Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Giant BombCast.
I am specifically avoiding the number because I've forgotten. Now
I'm looking it up. It is.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: You go, let's go. We did it. Welcome everyone to
the Giant BombCast. I'm your host again tomorrow, Sane. They
let me do it once, now they let me do
it again, which either is very good or very bad,
depending on whether you like the sound of my voice.
I am joined by.
Speaker 3: Jeff grub ohy damn, I'm sorry. I just got really
thrown off by the new Mike Mustachi email at there.
Speaker 1: Well, while while Mike wasn't here, I did Austin whether
he was and you whether he was doing a whole
Cogan thing, because.
Speaker 3: We both we both said, yeah, it's a hero. It's
a hero, not as a wrestler, though as a political figure.
Speaker 2: Was a man as as as a man a go tea.
This is just a mustache right wait wait, wait what now?
Speaker 3: He had like an han thing.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to like picture it. You're right, it wasn't,
but his one, his one further down than this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, you were trying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hogan's trademark go te We also joined by rocket.
So Oslot used hypnotherapy on himself to shoot believe that
he was liquid snake, and so that's why he was
so effective. But he was really doing it just to
fool the patriots. Mike, you see what's before.
Speaker 2: They just get that's cool. If a person was an elf,
I could never because elves aren't real. That'd be stupid.
Speaker 4: We are agreeing, yeh, yeah, elves are. Elves aren't just
lame because they're not real. They're also just stupid, like
like a cool cowboy that can like juggle gun.
Speaker 2: Question, elves, do.
Speaker 1: I have a I have a like to put towards Mitch?
If else aren't real? Are you denying the existence of Tinkerbell?
Speaker 2: That's a fairy that's different, that's there.
Speaker 1: Help both counts as a form of elf.
Speaker 2: Now I believe in Tikerbell. I'm gonna collapse to show
how much I believe.
Speaker 1: You believe what you believe. Want to find himself but
not another guy. So what you're saying is you're an
elf superiority person, elf racist. To be clear, it's coming
all back around.
Speaker 2: I love elves. I'm making fun of Dan.
Speaker 4: For not liking elves. What's the most famous elves link
links an elf? Do you see his ears?
Speaker 2: Hey? Years is the whole?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 1: He is a pretty much.
Speaker 4: I love Zelda. I've never like held link up to
be like cool Guy number one. He's just a fucking
he does great things for the world.
Speaker 1: I would just like to remind everyone that Mitch has
denied the existence of Ian Lightfoot. Okay, Abby from the
Santa Claus a Judy from the Santa Claus Chocolate, Lanie
Curtis from Santa Claus.
Speaker 3: Who's the Doncas?
Speaker 2: Who's the guy who wants to be a dentist in Rudolph?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know who you mean.
Speaker 2: What's his name, Ernie or something? I love that. I
love that guy. I hope he became a dentist. His
dreams came true.
Speaker 1: By shut up. We're also joined by Mitch Manotti.
Speaker 2: Oh it's me Finally I get to talk. That's a
guy you've been talking the whole time.
Speaker 1: Now, the guy who's fucking certified yapper won't shut up?
Speaker 2: Is like, oh, I get to talk now. Well, it's
nice to see all my friends. It's all he's seen
me in a while. Mitch. Yeah, it's been a bit,
it's a been a hot bulbit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll we'll get to that, but before we get
on with it, we also want to take the time
to acknowledge that we're in a very very interesting time
right now in the state of the world, and we
think it's important to technowledge that.
Speaker 3: That's right. Detroit Lions are a good football team.
Speaker 2: It's so weird.
Speaker 3: It is very strange.
Speaker 1: The Golden State Warriors are on a winning streak. They're
about to play the Boston cell takes the Leveland Cavaliers
and the Oklahoma City Thunder and then the Dallas Mavericks
one after the other. So it is a very very
scary time for people.
Speaker 3: Yeh schedule.
Speaker 2: Baron Corbyn got released.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm lost.
Speaker 1: I watched that wrestler who's got the Golden Hair yesterday,
the really cool one, the butcher one. He seems very nice. No, no, no,
the cool one. He's he's got an American tattoo on
American flag tattoo currently road. I watched him eat a
McRib and then a British bacon rap and he said
sorry to the Americans. The bacon rap is better roads
to be on the right side of history. I'm I
don't know why I'm defending bacon wraps up. No, I
had one in my life because they're almost Anyways, let's
talk about life. You know, you guys did a extra left.
You read what raised? What was it for? Fifty and
then my.
Speaker 2: Five thousand dollars?
Speaker 1: I heard it was fifty grand. And then Mitch said
I'm keeping five of this because for them kids, which
was upset.
Speaker 3: You did a lot of work. He's saying a lot.
I think he earned it. You could have five grand, Mike.
Speaker 2: I took no such money.
Speaker 4: Come on, guys, that's Kayla's Mitch.
Speaker 2: She was carrying a lot of that show. Yeah, anyone
deserves a payday from that. Yeah. Jeff took the most
abuse with the sauna then having to watch all of
Nubes and you forgot about the sauna. Jeez. I didn't either.
I was.
Speaker 4: I was in my bathroom this morning and I looked
over at the sauna thing and I was like, oh, right,
grub beat most of Mario three.
Speaker 2: In there, yep, only most cower.
Speaker 3: Yeah, guys. I was like, shoot, worried about my health.
Speaker 2: And I told Sean.
Speaker 4: I was like, Sean, it's good to have you, because
like my instincts are always just to go as far
as possible. And perhaps I think more about the humor
than the reason of things sometimes, so it's always good
to have a sean to be like, oh wait, he
might shoot die.
Speaker 2: We should watch out for this.
Speaker 3: It was very funny to be in there, and you're right, Dan,
I did burn my foot on that puck multiple times.
I don't watch over, but it was funny to be
in there in my clothes dying playing Mario three and
having multiple people have to like come in and take
turns holding the camera because their hands were getting a
bit warm. They're like everyone was complaining about it. They're like, oh,
this is so hot, and they're like, knuckles are just
kind of barely hanging in the saw. And I was like,
you guys not see.
Speaker 2: What I'm doing.
Speaker 3: I could hear you.
Speaker 2: I could hear. To be fair, you were the one
who's like, I'll stay in there as long as it
takes me to beat Mario three. That was your bad idea,
I said, World one, and you're like, I'm going to
beat this game.
Speaker 3: Well, I like, because I'm like, I could do the
whistles and I forgot. You gotta go through at least
the way I've always done, and I always have to
go all the way through seven. I can't remember where
the third whistle is. I'm like, oh shit, this was.
Speaker 2: A bad idea.
Speaker 3: But listen, it was a bad idea. Oh I abandoned
it and went back and just beat World one. So
I did, like weighing, weigh moay more than I needed
to do. I like how you still went back and
beat World what you should have got out? Then she
just wanted to I.
Speaker 2: Wanted to accomplish something. You say you wanted to beat it,
you're gonna say it.
Speaker 3: I shoot, wasn't I shoot, wasn't. I just was kind
of said I wanted to accomplish something, and you're the
one thinking about beating it constantly.
Speaker 1: I love the idea of flirting with the risk of
heat stroke, which is a very very severe.
Speaker 3: Very real right, Like that's three where our bodies like
can only get so hot, and I'm like, yes, my
body's sweating as much as a positive about.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you know when you're in you're about to have
one of these moments. You you feel it coming, and
you have enough time to like rectify what's happening and
respond heat stroke one thoughts you're cooked, like yeah, I
guess it was just like you can't move around, so
like you you're stuck in the so on on your own,
probably dying.
Speaker 4: I also had that once and I tried to rectify it,
and like, I had never had that heat stroke feeling before.
But when I first moved here, it was ninety six
degrees and I hadn't worked out in a while, and
I decided to be a good day to go on
a four hour bike ride, and so I just rode
all around Minneapolis and then I like my brain started
shutting down and I just felt I was like, I'm
gonna lay on this bench next to this busy road
for a while. Laid on the bench for like thirty minutes.
My body and brain did not settle down. So I
walked over to a grocery store, and I was like,
I need to eat something. So I bought like a
vat of macaroni and cheese and just bought a bunch.
Speaker 2: Of Camfit healthy runner views and stuff.
Speaker 4: So I'm just mountain dew and macaroni cheese, and I
went to the freezer section. I just opened up the
freezer next to like the hot pocket stuff and just
stood there with like my head in the freezer, and
it took like two hours for me to feel safe
to go home.
Speaker 1: You had your hat in a freezer for two hours.
Speaker 4: No, I was doing a lot like why, Like I
was stopping and cool in my head a little bit.
Speaker 1: I just love the idea of like the shop clerk
looking over and being like, yeah, I didn't want an
hour and a half. What's he doing?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was hearing my dad voice my head being like
that's gonna cost money. Give him fridge open?
Speaker 3: Like, oh god, Now when when I was like, when
you were dealing with this heat, did someone come and
turn off the lights while you were like hallucinating in
the heat.
Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing, is like I thought it would
be funny if the lights were off while he was
in there, But I also didn't want him to die,
so I stayed in the bathroom in the dark. Wild
Grub was in the sauna, and I'm just silently in there,
just like I just want to make sure he's safe, Jeff.
Speaker 2: What was worse though the sauna are having to watch
all of nubes in a cold room with no other stimuli.
Speaker 3: I like, it is very hard to tell which one
is worse. They are both really really rough. You know.
Being able to get to the end and do something
about being in the sauna gave me a certain level
of hope. Nubes is hopeless. So so when I like
at the end of Mario Party, I think we were
I was like pretty close to winning. Mike was doing well,
Kayla was doing well, which.
Speaker 4: To be clear, this was like an eighty plus turnament
game of Mario Party because we turned the clocks back
on Mario Party with the save state when the shoot
clocks went back an hour.
Speaker 3: That's that's right. So yes, we did some bunch of bullshit.
Sean was doing well, and someone gave a bunch of
money to send me, Kayla and Sean into Nubes for
fifteen minutes so Dan would have a chance to come
back came back. I still won, But because I won,
someone gave three thousand dollars to send me to watch
the entirety of Neubes from beginning to end.
Speaker 2: To put your phone in So yeah, no no phone,
no talking, just you and your thoughts in Nubes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, after seeing it many times, like in fifteen minute
increments leading up.
Speaker 3: To that, yep, So it was it was a lot
and I feel like like we're describing a lot of
stuff that's like scratching the surface.
Speaker 4: So much happened hours. Yeah, it was an eighteen hour stream.
Turbo Sean has been uploading and getting ready a full
YouTube archive, which should go up as soon as the
end of this podcast. So if you want to scrub
around and see all the highlights, there was a lot
that happened over eighteen hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Has your opinion on nubes changed in any way?
Speaker 3: I mean my appreciation for the depth of its horrors
has increased. Like there's just so much stuff where it's
like they it's so bad. First of all, I watching
over and over and seeing many of the scenes over
and over again, like what is happening? It's just just
a weird coincidence. It's like, no, there's like seven or
eight scenes in that movie. They're just all so long,
they're all they just go on and on and on
and then so like even when there's like a moment
of like we were to like Sabrina Carpenter's in it, and.
Speaker 1: That is the most impressive thing about it. It's so
bad that somehow it didn't impact Sabrina copp in his career.
It came out.
Speaker 2: It's fine, Adam, it's memory and so.
Speaker 1: Impacting his own career.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Sadam Sessler handled that himself. But I was so like,
we'll see the same scenes and it's like Sabrina Carpenter
shows up and it's like, this scene would be good
if it was like a fifth the length that it is.
But every time they have Seene in this movie, they're like,
let's just just let it go, let it run.
Speaker 2: All this stuff is gold.
Speaker 3: And so you like, it starts bad and then it
just keeps going and so you're again that hopelessness just
overtakes you and you feel like there's no escape. So yeah,
that was that was a really rough set that that
fuld that just get like getting sent in there, I
was like, there's no way this is whereund looking at it.
I'm seeing this person gave three thousand dollars and said
send Jeff in there. But I just couldn't accept it.
For a couple of minutes, you were.
Speaker 2: So confident it wasn't gonna be you, Like we thought
maybe somebody would get sent in for the whole movie.
You was like, oh, it's gonna be Damn. I'm like,
it won't be me. I'm safe.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was like, it wouldn't be funny sending me,
and it was. It was actually kind of funny.
Speaker 4: The thing is, it's like we've watched it a couple
of times. Mike watched it twice on two continents in
the same week, but like it's always been like, oh,
let's get some drinks or like a past we pulled
a bunch of people in the room. We're all kind
of like drinking and laughing and making fun of it
and stuff. But when you're in there with silence, we
weren't allowed to talk in there, even when there's multiple
people and none of us had phones or anything, you
do really notice all of these little jokes and stuff
that maybe we talked over or something before, and it
is legitimately worse than we thought it was.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's uh, it really is one of the worst
movies I've ever seen, and it's like just the most
depressing watch. It really is.
Speaker 4: Pasically as someone who we all play games, and it's
a whole depiction like this is a movie for gamers,
you know, gamers us, you know, and it's like so there.
Speaker 2: Are multiple scenes about how like more people should be
attracted to and want to have sex with gamers. There's
a lot of like talking about gamers as if it's
like I don't know an ethnicity or something like, it's
real fucking weird. I hate it.
Speaker 4: Wait wait, I seen the chat. Remember when Jack claimed
you were talking in the nubes booth? Uh, several of
you were in there with me. I I hand to god,
I didn't fucking say.
Speaker 3: There was some screaming, There were there wellations of grunts
and groans, but the only person I remember talking was
Mike and the movie stopple. He did that and it
was like, really, he said thank you as the movie
skipped for a second and then it came right back. Yeah,
the whole movie froze for a bit and went to black,
and I just it was like, oh, thank god, But
then it came back and then I had to stay
that longer.
Speaker 1: I think we need to do maybe on a revenge
and so or something like that. We need to do
like a list top ten movies for gamers, like.
Speaker 2: Actual good movies for gamers or.
Speaker 1: No, just like I know, we can decide how we
want to approach this. I don't think movies gamers deserve,
like movies that gamers would like so we can like,
I mean, I feel like you could then be like, oh, Jamunji,
you can go in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Game is a gamer with Gerard Butler or was it
Clive Owen?
Speaker 4: I always mix those guys. That one's kind of Incredibles.
Speaker 1: Originally called Citizen Game, which me and Danny were like,
do have to change the name of our website?
Speaker 2: Changed? Free Guy or Extra Man? What was they?
Speaker 1: Is Sore a movie for gamers? I would I would
say it is, yeah, because it's.
