Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, November eleventh, twenty twenty five. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Giant BombCast, presented to you by our friends
Speaker 1: at Dekou Deal's. I am your dear host Jan Oshawa
Speaker 1: joining me. Co Captain of the Ship. He doesn't need
Speaker 1: any cameras to capture his likeness. He's punching all the
Speaker 1: lenses in the mouth. Co Captain of the Ship Jeff Grugg.
Speaker 2: They have cameras on the web now, I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: use one of those.
Speaker 1: We have the ultimate surfer of the web. That's right,
Speaker 1: he's hanging ten and hanging.
Speaker 3: Loose and maybe hanging some other things.
Speaker 4: Dan Riker, I'm here checking out the I r c's.
Speaker 4: That's what the kids that know the Internet do, right,
Speaker 4: if you're rephrase. I've never really know what an I
Speaker 4: r C is, but it seems popular.
Speaker 1: Dan and I had an extend to talk about this.
Speaker 1: It was a dear heart to heart where uh we
Speaker 1: didn't quite know, uh master of all things dark on
Speaker 1: the Internet, including I r C and RSS feeds and
Speaker 1: other things that uh you've heard for years now and
Speaker 1: have been too scared to actually figure out why or
Speaker 1: what they are.
Speaker 3: Jeff Beckler. Yeah, that that's probably what would expose me
Speaker 3: the most, is my I r C history if I
Speaker 3: ever position.
Speaker 4: Do you know what that thing is to is that
Speaker 4: like dark web?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, it was interrelay chat, I believe is what it's.
Speaker 5: You actually do it daily.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 6: You know basically right well, and when you access it
Speaker 6: it is it's it's twitch chat. Twitch chat still uses
Speaker 6: IR so it's.
Speaker 4: Still like the main thing that all the like techies
Speaker 4: used to talk to each other.
Speaker 5: No, Yah, which I r CER is at icee Q.
Speaker 6: I can't think it's speaking about I see Q.
Speaker 3: I see a QT right over there. Because he's a
Speaker 3: bad boy of games media.
Speaker 1: He doesn't need a collar because he's popping off all
Speaker 1: the buttons and all the shirts. He's he's reloading his
Speaker 1: fists like that one guy in that one movie.
Speaker 3: We all know the reference. We love the gift many.
Speaker 5: I'm stroking my fistew.
Speaker 1: Okay, I take it back.
Speaker 3: What wait?
Speaker 6: Like you mean like you were cockying it like Henry
Speaker 6: cavill And and one movie.
Speaker 4: He grows the beard really fast because of the way
Speaker 4: they edited it, and his shirt rows.
Speaker 2: A pocket and shirt rows a pocket.
Speaker 6: Yeah, was that was that a shoot like or was
Speaker 6: because the people are like, no, that's just an optical
Speaker 6: illusional might get.
Speaker 4: Really it looks like a pocket and the beard gets start.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so anyway, is that what you met Mike?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Team Kayla and our dear friend Turbo Sean this Saturday
Speaker 1: because Extra Life is coming to you.
Speaker 3: Boys. How long are you playing and going?
Speaker 4: We have we loose things we're thrown around. As far
Speaker 4: as incentives, we got a big list of games and everything.
Speaker 4: I'm getting all that stuff set up this week. As
Speaker 4: far as time, you know it's gonna be a long one.
Speaker 4: We're gonna start after lunch. This typically starts in the
Speaker 4: afternoon and goes late into the night, so we'll say
Speaker 4: that is the intention again this time. So we don't
Speaker 4: have a specific time frame yet, Let's say noon. Let's
Speaker 4: say noon Central will start and then we will go late.
Speaker 2: Sounds good to me.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've heard some luc shenanigans. We talked about a
Speaker 1: silly idea yesterday, and I love how all of them
Speaker 1: involve Mitch.
Speaker 4: Is it the one? Can I say the one that
Speaker 4: we Mitch agreed to last night that I'm very excited
Speaker 4: about Yes, okay for TBD incentive. If we reach We're
Speaker 4: gonna quan Chi Mitch and make him play up through
Speaker 4: the Fujin fight and moratal combat mythologies in masana, and
Speaker 4: we'll have like a GoPro in there or something, so
Speaker 4: he will be fully make uped out. And then also
Speaker 4: there's blue in the sauna, so we will have the
Speaker 4: mythologies music blasting through the sauna as we.
Speaker 1: Bluetooth in the sauna. Definitely is essentially if we.
Speaker 6: Hear muffled from the other room, you can trust a
Speaker 6: sorcerers sometimes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm gonna be setting up go pros in
Speaker 4: my bathroom.
Speaker 1: And Mike Mikey is a strat to do the makeup
Speaker 1: before going into the sauna or as you were in
Speaker 1: the sauna.
Speaker 3: No, we do it before.
Speaker 5: I need a mirror, you got it? How Yeah, I
Speaker 5: can't just do it in the sauna. It's particulars stuff.
Speaker 1: No, you have to like look into a pool of
Speaker 1: water as you do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have to be in a sensory
Speaker 5: deprivation chamber exactly.
Speaker 1: Also speak about extra life. Shouts out to everyone that
Speaker 1: has been a part of the Giant Bomb team on
Speaker 1: Extra Life raising tons of money for a good cause,
Speaker 1: helping the kids out there, especially specifically shouts out to
Speaker 1: Anthony Thomas raising an obscene amount of money all for charity.
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Speaker 1: customized face plates that we have. We have all designed.
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Speaker 1: the colder months. Why not go snuggle up next to
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Speaker 6: It right now?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 3: Someone by Mike's plate.
Speaker 5: He's upset about it off while it's on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can only only my plate is selling in
Speaker 3: a good way and not Mike's specifically wrestler person that's.
Speaker 4: It could be anyone.
Speaker 3: Him, that's mister mister headlock. Who that is someone by
Speaker 3: Mike's very specific plate to him and only him, Mike.
Speaker 1: If it makes you feel better, I don't think anyone
Speaker 1: is bought, Okay, if it makes you feel better, No
Speaker 1: one's bought my plate with me and the cool s
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 5: Does that make me feel better? We should all thrive.
Speaker 5: We should all be thriving shoving agreed.
Speaker 1: Hey, Mike, I'll buy your plate if you buy my plate.
Speaker 6: By the way, when he laughs like that dismissive laugh,
Speaker 6: now I've heard.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you would like that. Mother buy your plate.
Speaker 5: It's personally customized for you.
Speaker 3: Would I buy your plate? Then, I've never seen your dog.
Speaker 5: I don't know your dog. I never thought about it
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 1: Mikey rolled up to like our pre show, just saying, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling a little bit under the weather, and you
Speaker 1: know what that is the energy I I welcome. I
Speaker 1: welcome Mikey. Not at one hundred percent, because Mikey at
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, the tree skews to a different direction
Speaker 1: and where the energy is going.
Speaker 4: That's it be tough for Mikey because like when he's mad,
Speaker 4: he's very entertaining. When he is sleep deprived, as we
Speaker 4: saw the bomb bombiton very entertaining. When he's sick, he's
Speaker 4: very entertaining. So you can just give him a negative
Speaker 4: status effect. Yeah, we need to get to boost to charisma.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we need like a non barred we need someone
Speaker 6: around him just to upset him constantly.
Speaker 5: Oh God, who could possibly fill this role? What a
Speaker 5: big mystery? Who could it be?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: And if it's not these two, it's a Christian.
Speaker 5: Shouts to Christian for doing some stuff for the Giant
Speaker 5: Bomb Extra Life over the weekend as well. Oh yeah, yes, yes, absolutely, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: I think I caught a little something when I was
Speaker 5: in DC for that wedding, which was which was a
Speaker 5: good time.
Speaker 3: A virus from Chuck.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 5: I caught it with like the uh the other person
Speaker 5: in our group who did like say, like, I think
Speaker 5: I'm a little sick. And it's like, well, were living
Speaker 5: in an airbnb together. What are we going to do? Right,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be like, well, you got to stay away,
Speaker 5: It's fine.
Speaker 4: Did that shut out of your system before you come
Speaker 4: to Minnesota?
Speaker 6: I'm trying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yes, Jeff, Jeff's already got the that's his
Speaker 4: gimmick here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. I'm I'm working on getting some butt
Speaker 2: stuff happening again.
Speaker 3: Yeah wow, Oh but okay, it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: I have to make precautions for that bathroom involving butt
Speaker 4: stuff because so the cat has one of its litter
Speaker 4: boxes in that bathroom and that cat has the most
Speaker 4: nuclear ships ever. So like literally today I usually take
Speaker 4: my ship down here because it's got a beday here.
Speaker 4: I took it upstairs because like for like an hour
Speaker 4: after it ships, even after I've cleaned out the litter
Speaker 4: box and dumped it everything and spray ship.
Speaker 3: Cat food.
Speaker 4: It's like last night I got in the sauna. The
Speaker 4: sauna is in that room too, so you about sitting
Speaker 4: in the sauna and everything that smells like cat ship
Speaker 4: just bailing this. So I gotta make sure if we're
Speaker 4: gonna be streaming for a long time now, because it
Speaker 4: fucks up the whole floor, we're gonna keep that door shut,
Speaker 4: keep that cat out of there. This is.
Speaker 5: Torturing me.
Speaker 3: To my home.
Speaker 5: Cans want to rest all be clear. I know it's
Speaker 5: funny when I'm bad. You can't just torture me because.
Speaker 3: It amuses you. For the kids, you know, this is
Speaker 3: the kids.
Speaker 1: What A?
Speaker 5: What A?
Speaker 1: That's the ultimate irony here. What a great time to
Speaker 1: recommend or have a friend or someone listened to the
Speaker 1: podcast for the first time and we just talk about
Speaker 1: nothing but SNA's and cat poop, and we crushed it.
Speaker 1: We had all the boxes already. Get y'all.
Speaker 4: We'll keep the door shut so we don't have the
Speaker 4: cat ship down there.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Dan, do you just have like a regular
Speaker 1: litter box or one of the cool washing machine looking ones.
Speaker 4: We got two of the washing machine ones, so you're here,
Speaker 4: one upstairs. Yeah okay, okay, yeah, and give it a
Speaker 4: couple of options.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, fantastic.
Speaker 4: We have to put up fences around everything because dumb
Speaker 4: ass dogs want to just eat cat shit, so we
Speaker 4: have to put up all these goddamn fences and stuff.
Speaker 4: It's just it's a nightmare.
Speaker 3: Have they not learned to not eat the cat? No?
Speaker 4: No, we did it more, that's the thing. They did
Speaker 4: it and they get sick and then it's like I
Speaker 4: want more of that and a few gumbasses and like
Speaker 4: so we have to like fully block everything off, like crazy.
Speaker 3: Cool? Great?
Speaker 1: So how was everyone else?
Speaker 3: I have an.
Speaker 4: Incentive where Mitch eats cats ship?
Speaker 5: Oh great? Yeah? Cool? Oh? Me and my me and
Speaker 5: my girlfriend met Chuck and his wife for dinner. The
Speaker 5: one night that was nice, Uh, I was dinner. Dinner
Speaker 5: was great. I embarrassed myself though, I made I made
Speaker 5: that damn fool myself because the check came and like
Speaker 5: I was like, well, we'll split it, right, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 5: we'll do it, dude. So I got out my card,
Speaker 5: whipped it down in there. I was like, I got
Speaker 5: to the bathroom right back, and then I came it was
Speaker 5: already paid, and I see on the table my grocery
Speaker 5: store savings card and I'm like, oh, no, that's what
Speaker 5: I gave them.
Speaker 6: And then like I'm drinking.
Speaker 5: I'm not done. I was fumbling to get back on
Speaker 5: the table. I accidentally got to the tablecloth at the
Speaker 5: table next to me stuck on my shoe somehow, and
Speaker 5: I almost like I almost knocked all this ship over.
Speaker 5: I caught myself halfway through that though, and they were
Speaker 5: just like what And I was like, yeah.
Speaker 3: Your shoe, you're talking? What do you talk into your shoe?
Speaker 5: I think it got like caught between my shoe and
Speaker 5: my thigh. I was as I was maneuvering you.
Speaker 3: You're a tall man.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what were you walking like dwarf?
Speaker 5: I don't know what happened all were you?
Speaker 3: Were you inebriated?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: I was that was that was so hung over that day.
Speaker 6: Basically, someone has to explain the.
Speaker 3: Physical world that we occupy. Here we go, here we go. No, no, no, no, no, no, don't.
Speaker 5: Do that.
Speaker 3: Oh he's gonna fall.
Speaker 4: He's saying his officehair on one foot.
Speaker 5: He just h the crane kick from Karate Kid.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know what, it makes sense now. It doesn't,
Speaker 1: but it makes sense now because I thought it was
Speaker 1: his shoe to the same thigh.
Speaker 4: It's still weird and confusing.
Speaker 3: But still, how's the how's the tablecloth get caught in there?
Speaker 5: It was a tight fit between our table and the
Speaker 5: nexta one of those tables were like, there's just like
Speaker 5: a long row of basically like of a bench, you know,
Speaker 5: and they's put as many tables in there, like tight
Speaker 5: packs to fit seating as possible as I was.
Speaker 6: I was on that thing.
Speaker 5: So did they take your GIHNNY Gold advantage card. No,
Speaker 5: they did not accept that as payment. So Chuck, Chuck's
Speaker 5: trying to be cute. I'm like, all right, Chuck, just
Speaker 5: tell me what I give VM you. He's like, maybe
Speaker 5: I will, And I'm like, Chuck, you so I'm a bitch.
Speaker 6: I'll just send you didn't want to pay because who
Speaker 6: would check the cars?
Speaker 5: I was gonna send him a large sem of money soon. Also,
Speaker 5: I was under dress. I didn't know the place was
Speaker 5: gonna be kind of nicer side to fucking Kermit the
Speaker 5: frog shirt on, and that's that's appropriate.
Speaker 6: You gotta let us guess next time, Mike, what what's
Speaker 6: on your shirt?
Speaker 3: All right? This cavalcade of just poor decisions and unluck. Wow, wait,
Speaker 3: it's explain to me. How do you one? How is
Speaker 3: your like frequent shopper card that a accessible and mistakable
Speaker 3: for a real life adult credit card? You see? Wait?
Speaker 4: Wait there, Chuck posted this on Blue Sky. It's even
Speaker 4: less looking like a credit card than you have.
Speaker 6: The grocery store Lloyd to loyalty card thing you've ever
Speaker 6: second explain myself.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna explain myself what uh it is like right
Speaker 5: next to my uh depit card is and they're both
Speaker 5: kind of blue. All right?
Speaker 3: This has the lamination peeling on it.
Speaker 1: How much cash did you have in your wallet that day?
Speaker 5: No, it's more than that. I got a little bit,
Speaker 5: a little bit of some twenty I don't know, it's
Speaker 5: like a twenty maybe I had on me. I didn't
Speaker 5: occur to me to just throw money at him.
Speaker 3: It's not even like it's not even dimly lit. This
Speaker 3: restaurant like this had to come out, and I just
Speaker 3: like it.
Speaker 5: I do go to the groceries. I go to that
Speaker 5: grocery store a lot. It's right by me, so I
Speaker 5: am constantly giving them that card.
Speaker 2: It's one of those.
Speaker 5: It's one of those grocery stores that also sometimes has
Speaker 5: gas station.
Speaker 6: The do you ever used to check out?
Speaker 5: Our mind doesn't have it. We're not that fancy.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, the one in mine. You can't scan unless
Speaker 6: you scan your loyalty card. So it's very.
Speaker 5: Necessarily were very into the loyalty card. Basically, you don't
Speaker 5: go there if you don't have that card, then't like
Speaker 5: look at you like you're a moron, because they're overcharging you.
Speaker 5: The only way to make it possibly worth it is
Speaker 5: to get the loyalty card. It's like the mob. Unless
Speaker 5: you have loyalty, you're gonna have a bad time.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 1: I went down to La over the weekend to visit
Speaker 1: the IM eight bit twentieth Anniversary Art show. Very fun stuff,
Speaker 1: shouts out the IAM a bit. They also helped us
Speaker 1: out during the Amazon Yo Art's cool, especially what it's
Speaker 1: like video game art like I saw link as a squirrel.
Speaker 1: There was a bunch of people wearing Luigi masks, not
Speaker 1: actual shoot people, but like on a painting and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Also also, hold the fucking phone, y'all. I'll be right back.
Speaker 3: Okay, now she was going to stand on a chair.
Speaker 5: Another another Vinyl that I wish I had.
Speaker 1: Oh, I almost, I almost. I'm not going to show
Speaker 1: my thighs today, okay, darn. I almost bought them up
Speaker 1: at Vinyl though, Mikey I saw it. It was beautiful. But
Speaker 1: I finally have it, and I'm so fucking oh final.
Speaker 5: Oh dear thermos, everybody, I like, I saw it at
Speaker 5: their little merch stand and then I almost pushed our
Speaker 5: dear friend Bailey Myers out of the way because I
Speaker 5: wanted it, but she also wanted it.
Speaker 1: Thankfully there was enough to go around, but like I
Speaker 1: needed it and I finally you have it.
Speaker 3: I almost.
Speaker 1: I almost left clothes in LA to make space in
Speaker 1: my bag because I needed this and I felt like
Speaker 1: I needed to keep the box.
Speaker 5: Are you gonna now You're gonna use it as a
Speaker 5: thermost or is it just I don't know, It's it's difficult.
Speaker 2: I know, are cool?
Speaker 6: I like I've been using my metroid thermos recently that
Speaker 6: I we showed up in the video.
Speaker 5: I got that fantastic.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I do every time I do use it.
Speaker 6: I do think about Dan putting a thermis into the
Speaker 6: fridge and then wondering why it wasn't the water wasn't
Speaker 6: getting cold or whatever.
Speaker 3: Uh that was.
Speaker 2: I didn't talk about.
Speaker 6: That every time.
Speaker 4: This might surprise you, but I learned nothing from that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that does surprise me. Oh my god, whoa.
Speaker 5: It's okay. We won't explain it again.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna take no. Uh you know.
Speaker 5: Also went to a spy museum because all the all
Speaker 5: the other museums were about to call all the real museums.
Speaker 5: I don't want to be disrespectful to the spy museum,
Speaker 5: but all the other museums were closed because they are
Speaker 5: run by the government, but the spy museum not so much.
Speaker 5: So why do it looks so confused?
Speaker 4: Dan, I'm constantly confused about whether the government's open or not.
Speaker 1: I thought, no, they've been closed.
Speaker 6: The votes at stolen procedure, yeah stuffy, yeah, yeah, okay
Speaker 6: yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: So the government was shut down, so we went to
Speaker 5: the spy museum instead, which was fun. Because they gave
Speaker 5: me a secret identity and I was really into that.
Speaker 5: I was Cameron Jones from Royschek Iceland or Price said
Speaker 5: that wrong, but that's okay. If I already had a
Speaker 5: cover story for that. If anybody was like, where are
Speaker 5: you from? And I said, Roychek Iceland are like what
Speaker 5: you say, I'm like, oh, I'm sorry. I can't get
Speaker 5: over how you Americans say it over here. So funny. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I had to go to Argentina. I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: maybe I'll meet Christian. That was my secret mission. It
Speaker 5: was fun. Basically we had to go to like terminals
Speaker 5: and play some games. I was kind of sad there
Speaker 5: weren't more like people at the Buza Brole Plague and
Speaker 5: like asking me, like interrogating me out like a couple
Speaker 5: level of cover stories. Show off my improv skills, but
Speaker 5: really good at it.
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to do a murder mystery dinner, but
Speaker 1: no one is down.
Speaker 3: I wanted to I will Oh my god, came.
Speaker 4: Next game of the year.
Speaker 1: Maybe next year.
Speaker 3: It's too soon.
Speaker 6: God, that's incredible. Yeah sounds really.
Speaker 2: That would be fun.
Speaker 6: But maybe if we do some fixing for Dan Voyage
Speaker 6: or whatever, maybe something like that could.
Speaker 4: Murder mister murder scene, I'm telling you for catch. If
Speaker 4: you Dan, I'm giving you permission to Michael Douglas the
Speaker 4: game me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're thinking about it.
Speaker 4: That seemed intricate, but we're not working as a kid.
Speaker 4: As a kid watching the game, I was like, this
Speaker 4: seems fucking kid. Yeah, that's the movie where Mario commits suicide.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who's Martine.
Speaker 4: Jumps off a roof? He plays he's the dad. Really,
Speaker 4: that was the That was the dad Mario commits suicide
Speaker 4: in that movie.
Speaker 3: All right, here we go. I don't think it's I
Speaker 3: think that sentence is a bit I'm not wrong. Yeah
Speaker 3: you are.
Speaker 6: That's well only because he's not Mario anymore. The former
Speaker 6: Mario killed him, right, Yes, yes.
Speaker 1: Well we've jumped off the deep end, so we might
Speaker 1: as well talk about video games.
Speaker 5: Can somebody ask me questions? Like I'm Cameron Jones, so
Speaker 5: I could live out my fantasy.
Speaker 1: No no, don't do it. No no no no no no
Speaker 1: no no no no no no. We played the game music,
Speaker 1: we do. Stop ask me about my parents. We're on
Speaker 1: topic now, we're on topic now.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Sorry, sad and getting the inferior computer.
Speaker 5: Dad, we can't keep complaining about a fifty eighties for
Speaker 5: free instead of fifty nineties.
Speaker 4: That's how you get a French Revolution.
Speaker 3: That's the joke.
Speaker 6: The French Revolution is a good thing, right, Mike. You
Speaker 6: love the French Revolution.
Speaker 1: That's what That's what it was about, right yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, no, actually no, that's that was the that's
Speaker 5: that's a different uprising that didn't quite take Actually, so.
Speaker 2: There say it, say it beat.
Speaker 3: There I go.
Speaker 1: That's what I live for, all right, yep, I needed that, Mike.
