Castle Super Beast - CSB 276: Dogbite 4 U

Episode Date: July 9, 2024

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["Sailor Moon Theme"] Welcome back, Woolly. I'm glad to have you back in the country. I hope you had a nice trip. I did have a nice trip. Thank you. Whoa, what's up? Oh, did I freeze immediately? That's hilarious.

Immediately. Immediately. That's hilarious. Straight away without delay. That's so fun. That's great. The timing is getting funnier by every episode. Yeah.

Okay. All right. Why does this only happen with you and only with this specific video call? It really baffles the mind and it's not the kind of thing that's so aggressive that I'm like throw it all out, burn it down. Oh right, yeah, but like I've been having

Discord calls all week for hours and not even a blip. No, I know. It's bad and I do calls on this as hours and not even a blip. No, I know. It's bad. And I do calls on this as well and they're fine. It's literally just this one. It's kind of incredible. It's the trans-Canadian pipeline somewhere.

Again, it's not such a big deal that I'm like burn it all down. But at this point after this much repetition, I guess it's burn it all down. Hey, hold on. I'm going to disconnect and reconnect in like a second. Okay. And we'll see if that helps it. I mean death by a million cuts. It's it's It's just becoming did that work in my back Not not visually just oh, that's great. You know It's kind of incredible. Um, that's wild. Yeah, when I when I

Time to look into teams I just for this one huh yeah whoa I oh I guess so man all right here's my quit hold on let me get the gun to put in my mouth all right I'm gonna here's my turn here's my turn. Here's your turn? Oh! It's just, it's only calling, it's literally only with Pat. It's so weird. Oh, I don't know. Okay, all right.

Enough of this. It's a bit, it's what is this? A solid four weeks straight or so? I don't know. God, we've gotta get on Slack maybe. Gah. Hello? I really hope not mmm man is hello is slack the solution did

you did you did you like restart your computer in that time no no I just whenever that happens it's cuz I'm quitting out of discord and restarting it that's basically the deal all Oh, right. So, yeah. It might just be. The answer might just be Slack. Slack. Oh, I'm back. Hey, everyone.

Teams. Skype. So, it worked fine when you exited out and came back, but not when I exited out and came back. So it's the Discord on this side. Yeah. What does that mean? Fucking the Montreal to Vancouver hate connection. Like in that direction, specifically.

It's full of spite and ire. It knows who it's connecting to. Anyway. Oh my god. Alright. So how was your trip? It was a lot of fun. Thank you very much. Yeah, I'm alright.

I think I managed to defeat any major jet lag by staggering my naps, you know? It's a lot easier now that we're older and we can just decide to go to sleep at any time because we're just old and tired now. Yeah, yeah. And I usually ignore my body on a regular day. So all I had to do was not ignore my body and then turns out my sleep calendar is reset. So not too bad I was I was hanging out with the baby the other night in the middle of the afternoon was like 2 p.m

And I was like hey the baby's on my lap and I'm looking at him. I'm like I Could just close my eyes and decide just decide to go to sleep right now And that would be wildly irresponsible very dangerous do it, but it would also be very comfy. It is there It is an option. It's not a good option, but it is an option on the list. Yeah, no, it was great, man. I mean, a week is obviously not, it's not enough time to do and see most of everything, but it certainly was enough for just, you know, certainly was enough for just scratching at some of the curiosities I had and getting up to seeing enough of the history and getting a different look at the difference between like the main city life and the island life and enough museum and history stuff and everything to get a full picture of the place.

And yeah, it was great, man. Did a Greek guy come up to you and go this is where we invented society. Yes yes yes yes I mean so that that always that that's my friend's parents here back in Canada actually and like yeah there's a lot of Greek people in Montreal in particular it's just it's a spot like I said I grew up in high school with a fuck ton of Peters and Demetries and, you know, Costas and all the all the crew and, you know, they'd, they'd, their way through every morning. So we got to, I got to, I got, that's where I was introduced to a lot of it, you know. What was cool was the long locked alphabet that I had learned from that one summer Greek class I took in college. Like, that was unlocked. I was like, oh shit,

I still have that. That's cool. I can read Greek signs and Greek letters and pronounce them and I have no idea what I'm saying. I don't know what it means, but I'm looking and I'm like, okay, I can contextually put together this, oh, this, and if the word sounds vaguely similar to something English, I'd be like, oh, yes, okay. Maybe. Maybe. Right.

There's a couple of quick, because I'm like, I remember a couple of quick rules that you kind of come up with. The thing that looks like a P is not a P, that's actually an R, but the thing that looks like a lowercase r is actually a P. It's a pi. That's too hard. I can't learn that. Yeah. Learning is done for me.

It might be done for you. You actually learned these way back, come to think of it. Yeah, I know. It's still in there. It's still in there. And it is kind of interesting to look and see the word suvlaki and kind of go like, oh, this is another language where Vs and Bs kind of come together because it's spelt out with suvlaki. So anyways, it's kind of dope and you feel like it's stupid because in some ways I'm like, when I sound out a sign when we drive by it or something, I'm like, I sounded out, I'm like, oh cool, okay, I read that. And then- I was like, what does it say? Well, no, so sometimes it sounds similar-ish to something. Like literally, I sounded like Pandora and it was like, you

know, it's like, sure, okay, you know. And, but the thing is, is that like you do that and then you're like, oh, it's like if I was reading Spanish or another language that is already using letters I recognize, then I'd be able to do the same thing. But because there's that extra step, you feel a little extra special about it. Yeah. But, um. Like, yeah, I'll encounter Spanish. It's like, I don't speak Spanish. But I can ballpark a couple words because I speak French.

Yeah, no. And they're related languages. Every time I see a theta and I, and I, my little circle with the line in it and I'm like, oh, that's the TH. Ah, that feels like I'm doing some work. Um, but anyway, it was it was that was rad. And yeah, the compressed week was more or less like the first leg of the trip was landing in Athens. And

that's where I got to say shout outs to Tasos and Matt the folks that were out at the Tekken World Tour event that was happening out there. It's a, yeah, there's a little kind of con, like mixed game and some music and various kind of whatever miscellaneous entertainment stuff to get together events, the Gamers Lounge Hype Festival. Went out to that, had a small meetup, met some people, got some games of tech in, and walked over to this, again, little bracket they had running,

and I saw Katie Zee, who is like an American player that I know from various other events. I was like, what the fuck are you doing in Greece, bro? I mentioned you putting that out there, like I went halfway across the world and walked into a room and there he is running sets like What the fuck like actually what you know is that guy? Yeah, what's up? They were like? Oh, he was playing Okay, we played some games. You know it's like what the fuck's going on

You know and it just he happened to be like with his family on a cruise Like tour going past this side of the world at the same time. So hey, look at that. We're in the same area. We've been looked at. It's like I got to get off this cruise and play some goddamn matches. There you go.

Exactly. So yeah, that was a fun unexpected encounter. And yeah, got some got some got some good games in over there. And then Tassos and Matt took me out to one of their favorite souvlaki spots and got some good eats in there got some good, like deep fried saganaki and feta and just all these just the full spread and, you know, incredible foods. A real a real good time was had. So shout outs to them. And as well, like, yeah, running the little FGC scene out there. And I want to say Tassos also has his channel. Is it

Legacy of Kaiser? I believe. So little FGC channel doing like guilty gear. I think some horny videos are so, I believe. So anyway, cool stuff. Shout outs to them and I appreciate the hospitality. Genuinely, good folks and good hangs. Sippin' on Uzo was a thing that did happen. It's one of the traditional like alcohols. You throw some ice in there and then let it melt and then kind of sip it over time. And it's very licorice flavored. Yeah, so that's the thing. It's a classic traditional

drink, very licorice flavored, might not be everybody's cup of tea But like I'm okay with it, but my eyes were opened before the trip was over to a different old Liquor called Mastija And it is just Yeah, it's Greek liquor and it's it and it's hard to describe because there's almost, there's very little distinct flavor to it except for the light burn of the alcohol and a sweetness.

Right. You know? Okay. Is it like living in its own aftertaste? It really is, and it's very pleasant, and it's just vanilla enough that the moment you sip it, it's almost like a welcome drink. But the first thing you're like, oh, this would work amazingly in cocktails. And yeah, so they, I'm like, can you mix this into something?

And they're like, yeah, sure, we can do a Greek mojito using it and stuff. But yeah, mastija orastika is my new favorite. That thing's incredible. And I bought a fucking bottle back with me of that. It is an aperitif and it is sippable or mixable. And it's the ones where you look and you're like, wow, that's so sweet and nice and goes down easy. What? Forty percent, huh? OK, cool. Yeah, you know, just deceptively a smooth tasting for the percentage But wonderful stuff

If the particular brand I was recommended was skin OS if you if you do decide to partake Yeah, so spent that first leg of the trip Yeah, so I spent that first leg of the trip hanging out meeting those folks. Then the next couple days we're doing the museum stuff. So went to the Acropolis, the Parthenon, got to see the museums and like the big collection of all the old statues and everything traditional. It was also cool listening to a, there's like a walking tour kind of podcast guide that you can play while going through it and stuff. If you do ever, if anyone does, I would recommend, what was his name? The Rick Steves audio guide, if anything.

It's a free little MP3 thing, and when you get to a museum, you click play and then it just kind of like, you walk through it. And yeah, it's really, it's cool to see, you know, the big stuff that I learned in art history class in person and to, you know, take it all in and it's full, you know, depth and seeing it over the ages and such. But it gets really wild when you

kind of go further back in time. And like, there's like, okay, there's learning about the modern history, which is like literally the Nazis marching up to the Acropolis and like the crazy shit that happened when that when that went down. And then there's going a little bit further back in time to like 1821 when they got rid of the Ottomans who were like running the country for a couple centuries, you know, and like, got its independence. And then you go back to the ancient Greek times that like, you know, you kind of know about and learn about and such. But like, when you go to some areas, you're getting into like Minoan and Mycenaean, like ruins and

relics. And you're looking at like places that are like, here's a city that is from like 1600 BC. And that's the stuff where it gets really trippy to be looking at stuff. If you're going like, wow, think about how long ago Jesus was around. Now this was the stuff that was that long ago to him. I was watching somebody talk about this where the new and the old world have like,

like wild differences in perspective in that, like we don't understand how old things are because nothing here is old. And people out in Europe don't understand what it means for something to be far away. Because all of their neighboring nations are in a place that you could conceivably bike to. Yep. It's all right there, built on top of each other. And for us, the concept of like, oh yeah, this is an old place established 1901. Crazy. Like,

what? You mean it opened up last week? What are we talking about? Yeah? I'm remind apparently there's a tour guide walking around in Rome Rolling his eyes during the tour describing certain towers as ug 15th century additions That's insane oh Man wow look at this new shit Jesus Christ um No, it was incredible because um and just put me back on sale a there you go

It was it was incredible because well at some point you're gonna get auto kicked with it. Oh, that's fine I'll just emote with my mouth when it Yeah, when you're looking at the the progression and stuff, and you're going back to like, like, yo, look at this bowl. Like, it's one thing to see the posture of the statues change from being straightforward with a smile into dynamic and brooding because ancient to be happy about in this new era, right? And like the the the anatomy gets more and more detailed and dynamic and things like that and like these are these are all like

Big changes you can see but there's an era where it's just like holy shit. Is that a pot? That's fucking incredible This is this pot is so old. You can't even fathom. I could put things in this What oh my god, we don't have to just keep our water on the floor. What a wild concept, you know? Yeah. So it was fun to go through a lot of that. The- Have you ever seen the YouTube channel

called Primitive Technology? Oh yeah, for sure. It's like, he's continuing to just like for our perspective He is slowly advancing through various building techniques But like he's he's on a speed run of like two hundred thousand years. I mean and just Awesome concept two words like okay, so you buy the land that you're gonna build the shit on and then Doing it makes the videos that makes the money for you to further conserve and buy land to build shit on Mm-hmm

And then there's all the then there's like the copycat channels that are Walking through this render their fake as fuck as fuck. Fake as fuck, walking through the forest, digging holes and filling them with water. I'm literally looking at building a primitive house with the most beautiful around bamboo swimming pool. And this is the fucking thumbnail for it. You're back. And I'm like, that's a consumer grade swimming pool!

Yeah, yep, yep, no. There's super fake dumb Fucking sites out there and the worst part is that what they do is like what if in some shots they zoom out far enough That you can see like the tire the tire tracks You know and then they fill it up with water They pretend they're they're pouring it by hand and then they leave it there and then they walk away and then it just becomes a fucking moss swamp Bugnest that ruins the local environment because they're assholes that are trying to crib on the primitive technology thing sucks

It's shitty like if you're gonna do that at least fucking tear it down so that it doesn't have a lasting negative effect man God damn. No, I'm gonna create I'm gonna create a fucking Swamp pit that's going to breed attacks. When we were looking for places out in BC, there was a specific moment where somebody described like, oh, well, this place looks nice. And we're like, oh, it doesn't? And then we were then told, by the way, you know that adorable little lake that's next door that looks incredible in photos? Yeah. That's the, like, the province's biggest spot for creating mosquitoes. Oh man.

Is right next to this house listing. Oh god, so in the summertime. Yeah, it is like like Like dangerous far to be outside near the lake just she know throwing his bug attacks out great in the realtor photo Oh, man That I mean there's no there's no cost. There's just zero. That is a, yeah. Anyway, wildly and interestingly, out in the sweltering heat, because yeah, obviously,

Greece gets very hot. No mosquitoes. Yeah, it's pretty hot in Greece. That's why the guys don't wear any clothes. No mosquitoes. Didn't get, and I had multiple moments of being out there being like how we're not getting attacked by mosquitoes right now Yeah, mosquitoes have gone down a lot lately huh everywhere I was like I was you can decide whether or not that worries you or not that is concerning

But my hopes is that it's the season you know and it just happens to not be the season where they're breeding or whatever but We were like pretty much fine, you know, like all things considered. One of the Athens days, so and this is one of the big recommendations I would have to anybody that is interested in, you know, checking out Greece or so is there's some day trip reachable places that you can drive to and make it back to town within the same day. It's like you get like an eight hour day, you know. But what we did was basically we got, I wanted to check out a bunch of locations and I want to do so in

a timely fashion. And we found out that you can basically get a driver to be like, yo, you can sit in the air conditioned car and we can drive to these spots. And I know exactly how much time these museums are going to take. And I know exactly how much time to spend to get like a list of 20 or so places in. And it's really and it's like I was like, that sounds like a list of 20 or so places in and it's really and it's it was like I was like that sounds like a lot but It flows really well because the dude who's also like jorgos shout out He was pretty pretty like awesome because he was also knowledgeable about everything That we were going by so like as you're going to the place

He's telling you about what's going on historically and then you get there and like check it out You know, I hear though they have those types of tours in Brazil, too Get off the plane and you walk up to a guy who says he knows all the good spots Absolutely, you know what I'm sure every country probably has things like that But in this case it was a very legit service It was a very legit service

Because it's the same service in every country and it's just like use that one it's good or don't use that one Well, yes, and I and knowing as well that like there's a lot of potential to be scammed In Greece, that's one of the countries where a lot of that can happen. Google reviews and Yelp are your friend. I just checked the reviews on everything I signed up for and I checked the like Reddit comments for people talking about what they would recommend and just did some research, you know? Most of the things I looked into, almost everything, I improvised some days, but most of the things

I signed up for and whatnot, I just looked into to make sure I'm like, is this legit? Yeah, it is. Okay, cool. And that worked out. So I encourage folks to do that. But what we got was the ability to go check out this really awesome old city the old capital called Navplio Which was like yeah Waterside just old stuff like very old Montreal style kind of vibe

Which it's interesting because if you if you know like Montreal to some degree You know like the most European ass city in North America So you kind of see you you're used to that sort like cobblestone street, old building kind of look of things. But then it leads up a wall to a giant sanctuary like like forts that is like, again, infinity old and has an incredible view and then all that stuff. So one thing that was cool to know that I was listing the right places was every time I was talking to people from Greece

about where I was going, people were like, OK, yeah, yeah, no, that place is good. Right? There's the don'ts, don't fuck with that, we hate that shit. And then there's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, OK, good call. A little bit off the beaten path on that, but that's a good place. Or places where they go on vacation themselves or go to check out, you know. So yeah, NAFPLIO was one of

them. And then went to the islands. And specifically to Paros, which is, there's, okay, so like of all the different islands, there's Mykonos, which is the don't go fuck that, this is just a tourism nightmare, hellscape of an island that no longer resembles anything that like people that actually live in Greece. Why does that name sound so familiar? I mean, it's a very popular name for a destination in Greece. Is that where goddamn Abba, Mama Mia? I don't know. Oh, it might be.

