Castle Super Beast - CSB 211: Whales Love Flashing Dong

Episode Date: March 21, 2023

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Music Music Warp speed. Don't rainbow read me nigga. Rest in peace Lance Reddick. Yeah it sucks dude. Like the the the most the most the the instantaneous like you hit you see the news and you're like Lance Reddick died you know that's fake dude's like 40 yeah that's bullshit and then I scroll and it's like oh no and all I can I'm overwhelmed with the feeling of as appropriate as it is this is bullshit natural causes at 60 is a head scratcher I don't know what that means dude dude

was made out of muscles and lean as fuck he looked super how do any of us I don't know when I hear that it makes me think of like just in your sleep you know you just pass away in your sleep type of thing but yeah he looked super duper healthy and I don't know but shout outs to like fucking what a what a what a character and just like the one of the the classic only ones to shake Eric Andre you know I'm the big I went I went down the rabbit hole of like okay what is what is the actual genesis of that entire segment because I originally thought that it was staged and then I thought no way Eric looks like terrifying

so so it's not staged and the answer is it's both the answer didn't go ahead good sorry after you I'm guessing that some people knew and Eric didn't so the the weird so I went into it and it was Lance Reddick did not know what the fuck the deal was with the Eric Andre show however before appearing he found out what the deal was with the Eric Andre show which put him in a really weird situation uh-huh right so he talked with Eric prior and he's like yeah I know about your bullshit I let okay fine let's do something and then they like got the costume ready but the stuff that happened before warp speed was not

planned he did not tell Eric that he was gonna come at him and punch a hole in his desk so the fear on Eric is real he did not know that was gonna happen shit where's my iconic slave role yeah no man it's the best Eric Andre show bit it's it's it's fucking amazing yeah no that's that's that's that's a very sudden and weird one not unlike it is though that again just the 60 natural causes bit is like man you just you just never know right I remember the the bit of the episode on bullshit where they talked about Jack Lilane and it was like yeah you can increase the quality of your time by getting healthier the

healthiest man in the world you can be super duper like flexible and you know like feeling good every day and not hurting your back not hurting your muscles all the way up to the end if you're a super duper fit but the number is the number and there's no stretch in that number you can reduce it with you know like smoking and things like that actively drop it but you can't really increase it until at least the next major science breakthrough I think the real takeaway here is that it so turns out Lance Redick was also a big fan of destiny and was playing it like pretty much immediately prior to his death is

that why he jumped in okay so he he I'm not sure if he jumped in after he got the role or vice versa but like he was Zavala he's the blue guy that you see on everything and everybody is like basically like having a little sit in in front of his car at the tower who is a permanent fixture okay and it's just like just light fall just couldn't take another day of playing destiny to just couldn't do it anymore I guess that that one whiffs over my head but um but yeah not another goddamn weekly oh come on is that too soon I don't get it anyway but all right you don't get it no destiny to his bed that's the joke

okay yeah no I just said the names dropped I whiffed on there but um anyway yeah that's a bummer that's a and it's like I guess when I think I like that when I think I like with Chadwick for example it was like oh he made a decision to just like hold that silently and like not talk about it was ill for quite some time wasn't he did yes and everyone around him knew you know same thing with like Norm McDonald for example like they kind of just held it close and only let their their their family and loved ones know in this case it doesn't appear to be anything like that is all at all it just it just is

like yep that's it you know so I've been it reminds me of like when I was younger I had a teacher that had a brain aneurysm and just like was in the hospital for multiple years and then came out with it like full retrograde amnesia and I remember talking to other teachers about it it's like yeah so what what happened and the answer is mm-hmm yeah brain just decided to pop at like 45 yeah yeah there was a kid who went to not my high school but to a mutual friend of ours high school who like just died in his sleep overnight in high school in high school and it was like literally it was like again like natural

causes in high school like just died in his sleep not like stopped breathing not apnea just literally just body just stopped overnight and like that was one of the times I remember being like that can fucking happen and it's like it's extremely rare but it can you can just yeah there's a kid pass away passed away but he had like heart problems that were known there wasn't just yeah there was no specific thing to this that was like oh and something acted up it just that was it you know and that kind of is like that I mean I'm sure when you when you I'm sure once you would get like an autopsy or something you can break down

exactly what caused what to happen before the heart stops you know type of thing like there's must be a but I'm sure there's a bracket that they largely categorize as natural causes that like you know those things would fall under so yeah so anyway it honestly makes me a little terrified it's a everyone's rhetoric is a lot more fit than me everyone yeah you do kind of stop and think about your own mortality in these moments for sure I hate thinking about my own mortality I also am like looking at well it's just funny cuz on another note like punch mom's been slowly working her way through the wire and it's

been taking a long time but like I'm like okay so you started and during the course of it Michael K Williams passed away right right and now like Daniels has passed away I believe the guy who played prop Joe also done oh yeah okay so yeah and it's just like man snoops in jail yeah well yeah snoops in jail forever yeah so I'm just like yo can you like finish this already because cuz like it's been a pretty like the stretch of time that it's been of her going through it has been where like all this news of people passing away is has been happening in this one thing you know I mean Wallace's Vegeta slash Rocky now yes there

is so he's doing good and and Stringer Bell is potentially James Bond if not just killing it in every other way so I feel like this is off the topic but I feel like it would be really stupid to not have interest elbow as James Bond at this point I have heard people talking about having interest elbow as James Bond for like 10 years and every time I hear it I'm like yeah that's a really good idea yeah but I think the last I heard of that is I'm not sure how much he wants to do it like oh I think it's oh I think this has been a discussion that's been happening and at a certain point I think he was but I want to say that like the

most recent discussion with him about it was one where he's like yeah that could have been a thing but I'm kind of past it at this point if I remember correctly so you know even if everyone's still trying to go like do it it's like I don't if he doesn't want to fucking do it he's not gonna do it you know what I guess I guess that's true so yeah he wants to be knuckles instead I can respect that that's a choice that's a that's a much more important role yeah but uh am I joking I don't know I don't know if I'm joking when I say that knuckles is more important than James Bond I mean James Bond guarantees you

at least three movies perhaps four you know and yeah I don't know like if the next one is gonna be as cool as like Casino Royale reboot to the whole thing was I don't know I just got a violent bout of confusion when you said Casino Royale because I thought you were talking about Sonic again yeah no yeah I don't I don't it's not to say that like you know you can't ever but I don't know if the same trick would work to do like here's another James Bond and here's this one's twist and his attitude and how it's gonna differ from the use because you know Daniel Craig was a pretty far departure from the Pierce

Brosnan so I feel like what we're probably gonna see for James Bond is we're gonna see like an Ian Fleming style James Bond that is like completely opposite of all that other shit could be I it's interesting because I'm thinking about how like Doctor Who changed you know between their seasons and such and that would happen much more frequently so like they'd have a shorter period of time to like establish the attitude of the character and in this case yeah I think it's been long enough that they could return to like the ultimate suit and tie-up you know like way way classic but I guess the question again would

just be like can whoever they choose in the role like convey that energy in a way that doesn't suck you know you know what they need to do they need to bring back Sean Connery skeleton is Sean Connery alive I mean no is I don't I'm is he alive no I don't is the answer no yes no he is not no no okay bring back his skeleton and have it just punching women as he's doing the James Bond thing I'm pretty sure the last thing he did was punch the nearest woman and then say no to that that role in Skyfall and then turn to dust I want to say that's what that's exactly how it went down anyways I saw also he

lanceretic voiced a character in what was the other thing was it it was an animated watch fringe now cuz I don't know what the fuck fringes but I know he was on it for a long time and then he was in it he's another animated show not Horizon Zero Dawn it was it was it wasn't Horizon Zero Dawn yeah that's not what I'm thinking of the anyway there really he stole the show in in in the horizon sequel and that yeah same thing I'm hearing for Resident Evil of course yeah oh yeah no Jean was talking about that oh like hey man this show is trash but Lance Reddick is Lance Reddick in the fuck out of it Castlevania I didn't

realize he was he was the dude merchant yeah I don't think I knew I didn't realize that it was him that's really oh man he's like the best character in that whole season that's a yeah the idea that he's like carrying a bunch of these these these roles that you're going through is like yeah that makes perfect sense man like dudes iconic quantum break yeah huh yeah it was quantum break yeah okay I don't know what he was cuz I didn't play much quantum break okay well anyway how's your week my week was fantastic I didn't do any work well I did a little bit but so the long and short of it is that me and Paige have been to various

degrees of extraordinarily locked down for going on three plus years now and as a result we didn't really get to have a wedding reception we didn't really get to have honeymoon and so we said you know what fuck it the the numbers out here are good the timing is good the week is good let's just go out and have the vacation like a delayed honeymoon that we didn't get to have before so we went we put the dog in a in a nice boarding house we had a cat sitter come over and take care of the cat and we went to Vancouver Island and more specifically we went to a coastal peninsula town called Tofino Vancouver Island which is

not Vancouver not so Vancouver Island is yeah so Vancouver is on the mainland on the left side of Canada yeah the big chunky island to the left of that is Vancouver Island confusingly named because the city of Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island it's not in fact Victoria is the big city on that and I want to say Victoria is actually somehow the capital of the province ooh is it yeah yeah yeah yeah you're right it's like an Ottawa Toronto situation everyone it's fucking stupid it's the stupidest fucking thing a lot of people think Toronto really nice the capital but Ottawa is we've we've come

down to Victoria a couple times it's really nice it's very sunny it's incredibly sunny so we went we went down to Tofino which is an incredible little coastal town we got a nice place to stay we explored the town we fucking slept in with no animals jumping on top of our heads went went exploring a bunch of beaches was fantastic in particular we actually went whale watching which is something my parents would is like in my head whale watching is a thing for your parents yeah go and do it can be cool if you're not be at risk so here's the thing whale watching way more fun than I expected when I planned the trip

hmm like it's awesome like it's it so like you're the first half hour of on the boat and you're like oh look there's the the blowhole wow and it's like a fucking burst of mist like 400 feet mm-hmm and I'm like is this is this the fucking thing is it two and a half hours of oh look it breathed over there no in fact actually they get within like ten feet of the boat and are the most gigantic fucking things that I've ever seen in my life yeah and I saw what and and I'm like there's a weird thrill that I didn't expect because I'm like okay here here's a whale okay whoo and then the whale crest the water and I'm

like oh yeah oh well wow that like this weird like internal joy they don't they they don't kind of sort of get near the surface they super fucking exit the water and flopping breach and all kinds of wow saw gray whale saw humpbacks and then we buzzed a bunch of sea lions that are just awful did you did you see lines are just loud ugly freaks just hanging out they're they're they're trying did you sir they are like they are the aquatic variation of my dog gigantic ugly freaks that just sit around on a rock all day did you see a Loch Ness monster at any point I did not see a Loch Ness monster which by the way is a whale

cock exactly that's what I'm asking you yeah so we were talking to the so there was the two people driving the boat and Paige was like hey do you see the the whales coming through and putting their cocks out of the water and she's like yeah but it's the wrong month right they they they do that they when they're or they're on the way to like breeding time yeah they'll be they'll be like a bunch of the guys will just be hanging out putting their dicks in the air check it out it's not the right season you look in you humans looking are you seeing it like they only do it when humans are around really so like it's this

fantastic like magical experience it's all the fun of a zoo without all of the moral anguish and guilt of a zoo right with one tiny downside and that is after you hit the open ocean and the boat starts rocking we discovered that our sea legs were not what we thought they were and it wasn't just us it was every single person on the boat what had like the hand on the stomach and was like like deep breaths just focus on the horizon look there's an island over there that's not moving how type how how big was the boat what type of boat was it oh it wasn't there was a covered boat that you could go out onto like the back like you

know like a fishing thing so it seats like 10 and then like you could fit like 10 people standing in the little back of the boat I don't know like I think the lady said it was eight meters long okay because I've seen people do whale watching in like really tiny little boats so we so the weirdest thing is you see that yeah so you go out because all the all the boats from the area are all out at the same time and they're all calling each other hey man some whales over here blah blah blah nautical measurements get over here right and so you see the other boats you see well that boats a little nicer but it's much

smaller that boats significantly less nice than the boat I'm in right now but as much larger and that is some guy in what looks like to be a kayak yeah yeah out out here where he's going to die but he seems chill with it like there's basically I remember I've seen like a couple places where people go out in essentially like deckboats just these really tiny you know like like you're ten people but your shoulder to shoulder bunched up and like one whale getting way too close and rocking the waves means this thing's fucking flipping over and was it wasn't quite that and but it there was the definite period of

like the lady at the at the helm the whole time is like throttling the engine per wave okay to like try and mitigate it yeah yeah okay yeah that sounds kind of like what the glacier boat was like yeah so like we stumble off the boat and go wow what an incredible magical experience that we will never do ever again for the rest of our lives because I went and I saw I seen it and then they took like an hour to walk it off yeah I mean like just oh it's not always that bad but it can be it was choppy like that like they're telling you that oh man the sea is pretty calm today and then they're out there and I can see the two boat

people talking to each other go yeah it's weird there's this underswell across the wind I don't know what's up with that it's as we're going yeah straight up and down like okay cool I mean I've been on all right I've been on big ones that are like you literally like you know car carriers that just are more or less totally fine yeah so when you when you come across from Vancouver or the mainland right to Vancouver Island you take a ferry and the ferries fucking huge fits like 200 cars or no that's way too much 50 cars right you don't feel shit on that thing that thing might as well be a bus yeah but I've definitely

also been on the like like I was on something that was essentially a schooner from yeah Grenada to Karakoo and and I remember like yeah there are points where it's hitting 45 degree angles before dropping minus 45 you know yeah yeah that's the shit right there and I remember my brother threw up but I didn't and I was like ha that means you're the winner I won I can handle it yeah that that was our takeaway that no one barfed so we were like okay yeah we did it we mm we did it hmm let's see aside from that yeah Tofino's a wonderful fucking little resort town with tons of beaches to just hang out on and enjoy

like the gorgeous like view of the Pacific Ocean with nothing in between it if you go there during like the shittier seasons like it's a beautiful resort town with beaches right but it's in BC so it rains all the time we actually encountered nothing but beautiful sunshine the whole day nice like remarkable but if you go there when the when you if you go there when the weather is fucked that is its own attraction because the weather is so fucked that you get a like a nice window in your room and just the world is just exploding outside your window from storms okay like a storm watching place as well so

