Castle Super Beast - CSB 187: Beta Codes For Beta Males

Episode Date: October 6, 2022

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🎵 🎵 Alright, hello. So are you, are you, are you, do you have the camera on? Or is it just me not? Yeah, it's just you, you have no video. I have my camera caught on fire. Okay, great, excellent.

Excellent, fantastic. How are you today, Wolves? I'm alright. On this Wednesday late afternoon. Kind of, I mean, a bit like last week. It's a bit, it's a bit wild because it was quite an eventful week. And then by delaying it for a day or two, you end up with even more things jam-packed.

So a lot going on. Oh, by the way, I want to apologize to everyone for the cavernous audio. I am sitting in a almost completely empty room waiting for my desk and a sort of furniture to show up so I can get set up like a normal human. I'm currently sitting on my chair looking down at a monitor and a camera. Sorry, a monitor and a microphone sitting on like a coffee table, like one foot off the ground. Yeah, so you made it sound like you're going to be sitting on the floor

with boxes and then just a mic on the ground. So I was sitting on the floor facing the coffee table and it was like kind of the right angle. But I did a Batman stream and after like three hours, I'm like, my back is literally going to fucking snap in half. Bad idea. I need to sit in the chair. I don't care what it sounds like.

I don't care. I'm just, I'm going to die if I sit like this. So you have, yeah, exactly the male living space, which is the couch, the television and then like one table for a beer. Yeah, basically. I got a couple of water, but yeah, basically, I got like a mixer and a desk and some new microphone coming, but it's coming in the mail.

So who the fuck knows how long that'll take. Okay. And the mail is fun. So, so are you going to be like liminal for another week or? I am supposed to get a desk tomorrow. And that should take like half of the sting out of it. Right. Cool.

But like, so I moved. I am finally in the new house. Yeah. I remember that you said. The last place was a, was a temp spot. It was a liminal space. But due to, due to some, some housing dealing shenanigans, we ended up staying in for a lot longer than we anticipated.

The longest short of it is that we sold the old house like ages ago. And then we ended up getting a good deal on this place on the condition that the people here could live here until they found a new place. But then the housing market shat itself. And so that took a lot longer than anticipated. But now they worked that shit out. And now we're here. And now I have my new office area, which will be filled with rugs and curtains

and fucking, what do you call it? Desk and monitors and whatnot, like it's supposed to be. But right now, right now I am sitting in an empty room dead center looking at my coffee table. And well, moving has been a fun experience. I have, I want to say like five stories to tell you about moving to this location. Okay. Do you want to hear any of them?

Sure. So this has been between last Wednesday where you were visibly located in the same space. And now, so again, the course of about a week. Okay. So the first thing that happened, the very first thing that happened is during the move, we got a fucking flat tire. Yeah. Fucking sick.

Good start. Fucking sick. Just the best. Now, luckily it was like we used a moving fan. And so it was on the regular car that we got the flat. So we're like, we finished moving and then we go to where we parked the car and then we go to roll it to the new house. And we're like, that tire is fucking flat.

Question. Do you know how to change a tire? Fuck no. Do I not know how to change a tire? Do I sound to look or act like the kind of big useful man that would know how to change a tire? Fuck that. No, it is at the shop. Okay.

Because we got to order a new tire also. Okay. Yeah. Because we didn't have a spare tire. I've been around to help tire changings before. So even though I don't drive, I can make myself useful if that ever goes down. So I feel like I need something. It's kind of like learning how to play one character in a fighting game you don't play

just so that you don't embarrass yourself if you're in that situation. You got to know a little bit. Well, guess what? You got to know a little bit. I'm embarrassed. Okay, well. All right. So that's the first thing that happens.

We come in and the prior owner, like we bought some of their furniture because we're like, don't bother moving it. I like that table, for example, right? So I go in and I'm looking at this table and I'm like, the table can like go up and down. And I'm like, hey, I would actually like to raise the table a little bit because I'm a little worried that me and my tummy are not going to comfortably get underneath the distance between the table and the chair. And Paige goes, fucking don't, don't fucking touch it.

Don't touch it. Don't touch it. I go, no, no, it's fine. It's fine. It's fine. And then I go in and I touch it and I go to raise it and it's so heavy that it instead lowers and then it lowers and then I try to push on it more and then it lowers like almost all the way to the floor and like ends up like just sitting on top of the chairs.

And I'm like, I don't know. I don't know how fix it. How big is this table? And it's fucking pretty big. It's like a full dining table, a dining table. Okay. Okay. Okay.

That they can go up and down. It's cool. And I was like, oh, cool. I'll put it up. And then, and so she's like, she comes in and I'm like, oh no. And she's like, did you fucking touch that table? And I did. I did touch the table and I broke it.

So I had to call the people we bought the house from and I had to talk to the guy and I'm like, Hey, dude, my wife keeps making fun of me because I screwed the table up. How do I fix the table? And he explained the trick was lifting the table from all sides evenly. So I got underneath the table and I pushed it with my feet and arms and I did it. Okay. And I did do it. You did do it.

Okay. I did fix it. But for like three, four days it was, it was fucked. Okay. Okay. Because the, yeah. So that. That's, that's like, that sounds like the precursor to, so now I'm in the timeout room and I have

to stay here until it's all set up. Yeah. Kind of. Yeah. Kind of. So then we're, we're, you know, as a fun aside, I found out that my fucking delivery of my own shit from Quebec is going to be like delayed by like a month. They never even put it on the fucking truck.

It's still sitting in fucking Quebec because Quebec owns, I guess. So we don't have any plates right now. Right. So our, our neighbor comes over, our neighbor shows up at our door, knocks on the door while we're eating pizza and we got pizza all over our fucking face and page like, oh no, there's someone at the door. So I run to the door and our neighbor, the, the wife of the household has shown up and has this like, like fancy, like, like plum tart that she just made.

It's literally still steaming. She must have started baking it when she saw us walk home and she's like, hey, welcome to the neighborhood. Oh my God. Oh, hey. Welcome. I'm blah, blah, blah. Nice to meet you.

And we do the thing. I made this for you and we're like, oh my God, that's so incredible. And then we do the pleasantries and then we come back inside and Paige starts having a fucking freak out because the positive interaction with the neighbor was so different from all the neighborly interactions we had back in Quebec, which were so universally negative. And she's like, oh my God, that's so nice, but she's like freaking out. And so then we realize that we don't have any fucking like forks or plates, but like we have big windows in the kitchen.

So we don't want we like light and like our neighbors are like pretty far down the way like they could look through the windows and see us. So we're like, well, fuck, we're going to have to eat it with our fucking hands. So we we sit down and we like put our backs to the wall underneath the window like in between the kitchen island so that no one could see us closet chocolate except this time it's both of you. So we're just like eating the pie with our hands as we can hear like our neighbors in their backyard, like like a 50 feet away or whatever.

And we're just like, this is great. And like Paige is freaking out going, oh, I hope they liked us. I hope I was nice. And I'm like, this pie is great. And we're just covered in fucking, just keep it hidden disgusting out of you. There you go. And it was out of you. Yeah.

Like we're like we're in the corner position of like a stealth game underneath the fucking window. Okay. Yeah. No, the ripping into it like like animals after they hand it to you in full view of the window. Shamelessly would have been a bad call. So yeah, no, as embarrassing as that was, that was the right move.

That's the correct. So then I'm like, hey, man, I want to get, you know, the I have a my office space here and they'll learn anyway, they'll know I got some windows. So I want some blackout curtains to help, you know, with light and also to cut down on room echo because I can cover a bunch of the wall with curtain. So then I go up to the curtain rod and I start to put the blackout curtains on and the fucking curtain rod holder just pops right out the fucking wall, just just rips right the fuck out because I guess I put too many curtains on it.

And so now I have to fucking either go get some tools and learn how to repair fucking drywall or get a hold of a fucking handyman because now there's like a hole larger than the screw in the fucking drywall. So what some guy in the chat goes a fixer up or no, this is probably my bad. I shouldn't put more brackets up there because I wanted to hang so many fucking curtains because I thought many curtains would look nice. Don't don't be dumb. But drywall fix is not that bad either.

That's a fairly that's a simple thing. Yeah, I know. Use a wall anchor. Yeah, I probably need stronger, stronger like anchors for the curtain rod. And so then I'm sad. I've been sad for like a day and a half about my curtains. I'm so bummed out. And then, oh my God, so we've had a long standing thing where we introduce the dog to

people and they have trouble. They either immediately get his name because, oh, wow, Zangief like the video game or they just can't handle it. But page is out walking the dog and she encounters an older lady who does not have hearing problems. And they're just chatting about and she's like, oh, who's this guy's name? And my wife goes Zangief. She goes, huh, Zangief. What?

She's like Zangief, you know, like like ham and beef. And the lady looks at looks at age and then looks at the dog and goes, David. To which page just went, yes. Yes, his name is David. And the whole lady goes, oh, nice, David, good boy. Yeah, yeah, she tried to fight the autocomplete. She did. She tried to fight it and then it just won the suggestion, the right click under the

red underline. Yeah. Just give up, just give up. And then last but not least. She's lived long enough. Fuck it. I want to give a shout out to El Gato, a company that we have worked with for quite a while. And I ordered the El Gato arm, like for microphones, the boom arm, which I got earlier this morning.

And I was so excited. And then I, you know, I started to set it up. I started to attach it. And then literally upon like tightening the part that attaches to the table, the internal screw just snapped in fucking half and rendered the entire boom arm completely broken and useless. It literally did not even survive being attached to the table. Yeah.

So when you said El Gato, I was like, oh, yes, the recording capture device company that we've used their devices for many years. I'm listening. They have done good things in that front. And then you said boom arm and I'm like, they don't make hardware boom arms. They don't know anything about that. And I look on Google and I see that they do. And I would I would trust them for their game capture technology, not for their studio hardware.

So what the weirdest thing, the weirdest thing is that the average boom arm has like just a metal plate at the bottom that you just turn and turn and turn and it tights. Yeah. Like a road arm. It works like that. Yeah. Yeah. The El Gato one, instead of like a metal plate, that's basically just a gigantic one pound

screw is like a flat padded surface on both sides that's attached to that metal screw, which means there's a point of failure. And the point of failure is a like literally like five millimeter screw attaching the two together that just completely fucking snapped right in half the instant I tightened it. Okay. What you're describing with the screw is also on like the all the boom arms that I have also have that point where it's padded and then you twist it in and it's like you're not not the one I just fucking ordered to replace it.

But it's a big fat metal plate. Okay. I'm going to look at what the El Gato has there, but like making sure that that is balanced and weighted correctly is the most important part of whether your boom is going to work or not. Piece of shit. Yeah. Fucking like goddamn fucking piece of shit.

Well, if you already got your replacements on the way, then that's good. But like I replaced it will be on the way in like over a week. I'm so fucking pissed. Yeah. There's some companies that that do this for like years that are not El Gato. Like again, Rode is a solid company for like hardware and boom arm extensions and things like that. I think the funniest thing, which is as soon as I say that, I see somebody go, I used it

and it's so durable, it would never break. And it's like, it's kind of down to the strength of this specific fucking screw. Right. Yeah. So like I've taken them also into tables that are like not really sturdy enough surfaces for it and you can force it, but then you're kind of twisting the screw until it's like over tightened and kind of damaging the table a bit. So like you have to be like, OK, if you're going to push it, if you're going to try to

force it into a situation it shouldn't be in, you can, you know, damage the table as well. So yeah, I'm again, El Gato, that's a weird, I don't know, that's a weird brand for that type of thing. I was really, really happy to have supported them. That thing, it says something about like it arrived today and I go to Amazon and I fucking go, this fucking thing broke, return it and they, there's no question. Like a fucking return slip just appears in my email and goes slap it to this and it's

like, I wonder, I wonder if certain products get instant fucking return return ability, no questions asked, no live chat or whatever. Yeah. There's there's there's been a couple like products or companies like that, like like Yeti, you know, who like they do like the old USB mics that we used to use. And it's like, OK, like that's what you do. And then because the market around that often would be, you know, selling towards like people with like amateur podcast setups and things like that, then it would be like, we're going

to get into that whole game and sell you the all in one, you know, and it's like everything that's not the original device that you are making is going to be of questionable quality. I just I wouldn't trust that. I wouldn't fucking dress that at all. You know, anyway, so like, I yeah, so I actually went and looked, I actually did in fact get a road. There you go. Arm.

Yeah. As a replacement. I'm so dude, like I had this moment where I'm like, I've moved into my wonderful new house and I'm so happy and the neighborhood I live in, I'm so happy with it and I'm making friends with the neighbors. And then I come inside my house and I touch the table and I fuck the table up and then I touch the curtains and I fuck the curtains up and then I get my fucking equipment into attached for my microphone and it just snaps in half.

Yep. And I'm I'm just like I had this moment just sitting here on the floor with my new broken boom mic, just like almost about to fucking cry, just like God, God damn it, just let me put the fucking monitor on a fucking desk and fucking get my microphone in a good spot. God, God damn it. You can you can move to the into your sitcom life, but like when you have to set it up yourself, good luck. Good luck.

All those all those skills you've been developing over all these years of of of housemaking are now going to come into play. Mm hmm. All right. Well, well, I believe in Peaches competence, so. Oh, yeah, she's been killing it. Nothing she touches explodes. Yeah, no, like there's the lore and the then the mustard into this and that.

And then at the end of the day, she's fucking the hall in it. No, she she's absolutely the head of the household. Yeah, no question. There you go. So. And you get to be sitcom hubby, which is, you know, like, yeah, just borderline. Bumbling exactly. Yeah, so the Ray Romano of the situation.

Oh, well, that that's been the 99 percent of my week. The only other thing that happened this week of any note, and it's still this coming week is I got into the street. Five or six beta. Hey, hey, hey, I'm in. Yeah. How's that feel? It feels great.

Yeah, it feels super great. I was talking to I was talking to people and they were like, I also got in and we digitally high-fived over Twitter and we're all part of a cool club now. Just, I mean, I don't like the level of the level of frothing I was getting over discord with you being like, can I please let me post it? Please let me let me post it. Just chomping at the bit frothing, you know. Well, no, the first the first thing was, did you get a code, Willie?

And you just go like the perfect no, which is just capital N. Oh, and then I'm like, oh, and then we talked about how maybe to acquire one. And then I'm like, please let me post this on discord on Twitter. Come on, I got the memes ready to go, dude. Yeah, the memes are firing out here. OK, well, I might have a line on an Xbox code. So, you know, there's that you want to play station five one? Sure. OK, here you go. Cool.

Thank you. I appreciate that. OK, that's it'll probably that'll work a little bit better. So the the the important thing, the important thing is the gloating and the shitting was also combined with, hey, my friend is dumb help. I appreciate that. Thank you. I am. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm seeing the the the traveling

that the memes about people in and out of getting the betas as well are like just they're almost as good as the beta itself with just the level of like division and hatred it's building among the people, you know, people I'm people go nuts. Oh, yeah, I'm seeing only beta males get beta codes. Oh, man, that fucking rules that fucking owns. Oh, it's getting real salty out here. It's getting it's getting bad, you know.

