Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, August fourth, twenty twenty six. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Giant Bomb Cast. I'm your host, jan Ahoa.
Speaker 1: Daddy's home joining me. Co Captain of the Ship is
Speaker 1: out on assignment, so co Captain of the Ship today.
Speaker 1: Who's going to get that title?
Speaker 2: Jeff bakalar Oh, it's only fitting, not that I have
Speaker 2: any sort of experienced with the title. Glad to be
Speaker 2: here on the high seas of podcasting with you, Jan o'choa.
Speaker 2: Let me be the first to say welcome back, and
Speaker 2: a hoy.
Speaker 1: A hoy, a hoy. I know that we have the
Speaker 1: bad boy of games media here, but we have the
Speaker 1: naughty nautical man himself, the skipper, the co captain Jeff Backler.
Speaker 1: You know, I just it just feels right sailing the seas.
Speaker 1: Permission to podcasts, sir, permission granted. We have the master
Speaker 1: of etiquette on all things radio, walkie talkies and other
Speaker 1: forms of communication. I rekert we need.
Speaker 3: To bring walkie talkies back. I like them a lot.
Speaker 3: I like using them in Big walk I like using
Speaker 3: them in real life. I think it's a cool technology
Speaker 3: and we should throw away our iPhones.
Speaker 1: Imagine a day at a theme park with us all
Speaker 1: and we just got walkie talkies? Are they Are they
Speaker 1: legal at a park? Can you have them at a park?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I want to get in the back of a roller
Speaker 3: coaster and you get in the front and we have
Speaker 3: walkie talkies and we scream at each other through the
Speaker 3: walkie talkies.
Speaker 2: You can't do that, but I like the idea. Remember
Speaker 2: those the next tel.
Speaker 5: Chirp, Yes, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I was hoping that was the future of communication. I
Speaker 1: know those were dope. Speaking about dope, we have the
Speaker 1: fastest man across the Internet, Turbo Sean. Sean Mick Doubt
Speaker 1: is on the pod today.
Speaker 6: I'm happy to be back on the show. Jan. I'm
Speaker 6: happy you're back looking like Billy Joe Armstrong. It's great
Speaker 6: to have you here. Jan.
Speaker 1: I'll take it. It's better than random people on the
Speaker 1: streets of San Francisco stopping me and saying like, hey,
Speaker 1: you look like Juntao from Rush Hour one. And it's
Speaker 1: extended past my friends at this point, and speak about
Speaker 1: my friends. We have the.
Speaker 7: Bird Boy of games media, the Cleveland streamer, my Manati.
Speaker 7: So when me and my brothers were like young teenagers,
Speaker 7: pre cell phones, even my dad, And this was like
Speaker 7: we were old enough where we could probably do the
Speaker 7: theme parks by ourselves, and my dad wanted to just
Speaker 7: rest at the hotel. So he did acquire I'm not
Speaker 7: sure how legally kind of like military grade walkie talkies
Speaker 7: and just gave us one of those, and he had one. So, yeah,
Speaker 7: we went around the set parkwakie talkie and we communicated
Speaker 7: that way if he wanted us to come back to
Speaker 7: the room. Military enormous, No, maybe military maybe military grades
Speaker 7: being a silly yeah, most questionable. I remember that. I
Speaker 7: remember that.
Speaker 1: Did he have a guy or did he just had
Speaker 1: a guy?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Would they run on?
Speaker 7: I don't really, I don't remember. It was in charge
Speaker 7: of ours, so we had like the boys had a mic,
Speaker 7: had a radio. AG was in charge with he was
Speaker 7: the oldest. Then my dad had one. We would just
Speaker 7: walk around and magic ate them come back to the
Speaker 7: room for dinner.
Speaker 1: You guys have like code names for your dad and
Speaker 1: the boys.
Speaker 7: Or no, no, not really. It was we were really
Speaker 7: having fun with it. It was just like this is just
Speaker 7: the normal way we communicate, like fun. Right then two
Speaker 7: years later, like flip cell phones became very cheap and
Speaker 7: like every teenager had them, and then smartphones from there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, can you talk to your dad and just
Speaker 2: be like, yo, uh dad, can you like show me
Speaker 2: a picture of what these radios I.
Speaker 7: Try to get more information about. Ah, probably remembers even
Speaker 7: better than I do. He's at Disney World right now, though,
Speaker 7: so I won't bother him.
Speaker 1: No, what does he do, He's just a Disney World.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, every teenager has a smart phone. You're not
Speaker 3: that much younger than me.
Speaker 7: Trying to say for some reason, was in college? Yeah, yes,
Speaker 7: I also think had my first one in college before that, Yeah,
Speaker 7: late high school. I'm a little bit younger than you.
Speaker 7: So it was like before that was super Again, we
Speaker 7: were young teenagers like Chris the youngest may have been
Speaker 7: more even like twelve or something, but it was like
Speaker 7: that's okay, right, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: It's almost yeah, very close, but okay.
Speaker 7: Yeah exactly. So yeah, that was our That was the thing, like, okay,
Speaker 7: this is safe enough. You guys go around the world.
Speaker 7: You have this walkie talkie and uh yeah, we just.
Speaker 1: Use that to the best of your knowledge as our
Speaker 1: resident Disney expert of the parks. Do you think you
Speaker 1: could bring in like radios and walkie talkies to the
Speaker 1: parks now because I feel like they'd interfere with everything.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I bet they would stop because, like I'm trying
Speaker 7: to think, I don't know if this was pre nine
Speaker 7: to eleven, that seems like maybe too early, right, so
Speaker 7: I wonder what the security checkpoint person thought of them,
Speaker 7: But maybe couldn't have. In no way it was pre
Speaker 7: nine eleven. It could not have been pre nine to eleven.
Speaker 7: So if we go through then I don't think so,
Speaker 7: and that would have been too young. I think maybe
Speaker 7: not even maybe then hmmm, I'm went there. I'm gonna
Speaker 7: have to confer my brothers to get some more details
Speaker 7: about this.
Speaker 2: It had to be before I before nine to eleven.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess I would have been like thirteen then, Yeah,
Speaker 7: it could have been. I could have been right before
Speaker 7: nine to eleven.
Speaker 6: That if it was just two thousand, yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we might not get right before nine eleven. So
Speaker 7: there wasn't the security checkpoints that they have now.
Speaker 1: So different ways to word things. Well, folks at home,
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Speaker 1: We got a bunch of stuff in the pipeline. Currently
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Speaker 1: the peeps out for the peeps out there, shouts out
Speaker 1: to the peepees, right, Mikey, Yeah, the peeps will rise again.
Speaker 1: They keep saying that, and I don't know what they
Speaker 1: mean by that. Oh okay, God, I would love to
Speaker 1: do an ad read for Blue Shoe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be fun, like a personal endorsement.
Speaker 1: I'll do it. I don't care.
Speaker 8: I guess I would do it. I would take it whatever.
Speaker 8: Who cares at this point? Yeah, just wait for them forty.
Speaker 8: Wait a few more months and then I'll be like,
Speaker 8: I got yeah, I got nothing. I'll do the blue
Speaker 8: Cheo ad.
Speaker 5: It gives you a boner. Doesn't sound like the worst thing.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think it's candy. It's not.
Speaker 2: It's like a little.
Speaker 3: Blue thing, a chew on right, chew on them or
Speaker 3: is it just a swallow situation? It was a chew
Speaker 3: starbars type thing.
Speaker 6: Well, I thought it was like a pill.
Speaker 1: I pill also blue. That's a rhymes with chew right
Speaker 1: chew in there.
Speaker 2: If you don't chew it, I can't imagine. It's like
Speaker 2: a tomb's no way, it's not anyway. Folks at home,
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Speaker 2: uh performance enhancing supplements to get you going for the
Speaker 2: newest premium season of Blight Club dropping next week. Cat
Speaker 2: Jerffman Cats out of the Bag baby is. First off,
Speaker 2: let me just preface the conversation with uh now. And
Speaker 2: also this is this is the most fun I've had
Speaker 2: in a long time. I gotta say I don't get
Speaker 2: too much. This is great. I'm having a blast with everyone.
Speaker 2: Yesterday we recorded episode that had had me giggle.
Speaker 3: In recorded that based on the long play, the entire
Speaker 3: hour plus or so episode we recorded got backler from
Speaker 3: like fifty one minutes to like fifty four minutes on
Speaker 3: the long gay.
Speaker 2: It's fine, it's been great. I see it as like vacation.
Speaker 2: When I get to do this stuff. I get to
Speaker 2: I get to like dress up and confuse all the
Speaker 2: people that are working inside the house at the lock
Speaker 2: door so that we don't make eye contact. It's fine,
Speaker 2: it's fine, it's normal. It's great, it's fine. Please look
Speaker 2: forward to this. We we are planning on a release
Speaker 2: date very soon, and I mean very soon.
Speaker 3: Yes, we have several in the can already, so I
Speaker 3: think you're ready to start putting these out.
Speaker 1: We also have multiple ideas, multiple plates spinning around in
Speaker 1: terms of other premium shows for you premium people out there. Also,
Speaker 1: not to jump the gun, but the quick look for
Speaker 1: Big Walk is out now, and if you're a premium member,
Speaker 1: a YouTube member, you can look at everyone's point of
Speaker 1: view except Jeff Grub because he has yet to upload
Speaker 1: that to the Google truck.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's correct. Apparently apparently people really like what we
Speaker 6: did there, and I thought I thought it was an
Speaker 6: interesting idea. I thought it worked out really well with
Speaker 6: the main video, which of course you can watch ed
Speaker 6: free Giant Bomb Premium. What we did is we because
Speaker 6: Adobe Premiere fucking sucks and me and Jan can barely
Speaker 6: use it anymore, and so don't worry, we're getting off it.
Speaker 6: We're trying to get over to resolve. It's happening slowly
Speaker 6: but surely. Because we can't really edit multiicam videos, we
Speaker 6: just did live switching in obs as if it were
Speaker 6: like a in person recording basically, and it seemed to
Speaker 6: go over really well. People seem to really like it.
Speaker 6: If you haven't checked out yet, definitely go check it
Speaker 6: out because I'm pretty proud of how that one turned out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, special special shouts out to Sean for running the
Speaker 1: ones and twos and having all of us yelling in
Speaker 1: his ear.
Speaker 6: That was so funny. Yeah. Production wise, so you are
Speaker 6: just using procx chat, but then I heard everyone on discord,
Speaker 6: so there were times where you were split into like
Speaker 6: three groups and everyone was yelling something different to pick out, okay,
Speaker 6: like who who noise switched to. It was really funny
Speaker 6: and a fun thing to produce.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm starting to see the Adobe hate here. Because
Speaker 3: like I've starting to adedit more videos, and my last
Speaker 3: couple have been like shorter ones, Like you know, the
Speaker 3: San Francisco Travelog was like probably what ten or fifteen
Speaker 3: or something. The steam Machine one was a lot of cuts,
Speaker 3: but shorter. I'm like forty minutes into the road Trip
Speaker 3: Travelog now with a ton of cuts and bullshit, and
Speaker 3: like I'm starting to see Premiere chugging and like, oh,
Speaker 3: all these clips in my bin aren't they don't have
Speaker 3: preview images and this thing won't actually hit play when
Speaker 3: play when I hit play. So yeah, starting to see
Speaker 3: why Premiere sucks now.
Speaker 6: Especially the videos that you've been doing Dan have been
Speaker 6: like more you have one video that you like trim
Speaker 6: and then you go to the next video in the timeline.
Speaker 6: But especially when you're doing multi caam, you have multiple
Speaker 6: sources all like together and you're like swapping between them rapidly.
Speaker 6: Premiere just ships the bed.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I ran into that too when I was trying to
Speaker 3: pixelate Mike Manatti's crotch yesterday and as you do, and
Speaker 3: I was just trying to do the mask. I was
Speaker 3: trying to do the mosaic over it and everything, and
Speaker 3: it's like it's like, oh, you want to do an
Speaker 3: AI thing. You want an AI thing to find Mike
Speaker 3: Manati's crotches. Bro, I know were Mike Manatt's crotches. I
Speaker 3: will put the rectangle over it. No, they want today,
Speaker 3: I either do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you should switch to AVID.
Speaker 3: And so we had we had Avid a w yeah
Speaker 3: that's really they were still easy to have.
Speaker 2: Avid still pretty popular.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know for shows and some shows.
Speaker 3: The reason they had is just that like vast video
Speaker 3: library from like all of that stuff was just like
Speaker 3: on Avid.
Speaker 5: And so like all the.
Speaker 3: Computers we got on AVID could access everything from every
Speaker 3: camera and.
Speaker 1: So, okay, all right, well boys, how how's everyone doing?
Speaker 1: Hows how's how how are thangs.
Speaker 7: Good?
Speaker 2: Things are? Things are good? I watched I watched the
Speaker 2: back Rooms movie. Oh okay, I enjoyed it. I like that.
Speaker 2: I want more of that please. I thought that was fun.
Speaker 2: It seems like we should be entering these liminal spaces
Speaker 2: more and fucking around with all the creep creeps there within.
Speaker 1: I will say there hasn't been well, there's several things
Speaker 1: that make me question my career trajectory and progress in
Speaker 1: my life more than Caine Parsons, a twenty year old
Speaker 1: directing a whole ass movie, and that made me stand
Speaker 1: and just like.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, yeah, oh oh, something's happening something. My back
Speaker 2: rooms are opening, all my all my memories, all of
Speaker 2: my thoughts.
Speaker 6: What the hell?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Hell, I told you the people. I'm hiding my cat
Speaker 2: Catwoman's outfit.
Speaker 7: For these people never gonna get it.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, what oh god?
Speaker 1: Are they like drilling into your room right now? They
Speaker 1: want the keyboards?
Speaker 2: Oh it's so loud.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, well.
Speaker 3: It's the question, and I just want the most dumb
Speaker 3: down answer for me to understand here.
Speaker 6: That's the worst pivot possible.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's and it's not even a pivot. Okay,
Speaker 9: the back rooms, it's a game, it's a movie. Is
Speaker 9: this the same ip? Who owns this? What was the
Speaker 9: first one? What the fuck are the back rooms?
Speaker 2: So? I'm not we should get a super eye patch
Speaker 2: wolf to maybe explain it. But the way I understand
Speaker 2: it is that the back Rooms is just sort of
Speaker 2: like an Internet phenomenon of like liminal space photography. Uh,
Speaker 2: there's there is a conflicting reports of where it may
Speaker 2: have originated. A lot of people point to a single
Speaker 2: photograph I think posted on four chan men years ago
Speaker 2: that just depicts like a back rooms photo similar to
Speaker 2: what the movie has popularized. And then Kane Parsons took
Speaker 2: his interpretation of Backrooms and made an entire YouTube movie.
Speaker 7: That's correct.
Speaker 2: He made a YouTube series that looks very the aesthetic
Speaker 2: is very similar to the back Rooms film, the A
Speaker 2: twenty four film, but that was just sort of like
Speaker 2: his interpretation of it. No one essentially owns background, So
Speaker 2: we could.
Speaker 5: Make a movie called back Rooms and just put it
Speaker 5: I can now.
Speaker 2: I don't think you could call it that, but you
Speaker 2: could certainly like have some wordplay and make it there.
Speaker 3: But a concept that has existed in several different medium
Speaker 3: for a while now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mostly born of the internet, like born out of
Speaker 2: the Internet.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like nobody nobody owns.
Speaker 2: Yeah there. And the story that Caine Parsons portrayed does
Speaker 2: deviate from his YouTube seriers that was very much into
Speaker 2: his YouTube series when it was first starting to come out.
Speaker 2: This has a much more kind of like focused story
Speaker 2: where there's maybe perhaps more answers than the way it's
Speaker 2: popularized on the internet provides. And this is a much
Speaker 2: more you know, they had like a writer come in
Speaker 2: and kind of like really give it a film sort
Speaker 2: of treatment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say it's like adjacent to like all the
Speaker 1: what is it called SCP stuff like the.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, like objects of Power sci fi kind of
Speaker 2: like appendix on the Internet. Sure, that's that's that's crossover.
Speaker 3: There, We're doing a good job. Was saying, like, no
Speaker 3: one owns vampires, no one owned zombies. It's just like
Speaker 3: a concept.
Speaker 6: Dan, I was gonna go with, nobody owns the concept
Speaker 6: of the Bermuda Triangle, Okay, stories about it. Obviously, Bermuda
Speaker 6: is a real place and everything they own the concept
Speaker 6: of like ships sail here and disappear or whatever, like
Speaker 6: nobody owns that concept the same thing here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think like the vampire stuff is that's like
Speaker 2: cryptid stuff that is now public domain. I feel like
Speaker 2: at one point someone like MGM, probably Universal Bracula.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the vampires, I don't know. Yeah, maybe we can
Speaker 1: make a chup of Cabra movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we could do that. So so we did
Speaker 2: Backrooms and I'm also I also was forced to buy
Speaker 2: my first crystal this weekend. Your crystal, I want you
Speaker 2: to describe what you think the most me crystal could be. Okay,
Speaker 2: we've we've got the color.
Speaker 5: That was easy, okay, one Mexican sunlight.
Speaker 2: And all that's bullshit. Fucking shape this ain't protecting anyway?
Speaker 2: The shape? Can you can you predict the shape?
Speaker 5: The crowning head Chaos Emerald.
Speaker 6: Crack open is alda game you know, like like coming
Speaker 6: out of the ground.
Speaker 1: Oh? Sure, like a geode.
Speaker 2: Chat's got good ones. The shape of a hockey puck,
Speaker 2: the shape of New Jersey. So did you write that
Speaker 2: could just get a hockey buck? I got. It's a cube.
Speaker 2: This is my this is my crystal. It's a black cube.
Speaker 2: It's made of shun gite.
Speaker 1: I think we can say that.
Speaker 6: I don't think.
Speaker 7: Okay, I don't remember that's even universe character. But all right,
Speaker 7: and this is.
Speaker 2: Where it bothers me. When you read about it's it's uh,
Speaker 2: it's powers, it says that it's mostly carbon. By the way,
Speaker 2: so I just got a cube of carbon in my mask.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not gonna eat it, don't worry.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: It protects you from laptops?
Speaker 1: That mean?
Speaker 2: What does that fucking mean?
Speaker 7: You know that.
Speaker 2: It protects you from laptop a specific?
Speaker 7: Does that mean about believe that that is what the
Speaker 7: crystal people wrote, you know, And I'm like, we're in
Speaker 7: the store and I'm like reading the description and the.
Speaker 2: Lady there she's just like dead fuck is here? She's like, yeah, laptops, laptops,
Speaker 2: sun microwaves, and TVs which, as we all know, put
Speaker 2: out EMFs. Yeah, it's so it's such so bad, such
Speaker 2: bad faith. I mean, I like it because it's fucking cool.
Speaker 2: I don't like it because I think it protects me
Speaker 2: from five gs. Yeah, that's not a real thing. If
Speaker 2: you're worried about that, let me tell you about the
Speaker 2: sun UV rays.
Speaker 1: Okay, does it protect PF or no? You need SPF
Speaker 1: is what it is, right.
Speaker 2: Right, We're not getting into weather. I have or do
Speaker 2: not have boats. Okay, that is again private, that's private
Speaker 2: business man. Please respect that.
Speaker 6: Brought it up.
Speaker 2: Exposed laundry.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, I believe it's Mary to blame, but okay.
Speaker 2: No, Mary, actually it is. I think you gave Mary
Speaker 2: the assist. I think she scored with your assist.
Speaker 3: We asked what your biggest passion was, and she earnestly said,
Speaker 3: he's a boat enthusiast. He loves talking about his boat.
Speaker 3: So either Jeff, married's just wildly misremembering something, or you
Speaker 3: are a boat guy and you're lying to us because
Speaker 3: you think we'll make fun of you.
