Castle Super Beast - SBFC 235: Doggoplasmosis
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Wagon my head and doing like that at the top, but it puts boobs booted about I don't know
I'm in a good mood today. What up? Ah, not much
Mac hadn't uh
But it's really funny. Well, it sucks though. Like yeah, no, it's really bad, but because he he
Was having a PC emergency. He lost some really important tax files and is well
There is there is a distinction about that. He didn't quite lose them
They were accidentally he put the tweet that I saw on the way here. It was hey
I deleted a really important thing in Windows like four days ago. Yes, how do it's um
I've had some experience with with recovering files though should be
Recoverable right depends on depends on how long ago you delete the thing and it depends on
Whether or not like the clusters of your hard drive have been like used for other
Yeah, but if you're not installing or moving stuff around all the time that should honestly
And if and if it's a tiny like text file, right then it shouldn't be that big a thing
Yeah, but you should probably bring it to a guy
Yeah, you can do that if you if you've tried and failed, but there's some there's some there's some programs out there that like
Just look at clusters. They go like we see some file names. There's some
Sizes that might be associated and you can partially recover things and do a quick par. Don't delete anything
Well ever be certain about what you delete is my thing is don't don't shift delete
The all recycling Bennett and then when you before you clear your recycling, but just go look at it. Yeah
I
Recycling then get like dangerously enormous. Yeah
I feel like every time because we
Let's pull back the card. We record a lot of video. Yeah
So every now and then there's the time when we go to like click a thing on the on the work PC and the fucking hard drive symbol is
Burding flaming red. Yeah, and we go. Hmm. Yeah, looks like we filled up that three terabyte hard drive with fucking
Elgato and shadow play videos and then we have that fun moment
Or you you there's so many that you have to drag the box over things to delete and that that split second where you're like
Did we is that mm-hmm is that safe to and and ultimately I mean once you you don't need to keep your raw footage
What's like the thing is on one stop right unless you're insane
But you do want to keep the non YouTube version of it because that's how the old flop house got lost
that's correct, you know was
Assuming that the internet is forever, which it's not and hey, we've got a whole bunch of what videos
for the website that have
Yet to find our currently in flux. Yeah, well, here's the problem
Right, just to I guess get this part out there is that we found a home for them
Which was then subsequently shut down
So it was and it was shut down before we could reveal the new home for them
So we are finding a new we were smart to put those not on YouTube those particular videos
So the ones that are full movies sure. Yep. Yep. Those were smart other things out there
But yeah, I need to do right we need to put on put them on some bootleg CDs
Just start passing them out and just start passing them out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, just do it like high school
You sign it bring your spools around
Okay, what was what was the fucking most awful form was it the fucking asshole with just the spool or was it?
Or was it hey, man, I got my binder and it's got the the CD
Thousand CD binder. I had like a hundred pounds. I had a thousand CD CD. I also had that. Yeah, that was for Dreamcast games
That was for Naruto. That was for
Anime in general would be on that. I think me and you
Borrowed the same guys Naruto CD. I didn't borrow it. Oh, okay. I got it myself. You made yours. Yeah, of course you did
Yeah, and boo anime one subs downloaded torrented every week
And then categorized into correct listings. I did that for a long time for episodes per CD. Oh
Maybe three. Yeah, depending. What do you mean? This is before DVDs?
Yeah, this is not this and then there was a point when I remember
Storage never really became popular. Well DVD storage was a thing for me because I had DVD ours
Oh, yeah, because I would move right to hard drives rewritables were a thing for me for a while and after that point because
The the it was interesting because like CD storage it became harder and harder to actually find a spool of them
And also they were super expensive. Yeah, they became more expensive than DVDs were and I was like, what is technology?
Doing that the older format is becoming more expensive than the new well, it's because they're the exact same cost to make
But they're way less popular exactly demand that you're watching it like, you know the laws of of
Supply and demand like it's like when it's like when you see
How do you put it? Like, you know, Sony goes we're fucking not selling the ps2 anymore
You're like, oh
You must sell at least a couple a year and they're like we're literally keeping a factory open to produce this old bullshit
Yeah, because these parts are old and useless and you can't make it with new parts. So
Yeah, yeah, yeah now rewritables was a thing man. Um
I'm uh, yeah, I feel like shit. Yeah, I'm not the start of something's about to go down
And I'm not at the I don't know if it's a cold or a flu yet, but I'm feeling something
Oh, everybody get ready and it's not in that like I'm not coughing or sneezing or anything. So, you know, it's all
It's all I want you to just
Vomit so big live onto that laptop. I don't vomit very often. Oh, you don't and I used to but I don't anymore
Hi
Like I'm having a really hard time like like there's been times when you kind of like you're like
I want to do it deliberately just to feel better because I feel sick right now
Yes, and because you can feel the the a source of the problem, but I yeah, but I really can't recall
The last time of actually involuntarily just been like yeah for me. It must have been like 10 years
Yeah, yeah, I'm on a streak. Yeah got don't eat any black and white cookies man
Yeah, I think we're not well we're we're on a streak of like not introducing that much outside like
What am I like our lives are kind of static and yeah safely contained as long as I don't do anything too weird
Don't do anything too new and you should be okay. Don't introduce any new any new weird things
So when this this is so Clems, I'm gonna blow Clems up here
he was staying he was staying here with us last week and
Clems has never traveled before except he took a bus to France once, but he's in the UK
So fucking what do you take the channel right whatever it's like going to Toronto?
and
He was like oh, you know I heard from Britain's that if I would drink the tap water here
I could get horribly ill. Oh my god. So we had him drinking fucking
Bottled water out the whole time. He was here until we ran into Volta and Volta's like from South America
And he's like
What are you fucking stupid? That's ridiculous. That's that's what I fucking Canadian tap water. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, it's not like you're in fucking Tijuana Clems. You you privileged little bitch, baby
Parapraising here. Yeah. No, that's that's there are certainly countries where you do want to be concerned about
Monizuma's revenge and then so on
The the the parasites and things that your stomach has not developed immunity to you think there's a place that has that cat parasite
Just in the water. Uh toxoplasmosis. Absolutely. It's called South America. Cool. That's a place where it's pretty rampant
I'm just saying there's a couple other countries
I was hugging my cat yesterday, and I was like, man, I love this parasite. This parasite. Yeah, good for me
Yeah, I should help other people get the parasite anyone any countries where the
The dancing is pretty aggressive very aggressive dancing. You can assume toxoplasmosis has been here
Just think about that think about it that way look for the telltale signs
Carnival might as well just be a big fucking ad for toxoplasmosis. Oh my god. It's that's really what we're celebrating
the penetrata
That's this. It's a toxoplasmosis inspired dance is what it is
Yeah, no that thing is horrifying and you just try to not think about it
What is horrifying the yet? Like it's like no no no like looking up the Wikipedia article for toxoplasmosis
In terms of just like not real I like you're like, how are we not all talking about this all the time because it makes you
Just love your cat and your cat is pretty but it's just like the idea of a parasite
Infecting such a large swath of the human population and it's being sandbagged
Let let me let I guess it's kind of like HPP HPV gets I like to there are an
astonishing number of active toxins poisons parasites and other
Nair duels hanging out inside your guts right now. Yeah, you're good
But but but but but but but your gut biome needs a lot of that. Yeah, healthy purposes
Some of them have got to be foreign
Certainly, but yeah, you also build up immunity into it and the one that got me and I'm not I know that I think about it
I'm about to say it live on the radio essentially. I'm now like, oh, I hope this is true because it sounds crazy
But due to the nature of surface area, you have more bacteria and foreign gut biome cells
Mm-hmm on the inside of you then you have cells that make up you because every single surface is covered with them
Absolutely, so what you are just basically a big bacteria. You're being controlled. You're just be your playing host
Yeah, and not only that but like there's all kinds of crazy shit that there's the researching including like poop
Trans, but yeah, I'm damn it. I knew I thought you're gonna say something different and then I was gonna go
Yeah, and also poop transplant. Yeah, like the weird gross part
Yeah
Yeah, you put the gross part in the other person and then like they get healthier and it helps if it's your mom or dad
Because you get to introduce like all kinds of crazy shit that you didn't have a good gut flora. There you go
It's crazy. It's really really crazy how the body works in that way those weirdo sickies
We're onto something by accident and and you know the fact that like again when I look at
The whole toxo thing and you just kind of think about how that can be
Something that was in the background of human development for so long
It's probably the reason why cats are barely domesticated, but we still love them and keep them
Like dogs became highly domesticated and have different behavior for humans as opposed to dogs. Yeah cats don't yeah
But like dog oplasmosis is awesome dog. There's no dog oplasmosis. We're all up. We all love that
Oplasmosis is hey, hey, hey Fido
You want to kill that cow together and get to live and dog goes like yeah, that sounds like a cool deal
That's a good deal, but that doesn't explain the other thing where we look at a kitten or a puppy
And then it makes you think of a human baby
well
No, there is totally reasons for that and it's that there are mammalian traits that like are broad
Right and we and everything every all mammals like got these like big eyes is cute
Yeah, certain dimensions are cute and they got them cuz oh you want to take care of your own kids
Yeah, then it turns out they're like hopelessly broad right and apply to nearly all mammals and even some non-mammals like that
That's spider. That's cute. You know the one cute spider with the big eyes. Yeah, I know the one
Yeah, but but the thing is that when you when you um when you have these like you know kittens and puppies like they're triggering
Baby response. Oh hell. Yeah, they are but other animals are not and other young or not
Yeah, you know baby pigs are really cute big pigs are really cute. Yeah, baby pig wearing little boots, babe
the babes cute babes of this cute pig you get you know the
Orton I don't you know, that's a little cute pig called Randy Orton Orson rather Orson Orson's farm
You got Charlotte's web and I'll think about it this way, right?
Think of like the ugliest bulldog you've ever seen
Got it. Yeah, like all jolly. Yeah
That is from every aesthetic perspective a hideous monstrosity created by man, not nature
Sure, and yet when you see a little bulldog puppy
Because it's got big eyes. It's furry. It's got it's it's playing on all those inside, you know, like
Protection oh yeah needs and such and and and hey like you know like more power to him like again
Like I feel that the the the fact that dogs can are born
Recognizing human figures as different
The world as different but what I mean is that like there's been so they've been so domesticated for so long that like
Human recognition is part of the dogs. Well, I mean not not even that
I mean like you can go a step further. There's something that babies have called the triadic gays
Which sounds like a fucking like DBZ move, but what it is all it is is woolly mean you we're gonna look over at that
Camera, right? Okay. We're looking at the camera. Say I'm the baby
I see you looking at the camera
Therefore I look at the camera and then I look back at you forming a triangle. Yeah, right?
That is a form of understanding intent and recognition. Yeah dogs have that with people not just other dogs
Like you can point at an object and a dog can often intuit that pointing is look at this cats don't have that
Yeah, yeah, this cats are wild fucking animals still but dogs are like all the person is pointing and that's innate
Because they've been around us so long and they're good dog. Oh's and that's why Palico's can go fuck themselves
What is dude they are your pal?
And they are fine. They're fine. They're fine. You know, I just I just I thought I I love
The idea of like, you know, but you're like a hunting doggo buddy that you could put these little all these little costumes and things on
Oh, yeah, they'd be so much more effective and awesome well on a little hunting dog buddy
I have two things for that one. It's just a matter of the world. We don't have as opposed to the one we do
All right, it's not a problem with the present. It's a strong preference for the alternative. I have a complete
Answer to the why that is the case
In Japan with small living space. Oh, I know. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah are under wildly super understood and also
Worldwide super understood are more popular like every time you see a video of like hey man
That palico just saved your life imagine your dog doing that and yanking you out of the way
There's also there's also a design problem with that which is cat
Change the color of the cat make the cat a little furrier make the cat a cat cat looks like a fucking cat cat's cat
dog
What what dog what what dog? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? You want a new fee? You want a great day?
And here's you want a shitsu? No, I know like the
Crazy crack cat people are gonna be coming at you because they're gonna be like no tabby's are distinctly different from
Siamese
Siamese cats and fucking those weird hairless abominations those Egyptian things so on
Elmo's half Maine Coon which is it means he's really big as me. He's it Maine Coon
right, he's half Maine Coon and
That means he's really big and has fluffy paws like the fur comes out of the paw pads
All sorts of different cats. There's that awesome one that looks like it's part tiger
I think that was red, but cat shape is defined is cat shape and it is 10 to 20 pound, you know dog shape
runs wild
extremes from
Megalodon
Stegosaurus pit bull
To fucking
What's like a Benny or Benny small sure to you know
the ones that like got the fucking alcohol under on there, you know under
Number the next that save you look in the cold. Oh Bernice. Yeah. Yeah, and then all that, you know
So but think about how much fun that would that character creator would be
Well, I mean
Okay, so say in Monster Hunter everything everything development wise and if you continue to follow the series you will get to learn this
everything's
Likelihood of existing in that game depends if they don't have to make a unique skeleton for it. Oh
God damn it. It's a matter of ease. It's a matter of well. Well, you look you look at you
So there's an in-game taxonomy, right? There's the brute wyvern the bird wyvern, etc. Right those are defined by shared skeletons
and okay, if you share a skeleton that is
Infinity less work to make a different type of that monster. I've seen that footage of the of the mocap for the monsters
Yes, they all appear to share a human skeleton of a human being acting like a jackass
Rolling around on the floor. So there's that but like for example when people are talking about
Fucking DLC monsters that they want to see right? Yeah, so you fought in air gigante at some point at least in the demo
Sure, he has the same structure
he has a dive attack that shares animations with an old flagship monster called Goramagala and
He has that because he has this all the same moving parts and his wings have the same skeleton, etc
So you look at that and you go and then you go what monsters aren't in the game
Mm-hmm and are very unlikely to show up and the answer is the bugs
The bug monsters they've even talked about it in development diary
Say we are never bringing the bugs back
Because the bugs require a completely unique skeleton for every monster because they're live so many moving hearts
There's no way for sure. So they're like machines
So the amazing super cool monster that you is probably the only one you ever knew before you started playing
Which was the Queen Seltas? Yeah, not gonna never gonna come back or maybe like
Five years from now ten years, you know kind of thing one when they've run out of making
Think you think it'd be such a you know gangbusters money-making franchise that they could afford whatever the fuck they want
You would think but but part of the reason is that because they develop like I wouldn't say frugally
But smart so like that so with the with the thing like with the skeleton set that's in the game right now
Yeah, I could give you fucking 50 monsters that could come back and 49 of them are dragons. No, they're wyverns
Right
Yeah, there's a couple that are dragons sure the fatales is I believe
Have a final has share some of the stuff with the the final boss
Wyverns and t-rexes and variants there. Yes. Yeah, exactly just dude. All you got to do is you take your existing
Okay, there's yours your two types you take your existing monster your Barath, right?