So we will we will we will see we will see. Yeah, that's I don't know what I saw one post someone and saying that like there might have been people making bots or something to that effect. So I don't know if that's a part of like why like so many people got like shafted on it. But I'm always all I know is that the codes are extremely limited. And I had to I had to search to

and dig to be able to find one that was available for you. Oh, well, thank you, then. I like it was it was not it was not a second one. Yeah. Oh, no, no. Damn. Well, dude, thanks. I really appreciate that, then. I didn't I thought you got a second and were yeah. OK. Cheers, man. Oh, here, I'll explain it. I'll I'll I'll secretly discord explain it to you.

OK. Yeah, so I made the schedule and I posted it up. And I basically like as I wrote on it, it was just directly. OK, I see. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, yeah, cool, cool, cool, cool. And there's a follow up to that. Hold on. Yeah, because I put up the schedule and it's basically just like is basically just like, if I get it, then that's what we're doing.

And if not, then yeah, other stuff, you know. Yeah, I made my goddamn schedule this week and didn't even remember that Street Fighter Six beta was happening this week. It like I was just like, oh, oh, no, is that going to happen? I should plan for that. Yeah, because at the same time, also, well, Darley Dagger just got released for a KOF and I was like, OK, well, I can go see what's happening over on that side of the fence as well.

That's not Street Fighter Six. It sure ain't. But, you know, it was it'll it would have to make do in hard times. But yeah. I guess. So that's Friday, right? Yeah, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, this weekend. Yeah.

Well, anything else with notes on your end? With the week. Having a flat tire means I'm getting my fucking steps in. Holy shit. Fucking walking multiple miles a day with groceries on my back. It kind of it kind of rules. Oh, wow. OK. OK. That type of stitch. Yeah.

I mean, I suppose there are apps you could use to alleviate the situation, but the exercise ain't bad. Yeah, but it's it's it's like pretty outside in British Columbia. And you get to learn the area and stuff. Yeah. And wave to people and be like, oh, yeah, I'm new here. Yeah, that is true. I actually I'm like, come to think of it like, well, I mean, the place I am now, I'm now like, you know, there's I know people around and such.

But like, if I were to move like somewhere else and like follow the current regimen of just being inside all day, all night, you could really just like never see your neighborhood, never meet anybody. You could just become a solitary fucking death stranding, you know, locker. Yeah. If you wanted to. So I've actually been spending a fair amount outside.

My I have a farmer's tan now. There you go. Which is weird, because like normally I would burn to a crisp at in any sun, but I'm getting just enough sun to like not get crispy. Um, yeah, I hear you guys. I hear you guys roast up pretty easy out there. It's pretty bad. So the new place has a lot of windows and Paige is concerned

that she will have to start wearing sunscreen in door. Jesus Christ. Yeah, whatever, fucking ask like, like just just as part of the regimen. SPF, ginger. Yeah, yeah, SPF more. Yeah. Could always become a Windows block UV rays. I didn't know that.

Could always become one of those like sun umbrella people as well. You know, be fat. No, I'm not doing that. OK, well, I'm not becoming the fucking penguin. Well, you know, you could be fashionable about it. So, you know, but all right, that's your call. I don't want. Somebody said there's a new invention called curtains.

Yeah, I tried that. I screwed it up. But like, yes. No, the solution actually actively went wrong right before we got to this. I tried to do the curtain part. Indeed. Now I got to get a handyman. He's got to find where the studs are at.

And then I got to make that joke where you got to point it at yourself. Like, when you do it for like the fucking eighth time and it's just everyone in the room is just tired. It's just like it's not even really funny anymore. You're not you're not even getting a kick out of it, but you're doing it out of obligation. Like, I guess. Hey, look, I guess you found me.

Yeah, look, I did it. Oh, wow, cool. Look at that. The only games I played of note that I really want to talk about is that I played a couple more hours of rumbleverse helped you drill into a fucking ground line. Fucking new rumbleverse. Like, first of all, I'm in my brain, I'm calling it new rumbleverse

because it is it is a wildly different game. It's changed than it was just a couple of weeks ago. Shit has changed. Yeah, like I mentioned it, you know, before, but really like Keyblade is you you're that's a different character you're facing. And the dive kick changes so much. The the way you react to grabs, a lot of that shit is real different. It's kind of wild that like this level of aggressive patching

is being rolled out in like half season increments, you know, it's it has it went from a really, really turtle game. Like blocking was just super powerful and you wanted to to edge people into making mistakes. And now it is so fucking aggressive like people just rolling up on you and just Sumo slapping your fucking guard apart. Now that I've gotten a bit more time on the patch, though, there is something that I'm noticing now that I did not see before.

Are you noticing bots? Yes. OK. I had not seen or encountered bots like at all for the entire pre patch time I've been playing it. And I put in a bunch of time and now I'm seeing tons of them. And it's just odd because I don't know if it's just a if again, if I don't know if it's patch related or not. But I had never like, you know, noted it and now it's like super obvious.

It's like, yeah, that's a bot. And I'm wondering if it's based on being in like the main event league where there's just like less people queuing up if it's a higher, you know, a ranking level. But it's possible that we're just too good and there's not enough people to populate the matches at our level of goodness. It's possible that is, in fact, the case. That is what I'm putting out there into the universe.

However, I never I had not like, yeah, I didn't think I ran it. I don't think I ran into anything like that at all pre patch. You know, yes, I hear. So maybe that's just indicative of, you know, population or maybe it's patch based, I don't know. But it's quite it's it's tough to say. But it's always possible that like they decided that it matched me

because remember beginning the matchmaking took forever and then they kept fighting it back and forth. It's possible at some point, a decision was made that like the upper limit of matchmaking is one minute. Yeah, I mean, I guess if you wait too long because there were it's true, you know what, hmm, come to think of it, there were matches back then where it would be like, OK, thirty one out of forty players

and then you'd sit around on the boat for another minute or two and then it'd be like, OK, fuck it, we're just going to launch. You know, maybe they upped that threshold to say, like, we won't wait as long and we'll just populate the rest could be. What's really strange is the bots seem to make it like pretty far. So I saw the bots make it about halfway into the match and was like, that's kind of strange. It's it is because they don't sprint and they actively don't really

like move that fast or do anything that that aggressive. But they just respond to whatever you do near them. And then like they start playing a game of rock, paper, scissors with you. In most cases, you should be able to just like take take them out for free perks. But again, I saw like a video where someone was like, yo, here's three bots in the final circle. What the fuck happened? You know, does fortnight do something similar?

Yeah. So I went back to fortnight the same night and got almost all bots. And I am absolutely convinced it's because I have not played the game in so long. OK, it put me back into bot matches. And fortnight absolutely fills for time for bot matches as well. OK. And how do people feel about that? I don't think it's hard to say. Fortnight is so wildly, insanely,

gigantically popular that how people feel like we're talking about like tens of millions of people. I've never heard anyone complain about it. Yeah. OK. Because that's the thing is like, I mean, at some level, it's like, oh, yeah, that's again, free perks, free kills, right? And then you just move your way in. I'm I'm willing to be a bit more patient, though,

to like give it another minute for people to join and to make up for less bots. If I have a match where you're like, I ran into one or so, then it'd be like, OK, yeah, there's, you know, that's fine. They spread out and that was that. But I've had matches where I've seen like three and it's like, oh, that's a lot. You know, and then by the time it gets to the final circle, it's it's not anymore. So you just have to wonder, it's like, do they is this like 10 bots and 30 humans? And then, you know, like, you kind of just like are supposed to get them out

of the way as quickly as possible so that you just care through them as fast as possible. So that it's a 30 30. Yeah. Yeah. A 30 match. Exactly. The other the other thing about, I don't know if it's just the games that I was playing in Rumbleverse, but like the people that are like, even now, the game's been out for like, what, a month, like two, even now, the people in that final ring are freaks. Like just absolute fucking freaks in a way that you don't encounter

almost ever in Fortnite or PUBG or a shooter because like the fighting game elements just appear and just like footsies. Fucking mind games, just the whole fucking thing. Dude, it's all the dance doesn't start till you're in the final circle. Like the whole thing is just, you know, putting on putting on the dress, putting on the makeup, getting ready, checking your lipstick. And then the dance begins when the final circle happens. That's where you can see people setting up.

You can spot who has meditative, like the whole game kind of begins there. You know, and you're like, all right, how many chickens you got in your pocket? Sometimes people will pull out their chickens and kind of wave them around. Um, I've seen at least two or three people that like don't fight in the final circle. They just wave at people and dance and drop them free chicken. Like in one case, the dude who was just doing that, who was just like cheering on everybody and dodging amazingly and handing out free chicken as well. Juan, like played ref for the whole final final thing.

No one could touch them. And then like just at the flat per competence. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, I respect that. That's wild. That's crazy. Absolutely stylish.

But, um, that's where you got to get your real fucking your, your, your, uh, your combos on. You need to learn how to wall splat into wall splat into wall splat. You know, um, all of it and have a head of have a sense of, and this is like the one thing that like, uh, as all my, all the fighting game experience and whatever will do me great when I'm fighting one view one or even two view ones in some cases, but what I don't have is that, um, third person shooter awareness of someone is above and behind me.

And I'm about to get elbow dropped on from a blind spot. Yeah. They're, they're basically jerking themselves off until they can fucking third party you to death. The, like you, you, oh, you beat it. You've, you've had the six minute fight with this one guy and you fucking clutched it out and you fucking beat him and you're just about to heal. And some guy tackles you into, into the hell, into dirt.

Yeah. I've never, I've never learned like that's a skill. That's just like, okay, head on a swivel. I keep rotating the camera as much as I can, but I like above me as well. All 360 degrees. Like I'm just, I'm never going to get that down. You know, I'm just going to keep moving and do my best to avoid what I can. Um, but yeah, feels, still feels really fun.

Um, and it's, it's, it's my, my time killer of choice at the moment for sure. It's fucking great. Um, and by the way, if you do play rumble verse or fortnight and you do decide to buy any of the skin, I was going to make sure to use the creator code Pat stairs at, okay. So about those creator codes, do you have to create it in fortnight for it to carry over to this game? Because I was no, there's, there's, there's epic has a fucking creator

program that you sign up for. Okay. It's a whole thing. All right. Cause I was looking and I don't, they actually like cut it off. I don't think they're accepting anybody right now. I was looking at it and it seemed as if like, um, there was like, yeah, there's a sign up place, a sign up process that had to take place outside

of the game somewhere. And I was like, what is, yeah, no, it's a, it's a whole fucking thing. Okay. Um, that's, that's the same thing as like the V bucks stuff for me. I did it like 18 months ago. I honestly don't remember how. Okay. Um, yeah, anyway, um, and, and, uh, I guess the only thing I was going to

point out was just like trying to figure out the right, um, synergies with the new moves as well and stuff is, uh, it's pretty interesting. I'm finding some uses for dive kick, you know, um, as like one of the fastest OTG things, um, oh, it's dolphin dive being changed to OTG is the best fucking. That's fun. Just the best that move went from, I don't give a shit to give it to me every time. Um, and what, and like one of the most fucking insane stylish things you can do now is like, if you pop your super, uh, which you can't spam anymore because

it trains bar to use to do the grab, uh, you can pop your super, pull out a key blade and do like light, light launcher air combo spin, the horizontal one, whatever that, that there was a name for it that Sora does. Um, but like air combos, tornado spin, vertical spin, the key breaks at that point and go right into the air super after that. And it's fucking glorious. It's such a sick combo. Um, you just like, yeah, full on character action moment at that point.

Um, so aerial strike, strike raid, strike raid. I saw people were saying that. Yeah. Strike raid. There you go. It is, it is bizarre because people with the key blade pipe are playing a completely different game. Flying out of trouble.

It's the full move set. Yeah. It's, it's the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. I want more items like that to exist. Um, and those are like, that's kind of what like it was in fortnight when it would like pick up a thing and turn into Thanos and stuff, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Or a robot or something. Okay. Yeah. So there you go. Uh, okay. Okay.

Well, uh, over on my side, um, I have watched five episodes of edge runners and, uh, yeah, allow me to say swipe might be one of my favorite animates of it's, it's insanely high up on my list. It is ridiculously good. Like ridiculously good. Holy fucking shit. I feel alive. Uh, God damn, is it a good show?

And, um, everything about it is delivering obviously aesthetically on the things that I like, and it reminds me of, do you remember my profile picture back in the day out for a couple, for a while was this like, um, screenshot of an anime that was, that never came out called Urbans. And it was like, oh man, a million, a million years ago. And it was just really sick animation of like just these kids and like a dystopian city and lasers and lights and, and like, you know, a club neon and shit like that. And it was just like, it was just a whole vibe and it looked really, really good,

but it never fucking came out, right? Um, this is delivering the aesthetic I want of all of that. And it's grabbing the aesthetic I like about mirrors, edge and all that shit. And all that is just, it's cyberpunk. It's the thing, right? It's doing it. Okay. Cool.

Done. So you don't have to question that at all. Cool dystopia where we have robot legs and cool fashion instead of our current dystopia, where like, I can't make a decision at the store about which toilet paper to buy. And like the company is using that decision paralysis to keep me in the store to play like subconscious ads through the fucking grocery store radio. Yeah, the thing is, though, is that it does a really good job of like showing you. I mean, but I suppose this is what the, the, you know, any sufficiently well

detailed cyberpunk setting will do is like you're in or you're out, but either way, if whatever you like here is going to be immediately matched with some horrible shit. Right. The things that are cool are also like hand in hand with a fucked up horrible way to live and a fucked up horrible society. And, and it just, it's a perfect blend of every time there's something like, God damn, that's cool immediately followed by, holy fuck, that's awful. You know, like it sandwiches those feelings the entire time.

Yeah, you're, you know, like it's just it really does a really good job establishing that musically. They've licensed some really dope tracks. They got Franz Ferdinand in there. They got like some stuff that is like just it stands out and it's fun to listen to, you know, like I didn't know exactly what kind of soundtrack to expect. But I suppose I just was waiting for like anime, you know, and in this case, they kind of like reached out and did some, some more with that.

So it sounds great. It looks great, obviously triggers doing what trigger does. Like they're having fun with the characters, their designs, their personality, all that is great. But just like the establishing of, yeah, the setting, the characters, all of it, it does so much in so, in so little time. And you get the feeling that like because the dialogue is happening so quickly as well, that like it's almost like it's it's it's almost like it's compressed. Like the pacing doesn't feel too fast.

But the amount of things to look at or take in in any given scene is overwhelming. Conversation, like I constantly have to kind of pause, back it up a little bit, replay that conversation because I was reading the log version or I was looking at something in the background or there was just something in the set. You know what I mean? Like there's a lot going on, but it still is going to take its time, you know, like there's a scene of the main character just walking through the city for a while on his way to school.

