Castle Super Beast - CSB 213: To Hit Diversity Class Zero

Episode Date: April 4, 2023

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Music Music Hello What wait what wait what? What's happening? Why are you at a slightly different angle? Cuz I'm at a slightly different angle It's like up Now up

and away To a different way location Okay Wait different location. Yeah I moved Good for you Hi, you're not in a different country. Are you I'm in part so known I bought a house Hey, let me text page. I'm gonna tell her. Oh, that's great. Oh

That's fucking fantastic. Good for you. Thank you. I was wondering why your diabetes Scientist shit had to take up a whole week last week Well, it's still just wondering what kind of tubes they were shoving in your ass Then we're gonna take a whole week I mean, it's still they still did shove tubes and there still was a whole lot of scientists diabetes thing Simultaneously, but in addition to that. Yeah It is it is a crying crying goddamn shame

that This did not align with the first of April it could have it very well that would have had so much bonus confusion yes, that is true, but It feels as if it was not meant to be and besides it seems as if Sega already crushed it on April 1st. Oh, yeah, we'll be talking about that. Yeah in the relatively shortly. Yeah, how was the move? I hope not nearly as as as arduous as mine. No, it was excellent

Thanks to the good old folks at Busta move I knew you were gonna say it as soon as you open your dude. I wish I Like I was so mad that I couldn't use Busta move to move out to British Columbia. Yeah, no I They're not oh, they're so they're the best and not only are they still the best since we first Started talking about them and and and and word of mouth thing, but they're so good now that The realtor that helped me buy the house Was like oh by the way if you're gonna move. I know a great company

They're called bust a move like oh, yeah. Yeah, oh do you yeah? And he's like Busta move and I'm like motherfucker the word has spread they they're out there So no, they're still the best at what they do and they're the best. Yeah, and they're way bigger now and there's more folks and but they did an impeccable job nonetheless and Nothing's worse for where everything was done smoothly and as you can see it's it's intact it's where it needs to be and That thing ain't busted behind me. It's working. So I can see that it's working. You can see that it's working

Yeah, they did not How could you move a arcade cabinet? He did still be working. It's kind of like if you don't drop it on the stairs Then it might still work when it gets to its location. It's kind of crazy, right? How that how that works, but Yeah, so they they did it and overall pretty pain-free and and

Yeah, it was it was one of those bits where You know, you always swear to yourself. You're like, okay this time around I have become So Like I don't own you kind of like I've gotten rid of most of my stuff slash I can get rid of most of my stuff I'm gonna throw away like half of what I own and then I'm staring Longingly at my samurai shampoo wall scroll going when are you gonna put this up? You're not gonna put this up, but I can't I can't let go It hurts it hurts. I thought I I keep thinking I'm not materialistic to these things and then I get rid of things

But then there's still shit that I'm like, oh Like I'm I'm not I'm not materialistic and I had the opposite problem where I was like well Don't need any of this and the wife was like you can't throw that away that thing's cool And I'm like, but then I don't have to pack it Yes, exactly exactly and I still maintain that each time I've moved I've thrown away at Minimum 40% I've gotten rid of donated handed off given away at least that many you know But there's always just like the things that I'm like man How many boxes how many times am I gonna move this box full of

Beast Wars transformers toys with my fucking Dino Megatron and I'm like as many as it takes cuz I can't get rid of it. It's coming with me forever, right? yellow Hardboard box sitting in my closet right now That has a bunch of books I read as a kid and that box has never been unpacked and it has followed me through four moves from my parents house and Every time it's like Time to toss it. I'm like, I don't want to toss all these goosebumps can't do it

Can't do it. Yeah, so you know I mean at the end of the day I kind of also said for there's a bunch of things where I said, okay You're on probation like you're coming with and then when I look at you in the box in storage If I don't feel it then you're gone But I'm gonna take you with for now and decide at the other end, which is really just you know It's an option select you're buying yourself time You really got to just like and then and then you're just gonna do nothing with it once it gets there

And you're gonna be like why did I why did I pay the whatever it was to ship this box that will never be open? Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's rough man. I mean look I'm looking I I've I only brought three Dreamcasts Oh my god, only three only three, right? The the others have since gone into distanced states of disrepair and they're no longer useful so now I just have the normal working one the one that I I I Fixed to that I can that still is decent if to get to somebody and then one that uses a SD card Which is modified, you know special hello kitty version. So, you know

Yeah, at the same time like There were No fewer than 12 sticks and I Definitely had the guts and pieces because I had a literally a like a workshop for building sticks You know right that has had to go obviously I kept the tools I have to love a drill press. That's fucking awesome But packing 12 sticks sucks because the stick sticks up and they don't stack on each other and the whole things

It's just it's awful, right? So I'm like okay like what's gonna make the cut what's coming with and like most of them had to go But the stuff that I can't I couldn't get rid of is like I'm like well the stuff that I made Personally where I'm like well, this is my handmade thing like if I if I if it's if I like my favorite of my customs is still with me and then like There's like there were two there was a ki stick and a I think a te2 that were being used behind my couch as like levelers

at a point for the last couch I had and You know those are still around because I mean I might grab the parts out of them or something But anyway, I think I've gotten one two three four five six sticks and Then there's a hitbox and a mix box. So I That's it. I ended up going through a bunch of stick I had like six sticks total when I moved and it was like all sticks that had still come with since like Like the the the the old office

Like the ones that I had left there and so I'm like okay. I have like four that I don't need let's plug them in Okay, well, that's an Xbox 360 stick Don't don't fucking need that one. I again, right that one's broken that one has a busted button Yeah, this one's good. I'll give that one away. Yeah, I I found What I kept was a garbage bag full of PlayStation 1 controllers that were like great for Stick conversions and things like that Anyways, a lot of that just out out the window it goes The thing that's real rough too is like what I did

At the last place was I had a lot of my like I used to have a lot I used to have a wall of posters behind me back at the old old apartment And and what I kind of switched that over to was just like pick your favorites frame them and there will be fewer But they'll be classy and you know, it'll be a little more of a shared space With obviously my wife and we can enjoy a nicer presentation of a fewer things and So I did that and I kind of like I got rid of a lot of the old stuff The old posters and shit that ripped and wasn't in good quality, but they're still just like There's stuff that's like there's like a collect

There's like a good number of awesome prints that I got from like cons and you know like Custom things and stuff like that or I'm like, man This is not the right size to put anywhere and it doesn't fit into the full framed Movie poster size thing. So there's just nowhere for it to go, but you can't get rid of it You can't it's like, you know, it's a it's a super nice like Custom print thing. So I just I'm like, I guess I'm just gonna have like a almost like a stack or like a binder For looking at these things But that's the best I can really do, you know, like there's some kinds of like smaller

Figures and smaller things where I'm like the the the space for this just doesn't There's nowhere for me to put it. I'm only dealing in a few things that I really like Yeah, and The small things are just gonna have to go away, you know, so quality over quantity Once again So are you are you like so back at the back of the old place you had like a special little podcast nook I guess you would call it and then you have the had the place where you and Reg would hang out and do do couch Stuff. Are you in that spot right now? Well, actually I am in that spot and

I'm in the I'm taking the opportunity to refine the setup, of course, so I'm in a space where both things are gonna be able this podcast happens here and the couch and then move over over there exactly and the beauty of You know redesigning the setup and taking everything into account from scratch is that Well for one the distance of the new couch New and the distance from that to the TV is much better

Comfy set up. Yeah, cuz you had the eyesight shit cuz you were actually far It was further than it was then recommended for the height of the couch And now it's actually closer than recommended based on the space. We have yeah regardless that'll that'll be fine and Then obviously that type of couch is not great for like sitting back wise, you know like for a long time These office chairs shout outs to the Herman Millers. They're they're great for Doing this but couch wise. What can you do? So I was looking you need to be able to hold hands and touch feet. There you go

so I actually got a Replace the old couch, which was just like the kind that kind of cuts off below your shoulder type of thing and I got what is essentially a theater seat couch, right? that we're gonna be able to sit in and use for like longer more comfortable, you know lp-ing and What I want to do which is not fully set up yet is have it so that the table over here where I'm podcasting from Cameras looking over at the background over here just off camera is a is the LP and If I need to well, I brought the cube right the cube is still here, but you know, but if I need to it would be

fantastic what I'm gonna do is Wire it so that there's two The HDMI for that goes to the TV will also go to this desk and If I need to play a PC game, I can sit at a desk with a mouse keyboard and Like in theory I can be here and he can still sit on the couch We can split screen it and we can literally just continue with the desk I have to tell you man cuz like I was like I had like a couch set up for years and years and years, right and then upon getting the the a desk and

A chair and a mat like be able to have that because we always had the mount the keyboard in your lap Mm-hmm, and the mouse is like on Whatever you can get a hold of right night and fucking day difference Just yeah, just Yeah, it's it's so much goddamn easier But of course for me I often I'm not playing games that user require that right it's an it's a once in a while thing

Most of the time. I'm just I want a controller anyways, so It's rare enough that it won't Be an issue But for the few times that like it's like okay. Well time to pop in whatever I don't know half-life to or something. It's like all right. Well now we've got Yeah, the ability to split it up, you know an ideal I'd super ideal would be the ability to like do a like Dual well anyways, I want it to be like

Any the setup can be done from either place, right? so if I wanted to sit on the couch and and Podcast I could or if I want to LP from over here, I could and so I just got to kind of finalize it But that's kind of what I'm working on right now. Yeah So it's gonna be good. Well congratulations, man. I'm really happy for you. Cheers. Thank you Now you get to enjoy all the wonders of home ownership, which is hey this break who's gonna fix it. Oh, yeah I'm gonna fix it. That's correct. I got the best piece of advice Ever in regards to this right off the bat, which was don't be a tenant in your own home

Mm-hmm, and that is like ooh stop think about that for a second. Yeah, that's your problem now You've got to deal with it. Don't act like you're you've got a landlord or something That's gonna to talk answer to slash to figure out the problem. You got to do that. I have to say though in in my in my In my experience as a tenant There's no difference Because it was always like call the landlord over and over and over and over and over you gonna fucking fix this You're gonna fucking fix this. Okay. I'm gonna call somebody to come and fix this. Yeah, and then I'm just gonna bill you Yeah, and now I just skipped the part where I talked to the landlord and I call a man to come over and help me

Yeah, we had we had a bit of that fortunately It it like it was only a few things but those few things lasted sometimes fucking months Shit with the pipes the pipes what took took the pipes was like half a year and then there was the The deck which was literally from the time we moved in till the time we moved out. So yeah All that all that to say that this time around there's a there's a laundry list of stuff and I've been taking care of it but for sure I spent a Six and a half hours

last week at some point bent Fixing a pipe for a toilet Just it's in a in a space that was like it's a it's a closed toilet And then the wall is right here and your wrist can't possibly reach in the two inches between the wall in there But you've got to do it anyway, and you're using a basin wrench Which is like the vertical style one and you're using another type of wrench Which has a little like detachable piece to get in corners and shit and I'm Backbent crouching over this thing and it took that long just turning off mains

Tightening pipes on loot like it's crazy, and I'm like all right confirmed plumbing sucks I would never want to be a plumber right I can confirm that Yeah, but it's but you always need a plumber. It's good work. It's good work young people out there Yeah, you want to do something the robots won't take from you the plumbing. Yeah, robots can't take that from you yet But conversely Outlet over there was dead. So tripped a home hardware or Home Depot or whatever that we have and Punch mom like just did a little scroll in got some tips on it and went okay cool got this bought our replacement socket outlet

You know and kill the main pull the outlet do the replacement You know and it's a lot of it is a lot of that is just like oh I learned how to do this already from like Stripping wires and shit because you do that for building a state doing arcade stick exactly right so you're just like oh, yeah, we've done this type put it in type the bend the screw crimp it yadda yadda and In this case, we're like oh well if we're putting an outlet in the wall anyway, why don't we get one of those ones with the USB? Charger right built into it. Why not? They're like, oh Well, we can fucking start doing things and making this place pretty cool You know especially since like whatever I'm doing to it is like

For me no one's gonna stop you. Yeah, it's it's literally the only problem with that There's only one problem with that Willie and that's whatever you want to do to it. No one will stop you no They won't they can't they can't but that's both the blessing and the curse Yes, but it's for but it's for me to to to live with and enjoy for the foreseeable future and You know, I don't have to worry about who comes after me and and any well I still you never know I mean if you ever want to sell it in the future You don't want to do some insane shit like let's put shitty carpet on all these hardwood floors Of course. No, you want to do the opposite, which is what I did which is hey, can you redo the floors?