it's not like romantically fucked as in it's just raining like you're getting thunder and lightning and yeah no it's either it's either it's either cloudy which is nice it's either sunny which is beautiful or it's like a majestic crazy storm that you watch from your from your nice window approaching we everything we ate there was fantastic except for one thing in which Paige got something where I'm not gonna mention the name of the restaurant Paige got something it was like that's weird this doesn't taste right this doesn't taste like it's supposed to and you know we replaced it and then as we're about to leave the

waiter comes back like so we have a new menu we have a new cook and he's taking over for the old cooks menu and so he tried he tried your dish after we sent it back and he's like this is wrong I made this wrong I've been making all the food tonight wrong and so we're walking out going the chef has decided as a result that they're going to change the whole menu next week are you guys here next week no we're not gonna be here next week any any well we're gonna go do a completely new menu and it's like are you we went to this fucking nice place like the day number two of new head chef and he's making every single dish in

the restaurant wrong raised only like not bad wrong only what she ordered yeah well I might what might my order was like fine but I don't have a particularly refined palate which you know what you know I you take the wife out you go to a fancy dinner right and I come away with it going that was an amazing fancy dinner that was worth about one third of what we paid for it right but because I'm actually still hungry yes but you're in a scenic vacation location therefore and you're looking at like a fucking two kilometer stretch of ocean so that's what you paid for yeah you're I'm paying for the view and the view is

spectacular wow well it's it's nice of them to come out and say that people after you won't have to suffer through and like what happens so like the the so the best part about it though is like Paige made the the observation that he actually told us that after we had already paid so he wasn't inventing a bunch of bullshit so that we would tip him for replacing our food or whatever he was like no listen you're not crazy it did in fact mmm but yeah I have I have nothing but wonderful things to say about to Fino also I haven't taken a break from streaming in a bit I forgot how nice it is to wake up in the morning put

your feet up and be like I don't care about shit yeah I'll give a fuck yeah about any of this that's important got to do that it sure is the only downside of the entire time was that I pulled up my phone to check an email and I get blasted with Lance Reddick has died mm-hmm and it's like just bullshit sucks yeah um the trip through Vancouver Island to Tofino is also like scenic and mountain beautiful like gorgeous like like one of those like little two three hour drives that has like here's the nature trail here's a big bunch of giant trees here's you know that kind of thing gorgeous but it also has incredible

stops such as a gigantic like for like like acre of of empty dirt with a gigantic 100 foot tall inflatable bong yeah advertising yo we got bongs dude yeah that's that's British Columbia that's where you are it sure is um what uh what kind of beaches were you looking at were they the typical Canadian mud beach or did you get like actually a decent well so it's not white sand no no that doesn't happen that's not that's not we don't get that it's it's it's like a cold beach right it's not the summer it's March okay right it's it's like hard packed like dark brown sand and dark water and like just lots of gorgeous

waves crashing into stone okay kind of be yeah that's kind of the nicest we get if not just oh it's absolutely gorgeous but like unless you want to surf surfers love Tofino so it's like zero and we're in our you know our flannel in our jackets and we're walking this gorgeous beach and we look out and there's just a bunch of teenagers to 25 year olds in full wetsuits surfing in the coldest fucking water I can imagine looking miserable no one surfing looked happy they all looked fucking miserable because they've committed they've committed to the lifestyle you know you've committed to the bit it's like like similar to

skating really you know like people at the down at the skate park aren't really like going like whoa yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah like everyone's just eating shit and falling over cuz they're trying to get their fucking balance right and you know once you've committed to it it's it's not about the enjoyment anymore it's about like hurting yourself the least you know yeah not dying on the rocks and surfings case you know yeah oh it's fun when you go on those beaches and you see the gigantic sign that says do not stand on this rock at high tide this rock becomes an island you will not be able to leave until low tide and I always look

at these types of warning signs I'm like oh man who was it who was it that decided and you have the my favorite sign is all beaches unsupervised interesting I can't take letters I'm like no one will save you no life no lifeguard you better know lifeguard to be seen no never no if you go in the water either be fine or die and wash away yeah and and like a lot of people who are like their surf locations where if you pull up to this spot on the map it's because you have a level of proficiency that implies you know what you're doing you should not be here if you don't you know like you know like

whatever like almost like skiing black diamond ratings and shit like that you know so yeah not surprising but there's definitely a story behind each of those signs at some point we also got to have the fun vacation thing of like okay hey everybody we're going to Vancouver Island and then people flutter it and go hey check out this one check out that okay some on the way there's a there's an old market that's a fancy old market part of Coombs nice Coomertown nice they have goats on top of the market there's a bunch of goats hanging out so okay we'll go see the goats the goats only come out in May we went there for

nothing oops no goats not a single goat to be seen damn and I get to have the fun experience of walking in and asking somebody so this place is called goats on the roof but there are no goats on the roof oh no we can't have the goats on the roof because there could be ice and the goats could slip and fall and and then I leave and I go wait you're you're worried about goats falling to goats don't fall down goats can all right well there's no fucking goats here and we also got the alternate suggestion which is hey if you're going through Vancouver Island make sure not to start stopping Parksville that places a shithole so we

went to Parksville and got McDonald's and Wendy's at Parksville on the way to our fancy vacation nice and have to say hey the Parksville Wendy's is really nice also the town seemed really pretty okay and I'm really you ever have that happen where someone's like don't go here it's a shithole and then you go there and you're like it's pretty nice here yeah yeah I feel like that's happened before mm-hmm Parksville it's a little it's the it's the town that you go to right before getting on the highway to go through the mountains okay what's the one with all the colors

that could mean anything okay what there was a there was a there was a there was a town that was like every house was a different painted color and it looked pretty cool oh I don't I don't think I encountered that okay though I did here hey Port Albert is a fucking shithole and we stopped to get gas in Port Albert which is the town in between most of Vancouver Island and Tofino Port Albert is a fucking shithole like like you you the town of 20,000 doesn't need this many Walmarts like kind of shithole so the other thing too is like I don't know did you feel like that thing where you go out you're going to a location or

a place that it's like you're supposed to either be a kayaker hiker surfers you're supposed to have an activity that you come here to do but you're not participating those in those so you kind of are like missing a chunk of why you're supposed to be there so Tofino has has two versions right Tofino has yo bro we're gonna do some surfing and kayaking bro and Tofino has hey man put your feet up and read a book look at the beach and chill the fuck out and go to a nice restaurant we did that second one it was great the old I'm so happy the old the old the seniors trip right yeah yeah dude I'm old fucking I got gray

everywhere I don't give a shit Paige's back is on the constant verge of exploding in a dust nah no surfing for us thank you yeah I mean like yeah for me I feel like it's it's because punch mom's dad is like super into that like kayaking life and will straight up like pull his truck over if he sees a moat off the highway and just be like yeah let's just just see where this one goes and just to the point of being in danger right insanity and it's just and like if you're into that life you take it with you and then you make use of it on all these locations you go to and shit and I feel like we've just been to so many

places where it's like oh well you come out here and then you're supposed to spend a day hiking or something you know yeah which we don't really do yeah we did some we did some light hiking to get to some of the nicer beaches and it's gorgeous out there like it's it's a lot of BC like the the motto of BC is just BC is beautiful and it's like yeah the province doesn't want for natural beauty pretty much everywhere you can go is just mountains and fucking gorgeous forests yeah beaver postcard everywhere yeah postcard shit everywhere last but at least we ended up like fuck it like we want to chill out relax we got a spa

treatment it's been the first time I've ever gotten a spa treatment like I've had a massage but I've never gotten a spa treatment ever okay yeah dude yeah there's like the pampering and all that it's fantastic it's wonderful I think that's the best night of sleep afterwards I've ever had in my life I am kind of uncomfortable with somebody washing my feet oh you went on that level okay okay that I haven't done like like it's it's it's like I am aware that this is this is like a you know a fancy day yeah you know be nice you know ever they take care of you and I'm just like this is just I feel kind of uncomfortable yeah I

feel bad it's not like you gross this sucks I'm like this feels like I don't know I don't want to feel like a king of the castle so so foot washing is something that would happen at church as well they're a part of the like ceremonies when we do when they do like communion and stuff would be like there would be a part where it's like you wash each other's feet in the emulation of Christ and right you're supposed to be humbled and then someone does it for you and so you're supposed to kind of you know have take that gesture to be what it is right but like man like I think like everyone is well aware that like

okay today's the foot washing part so we're gonna like everyone no one's got their like horrible work socks on like everyone's like aware that someone's gonna see their feet that day and they right they take care to kind of you know make sure it's not that bad for most people I feel like but it still does feel very intimate and and it's it's extremely intimate yeah I'm like sitting there and I'm and like and Paige is like lying back and she's totally comfortable and I'm just like do it do do I make small talk do I fucking make eye contact like what a this is weird this is weird but on the plus side my

shoulder doesn't do that horrible noise when I move it anymore there you go so fucking thumbs up deep tissue like there's something I walk out and I do this I go the pop isn't as loud anymore what kind of massage you get I got we both got like basic Swedish Swedish efflerage yeah petrissage nothing no no hot stone or aromatic because if you do an aromatic I'll get horribly sick because of perfumes they like to use yeah but we got like a side-by-side one so which is totally pointless by the way it's the most pointless fucking thing in the entire world now it's convenient yeah if you're both going at the same time

but the idea that I even know Paige is two feet to my right like I don't fucking know I mean I mean relaxation exactly you're supposed to just your brains shutting down for that hour anyway so yeah my goal is to not fall asleep yeah because falling asleep is a waste of cash absolutely I mean there's there's different there's different tips to it generally if you want good pressure you know I I just tell them go hard because I want like that fucking not rung out but like one thing that is the best that some places do some don't but like ask for it if you can ask for hot towels yeah no we got that is the shit drowning in

hot towel yes it's unbelievably good and no the the the folks that was doing this that it was like hot towel for your hands and face on the walk-in mm-hmm and then like they like they'd like you know the rub your head yeah and then when they move somewhere else hot towel yeah there you go there you go do your feet you're fucking you're paying for it so just you know just don't do it just give me the hot towel everywhere all the time the only problem was they had the fucking massage table itself was also like a big hot towel was heated oh wow okay and I was like you gotta you gotta turn this down a little bit cuz I'm about I'm

like I'm going to perspirate like you you have it up too high mm-hmm I'm not used to this yeah but no that's a good night of sleep afterwards yeah no no dog snoring no no cat jumping on top of my head just just romantic and beautiful and wonderful and then we came back cat had a great time genuinely thinks they like the the cats that are more than us kind of situation like thumbs up then we go pick up the dog and the lady is explaining to me that everybody at the kennel lower the boarding place loved him so much because he was he was boarded with a bunch of huskies but my dog can't howl yeah yeah yeah so so the huskies

are howling at night and my dog who's an English bulldog is trying to howl but he's got no like snout at all so he just started going like and they said is like it was like listening to a dinosaur there you go yeah just the just the just the most pathetic fucking thing that dog is exhausted he has slept the entire time like we picked him up yesterday at his best he has barely moved at all and they were like oh what an incredibly restful vacation let's go to sleep honey okay love you a sleep for five minutes tap tap tap tap block block block heavy panting heavy panting dog jumps on the bed steals the

covers okay we reorient okay fall asleep cat jumps from the floor directly into my face jumps from my face into Paige's face scratches my head welcome back my attention mad mad that we were gone I slept so bad welcome last night I came back from this gorgeous fancy vacation that I had the one of the best times of my life for rest and relaxation I'm back one day and I like I never went still totally worth it and I will I love those animals so much fuck they said they're such asshole they sensed the peace about you yeah something had to be though at that's at four days we had that moment we're like four days of the right

amount because on the morning of day four we're like I miss the cat I miss the dog it's weird it's weird not having him around and having around them around is awful but I miss it that's been pretty much my whole week I didn't watch anything I didn't read anything the I played ten minutes of a game on steam this morning which is called the last spell which seems extraordinary and I'll have more to talk about it next week the last spell is like an XCOM defense mission built out into it's an XCOM defense mission slash darkest dungeon okay built out into a full game with a killer rockin soundtrack but as I

said I I think the game is gonna be hard because I fucking died during the tutorial and then it said you should really beat the tutorial before continuing interesting okay and I was like oh oh that's okay I thought this like you know you you ever play a tutorial and you're like wow this is rough I guess you're supposed to die and they're like no do it again yeah you're trash yeah yeah fucking you're fucking trash what's the last spell yeah the last spell yeah the the the setup is basically the magical equivalent of a nuclear arms race at which point the solution is to destroy all magic so

you're protecting the the the magic boys in your village from the hordes of mutants until they can ban magic and during night you have in a little XCOM battle and during the day you build up your defenses and build up your town and get resources and stuff like that yeah no it's great little game at least it seemed like it from the ten minutes that I played I also picked up like backpack hero and something else that I can't quite remember what the hell do I just buy click on click on the account pet account details purchase history oh I also picked up a king of the castle and chained echoes but I did not even boot

them so I have nothing to say about that okay but yeah if you're looking for a wonderful beach town to chill out at and see whales and eat good food to Fino it's a fancy place that was really nice and I'm glad I went and coons yeah do it like it's it's it's I don't know if it's County or a country or whatever but it's COO MBS is all over the fucking way there and I'm like am I it's like I'm in COOMER town dude it's fucking weird brain poisoned the answer is yes I have I mean I like it is the internet's fault that a name can be completely normal for like 300 years and then suddenly in one just become a complete fucking joke means

shut in masturbator your town now means shut in masturbator there you go as opposed all of a sudden yeah now you know don't go visit goon town down the road yeah cuz that's a whole other energy and I guess the last but not least is like I am I mentioned this the last week when I talked about hanging out with my neighbors I ate in restaurants in the restaurant for the first time we did once that you remember when you remember when we all got vaccinated like we finally got the vaccines and there was that that that feeling of like huh back to normal that lasted like one month mm-hmm right we went out and had

dinner then but aside from that it like hadn't eaten inside a building since okay January of 2021 it's weird man it's weird yeah it's strange I expect between last week and this week you know you're gonna have these like I guess just slow reacquaintances you know to things weird mm-hmm it's weird I see a comment that says well if Pat's going out that means the pandemic is officially over no that is not what it means it means that in BC and Vancouver Island specifically right now numbers are as low as they will probably ever get for as long as we live yep you just said a bit but if I'm gonna go somewhere now is the