Speaker 1: I will ask you about Dragon Quest one two HD
Speaker 1: two D.
Speaker 5: Though, yes, yes, I've been excited for this one. I
Speaker 5: really liked the dragon Quest three HD two D probably
Speaker 5: my favorite of the HD two D games, that of
Speaker 5: the Liva Live remake, which was also fantastic. I love JRPGs,
Speaker 5: and I find these these kind of ones that are
Speaker 5: from the eight bit era redone really charming because there
Speaker 5: is a simplicity to it, but there's there's also this
Speaker 5: peerness of it, and then just sprucing that up in
Speaker 5: some small ways with the graphics and the presentation, it
Speaker 5: just makes for a really cozy experience. Dragon Quest three, though,
Speaker 5: I had played before. I never played Dragon Quest one
Speaker 5: or two in anyway, and drag Quest one specifically, that
Speaker 5: is the first JARPG. It's really the first big console RPG.
Speaker 5: It was the game that was taking what was going
Speaker 5: on and the then you know, very like you know,
Speaker 5: small PC gaming space with things like the original Ultimas
Speaker 5: and Wizardry, which those things got popular in Japan. So
Speaker 5: here we are. We're gonna make it for the Famicom
Speaker 5: disk driver, no, probably even just cartridge. We're gonna make
Speaker 5: it for the Famicom computer. That's redundant. The comm means computer.
Speaker 5: We're gonna make it for the Famicom. And uh so
Speaker 5: here it is, and I am really enjoying it. It
Speaker 5: is simple and a pleasant way. You are just one
Speaker 5: person in your party. You don't even have party members.
Speaker 5: Oh you know, your quest is relatively straightforward. It's just like,
Speaker 5: you know, there's towns, there's a big role map, go
Speaker 5: to some dungeons. But again, it is cozy. Even though
Speaker 5: I've been played before, I know the ways that they
Speaker 5: have sort of juiced up a bit. And the original
Speaker 5: dragon Quest that was not just you were one person,
Speaker 5: but the ends was always one monster. So there's always
Speaker 5: a one on fight here. You can't fight groups of enemies,
Speaker 5: so there's a bit more strategy involved there, and there's
Speaker 5: like you know, just more cut scenes with voice dialogue
Speaker 5: each shit Pokemon, right, we got so we got voices
Speaker 5: sometimes in this game like that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I am. I'm really enjoying. It's just the
Speaker 4: you know, I.
Speaker 5: Like playing my Switch in bed a lot kind of
Speaker 5: cozy time, watching something stupid on YouTube, playing some Switch,
Speaker 5: and this is a perfect game for that.
Speaker 3: Mike, I said that, go ahead, grib Yeah.
Speaker 6: I was just I was just gonna ask, like you,
Speaker 6: so you've played three, You've played a bunch of the
Speaker 6: later ones, right, and so, but you've never played.
Speaker 2: One and two.
Speaker 5: You said, yeah, I never played I've played I played
Speaker 5: eleven s first and then uh in whatever order. I
Speaker 5: did five on the DS three, which was the old
Speaker 5: Switch version of three that was based on a mobile
Speaker 5: version of it. Seven on the three DS and that's
Speaker 5: the one that's getting remade soon, right, and like half
Speaker 5: of eight on the three DS before I got a
Speaker 5: little Dragon Quest fatigue.
Speaker 6: Okay, So then my question is when you are if
Speaker 6: someone comes up to you and they're like, hey, I
Speaker 6: really like starting a series with the first one. Dragon
Speaker 6: Quest is maybe not necessarily one where where it's like
Speaker 6: that would be reckoning. But at this point with this version,
Speaker 6: do you think it like, hey, no, yeah, go jump
Speaker 6: in with this version of one, or is there still
Speaker 6: another one you would recommend first?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting, you could. There are so many places
Speaker 5: you could jump in with dragon Quest. This makes sense.
Speaker 5: Dragon Quest three, HG two, And the reason why they
Speaker 5: kind of justified doing three first is that three was
Speaker 5: a prequel to one. This remake is even kind of
Speaker 5: doing more stuff narratively to tie it into one than
Speaker 5: they you know, the original, So you could go three one,
Speaker 5: then two three is going to be a more complex game,
Speaker 5: so it might be a little funny kind of going
Speaker 5: to that game with its job system and some of
Speaker 5: these other mechanics. Then you go back to one and
Speaker 5: it is a good deal more simple. So what two
Speaker 5: three I think's good?
Speaker 3: Three?
Speaker 5: Three one two? If you really want something even more modern,
Speaker 5: you could just go straight to eleven S, which is
Speaker 5: a fantastic game.
Speaker 2: It's really good.
Speaker 3: Zone.
Speaker 1: Mikey, you said that this is one of your favorite
Speaker 1: HD two D stuff of the RPGs that have done this.
Speaker 1: What else is on that list for you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think Live a Live like that, Live livey make
Speaker 5: well a ton I thought that that was really really good.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, Octopath Traveler still stands out, even though I
Speaker 5: feel really bad that I didn't get into Octopath Traveler
Speaker 5: two more because basically everybody else who likes these kind
Speaker 5: of games, like I do, think it's like one of
Speaker 5: the all time greats.
Speaker 3: I'm with you, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I'm on on that side of the fence because everyone
Speaker 1: talks so huge about Oxtopath Traveler too, but I could
Speaker 1: never get into it.
Speaker 2: Live fuck you, Michael Hyam, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: You and Sho Tani.
Speaker 5: That's right. But I think of Oxopath Traveler two is
Speaker 5: that because just the way it is, it's like, you know,
Speaker 5: it's eight characters, so you have to kind of play
Speaker 5: eight beginnings of a j RPG, like the be case
Speaker 5: of Jebergs. They're kind of slow and they're setting stuff up,
Speaker 5: and that's fine. I could that that pacing works when
Speaker 5: it's win game, when it's like here's eight first acts
Speaker 5: in a row. Something about that just kind of is
Speaker 5: like it's a little bit it's a lot td to
Speaker 5: me with Live Alive. First off, it's like overall a
Speaker 5: shorter game and there's a bit more of a Each
Speaker 5: of these are very distinct gameplay wise and sort of
Speaker 5: story wise, like one is, you know, straight up the
Speaker 5: wild West, and then the other one is sci fi
Speaker 5: stuff like that. So that's just my little hang up
Speaker 5: there with with Octopath.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you, Big Doug. I need something. They'll
Speaker 1: get me straight into the action almost immediately. And I
Speaker 1: want to take this opportunity to tell my fellow co
Speaker 1: owners of the website here that I'm getting super into esports.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go pro, go on, go on.
Speaker 1: And y'all may be thinking, oh, no, to Jan and
Speaker 1: his internet friends start playing league again, Is he getting
Speaker 1: into a doda? No, No, I'm talking about the hottest
Speaker 1: esport out right now.
Speaker 2: Q up Okay, I.
Speaker 5: Watched you play this and I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: Qu perfect uh levels out the playing field in terms
Speaker 1: of competition, no longer.
Speaker 6: Sound game standing in line.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, you shut your mouth. Bro. Now
Speaker 1: what you do is you two teams of five. There's
Speaker 1: the Q side and then the upside, and then you
Speaker 1: pick your specific characters you have a load out of
Speaker 1: skills and everything, and then each character is a different skill.
Speaker 1: There's a healer class. There is a class that specifically
Speaker 1: targets another specific character, and I think that character's name
Speaker 1: is Meta, and he looks like Chuck, and I just
Speaker 1: can't get it out of my head that he looks
Speaker 1: like Chuck. But there's also a dragon, there's a whale
Speaker 1: and all that jazz and uh. It is first to
Speaker 1: three points, and that three points is determined by the
Speaker 1: ultimate esport. A coin is being flipped. If it's the
Speaker 1: Q side, the Q side gets a point, it it's
Speaker 1: the upside, upside gets a point, and then whoever gets
Speaker 1: to three first wins. In between each flip's flip, your
Speaker 1: different abilities get triggered, so you're earning Q points that
Speaker 1: will increase your rank as well as getting XP. You're
Speaker 1: also getting gold some gems as well. And then in
Speaker 1: between each game you can go to the shop and
Speaker 1: get different items to affect your different stats, your different abilities.
Speaker 1: It's a gigantic skill tree or sphere or skill grid,
Speaker 1: and all of them synergize with each other, so you'll
Speaker 1: have to have to put a skill point or a
Speaker 1: skill strategically at one part of your grid, so it
Speaker 1: can trigger off other parts of your grid. It is
Speaker 1: the ultimate e sport. It feels fair. I feel like
Speaker 1: my time is being respected.
Speaker 6: Maybe, like, yeah, a bit too fair.
Speaker 3: No, what a you're talking about?
Speaker 2: It's it's literally fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3: No, what are you talking about? I've gotten, I've got.
Speaker 1: I've just gone three in some games, y'all. I've gone
Speaker 1: three and I've come back from zero lead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what I'm just I have some questions?
Speaker 3: What are the questions? All things considered? Uh, it is
Speaker 3: the best like gambling rates, You're ever gonna percent, You're
Speaker 3: ever gonna guys? What are you about for you and
Speaker 3: your your situation? Fifty to fifty is pretty good.
Speaker 6: I don't know about this is the coin Like, Okay,
Speaker 6: there's that other coin flipping game recently, I can't remember
Speaker 6: the name of it, might be called coin flip. Uh
Speaker 6: it uh like you can affect the outcomes of the
Speaker 6: coin flip in that game. You can make it the
Speaker 6: coin more in your favor overtime by upgrading it. I'm
Speaker 6: getting the sense here, Like, no, it's always.
Speaker 1: Norty because this is an e sport, right that you
Speaker 1: can't developers included quantum physics to ensure the odds are even.
Speaker 3: So then it's like it's turning into an intervention.
Speaker 6: What do I feel there was prevention here? People are like, jan,
Speaker 6: don't play this, please, don't make this a choice. So
Speaker 6: then is it about making sure that when you do win,
Speaker 6: you get the maximum benefits from that? Isn't that where
Speaker 6: you're playing the game?
Speaker 1: What you that's the initial strategy of like, oh, as
Speaker 1: I win each flip and get a point for my team,
Speaker 1: I'm maximizing the amount of Q points that I'm getting
Speaker 1: based off of the win. But but there are different
Speaker 1: builds for different characters where you are actually incentivized to
Speaker 1: lose because it doesn't matter if you if your team loses,
Speaker 1: because your build favors your skill set where you are
Speaker 1: getting more points from losing. There's also a character I
Speaker 1: believe she's a troller, a goblin, where her skill is
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna throw the game. I'm gonna like fuck
Speaker 1: this team, like I'm in it for me?
Speaker 4: How for the game? Wait, it's like someone in betting
Speaker 4: the don't come line on craps exactly.
Speaker 1: They they're they're betting on come uh where they don't
Speaker 1: want to win. They're they're hoping to not win.
Speaker 4: Oh people, people don't like that at a craft stable.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, no, it's an asshole move. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: But you can't control who you get matched up with.
Speaker 1: You can't invite friends to join your team though, So
Speaker 1: if you four wanted to join up with me and
Speaker 1: we want to get like a good team, Gump going.
Speaker 2: Wait, how it's a multiplayer it's an sport.
Speaker 3: Did you hear it from the very.
Speaker 5: Attention you know, I pay attention. I knew that it
Speaker 5: was multiplayer, jan I just think it's not stupid. Wait, Mike,
Speaker 5: that's funny.
Speaker 3: But you also said you were watching him play.
Speaker 5: I didn't really understand it was multiplayer then, until you
Speaker 5: explained it to me. I mean it was.
Speaker 6: I thought it was like faux multiplayers, multiplayer surreal multiplayers
Speaker 6: a synchronous though.
Speaker 2: So you oh, okay, that makes sense. But that's all right.
Speaker 6: So would I actually need to play for me to
Speaker 6: be on your team or could I just like create
Speaker 6: a character and then you.
Speaker 2: Do all the work.
Speaker 1: You have a gitar, You got to create a character, Greb, Like,
Speaker 1: we gotta synergize our characters.
Speaker 2: Come on, Okay, all right, I'll see what I can
Speaker 2: do for you.
Speaker 1: Like if you be a healer, then like I have
Speaker 1: a skill that like benefits from at least having one
Speaker 1: healer on the team, so then we can get maximize
Speaker 1: our flips.
Speaker 5: Dog No want the next time play a tabletop game,
Speaker 5: do you want to just replace all of the dice
Speaker 5: with coins? Just make everything that's fair.
Speaker 1: Hey, as long as I got at least one or
Speaker 1: two hero points in in lock, then I got it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's uh, go ahead, dan Oh. I was just gonna say, Mike,
Speaker 1: you brought up for its dry guitars. Would it surprise
Speaker 1: you if I told you that the very first game
Speaker 1: where they introduced that, and they're like, oh, the way
Speaker 1: you drive will show up in your friends game. I
Speaker 1: just got the game and turned around own and just
Speaker 1: drove into everyone going backwards for like ten races in
Speaker 1: a row, just so my car would be like an ultimate.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's really fun. I wonder how much that actually transferformed.
Speaker 4: I would ask my friends and they said it, I
Speaker 4: mean I was like erratic and stuff, but it wouldn't
Speaker 4: like fully drive.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I played a lot of the early Forces, and then
Speaker 6: for years later everyone would always yell at me about
Speaker 6: my dry guitar, and I was like, oh, okay, apparently
Speaker 6: still out there being an asshole.
Speaker 4: That's a cool idea.
Speaker 1: I like that, fantastic h you know what. And I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna take this discussion personally where you guys are
Speaker 1: kind of it seems like you're ragging on my newfound
Speaker 1: hobby and my newfound.
Speaker 2: I thought it was like a career. I thought you
Speaker 2: were going to sport career.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so like once I go pro and q up,
Speaker 1: I'll still take you guys with me, you know, like
Speaker 1: you'll you'll be like with the posse that walks down
Speaker 1: with me to the boxing ring and every like at
Speaker 1: the end of Nubes, Yes, yeah, yeah, yes, and then
Speaker 1: Sabrina Carpenter will also be there, so that'll be cool.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: I guess if we had to be any part of Nubes,
Speaker 6: maybe that's the most acceptable one, Yes, the.
Speaker 4: Most Jason mus of Giant back on, come on, if
Speaker 4: you wanted to be anyone from Nubes.
Speaker 2: God, I don't know, it's right.
Speaker 3: All right. I had that coming on.
Speaker 1: The other side of the coin from something totally random. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess it's actually the same side of the coin
Speaker 1: because all the encounters are incredibly random. You never know
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get, especially if you have Kla on
Speaker 1: your team. H y'all, some of y'all have been playing Raiders.
Speaker 3: Yes, who's me and Gub mainly playing that?
Speaker 5: I think, so I haven't the chance to check it out.
Speaker 1: I'm too scared.
Speaker 6: I've had I've had a good couple of evenings with
Speaker 6: it now where it's like it's starting to I'm piecing
Speaker 6: more and more of it together exactly what I should
Speaker 6: be doing or how I should be spending my time.
Speaker 6: And uh yeah, I mean it's it's a game where
Speaker 6: you go out and get resources, you come back, you
Speaker 6: can spend those resources to improve your stuff, and then
Speaker 6: you get excited because you're like, and now I have
Speaker 6: better stuff. I go out and get more resources. The
Speaker 6: loop is clear and it's satisfying once you get into it.
Speaker 6: I've also just really locked down. Oh, this really is
Speaker 6: like an engine for a merchant storytelling. We can go
Speaker 6: in there with an idea of let's let Cayleb be crazy, and.
Speaker 4: We were trying to like be civil.
Speaker 6: You're right. Very quickly though, it became like, well, we
Speaker 6: have to harness this like yes, so, uh we're going
Speaker 6: into the world, and Kayla is just like, hey, you know,
Speaker 6: we'll talk it out. And then the second she sees
Speaker 6: an enemy, another real person, she just begans or even
Speaker 6: just hears them, she begins screaming at them immediately that
Speaker 6: she's going to kick the balls and.
Speaker 4: Front I'm going to full frontal your ass.
Speaker 5: Full frontal your ass.
Speaker 6: That was a key one, and it did seem to
Speaker 6: unsettle a lot of people when they're like, we hear something,
Speaker 6: let's go see what's going on. And I had like
Speaker 6: a good view one time of you guys in a
Speaker 6: hole and her screaming up and these three people like
Speaker 6: trying to get a good look at you, and then
Speaker 6: I kind of saw them talk to each other and
Speaker 6: they're like it's not worth it, and they just ran away.
Speaker 2: It was amazing, and it's like.
Speaker 6: Being able to come away from this game with those
Speaker 6: kinds of stories is something I really treasure.
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, watch the we did the UPF last week.
Speaker 4: It's me grubbing Kayla, my sister playing art graders, And
Speaker 4: that is a great example of some of the emergent
Speaker 4: stuff that can pop up like that is some of
Speaker 4: the more like chaotic stuff, which I think in trios
Speaker 4: and duos you see a little more. I think it
Speaker 4: scales down with like trio's is the most kind of
Speaker 4: combative even but it's not like it's not pubg it's
Speaker 4: not constant shoot on site type stuff.
Speaker 3: Duo's.
Speaker 4: I do a lot of duos with Bonk and that
Speaker 4: tends to be pretty cool. Like there are a lot
Speaker 4: of times where like we'll go into a building to
Speaker 4: like loot stuff, and it'll be like another couple in
Speaker 4: there and we'll hear them on on mic and stuff
Speaker 4: and they, oh, yeah, I know, it's all we already
Speaker 4: looted that room here. There's some bad guys out there
Speaker 4: where it's like a cool thanks, you know, it's really
Speaker 4: cool experiences like that. And then solo. Banx has a
Speaker 4: lot of solo and I'll watch her and like that's
Speaker 4: almost always peaceful. Occasionally there's one thing that like lays
Speaker 4: some traps or something right near the extraction and stuff
Speaker 4: like that, but like it seems almost like this peaceful
Speaker 4: thing of just kind of like solitary going around kind
Speaker 4: of looting stuff, you know, taking out the occasional arc
Speaker 4: meeting with someone having a brief conversation and moving along
Speaker 4: like that. Emergent storytelling is really great in this game.
Speaker 1: I speaking about emergent storytelling, one of my favorite bits
Speaker 1: from that upf was Kayla uh asking out out is
Speaker 1: there fault damage and then immediately just plunking straight into
Speaker 1: the ground.
Speaker 6: She was clearly in the hair when she asked that,
Speaker 6: when she screamed at that one person that I'm going
Speaker 6: to be your step mom's mom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a hard thing.
Speaker 6: I saw someone a chat remind me of that, and
Speaker 6: I was trying not to laugh for like the last
Speaker 6: minute because that's just that's what mean what it full
Speaker 6: front of your full frontal You're asked me, none of
Speaker 6: anything that makes it scarier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's scary.
Speaker 4: Like I said, her head is just like a Bengo
Speaker 4: hopper with a bunch of words in it and just
Speaker 4: stuff comes out fu. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Having that the peaceful stuff in Solo that has been
Speaker 6: like okay, But when that peacefulness does get popped and
Speaker 6: something goes wrong, it's like, oh, this is still a
Speaker 6: very scary game. And that's what reminds me of PUBG
Speaker 6: a little bit of is I played a lot of
Speaker 6: PUBG solo, playing a lot of this solo, and it's
Speaker 6: like you're just kind of creeping around finding stuff, and
Speaker 6: the encounters with other humans can be very harrowing. Now
Speaker 6: im PUBG. You were supposed to shoot, but there was
Speaker 6: still the chance of like sneaking around, and here I'm like,
Speaker 6: I'll sneak around. And now we also have this opportunity
Speaker 6: to use prox chat and try to negotiate or whatever.
Speaker 6: And even when I'm like not you verbally communicating, everyone's
Speaker 6: like flashing flashlights or bouncing up and down, being like
Speaker 6: I'm friendly. And then you know, I've had that turned
Speaker 6: on me where I told the story of I made
Speaker 6: of friends with someone at the extraction point and I
Speaker 6: go in and after he opened it and I looked down,
Speaker 6: I saw a dead body, and like it kind of
Speaker 6: occurred to me right in that second. It's like, well,
Speaker 6: that would only be here if and then that I
Speaker 6: started getting shot in the back, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 6: you know what, fair I should have kind of put
Speaker 6: two and two together faster than that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, incredible amends because I have yet to really
Speaker 1: dig into arc graders. If you were going in as
Speaker 1: a trio, do you only get matched with other trios
Speaker 1: or it's just like mixed bag of like there's one.
Speaker 4: You should go in with people you know ideally, but
Speaker 4: you can have it fill the trios where you can
Speaker 4: ask it to not fill.
Speaker 6: And I think you're saying with the rest of the
Speaker 6: lobby B trios, yes, yes, yes, I think tip typically yes,
Speaker 6: but you, like Dan said, when you can ask it
Speaker 6: to not fill it, there's a chance that some of
Speaker 6: those other solo players might be mixed in there. But
Speaker 6: for the most part, I think it tries to match
Speaker 6: you up with the equivalent groups.
Speaker 3: Kah.
Speaker 6: I kind of think there's no duos, though I think
Speaker 6: there is, like.
Speaker 4: And we're just not filling basically, we haven't run into
Speaker 4: a lot of trios while we're just going around.
Speaker 3: Moments.
Speaker 4: I love those moments where it's like, Okay, you'll be
Speaker 4: a duo and you'll meet up another duo. Ow you're
Speaker 4: just kind of talking and all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 4: the arcs, the robots, the I enemies show up, and
Speaker 4: then it's just like, okay, now we're all just in
Speaker 4: this fight together. It like suddenly turns into four of
Speaker 4: us fighting the computer. Like it's really really cool. Stuff
Speaker 4: like that that really differentiates it from like, you know,
Speaker 4: it's got elements of pub G, elements of hell Divers,
Speaker 4: but it's very much got its own flop.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The way that you guys are talking about it, it
Speaker 1: feels reminiscent to early early days of PUBG of just
Speaker 1: like miscellaneous stuff happening balls in the stories. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like the random encounters with other people. Would pubs you
Speaker 1: have been different if there was proct chat at the
Speaker 1: very beginning?
