Castle Super Beast - CSB 260: Do Not Let Trudeau Tribute Toriyama With Cosplay

Episode Date: March 12, 2024

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Music Hello. Hello. So are we going to start out with some Hideo Kojima leather jacket energy? Are we gonna start out with some, um, Hideo Kojima, were it's okay? We're okay. Oh, okay. Oh, took, took me a second. Took me a second. Cause I was thinking about like that, that fall poem he wrote about how he misses his old leather jacket. That I remember reading and being like, tell me about MGS4 you motherfucker, I don't care

about your santsima of your fucking leather jacket man. Well, yeah, so the, the every week we reset the clock as we talk about the layoffs and shutdowns and all of that that's happening this week right off the bat. Hey rooster teeth shut down and that news has I'm sure if you haven't heard I'll we'll break it here for you. But the podcast section of it the roost which is what we are a part of, it does continue to exist. So that is we're here, you're hearing us. We're okay for now. Hey, wait a second, Woolly. Doesn't Warner Brothers own roosterteeth? They sure do.

That's crazy how it's Warner Brothers again. They sure do. Hey, wait a second. Well, doesn't Warner Brothers own the distribution rights for the 61 Adult Swim Games that are getting D-listed off of Steam for literally no reason? That's correct, apparently. According to checking my notes here, yes. In fact, that's, yeah, that's Warner Brothers.

Yeah, so Duck Game is at risk. But yeah, no, so that's pretty much a shit show, and that sucks. And I guess what in terms of, I guess, the effect is for anybody listening to this is you probably can't buy our shirts anymore. Yeah, then they will, we will continue to not update the website, the Castle Super Beast part of the Rooster Teeth website. That's, that's what that ends up meaning. Um, but obviously, yeah, no, like, they're just fucking... It's, it's, it's, it's a Warner bloodbath and, uh, that, that shit. What the hell are they gonna do when there's nothing left to slash and burn? Um...

I mean, there's that song with the quote when there's nothing left to burn you have to set yourself on fire. I Don't think they're gonna do that. Yeah, I don't know but They they'll bring multi-versus back. So there's that like man. I like It's it's coming back you know so I don't know you saw like they put out a tweet for multiverses was like testing one two three is this thing on and like it was supposed to be like haha multi-verses is coming back and I'm just sitting here and I was like you took people's money and ran away for like a year. This isn't cute.

Like, it's not funny. If you bought, like yeah, it was, it's a free to play. If any games are allowed to like fucking unlaunch and do shit, a free to play game is more allowed than a game that is, costs you buddy up front. And if the money you're spending is on- I think the dividing line is a game that is, costs you money up front. And if the money you're spending is on. I think the dividing line is a game that charges you money ever,

and a game that doesn't charge you money ever. Like the main thing I'd say is like the part where you just, no one knew they were playing a beta, and like you kind of pretended it was, by switching up the messaging at the last second, is probably the goofiest part of that whole thing. It's like, okay, so let's say it's an open beta. Let's say it's an open beta, right?

Here's an open beta. It's not listed in the rules of society or whatever, but when you say open beta, open beta's come out like two weeks before the full game and then they go down for like a weekend. Yeah. And then they come back as one point. Like there is definitely the part where again, like you could you could have just played the game free to play and ignore all the all the micro stuff. But if you did spend money on it, like you not if you're buying it and there's

stuff that's called like Founders Packs and things like that. There were two seasons. If you're going to if like that's where you want to communicate very clearly to people that you are buying or spending money on something that is in open beta and can or will disappear and then relaunch or so. You want to be very transparent about that and the fact that a lot of that language was not there at upfront. It makes it seem as if well they weren't planning to unlaunch the game.

It kind of was just, it was a launch, and then we got to recalibrate, and then they switched the language up to be that it was a beta, and now it's kind of being like, looked back in retrospect as an open beta, but at the time, everyone thought, okay, well no, the game's out, it's here, this is what we're doing, you know?

Everything about it was just so fucking weird. Yeah, but like, it's coming back in May? God, that's like 11 months after they turned it off. That's ridiculous. I think if, again, if everybody knows what they're getting into from the jump, it's okay to do that, you know, especially if you're basically just deciding between pulling it down, fixing

shit and bringing it back or like canceling it or something, it's okay to do that to your game. It's just be very clear about what you're telling the players they're playing and what they're buying in on, you know? So like, they'll be like, dude, we never said we weren't gonna pull it down, blah, blah, blah, right? And you know what? That's true.

They didn't ever say that it would never get pulled down or when the full release would be. That's true. They were just trading on 40 years of collective assumptions about the way beta's the way the way games come out. Yeah. Um, it definitely, and there was, of course, that that period

of time where it was like, we'll be back. And it's like, but what if you're not though, you know, there's always that concern. But yeah, this whole time, like with WB, just burning every project to the ground and they're like, multi versus come on. Like there's still a possibility this game gets canceled before May 28th. If shit comes back and it's a better game,

which I was enjoying it, if shit comes back and it's a better game and it ends up, you know, succeeding better than it did it. It's Unreal 5 now. It's initial launch. Okay. So it's actually now. Huh, okay. So it's actually a remake of multi-person. We're technically right, yeah I guess so.

Then that's all fine and dandy, but yeah. And the idea I think as well is everyone who did spend everything is gonna keep whatever they bought. I would say because of the level of like Like because of the lack of transparency in That in advance of what happened there It would be very smart of them to be very generous about anybody who was a founder Getting a bunch of shit going into whatever gets launched, you know

That would be a the right move to make and I hope they make a move like that I That would be the right move to make. And I hope they make a move like that. So I don't know how, this is a really like highly specific emotion that maybe I am the only person who feels, but I feel it's like somewhat universal, which is like, they didn't lie technically, right? But like when you're like, hey, what the fuck to somebody? And they look at you and go, well, I never said.

That is like deeply unsatisfying as a conversational point. Right. So I guess this is where you look at the alternative timeline and go, okay, so what if instead of going with the messaging of like, hey, we never said this wasn't not a not open beta, right, instead of doing that, if you got, hey, we never said this wasn't not a not open beta, right, instead of doing that. If you got, hey, we have some problems with the launch and things did not go as well as we planned

and we're gonna take it back under the hood and fix some stuff and also try to da-da-da-da. And like, and just straight up go like, we're gonna go fix this and fix problems so we're gonna go offline for it. Now the way it came out was like, well the beta period's over! Okay, we'll see you later for the final release!

If we all knew. Right, if the messaging was more honest, like it, it, like that, you know what I mean? Like it's the same situation, but like yeah, at least people kind of know what's going on there. You probably also, with that more honest messaging, like piss off the, like the messaging is also to like massage I'm sure like investors and shit like that

versus the idea of a failed launch and then like what do you mean something's wrong? What are you talking about? Why should I have faith in, you know, and if you're looking at WB as a whole with what they're doing on every other front with the slash and burn tactics, them trying to protect everything about this project

means they're gonna, like, yeah, exactly, like frame that messaging in a way where you kind of gaslight a little bit. The past, you know? But again, technically, no, it was, technically, they did not lie about what the game was. They just didn't say I This is me and I'm not a game reviewer

And and I don't know if that'll if that'll care for anybody but like for people that were interested in multi versus and played multi versus and Enjoyed that open beta I feel like There is one part of this that is unfortunate, which is like I was sitting there when they were now before I watched the video where they said that hey we're going to go to Unreal 5 and we tuned up the netcode. I'm sitting there and I'm going like man, I hope they redid every single piece of music in the entire game. Because it was it was just so boring.

And. OK, we're going to go back to the release in May. And like, if it's the same, I'm going to be like, wow, you had like a full you know, year. I never to tune up these tracks and you just didn't. I never thought about it until you just mentioned it. But like, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. You never thought about the music in multiverses.

Once all I'm all I'm hearing in my brain is just like mild orchestration. You know, like, like, like Overwatch main menu kind of thing. Mm hmm. The or there was the orchestral, the Steven Universe intro that was like, oh, yeah, there that is. But yeah, they should absolutely. That's a point too. That's a good point. Like this is really unfair, but their direct point of comparison is the greatest compiled soundtrack of any game of all time with smash. Ultimate smash. Yeah. Right.

Like, did. Oh, that's really unfair. But it's still your direct competitor. Um, yeah, they got a they got a they got to make a big old fucking Hey founders, we're gonna slob you With they're gonna slob you're gonna slob you real slob you up real nice with a whole bunch of shit Thank you for Paying early and then being okay with us stepping out for a pack of smokes for about a year

We're gonna give you that smoky slob Is it smoky because of the smoky eye mascara is that what you're going for I didn't think about what I was saying before I said it, man. That's a thing, you know. All right. Anyway. Okay. It's awful.

I don't know. Anyway. Hey. Okay. I'll start quick because we got we got to get to stuff By any chance I did you did you are are you gonna check out doom to doon to have you seen doon? I have not checked out doon one. Okay, doon is great The wife and I are like struggling to get through 22 minute TV shows super understandable movies are off the docket Probably super understandable. No spoilers.

Dune two is fucking amazing. It's super good. Um, and all I know is that pesky Paul and the Ben Adjesserites are doing stupid shit in the desert. Dune one was fantastic. And that was like, you know, in the middle of quarantine. So we watched it at home and then Dune 2, like in a proper big screen to take in the giant fucking deserts and all that. Wow, man, what a fucking good movie. It does a excellent job.

Yeah, like I guess the thing is is this is always one of those bits where there's the like, okay, if you're gonna get your copy of the book out and go point by point like so far it seems like the stuff that I've heard that has like been cut for time or changed or miss or missing and such people that are on the books have been pretty happy about what we've gotten here you know there's a couple changes that ultimately make sense as opposed to going fucking late season game of Thrones type shit. But just to, yeah, to, you know, again, not go into the details of the setting and the spoilers and such. The things that I was saying about the first movie that like, I was like, I love how fucking

immersive the Villeneuve storytelling is, like the visual style, everything that you got from how Good Bladerunner 2049 was, you know, type of thing, like going into that kind of powerful style of directing, where like the giant establishing shots that just kind of linger and take you into a world where you basically are going to get very little exposition. You're gonna have to, like the bus is rolling,

the train is rolling, you gotta start jogging, the movie starts and you gotta start jogging next to the train and- Wait, is this a type of film in which everyone is sitting there going, wait, who's that guy? Everything's rolling, you jump into the middle of things rolling, right? High school, high.

The bus doesn't stop in this neighborhood. You just, you make your way on or get off, but it's not stopping, you know? And if you are down for that, to do a little bit of like legwork once you get dropped in, like it's so rewarding because again, it doesn't treat you like an idiot. It's like, it's a very, it's't treat you like an idiot. It's a much more believable way to be immersed in a world

is to kind of pick things up as you go. And even if you're not fully getting a whole lot of it, like the feeling that you can infinitely zoom out to space or infinitely zoom in to find out more about this little mouse and its habits are incredible, right? So, we play a lot of video games and video games have two forms of exposition.

Movies have them a little bit as well, that I'm hearing you describe this as the anti-thing and I think of like Metal Gear, I think of, wow Snake, look at that Cypher drone pause. Cypher drone pause cypher drone question mark playstation mode Exposition to a person who should know what I'm saying already yes, but the audience doesn't know yes So it'll it'll fill in your you're describing none of that shit. No, man

You're going you're going none of that shit. No, man, you're going, you're going. There's moments where it happens, but like you won't get the full explanation of it. Like you'll encounter like someone, cause the movie has a lot of moments of like someone who's from an outside of a culture is walking into that culture going, yo, what the fuck is that? And then yeah.

And like sometimes there'll be a moment of like, okay, fuck, yo, what the fuck is that? And then, yeah, and like, sometimes there'll be a moment of like, okay, fuck, here's what it is. It's this, it's this, it's that, all right? Got it, good, let's go. But most of the time it's like, hey, what the fuck is that? And they're like, shut up. And you're like, ugh, you just keep looking at stuff that you're like, you know, it just-

What are you, stupid, you don't know that? What a fucking idiot, anyway, moving on, you know? It's really, it's really awesome with that. The, there's elements as well, like I said, of like you can zoom out or you can zoom in and get like such rich world building and detail in this. And for something that is so, such a landmark sci-fi series,

I don't know anything beyond I guess what is now the first book, so part one and part two of this movie. My understanding of Dune is from the last level of Rez. Yeah, that's a good place to start. That's what I know about Doom. That's a good place to start. What I kind of like,

what I guess I was expecting, and to some degree with this, is the idea of, you know, if you're looking at Star Trek or Star Wars, or any of these massive galaxy spanning stories There's always a an element of like flying across that space and like, you know You're you're going to every different race culture and planet and seeing all these these dimensions of it

This first book I guess or I don't know. I don't I can't speak to the future But this story is like what if we spent the entire time on tattooing, actually, and just grounded everything with the shit going down, like, culturally, politically, all of that on tattooing, and then the outside empire is around. Oh, I love that shit's happening still. Yep, and then the Tuscan Raiders are, you know, like, not to just pull the parallel in this way, because it's like, it mean, it's doing its own fucking legendary thing. But just to say, you're spending all your time

in one place, and like, it's equally as interesting, if not more interesting, to go super zoomed in with a microscope as well, and not just a telescope, you know, in this type of setting. Fucking incredible with that. And one of the things I love the most about, yeah, two in particular, going into part one, not knowing anything besides like a bunch of wacky-

Sandworms. Sandworms and a bunch of wacky David Lynch costumes from back in the day. There was always an element of like, this is all really fascinating and super cool and I love the setup and the tech in the world and all that, but there's definitely a bit of a like, okay, we got a chosen one, we got a prophecy,

we got some yield, you know, protagonist lore that we're gonna go through. And it's like, yeah, I mean, come on, we're going back to the 60s, right? So this established a lot, fine, you're allowed. You're allowed to do that, it's okay, but boy, I'm like, Well, you're allowed to do that, whatever.

