Castle Super Beast - CSB 204: Guitar Nero

Episode Date: January 31, 2023

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yeah yeah yeah good morning we're kind of kind of yeah it's not even good morning for me but it feels like that where did where did arise start you'd like the original

English word or like people saying arise in reference to a stream starting up arise shit lords arise beast lords arise trash king ok so there's a rise e tarnished definitely not Elden ring it was well before that arise e tarnished then amplified it then you can go arise chicken chicken arise where Billy the voodoo witch doctor tries to

resurrect one of the aquitaine hunger force idiots who killed themselves ok just keeps saying arise chicken over and over ok that's like that's like I don't know when aquitaine was right but that's like 2004 ok definitely not weapon lord where zorn yells arise as he does one of his cutting attacks

bully definitely not that ok I've been meaning to talk to you about this for a while we need to have an intervention about wildly obscure fighting game factoid you see that I care you see that's the joke but like humans like humans you see that's that is the humor that is the humor we find um

that is like a laugh to keep yourself from crying type of joke now I am lord what is that is that a is that a zena episode yeah no even that day even that references insanely dated that is no I feel like I feel like that I was trying to figure out I'm like is there like a blank in my head of like a almost like you know a palpatine

yelling arise you know to arise yeah but that's been supplanted by like kneel before monster mash and pledge to do the graveyard smash mm-hmm mm-hmm which I still giggle every time I think about I think he just says rise I think he just goes

yeah maybe who knows yeah I made one bad boy we got a lot to talk about this week busy week busy week boy there's a lot big big week of busy and like I'm checking my phone for updates on whether I can make it busier yeah on that on that dank

dank info dank info that needs a hey I have a hey if you're watching the podcast live and you sent woolly a super cool informative email that may or may not get you in trouble can you please write woolly back to let him know whether or not we can talk about the contents of that email on the podcast or in general be really helpful in general because there's times that like in really interesting important

fun information comes out and like yeah yeah give me with that just give me the heads up as to whether or not you're okay with it being shared when you run if you like send us an email with like a bunch of dank secrets that seem like they're like legally dubious polite like you know I don't know well there's

if you were to if you were to post you know classified military documents to the war thunder war thunder forums yeah you should you should also write in that forum post these are cool to type I'm I'm good you're good for it don't worry about it including what I'm seeing this morning is the latest in Russian stealth plane technology

like the latest leak in a war thunder is that the active ones they're using in the war currently you know didn't we goof about like shit posting yes in the Ukrainian conflict yesterday absolute 100% the war has changed

forum tagged leaks and forum tagged plans yeah no and I mean the war thunder admins God bless them they've been deleting it as soon as it goes up they're doing their best but God I can only imagine a room of sweaty like 80s fucking a stockbroker style individuals just panicking every time a

new one goes up trying to race to delete it you know we have a we have a ton of shit so why don't you take it away with whatever what do you want to talk about today yeah yeah yeah no for starters I mean how about this hi-fi rush what hold on I need to get I need to

get the screenshot that I fucking I took from my twitch chat that I sent to you was from a gentleman in my chat called Ray Durran who deserves credit for just asking is this just rhythm Nero sort of yes yes yes it is sort of yes but a little more like cheeky

main character energy a little a little less anger you know this is this is the best game because I thought I was going to walk in here and talk about like the dead space remake for like an hour and I probably will but out it's out of my way adorable sheep dead space out

of the way for even more rush oh I just okay I'm like Nero is not the most apt comparison for the character but it's like no but it rhymes with hero I just I just got the pun okay there we go I sent that to you like no no I know but when I read it six but when I read it I just read it as Nero

with a guitar or rhythm Nero or whatever it's like yeah no it's like guitar hero no no no but you sent me a quote that says it says is read the quote yeah no rhythm Nero like rhythm or guitar hero okay guitar hero guitar Nero that would have connected the pun but if you just say rhythm Nero that

doesn't work as well so okay so let's talk about how I woke up this morning and you know when you turn on your computer steam it like it just says hey hey bitch steam it pops up as the first thing and what I saw was yesterday woolly played hi-fi rush for the first time yeah with no it with no achievements underneath it

so what's your current experience with hi-fi rush well um yeah the I did get achivo by the end of it just doesn't show on my end or maybe two or three I don't know but so here's what's up I did I did I did start it and I played the first mission the first verse I guess chorus chorus chorus the first chorus that's what

it was the track wait the chorus is the boss the track is the stage okay yeah track one anyway the intro to the to the whole thing that just starts rolling um yeah I mean everyone that has been screaming at me about this from the moment it's been announced is correct and that this is just all woolly

aesthetics all day every day so based on at least you know 75 minutes of playtime you know like an hour and a bit I'm gonna be using the third rock from the system tip system third rock from the Sun tip system in which this game is a perfect 10 until proven otherwise yeah okay that's I'm not I'm not familiar with

that system so in third rock from the Sun when the when they get to a restaurant what's his face puts down a stack of money on the table and says to the waiter this is your potential tip for the evening every time you do something that displeases me I will take away a bill oh that's good and then every and that's and every time

a hesitation occurs you just let's a power move yeah yeah so quite simply this is a perfect game until something else something happens to make it less that because so that experience in like the onboarding process is perfection that's everything I want video games to be it's I have the mildest most single like

I have milk toast the lightest the lightest feather tap I will mention which is simply this I wish that Chai the protagonist's head wasn't a generic one well that's it okay that's literally it that's the only thing so I went I've done I've done so somebody in my chat yesterday said wow you can tell Pat is

really crazy about something when bonus streams just start showing up on Sunday evening yeah so like I moved I moved all my bullshit over to be like hi-fi rush time I am now at mission fucking I'm one I'm one and a half missions from the end I'm like right there nice right time so I'm gonna use your grading system the

the 10 until proven otherwise how much time a lot actually like 14 and a half okay so far HLTB currently not accurate extraordinarily inaccurate I don't know how you'd be able to beat the game in six hours oh when I looked at it it said 12 okay 12 I'm gonna say 12 to 15 getting updated as we go play through

yeah and then there's post up so in terms of so what is hi-fi rush hi-fi rush is a stealth drop a surprise album as it were of a video game that came out earlier in the week with no for knowledge like the name leaked out like an hour beforehand and that's it like genuinely completely stealth dropped it is a rhythm

game it is a character action game like a devil may cry it is like when I was looking at the trailer I'm like why does this look so beautiful mmm it does look beautiful and then you play it and you're like it feels beautiful yeah and then you look at the credits and you're like oh that's why cuz a bunch of the people

who worked on fucking beautiful Joe worked on this game wonderful it is it is the second directed game by one Joe John Johannes aka tango game works is Jojo I feel it is it is how do you put this it's a character action game in which every single hit must be on beat every dodge every move every attack every

delay attack must be on beat now it will be on beat regardless of whether you are on beat however that's the craziest if you happen to be on beat with the action you get bonuses but it doesn't actually like force you to you can still play and be bad I think I think it's wild is that like when I've loaded it up I'm like why

does this game feel like shit like I loaded it up I'm like all right let's try our square light button attack right and it was just like the least responsive like a lot of shit and then I get to the tutorial and it's like no the hits the attack is gonna come out on the beat the four four beat every time no matter when

you press it but if you press it good it'll feel responsive and it'll do more damage and a little a little man like a little crowd will go hey yeah every time you do it yeah I thought that I held the button down and that's why it was taking so long for the attack to come out for a second like there was definitely a like

what is happening okay and the part that is done so well is if you have rhythm you feel it it's there and it's just you're going it's it's instinctual right if you don't this thing is taking every possible opportunity to be like hey man it's okay we know we know it does so much to help you out with the rhythm if you

don't have rhythm all right so starting up difficulty levels difficulty levels change enemy aggressiveness and damage and health value and that kind of thing they also change the strictness of the timing so on easy dude you can hit anything on normal on hard and very hard you are playing guitar hero you are

hitting it on very hard is very strict on the timing I'm surprised when they give you the warnings up front when you boot it and it says like hey you know this is rhythm based and thus you want to make sure your lag input is as low as possible your latency down I'm surprised they don't have an offset option because

you know guitar hero and like necker dancer have this where you can create a delay or offset visuals with audio depending on your setup to make sure you sync up no matter what your situation is so I want to get to that right after this part because there's the difficulty level and then number two is every

single fucking background element in every stage is pulsing to the beat or the backbeat every single sign and fucking line on the wall and shrub and piece of machinery and every single fucking thing yeah is this gigantic clockwork beat yeah so that even you even if you're playing the game death the whole world

is pulsing yes the character snapping his fingers you're and if you're if you can't pay attention to the world and you can't pay attention to your character who's either walking tapping running to the beat then you can look at the HUD the UI the meters are all bouncing to the beat as well and they're they in addition they

sync up to the pulse of that your little cat buddy 808 that hangs next to your character at all times is also pulsing with the beat at all times and your characters walk and run are on beat the footstep noise is a very very very very very clear like tap footstep noise to go into the beat and if that's not enough if

that's not enough hit select and a straight fucking metronome appears at the bottom of the screen mm-hmm and goes this and just shows you that like no rhythm thing same thing as necker dancer as well we're just like here it is you can literally see where you need to input shit so it's all there it's all

there to help you for the rhythm and they don't have a latency offset is because I bet with all of that moving the latency offset would be difficult music yeah would create a horrible horrible disconnect well so here's the thing I just saw a bunch of people yell out that they do have that option

but I was told that it just lets you check okay because I went looking for it and I didn't see it if you're at the system if you're at your computer you can check is it actually right now yeah because is it like showing you the info or is it letting you actually set the offset by met by MS you know and

then you and then you do like a check because if so then that's perfect find out in just a second cool because yeah that is a like ideal thing to have because sometimes right you what if you're playing I don't know like on a projector in some crazy public event people complaining on the on the game

subreddit that they're like this game looks incredible can't play it just can't there's also a cloud version you can play on the Xbox wow people were complaining that some of the bosses were impossible wow and it's like yeah no you probably shouldn't play this on the Xbox okay yeah I mean latency check if

yeah if you can fix it we're good this again as loud as low as it needs to be or as high some people have bad TVs etc sports mode etc yeah it's a latency check check it doesn't it does not let you actually change it go into accessibility just make sure because a lot of people sound pretty confident size

colorblind cutscene subtitles cutscene cutscene context subtitles action voice subtitles auto action mode single key rhythm visualization mode no it is a check there you go yeah so there I because I thought I looked through it to see and I didn't I didn't I didn't catch that it is not an offset it is just a

check yes so there's a difference between displaying it and actually allowing you to change it go back to the earlier rhythm games mentioned and you'll see that you can you know move them around so if you yes hold on folks in the chat are a little confused you can move it left or right yes and when you move it

left or right and to get it accurate if you move it too far it'll say yeah your your setup is fucked fix it it doesn't it's not allowing you to play offset it just says wow you have like 48 milliseconds of fucking latency you need to you need to shit your ass off it's a confirmation of how safe in sync they should be but

it's not actually letting you says turn on whatever low latency variable refresh rates nonsense there you go going on brother okay cool alright so there you go that's that's straightened out so yeah all that visualization incredible it's also it has your score meter but it's it's tracking

it's not tracking damage doesn't track damage for shit doesn't care how much you got hit tracking rhythm it tracks your combo it tracks your clear time and it tracks the percentage of time you stayed on beat which has really opened up like talking to people like the games like like the game has two types of difficulty

it has fighting enemies and playing an action game and then it is how can you can you do that while keeping a metronome in your head and for some people the answer is fuck yeah yeah yeah I imagine so I imagine so but then there's other things that it adapts because clearly the people making this are fans of the

of action games and are leaning into it you as much as they possibly can of everything yeah so there's things that make the adaptation to this system so naturally what got me like what sold me super hard was the rest right because in a devil may cry game or a bayonetta game there's moves where you do it a

combo pause for a beat pause for a moment and then continue the combo and you branch it differently as a delayed combo that's it here it's worked into us and to a step where it's like you press a quick attack wait for a beat wait and then come back on the next one and that little on the clock yeah and

when you return to it it's the same as if you did a delayed combo in an action game but here it's like using that rhythm system like masterfully as opposed to it being let's say like the delay is you have to get a feel for it right you're not yeah it's not clear immediately how long that delay is going

to be you just have to kind of feel them out in this case it's I rush you miss it once and then you see the clap and you go oh that's when I was supposed to hit it it's musical you know fantastic system there and then I mean just you know what is there to say aesthetically like it's just it's doing the brightest

most joyful colorful things the animation is like making it it's like either doing the right style of animation for cell shaded really good anime 3d you know the type where it looks like it's hand drawn at points you know because of how they're tweening and how they're actually key framing into their major

motions like it's incredible stop you right there because the the animation and and work in this game is so stellar because sometimes it is 2d animation there there are sequences that go from wild 3d you know like yeah real action sequences to classic 2d animation to break through a scene into the best 3d

animation it like like color wise that I've seen in a game seamless it's the most seamless I've ever seen it's it's that's the thing is it's the most seamless transition between them as they go from those cut scenes that are like again perp just bright colorful cartoony art style like right into it

it is it is doing like what guilty gear strive is doing mm-hmm but like strive has to deal with two characters in a 3d background like this this game is dealing with a whole action stage and long cut scenes also right and this is something I've talked about a couple times but it's like strive and excerpt

and like the amazing shit they do in those games is it's a it's a unique style where like they they get this really good flat shaded to 3d thing going on the characters and the worlds are really elaborate and in some cases realistic the textures on the earth and the ground don't necessarily go with the

characters in the in the same level of detail right because they want more texture they want it to look that way and it looks great it looks fucking phenomenal in this the whole world is the same as the characters in how they're and how they're textured and how like it's flat in some cases and again

and when you see all of those that that that uniform style characters in background all bouncing to the beat it makes perfect sense why it's done that way you know it's it's just like every character has a great design and just like two characters talking in a room just moving around and using their

arms and their head and their hair moving it's immaculate it's so good it's so good like in some ways not in terms of fidelity but in some ways it's more impressive to me than like spider verse because it's having to do it in real time and the scale is so much larger than like a two-hour film because

they have to do all this shit on top of that on top of all of that it has like this is made by people that fucking love character action games because it has it's it's like the skull girls where skull girls came out and had here's the assit here's assist select here's here's hold to pause here's all

these little feet quality of life that like had been in this game or this game in this game but they hadn't all been in one game okay here you go get gears to buy moves you can sell moves for 90% of their cost wow nice nice okay because I didn't see any of that stuff yeah okay that's proud souls proud souls yeah

like the refunds for you get a refund on your moves yeah okay okay do you want to see what the move does okay there's a little video in the upper right corner that's nice you hit square or X full screen controller full yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah sounds yeah that's great the game doing a training dummy on it then you have

assists I don't know if you're familiar but the game has Marvel assists like strikers I saw in the controller layout there was an assist partner button so I yeah you've got you've got you the first assist you get is just as somebody shooting a gun to juggle enemies so okay you're doing you're doing a goddamn

launcher and then you're doing the crash but then you hit assist to keep them going so you can set up your next combo mm-hmm you have a magnet just a on what do you call that after you sorry I was gonna point out the like on the hierarchy of like unlocking moves in in action games the lowest tier is spend the money

get the move yeah in the middle is you can try it in a little void test room to see how you if you want the move or not and then at the top is refund it and put it into something else if you want that first you know especially when you are in a situation where you're unlocking more equipment or more like weapons and

then that has a whole new sheet and you're like oh fuck I actually like this one away more than the other one I just spent all my shit on let me get those back put them over here and then build out your highest priority purchases over time yeah this game has all of those actually because the training mode is right next to

the shop so you can buy it go to training mode use it yeah run it back that being said by the end of like mission 10 I have enough to have bought every move that not nice in the default moves that okay then you have oh my god like there's a there's a mechanic where you'll get partners and they're all different colors

right so let's say blue and green when you switch your partner that your cat and your guitar will start pulsing with your new partners color okay to like visually remind you without having to look up at the UI no I have the green one on right now you've switched to green yeah okay also enemies that require

blue green or red to defeat their specific mechanic will be blue green or red oh okay there's a color match I see yeah orange is no is is free blue requires blue green requires green and it's built into their design I don't I don't I don't like the color match when it when it is done in the style of

original DMC Devil May Cry or worse fucking at Golden Axe remake Golden Axe 360 oh my god I don't the color match system ain't fantastic so I'm hoping this version is something strange here I think this is the correct method of doing what the DMC Devil May Cry was trying to do is it resistance or like extra damage

no it is it is a shield it is a shield okay okay yeah and it is and and it is not this is what's really important it is not you're in let's say in a room 30% or 40% of enemies will have a shield on them it is one maybe okay and right which is kind of I guess kind of like the big guy where you focus fire and then you got

that is usually the big guy okay if it's a focus fire situation that's that's alright in our situation yeah it depends on the distribution there are rooms where DMC would do like here's one red here's one blue and you're just like this is not fun I'm bouncing off because I swang at both of them yeah

okay alright gotcha it's it's just it has it is it is it is how do I put this this game is so madly in love with video games and everything that goes along with them it has the deepest cut I have ever seen in my life in a game nice okay there is a Xenogears reference deep in this game that I am just like

who who even cares who who even gives a shit about this other than like what is that like 25 fucking years ago now like come on yeah yeah every single every single moment that I am playing this game I am bobbing my head and I am tapping my foot I'm in my head right now I'm hearing I'm great fucking that's it