I don't know. But Mykonos is, yeah, it's just 100% Tourismville and you're getting ridiculous prices and ridiculous. Like yeah, just the least potential authentic experience ever. Then secondary to that is Santorini, which is that same experience but lessened, but at the same time it's built, it's a caldera, which is like a sunken volcano. So it's a really cool view because basically, thousands of years ago, a volcano erupted, built this giant island formation, and then the middle of it collapsed underwater. And it created essentially like a donutnut shape within like a middle volcanic island and like everything that you is built is facing the center and the sun sets perfectly down

the middle of that so like it's a it's very very beautiful to catch and so there's a bit of a like yeah you want to go there and you want to catch that regardless of the the tourism because that's a still really incredible beautiful view. And I agree with that. It was very nice. But I was I just went for one day and I could see a lot of the chaos. And yeah, the there's a there's a there's a you got to do your your You got to do your sort of, I guess, tourism overpriced nonsense kind of experience balanced with like, I'm in here to see this historic place or this historic view and then get out, which we managed to do. It was hilarious though getting off the ferry and seeing a sign with a dude holding a sign up that said, cheapest taxi prices come here.

And he's like beckoning people coming off the boat over. And right next to him is another dude with a sign saying cheapest prices down way down that way. Go 50 meters down. And like literally he's like, no, keep going, keep going. And the guy next to him is like, no, come here. And like they're having a battle like all these All these two dudes do all day is just fight right next to each other, and he's like, you, looking at you, you, I'm looking at you,

come, come here, look, come, come this way. And the guy's like, no, don't listen, keep going, keep going that way. And here's the question, is who has the cheapest taxi prices? We don't know, that's the thought, right? I'm sure, that is the question, who has the cheapest taxi prices? We get that you don't know! That's the thought, right? I'm sure that is the question.

None of the prices are listed, of course. Oh, fuck no. I'm sure you have to get in and find out. In a fucking haggle society, why would you list a price? Just the wildness of that, right away you're like, okay, that sets the tone. I know where I am. You know, the, on Pados, the other island I was at, which is again, gorgeous, really nice place to stay. The, it's like, you're not gonna get, like, you can Uber in Athens, you can Uber even in Santorini. You can't really Uber on the smaller islands, you know, so that's where you're like, okay, I'm at the mercy of the taxis. There's a lot of, there's a lot of those people around. And this is where you can get scammed and

stuff. So I'm a little bit more, you know, like where in and such. And there's a lot of dudes that are just like, I'm a taxi driver, but I'm also like, whatever you need on the small island, here's my card. Call me for whatever purpose. And like, so yeah, there's a dude who's like, yeah, do you need a ride up to whatever? And I was like, okay, yeah, sure. Let's take it. And he's like, oh, you know, showing the like, here's what the car looks like. And here's everything's valid, etc. And I was like, okay, but I know you're out here soliciting and there's probably gonna be something sketched to this. So let me just keep my head up and see where it is

and what's going on with it. And I'm okay to get scammed when I know my options are limited and I understand the nature of what it is, right? So in other words, the scam in this case was, I'm going to drive you by like my friend's restaurant and be like, later on today, you should go eat here. It's a really good place. That's not a scam. That's just like good business. Yeah. So, but it's just like, okay, you're going to take the route that is going to go by certain places and be like, go here, go there, this beach actually. And kind of like, I'm like, all right, all right.

That's your bit, that's fine. I have no issue with that. It's not a like pulling into a sketchy place and weird people are showing, you know what I mean? Nothing like that, right? It was just like, all right, your whole bit is essentially, you're gonna get me to the destination, but we're gonna take the scenic route as we go past the places where you probably get a cut.

I understand the nature of that. That's fine. Thank you. We get to our location. No problem. Yeah, and then the actual place we stay of course, like having a really cool manager of the rental room was like, okay here's all the places you should go, here's what I suggest you should check out, this is really good food, this is a place, this is this guy's grandma's house that they just make home food every day

and you could just go get some of that if you'd like. And I'm like, if you wanna get a really legit experience, that's really cool. This place right next to that, don't fuck with that place. Never go there. They don't do it. And we're like, really, what's the deal? And then like, yeah, sure enough,

you go on Google Maps and you look and you're like, oh yeah, this is where they have a price listed, but then the price has an asterisk and the asterisk says for a kilogram or whatever so you don't get the real price until the bill comes out. And even when the bill comes out, it might not be the real bill. And 15 layers of dirt and bullshit, awful photos of non-meals. One of the first things that I just popped in while you started like right as you were like talking about starting your trip, I'm like, I just need to double check.

Is Greece a haggle country? It is. It can. It is a haggle country. Yeah, yeah. As such, all prices are vague approximate suggestions. I didn't do a ton of shop shopping, Such all prices are vague approximate suggestions. I didn't do a ton of shop shopping. So there wasn't much, much a haggling to do.

I was kind of there for the experience mostly and the fucking food, but, but it's like, it's the Food can be haggled. It can be haggled. This is true. But this, but this place I'm describing, like the, the, you know, the finishing touch on all of the scams is, you know it because they're blasting music so loud that you can't think so if you're gonna get into a screaming match arguing No one can hear that you're getting into a screaming match

Anyone who gets upset at the surface It's like you've the per the table right next to him cat Can't fucking, and everyone's like, you gotta yell your order anyways. Are you trying to hurt my feelings because I can't understand you at all? You know, like we're all talking at this volume, so are you mad or are you just trying to order a drink? I don't know. Incredible, you know.

Yeah, so there's, again, check your reviews and unorganized by priority. When I was picking where to stay, Again, check your reviews and, you know, unorganized by priority. When I was picking where to stay, my number one priority was air conditioning, because there's tons of places that were like, this place has an incredible view, incredible everything, incredible service.

Air conditioning- Hot as fuck, leave the room. Air conditioning doesn't fucking work. You're just gonna sit there and die at nighttime. You know? So, all that is great. Encountered a really nice little Lukumades spot, which is essentially Greek Timbits is the best way to describe them. They're just like... I never thought I'd hear those

words next to each other in my life. Yeah, they're bangettes, they're little donuts, and then you put some white chocolate and chocolate and then honey and drizzle all over them and they're fucking incredible. They're,yats, they're little donuts, and then you put some white chocolate and chocolate and then honey and drizzle all over them and they're fucking incredible. Straight out of the fryer, glazed in a million sweet things and just super good. But it's a glorified Timbit traditional. Those are great. And yeah, we kind of wandered through some streets. It's really interesting to wander through, you know, Cammie's level in Street Fighter

Alpha 3? Mm-hmm. That. You just kind of wander through that. Just everything is the, you know, cobblestone street, the white buildings, the roofs, and just, you know, beautiful beach view, that type of thing. A lot of the island cities are kind of like that. And the difference between a side street where people live and a main street where it's all

business is just the crowd on it. So we kind of wandered around a little bit just to, you know, just to get a feel for it and had one or two moments of like someone kind of wandering by going like, hey, where are you looking to go? Because here? Not so pretty. You want to probably go back that way. And it's like, oh, is it like, like a like a danger thing? Or like a, you know, like a just a tourism thing. And the guy was just kind of like, this way, this way. Okay, fine. You know, and because like the places that or he's like going saying don't go

I'm like, but that's a beautiful alleyway with flowers Literally like being but fall it petals off the tree onto the ground, you know also cats running around having fun because The entire nation the entire nation is Run by cats, it's crazy. They're- It's just one of those places, got it. Everywhere at all times, you're gonna see a couple dogs,

non-stop cats. And what's fun too is like a lot of them are just kinda like- I don't know if I remember correctly, the dogs and cats there can use public transit. I don't know if it was, when I heard about that, I don't think it was grease. I remember that being Another Russian dogs can use I remember the Russian one. That's what I remember seeing yeah in this in this case the cats are all kind of like

town Cats there there there's street right there street cats But like they're taken care of by the town essentially and like all the way to the point where when you go up to the Acropolis the top the fucking Parthenon at the top of the hill there's cats laying in the shade there too because people that work there are like taking care of them and stuff so yeah there's strays but the strays are all kind of kept and like they have names and one of the restaurants we went to all the cocktails were named after the cats around town you know. Oh that's Dorcas Hell. Yeah, super fun.

Yeah, super fun. Um, and, you know, Punch Mom is like, oh, like going up to, you know, kind of go for like a pet or go for a smell or such. And I'm just like, you fool, you absolute ignorant fool to think they have any interest in you, a random person that's just another like tourist walking by, without food in your hand. How dare you? Because you approach them and they look at you like, get the fuck out of my way, what are you doing?

No, no pets, leave me alone. Right? Pet it out. Pet the fucking cat, Wully. But if you've got a little foil thing that's like a Luku Mades container in your hand, or a Suvles container in your hand, or a Souvlaki wrap in your hand, yo, what's up, what's up, what's up, ah, they come run, you know, they're all about that life. They super want that attention, you know, but you gotta have some shit in your hand. You gotta have an offering.

You know, just the absolute hubris to think you can approach with nothing but love and get any attention, you know? No, man, these are mercantile cats. You give, I give. Well, that's it, right? Because you've got to imagine that it's like any pet that's like, we have like a neighbor cat, for example, that absolutely loves people and loves the attention and loves pets and It's an indoor cat. It's getting outside a little bit not seeing a ton of people besides our neighbors

So, you know, it's like yeah, it loves the affection But if you think about like a petting zoo, right like those animals are petted the fuck out. They're human the fuck out They're not they don't need any of that. But what you got in that bag though? What you eatin'? What's in there, you know? Let's talk about that. Reminds me of Bunny Island. Yeah, the- Hear a little rabbit, hear a little rabbit.

Exactly. No, nothing, but the sound of plastic rustling, here they come. Eyes tingling red, right? Laser eyes, ding, like absolutely. So, yeah, fuckin fucking cats everywhere bring offerings. We wandered around the corner into just a crowd going nuts, popping off and they were just like, what's happening here?

Flags were going and we're like, I don't recognize that flag. And then like flares start popping off and like smoke and it gets crazy and drums are banging. They were like, Oh, what? And it's like, Oh, the the football team, right? Olympiacos FC are the the like, they're the first Greek team to like win a championship in forever. And like, they're the best Greek team that got the cup and so they were doing the Tour of like almost like when the Stanley Cup goes around they brought the trophy over to Paddus Island and then everyone was was able to go pose with the with the cup and take a picture and

And it was essentially like, you know, like the ultras if you've heard about them They're like the I have not it's like a football if you've heard about them. They're like the- I have not. It's like football fans in Europe, they have like the coordinated like fans that are like the ultras which have their chants and their uniforms and their flares.

Oh, the freaks, got it. And they go crazy, exactly. And like they have to be let in separately through a side door because if they clash with the other ultras, it's just gonna be a war. They're actually gonna get violent and nuts. But like, yeah, that level of like, fandom and organization popping off.

And we just wandered into that crowd. And that was super cool. I was like, oh shit, we just happened to be there for that. Caught some of that on camera as well. Yeah, just the full coordinated like war chants almost of the football teams. All that internalized European blood feudism just doesn't have anywhere to go anymore. It's gotta be on the pitch. That's what it's for.

It's gotta come out somewhere. Absolutely. It has to. And not just European, global dude. It's literally just us. We're the only ones. Yeah, just the new world. We're the only ones. Yeah, just the new world. We're the only ones that give no fucks. Everyone else gives a fuck, man.

Anyways, I stand by my thought that I know that the tradition at this point, much like baseball, means a lot, but indoor soccer, I played that mode once in ISS and it was like just smaller field, more goals, no out of bounds because the ball bounces off the wall and back into play and that shit was awesome. And I felt like I was playing like the NBA jam version of soccer and I'm like, this is rad as shit. This should be the thing more. But anyway, that was what we did there. Yeah. And then pretty much that's that's more or less it, you know.

So fucking cool time. Good stuff. Shout outs to the... Grease, good or bad? Grease, great! Very cool. Oh, fantastic. Still good. Athens has a...

It's really interesting. I didn't know that it had such a huge graffiti scene. And there's tons of graffiti there. And like a lot of that is, there's like street murals. And then there's like tagging and like, just a very developed thing from I mean, a lot of the European capitals have it as well. But like a lot of the stuff from like the financial crisis that happened a couple years ago. And there's a whole you know, a lot of I think I had like the

biggest like, unemployment for like the biggest like unemployment for like the youngest group of people for like a while there. So just a whole lot of like, fuck the goddamn system rage that came out and went straight onto the walls. And it's really interesting to see that in contrast with again, like old pillars just in the middle of downtown and stuff. I took a photo of an old, it's an old like vase and it looks authentic, but it's an old vase and it's literally just a garbage can. It's near, in the Plaka like Parthenon

area and it's like, yeah, we've got so much ancient history around there's just corners of it happening casually over there there's a little park with an indentation you can go to like yeah we're not like there's a sign this is an old pillar it used to be something cool but it's fine just go you know you know no big deal it's it's so funny that you mentioned that because as soon as you said garbage can i'm like, you know out here in the new world We're making moves to Just today they unveiled in New York City that they're gonna have this new invention called a bin That you put your trash into so you don't just throw

Your entire household or businesses trash all over the fucking street. No kidding in New York City for the rats That's that's what an invention. That's right. We're getting there. We're getting there crazy While I was while I was there in Greece though there was news like literally on the first of this month They unveiled the new labor proposition that is the first EU country to enable the six day work week or two extra hours on your five day work week. So that's awesome. Everyone's really excited about that. There was a, I don't know if you remember, but there was a whole thing about Greece

and how Greece did their money bad and then had no money. Not great. That was a thing. It continues. The stuff's supposedly getting better, but there's issues. And work more now or yesterday but do it is is not awesome. So that happened literally while we were there. But yeah, no, all in all, fucking

Meanwhile, you'd usually feel kind of bad as a tourist except tourism is like Greece is like only primo like booming industry and always will be because people want to go to Greece I mean I don't know enough to say only but I will say that it certainly is a humongous part seeing as it's one of you know what I'm probably wrong but I might not be so I'll work off of that well it's the fucking story to ask ancient spot that like everyone you know know, it's like ancient history all points back to that shit. And like, you've got like, you know,

cause you've got like, you've got wars over the years of destruction of like, you know, destruction of knowledge and destruction of culture and stuff of like, we're conquering and we're blowing your shit up. But then you've got like Rome being like, okay, so we're taking over over but we're also huge fanboys Which is which is so wild because it's like imagine if like

imagine if we were like imagine of North America like fought Japan now and Like yeah, you're like, okay, we're going to war and we're taking over but Everybody don't don't touch Akihabara. Like, okay, like huge weeaboos, you know what I mean? Like, it would be wild, but it's a little bit of that of just like, okay, so, you know, we're in charge now and we're going to put up some statue, but oh man, oh fuck, there's that, yo, there's the arches, dude!

Like, wait, are you conquering or what? What are we doing here? It's yeah huge fanboys every so historically That's been the case for a bajillion fucking a gorillion years, you know, so of course, okay I'm not insane. I did pull the word gorillion from somewhere Yeah, that I want to say that I said it the other day and I was like, I didn't think of that. Where did that come from? And I couldn't put a finger on it. I think it was a webcomic I read it from.

Possibly. But anyway, yeah, no, so that's the deal. Tourism has been happening since ancient Rome. Tourism to Greece, that is. Well, I mean, to be fair, historical tourism was often done at the head of the army. Of course. So it's slightly differently. Of course.