Speaker 2: Like really into escape rooms.
Speaker 1: I mean like, isn't what is an escape room? If
not an I R O L gamer.
Speaker 2: It's like an adventure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've got that. We've got like Final
Fantasy the Spirits within.
Speaker 2: One because even people who specifically like that franchise would
get almost nothing out of that movie. It has nothing
to do with any.
Speaker 3: Instead of Ready Player one, let's just have a I
create the film version of Ernest Klein's poetry about nerdy girls.
Speaker 2: That would be really well for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be like number one on the list of
good movies. Games.
Speaker 3: Recket Ralph is definitely actually up there, very good.
Speaker 1: Yes, how about how about Mila Joviovic's Monster Hunter.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the movie is so bad. Yes, Oh,
that movie is so It's so weird. It's like, well,
we're gonna make a bunster movie, but it's gonna be
a Kai about like a military force from the real world.
It gets throught. It's a monster hunter.
Speaker 1: Lid what Speaking of Monster Hunter, we have a note
in the run a show from Jan which reads John
no hyphen monster Hunt wilds is sick a f Jan.
Would you like to elaborate? Thanks? Jan? Has anyone else
been playing monsa Hunter?
Speaker 3: Real quick? We should say? Chand's doing all right, everybody.
He's okay. Yeah, he's bouncing back. He's just kind of
he's gonna take some some time off, I think, to
like just recover, not from like any like super serious
medical condition. I'll let him talk about when he wants to,
if he wants to, but just to say, don't worry
about Jane. He's doing all right. Let's just let him rest.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll send him love though, and maybe venmo him
money whatever.
Speaker 1: If you can't find his last shop, just send him
loads of money.
Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, And when I'm playing I played
it on PS five and it was very fun, but
the performance was pretty rough on there, so that was
kind of my lum were there.
Speaker 1: Was that in what way?
Speaker 2: Well, here's performance mode and fidelity mode, and in performance
mode it's like running out a decent frame rate, but
everything is very blurry, right, Like the resolution is terrible
and normally I'm willing to make a lot of sacrifices
to get a pretty good frame rate, but it was
pretty rough. So even I tried fidelity mode and then
there the frame it was just real bad. So it
was kind of like, choose what when, what way you
want the game to look shitty? But that was back
when it was only on PS five. It has since
the bait has come to Xbox PC. I think people
are having better luck on PC with at least higher
end builds. I assume Jen was powered by NZXT when
he was playing beta.
Speaker 3: Yeah he didn't.
Speaker 2: He waited for the PC version.
Speaker 1: I think I hope there's some like sort of device
that is potentially coming out soon that may remedy some
of this. Who knows, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, just like I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think you'd have to be a professional though to
even get something like that.
Speaker 1: Someone should hit up Marksony and see if he knows
anything about this.
Speaker 3: That dude is so knee deep in ears right now,
there's no way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I you know what, I've heard that reference so
many times now, but I don't think I saw the
state of player or whatever it was, So I have
no idea what that's about.
Speaker 2: Why did he want.
Speaker 3: Ears in the PS five reveal technical like stream that
they do that they tend to do with Mark Serni.
He explained that they would have a new three D
audio like object based audio technology that would work really
well with their headset. But to take it super advantage
of this, what they want you to do is take
pictures of your ear, send it to Sony, and then
they will build a profile based on that that will
be able to take advantage of the contours of your
own individual ears to be super great, excellent, double good
three D audio. And so mart Mark Sarney said, We're
gonna have you send us your ears, and uh, I
don't think they ever actually ended up doing anything with that,
or there was a specific.
Speaker 4: Tool for it, like when you're trying to put your
face in Tony hawk Hunderground.
Speaker 3: This is they're not the only yeah kind of They're
not the only company has done this. There's a I've
definitely taken pictures of my ears and send it to
tech companies before. So uh yeah, there was.
Speaker 1: A Reddit plus a little while back where I'm not
sure if it was real or not, but like someone
just like looked at Mark Serny's likes and it was
just to really.
Speaker 4: Is and people were like, I'm trying to I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was difficult, right because I didn't want to, like
base to take pictures in my ears.
Speaker 1: They go, you did it?
Speaker 2: You know that was a good picture of your ear. Wow,
that's a great ear. Look at that. Yeah, that's real good.
Speaker 3: Right now, many right now?
Speaker 1: But what did you What did you think about it? Then, Mitch,
Rather than the performance was a bit scheduled, Oh it
was super fun. I mean I wat context and history
with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ever played a little bit of it, then like World,
I played a bit more, and then Rise I played
a good amount of not a crazy amount, but a
good amount of. But I'm like really in the mood
for it, so I'm excited for a whiles. That's where
I really really want to dive in. But you know
that the more open world stuff is nice. It is
it is good to just be able to kind of
look at the map, find a monster there, and then
go get him and that starts a mission. And also
when you kill a monster, you know, just have the
countdown and think like, okay, you're gonna go back to town.
Now you can keep running around, you know, do more stuff,
have fun that way. The intro is very cut scene heavy,
and it's the intro I already played at games Calm,
so I was, you know, kind of a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm not just supposed to sing heavy.
Speaker 2: It was a cut scene heavy, oh I heard. I
was like war a lot and Monster Hunter, right.
Speaker 1: Imagine a Rathlos just turning to you and be like,
fuck you work it on.
Speaker 2: I'm not like superposed to cut scenes or stories and games,
but Monster Hunter is one where I really little confused
why there's as much of it as there is, especially
in the beginning. And it's kind of a weird thing
to have me play a lot in a beta, and
I know it's more it's almost more of a demo
than a beta in a lot of ways, but I
really don't want to be sitting there for twenty minutes
learning about nothing. I don't know. I don't know something
about somebody's brother and I had to go help them.
Oh lame, I get.
Speaker 3: I mean that was definitely the thing with Worlds right
where it's like, oh, I want to play that on
PC now that it's out on PC. After I played
a bunch on PS four and getting into it for
like five minutes and realizing all the bullshit I'd have
to go through again and say to myself, well, that
that's just not going to happen.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 3: So that's they have a bad habit of that. I mean, clearly,
it doesn't get in the way of the success of
these games. But you know, I'm a little disappointed to
hear that. But whatever, we'll get.
Speaker 2: That'suff. I think it is front loaded. I bet you
get further. I think you're way less of it.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, anyone down that you have any interest in
checking out months What is your history with Mansa Hunta.
Speaker 4: Honestly, my history is just I think I reviewed Freedom
for the Wii for Game Informer despite my pleas that
I was not the right guy for this because I
don't know about Monster Hunter, and sure enough I didn't
like it, and then Monster Hunter fans came after me,
and then I decided to play World because I heard
that was like, Okay, that's the one where, like, you know,
you don't really have to be a monster on a person.
This is kind of like a modernized almost like a
reboot type thing. And I did play a good amount
of World, like like dozens of hours I remember, and
enjoyed it, played it multiplayer, and then I tried to
play the Wii one for a second and got bored
or not we switched. Yeah, yeah, so I basically, long
story short, I'm interested in trying this one out. It
sounds like this is like the follow up to World,
which I did enjoy but we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm there with you. Where I enjoyed World
quite a bit, didn't play as much as Monster Hunter
fans play of those games, but I got pretty deep
into it. This is the one where I'm like, oh,
I am looking forward to us like dedicating a couple
of weeks worth of streams to playing the multiplayer, doing
some missions together, hanging out like trying to get some
cool armor. Uh so, yeah, I'm really looking forward to
this one. And yeah, especially after most like I tried
a little bit of rise in the demo, but I
skipped that one overall. So I'm like, okay, I know
I'm ready for Monster Hunter again. So looking forward to it,
but I haven't touched this beta.
Speaker 2: Is it still running? Is it still going?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: Probably done?
Speaker 1: Done?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't not be wrong.
Speaker 3: It took a play test ends today, so I was
paying more of that last night. Still can't talk about it.
Speaker 2: It's done. Yeah, the game comes out in February, I think, right, okay, yep,
that's right. I'll be here before you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, done. You've been playing card blops.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just played the campaign and it's been a while.
Like I used to play every Call of Duty and really,
you know, loved it. And I was always a big
campaign guy.
Speaker 2: You know. I like multiplayer too, but I just like
the action movie.
Speaker 4: Style campaigns, and I kind of fell off after what
was the last one I really liked there was Infinite Warfare.
Speaker 2: There was a oh the Modern Warfare reboot. I fell
off after that one, yea, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I didn't really care about like Vanguard or WW two
or any of those. Never played Cold War, but I
just saw some early buzz about this one. Being good,
pop back in and sure enough, the mission variety is
just incredible. Every mission feels very distinct. They do something
like that. There's a couple open missions, specifically the one
where I think you're in Kuwait and you're just going
around and have a bunch of different like sam sites
and things like that to disable and blow up, and god,
it was super duper fun. It's very mission impossible in
like twenty four more than it is like the Hoorah
stay frosty, you know, military sky kind of.
Speaker 3: I was getting those vibes from the trailers. I'm glad
to hear that. That sounds like the right area for
call duty to be in. Instead of trying to constantly
do the same military stuff, I just get a little
bit more into the spy fiction, and it sounds like
that's what they.
Speaker 4: Did, down to the level of like Bond type gadgets
for some of my favorite weapon and it was this
homing knife that you could throw in it like matrix
visions your fucking knife and then you can steer the
knife and you can remotely detonate it. So just seemed
like a due to the shield coming in and you're like,
fuck you, you throw a knife, you'd steer the knife
behind him and exploded. It felt awesome every time, Like
I just super duper fun, really really enjoyed the campaign.
Speaker 1: Are you do you intend on checking out playing any
of the multiplayer all.
Speaker 4: I've done a handful of you know that did Nuketown
this weekend. I played some of that Zombies. I want
to do with a group. You know, I never was
the biggest on the Zombies modes, but I think it
can be fun with a group. So yeah, I was
talking to Grab about maybe trying to get a squad
together for this week maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So yeah, I would like to do as well
at some point. I've always heard Zombies is really fun.
I think I only tried it once or twice and
it didn't really click with me.
Speaker 4: I used to and you know, they, yeah, they would
take you to these review events and stuff, so it
would be like today is Zombie's Day and you're just
sitting down and just playing Zombies for a while.
Speaker 2: So, like, I spent some time with it, and it's
always it just.
Speaker 4: Felt like this weird Like you have to grab this
lamp and turn it upside down and put it into
a slot and you put three quarters in there and
that unlock your gun upgrade and it's like.
Speaker 2: Very like, what why would I do this?
Speaker 4: I got to make this train go into a like
it's just a bunch of weird shit you have to
do to progress.
Speaker 2: And I didn't love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I couldn't. I could never tell if all
of the love for zombies was like this is a
good game mode or zombie people are happy that they
got zombies in another game, like, and it was always
felt like maybe it leaned more towards that, and so
I was like, Okay, well you listen. I'm not gonna
take anything away from you guys, but I'm happy with multiplayer.
I'm gonna stick with that. But it's it's been successful
for so long at this point, I'm sort of reassessing that.
I'm like, I'm ready to give it another shot.
Speaker 2: And see maybe if it's something for me. I remember
I liked it in World at War.
Speaker 4: I think that was the first time, and it was
a little novel and not super complicated at that point.
And then wasn't there wasn't there a black where you
like make JFK and Nixon scissor or something.
Speaker 2: It's in all games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, scissor. It's like Henry Kissinger and JFK could scissor,
you know, I mean like.
Speaker 3: Not, I'm not the pornographic version, Mike.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yeah, if they're down but not out and
then you know, just a very funny visual.
Speaker 2: Not at.
Speaker 1: He's taking a scissor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you can manipulated. Yeah. I've also been joined
the multiplayer though it has been a lot of fun. No,
so that's that's a point down. Yeah. I was playing
with with with with Jeff and Sean and Christian one
point I was playing with my brothers. And I'm somebody
who never I liked called any multiplayer here and there.
I've never really got super into it. I've never prestiged
or anything like that. I know. No, I'm a fake
prestige in titan Fall one. I think that's the only
game like that I ever prestiged. And but it's felt great.
I was really enjoying it, and I'd be super happy
to play more of it. Yeah, there's not a.
Speaker 4: Bunch of like like I like the gimmick multiplayer modes,
a gun game and stuff like that, and I can
always add that. But so far I looked in the list,
it was a lot of you know, Headquarters TDM kill Confirmed,
like you know, they're fun.
Speaker 2: I just kill Confirmed mostly and I thought that was
pretty fun. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We also did what was the high Value Target one?
Speaker 2: That's that's that's when I was playing, sorry, Jeff, Yeah,
the one where somebody on each team is kind of
like the high value target and so you're defending yours. Yeah. Yeah,
that's just like enough of a spin on Team Deaf
match to feel a bit more still Order, thank you Order.
That's see. It had the word killing it. Yeah, weird
that we can't remember that very good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's called counterstrick, that's right. Sorry, I was like
trying to remember, like who was the like, uh, secretary,
he's still of Defense. That was in one of the games.
Roberts Robert McNamara was in there. Uh Robert McNamara from
Game in Former.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, so like googled Robert McNamara called Duty
and like instead of like bringing up his like Wikipedia
or something, it brought up just his page from like
the fandom, and it's like, Robert McNamara is a character
from Call of Duty. I'm like, I think he might
be more than that, but fair.
Speaker 2: Enough it's not.
Speaker 4: It's really funny to play a game where it's just like, Okay,
I'm in this mission where it's like, oh, there's just
Bill Clinton on this model Call of Duty Bill Clinton,
and I tried to rush the stage in the game
and they take you down pretty quick.
Speaker 2: Like I never won't make that joke.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do want to play more Call of Duty
multiplayer though, it has been really fun. I missed Nuketown
like it was Newtown twenty four to seven, right, is that?
But now it's the map like just in rotation?
Speaker 2: Is that how it works? You guys?
Speaker 4: Know you can just pick Nuketown, or at least this
weekend you could, and it's just like you're just gonna
play Nuke.
Speaker 3: Down Okay, Yeah, well yes, I wanted to go in
there with my double XP points from Little Caesar's and
really just upgrade my characters. Yeah, you know, from my
double X points from Little Caesars.
Speaker 1: Damn, I don't understand what.
Speaker 4: Had double XP for Titan Fall, Like this is this
is the way this is because the way.
Speaker 1: The shocking thing is someone's spend money at Little Caesars.
Speaker 2: I don't get him on that. I'm not a Little
Caesars guy, sometimes you want to buy.