I'm hearing chai chai chai you know like I'm absolutely hearing it and the part two that is just it's what I live for it's what I want to see it's what I want to make if I ever had the chance to but I never will is the ability to hear lyrics kicking in at certain points and it's not just the revengeance thing

because revengeance was like one of the most like amazing examples because it's like at the hypest part of the finale of the boss fight and here it's like no actually it's just a stage transition from one area to the other because we're going from verse to chorus we're going from chorus to breakdown you know and

like as you do a part of a combo and like the the vocals start to kick in and you're like oh my god like layered music is just free serotonin for me like every time you you've got that you've got the fake the the phantom crowd going like either hey hey hey or chai chai chai you've got the the actual background

music which is incredible often has some like low vocals in it and then you've got if you're at s I know if you got to s-rank like you like in a fight yeah I did once or twice I think yeah okay when you hit s-rank your shit guitar made out of literal trash turns in yes yes yes yes yes okay that's the trigger for it

when you're on beat and you're doing beat combos with your real guitar riffs riffs are playing to the part in the song you're at the musical layering like structure of this deserves a fucking documentary to just figure out how they went about it because this is this is everything we want to hear with video

games being synced to music on more levels that I could have fathomed you were possible for sure this is this is this is the best game that clover never made interesting yeah cuz it's it's also like I I mean feel me and beautiful Joe and god hand in it but the trailer is like

no really the people that made the evil within and you're like yeah what like why you know beautiful Joe are fun fucking 20 years ago people who are playing the game now we're not even bomb when god came out so you have to go up to what we might remember recently which is those two I have a very very key and

important question here though cuz I'm glad the thing is I'm glad I took a crack at this on my own are you playing obviously you are in streamer mode oh my god I was so happy when I turned the game on so I was like oh my god this looks incredible I should buy it and then I'm like music by nine it has real music in

it and I'm like well fuck that and then you look at the store page and it's like don't worry streamers yeah got you cover yeah made in-house music for all of it and guess what I have been playing in streamer mode and guess what the music in streamer mode is so the boss tracks or some of the big yes yeah tracks at

the end of the stage those are what's replaced it plays it plays it fades in so that just in case you're not in streamer mode you can mute that shit like as you're going like let's say you do what we did for spider-man and you're like let's just go not streamer it starts fading in and when the words nine inch

nails pop up on screen time to hit the mute button you know yeah so the original music is fantastic yes okay currently arguing as to whether or not the original tracks yeah better than the license tracks excellent that's everything I needed to hear because the argument seems to be that the last two

license tracks might be better but overall the majority of the game the original music is actually better because as it was going through it I heard the stuff that was licensed you know black keys and then and then it says a high hi-fi rush original and then you get to nine inch nails and I'm like the shit

that was original was amazing it was fantastic and it gives me confidence that you know whatever they replaced it with is also good now that the nine inch nails track over that boss fight is fucking sick it's super good but when that's missing like if the quality is still as high that is that is pertinent

that's super important I would like I would genuinely like if they could put out a patch that would allow you to change it per stage because because there's argument people are gonna be all people are disagreeing even right now in our chat as to whether or not like oh I like the original version

better or I would prefer the licensed music and it's depending on your taste it's depending on what bands you like like okay nine inch nails mark you're gonna want to play the nine inch nail song but the fact that this is even billion this the fact that if this is even being argued is like yeah great

great because that's great no problem in streaming it that way now one million yeah and in particular cuz like here's the thing right obviously QA one million that's that it's it's the song is referenced in the thing and then at one point the lyrics are fucking scrolling by on the little screen behind him so

you're like it's really made for the nine inch nail song but but we can live we can live we can breathe we're thriving without it okay so be it then there is there is then so yeah good shit in this game that that that is that's it so hey I'm I'm ff9 is on hold I'm starting hi-fi rush yeah going through I gotta

say so not I was thinking about it it's like it will he likes jetset radio will he likes character action games will he major in university was 3d animation and 3d art right it is obviously obviously your jam and I think everyone realized that because the number one thing people have been talking about in

my show is dude you gotta get woolly on this man you gotta get woolly on this shit when do you think will he's gonna play you think I'll play this week do you think I'll play next week no I wanted to get my hands on you know to to feel what was what was going on with it before coming to the show today and

I wanted to get a feel for what was happening with the music as well and the streamer mode stuff is like yay I'm glad to see it there but if it's an inferior experience then excellent that makes me worry but if I'm getting the confirmation at this point that it's not then fuck yeah man absolutely I also I

was like I had that so there's there's there's something you probably found this in the first level in the first level right before the boss there is a door covered in flame yep and I'm like how the fuck I answer is the answer is when you beat the game you will keep all of your shit yeah and that all of those

doors and all of those secret mission doors yeah and all of those areas that you can't access the first time around you'll be able to do on replay there's a lot oh yeah no I just I looked at that door and I went oh I'm gonna need the the base that shoots water to open to open this door like that's basically

that's all I just I looked at one okay there's a lot of that like every single stage has multiple of them and they also have a I don't know if you found it in the first level there is a secret door that just has a big number one on it yep and when you walk up to it they go yeah I don't know how to open this

you'll probably have to come back here way later once you've beaten the game so that's that's your secret missions yeah sure your your challenges and there's enough stuff around the corners of like like a you can go around here drop off there's a balcony here there's a ledge there you know there's stuff

for you if you scraped to and I went and checked I'm not gonna say any of them because I don't know how you are like unlockable stuff sure there is a lot of stuff that you unlock once you beat the game okay there is a full fucking suite of unlockable options modes toggles everything so one thing

that really impressed me about that first mission was that a flaw of you know our beloved action games is that oftentimes they feel like you're running down a hallway to your next fight verse yeah and then you hallway again after that and then when you try to reverse that and and open up a lot you

get bayonetta 3 and you have that problem as well or it's like this is too much this is actually terrible I kind of want those hallways again I didn't feel caged in going from fight to fight in this you know and maybe it's just new eyes maybe it's just a new feeling but like rooftop traversal and

then a little like sideways mission part where I'm like oh sideways play this has the potential to go wrong and it was fine it was just a little traversal and then you get to your next area and I was like oh yeah that kind of breaks up the progression a little bit it paces things nicely it didn't feel

like hallway box hallway nor the bao problem of box infinite void box you know so I feel I feel very bad for platinum because hi-fi rush has come out very soon after bayonetta 3 and it is it is strong in the ways that bao 3 is weak like the games pacing is fucking incredible let's take that first level

you described little side-scrolling portion hey man okay oh is this gonna be a long awful fucking no it's gonna be five minutes and it's gonna be a fun little diversion and there's like three of them in the game and they're all fun little moments and they're not some mechanical fucking mess like piling the

goddamn spider on the rooftops they're just this nice little in and out sequence break there's a couple like rail car I'm gonna like like mine cart sequences you're not on my car but you're hanging off of things yeah we're dodging things left and right and you're doing little jumps there's like four of those in the

game they're just these nice little pace breakers here so on and so more and they're just these nice little diversions that aren't fucking messes yeah here's a really important one Chai is an affable dork and and he's great so far he's great he is dumber than hammers like and it is so great like

like the eye like it's it's not in the bad it's not in the bad annoying way it's in the like I like this guy he's he's absolutely fucking ridiculous with it and the part that I think like cemented that because I mean obviously you've got the fun stuff of like he's doing the pose with this picture he's all

like I got a dream right or I you know you're like okay protagonist has a dream to be this let's let's follow your rock star let's see what it's gonna be and like do you even play guitar wait wait you haven't even lifted up the foot towards the step of the dream dude I think in a different universe this

would be called guitar hero like what like the dead like no just the dead on of like wow I'm playing my guitar game I'm incredible do you even play guitar no why would I do that like that just got me for so like that fucking just like wait you're like ash wants to be the greatest Pokemon master okay cool

who you're rolling with so far rolling with like wait I need Pokemon Chai's fantastic you know and he's everybody in that game is fucking great and he's dripped out and everyone's everyone's styling Reca's name is Reca Reca is fucking that's I love her she's great ironically enough she does

not have a record okay that's fine so her name is a reference to a type of ramen sure which is hey hey we're in the DBZ universe on this one with with fucking naming kale mimosa yeah yeah yeah etc hi yeah yeah yeah are you a tea you're cool are you a food you're not right right right and I mean it's

impossible to not fucking just hit Seinfeld with the first time I read Vandalay it's bad it's bad there and Paige is watching me load it up and she's like why are you laughing so hard at Vandalay Industries I'm like because that's George Costanza's fake fake so like architecture company and that sells

latex and furthermore you just did what my brain kept doing which is it's not Vandalay Industries it's technologies I don't care like my brain just auto completed the word technologies into industries you know and I like I had to check the third like three times I had to go wait is it actually Industries and

then I write it again no it's not latex salesman fuck yeah Vandalay is ruined as a name you can't you can't oh man I yeah it really though I again just now realizing that I was saying and you want to be my latex salesman underneath my breath last night no one regardless of anything and no one understood what

the fuck I was yes I was talking about Vandalay Industries yeah my mistake no it really does take what it seems to be a lot of pains to like take you have you talked to smidge a bunch to be like hey hold on do you are you having trouble with this stuff because like the triple rhythm dash I'm like oh yeah there it is

boom boom boom like we're doing it and it's like okay you can take a second to like really go like this is what the game's about like that smidge is kind of gonna let you know that this is what it's asking you to do are you okay with that stuff I wonder like I'm hedge is is incredible especially I was dicking

around by restarting the game if you run past smidge he'll like chase after you and then if you go to talk to him like after you've skipped like two or three he'll be like I had some advice for you but I don't want to give it to you anymore nice nice okay I was already using the dash by the time I got to that one and

he went oh I see you've already been using the dash yeah like he like the game tech like news fantastic you know you really want to book it through your missions you can find out that you know you you're your attacks out of the dash are not on beat it's the only attack in the game that's not on beat it's like

dash on the beat and then attack you can cancel that attack with a dash oh yeah so you you can just dash dash dash dash attack dash dash dash attack just on and on and on okay okay to not have the third point if you want to really just fucking book it mm-hmm I did notice though and this is like like it took a

second to go like oh wait you don't have iframes on that that's not an iframe dash it's a maneuvering tool but you can't use it to get do have iframes on it but it has to be perfect okay and the other thing is that all enemy attacks are also on beat yes so that is you know in the tutorial you have those moments where

it's like oh yeah you do a perfect dash away from a swing and you're and you're good what I noticed is I was using it to try and like almost like you know move through like ground waves or like the but there's a boss attack I thought I could move through like like the really fast punch I thought I could kind of like

dash through it and it was like mm-hmm not quite so it's like okay you gotta get around it you know yeah so did you looked at the at the controls right yes I did so the controls have a wild amount of mechanical spoilers on that oh yeah I saw the parry button on B I saw the swap partner button you know the parry

button you get like 35 fucking percent through the game wow and and like half of its stage is you are going to learn to fucking parry so you found you found the the style adjudicator the statues that they want you to beat on you get more gears if you beat on it good the game has parry adjudicators the game

will stop you and give you parry timing it'll go bup bup bup bup or something and it goes fucking parry it and you are not going to move you are not going to move from this fucking spot until you parry that shit you want the reward is it is going to become a mechanic of every enemy going forward

mm-hmm and I like when it comes to rhythm leniency to I have to say really smart move allowing you to like because there's moments where I will not have intended to trigger a closing circle finisher yeah whatever that the beat yeah beat it but it'll pop and I'll be like oh I was already inputting another

thing on rhythm you can still pay attention you can correct for it it it lets you correct that is like a crucial part to making combat feel good on rhythm here if you fucked up with your input right after accidentally triggering that you it would feel bad a lot you know hey I'm going to tell you

something that will help you out a lot because I didn't realize it till halfway through the game when the beat hit is coming in and that circle is closing you're not mandated to do the beat hit you can still dodge you can still parry mm-hmm because stuff is still attacking you on beat there's a move you can buy

you start with parry and parry is parry it's exactly what you think bi-directional parry because it is you know move towards and do the parry timing yep it gives you two seconds of total full-body invincibility of course it's the Mahakala version yeah yeah yeah yeah let's go let's go I mean and he's

got a robot arm it makes sense yeah you can there there are some wild upgrades in this game the craziest I've seen is you can upgrade directional parry to give you nine beats of full-body invincibility on a directional parry jeez fuck that's amazing okay nine fucking beats I'm looking forward to seeing that's ten

beats yeah I want to see the shop I want to see these upgrades bull seconds um yeah and then and then there's just a level of like when a game introduces its premise via the lowest stakes in the world like you you're just along for the ride right like it's not even about you're not running you like you're not

screaming curie you're not trying to get her back you're not trying out you're kind of at least so far you're just like some fucking dork went to go get his robot arm and then the asshole CEO dropped an iPod on his chest okay and I'm like oh my god that isn't that's it first-generation iPod yeah that is

absolutely by modern standards not even vandal aera standards you know it is the story is very simple and told very sincerely and it's it is a it is a Saturday morning cartoon and it's a really good Saturday morning cartoon mm-hmm if Chai was not likable it would be if the jokes didn't land you know this

would be rough because it's a huge commitment to the bit but we were just talking about Viola it'd be a disaster we were just talking about this I was talking about you know some other recent games that came out where you know the comedy like is a huge gamble because you're going hard on it but I hope you

you're funny I hope you have a sense of humor I hope the bits land if they don't then you're committed to they you know in land cringe moments but so far it's been fucking hilarious man I would say nine out of ten of these bits just pop like actually hit like you have no experience with evil within right no

okay well evil within characters are in this game as absurd caricatures of themselves in robot form fantastic and they're fucking hilarious and it's fucking silly it is silly as shit nice nice yeah and I mean like and of course you know action and whatnot references aside like all the move names all the

things you're doing mechanically are all musical the cat's name is fucking 808 man you know it's a it's a fucking double pun it's great they it's the 808 drum machine yes leave the sound he's making is the 808 drum machine noise all classic hip-hop goes back to the also it spells Bob in letters and he's a

cat so he's a bobcat and every every robot has a name that's like also in you know digital in that way yeah it's great so it's great in terms in terms of so there's you saw that there's a deluxe edition thing that you can get I bought that that in so it introduces introduces the cat guitar and like a

couple different I didn't see any of the cosmetics but I saw that it included them and I was like in a game where aesthetics is my life I'm gonna get whatever aesthetics there are absolutely so so the guitar it doesn't just change the fan the s-rank version of the guitar it actually makes the base garbage

version of the guitar also like a big bulky like club which I really like fun so all the costumes are nice one of them is a shirt you can wear there's a blot the deluxe edition and this is all I get a slain t-shirt I feel like mentioning and this is really important to people who look at that and are like this sucks

that all these cool cosmetics are locked behind the ten or twelve dollar deluxe edition how much does the game cost might the game cost thirty dollars forty if you're in Canada cool the game is cheap the game is the game is is like it like the Bayo comparison is really unfortunate because the Bayonetta cost me ninety four