time because I don't want to wait to go somewhere when hey let's go plan to the oh it's back it's back like big yeah again yeah no I definitely I think that would be like silly to say as long as stuff is still kind of happening to some degree I think like I mentioned it before for me it's something where I'm like okay I'm willing to incur some risk it's just a matter of like how much how often you know and and how I'm gonna go about it so I'm willing to go to places to go to events I'm willing to do things I'm thinking about how I used to do like these months in the past where I'd be like sometimes you know I'd be like

literally like three plate three places to travel two in one month or so like I'd be doing a lot more of it I'm spacing out those things more but you know that's kind of how like we're kind of handling it you know yeah it's it's this thing of like the fantasy was like well if we if we ride it out it'll eventually go it's not gonna go it's it's never gonna go at this point it's become endemic so now it just becomes pick your battles shoot your shots I don't know if it officially is but it pretty much is about there right so I mean the US government said that the pandemic is over yeah I know I think that's it you just got to exactly

pick your battles and I mean I get at the end of the day like yeah to me at least I'm like I I want to live my life to you know what I mean like there's a level of this where it's like okay what am I what am I in for and how am I gonna approach things I'm definitely you know I don't see the day yeah the days of like fucking 12 tourney summers you know are probably gone but like what do I care about what do I want to go to I'll go to that I care about the most you know so for example we went to there we went to the point restaurant in Tofino which was a fancy incredibly stellar place and like Paige really loved their coffee and

it's that kind of fancy restaurant where oh I love your coffee this is incredible and then somebody just shows up and goes this is where we bought the coffee from and here's a free bag of the coffee for you to take home oh right here's here's where you here's the phone number you can call to order that you know that kind of like service right no I did not wear my mask in that incredibly fancy restaurant but when I went and picked up a monster from the Port Alberni Walmart you best fucking believe I was wearing my mask in there hmm fucking don't stop and pour it out Bernie don't do it okay yeah it's the

last place you can get gas for 83 kilometers who cares don't do it as for my show now that I've taken the week off I'm streaming let's see let's see what I'm gonna stream ok so tomorrow I'm gonna stream Resident Evil 4 then Wednesday I'm gonna stream Resident Evil 4 then Thursday but I'm gonna stream Resident Evil 4 then Friday I'm gonna stream Resident Evil 4 then Saturday I'm gonna stream Resident Evil 4 and then Sunday I'm also going to stream Resident Evil 4 you could probably guess what days will include which Resident Evil 4 if you want to see

Resident Evil 4 you should probably go down to twitch.tv slash Pat stairs at and there will be Resident Evil 4 there Resident Evil 4 yeah here we go okay and the Thursday one will be at release so it'll be 9 p.m. Pacific well 8 30 Pacific so I can say hi to everybody okay dope alright so over on this side yeah okay what did I get up to so for one I've reached the the phase where when it comes to my diet I can introduce regular meals again oh fucking sick so you're off the liquid bullshit so I'm not off

completely but I'm doing basically one meal and then more or less liquid and stuff around it so how's the piss it's still it's still doing its thing it's still all right you know a little a little less out of control but if I'm not doing it often enough then it means I'm not drinking enough water cuz got to get that two to three liters in and it is interesting when you're like okay I have to pick a small amount of regular meal food to have during the day it's like okay you're gonna think and you're gonna pick very carefully you know you're gonna make sure like you you want to enjoy that shit you're gonna so I'm

kind of like prepping in advance for like okay what it's gonna be and yeah like I I mean I came back in after the the the shakes only thing with just I just wanted a steak just a fucking you know like it's not I can't not a full size it's got to be like 90 grams you know but still just the ability to just get a little bit of a that that taste and flavor very just nice to to get that again at the same time it's interesting because I realized that like the small amount that I had I was full like almost immediately oh your stomach probably right so there's been an absolute change in that also like I don't feel like I'm

eating cuz I'm hungry I feel like I'm eating to replenish my energy it's a full-on battery feeling mm-hmm it's quite drastic and interesting because like I don't miss the feeling of hunger like that's you know like that sucked when your stomach is like yo fucking now right but it means I can just go for a while and then almost like so when I stand up I'll be like oh whoa hey I'm way more lightheaded than I thought that means I need to go get something in me but it's just it's just fuel at this point it's kind of that's really nice because like my experience with hunger is so toxic and fucking stupid where I'll

go like two days and be like I'm not hungry at all and then like the clock will tick over one second and be like I will literally die if I do not eat 10 pounds of food right right so that's changing now it's it's really just like yeah you're gonna fall you're gonna it's almost like you got to eat otherwise you're gonna need a nap you know that's that's kind of how the day's been been been going let me ask you do you nap now not really I don't really like like if it's a particularly like long day or so then sometimes I will like oftentimes like for example after a podcast we go for a while I'm gonna go nap and then

get back up to edit it that night because I have like yeah they're nice they're nice maybe once a week I'm just like you know to go take a little sleepy for an hour or two and like I used to make fun of my mom like viciously my mom used to take naps all the time and I'm like mom you're so old hi you're taking a nap are you tired ah boo you're old and now I'm like getting to be the age that she was when I made fun of her and I'm like oh shit if I nap though go for a nap right now if I do nap like and I get a decent one in I'm up till 4 a.m. no question like well that's it's it's it's tricky right if I sleep for

anything longer than 90 minutes then yeah no I've completely fucked my my bullshit so one hour I set like an alarm for 90 minutes because it takes me like 20 minutes to fall asleep mm-hmm yeah I don't I don't want to I don't want to have you know those if I can avoid it and at the same time to like with again with this type of diet you're gonna your body's gonna tell you when it's time to go to bed real loud and clear you know you're like well I'm out of things I've hit my limit for the day and water is no longer working because water can prolong your that tiredness for a little bit but it starts fading off and if you

gulp gulp gulp and you sit there and you're like nope still feeling it it's like alright time to shut it down you know it's you know it's a it's a it's a battery-based day you're I'm switching to a different like ism it's it's quite interesting it's wild cuz like later this week I'm gonna stream r.a.4 when it comes out so luckily I'm Pacific now so Pacific means I'm gonna start streaming r.a. for it 9 p.m. which you know that's not bad right except I'm looking at 9 p.m. go oh man that's pretty late oh that's because I'm usually a sleep by 11 oh boy oh oh geez oh darn like I've become I've suddenly man moving out of

the West Coast of the hey can't fix your sleep schedule just keep moving West until it works chase the Sun yeah just just moving over until it's fixed that's nice Easter Island maybe that plants you right at right in the middle of the ocean you know but like I mean yeah yeah what are you gonna do so there's that speaking of events and things Muse came to town so oh did they I went to go check them out and that was the second best concert I've ever seen in my life fantastic good for you man with the first being when they came like in 2008 or so I see so fucking that that was that was cool and yeah and it's something to or

like I've been telling you know like folks and I remember telling a punch mom and and Reggie and all of its everyone for a long time now that it's like hey like that's the best show I've ever fucking seen and so when it came around this time I'm like okay hopefully that energy is still about them and that's there and it started with a normal as a normal show with them on the stage and then I was like oh no I hope I didn't overhype it I didn't I tried not to I just kind of it was really cool when I saw it at the time and then it slowly turned into things descending and flames and just the whole nine yards they

went at like lasers and lights and sounds and sculptures and giant it was an unbelievable and of course the music is incredible so that was all great still putting 110% into everything and they leave it all on the court as they say at the end of the day it definitely was kind of funny we're like you're there and it's like okay so I haven't gone through this new album really I'm you know down for all the old hits let's let's see what these new songs are about and I talked about it before there's the main song compliance we you know where they're talking about and I didn't I didn't start going through the lyrics of

like the new album until like right before the show and I'm looking at it and like there's definitely some shit where they're like you know open up your heart break down like let down these walls let down that mass yeah yeah so that's that's where they're going and like I said it's always been anti authoritarian it's always been anti-government it's always been like the resistance fuck the man but it just gets that extra little flavor in the current context it's just something wild about listening to you describe this and then I have Twitter open another tab and like see live reactions from our

mutuals to what you are saying right now okay I just said to you as an example yeah yeah yeah yeah so that is that is definitely just like it like I said vaccine will implant a microchip in your brain like I said it it feels as if the analogy is remember like Star-Lord being that impulsive like takes no shit fuck you Kurt Russell fuck you like whoever bad guy brah and then you're watching end game and you're like oh no it's that same it's stupid it's that same impulsiveness yeah so you know that's yeah not like this that that's that's the that's the will of the people as the name of the album but I mean fuck man you

know it was still just an incredible show regardless and you know I was I was definitely happy to that there were you know a decent amount of people that did not take the advice to let down the walls and take down the mask so to speak there's still some people that are like yeah no like I'm gonna still enjoy this and keep that on thanks but it was cool and it's one of those bits to where I'm like for a fucking band that I love this much I really like I've only seen them twice ever so I'm happy that I got that opportunity I don't know that the opportunity ever it feels like once a decade is essentially how often I get

to enjoy that so you gotta remember who you're talking to right now though right because I'm sitting here I'm like what bands do I really like huh I'm not that big in a music it'd be nice to see a Lincoln Park or deaf punk cut well so catch this though never mind that catch this though the opening act was a little indie band that's making their way up in the rankings called evanescence shut up really Amy Lee herself came out and evanescence opened for them it was crazy I was fucking weird I had no idea that was that was happening cuz a friend of mine just got the tickets and I was like okay yeah let's just be here at

this time and enjoy it and believe it or fucking not they're still doing it big e-logo you know the the the rapping dude is not there the the Mike Shenoda of the band of course so the whole time I'm just like yep we're hitting those numbers but we know where this is going but she may you know you're gonna sing my immortal you're gonna you're gonna you hit all that that the the the expected notes I was surprised I don't care how cringe it is evanescence is pretty good but I was I when when paper flowers came on and I'm singing it and I'm looking around I'm like no one no one else remembers put fucking paper flowers man

I still remember talking to you about evanescence in 2004 and it's like you heard this man evanescence and you're like I'm like man the girl's voice is crazy and you said yeah imagine if she sang about anything that mattered I think because I don't know I did I don't know if it happened they played it in the club spaces right back at college that's where I first discovered them yeah and straight up that was it I was like wow listen to that dear god these lyrics are nothing but listen to them go if you if you like showed somebody an evanescence album right now that doesn't know anything about them and ask them

is this a parody band of the 2000s or is this a real band impossible impossible to determine I mean the music was too catchy at the time for it to be like on that parody level but then again fucking metal already could be really good but then again metalocalypse yeah so who the fuck knows but regardless I was definitely like yo what the fuck Reggie how do you not know your paper flowers you know but you can't ask a human that kind of question but when the time came even though the dude is not there anymore they fucking they be you got a close on bring me to life and you have and you have to the rules and then they

did it and then you know we we filled in we yelled out and and and yeah it was just like and and as you're singing it you're thinking you're seeing Vegeta fighting Ben Affleck daredevil I'm thinking of no I'm thinking of no there was it was no I there wasn't even the Vegeta it was just it was Ben Affleck and and and and what's her name Jennifer Garner right and then on the rooftops and then all this time I can't believe I couldn't see trapped in the duck and then hold it on to the edge of the building and reaching out like that whole like right back to that era that and it's just it's weird because like

again we it was right in 2003 ish again that let that club spaces college era so we were already just a little too old yeah for for punch mom it was peak emo high school middle of your your right middle of your fucking like you just got out the other end of puberty and like you're starting to figure out what's going on and she was watching it just kind of devour everyone around and she dodged it completely like she's like no never got it never got it to have an essence she somehow completely does that and I'm like that's crazy that's like when you first started dating my brain was like this girl looks like she

would think you would think and like based on like some of the like the old high school emo drawings of the time and and and you know little little hot topic sketches you would really think but somehow somehow she managed to avoid it I don't know that's weird yeah her music tastes we're talking about a woman who doesn't know who Michael Jordan is is that was that that was that one and also rejects the concept of 80s music as a whole so we have issues that we need to work through yeah we don't need to talk about punch mom's view of the musical genre you can that's well you found someone crazier than me to talk to

music about tune in to go check out Willie versus the algorithm the trial of punch mom for more information on that so but in any case yeah that was that was a wild ass surprise I did not think I was in for a fucking evanescence night and yeah that's just that's just a free free extra like value and and you know kudos to Amy Lee still doing it she was wearing something that I could only describe as a Sephiroth outfit great leather shoulder pad straps yada yada health bar just out of view just out of view and I don't know if the other band was the red was the same or not I don't know that anyone would be able to tell

like cuz unfortunately they're one of those bands that could have replaced everybody and just kept her over the years and I I couldn't tell you know anyone in fucking evanescence other than Amy Lee so there's that yeah it's been solid 20 years I'm gonna assume they're not all the same people at this point but it's it's like the opposite of hoodie in the blowfish in which I didn't understand for most of that band's life cycle that hoodie was a different person that had teamed up with a band called the blowfish uh-huh yeah I imagine that like when we fast forward another 20 and we're seeing the like retirement tour

or whatever like it might very well just be a case of like it's it's really just Amy Lee is evanescence and anyone else that's attached is your evanescence now I'm sorry Amy Lee adjacent of evanescence members I I I would never know your face name voice or talent in any way might as well be a drum machine yeah and that was that was good that was good there's also they also they open over opened up by one okay rock is the name of the group from Japan seem to be doing some catchy music that may or may not wind up on an OP one day yeah it had that energy to it I was like oh yeah I could see some credits dropping over this concert you

saw had that energy to it yeah yeah oh evanescence just did an OP to the anime that is the daredevil film this is true this is true oh they sang the issue in opening oh yeah fuck it oh cool okay yeah they were good I didn't know I didn't know I didn't know them going in but they were they were pretty cool they were good Sonic Frontiers as well oh wow they did a ton of anime OPs all right well that that's the energy I felt from so from those tracks like I definitely energy was correct yeah and then when it cuts through the instrumental part kono bangumi wa kono sponsor o thank you day okurishimasu you know like you

kind of you felt that shit happening that's you basically went to anime music videos live if if only blink 182 was also there yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so no that was that was that was fun good times with that lineup and yeah what else happened later on on Saturday which coincidentally was Nagoriyuki's birthday oh seriously that's great interestingly yeah we did again to fighting games with test your luck as mentioned one of the best strive players out there right now and Nagoriyuki expert top player came and came through sat down showed us the ropes and you know we had to like dust off the cobwebs a bit

and the analogy I've been kind of describing has been like yeah coming back to a fighting game especially after you played it some time ago but you're still trying to you're trying to blow the cobwebs off and it's like don't try to compare yourself to anything but your own Mario Kart ghost right got it your own Mario Kart ghost of your how good you used to be is the limit of what you should be thinking about so he's that much better huh I mean we did our first to 10s and both Reggie and I in our first to 10s we went nine and ten and one right yeah I mean no like dude like I think he placed like 17th last evil