Right, and they're like, yeah, sure. We're like, all right. We'll we'll I'll get around to that at some point and everyone's like no no no no no you either do it before you move in or You're gonna have to get everything out of the way and and have a horrible time waiting a week After you're redoing the floor is like when you're already living there and it's like oh fuck, right? Because how do you get everything off the floor? You have to move out, you know So it's like do you want to really move out and then move back in floor by floor? And then it takes sometimes multiple days for like the the wood finished to dry and shit like that You're like, okay, so that is like the most awkward part of buying a house

Like both it's the most awkward part of selling a house and it's also the most awkward part of buying a house like hey Can you change this? I don't want to Change it mm-hmm. Mm-hmm now. Yeah. Yeah, you have to do that You know, it's it's quite interesting cuz like they basically tell you like I Think what is it? It's like if you take your Whatever you're expecting your your your your mortgage to be for the year 25% of that is gonna be spent on

Like touch-ups the first year you move in right away. Yeah, you know, so and I'm like then there's always those things that people talk about with the creeping costs and the Unexpected surprises and you know, we've got things here like we got the the welcome tax possibilities, right? You've got the You know all I was talking to people about that in BC, right? So I'm buying a house in BC and they're like do you guys have a welcome tax and the guy's like what the fuck is that? I'm like, I don't know It's just a tax. They just charge you. Yeah, I don't know what it's for Do you know why no one knows what it's for it's it's the reason why it's called the welcome tax is because that translates to Uh the tax be a venue

Yeah, and be a venue was the name of the politician who invented it Get the fuck out swear to god That's the weirdest way around that That that's the most bizarre etymology. So be a venue in french is welcome Therefore it translates to the welcome tax. Yeah, so to those of you who are unaware the welcome tax in kebek is did you buy a house? Here's the tax What's it for shut up? It's the it's the fucking bat in the palm staring at you outside the window tax. Yeah. No, um

There's there's honestly like there's all kinds of um Things like that in different places though. Like I know obviously some places you move. There's like a hoa that is just like draconian Like you might you might you might move into a neighborhood where um The the homeowners association Let's go stepping down the road

You know and uh, you might you might be concerned about that. Um Yeah, so it can get pretty trashed depending on your situation But um anyways, whatever at the end of the day It's it's one where As many people have said it's like, yeah At a certain point to like it's just kind of it's an impossible market. But If you if you can end up not paying Uh rent towards nothing as opposed to towards yourself, then that's a better outcome, right?

Yeah, well, we're very lucky very We're very very lucky And and I kind of looked at it and was just kind of the entire process too was just one of like But how is anyone supposed to Do this and the answer is just They don't Like uh rent it from black rock when they buy that uh house in the future Uh

Yeah, god the for canada you have the first time a buyer incentive Right. It's supposed to help. But like that shit is now outdated and too old Like it's not enough to help anybody who it's supposed to help. Yeah, it's interesting too because like like The things that I like I found out in the process were So like they've made moves to so what one of the things that has happened So you've got companies like black rock as I mentioned which are just like hey We're just going to buy up houses and then we're going to like rent them to you in the future when there's none left

um enjoy And then there's the uh other ones where they're like uh people Uh outside the country are buying Places and then not living in them and just kind of like using them as property to invest in slash when we were selling the house We had those guys coming around. Yeah. Yeah, right and they were they were all like scum like

Oh gross you are disgusting to talk to Yeah, there and their whole move is as you can imagine. It's just like oh, yeah Well, it doesn't matter. We're just gonna be way over there across the the the planet But like I'll drop some money over here on that and anyone who might need it go fuck yourself, right? um The interesting thing is that like while there's

So I guess behind the scenes in a way. There's been tons of like legislation that's passed to kind of like Fuck over those people in a way that it's like if you purchase or sell a house, but you're not actively like Part like from the air there and living there in any way and it's just an empty thing Then like they tax the shit out of you and they put a huge like, you know thing So they basically try to Disincentivize that from happening, but if the person's rich enough it doesn't fucking matter Right eat the tax and then they'll sit on the land for 20 years and then the value will go up and it doesn't matter

So instead of making so like it's like oh you do that to disincentivize it But then it doesn't make the actual place any more accessible to people who need it, right? It just literally like it's it's just an inconvenience for the The the owner, you know or the seller at the at the other end of it But like if you're still shopping you're still getting fucked over So it's like there's things where they're like, oh they'll step in and kind of fix that and deal with that No, but well no no from the inside the transaction, but from outside the transaction Nobody's you're still fucked as a buyer, you know, so like yeah, it's it's obviously I mean whatever like

Yeah, woolly versus the housing market. There's no Surprises here. Guess what? It's fucking terrible. The housing market is vicious as fuck. It's garbage And and like the process of buying and selling a house introduced me to some of the worst people I've ever met in my entire life. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Just Like oh shake the hand and then just like Fuck gross disgusting oil person Just made out of grunge as a real as a real Uh as an actual real estate agent once said it's a real knife fight out here

It's a knife fight That was the description Yeah, yeah, uh, you know Uh anyway, so I'm talking about the friendly transaction of homes and shelter. Why are you describing it as a knife fight to the death? Yeah, but you know anyway that that that um That aside, uh, uh the the the nightmarish Transactional portion is over. Well, not really because hey guess what? Um

Yeah, shout outs to a mortgage uh shout outs to Transaction that will follow you for many years equity. That's equity now. Um, but no, but but at the very least it's like, okay cool, let's let's just like Put the cool put the cool statues up and try to set up the recording thing and um, yeah I'd work on hammering nails into walls and figuring it out so and and This is all simultaneously to checking in constantly with the

Uh, uh With the scientists and doing my program and all that which is you seem stressed It's a lot is the is the anti diabetes juice not working No, i'm stressed for other reasons give him more of the anti diabetes juice Yeah, they have like basically what i'm like when they're they're checking your your intake and going okay On days when you come in for a workout, you're gonna have to take a an extra like a protein bar or shake or whatever and That i'm like, okay. Well, I didn't

I didn't go for an official workout, but I did spend like eight hours lifting boxes upstairs And that's that's more than enough and then a giant couch jet down a flight Of of multiple flights of from the sixth floor down, you know, like it It's like, yeah, that's that's a workout. My fitbit says it's a goddamn workout I'm i'm taking my fucking extra calories, you know Um, but no that's all still happening at the same time. So it's been uh, quite a wondrous and and an interesting Uh time a week especially And let me ask you have you run into your neighbors?

uh not Like in person yet, but I mean i'm in cont but i've i've we've i've been in contact with the nearby folks that uh That are around, uh, at least through, you know, digital formats Mm-hmm because i'm like

Are you are so you haven't horribly embarrassed yourself in front of your new neighbors yet? Not yet And we'll see pending today how that goes um Hopefully There should be no way well Okay There should be no way for that to happen. Yes. Come on We'll see how this goes. We'll see how this goes at the end of the day. I have a pretty

Weird name that's googleable and who knows who's clicking what where? um But I also have another thing where it's like, um the place has uh, you know a decent number of windows And a lot of them are not like, uh Curtained yet, so there's a little bit of just like All right neighborhood. Well It's all out there and uh

Just give you know give us a second to get to get on top of that but until then um Hi everybody Oh, it's like that. It's like, oh, hey Well, you know not too bad, but like in certain areas there's tactical vantage points You know where I'm like, all right. We could we should we need we need to get our curtains up. We're just pronto Yeah, so at the at the old place there was a a window that

faced the street that like We just never undrew the curtain once Because it was like it was like right outside the bathroom And it was like somebody walking away, you know, they're not in the yard But they're on the sidewalk and they can look in And if I'm coming out of the bathroom with no pants because I just fought a battle like right in yeah, yeah and like

No, that that that can't that fucking window is never ever it might as well be a wall. Yeah No, there's a couple of uh, there's a couple of like Really nice views type of thing where it's like, okay. Well, like this is this is a wall right here That's like glass and it's like it's a nice thing to look out on and then when it's dark You you're there. Everyone's looking in on you, you know, and I'm also like Um up really late So, yeah, you know, it's gonna be something where again if like, yeah, I'm gonna have to figure this situation out a little bit um

But anyway, no whatever it's uh That feeling of like walking away from your house and it's dark and you look at what your house looks like when the lights are on With no blinds and you're like, oh, yeah, no, I'm closing that forever Everyone can see my nipples It's not great. I don't care for it. Not great um But yeah, no, that's uh, that's that's the deal and um Uh and ended of an error too because I really loved the last place, you know, that was fantastic

that was that place fucking ruled and uh It's one of those things where you're like, yeah Never gonna get it like that again, but like Thanks for the memories, you know and um almost as if uh, uh In in perfect like, um, I guess the thematic appropriate nature The burger joint nearby to that place that opened up not too long after we got there closed

Oh, no Literally as we were walking away for the final time we went what it shut down And it's like, yeah, did you like go there often? Yeah, I saw you were leaving And they were like, well, fuck it. We're done Like they actually they made it through the the the pandemic, you know up until this point and then like The final time I was walking away. I was like, what the fuck burger joints gone, you know, like woolly without your business we can't Yeah, so I mean I I take it as uh as a you know symbolic, right end of an era. That's that's the dove flying away

so, um Sad to that but um, I mean at the same time too, like there's a bunch of places where like I look back on my favorite joints from like the previous addresses I used to love that and Yeah, the nearby like just like small little Fun spot really good quality, but just you know barely making it and it's like, oh, yeah Like more than half of those just are gone forever. Oh, they've evaporated super dead super duper dead you know, um

Yeah, it sucks because It's just like I used to like I had a I still I have a list of like all my favorite spots, you know but like The the the old go-tos just died off real real quick like at the beginning of 2020 and then some stuck around and made it till now, but

Still couldn't you know figure it out past past this year. So um anyways anyways Chacha changes Well again, congratulations. I'm fascinated to see uh, I this Reggie's still coming over, right? But I'm not saying I'm glad to see I'm excited to see you and Reggie sitting around And I'm like Reggie's still coming over, right?

Yeah, if he takes a a couple buses and hikes to the top of a mountain, uh, maybe No, no, no, he'll be here Oh, thank god because I like Like this back and forth. I think works extraordinarily well like over over a distance But you need to be you you and Reggie need to be close You need to have the physical romantic proximity. There there is a required there is a required proximity and um, I think, um

His uh, naivete slash Absolute degenerate filth. I don't get him at all. I can't you need to be in the room place. Yeah Like you know the the fucking the you know chaotic evil to lawful good Fuck I don't know where he because he's not neutral, but he's he's ping-ponging between I don't know. Well, it's I mean, it's it's pretty like it's it's pretty straightforward in that. It's like, uh, he is a casual as far as video games are concerned and uh new game plus plus plus dark experts as far as

Deep fetish goes So, uh, so I've never heard the term deep fetish and I regret hearing it. I think I just invented it, but here we are You know, there's just all the time that was spent Not playing and learning about the the video game shit that we know was spent on other things Learned about weirdo shit. Got it Got it. So there we are. Yeah Yep Anyways, so obviously not a ton to to talk about

outside of what I just did um And that'll continue the setup Tweaking is gonna You know things might change a little bit here and there camera yada yada um, I got this into shape for today, but I still want to perfect a couple of things. That's that's the most fun part of like, okay

I'm moving in secret Now to turn on all this equipment and get it ready for this time Yeah, yeah, um Here, let me see if I can show you some of the unused tech for a second I see if I do Hmm

If I do this Right. Okay. Hello. Hello big woolly. And then I do What's he gonna do who could know? Oh, fuck it. Just close discord. Hello. Don't do that Oh, no, no, I'm stuck in Okay, I did it. Okay. What the hell? Oh, fuck. Yeah, that's great. It's not super convincing, but it's pretty good Oh, wait, they can't see that because it's discord side only. Oh, you can't yeah, pull it back up So to those I'll take a screenshot see at home

Because you're listening to the audio one woolly is masking his old layout As Behind him as if he hadn't moved but there's a little bit of weird pixelation. Of course there is um Let's see You know, it's funny. I had the same idea with the with the stone background But like I couldn't get it to fucking work. Mm-hmm I just couldn't get it to work for shit. It looks so obviously fucking fake

Oh my god, woolly. Oh, we're both in your old house. Oh my god. Oh, well, you're you're yeah, you're seeing Okay, they're you're seeing They're not seeing but uh Yeah Okay, you gave it a shot as well Yeah, and I couldn't get it to work. I I don't have the the photoshop abilities that you do definitely, but I mean it's really just It's just a stupid discord fucking auto green screen thing um, yeah, I know but like

The the place that I was Staying at before moving into this place like had the window facing it and the lighting just made it go completely fucking nuts Why am I? Why am I? What is this? Oh, no because they couldn't see it So you're taking a screenshot of the screenshot. Yeah, so basically this I'm just showing the stream What I did so strange, right? Uh, which is only on the discord side so

as you can see that that that is what the the The tech was set up to be But then uh, there were some difficulties, but yeah, not not not too bad, right? That kind of works a little bit anyway It would have it would have passed at a glance if you just like hey, uh, internet's a little fuzzy today Yada yada. Yeah. Oh, hey, how's the internet? It's great Because like the the place you were at before like every now and then there'd be like And it was like oh darn. Yeah, uh, it's great. Um, so far so good. I've I've

Also done some tests and saw no hiccups. We'll we'll find out over time. I suppose did you upgrade to a wi-fi 6 system? Uh, I did not um We'll see what's necessary, but for now Seems pretty good. If anything what I'm looking forward to is I'm gonna I bought a whole bunch of um cable management like Tubing and I'm gonna just run that shit all over in the walls all over On the walls not in the walls because in the walls is like because I've talked to guys who've thought about it

And it's like oh wow, that's crazy. US Ethernet port coming right out of the wall. Wow. And then it's like what if something happens to the cable? Exactly, right? And um, there are holes in the wall like in some places where the the uh Previous owners ran a tv With the wiring through the old way when they mounted it. Okay, so you know it's doable But yeah, but it's also like but I don't I don't like that that sucks Like I just I'd much rather it be accessible because if something goes wrong

I'm not fucking going inside the walls like you know like right out of view on my setup is a cable nightmare But it's a cable nightmare. I can access in one second exactly Exactly and seeing as like okay, so usb's have improved quite a bit usbc, right? Both sides pretty good overall sturdy and if anything Goes wrong. It takes damage on the wire and not the the port fantastic. Um Ethernet cables still garbage still absolute trash and um, if literally like no improvement in forever the stupid little fucking plastic tabs still break and Okay, how many times you snap that off?