Canadian dollars this game cost me forty five which is why the the lead story is hi-fi rush outperforms for spoken in steam sales a thirty dollar game with no marketing dropping overnight outsold a seventy dollar to ninety dollar triple a title at launch even though you can get it for free on game pass game pass it

still sold that so but to mention the like oh it's a bummer that all the cosmetics are locked behind the deluxe edition I can confirm there is a massive massive amount of post game cosmetics nice like like like like one of the you buy the deluxe edition and you go to change your outfit yeah there's a

fucking there's a hair selector yes oh good oh okay perfect that's it I'm like I just wish you could like not even if it's not the generic head if you can make his hair like white or something you know what do you think the first one that unlocks it fucking done perfect there you go I you know what I took the

dollar away I put the dollar back on the table there's there's there is there in that screen there's hair scarf coat shirt pants shoes accessory accessory change the way Bob look sorry 808 looks and a final tally for full body costume yo like this style of game the way it looks makes me care more about cosmetics

than in another art style choice you know what I mean you change his arm to fuck yes man let's go dude lean into that shit absolutely like I really wish you had like you know the different dantes you get over the years you got your fucking diesel jacket and your black hair and all these little bits and pieces

but why not piece by piece you know why not well the answer is because the way they made the models doesn't support that I guess I guess the model people have been taking this game apart the models in this game are actually like laughably low-poly they are like PlayStation one character models they're just being

shaded to the umpteen great by one billion shizzillion shaders yeah I just anytime a game is not going to be doing like the whole you know here's a plethora of playable characters bit then it's like I'd like to dress up my one you know I'd like to have my Travis touchdown t-shirts Viola even had her

t-shirts but not really you know as many as comparison on top of that you can also customize and buy new costumes for every character on your roster let's go so all all the assists let's go have their own costumes yes yes yes yes no I they know as well like all the little things that you want like you

know you're kind of you seeing this or this world you see this art style you're seeing like the the setting of the city and your title screen kind of introducing that visual like it like when I see that when I saw it with jet set with bomb rush with all this stuff I'm like man I love seeing my good old

a good old fucking like cartoon city like that and then the shot where you come out of the elevator and it shoots you up and you get that spider-man take it all in kind of fucking this like it it is here's your title screen screenshot boom immediately I want to know everything about this setting you

know in one moment you made me go I want to know I want to know more I want to know all about it tell me everything yeah this is a perfect game until proven otherwise like it is so it's madly it's madly in love with like character action games obviously and it has reference it has internalization of stuff it has

callback it's incredible but it is also just as much in love with rhythm games the aesthetic the type of sound like this let me let me give you an example I have been humming jumping jack flash literally all week and and like tapping my belly to jumping jack flash all week that song is not in the game

but hi-fi rush reminds me of the final level of elite beat agents when you are like tapping to jumping jack flash and the elite beat agents are going hey hey hey hey on it so much that I'm associating that because this game has EBA in it are you be you're being reminded of music no not of music

specific use of music okay okay yeah I can only imagine that whatever I like whenever I see things like that two words like you're using a particular track like again the the nine inch nails one at the boss you're like you want to imagine an artist is playing this and seeing how their music is being used and

being like oh fuck that's really cool I love that implementation of it and I mean I'm sure like like I've had multiple discussions with friends over the years about how sick it would be to synchronize an action sequence to music right yeah and be that in I mean even if not in video game form in music video

form like there's a lot about in a film right there's ways to do this that are just like so fun to think about and I'm also somebody who the like the music that I get into the most when I really when I start like listening to my favorite songs oh like I play almost like if I were to direct or have a moment like I

play it I play a shot in my head of like how that would pan out you know it's just a there's always visuals I like to come back to that would be like man it would be so fucking cool to sync up this moment to here and this game is absolutely aware of exactly that feeling and it like volcanic volcanic explosions

of rhythm are occurring where they don't need to be like the gates that shoot up to lock you into a fight are happening on the beat the bridge that every every platform that comes out you know and it's like you didn't need to but you noticed and you're aware of those little things and that shit I'm gonna notice and be

like this makes you perfect the fact that you care about those small things and keeping you in the flow because the flow state being uninterrupted appears to be the most important thing this game wants from cutscene to gameplay to final score yeah s-rank into end of fucking state like they want you to stay in it you know

and that that is being accomplished better than anything I've fucking ever seen so did you see Shaun of the Dead yeah did you like Shaun of the Dead I thought it was pretty cool yeah do you remember at the end or in the climax of the film when a fucking queen comes on the jukebox and they're trying to beat up

the bartender with the pool cues okay right and they're hitting the dude to the music Jojo has come out and said that that was the elevator pitch for the game it was the bar scene in Shaun of the Dead what if we made an action game that played how this scene feels nice nice nice nice okay yeah yeah that is

like you don't have to go there even because like a synchronized music to to fight is a thing as I mentioned revengeance implements it in such a marvelous way you know but to write a whole game system around it like I don't know how many layers are existing I don't know how many sections a given

track is broken up into but I'm thinking of when Mick Gordon showed off the killer instinct like what that looks like and it is it's madness because it's just like like here's Maya's theme from the beginning of the fight to the end here's the different sections it goes into as like the life drops and as you

get further in and the you know to the battle and then like here's the layers that we switch up and down to depending on what type of combo you're doing or whatever the fuck else is happening and it just turns any given moment of music into like what would be one track just becomes a grid of possibilities that all

have to stay you know on beat and and feel good the whole time it's unbelievable man yeah okay that's good it's so good it's so good I can't wait for more I can't I I will eagerly be checking out your streams and or vods or whatever you will call at the at the bits that I want to see sure particularly there's a boss

fight made for you okay okay shout outs to Game of the Year in January shout outs to that that's a fucking that's a hell of a big year it's a big year like it's a it's a definite it's a definite like genuine contender right away it is so excellent yeah it's my favorite thing in in a very in a while

it is my favorite fucking thing cool like I cannot believe that in the week that the dead space remake comes out in a game that I adore I'm like yeah what about this this this music game that came out of nowhere for $30 what about that mm-hmm the only thing I'm waiting to see is like difficulty wise I guess I'm

just I'm like is this for everybody can I really like recommend this to people who yes would struggle you know yes if they're willing to to eat their pride and play on easy easy or normal mm-hmm on normal it's very clear normal if you're on beat the game is gonna like coast for you because the the the bonuses

you're getting from being on beat are a lot hard I would tell you to play this game on hard easy is going to be sorry normal is going to be a snore for you okay and I fucked around with very hard mode very hard mode is fucking for real it is very hard mm-hmm yeah but at the same time though like me me me off stream

versus me on stream I'd rather stay normal to be honest like I want to if I'm playing on my own maybe but like the extra fucking shit that comes with it well I believe you can change it anytime if you want or whatever yeah read read the description on that I did no no I did I did you know um yeah I did for

sure but it just you know I for me I gotta do whatever the the the difference between like going normal or hard or whatever is usually based on am I streaming or am I not because yeah that's there's if I don't have to care about what's going on and I'm just focused on playing the video game and enjoying it I

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this week that is out there is called resistance 2040x I saw you playing that but I don't know what the hell it is well I saw that you are playing that but I didn't see you playing it I'm now going to look up what the hell that is it's resistance so the footage I saw it was one of these games that popped up on

Reddit in the form of like a like little video of an upcoming fight indie fighting game and you know I'm always paying attention to that stuff and I was like oh what's going on and I saw someone get hit and it said like cross-up and then I saw someone get hit again and it was like hit confirm you know and I was like oh

that's cool it's telling you the thing that you're getting hit by and how and why that's that's that's dope what's actually happening though and then I saw like some platforms and stuff and I was like okay we doing a platform fighter what exactly is going on here so you pop it in it gives you this really

depressing intro about I think it's Romania in the future under what is essentially it looked kind of like it was basically a ready player one style setting where it's like set like something like censored corp I think it's like fuck corp runs the world and then they have a big fighting tournament

and everything is depressing and your protagonist is this girl with a VR headset on that's just sitting on the ground in a gray ass apartment you practically waiting to see the drool kick hanging out of her mouth but then suddenly in the world of the game everything is bright and and and

colorful and super smooth and it's UI design and everything and yeah anyway though the idea though of is that the gameplay itself is knit hog with more it's just knit hog with cool combos it's knit hog with cool combos and more fighting game stuff that's it so hey look woolly I'm looking at it right I'm

looking at a video right now I'm seeing a purple and you know nice graphics and a future aesthetic and it's not the ugliest fucking thing I've ever seen in my entire fucking life it turns out that we do have knit hog to it's called resistance 20 40x grab the creator of knit hog and fucking shake them well I

don't thinking I'm sure at this point they must have you know considered the reception speaks for itself but yes aesthetics do matter so going right from a fucking bright and full colorful game into another bright and colorful game resistance 20 40x looks super cool the music is bopping everything is

happening as well from main menu to all the different stages there's like a track that is moving and everything is vibrant and lively and you're playing knit hog and essentially what's happening is like the terrain behind you instead of like the set stages of knit hog it actually can be set or randomized you

know so you can get an element where like yeah you're not like every time you run past the first screen you don't know what's gonna be there type of thing and that's interesting in it yeah it can be it does lead to some weird shenanigans where like in knit hog if you're on a top like floor and someone's underneath

you and you guys are like trying to figure out how to fight each other like you gotta eventually make it around and square up but in a game like this where you've got a sure you can suddenly it becomes really bad to be on the top floor because your sword can pierce through and hit from the bottom so uh-oh that's bad

right but yeah imagine if you took knit hog and instead of having high mid-low stances with you know the different footsies you play you've got a light attack you've got a heavy you've got a sure you can you've got a heavy sure you can you've got an air dash and then you've got like a cross-up dashing slash

and you've got like a sonic boom as well so like it kind of lets you engage in a bit more of a hyper experience while having that little the screen is locked whoever kills first gets to run past you know and it makes perfect sense because a knit hog is a it's a it's a it's a perfect like you know con floor

game to play and it also yeah oh god that's a specific metric mm-hmm mm-hmm that's that's what you kind of look for because it all like anything that fits that also fits the what I call post tournament everybody's drinking loaded up let's let's let you know like after you're out of your pools or you're

out of your bracket or whatever where everyone's just gonna play some other trash some other shit and just like you know fuck around and this is a great thing for that knit hog was really great for that so people would get really hype in that context if you could do like Ken's light DP you know and then

like after you block it you get guard crushed and then you fucking open them up and stuff that's really fun so it was yeah it's a it's a again knit hog with more moves there's a cool element to it where when you do kill somebody they respawn with a like helm splitter from heaven and if you're standing in that

line you die immediately so like you can't just go rush in and try to beat them on their spawn point because like they have a fucking super sat super attack right away again resistance 2040 X is the name of the game if you also kill somebody and like because everyone has like it's not just one hit to death

you've got a little life bar in most cases one combo will kill you but if you extend it and you do a certain amount of like stylish points in your combo you can heal a pip of life back so there's a fun little mechanic where like even if it's enough to kill with just a little poke if you combo the body for a little

bit longer you can build back up some life as well you know so that was that was pretty fun how many pips are you how many pips of life do you actually have so you have I want to say like four but the average combo that's like light heavy sure you can will kill that will kill you regardless right so in most

cases like getting touched as death but not always if you block which you can you know do by holding back one of your life bar segments are broken up into like two there's like two dots on it and like you can basically block three times before that life bar pip disappears you know so yeah it's just it's it's the you

know the kind of fun and charm of like a knit hog hype battle that can go back and forth because every time you die it makes your respawn take longer so you know at a certain point in time you're having these really long battles where like I killed you and I can get from the edge of the stage to half stage you know and now

you killed me and now you can make it back that far it's pretty fun it's pretty fun I like I like to set up and then of course because this is this is the era you can do twitch integration and it leans super far in on that goofy shit where you can basically hook it up to your stream and allow people to vote with

commands over what they want to happen in the game and every one minute a random effect will fuck up your game and it can be everything minute you can set that to be that's really fast you can set it to be whatever you want you can set it to be faster like like every couple seconds or you can set it to be every five minutes

or so like you can do whatever but like the options are basically people can vote to give you as mild as everyone has a triple jump to everyone's invisible come on hitboxes only potato quality screen lowest resolution nice lowest visual effects even fucking dino Rex where the fighting dino Rex is that

goofy dinosaur fighting game the one that's not primal rage where you can grab a t-rex by the neck and toss it out the screen and then do this cool follow-up combo and then there's humans on the bottom it's it's it's one of the games we played a long time ago that was like one of the obscure fighters that was a

goof and then I've played dino Rex you sure have and it became a meme later because people recently rediscovered it but we've been on that shit because I do my homework I don't know about dino Rex as a barrel connoisseur it's always funny to be like oh yeah this new meme been on that shit but dino Rex is hilarity and

you turn into dinosaurs you do dino confirms and dino combos they're great that sounds so stupid it's great it's great it would burn in my soul forever and like and like the the and the sprite of the dinosaur in 20 resistance 20 40 x is like it's a single sprite that's just bouncing up and

down you know like like sprinting in like a south park kind of way like it's it's hilarious like our paper Mario almost you know it's really good yeah so if you want a like if you want if you want a better nidhog experience then uh nidhog to that has a different flavor to it with some more like the

marvel to nidhog street fighter check out resistance 20 40 x it's pretty sick and love a better nidhog to experience a lot of people would a lot of people would and it's so far that's been play nidhog yeah no the call has been answered because nidhog has left room for you know all kinds of

improvement and cool ideas and I'm happy to see that this is finally around and happening so yeah shout outs to that game as well and then real quick breakers collection came out and breakers revenge and breakers are some really cool good classic fighting games love those they're very similar to

punch planet in that there's nothing they're very simple it's like a it's like you know going back to basics it's like here's your roster here's your characters they got supers and there's like a bit there's like a little under the level there's like a breaker system involved but it's not it's not much it's

really just classic fighting game tons of fun how old is breakers revenge oh god I mean it's one of the ones that I completely missed everyone did because the only people like like like that's the thing like yeah if this is a you you found out about it via neo-geo emulation the style game you know

breakers is mid 90s as fuck I can't even some of the character designs in that I know you've made me play it some Jesus Christ wow okay that's how we're doing this yeah yeah it's got it's got those like this fucking thing fucking piece of shit PR PL the French swordsman fucking more hurl in it or you

just do the goddamn belly move yeah exactly that game that game that's the one you know with show the show this game fucking sucks it's great no no no it's a good fighting game it's super fun dude god that sound clip right there yeah um no no it's it's it's it's fucking great and this is one of those bits where

it needed to kind of come back and get some rollback so that people could play it and enjoy it and in modern context so cubite did that how and added cross play and they added a bunch of stuff to it where the online suite was pretty impressive when I was looking at it there was a little tutorial that kind of goes

like hey we're going to connect to servers and have you play against each other that way but if the connection it seems like if the connection isn't strong enough you can also just do direct PVP there's indicators for Wi-Fi versus wired you've got all your bars you got all that shit you'd want to see

and then you've got a ton of lobbies you can go and roll back and cross play and yadda yadda so that's a nice feature set for the game to get the problem unfortunately is when you put a game out and it has rollback and such you want to make sure because in the case in cases like this you're trying to

defeat fightcade and if people are not going to have a more a better experience than they are on fightcade you're going to fail to convince them to pick the game up right so I tried a couple of matches we had a matches obviously our local matches were great no problems there play it online had some lag had

some lag with people that I usually don't have lag with when we do get into fighting games uh-oh what's going on right start to see hi MS start to see skips occurring we start to see a couple of little moments of like aggressive rolling in the matches and I'm like is is it failing what's going on increase

the rollback frames you know go up to that compensates still having bad matches and then people basically are reporting that like yeah they're not getting smooth matches out of this and let all that work of getting it implemented on rollback at least until patched or so currently it's janky currently it's

shaky it's not stable I had a match with somebody who was like not too far I think in America somewhere and again like it was just like they were coming in at like 58 and then it sucks because you're just like your goal here yeah is to get people off of fightcade now it's weird because fightcade is always like it's always

there it's always an alternative to what's going on you there's never been an opportunity for anyone who likes breakers or breakers revenge to officially support it in any capacity because it exists in you the only people who are current fans of breakers and breakers revenge are fans because they played a

rom right right this is a thing so like it's a huge game in South America as well I know Brazil pops off for it and it's a weird world we live in where almost like wind jammers like wind jammers I've seen in the wild a few times so it is possible to have gotten into wind jammers by walking into an

arcade and putting a quarter in nobody got into breakers like unless it was through running neo rage x or you know some form of it emulated back in the day there's like unquestionably so now those fans are bringing it officially around and turning it into like a project that has rollback but you know

deep down that the thing that you started on is going to continue to be the way that people play this unless you do better than this you know so um yeah it sucks that it kind of feels that way but so far and I think you know a lot of the other Neo Geo games that are getting rollback over time have been

really solid obviously KOF has been great the code mystic stuff we're getting Sam show soon but the old Sam shows are all there those are flawless those are fine so this is just unfortunately a miss on the net code right now sounds like the fucking stupidest situation in the world in

the in the new era of like everything getting rollback and fighting games having their big shot like hey man you want to try a collection of some old weird fighting game you probably never heard of great get ready to play it and then get frustrated and then want to go play it online on a rom yeah it's

it's it's it's a dumb thing to happen everything else that's been coming out has been you know of like having pretty solid rollback so it's not been an issue for in this case I don't know what went wrong but it feels like there's something happening there's a bug somewhere there's something about

the implementation because I think you bites also done other games like like this and they've been okay I want to say maybe I'm misremembering but something's up with this one and it hopefully is a patch away from being fixed or so but until then a good luck convincing people to come

away from fight Kate and you know you want them to spend money on this thing like you can't have these issues man so yeah that's a problem unfortunately and I still think it's also a game where it's also a game where the servers are not exactly bustling with activity so no the few people that we connected to

we felt issues on all of those matches not a great sign man you know I don't think the weirdest game I've ever played in terms of like the version you had before is better than the version that is now like so right now we're going from fight Kate which is like a jank but viable solution to the official

release which is like so it's almost like a anime fan dub where the like the official subtitling is somehow worse than the old old fan sub right is like Outriders Outriders was a game that released a big gigantic like demo which was like the first two or three levels of the game

and then the full game came out and the full game was like substantially worse in every respect including performance geez then then the demo like astonishing crazy I'm trying to remember which oh this game okay yeah I was like I was like out was this fucking situation where everybody got sponsored

to play it and then Paige had a sponsored stream the day of of launch and so we were playing together and then the game just fucking shat itself for multiple hours during the time they wanted us to stream it yikes and we're just sitting there looking at a fucking log in screen that timer going 90 minutes to

go yeah yeah yeah that's that's a fucking predicament man that's always a rough one like hey this sponsored stream can't get started but it started because we're staring at a title screen and it was this thing where they're like make sure to play it between these hours for maximum viewership like okay here you

give and you went oh my god you went on the goddamn twitch page for it and like every single person's like now playing was like the same screenshot of the login screen because the whole fucking oh my god was mess cheese mess and that's what I think of now when I think of breakers revenge I think of I think of