Yeah, but boy, am I generally like a bit tired of like unexplained chosen ones and prophecies and things like that because it's just because the mystic old people said so, and that's that, yadda yadda, right? It's an element of a story that I always like, if you're gonna go there, I kind of hope for more because I feel like when you're presented it with that like earnestly in a setting like I don't know like you're playing like I like anything like a

Zelda game or something and it's just like you're the mystical chosen one of the prophecy of the time and you're gonna be the hero of the That's like right. There's no questioning where or what that is It's just the point is is that there's a whole force behind why you have to have your coming of age and become the hero, you know? So with that, this is so fucking good because it's like, yeah, that thing that you were kind of like,

okay, about with the first half of the movie, the second half of this series of this book, and part two, is actually about how bullshit that all is. And it is an excellent through line throughout this story is. Oh, so what you're saying is you. You're watching it and you're going, oh, this again. And it goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, psych. It's not. It's something different.

You're watching like a very awesome, like breakdown on how to create a chosen one, how to create a prophecy, and the bullshit they're in. And there's still an incredible, outside of the frame of that, there's still an incredible story and struggle that you really are extrapolating. And there's a whole massive statement on the idea of charisma and cult

of personality that goes into how this whole thing plays out and such. But boy is it awesome to see like that concept that I'm like, all right, be like, no, that's the point idiot. That's the whole fucking point. And we're going to like drag that out and put it to the forefront and examine it, you know, in a really awesome set of ways. It does a great job with that. Yeah, the entirety of like how a fantasy setting

will kind of, sometimes it will be explained, but it'll kind of come to fruition anyway, and you just kind of have to buy into it. But there's times where it's definitely just like, look, the gods of this world have decreed that this is the one, and you have to be the special one, and that's all there is to it, right?

Oh, you're a messianic figure and that's the type of tale we're tuning in for. And then of course, there's the bits where it's like, and it's also a part of completing the power fantasy, yadda yadda, you know? But no, no, anyway, that was really, really cool here. So, yeah, I just really, I mean, so there's there's two movies left. Is my understanding.

The commitment. Okay. So as far as I understand, Dennis Villeneuve said he wanted to do the first book and that's all he committed to, which is these two movies, which is now done. He now done. From what I understand, there is now a, he now is down to do more. And he's like, all right,

he's talked about starting working on more of them. But there are another, there are six books in total in the series maybe, not counting spin-offs, I think. So like, if there is any kind of like, we're gonna commit and do this, the Herculean effort is a very David production to JoJo kind of thing, where you're committing decades

towards telling the Dune story with proper attention to detail and with this level of integrity and it would be insane. So that'd be 12, 12 books approximately. I mean, and all the actors and everyone attached. Yeah, it would be the next decade or two. When he's done with those, he can start on the Horus heresy. Oh, man.

Which is he attached? Dune, the more I'm like 1965, more hammer 40k that came out in the fucking 80s Okay, I'm starting to see it. Yeah, I don't like I don't know like if I someone who knows the books would can can definitely see Whether there's a good stopping point somewhere in the middle there But one thing's for sure though, and this is kind of like the the trap of fucking Success in Hollywood and shit. No matter where he stops, we will be seeing Dune for the next 30 years. Like, Willie, I've been seeing Dune out of the corner of my eye since I was born.

Of course. What I mean to say is now that a new, re-made franchise movie occurs and is successful, made franchise movie occurs and is successful, they're going to continue down this light, this timeline of cinema is gonna be a continued thing. We're gonna see and whether it's good or bad or whoever they get involved, it's gonna be going, ranging like Lord of the Rings into the Hobbit, into the spin-offs, yadda yadda.

You're gonna get a whole bunch of shit. I mean, even if that shit all sucks later, I mean, it's good now. Yes, that's all, like, what I'm saying is, for better or for worse, there's no way that Hollywood's not gonna make a fuck ton of dune things from now on. It's just that- I think- The problem is just, if he steps out, and if everyone that is doing a good job of this steps out, they might get worse people in to continue with that same timeline

and franchise, you know? So I think for film and TV, there's like, it's the same problem, but it's way better to deal with it in film. Because like, let's take D&D, right? Good old Game of Thrones, right? That was not film, that was TV, that was a season, and then they get to the end and you're like, like oh you ruined it I am now hearing people talk about I don't I've never heard of it the three-body problem

It's a it's an adaptation that D&D have made for television where they apparently ruined that also Okay, changing all of the character writing wait is they just rewrote all the main characters Sorry, is that is that the title of a book or is that the name of a body problem? Oh, I thought you were describing a type of problem that occurs in Yeah, it's a book series that apparently they have ruined it by changing all of the main characters I see I see so they game of thrones it again but with film and like to a degree games right where it's like

It doesn't matter how trash Every Star Wars thing ever comes out or the next five dunes or whatever, right? Because the movie that you're describing to me right now sounds great Yeah, you can't you can't like it's a it's a complete whole. But what I what I also think of though is just how desperate like Hollywood has been to get a new sci-fi mega franchise off the ground from all the from the Jupiter ascending and the what the fuck was that Disney one with the John whatever.

And like, like, like, John Carter? Yeah, wait, no, that was sci-fi, right? Yeah, John Carter sci-fi. Yeah, so like, I feel like, John Carter is like classic foundational sci-fi. It's really depressing that they made it into like a really bad movie.

So I, all I'm thinking of is I just, I can't even list them all, but there's been a fuck ton of just big attempt at starting a franchise flop into nothing over the last 10 years in my brain because there's a can we get a Star Wars kind of thing going? Can we get a Harry Potter going? And the answer has seemed to be no, you know?

But here with the right attention to detail and a seemed to be no, you know, but here with the right attention to detail and a willingness to just fucking, I guess, yeah, dedicate years of your life to this shit. I mean, I joke, right? But if if mass audiences are willing to to latch on to all this weird, dude, sp, sand shit, then like, come on, Henry Cavill, with that Warhammer shit,

because like, they'll never run out of Warhammer shit to do. Like, they're, never, never, they will never run out. I think that, yeah, I think within our lifetimes, there's going to be a big mainstream adaptation of Warhammer at some point. It's going to go down like the thing that's coming down. I'm sure they're they're trying to make one right now. Yeah, the thing that's coming down the pipeline, hopefully is is really good. But there's always the possibility of it not being and then that goes back in the box for a long time, you know.

being and then that goes back in the box for a long time, you know. But either way, like, yeah, the commitment here is definitely a Jojo-esque, like, we're doing this, we're doing it from here till 2050. Who are we committed to going all the way? Or what do we, you know? Like, I feel like we're sitting around waiting for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7 to correspond. Like we're waiting for like Technical Institute in Japan discovers new way to automatically render 3D horses. And we go, oh there it is! There it is!

Yeah, they did promise that like, hey, we're gonna get to Stone Ocean and they completed that promise, right? From the intro of Sonochino Sarame, that was they just said part six and we're good. Anything after that is fucking bonus. Don't hold us to it. I have a really stupid question. Like this, this, because I didn't read part seven of JoJo.

So this might be- Yes, they can replace all the horses with motorcycles Can you just replace every single horse with a motorcycle? Yes, you can totally replace it with a motorcycle no problem. Yeah, oh My god, and then it makes Eve and then it makes Characters who don't use a motorcycle that much more badass because they're running on foot next to the bike. Yeah, it's great Yeah, that's right. So no, it is, yeah, yeah, Dune is fucking phenomenal. There's just so many great, fascinating elements of world building that, I mean, again,

it's no surprise that the thing that you've heard about all your life that people are like, yo, that series is fucking awesome. Like, yeah, being done well and being brought out in this way, it's, it's, it, it turns out it is really cool. And what's really also the, the, the philosophy of what it's bringing, what it's like, I guess, discussing with the characters and some of the, again, what I said about cult of personality, the concept of going with the flow, the concept of predetermined timelines and fighting against those things and all these things about it are just really well, really well,

like, framed and like the direction in particular does an amazing job of playing with. Okay, without going too much into into detail, there's there's, you know, you know how there this is a setting that has like the equivalent of the equivalent of like Jedi is where they were what was inspired by magic magic. It's got all kinds of magic nonsense. Exactly. I thought I saw the fucking conquerors hacky or whatever you call it. At some point. So there's all kinds of magic nonsense that was then George Lucas took inspiration from as my understanding and such.

Um, and the source of a lot of that magic space nonsense is so much more interesting than the derivatives, you know, um, because like, imagine if the force was like unreliable. Imagine if there was an aspect to it that you couldn't really always count on. Oh, great. You know? And so you're like, I have this magic power and I'm in this setting and I have the ability

to manipulate the world to my will for whatever. But like, but there's elements of it that are like, yeah, extremely unreliable, you know, and like you're describing the warp. Um, the warp. Yeah, the source of magic from 40 K. I don't know. I don't know about the 40 K. Yeah.

Okay. The warp is like, I would like to tack, I would like to tap into magic power, but I have no filter on how much power is going to come out for my assigned task. Okay. Okay. Yeah. There's elements here of like, there's moments of like pre-cogging that are like, but is that, did that really, is that a possibility?

Did that, is that wrong information? Are you looking at incorrect data? You know, like there's things that are, yeah, just not fully to be trusted within the narrative. And yeah, it's fucking great. So anyway, I highly recommend, yeah, that's a series that's worth catching. And...

So in the background, I looked up, I'm like, Lynch directed that first Dune movie, right? Yeah, well, he didn't do all of them. There was only the one one if I remember correctly. Oh, it was just like five hours long, right? Yeah. Yeah. And he hates it. It's like his most hated thing that he's ever worked on ever. And I knew that and I wanted to go check like, why did he hate it?

And the reason why he hated it is because the studio fucked with them where he wanted to make, guess what, a fucking weird ass Dune movie. And they were like, please make a normal movie. And he's like, I can't. OK, OK. But part of that that background that I found was discovering that. David Lynch got asked to direct return to the Jedi and turned it down. Whoa.

I can't. Oh my God. I live in a different world. Oh my God. Oh Jesus Christ. Oh wow. Everything would be different. The way sci-fi looks and acts and speaks would be unrecognizable. I'm just, I'm imagining a scene where like

Vader goes to throw the emperor off the cliff off the pit and it just holds on the shot of him falling for like an hour the pit and it just holds on the shot of him falling for like an hour or like one of the force powers is the Emperor can just shrink and make himself really really really really tiny and then we just zoom in on him like crawling away like oh Jesus Christ fuck yeah no that changes the history of cinema. So there was, yeah, so there you go. That's what I was like. There was also a TV miniseries, which I remember when they were advertising

on the Space Channel here in Canada. That was like Dune, the three, or the three part miniseries was a thing. My understanding is no adaptations of Dune have been properly faithful enough, kind of like JoJo was, right, even before. But even with JoJo, where you're like Satoshi Khan, that's, you're taking mad liberties,

but goddamn, you did some cool shit. There's some, like, you don't have to go back and watch the old JoJo, but there's some cool shit if you do. You should probably watch the fight with Dio. Watch the Dio fight, and like, yeah, the Undual fight is pretty sick too, you know? Yeah. Um, but that's kind of the vibe, I guess, yeah. But in any case, I'm doing fucking phenomenal, and phenomenal. And yeah, I saw it in one of them.

We have the, again, the VIP seating theater thing, where you can get the nice chair and the food in advance and all that. It's basically like an Alamo Draft House, except there's no shut the fuck up rule. And I know Reggie had mentioned that he went in and some people were talking and being shitty and ruining the movie and I was like,

God fucking damn it, that sucks. Because the one thing, I'm like, I will absolutely pay extra for the ability to be like, this fucker needs to get out. You're ruining it, right? And somebody of course, and as I was talking about that with Punch Bomb, someone of course walks in and is, well it's 18 plus so that's already gonna filter out

a bunch of kids that are gonna be shitty and stuff. That's nice. But yeah, some dude, some big dude in Ohio shirt just came in to try and like basically like riz up the fucking audience. Like it's the- Wait, the audience? Like it's the best way.

Like try to basically be like a commentary track. He starts being this character, you know? And I'm like, why are you doing a bit in the, like what the fuck are we, and like, and it's like, okay, it's in the previews, that's cool. It's like, okay, the movie has started, it's still going. Give it a grace period. And now we hit the title or now we hit has started, it's still going. Give it a grace period. And now we hit the title or now we hit the logo

and you're still going. Yo, the movie started, shut the fuck up. And it worked. And I'm like, oh shit, that's nice. I appreciate that because there's always a like, you can either be the type of person that's like, I like disrupting people's days. I'm looking forward to this. Or you can be the type of person that's like, I like disrupting people's days. I'm looking forward to this.

Or you can be the type of person that's like, ah, I'm fucking- I only like disrupting the lives of the people close to me, like my wife. That's the fun, is that it? Sure, sure. Strangers, though? Like, go to hell, come on.

Especially when you're in these like, fucking more expensive seats that are like, have got like, for this this type of thing movie tickets I've gotten stupid expensive, you know, you know Well, I was sitting there as you were describing that and I'm like, you know what the movies used to this is gonna sound strange So I'll have to explain it movies used to be way better back when going to the theater sucked way harder Okay to the theater sucked way harder. Okay? Because I used to go down to the theater every single fucking Tuesday. Oh god.

