865: Essence of Jalapeno

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