The Boys are Back in Town | Giant Bombcast 890: UPPIES

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, It's Tuesday, May thirteenth, twenty twenty five.
<v Speaker 2>Welcome to the Giant Bomb Cast, Episode eight hundred and ninety.
<v Speaker 2>I'm your host jan Ocho adjoining me co captain of
<v Speaker 2>the ship. He's wearing his curvy shirt because he's ready
<v Speaker 2>to absorb everything that he puts into his mouth.
<v Speaker 3>Jeff krub that's right. Is this episode eight eighty nine
<v Speaker 3>or eight ninety? Do we call the twenty week the pack?
<v Speaker 4>The tax actually called the Packs one eight eighty nine.
<v Speaker 3>So updating on YouTube?
<v Speaker 2>I thought I did it already.
<v Speaker 3>Anyway, Twitch is updated.
<v Speaker 2>Twitch is updated. Speaking about updates, He's up in all
<v Speaker 2>of your dates, that's right, whether it is the food
<v Speaker 2>variety or the time variety.
<v Speaker 4>Dan record, I'm having a fancy date dinner tonight to
<v Speaker 4>celebrate ten years.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, congratulation.
<v Speaker 4>Pasta stuff going on ten years of being with Bunk. Wow,
<v Speaker 4>the person in the world.
<v Speaker 2>What did you think anyway?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, Mike, let's unpack that a little bit, Bud. What
<v Speaker 5>was in your mind there?
<v Speaker 6>Pal, I was just wondering, just asking questions.
<v Speaker 3>All right, all right, well, I'm can hear the lozenge
<v Speaker 3>that's my favorite, great swirl that around your mouthful.
<v Speaker 4>Game sent for his like Louden's losses.
<v Speaker 2>Speaking about lozenges and ten years, we have the the
<v Speaker 2>arbiter of the keeper of a ten year old child,
<v Speaker 2>Jef Beckler.
<v Speaker 5>That's right, keep him in my pocket. He fits there comfortably.
<v Speaker 5>Just feed him a kit cat every now and then
<v Speaker 5>and he'll make it until he's eighteen.
<v Speaker 2>Becheler? Are you at all worried that this weekend is
<v Speaker 2>like a weekend too formative of a weekend for Dib?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, we fucked him up real bad. I just got
<v Speaker 5>to say, like, there's no charitable angle to approach the situation.
<v Speaker 5>He has become eleven times more confident than he was
<v Speaker 5>going into the weekend. He buddy, I what do you
<v Speaker 5>think school was like for him yesterday?
<v Speaker 2>Like?
<v Speaker 5>Why do you think a kid walks into school and
<v Speaker 5>it's just like you had a normal last weekend? How
<v Speaker 5>about you?
<v Speaker 4>You know fellow kids know about this?
<v Speaker 5>I mean probably not, but I think he was floating
<v Speaker 5>into school in a way that he has not floated before,
<v Speaker 5>and I think it all just went right to his head.
<v Speaker 5>I mean, the kid Dan, the kids signed a couple
<v Speaker 5>of autographs. I don't know what to tell you.
<v Speaker 3>God, I did. I did send people to him to
<v Speaker 3>get passed for AUDUDT and.
<v Speaker 5>And again those works. We appreciate the collusion.
<v Speaker 2>Uh.
<v Speaker 5>You know, I'm not gonna say no to that. Uh,
<v Speaker 5>but yeah, you know he is. I guess this is
<v Speaker 5>what he thinks real life is. You know, that's what
<v Speaker 5>else does he know? He's ten.
<v Speaker 4>You've seen to do this job the whole time. He's
<v Speaker 4>been aware of life, of.
<v Speaker 5>Course, But you know when when things become a little
<v Speaker 5>bit more real in person, when you've got a couple
<v Speaker 5>hundred people coming to see you do the thing, and uh,
<v Speaker 5>I think it becomes it takes on a new kind
<v Speaker 5>of dimension for someone like that.
<v Speaker 6>Uh.
<v Speaker 5>We we fucked him up, real.
<v Speaker 2>Nice guys, Yeah, fucking him up. He fus everyone up
<v Speaker 2>because he's.
<v Speaker 4>A bad games media.
<v Speaker 2>He's been politely holding his tongue because he's a little
<v Speaker 2>sicky pooh. But I can tell that he's personally got
<v Speaker 2>That seems to say a bunch of problematic things.
<v Speaker 6>Mike Manatti, Hi, I'm Mike Manatti. Hey, I'm not a
<v Speaker 6>contributor here. This is my first bomb cast.
<v Speaker 1>As everybody completely skipped full time employment and went to
<v Speaker 1>co ownership. That's pretty funny, asked, was as shocked as
<v Speaker 1>anybody about that? Yeah, yeah, no, I definitely caught something
<v Speaker 1>from Disney.
<v Speaker 6>I definitely have this cough and this crud right now.
<v Speaker 6>It's really just a cough. Sometimes I cough so much
<v Speaker 6>though that I get lightheaded. So if I pass out,
<v Speaker 6>that's why it's okay. I'll be right back, Mike.
<v Speaker 2>I've been remembering to breathe in between these coughs.
<v Speaker 6>I think, well, it's hard to breathe when you're coughing
<v Speaker 6>because like your you know, pipes are busy with the
<v Speaker 6>coffin with the out, so the inn is difficult.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know if this is normal when you're sick,
<v Speaker 4>but I've been getting over just as a standard cold,
<v Speaker 4>And for the last day I've been blowing my nose
<v Speaker 4>and it's just a ton of viscous dark blood.
<v Speaker 2>That's not good.
<v Speaker 4>But it's like I was showing it to like and
<v Speaker 4>I was like, hey, this is gross, but is this normal?
<v Speaker 4>And She's like, oh, something. If you're like blowing your
<v Speaker 4>nose a lot or whatever, that can happen, and it's
<v Speaker 4>like a blood clot that forms, It's like, it's not bad.
<v Speaker 2>I think it's bad.
<v Speaker 4>If it's bright red, right, because that means it's like freshly,
<v Speaker 4>it's gush blood. Okay, people are saying totally normal. Wait
<v Speaker 4>not normal, Well too, I don't have health insurance right now?
<v Speaker 4>You know timing on this, I'm pretty sure you do.
<v Speaker 5>Number one. Number two also, uh, this will be the
<v Speaker 5>thing they go back to. They'd be like, oh, well,
<v Speaker 5>how did it start? If you look, if you go
<v Speaker 5>back to episode eight ninety, he starts talking about problems
<v Speaker 5>with his face.
<v Speaker 4>Remember, and that's that's grosser. It is grosser than it sounds.
<v Speaker 5>It is just like dark it darns grossness.
<v Speaker 4>Also, I've had a lot of signus surgery last summer,
<v Speaker 4>and then I had a sinus lift just a couple
<v Speaker 4>of months ago, and they said don't blow your nose.
<v Speaker 4>And it's been like a couple of months though, so
<v Speaker 4>I would figure it's okay, And I've had to blow
<v Speaker 4>my nose a lot with the cold in the last week.
<v Speaker 4>And now it's just deep bloody mess.
<v Speaker 6>Probably backed up of blood and like dried blood and snots.
<v Speaker 6>It's probably just that, like how do you feel? We're so.
<v Speaker 3>We found it right away, guys, didn't miss a beat,
<v Speaker 3>no way to get people to sign on right away
<v Speaker 3>dot com slash joy.
<v Speaker 6>That's right, Harpies, get back to me.
<v Speaker 4>Harvey's feel like I'm getting over cold. I'm definitely not congested.
<v Speaker 4>I'm not like, I'm not not dying like I was
<v Speaker 4>a few days ago. Yeah, I think probably the doctor
<v Speaker 4>sat down genetically like doctor knowledge.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, exactly about this same exact thing before No passed out.
<v Speaker 3>Creed and Kristen Bell we probably got did all that
<v Speaker 3>last time.
<v Speaker 2>Probably, Okay, Yeah, guys, you're not sticking to the script.
<v Speaker 2>Come on, hey, uh if you were wondering what happened
<v Speaker 2>to Giant Bomb the last couple of weeks, well, uh,
<v Speaker 2>hey we're here. If you missed the pack panel, Jeff's
<v Speaker 2>why don't you all explain it?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? We uh okay, so we basically if you are
<v Speaker 3>just hearing this, uh, you know, we did put up
<v Speaker 3>like the pack spanel on the feed. But if you're like, well,
<v Speaker 3>I don't listen to live panels, here's a regular episode
<v Speaker 3>where where we will explain things.
<v Speaker 4>Uh.
<v Speaker 3>Backler and I left fandom, and then in the process
<v Speaker 3>of that happening, we worked out a deal to acquire Uh,
<v Speaker 3>we signed an agreement to acquire the assets for Giant Bomb.
<v Speaker 3>That's where we're at. It's you know, the things have
<v Speaker 3>begun to be to be handed over to us. We're
<v Speaker 3>in the process of setting everything up. That is arduous,
<v Speaker 3>it's a lot, but we're getting there. In the meantime,
<v Speaker 3>it's business as usual on the content side of things,
<v Speaker 3>and then as far as the actual business, we are
<v Speaker 3>leaning into subscriptions, so giant bomb dot com, slash Join
<v Speaker 3>that's going to be our primary way of funding this
<v Speaker 3>and doing a lot more of the things you all
<v Speaker 3>like to see. But yeah, that's where we're at. There's
<v Speaker 3>a plenty more to come, lots of lots of like
<v Speaker 3>things that we want to do. But yeah, there we're
<v Speaker 3>kind of handcuffed, just like getting things off the ground
<v Speaker 3>in the moment.
<v Speaker 4>And we're listening right out of the gate. I mean,
<v Speaker 4>there's a quick look of Doom that went up this morning,
<v Speaker 4>So I've got some quick looks on the menu, a
<v Speaker 4>couple more that we're looking to do, maybe even this week.
<v Speaker 4>Next week, I would like to do a demo derby,
<v Speaker 4>so get that out there. So it's like that's that's
<v Speaker 4>the thing is we are going to have more time
<v Speaker 4>to focus on content now in less meetings, like in
<v Speaker 4>the meetings we do have are about like content and
<v Speaker 4>stuff outside of all the obviously putting the business together stuff.
<v Speaker 4>But we're listening, so we're gonna be making a lot
<v Speaker 4>of stuff, and we will hear what you want.
<v Speaker 5>The only thing I would stress is we are moving
<v Speaker 5>incredibly fast. It's insane, at a speed at which I
<v Speaker 5>did not think was business possible. But we are moving
<v Speaker 5>at business light speed. It is an exceptional speed, and
<v Speaker 5>it's scary but also awesome, and with that should definitely
<v Speaker 5>come a sort of let's call it universal patience and understanding.
<v Speaker 5>We find a way to land this plane with maybe
<v Speaker 5>one of the engines blown out and you know, not
<v Speaker 5>a lot of flat land in in eye sight there.
<v Speaker 4>It's it built a while ago.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's fine, boys, Just plug in your iPod and
<v Speaker 2>just throw on some evanescence. We'll be able to figure
<v Speaker 2>this all out. God.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, that's all you need is a good soundtrack and
<v Speaker 5>anything's anything's possible.
<v Speaker 4>We do hear that. I don't know if this is
<v Speaker 4>a complaint, but one thing we've heard early on is
<v Speaker 4>that people want more ways to give us money, and
<v Speaker 4>we are amenable to that, so that is being looked
<v Speaker 4>at as well.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we're looking at ways to do that. And if
<v Speaker 3>you if you don't want to buy stuff in the
<v Speaker 3>store right now, I've seen a lot of people saying
<v Speaker 3>they're going to do that that all that money goes
<v Speaker 3>to us now as well. So you know, all those
<v Speaker 3>extra ways to show support that are there, that's great,
<v Speaker 3>And in the meantime, we're working on other ways to
<v Speaker 3>get that set up because right now we just have
<v Speaker 3>the one ten dollars tier for the subscription for the
<v Speaker 3>membership and that that's going to go a long way.
<v Speaker 3>Expect most people to go that way. But if you
<v Speaker 3>want to give more, we'll find ways to accommodate you,
<v Speaker 3>for sure.
<v Speaker 2>And we love and appreciate you for doing that. If
<v Speaker 2>you're not in a position to send any financial support
<v Speaker 2>you just listening at home is plenty plenty to help out.
<v Speaker 2>Watching on Twitch, listening on YouTube, or I guess watching
<v Speaker 2>on YouTube as well. Sure do all the interactive bits
<v Speaker 2>like I don't know, star something like something, comment something,
<v Speaker 2>help the algorithm in our favor, that's right. Do you
<v Speaker 2>do all of that? Leave a review on iTunes? Do
<v Speaker 2>they still call it iTunes?
<v Speaker 5>I think it's I think it's just called podcasts or
<v Speaker 5>something or mute. Yeah, And I think that's part of
<v Speaker 5>it too, right, Like, you know, we have we have
<v Speaker 5>to be open and willing and you know, accommodating to
<v Speaker 5>where people want to support us, right, And that's the
<v Speaker 5>that those are all the levers that we want to
<v Speaker 5>start to open up for people, and and if they're
<v Speaker 5>comfortable with doing that, that's great. If not, that's also great. Uh.
<v Speaker 5>It really is about being as accommodating with people and
<v Speaker 5>where they want to support us. And and obviously the
<v Speaker 5>universality of knowing that, hey, all that stuff is going
<v Speaker 5>directly into this business that we all share and that's
<v Speaker 5>brilliant and you can feel good about that. We all
<v Speaker 5>feel good about that. If there's one thing I want
<v Speaker 5>out of this whole experience is that everyone feels good
<v Speaker 5>about that.
<v Speaker 2>So uh yeah, yeah, I was waiting on the dump
<v Speaker 2>truck to get all mushy because that's where we let
<v Speaker 2>our feelings out.
<v Speaker 5>That is the mushiest podcast.
<v Speaker 6>We know that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, So I'll just hold my tongue until then.
<v Speaker 2>But I think I do want to get a preemptive
<v Speaker 2>glaze going on that the Jeffs have been working night
<v Speaker 2>to make this happen. Uh, And if it feels like
<v Speaker 2>if Dan and I feel like we've kind of just
<v Speaker 2>coasted by and like hung on to the to the
<v Speaker 2>coattails of the Jeffs, or like we asked for uppies
<v Speaker 2>and they were just like okay, and then uh we
<v Speaker 2>you know, along the way we found empty stroller and
<v Speaker 2>Mike Manatti was in there, and yeah, Mikey he also
<v Speaker 2>asked for Uppi's shouts out to the Jeffs.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, somehow just shook out in a way where the
<v Speaker 4>Jeffs are the ones that had to be in eight
<v Speaker 4>million hours and meetings and stuff like that, and like
<v Speaker 4>I think we, you know, we would love to be
<v Speaker 4>in those calls jan but I think legally, I think
<v Speaker 4>that's just I'd love to be there.
<v Speaker 2>They sound fun.
<v Speaker 5>Funny, funny how that works out. Yeah, No, I you know, obviously, like, uh,
<v Speaker 5>there's there was a lot, and there's continues to be
<v Speaker 5>a lot, and we're gonna manage that together. And I
<v Speaker 5>can't wait to I don't know, grub maybe give them
<v Speaker 5>some of that ship off our plate. Uh oh yeah,
<v Speaker 5>but yeah no, But but seriously, obviously, you know you
<v Speaker 5>guys had a lot of decisions to make and things
<v Speaker 5>to do and to take care of, and we appreciate that. Mike,
<v Speaker 5>you're here too. That's awesome.
<v Speaker 4>Sorry, chats say thank god all the childless ones didn't
<v Speaker 4>have to be in the meetings busy some of.
<v Speaker 6>Us had to go say hi to Mickey Mouse.
<v Speaker 2>That is.
<v Speaker 5>That is also weird how that worked out. I never
<v Speaker 5>quite did the math. Hey, you know, math don't lie,
<v Speaker 5>but I want to. I want to thank so much
<v Speaker 5>of this community because that's really what it is all about,
<v Speaker 5>Like the in ways that I can't even put into
<v Speaker 5>words because I'm just scared that saying too much of
<v Speaker 5>just how much this community is so much a part
<v Speaker 5>of this situation, and all of the warm wishes and
<v Speaker 5>the charitability and the offerings of support and you know, like, uh,
<v Speaker 5>I'm looking at our stream now, Blake put that logo together.
<v Speaker 5>That's unbelievab stuff. Things we're not even asking for right
<v Speaker 5>are just coming our way. And it's it is. Uh,
<v Speaker 5>it fills us up in a in a way that
<v Speaker 5>I can't describe. Our hearts are full. Uh, there's so
<v Speaker 5>much joy going around it's fucking sick. I mean, I
<v Speaker 5>don't know an other way to say it. It is
<v Speaker 5>so dope, so thank you.
<v Speaker 4>We're just like enter discord talking about like anyone else
<v Speaker 4>is feeling like completely just reinvigorated and oh n and
<v Speaker 4>Betteran's like, oh I just wake up, Like let's go.
<v Speaker 4>I can't wait to get down there and see what's
<v Speaker 4>going on. Like this has been fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's an obscene It's going to be an obscene
<v Speaker 2>amount of work, but I am happy to go to
<v Speaker 2>work because of y'all around in this video call right
<v Speaker 2>now and you'll listening at home, y'all make it all
<v Speaker 2>worth it to play this game of life and speaking
<v Speaker 2>about games.
<v Speaker 3>Hey, I remember that. Yeah, that's right, I said it
<v Speaker 3>at the panel. This is this is my first bomb
<v Speaker 3>cast in what or two. You were on one a
<v Speaker 3>little bit ago when someone was out of town. I
<v Speaker 3>think I was out and you stepped it for me, right.
<v Speaker 5>Oh that was when we were announcing some of the
<v Speaker 5>other ship that we were doing at our previous ownership.
<v Speaker 5>And that's cool, but yeah that was a one off.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah it's been a minute.
<v Speaker 4>Boys, you've been you've been drowning in meetings in the
<v Speaker 4>last era. Yeah, yeah, just say it.
<v Speaker 6>Backlard, do you reset me for taking your spot? Just
<v Speaker 6>come out and say it.
<v Speaker 4>Come on, there's a new era.
<v Speaker 5>I'll say this. I'll say this. There's an extremely, extremely
<v Speaker 5>short list of people that I would be okay with
<v Speaker 5>taking my spot on this show. You ain't on it,
<v Speaker 5>but there's absolutely a list out there. And uh, you know,
<v Speaker 5>nothing really to say other than that, Mike, of course,
<v Speaker 5>are you kidding? Never in a million years, buddy, I'm
<v Speaker 5>so glad this is uh this man, you you said
<v Speaker 5>it the way that forces conspired to have us be
<v Speaker 5>in that spot we're in right now with what our
<v Speaker 5>working relationship was, you know two weeks ago.
<v Speaker 2>Now, yes, fantastic. I opened up a game and I
<v Speaker 2>was happy to play a game, and I was like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>I can go play a game.
<v Speaker 4>Wow, we're going to play Doom and put if anyone
<v Speaker 4>on the internet.
<v Speaker 3>Nice.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I'll enjoy something soon. I'm sure I still really
<v Speaker 5>haven't had much time, you know. Yeah, maybe it'll be
<v Speaker 5>a cool breeze or or some sort of like shade
<v Speaker 5>I can sit in and look at the sky. I'm
<v Speaker 5>sure it's coming.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, I want to do a quick review, real quick.
<v Speaker 2>The Cranball's buzzball. I think it's the best buzzball.
<v Speaker 4>I wait, wait, I didn't get any of those buzzballs
<v Speaker 4>because you you bought some before the panel, but then
<v Speaker 4>we weren't able to bring those in and well actually,
<v Speaker 4>and also Greb got kicked out.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, right, we should tell you the story about it.
<v Speaker 2>I think this is a cascading effect, right, yeah, because
<v Speaker 2>I had a baggie full of buzzballs, and I gave
<v Speaker 2>my homegirl, Jess Reyes a buzzball and it looked like
<v Speaker 2>in her hands, she's a very tiny lady, it looked like,
<v Speaker 2>oh look at you. You look like a little cos
<v Speaker 2>player and your whole a potion. And then apparently an
<v Speaker 2>enforcer of security was like, you can't have that, miss?
<v Speaker 4>Is that the panel?
<v Speaker 2>After the panel? I thought it was a goof and
<v Speaker 2>she was like, ah, funny, and then he like no,
<v Speaker 2>it's either I kick you out or you give me
<v Speaker 2>that buzz ball.
<v Speaker 3>And then yeah, so I get to the panel and
<v Speaker 3>we're figuring things out in the panel before us, so
<v Speaker 3>I don't know who they were, but apparently they have
<v Speaker 3>like a distillery in Denver. They just gave us a
<v Speaker 3>bottle whiskey, and so I was under the assumption that
<v Speaker 3>they were up on stage drinking this and that must
<v Speaker 3>be all in the clear, and I wasn't thinking much
<v Speaker 3>about it. Frankly, I didn't care or you know, need
<v Speaker 3>the bottle. But they offered it, so I took it
<v Speaker 3>and I showed you guys, like, hey, we can maybe
<v Speaker 3>drink this, and then we were totally can't drink it
<v Speaker 3>on stage, and it was like, oh, okay, that's fine,
<v Speaker 3>so we just I put it in my bag and
<v Speaker 3>then as the panel was ending, I think it was sticky.
<v Speaker 3>It's sticking out of the side of my bag, so
<v Speaker 3>it's visible. But I'm like, again, not even thinking about it,
<v Speaker 3>I think that must have been what it was, because
<v Speaker 3>I didn't realize that the buzzball thing happened. We were
<v Speaker 3>talking in the middle of the hallway and and I
<v Speaker 3>was like, oh, we're doing the thing that they always
<v Speaker 3>yell at us for, which is we're blocking the hallway.