and is undefeated in Montreal literally every tournament that's ever happened in this city he's won outright that he's entered so like you know I mean yeah but it wasn't free it is completely free and yeah no like it was it was but it was it was a really it was a nago school session it was a lot of fun lots of notes lots of leveling up lots of things to see and then the fun part too was jumping online and whenever we go play some of these regular games and get into fighting games we have a couple of regulars that swing by and we got to basically just have him run the gauntlet against a bunch of people and

they got to feel what this character is supposed to fucking feel like you know so yeah shout outs test your luck really cool guy and and we you know every once in a while we don't we don't we have well we always have our for fun episodes but for glory doesn't happen as often but when it does like you might you might learn something you know and Strive is is it's nice to hear that like at high level as well like when it comes to just like you know the the peak of how people are playing this game there's still a decent amount of like character variety you know like it's not all just one across the board you're not like I

was kind of worried we'd see all happy chaos when when fucking gunman came out you know and happy chaos is annoying as hell and is a problem but definitely did not become the only results you know whereas for example there was that Sam show Evo where it was just like fucking Gendaro's in seven out of eight spots or whatever you know madness and so you always want to see a character variety as a as a nice representation that like oh the balance is still pretty healthy yeah perfect balance is fucking stupid but you don't want you know fucking debate in every top eight or Joker in every top eight when that was

happening or the feeling that if you're not switching to this character you're missing out slash you're you're stupid to not just switch you know it's about like for a payout or whatever yeah the term is in for Kelly's ghost floating behind you so that so the term is a compressed tears right and I like that because what it kind of means is like if you think of that full tier list of S all the way down to like E or F rated characters like everyone is gonna be landing in that a plus to be range you know like no one is so far below anyone else that they're like three tier lists away from them so that's kind of a nice

to see as well yeah looking forward to the the future of guilty gear Mass Effect 3 continues and I guess all I'm all I have to say at this point is that I'm happy we finally got to the point where fucking Legion is around we're getting to the get side of things you're at the best part of Mass Effect 3 I've been fucking waiting for the geth I've been waiting to find out what's been happening with them and we're finally getting those answers and it's satisfying because it's still like so it's satisfying because it's still like the most interesting part but there definitely is yeah this thing where I have to kind of

accept that I'm like the promise of the promise of what of how good sovereign was in one in that conversation is not happening right it's not no it's not that's not happening right the reapers deal with them too much so sorry that parts you know and I'm like fuck I was so hype on that okay so what do we have right and you've got you've got just this ever-present problem and you know like it won't deliver on that so what else is cool everything to do with the Krogans and the Genophages cool and and and obviously the Morden story and then conversely everything to do with the geth and the Koryans and that whole bit is

super fascinating as well it's awesome and like all the complaints about Mass Effect 3 of which there are many none of them are about the geth Koryan conflict and Tuchanka yeah so a plus shit all the way down so it's really it's nice that like the a storyline is kind of letting me down because of that it's not it's still it's still okay it's still going but I was hoping for more in that regard but where that kind of didn't live up to it these B storylines are you know and Mass Effect is a series defined by its B storyline it's interesting and then of course now there's also this bit where like I think too that like when something

kind of talks up I'm always I'm always like inclined to like imagine I'm always inclined to imagine like races that like defy my understanding in a lot of ways right I'm a big fan of that in in in fiction so I get really hype when someone kind of starts to go in that direction and so obviously that's kind of where my reaper feeling is and you know I've already a lot of people I already know people are giving me shit over my own expectations or whatever and it's like okay yeah fine if that's not where you are that's okay those expectations up I yeah I know I just anyway like I feel like so with the

geth now a little bit of that happened again because the description that you have of the geth when you meet Legion is really cool because he's like hey those crazy ones you've been fighting are just the psychos we don't deal with they're the heretics right evangelists and you haven't met me you haven't met us us normal geth are actually just chilling in the cut right we're rebuilding the planet we're back in the attic in traverse with our numbers in you know our well programs in the trillions platforms in the billions you know and like we are out here basically like they could have outnumbered the creators at

any time if they wanted to right yeah so there was that I that idea was kind of planted that it's like oh the geth were just like peacefully staying out of this while the heretics were going crazy and the geth are kind of just watching what's happening but anytime they wanted to they could have done something but they're you know and then you get to kind of find out more so that with the last idea we had was that like oh yeah the like the biggest like race like the biggest faction the most powerful faction is actually the geth who don't want to fight who are just hanging out right yeah and so and the quarians are obviously

struggling on their flotilla and trying to piece together what's left of the you know their group and they're hanging out but they're doing it and then in three now the whole situation changes because the introduction of new technology means that the geth are put out with their back against the wall and they have to you know take a deal so to speak with the old machines in order to fight back against this stupid quarian push and it's like okay that I under I get how we get to that place from a strictly the tech has changed kind of point of view the overall feeling that they were just like this step above

everyone else in the galaxy like I was hoping that that would kind of play into how this battle against well what we haven't seen the whole thing yet right play out but I guess it just it felt like oh the the quarians that are struggling and kind of trying to have this dumb holy war are actually fighting back this kind of super hyped up background force now and I was like oh that's a bit of a bummer I guess but I do understand the reasons make total sense but I guess the feeling was not like what I expected right and it turns out that apparently that the writer for the geth in to planned for them to be this

actual insane top level fucking faction that was like flinging black holes around and like had a whole other level of space travel tech beyond everyone else and yeah there's there's a lot that was clearly planned and then left on the floor aha and then so they kind of went with this instead and like that was a whole other thing now the power levels would have been definitely a problem to deal with when we had to introduce them into the situation in three so I get that that didn't happen but I know that I'm like okay if that's the feeling they were gonna go for they gave that feeling off of that legion conversation in two

you know like yeah the feeling legion gave off in two is like oh yeah hey man we don't want to but if we wanted to you know that I love the the conflict between the geth and the Korean mass effect I think it's my favorite part of the entire fiction from like a from like a writing perspective because it's like hey man the Koreans have the coolest design of any alien race in the entire Koreans you said you cut out you cut out oh sorry the Koreans have the coolest fictional design of any of the races you deal with in the fiction they all have great like they they like it's a race that has hidden top-class voice actors

for all of its characters like the guy who played Kane and legacy of Kane is one of the admirals there's a there's a I believe she's a Greek lady that's a famous actress that I can't remember her name but those two are always arguing a plus voice acting from all of them incredible and they're cool they're they're their ship is cool they're fucking society is cool the one that wants to be your girlfriend is the best one and every single fucking thing out of their mouth is the dumbest fucking thing you've ever heard I have every single fucking time they open their mouth so the worst thing in the series so

they've been the wrongest right ever of everybody so far and it was kind of amazing how we're operating in a world where you guys are dumb and wrong and they're making the situation worse because you can't fucking look at the bigger picture for two seconds and then you go back and you start looking through the memories and you're like I'm describing apparently her name is show read Dash Lou and she's Egyptian okay I cannot believe you go through the voice that the fucking video logs you're like they're even they're even they're four times wronger than ever somehow it was even worse you know like the little

bit of benefit of the doubt that you give them is that they're stupid and wrong but they're acting based on fear right they're having these reactions of like we're afraid of what happens if this gets out of control we're afraid of what happens if we acknowledge the geth and any of that and like everything is a panic-based right so you kind of like your your complaint right your complaint is like oh it's there oh sorry now I'm being informed she's Iranian I don't know this actress look her up I don't know okay but your issue of like oh now they the Reapers are hitting them with their Reaper juice to make them

stronger and evil and it's like that is kind of a disappointment because you have to shoot a bunch of them but they're only like that cuz the Koreans attacked them for no reason now is the time guys now we got to go take back the mother land lactic threat from a genocidal group of different robots that are attacking us and you thought today was the good day to start your totally separate that everyone knows you're going to lose and then you land and it's fucking Arizona and you're like yeah this this is what it is we're fighting over the fucking desert Nevada you know like so it's it's yeah it's it's wild

but you get you get to go back in time and see them be extra wrong and the the thing of like you're dumb and stupid but you're acting out of fear is like I can like pity you in a way like you're just like you're just panicking and running in circles like you know what I mean but when you go back you're like oh no actually here's the part where the fellow Koreans were standing up for the robots and saying guys stop it and then you were like let's kill our fellow Koreans and shove them in the mass grave to you're like oh my god you're completely insane that that was the turning point for me that was that was

the part like oh oh the robot and everyone was afraid of robot uprising and then you find out like oh no wait the Koreans that are running their government also genocided the Koreans that didn't want to kill the robot right so so you have to take that this is the mass effect like the clarifying point of like you have the moral dilemma and then you can walk that thread until it becomes like literally until it's just split into a very clear dual path right it always does this and here you go well let's say this this group refused to ever acknowledge robots as properly living sentient creatures sure in order

to enact your hatred of them and disgust you have to now murder your peers who no matter what your that you think are your peers and now is it worth it to carry out this bloodshed you know or fucking fuel shed while stepping over the bodies of your your your fellow Korean and they're like yes it's super worth it painted it they always painted it like like a existential threat right but it was actually like a secular argument that like ended up escalating to like civil war plus robots right yeah and like the numbers were never like in the majority but it was still enough that it's like oh they're now just cleansing

out the the the ghetto so to speak you know and like the robots are standing behind while a Korean is getting shot standing in between them you know and you're like so it's it's it's you're so much longer thing because you're like wow I really like you guys but you're you're wrong incredible time you say anything you're wrong yeah what you're doing is wrong yeah why you're doing it is wrong so every side quest that I ever did with you guys you were wrong so you're just for Cal Rieger and and quikwag or not quikwag quip quip quip and so you're just kind of operating on this thing of like man I guess tally

you're in charge now and you're the one I know so you should be the fucking leader of your people I hope but because I can influence you with my cock but holy shit your people suck every time every time forever yeah it's it's quite wild to go back in time and make a wrong extra fucking wrong but that part was still pretty interesting and then it also was quite clarifying to it was it was well not clarifying I was I was almost like I don't know I didn't expect anything but we got out of that and then you have one of the few like Javik interactions that pops up where Javik is just arguing over AI right and he's just like yeah

robots suck can't be trusted and he just provides no arguments whatsoever it's just like they suck they were bad in my time and they're not real and this is blasphemy and then you just move the goalposts every time a counterpoint was funny and it's just grandpa arguments and you're like oh the philosopher warrior is actually just really like he's got no he's just the warrior there's no philosopher there I think it's really everything they did with Javik is really smart because like dude think you were talking about sovereign and like what sovereign what you thought sovereign was gonna be right and how it

could never live up to it and like same thing with the Prothians right like oh man they were so advanced and it's like Javik is both out of universe and in universe a massive fucking disappointment like he is he is like the like like it all the all the parts where Liara is like oh what can you tell me nothing I I have nothing for you out of universe I like the idea of don't meet your heroes a lot oh yeah oh yeah that's great right I the the the the the mystical ingenious race of benevolent soldiers that fought against you know the the the the last remaining threat heroic to the end yadda yadda yeah and

so who do you get to talk to you get to talk to the Prothian equivalent of James trapezius dinosaur Vega sure like yes exactly who's just going hey hey like the don't know can meet head with their entire fucking society is the one you get to talk to at the end of the fucking war born into it might makes right and literally why does the larger not simply eat the other friends like like straight up like I don't understand what the problem is in subordination out the airlock why are we having this conversation rules it fucking rules it rules that he sucks like somebody said no Javik is based like yeah no the fact

that Javik sucks is the best way I'm gone you know nothing special about the Prothians here at all if they were different at the beginning of the war whatever we got here is just like dumb fucking throw all our our our strength at it that's all that matters warrior pride you know so yeah he's having an argument with you know what hit to him is a goldfish but the goldfish is like lapping him rhetorically and he's just like well no but they can never be like they will never evolve and they're like yeah but we upgrade and we self like regulate and that's how they actually do change the time in this he's arguing

with Edie yeah yeah and and like he's just just like no no it is all he's got and it just it's one of those looping arguments but I'm like man Javik you fucking idiot grandpa go to bed you know like it just it was so if he had so much nothing to say at the end of that you know so I was yeah I'm just kind of like okay this is how it's being played out and it it's good but simultaneously just like god I I thought you might have something deep down inside you know like that line that fucking line stand in the stand in the fucking stand in the dust of a trillion dead races and ask their ghosts if honor

means anything you like that you say that because you fucking have a you have got a dissertation behind that thought you know yeah no actually he's been workshopping that pod for 10,000 years you want to think he's been meditating and then comes out and he's got that fucking banger of a line and it's like well that was all he had and then there was no follow-up actually but yeah so like like look at the Koreans and be like oh the core or the sorry like you used we're not are we at that word it we're not there yet what we don't know I mean like you talked to him at some point about the crew okay and at some

point he describes like oh I think was the the Hanar he's like you we used to eat the Hanar or something oh okay like there's there's been like there's been five versions of that yes yes right like the oh they let you guys into space huh like kind of thing and then the response is always like yeah but we have a society now and we have all this stuff and he just goes yeah whatever yeah yeah yeah you used to eat flies to the solarians you know the it's like you just wanted to be an asshole you had no follow-up to anything anyone was gonna say to you I remember when you were a fucking ugly creature at the zoo okay

well I'm not now dipshit now you're the kid hey can you like can you help me with some cover fire or no like what are we doing here you know yeah anyway a good times to that so yeah that's continuing of course and oh yeah so just a quick question for you tally and Legion are alive right yes so I don't know how to feel about this because you're not gonna encounter it because you had almost everybody around when you did it right to Chanka and Rannick are really reactive to what characters you have and what decisions you had right um Rannick is like the like you need to have a lot of stuff around and done well to have

like any of the good outcomes and like people who like you remember you can start Mass Effect 3 at the start right mm-hmm yeah those people can't get any good outcomes for Rannick oh like like that whole chapter is a wash yeah though like you could you do all of it and it's cool but like the it's this weird thing of like yeah as tally dead as Rex dead you know is Legion not like you yeah it's gonna be a ruinous fucking mess no matter what you do okay like regardless of your choices in three and I feel like that's too far I feel like that's like too far yeah I mean the marketing department is always gonna find a way

to try to tell you hey we buy this one even if you didn't the others shut up give us your money but I I I do kind of wonder like yeah like is was the right thing to just give you more on-off switches before you load your character up you know so I don't know I've talked about this a lot with a lot of people and my takeaway at the end of it after playing all of the games that I can think of that were popular at the time of like multi sequel reactivity is that you shouldn't do multi sequel reactivity you shouldn't hmm because all it kind of feels like is well I got to start the next game with the with the good save

file it doesn't really feel like you appreciate like oh I got the good thing because I did here it feels a hundred times worse that oh I got the bad thing because I didn't do this I'll challenge that I'll say that the scale of bass effect one two and three are unbelievably massive with the like if consequences actually have outcomes the domino effect from one can go a lot of ways over the course of three giant full RPGs in the case where you're playing something like walking dead season one from episode to episode act to act that's a smaller more direct scale where your choices can have an effect on

things that plays out in a way where the consequences come true within a short period of time and they can be wildly variable but overall the package is tighter I think you're completely right about walking dead is a good example but the one that I always think of is like hey how that oh man Rex is like the standout favorite character from Mass Effect one almost even if he's not your favorite everybody loves Rex he's the cool turtle man right and guess what you can almost never hang out with him ever again three games because you could have killed him and guess what the data says that 75% of players did because