Slightly differently? That's wrong, Pat. Slightly different. And then, yeah, you can also go check out the changing of the guard, which, you know, I mean, so like, I've talked about, like, I've seen videos of the India Pakistan border will have the changing of the guard where it looks kind of like the Ministry of Silly Walks essentially. They'll do these really big exaggerated kicks and massive steps with the rifle flipping and stuff. You know, we do, like we're used to like, what's the word for, there's a word for

like essentially like soldiers in formation that do the gun flipping and the full... Nerds? That's not the word I was thinking of. It is, it is. Admit it. Anyway, dressage and it turns out, so at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier there where they have every hour the guards come and they switch it up and they do these big exaggerated steps and everything, the reason for a lot of those exaggerated motions is because when you stand still for

an hour and don't move. Oh, you pass out. No. Well, that's a really great way to get the blood passing back through your limbs is to do these big Ministry of Silly Walks kicks and steps and turns and putting your hand up and everything. So all those exaggerated motions are being fancy, but also, yeah, it's fancy pageantry, but it's also doing stuff to get the blood flowing after like that's why

You know the you know the the the the British guards have the the big stupid hats Right those guys you ever notice that there's like a weirdly disproportionate amount of videos of them Just like passing the fuck out on their feet Like just tipping right the fuck over is that a thing thing? Yeah. Yeah. It's because they have to stand still at attention in that big fucking hat. Well, for hours. Yes. The thing is, is those the people who do the duty of learn how to do that, right? Like you go through enough training to be able to stand there and take it. Although the heat and I'm such, I'm sure eventually becomes unbearable. But it's always awesome whenever some tourist crosses a line, leans too far forward or in

or steps over. And it's like, motherfucker, I'm still a guard. I'm going to beat your ass. The fuck do you think you're doing like there is a very instant snap to yeah this is all like taking the photo for the for the tourism etc but you kind of forget at a moment that like no they will yell and grab you and toss your ass out when you act that way I'm just thinking it is possible that they're standing there and they are

like they they like become aware of themselves for the first time in their lives and go, oh, I'm in England. And then their body attempts to die. It just attempts to just self-destruct and go, oh, fuck it. There you go. You got it in there. Thank you. What's always hilarious and is just depressingly par for the course is going up to the Parthenon, walking around at any of these things and

a whistle blows because I look over and some dumb lady is stepping beyond the boundary to take her selfie Oh no man, no! At the ledge where the fucking pillar is and they're like get the fuck back behind the line you idiot and it's like oh well, okay, Jesus chill out, you know, whatever and Like at walking this and shit is older than 10 Americas get away from and walking further down the line And then and just the people behind us you know with accents from somewhere else I'm not sure what country were just like it's always the Americans huh and they're like yep it's always the Americans and I was like oh god it's just

there's just you know it's like you have there's bad there's you know I don't want to get into it because I don't want I don't want I don't want to say these things with my Own mouth into this recording, but there are multiple different groups from a couple different countries that are known to be Particularly bad travelers if you're the one I am very willing to speak about is Quebecers are Terrible travel if you if you it's just it's if there's a general selfishness to your your Community to your nation to the way you were raised if you were built if you're raised in a selfish culture You know then you're gonna give less fucks about everything happening around you and you're gonna be like ah

That barrier rule is just a suggestion I want to get my photo and oh so if they stop me then they stop me, you know? And everyone around is like, God, just can you not be you for two seconds? This is probably wrong to feel, but I'm going to say it anyway. I recently saw a video of a gentleman who works at some United States National Park, right? And he is on his phone, possibly on his break, taking video of tourists hopping the fence in front of some enormous gorge. And the fence is like, don't go over the railing you could just ball and die and people are all taking like

Instagram photos with like you know like the back of your heel is on air And I see that and I'm like Maybe the wind should do something for a child like that's what I'm saying I talked about what I went to, when I saw the fucking, the sneaker waves in Iceland and the fucking giant waterfall and people getting on the wet rocks beyond the fence barrier to take their selfies. And I'm like, man, who would feel bad? Who would feel bad if what is supposed to happen happened at this point? Is it really

a tragedy to describe it? I actually when you darn would award yourself out for a fucking selfie. We talked about selfie side selfie side. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't come to this conclusion, but it just clicked in my head because you asked who would feel bad. And I'll tell you the people who would feel bad are telling you that they would have done the same thing. Because in their minds, like, well, anybody could have made that mistake. And it's like, that's not true. That's not true. This is a conscious mistake decision. I saw the complete opposite of the other day. I saw a video of a dude with a fear of heights getting to a cliffside and

like getting on his face and crawling to the edge and getting his fingers over and just Barely being able to manage peeking and going like You know what? You know what? I get it. I get it. I used to be I get it. I used to be terrified of heights I used to be, I used to be terrified of heights. I used to be terrified. Like like knees shaken, scared of heights. Um, but we went to Toronto on a trip to see family and you know, you go up in the CN tower and CN tower has like the glass glass and I'm like, well, I don't know what I'm, I'm like 10. I don't know when I'm going to be

back in the CN tower and I'm gonna feel really stupid if I don't step on it So I like I like looked over it and then I ran across it as fast as I could Because that's all I could handle. Yeah, Tokyo Tower, right? Looking down same thing but you know, it's again the difference between that versus let's jump on it to prove That it's what like what like I get the guy who bashed himself against the fucking. The guy who bashed himself against the wall in that in the skyscraper you know like to

prove what man like what is the like you get your little bit or you die like what are the outcomes here. Bro I'm I'm like I'm we're talking about this and I'm like filled with terror Because I have a little boy Which means I'm gonna have to be the adult in the situation of like don't Touch the candle it will burn you okay, okay? Don't! You're moving towards the candle. Don't do it. Okay,

I won't. Ow, my hand! Yeah. And like, I know that I'm gonna have to deal with that because what I'm just describing is my dad telling me not When I was four years old god, I love how like that never goes away We just get bigger and start calling them intrusive thoughts you know that that that Psych experiment where they leave you alone in a room and they're like don't hit this button. It will shock you right right yes And they just leave you there and then eventually you dude I don't think I would last even like I think I think I would probably Like push the button before they had left a million percent just that just out of sheer boredom

There's like dudes just bashing it like click with the full fucking motion blur on the hand like Yeah, I want to see how bad it'll shock I With the full fucking motion blur on the hand like GLEEEAAAHHHH Yeah Um I wanna see how bad it'll shock I gotta know Anyway, I just It's that the The cringe aura of just Every time I've been somewhere

High and dangerous And it's fairly crowded There's always that person and it sucks. But anyway. It reminds me of going to Japan and Paige explaining to me, because she had been there for a while, that she had overheard lots of people saying, seeing any piece of garbage on the street, oh, foreigners have been here. Americans were here.

And so like, she told me that and I was like, oh Let me always carry it back and just jam my cokes in there. Oh my god feels terrible man I don't want to be the fucking the negative stereotype Everyone like is everybody like everybody has to worry about being the negative stereotype for their group But what the group is everyone else is the it's the whole group. Hate it. Yeah. And I guess then beyond that, went to one of the beaches and had a good time. And as I was walking to get a drink, just get flagged over by this couple and they're like, hey, what's

up, where you guys from? You know, like Montreal. I'm like, oh cool, we're from California. I'm like, oh cool. I'm like, yeah. Originally from Texas though. We're like, oh yeah? And he just points at the shorts, Buc-ee's.

I had to ask, I'm like, ahhh. You know it. You know it. Oh my god. So. Buc Bucky's has a long arm representing all the way around the world doing it. But it and in the same vein, though, like wild bad. And that's like, hey, OK, you see the beaver. You got to fucking ask, you know, to which, of course, there was news that specific day to was To which of course there was news that specific day to was a fire broke out and burnt the original Bucky's location apparently Which was a tragedy only to discover that actually the across the street They built a bigger larger more fantastic Bucky's and that old and hopefully more fireproof book

And that original one was actually destined to be demolished. So Um, it really was no big deal. I guess it worked out. Yeah, everything Totally fine. You can't kill the beaver um I just love just again in brackets canadian who goes to buckies once I I was got you man. It's got its fingers in your heart. But I was also I was wearing I was wearing a shirt and this lady came up and pointed at my shirt and went

like I was wearing I was wearing my boss coffee shirt. And lady came up and put on my shirt and went like, Oh, did you see him in concert? And she's like yeah, we were supposed to go see the boss Like oh, oh are you from Jersey are you from Jersey? Are you from Jersey? It's like yeah The Bruce Springsteen Like no No, but hey, no. Yeah. Yeah, he's the boss. He's singing about the working man in Jersey That's the there's a yeah. No, it's like just very beef little just talk about Bruce Springsteen on the on the fucking Parthenon

Like no, no lady, it's it's a coffee. It's a coffee shirt, you know, but That's cool. You know Oh, did you go see him in concert? Anyway, that was that was a good time. Oh and lastly speaking of coffee Anyway, that was a good time. Oh, and lastly, speaking of coffee, the way to do it, they have two styles there that you can get. Frito cappuccino and Frito espresso. And they're basically like a way to,

it's like a cold brew, but like kind of done frothy and different and it's incredible. Just, it's like, I like iced coffee. It's better than iced coffee. And it doesn't have the heart attack potential that an ice cap from Tim Hortons gives you. If you have an ice cap, those things are just heart attacks, ready to go.

And yeah, this is a better solution. And it was wild, because seconds after drinking it, I was like, oh, I've got energy. I'm good to go. So shoutouts to Fredo Espresso's. Amazing. That powered it up. All right.

Yeah, that's Greece. And you're gone. I'm glad he had a great time, man. Oh, no, I've lost my vision. No, wait, that's that's wrong. I haven't lost my fish We can write it out. We can see what happens. All right, we'll see Is there anything else before you left that you want to talk about? Uh, not Really? I don't think so Well, the only thing I did I was going through your videos

Was that you beat Rolana? Oh Yeah You know you we haven't had done a podcast in two weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was cool. Um, so We got to the twin Moons, man. That was fucking. So, it was really cool because, I mean, before her, you get the assistant manager and then you get the assistant to the assistant manager with the big magic greatsword.

But yeah, it's cool to see like the carrion knights you like taken further in this context and that's a fucking badass fight that she does a level three super there's nothing else to call that yeah there's a lot of that going on in that DLC there's a lot of like, here comes the big one and it's crazy. But looking at it though, and it's like, oh okay, this is a jump to time your jumps and you're good. Man, I timed the first two and then I was like, ah, I dodged it and she slammed on third time. Ah, because it says twin, so why would there be a third, right? Yeah.

Yeah, the bullshit. And there's so much like stagger for roll catching and like all that shit that like, it knows how to annihilate you for playing it like souls rolling. But the jump evasion is still fairly lenient. Same thing for the big mausoleum fire thing, right? The furnace skull. Yeah, you jump over that giant footstep and it's surprisingly lenient with the fire. Yeah, I should have used it more in the original, or the base game.

In this DLC, it's like, man, jumping is really powerful. There's a Zulie episode on it where she describes the way that the jump frames work. In many cases, it's better than rolling. Soterios Johnson I jump a lot anyways because I have the jump attack talisman on. So not even defensively but just as an offensive opening like salvo I do a jumping R2 but yeah it's incredible how much you're landing in the fire that's still around you and you're not getting hit so it's like great is it 50% better iframes than rolling that's crazy but you're not fully invincible only your lower body

interesting so for anything that would be interacting with the bottom of your body like every sweep or anything that hit the ground jumping is better just better for things that are higher vertical, you know, something like that, you're going to have to roll to some direction. Now Sekiro had that too, but Sekiro had a lot of anti-airs. Yeah, and Sekiro also like codified that into its own rules and tutorialized it. Whereas Elden Ring's like, you can jump sometimes if you want. Give it a shot. You don't know what to tell what this is. Yeah. And, you can jump sometimes if you want. Give it a shot. You don't know what this is.

And you know, making my way through that. It is very fun as well to see the new weapon types entirely like the... They're great. The great katana is unbelievable. The one you get on the floor of that lake. And like, hold for Ich mongee stance, right? Yeah, that's sick. But like the the first of all, it's like the it's the the monster hunter long sword move set Right, you met right up. It's the it's the default combo but on top of that like the numbers on it are

fucking stupid Like I maxed it out and was hitting like a hundred and something bleed per swing. I was bleeding regular enemies in two hits. And then you put that new parry on it and you've got a defensive option as well, you know, anything that didn't really have a real defensive option now does. You got the, I like that the perfumers like flask is like a style of weapon now. That's great because originally the perfumers you had to use consumables if you wanted to kind of be one, you know? So unfortunately while you were gone they nerfed the perfume weapons. Ah, yeah.

Because there was a, there's a weapon art you could get where you would like spin around and like shoot the perfume everywhere. And you could angle your character while not locked on in such a way that every single tick of the perfume would hit in one spot directly in front of you and it would just like shot every boss in the entire DLC. What did I miss? Holy shit, okay. And then they fixed that. It was it was the reverse version it was dog bite for you dog bite for you yes okay damn so that DLC is pretty good I actually did beat it before ff14 came out and I assumed some some generalized thoughts, it's really good.

It is good enough that it feels like a sequel to Elden Ring rather than an expansion. At this many hours. Yeah. Plot-wise, it is also very much a sequel to Elden Ring. I feel like more happens and is discovered in that DLC than in the entirety of the base game. Interesting. Even though it's taking place before the ending still. Yeah, interesting.

In terms of timing, it's taking place like 10 minutes before you go to the tree. I'm always painfully aware of the fact that no matter where this goes or what happens, you're getting spit back out to go walk up to the tree. You know what, it doesn't matter. The boss fights are nearly universally fantastic. They do a lot of really incredible things with the environment.

So I don't know if I talked about this last time, but like Elden Ring was like a really big, wide open space. Like a lot of it was a really big wide open space. Uh, and a lot of it was like kind of filler space, right? Like just like big to be big. Like I would refer to like Leonea as like the, like they wanted to have the visual of the Leonean like Valley with all the water, but there's very little actually in that middle part.

Okay, I somewhat disagree, but it's because my example of that is again mortal shell, which is big to be big and empty and worthless. And then and then there's a breath of the wild which is big, but there's a thing of a point of interest that you're drawn towards, and this is like splitting the difference between those, I suppose. So the reason, so you're in thinking about Mortal Shell. I'm specifically comparing it to the DLC, because the DLC is the start of From Software taking their environmental shortcut design, like wrap around shit that they have assigned to their dungeons and their, you know, their bespoke levels to open world sections. It is extremely non-intuitive and out of the way to reach more than half of all locations in the DLC

When you were in limb grave, you could go this way to go to Leirnia You could go that way to go to K Lid when you got to Leirnia You would go up this path to get into Alta. So you elevator, right? That kind of thing, right? Mm hmm. The Shadow of the Erd Tree DLC has like half of all of its levels are shown to you to some degree in a way in which there is absolutely no point A to B visible from anywhere you are. You can look off a cliff and go, oh, there's an area down there. How the fuck do I get down there?

I don't know. I'll just have to figure out some nonsense in either a level or a very unclear environment. And so, like finding all the areas in the DLC by itself is really exciting because every time you find a new zone, say for Gravesight Plains and, like, the Shadowkeep itself, you're just like, ah, I figured it out. Ah, I went through four caves and then fell off a cliff backwards and then a bird picked

me up and flew me over here to find this weird little spot that opens up this area. And as long as you touch grace, you've got it. That is different with unlocking... You can't really shortcut porn the overworld because of that concept. You just go to grace wherever you want to. Right. So, instead it's like, how do I get there? And the way that you get there is in many cases very weird and counterintuitive.

And most of them feel outright hidden. Like the main, like the mandatory like through line from Gravesight to the area after Ranalla to the semi-final area. Like the ones that you have to go in a straight line to get to the final boss. Those are, you can see them. You go from here to here to here and the path is very clear. Everything else is some kind of nonsense. So kind of like the the plateau on top of the Leone area where you can't get up to it until way later where a Ronnie's spot, right?

Okay, not that extreme because that's like a seven zone detour. It takes so long to clear that out on the map. Yeah, it's closer to that than it is the regular areas of the game. And it makes it super exciting. On top of that, because all of these zones are being treated as levels instead of just open areas, there's a lot that they get to use as being mostly empty, but just for scale. Like this 10 kilometer sized area exists nearly entirely so that you can crest this ridge and see it the way that they want it to be seen.

And for you to focus on the thing that's in the center. Okay. And do it and leave. Like Radon Beach. Yeah. Yeah, okay. There is, there are, there's at least one zone that is a new type of zone for Elden Ring. Like it's core gameplay is completely different.

Okay. There are zones that are behind other hidden zones. It's it's fucking great. As for difficulty, I'm sure you heard that people were saying it was too hard. Yes. Yes. That the DLC is way too hard. So I beat all of it, and there's two things to say.

There's one boss that was bugged, that was actually bugged and was way, way, way harder than they had to be because they were bugged. Basically, I'm sure you noticed the enemies in the DLC will just sprint at you coming through the door. They'll just, they're on you. They don't give you your time to fucking buff up or summon. The shadow assholes in the first legacy dungeon on site come running at you. Yeah, they'll come right at you.