<v Speaker 3>We should move over to the side. And so when
<v Speaker 3>I see this, this lady and several the other enforcers
<v Speaker 3>come up, I come up to me. I'm like, assuming
<v Speaker 3>it's that, I'm like, oh, should we be moving over
<v Speaker 3>off the side? And she says no, because we've given
<v Speaker 3>you multiple warnings and you guys haven't listened. We're gonna
<v Speaker 3>have to ask you to leave and take your badge.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm like, I've never talked to any of you before. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know what you're talking about, but but I
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, you just you seem serious. I didn't have
<v Speaker 3>anything else going at Packs, so I just gave her
<v Speaker 3>my badge and I walked out of the place. I
<v Speaker 3>was like, that's completely fine. They're just trying to do
<v Speaker 3>their job. They're just trying to help out packs. They're
<v Speaker 3>all volunteers, So if there was some confusion, I'm like,
<v Speaker 3>I'm sure I can hash it out with with with
<v Speaker 3>Packs later and like explain the situation, because it really
<v Speaker 3>wasn't that big of a deal. It was just very bizarre.
<v Speaker 4>In the moment while as you were getting kicked out.
<v Speaker 4>I have a clear glass filled with whiskey, clearly whiskey,
<v Speaker 4>walking down the hallway drinking it, and an enforcer came
<v Speaker 4>up to me, is that alcohol? And I looked at
<v Speaker 4>him and I said, in a week like I made
<v Speaker 4>a winkie type of face without winking. I don't know
<v Speaker 4>if I've ever winked. I was just like, no, it's
<v Speaker 4>apple juice, and he goes apple juice hunt, I said, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>apple juice. I was like okay, and I just kept
<v Speaker 4>like walking through the crowd drinking.
<v Speaker 5>What's wrong with apple juice?
<v Speaker 6>Right?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, grub. The story I heard from Michael him
<v Speaker 2>is that you got escorted out, like someone like arm
<v Speaker 2>in arm with you.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they definitely used the words escorting us out, but
<v Speaker 3>if they were walking with us, I didn't see them.
<v Speaker 3>I'm just like I was leaving anyhow. This is fine.
<v Speaker 3>So it was. It was bizarre, but things like that
<v Speaker 3>happened at cons, and I'm like, at this point, I
<v Speaker 3>just go with the flow. I don't want to be
<v Speaker 3>in a Greg Miller situation where I'm banned from E
<v Speaker 3>three or packs or whatever like he is, I.
<v Speaker 6>Gonna have problems like getting in next time, though, right.
<v Speaker 3>I don't. I don't think so. But like I, like
<v Speaker 3>I said, like, I'll find a chance to like really
<v Speaker 3>talk to the people over at packs and make sure
<v Speaker 3>they know it's all good. But it's because it really
<v Speaker 3>was not a problem from my side, and if they
<v Speaker 3>if the enforcers need more like information, I was going
<v Speaker 3>to give it to them, but yeah, it's.
<v Speaker 2>It was just weird that I think you were set
<v Speaker 2>up brub.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean definitely, it definitely felt that way. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it definitely felt like Dan Record said it's Apple juice,
<v Speaker 3>but you should go get that guy. Yeah. I think.
<v Speaker 5>We all have a hard time believing Dan would do
<v Speaker 5>that to a person.
<v Speaker 2>I also think you might have been racially profiled a
<v Speaker 2>little bit.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, definitely I was. You know, my people's put up
<v Speaker 3>with that for long enough. So yeah, of course, ohioan.
<v Speaker 2>Right, Oh I get it, Yeah for sure, please please
<v Speaker 2>come on, all right, all right, all right, well let's
<v Speaker 2>go talk about the newest video games around the world.
<v Speaker 2>Uh played the music speaking about newest video games Mega
<v Speaker 2>Man five.
<v Speaker 6>This was actually just my go to I'm in line
<v Speaker 6>game in Disney World, so fun. Yeah, Dan hooked me
<v Speaker 6>up with the Amber nick s p showing them off
<v Speaker 6>right there, which I was like, okay, because I miss
<v Speaker 6>having a tiny portable gaming device that is not my phone,
<v Speaker 6>because I hate using my phone in theme parks. It
<v Speaker 6>just feels like I'm just wasting precious battery life and
<v Speaker 6>I don't really like that many phone games anyway, So like, oh,
<v Speaker 6>if I can have something that looks like a game
<v Speaker 6>Boy Advance sp and it just plays old video games
<v Speaker 6>that would be fantastic. And at first I was like
<v Speaker 6>trying to play some new stuff like like Shanobi on
<v Speaker 6>the Master System. I was playing Act Racer on the
<v Speaker 6>Semes that was good, and very quickly I just went
<v Speaker 6>back to Mega Man because that is games I'm very
<v Speaker 6>familiar with. There are games that are very fun to
<v Speaker 6>play just the way that they're designed. They're easy to
<v Speaker 6>play in chunks. So yeah, it was like basically just
<v Speaker 6>kind of slowly throughout the course of the week there
<v Speaker 6>kind of made my way through all Mega Man five
<v Speaker 6>for probably the thirtieth time in my life, which is
<v Speaker 6>still a very good video game, but mostly it was
<v Speaker 6>just really funny to me playing Mega Man five on
<v Speaker 6>this thing. At one point we broke down on Spaceship
<v Speaker 6>Earth and there was a law there, so I just
<v Speaker 6>busted out my Ambernikker Mega Man five. The Michelangelo robot
<v Speaker 6>was painting the Sistine Chapel and I was like, this
<v Speaker 6>is fantastic. I love everything about this.
<v Speaker 3>I gotta be stuck here all day.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that is my go to as well as like
<v Speaker 4>you know, on those like SPS or any analog and stuff.
<v Speaker 4>I will tell myself like I'm gonna start Earthbound on
<v Speaker 4>this flight, and then it's like, I'm just gonna play
<v Speaker 4>a Link to the Past for the four hundred time.
<v Speaker 4>You know, it's just that comfort food thing, Like it's
<v Speaker 4>great for.
<v Speaker 6>That right exactly, because you know it is short chunk.
<v Speaker 6>So Accrazer was fun for a bit. I hadn't played
<v Speaker 6>it much. I was liking it. I definitely want to
<v Speaker 6>go play it, but it's like, boy, it's just really
<v Speaker 6>easy for me to go in and out of Mega
<v Speaker 6>Man five or any of the Mega Man's and like
<v Speaker 6>any S games especially, and it was very comfortable on
<v Speaker 6>that thing. They ran well. They did not take up
<v Speaker 6>any battery, so that was never a concern with that thing.
<v Speaker 6>It was very easy to make safe states and you
<v Speaker 6>could just close the LIG because you installed that special
<v Speaker 6>operating system on there. So yeah, that was that all
<v Speaker 6>worked out just like I was hoping. The one thing
<v Speaker 6>is that if I did it, then the net you
<v Speaker 6>would see it sometimes too and be like, well, you're
<v Speaker 6>on a gaming thing. Can I have your phone and
<v Speaker 6>play games on there? So I had to install some
<v Speaker 6>weird mobile games that the kids are into right now
<v Speaker 6>games What's called block Blast and it was yeah, so
<v Speaker 6>that's just like bad Tetris. I think one was called
<v Speaker 6>white Out Survival. And at some second he had to
<v Speaker 6>send an email to my account for parental permission that
<v Speaker 6>I had to then and like should I be doing this?
<v Speaker 6>I was like whatever, Yeah, sure, I don't know what
<v Speaker 6>that that was. And something called Total Battle Justice. No,
<v Speaker 6>it's just like a fortress in the middle of an ocean.
<v Speaker 6>The layout Survival Icon's pretty good. It's like a frozen
<v Speaker 6>Earth and I think an ice cream cone is stuck
<v Speaker 6>on it. That's not bad, that's good.
<v Speaker 3>I should have played these games quick look block Blast.
<v Speaker 6>Like then I'm walking around to park it. I look
<v Speaker 6>at other kids. They're playing block Blasts or probably one
<v Speaker 6>of fifteen games that's exactly like it. I suppose that,
<v Speaker 6>don't something.
<v Speaker 4>Something really drives me nuts when we say it's like
<v Speaker 4>bad Tetris, Like whenever I see someone playing what's not
<v Speaker 4>ten ninety nine, what's the twenty forty eight, or it's
<v Speaker 4>like the Threes play Threes. That's the good version, that's
<v Speaker 4>the original free I know, but every time I see it,
<v Speaker 4>I just want to be like God damn it.
<v Speaker 3>It drives me crazy.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. Yeah, we got big problems, that's what we're saying.
<v Speaker 3>That's right, nothing's going our way, damn itmore yep.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So you know I've I've had that call inside
<v Speaker 2>of me to to well, I have the one that
<v Speaker 2>Grub graciously gave me that one packs, but like I
<v Speaker 2>have the call to have like a handheld in my
<v Speaker 2>pocket at all times to you know, kill some time.
<v Speaker 2>Do you think if VR went the way that publishers
<v Speaker 2>developers wanted VR to go, you think we would have,
<v Speaker 2>like maybe five ten years down the line, just have
<v Speaker 2>a kid just going like, oh man, gotta load up
<v Speaker 2>something while I'm in line, just throwing a good old
<v Speaker 2>helmet and have a retro e spirits a VR.
<v Speaker 3>I think, like, you know, what are the doesn't Instagram
<v Speaker 3>have glasses or whatever that like there they used to
<v Speaker 3>like as a camera. I think they're gonna try to
<v Speaker 3>get those to a point where those also just have
<v Speaker 3>the screen in it and they'll kind of match up
<v Speaker 3>the VR stuff with that.
<v Speaker 4>Every flight I use those extray glasses. That's how I
<v Speaker 4>watch like EPO and the flights out there. It's a
<v Speaker 4>can play stuff. It's awesome.
<v Speaker 5>I look, man, but I gotta be there the next
<v Speaker 5>time you do that. Man, I they just look like sunglasses. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 5>well that's what it is. It's good until everything just
<v Speaker 5>looks like glasses, like normal ass glasses. Nothing's really going
<v Speaker 5>to change on these ones.
<v Speaker 3>The one, the extra ones just look like kind of big.
<v Speaker 4>Sunglass glass and I've got my prescriptions inside them, so
<v Speaker 4>I take my normal glasses off normally.
<v Speaker 2>Oh god, just load up with a speaker hat to Wow.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that life right there. That's a cool, dude.
<v Speaker 2>That's very cool.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, cool cool.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Well, Dan, it seems like you're on your way to
<v Speaker 2>becoming completely bionic, and it makes sense because you've been
<v Speaker 2>playing Bionic Bay.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>That was another flight one when I was going out
<v Speaker 4>to Japan for dest Randing, which I will talk about
<v Speaker 4>that in a bit. I played a lot of that
<v Speaker 4>on steam Deck. It's excellent for that it is. I
<v Speaker 4>would call it like a limbo inside like in terms
<v Speaker 4>of just like very you know, some serious vibes going on,
<v Speaker 4>like a two D lawn latformer. Yeah, mold on, I'm
<v Speaker 4>going vertical, great, great vibe to it, a very very
<v Speaker 4>atmospheric and then it's like heavier on the platforming than
<v Speaker 4>like Limbo, Like it does have puzzles and stuff like that,
<v Speaker 4>but I'd say it's more action platforming with a bunch
<v Speaker 4>of abilities and stuff like tagging an item and then
<v Speaker 4>having a button that like switch swaps you basically between
<v Speaker 4>like if I tag a barrel and then I run forward,
<v Speaker 4>I can hit like l one and you and the
<v Speaker 4>barrel switch and there's a lot of fun kind of
<v Speaker 4>like puzzle stuff going on with that.
<v Speaker 2>Cool.
<v Speaker 4>It's uh, it's got the way the like kind of
<v Speaker 4>dive jump and everything works. Feels kind of Mario Odyssey
<v Speaker 4>to me, that feeling I would get when I'm like
<v Speaker 4>jumping on my hat and stuff like that. So some
<v Speaker 4>great momentum to it, some great physics, good puzzles, and
<v Speaker 4>just very very atmosphere. It gets right right into. It
<v Speaker 4>doesn't really spend a lot of time with story, but yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it really helps some hours melt by on the flight.
<v Speaker 3>This is a cinematic platformer, you said, like, I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>If i'd call it cinematic necessarily, Like, yeah, I'd say
<v Speaker 4>Limbo is heavier on like the cinematic stuff, and this
<v Speaker 4>is heavier on like the platforming puzzle stuff, I think.
<v Speaker 3>Right, but like, is it like does it have that
<v Speaker 3>like weight to the movement of like the original Prince
<v Speaker 3>of Persia platformer or Blackthorn or something like that.
<v Speaker 4>No, it feels way more. Uh, it feels more like
<v Speaker 4>a Mario I would say, okay, all right, yeah, interesting.
<v Speaker 3>So it's like it's it's like a physics a platformer
<v Speaker 3>with a physics system, so like you're carrying your momentum
<v Speaker 3>and stuff like that. You can okay to that.
<v Speaker 4>And it's speedy. It's it's uh yeah, it's definitely like
<v Speaker 4>a kind of a high action platformer more than it
<v Speaker 4>is a like, oh, the scary spider is gonna come
<v Speaker 4>and start this, you know, little cut scene thing, which
<v Speaker 4>I love limbo, but this is definitely more my speed.
<v Speaker 4>I think.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I'm gonna check this out, all right, cool, fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>Speaking about jumping, hopping and bopping and things falling into place,
<v Speaker 2>I've been playing a game called I don't know to
<v Speaker 2>say the second word here, drop Doucci.
<v Speaker 3>Duh.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, is the Tetris Carcacon or Tetris was that how
<v Speaker 4>they It's carcasone.
<v Speaker 7>Right, carcasone kind of yeah, then yeah, for sure, Yeah right,
<v Speaker 7>I'll pass this on the left hand side though, yes, yes,
<v Speaker 7>so y'all know me.
<v Speaker 2>I'm a freak for tiles, but I think this will
<v Speaker 2>tickle all of us because it is also tetris adjacent
<v Speaker 2>because you have a grid and grub hear me out here,
<v Speaker 2>kind of a roguelike.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, all right, there's also a card system.
<v Speaker 2>How does that work? All right?
<v Speaker 5>So?
<v Speaker 2>Uh you similar to like a slave the spire, you
<v Speaker 2>have like a tree with different instances of like, okay,
<v Speaker 2>I'm good. This is going to be a resource run,
<v Speaker 2>This is going to be a combat run. This is
<v Speaker 2>just like a random thing. Here's a store. And how
<v Speaker 2>it works is that you have your different tetra shaped
<v Speaker 2>tiles are terrain tiles, and instead of when you make
<v Speaker 2>a line clearing that space, you collect those resources of
<v Speaker 2>the tiles that make up the line. So if you
<v Speaker 2>have some planes that link up with some trees and
<v Speaker 2>a mountain, you get all of the resources in that
<v Speaker 2>line fed into your bank. And it's cool because on
<v Speaker 2>top of the different terrain tiles that you get, you
<v Speaker 2>will also have different production buildings military buildings that interact
<v Speaker 2>with the different terrain tiles. So say you got a
<v Speaker 2>bunch of forests going on, you slap on like a
<v Speaker 2>wood cleaver building which is like a one by one square,
<v Speaker 2>and it transforms in an area of affect all of
<v Speaker 2>those trees into planes, and then like that, synergy starts
<v Speaker 2>quickly building on top of each other, because then you'll
<v Speaker 2>have a military unit that will get more units if
<v Speaker 2>it is by more planes. So if you think you
<v Speaker 2>bone yourself by putting a watch tower which relies on
<v Speaker 2>planes amidst a bunch of trees, you slap on a
<v Speaker 2>wood cleaver a couple turns later, and then that transforms
<v Speaker 2>all the trees to planes. So the planes feedback into
<v Speaker 2>the watch tower. And it's pretty neat because you also
<v Speaker 2>have to start worrying about combat and combat I'm still
<v Speaker 2>kind of wrapping my head around how it works, because
<v Speaker 2>there is like the fire emblem style hierarchy of like
<v Speaker 2>this beats that, that beats this, and like slightly more effective.
<v Speaker 2>So you are also in charge of placing the enemy tiles,
<v Speaker 2>and just like tetras, you can choice reserve a tile,
<v Speaker 2>so if you're being smart about it, you don't have
<v Speaker 2>to put all the enemy tiles out. You can just
<v Speaker 2>have like a really nasty one in your reserve tile
<v Speaker 2>and that doesn't get counted in to the fight calculations.
<v Speaker 2>And how the fight calculations work is that, Okay, I'm
<v Speaker 2>going to try and explain this how I think it works,
<v Speaker 2>and that you either have like an axe army, infantry,
<v Speaker 2>sword infantry, or archers, and then it will take the
<v Speaker 2>highest number and then you would subtract from the enemies.
<v Speaker 2>So say you have like twenty archers and you're fighting
<v Speaker 2>twenty ax men on the or ten x men on
<v Speaker 2>the enemies, you would just get ten left over, okay.
<v Speaker 2>But then how this works out with your friendly units
<v Speaker 2>is that you can shoot your arrows to go to
<v Speaker 2>some axe men or some swordsmen, and then it would
<v Speaker 2>add up all of that to make one big army instead.
<v Speaker 2>And how the flow of the game works is you're
<v Speaker 2>just trying to progress through the tree. You have like
<v Speaker 2>fifty HP, so whatever enemies you do not take out
<v Speaker 2>at the end of a round gets calculated and subtracted
<v Speaker 2>from your like life points. Those life points carry on
<v Speaker 2>from instance to instance. You have like a finite number
<v Speaker 2>of cards, and those cards are your buildings and your terrain,
<v Speaker 2>and the cool thing is it projects with each different
<v Speaker 2>level of like, oh, this is gonna be very plains heavy,
<v Speaker 2>this is gonna be very mountain heavy. So you can
<v Speaker 2>kind of switch up your building cards to match up
<v Speaker 2>with what you got going on, which you want a
<v Speaker 2>plan to go on. It plays great on the Steam Deck.
<v Speaker 2>It's just everything is just so goddamn teency on it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it looks like there's a lot on the screen
<v Speaker 3>in terms of because you know the main well here
<v Speaker 3>is Tetris for sure, but then there's a ton of
<v Speaker 3>info on the side of the screen. So and then
<v Speaker 3>if you need and like for the cards, you're gonna
<v Speaker 3>have to have the specific stuff. Yeah, just looks like
<v Speaker 3>there's not going on. It reminds me in terms of
<v Speaker 3>in terms of presentation of Odama a little bit.
<v Speaker 5>Oh yeah, yeah, that gets excited.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, other than like the text being a little too small,
<v Speaker 2>Like after you place like a building on your map,
<v Speaker 2>it's kind of hard to like reidentify what it is
<v Speaker 2>of like, oh, which should I be sergizing with that?
<v Speaker 4>Is this just on Steam Deck because like, you know,
<v Speaker 4>have you played on on PC? Is it better on that?
<v Speaker 2>I haven't played it on PC? I'm sure plays perfect
<v Speaker 2>perfect on on like a nice big big monitor.
<v Speaker 4>I mean just visually, like you know, readability wise.
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure the readability is like better on Yeah, it.
<v Speaker 3>Looks like it would work fine if you're playing on
<v Speaker 3>PC with a keyboard.
<v Speaker 2>Cool. Yeah, but we need more Odama likes.
<v Speaker 4>Many people are saying this, Yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna I'm gonna get this on the Steam deck
<v Speaker 3>as well. It's at least I'm at least gonna try
<v Speaker 3>this for a little bit. I wonder if it's going
<v Speaker 3>to click for me.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I want to do a quick look of it. Oh.
<v Speaker 2>The cool thing though, is that it has like a
<v Speaker 2>bunch of achievements in the game, like hey, harvest ten
<v Speaker 2>fields or get this amount of resources in a run
<v Speaker 2>or around. And those achievements are like lifetime achievements that
<v Speaker 2>you can use to unlock things on your Greater skill tree.
<v Speaker 2>And I unlocked rivers and I have yet to come
<v Speaker 2>across a river, so I'm curious as to like how
<v Speaker 2>that will start to synergize with everything else.
<v Speaker 3>And this is the rogueld element of the stuff you're
<v Speaker 3>unlocking as you go into new runs.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, all right, And like that is the thing that
<v Speaker 2>is persistent across I.
<v Speaker 3>Seen in the video, Like upgrading cards are those like
<v Speaker 3>you're upgrading during the run or you upgrading them permanently.
<v Speaker 2>You're upgrading them on the runs in between the actual
<v Speaker 2>like expeditions and everything. You just trade your resources to
<v Speaker 2>upgrade the cards, and generally that will affect how much
<v Speaker 2>they're harvesting, like how many pieces of wood they're harvesting
<v Speaker 2>per line or the a we of h of like
<v Speaker 2>transformation with with some of the tiles. Drop drop Duchy,
<v Speaker 2>we said, right, drop Dutchy, drop Ducci, drop Deutsche, one
<v Speaker 2>of those one of those.