You're you're you're weird accordion head rock monster. All right
What do we do we need a new monster
Make him green. He's green now. He's the Jade Barath. He hangs out in ice areas
and
Mm-hmm. He has a couple new behaviors and attacks bam new monster
So this is where something like Pokemon has an advantage where it doesn't actually do that much animation with each
Oh, yeah, no, I mean they could be sprites
Yeah, like Pokemon data like especially in the earlier games was limited to like
Weird fucking noise 30 to 50 unique little sprite things, you know, like it was a it was a minimal effort
So, yeah, there's that and you can make weirdos like Missing no and and and you did they never made Missing no
That was never no
Unknown I meant to say you can make weird things like unknowns and you could have them be in the same world as
Fucking the way lords. I would actually want to make clarification here because every time it comes up people like get super confused
This I think this might be a Montreal or Canadian pronunciation. I don't know but Missigno is
The missing number Pokemon missing number. I have seen people call it or pronounce that very differently. Really? Yeah
Well cuz think about it Missigno is just what people in our area just called it
I I vividly remember saying Missigno to somebody it just being met with the blankest fucking stare possible
No, I buy always it's not like Irmac where everybody knows how to Irmac
Hmm. No, I never encountered anything weird with that. Everyone just said yeah, Missing no
Yeah, so you you only got to see smart people then
Missigno was cool broken game though letters are there, but yes, you did but then you got infinite rare candies
So it's worth it
But anyway that that that that's oh, yeah, that was a long way to say that's why you're very unlikely they ever get dog
Certainly dog but then but then when you run down that list, right?
I'm like, but you know cats are not even silver on that on that like who I'd want as the buddy hunter
Because you go right after dogs you go straight to hunting birds. Oh, yeah hunting hawks. You want a bird falconers, man
Yeah, but Burmaha. Well, okay. Well, what it's gonna have to poppy. It's then mama, huh?
I and then we figure out the rest you're gonna have to it'll have to be an anthro bird
Why can't it just because you have to be able to put armor on it?
Yeah, but then you can put armor on a normal bird and then it could be like a peregrine falcon or something like that
And then you can make no that's not big enough to see
Because he's not big enough. It rides on your shoulder
No, and it's it's a cool unique thing
And you could do all this like awesome badass stuff with different types of birds and feathers feather colors
Well feathers is probably a big reason why they didn't do it in the past because like performance budget
I mean, you know, it's obvious that like anyone wants a pet shop on the hunt. It's cats. God damn it
Okay, you don't know how bad it used to be back in 3u when we had those two little fucking weirdos with the masks
Do I fuck you guys man instead of the cat I give bronze
Bronze I'd give it to what's his name? What's Piggy Piggo?
What's a little pig called in?
The pig and monster hunter world. Oh poogie poogie poogie poogie can come
Give it to fucking poogie poogies can't fight dude. I want poogie coming along poogies are too sweet
My poogie has been color coordinated. Did you get did you get a new outfit for the poogie?
I haven't I haven't gotten it yet. Okay, so it's somewhat complex. Okay. I thought it would just be progress
No, in order to get poogie outfits. You have to play with him all the time. You must pet him every day
Oh my god. No, you have to pet him after every hunt for like 10 hunts or 15 hunts
And then once you've done that poogie will love you and poogie will run up to you after you finish quests
Ah, so having to find him and then you pick poogie up and then when you move around the environment
Poogie will shake and freak out near certain parts of the hub and you put him down and he will get an item for you
And sometimes that item will be a outfit. You can dress him up like a little mountain climber or a sheep or
Give him a little hat. I'm already so much more invested in poogie
Then then then the fucker that you know anyway, would you ever get a pet pig?
That's not practical in real life
Not where we live, but they're cute now or where we live, but that becomes a problem in a couple years
But they're cute very quickly becomes a problem
But what if you got a small one if I had a farm to live on slash go visit then yes
But what if you got a tiny one? It would stop being tiny in a short matter of time
So they there are breeds of pig that only grow up to like dog size
But the problem is is that unlike dog breeding where there's all this
Documentation and history behind it pig pig stuff is like. Oh, yeah, it's a tiny one
Yeah, here's a tiny pig for you and you're like this is not a tiny pig. This is a regular pig
Big pig yeah, no, no, no, I mean it again, even if there are many pigs
It's like that's a that's a whole other world of like feeding and cleaning and what about a skunk
Could you disable it's all totally absolutely yeah all pet skunks are have have their primary abilities disabled
I've never heard of a pet skunk. So that's crazy. They're they're just weird-looking cats. They act just like cats
Wow, they don't like scratch out and go no
They're very docile and friendly no kid. Yeah, I didn't even know that was possible
but again
Their primary ability must be disabled or else you will have trouble. Yeah, I mean, I maybe I'd go
I think I'd lean towards like a guana. Oh, you're one of those. I think they're cool
Want us don't have the capacity for emotion. They cannot love you
There was a super rad girl that would walk around with her guana
Of course there was and I was like man at my school that girl's name was Christina
She's like she has a pedigree and I think it's awesome and I was super like hmm. You know what's interesting like you everybody
Like wary of horse girl extra wary of dolphin girl sure lizard girl. Hey, man. You're cool
Yeah, every time lizard girl has the best mixtapes you go hang out at her place
Absolutely, there's no question
What's up with that? Why is it horse girl weirdo dolphin girl weirdo?
Lizard girl cool cuz lizard girl girl cool. Yeah, cuz they're cuz they're going off the beaten path
They're going off the predictable and they're appreciating not probably because of a weird furry sex urge. No, exactly
They're just appreciating the awesomeness of something that gets otherwise underappreciated and I think that is worth recognizing
I think that's like commendable. I'm like, yeah, you're cool. I like that. Yeah, I'm a fan of that
With the lizard girl at my high school because she was cool
You can put them on your shoulder. They can walk next to you
Don't pet them that way or their body parts might fall off. That's well, you know be be smart
Obviously know what you're dealing with. Yeah, but yeah, man
That was totally a thing and there was there was a snake girl that used to walk around our mild neighborhood
To and that was pretty cool, but it was like, you know
It was like a big one
But it was obviously like like not venomous or anything like that
Like big fucking snake, yeah, you just and she just wrap it around and take it out for you know
A little walks and see that might be a creepy sex thing. Yeah
Snakes, you never know
Anyway, jump-jumps fine. Oh
Jump-jumps fucking dead man, you have to assume it's jump-jump. It's always jump-jump. Oh man. That's a long time ago
jump-jump
I don't like that man. This is really topical, but oh my god. I'm so happy that the weather's nicer today
Today's the first day that I was able to wear shoes. Yeah, sure like three months
Sure, I got to wear my jacket for real not the like not the big dumb fuck
Thug jacket, yeah
You know, I love winter and all but the one thing that I always forget that I appreciate about all the other months is the
ability to walk outside and not feel physically heavy because of
The shoes and the coats and the because I you know if you live out in Chicago or you live out in Nebraska or some shit
You know exactly what you're talking about, but all you stupid fucks living in California. You fucking sons of bitches with your son
You don't know what it's like to go outside and be heavy because you got to wear 35 pounds of fucking environmental gear
Yeah, and then then there's the theory that because there's no
Weather woes living out in such perfect areas that like all the smaller more minor things that you would ignore
Become bigger and you become more neurotic. Oh, no, right? Oh, it's like 84 degrees
Oh, it's raining. Oh God. Oh, I can't ride my bicycle to work
It's it's the theory that the people out in California
They they don't have to think about whether bad being a problem and thus like smaller
Insignificant issues become bigger deals and make you more anxious like dying of thirst
Yeah, or rolling fires that
Stopped hey, I'm floating away into the ocean because my entire state just broke off from the Union physically with a earthquake
I mean that hasn't happened yet, but they're all here's hoping they're waiting on it
Do you want? Hey, let's say one of the cows just breaks off
Do you want it to be nor cow or so cow? I would better be no yeah, you want to get rid of nor cow?
Yeah, let's get all those good players
Ocean they suck a third strike
Make your own island all right
That's a request from woolly if you're gonna send one of the Californians into the ocean
make it nor cow
but
The the I think the important thing to note is that if you do if you are that that cat person
You're not starting at minus points
You're just at zero and every other version of a pet gives you bonus points after that that's all it
Oh cat is cat is has cats the one that I thought you the least so I lived in the birds
And it's the first to pick at your body when you die listen listen they do that out of love
They don't give they want they want about you they want you to be with them forever
They don't give a fuck about all right. So you can't pretend you don't know that so I I was bothered by this
I did look it up and that is
Not the case like cats react and are a lot calmer and happier and less
They're just more independent with their with their owners in the room. They recognize their owners
They come to their owners. They cry without their owners. It's just way
More less pronounced than a dog a dog is a human child forever a cat can coexist and and
See part of the problem is that cats don't see humans as their owner slash master slash
God figure. Yeah. They see them as
Extremely large cats. Okay. Okay, therefore that you have to adjust that behavior appropriately
though they above the cats also do those sophisticated like things of
Like I want your attention, but I don't really want it look at layers
What does page say was pet me with your eyes? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly get the fuck out of here
But you know you want some of this like all those multi-layered things and you're just like that's just sass
Well, though the one that got me is that I was like, okay, why don't cats come what they're called and you did dive into it
It's like cats absolutely in most cases know their name. They absolutely know that you are trying to get their attention and
They don't care. They're soon. They have they will they will decide whether or not they want to go
It's fine, it's fine. It's just there's just there's there's deeper. I miss my cat
There's deeper brotherhoods to be formed. You know
There's deeper bond I woke up before I woke up with this morning this morning with Elmo
Like cradled in my arms like a child
Do not tell me that there will never know you'll never know what it is
To go like running in the morning with your dog next to you
Yeah, I'm doing the thing where you're like you're both
Okay, well then you know what I'm talking about exactly that and you do you're both doing you're both on the track
And you're doing it and you're like yeah, and it's not like you know that the cats it's like all right
Fuck you go off do your thing and come back. I'll be here or not. Yeah, you'll see me or you won't that's fine
Here's a fish. No, you're not what where am I? I'm behind the fridge. I'm on your head. I'm in the couch
Yeah, those are all fun things
Yeah, oh god, I had something to say but it's gone now. I
Mean wait when you miss Elmo now
I want to bring him to the podcast and pet him while I do the podcast
Oh, don't do that because he screams that is not a good idea. Don't do no also travel and
Just put him in a bag put a cat in a bag
Like a fucking grocery bag, yeah
But then also we don't want this turning into the fur haven
That is Matt's apartment. Yeah, that has just become pretty much
The fuck is it called
The Shrine of Amana yeah that Matt's house has become where I'm like god fuck
There is not a single on the ceiling
Yeah, the jokes you make about the grease and oil of my place are real when it comes to cat fur in Matt
Oh, I get I get people what the shit people ever like once a month or once every six weeks
Like professionals to come in because you hit that moment and the mo it's the moment of like oh, man
Hey, you can't deal with this there is so it was the other night when I was eating chicken
I was eating chicken wings and I went to pick up the chicken wing and there was just a ball
of fur on the wing
And I was like mm-hmm. Yeah, uh-huh. Yeah, yeah through the air. Yeah through just through just didn't
Yeah, come anywhere near the table. No, it was so this weekend to get into the week
I suppose don't like yeah, I'm good
I mean I almost fell down on my chair
I mean it'd be hilarious because you'd see your feet go flying backwards on the camera only I mean this thing
Yeah, I mean it goes a certain distance, but
Yeah, the
So and like like on the part well this weekend was Rocky's wedding and I went and attended that and big
Congratulations to yeah big married big big boy big big world well-earned good stuff and
You know, of course the the impressions like coming out
Like like all weekend super nervous, but it was good and the ride over there, you know, we we
Uh
Steph and I jumped in
Matt and Lannis car and like it was like oh Zach has been here too
Of course it has extended because I gotta take Zach to the vet because he's somewhat ill certainly and usually it's in the little contained
You know the little box, but somehow he has an attack
That only comes out in the final phase
Where the Zach fur just shoots out in all directions and then just cakes everything like snow as the owner of a similar
Fluff level cat. I think those act might be fluffier
It comes off them naturally and it is so light that it just floats that that's what it's a it's a
It's a persistent debuff on the area. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but the thing that like
You know is clear is like I feel like they don't see it anymore
And I that is real that is very I feel like they don't see it anymore
And I feel like like the give-up has just kicked into the max where it's like this is life now
Life is fur. We move on. I mean and I'm just like wow. I'm like
I'm trying to keep my shit. So let me let me explain something to you new suit walk
Okay, I'm wearing this. I'm wearing an all-black long-sleeve t-shirt. You certainly are
Wash it do the do the little wash, right? Yeah
Put it in the closet immediately take it out
Covered in fur of the closet. Yeah, which like that's closed
Which means that at some point during the folding or hanging up process. I I
Put it adjacent to a cat-based surface, but it can't just be his coverage
Zone it has to be airborne and just landing. Well the other the other thing it's too much
So you know you get the black shirt. What do you do you get you get your cat brush and you go?
