Castle Super Beast - CSB 129: There Will Always Be A Cosby Suite

Episode Date: August 3, 2021

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o o o Good afternoon, Willie. How are you today? Doing okay, feeling slightly sore from some rowing and, uh, you know, cardiovascular activity. So, well, that's good. And attempt. Like, that's a good negative feeling. An attempt is being made. Yeah, I'm on, like, day three of a migraine. I feel like I'm gonna die. Yeah.

Thumbs up for everyone. No good on that. Um, and, uh, yeah, just kind of did some of that and realized that, you know, when you haven't been doing anything and then you start doing something and then you go, perhaps, a little too much, a little too hard on it, your body tells you right away. Stop. Oh, right away, right away. And come back to this later. You've done it. Like, you've, you've, you've, you've let me know that you intend to do this. I get the message, fucking stop. And then, uh, you know, resume in the near future. So I took the hint. Um, yeah, through that rowing machine in the garbage. There you go. You got to listen to your body. Now, we, I did own my, my mom owned a rowing machine when I was much younger and like that thing was just a sit in front of the couch and play your games with a slider, like chair. That's all that was for a while. But no, this time we do it. Uh, yeah, I don't know. Done it before. I can do it again. It's this time without the, like, the fun game of boxing as a motivator. Oh, yeah, it's going to be a lot. It's going to be tougher because boxing was a good reason to, to get fucking sweaty and burnt out now.

There's no associated cool feel good activity. It's now maintenance. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you can't, uh, can't trick yourself anymore. You just got to, you know, you got to eat the, the fucking, the, the pill raw can hide it in the snacks. Um, but you want to, you want to hear the dumbest trick I've ever learned about eating the pill raw, which is obviously a dog trick. Mm hmm. The last time I went to give him his, his pills for whatever, he didn't want to take him and I could have hid them inside some meat because he'll just gobble that shit down like he's an idiot. But instead I was like, what if I drop it on the floor and then go, Oh, no, don't eat that. And sure enough, honest to God. He's sprinted for it and ate it as fast as possible. Only tasty things drop on the floor. Yeah. That's the lesson.

Well, cause Paige, Paige will be like cooking or chopping vegetables over on the, on the counter, right? And if anything hits that ground, it's gone. It's fucking gone because he's standing right there. So she'll drop like a onion shell and she'll like, no, don't eat that. And she'll have to pry it out of his fucking mouth. So now that applies to his own medicine. Yeah. No, man, because he's so smart. That's, that's it, you know, to me, boxing was like peanut butter. Yeah.

It's delicious and better smooth. And you hide the value you had the, you hide the nutritional value inside of it. So that is, is, is going to be a thing tomorrow. I'm scheduled for my 10 G. So that's going to be going. Hey, I'm glad. Good for you, my friend. Yeah. Yeah.

Took a, I know we could have gotten it sooner, but I wanted to get that, that like 12 week thing from that, that study that we saw. So, by the way, for everyone who's listening to this, either live or at home, well, I mean, you're probably all at home. But you know what I mean in the audio version, as what I'm sure are your favorite influencers. It is our civic duty to tell you that if you have not gotten vaccinated and you have the opportunity, you should probably, that is definitely go get vaccinated. Can I go one step further? Can I amp it up a little bit? You can. If you are living with parents that will not let you get vaccinated, lie to them and go get it.

You've probably lied to them about less important shit before. We're giving you a pass. If you get in trouble, say that we told you to lie. And then your parents can email us. You snuck out to go, to go hook up. You snuck out to go, you know, play games and fool around and do the drugs. Why not? Why not sneak out to get your shot and just fucking lie to them?

And Jimmy, you weren't getting vaccinated. Were you? No, I was doing crack and getting girls pregnant. All right, then. Yeah, yeah, that's that's fine. Just like your grandfather did, you know, there you go. And and and like, yeah, get you get protect yourself. Don't don't, you know, don't let other people fucking,

you know, put you in danger over over over over fucking stupidity. You know what they should do? They really want to get they want you know what they need to do? Get people really like the the holdouts. They need to be like, hey, everyone, if you hey, hey, hey, dumb ass guys, if you get your two vaccine card, you get an OK to have sex without a condom for one year, it's totally binding for real Z's. And then they then they give you the jab and then the nurses like, by the way,

that was a lie, you're an idiot. Yeah, what they're actually doing is lotto's. Have you seen that? There's like contests in the lotto that I'm entered into. And I assume you are as well. No, I'm not. Why not? I don't know. I only I just found out about it. Since weird, I guess it's they emailed you.

I didn't email you gave them when they mail you your vaccine proof. They emailed you go, hey, man, you want a chance to free money? And I went, OK, yeah, I didn't I didn't sign up. But yeah, there's a lot of incentive just in case. Just in case you're somebody who's like, I don't know. But the the the old six forty nine like fucking drug inside of you makes you makes you go for it instead, in case that's the deciding factor.

Like so the people don't know. Quebec is doing this thing where they're having like, I want to say like six lotto polls from now for the next month. And it's prizes ranging up to one hundred and fifty thousand. Sorry, from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to one million dollars that you qualify for by signing up and being like vaccinated. So as I'm double-vaxxed, I signed up for all of it. And I could be a millionaire next month.

I'm not going to be. It's going to be some dumb ass. And I have maybe I could be that dumb ass. And I have known more than enough crossing guards and lunch ladies growing up who are the types of people where this contest would be the deciding factor between getting it or not. You know what? I I don't know why I didn't make the connection that you're talking about. I have known so many people in my life

that would do anything. Absolutely. A lotto ticket. Just the ticket. Madame La Rue, Madame La Rue is specifically. She is only she's only getting that shot for this lotto ticket. It convinced her. It totally convinced her. She was she wasn't thinking about it. Otherwise, no question, it's real. It's really smart to weaponize gambling addiction for the good of people's health.

Like for real, like genuinely. It's smart. Yeah. Yeah. You know, just get a. Are you addicted to gambling? Try being addicted to not being dead. That's a good one. Oh, man. Yeah, something. Go get your shots.

Something to look forward to, you know, one of these. These and you know what they love? They love the optional payouts, the tax free lump sum or win for life. Oh, God, never take the lump sum. They always but they always you always take the win for life. You always take the win for life. Oh, it's so much more money.

Yeah, it's crazy. And you can't blow it all like an idiot. But the big, big number greed, though, you know, that that that number is there's so many zeros, you're like, well, but what if it's it's it's literally a sixth grade math equation? Like. See, if you were given see, the question is, though, is like, does the win for life actually have an asterisk that says life means until you're sixty five

and then it stops, you know, because I mean, even then the math on it is still probably way, way towards the fucking win for life. Yeah, take lump sum and invest. I mean, it depends on the amount difference, doesn't it? It depends on the amount difference be that could be like really smart unless you invest it in like Dogecoin or some shit. The the lump sum versus payout amounts that I remember seeing

were such that like when you did the math on it over the next 20, 30 years, you eclipsed. Oh, they give you so much more. You eclipsed what you would have gotten in the lump sum. You know, yeah. Well, lump sum is is OK if you owe a lot of money to a lot of bad people. Right. Like that makes sense. But if you're kind of OK, if you're doing OK, man. Fucking take, take the take the goddamn take the lifetime shit.

Yeah. And also, like it you have a you have a guarantee of it's just like you can work. I don't know what kind of life plan you put together for yourself. But it's like, you know, there's nothing to stop you from to stop you from investing the lump sum to, you know, so. The most important thing and this is this is actually very serious. I don't think anyone in our audience is going to win the lottery in the near future. But regardless of the monetary value of it, the one of the biggest reasons why you would want to do the payout for life

is because getting a enormous lifestyle, annihilating payout can kill you. There's that. It it has a very, very high correlation with like horrible suicidal depression because you'll watch like friends and family turn on you. Oh, yeah, there's that. And your fucking lifestyle is going to just fall apart. And it screws you up. People can get very weird.

You'll you'll deal with a lot of shit. It's true. Yeah, no, a moderate, a moderate. You need you need you need the right mentality to be able to handle that kind of change in things, you know, not to mention the fact that I want to say there was a study that kind of was like averaging out happiness over massive windfalls versus massive losses. And it was so negligible in terms of like when you get that huge lottery win, your happiness kind of goes back to normal within two years or something.

Like it was like it was like a really surprisingly like fast period of time, you know, yeah, that you kind of have to keep in mind with a lot of this stuff because the human brain is fucking weird. But anyway, oh, man, all the here's what's really important. The people listening to this have already won the lottery because they're listening to this podcast. And what else could they want in their life? Nothing, Madame La Rue can get all the blue hair coloring she wants.

You know. Mr. Brunette, how many smokes do you want with your Lotto? OK, just clear out the counter. Yeah, I mean, dude, working at that grocery store, like we didn't sell Lotto tickets. But you remember that that little convenience store right across that little place they sold Lotto tickets. And it was literally the same 30 people every single day. Yeah. So my.

Yeah, you see it, you see it. And you see that you see the the, you know, and the problem is, too, is that you hear about like so like in, you know, in my particular case, there's literally like an acquaintance of a person I know did eventually win and you're the whole and then it's like, well, time to reset the clock on that drive an addiction, you know, time to just someone two degrees or three degrees away from me actually won. Well, fuck me.

That means I got to go harder, you know, or this work Lotto group together. They all won and then split it and then they all retired or whatever. Reset the clock, you know. Yeah, the. The thing that my friends did was they played miso. They were huge on miso and that that was like basically like baby's first Lotto over here in Quebec where any where kids can play. Kids are allowed to play and you just have to bet on the sports games.

You know, call the winners. And in some cases, I think you can pay extra to pick your over unders. And then like, yeah, you'd win, you know, like, if you had like you call 10 games and you got like, you know, a certain amount of them right, then you win like, oh, like three or four or five or times you're the amount you bought the ticket for. So, you know, I've had friends like they're like, oh, yeah, I want 50 bucks here or there or whatever.

But like, that's how you get to get the kids early. You know, I saw some folks chatting in the in the in the chat just now. It's like, yeah, scratch ticket a week could be worse. Right. And that's true. My mom had a scratch ticket a week was basically like, why not? What if we won, right? There's the I couldn't I've never seen like, you know, there's alcoholics and drug addicts and every type of addiction, right?

You can you there's always the the moment there's the turning point where you can see that it has transcended from a vice into a life altering problem. And for me, it's when I saw a guy win 50 bucks and then buy fifty dollars worth of scratch tickets. Yeah. Like that that's that's the like it's right there. There's your your dude, you are fucked.

You need to never touch these again. Like, I mean, I wonder if you could like. Just like start just start like sneaking in like. Gacha promotion just kind of like go like, OK, it's a lotto ticket, but it's on your phone, you see, right? OK, and instead of actual money, you win waifus and shit. OK, all right. What can I do with those waifus?

Nothing, but the feeling all right. But the feeling you get when it shines real big is SSR. Huge, huge big that gold border. Yeah. Right. So you and you just kind of you slowly replace the scratch offs with gotcha. I bet you it's one to one. I'm surprised they don't already have, like. Like, I don't know, like Genshin Impact scratch off tickets

that print it out like somewhere in Japan or something that are like already half and half and like slowly leaking you from one side to the other. Anyway, that's a thing here. It's it's it's huge. And every what, like 10 years, there's a there's a point where the payout number gets so stupid big that it becomes the only new story and the only thing that anyone's talking about because it's like like a hundred million dollars or something insane or whatever.

Yeah, it's weird. I don't know. We were we were always raised to not gamble because it was it was the devil's work. You see, it was it was. It's it's technically like last the last time there's a bunch of gambling in the Bible. It was a bunch of people doing it in the church and then Jesus came and he like drop kicked them and threw them all out and said, don't you gamble in the church, fuckers? So then I was like, oh, shit, I guess God doesn't like gambling too much.

God loves gambling. Well, yeah, but he doesn't like he doesn't like when he can't play. He doesn't like when he's not in the house. You know, he's a huge guy thinks gambling's the fucking shit. Yeah, no, totally. I mean, there's there's evidence of this in the in the actual book. But he wasn't he wasn't allowed in on the dice games that were going on. OK, yeah, no in the temple.

So then Jesus came and broke it out. Oh, shit, you weren't paying your cut. You know, um, that was your week. That was OK. I lost the farm gambling now. I didn't why would you bet the phone to begin with? I don't have a farm, but the saying betting the farm, you know. Yeah, like I mean, betting the farm has an obvious historical precedent.

It's dudes that would literally bet their whole but that's what I mean. Like and the farm that your dad gave you that you're probably supposed to give to your kids and you just fucked their futures up crazy. Well, I mean, I can I can I can explain the literal direct reason why you would bet the farm because you're not in control. That's because no, no, it's not even that. It's because your clothes have no value and you have no money left. It's the only thing you haven't bet.

Well, yes, obviously, but also and you got to make it back. You got to chase your losses. Of course, you double down every time. Yeah, but like it's, you know, but also, you know, you've you've not listened to the song and you do not know when to run. And then and then like, I mean, there's I mean, I got an ace. There's an ace on the table and ah, the river fucked me.

Oh, well, time to cash in on that life insurance for the wife. Don't get caught up in gambling, kids. It's bad for you. All right, you know, that was a song. You know, that song was it's literally about a dude who's on a train. But the guy who's the guy who's singing the song is not even the guy who did the gambling. It was another guy who walked in and he told him how fucked up gambling was. And then after he finished telling him his story, he like,

you know, no, no, he walks in and then he takes his last like fucking bottle of booze. And then he promises him a story and then he tells him the story about how you got to know when to hold him, no one to fold him, no one to walk away, no one to run. And then he fucking just dies on the train. And then the guy who's like the storyteller is like, that's fucked up. And then he just gets out and leaves and that's the end of the song. Some old fucking some dirty good song, some broke ass fucking gambling. Dude came in, drank his last whiskey and just fucking croaked.

And that was it. You know, I don't know about you, Wally, but we've been talking about like addictive things, mainly gambling. I think every family has at least one, maybe two per generation dedicated losers. Who are way into everything that we're talking about. And they're useful. They're really, really useful. Man, you don't want to end up like your uncle, do you?

Yeah. He got into the scratch tickets and look at him now person to point to. Mm hmm. That's useful as shit. Oh, man. All right. So what I do with my week, I'm thinking about it and it's one of those weeks that I'm now going to my Twitch page to look at previous broadcasts because I can't remember.

Oh, now I remember I played the Pokemon Unite. That Switch game, that's the MOBA for children. Yes, I did see a breakdown elaborating the monetization system and there was someone who like did an insanely detailed post and and like just everything there is to it. And it's yeah, it's the most it's the craziest I've actually ever seen. I don't know if there are wild examples out there,

but this was to me by like the most intense, the most ridiculous and and confusing as well. Like the levels of obfuscation for what you're getting and shit were I barely understood it because you're not buying power. You're buying upgrade materials to put into items that you did get for free to upgrade them to give yourself stat bonuses that aren't actually described clearly like how much of a stat bonus does leveling this item give me? Like I have an item on my one of my characters is like give plus 10 to SP

attack, right, which is a typical Pokemon buff, right, except SP attack is not a listed stat anywhere. It might as well say attack bigger, like not even like a bar with no numbers. It's like there's just nothing. OK, I don't like it's giving me plus 10 SP attack, right? How much SP attack does my character have? I don't know. Well, you've now actually played League and you've played a hots.

So like I have played hots. I have played League. I have played this. I have played one round of smite and I have played one round of doder. How is the onboarding? The onboarding is smooth. It's very smooth. It gives a really good first impression.

It gets you into a game easy and let me tell you. Let me tell you, I joked about beating up children when I was playing fortnight, the people playing fortnight. Sorry, the children playing fortnight are like eight to 10, maybe eight to 13. Let's say, right? It really feels like you are dumping on four year olds playing Pokemon Unite. Like you will you will do a five minute match and you will see that the the fucking Charizard on the other team

got zero kills and zero points and died 12 times. But there's and you could tell they were a human. But there's no way to confirm, right? No voice chat, no. Yeah, obviously, there's no no way to know for sure that they were a toddler. But but like there are there are tons of games. But the aura of toddler was felt. There are tons of games in which there are two.

There's one person on each team doing 90 percent of the everything. And then it's like literally babies who may not as somebody points out, who may not know how to read. OK, OK, wandering around. And man, you stop them, stop them like they're like their kids because they are because they are and they're easy to stop. If you could take if you could take the Call of Duty Gamer word system and just drop it into this game, that might be worth the price of entry.

Just to hard confirm hearing the cries, just like hearing crib noises. So kids do their homework, you know, I'm going to I'm going to break down your Pokemon unite. First of all, the first impressions extremely good, particularly since it's the best running and looking switch game. Interesting, which was very shocking to me. Considering the footage was the complete opposite when we so first revealed it. That footage was of the phone version, I think.

Um, it is targeting 60 FPS and it's usually at 50 to 60. And it's running at 1080p with anti aliasing. I am shocked. And there is a I shit you not. This looks like a bug. Green FPS counter in the top left of the screen by default. Yes. Oh, what that looks like a bug.

I mean, that looks like maybe it's an intended bug, you know, maybe it's a like, let's let's fix that later. I don't know. It's a flex, but like, but it's like, it's, it's, it's like video card green. Yeah, like, you know, yeah, yeah, like, you know how there's like a there's a purple and a green that are used for like, or in a yellow that are used for like onscreen display 255, 255 zero. It's the extremes of the, um, yeah, of the color.

Yeah, your, your color, um, the gentiles and such it controls really well. There's a lot of control options that you can get ahold of, such as having separate buttons on your controller to do auto attacks against, uh, you know, jungle creeps or like, uh, other Pokemon and it's not a cursor. It's like direct control of the unit, right? There's a, when you hit like the a button, which is default attack, a big circle appears around your character that shows you their area of effect of where they could attack.

