Castle Super Beast - CSB 079: Put GRRM In Jail You Cowards

Episode Date: August 4, 2020

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🏔 🥒 🥒 Hello. Hello, good morning. Ish. Yep. No, the dude.

Close enough. Haha. Man, Xbox can go fuck itself. A little targeted. Xbox can go fuck its own ass to death. A little targeted on those tweets, brah. Holy shit. Sorry, did your lock-on sensor detect that missiles were incoming?

It did, and then I was warned that missiles were incoming by many people. Why didn't you release the chaff? To people that don't know, Xbox tweeted yesterday, hey, that little item from the beginning of the game, the one that you've kept in your bags because you think you might need it one day, you won't. Chuck it out. Go fuck yourself, Xbox. Xbox, you might not know this, because you only came in in like 2004, but they used to

make RPGs where sometimes you needed that item at the end of the game. You might need it. Um, Pat's an- You might need it. Pat's an egg mode, by the way. I'm an egg now. Okay, so, let's take it from the top. Alright.

Are you ankle deep in doo doo water? No, but there's more leaking as of yesterday. Okay. It came in from one corner last week, and now it's coming in from a second corner. And because of the goddamn Quebec construction holiday, I couldn't get anybody out here to even take a look at it. Yeah. That is a problem.

That is big, big fear for any homeowners, so, uh, you have to immediately, immediately throw all your energies and time at that. Um, I am like, I'm not in a, like, basically, the rain came down so fucking crazy that, like, I even have problems where I am. Um, there is a, there's a seam somewhere on the roof that causes a drip to come through, and uh, there are- Is it coming through the bathroom? No.

There are some, sort of, there are some old ass windows that, like, um, you know, don't do their best job holding out all the water, so that becomes a problem at times. But, um, yeah, your, your equipment, your recording shit is all down there. Is it not? Here's, here's the important stuff. I am on this side, I'm on this side of the room, the water is coming in on that side of the room. Okay.

Like 15 feet that way. Okay. No, I don't know, what, 20, 10, I don't know, whatever, that way. And it is not serious leakage, it's like jumping one bucket of water straight out onto the floor for the whole evening, right? So it's like, you know, a millimeter of water dripping out of the wall. Okay. So you, like, we, we, we have it beat with towels.

Yeah, okay, okay. But it's, it's the fact that it is there. Yes. Is, I don't like it. So, um, back at my mom's place, what we had was, um, the back door, there was two back doors, there was one that was like, you take a steps to go up onto a little balcony, not not balcony, a little, um, whatever, kind of like a, uh, uh, yeah, a little, uh, a deck, right?

Stairs up to a deck and then you have the door and then you had underneath that stairs going down to the basement so that you could access both from the backyard. Right. Yeah. When the rain comes down like it did this week, it would pile up in the downstairs pathway and the drain would like not be able to filter all of it and it would block up. So then it would create a little pool, which the only thing keeping the pool from entering the home is one old ass door with like not so great seam in between, you know.

So like that started to become a problem. Um, and then there was one time like after that got taken care of that, uh, so there's also a garage upfront that kind of slopes downwards. So again, the water can build up and, um, an unnamed idiot that was staying at our place decided to go check to see how much water was piling up by opening the garage door while the pool of water was up against the garage door and that was the end of the basement. So, uh, water damage is the fucking worst and, um, many, many calls with insurance and banks and all kinds of unfun things needed to take place because, uh, yeah, that's, that's

a long ass process to deal with the, the towel level drip that you can contain is, is, uh, indicative of a bigger problem. It's not quite as bad as it could be, but that, yeah. Yeah. So it, it did rain at other points during the week and no leakage happened. Uh, I am able to confirm that it's, it's some kind of drainage issue because, uh, the two times that it came through the wall is during those periods of like torrential downpour for 15 minutes where it was, it's not the total volume over a day.

It's the total volume over 10 minutes that is causing it because it fired out of my wall last Sunday, like, like a water gun. Yeah, that's scary. Uh, and it did that once and I was like, oh, okay, great. Super. And I thought I'd be able to get somebody in here and then I forgot about the fucking construction holiday, which old thing exists in Quebec. And like, if I was, if I was like, if there were like two feet of water down here, I

legitimately have no idea what my options would have been. Now, I don't, I don't know what I would have done. Correct me if I'm wrong, but, um, the goal of, uh, shelter as intended by our caveman ancestry was to keep the rain out. Yeah. And, uh, the snow occasionally and possibly, uh, you know, wild beasts defending against the elements is the, is the singular goal. Mm-hmm.

Well, my shelter has failed on most of those counts. Uh, water is getting in and so are wild beasts. Indeed. In fact, I think I heard one. There you go. Yeah, he totally did. So, so that's, that's my favorite combination of events is me going, uh, the house, oh, the water, oh, God, oh, thank God, I don't have to do anything this, oh,

wait, no, I totally have to do everything this week. So have the busiest week I've ever had in my goddamn life. I heard you had a baby and named it vodka Gorbalski. Yep. That came up a few weeks ago. That name came up because we're talking about how to pronounce it. And I'm like, Paige, there's no correct pronunciation. The games don't agree.

We're just going to go look at the Wreck-It Ralph clip to just let's signify that in Canon and I'm like, if you want to go real nuts, we can name him vodka Gorbalski and she's like, what, why? It's like, cause that's his real, that's his real name. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, my understanding of it is that what you're hearing is a Japanese company, um, use an announcer to say a name and then as time goes on, they take

a couple of cracks at it until perhaps they land on one where they ask somebody, perhaps from Russia, what it should be. And so you go from the gief to Gief. So there is a, uh, there is a, a Mr. Sangeef in the real world is a wrestler named Zangyev or Zangyev, uh, is a big Russian wrestler and you look at him and you're like, oh yeah, there it is. But like, it was like 25 years before the renunciation was updated in SF5 for after. Yeah.

No, in four, you got the guy going Zangyev, you know, like, yeah, it feels like they didn't do a check on these international names, you know. Yeah. So, and then, and then you look at Wreck-It Ralph and they just say, Hey, it's Zangyev, I am Zangyev, et cetera. Sparrow saying, Hey, Elmo, is that all he gets now? No, Elmo's like on the stairs, staring at me was right here. Okay.

No, actually, um, so, uh, let's break it down. Uh, what, first of all, why name the dog Zangyev? Well, there's a couple of reasons. One, I think that's hilarious and I love that character too. Good name. Uh, go pick. He's, he's got a V on his chest. Hmm.

Hmm. And three, he's got blue eyes and four, his birthday is Zangyev's birthday. Okay. That's pretty, that's pretty on point. So, like, like his colors are just inverted Zangyev, like he has the same, like for the V is like the light skin tone and then the brown. So, on top of it. So how much planning was involved?

A lot, like a lot, a lot, a lot. We have been talking about generalized dog for like two years because we want an Elmo to have, we will essentially want to get Elmo a puppy or a kitten because he can get bored and he's old and we want him to have somebody to, to like love on. Uh, but also we wanted another pet. Okay. So the process in ideation form was, uh, a while coming. Yeah.

The primary impetus was that the puppy is for Elmo. Is that the case? I think I remember saying that, uh, multiple times on stream, like going back like a couple of years that if we ever got another, uh, another puppy or cat, it would be for Elmo. Okay. And it will totally not eclipse Elmo in attention and love. No, it hasn't.

So well, it's eclipsed it in maintenance right now. So what's happened is, is that, uh, there is an acclimation process that they got to go to. So that was my next question. Yes. My next question is cats are territorial. Yeah. Now everyone, I've, I've heard of different methods, but like, are you doing the smell

room exchange thing? How does that work? So, so the process is you bring Zengief home and then Elmo is right there at the door and sees that shit and is like, what the actual fuck and has a, uh, very territorial, like this is my house reaction. And then you scoot the cat away and then you keep the new puppy upstairs. Uh, and we have a, like a baby gate that is sealing off the two floors. Right.

And when baby is asleep, he is confined to our bedroom right now and Elmo has free reign of the house, which what he is doing is, uh, he was very territorial day one and then, and now he's not anymore. And he is wandering around the house smelling the dog's toys, areas that the dog's been, uh, et cetera, we have in fact, if the viewers at home who are watching live, there's this blanket that you see often on my stream. This is like greenish, like felt blanket, uh, put that in the dog's bed, have the dog sleep on it for a day or two, bring it down, put it on the couch.

Now Elmo has to deal with stinky dog couch, gets used to that, et cetera. Yep. And then the next part of the process is, uh, introducing them to the point. The, the blanket is in fact super blue. This is true, but yeah. I'm not here. Let's be the lighting. No, not the blanket I'm sitting on guys, the blanket that they're, they're, they're

both, they're, they're, they're both. Trust me, it's green. Trust me. It's a green one. Gamecube. All right. All right. Anyway.

Rub them up in each other's farts is basically taking the animals and pointing them at each other until Elmo makes like a pissed off noise and runs away. And then he'll learn to live with it eventually. Uh, but, uh, currently, if you also take a look at your camera, sorry, audio yours. I have my, uh, CPAP mask down here and that's because, uh, we're sleeping down here now and the reason why we're sleeping down here is because who, uh, we're trading off sleep and shifts, uh, so that someone's always awake to, uh, either be with him or check on him every 10, 15 minutes.

And whoever is asleep is to, uh, basically pay attention to and make sure Elmo does not feel left out because Elmo is our primary old dumb baby cat. And well, I will be damned if he feels slighted by the new arrival. He, I also, man, I appreciate that cat a lot more now. I remember Paige bringing that cat over and she was like, put, put his box down and show him where his box is. And you know what that cat does? He goes into his box and he poops and that's, that's the story.

That's the end of that bit. What, uh, like how, how baby are we talking baby? He is a, he was eight weeks old almost to the day when we got him. Uh, so, and he is, uh, he is fat and stupid and he is basically a infant. Like now he is pooping and pissing all over just sans diaper. Okay. Now I know that, um, the part of the family prerequisite is, is to be considered fat and stupid, but you don't know yet if this thought, you know, Zangief might be fine.

He might not be Elmo. He might be totally normal and okay. I think you should wait to see. Oh, I'm sure, uh, he, he, uh, we're, uh, Paige is actually going to be taking him to the vet for his first checkup during the podcast. Um, like she's getting them ready with his little baby harness. Uh, and we got a, we got him a, we got him a car seat. We got him a little safety seat.

Oh, by the way, uh, so to those of you who are asking, well, how are you guys going to get dog to the vet, dog for walks, et cetera, during the COVID, uh, Paige's birthday is coming up. So she got herself, uh, used car, uh, the past week. Okay. So that solves like 80, 95% of COVID troubles in terms of leaving the house. So yeah, the as having a sealed bubble to go around. The next question was, uh, how, how do walks take place?

Yeah. Right. This second walks don't take place because puppies only had his first batch of shots. And, uh, if we put him down and walk him on the sidewalk or in like a dog park or something like that, uh, there's a possibility that he could catch Parvo from the ground. What is that? It is a disease that I was not aware of until we started like seriously looking into the puppy.

Uh, when I was younger, all that we worried about was distemper and rabies. And now we have Parvo, which is basically, um, the, the plague of death for dogs that can sit on surfaces for years. And, uh, is their primary vaccination target now? Is this like recent? And by recent, I mean the last 20 years recent. Yeah. It seems raw.

Wow. So never heard of that puppy is, is it? Is not vaccinated and gets Parvo, they will die. So that dog's feet are not touching the, the, the fucking uns, the soiled earth until that second rounds of shots are going in. That's going to be like, I'm looking at, uh, so that'll be like the week after next. So that'll be fine. However, we definitely want to get puppy socialized so that he doesn't, you know,

be an asshole when he grows up. So we're going to see my folks and he's going to hang out with their dog in their, in their place where it's, you know, safe and there, that's the only dog that's around. Right. And obviously their puppy's vaccinated. Well, I know their dog's about a year or two old now. Um, and we also got him a stroller.

We got him a pram. Uh, huh. Now that's okay. I've, I've been following so far and now we take the step around. Okay. We can go down to a street and wheel him around. And then if people are properly masked up and don't have dogs with them, we can open up the little pram and be like, would you like to pet our adorable doggy?

And everyone wants to do that. So the puppy learns that new people are okay and stuff like that. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I know that's big white people. That's big white people. That's big white people right there. Oh yeah.

So one of those things you get an animal and you get an animal as somebody who does Twitch or YouTube or Instagram or whatever an influencer. And there's a lot of people who have a million questions and they're all understandably concerned because me and Paige are morons. And I would like to assure people that there is literally nothing that I have ever prepared for in my life more than taking care of this stupid little dog. This dog will want for nothing. He will have the best education.

He will grow up and get the best job, et cetera. All he'll inherit is your day to day traits and isms. I hope not. I sure hope not. All right. So by the way, if I'm a little loopy on today's podcast, I'm really tired. I'm really, really tired. Paige, God bless her soul.

She is doing an incredible job. She is also very tired because this, this dog needs 24 seven supervision because it is a baby. It is an infant child. I, I too, I'm very tired for, for totally valid reasons. Okay. I thought you were going to say. No, no, no, no, but hey, uh, JJ's no longer pregnant.

So congratulations, congratulations to JJ and Max. That's awesome. Congratulations. You have acquired a baby. There it is. And, uh, you know, new challenger, et cetera, um, shout outs to the announcement message of, Hey guys, prepping the stream in 10 minutes. Looks like I'll be all, wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Oh, I will not be of the inclusion of the gif of March telling home where he's pregnant and then his head exploding was perfect. Yeah, man. I feel, um, that's, it's, it's, it's interesting too. Cause like, uh, you know, obviously there's a, there's a whole like, Hey, lots of folks are in doors, lots of folks are spending time inside. And, uh, well, what, what better time to have something to take care of, right? To kind of re refresh your, your mental focus than right now.

Yeah, pretty much. I don't know if the timing was intentionally set up to be this way. Well, but it worked out that way. The implication, wait, wait, wait, hold on. The pandemic started to in, in China in December and then it kicked off in the rest of the place, uh, February. What I mean is with the planet, it would have had to seen the first news report and been like, gotta get pregnant now.

I'm not talking, I'm not talking about Max and JJ. I'm talking about the dog. I'm saying was the acceleration towards gif towards the Russian skies. Was that a, uh, decision posts quarantine to like make that move? Uh, no, it, uh, the acceleration was actually page, uh, was page has been looking at get figuring out how to get a decent deal on a used car forever. Because that was accelerated for quarantine cause she's like, Pat, I love you. I love you too, honey, but spending every single God damn minute of every day for

six months now with me is apparently a little rough. What on the sanity? What? It's apparently, it can apparently be a little grating. Um, so she's like, I gotta get out of here. I gotta, I gotta, right. Uh, so yeah, she's with the null page page is sitting on like a couple million souls and she has not cashed them in at the bonfire yet.

That's about right. So once the decision, her birthday's coming up and we're finding better, you know, car deals and we're like, okay, we're going to have a car to drive around. All of a sudden, how do you get to the vet? That worry disappears. Right. How do you go and do this? How do you bring him to the dog park?

And if there's, you know, tons of people, that worry disappears. And then that, then, then dog mentality goes from, oh, really want one, one day to, and then later like, oh, well, what about these puppies? And you're just like looking at puppies late at night. Like you're just doing the YouTube like puppy crawl, essentially. Two. Okay. Dog time.

Dog. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, so to switch, uh, to switch back over to the previous topic, I actually saw an article, uh, like a day or two ago that said, um, that for some reason, uh, there are like way less premature babies being born during quarantine. And they're trying to figure it out, but like, they're basically

suspecting that like the super quiet life and the very like non stressful, not even though stress can, you know, stress is actually quite high in many places, but like straight in terms of just like moving around, going places, not, not staying still, I bet what you're saying is that a more sedentary lifestyle, a more sedent women who are pregnant. Yes. Yes. I think that's, that's probably what they were going for.

Hey, I'm a doctor. And yeah, I can tell you right now that, uh, when you put a woman in a car and she's pregnant, the engine just shakes the, the, it's like a, it's like a, it's like a carbonated can of soda. And if you shake it long enough, it's going to want to fly out early. Yep. And then fill up the glass and then deflate. Yeah.

And then the fizz happens and then the hippies eat it. It's a whole thing. It is a whole thing. So yeah, a lot of apparently, um, you know, uh, sitting, sitting long, excuse me, sitting locked down is, uh, good for that process. So how about that? That's pretty, the real question, pretty interesting question is, uh, God. So March, let me, let me look at a calendar here.