<v Speaker 3>It's like it's like duchess, right, yeah, souchy.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, that's a lot, that's a lot. Uh. There's uh
<v Speaker 2>like crafting in the game. But Jeff Grubb, I want
<v Speaker 2>to hear about your crafting in Roadcraft.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, road Craft is here. Uh. This is the latest
<v Speaker 3>like bash trucks into mud game from Saber Interactive who's
<v Speaker 3>done mud Runner and snow Runner. They also did mud
<v Speaker 3>Runner Expeditions last year, I think, which was more of
<v Speaker 3>a kind of a game that took the idea of
<v Speaker 3>these driving these trucks around in this tough terrain but
<v Speaker 3>made it the missions much more bite sized, and it
<v Speaker 3>was a good idea. Roadcraft, though, is an evolution of
<v Speaker 3>those games where it's still very much about you have
<v Speaker 3>these trucks that are are realistically modeled in terms of
<v Speaker 3>their physics and their interaction with the ground. So if
<v Speaker 3>there's mud and it's loose and it's difficult to drive
<v Speaker 3>through and it's really wet, it's going to cause your
<v Speaker 3>truck could get stuck very easily. It's still that, but
<v Speaker 3>the way that you are using these vehicles has been
<v Speaker 3>refined to the point where it's like, okay, now you
<v Speaker 3>really are doing specific cleanup missions as a crew meant
<v Speaker 3>to get this city back up on its feet, and
<v Speaker 3>so that means a storm came through or storm's about
<v Speaker 3>to come through, and so you need to actually take
<v Speaker 3>a bulldozer and move some like stuff out of the
<v Speaker 3>way and actually push it off to the side. And
<v Speaker 3>then you can take that same bulldozer like and then
<v Speaker 3>switch to one of the like the tool from pushing
<v Speaker 3>stuff to actually like stripping the ground. Let's strip up
<v Speaker 3>this old asphalt and then you get another to another
<v Speaker 3>vehicle to lay down new asphalt and build new roads.
<v Speaker 3>And it's it's kind of the exactly where this series
<v Speaker 3>and that this idea from Sabers should be going, because
<v Speaker 3>it's a very satisfying thing to like have all these
<v Speaker 3>vehicles and have to still deal with the reality of
<v Speaker 3>movie them around in hostile terrain. Uh. But then you
<v Speaker 3>have a good idea of like the goal that you're
<v Speaker 3>going for, and you have like there's a bunch of
<v Speaker 3>fun interactions you could do now because you are trying
<v Speaker 3>to accomplish like the rebuilding of a road. So I'm
<v Speaker 3>still pretty early, but so far I'm like this is
<v Speaker 3>this is really working for me. It's it's the right
<v Speaker 3>idea I think for the future of mud Runner in general.
<v Speaker 4>I know you really like these type of games and everything,
<v Speaker 4>and like, let's say, in an alternate universe for this
<v Speaker 4>games coverage thing didn't work out, would you and your
<v Speaker 4>brain work well with the idea of like laying asphalt,
<v Speaker 4>like just being out there in the heat laying asphalt.
<v Speaker 3>Just be an asphalt man. I mean, I I like
<v Speaker 3>the yes, I would. I wouldn't mind that all that much.
<v Speaker 3>I would definitely like like be you know what I
<v Speaker 3>would want to do is the vehicle rescue things. If
<v Speaker 3>you're seeing these on YouTube, with these guys. No, that's
<v Speaker 3>that's a little bit different. That's a different rescuing. Yeah, yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 3>this is one where like people will like go out
<v Speaker 3>to Arizona or something, and they'll rent a car that's
<v Speaker 3>meant for offer vading, and then they'll go a little
<v Speaker 3>bit too off road and so they have to call
<v Speaker 3>in experts who can sort of get the vehicle and
<v Speaker 3>rescue it out of ravine. That's what I would want
<v Speaker 3>to do.
<v Speaker 4>Right, okay, right, Like my dad always says his dream
<v Speaker 4>job would be like an assembly line thing where it's
<v Speaker 4>just like eight hours a day, just like putting a
<v Speaker 4>screw into a thing, another thing, another screw form.
<v Speaker 3>We're all be doing that job. Apparently are you bringing
<v Speaker 3>this up?
<v Speaker 5>Because it's like, why are you bringing that up? I
<v Speaker 5>don't understand people.
<v Speaker 4>I think it's interesting how like certain people like you know,
<v Speaker 4>Grubs saying he would be okay with like the asphole
<v Speaker 4>length thing, or like you know, like my dad talking
<v Speaker 4>about the repetitive thing like that would drive me insane,
<v Speaker 4>I would do. I think it's interesting how certain people
<v Speaker 4>are wired certain ways.
<v Speaker 5>You know, Oh buddy, you said it, Well, I want
<v Speaker 5>to unpack that with Paul, Sir, what do you mean
<v Speaker 5>you want to be a robot? You want to be
<v Speaker 5>an arm on an assembly line?
<v Speaker 6>Paul? Just like he wants that.
<v Speaker 4>I think exactly what's that fl once he needs to
<v Speaker 4>get up and like, you know, put shoes on and
<v Speaker 4>drive to the factory.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, a lunch Timecause if that's the most moralizing aspect
<v Speaker 5>of your fantasy job, Paul getting up and going to
<v Speaker 5>this robot job.
<v Speaker 4>About his neighbor place that doesn't ever have anyone living
<v Speaker 4>in it that he was excited about, Yeah, because you know,
<v Speaker 4>he moved. He moved into a trailer because he didn't
<v Speaker 4>want to talk to neighbors when he smokes, And he's
<v Speaker 4>really excited because the trailer next to his never has
<v Speaker 4>anyone in it anymore, because people think it's like haunted
<v Speaker 4>because the last tenants was a murder suicide situation and
<v Speaker 4>the guy before that threw himself in front of a train,
<v Speaker 4>So no one wants to move into that trailer and
<v Speaker 4>says like, hell, yeah, no one to talk to you
<v Speaker 4>when I smoke in that one.
<v Speaker 3>Giant bomb dot Com slash joint.
<v Speaker 5>That's what you get, That's what you get with your
<v Speaker 5>membership unlimited Paul Reker stories. I don't even know how
<v Speaker 5>to follow that update.
<v Speaker 2>No, there was there was actually another story that Dan
<v Speaker 2>shared with us, but I don't think we need to
<v Speaker 2>cover about that. That was about Paul making a game changer,
<v Speaker 2>game changing.
<v Speaker 4>And what no like can be okay with me telling that.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if I'm okay with that.
<v Speaker 5>I want to.
<v Speaker 2>H who's HR for us?
<v Speaker 6>I designated myself with HR, and I allow it.
<v Speaker 5>Cool. That's how that decision should be made. You've heard the.
<v Speaker 2>Story, use it.
<v Speaker 4>He made a discovery while he was peeing the other day,
<v Speaker 4>based on a new thing of clothing he had and
<v Speaker 4>access he added to the toilet being different, and he
<v Speaker 4>said out loud to himself while he was peeing, oh,
<v Speaker 4>game changer.
<v Speaker 6>Way. I'm sorry, more detailed.
<v Speaker 4>I cannot lazier way to get penis out.
<v Speaker 3>Okay. The fancy East Coast Oh.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he wears.
<v Speaker 4>He told me all he wears now are fects, which
<v Speaker 4>I said, what the fuck are facts? And he said, oh, oh,
<v Speaker 4>that's sorry. That's what I call fancy East Coast sweatpants,
<v Speaker 4>which are the eighteen dollars joggers that we found on Amazon.
<v Speaker 4>And he goes, So those are facts. This fancy was
<v Speaker 4>kind of funny.
<v Speaker 6>Uh yeah, okay, is he taking just like peeking down
<v Speaker 6>the side of his leg, now what's going on?
<v Speaker 4>Gives a quicker way than having to like lower his pants.
<v Speaker 4>There's more of just.
<v Speaker 3>At his short leg, all right, Like he just slipped
<v Speaker 3>up the short leg and he said.
<v Speaker 4>Game changer while being out the side of.
<v Speaker 5>This implies that he's been kissing the wrong way for
<v Speaker 5>so long.
<v Speaker 3>Game changer.
<v Speaker 4>No, it just takes him longer to have to go,
<v Speaker 4>you know, bring it down and flip it over the top.
<v Speaker 2>You know what, I actually have a question about peeing etiquette.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, competicant, yeah, appecticut.
<v Speaker 2>All right, you know you there are urinals in a
<v Speaker 2>men's bathroom, right and like there's no door to close.
<v Speaker 2>That's cool, fine, sure, yeah, sure, say you're in a
<v Speaker 2>smaller stall, maybe like you got like one poop poo
<v Speaker 2>stall and you get like a urinal.
<v Speaker 6>Yes, never, okay, to look if that's your question.
<v Speaker 2>That's not what I'm asking.
<v Speaker 5>Sometimes, yeah, that's your rule only. Also Mike continuing to say.
<v Speaker 2>The stall is very close to the sink, and you
<v Speaker 2>know that someone is already peeing in there because you
<v Speaker 2>can fit two people at least, would you Why why
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't you close the stall door if you're just gonna
<v Speaker 2>be like standing up to pee and you're like standing
<v Speaker 2>pretty far away, so then you can kind of see
<v Speaker 2>the whole business.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, are you talking? Correct me?
<v Speaker 5>If I'm wrong? Are you talking about like why close
<v Speaker 5>the stall door if you're just pissing?
<v Speaker 2>This person did not close the stall door while he
<v Speaker 2>was pissed.
<v Speaker 5>I don't do that either. No, I don't. Yeah, because
<v Speaker 5>like I've got no problem seeing someone watch me go
<v Speaker 5>at a urinal. They can someone's back, Yes, yeah, they
<v Speaker 5>can watch me go to No, because I want to.
<v Speaker 5>I want them to also know that, like this is
<v Speaker 5>gonna be short, you're gonna be okay.
<v Speaker 6>There is what I want to know. I don't care
<v Speaker 6>what they're doing. I wouldn't know it's occupied.
<v Speaker 5>The door being closed. It's sometimes a mystery.
<v Speaker 6>Grub grub sneak up. Where do you like it here? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>I gotta be honest, guys, I don't care whatever you know.
<v Speaker 2>You knew where this was going.
<v Speaker 3>And this I'm like, Mike, I was over here, like
<v Speaker 3>I should have an opinion on this one. I'm like,
<v Speaker 3>I don't think I do.
<v Speaker 6>I don't care.
<v Speaker 3>How about this.
<v Speaker 5>We can all agree on the fact that, like, whoever
<v Speaker 5>is designing public restrooms is bad at it, and they.
<v Speaker 4>Started getting rid of the troughs right.
<v Speaker 2>Again, I don't want, I don't.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I.
<v Speaker 5>Was.
<v Speaker 6>I peed in a wrigley Field trough one time. It
<v Speaker 6>was a religious experience.
<v Speaker 4>Here's the here's the top tier peeing experience trough with
<v Speaker 4>ice in it?
<v Speaker 6>Yes, the ice?
<v Speaker 5>Okay, great? Listen, who was it? You guys were talking
<v Speaker 5>about the horseshoe shaped trump where people people are like
<v Speaker 5>block eyes.
<v Speaker 4>Well, juicy, Lucy's mic And did you pee in the
<v Speaker 4>one there? It's a hollowed out beer cake with ice
<v Speaker 4>in it?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 6>I think I told you it was the most beautiful
<v Speaker 6>thing I've ever seen.
<v Speaker 5>Man, I can't romanticize singing a trough as much as
<v Speaker 5>you can whoever is designing these things. I realize space
<v Speaker 5>is limited, and maybe you don't put all the square
<v Speaker 5>footage against pissing and pooping and all that. That's fine,
<v Speaker 5>but whoever is really like Every now and then I
<v Speaker 5>go into a bathroom and I'm just like, what kind
<v Speaker 5>of insane disgruntled architect contractor had the demonry to like
<v Speaker 5>do what went on in here?
<v Speaker 2>Told off of that. How come no one has figured
<v Speaker 2>out uh, like the soap, like the area underneath a
<v Speaker 2>soap dispenser to not be god awfully messy and what
<v Speaker 2>do you do?
<v Speaker 5>It's just a series of poor decisions left and right,
<v Speaker 5>Like what you're gonna have the blower go onto the
<v Speaker 5>urinal too, so when everyone washes their hands, are gonna
<v Speaker 5>get blown.
<v Speaker 4>Like come on, I will tell you as someone who's
<v Speaker 4>intimately familiar now with Kajima Productions bathroom. You may have
<v Speaker 4>heard of the panel. Uh, it's maybe the nicest bathroom.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, because what do you mean?
<v Speaker 8>Of course I'm not talking I'm talking about the stalls.
<v Speaker 8>It's like incredible japan As what is it? Bedeys, there
<v Speaker 8>was like a heated sea. The second you sit down,
<v Speaker 8>it's warm.
<v Speaker 4>They can like play music and stuff, like you can
<v Speaker 4>press the button and will play music so they can't
<v Speaker 4>hear your splashing and shitting' Oh man, it's all just
<v Speaker 4>like it looks like the last room in two thousand
<v Speaker 4>and one, a space out of sea. It's all just
<v Speaker 4>like bright white light and everything.
<v Speaker 5>Well, that's maybe not the best color for a bathroom,
<v Speaker 5>But sure, I think I like it.
<v Speaker 4>I respected that bathroom so much.
<v Speaker 6>Setting dominant color in a restaurant.
<v Speaker 3>Yellow yellow, bab I think, entirely black. Actually it's pretty upsetting.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because then like you like, why is the floor sticky?
<v Speaker 5>There was there was a place we were at in
<v Speaker 5>New Uh for Comic Con New York this past October.
<v Speaker 5>There was a party I was at and the entirety
<v Speaker 5>of the bathroom floor to ceiling was like black porcelain,
<v Speaker 5>And you're just like, what am I touching a given moment?
<v Speaker 5>What's happening? It's all a fun house of of germs
<v Speaker 5>and everything was. It was deeply upsetting.
<v Speaker 6>That's the scary, spooky monster section of that New Universal Park,
<v Speaker 6>and the restrooms there are black, but that's theming. So like,
<v Speaker 6>the black porcelain seemed cool.
<v Speaker 4>How do we feel about the bathroom and the shining
<v Speaker 4>the red one? If you google the shining bathroom, Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>there's the red one. Upsetting. I love it. I think
<v Speaker 4>it looks so sharp.
<v Speaker 5>I'll give me. The bathroom in the shining is pretty cool.
<v Speaker 5>It's like subway tile too.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, uh, here's okay, let's design the worst bathroom is
<v Speaker 5>certainly yellow. It has carpeting wall to wall carpeting. Also
<v Speaker 5>people who have carpeting that it has.
<v Speaker 6>Like a bathroom by the way, this one from the
<v Speaker 6>Shining Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>The bathroom, the worst bathroom has a bathroom attendant in.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, and and the bathroom attendant is only wearing socks.
<v Speaker 3>Wow.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it's all because it's all carpet. What you see
<v Speaker 5>we're designing, We're we're doing a bit of a mine
<v Speaker 5>thought experiment. We're designing the worst possible bathroom.
<v Speaker 4>There's a guy in there who punches you in the face.
<v Speaker 4>You've actually seen you know.
<v Speaker 5>I've well, I've seen carpet in bathrooms, not in like public,
<v Speaker 5>but in private, and it's deeply, deeply harrid.
<v Speaker 3>It sucks.
<v Speaker 2>Have y'all ever seen that hand drying thing that looks
<v Speaker 2>like it's just a conveyor belt?
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, we say have those at
<v Speaker 6>my school, and you know they're gross. A bar opened
<v Speaker 6>like a few years ago that had one of those,
<v Speaker 6>and my younger brother was just so confused that he
<v Speaker 6>just ripped it off and started watching his trying his
<v Speaker 6>hands with it. So, you know, the next time we
<v Speaker 6>were there, they had a normal one. He just literally
<v Speaker 6>kind of destroyed it. He was so confused by it.
<v Speaker 2>All Right, well, you know, we're talking about the Dark
<v Speaker 2>Ages of Peeing, so we might as well talk about
<v Speaker 2>Doom the Dark Ages.
<v Speaker 4>Oh that game's cool.
<v Speaker 2>I gave it quick.
<v Speaker 4>That's up there now, grub. But you haven't played it yet.
<v Speaker 3>Have you? No?
<v Speaker 4>But you you seem to be liking what you were
<v Speaker 4>seeing during that, Yes, what you show.
<v Speaker 3>So there was like, Okay, yep, this is exactly what
<v Speaker 3>I'm in the mood for from Doom. It just looked
<v Speaker 3>you know, all the words visceral, all that stuff just impactful.
<v Speaker 3>And then I just think the design and everything was
<v Speaker 3>super on point.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, there was a thing where it's like, you know,
<v Speaker 4>the early trailers. I was wondering, like that's going to
<v Speaker 4>go too far in the fantasy direction and not feel
<v Speaker 4>doomy enough for me. But no, it's a doom ass
<v Speaker 4>doom game. You're getting super shotguns and grenade launchers and stuff.
<v Speaker 4>Some of them are like, esthetically a little more medieval looking,
<v Speaker 4>Like the grenade launchers. These like spiky balls, and that's awesome.
<v Speaker 4>They've got some weight to them, they bounce. But yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it's a doom game, I introduces some elements that are
<v Speaker 4>definitely new to this one or feels that way, where
<v Speaker 4>like green projectiles that's a pretty common thing, or green
<v Speaker 4>attacks that enemies will do that means you can parry
<v Speaker 4>it with your shield. So if you you know, hit
<v Speaker 4>LT with a pretty generous window on the default difficulty,
<v Speaker 4>you can either reflect a projectile back, or you can
<v Speaker 4>kind of stagger someone out of a melee and then
<v Speaker 4>like hit a big you know melee flail combo, stuff
<v Speaker 4>like that. Like it is a little more focused on pair,
<v Speaker 4>a little more focused on melee, but it all works
<v Speaker 4>really great. This shield dash is awesome where it's like,
<v Speaker 4>if you're holding your shield up from pretty far away,
<v Speaker 4>you can just dash into a group, fuck them all
<v Speaker 4>up with a shield, killed you know, five sex dudes
<v Speaker 4>at once. And then it's got these interactions where it's
<v Speaker 4>like if things have metal shields or metal armor, you
<v Speaker 4>can shoot it until they get like hot and they
<v Speaker 4>get like, you know, glowing orange, and then you can
<v Speaker 4>throw your shield at it and it'll explode their armor
<v Speaker 4>or their shield and deal a bunch of damage around them. Similarly,
<v Speaker 4>there are like energy shields like plasma shields that are blue,
<v Speaker 4>and if you use a plasma weapon on those, you'll
<v Speaker 4>blow up a lot of stuff around them. So it's
<v Speaker 4>just a lot of like identifying an enemy that's like okay,
<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna use that and blow up a bunch of
<v Speaker 4>stuff around them, and super fast arena combat. The melee
<v Speaker 4>stuff is really great. It's it's fantastic. I like a
<v Speaker 4>lot more than Eternal Dan.
<v Speaker 2>You mentioned comparing it to some parts of it felt
<v Speaker 2>like a housemark game, but like watching that quick look,
<v Speaker 2>it felt really returnal esque.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, like especially like some of the bigger, like kind
<v Speaker 4>of mid boss and boss type enemies, or some of
<v Speaker 4>the like dragon and mech sections where it's not full
<v Speaker 4>on bullet hell. But it is a bit more than
<v Speaker 4>I would expect from a Doom game because you are
<v Speaker 4>just looking at like okay, dodge or shield all the
<v Speaker 4>orange projectiles. It kind of that ikaruga, you know, kind
<v Speaker 4>of color coded thing of like I'm going to go
<v Speaker 4>over here, get my shit in there. So yeah, it's
<v Speaker 4>it's not full returnal, and I wouldn't even say it's
<v Speaker 4>you know, like the quality of returnal. Returnal is like
<v Speaker 4>on a tier of its own. When it comes to
<v Speaker 4>that type of like projectile boss bullet hell combat, but
<v Speaker 4>it does it a lot better than I think I
<v Speaker 4>would have expected from a doom game. And then it
<v Speaker 4>also has the I showed off the mech section of
<v Speaker 4>the Atlin stuff and the dragon combat, which that stuff
<v Speaker 4>is just fun. Like I think if that was every
<v Speaker 4>other level, I would get tired of it. But you know, Grub,
<v Speaker 4>we were doing the thing where like you're basically you said,
<v Speaker 4>it's like a Kaiju sized thing, and you're like looking
<v Speaker 4>at a bridge full of enemies that when you're just
<v Speaker 4>a dude, they are like hulking creatures. But when you're
<v Speaker 4>this Kaiju mech thing, you're just stomping through bridges and
<v Speaker 4>you have the supercharged turred gun and just annihilating entire
<v Speaker 4>levels of enemies and it feels awesome.
<v Speaker 2>Dan in that quick look, I suggest everyone check it out.
<v Speaker 2>After this. You rev up your dragon.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, you're your dragon has pedals on it and
<v Speaker 4>energy wings, and like that's the thing. It's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it's a dragon, but this isn't Game of Thrones. It's
<v Speaker 4>this is a doom ass doom game. It's like, what
<v Speaker 4>is the most doom looking dragon you could have and
<v Speaker 4>like mechanical parts and energy wings and yeah, pedals and
<v Speaker 4>stuff like that. It's fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I think the word going around is like this was
<v Speaker 3>gonna be more slow and deliberate, but it's still just
<v Speaker 3>looked chaotic. So I don't think that people should take
<v Speaker 3>away that this is like lumbering, because that's why I
<v Speaker 3>suggest that you're like, it definitely doesn't feel that way
<v Speaker 3>when you're playing. It's not as fast as Eternal in
<v Speaker 3>terms of like all of the movement options you had,
<v Speaker 3>but there's definitely a ton going on. Still, did you
<v Speaker 3>find any differences there?