And there's just so much to look at and take in in that. And it's, you know, that's a nice little pace set or a little tone set or but like it's still hyper dense as well. So you're just you're on alert the entire time. Yeah, one of the reasons for that is likely that they're using the in-game architecture and environment as the fucking actual backdrop for most of the outdoor scenes. So like a lot of that design work and style work is is done. Like it was ready to go.

Yeah, that's so and the thing is I'm looking at locations and like, you know, big stores and bars and things like that. And I'm like, I'm guessing these are places you would actually go in the game as well. I yeah, I definitely I'm going to think that the a lot of that was just like here's reference from what we've already set up for the game. So because that's obviously so rich, though, it just integrates beautifully into what they're doing and. I mean, yeah, you want to talk about just like

hey, cool, cool implants are cool and cyber eyes and Internet, everything and all that fun stuff is great. Now, here's what it's like when the mega corp owns the country and runs everything. And this is a just like, yeah, it's it's so it's brutal, it's just fucking brutal about it. And it's the I'm glad to hear it because like the number one because I haven't played much of Cyberpunk 2077, but I am fairly familiar with the genre.

It's like the number one part of Cyberpunk is that the advancement of technology has rendered human life cheaper than ever, which is counterintuitive. Unbelievably so. Yeah, like like your your your fake arm is more valuable than your like entire life as a as a human creature. That's it. And there are times where like a setting is not like that.

It's a setting where you would think human life would be valued and then like something like shocking would happen. And then everyone would just kind of go on about their day and it would rip me out of it because it would be like, wait, what? Like, why are you not reacting to that more? You know, God, I like I'm trying to think of a good example of this. It happens from time to time and stuff. But like, I mean, it's been so long now.

But I remember like parts of Gantz where I kind of was just like, what? Like, that's a that's a weird way to react to something that horrible, you know? Yeah. But yeah, in this case, it's like it's like everything from top to bottom is just beating down exactly how unbelievably cheap life is, you know? And and it just goes hands in hand, hand in hand with your cool arm blade and your cool arm gun and all the other fancy shit you want, you know? Something else as well that is just so fucking awesome is like

I was also wondering about whether it would be like it's it's would this be an anime in not just our art style and like character, aesthetic and flavor? But like, would it also basically be like, OK, when he goes to school, it's going to kind of be like a Japanese high school, but it'll just be in this cyberpunk world like our anime tropes going to kind of fall into place in a way that makes this like it's cyberpunk, but it's really we're just going to do what you are recognized in anime and stuff. And it's like, no, no, not really.

It it it's going to be told and it's going to do things in a way that is like, I guess, probably what I imagine the game would do to tell its stories and romance and relationships are handled in a not anime kind of way, but in a. I guess more I guess fitting for the setting kind of way. You know what I mean? It's so far, at least I'm again, I'm five episodes in, but the the the impressive that I was kind of wondering, I'm like, so are we going to have like, you know, letters behind the school with hearts on them and Doshio moments?

And it seems like no, not quite. We're going to have some, you know, fucked up pretty mature moments between the characters and people be fucking because that's what that's what you do. And let me ask you a question. This is very important. English or Japanese? I decided that I would click play and take whatever Netflix gave me. Oh, that's interesting.

Yeah, because when it comes to stuff like this, where it's going to be, you know, like simulcast and multi-launched and different areas, I'm going to just go like, let's just see what it, what it, what the devoted defaults to. Um, and I pressed play and it by default went to Japanese. So yeah, it knew you were a huge weeb. I have no idea what it knew, but I just pressed play and I said, I'm going to watch this in whatever way the default setting is. And the default setting was in Japanese.

So I said, all right, that's how I'm going to watch it. So I have been, I've been told that both dubs are excellent. I imagine. But, but the subtitling on the Japanese version loses a lot of flavor because they don't use much of the cyber parlance. They do a good bit though. In fact, what I would say is the cyber parlance is happening in the dub, in the text of the subtitles, um, and I'm not hearing it in what they say, you know.

So, yeah, sorry. That's what I mean is that people are because it's, it's, it's a dub subtitle. They're the subtitles are just the closed captioning. Yes. So people are being called chooms all the time, but, um, the actual things they're saying is just a normal Japanese sentence that I would recognize. You know, so, um, it's, it's not, yeah, it's, it's not a transliteration necessarily. Um, it's, it's still taking the same subtitles as I guess what the original

dub would be. Um, what the fuck is choom? I'm assuming it's, uh, uh, like a slang for like your, like a, yeah, no, gunk is bad. Chum is like good. Like, I think Chum might be like, dude. And I think gunk is like idiot. That's what, oh, Chum is supposed to be Chum.

Okay. Okay. I get it. So, like Chum's a real word. Uh, did you play? Yeah. What did you, you said you, didn't you say you touched the game a bit? I touched the game for like three hours and then it just basically

completely fucking fell apart on me. Okay. Did you, did you grab any lingo in that time? I heard many chooms, but I didn't know what the fuck it meant. Um, yeah. The context I got was yeah, Chum, uh, gunk and Nova as well. Um, but yeah, well, I mean, I'm always glad to see that, like, uh, by saying, I'm like, you know, I pressed play and it turned out it was subbed and everyone,

and a lot of people are like, both are good. And other, some people are like, no, switch to English and other people are like, so the Japanese is great. Like that's good. Cause that means that all versions of it are solid. Just try it on rewatch. Exactly. Uh, which is the best thing because goddamn, do I remember my, my teenage

years when there was only one way and, and that was the only way that you could hear it because the other way was just garbage. Um, so. Or just totally unavailable. Yeah. Um, no, I'd sometimes the only way available was the garbage. Mm hmm. Um, yeah, I'm down to switch it over and see, cause I did that with like Jojo,

for example, was like, I switched a couple of times back and forth just to see what the, uh, they, they, they sounded like in each respective language. Cause you know, God, I got to hear Kira killing it. Um, so yeah, I might, I might do that in this case too, as well. Um, especially if, you know, like they did a really good, uh, job with the casting, um, I see people talking about Gus Fring. So I'm guessing they, uh, they, they, they hired, um, uh, God, what's his name again? That guy, that Carlo Esposito Esposito.

Yes. Cool. Very nice. Um, yeah, man. Um, but anyway, all this to say that like it's, it's just one of my favorite things ever so far. It's so fucking cool. It's so good.

Um, and I already like, like I'd get to the end of like a couple episodes and then I'd like jump back to and go back to a scene and watch it again, you know, and stuff and just, yeah, I'm probably going to just bang the rest of that out. Like, uh, maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow. I don't know, but, uh, holy shit, holy shit trigger. Super good. And, um, you know, we talked about how people, uh, hit, uh, the game again and brought it to the players to an all time high.

And yeah, like my love for this will get me to pop, to pop that game in and check that setting out, um, absolutely, especially if, uh, things are better now. It's been patched into improvement. And if, uh, again, you said there's a combat overhaul. So, uh, that is, uh, it's really smart that you make a project like this that focuses on the setting because then you get to go, Hey, there's more of the setting over here. Mm hmm.

Mm hmm. And to me, um, there's, I guess, like, you know, the original source material, which is the tabletop game. And then there's edge runners as my primary way of interfacing with it as my, my preferred, you know, a priority entry. And then I'm like, oh, and if you want more of that, you can check out this game. You know, so yeah, um, I'm, I'm, I'm looking forward to it. They made a video game based off of edge runners.

Wild, wild, um, I'd still, I think the funniest, I think the funniest comparison was, so Cyberpunk 2077 is still flawed, but people are coming around on it now that it's been mostly improved. Um, and the, the wild, wild chasm in between, man, I watched edge runners. I really wish I could see more of that. Hey, I'm really enjoying cyberpunk. And wow, arcane was great. Maybe I should look in a playing league of legends.

Like just the absolute fucking pit. I was just about to bring it separates those two groups. I was just about to bring up arcane as another way of like, yeah, you got me interested in this setting that I thought I, I like what I saw in this show. I thought it was pretty cool. Um, I could see myself diving into some, uh, uh, uh, entry into it. And, uh, that entry will be project L when it launches. It is, it is the longer it goes, the funnier it is to me about the way league

of legends is trying to expand and it's desperately trying to expand into not being league of legends. It wants to be a show, a card game, a fighting game, an RPG series and an adventure series because they're, they're well aware that they're never going to get new mainstream people to play league because it's just an actively vicious, mean, upsetting game. Well, I, I have to imagine that league and Fortnite are games that are like, and Minecraft, for example, they represent games that are like they're at

such, uh, industry saturation levels that anybody who's not playing them, it's because they've actively made a choice, right? Yeah, it's not like it's just still working its way out there. Uh, someone in the chat pointed out that, uh, as a, as a, uh, a counter argument to my point is that they actually are remaking league of legends, uh, for, uh, phone and console. It's called wild rift and it's literally just phone slash console league. And what's interesting about that is that it's way better.

It's way, way better than regular league. Hmm. Yeah. I think, I think you were saying that before. Yeah. It's, it's like, how do I put this? You know, when you, you know, when you go to a character and like their webpage or in game thing is like a photo of the character and then it's, um, like, like

an animated gif of their move and then a second one and a third one and like a, a paragraph of text, right? And that's your breakdown. When you load it up in wild riff, it has like these enormous fucking gigantic animations of the characters doing cool shit with narration and fucking voice acting and explanations over their actual abilities. And then the actual game is like tweaked to be twice as fast. And it's just like, oh my God, this, this feels like a fucking direct replacement.

Well, I mean, for me, well, because they're saying is only phone and console because you can't actually replace league. Otherwise you upset an empire, right? Like it's, you can't starcraft to the situation. You have to keep the thing that's been the monster that it is. To the way it is. And if you're doing other shit, it's got to be side a less important shit, even if it is better.

It's, it's fascinating because, um, I'm seeing some people respond to what I'm saying and yeah, you're right. There's no narration. I'm just, I'm kind of painting a picture of fanciness here. Um, but, uh, people are describing, well, that's not quite as good as real league. And it's like, man, I would make that game a hundred times shittier to just cut the fucking game time in half. Like the, the, like almost everything that makes me pissed off when I play that

game is being stuck in it for 40 minutes. I mean, that, like that, that time, that time sink on each game sounds insane. Uh, yeah. But anyway, um, all this to say though, but just like, yeah, fucking, um, just amazing so far on, on, uh, my halfway point through edge runners and, uh, fully just a six, just a successful thing that, um, I don't know how much or how little involvement there was or, you know, whatever the storytelling or approval process was, but, um, in my issue, doing a fucking sick job with it, um, cool

to see, you know, um, him with like a team that is going to take some of like, even like some of the color lessons they learned from Promare are being used here. There's a couple of scenes where, uh, they do some similar lighting tricks where the outlines and things are not black, but they're actually just like another scene, another color from the background or something like that. Um, super duper good. Um, and yeah, I, I guess again, when you have a really strong setting and, um, you want to go tell a story within that setting, you can, you can probably go nuts

because it, you know, there's probably like stuff that'll change the world and in the main game or whatever. But if it's just over here and it's on the side, then, you know, you can, there's no restrictions, right? So, um, fuck yeah. Uh, cyberpunk edge runners. So what you're saying is that you're enjoying your gaslighting campaign. Yes, exactly.

They're doing an incredible job of, of that might be the fucking wildest take I've ever seen about a show in my goddamn life. Okay. Wait, hold on. What I thought you were saying that is a, that is a real tape. Okay. I thought you were saying that, that cyberpunk, uh, rather CD project is gaslighting everybody with this anime to make it.

That is exactly the real take. Okay. What they are, they are gaslighting everyone into tricking them that cyberpunk was actually good by showing them a fancy cartoon. That's okay. Again, whoomst. Is this a main character of Twitter? Yeah.

Well, actually it's multiple. I've seen, I've been seeing it all week. It's fucking hilarious. It's fucking hilarious. It's so nuts. If the quality is exceptional, then give me the gas mask. I'll huff that shit. I'll huff that tank all day.

Um, absolutely. Um, yeah. So, um, edge runners, um, and then, um, I mean, not a ton else. Uh, I mentioned that, like, yeah, the, the samshaw characters dropped in, in KOF and I guess I'll, I'll take a look when we get a chance to in the future. But I did press some buttons and mess around a little bit with Darley just to see, um, and it's an interesting, it's interesting how they're converting those characters in.

Um, I'm still just wildly shocked that they would go with her, um, as the third, because there's literally how Maru, Naka Ruru, the, the, the, the must haves and then, you know, the wild new OC, um, who, you know, turned out to be pretty popular, I guess, admittedly. So she, isn't she like the, the poster OC of that game though? But not really because the, um, the bird dude is on the, is like on, on the cover and on the marketing material. So like not exactly.

I think she was just like the unexpected, holy shit. Look at her character that blew up on Twitter. Um, but like, if you go back and grab like the box art and stuff. Um, yeah, again, they, they, they put, um, I forgot his name, but bird guy with, with the, with the beak on, on the box. So it feels like they're pushing for him. Um, it's, it's, uh, uh, almost similar to how, um, uh, what the fuck's her name again? God damn it.

Um, new, uh, Dolores, it's almost similar to how Dolores is in KOF 15 as like, not a new poster character because it's all about Shune, but holy shit. Everyone thinks Dolores is a fucking great character design. She's a pretty successful, popular thing. And now like there's like a, you know, a ground swell over Dolores. So, so, uh, I feel like Darley's in that role, you know. And I don't know a single one of the other characters you just mentioned. Okay.

Dolores is the black girl in KOF 15 that has the, the glasses that are like circular and then the, the purple and blonde dreads. And then the, she does all the sand stuff. Yeah. Um, anyway, so, uh, um, yeah, pretty interesting. Like converting them into that system and, uh, um, just making them more active and more hyper than they, they're meant to be because samurai shot on as a slow and deliberate game of, of very subtle movements into explosive movements.

And KOF is hop, jump, skip, run, roll, burst, pop, fucking max, activate, go nuts, go crazy. Um, yeah. No, KOF is fucking Ganondorf and fucking sorry. KOF is fucking Fox McLeod and Samurai showdown is Ganondorf. It's crazy. Um, so turning those characters into, into that form is, and I mean, Nakaruru was in the last one as well, but now seeing like someone like, yeah,

Darley and even and how Maru as well joining and, and getting extra moves to just have them keep up, um, it's kind of seeing them in a hyper form. It's almost like, like the change from them take going from Sam showdown to KOF is almost like taking Ryu from street fighter and putting him in Marvel. You know, like it's, it's, it's, it's kind of nuts. But, um, uh, more when we, we do a stream on that in the future. Mass Effect two continues. Um, I feel, uh, it's, it's, it's quite interesting.

