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Aluminium
Hey, there's a guy called woolly gaming on twitch what I
So I was literally I saw somebody mentioned like a video or something you had streamed the other day
I'm like all good. I'll go check out your schedule and I typed in woolly into twitch and sure enough woolly gaming is live
Awesome, and I'm like what oh
Weird awesome great cool. Yeah, he doesn't even look like you at all. Yeah, I mean look man
There's there's people out there, you know
I mean I feel almost bad for whoever decided to sit on the
The at woolly on Twitter because that's another person that like probably just gets a bunch of shit
That's not remotely even directed at them, but like they it's like if you're gonna stick the fight out
Then you choose to stick the fight out
I can't control how much is gonna get sent your way, but I do feel that there was
more than one time throughout these years where
I've gotten messages from
Developers and people and stuff just being like hey someone's pretending to be you. I just want to
Check in and go like see is everything cool or someone I've never spoken to is like hey
There's people that like say they're you
But shit doesn't match up. So what's up? You know, yeah, that's weird. I've never I've never encountered the copycat
and
There was that time I don't know if we ever we talked about that bizarre email from the other Patrick Bois vang
Yes, yes, there's definitely that was that was the most I don't know how that got to us. I was I was
Go ahead
There's like 13 different knockoff Pat stairs at channels on Twitch
most of which don't even bother to copy the logo which
Like there's one that copies the logo
Mm-hmm all the other ones don't even bother to copy the branding and I'm like wow you guys aren't even trying yeah
That's that's the thought right it's like if you're doing if you're going for parent confusion marketing, right then
That's that's one thing where you're you're gonna try to copy everything you see and fake everybody into thinking it's something
It's not but if you're actually going for a no, I'm doing my own thing just using this name
It's like what are you hoping to accomplish here? This is so weird. I I mean
I've I was playing
Tony Hawk one plus two and I saw the and then the and like then of the new songs
There's a lot of the great new songs like I mentioned and one of the new songs that pops up is from a group called
Super best friends club and I was like oh boy. Oh boy like good luck with with that. That's good. Yeah
You know that's that's Google just kind of napalms things and a way that you you can if you've got four words in your name
The the first three are probably gonna give you a hard time guys
then
Luckily, the algorithm is there to determine which one you're really talking about
and
there's been
more than one just like sort of like straight-up usage of
Friday night fisticuffs and in different ways places and things that's yeah
I think there are like literally ten different video series named Friday night fisticuffs. So like I
Can definitely say that at the time I
Started there wasn't but it's a bit odd in the sense that it's there's homage and then there's just like no
We're just taking the name. It's like there are zero for Saturday night scrub lords or Saturday night scrub lords
Yeah, but it's just like like you can you can homage with a similar name
But like why literally just take the thing and then have everyone is this the thing? What is this?
What are you doing as as somebody who speaks as a personality with a
definitive lack of what I'm gonna say intentional creativity
It's hard to come up with names
It's hard
Like yeah, but the Pat stairs that name I came up with by going giant bomb quick look and it's substituting the names
Well, but but you took the step of changing a word
This is all on this is the minimum
I would suggest is like take the thing and
Change a war like literally change your homework
Before handing it in don't just hand it in with someone else's name on top of the page
Is there is there a fucking other podcast called castle super best?
I mean someone
I wouldn't be surprised well now there is but it's just another is a joke one
Yeah, you know, it's just a it's just a weird thing like I I don't I don't know where the
The thought process is supposed to go but anyway, that's yeah, what can you say sure? Mm-hmm? Good luck to that person good?
Good luck rip off channels that have so here's the other thing that I genuinely don't understand
You know when you see like a copycat channel or something right mm-hmm, and you see that they've like
Stolen like five videos mm-hmm, and then gave up yes
Because there's too many to keep doing this with it's like hey look if you want to sit there by your computer and do this twice a day
Every single day of your life in the hopes that you can somehow like scrape
You know some views together for whatever you're doing here. Good luck, man
It's not this is this is you're you're putting in like real work to get scraps
You might as well just at this point real work towards
Real work. Yeah
No, people are people are mysterious and confusing and then again will you none of us are putting in real work
Something that we should talk about later in the news. Oh boy
Um
That could be well hey look I'll tell you what I did put in some real work. In fact this week
I feel very productive. Oh, yeah, I feel like I got a lot of things done this week, and I'm feeling good about
being potentially good oh
Potentially good. I like that
Tell me about your potentially good week well in terms of productivity. I mean yeah step one is
I fucking got those windows all sealed up for the winter
Oh, yeah, good. Yeah me and punch mom got our
Material together. We see it. We did the little stuffing in between all the cracks and spaces
And then we put that's weird. I've never had to do that
Yeah, well, it's the kind of thing where it depends on what kind of windows you have and whether or not they're like
Modern recent and like really airtight. Yeah, but if you've got a place where
Um, you've got some windows that are a bit dated
Then you got to do some work, you know
Um, generally haven't done it up until now because it's just like whatever let the draft come in and we'll just deal
with it, but like
After waking up with some sniffles and like
Catching a draft while sleeping and shit like that. I'm like, eh, let's just deal with this
We live in an era in which
waking up with sniffles
Is a coin flip of terror
So fuck that
Fuck waking up with the snuffles. Also, it just generally lowers your immune system. You know what I mean?
Like if you're constantly waking up like that, so
um
Yeah, I don't know. So I we we just I said, let me just go for it this year and like
Um, see if we can get rid of some of the the draft and
Yeah, did the whole ceiling and then put the plastic over the windows and have it completely
Sealed off and it was nice. It's it's nice. It's a um
It's a it's a comfortable
thing now the heat actually stays in
the the cold no longer comes in and um
Yeah, you just kind of feel like you got some some house stuff done
You know, would it be accurate to say that you have actually
Legitimately no joke
Updated your real windows before updating your windows. There you go
Literally
That's exactly what happened
So, yeah, got him
Yeah, it's uh, it's nice. It's nice
um
And then of course the second thing I did was I put out my guilty gear lore video which I had been working on for a very long time
so, um
Thank you to everybody who's had lots of good feedback and things to say about that
um
Very happy that people enjoyed the uh the music selection and that it hit the same
um
We some of the same I can tell you enjoyed the music selection. Yes. In fact, uh
I can tell I like obviously
There was a some some mixing issues
And uh, you know, I actually had a fixed version of that that um
I had to that I couldn't blah
I had a fixed version of that that was mixed better that at the last second
I had to upload a previous version for technical problems. So don't worry about that. But anyway, um
That's what's up and
Uh, nowadays when I'm like, hey, I got shit to do. I got things to work on or whatever rest assured
I'm going back to to write and script out more guilty gear lore
That's basically the deal
I I I loaded it up and I saw I saw that I'd come out like oh, that's what you've been working on
I see that it's a half hour video and it's
Before guilty gear like it's correct literally
the
Uh opening page instruction manual
Right. I think we story. I believe we get to the first game's beginning the intro of the first game
drops at 25 minutes in
and
All I can think of is that like man and you haven't even touched
the nightmare that is the
dozens of mutually exclusive stories
That you somehow have to figure out which ones count and which ones didn't so, you know, I'm putting the work in
Don't don't don't you worry about it. But is the ending where eddy dies when he tries to eat Sharon cannon? Yes
I don't think that
But it gets obliterated, but it's a little bit. There's there's there's things to it
He there there is a clear like and there's an attempt
And uh, Sharon is clearly something else and anyway, um
There's a whole bunch of places and things that things can go in and there's a lot of weird pseudo cannon events
That's the problem events happen and ideas occur and there are things that that are pseudo cannons. So like
Discussions that could only happen when cliff or Kai are facing justice
Still sort of do happen because they come to the same revelations slash the outcomes occur
Even though it's soul who faces off justice, right? Yeah, so like
You know what the the weird answer to how do fighting games simultaneous arcade modes work is you kind of pick and choose
Which details you want to matter going forward?
Hey one when you're done with guilty gear
Can you can you spend the time doing a lore back the background dive on a virtual fighter?
Is sega gonna sponsor me?
No, well then maybe not
I just I just want to hear about someone's attempt to even find out like anything
About that game's story
Dural is a girl
She's a girl in three. She's kage's mom. Yeah
Yeah in
In four it's a random lady and they try and do it to venessa and then she breaks out in five
And listen her skin is suspiciously wider. Listen, uh
people who have seen
Like like punch mom and reggie and men and everybody have seen
me like kind of deteriorating with work on some days
And uh-huh like being crushed under the sheer
like
Ridiculousness of how much digging needs to be done and how much needs to be
uh sorted through
and um
There's very few things that i'm willing to suffer through
To get it all in and guilty gear is one of those things
Um, I can't say every franchise gets that same treatment from the that where i'm willing to do this much
for it. I
Let me ask you a question. This is my last question. I'm gonna ask about this today
Like three and a half months ago
We were talking about strive
And you said something about guilty gear two counting and I started to like swear and curse
And you said hey pat you want to talk about the fucking backyard?
Mm-hmm, and I told you to go fuck yourself and I think we moved on from that segment
Was that before or after you already knew you were gonna do this that was absolutely after I had already started
Fucking yeah, because why else would you why else would you bother to mention the backyard?
In fact a human being in fact, uh some eagle-eyed
And eagle-eared listeners or I should say bat-eared listeners
Uh have pointed out that uh over the last couple months. I've sprinkled little tidbits of guilty gear
Lore into discussions
Just because it was on my mind and it's the first place my brain went because it's all I'm fucking doing every day
So I've dropped little bits and pieces of it over the last couple of months like since before the summer
I've been dropping little things here and there
Just because it's on my mind and like yeah, you might have been able to
Put it together, you know
Well
Now that the first video is done you get to take one day of break and right into the next one
Yeah, that day of break is already gone. I'm I'm already yeah, you know
so and um
Yeah, it's it's uh, but I mean at the end of the day though. It's it's very
Like you have it. It's it's off of my chest. You know what I mean? Like it's out there in the world. So
um at the very least I'm excited that like I don't have to fucking
Sweat that part of it anymore
um
And yeah, I can talk about it. So
And now you have a framework now. I have a framework actually do this shit exactly exactly and uh,
you know, um
I just I have a a a template I can I can work off of and I can I can just kind of go back in
put my head down
by myself
to the grindstone and uh
Yeah, and get get the next one out there. So um
You know, I saw some folks going like oh man
What about the characters that I like that I care about that I have that I guess they have no
Roll in the story and it's like no no no no no no this whole first part had nothing to do
with dizzy or
Uh, you know dizzy isn't even born for the entirety in that entire store in that part
Yeah, you have to like get to that, you know and all these people don't show up old guys
Well a little more than that, but you know gear age is weird. It's like dogs
Like dog ears. Yeah
And it's and it's and your officer. It's fine. She's 18 and dog ears. Is that what kai said?
Oh, no way. He is the cop
Kai is kai is the cop
Gear kai is the cop. Yes gear ears are different same thing for sin
You know things work a little bit differently
um
and and for human beings it almost works in opposite because
May is super old, but uh
She just happens to still be you know young and cute, but
She's she's
She's quite quite older than she looks
And that's all there is to it
That's all there is to it, huh? Yeah
But what about video games woolly? Well, anyway, um, we
Do have in fact a week of video games too alongside tell me about one video game
And then maybe tell me about a different one. Okay. Um, I'll tell you about
uh
man like this this
Ah the the the the the the density of the week now
I think
Makes sense for some people in terms of just like as soon as I jump off stream time to like get a get a snack
And then sit down and get right working on these other things because I threw out
Uh the vtuber project at the exact same time are similar within
You know a window of of whatever like a week apart or so
so
Yeah, just over overwhelming
Uh amounts of shit going on means very little going on in terms of my own personal gaming time, but
What I did do on the channel was start call of duty infinite warfare
Why infinite warfare that's the one with the space
Fucking knew it and that's it
I fucking knew it. I knew that was the reason because I was I saw that happen
And I was like, oh, it's I saw it. Well, actually what I saw was somebody in my chat going woolly's playing call of duty
I'm like, okay. That makes sense after the halo thing, right?
It's like, yeah, put put your ankle. You did the half life
You did the halo you got you put your you're you're putting your ankle and up to knee
I suppose into all these first person shooty shooty guns, right?
Call of duty makes sense and I just
made the
assumption
Up along the lines of while he did the halo is that I would have clicked on your schedule and seen
Uh
Or clicked on your stream and seen call of duty for modern warfare one sure and I saw infinite warfare instead
Yeah, and then my brain said oh because of space. Yes
Correct
And and that's pretty much that's
And so yeah, and so far in it call of duty infinite warfare is my third favorite titanfall game
Uh-huh, so really more than yeah, I don't like titanfall one all that much, but that's because I didn't have that campaign
Yeah, no, it's it's my third favorite titanfall game
Um, this is how uh, this is how we do and uh, there was you weren't the only one wondering because to today
Uh, and and to Dayton every single day since there's been some confusion as to like wait. Why not?
Uh advanced warfare or whatever and I'm like, hey, I said space not spacey
You know and
Uh
in
Hey, anyway, more importantly, that's wow the other ones
All came and went and they did their thing and that's nice, but I don't really care
I don't
It's not
It's not what i'm looking for. I'm looking for the space stuff and i'm looking for the crazy
Uh dog fighting and the ridiculous
asteroid
Shet jump space battles with grappling hooks and sniping
um
in orbit
and
boy
Does that not disappoint because I've never seen
like there's like there's a whole
thing to
Zero gravity like sniping and jetting and grappling that is unlike any other thing
Any other game I've seen with that and it's incredible and I feel really like
It's it's it's definitely sad that like, um
This is still one of the most hated most disliked videos on youtube of all time is the reveal trailer for this game
Because it's so not call of duty compared to what people expected and wanted and what which makes you go
Oh, that's the one I want a hundred percent one a hundred percent
Thousand percent, you know, but it's still one of the most disliked things ever and it turns out like
Um, you know, we heard from people that were saying that like, yeah
I was usually playing every cod game with my my crew and my crew literally skipped over this one because they just went
Fuck it. We don't want that
And so I never knew about how crazy this campaign was or how fucking good it got because it uh
You know it was something that the friends all overlooked and shit and I'm like, yeah
That's a bummer man, but at the same time like I don't know like I get it if you're here
for
You know what call of duty usually delivers
Then this is the waiter bringing you a completely different thing. I don't know that that whole thing was so baffling because
How do I put this like that series had like almost defined itself by
Uh, what do you call it?
Uh setting jumps, right? So we got the world war two and we got the we got the world war two
And then we got the world war two and then we got the world war two and then we get the world war two
And I think we had modern warfare and then we had the world war two
Uh, and then after that it became oh, it's modern warfare a bunch and then it was like kind of the future
Advanced warfare the 70s. Yeah, right
And so it's like it kind of like I saw that and it was and ghost was like ghost is the worst one
Ghost is just like
Kind of the apocalyptic future and it sucks, but dog. Um
But yeah, and so I figured that people would be more open to just the setting changes
Uh, you would hope but it turns out that's not the case
um
It's a little bit like the sports franchises we were describing last week where
For the most part the audience seems to be content with
playing the hits and uh
You know just make sure that there's enough fresh stuff happening in multiplayer and you got yourself, uh
If I can a cod you got yourself a big seller. It's got its zombies mode
It's got you know all the all the features and bells and whistles. Um
Mm-hmm
And and yeah, I as a result no one was asking for space. So when they got space they were like, I didn't want dog fighting. I didn't want
Double jumps. I didn't want future energy guns. I wanted it's also
It's also one of those things where it's hard to tell because uh as you're a person that does not play the cod blobs
Graw multi players. Yeah
Uh, there are games in which people just turn on those
Because of a section that you will never ever see
like, um god, what was the one I think it was
It was an advanced warfare. It was the one after it that I played
I think it was black ops 3 or whatever that the multiplayer was just like a spamming shit vest. I'm like, wow, this is
God damn awful. Holy fuck
All I can say is as an outsider
um
Playing this game and getting this triple a s triple i
experience, uh
It's fucking incredible so far and you got yourself a little like a bt equivalent. You got ethan on your team. He's uh
He's the robot with the soul of a southern farmer
and uh
You've got
You know some of some really fun to control
Tight ass dog fighting
like
The thing in me right there was dog fighting in that. Oh, there's amazing dog fighting man
Like the thing in me that loves x-wing versus tie fighter
And a bunch of wing commander back in the day
Like absolutely like that part of my brain lit up because like it has really it's like the the ship you're controlling
It can really tightly turn it can
Swerve past like
Obstacles and like you're chasing down ace pilots. You've got a couple different
Um things you can use and you can change your weapons out and and back at your base and fire missiles
And you can do that thing which is like the movie thing
Where you are locking onto a target. Yes, you're locking onto a target and then you're swerving and tracking it behind it
And then you shoot your missiles and then you hit it and then you zoom past the explosion
You know the movie thing is it as good at that as ace combat is
Uh ace combat is dedicated to that so yeah
The answer is no because that's literally 85 of the ace. It's it's the entire franchise
But but here's the thing though, right? What's different and what's worth noting is that?
Um ace combat gives you a bunch of different vehicles with different feels to them, right?