So melee attackers, it's quite small range. Attackers it's really big. And if something is in there, then the auto targeting kicks on. If you're hitting a little auto target, a Pokemon, and then it'll target, uh, a Pokemon based on the option you chose, which is lowest percentage health, lowest remaining health and absolute value or closest and you get to pick that. Um, and then you hit your skills buttons on your controller on the triggers and those are going to auto target, but then you can use your right analog stick to

move them wherever you would want. It controls really well. It might, my initial feeling was, wow, uh, a MOBA absolutely 100% works on a controller. This feels great. I can't wait for the console version of league instead of this. Okay. Um,

then I played some matches and had tons and tons of fun with those matches. Uh-oh. And I played for three or four hours and did not get to player level nine, which is when the, uh, ability to power up your items with, uh, other items comes into play, which is where all the real money dollars are. And, and what Pokemon did you choose? I chose slope, uh, not slope, I chose Snorlax Snorlax is a tank. He's very hard to kill.

He, he body blocks. I also played as match amp and Gengar Gengar. Is the most broken MOBA character I have ever seen, not even played like scene. Okay. Uh, he has a move called sludge bomb, which is a targeted poison last for eight, nine seconds. And he has a, uh, a dash attack called hex that teleports him to the enemy makes him untargetable for a second and then does a bunch of damage.

And if you hit a Pokemon that has a status effect on them, uh, hex goes from an eight second cooldown to a one second cooldown. So you just do it again and you just do it again and you just do it again and you just do it again. And it is, it is apps like, and there's another character named Zeroro or whatever that has like their attack goes up when their health goes down and they have like an AOE around them that is just completely fucked. And the, the game's balance is an absolute shit.

Okay. It, it feels, it feels deliberately unbalanced. Now that the one second cooldown based on the, the enemy being, um, debuffed or, or like, or, um, afflicted, uh, is that something you have to do with his sludge ability or can your partner do that? Yep. Your partner can also do it. Okay.

So you can just co-op that and just have them. Yeah. Okay. All right. Yep. That sounds insane. Mm-hmm. It, it, it feels like deliberately unbalanced.

And the other thing is that they have a, they have a modified system. You're not like killing turrets. You're scoring goals by gaining points, killing other people or killing mobs. Um, and they have what are really, oh man, let's see. Well, do you have any MOBA experience at all? None, but I mean, I did play guilty gear to overture. All right. You know what, I'll work with it.

So in league of legends, which is this game's direct inspiration in league, you have, uh, a dragon that spawns at one end of the map and you have, uh, a big, uh, worm monster that spawns at the other end of the map. And when you kill them, one gives you buffs and then it'll respawn in a couple minutes and then the, uh, the eel freak will, uh, basically help you blow up towers. Right. So at some point in the match, if you, if you do a team kill, everybody runs over to try and get that to get a further advantage.

Right. Uh, Pokemon has that. Zapdos will spawn in the middle, uh, and Rotom will spawn at the top. And there's a third one that spawns at the bottom. Oh wait. I played hot. If you're doing, no, I kind of know what you're talking about. Right.

If you, if you were doing really well, hey, everybody, let's go get Zapdos. And what Zapdos does is he removes the, the speed debuff on the enemy side of the board and lets you score instantly instead of taking time. Okay. Uh, well, the problem is, is that, uh, Zapdos is the only thing that matters. Every single game is decided by who gets to kill Zapdos because the advantage it gives you is so enormous that you can't come back off of it. Okay.

Uh, so it's the only goal that it, it, it, it people are calling it the golden snitch in the chat and that seems appropriate. Yeah. All right. The highest priority target. Um, can you. Plip pick multiple of the same type, uh, on your team of five. No, everybody has to be different on a team.

Right. So is there a race for Gengar and then the rest is just the scraps. Yeah. It's a race for Gengar and a race for Zaurora and then for Snorlax and then, uh, for Pikachu and, and so on and so forth. Um, the, the, there's all, there's 21 in the game right now. And even from my very limited time, the, the difference between the top and bottom are unbelievable.

It's, it's, it's wild. It's, it, it feels, it feels like a kind of thing. Like let's get it out there and we'll fucking fix it later. Kind of thing. So based on this being your biggest, the first thing you're bringing up about the game, suddenly it's like no wonder all of these fucking like channels are posting endless tier lists. The only content that exists for this game right now is the tier lists,

tier lists, videos about tier lists, articles about tier lists. Everyone is just, that's the only thing that exists. No one's talking about anything else except for like who's top what's what. And it just like, yeah, that's, that seems to be the only discussion. And I, and like the fact that that's what's happening at something that is so, so new seems pretty just like, that's like an unhealthy fucking. Uh, direction for things to go in. Well, here's, here's another unhealthy thing about the game when the, so we're

on week two now week one, Gengar was not in the free rotation. And so the overwhelming thing was spend the $8 by Gengar win. This week, Gengar is in the free rotation. Okay. So it's not as bad, but I mean, next week it'll change. Um, it's, it's, it's really like, so people are complaining that the, um, what do you call it, that the, the item, uh, pay to win stuff is really bad and it is. But the character balance is just as much of a prey of a prey to win pay to win

thing where if you start playing the game at the wrong time, maybe you don't get to play characters that are good. Um, there's something about it that I, I really dislike strong and didn't even realize you could do it until I was reading an article about it. There is currently right now a login bonus campaign and you know, all these little things, so you would get stuff like Cinderace and, uh, Ninetales and I think Greninja for free and Krusty too, I think, or Krustle, whatever, right? After you play a couple of matches, it says, Hey, you want to buy a second

Pokemon with, uh, you know, your coins or whatever, you can buy the ones you're going to get for free. And you get no credit when the time comes. No, no, fuck you, fuck you. Oh, they refund you. Okay. You know what? Fine.

Oh, I was not aware that you get a refund. I assumed the worst. Okay. That's that's good. That's good. That would be horrible if you fucking didn't do, if you didn't do something. In that situation. Yeah.

All right. So, uh, in terms of how it plays, it, uh, playing it on a controller actually rules, it plays really well. And you don't need, you're playing with the stick on the D-pad, right? So you don't need to, uh, yeah, the D-pads for like chat stuff. Okay. Cause the D-pad on the, on the switch controller, like I said, when I was, like I said, when I was using it for, um, Tetris is, is awful because it snaps

back in opposite directions. So if you press left too hard, it'll trigger a right input and up will trigger it down and sick. That's sick as shit. Terrible. So precision games like Tetris, it's awful. Um, but if you're using the stick mostly, then I guess you can avoid that. Ultimately using like Hans is also another way.

Let's get into like the meat of it. It's really fun to play. Like the, the, the core thing to take away from it is that their, their grand success is controlling your character and playing the game is excellent. Huh. Okay. Right. Uh, they have, they've done away with, so you know how hots had that thing where

you, you, you leveled up and you had to pick skills or traits and then, uh, league and Dota have the shop, for example, to get items. Okay. Uh, and all those other games have three skills in your alt and one passive. Um, Pokemon has way less of that. So you get two skills and your alt and, uh, as you're leveling up, you get to choose which skills you want to replace what. So like you'll have match hemp and like you get either like a move,

the signature grease or like a, a throw, right? Uh, and there's no traits and there's no store. And when I was playing it, I was like, this is really great. I'm having a lot of fun. And then I hit like a moment, which was like about an hour after my stream ended where I was playing match amp. And I was like, he has some good moves and some bad moves. So I picked the good moves every time.

And there's nothing I can do with this character other than play it. I can't change something in my build. I can't tweak to have a custom approach to something building up this attack to be better. Because, you know, I can't build up my ranged attack to be stronger because, you know, this guy's doing it in range. It's, it's just like, I hit this wall like five hours in where I was like, Oh, this is really simple. Okay.

But question in other games. So in hots, I remember for the few games I played, when you get to those upgrade points, you can, yeah, you kind of pick a path of what you want to unlock for that character of a couple of choices. Yeah. Every other MOBA has these like alternate pathway or like grooves for usually they, they put it through in a shop. Okay.

Right. Where it's like, do you want to grab, do you want to like health potions alone in like league? They're like three or four. And the ones that I always pick are either your standard ass health potion. Yeah. Or there's a health potion that like it's only one, but after you go back to base, it'll regenerate itself. So there's different ways to play the champions in other games, basically.

Yeah, the, the, the Pokemon is the Pokemon is the Pokemon. And they only have two buttons that they get to really use plus their default attack. It's, it's really, it's really cut down. Okay. And like somebody points out correctly, the, the matches are five minutes long. So there isn't enough time for builds. Yeah. Okay.

I think, I think there might have 10, five is quick mode. Okay. It's five or 10 minutes long. My mistake. But it's like, I don't know. It just feels, it feels truncated. Um, like mobs have a problem that their matches are usually too long. Yeah.

The 45 minutes, the 45 minute complaint and being locked in. So I guess this answers the question I was about to ask, which was like, um, I'm surprised that I like, well, first of all, one, are you sure you're not having fun based on stomping a bunch of children because that is exactly why I'm having fun. Because like, uh, how come being forced to team up with four children is not the most annoying thing in the world to you. And it, I'm guessing the answer is because you only have four minutes and 59 seconds to deal with them.

That and, uh, if one good person can beat like the whole other team, if they're shit, okay. So you don't have to actually, so like, yeah, if you're in a short game, then it doesn't matter. You know, you're not going to be pissed off about the whole teammate thing, but a game like league or a game like apex, where you're working with these people for an extended period of time. Oh yeah.

No, like you can, like, I can like look up and see like, oh man, Charizard's really eating shit up top. Uh, I'll, I'll try and help him out, I guess. And like that moment happens like twice, like tops, right? If they're really fucking the dog on it in league, you're getting a ping in some cases every 90 seconds that the guy up top is feeding the opponent. And then at a certain point that opponent comes for you and there's nothing you can do to them and there isn't enough time for that kind of snowball to really

get offensively rolling. Uh, there is a really in my, in my experience with like league and, and here's the storm doesn't do that. Here's the storm you level and D level as a group. So once the other team has a big level advantage, they just roll you. Yeah. Um, but in league, it has this weird feeling that it's, it's the cause of the, the 45 minute shit fest, which is one guy on your team did just bad enough that

the other team has enough of a numerical advantage to beat you every time you see them, but not enough to close the game out. Interesting. Okay. Cause so, so in hots, everybody eats, everybody's fed. Yeah. Yeah. And in this game, you can have a, you can still have a top is fed mid is feed.

You can totally. Yeah. No, there, there were moments where I was like a level 13 Gengar rolling up on like a level eight Pikachu and it might as well have just put the controller down and evaporated away because there's nothing to be done. There's, there's no hope here. So the key to the key to tea game to, as an aside, the key to team games for you is extremely short duration, like extremely short game time.

Not necessarily like, uh, I mean, you, I've enjoyed most of my games of league, even with shitheads. Um, and ironically enough, I did have one legitimately toxic game of Pokemon unite, despite a 10 minute timer in which I couldn't understand. I was doing pretty well and winning most of my fights, but my team was losing really bad until somebody in my chat pointed out that the Greninja, you know, my mini map had not moved for two and a half minutes and was sitting at the bait. Oh, well, you know, his mom called.

Yeah, this was fucking take the trash out. Nope. Because this was after a surrender prompt that failed. Oh, you have to all agree. Enough of you have to agree. And if you don't, then they just sit there salty. Yeah. And to it's credit and we'll have to see how it works out.

In Pokemon unite, you have 100 good player points. And if you get reported for being a shithead, either idling maliciously or feeding or, yeah, it's only, there's only two idling maliciously or, um, uh, uh, harassment, be it racial or sexual or what have you, um, you get, uh, I think it's a minus up to minus 10 good boy points a day or some per match. Okay. And once you dip below 80, you're not allowed back in a ranked. And once you dip below 60, you're not allowed to play with human beings at all.

Wow. But you can still play on offline. Huh. You can still play offline bot matches, but here's where the fuck comes in. You can only earn five good boy points a day. That's what I was about to say is how much can you earn back? Yeah. Five.

Okay. And you can see these points too. You can see your karma. If you, yeah, if you get three or four bad games in a row, you can get kicked like where you're a dick or people just don't like you. They can kick you down to the point where it will take like four or five days of bot matches to get back up. Can you go over a hundred?

No. Okay. So you can't store up good boy points. They'll give you daily rewards. You can't store up good boy points for a year and then have a month of apps. Yeah. You can't, you can't store up like karma. You can't store up end passes.

Yeah. Okay. All right. And then blow them all in one tirade. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Good.

That's important. So yeah, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a well put together stripped down MOBA that within one afternoon of playing, I'm like, this is too simple. I, I need, I feel like I'm playing the senior footsies of MOBAs here. Yeah. At the same time, it's a Pokemon game. It can't be too complex. It's a, it's baby's first MOBA.

You're right. Pokemon players, known dumbs. I mean, if you're, it's like Madden, if they were smart, they wouldn't buy it every time. Like if you're going to do it, right, then you do it in the way they're used to you where you put the EVs and the IVs in and you put in all the hidden depth while like making sure that on the surface level, the kids can enjoy their charisards, you know, it's funny because league has something like that. League has a four page talent spread that you can choose for each hero before a

match that I have never encountered anyone who liked it. Rune pages. Yeah. Everyone kind of seems to hate it. Now it is true that Poken is a fucking solid ass real fighter. And they, that they, that in design that they went with, that's like not quite baby's first fighter. It is, they have, they have done this before and it's true.

That's a good example. Yeah, but yeah, it's, it's just, it's, I'm just like, ah, it's too simple for me. And I went back and played a game of league and was like, this is too complicated. And you didn't, but I'd rather play the two complicated one. You didn't feel the call of the whale. No. I mean, part of, part of my immunity to Pokemon unites charms is that people are

like, oh man, Zoro were rise super broken. Oh, you should get him. He's good. And I'm looking at this, this Pokemon and I'm like, I don't know who the, what the fuck that is. What is that? Which one? Which one?

No, like, you keep saying it. Let me, let me, Zara aura, Zara aura, Zara aura, Pokemon. He's a move. Is there, is, is, is like a, like a Lucario Pikachu looks like. He's like a, it's like a lightning Zara aura. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Sure. That's a, that's a light. I don't know what the fuck that is. I feel nothing. I feel nothing towards this, this, this Pokemon. The design is pretty all right. That's, that's a, that's fine. Yeah.

I know anyone that's a Sonic fan is going to dig that design. Yeah. That's cool. Very mascotty. I like it. I suppose. But yeah, I'm like, I'm like, I got Snorlax and Matt champ in my free Pokemans and Gengar is free this week.

So I'm good. I'm good. I have what do I fucking need? Well, what you need is, is next week when Gengar is not free. Uh, man, I miss Gengar. I could, I could win with Gengar that hit that free sample. Oh, I don't know, man. I could, I could, I could win with Gengar.

Now I can't win anymore. Now that I don't have Gengar, should I pretty brilliant? Oh, Gengar is only eight dollars. Pretty brilliant. Not a, not, not dumb, not dumb. Yeah. I would not be surprised if I'm, I would not be surprised if, uh, a secondary team of specifically monetization experts came in and designed that side of the game.

Yeah, maybe. Yeah. I'd, I believe it. Um, it's something I talked about before, um, before my stream when I started Pokemon unite and I feel like the, the ongoing stuff with Blizzard, which I'm sure there's more in the news, uh, the, you know, there's no ethical consumption under capitalism thing. I feel like MOBAs are the absolute daggers edge of that point because I was like,

okay, who do we got? We have Dota run by Valve, uh, and Valve's a shithole place to work at and something recent, so a bunch of anti-trans stuff just came out of there. Of course it did. Okay, we've got Riot, which in every way that matters is Baby Blizzard, right, including some of the Blizzard employees we're going to talk about in a half hour. Um, then there's HOTS, which is deprecated and Blizzard, then we've got Pokemon Unite, which, hey, Nintendo's cool, except it's also made by Tencent, who owns Riot and has the

most predatory monetization specifically targeted to the game. Tencent, who owns Riot and has the most predatory monetization specifically targeted to children out of any of them. You got Spite. Yeah, it sucks. It's high res studios. I don't want to, I don't want to play Spite because it sucks. Well, so it's like, hey, do you want to play MOBA?

No, don't. And then to most people, the answer is okay. See, because I was going to say like, ooh, sounds like it's a big boys only world, but then it's like, not necessarily they're Smite, but that's, that's the answer to that, I guess, then I don't want to play fucking Smite. All right. Well, it before I streamed Pokemon Unite for the purposes of this discussion, I loaded up Paladins and Smite for about an hour and I played one match of Smite and I played a

couple rounds of Paladins and then I was like, I don't want to play these. Just don't want to, just don't want to do it. Okay. Okay. The bummer. Well, that is a surprising turn of events from the reveal, which was very, very, very shoddy looking, bad frame rate, and then last week, the, you know, the monetization system as well coming to light as something being really insane and exploitive.

Um, so I'm, I'm surprised that that's how that went. Hmm. That's a bummer. I do have good news in terms of stuff that I played this week. Uh, I've been watching Peach's little live, I play a lot of Dark Souls three lately on her stream, uh, of which she is streaming tonight, by the way, at eight o'clock, she's going to beat the game. Uh, check it out at twitch.tv slash peach 11.

I might be there. I don't know. But so I loaded up, uh, some old from software games. I load up Dark Souls three and I load up Sekiro. Uh, I remember after I beat Sekiro, I was like, man, I don't know. I feel kind of bummed out because I don't really have a lot of incentive to go back through it again with a different build or whatever. Um, and since then they added those boss rush modes.

I don't know if you were familiar with that. Well, yes. Uh, when I went back to it the other day, when I was finishing off, uh, my play through, um, all those updates were in, including messages and boss rush. So the messages are horrible. I don't know why they put them in because they're not messages. They're like 30 second replays. Bloodstains that you record that you have to record manually.