And deal with the fucking raucous crowd just fucking being a piece of shit. But I paid six dollars to watch any movie I wanted. I went every week. Five. Five bucks, cheapy Tuesdays. Yeah, who gives a shit the crowds being a bunch of stupid idiots I I I it's trivial I mean, it's like price of a candy bar like a big candy bar I did and then I stopped going because I was like I'm not enjoying

The movie what I'm hearing this. Well. yeah now instead we get to go cool I paid twenty one dollars to hear some guy explain the movie to his girlfriend with the hand on the neck watching it and I'm like I'm gonna fucking lose my fucking mind I just I just I read the line I forget what movie it was but I had a moment of like oh what did I expect of course I came on the Tuesday for the for the cheapys showing fuck this. I'm never doing this again. I'm just like, I'm down to like go at a random ass time and just actually enjoy it.

You know, 10 a.m. on a weekday. Yeah, best movie experience you'll ever get. And, and, you know, that's yeah, like if everyone is and the thing is like you like I'm very much down for like Reaction to the content in the movie as you're with as people are Sure, right great. Whatever. I think um, you know like the That's important. That's part of the reason you go to the theater Well, it's it's at this point

It's probably whatever basic bitch to say or not. But like end game finale with the crowd was super hype. It was super hype. That was what that was a great ass moment to be there in the theater for. You know, it's great though. I saw people who actually went to see Madam Web describing them laughing at the movie, but being in like theaters of maybe six or seven other people and they were just like lead paint

staring at the screen. Like thinking they were gonna see a good movie and finding Madame Webb instead of going like, I'm gonna go see that bad movie. Honestly, so you wanna talk about shit you can watch to get a fun Secondhand experience watching with an audience reaction. I always talk about that Eori combo video in Mexico, right? That's fucking great. I you can always go and fucking get hype on that. There's The Avengers assemble scene with the audience

there's the Avengers assemble scene with the audience watching it, super hype, always really, really fun. And then top of that list, as of definitely this week for sure, is watching Jiren versus Goku in a fucking stadium in South America. Like, that is that you're never gonna be more excited with a crowd than that crowd in particular The rest in peace Toriyama You know

Why like Jean made a tweet about this that's so perfect Which he was referencing El Salvador's day of mourning for the country of El Salvador because of a care Kira Toriyama's passing and he quote retweeted it with like Biden silence Because it's because Emmanuel Macron It tweeted out like a statement about like how important an influential Toriyama has been Yeah, you're right. And yeah. So like.

No, like Latin America and South America are like, they're putting their chests out and they're putting their hands in the air and they're being like, God bless you, man. Yeah, yeah. You miss you. No, friend. And it's inspiring.

France is exactly, yeah. France is fucking, is officially tweeting out about it Biden silent speaks volume Yeah, yeah, yeah incredible No man that like come on they're gearing up for an election you want that Latino vote Come on. There's one way to do it. It's um, yeah, that's one too where like, you know hearing about There's one way to do it. It's, yeah, that's one too, where like, you know, hearing about the fact that it's like, yeah,

he also had like lots more stories he wanted to tell and he had lots more, like creating he wanted to do as well. It's like, damn, like he didn't even feel close to wanting to retire, you know? That is, that's a bummer. But I mean, with that though, it's like, yo, that's a legacy of fucking, like, yeah, what is there to say that hasn't been said already?

Like you literally changed the entirety of the medium that you picked. I think the best thing that I can say about Toriyama is that I knew how influential he was and then post his death, I found out that he was actually even more way influential than I even thought he was. Because I didn't understand that like Dragon Ball was the first depiction of externalized internal spiritual energy. Oh wow. The ripple

effects that that would have on all society. The fact that in JSL, when you say Dragon Ball, the gesture for Dragon Ball is doing a little kamehameha, you know, in the middle of speech is like incredible. And then just like the entire, and then just the, you know, yeah, black Twitter and like the summarized tweet that is timeline is gonna be nothing but Dragon Ball posting and if you don't like it You can get the fuck out fuck nigga. Just get the fuck out if you don't like it pussy ass bitch Everyone's like yep. Yep, we're posting we're posting that's it. That's all we're gonna be doing

Yeah, man, it is That's all we're gonna be doing. Yeah, man. It is everyone, I wanna say everyone I know who's an, who knows that's like within my age or lower that knows like how to draw. You started out fucking drawing your Dragon Ball characters, man. We all, you drew your Dragon Ball OCs at some point in time.

And if you're like me, you had an art teacher go, what the fuck is this? That's not your style. Get this bullshit out of my art class. I was like, shut up, you don't understand. It's cool when the hairs are, the hairs spiky. You don't understand, it is cool, man! Like, hey, why is the, why is the hair white now? Oh, because it's so much cooler. No, it's cuz you didn't want to fill in the ink on every panel Don't you don't found out that story like two days ago? I'm like, oh, I believe it. Yeah

It's the same thing is I'm never gonna draw Naruto's fucking goggles ever again. Let me just put a headband on It's too hard create like the most iconic fucking piece of forehead gear ever created damn straight All the more reason why my art teacher should appreciate the genius when you have a character That's a dragon ball style character, but they got the cornrows going or you got the fro the black Goku style Like grab a newspaper that has like famed manga creator curatoriumirito-riamo, passed away and go, look, see, see? The news says he's important. My OCs were cool. God.

Yeah. I hope, yeah, no, I, like, let's I, like, I, let's, let's see if eventually the White House releases a statement. Uh, that would be nice. Let's, let's, let's start there. And eventually we can slowly make our way back around to, um, you know what, actually, like, uh, like, we can slowly make our way back around to fixing the rollback I suppose on Dragon Ball FighterZ.

We could get back around to that too. You know, are we just gonna disrespect his legacy by releasing such shoddy rollback? This gut feeling of like we're making fun of Biden but I'm like well Trudeau hasn't said anything and then I'm like I don't want Trudeau to say anything about Dragon Ball because you know he's just gonna dress up like his favorite character. I mean Mr. Popo is gonna get cosplayed, regardless. No, Mr. Prime Minister, please don't. Why Mr. Popo? No. Justin, no, please. There's so many other characters right there. Why would you choose this one? Why would you choose this one? Oh. Oh.

He's dusted off the old fucking, he's dusted off the old cabinet. He's already got half of the accessories he needs to pull off a popo. Yeah, I know, we've seen him in a bunch of the Mr. Popo clothing. He's got it. He's got it.

He's got it. Like guys, really, I mean, do I go buy a new outfit when I've already got this old cosplay try it and you're ready to go, you know? Oh my God, my brain is just doing mean things to myself cause I just saw, like, I just created an entire fake scene in my mind of him reading the newspaper

that he had lost the election and then he goes to his basement and starts smashing the fucking concrete in his basement like John Wick until he finds the fucking chest which you polish in it. It's like Justin, you can use the turban to be a Namekian. You don't have to be Popo. You can just be Piccolo, man. You can't stop me! It's just...

Yeah. Alright. Anyways. Also, hey, one of the things that happens when a manga creator dies, it happened with, oh my God, I can't remember his name. Mura? Mura is people do the roundup and they do the check-in of like, hey, how's everybody's favorite manga creator doing?

And the answer is like shit. Like these dudes need to calm down and change their schedules because they are all doing bad. Yeah. Um, you know, the the most successful ones don't necessarily then go on to be able to breathe more. You know, like there's always that like, no, the pace increases, the team size increases the burnout increases and

Eventually the relinquishing point is like this has gone to being one chapter every month This is one chapter every couple of months, you know Because yeah, the burnout is fucking real man. Shit's brutal I I like like Monk creators Like are like in the same slot as like wrestlers Right. Yeah. Mm-hmm You got you got to slow down you got to slow down and then they're saying man

Still alive Like I just you know like when it, like I've said it many a times, but it's like, you know, in a way, you know, like whatever pace you want to go at, man, it's not, it's not worth your life. You know, none of this is, it's, it's crazy that, that like it gets pushed to that point. Um, yeah. Um... Yeah, uh, anyway, so I mean beyond I guess that stuff Not much else really. I haven't started rebirth yet because I've started FF7 intermission and

Intergrade intergrade which God I tell me about for condor man Well, I was just reminded actually before that of the like oh, let me just go grab intergrade and then I'm like wait Wait, how do you get this? And I was like, oh no, I forgot About the ps plus fucking Like there's that weird shit and then they went and then they they did Fix it in the end But like when you look up intergrade you can't just go to a page for Integrate if you've already got the PS4 version

and then you have to fucking, it's like no sign up for the- What you have to do is you have to have the PS4 version and go get the PS5 version. You can pre-upgrade to the PS5 version. Well like please point me to the direction of the thing that I can just attach to the, and it took a while, and I was like, I eventually found it and it was like, okay, here we go,

this is the $20 thing and you upgrade and you add it to the PS5 version But if you already had the PS5 version that you upgraded from the PS4 version then you initially couldn't access it Plus if you had a PS plus account you were then being charged extra for something PS plus later users later would get for free It's it's really funny because like if you got all that shit on day one Not a problem, right? Like I just grabbed in her Intergrade this the same day came out and then it just rolled forward blah blah blah, right if you haven't gotten any of it It's the simplest ever because when you buy a rebirth, there's a pack that's the same cost that's remake and integrate together.

With that thumbnail that has them both together. Right, yeah. But you did anything in between those two things. Which in my case was get the PS4 version and then get the upgrade to PS5 and then try to figure out how to, like after uploading my save, just get the integrated content after the fact.

And it was like, you wanna do the big PS Plus upgrade? I'm like, no, actually, I don't. I just want this. And it was like, no. Oh, I'm pretty sure you do want to go with this actually. And then it's not listed under the product sections. And then when you go under, and you're like, where is it categorized And then it's not listed under the product sections. And then when you go under it, and you're like, where is it categorized?

And it's not under, and because of the whole product is under the PS4 section, it doesn't have it in the DLC as well. So anyways, it like intro. I'm so glad that consoles can start to enjoy the joys of PC gaming. God. I was kind of hoping at a certain point,

I'm like, okay, let me just go to related products and eventually something should pop up, to which it didn't. But like, yeah, the intermission, not intergrade, because that's not what you're getting, actually. It's the intermission separate piece of PS5 DLC content, not connected to PS Plus. Because if you did have PS Plus and you tried to get into grade,

but you already had the PS5 version, you did not have the ability to get that full new updated version, including both. Like that, anyway. Got it, installed it, did it, yadda yadda. So they're great. After fumbling around with that for a minute. So I kind of like, I was like,

oh, this should be just like a short and sweet, not too bad, okay? Started it out. It's like a full thing. It's a full thing, and here's what I did. I kind of, I ran in, I did some fucking, yeah, Fort Condor, like that is so much more fun than the original game, it's crazy.

That's a lot. I'm enjoying that. It's a very, like, I don't fully remember like the original except for really like the camera scrolling and just placing units that walked down the lanes and it was really slow and like, I just remember getting confused and not enjoying it much at all.

So yeah, hey, it's actually like pretty much the exact same thing. Is it? Yeah. Is it just sped up and like- It's sped up and it looks nicer. And with a better camera placement, I guess? Yeah, it's weirdly enough, it is also ogre battle.

Interesting, okay. Because I had a way better time with this than I did back in the day with that. I did not. You want to hear something really depressing? The version of Fort Condor in Intermission slash Integrate? Way better than the version of Rebirth. Oh, no, they changed it.

Way better. Why'd they change it? So Queen's Blood is your collectible mini game, right? You collect cards, you play Queen's Blood. In Integrate slash Intermission, whatever you call it, you can buy units to add to your Condor team, right? And just mix and match. In Rebirth, the Fort Condor team, right? And just mix and match. In Rebirth, the Fort Condor missions,

there's only four types of unit selections. Like, you do want this team, this team, this team, or this team, and it has all the little guys arranged for you, you can't mix and match. Oh, you can't edit. Okay, okay. Which some of them are really good, Which some of them are really good and some of them are not good.

Can you edit your materia or is that still nothing? Okay, locked in. Yeah, weird. Yeah. It's way worse. That sucks. But like I know, I just overall had a much better but more positive experience with that.

But I also like, I'm thinking back to it like having played ff6 recently ff6 had a prototype of this as well with the little Mughal game It did it had a little Mughal game that was kind of like for Condor where you send you send them down the paths And you have to interrupt the enemies on the little pathway as well But like the for the original FF7 Fort Condor had like a big scrolling up and down map that was like a pain in the ass to navigate. So yeah, anyway, no, in this case, I'm like,

great, this is a lot of fun running around and fighting Johnny or literally Marie from P4 Golden. Is just- Oh, you mean Kierier? Kierier is just standing there. or literally Marie from P4 Golden? Is just- Oh, you mean Kirie? Kirie is just standing there, you're like, oh yeah, you're just Marie. Don't you remember her from FF7 Remake? Her grandma was the angel of the slums.

I don't. Really? Don't worry. Hey Don't worry. Okay, you don't remember Kyrie now Rebirth will do plenty to catch you up. Awesome. Awesome Yeah, gonna have to go read a wiki about fucking Sisney She's a young Turk and not a bitch like Elena. That's it

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when you confront Sephiroth in the thing, they actually go to the trouble of having Cloud move out of the room for just long enough for the cut scene that Gact is in in Crisis Score to play out of sight. Like Cloud never saw it, but they leave that cut so that it could still be happening, but you just didn't see it. It might be. It might be there.

He might be in there though. You don't know. Rhapsodizing. So anyways, the, and then immediately after doing a couple games of Fort Condor and being like, oh, this is fun. I love this. This is great. I then spent the rest of my time fucking immediately first thing in the game, um, Fort Condor, second thing in the game, Rama.

Because, uh, uh, Chadley's right there. I'm like, oh, I can do this right off the bat. So with starting equipment, uh, I fucking did it. Oh. With no level ups whatsoever, with starting base level equipment, I fucking did it because I was like, oh, this can be done, actually.

It can be. Yes, you just have to be super tight about dodging everything he's throwing at you, never hit any of the stun mines, and then make sure you get your limit break, you know, and use it immediately. So that was fucking cool. I was like, oh, shit, I'm gonna get Rima early.