Outriders well again I I'm optimistic and I hope it's a patch away you know or or many from getting itself into shape but at the very least breakers is a good-ass game that that deserves some attention and and you know you pop it and you look at it like oh hey look here's some like concept art and whatever

from this super obscure game that you never would have seen or heard anything about anyway so you know it's like oh like there's a character in that the main girl is like basically just the quintessential like late 80s early 90s beat-em-up girl with the full-on the Kylie Minogue going on with the the

the tights the the the leotard the jacket the headband the blaze-fielding hair you know asca from tmnt all of that and just rolled up into one and you're just like yeah like you are the era in one fucking character summed up it's kind of incredible how like it's she's she's everything in one there's

some real fun character designs in that it's like a proto a la beast girl that I really like some fun guys and then my hurl and peel really free I guess it might be yeah CT was like 90s if breakers was early 90s it could have been I mean not that I'm not that like fucking cave woman girl is is is is not

something that goes back to no no trigger invented the cave woman what's what's that anime with the girl with the she's got the little horns and she's got the tiger dragon made bullshit no you're thinking of the green hair tiger crap yeah super old you know what the fuck that is you to say yesterday yeah okay

sure what that is me the invader invader invader alum hold on let me look let me look I don't fucking know yeah it's a yatsura lump lump that's it exactly and that goes back to fucking 78 so yeah it's a it's a there's a whole thing anyways breakers cool move is it it's a fun fighting game

legitimately I feel like I've been talking to you about breakers revenge and you being like no it's cool no no no I like 25 years no I feel like you decided that at the beginning of the conversation and are locked in playing this game on fisticuffs and just doing my hurls over and over and going good game yeah yeah

it's a it's a ton of fun trust me there's a lot of bad fighting games out there I'm not gonna I don't have any reason to overestimate or like or you know lie or push whatever is like not whatever is terrible this is one of the good ones legitimately I have fun with it

so there's that and then yeah I you know you know I don't need I don't want to give I mean I guess we've been kind of doing it but like I feel like Mass Effect is best discussed in like you know the roundups when we get you know to the point I suppose in the in this to do like a spoiler cast and such but you

know the play-by-play is definitely real interesting and this time around you know I mean I look at I guess the pit stop of where we are and I'll just my update is just simply Morden is a perfect character yeah he's pretty good that is a top-to-bottom bookended like that is to me the best of what this type

of genre can offer you know across two games with like the growth and then seeing the alternative pathways and the difference between how his story ends if you agree with him versus how his story ends if you you know challenge it and stick by your actions and to you know like it's the like the alternate take I

saw where he stick because he stays in he stays himself the whole way through and he drops that fucking line which is had to be me couldn't be anyone else right and but when you are the one who's like looking to sabotage his efforts he actually has a moment of like where he where you don't see eye-to-eye on this

coming into it if you've deleted the data and he comes into it and he actually like cracks and yells like I made a mistake man you know like he actually fucking like cracks that like he never ever even in the most even in the most dire circumstances ever cracks but there he does you know I think the best I think

the best part of his characterization is hidden in that in that moment and it's specifically it's not that he cracks and it's not that he says it had to be me somebody had it's where he realizes that his entire perception of the way he handles every single problem in his entire life has a problem and that is

that the big picture is made out of little pictures and that he was so focused on the big picture that he never even bothered to look at the little picture interesting and and thus what he did was wrong interesting yeah well obviously this is the best cost benefit for the the gen the the genophage and blah blah

blah blah blah and didn't think for a second of like well what did that do to the individual on an individual basis would be a fucking horrific nightmare the worst thing ever happened and it's in the context of doubling down right it would be interesting because it's interesting to look at it in a like the

game always gives you like and not an out but it gives you this sort of like well what if the reapers weren't attacking how would that affect the conversation right right and when I saw the route where you decide to sabotage his actions mm-hmm I fully expected there to be a like god damn it Morton get out of my way

I don't want to do this but don't you see this is the only way because you are convinced that the thing you are doing is right even though it's fucked right right and that would have been if this were Mass Effect one the shepherd there where you are bad cop you are doing what needs to be done right but now that I see

how that plays out I understand the whole thing with Mass Effect 3 shepherd renegade is a psychopath because you get to watch as shepherd is basically like like not like you get to watch a shepherd it's like it's not even like don't you understand this is the only way it is like a Sith Lord like crackling with

red energy waiting to to off him and and then walking back to the crew and just lying to them about what happened you know and it is it's like I didn't make it oh bummer and you're like oh my god if you were somebody who like got this far believing that Morden was right in that moment like you would be

met with the most like insane sit fucking read of that scene as opposed to the one where you think like you're misguided but you think you're right you know it's an interesting way to play it out yeah with your fucking gigantic glowing evil robot eyes yeah yeah um we this is a guy we can trust a guy under so much

stress and anxiety and murder that his fucking cybernetics are poking through his head yeah it's uh no but but but but that's it you know other stuff is going on and it's and it's and it's all fine and dandy but like the most notable bit is I'm I'm just absolutely impressed with Morden on the whole and that's my

favorite thing like right now like I it's it's fucking great man so Morden and the the the climax onto Chonka is like there's a mass effect three is not perfect but the reason why people were so mad about like the ending and all that stuff was like primarily because like it's so strong at the moments like

to Chonka Chonka is so fucking dead on perfect it's compelling it's compelling yeah and like multiple variations of what's going down on to Chonka is perfect you know and it and it's satisfying where you're an asshole the version where you're not an asshole the version where you're an asshole before but

you're an asshole now mm-hmm and I don't envy what they had to do when you consider the fact that Morden can be dead as can Rex like that whole thing dipshit whatever his name is yeah replacement scientists but like what what up like what Morden being the easiest character to get killed in Mass Effect 2

and then being crux of what's probably the series is best dramatic moment was a massive stupid fucking mistake and they shouldn't have made it that way I don't stupid I don't know what the alternative character like is like people have given a vibe of like you know the religious aspect of them and

stuff but yeah like there's an incredibly weaker narrative I can imagine just to not having either of these around and committing to it and then I guess finding that out and then you go and fuck this I'm reloading my save and whatever it all goes back to to hold the line right it all it all goes

back to it and and the thing I was fearing which is like oh no I want to continue this like Morden's great I want to continue hearing about all of this the side of the story and it fucking does pay off but I suppose not if you just let it rock in that way you know anyway that but but but I don't envy

having to make these these the story still land on these beats with these characters being completely dead and optional and gone it's fucking weird yeah yeah but as is as intended fucking beautiful aces on that so we'll see also I guess I've I've I've managed to I'm pretty happy with the job I've

managed to do with like continuing to enjoy and and have a fresh experience with it despite everything I've heard over the years a lot of that not deliberately not sinking in has been great for just enjoying my game however what's the moment Kai leg shows up I just I just completely crack and I

can't and Reggie's like who what's who's that what's going on and it's just like oh just it's let's let's let it let's let it play out you know and I'm trying to just there's no there's no way to have a fresh objective experience with Kai it's impossible I want to I want like on the off chance I want to I want to go

hold on what if everyone's crazy and Kai leg is actually awesome right what if because at the end of the day I'd like to think that at the very least like people have been upset about the idea of like Woolies getting his opinions preformed and thus he's going to always be jaded or biased towards

this or that whatever before he even knows the context and I like to always put a filter up to be like no if I end up liking the thing in the end I'll make sure that I can see that and point that out you know so in I would I even for a Kai leg I would put that up but I I couldn't I couldn't it just it was

over before it started and then he jumps in the car and he's joining he's joined by the first service soldier with huge fucking titty armor rockin and you're just like damn he's edging hard and he's got them titties on his flank look at that Troy Baker being interviewed about Kai Lang and him be

like oh man I'm the biggest fan of Mass Effect all can I please be a Mass Effect character and like absolutely Troy here we made this character for you and he's like yeah I got to be in Mass Effect like he's like he it's it's real like grip best season ever yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah fucking

discount Nightwing yeah fucker got feigned to son of a bitch yeah no no he didn't like like like it's it is okay I'm glad we can talk about that because it is like the most massive massive fucking failure of like here's this new character oh my god he's so evil he's such a threat okay so this guy who's been in

the hospital dying of lung cancer yeah for lizards yeah beat his ass no problem that's exact problem like as I said in the LP as Thane is going into the the great yonder just have him use his his perfect memory to replay the moment that Kyle Lang realized he fucked up and that he was losing to a dying

cancerous fucking like you know Drell like so bad it's it's such a kneecap to your your villain as a threat right like doesn't every like and it's supposed to be like here's Thane's last hurrah but like he's dying of lung cancer yeah he can barely like he describes in an earlier scene barely move yeah yeah it got bad

that being said for a game where everyone is looking for a fucking hill to die on like literally not in the metaphorical sense yeah he's the one that actually deserves it given his circumstances so fucking fine but yeah if if if Kyle Lang weren't so lame that would have probably been okay if like oh Tim second in

command got him damn it Tim but here we are you know so anyway good times on that and we'll see we'll see yeah that's that's gonna be me and of course if you would like to check out more Mass Effect 3 or starting this week hi-fi rush over on woolly versus is the place you want to be YouTube is the

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also woolly versus whatever coming your way soon currently fucking around with the copyrighted strike shit because you have to dance with YouTube for a while before you can put up one of those but oh yeah that's how I've been doing it at the very least pile shit yeah so give it a minute and go check out woolly versus

and woolly versus the algorithm how's you're going let's see oh my god the petarians are gone oh my god they just you got they just they just wiped on they fucking they didn't even pretend and then oh my like the sequence of events so like we get that drop right and they go yo turns out oops whatever there they

go out with a fucking for wet fart and and then I also read the there's an official Bioware blog entry which is petarians remind alliance that metagel works on them too as eager as the battalion forces are to fight against the reapers it seems that many members of the coalition have forgotten that

metagel works on battarians just as it does on any other races you know and you get you fucking you get that drop and you then walk in and so Reggie in Bring Down the Sky the DLC from Mass Effect One let the battalion terrorist guy get away right and bring down the sky the in our version didn't you also somehow

kill the hostages yes the hostages died and he got away that's that that was that's red shepherd that's hey man I point fingers so anyway so as a result of that that fucker comes back and he starts pulling the plug on humans in hospital and starts killing people behind the scenes and then eventually corners

you and is like still alive right so he's coming for his revenge and it's weird because you don't get a ton of moments that are red and blue full on choice in three compared to the previous games but there you do and so you know Reggie deals with that guy and the game is like hey you can have a little like

do you want to work together you can you can force you can be like you need me versus like put the gun down we can work together or the default option uncolored is murder him and it's like yeah no okay that's what it is by default I mean one you let him go before he killed a bunch of hostages and now he

came back and he's killing sick people in the hospitals like sure right fuck him so he gets done in and then you walk like two steps down and you turn and then there's another battalion but this time he's dying on a hospital bed and he's coughing and he's like I'll never forget what you did at the relay

when we lost 300,000 of our people right and you know like you deserve you deserve to suffer for that and then the game is like hey what's one more on that list and then I think one of the options is to like remove his pain medicine you can unplug the fucking machine the life support and he's like

oh yeah if we don't matter then what's one more then right and then you can actually be like oh hey man relax or you can just fucking do it so that he does it and I'm like shook because I can't believe it's letting it happen right and it's such an insane thing that the game has to kind of give you an out and it

does because as you're unplugging and turning the machine off to kill him he goes thank you so he's actually thankful that you're letting him have a sweet release even though the challenge was put forth in such a way where you murdered all his people and he's just another dying one you cruel heartless

asshole there is a single guy he's he's relatively close he's sitting on a bench talking to a French I saw that guy yeah yeah and it's it is it is the most pathetic attempt to walk it back ever because he's just some engineer and he's the only battalion you've ever even heard of that is like kind of normal I

mean and it's right next to these two events yeah yeah it's because that because the guy next to him just won't shut up and meanwhile this guy lost all his people and I guess maybe there's a Vegas playing poker across from a battalion at one point and you're like I don't know maybe that guy's normal too

or so but they just don't care to try and when you fucking euthanize that battalion who's challenging you to continue like like fucking eradicating his people the game gives you reputation points hell yeah does nothing renegade about it like you did it is neutral nothing out a battalion life to prove a

point not because of his suffering not because he asked you to prove a point is neutral activity shuck absolutely shuck I don't what the fuck you were supposed to get a battalion crew member in three I imagine that could have done some good and it was like one of the first things to get cut

like nah you don't need them because I was kind of saying like it would be they've done it with everyone else and they've done it amazingly so with Legion it would be fantastic to have a moment to go like okay guys what the fuck with the slavery though right we love it and and and we think it's great well no

because Javik is like that Javik is like they're weaker who cares why are we having this conversation yeah no but battalions are like no we love it we it's a favorite thing like and so like I would have liked to have seen the sit down and just like dude it's it's the culture it's the way we roll it's the

thing I don't know like some may be on board some might not I don't know whatever the case is but like I would like to have seen that conversation had you know because even the vortia at least you get them in the alleyways on the ground looking destitute and like homeless where you're like oh man it's

pretty rough being a vortia on omega yeah no there's no like vortia have a moment in which they're existing and they're not committing like active violence against someone in their direct vicinity every single time you see or meet up or talk to a battalion like even if it's not directly on the

screen right behind a door off screen is like a slavery or like a crime happening amazing I don't so I was wondering and I asked that people kind of said no not at all but I was like in other things like as someone who doesn't know much right the Ferengi are like in my head are like kind of like a

mercantile sort of like race of that are is going to be about the business and money right and yeah but they're clearly but I'm sure there's nothing where it's like oh no write them all off as an entire species right like in fact one of the long-going things happening particularly in DS9 is that many many

people write them all off as a whole species despite like it being cultural right okay it's it's their culture that sucks like quarks mom is like very counterculture to Ferengi capitalism and the way that things are done but it's one person in a in a planetary empire culture that sucks okay