There was one that when you started, like when you died the first time you go in for the rematch, they spawned in closer to the door than they started on the first time. And so they could actually like hit you coming through the door. Like it's on. And the second one is the final boss there was an interview where they said we believe we have pushed players to the the brink of what is like reasonable to assume or some weird phrasing like that and Kaizen at spent 70 hours on that final boss and everybody was having a big trouble with a therapist or some shit Yeah

Yeah, they probably went too far on it, okay, okay it is Definitely the hardest thing That from software has ever put into their games. Interesting. Okay. It is definitely... It is tougher than Orphan.

It is tougher than Sword Saint. Man. Designing for the challenge speed run guitar hero clearing community. I mean those people have already done it because they're freaks. the challenge speed run guitar hero clearing community. I mean those people have already done it because they're freaks. It is extreme. Like it feels like, wow this is insane but I think it's doable and then you get to phase two, and then it becomes I don't know how I'm

supposed to do this because I can't see anything. And that's the problem. And this is including like your, well, you know what I mean? I don't know. Like, because in each of these cases and with the entirety of the like DLC difficulty discussion, my brain is always going, well, are we talking about self-imposed one-on-one? Are we talking about with plot summon? Are we talking about plus ashes? There's a difficulty modifier at every door, right?

So the final boss does have plot summons that you can summon for it, and it does have the ability to summon your spirit ashes, but the final boss has so much HP that when you summon on top of that, you get a final boss that has a crazy amount of HP. And it feels like I ended up beating it with Mimic tier, because of course I did. But like it is, it's a lot. Some people will, it'll be easier for them to not. But the biggest problem is the visibility. The boss has tons and tons and tons of effects going off in the fight.

It's really bombastic. It's really cool. It's hard to see the boss. And that's where I feel like half of its total difficulty comes from. So I walked away with it like, that was too much. If they toned, if you modded it to tone down the visual effects, that boss would no longer be the toughest

from software had ever made. It would go back to being orphan or sword saint. I see. Okay. Yeah. I foresee a nerf incoming on that. Within a couple of months. I mean, Gene was saying that they've already been nerfing stuff from the review build, right?

So yeah, but at the same time that they actually buffed the final boss from the review build The review build did not apparently have a finished version Interesting because some of their attacks just didn't exist in the review build. Okay and Not that I don't know. I've never done it in the original, but like there's still traditional soul summoning, right? Like Statue of Marika to online summoning even. Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So like even there is a third layer of difficulty mitigation, should anyone desire it. But I don't know if it's at that boss tear summons up real

bad. I don't know if it's at the point where like anyone you summon outside of a boss door at this point to know the ring is just gonna one shot it crush it while you stare back, you know. Yeah, I don't think this is gonna happen with this one. Like this is the this like the first time that I've been like, yeah, they should probably tone this one down. Really? Interesting, okay, okay, okay.

You agree. Like, it's out of pace with its own game. Like, right? Yeah, so, because like, when you look back on these moments, it's gonna be a tale based on, like, we have to one-up ourselves because everyone knows our tricks. We have to take the person who has mastered all of our tricks and give them a new thing to struggle with.

And that's going to enter the realm of the ridiculous. And then we're gonna get an interview where Miyazaki is like, oh yeah, I don't know. I don't even play these things, man. He did do that interview! He did that interview like a couple months ago! Exactly. Just like, what the fuck, dude? You don't even touch it yourself and you're stuck. He was like, I normally play my games, but I went through Elden Ring and I used my knowledge as its designer to use every dirty trick in the book To beat the the game You know, I mean I'm still walking pat you're walking up to bushes and then a dog jumps out and I'm like, yeah

We're still doing this Like that's the same old nothing changes there, but I'm curious about new types of things, so that's interesting. Okay. Yeah, there's a lot of really great stuff in there. Cool. A+. I love the move set, but I don't know if I can swing around a sword called Milady.

I don't know that I can do it. I can't. But Light Greatsword's pretty cool. Well, Rolana's weapon is a Light Greatsword. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a tough choice though, man. Cause I see- You don't have to make that choice.

Just go duplicate it. Well, I didn't find a Mausoleum yet, so yeah. Oh, the ones in the base game still work. I think I used them all. Well, I didn't I didn't find a mausoleum yet. So yeah, but oh the the ones in the base game still work I Think I used them all oh You really think so I think I think I think once I got to the end of the game I went oh well time to go get me the extra weapons. I wanted you know Okay, well, there's there's a couple in

In the DLC okay DLC for duplicating. I mean, I'm much more, I have high int anyway, so the fucking twin moon spell is way more better for my build, but anyway, cool. But yeah, excellent, incredible DLC. A plus, probably should tone down that final boss. Okay. It didn't take me that long.

It took me about two and a half hours. But some builds are going to get wrecked by that boss. The other thing is that that boss is not build agnostic. If you are a caster, good luck. Yeah. I mean, I just, I will see, because I can skate and punch or I can toss rocks. I can do a couple different things. I just go with whatever feels fun at the time.

But, cool. One other thing I did do while, while in Greece actually I checked out that Xenla Zone Zero demo. So just the first level thing. Wait, when you say demo, you just mean the game, right? So it's the game. But when you download it, it first downloads a demo. And then it goes, do you want to get the full one but like there's there's two stages of download it's a it's an odd thing that's fascinating

actually yeah it's interesting there's two stages of download the first download you do is just the first level and like tutorial kind of thing and then after that you can get the rest for the full thing and yeah just checked it out just to see what's going on. Obviously, you know, you're sitting back and you're watching that production value go and like music and characters and cutscenes. It's really going. It's going stylish, man. Shits moving. The animation there they have going on with it, with all the actual gameplay but also the cutscenes they have is really, really stellar. I felt similar to when I was playing Samurai Revenant where you're just like, you're watching

the money go and you're like, okay, I'll get my hands on some gameplay eventually, but it's really about the everything juicing in between those gameplay moments. The tutorial is really long. So from a glance it seems like the combat reminiscent of the layers you get with, well so I haven't played Genshin so I don't have that as my reference point. Oh that's fine. But I would say when I was talking about relink the other day, right? Where it's like, okay, I'm going to need to see where else the mechanics go.

But basic combo, basic dodge, then hot tag, and then special supers that link into each other and stuff. I guess I'm going to get to, I'm curious about the style and everything of the game, so I want to keep going and see how these characters all feel and everything to it, but I'm not expecting combat to get particularly open at any point. It feels like it's probably going to be very limited and simple. The basic deal that I'm a little further than you are is that it is Characters aren't characters. They're weapons. Yeah, that's that's the relink. Yeah

and There's a rogue like mode that I have not unlocked yet but it is very similar to Genshin or Honkai in terms of like the amount of options you have and how like a lot of any particular character's depth depends on how you equip them and what that changes about the properties of their moveset rather than their moveset, rather than their moveset. Okay, do you get more than the basic combo, the special ability, and the dodge? Depends. More expensive characters have more going on.

Okay. So I got, you always get a guaranteed S-rank, and I got the Wolfman, Von Lycaon or whatever, that he has chargeable normals. So every single hit in his basic combo can be charged. Okay. Apparently there are hidden mechanics on some of the characters,

like Nicole, the girl with the briefcase, has like a 360. But in general, like, your S-Ranks will have more mechanics than your A-Ranks, but you're not gonna get off of attack, dash attack, dodge attack, special, bigger special ultimate. But I have been playing with Vaughn and Corin and Tsukaku, and they do interact in interesting ways.

And the parry does feel really, really, really good. Cool, okay, because yeah, I guess, because there is a style of action game that, like, where instead of paying attention to what you're doing, it's essentially just wail on the auto combo and then keep an eye out for a defensive movement every once in a while. Yeah, pay more attention to the enemy than yourself. Yes, yes. Which is, you know, that's fine.

It's a different thing. And if the boss is enough of a spectacle, then you're going to enjoy that crazy attack animation and like, oh, now you're dodging over here, switching over and going into the special and such. But there's almost a downtime moment where you're like, I'm not paying attention, I'm just doing an auto combo over and over again. And every once in a while, I'm breaking up this rhythm of mashing attack by doing one of these other things.

Yeah, I wouldn't expect it to go much deeper, but it would be cool if I guess the tagging system being the weapon switching ability then allows for your your your style you know that replaces it essentially so well the game just came out people are saying that apparently raw tagging to continue your combos is actually the thing I don't know I haven't gotten far enough into it I have I played it I don't know like six hours total I'm still in the tutorial Okay, it's there. They're the onboarding on this is crazy long

And I know for a fact I have not unlocked half of the games like de facto mechanics because every single person in that city center has some kind of day to day gimmick that I don't have access to and don't know how they work. Now when you say mechanics are you talking about like weapon damage modifiers or you mean like- No, I'm talking about the dog has the scratch ticket and that's the first one that you encounter but then the coffee guy acts as like a Monster hunter buff system

That kind of thing, okay, okay I Didn't even know there was a fourth character slot interesting It's very interesting slot. Interesting. It's very interesting. Its style is definitely carrying it very strongly for me. Yeah, that's the whole pull. But like more than anything, I feel weird because I don't know how to feel about the game because I'm playing it on my computer, right? With a controller. And I'm like, this feels fairly simple, like in terms of mechanics and gameplay and then I go But if I compare this

To the other games on my phone this is a Fucking heavenly creature descended from space right right by comparison to the rest of the phone game market. Yeah, yeah, yeah depends on the platform and like if This was just a phone game. I'd be like oh well. It's just the best game on your phone Period if you if you want to play an action game then have fun with on your phone play plays on the zone zero It's it's the best one But since it's also living on my computer

that has Devil May Cry 5 permanently installed, its comparison is in this weird state. Yeah, I know what you mean by that. I downloaded it on my phone, so I'm just going to have it in my brain. It's a phone game. With these types of action games, I guess there's enough of them happening now where it's like, not everything is going to be DMC or Bayo, nor should it. Every action game can do its own thing. Whatever they decide to focus on when gameplay is at its peak, when it's firing on all cylinders and asking the most of you and doing the coolest things, I guess I'm hoping that I don't get bored by the amount of things you're gonna do, but then the context you're gonna do them in keeps changing, that's one way of feeling like you're progressing through a game and that can help, that can make the game feel good for a while, but it's going to eventually lose out.

My interest is gonna wane, right? Yeah. Hi-Fi Rush is bringing out mechanics later on as things are getting more and more complex and they're asking more of you. So because it's getting more mechanically complex as it's bringing out you know set piece stages and bosses and all that stuff, both things are increasing in their complexity and I'm fucking engaged in loving it. So that's the thing here is like,

I feel like Grand Blue Relink, you know, perhaps after unlocking your favorite character and then like kind of hitting the peak of what gameplay is asking you to do, you know, I feel like there's a potential for me to get bored with this, but I'm not sure. I'll have to see a bit more. So there's, so, um, it's a weird thing to say about your opinion or your worry, but

you're completely right. Okay. All the feelings and opinions you just had are objectively correct and are kind of built into the way that miHoYo's games works. So are you worried that you're going to fall off because the core thing isn't going to be as stimulating? Yeah, that's a definite possibility, which is why they constantly run events and add new story shit.

All their games have a personality thing. Apparently Zenliss just has straight up S-links with the characters that you have on your party. Okay. But also because of the way that you play it and the way that I play it in that you're probably supposed to play Zenliss Zone Zero for 40 minutes. And then stop. Okay. And just have it be a long term thing. Also, they have very short patch cycles. They believe it's every six weeks. They have a patch. Okay. That adds new shit.

Because like, you know, we talked about like, ff16. And like, yeah, even that is a game that like, it's got a lot of options, but you have to kind of find your own fun. Once you become a god, you know. And these games are going to have significantly less than that. Yeah, so but but when the music is going and the boss is going through its phases and it's doing a unique awesome attack, it doesn't matter what your character can do. That's going to be a cool moment.

And then you're going to land a nice parry and it's going to be like, oh, fuck, yeah, that's cool. So. But that's only one half of the equation. Yeah, so it's it's It's about making the puddle wider Not making it deeper it's making the puddle bigger and wider How does how does honkai like and and the previous honkai has a honkai has a A leg up in that it's a JRPG so

They put out story expansions that are enormous, okay that you play through And then once you've done your story expansion you will will then fall back on your daily or grinding or rogue-like shit. Okay. Yeah. I'll set my expectations accordingly. That's all right. So far, though, there are some other things that I should bring to mind.

It's so strange because each of these games is a sequel to the last one, despite all being totally separate. So one of the things that was very, very surprising to me is that in Zenless, you unlock the ability to walk up to your PC and be like, I would like to rewatch every single fucking cutscene in the entire game. I would like to replay earlier story missions in their entirety. Is that something special? Yes, that is not, that's not a thing in the others. So like for Honkai Star Rail, you fight this very gigantic climactic boss at the end of the ice planet.

And that boss becomes like a repeatable event that you can just do at your leisure, but it's just the pure boss fight. It's not like the lead up and you can't rewatch the cut scene. And so if you actually want to rewatch the cut scene of like the lead up to that fight where the music kicks in and all that thing, you have to go to YouTube. That sucks. It sure does.

Replaying should be basic. Which is why I was so surprised when I loaded up Zenless Zone Zero and oh I can all the game story content that I've ever done I guess if I choose to I can just rewatch it if I feel like it which is a lot fucking better than like going to goddamn YouTube. Wait so like how do you like um what do you every moment of playing has to be progressing further into? Yeah. Are there repeating missions that pop up that are randomly? So for Senless I can't tell you because I don't know.

For Honkai Star Rail, every major boss that you would ever fight becomes a repeatable thing that you can just do. But it exists as its own. Do you want to redo that boss fight? Yes, and it will start that boss fight over. Okay, cuz yeah Sometimes I just want to fuck around and don't want to progress while messing right actor or something, you know The other thing that I noticed and I don't know if anything else in the mobile space does this I don't know if honk I even does it. So I went to the the the cutscene viewer

and was like, oh I'll watch this cutscene again. Okay cool. And then it loads in like the dialogue from all the story chapters. So I'm like, okay well I'd like to escape from this so I'll skip it. And I went to skip it and like when you go to skip a cutscene in ZZZ, it tells you what happens in the cut scene. It goes, oh, you're gonna skip it? Okay, here's all the things that happen in this cut scene you're skipping. Wow, okay.

It'll be like, well, okay, so Billy got really upset and then he argued with Amby and then they found the box. Sorry, we get it, you're impatient, here's what happens. That's pretty, that's pretty that's interesting okay cool huh yeah um oh and i'll also give this game a huge props for um on your pc anyway works really well runs really great and is the only the miHoYo are the only devs that will natively support wireless PlayStation 5 controllers. On PC?

Yeah. Wow. Even though I'm running it through fucking Steam input, it still recognizes that it's a PlayStation controller and switches the buttons correctly. That's good shit. Nicely done. So when you talk about how some characters like the more expensive ones have like more to their gameplay like holding down the attacks for example. That's my experience so far. Yeah. I'm curious to know

what like a complex character in Star Rail or Impact 3rd or such looks like. Okay. So I can't say anything about Impact 3rd. I don't know nothing about it, though I have been told by people who play these games often that Zenless is kind of like the new Honkai Impact in that it's a very similar system. Yeah, because I don't know if there's anything like a puppet character or some wild gameplay there is a puppet character okay where you like control two elements or so like are you

yeah you control two puppets okay cool cuz yeah I'm kind of but it's it's primarily visual when when it's not I'm curious to know like what the like simplified combat system pushed to its complexity limits kind of looks like. OK, so Star Rail. Because my expectations are not, I think people think that I'm expecting a Devil May Cry game, and I'm really not with this type of thing.

But a Monster Hunter move list, for example, is a nice version of a limited action move set that still gives you a good variety of options. And that's probably closer to what I would have thought. I can talk more about Star Rail. So in Star Rail, since it's using a turn-based battle system, your complicated characters are ones that have a lot of effects or conditions on their moves.

So the first five- star banner they ever put out is a character named Sele, and it's named after that Sele, because they're incorrigible fucking nerds. And in a turn-based battle system, her gimmick was that if she killed an enemy with her special, she got another turn. And when she did her ult, she would give got another turn and if her and when she did her alt she

would give herself another turn again so if you got her shit high enough she would just give herself turns over and over and over okay like an SMT boss okay right that that kind of thing, whereas some people are like, oh, this is the defensive one, makes a big shield, or what have you. There's, like, one of the characters in Honkai that you get for free is based around shielding people and then doing counterattacks

when the shielded characters get hit. Okay, cool. Right, so despite the fact that you have attack and shield and alt as your only buttons timing There's a secondary mechanic relying on what you actually do with that. Yes, right and and similarly in relink I want to say Siegfried has like guard points on certain attacks that then yeah

So I'm being told that the bear character has has like guard impact as our guard points And has royal release yeah, okay built into his moveset cool cool cool Free bear man has royal guard is the is the chat thing I'm reading and he's he's mandatory you get him Oh You know what yeah,, I'm being reminded. So yeah, a fairly interesting character in Honkai Star Rail in terms of complexity is it's a character named Acheron who doesn't gain ultimate energy like any of the others. She gains it by stacking debuffs on opponents.