Let's go, because it felt like you should come back to this. So I have a question for you that's very important. Is this podcast a pro or anti-Chadley podcast? Okay, okay, okay, okay. So you may recall from previous discussions pro or anti Chadley podcast. OK, OK, OK, OK. So you may recall from previous discussions about remake, me being like, what the fuck is up with Chadley? Why is he such a weirdo?

I don't know about this kid. He's creeping me out, right? He is creepy. Super creeping me out, right? He is creepy. Super creeping me out. As of last night, as of last night, a piece of information may have updated. Oh, you got there.

You got there, huh? It's just the moment you walk up to him in intermission and he's like scanning for potential targets. And you're like, is Chadley not human? So if you did all the hardcore challenges in Remake, he would just tell you that he is a robot. Oh my God. Okay. Because I yeah, I

walked up to him and he said that and I went, uh, and that changes everything. Now knowing Joe is technically his dad. Oh my god. Now knowing that he's just a little cyborg kid trying to be human. I am now pro-chaddly. I am also very pro-chaddly. With the revelation of that I am pro-chaddly. I was anti-chaddly when I thought he was Cuban. Now before we go too further. Okay. He shows up as rebirth and he is the avatar of every single piece of side content in rebirth because he is the one that tells you, I need you to climb the Chadley Towers

in order to fucking side shit on your map. Right? Oh, man. So you see Chadley a lot. Yeah, yeah. fucking So you do you see Chad Lee a lot yeah, yeah like a lot okay, and here's the part I really like Doing his Chad training and his Chad towers and finding every Chad module shatting it up, okay? But there is a there's a there's a detail of the way that he exists in the open world that it's just like I could I could kill this fucking child because

If you have gone a certain length of time Since Activating one of the towers Even if you've 100%ed the whole zone. He will look at you and go, it looks like the acquisition of World Intel has slowed down recently. I'm sure you're really busy, but I'd appreciate it if you could get back to it in like the shittiest, most passive aggressive tone you've ever heard. And you're just like, I just did it all, Chadley!

The fucking mat says 100% shot the fucker! I mean, immediately when you fail and he's like, how disappointing? Well, be sure to try again next time. And you're just like, yeah, you're gonna sit there and be smug, you fucker. No, I, again, him being this weird fucking kid, that I'm like, I don't know if you can be trusted

and why are you so smarmy and smug? Why is your smug aura mocking me? That energy changes completely when I know that you are trying so hard to appear normal, but you are just beeping and booping in zeros and ones at the seams. Yeah. There's also like, there's more Chadley character,

if that makes any sense. Okay. It's great, Chadley's great. I love Chadley. It still doesn't explain his weird butterfly shoulder adornment thing. Oh, the scarf thing? Yeah, I don't know what it is exactly.

I also don't know what it is. But it's just a thing of color that's there. And I'm like, is it? It's like a colored affectation. Is it? But it's not a scarf. Like a scarf I would get. You're a shoulder or that.

I'm like, oh, I mean, in rebirth, it's very clearly a scarf. Is it? Okay. Yeah. Because looking at it here, it just appears to just be a floating piece of color thing that's stuck there and I'm like, I don't, what is that flare? Why is it not around the, anyway.

Yeah, so, and that's pretty much it. I'm like, I got my Rambo and I'm like, all right, cool. Oh, and one question, because I guess I was like, I saw the tutorial for it and I was looking into it a little bit, but I couldn't quite get it. When you throw out Yuffie's blade and then you can do the summon spells, the non-elemental and then the elemental,

it says you can scroll left and right on D-pad to select different elements. Mm-hmm. I like, that wasn't quite working for me. So I'm like, am I doing this at the wrong time or is there something? OK, so I have not gotten to having you fee in my party in rebirth. OK. And I played that section years ago. So I don't remember. OK. OK. Though I do remember it working

like weirdly similarly to the ninja Jutsu system in 14. Okay, people are saying it's in the command menu. You you pull up the menu. Okay, so it's not in the action. It's you pull up the the menu and then scroll left and right. Got it. Okay. Because yeah, like the it I was doing it while I was casting and then before I was casting and I was like, not seeing a difference here, got it, okay, cool. Yeah, and then I guess just, and going back over that

and looking at my old save and save and stuff and I was just like, oh man, I forgot like, like there's some of the abilities, like okay, a lot of the shit that cloud does is really stylish and, you know, like the fucking transition into Punisher mode and all that looks really cool. Infinity's end was always like the super stylish, like, you know, comboender.

But Tifa's like Starfall, I think, is it? Yeah, Starfall into like a lot of her shit is so like, it's so much cooler looking than like anything else that's happening. Like I kind of like looking at that again. It's interesting because I'm like the way doing shit with her sequenced like one into the other into the dive kick, a star shower, that's it.

It looks so fucking sick and I'm like I actually like what a Lot of her kit is doing more than a lot of what like the action in 16 is doing to be honest Yeah, it's I think I Think this is a way more interesting and better playing action game than 16 is and I think this is a way more interesting and better playing action game than 16 is. And I think the characters have much more interesting kits overall. So like, I'm gonna give you some minor gameplay spoilers

from Starter Aerith, a character I do not like to play in Remake. Aerith's starting abilities are the ones where she does like the Sorcerer Storm where it's like the AOE right around her. Yeah, you put the sigil down, yeah. Okay, so her unique ability is she puts us any sigil that she has down functions as the FF14 Ley Line.

So if you hit triangle, you just teleport back to your sigil wherever the fuck it was. Okay, forever. So in Remake, she put a sigil down for double cast she put a sigil down for Was it like an ATB refund or something like that? And a couple other basic functions with the with the sigil. Yeah, I don't think there's no so Now like right now You get the first ATB bar

and you put down Arcane Ward to get double cast. And then you get the second ward, which is Radiant Ward, which turns her regular attacks into gigantic laser beams. Oh, kinda like that one. That have like a mass combo on them. Okay. Which build ATB like crazy. And she also has like the fucking fairy from 14

where she gets like double attacks if she charges her square button. So she just turns into a cannon. Okay, yeah, in Remake she had the laser, right? That's like you float up in just like a single kind of precision shot. No, now it's every single swing of the fucking staff is a big fucking laser. Okay. Okay ridiculous Is the butterfly improved at all? Yeah, okay, it uh

You use it and then you just keep it forever and then it just doubles up all your attacks Okay and so like erith, with the invention of fire and ice materia and wind and lightning materia, it's really easy to give her every attack spell in the game that she can double cast at will. And just annihilate, yeah, okay. Yeah, it's sick. It's

it's everybody in that game feels like more than one sequels level of increased mechanical complexity. Nice. If that makes any sense. I would say I imagine like Barrett would need it the most just for the diversity of play because Barrett's I mean, well you described it physically last time and now he just does all the damage in the world right all the stagger he wants because he was definitely the most limited the first time around you know like yeah you just stand back in zone and that's kind of you know that you do you do your your your big birth a shot or so that's kind of all there was to it and I haven haven't gotten to Yuffie or Kate Sith yet, but apparently they're both busted as well.

Like Kate Sith can give him his own, can give himself limit break? Because he has a bunch of luck attacks. Interesting, okay. And I get like, if you have, there's like ways to, there's, you can put on materia as well to like, feed your limit break faster and like do a couple of things. You can, there's so many weird new types of limit breaks, man. Sorry, not a materia. There's, there's so goddamn many and they do so many weird fucking things. That sounds abusable.

It is. It's apparently extraordinarily abusable. Interesting. If you can more flow health enemies to just end fights automatically, Jesus Christ. OK. So by the way, Willie, last week you said you asked how the parade was and you were like, huh? So they turned it into like a two and a half hour thing. They turned it into a two and a half When I started my show last last time I did a six hour show and four of those was Junon Just the parade. Okay, can you confirm for me that there are multiple versions

of the Parade March theme that you hear throughout the sequence? Oh yeah, no, because there's the version that you hear in the theme, there's the version, sorry, there's the version you hear on the street, there's the version you hear in cutscenes, there's the version you hear during the parade itself. God, that's so great.

There's the version that you hear during the newscast in the background. Yeah, yeah. Because I mean, look, burnt into our brains is that same one that you hear the whole time for like the entire set Junon section. Well, yeah, but that sequence is 20 minutes in FF7. It's hours and hours and hours,

and it has like this massive quest portion to it where you have to get the squads to do the parade. So you're wandering around Junon getting like Shinra squads and like telling them to like fall in. Oh. And then you were going into a fucking like squad manager to organize them in the rows that you want. Oh my God, you're managing the parade.

So that they do the fucking formations that you want to do for the parade. We're not just sneaking in from the alleyway, huh? OK. Like, every single thing is expanded as far as it can. And I think the best example is, so the boat. You took the boat from the coast of Del Sal and in the original, that know, you took the boat from the coast of Del Sol and in the original, that was like one scene and then you fought

Genova in the fucking hold. Okay. It is now, hey, I hope you were playing Queensblood because it is now a fucking bombastic, full sit-down length Queensblood tournament on the boat against a ton of characters, including the ability to play Queensblood against everybody in the party. Wow.

So Barrett or Aerith or fucking Tifa will talk shit and be like put your fucking mouth where your cards are. Wow. Okay. Okay. Man, OK. Man, that's like committing that hard. Like, thank God, the game is good. Oh, it's so good. Thank God. Yeah.

Like committing that hard when you're like, and it's going to be Tetra Master is just like. Oh, it's not Tetra Master. It Queensblood is good. Hell, yeah. Shame about the four condor bit, though. That's a weird change. Are there I guess.

Yeah, once you beat the four condor sections, they're like, try it in hard mode. And you're like, what's the difference in hard mode? And the answer is it's just way worse in every way. Don't play it. Is it's bad? Well, so like, is the trade off that there's like more units now and in exchange for the fact that you can't. And no, there's just nothing.

OK, no. I accidentally beat the Queen's Blood tournament without fully understanding the rules of Queen's Blood, which is pretty funny. OK, I didn't know. I didn't understand how scoring works in Queensblood and I still aced the tournament. So it's not that hard. Huh.

Okay. I now understand how to play Queensblood. Are there like Queensblood super boss ghosts that you've yet to encounter waiting for you somewhere? Cause in nine, there's these invisible NPCs you can challenge to tetramaster at the end of the game that are the gods of tetramaster. Hmm, there might be. I'm going to say probably.

OK. OK. The game very early on implies that there is a lot more to Queens blood than the game is showing you The card game is deep No, I mean the narrative of the card game is deep It is still a mystery like I have been receiving Queens blood visions repeating people people God damn what the fuck is going on like like there is there is shit there

Phenomenal okay, all right Yeah, no, hey that ff7 rebirth is pretty good Fight against the fucking fate ghost With your cards. Yeah, no, you were never supposed to win this Nice okay Yeah, also, I should probably mention so I'm gonna be going to the beach on Probably Friday in FF7 rebirth There's the beach episode on Friday. Then I have made the decision to temporarily put FF7 Rebirth on hiatus and focus entirely

on infinite wealth until Dogma comes out because I am way closer to beating infinite wealth than I am rebirth. Apparently, Costa del Sol is like a third or maybe even a quarter of the total game. Okay. Whereas I am more than halfway through infinite wealth. And nothing will ever stop me from playing Dragon's Dogma. So I'm gonna try and bang out infinite wealth over the next couple of weeks

and then go back to dogma slash rebirth. Get your house in order. And I would like to thank you, Woolly, for giving me the inspiration. Because I was like, man, fuck it. If Woolly can go back to fucking Yakuza Zero after three years, FF7 can wait two weeks. Like, it's not gonna be the end of the world.

Do the thing that will maximize your ability to enjoy the things you love. Well, then I would just turn the stream off and play Dragons Dogman, my goddamn underwear all day. Well, there's that. Fine. Relinquish a little bit. Yeah, relinquish it a little bit, huh? Yeah, OK. Bro, I had a moment this morning where, so I wake up early

in the morning and I take the baby so Paige can nap for a couple hours because she's up with the baby most of the night, right? And so I had the baby and the baby fell asleep. And I'm like, oh, that's cute. And so I'm like playing Persona 3 Reload. And then the dog came over and the dog crawled on top of my fucking lap and chest

and fucking went to sleep. Mm-hmm. And that rules. Your furniture. Just covered in sleeping babies It's good. It's good stuff find a way to get that controller angle working. Yeah. No you do that and then of course Bro, I should have pissed Yeah

Yeah Then you just hold it. Yeah. You just hold it. Yeah. Because if I move too much to pull the dog off, the dog's gonna go bleh bleh bleh bleh and then the baby will wake up. Ehhhh. So just hold it. Okay. Yeah. Good. There's no other, yeah, I mean, no, there's no other way.

Now you give yourself your oldes of tithes poisoning. And then you make a nice big rock and that'll help you later. Do some kegels, strengthen up the bladder, get that hold nice and tight. Apparently that your ability to, doing kegels will improve your ability to hold in your bladder. Mm hmm. Well, that makes sense because it's all the same thing, really, at the end of the day. Sick. I've been playing a fuck ton more of a latro.

I'm yeah, that thing is super fun. That's that that grabs you. But it's gambling, gambling. So what you're doing, what you're what's fun to do is to unlock the different types of the different types of jokers, basically, because each subsequent joker you unlock gets more and more fucking just bullshit, cheap, unfair break the game. And each boss that you encounter is also getting more and more bullshit.

So like the progression of cheating and counter cheating is getting really, really high, you know. So yeah, this boss shows up that says every club you play doesn't count for anything or oh man, right? Or just like the blind, the money you have to make is a lot. Or every time a face card is dealt into your hand, it's dealt face down. Fuck you. Right. Sure. That's now the wall you have to overcome.