Star Trek also does that with the Klingons and it's like Klingons have a warrior cast that they're all set obsessed with except for the ones that don't fit into the warrior cast like scientists and scientists Klingons are massive assholes because they're insecure right because they don't fight battles they

make engines yeah and I mean at one point it made reference to Krogan's hacking a system and I'm like oh Krogan hackers that must be exactly like that right like so so those things line up in a way where you can you can imagine like as a whole these this culture isn't gonna bounce hard off of principles of

like hey life is important and things should have rights right and like the she terrians say no and Javik says no just as hard as well but like it's anyway anyway I just I would have so here's the difference here's the difference and the reason why it works for Javik in even it but it doesn't

work for the Baterians Javik comes from a time and a place in which they are dealing with a galactic holocaust of every single thing under that context you can easily see yeah no war war now right all that other shit later now war now the Baterians live in a golden age and straight to slavery also all

other races at the time with the protein the proteans are like animal form versions of themselves right thing is though is there was a time before that when the initial Reaper attack started for the proteans because they were lured into the trap as well with the honeypot and yeah it sounds like

they were still assholes back then you know totally like it sounds like they still were but um but Javik wasn't there Javik is the end of it yes he only existed during the fall of Rome right right right absolutely yeah and so when you're like didn't you care about slavery it's like why would I give a

shit about slavery every day on the news a whole planet got eaten an up-and- close an up-and-close relationship with a Baterian party member would have would have been great because you get that for every other race almost and for the ones you don't they're basically like they're called they're the ones you don't

are played as goof races right fucking Hanar and Elcor they're goof races they're fucking love the Elcor they're there so that you can have a fucking nine part blasto bit on the rate on the radio you know that's what's going on there incredible so yeah yep all of that fun

stuff sorry all right hey if you'll excuse me I need to take a quick break as well okay as well I mean again yep my mind is dead beer beat oh woolly's muted you're muted god damn it all right okay wasn't me wasn't me thank goodness all right hello all right hey will you play Dead Space last year didn't you

sure did in fact I just said tell me about how good Dead Space is it's great is what it is yeah so aside from I'll just get out of the way aside from some very minor stuttering on PC which is not been the end of the world it's just a slight annoyance Dead Space is great it is a fantastic recreation of all the things

that were good in Dead Space one it is it is not like some of the recent Capcom remakes where they're like hey we've remade already to and it's like evoking the feeling and the style and all that no this is this is a room-to-room remake with extra bits so I don't know though Pat I heard that the flesh

monsters have gone woke all right let's do it all right so all right let's do it all right so in Dead Space there are three things there are three things that are combining to be this bizarre woke space nonsense number one is that the signs on the bathrooms have been like they have the male female symbol and then they have

the gender inclusive symbol on the Ishimura bathrooms sure which is like extra silly to be mad about because those were always unisex bathrooms the bathrooms in the US G Ishimura are one side has urinals one has side just has stalls but they're they're like you walk in and just take one or the other and

they loop around in the fucking back they're not even fully separated not on my they were always gender inclusive bathrooms they just didn't have a little sign on the fucking door and that's why the Normandy is the good old faithful ship to be trusted because Edie knows how to keep it classic the second one

to the point the second one actually sorry there's a whole sorry there's a whole bit I don't know if you remember where Javik is like where Edie or Joker I think says like hey like Javik seems to not like use the he just uses whichever bathroom like someone needs to tell him something about that you know

like I do they I guess whatever you know he's like it's animals right anyways okay following up with that the game has the game has a feature that they put time and work into that feels super pointless and on the one hand I can be like I suppose I appreciate it for the people that appreciate it themselves but

it seems violently useless and I don't like so there is a content warning system in Dead Space in which if you turn it on instead of just the hey there's depictions of explicit violence and gore at the very beginning of the game okay be careful they will also hit you with a with a content warning in a little box

in the upper right corner of the screen that will be like incoming depiction of self-harm or medical malpractice or suicide or violent dismemberment up in the upper right corner of the screen and be like okay get ready right before it happens some shit huh it's it's obviously like a spoiler so I turned it

on saw what it did and turned it off interesting people are suspecting that it's actually for content creators to like edits their videos around around moments that's the case that no no that seems like it it's a heads up but I mean it's Dead Space so and then the second one is that they will actually

there's a there's a content block in which they will they will put it's like they're putting like a like a like a projector screen in front of the thing that's happening and it like blurs out what's what's occurring in a massive block so like if somebody like commit suicide they'll just be a gigantic blur

filter in front of them to keep you from from seeing it okay again it's like okay I can understand the intention here however one of the things they added to this game so first of all Dead Space is about dismembering enemies it just pieces really violent now yeah violent mechanical implements yeah yeah

on top of that one of the things they added to the game that's not just fancy graphics is they have what they're calling a peel system in which Necromorphs have a variety of layers they have clothes skin muscle deeper muscle and then skeleton bone right all the way down to skeleton and that's their health bar

because the original game there's no way to tell just how much health a limb had right in this one as you're chipping away at it you're watching it chunk off okay that part of their arm is being chunked okay when you use the force glove sorry the force when you use the force gun you can deglove an entire Necromorph down to

the skeleton wow it's so that sounds that sounds ridiculously gory yeah it's probably the most violent game in terms of active gore that I've ever seen in my life and there's no way to reconcile like I don't want to see the scene of a guy beating his head into the wall until he dies with the sequence

immediately after that which is I'm using a table saw to chop baby corpses into bits yeah if I had to guess that's that's that's kind of where I guess I'd go is like if the thought process was essentially you know this is for somebody who might not want to see that specific context while the rest of the game remains

fine but it does definitely kind of remind me of like I think like I don't know if you remember like we might have talked about this like a long time ago but it was like during your play through of like The Walking Dead I think it was season two where it starts out were like a dog attacks Clem yeah and someone was

particularly upset by that because it involved like a dog getting getting killed that attacked you but that content was sandwiched and bookended in between murdering zombies left and right and in this case the dog I was the particular point of tension whereas the humans I guess being zombies were not see that's

see that I can understand I genuinely can because walking dead is using like a stylized look it's not going for a realistic depiction of blood and violence and gore and thus doesn't have like a kind of a visceral reaction whereas somebody stabbing a dog to death regardless of its art style is still

going to be like fucked particularly with the sound effect with dead space you're dealing with the most realistic depiction of violent dismemberment and gore I've ever seen and then the in-game context for you know the medical stuff or you know the suicide stuff is like generally tame by comparison to the

moment-to-moment gameplay yeah I guess the opt-in on what you have to accept alongside something like dead space is so extreme that like it would be unusual if a particular style or context depiction would you know be something you'd be uncomfortable with but like the rest of it would not be that would be

an odd but but then again you know the brain works in all kinds of ways and there could be exactly that type of person that specifically wants to avoid that type of thing you know I don't know don't think it's very useful also some of those moments require our story relevant to a point where they tell you

where to go or whatever so none of the sound has been dropped it basically just turns all these moments into audio logs which kind of doesn't affect their impact at all because the visuals was never the problem was never the like when you're talking about Mercer the evil doctor like you know fucking up his patients

and being an evil piece of shit like you're not actually seeing him do anything really genuinely awful it's all kind of implied so hiding that doesn't it doesn't really even take any of the sting off because the gore in these moments were never the problem it was the situation it was like oh this evil

doctor is doing horrible experiments that's awful now it's just this evil doctor is doing horrible experiments behind a screen but it doesn't change any of that core context because the audio still has to be there it just seems fundamentally pointless I don't I don't really understand if anyone is

actually genuinely like not if anyone's improved that's not how I want to say if anyone is out there and goes actually I really appreciate this because of X hit me up on Twitter at Pat stairs and let me know because I'm baffled yeah who this would actually apply to well so that's that that's kind of what I guess I'm left

thinking about because yeah I didn't know about that stuff but I guess I'm just like if you're opting into dead space like I yeah you're you know or if you're someone who would rather I guess not it it seems like it would go hand in hand in a lot of cases but maybe I don't know something maybe it doesn't

you know I mean if you you know in movies certainly if you go into a genre that's like super fucked up you know and well I guess you have like different rated versions that get edited for different contexts but usually an airplane version of a movie or a PG-13 TV edit of something is so that kids

can watch it or whatever yeah in this case though it's not the same because I'm like I'm thinking about something where so for example right two things that come to mind are one obviously the audio logs from ground zeros yeah the bad one right and then two the conversation in loincloths in Disco

Elysium the bad right right those are and like I could see where you're like the rest of this game without those doesn't seem to hit anywhere close to this level of holy shit six or seven and this is a 10 this is a 10 in both those cases you know so if those moments like especially disco goes like hey by

the way you really should know warning right before you fucking go before you continue with this prompt then it makes sense because of how out of the range it is with the rest of the content yeah with that space everything that you're doing most of the game is more violent than everything you're encountering as part

of its narrative interesting okay so that's what that's about that it's it's undodgeable yeah okay it's just like you know the I don't know if you ever got caught but like when you when one of the babies like hits you the grab attack and your your shake off kills them like Isaac just like stomping

a fetus into the ground like it's yeah no it doesn't work it's much and of course you know when you come across people who are not like fucking necromorphed that are just normal bodies or people that are on their way out you know and they die it's like oh fuck that's sad that's you know and then like you can

still turn them into chicken nuggets because of the way the fucking limb system works you know I think the absolute weirdest part is that like if if they wanted to go down this route it should have also come with a feature that turns like turns off the peeling system and and turns off blood right

like having having the content warning system for all the scripted parts of the game but then not having it for the thing you're doing for 95% of it is strange if there was a toggle you could turn on that turns off blood yeah this would actually make way more sense because you could you could turn that

game down to a PG-13 I'll tell you right now I could use a content warning for toilet sputter the toilet that fucking shoots out goop at you there's a toilet that fucking that you walk into the bathroom and the toilet itself just spews fucking shit at you and it splashes and it's horrifying and it's somebody

my it got me hard somebody in the chat refer to that as like the emotional damaged toilet I'm like what are you talking about and then I found it and like oh yeah that's what you're talking about wait phrasing it it it got me it fucked me up yeah so back back to the actual game back back to the actual

game the game looks incredible it has all the control options you could ever want has all tons of legitimate accessibility options subtitling that kind of thing what they've done is they've made a very very very accurate recreation of Dead Space One like every single room is there and accounted for

every single encounter is there and accounted for what they've done is they've expanded it in a couple ways that make sense you no longer have power node doors they decided that keeping one node on you at all times sucked shit okay what they've replaced those with is security clearance and that goes hand

in hand with the way that the games actually structured so the game is no longer a series of discrete levels the game is no longer here's level one here's level two here's level three that changes when you get on the tram what happens now is when you finish the hangar section for example and you have

to go to medical the tram is already gone to medical and you now have to crawl through the underbelly of the ishimura in order to get to medical manually which at that point you can unlock the tram it's now one big seamless level as a result they've taken a lot of node doors and what

they've done is they've tied it to security clearance that you earn as you go through the game and you unlock and you'll be able to backtrack to earlier areas to unlock those doors with your security clearance which now include having new types of weapon upgrades does that mean a little bit of light metroid

does that mean that doors that you would have been able to open via node earlier you have to wait for longer predetermined seriously progress points some are just open some have been replaced with security doors and some are brand new like there is there's a legitimate expansion of the ship in some

areas okay in addition in addition they've given you way more things to use your nodes on so in the original you had like let's say the plasma cutter and it was all statistical and there'd be empty nodes they'd be like power and then empty and then capacity now they what they have

done is that you have a limited selection of nodes with no empty slots that you're always getting something per level up and there are three findable types of upgrades that you can acquire throughout the game that will unlock another branch of nodes and then a special feature so for the plasma cutter

for example you get three one is the ability to have your plasma cutter shots light enemies on fire the second of which is to dramatically increase the amount that it can hold and the third is the ability to weigh down the plasma cutter to be much heavier so that when you use your punch it'll knock over

almost any normal sized enemy to the floor and prone them okay these are all features that were not available in the original dead space so those things that you find they unlock unlock they unlock branches they don't give you those abilities no they don't they just unlock more branches and that's for

every single weapon so like the Ripper has its old functionality of saw saw blade and then shooting a saw blade but it now has the secondary functionality of when you shoot the saw blade you can upgrade it to ricochet off walls more and more and more times okay and it ricochets off

walls in a way that like locks on to enemies okay smart they nice they have rebalanced all the guns so the flamethrower is actually super good oh I imagine they have flamethrower is now super super good it has it's not just good in its general purpose it also has a secondary fire that is now you toss down

a flame wall and the flame wall is impassable on the secondary yeah they get completely stun locked okay which makes it incredible the force gun which was probably which was useless like totally useless in the original now depending on the enemy's health will de-glove them a layer which means that

if you hit somebody point blank with the force gun you'll knock them to the floor and if you did a lot of damage you will totally skeletonize them which means that when you switch to your cutter or your Ripper they'll just instantly die right so like that so it's basically knocking shields and armor down off of

them essentially to I just want to go back to the to the whole security clearance thing so like the rooms you're coming across on average are you getting beeped out you can't open this yet it is maybe five percent of all total doors in the game have any form of security clearance okay because like for example like let's

say you take like the first three node doors that like if you walked with a node you'd be good when you encounter them in this are you clear to get through as the first time you get to them it depends sometimes yes sometimes their security clearance sometimes they are turned into puzzles in how to get through like there's

one that I think used to be a node door that I now have to go around to a broken window and move boxes out of the way so I can shoot the lock open hmm but like as somebody who liked the node door stuff yeah it's it is a genuine improvement there okay no downside okay in addition and this is this is where it really comes

in one of the reasons so remember when you went back you go back to medical a second time you do medical in the beginning you do it about halfway through the game yeah you you come back to medical because you have new clearance it lets them have a bunch of lockers and boxes that you weren't able to open on

your first trip through that are now available to you so that they don't have to repopulate the area with with you know what not okay I asked because I love the nodes and I felt I'm like that's almost a that's it sounds like they fixed a thing that didn't need fixing but if it's better than that's good the nodes had one

big problem and the problem was is that you solved it by carrying one node on you at all times and there was always a node inside yes it is the reward the reward inside always felt good to get more than you you spent but like but yeah yeah that's a key that functionally doesn't actually exist because everyone always

does it so what's the point on top of that they have added a respect to your guns you pay a nominal 5k fee and you could pull all the nodes off whatever gun you're using so you can you can so that's fantastic did you put five into the plat the pulse rifle and you're done with pulse rifle fucking rip them all out

put them right back into the cutter guys the moral of today's episode is allow power-up refunds so that people can try shit out it's great allow it it maximizes fun and then you still want a complete set if you get the chance to but at the very least you know you get to enjoy yourself as much as possible

in the moment-to-moment and so the the contiguous layout of the ship as well as the security doors also combines with the fact that the game has new content in terms of like legitimate side quests you and they're all new there they are stuff like following Nicole's trip around the ship and trying

to figure out what she was doing when it was going bad okay trying to figure out what Mercer was doing with his experiments and at the end of the day they all lead to they appear to all lead to some very significant upgrade like one of the side quests who rewarded me with a version of stasis that seems to

last twice as long and do damage while it's like while it's working interesting had and there's a did they change stasis and oxygen at all yeah they did stasis is worse when you start like it is it is weaker in its base form in dead space one TK is the same but dead space to had I like had metal rods that

like you could insta kill enemies with that was not in dead space one that is now in dead space one you can pull pipes off the wall you can pull necromorph blades off their arms okay and use that as a weapon the upgrades that you'll be doing to stasis increase the size of the bubble so I have personally been

upgrading it but I assume that when you upgraded to the max you're firing out like a stasis or yeah okay yeah like a big fat orb cool yeah overall it's it's fantastic very accurate it's been improved on and and expanded in all the right areas oxygen as well talks now yeah oxygen as well okay they

completely the areas that sucked shit they completely overhauled the number one area that they even showed off before the game came out was that they have completely scrapped and did completely over was the asteroid space walk hmm the guns it now is a completely different sequence in which

the spacewalk and the the gun targeting has been combined into one section you have your zero G movement from dead space to like we are free floating mm-hmm and you're walking up to gigantic guns locking them on to your weapons and using your characters aiming to teach the guns how to shoot asteroids

out of the sky that's cool okay there you go instead of that fucking yeah horrible turret minigame I didn't mind the spacewalk but the turret was a bismill and miserable I don't know if you ever saw or anybody told you but like on the hardest difficulty in that game like the one we fail you told me

yeah one ass right through is a failure single asteroid through is death yeah the worst it was absolutely unbelievable yeah and last but not least if you beat the impossible difficulty they added dead space to his hand cannon into it which is a foam finger like in a baseball game that Isaac goes pew pew pew pew

pew with his mouth and is the most powerful gun in the game okay yeah oh not last but not least actually last but not least new game plus is there from the get-go and new game plus has a new enemy layout now it has it has it is it is being built for your new game plus character all the way to the point

where if there is a secret ending in new game plus that you can achieve interesting first room has a brute I don't know about that I haven't gotten there but it apparently remixes enemies from the end of the game into the beginning of the game because you're playing new game plus and you should be

able to deal with them nice and as well the game has you remember Left 4 Dead and all those games that have like the director which is like trying to like asymmetrical multiplayer system oh the director system yes yes yes yeah look at your gameplay and try and figure out how's your aim how many bullets do you

waste okay let's go yeah so because you're backtracking more and you're wandering around the ship they have used it to occasionally turn the lights off on you to spawn enemies where there weren't enemies there before and aren't guaranteed to be enemies like I died and reloaded a save only to not

encounter the thing that killed me interesting do survival horror fans generally like director systems to be aggressive yes okay generally yes because it's a little tiny randomizer that helps make playthroughs a little fresher yeah I was gonna say a half step between like a rogue you know like in the

whatever that term means these days but like not really just a little bit of a change okay um death space already had a variation of that using Resident Evil 4's ammo system where you're gonna get ammo for the stuff that you have on you yeah it's great so I guess the way that could go wrong is like everything about

the re games and early sorry to and stuff I remember you telling me but it's like the bullets you get are balanced for the challenges you encounter but never so much as to allow you to fully deal with everything so unless you know where every single thing is if you know where absolutely every single thing in

a Resident Evil game is you can in fact deal with all of it okay however actually finding all of that shit is not to be guaranteed especially in the older games in which like there'd be items that weren't even literally on screen they'd be like hidden in the foreground kind of stuff hmm so what do

you mean when you say Isaac talks you mean he literally fucking speaks he's a character he's talking back to everybody who's calling into him yeah so in death space two and three he had a voice which now makes him being totally mute in death space one kind of strange well he grunts when you stomp yeah but it's like