And then then of course because you can't hit that spot on the back you have this weird cat back
Yes, yes, yes, but the I don't know you know, you know what it is
I know clothes right because you get all fancy up and then you go to the door and you can't go
Yeah, and you go
I love you so much. Oh
And you just squeeze them and then you put them down you're like well, and that's the that's it
That's the AOE right there, ma'am
unstoppable
And if you have allergies then you're you're could ripple fucked which I'm really happy
I got over I got the over them as well turns out living with a cat for a year plus
Solves it recently went to a friend's place and they have a short haired cat which is
Like just instead of the fur, they're spewing out dander like a Bulbasaur sure
And I was allergic enough that touching the cat with my hand would cause my fingers to tingle
Yeah, like that level of allergy and I was picking him up and and
Planted he was a fat fucking cat and just you know fat enough that you can grab the side of the cat and just go
Flub yeah, yeah, yeah totally and no sickness. I think I sneezed once
It was always just massive congestion and cat pills would help but like
At some yeah, just at some point it stopped and went away and your body gets used to it or realizes I
This behavior is not stopping the irritant. So I'm just gonna calm it down. Well, it's the toxo
It's the toxo kicking in no one. It's like you're still congestion, but you just don't detect it anymore
I don't even care anymore the spore is the spores have completely borrowed in and you're now like a intersect
Can we just get a last of us style spinoff, but instead of?
Cordyceps it's toxo and it's just it's just body snatchers
But with cats dude, what do you think lol cats was about one of the wanted friend then the end cats and all these little internet
Memes that would come in their waves over the years
You mean like Canada it was just different levels of toxo taken over
The penetration goes one layer further deeper into the human
You know what the problem about the toxo is now that I have the toxo
You know what? I don't think I ever got it because like I started to act like babying the cat like
Day one sure right like I don't think it my I'm just I'm just one of those people that goes googoo gaga for little for little baby animals
Because I'm a bitch like that, but
Now I'm like I want more I
Want more toxo. Yeah, I want to feel this more acutely. Well, you know how to get it, right? Yeah
I don't feel like cuz I mean the rats want to want it more than anything and the rats have figured out how to get it
You got to just dig in
No, I'm good. You got to hit that litter box
No, I'm good and you know don't let a good thing go to waste. No, I'm fine. Okay. Well, I guess you just don't love your cat enough then
Next time you say you love Elmo you need to think twice about are you like an anime porn?
Like how could you love your cat if you won't even eat his poop?
It's so fucked
God, all right. Well, anyway
So there are the yeah, so that was the those those are wedding and there was a nice big old celebration a good time
Good time was had by all
and
The other things I guess I did was a really cool escape room
I did yesterday. It was the final night for this particular room
So I have like no problems spoiling it entirely. Oh, no recommendations other cuz well, no, it was good
It was a good room. No, I mean, it's gone. Well, yeah, because they're bringing a new one. It's just a cycle
you know, so this was at escape paths on
San Juan Ross in Montreal and
they had a
80s themed room. So basically the plot here was
you and your friends collectively are Melissa and
You are basically you you know, you're pretty sure that Kevin likes you
Oh, wow, but and you want to ask him to prom. Oh, wow, and the problem is you don't have his number. Oh
Jessica has his number man and Jessica knows that you like Kevin
Jessica likes Kevin too. God damn it. She's keeping the number away from you. That is
She's going out to her part-time job. She's gonna be back in an hour
You snuck over to her place
Her parents let you in because you forgot something and you have one hour to rifle through her room and find Kevin's number
That is such an amazing
Legitimately and then you've got to call Kevin and ask him out to prom
So that was dude and this is of course mid-80s
So you walk into the room and you get your posters on the walls you get your goonies
You're you're back to the future, you know, you're all these different movie posters on the walls
You get your your celebrity like magazine
Prounouts and then your Nintendo set up and you know music videos and cassette players and such and you're just basically
Doing these puzzles and all these locked rooms and going through like girls room
Items with codes and locks through her diary. How do I open the diary? Where's the key to the diary, right?
So well, I mean and so there's some really fun stuff in there where like you found a
stack of cassettes and they were just labeled mix 1 through 10
Yeah, and then you basically had to so you play them and you'd hear the different 80 songs and they're all like, you know
A bunch of popular 80s sure
But then somewhere in the room
There's a magazine and on one of the pages is the top 10 pop list and top 10 90s hits list as well and
You could basically like match up the song you hear on the cassette number
With the ranking, of course, and then that gives you a code that you can then use that's really great, right?
We plus one point we pulled out like us a puzzle
We had to solve a spider-man puzzle on the floor and then the bottom one of one of the pieces
Gave you a hint to a thing. It was really really fun. They're super good really really nice like 80s theme thing
We fucking found the cartridge for Cobra Triangle had to pop it into the Nintendo
But only after you found the way to wire it up to the TV yet to find the wire and then like popping it in it
Loaded up Cobra Triangle, but it was like a hacked version of it where the eyes of the the dragon on the title screen would flash
Different colors that would then give you a sequence, right?
And I'm like fuck you. I know this
We pulled out and one of the best things was we pulled out a goddamn copy legit
magazine
Ordering catalog for consumers fucking distributing which if you remember is basically
The it was the the the storefront that we we've complained about it on the podcast before
But it was like I imagine a Costco, but you weren't allowed to go inside
There was just a counter with a person and you had to go tell them what you wanted
And they would spend the 20 minutes to go find it for you and bring it back to the front
It's all and if they didn't have it then you waste the 20 minutes with them going. Sorry
We don't have it. It was the absolute worst thing and it went out of business
Yeah, for sure
But if they just let you walk behind and go to the warehouse yourself
They would have been Costco today, and I remember them you could have stolen it man
I remember them lying to me about having reboot toys for months on end
So I have extra special
They're lying because they tell me they had it in and I'd go down there
Oh and tell them I had the reverse lying and it'd be like you just check the computer you answered me without checking the computer
No, no, we have them. Okay, and I went down and then no, sorry
Right and and if you and then you get that fucking like you know like am I talking to the same person?
I just spoke to on the phone because now you have to confront me with your bullshit lies
You know like it was I remember you're having like a near meltdown over that not because of the item
I was trying to buy Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare the first one
Yeah, it was the hottest thing at the time
Yeah, and for whatever reason it was delayed a couple days in Montreal
I knew it might have been a packaging thing with the French law, but I
Remember calling the guy and be like hey, man. Do you have Call of Duty 4?
He's yeah, totally. We got a bunch of copies like
Assuredly like I've seen them with my eyes
Go down to the EB games. No, man. We don't got no car. Oh, did you sell out? No, we just never got him
Yeah, and like
Remember having
Like that moment where I'm so like
Maybe I was unreasonably angry
But it's just like the the audacity and the not caring and I took me an hour to get there
Right because I lived I lived off the island at the time
and just
Like just you lied for no reason you gained nothing you gained nothing. So
What what was the store? It was the EB games downtown. Okay, so here's the it was the one
Okay, cuz the EB games downtown in particular not just that not the most profitable store in the country. Yeah
The that EB games many times
I've come to realize and multiple of my friends have come to realize because you know you'd pick your shit up there all the time
We've all known people over they had the policy that forced them to tell you that whatever you asked for you
Could never tell them no, we don't have it or like if it's something that's not out yet. You have to tell them
Yeah, try next Thursday
Basically and this over multiple thought times multiple things. They'd just be like, yeah
That should be coming in next Thursday as opposed to we don't have it and it's not in the computer
Or we don't know when if the shipment is coming in and it was just this
Did you discover this when you spent the 18 months trying to get KOF 11 KOF 11, right?
But then that I'm like and it's and like that was a ridiculous thing
But I'm like, maybe it's just KOF 11 and then it happened with other shit as well that we would and then like it
And then we would basically be like up down to the point when I was in QA and people would be heading down there
You know including including like a shmup god Pat and people that we know people that are the most
Well equipped to see through your lies and and it's just like we know everything about this
Just check the computer and tell me what it says. It's like, yeah
Not sure we should have had it already, but I guess it's not here. I think it's coming in next Thursday
Fucking horseshit, right and their policies to lie to you. So anyway, um, I wonder why digital distribution is terrible
I wonder why Amazon took over it's just crazy and best buy actually with their best buy a buyers club
Have you seen some of the deals they give out? It's like, but I see I see like cheap ass gamer and like why are you 64 go?
Hey, you want to buy this game for six dollars? Yeah, it's like yeah, okay
No, like with that anger and frustration you feel stomping out of the EB like fucking baseless is just behind you
Shosing your shoulders. So like that that spring in your ear
That situation with Call of Duty 4 did escalate because I had that anger where I could have actually stabbed someone
But that's clearly inappropriate. So I went down the list of like were you working here?
One hour and five minutes ago, right, right, right was anyone else working here? Yeah, yeah, yeah
Let me let me talk to that guy. Yeah, it was the other guy. They go. Hey, man
Why'd you tell like yeah, and I got I knew his voice. Yeah, why'd you tell me?
Oh because I thought but why did I wasted an hour of my life to come down here for nothing and
I ended up speaking to the eye
I was so mad that I ended up speaking to their boss because I was so pissed off and in hindsight
I now know that the boss got them in trouble for the thing that he told them to do
Yeah, and thus feel like an asshole
Yeah, because that management structure is poisonous to an insane degree, but hey man. Hey man foot traffic, right?
You got you in the store. Did you see anything else?
A person crazy enough to talk to your boss over a game not being in they know
Yeah, yeah, so just take your brick and your mortar and fucking lay it to the ground
Because how many times did you go to get a physical copy and they pulled one out of a sleeve?
They pull it out of the sleeve and they put it in the fucking case for you and hand it to you and you go like
What do you mean? What are you doing? Did you did you ever actually buy one? I did I did I did for a little while
Yeah, because it was the what are you gonna do? That's the only way to get your game
I did that for a little while and
Then I mean maybe four or five games and I may I would be a shit about it. Yeah, and then I
Would have a I would have a plan and the plan was go to the EB downtown
Which is the biggest one and the has less and if they do that I go
No, put that away
Where's my fucking sealed copy that they shipped you and I would still go through the entire process
Knowing that all I was doing was wasting their time and
Then I would go to the Best Buy one block away and buy a new copy that was actually sealed like you're buying a used thing from this fucking store
That's just running was it who was it that bought a fucking copy of Metroid fusion that we knew
Like the god was this a story that I heard but like buying fucking GBA games
Day after they came out and they were fucking completed save files on them Wow can't delete them Wow
No, I don't and I remember I knew I knew a guy at a EB and this is store-to-store. This is not a
Company-wide thing, but hey, you know those discs that are opened for sealed you can do anything you want with those
You can take those home. Yeah, if you work you can play if it's halo or some shit, and you have it two weeks early
I mean there's gonna be the display copy perks take it home. You're the EB guy perks. Why not? Yeah, no
It's it's infuriating when they had that policy in place
And God, what was it? Oh, you know what you know what my favorite one is and I remember hearing
I actually ironically despite being a Canadian thing. I heard about it first on the John bombcast, which was
People talking and they had sent a photo into the podcast saying what's up with this shit?
And they had a photo of re a used game for
49.99 next to
Game with a green sticker on it. It said recycled game
for 49.99 and if you go down to your EB games now
You'll see that all the games are recycled and they asked you if you would like a recycled game
Because recycled works better with the kids and the text test audience and oh as a term
It's not used up man as a term. It's recycled and also it's not loose people
It's not a game with mileage on it
Companies have tried desperately to get away from the word refurbished because everyone now knows that refurbish means it's broken
Yep
Yeah, and getting inside the little day handed to you inside the glass cake little plastic glass
Hey, would you like a refurb PS2? Why don't you just give me up a couple of bricks? Yeah
No that and then of course you you you you know you double down with the whole
Pre-order Amazon deals and whatnot and they they fucking you just yeah
You're basically signing your own death warrant with each one of these things and I remember one of the most egregious
Regis egregious a fun word dude. It's a reason one of the most fucking egregious was
Back over at the the the the Eidos and it was a day
I think it was Deus Ex where it came with the sleeve inside that gave you the
We talked about this on the podcast. This is a news story. Yes, it gave it came with a
Pamphlet inside the copy that the PC release. I think yeah, they gave you a free code for the game on
the whatever streaming service
Itals had partnered with and yeah, it was part of the Square Enix deal
And it was like this is what you're supposed to get with your copy of the game
But if you just buy it from eb eb says fuck you you're not undercutting
Open every copy and take it out physically remove the code the the sticker and and and the sheet from your cartridge from your
Case sealed it back up and sold you it without that see that's stole
part of the product from you and
acted like it was fine see that's the one of those fun ones while
technically
legal because a
Fucking merchant has the ability to sell products as a blah blah blah blah blah
Clearly asinine right like it's it's like the point of like like what like they
You don't play nice by by by you know like by basically
Pushing this digital thing that you know hurts us and is our direct competition. We hate digital and
We're now stepping over a huge line
That is because we've been opening up your cartridges anyway, right? Why not? We've been opening up your discs
So what's the trouble in just taking this little piece of paper out?
That is the kind of the thought and it's like fuck you the developer and publisher gave this to you
It it's really it's really goofy because you look at your look game
the game stop and it's at eb games, which are the same thing and
they
They're their big profit business models built on use games as many of those types of shops were built at micro play
95% of their money from use games
Or I think it was just 90 there were certain blockbusters that ran that kind of store even absolutely
and
That makes sense to cling to that because there isn't a huge margin on game sales, right?
and everyone in the neighborhood treats it like a library, but
the
This is the kind of thing
Jim Sterling talks about a lot, which is the the chase of the short term
Where they would always try and emphasize whatever they could like how you want your trade in bone and you want
You know every every possible underhanded tactic to continue to keep that use thing going
Yeah, that they have created an entire
Generate it is now a generation of game players now that have been dealing with this
Yeah, that will do anything to not buy a game at a retail store
That are desperate to not have to deal with
Buying a game experience because why should that be a thing? Yeah, why is that even a noteworthy occurrence?