Speaker 1: Did she really did? She look at perhaps the skipper
Speaker 1: photo and just stick with.
Speaker 7: That earnestly thinks that.
Speaker 3: But that was the first thing before pinball, before hockey.
Speaker 3: When I asked her, like, oh, name the passions of
Speaker 3: the Giant Bomb guys, says, well, Backlart's a.
Speaker 7: Big boat guy. He loves his boat.
Speaker 5: Okay, what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 2: And what if I did love my boat, it's just.
Speaker 7: Weird we would be hearing about it this way.
Speaker 2: Here's a lot you don't know about me. I have
Speaker 2: a private life. Do you ever think about that boat?
Speaker 7: Aren't private?
Speaker 1: What did did do you.
Speaker 2: Say about everyone else? Do you remember you can hide
Speaker 2: a boat?
Speaker 3: Surprising me because because I said, like outside of video games,
Speaker 3: named the passions of like the Giant Bomb crew. And
Speaker 3: she didn't go to wrestling with me. She went to
Speaker 3: running with Mike. She didn't go to Disney, she went
Speaker 3: to Tiki. But she's also just going off her recent
Speaker 3: experiences with us. I think so, like recently in Portland.
Speaker 3: I was running, Mike went to a tiki bar with her.
Speaker 3: I was grub You know, Greb loves talking about his kids,
Speaker 3: so that's what she said with them. And then everything
Speaker 3: came to a screeching halt when she talked about Backlar
Speaker 3: and his boat enthusiasm.
Speaker 2: Look, Mary and I have private conversations. Perhaps one or
Speaker 2: two of these details slipped out of her mouth in
Speaker 2: a moment of weakness.
Speaker 7: Okay, I want to go on your boat.
Speaker 2: I might. I don't know if that's a thing.
Speaker 1: Do you have a toilet on the boat of the water?
Speaker 2: I don't. Most boats do depend on.
Speaker 5: Your laptops on there?
Speaker 2: Do you how sick they are? No, of course, not
Speaker 2: not with my What is this called? Guy man? They
Speaker 2: got to rename the name of this fucking right. What
Speaker 2: are we doing? Chakra is root if that means something cool?
Speaker 1: Cool? Before we get to video games. I watched the
Speaker 1: New Spider Man movie. Holy Moly, good one.
Speaker 7: It's good.
Speaker 1: I liked it a lot. I don't want to spoil anything.
Speaker 1: I liked it a lot.
Speaker 7: I was to see it on Sunday and I was
Speaker 7: sick and I couldn't go.
Speaker 6: I'm supposed to see it on Sunday, but I got
Speaker 6: busy with uh work stuff. We'll talk about it in
Speaker 6: a second.
Speaker 5: Still Tom Holland you see the current one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's still Tom s heyder Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was chatting it up with someone and she
Speaker 1: had asked, like, Kirsten Dunson, Toby Maguire, right, they're still
Speaker 1: in it. I'm like, oh nope, oh friend, no, they
Speaker 1: They've rebooted it two more times since Toby.
Speaker 2: So I have a I have a legit question. I
Speaker 2: was talking about this with someone and I was like,
Speaker 2: oh they They're like, oh, it was, it was good.
Speaker 2: You should see it, And I don't even I don't
Speaker 2: even think I can. Like, I think I have to
Speaker 2: watch at least three or four films before watching this
Speaker 2: because I don't The last spider joke in the last
Speaker 2: Spider Man movie I watched with Spider Man.
Speaker 5: Two, Spider Verse one, The Spider Verse one's really good.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's those are all those those are?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, the last one was three with Toby maguire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm I'm past due and Spider Man's like,
Speaker 2: my guy, Like, I'm I'm a the movies mean nothing.
Speaker 2: I don't fucking like Spider Man, and you can see
Speaker 2: these movies.
Speaker 1: The Shun guy to carry you against Tom Holland as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it makes me allergic to Tom Holland.
Speaker 7: He's my guy. I didn't see his last six movies.
Speaker 6: No, No, that is the most sane reaction to backlar
Speaker 6: is in the right. If you like Spider Man, stay
Speaker 6: away from the Spider Man.
Speaker 2: Movies somehow validation of my interest in Spider Man.
Speaker 6: I really, because I'm a Spider Man guy too. You
Speaker 6: are okay to skip most of the Spider Man movies
Speaker 6: after that was fun.
Speaker 7: It was, you know, a little multiversey, but it was
Speaker 7: the with them all showing.
Speaker 1: Up and yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of the
Speaker 1: Andrew Garfield Spider Man's.
Speaker 2: Whatever, So so then what should I watch?
Speaker 1: I honestly think, uh, you can. I think you can
Speaker 1: just jump in on this one, Okay, I prefer that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like the director for this one. It's a more
Speaker 1: grounded Spider Man. He's not fighting some like gigantic world
Speaker 1: ending threat. It's just a dude, Okay you never had Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, has anyone seen the Spider Man noir stuff?
Speaker 1: I I like it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll just talk to a friend about that at
Speaker 7: a party because I'm just like, man like, culture is
Speaker 7: so weird because there was a Spider Man TV show
Speaker 7: starring Nick Cage and no one seemed to hair like
Speaker 7: it wasn't even like it wasn't even like a point
Speaker 7: of conversation.
Speaker 1: Just avoid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but to be fair, it's Amazon, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think that that's where shows go to death Amazon.
Speaker 7: If Disney has Spider.
Speaker 1: Man, well Disney doesn't have Spider Man, Sony has Spider Man.
Speaker 1: That was weird, Like Man and Spider Man were always weird, right, because.
Speaker 7: So now it is just Spider Man where they have
Speaker 7: to play ball with Sony on that stuff. I see, okay, but.
Speaker 2: But bigger picture, I just think like Amazon like cannot
Speaker 2: figure out a way to make TV accessible power.
Speaker 1: We're gonna I think we're gonna get into that later
Speaker 1: in the news. Uh yeah Amazon shows. Yeah, so uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't have anyone in my life
Speaker 1: to talk about the Spider Man More show, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was good.
Speaker 2: And there's like commercials even with you have Prime, Now
Speaker 2: what are they doing? What do you think you're doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't remember the last thing I went to
Speaker 1: Prime to like, Oh, I gotta watch.
Speaker 5: This for the world with ice Cube.
Speaker 7: Oh god, that was amazing. Holy shit, that was awesome. God,
Speaker 7: what incredible. Fuck.
Speaker 5: Oh that was the last thing to watch on Amazon.
Speaker 7: Actually and me too, maybe actually.
Speaker 1: Fantastic, fantastic. Well, gentlemen, I'm happy to be back with y'all.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to be viewing and watching things, but I'm
Speaker 1: especially happy to hear about video games.
Speaker 2: Games.
Speaker 1: Game Freak is a developer that Shawn and I are
Speaker 1: intimately acquainted with, and a review went up last night
Speaker 1: for Beast of Reincarnation, the game Freak game that is
Speaker 1: not Pokemon related. In our own Terribo, Sean Sean McDowell
Speaker 1: reviewed it. We did it a quick look. Quick Look
Speaker 1: is up on the site, so is the review. Go
Speaker 1: read that, Go watch the quick look where Sean and
Speaker 1: I get into it and Sean shares his thoughts. But Sean,
Speaker 1: tell the folks at home how you feel about Beast
Speaker 1: of Reincarnation.
Speaker 6: This is a bit of a weird one because so
Speaker 6: first of all, yeah, my reviews up. I gave it
Speaker 6: three and a half stars. That to me, I'm the
Speaker 6: giant bomb scale that we have right now equates to
Speaker 6: how I feel about the game. It's a good not
Speaker 6: great game. I was even feeling a little bit lower
Speaker 6: on that earlier in the game, and then you know,
Speaker 6: some things changed. They'll talk about that really like brought
Speaker 6: me around on aspects of it. So it's so unlike
Speaker 6: anything that game Freak has done, because they've done plenty
Speaker 6: of non Pokemon games throughout the years. Usually they put
Speaker 6: one out every like five or so years something like
Speaker 6: that that's not Pokemon, you know, like Genesis games like
Speaker 6: Pulseman to like Drill Doze around the GBA, to like
Speaker 6: Park Pocket Card Jockey and stuff that they have ideas
Speaker 6: sometimes that they want to put out there. And it's
Speaker 6: fun to be weird and like flex those creative muscles
Speaker 6: when you're not just pumping out annual Pokemon products, right,
Speaker 6: And so this one they always like a pretty like
Speaker 6: wild swing for them to do a like bloody, over
Speaker 6: the top kind of action game as souls elements in there,
Speaker 6: you know, very from Saft stuff of there's bonfires and
Speaker 6: an Estes Flask equivalent and early in the game, if
Speaker 6: you get hit like twice, you'll die, you know, stuff
Speaker 6: like that. Yeah, it's also just near Automata at home.
Speaker 6: Like everything about literally everything about it is just poke
Speaker 6: a post apocalyptic earth. It's overrun with nature of robots
Speaker 6: are running the place that are like kind of just
Speaker 6: taking over for humans and stuff like that. They're not
Speaker 6: even they're not even trying to hide it. Jan. I
Speaker 6: think the fun fact that you told me the other
Speaker 6: day is that the Japanese voice actor for Emma, the
Speaker 6: main character, is just to be in Japan, So that's
Speaker 6: kind of funny.
Speaker 1: I did find it interesting because the Quick Look we
Speaker 1: did it with the English voice actors, and I know
Speaker 1: that Emma's character is kind of supposed to be a
Speaker 1: little stoic, but the English voice acting specifically did feel
Speaker 1: a little stilted.
Speaker 6: More shit just sounds like samus and other m. It's
Speaker 6: not good.
Speaker 7: Oh no.
Speaker 1: But from like that preview event I went to, they
Speaker 1: encouraged to play with the Japanese voice acting, and it
Speaker 1: was a little night and day of like, oh, there's
Speaker 1: like dimension to the voice acting in Japanese versus what
Speaker 1: we listened to in the Quick Look.
Speaker 6: It is a very Japanese game, So I wonder if
Speaker 6: maybe the voice direction given with because language is different,
Speaker 6: you know, Japanese versus English, like things come across differently.
Speaker 6: Maybe just plays better in Japanese or something like that.
Speaker 6: And also friendly reminder with voice acting, bad voice actings
Speaker 6: usually there was all the bad voice direction. It's usually
Speaker 6: not the actors themselves. Yeah, but yeah, in terms of
Speaker 6: the game, it starts off too slow for my taste
Speaker 6: at least, Like I said, it's it's got some of
Speaker 6: those Souls elements in there. It's trying to be a
Speaker 6: little bit faster paced. You have movement options, and that's
Speaker 6: that's what really kept me going through the game, honestly,
Speaker 6: even when I wasn't really feeling the combays Emma. She
Speaker 6: so the world is like sort of overwhelm with nature,
Speaker 6: like I said, and that includes like the living beings,
Speaker 6: including Emma, where like her hair, she has almost like
Speaker 6: a Bayonetta thing going on, but instead of her hair
Speaker 6: being used for weapons or stuff like that, her hair
Speaker 6: can like turn into vines that she can then use
Speaker 6: to like boost herself like Mario using the hover nozzle
Speaker 6: and super marketside of all things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it.
Speaker 6: Feels good to sort of just like boost yourself a
Speaker 6: little bit around the levels. She can extend them horizontally
Speaker 6: to create bridges. You can hang over enemies like off
Speaker 6: of rooftops and then like stealth kill them, and you
Speaker 6: can use it as a grappling code to like zip
Speaker 6: around levels. That is very, very fun and I always
Speaker 6: had good time with that. And then the combat interestingly
Speaker 6: goes from being that more punishing style of action game
Speaker 6: to there's a skilled tree literally because it's all about nature.
Speaker 6: And once that opens up, you get so many abilities
Speaker 6: to open up the combat. I think the biggest one
Speaker 6: is the game revolves around the stagger gauge. They call
Speaker 6: it the entanglement gauge because again nature, but sort of
Speaker 6: the concept here. Again, I don't play this type of
Speaker 6: more punishing action game. I don't know if others have
Speaker 6: done this and I missed it, but they thought, like
Speaker 6: this is the one like kind of unique and original
Speaker 6: idea that I enjoyed. Is they thought, what if the
Speaker 6: stagger gauge in a game was a resource. It's an
Speaker 6: all in one resource where you start a battle and
Speaker 6: you have a little bit of it, you perry attacks.
Speaker 6: It's just secoro paarrying, where like you can guard and
Speaker 6: they'll like diminish your stagger gauge. Or you can with
Speaker 6: every period hit you like build it up. But what
Speaker 6: if it was broken up into pips and you can
Speaker 6: use it like special moves, almost like super moves a
Speaker 6: fighting game or something where you can spend pips of
Speaker 6: it to do various things. And so once you go
Speaker 6: down the skill tree and expand the entanglement gauge, you
Speaker 6: get access to so many more things and you can
Speaker 6: choose how to spend it. You can either like fill
Speaker 6: it up to the max, like this is why I
Speaker 6: specked into. You have a really long gauge that then
Speaker 6: you fill up by parrying a lot, and then once
Speaker 6: you stagger the enemy or inflict an elemental blight on
Speaker 6: them like paralysis from electricity or something like that, you
Speaker 6: can then activate basically which time from Benetta where you
Speaker 6: just slow everything down, but Emma and her wolf companion
Speaker 6: Coup can just like wail on the enemy for a while.
Speaker 6: If you've built up a bunch of abilities, you can
Speaker 6: spend them all at once, or you can use the
Speaker 6: entanglement gauge to perform special moves. You can use it
Speaker 6: for a variety of different things. You can burn in
Speaker 6: different ways. I think that was interesting. It just takes
Speaker 6: too long to get to the point of being interesting.
Speaker 6: It was like half way through my playthrough where it
Speaker 6: really clicked, and I think that's a long time to
Speaker 6: be one type of game and then almost completely switches
Speaker 6: genre into a different type of action game, something that's
Speaker 6: much faster paced, which I appreciated that back half of
Speaker 6: the game. I just think it's a weird separation between
Speaker 6: two I haven't seen something quite like that.
Speaker 1: You highlighted this in the quick Look, Sean, and this
Speaker 1: was like an issue I had at the preview event.
Speaker 1: But at the skill tree system, your skill points between
Speaker 1: Emma and Who are a shared pool, so correct it
Speaker 1: will take a little bit longer to like really invest
Speaker 1: and like get deep into either one skill tree if
Speaker 1: you want to go in one specific direction.
Speaker 6: Yes, and eventually I wasn't really thinking about why it
Speaker 6: was happening specifically, but early on, you only have so
Speaker 6: many skill points to work with, and so leveling up
Speaker 6: Emma a little bit or coop a little bit, or
Speaker 6: focusing on one of them, that's a choice you have
Speaker 6: to make. But people can even see in the quick
Speaker 6: look around like a third a way through a game,
Speaker 6: I just like blinked and I suddenly have like one
Speaker 6: hundred scale points to use, and I'm like, WHOA, when
Speaker 6: did that happen? And then so that is around the
Speaker 6: turning point around.
Speaker 7: That way my playthrough.
Speaker 6: My play through was around like twenty three hours. I
Speaker 6: think Steam says I came in at twenty three hours
Speaker 6: on the dot.
Speaker 7: Pretty long for this. Yeah, yeah, it's a little bit longer.
Speaker 6: They even, you know, pre release, they prepared me for
Speaker 6: potentially thirty hours and more depending on how much you
Speaker 6: get into some of the more side stuff. But yeah, mine,
Speaker 6: mine was a little over twenty which I think is
Speaker 6: maybe right for a game of the style of a
Speaker 6: sort of from Softy kind of thing. And I yeah,
Speaker 6: but about halfway is when I started getting a lot
Speaker 6: of scale points to really open things up in that way,
Speaker 6: I didn't have to choose between Amla and KUP, and
Speaker 6: I think that the game is as best when it's
Speaker 6: doing that, and I kind of just wish it was
Speaker 6: that way the entire game through.
Speaker 1: Sure, Sure, near the end of your time with it, Sean,
Speaker 1: would you say it started feeling more character actionly, like
Speaker 1: a Bayonetta, like a Devil May Cry?
Speaker 6: Definitely, Yeah, Because, like I mentioned, not having played games
Speaker 6: the way this starts. At least, I was kind of
Speaker 6: asking her on like subtly, do any of the frump
Speaker 6: sooff games really have like skill trees or like games
Speaker 6: sort of playing off of them. Do they? It's more
Speaker 6: about like specking into a build through like stats and
Speaker 6: then like equipment.
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, has like a kind of an ability tree
Speaker 7: and stuff, but it's not a huge deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is very much like first of all, if
Speaker 6: you played Stillar Blade, it's very similar to that, or
Speaker 6: like an action RPG skill tree like the Foul Fantasy
Speaker 6: seven remake trilogy, which you know, there's an element of
Speaker 6: that in the combat too. With a coup where you
Speaker 6: probably saw us in trailers and stuff, you can every
Speaker 6: time you parry, you are in a point for coup,
Speaker 6: and then when you have a number of points, you
Speaker 6: can then command Coup to do like sort of a
Speaker 6: just assist skill. They never get too far into that,
Speaker 6: which they maybe would done a little bit more of it.
Speaker 6: I think it could be more interesting if they did
Speaker 6: combine the frum Soft with the character action with f
Speaker 6: F seven remake a little bit more by utilizing Coup
Speaker 6: as your assist, by like commanding your your teammates a
Speaker 6: little bit more. But yeah, it's a very like action
Speaker 6: RPG or character action skilled tree, where the various branches
Speaker 6: go out to either you know, this division of leveling
Speaker 6: up all your meters or this division of leveling up
Speaker 6: your range attacks, this division of leveling up your melee attacks.
Speaker 6: And then it is kind of the funny thing about
Speaker 6: doing a literal tree is that all that stuff is
Speaker 6: the roots that go down and then the branches that
Speaker 6: go up. Is every time Emma defeats an enemy, a
Speaker 6: literal flower will blossom and open up a new branch
Speaker 6: of the skill tree with new abilities for you to learn.
Speaker 1: sEH, I forgot to I forgot to ask. Do the
Speaker 1: weapons ever switch switch up anything? I know that you
Speaker 1: get different ranged weaponss, you get a bon and arrow,
Speaker 1: so it's just the sword the whole time.
Speaker 6: It's so it's just the sword. There are no other
Speaker 6: like weapon types. What changes about them is elemental affinity
Speaker 6: jan you point up had to find that. Of course
Speaker 6: game freak would like lean into elemental affinity Pokemon and
Speaker 6: everything like that. But the various weapons do give you
Speaker 6: different ways to stack stacks of burn, of paralysis, of binding, poison,
Speaker 6: various elemental things, and they also, like in the Lake game,
Speaker 6: combine those so you can actually like split your stacks
Speaker 6: between Like instead of every strike building burn, what if
Speaker 6: instead every strike builds a little bit of poison, a
Speaker 6: little bit of paralysis, and then you know, you know,
Speaker 6: you can hit them with two at once a little
Speaker 6: bit later on. So it's they could have done more
Speaker 6: with that as well, even just having like, for example,
Speaker 6: there's only one attack button, which isn't the end of
Speaker 6: the world, but it's they could have had something heavier.
Speaker 6: I think the only thing that really changes about weapons
Speaker 6: is that you do have ranged weapons as well, So
Speaker 6: you have a bow arrow and you can choose between
Speaker 6: either a fast firing crossbow or like a traditional bow
Speaker 6: and arrow that you know takes longer to load, but
Speaker 6: you can do more damage. But it really really the
Speaker 6: weapons just are differentiated by the elemental stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm still curious to check it out. The way that
Speaker 1: you wound up blanding with it slightly on the more
Speaker 1: positive side near the end of your time with it,
Speaker 1: Sean is still kind of incentivizing me. And also just
Speaker 1: the general morbid curiosity about checking out a game freak
Speaker 1: game where that is not a Pokemon game, and I.