But I mean I I try not to like four times because they didn't then then then they just fall out completely, right? So like I just kind of I'm like well fucking time to get a new wire if it if it ever really is just like hanging loose Um, you know what man if those wires are hanging loose, you know what you need to do Just switch on over to wi-fi. Yeah, can't have a loose wire then. Yeah, exactly. Yeah Um No, I so that's the thing is like if I'm gonna be running that shitty type of cable into the walls get the fuck out of here Oh, no insane, you know insane

I would not I would be absolutely Convinced that the cable would be destroyed before the like in my mind It's like we've routed the cable and you go to plug it in and the cable don't work because it broke or got crimped in a Fancy way exactly during the install Yeah, um not to mention um Like I'm pulling some wiring out and it gets stuck on Uh a stud, you know, so then I'm like I have to get a hanger

Straighten it and then like guide it up through the wall and then oh is that a stud? I hope it's a stud and not Cabling for electricity for something else because as uh, you know, there's live Fucking electricity behind the wall sometimes as well. Yeah, like it just yeah Fuck that like just there's nothing wrong with some nice clean cable management and you put your You know your group them together Just run them all over I when I moved in I replaced the hot water heater because it was a little slightly older, right?

so i'm like, okay get into the hot water heater, right and uh, that's that's like a three-man job That's like big man with water heater So they come in and do it and they're going through the process of like turning off the the fuses to make sure they don't kill themselves And one guy's switching. Well, is it off? I think so. Are you sure? And they're like they look at me like can we just turn the whole house off? Like yes, you can just turn the whole house off. Just just go you know, just go ahead flip the the main breaker. Oh god, and Of course. Yeah, everything we did we turned the whole house off And I'm just thinking like I don't want to I don't trust myself to be responsible

In this situation if I'm messing with the innards of my house Okay electricity anything that I do I will turn the whole house off. Yeah. Yeah all of it You took the whole house comes down, right and then you have your stud finder And uh, and then you you put it to your chest and you go, huh, and then Yeah, you have to yeah, it's required. Yeah, and then got one right here And then you and then you you can do that and see where the where the you know Where it says it detects a signal and then you also can get a plug tester to plug it in and plug it into an outlet and go Is there anything coming through this? No. All right, you know, um, however

You do still want to know Thing you see the things that you might not know Being a basic youtube electrician though. Is that like you're like, okay? Well now we're gonna we're not using this phone slot, right? The old, um Literally landline pre-ethernet, you know So let's cover this over and you go to work on that and you're like, okay Well, we turn the house off, but oh wait that's hooked up to the phone lines outside That has nothing to do power that has nothing to do with your breaker. So Uh, that's always live

always Yeah phone phone line is always live even during most power outages Even if you don't have like service in some cases, right? So absolutely, um That's that's the the little things you need to know not everything in your house is necessarily gonna be Uh, uh, what is it? What's the term? Um, uh, a hot open Yeah, right if if every if you hit your your your main and you turn everything off then everything should be hot open But your phone line might not be so let me ask you something

Uh, so you've only been there. What four days five days Uh I mean, I've been I've been Uh ushering things back and forth. No, but I mean like I'm you're sleeping there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Right and it's it's like I don't know if this happens to everybody else But to me once I've moved a location that I'm gonna be living It takes me like I wake up just violently fucking disoriented Like for many days in a row

Like wake up like oh where what no this is oh, I know I oh I live here Okay, I live here now Uh, do you have that at all? Not as even a single bit because every day ends on a reduced calories b extensive workouts and c massive home restructuring and moving I am so dead at the end of the day that I just corpse And oh, no, I'm talking about waking up in the morning But when I wake up, it's like no, no, no

It's it's I'm waking up from the sleep of the dead and it's a slow gradual just like like no I'm still on I'm almost still tired Like I don't have any of that whatsoever because like the tiredness reminds me immediately of of what I just did um It's it's not a thing Yeah That's okay because like when I like I had that one uh like when we took a little trip out to tofino I had that where I woke up in a hotel. I'm just like oh where what?

Oh like I I I I move locations with confusion Yeah, uh, it's just no i'm burning the candle at both ends and uh getting getting a fucking dead ass sleep out of it um and then Waking up waking up if I sleep normally or lightly Like I might have time to think and feel those things, but that's no I just wake up like okay I got 25 of my battery out of that. I'm not back to 100 and I won't be for a while But what can we do with this 25?

Let's figure it out, you know I feel bad because like I today like you were describing this I had such a great night sleep last night I was just Uh, I was like I just slept so well and I wake up and I look over at page And you know when you wake up and the wife is already awake And it's the look on their face of like they've been up for a bit Like hey, what happened the cat the cat just decided to run around on top of our heads and Every hour on the hour and I'm just like oh, that's crazy. Didn't wake me up at all

Oh good morning Roll the dice Yeah, yeah Um, okay. Well, uh new things, but also here's things that don't change. I gotta use the bathroom Oh, no I'm still I still have to be hydrated as fuck man. It's it's this hydration. Shit is terrible. Just dry out. I will not Good You good good sorted you good nice and empty

Nice and empty Time to change that What'd you do? Ah, okay, let's see. Uh, I played some games. I watched some crap the the the usual waste of my life that I tend to enjoy Uh, I finally ended up, uh, sitting the wife down and watching the batman Which had been wanting to watch for a while But it's the kind of it's the kind of like chicken situation I don't know if you and the wife get into it yourself

But it's this thing of like Hey, you want to watch the batman? I would really love to watch the batman. Do you want to watch the batman today? No, the batman's three hours. That's really long. Let's watch it tomorrow Yeah Yeah, and and that like kind of just goes on for like eight months. Yep um So finally I I I I I put my foot down as the husband No, and I said hey, honey. I'm gonna go watch the batman

And she said oh, but I I'm tired. I'm like, no, no, no, it's fine I I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go watch the batman. I'm gonna watch the batman now and then She's sitting there Looking at her phone and I turned it on and she's like, oh, so we're just we're just watching the batman then I'm like, yes. I said I was going to watch the batman it's just Fine and then I go and get her water and her pillow and her blanket and All the things that she needs and then we watch the batman. That's a long ass fucking movie three hours is a hard commitment

that is that is They could have probably cut like Like the full last part of that movie like the last half hour of that movie could have been cut Other than that. Wow. That's a fun and fantastic batman movie How wonderful Robert Robert Edward vampire boy um Did a great job as the batman

I think he's a fantastic batman And I specifically want to give a thumbs up to the makeup department on that movie Because they make him look like burnt shit For the whole movie Like every time the the batman mask comes off. He looks like trash. Yeah. Yeah. No, he's young and shitty That's like he looks like he has never slept in his life. Mm-hmm um I forget the actor's name. Do you know the actor's name who played gordon? He was also on westworld

um Yeah Black eye with jeffrey, right? He's great. Yeah He's fantastic. And I think call and feral demanding to be in fat guy makeup is Fantastic. Mm-hmm. Apparently he was originally just supposed to be call and feral as the penguin And then it was like but I don't look like the penguin

I demand that you put me in tons of weird fat guy makeup fantastic That's just that's just stellar I think that's a great movie. I think that that is too long Yeah, but yeah, it's also fantastic. I never I never would have um pictured andi circus as alfred, but It worked younger, you know, like it worked. Um, I feel like andi circus has the andi circus problem In that he's anti. He's andi circus. I cannot see andi circus Yeah, he did he did he did it though, but it just it's like

Anyway, I guess you're just used to you're used to the animated series and you're used to master bruce And you know and you're kind of like that's the image in your head, but no he pulled it off. Um, and uh fucking Yeah, and and quirky villain, right with the quirk quirks being all quirk fold paul dano You know, he made the weird faces and he made the weird expressions and you're like, oh, that's a weird guy That's a that's a weird crazy batman villain. Mm-hmm Yeah, I think it was great good really like it's it's kind of strange to see a movie and do not have like anything of note To say about it other way really good. I think everyone on the movie did a good job

I think it's a very interesting way to to portray batman as like a sad pathetic loser With anger problems Who is technically respond like you remember in um, the nolan batman movies? They tried to be like batman existing has escalated all the villains because he's a weirdo But it didn't really they exist because he exists yet yet It didn't really play because there was no like point a to point b I feel like they actually make a really good excuse

On this of like, hey, no a weirdo running around doing vigilante shit Has totally empowered other weirdos to do terrorist vigilante shit. Hmm. Oops Um, yeah, no great great movie loved it. Yeah, also Um, zoe cravis jesus christ fucking Wow She's ridiculous. She's Distractingly strikingly written insanely hot. Oh, is that it wait zoe cravis is in like lenny cravitz Yeah, who would have thought that lenny cravitz's kid is all is also ridiculously hot famous people tend to have beautiful children

It's kind of insane. It's just I what like Jesus fuck. Wow. Yeah Uh, yeah, yeah shocker You know what else was shockingly incredible The fucking murder of sonic the hedgehog. Yes indeed um, so on not april fools on march 31st uh, sonic Sonic I guess sonic the hedgehog

Not second put out a game called the murder of sonic the hedgehog Was that not on april first? It was on the like the closing hours of march 31st I heard about okay, because I saw it on april first um Yeah, and you know the trailer certainly felt like an april fools trailer Because they're like we've heard all the feedback We've read all of it and we finally decided to take sonic in a new direction

He's dead Um And what it is is it is a a obviously very small scale But it is a phoenix right adventure Uh murder mystery as to who killed sonic the hedgehog involving such Winners of the sonic canon as blaze the cat vector And spio. Hell yeah

Get those chaotic in there To fucking loser spio in in this fucking game unbelievable Uh, it's well produced the music's great. The little gameplay sections are fun and weirdly difficult The mystery is interesting. It's great. It's a little funny little game. Yeah, I haven't played it yet But just peeped in and saw some some footage of it and it seems like the The like the most Streamer bait ass game you can possibly make you know Like I feel like between that and the other stuff they've been doing have you seen the promo for the yoko taro

Sega's evil game I have not okay because they basically had tweets coming out where they're like They're putting out like government statements as if sega corp city Is like talking about like the vandals and the underground fighting against the sega government resistance Because that's great, right and it's just like yeah, like they're putting out these like streamer bait ass games Uh, because just going sonic is dead Who doesn't want to go in on that and just make all the fucking memes?

You know, yeah, no, but hey, guess what? Here's here's here's the fun part about it So you expect it to be because it's you know, sonic's dead. Oh, no, and you expect it to be like a meme force Or you know goofy It's actually really sincere. Mm-hmm. It's it it feels like really Official. Mm-hmm And it is But like it like it, you know knuckles doesn't get pregnant you know

Rouge isn't inflating anybody. It's actually just very it's played totally straight Everything we like about sonic characters without the running Yeah, except there's running On the little minigame Yeah, the little minigame. Yeah When you have to think really hard The your character pulls out of fake game gear and plays Mentalized sonic levels in their mind. Nice

Uh, yeah, no fantastic game. It's it's it's free They gave knuckles a cool hat. Mm-hmm. I think knuckles looks cool in his hat. I think that Yeah, it's just a fun little phoenix ride adventure And one of the cute things is that you can't name your character monokuma or phoenix or phoenix rides The the the character will refuse and go like I don't think I could show my face around here if I did that that's pretty good Nice, it's like, oh, that's that's cool. I love that Um, so yeah, no Fantastic

I mean based on on what I'm hearing about this as well like yeah Like the the comparison basically being like, oh, it's almost like they took a run from the comic and just turned it into a game or so Oh, Ian Flynn is like thanked as like a production member considering Yeah, no considering how idw like, you know has been going for a long time and there's been some some good ones It makes you almost kind of think like they could probably if they wanted to create a vn Sonic mini series that just totally encapsulates what the comics are about, you know Well, also, here's the thing. Um the the murder of sonic the hedgehog um, it's canon

And um, it takes place after sonic from tears Whoa Okay Huh It's canon Yeah, okay. I don't know how canon They talk about going on vacation to spagonia With the with the spagos with the spagos with the spagos

That's that's pretty amazing. Okay. All right Yeah, that's that's uh That's a rich source the the canon's the comics. That's a rich source for just like Uh pulling out some some vn shit if you wanted to go down that road that'd be free money It reminds me of the uh the dead by daylight visual novel that was also excellent And like this just seems like the format for a very cheaply made Like low budget Like brand vehicle the visual novel is the way to go