This gives you one thing that feels really good and steers really well
so
Like everything in ace combat does not corner and steer as tightly as what you're flying in
In in this you know that in infinite warfare because real planes can't do that
But space planes can you know space planes
So they had to do all sorts of stupid shit. Yeah, so they're in space
Like in the sense that you're you're trying to get a set a realistic feel for
You know pitch and yaw and all that stuff
Space planes in infinite warfare don't have to abide by those rules and they don't but in the end you just end up with a really wacky
fun thing where you can
Like you've got you've got to release chaff to like, you know
Deflect their missiles coming at you
But like if you have enough of a distance and someone's like tailing you
Like instead of even going for the loop-de-loop or the or the the full
Uh, uh, star fox one like sideways 180
You can just rotate on the spot as you're moving as you're thrusting in a direction and just start shooting back at it
like
Okay, it's kind of wild how you can pull that off and still not lose too much momentum, you know
um
Anyway, it's it's it's it's very very fun. And uh, i'm enjoying it
There was captain price in that one. I don't think so, but I I don't remember anyone with that name
There's a reyes. Sounds like a
Fake call of duty game to me. We've got a reyes. So that's that's there
um
Yes, you can break physics in ac. You just have to practice to do that shit. All right. Yeah fine. No, that's you know
Again, I'm talking I'm talking out of my ass here. I'm someone that doesn't have too much experience either way
But the point remains is that I don't know. Well, I can give my best assessment of of the question. I was asked
I'm gonna say that um
In uh
A couple of levels so far as well. Well, first of all, there's a map where you select missions
And then there's side missions and main missions
I don't know if call of duty is usually do that, but I've been told that they don't
Black ops too did something something like that. Okay
um
So that's pretty interesting. You're looking at the solar system and deciding which planets to go to
to to fight your battles against
A weird space john snow
And um
One of the ways that like uh, some of those missions play out is like, yeah
So you pull up and you have to do a stealth mission
Uh in asteroid debris at a base located with near uh near the debris
So you have to stealth your way
Through these asteroids hiding behind them and then grappling hooking
To your your your target and then you space snipe
Which of course launches your body
In the opposite direction and they get sniped out in space and then
You can grapple onto somebody and then do a qte on them and push off and then you have
regular fps controls
But left and right on the d-pad
Rotate you entirely so that your orientation can change
So if you find yourself upside down
You can take a shot and then float
And then hold left or right on the d-pad and then change your orientation
Right to go right back up or to match wherever you're being targeted. Oh
Somebody in the chat mentioned it. I didn't remember that battlefield one was the game that came out alongside
um
Infinite warfare. What a what a clear distinction
Between those two rival franchises
And I can I'm definitely also seeing
More than enough people have let me know that like you know what all in all it was all right
But it wasn't that impressive slash it was okay
You know or it was like a low for the franchise in general at all
It's all uphill from there and I I understand if that's how you're feeling about it
But you have to also realize that for me personally
I'm picking the subject matter that I care the most about so i'm going to care more about these weird space things grappling hooks boosting and
And dog fighting and the non things that the other call of duties don't
Don't necessarily have don't know what you care about because you haven't played every call of duty. That's true
That's super true
Like like I mentioned captain price and you were like I don't think there's a guy with that name and it hit me in my brain
Oh god, he doesn't even know who I'm fucking talking about but I know I do know what I do like
And you know captain price is the shit woolly and the things that they got that big mustache. I believe you
What i'm trying to say is like i'm being told no you don't you shouldn't you won't like like there's other things
You will like more and other things and i'm like maybe but i'm telling you right now that
The space sniping i'm describing the dog fighting i'm describing the robots i'm describing and the overall sci-fi nature of this plot
Are the things that i'm loving the most about it and
That makes me happy and that's the reason why i'm playing it
And I would definitely out of curiosity poke my head in at some point to see what was going on without those things
But those things being there puts it higher on my list of interests. So don't overestimate necessarily
like what
This might be for me versus what it might be for you were different people, you know
That's all I got. Um, yeah, you can shoot a uav out of the sky and modern warfare 2 is multiplayer, man
I fucking took out a that shit was crazy
I took out a space dreadknot in orbit while like fucking
Serves like swerving around it
And then like the space sniping mission i described
You then land and then you go inside the ship and then you take out some more dudes and then you pull into
uh uh uh
The the the space plane and then go into that dog fighting section, right on foot as well
Sorry, uh, I was just gonna say on foot as well because I keep talking about those things. Um
There's like some really there's some really cool shit that I enjoyed where it's like, okay, you have your your tactical
Option where it's like, okay, you've got your grenade button and this you know future grenades. You've got the uh
The the whatever trackers and all that shit
But then you have the the the the thing that's like yo shield
You can do you can pull up an energy shield and walk with it and ride heart dudes
You know while shooting from behind that and I'm like, that's pretty rad. Um
And uh, you can also do hacking
So you can like check out uh, uh, like a group of enemies hack one take over take it over shoot everybody and then
you know, uh, uh
Detonate that person and things like that. So yeah, I was in the end. I was just like that was pretty fun. That was pretty cool, man
there's something that
Because I I've I haven't played all of the call of duty games. I've played a good good ass amount of them
and um, I'm having what I saw happen to other people
Uh more succinctly here than I did when you were playing through halo
And I'm trying to figure out a way to define this emotion for you because
When you when you describe hey, man, I'm playing call of duty. I'm I want to I want to see I mean you didn't say this
But I assume you want to see what the what the what the fuss is about about this franchise that you've never touched, right?
And that was obviously the case with halo
um
There's this weird feeling
Where you you're always talking about the campaign
Where at some point my brain goes yeah, yeah, whatever
What about the real game yeah, okay the multiplayer sure well guess what and and all I can all I can
put it into uh into a
like an analogy
is
Where somebody's like hey man, what's your favorite guilty gear character and then you show them your lore video?
And it's like
I meant I meant what character you do you want do you like to play?
Yeah, like you it's like a different planet
I hear you and
by that, uh
You know that you see the the important thing to remember here is that I'm let's playing these games on the youtube channel
So these are lps that we're going through
Uh, every one of these first person shooters. I've played has been an lp of the story mode
not
Multiplay oh, obviously. No, I'm just talking about in terms of discussion
Yeah, well, I'm gonna talk about what I'm doing what I'm playing which is the lp
You know what I mean like that's at the end of the day
That's that's the subject matter that I have the information on which is what I'm going to talk about
Um, I can't talk about that which I don't know what I did say is uh
I believe that there's no actual zero gravity
maps or gameplay modes in multiplayer
Uh, I I think that would be crazy that would be nuts and I kind of would love to see it
That's that's that was my first thought about multiplayer is that's that's called lawbreakers
I would like to see what that get what you know that game put that into the multiplayer because uh, uh
It's a bit of a like it's an opportunity you have in this one game
And then you're not going to have it after this. This is the only time you can have some fun with it. So why not?
Do you remember?
Like five years ago or six years ago
They're kept being like back when game trailers still existed this this sentiment kept coming up over and over
Which was can we just goddamn?
Buy the single player and multiplayer call of duty
Experiences as separate games
I do remember that active activation kept going lol. No
Um and the reason for that is like now like it was always apparent but now talking to you
It's even doubler more apparent
in terms of like I
Could go either way and did so on several games
I knew like 10 people
Maybe 20 or 30 people actually now I think of it that would play
Every call of duty as it came out
And the first thing that they did from cod4 onwards is there's an option in the menu
That you can have the game boot into the multiplayer options
So that you don't even have to see the campaign button anymore. Okay
And vice versa. I knew a couple people
Who picked it up played through the campaign and then immediately sold it
Because all they wanted to do is play the campaign right that
Fuckin franchise has
like
a hundred percent two audiences
Like completely different audiences. It's like sonic
Yeah, I mean, you know again
This is I'm playing the game for let's play purposes
Uh, it would be very different if I had a bunch of friends that were like, oh, yeah
I'll come we're gonna jump on and play this and well, let's go through this whole multiplayer suite and like
Uh, uh, experience this side of the game and and and and stuff like that and I start putting in that sort of time
but
like
My entire reasons for picking up from the jump are
Not that, you know, so yeah, they're like again
It's it's there's a bit of a different factor here from the standard like
Grab it with your friends go play online play multiplayer get into that for a while
And then eventually drop off or whatever the case is, you know
That's where you heard that guy with the crying baby in the background. Yeah. Yeah, and who was like na-na. It's fine
um
That's where that guy lives
You know, and I mean this is self-evident when
I'm like playing it and streaming it and like doing it as you know for like on the channel and stuff like that
Uh, when I'm talking about it as hey, would you do this week?
Then it's easy to kind of forget the context that I'm playing it in but the context is everything
It's it's very important to the discussion
You know come to think of it
So that whole
Argument over the multiplayer versus the single player
Became even goofier when the zombies mode became really popular. Mm-hmm
And people wanted that one by itself also
I mean I booted it up for a second. Did they they put a lot of work into that too, right?
They did and it's it became clear that like you're never going to get them separate
But the solution that Activision hit on was
Well, we'll try and include
The all the modes so maybe you'll like two of them
Two for three isn't bad
Right
I mean looking and then they made warzone, which is just like, you know, fortnight. Yeah
Looking looking at at what you know at that main menu and just seeing like oh, yeah, man three big old modes there
I was just kind of just like yeah, okay. Well, I know which one I'm here for
um, certainly and uh
Yeah, it if you were here for another one and that's what you're kind of paying attention to and that disappoints you then like it's
Super clear and obvious why you know this kind of
Was the the least well received right or I don't know if it's least well received
But it was one of the least well received
Call of duties, but anyway to more to the point is just in the campaign
So far so good
very
Very much fun with the wall run
Very much fun with the abilities and the tech and all the the fancy new futuristic stuff and uh
Yeah, I just again, I'm just reminded of how close it was released to titanfall 2 and how dumb that was
um
You know why that did just absolutely shouldn't have been the case considering
That's not a a regular shooter and that these things these two things are are so close to each other with this
um
And I'm pretty sure like
If we go back, I don't know we like feel so bad for titanfall
Yeah, if we go back to like
The reveals of these these various call of duties over the years
I'm pretty sure that like when we first saw the trailer for
this one
With the double jumps and the crazy spaceship that I actually was like, oh, whoa, what is that?
Holy fuck like I I remember it was like it's call of duty and you're like
I remember from the jump uh, uh when we saw that I was like wait, they're doing what?
What's all this titanfall stuff? I'm seeing and that was already something that like stood out in my brain as a point of curiosity
So, uh, I'm coming back around to that cure that question mark and uh so far so good
Does this mean after modern wait infinite war infinite warfare?
You'll be getting to kill zone because that's all space war
clearly
That's the next place to go if not as somebody who's playing every kill zone game don't play any kill zone games
That's that's my advice to you. Yeah
No, I wasn't necessarily planning on on it. Thanks
Cheers
But yeah, that's the cod you cod you
um
And wait cod cod i w
That is awkward to pronounce it is a little bit weird to it's not even like caudal, you know, yeah, it's not cod blobs
I'll tell you what no and uh
And you know listen if you're out there and you're already
Writing the the message to be like hey man after this this is this is the cod you should really get it just stop
Don't send it
Oh, well, I mean don't send it. I don't need to know what the cod is guys. Don't worry. You don't need to send it
You don't need to send it because we're doing it right now
So it's modern warfare one modern warfare two and the first black ops
All right. Well, I promise you that's the list. Well, I promise you i'm going other places
So this is a temporary stop off in space
For space and then i'm going other places
But cheers
I saved you from that message. I saved you. I already got five of them like it's
Like it's you didn't save me from shit
I'm saying it because if they've already been coming in all week
Is saved you people have been stepping up to the plate to be like let me be your call of duty
Uh fucking sherpa, you know, and i'm like i'm really good. I don't actually want one
Dude because this is not that is you're interpreting my curious peak in the doorway
As a decision to commit to a length of games that I promise you I will not be doing
So so just pipe that excitement down your sherpa
To the most mass market annual franchise that exists. Yeah, like really
Really?
Because it's a thing that they know, you know, if you really want if you really want to fucking play call duty
You got to go back and play metal of honor allied assault
Because that's really the first call of duty game
I mean, you know, it's it's it's you know, we know what this is. We've been over this. I know this thing
I know it really well. I've played it for a long time. He doesn't
And I think if I can get him to know it and like it the way I do then that'd be cool
That's the end of the thought and and and god bless, but it really um, it's not a declaration of
Of of entry into the cod franchises. It's not
so
To be fair though when you did all those halos you did set a precedent. Yeah, I did for halo
Because I because it was halo. Oh
No
You oh come on. Yeah
But no, this is the I mean if you really want to keep that halo train running you got to do destiny one next
Yeah, exactly. I I bought and played destiny one for a bit. I already I already you super did
I had to delete it from my ex bone to make space the other day
Yeah, remember being baffled that you even had it. I totally played a bunch of destiny one and then I was like, I'm good
You know, I had my fill
um
But yeah, that's all that's all, you know, this is this is a pit stop
um
I also
Speaking of pit stops took a pit stop back in the past and booted up cross Tekken
Oh, so you went back to the past to play shitty games that suck ass is what you would say
The fun thing about cross Tekken is that um, it has actually had a
A new life because the
Like discord community has gotten together to try and start playing it and whatnot and and and uh, they've
patched
All these problems themselves where remember games for windows live
Remember that thing. Ah, so that thing died which meant you could no longer fucking play online in the game
You couldn't log in anymore. It literally made you unable to load your profile
uh, so they they they they you know
Hacked it to fix that so that you could and at some point and then also
If you couldn't log log log into your profile, you couldn't access all these dlc characters
Which are already in the game
So you had to fucking hack that as well and you could get that going yadda yadda yadda all this bullshit, dude. Um
But I still had it I still had it from last time
And the the thing about it is that the 2013 version the final update to it was the one that people
kind of
Left off on
In a state where they're like this is the best the game has been at and people who love it
Like the state like 2013. They like the final
The one where people already committed to bad decisions state. Don't worry. This is the least worst bad decision yet
You know, uh, I I I described that like some people that were that our current fans, you know, kind of showed up in the the
The stream for that to talk about it a bit and as I explained I'm like, hey look man
Like this game just it's not what I was looking for and I went into some of the problems that
It had that I'm not a fan of and a lot of the decisions that just worked terrible at the time
um
like
God bless they
They exited the game
Giving it one final thing that made it better than the way it launched and the way it lived
It died in its best state
Is the is what I can say about it. It died in its best state and uh
It still is just full of things that I find really
just like
Not at all what I wanted from that crossover, but um, it's
But going going back to it. It's it's kind of amazing to like
To remember
What that campaign was like at the time I want to say campaign
I mean like the marketing of it the features and the amount of stuff that they thought
People wanted in their fighting games that people could not want less of
So
I think I tell this story every time
It's street fighter cross Tekken comes up because it's the only thing I ever want to talk about street fighter cross Tekken
And I'm about to talk about it again with a slight twist
street fighter cross Tekken
Is the moment
That I began to understand
What I had already heard from people at capcom
That
Lots and lots of people at capcom
Allegedly
Fucking hate yoshinori ono. Hmm like
Fucking hate his ass
And that he screws up everybody's job
And that he busts up marketing shit
And then all that crap
And this was the first time
That I was able to take that alleged hatred and understand it in a microcosm
because
Street fighter cross Tekken got announced at I want to say comic con
It was it was a comic or sdcc or something like yeah, I think right and it was uh ono showed up
with this fucking
Like really early bill early ass trailer
And showed up, um
I don't think there was even a trailer. I think it was literally just like
Here's Ryu and Chunli and there's kaziya nina
In the robot in the robot stage. Yeah. Yeah, and it looked really really really rough right
and then
later
At e3
We saw the game's actual reveal trailer
Which had cause it had the namco logo come up
And then kaziya was talking to a robot and he was saying oh man. Ah jinn
Jinn you bitch
I found that guy you were looking for and it cuts down to Ryu and he's standing on Ryu's head
And then the music kicks in with the capcom logo comes up
and
I instantly understood
That a pop-off was stolen from you
Oro literally could not wait to show it off
Even though there was a team of people
Building a expensive cg trailer
Specifically for a one second realization moment
The pet of oh as I said or okay. Oh no of like. Oh my god. They're gonna do it, right?