I don't have stories about going to buy bread at the grocery store look
I mean fortunately this stupid like these stories are just going the way of the of
physical copies of things in general in the sense that like
We get to see the early days of them fighting back against digital and thrashing and crying one of which included buying a digital
Distribution service that no one uses right and impulse
You know and we get to see these these hilarious stories as eventually it just became more and more
Practical to just have digital available and be a primary choice. So
Fuck it. There's always gonna be a place for physical things
But like the the fact that they kind of are like they're they're able to just think they can get away with this type of behavior on a
Regular basis. I don't even know what it's like now because I literally I I recently went I have no idea
I recently so the only time I ever go to ED games has it even changed. It's changed significantly
Is when I want to buy a controller and I don't want to wait for it in the mail, right?
That's the only reason right so you go in and the first thing you notice is boy
Now that used games are not as viable anymore. There's a there's a near hot topic levels of
T-shirts and funk and lifestyle
Funko pops and yeah, yeah, yeah
Funko pops cover a whole wall where the GS games used to be. Yeah backpacks accessories
Little little goombas shit tons of gift card racks everywhere for iTunes and stuff like that
Headphones and a couple iPod that one not big, but they do sell like Mac
Like refurbished Macs and shit like that which is extra nuts or iPads. I think I pads
Yeah, and so I'm like, hey, can I get that gray one? Okay, I'll go get it and got it
And he says hey, do you want the warranty on this controller? I'm like, no, it's like you sure it's like dude
I am buying this one
This is the warranty. I'm buying this one because my old controller doesn't feel new
Yeah, why would I want a warranty that replaces this one with a used one and he goes, okay
Would you like to pre-order any games and I go dude? I have not bought a physical game in a store since New Vegas
And that that doesn't count like Wii U or Nintendo games for a while, but sure whatever and he goes
Oh
Yeah, like just like visibly like oh, this is the sound of I'm not that
I'm not sure if their circle of life stuff is still in place
But their numbers still have to exist and me purchasing that means that is a transaction that they had no added value onto
Which means I actually brought that guy's numbers down sure by purchasing something sure and the way and that
mentality
Yeah, is the most toxic fucking thing to the average consumer possible because it means you are
Incentivized to push away
Normal people won the circle of life thing. There's a guy on YouTube. I checked out
He I went to the deep hole of GameStop like testimonials a few weeks ago
He's forget his name
But he has a channel called clean price gaming and he did two videos of like I worked at GameStop for four years
Let me tell you some shit and just of the
Grimiest fucking things if you're in like tricking people that can't speak English
into buying edge cards and
Convincing kids that are too poor to buy a game to pre-order a different game that they don't want we you draw tablet bundle
Yeah
Just the yeah and
Situations in which your numbers are on the line your numbers are so bad and because it's a percentage like you know the sales
Whatever mm-hmm guy coming in for a new game to buy call of duty for he buys that game and just leaves
Your numbers went down. Yep to the point where you could get fired
You didn't put what possible incentive. Do you have you didn't push? Yeah, why didn't you push harder?
Well, okay, cuz there's only there's only so much blood you can get out of this rock
So so no cuz consumers like you and I are the nightmare and I want this and I want this and I want this goodbye and
Yeah, and I mean I mean like you so you went in and did that for me. I don't even do that
I like the last physical things I got that weren't just shipped to my house were things that I got at cons
Yeah, just walking by them going like I could use one of those. Yeah, and that's the end of the thought it has it
Oh, yeah, so
Okay, think about it this way right there's a there's a very specifically Canadian
Equivalent of this and it's bell Canada, right? Yeah. Yeah
Bell Canada
Their phone service for their internet and phone like their tech support
Was so bad for so long that it has created a universal culture of I have to call
Videotron I got a call bell. I got a call. Tell us I am
Expecting to fight someone. I am prepared to fight someone
There's no reason it should be like that
But they ruined it for everybody including companies that have good tech support
Like I never had a problem once with Videotron and they're just it's evil
Well, that's what happens when one company owns all the lines and any other company you work with has to call them
Like as a third party to figure out your problem and to defend and to get someone on it because they own the lines
Yeah, no, it's that and that's another particular Canadian. That is very
Very weird situation. Oh, yeah, no game stop has raised an entire generation of people to hate going to a store to buy a game
Yeah, abysmal which has
Killed we'll kill them and they they didn't get in early on the digital shit that steam and GOG and fuck it
Origins in a way healthier place than impulse and they only sell EA games and a couple other publishers
I
Anticipate the day that they die. I don't think it's gonna happen anytime soon because there's still a need
You think Amazon's gonna kill Best Buy before Amazon kills game stop
I think I think Best Buy is gonna hang on for quite a bit just there's I think I have so many like dude
Like when it comes down to average person who wants a television, that's the first and only thought
You know, that's like that's still where your brain goes to go go go check out that and you don't need that for video
Games, yeah, you really don't it's you know, like there's a there's a way smaller distance to fall for game spot to die
Now I'm gonna see best buy like stop brother
I'm gonna see Best Buy like take serious hits over the years
But I completely are you there has to be a physical place to go to buy a pair of headphones. That's it
They're there it that has to exist and and you know
EB is turning itself and morphing and changing and can chameleonizing itself to it solve the issue
It's gonna be a Spencer's gifts pretty soon, but that but like that's and you that's them thrashing against the wave
Can I get the dildos in the back? Yeah, like that's them trying and clawing or the little um the lava lamps when you see lava lamps
That's that's when you know, right
Mark the words when you walk into fucking EB games and you see lava lamps up front. That's when
That's when it's over
Call it time of death
That day that exact moment, you know people are gonna send us pictures of fucking lava. Oh, yeah local game stop
But that's what it is. That's the death now. Um, I can't wait for it, but either way
It was a great escape room. Oh
And it was really funny because the further you went into it like you eventually sort of unlocked this shrine to Kevin
Oh, and it's super creepy and you're like, oh this fucking shitty Jessica
Was not only holding the number back, but she's like a weird stalker girl that's obsessed
It's always the Jessica's. Yep, and then you eventually get the number and you call Kevin in our case
Unfortunately, the it was one of those cordlesses, but the battery charge was low
So we just have to kind of like pretend do the help button and go like hey
Called Kevin. Hey Kevin. Will you go out with us? And he's like guys like yes
I'm Kevin we can go to McDonald's if you want or like oh my god
So he totally did it. That's great
No, that was easily one of the funnest like
Themes for a room ever. It's really unique. There's no saving the world. There's no escaping
Not a science lab or a military base called a boy
It's just get the boys number, but it's still like in that context
Yeah, get that urgency of like oh
Man oh edit and when we got the number to I'm looking at it
It's a fucking 514 number, and I'm just like what like I'm like which employees phone number is this?
You know like who's gonna answer off their thing that I agreed to sacrifice their phone numbers
Yes, I am Kevin I will go out with you
We are like Kevin continue comes up
Look at it. She's it. I did music
The other one okay, I'm not Kevin. There's something to do here
Fuck yeah Kevin. Oh, I'm calling up every TV
Anyway, it was a really great escape room. That was fun
And I also finished off Black Mirror season four. Oh, yeah, and
You know I think I think Matt was a little harsh on it
Yeah, I can see what he was talking about in the sense that like the
Can starts to be just to become a little bit like played
You know you start to be able to go like I I see what you're doing here. There's still one incredible episode in it
That
There's a really really good episode. I forget the title of it, but basically it involves dating
So it's the dating episode and it was like
Just it's a traditional
Excellent writing. Holy shit, right swerves that you expect and then swerves you don't and fun things
Coming in and just fun thought with the technology hang the DJ. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's it hang the DJ was really really good
Is does it your mom run on batteries?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, but the but the thing with it though in particular with this season
I'd say hang the DJ was the best episode of the season and and and then there's a finale and the finale is
Where you definitely can be left with that feeling of like
It it's a fine episode and it's a fine like there's definitely a lot of interesting concepts
But it basically plays like you know how I talked about the John Hamm episode in the previous
So it was like remember it was like there's an overall story that has like synanthology episode
where there's like three mini stories inside of it and you connect them to like build a larger one and
This fun and yeah, this this one episode in particular is
Really like it's not written from the point of view of someone who's trying to explore
Technology in a in a weird and dark way, which is what the series is supposed to be. Yeah, it's written from an
An angle though the it's written in an angle where the person is looking back at previous episodes and going
How do we one up that shit? That's weird
And it sucks that you can feel the sausage be made because you're trying to clearly take moments that were like
Like halfway through this shock
Would have been the finale of a previous episode where you go, holy fuck
That's crazy and you talk about it for an hour
Yeah, and you go here. You just throw those out like casually because you're trying to really one up the one
Oh, you gotta build it man
You know and then and then the black mirror to the black mirror like you're really trying to like just compete against previous episodes
As opposed to tell your own story and like that bummed me out a bit because it was trying a little bit real existential crisis right there
See it worked you got bummed out. Yeah, I guess sure
In an indirect way why not dude don't you get
But like yeah, it definitely it was
It was it was a black museum is the name of that episode and it just kind of like
Even that name is a little on the nose tries to it tries a little bit too hard
You start you it doesn't jump a shark, but like you know what I mean?
Look at this out
There's a fin yeah fin sticks out and you kind of just like and falls he's out there putting his helmet on
The fin yeah, you know it grind you grind the fin a little bit. I like that. Can we use that? Yeah?
Yeah, that's a good thing. You just invented. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's what happens
You know um so like you know when you kind of look at it and you go alright
Hey, maybe they'll come back for season five. I go. You know what? Hey take your time. Take it. Don't worry about it
Well, it's England. We don't need it next year. We don't need it for a while. Take your time
write five six episodes of something that are self-contained and interesting that don't need to
One-up everything you've done before. Yeah, and then we'll be good, you know, but you don't want a series like that
Overstaying it's welcome because fuck it's so good
You know and the thoughts it leaves you with are so interesting that you just like it would be such a
Disappointment to watch it go downhill like trying to eat its own ass like an Urboros, you know
I'll be real I can barely pay attention to know what you're saying because I can't stop thinking about how good the name crying
The fin is sure like I sure like all right because I like that is a thing we have had difficulty
Yeah, like quantifying in so long add that it's so perfect
Add that to the lexicon. It's it is it is the it is the lexicon equivalent of jumping the shark of it's not the end
But I could see it. It's not the end of the world, but I could see it from here. Yeah
You did oh, yeah, oh you're smart at that
So
That's the place that it left off at and I still I still think it's one of the greatest series
Like well, I mean, I only watched the first two episodes
I would already put it in one of the greatest series just for that second episode by itself
That was a completely there you go. Yeah standalone thing. I've never felt more destroyed in my soul
It also I realized something that the entire franchise
It scratches an itch that we've talked about for years now and it's that it will to quote that exact same line
You just said it's you know how we like seeing the process. Yeah, I don't like the zombie apocalypse
I like day one of the zombie apocalypse exactly, right?
It's not the technological post apocryphal nightmare
It's so easy to fast-forward infinite years and and just create the new setting right be like blam and and oh
We're in a Dyson sphere and back on back in the world in the days of Mad Max
That was brand new and it's super awesome and interesting
Yeah, right, but now we've done that and I've done it so many times that it's the thought of how it happened is more interesting
I want to see the part where people are starting to realize oh
We may have horribly damaged our society beyond repair with this thing thus
You know like and when when you kind of find things out me's on send like again
That had a time too when it was like you were finding that out for the first time now
We've done it all and it can and it continues to be why children of men is one of my favorite movies of all time if not the
Yeah, it's it's not the end of the world, but the end of the world is literally 50 years away
Yeah, I don't think anything's changed since then I still think no my favorite movie of all time is still children
It's you know
It's just far away that it's probably not even going to affect you in your lifetime
But you can see what it's doing so black mirror
More often than not set a time frame like that. Yeah, where you're like you're in a modern day that we
Recognize it's not that far the the outdoors look the same
It's it's not even as far away from us as say human revolution was yeah
Yeah, yeah, no no the outdoors look the same and you're getting into cars and driving from one house to another doing the same things
Watch the TV, but the thing you're holding in your pocket slash the way you're navigating that car is ruining your life
It's very exactly. That's where the changes, you know, and I really do appreciate the near future
Like that that's a fun thing to explore and we've seen so many interesting versions of it with black mirror
And I think that's also why I'm so drawn towards it
Fucking incredible. So yeah, that's where that is
and yeah, I
guess
What else there is I spent time with Blanca. Yeah, how's Blanca? Blanca's um, I'm sorry. I can't talk to you. Blanca's
Yeah, exactly
Smack hand away Vegeta says no gohan dude. So I should mention don't talk to Blanca players
That's a funny joke. I like the joke because it is funny
But the amount of those especially after videos coming out of Blanca like clowning on people
So very accurately clowning like just stomping all over and people just getting like it
Go it went from jokey salty of like I don't like this character to real salty
Cuz I'm getting my ass kicked by this character and he has animations at the end of his moves that troll you
So they've given him little unique animations after every single move
Oh, they know where they do a little like and they kind of like make a troll animation
And when you lose with a command grab, he sticks his hands up like what sorry
Have you seen those videos of those just complete asinine mirror matches? Yeah, sure have seen them
I've been in them through the worst things I've ever it's goofy shit
It is the active form of Honda's sitting in the corner. It's it's hilarious
Well, the thing with the blood and the thing with blanket now too is that he's actually more honest than he's been
Yeah, he's been toned down and he's become more fair and
It might not be apparent like at the basic
Eyeballing the screen level because he's still rolling around and hopping like an idiot
But like a lot of those balls used to have a giant hitbox on all corners
Yeah, now it's only in the front. Yeah, so you don't have to worry about the left right
You don't have to worry about it's huge bizarre goofy hitboxes
When they cross us up or hey, I should be safe to hit him with this move
But I'm not they took away a whole bunch of that stuff and in exchange. They gave him
The the the rainbow roll like the roll where he goes in an arc shape
Yeah, and he lands. He doesn't bounce off of you anymore. He stays on top of you and keeps pressing. Oh, that's super good
They gave him that but you can still like hit it out of the air, right?