I would I would love to see more of this shit. Mm-hmm I'd actually see so yeah, and if and if the I mean and if this this first one obviously it's it's a it's a Bit game, right? It's a joke. So like the it's a free download I'm saying if they made a series and then like sold you chapters or whatever they wanted to do That could that could probably go on for a while. Um, it'd be fun. I think I think the page nailed it when when she beat it is she's like the genius on this is that she wants to go play sonic games Because like when you beat it, you're like you're you're filled with this like I like I like sonic and tails and knuckles and

Some of the assorted other weirdos that are uh here. I like those characters. I would like to play a game with those characters in it the Eggman Vlogs were interesting, right in frontiers like the Eggman logs that you kind of Just listen watch him list off a bunch of comic only shit and whatnot like that stuff. So yeah, there's there's Enough they've built up with these characters and and Over the years and the lore and the there's just a whole crowd of them that like for sure for sure. They should do more And uh on a on a professional note as a content creator Boy visual novels are murder on your fucking throat

There my I I was doing a couple gags as like snap cubes Robotnik piss on the moon Robotnik That was like two days ago. My throat is finally better today. Yep. Yeah, like it's just it's it's rough I'm uh that like as I you know Enter into the world of Final fantasy games and deciding okay existed prior to the year 2001 Yeah, and we're and we're gonna voice you know over like rpgs and shit like that line by line

um There are games there are games that are just books and I'm like I need to their hat if I can find the solution to this FF nine is not a book FF nine is not a book Why could you imagine could you fucking imagine? Getting two hours into an LP of 13 sentinels and going when is the voice is gonna turn on? Oh god. Well Uh two hours into disco elysium the not final cut Yeah, yeah, no, that's exactly did you did you stream that or did you play that on camera? I played it off camera

And I yeah, I I streamed it the once and when I'm not doing this. I'm not gonna not come I felt such melancholy because I was so in love with it And I and my throat was just ragged Trying to narrate and do all the other things and it was just and changing for each character you're like it just I think I did I did 90 minutes on stream Maybe maybe two hours and I got to like the front door of the whirling and rags. It was like I am stopping now Yeah, um, and that's currently my my planescape torment problem, you know

so I I it's so it seems So it seems and I'm I'm really like, you know I'm really dedicated to to solving this if I can I did Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you my expertise on this. I did pillars of eternity way back Which had very little voice acting And that doesn't have as many words as planescape torment And that took me like over a year and a half and was just ragged by the end of every session

It was not feasible. Yeah, uh, and you know, but that's that's exactly it So like when I say like I want to do something like front mission and everyone goes you're fucking crazy I'm like, no, but I want to go even harder than that on things that are more wordy, you know, so You know what you should do Just don't read it That's an option. That is an option. Just fuck it. Right. You're looking at the screen losers Yeah, there is always the possibility of hey guys this one. You're just gonna have to have the video up, right? I know it's gonna be real real upsetting for some people, but

There there's no solution otherwise, but I'm I'm I'm only I'm gonna that's the that's the Like the final straw, right? If there can't if there's no other way to do this the final straw is too bad Like just the words are gonna scroll do your do it do Yeah, I've actually I've actually even gone like a further in the opposite direction. I don't play games subbed anymore because Like there's I found that there's like No

No solution To me like I'm reading the dialogue while I'm talking over the characters I'm not reading the dialogue What the fuck did they say I was I'm on my I'm on the toilet I'm just listening to you as a radio show and I mean, you know mass effect is certainly pushing that right too because we're reading out codex we're reading out Uh, you know details on scans on planets and stuff. We're doing a whole lot of reading besides that game being already voiced, right? um so

Yeah, there's a couple of things I I I want to look into and one of them that I kind of workshopped uh on the air was The possibility that I was like, what if I got the script for the game and dropped it in a text to speech and then was able to move from one line to the next with The help of like a you know something running on the side It sounds crazy the characters can be the united states presidents I

I don't I don't know If the game is linear enough for that to make any sense But it's something I would Like be consider like oh, maybe if I can just like go, okay Next line next line next line and you know what I mean and then like oh, I'm talking to who all right But it's it's fucking Then I'm just how you would even get the script of yeah I have to I then have to take on the role of like essentially producer for the for the thing. I don't I don't know how you would

Like game scripts don't just Float around you know right or you compromise and you go all right Narration will be voiced with a script TTS and then I will and then we'll do the characters and you know you find a way to I tried two variations this back on chrono trigger in yakuza 4 where I had all I was already familiar with the game And I was able to like read very quickly what they were saying So I was just hitting x as fast as I could and then just paraphrasing Like what was being said?

And I thought that was a good enough solution It was not a good enough solution. I thought I was being really clear. No, I was not being really clear No also, um I If I paraphrase I will not I will miss important context so I can't paraphrase You know if I'm Because I'm thinking about

multiple things I'm also like I have to go through it to make sure I'm getting it completely. So anyways anyways, it's this is what it is, but uh Yeah, so uh, what what what's what's breaking right now? Oh, I'm no this is for later. Okay. All right. All right. These these are don't worry about that All right, things are popping. All right. No worries. All right. What um, what else? I I um, I did watch the first episode of last of us and it was fantastic and I'll you know, probably come back and and have more to say when I when I finished that but you played it

Yeah Okay Because like there's there's two watches, right? There's people who did play it and people who didn't and If you didn't play it I could not imagine any complaints because the acting and the cinematography and all that is like dead on a plus No, no, I play the complaints that I have are like, I wish they had done this from the game Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna yeah, I'm gonna see that that little side-by-side afterwards, but um No, I did and uh, yeah, just I fucking loved it and I didn't play too

and I Basically intended to figure that out at some point down the line when it didn't feel like I was being told what I had to think about it because it was just it was just I'm like I want to play this in the dark in the cold and figure it out on my own at some point, but Yeah, it was it was just way too. Yeah at the time so We'll see

Uh, let's see. What else what else is on the list? I'm just I'm doing I'm going to my video producer on twitch That's how I figure out what I did with my week. Oh shit. I can't believe I forgot Yo, have you heard about the indie game dredge? So I was I was uh, I was pointed to this by one kasey explosion the uh sloth mom on twitter um dredge Is one of the best games I have played this year, which I think we're saying this year a lot already Dredge is a fishing game in which you play a little fishing tugboat

And you will be going around various regions and fishing up about 120 different kinds of fish and you'll be uh, you know doing little side quests and You know upgrading your your boat to get better rods or you know bet get better crab traps But the ocean that you are traveling through is horribly cursed by the under gods Oh, cool art style and uh Driving around your boat will increase your your fisherman's madness As you continually dredge up more and more nightmarish Abominations from the deep as you search to find the relics of a long lost love in order to summon a dark god

Fishing Yes I see a lot of sailing here and I know people hate sailing, but I fucking love it Um, is the sailing fun? It is totally fun. Nice You are you're controlling an adorable little tugboat as you are trying to Fish in the waters outside yarnum basically

As you like, you know, you'll you'll like there is 128 fish in the game There's like actually only like 35 to 40 different kinds of fish But there are fucked up eldritch abomination variants of every single fish in the game Such as uh, the fish horribly encrusted with bone eyes Or infecting the rest of your cargo with some kind of horrible Like ectoplasm It is a great fishing adventure game with an incredible setting

Oh, this really good story and excellent music and controls. This just came out like a few days ago Yeah, I have already almost beaten it not because it's short but because I've been going super hard on it Okay, dredge is incredible when you when you fish the fish you have to attach a case Rotate the fish into your inventory because the fish all have different shapes The description that's great the description says inspired by runescape I don't I don't understand that at all, but um, yeah, absolutely fucking fantastic uh, incredible Can't stop playing it

Almost got killed by gigantic eldritch crab that was disguising itself as a plane on the beach Like great great game excellent game can't can't talk up dredge enough Yeah, and I'm like I'm at like the 99 percent mark. I was playing it right before coming over and I got to Uh, there's multiple endings and the endings just tell you hey when you embark on this ending We're not going to save your game. So you can just go do the other one nice if you feel like it I'm like Yes, yeah this art stuff this art style is fantastic. It's so good. It's so good

Is that is a fantastic? Is it 2d or 3d? It is 3d, but it is painted Okay Uh, yeah, the cutscenes are are Like fucking doing it. It's stellar. I cannot I cannot I can recommend dredge to everyone It is both interesting and a fascinating new concept, but also easy to play And super cool. I love it. I love dredge. It's great. Darkest Dungeons fishing game. I guess I could call it I mean I I I I see The vibes I don't want to just call anything that is 2d and eldritch looking darkest dungeon, but yes

But also it really does reminisce from that Uh, yeah, easy recommend. Uh, this game this year is going to be like the most brutal game of the year like Argument that in many many many years Well, like it I guess it's just it all as usual though. It kind of depends on what you're down for right? Like what is your genre? Are you are you but that's the thing? That's that's my point Sometimes a game comes out and it's like oh, that's the one that like and when elden ring came out everyone's like come on

Let's all let's all be real. It's gonna be elden ring, right? This time around hi-fi rush and re4 and now this it's like fucking really good Good this year. It's fucking good And now then you'll have to subdivide into genres Yeah I if I kind of I always want to I always want to know like when these projects started So that like it's like are we seeing like the secret culmination of like a couple years just finally happening finally dropping now

And furthermore, are we seeing the power of not being tethered to an e3 schedule? because That's that when you when you when you kind of get to just you know develop not around the landmark for a game show You can you can do whatever you want. You don't have to push bad vertical slices um So yeah, we'll get to that. I I don't know how long it's been in dev I only found out about it just right before came out but fantastic uh and also

So you you talked about um murder of sonic the hedgehog as streamer bait, right? um One of the other games I played this week is also streamer bait And i'm looking at it like I don't know how much fun it would be off stream Um, it's called king of the castle Um And there's two ways you can play it one is with you and up to 23 opposing friends And the other way is for you to play as the monarch

Against up to 4 000 people in your twitch chat. Okay um So I played the version where I played against people in my twitch chat and It is a really simple game at the end of the day that is just excellently put together It is uh, hey, you're the king And then chat will be filed into three opposing noble factions

And everyone is trying to win everyone's gonna set a goal such as you know, you have stats like military so the monarch has the stats of uh authority and stability for the kingdom And the three enemy factions are gonna have military faith farming trade Religion, etc. Right. Mm-hmm. And so you will start and it will say listen. Hey Hey patre patricians or no the barons. Hey barons. You want to overthrow the king? How do you want to overthrow the king and then they decide, uh, we'll um We're gonna blow the king up. We're gonna muggle in some some gunpowder and blow the king up So, okay, that's your plan that you've decided to go for in order to enact the first step

If your plan you need to have the kingdom stability be high so that You know, you can sneak in the gunpowder or something like that, right? And so then The barons are trying to keep stability high Through various little visual novel style choices like you'll get a little event People are participating via chat commands, right? They don't have to load it up So say you're on the barons team. You've joined with the chat, you know slash Explanation point join and you join the barons, right?

And the you've all voted amongst yourselves. Hey, we want to blow up the king with gunpowder, right? And so, oh, we have to keep stability high. It'll give you a goal keep stability above this number Right and in two turns you'll succeed in part one of your goal Then I go and click through events Right events such as oh, there's a plague. Oh, there's wear boars in my castle blah blah blah And then the series of choices that will increase certain Certain faction stats or decrease others or increase stability or decrease authority are then voted on by everyone And the monarch has the ability to influence that by vetoing certain decisions

or Or incentivizing money for certain other decisions And so it becomes this back and forth of me trying to reach my own goals by Somehow convincing the entirety of chat to vote for the things that I want to I have to convince you of the politic down I have to figure out the way to get the counts and the patricians to get their militaries up So that the barons can't succeed in their military goals But while they're all fighting amongst each other, I have decided I want to hit trade and and and it's all going this

And it is just a it is a it is a formula to get you to fight Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, Is it all venues or is there of any visual menus? Okay, it's all It's all it's there's nice visuals to it. Okay, right And but championship manager though Yeah, yeah more or less. Okay, and what they'll do is it's it's really smart. Um So when people join in on twitch chat and you link your your twitch account if you've bought the game If you happen to own the game and you're in twitch chat

Well, your character can be customized to appear however they want and will have a dramatically likely higher chance of showing up as a main character And so you get into these weird situations in which like chat members are like directly responsible for rebellions or are murdered or You know responsible for allowing some horrible plant to take over the castle and it's it's just a great Fucking like super board game. I'm gonna call it. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And when the uh When the the guillotines drop they can have a nice accurate visual of your head on a spike Yeah, yeah, okay, and then you get the breakdown of who won so like, you know

One of the features of the game is rebellion if because the the final stat on each of the different factions is Displeasure with the way things are going. Sorry defiance So if I decide to I don't know tax the counts Like at the end of your session, you get to pick a Common tax or you can tax specific groups so that they have less money to influence things later Right, so say I tax the counts like I don't know six turns in a row Like I did and I felt really confident because the counts had the worst military. They had a military of one Right like oh, even if they rebel