Speaker 3: While I was at Dan's house, Sean Turbow turns to me,
He's like, I was skeptical. I ordered from Little Caesars.
He likes the hot ready to be fair, which is fine.
You're right, I like it too. But he ordered pizza
from Little Caesar, said it was very good. I will
not hear anything bad about Little Caesar.
Speaker 4: Hey, but how about how about my special Dominoes order?
You had some of that pretty ad I like to
quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Yes, what was that? Remind people?
Speaker 2: Thin crust? All right?
Speaker 4: Domino's thin crust. You replace the Marinera sauce with barbecue sauce,
and you put Italian sausage on it and you dip
it in ranch.
Speaker 2: Okay, it was smoke it. Yeah, they couldn't roll up.
It's a very crackery crust. To be it was very good, Dan,
But to be clear, that thin crust is kind of strange, right, Yeah,
it was super super glossy texture on that thing, the
c that's the flavor.
Speaker 1: Can you describe the flavor of glossy to me?
Speaker 2: No, there's not.
Speaker 4: But it's like they take a butter brush and lovingly
painted lovingly.
Speaker 2: It's very glossy and uh yeah, I think the dough
wasn't seasoned at all too. I don't know. The thin
crust thing was a little weird to be. I think
I would just get that on a normal pizza dough.
I've done it. It's not evenly good.
Speaker 3: The thin crust is not as good as like a Dinados,
for sure.
Speaker 1: I've never been to Little Season. I just know that
it sets down off so on.
Speaker 2: It's just no getting off.
Speaker 4: I don't have strong feelings about Little Caesars. I don't
remember the last time. I like to defend the lower
tier garbage brand foods because I think some people, the people.
Speaker 2: I know, some people get up on their high horse.
Speaker 4: About this and like Taco bell is gonna make a
shit or what you like. No, I like to defend
the low tier fast food.
Speaker 3: Somebody's doing it.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't want to throw the word hero around.
You can in this case.
Speaker 1: I saw an advert I was watching basketball, and it's
for like a restaurant, one of these chain restaurants that
definitely has no business doing chicken wings. But they had
chicken wings in it, and it was the most disgusting
looking chicken wings I have ever seen in my life.
Speaker 4: Trying to think I've seen that recently. I can't remember Dominoes.
Actually don't.
Speaker 1: It's no dominos. It was something. It's something crazy like
it's dunkin Donuts or some crazy things like that, and
like why why do these people have chicken wings? And
why do you look so awful?
Speaker 2: Can you imagine if Tucket has had glazed chicken wigs?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I'll find out, don't worry about I'll
find out. I played a little bit I started the
campaign on and yeah, and it was yeah, it's a
it is what I wanted out of what I have
wanted from a call of duty. Again, for a long time,
I felt like we got to the point where it
became maya down in trying to be like that military
ra thing that you were talking about in a way
that I didn't really appreciate, where it was kind of
like glorification of it and.
Speaker 2: This one specifically or no, no, just generally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and even like the kind of like weirder ones
like Infinite Warfare had had elements of that where I
was like, are you is this I'm getting vague nationalist
vibes from this, which I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I like, and they're doing like Starship Trooper satire.
Speaker 6: No, No, they're like it's like they're they're helping, like
the the teenager to military pipeline get a bit smoother
in a way that I just was like, I don't
even if you're not doing this, it feels that way.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like you're being stupid with your Call
of Duty games, because I remember when it was just like,
oh shit, everything's exploding, got to run through this. But
now I turned this one on and it was just like, oh,
this is dumb as hell. Everyone is just shouting at
each other. There's some sort of interrogation happening where it's
very unclear what anyone is talking about, and then it
just cuts to like ten seconds letters like use this
RC car to blow up a lot bunch of people.
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, yeah, I mean the way
the missions mix things up.
Speaker 4: It'll be like, oh, here's super serious kureait mission, and
it'll be like, let's do an ocean's eleven heights in
a casino.
Speaker 2: Okay, sure sounds great.
Speaker 1: So I played a little bit of it. I'm definitely
trying to play. It's very interesting to me how I mean,
this is very obvious, but like I just think back
at like how it used to be, where it's crazy
that Treyarch is the best Call of Duty development now
because it was the Infinity Ward for a really long time,
and there was there was a time where people used
to be bummed out when the Infinity Ward would get
like I pushed the sideline for a tray off.
Speaker 2: They got off on the like the wrong foot because
their first one is called Duty three, which people didn't like.
And then like the War was like immediately yeah better,
but like four was four, so it was a huge deal.
Yeah now uh, and it was kind of taken over.
Speaker 4: Well, and World of War was also seen as like, oh, ship,
we moved past w W two.
Speaker 2: We're doing you know, modern work. We're doing World War
two again.
Speaker 3: The World War was good, but yes it wasn't four.
Yeah right right, it's a good game. But we're post
this ship. I wish we're games were set in it.
Speaker 1: But War is the ship, Mitch.
Speaker 2: He always says that, yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: I mean it was post that Modern Warfare two exit
after that with the Zampella and West and then like
yeah three, I mean that's what Infinity the order scene
is like it's like Leonard Skinner after the plane crash.
It's got the same name, but it's like this says
in Leonard Skinner that exact situation.
Speaker 2: It seemed like there was maybe a bit of time,
maybe like four years ago, like okay, Call Duties finally
like maybe winding down a little bit, reviews getting worse,
like you know, maybe it's losing something. Maybe we are
going to have a world where called Didy isn't the
end all be all? And then it just seems like,
oh no, if they were able to just bring that
right back by kind of depending on you know, modern
warfare and black ops again and just sort of maybe
they released a really high quality one this time, do
you think we're anywhere near this franchise diminishing.
Speaker 1: I think what happened is it transitioned kind of the
place it has in people's lives. I think Call of
Duty was when it for a long time, during the
height of its success, it was still very much to
us a first person shoot experience that came out in
a regular cadence, but we treated it like one of
our things, right, Like the gaming industry, people who had
a close eye on games and played games like regularly.
I think it's since then it's graduated or it's moved
out of that territory for us, and it now occupies
a place in broader culture and mainstream culture.
Speaker 3: Place too, like on a sale place. It is part
of the culture for it is it is.
Speaker 1: I think of it as a yearly sports game with guns,
like it's never gonna I don't think it's gonna fade.
I think it will always have people coming in and
out of it, Like there's been some absolutely atrocious FIFA
games and Madden games and NBA games and NHL games,
but ultimately they still put they have a baseline of
popularity that people will They kind of accept it going
up and down in the same way they accept their
sports teams being shipped for a season or whatever it
may be. That's kind of part of the process now
and as part of the experience of playing these games.
So I feel like we've reached a point now where
it's it's perennially popular to a certain level. It's always
going to be relevant. The only chance it had of
being pushed into like a lower level of appeal would
have been if Battlefield stepped it up. And I feel
like Battlefield's fallen off pretty hard. It's certainly like still
the niche first person shoot a multiplayer game because you
can jump out of their plane and then kill someone
and jump back into a plane and the sweaty If
people like this place, yeah yeah, but in terms of
it doesn't compete on a global, multi billion dollar franchise
way that Call of Duty does, And if it did,
maybe Microsoft would have bought that instead. Or is you
know what I mean, Like there's a reason like Xbox went,
you know, or like we're buying this second thing because
it's going to be there forever. It's the world of
warcraft or first person shooters. It's never going away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and now they have like multiple places where they
can like return to ground. Right if the seventy dollars
game comes out and it's not high quality, they could
shift to be like, let's put a lot more resources
in the war zone this year and give those people
somewhere else that is still Call of Duty to go
spend their time. Here's here's a mobile game that is
actually surprisingly good, and now we're gonna do another Call
of Duty mobile game coming out in the next year
or so. So they got like all these different prongs
to sort of get the Call of Duty audience and
keep them engaged even if something isn't hitting at the
top of the top of its capabilities question for you both,
you guys, I always like it in the Call of
Duty games where it turns out that the bad guy
was some US military general all along. Do you guys
get the sense that it's going to be the case
in this game?
Speaker 2: Pretty early on there they may they're like, it seems bad.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, yeah, I mean like the Black Ops
kind of like through line has always been like don't
trust anyone, even your own government.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's yeah, without spoiling anything, it's it's there is
and things like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that might be the most truthful thing a Quota
of Duty has ever said.
Speaker 4: The Pantheon this like PMC basically is like a main
antagonist and then there's like some reveal stuff and there
is a clear main antagon in this and that is
a huge part of the end of the game.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's but that's spoiling it. It's pretty fun.
Speaker 1: And do you feel like you've been Mandela affected by
Mela Solid four in that once you saw the the
phrase PMC you've non stop kept seeing p MC everywhere now,
because that's how it was for me.
Speaker 4: The Metal Gear Solid four invented the concept of PMCs.
Speaker 7: Okay, you go one step further, has invented private military corporation.
Speaker 2: Connect game. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: And then he made a prequel for Metal again and
invented nuclear weapons, which was crazy.
Speaker 2: He didn't really have to do. That was irresponsible. I
don't like getting political on here, but not going to
defend him.
Speaker 1: I'd like to thank Cospot for correctly identifying the restaurant
that had the gross looking chicken strips chicken wings advert.
It was Dairy Queen.
Speaker 3: I was gonna.
Speaker 2: I just never want heart eats a Dairy Queen only.
Speaker 1: There's just something fundamentally gross about going to Dairy Queen
and ordering chicken.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go try it, not doing it.
Speaker 3: I'm going to defend Dairy Queen from this high minded,
high horse motherfucker Dan Ryker.
Speaker 4: If you're on a road trip and it's the only
option and you got to take a ship and you're
in there anyways.
Speaker 2: Going to dairy Queen, all right, Yeah, I'm fine with
Dairy Queen.
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like they're cannibalizing their own
business by killing the chickens who are responsible for the
dairy on they a degree.
Speaker 4: Hang on, I have questions, where do you think milk
comes from? Damn chickennot wait no, wait, okay, milk doesn't
come from chickens.
Speaker 2: Is that what you were implying?
Speaker 1: I was joking. I was trying to.
Speaker 2: You're so much weirder than him.
Speaker 1: If you hadn't said anything, we could have convinced him.
Speaker 2: I still get people. I'll be like I don't want
beans in my brito and like, wow, you're weird at
the dad, and like, where does milk come from?
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, dad, he's a different kind. No, no,
I think I remember that this was damning for you, Mike.
I think initially over the weekend, Kayla, my sister, said
that I was weirder, and after getting spent some time
with you, she took it back. I was like, no, Okay,
Mike's weirder, and Kayla has known me my entire life,
not this public facing.
Speaker 2: Kayla's great, also pretty weird.
Speaker 1: I just went to a dairy queen website and it's
just full of things that are not dairy related. It's
like toast from him fries.
Speaker 3: As the boy was sensitive teeth. I am glad that
when everyone decides we're going to Dairy Queen for like
treats or whatever, I could be like, I might just
get a cheese murger, so let me have my hot eats.
Speaker 1: An there's a burger hit called the DQ Signature Stackburger,
which it looks it motherfucker. It looks like it's in
the wrong aspect ratio. I can't tell if.
Speaker 2: That is the point or not.
Speaker 3: Aspect Go to the website.
Speaker 1: And just scroll down and you'll see it there. And
it's like, is this a badly stretched out picture or
is it meant to be like a stacked up thing?
Very confused.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, wow, that looks like the wrong aspect ratio.
Speaker 1: But maybe this is like a scheme to like use
less of the each of the ingredients so you're saving money.
Speaker 2: Need barbecue parmers and garlic sauce.
Speaker 4: That just don't Queen's good. It's good. Chats reminded me. Yeah,
Kayla said, Mitch was weirder, but I'm dumber, and I said,
I'm willing to take that.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can, Mike.
Speaker 3: Why don't you like beans on your burrito. Do you
have some descriptions that that's really what set people off?
Speaker 2: I just said, Now, I said, I said, the texture
of beans is a little grainy to me. Side there
that's it said, like sandy or something, And that's another
way of saying grainy or gritty. Yet you have the beans.
I don't. Yeah, I don't know a little bit. Well,
I don't think it was. I don't think it was
that much that I also said, I know I should.
I like beans now, I just haven't made the jump
to pulling them in my burritos yet, and I'm working
on it. That's like the best place for him. But
you think a number one, Yeah, I bet it makes sense. Yeah,
I should probably do it.
Speaker 1: Is Derek Queen known for this thing blizzard?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Does McDonald's have for eyes? Yes, of course. Listen
you I'm from the UK, the queen and it was delicious.
Speaker 1: The mascot of every ship he restaurant is the mascot.
Speaker 2: It's a signature. Whatever. Why why was Dennis the Menace
for a while? That weird? Remember?
Speaker 1: Why why are the pictures of all these blizzards the
cup is upside down?
Speaker 4: That's a gimmick they do We're just to show you
how like structurally the integrity of these things is so
solid that they will make you the Blizzard and then
to show you how cool it is, they will turn
it upside down and be like, hey, look at that.
Speaker 2: It didn't come out. They do everything, even with the
ice cream cones. They do it.
Speaker 1: It's final question. Did Bobby kotik ruin this Blizzard as well?
Speaker 2: Or no?
Speaker 4: Probably got them for the game damage.
Speaker 1: For the people who love to watch uh Bang the Machine,
which is IMDb's number one UH movie on the list
of Gamers Movies for Gamers. Bang the Machine a documentary
of an exhibition tournament in Japan, showing a difference between
American and Japanese gaming cultures.
Speaker 2: Differences.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got it seems interesting.
Speaker 2: What's Demolition Girl? I got a picture of Mike playing
Demolition Girl. No, no, you don't have it. The chat's
gonna have it here very soon. Don Oh my god, why.
Speaker 1: Is this happening in public? You have to save this
for your private time.
Speaker 2: Dan wanted me to play this game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you couldn't have a little bit of awareness and
raise your controller up a bit.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what's being filmed. Ok, that's just my
comfy pus.
Speaker 1: Have to for your controller at dick level.
Speaker 2: Look how comfy I looved there? All right, listen, So
this is a game, an obscre budget p S two
game that I don't even think came out. Isn't us solved?
It wasn't it? And like there's a bunch of news
reports like in the game, and as always like tamn news,
it comes tam with the news. It's basically that like
you know, attack of the fifty foot woman thing, but
it's a Japanese pekin model. Yeah, And the game is
you're not her.
Speaker 3: She's very big in a problem, and you're like a
helicopter and you have different about her and the very
big and a problem. He's one step away from starting
to complain about back chicks.