<v Speaker 4>I mean, I just feel like with Eternal, they just
<v Speaker 4>gave you too many things to tweak and too many
<v Speaker 4>options in combat and stuff like that, to where it's like,
<v Speaker 4>you know, you get to the flamethrower and beyond it's
<v Speaker 4>just like, oh man, I'm kind of like losing track
<v Speaker 4>what I should be doing here. And then Eternal felt
<v Speaker 4>slower to me in some ways, and that like it
<v Speaker 4>would really hit the brakes at times and have a
<v Speaker 4>big platforming section, which I like platforming, but not exactly
<v Speaker 4>what I go to Doom for, whereas this one it
<v Speaker 4>doesn't feel lumbering to me, like, I feel like I'm
<v Speaker 4>constantly doing some like high action like arena combat, and
<v Speaker 4>I think it feels better than Eternal did. This makes
<v Speaker 4>me feel closer to how I felt with twenty sixteen.
<v Speaker 3>Cool, Okay, that's good. Yeah, I was just super impressed
<v Speaker 3>with the way it looked to just thought it really
<v Speaker 3>nailed the I know you were worried about the fantasy.
<v Speaker 3>For me, I'm like, this is exactly what I want.
<v Speaker 3>Looks like a metal album cover. Yeah, they really got
<v Speaker 3>it right, yep.
<v Speaker 4>Yep, So love it. Definitely gonna keep going with it.
<v Speaker 4>I'm like, you know, nine chapters in now, I think
<v Speaker 4>there's something like twenty two so definitely gonna keep moving.
<v Speaker 2>That shield looked mighty neat.
<v Speaker 4>Oh, the shi and you can do all yeah, the dash,
<v Speaker 4>the perry, the throw, that thing is it's not just
<v Speaker 4>a gimmick. That is a big part of the combat here.
<v Speaker 2>I was gonna ask, is it rigar like at all?
<v Speaker 4>You know, I don't think I ever really played Rygar. Well,
<v Speaker 4>we can probably rank it once people say, are they
<v Speaker 4>talking about is this any set to reboots?
<v Speaker 5>Okay, Frisbee thing.
<v Speaker 3>Right, yeh.
<v Speaker 9>Basically like a chain shield change, Frisbee I always changed
<v Speaker 9>and Carnov confused fair fair because I didn't really play
<v Speaker 9>either of them, but you hear them come up every
<v Speaker 9>once in a while, and Karnov is like a circus
<v Speaker 9>man with a mustache.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, but the basically Ker's something. No, there's just something
<v Speaker 5>happening to your name.
<v Speaker 4>We can't make a whole feature on giant bomb dot
<v Speaker 4>com just because it's got a punny name.
<v Speaker 6>By the way, stay tuned for Monday Mornings. Missed with
<v Speaker 6>Mitch Precente sees.
<v Speaker 2>Mike Steel my Sunshine free on YouTube. Now we uh
<v Speaker 2>we we haven't given him the keys to stream yet,
<v Speaker 2>right Like he's.
<v Speaker 5>There's still time, there's still.
<v Speaker 4>Has to bring it to the board before he just
<v Speaker 4>goes streams Mitch on Mondays stream missed on Monday's.
<v Speaker 6>Streams, mitche it's so good, you're always getting mixed up.
<v Speaker 6>I'm identified with it now.
<v Speaker 2>Uh Okay, we talked about this, I guess not at
<v Speaker 2>the Packs podcast but the podcast before that. I think
<v Speaker 2>this is my current game of the year. But I'm
<v Speaker 2>excited to hear with Jeff Backlar and Jeff Grubb have
<v Speaker 2>to say about Claire Obscure Expedition thirty three.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, well we've been playing this.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah we uh yeah, I'm French. Now that's how it goes.
<v Speaker 2>Oh we chef, we chef.
<v Speaker 6>You know.
<v Speaker 5>I feel like, on its face, I was really worried
<v Speaker 5>that this is going to be a game that I
<v Speaker 5>kind of like, I don't know, turn based RPG stuff
<v Speaker 5>isn't always like my bag. There is a language that
<v Speaker 5>this game speaks. Thankfully it's English that I it's not.
<v Speaker 5>It's surprisingly it is English. Uh No, I think I
<v Speaker 5>think the there's the right mix of style and presentation.
<v Speaker 5>I will say this like, I think it's it's a
<v Speaker 5>very it's a very weird sort of and compelling jump
<v Speaker 5>into the narrative of like this group of people who
<v Speaker 5>are seemingly evaporated in this alternate timeline once a certain
<v Speaker 5>date hits and you are part of this uh sort
<v Speaker 5>of group that is meant to you know, go out
<v Speaker 5>on this adventure and you know, I don't want to
<v Speaker 5>give too much of it away, but certainly, like I
<v Speaker 5>think the setup has been one of them in a
<v Speaker 5>game where I kind of didn't think I was going
<v Speaker 5>to care about what anyone was saying. I was more
<v Speaker 5>like about the style, it's kind of it's kind of dope,
<v Speaker 5>Like it's like a really cool freaking idea in a
<v Speaker 5>way where I'm like, oh, this would this is this
<v Speaker 5>would work in a in a in any kind of medium,
<v Speaker 5>this kind of story. It's like, it is compelling in
<v Speaker 5>a way that I'm frank frankly surprised by. And then
<v Speaker 5>when you start to unpack the combat situation, I think
<v Speaker 5>what they are trying to do is delivered in a
<v Speaker 5>very accessible way to my surprise as well, where I'm like,
<v Speaker 5>I get this. I understand what it's at stake, I
<v Speaker 5>understand the currency I'm spending when I'm fighting. I understand
<v Speaker 5>all of these things. This game also looks phenomenal, uh,
<v Speaker 5>from every you know, top to bottom. Yeah, I I
<v Speaker 5>I'm absolutely blown away and surprised as to how much
<v Speaker 5>I'm really digging this experience. It's uh. I think it
<v Speaker 5>wins the most points for me just because of how
<v Speaker 5>refreshing and kind of unique the whole thing feels and
<v Speaker 5>carving out its own path and a genre that is
<v Speaker 5>obviously dominated by a lot of stuff we've all seen before.
<v Speaker 5>Holy smokes, I'm into it. Yeah, and I I just
<v Speaker 5>you know, the French stuff. You just you're French. Now
<v Speaker 5>everyone's that it's time. It's time the French got back
<v Speaker 5>into video games in a big way. Is what I've
<v Speaker 5>been pounding on my desk all these decades. And my game,
<v Speaker 5>uh uh, it's it's Mike Dyson's punch Out, the most
<v Speaker 5>French of all time that gets it?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, anyone?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, like wow, you know, I mean, I where's
<v Speaker 5>your mind out? Mind at with a grub? Like what
<v Speaker 5>are you there?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Yeah, no, I'm right there with you. I've been
<v Speaker 3>kind of getting back into it since we got back
<v Speaker 3>from packs and I played a little bit. I'm I
<v Speaker 3>do think that it's this is the game that's making
<v Speaker 3>me realize that I think my Intel thirteenth generation CPU
<v Speaker 3>is busted because nothing's running anymore. I really, yeah, I
<v Speaker 3>think it's shot. I'm gonna so I'm gonna get a
<v Speaker 3>new CPU and stuff like that, but whatever. I've been
<v Speaker 3>trying to force myself through it anyhow because it's like
<v Speaker 3>running at like thirty frames per second a lot of times,
<v Speaker 3>same computer I have basically, but now with a fifty
<v Speaker 3>eighty in it. So yeah yeah, but oh okay.
<v Speaker 5>Interesting. So so just to just for color there, the
<v Speaker 5>the bug that that that powered distribution bug, right, that's
<v Speaker 5>what you're talking about.
<v Speaker 3>The Intel chips, Yes, the whole it was like the
<v Speaker 3>whole twelfth and thirteen generation of higher end chips were
<v Speaker 3>just busted.
<v Speaker 5>So presumers, right, and presumably you just replace that chip,
<v Speaker 5>which is not not at an expense, but certainly Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>But I mean at this point, it's like I'm gonna
<v Speaker 3>do that. I would probably get a whole new motherboard
<v Speaker 3>so I could use a whole different generationship, probably a
<v Speaker 3>MD so I don't have to deal with this at all.
<v Speaker 3>But whatever. That's another thing. I think this game continues
<v Speaker 3>to be really surprisingly good at everything it's trying to do.
<v Speaker 3>I really love that they have an overworld. Yeah, but
<v Speaker 3>you kind of like that's awesome. Yeah, but RPGs, why'd
<v Speaker 3>you stop doing that in the first place? This is fantastic.
<v Speaker 3>I love just having a little guy going on a
<v Speaker 3>big map or whatever, and then the combat still just
<v Speaker 3>keeps getting better and better once you start realizing that
<v Speaker 3>a lot of the pairing and dodging comes down to
<v Speaker 3>really listening to that audio if you could, because it
<v Speaker 3>always winds up like it like winds up like with
<v Speaker 3>both visually like as enemies like winding up to hit you,
<v Speaker 3>but the sound does as well, and so that makes
<v Speaker 3>it a lot easier to get that timing right, and
<v Speaker 3>the pairing feels great every single time. I'm I just
<v Speaker 3>kind of got into like the second area of like
<v Speaker 3>the cool water stuff not too long ago, and it's like, Oh,
<v Speaker 3>they're gonna do awesome stuff with the setting as well.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, this game is probably probably gonna rule. If
<v Speaker 3>this is the first area really I'm going to after
<v Speaker 3>the basic Fantasy area area, it's like, oh, okay, they're really
<v Speaker 3>going to cook. So I am I'm on the hook
<v Speaker 3>for this game. I think at this point I really
<v Speaker 3>want to play through as much.
<v Speaker 6>And then I missed the most while I was out
<v Speaker 6>gallivanting Florida.
<v Speaker 5>Oh you poor god.
<v Speaker 2>It's Mikey. You are going I'm hoping and I'm assuming
<v Speaker 2>based off of what I know about your taste, that
<v Speaker 2>you were going to absolutely die for this game.
<v Speaker 6>Oh I already got in a bit, like I'm ten
<v Speaker 6>hours in and I yeah, I think it's incredible. I
<v Speaker 6>think it's amazing. I absolutely love it, and I just
<v Speaker 6>want to play more. And if there's ever been one
<v Speaker 6>of these kind of games that I think Dan would like.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know if you I want to. I know, no,
<v Speaker 4>but has been playing it and I've been watching and
<v Speaker 4>it's like, okay, I'm I'm intrigued. I like the tone
<v Speaker 4>of it. It seems to have a silliness that I enjoy. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>saw some like weird little mini games and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 4>And the combat itself looks fantastic. I think the look
<v Speaker 4>of the game, the aesthetics look awesome too. The story
<v Speaker 4>sounds intriguing to me. Like, yes, Mike, I think you're
<v Speaker 4>totally correct. If there was a turn base like I
<v Speaker 4>like Mario Luigi, I like paper Mario, give me something
<v Speaker 4>to do during the turn based stuff, and this happened,
<v Speaker 4>I think I might like it.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, it's more the stuff you do like there is
<v Speaker 6>the when you attack, you could time some button presses,
<v Speaker 6>but it's sort of the defensive stuff is where you
<v Speaker 6>are really doing the extra bits there. And it feels
<v Speaker 6>so good.
<v Speaker 3>When you win a battle because you did two awesome
<v Speaker 3>parties in a row. It's like, oh, okay, that great. I
<v Speaker 3>thought I was waiting for my next turn. It's like, no,
<v Speaker 3>I was not. This is fantastic, even the uh getting
<v Speaker 3>two points where it's like, oh, you're fighting a group
<v Speaker 3>of flying enemies and you're supposed to kind of shoot
<v Speaker 3>the flying enemies, like in not real time. You're still
<v Speaker 3>you're both still just standing there, but you could hold
<v Speaker 3>down the left trigger to aim, pull the right trigger
<v Speaker 3>to shoot, and it's like, because they're flying enemies, they're
<v Speaker 3>harder to hit with your standard attacks, so you're supposed
<v Speaker 3>to supposed to shoot them. So it's like that was
<v Speaker 3>a quick fight where I just shot like a guy
<v Speaker 3>six times and that was it. And it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>that keeps the fighting feeling fresh, as like each fight
<v Speaker 3>can feel different from the next depending on the kinds
<v Speaker 3>of enemies that you're going up against. So just a
<v Speaker 3>really well thought out game overall.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm a big sucker for stories in RPGs, and
<v Speaker 2>then this is firing off on all those cylinders. Like
<v Speaker 2>you mentioned Backlar performances in the game across the board
<v Speaker 2>fantastic as well. End of the side. Ben stars in it.
<v Speaker 2>I don't you're gonna get very acquainted with his role
<v Speaker 2>in this game if you stick stick with it. But
<v Speaker 2>Charlie Cox, Wow, look at that guy.
<v Speaker 3>He can act. Huh A really good.
<v Speaker 6>Jem was doing good. The music is incredible, just esthetically
<v Speaker 6>pleasing all around.
<v Speaker 2>One of my favorite things in this game is that
<v Speaker 2>it helps me get over not a fear, but I
<v Speaker 2>guess like a preference where I just detest the artistry
<v Speaker 2>of mimes and this helps me get out all of
<v Speaker 2>my aggression on mine.
<v Speaker 4>Because you're killing them because I'm killing It's like the
<v Speaker 4>Paris level of Twist the Middle two exactly, just like that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, put it on the box. Claire Obscure and uh,
<v Speaker 2>Mike Minatti, you've been playing something on this list that
<v Speaker 2>I've been curious about dipping back into. I've been kind
<v Speaker 2>of fiending to get back into and maybe the five
<v Speaker 2>of us would roll into it Overwatch.
<v Speaker 3>That'd be awesome.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I heard over Watch two is good again. I
<v Speaker 6>don't think it ever really stopped being you know, good,
<v Speaker 6>But it got to a point where that was a
<v Speaker 6>game that I played a lot of almost ten years ago,
<v Speaker 6>right like, that game is nine years old this month,
<v Speaker 6>I think, and I played a lot of it. They
<v Speaker 6>had the sort of big change when it became Overwatch too,
<v Speaker 6>and a lot of that stuff I didn't necessarily love
<v Speaker 6>with the free to play this and going on to
<v Speaker 6>five people, so it just made it very easy for
<v Speaker 6>me to finally move on from that game, and you'll
<v Speaker 6>still kind of think fondly of it. But they added
<v Speaker 6>this new mode called State. Everybody seem to like it,
<v Speaker 6>so I checked that out and it's a really good
<v Speaker 6>new mode. It's still fivey five, and there's kind of
<v Speaker 6>two components to it. One is the actual competition where
<v Speaker 6>instead of just playing on one map and one game type,
<v Speaker 6>it's a best to four kind of thing, and you're
<v Speaker 6>doing a bunch of mini objectives, so it's like you're
<v Speaker 6>gonna go to this map and you're just going to
<v Speaker 6>play one point right, or it's just like a very
<v Speaker 6>short version of pushing the robots to you who gets
<v Speaker 6>it closer, and again it's these shorter rounds and it's
<v Speaker 6>whoever wins four rounds first. But then there's also a
<v Speaker 6>progression system between the rounds, kind of like a kund
<v Speaker 6>of Striker, kind of like a mobile where you can
<v Speaker 6>buy upgrades and perks for your hero. So I've been
<v Speaker 6>doing Soldier seventy six a lot, and there's six we
<v Speaker 6>can kind of just do it your own, but it
<v Speaker 6>also just suggests what builds you get, what things you
<v Speaker 6>should be buying. So eventually I'm buying these abilities that
<v Speaker 6>just make my you know, missile rocket launcher ability stronger,
<v Speaker 6>where it's like okay, now I'm firing two of them
<v Speaker 6>and the blast radius is stronger. And those are kind
<v Speaker 6>of like the bigger bonuses that change the way they
<v Speaker 6>actually work. But then there's also the passive buffs that
<v Speaker 6>you can buy where it's just like, okay, now the
<v Speaker 6>ability damage is higher, the recharge time is higher. So
<v Speaker 6>there's a customization there with all of that that in
<v Speaker 6>the way it works where it's like, oh, as you
<v Speaker 6>keep playing, everybody's getting more powerful. So it just kind
<v Speaker 6>of does you get that power creep, but in a
<v Speaker 6>satisfying way. And if for some reason it's like tied
<v Speaker 6>three to three, then by the end you're all picking
<v Speaker 6>some really kind of wild abilities. Yeah, it's just I
<v Speaker 6>don't know, it's like a neat sort of change for
<v Speaker 6>it's kind of delivering at least a little bit on
<v Speaker 6>that original Overwatch to promise where there's gonna be that
<v Speaker 6>co op campaign where you were going to have talent
<v Speaker 6>trees and augment the hero's abilities. I'm still kind of
<v Speaker 6>mad we didn't get that, but this is at least
<v Speaker 6>some of those ideas in a satisfying way.
<v Speaker 3>I'm sorry. Like the mode itself is like it's a
<v Speaker 3>round based thing? Is it like counter Strike? Is that
<v Speaker 3>what I should be thinking? Right?
<v Speaker 6>Little bit? It's almost like how long each round works?
<v Speaker 6>And like after the round you go to the shop
<v Speaker 6>and you buy things, but like those are permanent, right,
<v Speaker 6>so you're you're not buying for each round. It gets
<v Speaker 6>like Counterstrike in terms of like the set up there
<v Speaker 6>where you die, right, but you know, like kind of
<v Speaker 6>shrike the mo, but just in terms of you're buying
<v Speaker 6>those upgrades, and it's again first to win four rounds.
<v Speaker 6>So it's like a game of Stadium. Maybe takes as
<v Speaker 6>long as a game of just normal Overwatch. I'm not sure,
<v Speaker 6>but you're gonna see, you know, five six different maps
<v Speaker 6>playing this thing is instead of just being on that
<v Speaker 6>one the whole time. Excuse me?
<v Speaker 3>Oh that okay? So that I don't know, that sounds
<v Speaker 3>really interesting to me. We maybe we should check this out.
<v Speaker 2>That's kind of cool, Mic and your time with it.
<v Speaker 2>How how heavy is like class comp or team computor
<v Speaker 2>into it.
<v Speaker 6>It's still ROLLQ when you're doing this, so you still
<v Speaker 6>and it's still the two support to damage in the
<v Speaker 6>one tank, and you're allowed to pick which ones that
<v Speaker 6>you do. But you know, like because you can augment things,
<v Speaker 6>like you know, if you're playing Healer, you could do
<v Speaker 6>a pretty damage base Healer, and I think he is
<v Speaker 6>actually relatively popular to play, Like you can do some
<v Speaker 6>weird stuff with with Moira where you're studenting out two
<v Speaker 6>of those balls, like you're just gonna shoot out both
<v Speaker 6>of them, the healing ball and the damage ball every
<v Speaker 6>time that you do. It's also a smaller hero pool
<v Speaker 6>in this mode. It's not just everybody. There's only certain
<v Speaker 6>heroes available at a time. I even kind of like
<v Speaker 6>that to kind of like, you know, I jump in
<v Speaker 6>the main game now and I've been gone for over
<v Speaker 6>and I'm like, who are all these people? Do we
<v Speaker 6>need this many characters? What is even going on here anymore?
<v Speaker 3>Start putting some in a vault?
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, right, exactly. It's just like I played on my
<v Speaker 6>super Fund, but I actually was playing it offstream. It's like, oh,
<v Speaker 6>I have like half an hour to kill. I think
<v Speaker 6>I'll go play a round of Stadium now.
<v Speaker 3>Cool.
<v Speaker 6>By the way, I bought one of those gamegay controllers
<v Speaker 6>from trying to buy it right now.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I got one.
<v Speaker 3>I'm in a line, I'm on a cue thing for
<v Speaker 3>Nintendo store page.
<v Speaker 4>Let's go The Warrior sixty four has got the link,
<v Speaker 4>I assume, yeah.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, yeah, I'm good to go. Oh baby, probably delivered
<v Speaker 6>while I'm at LA, but still I'll take that.
<v Speaker 2>Only a couple more games to chat about here. Jeff
<v Speaker 2>Grubb ges Polote.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, boy, this game is incredible. It is so you
<v Speaker 3>play as a young boy in Ecuador while the country
<v Speaker 3>and you are obsessed with soccer and specifically the Ecuadorian
<v Speaker 3>national team that is trying to get into the World
<v Speaker 3>Cup for the first time ever, trying to qualify for
<v Speaker 3>the World Cup for the first time ever. And that's
<v Speaker 3>like the the overarching narrative that is happening on top
<v Speaker 3>of you just being this young boy with you know,
<v Speaker 3>with a family and and and the other things going
<v Speaker 3>on in your life. But you walk around in first
<v Speaker 3>person in this world that is like almost looks like
<v Speaker 3>real pictures that have then been run through a filter
<v Speaker 3>to make them sort of impressionist paintings.
<v Speaker 4>And opening with the TV the soccer game is like
<v Speaker 4>it's creak like that. Look, I've never seen anything quite
<v Speaker 4>like that.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, and that like the whole thing has that vibe,
<v Speaker 3>and so like the important things to note are, so
<v Speaker 3>if it feels like you're living through someone else's memories,
<v Speaker 3>and the way it conveys that is all of the
<v Speaker 3>unimportant fuzzy information is that sort of impressionist painting. And
<v Speaker 3>then if something is interactable or important to the story,
<v Speaker 3>it'll be like this cutout drawing of them, or a
<v Speaker 3>cutout drawing of your toy or whatever, like a zord
<v Speaker 3>from Power Rangers or something like that. And then you
<v Speaker 3>have a soccer ball that you can kick around in
<v Speaker 3>a lot of levels, or a balloon or something like that.