They're messages that are bloodstains. It's, it's like the weirdest implementation ever. Very strange. It's, it's really weird. Uh, but I am going through it again and, uh, I'm going to go unlock those boss, uh, those boss rushes because I deleted my file a million years ago. And I was overwhelmed with like, I forgot how good that game controls. Like it feels great.

It, it makes me really excited for Elden Ring, having a jump button. It feels at its best in boss fights. Yeah. It feels incredible. And my takeaway when I beat it was man, like, I know it's, I know, I know it shouldn't be, and I know that like it's, uh, I know that a lot of people don't agree with me on this, but like, I'm here for the boss fights and the boss fights only, you know, um, that was easily the only part I really fucking got into.

And even, and I'll, and, and, and that counts the super enemies as well. You know, um, the, any of those, those characters, uh, super enemies that you had to duel with were fantastic. Um, yeah, building it all around that, uh, would have been my, my, my perfect version of the game. So, like, have just having like the idea of like, I'm going to beat the game and then I'm going to unlock these, these boss trials. I'm going to do them and I'll get costumes to play through the game.

Like it's something I appreciate it. I'm having a lot of fun with it. Uh, but more interestingly, I think I mentioned the cinders mod to you literally one year ago for Dark Souls three, which was, uh, a gentleman named Vass, Kurt, what the fuck is his name? Oh my God. Um, Val Kyrza, who is just modifying Dark Souls three to include like everything that's ever existed.

I think all the bloodborne guns are in the ridiculous level overhaul of the game. Yeah. And it had been one year. So I decided to go to the change log and found that the last version I had played was 1.78 and that we're up to 2.07. And that's a guy who actually puts out like patches, like the patch after mine was 1.79, 1.81, 1.81 all the way up to 2.07. So I loaded it up and it was unrecognizable.

Like stuff like the Uchi's fucking whole move set had been completely changed. And I walk up to what is apparently an in-game universe difficulty selection screen, which now includes a version of Dark Souls three. That is just a pure rogue like boss rush. Wow. You can either choose a set order or a random order. And upon defeating the boss, it will give you a weapon, accessory or armor token that you can cash in for a piece of gear to continue your run.

And then it takes you straight to the next boss. Yep. And it's a random boss. It can be. You can do a set order, which is all the bosses in a row, like in the right order or just random. Give me anything. Oh, that's incredible.

That sounds great. And it's like, like I loaded it in and I started playing it. And the first two bosses I ran into were brand new. They were bosses the guy had made for the mod. Wow, of which there are now a bunch of them. I'm going over the change list and now bonfires are tied to killing the pursuer who is in the game and at least like 10 different locations. Like, it's it's it is my favorite mod for anything.

Every time I have gone back to it, it is a completely different game. And I went down to their discord and I asked, Hey, you guys are in the discord. You talk to the mod developer. There's two types of mods. There's I have the perfect mental picture of what I want in my head. And every update is getting closer to that. And then there's I wonder what would happen if I did this. This is definitely the second one.

OK, when I did a play through of it last year, the magic system got completely overhauled three times during that play through. Wow. And like rolled out, like didn't didn't do like a private build. And then let's see which one works and then you just go to the GitHub page and download it and put the folder in your game file folder. And you're done iterating on the fly. It's crazy.

Although, didn't you say, though, that like version updates means like lost progress? It can, but I never personally encountered that. OK, the main the main problem is that the vanilla quests that were in the base game break constantly now because shit will happen like you'll talk to Seagward and you'll be like, cool, hey, I'll do Seagward's quest. And then you'll you'll walk up to a new area. Sorry, an old area that has like a like an altar and you'll walk up to it.

And now there'll be a prompt on the altar that says commune. And it's a secret teleport that kicks you to 10 feet in front of the final boss. And now Seagward's quest is broken because you progressed insanely far. And all the triggers freaked out. We're OK, but. Like it's it's just so fucking crazy. Like I can't even go like I played it for an hour. And like I discovered like genuinely new mechanics

like he has a teleport system on messages he's hitting in the ground where I found a message that said gesticulation and I couldn't figure out what it was. So I tried every emote and then on the point up emote, it made me teleport up in the level to an inaccessible location to a secret chest. Like it's just there's there's now like invisible floors to bring you to items that you couldn't see. Like it's it's crazy.

It's the craziest thing ever. I've decided I'm going to start streaming it again this week because it's just nuts. Yeah, I'm playing Sekiro and I'm like, man, I wish Dark Souls 3 had a jump button. It's funny because that that jump button was the bane of my bad habits for a while. Yeah. Until coming back, like every time I came back to it is just like, ah, jump out of trouble.

And it's like, no, use the dodges for certain things. Use the jumps for certain things. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's it's the most ambiguous thing in the game. It's it's it's the most ambitious mod I've ever seen. Like a feature that was not there the last time I played it, but is now there is there is an NPC that sells you dirt cheap items that are a glamour cosmetic item slot for like almost every cool armor

in the game, including ones he imported from Sekiro. OK, see, but you see, I'm like, but I'm like, I'm just to me, and ambitious implies like pointing at the horizon and saying, we're going there. Whereas this is building the bridge underneath you moving forward, where it's like it's it's I don't know if ambitious is the right word because you're already there, you know, you're just going somewhere. I don't know. Your analogy has kind of fallen apart for me.

OK, it's like ambition is a future plan that is high, that is difficult. Oh, like there's a goal. There is a goal. It is lofty, and I am ambitious because I am saying we're going here, right? If he were to put out a list of like all the bosses and menus and fights and things he's going to do and then you look at that list and go, that's crazy. That's ambitious. But yeah, this is a different kind of.

Yeah, you're right. So I'll bring up I'll bring up a good example. In the last official patch, I think it was 2.06. This was now added when you start the game. You can choose to start anywhere in the game. Any starting location. You can immediately skip to New Game Plus and you can select between standard, wanderer, mythic and gauntlet new games, which are normal,

rogue like weaponry can't be re can't be buffed, but bosses will give you permanent damage boosts, so like a secular mode. And then I just straight up hard mode, which is more enemies, more damage, more everything, etc. The length souls players will go to to not be bored. Yeah, like like nothing else, like like nothing else. Like the absolute height of insanity of who this is for is when I walked up to a guy named Magnum Ursus and I asked about the right of insanity.

And it said summary or receive. And I clicked on summary and it said beat the entire game and defeat the final boss without taking any damage. And then the prompt you have failed came up because I had taken damage. Yeah, if this is just, you know, like for people who just they're numb and they need the need new stimulation, you know, I mean, when when when I heard about plague and the item randomizer runs at the big like in the previous games, like I was like, that's crazy.

This mod also has support for the item randomizer. Of course it does. So you can item randomize this fucking nonsense. I need a completely new experience that barely resembles what I know while still having the fundamentals that I have. Yeah, it's it's it's the most impressive thing the mod wise have ever played. And like every time and it's it's there is a genuine. Really incredible benefit to the mod creators like I'm going to do whatever

style of development because I've played, I think 11 different builds over the course of the like last year and a little bit before that and six months ago. And each of them was a totally different thing. Some bosses don't exist in certain versions of the mod. Some of them were added back in or changed or you remember when we did the DLC in the snow when you get to the bottom of the the pillar, there's like a big boss there that's supposed to be like a sif. Yeah, that got changed at one point to be a fucking rip of Artorias to be in there.

And then later got changed to be a completely modded ground up new giant boss. That is now there instead. And it's like. Like I could go back to version 1.31 and probably have a great time with it. Scholar of the first, second, third, fourth and fifth since whatever. Like more job doing more work than the than from soft on their own. Yeah. Now I've seen some people saying that stuff like Enderall or some of the New Vegas

like overhauls are more ambitious. I would disagree because when I look at Enderall, have you ever heard of this? No. It's a new game. A new game made with. Well, this is what I was about to say. Like I kind of don't consider that the same when someone takes an engine, someone takes GTA or Quake or something and just builds a completely new game out of it.

Yeah, that's that's something else almost. I feel like I feel that it should get more credit than being called a mod. That's a new game you've thrown, especially when they're not using old assets. You know what I mean? Like it's just replacing everything with your own original shit. The only thing you're using is the engine itself. It's like, yeah, that's that's that's that's yeah. I mean, like fucking Dota, right?

It's it's made out of Warcraft 3 parts, but it bears, as we can all tell now, precious little like actual meat compared to Warcraft 3. Like it's a completely different thing. But yeah, no, the sender's mod is incredible. And if you want to try it out, literally just type in Dark Souls 3 sender's mod, and it'll bring you to either the game's wiki page or the Nexus site where you can get like the last stable version. I will say there's only one really, really bad thing about the sender's mod. And that is because so much has been so exhaustively changed.

I will pick an item up and I will look at it and I will read its description and I will be like, I don't know what this fucking is and you have to go to the wiki and go to the game mechanics page because there are like 30 new mechanics. I got an upgrade material for killing a boss without getting hit that I couldn't figure out what it was for until I found out that you can give it to an NPC in chunks in order to take rings and turn them into their plus one variations. So yeah, if this is what happened in the course of a year since the last time you talked about it and I don't know how long this has been worked on,

this sounds to me like the kind of person who is going to do whatever they're doing and hit a point where they're like, okay, I guess I'm done. And take everything they've done and then just go make their own video game. It almost like when you have that level of mastery over the modding of something like this, you're already at the point where it's like, yeah, there's definitely his own project that he's going to start working on right after this. Alternatively, you'll hear about it soon enough. That would be really great. But you know what would be cool too?

If he got a hold of Elden Ring and just started ripping entire games into it. Sure. Are you familiar with the Tale of Two Wastelands mod? No. It's a mod for Fallout New Vegas that just fucking jams Fallout 3 into it. The whole thing. You go talk to a guy and goes, hey, I'm heading out to Maryland. You want to come along and they just drop you in Fallout 3.

Wow. Wow. With your character. And ever since then, that's been like the height. It's like, what if we took a game and just jammed it into the other game? So I look at Elden Ring and I go, what if you just... Just play Demon's Souls and Elden Ring. Yeah.

Just drop the Kanto region right in. Just mod the whole Kanto region. Kind of, honestly. It's a ridiculous statement, but there is a precedent. It has actually been done. But that is the move. When you hit a certain threshold of competence and mastery with modding, the only place to go is to then build your own game.

Make your undertale. This guy's gone through... Let's see. We're at 2.06 official changelog and the first changelog is 1.36. So I'm going to assume just he wasn't putting out changelogs for the 35 versions before that. So we're at over 200 variations of this thing that have included everything from weapon balance to importing incompatible files and models to creating new skeletons and rigs and gameplay behaviors.

And this guy's got to know what he's doing now. And also when you do shit like that, if each of these tasks is a lesson for you too, it's like, okay, how would I do this? How would I tackle that? How would these features work? And they're doing it with like a game series that in some cases is built weird and fucked. Right? Like the From Software games aren't the most intuitively designed or put together games.

So the full name of that again? Cinders. Dark Souls 3. For Dark Souls 3. Cinder's Mod. It's great. I'm probably going to rep it like every six months to a year. And if anybody who is listening to this is working on Fallout 4 New Vegas, please tell me how far away it is.

Because that will be the high bar for mods. Are you familiar with that one? Oh, there's a mod called Fallout 4 New Vegas. Yeah, and it's really simple. It's the Fallout 4 engines really good compared to the New Vegas engine. What if we just built it again? Built the whole thing over in the newer engine. And due to some legal shenanigans, they have to redo all the voice acting which they're doing and it sounds good.

Yeah, you can do that now. Yeah, you can reach out to these people and you'd be like, hey, this is my project. And they'll be like, yeah, sure. Every time they show off like a 10 second clip, it's like, oh my god, what if New Vegas played like a regular video game? Wouldn't that be crazy? See, like... So like when I was, when we were growing up, when I was a kid, it'd be like, oh my god, Scott McNeil is coming to anime north. And all these, you know, big grown voice actor people would be like showing up and you'd be like, ah, look at that.

It's them. It's the voices from the TV. But now it's like, oh yeah, Kira and my boy Octo are fucking killing it. Our peers, our friends, people that are literally just, you know, I'm like one DM away from like, hey, can you do a voice for my thing? Like whatever, you know, just professionals are just that accessible. So a really good example is like, and we are part of that group as well. Remerai, a gentleman who made our fan game, big fan of the show, recently put out his game on Steam, which I can't remember the fucking name of. Oh my god. I should probably, I'm going to go to my email. That's embarrassing.

That's super embarrassing. I'm embarrassed. I can't remember the name of it. I can't believe, I can't believe you forgot about Crimson Glaive Sigma. Crimson Glaive Sigma, that's what it was. It was right at the tip of my tongue. So you can check that out on Steam. But for example, there's a really familiar lady doing the opening text crawl. That hot new VTuber. Have you seen her peach saliva?

Look at that. She's the narrator. How'd that happen? Hey, you want to do a voice for my thing? Yeah, okay. That's where we're, that's where we are. That's where we're at now. Yeah, that's how it is. Like, why not?

And that's like, you know, some of these, some of these voice actors, it's like, what else are you doing? Oh, you're redubbing Bloody Roar 2. Okay. Why? Like, they have time. My question is why. They have time. It's not how, right?

It's not how, because it used to be how. Right, how'd you get these people? No, now the question is why? Because it fucking rules. Yeah, but it's also like 25 hours. I don't even know. It's the best. Oh, by the way, to put a point on my earlier statements about Pokemon Unite,

I would like to thank Gene, friend of the show, Gene Park over at the Washington Post, who literally 90 seconds ago posted his article, I spent $100 in Pokemon Unite. I still lost a lot, but that still also means it's pay to win. One-on-one wars of attrition were nothing to me. And those seconds and inches of HP matter in a game like this. Confirmed. Okay.

Because the person who did the big write-up on all the micro was kind of like inconclusive as to the full effect of how these buffs will affect your win-loss ratio, you know? But like, if it's like, no, you're going to win most of your exchanges if you go as heavy and as hard as possible, then yeah, that's pay to win. The best way that I can explain it is that, well, if you could pay $30 right now so that once a match in Guilty Gear, you would win a trade that you would have lost otherwise. That's that. Come on, right?

It looks like a small thing. I mean, that's, but it's actually a big deal. I mean, you're described, that analogy is being applied to a game that has touch of deaths, but like, yes, I get the point. This also has touch of deaths. If you hit a good stun and you have enough damage to kill them, they're dead. Because you, you, you, you peeled them? I don't know what, I still don't know what peel means.

Peel. In a MOBA. Is that what that's a MOBA term? Peel. It is a MOBA term. I don't know what it means. I've used characters and I'm reading the guide on how to peel and I'm like, what is this, what does this do? The act of reactively protecting an ally or carry, which can be achieved through a variety of possible actions.

What does that mean? Dealing damage to the enemy, either to make their attack distinctive or dispose of them. Oh, unstick an enemy off a teammate or yourself, like peel them off of you. Like, oh, like, hey, woolly, this dude's going to kill me in a second. And you go, okay, I will peel them off of you with my stun. Oh, so just, yeah, drawing aggro to take them off of one target towards you. Okay. Oh, it's a whole thing.

I see. That's, oh, I see. Well, that terminology makes more sense then. And used that way. I was, I was, what the fuck was I playing? I was playing Runeterra a few weeks ago on stream and encountered my first moment of like, scream at my chat. What is that? Like, scream at a person.

What does that mean? Because I was playing and everyone told me to go face. And I went, what is face? What does that mean? Somebody replied with the phrase, face is unga. And I like, there's nothing being parsed from that. There's nothing here. Definitely.

What is that? What does that mean? Anything else? Nah, man. If you want to check out, I'm on Mass Effect 3 this week. Woo. And Dark Souls 3 senders go down to twitch.tv. Pat stares at, and if you want to see somebody beat, somebody very big and strong and cool, beat Dark Souls 3 tonight.

That's vanilla. You can go down to twitch.tv. That's Monday, the fucking August 2nd, by the way. Correct. Yes. In case you're listening to this in the future. Wooly, what did you do with your week and or video games and or pop culture and movies or whatever? Well, I'll start with this.

It happened some time ago, but it's now officially done. My tattoo is complete. Hey, congratulations. That must feel very relieving. Yes. Yes. It's very nice to finally have that done. I haven't revealed this yet, and I'm going to.

And there's still a couple of touch ups, but it's it's done. It's done, you know, the. Well, you need to get into a fucking, I know, like battle of ideologies with someone. Yeah. And have your shirt untucked in a really stupid way so that you can do the full pole. I'm already looking into the button snap ups that I can possibly just like yank right off, you know. Yeah, no, that's that's a nice fucking. Hey, you know, don't have to think about that.

We can move on to other things. There's other ink I want to get, but the most important one is now done. Although again, like, I'm going to I'm going to touch it up a bit more with little little bits and pieces. Yeah, reveal at some point, you know, probably just, you know, the next next couple the next day or two or so. I want to see how they like the healing. I just want the healing to be even because the newest areas look darker than the the the rest of it. So, you know, you want that to kind of take the take its time to flatten out and such. That shit is from my neck to my spine and from you should fight clamps shoulder blade to shoulder blade.

So like my entire back is now covered. Have you seen Clemson's thing? I have not. He got the emblem of Jubileus just shoulder shoulder. Let me take a look. Huh, recently? Yeah, like like last week, like Jubileus, the creator from Bayo one. Yeah.

And he got it. One. Yeah, that's one shot. Yeah. Okay. Wow. Holy shit. Damn.

All right. All right. That is a pretty sigil. Very cool. I should get a back tattoo of dick butt. Tattoos are cool. No, wait, it should be of stevo. Holding dick butt.

There you go. Now there it is. Now you're thinking. Yeah. Yeah, I got to get moving on it, but I do I do want to get like full sleeves and a bunch of other shit too. So I want them visible, not just hidden. Where are you going to stop them at the wrist? I don't know.