Speaker 2: It's really bad over there. The first mission is that
you have to kind of you have to take her measurements,
so you you yeah, it'll be like, you know, target
her head, and then it'll ask you to target other
parts of her body, yeah, budgets.
Speaker 1: On the screen, breast data acquisition.
Speaker 2: And then like the next mission you had to like
put her to sleep, and it'll be like, you know,
you tell you what parts of her to target the
weapons you get, yeah, yeah, you get like special weapons.
You can throw a cake at her that'll make her
bend down to eat the cake. It looks like.
Speaker 1: Your toes are slightly cold on this picture, which leads
me to believe you might be enjoying this as well,
which kind of worrying.
Speaker 3: If I'm honest, you beat it.
Speaker 2: Through the entire game.
Speaker 1: Everyone, You just admitted to beating it while playing the
game of a naked half naked woman on that I'll
tell you what.
Speaker 2: Not bad not a bad game, Like there's one mission
where you're in a take and you have to kind
of slow her down log enough for Tokyo to evacuate
before she gets there. And like the final biship, she's
climbing a tower like she's Kid Kong, and there's also
a giant alien, so you have to sort of get
to put her. You have to shrink her because you
have the antidote. Now you also have to fight the alien.
Speaker 1: That's enough, Just a reminder. This is a podcast for children,
So let's switch over to Pokemon TCG Pocket. Mike tell
us about Pokemon TCG Pocket.
Speaker 2: This is a mobile game, and I think I you know,
go on record a lot, say I don't like playing
games my phone, I don't like mobile games. I have
been playing the holy hell out of this Pokemon TCG.
Speaker 1: When you say, what do you mean? Because I have
been experiencing this game and all I do is open
a pack once a day and then move on with
my life.
Speaker 3: Now he was singing for that, like while we were
there hanging out, was checking this from multiple times? Can
I open it back?
Speaker 2: And I open it back? But also is playing it right?
There is battles, and you can do a lot of
CPU battles. In fact, today or last night they added
a new campaign thing where you can get a special
Lapris card by playing a new set of CPU battles.
You make your decks even like the deck building stuff
is great because you can be like you can tell
the game like, look, I I want to make this
deck because I have a jolty on uh and I'm
excited about that. So you put the jolty on in there,
then you push auto build, then it just does the
rest of it for you. So that's great because I'm like,
you know, I don't I don't know what else to
put in there, and it does that and you'll have
a pretty good deck. The game's also very good. I
can't tell if I'm actually Oh, TAM's opening one right now. Yeah,
but we got we got some. We got fire snake.
Speaker 1: Do you know what the problem in this game is.
It's got a bunch of Pokemon that I've never fucking
heard of, and they look oh so shit.
Speaker 2: It's well past the one fifty one.
Speaker 1: The hell is this sicily peede, another sly ped just
getting siicly seedy.
Speaker 2: You gotta have a rare one the du.
Speaker 3: So you get the sicily p don't worry, pin chow chin.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: That's it, nothing crazy.
Speaker 1: I just want a gang. That's all I want. Once
I get a gang, I'm not playing this game again.
Speaker 2: I can't tell them I'm actually lucky if the game's
just very good to make me feel lucky. Because I
got a couple of the cars. When you get them,
a whole animation plays out. And I got the Pikachu
animated one, and I got the charge Art animated one.
I got the gold Crowned Full Art mewtwo, which is
Sean says is one of the rarest ones. And uh,
this morning, I got another one of those somehow, I.
Speaker 1: Wow, I would like to play this with more of
a community. So if you're out there and you're playing,
please adam me. My ad is one five six, six,
eight eight nine zero two three seven four seven three
four six. I hope that.
Speaker 2: I hope that a number one.
Speaker 1: Everyone as stupid as it sounded, and I felt fucking
grow up, all of.
Speaker 2: You minus eight six five three o nine. Uh. I
want to add me, but I have not spent any
actual money. I haven't felt pressure to. I did do
that thing where you get the free trial of the
Premium Pass, which gives you an extra car to day,
then you immediately cancel it so you don't get bills.
You get two weeks of that. But you know, as
you kind of complete missions and dailies and battles, you
get a lot of these hour glasses that speed up
the timer where you can open another pack. See. I
feel like I'm opening plenty of packs, and I already
have enough cards to make a deck for every kind
of energy type so that I'm good against all these
CPU battles that I'm doing. I get the way the
game sort of distills normal Pokemon cards from a sixty
deck thing with a lot more rules to twenty cards
in a deck, much faster paced, maybe a bit simplified,
and the way that just feels very good. I really
like playing the game. It's I was killing a lot
of time at the airport, flying home things like that.
It's been fantastic.
Speaker 1: I do like the one to pick system, which is cool.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's like, that's a good reason to have friends
because the wonder One thing is. Yeah, the wonder Pick
thing is, it's another kind of recharge time or thing.
But you can look at a friend's pack that they opened. Yeah,
then you can sort of randomly pick one of those
cards and you could see if they got like a
really good card, and it might cost more of the
wonder pick currency to have a chance at one of those,
but you could get like rare cards just through that
system too.
Speaker 1: I tried to get a Hornter out of a some
random wonder pick and got a Cocuona instead, which is
the worst outcome.
Speaker 3: So good did you because you got the did you
not thank the person? Because you can thank people because
it gives me a I wouldn't agree.
Speaker 1: I noticed that Mitch called it pokemon. Is that sort
of thing people?
Speaker 2: Pokemon Pokemon, Pokemon.
Speaker 1: Don't say Pokemon.
Speaker 2: Don't say Pokemon's do.
Speaker 1: People get still get upset if you say.
Speaker 3: Pokemon, people get upset? Me what okay? Can we just
can you just say the right way.
Speaker 2: To say it for me? Please? Pokemon Pokemon? Yeah, I
feel like that.
Speaker 3: But in the song they go Pokemon got it's too.
Speaker 1: I think I think that's because they needed to sound
good more than right Pokemon. That was correct?
Speaker 2: Yes, thanks, that's all.
Speaker 3: I maybe I Medela affected the song. They don't even
when I hear it when I sing it in my head,
it does that. To Mike, we could I could easily
be wrong to although he plays in my band.
Speaker 1: I don't think they say Pokemon in the song. I
think they say.
Speaker 2: We both had that double jediside thing too. So yeah,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I really wish you wouldn't say it like that.
Speaker 2: That's miss heard song lyric everybody.
Speaker 3: That's all we h We heard them metallic, give me fuel,
give me fire, give me Double jen aside is not
double JS.
Speaker 2: We had this conversation.
Speaker 3: This is the first I'm hearing it.
Speaker 2: In the room. I don't know no way I would
remember that.
Speaker 3: We're not We're not alone and hearing that. Frankly, he
barely is saying give me that which I desire, Like
it's like.
Speaker 2: But listen, no defense, I got guy or of an
iron maiding guy. But yeah, good, really enjoying that. It's
definitely a fun thing to check in on multiple times
a day and play some battles when there's some downtime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been dipping in and out of it. It
is fun to just open a pack and then move on, like,
I don't intend to battle or anything like that. And
it seems like they're going to add a trading options.
Speaker 2: There is a trading option, which is good since I
have that extra gold crown mewtwo, so yeah, eventually I
can hopefully trade that for something else.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Fortune Street, tell me about it.
Speaker 2: I like Fortune.
Speaker 1: This is the knockoff Mario.
Speaker 2: It's monopoly, is what it is. It's monotono.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it looks like because you Luigi and Mario and
all them on the cover, and so you think it's
a Mario party. I had never played it. Somehow, it
is pretty monopoly. I think I liked it too. We
were hearing as a chat wasn't loving it, but at
that point we were too far in, and we.
Speaker 2: Were all like, well, we got to see this through.
We got a bankrupt every ye. Look, we were doing
a lot of wacky stuff for a long time. So
we finally just sat down and played a video game.
And look, we needed to. I needed to just sit
there and relax for a moment. But I I like Monopoly,
so yeah, I thought it was fun. I also won,
so that was nice. I guess we didn't turn stocks on.
I guess that's why.
Speaker 3: I'm like, because I was like getting very excited about
like playing this game I'd always heard of, and we
kind of didn't play the game I'd always heard of.
We played this much more simplified version that doesn't really
have there's no real strategy to it. You just if
you land on the good spots, buy them. Really just
buy anything you land on, and if you land on
more stuff that you could buy than anyone else, then
you should you're gonna win. And that's fine. That could
still be fun. I don't really hold that against it,
but I'm like hearing all about, hey, there's these stock
elements where sure some people might buy this thing, but
then you can buy stocks in these properties, and the
more stocks that get bought and sold. That will increase
and decrease the price the price of other stocks in
that area, in that district. So there's a lot of
like financial strategies you can implement for that stuff. We
had nothing like that, so I was like, oh, I
really would like to play that sometime. But apparently that's
a three hour game or something like that.
Speaker 2: In terms of like because like you wanted to have
your properties next to each other, sometimes things will go
on auction you to be kind of more impressive at
a certain point. You're right, I mean I would say
there's a basbad strategy as in a Mario party, which
is also ultimately.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very random. Definitely, Yes, that's very fair.
Speaker 2: By the way, Crow thirteen and chet says, if Jeff
played a walking stimulator, you guys should call it rubstep.
Speaker 3: Well as like dubstep.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think it's okay, incredible punt. It really ripped
from the headlines. Didn't like that.
Speaker 3: More like dubstep was like a big thing like in
twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it's like not very timely, which I guess
is fine. Actually stuck as a child.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Crow, I thought that was a home run.
I thought it was a home run crow.
Speaker 1: So Fortune Street is fun. This is the.
Speaker 2: It's a week okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: For it might be like based on like something that
like predates the Wei.
Speaker 2: I don't know characters too.
Speaker 1: I believe it's a follow up to its Ducky Street,
which was a DS game.
Speaker 2: That sounds right, yes, okay, it's got a bunch of
Winner characters in it. Yeah, but it has Dragon Quest characters,
which is fun because yeah.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah was a Square X thing, so right, yeah, I
would like to do the you know, standard rules.
Speaker 2: Is what it's called. I'd like to do that sometimes.
Speaker 3: So we'll see, uh yeah.
Speaker 1: And then we've got listed head jack Box Survey Scramble,
which is a jack Box game. I'm not sure I've
heard of either.
Speaker 2: It came out like a month ago and I was like,
how no.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna the people in charge of jack Box
send me a thousand emails a day.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Rich Gallup is he harasses me?
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I just I'm like, I cannot look at any
more jack Box emails right now.
Speaker 3: I've it's family feud.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really but it's like smart. And then it's
got like it'll have like five hundred fucking things. So
there's like high low. So it'll be like, uh, I
don't know what's the category that we did with high low.
Speaker 1: It was like best items on the dairy Queen menu.
Speaker 4: Yeah, irrational fears, Yeah, irrational fears. So then it'll start
with like pick the ones at the top, and so
you're like, okay, so there's like flying, there's dentists or whatever,
and so you'll get points based on how close you
get at the top. But then it'll be like, oh,
pick the least like we got five hundred responses, pick
the ones that's like all the way down here. And
it's so fun just the it's very simple. It's just
a huge list and it'll like scroll through like here,
here's where yours is, Here's where yours is, and you
get points based on that, Like we really enjoyed that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's like for the least, like pick
the ones that are least popular out of five hundred.
At a certain point you have to get like so
abstract because it's like if you think of something that
shouldn't be in a round fear that most people won't have,
that's probably going to be at like number seventy on
the list. You need to think of something that's so
weird and off the wall that it's like not actually
a fear at all, like success or love or something
like that. And even those were in like the top
two fifty or something, So it's like I kind of
wish for that they would like maybe make the list
shorter or something like that. Maybe just do the top
two hundred instead of the top five hundred.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't Batman the hottest character or something.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's just correct. That's just like fine, objectively.
Speaker 3: Correct hottest of a fictional character. I think he was
number two.
Speaker 2: Actually who was number one? We don't know. We never
found out number one.
Speaker 3: I didn't tell us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't remember miss it. If they did, yes,
it was.
Speaker 1: What kind of replayability does this game have? Is it
like actively changing the rank?
Speaker 2: You get a different prompt every time for like those
top one hundred things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and every time you play the game, your audience,
I think, while they're waiting is getting a chance to
like join the room, and they are getting asked all
of these prompts, so they are constantly filling out the survey,
so the surveys are getting updated at all times. Is
this there should get better over time.
Speaker 1: Is this the thing where just one person needs to
own the game and then you can just like give
it to Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the phones are okay. We also checked out the
Jackbox Naughty Pack or whatever that's after Jeff left. Yeah,
the game was called Faker, So it would be it
would like give everybody prompts, right, and it would be
like raise your hand if I don't know if Mitch
can I can I post the picture of your thing? Yeah? Exactly,
e raise your hand if you traveled outside the country
in the last five years, right, But one person is
going to get you're the Faker, so you just kind
of have to erase your hand or not not knowing
what it is. And then once you do, you kind
of everyone has to explain themselves kind of a thing.
So it's something you can get fine, right, Well, And
then the one was okay can I post this Mitch post?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely post you could post it. It's like it's
set like prompts and it was going to send different
prompts to some people and you didn't know till later.
So it asked most people, what is something that you
would something suck on? And it asked me, what is
something that would be in a baby bag? So I
wrote diapers? And then like it shows up like everybody's
answers like what's something that you would suck on? And
you know some people like popsicle or like yeah yeah,
and then like Mike MANAUGHTI diapers and that I'm supposed
to try to explain myself, but I think I knew
I was pretty cooked at that point. It's like, please elaborate, Mike.
It was like, no, it's me. I do not want
to try to defend that.
Speaker 1: Do you have to defend it?
Speaker 2: Then if you want to, like the points right, because
you're trying to make it like, oh, somebody else is
the faker. It's not me, of course, but yeah sometimes
you sometimes.
Speaker 3: You're says Mike, is weirder because you said you would
suck on diapers?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Ok, and.
Speaker 4: What would you We got one where it's like, what
is a strong female lead movie? And then what was
the faker prompt?
Speaker 2: Oh? Gosh, yeah, the faker prompt was oh yeah, and
that was the So I got through that one, okay,
because it was the first round and my prompt was
a movie was a lot of bazoongas. Actually, no, I
still lost with that one. I said, Austin Powers, but
I was like, okay, maybe it wasn't me. I don't know.
You put Titanic, I think that, yeah, which fair enough.
I got kill Bill. I think, okay, there you go.
Speaker 3: Movie in that list. There you go, well done.
Speaker 1: It sounds like something I would like to check out.