they're talking to him like he's a robot because he kind of is but now he what they've done is they've split some of the lines that Kendra and Hammond would have about fixing the ship and giving it to him and there's more back and forth as well as he's just a more active character and it's like you remember in death

space one where Nicole shows up and she's like hey Isaac help me I'm gonna open the door and Isaac just fucking stands there yeah yeah yeah that was a little strange now he they talk briefly so he I interpreted his character in one especially because you can look at his face and when you're sitting there you

know as like he's just like a weird mute guy right I don't know why for some like you know what it's because of the setting right if you're playing a happy-go-lucky RPG and your character says nothing then you're like oh well I'm a silent protagonist if you're playing a horror game and your character says nothing it

kind of feels like you're a weird mute guy you know there you're something something's odd about him but that's kind of the feeling I got yeah I felt I felt that he was fine in death space one being mute but death space two was better because he could speak and he was no longer like a robot man okay and it as

they went on it is now retroactively strange if he didn't say anything in death space one I guess my my my biggest concerns would be when he's being greeted with like the horror of his ex and shit like how hard are we going there with new dialogue and cut scenes you know like is he having full-on

breakdowns to the mental trauma that is you know remember but that's all like that ass end of the game I'm not there yet right okay they also they also do a couple things that are like they're not necessary but they are nice so in in death space one there's a extended sequence of like Hammond traps slasher

in the in an escape pod right and it's just a generic slasher in the original game in this one they've changed it so that it's the other member of the security team that came with you and he gets to have dialogue about like is that still chan in there maybe he's maybe he's fine he's not fine him and he is he's a

monster now and and so on so forth also big improvement on Kendra's Dan Kendra Daniels remember her character she was like a fucking asshole to everyone for all of dead space one's runtime she is no longer she's cool now wait was it is that the final fucking jerk final asshole and in one at the right before

the final battle yes yeah yeah her she sucked fuck her yeah yeah she's much better now I don't want her to be better she sucks she deserves everything she got but yeah okay okay woolly when you get to the end of the game and the character that sucked ass the whole game turns out to still suck ass yeah super

effective right right okay up until that point has been improved even yes okay gotcha oh yeah that's that's that's space one it's good it's really good I just hope they put out a patch to help the stuttering on the personal computer I'll be playing more of that and more hi-fi

rush this week go down to twitch.tv slash Pat stairs at the channel go watch it yeah um I mean I remember when we were talking about the the devs tweets showing off like different weapons and interactions in the game where they're like hey guys we're remaking dead space here's how the Ripper works currently

what do you think how are the sounds does it feel okay you know and like they're actively taking feedback on like the weapon to weapon just like how it fires and every little bit which you know shares a level of concern for getting the feel right because you know if you go one-to-one like there's obviously

things where you there's room to be improvements above what it was so you but you don't want to like I don't know fuck up like an entire like system or ricochet sequence or something so it shows they cared with those tweets I guess so it's like that's a good sign I think if you see somebody kind of going

to the public like hey we want to make every little bit here feels right make sure the stomp feels heavy the stomp is still good all right well again we got a lot to cover so let's move into the news stuff's going on we already talked about news yeah we talked about hi-fi rush so that's all good that's all fine and dandy

hi-fi rush is killing it out there congratulations to everybody tango you did a good job speaking of killing it cowboy bebop creator Shinichiro Watanabe wishes he could have killed it that is the the Netflix live-action adaptation he was able to stomach one scene before turning it off and this was a pretty

interesting interview because he then goes on to explain essentially that he's like well I guess it can't really be cowboy bebop if I'm not there to like make sure that it is you know and he said I guess at that point I realized that if I wasn't involved it would not be cowboy bebop although I guess the

value of the original anime is somehow far higher now so I saw I made fun of this and I saw folks going it's actually a really long article that's much more interesting you should read it instead of just cherry picking this part and it's like yeah I don't care about any of the stuff other than the part that's like the

director was like man this new thing sucks ass because it's vindicating to me looking at it and saying yeah it did suck ass didn't it but it was funny to read about the other bits because like he basically describes where that comes from and how he already was super fucking jaded on Hollywood because he worked on

the animatrix he was the director of kids story right and so his experience working on that was fucking rough and he basically just goes back to how he'll always remember when he was first working on on it that the original producer was totally chill and was like you know down to just let him rock and get the story

out the way he wanted to but then that guy had to leave due to family issues and so a new producer stepped in who he names a Spencer lamb like he calls out by name and he says this dude walked in and became one of the fucking producers that was always trying to get their own credits in so they kept making requests

and they kept making changes for nothing and they all and also was very adamant that he was the gate to the Wachowskis and you can't get anything to them without going through him and he would have to be convinced before and before the Wachowskis would get to see anything so he had that whole thing go down and

he basically was just like it got so bad that at a point he went to LA for recording sessions and he told the team that if he saw the producer he was just gonna punch him in the face and the producer just didn't show up which is unheard of so apparently he just he's like fucking the animatrix just

boiled him over with this entire concept so yeah Watanabe you know was upset there and then it also just went on to point out something that I don't think I knew this but fun little trivia about directors and adaptations Akira Toriyama felt that Dragon Ball evolution was such

a disaster to the damage of to his legacy that's what convinced him to come and produce Dragon Ball Super great if not for that fucking train wreck of a movie he wouldn't have felt the need to make sure the Dragon Ball Super was actually guided by him holy shit man

why do you sign off the rights to it I mean I don't think I think from the jump there would have been a like yeah sure pass it like you know Boruto pass it off let someone else go whatever you're out of it but at the very least it seems for the the whatever role he's playing in it initially he wanted to

make sure that it didn't get Dragon Ball evolution so that's hilarious yep not surprised to hear that from Watanabe all things considered but he just came out and said it unbelievable whoops sorry about that hey how about don't make shit that sucks

I think the important part of every creator's work should be the part where they make the thing and then they look at the thing and they go does this is this fucking trash does this is they just they just pick it up see the problem in the trash yeah and light it on fire and that's the easiest part is

making sure it doesn't suck right that's that's what the easiest part is under is going is this garbage and then going yeah and then burning it because it only takes like a couple hand motions but what if you've already spent 30 million dollars then I guess you should have done a better job I mean look I

have to say I still respect that Batgirl story like it's it's it's kind of wild to come that far and just be like apparently that was no no is it is it wasn't just they did they didn't just look back Michael Keaton in it is Batman yeah but but the Batman beyond Keaton but the Batman beyond project is the real pain

right yeah but no I actually the real problem is that a lot of good artists will look at something that they made that's really good and go this is terrible but true hackness requires that you think that everything you make is baller I that sucks I hate that it was for taxes I thought they just stood back and looked

at what happened and went nah I thought they just they rubbed their eyes and looked at it killing everything for taxes well anyway the thing means taxes and I'm doing the finger thing oh I forgot to talk about something shit yeah I played a lot more Marvel snap oh I like a lot like a lot more like like every

single daily mission and every single weekly challenge a lot more first of all boy it's really and I mean really easy to max the fuck out of that monthly pass it is it is trivial I have done it in 10 days now granted that's because there's like three weeks of weeklies that that stayed but like it is

it is super super fucking easy second of all man it's really good yeah like I am I am making and changing my deck like from scratch in many cases like every five to ten they got you the the deck size being 12 and only requiring one card means that it's it's easy to keep the whole deck in your head the whole

time mm-hmm so I'll play 10 games and I'll be like do I really want Angela on this roster when I'm actually running devil dinosaur no no I want high-end cards that I can't play so that when devil dinosaur comes out he gets all the bonuses no that's too many so I forgot last week when you were talking

about it moon girl and devil dinosaur are from that new yeah the trailer to the new show I saw that trailer before and I thought it was pretty cool actually and I completely didn't piece the name to what it was but yeah I did actually know about that have you a I don't know have you found any like

characters you care about yes I have okay okay carnage is a card you get in pool one automatically and carnage is the centerpiece of almost every destroy deck in the entire game because carnage eats every card next to him that you put him down to get stronger mm-hmm and I've been building decks around carnage over

and over and over and once I finally unlock the toe so the way I have a much better understanding of how the card system actually works now in terms of earning cards you get like eight yet like a full deck plus some change by doing the tutorial right then for the next I want to say 200 levels every

single time you get a card you're getting them all from pool one which is so that there's a cohesive list of tier one cards that you can make builds out of then from level 280 to 485 I want to say you're earning various rewards as well as the pool two decks it's not as many it's like 75 instead of 200 but by the

end of it you'll have all of pool two right and then after that you're earning pool three generally and maybe if you get really really lucky you'll get pool four and these are increasing strengths right so by the time you get to level 480 which is really fast I've been playing for 10 days and I'm level three 385 I

think you will have all pool one all pool two and some of pool three maybe four or five you bought the battle pass so there's a lot of cards that you really want but like for example Venom plays well with with carnage apparently shocking I know but then those cards have synergistic properties right so

Venom is a tier it's a pool three or pool four card regardless it's not it's a it's a it's a fucking card that I'm not gonna have guaranteed access to ever so what they do is that once you have unlocked all the guaranteed cards you then unlock what's a token shop and then you are earning tokens in order to

buy a card that you just want every eight hours they'll rotate a card that is otherwise extraordinarily rare and that you will save up and use tokens to purchase oh I really want to Venom for my for my deck I'll get all wait till Venom goes on sale I'll grab it this does create the situation in which hey Venoms

for sale right now in the token shop but I don't have the fucking tokens for it and he's gonna rotate out in two and a half hours they have they allow you to pin it they go if you desperately want this one you can pin it and it will stop rotating and it will just sit there until you get it and that's how you mitigate

but you can do one at a time of pulling out like random draws and not getting the one that you want that's a nice that's a nice thing to do to Venom isn't worth a token buy ah no but I like Venom Venom is one of the only characters in this stupid game I actually like I mean a lot of this I guess I I

guess I I guess I have to remember is predicated on like the core game is you know fun and you want to your incentivize to do that stuff but if you have a deck that is successful and currently doing really well how incentivized are you to keep changing it you know because for me in Tepin I have

my deck I build it out and I then see how it works and then like I will continue to win with it until I encounter something that crushes me like basically I play until I get annihilated by something I don't understand and then I go and like figure out what that was you know and

see if I'm like oh is there something about that that's interesting but for the most part I'll settle on a final state for a given you know period until they they answer for you the season out I have a definitive answer for you and that is the three lanes you know the locations that change effects they'll

be like you know cards placed here getting five power or if there's more than one card on this location they all die those change based on the theme of the season so like for example the theme is a savage land right now savage land has a rickety bridge location that shows up sometimes that

is any if there is more than one card on this whole location it will just fucking die all of them like like if you're if you have a your enemy has a really strong card and you place any garbage on that location they'll both just fucking die right which makes cards like Colossus which can't die or

Wolverine who when he dies he goes to another location or the armor card that makes it so people can't die at a location have way more valuable because rickety bridge is in rotation right okay but when you're saying like you're you've got 10 days in and you've been switching it up a bit I guess like you're

still like it yeah you're still primarily playing a zoo deck and a carnage deck okay do you as a player in games like this tend to settle or do you tend to keep like move like shuffling my tendency is that when I get a new card that I go oh cool I want to see what I can actually do with it okay okay so I

was playing so you remember I actually talked mad shit about multiple man last week because it was like I don't know who the fuck multiple man is didn't know you were talking did you I don't think I don't remember you bring up I did talk shit about multiple man because I could talk really because I would have told

you about all the crazy shit that happens to multiple man that dude goes through some fucking trauma it's why regardless I talked shit about multiple man and I was like I don't give a fuck about multiple man then I played somebody he's got the worst played as can I get a bunch of no jitsu anyway I

played a guy with a multiple man deck and the multiple man deck works like though the method of it is that if you move multiple man he leaves himself behind so you're doubling his value right so I fight a guy who has who had Shang-Chi not Shang-Chi iron fist and iron fist kicks cards over the left

okay so doubled multiple man and then he finished off with Heimdall which moves every card over to the left which meant that the two multiple man's that were already there moved over again and doubled multiple man again in both locations and then he threw like a blue marvel down to increase the value of

every card on the board which was now full of multiple man and one and I'm like oh that seems like a really cool way to play that's how you use it right right and I go okay I'll try and go make a multiple man deck and I suck fucking shit with multiple man but I tried right I think I think I probably need

cards that move him around more I'll do yeah I'll do that to figure out how to beat something that looks ridiculous that shows up you know sometimes there will be someone plays like a super card or something and it'll be like I don't understand what's happening like I put like there's one card super card that

showed up that like it shuffles to it's a super strong card and every time you play a new car a new one down on your lane that thing will move to whatever the latest played card was and weird shit like that we're like okay I got to go read the rules and learn what's going on there but I don't always necessarily

want to build a deck around them I'm pretty sure I already talked on the podcast or I told you about the the multiple man story his where he can split into multiple people obviously and they at one point go off and live their own unique lives from each other I'm pretty sure you're just

talking about Naruto and sure you're not just talking about Naruto it's it is a Kage Bunshin no Jutsu down to the point where like you bring all the knowledge back right and that's that way you can cheat your XP yeah and so he goes one of them goes off and gets married and falls in love and has a

child and then when the baby is born and the mother holds it he hands it to multiple man and then the baby just merges into him because it's not a real baby because he is multiple man because it's just a multiple man it's just a multiple man and then it just became a part of this actually yeah that's

fucked up it's super fucked up it's fucked it's beyond fucked yeah and they're like oh okay that's what that's multiple man yeah okay that's what he's going through yeah um Kage Bunshin no baby absolutely I do have a massive massive massive problem with Marvel snap that I'm very upset by the snap

system no the snap system rules so you get variance for your cards as rewards occasionally or they show up on the store and they're what primarily what you're gonna use your your real money dollars to purchase which is hey I would like a different art for my squirrel girl for example or my night crawler

for example which I bought and you'll get you know part of the season past you'll get like mystery variant which means it'll give you a variant for one of your existing characters at some point in the game's life cycle they added pixel art versions of the characters I saw some of those they

look like they're from a Nintendo game yeah you mentioned them and they are all fucking garbage and every single fucking variant I got from the season pass was a piece of shit pixel art pile of shit so I saw they were added to fucking dilute the fucking like pool into trash so I saw a couple of these and I didn't

like them because they're ugly they're not they're proportionally they're doing not full-on like she be style or like pocket fighter style proportions they're doing pseudo sd so the head the normal body proportion is there but then the heads are just 150 to 200 percent bigger than they should be and in the

end you just get that really weird like oh you're going for a again a cutesy sd style thing but not to completion and it's weird it's a half step I never liked that whenever I saw attempts at that it kind of reminds me of the the pocket fighter remake in 3d and a couple other things were like Western like like sd

attempts were just like not getting those proportions right I don't know yeah they could have been like even more simple basic they could have been like 8-bit they could have been full-on like you know MVC style sprite art yeah some of them like there's I'm looking at like the Captain Marvel one that one looks pretty

cool because it's like no outlines kind of hyperlight drifter style but most of these so I went and are no did I talk about splitting cards at infinity last time I don't think so so the way that the way that you continue to level up into your progression is to level up your cards right you go from yes you talked about

like like the shiny and increasing their aesthetic value right so they go they go normal frame break 3d animated shiny logo and then infinity which gives them a nice animated border around that's all fancy and sparkly what I did not know was because in my head I'm like oh doesn't that mean there's like a end cap of

levels you can possibly get because like say you got every card and or you got all the cards you can get and then you just leveled all of them up and that's that they've made it so that you then split the card and splitting the card creates some kind of new aesthetic effect on it and starts that card off from zero so

you actually get a new card and the new card will have hologram or foil or a particle effect or be in black and white like an ink card or some variation and that's how it continues to progress so if I was insane about my carnage card I could just keep leveling that one card up forever and get all three versions

of it yeah okay and end up with like a ink black and white carnage with Kirby style crackle particle hey as long as it's just aesthetics do whatever you want you know yeah there's no difference in any power at all between how card looks it's just literally looking at somebody going I really like this card a lot

Venomized Killmonger Killmonger with the symbiote that's pretty cool I also spent some time with the PC version I've been playing almost entirely on my phone with the early access version it works it's it's a vertical screen it's kind of silly that it's a vertical screen and the inbox doesn't work on it yeah you

mentioned there was just an emulated version of the yeah but I realized something about it it's an emulated screen so that you can fucking have it take up one third of your desktop and you can browse fucking Twitter or it's to play in the background or tiktok on the other for when that you're

waiting on the other guy's turn smart that that seems to that seems to be the actual intention that's a pretty good idea actually I wouldn't mind games that were like hey we know it's okay well because you're you're you play your card and then you can be waiting on your turn for up to a minute right and it