Depends. Depends. Because like it's an interesting look to me when somebody has like the full like all the way down and then it hits like the little I guess you would call it the line of the wrist. Yeah. And it's just a dead stop. I like when you can see the art peaking from under the clothes. Okay. I think that's a fucking badass look.

And I want that. I want to accomplish that. You know, front neck back side sleeves, whatever the whatever the articles of clothing are being worn where you can see it kind of coming through a little bit. That's fucking. I love that look. Now what about the forehead? I think I'll keep my my big old forehead clear for now. Maybe maybe I'll put a giant diamond right in the middle like vision.

You know, yeah. And then I'll I'll flex with a big weird flesh color diamond. There's only one like forehead tattoo that I go, yeah, that's pretty good. And if it would have to be like Mr. Cool Ice's fake sunglasses. There's there is that. Oh man, I still think and like one of my favorite moments talking about tattoos was talking to you in which we discovered that Mr. Cool Ice was a German guy and suddenly it all just made sense. You can say Mr. Cool Ice in like a German accent. You're like, oh, that's the coolest guy in the world because everyone seems to not have any idea.

Lil Uzi Vert is a rapper that literally put a super expensive diamond in the middle of his forehead like vision. That seems bad. Yep. Created a weird scar when he did have to when he when he took it out. Of course it did. Of like, yeah. So that that literally I feel like that's bordering on like your doctor being immoral. Yeah, you can't go to see anybody and have that done.

You have to see the guy who's like, what do you want? You want a fucking gun in your ass? I'll do it. I don't give a shit. I'll fucking put it. Exactly. If you are famous, you can broadcast your intentions and then somebody knows a piece of shit that got their license that runs a fucking shop somewhere that'll go do that for you. Yeah, I'll do it.

Whatever. Definitely. I'm telling you right now, you got to sign this because you could die. Are you cool with that? Great. Okay, great. Like any time you see those like insane plastic surgery, surgery stories or like people are like literally their lips are Botox to the point where they can't close them. Or the golf balls in the cheekbones.

Yeah, and just stuff where it's like beyond insane or it's like kind of like freak show levels. And it's like, yeah, like somebody willingly put that inside. You found a bad person. Exactly. A bad person that is like, you know, practicing and willing to do this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, so no, that's cool. And, you know, more on that whenever, more on that develops. So you just got that finished? No, I got that finished weeks ago, actually. I just forgot to bring it up. So are you like, because I don't know if I've asked you this before, but like what's the what's the post tattoo on like your back because you're using your back to do everything in movement. So like there's obviously some soreness. How long does that take to go back to normal two days, three days?

Oh, okay. So you're you've been aces for weeks. Yeah, no, no, no, you put the you put the second skin on it. It heals up. You have that initial night of like, you know, like, okay, your body's adrenaline is kicking in. It's trying to heal over the ink. And then after that, you have a like a healing process for about three days. You eventually have to like take off the second skin and like wash the area.

But like from once you're like two, three days out, you're fucking fine. You know, how good and this is with like large, large patches of back. Like if you're doing a small shoulder arm or other thing, like it's I'm sure it's I'm getting mom tattooed on my on my ankle. You don't even worry about it. You know. Yeah. Okay.

Um, tell me about trash can woolly. Um, so yeah, we played some Runeterra. Boy. Yeah. That's a card game. It is a card game. Yeah. I thought it was okay.

I. My initial games, I made sure to get used to it off screen so that I could come in and just be like functional and grasp the, the like the systems that play instead of like, what do I click on and where, you know, there was a, you know, when the game came out a year ago, uh, there were, thank you, darling, there were, oh God, I want to say like 15% of the current cards, but more importantly, there was 10% of the current mechanics. So if I just fired into a game at launch, like the challenger was there and barrier was there and like three other things and I would mouse over them and go, okay, that makes sense.

Right. Now. That was like one year. That was one year. Holy fuck. Okay. Woolly the first you went through the, the tutorial thing where it's the challenges and it explains via tutorial every mechanic, right?

So, um, they, there's the intro when you first start up where you do a bunch of introduction matches that like, it's like how you play the game period. Then. Yeah. You get access to a number of basic decks and you do some like, um, yeah, like decks with like two champions in them and, uh, and then you kind of like try out two different styles and learning how to mix and match and do the thing. Um, the, then I saw the section with challenges, um, I, I did some of them because they each

teach you about a mechanic, but there's like 50 of them. Okay. So get this. They were all on a giant list, right? And by completion. And I think the fourth or fifth one was called deep. Right. And it was about deep decks.

That one was the first post launch one. Everything after that has been in the past 10 months. That's crazy. So when I came back to it, it took me like 90 minutes to be like, what the fuck is lurk? What is predict? What is nightfall? What is daybreak? What is, et cetera?

Yeah. Right. No, I, that's too much to keep track of in such a short period of time. Like Tepin rolls out new heroes and new decks. Like, uh, you know, every cut, like a new hero will show up every couple of months. Um, a new event will roll out like every two months, maybe. I don't know. It's almost like seasonal with the heroes, but, um, that's a fucking ridiculous amount.

It's a ton. If you're trying to keep up, it's, they've done an expansion every three months, uh, since launch and some of them, one of them, the last one that came out was like the, the Sharima one, the one that had the trash cans part of, uh, that one had as many cards in the expansion as the game's original release did. Fucking Christ, man. Um, so I, yeah, I did not make it down that list. It's just, it was way too many, you know?

Um, but I did go to look at like, you know, the characters that I was interested in or the mechanics I wanted to know about. Um, so yeah, I made sure to learn offscreen and I played a bit on my phone and then I played a bit on desktop and desktop is way better. Obviously you have more, it's obviously, I mean, it's not a, you know, much better. Why wouldn't it be? Yeah. And then, uh, you know, once I got, once I got the hang of that, then like, I basically

just did some AI matches, earned the right to go online and then fought some people. Uh, so overall, I think, um, yeah, I dig the system. I like what's, you know, the, the, what you're basically doing. Um, there's a couple of things that are, and as, because I'm coming at this with the like weird frico Tepin, uh, uh, game as my point of comparison slash the thing that happens by far the weirdest off the fucking thing game. And I like a bunch of weird things about what Tepin's doing. So playing Runeterra has shown me, uh, one, I like the, uh, the fact that you

pick a character and then a deck and it's not just a deck. Right. So Runeterra, you are playing, um, what I, what seems to be, you always have a combination of two different tribes. You can pick two different regions. Okay. You could go all in on one, but you can pick from two regions. So all the defaults introduction decks they give you are two color, right?

Yeah. Um, Tepin like doesn't give you that as a, like a base thing. Everyone's deck that you get is a single color and then you kind of can mix and match it if you want to go into two, or you can even go up to three with a heavily reduced, uh, AP. Um, but I like the fact that the character that I choose, like first has a special that's unique that I can affect the game with. And then I can also like build my deck around this character's trait, um, as

opposed to kind of just the champion cards in my deck. And then the, the Nexus ends up being pretty much like the same character on both sides. Yeah. The way it ends up playing out in Runeterra is basically like you're still picking a character usually, which is your, the champion card that you're building the whole fucking deck around. Yes.

Uh, but they've made it so that, uh, you can only pick two regions and the last region period is coming out. I want to say next two months from now or something like that. And then they're going to be done with regions. They're not going to be adding anymore. Okay. Um, but what, um, but what I mean is that like you, so you can still have a deck built around the champion, but like by having the character specific super, you all, it's

a third point of synergy when you're building the whole deck. So you, you still have like in tepid, you can still have champion cards, which are just high point, high cost, um, end game cards that are going to do a lot of cool things for you. And you have low point, like regular act action card spells and, um, and units, but like by building, whoa. Oh, hold on a second. Hold on one second.

We'll section. Throw this dog around. Okay. Well, all right. Well, we'll section it is for the moment then. Oh wait, that happens on your screen. Yes. The, the, the nega versus now a thing.

So it's a weird visual. Don't worry about it. Hey, I'm back. Wow. All right. Oh, I forgot my infinite willies all the way down. The third point of synergy is an extra layer of like deck building fun in a way where you're like, okay, I have this type of super, this type of champion, and then I build this

type of deck around these two things, you know, um, I like that about Tepin. Um, I like the timer, but it, that's not as big of a deal to me. Um, in the sense that like while I'm learning, especially you still have a turn and a countdown to when you counterplay. But yeah, you always have a perfect counterplay. So there's no action to it. That's fine. Like my experience with learning Tepin was like a pretty frustrating because what happened

was is that, um, because it's action based and I'd be, you know, I'd be playing like the starter Wesker deck or whatever it's like, I literally don't have time to read what this card does. Yeah. So I only have time to read what it does after I've already played it. So here's the other thing, right? And this is like, depends on how you approach these games and what you're willing to do. Um, I played the first couple decks, just feeling them out.

And as I drew something in my hand, I would read what it does and then make a decision. Right. Right. After that first couple games, I then went to the edit deck screen and read everything in the deck. So I'm like, I'm going in knowing everything I'm going to draw in advance so that I'm not unfamiliar. It'll just be a reminder of what I already read.

And I think that is a extra step that goes a long way towards enjoying a new card game. It takes some time to do it, but going in and learning what the full deck is instead of just reacting to what you draw initially, it just, you'll enjoy yourself more. The usual thing is that I'll, I'll build up a new deck that I usually pull off of like mobile litics or something and I'll play like five matches with it. And then I'm going to go and be like, okay, what are some of the cards I never saw? That could show up. What am I trying to go for?

What's my curve? Because the stuff where you're like, yeah, I don't have time to see what this card is doing and stuff. I felt the exact same way because when I was trying to figure out what the best play was, I'm reading through the card descriptions on my side and on his side and on every turn the countdown timer is like, dude, you got to play. So it's a weird thing because that style or that, that situation used to be really easy because there weren't that many fucking mechanics.

But now that if you're loading into a match and you're like, okay, I need to figure out why this guy is lurking and day breaking and I need to look at my neverglade collector and figure out what it's going to drain from in the all chaos. My turn's over. And then, but then going in and reading every card just nullifies this problem entirely. So it's just literally do your homework and you won't have this issue. And it helped too because then when I played a game against somebody who was putting out spiders and I was like, oh, I know, good old spider aggro.

I know that you want spiders on the board. And if I have the choice to either trade and kill off both of our units this turn or just pass, I'm going to trade and kill because less spiders on the board means you're going to have a harder time leveling up your spider lady, Elise. So the, yeah, Elise. So this is a good example of the different tack that Tappen versus Runeterra takes where when Runeterra wants to add a new character, they put a new card out. They just say, Hey, here's a new fucking card.

It's Trashcan, which I'm sure we'll get to in the end. Or it's Viego, which I saw the clip of you reading Viego's fucking actual ability. Viego's ability is insane. It's super busted. Super simple. If you can get it to proc. Super simple, super good. Right.

Okay. New character. And now you can put that character into an existing deck or mix and match. And so the actual character list, right in air quotes, if Runeterra is enormous, I think there's 45 champion cards at this point, right? With Tappen, you do get that because it's it's been extricated from the card decisions. It is a third point of synergy. But when they want to make a new type of character, they have to go, they have to build out a

whole fucking new character type. And the the benefit to that is obviously like, I mean, I played a Wesker in their gigante deck and they're both black decks, but they both were doing completely different things. Yes. It was really cool. Yeah. But when I look at, um, let's say Timo, I don't know if you ran into Timo, I sure did. Timo is the best incorporation of his league counterpart, because Timo in league is an

invisible little rat bastard, the rat minds your garbage and makes and makes it an infuriating ordeal to walk down your lane in, in that has been perfectly replicated here. Okay. But I have Timo in five poison mushrooms is a lot, man. It's a lot. Did he get to you? Did he get to level up and hit you? I hooked him.

I hooked him. Both times. Okay. But did you see what the act would actually happen? It becomes 10. Doesn't it? Or whatever. What was as dub?

No, Willie, he hits you for five poison mushrooms. The level up isn't that he doubles the amount of mushrooms he does to you. It's that it doubles the amount of mushrooms in your deck. So you get like, you cast a bunch of spells and get like 30 mushrooms and then he hits you and it's 60. And then he hits you and it's 120. And then you just die. You're going to die in this many turns.

Yeah. Sometimes it's one, but I have a Timo deck that's based around elusives. I have a Timo deck that's based around control. I have a Timo deck that's based around burn. I have, et cetera, based on who I paired him up with. Did I pair him up with Draven? Did I pair him up with Ezreal? Did I pair him up with whatever?

And so that's where like it's not quite as distinct on its face, but you get to mix and match and it does some different things. And so once again, you can, so in Tepin, you can still do that, right? But it's, but like I said, the overall difference in like, yeah, those abilities makes a, makes a massive change. Because so you mentioned Wesker and Nurgigante, um, Wesker, uh, uh, like, and Nurgigante can both be playing black decks that are all doing damage to you as you play them. You know?

Yeah. I played one of those. Exactly. Like sacrifice your cards, kill other cards, take, take some hits, right? But like Wesker's whole thing is like, get as many cards in the graveyard as possible so that I can resurrect them. And also like with more things in the graveyard, I'll have abilities or whatever, whereas Nurgigante is like, fuck the graveyard, all the sacrifice damage I've taken, I'm going to now throw

back at you as my super, you know, um, which is appropriate for Nurgigante. Yeah. So, so, you know, so like, again, it's, it's that, that, that extra vector in addition to the, the, the doubling of the heroes and such, but, uh, what, what I, um, yeah. So I, I did that, uh, and then I like what I really like is the, um, the conditions for leveling up being, um, sometimes they have to be in play and see the conditions, but sometimes they don't, that's fucking cool because there's nothing, there's nothing like that that I've been in Tepin, for example, where a level up condition can be pre-obtained

before they even get drawn out. When you see Yasuo in the deck, be like, oh, he's ready to go and I know I have a lot of stuns. That's fucking cool. I like that a lot. My favorite deck in the game, even though it's not that good, but it's my favorite to play is what's called a deep deck and it's a deck that's filled with sea monsters that enormously increase their damage and health once you only have 15 cards left.

Yeah. So the, the point of it is that you're drawing bullshit to throw away as many cards. Get to the, get to the halfway point, right? And Nautilus is a hero, even further than that. You start with 40. So get down to 15. So you're, you're tossing, you're throwing everything out. And Nautilus is the hero that this deck is based around.

And he's my favorite hero in the game because he starts with 13 health and toughness, which means he's super durable and zero attack and he can't hit you at all, but he can block. But if you are deep and you place him on the board, suddenly he has 12 attack and he puts every single sea monster that costs more than four back into your deck and now they cost three less to play. Oh yeah. Okay. So if you hit deep and pull Nautilus, all of it just goes, yeah, yeah, cheap, free access

to monsters that are pretty strong. Yeah. Um, but make, make it to, make it to having only 15 cards because you're playing a shitty control deck until then and everybody can kill you. Yeah. Well, make sure you're, yeah. So there's, that was the other part too, where it's like, ooh, um, unavoidable damage from your Nexus at some points, if you want to play properly, that took a lot of getting

used to because in teppen, like almost, you want to block everything, you want to block everything. Right. And that was a part that like people were watching going, no, Willie, just pass. What are you doing? And I'm like, no, I don't want my Nexus to get damaged because that's what makes the game end. And it's like, yes, but if your units die, then you can't fight back, you know, and it's

like, yeah, because attack turns and defense turns are not the same thing in teppen. They're the same thing. So playing my card and playing your card, we trade and then it all comes out in the wash. We see whose numbers do better, but when you want to get that double value, you want to get that one point card to kill too, but the part, but the fact that you can be on defense and end up blowing your hand and then comes to offense and you've got nothing to play. Yeah.

That like, then it's, it makes a lot more sense. But so that division took me, it was one of the hard ones to get used to. It was like, no, sometimes you take the damage in order for a better play. Um, yeah, it's the, the, the, the champion mechanic either being visible or not, has a bunch of fun little knock on effects. You have champions that need to be in hand and see things happen. Suddenly the whole game for five to six turns becomes around. I want to kill that.

I don't want to let you kill that. And so you have all these weird, you want to see your chick. You want to see your girl. Yeah. Boom. Yeah. Blower up. Just as soon as you get that girl out, fucking thrower.

Is it Darius? I think it's Darius. Hi. Oh, no, you're thinking of Lucian. Oh, excuse me. Excuse me. Like, if you see your girlfriend die, he gets double fucking turns or whatever. It's just like, all right.

He has double ass. Sorry, bro. It's the best buff in the game. Yeah. They attack before the enemy and simultaneous. They can kill anything with that. All you got to do is just what make him watch his girl die. No problem.

The, the like, I totally agree with you with that. There's a million mechanics that are all like, they're all doing something weird, but it has led to a situation where there's a bunch of really bizarre interactions now that are possible when you mix and match weird ones, which is what I find really fun. I like that. So there's a good example. There's a deck that I'm running called severe Zed combo, which you must have seen Zed at some point.

He summons a shadow version of himself, the ephemeral attacker. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you run severe and her thing is once you've seen, I think it's 30 damage total done to enemies, to what have you, her keywords become everyone's keywords. So she has spell shield and quick attack suddenly everything on your board when they attack has spell shield and quick attack keywords, keywords, including keywords are our card

properties, keywords, a card property, challenger, lurk, sure, tough, whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Regenerate. So suddenly everything has spell shield and quick attack means you can't cast any spell to stop them and they'll insta kill anything they beat in power. And the whole deck is building up to I want to level her up and have a couple units and then put them and then nothing can stop it.