Let's say April. May, June, what are you doing? What are you doing? Let's take a look in December of this year and take a look at see what happens to birth rates. Okay. So, okay. For a second, I thought you were counting back nine months from now.

And I'd be like, that's inappropriate. But what I would say, let's count nine months forward from March. Yeah. So I actually said that, uh, in one of the early, uh, episodes that like, Hey, there's going to be the, the COVID babies thing, but I'm starting to have second thoughts about that because like it's not quite the same as like coming home from the war, it's, it's more like a sad and really shitty, uh, uh, annoying time where people might be getting sick of each other.

I don't know what you don't, what you don't want to compare it to is you're, you don't compare it to like a post war baby boom. What you compare it to is the winter baby boom, which happens every single year. There are more babies born nine months after the harsh winter months than any other time of the year. Cause just minutes spent indoors with your significant other. Um, well, I can tell you, I can tell you what, so bored babies, there may or may

not be, uh, a baby boom because while children of existing couples will definitely rise, children of random strangers at the club will definitely drop because ain't nobody going to the club from March to fucking, I don't know when, uh, well, yeah, they are, but you know, they shouldn't be. I mean, they were closed up until extremely recently. Yeah, no, they're, they're going, they're going. Where are they going to the club outside the Denny's to the clubs? That happens to be open.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's not great. Don't do that. No. Well, hey, they don't really listen to the podcast. So if only they did, or they don't listen to much really, but hey, um, what

you, yeah, you're, you're going to see there's going to be some kind of, uh, um, population data to, to, to, to, you know, and, and, and what I will say is that again, it's whatever it is, whether it's a boom or whether it's a decline, it will happen globally because unlike things like these, these little, these booms happen in countries during moments that are the country goes through something, but this is a global bit. So like it's going to affect the eight million or excuse me, the eight billion call Corona a global bit.

It's a global bit. It's going to affect the eight billion in some, in some capacity. Can we get the next bit, please? It is, it is a bit on from this bit. It is a bit. Get off the stage, man. This is, this is, this is exactly what it is. Um, well, anyway, okay.

Um, I mean, there it is. Oh, there's a, I mean, you mentioned population data. Dude, there's so much crazy population data coming out, like looking at COVID numbers. Did you know that being poor sucks ass? Yeah, I did. Well aware. Wow.

Big, big firsthand experience on that, not a good, not a great. Like I look, I look back to, uh, I look back to like, Hey, what if COVID happened back in 91, right? My dad would have gotten it like for sure. Guy was working 16 hours a day, seven days a week, night shift and trucking. Oh yeah, like going delivery trucking. Dad would have got it. And the way dad smoked and all that shit, but he popped by dad.

Like no question. Yeah. No, um, that, so my advice for today's podcast is to stop being poor. No, that's Pat's advice of the day. Da, da, da, da, rise and grind. Is that what we're doing today? Nope. Nine to five.

How nine you'd manage it nine to five pays the builds six to 12 builds. The empire lottery tickets are good. No, they're not. They're terrible. Don't, don't buy lottery tickets. Lottery tickets are a voluntary tax on the stupid. Well, um, you might be, you might, you might, um, not know this, but we've officially, uh, it's officially been declared that the gig economy is over

and the hustle economy started rises. And I was like, the hustle economy, what is that? That sounds stupid. So I start reading the article and it described this contract workers that have no benefits and I'm like, oh, shit. This, this right here. This is the, oh crap. This is the hustle economy right here officially been labeled a hustle by

what US economists, uh, whatever it was. Um, yeah, no, like, um, the, the barista and, uh, and, uh, you know, quick job, uh, um, here and there, uh, job economy is gone. And now it is, uh, check out Twitch, check out Patreon, check out my only fans, that's where we're at. Um, yeah, that's, that's an official declaration there. And, um, I, as it was defined by, are you contract worker that if you get fired, you don't get, apply for, uh, employment insurance or benefits or

severance or whatever, cause you're not even really getting fired. Your contract is just being terminated, right? Uh, and that, that applies to all those people. And then like a week after that article came out, uh, the federal government came out and said, so we're going to expand employment insurance to include contract workers. And I was like, Hey, there we go. Yeah.

Um, thanks for that. And I think, uh, the COVID, uh, uh, provision checks are going to continue up until September and then, uh, they said they're going to transition people onto EI. So, yeah, just going to hit, just going to go on an EI. Um, now I'm, I'm going to assume there's at least a couple of people that are really confused by what the hell we're talking about. We're talking about the Canadian government and Canadian folks.

We're in Canada, hello. We heard about your 1,200 and, uh, wish you could get more on that. Uh, Canada is kind of helping people out, uh, up until September is what we were just announced. Yeah. What's EI to people asking? It's employment insurance. UI be called unemployment insurance.

And then they realized that literally means, uh, insurance in case you get a job. And is it, it makes no sense. Cause you don't get, you don't get death insurance. You get life insurance. Uh, well, we'll probably qualify for employment insurance if, you know, we do, uh, if we, you know, just drop, well, no, if I drop a bunch of gamer words, uh, in a drunken tirade, I could probably apply for EI, though that'd be an awkward conversation as to how I lost my job.

You fired yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That would be interesting. Um, but yeah, no. So I look forward to, uh, this hustle economy and when it eventually transitions into a flow economy, uh, we'll, we'll be watching.

With great interest to see where this goes. Um, okay. So obviously a lot happens in two weeks time. Yeah. Big, big things happen. Life changing things. Like I've had the biggest life event I've had in years, uh, with puppy, but, uh, Hey, here's, here's the news update on the puppy.

He's adorable. He loves us. He shits and pisses everywhere. He, uh, is in currently we're teaching him tricks and how not to poop. But, oh man, it's going to be a while. See, that's the, that's what the puppy news is going to be for like months. Okay. But the problem is if you teach him tricks, but you don't have the bathroom

down yet, uh, you're going to get end up with, you remember Akamaru? I do. Yeah. You're going to end up with that. Spin psycho crusher, but he's just releasing the fluids and solids at the same time. He's already pretty good at, uh, cause we're not taking him outside quite yet because we're afraid of the parvo, but he's already pretty good with his pads. Uh, I'd say he hits him about 75% of the time, which is enough for us to be able

to tell that he is trying to do it on purpose. Right. Instead of just, it happened to be random chance. Uh, so he is improving. He is a good boy. Also spinning pod driver, more like spinning peepie doodoo. So people, people, uh, correctly guessed that dogs probably going to grow up to be like 60 pounds and, uh, there will be a day where I am sitting here.

I like, I enjoyed it. You did it. You did it. Well, you know, I will eat. I'm, I'm trying to laser focus here cause I'm, I'm having trouble focusing. By the way, I got a, a monster now that we have a automobile, the ability to travel and actually do a groceries happened. That was, that was crazy experience.

Haven't done that in a while. Um, but, uh, uh, I lost my train of thought. Laser focus. The dogs, dogs, the dog is cute. I can't. Okay. Well, how about this? This is the, my laser.

See, this is even me explaining my laser focus made the laser focus go away. That's how it works. That's how lasers go. Oh, the dog's going to be big. So there will be a day that me and you are talking on this podcast and I get like Goldberg speared, possibly off camera. Okay. The dog that wants attention.

Yes. Uh, so how about this? The, uh, breed. I use a bulldog. Okay. No, uh, no mix in there. Um, not super sure, honestly, but, uh, maybe not, but he is a bulldog. He is going to have a fat face.

And so you're going to have the breathing problems. Uh, it doesn't look like it. Okay. You shouldn't. Cause I hear that the, the purer they are, the more they have the breathing problems. Yeah. Uh, if he does develop breathing problems, we will, we will fix him with technology.

This, this dog will want for nothing. He's got multiple vet appointments this month. Like he's got checkups from two different vets, uh, because we want to make sure that like, again, I don't, we, I don't want to go to a vet and the vets like, oh, yeah, dog's great. And then dog's not great, you know, he's a baby. He's got to be, he's got to be protected from, from the elements and his, his whole, his own, his own internal organs being disgusting.

Have you commissioned the red and yellow, um, choker equivalent for, for, Oh, you mean his bandana that page is going to be putting on him to go to the vet today? Okay. Well, or his red, or his bright red harness. Cause basically the, the, the, the bangle that, that Gif wears is, is a made to go, uh, uh, design for, for the, uh, the leash, the collar, uh, uh, uh, we're going to be mainly using a harness and a microchip.

Okay. Uh, dogs probably not going to wear, uh, a collar because he might choke himself with it and I don't want that to happen. Okay. But we, we do have a bright red harness for him and we do have a little red bandana for him. So I know I can, I can, I can, I can attest that, uh, you have been charging up your, your love beam for, for dog, for years now and any long time ever

since leaving your parents place, I'd say you've been storing that, right? Yes. And that's going to say that's accurate. And that's going to come shooting out in a nice little special beam cannon and, uh, it can possibly annihilate, uh, whatever dog happens to land in its path. I, I was, I was taking care of him last night and he was sleepy and I laid down on the floor and then he laid down next to me and I was petting him.

And maybe I cried a little bit. Okay. This is good. This is good. Maybe I, maybe that happened. This is good. However, there is a place this can go and that place involves outfits and costumes and all kinds of stuff.

And, and, uh, I just want to know, I just want to know, are, are, which, are, which, which pedal your foot is on right now? Are we, are we accelerating? Fireman first. Okay. All right. I think, I think dressing him up like a little fire and this is going, this is where it's going down.

Okay. All right. All gas, no breaks. This is where it's going. Okay. Maybe, maybe once he's a little bigger, we can put, uh, our Texas cowboy hats on him and he can be a cowboy. It's just, it's, it's not a question of, of, of if it's just how, how many,

how many costume. Oh, is that what you were asking? Okay. All right. Why even get a dog if you're not going to dress them up in silly costumes? Hmm. Make sure, make sure to zoom in on his face as he hates it. Okay.

So this is the best part. So this is the best part. If you look at, if you look at baby now, you look at him dead on, um, and, uh, his dad, that, that we, we know, uh, has the same thing. Uh, it looks like his wife left him and he lost the house and he got a pink slip. Like, uh, the eyebrows and the jowls combine to create like, I need another drink. God damn it. Look on the dog's face.

So when we put the little costume on him and make him dance, um, the dog will be beaming off a fucking kill me energy. Just just like, why, why would you do this to me? Humans? Yeah, that's, that's energy. That's the correct question. That is the correct question. So here's, so here's the, you want the answer?

So audio viewers, I'm sorry for the visual bit, but I'm currently holding a beautiful, wonderful dumb cat and he won't wear a little hat. We've tried. Why do you think that is? There's one photo of him, uh, that Paige's mom took of Elma wearing a Christmas sweater and he did not like his Christmas sweater. De, De, Dea, is there perhaps a reason you could, you could discern why that might be the case?

Because he's disabled. Because he's a disabled boy. We love him anyway though. So the fact as a result, as a result, we cannot dress up our kitty cat and it's the, and it's the cat's fault. It's the cat is defective for not wanting to be dressed up. Okay. Well, let's, let's, let's see what you're saying right now.

Clear, woolly. Let's be extraordinarily clear. The cat is defective. Okay. Like there's no, there's, this is a broken cat. And that's, that's what contributes to not wanting to wear the, okay. All right. All right.

But so the, the answer to your question is why would you dress up your dog in little outfits is, well, the cat won't wear them. Gotcha. And I think that is about as clear a non-answer I can give you. Yep. Yep. See the goal is to concentrate all that love energy into, um, you know, a nice warm, all-encompassing form and not into a destructo disc, which slices in half.

Whatever it touches. Okay. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. All right. All right. More of a spirit bomb. Yeah.

More of a spirit bomb. Listen, if we put a hat on the dog and the dog's miserable, I'm not going to wear the dog wear hat. No, but you will still have the big beef suit arm, beef thing in the mail so that what it, and it arrives and then it's like, Oh, but we set up the shot so that it can walk down the hallway and then he can have the arms bouncing. So if the dog don't like it, the dog ain't going to wear it. Like for example, uh, some people you put the, you put their harness on and

puppies will try and eat their harness because they're idiots. He likes his harness. He doesn't give a shit. He just waddles around with it. Okay. Fine. That's give as long as he gets a, and the harness is not optional. As long as he gets a fair shake, as long as he gets a fair shake in, in deciding,

you know, and, and, uh, it doesn't become a like, Oh, look, he did it. He's wearing it. It's the eighth time and he kind of just accepted it. But yeah, look, he loves it. See, doesn't he love it? And then you zoom in on said, kill me face. Let me, let me ask you a question. Uh, when you had a, when you had, you had a dog when you were younger, but

it was a larger dog, much larger. Yeah. Okay. So, um, I, I've had, uh, me and my folks had tons and tons of dogs over the years. And, uh, you ever know people that like, you know, the dog stands up or whatever and you grab their arms and you're like, ha, ha, you're dancing. Ha, ha. Like, you know, ladybird and, and Hank Hill and that, that GIF and the

dog's like, I'm not, I'm, I don't get it. Ha, ha. Right. Or you ever pick up your dog and be like, and sing a song while you, you didn't know you, you wouldn't do that. Anyway, point being, well, you, you can do things for treats, you know, but yeah. Oh, this dude, this dog, I've never seen an animal more food motivated.

That's, that's the thing. Yeah. Like, like, no, I mean, I've seen other puppies. I've seen other dogs. I've never seen any animal more food motivated. The dog goes from us dead asleep to almost knocking you over at, I think he's like 11 pounds, uh, with frenzy to get to food bowl. It's hilarious.

And we've also been occasionally hand feeding him to teach him like bite in inhibition and stuff like that. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. True. Don't does. Isn't there also that thing where, um, like dogs that most breeds will growl

and kind of give you indicators before, uh, a bite, but like bulldogs will just show nothing and that is, that is not, that is, that is a trait, uh, that is commonly attributed to pit bulls. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. No, uh, bulldogs can occasionally get something called food aggression, which

is get away from my food in which they'll growl, right? But that's why we're feeding him, uh, like about a third of the time, like his evening meal often is by hand and you teach him bite inhibition so that he slowly goes all and, you know, eats from that. And then we're going to teach him to eat near Elmo and that Elmo's food is not his food because he'll probably just eat anything and get the fucking his hands on. Um, and the ideal is that, uh, get him to a place that, uh, my folks

raise their dogs where you give the dog his, like, you know, is, is, is, you know, not like a, like a bone, but like a chew cookie, like that you'd give him like after they and be able to like, okay, and just take it. And then they look at you and they're like sad and then you give it back to them so they don't fight you for it, growl, et cetera. Although is there, is there a specific age or like order to when, like, you can start like teaching, like, like habits and tricks are kind of different, right?

Okay. Yeah. Name is first. Name is first. And that is actually so far up in the toughest one. Uh, but he will learn eventually. So it's name, call, sit, stay, right? Uh, as your primaries and on the side branch is don't shit on the floor.

Don't, instead shit on this. Now instead shit on this one, there's only one pad. Now instead shit on this one, there's only one pad and it's right next to the door. Now instead cry at the door, et cetera. I was actually, uh, just listening to a podcast that had, uh, a dude who trains dogs on it and he was talking about how, um, you'd like a big mistake that like people make is, uh, like getting like thinking that their tone of voice is,

is kind of going to, uh, indicate what they want in times when it doesn't. So like, so one of the cases that we're being like, if, uh, the doorbell rings and then dog starts going crazy and then you yell, you yell like, shut up, sit down, you know, whatever, what you're kind of doing is also going crazy in response to the doorbell ringing. Yeah. So you're just, you're just doubling down on, on the excitement. So we took baby for a car ride, right?

And baby got anxious, right? And you can't comfort them too much, uh, with it, with stuff like that, with thunderstorms, with car rides, stuff like that. If you comfort them too much, you are sending off the signal that they're right to be afraid and that something bad is happening. Uh, so you kind of just have to ignore them and let them freak out a little bit until they, they tire themselves out. Like the current battle in the household is that dog wants to sleep on our bed.

Yeah. That is where he wants to sleep. Yeah. He does not want to sleep in his crate. He does not want to sleep in his bed. He does not want to sleep on the towels that we have, you know, piled up and wait, have pieces here. Have you been in your bed while it, while he's there?

Yes. Okay. So, and the bed reeks of us like crazy. Yeah. So he wants the smell in the warmth. Absolutely. Yeah. And the blankets, nice, et cetera.