We, we did, uh, we're doing a bunch of the, I think we, yeah, we did pretty much all the loyalty missions, uh, that we cut up to this point. Um, I did, um, uh, tallies and, uh, that was a lot of fun because, um, it was like, I was, well, it was fun. I was kind of expecting to get a full, you got a courtroom scene. I was expecting to have like tons of dialogue choices for like how the courtroom scene would play out, like, uh, like a little bit of a Phoenix right mission type of thing.

And unfortunately it kind of, it kind of just comes down to like maybe one or two dialogue choices. Um, and then, uh, there was also a, a, a tense moment between, um, Miranda and Jack earlier that also came down to just like, um, bluing or redding your way out of the situation. And I feel that's, that is, that is the most disappointing use of blue or red in the entire series. I, I, they have such a good reason to hate each other's guts and you get to just

go, no, shut up, bitches. I think I suspect that like, um, like it might have been in that case and with the court case, a way of like taking it easy on the player. Compared to say like Rex where Rex is like a three prompt conversation, but you can fuck up right away at, right? So like having things that are like, tense, say the right thing, like the tension, if it's just one moment, it's unfortunately not as like, it kind of, yeah, it spoils it a little bit compared to like walking, teetering through the

conversation trees, you know, um, perhaps not as, perhaps you don't have to go as far as like, you know, the mission, like step a little closer, step a little closer, um, to the, uh, the, the Batarian slave girl who was freed. You don't have to go as nuts as that is, but like it does, um, feel like things and very abruptly when it's like, oh, one and done. And we just, we just blew our way through that entire thing. Also, also parts of it don't make any sense because like they're having this, this personal difference that is deep and angry and personal and your ability to

just go, everyone shut up. And it's like, good, we've maintained their loyalty by telling them to stop having the fight. There's a, there's a balance between not having the player feel bad, I suppose that they're, that they were trying to maintain. And, um, yeah, I guess like they're content to give you some decisions that like play out in that way. I mean, I definitely feel the, the Morton discussion, uh, had multiple, you know,

angles to it, multiple entry points to it, um, that lead up to the final one. Um, but I guess that's just my, my only observation is that like, I think tense moments that like when it's called for, are better suited and better delivered with a full conversation and not just a blue shut up or a red shut up, you know. So what's interesting to me is that, um, particularly because this is Bioware is that they made, uh, Dragon Age before Mass Effect two, and then they made the Baldur's Gate series prior to that. And the, your party members bickering and arguing is a thing in like tons of their games.

And you get to see like the nature of modern development and voice acting because in, uh, Dragon Age, you can make some decisions that will have the party just raw turn on you. There's one particular mission that if you make a decision to like blast theme some like a fucking fancy Jesus earn, like half of the team will just come at you. And you have to, you have to kill them. Oh shit. Okay. Like there's, there's no, there's no solution.

It's just like you're fucking dead. We're going and past that you have stuff like Baldur's Gate two where characters will join up and fucking hate each other, but they'll tolerate it. But their personal differences are irreconcilable. It will reach ahead and you will have to make a decision. And the person you don't pick usually ends up getting scorched as a result. Um, and you get to Mass Effect and it's like, well, we put way too much work into Jack and Miranda's voice lines.

So we're not just, yeah, cut that. So they, they can't actually hurt each other. Um, so there's that it's interesting, you know, and then there's, there's moments to, well, so Kotor has these moments where like you scroll down that, that, that, uh, dialogue choice and you've got like fucking nine or 10 things to pick from. Um, I don't know how many of them are fake or not, but it definitely gives you a moment of like, whoa, okay, hold on. How do I want to handle this?

Um, and I feel there's also some odd moments where the definition of what a paragon is versus what a renegade is in this context is. Oh, you're, you're starting to see the fuzziness. It flips weirdly sometimes. I mean, so I just did, um, um, the, uh, Street Overlord mission. Um, and, uh, that was fucking, that was a good piece of DLC. That was great.

Uh, but it was the most notable odd bit was how your reaction to the final, uh, confrontation with the brothers, you know, and, and, and the fucking clockwork orange moment. Um, is like, you can be blue is fuck you. You're a piece of shit. This is horrible. And red is, okay, I'm not, not bad. I'm on board. Tell me more, you know, um, as opposed to blue being this is rough, but like, like blue,

like as opposed to blue being this is horrible and unethical, this is bad. Fuck you. And red being, I'm just going to pull the trigger right now. You know, right. And there are moments where like blue in the game earlier where blue and red are aligned, but red is, and that's the end of you and blue is I'll forgive you or let you off the hook without, you know, murdering you right here in cold blood versus the other times where they're diametric opposites, you know, and you never quite are, you don't quite know

like which one you're going to get until you're in that moment and you see what, what you're being presented with. Um, yeah, there's, there's definitely, and then you get third choice as well, which, you know, can toe the line, be the middle. And in some cases it's literally like the way I want to take the situation, but I wish that there was like, again, like an alt, like deeper blue and or like brighter blue, sorry, deeper blue or brighter purple or brighter red, you know, like there's these moments of like, but I know that that is also like asking way too much

of a game that needs to kind of give you false choices that can structure you back to a coherent narrative, you know, um, it's interesting. There's, there's very little consistency and the biggest one is between game, right? And, and Paragon in one is working. Paragon in one is I'm a cop. And I will buy the book it like it's legally based, right? It's about like following the law versus not. But then in two, um, you're, you're breaking the law by default. So it becomes more of a, like a moral or like it's supposed to be,

but Renegade Shepard in two is occasionally just insane. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, absolutely. Um, because it's like, yeah, blue is like, you know, what Shepard probably should be doing according to a novelization and red is the opposite of that. But what the opposite means just flips around wildly from, from moment to moment, you know? And then in three, you get the, the, the, in three, the, the whole thing is, are you willing to drown 10 or a hundred babies to save whoever? Well, I literally just did a mission that was the actual trolley problem in space.

And I, I mean, the first game had the Baterian thing with the planets and you stop them and stay so on and so forth. Um, this game, oh my God. Like, first of all, side note, I can't believe how they go from mentioning Baterians a little bit to like, and then I never played the DLC in the first one when I played it, when it first came out back in the day. So I didn't really remember that race. Like, and I definitely don't think I ever saw them until this time around because you only see them in the DLC in one. So, uh, but, and it's like, okay, yeah, they're kind of like, they're kind of fucked. Um, and then in this fucking game, every second planet you scan is just lore on

how fucked this entire race is. Fuck them. There's no even keel here. There's no reason to look at twice and consider maybe there's some good ones. It's going out of its way to just like underline, fuck all of them, right? Like they really didn't try. They wanted a force of pure evil, but they also didn't want to blow like the Prothian, not Prothian, the, uh, the Reaper wad, uh, probably because it would lose the tension as the main enemy that represents the fact that like one of the way I call it, I say winter's coming, right? So winter's coming. It's beyond the wall and you can't stop it. It's just a force that wants everything dead. And in the meantime, we're going to be bickering amongst the Lannisters and the North and this and that and

all the whatever. And at the end of the day, those are all very human, uh, um, or, or, you know, like just emotional things that can be reasoned with, but ultimately greed and all the traits that whatever make up the Game of Thrones. And in this case, you get that. But then also halfway between winter and the big, the Game of Thrones is the Paterians who are just like, no, like they're there too. And they're part of the game, but we just are not even going to give this any sympathy whatsoever. Like there's no reason to try to relate, you know, um, they're going, it's nuts, but so you do that first mission in the first game. And then now you do like a side mission here and the side mission ends with, all right, you can't stop the giant planet, uh, you can't

stop the nuke. It's either heading towards the city or the industrial quarters. Which one do you direct it to, you know, and it's like, Oh, literally you just put a trolley problem. And, you know, in front of us, I can't remember it. I don't remember the name of it, but it's really not notable in terms of the actual events. Cause you just walk through a base and shoot a bunch of dudes. Um, and then at the end, there's a terminal that's just like, you can only stop one of two missiles. So which one do you stop? Um, it's a random mission in space. And then it's just like, okay, well, um, uh, broken arrow, there you go. Um, and then yeah, you pick one of the two, you know, um, and, and, and, and that is just, it's just like, at least hide it a little better.

You know, like with Zaid's, for example, Zaid's loyalty, they kind of throw it in there and they go like, you got to get this guy and got to get him good, or you can save these people. And then the line literally says, fuck, like, it's like, nevermind loyalty. We got to save these people. And it kind of tells you right there, like, okay, you can actually throw it away if you want to get those blue points, um, in the narrative. But in this case, you just get to the thing and it's like hit it left or hit it right. And this is going to go over a group of a bunch of residents, or this is going to be fewer people, but they're all going to be the industrial, like, you know, workers and then it'll, it'll fuck up the, the alliance positioning and secrets or whatever,

you know, so. So, um, there's, uh, there's more Baterian adventures to come. I imagine. And you will, you, I can't, I can't wait. I can't wait to talk to you about further Baterian adventures because you will not be able to believe it. I mean, they're spending so much effort on the codex and lore, um, on the planet reading, telling you about them and, and having them show up everywhere as fucking just horrible slavers. Like they're really going heavy-handed on it. So I know it has to, it has to go more places for sure. Um, but, uh, yeah, it really does. It, it, it, what, it's, it's so, how do I put this? It's so intense that I remember like streaming it and I'm sitting there and I've been the first, I didn't play it when it came out,

like the, the, the mission I'm talking about. And I'm just sitting there going like, like as a player, not like as a person inhabiting the character going like, I literally can't believe they wrote this. Yeah. Um, looking forward to it. Uh, so yeah, Mass Effect is, is, uh, going and, uh, right now, yeah, so a couple of combo con videos came out as well. Um, as you guys, uh, might have noticed on the channel, we got Willie versus Fago, we got Willie versus Kenny and then, uh, the Tournament of Dreams. So, um, I think we're going to be on two Mass Effects a day until the new thing, which starts tomorrow, which kind of predictably it's going to be Bayonetta two.

You do Bayonetta one on your channel back in the day. One of the, one of the first things I did with Reggie was, uh, Bayonetta two. We did Katamari and I think we went right into it and to Bayonetta one. Man, that game's coming out like end of the fucking month. I can't believe it's coming out the same day as the Resident Evil eight DLC. Like I'm so pissed. Yeah. Uh, wait, is it? Yeah. Damn. Both are on the 28th. Well, shit. Um, but anyway, I kind of figure, uh, yeah, we need to, we need to line our, our calendars up for, you know, uh, the big shit that's about to drop. So let's get Bayonetta two out of the way. Uh, let's catch Reggie up on, on, uh, the Sareza Chronicles. And, um, to be honest, let's see what the fucking rust looks like because I remember popping in Bayonetta

one and being like, Oh my God, I don't remember how to play and do anything stylish at all. And, you can bet your ass that same thing for two, because when it got ported, I bought it. I, I, you know, just, I'm like, yep, I want to support that. And I think I installed two. And then I just haven't touched it since, you know, the, my first runs on the game. So, uh, this is probably going to be rough. Uh, I ask everyone, uh, for their patience in this trying time, as I try to remember, uh, how to do the stylish thing. And then, uh, hopefully by, um, the third or fourth session will be warmed up and good to go. They have two ways here than they'll want. Yeah. But it's not about easy. It's about like

stylish, you know? I want to look good. Well, then I can't help you. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, no, the first episode will not feature style. There will be no style. Do not, do not expect that. Maybe it might. Um, maybe I'm going to try my dodge offsets and hope for the best. Um, so yeah, that is going to start. And then on, uh, Friday, we are going to be doing our second. We're back with the react stream. Um, I think go on with woolly versus whatever. Um, I like that WVW and, uh, it's like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. And, uh, yeah, I've tweeted it out. You can submit your trash, feel free. Um, I'm also calling it a slop stream. So, uh, it's crazy how trash the submissions are. It's wild. Yeah. We, we, we,

we do in the slop stream. So, uh, send it in, uh, or you can, uh, if you're on Reddit, I posted a thread as well where you can, uh, send, uh, you can post in the Reddit and we will create the, the two tier lists and move through it. Um, don't, I know Pat, I know you tell people to reply directly in your schedule thread for the videos. I do not do that. Do not, do not fucking drop your videos in the Twitter thread for me. I put a form right there. You can fill it out. It's real. You guys should do it. You guys should just drop them in the Twitter thread. That's the easiest way for them to get to them. I, I, you will, they will literally not only not make it, they will be ignored. And you, you know what you should do? If he doesn't, if he doesn't watch your video

one week, you should just constantly repost the same video on every time he does post his schedule. How will they do that from a block to count? They'll make a burner. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Great. Uh, yeah. I think, no, it's genuinely like the only really frustrating thing is that like when I have, make the call out for like new videos, I add, I, I skim them and I add them to the watch later list, right? And then like, there's so many in the list now that like it takes weeks to get to them. And people are like still submitting the ones that I added three weeks ago. And it's like, no, I'll, I'll get to them or I skipped it on purpose. Uh,

whichever. Yeah. So, um, and I'm gonna, again, I'm, I'm asking some, some kind folks to, to vet, um, and, and we're going to just make it through. But anything that goes on that hasn't been watched is going to be at the top of the list for next time. So it's, I'm not throwing it out each time, you know, um, there's no shortage. There's no shortage of slop to get through. Um, and, uh, we will see how to arrange this, but, uh, yeah, that might just become a regularly scheduled thing. We'll see how it, how, how it feels. We'll see if it's viable. Um, but that might be popping up as a thing we do. And, uh, you know, I hope everybody enjoy, everyone seems to enjoy. So we can, we can, we can have a good time. Um, and yeah, most of the time, what you're

gonna, you're gonna end up seeing is, um, uh, you know, stuff is gonna get clipped, thrown on the, the algorithm channel. Um, the, uh, vaude is gonna be there. And then I'm working on something else as well. Like I'm, I'm working on a sort of like, um, YouTube safe, compressed, amplified, fun version of events. So, um, stay tuned for something like that. Uh, cause I do know that, you know, people have their preferences and stuff, but anyway, you'll stuff will be around. So, so, um, you know, and then the moment, of course, anything happens that is, uh, dangerous or sketchy or threatening, um, then, uh, yeah, that shit will get nuked off the face of the earth and, uh, that'll be gone. But, um, my, my hope is that the vetting process will, will save us a lot of that danger. So,

uh, yeah, but anyway, I manually skim every single one because I don't trust it. Yeah. Um, I mean, I kind of have that process in my brain anyway. That's naturally what I'm doing. Like pretty much for the entire stream, same thing for like messages, anything coming in, whatever's popping up. But I just, uh, want like, there's a point where it's like, I, I, I, this seems fine, but it's, it's a clip from the Witcher. That can't be bad, right? A witcher's got big fat fucking titties and blood holes in it all over the place. It really does. Also these, I, if I remember correctly, it also has small, you know, nice, decent sized titties as well, which, uh, unfortunately the, the, the YouTube does not

discriminate, uh, nor does Twitch on, uh, the cup size and whether or not that is going to be allowed. So, uh, big fat honkers are just as not okay as small little, um, A cups. So anyways, um, you couldn't think of a fun word for A cup. I, I tried and I, I, it's just what, I don't know. Yeah. You know, tibies. I don't like that. I don't like that at all. Okay. Well, I don't know. Anyway, my schedule this week is going to be a fucking mess because I'll be quite honest. Like if my desk shows up, I will absolutely fucking, like my desk shows up at like like an hour before my stream, I'm canceling the stream to fucking put the desk together.