Speaker 6: Think I think it is. We did say this in
Speaker 6: quick look. I think it's you know, I hate saying
Speaker 6: this about game because I know it's detrimental to the
Speaker 6: game's perception. But it does feel like a Steam Sale game,
Speaker 6: a PlayStation Plus game. You still get a little bound
Speaker 6: that Game Pass subscription. It's out in game past day one,
Speaker 6: so you could like hap in there while you still
Speaker 6: got that sub going on. You know, However, you can
Speaker 6: approach this game a way that makes sense. Maybe just
Speaker 6: watch your favorite streamers who like action games play first,
Speaker 6: like see what Soul's has to say about it, or
Speaker 6: if you're like me and you prefer character action games,
Speaker 6: see what like a DMC streamer has to say about
Speaker 6: See see what the people who you align with say
Speaker 6: about this one. Because it's it's a bit of a
Speaker 6: weird one and the reactions were mostly around, you know
Speaker 6: how I felt about but they did vary a little bit,
Speaker 6: so I think people might feel differently about this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Beast of Reincarnation feels like it has a lot
Speaker 1: of different games in its DNA And speaking about DNA,
Speaker 1: Dan Reichert, you've been investigating the body with pathogenic.
Speaker 3: Uh yes, it's hey, it's a fun concept whenever. It's
Speaker 3: like a thing is really small and goes into a
Speaker 3: body and goes around shooting stuff. And you got avid
Speaker 3: docs for any s. I don't think anyone ever played that,
Speaker 3: but me, uh Innerspace the Martin short movie.
Speaker 2: Uh you know, like.
Speaker 7: Yeah, body Comers and Epcot Oh.
Speaker 2: God, yes, but but the inner space is better.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Rugrats episode with the watermelon seed a classic.
Speaker 3: It's a good go with the io stylin level where
Speaker 3: you go into the stomach and you gotta shoot the thing.
Speaker 1: That's fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what this is. It's a twin stick rogue light.
Speaker 3: You are like a little amoeba or something, some little
Speaker 3: molecule body thing, and you are evolving and growing your
Speaker 3: like a virus or something. And so it's almost like
Speaker 3: a pterotech legion type thing where it's like as you
Speaker 3: level up, you're evolving and getting more like nodes and
Speaker 3: everything you can attach, like oh, these flagella you can
Speaker 3: put on the back of you to to kind of
Speaker 3: propel you and move faster. On the front, you get
Speaker 3: these little like you know, things that this thing's like
Speaker 3: a shotgun. And then on the side. You can make
Speaker 3: it more like this is like a machine gun, or
Speaker 3: here's a laser, and this one is a thing you
Speaker 3: connect to your mitochondria and anything that's connected to that
Speaker 3: will have arcing energy that attacks everything around you. So
Speaker 3: you are like injury in through the skin going up
Speaker 3: the leg. There's like us in Testine Boss. There's a
Speaker 3: stomach boss. So like the biomes of the game are
Speaker 3: like as you're working your way up, I don't know
Speaker 3: field goal is to get up and destroy the brain
Speaker 3: or whatever. But it's just a really good gimmick. Everything's
Speaker 3: just very readable. Like the art style is very it's
Speaker 3: very just stark, the different like contrasts and colors and stuff, and.
Speaker 5: It's just it's mixes up a lot of things.
Speaker 3: I like, like just the concept of the theming and everything,
Speaker 3: but also like the almost like mini shoot adventures kind
Speaker 3: of twin stick element and the rogue light stuff. You
Speaker 3: are unlocking stuff. There is persistent upgrades with like your
Speaker 3: collecting DNA during your runs that you can use to
Speaker 3: you know, expand a skill tree, unlock new Amiba things.
Speaker 5: It's it's very good.
Speaker 3: I've only done a handful of runs right now, but
Speaker 3: I can tell I'm getting into it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Fanta, it's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There's a quick look for it on the website
Speaker 1: now with Chuck and grub.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'll see you guys are up to okay, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: I want to check this bad boy out. Looks pretty fun,
Speaker 7: I do. I do kind of like that idea, like
Speaker 7: let's go inside the human body. The human body is
Speaker 7: its own little weird world.
Speaker 1: That is very, very true. Seeing about weird worlds. I
Speaker 1: continue to be fascinated and appreciate the weird world of Splatoon.
Speaker 1: I've been playing Splatoon Raiders, Sean, so have you, Mike.
Speaker 1: You reviewed this a couple of weeks ago. Now on
Speaker 1: the website there's a quick look of it as well.
Speaker 1: Splatoon Raiders. What an interesting Jimmy jam huh uh Mike
Speaker 1: you what score did you wind up giving it? Again?
Speaker 7: It was there three and a half out of five
Speaker 7: where it was like yeah, kind of like what Sean
Speaker 7: said earlier about like a cent out of time. I'm like,
Speaker 7: that's a good not great game. I think it's a
Speaker 7: game that's fun, does a lot of things well, but
Speaker 7: nothing exceptionally nothing like stood out as like whoa wow,
Speaker 7: that that that thing right? I think it's Yeah, I
Speaker 7: think it's good, just not not stand out for me.
Speaker 1: I think I feel about the same. I maybe like
Speaker 1: a little I would go a little stronger. Three and
Speaker 1: a half out of stars for me, I think it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a really pretty looking switch to game,
Speaker 1: except you know, the beaches can feel little bit land
Speaker 1: when you get into those like dungeons that you're crawling into,
Speaker 1: and the Salmanid's designs and all the paint and goop
Speaker 1: spilling everywhere. I think, if anything, what I'm more excited
Speaker 1: post Splatoon Raiders is how they may potentially spice up
Speaker 1: and switch up the combat in a future Splatoon multiplayer
Speaker 1: shooter game, like with the different gadgets you get and everything,
Speaker 1: like the different styles of tanks, if they ever choose
Speaker 1: to implement that into the game, Like I would love
Speaker 1: to use some of like the splatchet or like the
Speaker 1: jump that you get, and like the weird Superman punch
Speaker 1: you get in Splatoon Raiders. Yeah, this felt like a
Speaker 1: very good game to play in like Recovery while post
Speaker 1: hospital of just like you can turn your brain off
Speaker 1: and like it's chill. It's chill. You can play a
Speaker 1: couple levels you can revisit a couple levels. I think
Speaker 1: the part that I was not enjoying is how much
Speaker 1: stress it starts to add with like the timing element
Speaker 1: of like, hey, the take it's at fifty percent, you
Speaker 1: only got thirty more seconds to fill it up all
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 7: And I'm like that that is usually the roadblock, right,
Speaker 7: That's kind of when it's like, oh, I guess I
Speaker 7: better go back some other levels and gonna make myself stronger.
Speaker 7: It's it's not survivability, which is you know, people like
Speaker 7: joke about not putting upgrade points into health this game especially,
Speaker 7: it's like, forget about that. You need to be able
Speaker 7: to do a lot of damage to some of these
Speaker 7: levels because there's a time limit. You need to kill
Speaker 7: things fast. It's not like it kind of just comes
Speaker 7: down to learning. Like you know, you have like that
Speaker 7: super move with the meter, It's like, all right, save
Speaker 7: that for the boss, I guess, and just kind of
Speaker 7: throw it out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sean, how do you wind of landing with Splatoon Raiders?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 7: I am I am curious.
Speaker 6: Jan. How into the Splatoon series are you, Like, have
Speaker 6: you played a lot of it? Are you more multiplayer
Speaker 6: versus single.
Speaker 1: Player primarily only ever multiplayer. I've dabbled in some of
Speaker 1: the single player okay and like, but it just winds
Speaker 1: up not being for me because of my introduction to Splatoon.
Speaker 1: Just much more of a social multiplayer aspect than like
Speaker 1: the solo campaign where you are on your own.
Speaker 6: That's definitely how most people play, because that's how it's
Speaker 6: really intended. But I think I lean where Mike is
Speaker 6: where I've always preferred the single player, and that's like
Speaker 6: the thing that shines for me in these games and
Speaker 6: is why I like Splatoon. I still play the multiplayer,
Speaker 6: but for me, the single player is like why I
Speaker 6: show up to the series. And so with Raiders, you know,
Speaker 6: they switch to the genre a little bit. It's still
Speaker 6: a shooter, right, but it's mostly single player. You can
Speaker 6: play at co op, but it's mostly single player focused.
Speaker 6: It's a looter shooter kind of thing. It's not what
Speaker 6: I want a Splatoon. It doesn't have like the puzzle
Speaker 6: platforming elements of the single player. It doesn't have that
Speaker 6: sort of you know, level based figure out how to
Speaker 6: get to the objective. It's kind of just you know,
Speaker 6: get to the end and like get a currency, defeat
Speaker 6: a boss or something. It's much more straightforward than that,
Speaker 6: and even to the point of like, yeah, you're kind
Speaker 6: of just walking forward. You're not really messing around with
Speaker 6: the pipes as much.
Speaker 7: There's a real level design, right, Like there's no but
Speaker 7: like it does. It almost could be anything. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: I watch, it's just ground jutting out of the waters.
Speaker 6: There's not much to every level, at least where I'm at.
Speaker 6: I'm only like four hours in. Yeah, it doesn't change much,
Speaker 6: got it. I don't think this is not done on
Speaker 6: my line. It's just not like necessarily giving me what
Speaker 6: I want. Now that being said, it is still Splatoon.
Speaker 6: It still looks, feels, and sounds like Splatoon, and so
Speaker 6: I still maybe I'm a little more positive because I'm
Speaker 6: just enjoying playing in our Splatoon.
Speaker 7: But it feels great to play exactly like those core
Speaker 7: mechanics feel really good.
Speaker 6: Especially when you find your weapon or like you switch
Speaker 6: you a different weapon that you know you want to
Speaker 6: try out for a little bit. You're like, oh, wa
Speaker 6: is second that I didn't realize I would like this one,
Speaker 6: Or they have a modified new one hearing Raiders, and
Speaker 6: that's really cool. And this game actually is making me
Speaker 6: like deep cut, you know, the Idol group for three,
Speaker 6: because I did not like them in three, but yeah,
Speaker 6: suddenly here like they all I just feel like their
Speaker 6: personalities are showing a little bit more and I like
Speaker 6: all of them a whole bunch. Like you know, when
Speaker 6: Big Man is like I don't want to stay on
Speaker 6: the island, I want to go home and play my
Speaker 6: Dragon Quest three or whatever, I'm like, oh, relatable, I
Speaker 6: feel that. Yes, same, Yeah, so I'm I'm enjoying my time,
Speaker 6: but it's just, yeah, it's not what I want. Askatoon
Speaker 6: as a pretty big fan of the single player mode, yeah.
Speaker 1: I was bummed out by the level design now that
Speaker 1: you mentioned it, because like I would start to explore
Speaker 1: and look around only to find like the only thing
Speaker 1: I'm gonna find is just a couple of crates and
Speaker 1: a couple like.
Speaker 7: There's a reality like like those like kind of linear
Speaker 7: levels have like kind of like one or two like
Speaker 7: very slight op eaten path things to find, but they're
Speaker 7: not hard to discover. It's not like it's not it
Speaker 7: is not an exploration game at all.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's very just action focus, and yeah, you know,
Speaker 7: I guess I appreciate them sticking with that. And there
Speaker 7: are some of those levels where oh, try out this
Speaker 7: gadget and this is gonna be a little bit more gimmicky,
Speaker 7: and I do appreciate those, but even they don't feel
Speaker 7: as fleshed out as some of the more interesting levels
Speaker 7: and say the Octo Expansion or whatever.
Speaker 1: It was, some of those gadget level specific one dungeons
Speaker 1: were a little frustrating for me, like I couldn't nail
Speaker 1: the timing of some of them for whatever reason.
Speaker 6: Are very fun, yeah, so yeah, to train you on
Speaker 6: using the new gadgets and new weapons, they'll have like
Speaker 6: challenge levels that are individual and it's like a puzzle
Speaker 6: challenge for you overcome just in case anyone doesn't know
Speaker 6: or whatever. And those are I think those are really fun.
Speaker 6: I really enjoy my time with those because I think
Speaker 6: they add much needed variety that the individual levels don't
Speaker 6: have as much. But real quick on the exploration, Mike,
Speaker 6: I had this one moment where I was on like
Speaker 6: I got to like the volcano area and then you
Speaker 6: start one of the levels like higher up and then
Speaker 6: you like drop down off of well not too tall
Speaker 6: of a cliff, but you drop off a little cliff
Speaker 6: and you're supposed to just keep walking forward. I was like,
Speaker 6: this is a s Platoon game. If this was Splatoon
Speaker 6: single player, I would turn around and there would be
Speaker 6: a secret like it built into that cliff side, because
Speaker 6: that's what you do. You They don't, you know, the
Speaker 6: average player isn't going to look behind them to see
Speaker 6: what's back there, And like in Splatoon, I know if
Speaker 6: I look back there, there's going to be crates for me,
Speaker 6: a break open, and there's going to be one of
Speaker 6: the collectibles. In a level, I look back there and
Speaker 6: there's a painting on the wall instead of cool. That's
Speaker 6: that's But that's the difference between these games. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 6: someone on the dev team knows that in a Splatoon game,
Speaker 6: I'm going to look back there if I've played these before.
Speaker 6: But the level design of this game dictates that they're
Speaker 6: not going to actually put anything there. And I'm like, Ah,
Speaker 6: that's the difference between this and the previous games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bummer. Yeah. The last thing I want to say
Speaker 1: about Splatoon Raiders I am enjoying it. I would like
Speaker 1: to perhaps maybe we do a multiplayer stream sometime in
Speaker 1: the near future. If we have like the phone, we
Speaker 1: should do it, right, yeah? Quiet, Yeah, a couple levels.
Speaker 1: This game reminds me so much of Ratchet Deadlocked.
Speaker 7: Remember I never did that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where it's like, hey, we're gonna take all the
Speaker 1: things you like from those games and just make it
Speaker 1: like a run based or like a level to level
Speaker 1: arena type of thing.
Speaker 6: That's a good call. Yeah, I think you're right about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and nothing bad against it at all. I liked
Speaker 1: Ratchet Deadlock. You know, they did take away one of
Speaker 1: my favorite parts, which is clank what the relationship? But
Speaker 1: interesting game, interesting game, just like splatteen Raiders that is
Speaker 1: for It's all right, Oh yes, you're right. Uh speaking
Speaker 1: about looking around levels and clicking around for secrets, Mike Manatti,
Speaker 1: you are also looking at pointing and clicking looking for
Speaker 1: secrets in Endocopeia.
Speaker 7: Jeff Grub actually told me that I should play this game.
Speaker 7: This is a pretty new indie game, point and click
Speaker 7: adventure style that's sort of designed to look like those
Speaker 7: sort of early nineties almost edutainment games. But of course
Speaker 7: it's like, oh, it's a bit lackier than that. It's
Speaker 7: it's kind of absurdist, right, sure, so a little bit
Speaker 7: of a little bit of like that un until energy,
Speaker 7: but even further than that, dare I say some of
Speaker 7: that new ground splash energy that maybe isn't everybody's Jimmy Jam.
Speaker 7: I know I could sometimes be in the mood for
Speaker 7: that silliness, although like, sometimes things are so absurdist that
Speaker 7: I can feel like, well, anything can happen and nothing matters,
Speaker 7: which is hard for a puzzle game. Whe're trying to
Speaker 7: parse out the logic of a place. But still this
Speaker 7: game is designed that's a way that what you need
Speaker 7: to do at any given point is relatively too hard
Speaker 7: to parse out. There's also a hipboard littening to tip
Speaker 7: He's he's a sign with a face you kind of
Speaker 7: summon him whenever you need help with anything. But I
Speaker 7: really like the look of this one, just kind of
Speaker 7: like being weird and looking like a old school point
Speaker 7: click adventure game than occasionally doing things like having the
Speaker 7: really weird early style uh three rendered cut scene things
Speaker 7: and whatever. It cuts to that that's strange. Every once
Speaker 7: in a while try to get you with a jump
Speaker 7: scare of just something looking real freaking weird, and that
Speaker 7: stuff is also funded weird mini games too, where all
Speaker 7: of a sudden you have a boss fight and it's
Speaker 7: a little punch out esque for a moment, all right,
Speaker 7: something like that out of nowhere. Some of the puzzles
Speaker 7: were good. Like the best puzzle so far, there was
Speaker 7: like a theater with these colored seats, and each time
Speaker 7: I sat down in a seat, it would show a
Speaker 7: short video a song about a clown. It talk about
Speaker 7: how they either hurt themselves or died. And then I
Speaker 7: found a whack a mole thing with colored clouds where
Speaker 7: I could either hurt them or kill them. I was like, oh,
Speaker 7: I need to learn from the theater which clowns dies,
Speaker 7: and then like translate that to the whack a moles
Speaker 7: you know, right?
Speaker 1: Can I share something very personal real quick?
Speaker 7: Of course?
Speaker 1: Yes, I think I understand the clown thing.
Speaker 7: Now, like you about not liking.
Speaker 1: Page jam No, no, no, the other the complete opposite
Speaker 1: of that much.
Speaker 7: Oh no, you're attracted to clowns.
Speaker 1: I think I get it.
Speaker 2: Oh are you scared or you will?
Speaker 7: Are you're attracted? Yeah, it's a digital circus thing, right,
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm Page Okay, let's know the Harley that clown
Speaker 1: was kind of cute.
Speaker 7: I know what's one you're talking about on board?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 2: Get it?
Speaker 7: That one actually was kind of cute. Yeah, okay, she's
Speaker 7: like bad.
Speaker 1: I've been seeing uh, like there's a specific clown popping
Speaker 1: up in like a bunch of like conventions and convention
Speaker 1: pictures and videos, and I Pomney. I don't know what
Speaker 1: Pomney is.
Speaker 7: What is Pomny from the from the Amazing Digital Circus.
Speaker 7: I bet it's Pomney. Oh yeah, exactly, that's who it is.
Speaker 7: Yeah that the kids love the Digital Circus right now,
Speaker 7: and I'm gonna.
Speaker 6: Catch off at the past nobody, here's about your opinion
Speaker 6: on this one. I'm just I wasn't shy. Kind of
Speaker 6: damn thing, gotcha? I saw you googling. I got worried.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to.
Speaker 6: Point out for this game, you googling. We all know,
Speaker 6: we all know where that goes. I wanted to point
Speaker 6: out this game came out one week ago. It is
Speaker 6: a fifteen dollars game on Steam, so not nothing but
Speaker 6: still indie price. But you know, not the kind of
Speaker 6: thing that everyone's going to own. It's overwhelmingly positive reviews,
Speaker 6: with almost nineteen hundred reviews, Like that's crazy.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to figure out you, because it's like it's
Speaker 7: popping out a little bit to the point where Grab
Speaker 7: heard about it and recommended to me, and I'm trying
Speaker 7: to figure out where that happened. It looks like it's
Speaker 7: just a very small developer who's he has, Like his
Speaker 7: last game in twenty twenty three is called Pika Yun
Speaker 7: Dreams and it also did really also had like a
Speaker 7: lot of really good reviews. So maybe I don't know,
Speaker 7: maybe this Andy developer's just somewhat well known. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't know how this has kind of gotten some attention,
Speaker 7: but yeah, you know, if you have an affinity for
Speaker 7: old point and quick games like me, I think you
Speaker 7: will like it again. Like almost during the game, I
Speaker 7: find myself at different points of being up for some
Speaker 7: of it's a bullshit with the whole like, oh man,
Speaker 7: it's real weird, and all of a sudden, I'm like,
Speaker 7: I like how it's weird. That lot of times I'm
Speaker 7: sort of rolling my eyes at how weird it is.