And he wants up and we can't, I'm not going to have a dog that has to be in our bed. Right. Cause there's a difference between, oh, come on on the bed. We'll, we'll snuggle with the dog. And the dog literally has to be in the bed to go to sleep because that is, I had that problem with my mom, with the last dog I had with my mom and dad, but he was in Chihuahua. So not, uh, so, uh, puppy will run at the bed and try and leap up and God, he

couldn't, he's not even close, dude. Not like, like less than a third of the way. Oh yeah. Each shit that I, and, uh, has had, uh, the past two nights has had barking ass, screaming howling matches with me where he is losing his goddamn mind and screaming at me and throwing tantrums and pouting. And I'm just on my phone, ignoring his stupid ass going, I, it does. I don't know why I'm, I'm, I'm madly in love with puppy in all other ways, but

when puppy throws a tantrum, man, I don't give a shit. You can cry all day. I, whatever. Oh yeah. Get tired and I will defeat you. You don't crack. Cause I'm a man and you're an eight, eight week old infant. Okay.

All right. You, you show him. Well, that is what you're supposed to do. You're not supposed to give any attention, negative or positive because I don't want to teach him that throwing baby tantrums is the way to get what you want. Now granted, in reality, and for me personally, throwing baby tantrums can in fact get you exactly what you want, but that's a bad lesson to actually teach a young child.

Or dog. Um, are you noticing a language problem here? Um, well, you know, it's, it's not, it's not unexpected. It's, it's anticipated. So that's fine. Uh, I, I guess, uh, the goal is to, uh, eventually just have the both feeding bowls together and let them sort their shit out. Yeah.

The next thing we're going to do is put Elmo's food near the baby's, uh, food, but like keep a door between them. So like they know if they're like on the other side of the door, but they can't interact, uh, and then we'll move on to like, you know, putting baby on a leash and like having Elmo check them out. But we might have, we might have to put, we might have to put Elmo's food on an elevated platform or in a room the dog can't get into. There are situations where if your dog is fat enough or desires to be fat

enough, if there's cat food around, they're just going to eat it. Oh, that's the problem. That's how you start wars. Well, at the time being, if there was a war to be started, I would definitely bet on the cat, which is why we clipped all his nails the day the dog showed up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That's just in case. That's correct. Just in case. That's the move. It won't be that way for long, but for now, yeah. Yeah. Uh, but yeah, that's, that's what's going on with me in my life. How about you and your life before we get into video games?

Um, well, uh, it's been no secret that I am, uh, spending a lot of time on, um, unannounced projects and things like that. And, uh, some of these things I anticipated a certain, I anticipated, I'd be able to take care of within the, uh, the in-between stream times. And it turns out that's not the case. So I've had to move some things around and create more space. Um, so, uh, it's not Vtuber stuff, as I've mentioned, uh, to people, like that's a separate thing entirely that is also a project I'm working on.

But like that's, that's, that's currently, uh, back burner until I can sort out what I got in front of me on my plate. But, uh, yeah, as a result, um, the stream is going to be a little light this week. And, um, in fact, it might be, yeah, it's going to be a little light this week. And, um, we'll have some stuff, uh, going into next week. Uh, the back end of next week is also going to be light because, um, the, the, the quarantine circle I am currently with, we are going to go and, uh, take a nice little, uh, fuck off to a cabin situation.

So we're going to go up and, uh, just kind of get, get away from things. And, uh, are you going to seal yourselves off from society and turn all your phones off and then have the wonderful experience of like, Hey, Corona two has popped up. I will be, I will be, I will be sealing myself off from society. I will not be turning my phone and shit off. I'm bringing all my tech with me because the whole, the tech retreat thing is like, yeah, no, I'm not, I'm not on a tech retreat. My tech comes with me into the bunker.

Um, I can't stop thinking about that guy that's like, comes out of an eight week nature retreat. Yeah. It's like, so what happened guys? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Not quite that. But, uh, more so than anything, like, um, punch mom's been grinding away at her

job and school at home and it's been, you know, taken its toll. So you need to take that break when you can get it. And, um, right now the ministry of Quebec is saying, Hey, if you got to go somewhere, you should go out to remote Quebec, stay within the province. And it's like, yeah, why not? It's, it's within regional boundaries. And there's a lot of remote out there in this province. So that's, that's exactly what's going to be going down.

Um, uh, so yeah, all that to say that, uh, you know, there's going to be a little light, a little, a little light, uh, streaming for, for the next little bit. Um, can't say much about the project until I can. Uh, but when I do, um, obviously you guys will know about it. Um, when I can't say, Oh yes, uh, since we didn't get to talk about it, uh, last week, uh, if you're, uh, curious, you can go check out on the rooster teeth store, a new t-shirt available, new shirt, new shirt. It's the, it's the, uh, the animated intro, um, that quiet Viking, uh, put

together is now in a kind of comic book panel format up on the rooster teeth shop under the, um, the, the castle super beast, uh, uh, section. So, um, my, my, my quick link towards it was, uh, tiny url.com slash castle super beast shirts. Uh, you can pretty much find them all, uh, in a quick little grouping right there. But, uh, yeah, a portion of the funds that you spend on that shirt will go to puppy. There you go. Don't you love puppies?

There you go. And yeah, it's, uh, it's, it came out really nice. And, uh, quiet Viking rules and, um, actually, uh, sat down and had a little, uh, chat, uh, with him because he's working on something pretty cool as well. And I'll let him sort of like, announce that and stuff. But, uh, yeah, that is available right now. So you can go check that out. Got a little, all right.

Um, had to worry about that. Anyway, so, uh, yeah, we had, uh, we had that, um, and in the, in the time that was not spent exhaustingly working on this, I can't wait. Sorry. I can't wait to talk about this thing. Cause it's just, don't do this shit. I'm sorry. It's just, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.

It sucks. I know it sucks. It's so much though. Anyway, moving on from that, moving on from that, um, in the meantime, what I did do is, um, one, I spent some time playing, uh, fantasy strike, fantasy strike, uh, the, the fighting game has, uh, had a big update where it is now free to play. It is now on, uh, is now cross play on all consoles and platforms, which is including what the switch as well switch, uh, switch ps4, Xbox and, um, and PC, I

believe, and no Xbox, no Xbox. Okay. Excuse me. PS4 switch PC. Um, yes, cross play is there. Two new characters, uh, were put in and, uh, basically, yeah, there's, uh, the, the free to play, uh, um, switch over means that, uh, now, because between, between going free to play and between having cross play, it's way more active and you can

get games in. I would fucking hope so much easier than, than you could. Um, people got to play your game. It's, if it's free, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's rollback as well. So that's all doing what it should. Yes. Uh, free, free in quotation marks today. Right.

Uh, so the way they've set it up is, um, the free to play version of the game you get is basically you can play, uh, online, um, not player match against basically like ranked or, uh, I think it's like you can play online, ranked or unranked, uh, full roster when, in the free to play version. Whereas if you want to, so you're free to play with randoms, essentially. Okay. But if you want to play with your friends, you have to play, if you want to play with your friends, yeah, you got a, uh, for you.

Oh, that's a, that's a fairly interesting business model. Yeah. Um, so for, for that, it's the, the $20 like core pack, I believe. So that's what they did. Um, I mean that generally allows, I guess, people to mostly populate the online, you know, service, which is where you want people to be so that you can always have people to play against. So that's what they did.

Lots of scrubs to play against in a business model like that, which makes others, other scrubs very happy. So yeah, that's kind of, you know, and that's kind of the, the, the decision. Um, basically the way the community manager, we had him on and he kind of talked about it in the way he kind of explained it was like, you know, they setting up their set, they set it up in such a way where they're like, yeah, we'd like to keep, uh, working on this game. And in order to do that, we need to make some money on it, but we also want to

have as many people come in and see if they like it. So that's kind of what it's set up to do. Um, and, uh, yeah, I've been, I've been, so I've been, I went back to that and I've been playing a good bit with the new character, uh, Onimaru, giant big sword guy. He's got some pretty, uh, sick, um, high damage swings, follow-ups, some stuff that I really like in a character, which is like, Oh, that dude looks so much like Bishamon.

He's, it's totally that. It's the Bishamon guy. Yeah. So I actually, he's from the expansion deck of the Yomi card game. Um, he's from the second set of characters and, uh, he's got stances. He's got counters. He's got some really, uh, brutal, just charge the sword up. And if you twitch, I'm going to swing it types, intimidating, um, move.

So I was having fun with that. I like that between him and, um, and, uh, Geiger, I, I think I, I have like the two characters I like to play the most and the, uh, the way like ranked and tournaments tend to work in this game is they actually, you play your, it's team mode, so they want you to pick three characters and then it does a rotation system. So instead of doing a one view one, you kind of have these like three matchups that you have to have.

So KOF style, you kind of need to have at least three characters. I was just about, it's just KOF. Yeah. Um, they've explained it. I remember he kind of explained it as like, um, it just because the games can go so quickly and because matchups are like such a big part of it, it really, uh, shows, I think it's just like, it's a better indicator of which player is better if you can cover your bad matchups and still win the set.

Okay. I'm watching a little bit of footage of Onamaro now, like Jesus Christ. He hits like a samurai showdown character. Yeah, he does. He really does hit like a samurai showdown character. That's a good way to put it. Um, so that's really cool. It's really nuts.

There's also a, uh, kind of like, uh, I forgot his name, but there's the second guy who, who the second character creates duplicates of himself all over the screen and then like one of them is, one of them is fake. And you know, one of them is real. So you don't know which one. And then he has a, an Aegis reflector where if you get hit by the Aegis reflector, those copies all become real. So it goes from being like, uh, which one situation into a full on like

Gennagian and then at some point the Gennagian copies can get broken off from him. A Gennagian is a young super from third strike. Uh, and, uh, I got to see footage of this. It's quints, quints. It's really, really disgusting when you see it. Oh, he's resputing. He's basically like, yeah.

A little bit. This is really, really obvious. Um, it is a really, really just, oh my God. So I'm looking at the super. You just described Jesus Lord. Yeah. So that is really a bunch, three copies of his, of the character jump out and just start doing things.

And then if you hit him with an Aegis, they become real and it's like, just die. Just, just now there's no escape. They're all going to hit you and you're going to be in a infinite essentially. Yeah. So, um, so fantasy strike, the two new characters, that's it. Quints and, uh, and, uh, Onimaru, um, again, yeah, playing some, playing some of that and having some fun and, and, and learning, learning it a bit more again. Um, that was pretty dope.

Um, the other thing I did was, uh, yeah, I spent a little time playing, uh, Melee online via slippy.gg, which we announced, uh, on the, we talked about, uh, two weeks ago, the new form of Melee smash or Melee with rollback in it. Yeah. And that's still the craziest thing. So the creator, uh, the video is coming out today because we, we, we streamed it last Thursday, but, uh, um, I think, uh, Solidus, yeah, got it together and we're going to, we're going to put the, the full episode out of get into fighting

games, uh, smash Melee with rollback, uh, today. We had, uh, Fizzy, the, the guy who made this, he came on, uh, him and Reggie, our friends, they actually know each other from the smash community because he was here in Montreal, uh, some time ago, you know, when he was like in, in, uh, college and stuff like that. And basically he told us the story about how, yeah, him by himself, six months of work, he implemented functioning rollback into smash. And it's not just like adding it to, let's say, like the dolphin emulator so that

it, like you can then use the emulator to match up with people and then like get that going, he actually implemented an online login system into smash. Itself and it's so fucking impressive when you see it because it looks like it was shipped with the game. So if one talented individual with no resources and throw this together in six months, yeah, what the hell is Nintendo's excuse? Um, a lack of concern for that matter because it doesn't. They don't need that.

Doesn't matter to all I can feel is somebody shrugging with their hands out going, I don't know, lol, what, what people, we talked about a lot of this. We broke it all down and, um, you know, what they care about the most, what matters the most is the new character announcement, the stage and the songs. So like that's kind of what, uh, matters to the package for most people. So that's what the focus is and having a decent online. I mean, the switch itself is not, you're not plugging your Ethernet into the fucking, you know, console, like console, it's already set up, but I mean, it's

already set up for failure out of the box because most people are on Wifi, right? And we'll talk about that in a second because, um, there was some news, uh, that was quite shocking in regards to that, but not really. Anyway, that comes later. We, um, so we, we talked to, to, to Fizzy and yeah, he kind of explained, you know, he, he wanted the game to not only have a really good, um, the online system, but he wanted it to feel like it belonged in the, in the game. So when you boot it up, right, it just takes you like, you go to multiplayer or

rather you go to us, like one of the sub menus and single player or so. And then it's like online play. And then in, in the smash menu, it goes, it loads up a login and in the login prompt, you type in your name, you know, and you can register on the slippy.gg website. And then you go, okay, cool. Now you log in, it creates your login account. And then someone who's hosting a game can be like, yeah, I got a game up. Just join with this name, with this name and this number.

And then you just connect to each other. And it like, it feels like you're playing locally. Like it feels perfect, you know, and it's done to be minimal, um, difficulty. It's done to be very, very like new player friendly. We are in the weirdest time for fighting game, rollback, netcode, because it's starting to happen and it's starting to become unavoidable. And every time it happens until it, I guess it hits like 80% of games. When I hear what you're telling me is incredible and slippy's work is astonishing.

And he should feel incredibly proud. And I'm pissed off. Like I'm upset because it's not in the game that I want to play. Exactly. They won't put it in the game that I want to play. That's literally the one of the first things I said to him, one of the first things I said to him when we were talking, after he explained it was, I am equally astonished and amazed at what you've done and so angry and frustrated

at the fact that we can't get this done elsewhere. It just won't happen. You know, um, yeah, it really is. So, you know, if you want to get a nice little, uh, breakdown, including some crazy ass details where like one of the major factors as to why he was able to do this anyway is because Smash Melee had a thing. And remember all these like crazy modes where you had like slow mo Melee and like, uh, HP mode and shit like that.

Yeah. So Smash Melee has something called lightning mode as well. Where, yeah. So I don't know what lightning mode is. What is lightning mode is where your, your characters are moving at like 600% speed. Right. Oh, oh, like super fast, crazy. Yeah.

Right. So as a result of that, um, basically he's like, hold on a second, if this game is in, if this mode is in the game and they're moving super fast, then it's like clear, it's, it's showing that the, the render engine for like what's showing the characters and their frames is decoupled from the game logic where you input your, your moves and buttons. The fact that those two things are decoupled means that you can have a match without actually rendering things out, which is exactly what you need to set

up rollback. So that, which means is what actually let the whole thing happen. You know, um, it was really, it was one of those, just like 8,000 IQ moments, you know, where the right person looking at this and going, hold on a minute, if A then B, and now we're looking at C, you know, um, it's a really, really fucking brilliant, uh, uh, string of events. And he wants to do so much more with it as well. But as is right now, it fucking works.

Um, there would be difficulty getting it to work with like four players, you know, that's a whole other like kind of worms to get into, but like for one dude working on it, like it is, it is quite official looking and it fucking works, man. That's one of those things that I can only imagine actually hits the design wall in that it's like, okay, we can make the net code better, but only for two players and you get in a situation where it's like, imagine you're playing smash and you can have four player online battles and they're the train wreck that they are now, and then you have two player and it's like incredible.

Like that kind of almost, even though it's a feature ad ruins a component of the game. So fortunately, like there are games that have four players and rollback, lethal league blaze and brahalla are doing it. But again, these are, you know, it's hard, right? That's like harder still. It's much harder. Yeah.

Because, you know, you're, you're the, the, the, the, this basically the whole magic of rollback where it like it simulates your expected inputs in some cases. Crunching that with three other players creates a realm of possibilities that gets a lot harder to math. Yep. Sure. Exactly. Just as you can imagine, right?

So, uh, what, what you kind of, so, so it's, it's a much more difficult thing, but you know, that, that for now this is what's there and what works. Um, and like there's funny little things that happen when you're putting this together where, for example, um, if you pick, uh, if you pick Zelda, you could hold the button down before the match and she'll turn into chic before the fight starts, right? Great. That's a, that's a mechanic.

Um, however, um, because the game is not, uh, it's not because that's stuff that's happening on the loading screen. It's inputs that are taking place before the actual match starts. You're going to lose out on that in the case that somebody chooses to do that during a matchup. Um, from in most cases, uh, there's no real reason to do it, except for one where, uh, I think he said like, uh, certain high level Japanese players brought up the fact that they would switch from Zelda to chic if they happened

to be matched up against ice climbers. They would hold, if they saw ice climbers pop up, they'd hold the button down. And any other circumstance, they'd keep their decision. So like, they're like, uh, oh, we have one situation where that button of being held before the match starts needs to be acknowledged. What do we do? Cause we can't have the two players desync. And now we're having one game show you chic and the other game show you Zelda.