Speaker 4: Oh my yeah. I mean now, I don't know how
Speaker 4: much it would really play in because like when it
Speaker 4: is everyone against everyone, it's kind of just like what
Speaker 4: are you gonna say?
Speaker 6: Like, right, I mean there's coffin. There was examples early
Speaker 6: on in both this and Fortnite of people being like
Speaker 6: finding ways to communicate with others and let's team up
Speaker 6: for now, and I think both the games were like, no,
Speaker 6: that's that's against the rules.
Speaker 2: You can't do that.
Speaker 6: If we find you doing that, we're gonna consider that cheating.
Speaker 6: It's like someone else was like, well what if we
Speaker 6: made that the entire game? And so yeah, so having
Speaker 6: the incentive here of like you know, it is, it's
Speaker 6: game theory, right, it is a stag hunt. It is hey,
Speaker 6: should we work together to get a medium sized thing
Speaker 6: or should one of us just go out here and
Speaker 6: if one of us wins, well then I'll get the
Speaker 6: bigger prize, but it's more risky. Or do we both
Speaker 6: try to fight each other and maybe both of us
Speaker 6: die or something we attract an arc. There's a lot
Speaker 6: of obvious like risk reward decisions you're making constantly. That's
Speaker 6: kind of all up and down the chain, and that
Speaker 6: keeps every sort of interaction very you on your toes
Speaker 6: and interesting.
Speaker 4: I will say, when you're playing solos, it is the
Speaker 4: absolute best case for the PS five mic on controller ever,
Speaker 4: because like I hate wearing headphones. I never wear headsets
Speaker 4: or just cut off normally. Right, that was scissors, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's what we do in this family. But it's just
Speaker 4: short little bursts of conversation typically, So if you're playing solo,
Speaker 4: you don't need a headset, play through your TV speakers
Speaker 4: and then you just press that little unmute button when
Speaker 4: you see someone and be like, hey, don't shoot, I'm friendly,
Speaker 4: and then turn them off.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: You don't have to have a fucking headset the all
Speaker 4: time yeah, yeah, that's handy.
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: Did you guys see neuro Gamer gave the game with
Speaker 5: two out of five because of the AI voice stuff.
Speaker 5: And then Tim Sweeney got involved and it was like
Speaker 5: political opinion should go on to op ed folks. That's
Speaker 5: real cool stuff. How's that to say? How is that political?
Speaker 5: Somebody asked this, what's this political? And he said, yes,
Speaker 5: this technology increases human productivity in some areas by integer
Speaker 5: multiple multiples, and views on whether this is a net
Speaker 5: good and should be rewarded or bad and should be
Speaker 5: fought against are speculative and generally distributed along political lines. Boy,
Speaker 5: when I think about the warmth and complexity and the
Speaker 5: emotions of the human condition, I just think about Tim
Speaker 5: Sweeney and I'm interested in what he has to say
Speaker 5: the most.
Speaker 3: The most robotic response.
Speaker 6: Sounds like a mill house was real, Like he's just
Speaker 6: go back climbing your tree.
Speaker 1: I hope you lose yours.
Speaker 4: So he's an interview by definition.
Speaker 3: It sure is, my god, sure insightful.
Speaker 5: Something, just.
Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, I know well it is video
Speaker 3: game reviews. Someone put that in the vault.
Speaker 5: Of every time AI is criticized, like the Defenders just
Speaker 5: come out of like like this will probably bad for artists,
Speaker 5: and they're like, well, actually, what if it's good for artists?
Speaker 5: It's like collaborate and they're like you, how could it
Speaker 5: possibly be? It's like a fucking game past thing where
Speaker 5: it's like, actually, our games are going to sell even
Speaker 5: more that they're also available for free on this thing.
Speaker 5: How does that make sense? We'll never tell if it isn't.
Speaker 3: This is not a one to one comparison, although some
Speaker 3: would probably argue it is closer to that. But like
Speaker 3: when people first came around and started being like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know what, maybe smoking's bad, like imagine, it was
Speaker 3: met with that kind of like why do is it
Speaker 3: got to be political? Yeah? You can't even imagine.
Speaker 6: There was like a major campaign against smoking that was
Speaker 6: relatively successful in America and like it got it banned
Speaker 6: it most like public spaces and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you could do that.
Speaker 6: Today yet there, I take it back.
Speaker 3: It was one hundred percent political. What am I talking about?
Speaker 3: Like the lobbying right that went into don't look this way,
Speaker 3: don't look at this, don't look at this black long,
Speaker 3: this is unrelated to what you're talking I mean.
Speaker 4: When they introduced like seatbelt laws and everything, people are like, well,
Speaker 4: this is communism, you know, Jan you need to look
Speaker 4: up like highlight reels of news, like you know, local
Speaker 4: news talking laws and every where it's going to be Russia.
Speaker 4: Were Russia nowhere?
Speaker 5: Like there was like a.
Speaker 2: Big campaign against airbags.
Speaker 7: It's like, oh my God, Jesus Christ while speaking about
Speaker 7: Human mill House, some of y'all been dipping into Simpson's
Speaker 7: Fortnite Mister Manati, You and the Minati brothers plus Christian
Speaker 7: played well a bit of this.
Speaker 5: Four Adoptive Night. I have been I have been playing
Speaker 5: a good bit of this event. Some of it is
Speaker 5: like the pressure of I want to unlock Homer, and
Speaker 5: of course they make him the last thing you unlock
Speaker 5: in the battle pass. And now I'm invested in a
Speaker 5: battle pass and want to unlock Homer, and I'm traveling
Speaker 5: a bunch of this month and they only have until
Speaker 5: this month to do it. So I am playing a lot,
Speaker 5: but just buy some levels and gets there. I'll tell
Speaker 5: you what if I'm it works, if I'm disinvested. I'm
Speaker 5: about to leave on this Florida trip which goes through
Speaker 5: to November. I'm not going to be like, oh, wow,
Speaker 5: guess I don't get Homer then right, just.
Speaker 3: Get better.
Speaker 5: A j found some uh one of like the community
Speaker 5: maps is just a clicker thing that he was just
Speaker 5: doing for a few hours to unlock it, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 5: as long as you were having fun.
Speaker 6: Ag My kids have played a bunch of those. Now, yeah,
Speaker 6: they love those tycoon games.
Speaker 2: That's what they're called.
Speaker 5: But it is a really fun event because it's not
Speaker 5: just like, oh, there's like one section of the map
Speaker 5: that's Springfield.
Speaker 3: The entire map is spring Film.
Speaker 4: When it introduces the when the bus flies and it
Speaker 4: does the Simpsons intro and says, and it's just fun
Speaker 4: to look down and be like, Okay, do I want
Speaker 4: to go near Burns's manor or the power plant or
Speaker 4: Evergreen Terrace. It's just like, I am totally that person
Speaker 4: that bought Virtual Springfield just because I wanted to walk
Speaker 4: around Springfield in a video game and that wasn't even
Speaker 4: a game, and that was still fascinating to me. So
Speaker 4: I have like a good ass game like Fortnite, completely
Speaker 4: live within the Simpsons world with all the right gags
Speaker 4: and everything, because like, I'm sure there's a million gags.
Speaker 4: I don't know from season twelve and beyond or whatever,
Speaker 4: but I think they know their audience and it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: I see the rake and it's like, oh, I know
Speaker 4: it's gonna happen if I walk on that rake. You
Speaker 4: know the right gags? I think it's blinky the fish
Speaker 4: as an item and stuff like that. It's just been fantastic.
Speaker 4: They rebranded all of the def stuff to slur so
Speaker 4: it's like sloping man. Yeah, yeah, what is that about?
Speaker 4: Why as a Fortnite thing? And also if they've done
Speaker 4: like beer or alcohol, I don't think stuff, yeah right.
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, shooting up downtown Springfield, but you can't
Speaker 6: it's only firearms please, Okay.
Speaker 3: I will say I think this is one of the
Speaker 3: strongest integrations they've ever done. Like it is so smart.
Speaker 3: I think it's also endlessly amazing that, like, you know, certainly,
Speaker 3: uh my kid knew what the Simpsons were before going
Speaker 3: into this, but the vast majority of like Simpson's lower
Speaker 3: that he will ingest is now through Fortnite. Like he
Speaker 3: didn't see the blinky Fish episode. Wasn't that like yeah,
Speaker 3: like there's no way on earth he would know what
Speaker 3: that Springfield head.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that was doing.
Speaker 3: It's like it's a one shot. I think it like
Speaker 3: helps you against headshots. It's it's crazy. It's just crazy
Speaker 3: to me that like, oh yeah, he will gather the
Speaker 3: majority of his Simpson's lower knowledge through playing incessantly and
Speaker 3: like the kids love this season. They are all about it.
Speaker 5: That's why. Yeah, that's investing billion of dollars a day exactly.
Speaker 5: It's because they want to their IP to younger people in.
Speaker 3: This like the New Life that I'm sure this says
Speaker 3: breathed into The Simpsons with an under thirty kind of
Speaker 3: crowd is like tremendous six.
Speaker 6: To eight year old that thought. I would put on
Speaker 6: Simpsons for myself and they would be like, uh what sorry,
Speaker 6: how old is the Simpsons?
Speaker 1: Episode is that you're no, no, no, the Gimmicks.
Speaker 2: Six and eight?
Speaker 6: Yeah, uh not six seven, I'm sorry, Jane.
Speaker 3: Uh that's over door.
Speaker 6: Yeah we're past that. Well, yeah, they wouldn't like it
Speaker 6: when I put on Simpsons. They'd be like, this is
Speaker 6: not cool stuff. And now that here's it's in Fortnite,
Speaker 6: which they just started kind of getting into recently because
Speaker 6: the K pop stuff and it's like they're you could tell,
Speaker 6: I could tell they're like warming up to it, or
Speaker 6: at the very least, it's sort of like washing over them.
Speaker 6: And it's uh, not something that they're immediately.
Speaker 2: Like repelled to or repelled by.
Speaker 6: So I think it's like, Okay, this is clearly working
Speaker 6: on some level, and I could see why Disney thinks
Speaker 6: it's so worthy of investment.
Speaker 4: It's so it's the thing is it is a good
Speaker 4: game too, So it's easy and just be impressed and like,
Speaker 4: my god, the roster of characters you've gotten here just
Speaker 4: dwarfs any game ever by far. And then the game
Speaker 4: is constantly evolving, like I haven't really played it and
Speaker 4: probably well over a year, and I went back in
Speaker 4: and like, all right, Fortnite's still really fucking good. I'm
Speaker 4: just really impressed by the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I wish I like the Simpsons more. I want to
Speaker 1: experience with y'all are playing Fortnite.
Speaker 4: The best comedy writing of all time. You'll like it
Speaker 4: season three through ten, probably the best comedy writing ever.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like, I don't think I'm going to be
Speaker 6: checking out Fortnite like because Fortnite anymore. I'll be coming
Speaker 6: back for stuff like this, sure, and I just think
Speaker 6: and so they are going to be in a situation
Speaker 6: where it's like, Okay, we have to keep escalating. What's
Speaker 6: the next biggest thing we can get now. At the
Speaker 6: very least, they do have Disney in their corner, so
Speaker 6: that's going to be easier for some time for the
Speaker 6: most part. But it feels like diminishing returns as well,
Speaker 6: because I'm just like, yeah, this is still a fun game,
Speaker 6: but it is a little bit of a played out
Speaker 6: sort of style or like shooter mode at this point,
Speaker 6: I'm not thrilled by Batter Royals the way I once
Speaker 6: was for sure.
Speaker 4: The thing is when you log in now, it's like,
Speaker 4: I know, there's a million other things, Like I haven't
Speaker 4: tried the they have like a Rocket League thing or
Speaker 4: a rock band thing. There's a million there's that grid
Speaker 4: of things, and it's just kind of like for me
Speaker 4: who's been out for a year, it's just kind of overwhelming.
Speaker 1: So it's like, that's a lot of zero build Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of Roadblocksky, it's the roadblock style community creations.
Speaker 6: A lot of them are anyhow, and.
Speaker 3: That's becoming pretty big. Yeah, leg.
Speaker 2: Leg Yeah, leg By them.
Speaker 4: I never did that.
Speaker 5: They did a Disneylan thing. I didn't check it out.
Speaker 5: I heard it's bad.
Speaker 6: Yeah, sorry Mike it but those community created things are
Speaker 6: very simple, very basive. The clicker that Aj was probably
Speaker 6: playing is like very like underdesigned, just there to give
Speaker 6: you something to do less like a click click bomb
Speaker 6: is more complicated and intricate than a lot of the
Speaker 6: games you're going to get from the community created stuff
Speaker 6: in Fortnite.
Speaker 4: So that's not they don't have Chuck.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Chuck.
Speaker 3: The brain Rock game was like a very big deal.
Speaker 3: I think I'd tapering off a little bit. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the kind of nuts I think. This is, Like
Speaker 3: I wonder what their next. I mean, what was the
Speaker 3: one that was this heavily sort of skinned and integrated,
Speaker 3: Like what was the last one of these, like the.
Speaker 5: Whole map, Like, yeah, the biggest Star Wars ones, But
Speaker 5: even then, I don't think it's the whole They will do.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, here's a little like tattooine area or something
Speaker 4: part of the map, but like I've never played the
Speaker 4: whole thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, to be fair, like this whole map
Speaker 6: is like cell shaded, like and that's they just kind
Speaker 6: of turned on that filter. But there it is Springfield
Speaker 6: spread all over the place for sure. Yeah, in a
Speaker 6: way that we've not really seen before, at least as
Speaker 6: far as I can remember.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't remember ever seeing them do the full
Speaker 3: map before. That's right.
Speaker 6: This is a smaller map too, so it's a little
Speaker 6: bit easier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they don't like feel too small to me. I
Speaker 5: don't know.
Speaker 1: It's a well.
Speaker 6: They also filled with eighty players, so it's like a
Speaker 6: kind of bou That's.
Speaker 5: How that makes sense.
Speaker 4: It's just like you go into the Simpson's house and
Speaker 4: I went up the couch and me and Kayla were playing,
Speaker 4: and I was Solid Snake and said press X, and
Speaker 4: like Solid Snakes sits on the couch with a can
Speaker 4: of Slurp and she's Vegeta. And now Vegeta and Solid
Speaker 4: Snake are sitting on the Simpsons couch.
Speaker 5: Is like, I kind of love this, but for us,
Speaker 5: we were each one of the Stimpsons characters you can't
Speaker 5: play in and we like did the couch thing. Now. So
Speaker 5: even like some of the in game like quests you
Speaker 5: can do for just bonus points, like one is just
Speaker 5: do any emot then shoot a shotgun and it's your
Speaker 5: dissing your fly girl thing that Mode did from that
Speaker 5: one episode. Right, you could jump the Springfield Gorge with
Speaker 5: a car. Oh, it's just it's just really smart. There's
Speaker 5: just a ton of you know, it's it's it's a
Speaker 5: lot of not sense fan service, but it's fun.
Speaker 3: Now. Dylan was playing as Bob from Bob's Burgers goes
Speaker 3: into the the Simpsons house, sees Marge, and Marge goes
Speaker 3: tell Linda. I said, Hi, oh, that's that was really good.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Now I know that, Uh, Disney is probably
Speaker 1: okay with the Simpsons just shooting and blasting guns. But
Speaker 1: what other Disney property do you think they could just
Speaker 1: be okay, could.
Speaker 6: Shoot a gun, right, he shoots a gun in the movie.
Speaker 3: He's got to me, it seems has that energy for sure.
Speaker 2: Almost.
Speaker 5: I think the corporations are just convinced themselves, well, it's
Speaker 5: not real guns. It's fine because it playing it does
Speaker 5: it is just about it.
Speaker 6: It's still it doesn't feel like ar graders to me,
Speaker 6: like our graders. I feel like, I'm sure a real
Speaker 6: gun here. For some reason, it.
Speaker 1: Doesn't because I was thinking in terms of like skinning
Speaker 1: a whole world again. You could maybe do toy story.
Speaker 5: I mean they've done picks are already they this is
Speaker 5: incredible is in there? Yeah about toys could be good.
Speaker 5: It's somehow feels a lot Matrix would be good.
Speaker 3: But that is that is that Disney.
Speaker 5: No Epic did that Matrix. Uh like reloaded whatever that demo?
Speaker 4: They have Trinity. I've got like a trinity and like
Speaker 4: the Dodge is already in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure Neo's in there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so many I would be alien, but they
Speaker 5: are like Ripley is in there already. Actually they've done
Speaker 5: a big.
Speaker 4: Predator one that New movies that Bredather's in there, but
Speaker 4: he was like I think it was a battle pass
Speaker 4: thing because I really wanted Bredather and never got him.
Speaker 4: I've got Terminator.
Speaker 3: See that quick quick anecdote. Bad Lands so fucking good.
Speaker 4: You need to I want to see that's good.
Speaker 3: No, not yet, I would Stobby is in it? Really,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, not Disney.
Speaker 5: They've done any Star Trek stuff yet because.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 5: Because Element.
Speaker 3: That dark Dark City, nothing but sentence.
Speaker 1: If that Tron movie was good, Tron could have translated
Speaker 1: really well.
Speaker 5: I bet to put Tron in eventually at some point anyways,
Speaker 5: like Original Tron and Tron like Tron yet, you think.
Speaker 1: They're gonna put that Glenn Powell show Chad Powers into.
Speaker 6: They're gonna do Darren Aronofsky's Mother.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be Downton Abbey and Fortnite would be hard.
Speaker 3: God let me hours or back art. Yeah, they backlards.
Speaker 5: They should put the sticky bandits in it, right, they
Speaker 5: should just put the.
Speaker 3: Sticky bandits. I would purchase like immedia, like every now
Speaker 3: and then, like Dy'll give me something that he thinks
Speaker 3: I'll like and which is really sweet. He got me Edwards.
Speaker 3: Oh and I know day one, the sticky bandits would
Speaker 3: just be in my inbox.
Speaker 2: Kid, I'm just working before we get off this. So
Speaker 2: it's I think this is awesome.
Speaker 6: I agree with you. Your guys just takes on that
Speaker 6: that this is a really cool, cool way to have
Speaker 6: some new Simpson stuff in video games.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 6: It does feel like we get this though, instead of
Speaker 6: a new Simpson's video game, right, And it's like, I
Speaker 6: think I would still prefer that, even though I think
Speaker 6: this would actually be better to play.
Speaker 3: I think your sentiment is in the right place. But
Speaker 3: I do think from a cost efficiency perspective, we can
Speaker 3: just do this and get eighty percent of the way there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And for as much as like for better or worse,
Speaker 3: that statement is true. You know, it is exposing the
Speaker 3: people to that thing, as opposed to taking a risk
Speaker 3: on a thing that no one might not even play,
Speaker 3: where you know, people are just gonna play it by
Speaker 3: virtue of it being Fortnite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean look at that Terminator game that
Speaker 1: it just got delayed again to.
Speaker 6: I mean I just think, like you know, I think
Speaker 6: Star Wars will probably it's fate will probably be this
Speaker 6: And it's like, I think it's nice to have Battlefront
Speaker 6: two to go back to when I'm like in the
Speaker 6: mood and that pops off with the community every once
Speaker 6: in a while, once in a while, and that's probably
Speaker 6: that idea of doing.
Speaker 3: The testing ground, right, Like, oh, maybe we should make
Speaker 3: a Simpsons game now that it did really will and
Speaker 3: well I would love.
Speaker 5: For that to be the case.
Speaker 2: I really don't didn't announce a.
Speaker 3: New Simpsons movie.
Speaker 5: They're doing a new movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They put out the game, the Simpsons game with that
Speaker 4: last one, and that Simpsons game was not terrible.
Speaker 5: It was pretty It wasn't just feel. It just feels
Speaker 5: so different now, like they're not going to do that, Like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I would love it. They're like we're making a hit
Speaker 5: and Run two and like, whoa, what does that look like? Now?
Speaker 3: That'd be so amazing.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's just not the way things are. And
Speaker 5: this is like the best. I mean, the last game
Speaker 5: before this was tapped out, which is offline. Now you
Speaker 5: came and play it at all right, Oh it's kind
Speaker 5: of this or nothing.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: From dropping out of the sky onto Springfield to talking
Speaker 1: about the Ambrosia Sky. This is a neat little title
Speaker 1: that I checked out a little bit of y'all. Imagine
Speaker 1: a little bit of Powerwasher, a little bit of a
Speaker 1: game with a gravity gun and then a gravity or
Speaker 1: grappling hook, and you have Ambrosia Sky. You are thrown
Speaker 1: onto a spaceship and you were supposed to collect different
Speaker 1: plant samples of a different fung guy, and you have
Speaker 1: your water gun or your powerwashing gun is used to
Speaker 1: get rid of the miscellaneous fung guy that is popping
Speaker 1: up throughout this part of space.
Speaker 3: It's neat.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of little puzzles where you have to
Speaker 1: kind of futs around with like the gravity or you're
Speaker 1: using your gravity gun equivalent hook to pull stuff towards you,
Speaker 1: and you have to It matters what condition the fungi
Speaker 1: or plant samples are when you acquire them. So if
Speaker 1: you just walk up to them and get them, they'll
Speaker 1: be in good condition.
Speaker 3: But if you like.