Rex was fucking stupid dead in the old game save files for 75% of fucking players mm-hmm so most people didn't have him anyway yeah like it's it like when whenever like Witcher does this but witcher's shit is very self-contained right but it's like have making a decision as to whether or not to kill a character the fact that that decision exists means they're gonna have to kind of leave soon because they can't which are two is the only game I could think of in which like the last 40% of the game is completely different completely it's fucking crazy it's the only one I could ever think of they actually made

a full like extra half game for either path and then you get to Witcher 3 and they go you know what oh that was hard let's um let's let's relegate every character you ever met in the first two games to single line of dialogue or maybe a five-minute cameo at most okay as fuck fuck doing a quest like more than one quest with let though but though could be dead you know that kind of thing okay sorry I got that statistic incorrect 64% of players did not have Rex in Mass Effect 3 that's that's that's that's the number versus the legendary addition where 94% of people had him survive so like Citadel when you get

there is like is like the fantasy of what Mass Effect could do because they actually said no fuck it we're gonna accommodate for every possible permutation of event and character yeah that sounds really cool it's a DLC because it's like compact they get to go you know fuck it we'll just everything everything possible because we don't have to we don't have to worry about the knock-on effects of afterwards with the Witcher and the way they handled it the relationship choices are the big ones is there anything else that is that no actually no oh the way the way the Witcher does it is super smart it really is so Witcher 1 takes

place in one city primarily right and you run into Zoltan your door friend you run into dandelion your barred friend you make out with this redhead or this redhead right but the the nature of the events are very contained to one city right which are two takes place over half of a country but not that city so characters that did die or leave or whatever they change one line of dialogue okay go so like you could save the princess or not and you get one line of dialogue change and it's like oh yeah no she's married to so-and-so but that's all happening over there yeah all right and then Witcher 3 takes place over

multiple countries but none of the locations you were before so if you run into you run into somebody it's like oh cool you're here for one cutscene and you'll leave you know and the time that takes place over the things that all those relationships are gonna kind of reset back to their defaults which are the more or less relationships they've established so no matter what happens in Witcher 1 you start Witcher 2 in making out with Tris okay no matter what okay you start Witcher 3 oh you guys have been separated for a year because you're looking for your your kid so you haven't been hanging out together and you know

so it's you know no matter what happened they kind of they basically minimize all of your choices by having them take place very far away from you but there is a canon that can still exist yeah across all of them okay okay interesting yeah I think it's not that it shouldn't be done it's just you've got to be very careful about that shit you know you got to do it really limiting yeah and you don't want though and the main thing is you don't want the worst version of events to be a like not just like a sad experience because obviously that should that can happen and should you don't want it to be a

less satisfying game than the most you know like the absence of content from a character being dead like if there's a if you can write you know the story in a way that like the absence of that character is its own kind of compelling bit you know that like if Mordin's dead you're hanging out with Borden right right the other the other one talking Salarian scientist yeah yeah and there's there's ways around that certainly you know it doesn't just have to feel like you took a chapter of the story out of the book and then ripped its pages you know yeah there's a there's a much longer conversation to be had about this

specifically with Mass Effect because those games were described as diamonds in development which makes sense right because you know it's opening up and the middle of the game and which it's the maximum width but then it has to kind of close up by the end and the series itself is a big diamond in that the most width is in Mass Effect 2 because it's it's not actually very critical to the plot and then it has to close up for three the big problem is that when you get to the back 20% of three that that it's not a diamond it closes up into like like a clap yeah and that's that's where like my like I they might not they

maybe should have just told one story and had the choices in that narrative I mean I I'm simultaneously respecting the attempt as a as we play while criticizing like oh but they could have zigged when they zagged you know it's how it feels it's like oh you yeah it took a lot of work to set this up and then you just picked this weird choice here when you didn't have to do that it's also weird because they did this they tried something somewhat similar for like Dragon Age Dragon Age and like for Dragon Age Inquisition there was this massive website you could go to to like you know tick off the hundreds of choices

you could you had made if you had not if you didn't have a save to import like those results were like minuscule because again they they took the idea of like well these are taking place in a different location you're not in the same part of the the country that the other stuff so you're not gonna go to the same town and deal with the same people and have to deal with all the stupid shit you did mm-hmm mm-hmm yeah well we'll see when we get there so yeah that's gonna continue and as previously announced yet we're gonna be cracking open ff9 so that's a good one that'll start this week you should be some fun

looking forward to it I like I like the cut of VV's jib I'm looking forward to finding out more never played ff9 huh never played ff9 just seen the characters in the cutscenes and I saw that that big-jawed night guy and I saw a cat dude and I saw VV and I was like yo you're like you're black mage from fucking that's cool that's just you know but also mixed with okro from he man am I thinking of thinking or co or co or co from he man yeah like what if you just like smush them together you know like that's cool I like that so and then a little a little a little son Goku kid running around so we'll see he's not

Goku he's supposed to be a cat oh and also it's like Garnet who is like attempt number three just brunette long hair girls gonna be nice I guess so you you you weren't like following every ff as it came out or like like I was right oh I was I was following the announcements in the no no no I mean like the dev and oh no madly in love with those games and like the funniest thing ever is like Nomura has a type okay yeah right the type is a brunette with long yeah hair yep yep the funniest thing is that a mono also has a type and that's a blonde with long blonde hair and you'll go and look at at like concept art

and you'll see the concept art is a blonde and then in the game brunette concept art blonde in the game okay over and over and over I'm trying to did did a mono get to like a second design somewhere cuz I'm like there's quistis but like she's not long blonde hair she's just blonde no yeah okay like so brunette just one out every time yeah and so like you look at six and it's like oh cool we have two main characters who are women and they're both blondes except in the game to green hair look a little different they make her green yeah interesting okay well I that's always been that's always been a like a joke like

a funny thing to me like seven eight and nine and it's like all right we take three you know but I'm sure personality wise all the the state oh yeah they're completely different but just yeah that that that look though anyway that that's that's soon yeah so tune into woolly versus this week and then of course woolly versus the algorithm shorts drop in your way the latest woolly versus whatever we're trying to figure out how to deal with the fucking new swearing guidelines it's tricky because YouTube is is going back on things and lightening up on things and we don't know what the deal is because moment-to-moment it's

changing but we're gonna we're gonna have that up as soon as we can get a version of it that doesn't get fucking flagged for bullshit latest you know what clip though Reggie bout to risk it all good good times on that as the tag list on his search continues to grow yeah that can't can't can't spell a without a y which is our dot yakshi so good times hey by the way to finish this off hey did you know that Nomura designed a character for Final Fantasy 14 raid oh yeah yeah her name is Gaia she looks like this not a brunette not a brunette yeah oh no it's it's oh it's her hair so dark it's blue that's different you know it's

actually interesting though because like she's so pale that she looks like a Kaneko character mm-hmm yeah I get it like that and I think the funniest part about that character is that her weapon is a hammer and then he made the design and submitted it and they're like there's no hammers in this game dude oh interesting okay is did did Amano get to drop some shit in there Amano yes Amano designed the Amano designed the original collector's edition box which that design later got turned into a boss okay and they are blonde in fact they are platinum blonde both of those characters

Min also showed me the god what was it they redid the the I think we already talked about this but the the ff6 goddess who Sophia she got a name later I guess yeah so they had a name originally but you never actually encountered it in in six so it was Zervin Sephiroth and Sophia mm-hmm of the warring triad yeah yeah and the the redo the retake on that was really like night like very just beautiful that shit's awesome oh yeah Sophia is a great design so her fight is not so much annoying yeah it's well it's it's you're playing you're fucking playing teeter totter during the fight oh weight balance yeah she says

she'll tip the scales and then on one side you get like say three rocks falling and then on the other side you have to and you have to figure out which way the stage is gonna tip and it'll fucking throw you off the edge if you guessed wrong I mean there's that in Bayo 3 there's a darkest dungeon equivalent of that too I think like there's I'm not so far I don't think I've ever really enjoyed teeter totter mechanics but I get it all right well anyways yeah that is that's going on also just a little side note I was gonna I didn't get a chance to but I'm gonna run back through hi-fi and listen to the the the

licensed music and stuff but there was that there was an interview with Jojo Jonathan Janis about the creation of that game or like or I think he appeared on like a podcast as well and was talking about some of how it went down and some interesting stuff came out of that two things in particular that were not notable where one they didn't have time to like cast everybody until way later because the project originally was supposed to happen pre-covid and then it got delayed 2019 after everything blew up in 2020 and then they had to like re-outfit everything to be remote so casting came years down but at that

time he then just went and recorded all the lines himself so there's his version where he's voicing everyone and everything and that is why the timing of the jokes lands because it's all like his bits you know and like in like he they kind of like we're voicing to match his direction already provided in the placeholder right that's a great idea they should do that super great and furthermore because he's so he's working out of Japan and the devs in many cases with the script didn't get the jokes he was going for didn't get the humor and we're like like we are you sure this is okay and he's like yeah no don't worry

Western audiences will get it and they kind of were like okay and he was rough to take that on faith and he's the only one he's like I know this is gonna land I know you guys don't believe me but trust it will work you just have to believe in me and like it was so his he had like yeah nowhere to bounce a lot of that off of because they just kind of didn't get it you know and like he just took the chance so it's like fuck man what an extra stressful disaster what an extra stressful variable on the whole thing you know he's like I know it's funny and let me do the timing of the voices just trust me it'll make sense

when we release this overseas yeah it's it's so wild to hear like damn like little things like that what a fucking trooper though like incredible so fucking hi-fi rush man good shit hey man I gotta use the washroom okay beer beat all right um let's take the opportunity to take a word from our sponsors I love my sponsors I love our sponsors I love sponsors yeah this week the podcast is brought to you by Express VPN love you Express VPN using the internet with that Express VPN is like checking in your baggage at the airport without a lock you think your stuff is kept private but you never know

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all right uh let's check out what's going on uh well um we've already touched on a couple little things in in casual conversation uh but some some new stuff got announced that's pretty cool I don't mind putting up top um hyper light breaker dude what a good name what a good name I wish people could have heard the noise I made when I saw this trailer like yeah like I like now that it's like you've got like these games that are getting um that they're getting like a naming convention going you know rift of the necro dancer hyper light breaker that's awesome and you're like oh this is this is great I want

I want a trilogy of games with hyper light you know in the title um and uh yeah it's interesting because you know how I actually I didn't see it via news sites or announcements I saw it via an ad that was promoting it that was like hey you probably want to know about this game that just got announced check out hyper light breaker and I'm like fuck yeah I'm clicking on that um so open world hyper light style obviously um uh co-op open world game looks fucking cool um it's also roguelike and and yeah somewhat procedural in in the the world generation as well right yeah um I just like this aesthetic can live forever man uh fucking awesome to see heart machine still going with it hyper light drifter was one of the

very first of the kick starters and it was the first that came out that I'm like this is a slam dunk this is exactly what I wanted this is great yeah I I mean that was some of the coolest fucking pixel art back in the day uh ever like it just the most stylish like colors and and moves and designs and like effects and all that and um you know I I didn't quite uh never beat it but I did play solar ash a bit and uh that aesthetic you know translates nicely right the colors the the the overall vibe of that world and that sort of art design is uh one that can continue you know and it's distinct I feel so going into hyper light breaker now which uh takes place in the hyper light universe um yeah this is fucking this is fucking cool and my brain immediately

starts going into like okay what would you start call like now that you've got a naming convention like what else is there to do with that you know like what would you call a finale at the end oh man I don't know you know that's that's it's gotta be hyper light and it has to end in er and hyper light ender is not quite you know like you gotta you gotta something something you know yeah hyper light breaker already kind of takes the place of hyper light destroyer so I don't know destroyer is cool but breaker is already that energy right yeah you need you need something like can't be a fighting destroy word right maybe something contrasting that's more peaceful but also conclusive you know I don't know there's some

there's just but like it's it's such a cool thing I fucking I'm really excited about that so anyways um co-op in in in this type of thing and then something showing off like you know a couple of like cool ass like giant boss fight sequences and um you know the the moving the the the the lasers the lights the dashes all of that um looks like a fucking hit uh plus tons of character customization as well with the with it's on the wish list so um go check that shit out hyper light savior I like that oh that I like that that's good I like I like that I like that a lot hyper light savior would be a really nice round out on a trilogy there but that's this is that is that this would be the the funnest thing right like you just have boop boop boop three cool words

drifter breaker yeah um hyper light redeemer not bad either that's the right energy that's the right energy yeah not breaking not fighting you need a comp you need something that contrasts but also fits the you know the number of the the syllables and the the er you know kind of feeling of it but anyways um heart machine fuck yeah um go check it out there's uh gonna be yeah you can wish list it right now I guess and I'm getting really weird about that's it I don't I don't describe the genre of game that I'm talking about early access has completely ruined my perception of games coming out because when I see an a cool indie game get announced I'm like fucking sick I'm gonna download that row it's not what it's not they just it's far away