<v Speaker 3>But a lot of the interaction is kicking, and that's
<v Speaker 3>the right stick. You flick it back and you push
<v Speaker 3>it forward and you can do a really huge kick.
<v Speaker 3>And the way the game works is it tells these
<v Speaker 3>days in this kid's life by bouncing from one Ecuadorian
<v Speaker 3>national team game to the next. And that stuff is
<v Speaker 3>kind of always happening, either on the radio or on
<v Speaker 3>a TV while you're at a wedding. And some of
<v Speaker 3>the things the game does convey what it's like to
<v Speaker 3>be eight years old are astounding, Like you're at the
<v Speaker 3>wedding and you're kind of running around and your sister's like,
<v Speaker 3>come on, let's go play because and then and then
<v Speaker 3>you like lose her for a little bit and you're like,
<v Speaker 3>where'd she go? And then you see something under the table,
<v Speaker 3>and so you go up to the table and you
<v Speaker 3>press the button to go under the table with her,
<v Speaker 3>and then you have the like the sort of what's
<v Speaker 3>it called. The tablecloth is hanging down off the side,
<v Speaker 3>so you're like in your own little cave, and the
<v Speaker 3>sound outside gets a little bit more muffled, but you
<v Speaker 3>could still hear your parents talking distinctly, and they're talking
<v Speaker 3>about what's happening in the country and dollarization as the
<v Speaker 3>economy is dealing with stuff. And then the game starts
<v Speaker 3>and the lady who's wedding it is is like upset
<v Speaker 3>that they're bringing in a big TV while that's over there,
<v Speaker 3>and you and your sister are just under this table
<v Speaker 3>like blocking out the world, and you're talking to each
<v Speaker 3>other about how nice it is to be under here
<v Speaker 3>because no one's telling you what to do or that
<v Speaker 3>you can't or to go play or whatever. You can
<v Speaker 3>kind of just shut things down and it's like being transported.
<v Speaker 3>It is like living these lives and it's so easy
<v Speaker 3>to connect too because we've all had similar experiences growing
<v Speaker 3>up that I'm I mean, I'm just I couldn't be
<v Speaker 3>more impressed with this thing. It feels singular, it feels important,
<v Speaker 3>you know. I always get the always head of the
<v Speaker 3>sense that people would be able to convey these sorts
<v Speaker 3>of uh, you know, like biography is through feeling, like
<v Speaker 3>making you feel the way I felt by putting you
<v Speaker 3>in a situation. I thought video games would be good
<v Speaker 3>at that. To see it executed and executed this expertly,
<v Speaker 3>this exquisitely has really been quite something. It's up there
<v Speaker 3>for one of my favorite things I've played in a
<v Speaker 3>long time. I'm really enjoying it. Awesome.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's not un cool.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if it's going to be something like
<v Speaker 3>that we'll click for everybody, but I think there's gonna
<v Speaker 3>be a lot of people who will be super open
<v Speaker 3>to it. And then it's like, you know, kicking around
<v Speaker 3>a soccer ball feels really good, they don't. It kind
<v Speaker 3>of sticks to your position like and if you like
<v Speaker 3>move it from the left to the right, your foot
<v Speaker 3>would just automatically sort of kick it in the direction
<v Speaker 3>you're going, so you kind of keep it in front
<v Speaker 3>of you, and that becomes really sad. Fine, and then
<v Speaker 3>sometimes it's like you'll be you know, it jumps around
<v Speaker 3>in time a little bit. Sometimes you'll be an older kid,
<v Speaker 3>like a house party or whatever, kind of telling it
<v Speaker 3>that what it was like at that point in your
<v Speaker 3>life for a little bit, and you know, maybe someone's
<v Speaker 3>mean to you. So you take the ball and you
<v Speaker 3>go or you find the soccer ball and you start
<v Speaker 3>kicking around and you'll start being like a, oh, this
<v Speaker 3>feels good. I'll start just kicking it over towards this
<v Speaker 3>field and then you sort of just party fades out,
<v Speaker 3>and then the whole world fades out and then it
<v Speaker 3>goes back to another scene or something like that. It's
<v Speaker 3>just really well done.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Yeah, I'm excited to check that out. The dig
<v Speaker 2>the style of it feels like I've seen this game
<v Speaker 2>advertiser floated around for forever now.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, yeah, definitely absolutely. I think Panic is publishing it.
<v Speaker 4>I think that's right, that's right, yep, yeah, yep.
<v Speaker 2>And last game on the list. Here, Dan, A couple
<v Speaker 2>of weeks ago, you traveled all the way to Japan
<v Speaker 2>to check out Death Stranding Too.
<v Speaker 4>I did. I played thirty hours of destinating too. That's
<v Speaker 4>the craziest preview of it I've ever done. I will
<v Speaker 4>do it all again when the game comes out, because
<v Speaker 4>it's very, very fun. I have a lot of thoughts
<v Speaker 4>about the game. If you want to see the full
<v Speaker 4>unabridged stuff. I wrote a big article on GameSpot dot
<v Speaker 4>com about it. I was on the kind of Funny
<v Speaker 4>games Cast yesterday about it, so maybe open it up here.
<v Speaker 4>Are there any burning questions from from this crew about
<v Speaker 4>Death Stranding to.
<v Speaker 3>The baby baby gun?
<v Speaker 4>The baby baby gun, Yeah, they're they're both in this
<v Speaker 4>one as well.
<v Speaker 3>You start interacting anyways.
<v Speaker 4>I don't want to spoil anything, but I did not
<v Speaker 4>see the baby get a gun.
<v Speaker 3>I am just you just told us so many crazy
<v Speaker 3>things that you didn't even understand when you were like
<v Speaker 3>conveying them to us, And so, yeah, I have a
<v Speaker 3>lot of questions, but I do. Maybe maybe you should
<v Speaker 3>start from the beginning. I don't know.
<v Speaker 6>I'll ask you this because yeah, I don't know how
<v Speaker 6>I I don't know how I feel about Death Stranding one. Honestly,
<v Speaker 6>I want to try this one. The beginning of Death
<v Speaker 6>Stranding One was pretty slow. Yeah, would pick up a
<v Speaker 6>little bit, let me yep.
<v Speaker 4>This one jumps right into it. That's one of the
<v Speaker 4>things that really like, like, if this is how the
<v Speaker 4>first Death Randing had felt at the beginning, I would
<v Speaker 4>have probably not been so immediately turned off of it,
<v Speaker 4>because it does just kind of drop you in and
<v Speaker 4>you know, the stuff that I think everyone can appreciate
<v Speaker 4>from Death Randing one, even if you don't love the game,
<v Speaker 4>is like the parts of the music kind of kicks
<v Speaker 4>in and as you're cresting like over a hill and stuff
<v Speaker 4>like that, it kind of starts with that where it's
<v Speaker 4>just you're Sam, you got your baby there, Lou and
<v Speaker 4>you're on just this mountainous area kind of on the
<v Speaker 4>border of Mexico and America, and it's just like, hey,
<v Speaker 4>get home with Lou. And so there's no big stakes here.
<v Speaker 4>You're not getting chased. It's just like he's not even
<v Speaker 4>in the midst of any kind of like crazy situation.
<v Speaker 4>It's just like, I don't know, he was out in
<v Speaker 4>the mountains with his baby. You should go home as
<v Speaker 4>you did. Yeah, and it does this. There's this wood
<v Speaker 4>Kid track that plays, and there's like gate quakes that happen,
<v Speaker 4>which are like little earthquakes, and like you just see
<v Speaker 4>all the like environmental like boulders falling down cascading all
<v Speaker 4>around you. And it's beautiful. I mean, the look of it.
<v Speaker 4>The soundtrack is incredible and like you are just walking
<v Speaker 4>from point A to point B and that Kajima magic
<v Speaker 4>is just blasting you and it just makes everything feel
<v Speaker 4>like super just cool and important, and it doesn't really
<v Speaker 4>let up on that like it and it doesn't bombard
<v Speaker 4>you with stuff at the beginning, like you know, Mike,
<v Speaker 4>there were cutscenes at the beginning where it's like, Okay,
<v Speaker 4>what why is this fragile lady eating these bugs? Why
<v Speaker 4>are they crying? What is the chiral network? I don't know,
<v Speaker 4>Like so like if you've played the first one, or
<v Speaker 4>if you even watch, like you know, twenty minute recap
<v Speaker 4>of the basic concepts and things like that.
<v Speaker 5>There's just no twenty minute recap.
<v Speaker 4>I watched. I watched the twenty minute recap while I
<v Speaker 4>was there and kind of refresh me. And yeah, as
<v Speaker 4>long as you just know the basic thing of like, okay,
<v Speaker 4>there has been this extinction level event and humanity is
<v Speaker 4>very disconnected right now. And in the first one, there
<v Speaker 4>were these porters that were, you know, Sam was trying
<v Speaker 4>to connect basically this network. It's like Wi Fi across America,
<v Speaker 4>and it starts out and fragiles like, hey, there's a
<v Speaker 4>bet heading towards dead Man's lab across the border. Can
<v Speaker 4>you start spreading the chiral network down into Mexico? And
<v Speaker 4>that's kind of how it starts, is like, okay, well shit,
<v Speaker 4>we connected America. Now let's connect Mexico after like seven
<v Speaker 4>or eight hours Australia. Like so, like I've probably spent
<v Speaker 4>over twenty hours in Australia connecting that. And then you know,
<v Speaker 4>there are characters that pop up like Higgs, Troy Baker's
<v Speaker 4>character from the first game, who you know, you presume dead.
<v Speaker 4>So there are larger story beats. I don't want to
<v Speaker 4>spoiler anything, and there are definitely some dramatic things that
<v Speaker 4>happened early on that are not just like hey, we
<v Speaker 4>need to spread the chiral network. So if you were
<v Speaker 4>confused by any of it, which I understand, there is
<v Speaker 4>something called a corpus, which is like I heard a
<v Speaker 4>recent Final Fantasy had something like this, but I haven't
<v Speaker 4>played that, so like, avowed is my point of reference
<v Speaker 4>where it's like a proper nown or a location or
<v Speaker 4>something that you can pull up exactly. Yes, you pause
<v Speaker 4>and he say like, oh right, that guy was in
<v Speaker 4>fight club. Yeah no, so it's got that. So it's like,
<v Speaker 4>oh fuck, what is kyrillium or fragiles? Like oh, I've
<v Speaker 4>been suffering from jump shock from too many trips to
<v Speaker 4>the beach, And like if you're like, wait, what does
<v Speaker 4>that mean? You can, like during a cutscene, go into
<v Speaker 4>the corpus and it's like a very very in depth
<v Speaker 4>glossary of terms tutorial stuff because there's so many systems
<v Speaker 4>and things you can do too, it's got all of
<v Speaker 4>that handily available.
<v Speaker 3>I like this trend of us getting glossaries, but I
<v Speaker 3>also do worry it feels like it feels like it's
<v Speaker 3>empowering Kojama to be even more into his bullshit than ever.
<v Speaker 4>Let him keep doing it, because this is a lot
<v Speaker 4>better than the first game. Okay, all right, that's doll
<v Speaker 4>Man is my favorite, like the criminal doll Man. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>doll Man was a normal dude, human what Yeah, he
<v Speaker 4>was formerly a normal reverse Pinocchio. Well quite that simple. No,
<v Speaker 4>his cau got separated from him and wound up in
<v Speaker 4>the ha of a puppet.
<v Speaker 3>That's what actually happened to Like h John Benjamin's character
<v Speaker 3>and how similar.
<v Speaker 4>To vegetables, Yeah, the puppet would look older, but he
<v Speaker 4>maintains his youthful appearance because Rainy, the woman who's seven
<v Speaker 4>months pregnant, the baby won't get past seven months. Because
<v Speaker 4>she's like a still mother. She causes time fall rain
<v Speaker 4>all the way around her. When she goes outside that
<v Speaker 4>causes everything to age, but in a one point five
<v Speaker 4>meter radius around her, it's core fall rain, which makes
<v Speaker 4>things younger. So every once in a while when she's
<v Speaker 4>taking a shower, Rainy will allow doll Man the puppet
<v Speaker 4>to take a shower with her, and the shower water
<v Speaker 4>turns into core fall since it's so close to her,
<v Speaker 4>and uh then then it makes the puppet.
<v Speaker 6>It's just incredible. You guys, ever get Kingdom heartshit the
<v Speaker 6>things you say about this game.
<v Speaker 4>If Donald Duck Waddaldon, I'd be like, this is ridiculous.
<v Speaker 4>I'm not playing this.
<v Speaker 2>Donald, the most powerful wizard and final than.
<v Speaker 4>Dude, doll Man. Okay, So I always talked to him
<v Speaker 4>every time I go back to my private room, and
<v Speaker 4>at one point he was like, oh, Sam, I see
<v Speaker 4>you got that music player. Ooh you got this one
<v Speaker 4>track from I forget the artist, like that's their best track.
<v Speaker 4>And out of curiosity because this is a Kagema game,
<v Speaker 4>I'm like, what happens if I play this song for
<v Speaker 4>this puppet? And I started playing the song and it
<v Speaker 4>triggered an entire like jpop dance sequence with five doll
<v Speaker 4>men doing like a synchronized, like super crazy dance, and
<v Speaker 4>one of the dolmens turns into what I assumes an
<v Speaker 4>actual like J pop singer, and it's like a full thing.
<v Speaker 4>And if you pan the camera round, you see Norman
<v Speaker 4>ritis watching the dollman jpop dance and he's like, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I think they showed that at like south By Southwest.
<v Speaker 4>If you look up Dollman Dance Destranding, you'll probably see it.
<v Speaker 4>All right, it's just good. It's just filled with the
<v Speaker 4>goofiest shit, but it's so much fun.
<v Speaker 2>Overclaire Obscure, Game of the Year is here.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, just so okay, but okay, So in dest Randing,
<v Speaker 3>one kind of start off slow, like Mike was saying,
<v Speaker 3>and then eventually you get to a few chapters in
<v Speaker 3>and you're just connecting everything that is still the connecting
<v Speaker 3>part is still the bulk the gameplay, right.
<v Speaker 4>Or we are going from outpost to outpost to prepper
<v Speaker 4>to prepper and you are like, you know, doing a
<v Speaker 4>delivery or two for them, and they're like, okay, cool, Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>let's you bring us on the Kiral network and you
<v Speaker 4>put your USB drive in there, it floats and they're
<v Speaker 4>on the Chiral network. So that still happens, but like
<v Speaker 4>the in between stuff is like that's where the kind
<v Speaker 4>of like phantom pain the feel comes in because there
<v Speaker 4>are enemy outposts and I just by default started playing
<v Speaker 4>this like I played des Stranding one, which is just
<v Speaker 4>avoiding every bandit camp and stuff because I just don't
<v Speaker 4>want a bunch of angry guys throwing lightning sticks at me,
<v Speaker 4>you know, and like that was not enjoyable in the
<v Speaker 4>first game. And I know eventually you could get non
<v Speaker 4>lethal weapons and stuff in the first game, but in
<v Speaker 4>this one everything's non lethal. So it's like you're getting
<v Speaker 4>like a trank sniper rifle, you're getting assault rifles that
<v Speaker 4>just feel like you're shooting an assault rifle, but they're
<v Speaker 4>technically rubber bullets. But I mean it feels like you're
<v Speaker 4>storming these outposts and stuff like it. It's fan pain,
<v Speaker 4>like you're building a watch tower. You're tagging everyone. You
<v Speaker 4>can take doll Man and throw him over a camp
<v Speaker 4>and he floats in the air like a drone and
<v Speaker 4>you see through doll Man's eyes and you tag guys
<v Speaker 4>and then you can like, oh my god, suck doll
<v Speaker 4>Man back to you and he's like once praised, like
<v Speaker 4>oh Sam, did I do a good job that.
<v Speaker 5>It's like yeah, doll Man, but you know great, you
<v Speaker 5>know what, that's not weird enough. I'm not joking. I'm
<v Speaker 5>not joking like I've been. I've been watching anime now
<v Speaker 5>and that's just not weird enough. It's just not weird enough.
<v Speaker 5>Do better, man.
<v Speaker 4>I was laughing out loud at points. There was one
<v Speaker 4>part where it's like, you know, I saw some people
<v Speaker 4>compared toim a mirror, like a dude that hangs off
<v Speaker 4>your belt and talks, But my mir sucks and just
<v Speaker 4>spoils puzzles for you. Doll Man is just hilarious and
<v Speaker 4>fun and useful. And as I was walking towards this
<v Speaker 4>like river, dall Man was trying to explain me because
<v Speaker 4>there's a new system where it's like, if it rains,
<v Speaker 4>river levels will rise and stuff and make it harder
<v Speaker 4>to kind of go across.
<v Speaker 3>That's cool.
<v Speaker 4>He's attached to my belt and he's trying to warn
<v Speaker 4>me about like this. And as I'm approaching the river, saying, hey, Sam,
<v Speaker 4>you know the rivers when they rise and stuff. But
<v Speaker 4>I didn't realize as I was going into the river.
<v Speaker 4>The second he went underwater, He's like, hey, Sam, so.
<v Speaker 2>The rivers are.
<v Speaker 6>Drowning.
<v Speaker 5>That's pretty good.
<v Speaker 4>Oh shit, they thought about it.
<v Speaker 2>And I got out.
<v Speaker 3>He's like, oh god, he got me. It's really really
<v Speaker 3>put on your shoulder.
<v Speaker 5>What's the problem.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, he's so much fun.
<v Speaker 6>You think I've better because I do want to play this.
<v Speaker 6>I'm not going to go back to death stranding one.
<v Speaker 6>I just don't really have time. You think I'm gonna
<v Speaker 6>find just watching a video?
<v Speaker 3>Who will you do that?
<v Speaker 4>And ask cor Look, we do a podcast together all
<v Speaker 4>the time. Ask me about the story, like I actually,
<v Speaker 4>I do think I've come to a point where I
<v Speaker 4>get the big beads of death stranding story, but it's
<v Speaker 4>better told in this one. I compared in my article
<v Speaker 4>to like this is more like the first three seasons
<v Speaker 4>of Arrested Development, where it's this ensemble cast and they
<v Speaker 4>actually talk to each other, whereas the first game was
<v Speaker 4>more like just two characters at a time. It seemed like, Okay,
<v Speaker 4>I'm talking to Hartman in his lab. Okay, now Fragile
<v Speaker 4>visits me in the private room. This one, you're like
<v Speaker 4>on a crew. You're basically on a flying metal wells
<v Speaker 4>not flying, it can ride the tar currents, so it
<v Speaker 4>can go down into because Okay, so tar Man, who
<v Speaker 4>looks like George Miller, the the Mad Max director. It's
<v Speaker 4>just his likeness, not his voice. He's missing a hand,
<v Speaker 4>which you'll learn why in a flashback, and so he
<v Speaker 4>can kind of put his hand in the pilot's hole
<v Speaker 4>of the metal gear head. It's called the DHV Magellan,
<v Speaker 4>but it's just a metal year Rex. And so his
<v Speaker 4>hand is technically in the tar current, so it's his
<v Speaker 4>hand is kind of on the beach because his hand
<v Speaker 4>is dead. So but in the tar you can like
<v Speaker 4>talk to his beach hand. You know this, right, you're following,
<v Speaker 4>And then so he can navigate the dh V magell
<v Speaker 4>and through the tar currents, so it can like go
<v Speaker 4>down and underground through the tar orground.
<v Speaker 6>And that's why it's okay for me to just play
<v Speaker 6>this game without playing the first one.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, yeah, they don't talk about this shit.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no, I got it, Mikey. Maybe he don't need
<v Speaker 2>to ask questions.
<v Speaker 6>No, they're bad.
<v Speaker 5>And I think you should do a video where you're
<v Speaker 5>forced to recap the story of death for anyone.
<v Speaker 4>I could try.
<v Speaker 6>That to me, and I'll recap Kingdom Heart's.
<v Speaker 4>See you oh God?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Yeah, and then the three of us will grade
<v Speaker 2>it yeap, look at gues sure sure?
<v Speaker 4>Which was more coherent?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>I like right, it felt great. I will play another
<v Speaker 4>thirty hours of this media and then everything. But they
<v Speaker 4>said that was thirty to forty percent of the game
<v Speaker 4>was my turns.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, what how much more walking can Sam do? All right, Well,
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<v Speaker 3>the first bit of news. A second bit here, Marvel
<v Speaker 3>nineteen forty three Rise of Hydra has been delayed. A
<v Speaker 3>show of hands. Who knew or thought Marvel nineteen forty
<v Speaker 3>three Rise of Hydra was going to come out this year?
<v Speaker 2>Me?
<v Speaker 3>What is?
<v Speaker 5>I don't even know if I know what the fuck is?
<v Speaker 2>My hand?
<v Speaker 6>This is one.
<v Speaker 3>It is kind of World War two era, like a
<v Speaker 3>game that has Captain America and a Black Panther, one
<v Speaker 3>of the Black Panthers, and they're like the lineage of
<v Speaker 3>Black Panther Kings.
<v Speaker 5>So they're like killing Hitler in this like what's happening?
<v Speaker 3>They might yeah, I mean, if you're gonna make a
<v Speaker 3>video games sit there in World War Two, I think
<v Speaker 3>you would want to go that route, I hope. So
<v Speaker 3>you know, they'll probably maybe they'll probably have a more
<v Speaker 3>marvel maybe Red Skull or something like that.
<v Speaker 5>But he was always mixed up with with them, right, Yeah, Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>was a Nazi.
<v Speaker 4>He's a he's a straight up Nazi Nazi.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he's like he's from the s at least in
<v Speaker 3>the movie. I don't know some of the stuff I read.