Speaker 7: But it's definitely has been enjoyable so far.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool cool, cool cool. I'd be interested in seeing
Speaker 1: more of that game down the line. Folks. You know,
Speaker 1: I was had some health complications and everything. I've been
Speaker 1: on the mending process, and part of that mending is
Speaker 1: figuring out that I'm getting winded just walking down the block,
Speaker 1: you know, fingy's crossed that. Continue to heal up and everything,
Speaker 1: get my blood levels back up. So the best thing
Speaker 1: to do is to go for a big walk with
Speaker 1: my friends in Big Walk, the biggest of the biggest
Speaker 1: of walks. Uh, mister backl are you you went to
Speaker 1: a virtual pre event You've checked this out, but then
Speaker 1: the rest of the GB owners uh explored the world
Speaker 1: of Big Walk and Sean, you were sitting shotgun there
Speaker 1: live producing that thing once again. There is a quick
Speaker 1: look up on the website. Highly suggest you go check
Speaker 1: that out. Sean expertly switching between povs and if your
Speaker 1: Premium member, you can go watch someone's specific pov except
Speaker 1: for Jeff Grub. But boys, I had a lovely time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's so cool.
Speaker 3: Like I actually heard some people I can't remember if
Speaker 3: it's on here or whatever we're talking about, like they
Speaker 3: didn't like the aesthetic and.
Speaker 1: I can get it. I get it.
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 3: I kind of like the weird kind of like you know,
Speaker 3: Homer Simpson bird dropper thing like against like realistic backdrops
Speaker 3: and stuff. I just think it's got a right amount
Speaker 3: of just kind of like quirky like weirdness mixed with
Speaker 3: just like oh, these are like just realistic trees and stuff.
Speaker 6: Sure, in motion, it's very charming. I think in the
Speaker 6: screenshots that may doesn't play as well.
Speaker 5: Sure, sure, yeah.
Speaker 3: I got really curious with the first trailer because it
Speaker 3: just seems like, again, I people are quick to use
Speaker 3: the phrase friend slop for anything where it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: proc chat and you know, several people be running around
Speaker 3: doing different stuff. But this is different than like a peak.
Speaker 3: And also I don't consider friend slop to be a
Speaker 3: predorative at all. Friends slop games a lot, yeah, but
Speaker 3: this is a open world puzzle game. This is a Yeah.
Speaker 3: Just because that's proc chat everything doesn't mean it's like
Speaker 3: these other games that look like it. I like all
Speaker 3: of the emergent things that aren't even like these big
Speaker 3: crazy moments like there's not really like combat that we've
Speaker 3: seen or anything like. I like moments where it's like
Speaker 3: I split off from the group at one point to
Speaker 3: go do something and I had a walkie talkie and
Speaker 3: that's how I was like keeping in contact with with
Speaker 3: all you guys, and I like jump to see if
Speaker 3: I could like slide down this hill to get down faster,
Speaker 3: and the impact caused me to like drop my walkie talking.
Speaker 3: But I did slide down the hill, and it was
Speaker 3: at night and I didn't have a light or anything.
Speaker 7: So I can't get a hold of you guys.
Speaker 3: And for a while, I'm just going through a hill
Speaker 3: at night in the woods, like where the fuck is
Speaker 3: my walkie talkie?
Speaker 7: Like that was hard to earn that we had to
Speaker 7: like soft.
Speaker 3: Puzzles to get that walking talkie. I'm just looking at
Speaker 3: the ground like fu fuck fuck. They're probably wondering where
Speaker 3: I'm at and I can't talk to them, and I'm yelling.
Speaker 7: I'm like, guys, guys, I'm just hoping you could hear me.
Speaker 3: These type of experiences that I can't really say I've
Speaker 3: had in other multiplayer games, and like the puzzles themselves
Speaker 3: are clever, Like there was the one where I went
Speaker 3: into a soundproof room that had like a window and
Speaker 3: I could see these like five different like glyphs light up,
Speaker 3: and you guys couldn't see it, but there were switches
Speaker 3: on the other side, and so I can't talk to
Speaker 3: you with prox chat. So I'm having to come up
Speaker 3: with like a little like language of my own, where
Speaker 3: it's like, all right, if I sit on the ground
Speaker 3: and point, that means I'm pointing at the one on
Speaker 3: the ground over there. If I'm raising a hand up
Speaker 3: on pointing, that means it's a high up one. If
Speaker 3: it's two of them, I'm just going like this because
Speaker 3: you can independently raise your arms or point, And there's
Speaker 3: just so many clever uses of like what seems like
Speaker 3: pretty limited mechanics and uh yeah, just charm for days,
Speaker 3: solid puzzles, really good use of like PROCs chat and
Speaker 3: the gimmicks like the walkie talkies and things like that,
Speaker 3: Like I am, I'm loving this game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, anythink that's a Misslike right, just put me in
Speaker 7: some Eyeland or something of a bunch of puzzles, yeah,
Speaker 7: and let me figure it out, kind of walk this way,
Speaker 7: see what you're going to find over there. And it
Speaker 7: was like a good combination of like sometimes we just
Speaker 7: come across something we're like, I don't know what this
Speaker 7: means yet. We'll come back to this and then there
Speaker 7: we'd walk a little bit further and there's a basketball
Speaker 7: hoop with like an egg and it's like, well, this one,
Speaker 7: I understand. Let's just try to throw this in here
Speaker 7: for for a little bit, and yeah, good sense of progression.
Speaker 7: Like in that first area, it's like basically, all right,
Speaker 7: solve four puzzles, get a thing, and bring it back here.
Speaker 7: Then open up another area and it's a similar thing,
Speaker 7: like all right, we're going to solve this many puzzles
Speaker 7: to sort of get this section done to kind of
Speaker 7: conveys the the I don't want to say loops, not
Speaker 7: necessarily loop, but it kind of conveys the objective of
Speaker 7: the progression system relatively simply and effectively.
Speaker 2: I like that the game kind of forces you to
Speaker 2: be a little twee, you know, Like I like that
Speaker 2: all of the all of the sort of parts are
Speaker 2: kind of really expertly offered in a way that you
Speaker 2: you just like the characteristics of the game that are
Speaker 2: like the most engaging and the most fun are just
Speaker 2: realizing your limitations and the ways that you are forced
Speaker 2: to kind of communicate and I know, you know, the
Speaker 2: whole like friend of slopshpield. It's it's obviously a mechanic
Speaker 2: of the game. It's very it's crucial. You can't progress
Speaker 2: without speaking, you have an impossible time doing so. And
Speaker 2: I just think like it's it says a lot that
Speaker 2: the sort of rule set is governed by the communication,
Speaker 2: because I feel like, you know, obviously there's other prox
Speaker 2: chat games that you know, where you're forced to rely
Speaker 2: on communication, but like this makes it more of like
Speaker 2: the mechanic in an interesting way that I feel like
Speaker 2: no one else is really doing. Yeah, I mean there's
Speaker 2: you know, the thing that keeps getting me every time
Speaker 2: I look back at our footage and get back into it.
Speaker 2: It's like, man, you are really at the mercy of
Speaker 2: like the deliberate design choices that have gone on in
Speaker 2: this game. And that's not shackling in any way. You're
Speaker 2: left to your own devices, And I think there's something
Speaker 2: about how all that stuff is just sort of presented
Speaker 2: to you and you organically assume things about the environment
Speaker 2: like that suns just so smart. I feel like having that,
Speaker 2: you know, at your disposal is a really awesome thing
Speaker 2: to be able to experience. It's cool, man, they really
Speaker 2: did such a fun job with it, and I'm really
Speaker 2: really dig in like what you are kind of because
Speaker 2: there there's also like this kind of mystery aspect to
Speaker 2: it that is a little unsettling in a way where you're, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: what's the bigger picture here? Like what exactly is going on?
Speaker 2: Like we all look so kind of goofy and the
Speaker 2: world is rendered relatively realistically and what's up with EXAs? Yeah,
Speaker 2: what's going on here? Why are these like Little Kong
Speaker 2: doi Dog toys like going on? Like what what are
Speaker 2: those things? Like? What is the what is the bigger picture?
Speaker 2: What's the message here?
Speaker 6: Yeah? And I'm sure, like you know, there's probably something
Speaker 6: I'm missing or someone's favorite five dollars friends slop game
Speaker 6: on Steam that they played that I haven't heard of.
Speaker 6: But I feel like we haven't had quite this style
Speaker 6: of like Missed or Portal or that specific type of
Speaker 6: puzzle solving in this type of multiplayer game in at
Speaker 6: least a while. I feel like it's usually more about
Speaker 6: figure out a way to work together to get to
Speaker 6: the end, the ending goal, or to like a raid
Speaker 6: something you know, some on like a repo or whatnot
Speaker 6: or Death Lethal Company. I feel like this is bringing
Speaker 6: things back around to to that time of portal of like, Okay,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna sit here, I'm gonna position you over here.
Speaker 6: I need to do my task, you do your task.
Speaker 6: We need to communicate to like make sure that we're
Speaker 6: doing them in sync or whatever, and it was I know,
Speaker 6: not everyone is going to be able to have experience
Speaker 6: like this. Hopefully you can if you're like talking to
Speaker 6: your friends afterwards of like, oh, what were you doing
Speaker 6: while I was over here, if you like split up
Speaker 6: or something, but being being able to have almost like
Speaker 6: a bird's eye view of things, like switching between your
Speaker 6: guys's perspectives, it led to some just naturally funny moments
Speaker 6: of like, you know, Dan mentioned when he like slid
Speaker 6: down the hill and kind of tumbled a little bit.
Speaker 6: But it was funny that I could be like, you know,
Speaker 6: you guys are all in a group and saying, I
Speaker 6: wonder what Dan's up to, and I can switch over
Speaker 6: Dan just going guys, guys they or like where's grub
Speaker 6: and grubs walking along the beach singing to himself, or
Speaker 6: like I wonder if those guys are finishing their task,
Speaker 6: and I just switched to everything going wrong with the
Speaker 6: other half. It was moments like that that were like
Speaker 6: really comical. I think, uh, hopefully a lot like streamers
Speaker 6: and YouTubers pick this one up and like do something
Speaker 6: like that of having multiple perspectives, because I think that
Speaker 6: that's really cool and also I think sells the game
Speaker 6: a little bit more because you can have those stories
Speaker 6: of what were you doing when I was doing this?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it is interesting.
Speaker 3: It's like, I do think it would behoove you to
Speaker 3: stick with the same group throughout, because I was thinking, like,
Speaker 3: you know, we we want to stream more of it,
Speaker 3: I believe Friday, but it's you know, on paper, it'd
Speaker 3: be fun to like, oh, let's bring in someone you know,
Speaker 3: we talked about like, oh let's reach out to like
Speaker 3: Vitelli or something, and I found ou Vitelli's played it,
Speaker 3: and so it's like, I think that would kind of
Speaker 3: screwed up if it's like somebody has experienced the puzzle
Speaker 3: and then are they just kind of like standing around like, oh,
Speaker 3: trying not to help too much.
Speaker 7: I think it's a game where you want to.
Speaker 3: Pick your crew two to eight people or more whatever
Speaker 3: you want, and just stick with it throughout.
Speaker 6: Did any of you guys play more of it, or
Speaker 6: if y'all sort of wait, I.
Speaker 5: Think Friday, we're gonna do extreme of it much sense.
Speaker 1: I don't have friends other than here, other than eat
Speaker 1: shit Grub. Well Grub would have went off in his
Speaker 1: own direction anyway. We all he did do that very quickly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Last thing I'll say I want to say about Big
Speaker 1: Walk is that it is very apparent that the previous
Speaker 1: game that Househouse made was untitled Goose game because of
Speaker 1: just the tweet nature of it, like you said back LARV,
Speaker 1: like just poking and prodding around of like wonder what
Speaker 1: this does, oh shit type of deal, or like how
Speaker 1: little the game will actually convey to you, of like
Speaker 1: in communicative what you can do. So it does encourage
Speaker 1: that mist like poking and prodding around and just like
Speaker 1: puzzle solving together and.
Speaker 6: The way that you like troll with each other in
Speaker 6: the levels, like you know, in untitled Goose game, the
Speaker 6: goose would be trolling everyone else, but now here you're
Speaker 6: trolling each other. Like I remember what you guys had,
Speaker 6: like you called it like the sex Ladder or something
Speaker 6: like that, just this weird ladder looking thing and dance like, oh,
Speaker 6: let me see that and just grabs and like punks
Speaker 6: it into the ocean. Like moments like that are very funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1: Despite being a co op game, it still feels like
Speaker 1: there's a level of competition, like no, I'm going to
Speaker 1: get the key. I'm gonna get of.
Speaker 3: Course, yeah yeah, and I'm stealing it from a There's
Speaker 3: something about it too, where you like we all kind
Speaker 3: of turn.
Speaker 2: Into cavemen, like uh, you know, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: We're just like, ah, we found the egg. We all
Speaker 2: like worship an egg for.
Speaker 3: You were Backler, like the other guys split off because
Speaker 3: like there's something where some of the guys had to
Speaker 3: go up to a tower to get like coordinates or
Speaker 3: shoot a laser, and we had to stand down where
Speaker 3: the coordinates info was so Backler for a while, there
Speaker 3: was just me and you just waiting by these coordinates
Speaker 3: while they go off to a tower and we don't
Speaker 3: have anything to do, so we're just like talking and
Speaker 3: like we start playing catch.
Speaker 5: We had like a radio or something. We're just like
Speaker 5: playing catch.
Speaker 3: But it's like just interesting little emergent things to pop up,
Speaker 3: like on the social front too with this game.
Speaker 1: That's cute. That's cute. The game is twenty dollars and
Speaker 1: it is cross platform, correct, it is? Okay? Cool, So
Speaker 1: there you go, folks.
Speaker 6: If you on sale and there's a lot of sale,
Speaker 6: it's like thirteen bucks.
Speaker 3: Oh it's on the like top tier of whatever PlayStation
Speaker 3: Plus is offering you.
Speaker 1: Sorry. Oh cool.
Speaker 2: And I saw people in chat asking about this. I
Speaker 2: remember as the developers they said this that it does.
Speaker 2: H what's it called? It does sort of change depending
Speaker 2: on how many people are playing, like not the it
Speaker 2: adjusts to accommodate. There's certain kind of like you know,
Speaker 2: height things that won't work if you've only got you know,
Speaker 2: three people or two people whatever. So the puzzles do
Speaker 2: adapt to how many players.
Speaker 7: Oh, that maxes out.
Speaker 5: That maxes out at four, I think, like so if
Speaker 5: you do two.
Speaker 2: Yeah after it's okay, yeah.
Speaker 5: It's twelve, I think. But it caps the puzzles.
Speaker 6: Okay. Yeah. Seeing you guys play, it seemed like every
Speaker 6: puzzle was designed around four us. So I was worried
Speaker 6: because I have a group of three that was like
Speaker 6: my core group I play with every week. As I
Speaker 6: was worried, oh, can we not play this even though
Speaker 6: it seems pretty fun. But if it adapts, that's what
Speaker 6: it does.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: Okay, two or more can play together.
Speaker 3: Okay, there there you go. Go play the top tier.
Speaker 3: It's the essential tier or whatever the base one is called.
Speaker 3: Now again, every company has terrible tier names and no
Speaker 3: one knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah Jesus, yep, yeap, what the fuck? I'm actually still
Speaker 1: confused about which Xbox were on. I just politely nod.
Speaker 2: That's the last one.
Speaker 1: We'll get to it in the news, folks. That does
Speaker 1: it for games. We're gonna take a quick bricky break
Speaker 1: and we.
Speaker 4: Will be back with the news right after this.
Speaker 8: This is my.
Speaker 7: And a kid. Hey, hey, hey, everybody, how's it going.
Speaker 7: Guess Jeff Grub is out on an assignment, so I'm
Speaker 7: here govern news. He actually did curate the news for us,
Speaker 7: and has bolded some of his commentary on these topics
Speaker 7: him south just to leap those. Yeah, we don't care
Speaker 7: what he thinks.
Speaker 2: Let's just guess.
Speaker 7: Starting off there with Xboxes leaked disc to Digital System
Speaker 7: Good solving impossible ownership problem. A leaked to Microsoft developer
Speaker 7: document says Xbox intends to expand backward compatibility on PC
Speaker 7: in several stages. Original Xbox games were reportedly headed toward
Speaker 7: a full PC launch in October, while developers would be
Speaker 7: able to opt Xbox three sixty games into the ecosystem
Speaker 7: gradually during twenty twenty seven twenty eight. Those games would
Speaker 7: then work across Windows based Xbox hardware, including Project Helix,
Speaker 7: other Xbox PCs, and had hells. Developers would control participation, pricing,
Speaker 7: and game pass availability. This to digital ownership seems like
Speaker 7: the key to this strategy. A player inserts an Xbox
Speaker 7: one Er series disc into a capable console. That's stage one.
Speaker 7: It'sh Microsoft grants that account the digital entitlement. Stage three,
Speaker 7: the entitlement remains associated with both the account and the
Speaker 7: physical disc. Stage four, Selling or lending the disc would
Speaker 7: transfer the entitlement to the new holder and revocate from
Speaker 7: the previous account. This retains the full functionality and reso
Speaker 7: the disc, while also smoothing out of transition to a
Speaker 7: future where fewer Xbox systems will have disc drives. But
Speaker 7: this also means that Xbox will locally to provide some
Speaker 7: way to use discs on Project Helix. Grub says here,
Speaker 7: at the very least, this feels like a very thought
Speaker 7: out and coherent plan. Which distinguishes it from everything else
Speaker 7: Xbox has done the book year. Yeah, right, exactly. But
Speaker 7: you know, it's something nice to see and it's going
Speaker 7: to be interesting to see what the PlayStation response to
Speaker 7: this is. You know, it is kind of like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 7: so if we're going to be able to save our discs,
Speaker 7: are you going to have a disk drive on the
Speaker 7: new console so we can do that for PlayStation six
Speaker 7: it seems pretty unlikely if they aren't going to make
Speaker 7: any disc games for it. So whatever PlayStation solution is
Speaker 7: going to be, it's going to require you to use
Speaker 7: a PlayStation five to register your discs somehow.
Speaker 6: So yeah, and this seems like a cool system. This
Speaker 6: has come up in the past, but now we have
Speaker 6: a few more things to talk about here where Yeah,
Speaker 6: specifically it will have to work with an Xbox one
Speaker 6: or an Xbox Series disc because those have like the
Speaker 6: identifiers on them to be able to, you know, say, oh,
Speaker 6: this is this game. It's not just an Xbox game
Speaker 6: or an Xbox three sixty game. This is a Battlefield
Speaker 6: one for Xbox one, you know, something like that. And
Speaker 6: so this is a cool system, I think, because you
Speaker 6: can pop that disc in you can get basically a
Speaker 6: digital copy with all the convenience, as long as nobody
Speaker 6: else uses that disc. I've always thought that this is
Speaker 6: a cool system as kind of the bare minimum that
Speaker 6: these companies need to do if we're going to transition
Speaker 6: all digital, because people have physical games, you can't just
Speaker 6: like tossos aside willingly. It's a little it's still a
Speaker 6: shame that it won't work, at least seemingly won't work
Speaker 6: for original Xbox or three sixty games. Maybe they'll reverse
Speaker 6: them in the future and they just say, oh, your
Speaker 6: Xbox one X or your series x red a, you know,
Speaker 6: like looking at my shelf, like I have a let's
Speaker 6: say Dead or Alive three, Like if I pop that
Speaker 6: into my disc based Xbox. If they could just be like,
Speaker 6: all right, we don't really need the sale on this one.
Speaker 6: We'll just grant you this one. That would be nice
Speaker 6: as well. I know that with the backwards compatibility that
Speaker 6: they just started announcing for PC, John Linneman asked them about, well,
Speaker 6: what about my physical discs, because of course John would
Speaker 6: and they said, well, we actually wanted to do that
Speaker 6: on PC, but not every DVD drive can read those
Speaker 6: like encrypted Xbox discs correctly and identify what they are,
Speaker 6: and that's why there's no option for that on PC.