Yeah. There was one card was like tiramir or something like that. It's like a big Viking guy. Oh, tiramir. Yeah. Holy shit. I die. I come back way stronger and idea if I die, I level up and also he has what to me seems

like the most valuable thing from what I've seen. That was it. The ability that like any leftover damage hits the Nexus overwhelm fucking that sounds like how you win a game because what you want to would if you wanted to block him, you'd block him with the lowest value unit possible because he's going to do tons of oh no, but it's going to eat through because yeah, like every that's the whole system that again, I had to like learn was like, don't match heavy hitters to heavy blockers. The weakest bullshit possible to block sacrifice exactly sacrifice weak cards to heavy blockers.

They'll die and then your your your heavy blockers will actually a heavy attackers rather and your heavy blockers will take a take a one or two or nothing if it's like by you know, and then you just keep on rolling. So yeah, so what you want to do is you want to have you you hope that you have a card in your deck that kills enemy unit that recalls enemy unit recall that makes that makes your unit invincible. Right. That frostbite which gives him zero attack for one turn.

You know what have you. I like Yasuo. I like Samurai. So it was fun. He's cool. Yasuo is an infuriating control deck and I was like, I'm like, fortunately, the character that I thought was cool also has a really dope ability that I that wasn't like lame. So picking on aesthetic didn't bite me in the ass this time and getting getting to see

what his deck was like, especially when you pull out Yone, especially when you pull out the other stunner cards and things like that. I forgot the one where there's so many now. I even there's a there's a there's the there's the like the cat with the sword or whatever the furry with the sword and you play it and it could be anything. Yeah, there's a furry with a sword. And when you play it, it stuns two people. I want to say, oh, that's a good card.

You know, that's it's great. Leona also who comes out and stuns the strongest, you know, that's really she's really good. So yeah, all of that is is is really is really nice. And then what I did was the I looked at his ability and I was like, OK, what can I do to make this all really, really work together? And I started looking into the cards I don't have because and I saw like what if you played Yasuo and is it rivet not Riven, it's Riven, evil guy who has a boat, who evil guy who has a boat.

I'm think is Swain. So I want. Yeah, I maybe white hair. What was his ability? His ability was once you. Yeah, it was Swain, Swain, Swain. Yes, yeah, well, yeah, once you once he sees up to 20 non direct damage, he levels up to something that like I think it like causes stun on it was it was it was a really good

stunning ability, basically, I will pull it for you. Yeah, I'm I'm I don't remember the full because I didn't get to I didn't get to actually play with them together. Every time you damage the nexus, he had like a bunch of stuff when you deal any non combat damage to the nexus, you'll stun the strongest enemy, so the strongest back row enemy. And if you hit the nexus, you'll deal three to everyone and the enemy next right. So if he manages to hit the nexus, you'll basically wipe the entire other side of the board.

And also there's a yeah, everyone who stunned right or something like OK, there was another thing that was like do damage to every to everyone that's stunned or something like that. Then there was like a bellowing that would be Yasuo. Yes, he did. Well, he does his that he does his slash. Yeah. And then there was a bellowing bellowing roar.

I think it was it was like a minotaur card that would like again cause every so you just have this crazy thing of like I'm stunning everything. I'm cutting everything and I'm when I hit the nexus, I'm getting you know, there's like whatever you pull out, I'm fucking it up. The what I would say is that if you're the type of person who likes to make a combo deck, Runeterra is probably for you because there are a shit zillion different combinations you can do. There are there's a character named Sanjuani hit the nexus when she's leveled up and she

frostbites everyone, which puts their health, their attack to zero, but then you can throw you throw a deck in there that says kill all enemies that have a power less than three. So just bam, the whole board wipe just done. Yeah. You have one of my old favorite decks, which is Thresh, who levels up after seeing six units of either side die. And when he attacks, he pulls a champion out of your deck to attack with you. So you would get the enemy health to 10 and then you would level Thresh up and then you

would attack and then Darius would just come out at full strength leveled up and hit through whoever the fuck was sitting there. There's all sorts of just bizarre interactions on an aesthetic level. I can definitely see like, yeah, there's no contest between pulling up the artwork on a teppen tile versus like full screen with a little laureate at the bottom. Every piece of artwork is like over fucking emphasized in wild. I couldn't believe the way they did it. And if you've played the mobile version, it's it makes more sense.

Every card is actually a huge 16 by nine wallpaper wallpaper that for the card that you would hold in your hand is done vertically. But when you place it, it gives you a wide shot of it. And on the phone, the vertical one is a zoomed in of the character's head to be more readable. Yeah, it's just like this is a giant, giant piece of art for a card. And on top of that, when you have your level up animations pop, like it's always a big old fancy, crazy, overwatch, alt quotable line. It's really that funny.

That's a girl talking about the sun. Oh, yeah. I don't. Leona, I guess it's Leona. Yeah, I'm I'm not up to date on my League of Legends characters. It's really, really funny to see the difference between the characters that came out last year and their level up animations in the ones that came out over the past three months. Because if you saw Garen, Thresh, Darius, et cetera, level up, the card like does a

little spin and maybe a weapon will be held by the card and do a cool thing. But the card is the one doing it. And now it's like it levels up and it zooms into a CG movie of the character doing something. Yeah. And it's like, OK, you guys are probably going to go back and make Thresh and Darius's shit look a little better in the next round. I saw there was like an Egypt themed dude who was like a mummy's alive character. And I was like, what's your dear? He's the one he's my favorite character.

Yeah, his deck right now. Like I went to his tutorial and then like I saw his level up animation and it was just like, holy fuck, we just cut into a big like resurrecting the fuck. I am the Sharima is sand and sky, past and present or tell the people what you saw here today. Yeah, it was insane. Like I was like, that's big, expensive money. So of course, you know, and why wouldn't it be? It's a fucking League of Legends based card game.

Yeah, so a big Chinese on all that, plus the not even talking about the skins of like if you want to get like cosmic Yasuo or whatever. Those are for like insane people. The people who spend $14 to change the look of the card itself. Those people are nuts. I mean, that's the kind of thing where like if I play for a while and I'm like happy with my deck and I and I'm enjoying using it and I'm going to stick with it. I don't I don't mind supporting the game and going, yeah, I'll buy a cosmetic.

I like this, you know, yeah, that's totally fine to me. The I'm it's just wild because those are 15 bucks, but the boards that are a completely different board and musical theme are 10 bucks. OK. And it's like, what? But that's but I'm still so much happier to do something like that than to spend fucking a hundred on Phoenix, right? Or, you know what I mean? Like the level of insanity on like the random draw to get like one of some

of those rare skins is just like, go fuck yourself. Like, I'll pay the 14 or 10, you know? So that's like we're talking about it. And like that's the part. So I spent I spent eight dollars on cards like the second day that I played it back when it came out, because it was one of those starter things that it's like 97 percent off and they give you like a hundred cards or whatever.

But since then, I haven't spent a dime on it one way or the other. And I played it for two months back when it came out and I've been playing it for the past month. And I have about 55 percent of all the cards. Wow. Just through playing. OK, it's really, really generous. Are you constantly switching your your progress roads? I'm sweet. I'm switching them.

I got everybody to the first champion box. And then I switched them again until I got the card back. OK. And then when I'm done that, I'll switch them again and go through all of them. So I didn't get to the two things to the two complaints that I have. I wasn't quite done. Let's hear one was one. I was theory crafting a deck of Swain and Yasuo stun built and such.

I saw there was stuff like like a lot of that would be like, oh, there's a great card that can stun any unit, but it's slow. So what if they deny it? And I'm like, OK, well, I have to have my own denies on hand, right? So like I looked up that because like, yeah, I'm like, I'm like, what's the equivalent of negate? Everybody has some kind of deny equivalent now. Yeah. Back when the game came out, most regions didn't.

OK. There was only deny. That was the only one when the game came out. So I mean, to this day, like in Tepin, bald faced lie, I think it's called, where it's like it's just a card of Ada lying to Leon or whatever. It's just like, yeah, this is the card that says if you're doing a spell under six or something, you just cancel it and it's simple. It's cheap. It's easy.

It's like, fuck, fuck. There's other more expensive denial cards, but like, that's the base. That's the bear, the bare bones, you know? So I'd want to get one of those. And I started building up the deck. And so this was really I found this pretty annoying is like, I like hypothetically building something and then I can unlock what I want, what I can towards eventually being able to play it.

You cannot build a hypothetical deck out of cards you don't own unless you scan it in from someone else. Yeah. So I basically just hit up a wall where I was like, oh, I can't drag like the extra cards that I don't have into this container right now and save it until I actually earn them or whatever. And like, that sucked. I don't like that because I the theory crafting process when you're building a deck, at least, you know, when I'm playing tepid and stuff is big.

It's like, you got to sit down. You got to do a lot of reading. And then sometimes I have to save like two versions of a similar deck, you know? And then like and realize I'm like, OK, there's two cards difference here. Let me try and like crush some dust and go recycle it into something else and then try one out. And like, it doesn't let me play that game. You know, I have to get someone else with a lot more cards

to have to send me a code or something to do that. So that sucks. I couldn't I couldn't build decks as easily and didn't know that existed, honestly. That sucks. It's a huge part of like, yeah, like when I'm playing Akuma in tepid and I'm like trying to I'm like, no, this card's not working. Put in this one or drop this to two and pull in this to three.

Like I have multiple copies of the same deck and a bunch of the times I'm I'm I'm leaving in just a gray card, you know? But that's that's an important part for the theory crafting part. If you're just net decking, then you don't need to think about this. You just grab what's out there feels like they want you to net deck because of the like the the import feature is really, really smooth. Yeah, and it's and it's smooth and tepid as well. But but the net decking process does have to start with someone, you know?

So someone has to do it. And like, I just want to be able to to make a target deck that I can be excited to build towards right now. I'll tell you what I said when you were playing Runeterra, we always go back to Sorry, we always go back to Teppin because it's my only point of reference. Guys, I didn't play magic if I played magic or Yu-Gi-Oh, I'd be talking about Magic Yu-Gi-Oh, but I thought that'd be obvious. Apparently this this one's like really it's trying to be magic

the gathering, but with the characters, like it's trying real hard. It's much more in that vein. But cards didn't turn sideways at any point. I didn't tap anything. So yeah, it's true. Um, I will say something again when you were playing Runeterra on stream and I was streaming Pokemon Unite, I got really excited and I yelled out, Oh man, I'm going to kick the shit out of Wully at Runeterra.

Haha. And then people are like, do it now. I'm like, no, I'm going to wait like if he keeps playing it, I'll wait like six weeks until he actually has a bunch of cards and can build a deck to which somebody said, but will he's way better at building decks than you are, which is true because I don't know how to do that shit at all. But you're not as good at building decks as Swim or Mogwai, who's who I steal all my decks from, sure, like everybody else.

Yeah, yeah, there's a fucking, there is a, so Mobilelytics is the website for Runeterra where you would go to see decks and there's a button on the screen that says tier list and has the curated decks by EG Swim ready to be pushed out and for you to fill them in. Yeah. And now that is a brilliant move because anyone who does copy that can go, well, time for me to spend a fuck ton of money, wail out and get these cards. You know, so if you have a, if you have a champion's deck that is all shit you

don't own, then you look at that as like, well, I just need to get it, spend enough money to craft all the things I want. That happened to me six weeks ago because I got back into it and I had Darius and Thresh and Elise and Draven and a couple others, not much else. And I'm looking at the tier list and I'm like, I don't see a single one of their fucking names up there on that tier list. Shit. So then I went to MobileLytics's thing and like, give me a popular deck using

Elise and Darius and I got one and I played with that deck and a couple others that I could cobble together that were decent and earned, I want to say like 13, 14 champion cards or the associated shards in that six weeks. And I'm now running three or four of the decks on that tier list. Getting the like the 40 card limit and the two region limit has made it so that if you play for like two months, you can get whatever the fuck you want. Okay. And right now I'm not even getting cards to fill up new decks.

I'm getting them to fill up my backup of wild cards so that when there is something I want to play, I just go and get it. So it's being generous. That's good. That's good. Because yeah, I was trying to build a deck on stream, you know, I was trying to craft the deck on stream and it just did like, I had, I had a wall. I think the reason why they're cut, they, they get away with that for most people

is that after one week on the Thursday, like, let's say you play three games a day, uh, once a day for one week, that Thursday unlock of I saw, I saw the Thursday thing, it's enormous. It's a shit ton of stuff. And it's a ton of shards that you can use to buy whatever. Okay. I felt as somebody who has wasted a bunch of money on warframe, hats and loot boxes, I felt no incentive at all to actually go and buy cards.

Well, I can say this. Um, I am currently undefeated on stream. I have a perfect 100% six and oh, I'm sure not. I have lost most of my stream games. I choke under pressure for sure. So I get to, I get to just put that in my pocket. Uh, hey, you're big, you, one of your big complaints was the deckbuilding, but you said you had two.

Yes. Um, and this, this one is the biggest one, but I, I, it time will decide whether or not it stays in place. The main attraction about the system is the sub turns. There are major turns where you get the attack token and then I get the attack token and within those turns, there's action, sub action, sub action response. And again, Teppen has the response timer that goes back and forth. And yeah, they have their own mode for that instead of just being part of the

turn, but what's called instant response, instant response, right? Now I, maybe it's just the way it's presented, but like the instant response thing changes the board around into a different state where I'm, I know you're an instant response time. Everything you can't play is grayed out. Everything you can play is active and then you can drag it in and do the whole thing and then like, and the timer goes and whatever, right? I'm getting so confused as to when I can and cannot act in these sub turns.

Yeah, that's, that's going to go away with 20 more games. And what really annoyed me was when I could not act, but I still had to press pass and I'm like, yeah, don't just, just, just do it. Just don't make me do a nothing turn for confirmation. I, it was so annoying because it just, like, I'm like, I'm having the hardest time getting used to that flow of like, okay, you played a spell, I get a chance to respond, maybe depends on if it's fast or not. But at first I was like, Oh, are there, I thought there was like a set number

of actions when I get the token versus when you get it. And then it just, it just like, it was, there would be times when it wasn't clear whether or not, um, that was the final action of the round. You know, when it come back to me or not, I don't know. And I, there's, there's two things there. One of which is whether or not it's the final action of the round can depend on the opponent's response. So let's say the opponent hasn't attacked and I'm sitting there and I could

cast a spell, right? If I cast a spell, he gets another just decision whether or not to attack beforehand. Yeah. Before you even like, you end, you end up in this bizarre situation where you're both sitting on like tons of mana and he's waiting for you to pull out a card that he can kill. And if you don't pull out anything, he won't do anything.

Um, as for your other thing, there is straight up in the general options. The first option that you can see is enable auto pass, auto pass. I did see that. Yeah. And when you turn that on, it says you can't do anything and it just clicks the button for you. Okay. And so I'm seeing people say that that's good.

That's not good for meta. Um, but like in terms of just learning the flow of the game, I was getting really lost in like, uh, a couple of moments where I'm like, okay, if he does a spell, I know I can, I have time to respond with a spell for the most part. Um, but then there would be times where it'd be like, okay, now am I moving my defenders up or am I waiting for him to put one up? And then once he does and I put mine up and I click this, are they going to clash now or are there going to be, or is there going to be another turn

afterwards? Because sometimes we would put them up, but then it wouldn't be over. Right. There would be another action and I was this, this, this will integrate over time, but the, the long and short of it is that the spells all have notes on them as to when you can play them, right? Bursts, you can play anytime fast. You can play most of the time.

Slow, only play out of combat and then focus. You can only play out of combat and something else. Um, the general thing is that the game doesn't make it clear enough to a new player, what is a combat action and what is the summoning phase? There's nothing on the screen that actually tells you you're in combat other than the fact that people are in the center of the board. Yeah. And if you learn the center of the board, summoning is over.

Right. And if you, the swords on your side, it's your attack turn. So you're playing. Yes. Yeah. But that's the one thing where I was just like, when we're in the spell mode, well, again, when you're in the active phase and Tepin, the board fucking chain, it's a completely different thing.

You can't possibly mistake it, you know? Yeah, you're completely right. For a new player, I was not confused when instant action happened or instant reaction and I knew exactly what it wanted and a great out. Shit I couldn't use and there were a number of times where I was like, I'm defending, he hasn't put anything up. I guess I'm going to put my things up. And also, and this is much more minor, but it was like, I was trying to

drag my cards to the back row where they sit when you play them. And the game was like, no, no, no, you drag them to the front row. And then they slide to the back row. And I just, and I kept trying to be like, but it highlights the back row. I just want to drag it there. They're actually, they're actually in the last patch, like earlier this week, they put out a feature that is experimental for right now until they get it working, which is click to action.

Oh, interest, which is for desktop, which is literally click to play card. Click on it. Okay, interesting. Yeah, no, I wouldn't want to do that because there's too many times I'm examining the card to see what's what it does and sliding through its mother and shit, but that's, that's, that's, that's a thing that bothered me the most, I'd say. The, the auto pass thing is really interesting because, uh, I would

absolutely tell you to start using it for a while, but if you were playing a bunch of ranked games and you were getting up there, turn it off because it'll do things like, okay, turn one, give you more time to think. No, not even that, not even that. Turn one, you have the attack token, right? You have one, uh, you have one mana, right? Under normal circumstances, you look at your thing and go, Oh, I can't play anything. I don't have anything that's one mana.

Oh, and then you hit pass, right? If auto passes on the instant the turn lands, it'll just instantly flip the, the core of the thing, but faster than a human could do it. And you have now told the other guy, you don't have anything to play at one mana. It went from being a choice to a, to a broadcasted. There is not a single one man, a unit in this guy's hand. Okay. Or there's not a single two man, a unit or, and the speed at which it does it is

not, is like, not the same as. They'll, they'll, they'll put down a spell that'll kill your guy and you have nothing that you can actually play and it just autocompletes. Yes, yes, it tells them you didn't save your deny. You don't have a deny that makes a lot of sense. Okay. I understand. That's a really good reason for that to, to not auto pass.