But I have a Joker that says, I'm allowed to skip one card in a straight and still connect the straight. Ooh. Right? That's, my math in my brain is just like, that just increases the likelihood of a straight by like a million percent.

Okay, so you can fucking, so wait, two, four, six, eight, 10, yeah, that's a straight. And you're like, oh, this is busted as fuck. This is insanely busted. It's so strong. You're like, yeah, give me that card, you know? So like you're just, you're using that bullshit against its bullshit and you're just bullshit bullshit battling and that's fun.

This just sounds like a stand battle. It kind of gets to that point, especially when the synergy is extremely high. You know, when you've built it so that your deck is made up of like half of your deck is just kings. And each of those kings, if you hold onto one, you've got a Joker that says holding onto a king multiplies whatever your final score is by 1.5. So you just have like half your hand as kings. And you're like, yeah, sure, I can no longer connect any heart cards to each other.

But who the fuck here is? Because here's a fucking five of a kind. Yeah, impossible style flushes and bullshit, nonstop bullshit, it's a lot of fun. I want, I still have, with all that bullshit, I haven't cleared a run yet, because it's still, oh it's that hard. It's still kicking my ass on the probabilities, you know?

I have not yet found the right level of like I've snowballed, but then I've hit a ball, a boss that's just like to like too impossible to climb, you know, so yeah, I'm still crack chipping away at it. But that's that's a really fun, really fun game. If you give it a crap, a crack. I could also see a fun version of this that would just be like, if you did play like advanced Marvel poker against other players, like if you had a multiplayer version of this, like if something like it would be

for complete like animals, the most D-Gen poker players in the world. But I kind of want to see what happens when two of these busted decks go up against each other. It's single player only? It is, yeah. Yeah.

That's probably for the best. But it's probably for everyone's hand. Something might happen though. Something might happen if we get a bunch of people in a room and we give them the ability to break the rules like that against each other. Anyway, yeah, so this week, more Half-Life, and I tried to get around to Blazblue last. Before we, where are you at in Half-Life right now? I'm curious.

The last thing I did was, Mossman was a shit we chased her We got back to the present future the time jump has occurred and Yeah, we're doing the squad we have a squad now, okay, and I rescued Barney Oh, okay, you're you back in the city back in the city rescued Barney Okay, yeah, and yeah, I did some of the it's funny how like you get to that part and then they're like wow This feels just like half-life one when the military when the military shows up and rolling in. Yeah for sure

There was Yeah, no, and it is it is kind of interesting to like See the I guess what is I don't know if it's the first game that lets you control squads or not. But like it certainly is like early on that list because the entire section is like yo check out this feature. It was it was it was a big deal. I don't know if it was the first but it was it was in there. I could I could feel that they were like excited about that feature and like yeah, you can when you lose one you can replenish They let you control the bugs first. Yes, exactly you do the antlion stuff. Yeah

And then there's I guess like I might I think I might not be understanding how to do it properly but I'm pulling up the mines and like placing them but like Anyway, it seems it seems Yeah, there's something about the way I'm pulling them up and using them that seems a little inefficient for the types of obstacles that they've put into place. But yeah, that's about where I'm at. And yeah, I was going to get to the BlazBlue platformer game, but we did we didn't have time because the Capcom event and Balochero were fully, fully engaging.

So yeah, I might come back around to that either this week. Or I think I might want to play some Unicorn Overlord, actually. So I'll put it. It's good. So I'll pop something up on the schedule. You guys will see. So right before the show, I asked Willie if he'd been playing Helldivers and he says to me, he says,

oh maybe I'll jump in when the mechs are there. And I'm like, Willie, the mechs fucking came out this weekend. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. And there's a story behind the mechs coming out this weekend. Mm-hmm. So last week, they put out a balance patch which buffs a couple of

things but nerfs some good things. Pretty good balance patch overall but the Helldiver's community starts to freak out and go, I can't you ruined our ability to fight. Shut up. Right? One of the devs gets all pissy on Twitter, it's a whole kerfuffle. Point being, the next day, or maybe the second day afterwards, they go, hey shit! Tianquan, the planet where we're building the exosuits, is under attack by the robots! You motherfuckers gotta get down there and liberate it, and if you liberate that planet, everybody gets the robots. Everybody gets access to the Patriot Exosuit.

So everyone goes down and liberates Tianquan in like an hour. And here comes the Patriot Exosuits. They're not as good as everyone was expecting. And in some cases cases they are in universe poorly made Yeah, okay, so I saw So I see the article that says hell diverse two mechs are a piece of shit So they they have massive Gatling guns and they have

Super powerful rockets Right, but they have no way to reload anything and they're super slow. But much more importantly, they're really slow to turn. So they're so slow to turn that if you try and turn like your camera, like 180 degrees or like 90 degrees and go, I got to shoot that guy and fire the rocket will fire at a bad angle into the mech itself and you will blow up into yourself. Okay, okay, okay.

So I'm just gonna extrapolate that in the same vein of would you like to know more, this is our propaganda piece, but look how cool the big robot is we're winning the fight everybody do it Rush that shit to the front lines. Oh god. It doesn't even work. Oh god like When they don't move but like they have like It's it feels not like design problems from the game. It feels like design problems from the engineers who built it in universe. Damn, did they work for Boeing?

You. Ha ha ha. Oh. Oh, it'll be on a fly on the wall for that. Or a, or a, or a bolt. When the, when the robots, what's sorry, when the exosuits dropped of the servers broke again Specifically the requisition

Server that handles you buying your own upgrades just completely broke Because every single person in the game was buying the requisition order to get the exosuits So to mitigate that you just show up in missions and it's part of the mission strategy. And he's like, yeah, you can just call down a free exosuit as part of the mission. Wow. Because maybe the representation thing

is completely fucked right now. Man, after showing this little trailer of like prepare for Titanfall, like getting inside the cockpit, ah shit. It's going down That's so fucking funny. Oh shit. Okay Um, is it to the point that it is a goddamn liability to waste your time in that when you could just be helping the team? so the the the the at patriot Exosuit has an incredibly

specific purpose and it is the biggest most powerful turret that will last for multiple minutes. Okay right. It's not meant for you to hop in and start running around the map and doing objectives. It is meant to be like there is a really really really big fucking problem over there and it is coming towards us.

Okay, okay. Please get into the robot and be a whole front line. Yeah. You're not meant to replace your mobility as a unit on the ground. You're not meant to- No, they're very slow. Okay, so face one direction,

do not expect to turn more than 90 degrees. The other thing is that when you completely run out of ammo, park it like on a hill or a ramp or like a fucking choke point and the bugs and the robots will have trouble like physically getting past it. Oh. So you can use it as like a-

Like a wall, literally. Like a concrete block interesting to stop them. Okay. I also just saw everything about the way the games designed is hilarious. I just saw a clip when I was looking up some of these details of a guy blowing away a charger with a rocket and it's flying off in the distance and you're like yeah and then it landed on the entire team and killed three people. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Cause physics. Yeah. You can, so you can, you were talking about

how you could call down, you know, shit to drop on, on enemies as well. Yeah. Like you can, you can, you can try, you can tighten fall onto a thing. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Okay. It's hard. It's real hard. on enemies as well. Like you can you can you can try you can tighten fall onto a thing. OK, OK, it's hard. It's real hard.

But yeah, no, you can't. So yeah, helldivers remain sick. It's people are complaining because they don't understand the perp. Like I'm seeing a player base that doesn't understand the way the game works. And it's like very bad for them because people are complaining about how difficult the missions are on the highest difficulty of nine. And it's like missions in that game, survival is secondary to completing the objective. You get most of the rewards from completing the objective. Surviving and extracting are secondary concerns to spreading managed democracy.

Like if the mission is fire off an ICBM and you fired off the ICBM and all of you horribly died during the process, that's a win. Mission accomplished. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a win. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a win

Do you get a point score afterwards for like the extras though, I guess is what it oh you do yes, absolutely Okay, yeah, so like it goes did you succeed in the mission? How many of the enemy emplacements did you take out how many extracted and time? And so extracted is like a 10 or 15% of your total score. Okay. I wouldn't mind seeing like gas wasted on extraction. You know, like, yeah. Okay, that's, that's, that's, that is not what I expected

to hear about these robots. That's fucking cool. Is it kind of rules that they can blow themselves up by turning too fast? I think it rules. I mean, I saw someone say some of them break apart on the way down. Is that like?

Yeah, why not? Is it just like a one in a one in a craftsmanship? Yeah, just a percentage chance that they just don't like, like that, like, dude, that's like, that's hilarious. Like I, I, I, you know, people are putting up their clips of things that can happen. And the way they've built the game to just function from a physical level is built for hilarity. I've watched people fire auto cannon shots into bugs and hit the

armor and have a deflect and kill teammates. Right. Like like, like slapstick moment. They added a burnout radius. Like, so you, one of the mission types you launch an ICBM And you have to go to the launch pad and like pull the pull the prongs apart manually And they added a blast a blast radius to the the rocket fuel, you know when when it comes out of the silo the radius of death from the fire is

Includes the terminal that you're standing at Just to fire off the missile. To press the button to hit. So you have to hit the button and then like run. You're immediately not safe, yeah, okay. Oh, that's a fun extra step, like narrative aspect to this whole thing. Yeah, that's great.

Like firing you're immediately within like like yeah emulation range Okay, cool What are you doing this way you said you're gonna be going back to half-life you said you're gonna be yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna piece it together. Actually. There's a couple things. I gotta gotta figure out but like definitely more half-life and The rest I will post over on my Twitter. But either way, you know the deal, Woolly versus on YouTube and on Twitch. And yeah, my schedule goes up on WoollyWoolz on Twitter. So check over there to see what's going on.

All right, over for me. I'm gonna, it's gonna be infinite wealth all week, except for BeachFF7 on Friday Friday Over twitch.tv slash Pat stairs and next week is dragon's dogma. Ah Mm-hmm. Oh Yeah, more on that in a second. Let's take a quick break Okay Something I wanted to mention about doing to actually and I forgot in terms of just how fucking cool the the visuals are at like conveying concepts in this there's a scene in Dune 2 where they go to Getty Prime the kind of like the the bad guy

you know homeworld type of thing and they're establishing just how like bad and evil and everything the the that that family is to the point where like they're sucking color out of the environment. It's just this black and white ball. The ball. The ball depressive. The Harkinens. Yeah. The super oppressive ball black and white setting.

And like they're popping off there being celebrating big evil and how evil they are. They're popping off there being celebrating big evil and how evil they are and like there's a point where like They launch what can only be described as fascist fireworks Like okay, they found a way to take all the joy out of fireworks and make it this oppressive Evil feeling thing that is a celebration thing. It's like watching it, it's like,

it's so fucking sick and wild that it's like, yeah, you've sapped all life, all fun out of it. The ink fireworks popping off if you've seen it, it looks crazy. Creatively, all like amazing stuff for the whole visual effects team there. Yeah, that's a fun thing to do as well where they like seamlessly go in between and out of like being in full monochrome and such, but great movie.

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It's not Onemusha. Not Onemusha. The genre is, it's tower defense, so it's not anything. It's tower defense. Yeah, like when you just pan a camera across a couple of like, you know, like Oni, Japan, Yokai themed images and such, you're like, oh, this looks like a Couple of things I've played in the past, but then it's like actually you're setting up Tower defense and then you can

Control a unit on the ground and also kind of like action it a little bit It seems like it's probably not going to be the most robust action system, but hopefully you can tower defense while you action in a better way than like brutal legend. Or my brain also goes to sacrifice for the Pete, sacrifice the game for PC where it was an RTS that you were on the ground with your units at the same time it was yeah I mean I brought it up before but it was just it was one of those weird ones or like me and my brother we got a copy of that back in the day and it was like you can run around and it was one of the I think it was one of the first games where you could be on the unit level as well.

Can it still feels like. Feels like that's going to live and die based on its price. Who? Because Capcom's doing the ten dollars even more now. Like Dragon's Dawn would cost like fucking $94 before tax. I mean, I would still say first and foremost it'll live and die based on whether it's good. Like if the tower defense stuff is, like that's all fine and dandy.

Personally, of course I'm somebody who's, I wanna see like what's the action part like, right? It looked like you could do some cool stuff fighting as a group to some of the bosses, you know? And it seems as if there's a couple of areas where the entire tower defense section goes away and you're more just like in a boss arena essentially, like taking it on with a couple of units behind you.

You know what, actually, well, I totally disagree. I think games are expensive enough right now that I think price is actually a larger Factor for a huge proportion of games than their quality Like hell divers in power world Like but launched at 40 bucks or a little bit less. I think that's one of the reasons they blew the fuck up I think though it would need to have bare minimum an addictive aspect to it to break past the current addictive games you're playing, right?

Anything disruptive needs to, to what you're currently super addicted to playing. Like we're talking about, you know, all the games that you played this week and the things that I've been playing and it's gotta come in, like you try it out for a little bit and it's gotta be pulling pulling me away from you know Balotro or Infinite Wealth or-

Cause like- You know any of these other like titles that might hold your attention for a period of time. Cause like food analogies are like you pretty terrible but I do feel like the one I'm about to make actually does fairly well which is is like, there is a nice restaurant in my neighborhood that me and Paige have gone to, and it's nice. And there is a decent local, like, not fancy restaurant similarly placed, like it's the same distance away.

And so when you wanna go to the nice one, you're like, is the food better? Yes. Is it four times as good? Right. Right. And I feel like that metric works for games just fine. And well, so the, and yeah, the, you brought up Midnight Sons the other day, right?