Speaker 6: Which also that's the type of thing that has me
Speaker 6: a little worried about if Helix is a PC, because
Speaker 6: then you know, it won't have the ability to read
Speaker 6: some discs like that. So how is that going to work?
Speaker 6: Or like your original Xbox in three sixty games just
Speaker 6: not going to work? Are you going to have to
Speaker 6: read buy them? Ditchally, that's a little bit weird.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's some other you know, and like, yeah, so
Speaker 7: you don't have to hand it to Xbox, right, I
Speaker 7: think it's kind of right point here, Like they says,
Speaker 7: of course, there needs to be solutions to these problems, right,
Speaker 7: that is that should be their responsibility, and PlayStation's better
Speaker 7: have solutions as well. Though I think with them it's
Speaker 7: a little bit of a worry, like maybe they're just
Speaker 7: going to rip the band aid off a little bit
Speaker 7: more forcefully and then this even.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like to be clear, I'm happy about systems like
Speaker 6: this because it means I don't have to give Microsoft
Speaker 6: any more money by replying the Times, absolutely, Yeah, So
Speaker 6: I'm a little confused about like what Helix is gonna
Speaker 6: be now, because it seems like, you know, with the
Speaker 6: backwards compatibility on PC expanding and stuff like that, that
Speaker 6: they're trying to get more and more stuff on PC,
Speaker 6: which would indicate that Helix is just that PC. Like
Speaker 6: we've been talking about the way like Asha's talking about
Speaker 6: like I only barely caught game this morning's yesterday, but
Speaker 6: like in general, talking about committing to the console and
Speaker 6: everything like that. I'm just thinking like, well, doesn't that
Speaker 6: seem a little contradictory to the idea of it just
Speaker 6: being a PC then, So now I'm wondering, and you know,
Speaker 6: she has said about like the the Steam on Helix thing.
Speaker 6: You know, I wasn't there for those discussions and stuff
Speaker 6: like that. It seems like there's a backing away from
Speaker 6: that count thing. So now I'm just really curious what
Speaker 6: Helix actually is, right.
Speaker 7: I Mean, there's just so many questions about these consoles,
Speaker 7: including their price, and kind of like put some stuff
Speaker 7: in here too to remind us like, hey, those latest
Speaker 7: price increases have gone into effect. They're more expensive, and
Speaker 7: like more are probably coming. Microsoft them selves have been
Speaker 7: like yeah, like this just problems not getting solved. These
Speaker 7: components keep getting more expensive. That's not going to stop.
Speaker 7: It's just, you know, there's this larger question of how
Speaker 7: how is Xbox going to have growth? How is them
Speaker 7: seemingly focusing on the console business again at a point
Speaker 7: where that that business just seems a bit uncertain right now?
Speaker 6: Uh, we don't there is to mention, I guess of
Speaker 6: the these Xbox PCs, we didn't really addressed that of Yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm assuming that terminology means something like the Asis rog,
Speaker 6: Xbox Ali x x X, triple X, double X, quadruplex.
Speaker 6: What the fuck is that thing called? Something like those
Speaker 6: handhelds are what they're referring to as Xbox PCs, right
Speaker 6: of like a partner device, as like branded Xbox.
Speaker 7: And that's something that I think was probably at one
Speaker 7: point a bigger part of the strategy before the regimen change,
Speaker 7: and now it's like now that Project Helix is though,
Speaker 7: that is the main thing. There might be other things that,
Speaker 7: of course are kind of Xboxes, but not everything is
Speaker 7: an Xbox. Who would say that, that would be ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 6: Something wondering now, I'm kind of wondering if Helix is
Speaker 6: a more traditional consult they're trying to like sense, it's
Speaker 6: not now yet. They could scale back the software the
Speaker 6: offering system to being more console like, to being more
Speaker 6: expensive based, and then the Xbox PCs are the more
Speaker 6: open thing that they can work with like asos and
Speaker 6: stuff on.
Speaker 1: I was assuming that Helix would kind of be closer
Speaker 1: to that Roger ally Xbox Triple X that you mentioned
Speaker 1: sean versus like a traditional console, and that it would
Speaker 1: just be more Windows up. But now I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, every day to day, week to week, I
Speaker 1: have less and less of an idea of what the
Speaker 1: strategy is specifically with Helix and what to expect with it.
Speaker 1: Also looking at these like price increases, bonkers, crazy town
Speaker 1: bananas scene.
Speaker 6: I pull it out there day that I looked around
Speaker 6: my room. I was streaming. I just something brought up
Speaker 6: and I looked around my room. I'm like, every piece
Speaker 6: of hardware I've bought in like the past five years
Speaker 6: has gone up in value, which is insad everyone appreciating.
Speaker 1: It's very weird.
Speaker 7: It's wild, all right. EACE fifty five billion private takeovers
Speaker 7: expected to close today. The investor group, led by Saudi
Speaker 7: Arabia's Public Investment Fund, received approval under the European using
Speaker 7: foreign subsidies regulation remaining significant regulatory hurdle for it's fifty
Speaker 7: five billion dollar acquisition Electronic Arts. He said all required
Speaker 7: approvals have been attained and expected the transition transaction to
Speaker 7: close August fourth, which is today. Grob says just worth
Speaker 7: pointing out that this is the largest leverage buy it
Speaker 7: in the history of the world, not just gaming, everyone
Speaker 7: really world, and that EA will now have the shift
Speaker 7: from growing to satisfy shareholders expecting to grow to pay
Speaker 7: twenty million in debt. I won't expect that means we
Speaker 7: get more and core games. Some people are like, well,
Speaker 7: it's a good thing anyways, because EA is not a
Speaker 7: private company anymore, so they don't have shareholders. But the
Speaker 7: new owner is buying into twenty billion in debt, so
Speaker 7: they have to make that money, which is going to
Speaker 7: mean they are going to continue what has been the
Speaker 7: strategy at EA, which is just finding ways to make
Speaker 7: more money off of the core consumers that are buying
Speaker 7: things like.
Speaker 1: Madden Michael Transactions.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, Michael Transactions is gonna be having more sway
Speaker 7: than ever at EA. This does not mean like Burnout
Speaker 7: four is coming out like anything interesting, like that it's
Speaker 7: going to be the same EA that releases a few
Speaker 7: sports games every year and then maybe a Star Wars
Speaker 7: game if you're lucky, and more sims four DLC.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 7: That that that's the future we are looking at here
Speaker 7: with EA. Maybe grimmer than that.
Speaker 2: I mean, so that's bad, but like, yeah, there is
Speaker 2: a like I I guess my whole thing is like
Speaker 2: you're buying into this debt. What's to say, like this
Speaker 2: debt can't grow? Like what's to say, like just do
Speaker 2: more bad and never still like it will right? Like
Speaker 2: I I guess that's maybe like the comedic sort of
Speaker 2: like takeaway of all this of like there's an opportunity
Speaker 2: where for you know, the consumers to do the funniest
Speaker 2: thing and just like continue to put this business in
Speaker 2: the dumpster and not give a fuck and watch it
Speaker 2: just completely implode. That seems I mean, like you're describing
Speaker 2: this thing like, well, we have to do all these
Speaker 2: micro transactions to be like all right, well, are there
Speaker 2: is E Like is there is there success where they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: we just have to like open up this kid casino
Speaker 2: and we can generate the money. Like where if it's bed,
Speaker 2: it's bed and don't engage. I realized I'm taking a
Speaker 2: very sort of like surface level examination of the situation.
Speaker 6: But there is there, there is like a dark humor
Speaker 6: to it of like, man, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Speaker 6: must really think that they can actually sports wash their
Speaker 6: image with stuff like this, and they just don't seem
Speaker 6: to realize that it's not working. Like people, people only
Speaker 6: think less of sn K, they only think less of evil,
Speaker 6: They only think less of like the investments in like
Speaker 6: Nintendo and Capcom and stuff, nobody like this.
Speaker 7: It's like when Haykill talked to those Christian rock people, Right,
Speaker 7: you're not You're not making.
Speaker 1: Its exactly like that.
Speaker 7: You're not making Christianity better, You're making rock and roll worse.
Speaker 10: Yes, yeah, what I'm saying, Like it's it's sort of
Speaker 10: just like did they get some bed advice, Like non
Speaker 10: really have like an obscene amount of money that you
Speaker 10: could just maybe, Yeah, they can't afford for this to
Speaker 10: not work out is the stupid thing.
Speaker 7: And that's why they kind of can do it without
Speaker 7: thinking about it all that much.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: Now, now we have this weird world where you know,
Speaker 7: mass effect four, which has been you know, historically a
Speaker 7: pretty like, you know, queer friendly franchise from the Kingdom
Speaker 7: of Saudi Arabia. What is that going, dude, look like
Speaker 7: it's going to be interesting.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I it's just a it's a very weird thing.
Speaker 6: I think people like the money when they aren't aware
Speaker 6: of all the bad things around the Kingdom of Saudi
Speaker 6: Arabia and everything that's happening here with them trying to
Speaker 6: buy their way into everything. People like the money that
Speaker 6: gets invested in, you know, like Evil Evo having well
Speaker 6: I guess Evil at this point, having large prize pools,
Speaker 6: and like they created the Esports World Cup where people
Speaker 6: are going to compete in various esports for a bunch
Speaker 6: of money, and people think that's really cool. But then
Speaker 6: they learn, then they find out about all the atrocities
Speaker 6: of that kingdom and their government, and then immediately the
Speaker 6: switch flips of like oh nope, you know what I
Speaker 6: do without that money, and like it just feels like
Speaker 6: bad timing of more than ever, with people being chronically online,
Speaker 6: they learn eventually they might take them a second. We
Speaker 6: saw for example with Games Done Quick for example, just
Speaker 6: somehow most of the speederro On community it wasn't even
Speaker 6: just GDQ staff. Most of the Speederron community just hasn't
Speaker 6: heard of this because they haven't been falling gaming news,
Speaker 6: you know, and that's why it's on us to educate people.
Speaker 6: But just as this stuff is spreading again instantly people
Speaker 6: are turned off by it because they just know that's bad.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it would be possible for a future
Speaker 1: Harry Potter game to get worse, but it can.
Speaker 7: It will, yeah, right, a little bit of a tangent.
Speaker 7: But just like talk about things like sort of breaking containment.
Speaker 7: I know this has been brought before, but I was
Speaker 7: like a friend's birthday party this weekend, so like I'm
Speaker 7: talking about Normis and Normi's parents and everyone there was.
Speaker 8: Too much.
Speaker 7: Every one there was asking me about PlayStation not having
Speaker 7: discs anymore, like area, It's what the amount of containment
Speaker 7: brokenness on that is absolutely wild.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So give me a little, uh, give me a
Speaker 2: little summary of how that exchange went.
Speaker 7: I mean it's just I mean it's just like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 7: like PlayStation is not even have discs anymore. Huh. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: you know, that's crazy. Yep, that's usually how it goes.
Speaker 2: Or maybe they were just looking for someone to talk
Speaker 2: with you about, right, Like maybe it's just like talking.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but just the fact that they know is just
Speaker 7: a shout to me because they don't know it. Again,
Speaker 7: they don't know about Saudi Arabia investing in video games.
Speaker 7: They don't even really necessarily know about Xbox, you know,
Speaker 7: closing studios, laying people off, things like that. Yeah, everybody
Speaker 7: knows about this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, some of the stuff is getting big enough that
Speaker 6: sound like mainstream news. Like I'll still say like when
Speaker 6: my when my almost seventy year old mom knows about
Speaker 6: PlayStation consoles are going up in price, that's how you
Speaker 6: know that's something like pretty big news.
Speaker 2: Because I think those I think those headlines are like
Speaker 2: milestone kind of like easy to digest in a single
Speaker 2: sort of phrase right where you're just like, oh, I
Speaker 2: don't need to really understand anything more about the story.
Speaker 2: Discs are going away, got it right? Like maybe it's
Speaker 2: the digestible, bite size stuff like that too.
Speaker 1: The EA stuff is particularly causing up a stir because
Speaker 1: like their main office in the US is in Redwood
Speaker 1: City in the Bay Area, so it's been like circulating
Speaker 1: around like local San Francisco news. A bunch just because
Speaker 1: people are worried of like is this gonna go away now?
Speaker 1: Like what's happening? Like local businesses are also spooked because
Speaker 1: you know, they depend on those people going to the
Speaker 1: A office for lunch, et cetera.
Speaker 7: So all right, a little bit of pivot here, Fire
Speaker 7: up Unfortunate's weave. Hey. That direct was earlier today, showcasing
Speaker 7: more of this turn based strategy game, which is coming
Speaker 7: out September seventeenth exclusive for the Switch to Pretty good
Speaker 7: look at the game here, including some like I don't
Speaker 7: know if if it's a spoiler, if it's part of
Speaker 7: the promotion campaign, but like a character we wouldn't necessarily
Speaker 7: expect to see or hasn't been introduced yet. Although kind
Speaker 7: of the craziest thing here is that part of this
Speaker 7: game is dungeon crawling with more traditional turn based battles.
Speaker 7: That's here somehow.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like so fire. Emical games have it where
Speaker 6: you can like go out, and at least the more
Speaker 6: recent ones where you can go out, you like train
Speaker 6: somewhere on the map and like do a side thing,
Speaker 6: and apparently in You're you can I can't see the
Speaker 6: exact specifics of it, but you can go ahead dungeon
Speaker 6: and suddenly they line up like yeah, like it's Dragon
Speaker 6: Quest or something, and the animations are still fire emblem,
Speaker 6: but it seems like a different type of battling. I
Speaker 6: was like watching this while I was getting ready this morning,
Speaker 6: and there are details like that, but also, yeah, they're
Speaker 6: they're doing some other wild stuff like this. It's really
Speaker 6: funny when they like introduce I think these are just
Speaker 6: a new type of weapons. I don't remember them, but
Speaker 6: like gauntlets that can apparently take different forms, and I said,
Speaker 6: there's even ones that look like firearms. And my girls
Speaker 6: is holding the most futuristic oozy you've ever seen, Like
Speaker 6: it's a perfect dark It's.
Speaker 1: So funny because like I was, I was scrolling through
Speaker 1: looking for the direct today and I found game Spots first,
Speaker 1: and the thumbnail they chose is just like Anne looking
Speaker 1: character holding an oozy.
Speaker 6: I was like, who over there at game Spot is
Speaker 6: like pull the goof on me right now? What am
Speaker 6: I looking at? It was very funny. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 6: they showed in the direct that they are doing something
Speaker 6: similar to Three Houses, where everything we've seen up to
Speaker 6: this point, although like you know, the four characters in
Speaker 6: plays and everything is just the quote unquote prologue and
Speaker 6: then the actual story is that you the main character.
Speaker 6: They say, like this is the real protagonist is a
Speaker 6: time traveler, like one of the gods or like an
Speaker 6: angel messenger of the gods, because like one of the gods,
Speaker 6: Fortuna is like they are also playable, I guess, And
Speaker 6: so like you play a prologue that tells like how
Speaker 6: these four characters got the world to apparently a state
Speaker 6: a post apocalypse, and then the real story is like
Speaker 6: you fixing that as like a messenger from the gods
Speaker 6: or something like that. Again, I'm missing some small details here, Bob, Like, well,
Speaker 6: that's a really that's honestly a more interesting way to
Speaker 6: the time skip of like three houses and stuff. I
Speaker 6: think that you can go back and like fix mistakes
Speaker 6: or something. It's wild and and I think it looks
Speaker 6: really cool.
Speaker 7: It also kind of gives us that the thing that
Speaker 7: they've done since Awakening where you can kind of like
Speaker 7: get the main characters is kind of son protagonists where
Speaker 7: you can pick the male or female version of right,
Speaker 7: and they don't have Pepsi colors this time, So that's good, correct, Right, Yeah,
Speaker 7: they're definitely seem to be leaning into the Three Houses
Speaker 7: aspect of it, which is something they've been trying to
Speaker 7: connect to from the beginning. And Three Houses very well liked.
Speaker 1: I like that one a lot of it.
Speaker 7: Engage the previous more divisive. Just so just looking at
Speaker 7: this though, and it's a pretty looking game. Also, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I did enjoy engagees kind of bright color palette and this.
Speaker 7: This is like a good compromise I think between Engaged,
Speaker 7: which could sometimes be garish maybe with its color choices,
Speaker 7: three Houses, which was sometimes a bit bland and muted.
Speaker 7: I think they got the right balance here.
Speaker 1: Just looking at this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it feels like they're going back to say Awakening,
Speaker 6: which I think there's a lot of elements in here
Speaker 6: where I'm like, stylistically, it's going back to Awakening, which people,
Speaker 6: a lot of people, include myself, still say is the
Speaker 6: best they've played, because I do love that game, and
Speaker 6: so I'm excited to see them go back to that
Speaker 6: and also do some interesting stuff with the story.
Speaker 7: I am. I'm super in the mood for one of these.
Speaker 7: I also see, of course you can send characters to
Speaker 7: a hot spring together because.
Speaker 1: It's Yeah, because anime, you should like, what are we
Speaker 1: doing here. We should all go to a hot spring.
Speaker 7: Sure. Yeah, basically fourteen launches on switch to today. That's right, everybody,
Speaker 7: the hit MMO. I'm not doing the whole thing there
Speaker 7: that is out available. You can get the even just
Speaker 7: the free trial basically is going to give you three
Speaker 7: hundred hours of gameplay content, honestly, so you can get that.
Speaker 7: You can also get a complete addition which will get
Speaker 7: you up with the current expansions as well. There's kind
Speaker 7: of a launch discount on that thirty percent off until
Speaker 7: August eighth. There's some funkiness with this game, like you
Speaker 7: need like a separate subscription from your normal Final Fantasy subscription.
Speaker 7: I think just because of the light and the Nintendo
Speaker 7: stuff works if you want to do that ultimate thing.
Speaker 7: It's a little bit complicated. Also, it's huge, so it's
Speaker 7: like one hundred and seventeen gigabytes. Sure right to play
Speaker 7: this because it's an MMO. So I spent last night
Speaker 7: just kind of clearing space on my SD card to
Speaker 7: prepare myself. I'm very excited to try this version out.
Speaker 7: I have a good bit of ketchup to do with
Speaker 7: down Trail before ever Cold the new expansion comes out.
Speaker 7: Last year, so I'm hoping this is going to be
Speaker 7: a good way for me to kind of work through
Speaker 7: that main story quest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've despite not playing much of Final Fantasy fourteen,
Speaker 1: I've bought it twice already PlayStation and on on Steam,
Speaker 1: and I think I'm gonna buy it a third time,
Speaker 1: but this time I will play it because Final The.
Speaker 6: Funny thing is, you kind of don't need to buy
Speaker 6: it just yet. So I was thinking about this hypothetically.
Speaker 6: So you do need Switch online for this, correct?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, that's all right.
Speaker 6: Okay, so you need Switch Online and then if you
Speaker 6: play the recent expansions, you'll need a separate subscription. Unfortunately,
Speaker 6: it's not like it is with a PlayStation PC, where
Speaker 6: you can buy subscription on one and like works on
Speaker 6: the other or something like that. I forget because I
Speaker 6: just always do PC nowadays. But you'll need to buy
Speaker 6: like a specifically the Final Fantasy fourteen switch subscription because
Speaker 6: I guess Nintendo needs to cut or whatever. Hypothetically.
Speaker 1: Sorry, real quick shot maple QB and our twitch chat says, No,
Speaker 1: you do not need Switch online.
Speaker 6: Okay, you don't need Switch on line. Wow, that's not missinfo.
Speaker 6: Everybody that's not asking if you needed this.