And by stacking enough debuffs, you get to do her ult, which then caches out the debuffs. Nice, okay, that's cool. I like shit like that, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you put her on a team where everybody on the team throws debuffs onto the enemy, so that she gets her ult dramatically faster than everybody else.

Yes, yes, yes, okay, that's fun, yeah, cool. Yeah, even with the limited basics options, like mechanics are unique enough to require you to play differently and optimize. I mean, told, I forget, I don't remember their names, but people were talking that there are two characters in Zenla's Zone Zero that their moves change if they're on each other's team. Huh, interesting. And one of the other things is like, you know, there's a group of like maids, there's like

a Korin and whatever the fuck, Ellen and the wolf guy, you get passive boosts depending on whether or not your characters are all part of the same faction. Oh, okay. Interesting. Yeah. If they're the same element and if they're the same faction. Yeah. Well, you know, it's good that they want you to poke at it for a little bit of periods of time and not extended periods of time because that's pretty much how I intend to just, you know, stab and see what's going on there. See, I'm going to keep plugging away at it.

I'm probably going to switch to playing it on my phone. It feels... fairer to judge it as a phone game than it does. But it's also free, which is the other part. It is free. Yeah. I mean, I played it on my phone and I did a fucking screen share to a TV and then just that was that. I'm like, okay, I I'm mashing a touchscreen. It is what it is But I think the moment holding a controller and looking at a console like Walls start going up. You know the The other thing is that unlike honkai star rail and unlike Genshin Controller support is not locked to iOS devices

You can use any Bluetooth controller on Android with Zenless. Probably because they knew they knew that people would really want a controller for this one. So like if I get like way into it I might grab like a fucking like a Kishi razor or something like that. Which really just underlines that anything can work on anything if you fucking design it to. Yeah. And it's like, it's one of those things it's like where it's like, I was getting a little

annoyed where I unlocked Wolfman and I was like, ah, I wish he had more moves. And then I'm like, I bet I wouldn't be saying that if I was dealing with my phone's touch screen. I bet I would actually be like, fuck, I keep doing a bunch of misimplots. Because there's too many fucking buttons in this space. If all you're using is a stick and like two or three buttons on a controller, you're feeling all the buttons you're not using at all times. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you mean. But yeah, I'm

liking it. But it's not it's not blowing me out the gate like Honkai did. I think the difference between like Honkai Star Rail kicking your RPG protagonists down to three buttons feels a lot less limiting than kicking an action character down to three buttons. Okay. Well look man, as a Jet Set fan, I know a thing or two about letting style carry the game play.

Oh yeah. I can, I've, you know, I've got that experience under my belt, but. It is drowning in it. It, like, I feel like it can't be overstated, like, how, how much animation has gone into it. Like, you know, like, Nicole will move around and her tits will flop all over the place,

and it's very animated. Sure. But, like, that's every character strand like I was looking at wise walking down the street I'm like this looks like Disney animation in terms of bounciness Yeah, like everything's super super bouncy and fluid all the all the Gambling money has gone into this like this is you could see where your your your roles have gone It's it's into the the the dude's hair when he's Do it as Like it looks like Ragnar the blood edge with a mask on

Billy I keep yeah like like yeah No, he's Ragnar the blood edge with the mask on with Ryan Reynolds' voice. And he's Deadpooling a little bit, right? Yeah, he's Deadpooling, right? Yeah, yeah, that's the vibe I got. Yeah. Yeah, you... You taste the money on this. Which is, it's nice. Especially since it's free, that you can taste the money. And the money and I do be I know I'll cycle back on that and then I remember That is that that reveal trailer showing off like 30 characters or some yeah

That's gonna be like probably the first full and it's like you're gonna find something in here for you. They're so yeah Do you know if you can get? 90 whatever 30 whatever the fuck? currencies if you watch that reveal trailer from inside the games mailbox I Can't I can't be doing with this I think the funniest thing is that I had not seen it and So I went okay. I'll watch it and then I watched it I'm like that's a really cool trailer and then popped back out and went oh cool I got currency for doing that I love Zenless Zone Zero they're just giving everything to me for

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Get out of here with your undiagnosed childhood mental illness. It's it's begun It's sometimes you can it's all for sometimes and it's oh no. Yeah, no, it's like yeah No, the the Joe all jokes aside Oh, no, yeah, no, it's like yeah, no the the the Joe all jokes aside There are many people in our audience that are our chicken nuggy appreciators kids menu slaves Locked in shackles some of those people They can't help it some of those people their parents failed them and they're just assholes and it's impossible to tell at a glance

Yeah, sometimes there's people who are like might like I have legitimately an upset stomach and anything That's not bland is going to cause major Like IBS and things like that that happens Yeah, you got to listen to them tell you about their their Gundam collection for a little bit and then you're like, ah But I'll get the nuggies but then there's those who are just cowards that never just never had that shot true and I know people like that I know a couple of them and they're they're fucked from till from now till forever because all they can eat are

those five things oh you mean like like like, like I could like, well like, I- Paige was like telling me how like damaging this was to me and it was one of those things I discussed when I was like Oh yeah, and like you don't realize it's even weird? I was like, oh yeah, no, my family and I, we ate just like the same eight dinners in a row for like decades. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And I was like nervous to try out like a huge variety of foods because my mom didn't want

to try out any foods ever. Okay. Because everything to my mother was too spicy. I mean- And like my mom stuck to the same West Indian dishes for like my entire life and basically worked in some like hamburger helper towards the end there. But for the most part, it was a rotation of like 10 things probably, maybe less. I would say that if you are,

then wrong with enjoying your nuggies and your fish sticks and your fries and your kid's menu, if you're having other things every once in a bull, I don't know, single digit number. But if you're just like under no circumstances, do I ever look at anything that's not on that menu? All right. Anyways. Well, the real winners here are the people who just eat the same thing every single time. They walk into the menu and go, I want that thing. That's the thing I like from this restaurant.

And then when you got to go out, when you try to go, go out to eat with them anywhere, you just can't because they can't go anywhere because they were so like they refused to go anywhere and eat anything. I don't know where I fit in on this because like I have that like I thought I would just like Indian food because the food I always ate at home was bland and I had always heard that Indian food was super spicy. Turns out I love Indian food. Butter chicken is mild as fuck. Wully, you have to remember when my mom made shitty rice and I'm like, mom, this rice tastes like shit. She was like, just put more butter on it.

And I'm like, that's not helping. Parents set you on the path. They set you on the path. They set you on the path for sure right? You're not right. You're not gonna know that like spicy Indian food like you get a Dan sack or a madras Yeah, you're gonna fucking get hot, but then well Yeah, but the the goof is that once I started going to college I discovered I actually like to shit fire out of my asshole. I love spicy. It's so tasty. It's great. But I run into the problem where I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna try something different

at this new restaurant. You know, I don't usually have this kind of thing. This seems really, oh, I hated it, cool. I wasted my time at this new restaurant. So, yes, I can understand a reluctance to burn through cash on something like that. And I also know that there's a thing that happens to me sometimes where like we're let's say we're more bad I don't know much some whatever like a random chain that I've never been to in America and I'm like, oh that sounds interesting

Let me get that and then it's like okay This place runs and gets your food quickly based on the idea that everyone is getting one of five things and you ordered that Weird six thing and we got to go fucking defrost that dude. So this is gonna take another 20 minutes. Like, god damn it. Sorry, we gotta go turn on the machine that's only used for this food. For this one weird thing, exactly.

And I'm like, ah, fuck, fine, I get it. I'm supposed to just stick to the things that are on this list, but yeah. I wanna try the other thing. I've never had that, whatever know but anyway uh it's it's it's fine it's just it's just you have to you have to step out of that comfort zone sometimes y'all and and and and or else what or else you become the person I'm thinking of who literally literally just cannot you can't go out to eat with them ever in a point fingers and

Even if you do make it at home for them You have to stick to the things that they're used to that's all you can make and then if just It's that it's can it's ketchup and that's all you got, you know. Anyway, alright. Alright So while we're on break Alright. So while we were on break, somebody posted this chart in the chat that I just posted towards you, Willy. It's the Hoyo First MiHoyo update schedule where they have their three games running. And if you play all three games every two weeks, there's a big patch.

There's a big content drop. And they're staggered with each other there. They're perfectly wow Every two weeks that's amazing. Okay, is it that's endless Genshin honkai on a rotating schedule huh Okay, and they they hit their patches too. They really are rock solid on their dates. It's really crazy. I guess I'm assuming Zenlis is fucking crushing it and downloads and money right off the bat. 50 million already.

Yeah, there you go. Downloads, that is. Yeah. So it's gonna... It's cool. It's gonna... Okay. Yeah. So it's gonna... It's cool. It's gonna... Okay.

Let's see. Well, in any case, as far as the schedule for this week goes, I'll let you guys know. Things are a bit busy and I'm gonna have to figure out how to do what. Might do some stuff with a couple guests, we'll see. But check out my Twitter. I'll let you know once I figure out how the schedule is gonna look but if you are checking out the Yakuza playthrough a new intro has has been dropped for this next second half of the the game or the chapters rather so the new OP on the LPs is available. You can go peep that. We had some live action fun there for y'all.

And I'm starting to seriously consider mainlining more aggressively towards... Oh yeah? Oh yeah? Yeah, yeah. I think so. Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's a lot of good stuff to be had in these in these sides But oh is there ever yeah, but like I

Saw just today. I was like when I was going through your videos to check out exactly where you were at with the Elden Ring DLC I'm seeing like the hundreds Those part numbers. I mean there and I'm like I don't even recognize this shit. I don't even know where he's at There's they're funny. They're funny goofy quests, you know, they just there's just infinity of them. That's all You just gotta you arbitrarily take a knife to it. I suppose Can you believe that? There have spin more than one of these games a year since 2004 and they're all

like this. It's all the formula. It's all the formula. Yeah. Yeah. It's like they're so much. It's like episodes of SNL man man. They just write these skits. There's ones that are better and worse, but the worst one is a seven. It's ridiculous. Yeah. I mean, I definitely think that to go forward, I probably need to preemptively kind of recognize off the jump, like this is a side quest that is, it's not that it's bad, it's just not amongst

the fucking creme de la creme, so just gonna move past it. I started to do, I did everything in seven, and God, that took God damn forever. And then after that I was just like because people always you know when you're streaming it people always beat it way faster than you even if you start on the day I was like okay give me the list of the ones I can't skip yeah and for first for infinite wealth that list was incredibly helpful because it included like ichiban

hanging out with American weeaboo yeah like there's the and the diaper baby quest lines and stuff like Michael Jackson yeah there's but there's just I mean it just sucks because I'm like there's it still is hilarious to go watch um I don't know, fucking Mr. Libido do his goofy shit or... Yeah, because he's great. Like, there's the other things, there's stuff there. Kiryu doing his pocket racer side game, like, I don't want to miss that, but you can't get it all. You just can't.

This actually feels like something I should have mentioned when I played, when I talked about FF7, how I was like, oh man, the side content really ground me down. It's like, it's not the nature of the side content, because like, I've done all the side content damn near in almost every single one of those games, and it didn't ground me down like it did in FF7, because the side content quality in Like A Dragon is, it's like one number down from like the main shit. It's like slightly lower budget. Yeah so this gets worse. Man. And then I guess the only other thing too is like because of the way you hit these it's

not like 16 where you're like highlighted on the map there it's got a name. You just wander around a corner and then some weird dude in an alleyway is like bro you need to help me get rid of these chickens yo I got mushrooms you want to buy my shrooms they're no and like you're I'll kill you and you're in it you're just you know you wander and you're in it so then it's like yeah you have to recognize the startup of Pavlovian fucking response to that theme of sadness. Oh, the fucking or game. You're hearing the same song in Zero, but then they went on to use that in every game after that.

And like every time they use it, it's being used as a punchline in Seven and Eight. When it's like, when it really doesn't deserve sadness at all to the point where in eight they made a new Theme of sadness for some side quests. That's like no actually have emotions for real Yeah, yeah, I I you know as someone who like I did fucking all of Elden Ring and then sat there and actually gave the Lords due in the process and you know like yeah yeah I I expected there to be a very clear like that felt like a waste

of time like side quest moment but you never never get that never never get that moment it doesn't let you off so easy what does feel like a waste of time is I mean running around doing real estate shit But you know Yeah, except it unlocks the coolest shit in the game and so on and so forth. Yeah. Oh, man I'm watching some of the cutscenes that you're in yo, you still got a bunch to go I You met Nishitani. Yeah, so Yeah, they're still they're still a bunch You know, so that's it. That's it. I think I'm just gonna take a huge, a huge fucking

scalpel to things and you know, there's gonna have to be a little bit of like quality left on the table. I just... This is my first Yakuza and... Yeah, I really, I thought it would, I thought it would let me off the hook a little bit more. Yeah, no, it's too consistently good in every direction. It's bananas. And Zero is particularly good. The other thing too is I've also talked about this with Hollow Knight, but even if I was

playing this off stream, it would be more than more game than I'm looking for. It would be hitting that amount, you know. Anyway, alright. Alright, what else? Well, I beat Final Fantasy 14 Dawn Trail. Yeah, are you okay? I am okay. I did not look super great the other night.

How did you play 28 hours in 24? Well. I don't understand. Not in 24. I had a whole week Let's go look you can look at the Eight parts which were Eight seven and a half four and a half two four and a half seven and a half seven and a half seven and a half Oh man. Man.

Yeah. And look, everyone obviously knows, but that would be happening with her without a microphone in front of you. So one of the things that happened was really funny where I had somebody come into the chat on day two or three and was very kind about it. It it was not malicious, but like the most backhanded compliment I think I've ever received on my channel. Which was like, I really appreciate Pat streaming through the FF14 expansion, even though these views are so bad.

Like I'm really glad to be here. And I'm like oh Man, holy shit But like and then I'm like well it doesn't even matter because I would I would literally I just be Not on camera doing the exact same thing yeah I guess it's just it's like there's a playlist that you could you could just have You go in in your ear for a full day and night. Mm-hmm. Why why why am I why did I see more like yawn trail? Okay, so

So we're gonna I'm gonna set you up here So this is the 7.0 expansion. Has the bar become too high? There's 2.0 which is a Romery born, then Heavensward Stormblood, Shadowbringers, and Endwalker. So this is the fifth expansion, right? This is also the start of a new storyline. Oh, the closing. storyline was a closing was a very very conclusive end to a ten-year storyline right and this is hey we're starting a new one okay okay so we have a couple things happening one people don't understand that you cannot escalate a story forever.

Okay. What? You can't. Huh? Nah. You can't keep, especially, I'm not gonna tell you anything about Enwalker's finale. You cannot, you actually cannot escalate past what was occurring in Enwalker, but also from like

a narrative perspective from like players, you can't just, the line can't go up forever. You need to center it again so it can go back up. So Dawn Trail- Ultra-Angstinkogoku has some words for you. Yeah. So Dawn Trail, Toriyama gives no fucks, pulls it back a very considerable amount and gives you a much lower stakes, much chiller narrative setup, right?

It's about- Setting up the pieces. You go to a new country and you're helping with the succession of royalty, essentially. Right? You're not saving the planet, for example. And the devs compared it to a beach episode, like in terms of pacing, in between arcs, right?

So that's part one of what's occurring. The second part is that the games, the expansions reviews on Steam anyway, are actually fairly poor. They are mixed. Because part two of toning that down is taking your character as no longer the main character. You are accompanying a different character on their storyline. Okay. And you are acting as essentially the heavy in that storyline. Right. You're Auryn instead of Tidus or Yuna. Okay. Yeah. Now I really dig being that character. It's

very satisfying going through a storyline in which like how are we gonna solve this and then they essentially just go uh uh I kind of assumed and took for granted that that that was what you were throughout everything else anyways because no No, you were you were absolutely the main character. Okay, because it's like the easiest way to make a game that has infinity players like The easiest way to make a game that has infinity players, like, anyway, whatever, like, being a supporting cast to another main character is an easy way to make an MMO story work, but sure. So, next step is I'm gonna send you a photo.