That's fucked up. Right. So, um, he then, so then he modded the game so that on the character select screen, there's a little S or a Z button that you just click right next to chic or Zelda, and it'll just set whichever one you want to be. And then that settled on the type of the character select screen so that you don't have to worry about that problem. Excuse me.

Other way around. Yes. The character, the matchup, I don't know them. I don't know the game that well, so I can't tell you what the matchups are, but the point being that, uh, you'd have to switch from one to the other. And he sorted it out by making it so that on the character select screen, you can figure that out instead of having to hold the button. So like he even went through the trouble of like these little edge case scenarios,

like covering that ground as well, you know? Um, so that's, that's pretty rad. Um, so, uh, yeah, shout outs to fizzy and the projects, uh, Slippy.gg. And, uh, you can go check that out now. If you want to play some good ass online melee, it fucking works, man. You know, so, uh, that video is going to be popping up. Um, and yeah, I finished Halo two. I started Halo three.

Are you finishing the fight? I am in the process of finishing fights. Fights will be finished. My biggest, my biggest question for you about Halo isn't about Halo three specifically, but it's about the fact that the series in this weird remake limbo of like Halo two anniversary coming out way after Halo three. Uh, how does it feel to go back to was essentially a very polished Xbox 360 game? The cutscenes hold up the in game, like the blur cutscenes that were in Halo

two anniversary are stunningly gorgeous, like cinematic quality. The ones in three are not that, but they, as everyone said, they're not, they're still quite good for in game cutscenes, still pretty good. Yeah. And it honestly does hold up. So I can, I like, I, I'm a couple, you know, we're a couple levels in right now. And I'm like, yeah, no, I get it. Like this didn't necessarily need it.

It would be great. Like they, like the game, it didn't need to be remade and, and, and, you know, like have a full asset upgrade that wasn't necessary for the game. It would be amazing if all the games could have those blur cinematic cutscenes. Definitely. But three is the furthest along the pipeline. It's still, it's holds up the best, you know, of the original cutscenes so far of the games I've played at least.

And I felt like three is the one I spent by far the most amount of time with. That's a good game. Yeah. Um, two is how do you like the mongoose? Yeah, the mongoose is pretty all right. Uh, how about that? The, the, it's pretty all right. Like my first, my first outing, I saw fucking saw that was not bad.

That was not bad. Um, I, I, I liked that section. That was pretty cool. Uh, straight up a like find a way to deal with this boss. There's multiple to get to the ways to approach it. Um, vehicles are all overall way better. I feel like they've, they've, you know, tightened them up. They've, they've improved over the already improved ones in Halo two.

Uh, and, um, they're also really do it. And I can see this being something that is like a, not a marketing decision. Well, what's the word? I guess like it's almost like when a movie needs to show you like the reason why you're, you're, you're watching the, the familiar heroes do the new thing in a way, you got to get that in early. So they throw a lot of the new guns at you right away. I've noticed, uh, yeah, I remember picking up like a, I think it was a

brute pistol in like the first level, first level, you get a brute, you get the brute shot and being like, yo, this pistol is incredible. Yeah. Uh, it's the brute shot. You get it right away. And, uh, that's cause Brutes are now regular enemies. Um, and then yeah, you immediately get like a couple of other new guns, also because they need to kind of like replace the, uh, you're probably going to be

like, why can't I dual wield everything? And, you know, the answer is like, well, because that shit was ridiculous. Double needlers had to go. So a way they went, but, um, the, uh, yeah, the, the, the, the new guns are coming in pretty fast, uh, pretty good selection with those. I feel, uh, like it, it makes a lot of sense. Like I'm, I'm imagining a lot of this in a multiplayer context and I could see that variety being really fun to play with.

Um, particularly if they did keep, you know, some of the old guns is all the old guns as well, uh, or at the very least, like you have stuff where like you're starting out with the battle rifle, which is like fucking fantastic as always. Uh, and then like, yeah, same thing, first level. Here comes the hammer now, right? Oh, man. The custom games with like super speed and like low gravity and hammer.

It's the shit. Really, really fun. So the design of that F, one of these first areas where grab the hammer, um, you know, RB is going to go up top and like fire down the hallway and draw fire, draw attention and chief is going to go underneath, sneak around and I'm going to come up behind everybody and just hammer the fucking shit out of them, um, really, really fun, really cool. So, uh, yeah, Halo three, pretty fun, pretty fun.

I'm also, um, like it's, it's pretty uncommon for games to end. Well, and I don't mean story wise. I just mean like a lot of games hit their climax, like three or four levels too early and then it's, uh, Halo three, like it's, it's a pretty steady climb all the way up until the credits. Okay. Like those last like two, three, four levels are all just like, oh yeah. Yeah.

You know, just increasing in quality. It's great. I'm looking forward to it. You know, we're still, we're still, uh, the, the first half, but, um, yeah. So far, I mean, there's been a very clear, like build to the middle and, um, I feel like the Halo games, instead of putting the climax in the, uh, on this, in the, the, at the end of the, like second out of three acts, they will, uh, put it in the dead center.

There'll be a gameplay switch in the dead center of the game and then you'll build up towards a 75% mark climax actually, and then right out the finale. So it almost feels like, it feels like the Halo games so far have been in, uh, in four acts instead of three a little bit. Um, but yeah, man, that's why there's Halo four. Well, no, no, no, no, that's why there's Halo reach or odds. Yeah. Uh, orbital drop.

Damn it. Yeah. It's, you know, it's a strategic guy. It's, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a cool thing because they do it multiple times in the game, right? Uh, they, they, they do the orbital drop orbital drop shock trooper. Right. They, they do the thing and when they're doing it, I'm like, Oh, so basically

they're dropping from high up, right? Yeah. So I'm like, yeah, so they're doing Halo jumps and it's like, yeah, but we couldn't call it a Halo Halo drop. So yeah, we had to use something else, you know, so I'm like, are you saying that this orbital drop shock trooper is some kind of high angle, low orbit drop? Essentially, what are we doing here? You know, uh, it's not important.

Um, it was great. It was very cool. Uh, that game is like, it's a feature that you're not taking advantage of. And I didn't either, but it should be noted about Halo three is that the fact that it did have four player co-op for the whole campaign is frankly insane. Yes, that's pretty unheard of in many cases. In fact, I remember, um, my, yeah, I remember my friend invited us over on launch for that and we played the first, like maybe half an hour or hour together

just to be like, Oh shit, you'll check it out, story mode multiplayer. You know, and that was pretty cool. Um, yeah. Yeah. So the one problem with it and the problem is, is that player one gets to be mastered, player two gets to be arbiter and player three and four get to be new elites created for the co-op mode. I mean, how much do you want to bet?

There's books about them. Like I bet you somewhere now there are somewhere in the town. Yeah. Like somewhere in those like 33 novels, there's going to be someone who wrote about who those three player three and four and four are, you know, I, so it doesn't even matter if it's like, who are these guys? Cause you'll get a ton of detail on who they are as soon as an author gets down to it, you know, there's a fucking dude, you shoot an elite, you shoot

in an elevator in one and like, as you, he just sees as you shoot him and you walk on, you take the elevator up to the, like one of the final areas and it's like, oh yeah, that guy had a whole like book and story and his journey to the final elevator where then now he's just an elevator Corpse bit where just master chief runs by and blows them the fuck away like any other enemy, you know, so yeah, no, there's, it's become quite clear that these novels are a big deal. You know, shout outs to the coal protocol, the one that keeps coming back up because it's, it's very important that we learn about what happens in the coal

protocol. I genuinely feel like Halo was like in my mind, at least damaged by book nerds in, in, in their defense, the coal protocol details are actually quite cool and interesting to know about, but there is a fury and fire that cannot be doused. That comes with reading a lot of those things and needing everyone to know about them. It's, it's just like when you're like, when you look at something and you don't, you don't necessarily view it as like a story critical thing right off

the bat. One of the, one of the most disheartening things is somebody to slap a bunch of supplemental material on your desk and go, you got to, you got to get this though, right? I assume a lot of people feel that way about near automata, right? It's just like, oh, hey, that girl has a big ass. I want to play the action game. And then you're like, well, check out this motherfucking stage play.

Yes, like, yes, yes. Oh, shit. And listen, in some cases, in many cases, with the wrong energy, the excitement to try and push people down the path of the thing that you like can actually make them be like, dude, you're kind of making it so that when I get here, I'm going to care less and I'm going to have like my eyebrow up because it's like, oh, look, it's the thing that no one would shut up about, you know, but like, yeah, there's a, there's a, there's a, an art to restraint and letting people

have their, have their moments when, you know, you know, that they're going to enjoy something. I mean, there's a lot of stuff that I've been, that I've recommended to a punch mom, she's actually just finished the Sopranos. Um, you know, she's read through, she's, she's gone through Undertale. She's gone through, uh, P five, uh, Vagabond as well, you know, like from time to time, there'll be like suggestions when she's like, Hey, I'm looking for something to watch or whatever.

And, uh, I'll be like, yeah, check this shit out, you know, and in all of those cases, in all of those cases, um, just like, here you go, go enjoy it. Right. I will not do the thing where I sit down and stare at your face as you're watching it, waiting for your reaction, go enjoy it on your own. And whenever things happen and you want to come talk about them, we'll have a fucking fun talk about them. And that's the best way to go about it.

Yeah, right. Why even have her watch it at all? Because all point of people watching things so that you can also enjoy them vicariously again, which we can do when we have the discussion about how fucking great the Sopranos is. No, it needs to be pure. It's once the credits are rolling and then she walks over and goes, Oh my God, but it, it's too late.

The high is over. Yeah. No, well, I don't care about like sitting there and annoying people with shit and brooding their immersion so that I can see their face go, Oh my God. Like, no, this is actually because you hate people doing that to you. And so you're being the bigger man for the version of yourself because it's ruining it for the person doesn't bother at all. You know, like, I don't need to fucking get that, that the reaction vicariously

in that moment and ruin the person's immersion in whatever they're doing. Just let them get there and do it themselves. And then we'll talk about it after the fact, you know, and people definitely can still enjoy what's going on when you discuss it after the yeah. We live stream video games on the internet. We do. We do.

What I'm talking about is when you turn and you go, uh, uh, live in person, because you know how annoying that is when people kind of ruin it for you by doing that, you know what that is. It doesn't ruin it for me. Okay. It's, it's one of those things where there's a difference between like watching something with people or rewatching something with people, which I do as well.

And that's fine, but you, it's the difference between that and like stopping in the middle of it to put, or before you even start to push supplementary material. Yeah. So I will agree with you to a point where there's the obvious, like extreme of this where, uh, even I will get upset or we'll be watching something that page is very familiar with and she'll go, Oh, this is my favorite part. Yeah. Which is the phrase.

Yeah. The phrase like, come on. Yeah. But like, let's, let's be very real. This is just your spoiler sense tingling once again. It's not spoilers. You want, you, you want to sit next to a robot. No, it's not.

No, that's, that's not about spoilers. I know how I am about those. This is just like, it's just, it's just like, it's a weird sort of distraction. And if the person invites that and wants it and it's totally like they want to pause it and talk in the middle of the thing and whatnot, that's totally okay. I'm, I'm okay. If that's what they want, then that's fine. What's up?

I have a question. I have a question. I didn't want to interrupt you. So I just held up my hand. Um, so you said, if they want to pause and talk about it, that's fine. So I have a question, which is more personally annoying to you? Um, somebody watching something with you and you're the new person and they're just like constantly, like you can see them side-eyeing you like every 10 seconds.

It's like, oh, or, so you're watching something with someone and they are the person who is new and the good parts coming up and they just pull out their phone and just start browsing Twitter right before the good part. And then, and then they put their phone away and the good parts over and they go, what happened? Or, or the good parts about to happen and they have to look down to eat their food instead of just shoving it into their face. So yeah, just the no look.

So, so, so they stop to look down and pull the knife and fork out and take their time slicing. And then once they take the slice and then they create the perfect, they have to take the fork and now get the other things. So you get the perfect fork full and this entire perfect fork full process took like 25 seconds in which the rad thing has come and gone. And then it's like someone's dead. Yeah.

Or, you know, and of course they're speaking in Japanese. So you missed entirely what happened. And it's like, wait, what? Yes, a little bit of that. The situation is so bad. That Eli, when Plague of Grypes is able to tell from a certain silence length during a Star Trek episode when Eli Page and I are watching Star Trek, where he will literally just say page, pay attention when shit is coming up.

Yeah, you, you're on your phone. I see you. I love you. Um, because a plot critical detail will arise that needs to be physically witnessed with the eyes. Yeah, because otherwise we get this, like it's the combination of two things. It's the combination of a brand new character walks on screen. Yep.

Right. Who is that? You're not supposed to know. Why would, why, like, why, why do you need that? And just watch it. So, and I realized what that is. That is they know they're going to miss the information later. So they want the people who know to just tell them now so they can safely

miss the context, the context. I mean, listen, that when that has happened, uh, definitely those are the times where it's just like, okay, wait, you, you missed that, right? Okay, stop, pause, eat your food, swallow. Okay, back it up. What just happened, you know, and like, yes, that, that, that, but like, that's a way more way that that's worse. That's definitely worse.

I will, I will, I will 10 times out of 10. Fuck it. Oh, yeah. Um, anyway, though, uh, so, so that's, that's, that's the halo. That's ongoing. Now, hey, you know what? Just so I don't get in as much trouble, I will be fair to page. There is a third one.

There is a third one that I am guilty of, which I don't think is as bad, but that's because it's me, which is you said stop and talk. And I then said, uh, ignore and ask. What about just talking? Don't stop it. Just start a conversation about it during the ongoing. If it's more than a single sentence, fuck off. Okay.

Well, let's see. So which is worse, the ignore or the, or the talk, just like have a conversation. Cause I do that. That's me. Fuck off. No, it's, it's single sentence is fine. You know, um, and then you can elaborate on that later. Hey, that new hero, cause you can, he has his, uh, that new heroes eyes are a

reference to, to French comics. Okay. We'll talk about it later. You know, you can, you can, you can hear in the background while you, while you do, there is, so, so the, let's play this is, this, this, it doesn't happen here and not in this household, but the ultimate disrespect is, uh, bathroom run and, or like drink refill. And it's like, oh, should I, I'm going to pause it.

And I got, I'll just keep it going. Like, oof, oof, that says everything right there. That's when you should like reassess and then they, and then they come back and they're like, Oh, why'd you pause it? I'm like, cause I've seen it. I don't, I don't, I don't, why, why, what, that's, that's, that's a reassessment moment, uh, with one exception, I'd say if you're listening to standup comedy, you can just pump the volume and that's fine.

You know, but like, it's a radio show. I mean, there are some pantomimes, but, you know, act outs. Um, but no, that's it, man. You definitely are, are, are, are, uh, yeah, yeah, that's a problem. Listen, everyone enjoys media wrong, except for me is the rule. The right way to do it is, um, to listen to it only minimized while you play Rainbow Six or Valorant. Oh, that's little particular, a little on the nose.

I mean, you, you, you, you, I wouldn't say you got me, but I'd say like I heard the whiz of the bullet cause like I blew, you know, how I watched the shield while grinding classes to level cat. Yeah, that's how I watched that show, like period. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep.

That's, there you go. There you go. Uh, you know, so that's, that's, that's basically what's going on. And, uh, of course, um, Paper Mario continues to be excellent and crazy. And, uh, I, it, it has, there's, there's a character apparently recurring in the Paper Mario franchise that, uh, pops up out of a little hole and it's a little like almost like a diglet. This name's Waka.

Oh, okay. Just so happens to be, right? Just so happens to be, got it. All right. And he's friendly. And if you happen to bop him on the head with your hammer, you get one of the most useful healing items. You get a massive, you basically get like, uh, like almost like a soma.

You know. Okay. And so what's the downside? Uh, well, you, you, you, you hit him again and you get another one. And apparently there's a limit to how many you can get. I think the limit is like eight or so. And as you then talk to hit after you hit him, apparently he starts to forget things and somewhere around the eighth one, actual brain damage kicks in.

Good. Fuck him. You won't remember that you robbed him. So it's basically a Waka mole, except you are giving him a concussion every time in exchange for that item until eventually he can no longer speak straight. That's fine. He gets a little punchy.

You know. So, well, I have a question about your week. And I'm excited because we've been both playing a lot of ghosts of Sashima. And I was interested on your like larger term thoughts and I was scrolling through my YouTubes and I saw an episode go up that was woolly verses. Thanks for nothing. You should call it. And I'm like, good, perfect.