Speaker 7: I'm confused. I'm confused that works. How could it possibly work? Yeah,
Speaker 7: you need it both, but if you don't need switch online.
Speaker 7: I thought that was the messaging at first, but okay,
Speaker 7: so then it's even better because with the free trial,
Speaker 7: like Final Fantasy fourteen at this point is just six
Speaker 7: Final Fantasy games in one, and the free trial is
Speaker 7: basically just the first four of those at this point. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's a lot of freaking game to just download and
Speaker 7: play for free. Yeah, it's like literally two hundred to
Speaker 7: three hundred hours just to like get through that stuff,
Speaker 7: and like that's the refree I think the free trial
Speaker 7: includes Shadow Bringers. So the free trial includes the first
Speaker 7: three expansions, so a lot of the best stuff honestly
Speaker 7: at that point. So yeah, you'll be good for quite
Speaker 7: a while with that.
Speaker 1: For folks asking Final jantsy is coming after Pokemon Worlds.
Speaker 1: It happens Pokemon Monday Night Combat. We we will uh
Speaker 1: sunset the gym, well we'll we'll close it for renovations
Speaker 1: and then open up Final Jantasy fourteen.
Speaker 7: Oh alrighty neck, Yeah, I'm righty too. I'm excited for that.
Speaker 7: You do have you figured out what like race you're
Speaker 7: going to be? Are you going to be a fellow
Speaker 7: with me?
Speaker 1: Say?
Speaker 7: Look, I know it's a it's always where when you
Speaker 7: talk about these things, because you just throw the word
Speaker 7: race out in a different context.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: I'd like to throw any race app Mike, what do
Speaker 2: you mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Wow, Look I like the rabbit ladies.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I thought you're going to pick a rabbit lady.
Speaker 7: What do you mean? Nothing? All right? Next up here
Speaker 7: is Dave Patiss and talks to replace Ryan Hurst as Kratos. Okay,
Speaker 7: this is far as Amazon MGM Studios to say pictures
Speaker 7: TV show where this is not finalized or anything. Ryan
Speaker 7: Hurst was like, they released a photo of Ryan Hurst
Speaker 7: as Creatos makeup costume, Yeah, received, yeah, or episodes and
Speaker 7: then he tours Bicep and uh, well that is that?
Speaker 7: Apparently Batisa just did the Highland of reboots, so hey,
Speaker 7: shouldn't they.
Speaker 2: Get someone who's not larger than Credos.
Speaker 5: He's off the gas.
Speaker 2: You know they're gonna have to use trick photography to
Speaker 2: make him appear smaller so that he could be the
Speaker 2: god of all.
Speaker 5: He resembles a human being at this point, he does
Speaker 5: he probably.
Speaker 7: I bet he would look pretty good. I'm just surprised
Speaker 7: because like, this is a bigger name, right, huge, just
Speaker 7: a huge name, so to be able to kind of
Speaker 7: rope that in. Maybe it's because of time, because before
Speaker 7: maybe Batista was in consideration but was working on Highlander. Uh,
Speaker 7: and now it's like, well that's done. Now we don't
Speaker 7: have that problem, so you can maybe come in here.
Speaker 7: It's funny because Batistas often wanted to be Marcus Phoenix
Speaker 7: in the Gears and Gears of War movie, right, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I don't want that for that.
Speaker 7: He's always looks like him. But so he'll be in it,
Speaker 7: as as Grub points out, here, will be in a
Speaker 7: different geow perhaps cool dude.
Speaker 3: Like, oh yeah, yeah, okay, do like I doesn't seem impossible, right, please?
Speaker 2: You know I I love Dave. I would aren't they
Speaker 2: also replacing the child?
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 7: I don't think so that.
Speaker 2: I could have sworn, keep me honest, Chats, I could
Speaker 2: have sworn that they're also having to repel for season two. Okay,
Speaker 2: perhaps that's what it is, man. I mean, look, it's
Speaker 2: it's an Amazon thing. It's going to be impossible to
Speaker 2: watch and see I just.
Speaker 7: That's that's just the time skift thing, because season two,
Speaker 7: I guess will be based off ragnar Rock again. Like
Speaker 7: of me, it's like those those games have so much story.
Speaker 7: I feel like I've already seen that God of War
Speaker 7: TV show. It was called God of War the video
Speaker 7: game set.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 7: It's different. I know that's reductive.
Speaker 2: No it's not. I just I'm surprised you're saying that, Mike,
Speaker 2: I thought of you differently. But also you know, I
Speaker 2: think like there's fun you can have there. I'm more
Speaker 2: interested because like I'm just more interested, like where the
Speaker 2: direction they kind of do, Like how ground did they
Speaker 2: kind of make it? I think that's to me the
Speaker 2: most intriguing part of it, And just the story they
Speaker 2: want to tell. How grounded is that story? Is it
Speaker 2: going to be this sort of like over the top insanity.
Speaker 5: I mean, none of the stuff in the game's happened.
Speaker 2: That's still out for the discovery, Dan, we have to
Speaker 2: do more carbon testing, you know, we have to really
Speaker 2: figure it out. But no, I mean I don't know.
Speaker 2: I also don't know how badly I want a God
Speaker 2: of War show.
Speaker 1: I will say if Dave Batista's involved with it. My
Speaker 1: interest suddenly jumps up. Yeah too interested now versus God
Speaker 1: keep it away from me and he can't get hurt.
Speaker 2: If anything, the show will get hurt from him. Like
Speaker 2: he like, I'm not worried about his.
Speaker 1: Hillwords through the hurt brother. He walks for miles inside
Speaker 1: this strait of danger. It's true rights.
Speaker 7: I heard, Oh, man, that's such a cool interest with
Speaker 7: the freaking like get.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Speaking of cool things for cool people, square Enix says
Speaker 7: the strange Kingdom Heart's artwork was human error and not a.
Speaker 1: Dave Batista druid, and he just wasn't sure about the details.
Speaker 2: So Rob and I talked about this on on game
Speaker 2: as yesterday.
Speaker 7: I heard that. I heard that, Yeah, this.
Speaker 2: Is I'm sorry, but like, you're not fooling anyone. I like,
Speaker 2: what the fuck? Man?
Speaker 7: So this this is for that artwork for that Kingdom
Speaker 7: Hearts collection that is coming out that like you know,
Speaker 7: bundles all the games together. It has this special artc
Speaker 7: And immediately when everyone looked at it, they're like this
Speaker 7: reeks of ai Like Donald Duck had too many fingers
Speaker 7: on one hand, like like details were blending into each other.
Speaker 7: Donald Duck's mouth was doing weird stuff. It just did
Speaker 7: not look right. You look at this thing, it doesn't
Speaker 7: look right at all, and uh like Screennix finally came
Speaker 7: out and said, like, no, that's not it wasn't AI.
Speaker 7: We just did some oop sees and I'm like, oopsies.
Speaker 7: I don't know if they're allowed to just lie like this,
Speaker 7: but you're like, if it's not a lie, then our
Speaker 7: standards have fallen so much because of AI somehow for
Speaker 7: this to get through I it is just it's difficult
Speaker 7: to believe because it just reeks up, it reeks of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those hallmarks right like, and we we talked about
Speaker 2: this yesterday, right like the like the one comedic silver
Speaker 2: lining of like AI's proliferation is like we all now
Speaker 2: know we are like programmed to sniff it out right.
Speaker 2: It's there is a look to it where everything just
Speaker 2: is like super smooth and porcelain and uncanny, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: I know what this fucking thing is. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: buy a smoothie from you guys, because you're fucking lazy bitches,
Speaker 2: right Like, I'm just not gonna do that if you're
Speaker 2: putting that into the like, there's no way this is
Speaker 2: gonna be quality. So that's fun that you can pick
Speaker 2: out and selectively boycott the things you don't want to
Speaker 2: support because they're fucking demons. And then we see this
Speaker 2: and it's like, oh, all the alarm bells go off
Speaker 2: and they're just like, now we just got like shitty
Speaker 2: artists is essentially what they're saying.
Speaker 7: How are they going to possibly find any good artists
Speaker 7: at Square Emix and Disney.
Speaker 1: That's the craziest spot though, is how did this get
Speaker 1: by Disney? Right? Like, I am assuming that there's some
Speaker 1: type of approval process with anything relating to Disney, but
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Disney loves Ai, don't forget like they want to feed
Speaker 6: all their characters into sour or whatever the other the other.
Speaker 6: So they broke that deal, but they've changed the way
Speaker 6: they feel. It just means that they realize what public
Speaker 6: perception is. I think maybe the most likely thing here
Speaker 6: is that people are theorizing Oh wait a second. The
Speaker 6: Japanese box art is different in that it is the
Speaker 6: same nomber of art, but almost all I think it
Speaker 6: was all I didn't follow this too closely because I'm
Speaker 6: just like, well, this all sucks, but I believe almost
Speaker 6: all of the details that look weird were obscured on
Speaker 6: the Japanese art, and so oh, they just used AI
Speaker 6: to extend the art when they rearrange things to fix,
Speaker 6: like to fit North American bees, And maybe that's the
Speaker 6: truth in the middle ground of square Enix saying, oh,
Speaker 6: we didn't generate it with AI. We just used a
Speaker 6: human who was kind of stupid and didn't notice that,
Speaker 6: you know when they extended it that they made some
Speaker 6: mistakes happening.
Speaker 7: Oh I'm looking at this because yeah, like that hand
Speaker 7: of Donald Ducks's behind Sora a different version, So yeah, okay,
Speaker 7: I could see. So you know, you're a giant bomb.
Speaker 6: We have Dan Reikert, who when Adobe tells him I'm
Speaker 6: going to use AI to fix this for you, he's
Speaker 6: smart enough to say no. But square Enix they don't
Speaker 6: have a Dan Reikert. They don't have someone who will
Speaker 6: say no, I will not use the generative AI bond.
Speaker 5: That's the problem with square Enox.
Speaker 6: That's the problem Dan.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that almost gosh. As you say that, now,
Speaker 7: I'm like, that's almost certainly what happened here, And like
Speaker 7: now they're like maybe even square Enix is confused at
Speaker 7: this point about what happened. I don't know there is.
Speaker 6: A separation there, I can tell. I don't know personally
Speaker 6: anyone at either branch, but I feel like there's a
Speaker 6: separation between squaring ks in Japan and like the Western representatives.
Speaker 6: So maybe there's like a breakdown communication.
Speaker 2: Yeah, show me the pro create files, Show us the files.
Speaker 6: Show us the time laps, show us the time labs
Speaker 6: come on.
Speaker 7: Also, going back to placing in discs, there was an
Speaker 7: earnings call and they were finally asked about the whole Hey,
Speaker 7: you're still gonna do that, and they acknowledged the backlash
Speaker 7: and they're like, yeah, we're still We're still We're still
Speaker 7: going to do that. Actually.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 7: Sony's offering profit rose forty percent during its first quarter,
Speaker 7: helped by gaming and image sensors. It increases full operating
Speaker 7: profits forecast by eight percent. Sony sold one point six
Speaker 7: million places FCE systems during the quarter, down roughly one
Speaker 7: third year over year, but gaming profitability remained strong. During
Speaker 7: the discussion, CFO Metal acknowledged the opposition to Sony's plan
Speaker 7: to stop manufacturing disc for new PlayStation releases beginning in
Speaker 7: January twenty twenty eight, but said the company would cautiously
Speaker 7: move forward around eight. Yeah, around eighty percent of Sony's
Speaker 7: full game sales were already digital during fiscal twenty teven.
Speaker 7: It means that they're going to continue to shut the
Speaker 7: fuck up about it for the most part. I assume yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 7: Grub says here. Lintal is the one. Per is the
Speaker 7: person who said in an earnings call a few quarters
Speaker 7: back that PlayStation's plan is to tomize the impact of
Speaker 7: rising memory costs by focusing on monetizing the installed based
Speaker 7: and growing software and network services revenue. You already see
Speaker 7: that strategy effect because again, console sales were down like
Speaker 7: a third, but the profitability was still there. Because again,
Speaker 7: it's all about kind of squeezing that very dedicated consumer base. Eventually,
Speaker 7: Stones do run out of water, would be my cautionary
Speaker 7: tail there.
Speaker 2: Stones explain this to dannused.
Speaker 7: Like squeezing water on the stone. Wow, because that's what
Speaker 7: I'm saying. It's the word water before It's okay, what
Speaker 7: you mentioned. I got my idioms mixed up. I'm sorry everybody,
Speaker 7: but you get the point, right. There's only so much
Speaker 7: there's to squeeze.
Speaker 6: The biblical idiom, but.
Speaker 7: It was short. One time you had to squeeze water
Speaker 7: from the stone with the.
Speaker 5: Blood, and it says blood from a stone.
Speaker 3: You should know that that is real crazy.
Speaker 2: If blood came out of stones, cool, it would be
Speaker 2: pretty had.
Speaker 1: I would be diving into rocks right now with how
Speaker 1: much is.
Speaker 7: Actually probably some water in stones. There's no blood in them,
Speaker 7: so I feel like mine's better.
Speaker 2: You're not looking hard.
Speaker 6: Enough, little about water and all sort of thing. The
Speaker 6: reeks of sorry you got mad, like sorry, sorry, Like
Speaker 6: anytime a CEO, CFO whoever like comes out and says, well,
Speaker 6: you know, you have to understand that things are progressing
Speaker 6: and this is the future. It's it's just like looking
Speaker 6: down on the rest of us and be letting us like,
Speaker 6: all right, all right, you idiots getting mad over there.
Speaker 6: Shut up. We're doing this either way, and we're just
Speaker 6: gonna like write you off that that's all this reeks out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's funny. I there was like the Wolverine
Speaker 1: trailer for an update trailer or teaser that came out,
Speaker 1: and then I was like scrolled down, looked at the
Speaker 1: comments and everyone is talking about discs. Yep, it's it's crazy.
Speaker 1: You know. The problem is I wonder if people will
Speaker 1: stick to their convictions, stick to their guns on like
Speaker 1: either doing a soft boycott or only buying the game
Speaker 1: on on disc or whatever. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, tragically, I don't think it'll move the needle at all.
Speaker 2: I think the reason though, that this is so popular
Speaker 2: because it is so unpopular, right, Like, there's not anyone
Speaker 2: who I mean, there are a few fringe weirdos who
Speaker 2: are like, you know, embracing and ushering in the death
Speaker 2: of physical media with open arms, right Like, for the
Speaker 2: most part, people are generally in agreement. They're like, this
Speaker 2: is a net negative, right right, And and very and
Speaker 2: frequently is there some sort of topic that like the
Speaker 2: majority of people can get behind together and all root
Speaker 2: against the same sort of thing tragically.
Speaker 6: Because they're taking something away from us, Like anytime you
Speaker 6: take something away from people that doesn't need to be
Speaker 6: taken away. They could have just let physical media peter out,
Speaker 6: like it is in all the other aspects you don't
Speaker 6: like or even like, become niche. You know, CDs are
Speaker 6: still produced. There's still millions of CDs on the market
Speaker 6: every year, a small market. Yeah, vinyls coming back.
Speaker 7: It really just like because then they have to have
Speaker 7: a disk drive and they don't want to eat different
Speaker 7: optional disk drive right like like we have right now.
Speaker 6: They don't want to be mad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's ownership. It's just coming in its ownership.
Speaker 2: That's I realized. We just got finished talking about a
Speaker 2: story that rubs against it. But yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 2: the the thing everyone needs to be more upset about
Speaker 2: is the ownership part of it, all right, and not
Speaker 2: the thing that like I can't hold this in my hands.
Speaker 2: It's the ownership when it boils down to it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, that is it for the news. Thanks
Speaker 7: again to Jeff Grub for putting that together, for us
Speaker 7: handing the show back over to you, Jan even though
Speaker 7: I'm not your co captain, it's okay.
Speaker 1: I'm not mad. You allow it. You're the bad boy,
Speaker 1: you're the Cleveland streamer. Yeah, I know. Well it's okay. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about it during this quick breaky break, and
Speaker 1: we'll be back with some emails in some YouTube superchats
Speaker 1: if we got them. We'll see you right after this.
Speaker 2: These are the.
Speaker 1: Emails emails BombCast a giant bomb dot com is email
Speaker 1: address to send your emails too. You can write in
Speaker 1: about any and everything and we will do our best
Speaker 1: to read all of them. Once again, I say this
Speaker 1: every week. I haven't been able to say this for
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks, but thank you for sending
Speaker 1: your emails in. You send them in about various miscellaneous
Speaker 1: things about the website, and I do appreciate them. We
Speaker 1: are flooded, not just with spam emails, but with actual
Speaker 1: shoot emails. First email comes from Nathan from Osceola, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and this is to Dan. Dan, it was a little
Speaker 1: surreal seeing you hanging out around my hometown while you
Speaker 1: were camping with Minmax. If you're ever in the area again,
Speaker 1: I highly recommend checking out the Wisconsin side of Interstate Park.
Speaker 1: It's Saint Croix Falls. It's incredible. Anyway, gang, do you
Speaker 1: have any must visit state or national park recommendations or
Speaker 1: hikes around while they still exist? A long time first
Speaker 1: time Nathan, Osceola, Wisconsin.
Speaker 7: Yeah, gosh, I haven't been able to make it to
Speaker 7: many of the big ones, so kind of kind of
Speaker 7: all of them. I want to go see the Batalance,
Speaker 7: like the Tetons things like that. Yeah, right, all right, definitely,
Speaker 7: that's high up there, even just like Yosemite things like that. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm really able to do much.
Speaker 3: Went to Zion in Utah a couple years ago and
Speaker 3: that was beautiful.
Speaker 5: And Bryce Canyon is near there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, if you live in California or
Speaker 1: near Yosemite, you have to just make it out over there.
Speaker 1: I know that. It's just like very busy now, the
Speaker 1: tourist wise and people clamoring to go there, but it
Speaker 1: lives up to it. It's fun and gorgeous. It makes
Speaker 1: you think about the scale and your place in the world.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful, also fun. Gift shop.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm there for the gift shop. Baby, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming some of it as park and forgive me
Speaker 2: if it's not. But Hawaii is a place that I
Speaker 2: just think really should be experienced by by everyone. I
Speaker 2: know it's it's tough to get there and it's not
Speaker 2: the most accessible, but it's incredible. It's basically represents like
Speaker 2: every biome imaginable on Earth. You can see everything from
Speaker 2: desert to rainforest to snow capped mountains. It is amazing,
Speaker 2: and the volcanic situation there is mind blowing. It is
Speaker 2: incredibly a young island in terms of the age of
Speaker 2: our planet, set of islands rather and that stuff is nuts.
Speaker 2: And you start to find out like, oh, Hawaii is
Speaker 2: getting way bigger. It's it's on its way. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be even bigger and bigger and bigger. Stick around a
Speaker 2: couple tens of thousands of years. Man, there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a brand new island that will have to name. But
Speaker 2: that's very exciting.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it is a long flight. Would rather take
Speaker 5: your boat?
Speaker 2: I would imagine if we did that. It's it's tough, yeah,
Speaker 2: most Oh maybe the San Diego one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: Who's to say?
Speaker 7: Both coast boats.
Speaker 3: You won't let me drive your car, but can I
Speaker 3: drive your boat? Yeah? The water, No one's ever gotten
Speaker 3: in a boat crash.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean not in the vastness of the Pacific,
Speaker 2: but yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then I would also like uh, and then on
Speaker 2: the east coast like, uh, I don't again, I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's parks keep CODs amazing all that up there,
Speaker 2: Like that's yes, exactly, only the potatoes, Okay, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know if these are parks.
Speaker 1: Sorry, no, I also a Greek go out and appreciate
Speaker 1: nature while we still have it. Hawaii's definitely one of
Speaker 1: those places. Also in Hawaii spend ethically and responsibly go
Speaker 1: to a hotel because the locals will work at a
Speaker 1: hotel and all the Airbnb's verbos, whatever the fuck else
Speaker 1: have you have been bought by out of towners.