And when he showed that shit off at sdcc
Those people must have like wanted to kill themselves the the pop-off was stolen and squandered
Yeah, that would have been a moment for sure
For sure and he had to have known that and not only that but like it just what he showed was so early that
It was like a what the fuck moment, but it wouldn't have a bad first impression
It wasn't the impression that you would have gotten off of that initial drop. No for sure
He just stepped all over it
But I want to be the guy who announces it correct to the fans. Yes gotta be me and like
If if you ever wonder about why everybody seems to hear that ono's a shitbag
Think of this moment where because I want to be the one to announce the thing. Yeah
I'm gonna tank an entire division's work for a quarter
Yeah, um, you know, you have to wonder if if that uh habit
Uh showed itself in other places in other games at other times
You might have to wonder if there are other games that have went through that that story
Where there are other games that were horribly damaged ruined or possibly even canceled
Because of that attitude you have to really wonder. Yeah
Yeah
Yeah, um, well what ended up happening. That's all I can see when I see cross-tech in of course, literally
I I see that moment and I see
Allegedly a bunch of other moments
Well, what uh, what what ended up what we ended up with you know was 30 60 90
Uh, it was gems
It was, uh
Pandora mode
Oh, man, which I mean some of the funniest moments of the night, dude
Or some last second pandoras like fuck everything. I'm about to die sacrifice your partner for time on the clock
You know
And uh, and it's so fucking baffling and weird that there's one moment where
Reggie activates pandora and then someone else we're fighting activates it right afterwards
And then the timer hits zero and reggie has more life, but because he activated pandora first he loses
You're just like that shit was so
It was it just yeah, no it was
It was incredible and like the attempt
At at at micro mini buys in the form of like selling these gems that no one wants at all
um
And then of course the absolute infamous
on disc dlc situation where
It's all already there the data's there
You're downloading an unlock key for 12 characters or or god. There was an interview
I forget who it was, but it was a with a capcom a former capcom usa staffer
Who we talked about it when the interview came out
But I need to bring it up again where they saw that on disc dlc thing
And then they told the people
Motherfuckers you can't do this people are going to find this in two seconds
They're going to be so pissed off
And the answer that came back from capcom japan was
How are they going to find out who would who would like rip up a console game? That's illegal
Like that was the actual real
Response how would they ever possibly find out who know how could anyone find out that's against the law
Well, listen, um
We went back down memory lane for that and uh, you know
You got to look at it with honest eyes. You got to look at the game through honest
And I think we did I think we did and uh, you know
Went back to the characters that uh
I remember I played steven ogre
And uh, just yeah, like just looked back at what this was all those backgrounds that were just so
busy and nuts like they were all these
Overdone backgrounds. It's the only it's the only of all of those games that I would have actually considered playing
Matches in training mode because the the fucking backgrounds are out of control
I'm looking like like there's the one where you're in the hovercraft and then there's a mammoth with pandora markings chasing you
and another hovercraft in front of it and like
Uh, uh, uh, you're just like and it's like just this whole racing thing and you're like this could have been
If you just got rid of every one of those things and made us fight in the ice
Outside that we're rolling on that would have been fine
You know, but like we're just overdoing it with all these ideas and I mean I
I legitimately think the best thing that I can say about street fighter cross tekan
Is that when I picked up casia and I did an earthwind godfist and it went straight through somebody's fireball and fucked their ass up
I thought about
I thought about tekan cross street fighter and I was like, oh, they'll be fine
Mm-hmm when they put a fireball character in a tekan game, they'll be fine. Well, and so when akuma got announced
I was like, oh, that's fine. Yeah
That one second of oh, oh, okay. Yeah, I know that'll be that was the best thing I got out of street fighter cross tekan
I mean, and you know, there's still lasers and aliza and
Uh, uh, uh, you know all kinds of other
True over fire breath. Yeah
I mean, there's there's a bunch of projectiles in the game now, but like
um, they figured it out the the
uh, geese as well
the uh, yeah, the the state though of like a lot of those characters
um
Where I like god, I remember
Just like the amount of like just in gameplay stuff. There's just like infinite jab loops with kami and
weird floating
Juggles with jinn that resulted in touches of death because he would tag out while he was doing a spinning launcher on you
and like
Just so much busted shit that
You know, it's just it's it's a it's a it's frozen in time
And again, I believe that stuff got patched out towards the the end of it. I went back
I was playing steve and I was playing auger. I was doing my bread and butters
Reggie was doing his thing and like we just had fun with what we had, you know, which is like memories of a time, man
but
I'll just the the most important thing that we recall in at least the montreal community was uh,
you know, the best player here for a while and and and you know the champion
In general montreal chi rithy
our boy henry
uh day
One week one when it was at the meetup
Like everyone's giving it some time triggering it out pressing the buttons trying the teams out
He plays it for about an hour
And just goes all right. I'm done and yeah, I'm out. We're like wait. What's what's up, dude? What's going on? He's like
Shit's whack, dude. He's like we're like really like just after your first sit down. He's like absolutely trash
You know and like he felt it immediately and I was like wow like
He fucking just in in the bones. He you know, and I was like, okay like
That's where it is. That's the state of affairs. You know, but uh, yeah, so that's coming up on getting to fighting games
Uh, I'll look back at at street fighter cross tec en with honest eyes
um, if you want a
Like one or two minute
Breakdown of everything you need to know with just how bad cross tec en was at its worst
I just found and tweeted out
A video called eva lee evolution 2k 12
street fighter cross tec en grand finals
In which it's relento and
I forget who the fuck it is versus uh raven and bad box art mega man
Oh, it's relento and that and the little cat coro
And it is just like did you know that relento can just jab you to death and you can't escape and that uh
That fucking raven has a good
Combo that you can just do and then switch to bad box art mega man
And then just fly into the air and clip out of the stage to time it out
Lame it out. That's a that's a that's a great
Oh, but if you get coro in coro can do fucking e w g f style uppercuts
On you in the corner infinitely and even though it stops doing damage
You can't fucking move you're stuck
Lame it out like god damn lame it out like it's cross tec en that's that's you know
That that phrase has weight it has collateral
Uh, yeah, so that's that's coming up on getting to fighting games. That's a good time
um
I want to say uh
Yeah, we had those two and then uh, yeah, I think uh
We kind of finished off the night
Um yesterday, uh, I got an invite from
Um, a friend at true underdog gaming who does a Mortal Kombat content shoutouts to his channel
He's got lots of mk stuff and other fighting game stuff in general
um
Invited me to to jump in on a game
of
Among us with the the other mk
Uh content creators out there
Uh, so I believe it was uh being hosted by perfect legend
So we jumped on played some among us. I got to see what was going on and how this game works
And I got I got a feel for it and I can definitely see how um
This is a game that like
you have
a wild advantage
if you have memorized the maps and
And and door adjacent situations and vent situations because uh
Like yeah, simply getting
The locations of where everybody is and knowing the maps means you can already put things together as of like round one
I have a different strategy. Okay
If you can yell louder than everyone else
They will throw you out of the airlock at the start of every game. This is true
um
If you don't have what I was describing you can go for the pure mind game
Strategy now too much silence is too sus
Too loud is too sus
You got to find the real happy medium of that of cooperation
I that game had a very bizarre effect where the longer you play it the worse it gets
Because people's habits become too clear
No, people start meta like you you describe memorizing the map. Mm-hmm
People people start to met a game it super hard. Mm-hmm and the the fucking
The the mystery starts to fall away, but also over a long enough period of time
Um, you either start to understand every single one of your friends direct tells
or
Everything is sus now
Talking sus sure not talking sus
Not talking enough sus found the body
That's a self report. That's sus. Okay, but you see the thing about what you're saying though is that is uh
That is specific to the group you are playing with
Right, this is gonna change drastically with a different group and a different flavor
That's sus I feel like um the group I was playing with uh, there was a bunch of people that I didn't really know
But was able to figure out very shortly that like hey
someone
Often takes the lead as soon as a meeting is called
Right. Yeah, as soon as a meeting is called someone takes the lead and goes all right. What'd you see? What's going on?
But it it it it it it out. So that is what?
It's sus. It's sus, but it's not if that's what was happening from the jump
What sus is when a meeting gets called and then that person suddenly does not take the lead
Does not have anything to say and is no longer down anyone's throat
Right when behavior becomes inconsistent
You can kind of see something going on
Right and so
Sure enough in these moments when someone is like
Going from taking from full-on aggression to passive
I hope no one pays too much attention to me and it's like we've been paying so much attention to you up until now
How the fuck is this is going to fly and it's like it turns totally that
Like yeah, if you notice this that that person is mad sus
The problem is is that if you catch on but you're already dead you can't talk
And mother fuckers just have to you know
Like you have to hope that the rest of the team can figure it all out
But their capabilities are out of your hands too. So it is what it is
um
It was very fun. It was fun. I
Uh, I would suggest that if you can grab a group of five to ten five to eight people
To give a project winter shot because I genuinely prefer a project winter mainly because
Among us is really simple and really fast to get into but it eventually just evolves into yelling at everyone that they're a liar
whereas
Uh project winter does have like more
Video game to it. Okay
I think also if you uh
If you are interested in these games, there is unfortunate spaceman. I heard that came out. I don't know seems bad though. Okay
Uh
Yeah
Unfortunate spaceman the weird bad one
I I do believe that like, you know the the the the simplicity of like
How little there is to grasp with among us as part of its key to being as popular as it is right now
um
But uh
Yeah, I
Played uh played a first game with a group
Uh, we won that second game. I ever played. I was I was the imposter
and totally fucking crushed it
And and and won my first imposter game and I'm like, okay
I have a very good idea of what's up right now. You know, I I
You know what?
I might I might have a more decent and not just uh might have a harsher eye on among us
Than the others because there is something to do with the seeding
Of among us like imposter things
I played maybe a hundred games of among us. I got to be the imposter twice. Whoa
Okay, I play I did a stream of it with that clamps and butter buns and plague and all sorts of people
I did not we played for three hours. I did not get to be imposter once on my own goddamn stream
Wow, that sucks. It sucked
Uh
Okay
Yeah, no, uh
I got it G is sus
I I'm trying I I'm trying to remember if I got it twice
I think I got it twice over the course of one hour of playing which was maybe like
You know six or seven games
Um
And it was a full room so
Hmm
Uh
But hey, you know, that's if anything, that's a good stat. You can just keep telling people. Hey, look a man. I'm always team
I'm always crew. Yeah, so you're you're good. I was always the first person ejected because I was so
finger pointy
Even when I was right. Oh well
I will say the one thing that I do miss from uh spacemen and uh winter in among us
that
Like the game structure just doesn't support it
Is that spacemen and among us have the situation of
Uh, I think that guy is the monster slash imposter slash trader
I'm gonna shoot them
And everyone else is like
Oh, that means you're the imposter slash monster slash trader and then they kill them
But they were right
Right because you can't have like you can't like there's no actual combat in among us
Yeah
Yeah, well
because I mean
if the if the imposter
Uh gets like two people in a room
can
They always will they always win?
In in imposter gets to like like hold on like you're just hold on because what like among us, sorry
The other game you're describing you said it has more game things going on
But is there a combat outside of the discussion?
Yeah, right. So there's combat. So there's winning and losing gun and you shoot right?
So so you can win and lose outside of the concept of just ejecting people out the airlock
Yeah
this right I had a game in project winter in which uh
Like one of the things that happens you'll get teleported to the ass into the map and then everybody has to get back to the the campfire
and uh, sometimes people just don't come back
And you never find out what happened to them until the end of the game
So the whole and
Yeah, so like that's a very different game because the whole point of among us is that
You're discussing to try and catch the person and that and being caught in that discussion in and of itself
Is reason for the game to be over
Uh, not that you have to find them and then defeat them
Yeah, that's what that's what i'm saying among us
What eventually
Boils down to just yelling at all your friends that they're liars. Whereas winter and uh,
Spaceman have like video game in it. Okay
Yeah, it's I see this two different goals ultimately, you know, but um
Interesting this dog is so fucking fat
Um, but yeah, that's uh, that's that that was fun
And uh, I guess
I mean, so I I I intentionally just kind of like it was I was relaxing, you know and and taking a little
A break while
Playing it. So I wasn't running a stream at the time
um, but I do intend to
so, uh
I want to say yeah next saturday, which I believe is in fact the 31st
I'm gonna be getting the the the quarantine group together and we're gonna do some among us and we're gonna do some
Uh phantasmophobia, I believe is the name. Oh man
That's not the name of the game
for you
And so I have never said this game's title correctly
On the first attempt ever
It's phasmophobia
Whoa
So almost everyone I know including you
Thinks of the ancient adventure game phantasmogoria
And and just starts to fill in some blank. Yeah
Absolutely thought of phantasmogoria
Phasmophobia
Okay phobia phasma
See
Oh, that's hard
It is brain doesn't like it
Brain hates it
All right. Well, um
It's the fear of ghosts
Yes, so anyway the the crew
um
Alongside a punch mom and and um
Little v in jail. We're gonna all play some of those games on halloween night. So that's coming up on the schedule
Please look forward to it
Um
And uh
Yeah, I think that's pretty much. Oh, that's fine enough to leave it there
Though if you haven't um
Check out woolly versus uh, you can see a lot of new stuff going on. We're currently playing through call of duty infinite warfare
currently playing through, uh
mario galaxy 2 as well as 13 sentinels
And uh, you know weekly fighting games. We got guilty gear lore episode one is already out
We've got um a bunch of random vtuber shitposts
um
That are a thing and um
It's a weird ass channel
But you know, it's kind of like at this point
It's it's becoming what is known as an old school. Let's play channel
Just in that it's what what's the old school part the formatting of the way the channel releases
It's it's content not the actual content itself. All right
Uh
I I saw someone refer to it that way and I was like, huh
Yeah, I guess
That kind of is the deal now since times have changed quite a bit
um
but
You know, we're still doing it. We got the episodes coming out and uh, yeah more stuff to announce this week as uh, as I mentioned the
the halloween things going down and then uh
You'll be seeing more other
unusual content
I mean, we'll talk about it. I'm sure in a little bit but um
On the twitch, which is again also you got youtube.com slash willy versus. You also got willy versus on twitch
uh
personally
With all the dmca stuff going on
my
Biggest risk was a lot of the the music that gets used
So at the moment my past broadcasts have been cleared out
Don't want to get into any um
Any issues there so we're taking a uh
Most of that risk and eliminating it and then when it comes to the clips that'll be sorted out
uh afterwards
More individually cleared but for now as a mass general action
I I mentioned it on twitter, but i'll just mention it here so that everybody's aware
um
The highlights do still exist
Uh, and of course you can always go to the channel watch the anime, which is actually overall
Uh, great way to support but um for the twitch right now the past broadcasts that are automatically logged
Are going to get cleared out so that we don't take any any any risks because twitch apparently
Uh, just doesn't want to
Or will not develop a method of telling people
What the content problem is I understand that this was coming for a long time
I just don't understand why they
Did not develop a method
To support pointing out the infraction content and allow people to treat it really funny because it's it's insane that youtube has an upper hand on this
What's crazy is that uh telling you what the infringing content is is a legal requirement of the dmca interesting
twitch is actually straight up breaking the law
towards us
In terms of not telling us what the specific dmca violations are it feels almost like they had to roll out the the
punishments, but they did not yet have the
Notification solution worked
Into the system. Yeah, so this this has been coming for ages
Uh, and for some reason
they have decided to
Wait until the absolute dead ass last minute when they were actually being threatened with lawsuits
Um to do anything
And uh the do anything was tell us all to get fucked
Uh, and then roll in their audible magic subscription, which is a
Basically a content id system
Into clips and vods
To try and preemptively get your dmca
Things killed before a fucking ria robot does it
as such
Over at pat stairs at my my fucking what do you call it my vod archive highlight things
Are currently sub only however, you can watch them all on the youtube channel. They're all there
Uh, and I recently uh took the dramatic step of deleting every clip off my channel
Uh
After speaking with max about it for quite a time
And then taking a look at it myself and been like
Oh, I can't sort through these jesus christ
It's like a hundred thousand fucking clips here
Um
On the plus side. I was able to and did
Download the top 540 clips. I just looked for any clip with views over a thousand. I didn't I didn't
I didn't ask for top 540, but that's what I got
Uh, which I they're sitting on my hard drive
Uh
Which I will probably throw together in some kind of super cut. Hmm at some point. Mm-hmm
Yeah, I had I had
I had I had some similar plans, but I'm going to
Attempt to avoid the purge. Oh, I have to go right now
Okay, that dog needs to go to the bathroom. All right, so I have to go the rb. Excuse me
We all okay?
Uh apologies to everyone particularly the live viewers for that delay
Uh, but that answers the question that I get almost every day of why do you keep the leash on him?
Because when the dog needs to go
He can either go outside or eventually he'll go inside
And as my significant other lovely compatriot peach saliva is currently near bedridden with back issues
I'm on dog duty for the time being well as Jurassic Park said when you got to go you got to go
Yeah
That being said I got to say I am proud of myself for being able to look at the dog and being like
That dog's gonna piss
And then you take the dog out and the dog pisses all over the street and you're like, yeah
You pee on that street
Uh
Yeah, it would be nice
if
Um twitch managed to figure out how to fucking tell people what they need to delete
Right now I'm seeing people go through their things and max has done the the purge
Um, I've seen he got rid of almost half a million clips. Mm-hmm. I saw did he do his vods as well
Um, I'm not sure. I don't think so. He didn't mention it. Um
And like yeah the highlight thing I was planning to do something with that as well personally the um
There's an esports channel that like had to clear out like fuck tons of stuff
They had like just people kind of preemptively doing these things and like I'm reminded of like some of the the panic deleting
That was happening back when we were first had hearing about the um youtube for kids
Uh uh fiasco and it feels as if every time a major change happens in this domain
There's a widespread panic because it's unclear what the communication is
And we're watching an industry get regulated as we go
Mm-hmm where they're literally inventing and figuring out the regulations
Of this thing while we're already doing it
So a bunch of the trains that are already rolling down the track have to figure out
you know like what is and isn't okay and how to handle these things and
It seems like when enough people
tend to
Be upset at and clearly loud enough about the problems
It takes a while for them to do things to fix it, but they eventually do
um
But but like as far as like this is concerned like
The fear of getting struck once and then the messaging of the letter
I don't like that like I want to say slasher was posting like some people's letters
They got they saw where the text was literally like you got struck. You don't know why
And sorry, but if you get struck again, you might lose your channel
Check out our workshop about copyright. It's like bitch. I know how copyright law works better than some lawyers at this fucking like just uh
You know you got shot. You don't know how or why or who shot you
Don't get shot again. All right
So somebody asked in the chat, which is a great question
Why delete clips and the answer to that is a little weird
So the dmca, which is an american law, which pisses me off that we have to deal with it at all
um
But the dmca says you get three strikes and then the service that you're running with has the necessity to kill your channel of whatever
Uh, so everybody's afraid of three strikes. It was the same thing on youtube the same thing as twitch
so
The problem is that twitch has clips
Twitch has used something called audible magic and what that does is that if you ever go watch a vaude of like a microsoft press conference
You'll notice that a ton of that fucking thing is muted
And that is good enough to get around a dmca claim because twitch muted it for you
And said well, no, there's no copyright at anything, right?