Okay. So it's fair enough. It's there. I have it on right now and I'm getting to the point where I should probably turn it off because I'm in gold and people are kicking my fucking ass. No, that's a really good reason. But I, I, I, then I, then I'm just going to say, I wish like things were more clear in, yeah, you know, in that regard.

Um, I don't blame you. Um, you're, you're right. You know, there could be a slightly more intuitive way in order to, uh, show off like a spell phase or combat phase. Yeah. But I, but I did have fun with it and I did see that like, you know, um, yeah, there's a point where it's like, Oh dude, you're fucked no matter what. And it's like, are you going to pass?

You're going to write it out to the end. And I'm like, I'm, I write it out to the end because I'm like, I can't, I'm like, I've, I've come back from one health in Tepin sometimes, but when you see that it's like, no, you've gotten no answers to this. Um, yeah. And thanks to rent. Thanks to the eyeball, which is like the preview button, which is fucking amazing. The eyeball is so good.

It's the, it's what tells you whether or not you should surrender or not. Yeah. Yeah. It's exactly it. Should I give a, yeah, totally. The eyeball is incredible. That's a fantastic feature. Um, for a turn based game.

Uh, yeah, I, I, I eventually that surrender button gets real useful because you'll look at what they have and you'll look at what you have and you look at your hand and you think about, is there anything in my deck at all that if I got drawn next could save me from this? Nope. All right. Click, click, surrender. Good game.

Do the, do the, do the hand palm emote with Shen to tell them good game. The other, I don't know. Someone waved at me with the, the blocking guy and then I waved back. Braum. Yeah. Someone said that's BM. That's, yep. I don't know.

That's not BM at all. It's, it's, it's GM at the start of the match. Okay. BM at the end of the match. Okay. Um, if you want good manners, you wave at the beginning and when you realize you have lost or the, whatever you do, the, the, the, the Shen emote, you'd be like, that was a good game.

Pretty much every other emote is you being an asshole. Okay. Especially the crying ones, because if you use the crying ones when you beat them up, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. Uh, the other amazing feature is the history button. Cause a bunch of times I was like, what the fuck just happened? Cause some cars use that cast spells that I've never seen and I'm reading the

spelling that happens that I was playing when we were talking before the podcast started because somebody used a card I had never seen that had an effect. I didn't understand. Yes. And it killed my whole board. Yeah. And I was like, what, why did it kill my whole board? Yeah.

And I please go look at that card a little more closely, please. Exactly. You know, and, and since Tepin is action, you do, you have to go look at the, you have to go watch the replay of the match over, you know, um, but in this case, you just scroll down and that's nice. What sucks about it though, is that you can't examine any cards shown in the history tab. You can just see them in a small thumbnail.

So I saw some cards I'd never seen and I could read what they said from the thumbnail, but I wanted to click on them to examine them and I couldn't, you know, so I was like, ah, did you right click on them? Yes. I think you can. I did. Ah, weird. Bomber.

Um, yeah, but, but anyway, like, um, all of that made a lot of sense. And in the end it was, it was very enjoyable. And then on my way out the door, um, it asked me to pick a fucking faction and I was like, Oh, yeah, because the events happening. Yeah. You know, and then I was like, uh, I, for a second, I thought the, the cosmic skins were the same as the sentinel skins. And so I thought, I'm like, Oh, maybe I can get cosmic Yasuo with this one or

whatever. And it was like, I made the mistake, but whatever. Click done. That's an old event, unfortunately. Yeah, it's fine. And then it's like, Hey, you got, uh, action. Or ash can, ash can, whatever. And I'm like, cool trash can.

What's this? And then the, the, the, the clip parts one through five or four, explain everything you need to know. Cause it took me fucking four or five clips to actually read what this character does. It's the most complicated card in the game by multiple orders of magnitude. And it came alongside the same character being added to league where he is also the most complicated character in the game by orders of magnitude.

And I look at him and it's interesting because he's a decent card. Right now he's fun to use and he's got lots of crazy shit people said he sucks a bunch of them. He sucks ass in league for sure. Okay. He is bad in league. I looking at that, like was immediately the first thing I thought when I saw that list of sub cards, scroll off the screen was, Oh no, this is the latest card.

And this is what the game has become. And the beginning is what, is what I was simple and easy. And now it's all about these. That's what I thought was about to happen because the card that came along with him was the other character. Diego has an incredibly simple mechanic. Kill your, your card or steal your champ. No, kill your champion or steal your card.

Yeah. Yeah. That's it. How do you get there? Watch your allies die. And once the power hits a certain number, bang, bang, boom, games over. So yeah, there was a lot to process in this, in this tap, in this rune, Tara, rune, tap in the rune, Tara, quickly, right?

But I did. I took a look and those videos will be coming out on the channel. Shortly. Um, and yeah, pointed out in the chat earlier that card games have almost the exact same problem as the MOBA thing we were talking about earlier, where it's like, do you want to play the riot card game? Do you want to play the Blizzard card game? Do you want to play the CD project card game?

Do you want to play magic? Do you want to play? I don't know what's wrong with magic. I assume there is something that's horrible by magic. Do you want to play the Yu-Gi-Oh, which is owned by Konami? Like fucking fuck. Yeah. Um, a lot of people asked, you know, like, so, so, as in like, what, what's next?

And I don't know. I thought it was all right. Uh, I got nothing for you, but here's what I'll say. I won't uninstall it. I'll leave it installed. All right. I can understand people's desire because Runeterra is more popular than some of the other ones because it's so much easier to play for free.

So there's more people that want to see you get into the thing that they like. I assume that just even if, even if it was a project L, the fighter there, or they're making comes out and you're like, I'm not crazy about it because it's going to be the free fighter that everyone gets into. They're going to be like on your fucking doorstep for sure. Screaming when you're going to get good at Darius or Ari play. Wait, what was the, was it not Darius? Who's the fucking Ryu ass lukewarm water soldier man?

Um, Garen. Garen. Garen. Look at that soldier. He's a fucking soldier. And then Garen's a lot more fun to play in league than he is in Runeterra. Boy, is he just white wonder bread. He's just toast.

Yep. A hundred percent. And, and, and you level him up and he's like, his card lore is like, you say I'm predictable, but that's right. I am predictable, but that's why I win. Fundamentals win championships. You know, like, oh boy, he's, he's, he's a found, he's, he's what's known as a foundation card.

Yeah. Ryu yells, I am boring. Damn right. Characters that's that, that came out of the beginning were all pretty normal. Like Brown, uh, sorry, Brom or Elise or him or Thrash or Darius, right? They're all like, they make sense. All the super weirdos have come out since. Mm hmm.

Mm hmm. Yeah. No, that's it. It's just, it's, it's the, I just, like, Ryu is telling you that he's balanced and that's why you should pick him. He will, his balance will. Like, I don't, I don't like playing as him. I don't like, I don't like his card.

Yeah. No, you, it's, it's very, yes, yes. And then, you know, like the, everything about his face. And then it was like, and then, uh, uh, Darius was like, Oh, shit. Here's the, here's the Satsui Nohado version. You know, here's the angrier one. Basically the same character, but more fun. Which is how I feel about them in league also.

Oh yeah. Okay. Okay. They both share the same role, but Darius has a hook. So he's more fun to play. Sure. Uh, yeah, I will, I will not uninstall it. Anyway, you can tune in for some of that as well as I believe the final parts of

super liminal going up on the woolly versus channel. We continue, we strive on, uh, YouTube and Twitch as per use going to be finishing off disco Elysium for sure, for sure this week, which really, yeah. Um, I mean, I'm excited to see that we were like last session could have been the final, but then we, um, we, we decided to like, you know, take, cut it there. So we're going to be hitting the finale. Take a nap when you can. Okay.

Okay. Um, and I believe based on the amount of time expected or projected that will leave us with, uh, an opportunity to start the next LP. And so if everything goes according to plan this week, we shall be starting Shin Megami Tensei devil summoner Kuzunoha Raido versus the soulless army. Oh man, that's a good game. It looks fucking high. I hope you like random battles.

It looks hot. Do you like random battles, woolly? I'm down. I'm down. I'm down for the action and I'm down for the cool, for the cool dude. Raido's a cool guy. Nice hat. He's got a nice hat.

He's got a cool scarf. I'm down. So that's up next on the, on the, the channel. Literal devil games, uh, yeah, literal tune into woolly versus for some of that. Uh, so I guess break. Yeah. Let's take a, let's take a five minutes so I can empty empty my, my, my piss. Cool.

BRB. Okay. And we're back. So, um, I realized a lot of the time that when, uh, we're back. Something when a message goes out or when I try to say something on a particular stream, podcast, tweet, whatever the case may be, it might not always travel and hit everyone's ears. So that's possible.

That is quite possible. Yes. And so because of that, I don't assume people are being mean, spirited or insensitive. I assume they might not have heard the news, but I, it's conceivable, but I do need to just to clarify and, uh, repeat something we've posted and talked about in the past that, uh, if you're asking about where Yakuza is and why we haven't gone back to it, and I've said it's because V's got things to take care of his mother passed away and he's dealing with everything that comes with that.

And that's a very massive, massive undertaking in your life. And I'm not going to try to be like, Oh, when are we going to? That's the least fucking important thing in the world. So great. So as far as Yakuza goes, we're not going to talk about it or even mention it or bring it up or think about going back to it until he feels like it. If he feels like it, when he feels like it, because that's the least important thing by comparison and priorities.

So I really want to underline that because I've mentioned it a couple of times and some people did hear it. Some people didn't. I want to make sure you hear it now loud and clear that Yakuza zero is on hiatus for the most clear reasons possible. And we leave it at that. Okay. All right.

Let's take a word from our sponsors. I'd say so. Oh, yes. I'd say so. And again, it's like, I'm not, you know, I don't, not to lose patience here, but it's like, I really, I want to make sure everyone knows. So there's no, you know, oh, what, what, what's like, or are you going to, or when's it going to like, no, let's, let's underline exactly why and then

leave it at that. Okay. So this week. Let's take a look over here. Who do we got this week who's sponsoring this lovely podcast? Door dash food. Oh, in your stomach. Gonna use, use door dash later tonight.

Food. My, my tum, tum. I mean, listen, I bet you probably if they could, they would teleport the food right into your gut and just give you the nutrients right away. Well, I want to chew on it. Yeah. Tasting is good. We've skipped too many steps in this analogy.

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What happened? Oh, I mean, oh, they, they did it for a year and now they're done. Oh, okay. Well, the daily dunk a chino. That's like the credits for everyone. It was like eight parts long was ridiculous. Yeah. So there's just been a, uh, I mean, it's all, it's all pretty cool.

Yeah. So there's just been a, uh, I mean, it's all, it's all part two, three, four, five and six of the, of the, the, the news from last week. But, um, you know, the short slide over it is one, I believe the, um, the same department investigating Blizzard is also, uh, letting Riot know that they're on notice because they're investigating them too. Because. Oh, yeah.

Baby Blizzard strikes again. So, you know, they're not, uh, just cause active lizards in the, in the, in the hot seat doesn't mean that Riot's in the clear cause they're, they've got some investigations that are midway. I guess they're not at a point where they're willing to fully, you know, explain like what they're investigating and such, but they have announced that they are looking into Riot games. I have a sneaking suspicion.

They may be investigating Riot employees that are viewed, uh, as being photographed with a giant fucking framed photo of Bill Cosby in the Cosby suite. Mayhaps. Mayhaps. May, may possible. Yeah. And then there's the, and then there's. They didn't even go back and delete those tweets.

What the fuck are they doing? Well, the, I believe the explanation given was because of his ugly sweaters, right? Oh yeah, no, we all just thought it was really funny. Yeah. When was that? It had like a week. What was that? Delete that shit.

When was the Hannibal Brest bit? That's the, you know, cause it was, it was definitely known. The Cosby accusations were known before that and his bit was what shoved it into the spotlight, but it had been a thing. It had been a low murmur for years prior, which is why that huge explosion was 2014. And then the, this Cosby shit sweet thing was end of 2013, but it was known at the time. It just wasn't blown up. Yeah.

No, again, that's why the bit worked, right? Because it had been something that people were talking about. And that's, and they're going for like, oh man, it's about sweaters. We didn't even know about that shit until later, even though we posted screenshots of our group DMs of us acting like scum bags. Oh man. Now, to date, as far as you know, Buscemi's in the clear, right? As far as we know.

Okay. Um, I actually, uh, I'm a, I'm a, I'm friends with somebody who knows Steve personally and says he's like a really great guy and is like a class act. Seems cool. Um, so the other bit, that would be awkward, huh? Yeah. It's, it's brand hitched at this point. Stay cool, Buscemi.

You are following. Don't taint many years of my stream, please. You're following him wherever he goes. Um, well, anyway, then there was the part where, um, uh, Bobby Coddick came out and went, Hey, yeah, we understand why all of you are so upset. My employees and, uh, our response was bad. We missed the mark. So that was just the, the team we had hired.

The legal team was, uh, not doing, they didn't, they didn't respond in the best way. So instead we're going to be hiring, um, Wilmer Hale and they'll be handling the response from now on. And Wilmer Hale is the company that Amazon uses for union busting. So they're currently taking control of the situation. And, um, yeah, seems, seems like you're going to keep digging. I mean, the only way for those, for, for him and them to like, like, no matter what you say and do at this point, anything that is not a absolute cleansing of the

entire C level and beyond is, um, pretty much no one's going to give a fuck. So it's really funny because right before they did the strike slash walk out, uh, they were interviewed by a bunch of different sources and were said to say, we have no interest in forming a union. We just want management to fucking stop being a bunch of rapers and take these things seriously. Uh, and then they did the all hands call in which they said, Hey everybody, don't talk to the press or the police.

We're just going to handle this internally and talk to your HR manager. And the general response was like, but you didn't do anything. Why would you do it at this time? So in response to a group of people who go, can you just change this stuff? We don't want a union. The response was, oh shit, they might form a fucking union. Oh shit. Uh, fuck.

Oh no. Call in the busters probably form a fucking union. Call in the busters. And, and then we get my favorite part, which is, uh, some former employees posting like, Hey, did you know that a bunch of American political figures that used to work for the White House and were deeply entrenched in the legal discussions that waterboarding and tasing the nuts out of a naked guy is totally not torture, bro, for real are now running these exact departments over at Blizzard right now

and are directly responsible for this. Pretty sure that was, that was in the, in the first week of news was that they had a former Bush administration people on the legal team. Yeah. There was, there was more clarification on like who was there and like what lawyers and whatnot. So that's the thing. Um, and then, uh,

and then the chief compliance officer posts, uh, on her Twitter, an article saying the problem with whistleblowing and how whistleblowing is actually bad for justice and then blocks any Blizzard employee that tried to interact with her over it. Pretty wild. It just may be illegal. I don't know. Like maybe. Yeah.

No. Like I think Shryer was saying, like I've seen a lot of like, like, like you saw, he made a tweet about like blocking and people that do that. But just like when I see level executive is blocking their own employees. That's a fucking unprecedented. Yeah. Shryer's, Shryer's post was I block a lot of people online for my mental health, but this is crazy.

Something that I can attest to as I am currently blocked by Jason Shryer for making fun of him in a Mr. Fields post that didn't have him added. So he name searched himself and blocked me preemptively, even though I've never spoken to him on Twitter. Well. Um, And then tangentially,

where was that? I don't want to get the detail wrong. But my old honking, my old stomping ground, Squeenix was also putting out some messaging about like, hey, guys, you know, a lot of stuff going on in the news. Here our policy is if you see something, say something and they have a whistleblowing

tip line. Um, but don't call that shit. But the whistleblowing tip line is being run by a NAVAC's global, which is another union busting firm used by Amazon. So it's like, you can probably get whatever issues. Um, you can probably, you know, if you, if you report them, sure, it might go through it might not go through who knows, but the core function that this group serves is to ensure that people don't get together and decide to make union positive actions.

And then there's actually like screenshots of their website where it's like, how to detect, um, union awareness and like, how do you detect union building sentiment from like, you know, your, your, your, your employees and when it starts to bubble up what to do about it. So, um, it's like, again, very telling that step one and two for a lot of these places is call in the people that will stop the unions from happening and tell them your complaints and then we'll, we'll, we'll get to the bottom of it for sure, for sure. Hey, uh, boss, it'd be really nice if I could come to work and feel like I'm not in danger

of being raped, but the unions, the unions, like what the fuck is wrong with you fucking devil people, like what the actual fuck. We just need to wait for the, wait for the, wait for the, the, the, the inside message that like the corporate email from Bobby Coddick that accidentally refers to the employees as proletariats, you know, and accidentally refers to game, game dev as the means of production. Yeah. Well, anyway, it's kind of, but it shows you what the, um, it shows you where the mentality

is in terms of self-defense, right? What shields have to go up? What's most important when these things have, when these things start to happen is preempting any ideas that follow through because to the employee who is like, yeah, this happened to me or this happened to someone I knew, or this was something that like clearly happened in front of a bunch of us and we reported it at a, from a party or whatever and things wouldn't, didn't go anywhere. There's a number of steps that you have to get to, to, you know, get to the point where

you're like, oh, we can protect ourselves from this with the union. And that's what I brought up at the end of the discussion last time, but it's like here, it's just like step fucking one, look past whatever the complaint is to what is on the horizon in the distance. And that's what you start hunkering down for immediately, you know? Yeah. You know what's the studio that's unionized and game dev is dice. Oh yeah.

Yeah. Didn't know that. Swedish company. They got a union. I like for all the shit you hear about EA. I've never heard anyone talking about how EA fucked dice over probably because they got a fucking union. Interesting.

Who EA fucked over every company that ever worked for them. I'm surprised that like EA looked past that and worked with them. That's interesting. I believe that that would probably be explained if you looked back, they were probably unionized when they were bought or battlefield. I bet that's what happened. Hmm. Okay.