So if you're if you see him coming at you from the air, you're just sure you can you know
And they gave him the command grab which
Changes him. Yes, it does. But again, both of those things are like if you're sleeping, they will catch you
Yeah, don't get caught sleeping, right?
So they've made him a more fair character
But people that are sleeping get blown up and that's where you see these videos equal to Laura
Any one of the any of the any of those videos where you're seeing like crazy shit happening a lot of the time
It's like shit. Oh, you know a pen sense. Press a button
You'll you'll win but you're freaked out in any of these moments of oh my god
What's he press a button? You know like that's let's it's it's crazy
Where usually the answer is don't press a button. Yeah, you know blank is a little bit of the opposite
But he's um, but he's fun and he's and he's good. I think he's a good character. I think you'll do
Reasonably well, so you're gonna win evo this year. Yeah guaranteed good sure for sure. I'm glad I've been
People I'm glad you know, I it's something that kind of turns up every year
And I don't know if we have a really fully discussed it, but you don't know the gulf of
power
You know what I mean between the top and
Like and the entry level and like make and pools even like you don't understand the gulf
If you don't understand the first step, right? Oh, man, you don't know what you're looking at
So you just you it's not like it's so hard to describe
the I
Love I love love love that you described it as a gulf in power
Not in skill, but in power
It's it's like it's imagine if you're a flat lander with no depth perception and you're like, yeah
That's just a little it's a little like jump. It's a cliffside, you know, and you just have to take a step over that space
What's the problem? Here's what it is, right?
You're you're Gohan and Raditz shows up and you're like, oh
That dude's so strong my god. That's the top guy in your local scene. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you don't know
You can't even conceive of how strong fucking Frieza. That's exactly exactly, right?
So, you know, like all those questions that get thrown around there like yeah, Raditz you have a chance at virus
Like you you don't understand you actually don't understand, you know, like it's a it's a
Ridiculous conversation to have I have this the
smallest taste in which I did go to a few of the meetups way back at the beginning SF for and I play it against Henry and
He was very quiet and very nice
but
Right like just yeah, just a whole different world and then
Like all we got he did he did very well and and like the Montreal attorney and then he goes to Evo and he gets like top 16
I think it was no you never got top 16. Okay. Well, you like exactly like the person whose power
I cannot comprehend. Yeah, is in that position. Yeah with other people struggling to I can't even
See them from where I'm at
That's I can't even come I can't even think and that's the so that's the thing where I'm just like
I'm competent enough to know how incompetent I am. Yeah, you're like
Socrates I have enough skill to recognize how much further that the goal the power gap is so I
Should mention fighting game skill or other competitive game skill. It's not a bell curve in terms of progression
It's an exponential graph. Oh, yeah
And as you get further down the line the graph eventually just suits straight up over time with no difference
Yeah, it were it might as well be a wall and then you just and that's what top 16 is top 16 is the numbered vertical line of that curve
And it's like you can climb this wall. It's not impossible people have done it
But you you don't but like the people that do that at that point are the one or like the dedication
It takes to have like even if you're already skilled to be able to make it and like even close to that, right?
You're talking about
Knowing and playing the game like a full-time job
Yes, and knowing it inside out to the point where every move you've got the number talking about those
Those Korean guys who fucking live at the PC bong
Out in South Korea because they got to get good for the team man because fucking league tournaments coming up to try and to try
And break it down even slightly. It's like sports
Any time an action happens on the screen, which is a character that you're fighting presses a button and you and you block it
Like you're talking about knowing
What every other button or action in the game can do in response to that?
So so you know the exchange and you know whether it'll hit not hit
What be blocked and leave you at an advantage or completely not with entirely let me ask you there was a video series a guy put out it was a
Punch by punch analysis, I believe it was Ken versus evil Ryu match
You're probably talking about core a gaming analysis. No, I've watched all of core a gaming's videos
This this was like 20 minutes long. You recommend it was like oh, it was one of the tweets
I put out of like
Explaining the footsies that was explaining every single punch. Yes. Yes every button for an entire set the thought process that went into every button
Yes, you remember who made I don't remember who made it. No if anybody remembers who made that please send it out
It's a tweet. It's an amazing video. Yeah, in that I did not know half of the shit
Yeah, I know it expand like I like this is I saw it and I went this is fantastic
But is because it explains what I know in my head
But don't say and it's happening millisecond to millisecond for this and it explains it for the layperson to really get what each
Movement means. I'm sure somebody is gonna remember this. Please send that to us on Twitter. Yeah, we'll re-broadcast
It's buried somewhere in my old tweets for sure, but that's exactly that's a really good video
Yeah, and I was I remember being disappointed because I checked back on that guy's channel and he didn't make more of them
I imagined because it's an exhaustive and incredibly long
Process to make those yeah, but I would love to see that of big matches for sure
I'd love to see it. Well, I'd love to see a DVZ version of that
But that would take like an hour for a single round. Yeah, and I mean like God
I mean that'd be fun to make but like you also have to definitely be at that level, right? You have to be able to understand that, too
I
And I guess like what was I fuck was I gonna say I was gonna say
Yeah, so the idea of like, you know, someone that you recognize like, you know myself or max going to compete or
playing these things and whatnot like
You have to sort of realize that if you're seeing me and
I'm not like if you're seeing me at all here talking to you
That means I'm not practicing and that means you're not there. Hey, guess what?
Well, he hasn't hit higher egg and monster higher yet currently, right? Yeah, okay. That means that his block is shit
Like that like like that is a one-to-one
It's you know, and so it's like it's like so the question of like, you know
Like competing and doing all these things when you're someone that people kind of are like oh like hey like I know you really like this
Like are you good? And it's like yeah, I'm gonna try I'm gonna play because I like the game and you you set your goals differently
You so that I would like to not drown in pools
Yeah, yeah, but but to really understand the scope you have to understand that like if I ever were to actually be doing this for real and
Trying for real seriously again to like do my best at tournaments to the maximum that means you don't see me anymore
I'm gone. Yeah, because I'm practicing because that's what it takes goodbye get there
So it's a self like it's like it's evident. You will know when that's happening because
Later, it's all gonna be Matt and Pat LPs for the next two months until July
And it's just like an anything shy of that kind of effort is just not good enough
Unless you're a prodigy, which you really play other games. You're not really, you know, yeah
So they're fighting games maybe but even then by the way, I have suddenly
Spontaneously remembered with no help from the outside world. That is a guy named Jay Rigo
Okay
with a channel of
Man, this guy has almost nobody watching. He's got 4k subs and 39 videos
I'm not sure if he's updated in quite some time, but it is J. A. Y. R. E. G. Oh, yes
And it is the Analyze this video series. Okay. Yes done fest games. I'm going to retweet
I'm going to retweet it right now that my old tweet from 2015. It was from fucking. Yeah, that's gone
A long time ago
So those of you who have no who have no interest in fighting games continue to ignore this part
But for those of you who are in that weird period of like fighting games look cool, huh?
This kind of it explains it a little bit more of like why more than a little bit
Explains it a lot of it. Yeah, but it but it gives it definitely gives you a glimpse into what your brain is doing and
I'm really yeah, I fucking love that video man because like most people walk away from it going. Oh my god
And I'm just see that I'm gonna watch as soon as I leave. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm just like yeah
That's what it is. And isn't it? It's like it's insane, but it's like fuck. That's why we love it, you know
Analyze this Bobochi versus Daigo
And I believe he goes through multiple of the games in that set
It's very good. That is a very good video series
Yeah, but I that's that's about it, you know, I mean I'm continuing to to try and get my blanket to not shit
Status and I'm also drunk as shit
And I'm also like I'm getting so I'm getting a little salt with it with with the dragon ball
Cuz cuz honeymoon the honeymoon's over right moon is over honey moon's over and so what we got to see now
I actually like the game more now that the honey moon's over sure
But that's because of me that's because I've changed so what's funny is watching how the the wave 2
is like kind of coming about now and
I'm somebody who as you know
Like I tend to just be like I like these characters because I like them and then I'm gonna play him hell or high water
We see what happens right and
I
Really like you get in and sell so you get the frustration you get the frustration sometimes of like you know all like they're not gonna be
They're not that great or there's other things so in this case
I'm like everyone's using Goku black and everyone's using Vegeta pick your character and then pick those two
There's your team right and it was just like very good exactly and then you just got like you're just like I'm so like oh my god
Fine, this is the army that we're dealing with okay, so be it right brainless. Let's go dude
I tried right. I tried like a dozen different combinations of my team
Nothing works as well as Vegeta on on on assist and and he's so far and away the best assist in the game
It's not even close. Well, it's crazy because it's like he is and that breeds a level of dependency. Oh, totally that breeds
non
Preparedness to deal with not having Vegeta sure and totally so you have a crutch you're leaning on and it gets swept from under your feet
And then you have nothing well the other problem that I have is that I really like
Ssj's Vegeta and like he's not the best character, but I feel very comfortable with him as like my anchor even wow
That's okay. I mean he's he's he's he's lacking
But anyway the point being that like so suddenly so now the new wave is people moving over to the 16 train
And I'm like oh now you're showing up now you're fucking coming
We finally get a guy and fighting game where the grappler is the top tier a plus everybody is yeah
Now now you want a piece of this shit, huh? Like day one wasn't good enough for you always the wrong
He's the wrong genre. Okay, right wrong type of character for this game, huh?
Uh-huh, and now the fucking 16 trains rolling. I'm like god damn it fine fine
And now I look like not a day minus 32 60 you know this is yeah, remember you remember when that that
Oh, this is gonna be a poll do you remember when that?
Boy band musician came to Doug's town with his new style
That was just the clothes the Doug wears every day sure and everyone was like Doug why you fucking rip copy it
You're so lame absolutely. He's like I wear this every day. It's like oh shut up Doug
Yeah, you're so uncool and then when the guy left. Oh my god Doug can't believe you're still wearing that old style
Yeah, yeah, it's like this is my clothes. I just want to go listen to the beats
Yeah, yeah, it's that it's it's it's Android 16 hipsterism and it's
Fidest because when because when you when that comes out of the meta or the popular whatever and you're still playing that team
The guy in his mind when he goes to fight you say oh this guy one of those
Still stuck on that old shit. Yeah, it's like wow. It's always it's always funny. It's always funny to see that
So, you know, but whatever God bless God bless, you know like some people move with the tides
I like planting planting my rock and sinking with it or that's correct or it becomes a tower
I don't know and that's why Sanford Kelly's advice will always always remain
Just pick a top tier
Why you got to be different? Why you got to be special? Just pick a top tier. Just do it. What are you doing?
Yeah, do it. Just do it. Just put picks a guy
Just picks a got pick a top. Just pick a top tier. Why are you making it hard for yourself?
That will live in into me forever
Yeah, and you know what like that voice echoes every time you lose with the character you love. Yeah, no
You feel like I probably could have won that well, there's I well, what happens is there's moments. There's moments where people will
You'll you'll you'll have the most part in a game where you'll just pick out like like the bandwagon character at some point and then just go
Oh my god, this is so easy. I barely you don't have to work for anything. It's all free. It's like no wonder
Yeah, exactly. I can hit confirm this off a job
You know, so so and and that's how I felt picking up Goku black where I picked I picked him up late
I was one of the last characters. I started bright. I'm like oh
Oh, he oh, I could just do anything that I want anywhere
And I'm gonna get it real hilarious with this fucking game in particular because the characters that I'm like day one
Love that guy got to do it which are hit
16 and sell which are are everyone like it's like. Oh, you've just you pick the top three
You picked one two three
You picked you picked one two four in the meta with the gena being number three
God it's camis a gat Blanca all over it's yeah, no you you have a gift
It is what this is this is CVS to all over your time. I
The characters I like are in that. Well, you have defined the meta. Oh my god. Oh my god. It's hilarious. I can't believe it
Anyway, how about you? Oh, let's see. I hung out with Clems got to hang out with Volta as well
That was a weird little United Nations party with me paged the fucking Clems and
Volta very nice people Clems is a little baby
I got to play some DBZ with him
And I got to get the moment that I've not had in years and years and years of playing a fighting game with somebody who is
Actually starting at what is essentially zero? Hmm, right like
Actually zero hasn't done Street Fighter only
easy
Clems is British
What fighting games do you think he has actually played?
Okay, so we can probably assume that
He played himself a good wee bit of perhaps a virtual fighter. No
really no
Is a is England big on virtual fighter and another I mean Sega, you know, yes
No, the answer is soul caliber. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a that's a France thing, but yeah, but they're right there
Yeah, yeah, fine. That's fine. But soul caliber too is a long time ago. Okay, and yeah, and just I got to appreciate
DBZ fighters from a new lens which we already saw but I got to appreciate it more which is
There is an obvious path for brand new players here. There is actually
There's the the auto combo thing and the ease of input thing. Yeah, like there's a ramp
There's actually a ramp. Yeah, Street Fighter 5 still they they've tried. There's still it's still steps
It's still a staircase. Well, you're still standing there going
I have a lot of things I can do right now, but I don't know what to do
Whereas DBZ has fly at the guy fly at the guy and then when that stops working
Don't fly at the guy. Yeah
What a great game. Also, I was
Finished Darth Moringi's dark place one of the funniest things I've ever had the pleasure of ceiling the ceiling ceiling
See and I left that going
God, I need more. I need more
What do I need more of I need more awkward painful British comedy and
So what with many of the actors in Garth Moringi's dark place dwarf actors on it crowd IT crowd
I decided to actually watch IT crowd, which I had never done before
Okay, the only thing I had ever done with the IT crowd is
Seeing a snippet from the theater episode in which Roy gets caught using the handicap bathroom
Have you seen this? No, it might be the funniest
Piece of time. It's like always sunny, but British. This is not on the level of
curb
With that it is okay because it is Larry coming out of the stall
No, it's it. No, it is Roy is trying to flush the toilet and discovers that he has instead been
Yanking on the emergency button for the disabled. Oh
Only to turn and see people trying to break down the door because someone's had an accident
We need to get in there and save them for him to drop to the floor
Awkward pretending to have his legs not work
What happened and just this Irish fuck just going
I'm disabled and and an entire episode of hijinks. Okay, what kind of disabled?
leg disabled yeah, yeah, and and so that show is great cringe and
I forget the actor's name. He plays the producer on
Garth Moringes dark place and he's a moss
Guy with the huge hair. Yeah big glasses
Frickers that he is the best the black guy. Yes, the black guy
I was I was trying to not say fucking Christ the black can we do can we not live in this world?