Well, who gives a shit, right? They have a military one They'll never defeat the combined sources of the other two. Well during the actual progression of the war I accidentally Overspent the treasury down to zero Which caused the army to desert which gave them an instant win Wow Okay, okay twists. So maybe I should have managed my defiance slightly better so that they didn't rebel so this sounds like a

a just litmus test of the Uh, how you've trained your chat And yeah the personality that they have because different streams have different chats and different chats have collective different energy Right. Yeah, and you train that you you you cultivated. So this is just Letting it bear fruit. Um, when I play vermin ty 2 with the twitch chat integration Chat was just spamming throw more rat ogres at him Into chat for like an hour and a half and the game became like totally Uncompletable, right? So I okay. I'm well aware of this. So when you start the coronation

there's a lot of different ways you can throw the coronation and three for three they're like throw them into the river Throw them into the fucking river Do it and so I discovered very easily that I'm like, okay What is the number one way to get this massive group of people to actually do what I want? And it's to say that I want them to do the other thing Okay, is is for me like guys. I think we should spend the treasury money to Uh, hire a witch to to cleanse the forest or whatever and like I can now guarantee that that they will not pick that

They will never pick that they will fight amongst each other to not pick that Yeah, interesting Interesting. Okay That sounds fun. It is a fucking blast The only the only issue I have with it And I played three games of it and I was like, I don't know And then I look at the upcoming patch notes and the upcoming patch notes for version 1.1 of king of the castle are We are buffing the monarch. We are well aware that it is almost impossible to actually win as the monarch

And I'm like, ah, okay. So I'm gonna wait for that patch 1.1 And then I'm gonna go back and just fucking run a dynasty forever I feel I feel as if like again, it depends on which stream like if you can politic towards a group of uh earnest enthusiastic positive twitch chatters that are the ones that they show in in in ads Then maybe you can get those outcomes But the nailing and braying of farm animals that we have over here will not allow you to pass go

Will not allow you to collect $200. So, uh, I yeah, I can't see any outcome Uh, uh nearing victory being possible. I just see how bad could it get is the goal Mm-hmm. Well, well They did kill me in most of those. Well, how about that? um But even the friendly twitch chat, I mean, it's an antagonistic system Like in order to win everyone else must lose. Okay, non-zero, but Where where it get where it gets to be really interesting

Is the manipulation bullshit gets really intense when it's like guys If this vote goes through against me the other faction will instantly win And you'll lose So now we have to work together. You have to do what I want unless you want The the grandees to win. I mean, I want grandees to win if they win someone once said as they jumped off the ledge You didn't win. Yeah, you didn't win Hey, listen

So, you know We learned from watching you. All right. We learned from watching you Uh, I will say though that vetoing, uh, I you know, you get a little taste of government Vetoing something that people really like fucking owns It feels so good. Mm-hmm. You're looking at an option. I'm like, oh, I know they're gonna pick this option And I'm gonna veto it. They can't pick that option. They have to choose two shittier options. I'm like, oh Now I know how it feels. Oh I would veto every bill

Interesting run this fucking kingdom into the dirt No, like Paul it sounds like it would be fun to like To try politicking But like you'd have to yeah, there would have to be some semblance of a shot I wonder what the smaller version is like what he said 25 people Yeah, I'm not super sure. I imagine what it is is that the 24 people are all Split amongst the the different factions and no one is playing the monarch. The monarch is just AI controlled

Sounds interesting, okay Oh Did I do anything else? No, I didn't I'm good. I'm good. I'm done. I'm done with my week. Okay. Oh aside from watching people discover Resident Evil 4 skips Uh, you know, you know when you remember when elden ring came out and people were breaking that game open like an egg and just scooping out It's delicious speedrun technology. Mm-hmm. That's happening to re4 Um and like every single day People like did you know you could just skip this whole encounter if you shot this one thing going backwards?

But are we still in the realm of intended skips? No, okay We have now we are now in the realm of There's at least like 15 intended skips that just skip like a room here or there We are now in the realm of well if you um Take a sniper rifle out crouch and turn kind of weird. You can just teleport through this door Yeah, okay

So so we're we're we're we're we're it's been discovered that there's a lot of doors that open from one side as shortcuts Uh that you can just just back up through And and just just teleport through And just skip like Massive massive amounts of the game So, um, when are the modders gonna get mousley mod modded in so

Uh, I was thinking about this. So mousley. So do you know where mousley came from? No It's just like bowser's that one person said hey, what if ashley was a mouse? And wanted to oh that one tweet. Yeah, I saw that one tweet. Yeah, and then it got retweeted 12 million times And everyone's like, okay mousley. Let's go prompt. Mm-hmm Um, I'm what I think is happening So like the the the the lewis and leon don't have shirts and are oiled up mod That's probably relatively simple. Mm-hmm, right modify the model drop it back in Amorphized mouse ashley probably requires more work. I bet guarantee there's a team working on it

And they're working really hard to make it really good before putting it out as we speak for sure for sure Yeah, that's what that's what I personally think is happening, but yeah No, re4 is going to be one of those games that they get down to like An hour probably Probably that game's great. Oh mercenaries is out this week. Oh fuck. Yeah Yeah What a year so far

But it's Heavy hitters right off the top Um, at this game of the year argument right now. Mm At the same time though, um It's already been a quarter of the year, right? We're already in april. Oh, it's usually not this bad It just that was a full-on King crimson here. We are it's april. Yeah It does feel like that sometimes maybe that's just because we're getting old

Of course, it's the acceleration, but also like Yeah, but Yeah, but no because it all it like everyone always is like, you know, like people younger are still like Jesus christ already Like it it really is like, you know, yeah, we're hitting that that made in heaven. Shit. Um, cool Well, uh Even that's the case before we move into What's going on? Yeah, if you want to watch some of my stupid crap go to twitch.tv slash pat stairs at During the week. It's good

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in order Uh overwatch 2 season 4 new hero lifesaver the overwatch 2 hero lifesaver arranged healer with a massive Life weaver buddy weaver. Excuse me What my brain autocompleted to lifesaver? um Life weaver a range dealer with a massive amount of utility under his belt. Otherwise known as niran puk samani The plant-based pansexual is the first thai hero to enter the multiplayer game And hey, yeah, congratulations thailand gets a representation and their pan

Which means this pretty man also enjoys a spot of penis There you go. Good job for the queer community. Wow, really Yeah, so representation big big points Uh chaser The nlrb says activision blizzard illegally surveyed employees during a walkout If found merit in the unfair labor practice charges filed by the communication workers of america Oops Double that activision blizzard has been sued by the u.s

Justice department for alleged antitrust violations related to its call of duty and overwatch esports leagues including limiting competition and suppressing player wages So i'm gonna update The the the theory here because i think it's just proven at this point, right? It's so proven design character Reflect the scoreboard point point to point to the scoreboard High score Sit on it sit on it

Glass put glass in front of character And do not break glass Until controversy Which will happen inevitably And it will it's kind of a wild It's wild Like bold strategy cotton. Let's see if it pays off like because it's so blatant and brazen

And they just keep doing it Because you know what the funnest thing is about this This one so there are two Stories to deflect from right one is illegally surveying people during a walkout And so it's a labor union uh issue and the other is they're being sued by the u.s Judgment department for antitrust Because they're fucking over the esports people and messing up and suppressing their wages You can actually tell which one of these

The character was supposed to deflect Because the news about illegally surveying uh people Uh, well under in the walkout that dropped at 540 this morning Right the character Dropped at 1140 this morning And the news about the justice department lawsuit dropped at 12 30

Okay, okay, okay, okay, so so the move right On the on the press now your move press is to plan the counterplay Hey When the deflection goes up We need the the new form of ballista to surpass the shields or to get around Right, we need we need the spear tech to be invented if they Always have a character announcement to drop to break the glass that the first attack The first attack will never work. All right. The shield is up diver down as inside

He's gonna tank the first hit it doesn't matter Yeah, it's like labor labor practice violation. He's pretty and he kisses boys. All right Right stopped it. You need to you need to divide the into a two-pronged attack and you need you need to pincer You need to cut from both sides. They'll never have two characters ready to go. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm Yeah, when they're going they're going for the counter breaker Right, but if you get if you get a shadow counter going Uh, they're gonna have to you're gonna have to guess which one of the breakers they're gonna pick. So it's actually to your benefit journalists press to find two stories at a time

And save them together It is it is so fucking funny. Don't just break the first story Check with everybody and and hold it right Store this power Right, and then and then find the second story and then use that to just And then they deflect and then you come back in and and you just X cut Hold hold it. Hold the story. It's good

Beware the second swallow It's Dude, it's It's so obvious. It's so obvious that when I saw the character got announced. I saw people going. What's gonna happen? Like what's coming out today? Oh man What a strategy Like but it doesn't work

And you have to wonder if like the people working on it like Are told like well, I guess no because you make the character you design it And then you don't know what's gonna roll out when you know, you just you just never know. So Like it's just there's a I want like I have to I'm thinking a lot right and it's like, okay. Yes, you could have the character behind glass But what does that actually mean? Well, if it meant that the the boss can send an email that says release what life weaver now It's the shit's going down

That might get complicated if the person who receives that email has decided to walk out So Maybe it's actually Just a button Like a full-on automated task button that gets clicked that instantly updates Battlenet and twitter and all the live services to to just bypass the probability of that issue occurring I think the ultimate one that we saw was with soldier 76 because sexual orientation Is really useful for this kind of diversity metric because you can't see sexual orientation on the character, right?

and you don't have to actually Do anything Right. You actually have to do anything. So like soldier 76. They literally just put out a tweet like He's by also. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah straight up Execute order 66. I I I think it's just it's that simple A line of defensive plays, you know now now here's the thing though, right? The next time if they charge up the second swallow

Right and you get the first hit and then they defend and then you beware the second and then that lens Will act a blizzard drop a second character the next day No, here's here's or a stage Here I am I am unironically right now Expecting a Diablo 4 trailer to come out within the next 15 hours Like will they straight up be like uh and then uh saw both sides come in there is now There I'm telling you right now By tomorrow there will be a Diablo thing

announced I swear oh God damn it. You have to uh Then you know what guys it's just save up a third Just in case right the first might fail So might the second and then you just got to be fucking sendo just on your knees Ah Just sliding from the blind spot right prepare a salvo

They can't counter all of it. They have to run out of announcement ammunition eventually It's amazing. It's amazing. It's the most blatant unbelievable just Absolute pr deflection and you know what it probably always mitigates the damage, right? I don't think that's what's happening I don't think anyone doesn't know that would so like the people that that would see this They have to at least be following it somewhere some that's some degree But that's what i'm getting at right like anyone who follows video game news is going to catch wind

But anyone who's not is just going to catch that twitter update And then that can drown out some of the noise no matter what right there's a there's a and then there's that line of like Where people that are you know just more casual and then people who are like following industry shit Like starts to intersect and like the announcement will always push a little bit a little bit into that space. Yeah, you're probably right That being said what I think is actually happening is that um the people that the there's a cross section of Of people that are like I don't even care anymore Right like there's only so much more evil Activision blizzard can get

right And it's like people that have already decided to buy diablo 4 like nothing's going to stop them Yeah, uh like I don't know if i'm gonna get diablo 4. I probably will I'm i'm thinking like if you run out of character announcements and stages um You can start updating profiles and bios like soldier 76 Or you can just start dropping like Here comes doomfist

uh full on african outfit with the kuffion right Just just like let's just like there's always there's always ways to go back over what you've got and find a new Shield actually so it's a hard battle It's it's it's a hard battle. Yeah. Yeah Brother fist. Absolutely It's so gross and performative like

I'm not in any of the the diverse groups that this would apply to But let's say I was pan and I'm I see the overwatch character being Hey, look they're pan. Don't look at the lawsuit. I'm like, I'd be so grossed out And now you're also creating a Pavlovian response where if they just happen to announce a character regularly No, well now you got to go digging and go wait wait. Well, what happened what got announced who who found what now, you know Did they find the bodies they might have found the bodies or worse the dungeon It's kind of crazy. It's kind of amazing. Yeah, uh good stuff. All right

Well, anyway, oh, yeah people in the chat are mentioning Symmetra being announced as autistic was like gross to people some of the people in the chat are mentioning it just like You just wrote that down You just you just wrote it down. It wasn't like that And then you just decided to go back to the the the calculator and checked an extra box Yeah, you see we thought that the diversity chart score was actually just a Diversity chart score when it turned out it's the strength of the defense

It's it's it's the shield power Or It has a direct application into into defense stats to modify where we're watching a company in real time try and figure out What is the what is the most disingenuous way? You can support inclusion and diversity to to like deflect bad behavior We're watching them like pull the knobs and tweak the chemical reaction Diversity class zero It's the only way you gotta you gotta roll you gotta roll it you gotta roll your thato

No that uh That fad fadko fadko fadko fadko you got you have to roll fadka Oh blizzard let's go Beautiful this this reminds me of like There's an old drill tweet Of like me in front of a crowd pulling a big lever that says racism and looking back And slowly turning the knob and it's and it's like it's it's just it's just a dial Like it's it's five dials and it's like gay

autism A foreign like it's all it's all the different all the points everyone What what if we pull this one all the way Oh god Yeah, and as the as the newspaper starts pulling up and as they the people start getting distracted because they're getting updates on their phones You're just like oh crank it crack it to the max all right That's good. That's good. That's always that's always a fun

Always a fun way to go. Yeah, somebody just sent it to me turning a big dial that says racism on it and constantly looking back At the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right Poor drew carry All right. Well anyways, um beyond that what else is going on E3 is never coming back. No It's dead. It's been dead since before I ever went Well, so it's it's been dead. Yes. There was the pre there was the pre death. That was the uh e for all era Right. Um, but then it died again

And 2019 was the last time um But people companies all started canceling they started moving their their their um Shows around to be there beyond their own schedules that makes sense for them And then with the with with pandemic like with the quarantine a bunch of studios just shifted over to Like working from home schedules and uh, all that means you don't have the regular dev cycle where you can just gear up for Or you have to gear up for a big e3 summer show or whatever the case is So, yeah, um, I mean the actual news story is e3 2023 has been cancelled

no show but I'm just looking at this like it's been gone since 2019 it Probably ain't coming back and if it does it'll again just be a shell of what it ever was because I think not all this major studios that are not showing up are kind of realizing that they don't need to You know and that they can run their own events and that kind of works better for them I think that uh, so I went to e3 the in 2012, right?