So there's working examples. I like bear is edge. Oh man, dice video game company. Because when do they unionize? The company was founded in 92 and was bought by EA in 2006. But it doesn't say when so yeah. So as long as they were fucking unionized prior to 2006, they had 14 years to unionize. In fact, I cannot find the date.

But yeah, I think that's the that's the the the gist of the updates we got this week. Um, shit will continue to be feeding room last week. No. Okay, cool. So more blizzard information. They had a breastfeeding room with law with no locks on it, the people would come in there and just stare at women breastfeeding their babies and they had to be yelled at to be told to get the fuck out.

I remember it's funny. There's all this shit going around, but that's the one that I heard that it was like, Oh wow, no, that's how you knew everyone at the top heard about it and literally chose to delete the email because that gets to happen once before locks are put on the doors. Right? Yeah, you hear that literally once and you go, Oh shit, spend $300 and you're gonna go shit, spend $300 to get a guy down there to put fucking locks on the doors so that this doesn't have what the fuck is right.

But they went, Yeah, yeah, um, fuck, I don't care. Yeah, like it's like, is that like, you like sticking your head in or you just literally just standing there with your arms that it was described as walking in and standing there staring until being screamed at to get out. And that was a known problem. So yeah, that Oh, there was also the lady that couldn't get time off approved due for her prenatal appointments due to her pregnancy and the doctors like every off every company in that's in this country would give you time off to get your ultrasounds and your

babies checked. And she's like, Oh fuck, well, what if I schedule all my appointments for the next nine months and then her supervisor tells her we can't schedule time off nine months in advance, you're just gonna have to ask for it when it comes up. But you deny all my paid time off. Was that the one where there was a line like, um, like she might spend time away being a mom and like love that too much or something like that, there's a quote that I don't remember that.

I, oh, and the bathroom toilet cam in Activision two years ago or three years ago, can't even keep up with it, can't even keep up with it. Well, and you know, when it comes to shit like this, when it rains, it pours, right? Like this is the nature of it. Yeah. So it starts moving and then everyone's like, Oh man, yo, I got some shit. Did you know that? And then it just tsunamis, you know, um, yeah, no, again, the idea of there being anything

beyond a one and done with any of these types of things and that people don't get let go for it. And then you kind of have to now pretend that like, yeah, we didn't know about any of that totally. You know, like, all right. Oh, medicine made more statements about how he didn't notice and everyone like shut up, bro. I mean, at what point does it become better to just say like, I'm a bad employee and I

don't read my emails ever. I literally, you know what time that is? That time was three weeks ago. By the way, I suck at my job and I literally do not read emails. Everyone who talks to me has to come talk to me in person. I read. Listen, dude, I'm, you know, I'll tell you what, I was the worst manager ever. I ignored everyone any till I didn't even hear them.

I'm basically deaf. Did you, I'm, I paid a doctor to tell you guys that I'm actually deaf. I've been faking hearing, um, I'm going to move away to the ocean. If you want to contact me, please find me in the ocean. It's an island. I don't know the name of it. Okay. I'm going to go now.

Bye. What's the email? Blizzard? I don't know. It doesn't seem that cold. Excuse me. I seem to have left the oven on in my house on the ocean. So yeah, that anything else before we, uh, get some motherfucking shit.

I was able to tell from a photo of the Cosby suite that one of the guys there is like riots head of development, Greg street. And I was initially hesitant of posting like, Hey, is that fucking Greg street until I was hit with a tweet, not one minute later that was him going, the Cosby suite must always exist from 2013. As well as a tweet from him holding up the framed photo of Cosby in the hotel lobby or on the BlizzCon floor or whatever. And I'm like, Oh, I don't have to worry about allegedly at all.

Look at this stupid motherfucker. I mean, like, do we just like, do we just have to wait for the three, the shot of like the arm holding the photo, but the other, but the hands are busy holding the glass with the roofie. Yeah. Like what? Like what? What more do you?

Hi. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, look, um, that's pretty wild. There must always be a Cosby suite. That's the quote. Yeah.

So I think, I think the craziest thing about all that is that Greg street, his literal last act as an employee of Blizzard before going to riot was appearing at that BlizzCon. He literally left that November to go work for riot and in the earlier Blizzard story in which a woman at that BlizzCon asked a team of developers, Hey, can we get female armor that's not out of the Victoria secret catalog? The response was them laughing and like all like, what catalog do you want us to use? It was him. That was his last act as a Blizzard employee.

And then he worked, went to riot. And if you look up, this is my favorite part. If you look up the phrase Greg street riot games, an article comes up that he is the person quoted in the 2018 story of riot being a sexist shithole going, we're working very hard to discover who at this company has been behind these things. And we're going to really double down to be working on improving our company culture. It was him quoted on that story. Who could have done this?

Who could have been the sexist misogyny man? Who could it have been the Cosby suite who shot Hamel? The Cosby suite must win. There it is. There it is. Yeah. Yeah. Well, anyway, so yeah, you asked like, Oh, that's it, huh?

No, there's going to be more of this sweet. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be it's going to be a rolling fucking seven course meal. And hopefully at the end of the dessert is unions. I forgot. There was one more piece of Blizzard news.

And it's not about this, but it does show the company culture at to a perfect tea. Wow, classic was marketed on the idea that it would be the classic experience and there would be no paid boosts and there would be no cash shop, right? Burning Crusade Classic has been announced for sale. And if you buy Burning Crusade Classic, you get a paid boost and a cash shop mount that was never available in classic. Wow. So the player base has taken to using the spit emote on anyone they see with these mounts, even going so far as to write an add on that auto spits on anyone riding these mounts through a major area, which means that if you bought Burning Crusade Deluxe and are using your fancy mount and you ride through a populated area, spits will just flow from ever goodbye, Wally. Goodbye. Spits will just rain from the heavens upon you from the player base and Blizzard's response to this harassment of their cash shop people was to ban the use of the spit emote against other players.

Of course. But do you know what's not banned in Wow General Chat? What? What do you think, Wally? That's right. Your favorite word, the end pass, has been freely typable in Wow Classic Chat the whole time. But this spit emote has got to go because it's on our paying customers. There's no censorship on the chat?

No. Yeah. Okay. Well. I mean, when you take away the BM, people will find a way. You can't. Blizzard would rather have you dropping n-bombs than use an in-game emote. See, I was, like, waiting to hear, like, what creative ingenuity they would, like, circumvent what they'd circumvent by doing something that was clever and, like, three layers deep.

And it's just like. Nah, man. Classic. Right there. Classic is classic is classic as classic as it gets. Time-honored tradition. What are you doing? Yeah.

Yeah. Well, anyway. Isn't that just, like, a perfect encapsulation of, like, that company's culture? Of how to address the issue. How do you address it? Oh, man. So here's a fucking, uh, weird one that, like, you know, speaking of lawsuits and, um, just, I don't even know what to make of it, but, uh, Scar Joe of the Black Widow fame is- Oh, this is a great story, yeah.

...is suing Disney in, uh, the L.A. Superior Court because her contract was breached when they released the film on Disney Plus streaming service at the same time as the theatrical debut because the deal that she signed was an exclusive theatrical release and her salary was based in large part on the box office performance. So, uh, she got fucking ripped off. Now, here's- 100%. Now, here's the thing. A theatrical release during a pandemic is kind of fucking nuts, though. Sure. Even wherever we're at, globally, every country is at a different place.

It's like, that's a wild ass insane thing to propose. Um, you're completely right. So, why Disney offered that contract? Why was that the deal? Or was that for, or if it was formed pre-pandemic, was there no opportunity to amend once it became clear that the only way to release movies was by streaming them and also putting them in movie theaters? So, guess what? Uh, there was plenty of time to renegotiate, which is why Disney dodged all of her calls. So, that's what we see in the article, uh, is they're saying that, like, the- the- the lawyers tried to contact them about that specifically many times.

Um, and it seemed as if, like, yeah, she was, like, sp- going over Marvel to Disney specifically about that, and they would not- they would not answer or they couldn't get a response. Uh, I believe the quote was, um, Disney intentionally induced Marvel's breach of agreement without justification in order to prevent her from realizing the full benefits of the bargain with Marvel. So, yeah, it sounds as if they got a deal that sounded normal in a pre-pandemic world, and then- Yeah, it was a pre-pandemic deal, and then they changed. They changed. And then, uh, they started distributing through Disney Plus, and then everything should have been changed contractually, but then it didn't. Yeah. And so the whole thing-

Emma Stone's getting on this with Cruella, seeing the exact thing happen. Cruella as well, right? Yeah. And, um, like, Disney's response is, like, the ultimate, like, oh man, we're super guilty, because it was, like- Class garbage, though, isn't it? Which she's- she's not taking the pandemic into account. COVID. The world has changed, and it's- she's- she's problematic.

She's a bad party- bad lady. Now, as long as- as long as that is exactly- as long as that is what her lawyers were trying to do, and that's the story, is we want to update this and we're not being given a chance to, then yeah. If there was- if it was just a matter of, like, hey, why are you releasing it not in theaters only, then that's a fucked up, crazy, uh, uh, demand. That doesn't make any sense to do during a pandemic. But that's what- that's what the assumption is, you know? It's like the- it's like the most obvious thing. Hey, we made a contract before the pandemic. Pandemics changed things.

Can we change the contract? I can't hear you! What is all- why- why did I go with a German accent on this? I have no idea. Why? Fuck it. Maybe- I don't know. It's funnier that way.

Walt wasn't- I mean, uh, alright. He might've wanted to be. He might've wanted to, I was gonna say. Walt had some views. I think that's why my brain went to German accent. Walt had some views. He had some ideas. Um, oh boy.

Yeah. Well, uh, yeah. Anyway, so assuming- assuming that that's what the- the- the lawyers were specifically going for, and not just a note- hey, stop this, theaters only. Send the people out into the real world. That's the only way to experience the Black Widow. Then it's like, yeah, alright. It's- it's such a- it's so obvious, cause like Disney's out here going like,

ScarJo wanted you to go to a theater and die, and ScarJo's out here just going, pay me my fucking money, you assholes! I- obviously she'll be fine. She's a very rich lady, but like, at the core of it, Disney's richer, so fuck him. Yeah, there's a lot of anime adaptations in the pipeline. I'm sure she'll be okay.

I'm sure there's a- a Mikasa coming up at some point that she can- For those of you at home, I'm doing a big smile. You know. Probably- probably coming down the pipeline. I think- I think it'll be fine. Oh man. Yeah. Yeah.

So. I got the red hair from the Ackerman side of my- Yeah, you know. You know the canonically Asian family? Yeah. Ah. Yeah. Alright.

On the Marvel side of things too, there's the drop to trailer for the- the Venom 2. Is that Marvel? Oh. Stop making noise. Me? No, no, not you. The- the trailer.

Let there be carnage. Yeah. No, that's Sony. That's Sony's Venom, dude. But- but- but in association with Marvel. This is getting really confusing. It said- it said they're in association. I'm sure there's- I'm sure there are- they have to say that,

hey, at the end of the day, these characters did belong to Marvel at some point. No! Well, they- they- they- they're dropping a logo. What do you want me to say? Um. Oh. I watched the trailer earlier. Yeah.

So. Uh. So he fucking gets carnage by just biting him on the hand really hard? Yeah. That's it? That seems- What? Like-

Huh? What if I just ate a little bit? What if I just got a little taste- What if he just bites him, and then that's enough for him to get the symbiote juice? Yeah. Yeah. I was under the impression that in the comics,

Eddie Brock was very pregnant, and then went over to Cassidy's cell and gave symbiote birth all over him. I mean, there's- That's how the Spider-Man cartoon showed it. Yeah, no, there's different versions and different clannins, but I don't- I don't remember ever seeing one where Cleetus just grabs and goes nom nom noms,

and then a new symbiote is born. Mine now. Mine now. Because that means that you can create a whole separation anxiety arc if enough people just bite him. Yeah. Like, actually, like, couldn't- Couldn't Eddie be like,

hey, I know some cool neighborhood people. Everybody get a chomp. We're gonna become a crime-fighting team. Basically. Like, what possible reason is there to not do that? Yeah. Yeah, pregnant symbiote storyline is always- There's a cool one, too, where-

I talked about it a couple of times, but Venom got pregnant again, and it was like, I gotta feed on adrenaline, and only Peter does it the way I like it. Please, let me jump back on you. I need Peter to get me double pregnant. Yeah, and Peter's like,

get the fuck away from me, weirdo. Block your number. Lose it. And it's like, nah, but my babies are gonna die. I have to jump on you. And he's like, fuck you, and then it's like, oh, poor symbiote couldn't reproduce anymore.

Man, comics are fucking stupid. Holy shit. Yeah, but they're also cool. Like, that one time- Yeah. When the suit was, like, bought by a crime boss's son, and then he was like- Oh, man, it's just-

He's like, wee, I'm Spider-Man. It just ditches him in between buildings. It's fucking awesome. It's the reddest shit. She's like, yeah, fuck this kid. This kid's a loser. I'm out. I'm out!

Just pieced out mid-swing. It was great. Oh, that was good. That was good. Um, yeah. Not much else, you know? I mean, we'll see what it is, but, like, the vibe of, like,

as long as if the sequel to Venom, which is stuck in 2002, the sequel must also be stuck in 2002. You know? Like, if they keep this line going, they can never reach the present. It must be- Never, never.

It must be of the old superhero Blade Ang Lee era. That's what's good. It has to be. Yeah, what else is going on? There was an announcement, so Seagate confirmed the first line of PS5-compatible internal SSDs.

That's nice. And the price ranges are going to be 170 for 500GB, 275 for 1TB, 570 for 2TB, or 1050 for 4TB. That's not inexpensive. Could be much worse.

Now, here's the thing. Apparently, you might be able to save money by using other hard drives that are compatible with the PS5 that meet the specifications, but if it's not a white-listed hard drive that Sony approves of, it would constitute voiding your warranty.

Oh, don't do that. So if you try to save money on getting your expanded storage, you might have that shit like, fuck you up accidentally, which sucks because it works and it's compatible and it can be done. And I believe there was another note

that said you're also going to have to get your own cooling. Let me get the exact sentiments. Installing an SSD internally will need to attach their own cooling structure as a heat sink and that the whole structure will still need to fit into the 110 by 25 by 1125 mm space.

Yeah, okay. So you don't have free reign with this. You should probably just use an official supported thing. It'd be nice if people could make use of the shit that they already had slash shit that isn't super expensive. Yeah, but the shit you already have

is like the really not fast enough SSD thing. They got some kind of super SSD in that fucking thing. Dude, I don't know, I just delete games. I mean, there's that. And of course, you know, this is relevant to the few that chosen the human beings who've actually been able to

get a PS5. I'm a human and I got one. A quick heads up, but we've been keeping in our eyes on this cool looking driving fighting game. It's now got a name. It's now got a page. It's called Buck Up and Drive.

And you've seen it on Twitter. It's the game where cars are basically drifting and attacking each other at the same time and it looks super cool. And there's now a playable demo. So everyone who's been asking me if I've seen it, yes, and now we're calling your attention to it because there's a pitch by an itch.io page for it

at fabiofantes.itch.io, Buck Up and Drive. Playable demo, check it out. He's put up a pre-purchase thing for it too. Looks super sick. I haven't actually tried it yet, but heads up about this rad looking Twitter game existing. I think we're in a world now where you've got to have to do that.

There's these Twitter games and I wait for them to be real in some form before bringing them up. Sometimes you see a tweet of something. For example, someone linked me to a really cool looking game just this morning, and it's just a trio of projects and it's a character that's fighting in an open space

and every time they do an attack, it's synced to some classical music. It looks really cool, but they're at the end of the day fighting in a void on an open space, essentially demoing the engine and the proof of concept. It's like, yeah, this is a cool thing, but when we're going to say, hey, check this out,

it's when there's at least something to go, look at a demo, a full trailer. It's more than just some ideas in a form. I like to wait for those moments. This would be the moment for this, because originally the car of the game was just, we watched the first version of it be just drifting, and then it was like drifting and grinding on rails,

and then after grinding on rails, they're like, yeah, fuck it, we added a spin attack, and we added two players in a fighting game life bar, and then we added like a jump button, and then it just became like this wild thing. Buck up and drive, take a look. Ah. That was a good piece of news.

Thank God, finally, something. Yeah. God. And then, you know, beyond the fucking dumpster fires, there's some fun things here and there. Ami is now going to be in Monster Hunter Rise as a skin for your doggos. That's cool.

I love this news, and I am also, again, weirded out by being forced to confront non-cell-shaded Amaterasu. Yeah, that's a little weird. It looks great. It looks great. Yeah, it looks good. But every time I see it with the full fur,

I'm just like, ooh. Yeah, that's not how I know you, but I like it. I do like it. Mm-hmm. And as well, unfortunately, we're a little too early for it, but it seems like as of, I think, tomorrow, they're also going to show off Akira in Street Fighter V.

Oh, that's cool. People are, I don't know, maybe they'll show them off at the same time as Oro, who was next in line. Maybe not, but yeah. It'd be nice to get some info on this. I think that's the, just the thought, or whatever side comment they're going to make about the Rival Schools franchise

is pretty much the most important part of this release. You know? Oh, yeah. Whatever throwaway. You know what's going to be? It's going to be like, this is Akira. You may recognize her, but let's not talk about that. That shit sucks, and you're stupid.

Now she's in Street Fighter where she really matters. Just one of the coolest character designs of all time, man. Fucking hell. I'd love to see that franchise come back, as we all would, but that's besides the point. And speaking of throwaway lines, of course, that's a lot hilarious because this was also hand-in-hand with a week where a lot of people had things to say.

I think Punk won the Capcom, a Capcom, or like Cup thing. And just in the clip, there's just, you know, God bless. Ultra Dave is just like, hey, man, so how do you feel? You know, taking home the gold and stuff, and Punk's just like, yeah, I'm going to just play. How are you going to plan for this in the future?

