Coming up in three two one. Hey,
Speaker 2: for a first test of this thing. It worked perfectly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Any robot voices, Oh yeah, any robot voices dad.
Speaker 5: Said, I was looking. Yeah, all right, Robot kept them
Speaker 5: all down.
Speaker 2: Ul Hey shout out to Chuck huh yes, absolutely, y
Speaker 2: tell me.
Speaker 1: He's busy making my top games of the century though,
Speaker 1: so he's not here to take those thanks, but that's
Speaker 1: what makes him so great.
Speaker 2: Yes, I wonder if I could just instead of sending
Speaker 2: myself this big file, what if I just put premiere
Speaker 2: on this and just edit totally move steps?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, al right, well wow the cloud anyway,
Speaker 2: let's go ahead and clap and be perspectively.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna get timed out? Is tell miss something?
Speaker 1: Oh you mod ss alright, I'm ready.
Speaker 2: I think that might be Bradley Cooper's best movie.
Speaker 1: He's counting, guy, uh whatout?
Speaker 3: American Summer?
Speaker 1: Yeah, American Summer's best movie Limitless?
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, let's go ahead again.
Speaker 1: A TV show based on.
Speaker 2: That American Sniper fifteen and twenty one five two zero
Speaker 2: Hangover Part three beautiful.
Speaker 3: There should already