I blew like an hour last night just looking at look reading shit on Twitter and just be like oh carnage the squirrel girl look there you go hey squirrel girl yeah I bought I bought a I really like the squirrel girl card so I bought a variant for squirrel girl which improves on the art and I'm very happy

yeah the squirrel girl card is a one-power card that floods the other locations with squirrels nice yeah squirrel girl is great I also I like I don't I don't pay enough attention so I'm I've been getting the impression that kind of like Gwen it seems as if people who are like really in the in the following Marvel are kind

of like the squirrel girl meme is over played but I'm remembering like 10 years ago when it was just like oh that's fun why is she so good that's crazy but like yeah I've seen some increasing I roll energy in regards to like characters getting getting too much play yeah they say they will be have a

full landscape view on PC but I'm not sure if that's even what people want okay I'm I drank my two liters of water today so I got to use the bathroom again okay enjoy your piss piss wait near the wondering we're back when you're gonna get back but in fact I was the one who had my camera off just waiting for what I

want to raise me back that's my bad I didn't even leave I just sat here the whole time I I need I that the camera off on his confirmation as is a mute button or anything else like that all right all right okay well okay here's what's going on let's let's get to it because there's a couple things and then

gotta gotta gotta go but one no confirmation yet but a rumor has started circulating from some folks that they're going to announce the shutdown of rumbleverse at the end of yeah I saw this which is it's a rumor originating from one guy who types for inside gaming I believe yeah for something to

that effect I want to I'm trying to see if there's anything more substantial than oh one guy from it is it is apparently just some guy who's like it they're gonna start delisting it today okay but yeah his sources and he says me but to be fair one guy with a lot of followers who knows it's one guy but

the one guy has a lot of followers if if rumbleverse is in fact about to be shut down that is a bummer you know simultaneously I can't make too much noise because I also have stopped playing it completely I stepped away for a bit but I was definitely you know checking out the new season of stuff

and like I would you know when I was talking about all those new things yeah there's new stuff that's come out and and such but it feels like these kind of like live service free games are on a much stricter time limit because this or Gundam evolution and you know hey where's the money cash man

that's it and rumbleverse got my money you know I bought cosmetics in that game like I definitely collect the ugliest cosmetics that have ever existed meaning they've never been more necessary I don't I don't think that is a plan that is good it worked for me the character I bought and

dressed up was one that didn't bother me to the most of my of the art styles ability I think I mitigated the damage via cosmetics I think cosmetics work better and people are happier about buying them when they are improving the thing that they like instead of un unbatting yes thing that they don't like

absolutely but that being said my willingness to spend for that purpose was high and thus I did purchase them I want batting that's a terrible phrase because because guess what a suit and a fucking baseball helmet that match colors that go together mean you don't have to look at the character underneath

and that's great you have to look at everybody else's you do you do have to look at everyone else and most people are content to just run around naked when I played the fortnight it's like oh cool I shot Superman cool yeah and in fortnight it's like hey cool I wrestled some freak mm-hmm

hey it's naked Peter Griffin or oh good naked twig guy yeah yeah yeah it's anyway it's I certainly hope that's not that's not real though I hope this is just rumors because that game is still tons of fun and certainly deserves a bit better than that it would definitely though make me wonder about

like not just live service free to play but like live service free to play battle royale is that something where you know like fortnight is fortnight is anything else gonna be relevant in that space anytime soon or are we moving away from that are we looking at a case where you have the the throne the lead throne

leader you've got the runner-up right and then there's room for the third alternative and then nothing else you know the lawbreakers discussion you got your fortnight you got your apex and then I guess call of duty a lot of people talk about yeah the call of duty you know the call the call of duty the cod the

cod royale even though it's not blops anymore cod royale so that's it warzone comes in like to shoot guns mm-hmm I don't know that there's gonna be you know room for the third and of course it's I wish we had a number we could put on the art style to like like how much did it actively like how many people turned away

based on you know what you know I really bugs me a lot like like so hi-fi rush I was about to say how many people turned in to hi-fi rush that's I was gonna say head the five-second mark how many people saw hi-fi Russian went holy fuck look at this thing yeah so hi-fi rush is another one of the games or if you go

and look at Xbox reviews they're like what is this cartoon shit oh my god I can't even I can't deal right with that okay I'm not ready for that you want you want so here's the path my brain went on right I'm like they should have like a normal person come in and tell you if your shit looks like trash and then

I'm like oh no wait normal people said Wind Waker looked like garbage oh yeah like trash and hi-fi rush is cartoon shit for babies because video games are primarily played by young men and young men want to be they want to they don't want to look like they're playing a serious they're insecure game facts top

10 most serious games serious Sam not that serious ironically enough I mean yeah I was just talking about how I am never gonna forget nor let them live down the era that was we saw ocarina of time we saw the space world demo in 2001 and then Wind Waker was revealed and everyone got their fucking britches

twisted up and got super upset because the art style was exactly animated cartoony the chick the cell shading none of that was serious dark hero link cutting Gannon's heads off and that's fucking god damn it Nintendo when are you gonna stop with the kitty games enough of this hey Arnold bullshit one

of the best fucking you know like such a fucking good classic but that anger at the Wind Waker reveal I just remember looking around at the fire that was the industry at that point being like who who am I surrounded by you know and and to be fair for babies fully to be fair for babies but that's the problem if it

what it is for babies right but those babies want to act like adults if it was for babies and everyone is like yeah that's for babies then it's no one would care about a cartoon art style bright colors or something like that looks like it has a cell shaded art style like you know it wouldn't be an issue or goofy

character designs once you're an adult you're more you're more secure in your adulthood and you're like I will play with the child's toys I will play with the spaceman doll I'm having fun Funko pop yeah sure but just the it is for babies but these babies are the are acting like if it doesn't have a fucking

mortal combat x-ray headshot in it I don't want to play it fuck that and that was the mark of quality at the time you know it was a real stupid fucking time when when everything needed to be edgy edged up when god damn it what the fuck was that game jet force Gemini had to make its characters more adults and more

edge and more gun fucking yeah because the original version they were making was for fucking poo babies right mm-hmm like all of that shit I'm still so fucking I remember it like it was yesterday because it was the most annoying thing ever and the kids you went to school with were on that train as well you know we're just

like you know man the blood though I remember shadow the hedgehog this is a very very slight jump to the side but do you remember God what was his name was his name PlayStation Sam no he was a guy you introduced him to me yes yes yes yes yes yes PlayStation Sam yeah I mean we're in college yeah it was Sam and

this dude was like had Sony fucking gripping his balls like like they owned him and I remember talking to him about some game he said yeah man that's trash everything it's just a PlayStation man and I'm like I'm an adult it was like 19 and I'm like I'm an adult I don't have I don't have time for this anymore like no

he was the type that oh boy are we back I think we're dead I think we're dead in the we're back we're back yes we're back okay we had a little weird hiccup there he was the type that I remember the moment where there was a game that was it was originally I think Xbox only and that it got ported later and he's like he

didn't give a fuck about the game as an exclusive elsewhere and then when it later got ported he was like you know actually this game looks like it might be pretty cool especially now that it's no no no no no wait let me finish this this game like looks like it might actually be kind of interesting especially

now that it's true potential can be unlocked by the power of the Sony PlayStation I remember come on unironically unironically now that it's true power could be unlocked so like come on like yeah that you know but the thing is arguing about your toys like children yeah but you also never met the

guy that we we worked with in QA who fucking had his his PlayStation buttons on his bag and flew off the handle one time when a phone ring because every time someone talked about Nintendo he would act indignant and just like go oh f**king defended that even came up exactly right so I never met that guy but I met guys

like him yeah and that guy in particular was a f**king treasure because someone's phone rang in the office and it went da da da da da da da da da and he's like can whoever's got the f**king stupid baby Nintendo ringtone turn that s**t off already and everyone's like right you just said what oh man amazing

it was a good day it was a good day yeah so that that type of s**t we were past that it's over now but here we are human beings demand religion and when current gods are not enough for them they will grab brand or sports team as new altar to worship it is upsetting okay you forgot to talk about Marvel

Snap I forgot to talk about Hades because this new is this new brand to worship you said well you said gods and that reminded me that I beat Hades so I got through my run finally you punched dad in the face and there we go and then and now the game begins so I got my pact of punishment I got my heats go and I got

all that stuff God it just I mean I'm so happy that like the ending of that initial run is such a f**king great payoff and an emotional like nice little brings it together and then goes okay here's a I know that canonically we're gonna have to have reasons to make this game a f**king loop endless runner new

game plus it keep it going but why is that gonna actually happen in in plot you know this is what I want reasons really good fantastic like the best reasons to run the game back again and again and again I don't know that I can think of a better reason to replay it's tough like usually they're just like it's

a time loop or some bullshit whatever right or you don't you just hit credits and go start again you don't even have to explain the reason to go back through the game for any at all this is probably the best one so yeah anyway that's that's pretty much the most notable thing and I'll have more to say once I

actually really get get to the meat of it anyway let's let's I feel like my the internet's like falling apart here what else is going on I have a quick breaking news that I want to break down I know it's ff-14 stuff but I think you'll find it interesting okay so the last time around they put out what was

called an ultimate raid it was called dragon song requiem and there was some shenanigans because people were running their their vods and you know they were running their their attempts on twitch and people scoped it out and like hey man why do you have a bunch of modded bullshit all over your screen and a lot

of those people got banned as a direct result okay we're using authorized modifications which is technically cheating well last week last week they had Omega come out that's it's acronymized top and people have been running against it all week and this time around earlier today a Japanese

team has cleared it they posted a screenshot of like look look we did it we we beat we beat top we did it we did a great job and there is now like a like hilarious response to that because the the Japanese side of ff-14 is like much much more stringent culturally about modding the game and cheating

it's very much like you know we play the game for real and the westerners all cheat kind of thing but some guy just shitpost quote tweeted it with like hey how come there's no VOD for this how come there's no video proof it's just the screenshot of you having beat the beat the encounter what's up with

that at which point someone leaked out the VOD it's an unlisted VOD I think it's on YouTube of hey look here's them beating it along with a bunch of ACT callouts and the mod that lets you see where your hitbox pixel is on the floor and all sorts of cheating bullshit all over it I see I see okay and it's this thing

where world first everybody's crazy about it and everybody wants to be world first and it's constantly tainted by cheating do you get anything for being first yeah I was first clout okay yes cool also I don't know and also the world first race is generally done for charity okay so the sick children are some shit

get get something but it's cuz I was first so yeah no it this this do people remember the names of the first person to clear what what care about that stuff absolutely really absolutely yes but yeah no just every time around there's more cheating and you remember a little while ago I said hey man the games like

insanely fucked up with latency right now mm-hmm that was them trying to introduce new network things that people assume was to mitigate some of this cheating but they had to roll it back cuz it fucked up the rest of the game why do I guess it's interesting to see who the real world first is well it I

mean I get the feeling that like this is the type of bit where like there will be people who hey the way you know that they were the first person to clear four point two was because they have it in their name their name says first clearer of no you know in more informal than that okay though the usual way is

that you're there literally live broadcasting it and then you they have it there have been there have been a times in which it comes down to a matter of minutes like there I forget one there was one a little while ago where they they went to sleep for two hours and in the two hours they were

asleep another team did it and then when they woke up they did it that's great nice how dare you how dare you fucking take a nap but yeah no I mean the world first race is for for new content like that's not solely limited to MMOs it's a form of like raw speedrunning and the fact like

now it's like double tainted because now that the video of them beating the fight is out even with cheating now people can use that video to see the rest of the fight and see how it works so the whole thing is fucked hooray who care this is for the the sub sub 1% and they're all climbing all over each other

and cheating it's a lot like sports yeah I was trying to find a way to like phrase it where it's like you're describing like a niche corner of a thing that I mean again it's clout driven so like if you're in it it's your world but like it's just you have to get past all these layers of being into

the thing to begin with and enjoying it in all these different ways that you get to that one you know which I say I mean who cares about fucking French cycling or the Olympics fucking no one but they all cheat like crazy too for some reason people are obsessed with being number one I mean there was that what was it I think

it was like a video of the people doing high jump and I was like oh high jump is I remember like I was watching high jump in college I was like it's really it looks cool I like pole vaulting and high jump just because of the aesthetic of the body soaring over the line and like you have to kick up at the last

second it's just something very graceful about it that looks really dope and I was and I saw this video of like these two dudes that like cleared a really really high the high like a super high possibility a super high like rung and then couldn't get any further than that and so they just agreed to split gold

and so they're just like again that actually happened and they're like well it's a technicality but yeah you could you can we can award two gold medals and so they just most they went fuck it all right well we were you know they they just did they did it that way and I was like oh that's interesting that you can

actually do that you know but anyway I don't know the point is I guess is just from the outside I can be like I get that that's that's a thing to answer your earlier question about does anybody remember who did the clears who who did world first clears who won Street Fighter 5 Evo last year

that was I forget exactly yeah but they sure cared item yeah okay there you go true true it depends on what your focus is right if you're if you're still into 5 certainly you know but yeah all right speaking of fighting games just a quick heads up samurai showdown is

getting its rollback on February 10th if you care to check it out we've been waiting on an update out on February 10th is when I'll care to check that game out there you go they're all gonna be filled with vicious freaks that are all got good on delay yeah I don't got second okay yeah all

right there you go fair enough I don't want a second Kawano that's dropping so it's nice to finally know that it's happening there is a beta taking place so it's not just gonna be the full rollout so it's gonna be a week of hey making sure it actually works community beta so

yeah just you know I know you know that this is for the few but as a as a fucking super good ass game that I really like I just you know heads up that you will be able to play it online in a good state hopefully but SNK's other rollback with Fort with 15 has been good right

with 15 no there has been issues great there has been issues it is yeah the the older games that are running on emulators essentially are easier to implement rollback on the later stuff not as much so all those blood dollars are going to the right place you know I mean guilty gear is

figuring it out so fingers crossed but no people that play KOF 15 have been not happy with the matchmaking for a while now grand blue relink got a second trailer see action game right that's the action game that's the one where platinum's name was scraped off of it

yep and get out of here platinum it's I mean it looked like a pretty looked like a pretty good game before then looks like it's still going to be pretty fun I'm interested to find out who is grand and who is blue by playing this game well grand is that kid but got it I did

it blue is still a mystery that being said there's still a but there's a bunch of the the characters that are like oh look it's it's it's those fighting game characters since that's the way I was introduced to them that's cool yeah