And about how that was secretly good, because, like, people just didn't investigate. But also I bought it for $20. People didn't investigate until it was on sale, and then it was discovered, oh wait, this is not at all what we thought this was. Turns out it's really good. That applies when, yeah, I guess,

that applies when there's something to discover that is good there. If there's nothing to it at all. Cause like all I could think of now, now like Helldivers in Power World are in like a really great spot or you can look at full priced games and now you get to go, is this twice as good as Helldivers?

I just, yes, but I just have become increasingly aware of how much shit pops up on Steam and on the shops on all platforms really every day that just never even remotely enters the discussion. And it's not just like the Indiegate, at first it was just like, oh yeah, there's tons of Indies that come and no one really ends up talking about them and such.

Oh, did you see the, oh god, what's tons of Indies that come and you know, no one really ends up talking about them. Oh, did you see the oh god, what's it called potion quest now is that the That ladies game chat will fill me in so you know EA put like a shit zillion fucking games on steam this week Oh I saw a screenshot of like a list of all yeah things and it was like EA was like yeah, so like There was a lady who put out her game Potion something I can't remember the name someone in chat. Please go look that up. I couldn't find it And she put it out and within like five minutes EA released all of their games and kicked her game right off EA released all of their games and kicked her game right off the front page. Oh my god.

She had worked on it for like 10 years and she just like, it's International Women's Day and EA just kicked my game off the fucking store page. Because they all got uploaded the same, yeah. Yeah, that's- Um, what is the name of it? Potionomics? No, that's a different potion game. Okay. Potioncraft? Is that it? No, it's a different potion game okay potion craft is that it

no it's not potion craft either okay um yeah it is it is it is insane how much like I don't know I guess churn almost is the word it's called potions a curious tale thank you just got fucking kicked I don't know, I guess churn almost is the word. It's called potions, a curious tale. Thank you. Just got fucking kicked right off the fucking store. So that that's been happening with Indies for like a while now,

like there's like a hundred things going up at any given morning. Hundreds of things are going up and like one or two of them might be pretty fucking solid, but you'll never know. And then that kind of extends into stuff that's like even getting beyond the indiescope as well, but the price point will at least get people to consider it for us.

It's really interesting because like, as opposed to not considering it at all, is what I was gonna say. Criticism versus product review has been a thing for games forever. And movies were totally immune from that because almost every movie costs the same, right? And I feel like movies actually got

like a way worse deal out of it because it's now at the part where it's like, I can't justify going to the movies. It feels like a massive fucking waste. Hmm. Yeah, it was a, like it was a $30 ticket to go see Dune. Jesus Christ. It was a $30 ticket to go see Dune Jesus Christ it was a $30 That's how divers

So you bet your ass I'm gonna tell that dude to shut the fuck up Please believe yeah so Canadian dollars of course, but you know, remember guys, Canada. Canada. That's what we're doing. Canada. So, yeah, Path of the Goddess. We saw a little bit of that. There's also like, I love a good fucking committed Yukio-e wood block style HUD, you know, where like every time you look at one of the demons, you see it's original kind of like ink sumi-e brush style,

you know, artwork and stuff and how that translates into 3D is always fun to see. And so yeah, this just visually looks gorgeous. All the little tricks of Okami, where flowers are growing out of the ground, except now it's like hands, you know, creating like little clauses. I love that shit. So Konnichi-Gami looks pretty fucking beautiful.

And not much to say until I guess we get further breakdowns of like what's gonna happen with combat, but um... Dragon's Dog, put on character creator! So the main takeaways are there are less classes this time around and... There are more, but only one more. People expected much more and some of the old classes are gone Okay, is There is this a situation like a monster hunter world where it's like we're doing a new thing in a new engine and like it's just

Not everything can made it over. No, it is not like that at all. Okay, this game is the same thing in mostly the same engine. And they're like, we, we, okay. So the long and short of it is Dragon's Dogma one had nine classes. It had fighter, fighter, mage, they're called vocation. Vocation, I'm gonna say classes. They had Fighter, Strider, Mage, then they had Warrior, Ranger, and Sorcerer. So, Fighter is sword and board, and then get a big weapon. Strider is daggers and like a bow, but now their bow gets bigger as a Ranger. Sorcerer, sorry, Mage has a little stick.

Sorcerer has a bigger stick and loses its healing abilities and gets bigger spells You know that kind of thing like just direct progression called advanced vocations then they had hybrids which were like fighter and mage combined to form mystic knight or Strider and mage combined form magic archer that kind of thing, okay? So that's that's generally how it worked. Dragon's Dog with two is coming out, and they have changed the way that works.

And the long and short of it, I'm gonna try and summarize it as quickly and as succinctly as I can, is that each of the types of classes have a color. So like blue was associated with fighter. So like kind of tanks or heavy, right? No, no, no, sorry. Red was associated with fighter. My mistake. So blue was associated with mage. So when you saw the icon for Mystic Knight, it was half red, half blue to denote that, right? So when they showed off the classes for Dragon's Dogma 2,

they showed off one of the base classes, instead of being blue, red, or yellow, it's green. And also there's an advanced class that's half pink, half purple. And so people are like, okay, well that must mean there's a base purple class and there's a base pink class and there's an advanced green class And the answer is no There is okay, okay It's just showing that hybrid style even though the color system worked really well for the old game

Gotcha, but it actually works way less for this one So people have been asking, hey, why does Trickster have pink and purple as the color when it's the only vocation in the entire game that has pink and purple? And it fooled us into thinking there were more. And the answer that people can come up with is that it was meant to trick you. Yeah.

Because it's the Trickster class. You got tricked, didn't you? And its own icon is deceitful. to trick you because it's the trickster class. You got tricked, didn't you? And its own icon is deceitful. I see. Okay. Yeah, because I guess I was like wondering, because if there's a trade off that is, you know,

because like, yeah, well, the, the, there was a, when Kirby 64 came out, it had less powers than previous Kirby games, but then you could hybrid them and they all hybrided, including with each other. So overall, you had less starting pieces, but by the end, all the multiples meant you had an infinite, you had like a ton more and possibilities. So the way that the skills worked in Dragons Dogma 1 and the way they work in Dragons Dogma 2 is different and that's part of the reason that there's all this confusion.

So in Dragons Dogma 1, all your moves were tied to the weapon that you were using. So if you had a sword, like a fighting one-handed sword, that gave you access to the fighting one-handed moves. Both the default attacks and stuff like burst strike, which is just Stinger or Tusk or Full Moon Slash, stuff like that. And it's class locked. That's associated with the weapon. And the weapon is. Not the class.

But the weapon is cl- But is the weapon class locked? Not in Dragon's Dogma 1. Okay. So fighter can use the one-handed sword, but so can assassin, one. Okay. So fighter can use the one-handed sword, but so can assassin Right, okay

Because the hybrid classes could use a multitude of weapons across different things Right in Dragon's Dogma two they have said no more of that every vocation gets one weapon Mystic archer can't use daggers anymore Just the magic bow One weapon, like Mystic Archer can't use daggers anymore. Just the magic bow. Like art, like there was a class called Strider that had a bow and daggers that has been separated into two different classes, Archer and Thief, which is the bow and dagger class.

So it's even more restrictive. So what they did is they took every move that existed in Dragon's Dogma. So like Mystic Knight had, they were supposed to be like a shield made out of magic. And so they had moves where they would block with good timing and magic effects would shoot out of their shield. They took those and gave those to Fighter. They took the assassin moves that were the counter moves that killed enemies that attacked

you and gave it to thief. And so basically they took the classes that are no longer here and they took all of their shit and redistributed them into highly specific roles because they want the pawn system and the your main character to be a lot more narrow in their scope. And not every in, not everything could be hybrid with anything else, right? It was only specific things. Okay. Have we seen a like chart or tree of skills

that shows that like maybe there's more to them than there was previously? Oh yes, so Aboro, a YouTuber went to the Dragon's Dog Web event and part of his footage that he decided to pick up was he just went into the vocation change Menu and just took footage of every single skill. There you go was available in the demo build Hmm, and there are more so that those vocations were only halfway leveled And there are more skills there than in the entirety sorry a rob a robo-ro, not a borough, my mistake, a robo-ro. There are more skills on that screen

than in the entirety of Dragon's Dogma 1, despite the fact that they're only half-leveled. Okay, so, so like, thief, the thief class, which is the, is Strider, but with no bow has all of striders old moves and some of fighters old moves and all of assassins's moves together So each then has more depth to it despite being isolated out and For the people that are desperate for a hybrid class,

there is a 10th class called Warfarer, which can equip three of any weapon and switch between them at will and they can use skills from any unlocked vocation. Oh, that's incredible. That sounds super sick. But they are weaker. Yeah, you're a glass cannon.

Sure. No, no, no, like But they are weaker. Yeah, you're a glass cannon. Sure. No, no, no, they are physically weaker. Their statistics are percentile lower. We don't know by how much, but they are like, they are weaker than like a pure class. That would make sense to balance out your ability to do more with your kid, sure, yeah. Oh, and they're not allowed to unlock

the final set of abilities that all the pure classes get. Okay. And switching weapons takes up one of your buttons. Like you most classes get four skills to use. The warfare has one dedicated to just switching weapons. Interesting. So you also get one less skill

Okay. Yeah, I mean the self-balancing in a lot of ways, but that that sounds so pretty cool Also sounds a bit similar to well, and like if you're multi-classing in D&D, right? There's always the inability to go as far as you could if you were single-class. But does, so the whole thing with the pawns then, I guess if their expectation is you're gonna have your weaknesses or your other blind spots covered more by the pawn system.

Like they're just way, like I remember when they were talking about how they redid the ponds And I was like so what was the issue with them before? Compared to what they showed off. Oh, they they said that so anybody who played dragons dogma can quote Like the majority of pond dialogue back to you Because that is like a 50 60 hour game and pawns have maybe 100 different things to say okay I saw someone said like they love cliffs They also love cliffs

Wolves hunting packs arisen they ill let this this kind ill likes fire and ice both The path splits up ahead. We must make doubly sure to make to check our destination, etc. You can look at the chat. People are just spamming it right now. Great. The number one thing they did was improve their combat AI, but also like they need more to say. I love a good they need way, way, way more to say they're trying to corner us. Thank you, Titanfall Grunt. I appreciate that for the millionth time. Cool.

But in terms of combat. Oh, my God, it's an incredible character creator. It's amazing. But in terms of combat and their ability to make up for what you're missing. So the interesting thing is that you were never able to cover all your bases in Dragons Dogma 1 because you have four people and you have three basic types which is melee ranged and magic.

You were never able to cover all your bases adequately. With the with the vocations even more narrowed in their scope they seem to be wanting to make it so that it is actually even more difficult to cover all of your bases, right? If you want a strong, a bunch of strong frontliners and like heavy magic that can cast between each other, you're giving up like ranged physical attacks entirely. Okay, are you, and I guess like you're gonna get groups or mobs that'll be diverse enough that you might oh, yeah There's all sorts of problems that like there was um There were the it's a game built on a lot of hard counters

Right like you know Zombies if you like them on fire in DD one they just evaporate like they're done like there's nothing they can do to even the smallest amount of fire evaporate like they're done like there's nothing they can do to and even the smallest amount of fire But that assumes you're rocking people that can fire and shank your weapons or have fire skills if you are doing all of that Then there's a possibility that a lot of heavy flying enemies like harpies will just Tear your guys up because they can't shoot fast enough Okay, it takes like five to ten seconds to cast every spell Okay can't shoot fast enough. It takes like five to ten seconds to cast every spell. OK.

What was that meme with like, like from soft casting and Skyrim casting versus like Dragon's Dogma, Rastlin' Majur? Shit. OK. So what? What is what are you getting at familiar with casting in the vast majority of video games? Right? You go, whoa, and then you cast the thing. Although to be fair to Elden Ring, it was Pew Pew Pew Pew and then you get a fucking carrion blade and you're

that shit was hot So okay, so I'm gonna send you a video I have moved it 15 seconds in advance because Dragons dogma casting large spells takes 10 to 20 seconds to cast Like it exists in a world in which the spellcaster must be actively defended while setting up cast. Okay, okay. So those of you who don't know, I'm setting Wally a second. OK, a big tornado is. Like this set up will.

Oh, and it's it is bouncing. Yeah, OK. Nobody has to fight. The entire encounter is is trivialized. So the the the spell takes 20, 25 seconds to come all the way out, but the encounter is completely over. Gotcha. If the spell comes out.

Gotcha, okay. It's one of those FF16 screen clears, just fuck this. Yeah, no, it's like, you know, the, what do you call it? The fire equivalent of that spell is called high Chameleon, I think. And it's just like, like 60 seconds of uninterrupted meteors from space that are like an orbital bombardment. Jesus Christ. Every enemy you can get ahold of. Like, the sorcerer has no ability to defend themselves at all.

And takes like 20 seconds to cast the spell. And all spells are like these final boss spells. No, no, the bigger, the longer. OK, OK. But even the shortest spell takes like five seconds to cast. They they decided to have all spells take a while, but be huge and awesome. Okay. Yeah, no, the, I do, I like that trade off,

that sounds pretty sick. And I guess if you're doing the hybrid style and you don't necessarily, you would have to use weaker ones that... So, the sourceers are a really good example to explain like what I meant by like covering your bases is impossible. So, let's say you decided you were gonna have

one fighter, one archer and two sorcerers, right? No healers, only one ranged guy, only one physical guy. Well, sorcerers can combine their cast to cast one spell twice as fast. Oh, that's pretty sick. Nice. Oh, that's fun. Okay. But you have one melee unit, one archer, and no healing of any kind. Right. It's like a dive comp. You're committing to a particular. Yeah. Yeah.

That's that. And anything that fucks with that, that, that formation, like, I don't know, enemies that pick people up, for example, will cause like disaster. Cool. OK. And I guess that's where like pawn abilities can come into. Yes. Yes. Speeding up your cast and shit. Okay. And I guess that's where like pawn abilities can come into. Yes. Yes. Speeding up your cast and shit. Nice.