This photo is of a cat person. This character's name is Wook Lamott, and this is the main character that you will be accompanying throughout most of the story. She is a candidate for the new throne that you're dealing with the succession with, right? Yon Trail leads into more like Woke Lamow as your goofy meme shit. If you want to continue on that. Well, here's the here's the here's the problem.

What? Here's the here's the problem. OK, so Dawn Trail is about going on and helping Wook Lamar with her storyline and so on and so forth, right? The expansion therefore kind of lives and dies based on whether or not you like this character. Right, yes. Earlier in the chat I saw somebody even before I started to say up, it's like you are the side character to the worst character in the game some people hate this character I hate that I see a lot is riding on this yeah they're kind of dumb they their voice direction not their voice acting but their voice

direction on some of the lines is not great I think someone I saw someone describe it as screaming in lowercase Like and that's been that's like an issue across the whole expansion for some reason that people Like they're don't yell as loud as they need to She's basically cat person Luffy Okay, but instead of becoming king of the pirate she wants wants to become the dawn servant. Very similar in attitude. Dumb, goofy, earnest, pure. Yeah. Compassionate. Learning about the world kind of thing. Slip it on banana peels. Oh, someone asked a really interesting question. What differentiates voice

acting and voice direction? Voice acting quality is whether or not you can hit the lines the way you were told to hit them. Voice direction is the person telling you to hit the lines a certain way. So somebody, because most voice actors are reading a script out of context, or in some cases sequentially, so it's up to the voice director to tell them, this is a really dramatic moment, I need you to be yelling, or this is a really quiet moment, I need you to, you know, what have you. So if you want a really quiet moment I need you to you know what have you so if you want a really good example of the worst voice direction in the world you can go look at twiles of mana that new trials game that came out a little guy

man again came out a little while ago in which no actor is given any direction at all and all their lines are emotionally random for every scene like there's no context given to any of them what Characters are yelling when they're quietly talking, characters are quietly talking when they should be yelling. Direction also tells you that it's pronounced Sakamato. Yeah, it does. Right? So, my personal opinion, I really like Wook Lamott. I think she's a great character and I was very happy to play second fiddle to what is obviously her story with the occasional nod of like hello main character from the other games can you please solve this because

you are a blunt instrument in this setting right. If you hate this character, this game is going to be rough. From here on out. She represents more spoken dialogue than the next four speaking roles in the expansion combined. Wow. Like, this is the Wook Lamott show. Okay, okay, so without even knowing what the specifics are as to why people would love or hate. Yeah.

Given how fucking big and delicately woven this tapestry of a game is, I'm surprised that such a bold hit or miss decision would be made and that it wouldn't be something that like was like majority people think that they nailed it as opposed to something kind of divisive. Do you know what I mean? Like it's so.

It is impossible to know what the majority is. Like, I don't know. Like, I'm trying to think of an example where it's like, oh, okay, you know how we were talking about what the interpretation of these classic FF7 characters is gonna be like when remade? And how they kind of are like, yeah, there's probably gonna be some people

that really hate this cloud. But by and large, they totally nailed it. But everyone mostly agrees that fucking, that's probably gonna be some people that really hate this cloud. But by and large, they totally nailed it. But everyone mostly agrees that fucking that's cloud. Absolutely, right? Like that. You think they'd go with a choice that would be tested and proven to more or less get the vast majority of people because of how instrumental it is to such a big game and so many people. So. I'm really surprised to hear this.

I can only speak to my general view of forums and the Reddit and whatnot, as well as in-game, as well as my friends who play XIV. Everybody that I have spoken to myself really likes the character and had fun with the expansion. Or if they had a problem with the character here and there, or in this moment or that moment, it passed because they had a good time. The issue with understanding... You know, ask your question.

Okay, it was just the... How much is Luffy and how much is Naruto? Oh, it's it's it's it's. Because. I feel like there's a difference. You know, what's the difference between the two, really? I feel like there is a difference. It's a it's a lot of both.

OK, a lot of both. OK. There's a lot of both. Okay a lot of both. Okay. There's a lot of Naruto in there um The moments that she does have parents, okay? Cuz the the moments of Naruto that like really really fucking Got unbearable were the times when? Like it's not just it's like yes There's the the the Sillin the earnest and the that's all fine. You can be a pure hearted character drawn in. And it's like, I don't care

what society says or what the rules are, I'm going to do my own thing my own way. And that's that's it. Whatever. That's totally fine. It's the moments where like, the main character is like eight years behind everyone and everything that's happening. No, that's not what's happening. No, no, that's not what's happening. Okay. I have to take a quick break. I'll be right back but I will I will follow up on that exact point when we get back. All right, Wooly, what was the question you had just asked me? It was about the character

not knowing anything? Yeah, so is does she lean a little more Luffy or a little more Naruto? I'd probably say Luffy, but she exists as her own to some degree. And I guess to that end, because there's a lot of plucky, silly, but ultimately, you know unexpectedly smart protagonists that have their like, you know Sort of naive worldview Yeah, so that's that's the core of it is that this is a city girl doesn't know a lot about all the different cultures which expands into the first half of the expansion is a

Tour of the new country and learning about these people, learning about these people, solving their bullshit, finding their dark secret, etc. And that naivete also, like that's a trait that applies to a million like anime protagonists. You're Gon, Deku, Ippo, Senna, like all these characters are just like, yeah I'm gonna take the world at face value. Yeah, Gon's gotta find out what's so good about cigarettes. Sure. Oh, you're not familiar with that one I guess not but the description of gone is like a young boy whose dad left to go get cigarettes and his journey to find Out what makes cigarettes so appealing okay? Okay? Like he's not going to find his dad. He's like man

I oh dad said cigarettes are great. I wonder what how good they taste But yeah, and you know these characters all just kind of like take the world at face value and and are very true Oh, man, oh, dad said cigarettes are great. I wonder how good they taste. But yeah, and these characters all just kind of take the world at face value and are very easily trusting and often have to learn. But there's always that moment when back against the wall, you're like, oh, they're dumb. And it's like, no, they're not dumb. They came up with a really clever thing that you never.

It's like, oh, they might be dumb, though. Luffy's not dumb, but he's actually really dumb and so so You know I have again. I have many memories of just rolling my eyes hard at that at Naruto yeah as Plot is happening around him and you know whether like Orochimaru is sitting there going talking about like Why he's taking over Sasuke's body or what Sasuke being like, I gotta go and Naruto being there like, what's going on? But why?

He's like, we just told you. So in general, it seems that in my opinion from actually speaking to other humans, that the general response is very positive about most of the expansion, including Wook Lamott, but the people who don't like this character are miserable and loud and in many cases really, really, really, really disingenuous and intellectually dishonest. So one of the things, I don't know if you saw mom posted on Twitter Where mom was putting up like I draw this expansion So shit takes four hours to get to the first dungeon

I'm so bored and then she just posted screenshots of every playthrough of every expansion where it takes Exactly four and a half hours to get to the first dungeon on every single expansion It's it's funny because people are complaining a lot about like, oh, this structure is so bad. It's the same structure. It's like identical. It's almost a problem how much the structure does not change between expansions, just the content. It's like you do this, you meet these people, you solve their problem, you do this, you do this, you go people you solve their problem you do this you do this you go to the second part Of the zone you get the eighth occurrence you do the dungeon

And then you do that six times and then there's the secret could six of the zone, etc. Could it possibly? Yeah, go on so You're like well, I really like this character and the expansion is pretty fantastic overall particularly the the the the more difficult content. So the normal content's been a lot more interesting, a lot more difficult. And I think that their voice acting totally fits in with just about everybody else and that I'm having a really great time. And I keep seeing people who are mad about the expansion or the character and a lot of that seems disingenuous or just like way angrier than you would expect considering. And I'm like, I don't know why this is happening other than Wook Lamott's voice actor is trans.

Hence the Wook Lamau. Yeah. Okay. Hence the woke Lamau. Yeah. Okay. And the reason I say this is twofold. One is the just straight up like direct reasoning, which is this because of this. And the second one is that the day the voice actor actors name came out in the last expansion when the character was there for 15 minutes. I fucking hate this guy.

Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah there you go. Now I'm so listen. Oh so predictable. Oh that's great. So predictable. Oh, that's great. That's, wow. I think that it would be just as disingenuous and I think it would be unhelpful to everyone for me to go or even imply that anyone who does not like Woc Lamott the character

does so because of their voice actor or Woke Lamott or whatever the fuck, right? I think that's of no use to anyone. We just had a person in the chat just now go, I play the game in Japanese exclusively and I also don't like this character, right? Because it is a very specific type of character. And I can see some people's personalities, like really grating with them following essentially dumb Chewbacca around. Right. However, there is a weirdly intense, non-specific vitriol that I feel should probably be mentioned and there's probably a cause there This expansion so bad because of this but it was like that last time time. Yeah, it's just worse now. It's like, is it? Oh, oh, that's. Yeah, okay. Okay. Okay. There we go. There's the full picture. Take a second, right? Take a second. Mm hmm. Right.

It's it's man. Yeah. Um, you ever hear you ever hear the the the the you ever hear the person that is being made aware of the fact that the Dylan Mulvaney can was only a one-off and not actually sold in stores? You ever hear that person hearing for the first time that it wasn't a thing that was sold in stores? It was just one thing. It was like a promotional goof for one person and just the logic crunch noises followed by searching for

but still though I Will I will say it's the wild Stupid shit like you used to be able to enjoy ff14 But you can't anymore because of Wook is really funny and all those variations are hilarious But like it seems It seems out of pace with the reality Especially since the the the gist of the expansion is that this is one of the better ones

I put it in in the top three. It's excellent. They do something really smart where it feels like there are two expansions. So the usual deal that they do here is that they have six zones. They always have six and the sixth one is always hidden from promotion. It's, you know, they show off a lot for an MMO lead up, but the sixth zone is always the secret zone that has something big in it, right? What they did this time is the first three are actually split into half. So the first three zones all have two biomes and all have two arcs.

OK. So it feels like by the time you get to the halfway point that you have played through a full expansion. And then you are playing as the expansions own sequel by doing the next three. OK. And Okay. And, um... Hold on, I need to stop for a second. We have someone in the chat. I'm tired of people telling me that I am transphobic because I hate the character and I don't like English voice acting. Maybe learn how to take criticisms and

stop moving your goalposts and doing extreme mental gymnastics to call people transphobic. Why don't you open your ears, you dumb asshole, and listen to the thing I just said. No, bro, Pat. Two minutes ago! Pat, goalposts. That's so frustrating! Bro, dual wielding goalposts are the best weapons ever! What are we talking about?

I made such a... The charged double goalpost attack as you carry them is the best! It's like... you know what my favorite part about that and the reason that I bring it up Is that when somebody goes I like I say hey I don't think it's useful to call people this and that depending on this This is not necessarily the reason that you would dislike it. And someone just barges in and not listening. He goes, I hate it when people call me that because I hate it.

I hate it for my own reasons. And it's like, well, now I don't believe you because you're coming off like a stupid asshole and it's a, like a fairly neutral situation. So like your weird persecution makes me think that you're a liar. X-cut. Launch. Giant double slash attack. Juggle, juggle, juggle, juggle, juggle.

Double overhead slam. Like you're saying the same thing I said in an angry voice like someone attacked you which can only lead me to believe that you feel attacked because you feel guilty because you're an asshole anyway God that threw me real. Oh my god. I'm not that's like my most hated type of stupid person I mean really the hey man get off Twitter for a minute. See if your life improves I hope it all works out for you. Yeah, I'm sure you know like I think I think the best part is like get off Twitter and see if your life improves, but when you said that I'm like but our lives will improve

When you shut the fuck up Yeah, yeah, it's Anyway, I believe in power stancing goal posts quite frankly that it's red. Let's go. But yeah, no good expansion Only complaint I would have is It would do to have more unique scenarios like gameplay scenarios God we story bits guilty-gear strive tournaments are just unbearable these days. Oh It was so much more fun to watch before but now There's also

There's also a secondary fun type of complaint with the expansion, which is extra funny. So FFXIV's primary story path, it's been like a- Sorry, side note though. We gotta get some more merch for the rest of the characters out there though because there are as it stands Currently like I think 12 or 13 Bridget figures Yeah, biking gets like two and some of the other girls get one or two and none of the guys have anything except one for Saul Yeah, and that's cuz dice gay was like you're making one The merchants fucking out of control

All right. Uh, so there is one, um, bonus set of follow-up complaints, which are just like delicious, delicious tears and just, I'm so happy about it. So FF 14 is base level difficulty of its normal story content has oscillated between pretty easy and way too easy. All the hard stuff has been set off to the side with bonus content like extra raids or stuff you don't have to actually do, right? With one exception being Stormblood's normal final boss was actually pretty tough

and there's one solo duty in Endwalker that was pretty tough and this was responded to by many members of the community of why are you gatekeeping the rest of the game from me? Why did you make it? It's too hard. I just, I'm, it's, ah. Come on. Didn't we just have this conversation? We did. We did.

And the difference being that we're talking about people who play a game, like the Stormblood final boss, you had to have played the game for like minimum 400 hours to get there. And the idea that you cannot actually do this because it's like a normal difficulty after hundreds of years of... It's ridiculous, right? So Dawn Trail came out and one of the things that Yoshi P talked about was that he feels like he has made the incline a little too smooth and would like to add more like complexity and friction to the game and as a result the normal content that you do as part of the main story is of like there's some there's some like juice to it it can be tough okay I thought it was always like the main stuff your friends could carry you through it and then the stuff that gets you the bigger

oh they can. I'm talking about people with no friends. Okay. I'm talking about people with no friends. Okay. Okay. And specifically the post-game roulette, you know, you do an EX dungeon every day or so. You can't sleep through them.

They're not hard, but you have to actually pay attention. And endless complaining. Endless. but like you have to actually pay attention and Endless complaining Endless like for like me and my friends are thrilled like the ex roulette's are a blast They're much more interesting because they're much more active. They're not harder per se, but they're a lot more active they require a lot more thinking right and In at least one case, people are finding out like, ugh, why are they, why do they have to make it so difficult? This isn't fun. Only to go back on the official forums on Reddit and find the same users going like, God forbid they make this game have any fucking

challenge. This shit is too easy for babies. The same people. Okay. Okay. And it's like, oh, we found another case of I just want it to be just hard enough that I can beat it and lord it over others. I don't actually want it to be difficult. I just want it to be difficult for you. And now that I have to actually try oh it's too hard and it looks like they're not going to change it so hooray. The other thing that it does is that by making the main story actually a little challenging is that people that don't have any friends and suck shit are going to have trouble reaching the end which is awesome because people who play an MMO for multiple years and have somehow made no friends and are also bad at the game should

stop. They should stop playing it because interacting with them is miserable. But you don't pay my sub. Yes, that's right. That's right, Wooly. That's right. That's right. Congrats. You have closed the circle. Okay. Did it. But yeah, no, if you manage to play a fucking MMO for multiple years and you do not have even one person you can ask to come in to play a dungeon with you even casually. This means that you are either so bad no one wants to play with you or that you are so miserable to exist next to in a digital space that no one wants to deal with you.

Well, sure. I mean, there are people that are just doing duty finding the whole way through and doing public stuff, right? Yes. And it would be strange for them to not have a single positive interaction for that entire period. It is strange to play an MMO for multiple years and never interact with one person. Ever. That's weird.

Or like just add to the, or involve yourself in the social element at the very least. Yeah. Right. Because like, you can, they've made it so that you can clear through 99.9% of the game's mandatory story content with robots, bots, or an occasional duty finder here or there. So you can get all the way to the end of the story content. All the external story content is social content. It's raids with people.

It's Alliance raids with people. It's treasure maps with people, right? None of these have been automated because they are at their core social activities. And it's like, if you are like, I want to do these social things by myself, start, and if you felt that way the whole way through, it's like, these people tend to be annoying to deal with. They tend to be very demanding, rude, bad at the game.

But the game does allow you to make it through. Yeah, to get to the end of the built storyline content. And if that's all you want, then it's super easy to just do that and ignore people entirely. But if you want to play the MMO part with MMO people, you have to play the MMO part with MMO people. What happens generally to like the most toxic people that just continue on? So it depends. You blacklist them. So duty finding, so it pulls into, like when you have like a server rack is where you're pulling your duty finding it from.