And that's been a pretty good solution so far
The problem is the clips don't use audible magic
and each clip
constitutes
a
different infraction
So if I was say watching sony unveil the ps5 and had a big pop-off
and uh
In the background they were playing a beatle song
And that pop-off got clipped a bunch of times
I could wake up to dozens of strikes in the morning with an auto deleted channel
That's why clip people are deleting clips
Because clips are too easy to make and so there's a billion of them
They're way too many to sort through. I was looking through the amount of clips
I had it would literally take me like an entire year of doing nothing, but just to sort through the clips. I already have
um
And uh, it's also why making clips for the time being until I can confirm
That the solution has been reached or see how this shakes out like you can't make clips on my channel unless you're a subscriber
Because I just need to dramatically cut down on the amount of clips being made
And also also when I went through that list of top clips, I'm like I'm seeing a lot of familiar names in here
Of people making these clips. I'm seeing a lot of consistent
Shit posters in chat who are clipping the best clips
Well, uh, ideally I'm gonna take all that shit off in like two weeks or whatever, but fucking who knows. Yeah
um
I might end up going through similar motions at the moment. I'm going to
uh
Try a couple other things first
Because you know again, it sucks. You don't want to have to have to delete shit
Uh, I would like to avoid that if possible
But if it seems like it can't be done
Then I might just follow suit on which on on that and do the same thing over on willy versus because
You know, um, yeah, like you said it like it only takes three and uh
If there are hundreds of thousands of clips we're dealing with
Many of them are of the same moment
The same moment clip three times is three infractions. Yeah
Great
Uh, but what a shit show
But that's what we're currently doing dealing with. Anyway, but that's me though
I have to say though before we move on I I really do appreciate
I put up a bunch of tweets that was like, hey, I have to do this because I could lose my job at any time
And the overall response from everybody was like
Oh, yeah, totally dude. You do whatever
Fuck
I appreciate that. Yeah. Well, because everyone's going through it right now
And they're quite it's it's clearly the platform that's causing everyone to try different solutions
You know what? I mean, there's no there's no like set thing because different channels at different scales have different
Levels of problem. You know, um, yeah, so yeah, everyone's being pretty pretty cool about that
What a bunch of butt
All right. Well moving on to my
Part of the part of the week. I had a I had a big week of video games
Uh one
I've discovered again
That uh that obnoxious habit that some people have
Which is when they think something's really funny or really like something a lot
They just start to absorb it with their words
Mm-hmm
And I keep catching myself giving
Weird inflections to shit because I watched so much tim rogers over the past week
I'm calling things action monsters. Mm-hmm
And
I I have said the word contending a couple times
Good. This is good. This is good
God Tim's so crazy. Mm-hmm
Like I
The the the last of us review
That has like a 15 minute portion of which he just details the junk that sits in a fucking
Uh plastic bin behind his couch
And why these are the only video game things that he kept
I'm like
This is like 40 minutes into this last of us review. Are you gonna get to it?
And then he finishes that off and it jumps into like a review of out of this world instead
It's like, okay. All right. I did. I what am I what am I thinking here? I I did see just
I did see that uh, uh, thanks to the conversation
Uh, uh Ludwig was uh
Let's turn down to tim who in turn was like, oh shit
And then they had a little a little twitter moment and it was like, hey, there it is
And then me and plague and page jumped in there be like us too
We're we're cool
And it didn't work
Uh
That let's mosey video series is really good
I I somehow missed I he he worked at kataku during the period that I was like, man fuck otaku
I'm never going to that website again. Yeah, he's which continues to this day
He he shot some videos over there. I remember. Mm-hmm
And uh, I missed literally all of them. So that's cool
Um
But what did I do for myself for video games? Uh, I I don't know. Well, do you have this problem where
You get to monday and the prior monday seems so far away that you actually have to go look at your own channel
To see what you played that week. I literally look at my schedule before I sit down here
I have my schedule open in a tab and I'm looking at it. I have to look at the schedule 100 percent
It's weird, right? It's very weird. Um, I can't tell
I can't tell if I played doom two weeks ago or this week and the answer is I played it this week
Well, here's the honest to do maternal dlc like and I think you I think you have this as well is like
the podcast
serves as a
regulator
Yeah, and it has a for every week in terms of like a block of time has passed
You know, yeah, it's it's it's my it's my only point of time
And you use and when you that that exists you come back around to it going like, oh, what the fuck was that?
Okay, all right. What was right, right, right? Okay, and then you piece the week together
Every monday because this is a this serves as a constant that is like yeah a divider
Especially with me because I change my schedule all the time like that schedules a suggestion
So like I can't look at that to determine
When things happened
so
doom eternal curse of the ancient gods part one a title that drives me crazy
Because the youtube upload is literally called pat stairs a doom eternal curse of the ancient gods part one part one. Yeah
um
That came out
And well, I'm gonna assume you're gonna hit that at some point either in your spare time or on your channel. Absolutely
I have
Three things that you can do
You can
What what difficulty did you play the game on a doom eternal?
The was it
Not the one does it hurt me plenty?
Uh
I forget I think it was either normal or one above that. I think it was okay
It was it wasn't the hardest definitely not because I started I started to play through on the hardest and started going through that
Just to get myself better, but it was either it was either normal or the one above it
Okay, people are saying that you played on normal and it was hurt me plenty which makes sense normal. Yeah, all right
So my advice to you when you play doom eternal curse of the ancient gods part one you can do one of three things
Practice beforehand
Turn the difficulty down one or suffer
Those are your three options
Uh the the
DLC for doom eternal
is so weird
because
Okay, you've played a million games. Well, you'll understand this
so
when you get a dlc the dlc always says hey man
You didn't play this game. You play you beat this six months ago, right or three months ago or whatever, right?
and
Okay, so what we're gonna do is we're gonna start the dlc at about the difficulty of the middle level
right
and then
The ceiling is higher. We're gonna we're gonna
We're gonna ramp it up to just a bit harder
Then the final level in the final level of the dlc, right?
So it's like it's like the same curve, but faster and it peaks like one one note higher because you're doing what you've done
uh
The uh doom eternal dlc
um
Is literally
Pretending to just be no no the game was actually longer
Okay, so it starts where you left off the difficulty curve
The remember the difficulty curve that went up all the way to the icon of sin sure
What would the next level of that be is the first level how of this dlc how many marauders?
In the first level too
Yeah, okay. All right. All right. There's one in the there's a regular one in the third room
Okay of of the dlc
um
it is
I I've got I I want to go back and look at my stream
I want to say that like the fourth or fifth encounter took me like 45 minutes to an hour. Okay
Like it is
It is very
very obviously immediately
Harder than the final level
Because it because the final level is no longer the final level anymore. Right, right, right, right
um
And that that just it just got it just goes
So like holy shit
Um the music's still great. It's made by the I forget his name. Sorry. Sorry, dude
But it's made by the the dusk composer, which feels really appropriate. Um
There's a new type of upgrade called support runes, which is really good
Um
And it's three levels long, but the levels in the dlc are even longer than the ones in the base game
Andrew Hullschult
So yeah, the levels in in the dlc are even longer than the base game levels
So there's the only three but it's like four
Which is a good chunk
Uh, and it's insanely hard. It's insanely insanely insanely hard. When's the last time you touched like it's prior to this
The day I beat it on stream
Which was
Launch like eight like six days after the game came out. Okay, so the rust is set
Now if you came up with and or figured out
Your solutions for every enemy type
The thing that should make this doable is remembering your patterns and applying them. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no
It assumes
You know every enemy type. Yeah, and exactly how to kill all. Yeah. Yeah, so so, you know, like as we discuss each each type
You're like, okay, like apply that
Now what else can we remix the situation with right?
Okay, well, I can tell you uh, there's two big things one your crucible was broken in the final encounter. So that no longer exists
Which means no when an arch file
Something shows up. You now actually have to you have to fight arch files. Oh man
There was a there was a there was a
One of the in the second level one of the trials like one of the boss battle encounters
Had two arch files and a doom hunter as well as the regular like slate
of
shield guys
She the shield popping guys imps ghosts like just
So the answer how they make it harder step one is more heavies
Like a larger percentage of the overall enemies on the field are
Night or above
It becomes clear that when you yeah, if you if you don't have your delete button anymore
Then you have to fight it you
A thousand percent must be using their weaknesses
Yeah, and then they add spirits which is a new enemy type
That uh inhabits an enemy and makes them move shoot and do twice as much damage
Like they're twice as fast. They're they shoot twice as much and they do twice as much damage. So it's another uh and caster
Yeah, well it'll take an arachnotron and it'll inhabit them and that'll be like a blue glowy arachnotron. Okay. Okay. Okay, right
And the arachnotron will then be twice as fast
Do twice as much more damage and shoot twice as fast
And its weaknesses will no longer work
At all
And when you kill the enemy
You have to use the microwave beam on the plasma gun to kill the spirit within about five seconds
Or else it'll have at the next heaviest enemy in the stage
So the fight the fight that got me the worst in the final level
was
fucking
It spawns in three arachnotrons and one gets hit with a spirit
And i'm like i literally have to run from this spirit arachnotron
Which will kill me in a second and kill the other two
Because if i kill the spirit one and then try and buzz it down they'll ice me in a second
Oh, wow. Okay. Okay
Yeah, ghostbusters and i guess straight up. So it's it's it's pretty it's pretty great
It's not as good as the as the base game. Does it this is it's it's dlc. Okay. Does it touch?
uh
The boy the guy you meet and his son icon of sin and the traitor. No damn. Okay. No, all right
um
So it's not as good for two reasons one. It's way bugger
Like i i got to look through the world a couple times i got caught in a respawn loop
Uh, i i keep getting stuck on the environment like it is it is a way bugger game
um
And the second thing is that
They have flooded the environment with so many enemies
And so many like auxiliary mechanics like low vision or turret style enemies
That most of my deaths were i'm trying to get away and i there's so much shit around me
That i double jump and then double dash to go away and i'm hitting something
And i get stuck because i tried to back dash
Because i couldn't see that there were tall enemies on all sides
And then i'm stuck and i'm dead at any point where you knee deep in the goop
Yes, fuck the goop. The second level is a swamp
Which deals
Constantly in low visibility low ability environment, but you're you're in the fucking the the purple shit
mmm
That's only once usually it's just like i can't see anything in this goddamn fight
I will take
Low visibility
I will take and just and and whatever the fuck else
But get rid of that stupid goop where it's anti fun that that goop was the actual work anti fun
So it's like if like look just make it lava just make it hurt me. Yeah stop
If if the if the base game was like a nine this would be like a eight
uh, but it it is
I don't know how i feel about the difficulty because it's so tough now that like i'm doing one level a night
And my streams are shorter because by the end of them. I'm like visibly exhausted and like dripping with sweat
Because
And and a lot of the deaths feel actually unfair
They they feel like i literally got clipped on a goddamn tree that in the base game
I would have like, you know slid past or nudged past
Like sometimes when you're like cycling back when you're like, uh
Whatever like moving away from a threat or something like that like you're getting caught on things
Yeah, like you'll you'll you know, you'll jump and then you'll go to dash away
But there's so many big heavies that you went to dash away, but oh there was an incubus behind you
Sorry, there's an incubus behind you or oh, there was a there was a cyber demon to your left that you couldn't see
But they you know like the the levels seem
Too small for the amount of gigantic enemies. They're throwing at you. Mm-hmm. And what are you playing it on?
I
Me see no, I mean what difficulty?
Oh ultra violence. Okay
Uh, I I of the three options I gave to you earlier
I chose suffer. Okay
Because I started playing it and I was like an hour in and had not gotten past four rooms
And my chat was like you need to turn that shit down and i'm like, no, I don't
You need to you need to shut up. I'm gonna do this because I'm a big man
Okay
Uh
Yeah, so this is part one
Of the doom eternal
What's it? What's the dlc specifically called?
Curse of the ancient gods part one. Okay
Boy
Wait, why is it not called curse of the ancient gods anymore now it's called just the ancient gods
Okay, well there you go shorter sweeter fixes your problem to the point
Done and done
Eh doom eternal the ancient gods part one sure
Uh, but it's
But based on that then I don't think we have a statement on how long this is supposed to last
Oh, yeah, I have no idea
Like
I mean
It's it's it's it's weird. It's it's there's more levels
Like that's the dlc
doom eternal more levels
I
Played doom that's great
I played the hltb says about five and a half hours
That's not true
Yeah, yeah, I don't believe that at all. Um, I also played two other narrative focus games one good and one bad
So I was very excited
For amnesia rebirth
Uh because uh the original amnesia was really great
And then a machine for pigs was like one of the worst sequels ever. I'd put it up with a machine for pigs is the dmc2 of horror games
That's a really that's them's fighting words there. Okay. It sure is
I don't think I'll find anyone that disagrees because that game sucks ass
um
And then they did soma
Which kicks ass
Soma's great. Soma's one of my favorite games. I love soma
So I was like wow cool. We got the original devs and the the soma people they're back
They're gonna make another amnesia and oh my god
Why is it so boring?
It's boring that feels like the ultimate difficulty
um
In balancing a good horror game because I'm someone that doesn't really know what good horror games are but
I would imagine that in trying to go away from anything to hack and I'd
Hack need I believe is the way
Um, you would you would then possibly skirt up against something that makes you yawn
Where you're not scared anymore. You're just bored with the pacing
That feels like a pretty so rough thing and I can even I can even break it down too. Like the original amnesia had like, uh
You know
I mean, I don't even know how to explain it. It was a you couldn't fight enemies. They're scary. You look at them
Bah, ooh spooky. You're trapped in a castle, etc. Right?
You would occasionally find notes that you would read you occasionally see little flashbacks
What have you then soma came out and soma went way harder on the narrative aspects of it
So in soma you're walking around and you're getting a lot of audio logs
Uh, you're reading a lot more
Uh, you uh
There's no flashlight in soma. Sorry. There's no like consumable light source in soma, etc
And then you get to amnesia rebirth and you're like
you guys took
complaints that people had about soma
and complaints that people had about the original
And seemed to have made a game out of only the parts that sucked of the prior two games
So people complained that soma like took like had way too much story segments and not enough gameplay
This one has even more story elements and not gameplay
Except the story isn't nearly as interesting because it's not about the nightmare of the techno future. It's
Yeah, there's monsters again. Oof
Um
Do you remember that they put out that soma dlc that turned off all the enemies and made them not like you?
No, I don't know anything about the soma franchise. I okay soma at one point put out a
Like a guided experience mode where the enemies would just wander around and be freaky, but they wouldn't attack you anymore
So it was you could just play it like a narrative game. Okay
uh
fucking
What do you call it uh amnesia rebirth? I played that game for four and a half five hours
um
There's almost no enemies in that game to hide from
Like the the the classic
I'm gonna use air quotes amnesia gameplay of you need to solve a puzzle in this dark space
But there's a monster roaming about that you have to avoid
I did that like
twice
So what is it replaced with?
Wandering around and uh
Atmosphere getting flashbacks about the the journey you made before before you had amnesia
and uh reading documents
And it's and but it's like
The the type of story they're telling which is uh about you know katulu s pregnancy while cool
Is not nearly as interesting to me about the nightmare that is transhumanism
and
The part that really got me
and
This is a really bizarre comparison point is eventually you get to what was in my playtime by far the coolest level in the game
in which you go through portal and end up in
Ancient alternate universe
Eldritch advanced civilization kind of thing
Okay, you know lots of triangles in green and darkness and weird technology and shit you can't understand sure
And you do a puzzle there and you read some notes and the notes is talking about this weird bullshit technology
They made that has weird side effects
And the puzzle and it's pretty good and the the the setting is really cool
And it's the only level in the game. You don't need to use your light sources in
And i'm like wow, what a great level
That's literally a soma level
It looks like soma it has the same gameplay elements of soma of puzzle slash
Exploration there's no monsters in it
All the stuff i read in it was interesting and the light source mechanic is gone
And i'm like wow, that's great
And then as soon as i left it i'm like oh great back to
Scrounging for matches that you light that last for two seconds before going out
Scrounging for oil for your lantern that lasts for 10 seconds before going out and it
It it reignited in me a distaste
That after doing the shitstorm for i well, how many are there? How many shitstorms are there like nine?