<v Speaker 3>He's was a member of like the s s's like
<v Speaker 3>Super Secret Science Division or whatever something like that.
<v Speaker 6>He's right Skull because they tried to do their own
<v Speaker 6>super Soldier.
<v Speaker 3>Why why are we explaining it? Dan's an expert. Go ahead,
<v Speaker 3>Dan explain all of the lore of Captain America and
<v Speaker 3>Black Panther.
<v Speaker 4>He is a Captain America is a time traveler who's
<v Speaker 4>very strong because they gave him the Joker venom and
<v Speaker 4>he has a Boomerang shield and he hates Nazis. Yes,
<v Speaker 4>and Black Panther is like an Atlantis situation. There's like
<v Speaker 4>a kind of I think it's like it's like a
<v Speaker 4>doctor Robot the sky Fortress that rose from the water,
<v Speaker 4>like Atlantis.
<v Speaker 3>Are you talking about the same thing?
<v Speaker 4>That's what Conda they charge up, they charge up there.
<v Speaker 4>It's like a power raid thing they uh, I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>That's they were.
<v Speaker 6>Joking showers with each other.
<v Speaker 2>You remember taking towers with each other? What that.
<v Speaker 6>Destranding to.
<v Speaker 5>Showers?
<v Speaker 4>Showers? Thought of Starship Mipers Mikey What that didn't.
<v Speaker 6>Stick with anybody else? That the puppet taking a shower
<v Speaker 6>with the magic always seven months pregnant girl. That's the
<v Speaker 6>old I'm the only one that.
<v Speaker 5>Made an impact on He's got some very selective memory
<v Speaker 5>of what he wants to remember, right, So that's what
<v Speaker 5>he that's what he does not want to remember.
<v Speaker 4>I remember the Starship Troopers scene.
<v Speaker 3>All right, So that's Amy Hennig's game.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I never thought that was coming out. That did
<v Speaker 6>not sound like a game that was coming out this year.
<v Speaker 6>We haven't heard anything about that. Really. We got that
<v Speaker 6>trailer and that seems like it was forever ago. We
<v Speaker 6>have not heard much about it since.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so you're right, we still don't know a lot.
<v Speaker 3>It is developed in Unreal Engine five. They're using stuff
<v Speaker 3>like the Epic tools like meta Human that make it
<v Speaker 3>easier for them to create cool three D characters or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>But that's all stuff that we heard because I think
<v Speaker 3>this game had a relationship with Epic to like show
<v Speaker 3>off Unreal Engine like it was in like one of
<v Speaker 3>those Unreal Engine demonstrations. So that's all we've had. It
<v Speaker 3>was first revealed in twenty twenty two. I expect they
<v Speaker 3>will just for this one, you know, like when grad
<v Speaker 3>Theft Auto six got delayed, right, it was like, Okay,
<v Speaker 3>I wasn't too surprised that we got a trailer because
<v Speaker 3>that's a massive, massive company that probably did have an
<v Speaker 3>asset ready to go in case that game was going
<v Speaker 3>to come out. Here, I bet this one actually does
<v Speaker 3>go radio silent until ye when next year when they're
<v Speaker 3>when they are much closer to actually releasing it.
<v Speaker 6>I mean, it's I don't think this game is not
<v Speaker 6>coming out, but it is a concern with this more
<v Speaker 6>so than a grand the thought of six where that
<v Speaker 6>game is going to happen eventually, you know, Amy Hunting
<v Speaker 6>has had a lot of false starts recently, just the
<v Speaker 6>idea of just making a Marble game in it immediately
<v Speaker 6>being a hit. That's not really the case anymore at all.
<v Speaker 6>So I hope that we do still see this game.
<v Speaker 6>I hope development is going smoothly and that this is
<v Speaker 6>a normal delay.
<v Speaker 3>Do you do you all know who the publisher of
<v Speaker 3>this game is?
<v Speaker 2>Uh no, no, no, no, no.
<v Speaker 3>It is a sky Dance interactive. Oh that's the most
<v Speaker 3>impossible place, right, Yeah, they're related, yes, exactly, it's the
<v Speaker 3>interactive side, So you know they're probably not working hand
<v Speaker 3>in hand with Tom, but they Yeah, I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>I just don't know what else they've done, all right,
<v Speaker 3>I guess I'll click this button here on Google where
<v Speaker 3>I double check to make sure that was the case
<v Speaker 3>and game. Sorry, here's the games tab. Let's see if
<v Speaker 3>there's anything recognizable. I'm guessing they're not gonna have anything
<v Speaker 3>the size of a Marvel nineteen forty three. Okay, that's right. Behemoth,
<v Speaker 3>the sky Nances Behemoth. Was that the one that they're
<v Speaker 3>doing with the the team Mercury Watch Mercury team. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>maybe I was thinking of something else then, yeah, retro,
<v Speaker 3>they did Walking Dead, Saints and Sinners, Archangel Retribution, another
<v Speaker 3>Walking Dead game. So stuff like that. Okay, either way
<v Speaker 3>to me when I hear that, that makes me think awesome.
<v Speaker 3>Like that, there's a slightly higher chance we never see
<v Speaker 3>this game because it's a publisher that maybe didn't know
<v Speaker 3>what they were getting into with. Let's make in Amy
<v Speaker 3>Hinniggs next big game. Let's make it a Marvel game.
<v Speaker 3>There's just a lot of facets there.
<v Speaker 6>Right, I mean, those games are hard to make back
<v Speaker 6>when you know per games were actually coming out, and
<v Speaker 6>so much has changed since State in terms of being
<v Speaker 6>able to make one of these with you know, the
<v Speaker 6>kind of vision that she has. She does great stuff,
<v Speaker 6>but that's difficult, especially when you don't have a Sony
<v Speaker 6>or a two K behind you.
<v Speaker 3>Yep, absolutely, Okay, Well we'll see. I do hope that
<v Speaker 3>she's able to get this game out because it's been
<v Speaker 3>a long ago of it since her last game and
<v Speaker 3>a lot of people looking forward to that one. All right.
<v Speaker 3>Next up, a rumor a leak suggests why maybe so
<v Speaker 3>many of the switch to launch games are game key cards.
<v Speaker 3>As a reminder, game key cards are the version of
<v Speaker 3>the game cards that will show up at retail that
<v Speaker 3>if you were order the physical version of a game,
<v Speaker 3>you might get it and might have a big white
<v Speaker 3>label on the bottom that says there is no actual
<v Speaker 3>game on this game key card. Instead, it is going
<v Speaker 3>to just download it to your system, but you will
<v Speaker 3>use the game key card to access the game. So
<v Speaker 3>what that does is it enables you to resell the game,
<v Speaker 3>although I imagine it's not going to have a ton
<v Speaker 3>of collector value for people who collect physical games either way.
<v Speaker 3>A lot of games are using the set launch. In fact,
<v Speaker 3>there's only a couple of standouts, like Cyberpunk is getting
<v Speaker 3>a lot of cred from fans right now because that
<v Speaker 3>game is going to be entirely on the card. Most
<v Speaker 3>other ones are not, and this rumor says the reason
<v Speaker 3>for that is mostly because of what Nintendo offered up.
<v Speaker 3>You could either go digital, which would have been like
<v Speaker 3>a code in a box. You could have a game
<v Speaker 3>key card or a sixty four gigabyte card, which is
<v Speaker 3>prohibitively expensive for most developers. Unless you absolutely need sixty
<v Speaker 3>four gigabytes, you would have to pay. You don't need
<v Speaker 3>that much size, and those cards are super expensive compared
<v Speaker 3>to like the Switch which had eight and sixteen gigabytes
<v Speaker 3>as options for cards, and those are much more affordable now.
<v Speaker 3>That will probably change here pretty quick. This sounds like
<v Speaker 3>something that's just happening because Nintendo is getting things up
<v Speaker 3>and running. But that seems to be the case here.
<v Speaker 4>So hang on. So they announced at a recent direct
<v Speaker 4>that like that keys card did they call it key
<v Speaker 4>cards in a system where it's like, oh, I could
<v Speaker 4>lend you this game.
<v Speaker 3>That's virtual game that virtual game cards.
<v Speaker 4>That's virtual game cards. So these game key cards are
<v Speaker 4>physically they look like the card they go into they
<v Speaker 4>actually go into the system. Yeah, and you could resell
<v Speaker 4>and like without the card you wouldn't have access to
<v Speaker 4>the game anymore, so you could resell it. That's right, exactly. Well,
<v Speaker 4>I mean, isn't that kind of like how like like
<v Speaker 4>PS four even games and pis there are.
<v Speaker 3>A lot of games on both Xbox and PlayStation that
<v Speaker 3>have discs that basically behave exactly like a game key card.
<v Speaker 4>There's a download you have to like still download the
<v Speaker 4>whole game and have it in the system to play it. Right, Yes, it's.
<v Speaker 3>Not you know, it's not a maybe codified system or
<v Speaker 3>as hard codified as it is here. But you know,
<v Speaker 3>really people's issue is every single game, and for the
<v Speaker 3>most part, with a few exceptions, are going this route.
<v Speaker 3>And there's a lot of people who have really enjoyed
<v Speaker 3>buying physical on switch and they built up a massive
<v Speaker 3>collection and they sort of want to keep that going.
<v Speaker 3>But then they see that big white label that says
<v Speaker 3>this isn't going to work in twenty years when you
<v Speaker 3>want to actually play this thing again, and they bulk
<v Speaker 3>at that. Now. Some like limited run games, which has
<v Speaker 3>its issues for sure, but they have said that when
<v Speaker 3>they have they put out one of their numbered games,
<v Speaker 3>which is I guess they have like a numbering system
<v Speaker 3>kind of like a Criterion collection did for a while.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if they still do, but when they
<v Speaker 3>put out one of their numbered games, those will always
<v Speaker 3>have the game entirely on the card, although they have
<v Speaker 3>put out one so far that is going to be
<v Speaker 3>a game key card. So yeah, I think this is
<v Speaker 3>a problem for now until Nintendo gives developers and publishers
<v Speaker 3>more options for eight and sixteen gigabyte sized cards, but
<v Speaker 3>that's probably a little a little bit of a ways
<v Speaker 3>off for now. Tech and Director is trying to bring
<v Speaker 3>the game to waffle House, but to no avail. Yes
<v Speaker 3>a tech in boss Katsuhiro Herada says he's attempting to
<v Speaker 3>collaborate with waffle House, but he's been unsuccessful. He's trying
<v Speaker 3>to set a stage at waffle House because at one
<v Speaker 3>point on social media, whenever he's like talking about levels
<v Speaker 3>that people are, you say, hey, what people want to
<v Speaker 3>see in the game, and everyone's like, oh, we want
<v Speaker 3>to have a fight at waffle House. He say, why
<v Speaker 3>does everyone keep making this joke? And everyone explained it
<v Speaker 3>to him, which was all lot of fun to watch online.
<v Speaker 3>And so since then he's been really in on this
<v Speaker 3>idea and he wants to make a waffle House level.
<v Speaker 3>Waffle House apparently has not returned his calls.
<v Speaker 4>What is wrong with them?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, buddy, how much time?
<v Speaker 10>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Race Herada. Let's race Herada to like waffle House.
<v Speaker 6>Like happens first is does he get waffle House or
<v Speaker 6>do I get RB's Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Now it is to be fair, like it would
<v Speaker 3>be weird if I was like on Blue Sky and
<v Speaker 3>saw a waffle House social media account, like, I don't
<v Speaker 3>want that company to be online. I just want to
<v Speaker 3>go to waffle House. When I need waffle house, that's fine,
<v Speaker 3>But what does that have to do with anything that
<v Speaker 3>that that the first they're hard to reach the content
<v Speaker 3>we have a corporate contact, I'm sure there's there's always,
<v Speaker 3>there's always. I mean, they've got to have some kind
<v Speaker 3>of uh you know, professional facing, like uh, way to
<v Speaker 3>get in touch with them.
<v Speaker 4>Come on, do they not realize how well? I guess
<v Speaker 4>we don't know if they've been kind intacted, if they're
<v Speaker 4>even aware of this, because somebody has to understand. The
<v Speaker 4>game is popular as teching. The amount of marketing they
<v Speaker 4>would get would.
<v Speaker 6>Corporates. You can sometimes be weird, and you know, the
<v Speaker 6>people in charge could be like, well, that's not very
<v Speaker 6>good for our brand. At people fighting outside a waffle house.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, not like it happens every single day on the planet,
<v Speaker 5>and every video online that you ever post from our
<v Speaker 5>from our restaurants include that, and only that.
<v Speaker 4>Is also good.
<v Speaker 2>I've never been.
<v Speaker 5>I want to go, so I've never been. The closest
<v Speaker 5>one is probably a thousand miles away.
<v Speaker 3>If it's very Midwest, Yeah, yeah, definitely. I definitely prefer
<v Speaker 3>waffle house till I got hot earning here.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah I could, Yeah, I could easily believe that.
<v Speaker 6>You know, when I went to for the first time
<v Speaker 6>on my when I drove down to Florida, my pop
<v Speaker 6>was a bucket stand.
<v Speaker 4>But I didn't really wait wait wait wait wait yeah BUCkies, right.
<v Speaker 6>BUCkies, I keep doing the end the NFL there, but
<v Speaker 6>what end?
<v Speaker 3>What did he say?
<v Speaker 11>But you said bucknees It's okay, okay, yeah, wait wait
<v Speaker 11>I say one more time, Mike, BUCkies.
<v Speaker 2>No know how you said it before?
<v Speaker 6>Bucknees knuts? I got me? Sorry, Sorry, I think they're nuts.
<v Speaker 6>Actually they're very good.
<v Speaker 3>I bet they are.
<v Speaker 5>You drove to Disney from where you live.
<v Speaker 6>My dad wanted to drive down there, and he bribed
<v Speaker 6>me into going with him by you know, we're gonna
<v Speaker 6>get there early. Then I flew back with my brother's family.
<v Speaker 2>So that was it.
<v Speaker 4>But did he force you to have THEA in the back?
<v Speaker 6>No? No, that yeah he was. He was going to
<v Speaker 6>do that for a while. He insisted that it was
<v Speaker 6>a normal thing to require for me. I think it
<v Speaker 6>was only when we were in the car he realized
<v Speaker 6>how ridiculous his request was. I got no strips. I'm like, look,
<v Speaker 6>I'm not gonna snore that much. And I didn't it
<v Speaker 6>was fine.
<v Speaker 5>Are you just drive me to Disney and I'll sleep
<v Speaker 5>for fifteen.
<v Speaker 6>I ultimate passenger princess. Absolutely. My mom was there too.
<v Speaker 6>It's not like I just completely left him out to drive.
<v Speaker 2>I know.
<v Speaker 5>I could see you with a with like an eyemask
<v Speaker 5>on and your seat pausing, just sleeping in the back.
<v Speaker 5>And when we get to BUCkies thanks.
<v Speaker 4>In Ohio for Summer Slam, we always just sat in
<v Speaker 4>the back and we just set him up with some
<v Speaker 4>bluey and he would fall asleep.
<v Speaker 5>That's sweet.
<v Speaker 6>Please, Bucky is pretty good. I had a chopped brisket
<v Speaker 6>sandwich there. I don't know if you have all been.
<v Speaker 3>It's never been.
<v Speaker 6>It's been hyped up, insane, and still I was very impressed.
<v Speaker 6>What was going on in there. It's a whole situation.
<v Speaker 2>At Yeah, it sounds like it's a whole thing, a
<v Speaker 2>cult almost.
<v Speaker 6>What was going on about loves? Because we got our
<v Speaker 6>loves here and that's great. But BUCkies it's like a town.
<v Speaker 6>It's like it's.
<v Speaker 5>More than that. It's a town, a community.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, when you hear your family, yep.
<v Speaker 3>I want to go, like, how far do you guys drive?
<v Speaker 3>Before you started, we're in like Florida.
<v Speaker 6>So okay, yeah, I think we are getting one somewhere
<v Speaker 6>in Ohio, maybe by Columbus, I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>That's why the only people I see tweeting my BUCkies
<v Speaker 4>are wrestlers.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, it's wrestlers and theme part people, I think.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, which is that been diagrams a circle?
<v Speaker 2>Ye?
<v Speaker 3>So all right? Stellar Blade is coming to PC in
<v Speaker 3>June with a ton of new outfits. Of course, there
<v Speaker 3>was a leak trailer. I think PlayStation accidentally leaked it. Uh,
<v Speaker 3>but yeah, June eleventh.
<v Speaker 1>Uh.
<v Speaker 3>I played a little bit of this game. Thought it
<v Speaker 3>was pretty okay, and I definitely was like I'll play
<v Speaker 3>it when it comes to PC. And now we're almost there.
<v Speaker 3>Did any of you spend any time with Stellar Blade?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>I liked it five or six hours. Thought it was
<v Speaker 4>pretty good.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's pretty good.
<v Speaker 6>It's hard to not kind of, let you know, the
<v Speaker 6>outside stuff sort of what else? What do you mean?
<v Speaker 2>What do you mean?
<v Speaker 5>Oh?
<v Speaker 6>You know the gooners?
<v Speaker 3>Oh?
<v Speaker 5>Oh right, that's why I also read the headline. I
<v Speaker 5>was like, Alfitz, come on, they're not really wearing a
<v Speaker 5>lot in this No, I think, uh, there is a
<v Speaker 5>tangible desire for this that I think as like manifested
<v Speaker 5>help manifest this PC situation, right, Like there has been
<v Speaker 5>I've gotten that. I've extracted that from I don't know,
<v Speaker 5>I guess the gooners, right, but like they wanted this
<v Speaker 5>on PC, probably because they want to be naughty, but
<v Speaker 5>they wanted on PC.
<v Speaker 2>How do they get that?
<v Speaker 5>I don't know, I'm not a hacker.
<v Speaker 4>They should take every outfit from Stellar Blade and put
<v Speaker 4>them one to one in Donkey Kong Bonanza.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, yeah, that's a new partnership. That's definitely happening.
<v Speaker 3>Switch tos price may pose challenges for a first year sales,
<v Speaker 3>says for Okawa, that's Nintendo's president, Basically, they had a
<v Speaker 3>chance to talk to investors and kind of explain things
<v Speaker 3>a little bit, and they are setting their expectations for
<v Speaker 3>the first fiscal year at fifteen million switch twos sold
<v Speaker 3>to consumers. And people are like, that's you know, that's
<v Speaker 3>really high still, but pretty modest compared to the way
<v Speaker 3>Nintendo's been talking and some other things. And Nintendo's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>we're gonna be a little conservative because we admit the
<v Speaker 3>price is maybe even a little bit hihigher than we wanted,
<v Speaker 3>you know, in so many words, he said that, but
<v Speaker 3>like we we acknowledge that the high price is going
<v Speaker 3>to be a hurdle for some, So we're setting our
<v Speaker 3>expectations at fifteen million. They are likely to get past
<v Speaker 3>that if this thing's probably going to be closer to
<v Speaker 3>like twenty million. But I don't know. I don't know
<v Speaker 3>about you all, but I do feel like we have
<v Speaker 3>actually moved past the price conversation with the switch to
<v Speaker 3>It was a big thing in those first couple of days,
<v Speaker 3>and then the tariffs came immediately after, and that's that
<v Speaker 3>definitely distracted. But now I think people have just accepted
<v Speaker 3>this is the price, even if you don't like it,
<v Speaker 3>and a lot of people are paying.
<v Speaker 6>Well, a lot of people are worried that the price
<v Speaker 6>is going to get even higher there right exactly. It
<v Speaker 6>almost makes this initial price look a little bit better.
<v Speaker 6>And you know, we do have Xbox actually raising the
<v Speaker 6>price of an Xbox Series X, Like that thing is
<v Speaker 6>six hundred dollars now.
<v Speaker 3>Right to Teraby want to want to like last week,
<v Speaker 3>we'll catch you up on yeah, yeah, right, So holy shit,
<v Speaker 3>the two aerabyte one that's not like an Xbox Pro
<v Speaker 3>or anything like that. It's just an Xbox Series X
<v Speaker 3>but with two terabytes, and it's got like a design
<v Speaker 3>on it. It's seven hundred and thirty dollars.
<v Speaker 2>It's fine, back lark because every other item you own
<v Speaker 2>in your house is an Xbox already.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I only.
<v Speaker 5>Play Xbox games on my PC.
<v Speaker 3>Folks, that's a lot of people.
<v Speaker 5>Are you know what are we doing? Also? Also, uh,
<v Speaker 5>I mean, haven't we gotten a good indication that like
<v Speaker 5>people are fucking belligerently like pre ordering this thing into oblivion?
<v Speaker 5>Like yes, I mean yes they are.
<v Speaker 3>It also seems like Nintendo does have way more than
<v Speaker 3>what is normal for a launch. Seems like they are
<v Speaker 3>able to serve that massive demand to a point that
<v Speaker 3>is pretty impressive. So I think this thing's going to
<v Speaker 3>have an enormous start here. I think they're just what
<v Speaker 3>they're looking at is will the demand be as fever
<v Speaker 3>pitch as it has been for pass consoles? A people
<v Speaker 3>like who are sitting on the sidelines get in later?
<v Speaker 3>And will that price scare off those people? Because the
<v Speaker 3>nerds we're talking about now us, Yeah, we're just gonna
<v Speaker 3>rush and get this thing.
<v Speaker 5>It's a price aft it's the hangover.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Yeah, we're just gonna go We'll root force our
<v Speaker 3>way through whatever price they kind of put in front
<v Speaker 3>of us up to a point. And obviously this was
<v Speaker 3>not that point.