I don't why is it why is it far away but why can I not play it immediately right now how dare you like when when Hades to uh uh got announced I had this feeling of like oh sick let's go play let's go play it no like the early access release doesn't even have a release date oh weird weird um okay and like hi-fi rush definitely did not help this attitude it's out now yeah a game pro style like instant drops I mean I just I hope they continue um but like it's it's it's it feels as if a game show announcement is gonna be when I my brain expects to go all right stop thinking about it expect for it to pop up in a couple of you know years or whenever but if I get a tweet about something it's usually like oh where yeah can I that'd be

that'd be cool right now um no no word except just uh coming soon but there's a really cool animated trailer for it uh really slick give it to me now and the nice thing is that they didn't just drop an animated trailer and that's it there's also gameplay right away that you can go check out too so yeah that's very annoying hey look at this animated trailer what's the game look like shut up mm-hmm don't stop though uh what's that one um from don't nod I think uh the card thing where it's like super nice animated trailer but like there's like two seconds of cards yeah I can't I can't remember I know the one you're talking about but I'm just like right anyway um so that was a cool drop similarly uh there was a uh another game called

strayed lights have you seen or heard of this no how do I spell the first word here uh S-T-R-A-Y-E-D oh I see what you mean this game is particularly cool visually gorgeous um and it is describing itself as a parry focused action game of course all right oh look he does a big parry on the monster in the trailer yeah yeah yeah oh he's doing a bunch of parries oh wow so um you so in particular the way this is is done is uh the core combat is parry focused you're like a small being you're going to fight against large monsters and the again the the style of the silhouettes of the monsters is really really nicely done it's gorgeous um but uh you switch between uh two different styles and if you parry attacks corresponding to the correct color you fill

up a special gauge um you can fight regularly and defeat the monsters by dodging and blocking and attacking or you can fill up that gauge and one shot the boss oh nice so the royal release is a instant kill it's death right parry is a style of play you're committing to it's not just a like you know different way to do damage i feel like we're we're in a like a golden age of this in that like we had sick or a little while ago but now we have high five rush re4 is coming out on friday and now you're talking to me about this like parry the world parry the world is is becoming a thing um yeah i i'm i'm here for it i'm all about like give it give it fucking straight to my veins like i think high five rush is probably as crazy as it's ever gonna get

because like does it have a hitbox yeah you can parry it go parry a lava rock parry the boss turning their health bar on this yeah this is interesting though because like you know obviously royal like i said royal guard is a stylish way to play that is like another way to do damage and securo as well is like a way to like break the boss patterns you know by just like fucking doing it posture wise but in this case it feels like the difference between playing dot eater versus just regular attacking like you can just go in passive the whole way and if you do build it up your fucking your boss fight is annihilated in a completely different style i hope that i hope that it pays off in a way that is like a unique like cut scene to like a

unique move to like take out that boss you know especially if that's the payoff for it um the demo is available now though so that's up on steam um so talking about wanting to try shit out uh straight lights is what it's called and yeah it's gorgeous super duper cool looks great um parry the fucking world now uh third on the announcements here i feel as if i don't want to talk about virtual fighter nfts i'm just saying that right now okay well uh we can talk about how uh uh uh fuck at evil japan a virtual fighter is one of the games and it's had one of the

had a ton of sign-ups so there's a lot of people that still play that are really excited for something to happen i bet uh yeah that was a virtual parry there good job no that's fine we don't we don't have to talk about them or the fact that yusuzuki himself is overseeing them uh just to yusuzuki fucking sucks just just to make sure that it's it's as terrible a situation as possible uh couldn't be shenmu three related of course i the fucking takeaway from people oh my god shenmu three and then playing it like oh wait these games were trashed the whole time what a fucking incredible story there was a time and place uh for them there was a time and place for them and that time and place was before the yakuza series existed was before the playstation 2 existed so

uh yeah it's fine fine no how about this then okay when they were announcing every time there's a trademark that goes up for something that's p5 related you hear p5r p5x p5a what's it gonna be who knows p5 dancing all night i did not expect one of those trademarks to result in a mobile game that appears to be bizarro world alternate timeline p5 yeah i also didn't expect it to look fantastic uh yeah mobile games can just look as nice as they want these days it's kind of crazy plus if you can plug in your 360 controller bluetooth connection you can just play like i've talked about it before but i playing world of dragons the platinum game on on my phone like apple arcade plug in my 360 controller and i was like well i'm playing a game this is a this

is a game you know can't pretend it ain't um when you look at this new thing persona five phantom of the night p5x uh it's really it's odd so it appears basically like for a second when i was watching i was like is this uh like a like a chinese knockoff of persona and it's like no no it's official no it's it's way too on it's on point it is insanely on point it's gorgeous and it appears that it is it's a spin-off game yeah i think it's by uh um by a chinese mobile studio i believe um but it looks incredible the character designs are fucking like awesome um and i guess we're just you know gonna see uh a like alternate reality but joker's there i i don't think anyone knows what to make of this so far in terms of like what it actually is in relation to to p5

you know um but it looks really nice and uh it seems like you're doing all the persona things at the very least we know through p3p that like you know persona as a formula can be boiled down to some very basic like mobile game structure you can take away the walking around if you wanted to which they didn't in this case yeah but you could and just have it be s-links and clicking on on people in hallways to call it a day you totally could do it um and this is a freemium uh catch a game and what is like i feel like the most obvious way to fuck you over is to make the persona that you get via fusion oh god demon fusion is gachel related oh that could absolutely no no no no we don't we don't you know we are not saying that's what it is but

like that would be something they could do that would be horrible i really hope that doesn't happen but if it's free to play they're gonna have to make their money somehow yeah oh cool apparently there are other smt phone games in which that was the case i see cool cool cool well um i would really like it if uh people made the games that um i shouldn't play because of my susceptibility to this bullshit uh i wish they would make them shitty and lame on purpose that would be really nice yeah when i start hearing about how devil may cry pinnacle of combat has pvp added to it i'm like shut the fuck up oh fuck off can you shut up forever shut your mouth can you shut can you just go die can you fall in a well and fucking die please please uh fucking stop it just walk

into the ocean if you don't mind at your soonest convenience um yeah so no it is uh it appears that you will be able to get a a playtest lottery to get in to try this out as of march 29th so um we'll find out soon enough um not to mention of course the the if there's more like lore implications of how the well there always is right every persona game has itself connected to like five spin-offs that tell you the complete story of how much meat chiye wants she wants all that meat bro um but f steak but i it is always cool to just see like a bunch of persona character designs and be like yeah those are strong those are good uh Ryuji like fam Ryuji appears to be you know the homie i'm down with that um can't wait for her to never shut up about

being a fandom thief um and then like yeah just i don't know a couple characters around the school and shit and you're like yeah that's hey look it's not morgana right it's an owl it's an owl yeah it feels totally different it feels like p5 majora's mask it feels like we have persona at home but it might be an a good fun game you know like yeah maybe it's got all the the makings so we'll see we'll see how upsetting it is that that you won't play it uh p5x well that's one letter down i believe there was another two that were announced or trademarked that we get to to find out what they meant um yeah and then moving right along hey we got some some great news so uh over at respawn uh they are opening up a new studio in wisconsin

actually to support apex legends because um you know the game is is doing well it needs extra support so uh yeah they're opening up a new studio um they're also working of course on other beloved franchises such as uh star wars jedi survivor coming out soon uh so yeah the statement was producing content on the scale in pace of apex requires no easy feat so uh we're always working to bring more talent more experience more ideas and more capabilities and so they're opening up a new studio uh it's going to be apex focused uh at first for now is so they say but probably for the foreseeable future um it responds uh they can add solos to that game maybe wouldn't that be nice in any case uh it's good good get to hear that things are going good hope uh

uh hope that continues um you know it's thousand years apex legends million years let's go fair with their existing characters right because like they can't all do the same thing so you'd have to make like the solo mode everyone would have to play like the same character but then you'd want like the the zipline grappling hook so for movement and then maybe you could you could have the guys run on the walls also and then so everybody would just be really mobile you could you know and then their ultimate they could bring down like a like a robot yeah i mean then you could shoot in the robot yeah whatever you can or not doesn't matter i mean if you want to hey do we got any cheese heads in the audience i don't know what that means i don't know what that means what is that oh yeah uh

people from uh wisconsin oh is that really if you guys if you guys green bay packers and stuff you know if you guys are out there then how about you go apply right you want to go work for uh respawn wisconsin get in there you know it sounds wildly pejorative that's that's they wear they literally wear cheese on their heads i know it's just like calling any group of people blank heads just seems off man i don't know i do like cheese though not bad um well that's that's good for them i'm glad to hear that they're doing well well thriving thriving you know what else is better than it ever has been hey chat live chat

what's the state of apex now good bad what do we got best super fun i mean opening up a new studio means they got cash inflow and they need more people on the project so no must be healthy overall responses who cares investors must be pleased yeah all right well uh you know what else is healthy uh the peppa pig franchise yeah remember kids fucking spiders aren't dangerous um has it have you tuned into the latest of in pepper pigs adventures uh here i'm gonna ask you to click on this link okay click on the link that you send me which i will retweet over on woolly wolls so everyone at home can play along as well and watch this little uh video of peppa pig

uh playing the fucking queen england is there in a puddle with with the queen and um is this a video game or is this the fucking it appears to be and shout out to uh ray novar at noveas jr who's uh uh discovered uh the queen has a little cameo in huh and peppa pig they're playing in the water in the puddles fuck i gotta retweet this holy shit so uh so peppa pig goes places um oh fuck um the queen with a complete cameo uh oh my god oh yeah for audio listeners uh okay you know just uh just know that the homage is paid to the royal to the royals and um

yes that's yeah that's accurate and um yeah oh good time it's going places oh man that's a that's a great clip as somebody points out in the chat i think the most baffling thing is that the queen of england in this clip is like the only human being in the peppa pig universe the queen the queen is not a pig which like makes her like a freak she's a weird human yes now it would it would be like the equivalent of in our real world that we were all human beings and the the queen of england was some kind of pig monster which is actually fairly accurate

so well no i wouldn't i wouldn't say that but i i would in fact describe the queen of england as some sort of pig monster i mean i i i can only hope that the queen will um play in the puddle with the children and protect them and keep them safe uh from her roving son there is hey just off screen yeah and uh yeah all right there we go hey you want to fucking see some stats on the metrics of elden ring i would love that that sounds really interesting so band i released some uh infographics showing off a couple of different things 59 billion 5.9 billion boss attempts they've got basically the metrics on uh thank you for sending the number the most struggled uh bosses rounding it out at number five

star scourge radon unsurprisingly prior to the patch he was outrageous 139 million attempts uh number four radagon 148 million attempts um that's interesting that you know that's where your final boss lies but then again right super bosses and such excuse me number three the fucking tree sentinel in limb grave wildly unsurprising it's right there it's right there it's everyone's gonna encounter it right number two market the fellow man the mandatory wall that everyone hits and number one obviously mckella uh excuse me millennia blade of mckella now unshocking now i'm shocked that mog is not on this list uh yeah i flew through mog but i feel like most people by the time they get to mog they're like as strong as they are when they fight

millennia but he's not millennia i thought phase two mog would absolutely be on this list also um mog is like the most hidden boss in the entire game so is it more likely lower because they just didn't find him or ignored him i think so i think that's a huge proportion but also i found mog a lot easier than millennia yes definitely easier than millennia but not uh not easier than uh market the tree sentinel you know or or uh radon right pull patch but you know um i feel like for me he was like second um but i also had a very weird way of fighting him so i went in early and fought it loose with uh the fists um causes of death kind of obvious but 69 percent enemies and npcs 14 falls 15 status effects yeah i really want to

point out um uh my statistic on that bring falls up to like 40 percent i'm sure looking at falls at 15 percent is one thing i'm sure that uh miizaki saw status effects at only 15 and was disgusted yeah i'm sure he felt in his in his gut that that number was way too low yeah uh out of gravity is my most feared nemesis in every game i play especially when you go back to the first fucking uh area and walk to the end and you get fucking just gangster dropped off the cliff side uh co-op versus invasion uh over one billion summons 88 percent of which were co-op 12 percent invasion it's the most ignorable multiplayer has ever been right in their games so

considering i i really had minimal multiplayer uh interaction this time around um unsurprising i wonder if this includes npc summons though for like cinematic purposes and quest lines um and then top five spells cast number this is this list is like okay number one is rock sling guess what rock sling is the best move in the game no duh 90 percent of the game so no shit number two crystal torrent okay they've buffed it and they've buffed it and they've buffed it and it's one of the worst spells i can't under like that is a wild thing to be in number two because at the time i remember being like yeah this is not what i would want the shotgun is a cool idea and concept but i just went with rock sling all the time especially because of the delay

you know and the the physical hit and the crumple and yeah no um crystal torrent number two um not calmed azer nope um three glint stone pebble for sure it's you start with it four great blade phalanx so it's incredible it's super cool and virginal and all that and then yeah five rotting breath uh i didn't rotting breath is is like best of the dragon head spells it it's the best uh fucking uh holy spell in the entire game and it solves like 40 percent of the game's bosses outright so even buffed crystal torrent still oh it's terrible i'm not what a weird one maybe there's like an uh like a pvp usage for it or something particular maybe um and then when it comes to uh incantations number one blessing of the uratory um well these

are acquired right these aren't cast oh true okay for spells it spells cast yeah for incantations it's acquired okay the phrasing on this is is goofy well like it's it's spells cast and then it spells acquired and what spells acquired is like oh look what are the most obvious ones yeah yeah okay that's that's pointless then who cares yeah um because because rotten breath is an incantation right yeah um yeah unsurprising that rocksling is up there though i mean it has a delay it crumples it somebody in the chat has an idea as to why uh crystal torrent counts it's possible every projectile counts as a singular cast of the spell for the metric is it is that if if that's the case that would that would totally do it maybe that's why i don't know maybe yeah it could be um

still i i i just felt like people kind of just switch off of that shit but um anyway the the uh uh yeah the the the bosses by boss attempts that's quite surprising i i would love if they did they ever put anything else like this out for previous games uh they do okay okay because uh this is the first time i've heard about it so well the my favorite thing about the um uh boss attempts thing um is uh elden ring has bizarre completion statistics um so like uh it's been pretty consistent overall that the same amount of peace so most people don't beat games um elden ring has completion rates that are approximately the same as everything else the different so like maybe 30 beat the you know get the final ending uh what's really wild is that

the sea of stars ending has like a nine percent completion but the default ending has like four percent so like think of how much extra shit you have to do to get ronnie's ending yeah compared to the default um do they have the other uh percentages uh i don't have them on me right now interesting but the point i kind of wanted to tie into that is like hey look we have five bosses right okay two of them are at the beginning of the game one's in the middle and two are at the ass end of the game for most attempts right the final boss is on there like most people who played elden ring played a a fucking shit ton of elden ring yeah i would love to see like six through ten on that to get the idea like does