At least like i genuinely don't know at least five
There are a lot um
But after playing what must have been like
200 different horror games
including a ton of them that uh didn't
Ever get recorded like games that were played and were like no this thing sucks
I discovered
That i don't know if
This is my personal distaste or if everybody else jumped on this bandwagon
I can't
Fucking stand limited light mechanics
Oh batteries running out batteries
Batteries in your flashlight
Oil in your lantern matches in your pocket. Yeah. I I think back
To almost every single game that had those mechanics
I would complain about it the whole time
And there was no correlation
Between that mechanic and quality. There are a bunch of good games that had it. There are a bunch of trash games that had it
So and there were similarly a bunch of great games that we played that just gave you a regular ass flashlight
okay, so i've
I have a full
Impression here, and I don't I feel I don't know how accurate this is but the
Again outside are looking in feeling on horror games and survival horror games and such has been that
At some point some game that was probably largely influential figured out that
What horror movies do is they make a main character feel kind of helpless as the monster is scary and unstoppable
So they realized that taking options away from the player that you typically have in other third-person action games or first-person action games
Is what would increase the atmosphere?
And then it would you and then it became a race to take away as much as from the player as possible
Woolly would you care to guess what mainstream giant success horror game?
Kicked off that trend silent hill
No, it was amnesia
in 2012
Amnesia was the big popular particularly with burgeoning streaming and youtube
Horror game that said hey, you can't fight the monsters and your light sources are limited
Which kicked off a decade of just hey your batteries and your flashlight ran out great do anything
Silent hill has a not powerful main character, but your flashlight always fucking works
But not being not being able to fight
Having to run instead
And and it's it's weird because a lot of the complaints i'm about to make in about one second are complaints that also apply to the original amnesia
but
that was then and this is now kind of thing
And
Rebirth does it worse whereas okay
I only have three matches and they only last like 10 seconds and i'm out of lantern oil right
So what i'm going to try and do is light a match and light as many light sources around me as I can
So that I can see things
Well, let's assume the player sucks a million shits and it sucks and can't do that and fails and waste all their matches
It doesn't find any well the game still has to
Be completable right?
so
what happens is is that
In total darkness you gain limited night vision like you would in a dark room
and
The very first problem that I had with rebirth
Is that within the first second of turning the match on i'm like the darkness night vision
filter or graphic thing
Is legitimately way more visible than any of the light sources i am carrying okay
Like it it is easier to navigate in pitch black
Than it is with the ostensible good light sources
However, if you're in the darkness your character gets scared and here's where the game really fell apart from me
so
In the original amnesia you would see like a lot of bugs crawling around and maybe even on your camera
And you would hear like creepy noises
In this one you hear like this weird grinding noise, which I think is supposed to be bugs
But it just it just sounds like grinding and it's really annoying
and if you
Get too scared your character will panic
And they will start jump scaring
Like jpegs of spooky images like zooming at the camera
And
And then if you get scared even more
Your character will panic and run away out of your control to the beginning of the area
And it sucks
Like I found myself getting startled a couple times
But I I ended up becoming not scared at all
Because enemies when they beat you down they just make you run back to the beginning
And like if I if I'm getting too crazy like like all I'm waiting for jpegs to attack my vision cone
And it's like
it it
Throwing the jpegs at your camera couldn't have taken me out of the experience more
You look at something primitive like the original Silent Hill
And like it's really primitive
But there's no like once you're in the game. You know what I'm talking about you're in once you've established yourself in the game universe
Things have to bring you out and you'll inhabit the character and you'll feel you know
Throwing jpegs at my character just
Like instantly rips me out and go oh, I'm gonna lose control of my character. I'm playing a horror game
So is there any genre like
That has
The thing that I that I'm gonna say horror games probably has which is like
You can tell within an hour
If this just sucks or not because yeah horror games are trying to establish an atmosphere
And if it fails to do so in the first 60 minutes, what reason do you have to think it's gonna do it in the next?
you know
Yeah, much less hours. The other thing is that
the first hour of
Like rebirth is is like unfortunately the game gets better the more you go on so people that are saying that the game's actually good
Probably beat it and I bet it ends strong
but the first like hour is
Absolutely miserable and it is filled with your character gets lost and confused and they don't know where they are
And you found you find their base camp that they forgot about
And as you walk up to almost every object for an hour
You get blasted into a flashback
that lasts multiple minutes
And the game like in in in fucking soma you would like walk up to things and like click on them and you would hear audio logs
Here you just get ripped into these flashbacks
And like I want to say like 20 30 minutes of that first hour is literally just like and then we set up camp and oh
But this guy was hurt and like I'm not scared
I'm not even anxious
I'm bored
I'm bored
One of the biggest complaints people had about soma
Was that it wasn't actually all that scary and I think soma as a horror game is a miserable failure
soma as a
interactive story
Is incredible because the story in soma is incredible. So I wasn't bored
So that I was going to say that like if your intention
Is not to be scary, but just to be interesting and like a well told story
In the form of a walk in walk and spook or a walk and talk and walk walking simulator walk and spook whatever
Like I can accept or imagine that a game can be like hey look scaring you is
More of a side effect of the of the the tone and subject matter than it is an actual like
goal
Every x minutes, you know
The other and yeah
Also, I'll say like finally that
uh soma
So we got three we got three games to talk about we're not talking about machine for pigs. It was made by a different developer
you got amnesia soma
and uh
and rebirth right
Let's talk about enemies because we're talking about spooky shit. All right. Let's talk about monsters, right? Hold on 2012 and then
What were the other years and then they uh
And then a chinese room, which is the dr s or devs made a machine for pigs while they were working on soma
and then they put out
This uh rebirth
So those are the three games amnesia soma rebirth
It like the the number one spookifying thing is not just your environment
But it's also your enemies right or even your entities if you want to call it that
In amnesia rebirth you're dealing with uh horribly misshapen kind of human-looking people that have like
really deformed
body shapes and structures
And like there's that guy with the mouth that comes down to like his chest that you've probably seen on a million thumbnails
And the game encourages you not to look too directly at them
So it actually worked out really well the the enemies I felt were sufficiently spooky and whatnot and also
Uh, you see one of those guys early and then the second enemy you see in amnesia is
Uninvisible monster that will kill you instantly that is stomping around a flooded area
So all you can see is its footsteps
It was pretty effective. You have to like distract it with items
In soma, there's no
Base enemies. They're all like giant stalker monsters
Uh, and there's only like seven in the game and you've got like this weird bipedal mass of televisions
And like a weird naked man with like a barricade head as your first two enemies that are like
Proper freaky looking I actually love the enemy designs and all of
Soma, I don't think many of them are all that scary, but they're cool looking
right
I only saw I only saw one enemy in the entirety of rebirth
And I heard about another
The first enemy I saw was a ghoul and it was a green
Evil looking man and early on you actually see him crawl into a grate and you see he's naked and his butt cheeks flap about
and you're like, oh, that's a
naked green man
With like a like a like a angry zombie face
Okay
Okay, and then the other is literally a
beam of light
That acts as a vision cone
And it says don't get near that one
So I didn't I didn't see it and it just it feels weak as shit
I mean look in terms of in in in just on paper
A weird naked guy is probably
Closer to the top of the list of things that I don't want to have to fucking deal with
When you're putting down a bunch of monsters on paper, but um fair enough
But I suppose it depends on execution
Like I can I can get a lot of people to do that
I can grab a
I can grab a fucking screenshot if you give me he's just like a zombie man
With like sharp teeth. Sure. Sure. Like that's it
Uh, if you go to soma
You get like the first enemy is like a bipedal gooey tv monster
that
Is fucking weird looking and all the enemies in that game are fucking weird looking
Like there's oh, yeah, I found I found a screenshot of this guy. Here we go
The screenshot of all the monsters in soma. There you go. Here. Go take a look at that. Um
Oh, yeah, okay, and
And I'm just it's just so it feels like a regression
It just it just feels like naked man bug head
weird
Um
Creepy tech transformer thing
Yeah
scissor lady
sure
It's just it just feels like everything I didn't like about how about this
You ever get the feeling that all the stuff that the developers liked was none of the stuff that you liked
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then the sequel comes out and they're like, oh, we're trying to
We're trying to get away from
From that stuff because that we thought that stuff was too video gamey or not serious
And you're like that's literally what I enjoyed about your thing. That's why I played the game. Yeah. Yeah, that's yeah, that sucks
Um, I'm seeing a lot of people in the chat agree. There's a like, uh,
One of the good ones is probably wolfenstein
You remember how wolfenstein one it was like a like a dude. It was very much like the new doom
It was just action shooter. Oh the um the the new blood
Uh, yeah, the new blood right and then wolfenstein 2 came out and they're like, we really want to focus on the story
And so like half the game is cutscenes
Like I don't care
I don't give a shit
How fancy your your bj blasphets cutscenes are
Do the do the do the nazi killing
Do the big shoot now there's a really
There's a really good, uh, youtuber that never makes videos called mr. B tongue
You've mentioned in which he described who he describes at one point in a bioware, uh tear it out video
I think it's about dragon age in which he describes how at one point in his life when he was a young man
He genuinely believed that he would buy play and like every single final fantasy game
And then final fantasy games started to become
Nothing like the games that he liked
Hmm and little things like oh, they don't have airships
Or they all look like Japanese boy bands now
Or the the the the stories are becoming anime garbage
Because the developers were like this is this is the stuff. This is what people really want welcome to being a Gundam fan
Yeah, anyway, I think I think
Gundam might be my favorite example of everyone ever missing the point
War is terrible becomes wow cool robot hot boys cool robots
This is that's what it's about
Whereas
Whereas like Gundam is really about we shouldn't kill children, but can we kill guilty children?
Or evil children that's what Gundam's really about
But yeah, yeah, rebirth was a total bummer
Which is why I was so happy
that uh raw fury sent me over a code for the signifier
Which is
Not a horror game. It is a interactive
I get it's it's bordering on mystery, but it's it's it's mainly walking simulator
Right with a little bit of puzzle solving walking spook
No
Walk and think
Okay
So the signifier is a black mirror episode a specific black mirror episode
Turned into a full length game. Okay, and it is the episode in which uh your
your everyone's got memory implants
and uh
Memory is retrievable and it's being recorded
And you play as a guy who grabs people's memory boxes and digs around in their heads
To find out who killed them in the in the particular point of this game story
This sounds a bit like when what was it? Oh when you were describing over a din
Almost yeah to a degree the difference here
Is the signifier has a really fascinating sci-fi outlook on this and the way that they treat this technology
Is the most interesting way because they're treating it
like
The shit is brand new
And it barely works
And they are brute forcing a bunch of
Of solutions to technology that they don't fully understand interesting so
You load up somebody and so to to really preface
like just how like
Obsessively the game takes its own fiction the first part of my stream
Was listening to and watching the nine power point presentations the main character
And his co-worker give each other to explain the new features they built into the system over the weekend
such as
so
uh, you know, you know the ai
Upscaling shit where people take pre-render backgrounds and the ai upscale it. It's based off of that
technology
So they go we have all this junk data
So we can't figure out how to display happiness in the app
So what we did is I self selected hundreds of different images that could be conceivable the happy
And then fed them into the app. So now the idea of happiness may show up as a dog in the simulation
Okay, and one of the one of the first things that happens is you you load into this person's memory
And a picture of a dog on a on a pedestal starts following your character around
And you look at it and you go what the fuck does that mean?
Okay, what data is being interpreted as the as a photo of a dog chasing you? Okay, um
But more than that is that you load in and you have two filters
You have the objective filter and the subjective filter the objective filter is attempting to just read
like data
Objective data where items were what items took place in what sequence etc
And it looks like a youtube video that has shat itself because it's not buffering properly
The game has the weirdest
Effect on its own graphics. I don't know how to even describe it
You will look into a room and the room looks normal until you walk in and discover
The only reason the room looked normal is that you looked at it from the hallway from a certain perspective
Because all the items and textures are actually just facing one direction. Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay
And they're actually nonsense ever all ever all the edges are dog-eared all the colors are off
Everything's kind of weird and blurry. You should pull up a video for yourself to to see what the fuck I'm talking about
But that is but that is the objective memory and that is a
What you're seeing is is reliable in terms of what objects there are
So then you load into the subjective filter and the subjective filter is one way more distorted
But also allows data from subjective non empirical things such as emotions to affect the objective data
Which means you are now looking at the same environment, but instead
of dad and mom
dancing in the foyer
it is now a
Sun with a giant spoon
orbiting the sun
And when you go into the bedroom your dad is like nine feet tall and clipping through the wall
And your character looks at it and starts talking to their ai and goes
Are the sizing parameters of this room fucked or what?
And they go no, that's the data and they go well, there must be some subjective data that is altering
The size of the dad in this subjective memory
And you are jumping between subjective and objective states in order to
Get little pieces of data
In order to figure out what is occurring in what you see interesting
So in one of the game's first puzzles you're like looking through this person this girl's house
from her memory
So that you can figure out that this wildly distorted vision in the objective memory is actually dad ordering a pizza
Because you get the the mental image of a pizza
Which is this horribly distorted pizza head shape that if you rotate it
You can see that it's a man's head with a pizza jammed into it
But it's near the phone and in the objective layer you can see that the dad is talking on the phone
So the ai is trying to
It's converted desperately
Trying to brute force meaning out of garbage data. Oh, that's super interesting and it is it is just so
Fascinating. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's proper creepy and that that is that's creepy in a in a in a unique way
And black mirror is probably the right word for that
You get back to your your guy's apartment and I went over to his computer and oh, he's got like a like a little
audio clip from like a podcast
Right, he's got like a oh, he's got like a two minute blurb of some interview with some ceo
The thing's like 15 minutes long. It's like a full interview
Hmm. I I can't think of a single game that is more in love with explaining how its own
Nonsense technology works and as a result
You kind of really get in there. Well, it sounds like the appeal sounds like the whole point
It's so cool
Now maybe this is just because I love transhumanist techno futures and I kept talking about soma before
but like
This game doesn't have to be scary
What it has to be is interesting and it's really
Really interesting sounds like it. Yes
It's really really really interesting
Looking at screenshots here. It's so cool and I'm seeing
Like a bunch of normal looking houses and rooms
And then every once in a while, there's a not so normal looking
Room that looks like a bad youtube video like like a
Or like like a fucking
Yeah, like, you know, um
Have you ever seen those images of like
AI has generated this picture and it's not anything
But it's full of things that make you think you're looking at objects
Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, right? It's like it's a picture of nothing
But it's a bunch of shapes that your brain interprets as things
And like you just stare at it and it's just like what the fuck is that right like I'm seeing I'm seeing some of that
I bet
I bet the genesis for this game
Came from when people were using that AI algorithm upscaling technology
And saw that one failed series of experiments where the robot kept making everything into nightmare pictures of dogs
Do you remember that? I remember the deep dream stuff where they had a bunch of eyeballs on things
And they started putting a bunch of like flowers on things and then there was the dog version. Yeah
And there was like why is the computer turning every single object? It looks at into a dog, right? Okay
What what data did we feed this thing by accident?
Uh games cool games super cool way more interesting than what you were describing about soma like
More interesting just on just on paper just on paper. Yeah, absolutely
um
It's super cool
Um
And that's that's signifier. So I'm glad that I got to play a somewhat is that vr ostensibly similar
Sounds like something that would benefit from vr. It is well, maybe it is but I didn't play in vr. Okay. I don't think it is
um, and last but not least
I do want to put an f of 14 thing in here, but it's a social element only
So I talked last week with that bodger thing. I did everything in bodger. I got all the gear
I beat all the bosses. I hit the max rank
And I got I did everything except for one thing
Which is starting to drive me absolutely crazy. So this is a 72 person instance, right?
And you're running around doing what are essentially public events. We're in 14 right now, right?
Yeah, we're in 14. Okay, and there are three public events that if you complete them without getting hit by any mechanics
And we were just talking about signifier
Signifier. Yes, you qualify for a duel
And it is a duel with boss encounters
These things are absurdly difficult and it creates a little arena and usually everybody in the instance
Goes to watch right
And goes, oh cool. Somebody's gonna fight Gabriel, which is like this robot. Um
This has been legitimately
The most frustrated I have ever been
in a game this year
as
You do the you do the the public event and you look and see okay 18 people qualified for the duel 18 people completed it without getting hit
cool
So then everybody queues up for the duel and only one of those 18 people gets in it's never you
ever
And then you go and watch them duel and then the duel starts and you immediately see they don't know how to beat it
And die within literally five seconds
And then that sequence of events will not pop again for 90 minutes
Um, okay question, uh when
You are used to
playing a
Something that comes out and people fail at it and you're like, what the fuck are you doing?
Is there not a window of time in which like that makes sense and or is acceptable because of how new the thing is?