And that was already that was 11 years ago And it was already terrible then Because I'm walking around and we're trying to get you know bits for videos And we're trying to talk to people at capcom and we got an interview with Christian Svenson at the time and we're doing all this stuff and I'm looking around And I'm looking at people walking up to like stand in line for merch And just like play the demos and I'm like you all you motherfuckers Scammed your way in and you're not here to work. You're treating it like a fucking convention

You're treating it like Like a fun show to go to on the weekend and you're getting in everybody's fucking way And I'm saying that as somebody who went there after having machinima like scam our way in But we were there to actually record things and talk to people and interview people and that was that that was 2012 Well, uh, it all happened. I can't even imagine how horrible that was I mean dude, what you're describing is the reason why packs exists, right? They're like packs is for people to be able to go play these things and experience the the trade show Uh presentations and such and not just the industry and that's taken off. That's been pretty successful and clearly any

Game that wants to get a spotlight can still jump on one of those can jump on a a You know their own personal direct or they can do different things like for example Coming up in about two weeks is the indie fighting game fest Which i'm gonna be doing something for i'm not quite sure what yet, but You can just get to probably play a fighting game probably Um, but like you can just like you can have your nintendo direct if you're a big company You can have your sony show state of play Um, or you have you know things like the devolver event and so on getting small that ubi always does their own thing

Yadda yadda, but even smaller indies can get together and do these things too. So like Different projects have different needs and are ready to show off, you know things on their own schedule I see no downside to letting e3 die and just letting the year be littered with Things that allow developers to go at their own pace. There's no downside to this Yeah, e3, um made a lot more sense, uh when you had to get print media The pivot to internet has made the dominance of print media for video games totally pointless Like it made a lot of sense back in 2002 Sorry 2001 and you want people to write not in 2001 1999

Whatever whatever year the metal gear solid 2 trailer was running for hours and hours and hours And you can get everybody in and they could write about how unbelievable metal gear solid 2 looks But you need everyone in the building to see it because you can't Send it to them over the internet the files too big you'd have to mail it out. You don't want to do that Blah blah blah blah Now that you can just live stream fucking agl Numa talking for 13 minutes about how you're gonna put a stick on your rock in the zelda You don't need e3

You don't need it. Yeah, and and and again, you know like as I said like you you you pick and choose and like um, you know e3's canceled, but Uh, depending on the genre. So, you know, what's a much better venue for certain game announcements? Evo japan, which is happening and a bunch of like fighting game news came out of that Like there's always just something that you can pick that is a bit is better suited. So Uh Rip and piss, you know, that's that and um I only heard one thing about evo japan

And that was about a competitor named punk Complaining about the laggy monitors And holding up top eight for a half hour because of it. Yeah, um only to get fucking rinsed out Yeah, that's yeah, that's that's that's on brand If you know punk, you know, you know what you're getting into Uh, that's that's par for the course. We yeah, so um That's that's the way it go

But uh, even if he was right, you have to win. You can't delay the tournament and then lose Again anyone who's been paying attention for the last couple years knows the deal there's always going to be a story Uh, when it comes to punk Yep, uh They did announce some stuff though, right? For example they've been announcing a bunch of tech end characters, uh, and They just dropped uh at evo japan the trailer for leroy and asuka

And you didn't see the asuka one. Yeah, so that's the thing is like I cut a lot of the returning cast I mean so far. It's all returning cast. Um, I was kind of like, oh, yeah, okay. It looks cool. Looks cool King looked pretty fucking sick. That was nice. We're you know king looking looking awesome But it was really fun to see them jumping to like, uh, a mod a new DLC character to be like, oh, shit like here is someone from way at the other end of the release spec Uh, um spectrum. Yeah, leroy is technically returning, but he's Brand new as far as compared to like, you know, kazi and king and exactly. Yeah. So that's cool. Um, happy to see he's in there And he's uh, the the fucking the godfather of drip

Just absolutely grand master of drip grand master of drip just killing it um sugar in tow And uh asuka is interesting because this is She's got her bicycle. Yay But but this is now the equivalent of her sakura grown-up outfit Where she's now out of school. She's no longer a student. She's uh 18 at this so she I guess she has a job or so So she's wearing that that kind of little snazzy

Look police guard looking thing Um, not too sure looks like marie From the persona Because she's hat. She's yeah, she's she's got a little uh badge too as well. It's it's a cute outfit. It's not It's not not my favorite, but it's cute I'd like to see Some of her alts and see what she gets for that But I do appreciate at least the passage of time, you know, that's that's all right

Tekken needs to do another 20 year time skip So They only did that between two and three, right? Yeah, like they jumped 19 years And then after that everything was like a couple of months apart. Yeah a couple months. I think there was like two years between Maybe like five and six But everything else has been like and then a little bit later and then a few weeks later Yadda yadda so

well a What do you think the possibility on is? At a percentage like zero to 100 percent that the final character announced for Tekken 8 before dlc Is going to be hey hachi mishima There are already a number of people who are Begging for a flashback sequence in the story mode So that he can be on the roster. Yeah, and just let him be a dream state um

And they were not this is a canon entry though and remember it's the return of jan kazama who's totally Not she was dead never mind the fact that we saw her in the two tag tournament matches before that or unknown um No, um Yeah, they're there there could honestly I could see there being a uh some sort of like in the way that like asuka comes on as a like not quite a

Not quite a Protagonist but still a new You know kazama representation thing they could do like a hey hachi Spiritual alt new character because we haven't seen any new characters at all. You know um It's just the returning crew so far and there's probably going to be someone Plot related that they can drop in there to be like I don't know whatever hey hachi had a cousin

You know what they do. You know what they'll do I'm telling you right now. Remember how cause you got horribly burned in that volcano and died And they just use a little little bit of scientists not really but yeah to just make them better They're just just gonna pull the hey hachi will come out and they'll be like, yeah, they got better and then he'll have a little burn mark Sure, he got be you can do that. You can do that. You could get you could get You could get lar's mom and just go like yo like lar's is doing his thing but like tehachi was Super like interested because she was a good fighter and he taught her his moves and now that's why he banged her. So

BAM We got mama alexanderson Like here here's the thing right they literally already did a whole game in which the tagline was hey hachi michima is dead Yes, and then he was part of the base roster Okay, how about this he comes back and he's got shades and purple hair and his name is violet Sure Fuck it

Who are you talking about it's just me violet I understand that sometimes you want to do a story in your fighting game and that's cool however In terms of that affecting the character roster Fuck off No one cares Here's what I would do If it were me if I were herata

I would make it so that hey hachi is not in the game And then I would make it so that there's a percentage chance that if you pick moku jin Moku jin might have hey hachi's fighting style I saw I saw somebody in the chat say that He should possess kuma as a ghost. No, but kuma needs kuma's moves No, because panda also has kuma's moves So you can have hey hachi kuma and then panda No, no, no, you need you need a roll and your moku jin might be hey hachi

That's the way you get him in there Good luck The moku jin remembers the soul of the dead So We got a little bit of that going on and then of course Some other fighting game news We got a Announcement king of fighters 13 global match announced for ps4 and switch

So kf 13 also getting rollback Hooray And then there was one Now there's only one left King of fighters neowave For the atomas wave system No 11 my fucking favorite 11 is the only one missing Oh, and it's the one I want the most

It's probably because of the best king of fighters game Um She played like the best one. It played like marvel. It was amazing It really was Yeah, and and it it's been ignored interface. I've ever seen in a fighting game the worst But boy it was fun to shoot the shoot the gun with oswald I I really hope they give it some love. Um, you know before it's forgotten forever And while you're at it if you're gonna bring back 13

Like we all want to forget that 12 exists, but yeah, we do but just grab the backgrounds Because there are some crazy wild fun backgrounds From that game. There's also some rough ones There's there's some really rough ones one. I'm thinking of right now. Yeah, you were all thinking of that one That one's Hey, all right, save that for the re5 remake, but um But but there's some nice ones that need to be pulled out of 12 because we don't need 12 back

But save the art, you know Um Yeah, yeah, I that's what that's what would be ideal do that and then you bring 11 out and then we're we're square We're good they also announced The new fatal fury gaoro game is development continues furiously and they confirmed um Rock Howard terry bogart andy bogart and joe higashi

Wow I can't believe yeah But at the same time They've never been like rock has never been in a game with andy and Like, you know, like they've never been the full classic trio and the new as well because andy was gone from mark of the wolves and cvs had joe, but like The fact that it's the original trio and the new era means we get to see them fast forwarded and there's a little um

In the artwork you can see andy's wearing like a kind of like a proper like suit outfit and Joe is wearing The outfit that his broken arm Sprite in mark of the wolves two had So they're keeping that idea. So yeah, we're digging now We're digging but mark of the wolves two which never came out was datamined and someone found a disc and they had a bunch of

Sprites from it And then they found the sprite a sprite of joe higashi who was gonna be like all busted up But he's got a student that he's teaching how to fight and that design is kind of what we're seeing in the artwork for this new game So they're still kind of carrying some of that forward. I wonder if it's actually going to pick up where the story left off It'll be interesting. Um, but yeah new mark of the wolves Garo or so on the way um And then in fighting game news, we also just caught that

Uh, yay legendary has acquired the live action film and tv rights to street fighter Yay Yay new street fighter live action movie. Yay. Yay. Woo. I know I know we live in a time where adaptations are doing really well and they're getting better but I just Like I just I went like whatever efforts those are put them into the story of I hope sticks I hope the story of six is not just the most nothing in the world like I

I bet it is it's going to be but I it would be such a nice surprise if it were not and Now we're gonna take a crack at it again Yes, man I don't I don't know that legendary can can make it work. I don't you know, there's nothing there that makes me go Yeah, they're the ones I don't think it can't be made to work I think it can but It's hard. I think you're nuts. I think it's I think it's hard and probably not worth it You know because you got to kind of get somebody

with like A fucking visionary idea that is probably a huge departure from what street fighter actually is To make something wild and cool out of it that would be like oh, we're doing something new and ridiculous like I just I don't You know, you know what I mean like you can do like someone can be like, you know I want to do some wild shit like for example like dread was a great movie But it didn't have to be about dread because it could also just clearly be the raid Yeah, you know like something like like you can just like you can have a really cool concept for a thing and it can be street fighter You know

Nothing brand money go buy it it says street fighter on it. I don't I don't need this to exist I don't need it, but here we are Oh, it's gonna be trash, dude But capcom makes bank on fucking every live action thing they do right they sure do Like they made money off of the van dam movie for decades That funded a bunch of their shit and I I bet you somewhere that kristin krueger movie must have scraped together enough bargain bin wal-mart sales to like

It cost like 20 dollars to make so they must have broken even at some point I don't know. Um, they were they were capcom. We know firsthand that the uh, the old van dam movie as goofy and as much of a joke as that is Made them so much money that it was worth it to re-enter into this market You know, they made they made a ton in residuals after the fact that they did not expect that to pay off for them So they were extremely happy with that Um

It could yeah, I guess it could have been worse they could have handed it off to to Paul No, they should have They should have given us giving it to paul just hand it off to paul. Yeah And added it added into the monster hunter resident evil milia verse. This is this is this is um Mila Jovovich Ryu her father was a great warrior. She swears his headband Actually her name her name is just milia and she wears a white gi and has a red headband. Yeah And her friend ken is there

It's so bad. Oh my god Anyways, um Keep my wife employed Uh Well, that's that's that's one adaptation announcement, but there were others for example Uh fucking edgar right said we're doing the scott pilgrim anime And the entire cast from the live action film is back together for it I saw somebody talking about this on social media and I have to I have to agree

Uh in order to do scott pilgrim and its entirety you would have to do an anime because all of The locations in scott pilgrim are gone. They're they don't exist anymore. They're completely gone single location That takes place in scott pilgrim's book is gone. Anything cool about toronto has been condoified So, uh, yeah No, they are completely uh, but this is awesome. They're doing it. They're doing it and I'm like getting the cast back together is a particularly uh, a fun touch to it I'm surprised edgar right would be like, yeah, I'm down to revisit and do this But it turns out that they've been trying he's been doing like, um