There you go. This coffee table fucking bullshit sucks. It sucks. I want to get a fucking workspace back where I can have a keyboard. My keyboard's on the fucking floor right now, man. This is stupid. Anyway, go to twitch.tv slash Pat stairs that I can guarantee you I'll absolutely be playing the street fighter six beta on Fridays because street fighter as as much as I would love to encourage you doing more floor streams because that's it's hilarious. It's probably again, a horrible idea. Uh, that being said, you could always expose your balls and like, yeah, stream the fucking building of the desk. Oh my God, I'm so scared of doing that stream, your your your complete your fucking manhood. What if my whole balls fall out?

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Mmm. Okay. Za'um is fucking dead. Oh, they're fucking done. It's over. Like just instantly disintegrated. Enough in a heartbeat. Um, in the most, just in the most disco way possible. Yeah, I've been talking about this, uh, for a couple of days now. It is, there's nothing more appropriate than the way this went down. So Za'um is the company that, uh, made Disco Elysium, one of the best games I've ever played in my life. And, uh, the news came out earlier this week that the cultural collective has ceased to be due to the, um, the key folks behind it being, uh, ousted from the company involuntarily. Um, it fucking sucks. Uh, Kervitz,

Heinz-Pierre, and Rostov, uh, and the founder, Liga, um, all of the people that kind of made, uh, the groundwork for what Disco Elysium is, uh, are no longer there. And there's a whole lot about that that we can get into. But, uh, what were you going to say? So the, the nature of this, I keep thinking about it is, it's appropriateness because, um, I forget the name. I can never remember their names, but one of the, the heads of the studio who is now gone posted this like fucking, I don't know what to call it, like Manifesto. Martin Liga, yeah. Or, or some, a just massive, massive essay about why they left and what happened. And like the description of, from interviews in the past of like, well, how did Disco Elysium happen has been that the

heads of the studio were like political pariahs because of their insane and like, uh, fucking, like fan sign about communism and the political spectrum that made them like despised in Estonia. And then they just got drunker and drunker and drunker until they decided to make a video game. And yeah, like just kind of bullshitted their way to a finish line. Yeah. Um, I talked about, uh, I talked about it when, when, you know, I was, I was shouting at those, uh, that, that really great, uh, little 30 minute doc, mini documentary on like the making of it. But like, yeah, they just, the creator kind of, uh, the creator of, uh, the writer who wrote, um, A Sacred and Terrible Air just released that book and it, it was, you know, it's sold

abysmally because it was just like a thousand copies in Estonia. Like that's about the best you're going to get. And just got super depressed after that and like went into this insane, uh, harry like stupor of just drugs and alcohol went on a bender and just kind of fucking lost it, um, came out the other side and met, um, some artists, musicians and, and then listened to their grandkids tell them, Hey, why don't you idiots stop working on your old shit and make a video game because people care about those things instead. And they took that advice and created a collective as well, uh, of all of their talents and basically built this game around the idea of like, you know, pulling together these insanely talented creative individuals, you know, um,

the most fascinating thing about that story is the point where they realize they have so tarnished their own personal rep, representation in Estonia, that the ability to work in their native language is gone. So they like must reach out to the English art and game community because they haven't burned the bridges there yet. I mean, it's, it's, it's really, I'm getting it. It's all, it's the most disco shit ever. It just like, they sound like characters from the world they created, you know, and absolutely. And, um, yeah, the, the quote that is being used as the one from Joyce in the game, you know, who says, I can't, that's how simple it is. One may dye their hair green and wear their grandma's coat all they want. Capital has the ability to subsume all

critiques into itself, you know, and you're like, yeah. And here we go. So step one, uh, so much of their commune was not actually written down. It was just a verbal agreements, which allowed the investors in their company to just push them right the fuck out of said company. Because what, because what was confusing about the announcement, I should say initially, was the fact that they specified that, uh, Za'um, the creative collective is dissolution, the dissolution of the Za'um cultural collective, excuse me, which they mentioned, which he mentioned is distinct from the Za'um company. Um, yeah. And it seems like that would have been a mistake. Yeah. And it's like, wait, what does that mean? Right. And that led to like

the initial like, eh, what is the game and what is that? What is the collective? What is all this mean? And, uh, I think we've gotten some light shed on it a little bit since then. It is, it is totally fascinating. I think this might be the only, uh, instance in, in the entire history of video games that a character in the video game killed the video game. Yeah. In that the light bending man who I need to, I need to remind people the light bending man is a real person. It is their primary investor in disco Elysium and Za'um literally got the bean counters out and got all the creative leads fired and is now hiring for monetization expertise. And the one that got me the worst, as people pointed out, um, disco Elysium is a game that is

like Estonian. There are not many games from Estonia. You can feel when a game's made in Ukraine, you can feel a game's made in China, you can feel a game is made in the US or Canada or Japan, but Estonia didn't really have a lot of really intense representation until now and a lot of that was its writing and its incredibly bizarre tone. There are no Estonian writers left at Za'um. The current lead writer and only writer is a guy who graduated from a Boston University from the States and their LinkedIn page is specifically asking for like British and American writers. Like, I cannot possibly imagine a guy from the United States writing a game like disco Elysium. No, so that's what I, yeah, that's what I was saying before,

just how like the game itself was such a unique take because it came from, again, just Estonia, like a world that's so, like we don't know anything. There's a lot of like Eastern European flavor that is like already just distinct and that we don't encounter that often. And here in this case, it's like this brilliant, scathing, hyper-political like angle that is just so impossible to be cultivated in what we're familiar with. It couldn't have been cooked up in any kitchen on this continent, you know? It's very distinct and losing that sucks. And then they, of course, specify that in the founding of the team that it took to get the game made, they had to get the capital, they had to get the money from these same people,

from this like mega-rich light-bending guy, essentially. So like, you know, the ones that are irresponsible for it getting to where it is now and that initial way are of course going to do what they do when they see something become a runaway success and just they'll be unable to resist being in getting in the kitchen and trying to have fingers in every pie, you know? They're also the ones who are, of course, were responsible for like doing things like brokering an adaptation with Amazon and shit where when that news came out, it was clearly weird and everyone was like, really? A disco spin-off TV series? Like, why? Okay, what? And it's like, yeah, of course, because this is the same position that Guitar Hero was in when Bobby

Coddick took the name and then started shitting all over rock band as the imitator, you know? I will say, Disco Elysium and the, I don't know if many people even remember, there is a Disco Elysium 2 being currently developed right now. Yes, and an adaptation of Terrible and Sacred Air into game form. Yeah, but Disco 1 and Disco 2 are somehow both going to have the distinction as being the most interesting games ever made. Disco, because it is. And Disco 2, because I can't wait to see what the fuck that game is like. Like, I am fascinated by the attempt. It's incredible. It's just, but it doesn't, like, I think it's going to be fascinating to see

how off-base it'll be. But it's also just like, yeah, but they don't care. All that matters is the name has established itself. It is now valuable. Those two words when put together mean something. And that's all the money people care about, right? And the fact that, like, anything that is a part of the soul or the creative part of what made this good is, like, disposable is, like, not of any real consequence to them. They have no problem forging ahead, putting out something bad and just hoping that enough people will not be, you know, aware of this kind of story, pulling out the magnifying glass and finding out about it, because they'll just be like, oh, it's that thing. Yeah, I like that way. Oh, there's another one. Okay. That

usually works fine. I feel like I feel there is room in the critique because, so Metal Gear Solid, prior to Disco, I want to say that Metal Gear Solid was the most overtly, unavoidably political game to ever exist, right? It was just like literally telling you about the nature of personal sacrifice in the Cold War and how politicians ruin everything for like an hour in a cut scene. And you still got to talk to people. I remember talking to people in college, I'm sure you do too, that went through Metal Gear one, two, and three and like didn't get it at all. Like, like at all, like literally, like, oh man, snake, such a badass, got to kill spy guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, are you, are you actually fucking serious? Absolutely. And now Disco, Disco

is like the next level because there's no, there's nothing cool happening in Disco Elysium. It's literally a bunch of pathetic losers sitting around, yeah, yeah, arguing a bunch of fucking politics all day and like maybe getting drunk. And like the idea that the audience for that game that enjoyed it would still go on to not get it would be the most hilarious thing in the world to me. But it's absolutely going that way, because I know exactly what you're describing, because and I also remember when, uh, if I'm, if I remember, like, I feel like we popped off harder at a handshake more than anything else in the entire franchise of Metal Gear Solid up to that point. A denied handshake was like the bit, like the craziest shit ever, you know.

But in this case, you're going to have to see the skeleton form of it. But what industry has already, what industry has not, more than video games has prepped you to see the bones of the thing reanimated by a necromancer, um, to be like a husk of its former self, you know, more than fucking video games. It's the, it's the perfect industry for this. We've seen this a million times. The only thing I wonder is the other thing video games do often is have somebody who gets together with some creative people, they make something amazing. Um, the corpos step in, they can't resist, they ruin it all because they gotta, you know, monetize as hard as possible, fuck up the process, put the debt, whatever the fuck the reasons are, the thing blows up,

they take it for themselves, and then those people have to leave the ship and then go form a new one somewhere else if they still feel like working on this type of shit. But whereas, you know, um, there's your, your, uh, whether you're talking about your fucking platinum games or your, uh, your yacht clubs or your respawns or your, you know, like there's a million examples of like these companies that pop back up after they, they're forced into Exodus, um, from the thing that they put their work into. These guys are like not actually video game people by default. So there's no guarantee you're going to necessarily see that in them or that they'd have the drive to want to, uh, interface with this medium anymore. So that kind of leaves me worried.

I also have to say that, um, uh, as this news broke and people were understandably upset, there was also the very typical video game industry, like, uh, side dish, which is game websites going, look, most of the people who work at Saum are still there. It's the, the, the, the creative, the creative, uh, control of like one or two people isn't the whole game. Games are a team project and it's just the most pathetic fucking shit ever. Are games a team project? Yes. Are they a collaborative effort between everyone on the fucking team? Absolutely. Do the director and the writer and the gameplay designer have fucking more like impetus than other people? Yeah. Hideo Kojima has so much fucking effect on his games. You could

let people play Metal Gear and then Death Stranding and not tell them anything and they'd be like, Oh yeah, the same people made this, huh? And in this, right? And it's, it's a fucking farce. And in this case, it's not just that thing about like the, the otter or so, but it's so much deeper because, um, uh, while we touched on it earlier to specify the cultural collective they made was something that existed before the game studio did, right? This was the original grouping of like, uh, those, uh, those creators that were, they wanted to work on all kinds of other things. So I got, uh, actually, uh, a hot tip. Good old plague, um, was letting me know about how apparently the, the disco Elysium, uh, the, the discord has kind of turned into like a,

like just a massive investigative who done it and what, what happened and why and how and trying to figure out everything about this. Um, and the pretty interesting post I see here came in from someone who, uh, in Estonia was describing, I guess, to the best of their ability, what's going on. Um, so yeah, this person said, uh, I understand a lot of western press views as a game studio, but they're not the cultural collective and this whole tragedy is actually a huge thing over here. Zaum is an extremely prolific cultural collective and put out literature, criticism, signs, and a lot of work in the past decade. And, uh, this bullshit is dismantling one of Estonia's very few cultural production houses of note. Three main actors involved, which were the people,

Kervits, Heinz-Pierre and Rostov and the founder, Liga, are not game devs or industry people, but musicians, authors, uh, critics and activists. The game is just one of hundreds of works, uh, output from the collective since their founding and this one that called for foreign capital to realize the project once they decided to run with it. Uh, the UK. I want to point out, before you go on further, I'm looking at the credits list and the people, uh, listed as leaving are, uh, together, lead writer, secondary writer, lead designer, art, and design. Lead. Yeah. Like, are you fucking serious?

Yeah. So, uh, oh yeah, that's pronounced Zinus, right? Like, Magazinus? That's, that's how you say it. Yeah, Magazinus. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Yeah. The UK investors in the game were the ones negotiating the right sale to Amazon for the adaptation. Zaum wasn't happy and a lot of finance bullshit happened that ended up stealing the game as an adaptation of Kervits book from out, out from under him, um, and the cultural collective. So many here are just leaving knowing that they don't have control over their own IP anymore. Estonia doesn't have much good doing, uh, much good going on here right now in the country's second slide into fascism and Zaum were among the small, bright

spots we had. So that kind of paints it in an especially like fucked light because it's like, damn, there was way more going on than the video game. And certainly not anything that I knew about prior to this announcement, you know, What a pile of fucking shit. Yeah. The, the first game is going to forever be calling out everything else that happens in the rest of this franchise. You, you will be able to take a quote from a character in disco Elysium to now shit on any other disco Elysium product to ever come out. It's kind of amazing. Um, there's, there's, there's a slight, there's a slight, there's a slight twist though in that,

um, once again, the prequel, not prequel, but the previous book, um, it exists and is finished. Therefore, like if they stick to the script on that, they are using Kervits words to do so. So I, so woolly, when you did the political quest line in disco, which one did you do? Um, I tried to, I, I, I did, um, um, um, I think we went, I think we ended up ultra liberal. Uh, so I don't know what happens in the ultra liberal quest line because I did the communist one. And this whole situation is so fascinating to me because the communist quest line is basically what has just happened. Um, the communist quest line in disco is about constantly going to hang out with your communist friends and wasting your time talking about

communism and climbing all up your own ass about the theory of communism. And they decide to build a metaphorical deck of cards for communism. And for one shining moment, it looks like it's not going to tip over. And then, and then it, then it immediately crumbles. And that's great. They, they get, they get to stand there and just look at it for like a second. Going, I can't believe we did it. We built it and then it falls to pieces. And then I got my favorite prompt in the entire game in which Harry asks the guy, the, the communist guy you're talking to ask Harry. So what is the big question? And I failed my rhetoric check and Harry blurts out our women, the bourgeoisie.