Speaker 2: It was fun. Yeah, I mean that chatbox stuff is
always good. And yeah that was a that was a
good time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What else do we have on this list? We've got?
Oh it's my ten. Yeah. So I think I mentioned
this before, but I got sent the rog l i X,
which I've spent a little more time with.
Speaker 2: Do we all have that? Now I've been asked for one.
I'm all right, Yeah, this has been my metaphor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I was about to say. I am
so glad that I have one of those now because
the battery life it's so much better. But I've been
having a really good time playing metaphor on that. So
I think we've said enough about metaphor. But very very impressed.
The hardware is a bit pricey, but it's it's also
like it feels like if it's the only one you have,
it's a pretty good investment for that. I've been checking
out everything on there these days and it's a really
good time. However, the thing I want to talk about
is another thing I got sent by Evercade. So Evercaid
have put out are putting out this thing called the Alpha,
which is basically a arcade machine with the slots for
Evercaid cartridges as.
Speaker 2: Well like full size three quarners.
Speaker 1: This is the thing. It's table top so or I've
never had an arcade machine in my life. I've always
wanted an arcade masie because I'm a huge flying game
fan and it's always been a dream of mine, and
no matter where I've been, is just unrealistic expensive wise,
expense wise and also space wise. I couldn't find a
full size even the arcade one up ones. I could
probably make that fit in here, but again very expensive
and it'll be tricking. These ones are a little bar
top tabletop machine that is so easy to just find
a place for in your home and get the thrill
of playing an arcade machine, which is ultimately what I want.
So I got sent the street Fighter the capcom one naturally,
and it is so cool so that the actual device
is very simple you get the screen and then the
arcade buttons and stick on there, and it's made to
look like the top half of it may look like
a shrunken down arcade stick. So you get like the
light up marquee. You get like the artwork on the
side the Marquie they send you. They sent me some
extra like images for that I can swap out, which
is cool. And then you have like really nice buttons
and stick. They haven't confirmed who is the manufacturer of
that stick or the buttons. It feels like sonwhat to me,
which is good, But that might be incorrect. I might
be like misidentifying that.
Speaker 3: It's it's not the hardest thing in the world if
it's not too yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: But ultimately, if it feels good when I play, it
doesn't feel like sticky or weird or anything like that.
But the street Fighter one has street Fighter two Championship
Edition on it. It's got street Fighter Alpha one and three,
Alpha two, Alpha three, You've got Alpha one as well,
Puzzle Fighter two Turbo and street Fighter two Turbo. So
it's got a bunch of street Fighters in there. And
it obviously it only for I immediately booted up three
far Out for three I was hoping, Oh great, I
can just like put this on my table and play
through World Tour Mode. Forgetting that World Tour Mode isn't
something that was in the original Arcade version, so you
are limited to like generally the Arcade experience. So like
you put in your hit start and it just starts
the kind of like one v one Arcade system and
you can hit a button to get extra credits and
et cetera, et cetera. But it's still very very authentic
and it it's really well made, is the thing that
I really like about it. For the price, Kid, it's
done good stuff. Yeah, ever, Kid has been doing some
really cool stuff. I haven't been playing super class attention
to I check out the stuff every now and then,
but this is the world. This is the first thing
I've been like, Oh this, This makes it feasible for
me to have one of these things. And I think
they're on like special pre order price now, but I
think they range between like two hundred and thirty to
like two hundred and fifty when they're not on discount,
which I I personally think is more reasonable for me
as someone who's willing to pay a little extra one
and have a arcade like machine in my in my space.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll go ahead, Mike. Sorry, I'm interested because so
you got the street for one. The other one is
a Mega Man one. Yeah, with the those two kind
of like Mega Man Boss Rush games and then.
Speaker 3: The cartridge slot, right, so it's like so you can
like the arcade one up where it's like if you
want to like get in there and put in a
retro pie, you can do that, but this is just like, no,
there a cartridge slot, and they every kid's got a
lot of partners. The Data East, Namco Atari collections. You
can just pop those in there and play.
Speaker 1: And I believe that you can just connect a Bluetooth
controller in it as well to it, so you can
actually just play normal games on there if you want,
which is ideal given the library that Evocade already has
built up. You don't want to be playing you know,
Data East or a platformer for example, with a standard
you know, six button. Okay, you might want to controller,
but I know that Stephen on our team got sent
the Mega Man one and he's been putting it through
his paces as well, and he's connected. I believe it's
the eight bit dou dongle to it, and it's worked fine.
It's also it also functions and works on if you
use a like a portable power bank, so you don't
necessarily have to have it plugged into a mains like,
which is crazy. It gives it a complete like standalone
feel to it, and you can move it around as well.
I was sitting on my couch and had it on
my lap and it wasn't like super heavy, it wasn't
like crushing my leg. I was just like, did that. Yeah,
I'm in the I'm in the midst of like moving
my room around and like I'm going to set up
a new desk so I don't have it set up anywhere.
But like I took it out of the box, put
on my lap, played a bunch of it, put it
back in the box, put the box in the closet,
and it was really really cool. Like I had a
moment where I step backround was like I believe I
just did that. Like I've got I've got like all
my favorite three fighter games on this thing, and it's
just can tucked away, can be tucked away in a corner,
and I'm definitely gonna have it on display. But yeah,
it's really really impressive. And like I said, like you know,
Grub said as well, you can just plug in the cartridges,
and I think generally they work as well. I wouldn't
be surprised if people figure out how to like open
up the filmware and jail break them, because I know
that there is a community, having spoken Stephen, that has
been working on other Avocade products to give them a
little more freedom, and they have successfully done that, so
I think it's just a matter of time before they
do it. But yeah, there's there's a you.
Speaker 3: Don't want to mess with that stuff. This is like
maybe the solution you have the more expandability.
Speaker 1: Yeah, from what I can tell, there's a bunch of
other games available on one of these, Like it said,
there's it seems to be largely capcom but there's like
a Carrier air Wing, one Nights of the Round, Strider
Final Fight, that kind of stuff, and.
Speaker 3: It comes with the three marquees like yours dated but
like one for Strider and yeah, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great, I've got I have the The really smart
thing that they've done is have the cartridge slots available
in there, because I've gone from someone who has like
a passing curiosity and interest in evocaid stuff to now
looking I've been on their website to be like what
other cartridges can I get for this thing? And I
always like collection.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it right now.
Speaker 1: I already they were kind enough to send me that.
But yeah, there's there's like a bunch of like this,
the Namco Museum collections on there. So like just getting
the Namco Museum collection, which has you know, pac Man
Dig Doug, It's got Galaxian, it's got you know, Mappy
Metal Marine, starluster zs and just plugging that in and
you've basically turned this thing into a broader arcade machine,
right And I feel like it could be a real, real,
like accessible and lower bar of entry point for people
who've always wanted one of these things but always felt
like the space or the price has been prohibitive to them.
Speaker 2: I just I'm a Mega Man fan, really like the
idea of having that Mega Man one because it looks
nicely just having it kind of you know, sometimes running
the background on the Power Battle demo mode, just looking
really nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, matter for like a dedicated puzzle fighter machine. I
think I would love that.
Speaker 3: Yep, it is one player, right, Like, there's only controls
for one person. I believe you connected the controller.
Speaker 1: I think you can connect the control. I need to
double I bet that sounds right.
Speaker 2: But it's like there's only one controller pards for two
player local.
Speaker 3: Modill right right, Okay, it's one on the arcade machine
with the arcade the sandwell buttons and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so I need to do I need to
check that kind of stuff as well. But for the
most part, like like I said, I went on their
website and I was like, oh, I'd buy if I
just bought the the Namco and the Atari collections. That's
a decent chunk of the arcade experience that you probably
want to have or have like dreamed of having in
your in your home for a really long time. So yeah,
and it's like I said, it's really well made. It
doesn't feel flimsy at all. It feels like it's got
some weight to it. It doesn't feel like it's going
to break. The only issue I had with it is
it comes the screen comes with a plastic film on it,
and it's like screwed in. So I ripped the plastic
film off and it.
Speaker 2: This summer stuck under the screw.
Speaker 7: The corners are stuck in the screens, which is really
but it's really really easier to just like put a
screw drive in there, turn it once to loosen it,
pull out the thing, and then turn it back and
you will Yeah it's fine.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like there's there's a bunch of Now I'm
on the website constantly being like, I wonder if I
should buy the Cold Master's collection, if I should buy
the x y Z collection, And they're not like super
expensive as well, those those kind of cartridges, and if
if they are, they usually come you know, with a
bunch of games in there, so you know, spending a
crazy amount of money and money on it. It's like
thirty dollars or.
Speaker 2: So like that. One of the marquis is Puzzle Fighter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, looking at this good. Yeah, I just look at
Amazon and the advocate like cautures ranged between like twenty
and twenty five dollars pretext.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's relatively reasonable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but I yeah, I highly recommend it. If
if we if you want to vap, I could probably
go pull it out and like wave it around in
front of the camera if that's something that you want
me to do. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You know that's what we do.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: No, no, he said, he said we wanted to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there it is, alright.
Speaker 4: I would say I played a bunch of Puzzle Fighter
this weekend against Turbo Sean noted fighting game expert. Well,
I'm just gonna say it's it's it's dark soccers, it's
three fighter, and I've never played fighting games against Sean,
and I went six and zer against him and puzzle
I will say I'm undefeated against Turbo Sean and all
things fighting games.
Speaker 3: Now, didn't like there was a time where you were
playing puzzle Fighter every single day with your wife, like NonStop,
and you guys were getting very competitive, right.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah I'm not.
Speaker 4: I'm not surprised now several different seasons of first to
one hundred wins and yeah, once we move though, now
it's not in the kitchen, it's not accessible, so it's
it's fallen off a little bit, but it's still a
perfect video game.
Speaker 3: But you see, I just hear about my Now, you
guys got very serious into that, so I was afraid
to even challenge you with that.
Speaker 1: I mean, as a fire is not fighting game if
I but I respect it, respect your skill level at this.
Speaker 4: As someone who hasn't played fighting games against Turboshon, this
is the closest, so I will say that fighting adjacent,
I am undefeated against Turboshon.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah. Final thoughts on that thing. I am very
surprised at how good it is and how much of
that arcade envy that I've had for a really long
time has been satisfied by having this thing. So I
highly recommend it. I think, as always do your research,
you might be the kind of person who wants to
see if there's more versatility that can be added to
a thing. I don't know, like with the you know,
Arcade one up stuff, you can do wild and wacky
things to it. This might be a little more locked
down for now, But as it is right now, the
only thing I w do if I had one of
those things is like try and put a street fire
on it, And I've got that right now, so I'm good.
But like if people can figure out like how to
chuck a raspberry pine they or something else and you're
like mal versus Capcom or whatever it may be, I'm
very very eager, but I recommend it it's great. It's
highly Yeah. Yeah, it's out there if you want it. Yeah.
Beyond that, I've been playing Dragon Age, decent game. Yeah,
that's it. That's it for me. So we're gonna take
a quick brickie break and then come back with the news.
If that's okay with everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good to me.
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Speaker 4: I normally can't have fun gimmick mountain dew flavors, but
we went to the gas station that's inside them all
of America and they have the Voodoo zero.
Speaker 2: So I bought a shit a ton of it.
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I found the sugar Free Mountain Due and Coanza is
pretty good manzero. Yeah, great, Yeah, we're gonna begain.
Speaker 2: With the news.
Speaker 1: Over to one Jeffy Grub Grub for this.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Tam got the news and it's it's what you expected.
The Parole Ventura presidential ticket has come in. They are
the new leaders of the free world. Congratulations them.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: Beyond that, though, let's get into this what I have
written down here. Actually, Nintendo has lowered its Switch forecast
after sales declined thirty one percent overnight Nintendo reported its
financial earnings. We'll talk about switch to or the lack
thereof here in a second, but yeah, Switch is slowing
down and so they lowered their forecast. Nintendo has lowered
its Switched sales forecast by one million units down to
twelve point five million for the fiscal year due to
a thirty one percent year on your client in sales.
I think that was already reduced previously. I think at
one point they said fifteen million, then they said thirteen
point five million, and now twelve point five million. So, uh,
they're not expecting to sell as many switches and kind
of not a huge surprise, right, It was always going
to be hard to hit those numbers.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The one thing it was almost where is why
were their numbers so high originally if they kind of
knew what the forecast was, unless there was some big
game delay, because you know, they've been releasing games this year,
but it's been a bunch of games that sell two
to three million copies, right, you know, as Echoes of
wis one thousand year door remake Luigi's Minchin to HD
or whatever. So it's been a lot of those you
don't have a Mario Wonder this year or Smash Brothers
or Tiers of the Kingdom or anything that's going to
be you know, like a ten million plus. The kind
of takeaway here though, is that, yeah, like things have
slowed down, like the argument like, oh, they don't even
really need a switch to. That's that's done.
Speaker 3: That's done.
Speaker 2: They clearly do need the switch to and it's we
all know it's coming anyway, so it's fine. But yeah,
it does continue to get like a little bit weirder,
the kind of further and further out that actually seems.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't things like they seem like things are
going to turn around in the current quarter that we're
in right now. Mario Luigi Brothership is out this week.
Speaker 2: Reviews came out.
Speaker 3: I think they knew what that game was, which is
why it's sort of kind of sputtering out at the
end of the generation. Most reviews seem to think it's fine,
too good. There's some that really dislike it. So it's
kind of all up and down, and.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things where it's like you know,
you see a game get like an eighty two, it's like, okay,
that's good. But that's when you sort of need to
read the reviews and see what some people's reservations are.
The thing that people say kind of negatively about the game,
where the things that sort of worried about so kind
of has like put me on guard a little bit
with Brothership.
Speaker 3: Yep, exactly, So you know that game is not going
to be out there like fixing this for Nintendo, and
they don't have a lot of things that were even
like even if Metroit Prime for was coming out this holiday,
that was not going to fix it either, like that
Metroid Prime as a you know, metrotis a more limited
audience than zeld In Marios. So yeah, it was always
weird that they were expecting to sell fifteen million switch systems. Now,
they did mention that they were able to see some
improvement quarter compared to last quarter because they did bundle
in more games at a slightly cheaper price. So instead
of selling like the Mario Kart bundle for three hundred
and sixty dollars with the original switch, they are now
bundling in and selling it at three hundred dollars, so
you get the game technically for free or something like that.
They also released the Echoes of Wisdom Zelda switch Light
that helped as well, but clearly Switcheddelles coming to an end.