Can we just live in a world where it's easy and we just say no
Well, I didn't I didn't want to bring race into it, but I guess we have to now
Yes, it's not the most obvious signifier. Let's just fucking dance around it. Yeah, he's he's the best
He's absolutely the best. He is I I look at him and I see
Everything wrong with the Big Bang Theory
Sure, I see sure I I had this realization was like why is this British comedy that?
Ostensibly has almost an identical premise even to the of the normal person in the office being the chick
right
Why is this so funny and I like these characters like I could see that like moss is a little ridiculous
But right and then you look at Big Bang Theory. He's like, oh
This is uncomfortable and gross and so I remember watching part of the first episode and then like I remember why but for some reason
I didn't finish. Oh Dean learners not moss my bad. I got two black guys confused. That's bad
Oh, dear. Well, baby. That's why you chose not to signify that. See yeah, see, you know, you were whoops very
Whoops, that's what you get. That's what you get for trying
That's what I get for trying
Fucking whoops, you know what happens when you fail
Means you shouldn't have tried shouldn't have tried shouldn't have tried. That's what you get
I saw this is Clemsis fault. Yeah, because he said oh, there's people from the IT crowd on this and I made that
Connection before Rick Sanchez was in the show. That's Clemsis fault
I I've seen that gif of him typing on the computer and he looks over at a fire and then he continues typing on the computer
That's like episode two. Okay. It's super early. Yeah, well, you know what?
You know what he's typing? Well, he's typing the email to the fire department. Okay. Got it. Yeah, right. So that I've seen
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Played like 25 hours of pillars
Not much to say other than that's a good game and RPGs should let you stomp all over the game if you get super strong
RPGs that force scaling are bad. It makes me sad or
Kotor is locked planet
Kotor locks it. It's like when you arrive basically
But what I mean is like I did all the expansions before the second half of the game
So I'm level cap right so going into areas you got huge that had a level cap lower than what I'm currently at
Yeah, and it's just like oh man
Well again, I think I've referred to it a couple times but earthbounds like you run into the enemy on the map and just blow it
Open as you walk over it. It's great. It's amazing
very satisfying
All right
so
Couple of things is in the news
I suppose we can start out on
the announcement that
P3d and P5d are
Going to include
VR support
Now these games are already visually like incredible because the persona like
UI team is the best in the business. Well, that's when they're making props for a dancing game. Oh boy. I
Mean, it's still very pretty. It's not usable functional
Rhythm game purpose or rather rhythm games have solved this problem. Yes, that's more. I think that's about better way to put it
And here there's gonna be VR compatibility
So you can get way up close with all these awesome costumes extremely close because hey
Your husband does and wife who's dressed as they are
As we've seen you skates hot new
Hot new jacket and they all look great. They look incredible
They're not like you're pointing out you skate and yet like that's a good thing to do but also like everybody
Yeah, everybody the only one is futaba isn't her regular costume
Because her regular outfit completely fits the tone of everything else. Yeah, the only thing is she has shredded nylons and that's it
So, yeah, there's VR support or they're cementing her place as the best of the wife who's no changes needed
All others needed to be improved for dancing game. I'll take that. That's fine
We can call that persona giving up all night. Yeah, that's correct coming straight soon and May 24th
Yeah, no, that's though. I I'm glad that's gonna happen because I mean while I didn't make it through to the end of p4d
Because I don't know who did no one did Leamton Leam did I suppose I
I'm definitely I'm definitely gonna be picking this up and I'm yeah, I'll grab a VR version. Hey, listen. I
Have an idea. I have an idea if you work in a big office people people out there
We're gonna make office have employees to play video games
You can chart how well you like your coworkers based on what days they they take off
Take off the day of Madden. All right, that guy's pretty normal take off the day of Skyrim. Okay, that guy's pretty cool
Take the day off on May 24th 2018
That guy's really cool. I
Think you can yeah. Yeah, sure
Look at the look at the calendar. It's like all right look around the office and be unless guess what who's not here
You're at the office. Oh, yeah, that means you're not cool. Yeah
So
No, I'm just playing at my desk. No, they can't see it. Yeah
Yeah
Makoto looks fucking great
She looks great. She has also had her design like very little has changed because her look fits that just fine
She's got like the little like leather studs and shit though. Yeah dig it gloves dig it. Oh
So there give me my underage waifu dancing game now. Hey, man. The main the protag is not underage
That's what's important. That's fine. The self-insert is not. No, you're in high school, too
Yeah, man, I'm in high school
Necessary necessary framing. There's a really funny
It's it's the moment where all I did was repeat what you said
But for some reason that just that little perspective shift just made that so nefarious. Yeah. Oh, man
Well, anyway, this was a story that was meant for
you know
Discussion that I guess we're not really gonna have
But to rock one and two being remastered for X-Bone launch March 2nd
I audibly groaned when somebody sent me this
Just like they're trying. I believe I believe I was even on stream and
Somebody put that in chat. I went
Ah
There's no way we're getting out of playing these there's no way night dive is trying man
They're they're doing their work. Did Matt make this happen?
Well night dive brought it back to begin with, you know
The the existing version and then like every port since has just been them taking their work and continuing to
Force it down everyone's throat. All right, so it says on the thing up there that they're already currently available for the PC
Exactly. So maybe we can just well. We did take it. We did take a look already. Oh, we did. I took a look fuck
Yeah, I'm glad that was you. Yeah, it was it was a thing
Fuck
Talks
Hey, man, you shoot dinosaurs. There's something to be appreciated there
I would rather hit a dinosaur with a sword look every once in a while
You just got appeased Matt let him have his way and then it'll be fine
You know he gets let him let him have his wins where he takes them. Look at that. That's like a monster hunter
You know what you need? You just just
You just our t-rex with a metal head
You know what you do you just get the box a monster hunter and you just like cut out a picture of Godzilla's head and just slap it
On Rathalos and I here's the new Godzilla. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. See if that works guaranteed
You know what I didn't realize is that the new Xbox one consoles acronym?
Have you seen it written out? I have not it's X one X. That's good, right? Yeah, six. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that actually makes sense
I
Appreciate one you don't have a shitty acronym for your like the X bonks
Yeah, or the boner X
bone X
Final fantasy 15
continues to fucking
stop
Like the presses. This is the most ridiculous. It's a final fantasy 15
Refuses to stop going in so this it swears before all
Friends and foes and family that it will never stop going in this is the weirdest thing
I've ever seen because a game comes out and you're like this game needed more time in the oven that happens relatively often
Yes, and then often times and then not yeah, and oftentimes then they'll go like hey
We're gonna put it back in the oven so to speak and give you a little little sprinkle some salt on you know
Whatever and you come out. You're like, okay. This is
This is so they put it back in the oven with the goddamn
fucking quality of life updates and then they did the three DLC episodes and then they're like
Nah a whole other year of this shit now
Here's the thing is again
I always am forced to think about the part where this game was so expensive that they're making back all their money over the course of
10 years they already made back all their money, okay, so then dude
It's sold like crazy, but like do you think this was still in the roadmap in case it didn't they have talked about how this was not in
The roadmap
Okay, they have literally they so they were like the road. This is what the roadmap was get the game out
Put some quality of life stuff out
Do some DLC episodes right that was that was it and
Then they're getting to the end of episode Ignis and they they ended up putting out way more quality of life things
And then the PC release which had been a maybe at release became a reality and that's coming out in March
Yeah, and then alongside that they're like
No, there's more we can do yeah, and it really does feel like the development team is like
There is still stuff that we want to do and there's still holes in the game story that we want to fill essentially so they're like
Okay
What are the prop? What are the problems in the game right?
Here's the problem your villain comes out of nowhere and your main female character essentially doesn't exist
Well, here's entire DLC episodes are those characters including the villain, which is gonna be so interesting
Yeah, I hope that takes place way far back in the past. That'd be cool. That'd be cool
And then here's the thing they said they said that
Luna and Arden are they gonna be the two DLC episodes, but there's two more
What are those? Yeah?
Right now they've only named those two and
Four new episodes being produced into 2019 like fuck
Not to mention they're working on comrades comrades just got a big thing right mods and multiplayer quests being improved
Yeah, and they're and and
New development different from the current episode add-ons are the the support this so we're
At this point in time. Let's let's assume somebody buys the PC release on like they're still thinking about
More in addition to this and PC release on March 6 right say that's their first experience with the game, right?
Yeah, that game I would call finished it still has flaws, right?
But it is absolutely complete package, right? It includes all the DLCs thus far
At this point for that person it was more than worthwhile that the game came out in the way that it did because they're going to get
Way more as a result
Right if the game had no development troubles, it might be a little more cohesive
And and such but the amount of support that this game has gotten as a direct result of them feeling like they didn't do a good enough job on release
Yeah, is crazy, right like I'm not saying it's a good good thing that the game came out kind of half-baked
But in the end we're gonna get over compensation
Then we would have gotten the overcompensation is absolutely pushing it over. Yes, you have to pay for it
So obviously take that in consideration, but like yeah, what the fuck I'm gonna say episode Cindy
Yeah
That's what I think. Yeah, that'd be cool. All right, just a car fix-up mini game. Yeah with VR support. Yep. Yeah
No, it's gonna be episode
Glad to you sister. What's your name Iris episode Iris?
I
All right, no
I
There's okay, there's there are a couple characters that people want have you met Aranae in your play?
Oh, yeah, Aranae has to be has to be one of those that could be a thing
She is that could be the best man. She is that and the other one but episode Iris would be cute
She doesn't fight man. She's cute. Yeah, well neither does Luna now. I think of it
I would like to see
And there is one episode they're missing big time and the assets for a lot of it exist and it's episode
What's his name? Oh, Kenny? No, it's it's Kingsglave episode Kingsglave. Oh
That takes place in the city and the huge battle
That happens that you know the single most important thing that happens
That's not actually gone into the past. Yes
The events that lead up to the beginning of the game. Yes
That would actually be a really cool thing to put in
Yes, I was does join your party for a little bit ariana. Yeah, no, no, no both iris and iris
Actually, they should they do fight that she does a little team up like yay
Episode car
Fuck yeah, no, that's nuts man. I've I've wow so like I think oh and I should mention I played the gladio one
It's very very simple, but it is fun and it was fun to go through it again
And the combat changes they gave to those characters are really cool
And I haven't gotten through the prompto and Ignis ones yet
But everybody tells me that each one is like
Significantly better than the last hmm like the Ignis one is like legit amazing. So like
That ardent one man. Oh man, they could do anything with that feels like
This is approaching like Neo, you know, yeah a little we're getting to that like a little super support
System going on so you are gonna so FF 15
Let's let's fast-forward 10 years from now when people are talking about favorite Final Fantasies
You are going to have people arguing about 15 being good or great or whatever
Wildly varying opinions based on what month they played when they played it and stopped. Yeah, exactly
It's like did you go back and fucking cuz like think about it because there's gonna be people like me who played it like more or less on
Release or you you did as well, right and go. Yeah, I was good wasn't the best
Well, then there's gonna be the people who pick it up after 16 comes out and go wow
There's so much stuff yet. Well, here's what I if you think about it from another point of view, right?
Imagine if FF 13 2 and 3
We're just part of the original game and released you know be great perspective would be so different
You could just you could just combine you just
Scythe seal off the shit into its own little universe the lightning returns wouldn't have been seen as lightning returns
For example, I've been seen as the third DLC that changes things up in a crazy way in a crazy way and you go like oh shit
What that's really innovative? Yeah, whatever. So like we're we're probably going to buy the end of the game's life cycle see
At least two full games worth of effort in DLC, right?