So it's like everybody on Primal, which is like 10 servers. So it's not going to be like you'll never be able to queue up for anything because it's pulling for so many people. But it might become you have to move servers because no one wants to do a party with you on hard content. Because you've been blacklisted on so many people. Because there's only alisted on so many people's... There's only a percentage of any particular server that goes into Party Finder to do hard stuff. And if you're just a consistent asshole all the time, eventually people will see your

name and go, no, I'm leaving this party, I'm out. If you're min-maxing and doing it efficiently, like 39 other people per raid are blocking you right? Oh no not 39, uh seven. Okay okay okay gotcha. Um now World of Warcraft does the does the 40s. I see. Um but uh like there's a the like But like there's the, like you have to be really insanely famously toxic to actually get frozen out of the social aspect in general because there are just so many people playing the game. When, if you were talking about like FF11 where you're stuck on your server forever, and it's 2,000 people

Yeah, you could fuck that server up You could you could like ruin it to the point where you had to leave Because everyone would eventually know your name and be like oh that guy's an asshole right, but when you're queuing up for something you're queuing up into a population of like 8 million people Yeah, it's no it's interesting cuz I'm like like the the dynamics of like 8 million people. Yeah, it's no it's interesting because I'm like like the dynamics of like being an insufferable Fucking YouTube, whatever you see you next Tuesday You know

while Playing a game that relies on other people's like relationships and such for content It's fascinating because again, we talk about in fighting games when you fucking ban somebody enough and they rage quit enough that you can add enough people to a block list that they get less matches, the quality of their experience goes down in such a way that they end up fighting other people that are in similar shitty disconnection ratios and so on, you know? I can only think of like one person who ever had what you're describing happen to him.

And that was a content creator named Mr. Happy, who I believe has been publicly removed from like two raid groups, like world first raid groups. And also has the distinction of ruining one of the game's encounters. Which is wild. So here's the deal. Huh. Which is wild. So here's the deal. Mr. Happy puts out guides for encounters. He put out a guide that was wrong and described a way to beat the fight that was completely dead-ass wrong and would result in failure most of the time. But because he had a big YouTube channel and made a lot of guides, it became the de facto way to do that encounter, which

ruined it. The encounter was Tsukuyomi. So his video ruined Tsukuyomi for Party Finder players. Because people would go in and it's like, we're doing this strat. And you'd be like, that strat doesn't work. It will die. Yeah, okay, being a large streamer magnifies this issue somewhat in a different way. I wasn't even thinking that. Huh.

Okay. Oh man. Fuck, like I didn't, luckily I have my friends and we play together but like Tsukuyomi was apparently just miserable as a result of that. Hey, if you want guides for EX trials, go to MTQ Capture, Ms. Tech's guides are much better and she seems really nice. Okay. Any, any other...

Yeah, Dantrel's good. It's really good. Also, the graphics, uh, the graphics, uh, upgrade is fantastic. It's, uh, it makes the game look... Like, you load in and you look at the graphics update and you're like, it looks the same. And then you go and look back at what it looked like just a couple weeks ago,'re like, oh, no, it doesn't my memories are unreliable. It looks like what the game looks like in my fucking head Okay, though they didn't fix the people who play ff14 would know this you would not bully but They did not fix the crystal X arts arm during that cutscene

He sits for some reason that that specific model that they zoom in on all the time is not fixed. And that's hilarious. What's the schedule? I don't know. I beat everything. This is the first time since fucking December That I am NOT doing some kind of like long- no, God, August, that I'm not playing some kind of long-running mega RPG. I don't know I'll be- I don't know what days I'm streaming this week even. I will be

I don't know what days I'm streaming this week even. I will be doing streams, but I haven't figured out what it's going to be. I'll probably spin the wheel and play a bunch of bullshit. I might do the Alan Wake DLC, but nothing is for certain. But you can go down to twitch.tv slash PatStairsAt to do that. You can also, tonight, that would be Monday, July 8th, at 6pm Pacific, go down to twitch.tv slash peach saliva. Paige is going to be streaming. I'm not sure what. I think she might just be hanging out or maybe doing MI the asshole. But that's tonight. You can check that out. And also, there is one other thing that I needed to mention Paige and I watched a good not good the bad the other watch a fistful of dollars. Oh

Oh shit. Okay. I haven't watched that one. Yeah, have you seen yo Jimbo? No So I haven't seen yo Jimbo, but upon watching fistful dollars and being like that's great. You look at the Wikipedia and Sergio Leone paid Kurosawa 15% of the movie's revenue because Kurosawa was like, that's my fucking movie. You stole my fucking movie. So I went up and looked over the plot synopsis of Yojimbo and yo, he stole that movie. Did you know? Fistful of dollarsars is just a theft of Yojimbo. Yeah, you can take any samurai thing and put a cowboy hat and put a gun where a sword is. Magnificent Seven Samurai. Literally, Wild Nine or whatever.

So I don't really have to talk wise about Fistful of Dollars other than it's the first Clint Eastwood Western. It's the genesis of spaghetti Westerns, Italian Westerns. It's great. It's fantastic. It's not like you're watching it and you're like, oh, this is shot like an old movie, but you can see the future of this is actually some crazy closeups or some really great shot composition.

It's fantastic. It's a classic for a reason. Definitely need subtitles. Oh my God, does it definitely need subtitles. We tried to watch a subtitle of this version and it was unintelligible. Everyone's mumbling. They're all dubbed over Italians. How long is it?

It's impossible. It's an hour 43. Oh, okay. It is not Good, Bad, The Ugly length. Yeah, okay. No, no, it's not. All right. So the reason why we're watching Fistful of Dollars, hold on a second, is because we wanted to watch Good, Bad, The Ugly, at which point I mentioned to Paige that Good, Bad, The Ugly is one, insanely long. It's really long.

Yep. And two, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is actually the finale to a trilogy of movies of The Man with No Name. And that I had never watched Fistful or A Few Dollars More. Okay. And I would love to do so. So we're gonna start with Fistful Dollars and dollars more. Okay, and I would love to do so. So we're gonna start with Fistful dollars and then probably tomorrow or something like that. We'll watch

Fistful a few dollars more and then we'll watch Good the Bad the Ugly and As to what spawned this early in a scene where Clint Eastwood is Walking around with a saddlebag over his shoulder. Paige pulls out her phone and writes, Where's his saddlebag like the ghoul? Ha ha, I did it. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Yeah, alright.

Reference points established for Well, you see because Cooper Howard in fallout I either ghoul that's was a famous movie star that played in a lot of Westerns like the man from Calabasas And those are probably based off of these old Clint Eastwood movies So really we need to watch these old Clint Eastwood movies to see what the Cooper Howard movies were probably like. Center of the universe established. It's... it's... Oh.

Okay. Well... I'm being informed also that the showrunners for Fallout based Fallout off the good and the bad and the ugly. Well, guess what? It's four hours and it's fucking incredible. Yeah, they're great. They're fantastic.

So, do it, but... But there are Jork based reasons here. Yeah, okay. Also, I mean, trilogy in the sense, my understanding is similar to how like the... Barely. Barely. Like the Vengeance trilogy is a quote unquote trilogy. It's like, you know, thematically and sort of, but yeah. Okay.

Alright. Alright. But yeah, yeah, it's good stuff. Yeah, cowboys doing cool things. Yeah. Yes. Cowboys are very cool, it's true. And that's it for Pat's wig. I mean, half expected, like, eh, not dead enough, though. You know, but, no, no, okay, okay. At one point he climbs into a coffin, she was like yeah all right um hey what's going on

let's uh let's hit it so yeah yeah there's there's a couple of announcements over the last two weeks they announced Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster. Hey, that's really cool. That game deserves it. They've also said they're going to work on the hostage AI, which is great because the civilian AI in that was so busted. They also then came out and said that they're re-licensing the licensed music, which means the convict's fucking theme is coming back, gone guru.

Okay. But they didn't get Frank's voice actor back, so fuck it. Uh. This is a, yeah, I, it feels like an out of nowhere, but it also is- You know what? It feels a lot less out of nowhere if you've tried to play a Dead Rising game recently. Yeah, okay. Guess what?

Those games are games for Windows Live shits and they are fucked up. Okay. Well, if this ends up being something where they can Resident Evil it and it's like, hey, we can just Make this franchise again and go forward So this is a remaster. This is not a remake. This is very much like the original game Just juiced a little bit, but it but on the re-engine. It's yeah, you got to do it Pretty much like from scratch. So yeah, but's still going to be the the core same thing just gonna look nicer run better not new content but still like yeah I

mean there might be a little new content like they changed they changed like the evil Chinese guy into evil white guy for some reason okay I don't know why they did that but the I guess the idea being that like a resident evil like changed mechanically and and and things yeah No, no, this is gonna be dead rising, but newer and better. Okay. Yeah It's also the best dead rising game. I Just played that the the short part of two and K zero and that fuck sorry it's the second best dead rising game

Cuz that's the best at rising game that fucking boss theme in that one man. This is the best That's gonna get so good And then three I started and then stopped And then three I started and then stopped Early yeah, no that game's terrible and four is also terrible Oh, but then there was the super hyper dash remix for matching service like yeah It was a goofy little bit for for fun for a minute Yeah, the cell-dweller song that's what it was yeah, No one is the best one two is great off the record is also great But it's really just one two and two

September 19th, yeah Okay. Well, let's see if they do anything about the amount of Zombies you have to kill to unlock the real Mega Buster. You know what they should do? They should make it so that they should increase the number to just over the point where it's even completable. Like they should make the number high enough that you cannot actually complete the zombie genocider achievement

so that people who wanna waste their time doing that, like I do, end up with nothing and feel the deep regret even more. Okay. That is a like attack achievement. That is a mean achievement in Dead Rising. Like, achievement, like, cause we've talked about. Yeah, yeah, I feel like that was a life-changing moment for y'all back in the day when it was, cause it was an early 360 game,

like in the launch window that had horrible fucking UI issues that barely understood how to work in HD, I remember. And yeah, the, get inside the van or whatever and then just do donuts in that one. Yeah, make sure to play the game in a way that makes you never wanna play it again to get this achievement.

I put that as the second worst achievement ever, with the number one being the Turok achievement for Kill one person one dinosaur and one teammate Right right during a multiplayer match which just ruined that It just ruined it literally made that game terrible It is it is

In that window of time though when people did not understand how and what achievements were are and what they should be and how They should work like it was growing pains on all of those. I mean again we the The avatar game where it was like do you know a five hit combo, do a six hit combo, seven, eight, nine, 10, 1000 points, done, gamer score complete. So, you know, I think I've settled on what I want achievements to be. The achievements should be two things.

One is a hint about some weird thing that you would not think to do. So it'll be shit like do a jump off the top of this building and then you go, you can get on that building. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Right. And then the second one should a silly little pun. Punch line. That plays in the black screen of the loading screen after you beat a boss. Right, right. Like all chopped up for dinner.

Sure. After you throw an enemy into the blender or some shit. You know what, those are the two good ones. Those are the two good categories. I'm gonna throw a third in there, which is like a favorite of mine, which is something to the effect of beat Sagat Asri you in HD remix with a Shoryuken. Right! You did it you did the moment you created the story moment. I

think that we can all agree that to play the game in a way that makes you miserable is the worst achievement possible. Yeah, so we'll see if they bring that back. This will range the gamut from play the entire game without using the primary mechanic. Bad to play the game without firing a gun even once in Mirror's Edge, good. I mean there's Mirror's Edge and then there's... Like it flip-flops. And then there's Dot Eater, you know, in Ikaruga, and then there's Pacifist Mode in Geometry Wars, like that shit's incredible. Yeah.

Plasma cutter in Dead Space. Right? Like, these are good things, but then you get a couple that are just like, make the game shitty for yourself. And possibly others. Mmm, good one. Oh god, what was that fucking... Somebody just said speed run the game under two hours. What was that fucking game that you tested?

Jumper. Oh yeah! Beat the game in record time. What does record time mean? Shut up, don't tell them, otherwise they won't buy it. What was record time, Wully? Thirteen minutes. How is that even possible? Because it's a game about teleporting past barriers to the end of the stage. But like there's only one level?

No, but you can just teleport past everything in the game. It's a game about being a Nightcrawler style character that can teleport So if you don't want to play it you can just not play it That's great jumper starring Hayden Christensen All right stuff All right, let's get a move on so we got Dead Rising Deluxe remaster that says yes, September 19th They announced a Kamen Rider Skull anime. Cool. Good fucking shit.

That's rad. It was dope that they did a double one the other day. This one's in particular. That's my dude. That's my boy. So... Everybody loves Kamen Rider. Down to see some Skull Punisher Rider kicks and all that cool narrow me shit.

Count up your sins, yadda yadda. It's interesting as well to be like, okay, you can do anime spin-offs of existing Rider stuff while continuing to shoot new live action series. Super dope. And somewhat in vain of this style of hat wearing detective, there's also a game that's been announced called Black Finger Jet, which is pretty cool. It takes about five seconds to... oops that's not the link. Okay well. That's just, you just sent me the text. That's just text. It takes two seconds to see it in gameplay and see what they're doing there. If you enjoy some fucking Metal Slug, they're just doing Metal Slug.

I like Metal Slug. There's a point where you look at your main character here, who looks like a cool Inspector Gadget slash Cyborg 009 style... Oh my god, that's just metal slug character and then he shoots a bunch of bullets and Then he gets a big H and then the announcer goes heavy machine gun And you're like it wow that's Wow, that's just metal slug. We're fucking metal slugging But it's got like the live to what's it called HD 2d thing going on Yeah, I mean like like this looks good. This can be in the this could take place in the world of metal slug

It's it's you know so That's metal slug yeah That's crazy looks cool We got a trailer for the guilty gear strive anime dual rulers Which shows off a new character the the it wasn't a backyard catboy after all it was Unica is the new character's name and

Really yeah, and she seems to really really hate Gears. I mean, there's a lot of really good reasons in that setting to hate Gears. There are. There are. In particular, it seems that the she's She debuts when So the trailer follows, you know, Sullen and Sin as your protags but yeah, Kai and Dizzy are getting are finally getting married. Oh good. And apparently Unika has some thoughts and words about that and gets

very upset and starts a big hubbub. Is this using the models? I think it is, but I think they're like modified for like a different animation engine because... Okay, so the reason I say that is because in this trailer there's a shot of like Kai, not Kai, a Sin and Seoul in like a forest and like they look hilariously wide. Yeah. Like they look deformed. Like they were never supposed to be seen straight on. I mean you get a good look at them in the story mode from those angles as well, but

like I think it's, they took those models and yeah they're just yeah that's really funny. Yeah I think Kai and Dizzy I think they were married but they just never had an actual big like wedding or so and I think they this is not not a big to-do. Yes and so I think this is this is supposed to be about that and then Yuneika jumps out and starts swinging this big weapon around which unfolds and unlocks and looks interesting because she's holding this blade thing and It looks like an outrage it looks kind of like a

has a similar design element to It has like like it could be like the flashing fang or so. It could be a junkyard dog variant, but it has the colors of justice. Yeah, I got you. So, who the fuck knows? So, the potential for this character to be a DLC in Strive is 100%, right? Extraordinarily high. DLC in Strive is a hundred percent right extraordinarily high considering that they also announced a new season of content a new season of characters coming to the game like through the fucking moon yeah okay it's it's the

old the question is is Unika and who else right yeah the question is when not if I mean yeah, we fuck Yeah, so we'll see we'll see how that goes The speaking of story trailers, we've got a look at the story trailer for metaphor as well and Main character fucking talks. Yeah, so that's the thing right right? You're looking at your little blue-haired character, Minato. Not Minato. Not Minato. Minato. Young man. But the, yeah.

But the, not only are they talking, the setting and everything is very like, oh, because of the setting change, I mean, the Persona elements are still exploding everywhere, but the plot in its fantasy setting and the fact that these characters are going to do things that are probably unrelated to high school, that are more about the kingdom and the throne and such means that Persona is just a flavor. So do you think they're going to do metaphor, re fortifantazio, I can't say the name, I'm

sorry, the redux in two years and they'll be like, you were stupid. You were stupid for playing it the first time. Because I feel like they're not actually gonna do that this time because of Persona 3 so the problem persona 3 is just adding the answer just onto it as a as a as a an update Yeah Huh, I I would I would bet I would assume that it's coming the problem is that the name refantasio Sounds like this is the

re-release. Yeah. You know, it, Refantazio sounds like- Oh, did they actually say they were gonna stop doing that? Like come out and talk about it? I did not know that. Really? Because I fucking, I, having just done the SMT 5. Apparently SMT 5 was like the last time. And for most people SMT 5 was like the first release of that game. Well that's nice to know. Cause like I think they've hit like the capacity

of the general audience for that. Okay. Because like I think like Royal was like a lot of people's like real just like, I don't can. Oh, okay. So the rule, the rule, the rule is, is that you're allowed to do the re-release with new shit if the original was on a console nobody cared about. That is, he's right. He's super right. That's the rule if no it's a good rule he's not wrong like if if persona 5 only came out on ps3 no one would have batted an eyelash at the royal no one batted an eyelash at the golden coming out! It's move- it's going elsewhere.