Charity reads and they've been doing stuff off screen for a while now for years Like I didn't I haven't been paying attention But he's been talking about it a bunch and like really really loves it and wants to do more So, uh, this is awesome because it's like the live action was really fun. The cast was great. Um, obviously the original is fantastic too Putting those together and we're getting like that over the style of the brian leo mali stuff is going to be like dope as fuck so, um and um Obviously the movie

You know adapted and summarized a lot of those those the content but skipped a couple things But yeah, if you're growing for a full adaptation in animated form, you can do way more, you know so that's coming to netflix and um fuck man, that's I I would not have expected that at but here we are um It's interesting too because I get I wonder if like brian leo mali is kind of like hey, I made other stuff like there's lots of fuck

There's lost at sea over here if anybody wants it you know Uh, yeah, but but but this is fantastic. This is cool. Just fucking milk it just milk the shit out of it forever Um And you know what just go back and get an amount of gucci on the soundtrack for the movie too, which they did That's part of the confirmation wait what wait what yeah for the movie for a rather rather for the uh for this tv for the anime Yeah, I didn't catch that music for it. Holy shit. Yeah, okay. Well fuck That's I literally I didn't I missed that in that part of a joke just now. No, I had no idea

I was just saying. Oh, yeah, that would be super fun to get the amazing soundtrack from the game and get them to fucking wow perfect Done couldn't that's it then I have nothing else to say Wait for it to exist. That's that's that's great. That's really a big fan of this style of revelation of like You know what they should do this. They're already doing that. Oh, they are. Yes. I have the good idea I'll just well the idea was the correct idea time to just sit here and wait then we're good Um Yeah, fuck. Yeah good stuff

uh, and then Just a little bit before we went live, uh the trailer for blue beetle dropped and I'm bringing this up because There's some shit in here worth checking out So blue beetle has always been a a fan favorite one of the goofy fun characters that uh, I remember back in the day like my friend would send me panels and and

Show me pages and stuff of just like these great moments because the previous blue beetle was like just a fan boy of the justice league and like had these these funny little quips and things and Blue beetle and booster gold, you know would always be like these these little punch lines, but uh the fucking movie trailer just dropped and it's the Yeah, it's it's um Basically like saying what if we did our dc superhero thing? But we're just doing toku And and the last shot of the trailer is he summons a buster sword

Slides it on the ground creating sparks Kicks it flips it up and then holds it forward and you're like, oh shit They're doing toku action I feel like the whole trailer and everyone's reaction is is based off of that one shot Because the rest of that looks awful. There's one other shot There's one other shot where he does the the midair to the wall sidekick on the guy dismissively that's another kind of like you know, um

Uh, uh, what the fuck am I thinking of? uh Garo-esque Right, just bam and keep walking. So there's two shots. There's two Here's what we're probably gonna get we're probably gonna get um, I you know, george lopez is there It's it's gonna do its thing. We're gonna get the the the story of the the the pr um Blue beetle and it'll it'll just it'll be completely meh, but the action will be sick as fuck

I'm anticipating if the choreography is being done by someone who understands the sword scrape kick into pose With the buster sword the the choreography is probably gonna be hot shit So this is what we're going for um Tune in tune in for the fight hoping all as well I'm looking at this clip of of like of of him doing the sword The sword move and he's in the empty warehouse that that the toku characters fight in. Yeah Exactly an empty cg warehouse and now they got to kick them out of that into the empty open field

in the industrial area of uh of yokohama You know and that and then we that's it. That's the only way for this to go I the fights need to just kind of take place in Isolated desolate japan Get to the quarry even yeah, sure absolutely, man I I

I would love if this movie was secretly just a toku thing and If you know then you know but in the meantime, hey new dc movie, but there's a whole side thing going on That's just a fun extra dynamic. All right So woolly as somebody who doesn't particularly read comics and is barely familiar with blue beetle The only things I know about blue beetle is that he hangs out with massive loser booster gold Yeah, I I can't don't look to me for answers. I can't give you many but I'm just like why is why is blue spider man blue spider iron man Make people so excited. I don't understand

um kajida the the the beetle is is it it has selected him and It sometimes takes control But this is a different long blue beetle. Do you guys think I give a shit which blue beetle? I'm talking about the previous one the previous one. This is the new the new guy The new the new the new prk is not is not the same. No, though the fanboy. I was talking about that's the is the one from before

Anyway, it whatever it's like green lanterns where there's different mantles in yadda yadda But yeah, I again, I don't I but I can't give you any any proper fucking info because all all my shit is You know a second party as well to like someone who's just telling me about the fun stuff with that. So yeah, but um, and then the first one was like just like a cop or something like It was from from way back. So anyway, um young dumb fucking

uh superhero energy But I just I say tune in and see if we get anything half resembling karras you know Uh at the very least check out the last like minute of the trailer to see what I'm talking about Really the trailers three minutes long if they're gonna watch the last minute I just watched the whole it's not like the 10 minute long fucking trailer. Yeah, I'm just But I'm specifying the part that I find cool

Is because the last minute is essentially just the last shot and then a bunch of like Bullshit at the end. Yeah, so you got to go to like the 215 marker. So I don't know. I see this blue beetle man and aside from the cool sword move. I feel literally nothing. That's fine. That's that's okay. Um just Maybe the maybe the cut maybe the the the the fight scene cut compilation Will be hot shit. Yeah, maybe We'll see don't understand blue beetle It's uh, but no if blue beetle is a fan favorite like it's it's uh, just again goofy. Well previously

Anyway, in this context um Goofy fan boy that was kind of Deadpool-ish in that like being A fan of the characters of the justice league and stuff meant that he would like be like meta about stuff and Be kind of more of a fun a funny thing than like a dead serious thing Yeah Is my I'm gonna I'm gonna shrug. No, I'm gonna shrug it blue then I was then I was told wrong I'm sorry. If that's not right, then I then I was told wrong. I'm sorry. I'm relaying incorrect information my mistake

I'm sorry. I can only talk about what I kind of Purrfully heard. I'm the wrong person for this information. Never mind. I'm gonna stop talking. Leave me alone. We're done Stop talking about it. Move me over. It looks stupid. I can tell you that is great next topic done Um, but what else is going on? I Don't know Vince McMahon is back and he has he has shown up with a weird mustache

And he's he's an out because because wwe has been sold technically not sold but acquired Whatever by endeavor now endeavor the number two hero of japan Has Has acquired the wwe um No, uh, yeah, so endeavor. I was like who the fuck is that it's the parent company of ufc and apparently they've basically merged

So that they have a 51 controlling interest in the company it was a The valuation of the deal is 21 billion the the deal was nine point three and um, you know what? I don't know what the fuck this leads to but if if vince can Uh,

Slink back into the shadows um So supposedly what this leads to is they were trying to sell it And they were shot down every single offer from anyone that included the criteria of vince has to go away though So vince will not be sliding back into the shadows that would be consolidating power again He okay, okay, so everyone who wanted it But wanted him gone was not allowed. I see no, okay

Yeah, he tried he went away for What was it months? Yeah, because of the crimes. Yeah, I want to say it was less than a year, right? Yeah, no, it was not very long and I want to say as well that people immediately started going. Holy shit. WWE is so good now for Uh, a second there. Um, but yeah, wow. All right There you go um

I mean, I I think a lot of people expected it would have been Saudi Arabia. It wasn't uh at the end of the day, but You have to wonder if there was a like No, we got to get rid of vince clause in that situation too Either way, he's wouldn't want to fence around. That's basically what I'm wondering um Yeah, yeah, so parent company of UFC um So now whenever undertaker

Sits in in the audience and talks shit It can be actually part of a bit this time. It can be it doesn't have to be unscripted You know, it can be a weird interaction that just Confuses everybody, but it can be used and promo on raw or smackdown Uh Vince is gonna like die in some kind of calamitous event that is totally his fault Like Like I I'm seeing him like

Like some kind of safety malfunction at an event Like decapitates every single person in the front row at a wrestling show including vince And it just comes out. He was just going. Ah, you don't need the safety. I will untie for this He's gonna feel a sneeze coming on and he's gonna choose to just die instead of let it out If um Yeah, yeah, anyway, um So that's pretty much the deal Um, I mentioned it a little bit earlier, but I did just want to yeah mention uh to

Mention as well that yeah indie fighting game fasts coming up. Uh, april 13th Um cool thing to promote um Fucking 40 plus well, however many tons and tons and tons of indie fighting games all that bullshit All those all those all the random indies that I've been playing Um In on getting to fighting games over the last couple years are gonna be there and some new stuff as well, so Uh, they're gonna have some streaming things and I again, I signed up. I don't quite know what I signed up for

I have to be honest. I got an email or two. I've been busy. I don't know what I signed up for But I'm I'm obviously down to promote the indie fighting games and again about Almost everything on that list. I've already done an episode for but something's coming up We're gonna go look up the indie fighting. What's it called indica? Uh, hashtag indie fighting game fast. Um on on twitter Should link right to it indie fighting indie fighting games. Okay. Here we go I want because I want to see the I want to see the list on this Oh, yeah, it's a paste bin. Come on. There's no, there's a doesn't image With all the logos here. So yeah, um

punch planet merfight head-to-head schwarzenblitz Uh, yomi hustle your only move is hustle footsies two strikes dash walk combo babies vita fighters fly punch boom the black heart yomi buck up and drive Breakers revenge fighting jokes like it's all there terror drum Mega knockdown resistance 2040x It's all there. It's all all there, you know, um Just we're gonna be fucking. Yeah, we're going in

And this is the shortlist too anyway Uh, yeah wanted to bring some attention to that And they're gonna have some discounts and and and uh demos and previews and stuff as well for like If you want to get in on any of the games and stuff, they'll be cheaper during that period of time as well April 13th to 17 Uh, cool. All right Um

Shoutouts volta base aka volta who just made an awesome animated video for jonathan young Oh, yeah, ridiculous starship velociraptor that ja volta most animation Yeah, volta is just reaching for like the fucking heavens and has conquered them Like it's just he's he's literally just take it off in a way that is like Oh, yeah, that talent will not be bridled at any way shape or form The problem is that when I see this type of quality output I know that like he took life damage to make it. Yeah, probably or just spent like an entire year on it Um, but but nonetheless go check out the latest

Uh Starship velociraptor music video by volta incredible All right, take some letters Hey, if you want to send in a letter, uh, hopefully a good letter send it to castle super beast mail at gmail.com That's castle super beast mail at gmail.com. Hey before we get into that letter I there was something I forgot to talk about you remember the victrix pro controller

So I had originally ordered it from video games plus.ca because they said hey, we got them in stock and we're gonna have We're gonna send them out And that was on february 20th And it's now march 31st. Sorry, april 3rd after like two full delays I write them and go. Hey, is this ever coming out, dude? And they go we are still waiting for a shipping update from from pdp We have no eta on these items and of course

On the website it says refunds for this reorder will only be given in store credit in giant red And i'm like god You know when you're getting ready and you're like i'm about to have an interaction with someone and get pissed off Because in my heart i'm like well in the red it says y'all you only accept store credit for this But you also said it would come out on march 1st and then march 31st So I was like hey, can I get a refund and they went okay, and then they refunded me the whole amount within 10 minutes

Okay, so hey video games plus ca will absolutely refund your shit if something falls through no matter what they say on their website So hey thumbs up. Nice. That's good. I'm now going to go order it from the pdp website in which it is just in stock And I am now confused as to what the problem with this thing elsewhere is Um Yeah, no, this is the bfg pro. Yeah, I uh, I loaned mine to test your luck and Um, he's gonna take a crack at it and we'll see if he I think we made a deal that if he wins evo Uh, he gets the the nago ryuki mask that I have so oh, yeah, we will see but he's got to win evo He's got to win evo. What do you get if he doesn't win evo?