<v Speaker 5>And again I will rely on my busyness. In the
<v Speaker 5>last month or so, what had they talked about the
<v Speaker 5>price of like the upgrade for like Tiers of the Kingdom.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so it's kind of different depending on stuff like that.
<v Speaker 3>I think Tiers of the Kingdom is and Breath of
<v Speaker 3>the Wild are ten dollars, but you get them if
<v Speaker 3>you're a subscriber to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion.
<v Speaker 6>Pack, and it's like that the Kirby Game and Mario Party,
<v Speaker 6>those upgrades are also coming with expansions like new content,
<v Speaker 6>so those are twenty dollars.
<v Speaker 5>Is it gonna be fucking annoying with like did playing
<v Speaker 5>the original? Because the first thing you said was I
<v Speaker 5>get the original right, And I'm like, man, just shot out.
<v Speaker 3>What's your concern there? Because there are some developments there
<v Speaker 3>as well. What's your condid?
<v Speaker 5>Thank you? I'm worried that, like he, we both can't
<v Speaker 5>play the same game that we sort of own.
<v Speaker 3>So they did just introduce that virtual game card system.
<v Speaker 3>So if you are a family and people are in
<v Speaker 3>your family, you can you could share a virtual game
<v Speaker 3>card with someone else and they can just have it
<v Speaker 3>for two weeks and then it automatically that point reverts
<v Speaker 3>back to you. But it basically think of your virtual
<v Speaker 3>you know, digital games now as working exactly like a
<v Speaker 3>game card, so you can lend it to him or
<v Speaker 3>if you if you're like you have a share account,
<v Speaker 3>that there's if you have a family count, there's some
<v Speaker 3>extra sharing stuff there. But you can't play the same
<v Speaker 3>game at the same time anymore. That's uh so that's
<v Speaker 3>if it's digital.
<v Speaker 4>At least everything's digital.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, sure, is.
<v Speaker 3>All right? Yeah, switch to coming out soon. Well, we'll
<v Speaker 3>see how it goes in the meantime. I'm it really
<v Speaker 3>is all I can think about. I'm like, God, really,
<v Speaker 3>but switch to coming out? Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I'm excited too, but of like, it's it's just
<v Speaker 5>Mario Kart.
<v Speaker 6>No looks I'm excited for Donkey Kong.
<v Speaker 3>That's joly al so just Mario kartts enough and what
<v Speaker 3>don't forget about the Nintendo switch to welcome tour.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah for a welcome they're charging for a tutorial, I understand.
<v Speaker 3>And after zero g.
<v Speaker 6>X so much so Caliber too. It's not just funny.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, that's okay. I mean was that meant to like
<v Speaker 5>excite me.
<v Speaker 6>Or should excite you?
<v Speaker 2>Oh my yes, do it for you?
<v Speaker 4>Sole Caliber doesn't do it for you.
<v Speaker 6>No replay Breath for the Wow.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah exactly, I'm going to replay.
<v Speaker 3>I want to play.
<v Speaker 5>I want to replay Tears of the Kingdom that like,
<v Speaker 5>I want to really do that. That's what I'm excited for,
<v Speaker 5>and that's gonna be my biggest time suck.
<v Speaker 3>I'll play.
<v Speaker 5>Marik cart is great. I'm I'm into it. I like
<v Speaker 5>the the thing they're doing there. But yeah, I think
<v Speaker 5>after Donkey Kong maybe things are drying up a little bit.
<v Speaker 6>But we don't know what Metroit's coming out and will
<v Speaker 6>be this year for sure.
<v Speaker 4>Nobody know that big holiday Maybeleba Mario or something.
<v Speaker 3>And I've did that. Open World. Pokemon Legends series has
<v Speaker 3>been over recently.
<v Speaker 5>Again not under I'm not understating how excellent at the
<v Speaker 5>time period is not. It's not all just in three weeks.
<v Speaker 3>So even when I'm like, even beyond that though, when
<v Speaker 3>I talk about being expected, it's all I could think about.
<v Speaker 3>I kind of do just want an upgraded switch hardware
<v Speaker 3>that feels nice to hold because my switch is getting rickety.
<v Speaker 3>Like that's just the reality. So that's a big part
<v Speaker 3>of it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Agree, Horizon three as in like Sony's Gorilla Games, is
<v Speaker 3>Horizon series could come out in twenty twenty seven, Like
<v Speaker 3>obviously they're going to be working on a new one
<v Speaker 3>of these, right, this is the most recent rumor. Gorilla
<v Speaker 3>is also apparently working with someone else on a Horizon
<v Speaker 3>MMO that's been rumored before and a multiplayer title that
<v Speaker 3>has anticipated before Horizon three. So they got a lot
<v Speaker 3>going on over there, but they still seem like all
<v Speaker 3>in on Horizon.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's surprised, like you guys, And I don't know
<v Speaker 2>if I don't know if it excites me, it's I
<v Speaker 2>don't know what it does for me.
<v Speaker 4>If it does, who are do we know Horizon people?
<v Speaker 2>Sean? Sean is a Horizon person?
<v Speaker 4>Oh really?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, But that's my point, right, just that on a
<v Speaker 5>scientific poll, you know, that's small.
<v Speaker 4>In these games.
<v Speaker 6>I think they're pretty good games.
<v Speaker 3>The Command too.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, that seemed to work soon though forbidden When when
<v Speaker 6>did the last one? Twenty twenty two five years is
<v Speaker 6>a very fast turnaround. For these games and what they
<v Speaker 6>are now.
<v Speaker 2>I feel like they got well all the tools for
<v Speaker 2>these games.
<v Speaker 3>Now, right, yeah, and this is this is the development team,
<v Speaker 3>is the team that makes the engine here, the decum engine, right,
<v Speaker 3>so that they should be the ones that are kind
<v Speaker 3>of masters of that. And even like you know, coaching
<v Speaker 3>about working with a Descom engine for death straining and
<v Speaker 3>destraining too, he's been he's been able to do stuff
<v Speaker 3>relatively quickly from the outside, not being gorilla. So I
<v Speaker 3>don't know, five years for me sounds like, especially for
<v Speaker 3>the third game in a series, where they the changes
<v Speaker 3>don't necessarily need to be ground shaking, they can kind
<v Speaker 3>of just continue to build them what they've already done.
<v Speaker 3>I don't that sounds right, although it starts to get
<v Speaker 3>still late.
<v Speaker 6>It was five between the first one and the second one.
<v Speaker 6>I guess part of it is like, what's the scope here?
<v Speaker 6>Do they feel a need to once again make it bigger, bigger, bigger,
<v Speaker 6>because two is it has to be big enough for
<v Speaker 6>just about everybody, right and I hope we knew we
<v Speaker 6>don't necessarily need bigger.
<v Speaker 4>So I guess that means that Half Life three will
<v Speaker 4>come out the day after.
<v Speaker 3>Right there, yeah, yeah, what was it? The first one
<v Speaker 3>was Zelda Breath of the Wild. Second yep, gosh, yep, incredible.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, they still do very, very well. There's still tons
<v Speaker 6>of people who like these games they have. It's almost
<v Speaker 6>become it's like more flagship or placeation than anything Naughty
<v Speaker 6>bog of these days, because it takes so long for
<v Speaker 6>them to make a game now and they just keep
<v Speaker 6>re releasing robots. It should be but and I love Astrobot,
<v Speaker 6>and Astrobot does do well, but it doesn't sell as
<v Speaker 6>well as these.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they're not pushing Astrobot.
<v Speaker 5>They should they should.
<v Speaker 6>Well, we'll get another Astrobots though, I'm not worried about
<v Speaker 6>Oh yeah, for sure.
<v Speaker 3>Uh. Tony Hawk himself once in Underground Remastered after three
<v Speaker 3>and four.
<v Speaker 5>Of course he does. He sees value, he gets it,
<v Speaker 5>he gets it.
<v Speaker 3>He says he'll try to campaign, but he did say,
<v Speaker 3>of course that it's up to Activision. I mean, what
<v Speaker 3>do we think the chances are of an Underground after
<v Speaker 3>three and four?
<v Speaker 2>I think so.
<v Speaker 4>We didn't think three and four was gonna happen, and
<v Speaker 4>they did so. Yeah, I could see it. Everyone should
<v Speaker 4>buy three and four. Keep these caught.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Okay, then then what does Underground need to do
<v Speaker 3>because three and three and four they're kind of adapting
<v Speaker 3>for it to be more like three or one, two
<v Speaker 3>and three To make that makes sense for Underground, they
<v Speaker 3>probably wouldn't be able to do that. They're gonna have
<v Speaker 3>to sort of like change up the foundational structure of
<v Speaker 3>how the game works mechanics wise. What do they need
<v Speaker 3>to do to sort of it needs to be.
<v Speaker 6>More want to one because people do want that campaign
<v Speaker 6>with the NPCs. The story with Eric Sparrow was very
<v Speaker 6>important here. So you know, I think you do one
<v Speaker 6>to one there if you put Thug two in with it.
<v Speaker 6>That's where it gets a little weirder because that game
<v Speaker 6>was so tied to Jackass right as that.
<v Speaker 4>Was too much for me at that time. I was like,
<v Speaker 4>I don't want this much Jackass in my Tony Hawk game.
<v Speaker 4>It was it was a lot even for back then.
<v Speaker 6>So what do you do now?
<v Speaker 4>Do you just like, maybe just do one?
<v Speaker 2>Just one? Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>You think you just do one straight to Project date
<v Speaker 5>is what you do? Project eight rules?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Project Date?
<v Speaker 10>Really?
<v Speaker 4>What?
<v Speaker 5>Because you thought it was too awesome?
<v Speaker 2>Like what like it was too cool? Maybe I was
<v Speaker 2>drinking the skate kool Aid at that time.
<v Speaker 6>Oh the skater Rade.
<v Speaker 5>I mean that game really had such a satisfying new
<v Speaker 5>look at you and the tricks in slow motion, Like
<v Speaker 5>I think that was that was the biggest game changer
<v Speaker 5>for what they were doing, and.
<v Speaker 6>They should do. I think you got a lot of
<v Speaker 6>nostalgia juice for Thug One. Remake that and then do
<v Speaker 6>something new. If we're gonna do more Tony Hawk, then
<v Speaker 6>we we probably don't need to worry too much more
<v Speaker 6>about the remakes and remasters at that point. Well, you know,
<v Speaker 6>American Wasteland, that's all fine and dandy if they wanted to, sure,
<v Speaker 6>I would check it out. But the super nostalgia probably,
<v Speaker 6>as with Doug One, you can maybe get away with
<v Speaker 6>the two if you can figure that out. It's a
<v Speaker 6>little bit more complicated again, but at least Thug One, I.
<v Speaker 2>Think there's yeah, I forgot who said it here, but like, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>there's too much jackass in the two that if it
<v Speaker 2>was already a process to get Bam back onto the roster,
<v Speaker 2>who knows what it's like to get the rest of
<v Speaker 2>those dudes on.
<v Speaker 6>Just replace Jackass with the cast of a modern TV show.
<v Speaker 6>What would be a funny.
<v Speaker 3>One RuPaul's drag race.
<v Speaker 5>All right, I'm Steve O Succession. I'm a Succession family man.
<v Speaker 3>You guys are pros. You know this. You guys. I
<v Speaker 3>had to zone out and you guys talked the entire
<v Speaker 3>time while I got my GameCube controllers.
<v Speaker 4>So I'm still in line. I'm gonna that's find happened
<v Speaker 4>back in.
<v Speaker 3>Actually you should click in and place any second now, Okay,
<v Speaker 3>all right, you went to the site not too long after.
<v Speaker 3>Back to the news. Capcom reports eighth consecutive year of
<v Speaker 3>record profit profits as Monster Hunter Wilde sells ten point
<v Speaker 3>one million copies. That's really fast. Uh, they kind of
<v Speaker 3>rushed to ten million copies. Let's see some of the
<v Speaker 3>other games they have listed here. Monster Hunter wild or
<v Speaker 3>excuse me, World eventually got to twenty eight point five
<v Speaker 3>million copies sold. That's nuts. Rise is seventeen point one eight,
<v Speaker 3>and then Resident Evil for remake is nine point nine
<v Speaker 3>to two, so it's already outsold the best selling Rise
<v Speaker 3>Resident Eagle game ever and World.
<v Speaker 6>And Rise they would kind of get second live the
<v Speaker 6>PC versions would come out for those, right, because those
<v Speaker 6>were later this time, you had the piece right away,
<v Speaker 6>but they could do a switch to version and that'll
<v Speaker 6>be another big boost for wild and I bet that
<v Speaker 6>will absolutely happen.
<v Speaker 3>This gable continue to so well for a while, right,
<v Speaker 3>And the big part of that number for World has
<v Speaker 3>got to be when they introduced what was its sun.
<v Speaker 6>Break Born for that then Sibreaker or something for for rise.
<v Speaker 2>Point.
<v Speaker 3>Exactly in the old days of Monster Hunter, they would
<v Speaker 3>have a whole new game that was basically an expansion,
<v Speaker 3>but but they introduced it as a new game, sort
<v Speaker 3>of like Pokemon used to do the third games. Now
<v Speaker 3>they do a DLC and that helps them like sell
<v Speaker 3>even more because they package those up again basically as
<v Speaker 3>a new package. But uh, some people buy it that way.
<v Speaker 3>All right, this is the most important story of the day.
<v Speaker 3>Krispy Kreme and Bandy Namco announced pac Man Donuts. Good
<v Speaker 3>if you like. Yes, they look so good, right, I'm
<v Speaker 3>gonna have to try to find a Crispy cream around me,
<v Speaker 3>Like awesome, Holy don't they just look appetizing as hell?
<v Speaker 3>I don't know their bunchet Like, they have a donut
<v Speaker 3>that looks like one of the fruit, like the cherry
<v Speaker 3>or whatever it is. Art is art.
<v Speaker 6>I want a donuts so bad of owners. God done,
<v Speaker 6>us are good.
<v Speaker 3>The campaign is only available in the United States, so
<v Speaker 3>once again another wind for the hegemonic excuse me, hegemonic
<v Speaker 3>powers of the United States. You guys are in the
<v Speaker 3>France New Carre.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, this is winning, let me tell you.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, this is what it looks like everybody. I enjoy
<v Speaker 3>your free healthcare god yeah, uh yeah. I'm gonna try
<v Speaker 3>to track one of these down. We'll see if I
<v Speaker 3>can get one.
<v Speaker 2>I I live very close to one. I'll try and
<v Speaker 2>track it down as well.
<v Speaker 3>Does yours have the sign that turns on? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I have like a hot, fresh and ready one.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I have soup? Thing though, is sorry Mike? The funked
<v Speaker 2>up thing though? Is that by me? It's a Krispy
<v Speaker 2>Kreme in the same plaza as an in and out Burger,
<v Speaker 2>and it's down the hill from a hospital.
<v Speaker 5>Oh yeah, we're attached to a city MD walk in
<v Speaker 5>urgent tender.
<v Speaker 2>Oh the d m v's across the street. Actually great.
<v Speaker 6>I have so much guilt and regret with Krispy Kreme
<v Speaker 6>as a brand because what they do to you, because
<v Speaker 6>they had one My brother went to school in Pittsburgh.
<v Speaker 6>We would visit him a lot because he was like
<v Speaker 6>the first one to go to college. So my parents
<v Speaker 6>went to visit him almost every weekend, and we had
<v Speaker 6>to go. You know, there's a Krispy Kreme on the
<v Speaker 6>way there, and that was a very special tree and
<v Speaker 6>we went almost every time to the Krispy Cream and
<v Speaker 6>it was awesome. We loved it. And then like a
<v Speaker 6>few years later, they opened one just in our town,
<v Speaker 6>and we went to that one like one time and
<v Speaker 6>never again because it wasn't special anymore, and it closed
<v Speaker 6>down two years later. And always feel kind of responsible
<v Speaker 6>for that.
<v Speaker 2>Sure.
<v Speaker 5>I've gone to the Krispy Kream website, specifically the find
<v Speaker 5>a shop feature, okay, and they have a feature on
<v Speaker 5>the site that allows you to filter by the hot
<v Speaker 5>now sign.
<v Speaker 2>It's the truth.
<v Speaker 5>Apparently, the hot now sign indicates that the welcoming globe
<v Speaker 5>of the Krispy Kream hot light means our donuts are
<v Speaker 5>piping ready and deliciously divine right now. There's no better
<v Speaker 5>time to enjoy them. That means they're fresh out the oven.
<v Speaker 6>You get them out with their belt with what you do,
<v Speaker 6>and if you go there when they're fresh, sometimes they'll
<v Speaker 6>just give you one Wow, they'll Yeah, the.
<v Speaker 3>People that make them donuts, they once they're done making
<v Speaker 3>the donuts, as soon as they come on the oven,
<v Speaker 3>they flip on a switch that turns on a sign
<v Speaker 3>outside that says, we just got done making fresh donuts.
<v Speaker 3>You should eat this ship.
<v Speaker 5>I guess that's kind of fucking awesome, but also like
<v Speaker 5>fucked up at the same time. Can things be awesome
<v Speaker 5>and fucked up at the same time?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, they look like most of our care go to
<v Speaker 4>Milwaukee or Des Moine. If I want to get to Krispy.
<v Speaker 3>Krome, my nearest one seventeen miles away.
<v Speaker 5>Mine's mine's mine's like just out of reach where it's crazy.
<v Speaker 3>There's no chance to like the pac Man donuts going
<v Speaker 3>to show up at the play, you know when you
<v Speaker 3>go to seven to eleven and they have the Krispy
<v Speaker 3>Kreme doors. Yeah, I think you're right. I agree all
<v Speaker 3>right now.
<v Speaker 2>For this thing.
<v Speaker 6>Damn it, I had it all and I threw it away.
<v Speaker 5>That's how it goes.
<v Speaker 6>Man.
<v Speaker 2>Ooh cinnamon roll donut?
<v Speaker 6>The fuck is that?
<v Speaker 3>It's just good?
<v Speaker 6>It's mostly a salmon roll because Simon rules are donut adjacent,
<v Speaker 6>right kind of already?
<v Speaker 3>Do you guys like have easy access to crow nuts. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>a very local.
<v Speaker 5>A cronut like the the generic cronut. I think so yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 5>because I feel like there was a place in Brooklyn
<v Speaker 5>that tried to like own that.
<v Speaker 3>Sure, just croissant next with a donut.
<v Speaker 5>There's plenty of fancy bakeries where I am, and they'll
<v Speaker 5>do They'll give you a crownut, no problem.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, all right, I'm gonna trap right, it's so good. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Uh.
<v Speaker 3>First time I ever had one mic was that games
<v Speaker 3>Beat tripped out to La to that resort that we had.
<v Speaker 3>Oh right, they had a bakery there was.
<v Speaker 6>Making We lost all that money because it was too fancy,
<v Speaker 6>but it was a great time.
<v Speaker 3>It was a good time.
<v Speaker 2>I'll find you a bakery in La Hell.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, that would rule. All right. Last story here shifting gears,
<v Speaker 3>Microsoft announces plans to lay off like thousands of more workers.
<v Speaker 3>It says here three percent of staff is the plan,
<v Speaker 3>and that would be around seven thousand people. There's not
<v Speaker 3>a lot of details beyond that about how it's going
<v Speaker 3>to affect individual like individual brands under Microsoft, like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>is this going to affect affect or Xbox more than
<v Speaker 3>anyone else. Not a lot of information out there about
<v Speaker 3>that when I was looking into this. Of course, Xbox
<v Speaker 3>has already had a bunch of layoffs. They were like
<v Speaker 3>left let go of like two thousand people last January
<v Speaker 3>something like that, So they continue to shrink. These companies
<v Speaker 3>really built up a lot over the pandemic, and they
<v Speaker 3>hired and hired and hired like crazy, and it seems
<v Speaker 3>like they are trying to cut back from that now.
<v Speaker 3>At the same time, a lot of companies are holding
<v Speaker 3>on to employees because they're unsure of the future. But
<v Speaker 3>then it's either that or we hear news like this,
<v Speaker 3>and Microsoft doesn't seem to be pulling out of that
<v Speaker 3>tailspin anytime soon. All right, that does it for the headlines.
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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, definitely. Yeah, it's the weirdest things been, like all
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<v Speaker 2>Last night of packs, I went, I skirred off to
<v Speaker 2>my room because I was feeling a little sweepy. But
<v Speaker 2>shouts out to John that handed over for some goods,
<v Speaker 2>you know, I'm talking about, uh, partook in some of those.
<v Speaker 2>And then I was like, oh, I feel okay now.
<v Speaker 2>And then I kind of just disassociated and I was
<v Speaker 2>just like talking to myself of like, holy fuck, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I could do whatever I want now.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, we can't be fired.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah wow, I mean at least yeah, sure, But like
<v Speaker 2>if I wanted to be like to do it, I guess.
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<v Speaker 3>Sure?
<v Speaker 4>Should we bring the rock on our board?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>Dwayne Johnson, Yeah.
<v Speaker 6>Board.
<v Speaker 4>He doesn't seem to cause new troubles there.
<v Speaker 3>No, he seems to just be very smooth, level headed. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I think we should have Dwayne enjoyed.
<v Speaker 3>Can he just not? Can you just like fucking not
<v Speaker 3>like he could help himself. He would have.
<v Speaker 5>Like he's the highest paid I think he's the highest
<v Speaker 5>paid actor in all.
<v Speaker 12>Of Hollways of the world the world, Yes, of the world. Yes, yeah,
<v Speaker 12>so like enough, Okay, he's like crazy too. Yeah, he's
<v Speaker 12>just just fucking relaxed, like you go on vacation dog
<v Speaker 12>like dude.