Speaker 1: Gravity gun them over to you and you drop it
Speaker 1: and you don't nail like the catch, it'll wind up
Speaker 1: being a bad sample. And the flow of the levels,
Speaker 1: as far as they've been for me so far, is
Speaker 1: you will explore a specific part of a spaceship, get
Speaker 1: to point B, and then from point B you have to,
Speaker 1: like Warrior Land style, run all the way back to
Speaker 1: the very beginning. And there are different obstacles that pop up,
Speaker 1: like hey there, all these plants are electric, so you
Speaker 1: can't touch them, so you have to use your grappling
Speaker 1: hook to pop and bop around them, and your powerwasher
Speaker 1: water gun equivalent you can control the nozzle, so you
Speaker 1: can do like a wide flow or like a super
Speaker 1: tall vertical spray.
Speaker 3: It's neat.
Speaker 1: I like the art style of the game, but it
Speaker 1: is definitely one of those games that hurts my eyes
Speaker 1: because the art style is so funky. From my understanding,
Speaker 1: it's a very small team. I don't quite know how
Speaker 1: long the game is overall, but I've been enjoying the Bible.
Speaker 4: I'm seeing it listed as part one. Do you know
Speaker 4: if this is supposed to be episodic?
Speaker 1: I am not quite sure if it's supposed to be episodic.
Speaker 1: I am not gonna lie. I was kind of humming
Speaker 1: through all of the dialogue.
Speaker 3: How dare you?
Speaker 1: I know, I know I'm disrespectful, I get it, but
Speaker 1: I am really enjoying what I've played of it so far.
Speaker 1: There's an upgrade mechanic where based off of the different
Speaker 1: types of fungi or plant samples you were collecting, you
Speaker 1: were affecting like your resistances or the effectiveness of your
Speaker 1: sprayer gun.
Speaker 3: It's cool the god.
Speaker 1: I just love a cool zero G segment where you
Speaker 1: have to use a grappling hook to like just pull
Speaker 1: you through. I just want that to be real. Just
Speaker 1: that part was it.
Speaker 4: Dead Space two that had those sequences where the gravity
Speaker 4: would drop out and you could kind of like jet
Speaker 4: pack around and rotat and everything really good. I remember,
Speaker 4: like that's my favorite, Like zero G sequences.
Speaker 1: Yeah, parts parts of Ambrosia Sky feel like those segments
Speaker 1: of Dead Space. It's like if you mix dead Space
Speaker 1: Warrior Land is it four? I think it's four and
Speaker 1: Powerwasher Simulator together and just like jumbled it up. Finally
Speaker 1: we can get that genre going. Speaking about episodic Gang,
Speaker 1: Holy smokes, you talked a lot about this game last week.
Speaker 1: I've been streaming a lot of it. I've played it,
Speaker 1: and it looks like Jurf has played it. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Dispatch. Yeah, back, I want to hear what you think.
Speaker 3: About this aside from the penises.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no specific Hey there's one Hey, there's one
Speaker 1: episode that starts very spicy.
Speaker 3: So I I recruited my wife to yep, thank you,
Speaker 3: to sit down and watch this with me because I
Speaker 3: knew what this was and I knew it was like
Speaker 3: a very narrative focused episodic kind of choose your own
Speaker 3: adventure thing, and I lost her, like almost immediately after
Speaker 3: the toxicity Guy Penis stuff. Yeah, look, I tried.
Speaker 6: Did you did you tell her about the censor bar
Speaker 6: or is that against your your you know, a censor
Speaker 6: I'm a purist.
Speaker 2: One, a guy.
Speaker 3: Penixactarist Penis purist must keep it. I don't care how
Speaker 3: drippy and green it is. I wanted in my video game.
Speaker 3: It's so a little drippy. So I so far really
Speaker 3: like Dispatch it is. It is, like we said, a
Speaker 3: narrative driven, episodic sort of cartoon that I believe is
Speaker 3: from the pedigree that brought us most of the Telltale stuff.
Speaker 3: That's right, Wolf Wolves among us? And is it the
Speaker 3: Walking Dead people? Is that who? There's DNA.
Speaker 6: It's like, you know a lot of the Walking Dead
Speaker 6: people already left the Telltale early on from that first season.
Speaker 3: But yeah, So the story follows a sort of retired
Speaker 3: superhero who exists in a world where there are people
Speaker 3: with superpowers, but he does not have superpowers. He was
Speaker 3: just sort of LARPing as one inside. Yeah, he's this
Speaker 3: generationally passed down mech suit that he's been sort of
Speaker 3: dawning for for a while. He kind of is forced
Speaker 3: into retirement and then is recruited by a superhero dispatch
Speaker 3: company that is meant to kind of like organize the
Speaker 3: dispatching of superheroes to problems around Los Angeles. And the
Speaker 3: first episode is you sort of is this setup for that?
Speaker 3: And without getting too much more into the story. That's
Speaker 3: sort of where you are set. I think from a
Speaker 3: production value point of view, like this is off the
Speaker 3: goddamn charts. I think some of the look and the
Speaker 3: kind of like realized collective vision of what this story
Speaker 3: and game looks like is nothing short of like you know,
Speaker 3: sensational the as.
Speaker 2: The animation and sort of blocking of.
Speaker 6: Modern day animated shows on streaming platforms and then but
Speaker 6: it's still presented like a video game. It's directed like
Speaker 6: a video game, so it's like it's not going to
Speaker 6: get that stuff is not going to get in the
Speaker 6: way of you seeing what's happening. So you get all
Speaker 6: the information so you can make choices the way you
Speaker 6: want to.
Speaker 3: Make, right. I So, you know, and here's where like
Speaker 3: I guess my waterfall of positivity kind of doesn't dry up,
Speaker 3: but it's certainly kind of like peppered in with a
Speaker 3: little bit of observational kind of criticism.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 3: It's like I think the game, you know, I I
Speaker 3: almost like don't want to play. I feel like I'm
Speaker 3: at the point where I'm like, this story is better
Speaker 3: than any of what the gaming devices are in this thing,
Speaker 3: and you are almost left to the point where like
Speaker 3: you can interact with some of the cut scenes in
Speaker 3: a sort of meaningless you know, or it feels meaningless,
Speaker 3: kind of like hold a so that you punch back
Speaker 3: or slide the left stick across so that your mech
Speaker 3: punches a thing and it's like you have the option
Speaker 3: to turn that off.
Speaker 6: So the sort of those are the least interesting interaction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sure, you know. I guess the meat and
Speaker 3: potatoes of the actual quote unquote gameplay of this thing
Speaker 3: is the sort of like real time dispatching of these heroes,
Speaker 3: which for me is like it's fine, it's not the
Speaker 3: most compelling sort of gameplay loop. Sure, I'm happy to
Speaker 3: do it, but I'm like, all right, let's get back
Speaker 3: to like this thing. And I guess it's kind of
Speaker 3: reminds me of like a lot of when they were
Speaker 3: trying to get those Choose your Own Adventure like Netflix
Speaker 3: shows off the ground I get right like where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess it's cool I'm holding a controller during this thing,
Speaker 3: but I'm not really like finding the right sort of.
Speaker 6: Bad those couple of years there where Jan Dan wouldn't
Speaker 6: see each other without going dander statch.
Speaker 3: We're all waiting for the next pun that they can
Speaker 3: play on. Oh, don't you worry. I know it'll happen
Speaker 3: before the year's out. I'm sure of it. Yeah. So
Speaker 3: I mean like that's kind of the I guess that's
Speaker 3: like my sort of over over beauty thing. What do
Speaker 3: you guys think?
Speaker 1: I actually have grown to really enjoy the dispatching part
Speaker 1: of the gameplay for folks curious it is. I saw
Speaker 1: a lot of people saying it was very similar to
Speaker 1: Thirteen Sentinels combat, where you are going to a heat
Speaker 1: zone and then from there dispatching a specific unit to
Speaker 1: take care of it. It is much more hands off
Speaker 1: than that, because you mentioned it last week, reb but
Speaker 1: you were given a scenario and some like keywords as
Speaker 1: to how to deal with the situation, and your different
Speaker 1: heroes that you were dispatching have their different strength and everything,
Speaker 1: and from there you were kind of like it's almost
Speaker 1: a dice roll of like, okay, well they're taught this
Speaker 1: specific scenario is like, well, you gotta defend a celebrity
Speaker 1: and then if it gets hairy, you gotta like fight
Speaker 1: your way out of it. So then you would be
Speaker 1: sending your heroes of like okay, you're high in combat.
Speaker 1: This one you're full of mud, so you just defend
Speaker 1: very well. And then certain instances you can send just
Speaker 1: one hero or you'll send up to I believe, up
Speaker 1: the floor in some of the instances, And there's different
Speaker 1: synergies amongst them which play very well, and it's fun
Speaker 1: just seeing the interconnectedness of the different characters and just
Speaker 1: kind of like, hey, I think you might like this person.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, cool, I guess you guys are friends now,
Speaker 1: and some of that plays off into the story as
Speaker 1: you go through.
Speaker 3: I really fucking love this game. Yeap.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not surprised to hear that both you guys like,
Speaker 6: I think it has things that each of you like.
Speaker 6: Beck All you really like high production values. And I'm
Speaker 6: like watching this being like, yes, this is some of
Speaker 6: the best this kind of thing that we've had in
Speaker 6: a game. And Jane, there's all these excellent characters cast
Speaker 6: to characters that have tension and then they have but
Speaker 6: they have a reason to work together. That's that's your
Speaker 6: shit and so and I think it delivers on both
Speaker 6: those things. And then yeah, I think the uh, the
Speaker 6: gameplay mechanic of the dispatching having them use that you know,
Speaker 6: it's just your language language English language, explain the needs
Speaker 6: of this call, and then you have to sort of
Speaker 6: just parse that and figure that out in your head.
Speaker 6: That continues to be very good, and I think it's
Speaker 6: getting better as I go along, because it does get
Speaker 6: more complex with getting the characters to work together and
Speaker 6: being like, Okay, I should manage them a little bit
Speaker 6: more carefully. I don't want to just maximum, like send
Speaker 6: the max amount of heroes and every call, because the
Speaker 6: next call could come in and I might need someone.
Speaker 6: So I got to be a little bit or sparing,
Speaker 6: and so you're juggling things a little bit more.
Speaker 2: But then yeah, I've also really enjoyed the story.
Speaker 6: Although I'm getting episode four right now, in my understanding
Speaker 6: is that's where it begins to take off a lot
Speaker 6: in terms of like all the stakes and the tension
Speaker 6: really does rise.
Speaker 2: So looking forward to that planning.
Speaker 3: To do I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: The final two episodes come out tomorrow tomorrow, November twelfth.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: The other thing I'll say is I do want to
Speaker 1: give a special shout out to the voice acting and
Speaker 1: generally I'll have a little bit of friction when like
Speaker 1: fancy schmancy actors are given voice roles that voice actors
Speaker 1: should have, because sometimes it just doesn't quite translate. Like
Speaker 1: I love Florence Pugh, I don't think Florence Pugh is
Speaker 1: great and Puss in Boots you could, she just wasn't
Speaker 1: giving it the same type of litzpah as like a
Speaker 1: trained voice actor would do, because it's a completely different
Speaker 1: acting medium. That being said, I could not tell for
Speaker 1: the longest time that the main dude that you're playing
Speaker 1: Robert Robertson is Aaron Paul because he does such a
Speaker 1: good job at like hiding his uh speaking cadence.
Speaker 3: Behind character sounds like George Clooney in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's a little bit of drawl.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Jeffrey right, popped me real hard. Someone mentioned
Speaker 6: like that it sounds like Jeffer and that's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 6: that's totally Jeffery.
Speaker 1: Right. So normally I'll be a big proponent of like
Speaker 1: give voice actor's voice over opportunities, But if an actor
Speaker 1: is going to do the gi give the proper care
Speaker 1: to a role, then by all means that being said.
Speaker 3: I saw that they want to do season two. I'm
Speaker 3: not saying, put me in it.
Speaker 1: Just let me read for a character, and then we'll
Speaker 1: see give jan a chance, Please give a chance, give
Speaker 1: give him a chance, and then give Dana dance.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 5: I hope you dance.
Speaker 2: Why doesn't Dan dance anymore?
Speaker 1: Speaking about speaking about dancing, the music luminous Ariyes just
Speaker 1: gets me jiving and popping in that chair. Guys, Dan Jerff,
Speaker 1: I believe YouTube been playing it the most.
Speaker 3: Love it.
Speaker 4: I'm almost done with the journey, and if you've played
Speaker 4: Tenrorist effect, it's very much that same enhanced style of
Speaker 4: like chunks of stages all.
Speaker 3: What what note. I was just saying, like I just
Speaker 3: love how goofy the pieces are at the very beginning,
Speaker 3: and then just like there's.
Speaker 4: A real stage that I definitely thought about it during.
Speaker 3: I do think there's like parts of the game, like
Speaker 3: I do think some shapes and colors I can see
Speaker 3: better than others, and I'm sort of just like this everything.
Speaker 4: With the it's clocks and taxicabs and it's like, okay,
Speaker 4: it's kind of hard.
Speaker 3: When the astronauts and the cubes get released, that's when
Speaker 3: I get a little cross eyed and I can't really
Speaker 3: see what I'm doing.
Speaker 4: But it's like they have brought Luminous back on like
Speaker 4: xbo A or Luminus remastered on Switch and stuff before.
Speaker 4: But this is like my favorite version of it because
Speaker 4: it really is like that was part of the beauty
Speaker 4: of the PSP one, which PSP objectively dog shit console,
Speaker 4: but Luminous almost made it worth it.
Speaker 3: Is just going said that for I feel like you
Speaker 3: were targeting one very specific person with that comment.
Speaker 4: No, I'm talking about the console. It's a console, Miller, Miller,
Speaker 4: I feel like that. Yeah, yeah, I feel like that too.
Speaker 4: So which Vita also objectively so they fixed all the problems.
Speaker 4: Ve so much, asshole, they suck so much. But Luminous delightful,
Speaker 4: delightful game and just that like every time you don't
Speaker 4: know when it's going to morph into the next thing,
Speaker 4: and the music's gonna change and the visuals cool, Like
Speaker 4: it's awesome, and like look what they did with Tetris
Speaker 4: effect they did with Luminous, which it's interesting because like
Speaker 4: Tetris kind of needed it more and that Tetris is
Speaker 4: usually just kind of like, hey, here's some blocks, you know,
Speaker 4: and they kind of Luminous up Tetris, you know, here,
Speaker 4: it's kind of like them doing the natural thing, like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is like just a new luminous that they took over.
Speaker 4: It plays the same except for the new burst mechanic,
Speaker 4: which I think is awesome.
Speaker 3: And can you explain this to me? I couldn't quite
Speaker 3: wrap my head around.
Speaker 4: I'm still kind of like, Okay, so you trigger it
Speaker 4: the first and you can do about one hundred, Well
Speaker 4: you can do it before that.
Speaker 6: Fifty you could do it, so you can pull it
Speaker 6: as a risk at one hundred, Yeah you're about to die.
Speaker 4: You can pull the burst thing at fifty, but it's
Speaker 4: just gonna you're not gonna get as much juice out
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 3: Basically.
Speaker 4: I always try to wait till it's at max and
Speaker 4: then it's like it will basically pick like it seems
Speaker 4: like a chunk of blocks that you are already uh
Speaker 4: you know, like oh, here's already like in a four
Speaker 4: or six or eight blocks there. It's like, okay, that's
Speaker 4: kind of the nucleus that you're trying to like build
Speaker 4: off of. Let's say that's all blue or taxi cabs
Speaker 4: or whatever, you know, you throw all your taxi cabs
Speaker 4: at the ball or taxicabs and it gets bigger and
Speaker 4: bigger and bigger, and it starts feeling incredible as it
Speaker 4: gets huge, and then it starts bouncing the other ones up.
Speaker 4: So the ice cubes, the taxi cabs are the nucleus
Speaker 4: and the ice. If you haven't bite luminius, this sounds insane.
Speaker 4: It's blocks blue and orange will say. So if your
Speaker 4: ball is blue, all the oranges go to the top
Speaker 4: and you building off it.
Speaker 6: Sorry, you go sort of like you want to like
Speaker 6: make it a big square, and you kind of like
Speaker 6: if you do that, yeah, that'll include everything in the burst,
Speaker 6: and then all that stuff explodes and then the orange
Speaker 6: stuff comes back. Yes, then you might get another combo
Speaker 6: from that.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, yeah, So let's say you get the big
Speaker 4: blow up thing and then all the like oranges fall
Speaker 4: down and they're all connected, and then maybe sometimes you
Speaker 4: get one of those little crosses that connects all of
Speaker 4: the same color and then you just clear out the
Speaker 4: whole fucking map. And so now you know, servers are
Speaker 4: live for online. So I played a little bit online
Speaker 4: this morning when I got up, and uh so when
Speaker 4: you do that stuff, it throws garbage blocks at them,
Speaker 4: and the garbage blocks come in from the sides, and
Speaker 4: so if you are making matches against the garbage blocks,
Speaker 4: that's how it kind of clears it out. So like
Speaker 4: had some very very tense, very fun burst battles they're
Speaker 4: called in multiplayer, but just the journey itself is so atesome.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to do this, Like this is top notch.
Speaker 4: Get a little high, getting the VR set, play the
Speaker 4: whole journey type thing. Respect you know, I'm definitely going
Speaker 4: to be doing that with Luminous, but I have not
Speaker 4: done a journey end to end yet. I've just kind
Speaker 4: of been like I have like one level left of it,
Speaker 4: I think, but just tremendous game. These are the right
Speaker 4: people to bring Luminous back for sure.
Speaker 3: I still think I don't know if I'm good, Like
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm good at this. I think
Speaker 3: the four the two by two blocks just don't speak
Speaker 3: to me the way like a Tetris block speaks to me, or.
Speaker 6: I feel that way. Yeah, it's not intuitive the way
Speaker 6: Tetris intuitive, but it's not until you get over the hump.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think once people realize the almost like timing
Speaker 4: aspect of it, of just like the timeline that goes
Speaker 4: across like kind of once you figure out what that
Speaker 4: timeline is doing, I start realizing the strategy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is very much like the windshield wiper blade
Speaker 3: of it all, where you just kind of like have
Speaker 3: this micro reset. But you know, still I also think,
Speaker 3: like the scoring is is it's tough for me to follow,
Speaker 3: like you know, as much as you you kind of
Speaker 3: like parlay all those the matching and the wiping together,
Speaker 3: and then like, all right, well, how does this translate
Speaker 3: to like me being strategically smart with scoring and combo
Speaker 3: ing and stuff like that. I'll just see combo stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I understand kind of why I got
Speaker 3: that combo, but I got it by accident.
Speaker 4: It's based on just the number of two by two
Speaker 4: squares I believe you get during the like in between
Speaker 4: spaces between the timelines.
Speaker 3: So and yeah, let's call them waves basically.
Speaker 4: So if you can get sixteen times combo, if you
Speaker 4: get like, I don't know, four two by twos or
Speaker 4: something like that, but I would say, more importantly, don't
Speaker 4: worry about that, Like, just try to keep your board clear,
Speaker 4: just try to put things down in places that are smart,
Speaker 4: try to time things with the line more than anything.
Speaker 3: Yes, racing that is, yeah, the bursts, Yeah, racing the
Speaker 3: reset line is really like the thing I'm focusing on
Speaker 3: the most now. And I feel like I've been playing
Speaker 3: this on and off for like two months already, right, Like,
Speaker 3: I feel like we've had some level of access to
Speaker 3: this game for a while.
Speaker 4: And it's one for Steam Deck, and yeah, they've focused
Speaker 4: on making sure it's ready to.
Speaker 2: They said that's because the legacy of the PSP.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I don't don't play this with a
Speaker 1: mouse and keyboard. It's it's not meant for that. Will
Speaker 1: be arrested, yeah, I mean I probably will be, but
Speaker 1: like I didn't have a controller, buy me in my
Speaker 1: Steam Deck. I don't know where where it is, but yeah,
Speaker 1: if folks are curious. It also does the whole tetrace
Speaker 1: effect thing of like when you are shifting around the
Speaker 1: configuration of the block, it's just still going to the music,
Speaker 1: so you're still like with a drum be like uh
Speaker 1: and then as you drop in and everything, it's just
Speaker 1: so good. I do just want to get blazed and
Speaker 1: play this now.
Speaker 3: It's top notch for that, which.
Speaker 5: Better better man than you doing that?
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 6: I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like, there it's a lot, man, it
Speaker 3: is a lot, and.
Speaker 1: There is a there's a massive photo sensitivity warning, So
Speaker 1: folks are that's kind of what.
Speaker 3: I mean more than freaking out, Like it's just there's
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff flopping on screen there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's no dehydration warning, so maybe double check
Speaker 1: if you're going to drink and go in your sauna.
Speaker 4: I guess is it just PlayStation?
Speaker 3: Is that the way you do it? Because it's not
Speaker 3: on Oculus, right, meta?
Speaker 2: What are you asking playing v for VR?
Speaker 6: I mean, is it not the Steam v R because
Speaker 6: then you could just stream it to your Oculus.
Speaker 4: I guess you could just see that steam br link thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it works great.
Speaker 1: Just put Pisoper two out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just get that piscarer out and strap it on
Speaker 3: your face. I feel like I play this thing in
Speaker 3: my family room sometimes and at the end of a
Speaker 3: session my eyes are like blurry and teary.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, stuff, let me tell you.
Speaker 3: And that's like, yeah, I'm wondering, like like, hey, maybe
Speaker 3: I don't put this directly on my face. I feel
Speaker 3: like it being ten feet away is enough of like
Speaker 3: a work out my eyeballs in my veins. Yeah, it's all.
Speaker 1: Right, good luck, Luminous arise, it's out out now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, multiple up and running. That's been fun to do.
Speaker 4: Do more of that tonight.
Speaker 1: Another thing that is out out now and has been
Speaker 1: out that we've had access to is Mortal Kombat Legacy.
Speaker 4: Collection, so fucking good grub. You and I were talking
Speaker 4: somewhere about we've been watching the documentary stuff and like
Speaker 4: we you know, we played a lot of the game
Speaker 4: at the Bombiton.