Yeah, how are you going to plan for yeah? And he's like, man, I'm going to just play Strive. I'm going to play Guilty Gear, man. Yeah. You know, I like this game, but the online is really frustrating. So instead of getting annoyed, I'm going to just play some Guilty Gear. Like, there's the guy who won the Mario Tennis. Yeah.

There's the guy who won the For Honor tournament, and I think it's some league players that won a Fortnite tournament. And I want the champ coming up and being like, yo, this shit's trash. And it's not the champ, but I want to give an honorary mention to Seijam as well, because he was on a commentary calling out the netcode being bad, and he got, you know, Capcom didn't like that, so he can't do commentary anymore, you know?

Like me, that's fair. Why do you want your commentator shitting on your game? Because he was keeping it a buck. Yeah, but why would Capcom want that? Well, this is what happens instead. The players speak up, you know? Oh, no! And David just kind of laughed.

He's just like, oh, you're pretty good at that game, so yeah. What are you supposed to do, you know? Like, he just throws it out there. And then meanwhile, on the exact opposite end of the spectrum, SonicFox tweeting out this week that they're focusing more on Skullgirls because they're not really feeling the drive and strife. And this leads to a very, it leads to a really funny series of discussions because there's people who have always been like,

yeah, I want more, I want Rev3 more than anything, and those who haven't liked the direction that Guilty Gear has gone in. And I saw, you know, between SonicFox and Kizzy, they're talking about how like, they're like, yeah, the game is at its best when you're in Roman Cancel, when you're activating RC, but outside of that, there's just not enough, they don't have enough freedom. And yeah, that's, I mean, you know, everyone can definitely have their takes on it and it makes sense when you're playing at that level

that you can absolutely see and feel things that most of us are not. Though the response when people are like, weirdly waiting for top players to tell them how to feel about things is always really just like, oh, how am I going to know how to feel or have an opinion unless somebody tells me? It's so fucking just, it's so transparent, you know, and like, then thankfully, like a really great comic got retweeted, SonicFox retweeted right after that little couple of that little thread about that.

Shoutouts to MightyDubs, who I've seen on Twitter before, was like, yeah, a little comic of like, SonicFox going, this game kind of sucks now, and then an anonymous person in the background is like, ugh, I know, right? And Fox is like, yeah, what did you find, ruined it for you? And then the person just starts sweating and like, uh, you first. And Fox is like, no. You know, and it's just like, yeah, yeah, you just, you're like, yeah, yeah, totally, I hate it, it sucks, it's garbage.

Really, what's going on? What do you think? What are your feelings? Why do you feel that way? How do you feel, actually? You, you, you fucking, so I can form your opinions. Yeah, form your opinions. Don't get influenced, says the influencer to you right now.

The only one you should be listening to is me and maybe Woolly and maybe Paige. Not even. Okay, don't listen to Woolly. He's, he's, he's disagreeing with this, just me. Do not, do not get influenced unless we say that we're taking a word from our sponsors, then get influenced. But until then do not. It's the only time it's the influence zone.

Um, yeah, that's, it's fucking, it's, it's just, it's one of those things where it's a super like, it's a super interesting thing to see like the discussion happen. And then amongst, especially amongst top players who are like placing really high and like seeing what their thoughts are and where it's going and how they feel about these things, you know, where the shortcomings are. I like that. But like when it, when there's this like meta commentary thing of just people who are like, oh, well, you know, now that the best player in the world has, has said this, then

I'm just going to like, I'm tapping out based on that. It's funny because like with punk, for example, it's a statement on the quality of your ability to play the game with other people online. Yeah. You know, and he, and he's saying like literally like, I like, I, he's like, I enjoy this, but I'm getting frustrated at this thing. You know, whereas over here it's like, no, it's a gameplay criticism, which is a lot less universal.

Your bad online is a universal thing. Everyone's going to experience together. Someone being a fucking God at the game and then having these feelings about it is much more particular to their skill level, their understanding and what's happening at. It's like a, it's like a hierarchy of grand finals. You have to be able to play the game to complain about his gameplay. Yeah. So anyway, that's, that's, that's, that's been a funny little back and forth week.

I'm having fun. Got kicked out of heaven the month reset. It's time to get back in. Yeah. That sucks, bro. You know, we'll figure it out or find in our way, feeling a lot more comfortable with the, the God awful matches. So it's kind of settling into place.

Yeah, but that's, that's pretty much it. News wise. All right. Email time. If you want to send an email, that's castle super beast mail. That's email.com. Correct. I did it.

I'm smart. Got one coming in from Greg. Hey, Greg. What up, man? Dear Nago Ryuki post, Potemkin potbuster and Potemkin. I want to give you guys an update on the audacity spyware controversy from last month. Cool. A week and a half ago, July 22nd, the audacity dev team published a revised version of their

privacy policy, among other things, removes the controversy sparking line about collecting data for law enforcement, litigation and authorities, results, if any, the revision was released with a statement on their GitHub page where they explained that the line was poor and unclear legal phrasing on their part and that it was never their intention to collect any unspecified data from the users. They also apologized for the major communication breakdown and claimed responsibility for the damage caused to be clear. It was badly phrased in the privacy policy because the app itself does not contain any

features or spyware that can share information with third parties and never has proper vigilance is always encouraged, especially now with all the organizational changes happening. But as is audacity is safe to use. And here's a link to the policy and such says Greg. So at the very least, I'm going to look into this and see if this is one of them press X to doubts or not, because at the end of the day, the company has changed hands. And who knows whether that's just a back pedal or a we got caught or a legitimate fuck up, but

Oh, it could be anything. Yeah. I mean, dark audacity hasn't exploded ever since that first time. So it is working right now. That means it was your fault. You looked at it wrong. But yeah, I'm I'm going to I'm going to need to look into that a little bit more myself, Greg, and see if that's actually true and whether or not I buy that story.

Thanks for your email, Greg audacity. That's what I was looking for. I was like, does this say Greg at audacity.com? And it did not. It did. It did. It did. Oh, man.

I did look fucking rule. I glanced up to make sure that wasn't the case. Yeah. If anything, if it was, I'd be like, yo, fix that one in 10,000 lost fucking recording bug. New email came in, nah, don't know what causes it. All right. We got one coming in from Michael says, dear guilty, your lawkeeper and commander Pat.

I watched a series of videos on star citizen called sunk cost galaxy by Blink ATX. Not completed yet, but so far gives a good overview of the disaster and how it happened. A bit of insight into the trick star citizen star citizen uses to get its backers to dump thousands into it from a backer who was one of the first to pump thousands. Really interesting because it comes from someone who was deep into it. And I look at star citizen about its $380 million from its citizens and who knows how much from other investors. And this had to be the most expensive game ever made that has been worked on for like

10 years and is still a mess, which is worse, a pipe dream or a scam. I don't believe star citizen is a scam, but it's an impossible dream that Chris and the citizens want. It is both. So I don't know how to answer that question. I don't think it is a pure scam because a pure scam is vaporware would have them would they they wouldn't be working on anything. Yeah, they're clearly working on it and people correct me if I'm wrong, but you can currently

play it. It's you can play the game right kind of kind of there. It's an alpha or whatever, right? Like that. I believe so. I'm not. I haven't been following it, but like there are people working on it and I'm sure there are people that totally believe they're going to release a game.

So it can't be a pure scam and it is a pipe dream, definitely. But you cannot possibly tell me that all the people at the top of that company actually think that the game is going to release within like 20 fucking years. There's no fucking like there's no way. They know they're taking in millions of dollars that are going to a half completed pile of shit. Three hundred and eighty million dollars is the craziest thing I've ever seen associated with a video game.

Does that number even is that even real? Yeah. Are there three hundred and eighty people working on Star Citizen? I don't know. We should probably go watch this video, Sunk Costs Galaxy. That sounds like a good start. Because if there are not, then that is at least a million dollars per employee. Yeah, it's like people are clearly working on a thing that they are attempting to make

real while simultaneously taking in hundreds of millions of dollars for something that must be known isn't going to fulfill its promises. Fuck. Yeah, the. So like where it sits on the scam scale. The plan appears to be work on it forever until the money runs out on a scale from Yandere simulator to Infinium Labs Phantom. Oh, man.

This is definitely closer to the Yandere simulator side of things. That's quite the scale you did create it. Actually I don't know if it's accurate because like this did release something as opposed to releasing nothing. Star Citizen would be out except I have to read 13 hours of backer emails every single day. Well, like what do you want me to do? Not read those.

And I would also like to zoom out and extend the scale past Infinium Labs. I'd like to take the at the end point as the Sun told me not to. Oh, man. That's the. I remember that's that's actually the end of the line. We were in Toronto in a fucking cab when I was on my phone and I saw that and we all started to lose it. I don't I don't think it gets worse.

Nothing's going to top that shit. That's the end of the line. Yeah. Uh, all right, well, that's perfect. We got one coming in here. The jazzo says crazy people. Hey, Willie and Pat, I was playing Monster Hunter World with my friends online. Excuse me.

And I was talking about how Rajang's theme is annoying. And then one of my friends told me, wait, you play with the music on. And I'm like, yeah, that's not all my God. And then he started talking to me like I'm insane for turning the music on and he started talking about how he turns the music off in every game he plays and how it doesn't matter for a game. It's just annoying sounds. And I started going insane listening to him and I remembered another person I know who

mutes every game he plays and plays the game without any sound because it's not important for a game. So I was I just had like my fingertips on my eyeballs just trying to escape from that. Um, that's that's so crazy. Now I remember when I was playing overwatch and apex with the with the black gift. And I was like, oh, yeah, this is this this song when you're launching is pretty cool. I like it. I was like, what do you know?

We mute that shit. I was like, oh, okay. And like, if it's a if it's a jingle that you don't want to hear because you're literally going to hear it hundreds of times or so, I can understand if after you hit the triple digits on something, you're kind of just like, eh, I'm done with that. I have friends that I play 14 with on Sundays that sometimes turn their music off because we're running the same fights like literally 100 times. So I understand that sick of the song.

Yes. I understand that in when you hit the truth. And that's one of the best soundtracks ever made. Right? Like, oh yeah. But like in particular, this expansion, three of those bosses had the same music in them. So like, it's like, this is play number fucking 250 of beef soft tacos. I'm going to freak.

Yes, triple digits. It makes sense. But in this context where it's just like, yeah, I don't give a fuck. I just it hurts. And I know that like you see this to not anymore because of the Twitch policies now, but back in the day, most random streams you tuned into was someone playing a game and just playing a playlist at the same time and just not even really hearing it, you know, and I don't think it was always games that they had played hundreds and hundreds of hours of.

But there was just there's so it was in my default expectation was click on a stream. Random playlist is going to be playing. And then also the sounds of the game are going to be on, but the music's going to be off. So like, I don't know which one of these people they're describing is more nuts. Because on the one hand, you have somebody who turns off the music no matter what and plays their own music, which I can kind of see, right? Because it's like, ah, you prefer your own music. Sure.

I did that for Halo a couple of times playing through them, whatever. But then when they look at you like you're crazy for leaving the music on, like what the fuck? But then you have the person who just turns it on and immediately mutes the whole thing. Full mute. Full mute is insane. You sound matters in everything. You lost your mind.

Audio cues matter in just about everything or at least everything that's not just turn based, I suppose. You know, watch a movie. Just turn the sound off to put on the subtitles, whatever. Who gives a shit? I'm listening to Pantera while I watched fucking eight crazy nights. Who gives a shit? I mean, that's not uncommon in like shops and other places to throw a movie on and just

have it on mute in the background. The tattoo parlor I was getting done at. Yeah, but you're not doing that so you can listen to these people are crazy. Yeah, no, audio cues fucking matter. That's that's that's crazy to just immediately throw all that out. Super guts. Now, super crazy. At the same time, one of the hypest things I've ever had was a Marvel two Dreamcast

remix album that replaced all the music in the game with fucking hip hop, and it was super sick because the intro was monocin knock you out and then like it was just a hot it was just a hot mix. Yeah, playing over the fighting game. I remember seeing people talk about that. It was great. DJ Cuneo's remix, I want to say it was called it was fucking strong. It had a insane Faro March.

Yeah, so by the way, to those of you who were confused, and I assume there's many about our son's story earlier, there is a Kickstarter whose name I can't remember and I forget what it was for in which the developer or creator or whatever came back and said, by the way, I got all the money and the project was on the way, but the sun spoke to me and told me not to do the project. So unfortunately, I will have to cancel everything and know you will not be getting refunds. Yep. Yep.

I said, by the way, DJ Cuneo as in Cuneo, as in River City Ransom, not Cuneo. Yeah, the project was Katalica, K-A-T-A-L-Y-K-A. There's always 84, 85 backers pledged almost $8,000. The story is always new to someone. It's always new to some of you. Son told me not to. Sorry. It's too bad.

Thanks for the money, though. Yeah. The sun, as in the planetary body made out of flame, not as in a family relation. Yeah. All right. Let's take one over here from JoJoJo. And JoJoJo says, hello, Turtle Wolves and Crane Pat. I've recently decided to drop Strive, not because I haven't been enjoying it, but because

my friends are getting too serious about it. I like to play as Mei and play Keepaway with a little bit of footy strategy, as written here. Uh-huh. This has resulted in me getting many wins on my friends. We usually joke about how Mei is carrying me, as I don't do as well with other characters, but I feel like the jokes have turned into actual complaints about my play style, and I have decided to just completely drop the game as my wins feel invalidated and I began

to feel depressed when I won and when I lost. So have you ever dropped a game for similar reasons? You should drop your fucking bitch-ass friends. Those dudes sound like bitch-ass losers. Let them to scrub quotes. They are scrub quoting in real life. This is true. Now, it is, if you are, if they're being, if they're being salty bitches about it, and

it is what it is, then that shit, like that ruining the fun you're having in this game sucks, and that's on them, and I hope that you can get better matches online. It would be terrible for you to fucking lose out on something you enjoy because of that, you know? You should change your ringtone to that fucking public domain dolphin noise and tell people to call you when you're having matches with your friends, or just a disaster of passion, you know, or whenever you get a text message, just buy us a window, you know, as many as many reminders as possible.

Anyway, no, I think that sucks, and I think you, yeah, you know, online can hopefully help their locals don't exist, so that's not gonna fucking be an answer, and at the same time to, like, if you're, if you're, if it's possible that, like, you're inferring that, and it's not necessarily the case, then, I don't know, maybe talk to them about it, you know, maybe go, hey guys, like, I like the game, but I feel like you're making me feel like shit when we play, and that sucks, you know? And like, you know, maybe, maybe, like, let them, like, like, lab with them and help them step their game up, or tell, or, you know, direct them to some resources, maybe, like,

alternatively, you could just start playing soul. There is that. Until they beg you to go back to May. There is that. Yeah, um, you know, maybe bring it up, maybe talk to them about it, because, like, aside from just, like, the bad feelings that you are having for a game that you're still enjoying, you fucking spent money on the game. You bought this.

It's a thing that you, you, that's a product that, you know, you should be able to enjoy as long as you are having fun with it regardless of those outside circumstances, so, yeah. Give it a, give them a talk, you know? You should, you should start playing matches with May in which you refuse to use normals at all and get them to die with only dolphin. Only dolphin. I mean, I'm, I have a whole Auntie May playbook in mind now, and I'm looking forward to May matches to, like, actually, like, ironing out and perfecting it, you know?

Same thing for Axel. I remember two of the worst matchups, but, like, I have so much shit written down for how to deal with it that I wanted, I want to test it out and iron it out and make it better. I remember playing with somebody many years ago in which they were complaining that the character I had chosen was too good, I think was eight on. It was definitely eight on in Super Street Fighter four. And I went, okay, don't worry, I'll tone it down.

And then I proceeded to win a match against them by using only their standing roundhouse. And I'm like, what do you want me to do? I'm down to one button and they were mad. And as, as an aside, you know, I've told it a couple of times, but again, there's always a new audience. I used to run matches of Street Fighter four with, like, one of the strongest Dawson players in North America from our city on a regular basis and a snafu. And like, it was just impossible.

It felt completely impossible. And why are you playing a different game than I am? What are you doing? And we would do like literally like first to a hundred sets, like it was insane. But over fighting him every week and we do these rounds and we do these, these phases and like, I would slowly develop an understanding of this matchup that turned it into the most comfortable matchup I could have, even though it was not in my favor. I made up for the fact that I hated fighting the character with such an overwhelming amount

of experience against him that any other Dawson I fought in tournament at any other point was a joke because the experience in this one thing against the strongest one beefed my fucking like reactions and ability to fight him and take him out way higher than any other matchup in the game, you know? It happened again when I was going to fight Daigo and I went through the gamut and fought every fucking Ryu on the planet that I could find. And then when we got to Evo and we found every, everyone else, like I went, I just, I fought so many Ryu's and now it's like, oh, that specific Ryu matchup is like, I have such

a weight dropped on that character versus the rest of the cast and it helps a lot when you're fighting them in the wild. So, you know, tell your friends that they're going to have extra main knowledge going forward after fighting you, you know? It's not going to make a difference, but anyway. No, I don't care. Yeah. All right.

That'll do it. That'll do it for this week. We will see you guys next time. And yeah, I think, well, yeah, no, just you can do the reminder of your schedule and, and yeah, I'll just, just check out my Twitter at Pat stairs that I'm going to, I still got to figure it out. There you go. I think I'm playing fantasy star online, too, this week, the new Genesis, and yeah, and

you know, over on Willy versus doing the thing. By the way, everybody go wish Reggie a happy birthday because, oh, it's his birthday. He's a birthday boy. Oh, cool. Oh, man. I'm going to do that right now. Hey. Uh, is it Chester 01 Chester with the two Rs birthday.

Yeah. Good for you. That means, that means Reggie and Charlie have the same birthday. Weird. Every, every year, his fro goes large, grows larger and stronger. All right. Takes a year. Whatever you all have a good week.

Bye.