Boy, dude. That guy is the worst boy. Did I 180? I 180 really quick because he was like a hard ass talking shit. And I was like, ah, he seems fun. I like that. Look at this guy. And then as it goes on, you're like, oh, your student left you because

you're an asshole. So I'm a little farther on his quest line than you are. And it's it's really enjoyable because Jen keeps going like, so what exactly happened and it keeps coming back like shut up. It's not important. She's gone now and we my way of the bow and Jen's like, it seems like you might have been a massive piece of shit ishikawa. No, I would never.

Yeah, my bow. Yeah, my bow. Yeah, my bow, Jen. And and holy shit. To me, it was just like, okay, this the moment that the actual fighting starts and you're just going to chill and fucking hang back and be like, ah, needed to see what good you were. Fuck off.

Fuck off. You jerk. I have 180 on Ishikawa completely. He's such a consistent asshole to you at like, Jen is constantly like, like Ishikawa will use like some metaphor and Jen will go like, yeah, but what about this? Like like a real person and he'll be like, no, Jen. My way of the bow is that I have to protect it for the future.

It's the job. And it's like, yeah, what? Why are you who can I mean, old bitch? You wanted you want to if you want to like throw in your movie tropes, like the stubborn old master that is really good at the thing, but is also just an anti-social prick. Yeah, is yeah, is fully being represented here. Absolutely.

And then on the flip side, you go hang out with the least chill character. I think I have ever met in a game so far with Moscow. So far, very little chill in Lady Adachi, very little chill. I I really love how strongly they set the character up. I can't it's it's still one of my favorite moments of the game where you catch up to it was the monk. Yep. And she gets two questions in and he tells her to fuck off.

Yep. And then she tells him to fuck off and cut some. Now here's the problem. Now here's the question, right? I'm like, I'm looking at that and I'm like, damn, lady. I ain't even mad, though. I ain't even mad. I like that's great.

You know, you're like, wow, that was really over the top. I get it. But wow, I had a similar reaction. But the way that this it works so well is because Jyn's mad. Because you Jin just spent the whole quest to track this guy down. And the first thing out of his mouth is like, we didn't even ask him any questions. Yeah, what?

Yeah, what do why do we do that? Like, what is happening? We learned nothing. Look, we all saw John Wick here, right? We remember how that first movie ends. Like, sometimes, sometimes you just got to do it. You just got to do it with no respect, you know? And yeah, she's she's quite justified.

She's quite justified. So yeah, Lady No Chill. She's all right. She's all right. You know, that game's great. It's also like physically a lot larger than I thought it was. So I was quite shocked at the introduction of Thunder Puppers. Even in a just a lower context.

There's a there's a pretty bad ass like introduction to a move you're going to go get. Oh, yeah, that thing where before you get the move, they're like, by the way, here's some sick ass Okami lore and you're going to learn about some Thunder Puppers for a second. I'm like, we're about to go fucking. OK, what do we do in here? And it's like, OK, no, no, no, no, no, we're still in the realm of reality here.

But it's a magical legend. But check this out, though. Look at this cool cut scene. I thought that was rad. It was a nice unexpected like, yo, we're going to throw in some like some fables into this into the setup towards this cool move, which is a pretty rad move. It's really good.

So far, all of the combat moves you get from the legendary stuff, I have two of them. They're great. You should if you see that blue marker, just go fucking do it right away. I didn't understand. Initially, it took a second for me to register what those upgrades were doing when the blue marker came in, right? And like I was like, wait, so this only applies to blue

blue sparks. What about the red sparks? And it's like, no, no, no, no, no. Now, everything that was unblockable is now a blue, which means you can parry it with some exceptions. There's stuff that's very very red. OK, OK. But like in the context of the guys that guys that use I do you can't block that.

OK, guys that like their weapons on fire can't block that. So that I've never seen like a game where the the animation indicator on the enemy's move changes according to what abilities you have. I can't because at the beginning of the game, I think you can't block spears at all. OK. Yeah. And then you get that unblockable move and now OK, well, now I can. Yeah, the prompt I've I don't you know what I mean?

It's always been a thing where you get an ability and then you can deal with that prompt next time you see it. But the prompt changing entirely from one that you can do nothing about to one that you can do something about is very different. Because I'm thinking of like remember like the Keery counter. Yeah, you know, very clearly. So I was thinking of like that, for example, and in this case, it's like, no, no, no, like you you you're going to see a different startup prompt, you know.

Yeah, I think it depends. I have to play the game more to but I'm not sure which is better. I feel like training to to react to one thing. It's ultimately the same, though, it's not that bad. But like in terms of recognition, like knowing that you could not do something before, but now you can. It might be better off to like like let that stay consistent, you know, and then you have a situation that you can deal with it.

Because I think most people get that upgrade relatively early and that like you not having that upgrade is going to represent like maybe a total of five percent of your total play time. OK, like I forgot that upgrade existed. OK, you started to talk about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So either way, though, like that's a nice that's a nice upgrade. And, you know, there's clearly a lot of different ways to go about things.

So yeah, no, man, nice, nice, nice, nice, like increasing of the pace. And I'm also starting to see how, like, the open world formula kicks in, you know, it has the best use of its actual open world of any game I have ever played. I was talking about it on Twitter and I'm just like this wind mechanic is the single biggest deal in the whole game by far. Because I'm actually riding around and looking at my fucking screen

instead of the mini map and bonus points to the genius that decided to have bright yellow birds up here and be like, hey, dude, there might be a thing nearby. You want to check it out? But it is still open world, you know. But like they the the indicator is definitely like a really strong one. I also like how they give you a very early variety of samurai stylings to pick from where it's like, hey,

did you not want this kind of samurai that you've started as? Well, here, play a couple missions. Now you can be Jubei. Do you want to be a Jubei? OK, cool. Here you go. You're a pretty shitty Jubei. You can upgrade the hat, though. Your your hat is hilarious. It's garbage when you when you get it.

Absolute trash. Yeah, which is great, because it's like, oh, look, it's the type of samurai you want to be, but man, are you looking like shit? So that that's the outfit I've worn for like 95 percent of the game. Not just because I think the look is cool, but because the the bonuses you get off of it are my favorite. What was the bonus on it again? Oh, yeah, it was a stealthy bonus. Enemies detect you less quick. Stealthy bonus, yeah.

And it means detect you less quickly when you come out of the grass and just a raw increase to damage. Yeah, OK. So it's it's one of the it's probably the best one in the game for. Do you want to sometimes be sneaky and sometimes not? Whereas a lot of the armor sets are like you want to fucking just run in there and fucking kill everybody. And there's others that are just like, do you want to just use your ghost tools and have those do double damage?

You know, what have you? Yeah. Yeah, once I learned, I didn't know what I was doing the first time I followed a fox. And I got to a shrine and then I'm looking out and I didn't know what I was doing. And now that I know what I'm doing, I'm like, oh, fuck, it's time to follow every fox and get get that fucking slot. And also. And then when you get all the slots, which I mean, is very soon, you then get something better than the slots after that. Cool.

Also, accidental haikus, unintended, uncertain. You know, wish I could kind of redo, but oh, well. Those haikus are terrible. They're not. Well, now that I know what the mechanic is, I'm going to be more careful about what I look at. But initially, I was just kind of picking the location that seemed the most interesting, not necessarily the concept. Yeah, but now you get the headband and the haiku

is like emblazoned on it forever, forever. Yep. Dude, Jen's haiku suck ass. Not quite the near automatic message. No, not quite. It really feels like they were like, we need to have a reason to just literally plant the camera in a spot. And have people look at the pretty lake that we drew.

And then they're like, well, what about haikus? Well, yeah, but they're going to plant you and make you look at the pretty everything that they made. Like that's the whole fucking island. They sure did. The foliage is out of control. It's out of control. I mean, I stumbled across the shrine gate and climbed that mountain,

which like temporarily had me jumping over like hell pits for a second. And then you're like, what's what's going on with that? What am I doing? Like, what am I doing up here? And then you just kind of look out and you go, oh, you're showing me the pretty. Well, yeah, OK, that makes sense. I think getting on top of those shrines is the is legit crazy because the the draw distance is like four kilometers.

It's super fucking far. Like you can see into the the next map over. This is also the first time I can say I've seen a loading squeeze. But the loading squeeze is not actually to load anything. It's just to gate you off from the open area. So FF seven has these big old loading squeezes where you turn sideways, move a bookshelf and start moving through a crack. And like, I don't know which game invented it,

but like that's definitely a hallmark of Gears of War, Gears of War. Yeah, the walk in talks. Yeah, OK, the walk in talks. That was the first game. Yeah, I guess like I guess I kind of like put loading squeezes as like it's a walk in talk in a more specific way, you know, but. Elevators as well are really clear, you know, loading mechanic. But yeah, after seeing as many as we did in FF seven,

I was like, oh, here we go. And it's like, no, no, no, he. Yeah, and it's like a second. It took two seconds because it's just about gating you off. It's just about making sure that you can't access this area from the outside world and you can't call your horse in here. You're playing it on a regular PS4 with a regular hard drive, right? What's up?

You're playing on a regular PS4 with a regular hard drive, right? Yeah, lean into the mic more. Oh, really? Yeah. It was. Hello. Yeah, there you go. What how fast are your fast travel times? Um, I mean, it's no bloodborne launch, you know, it's it's fine. I mean, it was better than Death Stranding was my loading times are better than Death Stranding.

Because on the on I'm playing on a pro with an SSD and like the timing is just like it is one second. OK, like I've played a bunch of games on this on the PS4 that I have an SSD installed in and they've gone faster. But this is like actually ridiculous. So it's like, yeah, no, it's noticeable that this is a recent game, you know, like I would say, um, bloodborne, uh, Death Stranding. And then this are all like indicators of like, you know,

how compression and loading worked across the generation. And I would even go as far to say that, like, you get you get a really clear indicator on it without using a PS4 pro right now. Like I'm using the standard out of the box launch PS4, you know. That game's good. It's just very fun to wander around and look at the pretty. I'm also really impressed at the topography, because like I you do that first island and I'm like, wow, and I kind of thought that would be it.

And then you get to the second one. It's like, oh, we got like marshlands and like thicker forests, like much thicker forests and stuff like that. And it's like, oh, right. There's all these types of Japanese scenery and shit. Also, a photography mode rivaling Spider-Man. Yeah, the PS4 seems to have some kind of mandate that the photography mode for its exclusive be really, really, really good.

Really, like, I remember God of Wars was too. Yeah, it's social media. It's like social media ready, you know. Feels like it's it's good for the for the big sharing a lot. A lot about Tsushima's social media ready, because like every like I find it difficult to turn the camera and not see something that looks really nice in that game. Yeah, ready for that share button.

Exactly. That's that's exactly what it is. Yeah, but anyway, that's that's pretty much what what we've been up to. What have I been up to? Well, Tsushima and I just talked about that, like just just now. What the hell did I stream this week? Oh, I got like 95 percent of the way through Katana Zero, which I barely touched earlier. How about that, huh? That bit with the guy. Yep.

Wow. Yeah. Wow. Didn't expect. Yeah. No tone tone of game is a lot more extreme than intended. Than than expected. Yeah. Oh, those boss fights are a trip. They they're all how fucking solid is that? Right. Also, like I still stay out like I'll say this, man, the actual like like the actual in universe explanation for the video game

is one of my favorite ones of all time. In Katana Zero, you're basically playing a really quick, like level by level. You know, like almost like a like 2D character action, super meat boyish, you know, like a mark of the ninja is what I think. But but what's so fucking sick about it is that in game, you are essentially like your character, like what's one of the first things you see you see when when you check out the trailer and stuff. But it's like the character is planning out how he's going to deal with this room.

And when you do it successfully, he goes, yeah, that's what I'll do. And then you cut to the security tapes of and that's what he and then that's the replay. So it's like, oh, shit, every time you fail, it's not that you died in world and that this is like a reloading of your universe. It's just if I do this and then I do that, it's your character's mind planning it out. You know, it's such a really cool thing. That game's great. Apparently, there's a big DLC coming this free as well. Nice.

Let's see. Oh, God, it's been it's been a bit. We I didn't talk about the end of deadly premonition. Hold on. Did you carry on? Hold on. Did you finish? Was Katana's here? No, I got I got 95 percent through and then was starting to fall asleep on stream and was like, OK, I got a I'll finish it off a different day. Did you get to the section of the game that's very mechanically different?

Yeah, that that's what I meant by that part with the guy. OK, OK, OK, OK, OK. Yes. All right. Man. That shit is super cool. Boy, it's it's bananas. It feels great to just, you know, be like, here is some other shit. Check it out. It's it's a lot farther than I thought they would go with that mechanic, too. It's like just wow.

Yeah, Katana Zero is good. I'm excited for its DLC. It's hopefully in the near future. But I just want confirmation. Well, I did not talk about the ending of deadly premonition, too. Not the ending, right? No. OK, I beat it. It's great. That game's great. And Swery is like almost more Kojima than Kojima at this point.

Because. Like Paige and I are watching this ending play out and it keeps actually just like hitting these emotional notes dead on and like plucking those heartstrings and you're like, oh, and you almost cry. And then it descends into the actual stupidest shit I have ever seen for like 10 straight minutes. OK. And right when you're at the point where you would walk out of the movie theater. Bam, gut punch with something very real and sincere and genuine.

And then everything wraps up and has a really great and satisfying ending. And it doesn't have a sequel hook, but there's just enough that's like maybe in the future there'll be more, you know, and then the final final ending. Which is post credits, right? Like the, you know, your little denouement is like an FMV cutscene instead of like an end game cutscene and it horribly desynced its audio. Yeah. And the audio finished like 40 seconds before the video did. And when the audio file finishes, it just cuts off and says the end.

So I had to go look up the rest of the ending on YouTube. So you're you're describing the end of this game in a way that you never described deadly premonition one. Yeah. Deadly premonition one is. Deadly premonition two has better writing overall and is a lot more sincere. Uh, DP one was was a lot of it was like, it's just so fucking zany. Okay.

Right. It's it's just so out there. It's just so obviously a ripoff of Twin Peaks. Yeah. And it's goofy shit the whole way through. Is it not? Yeah. Deep. Yeah. And DP two, uh, no, there was there was moments of seriousness and deadly premonition one, but they were fewer and farther between. And the character relationships in two are built up a lot more

strongly and the writing overall is a big improvement. I would say it's a much better game in general in terms of its storyline. Like the the actual mystery is fucking riveting. It's goddamn fascinating. It's just that every now and then just the stupidest bullshit in the world will happen and sometimes you're like, I hate this. And other times you'll be like, this is the best thing I've ever seen. Okay.

That game's a trip. Uh, gameplay wise, it's way worse than the first one. Like, you know, all these people say like, uh, Jank is part of the deadly premonition charm and all that. Yeah. Like the first game on the 360, which was this actual original release. Uh, it ran fine and okay. And this thing is.

And this thing is just dying at every single step. It is just stuttering and burning out. So what you're saying is franchise trilogy. Could be. Is, um, is, um, York more Matthew McConaughey or Woody Harrelson in the roles? Zach is more McConaughey and York is more Woody Harrelson. Okay. Okay.

And that means nothing to you. I assume. Um, Zach is the, the, the voice that he, the non existing person that he would talk to in the first no, no, Zach's a real person. Okay. Well, my, my, my outsider, I don't know. No, I don't know nothing about nothing. Uh, is Zach is, he'd be talking to somebody and then you, he just be

asking questions to the air type of thing. Yeah. So you're, it would be, uh, what do you think about that Zach and he put his hand up to his temp. And then we, you know, you don't get any answers. So Zach is the character you play as in the future and he is very McConaughey. He's even got the handlebar mustache. Okay.

And, uh, York is the one you're playing in 2005 and is more Harrelson, but it's, it's agent Cooper from Twin Peaks. Like it's, it's just agent Cooper. Um, didn't expect the game to go so hard on Hurricane Katrina, uh, which was topical, probably the weirdest moment takes place in Louisiana in 2005. Wow. Okay. So in the ending style sequences, when it starts to rain, it's like, oh, that's

hurricane Katrina happening like as like a, like as a backdrop to the plot. It's not part of the plot, but it's like weird. And I'm like, oh yeah, it is 2005. We see it, isn't it? Because you have, you have characters talking about like, you know, when they were younger and they grew up and you know, the Katrina fucked everything up and it was horrible, you know, stuff like that. And you're like, oh yeah, that was a million years ago, right?