Yes, that window is literally the first day
By the second day
explanations of how to beat every one of those duels and this is really important the items
You need to bring in with you or you will be guaranteed to fail
We're up and widely distributed everywhere
So if you go into the Gabriel fight for example without an item called lost manowal you will die
There's no way around it. There's a mechanic that requires it and you will lose
So every time you go and here's the worst part when you're standing outside
You can see what items they brought in with them and you can look at it and go this motherfucker
Q'd up and he doesn't have lost manowal
He's going to lose
Okay, sure enough
They're going to lose and so and so as of day two then
Like you have to have that information to go in and the only way to get that information is by having people tell you
Yes
right, okay, you're not necessarily so people will people will shout it out or
The the the fights are difficult enough that even if you go in with the knowledge of everything
You're still likely to lose because they're quite tough. Okay. Well just based on that alone
you're going to run into this problem of having
match-ups with
People who don't know what they're doing forever because the nature of a game where you decide
I'm going to pop back in for this new content. I haven't played in a while
And then decide right let me just take my ass to the place for the new where the new stuff is and experience it
Is a is a total normal course of logical step a bcd efg
100%
Except here's the thing willy in order to qualify
For them at all you need to complete the preceding encounter
perfectly
You can't complete the preceding encounters perfectly
Unless you've done them a bunch of times
If you've done them a bunch of times
You're not just popping in to see the new content. You've been doing it for a while
k
K also
That's not the park that frustrates me. Yes, it is frustrating to see
To see for you to go
I could have beat it
But I'm I never get the chance and this guy sucks any loss and this guy sucks any loss and this guy sucks any loss
That's frustrating, but I get it
You got the chance you queued up. Hey, I'm gonna give my go right
What happens
When people queue up
get the duel
Realize they can't do it
And let the timer run out and then no duel happens at all
That's the frustration
It's literally
I'm giving away one ice cream
I run forward knocking other children out of my way. Give me that ice cream
Looking at it and going wait a second. I'm lactose intolerant right and throwing it on the ground
right
Um
People who queue up for things they
intentionally don't
do
So that others can't
Are scum
They are scum
If you're a group of 40 people and 35 people play perfectly and five do nothing
Can those five be carried to a perfect victory?
No, it's uh the perfect is don't get hit by any mechanics
And they're just nightmare a we shit shows that you have to move all over the place to have learned
Okay
People who like
And you know what some of that some of that is on the designers
Because if no one queues in why the fuck doesn't it just go back to rolling for another person to come into the fucking thing
Why not just go back and go okay? Well that person never showed up. Who's next who else wants to do it?
I don't know but it sucks. I mean, yeah
If your goal is to scare everyone away from ever trying this game so that you whittle it down to a small group of elites
You are succeeding
You're succeeding in anti selling this
Welly when I taught when I complain about things about ff 14. These are coming from the place of somebody who plays this game
For I don't even know how long I think it's like 360 days total
Right, you bitch about the stuff you love. Oh, yeah
I have I've I've waxed poetic about it for dozens of streams and hours on this podcast
To which no one listens to me at all
But as soon as I start to talk shit about it
Everybody goes oh man, you're really making this game sound like crap. Oh, yeah
If you could hear the way people talk about the games they're entering at tournament like on the fucking floor while they're
Traveling across the country to go play the thing and they're just shitting all over these little details of it
You'd be like what the fuck? Why are you playing like who are you selling on this?
Why are you playing it because everything aside from the stuff that i'm complaining about is great
Yeah, and yeah, and like you know the the you're you're into
You're into it and you're close enough to it that what you're talking about is is
Coming from that place of familiarity
Absolutely, I mean no offense to you wolves, but I've taught. I know I have talked glowingly about final fantasy 14
Many times on this podcast many times to ears that I wouldn't say were deafened so much as
muffled
To what I was talking about due to a lack of interest
That doesn't sink in other than opat really likes this what sinks in way better is highly specific
Pistov complaints
That's way easier to grab a hold of it's because because and don't get like
Highly specific good and or bad are easier to latch on to
Then general good or general bad because it's a specific
Like scenario that you're painting that leads to either a really frustrated response or a really high pop-off
You know so in both cases it's it's the specificity
I could literally talk about
Shit, I hate about 14 for an entire podcast
uninterrupted
Easy
Because I have put so much time into this that I see every possible
Crack and mistake one of the old ones was like
One of the oldest complaint that's gone now they fixed this
But it was like you could you could run around with your chocobo and your chocobo would help you fight things, right?
But if you had your chocobo out you couldn't queue for dungeons
So like oh, I'm gonna queue for dungeon and maybe it'll take 20 minutes
I'll go do side quests. I'll take my chocobo out and it would knock you out of the fucking touch cute
Now the other like that was crazy stupid outrage
The other thing to keep in mind is when you've talked positively about this stuff
Like you've talked either in a way where it's like, yeah, this this plot stuff was really great. Can't talk about it because spoilers
Can't talk about it and beyond that like then the like there's never been any moments of like
I got this specific weapon or this specific ability and this specific thing is really really cool for these reasons
And when I got it, this is why I liked it because I used it in this way or something like that
Like you've you know, you've never had that sort of like inverted version of
Like here's why I hate this feature for here's why I love this feature
um
Something told positively or negatively in that level of specificity again would do a lot more to like
Remember what what what is being described? Well also?
I mean stuff some stuff that I could rant about is like is
I am very aware is actually the most boring thing in the world
To the casual listener slash non-player like, you know, what's really excited me this week
I ran that dungeon castrum so many times because I really like the coats that I can get out of it
Okay, the coat that I got out of there for my tank is really nice
It's a really nice coat
I dyed it red
It looks nice with my character's hat. Okay
Right, you know, yeah
Um
But you know in in in in in either case I I am listening and and you know like
Piecing together what that experience might be like and and how fun and or frustrating that thing
Uh might be so, you know all the um
A woolly brain off resting bitch face, etc
Uh people aside like they don't actually they're not inside my head. They don't actually you know, so you can't
Don't don't know only I am yes, sure sure
Rent-free and what I see is somebody making a valiant attempt to listen to something
He clearly doesn't care about and I appreciate it
I mean, I'm still interested in the
Generalities of how this genre works woolly
Well, yes, it's the easiest thing in the world. Thank you
You look at my ff 14 stuff the same way almost everyone else looks at fighting games. Yes, sure
Sure, it's it's just but push and pull here
But I I there is a level of like poking it with a stick curiosity that I have
I'm trying to find a way I'm trying to find a way to word that
Mm-hmm
That's why I try and talk about the social aspects more which so here's the thing
Because it's so much more broadly applicable to talk about the social aspects of an mmo because people understand hanging out with people
The worst thing about mmo's is the other people in them
Like 99 times out of 100 the thing that I'm actually complaining about is I hate other people
And I wish that the to s was so specific that
Like I'll I'll get super pissed off. Hey, did you did you did you queue?
Did you min and queue up for a dungeon with no jobstone?
Because you thought it would be funny your account should be suspended
Go to hell, right?
Did you queue up for a duel you had no intention of completing they should ban your character
And someone should come to your house and hit you
Plague says that's how people feel about teppen and reboot as well
Well, if it's if that's play if that's teppen fighting games and reboot
I suppose I'll talk with nothing about passion then. I'll just stay on the surface with everything
Wait robots as well, um
Oh people like robots. Yeah, so
Whatever whatever it might be people like just get along the surface
Never get too excited
um
What is uh
Oh, well, was there anything else specifically? No, man, that's it
Okay
If you want to check out more my crap, you can go to twitch.tv slash pat stairs at we're doing doom ghostrunner
Which ghostrunner is coming out this week?
Ghost you might want to check that out. Well, yeah, that's
That's actually um docket item right here fucking. Yeah, okay. Yeah
We got doom ghostrunner disc room
So that's the the one with the discs and also I got watch dogs legion
No disc room. I got watch dogs legion for free with my video card
So I guess I might as well stream it right dude. I know somebody who worked on that who doesn't want their name in the credits
sick
What?
Straight up just like
Trying to figure out if they can get their name out of the fucking credits dude
Now is that because the game is trash or is it because they hate the company they work for? Yes
All right, I can't wait
I'm I I bet ubisoft will love my coverage as they go look guys. This is the kind of game that sexual abusers can make
There is a big
just
Whoo, not not fun not fun energy
Let's let's see. Let's see the absolute height of game design under constant threat of bad touch
That's what ubisoft watch dogs legion is
Should have just called it umbra
Yeah, all right
Well, anyway, we're more more like watch your back because there's a legion of
Dogs who are gross or I'm trying really hard. It's not working. It's not happening
And where's that gonna be do you remember do you remember that's over twitch.tv slash pat stairs it
Hey, well, do you know of a comedian named John Legeux?
I do know John Legeux show me your genitals show me your genitalia
I've seen him live when he came to montreal. You see him live. That's awesome. He's from here. Um, well, he did it
Do you remember?
Also, he uh wrote, um
The fucking the cake song for a portal
Oh, that's his song. Yeah
I don't think that's true, but still alive
Yeah, I believe
He's I'm pretty sure that's super wrong. Let me confirm
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of jonathan cool. Ah fuck
No, you're right. Yes. That's the wrong person
All right. Anyway, so John Legeux
Had a bit a while ago, but before I get to that. Well, do you remember idon pierces iconic cap?
Yes, or ubisoft tried to portray that fucking black baseball cap as iconic right
Now do you remember the john legeux a bit of pedophile glasses and rapist beard? I don't
Okay
You can go check it out on his on his uh youtube channel. It's like it's a it's an ad to buy on on like a home shopping network
Try out pedophile glasses now comes with a free rapist beard. Okay
And all I can think of is that those
Those should be the iconic unlockable items and watch dogs legions. Okay
Not idon pierces. I got my family killed because I'm a moron baseball cap
I'm just hearing started as a baby itty bitty baby now look at me. Yeah now look at me
You know ubisoft I really got to hand it to you for managing to become
So much more obviously evil than ea and activision in a rapid rapid period of time months
Months
I feel I feel like it was like literally the day that everyone was like by the way
Everyone at ubisoft is in a position of power as a sex criminal
Seems like the the day that came out was like
I think I think I think it was one summer
Is the way to is is about the the the measurement of time on that
Now
Let's all be very real for a second
There is an invisible timer going off on all of our phones
Until ea and activision also joined the I think everybody in a management position or above
May in fact allegedly be a sex criminal
That clock is ticking down. I mean the larger the company the more people there the
More likely that chance occurs. Yes
Yeah
For sure
Aren't brands awesome
Don't you just love brands
I love when brands I love brands talk to each other on twitter
I did like when Wendy's told burger king that their mom was a hoe
That that is my favorite brand interaction
Did you like when because when microsoft
Said who was was it mcdonald's?
Uh, I don't even fucking I can't like
There was some sort of just
banal
Fucking interger interaction between the two
Whereas I uh, whatever
I'm already I'm already fucking done with it. I'm gonna send you an image
And I want you to just tell me if you remember it
Of a brand attempting to be relatable. This is an ancient image
Yep, yep
Yep
So I just sent willy a very old online mcdonald's ad
Mm-hmm
Made by the boomerist
Which was this dude eyeing a double cheeseburger going
Double cheeseburgers
I'd hit it
I'm a dollar menu guy
Yeah, I also
That's the era
I remember that fucking era mid aughts where
They also no it was even earlier than that that they started putting together their commercials
which uh had
A announcer voice announcer girl going the mickey d's dollar menu and like immediately that that
terminology that people I knew at the time referred to mcdonald's as
Died on the wire just in mid-air fucking to the ground burn and and and fucking roast and die
People people called it mickey d's and then they called it mickey d's in a commercial and that was it. It was over
Do you uh, do you ever watch um, uh internet historian?
No, no, but I know of okay. He does good videos. Did you ever did you ever personally see
The biggest brand relationship
Relatability botch ever
As reported on which was the di Giorno debacle
No, what was that?
so this was a couple years ago
and di Giorno's
Saw a trending hashtag
And the trending hashtag was hashtag why I stayed
And di Giorno said di Giorno's his media man said, ah, I'll know what I'll do
And said because they had pizza hashtag why I stayed
Now they saw they must have seen the hashtag trending on the right side of twitter, you know
But they failed to click on it
because the why I stayed hashtag
was
Exclusively dedicated to victims of domestic abuse
Describing why they did not in fact leave their abusers immediately
Such as I was afraid for my children or I was afraid they would track me down and murder me
Okay, and along comes di Giorno with
Because they had pizza
Hey
That lasted
like
five minutes
And was replaced with multiple days of the di Giorno account
Just apologizing to every tweet they received
In a in a groveling display
Just saw an opportunity took it
That's what we do over like
Yep, god
Yep
It ain't domestic. It's di Giorno's
Let's go
Yeah, so that that must have been
Again when you're hiring some savvy youth
To do this job you you have to actually click on the hashtag and see what's being discussed folks
Uh
Just think about it. All right. It's not too bad to those of yeah to our listeners
Who uh, you know have social media jobs. Just click on the hashtag
Well, anyway, um, let's click on it just once
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Uh
so
First off the list. Yes, we already kind of touched on it, but obviously
twitch dmca's
Biggest story probably as uh, don't like it thousands of videos
being wiped mass dmca crackdown and uh, you know, not much else to say about it except for like
Please tell us exactly where the infractions are and we will take care of no
I think most people are
Are reasonable and most streamers that have lots of stream footage
We'll have no problem getting rid of the the ones where there's a problem or an infraction
As long as you allow them to do so if it it seems highly irresponsible
For them to just keep it blind because it's easier and it passes the buck off, you know
If if twitch is gonna fucking do this and just be like no the buck does not stop here just
Right over there officer go I think there might be people we can kick that buck down to
Maybe the buck could not get further away
Um, yeah fix that shit
Um
Nice to meet you. I'm Nate. Nate Uncharted
Says tom Holland
Tom Holland looks like a baby pretending to be a hollywood actor. Yeah
And and you know god bless. He's great
I think the era of Nathan Phileon
Filling this role has just come and gone. We've waited so long. Yeah, that was like 15 years ago
We've like the time the time has come and gone and and and it's and it sucks because everyone has clearly felt in their bones that that is the proper way to cast it
And then there was that little short. I believe that was done
But um, the idea of of of the the the movie actually happening with him is clearly now well beyond
The realm of possibility just because the ages don't make sense anymore
Um, but it still would have been you know the the right way to play it
But here we got baby baby, Nate
Um
Showed a picture of himself on twitter wearing the outfit and and stuff and he's all dirty and ready to
Do the among thieves and ready to half tuck his shirt ready to shoot
8 000 people
um, but
Then did you see the follow-up from the other cast members of this movie?
Um, I saw wallberg mark wallberg takes his candid shot in character, which makes me think I'm like
Did that did the movie people tell them to like tweet out their costumes to as a means of probably
You know because it's it's one thing if main for main character that you see mark wallberg
Doing his version of it where he's just staring at the camera and he's got a fucking
Mustache
Hey, you're just like wallberg plus mustache like really
That's
That's the best you got you got five minutes to put a mustache on
I I can't think of a single actor
Of reasonable state that I would think would be a worse sully
Sully has such an obviously classic hollywood old man voice
Yeah, I don't know kid. Uh, and it's like that's not mark wallberg's just kind of like
Muscular whiny
What I don't have to call his voice. Oh, is that why?
Yeah, man. Okay. I thought it was because he blinded an asian man
Oh that that that happened
Apparently because he assaulted the fuck out of some dude
Okay
Because there's other people you could cast you know
Funky bunch
Huh, hey marky mark
God, I bet he really regrets that let's never stop saying it which one
Which story oh, okay
Yeah, did you know that the funky bunch loves crimes?
Um, really a wick a wiki section on mark wallberg hate crimes. Uh, yes. Yes, there is in which there is
in which
Uh, uh, his legal issues are discussed
where, um
He's had racially charged incidents
Mm-hmm was uh in 1986
It was a 15 year old wallberg and three friends were charged for chasing three black children and pelting them with rocks
While yelling kill the not going to finish this quote
On this podcast. No, thank you until an ambulance driver intervened. Mm-hmm
The next day you're asked another group of mostly black children at the beach
Gathering other white dudes to join in racially abusing and throwing rocks at them
Attacked two vietnamese men while high on pcp. Yep 1988
Nice
um
Blinded 45 days in prison for his two-year sentence blinded the dude after punching him in the eye
and uh
What did he send he had a couple of things to say
about about
The individual that he blinded as well
He referred to the shape of his eye
So, you know, oh, yes lots of
Yep fractured the job of his neighbor in an attack in 1992
Uh, you know
Now on the one hand should we really but hey, there's robot there's robot cause outside
There's robot cause
On the one hand should we really judge people so strongly for actions taken decades ago
Yeah, hey man, he's
Yeah
He's 15s old enough to know better not to cause hate crimes. He's just from boston. He's a mass hole
What are you gonna do? It's just this it was the style at the time
All right, he's a mass hole. It's not his fault
Now that's true. It was the style at the time, but I don't think that's ever worked for anybody
Well, anyway, there's your sully. Yeah
Um
There's gonna be a part where Nathan lets a guy go and sully's like
I would have killed him and then Nathan's gonna look like I know sully
I know you would have killed him and then mark wallberg is gonna look directly at the camera
And go it's because he was black
And then it will cut to credits
Uncharted
Just and of all the
The youngest most awkward holland ever just trying to move himself out of frame
Trying to crawl against the side of the frame to get away from marky mark
Yeah
Play uncharted theme
All right. Well, hey, listen, um
You know let him do his thing. Hey, uh, nintendo edited smash immediately after releasing minecraft
Oh, is it because steve looked like he was holding his dick. It's because steve was holding his dick
Uh, that's funny. So they updated it. They said they put some some patch notes in or what they fucking edited out steve's dick
Within seconds. So
When I saw that I legitimately thought that that was the intention
It feels insanely deliberate
Like it's a ridiculous oversight
the framing of it if you win with holding a sword in
Minecraft the win animation has steve holding the sword
But the hand and sword hilt are out of frame. So it just looks like his giant dong
Is bouncing up and down on the victory screen
It's not very minecraft it feels yeah, that's incredibly minecraft, but it feels like
Like it was intentional, but it got it got by
You know
Like whoever was above that like whoever animated it was like, yeah
Yeah, it's dick and then their boss didn't notice
So yeah, everyone noticed
Seconds later nintendo on red alert
uh
That shit came out immediately and for a patch to come out that quickly too
um
For it like if you're a third party game you go through all kinds of hoops
To fix problems like that and and you go through a submission process and it takes a while
But like this is absolutely smash the button red alert
Now now now now now get it out now penis and smash
Smashes for good boys and girls when it happens within 48 hours. Absolutely
um
So there's that they also announced
That they're for the first time localizing
uh fire emblem fucking one
shadow dragon and blade of light
For a limited time idiots. Yeah coming to switch on my birthday
Hey, this sucks
Limited time stuff isn't fun. What are you talking about? I thought it was the best. Don't you enjoy artificial scarcity of digital products?