uh you know does does the act well i mean final boss phase one right the i think um i think the fun so i remember them doing one for all of these all all of the souls games in and i think the funniest result was in dark souls two the most lethal enemy in the entire game was the standard hollow with the great sword you remember those guys really they would drag the great sword on the ground yeah they they killed more players than like the next top two combined okay if you include absolutely absurd if you include enemies and bosses together that yeah that's a different list i'm sure um ulcerated tree spirit nowhere to be found either shot well once you know how to beat one

and also all the all the ulcerated tree spirits would count as different bosses right based on their locations yeah sure uh anyway there's a little little fun infographic there all right some stuff came out obviously it's been a pop-it week for resident evil what so one just before we actually went live i don't know if you saw the i did re4 masterpiece theater leon in the mysterious village episode one oh my god it's incredible what a fucking amazing commercial so they basically just made a studio ghibli does re4 animated commercial of what appears to be a multi-part series which is awesome if this is going to actually have episodes um yeah just leon looking for ashley and talking like uh like uh howl you know looking at looking

like again just full on ghibli energy um yeah it's it's straight based off of the melancholy promise of hidey girl of the alps okay like like it is a i'm gonna just send this to you you can skim it it it is one to one of this this ghibli thing and it's it's fucking strange it's cute strange as hell all the all the great towns people are making weird noises and and their eyes are red and the dogs popping and you got the plagues everywhere but it's it's adorable the most adorable lost plagues ever so they did this with re8 i don't know if you remember for village they had like a puppet show did they yeah they had they had they had a a fucking like a mup like a series of muppets of all the bosses singing a song about come to the village we're not scary interesting okay uh it's

from the people that did cult of the lamb oh that's awesome nice okay they did an amazing job landing that ghibli energy like it's super duper like like leon's face and his voice and everything is just like yeah like they got it right right on um if yeah if they're committing to at least a couple of these that's it's a fucking perfect ad great stuff there um there was also some footage of re8 vr and i don't know if you've seen it but i seen it holy shit that looks fucking incredible so i saw more more importantly than i saw the village the footage of re8 vr is i saw the idea of ethan winters like with his sad puppy like i'm so sad my daughter my wife just like crying as he's doing gun katas and flipping the gun around hand to hand to gunslinger no no no no no no no no no

just beating the shit out of anything coming his way because it looks like attacks or punches are like mapped physically to your hand movement so if you need to do physical hits as fast as possible i guess that's gonna be one way to deal with the game like can you just aura aura your way through everything like really probably not everything but probably a bunch that looks fucking wild also like the scariness i mean not that re is about that so much but um you know the the the the fear element goes flying out the window when you can just clown on everything with your actual hands being tracked um i noticed that that footage of course showed off a lot of trick shots a lot of equilibrium and and aura auras um and not a hint of the reason why this vr version of the game is

being made at all uh lady d yeah that's right in the first person so you can put your hands out and just yep you know it's funny that you mentioned um uh resident evil's not super about that uh reviews came out for r4 remake and hey shocker it's really good um but a consistent uh a consistent through line is like uh that how to uh that basically like people were worried that it wasn't going to be as goofy or as silly right you know the iconic lines and and action movie cliches weren't going to be there uh and what they seem to have done is made it so that everything is much more serious and scary and vicious and cruel and dark but leon stayed the same so like it's a much more realistic dark cruel version of the village but he is but leon still

is goofy okay so he looks extra nuts i mean it feels like that's what nobody wants fucked with right like the the whenever you're doing this type of thing when re when ff7 was getting remade the big worry was like what are they going to do to cloud you know right so you can't really fuck with protagonist energy when there's a particular quirkiness that you're you're looking forward to you know so like like you know you take the village thing that's in the demo right and you have the famous bingo line like the village assault sequence is way more violent and way more harrowing in the remake but he still goes for the bingo line even though it's like like super weird right right it's great with a with a yeah entrails all over his jacket yeah and it's like

it's it feels it genuinely kind of feels from what i can tell that they have like they've taken some of daunte from the future and just like brought it back to what was tony redgrave or it's just his version of of coping because it's probably cope right it's very likely cope because what we also talking about the whole ptsd bit that's like more prevalent yeah right so he's gone through raccoon city and like he's become super agent man but also i have to laugh in the face of danger if not i cry yeah you know yeah they seem to be playing up from what i can tell um that leon well something they didn't deal with in the original at all but like leon goes from re2 to re4 and saved zero people like like his his actions in in risen evil 2 are a

complete failure and he saves no one himself and yeah that's it okay that's it interesting yeah okay okay um can uh does the same apply to somebody in the chat says he saved claire and sherry you're fucking dumb claire saved herself and sherry would would would uh the same apply to like chris uh and uh and jill we're burying them yeah no because they the the so in re1 all the people that died in re1 they're all like your fellow like team guys or their shithead scientists it's you're not dealing with the death of like multiple hundreds of thousands of civilians okay yeah all right so he's he's he's like he made it out no one else did that'll fuck you up

yep time to it's not good for you time to talk so instead talk about bingo so hey bingo hey like there's a there's a clip floating around where like you know you remember in re4 there was the the pluggists that could bite your head off and kill you instantly the the false yeah yeah yeah yeah if you parry them and then shoot them a couple times one of his lines is no food for you and it's like this is you're fucking weird dude like just hit him with the back back off get your own sandwich yeah like fucking jesus all right all right dork nice um um yeah fun fun stuff there uh i i i look forward to the the new era of memes that'll come out this week i'm i'm you know what

i bet you there will be at least one meme i'd still think you didn't play village right i didn't play village because village is is the worst ever because ethan will be like throwing down fucking like zingers at corpses and the zingers suck like it's it's astonishing like i forget but suck it suck in a bad way or suck in a good way right oh in a good way like they're they're embarrassing like he when you kill lady d if somebody can remember the exact phrasing it's yeah yeah she's like she's dying and she's she's fucking dying and she's going curse you and then she turns into a bunch of rocks and falls apart and he goes

you're the one who's cursed and then like dusts himself off no and it's like it sucks nice you you suck at this ethan you are a loser um yeah i did see that one that one little comic of uh leon tied up being like give her back and then it's like what ashley and it's like no his jacket you took it off it's a nice jacket it's a nice jacket yeah anyways all right first seen on brendan frazier in some movie yeah no no character has ever obtained a bomber jacket and like was not immediately cooler for it straight up um i really hope just keeping the jacket is a costume you can unlock i really hope last but not least um if you pre-order uh legend of zelda tears of the kingdom

in japan you can get yourself a special limited edition spoon and fork they're really not trying very hard are they anymore you know on the one hand this is a far cry from um a sick ass mid-air link doing a flip style statue that you know i would love to see as a or whatever but um it's not brass knuckles it's not brass knuckles so there's that no knife you can't give people a knife because that's that's like brass knuckles you like you can't you shouldn't but also it's this is lame as fuck also link in the game doesn't use cutlery he just jams his jams food in his mouth obviously yeah no i i don't know man i'm just kind of like

pre-order bonuses like what do we got going back long enough you got the fucking Ryu headband and then those awful viper and Ryu's toys that were half melted i maintain and people there are some people who will remember and they will be like oh yeah when you pre-ordered portrait of ruin the castlevania game for the for the ds they gave you a tiny little castlevania anniversary cartridge holder that you could put your castlevania games in and was it would hold two cartridges and it was the really small and high quality and it was the best cool it was the best i used it for years it was super good um i thought it was rad that arkham gave you a battering until i realized that you can't take the battering off which again understandable you cannot give people a weapon

but you know um i remember it was at halo three with the full-on master chief helmet but then you can't i was waiting for you to finish your vlog because i would say halo three's helmet was the worst ever ever ever full-sized but not full-sized just slightly smaller than full-sized good enough you can put your cat on you put it on your cat but not on you bullshit fucking waste yeah yeah um same thing with the titanfall helmet yeah i never got the titanfall helmet the pilot helmet can't be worn either that sucks man don't make helmets you can't wear what's the why is it like like a hazard thing like is there so it's a cost of materials thing but if you're going like 80 percent of the way there

oh man somebody pointed out the marvel versus capcom infinite oh god the infinity stones the fucking eggs oh my god oh god no okay to be fair that was not a pre-order thing that was a prize for winning the tournament yeah some of these we've been talking about our deluxe edition things but whatever fuck it this is terrible no no no this was a prize for winning the marvel tournament the event oh what i that's even worse yeah yeah they was one of a kind and they couldn't fucking make it look like anything but shit plastic people are actually arguing saying it was pre-order hold on marvel versus capcom no yeah edition i thought it was uh the battle for the stones no no it was the collector's edition you got the eggs it was a collector's edition okay my $200

oh god oh yeah and the photo is like these glowing gemstones yeah of course of course um the worst well and it's a it's a knife and a fork that just says the legend of zelda on it it's not like these things cost four cents each to make like but that's the thing is like okay hold on a second because fuck off with this laziness if you're gonna do it properly there's no place to do it right what's he gonna do i don't know what he's doing he's left the camera when i went to japan i got a knife and a fork and a spoon from the Gundam cafe oh that looks cool and these are actual like sort of like either copper or brass like it's a it's a steel thing and they're like shaped like zaku knives and axes and and those look great yeah zion weaponry right super detailed and cool

you could do a master sword hilt on a thing or a triforce with a little bit of fucking penash to it something whatever you want instead we've just got you know like i have heat axes here that are super fucking detailed and nice and i use them regularly because they're super cool i got chopsticks that are beam sabers you know um and i just look and it's like no you just took a normal fork and you just put the the zelda text on it and called it a day so woolly if you're disappointed perhaps i could uh offer you a um premium canvas bag or mayhaps a uh a fancy robot helmet that contains dangerous levels of mold which one was which one that was fallout 76 both of those were fallout 76 oh yeah okay remember the canvas the canvas bag and it was like a piece of shit nylon

you know it was a cool bag mirror's edge oh i didn't even know that did that come with the fucking mirror's edge came with the yellow bag that faith uses for her deliveries i should have got it was super cool oh hold on a second phone call brb oh i got a piss i'll be right back excuse me good time for a phone call it allowed me to piss there you go strategic uh i should just keep bottles dude i should just keep on us you see the the risk of the bottle is that once it starts yeah the process doesn't have to end there who's to say now that it's contained who's to say when you have to get rid of it right you're right you're right man when i was when i was a teenager i'd let plates pile up around my computer because i was too lazy to bring them

upstairs you know the urgency that your bladder tells your body that you've got to get rid of your fluid is one that says oh gotta go stand over a toilet and get rid of this but the moment there's a container a middleman in the process that urgency is removed and that bottle can sit and be removed at your convenience which unfortunately may or may not be uh never the bottle is a risk it's a risk so what you're saying is the bottle works so well it's a risk have you have you heard about the recent latest and worst episode of hoarders ever no so hoarders you know the show it's about people i'm familiar with hoarders people hoard they like to hoard they came across the worst hoarder of all time uh a lady who her and her

mom have been hoarding shit in buckets and bottles yeah for 40 years okay yeah with no emptying with no removal at any point just straight preservation of fecal matter in bottles for four decades right yeah and all food was rotten and just lying around and contaminated and the craziest part about it was just the the person in question was just like yeah i'm just gonna go in and eat some of that contaminated food and then the party's over so you know like intervention you let me just have one more night with that food and then it'll be over and they're like no you can't do that and they've been doing it for 40 years clearly they can and her answer verbatim is well i've

been eating shit for 12 years so what the fuck does it matter and like the entire production team just kind of falls apart the prospect of like helping out a hoard situation where it's not dead cats being found or just gross food i have to say i was waiting for that to come up i so as disgusting as that horribly is uh hoarding that involves discovering dead cats or dogs is worse by default so their backyard was filled with just strays freaking the fuck out and running around and cats everywhere um i don't know that they discovered an actual cat corpse but dung eating was on the table and uh anyways how consuming yep and and i want to say the the end note was just

so after that episode like the city just kind of came in took a look and went fuck this house and condemned it and just the whole thing just demolished the whole thing because there's no saving there's nothing to be done like yeah it was it's the worst it has ever been just absolutely nuke it from orbit it's the only way to be sure um that you know uh i think she was describing that she couldn't smell it anymore like it had hit a point well no no you wouldn't you wouldn't be able to yeah yeah she's like i don't smell anything i don't get it what's the what's the problem you know most smells uh worked work their way out of like noticeability on a human being in like 20 minutes to an hour you live in it no yeah um if you know for the curious you don't

you don't need to see it just the words the words are enough you know and if anything if you must then go to the end just to hear how matter of fact she is about it but you don't you don't need to go down that rabbit hole um yeah so anyways you know how you get there with starts with bottles starts the bottles huh yep all right that's how we got there that's wondering how we got there and then you brought it back i appreciate putting a bow on it starts with bottles six letters hey if you want to send in a letter send it to castle super beast mail at gmail.com that's castle super beast mail at gmail.com all right who's this it is oh by the way uh no i would recommend to anybody who cares about the disco elysium

developers that uh you should be aware that uh buying disco elysium no longer gives the the original devs any of that money yeah they are still fighting a legal battle uh with the company so i feel like this is there's often a period where you hear that like oh there's like money going into escrow and then it gets sold settled upon the you know the the conclusion of a lawsuit or something like that um but yeah at the moment that seems to be the the latest of that news i don't know how long this lot of legal battles gonna go for obviously it's gonna fucking continue for a while but it would be nice if there was a point at which something like that could happen if not just like damage reparations you know

but yeah man whenever the summary of that comes down and it's like yeah so literal estonian gangsters just stole the fucking like the success of the company away like literal gangsters not like shady wall street businessmen not shitty bobby caudic style like creeps like no no no no actual like underworld gangsters it's kind of so um there there is an argument to be made not that i'm making it that the only legitimate way to acquire just coalesium at this point is via piracy um which is disco is fuck that is one that is one thing um yeah yeah no it uh but obviously it's it's it's it's been that shit situation since the the you know the they all left so like it it's been this way for

like a while i'm sure um anyway whatever we'll see what happens the story ain't done yet uh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh what was going on syrixy how you doing uh jared ginger of dojima and judgment woolly we've seen no shortage of lousy dlc practices for the last 20 years up to and including the stories being uh concluded behind the dlc not trying to top that but uh wanted to say that this is a part psa part question if you can think of other ways that money's been rung out of the consumer um like a dragon ishin has long been had a policy to have dlc um present day uh the practice was to have the dlc always available so that you could start a new save file and gain access to the same dlc even if it was just consumables okay this kind of