I legitimately though it's like okay I don't know that we'll ever find out exactly what the fuck went were wrong with Psy games and platinum or whatever nor will we ever know like how much work they did and whether or not that still exists or doesn't but it seems like what they're doing is platinum-esque in

the footage you know yeah it's just weird to be like well they're not involved anymore but I guess they kept the bones of whatever was there slash they are other people that are not them can make action games to it doesn't have to necessarily be like oh only they know how to do an air combo you know hey woolly

now that we have tango game works making something like hi-fi rush and then we just had bayonetta 3 and they're the last really great platinum game was near but that was also co-done with Scrianix do we need platinum anymore yeah sure absolutely don't be ridiculous

they can still make great fucking video games they can win when they work on shit like wonderful 101 which is like an amazing game that game came out in 2013 it's still an amazing game yes there should be studios that make great video games like at the end of the day I much prefer them to the studio was pretty

good yeah studios that have made great video games and then have made not great ones are still I'd rather that than the ones that have never made anything that's great so like what the fuck Jesus Christ yeah no absolutely they made metal gear rising they fucking they made near automata they made him but Konami made

metal gear rising sure sure them and square made near automata but at the end of the day it's a quality company that made some fucking amazing action games and they absolutely need to continue existing you know you get some flubs but there's how many studios are there that are just like oh you're there's

nothing of quality when you look over this this resume you know I'm glad that like for example Senua's sacrifice turned out to be really good because up until that point you're like wolf hellblade is that what we're talking about the the other one with Andy Serkis that describes like ten different

things actually in in chained and chained on and enslaved enslaved enslaved enslaved right why was that so difficult yeah no so fuck no I can under I can understand your knee jerk reaction but like I'm playing hi-fi rush for $30 that stealth dropped instead of waiting eight years for Bayonetta 3

which cost me 90 which I'm very disappointed by yeah that sucked it sucked that that turned out that way hi-fi rush is fucking incredible you know what else though again I still train was pretty good there's good games he doesn't it doesn't have to we don't have to be all or nothing the

world can be it doesn't have to be a binary switch of off on platinum off never should have existed like at all no no do we need them anymore it's like yeah if they can still make great games like they used to somewhere in there then I'd love to see them absolutely the capability versus actually really

love to see that also I do not have a lot of faith in them right now like playing through hi-fi rush I went back through the platinum catalog and like it has been a fucking coin flip since 2013 unless somebody else is helping them make the game including stuff like Babylon's fucking fall right the king

the king chef is on a bad streak for the last couple months we don't have to cut the head off there might there might still be a good meal in there if we can just if we can you know give it a give it a give it a sec yeah yeah but the fact that this can come out of nowhere unannounced and

just leave the fucking impact that it has at least to us is awesome because it's like new talent new thing new thing to look at and new people to follow new thing to care about you know me I'm a fan of new thing love love letting that have a chance to flourish so you know and like if the discussion

soon becomes should tango get the rights to this or tango gets like no let them do their thing let them make whatever the fuck they want and if it's an original cool idea what are you talking about no I'm just talking about like the the hypothetical like if you if we go to a place where it's like should tango

replace platinum as a like now they can make the the franchises I love into action games or something like that you know no I'm actually in the reverse I think platinum should give up and only make the other franchises franchises I like in action games that has been where they've shined the most recently I don't

even disagree with that but it is true that when they come out and say we can't make money on things that are not our own IPs in the long term I'm you know I believe them right if they nab us like yeah the money's not there on on the the contracts unfortunately we need our own IPs for long-term survivability it's

like yeah then you know that I don't have a reason to think that's a lie if bayonetta was a super successful franchise that like you know well I mean it is but the the I guess there's a difference between the critical acclaim versus like how it actually performs but things like Bayo need to exist for them

to continue to be like strong enough to weather the storm of games like pay-o-three you know anyway anyway we're getting lost in the weeds here I don't know man I just like I look at like I'm looking at this massive list of like fucking Bayo three Babylon's fall soul cresta world of demons the 101

remaster is not a good remaster world of demons is good is it yes okay star fox transformers was good yeah transformers was way better than Cora which came out right before yeah and you know truck I didn't even like Kate Cora I didn't mind it you know transformers was good Cora had it had more going on

but Cora was still like those are right you know you know I have to say I'm trying to examine my own head here I think I think of like enormous proportion of my frustration here is actually not related to Bayo it's related to I wonderful ones a good wonderful one a one's a really good game

except for the part that I hate every single thing about it that has to do with the Wii U and wish it was like a more normal game that controlled like a normal game the part I can't stand the drawing crap that was so you could draw on the screen and all that all that double screen shit that was so

awkward that switchport that doesn't change any of the things that I'm talking about sure but it does like allow you to draw I've I don't draw this other circle I was used I use the thumb pad to to do the same here and I it doesn't work as well as drawing on it because it was built for drawing on it

and I'm like frustrated I'm like just make it I mean I still I was still able to enjoy my experience like absolutely but like I'm like it's not the slam dunk for me that it was for many others I think I think if you go like I think to get to the point of like does X studio need to exist anymore like

there needs to be a wild series of gist like does quantic dream need to exist anymore this is a relevant question but that's not what I said either I said do we need platinum anymore oh well I mean as much as I ever did which is hey a cool game existing is a positive and that's that's it like I

yeah I don't know like I don't I don't take it maybe maybe it's just there's a different vibe but I'm just like yeah I hope for good things to come from them and when they make things that suck that fucking sucks but if they occasionally do make something good I will be glad that that will have existed is how I

look at it yeah anyway I'm getting confused I'm getting lost here Platinum should get back to making good games every time like they used to don't can't can't disagree with that like you know there's like a like there's a bunch of old amazing treasure games back in the day and you know from Genesis all

the way forward through to Sega Saturn and stuff like that and you know and then eventually that kind of stopped being a thing but people who worked on those games and stuff or every once in a while they'd be like oh here comes sin in punishment where the fuck did that come from I don't know but holy

shit right or even this guy that worked with them and worked on G Rev and is making the new shmup that you know that designed a karuga it's kind of like well I don't know how many times in my life I'm gonna hear from this talented group of people but whenever it pops up I'm gonna be like I'm gonna raise an eyebrow

and be like yo what you working on over there you know because usually it's pretty good but we might not hear from you for a very long time and there's a there's a couple companies that are kind of like that where they just kind of sit in the cut and then every once in a while you're like oh shit here's the

latest but then they're back to the shadows I think there's somebody in the chat has intelligently rephrased what I've said to be a better question but also kind of strange do we need to give platinum the benefit of the doubt and ironically do we need to assume that everything they will make will be gold

Oh remember that no specific no and we've already had that conversation many times now in fact I think we had the best version of it with Susie but like we've gone over this it is no longer a time where you can be like yeah platinum it's like nah no they've made some shit that fucking stunk and I think and I think

there was a coming to terms when Babylon's fall like after we found out when the dust settled that is like no no that was their fuck-up as well that wasn't necessarily a square thing but there was an initial point of like is it a production thing and it's like no no this was dev right so yeah we've

definitely hit that point and I think we've acknowledged that I should mention by the way the reason why this comparison to Hi-Fi Rush is not just because of like the timing of Bayo to Hi-Fi it's because the people who made Hi-Fi Rush used to work at Platinum Games

mm-hmm like like that is that is weirdly enough also Platinum Games mm-hmm yeah and people have pointed out the ghost wire and evil within one are also pretty bad mm-hmm I feel bad for them having to make evil within one did you see interviews with Makami talking about why he made it

no really blunt interviews in which they're like why'd you decide to make another resident evil type game and he says yeah because Bethesda told me I could make my own weird thing and then when they hired me and the contract was done they told me to make a resident evil game

mm-hmm okay yeah and like it's it was really strange to see him talk like that in the interview just delay yeah cuz they're contractually obligated to fulfill in duty yeah yeah um no I was gonna say that like I I guess I'm kind of reminded or maybe I don't know if it's the if it's the best analogy but

it certainly is an analogy of how like way forward was a fucking great-ass company that made some absolute bangers oh boy and they you know continue to do so and then yacht club came out of that and then yacht club made some fucking bangers and it's like yo I'm down for anything yacht club is making but also

way forward is still doing cool shit you know like river city girls was awesome like you kind of yeah you have the new thing that that you know involved people that used to work there but like they also still as the old thing are they there's stuff around to care about every thing I don't know what's going on with

whatever else they've made I didn't check out the blood rain betrayal game you know didn't even know that existed but ever but like every once in a while if there's something cool that yet that way forward does it's like yeah that's that can exist too while yacht club is doing cool shit so yeah anyways

alright oh god what no just like there's the bigger topic that we probably could have gotten around to earlier but is Blizzard has had you know they've been in the news a bit and like this week there was an announcement about a manager who left in protest

because of an employee ranking system oh this thing fucking rules and essentially what this more or less simplifies into is there was a manager who worked on Wow Classic who basically was revealing like all the shit that he was frustrated with about the way the company culture forces him to work and

some of the things they've done when they became Activision Blizzard King was enforced quotas that would force you to grade the employees that worked under you as on a curve and you could only give a number of people a successful rating you had to mark some people as developing whether or not you actually

felt that way and it's like oh they're they're working on it they're doing okay when actually they're doing completely fine yeah when this came out there I saw a lot of folks talking about they worked at fucked up corporate institutions that have similar metrics and described that it is a really good

way to massively increase employee turnover because people find out that they've been essentially like designated the fucking shitter of their floor so that the their boss can have good numbers gasly ass there has to be bad numbers for other people to have good numbers like parking ticket quotas you

know you have employees that are gaslit into thinking they're the worst one when they're absolutely fine and yeah the policy basically is some horseshit that they you know weren't gonna like let him not do it encourages corporate competition between employees sabotage of one another's work encourages people to

sabotage each other right desire to for people to find low performing teams that they can be the best performing worker on and it erodes trust and destroys creativity was what he said supposedly this is a variation on how valve runs their no bosses dev floor uh-huh which is one of the reason that

valve just kind of doesn't fucking make anything anymore uh-huh one of the examples that I remember from a long time ago is that the way that valve works is that the thing that you make you get a percentage of whatever the thing that you made brings in dollar wise which led to an explosion of people working on

fucking team fortress cosmetics and trying to get artifact off the ground so that hey the card that I made was really good so I could get a percentage of people trying to buy that fucking card and this bossless fucking awful structure combined with that just constantly sabotages projects because if

your shit sucks your inter office grade will rise if somebody else's shit sucks harder or just doesn't come out yeah so it's called stack ranking and that's exactly it it just it absolutely mandatory requires some people to be considered you know shit despite the fact that they might not be doing a shit

job at all great people on a curve but you have to keep them in the dark about it because if they find out everyone gets fucking pissed off naturally forced to fuck them over yeah and stuff like that absolutely affects your your review and that you go from your review to your pay and then such so it's it's it's absolutely

bullshit you can't get a promotion or if your mark is developing living increase because you're progressing but the only reason you're progressing is because I had to put somebody is progressing so I literally threw a dart and saw whose desk it hit yeah sorry you know they're like as someone who's like

worked with teams I can say that it's like trust there will be people who are on your team that you're like no this person could use some improvement in these areas you know and like you can talk to them about that shit and try to figure it out but the idea of the fucking quota that you can then use against them

you know coming down from specifically going back to the merger is what they specify is just it's exactly what you'd expect of these these bloated fucking gas bag companies so anyway like a this is a larger step up in up the tier so like there's a lot of places that are having a wage crises right jobs that

have been historically underpaid that the argument for minimum wage like in the states or you know increase pay up to 15 or $20 an hour and so like there's actually what like crazy low unemployment in North America at least despite the fact that you see a lot of places demand for staff because there's a wage crisis

they don't want to pay it so they don't get people one step up from that is this system so the idea is you have your really you have your top performing your s-rank employees and then there's obviously some slackers right you got some C or D rank employees well the idea is that at the end of the year if they're

not progressing well you'll just replace them because labor is infinite and there's an infinite number of applications for every single person on this team right naturally except they're fucking isn't yeah your mate in the situation given you're running wow classic fucking servers and running fucking video game

dev there's not infinite applicants for your job especially when your company got kicked out of China and is in constant constant rape scandals but the context which this stack ranking style of managing was introduced and first invented was in the fucking 80s at General Electric when they were first

getting tech companies started up and they used it in that context to particularly make a hyper competitive environment like you know back then I tell you my dad worked for GE in the 80s in GE in the 80s there was an infinite supply of applicants so that's what we're carrying forward now right

because it comes from that era it got used by Amazon and then like yeah it's straight up old fucking tech world mentality where yeah if everyone's at each other's throats then it's a race to the bottom of for wages it's a race to the bottom for also quality of you know your job support that that was a

situation you know how my dad worked for GE at a generator plant to make electric generators for hydro dams he got the job by going there and being like hey can I work in your factory and they're like what education you got and he's like nothing they're like cool fine get in here's how you don't kill

yourself in the in the copper cooking machine naturally yeah when you do that yeah you have infinite applicants because you'll take any dude off the street yeah now it's always a vote of confidence when you're like hey what what where did this policy come from and you you then you smash cut back in

time to mad men and the fucking wolf of Wall Street you know with dudes on fucking ludes just losing their minds and going like oh right that's where that's where this policy came from cool got it the era that tainted American dollar bills with cocaine to the part where you can't get the cocaine off of American currency

anyways good good times over at Blizzard that he says that he's willing to return if they ever got rid of that shit but they're not gonna come on at the end of the day you know but it's like yeah I think he said he was there for 20 years or something so it's like that must suck man but you know that's I upheld your

principles and you know understandable but that's the thing that he left is his boss graded him as a C tier progressing guy to increase his supervisory numbers developing all right can I keep him on developing when he's not here until somebody finds out let's take some letters hey if you want

to send in a letter send it to castle super beast male at gmail.com that's castle super beast male at gmail.com all right we got one coming in from James who says dear greetings poor bin warb James here watching a vaude of page may cry Pat stated that woolly invented the terms roar blurb poor

etc with hitchhiker backing up the claim he's saying he didn't hear these terms before those LPs yeah I think we invented them however I'd like to slightly correct you as I have heard similar terms before as vorb and horb and morb to describe action games at the time such as DMC or early god of

war games vorb is short for violence orb the fighting orbs dropped when attacking enemies breaking destructible environments and aggressively opera opening chests you primarily use this currency or experience I recall my friends joking about chests that are really empty and the vorbs come into

existence when kratos opens them a horb being a health orb and a morb is a mana or magic orb fucking crazy yeah I think this person is yeah so I think this person is talking about some shit they did with their friends and is lying he says morb or vorb it sounds like James here is talking about lingo with

their friends that were some inside jokes and they're lying to pretend this was a widespread thing yeah no no it was us it was us we invented the porbs we ruined devil may cry discussion forever talking about blurbs all right actually recently discovered that I invented the term frame rate dimension I had assumed

that I had stolen it from somewhere else but apparently I stole it from me I believe that because I don't think I've ever really used it but yes that is there all right here let's take another one over here dare csb insert silly names I've been watching the mass effect 3LP woolly

brought up asari's long-term strategy for genocide alongside replacing all other alien species by fornicating them out of existence obviously this was an incredibly apt dog whistle for the real life conspiracy to erase the purity of the white man by shipping foreigners to America and assigning them into racial

lovers woolly could you blow this whole thing open by revealing the secret contract the deep state gave punch bomb to seduce you yes clearly this is a absolute this is a whistleblower scenario there is in fact a multi-part documentary on the subject I suggest you tune in it's it's being posted on

porn hub mm-hmm that's where you can find out more about about the truth behind the matter um yeah I don't know man I I'm I think fast forward a couple centuries and we're gonna be looking at super hot cappuccino colored people that's what mass effects books said that was gonna happen I think that's

that's probably it just average out big old melange once we get to space that's the big one sure sure class once of all that shit average out the the colors and we're just getting we're getting beautiful cappuccino forever until until we land somewhere with the like a weird son or like bad gravity and then it starts

happening again and then and then you get like then then skin color and shit like that who gives a fuck we're talking about the the three foot tall fucking blurbos or the nine foot tall with patrons or neo sapiens fuck neo sapiens I will kill a neo sapien if I see them don't you fucking dare

all right that was a really intense that was for nothing for nothing they don't even know what the neo sapien is in this context it doesn't deserve that brain going you think you're better than me I'll kill you yeah no that's exo squad um all right last one over here Joe from

Wisconsin says dear woolly and pat hustler scam the Phantom Thieves it was recently discovered that a start dot G G account entering smash ultimate net play tournaments was registering under the name the Phantom Thieves turned out it's actually a group of at least five players who would work together

swap out between matches and role play as the Phantom Thieves from persona five what's interesting is that they never attempted to hide that there were multiple people they have a public Twitter account which they would use to add to the role play never breaking character they refer to themselves as

we when asking for a lag check on start G G and also make calling cards for players they're about to face in the bracket they even perform all-out attacks where the members join in on a private game lobby at the same time to spec date one each each other's matches the discourse began after they began to

make some upsets at the coin box a $2,000 online weekly hosted by Hungrybox he made a tweet and a video for after finding out about them and it set everything off some called for them to be banned others proclaimed let them cook the score e-sports even made a video about the situation as well one

of the thieves a 16 year old by the tag of big duck hunt fan seven thousand came forward to apologize and take responsibility they said the account has made only 15 bucks so far but promised to pay back any players who felt they were cheated out of higher placements by them in the end it seemed

like it was just some kids having some fun pretending playing pretend online but it begs the question hustler scam I'd say neither absolutely not since they were completely open and honest about the gimmick they were running and people only cared once they won dollars they get to they have to stop doing

what they're doing but they get to keep their bullshit because this is nonsense okay I'm inclined to say a harmless scam because as a to who's dealt with people who would sign up with friends names and then lie in the bracket about who they were or in some cases with the the the Canada cup thing

we had a dude who signed up and then his girlfriends entered the bracket and then he came and replaced her after he got eliminated and fucked up the bracket yeah it's like yeah that's not cool you are not allowed to play as someone else or replace people in a bracket for any reason that violates the rules and whoever

faced you it's unfair to them you know that as well that like you fucking did that so that is it is a hilarious it is a hilarious bit but you are fucking up the bracket and you are and especially if that is not okay and this defined as illegal from the jump and you're doing that it's a hilarious bit but I'm going

to say scam that that that doesn't hurt anybody you know because yeah like people do not funny versions of this all the time and fuck those people they're cheating assholes and and you know in worst-case scenarios you get like situations like again this that that when I was describing where I forgot to

guide the dude's name but like whatever the cheater was just like you fuck up the bracket for everybody who advances or who gets eliminated and people who should be getting top 8 don't and it's an actual situation in a bracket with money and involved and so on so yeah nah you know but but there's a the bit

the bit is the bit is there that's a strong bit I can't pretend the bit ain't strong you know but when real money gets involved you know come on yeah but that that says someone who teo'd you know alright also that name like yeah I guess again strong bit I have to acknowledge it you know alright what

was oh shit I want to say something right away there it's gone it's okay left that's fine that's a full-ass podcast this sure is this should keep our trucker friends busy for at least seven days have a good truck everybody you