Speaker 3: I think we broke that out.
Speaker 4: If you want to see the Mortal Kombat tournament we
Speaker 4: did with Benny and Alyx, which was the highlight of
Speaker 4: the bombitthon, I think. But you know, obviously that's not
Speaker 4: the place to watch the documentaries. So I've been just
Speaker 4: kind of going through that and it's it turns out
Speaker 4: like I've never really understood the appeal of video game documentaries,
Speaker 4: even though Ben Hanson's been yelling at me about the
Speaker 4: Double Fine thing for like fifteen I just have to
Speaker 4: like the games. I don't care about Double Fine. I
Speaker 4: love Mortal Kombat. So it's like, this is fascinating shit. Namely,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's all great, but Grubbs we were talking
Speaker 4: about they fucking got on camera the moment that is
Speaker 4: that Daniel Pasina plays Scorpion and Johnny Cage and sub Zero,
Speaker 4: but he's in the Scorpion outfit and they're doing the
Speaker 4: like it's not really mo cap, they're just kind of
Speaker 4: like taking the footage of it's you.
Speaker 6: Know, frame capture, Yeah, yeah, the frame capture stuff.
Speaker 4: So it's him, you know, on set basically, and they're
Speaker 4: just getting him to do punches and stuff and they're like, oh,
Speaker 4: you want to try a different stands for sub Zero
Speaker 4: and stuff like that, Like all this stuff is fascinating.
Speaker 4: And then ed Boone, like a twenty something year old
Speaker 4: Ed Boone, they have the footage of him being like, oh,
Speaker 4: you know, what would be badass? What if you had
Speaker 4: like you could throw like a spear into someone and
Speaker 4: they had a rope on it and you could like
Speaker 4: pull it back. You see the moment he brings up
Speaker 4: that idea, and there's like two seconds between him coming
Speaker 4: up with the idea and suddenly Scorpion and costume doing
Speaker 4: the move you've seen a billion times, like the most
Speaker 4: iconic moral combat move ever. It's oh man, all this
Speaker 4: all these interviews were great, and that most of these
Speaker 4: fucking dudes are like still at Netroom damn.
Speaker 3: Forth just retired.
Speaker 4: Like yeah, it's like this is just dudes that didn't
Speaker 4: have corporate bullshit holding them down. In terms of ideas.
Speaker 4: You just saw a bunch of guys in an office
Speaker 4: in Chicago that were having cool ass ideas and they
Speaker 4: were talking about like certain fatalities and stuff like the
Speaker 4: sub zero spine rip they just took from Predator and uh,
Speaker 4: They're like, oh, wonder if this is going to be
Speaker 4: too much and they're like a Midway guy came in
Speaker 4: like Piza seven the rooms.
Speaker 3: Like bad ass.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's how games would be made.
Speaker 5: That's cool.
Speaker 6: The Chicago of the documentary and the you know, the
Speaker 6: setting and where all this guy's is from really comes through.
Speaker 6: And I was saying that somewhere else, like that's just
Speaker 6: a city I love in the Midwest being represented so
Speaker 6: hardened video games. It's like, oh, yeah, Mortal Kombat's a
Speaker 6: product of just like the culture I come from, and
Speaker 6: they'll be like, you know, what would be cool and
Speaker 6: then so that to see that then represented in the
Speaker 6: moment they could have shown it to capture that specific
Speaker 6: move from the history of Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 2: It's like, holy crap, what a what a cool thing.
Speaker 6: I'm so glad Mortal Kombat existing was doing things this
Speaker 6: way and that we get to see it all. It's
Speaker 6: it's a really well done thing.
Speaker 4: You see footage from when they would take the test,
Speaker 4: like Arcade Cabinet, they would just bring it to this
Speaker 4: place in Chicago and set it down. They put like
Speaker 4: a new game thing on it, and like they would
Speaker 4: basically incognito because I didn't know John Tobias and Ed Boone,
Speaker 4: the guys just kind of like standing there and watching people.
Speaker 5: Try it out.
Speaker 4: And like when we realized, like Ed Boone would go
Speaker 4: up and just like they just thought he was another
Speaker 4: guy and he would do a fatality and just like
Speaker 4: walk away.
Speaker 3: And did they do that?
Speaker 4: Like that that mystery around Mortal Kombat that like I
Speaker 4: feel like I was born in eighty four, so that
Speaker 4: was like that was the time before the Internet where
Speaker 4: it's like that early nineties where people were not looking
Speaker 4: up codes and stuff on the internet, where like that
Speaker 4: could exist where they could bury secrets and stuff. And
Speaker 4: it's like even on the home console once where it's
Speaker 4: like okay, one in three hundred times. When you go
Speaker 4: onto this question mark space on the ladder in Mortal
Speaker 4: Kombat too, you're just like playing pong or whatever, like
Speaker 4: weird shit like that and you wouldn't know it right away,
Speaker 4: stuff like you know, reptiles showing up in the pit
Speaker 4: and people trying to figure out how to fight him,
Speaker 4: and like, I just I'm very nostalgic for that series
Speaker 4: in particular, and that really encapsulates that.
Speaker 3: Time before the Internet kind of like ruined all the mystery.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was like thinking, like I would put up
Speaker 6: being twelve in nineteen ninety five, like against anyone else's
Speaker 6: year being twelve. I think it's like that's the one
Speaker 6: thing I have. And then you know, things weren't great
Speaker 6: after that, but hey, in that moment, things were fantastic,
Speaker 6: and it's like, oh, this also captures that that like
Speaker 6: anything as possible. We have all this new technology, we're
Speaker 6: kind of just figuring it, figuring it out, and they
Speaker 6: kind of immediately became the masters of those that frame
Speaker 6: capture stuff and just making silly things look fun and
Speaker 6: cool and kind of badass. Yeah, and I was I
Speaker 6: was even a super huge Mortal Kombat guy at the
Speaker 6: time back in the nineties, I was a street fighter guy.
Speaker 6: But you know it's like still like seeing that history
Speaker 6: be like, oh yeah, no, this was also awesome. I'm
Speaker 6: so glad they were doing things their own way, in
Speaker 6: a different way than everyone else was developing games and
Speaker 6: seeing that reflected on screen rules.
Speaker 1: If they can do this with sorry real quick, if
Speaker 1: they can do this with the technology that they had,
Speaker 1: then with everything we have now we can.
Speaker 2: Just I'm fra yes, some can definitely frame crafture some stuff.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, make a Mortal Combat, oh Jesus, or frame
Speaker 4: by frame cleaning this It wasn't even like a green
Speaker 4: screen that were working off of, Like no, were they
Speaker 4: just bring it in and just clean it.
Speaker 2: Every individual like they had to make the two themselves.
Speaker 6: And of course there was like Eugene Jarvis Is and
Speaker 6: some other guys were like actually responsible for making the
Speaker 6: tools for some other games right before that and they
Speaker 6: got to like use it. But there wasn't like photo shop.
Speaker 6: They were just kind of figuring this stuff off on
Speaker 6: the stuff on the fly.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, you kind of like Sonya there in
Speaker 4: full gear and just like can you do a thing
Speaker 4: where you kind of like flip over and have your
Speaker 4: legs go over and you know, okay, I'll try that,
Speaker 4: like just telling us like stunt people, like can you
Speaker 4: do a thing where it's.
Speaker 3: Like you're rating and you do it looks disinterested to
Speaker 3: be a job, that's a job whatever, you know, that
Speaker 3: kind of thing.
Speaker 4: Rad and do the torpedo with like one foot fully planted.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think the doc is like almost worth the price
Speaker 3: of admission. Oh you know what I mean, Like, I
Speaker 3: think it's so compelling. I think, you know, more common
Speaker 3: exists in this sort of like enigmatic space for me
Speaker 3: as a as a young person, because I'll be honest,
Speaker 3: I was like a little scared of it. I was
Speaker 3: like eleven, i think when I first started hearing about
Speaker 3: it or twelve, and I was sort of just like
Speaker 3: what the.
Speaker 5: Fuck is this like fucking murder game?
Speaker 3: Like what's going on?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: And it had with that came a lot of intrigue
Speaker 3: and you know, it was more above average in terms
Speaker 3: of like sensitivity back then. But I think it became
Speaker 3: this like very elusive and like mysterious black box for me,
Speaker 3: and I think without it, I would not have been
Speaker 3: drawn to, like, you know, when it had its console
Speaker 3: debut and that was like such a big deal to
Speaker 3: me because it was like forbidden taboo kind of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: watching this doc has really like picked a lot of
Speaker 3: those scabs in a good way for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean, if we're talking like formative moments of the
Speaker 4: video games like Mount Rushmore, for me personally, it's like
Speaker 4: playing Middle of your Solid playing Mario sixty four. And
Speaker 4: when I got ninety one, i was seven. Or my
Speaker 4: cousin who's two years older than me, he took me
Speaker 4: to his dad's like he ran like a gas station basically,
Speaker 4: and he always had one or two arcade machines and
Speaker 4: one pinball machine. So it's typically Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam
Speaker 4: and Adam's family or the Terminator Pinball should go. And
Speaker 4: so every Wednesday, my grandma would pick us up and
Speaker 4: we'd go there and she'd let us have some quarters
Speaker 4: and we'd go play games. And the day we went in,
Speaker 4: they had Mortal Kombat for the first time. Matt, my cousin,
Speaker 4: like went up and he did Scorpions Fatality and I'm
Speaker 4: seven years old and I'm like, that's the coolest fucking
Speaker 4: thing I've ever seen. And then he did sub Zero
Speaker 4: Spine rip and it's like literally like jaw dropping. So
Speaker 4: then it became this thing that like that winter, we
Speaker 4: would go to the gas station. We would buy red
Speaker 4: slurpies at his dad's gas station, and then we would
Speaker 4: go to my grandma's front lawn and play Mortal Kombat,
Speaker 4: and like I would do anuppercut and we would throw
Speaker 4: the red slurpee on the snow so it looked like
Speaker 4: blood was staining all around us. We were I would
Speaker 4: to the principal for fucking like drawing Raiden's fatality and
Speaker 4: just like blood covering the whole page and everything like that.
Speaker 4: Nun saw it and it was like you need to
Speaker 4: go to the principal, like all this like classic Mortal
Speaker 4: Kombat stuff at the right age.
Speaker 3: And just it was just the coolest shit ever. Tell
Speaker 3: me you would not watch an entire season of Young Daniel.
Speaker 3: I would watch that shit. I mean it should be
Speaker 3: a cartoon maybe also, but holy shit, I would be
Speaker 3: all about that your misadventures. What a delight.
Speaker 4: It just it did not get cooler than those early
Speaker 4: days in Mortal Kombat. And like I'm still working through
Speaker 4: the firs, Like it's there's a lot of footage and
Speaker 4: a lot of documentaries like so much. I'm still like
Speaker 4: at the getting near the end of the Arcade MK
Speaker 4: one stuff, and I know it's going to go into
Speaker 4: the console stuff and Mortal Monday and then two three,
Speaker 4: and Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 6: It really is. And I don't I think you're right, Dan,
Speaker 6: that caring about these games goes a long way. I
Speaker 6: think that's not just specific for you, but definitely true
Speaker 6: for you. I think if there's anyone that's like, I
Speaker 6: never cared about Mortal Kombat, will this give me appreciation
Speaker 6: for it? Yes, it will cool this and that. The
Speaker 6: same thing's true for like the Atari fifty thing and
Speaker 6: all that other stuff. If you're like open to that
Speaker 6: sort of thing, these games will deliver on giving you
Speaker 6: the history and all the anecdotes and the emotion of
Speaker 6: like when the the guys like years later found one
Speaker 6: of the original Space Computer Space Arcade machines sitting on
Speaker 6: the side of the road in California and they're just like,
Speaker 6: we're gonna go get this thing. And it's like that
Speaker 6: that sort of stuff is in this Mortal Kombat one
Speaker 6: as well, and they do a really good job of
Speaker 6: sort of conveying why it's important.
Speaker 1: Lovely, lovely, fantastic, folks. That almost does it for video
Speaker 1: game talk, because it's just gonna at play a little seed,
Speaker 1: give give a little tease to y'all at home because
Speaker 1: one of us has played. Well, I guess two of
Speaker 1: us have played Metroid Prime four and we'll be talking
Speaker 1: about it this Friday. That's right, Well, have a little preview,
Speaker 1: get I got some impressions to share. It's about all
Speaker 1: we can say, about all we can say. That's about
Speaker 1: all we can say.
Speaker 3: We will talk. Are you okay? Mike, you should come.
Speaker 3: You should come and we'll talk together.
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, we'll do that.
Speaker 3: Come to the recording.
Speaker 4: Not everything is my God Wall, the Blair Mitch Project.
Speaker 3: You're gonna come and we're gonna talk about Metroid Prime
Speaker 3: for Colon beyond.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, folks, We're gonna go and take a
Speaker 1: quick preaky break and then Jeff Greubb will be back
Speaker 1: with the news.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, we were going to shame Mike for
Speaker 1: everything that he has done.
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Speaker 1: You know we were just talking about teasing some teases
Speaker 1: for later in the week, but sooner.
Speaker 3: Than that, perhaps tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Even Uh, we we got another video, so you should
Speaker 1: pay attention to wherever we post videos, whether details now.
Speaker 2: No, it's not work.
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Speaker 5: No, you know that's how I get most of the scoops.
Speaker 2: It will grab way more than you would think.
Speaker 4: You can see it tonight, Grub. Thanks meet me and
Speaker 4: Jan travel together again.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's not news to me because but Jeff
Speaker 1: Grubb has news for me. Grub.
Speaker 6: That's right, I have the news. Let's start with news
Speaker 6: about more news. PlayStation is announced a State of Play
Speaker 6: Japan special for this week. Let's say it's gonna happen
Speaker 6: today at five pm Eastern two pm Pacific times. So
Speaker 6: h think me and Mike are going to talk over
Speaker 6: If anyone else is around, feel free, but at the
Speaker 6: fair least it will be us.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: I think this is cool.
Speaker 6: They're gonna focus on Japanese games as well as other
Speaker 6: games from Asia, they said. I think that might include
Speaker 6: some of their own, but I bet there will be
Speaker 6: a lot of partner games in there as well. But
Speaker 6: I like it when Sony's like, hey, remember we're a
Speaker 6: Japanese video game company, and uh well I wish that
Speaker 6: uh you know, Worldwatch Studios Japan was still going Japan
Speaker 6: Studios at the very least do something like this to
Speaker 6: gesture at that legacy. And this feels like that's exactly
Speaker 6: what they're doing. You guys have any expectations for this?
Speaker 1: I mean, like they closed all the studios I'm familiar with.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, like I said, think it's gonna be
Speaker 6: partner stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't know if like that means more like
Speaker 5: resident Evil because there's a whole resid eval thing coming,
Speaker 5: so we're probably not seeing that here. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 5: I'm curious what exactly this is point. I mean, like
Speaker 5: i'd love it that it you know, it's like we're
Speaker 5: gonna revive one of those classic sort of Japanese made franchise,
Speaker 5: like here's a new ape Escape. Finally. I don't want
Speaker 5: to set my expectations that high though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we.
Speaker 2: Already saw it off like things go well, so they
Speaker 2: get to that point. Sorry, Jane, go ahead, No.
Speaker 1: No, I was gonna say it's too early to see
Speaker 1: anything about like the new Silent Hill remaster. But that's
Speaker 1: not even gonna remake of one. No, yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: my blueber. It wouldn't show up here anyway.
Speaker 6: There's like there's maybe some other Silent Hill things. Someone said,
Speaker 6: like Anna Pirna they were they doing.
Speaker 5: There's like there's one more. Yeah, there's like one other
Speaker 5: Silent Hill project aside from the remake. We haven't heard
Speaker 5: about it. I forget its the same token will probably
Speaker 5: be there. Oh yeah, COOLi Revell character for Tokon for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah for two someone at chest Head Ridge Racer. So
Speaker 5: now I'm actually gonna lodge onto that and just hope
Speaker 5: desperately that we'll get some ridgies and some races.
Speaker 1: Uh. Would we potentially see anything from.
Speaker 3: Square at all?
Speaker 1: I mean Kingdom I don't want to say Kingdom Hearts
Speaker 1: four because every time I say it, I feel like
Speaker 1: it gets pushed back twelve years.
Speaker 6: Sure, Yeah, I just like, is this big enough for that?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't think we're gonna see anything. We can see
Speaker 5: something from Square Enix, I don't know, but it's gonna
Speaker 5: be like Kenohart's four Found Fantasy seven remake Parts three.
Speaker 3: I have a question where did all the Tango Game
Speaker 3: Works people land they got purchased by Crafton, the pub
Speaker 3: g company. Did they close the studio?
Speaker 2: The studio got.
Speaker 6: Closed by Microsoft and then then a crafted showed. It
Speaker 6: was like, hey, we'll buy what is the rhythm action game.
Speaker 5: I Fi Rush Fi Rush.
Speaker 6: Yes, we'll buy High Fi Rush and the studio so
Speaker 6: that the studio can make a new thing in High
Speaker 6: Fi Rush Universe.
Speaker 3: Tokyo. Am getting that? So no more spooky stuff is
Speaker 3: what you're saying.
Speaker 6: It doesn't seem I don't know if I don't think
Speaker 6: Microsoft sold the Evil Within?
Speaker 2: Is that what those games are called?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think the Microsoft sold Evil Within to Crafton.
Speaker 6: Maybe they sold Ghost Wire Tokyo, but I don't think
Speaker 6: they're interested in that. They're interested in High Fi Rush at.
Speaker 3: Least so far.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay uh.
Speaker 6: Nintendo direct confirmed for the Super Mario Galaxy movie, so
Speaker 6: we have a least they stay to play and or direct.
Speaker 6: They did say that this direct which is happening Wednesday,
Speaker 6: November twelve, so that's tomorrows of the time that we're
Speaker 6: recording this. That'll be at six am Pacific, nine am
Speaker 6: Eastern a two pm GMT. They said this won't have
Speaker 6: video game announcements, which okay, so it's just kind of
Speaker 6: They're probably going to show off the first real trailer
Speaker 6: uh for the Super Mario Galaxy movie and cool. Yeah
Speaker 6: they did this before you guys expecting any sort of
Speaker 6: jaw dropping moments like the moment you aren Chris Pratt
Speaker 6: was going to be Mario.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Nintendo is just so weird because they don't have to
Speaker 1: have a whole direct just put the trailer out.
Speaker 5: Yo, I want to have bets right now? Is Yoshi
Speaker 5: gonna be a Folly voice character? Is he's just gonna
Speaker 5: make Yoshi noises.
Speaker 4: Yoshi noises, Yoshi Yoshi noises.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that would almost seem a bridge, like a
Speaker 3: bridge too Far cartoon had him talking. Way.
Speaker 4: They haven't announced the voice for Yoshi, right, No, No,
Speaker 4: they're gonna.
Speaker 5: Probably announce some voices that we're gonna get the Rosalina
Speaker 5: voice actress probably here, right.
Speaker 4: Yoshi's gonna be Jeremy Irons, Okay.
Speaker 5: Now boards Jeremy Irons. Yeah, do you guys? You guys
Speaker 5: see the Pillsbury uh Cookie Company leaked the Yeah she
Speaker 5: looks good and.
Speaker 3: Wait what happened yesterday? Does no one watch all the
Speaker 3: shows on this website. Jillsbury leaked the design of the
Speaker 3: Yoshi Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yoshi cook cookie box and Junior stamp oh yeah featured
Speaker 6: in to this movie.
Speaker 3: But no one has sucked up the design of Yoshi.
Speaker 5: It's hard to do. He's pretty cute.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: How's Sbouser Junior just show up? It was like be like,
Speaker 5: oh right, my son that I forgot to acknowledge in
Speaker 5: the last Yeah exactly, yeah school right exactly.
Speaker 6: He's home for a summer summer break, and they won't
Speaker 6: bring up the fact that he doesn't have a mom.
Speaker 2: They just won't come up.
Speaker 4: Well, well, he's got questions about his mom based on Sunshine.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, grub.
Speaker 4: I saw during your show somebody in the chat said,
Speaker 4: is Bowser Junior gonna make a six to seven joke?
Speaker 4: And some people thought he would, And I'll say it
Speaker 4: if he does. If Bowser Junior makes a six to
Speaker 4: seven reference, I will never play another Nintendo game.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, that is not a zero percent chance.
Speaker 4: I careful chance, an opportunity gonna happen to.
Speaker 3: Do the funniest thing.
Speaker 4: Chris Son, if you are listening, get back in the
Speaker 4: v O booth not gonna.
Speaker 6: They would, they Wouldn'tintendo is better than that. Odds he's
Speaker 6: still digesting hat to this day. Yeah, ever, very famously
Speaker 6: eater of hats. Yeah, you know what's weird is that
Speaker 6: Yoshi is not look great.
Speaker 5: What was more upsetting to me on the Pillsbury thing
Speaker 5: was seeing the movie Chris Pratt Mario doing the Mario
Speaker 5: Galaxy flying post from that box art just looks weird.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I have a canonical idea in my head of
Speaker 6: what that looks like. You're right, And anything that's off
Speaker 6: is like a it feels like the Okay Uncanny Valley
Speaker 6: is happening here.
Speaker 5: There's like they released a teaser trailer along with the
Speaker 5: announcement of this direct and it is like toads on
Speaker 5: the water for like the star like festival whatever it
Speaker 5: is that does happen in the game. So, uh, it
Speaker 5: is interesting, like we are adapting that one already. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and it makes to get because you do get Yoshi,
Speaker 5: you get Rosalina, you get a bunch of new characters
Speaker 5: and toys.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If we get a voice for Yoshi, genuinely, besides Jeremy Irons,
Speaker 1: who would y'all want?
Speaker 5: Chat? Said Ben Schwartz. On, Like that sounds right.
Speaker 1: They can't have Ben Schwartz, he's.