They are going to move on, So what about the
switch to And Nintendo's president says they have no change
to switch to announce plan, which, as we've mentioned a
bunch of times, they said that they would announce it
before the end of the fiscal year, which is March
thirty first of twenty twenty five, So that continues to
be the case. They're not changing that. And you know,
for a while there there were a lot of people
that were hot and heavy sand that would happened in October,
and some people were saying when it happened in September.
Before that, neither of those happened. We are now in November,
and I suppose we'll be after Mario and Luigi here
pretty soon, and then maybe that gives them a little
leeway to announce it before the end of this year
this calendar year. But at this point, why wouldn't they
just wait till next year?
Speaker 2: Maybe unless they kind of throw it in at some
point in earlier December November, maybe a little bit weird,
especially since there's going to be a we presume on
like election news headlines for a matter of weeks for
a while, and we know Nintendo does care about that stuff.
It's why they thought. That's why Kid and Christa thought
that announced it was not ever going to happen. In
late October, a lot of people were saying that was
going to be the case. Yeah, you know, way back when,
I would have thought it would be insane that we
didn't get switched to a nestment before the end of
the year. And now, you know, I don't know if
I'm one hundred percent sure that's the case, but it's
a very distinct possibility at this point.
Speaker 3: Nintendo also launched the music app, the Nintendo Music App.
It is out now, featuring decades of Nintendo soundtracks. Nintendo
launched it for iOS and Android. You need to be
a Nintendo Switch Online subscriber to access it. But it's
like this ad, you know, value add feature where you
can listen to like I think they have now like
twenty five twenty six soundtracks or something like that.
Speaker 2: Added Donkey Kunk Country too, so.
Speaker 3: Right, and before that they added Super Mario Brothers wonder,
so they are adding like an album a day on
average or something like that, or maybe.
Speaker 2: Every other day. Slower than that, I think, but yeah,
a couple of week maybe I don't know, a couple
of week exactly.
Speaker 3: So I think this app is well made, and it's
got cool features like being able to just click a
button and you can extend a song from its normal
playing time to fifteen thirty minutes or sixty minutes, so
you can just listen to some of these things on
a loop, and that's neat. There's a spoiler prevention features
so you don't see the screenshots that might spoil games.
Speaker 2: For these songs.
Speaker 3: A bit silly, but I mean again, kind of cool
technology whatever, And yet I don't know, I really don't
know who This app is super.
Speaker 2: Fun, right, It's like the app is well made all
that stuff, but man, Nintendo can't just put their music
on Spotify like everybody else, right, Like even Disney does, right,
like everybody even all the other people freaking out about
their IP just puts music on Spotify. So yeah, it's
it's a little annoying. Again, the app is nice and
I like it, and it is fun to listen to
these songs. I can't get drip feed right now is
probably a bit severe, But if it's this Kaden seems
a little slow and there they have a lot more music.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a lot of soundtracks that could add.
So I just fact that they started with like twenty two.
Speaker 1: I just don't know what I'm I am like you guys,
like I love listening to Hindo music. It's in a
different app I'm not opening it, like it does not
exist exactly, Like I just don't even think about it.
I keep forgetting it's there because I've like caught a
such a habit of when I need to listen to music,
I hit one of two things. It's either Spotify or YouTube,
and adding a third one this late in the game
is like easy, Like what are you doing? Just put
it on. It doesn't feel like the intent is to
allow people to have access to music because it's a
joyous thing. The intent is to shut these kids up
while maintaining complete control over everything that they own, which
is like definitely, you might as well not have done it,
because like I'm gonna it's easier for me to go
to YouTube and type in metro Prime soundtrack than it
is for me to go to that app and find it.
And even though it's a good app on my my
muscle memory is tied to you know those two apps.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's you know, Sambo Nice and Chat the
same background listening is a big selling point for me.
And like some like you need YouTube Premium, like if
that's how you will listen to a lot of these
songs to be able to listen to some songs in
the background, And a lot of people already have an
intend to switch online, So getting the app and listening
to these songs in the background while you're.
Speaker 2: Doing other stuff.
Speaker 3: I could see some reasons why some people are getting
some value out of this thing, but I tend to
agree with you that for me personally, in a week's time,
like right now it's a novel thing, I'm like kind
of engaging with it. I'm like occasionally remembering it's there,
But in a week's time, I will probably stop opening
it and then I will be shocked if I open
it again within the next year.
Speaker 2: Weird year for Nintendo, Like my my favorite thing they
put out this year is maybe their alarm clock.
Speaker 1: But I was just about to say why didn't they
put this up on the alarm clock.
Speaker 2: Wake up to just music on shuffle?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is a way better, like that would
be like, oh that makes sense now as a bonus,
it's also on iOS ho whatever. But I don't think
that thing is capable enough to I mean, it does
play a little bit of music.
Speaker 2: So I woke up to pickman nella. Yeah, it's fine.
Hell yeah, here's a question for you all. When's the
last time Sega had a better year than Nintendo?
Speaker 3: Twenty four?
Speaker 2: Oh kind of wild, is it?
Speaker 3: Yep, that's that is wild. That's a good point. And now,
I mean I don't think Nintendo's having like some dire year,
but it's just ya, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: In terms of who's making more money, they tend to of
course still making more money in Sega, but just in
terms of, like I don't know, kind of quality and
interesting releases, I think Sega has actually done better than
Nintendo this year what they had. Sega has done Persona
three Reload, Dragon Infinite Well Tasio like a Dragon Infinite Wealth,
the fun Monkey Ball Games. It's actually very good, sonlad.
I think there was Unicorn, Overlord, s M T five,
s T five whatever with the subt.
Speaker 3: Vengeance.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then some people like Sonic Shadow.
Speaker 2: I guess yeah, so was good. I like it a lot,
so yeah, great year for Sega.
Speaker 3: Supposed to be my alarm clock. Yeah yeah, and then
they can really take over the world. Pokemon TCG Pocket
is currently earning three times more per day than Pokemon Go.
According to some estimates. Pokemon TCG Pocket newly released. It's
it's out now, It's had a strong launch. In its
first four day, it apparently earned an estimated twelve point
one million dollars, which puts it on pace to be
one of these billion dollars per year games that you know,
that's the there's very few games that are in that
tier on mobile.
Speaker 2: Pokemon Go was once one of those.
Speaker 3: Games, still massively successful, is like a top ten game
on mobile Pokemon Go. So this doing three times the
amount of money that that game's doing right now shows
how strong this is. And I mean like over the
weekend you were playing it, and multiple times I think
you were just kind of even muttering to yourself like
this game is gonna make a million, like just millions
and millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: Because I mean, it's so pok The great thing about
Pokemon for this kind of stuff is that so easy
to just add new content to it. I mean, it's
already easy to do that with Pokemon as a concept,
and then it's easy to do it with card games
as a concept because you just have you know, expansions
as the business model. It always works. And doing expansions
with Pokemon stuff is easy because there's just so many Pokemon.
It's so many variants of the Pokemon you can do
an They already did their first event, right, you know,
do some CPU battles and unlocked on lapris Ex, and
I'm like, I gotta get that lapros ex for some reasons,
the only way my brain will be happy. Yeah, it's
Claire is gonna do well. It's doing very well. Finally
a windfall for Pokemon, right, Mitch, So it's going their way.
Speaker 1: Mitch, you said Pokemon wrong five times.
Speaker 2: Sorry, it's just look clock everybody, I'm here, I have
this mustache. I'm gonna say Pokemon classic behavior.
Speaker 3: The official PlayStation five Pro specifications have been released. The
specs include a single chip custom processor with an X
eighty four sixty four, a md rizin Zen two CPU,
and a GPU is sixteen point seven Tara flops. You know,
a lot of bullshitting here, like a lot of numbers,
you know, sixteen gigabytes of g d DDR six memory,
things like that.
Speaker 2: I'll do the quick version of this.
Speaker 3: These specifications are are okay, but it's like surprising how
good these games are looking as you like check out
like some stuff from Digital Foundry in other places that
have like done early looks at some of these games
based on the fact that this is not like some
super huge jump over the base PS five and it
makes it sound like, yeah, that pisser Tech the PSSR
really is doing a lot of the heavy lifting and
it's making a huge difference. It kind of seems like
the magic, you know, the secret sauce to the whole thing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it also.
Speaker 3: Makes it sound like maybe they were able to get
away with not putting a lot of investment into new
hardware for this thing, so they're probably gonna make a
pretty penny on this PS five Pro hardware. PlayStation CEO
said that the PS five Pro was a five year project.
Development started before the PS five launch basically goes like this.
Ps F five launched in November twenty twenty In the
year leading up to that, the hardware had been finalized,
so they already begun work research and developing a new
PS five PS five that would turn into the PS
five Pro. Another four years past after the release of
the PS five, where they are now here and they're
launching the PS five Pro and the like that, this
is normal for us. We're gonna keep doing this this
cadence basically, or something near this cadence, which to me
suggests that we get like a PS six maybe in
about four years from now. That would put it at
twenty twenty eight. That sounds right to me. Does that
sound right to you guys?
Speaker 2: Maybe a little maybe little late, like maybe it's three
years instead between this and that instead of the four,
but yeah, generally right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they like the overlap time nowadays, so I
think there will be a period where three years sounds
right because then they can like make that transition seem
a little more noticeable, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Read robust.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then having that PlayStation five PlayStation six kind
of overlap helps them in a lot messaging as well.
Speaker 3: You guys, feel like we are at a point now
where the PS five and Xbox Series X in US
generation feels like it's really found its footing there. You
guys still feel a little shaky about it, like, whoa,
where are the games?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I I me too.
Speaker 1: I don't think it has yet. It feels very like
stop and start for both. I mean like Xbox has
been on stop for a really long time, and if
you really like remove the remakes and re releases from
the PlayStation catalog, it's not that much like there's not
much going on, and and that that feels makes it
feel like this it hasn't really reached that potential. What's
the stuff? Like, I still I think that Demon Souls
is still the best looking game on that console for.
Speaker 4: Me, Like Horizon as much as an Horizon guy, that Horizon.
Speaker 1: Looks good, and like, I guess there's a Ratchet looks
nice in certain ways, but like, I don't know, there's
nothing has blown me away since Demon Souls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like you usually do get like after four
years in it's like, yeah, we're really firing on all
cylinders now, and yeah, somehow it feels slower than ever
in a lot of ways these consoles. Maybe that's going
to pick up next year, and you know Xbox does
have Indiana Jones and then avowed pretty shortly after that. Yeah,
coming up soon here, and they could you know, keep
the momentum going perhaps with Perfect Dark and Fable next year,
although Perfect Dark just kind of creative director changed, so
I'm not sure how far that game is out. Yeah,
it's been. It's been a weird generation for first party
stuff anyways.
Speaker 3: Speaking of that, PlayStation's Wolverine director has taken over Xboxes
Perfect Dark. Brian Horton, former creative director of PlayStation's Wolverine game,
has joined Xboxes the initiative to lead the Perfect Dark reboot.
Wolverine's leadership has shifted, with creator creative director Marcus Smith
and game director Mike Daly now at the helm. Horton's
departure from Insomniac is attributed to creative decisions regarding Wolverine's game,
The Wolverine Game Excuse Me. Horton's experience includes working on
Marvel Spider Man, Miles Morales, and Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Speaker 2: That's the really good one, right right of the tomb Raider,
the good one, yes, the second one, and that Trope one.
Speaker 3: That one's really good Perfect Dark development has faced challenges,
including senior departures at the Xbox Studio, but last we
heard development was going pretty well on that game. Well,
what's your guys expectations for both Perfect Dark and Wolverine.
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: For Wolverine, I think is pretty high. I mean like
Insomniac has been hitting out of the park lately.
Speaker 2: Oh my god again go sharp.
Speaker 1: Also, I think my game has buked. It does not.
Every time I use one of those things that lets
me open up pack early, it's not taking it away
from me.
Speaker 3: Well, you better do do what you can right now.
Speaker 1: I'm I am, I am NonStop. I've had twelve six
get it open.
Speaker 2: Because that's so on the bottom. It shows you how
many you need to do it. You're a total amount
of those is on the top. Okay, then that's why,
that's why, that's why. Yeah, don't worry. Don't worry the title.
You don't have to go after him. It's fine, it's
working as normal.
Speaker 1: It's working fine, don't worry about it. I mean, I'm
not going to play again now because I've got gang
Goo cares. But yeah, I think Wolverine, No, it's still
at twelve in the top right, as well.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the Wolverine I think there's a lot
riding on it now. I feel like there's probably in
some next very talented developer. But I also kind of
feel like they're in a space now where they need
to start diversifying the type of games they make, Otherwise
they could end up in the same position that they
were when they were making you know, Ratchet or whatever
it may be, where you don't want them just being
stuck on Spider Man forever. I hope that. I hope
that Wolverine is a different enough game from Spider Man.
Isn't that same style of like combat, if you know
what I mean? And doesn't it doesn't feel like reskinned
Spider Man in many ways. I hope it's an opportunity.
I hope they use it as an opportunity to be like,
we can make a completely different type of game and
it still rocks. And it seems like that's what they're doing.
But I have high expectations. I have no reason not
to doubt. I have no reason to doubt that they would,
you know, screw it up. I think I think it
will be good, yep, right, perfect dark for me.
Speaker 4: I kind of feel like, as much as I love
that sixty four to one, it's not like this is
some long running series that's got a bunch of great entries.
It's like, oh, we got to go back to form
or no, they had one good game. I guess there
was a Game Boy one. I don't know if that
was good, and then zero was not that good. So like,
I don't know, I would love for it to be good.
That trailer they showed recently was like, Okay, that actually
looks pretty cool, but I will just sit back until
I get to play it because I don't have expectations
for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I kind of higher hopes for Perfect Dark. Honestly,
I don't know. It's because it's just speaking me to
a bit more Wouverine. I'm sure that will be fun.
For some reason, I'm still just like, what isn't the
loop there? Exactly? Because because with Spider Man specifically, what's
so much fun about the game is traversal, and I
don't so easy to understand what Spider Man is is
a game. Yeah right, there's so many directions you can
take a Wolverine game and it's worse. You can just
kind of make it boring Hack and Slash and I'm
sure they're gonna have more juice in it though.
Speaker 1: And the other Wolverine game Origins was awesome.
Speaker 2: Pretty good pounds. I want to I want to play that.
And the Deadpool game. Oh, I forgot that happened. I
liked the Deadpool game was one of the better. There's
like a million Arkham Asylum knockoffs, right, Yeah, the Deuple
game was pretty good at that and it was, you know, funny.
It was very crass, of course, but.