Like would these eight episodes on their own be one it will be an entire game
They wouldn't be a an entire RPG, but they would be an entire game
Action game absolutely and throw in comrades with it
Yeah, and you've got a video game that you would pay on a for a disk on they made a whole other game
Yeah, and I think that's gonna continue and you're gonna just be seeing 15 2 and 3
But in the form of DLC was so weird perspective changes. Oh weird. It's really smart. I am I
Good job turning a weakness into a strength
Final fantasy 15 team. Yeah, sure good job turning that around genuinely impressive
I wish more people would do more teams would
Take this level of care and the only reason we're seeing that is because Final Fantasy games
If they can be salvaged can't be bad
Square doesn't allow it
Like what they did with 14 the amount of money they spent on that so that 14 wasn't a disaster
With 13 being a notable example, you can release the same content and
Just depending on how you present it. Yeah context is everything you say you change all of the reception
For example if you present your fighting game like an April Fool's joke
No one has any expectations of it and so everybody gets fucking hype when you get Shadow Geese
Announced for fighting ex-layer. Oh my god. He looks so fucking cool. Is that evil skullomania? Yeah, it is evil skullomania
Are you familiar with Shadow Geist? No Shadow Geist is the evil skullomania. Oh
He existed in Street Fighter EX too and onwards and he was always
The badass villain to skullomania's hero. He's so awesome. He's radical. Yes, and finally
He's coming back and
So good. It's it's there's nothing else to say like
Evil skullomania badass villain guys now back joining the likes of Alan Snyder Blair Dame Darren mister doctrine dark Gerudo
Hokuto Jack Kyrie and Scullo. I think that game is gonna be complete trash, and I'm very excited to play it
It's quality trash. Yeah. Have you played the demo at all? Yeah, okay, so you know I played it with that for about 10 minutes
It's like yeah, it's good shit. It's like a fake fighting game. It's good shit
April Fool's
Full game this games development has been the weirdest I've ever seen
Cuz it's like it's almost like where's the money coming from? That's the only thing we can't figure out like the whole time
They're doing like haha. It's a joke. It'll be coming out next year. No wait
What where is Erika getting the money from we don't know and I mean we've seen you know fighting lair
In the arcades before we've seen the the piece the the was it there was a 3ds development project
That was for around for a while that never went anywhere, you know and like this is just like years and years of trying to bring back these characters, but
With no funding from any other previous projects
I want to read a very confusing line in this release
This press thing that we're looking at the standard edition of fighting ex fighting lair ex will cost
$59.99 and include 15 googie
And 12 characters a light version will include five googie
Decks and 10 characters for $39.99. What? Yeah, I
Don't know that's weird. I don't know gogie is a thing
How many gogies do I need to be competitive? You can have as many gogies as you want
Can I put a hundred gogies on my character? Not if you're using the Hades gokey. Oh, no not the Hades gokey
It's gonna take up all your slots
This game. Yeah, it's dumb. It's Jim. It's Jim's. This is the ultimate Chris. Okay for sure. I
I
Want the ultimate gogie version that includes all the gogies and then past and future
That's exactly future gogie will just show up and you and we'll find its way into your
And then when you and then please announce a custom gogie
That we can you know make this gogie my own this gogie was made for me create a gogie create them perfect nailed it
gogy gogy
So
Alongside what's your gogy? Yeah
alongside that
came
the
Announcement for the next DLC character in
KOF you feel any better by the way you seem to have pepped up a little bit. No, no, no
I'm actually dying out. I'm looking to wrap this up. Okay. So I'm starting to get weak. Hey, Hyderns and KOF 14
He is back and he's younger than ever awesome weird. It's so weird that he's looking so young
But the man himself Leona's dad Hyderns great
He's uh
Hyderns legitimately great and he's one of the like wouldn't say he's not popular, but he's he's not a big
Super popular character. So I have no I have no ill will towards whip whip is a pretty cool girl. Yeah, but to me
The team the I carry team. Yeah is Hydern Ralph Clark Leona. Yeah, you're right
whip exists as a gameplay character like like her range and stuff is is interesting and goofy
But Hydern is Hydern Leona or that KOF thing where it's like it's the kid and they're very different
But you can see
You can see where they are similar
Yeah, in a way that I think KOF does really really well between like masters and disciples
Yeah, you can see the progression of the style. They're not clones not even close
But you can see they do share similar ideologies with their moves and stuff like that. It's cool. He's a charge character, right?
Leona's a hybrid
The other the other thing of course is I
Hope he gets his badass trench coat intro
I haven't seen it in the trailer, but he has a really dope trench coat look and with
Hydern and Oswald being in the list already you've got a winning fucking set
Oh, yeah, totally. That's like who like it doesn't even matter who comes also
I should mention that Hydern in that silhouette covers most of the screen
So like they anybody could be hiding back there, but they continue to know exactly what people want come on
Shermie Louise my rank
So what it is gonna be is the person behind Hydern there is gonna be peeking out
And that's gonna be the cloak and there's gonna be somebody crouching in front of them and the person crouching in front
Could be anybody well again
We already we already are pretty sure that the cloak thing is that the contest winner, right?
So there's just a fourth character. That's a normal person that we have no idea who it could be
Yeah, yeah
Maybe it's maybe it's Gogi maybe it's Mukai
Everybody forgets about Mukai Kai is the worst one dude
He's the worst one everybody remembers the arochi. Nobody loves Mukai. I
remember Mukai
Kai sucks. I would take she on actually she on would be a really good pull
Because that was one of the most creative fun bosses
The rope dart shit. Oh man speed that turns into a spear like yeah, man
It's Rick Stroud
Don't fuck with me. Yeah, it's Rick Stroud right there and that billowing shit is his hair
Alongside Vanessa, it's not gonna happen. Yeah, it's just fucking how would you feel about Rick Stroud as an alternate costume for Vanessa?
Weird but sure what it still has Vanessa same move look at yeah
God damn it. Yeah, some hackers are working on it. I've been so awesome
Oh, no are back Zasola sassalem. Well sad asses as a lot me taz is back in
So caliber six, you know what? It's nice to see Zazz back
He's the only character that disappeared after one game and never came back
Well, I mean setzaka disappeared, but then her move. Yeah, but she's dumped on petroclos
Yeah, Pat sucks. So what you know, what are you gonna? What do you get a what?
Ivy has been announced for a soul caliber game
Is a Bella Valentine to you sir. Oh, whatever. I am
She's back in her soul caliber one like BDSM outfit. Yeah Ivy couldn't be
Like announcing Ivy for a soul caliber game is like announcing Ken
Yeah, yeah, right or or Chun Lee it is
But they're doing they're doing the thing they do, you know, like one normal one weirdo
Like again, we we've said this a couple times
But it's like your announcement for fighting game should be all
Expected normal cast are in the first trailer. Yeah, and then you just have nothing but hype from there on out
And of course summon suffering is gonna be a thing of course it is
So yeah, Ivy's back and she's she's uh, you know Zazz is back
Tata's a poppin
Bigger than ever. Yeah, but every game. She's like power girl. What are what armor is it a break-off?
I don't even know. Yeah, the titty part could but it's already but it's already titty part Willie
The titty part will fall off and then you'll have seen it. You'll have seen everything
Michael a Clark Duncan returns to soul caliber
And he's uh, yeah, if anything just based on his weapon alone, you've got you got a really unique move set so
He's got a cool design
He's always had a really cool design and he just never came back for unknown reasons. So
I'm going to assume
The Zossel Amel's
Inclusion in this game will tell us something about why we are going back to this time in time
What yeah, considering he is a time traveler exactly exactly as time stop
He has time travel his entire theme is time control and his stage was a clock tower in the gears
And he's an outsider to the to the entire cast like it is very likely
We are actually just we are back to the future in soul caliber
And I bet the the person that's back to the future in it is the new kid the edgelord guy. Yeah grow. Yeah
And that's fine until we find out that old Cadan was behind the whole thing. Oh man. Oh, I love old Cadan
Oh
He was lame. He's a lot less lame than weapon master
Edgemaster, whatever his name is the old man. Yeah, the old man. He's random select
Yeah, but you know what's better than that a random select man. That's a big owl. Well, what about a random select man?
That's just fire. What about inferno? That's boring. That is boring. That's so boring. He's bad sender
Nah, man. Get out boy in there. I didn't like all could that all good dance great
What about the fucking item shop girls those were cool
One of them in particular looked like someone I knew and it was kind of weird use the incredibly shitty fucking creative character movesets
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, but the red girl the redhead she had the grieves and she was busty and that was a thing
Gonna see nekered
He's from that time period. I don't think we can avoid it. Yeah, I
Think Todd McFarlane is gonna swerve out and sell his baseball collection to get the funds together. So it's a put nekered back
Just in case you forgot about nekered
Burnout Paradise coming back remastered announced for ps4 xbox one of PC
March 16th now this had a very funny side story attest
I was going to say
That this is not the first I heard of this game
The first I heard of it was the controversy that popped up a couple days prior to its announcement
Oh, it was it was the day of its announcement. Was it today? Yeah
so what happened is Burnout Paradise remaster got announced for xbox ps4 and
later for PC like a month or two later and
On the store page it listed yada yada yada you a little that shit. Oh microtransaction
And people went what what are you? Why would what the fuck and I want to say yeah, it was lightning fast
It was so fast. Yeah, it was within like 10 hours of that happening. Yeah, it came out like that's a fucking typo
No way man, there's not even a little bit of battlefront in this. I don't even know what battlefront is
The back down inning so there's two possibilities here reverse gear, right?
Here's the possibilities that I see one
EA has become so focused on putting these big old microtransactions and minibus minibus in their games
that their boilerplate template
Store page shit just has it in there as a default or
or
the
Shit for this game was drawn up in the past like six months ago and it was done and nobody thought to
To change it and then it came out and then they went oh oh shit. Oh
No, pull it out put out put out or we've got two builds
one has a switch toggle that shows you micro the other one doesn't and
You like and you have the the correction announcement ready to roll
And you put it out there. You just see what happens you see what happens
But this time that they had that ready and then like two months ago. They're like, we're gonna go with the one without the switch
We're gonna go with the normal one, but they forgot to change all the stuff. Oh
Yeah, no that was that was really funny because that that would be the most
That would be awful because you're going back in time to your memory ruin and ruining them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, a hundred percent a hundred percent
I mean fuck the whole like Call of Duty Modern Warfare thing where there was like you could only get it
If you buy the new one you didn't want to buy. Yeah was already kind of like
You like the past don't you that's a bummer, so clearly they're willing to do this, but still you know
That's activision, but I keep fucking you know what they might as well be the same
The only difference is that activision is better at what it does
Activision is much more successful than EA in every venture. Yeah, I'm just they own blizzard
I'm just remembering the fucking the vivendi fight back and all that crazy shit. Anyway, oh, that's you be soft
That that's no that's no wait. That's activision and then also then later. Yes, you'll be soft
Wow, he's just so evil. Yeah
It's not I'm just fucking rolling in wow, but yes, um
Burnout Paradise
Coming back, which is dope. You think the song's gonna come back
You think they still have the money to get the rights to the fucking guns and roses song
Because that song is all over that game. It's ubiquitous. I don't know if they would bother without it
But then again, I kind of care more about Burnout 3. You know what I would rather have
I would rather I'm one of those people I would rather have a bad legally distinct not quite cover of
Paradise City God I
I'm one of those people that likes the fucking the old ridiculous crash systems and crash modes and all that stuff
From three there was a there was a definite like yeah para paradise is a shift
Definitely, it's not the same. What's the open-worldness, but it's a good goddamn game
Yeah, I don't think it's I don't which is why I'm like I'm like I don't you know
I'm not gonna Lord. I'm not gonna push my my my views, but I just I just have good times with the crash systems
I like those. Do you like revenge's crash system? Oh, they ruined it a bit. Yeah, they ruined it. Yeah, they ruined it a little bit
It was like a golf game
Paradise was better than revenge, but yeah to me three was was the three was also the breakout hit exact. Yeah
Three was when people would oh shit burn out like just wow
We've got
What do we got we got this fun?
Yeah, Dragon Balls online issues are gonna get patched. They announced their patches
I was very happy with how they actually talked about that. They basically said yeah
We know ring mode ring battles aren't working and disconnects are constant the nice
Producer lady just sat down for a minute and a half and said hey guys. We're aware that it is fucked
We are making two patches to unfuck it
Yeah, one will come in like a week or two the other come will like maybe two weeks after that
Yeah, we hope it will be unfucked if it's not unfucked. We will continue to unfuck it also see me in pools scrubs
Yeah
It's been banned for the longest while due to multiple companies just
Acknowledging that it is wrong for the devs to fight the players
But ArcSys seems to give zero fucks not to mention that Daisuke Ishtowari himself has shown up to Evo every year and played
Casuals in the anime suite, okay, but
Casuals, you know that's but Tomoko herself is like nah nah man see me in the bracket
We go in I'm gonna hold you under the water Chris
Okay, yeah, apparently I need to check out that Sonic Fox versus Christy match. I hear it's interesting
There's some good shit. I didn't I haven't caught up on you heard what the results are
I saw the results live on Twitter. Okay, cuz that's funny. Yeah, that's really funny
But but no, I need to I need to go back in a second Chris
I would love for more game developers to show up to fucking pools
Yeah, I don't even care. I don't even care
Show up and do busted shit like turn on debug mode
Because the problem is what happens if your first like or your first couple matches and pools are not against the strong players
You expect but against like like child that has his parents behind them
That's like I want to play and like person that made the game is here to crush your soul child
You got beat down by the person who made your video games hopes so there's
I'm gonna go back a little bit. So when me and clubs are playing DBZ
I put them online and he got a match against a guy with a with a weird slap-dash team and zero matches and zero wins and zero
Losses and from button press one. It's like this person has never
Played the game ever like this is their first match. Mm-hmm, and I found myself yelling
Ruin the game for them
Make them quit
Right and that and that attitude is absolutely appropriate for Evo
Developer shows up. I'm gonna make sure this child hates my game
By ruining their little childlike existence and destroying their soul. That's the nature of competing
You found nigga you thought this is the mistake. Yeah, the children compete. They're allowed to compete. It's not a way
limit no, but
That kid better be ready to get fucking crushed into the dirt by adults who don't give a fucking are cold-hearted murderers
Yeah, and then at the end you can just be like don't worry kid like you you didn't lose cuz you suck you lost because I made it that way
Yeah, I made sure that your defeat was painful
We've also got
I'm so glad we're at a point with with competitive games now or we can actually have people going like you're 22 20 years too early
Okay, I'm starting to get really weak, so okay
I'm gonna skim it all skim it all off into Josh Sweden exits Batgirl film Batgirl film
He says basically Josh weed and was like yeah, I never had a story. I
realized it took me months to realize I didn't have a story and
He's basically like I don't even know why I signed up to do this in the first place
So he's done. He's out. He's like nope. I give up and you know what better to do that than to trudge along and make a piece of shit
And catch it later on and then have a million people try to fix it, and then it's all terrible
agreed and especially in the light of
Black Panther, you know being like you know very good very like and and doing what it does right now
You kind of don't want to be that person that's
Redirecting the DC you further down the Zack Snyder path
You know and I mean look they've already pretty much like look confirmed that like the end of the Snyder verse is now
Like just this leaves was a
Articles about how is that you should more you should mourn the loss of the Snyder verse no no cuz that was a ridiculous
That's insane, but that
the it is actually looking very likely that
Zack did not actually leave due to the unfortunate death of his daughter
He was in fact fired and then that happened right afterwards. I don't believe that
That sounds a little bit like there are a bunch of there are a bunch of sources saying that the original cut of
Justice League was unwatchable like it was just the worst thing ever
Yeah, no that sounds like like that sounds like what the internet does where they like to make up stupid bullshit
And as someone who's been on the inside watching the truth happen bullshit, and then watching people create stupid bullshit
And they like the story seems attractive so everyone gets attached to it
I'm gonna go ahead and say that that's definitely feels like stupid
There's no explicit confirmation. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds like horses. I mentioned it because it's even mentioned in the article
We're looking at
Speculated to have been fired from the film
Yeah
Let's let's let me find out cuz I didn't hear that rumor it sounds ridiculous though like cuz that's like why would you why would you even?