goes on but the summary is that yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna skip it ahead uh when you download the consumables in the like a dragon ishin uh collector's edition it locks to your save file and becomes unusable for future new games well more along the lines of it's a consumable that's a one time use item that you get a reward uh basically that's actually one time use for real not one time use per download on your save yeah so unlike any other game where you had like pre-order items that would start out in a chest somewhere or whatever in this case you have to buy them again if you start a new save for any reason nonsense uh that's trash um that's a it's like a super subtle small way to like just squeeze a little bit more out of people but um garbage don't do it yeah total trash

hasn't been that way i'm glad people noticed because again it's like uh uh that's a real subtle one you know especially if you're trying to make a consumable that people are supposed to come back and constantly buy so this is just like oh your first one's free type of thing and it's like well fuck you this is supposed to be a uh uh yeah so um yeah obviously we've seen you know garbage practices and garbage CLC rewards or whatever uh anything as bad as that i mean yeah over the years it's like we've talked about all the shit with fucking uh the uh loot box garbage you know it's the entire discussion really like to be honest but more just appear heads up for anybody about that um they give you that first hit like maybe i'm gonna sound like a massive

fucking shill considering what we're talking about this but we were talking about pre-order bonuses and we're talking about dlc um i'm looking at the re4 steam page and their deluxe edition is like 10 bucks and it comes with a ton of costumes and weapon skins and all sorts of shit and like it could be worse they could be charging you 30 for sure um um or there could be tiered pre-order layers uh if you get a month ahead you get more i think bioware had the like the worst ever which is like the more pre-orders we get the more we're gonna add to this and like oh the collectors were always like shit and so they're like well guess uh you fucking only get this skin and a hat um all right

old man yelling at arcade shaped clouds says dear wattrick moiven and pooly badden um a space in my local mall has recently opened up for business claiming itself to call itself an arcade uh to clarify the mall's been longer than i've been there longer than i've been alive and um it's got a death of the mall situation going on um and uh yeah i got a lot of nostalgia once upon a time they had like tech and tag on big screens and rows of mortal combat games etc um and again it goes on um the new space that replaced all that stuff is called a claw arcade and it's pretty pathetic it's all ripoff prize games claw machines um the only ray of sunshine is a neo-geo cabinet tucked in the back nothing super interesting loaded onto it but

overall it's a shambling corpse of my childhood nostalgia and it made me wonder if any money is actually made setting up stuff like this so yeah it's gambling yeah it goes on to ask about that and the answer is yeah like why do claw machines are slot machines that's it um these things make money if you're if there's a gambling element to it where people are basically addicted to coming back and trying to get that next one or that next said whether it's dropping the coin into the pusher uh or the up and down light thing they're all fixed rates of wins you can go watch a number of videos about how the settings when you first plug those machines in can let you set a win rate um yeah and the win rates determined by like uh only one out of 10 or one out of 50

claw polls will even give full power to the claw like it is a slot machine yeah so you cannot possibly win unless the game has received enough money to make sure it's paid off the prize it's about to give you um there was a again a test done on some of them were like the ticket feeder where you do the the round circle you have to stop it right on the mark and you can use a machine to 100 every single time always hit it frame perfect and with a machine input cheating essentially it it always went one off or one before it never let it hit the bullseye so um and when it eventually did it was after x number of coins were put in so yeah all those machines are are regulated by like gambling agencies yeah they they are slot machines yeah so why do they play

why do places like favor these kinds of things obviously that's what makes money um they also have like things like and then the other question about like why do like lightning games prize games and racing games big cabinets that physically take up a bunch of space are also part of that it's part of the experience overall they make it like a cinema thing kids are going to jump on the steering wheel or a ddr machine spectacular cabinets and of course um for business reasons the old style of arcade doesn't really yeah that can't really make a ton of money anymore those days are gone that's not really what people associate with video games and like if so they're not really willing to pay like 50 cents for one play you know that feels like a rip-off compared

to yeah free games on your phone right um the more things change the more they stay the same the the claw machine to get your sonic the hedgehog doll from 1995 is functionally identical to uh grand blue fantasy there's just more steps now there is a formula that does work that can um you know still make money with classic arcades but it's not the it's not the token uh a standard play it's pay a cover five bucks to get in and then you're in a full arcade with free play on everything and perhaps it's a barcade and there's drinks and you can have some some food and drinks and play out while while you're you know hanging out for the night or you go to like galloping ghost where they've got warehouses and warehouses of games to play

where you can basically go hang out with your friends for a night right in which case or fuck that go down to pakistan and have the fucking losers subsidize the place or losers or take your shot dethroning arslan ash yes um but no it feels like the way you can still have old style arcades you know still work is yeah a barcade situation or a just a normal arcade but pay to enter for the night as opposed to a uh you know per game situation and then then it's worth it because a bunch of friends are super willing to go spend the night out you know having some drinks and playing some games and and as long as you want you know until the place closes that that's a great night that's a really fun time and uh that's that's pretty much the only way to do it these

days hey i gotta ask you willy speaking of um arcade nightmares uh have you seen the fucking hurt box uh yeah actually shit that was on the list and i forgot to mention it uh yosef on twitter has shown off uh there's a hitbox which as we know gets rid of the stick and puts all buttons on your arcade controller while the hurt box gets rid of the buttons and puts all sticks down so you can play your arcade sticks you can play movement on one stick and then another two sticks that you combine to press buttons and i guess if each stick direction represents a button then you have to always like hit two different directions light punch yeah down is always going to be heavy punch okay but if you want to press both at the same time one has to go up and one has to go down yeah

totally but then what if you want to do three at a time there's there's footage of him playing it and he's playing fucking soul bad guy yeah he's doing combos and it's the worst thing ever he's doing combos you know but the question is can you press more than two buttons at a time because then you might not be able to do some things you know i guess if you have the macro for a burst well he's playing guilty gear right yeah so guilty gear only has five buttons but the combination of buttons he's got 16 different you know directions with the two but it's not it's not about the number of buttons it's about how many you have to press down at once to make something happen it's gotta be it's gotta be macroed it right it's gotta be um yeah it's the worst it might just

be using it might just be it might just be uh uh using the macros but it's called a hurt box aptly and god bless if you just need to make things harder for yourself hilarious it's terrible terrible freak freak thing there's only one game that should be forcing that on you and it's called barricade one yeah the fighting game where you move with the buttons and you attack with the stick i appreciate it for being weird but also fuck it well it it doesn't appreciate itself because there's a reason why like no one knows what the fuck it is um anyways um um let's take one over here uh capcom's cross brand promotion worked on me and i'm a fucking idiot good day lads

thanks for all the great content over the years you two are some of the sickest cunts out there okay oh australia australia all right australia some of the sickest cunts out there yeah yeah there's a guy who writes in my my stream often time and every single message always starts with g'dawg so that i can always acclimate the accent to the rest of the message a few weeks ago i downloaded street fighter deal the mobile gacha game uh like my yeah okay i'm not gonna while riddled with microtransactions uh this is to be expected from uh crunchyroll games it's still a fun time waster uh this week they started with an event for gore magala ken which is monster hunter themed with quests rewards and more and it got me hankering to return to monster hunter rise

double dipping uh to get it uh on ps5 to prepare for sunbreak while playing i realized a stupid gacha game got me got me craving monster hunter i got bamboozled and hoodwinked into buying another capcom game and the cross promotion worked on me uh i didn't even notice has cross promotion ever worked on you cleanly are more you more resilient uh than an upside down landing land living idiot like me keep up the good work locks from melbourne melbourne that australia i nigh overwatch was so hot at one point that it got people to load up a moba game because of a cross promotion i played hotz i played one game of hotz to get that zarya's game that is that is by far the craziest one um i mean the fact that it was like play one game and do it was like yeah i can i

can do one i can do one game um i i will not load up mega man cross dive but i will angrily stare at virgil and zero and uh and dante x i think the most effective cross promotion i've ever seen in my life is that i know people who became final fantasy 14 lifers after the near collaboration wow okay uh in particular i remember talking to rebecca ford uh currently creative uh creative lead well the lead at warframe now she used to be a pr space mom right um and she's like yeah i've dabbled in 14 but oh man i want to get that near stuff and like what level are you she's like 30 like oh cool you have like three expansions to go and she's like i'm gonna get to it and then like a year and a half later she was like yeah i got to the near stuff

and like that that goal was there the whole time for people yeah i guess if there's two things you already kind of like you know or that are good then they cross over then it works um um wasn't um what was what am i thinking of i feel like i never really was curious about ape escape until like wasn't there the metal gear promotion yeah yeah that's the first escape fucking rules yeah no i i i only found out about that later in demo disc format but uh i i wasn't that was during an era when i didn't have a playstation so i kind of didn't know uh until much later points out uh ecto in the chat points out featuring dante from the devil may cry series

ah yeah yeah oh it's one of the best so you you smt fans can go find out what this dante guy's all about in devil may cry 2 i think i think the the the most surprising like crossover stuff if it ever works is when the two things are not in similar genres or even media right um smt and devil may cry that's not that's not the same type of fucking game yeah like i can see overlap between 14 and near automata like they're both made by the same parent company tech and ostensibly action rpg's tech and did not convince me to go back and resume watching the walking dead no so but maybe garyl's showing up to fight uh to be a fucking rathalos made you think about playing the witcher actually no but it made me think about it when uh he showed up to

fight in soul caliber yeah that's that's more thought than i gave to it uh for sure um yeah you know noctis was in tecan and obviously oh my god yeah no sometimes sometimes it's like yeah that's already in my wheelhouse why not uh but uh what you're gonna call it uh monster hunter cross uh everything portable ops no um yeah no yeah yeah no uh yeah peace walker peace walker yeah peace walker mm-hmm that made perfect sense because they were on the same platform they kind of controlled similarly uh yeah no sometimes it does work you know if it's pro chubby pencil in the chat is the nailed it and my personal my personal destruction of death stranding and monster energy uh yeah i i mean for that it just didn't work on me because

i've always like my preference is guru because yeah it doesn't taste as chemically as other but like i was like fine i'll try monster as a goof i was like uh oh uh oh yeah i just i like the super chemically tasting energy drinks i can't man oh i i drink exclusively the sugar free ones which don't taste nearly as chemical oh forever i've always been sugar free on all of them but like of those monster free sugar freeze red bull sugar freeze guru and a couple others like i just it's they like guru is the only one that doesn't i'll be honest bully i'd like the taste of chemicals okay i i yeah i don't want if i was if i was a stupider trashier person i may or may not huff gasoline right because i love the smell of gasoline the other supposed to huff gasoline because it's

bad for you use brain damage yes correct i also if the thing is too is those chemicals they're the kinds that you smell the moment you open the can yeah and like ah i just that hit i don't i don't enjoy that dude um hey man i i red bull red bull fucking hit the hit the nail on the head red bull like messed with flavors and other energy drinks messed with flavors and discovered that if your energy drink doesn't taste like medicinal chemical soup most people don't believe that it's giving you enter any energy so you like i don't know i don't know if that's the reasons um i will say the re the monster rehab is more juice tasting than chemical tasting the the iced tea and shit is actually like not bad you know that that pharmacy chemical flavor is

like added to a bunch of them god these fucking baha blast drinkers craving the artificial weird shit paint smells good too but you're not supposed to huff paint either all right that's satisfactory all the bad chemicals are bad for you but they smell great they really don't think like that's crazy like it's so weird because like your thing with like perfumes and likes and like sent them things violently allergic to perfume but if i'm in a gas station i'm huffing good because it's delicious i don't understand like what is off on the skew with that because that shit is so strong i don't know have you ever done smelling salts no i haven't that would be an interesting test because smelling salts are like like that brush of burn is pure

chemical um and it's like it wakes you the fuck up but like i'd be curious if you would respond to it like the average person which is whoa or if it would just be catnip or i would like yeah i like i almost impossible to know it's impossible you might be better off not knowing i i don't want to i don't want to think i can't go down this path because if i go down this path you might like it too much doing whippets in the car you might like trying my fucking brain that's fucked up all right okay do i like paint thinner you mean like acetone yeah smells great the marker sniffing like all just yeah yeah no that shit that causes a like

oh strong chemical ammonia cleaner whatever reaction chemicals man oh god but i hey i have the self-control to when i smell it when i smell a chemical that smells good my brain goes that's probably bad for you stop smelling it and i walk away pat huffs at oh boy just starting to stream with some with some fucking balloons just just unloading balloons at your mouth hey man i tell you what when i got my wisdom teeth out they gave me the nitrous they gave me the laughing gas i can i can highly recommend laughing gas for all occasions laughing gas is the best because they were cutting out my teeth and kicking my me in the face and i had bruises all over and it hurt like fuck and i didn't give a shit yeah that air head high is not i

don't i don't like it i don't enjoy that i've had it before and the and it's not like i want it over with as soon as possible um you know of all of the different kinds of highs i felt that was that was unpleasant it's it's it's the wildest thing because like i was in so much pain and i felt the pain but i didn't care that like i it is the strangest experience i could ever explain to anyone interesting i think we've covered this before but for me like um hospital bed with a morphine button just that's that was the danger that was the oh yeah get this away from me as soon as i'm as soon as i'm better that was a fucking bat because you're like this is literally a happy button and no my dad wouldn't you do the heart surgery right and he had he had oh drugs

he's a total narc um and then they're like mr bluvane do you want a hit of morphine and he's like yes you know because he's all fucked up and then he goes from like a corpse to like oh yeah yeah and like i've been with page in the hospital where she's been in so much pain and they're like ma'am do you want some morphine she's like yeah it's and they hit her with that shit and she's just like oh yeah that woman's been in the hospital a lot she has had a lot of morphine yeah but you need morphine's good but you need to have it with those walls and and things up because the moment you're like do you want some to go you know what i mean the moment anyone can make that to take and let you take that to go there is a problem and the and the problem is that you can get it to go

actually hey i have a historical tidbit for you that uh you'll get a kick out of do you know what heroin is supposed to be originally in its in its genesis in its creation it is supposed to be a less addictive version of morphine for general purpose use heroin's original creation was as a less addictive morphine so it started as a methadone style we're trying to wean you off we're trying to to tone down morphine addiction jesus christ because soldiers were coming back from the like think of think l.a. in war right yeah think of how much morphine there was yeah yeah right wow well we gotta make a version of morphine that's safer for hospital you oh well mmm shit oopsie doodle all right

that'll do all right everybody don't huff gas especially if you might enjoy it way too much yeah don't know you