And the dude is so stunned about how insanely misguided and misogynistic it is that he doesn't even know how to respond. And fuck. And that's, that's kind of what happened. Disco should not have like, we've seen a lot of games fail their own development, right? I like the way it's told, I can't believe disco lesion came out. And I can't believe it made enough money that they were able to find a voice actor willing to do it, who wasn't a real voice actor. And then he did such an X that he also did such an excellent job. And the game came out and it's perfect. And it's been perfect for less than a year before it's all fallen to pieces. And it's, it's like the fact that they have such a direct analog to the company's own real dissolution inside their game literally is

kind of unbelievable. Fortress accidents, right? Like they're telling you about the impossibility and like just the you're walking through the haunted remains of a former game studio, you know, like it's beyond on the nose. It is like inside the nose creating it structurally. Um, yeah. And you have to assume that like the only way any of that was able to happen was because the investor was content to simply hand over the money and just walk away and say, give me back more when I come back later, you know, um, and then once it became a fucking global phenomenon, because the quality exploded out of the game, it became a matter of like, oh, no, now there needs to be more attention paid. This is a whole thing, you know, um, always, always, always, always.

Yeah, there's the, I don't think there's any game that more perfectly represents the phrase lightning in a bottle. So, so the, the, what you're describing is kind of like the, the, the, the devs and the, the collective making the game and having that one shining moment. The ultra liberal, uh, quest consists of you meeting a mega rich light bending guy and then deciding to, uh, become a man of immense worth and to become a man of immense worth, one needs to raise their net, their net worth overall. And so a new counter appears next to your real and it is your net worth and your real might be in the negatives, but your net worth though, right? It all depends on what you own. So in order to become a man of

immense worth, you must travel around and talk to various people throughout the game and you ultimately start by, um, you, you, you have to work through bargaining ownership of things that is, that are just words based on promises. And then you eventually bargain your way into, like, you know, like, uh, you, you walk by the shop, uh, by, by the pawn shop and you're like, Oh, that lamppost. Yeah. Like I, that I'll, I need to get something like that and that'll have my name on it and then everyone will know I'm a man of great worth and you're able to negotiate for it. Uh, but you can't, you can't take it with you. You can't carry it. You can't bring it anywhere. So then what we can, we can put your name on it, I suppose, you know, and then

and then the clout starts to build and you become a man of worth and your, your value goes up and then you start working your way through different people in the environment, you know, until eventually like it comes down to like putting, uh, uh, getting, uh, uh, the, the big statue renovated or, or so it might seem, you know, in town, but the entire thing sends you around hustling and bustling and yeah, like NFTing people, like just top to bottom, but nothing physical or tangible is ever actually exchanged. There's never anything real. It's just words and words eventually make that number go up, you know? Um, and it's, and it's just this, this kind of incredible thing where like, yeah, by the end you're, you're, you're, that you've gotten that number to

astronomical value and nothing in the real world has changed. You have not You're still broke and you're still drunk. You have not created anything. You have not contributed anything. You have done absolutely nothing to affect the physical world, but through words and promises, uh, you are a man of, of excessive wealth, you know, um, and, and, and you are, you are, uh, uh, being managed by, uh, uh, what's his name? Um, fucking, uh, the no fuck up the fuck up, um, uh, idiot doom spiral is, is step steps in as your manager to like, to, you know, take control of the situation and, you know, like now that you're a man of great wealth, you're going to need someone to help you manage all of that and who better, you know,

and it's nothing. It's just fucking hours of side quest over nothing. It's incredible. Yeah, I gotta play that game again. Uh, yeah. So it, it, it, you know, and in that role, like where you're talking to light bending guy and you're going back and you're, you're getting that number up, it's like good for you, man. You did it. You spoke the words and then the words made the value happen and then you had nothing to do with the outcome of anything in the real world. But boy, did that value sure go up, you know, and, and in the end you, that's, that's how you win the day. Uh, it's fucking, it's such a bummer. It's such a goddamn fucking bummer. But it's the most disco way to go out.

Yeah. Beginning, middle and end of an era of a, of a story, you know, in a flash in the pan, they can't take whatever disco is that'll that for that first experience, everyone that we all had with it, that can never be taken away, man. I can, I can immediately see disco being one of those games where in like 18 years people are like, how do I run disco Elysium on window litics? I can't, wow, whatever that game's old. No, no, you don't get it. And, um, yeah, I will not hold my breath. I will not, you know, expect any news in the future. But if those fucking geniuses decide that they would like to do more in this industry, I'm sure the goodwill of thousands are behind them to make that happen. But if they also, you know,

are people who look and went, yeah, fuck that back to what we were trying to do here, which is other things in the real world, then I understand, you know, but goddamn, is there a precedent in this industry for, um, you know, your baby being stolen from your, from your, from the crib, and then you've got to go and build it all again. And this time you do it with black shacking hookers and a way where no one can take it from you until they try to take it from you again. Yeah, literally, until they, oh man, watch disco, the, the final or cut come out. In which you could fight your wife. Like, I mean, so the only, the only like, there's a lot of ways this is going to go

wrong and horrible, but like one of the ways that I would accept is if the remaining people who are there, who are not going to walk because they have a job and mouths to feed, create a product that is about the shell that is empty, that is left behind and going hollow, going as you sink into the pail, you know, um, if they make something that is all about that core being lost effectively, there might be something to say there, but even in and of itself, it'll still be like a part of the problem. Like it's still the sequel that is, yes, it's calling itself out, but what does that change? What does it change? You know? Oh man. Anyway, can't wait.

Well, in cheerier news, we fucking missed Stadia by a matter of hours last week. Okay. So first of all, I'm going to actually jump in something slightly different. We literally forgot to talk about how balance fall is not even going to last a single year. So that's pretty fucking funny. Oh, well, we did a mini story on that. We said, I brought up that a shutdown, you know? Oh, we did? Oh, I forgot. Okay. Well, anyway, moving on to Stadia. Pack watch. Stadia is going to die. And there's two parts, there's two parts of Stadia being dead that are funny. One is, do you remember, God, I want to say it was like three weeks ago, where there was some developers on Stadia going, it's not dead guys, stop saying that. And we

surmised that they just hadn't been told precisely. There were UI developers on the Stadia subreddit asking for feedback like the day before it was announced to get killed. Yeah. So obviously we've already done the bit on Stadia shut like that. It's been to go back to the tapes on that one. That's not like, as you mentioned, that's not even the highlight. It's the part where there's devs that are finding out in real time, simultaneous to an announcement that the service will remain live until January 18th. And Google is refunding all purchases, all players that spent money is are getting their money back since they're shutting the platform down, which is a nice gesture. But what the fuck about the people who are making games

and expecting them to come out in the next couple months? Like, again, we'll die. Loser. They're aware, Google is aware enough of the public backlash to people who've spent their money being upset at the platform going away and therefore their investment being worthless. They understand that part enough to implement this kind of program to refund everybody, but still don't look at the developers of the products of the games as anything more than inconveniences in the process. And simple. Yeah, it's also a fun, it's also a fun situation where a games like Destiny or anything with an account that has other other games are discovering like they have like four months to get those players off that platform.

I mean, just the virtual walk to the desk, or your key card no longer works, or just people on Twitter, which is becoming the best way in real time, people working on projects that are finding out the company they work for no longer exists, or in this case, the platform. It's just like, to have the awareness to refund people, it's like, that's a nice gesture. They didn't have to do that. That's cool. But you could fucking actually tell the people that make it happen. That's wild, man. Whatever. Rippin' piss. Well, like Rip Bozo is what it is. We'll see you again next time in the form of Luna or whatever else comes rearing its ugly head.

The only real takeaway I have from the whole thing is that I'm surprised that people are getting full refunds. Yeah. That's genuinely really shocking. Again, it didn't have to do it. Nice that they did. That's worth something. But just, okay, you had the foresight. You had the awareness. What happened on the other end of that? Yeah, I don't know. I can only assume that if you're looking at taking the hit on giving everybody their money back, that again, you're looking at it as you're taking a hit. So what's the benefit of getting people to just squeeze out a last little bit on a platform that's going to be dead? There's no like, oh, maybe we can

eke out some cash between now and January. There's no benefit whatsoever. Why not let people know? I mean, again, oversight and persona non grata are just the only things I can imagine. Like they just don't matter. All right, well, there it goes. What was its total length of time? Well, when did when did Stadia come out? Time of death, January 18, 2023. Right. Time of launch, November 19, 2019. That is four years, three years, three years. Okay, it was definitely longer than the 18 months I gave it late November to early 23. So really, it's all about 2020, 2021, 2022. Yeah, about three years and change. Yeah, okay. Good for them, I guess. You know what I saw? I saw a great tweet

that really summed it up, which was it's a real shame that Stadia came out at a time in which people were being forced indoors and looking for alternative forms of online entertainment. If only it had come out during a more opportune time. And it's something that I had not considered in that like literally the most golden opportunity that that kind of thing would have ever possibly had. And it fucking died on the vine. Yeah, they said that like, you know, people working on it will will fold it into the other Google projects and it essentially is going to go back to the labs tab where it belongs the entire time, you know, but yeah, the beginning to end entire pandemic life like like life cycle. Oh,

yeah, I'm sorry. I forgot one part of it. It's the pandemic forcing people inside and you can't buy a new console and you can't get a new video card. Right, right. So like all like they essentially had fucking no competition as a new console and a new type of thing. Wild. It's kind of crazy how again, I bring it up constantly, but just parsec is just like, yep, we're here. We offer a service. It knows what it is. It's not perfect, but it's going to be pretty low latency by comparison to a lot of other things. And, you know, one of the tabs they have promoting in their on their front pages, the arcade, which is like, hey, connect to people and play games with them. It's just, you know, like that's that's the role that it can serve. It can

it can help in certain circumstances. It's an accessory that'll, you know, take a dying online community for a game that has awful online and kind of like give it a better alternative. It can give you a work environment. It can it can to work remotely. A lot of that shit has its uses. You are not stepping into the realm of other platforms and competing with them and then selling people a fucking fugazi, not just metadata. You know what I mean? Like that's not anyway. I think one of the most interesting things is that we've seen this attempted like six, seven times and like no one actually wants it, but the people trying to make them want it to become popular so bad because then they're going to own every step of the production

process and they'll have total control. And though we could make so much money if we did that, but every single one of them is just like throwing your money into a fucking fire pit and Google's is going as far as to douse it with the gasoline of it full refunds. And it's like, we're just going to see it happen just over and over and over. Yeah, we're like, what if we made so much money with cloud infrastructure? Goodbye. The cloud infrastructure is already there. The problem isn't the box. The problem isn't the fucking controller. The problem is the internet infrastructure of Canada, the United States and Europe. No, shut up, buy Assassin's Creed and then have it take two seconds

for you to jump. Anyway, that wasn't, of course, the only story about online services going down. Turns out that Killer Instinct had its own little mini Titanfall situation in which a hacker was shutting down the ranked matches and people have been unable to play at all. So, man, that is salty as hell. Yeah, it's just, it's an aki has a has a pretty decent online ranked community because it's a fucking good game. So, people just keep playing it and they have been since 2013. But yeah, there'd be weekly tournaments and prize pools and all kinds of shit that is going on with the Discord communities and stuff. KI is one of the scenes that is just doing it. Happy for people to discover how good the game is, but in the meantime, we're just going to

fucking play, you know, and that's what they've been doing. So, but yeah, basically this hacker has been apparently making fake accounts for years and using other players impersonated names and on the top of the ranked leaderboards and stuff. And so, they had been just kind of like flooding fake impersonated users into the server for a while now. And I guess they eventually hit their breaking point, leading it to, yeah, like online being shut down entirely. Fortunately, they jumped on that shit real quick and yeah, Microsoft responded and basically fixed the problem as of like a day ago. So, yeah, the downtime didn't last that long. They fixed it. They cleared out the bullshit and they're like, okay, servers are back up and running.

And yeah, you know, flag anything else that you see, anything else you see, but they jumped on it. So, again, I just like Titanfall, you know, you just kind of like, man, at least like when it happened with the exploit in the FromSoft games, they brought the servers down and it took a couple months, but now they're finally bringing them back online. Just do something, you know, if you can't have this kind of turn around. And I just, is Titanfall 2 on the PlayStation, can you even get matches in that? Who cares? Or they load up the North Star fucking server, do the, but I want to play against controller users. I'm trash. Well, they, there's new features on the, on the custom servers that make it fun to play anyway, including fastball special mode. So fuck it. Who gives a

shit? It's, oh, meanwhile, if I'm looking at Twitter and I'm seeing a bunch of people who have merged their Overwatch accounts, having all of their skins fucking deleted from Overwatch one. Nice. So that's fun. Well, that's not a problem. Why don't they just unlock them again? Can't be that hard, could it? To unlock them again? Have you heard? Have you heard? No. No, what is it? So Overwatch 2, legendary skins. Apparently, if you do all your weeklies and all challenges, as they're made available, it's still going to take you a minimum of 11 weeks to make enough currency in game to get one. And that's the only currency that you can buy it with. Eight months,

excuse me. Eight months. Sorry. Sorry. Eight months of grinding for one legendary skin. No premium currency, of course. So that's the only way to get anything. Good fucking job, guys. Hell yeah. A baby will be conceived and ready to pop in the time it takes you to get one legendary. Goodie. Goodie. Shout outs to everybody just in those servers as they were closing down, helping just, you know, saying goodbye to the first game and then like the music video that was created as the servers just kicked everybody out and then said zero people are queuing. Man, fucking Overwatch 2 has the creative energy of a divorced man jerking off into a

kitchen trash can. Go on. That's okay. Refuses to elaborate. That's the whole image. Fine. By the way, as people are pointing out, like tons of people have been retroactively or functionally banned from the game because of their specific no VoIP phone, no prepaid phone, and including some regional or smaller cell phone services are just not built into what Blizzard system regards as a real phone number. Yeah. I mean, the joke about like really just call it Overwatch 1.1 or whatever, like the part where the old thing shuts down and now there's no way to access it at all is the most transparent, clear word like we're lying. We're sticking the number on this,

but it's really just patching the game into Neo Overwatch. Starcraft when two launched did not fucking block you from playing the original game because clearly those are separate games and that was a sequel and not as many people enjoyed it as much and went backwards to the old thing. And in this case, full steam ahead, we're playing it bold. You cannot go back to the old one. Why? Because we want to push the new one. Well, yes, but no, really, it's because we were updating the server, the client, because it's the two is just the same game. It's just marketing. It's literally just marketing. I have been seeing a lot of people talk about Overwatch on my timeline.

And I'll tell you what, I have not seen one positive thing. I've like every piece of gameplay footage I have seen from that game today is somebody about to shoot someone and then getting disconnected and then being hit into a queue. So how long until community fan server patches just pop up and let you connect and play the original game? Yeah, so Blizzard is making a really good long term business decision by actively ruining the game that you're playing and then taking it away from you for five or six years or 10 years in some cases and then selling it back to you as blank classic. I have friends that are playing WoW classic right now and WoW classic is the weirdest MMO in the

world because it's an MMO with no future in that no one wants classic to continue past Wrath of the Lich King. Which is where they stopped? Because yeah, where a cataclysm is viewed as the start of the bad and as a result that game has no future but it's an MMO that's always an upward slope so it'll just fucking stop at some point. It's fucking weird. And then they fucking ruined Warcraft. They fucking ruined Warcraft. They fucking had that piece of shit reforged version come out and took away everybody's old Warcraft installs. Yeah, this might be a situation where they're just like whatever, because people are talking about the horrible rates for unlocking things or whatever because you know free to play game and yadda yadda.