Uh, yeah, there's no loose condition. He doesn't get the mask Do you really you really fuck the dog on this bet because he's probably not going to win evo? That's hard. Hmm. It is pretty hard, but he did get top 16 before so yeah, I know but it's it's hard It's very hard. It's very hard. Yes. I mean he like there's always okay So without prom to when reggie enters uh at umad and we mad and stuff and enters tournaments He enters as wv Chester

And i'm like who the fuck told you to go in sponsored by woolly versus what the shit? This was not discussed or agreed upon but he enters his wv like even I don't do that I just got wasn't really funny. I just go as woolly like what the fuck? Anyways castle super beast male at gmail.com Email may sound something like this Hunter asks dear beast lords I just beat seckero for the first time last night and I had a great time with the game Feel like I didn't use the shinobi prosthetics that much on my playthrough

Due to them needing spirit emblems I always found that I ran out and if I ran out on boss attempts, I just stopped using them all together It made me wish that maybe the prosthetics were on a cooldown so that I didn't have to farm them Otherwise you wouldn't get to do the cool-ass combos Otherwise you wouldn't get to do the cool-ass combos with them if they were on a cooldown I guess my question is would you prefer something like the shinobi prosthetics to be on a cooldown or is it consumable that you can farm? There's absolutely no reason for either of those at all The spirit emblem thing in seckero sucks so much shit

Yeah, it does they're not good enough That you need to have any cooldown on them at all So it feels as if they like stamina should be the cost, but there's no stamina Therefore we had to invent another cost, right and it feels like it was like kind of fitted in Like retroactively or like or like just maybe not retroactively But it feels like it was like we need some kind of thing to slow you down on this But a consumable that you have to farm sucks because then you're just going to stop the game to go farm that So you're just wasting time really

You know, I don't think I don't want action games to have to account for fucking grind time You know, especially when all you're going to do in a game like that is go to the one spot Load up jump off the thing take out the stealth guys and then you could do it again for two hours Right, like you just go to a farm spot and that's that's not a fun thing to do in video games So blood vials and spirit emblems are massive fucking mistakes Yeah, um, I there can be I have no problem like if you don't want to cool down I have no problem with limited number per sit

That's okay to me too anything literally anything other than the some system they have it's yeah, it's terrible Yeah, I think I think you just like, you know, the the cool down would be a better than consumable option But best would be if you need to limit it in some way Um, because and because well one make them strong enough that like the limitation is worth it But two, yeah limited number per sit every time you use them you're gone, but um, you have a number and then you can perhaps Get them back in the same way that you can do like shinobi executions and get your your your revive back You know, perhaps you can restock on your your shinobi mechanics every time you get back a

A shinobi revive Sekiro's um Everything to do with Sekiro's items is the worst part of Sekiro um So the spirit emblems for that is terrible um, all the consumable items Are like all the think of all the candies you get Um, but the way by far the worst was the divine confetti

Where you get a limited amount of divine confetti and then you'd have to use up a divine confetti to even attempt Uh a boss and then you would die and you're like great I can't even attempt that boss anymore because I don't have any more divine confetti But like I was replaying it a little bit a few weeks ago And I'm like why the fuck do I have to hold a button down to have money flow into my character? Like it is totally baffling like why why why does the money not just fly into my character like souls do? It's so stupid. It was especially frustrating when uh, because that was a game where like The design doesn't call for it. It's just not what the game's about but I really

Especially early on hoped that there would be other weapon choices So, you know as the game that's designed to be like no, this is a sword game And then you have a couple extra weapons I was like well now I really want those weapons and their move sets to be interesting and like that's I was putting a lot of hope Into that stuff, you know, and then it gets kind of knee capped in this way. So yeah You know, it's one of those one of those things where I'm like they could have done that way better But that's that's Sekiro, right?

um anyway I know a lot of people feel differently, but Uh, we got one coming in from mark says dear hi-fi woolly and pat rush. So, um Okay, so the tldr is a friend says that triple-a companies Shouldn't make smaller indie games Uh, because it hurts the indie scene and I said that triple-a studios should be able to make whatever games they want to make Your friend's an idiot. I recently got into an argument

With a friend about triple-a companies making smaller scale games like 2d side scrollers and how they should and how they should not be allowed Because it encroaches on the indie scene making it harder for indie games to get out the door What's the cutoff point, dude? My counter argument was that we'd never get games like rayman origins Legends pac-man championship edition metroid dread etc etc These games were made because of how much the indie scene popped off during the 2010s Catching the attention of bigger companies showing them the value of smaller scale projects if triple-a only made big budget 3d games

I argued the indie scene wouldn't really be better off as most people would stick to what they know and rarely explore other gaming experiences His only good rebuttal was that the comparison aspect of the gaming industry is heavily skewed in favor of large companies Thus making anything remotely close to an indie game Uh, that would only do more harm to the indie scene. So your friend is so stupid And while I agree the companies have a huge advantage over any indie project It doesn't mean their existence is actively hurting the scene Unless they decide to wage war against it the whole argument started because I said it would be nice if triple-a studios Were allowed to make more interesting games that aren't huge in scope and budget more often

What do you think of this little squabble? I mean it's it is ridiculous To stand there and say that things should not exist just because based on the idea that The the scene would get affected in that way let the fucking good games exist. That's crazy. That's crazy I want I want to grab this person and like show them 15 different games and be like which ones of these are indie games Yeah, what are what are you? What about triple-i? Right? Hades? Is that an indie game? What about the studios that make small games that then Blow up and get successful off of them and then make larger games that are

Questionably indie at that point, you know, and then what about the again the bigger studios that make smaller games that are able to like use The scale of that game to take an otherwise beloved but dead ip and use it You know something that would like something they would never invest a massive triple-a budget in fucking strider You know, but they would give it a shot as as a small side-scroller You know, you're right. You know, you can have some some really

Some really cool indie games like the witcher three and cyberpunk 2077 Yeah, um, no, I think that's a good indie game. I like that indie game Like the idea of drawing an arbitrary line in the sign in the sand to protect the scene When the whole thing is just a big Fucking fluid mess of different scale companies that get bigger and smaller and yadda. Yeah, like that's ridiculous, man That's that's silly and furthermore in a lot of cases There will be an like a small studio that gets picked up by a larger publisher To make something that is an ip within

You know a larger company but on a smaller scale because this team can do it okay, so It's extra hilarious because indie Specifically in the versions of games means a self published Game that the developer is publishing themselves. They don't have to go to a different developer so Witcher three one of the most expensive rpgs ever indie game

Hi-fi rush Made by a small team, but technically owned by microsoft Big budget AAA Shut up. It's totally pointless. The only the only signifier of indie nowadays is budget And when people say indie they usually mean small game Yeah, no indie indie kind of exactly is just small game Um, but triple i as we said is even though no one's really saying that there's the idea of like there are indie games that are massive

Huge budgets that like self published nonetheless, but still like make the scope questionable Not everything is shovel night anymore. You know, I think the indie scene is really gonna is is really gonna be under threat by the massive Publishing arm that made us the murder of sonic the hedgehog Which is technically a non indie game Despite being made by a bunch of fans because it's technically published by my sega Also just calling for in time for things to not exist Like just on a broad scale like No, things should not like that's such a crazy fucking day

You remember when ubi soft put out rayman origins and child of light and that killed the indie game scene Anyway, I think um I think mark here wrote in knowing exactly what would happen. Oh, absolutely. Oh, that's the best type Hey, I know that any normal person would think that the person i'm having an argument with is a fucking moron But could you confirm that for me? You want to straighten this out? Yeah. Yeah, no problem um All right, we got one coming in from wesley who says dear dread beast and red beast Um in star trek picard

We meet jack a young man with a tragic past that makes it hard for him to trust people He also has the ability to make his eyes glow red and force someone to copy his actions Just wanted to let you know where sasuke ran off to Can you confirm? No, that sasuke is in I cannot star trek picard. I I can and will not Star trek has a really definitive stop watching date And that is the end of deep space nine

Just just give up unless you like trash if you like fucking trash you go watch some voyager episodes That's some trash, but then you get into just like hot hot garbage That's unfortunate People saying voyager is okay. You are wrong unless you like trash All right, uh And let's take one here from Mitch who says dear woolly who can't bend his knees and pat who swears this will be the last time he kneels But for real this time

I don't understand that at all. Of course, you don't understand it. That makes no sense Please explain to me why george lucas is a money hungry hack for every star wars directors re re recut that He released and told the same story with if not for a few slightly different scenes and better effects Now explain why re4 ff7 modern warfare 2 etc are good creative decisions by game companies Yeah, I get it's your job to play games But are you were you aware that on last week's episode of the podcast? Paul marketing got you so high on nostalgia that you were actually excited and hyping up a release or a re-release Of an absolute turd of a game resident evil 5

Anyway, enough being salty, I guess my question is what debt or forgotten franchise Would you want to see brought back in the form of making sort of a brand new title? So I I completely understand their point So I completely understand their point and there is some merit to it in that george lucas did get a lot of shit for constantly re-releasing things And you've got like red letter media and people like us who are like man. What among money hungry shitbag idiot moron Blah blah blah meanwhile, we're fawning over remakes of games that came out 20 years ago. There's a few distinctions to be made george lucas took steps to actively destroy the original versions of those films

RE4 Continues to exist and capcom will sell it to you. Gladly There's no there's no attempt to make it so that you can't play original re4 Meanwhile george lucas would release new versions of his movies go Yeah, those old ones are terrible and do everything in his power to stop the old ones from being sold or existing at all So that's one See if the stuff that Was done to the re-release didn't make it shittier

Then I wouldn't have a problem with it But it's the part where it's shittier and has dumb things in it that makes it worse So right people point out warcraft 3 original good is good Warcraft 3 original no longer exists warcraft 3 reforged is much worse. That's a problem Right on top of that one of the reasons why people are easy to dunk on george lucas Is that he made the prequel star awards movies, which are some of the worst movies I've ever seen in the theater Meanwhile the resin evil 4 remake is stellar and is possibly a game of the year

And that would be the case even if original re4 didn't exist because it's not that it's nostalgia. It's that it's excellent Now re4 as well as in a different camp entirely from something like f of 7 Which is more than just a remake clearly because it's a whole fucking reimagining of what that game is and could be All of which i'm super open for because I don't think that star wars once the original original trilogy existed Should have stopped closed shop and ended it. I have no problem with new star wars and new things existing in that world You want them to be things of quality, right? The main the main thing here that you seem to not understand as a through line Is when it's done well is when it's done in a way that preserves what's liked about the thing and doesn't replace or

hide or Edit out stuff that people enjoyed It's not the concept itself. That's the problem. It's the execution of it But you seem to think that everything is the same and it's the idea of the remake That's the problem when it's clearly not So I'd also like to go on to say that like the term remake is actually a little bit of a problem here So when when the special edition of star wars came out, which is a worse cut of the original star wars Yeah, cg replacing the original special effects weird things like han stepping on the tail all that

Fucked up. It's still star wars, right? It's just edit here edit there cut effect redone effect here It's still 95 of the same movie. It's the same actors the same scenes, right? Resident Evil 4 remake is completely new built engine completely new like it's the the distinctions are different You want to think about a remaster as if we were talking about video game remasters going. Oh my god. Look Okami in hd came out It's the best thing ever because it's okami in hd And the thing that I can think of that actually fits this description the best Is dmc devil may cry got re-released on the consoles with a bunch of changes

And that's the game going forward Uh, virgil doesn't have his fedora anymore Right they changed a couple of the gameplay things with hitting red and blue enemies And that's the version of the game that people are going to remember and the reason why people look on that fondly Is because that version of the game is better than the original released version Every version that lucas ever put out Afterwards was always an inferior version to the original cut It's kind of wild to

Uh Take up an argument in a straw man fashion that nobody's having like i've never Said that about uh like i've never said that about modern warfare 2 or whatever But regardless if the words are being shoved in my mouth To just take up the argument and zoom out in such a way where the quality of what we're discussing is no longer the factor that is Deciding how we feel about it. It's just the mere concept of revisiting the thing Like it's such a weird like in a world where i've spent the last god what decade like talking about how awesome Bionic commando rearmed is and shit like that and we go on and on about the like it's so wild to not understand

That it's it's about the quality of the execution You know, um anyways, so yeah, the reason why people sit on george lucas has made a shit ton of bad movies in a row And then made the movie that you liked actively worse Yeah, i mean, hey, hollywood remakes films the departed is a remake of infernal affairs Guess what it rules To fuck they're both great movie. They're both great. I still recommend you watch Infernal affairs one two and three and the departed Star face and the thing

Are remakes of earlier movies Yeah, so anyways, I don't know like this is not a case of like goalpost moving like mitch like changed fields and went Oh, he lives in a different reality He grabbed the basketball court and he brought and he took the rim with him and we're over here on the soccer field Like it i would like to recontextualize the question Why is it when george lucas makes something worse people like that less than when capcom makes something better? Yeah, because it's better Instead of being worse

You said dmc dem will may cry, but you could have said dmc four. You could have said dmc three You could have said, you know, it's funny five. You know what game i'm not going to talk about resident evil three remake You know why because resident evil three remake is worse than resident evil three So people don't hold it up like they do two and four Hmm really interesting despite the fact that it's a new game That's interesting. I didn't realize that you guys felt so badly about it I remember you guys said it was rushed and I remember you thought so much, dude I thought that it kind of landed in the place where it's still better than the original

But it's just nowhere near what two was loving me for a human being that doesn't mind the old controls Yeah, the old one's much better, but if you're a human that does mind the old controls because Well, let's be honest, um You you would prefer the new one just just because of the way it controls Anyway, so there you go, mitch. All right. Hope that helps. Wow. We got a lot of wrong in the emails today Yeah, but but in one case it was uh, uh, the The debater throwing his friend under the bus and in this case we just get some dude coming in I gotta say I love this like fucking combative you in in your heart

Terrible take Like shit coming to the email. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the problem is now now that's being encouraged right now We get terrible takes and coming hot like hot Yeah, but they have to be genuine. It's really easy to tell like I'm gonna say something because I'm stupid But this person believed the stupid thing Uh Fantastic though. Good stuff. Good stuff. All right, everybody. I'm gonna call it there. Thank you so much. Take care See you next time. Have a good week. Bye. Bye