Speaker 3: It was wolverridg's combat was kind of Kham.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the same thing that pushed the Y
button to counter things. That was good. Yeah. I enjoyed
both those.
Speaker 3: Uh, all right, you guys remember NFT games, Well, ubisofts
got one a new one actually, uh and here's a
fun story. Ubisofs n F t RPG has reportedly been
plagued by a single player auto winning every game Ubi
safs NFT based RPG, Champions Tactics Grimoria Chronicles has encountered a.
Speaker 2: Way say that name again, Say that name again.
Speaker 3: Champions Tactics Colon Grimoria Chronicles incredible.
Speaker 2: Oh Ki, you can continue now. It sounds like it was.
Speaker 3: Made by AI already has encountered a game breaking exploit.
A user named Shaliary eleven or Paul Star one point
one has been automatically winning every online battle, causing frustration
among players. The player has reportedly played over fifty six
thousand matches yeah and always wins without the match even
taking place. The issues game unplayable for days, and players
have expressed their disappointment and frustration. While the team has
acknowledged the air, banned the player, and promised to fix
some players continue to report being matched with the exploitative account.
They're still listen to.
Speaker 1: Him the hero NFTs deserve, right?
Speaker 3: Is this all this is? I'm like, this is what
you get for going to play an NFT game.
Speaker 1: I love this. I hope he becomes unstoppable, like I
hope a community forms around him where they like figure
out new ways to make sure he's always like the
guardian against n f t s, like wrecking them up.
Speaker 3: But then he's so.
Speaker 1: Community and then he's got enough money that he just
purchases Ubisoft and it is like, look at me, I'm
the captain now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just InCred of course, of course is doing
so well right now? Is the one having a weird
thing with NFT games, right, I.
Speaker 1: Give that thing six months before they kick it off into.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at this point, it is weird to still encounter
people who are like bag holders for this stuff, like
still like ride or die for n f T s,
Like I.
Speaker 2: I saw some invested so much that they kind of
have no choice, Right.
Speaker 3: That's definitely the same. Like there was like some like
Phase Clan guy talking about this, like they're gonna put
n f T marketplaces in GTA six and I'm like, oh,
you are dumb, and this is embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Walks needs to do some stupid ship to make money.
They just put that game out and then call it.
Speaker 2: The way they talked about NFT is like wouldn't Pokemon
like TCG pocket have been like, oh, such a great
applicase for that, and no, fuck that, of course you
don't do it and make a zillion dollars anyway, right, And.
Speaker 3: It's like there could be a marketplace in GTA six
and they'll control it from top to bottom. Why would
they give up control rock Star to some decentralized platform?
Are you stupid? And the answer is, of course they are.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite thing about NFT bros. They are literally
the most stupid people on this planet. They will say
the most They will say the most insane shit to
your face and then not realize what they're saying.
Speaker 2: Stuff with no idea that they just did. It's it's
you remember that guy who like bought an nft of
a book and thought it gave him the film rights
to it. Yeah, that was the best.
Speaker 3: There was a Google photo It's like jor Rowski's Dune
or something like that. There was like some some version
of Dune and there was a Google Photos like shared
thing of like all the stuff they thought they owned,
and I got in there. So occasionally I still get
updates from some of the guys that are like, like,
what are we going to do with this now? Like
they still don't know They're like still fighting World War
two on some islands somewhere.
Speaker 2: It's it's awesome.
Speaker 3: It rules striking New York Times tech workers ask players
to stop playing Wordle insolidarity. New York Times workers are
on strike, urging World Wordle and Connections players to stop
playing until the strike is resolved. Tech workers at the
media Company are in dispute regarding remote work just cause
protections and pay equity. The union claims management is more
concerned about election coverage than a fair deal. Excuse me,
be a fair deal for workers. New York Times spokesperson
states the tech field is among the highest paid individual
contributors in the company, and journalism is their top priority.
The hashtag break my streak emerged on social media in
support of the striking workers. So basically, you know, the
workers are just asking you to break your streak, stop
playing the games for a few days while they get
this sorted out with management. So I did did that myself.
You can make their own choices, but I would uh,
I would recommend towards that direction. Uh, all right, that
does it for the headlines. Uh, I think might hand
the show back over to you, Tam.
Speaker 1: I think let me just have a quick look through
the news section of Select to see what's going on. Ye,
I think dropped and doesn't seem.
Speaker 2: Imagine not a lot of people are gonna want to
release a lot of big news today.
Speaker 1: Smash Ultimate has sold over thirty five million copies. Apparently
that's a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's always updated sales numbers with Nintendo stuff.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, we'll kind of we'll talk like I'll get
in some more of those details on the game this morning,
so the next couple of days. That's that's that probably
puts that at number three, after Animal Crossing and Mario Kart.
Probably on the switch Smash Brothers.
Speaker 2: I think so. Yeah, it's like that Odyssey and the Zeldas.
Speaker 3: That are the wild Yeah out there, Pokemons, Yeah you
probably changed things.
Speaker 1: The bloto account tweeted a picture of a silhouetted character
which looks like a clown, with the phrase who's that Pokemon?
So ah, yeah, let's take another quick bricky break and
then return to do emails. Sorry, we're gone for long there.
Apparently Mitch has diarrhea. But you know, let's see it.
We're gonna happen with very queen.
Speaker 2: That'll do it for you.
Speaker 1: That's it. If you want to email the show, you
can send the old letter over via the internet to
BombCast at giant bomb dot com. That is BombCast at
giant bomb dot com. Our first email comes from a
video game president. What a time for that person right now?
Must be tricky, yeah, it reads. In a surprising turn
of events, the electoral College has forgone the popular vote
and elected a video game character as president, Which character
would do the best job? Best? What she's from tonight?
Jeff from Quebec.
Speaker 2: Safety Solids Solidus, Yeah, Solidus was president. He was president?
Speaker 4: Is a doctor sued with two swords and an eyepatch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta go as SOLIDUS hates the Patriots, not
Stephen Armstrong. No, I'm a SOLIDUS guy.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 2: That's a bad person though, right, Like they have evil intentions.
I know that they don't like the Patriots are also bad.
I don't think SOLIDUS saw this was pro child soldiers.
Speaker 1: I don't pro I guess yeah.
Speaker 2: And as a child soldier, I think, yeah, which recommend?
Speaker 3: What about the president of nukes?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's right, the president of I don't know
if you saw Calo run down the entire history of
metal gear from memory on the stream, but yeah, she
told us all about the importance of the vice president
of nukes, and a lot of it just had to
do with Alaska.
Speaker 2: Apparently. I think a Kayla has had metal here is
about control of Alaska.
Speaker 1: I'm very glad that Kayla has become Giant Bum's number
one metal get understand that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, But yeah, but for Solids, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know a joke answer. I'm gonna go with the
I think like Professor Layton, if he was president.
Speaker 2: God, yeah, he wouldn't be like, man.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're good. That's responsible, Like I feel good about
I could like just not think about who's president for
four years and that would be great.
Speaker 2: That's such a good Okay, I just.
Speaker 1: Want that It would be weird because you'd have like
a little boy hanging around with him constantly, and it would.
Speaker 2: A little boy. So with Batman, Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at a list of like video game
presidents to see who's on there, and number one is
President Michael Wilson from Metal Chaos, which I'm that's a
good call. Yeah yeah, what.
Speaker 2: About from software game? What about Nino Kune two where
the president of the US gets kid to a fancy
world after a.
Speaker 3: New turned into a gun.
Speaker 2: I've never played this game. He doesn't turn into a gun.
He just he turned into a hot anime guy. I think,
Okay about the good answer, King of All Cosmos.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Yeah, but now is Bill Clinton.
Speaker 2: Must saxophone player?
Speaker 3: Come on, Arsenio Hall's friend, come on. But I want
to think about the ramifications of King of All the cosmos?
Being president, what does that really look like?
Speaker 1: Does he have time to focus on a shitty little
you know, America when he's the king of all cosmos?
Speaker 4: Well, his his cabinet could be all of his little
like cousins and nephews, all the little guys that you rescue.
Speaker 2: They all have different skills, they do. Yeah, some have mustaches.
It's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Professor is a great pick.
Speaker 2: Honestly, that's the right answer. Yeah, what about Chop Chop
Man her onion?
Speaker 1: That would be I think the White House would stink
a bit.
Speaker 2: But sure, sure.
Speaker 4: I did watch Kayla play a bunch of per Rappa
two the other day, and I forgot that Perappa two existed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. That is a thing.
Speaker 4: It's about a place called beard Noodles. I forgot that
was the main story thing going on there, Beard Noodles. Yeah,
it's like a guy. It's like a ghosts like a
forest ghost with a big beard that runs a fast
food restaurant called beard Noodles. All right, this sounds bad, Yeah,
not as good as the first one.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go with Professor Layton.
Speaker 3: Four more years.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Next email is called email infidelity. I'm glad to report.
This comes from Jared, who says I'm glad to report
I've not multiplexed my emails. These are written. You spoke
for the giant bomb cost.
Speaker 2: We appreciate, Jared.
Speaker 1: Have you ever worked a job just adjacent to your
dream job? I work with Matt the gathering cards, and
I don't hate my work by any means, but my
preferred TCG is actually y gie Oh. I can't help
but think how much I'd love my work if I
was handling Yu gi oh all day instead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm actually a kind of funny fan.
Speaker 4: So I worked at McDonald's when my favorite was Taco Bell.
But like, I also deeply loved McDonald's, So it's not
like that was a step down.
Speaker 2: You know. It's a one A, one B situation.
Speaker 3: Nope, got it weird, it's weird. I just got the
job I wanted.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I worked at the UK equivalent of GameStop,
which was game when I just wanted to be anywhere
near the industry.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just like, I actually want to feel like
my life is like more game focused, and let me
tell you that was a mistake. Next question, Jared has
done three questions.
Speaker 2: Here, this Jared's movie here.
Speaker 1: Well, i'll of respect an appreciation for not multiplexing the emails.
I'm going to read all three of them. Great, what's
your ideal pants material? I love Jam's passion for denim.
I personally find it too scratchy and tend to prefer
elastic synthetic fabrics. So, team, what is your favorite material
for pants?
Speaker 2: Joggers? Yeah? What is?
Speaker 3: Are those the joggers dan that you're wearing are like
the ones that's not.
Speaker 2: The Gi bomb ones, but they're just are think the.
Speaker 3: Ones that we got from like Amazon or whatever when
we were first talking about joggers way back like a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Nah, I think got leveled up and got some better thing.
Speaker 3: I don't know any jogger material is is like ideal
for me? Like that like super thin, uh sweatpants material,
but that has like somehow more structure to it.
Speaker 1: So uh, I don't know. If you've been to Uniclo anytime.
Speaker 2: They have a Disney World I have been the large.
Speaker 1: They have pants that you will see them on the
shelf and you go, those are genes and then you'll
pick them up and be like, these are joggers what's happening.
Speaker 6: Hell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they have a line of Yeah, they have
a line of material that is basically jogging bottoms. Stretchy,
have that same kind of like breathe ability and like comfortableness,
comfortability level. But you can wear them into an office
and no one would be able to tell you any different.
Speaker 2: Yes, those are incredible.
Speaker 4: I looked that up years ago because I Dean Ambrose
was wrestling in jeans and I was like, there's got
to be like stretchy jeans, and so I looked it
up and it's lee extreme motion jeans are like all
I want to wear jeans. Wise, they are stretchy as hell,
but they look just straight up like jeans. Yeah, I
think I am most comfortable when I'm wearing gym shorts.
Speaker 1: Sure's funnily enough, since since moving to America, I have
become primarily a shorts person, But I think that's because
I've tried to become a little more active as well,
So like it's easier for me to like be more
active wearing jeans, whereas if I was wearing like jogging bombs,
which I do wear, I'd have to take those off,
and it's just easier for me to squar shoulders. So yeah, uh,
did you say what your one is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with Daniel. That's fine.
Speaker 1: Finally, final question from Jared. Nobody asked you for a
second time. What are some foods you enjoy more for
their texture than anything else. It doesn't have to be
a favorite for me, it's gotta be candy corn. I
love the unique, waxy, chalky feeling potato pop rocks. Everyone said,
what potato poppers. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 3: I heard potato poppers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, little cages of potato chip things. I think they're
the potatoes for their crimes.
Speaker 2: Joe's. It's just like, yeah, it's just like.
Speaker 1: It's it's potato.
Speaker 2: Uh No, there's nothing inside. It's just air.
Speaker 4: So you can just put it down and you just
press it between your tongue and the rip of your
mouth and it just like all collapses and it feels. Uh.
Speaker 2: Can I call the thing that pop rocks do a texture? No,
that's a reaction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a reaction.
Speaker 3: I mean it's a it's a feeling in my mouth.
Clip that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we get plenty of room there, listen.
Speaker 3: I think I think it's fair and a fair answer
for this for me, I'm like, I don't know if
I like the texture.
Speaker 2: I think I just like it as a food.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I don't know those little sheets of seaweed.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we both hate you know, what's an opposite direction.
I think that I really disliked that. It's just unfathomably
popular for me. Anything macha.
Speaker 2: I just don't understand.
Speaker 1: I feel like you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a Macha ice cream cone in little
Tokyo when I was in l A, and I was
a really excited about and they put all the macha
dust on it. Yeah, it was kind of actually.
Speaker 1: Disgusting into it flavor it kind of.
Speaker 2: Did it tastes like dirt. You're right, they had the
texture of dirt too. I didn't get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think is the one like it's a variety
of textures, right, because it's.
Speaker 4: Well, I take out the jalapenos, but so I just
had the breading. But that's good texture too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're too weird. He doesn't like beads and burutos.
Speaker 1: Who said that?
Speaker 2: I mean that.
Speaker 1: Yourself? Why did you do that?
Speaker 2: Because Dad's weirder? Damn it.
Speaker 1: He didn't say anything, so he just said he takes.
Speaker 2: Hallopenno paupers without the halopenios. What why man?
Speaker 1: I took what you said.
Speaker 2: I don't eat a lot of vegetables and so but
I like the breading and I like.
Speaker 3: It's about vegetables or I don't know, barely count as
a vegetable.
Speaker 4: I don't want to get the essence of valipenio's. I
don't like eat shoot hilapenos that often, but yeah, I
hit them up my dad's place, and I like, open
everyone up. And I took the valapino out and threw
it in the trash and just ate the breading and
dipped it in the ranch.
Speaker 2: And he thought I was crazy because they're vegetables. I
think I look healthy.