This might be a case of like we're just going to launch it incomplete and terrible and then don't worry we can patch it into something you actually want to play give us a couple years. Also you don't have a choice because if you want to play Overwatch this is how you're doing it. Yeah, that mentality would actually go down a lot easier if they had a hot trigger anime to go along with it. Well, you know, don't jump ship over to Apex. What's going on over there? Oh, they're releasing Titanfall levels. Thanks. Apex is like literally tearing body parts off of Titanfall to add to itself like a Lego monster. They're inserting levels from Titanfall into Apex. How did you find a way to make everyone extra angry? Like how did you like it's as bad as it's been and you

just found a way to make it worse and you know and of course yeah the first thing anyone data minds for is are there going to be Titans in the pet? No, there's no Titans in the patch. Okay, well. It's dude. I don't I don't get it like the the the multi the multiplayer shooter market right now is so bad like I genuinely like it might be the worst it has literally ever been. Hold on. Wait. Did they wait tune are pretty good. Did they actually say the apex universe? Yeah, they probably do. Oh, fuck off. I'm gonna vomit. Are you kidding me? They called it the apex universe. That's it. It's that's it. It's done. It's done. It's done. It's over.

Well, let me let me let me let me let me explain to you. Oh, I know. I know, but just how bad fucking the shooting market is right now. Street Fighter six is trending today. Shooters are so bad that people are talking about fighting games again. Well, you know, maybe this one will be good. Boy, boy, they really just oh man, they did it, huh? Yeah. Okay. Like that. I think whenever that tweet was where I just screen capped the moment Titanfall blog became apex news and it's like the Twitter account is called apex news, but it's just at Titanfall blog underneath it and you're like, yeah, oh, that's that's the world we live in, man.

That's that's what it is, guys. You know, just get used to it. Let it fucking pile of fucking let it sink in just sitting it. Good. It's good. Um, all right, dead things. What else is is dead? Hey, you know what's fucking dead? The legacy of Kane, but okay, Crystal Dynamics has released a survey asking players about the future. Um, important to note that this is of course the Crystal Dynamics that is now owned by Embracer group who have acquired them and are trying to figure out what the fuck people want. So, uh, they're not confirming anything. Um, they're kind of just like, they're like, we bought this thing and people kind of like it. What do we, what do we do with it? And legacy of Kane, like, I don't know if you played Defiance Wally, but like

that series dragged its bloody corpse over a place they could stop. Uh, it was, unfortunately, the majority of my legacy of Kane, uh, time, uh, was with Nosgoth. So, okay. So, like that every single one of those games ended on some kind of cliffhanger and every single game was like, is it actually going to come out? And then Defiance comes out and it's pretty good. And it like gives you like, not like an ending, but it gives you like, like an end of a season, like stopping point. And I remember playing it and even then I was like, oh my God, thank God, because they're definitely never going to get to make another one of these. And that was on the PS2. Well, uh, Embracer Group is asking people what they want and the questions include, what do you

like about it? What do you like about Vampire Games in general? Would you prefer a reboot of the original series or remakes or sequels to the original games? Uh, I would say that the number one step is to remake Legacy of Kane. Original one. Because that game is like trash. Um, blood omen. However, I'm seeing people say remakes with OG voices. There's a problem with that. Like, the third most important character in the series is voiced by Tony Jay. And I don't know if you guys have been paying attention, but that dude's fucking dead. Yeah, we're never getting megabyte for real, real again, guys. So, you know, Michael Templeman and, uh, sorry, no, Michael Bell and Simon Templeman are very much still alive, but Tony Jay is long gone. Um, so yeah, the thing is,

though, you know, is, um, at the very least again, they're not under Square Enix anymore. So they're gonna try to just figure out what people want with it. And if they're asking questions, maybe it's because they intend to use what they just bought, right? Yeah, I knew I would say like remake the first one or you'd probably just go straight forward with a new thing. Yeah, that's the kind of thing that, you know, I feel like it would make sense because, uh, then it would reestablish the franchise for a new generation of people who are not familiar with it, you know, um, and it's old enough that it would, it would, it would do good for the franchise, you know, um, remaking games that, uh, uh, you know, people should need to be reintroduced to, uh, not a bad thing.

There's a problem with this, however, the problem is that a huge proportion of Legacy of Cain's appeal was Metal Gear Solid came out, right? And holy shit, holy shit, fucking voice acting, right? Then Legacy of Cain comes out and it's holy shit, this is the fanciest voice acting I've ever heard because it was written by Amy Hennig, um, and it was performed by a plus plus voice actors. Amy Hennig, I don't even know where she's working now, but I know she left Crystal D. I think she went to go to work for EA to make a Star Wars game that got canceled. Um, but yeah, she needs to write it. Any subsequent things that is to say, not remake, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, the, you know, the plus side of a remake is, um, with a good studio or with a good team, they can just use what's there,

you know? Wait a second. Amy Hennig works at Crystal D, leaves to go work at Naughty Dog, gets her work minimized at Naughty Dog, leaves to go work at EA, has her game canceled and now she moves on to a different, like that lady is such a good fucking writer and she is to put out very little comparatively because of all this shit. That's a, it's not, not quite a Patrice Desolée scenario. No, but it's a pretty, pretty cursed resume nonetheless, unfortunately. Um, yeah. Uh, but no, like, you know, you, you can, you can always just blue point the situation, uh, at least initially and then, and then work your way up to perhaps continuing it. But, um, but yes, let's start with reintroducing

people to, to, uh, an old game that they might have missed out on. So there's another game too, you know, that people might have missed out on, uh, from way back in the day. You know, I remember when I was growing up and it was like, damn, did people, do people remember Horizon Zero Dawn? That shit's fucking, I do, like, I do that. I remember so many years ago, I was playing Zelda and there was a different game coming out and it was called Horizon Zero, like Commodore at time because I had Zelda was came out. Yeah. I remember I was hearing about it, you know, and like, or was it like, I don't like MSX where they used like cassette tapes to save. I don't remember, but I think I was playing Link to the past instead. But like, and that, and yeah, and that,

you know, my friend at school was like, dude, you got to check this game out, you know, and then I like, I never did. And I saw the box and the tape with the little sticker was always rented out and I never got to fucking get around to it. So fortunately, Horizon Zero Dawn is being remade for the PlayStation five. And now we can play it for the first time. Yeah. So, okay, one, it's already on the PS five. And two, it already like, I think it fucking runs at 60 on PS five. Like, I can't quite remember, but it runs really well. Like, it, like the source game, it was end of last generation. Barely five years ago, they already up up resident ported it to five, and we're doing it again because this is the world we live in. This is what it is, man. I know it's the world. Sony

lives in because it's like this. I guys, we need you like you're not paying attention to this game. We need more people to know about to pay attention to Horizon Zero guys. Look, it's Horizon again. I think the most disingenuous thing about this is that they're adding all sorts of high end accessibility functions into the new version that last of us two had and that the last of us one remake had. And it's like, there is no reason you cannot patch those accessibility options into the older versions. I heard that anybody at the internal company meeting that said the words blood or born was shot on the spot in the back of the head. It's getting weird, actually. Yeah, I don't get it. Like there's parts of that new last of us remake that look a little better.

Why, why would I fucking bother? Like I already like it doesn't look meaningfully improved in any way. I don't I don't get it. And I don't even know what they're going to do to Horizon. Like I think people are saying they're going to replace the character models with the ones from two. Like that's it. Like there might be something here where it's like, oh, if you bought the PS5 version, you'll get this one for free or something or not. I don't I don't I don't it's so hard. It's all it's so hard to read Sony's intentions here. I think I think what they're doing is that they're they're feeling nervous that there's a Zelda game coming out, but they're not going to have a Horizon game ready to launch literally the same week. So they're going to try and gin something up.

Yeah, but like even if you have something to launch at the same time, who's going to fucking get their hands on it? People who can't get their hands on PS5s still? Like, why is this a thing? It's so crazy. It's so insane. Oh my god, Port Bloodborne, just do it. What the fuck is happening? It's crazy. Why can't you port? Why can't you port Bloodborne? It's insane. It's beyond like they clearly know. And like there were there's the point where a while ago you could have been like, oh, maybe there's something secret in the like we're past that point. What are we doing? Oh my god. Oh, like I yeah, I you know, I would never I would never uh wish anybody to like work themselves to fucking death. But if Bloodborne PSX

just decided to like just keep going after Bloodborne Kart came out, like fucking why not, man? Like it's why it's so wild how they refuse actively at every single turn to do anything. And it's not even like, okay, we're not going to get the PC port fine. You don't want to do that. You only want to do that for your flagship franchises when it's a sequel that can help sell the new thing, God of War, Horizon, etc. Then just just move it over by one. Just move it over. You know, yeah. Anyway, please look forward to a remake of a fucking four and a half year old game. Getting real weird and stupid. It's the worst one. I want to say it's the worst one. This must be

the worst one. Like this is the worst. This is the worst of the like recent remake things. Maybe not counting movies, which like movies fucking do that wild shit too. But in their case, they'll kind of do a different thing and then just use a name again to do it over. But in video games, yeah, easily. This is the fucking dumbest ever. Um, what's blue point up to? I don't fucking know. I don't fucking know. Nothing since demon souls.

All right, they're probably working on something. Um, anyway, so that's going down. Couple other bits. There has been in the the age of acquisition continues. GameSpot, GameFAX, Giant Bomb, Metacritic, and more have been acquired by fandom. Hey, can you can you take this for a sec? I can still hear you so you can still podcast, but I got to piss something real fierce. I can just go into the other room. Sure. While you talk, sure. Okay, I'm gonna I'm definitely gonna mute it though.

Okay, that's yeah, the echoes are gonna carry. But maybe, you know, the sound of piss in the background would be appropriate for the story. Uh, given the fact that, uh, I didn't know what fandom was. And then when I realized what it was, um, it reminded me, browsing their websites reminded me of, uh, browsing piss. What if piss was just oozing out of the monitor onto my keyboard and and now it's on my mouse? Um, fandom is those websites that are all the like fan bait, the fan wikipedia's that they that they do for given things like anytime there's like a comic wiki or a game wiki or whatever. And they're in the format of a wiki, but it's all added up to shit with just the most horrible

layout. It auto plays videos as soon as it pops up. It auto plays Twitch streams in the corner. Um, I like it is one of the worst, one of the most annoying website layout things that are that you currently have, uh, on the internet in just droves because it's so easy to make a wiki on it that most people end up doing it. You know how people all got their little email that says, oh, what, uh, Twitch channels did you watch the most last year? Right. And you get a summary and a little cute graphic that says, oh, you watched some people said like, oh, castle super beast. Hey, woolly versus. Hey, Pat's, there's that. Like all of that, you know, uh, uh, gets summarized. I got an email that says I've spent more time watching, um, the Fextralife channel

than any other channel on Twitch ever. And I'm like, that yeah, that's it by massive margin. And I'm like, that's insane. I have never once ever loaded up a Fextralife stream. What are you talking about? And it turns out it's because having the wiki page open, going through a souls game from time to time, it auto plays their fucking Twitch stream in the background and gives them free views that super count. It's fascinating. I remember, um, I got contacted by obsidian and I'm fairly certain the reason I got contacted by obsidian was because I was streaming pillars of attorney, but more than that is because, uh, the way the pillars wiki, I think it's a wiki, uh, I'm not sure the way it works is it just goes, who's the top streamer

for this game right now and just puts them on the fucking embed, which at least makes fucking sense. If it's the category in general, that's a bit better, but it's still an embedded fucking player and there and it's the most annoying shit in the world. A wiki is fandom now also great because you you fucking load it up and it just like I'm like every single time you click on anything on any page whatsoever, it's going to do it. Sometimes if you click the X and scroll down, it's going to reload the video. Um, and it's also why when you like are searching for like a like a character or like a something that leads to a wiki page result on Google, you'll see a thumbnail that has nothing to do with that subject matter

and it's because it's grabbing a thumbnail from the auto playing video that it's going to pop up as soon as you go to that page. You know, um, I mean, it's just, it's abysmal fucking browsing, abysmal and it's not much better on your phone either because all it does is locks the player up at the top of the screen and you know, like if you go to like any Star Wars, like wiki or whatever entry you're going to see, like basically like there, I guess the people who make the page are then incentivized to go and make like a two minute video about Darth Vader so that they can shove like a two minute ad on top of it before that plays, you know, and it's like whatever. Anyway, so that was fandom. I had no idea who they were and that now I know they got the little

fireheart in their O and so they just bought GameStop GameSpot, Metacritic, TV guide, fanatical, screen junkies, game facts, giant bomb, cord cutters and comic vine. So expect all of those websites to become even worse in the near future. Hooray! It's good. Acquisition World. Acquisition World 2022. Love it. That being said, I mean, if they wanted to buy me, I'd sell my shit to them in like a second and become super awful. And just embed the player twice so that you get double the views. Yes, fuck it.

To synchronized fucking. Fuck it. To synchronized streams. Welcome to the shittiest fucking thing in the world. In fact, it loads up and automatically loads up. Are you sure you want to subscribe button? And then, you know, are you sure you don't want to subscribe? And then you click yes to not subscribe. I wonder if this has anything to do with Jeff leaving giant bomb. Because these types of deals take a long time.

They do. And it's not impossible, certainly, since, you know, that was an era. But I also think like, dude, like any company that's buying fucking game facts, you know, or and something as big as that is like and GameSpot as well is like, yeah, there's more than just one dude leaving. That's going to be a factor here. Because giant bomb and GameSpot now both back under the same umbrella or not back, but now under the same umbrella. It's kind of hilarious. Oh, they've been under that for years and years and years. Was it the as if Davis?

It would. No, no, no. They were separate. And then GameSpot bought them like five years ago. Okay. Yeah. So and the the explanation was like really like people ask like Jeff about it. Like, how do you feel about that? He's like, well, the guy that fired me doesn't work there anymore. Okay. So it's fine. Yeah. It's not impossible that that has a role to play. But again, this is a massive acquisition. They're buying TV, TV guide and Metacritic, you know, it's a bit bigger than a bit bigger than hip hop. Right? Oh, hey, I've got some I've got some fucking brand spanking new news about the the trails, no kiseki games. Sure. Do you know anything about those that shit? Yeah. Why not?