And it's like, oh no. And that like, that has made me feel older than anything I've ever seen in a game because that was an event that I remember occurring when I was an adult. Is the event just kind of happening in the background or is it like a, Yeah, kind of. It's okay. It's not the focal point. No, no, no, no, no, no, not even close.

Uh, but it's like, oh, okay. Fine. Like, you know, it's a bit, you know, you get to that climax of the story and there's a big storm because of course there is. Except the big storm is like a named storm that existed in real life that totally happened, et cetera. It's weird. That game's weird.

Shocker. I would absolutely recommend it. However, deadly premonition one is required reading. Clearly. If I don't even know, like not, not only will parts of the game, not like, I would, I would say it is, you know, started MGS four. I would say to start at MGS four levels of impenetrable and confusion. If you were to just play deadly premonition to yourself.

I believe that. I mean, I'm going to go ahead and I can just, I'm going to go ahead and guess that, you know, at some point, perhaps in the later half of the first game, you get an answer to, to who he's talking to. And it's, yeah, that's exactly what. So why not? I never saw that. So yeah.

Um, I have my, I have my wagers. That wager so far is correct. It is literally in the last hour of the game that you find out what the deal with Zach is great. There you go. Okay. But, uh, yeah, that game's, that game's great. Does he have to terrible and all things.

Does he have to look inside his hair to figure out what's going on? You're way closer than. Okay. Whatever. Anyway, you're like, you're like 90% there. Okay. Sure. Oh boy.

All right. I also played and beat carry on. Yes. From devolver. Yes. That game's great. Also crazy short and extremely limited. It's tons of fun to be a thing.

Flesh beast. And they write, they realize that there are only so many gimmicks and gameplay mechanics. You can actually do with the flesh beast they created. And so it's like four hours long. Now, uh, I believe I read a tweet. Out there that said that, uh, the, the challenge of the enemies is not quite a constant ongoing thing. That's fun as a criticism.

Uh, so it's weird. Enemies are either like jokes or like will stomp your ass in and you encounter them fairly rarely. So you'll be like doing a puzzle room, puzzle room, puzzle room, combat room. That's a joke. Combat room that'll push your ass in. Puzzle, puzzle, puzzle, easy combat puzzle. You know, something like that.

Uh, I would say there's like three or four combats that are tough in the game total. But they're really tough. About four hours. About four hours. Maybe a little less. Uh, I went around and, uh, I went around and, and got a bunch of the optional upgrades. So you could probably do it in three like normal. Amen.

There's, there's, there's room in my life for brief, nice experiences. So. Yeah. There's only one thing I would, I would really, really like it says a big negative. The map is kind of Metroidvania ish. Like you do get upgrades that'll let you go back to the first areas and like unlock things. There's no map of any kind. And at about the 75% mark, it becomes a serious problem.

How big is the Metroidvania map? It's not as big as the Metroidvania map, but it's way too big to not have a map. Yeah. If there's secret rooms, way too big. If there's secret rooms to move back and discover. Oh, there's all, yeah. Oh God. Yeah.

That sounds, that sounds pretty horrible. Yikes. Like, I'd say the last 45 minutes of me playing the game is me having completed the final area and just figuring out what the last door I had to go through was. Oh man. Okay. Yeah. That's a patch.

That's a patch for sure. You know, or even like if you don't want to break immersion, maybe just zoom it out, you know, so you can just. It doesn't work like that. They're all discrete areas. They load, you load in and out. They connect. Like think of like the way like Mega Man ZX Advent levels would connect and how terrible

that game's map was. Yeah. That's a patch. That's a patch to fix because that sounds really unfun to have to deal with. But yeah, I'm going to be streaming this week. I don't even know what I'm streaming so far. I haven't even had time to sit down and look at it. Oh, I'll be playing that blasphemous DLC.

Hmm. That's coming out because that game's great. Have you played that yet? Yes. Blasphemous rules. I would fucking I'd sacrifice a couple toes for a healthy genre of games with that art style. It's so good.

I super miss. I miss cut scenes of full screen pixel art, man. Full screen VGA, man. So gorgeous. Good. So cool. So I'll be doing that and probably fall guys because everybody's excited about fall guys.

Apparently that's very hot. Apparently it's hot. Yeah. Reggie. Reggie sent me a message saying, Hey, we should play fall guys. And I was like, Oh, okay. Sure. I think I think the funniest thing I've seen in a while is I follow the fall.

I follow the one of the devolver influencer people, a lady named Clara. And she's been in true devolver fashion of not doing anything like anybody else. Their social media people are free to social media, the fuck, whatever they want. And she was like posting like for exposure style screen grabs of her email of people begging for codes for fall guys. And I'm sitting here with like three different people who sent me like a shit ton of beta codes and like, I don't have time to do this. I have to take care of this child.

This baby needs to nurse from my titty. There's no time for fall guys right now. Good reason. Yeah. Please don't put a bonnet. Don't do the bonnet. Don't do it. I need you to promise.

I will do no such thing. All right. You know what, Willie? I will promise. I promise you. I Patrick Wovey promise you one Willie Madden, you know, legally binding verbal contract in the city of Montreal, Quebec that I will not put a bonnet on my dog. Okay.

What? Who else? What about on its on that dog? All right. Is up to their decision. Okay. But I will not do that. I promise.

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It's time for the news part of the podcast. We got some, we got some catching up to do. Yeah. A little bit. All right. Allow me to just give a little, a little warning to anybody out there who is understandably very tired of hearing us talk about fighting games and rollback in that we are going to discuss them because there was an event that happened this week.

So that's going to be. That's right. Evolution. Off the, going to be off the top. So, um, you know, if that's going to be a thing that you might want to come back after the topic is done in a little bit, if that is a problem, cool. So with that being said, we had a, um, yes, Evo, uh, canceled, but somehow Sonic Fox still won.

Still, Sonic Fox took home the gold at the canceled Evo 2020. Kind of amazing. You know, can't be stopped. He don't miss. Can't miss. Uh, so, so what we actually had was the, uh, Japanese fighting game developer round table took place. I'm just, before you go on, I'm just thinking about the idea of like, well, I'm the 2019

Evo champion and I'm also the 2020 Evo champion. And then someone's like, but there wasn't an Evo 2020. He's like, well, no one beat me. There you go. There was the person to beat. He is. No one beat him. The facto.

So the, um, the round table, uh, took place and this is definitely born from the fact that all of these announcements that would have taken place on stage at the event were then moved to the online event and were then given no place to go. So clearly they got together and said, Hey, let's plan, um, some kind of event to announce these things, you know, and it was also a round table discussion in which they can just talk about, you know, I, what I was looking forward to as the state of the union of Japanese fighting game development, I was, uh, very excited for that because, you know, at the end of the day, like, how will you, you and your catchphrases, um, there's a, uh, there's

a, an FGC, but then there's the companies making the video games and then there's the Japanese companies and then the Western companies. And, uh, these are all different things from each other. So, uh, seeing the Japanese companies come together to talk about what they do when a lot of the time that's usually kept secret in a lot of cases or just, they're not very open about how they develop things and why it's a nice idea. I would like to see more of it because it does actually show an underline that like, Hey man, this is a genre that like needs to sort of grow together, thrive together.

And like we need to be more like transparent and we need to talk to the people that buy these games because we're kind of this obscure thing and that's where we're going to stay. That's what we are. You know what I mean? It's, it's just what it is. Those who love this thing, we're here, we're going to grow over time. But for the most part, you got to start talking to the people that like really like your games and want to keep buying them, you know, so, uh, so I was, I was announcing that I had

dog while this thing was going on and so people were like, Pat, you're missing it. And I'm really torn about this event because it was a combination announcement slash discussion event, which I don't think is good. I think it should have had, I think it should have been two different things. Because when I heard, Oh, Tekken is going to be there and then SNK people are going to be there and so and so. And then I'm like, Oh, and they're going to announce new guilty gear character. I think what might have been a reasonable assumption is that like everybody would have

had something to show as well as have a discussion. But that was not the case. I disagree. I think no, I disagree with that. I think it's fine. I mean, whatever announcements there are to show will be, Hey, look, cool news, you know, most like the people that were there did pretty much have, for the most part, announcements, not, not everybody had announcements on everything.

And they got, you know, SNK got a little bit thrown under the bus for their KOS said, Hey, guys, the game's on sale. Yeah. Yeah. So, but I think though that like, no, it is a good start for like something that should happen way more often with or without an Evo. And there were some, you know, definitely glaring issues that I think the chat at the time made very clear.

They're pulling questions off Twitter, right? I don't, I don't know. I don't think so, but I'm not sure. I do know for a fact that at least on the translated stream that Bandai was running, there was nothing but people calling for a rollback the entire time that was it. That was the entirety of this, of the stream. It's literally the only thing that community wants to talk about. It's the most important thing.

So it makes perfect sense. And the biggest problem to just get it out of the way with this entire event is that essentially there was just not enough said about it. Right. I think not every company is willing to start bringing it up if they can't confirm anything. There's a, there's a bit of a weird, like we saw it with Guilty Gear where they kind of went like, Hey, like, yeah, we're talking about it now. We're having a discussion internally, but they're kind of hesitant to even broach

the subject unless they think they'll have perhaps some positive news. But I think, well, yeah, because they had this weird problem of like, well, if everybody wants it, but we don't have a thing to do it and we talk about maybe doing it and then don't do it, everyone going to be mad. Horrible, horrible bad look. So that's why they're kind of playing it safe. They're like, we're a company and we don't want to have that, that happen when we're trying to sell the product.

But as explained, it's a such a serious problem because, you know, Reggie like bought a copy of Granblue and he couldn't get a decent match with a dude that lives in Montreal. He tried to play look. Yeah, that's why I didn't buy Granblue. That game looks great. It looks incredible. Game looks great.

You know, so we're in a situation where online matters more than ever. And, you know, like the combination like had this discussion with Fizzy, you know, talking about his rollback melee stuff with Slippy earlier this week. And like it was the day, it was Thursday night. And then the next day on Friday, there was this event. So it was just a perfect like, like look at how it can be done. And then here's where they're not doing it type of thing. So that was all the people wanted to hear about.

And in regards to that, what we have is pretty much Tekken announcing that like there's a new season coming and they will be improving their online experience. Harada has said that Tekken already runs on rollback and that essentially they're going to be trying to make it run better is what he's he's announced alongside the new content for the season. Dropped a fucking bomb on me and I'm sure many others. Yeah. So we're going to work.

There's a lot of takeaways from this, right? Because there's the first portion of the stream where they basically discussed things and then the second portion where they announced things. So just wanted to get the rollback discussion out of the way there for a second. But the first part of the talk was, to me, way more interesting. And what I wanted to see more of because, like, it is what I think matters most for longevity to this genre. And I was happy to see that like some other folks online were watching at the time.

We're in agreement. You know, Esteban was similarly echoing the sentiment that like, look, man, like new products are cool and everyone likes to get hype and hey, check it out. Yo, Nagoriyuki, that's fucking sick. Looks great. Can't wait. That guy's cool. Looks really cool.

The discussion about what you're doing with these games, especially in a situation where we can't play them locally is so much more important. And I mean, these these hype drops, which you're not going to be able to have locals for a long, a very long time, a long time. The hype drops not to be that guy, but it's like the hype drops will be fucking smothered if you can't play these characters against people, you know? Like it's just that simple. So like no matter what is awesome and and and and dropped in terms of just trailer

hype and shit, you this is this is the discussion about how we're going to move forward and what you're going to do with your games and what you're prioritizing is what I'm way more interested in. And, um, you know, it's going to hopefully continue, but they started out by talking about a couple of different like random things here and there. One thing that came up was they were talking about AI and a single player challenge and it kind of like definitely exactly. It is a it is a it is a facepalm like kind of moment where you're like, well,

those of you who couldn't hear it, I just did like a very genuine SMH. It almost looked like I was playing it up. Facepalm. Yeah, like it's this is this is net code needs needs geniuses to do rollback. But let's try and create artificial intelligence that's smart enough to mimic humans. And we've seen games go further with this in terms of like killer instinct has its shadows and and there's ghosts and, you know, Samurai showdown and stuff. But like there's a thought that like that might somehow like, I don't know,

like solve some kind of missing thing when it's like, no, human beings are clearly the point of this. Don't don't get it twisted. You're not going to solve the problem by making the computer better. We made a really good AI that you can play during like the times when like your internet is out. It's like, well, what about when my internet is in and it sucks? Well, why would your internet sucks?

So it's not to say, you know, it's a topic that you can certainly get into. And AI does need to exist because there does need to be a computer difficulty that is there. And you can talk about improving it however you want. But that's gravy. It's it's not that it has no place. It's just it's nowhere near as important as what is about since blah. Nowhere near as important as playing against human opponents.

So they talked about that for a little bit. And then they talked about what something I thought was very interesting. The difference between like character usage versus character popularity. And how there are many examples and they can look at their metrics on their games and see that like there are characters that are very popular. They get announced and they have huge engagement and lots of traction online. But no one's actually playing as them, right? And sometimes there is there are people that are essentially are like people

love that character as a part of this world or this the story, this lore, this aesthetic. But they have no interest in actually playing as them or they'll kind of just like give up or fly towards someone that might be easier to use or something like that. That is definitely that is definitely a thing that exists. And yeah, you know, they kind of just talked about how like they'll see sometimes like really sharp discrepancies. And it's it's like which of these two things is going to, you know, sell product and which of these two things is going to make the product better?

You know, like no one's ever going to fucking buy a game because Blanca is in it. Because they have a heart like heartfelt love of Blanca. Oh, yeah, I agree with that because his his style is a very like, you know, I don't I don't know how I would. I mean, you're the Blanca player. You would be able to describe his style better than me. But yeah, he's got a very unique play style. Yeah, I play if you want to play that.

I mean, as a kid, I leaned into Blanca because of his style more than the character originally, you know. Yeah, he's a fucking stupid green freak base. Yeah, it's fine. But, you know, yeah, that definitely is the case. And then things kind of changed as I got more into the genre. But but then there's a fighting game to play Nero and then you don't end up using Nero anymore.

Or hey, how about like no, my no buy, right? And then my's in the game. My my like, you just want to see your fat titties. Yeah, that's what I was like. As I'm saying, it's like no, my no buy. OK, my's in the game now. Do you know how to use her? No. Have you ever bothered? No. OK.

Well, hey, thanks for the support, though. That's really cool. You know, you check out the model. You do the crouching, crouching heavy kick. And then you're like, yeah. Yeah, nice. Nice. And you're done. My's fucking sick. She's got some really good.

She's got multiple air options that I love. So I legitimately throw her on my team when I play a KOF. But I am. Yeah, because that was one topic that came up. You know, that was pretty interesting. And it kind of got me thinking back to like, yeah, you know, like there's definitely instances you see. You know, she's one of them.

Bykin is a very big one of them up there, too. And it's funny discovery how much Bykin kind of represents a like, again, guilty. There's a there's a internal sort of like almost like an arcapa thing of just like, man, fucking Bykin players. You don't play guilty gear. You're just a fraud. You're a scrub that likes Bykin and that's about it.

You know, and it's like that is that is a hard call out. That is a hard call out. And, you know, I legitimately do love the character and play as them, you know, but I'm also someone who, like I said, I'm like, I will learn to play and suffer if the character, whatever they may be, you know, if there's an easier pick, I'll still go with like the one I love, you know, they'll give you a top tier eventually, buddy, or they'll get

Hey, sometimes they get patched up. Codal Con is pretty good now. Codal Con got really good. Yeah, but he's still we'll still always know that he's a bitch. Codal, wheelie, wheelie legs, no feely con. Really, he gets jobbed out in the DLC as I believe it. I believe it because, you know, I got some tweets of people going, can't wait for you to see what happens to Codal in the new thing.

They were like, yeah, all right, well, I get it. So they talked about that. And then, yeah, they dropped some really, really sobering stats because shocking is the wrong word to use. You got to just accept things for what they are these days. But it was quite funny to see Harada say 50% of over 50% over 50% of players use Wi-Fi.

That's the data they got and that that data is not the case in Japan and on PC. But our console players, yeah, yeah, and worldwide and just seeing Justin Wong being like, holy shit, what the fuck is wrong with half of you? And Flo is like, wait, what 50% of you are assholes? It was, yeah, it's like no wonder the average match is so bad. No fucking wonder over half over half. You know, and I would I would assume that that's all the Christmas treat at the bottom and that the sooner

you make it out of the Wi-Fi cesspool, the sooner you'll get some better form games with people that are connected. Well, Tekken is going to be adding an option to say, get out of my face, Wi-Fi player. Well, there you go. I mean, I am interested to seeing how that plays out because my ideal scenario is that means that if a lot of people that care, which I'm going to assume are most people to have ethernet cables,

turn that on. That means the average quality of the people using Wi-Fi, the average quality of their games will become 50% worse. It will by default. It'll go worse. But but just to fill you in, MK11 has been doing this. MK11 has a Wi-Fi and a wireless indicator on your matches before they have a don't match me up with Wi-Fi.