Speaker 3: Sonic John Malkovich, please, thank you.
Speaker 1: Here's my pick. Jenny Slate.
Speaker 2: Oh it's one that'd be fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Wow?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 3: Because she already.
Speaker 2: N Butler so son he could sue him again.
Speaker 1: If you can't get if you can't get Ben Schwartz,
Speaker 1: get Jenny Slaate his sister, so they can just Yoshi please.
Speaker 5: Jenny slap. But it's only using clips of her voice
Speaker 5: from hosting the YouTube Comedy Awards.
Speaker 4: No one tried to keep something on the rails more
Speaker 4: than her in that moment.
Speaker 5: It usually has to be like it's like I'm like
Speaker 5: a you know, non reverend goofball and like she's trying
Speaker 5: to hold it together against Norm McDonald.
Speaker 3: Jenny Slay. Now I'm thinking Kristin Shawl for yoh uh, I.
Speaker 1: Could see its Kristin Shawl for Bowser Junior would go
Speaker 1: so hard, God, that's actually she could do that.
Speaker 6: That's actually pretty good kind.
Speaker 4: Of Bowser Junior. Like I think I was anti Bowser
Speaker 4: Junior at first because they really wreckoned the coopl Lings,
Speaker 4: and I really love the Coopling.
Speaker 2: It wasn't Bowser Junior's fault, though, don't take it out
Speaker 2: on him.
Speaker 4: No Boers decided that these seven children weren't his kids anymore.
Speaker 4: Basically a bad guy, and then he had a new
Speaker 4: favorite son. But I won a Coopling revival questions.
Speaker 5: I really saw that they were in all of the
Speaker 5: New Mario Brothers games that got put into Smash Brothers.
Speaker 5: They you know what the other Smash Brothers. I should
Speaker 5: think what you thought? I wanted them back. Then they
Speaker 5: came back and I got tired of them pretty quickly.
Speaker 3: What are you talking?
Speaker 4: They're gonna have silly names. They look goofy, some of
Speaker 4: them sunglasses.
Speaker 6: Some bad issues because there were seven of them. And
Speaker 6: then the dad named the eighth kid Bowser Junior. What
Speaker 6: does that do to somebody like Orbison? Like let me
Speaker 6: Motorhead just dirt bag years. Oh yeah, yeah, Ludwig Vaughn.
Speaker 6: Isn't there like Ludwig?
Speaker 5: That's my favorite?
Speaker 4: Like they're cool.
Speaker 6: That is weird, though, I guess we'll find out the
Speaker 6: answers to all these questions and more on Wednesday for
Speaker 6: the Nintendo direct covering the Super Mario Galaxy movie.
Speaker 4: I'm just looking up pictures of Cooplings this makes me
Speaker 4: happy that.
Speaker 2: Movie's out in April.
Speaker 6: Good for the Grand Theft Auto six has been delayed
Speaker 6: again to the end of twenty twenty six, and that
Speaker 6: happened within the last se days. It was surprised. Tom
Speaker 6: Be like, oh yeah, it feels like I had it
Speaker 6: forever ago. This is another delay. It's now coming out
Speaker 6: November nineteenth. I said somewhere, I think when we first
Speaker 6: talked about this on Game mess Mornings, that this doesn't
Speaker 6: even feel like a real delay because it's for them,
Speaker 6: it's so easy to move this because it's in the
Speaker 6: same fiscal year. You weren't moving it past Christmas. It's
Speaker 6: honestly might do even better in this slot. So for them,
Speaker 6: it's like this doesn't feel like a negative in any way,
Speaker 6: and they get more time to make the game better.
Speaker 6: So I'm I wasn't surprised at all to learn that
Speaker 6: this had happened. There could still be more delays, but
Speaker 6: I feel like at this point it's a little less
Speaker 6: likely if.
Speaker 3: You're even convinced that it will come out in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty six, yeah, yeah, then sure.
Speaker 6: I mean it could easily move to March of twenty
Speaker 6: twenty seven, very easily. Because that would again again still
Speaker 6: be the same fiscal year. But yeah, they're the reasons
Speaker 6: for it. They just like they basically are saying, we
Speaker 6: want to make sure that the launch goes perfectly. We
Speaker 6: don't want to ruin any chance or risk any chance
Speaker 6: that this game will not be accepted as one of
Speaker 6: the best games ever made when it comes out, and
Speaker 6: we don't want any backlash. So and they're trying to
Speaker 6: nail it now, nail it down with this initial launch.
Speaker 1: And perhaps they're just trying to hope other negative stories
Speaker 1: surrounding Rockstar are just gets covered up.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: The timing of this was it was right before their
Speaker 6: earnings report. But they also laid off about thirty to
Speaker 6: forty people. Fired forty people because of gross miths conduct,
Speaker 6: is their claim. And what is that gross Miths conduct?
Speaker 6: They were talking openly about their business, which I guess
Speaker 6: Rockstar was arguing this violation of the NBA, but they
Speaker 6: were talking about that in a discord about their business
Speaker 6: because it was a place where they were organizing for
Speaker 6: labor so that they could all be in a union.
Speaker 6: And so the expectation here's Rockstar fired a bunch of
Speaker 6: people for trying to form or to strengthen the union
Speaker 6: that exists. The maybe notable thing there is the number
Speaker 6: of people in the union that relates to Rockstar passed
Speaker 6: a certain threshold in the UK where it's like, now
Speaker 6: the Rockstar will be forced because it's over this number
Speaker 6: to have a collective bargaining talks with this group. Well,
Speaker 6: I bet these firings put it back below that number,
Speaker 6: which maybe a little suspicious, but yeah, that definitely happened,
Speaker 6: and then got buried by this news that Grand Theft.
Speaker 2: Auto six what was being delayed.
Speaker 6: Marvel nineteen forty three, Rise of Hydra also delayed. They
Speaker 6: have not given it a new date. It was supposed
Speaker 6: to come out in early twenty twenty six. All they're
Speaker 6: saying it is now coming beyond that date. This is
Speaker 6: a game that feels like it's not real every time
Speaker 6: it was what I say every time we talk.
Speaker 3: Goot, it is this the one with a Black Panther
Speaker 3: in it?
Speaker 6: Yes, this is Black Panther and Captain America in it
Speaker 6: is Captain America Ray in World War Two. So it's
Speaker 6: not the Black Panther game from EA, which I think
Speaker 6: that's the one that got canceled. This is the separate
Speaker 6: game from Amy Hennick's team and sky Dance. So Larry
Speaker 6: Ll since money is behind this and it is going
Speaker 6: to be like an uncharted like but with these these
Speaker 6: two characters, it's hard to say. We don't we don't
Speaker 6: really know much. The only the only place that this
Speaker 6: game's ever really shown up is an Unreal Engine event
Speaker 6: where like the technology of the game was shown.
Speaker 2: Off because it's using Unreal Engine. Beyond that, we just
Speaker 2: haven't seen much about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a trailer from what feels like years
Speaker 1: ago at this point, and.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, I don't know, it's just very confusing. H yep.
Speaker 6: We'll see if that that gets like a new dat
Speaker 6: or when that re emerges, you know, I'll say this game.
Speaker 6: There's a handful of games that are in this weird
Speaker 6: spot of they were too big or too close or
Speaker 6: sort of the only bet that some of these companies had,
Speaker 6: so they aren't part of that batch of games that's
Speaker 6: been getting canceled, but there was quite a few of
Speaker 6: those recently where all these companies were pulling back, like
Speaker 6: Perfect Dark got canceled, Like there's a lot of stuff
Speaker 6: in that bucket. This game feels like the next bucket over,
Speaker 6: which is this game at a lot of other companies
Speaker 6: probably would have been canceled by now, but the companies
Speaker 6: now instead probably just trying to hedge their bets and
Speaker 6: figure out exactly what it is and maybe try to
Speaker 6: get it out the door instead.
Speaker 2: For Suicide Squad, Yeah, it.
Speaker 5: Just seems the idea of canceling another aiming headed game
Speaker 5: just seems.
Speaker 3: So rude to me.
Speaker 5: At this point, she hasn't been able to release a
Speaker 5: game that she's had a big role in since the
Speaker 5: p S three era. It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 6: Jesus, all right, let's keep going here. Four years into
Speaker 6: a into the ten year plan, Halo Infinite is officially
Speaker 6: ending major updates.
Speaker 3: That's wild.
Speaker 6: That game is only four years old, it feels much.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Does that include when it got delayed that it's supposed
Speaker 3: to be a launch game for the series series? Yeah?
Speaker 5: The series?
Speaker 3: Yes, your series series. Yeah, so I guess you put
Speaker 3: it like that year.
Speaker 2: I guess it can out in twenty twenty one then, yeah, wild.
Speaker 6: So yeah, anyway, they are ending development for that game.
Speaker 2: They're getting it's getting.
Speaker 6: One more major update, and then next year we'll get
Speaker 6: Halo Campaign Evolved, which is the remake of the campaign
Speaker 6: of the first game, and that obviously begs the question,
Speaker 6: Halo is a famous multiplayer series. What will be the
Speaker 6: replacement in terms of what where do you point people
Speaker 6: now to go play Halo multiplayer? Well, obviously they must
Speaker 6: have something to answer that coming soon as well. It
Speaker 6: won't be part of that campaign Evolved, that's just the campaign.
Speaker 6: So yeah, they'll have a chance to announce whatever that is,
Speaker 6: but clearly they're getting getting ready to move on Halo Infinite.
Speaker 6: That was such a weird situation because now we're at
Speaker 6: a point where everyone kind of talks about it. It's like,
Speaker 6: I like that game, and then they're like, well, why
Speaker 6: did anyone play it? It's it's just because it didn't
Speaker 6: have immediate massive gobs of like oncoming content at all
Speaker 6: times because they just couldn't figure out the engine. So
Speaker 6: they're using unre ungine this time. Hopefully that we'll address
Speaker 6: that and they'll be able to figure it out. But
Speaker 6: I don't know what, because what do you do? It's
Speaker 6: is it gonna just be feel like Halo Infinite again?
Speaker 6: I don't know what you do with Halo. Do you
Speaker 6: guys have any insight?
Speaker 3: No, idea put the Simpsons in it, you know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: change the whole Fortnite map into yeah Halo, And I
Speaker 3: don't know, I don't.
Speaker 5: Know what you do, because I mean I really liked it,
Speaker 5: right and like boy, like people just the vibe around
Speaker 5: have got so bad so quickly from and there were
Speaker 5: false It's hard to just make a lot of content
Speaker 5: for a game like that, So how do you somehow
Speaker 5: smooth out that that process? I mean, they're gonna try
Speaker 5: AI And that's my fear is that the next Halo
Speaker 5: is like, this is gonna be Microsoft Howard right right,
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a lot of that bs. It didn't
Speaker 5: even turn out Whirl in the game.
Speaker 4: No Windows.
Speaker 3: I just I just think there is a certain amount
Speaker 3: of rust on Halo that you just can't polish off.
Speaker 3: And I just whether that's like brand rot or whatever
Speaker 3: it is, there's just something about that franchise that has
Speaker 3: not been able to like generationally continue its momentum for
Speaker 3: whatever reason.
Speaker 1: Do you all think it is going to go by
Speaker 1: the ways of like Medal of Honor.
Speaker 3: I don't think son Metal of Honor, Halo's much has
Speaker 3: a much longer legacy than.
Speaker 1: For sure, not able to adapt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. I think it's too big. I
Speaker 5: think I think they'll figure something out probably. I mean
Speaker 5: seems like Battlefield was dead and then it just kind
Speaker 5: of takes one game for to finally get people they
Speaker 5: want basically, and all of a sudden, Battlefield is huge.
Speaker 6: Again.
Speaker 5: I don't think Halo is like going away or anything.
Speaker 5: They'll even if the next one doesn't work against somehow,
Speaker 5: and even the one after that, Microsoft will have the
Speaker 5: funds to brute force it eventually. I think you're right.
Speaker 6: I think it hit when when, like when people are
Speaker 6: ready and receptive toward a new Kalo.
Speaker 3: So I think I think it's I think it's one
Speaker 3: of those things that it's like we got to like
Speaker 3: put it on the shelf for a little bit, give
Speaker 3: it to bun you know. Yeah, you know, like like
Speaker 3: you do with the they're not working with anything with
Speaker 3: the secret recipe. Yeah, and then when the time's right,
Speaker 3: it'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Uh all right, seven years is more? Hey, what's going
Speaker 2: on with Microsoft stuff?
Speaker 6: Seven years after it was announced the Elder Scrolls six
Speaker 6: is still a long way off. Todd Howard says, basically,
Speaker 6: he's like, yeah, we're working on it, we have Fallout
Speaker 6: stuff happening, like there's probably a Fallout three remaster being done,
Speaker 6: just like Oblivion. He didn't say that part, but that
Speaker 6: seems to be what he's suggesting. Uh, But then, yeah,
Speaker 6: the team is working in Earnest on the next Elder
Speaker 6: Scrolls game. But I think he's also kind of suggesting,
Speaker 6: we really did just finish star Starfield Starfield and yeah,
Speaker 6: and so now, yeah.
Speaker 5: Think about what the name of it was, right, well, yeah,
Speaker 5: you know they had all those they had those expansions
Speaker 5: to make for star Field that were just you know,
Speaker 5: eating up right.
Speaker 2: And I think they still right.
Speaker 6: That first one was very negatively received by everyone except
Speaker 6: for Greg Miller. And then I think coming into Greg today,
Speaker 6: I didn't mean to grub, meant to Yeah, now, let's
Speaker 6: still directly attack that man.
Speaker 2: Otherwise I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 3: I physically attacked him.
Speaker 6: I So we'll see this game at some point. Still,
Speaker 6: obviously they're going to make another Elder Scrolls. But are
Speaker 6: we talking twenty twenty eight or twenty thirty.
Speaker 5: Or twenty thirty You shut the hanging up.
Speaker 2: It could easily be twenty thirty.
Speaker 3: But it's just wild.
Speaker 5: I mean it's just wild again that we went from
Speaker 5: getting obliviated Skyrim on the same console to just we're
Speaker 5: talking about twenty thirty when the last one happened.
Speaker 6: But Mike Starfield would come up, I'd be like, I
Speaker 6: think it's a bad idea, and you'd be like, no, they.
Speaker 5: Need to try something missed me everybody. I was always like,
Speaker 5: they should not be making a starfill what is this.
Speaker 5: Everyone's like, hey, we need to do new things in
Speaker 5: the industry. It's great, Well, there you go. You got
Speaker 5: your fucking bad space version of Fallout and it was
Speaker 5: awful and looked like crap. And that's one of the
Speaker 5: reason why it s game is going to take so long,
Speaker 5: because it's gonna take them forever to either update their
Speaker 5: aging technology. Don't Actually it was supposed to be though, right.
Speaker 5: It was only because I have to assume so much
Speaker 5: energy had to go into the bs of randomly generating
Speaker 5: these planets, which I bet was technically impressive in some
Speaker 5: way but was not fun or interesting anyway, and then
Speaker 5: developing all of these systems like space combats and base building,
Speaker 5: all of which exists in absolute microcosms that don't interact
Speaker 5: with each other in any meaningful way whatsoever. They probably
Speaker 5: spent hundreds of maybe thousands of hours of manpower to
Speaker 5: create this thing where you get to make your own
Speaker 5: spaceship only so that I can complete a mandatory side
Speaker 5: mission and get a better one anyway, So I guess
Speaker 5: I'll just fucking use that. I'm sorry, Startfield's bad.
Speaker 4: You can tell Mike's getting real hot when he's like
Speaker 4: he does the thing where he looks off at the
Speaker 4: distance and he's talking with his hands.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's locking, he's blocking out the voices. He's apologizing.
Speaker 6: That makes sense anyway, Starfield see like a misstep. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it was a miss step.
Speaker 5: And I don't know how you rebound with older Scroll
Speaker 5: six because the expectations are going to be so ridiculously
Speaker 5: it's even a matter of just falling up Skyrim. It's
Speaker 5: a matter of now competing with what people like about
Speaker 5: like some of the big RPGs, like like boorders Gate
Speaker 5: or even you know, Witcher three and stuff like that,
Speaker 5: and trying to do that with what people are expecting
Speaker 5: production wise.
Speaker 6: Good luck.
Speaker 1: What is post Malone doing? You know, he didn't he
Speaker 1: tease it or is he he was just super jazzed
Speaker 1: about it. No Elder scroll six, Oh, I think.
Speaker 5: My post Malone have to do is it?
Speaker 2: I think he has jazzed.
Speaker 6: I think he did mention this as one of his games,
Speaker 6: but he was just involved in another game recently. He
Speaker 6: came up when I mentioned it mentioned in someone's like
Speaker 6: post Malone's game, and I can't remember what that game was. Anyway,
Speaker 6: Fans believe that a new Crash Team Racing game could
Speaker 6: be in the works. B Knox, the studio behind Crash
Speaker 6: Team Racing nitro Fueled, could be working on a new
Speaker 6: game in the series. This all emerged due to a
Speaker 6: new profile image that the company used, which featured Crash
Speaker 6: Bandicooting in his cart. But it's the Crash Bandicoot four model,
Speaker 6: which was not nitro Fueled. So people are like, oh,
Speaker 6: is this a new Crash Team Racing where they're going
Speaker 6: to use the new model for Crash Bandicoot. And I
Speaker 6: think that that's probably going to happen because that last
Speaker 6: game sold like ten million copies, and I think they're like, hey,
Speaker 6: maybe we should do another cart racing game featuring Crash
Speaker 6: especially since that team. I think it was B Knox
Speaker 6: that did that Crash Party Bash weird bad multiplayer game,
Speaker 6: kind of fun?
Speaker 5: Uh not crad No no, no, no, no no no,
Speaker 5: we're talking about very recent Remember they made a kind
Speaker 5: of like kind of a mobave that weird thing. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean as bad as if.
Speaker 2: It was a really poor choice.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, business wise, terrible decision.
Speaker 4: Oh maybe now, Like I mean, people really wanted to
Speaker 4: like Sonic Racing because they were disappointed by Mario Kart World,
Speaker 4: So maybe now is a good time for Crash Team Racing.
Speaker 3: I don't love people.
Speaker 6: Yeah, people, CTR is great.
Speaker 5: People loved the remaking and the remakes so very well,
Speaker 5: I believe. Yeah, so, I mean absolutely, why not do
Speaker 5: another one of those?
Speaker 6: It's just so I think it is happening because of
Speaker 6: those factors, like it sold well and that last Crash
Speaker 6: thing was mean to do. To be Knox, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Diddy Kong Racing, Chuck in the chat is right, Bring
Speaker 4: back Diddy Kong Racing. Give us an adventure mode with
Speaker 4: boss fights and a cart racer.
Speaker 3: Please, great, n.
Speaker 2: That's still not a race.
Speaker 6: He's down on there yet, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Did anyone check out the Kirby Air Ride demo.
Speaker 6: One weekend.
Speaker 4: I need a few more hours of directs before I
Speaker 4: dive in.
Speaker 5: What's happening here?
Speaker 4: You got to get your hours in.
Speaker 2: It's it's a licensing thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, So Crash Tam Racing probably happy happening. Uh,
Speaker 6: here's another game that's probably happening. EA remains committed. A
Speaker 6: BioWare blog says to dispel rumors and reassure fans about
Speaker 6: Mass Effect five and the fact that it is still coming.
Speaker 6: My gambo, who's basically in charge over there, especially in
Speaker 6: charge of that game, did an update on in seven
Speaker 6: day November seventh, which is the unofficial Mass Effect Holiday.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: They were like, hey, yeah, we're still really working on this,
Speaker 6: and everyone involved that is important to making sure that
Speaker 6: this will actually see the light of day is on
Speaker 6: board with this, and I still believe that. I also
Speaker 6: believe this is the last time that would be the case.
Speaker 4: I was the last BioWare game that was generally well received.
Speaker 5: It'd probably be a Mass Effect three was twenty the Inquisition.
Speaker 5: Inquisition was well received, was like a lot of places
Speaker 5: game of the year. Yeah, it kind of later got
Speaker 5: reconsidered to be, you know, a bit worse than that,
Speaker 5: but at the time, it was Rosie, but you know,
Speaker 5: since then it's just been you know, astronomical failures with
Speaker 5: Andromeda and Anthem and then like missing the mark with
Speaker 5: the Veil Guard, right, not a terrible right then.
Speaker 2: Didn't live up to hopes and expectations for sure.
Speaker 1: Right right.
Speaker 5: So I mean it definitely feels like Mass Effect five
Speaker 5: is do or die for Bar. It might be do
Speaker 5: and die anyways the place things are going. Uh, but
Speaker 5: they you know, they absolutely need this one hit, and
Speaker 5: boy that it's a tall ask to try to make
Speaker 5: one of these games these days with the amount of
Speaker 5: expectations and just how ravenous that fan base is. And
Speaker 5: they have a very specific idea in their mind. I'm
Speaker 5: sure of what they want the next Mass Effect, and.
Speaker 6: It's not like to be set up for like an
Speaker 6: obvious follow up, right because they have that dramata kind
Speaker 6: of poisoning the well a little bits. And I think
Speaker 6: they want to still respect Andromeda, so as the game
Speaker 6: is going to go back to the Milky Way and
Speaker 6: it takes place something like four hundred years after the
Speaker 6: original stuff, but it does seem like they want to
Speaker 6: tie it to those original games in some way. That's
Speaker 6: a tough needle to thread, so we'll see if they're
Speaker 6: able to pull it off.
Speaker 1: I love and respect every different group of fans for games, right,
Speaker 1: Silent Hill freaks, Kingdom Hearts freaks, whatever, the people that
Speaker 1: super excited about when it is November seventh every year
Speaker 1: for n seven day?
Speaker 3: Oh is that what it fucking is? Yes? Yeah? Such
Speaker 3: big nerds.