Okay, trails from the sky, that shit. So you know how they they were fucking. And there were trails from zero and some of the other ones were fully translated by fans, like 100% completely done. Then they decided, hey, we're gonna, Nisa goes, hey, we're gonna release those games officially, which is going to delay the new games by like four years in English countries. And everyone's like, oh, that sucks. And then they go, by the way, that fan translation has to die, because we're officially releasing it. So, so die fan translation, everyone's like, oh, okay, but I guess I'll support the official release. And then the official release drops, and there's loads of completely untranslated strings all over the game. And the fucking the fucking fancy book

they sent out has like printing the girls pages glued together. And it's like, oh, the the official release, which by the way is using the fan translation, they bought the fan translation. And then they fucked up putting it back into the official release of the game. So maybe I'm fucking this up. But like, I feel like Nys America, like, I remember when, you know, a bunch of friends of ours back in the day were like, super all about that. And they're like, yeah, the shit they do is good work. And then, like, they kind of, they, they started like something, they botched a couple things over the in the recent years, like they started getting worse over time or something to that effect. Like,

I don't really, I don't know the details of it, but I feel, I feel like I'm vaguely recalling like Nys America goes downhill or like his fucking up stuff from like last generation. I don't, I don't remember any of that. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. Wow, they bought out a fan translation and then completely fucking botched it. That's nuts. That's crazy. That's and as a result, as a result of this, because they only have time to do one of these games a year, basically, the way that it's going to work out is that like a game's going to come out and then it's going to take like four years to get into English. I mean, like, if those communities aren't just like pitchforks and flames at this point,

like I, Oh, they're not happy. Oh my God. Wow. Well, maybe somewhere in dark alleyways and, you know, in the, in the middle of the night, there can be projects that suddenly pop back up again. Back channels and such, you know, like I don't imagine that they walked over to everyone's hard drives and made them watch as they held the backspace button until the entire script was deleted and then saved to overwrite it. Like, you know, I have to assume that all right, maybe some fan groups can get back together and fucking, you know, do one like I genuinely understand how this happens, because like the translation was in the thing where you downloaded the game and then you would

like run the translation app and it would just correctly replace all the strings. So why didn't they do that? Yeah, Nipponichi software is not Nipponichi software America, right? Anyway, a couple other things real quick. So, yeah, there was apparently a McDonald's employee just posted a photo of a banner with a weird looking Mario that no one has seen before. That is probably the leak of the new Mario Brothers like fucking movie version. Hell yeah, it looks like fucking Mario. It looks like Mario. He's got detailed denim and his cheeks are a little different, but

that's Mario. I can just hear the Chris Pratt coming out of his mouth in this photo, you know. Oh, is there a caller that's different? Oh, geez. Okay. I didn't notice that there's a different caller there. Okay. Oh, man. Hey, I just got a I'm scrolling past fucking ecom shit. If you did not get a Street Fighter Beta invite by now, you're not getting one is the way that it's working. It's done. It's not staggered release. Yeah, no, it's not. Last night there was waves. The tweet, I believe last night said that they've all gone out, right? Something to that effect. Fucking Seijin didn't get a code. Max as well. Like it's, you know, it's kind of wild. Yeah, it's kind of wild. Like, and he was previewing the Sam's Show characters early before they went

up alive and you're like, yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, say, Jim and Max got them. Oh, they must not have gotten them last night. I see. They must have gotten them this morning. Okay. There was some, there was some initial confusion in the air as to how and why. Like, I mean, you go you go random lottery, I guess you get your random, you're going to be random lottery. But yeah, again, I when I hear that thing about like bots, I'm just like in this world, I feel like we can't have nice things. So I'm inclined to believe a bunch of those codes got sent to fucking nothing and nowhere because some people want to watch the world burn. How fucking sick would it be if we go live and then like as soon as you get online, half of the people you fight are just

shit fucking God tool assisted one through 9999. I love it. All players are just tool assisted bots rolling out as an army. Just 10,000 deep. Dude, I want it. They're coming. Yeah, I'm going to beat those bots up. No, man, they're going to with my legitimately acquired code. They're going to they're going to react to your inputs, bro. You literally can't. No, man, I'm built different. Damn, I'm playing Street Fighter six to six to get out of fighting games.

That's true. You're going to have a lot of Metro city to run around in a lot of fun to be had. Yeah. So what else was dropped? CD Projekt also announced a bunch of projects. They like or like a bunch of projects. Am I right? Wow. Hey, okay now. Yeah. New IP code named Hadar. Project Sirius, which is a Witcher project. Project Polaris, which is a Witcher three sequel and a new trilogy. Project Canis Majoris. Canis Majoris, which is a new story driven Witcher open RPG and Project Orion, which is a cyberpunk sequel.

So I am totally shocked that they would have another series of Witcher games. I wonder what character you would play in the Witcher games. I don't know. I hope it's not. It's going to be Siri. It's going to be Siri Project Sirius. No way. Yeah. So technically they announced really one, two, three, four, five, six, seven games at once. If you really want to think about it. Hey, how about you work on them before putting them out this time? Yeah. Well, you know, it'll be fine.

They still got to finish cyberpunk. We'll fix it in post cyberpunk expansion. We'll fix it in post. Don't you worry about it. Dude, I waited so long to play fucking Witcher three. I was so mad the fucking whole time I was waiting to fucking play Witcher three. Like I waited like six, seven months before that game came together and stopped being fucking fall apart. And then it became really good, though, right?

Yes, it was very good. Okay. Hey, well, can I take a quick break? I need to I need to help the wife with some some bags and some groceries. Bear bait. All right. So yeah, the only other thing that I was going to mention was there is a tweet showing off that the PlayStation five has also been jailbroken.

What? It's going down. What the fuck? Hey, stop it. Sorry. Hey, hey, hey, hey. God damn. Well, are you arguing with the cat?

A light there. Oh, PS5 jailbroken. There is a tweet. You can go check out here. Let me just pretweet it quick over on Lance McDonald's account where yeah, someone boots up a PS5 and then goes to a debug menu, loads an unknown package. And once the package is completed, it says PT is now ready to be played. Let done and done.

First thing everyone wanted to see was the first thing booted up in that video. And it's like, that's all you needed to say, you know, say no more. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. So yeah, I guess we'll find out more about the how, the when, the why and the what. Hopefully it's not a convoluted process and hopefully it doesn't involve anything besides, you know, sticking a USB in there or something, but it's done. It's done.

It's done. That was quick. Now at the same time, congratulations. At the same time, congratulations, PS5. Yeah, but that might be let's be real. That might be like one patch away from just being gone again. Right. So that that that feels like one system update emergency style might come rolling out real quick.

But for now, PT seems like it can be saved. So cool. Let's take some letters. Yeah, letter time. Yeah, letters. This is my letter voice. I'm cutting this bit off. I don't like it.

I, I hate it. If you have a letter, I also hate it. I, yeah. Castle super beast mail at gmail.com. That's the place. What do we got coming in? Here's one from big Rob says, dear enemy of the crown boy and then diagram of everything the royal family hates Madden as a British as a British subject.

I've been enjoying the memes that have followed the demise of our lizard queen. I saw a lot of tweets asking about what loot she would drop upon death. And as a British native, I'm happy to tell you. The crown jewels contain much more than the crown, the scepter and the orb. There are actually 13 crowns, 13 maces and three orbs. Incidentally, the UN found recently that 30% of British children grew up in poverty. And our new PM is about to cut taxes for the rich going by soul's rules. I would say that loot drop would be a sword.

There's a six swords within the collection. The sort of offering, the sort of state, the sort of mercy, the sort of spiritual justice and the sort of temporal justice. And most hilariously, the Irish sort of state. Are you serious? Dead serious. Oh, that's fucking hilarious. Please let me know which of these swords you would use on your next build and why it's your favorite.

The Irish sword, the Irish sort of state. It's not the sort of state. It's the sort of state, but it's the Irish version, you see. That's fucking silly. I'm going with the sort of mercy, you know. I like that. It's almost like when you describe as the hammer that is filled with mercy or your fists, you know, you got to release people unto the Lord.

And with that, the sort of mercy is absolutely my choice. Damn. So how many, how does DKP work? Do we, do we fucking like, what do we do here? I don't want to talk to you about the, I don't want to talk to you about DKP under any goofy circumstance. I feel like that might be applicable for, for how we split these drops up, you know. Thank you, big Rob.

Here we go. This one comes to us from Seth from Chicago, who says, hello, Pat Lupa and we'll lead a supreme. Uh, been, will he's talking about, I don't get that at all. I think it's a Taco Bell reference. Um, is it? Yeah, like Gordita. Oh yeah. Okay.

That makes sense. Let me, okay. Yeah. Well, he's talking about garbage American food, uh, and that ruled. And I'm always down to hear funny food stories considering what a joke American fast food can be. That being said, wanted to shine some light on what Baja Blast is while the exact mis, mixture is somewhat debated. The common belief is you can make it at home by taking 20 ounces of Mountain Dew and drinking

a quarter of it and then filling the bottle back up with a blue Powerade. It was how a lot of folks, especially in my college made their own Baja Blast and sold it in cans of two liters. Pat was pretty on point in saying that Baja Blast tastes like chemicals considering the fruits are made of basically chemical drinks. Um, is there an equivalent in Canadian shit food? Um, well, you got to try the worst of Taco Bells. So if someone were to go to Canada, what's the equivalent of two a.m.

Hell food, that's kind of crazy because it's like, I thought I was fully expecting like, here's what you mix in together and like to make, I was expecting like, I don't know ingredients, but it's like, no, take some synthetic pop and mix it with some synthetic energy drink to get an even more synthetic creation. Like of all the drinks you could have picked, those are the two least resembling anything real and you just use the Powerade doesn't even feel like it's a liquid wild of Powerade feels like a thinly disguised group of powders, masquerading in liquid form. It's, it's, yeah, it's the shit you're drinking in rumble verse.

You know, you're just downing it. No, you're just downing it. Like it's not, it's, it's dark food. It's dark fruits. It's not real. Anyway, so a quarter Powerade to 75% Mountain Dew, three parts Mountain Dew. Um, yeah. What is, what is a Canadian shit food or hell hell food?

Pizza Getty. Pizza Getty is pretty cursed. Um, good old fucking pizza Getty. Pizza Getty is pretty cursed. Um, see, that's the thing is those that like, yeah, yeah, that's probably the best because I'm like, I can think of some 2am Hell food, but it's all kind of endearing and has its time and place, you know, like, um, I'm thinking of the fucking, uh, peanut butter noodles that you get from the, the slot as you walk by that one guy on, on sale and raw.

That's just like you walk by, you hand him five and he hands you some noodles and then he pours some peanut butter sauce on them that he dips the ladle into a peanut butter actual like container and everything. And it's the weirdest, wildest, like 2am meal, but it's pretty good. And it's, it's a hangover cure. You know, you never fucking would think it, but, um, it sops up all the booze and it, and it's, it's pretty fucking good. It's not actually peanut butter, uh, of course it's peanut butter mixed with other

things to create a sauce that is a bit more like the same consistency as, um, if you ever had like, uh, like, uh, almost like Thai peanut sauces and things like that. But, um, that shit is popular for a reason and that restaurant is often got a huge line going around the block because people are walking down, grabbing their 2am peanut noodles, you know, but it's not peanut sauce. It's peanut butter sauce. It's a, but the consistency is a bit more similar to like the peanut chicken kind of thing, but it's more, um, so yeah, it's pretty good.

Um, that's, that's, that's the closest thing I can think of, but I, I wouldn't, it's not cursed. It's actually pretty, you know, it does its job. So, Hey, well, can I ask you a question? Yeah. Can I write an email? Hey, they put out a Dead Space remake trailer. I saw.

Just now. Yeah. It does it, you just replayed Dead Space. Does it not look like exactly the same? Uh, all right. Let me scroll through. Take a quick look here. Like it looks like there's some more shaders or whatever, but like, man, it,

I throw this on the horizon pile. Uh, but this is a much older game, right? Like, yeah, let's see. Um, hmm. No, this is significantly like prettier. Oh, is it significant? Maybe it's been too long for me. Yeah.

This is, this is significantly prettier for sure. Um, the lighting. Okay. Thank you. The lighting is, is, is softer and, uh, some of the contrast is sharper on things. Um, yeah. It's also like, it's funny because like in my head when, uh, there's talk about like, you know, the feel of things and stuff, um, and, and getting it right and getting it wrong.

I thought there would be more elements to juggle, but there really aren't. You know, it's got, it's very few things. So just make sure that those things work and it'll be okay. Um, obviously the boots, but I saw a screenshot of, um, what looked like Isaac jet packing around and it was like, Oh, are they making you fly instead of just like point to point, um, stuff? And yeah, there's some parts of the trailer as well where it looks like he's floating. So I guess it's not just a straight remake, but like they're actually redoing some stuff. Hmm.

Okay. Okay. I just wanted your quick opinion on that. Gotcha. Oh, dead space too is where flying is a thing instead. Oh, well, obviously that's, uh, that'll, that'll make sense. That'll be coming in the future then. Okay.

Anyways, um, last one we'll take from Kevin, AKA Cooper prize, who says, dare Eli and Brennan, I've been really enjoying the discussions on patch notes and balancing you've been having wanted to focus on one of my favorite parts of balancing the emergency nerf where the developers have to rush out a patch to balance something that was clearly way more unbalanced and expected because it was not working as intended in Pokemon unite. Uh, we've had to do two already. Sylveon was added with enough damage to essentially one hit KO many Pokemon. And Mr. Mime had to rework, uh, that is left that left him basically had to rework that left

him basically immortal. Uh, do you have a favorite example of an emergency nerf? For me, for sure. I, I, I want to say, uh, we, uh, touched on it before, but Dan in Street Fighter five, when he launched, he had an infinite that consisted of him just comboing into, uh, Gadokin's, uh, forever. And it's hilarious because it's a high execution infinite requires a lot of skill. Dan is supposed to be a schlub, but this just locked the game down in a way that like completely

broke that it made you, if you were good enough, able to just shut people down forever. So what they did was, uh, they made the Gadokin have a one in six chance of being a super powered one and it would actually cause a knockdown and, uh, be a better than you. I remember you describing that. Yeah. And it's great because it's one of those things that in the character having a sense of like random luck to be skilled, but everything else you do is kind of shit is perfect from the lore perspective.

And it also also nice little shingo reference and it also kind of lets you do the infinite if you're skilled enough until the casino cash is out. So there's a chance you can go pretty far with it. If you try to do it, there's a, but every time you throw a Gadokin out, there's a one in six chance that the combo will end. So eventually it will come to an end, you know, and, uh, it does, uh, scale down in damage, like ridiculous as well to a point where it'll just take forever. So that's a fun way to emergency nerf a character.

It's probably, that's probably one of the best ones. Yeah, I can't think of anything. I really can't bummer. Uh, all right. Well, I'm fine with that. Well, hopefully next week I'll be a little closer to my microphone on a goddamn desk. So I won't sound like this. Apologies again for this week.

A desk that you will build like a big strong man. I'm totally going to build it. Yeah, like a big man. And make sure to leave the windows open so they can see you doing that stuff too. You know, and then hide it for the pies. Yeah. All right. See you guys later.

Have a good week, everybody.