No, it's not a filter. It's just an indicator and you can decline the match. OK, Skullgirls, same thing. Because like the ideal is is that because Wi-Fi, essentially their Wi-Fi people are being sent to Wi-Fi jail. If they really like the game, they'll go, God damn it. Having to play with these Wi-Fi people in this fucking Wi-Fi gulag is the worst.

Now, here's the thing to as well. Like these there's lots of walls you can put up in terms of like trying to ensure that you get you get great matches. And because you're playing with, you know, oftentimes not great net code, it's it's it feels like you kind of have to do these things. But you will have a much harder time if you set yourself to OK, so wired only plus same region only plus no cross play. Right.

In cases, you can put up these different things to be like, you know, kind of like narrow the pool down, narrow the pool down, narrow the pool down. And then pull out your phone and browse Twitter for 25 minutes as they find you a match. Right. Or we can just put the fucking girl back in and then it does. And then you match up with somebody and then the matches are fine. Most people in most situations, even with packet loss, awful Wi-Fi connection, it'll be adjusted and it's better for everybody.

Yeah. So, you know, like like to Herata's credit, like his statements on it are the very first time that like from a devil feels like he's looking at it and go and we actually get to see the moment of like, oh, wow, this shit sucks. Like from the point of ignorance to the point of like realization. Like it's quite rare. Like we that happened at some point at our system works. We didn't see it.

I mean, actually, I did see it at Ark Revo when they were when they were running the event and they had the they had the the. Shit, what's the word? The feedback survey, they had the survey that you'd fill out. And I saw that, you know, and I sat down with Dice Gay and I was like, yo, so what's going on? You know, and like we saw it happen. Like they were directly like, oh, yeah, this is this is a thing.

You know, in Tekken's case, again, it's a it's a bit more it's different because it's not like Street Fighter where they're like, oh, we did it already. We just did it badly. Well, it is kind of like that, actually. Because Tekken he's like saying, no, we we do have rollback. It is there. It's like, so then what are the problems we're running into? And it's like, it's probably not as optimized as it could be, you know.

And it's a bit it's a bit it's I think it's a bit confusing to the situation, too, because if I'm not 100 percent certain on this, but if I understand correctly, he might be it might be that it uses a hybrid because there are hybrid forms of delay mixed with rollback that you can have. And code mystics kind of had an explanation of this system and how they use a mixture of both in certain cases, you know. Sorry, what is I'm sorry. OK. Breaking news or what?

No, I just got a little bit confused by everyone saying three Tekken is three. Anyway, anyway, so just to say that, yeah, the plan there is to improve it. And hopefully we'll see whatever that means in the form of the of season of the next season, and then it'll be a. It'll be a a net netcode fix for that game. Maybe we'll see. He seems to be pretty adamant about what he's saying on that.

Fexel just came out and said, hey, we have rollback now. Yeah, I. There was a weird weird moment like two weeks ago, three weeks ago with one of the devs of Fexel finding out that the game had been pirated and announcing on Twitter that he was like thinking about giving up, improving the netcode, because I don't even care anymore. And then everyone was like, what the fuck is wrong with you? And he backed down within like two hours.

But apparently Fexel has that code now that is actually worth a damn. And they're working on cross play right now. Yeah, at the end of the day, you're looking at. You're looking at one dev having a weird fucking fit on Twitter. But it's still a game with a team of people working on it. And Akira Nishitani was there in the meet in the roundtable. Well, I thought rollback was you have to bring in one genius that can do your rollback for you.

Who? Where does that quote come from? Which one? We would need a rollback genius to fix our netcode. I remember that specific phrasing coming up with one of the one of the Japanese devs. Was it Capcom Street Fighter five? Might have been. Yeah, OK, perhaps. I know that when we talked about it with, you know, the Keats video and then again with Slippy, it was definitely something that, you know, it becomes clear that like

if you're doing this, you want to be doing it from early on in development. It helps a lot more to do it early on in than it does to retrofit it. It was the ArcSys comment about a super programmer that I'm thinking of. OK, we would need a super programmer to add it and add it in now or something like that. Yeah, so that that's that's kind of what they talked about. They talked about the character usage that went into that stuff. We talked about the 50 percent. And then they kind of just started rolling into kind of like announcements

and just kind of like more wacky stuff. Harada was throwing up pictures at one point. He put Oatmeal Sun up on the screen and like it was right around that they announced the new Dead or Alive character. And right as they were announcing Dead or Alive, Harada's screen just turns into a picture of Inagaki. So it's pretty funny. It's kind of funny because they're both now the big

sunglasses men of the FGC. Inagaki, though, his picture, you know, being being popping up. And I see it was pretty great to see people in the chat just going, Oatmeal, Oatmeal Sun. But Harada then revealed that the reason why he wears sunglasses is because Capcom told him to during cross Tekken because he was the bad guy. So that's awesome. They told him to start wearing shades to be the bad guy when he was like,

fuck, yeah, yeah, and it was he just never stopped. So and that's and that's what leads down to like the don't ask me for shit shirt and the continued weird heel turn. You got to lean into it. You build a character where there was none. There's all Capcom's doing. That's really funny because for all that I've heard, Harada is actually a really nice guy seems to be.

But and Yoshinori Ono is maybe not seems to be. But in terms of your your your public persona, his was created for the marketing of cross Tekken. So turns out Tekken was not the bad guy in that situation, however. Turns out. So we then got the announcement. Yeah, I came I came at the end, but it was it was pretty much what everyone was

pretty excited for Leo White Fang returns and now go to you. What's up? They didn't expect Leo to come back. Yeah, I did. He's pretty important. And not only that, but like he's the he's the Maximilian insert to to my my Nagoriyuki. So that shit is cool.

And he is it looks like he's got it. It looks like Leo's got a command grab, so that's pretty wild. Nagoriyuki's move list seems pretty fucking sick. Just big sword swings. I have a I have an explanation for the Tekken three thing. Oh, sorry. Yeah, Tekken is three. It's a comment about from Harada. No, I know. Yeah.

It's a meme. They want to increase the amount of rollback, but it freaks out the 3D animation. Tekken is three is a tweet that. Yeah, it's a tweet meme. That makes sense because you don't want Jin's kick to come back towards his body. So shout out to the dipod. He had a really he had an observation that I was like, I agree with that, which is he said, like, Nagoriyuki looks like

the way you think Baikin would play. And it's like, yeah, that's true. You'd think a straightforward sword swinger would be what she is, but she's not. She's anything. She's a weird counter lady, kind of like Yoshimitsu is not a straightforward sword swinger either, right? Oh, she's the weirdest. But he is not only your your your your big weeaboo black samurai man with the cool mask, he is apparently part he's he is a vampire.

And he has some big slayer references in his moves. Great. So he's doing the slayer teleports and he has the bite. That's crazy because vampires and Guilty Gear are straight busted. I mean, yeah. They they they come from beyond they should be. Yeah. And they're like, I'm definitely I think it's cool to show a bit more of that

because, you know, like slayers pretty much just like he exists as this like super OP God in the world. And he just kind of got the famous, you know, just lounging lounging around, right? And he's got Sharon and they just are like, they're just above everything. And you're like, what's going on with your people in your world and your origins? And he's like, ah, you know, we come from over there and everybody else is gone back over there, but I'm still hanging around here. And you're like, you guys are interesting and cool and stuff, you know,

so you want you want to see you want to see more of of like, yeah, like the connections to his or I always I always loved like Slayer is so far above the rest of the cast and Guilty Gear that in one of the GGXX endings, like Eddie tries to eat Sharon. Yeah, the woman that yeah, the woman that his wife Slayer like bites and she just explodes with light and instantly kills Eddie like he's nothing. It's like, what the fuck do you think you're doing? Yeah. Oh, for sure. And it's like, oh, for sure. OK.

Like, no, the like, like he's in fact just like he's pretty. He's a pretty like great bored God kind of like your role that he serves in a way, but at the same yet at the same time, it's like, uh oh, he can't be touched except for when fucking Bedman shows up because apparently Bedman can actually challenge him. Wait, really? Yeah. Bedman, Bedman is that strong about Bedman.

And like they fucking have like a revenge battle because he Bedman smokes him the first time they fight and then he gets all fired up and then he's like, oh, OK, I'm getting I'm into this now. Like when's the last time a human had stood a chance? You know, and they're they're getting all into it. And like Bedman's like, OK, I guess I'll take this seriously. And he literally pulls an anime style.

I guess you have a lap. I will. What is it? It's like he pulls on like I will now grace you with eight percent of my power. Revenge. Shut up, anime. Shut up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, Slayer's rad. Vampires are rad. I'd like to find out more about that.

Yeah, Bedman is just like stupid busted OP mystery like character who is like it's the kind of character you don't want to be busted because he's so annoying. Yeah, because he's so stupid. But he he's he gets away with it, which is very newy from Kill the Kill. Right. Where you're just like, oh, you're the worst person to actually be OP

because you're just a fucking humongous asshole to deal with. You know, but anyway. So Nagaruki and newy is the worst. Yeah, looks looks looks looks very cool. I'm interested in seeing what he's going to be. I want to hear his voice want to learn the lore. And yeah, man, that mask is so fucking cool. And I can say that like we already have there's like I've seen a lot of

Instagram accounts of like these cool kind of like Japanese tech fashion designers that are kind of making stuff like that. They're making cyberpunk wear now and there's a bunch of them and like some of them have like those fans that have 3D like light displays on them and others are doing like transforming masks and stuff. But we're getting there. We're getting close to a world where you can actually get a cool Oni mask like he wears and you know, a matching outfit for it.

And I'm all about that. I'm a fan. I want to be a robot. Uh, so yeah, there's that give robot now. Hey, Leo's got the Leon jacket. That's nice. He's got the yeah. The fur look is so much more casual.

Everyone's casual. Casual King. It's pretty dope. So, um, it was a nice little back to back because we were waiting on information for a while. And when I was at Arc Revo, uh, shout outs to a Zotbuster because I was like getting some stuff. I got the, um, the, the, uh, you know, the soundtrack and then like the shirts

and I was like, oh, give me one of those pins of the new, the new guy. And he's, and so he's like, okay, cool. So he's talking to one of the people behind the scenes. Yeah, give me one of those pins. Give me this and one of, and he's like, ah, ah, ah, I almost said the name. He's like, give me a biking pin and one of, ah, motherfucker. And I'm like, ah, you know, so they, they knew way back when. And, uh, finally we have information now.

So that's cool. Um, when's that coming out? Spring 2021. Okay. That's still a long ways away. Mm hmm. Um, oh yes.

Fighting games always. And that is, that is where I obtained the, uh, I got the, the, the guilty gear vinyl that dice case signed, which is pretty rad, which now sits comfortably on my wall as you do, because that, that's where that's the good, that's a nice place to put them. Oh, did you see that clip? I sure did. You see the whole clip? I sure did.

Fan. That, that. Tastic. That's a really good example of what I was talking about where that games writing just is great. It's beautiful, beautiful. Cause I was literally like, as I'm watching it and I'm just like, I don't see why it's so hard to understand that it's like putting a poster on your wall, except I want to take up less space than a poster.

That's the end. That's literally it. It's just, oh look, it's the things I like, but I can take up less space cause my walls don't have enough. I don't want to put up a bunch of posters that are going to take up too much room. And then within seconds, the game is like, you fucking douche. You, you know, Can't you even enjoy anything?

Oh wow. That was, that was great. Yeah. Nice counter. Talking about deadly premonition, by the way, it was a little conversation clip that happened in that game. Yeah. Arc Revo 2020 online set for October.

Dragon Ball FighterZ is going to have some new announcements in August. Setsuka coming to Soul Calibur 4 and Sam's Show Season Pass 3 announced, which is like, hey, cool. Sure. They're adding in characters from, I think like mobile games now, like a Tencent thing. And that's not surprising considering, you know, SNK is like mostly owned now by, I forgot. It wasn't Tencent. It was that other, it was another Chinese development company, but a production company

rather. And yeah. So they got those guest characters showing up and, you know, sure. That's like whatever. I think right now the Sam's Show community is trying to figure out if they can use Parsec to play online because that would be preferable. The fuck is Parsec? Okay.

So Parsec is what I'm going to be doing on Get Into Fighting games from now on. And essentially it is a pretty cool like screen share. Huh. And what it does is you, you just connect to someone else's computer and it'll, you can give whoever connects to your computer access to a device by default. Mouse is disabled, keyboard disabled, but you can set game controller two to be screen shared with the person you're connected to. And then they come in and you're going to play locally and their inputs are going to

be registered on your system. And then you're going to screen share with them and it'll be the next best thing to. So the idea is that the, uh, the net code for Parsec is probably better than the actual net code for Sam's Show. Exactly. And that's kind of depressing. And basically it is not like it's, it's definitely, you know, it's a screen share. So you're not getting some kind of rollback based like fucking precision, but you're getting

pretty, you're getting better delay than in some cases the actual game can afford. So. That's embarrassing. Yeah. So certain games are like, yo, you want to play Marvel three? Yeah. Let's just do it on Parsec. Like might as well.

It'll be, it'll be a better experience. It's not perfect. It's not perfect, but, um, the, it does like work and in cases where the net code is awful, this will, this will do. Um, fight Kate is obviously a thing, but fight Kate only works with games that run on fight Kate, you know, uh, part. Uh, so the other thing about Parsec that is extra nice for get into fighting games specifically is the part where if the audience wants to play a game that I'm playing and they don't

own it, you can just still connect to me while the show is on. Oh, all you need is a controller or stick plugged into your computer and you're going to be second player while I'm playing online. That's actually really cool. Yeah. So you can try out games you don't own that I'm playing locally with me and, and see if you like it, you know? So that's what we're going to be doing, uh, when, when possible.

And, uh, I like that a lot. I like the idea of like allowing people that like might not even have picked the game up to just plug your controller in, click the button and jump into a match with me to try out and see what they like and see if they enjoy it, you know? So this is, this is where getting to fighting games is going. Um, and, uh, Parsec, we used it. I already tested out it out a little bit, uh, with some other stuff in it. It, it, it's worked.

You know, I've had at least until better solutions arise anyway. Yeah. I, I had, um, I had two people connect and I watched the match. I was as the third party while they both connected from their locations to my system and they were able to play, uh, it, it's net, it's net play. You know what I mean? Felt like net plays, but, uh, but yeah, this is a, this is a potential solution. That's going to work for games that really, really need it.

And for games that don't have any multiplayer at all. Yeah. Games just don't have shit. That works too. You know. Damn. We always talking about fighting games, but is trash at fighting games? Yes.

Exactly. That's the fun is welcome. We're all trash and we're trying to get better, but they're really fun regardless. That's the whole point. That's why it's great. I'm not trash. I'm not trash. I'm super good.

It's a journey and I'm the best. You, you, you get beat and then you try to get better because something beats you and you're like, Oh my God, I can overcome that. And when you do overcome that, it fucking rules. It's the best. It's such a good feeling. So I'm great. I'm the EVO 2020 champion because no one beat me.

Like congratulations. You've discovered what makes these games so fun. Um, so yeah, they had that. Setsuko's back. Petrocolo's is not. Oh, well, what are you going to what? What are you going to what? You know, they tried.

They tried. People didn't want it. They brought back Setsuko. So that's cause way better than Petrocolo. She's pretty fucking cool. Just on design. Like she wins out and it makes more sense for her to have a hidden blade than it does. Yeah.

You know, this big Gallant Knight type character. So, and that's pretty much the announcements, you know? Yeah. It was okay. I think Harada's comments were by far the most interesting thing out of the whole thing. His trolling was pretty funny as well. But I think the fact that rollback was for the most part ignored was painful. I want more of that first hour of like in-depth discussion and like, you know, it would be

a great opportunity to make a lot of people happy that are like waiting and ready to, to support your games. And I don't know, man, would you, would you rather it be ignored or would you rather have someone look at the camera going, we're not going to do it. We think it's stupid. I take, I'll take that. Okay. I'll take that because at least you, at least you fucking said it.

You know, at least it's not this weird thing of like, can you hear me though? And it's like, I don't know. What? You know? Yeah. More DLC costumes. You ever see, you ever see, you see the, the ambassador from China reacting to footage of things he shouldn't be seeing?