So like most people run a fighter, an archer, a magic user, and then the fourth spot is flex as to what do you want more of. But you can do stupid shit. You can have like a mage in three archers, why not? Man, shout out to the fucking cool, stylish, fun spell casting and spell casting variety and not like, I mean, God bless the video game, but like, and not just five versions of, I'm gonna whip a giant dragon head out of my ass and have it vomit

on you in different elements. No, I mean, so spell casting is guns. They're firearms. There's some legitimately cool stuff in terms of incantation variety and utility stuff. But yeah, but they're firearms. That's why when we play Bloodborne, they just turn that whole system into shooting a gun. But the particular flavor of like Dragon Communion that is like, yeah, you're just gonna make a Dragon's head

vomit on everybody. Like change the color of the Kool-Aid, the Dragon drank before, but it's gonna be that, you know? Like, man, that's like, there's so much, what about the other potential Kool Dragon things you should be able to do anyway? Also, uh, Gene was talking about this and I 100% agree with him Especially since the game is called Dragon's Dogma. We fight a lot of dragons in video games

This is the play you want to fucking fight a dragon you fight them in this game Yeah, it's easily the it is the best bombastic place to fight a dragon Okay, like there is no question It is the best. Bombastic. Place to fight a dragon. Okay. Like there is no question. I thought Grand Sax was pretty cool. I'm going to count some of those monster hunter dinosaurs as dragons. I mean they literally are dragons. Yeah, like that's a Nurgagantase a fucking dragon.

But, okay, take this for an example, right? In Dragon's Dogma 1, there's a drake in a clearing next to the thieves hideout. So, I jump on the drake and I start stabbing it in the chest with ice weapons because it hates that. How do I have ice weapons? Well, my mage enchanted my fucking weapons with ice because he knew the drake hates ice so the dragon flies up into the fucking air while I'm attached to him

Everyone's down there. They can't do nothing Mm-hmm, and I'm stabbing and I'm like, I don't know what to do. I'll just stab and then my my main pawn Which is a Ranger uses great gamble, which is they Ranger, uses Great Gamble, which is they charge for like 60 seconds to fire one arrow and fires this bolt from heaven and hits it directly in the heart and it crashes to the ground where everybody starts beating on it.

Like that type of party synergy like action shit has to occur within this system. Whereas in in Dark Souls or Elden Ring or even Monster Hunter, it's like, you're just kind of beating on it. I'm primarily grounded opponent. So that acts like a monster in a regular game. That's not how you fight a dragon in Skyrim then. That's not how that goes down.

No, man. That sounds pretty cool. Yeah, no the the the main thing again I have from the tutorial that I remember seeing just the like oh, there's gonna be the shadow of the colossus climb on the fucking thing system and That's a big part of how combat is gonna be I guess different From other shit is because you are actively running around on top of the giant beast as if as part of the Encounter so like dogma 2 has like a new system for knocking things over So if you have a big ass Cyclops was like 10 15 feet tall And you beat on one of its legs It might start to get a little bit off balance and then you can grab its other leg and be like

to get a little bit off balance, and then you can grab its other leg and be like, fucking go, go, over, or have people jump on its back to knock it over. And if it hits its head on the environment, it'll get knocked out for a couple seconds, and these beat on that fucker. See, that sounds really cool, but it sounds nowhere near as cool as a dragon

who just kind of sits on the edge of a cliff and has occasional vulnerability when they lean up, then for the most part they're just a set piece floating away from the stage and then occasionally they swipe up close and wait for you to stand there and I think I think the best I think the best example somebody pointed out is that lighting your own character on fire and then jumping onto a griffin so that you burn their wings bad enough that they can't fly away. Wow. Yeah, okay, okay. Sick. Like there's there is stuff here and luckily they'll

finish the game this time. Here's hoping. I trusted Suno. I trusted Suno when he's excited about a thing. So yeah, sounds fucking sick. Then, yeah, that was pretty much the day one. Day two is today, so we'll find out. Oh, is something happening? Exoprimal and I guess some Street Fighter 6 information. Bro, I went through my business email and found 24 exo primal emails Only I might have more than that I might have more than that I mean There's a lot yeah

Anyway, dude you hear exo primals come out you want access to the final beta of exo primal the file band of exo primals here You want into the file you get create capcom creator you want in the next Embark on a journey to know No, I don't think I will Oh I like the one that starts with download code Street Fighter 6 Gets mezzazooic with Exo Primal title update too. Oh, yeah, I like that. Yeah, it's got me. You had me in the first half, not going to lie.

Slip through the filter. All right. What else is going on? All right, what else is going on? George Kami Tami admits to having run out of development funds as usual On unicorn overlord as they did for 13 sentinels ages rim So he was yeah, the video was like hey So we made unicorn overlord And then we got to the point where we're like, haha, the company has no money. So I just started taking cash out of my bank account. Over the course of 10 years, they had to operate hand

to mouth with expenses coming out of pocket as they ran out of development funds again. Yeah. So I guess that's just that's just the way of doing it. You know what might mitigate some of those costs? What's that, Woolly? I suspect that if one was interested in mitigating some of the out-of-pocket expenses, making it available on all platforms might increase the amount of sales and access that- But Woolly, it is available on all platforms might increase the amount of sales and access that but woolly it is available on all platforms it's on the nintendo switch the xbox series s and x and the playstation 4 and 5 with retail copies available for the playstation 5 xbox series x and the switch oh so we're good then oh yeah they covered everything it's dude they're not there's something they're not saying like there's no well, they're 40 people

But like they're they're 40 people at the studio And they're broke So like But the level there is some reason but the but like the level of How much money you how much you hate money. Like at this point, I feel like we need, we're missing a piece of the puzzle that is a superstitious feeling

that releasing a vanillaware game on Steam will result in like infinite sales lost and pirating or something. Something insanely bad. Like and just out of date. I almost feel like is. I dude, I just, I'd want Atlas to be like, we will cover a PC port of every game you guys have ever made. And then I, they put out vanilla where collection and it,

I'll buy it, I'll tell everyone to buy it. Porting a game is expensive. Porting a game properly to PC is something that can easily go wrong and we've seen that happen many A times in the past we have I also don't think vanilla where is the type of company that has no ability to reach out to people that can make PC ports and negotiate a deal considering The amount of people that would buy it, the amount of revenue it would make in the end. They should do it. Given the cost of making that port.

I want it on the PC, so I think they should do it. It feels like it's Bunny left on the table considering how many people would love to, but do not pick up their games on console otherwise. And the same... Hey, if you can port vanilla Wear games to PC, you guys call up George and be like, I'll do it. Yeah. Come on.

So, this is the type of thing. With what funds I just said, you would need to talk to and partner with probably a PC port publisher. You'd have to talk to a publisher, somebody that would fund and then have a studio that is Specifically working on the PC port if you don't have the people in-house to work on it the way others have Right. Well, I mean the idea so

Atlas is publishing the game that we're talking about right now and they interviewed Atlas and Atlas said Yeah, we would love to put it on PC, but Vanillaware said no. Well then, so when we, if we sit there and go, with what money it's like there's- With Atlas's money! Like, what the fuck are you, like- With Atlas's money that they said they would spend! The reason why the thing being said is a good idea

is because it will sell and make the money you see There is a you need the money first. Yes You need that but from the publisher that is offering the money then perhaps Mayhaps maybe the same publisher that also just discovered that PCs exist Not too long ago bro Sega Atlas discovered discovered that PCs existed and put out like 17 games on the PC in like 18 months Don't sit there and defend this nonsense vanilla where thing that they do with their game Like there's no reason that makes sense for it at this point at this point like we went we went from what's a PC to?

Every like a dragon game that has existed in English being available on the PC in like a year. Yeah or we can just sit here we could just go back to damn it sucks that 13 Sentinels is not as popular as it should be damn that's a bummer too bad nothing can be done about that oh well. Nothing. The fuck are we doing, man? All right. Yeah, we saw a little bit of that. Did you celebrate Mario Day? I did not.

Well, you should have, because that was yesterday, March. Do you know how I celebrated Mario day? Mm-hmm. I went out to do some errands And I was wearing my skeleton shirt that says I can't read on it And then a guy on the street went hey man, I love your shirt And I would go and I like my body just filled with every good chemical and I went thanks man I wish I knew what it said

with every good chemical and I went thanks man I wish I knew what it said and he looked at me and he said it says I can't read and went off thanks man anyway and I went ah and it made my fucking day good bit it's not a bit that happened that was real. I was so excited See I was I was I ran home to tell Paige Paige the man asked me about my shirt And I got to pretend I couldn't read I Don't know why I was gearing up for some sort of long-winded dunk on Italians That just are you implying that Italians can't dunk on Italians. Are you implying that Italians can't read? How else will they? I am not. I'm just saying I was waiting for the Mario Deityan that never came. Oh right. And well, anyway, they did announce a spin-off of Mario as the movie is coming out next year. Let's call that new Super Mario Brothers movie. It's going to be Donkey Kong.

They said spin-off. And we know there's going to be sequels and shit, and the Zelda thing is another thing. So the way they phrased it here makes me think it's it's it's Donkey Kong Country getting getting its own bit. They set up Diddy right there in the crowd. Right. They set up cranky. It's all there for it. Not impossible that it's like Luigi's mansion. But I could I feel like, you know, getting Seth Rogen to do his fucking stoner laugh all the way through another three or four movies is the way they want to play it. Yes. OK, there was that.

The throat in his Donkey Kong, isn't he? He sure is. Banana. Who would play King K. Rule? I mean, just get the get K. Rule. K. Does K. Rule have a voice? K. Rule in that short that I watched on Slopstream was incredible. What's the who voice acts K. Rule?

You don't need you don't need to recast that. You know, I just give it to Jack Black Again again. Yeah, just call gas actually get cage get called Yeah, there you go From the the the they got the K rule from the TV show that did K rule in there was that animated short that did K-Rule in, there was that animated short that I watched that was so fucking good.

That feels like the way to do it. When you were sloppin'. Yeah. Zendaya, yes, exactly. Yeah, there you go. So, the, yeah, the other news alongside, we talked about the Warner Brothers bit, we talked about the... Hey, I have a pro tip.

If you are thinking about going to have your company work for Warner Brothers, maybe stop that. Consider otherwise. Shutting down rooster teeth, adult swim games likely being delisted in 60 days. For no reason also like that. There's some owners of those games that have like all the rights still and they're calling up people Warner Brothers going can you please just transfer the listing to me it takes three clicks on steam and they're just getting denied wholesale like they are vindictively like

actively destroying these games. That fucking sucks because adults in games was a legitimately solid way for indies to get their shit published for a while there. Yeah, I mean, it says within 60 days and hopefully there can be enough fucking noise that can just do something. But yeah, they're just killing shit just to kill it. Uh huh. Some. Some panic ass buttons were pressed and the ramifications are continuing to be seen. In the meantime though, while that's going on, Activision QA workers from the largest, formed the largest US video game union yet, organized with the help of CWA, Activision QA workers from the largest, form the largest US video game union yet,

organized with the help of CWA, Activision QA United has 600 members across Texas, California and Minnesota. That's great. That's super good. I, every time one of these stories drops, there's always a shot and you gotta wait for your chaser to see does it stick? It's recognized by Microsoft.

Yeah, Microsoft voluntarily recognized it. Voluntarily recognized it in court or anything. Yes, no, the recognition has occurred. It's more so like, is there just then an unfortunate downturn in these offices with redundancies that suddenly need to be let you know, let go. Yeah, but it's too late. They would have had to do this during the formation process. Like the usual thing is that you're like, oh, you guys are starting a union, huh?

All your bosses just got fired. That's crazy. But now that the union is in the process of being like legally formed, it's a little too late. The last two times a union was close to getting formed and or recognized. Everyone got laid off in terms of getting in the industry. So just I'm waiting for the shoe to drop slash wondering what the catch is. Yeah, I feel like that QA team is too large to just wholesale junk the entire department. 600 people is a fuck ton of people. But at the same time, in terms of like that's not,

you can't just like replace that tomorrow. But they are QA, which means to these assholes, they're disposable, which means if you are going to get rid of 600 people overnight, that's the group that you would be the most likely. You would be more willing to considering you're like it's low skilled who cares we'll pull them in off the streets the way they perceive QA at the very least I I I don't know just have the robots do it just have jet chat

GPT write the bug reports just saw a quote, which is we're really far away from AI being able to do your job, but we're actually really close to your boss thinking AI can do your job. Yeah, yeah, that's so like, um, did we talk about the air Canada thing? No. So Air Canada fucking lost a Supreme Court case in Canada, obviously, that is setting the tone

for AI in this country. So they had an AI chat bot running the help desk, the online help chat desk, you know, you go to the website and go, would you like to talk to an agent? Oh yes. Yes, so they had, they had, hey, I do that. And a guy was like, listen, I'm traveling,

I have a bereavement in the family, can I just buy the ticket and submit the bereavement later? And the robot says, absolutely you can, you totally can do that. So he was like, okay, and he took screenshots of it and recorded it and then went on his trip and then went to submit for the bereavement. And they're like, that's not our fucking policy.

Who told you that? And he's like, whatever dumb shit you have running your website. And they're like, well, that's a robot, so it doesn't count. And the Supreme Court of Canada says that if you employ a robot to talk to people and it tells you something, then that shit is legally binding.