<v Speaker 6>You know, he's got one of those like curated personas
<v Speaker 6>where it's all about like how insanely hard he works.
<v Speaker 6>He gets up at two and does nothing but like
<v Speaker 6>works and does meet grin twenty eight hours a day.
<v Speaker 6>That kind of like, right, that very curated image work.
<v Speaker 6>And I agree, relax, get up at little nine. It's okay,
<v Speaker 6>you get plenty.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, he'll be fine.
<v Speaker 2>He looks okay in that new movie coming out that
<v Speaker 2>he's in, Smashing Machine.
<v Speaker 4>Twenty four one. Yeah, and I'm curious about the score.
<v Speaker 4>Says he won.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, sure.
<v Speaker 6>Oh he's doing serious movies. Now we're here, were we
<v Speaker 6>finally happen? Oh?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah? Yeah.
<v Speaker 6>It's like it's like the guy from from Tropical Thunder
<v Speaker 6>or whatever, Tropic Thunder?
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, which which guy on Tropic Thunder?
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, extrapolate that the guy from Zoolander.
<v Speaker 4>Heavyweight heavyweights.
<v Speaker 3>Know we were dealing with the cinema pile.
<v Speaker 6>My brother had a my younger brother had a I'm
<v Speaker 6>purcosizing shirt, and it was like the people who knew
<v Speaker 6>really liked that at Disney. It was a deep it
<v Speaker 6>was very I was pretty jealous of the reactions he
<v Speaker 6>was getting from that thing. God, heavyweights slaps, that's a
<v Speaker 6>I love Heavyweight. Of all the child ensemble movies made
<v Speaker 6>for kids and families from the nineties, it's it's better
<v Speaker 6>than Mighty Ducks, even heavyweights.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, better than.
<v Speaker 3>Right now, better than better Green, come on, little giants,
<v Speaker 3>better than little giants, better than.
<v Speaker 10>Rookie Field the year, Buddy, It's not better than rookie
<v Speaker 10>of the the best, the best.
<v Speaker 5>It's not better than Mighty Ducks.
<v Speaker 6>You didn't.
<v Speaker 5>No mob is barely about hockey. What are you talking about?
<v Speaker 2>Mighty Ducks has the most powerful hockey move ever in
<v Speaker 2>existence that as far as I know, knuckle puck, the
<v Speaker 2>knuckle puck, I don't know it's three.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's three.
<v Speaker 5>To introduces the knuckle puck, as if Disney invented the
<v Speaker 5>knuckle puck.
<v Speaker 2>Also, Keenan Thompson did, Yeah, exactly.
<v Speaker 5>Please give it to Keen. Uh yeah, look, so what
<v Speaker 5>they go to like Downtown l A to learn how
<v Speaker 5>to play hockey better? I get it. It makes sense. Also, also,
<v Speaker 5>uh you, it is not better in any way than
<v Speaker 5>the Sandlot. How dare the Sandlot said?
<v Speaker 6>Are you kidding me? Heavy?
<v Speaker 3>Wait?
<v Speaker 6>It is just it is the best of those kind
<v Speaker 6>of by far. It is so funny.
<v Speaker 2>I was really upset as a kid because I didn't
<v Speaker 2>know how to swim right. I still don't, and I could.
<v Speaker 4>Never be on like the blob thing that I wanted
<v Speaker 4>one of those so bad that looked like so much fun.
<v Speaker 6>At the end of the movie where the zoo Lader guy,
<v Speaker 6>it's like he's on the rafters because he escaped prison
<v Speaker 6>and they're showing the video of him like making them
<v Speaker 6>eat rats or stuff. He's like, ooh, the film was
<v Speaker 6>test the editing technique that he does like a triple
<v Speaker 6>backflip onto.
<v Speaker 4>Are you repeatedly referring to Ben Stiller as the Zoolander guy.
<v Speaker 3>From done that many times?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it was a pretty big Also, like you know,
<v Speaker 4>he made severins.
<v Speaker 3>He does know Jerry Stiller by name, though, so that's.
<v Speaker 10>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Oh, I didn't realize I was gonna be increasingly upset
<v Speaker 5>by this kind of stuff. Wow, we welcome back. Yeah, cool,
<v Speaker 5>sick them in sick and cool.
<v Speaker 4>You just need three votes.
<v Speaker 5>I want to We actually don't know that.
<v Speaker 3>Anywhere.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, relaxed there, think you know, But let me tell
<v Speaker 5>you to answer the question of the original emailer. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>that's the answer is, Oh my god, there's just so
<v Speaker 5>much more to even do. As if my plate wasn't
<v Speaker 5>full enough before, now it's even more full. And there's
<v Speaker 5>just a lot to do. That's the answer. There's so
<v Speaker 5>much to do and so little time. And that is
<v Speaker 5>the It is equal parts freeing and amazing and exciting
<v Speaker 5>and all these things. And yeah, with a dash of horror, right,
<v Speaker 5>with a dash of peppering in of anxiety and horror.
<v Speaker 2>We're we're not eight twenty four. We're like the other
<v Speaker 2>indie film company neon. Yeah, she's kind of stressful over there. Huh.
<v Speaker 3>They sold out.
<v Speaker 4>I got in finally, and it says item limit reach
<v Speaker 4>didn't let me there's no add to cart.
<v Speaker 3>Oh sorry, I got mine, so I stopped paying attention.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, sorry, but you have to pay for one.
<v Speaker 2>What happened to extending the ladder down grub.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's done. I'm dependent now business owner.
<v Speaker 6>Get did you sign in before you try to buy it, Dan,
<v Speaker 6>because it's one per account?
<v Speaker 4>Oh am, I maybe not log in sign up? Oh ship, Okay,
<v Speaker 4>we're welcome.
<v Speaker 6>I better have your vote for the next time to get.
<v Speaker 2>All right those wheels, Tanner writes in two toppings up backler,
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, okay, I'm sorry, I want to I just
<v Speaker 2>want to say this ahead of time. I'm sorry. Oh shit, okay,
<v Speaker 2>two toppings for a hot dog.
<v Speaker 4>They can't be ketchup chili cheese. I'm never I'm never
<v Speaker 4>putting catch up on a hot dog.
<v Speaker 3>Chill.
<v Speaker 5>That's an ease that mustard and cemercrat.
<v Speaker 6>I would ideally have chili, cheese and must stirred on
<v Speaker 6>my hot dog, but I wouldn't want just mustard or
<v Speaker 6>just mustard chili. So if it's just too I guess
<v Speaker 6>chili and cheese, chili.
<v Speaker 3>And Texas pezz. That's my final answers.
<v Speaker 4>Hot dogs like your genius. I'm checking out right now.
<v Speaker 2>You got your.
<v Speaker 3>Now?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah lately, Jan, you're you were answering. We're sorry?
<v Speaker 2>What was just throw some onions on that bad boy
<v Speaker 2>and I'm good to go.
<v Speaker 6>Raw onions, got those? I don't get it. That's so
<v Speaker 6>much that.
<v Speaker 3>The thing is they taste really good.
<v Speaker 6>They taste like they taste.
<v Speaker 2>I know.
<v Speaker 6>It's not about the taste the texture of food, is it?
<v Speaker 3>Because it's like fruit?
<v Speaker 6>Oh yeah, yeah, raw vegetables may as well be fruits.
<v Speaker 6>Run the ball?
<v Speaker 4>Wait wait, just joining if you've come back to giant b.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, yeah, there's a there's a chance then you
<v Speaker 3>could actually all right, let me try right question.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, we got no eyes on this.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, so like a chopped off pepper, you're not nowhere
<v Speaker 5>near that dipping it into a like a ranch, no
<v Speaker 5>cook that thing.
<v Speaker 2>So but really you won't like, don't you stuff because
<v Speaker 2>of raw veggies. And that's partially why.
<v Speaker 6>Okay, to be clear, it's probably good for my stomach,
<v Speaker 6>but I'm not using that as an out. I would
<v Speaker 6>not fuss with it anyways.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay, all right, loves you right, so happy you
<v Speaker 2>all are back. I often think about how patio could
<v Speaker 2>be a really beautiful name. What other inanimate objects would
<v Speaker 2>make good names for? Babies?
<v Speaker 4>Warm the guy from Star Trek no w h A R.
<v Speaker 11>Paracel Paris parasol, paracel, paraceling, parasols.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, you're right to the that's not as good that.
<v Speaker 6>That's like yeah, like aerosol Oka.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Arisol, my daughter ariosol Man. Zebo is good.
<v Speaker 5>They call him Zebo Zebo.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 6>Oh, I had a doctor. Doctor Zebo was like somebody
<v Speaker 6>in my school. I can't remember if he was one
<v Speaker 6>of the problematic ones that went to jail or not.
<v Speaker 6>There were many of them.
<v Speaker 2>There were many. Uh good, Oh cast role is good, Cassie, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>like this is my daughter cast cube guy would yeah,
<v Speaker 2>game cube record?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I like that. What about double a arn Anderson
<v Speaker 4>will shoot you? No, like double a battery? Yeah, maybe
<v Speaker 4>not battery.
<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to convince everyone in my life to let me,
<v Speaker 2>if I have a son in the future, to let
<v Speaker 2>me name themao.
<v Speaker 3>There. There, you have my permission.
<v Speaker 5>There are people named vote on this planet. I promise you,
<v Speaker 5>all right for sure?
<v Speaker 6>Is there a bad guy?
<v Speaker 4>Am breaking bad name not better call?
<v Speaker 6>I think he's in both of them.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally, yeah, that would be characters.
<v Speaker 5>I just want you to know, Jan I'm kind of
<v Speaker 5>running through I'm kicking the tires on that one. You're
<v Speaker 5>talking about a nacho that's kind of like a a
<v Speaker 5>bit of a tough.
<v Speaker 6>Can just be named not so that's not.
<v Speaker 10>Right.
<v Speaker 3>Mike's a big fan of that politics.
<v Speaker 6>How about.
<v Speaker 2>Tough? Like, are you just okay duffle.
<v Speaker 5>Uff?
<v Speaker 2>First, just.
<v Speaker 4>Look down at this e GM I have here, and
<v Speaker 4>I thought, oh, Diddy is like wait, nope, nope, no, no.
<v Speaker 3>Around my room like sound baffling.
<v Speaker 6>I guess by the way, that Donkey Kong coaster in
<v Speaker 6>uh in epic Universe that is so fun. Oh, I
<v Speaker 6>got to do it at night too, It's so pretty
<v Speaker 6>at night.
<v Speaker 2>What last one?
<v Speaker 3>JPEG two thousand?
<v Speaker 4>You first named? J middle name peg web peak.
<v Speaker 6>Red?
<v Speaker 3>Right?
<v Speaker 2>All right, moving on here, Well, we'll only read a
<v Speaker 2>couple more uh fram rights in who do you think
<v Speaker 2>of the five of you can jump the farthest farthest?
<v Speaker 3>Well, Dan's been training for a marathon. I bet Dan
<v Speaker 3>just started though, and it's rough right now, Okay, then
<v Speaker 3>maybe back because he's gonna have the glutes from hockey.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, that is like an actual athlete. He's like engaged
<v Speaker 6>in athletic activities.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and that skating really does.
<v Speaker 5>Tree trunks.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's not me, it's probably Mike now.
<v Speaker 5>I'd say jan two because Jen's like limber like when
<v Speaker 5>you're somersaulting.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I'll do better.
<v Speaker 6>Than anyone expects, but I won't win.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I hurt myself very badly.
<v Speaker 2>Probably I wish I could dunk. Did I ever tell
<v Speaker 2>y'all when my dad used to pick me up from
<v Speaker 2>elementary school and like, you know, kids would be playing basketball,
<v Speaker 2>he would steal the ball from them and dunk on them.
<v Speaker 4>Awesome, Holy ship.
<v Speaker 2>My dad is like, you know, he's an old frail
<v Speaker 2>man now shouts out to him. But he used to
<v Speaker 2>buy those and one mixtapes, watch them and teach himself
<v Speaker 2>how to do all those tricks. Did he pass any
<v Speaker 2>of that athletic prowess to me?
<v Speaker 4>No, you know my dad did the same thing.
<v Speaker 2>Sure, yeah, ye, our dad should start a rec league.
<v Speaker 3>And he's just like learning these movies. He goes game
<v Speaker 3>Chance Anger.
<v Speaker 4>The NBA street you activated pull his dick out the bottom,
<v Speaker 4>just blaze track starts, just piss.
<v Speaker 5>We just got a basketball hoop in the driveway, and
<v Speaker 5>we you know, obviously you lower that down to eight
<v Speaker 5>feet immediately you fucking dunk. And that's been a lot
<v Speaker 5>of fun because that's the thing. I could still do that.
<v Speaker 5>Dib can't, and I'm going to continue to do that.
<v Speaker 6>Because my dad destroyed his knees playing basketball with my brother.
<v Speaker 6>Became a lifelong problem. He has new knees now, That's
<v Speaker 6>what it actually led to. So careful trying to kids.
<v Speaker 5>Why I'm just skating skating. I don't have that big problem.
<v Speaker 4>You know, since he's a doctor, did he get to
<v Speaker 4>like install his own knees?
<v Speaker 6>No, awake, you have to have someone else do that.
<v Speaker 4>You could probably though, right, No, if you really a
<v Speaker 4>great knee doctor, couldn't you replace your own knees?
<v Speaker 3>No, it would be very did use your head?
<v Speaker 2>What do you mean?
<v Speaker 5>No?
<v Speaker 2>I bet you could.
<v Speaker 4>I'm not kidding. We think about it.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>So because you know the mechanics of the situation, you've
<v Speaker 4>got the tools.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, okay, so you have to do give yourself a
<v Speaker 5>new knee from your perspective, and then what are you
<v Speaker 5>just like spinal tapped? Are you just like completely numb
<v Speaker 5>from the waste?
<v Speaker 6>What else anesthetics impact?
<v Speaker 4>Maybe, well, if if it's generally, if it's general, it
<v Speaker 4>knocks you out. But I'm saying like, if you just
<v Speaker 4>local up, you know, you're probably find it.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm like, if it was like end of the
<v Speaker 3>world situation and a doctor neither to replace their knee
<v Speaker 3>and had like could they do it?
<v Speaker 4>Maybe maybe they could think they could.
<v Speaker 3>That's the best case scenario, is maybe best.
<v Speaker 4>Maybe yeah, Like they're like at gunpoint, like replace your knee, okay,
<v Speaker 4>maybe yeah.
<v Speaker 5>The situation has changed since we first positive this, I
<v Speaker 5>mean point, replace your need, got it?
<v Speaker 2>Okay?
<v Speaker 3>Got it?
<v Speaker 5>All right?
<v Speaker 6>Well, then if he thinks he could have done it
<v Speaker 6>under the worst case.
<v Speaker 5>Scenario, man, that is some self surgery that I am
<v Speaker 5>not interested in watching.
<v Speaker 3>There are so many other surgeries that would probably be
<v Speaker 3>like that.
<v Speaker 5>Would make way more easier than I bet you could
<v Speaker 5>take out your own gallbladder with much more ease than
<v Speaker 5>you could replace a knee.
<v Speaker 4>You know, a cavity. I bet you could do cavity
<v Speaker 4>cavity cavity.
<v Speaker 5>I think you're wrong about.
<v Speaker 4>That, Big Mers.
<v Speaker 3>All right, thanks.
<v Speaker 2>Everyone for writing into the show. Bomcas John Bob dot
<v Speaker 2>com is a normal email address.
<v Speaker 4>Chat says, although when I got my vosectomy, my doctor
<v Speaker 4>told me of another doctor who did their own visectomy,
<v Speaker 4>but balls are so much scarier than knees.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, Oh my god, No, you're so wrong.
<v Speaker 6>You're not getting it's not a matter if you're getting
<v Speaker 6>punched in each of them, you're surgically. It's making an
<v Speaker 6>incision and snipping the thing as opposed to taking out
<v Speaker 6>an entire joints.
<v Speaker 4>And I'm to be way more scared of balls snipping
<v Speaker 4>the knee.
<v Speaker 3>Replaced, convinced that this is all like how he originally
<v Speaker 3>thought we're going, and now validates his He feels validated.
<v Speaker 3>It's over.
<v Speaker 6>Replaced is a much bigger deal.
<v Speaker 4>But if okay me at gun point and they say
<v Speaker 4>replace your knee or snip your balls, I'm replacing.
<v Speaker 3>Your open and you're gonna look and see all the
<v Speaker 3>ship that's in there, and you're gonna die.
<v Speaker 4>But at least it's not my balls.
<v Speaker 2>We are going.
<v Speaker 5>We are going.
<v Speaker 3>I can't argue.
<v Speaker 5>We are absolutely going to call you out. The new
<v Speaker 5>giant bomb is Gonnas and drag you.
<v Speaker 3>D next week. Replaces his knee.
<v Speaker 2>Voted you have to do it.
<v Speaker 5>Absolutely did not agree to this the board.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, last question comes from Slain.
<v Speaker 6>Who do you call a were wolf?
<v Speaker 2>YouTuber? What is it?
<v Speaker 3>Oh?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, sure, that's easy.
<v Speaker 5>Next question.
<v Speaker 2>There's a punch I understand, Yeah, yeah, yeah, and anyone
<v Speaker 2>have one?
<v Speaker 5>What do you call a were wolf? YouTuber?
<v Speaker 4>How there's moon? There's like in the like.
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<v Speaker 2>stocking up the aisles, checking you out at the checkout line.
<v Speaker 2>Dan's working the fish counter and he's just like, I'm sorry,
<v Speaker 2>he's at the medical aisle.
<v Speaker 6>Just chop.
<v Speaker 3>A gang.
<v Speaker 2>We got a lot of stuff going on, but this week,
<v Speaker 2>specifically Game Mess Mornings popping off Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
<v Speaker 2>Yes that's right, as well as a voicemail dump truck
<v Speaker 2>wait professional Friday on Friday, uh, dump trucks on Thursday.
<v Speaker 2>But tomorrow we start a brand new season of Light Club.
<v Speaker 2>At this time, Mike is gonna look so.
<v Speaker 4>Cool, really cool, really cool. Backler, do you know what
<v Speaker 4>he's gonna look like?
<v Speaker 2>I have no idea.
<v Speaker 4>Oh okay, it's it's real good he's gonna do you want.
<v Speaker 3>To know or do you want to see it?
<v Speaker 5>For you to see it for the first time?
<v Speaker 2>Hell yeah, he's gonna look so cool, very cool.
<v Speaker 3>Right.
<v Speaker 2>Also, uh, you know you can catch us around the
<v Speaker 2>internet this week and probably leading into next week. We
<v Speaker 2>were gonna be everywhere telling it's spreading the good word
<v Speaker 2>of Giant pop dot COM's last joy.
<v Speaker 4>Hey Backlar, check your discord real quick. I get your
<v Speaker 4>reaction to how cool Mike's gonna.
<v Speaker 5>I just said I want to see it for the
<v Speaker 5>first time.
<v Speaker 2>Man, I thought you about the character.
<v Speaker 5>This is fucked up, all right? Soon at least you're
<v Speaker 5>already cooler than what I'm looking at.
<v Speaker 6>No way, No, why is cool the world we keep
<v Speaker 6>using here?
<v Speaker 2>Wow?
<v Speaker 3>Look cool? What you want me to lie to you?
<v Speaker 6>It's a type ofture joke, isn't it.
<v Speaker 3>Yep?
<v Speaker 10>Yep?
<v Speaker 2>We talked about oh my god, cool world.
<v Speaker 5>Ye, cool world.
<v Speaker 6>No one remembers cool World.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Power Still, Well, we'll do the whole fighting collection too,
<v Speaker 3>but we'll play a lot of Yeah.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I want to do a quick look because there's
<v Speaker 6>a lot of games I'm looking forward to and there.
<v Speaker 6>But yeah, Power Still multiplayer is going to be a
<v Speaker 6>ton of fun.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that'll be most of you. And we'll do a
<v Speaker 3>quick look as well, so look forward to that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm gonna try and get some other quick looks
<v Speaker 2>up and running. If you missed it this morning, there
<v Speaker 2>is a Doom the Dark Ages quick look that Dan
<v Speaker 2>and Grub put together. I get a clear obscure. One
<v Speaker 2>may do a Dropducci Duchy, whatever the heck. The game's
<v Speaker 2>called maybe whatever you want Nubby's number, factory Baby, we'll
<v Speaker 2>do that.
<v Speaker 6>That's a good game.
<v Speaker 2>And yeah, anyone else got anything else left to say?
<v Speaker 2>If you and I will rate on Twitch.
<v Speaker 4>But I'm about to pee right after this, and then
<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna hop on the Jeff Gershman Show, which should
<v Speaker 4>be live and in progress. So gonna hop on and
<v Speaker 4>catch up with mister Gersman, So tune in there, Jeff.
<v Speaker 2>Jeff has been showing lots of love and support. Thanks you.
<v Speaker 2>He's been very helpful.
<v Speaker 3>Jeff.
<v Speaker 2>All right, everyone, I guess that's it. We'll see you
<v Speaker 2>next week somehow for another episode of the Giant BombCast.
<v Speaker 2>He's been Jeff. He's also been Jeff. He's been Mike,
<v Speaker 2>he's been dead, I've been Jan Are you at home.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you so much, genuinely pre shoot, we love you,
<v Speaker 2>good bye.
<v Speaker 6>I'm not paid by the hour anymore. I don't have
<v Speaker 6>to try to stretch this show out as long as
<v Speaker 6>I can wait. That's what you were doing. Those four
<v Speaker 6>hour podcasts make a lot of sense now