Yeah. Um... But, beyond that, I mean, I- I- I cannot wait to go through that HUD, screen by screen, and just fuckin'... Just- Straight jork it. Just- just jork a little bit. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um...

a little bit. Yeah. All right. They... It's also like really nice to know that like, you know, with Vengeance, it's like, no, Atlas does have a brain. They will port after Royal and Vengeance like oh they are gonna port everything everywhere eventually. So if you see an atlas game on a platform that you don't have and you're sad about it wait until me and Woolly get sponsored to tell you about the new version later. I mean I can't like we were I remember years ago like this segment being why do you hate money atlas? Why do you hate money? Yeah another pan us to tell you

That we are right We eventually got there all right now vanilla wear come on guys Alright, now Vanillaware! Come on, guys! Speaking of jorking it, a lot of Sonic fans have a lot to jork about with the new Sonic X Shadow Generations. Everyone's getting excited. comes the new anime and the new game which has big old fucking over-the-top action sequence and cool Shadow doing cool kicks. But more important than any other announcement is the reveal of the Shadow the Hedgehog timeline. Oh my God. Did you see the timeline? I did not, I did not. They showed off the, there's a presentation

and in the presentation, they showed you every game where the character existed. Oh, you have it? Oh, good. There you go. And as you can see absolutely nothing happened between 2005 and 2018 dude he's in that game

Dude, that's hilarious Absolutely nothing happened Sonic 06 has been DMC 2d Officially removed from the time so Sonic never made it with a human girl. It never happened, bro. Oh So yeah, you know there you go, that's it That's why hey, can I ask you and by extension the live audience a question about shadow the hedgehog? I've never actually played a game that featured him. He's got rocket boots, right? He's got the rocket skates. Does he not run as fast if he does not have those?

I believe he is slower than Sonic. Regardless, yes, I think he is fast fast but he cannot keep up with Sonic in terms of just raw speed but he has chaos control that kind of seemed like he sucks because he's got he's got to use robot feet to do what Sonic can naturally do. Yeah, well, tell that to his gun. I will his fake MP5 that he cocks. Well, there's that one. But there's there's also the desert ease. Yeah. And then he can he can also go go super, super shadow, you know, as well.

Yeah, Sonic can do that. Yeah. Anyway, he's... Ball caps, remember the inhibitor rings. I don't think I ever knew the inhibitor rings. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. It makes them move differently when they're racing alongside each other, but you can't I feel like shadow the hedgehog had to have appeared to me at an

vitally specific time and since that time passed I Cannot open my heart to him now like Jesus He wants you to like I mean I missed the part of my life where Jesus could show up and I'd be like, hey, what's up? I feel like I miss that for Shadow. I mean, again, all you need to know is that he can be everything. He can be all of it. He's all that he is.

Is that a song? Are you quoting a song at me? It's Sonic the Hedgehog. Of course I'm quoting a song at me? It's Sonic the Hedgehog, of course I'm quoting a song at you. Well, did you see that interview where Sega admitted that people making fun of the lyrics in their songs was why they stopped putting vocal tracks into Sonic games? No. Yeah. But that's not true because it's-

Americans, the reviewers, would complain about the soundtrack and so they they were like, oh Americans don't like the soundtrack So we'll we'll stop putting vocal themes in but they were wrong That's completely untrue because in Sonic Frontiers at the fucking peak hype boss fight in the first thing Lyrics kick in and it's rad as shit. The Frontiers song is so cool. Like Absolutely not. What are we talking about? Nah. I do know that like, I've heard there have been many a live performance with Crush 40 kind of like stopping early and dying a little bit and walking off stage and things like

that. I don't know what the full deal is, but... But no, no, the lyrics are there and according to at least Frontier's, they're fucking hyper than ever. I'm hanging on to the other side. The end of the day. It's so good dude, so sick. Anyways, yeah, no, there we go.

We got our timeline update. That's great. And I think that if Shadow were able to run at Sonic speeds without the shoes and stuff, then it would invalidate Sonic's coolness too much. So Sonic needs to always be the coolest. I'm fully on Team Sonic over here. He has to always be the coolest. Though I will say, I will say that Shadow's story about constantly breaking his bones

every second for 10,000 years in time prison is something that has made me laugh so hard I have vomited. So Shadow does get a point for that. I didn't watch it, but I heard that when the audience watching the anime clip from this presentation they popped off and cheered when which one Maria got shot? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my God. You can't do that to a room full of people, man. It's expected to put out code.

I like how I said that. And I look over and people are like, what the fuck is he talking about? Type in Shadow the Hedgehog Time Prison to learn the lore, idiots. Come on. All right. Speaking of learning the lore.

You watched that not like us video or what? I sure did. Okay, okay. I mean, can we just? That's cold. That's a really cold. Cause it's, people were like, it's winding down. Yo, like the hopscotch bit

come on yeah the hopscotch bit is is there's a lot there see you walk into hopscotch onto the 10th fucking block because there's 10 steps what are we doing because like Drake's Drake's accusations were one Dave Free is the father of your children and two you beat your wife So let's let's have a sequence in which I'm hanging out with my totally happy and normal looking family See you all having a good time walking all over it Whitney, but like but like that that bit is like over it Whitney but like but like that that bit is like hey you know what's really nice having a family and like loving your kids instead of whatever you got going on over here directed by day free yeah right yeah and then you can get into the oh she's wearing a wife beater I didn't even catch that ah that's really

good every every every let me know you can go down the full analysis the full layers of it But you know for what it's worth. I mean all you need to know is Get fully leaning into the rapid like you're trying to free the slaves bit the first thing you see in Compton in at the City Hall is the MLK Compton at the City Hall is the MLK monument which on 4th of July which is what they're all the whole crowd is singing along to from the angle there you know apparently there's a basketball player that's Drake's favorite yeah and music video so he's from Compton and he played for the Toronto Raptors. Right? You know, I don't know if I said this just a page or on stream or here. I don't know.

But I want to say it again, which is so the crux that everybody's liking to like really jump on is, hey, Drake touches kids. Hilarious, incendiary, he's clearly a creep. But what seems to be like has even more juice behind it is the amount of work of assembling this enormous amount of people going, no one likes you, get out of here. It's like bringing in the whole high school to do a song and dance about how you should go home and kill yourself.

I mean, and again, and the fuck you continues, not just from the monument and all that, the shipping containers, which are all painted white as they're packaged to be exported. And the contents are black people, but we paint it white and ship that out. And then of course, just the ultimate, like the owl in the fucking cage.

Your career is forever. That's it, he's got you, it's done. Like it doesn't matter, whatever the fuck happens after this this you're caged, bro He's doing push-ups In the in the jail right and during the drink that's a diverse on the center blocks right like I Mean it's what the fact that we're adding think so No, I was gonna say like, like, Hit Em Up had a music video, you know?

It's not the first time that this has happened. But like, just... But the fact that, again, like, I don't know, like, going beyond the orbital strike, like, we keep this going, and it feels between the ten... Uh, uh, fuck it, like, it feels like there's a bit of like, bro I dare you, I dare you to open your mouth for a second, like I really want you to, between this concert, between- He does 17 push-ups? Oh man. Specifically? Yeah. Specifically? Yeah.

What's the significance? You can't make it to 18. Oh Damn it, dude, you know, I feel like they're I feel like And I'm not saying anyone should do this because what I'm about to say is wrong But I feel like the only way out of this is to initiate gun violence I think we're here. I think there is no recourse other than attempted murder I don't I think I think at this point you just have to look at he's just got he's looking at the money And he's just trying to, he's looking at the money

and he's just trying to figure out how to get it, how to get it into places where it can't, I don't know, I don't know what you do, right? Maybe you do another Wagwan Delilah, maybe you just kind of, oh my God. Maybe you just slowly turn yourself back into the clown, you know, put the makeup back on, you know,

and then just kind of ease your way back into touring and doing some dance, get a new dance going, a new dance for the summer, you know? I just, I don't know, I don't know. There's going to be a silence break moment for real at what if he challenged Like Kendrick to a duel just for real like just Hit him with a glove you know Yeah again Kendrick is from Compton

Yeah, what the fuck are we talking about? I know, I know. We can't go down this road. Like the whole point of getting all those people on stage was so that they would be on stage there in peace and not out there doing hate as shit. So, you know, I, yeah, anyways, when you, when you, when you put, when you light a fire in under the dude and inspire him to Do the concert to do the video to just keep this thing fucking rolling Also before we move away from it I gotta say that bit with Kendrick not paying attention and a scary man showing up only to be yanked off-screen by God

Or whatever is a great visual. We will see if the OVO tour will go to Oakland. We will find out. I want to see clips of Drake's next live performance so bad. I expect it to be a mess. I mean, like even at the level of like, okay, let's just get to go on with the show, play all the hits, right? Get the get people to come out and dance to the club hits

and stuff. Like, like I feel as if his entire MO with like, Oh, who's going to come back to the to the VIP? What groupies are going to are going to roll through? Like you can't trust anybody. No, no, you can't. You don't know what's going on from this point forward. You don't know what's going on and everything can for you. Don't know what's going on and Everything can be an operation dude like why am I why is that real? I just scrolled past a photo of Drake in full-on blackface Oh come on Pat now did we miss the story is that real we missed the story of Added on Did we not okay, so? the

the kill shot of the prior fuck it to you I mean to use that term of his last beef was the what's hit the picture of him in blackface and the reveal of his Child his child existing right? Yes, it's it's insane. Yeah, I didn't see this that looks you know like I'm not gonna tell that was that guy not he can do blackface, but this seems... This picture is awful. I mean, I mean, the white half, at the very least. You can talk to the white half, I guess.

Um, yeah. You know what? No, no, the last time, the last time this whole thing blew up, um, the end of it, his Beef with Pusha T, was the song that revealed his child existing because he was ashamed of his child because the mother was a stripper. Um, and this picture of him in fucking blackface posing like a clown and it was like, everyone was like, what? Where did this come from?

Everyone's like, what the fuck is this? And it's just weird. And like, it's just weird actor shit from, like, pre-Degrassi Toronto stuff? I don't know, I don't know. But it's super weird. And that was- It's, I don't know I don't know but it's super weird and that was it's I don't that's like I'm not clicking off it's still there yeah I don't want to look at

it I don't know it's not great that's what that's that's what happened last time because he's got the lips on that's that's what and look in so he you know he waited right and then eventually He he started doing music and popping out again and then he put some pic photos of him with his kid and he's like Hey, look, I'm being a dad and here's my son. See like there he is. I'm a proud I'm proud of him You know You know, you know when you you talk to people and they don't have kids and people go you wouldn't understand You have kids and like go, you wouldn't understand, you have kids. And like I'll tell you right now, that's actually like massively full of shit in

like 99% of cases. Like remember people were like, don't judge because you don't have kids. I was that person who was judging and now I have kids now judge away. You probably, you probably would feel the same. But the emotions you can have are stronger. I can't imagine not being like proud of your baby. Like it's so repulsive. The idea of like hiding your children or like being like whatever.

Like it's disgusting. No, and that's the thing is like there's a level of there's a level of especially at superstar global status. There's a level of privacy that you a level of, especially at superstar global status, there's a level of privacy that you're entitled to where he could certainly have a kid and be like, yeah, this is not meant to be a public thing. I don't want people to know about like the kid's name or face or any of that shit, right? You can definitely do that if you choose to be private about that, but denying and pretending they don't exist so that you continue to have this bachelor life image is a completely separate thing.

That's not why, you know, but that's how he played it off afterwards. It was just like, oh yeah, well, it was private and now here we are, here's a photo of him and we're in public together now, you know. It was just completely just shame. Someone in the chat said, Pat, you hide your baby though. Yeah, for his privacy. But I don't, I'm not sitting here pretending

I don't have a baby so I can hit up chicks. I am in the process of explaining the difference between not showing the baby's face or giving the name out and denying its existence entirely. He hid the baby, and then he showed the baby! He showed the baby after. After the exposure occurred.

He can't have it both ways! No, no. Showing the baby now is proof you were hiding the baby earlier! If he was not hiding the baby earlier and then the accusation came out and then his response was, yes, but I'm not showing his face, and then continued that, then there would be a bullshit detector going off, but he's doing the thing. But he made the child public after the fact, once the disc dropped. I was like, look, look, I'm a good dad, look, it's a prop. It's disgusting! the thing, but he made the child public after the fact once the disc dropped.

I was like, look, look, I'm a good dad, look, it's a prop. It's disgusting. If you can't see the difference, I don't know. That kid has been set up to be so fucked on, man. The fact that we're talking about this stupid family drama on this video game podcast because the way Drake acted is awful. And at some point he's going to listen to the song. Oh man, like, you know, how's that kid like four or five? Like probably are listen to it. The kids have them iPods.

Yeah, I mean, they're getting, you know, they're getting to get in there like fucking. Northwest is rapping. They get in there sooner than you think, man. Alright, anyways. Yeah, there you go. Unless Drake like bands rap music in the house or something. Well, you see, in the house implies that he's raising the child in the house. Oh yeah, my mistake. My mistake. Like, and not exported to France and over there gross yeah all right you should take care of your kids that there's What the hell is going on?

Nothing. Okay. Just... Yeah. Just leaving it alone. Hey, you see the new Bleach game? No. I did not.

It's an arena fighter and there's no reason to care. It looks very pretty. Okay. Fuck! That's way meaner than just not mentioning it at all. What's the name of the Bleach game? Rebirth of Souls. Oh cool. Yeah, that's what it's called. When you see pretty anime things looking good, then it's like, that's cool.

And then the camera kind of goes to the third person and then you're like ah it's gonna be it's there don't even you know yeah it sucks cuz it's like I feel as if the like you know net impact it's like hey they're giving a shot at a real like thing that might you know they're giving you giving a shot at a real fighter here, and I feel like arena fighters, unfortunately, they don't have to be this way, but they are just released as these disposable things that you're not meant to give a fuck about, like, a week after you pick them up. Yeah, well, not everybody can be DBZ, Budokai, Sparkingk each is zero or My hero ones justice or kill the kill no those were those games

Dragonball kind of gets passed though because as for 100 million care. Yeah All right, we got to read one and get out of here. Alright. Because I gotta go. Sure, sure, sure. Alright, alright. Okay. Dear Panda Express and Starbucks, Barry the Light from DMC is still getting played on YouTube. Virgil dropped years ago, but you still have music producers doing react videos going, I have no idea what Devil May Cry is, but this song is insane. Do you have a favorite piece of property that escapes containment and accelerated to mainstream success from Julian? I'm a big fan of Jonathan Young doing covers of Jojo songs in English and going, I don't

know what Jojo is. Those are great. Those are great. These songs are good though. Very fun. He did the Attack on Titan themes as well. And yeah, I mean, I think Bridget, breaching containment and reaching the public at large outside of the context of Guilty Gear is great. That's huge and very good for the game. Now, just do what I said earlier and give us some other figures, please.

I would like to nominate an interview from two or three months ago. I don't remember the name of the interviewer, apologies. But he was interviewing Mike Tyson. He was like, hey Mike, have you ever seen this character Balrog? And Mike goes, No, no, no. You know, he does Mike Tyson voice and doesn't know what he is. And it's discovered that Mike Tyson did not know about Balrog and Mike Tyson until like last month. But Capcom was still so afraid nonetheless.

Capcom won. But they were right though. Like they totally, totally snuck it under his nose. But it was all just preemptive fear of what might happen. Yeah, and he made a joke about like he's gotta call his lawyer about this. And now in story mode you got Vega being like some call me Vega, some call me Balrog, none of it. Yeah we switch, we would switch our names around all the time because of crime. None of it matters because neither of them is my real name. And it's like oh that's great actually. Solid. Okay, that'll do. Alright y'all have a good night

or day or week, whatever fuck bye bye stay safe bye