Speaker 1: What you're saying. But I need clarification on how you
consume the essence of jalapenos.
Speaker 4: Because like every time I went to Subway, you get
like a hold cut combo and if you want jilipenios,
and I always say yes, and then I would take
the top bun off, swipe all the jalapenos up, but
the essence remain I do. And I actually like if
I eat, like, if there's still what I bite into,
it's fine, is it?
Speaker 1: The crunchiness or is it.
Speaker 2: Because I like them? I don't know why I take
them off at the favor, but get them out of that,
out of this way.
Speaker 4: I've only had jalapenos on subway stuff where they're cut up.
I think the popper breaks me out because they're a whole,
and I've never been into a noble klopeno.
Speaker 3: I don't think, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Oh? Really, there the long voice.
Speaker 1: It's breading cheese and then a small amount of.
Speaker 4: Oh see, I assume because like I do the same
thing with onion rings as I always take the onion
out and I just eat the ring breading.
Speaker 2: So I guess I just do it out of habit.
Speaker 3: What you do it out of habit?
Speaker 2: Ring?
Speaker 3: That's this is what makes you weirder than mic is
you don't think about the things bread.
Speaker 2: He's a bread and guy, and I always have been.
Speaker 4: We know that, but you just like, look, every time
there's a new Popeye sandwich, I get the golden barbecue one,
I get the spicy one, I get all that. If
they made a breading only Popeye sandwich, I'd be the
first in line.
Speaker 1: This I again, Dan, I respect it, but like the
process feels so stressful and like, I imagine one day
you're gonna comement ont be like I like fries. I
just take the potato out of it and then eat
the outside of it.
Speaker 2: Well, I think breading is like.
Speaker 4: The outer I think it's the skin puffs up when
you bake it and then now, m it's not skin,
that's not It can't because I made I made uh
toko cha Bania style chicken curry maybe like ten years
ago when I got back from Japan, and it's like.
Speaker 2: She's like flour ponco and eggs, lots of eggs, usually
not the ones I have. Weirder pole.
Speaker 3: There's a pole between Dan and Mike. Seven for Mike,
said Mike is weird. Eight said Mike is weird. Sixty four,
sixty seven, sixty nine. I'm sorry, keeps going up, seventy two,
seventy three, seventy account they did.
Speaker 2: It just now. I think it's like, okay, look we
have skins. Dan is weird.
Speaker 4: It took a lighter to our skin, it would blister
up and pop up. I think that's what's happening with
the chins for the breading. Yes, skin can't do that,
but the kind of breading you're talking about. That's not
that's not what.
Speaker 2: You wait, what is happening? You know? Have you worked
at pop Eyes? Have you worked at Popeyes? What is happening? No,
but I've I've cooked chicken. I fried chicken.
Speaker 4: Okay, maybe your homemade chicken is different than Popeye's way.
Speaker 2: Why are we read I made it?
Speaker 3: Why are we talking about human skin? Because the chemical.
Speaker 2: Process is nothing but skin, Dan, The skin's only on
the top part. You have the breading on all sides
of it.
Speaker 1: Stop roastop, got it bad. Let's just explain it. Breading
is a it's a coat ink that has created a
series of other ingredients. So you add crypts, punker crumbs exactly.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 1: You know that, and then you carried on saying things
and it went weird. So let's just clear up. Dan understands. Yeah,
effectively you had punk or crumbs. But you can also
make an equivalent of punco crumbs by doing like flour
and eggs, and it creates that same kind.
Speaker 2: I'm okay with the flower part. I just wouldn't make
it all the eggs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, forgot
almost everything.
Speaker 1: Oh great, it's another food one fuck.
Speaker 3: You're in charge of the show.
Speaker 2: You picked the ems. So you want to read this.
Speaker 1: One's called made some chili. It doesn't seem to be
attributed to anyone. I'm going to read this because you'll
see why I made some chili. I used beans trio,
like a can of three kinds, eighty twenty ground beef,
some Marizano tomatoes, cut up, crushed tomatoes, half a can
of servesa. I forgot the bell peppers. Everyone pick a
gredient to add to this. Exist stay chili.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take out like six of them, taking out
all the tomato stuff it chew and the green bell peppers. Yeah,
I don't want tomatoes in it.
Speaker 3: And chili.
Speaker 2: If you like chili is great.
Speaker 3: You like the tomatoes.
Speaker 4: Now, if it's like a sauce thing, if it goes
into the sauce, and I'm fine with that, like barbecue sauce.
I know all that tomato based, but I don't want
like shoot tomatoes anything.
Speaker 1: That's it's sauce. It's sauce.
Speaker 2: It's not like it's going to be cooked down and
turned to the sauce. IM fine with that.
Speaker 4: But no, but he says, you're crushed and cut up tomatoes.
I don't want to cut up ones. I just want
during the cooking process. Will John Carson says he's the
same way. Yeah, get junk. Carson was stressed as mister
mind doesn't opinions.
Speaker 1: I would add punko crumbs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, cheese, like eight pounds of cheese, hard boiled eggs.
Speaker 2: I would add some like dark chocolate, maybe even little
cocoa powder. And chili is really nice.
Speaker 1: The real answer is if you can find it bombay mix,
add some of that teo chili. It gives it a
little crunch, little spice. It's really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I would Actually I would just put alliapenos
in some some stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be good.
Speaker 4: Next, like klopenio bitters in there. Can you get like
like the essence of ali.
Speaker 1: Literally, yeah you can. You could just buy put a
jar of kilipinos and then just pour out the juice
into it.
Speaker 3: Alipio nachos are already that, like the little like sliced
up nacho style jalapeno.
Speaker 2: That's already that.
Speaker 1: I think. I think. I think there's two kinds of hilopenos.
You can get lapinos, which are like quite crunchy because
a lot of the spices in the actual like seeds
of it and the actual thing. Or you can get
ones that are like brined and pickled, which are very soft.
I think that you would like the soft ones because
you basically cannot taste it. You cannot like.
Speaker 2: Buy with that.
Speaker 4: If it's like crystal, like tiny little flavor curstals, I'm
fine with that.
Speaker 2: Pepper's like that thing. I don't want the pepper texture.
Speaker 4: But like John Carson brought some Carolina Reaper cheese from
Weston when he came over, and that ship was good
as hell.
Speaker 2: I had some of that today. N Carson's in the chat.
Speaker 3: He's one of the Nasty Boys.
Speaker 2: Mime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's mister mime bro.
Speaker 1: I've got multiple jobs, man, you know what, I can't
keep up keep.
Speaker 2: Hosting this show.
Speaker 3: I got mister mind stuff here somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Next comes from Tom pe from Florida, who's got email
called Turbo Shawan origins. Hey, dude, is we hear often
about the origin of Mike's Tolkoto too often? If you
ask me, why is Sean known as Turbo Sean? Is
he a big fan of the Turbographic sixteen, a fast
runner or did he just need a Twitter handle. Much
love Tom P from Florida. Uh, Turbo Sean, Turbo Sean,
Turbo Shan. He say his name three times and he
show a pit.
Speaker 2: Oh shit.
Speaker 3: The best part is he has to edit this so
he's he knows what he's doing here.
Speaker 5: Yep, I'm recording my audio high Sean Clap clap. I've
told the story multiple times, so I'm curious here who
was paying attention?
Speaker 3: You do multiple run Your favorite games have turbo meters
and them like Street Fighter.
Speaker 2: Bullshit, Blitz and Jam and stuff like that, Blitz and
Jam and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I do not know. Yeah, you know, at least
he's honest. You're missing You're missing one. Yes, it's because
I play love of arcade games that have turbo things
in them, like racing and you're midway.
Speaker 3: They're fought in the Turbo Wars.
Speaker 5: Clearly everyone knows that the Great Turbo Wars of nineteen
sixty nine. Yeah, a lot of midway arcade games have
turbo meters. I grew up playing l Love NBA, Jam
hel Blitz. The last one is super Stree Fire two.
Turbo was my first traditional fighting game.
Speaker 1: What was what was the game that that kind of
locked that idea into place. What was the game that
you played it and went I'm gonna use Turbo.
Speaker 5: It's a fairly recent username.
Speaker 2: Actually.
Speaker 5: I've been using a variety of variations of Sean and
Makewell and stuff for like a very long time, and
then well, like five years ago maybe so pretty recently,
I was just like, a, I need something better than this,
and that's why I went.
Speaker 1: With I have a follow up question for everyone here. Yeah,
everyone has a username that they currently use online, right,
Can you tell us some of your previous USERNAMESO Job,
neo job was you grub that's name.
Speaker 3: Still it's like job one up from when I was
on one up dot com with neo job. It was
actually job sixty four and then that name got banned
from AOL because I said the fuck word and then uh,
and then so I went in with neo job. The
new job.
Speaker 2: I was before Tolkoto, I was the Doc d A
d O C because I played the medic in T
Fortress Classic all the time.
Speaker 1: D A d OC.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the ds were capitalized, so yeah, if you'll get
shut oll wright it up.
Speaker 1: But it was the Doc Dan.
Speaker 4: My call of duty activision name is Hasbender. Huh it's
a mcgruber thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right, Uh, just a variety of things.
Speaker 5: I would put it in front of Sean, you know,
like player one Sean or whatever, and uh, some other ones.
Maybe I won't say because it's tied to some stuff
that you know, personal, But yeah, I don't know, nothing
terribly interesting. Sometimes my initials because my initials are S
a M, so it was very easy to just like,
you know, put Sam on things, especially arcade games.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I played count Strike for the longest time under
the name Robot Devil as a reference to the Futurama
character of the Robot Devil.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Sean, Thank you. Shame going back the guys, Okay, cool.
Speaker 2: All right bye Sean.
Speaker 1: Final question comes from John from Greece. The title of
this email is aging gamer. Hi, bon crue, and thanks
for all the entertainment. Turning forty in seven months and
I find myself having less and less time to play games.
I used to finish a couple of games a month,
and now I'm lucky if I finish a couple of
them per year. I used to play them all on
normal or sometimes hard. As I was playing Salent Hill
to remake and being a total worse, I turned the
difficulty to easy when I was at the hospital section
of the game. Wo boy, did that take a load
off my shoulders. I was planning to do the DLC
for Anoik two next and I'm now considering starting on easy.
I think I'm an easy old game now and I
think I'll be able to finish more games. Thanks, Jon
fan Grees. Not really a question there. I think John
fan Gre looking for a validation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wish I could do. I was playing Diablo
for Vessel of Hatred, the new expansion last night, and
I was like, you know, it's on hard mode, but
like that's not really supposed to be that hard. It's
it's Diablo. Difficulty is weird than that. I was playing
through it and it was basically all cakewalk and I
just got to some boss that seemed impossible, and I
know I should have just loaded difficulty. I just can't
actually do it. I have weird mental blocks about that.
It just drives me crazy. I feel really bad about myself.
I need to get over a little bit.
Speaker 3: You know, And like you're at a point where it's
like maybe you're not in the same position that John is.
Sure we're still about aging and we're yeah, we're all
getting older, but he's probably like losing time to other things,
other hobbies and responsibilities, and like we're all playing a
lot of games still for our main jobs. So I
still feel that as well, Mike, for sure. But I
can see myself at some point in the future being
very frequently. But like, if I want to experience a game,
maybe I'll just go down to easy and and you know,
especially because I'm like, you know, I'm forty two. I'm
going to be in my fifties here pretty soon. At
that point, I will not care a lick. I think
if I were to like start games easier story mode,
I won't care anymore.
Speaker 2: The sun is hitting me directly right now. God Raised,
God is like peering down on your mustache and I'm
going to be the next King of Lion King or something.
Speaker 1: What the hell the King of Lion Kings?
Speaker 4: God?
Speaker 2: Okay, on, there it goes. That was weird.
Speaker 3: It really did just go away.
Speaker 1: Thank God, going down. Oh.
Speaker 4: I tend to always do normal or whatever the default is,
because like I I kind of in my head think
like oh, this is the way it was like intended
to be played or whatever. But there are certain exceptions
where like I remember like those Wolfenstein Machine Games ones,
the couple recent ones, there was like stealth stuff and everything,
and like, I know I'm not good at stealth. I
don't like playing stealth. And like when I play like
a very violent first person shooter like Wolfenstein, I just
want to like run and gun, and I turned those
too easy and it was just a blast sprinting through
those levels like dual wielding and just annihilating people. So
if it seems right for the game, I will certainly
do it. And like I'm not going to feel like, oh,
I didn't really play it. I played it uneasy.
Speaker 1: You know, we play. You play your video games to
have fun. You play video games for yourself. Yes, when
you decide not to change the circumstances of whatever video
game you're playing so that it gives you the best
chance of having fun, you're no longer playing video games
for yourself. You're then playing it for someone else, some
amorphous idea of what video games or how video games
should be played. Do whatever you have to to make
sure every moment you're playing a video game is fun
because otherwise you're wasting time and you could be doing
many other things. Yeah, I mean like it doesn't matter.
I don't have like you do cheating games online.
Speaker 3: Right yeah, multiplayer yeah definitely. But like I mean, in
from games, when like they give you the thing to
bring in a friend to help you the boss.
Speaker 2: Just do it.
Speaker 1: Do it still coming if you need to. It's fun. Yeah,
it's a good time. That brings us to the end
of another episode of the Giant Bomb Cast. Thank you
to Dan for being here.
Speaker 2: Ah was that that wasn't a soundboard thing?
Speaker 5: That was?
Speaker 1: I mean, I live in the Bay area. Something around
here just honked really loudly. Thank you to Dan, Thank
you to Mitch, thank you to Grub, and thank you
to John Carson. I appreciate everything you've done for this website. Sure,
we've got another few days left in the week and
we'll have Gameless Mornings.
Speaker 3: Of course, games Morts be back all week. Yes, yes,
that's great.
Speaker 1: We should have a black club coming tomorrow. We should
have a voicemail dump truck happening, and a UPF. That
is the plan. Please give us some grace if stuff
happens and we decide to change what we want to do.
As you know, there are various things happening in the
world that could very drastically change our moods.
Speaker 3: If you find sad tonight, yeah, if.
Speaker 1: You find that we decide we don't want to do
this for whatever reason, know that it's not because we're
being lazy. It's just we need to take care of ourselves.
Speaker 3: We love you guys, but we got to love ourselves
here a little bit for sure.
Speaker 1: But send your best wishes to Jan. Thank you to
Turbo Sean for coming in and helping us out with
his origin story and then going on to edit the show.
And we will be back for the bomb cast next
week and maybe the rest of the features this week. Goodbye,
everyone hating ba