No, oh
Because we thought you would because we thought you'd like to feel like you have to hustle and bustle
And and create a sense of urgency
One of the things that was the most frustrating is that when not mario limited edition thing with the galaxy and the
Sunshine all that crap got announced is that when I was like this is some limited time bullshit
I got some people going well the way I interpreted it was that
The bundle is limited time and then they'll sell them digitally afterwards separately and I'm like you're an idiot
There is no way that is what that means and I'm glad fire emblem can show up
to show
You're an idiot
They mean limited time
Fuck you for right now. You have four months to purchase this game
December January February March and then it's gone
so
It it really is just like and again you want like that's a that's a quarter right like
But you've just got like this weird thing that they're fully committing to
Now that we're seeing it like multiple times for multiple things that people would probably continue to care about
well after march of next year
is just
a weird fucking artificial scarcity thing, you know, um
It just all it does is make people feel as if they have to artificially hustle
Over something that there's no reason for it
Anyway, um
Also marth has no pants
So yay 1990
That was that true
First version of marth. He just had the blue shirt and the light sticking out
And the cave really yep. He only got the pants later
It's just doesn't wear pants. Yeah
Like all all sort heroes from from that era
You just got that little tunic thing you toss over like uh, you know
pit and and link
All those all those characters from the from the time there were no pants
No, wow, he's not wearing any pants. Yeah, no pants none whatsoever. He's just rock weird. He's free ball in it
I have to say though. I'm pretty happy with uh, uh, how safe my search is after I typed in marth no pants
I saw a funny tweet where someone drew him like ripping them off like uh, nba game time
You know like with the buttons just right back to the old school
Uh, yeah
So
That's what they're doing. Um, we mentioned it
But ghost runner is in fact coming out
um
this week
And the demo was for a limited time, but if you haven't seen ghost runner, it's fucking wall running cyberpunk
ninja
Mirror's edge just rad goodness
um
Everything gotta be a techno assassin jumping on walls and going fast. It's it's all my aesthetics. It's fucking everything I love and uh boy
it looks great and uh, what's nice about it in addition to the fact that
It is dropping
This week
Is that if you buy it
Current gen you automatically get an upgrade to next gen for free
Oh sick, are they gonna make my pc version the next gen pc version?
Uh, if you buy it on uh x bone, you will get an automatic update to the series s or x version
um
And that's a part of microsoft's smart delivery program apparently
This playstation doesn't have that but they will just allow people to download
The enhanced ps5 version if they see your ps4 version
Smart delivery thing seems like a really fancy name for like a really basic feature
I mean smart delivery will ensure you always have the bet is like it's you just I own it. Yeah, okay
If there's continue to own it
But like if they've if there's a specifically separate skew that's made for the next gen version
Then you're gonna get both um as opposed to
Like running an upscaled version of the of last gen's, you know
Yeah, uh cross buy sure, you know, that's that's
But not not pretty much, but it's not but it's not fully cross by it's platform
uh
platform specifics cross by
Hey, did you see that the the god of war people are saying that on the ps5 you can run god of war in like 60 fps
I didn't see that
Yeah
Can you go above that
I seriously doubt it
The game's probably got v-sync on okay, so it's the limitations of whatever they made at the time. Yeah, like if come on
Bloodborne please
Please god bloodborne 4k, dude
Just anything to get rid of that game's terrible frame rate
potentially
And at the watch it and at the very least
Well at and at the very least you're gonna get the whatever the update like yeah, whatever the improvement is
Uh, and then there's that story about the modder who already has his improved version
Who said hey, I'm going to release this depending
I'm gonna release this but we're waiting to see what
What sony does about running it, you know, and then there was that like fake article where it was like
modder says threatening sony. Yeah, modder threatened sony says he's gonna hold
a
Bloodborne improved version at ransom. I literally didn't say that
But thanks though
um
Anyway, yes, we will we shall see indeed
um
Yeah, it's it's not not a huge news week. So, um, we're not
We and we did cover a lot of it through our basic conversation. There's only a couple other things
um
Darkest dungeon 2
Is happening and they I thought we were going to a a a fucking
mountain
I we could be going many places. Who knows they got some time to figure it out
Because they're going to be doing like the same
um
It's going to be going through the the a similar development process to last time which is
uh
Early access for a while and then 1.0, right?
this time around, uh
The epic store has loomed its evil head
and
Now we're getting
Them involved with
Darkest dungeon, which is
Not great. I don't like that, but fortunately
it seems like
um
Red hook is gonna kind of take the money
Keep it in early access on the epic game store and then release 1.0 on all platforms
Very hate easy
Which is if your game is gonna get stuck with epic
I don't
I don't fault you on that. I get it. Yeah, it's a it's a nice way to be like
Okay, but when it really comes out exactly on steam exactly like we've seen and discussed it at this point
It's become very clear that like the deal is one that many developers cannot refuse
So they're taking it. They're doing the epic store thing
But this is just for early access and then a 1.0 drops and it's going to be the full thing and hades thankfully is enjoying
a huge success
Now that it's off of epic, um
Everywhere people are talking about it. It's it's out there people love it
Hey, hades is doing great. Hades is doing great. Maybe it's because hades is really good. Um
And yeah, very good high quality video game everyone everyone, you know, you could have like been on it before
But like I was worried that a little of that like you only get one launch
uh
I was worried that that would like hurt it, but it's apparently
so that's always been the
the the general wisdom
But with the epic store
Apparently you get zoomers consider the steam launch to be the real one. Yes. Yeah
Just like embarrassing like legitimately embarrassing what like people are making i'm seeing tweets of people like going like hey guys
Should I get hades and things like that and asking all the questions as if it hasn't been out playable somewhere else forever
Because like it might as well have not been you know
Apparently metro exodus when it came out on steam sold as if it was a brand new game. Hmm
Like amazing
Like to the average pc playing consumer the epic game store might as well actually not exist and you know like at the uh
At that when that kind of happens you're you're in a situation where if you care a lot
And you really just want to get your hands on it no matter what then you have a way to do that
And if you're fine just waiting for it to be done then you can and play it in the place of your preference. So like
Win-win for the studio, you know people aren't um
Aren't ignoring it as a result of it being uh on on epic prior. So uh, yeah, that's what they're doing with darkest dungeon 2
And uh, I can't fucking wait
I very much like the art style they're going with which is let's make 3d models and
Desperately desperately try and make them look exactly like the 2d from the old game
And they've got I love that art style and they've got uh
They got the narrator, you know, they got the um the ancestor
In there just doing fucking magic with that with his voice
And yeah, that's that was that was required. I mean I this is one of those games where like that's the carry, right?
Like there's a couple there's some games where the the voice of the game is is the carry and in this case
It's absolutely the ancestor
Wayne jr. Yeah, yeah, that's it
beautiful
I'm an old man and your day sucks
That's the guy 2d over 3d any day you're not wrong
People are getting close though. People are starting to get better. I saw getting there. I saw a um
super shitty quality
like cell phone
capture
Footage of uh, there's a tom and jerry movie
like a live action tom and jerry that uses
um cg
Uses 3d tom and jerry to do their thing
and
They really are moving in a way. That's like
They're emulating the old school stuff as much as possible
and it's like
It is actually quite impressive the level of like
Tweening work that's going into
3d tom and jerry like I need to see a closer
A better look at it because it was really shit quality off off camera trailer, but uh from that footage
It was like okay
You're going out of your way to like
Really make it seem like it's not not even 3d a lot of the time
You know there a place I could watch this 3d tom and jerry
Um, I don't know it was I scrolled by a random tweet and then
Looked at it and then kept scrolling
Um, let me see
Tom and jerry official teaser from Warner Brothers tom and jerry movie 2021
um
Definitely not this cg thing that I'm looking at right here. This thing looks fucking terrible
Uh, it's just them screaming horribly. I don't think it is no
All right, I've looked too long. Yeah, I've already given up. Yeah, there's there's there's a uh, uh
When I when I when I google it and I look at the images
I'm seeing a bunch of like super shiny tom and 3d jerry that look awful
um, and
That is not at all
What I saw but what I get what I saw was off camera. So
Oh, it was off off
Not off camera not direct capture
Anyway, um
Can't really tell until we can see it directly
Um
Got distracted there I was going into yeah, no, and then they'll just the one other thing
Uh, I saw this one more thing was a sucker punch listed a new
Uh writing job position opened up
And they're specifically looking for people with knowledge of feudal japanese history
Okay
I I all right, I wonder what they are that
All right
I don't think anybody would be upset if they told more stories
Uh in that era with the work they've already put in
I don't think it has to be
I don't think it's a cool part in japan it has to be
The direct sequel
I don't think you have to do that, but they can definitely tell more stories
mm-hmm
And they've got a fucking rad system there, but you'd want to of course like
You know expand upon it and do things and add to it because um
As incredible as Tsushima is by the end of Tsushima
You've got the formula down like any ass creed game. You you you know what I mean? Yeah, you know what to do
It'd be a fucking cool ghost of Tsushima game. Mm-hmm
Be like ghost of wake island
Ghost of wake island
That's right
And and what's wake island?
I'm not even going to engage in this conversation
This is this is already deeper into the conversation that I want to be
Wake island is a is an island that was fought over in world war two by the japanese and the marines. Okay
It's a battlefield map. Okay
So that's uh, it's a world it's a world war two thing sounds like things popped off way later than the feudal era
Yeah
Sounds like you'd have to
wait a while
for
That to happen to go where you want it to be. Yeah, no, this would be like ghost of no punaga or whatever
Of said ghosts of Sengoku or whatever the fuck you want to call it
Sure, all right, um
Anyway
Hey, would you agree with the assessment that
uh, every day
There is
one main character
on twitter
And you I would say this yes and that your goal should be to not become that main character at all times
I don't necessarily agree with
Uh, the second statement
Because occasionally
Very occasionally it can be positive
But it is a good general rule
Most of the time everyone is
People are if most of the time if everyone's paying attention to you
It's probably not because you did something everyone loves
Yeah, that's that's probably that's usually true. Right. That's usually true. Okay
um
What if
You released a take
So incredibly dumb
That
It caused your console
To trend for the first time ever
Only to lead people
To your nuclear take
Yes, mm-hmm. That would be embarrassing
That'd be very bad
Well stadiums, why do you ask?
Lend me your ears
Ah, yes
Because um, in fact
In fact, I believe the profile has been updated to remove all references to stadia
Not all of them
Hmm
Not all of them
You want me to grab this one stadiums assemble by all means if you you can you can
You can all right. So mr. Alex Hutchinson is the is the one character Alex of the day
One mr. Alex Hutchinson
Who uh previously worked on Journey to the savage planet far cry for
Apparently, I believe he was the creative director of Assassin's Creed 3 worked on spore and sims 2
his current
Profile on twitter
States that he is the creative director at s g and e
Montreal studio, which is stadia games and entertainment
Thus smartly taking the word stadia out of his twitter profile montreal division
It used to say
creative director
At stadia which implied that he was the creative director of the console
Which uh did not
Help the situation
um
For backstory
In the past this was the gentleman who had a high up
position at ubisoft
And was asked hey when's assassin's creed gonna go somewhere cool
Like egypt or japan he replied with
Those are too boring for video games
Cool cool cool really wanna
We want to you know do something cool
Like assassin's creed 3 which was in the american revolutionary war. Oh by the way
When talking about assassin's creed 3
He was that dev way
Back who described that japanese games and stories are all gibberish and the reason
That people say that they like japanese game stories despite them all being gibberish and terrible is because of a form of condescending
Uh pro japanese form of racism in the game industry and games made by non-japanese studios
Don't get fairly treated because of racism. So what you're saying is there's an established history of hot takes
Yes
Also was worked very a lot on assassin's creed 3 the worst assassin's creed game
The worst one how dare you all right, how you just gonna talk shit about rat on how get on
Moving on
to october 22nd
2020
in the wake of the
dmca violation
Take down nightmare that twitch was going through and is still going through that you and i talked about
That is making us stressed about our current profession
One alex hutchinson states
Streamers worried about getting their content polled because they used music they didn't pay for
Should be more worried by the fact that they're streaming games. They didn't pay for as well
It's all gone as soon as publishers decide to enforce it
The real truth is that streamers should be paying the developers and publishers of the games they stream
They should be buying a license like any real business and paying for the content they use
So one
Boy, what an unsympathetic take too many people worried about their livelihoods
two
I don't know about you woolly
But I actually pay for almost every single stream game that I play
On the only exceptions that I don't is when the company in question
Literally gives it to me for free to stream. This is correct
Three he is implying that despite purchasing the game
They should also be purchasing single-use broadcast licenses
Of which is only applicable to the music industry and it's a shit-ass ripoff there too
Hey common man, can we get some more money towards these these conglomerates and corporations?
What are we doing here guys? Can we get more money towards these corporations?
I feel like I feel like
There's too much money being held by the rest of you and you're not paying these companies enough as it is
You should be grateful
My favorite aspect of the story is the details
That immediately start to emerge for example
When
God bless one jacksepticeye comes in and says I find this extremely ironic considering you have fan art of me
A streamer on your banner
When I played savage planet
To which the artist of that fan art
Then uh, no one rare magpie comes on and says wow
Anyway guys the art he uses as his banner is by me
No, he didn't ask my permission or give credit to the art
In fact, he cropped out the watermark though, which is very appreciative of him
Which uh remains his banner seeing as he hasn't been interacting with twitter for the last four days
Um, so literally, uh, literally you are using someone else's shit as you talk your shit
So I can't find it right now because uh his tweets are a nightmare shit show
Uh, but there was also another
Where he described that streaming games is really only uh
Where's I'm trying to find it streaming games is only of benefit to the streamer
And never has any benefit to the actual game publisher
And this is where it comes to you look at it and go. Oh, this is an old timey video game man
Despite the fact that he doesn't look all that old at all who goes
Uh streaming and renting games and all that shit is stealing sales
Now this is easily understood as the man who
Uh helped make assassins creed 3 a game in which
Uh a video I helped make
Turned people away from that terrible game
Because it's bad. Um, so I guess that video was technically responsible for costing themselves hard cut to
thousands of people
talking in that moment about
games they've bought through watching streams or watching let's plays of of said games and
People directly attributing their interest in a thing to seeing it being played
online in a stream or lp form among us
Currently crushing it dominating due to everything said exact method of of sharing
A game with people so now you then you then go what what kind of like what the fuck
Where does this take come from and then you see the the thing you described which is
Uh creative director at stadia and then stadia starts trending on twitter
Uh-oh because before we move on wools. I need to point out
You you talk about among us and fazmophobia is going through the same thing right now as well
Uh, and you could obviously talk about games such as
metal wolf chaos
Or maybe the yakuza series undertale in which
No, but i'm i'm using those two specifically. Okay games in which I know
I have had direct confirmation from developers. Yes my work
Literally caused those games to come out or become popular in their regions. Yes
But let's ignore that
Let's instead have fun
With on the 23rd the day after mr. Hutchinson's
Uh statements
I received the following message on twitter from the raw fury pr man
Quote
Hey, I just wanted to share a tidbit from the signifier crew. They sent me this
Quote pat stream was the most beautiful thing
He watched all of the logs heard all the podcasts and the conversations started in the chat from then onward
We're beautiful then he cut it at go at which is a location and I thought and it was amazing
I hope more streamers did that to support new narrative games and quote
How's about that
I thought that I
Was stealing
From the signifier devs even though they sent me the game for free, you know
The other day when I played ultra kill
Uh, did you know that hekita himself jumped in the chat and started screaming stop playing it?
Take it down
Stop
That's and hekita is yelling as we're playing through the game
Screaming at the top of his lungs trying to get us to stop playing. Did you know?