Speaker 2: So so I when I went to the Big Island
Speaker 2: for my honeymoon, we did Maui and the Big On. Uh,
Speaker 2: this was like right as Airbnb and all that stuff
Speaker 2: was like starting to pop off. And the place we
Speaker 2: rented was definitely not some like private equity coming in
Speaker 2: and you know that did not come into Vilgue just yet.
Speaker 2: And it was like it was real rustic, Like this
Speaker 2: was like someone's like palm tree house that was off there, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, a larger home and it was like frog
Speaker 2: infested and it was really it was. It was beautiful
Speaker 2: because it was Hawaii and there's nothing bad about that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was at the beginning of all that.
Speaker 2: That was that was crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the long flight for you jeez, oh yeah, jeez,
Speaker 1: do you have a layover somewhere.
Speaker 2: It's actually not so bad. I think we did Arizona.
Speaker 2: I think we just Phoenix as the layover and then
Speaker 2: coming home. I think we did it in one shot. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's not the worst.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then Hawaii you can send it Breda instead of sending.
Speaker 5: I've been meaning to go there.
Speaker 3: I really like I typically do Aruba if we want
Speaker 3: to do like an island vacation just because of the
Speaker 3: flights and everything.
Speaker 5: Come on, pretty much heard great things about Hawaii.
Speaker 2: It's not it's not even in the same category.
Speaker 1: You got a multiple different islands to dan. You know
Speaker 1: you can. You can pick your poison in terms of
Speaker 1: like do you want something more thirsty and not as
Speaker 1: real but like citylike, or do you want something more
Speaker 1: like nature focused and heavy. Also, you could see big
Speaker 1: turtles on the beach. It's just fucking amazing.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yes. Also, oh god, this thing about Loco Moco now
Speaker 1: just want to go ballistic, but I'll resist. Next email
Speaker 1: comes from Mike from Loveland. Greetings, C Suite members of
Speaker 1: the Giant Bomb Zaibatsu. Would you rather have a private
Speaker 1: chef or personal driver? Last time I did one of
Speaker 1: these Minati needed more info, so if requested here it
Speaker 1: is one. Both are free, but you still need to
Speaker 1: pay for gas and food. Both work five days a week,
Speaker 1: and because they don't have a union, the shifts are
Speaker 1: long enough to accommodate your lifestyle. Both have incredible British accents.
Speaker 1: Both are world class professionals. The driver has whatever car
Speaker 1: you want them to drive. The chef has every cooking
Speaker 1: gadget and can get any ingredient.
Speaker 2: This is such a fucking easy question.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Yeah, once a year, the chef is going to
Speaker 1: poison a meal they make only for you. You will
Speaker 1: get twenty four hours of explosive diarrhea once here. The
Speaker 1: driver will purposely make you miss a flight or appointment.
Speaker 1: Why one more thing, one more caveat. The driver has
Speaker 1: a good sense of humor and will choose a moment
Speaker 1: to completely mess your day up with up that you
Speaker 1: will someday be able to laugh about. The chef has
Speaker 1: no sense of humor and always poisons you on a
Speaker 1: completely brandom Why are.
Speaker 7: We trying to stack the deck against the chef because
Speaker 7: I'm like that is the answer.
Speaker 2: Chef is still the answer answer. I would just say
Speaker 2: the driver driver, Yeah, Mike, Mike from Loveland, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: but like your fucking the hypotheticals here are so dumb, Like,
Speaker 2: why is this part of the fucking exercise?
Speaker 7: You get poisoned? What are we doing else?
Speaker 5: Hours of diarrhea? That's not that bad a poison.
Speaker 2: It's you know, it's not great, but it's not bad. Look,
Speaker 2: driving is like at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 2: just you fucking dry. Like I can't cook the way
Speaker 2: I want to fucking cook, right.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, I eat several times a day. I need
Speaker 3: to go somewhere like every once in a while. Like
Speaker 3: I'm definitely doing the thing I do every day.
Speaker 1: But would you be incentivized to go more places with
Speaker 1: a driver?
Speaker 3: I mean, I go places as much as I want to,
Speaker 3: it's just not nearly as often as I eat, right, Yeah, Like.
Speaker 2: Eating is so much more crucial and enjoyable, and you're
Speaker 2: talking to someone who really loves driving. Yes, Mike has
Speaker 2: got the poker chips? What's up?
Speaker 7: I'm really I'm my team I'm on team chef. I'm
Speaker 7: sorry these are my like a little fidget poker chips.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 7: I would you know I would like to hear from
Speaker 7: team driver, Like why two things first?
Speaker 6: There's two things here. One you need to pay for
Speaker 6: a gas slash food dog. First of all, if I'm
Speaker 6: not going that many places, I'm glad pay for like
Speaker 6: a tank of gas here and there. I'm not you know,
Speaker 6: if the chef is making all of my food or
Speaker 6: most of my food, because I want to utilize the chef,
Speaker 6: I ain't paying for all that. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 6: I'm forking out like a thousand dollars additional in groceries. Sorry, month,
Speaker 6: screw that. But also seven and eight getting twenty four
Speaker 6: hours of explosive diarrhea versus I miss a flight that
Speaker 6: can rebook for a few hours later, Like absolutely I'm missing.
Speaker 2: What if you miss saying goodbye to your great grandmother?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and also talk like I get twenty four hours
Speaker 3: of diarrhea like thirty to fifty times a year probably, you.
Speaker 2: Know, like I might wait twenty four hours then Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's the user error at that time.
Speaker 7: That's like a month.
Speaker 2: You were saying you have a month or more of
Speaker 2: diarrhea every year.
Speaker 7: It's not that far off. What do you mean?
Speaker 6: Okay, hang on, hang on, guys. You remember that Dan
Speaker 6: started eating vegetables two years ago and that taught him
Speaker 6: what a good poop is. Right now, I've I've dabbled
Speaker 6: with vegetables throughout my life.
Speaker 5: I've never liked.
Speaker 6: But if I'm gonna go back to the BombCast where
Speaker 6: he was very proud of this.
Speaker 2: Like, I can't evenine, I mean, unless you're getting that
Speaker 2: that parasite, I can't even imagine what a fucking day's
Speaker 2: worth of.
Speaker 3: It's just like, let's say I'm traveling or people are
Speaker 3: in town or something like let's say live there's a
Speaker 3: night where like I drink a good amount. The next day,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ship my brain's out six times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Like my dad always hated this because of how much
Speaker 3: I just destroyed his bathroom.
Speaker 5: And uh yeah, so i'd go back in town.
Speaker 3: My dad and I usually go out and drink a
Speaker 3: lot when I'm in town, and then he knows, like
Speaker 3: the next day, it's like, oh great, he's gonna be
Speaker 3: shipping his brains out every thirty minutes all tomorrow and
Speaker 3: stink up his bath.
Speaker 7: You know, we're definitely getting damn the chef.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I can drive all right, I can't cook anything, so
Speaker 3: I'm definitely doing the chef.
Speaker 7: Sure, well, there are.
Speaker 2: Two evils I think over there.
Speaker 1: Great, I've said this multiple times where I wish there
Speaker 1: was someone to drive me home in my car versus
Speaker 1: like calling an uber because sometimes I don't want to
Speaker 1: be in an uber Okay, And if I could develop
Speaker 1: a rapport with my driver where he knows, like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's not feeling it today, you.
Speaker 6: Know, driving me, driving Jenny.
Speaker 2: I think, like, mister Z, you want to you want
Speaker 2: to if you lived in like Manhattan or LA like
Speaker 2: you you want a driver, right because drive? I mean
Speaker 2: it's not the best driving around in those cities. I
Speaker 2: just can't even like to be able to like enjoy
Speaker 2: top quality chef cooking three meals a day. Are you
Speaker 2: kidding me? Yeah, you are gonna have to come over
Speaker 2: the top.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for like one thousand dollars a week.
Speaker 2: No, that's the point chefs can turn, uh you know,
Speaker 2: a relatively affordable grocery shopping into masterpiece.
Speaker 6: But also.
Speaker 2: I use that's time. I don't want to do that. Ship.
Speaker 1: I can use my personal driver to like, yo, go
Speaker 1: pick up my parents, all right? You do this?
Speaker 7: Is that allowed need more?
Speaker 1: You can't drive?
Speaker 7: Man, like I'll have them drive her around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Like a man, you know, like, hey, you don't got
Speaker 1: to pick up dib anymore, right, like.
Speaker 7: Or you can send him a corner.
Speaker 2: He's around the freaking corner.
Speaker 1: But it's fine.
Speaker 7: I don't mind it talking about you know, way more
Speaker 7: than you drive.
Speaker 1: I would get more, indeed created, if I had a
Speaker 1: personal driver, which is.
Speaker 2: A net negative number one number two, Jen, I'm surprised you,
Speaker 2: of all people, I realize you are a better chef
Speaker 2: than the five of us combined. Like okay, all right,
Speaker 2: so even such, I'm surprised that you would want to
Speaker 2: have that kind of luxury.
Speaker 1: No, because I then it'd be that thing where like,
Speaker 1: you know, you have a friend that like uh kind
Speaker 1: of like uh imposes their knowledge or their will of
Speaker 1: like oh I know better than you. So then I'd
Speaker 1: be like very self conscious in the kitchen of like
Speaker 1: like oh suddenly my knife skills are aren't up to
Speaker 1: par because this professional British chef in my house is
Speaker 1: saying like, oh it's not how you Julia and Carrott's jan.
Speaker 7: Ah cooking away from jan you know, criticism.
Speaker 1: Versus driving where it's like hey, maybe you know why
Speaker 1: my AC doesn't work?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, backlar obvious answer.
Speaker 6: Here. There's a clean divide between the youngs and the olds.
Speaker 6: I love you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like I think I think Grub would also
Speaker 1: pick chef, even though Greb he would. Yeah, Grub loves driving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I like driving the same amount, I want.
Speaker 5: To say, And I got fine.
Speaker 7: I got five months till I'm forty. Can you pretend
Speaker 7: on part of the youngs for just a little bit longer?
Speaker 1: Dude?
Speaker 6: I considered Chuck one of the old I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: If you're older than me.
Speaker 2: Can you're ready your mind? Buddy? Were trying to abandon
Speaker 2: us for.
Speaker 7: I'm being forced into your camp suit.
Speaker 1: Dude. Do you remember at s G how we divided
Speaker 1: the airbnbs?
Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, that's true. I was there. Yeah, I was
Speaker 7: embrace it's good over here.
Speaker 2: Not only that, like you were on the first floor.
Speaker 2: That's the most accessible it was.
Speaker 7: It was really nice. I was right by the bathroom upstairs.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a Disney day. Then your spry as a snapper?
Speaker 1: Did you see?
Speaker 7: I went up there one time and I was like, who,
Speaker 7: that was a trip?
Speaker 2: It's safe.
Speaker 1: I get it all right. Uh, this is our new
Speaker 1: for forget versus bad everyone, This is car versus cook
Speaker 1: personal car personal driver. All right, let's see, let's speed
Speaker 1: through a couple of these emails, Travis and Fargo writes,
Speaker 1: and he writes in five questions, I choose one of them.
Speaker 1: Travis writes in what would be more devastating? The more
Speaker 1: devastating word to remove from pop music for all time?
Speaker 1: Baby or tonight?
Speaker 2: Oh my god?
Speaker 1: Baby is?
Speaker 3: I think baby yeah would be gone justin Biemer's.
Speaker 1: Whole career would be stalled.
Speaker 2: Baby baby catastrophic.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Bratty Spears went and it popped off.
Speaker 5: With oh yeah, tonight, what do you lose? You lose tonight?
Speaker 5: Tonight from the Smashing Pumpkins.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that Pitbull song where they go to.
Speaker 7: Ben, that's up.
Speaker 5: It was black Eyed Peas.
Speaker 7: That's a black guy baby right right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 2: That's how you learned about Mazeltopay, Okay, Baby, it would
Speaker 2: be more destructive, but maybe it takes away more of
Speaker 2: the songs that I don't like, So I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1: Okay in the air.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think if you took out Tonight, you
Speaker 2: would wipe out more strays than you anticipated. And I
Speaker 2: feel like baby is a safer bet. So if we
Speaker 2: have to remove one I guess we'd yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean one of my tonight like one of my
Speaker 1: favorite I guess this is considered a vocal stem. I
Speaker 1: just love hearing oh Baby, like yes, yes, and then
Speaker 1: I just need the baby part of that.
Speaker 7: Yes Baby. We'll take out more Christmas songs because of
Speaker 7: Baby Jesus.
Speaker 1: Right, but the baby.
Speaker 5: Jesus one for the lame ones who.
Speaker 7: Wants to preserve that shiit a madress nice sometimes?
Speaker 1: All right? I only like silent Night.
Speaker 7: Little Let's say, Babe Jesus. Are they little baby jeez?
Speaker 7: I don't know they say baby.
Speaker 1: Baby? We're fine? All right? Uh. We have a recommendation here,
Speaker 1: A whole list of recommendations from a Mike, not our
Speaker 1: own Mike or Mike from Loveland. We'll speak through this here.
Speaker 1: Hello GB. A while back someone wrote in with fun
Speaker 1: SKA album album recommendations. I thought I would complete the
Speaker 1: fans warped tour experience and assign some pop punk to
Speaker 1: the crew. Jam cool. This is my favorite pop punk
Speaker 1: album of the last ten years, Warriors Survival Pop. Sorry
Speaker 1: to pin the nervous energy album on you, but it's
Speaker 1: really good, trust me. Bro. Jeff Backlar from One Jersey
Speaker 1: Boy to another. I'm recommending the latest ash Ashbury's Own Park,
Speaker 1: Ashbury Park's Own Teenage Halloween til you return Asbury Parks.
Speaker 2: Sorry, yes, so I'm familiar with Teenage Halloween. Very good, excellent, beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 2: Jeff Grubbs sending your way the aesthetically sweet but lyrically
Speaker 2: bitter debut LP from Bony TV. Baby, it's pretty Daria coded,
Speaker 2: so I feel like someone your age saying would appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Mike Manadi, you're getting the mister T experience. Revenge is sweet,
Speaker 2: and so are you. This album get.
Speaker 1: Me through high school by basically turning everything that stressed
Speaker 1: me out into a big joke. I hope you enjoy
Speaker 1: the silly and clever lyrics. Will Cross Me. Will has
Speaker 1: Will has said he didn't know a lot of music
Speaker 1: while growing up, so I'm sending him one of the
Speaker 1: most essential albums.
Speaker 2: Ever, Jawbreaker. Dear You, legendary. Will just listen to this
Speaker 2: record right now.
Speaker 1: Dan Reikert appealing to your affinity for classic boomerack. Here's
Speaker 1: the Ramones, Rockets Russia. There we go, Chuck Zimmerheld, please
Speaker 1: enjoy this Beach Boys influence album about the existential horrors
Speaker 1: of adulthood, bomb the music industry, vacation Sean McDowell sending
Speaker 1: You Go Go seventy one eighty eight Go Go Go Go,
Speaker 1: probably the most versatile album here, drifting into garage surf Anka.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of Anca and all delivered with fun
Speaker 1: pop punk energy bonuses.
Speaker 6: Today that that album title sounds like follow Out Boy
Speaker 6: or Panic at the Disco, So maybe I'll go check
Speaker 6: that out.
Speaker 1: Bonus If you have a guest today, they can have
Speaker 1: antarctic go Vespucci love in the time of email, which
Speaker 1: I can only describe as extremely neurotic romanticism. Some people
Speaker 1: may say, hey, that isn't pop punk, that that's power
Speaker 1: power pop or college rock. To that, I say, just
Speaker 1: an email, you should really just relax XO Mike Wow,
Speaker 1: Thank you Mike for the recommendations. I'm gonna go add this,
Speaker 1: uh Survival Pop, the Warriors Back. Are you approved of
Speaker 1: most of these?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I gotta admit I probably haven't heard of at
Speaker 2: least half of them, but I'll definitely bomb the music industry.
Speaker 7: Going to listen to mine, I'm going to listen to
Speaker 7: Revenge your Sweets? So are you by the murder t experienced.
Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, it's a very good name for
Speaker 1: a band. Oh, Backler, I think you'd really like hold on,
Speaker 1: let me double check that I got their name right. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Paradox. I think you'd really like The Paradox pop punk.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll check them out.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right. Last email of the show comes from
Speaker 1: Bevin aka Humblebees. Hey, GB and friends. Just wanted to
Speaker 1: say that last Friday, I was out pregaming with some
Speaker 1: friends at a bar for a drum and bass show,
Speaker 1: and in the midst of drinking and smoking the good
Speaker 1: stuff if you know you know, I saw Naughty walk
Speaker 1: walking by wearing a Gnome cap. Couldn't stop myself from
Speaker 1: walking up and asking if it was him, And it
Speaker 1: was and he was with Mary Kish and Chuck too.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being kind and gracious to my fate.
Speaker 1: I hope I didn't bother y'all too much or do
Speaker 1: anything too weird and in hide in sight, I definitely
Speaker 1: fan boyd a bit. I hope you had a lovely
Speaker 1: rest of your weekend, which I will watch some of
Speaker 1: online later this week. I'm sorry I couldn't make it
Speaker 1: to your bigger meetup on Saturday, but I'll say it
Speaker 1: was my first time bumping into an Internet person I follow,
Speaker 1: and I don't know why. I've never really considered meeting
Speaker 1: Internet people or interacting with them, but even the few
Speaker 1: minutes was great vibes and I'll do my best to
Speaker 1: make the next PMW meetup work. Also, it was fun
Speaker 1: to say I know these guys from the Internet to
Speaker 1: my friends. Also, if GB people don't know the genre
Speaker 1: of drum and bass in the New James Bond Game,
Speaker 1: when Bond infiltrates that club, that's drum and bass, the
Speaker 1: two DJs are actually modeled off of two actual famous
Speaker 1: drum and based DJs named Chase and Status, who made
Speaker 1: music specifically for that scene. Cool though our show was
Speaker 1: a little dancer style of D and B from a
Speaker 1: DJ called Dimension. Also a UK guyga though Bevin ps
Speaker 1: for real, if you want to go to a PDX
Speaker 1: E d M show, I got you. I guess we
Speaker 1: gotta go, Guys, I guess we gotta go.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do we ever get a missed connection?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: You? Follow up from from the person I thought I
Speaker 2: saw at the Stave stand up show.
Speaker 5: Mike got a bunch of missed connections in Portland.
Speaker 1: That's very good, Dan, very very good.
Speaker 11: Nice but seriously no uh no stovey miss connections but
Speaker 11: someone saying, hey, please check my voicemail when I called
Speaker 11: from prison.
Speaker 2: Oh I don't know how those are connected, but.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, that's exciting. So ah, Hey, I loved when.
Speaker 7: I loved when this fella came up to me because
Speaker 7: I was already really happy because I had ingratiated myself
Speaker 7: with the gnomes and became one of them. And like,
Speaker 7: right after that versus like are you Mike MINAUGHTI and
Speaker 7: we know I love being recognized. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 7: great two minute period for me.
Speaker 1: I was very happy. Has this happened with your family, Mike?
Speaker 7: Uh? Yeah, yeah. The best was on my Disney cruise
Speaker 7: when I was at the Disney trivia thing with my
Speaker 7: dad where a guy came up. It was like I
Speaker 7: really liked it. It was from my dad because like, my
Speaker 7: dad doesn't really understand what I do, right, It's kind
Speaker 7: it's confusing and weird to get it, but like, yeah,
Speaker 7: that seemed very impressive my dad that this person knew
Speaker 7: who I was and seemed excited to see me. Now
Speaker 7: he took it too far and then like as soon
Speaker 7: as we were in the monorail like an actual Disney World.