Speaker 1: Wow, and I'm sorry, it's just like what nerds?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: Let's get janon in seven Hoodie. I think I think
Speaker 2: you should joined the crew.
Speaker 1: I thought those were really cool. Anyway, though, I tell
Speaker 1: you seven.
Speaker 5: The aesthetics and MASSIFCT they're great. There's there's a lot
Speaker 5: like about that franchise.
Speaker 3: I love Mass Effect. It's good.
Speaker 4: Eight out of ten series.
Speaker 2: Okay, what would you say about March tenth, Mario day,
Speaker 2: Jan That's fine, that's fun Mario for cool dudes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3: Like May fifth, that's great. May fourth.
Speaker 5: The last of us days the worst, just like the
Speaker 5: day the pandemic happens.
Speaker 1: That's just terrible.
Speaker 5: The Lore people making their nine to eleven our day
Speaker 5: of celebration for the franchise doing that is they are
Speaker 5: the video? Yeah?
Speaker 3: He does that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I like Martin Luther king Day. That's great.
Speaker 5: Sure day like the math number March that's fun. It's fun.
Speaker 2: Then you can like have an excuse deep pie, I
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: Claire Obscars snubbed in Grammy Video Games Soundtrack nominations. Mike,
Speaker 6: just all right, buckle up, it's okay. The twenty twenty
Speaker 6: six Grammy nominations. Her bat Score soundtrack for video games
Speaker 6: includes Avatar, Frontiers of Pandora, Secrets of the Spires, DLC,
Speaker 6: Hell Divers two, Indiana Jones, and The Great Circle, Star Wars, Outlaws,
Speaker 6: Wild Card in, Pirate's Fortune, and Sword of the Seas.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's stop righting. So you're telling me they couldn't
Speaker 5: find like enough actual games that came out that they
Speaker 5: thought had pretty good soundjacks that they were doing just
Speaker 5: the deo seas stoopy soft license games just because, probably
Speaker 5: because all the fucking grant people are like, wow, I
Speaker 5: know what an Avatar and Star Wars is, Indiana Jones,
Speaker 5: I know that. And then somehow somehow Hell Divers to
Speaker 5: and Sore the Sea managed to sneak in there. What
Speaker 5: the hell is this bullshit? It's just it's nothing. It's
Speaker 5: not a serious category. It's this is my serious f
Speaker 5: now whatever they're doing.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: Now, of course Christopher ten won a Grammy before for
Speaker 6: Bobby Yet too, Mike, so they do they know it
Speaker 6: wasn't a video game category at the time he just won.
Speaker 5: It was not right, so that's why it was me.
Speaker 5: And then they're like, well, we got to look like
Speaker 5: we're not, you know, the old assholes that we are,
Speaker 5: so we'll have a video games soundtrack category. And it's
Speaker 5: fucking embarrassing. What the hell is it? You don't have
Speaker 5: clear up scure, Like somebody in there had to be like,
Speaker 5: well wait a moment, now you can't about clear up scure.
Speaker 6: I think Michael O'Leary kind of gets it here where
Speaker 6: it's like you be submits everything Sony submitted sort of
Speaker 6: the sea. Yeah, the people who like are responsible for
Speaker 6: this game didn't know you even needed to submit. Sure,
Speaker 6: I didn't know that was a thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it's just a nom or whatever.
Speaker 6: I'm sure submissions helps, but you probably can nominate anything,
Speaker 6: but I bet the submissions go a long way toward
Speaker 6: getting those things considered more than anything that wasn't submitted.
Speaker 1: For as much as I have my ambitions for Hollywood,
Speaker 1: and I just keep trying to plug stuff and just like, hey,
Speaker 1: put me in shit, I need Mike Minati to be
Speaker 1: in an episode of The Chair Come.
Speaker 4: But oh my god, that's that's the new Tim Robinson
Speaker 4: j Yeah should Daniel? Can you sound in the last one?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: I cackled very very loudly of that one. That's not
Speaker 6: Prestige TV. It's comedy, right or is it prestige comedy?
Speaker 4: It's comedy. It's a weird fucking comedy. Surreal isn't the
Speaker 4: right word. It's like dada. Yeah, yeah, it's one percent.
Speaker 4: Actually that is the best way to put it down.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: I imagine if Salvador Dolly made like also like a comedy.
Speaker 3: I think you should series.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, okay to say what happened in the last one.
Speaker 1: Jan but you know, I know, I know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to spoil anything for anyone listening at home.
Speaker 3: I think the powers that be got back Lar. I
Speaker 3: don't know what happened. Yeah, he looks like.
Speaker 6: He was worried about. In a meeting recently, there was
Speaker 6: a man doing some of his electricity. He was worried
Speaker 6: about that opening up box maybe the guy came back
Speaker 6: and finished the job.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, anyway, I'm done with the news, so might hand
Speaker 6: the show back over to jam folks.
Speaker 3: We're gonna take a quick bricky break.
Speaker 1: We're gonna check in with Backlar to see if he
Speaker 1: fell into the Internet holes and if his Internet holes
Speaker 1: got wider. Uh, that's that's gonna be it. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be all that we talk about the with of holes
Speaker 1: on this program. Just band past this. Gosh, yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's going to be a different thing about his body.
Speaker 4: Why can't I forget everything, whether I went to or
Speaker 4: not and that one holes?
Speaker 3: It just sucks that I know that.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll see you right after this. These are
Speaker 1: the emails the show emails. Bombcasta giant bomb dot COM's
Speaker 1: email address to send your emails too. If you know
Speaker 1: where Jeff Backlar is, please email us at podcast at
Speaker 1: giant pop dot com.
Speaker 3: We don't know where he is, man take him.
Speaker 6: We have no War of the worlds could be happening
Speaker 6: in New Jersey, right, we would have no idea. Holy smokes,
Speaker 6: there's no way to find out. There's no way to check.
Speaker 6: We've we've checked all the proper places.
Speaker 5: The way to check is that Facebook?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, trying to get back online, he says.
Speaker 6: I don't know. That doesn't sound like him. I think
Speaker 6: the alien's already got him.
Speaker 5: Maybe the tripods wrote that.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, maybe it was uh.
Speaker 1: I was gonna try and work in War of the Worlds,
Speaker 1: but the ice Cube one. But I don't want to
Speaker 1: think about that movie again. That was this year, Holy Ship.
Speaker 1: That's every day?
Speaker 3: All right? Once again?
Speaker 1: BombCast John bomb dot com is email. Just send your
Speaker 1: emails to first email comes from Arthur Oho. I am conflicted.
Speaker 1: Do you seem like a bunch of guys who know
Speaker 1: what to do with an excess of game materials stored
Speaker 1: in boxes? Since I was a wee lad, I've collected
Speaker 1: and kept every Nintendo console and a wide collection of games.
Speaker 4: For each from send them to me, that's what you
Speaker 4: do with them?
Speaker 1: From the SNS onwards. I'm now in my thirties and
Speaker 1: I'm in possession of a collection that fills five large
Speaker 1: plastic boxes sequestered in the room I rent. The problem
Speaker 1: is I have very little free storage space, thanks terrible
Speaker 1: housing economy, and they're always a pain to transport every
Speaker 1: time I move thanks again. Terrible housing economy. As it stands,
Speaker 1: they're sitting idly in tubs, never being enjoyed due to
Speaker 1: my limited time and shelving. And it's started to feel silly.
Speaker 3: That being said.
Speaker 1: Does owning a copy of Duck Dodgers the Marvin Missions
Speaker 1: for SNS spark joy?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes it does.
Speaker 1: So here's a question. Do I go about selling or
Speaker 1: giving these to others to actually enjoy or continue to
Speaker 1: cling onto them and hope I will one day be
Speaker 1: able to enjoy the collection? Thanks for all you do.
Speaker 1: Thanks for all you have done and continue to do.
Speaker 1: Arthur from among the boxes.
Speaker 2: Get out of your system.
Speaker 3: Dan, go ahead, give me the games, give me, give
Speaker 3: me the game.
Speaker 5: Don't give them to Dan. He's guys, He's got plenty.
Speaker 4: Look I don't have any.
Speaker 5: He's not a private collection. My collection is behind me
Speaker 5: right there. You could see. Yeah, good, look at I'm
Speaker 5: displaying it right now.
Speaker 3: You Yeah, but I don't know. I could never.
Speaker 6: I can never put up some of your games for sale,
Speaker 6: and then if it begins to hurt, stop doing it
Speaker 6: and then find a way to keep it. But yeah,
Speaker 6: just try to reduce it some like start somewhere. There's
Speaker 6: got to be something that's not Duck Dodgers quality that
Speaker 6: you are, like, man, this one, this specific one, actually
Speaker 6: doesn't spark joy.
Speaker 5: Just reduce it. Try to get it down to four
Speaker 5: bends and go from there. It does suck that, Like, yeah,
Speaker 5: you don't have a way to display them. That's what
Speaker 5: makes it fun, even you're not playing them all the time.
Speaker 5: Like just walking into this room and the first thing
Speaker 5: I see is this wall of old video games.
Speaker 1: I like.
Speaker 5: It makes me happy, right, I like, I like that.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's rough just seeing them in boxes like that, though.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 4: I just got a brand new AMBO display cabinet from
Speaker 4: Facebook Marketplace, and it's delightful. They're going to see themed
Speaker 4: it's a three by three grid and no, there's the
Speaker 4: Smash Brothers one, there's the animal cross saying, there's the
Speaker 4: Zelda looks great.
Speaker 1: Was it specifically made for Ambo's or.
Speaker 4: It's just like no, I looked for like two months
Speaker 4: and I had running searches for things that like I
Speaker 4: needed to be the right size for all these and
Speaker 4: I had measured out for this area by the fireplace,
Speaker 4: and it's perfect.
Speaker 6: You'll see, it's big enough for all the Ambo or
Speaker 6: select amebo all my amebo.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's the thing fucking twelve feet tall.
Speaker 4: No, No, it's got like you know, nine nine chambers
Speaker 4: or whatever.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 2: That's my favorite.
Speaker 6: Wa That's what I was going to go.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised Mike didn't make the joke first.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Next email comes from Mike from Loveland. Hello, crew of
Speaker 1: the good Ship Bomb Cast. You've almost done it. The
Speaker 1: episode is almost done. You guys crushed it. Insightful and entertaining.
Speaker 1: Another instant classic. What's your favorite post show snack?
Speaker 3: Love the show? Love you all, Mike from Loveland.
Speaker 4: I got two that I've been into most of this year.
Speaker 4: You got the Sargento Smart Breaks, which is one of
Speaker 4: the things that's like a little plastic tub and he
Speaker 4: pulled the top off. And the one I like is
Speaker 4: it's got wheat thins and then pepper jack cheese squares
Speaker 4: and cheddar chee squares and you make yourself little just
Speaker 4: snacky things. And the other ones is you got the
Speaker 4: Sobra things where it's a dual thing where you you
Speaker 4: pop it off and one chamber is the lot of
Speaker 4: chambers going on his little pretzel rings, and the other
Speaker 4: one is hummus, great, great little snack.
Speaker 1: Though, Oh I bet it is a good stack.
Speaker 3: I like that he's back, al, He's back, he's easy eating.
Speaker 5: What's that's the fund way he's eating right now? For
Speaker 5: this question?
Speaker 3: Was eating? And all right, I don't know what to
Speaker 3: do anymore. If you move to al a civilized state
Speaker 3: like Ohio in the blood Sugar, you could have just eaten.
Speaker 3: It's the street I live on, like, I don't know
Speaker 3: what I have to I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5: We need to start campaigning your internet company? Do we
Speaker 5: need to like get a grass?
Speaker 3: Everyone one knows their bet.
Speaker 2: It's bad again?
Speaker 5: You look okay right now you can complained again for.
Speaker 3: The Audioptimum and yeah, it's just it's insane, uhazing in
Speaker 3: and out of time right now? You don't need the
Speaker 3: internet for his job.
Speaker 5: Have you tried? Have you tried putting all your stuff
Speaker 5: in the basement and says, see if it works better
Speaker 5: down there?
Speaker 3: Yes, it's the the level of I feel like I'm
Speaker 3: handcuffed in a way that like can you just have
Speaker 3: no options? And they're the worst company on earth?
Speaker 6: Have you like replaced your modem and all that stuff done?
Speaker 2: Okay, I had some jerk off here. Yes, should I
Speaker 2: that's your problem. You can't be doing with jerk offs.
Speaker 3: Didn't do shi. It was just like everything's fine. I
Speaker 3: was like, well, thank you, you fixed it.
Speaker 5: Your service is awful. Then it is frustrating, like I
Speaker 5: was having troubles for a bit and it's like there's
Speaker 5: nothing I can do. This is the this is the
Speaker 5: ip in this area. There aren't options. But you know
Speaker 5: what you're back now is the hiccup. It's great you
Speaker 5: ate a nie to answered the question.
Speaker 3: It's all the time. It's all the time, and it's
Speaker 3: been so bad lately, Like I don't know, can you
Speaker 3: do you do you own like a fiber digging contractor
Speaker 3: did your dad also do that?
Speaker 5: No, he's just he just only works with people.
Speaker 2: He just put into people.
Speaker 5: He suggested fiber for people, not for me though it's
Speaker 5: apparently bad for my crowns.
Speaker 3: Well you know it depends. Uh, back, Lara Wood.
Speaker 5: Do you like snacks?
Speaker 1: What's what's a good snack? Postpot snack?
Speaker 3: I like plantain chips. Oh yeah, like too. I like that.
Speaker 3: I like a big nut guy. Everyone knows that huge huge.
Speaker 5: Laughing. Well, grow up, dad, your head. Yeah, you look
Speaker 5: at the wall.
Speaker 6: Now you.
Speaker 3: Are we up to? Like emails?
Speaker 5: Is that where?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I took a break and everything.
Speaker 3: I love a lot. I love Japanese snacks. I love
Speaker 3: like all that stuff. Yeah, give me all that, you know,
Speaker 3: like melon candies, like milk melon candies. I just sesame candies, peanut.
Speaker 3: But of course dude.
Speaker 4: Turned me on to this thing. He brought me a
Speaker 4: packet of jersey of this boltok uh spicy ramen. It
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, fucking so hot. It is like I was
Speaker 4: my nose is running, I was fucking sneezing. It was
Speaker 4: like it was the good ship.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 4: It was quadro cheese bulltok ramen, so goddamn good.
Speaker 5: What is it called bulltok bulldock bulldock.
Speaker 4: Bulltoks gears of were gun that I it sounds like
Speaker 4: a space.
Speaker 6: Ghost bulldog bulldog chicken on it. That was gonna be
Speaker 6: my answers.
Speaker 2: It was ramen.
Speaker 6: I'm kind of getting nostalgic for ramen again, so I've
Speaker 6: been eating some instant ramen, but I can't do that often.
Speaker 6: I get sleepy after I eat ramen, which I think
Speaker 6: is a BADDI you think it's like, oh, you just
Speaker 6: had a salt bomb in your body.
Speaker 3: Go off.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, Ship, that's really good.
Speaker 3: It was crazy when Vinny ate all those nuggets, all
Speaker 3: the moisture in the room had lips puckered, and yeah, YouTube, Jan,
Speaker 3: good job, good work.
Speaker 5: I hate eating lunch before noon, so I always get
Speaker 5: lunch after the podcast, so I after this is usually
Speaker 5: starving and I will run straight to Subway and get
Speaker 5: my bullshittissery chicken sandwich or whatever.
Speaker 2: I just take a shot, right. Do you look in
Speaker 2: the mirror and shot a clock?
Speaker 1: No, I just have ISO voice recordings of each of
Speaker 1: you saying it and then which one and I played?
Speaker 5: Cool? Did I send you the picture? I found a
Speaker 5: buzzball and I took a picture. They forgot to send
Speaker 5: it to you. Jane that now.
Speaker 3: You've seen them, but it's a picture of me with them.
Speaker 5: And if I'm like, this reminds me of my friend
Speaker 5: Jan and his Did you find it like the venue
Speaker 5: or something like he went to a liquor store.
Speaker 6: Well, because that's not as exciting because that's that that's
Speaker 6: their's where they live.
Speaker 2: So you just saw one at the store and that Okay.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I like my friend Jan, and I'm going
Speaker 5: to take a picture with this buzzball for him in Japan.
Speaker 4: And I took a picture of a buzzball and I
Speaker 4: sent it to Jam being like, hey, just come to Japan,
Speaker 4: and Discord was fucked up. All was in Japan and
Speaker 4: it sent it like eight hundred times.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 6: They were like, I don't know what's going on your guys.
Speaker 6: We're like, it's more funny that you're upset about this
Speaker 6: because of course it bothers you.
Speaker 3: But yeah, oh this is a good picture. Yep.
Speaker 5: It's a biggie.
Speaker 1: It's a matches one wild. It matches with your shirt.
Speaker 5: You thank you good. That's my lily Bow shirt from
Speaker 5: the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. You could
Speaker 5: go there today, Jan, if you wanted to. I'll, you
Speaker 5: know what, I'll take a buzzball there. I don't have
Speaker 5: a dealer in time. It's kind of why that they
Speaker 5: call those grapes gone wild? Aren't we not like acknowledging
Speaker 5: girls gone wild anymore? That was all really bad, right?
Speaker 5: That was the.
Speaker 6: Busball company seems like a very CONSCIENTI.
Speaker 3: It's a woman owned company.
Speaker 4: All right, it is, Yes, so one of the most
Speaker 4: omnipresent commercials. Or maybe it's just because I just watched
Speaker 4: nothing but Wrestling on Comedy Central, but now from from
Speaker 4: nine pm to four am, it's I.
Speaker 6: That commercial probably fifty thousand times.
Speaker 4: I don't know, it was more than any other commercial.
Speaker 5: I think, did you guys get a lot of the
Speaker 5: Michael Flatley stuff too, like the River Dance the dance
Speaker 5: stuff I got a less so less. I see that
Speaker 5: a lot too, and a lot of.
Speaker 6: Like Shirley Temple best of things.
Speaker 3: I think we might have been watching different things.
Speaker 5: College commercials, Yeah, let's witch coffee commercials, Maxwell incest coffee commercials.
Speaker 3: They were like Super Bowl commercials.
Speaker 5: Seas it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like the brother comes home and the sister
Speaker 6: just seems like super into him, and everyone's like, this
Speaker 6: is an incest commercial.
Speaker 5: Yeah, their chemistry is not uh, sisterly and brotherly, it's
Speaker 5: it seems romantic and it's everyone was off put by.
Speaker 5: It's very funny.
Speaker 4: Oh buch of Insomniac with David tel which tended to
Speaker 4: have a lot of girls going gone, Girl's.
Speaker 6: Gone wild commer, Yes, it's yeah, yeah, yeah, or anything
Speaker 6: on E I watched a lot a lot of wild
Speaker 6: Entertainers of Byron Allen and E.
Speaker 4: Gone was wild on E with Brooke burn wild On.
Speaker 6: And I would watch that all the time, and that
Speaker 6: would have girls going because I was basically like the
Speaker 6: PG Girl's Gone Wild, wild On.
Speaker 1: I must have had a different host for wild on
Speaker 1: E because that Brooke Burke doesn't sound fu to me.
Speaker 5: You did?
Speaker 2: You know who that is?
Speaker 6: Is Steven Soderberg's wife, and she is, apparently under a
Speaker 6: pen name, the writer of that Logan Lucky movie.
Speaker 2: She wrote it, Stephen Soderbergh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and she was like Jules Asner, Jules Asner, Yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure that's right.
Speaker 2: If it's wrong, whatever, yell at me. But I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 5: It's you know who Brooke Burke is, the sketcher slip
Speaker 5: on lady now. Yeah, man, there's a horal history of
Speaker 5: the Folgers, incest.
Speaker 6: Ad folders, my bad apologies given him stolen valor by
Speaker 6: Maxwell for incest commercial Wow.
Speaker 1: Our incest quota for the podcast.
Speaker 3: Way, We're like HBO, we can't get enough of it.
Speaker 5: We picked to sensitize my normal sex. Don't you know anymore?
Speaker 3: What are you got?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: We should just start selling bingo cards of the podcast
Speaker 1: on the store.
Speaker 2: And definitely yeah.
Speaker 6: And there square it's the Folgers incest commercials.
Speaker 1: Please please all right, Travis and Fargo writes in with
Speaker 1: five questions, I chose one of them, Travis asked, best.
Speaker 3: Video game merchant. It's got to be the Ari FOURD
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 1: I can't think of any top of my head.
Speaker 5: Dragon Quest four had a famous one who then starred
Speaker 5: and I think what was like the first Mystery Dungeon
Speaker 5: game actually started that dude. He's just some fat merchant guy.
Speaker 5: But I don't even remember his name, which is not
Speaker 5: a great case for him.
Speaker 6: But Ones Beatles from Zelda is great. The librarian and
Speaker 6: Symphony the Night is very good, Chuck that what was Yeah,
Speaker 6: this whole deal.
Speaker 4: The messenger have Like there's some gimmick with the liking
Speaker 4: the merchant and.
Speaker 5: That too funny. Maybe people either like him or really
Speaker 5: dislike him.
Speaker 3: The happy mass.
Speaker 5: Salesman is a great one for sure.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's great.
Speaker 5: That's a good one. That's a top tier guy.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The way the librarians and talks like wow, like he
Speaker 4: was great, Yeah, Beatle.
Speaker 1: I guess they're not really merchants, But I like the
Speaker 1: Dwarves and God of War twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5: Oh injury and uh the other one injury and yeah
Speaker 5: Clo rock brock Brock. Yes, Smith is kind of like
Speaker 5: almost a separate category that we can talk about great
Speaker 5: video games.
Speaker 1: Smith's sure, sure, okay. Do you like the miouscular chef
Speaker 1: count as a merchant from like Monster Hunter the Captain
Speaker 1: because they're selling you food? I that's like again, that's
Speaker 1: like chefs. I mean, he does so food. But if
Speaker 1: you ask me what that, what's what that person?