Were you aware? I didn't know that it's kind of crazy. Yes
How we just ignored him the whole time
I mean I had a similar experience with dusk, but it was actually just the dev team going stop playing it with the control
Listen man, so this fucking
Incredibly specific feeling
Suddenly makes infinite sense
When you look at it and go oh
It's the guy whose job it is to to to push
The whole we are streaming the game to you and you don't own anything you pay for
And this entire nature of
A world where you you literally own a thing and I the and in its idea
Concept and then when we decide to delist this game you no longer own anything but your metadata and stadia as a whole
Being like 100 percent built around this concept
Makes about around lack of ownership of anything makes perfect sense
What does it the craziest the thing is like
What I don't even know what he means by streaming games. They didn't pay for
So does he think people are like stealing them from their quarantined game stops?
Is like I mean are we better off in a world of paying for games? We don't own
Is that yes, because this is literally what you're doing on stadia. You're buying a game you don't own
It should be the other way around says alex
Now here's my favorite part
So remember how I said it was creative director at sg and e montreal studio and it says in giant giant
Things all opinions are my own. Yeah, which wasn't there before. Well
Those weren't there before
They were added when google stadia came out and made an official response that was basically
That dude did don't listen. We don't eat. No. I don't know who that guy
Uh-huh. Yeah
Yeah, don't listen to him
Uh, what I guess yet to tweet since by the way. Yes, exactly
um, what I find particularly confusing of course is
At the same time that it makes perfect sense that this is the platform that this guy is working for that
Is sharing these ideas
Do you remember the reveal of stadia where they were pushing all the features?
And do you remember the features that were all built around the idea of jumping into a game
That's being streamed at the moment. You see it streamed
And as somebody in my chat that night pointed out you mean all the features that
Still don't exist. Yes
The thing where they said here chat click this link and now you can jump in and play a game with me
That they were talking about in their feature list, of course, which doesn't exist. Yes, but
They were literally pushing this whole watching and playing together thing as a part of what stadia would be about
What the fuck is this dude talking about?
Now it also felt really good one
Uh, I think it's actually been confirmed that mathematically he is in fact the most ratioed man ever in twitter history
He made four he made four like raw tweets that day and they were all ratioed by like
Factors of tens of thousands, but I mean the top the top of the thread
Uh, uh has like
Literally double digit retweets
And and quadra digit replies. So so twitter does this incredible thing that I really love now
It's one of the only features I really love about twitter
Or when you click on a tweet you get to see how many are real retweets and how many are quote retweets
Um, and you get to see that the original hot shit ass tag has 600 ish retweets and nearly 18
Oh over 18,000 quote retweets. There you go. Um, which was an entire day of literally every
single person on my timeline
Being like, yo, this is stupid
Including such people such as like Dave Samansky the creator of dusk now, um, and just every dev every single dev
I follow now. Now here's what's like. This is stupid
um
All these devs and the entire when it comes down to the letter of the law
these
Get like game companies could decide to pursue
Every single instance of every single person that ever displays their games on twitch or on youtube ever
As an infraction and they can decide to go aggressive and flag it as much as they want
We see some companies we constantly do this went through that a couple years ago
Yeah, well, we see a bunch of this happening
Every time uh atlas puts out a game and they fucking put out a warning about what you can and can't stream
and we also see, uh
This shit with like a lot of namco bandai games where a bunch of the games footage and sound will often be already archived
um
in the flag content system
So you remember when nintendo was all crazy about that shit and then they made the nintendo creator program
And then that horribly failed and then nintendo just gave up. Yeah
Um, they can choose to do this. It is a ridiculous war to fight
Make no mistake. It's an insane and it's a benefit to literally no one
It's a costly war that does infinite more hurt than it does
Help to them, but they do have the ability to do it
No developer reminds me of
This reminds me
Of ubi soft. Isn't that crazy coincidence?
Going so hard on anti piracy on the pc
That they ruined multiple versions of their games and they sold almost nothing
Do you remember that where ubi soft had that insanely horrible like always online drem
The one where you play you bite on steam, but you have to boot you play
Yeah, and then if you drop online for even literally one second
It boots you out of the game and and doesn't save your game and all that crap
Yeah, I when I I wanted to play the 2d assassins creed games and I ran into that wall. Yeah, I remember
And uh when they were interviewed about it, they're like we can confirm
It's cutting down on piracy and they're like was it increasing sales?
And they said we can confirm it has cut down on piracy
And it came out with like steam db that those versions of those games just sold like goddamn shit
And then they gave up
Like um anyone who's crazy that guy worked at that company during that period
Uh isn't that wild it's it's lovely how the smallest studios and indie games are
Clearly like paying enough attention to the situation and understand that hey
You know what helps being in the stream talking to the people who like your game
And helping them show it off to other people like it's it's it's the most basic
Understanding of like if someone sees something they like they might want to go get it too. It's just that simple
um
and
like
Anyway, this dude whatever he you know
became as far
He became the main character of twitter for a day and
like
Somehow managed to damage the stadia brand more than it already was fucking groveling on the ground
Wow
It's sort of wild. I feel bad for stadia
Because of this linked association that was not there prior
Now the last thing that I would like to say about alex hutchinson and I find that this is incredibly important
He is the creative director at stadia's montreal studio and currently lives in montreal probably however
He is from australia
So that's not our bad
That's on the australians. Okay
I was is there are you going anywhere else with that that is where it went. Okay
Okay, you're not implying some sort of latent implicit criminality
No, just just literally
Says montreal studio and I was like, ah, damn it. And then I saw australia. I'm like, phew
All right. All right
Well, um, yeah, that's a good time. That's a good time
Hey, um, I don't know if you
You catch this but every once in a while. I feel like, you know, maybe
Once every two years, maybe even more frequently than that
There'll be these weird little glitches where it's like, oh shit guys go
Hey, did you notice that the the game stop website has some wild bug where you can order a bunch of games and get like a million percent off
Or some weird discount doesn't work or there's some weird bug or whatever
Uh, apparently that happened again
And it's like, you know how it is. It's like, oh shit. Something's wrong. Let's go fix it
I'm starting to think that stuff is on is intentional
Oh, yeah, I'm starting to think that these bugs
That send everyone over to game stop to suddenly buy a bunch of games and use this exploit
Is actually an intended thing which they then fix and then you just end up buying some game stop things
Yeah, hey, look, oh look, we got hey, hey, jimmy
I figured out how to increase traffic to the to the site by about a billion times. Really? How do you do it?
I'm breaking the law
I'm creating a giant fake false advertising accidental. Oops
Right social media fucking explodes with it. Everybody goes. Yo, you can go buy things for 99 off. It's broken. What the fuck
You know and and then uh, suddenly an influx of traffic to a business that should be but it's somehow not dead
Um
Oh, man, I found out more from alec currently the hide and seek champion
2020
I I oh man fees the may that is
I just I just so this
So, uh, do you follow gene park the Washington post guy? Yeah gene park's cool, right?
so
Jean's tweet throughout his making fun of him danced in the box
Uh
From the subtle racism and then he followed up saying that he was like he was also the ubisoft guy who said that
Women are too hard to animate. Mm-hmm
That was his last tweet
Because alex hutchinson's last tweet is feel free to disagree with me
But the guy that said women were hard to animate was an entirely different person alex amoncio
Can you kill this and apologize?
which
gene did
Delete it and apologize which was then followed immediately afterwards by people finding the polygon article
In which alex was interviewed for far cry 4 in which he said the exact same thing
Quote
It's really depressing because we almost we were inches away from having you be able to select a girl or guys
Your co-op buddy when you invite someone in and it was purely a workload issue because we don't have a female reading for the character
We don't have all the animations
And so it was this weird issue where you'd have a female model walked and talked and jumped like a dude, etc
So like hey, can you apologize? I never said that followed by oh, no wait. You said like 99 percent the same thing
And then he disappeared from twitter. Can you follow me back to
the yesteryear of um
July 21st of this year for a second where pc gamer put out an article
Uh headline new reports claims
Assassin's creed developers were pressured into minimizing female protagonists
Oh, yeah
Can we just take a second to
Yeah, just keep that in mind or how about the fact that remember how I said the the guy said that uh, egypt and uh
Egypt and uh, japan were boring
When he left the assassin's creed team
Origins was the next game to start development
which
I'm going to
theorycraft in my mind
Is that as a position of power he was actually directly responsible
For not letting assassin's creed go to cool locations
The thing that we've wanted from the first game
And been hoping for
Also, egypt is boring might be the funniest statement ever
because egypt
I think is like tied with china as like
geographic location with the longest history of
history also the assassin's creed franchise
Was sort of a spiritual successor to I don't know maybe prince of persia. Maybe
Whatever
Anyway, the fact that this take just keeps on delivering the further you dig into it is kind of a thing of wonder
Um, it's it's incredible
God bless and I feel I kind of feel bad for him because it's it's in this place where he hasn't tweeted
Since that day and the instant he tweets anything. He will have a shit zillion eyeballs on him
Examining him for dumbness
Anyways, anyways gonna hop online and stream some fall guys. Who's up for it?
No one
No one bro
Hey, how did that game get popular again?
Streaming. Oh, yeah, and it was free on playstation plus. So no one paid for it actually. Okay
So it's it's both you just get a steal from spa guys like that bro. I am gonna yes
I would just never go back to social media. I mean
I would never go back
No, that's not true. I would go back. I couldn't wait to go back
But I have a different personality than these people. Yeah
Yeah, you'll have to see it. All right. Um
Let's let's uh, let's quickly take some emails and get a move on here. All right. Let's uh, email it up
If you got one you want to send an email send it to castle super beast mail at gmail.com
Hey, let's castle super beast mail at gmail.com
I got uh
I got I got this I got this little ava tamagotchi. It's uh
It's a little a little baby angel that I have to take care of and change its lcl
And it's weird dude and I have to feed it s2 engines and kaji watermelons to keep it happy
That's fucked and
It's born as soon as the second impact goes off
And then your goal is to make it happy so that it eventually gets coaxed out of its at field and
Creates the third impact, but only if you feed it and clean it and take care of it with love every day
You should smash that thing with a hammer. No, no, no right now. I'm currently
Raising iru. Well, it's the the one that's trying to take over
um
the uh, the the magi engine
And um
You know ritz goes mom and all that shit
So it's favorite angel go now
Uh
Ramiel
Diamond yep, that's the right that's the right one
That's that's that's where we're at. Mm-hmm ramiel is the best angel
um
Although I mean
Kauru really but yeah, shut up. You know
That's that's stupid. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? That's a person? Yeah, okay fine fine
Like easily favorite character in the entire franchise
Yeah, like fucking with a bullet
Here cut like in this in a franchise of of a whole lot of damage here comes perfection. Oh, no
Oh, man. Oh, no indeed. No one's worthy
Hey, um, we got one coming in over here
from
Uh
Who is this from daniel daniel says
Hey guys, uh, dear alpha flight rejects
Daniel here and recently one of my favorite manga has been on an unexpected hiatus
There's usually monthly updates, but not a peep from august to september
This manga is vinland saga
Probably something woolly's been recommended en masse as a solo replacement for vagabond. It has I've definitely heard a lot
And I've seen some really cool shit with those vikings
Um, I wouldn't go so far as to say that it dived. I never dived into vagabond
But due to hearing your lament over it never coming to pass. So anyway, I would say it's a philomenal breakdown of viking life
And it's really really good
after two months
Uh of silence bam new chapter and for one brief moment
I feel elation followed by horror as I see this title and what we see here is a list of chapters
and
Uh, we see volume 25 chapter 1 sailing west chapter
175 sailing west chapter 176.5
assassins creed valhalla
My heart drops as I prepare for some schlock to come
Having the main character or whatever the viking ac is show up in a flashback of some description
And dunks on Thorfinn the main character and lo and behold, that's exactly what happens
panel of an assassins blade
Panel of main character all bloodied and busted up
He's gone, but look he gave you he gave you a bloody nose
And uh, who was that guy anyway? Shit. Let's call it quits then
Thanks, Ubisoft. I hate it
That is legitimately like the worst oh my god, dude, Daniel. I am so sorry. That is insane
Fucking guest chapters ruining your manga, dude
Oh, no, um
Do you remember when m&m kicked the ever-loving shit out of the punisher that happened that happened?
mm-hmm
but like
A
But a celebrity guest starring
Is not as
time sensitive as a specific games launch window
guest starring
Like boy, have you dated your manga in time by putting this fucking assassins creed valhalla reference
Into vindland saga got a lot of money from that
It must be it like ridiculous. In fact, the end of the chapter should have shown you the the the contract
Show the cash bucks and let everyone go. All right. All right fine
You know
You got it is legitimately so awful. You're literally ruining the entire run with this moment
And it's a point five chapter. So perhaps people can just look at it and go. Eh throw it over there
But wow
Wow, I feel so bad for vindland saga fans with that that sucks
Just put it in a different place in your brain and ignore it
Um
That's terrible
Oh, we got one coming in from momo says hey, willy and pat first i'm emailing got done watching back a mono gatory
And there's an argument for how you should watch it because release order is different from the novel
Chronological order jumps between seasons. So my question is have you ever felt the need to solve a puzzle before you started enjoying something?
Um, is that the one where he fucks his sister? I don't know
But I can't tell yet. It is an a valid argument when
Different adaptations have different orders to how the story is told
Uh, I can at the very least say that like
Um, I remember cloud atlas was a weird one because the cloud atlas book
Starts at a specific time frame and goes further and further and further into the future and then starts rewinding outwards like a mandala
And um this the movie just thematically links things by the same emotional note
Um, I think you kind of are at the whims of whatever the release order is for the format you're watching
I like
It depends but in every instance
You're probably you're probably best off going with
The version that they released it in for that format
Uh, but boy that sucks if you have to um
Actually change it up to understand it
Yeah
I have nothing to say about this because that's a really confusing problem
That's okay
It's like if you were to get into fates you got to play that visual novel because all the adaptations are out of order
Okay, but what if history class starts teaching fate characters so that kids will remember?
I mean, I mean if you really want to get into it history class already teaches about fate characters
Hmm
Brent says uh dear castle super beast 3d all stars you okay? Yeah, I'm good. All right
Recently bought a 4k television for the first time
Haven't been able to sit down and use it yet. My wife says it's amazing
What's the best thing I could watch on it to really experience the upgrade to the world of 4k?
um when I got my 4k tv I got I watched the um
The discovery the the planet earth equivalent so planet earth is super old now
But there's been a lot of stuff that's come out in that vein since I forgot what the name of the actual series is
But uh on netflix the netflix 4k
um
Edition had like a whole section of stuff that was you know best for testing and like yeah
I'd say the planet earth equivalent these days is probably
Like the coolest thing you could watch to really see how fucking crisp it gets I would say if I mean
I'm gonna assume that you're a person who plays video games. You're listening to this uh
Blue planet blue planet podcast
Uh, you could you probably hook up a video game machine to that and think about what the shiniest 4k game
Is that you got you can do that
Uh run from the point. Oh wow atlas isn't gonna fucking localize persona 5 scramble
What?
Literally just give up
Koei tecmo reports latest financial results and persona 5 scramble western
Is no longer mentioned. Are you fucking kidding me, dude?
Yeah
Direct canonical sequel. I bet it's cuz q sold badly
q2
Because who gives a shit about that game she's why do you hate buddy?
You know what this is. You know what this is. Why?
Hey, hey woolly. What is the what is the word's magical star sign mean to you?
I don't fucking know man
Means I don't want mother three. That's what it means
Holy shit remember that no
I don't Nintendo never localized fucking uh
Mother three because fucking magical star sign didn't sell hot cakes. So they went. Oh, I guess people don't want uh
Don't want rpgs
Well, I guess it's on the fucking fanslations then
Cool awesome
The team's already fucking getting ready
People are putting their shit together
Not this shit again reluctantly a team has to form now
To do the work that the fucking company won't do
Uh, I sent I sent
Oh, I sent atlas an email multiple weeks ago through an intermediate that I know they read her emails
And they never got back to me
And it sucks
Is there even is there even a way to translate and mod this?
No
There's there's currently a subtitle to play through on youtube
That I'm going to assume will be killed by a copyright strikes soon. Oh you fucking just
Why are you so awful at this?
Oh, there's a switch emulator. Oh cool. That was fast. Why are you so awful at being a company?
I just who the fuck was responsible for getting persona for golden on steam
Someone who probably got fucking fired the next day like I don't
It's so nuts, man
The most restrictive shit ever and you won't give people things they want to like
All right, anyway, all right, um
Um
You know, I was trying to literally figure out how to figure how to go
Uh, how to see the the royal specific content
So that I can like because I was very excited to see what this was going to be
It's really deeply intertwined. Yeah
Yeah, that's what I heard
So I wanted to go find out what was changed in royal and then fucking play this
I was really looking forward to playing this
Even though it's mooso
What the fuck man?
Well
That's been our week
That's the podcast glad we could end it out on great news
Yeah, hooray everyone everyone enjoy your weeks, please
You really had to fucking drop it at the end didn't you? Holy shit. I just saw it
What's going on twitter people are retweeting it. What do you want from me?
I didn't like I saw it. What was I supposed to sit on it?
I
Say all right
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