Speaker 7: It's some guy the monro just said, I like video games.
Speaker 7: My Dad's like, you know my son?
Speaker 1: Then I know I was.
Speaker 7: I was like, no, no, no, no, not not not
Speaker 7: that much, Dad, not that much.
Speaker 2: When you say your dad doesn't understand what what? What?
Speaker 2: What you do? Does your dad still tell his friends
Speaker 2: that your son writes for Cnet.
Speaker 7: It's not like that. It's like, I don't know if
Speaker 7: he remembers the name Giant Bomb.
Speaker 1: Wow, it could be hard.
Speaker 7: It could be hard.
Speaker 2: Sometimes my dad will just say, like the bomb thing,
Speaker 2: which is really cool.
Speaker 1: Uh. I just get my mom a shirt and I
Speaker 1: make her wear a Giant Bomb shirt and it's just
Speaker 1: funny to make.
Speaker 6: By the way, I got a confirmation from Jeff brub
Speaker 6: He did say I hate cooking and love driving.
Speaker 1: So Chef, there we go, Will Chuck, I need you
Speaker 1: all chime in. I need to see where the rest
Speaker 1: of us land on. This is it a d.
Speaker 3: Split from Team old Gallon?
Speaker 2: A guess from my boat car on that use gas
Speaker 2: on a boat?
Speaker 7: We do? Is what I'm told? Coal?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 7: Coal? Coal?
Speaker 2: Yes, one hundred years ago? That Will will Team driver,
Speaker 2: because will Will like married to like a chef person.
Speaker 1: I don't want to assume what Karen does.
Speaker 2: Okay, apparently I'm pretty sure she's an immaculate chef.
Speaker 1: So so come on, come on, Is that why he
Speaker 1: was stressed out about going to the grocery store?
Speaker 2: Oh maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, Is that that is all household is
Speaker 3: all chef?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: That household was prey backler, Manati and grub right, and
Speaker 5: we're all, yeah.
Speaker 1: We're all chef. We need to hear all jef.
Speaker 2: Now you know, all that means is that the young
Speaker 2: people haven't ever had a good meal. That's like the
Speaker 2: only thing I understand.
Speaker 7: So then you're.
Speaker 2: Like, this is disposable. I don't need to have this
Speaker 2: all the time every day.
Speaker 12: You guys are actually if we threw a private massuse
Speaker 12: into the mixh Okay, it's a physical therapist, because physical
Speaker 12: I got all sorts of issues, and I don't like
Speaker 12: driving to the physical therapy place several times a week.
Speaker 7: So if there's a house I'm going that.
Speaker 2: I think I believe half of what. And I also
Speaker 2: think like young people are like scared of driving for
Speaker 2: some reason.
Speaker 1: I'm not scared of drive.
Speaker 2: I know you're not, and you're also not young Jen's team.
Speaker 1: Young, I'm still on the other side of thirty five.
Speaker 1: All right, you're on.
Speaker 2: The right side of thirty five, that's for sure. But
Speaker 2: also I don't know, man, I want to say, in
Speaker 2: a couple of years, you might change your tune.
Speaker 1: No, No, I think I'd want to be more relaxed. Also,
Speaker 1: I think i'd be too concerned with what the like
Speaker 1: my personal chef is doing in the meantime, right, Like,
Speaker 1: what are they doing in between chefs versus a driver
Speaker 1: who I'm assuming is constantly reading a newspaper.
Speaker 6: Sure, right, of course, to be clear, the chef sounds fantastic,
Speaker 6: just like the stipulations on there, I'm not down with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean again, we can all agree like six,
Speaker 2: seven and eighty nine on the list are stupid and
Speaker 2: we should just throw those away because it's really just
Speaker 2: about chef versus driver.
Speaker 6: I would probably swinging towards the chef side of things then, Yeah, Honestly,
Speaker 6: I didn't get diarrhea for a whole day once a year.
Speaker 7: At least.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: Well, Dan, I mean you're like best friends with it.
Speaker 7: Apparently the guy who wastes an entire roll of toilet
Speaker 7: paper every time you have to wipe your ass because
Speaker 7: you're so afraid of touching your own Why do you
Speaker 7: think I have three bid days?
Speaker 3: God, I think that makes it worse that you ll
Speaker 3: toilet paper because I'm smart.
Speaker 7: I got how you're mad at you. You did because
Speaker 7: you waste toilet paper. I I don't waste toilet paper.
Speaker 7: What the are you talking about? Are you traveling?
Speaker 1: You do?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I bet you do?
Speaker 7: Yes, toilet paper. He took one ship.
Speaker 2: Roll, you one roll per ship.
Speaker 5: Guy that's got through a whole roll with one ship
Speaker 5: clothes but close.
Speaker 2: We just got a new Toto all in one that
Speaker 2: is like the most It's actually confusing how fancy this
Speaker 2: bid day is. But it's like, I can't wait for
Speaker 2: you to try it. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 7: I do miss the That's like the worst thing about
Speaker 7: traveling is I do miss the mid day because.
Speaker 2: Your butt, your butt lingers for it, right, It's like, yeah, lingers, yeah, long.
Speaker 5: Long sorry because after your day you just sat there
Speaker 5: for a while before you wipe.
Speaker 2: You're right, your longs for your bidet.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It reaches out into into the airport it's we.
Speaker 5: Want nomba day toilet here and I just don't want
Speaker 5: to look at it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a PP one then I guess all right,
Speaker 1: that's free emails BombCast. The Giant bomb dot com is
Speaker 1: the email addressing your emails too. You can write in
Speaker 1: about any and everything. I guess so yeah, well, well
Speaker 1: we'll read those next week on the BombCast. Mister Minati.
Speaker 1: Do we have any YouTube super chats?
Speaker 7: Guess we do. First up from Amy Winehouse of Leaves.
Speaker 7: It says, after one and a half years at work,
Speaker 7: I finally got my own root and of course it's
Speaker 7: route sixty nine noise now I think with my name
Speaker 7: on it has the sixty nine at the end. Now
Speaker 7: hashtag nice there you go. Very happy for you, Amy
Speaker 7: Winehouse of Leaves.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 7: Uh, makes he says Jeff Backler. We would like more
Speaker 7: Giant back rooms please?
Speaker 2: Uh does that mean like the stream we did with Loose?
Speaker 1: Is that? I think? So? I think?
Speaker 2: Okay, you got it. Let's do it.
Speaker 7: Baby Stu as dude is my lovely pregnant wife is
Speaker 7: turning for you this month?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 7: Could you all wish Mags in Scotland a very happy birthday?
Speaker 7: Cheers happy birthday, Mags. And yeah, thank you for turning
Speaker 7: forty slightly before me. It makes me feel better.
Speaker 1: It's all about you.
Speaker 7: Makes it makes? He says, Hey, Jeff Backler got Peters
Speaker 7: b in W cube If any of that means, oh.
Speaker 5: The cube, the oh your your magic crystal?
Speaker 7: Why is it Peters?
Speaker 2: What? Wait? What kind of.
Speaker 1: HATEA Peter b?
Speaker 7: A W black and white B?
Speaker 2: And I don't know what that means.
Speaker 7: It just looks black to me.
Speaker 2: It's just black.
Speaker 7: Bobby Porne says, you think Derff lost his butt keys
Speaker 7: on that boat?
Speaker 1: Yes, maybe it's in the ignition. Boats have an ignition.
Speaker 2: They do have, so I'm told I no comment.
Speaker 7: Uh makes, he says, jan the dude abides, it's not
Speaker 7: looking like the dude's looking like a character from the office.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, oh oh wow damn.
Speaker 1: Well I know, but like I bought a box or
Speaker 1: I bought thirty ties off eBay for ten bucks, I
Speaker 1: have to wear all of them. Now, wait, how do situation?
Speaker 2: Did you find yourself? And we were like, this is
Speaker 2: what I'm buying right now. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about ties and then I thought eBay
Speaker 1: has a bunch of fun stuff. In bulk. So I
Speaker 1: bought a bunch of ties.
Speaker 2: It's just like the time you bought like one hundred
Speaker 2: bucks worth of like camera parts or something.
Speaker 1: No, I almost did that, and then I I almost
Speaker 1: bought ten pounds of watches.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, okay, Hey, a deal is a deal. I
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 1: I want to show I want to show you all
Speaker 1: my favorite tie. That hold on, Mike, go get it.
Speaker 6: Got it, buddy, just poking and scratching his face with
Speaker 6: a barfly knife. What did I just witness is that the.
Speaker 5: Giant knife on the give can't hurt you?
Speaker 7: No, I used the give almost daily.
Speaker 1: Look at this ship. Look at the wolves on it.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty cool.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's very outdoorsy.
Speaker 2: Uh, that's cool.
Speaker 7: Nigsie also says no Amazon exclusive ghost in the show
Speaker 7: or y'all yeah you like the new ghost in the show.
Speaker 7: I don't know people like that at Amazon only.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was Amazon though.
Speaker 7: She had an Amazon joint. That's interesting. I thought the
Speaker 7: anime uh close from the sketch one says, you guys
Speaker 7: play Stupattalion one and two with the intense forty button
Speaker 7: two joy sick three bettle controller leave up the great work,
Speaker 7: really great big walk video. Thank you, Simon. Uh. I
Speaker 7: played a little bit of it back in the day. Dude,
Speaker 7: you like we're ready, you like kind of set up then.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you made it.
Speaker 1: We could do.
Speaker 7: I think we tried it.
Speaker 6: I think we did it during we did Extra Life
Speaker 6: a couple of years.
Speaker 5: Ago, and we just kept all over and getting blown up.
Speaker 6: Because I think one thing on it doesn't work.
Speaker 7: Maybe No, we just we sucked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was like a major component of it, like
Speaker 3: aiming or something that we didn't understand, and so we
Speaker 3: just kept dying.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 7: Uh, let's sear now. Then, h makesby says Jeff Backlark
Speaker 7: and Mike Manaughty four go his super chat as a
Speaker 7: business expense. What no, No, I got to be responsible
Speaker 7: with these things.
Speaker 1: I understand.
Speaker 7: Yes, uh makes he says Turbo DaShan any thoughts in
Speaker 7: the new HB Choice. I assume that's Humble Bundle choice, and.
Speaker 6: That is there's something good and let see.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is their bunthly subscription thing, right, Yeah, like
Speaker 7: a dragon, infinite wealth, dead cells, turtle shudders, revenge seems good,
Speaker 7: good buzz all right, things all right, uh bigs. Excuse
Speaker 7: me here. This one's from Jim around Sound. Shout out
Speaker 7: to dark Horse Workers United for their first rally yesterday
Speaker 7: and showing up for their colleagues. I assume that's dark
Speaker 7: Horse Comics.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're gonizing.
Speaker 7: There you go, can shot. Keep it up, everybody, Zacy
Speaker 7: Sacy Sacy says random question, GBA or sn e s
Speaker 7: link to the past pppp oh absolutely sny s original.
Speaker 3: The GBA one does some interesting ones where you can
Speaker 3: like cut down bushes with the boomerang and stuff. Huge recommendation.
Speaker 3: There is a fan made version for the Thor that
Speaker 3: came out recently, and you can pick there's all sorts
Speaker 3: of these little tweets. You can choose, like to turn
Speaker 3: on or off all the GBA stuff. But it's got
Speaker 3: a persistent map overworld and dungeon depending on where you're
Speaker 3: at on the bottom screen, and then they wide screened
Speaker 3: linked to the past up top. If you look up
Speaker 3: Ay and Thor, it's like linked to the past. I
Speaker 3: think they call it like Zelda three or something like that.
Speaker 3: Really really cool, and you can add different things so
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, instead of just the one item thing
Speaker 3: for the boom rang you have the boomerang and the
Speaker 3: bow and arrow equip things like that.
Speaker 6: It's oh yeah, because I think the links of the
Speaker 6: past got decompilation. So that was explain how they did that. Okay,
Speaker 6: it's very fucking cool.
Speaker 7: He makes he makes says jet backar back to the
Speaker 7: cube that that was referring to the Peter mallis the
Speaker 7: cube game?
Speaker 2: Peter, God, Yeah, Peter, you're doing Peter Griffin. People are
Speaker 2: doing Peter.
Speaker 1: I'm doing the lowest Griffin.
Speaker 6: Please.
Speaker 7: Look, you just can't say Peter and then like expect
Speaker 7: us to get the Peter Malinu from that. All right, man, man, wait, okay, Peter,
Speaker 7: you think about the most probably Griffin.
Speaker 6: I'm afraid to Unfortunately.
Speaker 2: You don't think pen first.
Speaker 7: I know. I'm sorry. If you say Peter, I'm gonna
Speaker 7: immediately hear love Peter. Right, it's stuck, okay, and then
Speaker 7: last year, be proud of it. Zombie Porn says also
Speaker 7: congrets on Sean for another written review in The Sight
Speaker 7: the Right five reviews of September. Young people don't need sleep. Yeah,
Speaker 7: we actually had a little meeting to kind of like
Speaker 7: try to like, all right, who's gonna probably do what
Speaker 7: game here is like, yeah, I think set up.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of games coming out the next couple
Speaker 6: of months, and we like doing reviews, so you'll probably
Speaker 6: see another one from me because we are spraying things around.
Speaker 1: A little bit. Helma is coming.
Speaker 7: Yeah, how much is happening? Makes he stuck in here?
Speaker 7: Said great teacher A choa, there you go. Yeah, science
Speaker 7: teacher in high school. It's a very around anime. No,
Speaker 7: he does look like the main character of great Teacher
Speaker 7: or something that's a very.
Speaker 2: Specific you want what would you want your students to
Speaker 2: call you mister or mister Oh, like, how's this going
Speaker 2: to work?
Speaker 1: Mister ochoa? Because I yeah, say my whole fucking name
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 7: Did you guys, did you guys have a teacher in
Speaker 7: your high school It was like cool with a nickname
Speaker 7: and we just called him that. Yeah, yeah, we had
Speaker 7: one Rico. We all just called him Rico instead of
Speaker 7: or whatever.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 7: I think it's because he was a really white guy
Speaker 7: who taught Spanish one year poorly and then never again.
Speaker 7: We called him Rico.
Speaker 1: All right? Is that it for super chats?
Speaker 7: Mikey, Thank you so much everybody.
Speaker 1: Okay, before I get to what what else? Is happening
Speaker 1: in the rest of the week. I need to get
Speaker 1: this insane thought out of my head. I watched The
Speaker 1: Odyssey as well, fantastic movie, enjoyed it a lot. Afterwards,
Speaker 1: I was just thinking that was like a long Family
Speaker 1: Guy episode with all the cutaways.
Speaker 7: Rice.
Speaker 1: All right, wait, folks, we got a packed in, stacked
Speaker 1: week ahead of us. Another episode of Sewer Shirk is
Speaker 1: dropping later today. Folks, if you have missed Nine Lives
Speaker 1: or not caught up in Nine Lives, I highly suggest
Speaker 1: you go check out this last episode that will lovingly
Speaker 1: crafted together insane edits that man go crazy behind the
Speaker 1: ones and twes as well A gay miss Morning's popping
Speaker 1: off Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Greb's not here to confirm, but
Speaker 1: he's also not here to confirm, and it's gonna happen anyway.
Speaker 1: Grubber Dillo coming back tomorrow. Oh guys, Jesus Christ, what
Speaker 1: is this game? It happening?
Speaker 7: What it's God? He's he's in a hole? Is he
Speaker 7: still in the dog asshole zone? Is that what he's
Speaker 7: up to you right now? Oh?
Speaker 3: He might be mid dog asshole. He's done with Pea Land. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he might be deep in the dog asshole right now.
Speaker 7: You're not inside the talks, but well maybe.
Speaker 5: Sometimes collecting the buttholes right.
Speaker 7: Pictures, but it's just the whole theme of the world
Speaker 7: is dog anus.
Speaker 1: Oh okay voicemailed dub trock pop it off on Thursday
Speaker 1: and then on Friday. I have the time trying time
Speaker 1: wrong here on the schedule, but almost after game ass mornings,
Speaker 1: perhaps right after or an hour after, we are going
Speaker 1: on the big Big Walk where we're going to have
Speaker 1: a longer stream playing through Big Walk. Might have another
Speaker 1: person join us, perhaps part way through we will see
Speaker 1: might have some poppins, might have some poppins, might have
Speaker 1: some walkings, might have some hot bonds. Uh Beast of
Speaker 1: Reincarnation review out on the Way website. Now, Sean wrote
Speaker 1: that up. There's also a quick look for your viewing pleasure.
Speaker 1: There is a Pathogenic quick Look also on the website
Speaker 1: and the YouTube premium people. We mentioned it at the
Speaker 1: tippy top, But if you like the Big Walk quick
Speaker 1: Look and you just want to view someone's own solo
Speaker 1: dolo adventures, that is also available for you over there. Gang,
Speaker 1: Did I miss anything else? Thanks?
Speaker 2: You got to Jen.
Speaker 1: Actually, last upf we did play Machine Party. Very very
Speaker 1: good party game. Very good party game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Dan, you missed it. It's more of a fusion
Speaker 7: frenzy style. They don't even have the board. It's just
Speaker 7: a game.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I'll accept it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 1: It's fun. Maybe at an extra life should I would
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 5: I would like to try it out.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, I've been off st up a little
Speaker 3: bit lately. It's because I'm just working on editing this travelog.
Speaker 3: But helpfully, maybe you know, in the near future, next week.
Speaker 5: Or two, we'll be ready to post.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lovely. Also catch me if you Dan too. Don't
Speaker 1: worry folks, as I'm getting back up to one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Taking a lookilu at all that footy, and it feels
Speaker 1: like a fever dream.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot of stuff I forgot about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dan, I was uh, not to spoil anything. I
Speaker 1: don't want to spoil anything, but I was looking at
Speaker 1: the footage that when I handed you the camera on
Speaker 1: this little little.
Speaker 5: Guy while I was taking a little trip.
Speaker 1: Yes, well you're taking a little trip. I was like, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: yeah that happened. Huh yeah, yeah, always that's the audio.
Speaker 1: Can you hear what we're talking.
Speaker 2: It was good.
Speaker 5: It was good, very good, all right, deep conversation.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Also, one of my favorite things that we
Speaker 1: have put out on the website recently is Chuck and
Speaker 1: Sean diving into the Sega Saturn and showing you folks
Speaker 1: how to get into the guts of that very quick.
Speaker 6: Go check that one out. I think we want to
Speaker 6: do more stuff like that. You know, Grubbs mentioned me
Speaker 6: and him home and maybe Chuck or someone else building
Speaker 6: DIY steam machine steam oasses out there for anyone to
Speaker 6: use an AMD parts. So yeah, Chuck had that idea.
Speaker 6: I think it was a really good idea of people
Speaker 6: always tell you, you know, use your old legally acquired
Speaker 6: backups when you're emulating, but nobody ever actually like tells
Speaker 6: you how to do that because, you know, in part
Speaker 6: because maybe they assume you'll do something else, but maybe
Speaker 6: they want someone else to be the people who give
Speaker 6: you that guide. And we did do that guide for
Speaker 6: the Saturn. Chuck set that all up and that was
Speaker 6: a fun time. So definitely go back and check that
Speaker 6: one out.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, one hundred percent, thank you folks for joining
Speaker 1: us for the Giant BombCast. That about does it for
Speaker 1: the show. He's been Seawn, he's been Mike, he's been Jeff,
Speaker 1: he's been Dan, I've been Jan. Shouts out to Jeff Grubbs.
Speaker 1: Shots at the Chrotty simmer House, shots at the Will.
Speaker 7: Crosby, shots at you at home.
Speaker 1: I'll see you next week for another episode of the
Speaker 1: Giant BombCast. Until then, good boy also great to be back.
Speaker 7: Thank you, love you. Shouts out the little kiddies too,