Speaker 6: Job?
Speaker 3: Chief chef.
Speaker 5: Metal your solid for he just shows up and no one,
Speaker 5: no one else ever thinks about drabbon.
Speaker 2: You don't.
Speaker 4: No, He's got them to drinks soda and some cigarettes.
Speaker 5: Look just look at chat. Look how chat was popping
Speaker 5: off for lesson.
Speaker 4: Talking about drind What are you talking about it?
Speaker 5: One of them, but one of them did actually bring
Speaker 5: up drebven So that's more than I expected.
Speaker 6: So how do you guys feel about the word merchant
Speaker 6: as like an insult? It's like become one where like
Speaker 6: I remember like someone was trying to like insult Parasolla
Speaker 6: by calling them a positivity merchant, and I think about
Speaker 6: that a lot.
Speaker 2: That's like a very funny thing to say.
Speaker 3: I think I think George can be a stigma attached
Speaker 3: to merchant in at least.
Speaker 5: This is like a George Costanzra jerk store thing.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, feels close stretch.
Speaker 1: I'll let you have that one, Mike, thank you. Two
Speaker 1: more emails and then we'll get to super chats. Josh
Speaker 1: the Canadian and Cali writes in Hey, gang, how much
Speaker 1: time has to pass before you can throw away a
Speaker 1: birthday card? Currently going on two weeks? I want to
Speaker 1: get rid of them, but feel odd considering there were
Speaker 1: gifts and people that like me spent money on them.
Speaker 1: Anxiously undecided Josh the Canadian, Kelly, I think the rule.
Speaker 4: Is if there is a personalization, like there's a nice
Speaker 4: note in there that maybe hang on to it. I
Speaker 4: think if it's just like happy Birthday and the signature hey,
Speaker 4: you can toss it, then.
Speaker 5: Oh man, yeah, you're probably right. But guilt test compelled
Speaker 5: me to never throw away a greedy ever ever. Ever never,
Speaker 5: they're just in boxes somewhere. I do have like one
Speaker 5: dwar somewhere that is just full of them, because yeah,
Speaker 5: I do fool but I usually don't even do that.
Speaker 5: I do them for weddings, that's about it. If it's
Speaker 5: a birthday, it's like like I got you a present,
Speaker 5: I don't need to get you a card. Also, it's
Speaker 5: it's fine, so I don't. I don't really expect that
Speaker 5: many cards. Christmas cards are fun because you don't know
Speaker 5: you like usually you have to take a picture for
Speaker 5: them too. Write it's like, oh, I went to Hallmark
Speaker 5: and I got this car. That's one thing I like
Speaker 5: when like the families go and like we got a
Speaker 5: picture of ourselves and we're sending it to our friends
Speaker 5: and look at us. We're all on our red pajamas
Speaker 5: and there's a Christmas tree. I'm like, that's nice. I'll
Speaker 5: keep image.
Speaker 4: Just something people with kids do. Like, I've never known
Speaker 4: anyone that didn't have kids making Christmas cards.
Speaker 3: I did. No couples.
Speaker 2: Couples will do it. Yeah, yeah, couples and Mike Manatti,
Speaker 2: Yeah I did.
Speaker 1: It for Scout. I sent one out of a Scout
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 2: I really I'm sorry this reference in Chad Sam.
Speaker 6: It was like, you feel guilty enough to keep the
Speaker 6: birthday cards, but you didn't go to your grandma's funeral.
Speaker 5: See this is how misinformations friends. It was.
Speaker 6: Was on it was.
Speaker 5: It wasn't even like a great aunt or something, a
Speaker 5: great she was great.
Speaker 3: I like the grandma's story better. I'm gonna.
Speaker 7: Bad.
Speaker 3: I would have got my dad said out.
Speaker 5: And I didn't think he was playing forty chess with me, right,
Speaker 5: I just he wasn't. But a different family member must
Speaker 5: have been. No, no, whatever, it was fine, all right.
Speaker 2: Just a funny thing to say.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I I think you did the right thing, Mike.
Speaker 3: I'm on your side there, but I was on your
Speaker 3: side as well.
Speaker 2: But just a funny.
Speaker 5: Brothers brothers, so super believe I was wrong, but they
Speaker 5: think they know what they know what they think they know,
Speaker 5: they think they do.
Speaker 3: Also, I also dislike your aunt, so that's fine. Why
Speaker 3: why did we wind up on a video call with
Speaker 3: a j in a suit and he looked like a lawyer?
Speaker 3: That yeah, what happened.
Speaker 6: Was that one of those late night streams. Mike was
Speaker 6: like playing something and we all.
Speaker 4: Why we weren't on video.
Speaker 5: Right because he was he was still in his from
Speaker 5: the funeral getting.
Speaker 1: Okay, right, okay, right, right, okay, okay, all right. Last
Speaker 1: email of the Oh. I guess this is the problem
Speaker 1: with a show. You bring up a state or a
Speaker 1: town one time in passing, and then someone from that
Speaker 1: place will write in a passionate list of things about
Speaker 1: that place. We talked about Vermont for a life.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I want to learn about Vermont.
Speaker 5: This is why we wanted to hear more about Vermont.
Speaker 5: I asked for Vermont information.
Speaker 1: Well you got it because Nick from Vermont wrote in
Speaker 1: with a bunch of stuff. And now maybe they work
Speaker 1: for the Board of Tourism or whatever, because I'm now
Speaker 1: suddenly compelled to go to Vermont. All right, high Bombers,
Speaker 1: longtime first time congrats on gb going independent and a
Speaker 1: super successful bombathon. On the BombCast last week, you guys
Speaker 1: had said to reach out to hear about Vermont.
Speaker 3: I don't remember saying that.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 1: I grew up in northern New Jersey, but moved up
Speaker 1: to central Vermont right after Montpellier the capitol with my
Speaker 1: now wife four years ago. Here's a few things I've learned.
Speaker 1: It's great here for you like outdoor activities, hiking, skiing,
Speaker 1: just go off mountain biking, all great options and you're
Speaker 1: never far from.
Speaker 3: Any of it.
Speaker 1: People tend to think it must be so cold here,
Speaker 1: but honestly, on average it's about ten to twelve degrees
Speaker 1: cooler than where I grew up in New Jersey.
Speaker 3: In the winter, it is cold.
Speaker 5: This is pretty cold to me. That's cold.
Speaker 3: It's all right.
Speaker 1: I love Vermont go on usually about the same temperature
Speaker 1: in the summer, though for about three weeks less time.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Generally, national government leaders from Vermont tend to lean more
Speaker 1: Democrat slash of liberal. There are huge swaths of the
Speaker 1: state that are redneck trumpers, and frequently we end up
Speaker 1: with them in local government, including our own tiny town
Speaker 1: of about two thousand people. Unfortunately, similarly, in my experience
Speaker 1: in these areas, you'll find lots of folks walking around
Speaker 1: strapped for no reason, certainly not to my liking.
Speaker 5: Second gun.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's what they're saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's straps.
Speaker 3: We do have.
Speaker 5: Everyone faced the wall.
Speaker 3: Now, I mean any oh shit, sorry, any any fucking
Speaker 3: rural area. Come on, Like that's not exclusive.
Speaker 1: Yes, part like go ten minutes away from me and
Speaker 1: like parts of pacifica with a cool beach Taco bell
Speaker 1: will have people strapped up and strapped up to the
Speaker 1: other We do have a relatively large lgbtq I A
Speaker 1: plus population. Most of our friends in the area are queer,
Speaker 1: but unfortunately many of the programs and services available to
Speaker 1: them for support in the more rural areas have been
Speaker 1: closing down due to the Orange Turns cuts to government programs.
Speaker 1: We have had an increasing issue with unhoused people, especially
Speaker 1: after two years ago we were hit with a flooding
Speaker 1: that reached levels where entire towns needed to be rebuilt.
Speaker 1: Businesses have struggled, but coming back mostly mostly smaller, local
Speaker 1: mom and pop or local change all.
Speaker 5: Right outside the disc golf, I have not been hearing
Speaker 5: a lot of positives so far.
Speaker 1: To leave on a more positive note, gener fun fact
Speaker 1: is that it is illegal to put a billboards on
Speaker 1: any road or a highway in Vermont to preserve as
Speaker 1: much of the natural views and beauty as possible. Hey, Nick,
Speaker 1: maybe right in about maybe two three more things that
Speaker 1: are good about Nick.
Speaker 6: Lost Vermont's largest export snow weed micro electronics.
Speaker 4: They make the ben and Jerry's there right. I think, yeah,
Speaker 4: there's a Delaware. I feel like Vermont and Delaware.
Speaker 3: Definitely not Delaware. I think it's Vermont.
Speaker 1: Sorry for the long email, I just want to fill
Speaker 1: yell in. Thanks thanks guys, Love you Nick from Vermont.
Speaker 3: PS.
Speaker 1: Nolacona is from here. If you haven't heard of him,
Speaker 1: you should check out his music and I have so.
Speaker 1: Thank you Nick from Vermont. If any other Vermontonians is
Speaker 1: that the right Vermont is Vermont's Vermont? Uh out there?
Speaker 1: Have any quick facts about Vermont, please send them in
Speaker 1: because made me a little sad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Vermont is is dope. Just to be clear, I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm only exposed to like the skiing parts of it,
Speaker 3: but it's.
Speaker 2: Fun and can I be real? I when you said
Speaker 2: that Montpelier is the capital of Vermont, I don't know
Speaker 2: if I've ever.
Speaker 6: Heard that before.
Speaker 5: Really heard it in Laos song on Animaniacs.
Speaker 3: Vermont.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I've never been there. It's in a very north north
Speaker 3: central part of the state that I've just not been to.
Speaker 3: It's close to Burlington, though I think Burlington I've heard of. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the code factory, the code factory in the town.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Uh mister Minati, do we have any YouTube
Speaker 1: super chats with your shirt? Do?
Speaker 5: Big Fresh? Thirty sentence says which is more likely closing
Speaker 5: biowhere or selling by where I imagine closing? Uh what
Speaker 5: do you think.
Speaker 2: Who would they sell it to?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: At this point and he just kind of closes these
Speaker 1: things they think so right.
Speaker 4: I feel like recently wouldn't like Embracer was buying everything.
Speaker 4: Have they cooled off on that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yes, acquisition season has come to an end unless you're.
Speaker 5: Saudi Arabia, right, So it's like, yeah, who do you
Speaker 5: think the new owners would be?
Speaker 3: Is Embracer? Wait? Did Saudi own Embracer?
Speaker 6: Actually that was one of the the problems with Embracer
Speaker 6: that Saudi, the Saudi Arabian government was involved with them
Speaker 6: Bracer a little bit, but then they were gonna do
Speaker 6: another big two billion dollars infusion and Embracers like we're
Speaker 6: gonna keep things going, and then that fell through, and
Speaker 6: then since then Embracer has like been cutting and laying
Speaker 6: hop off and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Okay, Sire Sketchewan says, ever heard of an old timey
Speaker 5: drink called beef fizz?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, I'm interested.
Speaker 6: I was like something you a threat you would say,
Speaker 6: like come meet me and Alley, I'll give you some
Speaker 6: of this beef fizz.
Speaker 4: I think that's the Center for Extra Life is Mike's
Speaker 4: gonna drink a bunch of beef fizz.
Speaker 5: It does. Oh my gosh, it's uh condensed beef broth,
Speaker 5: ginger ale and lemon juice. That could be that's what
Speaker 5: you like.
Speaker 6: That's what you give to the workers when you don't
Speaker 6: want them to have real meals so they can keep working.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's protein in that baby.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it just sounds very sounds upset cool stuff for
Speaker 5: boy says, I don't know why. I think that name
Speaker 5: is funny. I will signed up for a premium of grub.
Speaker 5: Him and Naughty's vow to start pronouncing Pokemon correctly instead
Speaker 5: of like boomers.
Speaker 4: All right, listen here, I think you just said it right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I sometimes I say Pokemon. I get excited.
Speaker 4: Wait, can we all try? Can we all go around
Speaker 4: the horn and give it earnest?
Speaker 6: Let me let me go first, cause I don't want
Speaker 6: you guys to influence because they want me to get right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try.
Speaker 6: Sean did teach me recently, And when he said that,
Speaker 6: he's like, I also know that you don't care, and
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 2: He's like, no change, but Pokemon.
Speaker 4: All right, I'll go Pokemon, Come on, Pokemon, Pokemon, Mike, okay, Pokemon.
Speaker 5: Uh look, I don't hear I was on the ground
Speaker 5: floor this whole Pokemon sitch. At least, you know, if
Speaker 5: America is concerned.
Speaker 1: Nailed it a little because a little accent over the
Speaker 1: EU is it to hear the themes?
Speaker 5: Sorry, Pokemon got to catch Jim right.
Speaker 2: The accident means the sounds like an I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna be called a Pokemon boomer. I was there,
Speaker 5: I was there at the start. I was there. I
Speaker 5: went to fucking in the past.
Speaker 2: Is not an argument against being a boomer.
Speaker 5: That I'm discerned that they're trying to quickly fight the
Speaker 5: parants like my son's in the Pokey.
Speaker 6: Man, and no, I will not I will not saying
Speaker 6: that instead.
Speaker 5: You're right br tearsys reminder that Dan wanted to use
Speaker 5: the Rascal Castle music playing NonStop and the extra life
Speaker 5: noubsful man. I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I don't even write that down. I got a doc.
Speaker 5: Yeah, great, great, thanks for that one.
Speaker 4: I know if the music in that game was atrocious,
Speaker 4: it could also play in the sauna all the time.
Speaker 6: It could do that.
Speaker 5: I want to be clear about this. If I'm not
Speaker 5: feeling on the sauna, I'm not gonna like, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4: Brave it out money off the kids, families.
Speaker 5: Instead of dying.
Speaker 6: Yet he's right, week, warlocks Gaming says, have and what
Speaker 6: what what what? Just like those aren't the two options?
Speaker 6: Feeling a little like not great?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 5: You fucking god? You just because you will put yourself
Speaker 5: in bodily hard because it's not gonna kill me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, music, I'm adding it to the doc.
Speaker 2: I guess you're I don't know until something does.
Speaker 5: You're right, Yeah, warlocks Gaming says, have any of you
Speaker 5: seen the New tron f Jared Letto? But it's the
Speaker 5: best trauma movie. I did see it. It's not the
Speaker 5: best movie. It's probably the worst draw movie. But I
Speaker 5: actually did not mind it. It's fine. It was not
Speaker 5: a bad movie at all. Certainly was a weird movie.
Speaker 5: Wasn't the right movie to make, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: I mean, but you're such a Jared lettohead that that.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh antoyo mohere else says, what game do you
Speaker 5: guys bust out for a get together? We're both gamers
Speaker 5: and non gamers. Is the only option jackbox or is
Speaker 5: there anything else out there? Jack box is always the
Speaker 5: best object, like five options, and they can just people
Speaker 5: just use their phones. Everyone's got one of those, right,
Speaker 5: So it's just it's so much better. You could do
Speaker 5: it like the Lego party. Now might be fun Riftracks.
Speaker 6: Game, which is very similar, but you know that's one
Speaker 6: thing where the jackbox games are right fifty than you know.
Speaker 5: Rock band used to be the thing, right everybody would
Speaker 5: have to phone with rock Band.
Speaker 1: May I suggest a good old card game called Flip seven.
Speaker 5: Where you.
Speaker 1: I don't want to explain it because I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: get too amped in jazz. It's very cheap, it's you
Speaker 1: could get out of target. It's kind of like twenty one.
Speaker 1: You're flipping over cards, but if you get the same cards,
Speaker 1: you bust and Jesus Christ, it does not help with
Speaker 1: my people's perception of me of having a gambling problem.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 5: Let's see here now, snore relaxing, Say's fun fact. Since
Speaker 5: g T five came out five nights at Fridday's debuted
Speaker 5: and has released eleven games and a feature film in theaters.
Speaker 5: Jesus a Lot can happen in thirty five years. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then Breezy Caesar says how many subs for a
Speaker 5: day planned by Dan? And no one can say no?
Speaker 3: Yeah, right ideas?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know you would. I know you'd have some
Speaker 5: ideas for sure. It would just be be someone safe.
Speaker 5: I would know.
Speaker 4: I want to be like the fun safe jigsaw.
Speaker 1: That don't have the jigsaw part to it. I don't
Speaker 1: have the jigsaw.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know you think you would be, but you
Speaker 5: just you just don't. You don't know what's safe, and
Speaker 5: that's not no one gets actually hurt. Whose ideas are
Speaker 5: those where you get hurt?
Speaker 3: Kisses? Huh?
Speaker 4: I was thinking about them.
Speaker 5: It's it's true.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 4: Nothing I do is I'm safe.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I pass out on your fucking dry air
Speaker 5: sauna dying to fujiin. I hat to bring like an
Speaker 5: extra pair of clothes now for this little shit like.
Speaker 4: We are all going to die, and you know that'd
Speaker 4: be a funny one.
Speaker 5: Your arm?
Speaker 3: All right? All right? Is that it for super chats? Mikey?
Speaker 5: That looks like that's it for super chats?
Speaker 3: Thank you so much?
Speaker 5: Everybody?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, what do we got going on
Speaker 1: the rest of this week game. This morning's popping off Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 1: correct Grub. That's right, A new season of blight Club.
Speaker 1: The Blightening Round starts tomorrow. Is Grubs turn at bat Grub.
Speaker 1: Initial feelings going into this new season, Uh.
Speaker 2: Steph likes to look and she laughed and had some
Speaker 2: awareness of it.
Speaker 6: But that couldn't be COO mean anything.
Speaker 4: So I also the look. I think, Mike, we found
Speaker 4: a good one.
Speaker 2: The costume it's right there.
Speaker 5: I don't know what it is, so and a slight tease.
Speaker 5: But we have already also picked Dan's game, even though
Speaker 5: he goes last. So we're set on that, and we
Speaker 5: think the whole blatting round is ready to go. Yeah,
Speaker 5: who knows how long it's gonna take. Why not take long?
Speaker 5: And it'll be funny If Jeff's game is all secretly
Speaker 5: like a four episode, that.
Speaker 2: Would be funny.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: We looked into it, and like we did, look at
Speaker 4: some that were like this could go a little longer.
Speaker 4: This one seems legitimately short, okay, like possibly one episode
Speaker 4: shouts out.
Speaker 1: To our short kings out there, all right, voicemail dump
Speaker 1: truck popping off on Thursday and then Friday, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have unprofessional Fridays. We're gonna do cod blops.
Speaker 2: Wait, what's my console? I can know my console?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Or okay, here, make sure you it's a weird one,
Speaker 4: because I wonder if that's gonna narrow it down too much.
Speaker 4: I mean, tell you what, tell you what grub get
Speaker 4: your retro archs going, make sure to leave it up
Speaker 4: and make sure you have the cores for let's just
Speaker 4: say Nintendo, Sega, Sony consoles.
Speaker 6: Including handhelds yep, and cluding handhelds. Okay, down, maybe just handhelds. Okay,
Speaker 6: all right, all right, I'll get.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, I think of that about does anyone
Speaker 1: else got anything else?
Speaker 3: They want to shout out?
Speaker 1: What's again? This Saturday? Extra life at Dance. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be popping off generally around twelve Central time?
Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah? I think yeah.
Speaker 4: We'll get some lunch. I think we get some taco
Speaker 4: bell for lunch. We eat before the stream to kind
Speaker 4: of hype up, and then we'll eat the bajab Last pie. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: we'll eat the pie to start the stream. There we go,
Speaker 4: and then we were gonna fucking turbo crust the place
Speaker 4: up for the Lego Party.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm so excited to play Lego Party. I understand why,
Speaker 5: why why I had to get preempty when when vine
Speaker 5: Now showed up. But I wanted to play Lego Party,
Speaker 5: and I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I was there with you, Mike, and then I'm sad
Speaker 1: that I won't be there. But once again, also shouts
Speaker 1: out to everyone that has joined Team Giant Bomb for
Speaker 1: extra life this year. A lot of y'all were streaming
Speaker 1: last weekend. Shouts out against Anthony Thomas for raising.
Speaker 3: A bunch of money.
Speaker 1: Also shouts out to our friends at main Gear may
Speaker 1: gear dot com slash gihn bomb. Go get yourself a PC.
Speaker 1: Don't buy Mike's face plate. Don't do it, don't do it,
Speaker 1: don't do it, don't do it.
Speaker 5: Oh this is a reverse psychology.
Speaker 1: No no, I'm just I'm just traighted telling them.
Speaker 3: Don't do it. Don't do it.
Speaker 5: It's fine, like pie, don't do it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, God, I just want to jump in now.
Speaker 5: Chuck still needs help with the wiki.
Speaker 1: Wikia BombCast dot com slash wiki you can get some
Speaker 1: more info. Also, if you were in the Giant Bomb discord,
Speaker 1: go look for the wiki Street Team channel help chuckster out.
Speaker 1: Sorry I forgot. He doesn't like being called that help
Speaker 1: chuck out. Also special special special shouts out to Deeco Deals,
Speaker 1: Good Deals dot Com, SA the Double D.
Speaker 3: Go make a list, go save your money on some games.
Speaker 3: There is a cat? Is that a cat back there?
Speaker 3: That's that's a boss. And that about it, and that
Speaker 3: about does it. For another episode h.
Speaker 1: The podcast, Hey eleven eleven, go make a wish or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week for another episode of the
Speaker 1: Giant BombCast. He's been Jeff, He's been Jeff. He's been
Speaker 1: like he's been Dan. You at home have been coachious.
Speaker 1: I've the jan We'll see you next week for another
Speaker 1: episode of the Giant Podcast.
Speaker 3: Good look at that
Speaker 1: Point Old Today, I'm gonna get into yo Yo's Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: walking un Eiffel Tower.