That's the most fucking disrespectful thing out like it's crazy to like to make that up
Yeah, it's crazy. That's a crazy thing to do like it's such a fucking shitty thing to happen that you're gonna
Yeah, you know
What's the what's the basis of this rumor?
There was a guy quitting his his job as an entertainment reporter and was basically like alright on the way out
Here's all this shit and
It included this which also his his particular
Complaints about the cut of the film echoed a lot of very specific ones from other sources
So basically somebody quitting the business and going and throwing all their trash on the table
Hey, that's just really gross and then that and then that becomes like basically how much do you put in stock of the words of this
Particular individual that's fucked up man. That's really fucked up
Okay
Well anyway
Yeah, I don't even know what to make of that
but
Last but not least
I'll tell you is it least. Yeah, actually it is least
Because it has to do with metal gear survive. Oh, man, and it's awesome. It's really awesome. Oh
I thought it was gonna be a different thing you pulled up the thing that I
Okay, well, I have a different thing about no gear survive after this. What did I say? I said metal gear survive
No, I have a different story about this game. Okay, so
You have early on in the game
there is a list of names on a piece of paper and
That includes such things as vengeful mosquito and iron Marlin and all these code names
But then if you go down to the fourth line and you take the last names and you line them up you get the letters
KJP space
Forever also, it should be mentioned. There's way more than is seen in this image
And okay, so there is a there's a person whose name is hay tie in the middle
Which is it counts a space here because it's the only one that's not code name
You notice at the bottom that says bastard Yoda and cunning you cunning Yuji
Yota and Yuji are the directors of
Metal gears survive the director and producer director and producer. Yes, and there's another one
That was found inside this image. Mm-hmm. The other one is that the only names listed as killed in actions are M and G
Wow
On these papers, there are three names at the top listed as MMG killed in action
Yeah, MMG. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. KIA. KIA. Yeah, they're the only names missing a missing in action
Yeah, they're all a wall or whatever. Yeah, and also the director and the producers names are listed as a wall
Yeah, absolutely without leave. Yeah. Yeah. No MG has been killed in action
Kojima productions forever and these two are fucked bastard Yoda cunning Yogi Yuji
What is vengeful mosquito? I wonder. I don't know. Oh well
Yeah, blood sucker who knows but Venom but it's
This is super obviously, maybe maybe could it be Venom missing in action vengeful mosquito
I don't know Venom but point it back
That could just be the one name to throw them off the track
But like there's a lot of conspiracy theories that people find in these games this one is feels so
Hilariously overt. It's pretty pretty over the top with like how disrespectful it is right off the bat
The only names of the only real names in this entire list are the producer and the director
Yeah, like it's straight up like you're looking at fucking
Like the people working on this like doing what they can to get the people who are still locked into their non
Compete agreements. I mean, it's it's either this it's either code KGP forever or it's help
Pachinko help help
The mines are cold
The thing that I had to say about
Metal Gear survive is that numbers are coming out and it is a disastrous flop. Oh for sure. It is it's 85% less
Yeah, and vengeance
Of course, of course, which is and revisions was a spinoff and it's a platinum game
Which we as we all know are not allowed to sell units. Well, you know, whoever it was that put this page into the game
Here's to you
hopefully multiple people could have put that into the game and
Or or one person put it in multiple people saw it and and moved on right, but I specifically mean
Like depending on what do you know what your development environment is?
You could go like only one person had the ability to change these names or whatever, right? Or when we talk about
Like remember Lupinco remember him how he'd leak all this fighting game shit all the place
Yeah, and it's like, you know, you talk to people and they're like listen
There's 40 people that guy could be
Now that's a really small number. Mm-hmm, but that's way too high to actually figure out. Yeah
But this in a development studio like let's hope that number is 30 people instead of two. I got my suspicions
I also have a few suspicions
About the pinco. Yeah. Yeah, I have I have a big suspicion big big suspicion
Giant giant I'll never I'll never ever be able to confirm it
I could I could I could get a hold of that person and be like are you fucking the pinco and they could be like
Yeah, and I wouldn't believe it even though. I think it's true. Mm-hmm. I got I got them, too
It's the same person. I think so. It's a fun one and
I got to sit down Liam and ask him. What's the deal?
Cuz he's apparently it's decent man. He's putting some hours. I think he started streaming it right before
Yeah, he's putting ours in well, I mean again it as a just you know
Put this put the barriers up and stop the zombies game, right? It's got stopped apparently as that it's decent
But it's just because it's based on the engine that is like incredible combat
But it's just the taint of everything that follows around it feels bad man
I'm kind of astonished that that actually mattered because game players and game buyers are notoriously bad at boycotts
Hmm, right? Yeah, and I guess it just seems like
Kojima was right. It's his name on the box. Yeah, it's absolutely his name. It's not Metal Gear
Right and we'll see the proof of that with that stranding. I'm starting to die. All right
I'm kind of starting to let's get one email. Let's get one email. That's super best friendcast at gmail.com
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You want to send your email in you might get it read like this one email
We will read this week, which will be a good email. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's not true
It is me Dio. It is you Dio. They're super best friends. Hey Dio
Your shadow the Colossus LP has reminded me of the Adam Sandler movie rain over me
Yes, a movie in which Adam Sandler obsessively plays shadow the Colossus is a way to cope with his family dying in 9-11
Yep, it's also a way to bond with his co-star Don Cheadle. It's been years since I saw the movie
I don't remember if this movie was good or not
But I've always thought it was neat how they use the game as a part of the story rather than lazy product placement
I watched a clip of that on the way to the podcast because somebody sent it to me
It's weird. What is your favorite product placement? My favorite plot product placement?
The Red Bull can in snakes on a plane that was served as evidence that then has to be slapped out in front of the frame
Five times zoomed in on and then slowly put out of the frame. I don't remember that beginning of the movie
I don't have any specific product placement that I can think of
But I like it when a product put I
Got it cup noodle Pepsi in Wayne's world Pepsi in Wayne's world paint Pepsi pizza hut in Wayne's world
Because that's what I want. I want oh man. We'd never sell out
All this Pepsi so delicious there was Garth, would you like a delicious ice-cold Pepsi?
Yeah, yeah, I mean the Pepsi and the Pepsi transformer was
Just like bio the Xbox transform. Oh, yeah
I mean dude like that level is like that's the one I embrace but yeah, I'm gonna go with cup noodle on but in games
Oh cup noodle for sure that there's over the top just
To the max. Do you know?
Do you know about the photo?
Well, I mean I've seen the ad and I've seen the gameplay stuff and there's a part of FF 15 in which
You pick a photo out of all the photos that you've played I've seen the whole game, right?
And it's the guy. It's your completion screen essentially and almost every single person. I know
It's a fucking photo cup noodle
It's a fun. It's the photo of cup noodle that you get during gladio's fucking cup noodle quest. Yeah, nice nice
It's hilarious. It's so and it by the way it breaks the ending it makes the ending make no sense
If you do that, it's so good. Oh man. Yeah cup noodle forever. Good job cup noodle
Oh, I think that costumes in the city also
And
Me and Matt were just playing binary domain and one of the scenes has characters talking
Two cops talking on the highway while they nonchalantly eat their cup noodle
With big brand shots of the cup noodle the cup noodle is also killing it on the just plain ad department with their with their trailers
Or you saw the one where like this couple is arguing as the world is ending around them
It's fucking crazy, man. Like and it's this really high budget cuts
Commercial and like it's like basically like this couple like having a fight and well not even having a fight
They're kind of confessing to each other like oh being cute
But like the world is being destroyed around them and footage of like
Like helicopters are crashing and buildings are exploding and it's like just really well animated
You're like, what is this? This is so compelling and interesting and then it ends with a brother fucking cup noodle
If you think that's great
I have a thing that you shouldn't watch if you don't want to cry
Don't watch south korean life insurance advertisements. No
They're like nine minute long
Like story of my life with my children and how it's it's all it's too much. Um, talk about berserk. No
What was it? Whatever. There's nothing. What do you want? What do you want to say?
I already talked about berserk on my stream. Yeah, all I had to say was cool. Cool. What like, you know what I mean?
All right. Yeah, um talk about reboot. Okay. Well, oh, yeah. Yeah. Um, I'm gonna watch all that
Okay, uh, and we're gonna talk about it. Sure and you can't stop me. That's fine. Are you gonna watch it? Yeah
Yeah, I like it's it's like the slowest softball underhand pitch
Like of all time still banned by the reboot twitter account
No, I think they undid it. Oh, yeah, you need to step it up then. Oh, yeah, I gotta redouble my efforts. Um
No, it's just like what is there? What is there to say? It's like, yeah, guess what?
It's they've delivered footage of the thing that we all expected. Where's the surprise probably the only surprise is that
It's exactly as expected to the letter. Well, the problem is no the like it's it's just that every it continues to be the like
A whole it's what it is is the group of people that are
Finding about it for the first time every time. Yeah every time something drops
It's like people are finding out for the first time going woolly. Did you like oh and it's like, yeah, man
Yeah, I wrote it
It's it's it's been it's been over 15 years. It was me. What is there to say, you know, all right
Uh
Okay, I guess we're done. Hey woolly anything coming up on woolly verses. Absolutely. There was a recent woolly versus god
That was quite good. Yeah, um, um, um, uh, I I hope uh new wife and kids better than the old wife and kids
I hope you guys appreciated that one. I like it. That was a pretty solid bit. Um socks hanging off the foot
Not bad not bad at all
It's a nice touch
and um
Yeah, alongside of course woolly versus there's other there's other content coming but um
the the uh
It's kind of like the the the scrub guides got like offense video like I'm taking a little bit of time with it
And I feel like the honeymoon not honeymoon
But like the period in which point like casual people are dropping off is starting to kick in now anyway
Yeah, so I don't know what to say, but like I'll have that put out the shitty version of it now
No, no, I want it to be good. I want it to be good. Um
So that's your problem. So you make you may curated video content and you're all concerned about being it being good
You just got to shit it out
Shit it out. Just make it bad. That's what streams are
You show up and you fart and vomit on yourself. Oh man, and you don't get caught jerking off again
I'm not that far right now. I know
No, honestly, it's because uh, I took some I took some painkillers before coming
And they're wearing off. Oh
So here we go. Oh, wow. What is hurting you now? Uh, it was a little more
It was just like the headache headache and and flu stuff. Yeah, exactly
So they just they just they suddenly faded out
Towards the end of the podcast and there went my stamina bar shitting out content is like picking a top tier
Just do it just do it man. You're gonna regret it when you don't do it
In fact, you're just gonna be sitting there going. Why didn't I do it? Should have done it?
Yeah, I should have done it. Uh, I'll probably stream some bullshit over at angriest pad problem. Okay, I'm gonna have to
Duck out on hack a class today. Yeah. Yeah, this is not you want to take tomorrow off. We'll just do nothing
Well, uh, I mean, so that was the thing is we kind of needed to anyway based. Well, rather
Um, matt was still taking care of the shit. So it's like it's gonna take a bit it
And we were gonna do more of our cotor
But I don't we got plenty of shit right now. Yeah, I might I might need that
I might need that because I'm not doing great. So everyone follow woolly's twitter tomorrow so that you can see whether or not
What he's vomiting into
Or follow my did you ever have a bucket? I know no, no, we had we had we have the the hospital barf container
Oh, yeah, you were like a real head. Yeah. Yeah, because my mom worked at a hospital
Oh, well that makes it because back at the house. We just had this big orange bucket
Yeah, and whenever the bucket came out you you'd fucking throw up
Like it became at the point by the time it was like 11 or 12 the site of the bucket wouldn't do vomiting
Yeah, no, no, no, and then I'd feel better. No, don't don't don't follow my twitter for updates. Follow my vero
What is that? It's the new social media thing. Is it is that what the kids are using? Yeah, but nobody knows what to do with it yet
So I saw you I saw you tweet everyone's got a vero, but nobody knows what to do with it
So there's I thought you were talking about like venereal disease or something
So it's this everyone has an account and you can have all your friends on it and you're just staring at everyone's empty page
Because nobody knows what to do with it yet. Is it like a twitter? What it's it's like all of it
It's a new it's an instagram and facebook and a twitter
It's all of it together
But it's just but no one knows what to use it for yet because no one's said any things
Or like there's no precedent use it for loons. We don't know probably it's up there. Well, probably yeah, probably where that's gonna go
I'm I'll check that out. Yeah, but
Um, but the main thing with it is that
Because facebook and instagram do this stupid thing where if you have a bunch of followers
It doesn't show your post to your followers
It shows it to a a subset and then watches as
The do they get the impressions it caps the number of people that see your stuff
And then it makes you pay to show it to the rest of them
So this is the main thing is a backlash against that that policy is the point of using vero because it's a really stupid
Shitty thing. So how long can you post on vero?
You can do whatever you want so far
You need to cut that down
Give me 280 characters and make everybody else who's 140. You don't need a lot of characters for ludes, man
I'll tell you one thing. Yeah, you need two
Emojis, yeah one that emoji and the other emoji, but um, I tell you what man about boudoir sets
That's the same exact fucking thing. However, that's exactly the same. I fucking hate that word
So ugly
It's the ugliest word ever. It's so uh, and it's the same. It's exactly the same
But for some reason it makes me feel really uncomfortable. So so so so vero is basically just it's it's a brand new
It's a new like frontier that hasn't been directed in any one way yet
But we can steer the ship. Yeah towards ludes. Yeah
The ship is steered by the dowsing rod. That is the internet. I think it's I think we're going that way anyway
All right, let's get out of here. Well, you go home. You get some rest. Goodbye everybody. Good night. Bye everybody
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