Just like, I'm a huge fan of the Air Canada not a defense that was employed there though. Like yeah, well, it's not a real person. So you know anyone that would take it seriously is a fool. Obviously duh. It's like Walmart and the US and Canada are like getting security to like manage like self-checkout because people are just stealing itself checkout. And it's like the whole reason you put self-checkout in

was so that you didn't have to pay cashiers because cashiers check that you're not just stealing shit by scanning it in themselves. But now you're having to put security to watch the self check out. You're losing money now, you idiots. But. The security guard at the store, when I worked at the store,

cost more than the entire everybody else in the front. Because they need the insurance. And they need the training to, you know, and they have to get compensated for having homeless people bite them or, you know, and all that shit. But if you put a mirror at the self check out and people see themselves, they're less likely to want to steal because they can think, oh man, I'm a handsome shoplifter. I look really cool

look how fucking sick it is when I put it right in my jacket though look at that angle isn't that sick oh yeah fuck yeah damn I rule yeah next time you see yourself on one of those that's don't, that's what it's there for. Um, anyway, so... So yeah, by the way, Air Canada no longer uses a chatbot. Well, just could you, like, could you imagine the fucking precedent that is you're fired, you're replaced with a chatbot, and also whatever the chatbot says we're not responsible for? Oh yeah, cause you, I mean, because once that ruling came down,

it was like, listen, because you can trick ChatGPT and OpenAI to saying whatever the fuck you want it to say. So you could get that thing to be like, yes, no, it is policy to give you a blow job in the parking lot, absolutely. And then it's gonna go to Supreme Court of Canada and they're gonna be like, well, somebody has to do it.

Legally Biden. Yep. Employing the do anything now method of. You had an employee act with the word of law for your company. And so the policy that you put down by accident is accurate now. So Mr. CEO, here is a court provided lipstick and knee pads.

If you can have a pillow if you prefer. But someone needs to perform as has been promised. Anyway, speaking of CEOs, hey, what's good old Bobby up to? Bobby! Well, the United States is deciding that it's it's not acceptable for anyone who's Asian to own tick tock so So they said tick tock is banned in the US unless they sell it to an American and Mr. Coddick from midair with golden jetpack dynamically posing

catches with golden jetpack dynamically posing catches wind of what's going on over there and redirects with his with his remaining gasoline his jetpack over to tiktok showing interest in buying it if Bobby Kotick buys TikTok. Fuckin' Internet, like, Gigi, that's, please enjoy. I just, not content with a half billion payout, mind you, and fucking off into the sunset. Like, Kotick isn't even the problem. Kotick is like legitimately not even the problem. The issue is that the US wants to be able to control every single form of mass media that exists.

They've held onto TV forever, right? But here comes Google, here comes YouTube, here comes Twitch, here comes almost everything. And that TikTok, ooh, that TikTok, ooh, you can see all sorts of things that are politically inconvenient. Well, look, TikTok as it stands currently violates your phone in more ways than any other thing to a ridiculous degree. Of course it does. to a ridiculous degree. But the idea that a Bobby Kotick would take over and somehow not add to that list and somehow not streamline its ability

to invade your privacy and make that shit worse is laughable, is ridiculous. I think the funniest thing is that I see some folks mentioning that like Tiktok is legitimately associated with China and like yeah, of course it is And are they stealing a bunch of your data? Absolutely along with Facebook and Google and every service that exists on your fucking Apple iPhone or Android Yeah, my understanding is that the face recognition technology for for example, is used to help the Uighur tracking software that they're using in the Shenzhen region as one of the things

that it does, for example. Like the main complaint here is that, I mean, China's stealing your data. Words should be the good old US of A, stealing your data and handing it over to the FBI and the NSA. So yeah, I, I mean, that is that is a fucking hellish outcome for everybody should it occur. And the thought, I suppose, that Coddick would take his his his Near billions and just disappear with it was I suppose I was a fool for thinking to ruin something or I can't get off Said Bobby. I mean I thought he was like he's like hey, I made it the credits are rolling

He got out right you got away with it. You got away with all of it Like I thought that's a ride into the sunset moment, but of course you got away with it. You got away with all of it. Like I thought that's a ride into the sunset moment. But, of course you got away with it, he's rich. But you don't go that far and then hang it all up. Just to say like, yeah, I did it, I'm gonna retire on an island somewhere. You got a 180 that car and swing it right back around. Before all of this shit, rich people people if they wanted to get like props had to like put their name on a library

Or like a street or like a public building a hospital wing Yeah, they had to like do something that eventually became like a public good if they wanted to puff up their fucking attitude But now social media has allowed people to be like, you buy my fucking lip balm and make me a famous person, but also I'm rich and I'm just fucking you over. Like, ugh, gross. Is it not enough to have $500 million in anything you'd ever want?

You have to want people to like you also? Jesus Christ. It is not enough because you, if it was enough, then you wouldn't need 500, you would've stopped at 100. If it was enough, you would've stopped at half. You know, like that distance is already indicative of the fact that the limiter doesn't exist.

The billionaire class is actually like a form of hoarding mental illness that has been codified into society. It's like a form of hoarding mental illness that has been codified into society. It's like a form of like economic narcissism that is intractable because of its rewards. The only difference between grandma who won't throw out her trash and has a house full of pig statues that are spilling out the door and Bobby Coddick is that his Hording fixation is numbers on a spreadsheet. Yeah enough of that shit apparently there's a kuma news going on right now Shut the fuck up This gives a shit about the global

I need my opiate the state of the human condition and our economic downturn is is is fun and all But shut the fuck up. what's happening with with Street Fighter Mark's was wrong religion isn't the opiate of the masses it's Akuma how about we discuss the dialectical materialism of the satsui nohado I like when I hit the light punch light punch forward light kick hard punch okay what do we got what do we got? What do we got? What's happening? What's happening? S.O.S.S. Akuma what? Damn it. Damn it, I want to look at it. Where'd it go?

I don't know. I don't know, I don't know. Oh, it's happening right now. It's happening right now. Capcom, it's live. Capcom? I'm looking at it. It's a- oh, I'm watching it. I'm watching the trailer for Akuma he's old oh it's just happening it's happening right now oh man he looks like a like a shitsu okay fuck I'm watching it okay he's punching rocks okay okay he's

beating up a statue with a big shoryuken statue with a big sure you can um fist oh no I have not enough memory to open this page oh no it has crashed oh Jesus Christ discord has crashed woolly oh my god discord what are you doing did you just drop the call because

you were excited about a come know the memory crash crashed everything. What the fuck is happening? Akuma's in spring! Oh. But... Oh, did the stream go down? Oh, fuck.

Okay, all right. That's really funny. It says it's live, but it's not. I guess I'm going to... try to pop that back up. I have to go in ten minutes. Okay, alright, alright, alright. Uh, killing and restarting.

Keep the audio going. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Everyone excited for a kuma Fucking okay, just keep all this crap of course So what what did you what did you see cuz I did it punched a big statue and he looks old Did he do anything new is in no it was just in game cutscene. Oh, it was not like a No video game gameplay. Oh why you was not like a game play. No, no, no video game

gameplay. Oh, why you gotta fucking lie, that sucks. Okay. I don't like, yeah, I guess you just get to see the look. That's, yeah. Yeah, he looks old. He looks like Street Fighter V, Akumo, but he's old. Okay, that's fine. and did the trailer reveal how he feels about seizing the means of production by any chance? He doesn't care about that. No, okay. All right. Akuma lives outside the your fucking bourgeoisie worry selling fruit You know that that kid yeah, all right. All right, great. I think I think I got a picture for you. Oh the picture's gone. It's too late Damn he's he's he's I was a picture of his costume. He looks cool. The satsui nohado has destroyed the podcast it's it's Or that's appropriate isn't it or marks I Don't know where your camera is by the way. I can't see your camera at all

It's here There wait, how about that? Nothing well this it's too late it is too late. All right. Thanks Akuma. Akuma destroyed our means of production Damn Thanks, Akuma. Akuma destroyed our means of production. Damn. Did you just walk in and see angles on the floor with a giant ten symbol black? Oh man. Alright, alright, alright. So that's cool. That's real cool.

I love Akuma. Fantastic. Let's take a letter or two Hey, if you want to send a letter send it to castle super beast male a gmail.com That's castle super beast male gmail.com Right here's one coming in from Trey he says dare Pooley and what I got that's an old one I got into Final Fantasy around 12 When I started the first game that moved I started with the first game and moved my way up until I beat six, afterwards I went to my local GameStop and asked the employee if they had FF7. He said that they

did and he excitedly handed me the definitive way to play FF7, DERGE of Cerberus. It took me a while to recover from that and I initially disliked FF7's world until I finally played the original game much later. Has there been a particular franchise or series that you disliked because you got in at the worst time or were given a bad introduction? I have almost the exact same story. I have almost the exact same story, except instead of FF7 or Durg of Cerberus, I said, oh man, do you have anything like Ff7 and a guy went yeah, dude It's a new game just by the same people. It's even better and he handed me a fucking copy of saga frontier

Anyway, this blows ff7 out of the water. There's seven characters to play Holy hell you said all these stories. I'm like, okay, and I bought it, and I brought it home, and Saga Frontier's a fucking piece of shit. Uhhhh. God damn it. I hate that game. I know this has happened to me, but I can't remember what it happened with. I've told the story too. There's something that I just got in in the most sideways fucking way possible Shit Okay, I'm not gonna pull it Oh

Yeah, Hunter hunter 97. How about that? There you go But There was there was something else there was something else there was like there was a game series where I just I got the worst possible entry Fuck that GameStop idiot Oh, yeah, Haruhi started with zero. There we go. That's a bad one. The melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi is... Is that good? I feel like I've never heard anyone say a single good thing about it my entire life.

I watched one of the worst intro things you could watch to get into it, which was the episode zero thing, and then I proceeded to watch another couple of episodes of the whole thing and I fucking hate it. I despise it. I think it's dodge. You know what? But that's just one. I have one. I was like, everyone's telling me how great Gintama was. So I sat down and watched the first three episodes of Gintama and thought it was one of the worst things I've ever seen, only to describe that and everyone go, yeah, the first three episodes of Gintama aren't actually the start of Gintama.

They're actually a completely different thing. Yes, that's exactly what Haruhi is, it's that, yeah. And I'm like, what the fuck is that? That is the worst thing, why? Why? So the episode zero of Haruhi is like an inside joke of like what the whole plot is, but badly acted as a student play. But it's real. And then the actual series starts, but every episode is out of order.

So it's in like, it's non chronological. It's just kind of things are awesome. It sounds like a great show. They do the dance, though. They certainly do. That dance really took over. Um, yeah. The Haruhi got fucking big. Do the dance though they certainly do that dance really took over Yeah, how he got fucking big so be like I was I was

Like I had a target on my back every time that shit was like when it when that was peak con fucking culture That was like that that can get the dog shit away from me People were very upset. Anyway, we got one coming in over here from Sean who says, they're the woolly versus and father Pat. Some half life fans pretend that the HEV suit is just an armored hazmat suit, but others act like the HEV is somewhere around Iron Man levels of technology. Where would you rank the Hev in terms of sci-fi armor? Is Gordon Freeman really a badass, or is the Hev doing most of the heavy lifting?

I mean, it's a hazardous environment suit, and he's an MIT graduate, and he's a pencil pusher, so it obviously has some level of enhanced strength, and it obviously has durability. Like, it's supposed to protect him from like, arcs of weird energy inside the fucking test chamber. So bullets are like obviously gonna be deflected to some degree. Yes.

I've seen that so what I've seen so far is that it's its ability to yeah maintain health over damage over poison over time is incredible. Very good survivability perhaps not being used for military applications but incidentally it's great for these types of situations. It'd be way more durable if he wore the helmet that goes with it that you'd never see. It cannot be Iron Man, because if it was, then everyone in a Heav's suit would be destroying. Yeah, he's essentially wearing like high-grade construction

and protection equipment. Like there's no reason why a mass produced army of people and heves wouldn't just be like wiping the floor with everybody in that series. Like it can't. It has to be. And it doesn't. Gordy, the chap went out. It does flood him with morphine. Oh, whenever the little healing thing goes off.

Yeah. I think it does pretty good work, but I think I think Gordon is also badass and the two of them together create the right mix. Gordon without the have probably gets shot and drops dead. Yeah. Could sneak around a good bit, take out a couple of headcrabs, but you probably still not make it. I mean, it's roughly equivalent to the body armor that the guy in Opposing Forces wearing or Barney is wearing in. Oh, you have other, yeah. So you have other examples of people wearing like. Yeah, they, you have other, yeah, so you have other examples of people wearing like. Yeah, they all have the same health values

and they all work the same. So there you go. So it's roughly equivalent to a soldier or a high grade security guard's body armor. Right. Yeah, I mean, like almost in Halo, it's like how is Master Chief just that fucking good or is it just Spartans?

Yeah, but also the suit's crazy. The suit is crazy, but then you get to see all the other Spartans and they're like, no, no, no, no, they're fucking sick. Like the Spartans are, as a class, pretty fucking, they're pretty unstoppable. So you can take some away from John on that. Yeah, like Dead Space is probably,

Dead Space is like whole design ethic is built on this mentality where it's like He's wearing an industrial protection engineering suit That is supposed to protect him from flying debris in like an engine room That also happens to be an extremely effective protection against an enemy that is entirely made out of slashing weapons. Situationally appropriate. Right, like all necromorphs are acidic, which is something you would actually encounter in like a busted engine or slashing or piercing, which is what his suit is designed to protect him from. But just from like busted engines flying apart, not, you know, monsters.

Shout outs to Samus, who can lose the suit, but still bang. Right. She's still fucking. Well, I would hope so. You know, whips and crawls and fucking shoots and. Oh, you didn't. Okay. You didn't mean what I thought you meant.

Okay. Well, I mean, I mean, I meant fight, but yes, sure. All right. Perfect. I'm going to need a couple of minutes to stop and think about how to make a Akuma communism based title, but that'll be the end of the podcast. Thank you very much, everybody. Okay.

Bye, everybody. Bye. Thank you.