What? What am I looking at? What? I can't see it. I don't understand. Rollback. We're talking about rollback. What?

Huh? Just, you know, where am I? I'll take, I'll take the acknowledgement. I will. Um, shit, there was one other thought in that direction too. Uh, yes. Uh, the thought that like, you know, make no mistake, there are still a, here's a, here's a plethora of Western developed games with great netcode for you to play that you can

play, but that's tons of genres and we know, we know these are out there and, and those are great and they deserve the support, but that's unfortunately it's not, it's not the same discussion, you know? It's like there are. Yeah. I think, I think the best way that I saw people phrasing it is that whenever the rollback conversation comes up, when people go, Hey, is KOF going to get rollback? The, the, the chime in from people are like skull girls and KI and have rollback.

It's like, yeah, everyone knows that. I'm asking whether or not Tekken will get decent rollback. Yeah. Yeah. Trying to push it forward onto Tekken. And then when Tekken has it, I'll try and push it forward onto KOF. I think that was a button specifically. Yeah.

It was. So it's, it's, it's a separate discussion. There are some games that currently are great that do have it. We want these games that we love to also get it to. And that is the state of Japanese fighting games. It sucks, but it could get better. Now more than ever is when it needs to happen. Um, and yes, it's always the same thing.

Hey, you guys had like a decade to improve this. Why didn't you do it? Uh, didn't feel like it. Here's a black character with dreads. I'll take it. Yep. I'll take it. Cuphead is now on PS4.

Boom. Hooray. The only reason people are even talking about this in terms of news story, instead of just like, Oh, hey, it's, uh, it's because of the interview with, I forget it was, it might have been Phil Spencer, but, uh, don't quote me on that. But just like the phrase Cuphead will never leave the Xbox. Was a, was a sentence that was said out loud.

Aged like, or, or it might have been Cuphead will never come to PS4. Poorly aged things. Cuphead will never come out on the PlayStation four. It's 100% true. Uh, ask the developers whether or not the game was a 100% lifetime PC Microsoft exclusive. Yes, this Cuphead game is exclusive to Xbox and PC. There will be a Mac version down the road and possibly Linux. 100% exclusive studio MDHR.

Money doesn't have rules. There's a really fantastic red on our subreddit right now that features a feeling very common in the game industry, which is just, so that was a fucking lie. The Arkham Knight is a completely new character. It's like the one that's used for it's the thread and that one's one of the craziest ever. Cause it's like, wow, that's just a blatant full, full lie. Completely. Uh, I liked, I liked seeing one that was Master Chief covered in, um, drape, like cool cloak.

Yeah. It's like, what the fuck is that? What the fuck did that action figures made for that? That's some bullshit. That never happened. It didn't happen at all. I think he fell out of the sky like an idiot is always going to be always. Uh, I will cut my own head off with a chainsaw if, if Resident 4 comes out on the PlayStation.

And it came out on the PS2 nine months later. I will staple my balls to my leg. If what was it? What was it? It was recent. It was very recent. Oh, was it smash related? Something.

SMT. SMT five. There it was. Yes. Yes. If SMT five shows up, I will staple my balls to my thigh. Like, and the, the tweet was also like, you can count on it. Listen, man, the thing about living in a society is that time moves forward.

And as time moves forward, things happen. Things that you've been waiting on a long time happen. We live in a post FF seven remake world. We do. Has that dawned on you? How many? We live in a post Shenmue three got kickstarted came out and sucked ass world. I, you know, we live in a post death stranding world.

It's out. We've beaten it. That one's not as big of a, of a, of a, you know, a lead up, but there's some shit that's been our entire lives. We got a guy in the chat basically nailing the sentiment of, of this directly, which is staple my asshole shot if Skyrim is released on the PS five. Yeah. Yeah.

And no, last guardian indeed. We'll have to hold that hold you to that Bert last guardian and DMC five. You know, those are some big ones, man. Those are some fucking lifetime. I mean, DMC five is like definitely for the younger kids. That's, that's the more recent of like the weights. FF seven is the fucking, that's the lifetimer. That's the big one, you know.

Yeah. So, so yeah, time exists and it is like a river and it flows forward. And it keeps on slipping into the future. Oh man. Okay. Why am I thinking of space jam? Was that involved with space? You nailed it.

Okay. Yeah. Seal. Yeah. Fly like an eagle. Speaking of the, the seal, not of seal, but of, you know, PlayStation, the state of play broadcasts, focusing on VR games is coming up in three days. So there's going to be something going on.

I'm going to pass on that. Yep. Yep. Yep. Did you check out any of that Halo infinite? Did you check out the Halo infinite brute Jimmy's rustled memes? There you go. Yeah.

That's what you're looking for. Joe, that game looks like shit. So did you see the later version of it where they showed off like the actual, like closer to release render engine? Yeah, sure. Like the, the, the reason I say that game looks like shit has nothing to do with brute man's face. Oh.

Okay. That's do with like, it looks, it doesn't, it looks like one of the later 343 Halo games would be an earlier Halo game. So yeah, like, like, like wearing a mask of your father or something. So yeah, like, I didn't, I didn't watch the, I didn't watch the promo stuff. I kind of just looked at the, the shorter teaser they dropped because I kind of, I'm like, I just want to see the grappling hook and how it's used. And it's like, oh yeah, you can swing on things and pull people.

Okay. Cool. But like, yeah, definitely. I'm noticing that there's a sentiment of people are looking at it and going, this reminds them more of four and five than it does of the first three and the good games. And so like, it seems to not be landing. And I'm just like, I don't know. I don't know anything about the shit I'm in the, I'm learning right now, you know, I

don't know anything about four and five. But I did watch a cutscene from five. I watched a very big climactic battle between two Titans of that game story and it sucked ass. Okay. It was like, this is bad. I'm always, I'm always in favor of a grappling hook, but like, yeah, if the rest is, is pretty shit, then that is not enough for me to want to bother going through it.

I'll say that much. But yeah. Also, it's a 10 year platform that we will be working on and oh, just, so you know what that is. Why did it? Why did it have to sound? Yeah. I know.

It's free to play. It's going to, it's free to play multiplayer and they're going to be updating it and putting stuff in as we go on and it's just like, why did it have to sound so incredibly similar to the destiny announcement? Why did it have to give all of that energy? I mean, Anthem, do you remember Anthem has a long and history in front of it? Did they all those quotes? But did they say 10 years too for that as well?

I don't think they put a number on that. What a terrible comparison to make, especially considering Bungie and Halo and all that. Because like, I don't think I have ever hated a game more than I've played as much of as Destiny 2. Like that game has left me so frustrated. Like so frustrated. Now, listen, their 10 year plan was no plan at all. So to use that specific phrase is just really stupid.

Why would you say that? Now, my name's not Paul and I do not work for a marketing department. But if I were Paul marketing, I would say that ever since Destiny, it would be a bad idea to say we're planning on this game being around for X number of years. Don't even do it. You say is we're going to plan to support it for a really long time. You say that your intention exactly, right? This is intended to be our platform for a long time and we're going to do whatever.

But the moment you say that, people are like, OK, well, anything short of that will just be embarrassing and that's on you. So if shit ends up drying up immediately, then obviously you can't try to, well, you can try, but it'd be a long walk to getting people to caring about it again, which we've seen some games do. But if your plans change, why even put out there something that you can then be smacked in the face by a couple of years later? There's something that I always really disliked about the phrase 10 year plan.

And I just realized what it was like, you know, when something hits your ear and you're just like, no one has a 10 year plan. And I know this because we're talking the two games that have had this phrase used, maybe Anthem two or like Lute Shooter, like Destiny's weird Lute Shooter MMO thing and now Halo, right? And it's like, you know what games don't even have 10 year plans, real MMOs, games that have expansions every year or every two years on the dot and have consistent content updates. They don't have 10 year plans.

They have like a three year plan. And then they have like a note scribbled on a napkin and then we'll wing it. Then we'll wing it. Yeah. Yeah. So like 14 has been really like they're really open with their dev process. So like when Shadowbringers was like leading up, right? So we were halfway through the 3.0 cycle, sorry, the 4.0 cycle.

They're like, well, we know what, obviously we know what we're going to do in Shadowbringers when all those patches are going to be more or less, right? And we were pretty sure where the story is going to go one expansion in the future. So that's three years. Wow. Had a different expansion roll out and they knew that they were going to go when that game came out in 2004. They knew we're going to do burning crusade and then we're going to do a fucking frozen

throne or what? No, that's not what's called whatever the ice one, right? And then they had like, well, maybe we'll go to the panda place afterwards or maybe we'll go here and you know, it's all up in the air, right? Three, four year plan this and this is for games that are shipping full expansions that are full games. This sounds so much like anime or manga where they'll be like, we have an ending. We have a major turn.

I don't know. We'll figure the rest out, right? We've got, we've got the trader and we've got the finale planned out. I don't know what the rest is going to be. You know, and Heritoriyama has a 10 year plan for Dragon Ball. He says in the middle of the Saiyan saga, Saiyan, what the Saiyan saga? Yeah.

Right. Saiyan. Listen, like now here's the exact now that is reality. This is what you see is the things with 10 year plans did not plan for 10 years. They just fucking tripped over their balls into them. Okay. But why does it get said, right? What is the point?

Well, it certainly isn't the player based confidence in spending the money on the thing. It's way more about investors being like, oh, we got ourselves a big fish. Yeah. So when they say 10 year plan to you, they're saying, listen, if you buy your microtransaction hat, this is a game you'll be playing for a decade, right? And what's funny is that Warframe doesn't say that, right? But is a game that I'll be playing on and off for a couple of years, you know? But yeah, it's, it's like, hey, man, this revenue stream will go for years and years.

It's not like, it's not like that halo of yesteryear where it came out and you saw a big return and then nothing. No, man, you're going to get, you're going to get a fucking dividend strike up the profits with third strike impact your, your profits with second impact. It's always garbage. Yeah. It's, it's just, it's just the fucking arcade flyers. That's all it is.

Um, you know, your, your, your destiny of large profits awaits. The shadow of your coffers will be filled with riches in shadow, can we get arcade flyers for modern games, please? Can we start doing this again? This is great. Uh, yeah, yeah, just, just all that dumb shit to get arcade buyers, you know, I fucking hate it. That's all it is, man.

This sucks so much ass, you know, and, and, and I feel, I feel, I feel like, uh, it doesn't and it's like, as long as people that invest, investors are still excited by hearing that, they'll never stop. They won't stop saying it. They'll be like, Oh yeah, this is a big, confident thing because rich people are like, uh, void holes that only feel the feel of money in there. They will, they will kill your children to make line go up a little bit. Yeah.

Yeah. Sorry to get a little political there, guys. Rich people look delicious. That's all I'm saying. They look tasty. Hey, I have a news story that I just thought up. Can I, can I, can I run that? This is news.

Sure. All right. George RR Martin is a coward bitch. So this is hilarious. This is really funny. I actually, before this story popped up, I remembered this because I was talking to my friend about Elden Ring and I was like, hold on a minute, wait a second. Didn't we have a story where he went to New Zealand and he said, you can jail me if it's

not out by this summer. And I said, so the story line was I said they should jail this motherfucker for not writing the books. And he said that's crazy dude. What the hell? And then in that podcast, we got him literally quoted saying, if I show up in New Zealand and I don't have the book in prison, me in front of a lake of sulfur, yes, yes, and I'll write the book.

And you went, okay. Well, fine. Then he said it himself. He's given New Zealand. What was the date that he picked July, July 29th, 2020. I want to see a book or a prison. That's out of his mouth. Yep.

Yep. Yep. And it's not like the quarantine means that like you're going to have less opportunities to write. Oh, yeah. You know what, George, there's no, it's, you know, he, he, he's like, I don't have a lot of time to write cause you know, I got to travel to all these events and I'm working on all these projects.

I'm like, uh-huh. Doing a lot of traveling now, George. No. Hmm. What you thinking about? So thinking about, right? I, I, I remembered that story. I went to look it up.

It happened to exactly be the date that the dates were describing. And then, uh, yeah, there was another article that popped up about it. Has there been a statement? Has there been a response? Nope. Nope. Nothing. Nope.

Nope. I, a book, so like a prison cell or a corpse, I suppose. So I pointed that out and people were like, well, he said he had to show up to the convention he was going to. That's like no one, no one cares for this intellectual masturbation about, it was specifically about the event or specifically about New Zealand. The man said that you should expect it by this date and at, at, and said that implied that by not doing so, that would be so unfair that he should be imprisoned.

That's the core of it. The nitpicky details don't matter here. And I feel bad for him, but also fuck him, um, because like, so there aren't going to be conventions for a long time, right? So the fan isn't going to be able to, you know, be like, you know, do the signing and then be like, Hey dude, what about this? But he will either die or there will come a time when someone at an interview or a article or whatever gets to ask him, Hey man, how's the book coming along?

And he'll go, yeah, that's coming. And it's goes, well, you said that you would imprison yourself happily in front of a, in a tiny one man cabin in front of a lake of sulfur. Like and that date was like a year ago. So you know, we were just, how's the come, you know, we were just talking about how we live in a post X world, right? Yeah. We are currently living in a wait world for what?

So we got winds of winter. We got Joe Jolion. We got Berserk ending. Uh, those are the three I got. Well, luckily Joe Jolion will finish eventually. Elden ring kind of gets chalked up to grim in general. Elden ring has not taken on a ridiculous, like 10 year lead. Well, I mean, we don't know, we don't know exactly, right?

Games that are announced that you just don't know anything about are not the same as we, it's been, it's been a decade type of thing, you know, I mean, shit, fucking winds of winter was de facto announced back in like the nineties. Part eight was 2011 and, uh, Berserk is Berserk, you know, Star Citizen. Yeah. Yeah. I've been hearing about that for a while. But then there's the stuff where you just give up a whole hope on it, like, um, Mega

Man legends. I've given up hope on Berserk. Mega Man Legends three, like don't even mention that. Just, just stop, you know, that's not even like first they have to say it exists and then you can start counting. But for now, that's just dead, you know, well, actually, no, that's not good enough because they did say it exists, but then they killed it and then they killed it. Um, yeah.

So that's even, even that's not good. Is Bloodborne PC anything but wishful thinking? No, it's, is there any official anything to make people think that's happening or coming? It's possible. Why? Because, because from software didn't do the PC versions of their own, sure. But where was it ever said that this was even a thing? It wasn't.

It was the horizon and the stranding are coming. Okay. So, but it's just, there's no actual, yeah. Okay. It's, it's the, it's because the thing was always, dude, it's a Sony first party game that'll never come to another platform. And now that reasoning is now false because they're Sony first party games have come to another platform.

Okay. And then it sits squarely in demon souls territory of everyone wants this to happen, but like there's been no official hints. So yeah. Okay. I think they should do it. So it should happen is the, totally, totally. Okay.

Oh yeah. That's, that's what the world we live in is the, as the world we're, you know, these are the things we were waiting on at the moment. Always got to be waiting on something this week, you know? Um, a couple other little bits and pieces over the last two weeks, uh, Friday, cool. We got, we got an update that suicidal tendencies and anthrax tracks will be in Tony Hawk. So Tony Hawk's pro skater one plus two, the music we wanted is actually going to be there. Having the fucking noise.

My favorite track is going to be there and psycho vision is going to be there. So saved, not that it was unsaved because it was still going to be a banger of a game, but I think of almost any game that's not a music game where the soundtrack is this and no, it's like the license. Yeah. It's the most, it's the most. Definitely. Um, what's read, uh, in addition to that is they confirmed, uh, new artists as well.

We're going to be jumping on the soundtrack. Fuck. That was a different article. Where'd that go? Yeah. All right. There was a list of, uh, oh yeah, here we go. Tribe call quests, Atari's less than Jake real big fish.

So sticking, sticking with the era, sticking with the era. If they put a bunch of new music in there, that'd be like, no, no, no new to the game, but from the era to 2000 guys, come on. Tribe called quests less than fucking Jake real big fish. That's hilarious. That's great. That's great. And the Atari's.

So yeah, saved looking good. I'm going to play the shit out of that. Fuck yeah. As long as they don't fuck it up. It's there. It's their game to fuck. And it's one plus two. Yeah.

It's one plus two. Exactly. What you want. I think we talked to, I think we talked about it, which is, but what about the revert though? And the, I think it was you that said that one of the devs mentioned in an interview that's like, yeah, we had to put a revert in because the team kept trying to do it and it like breaking their. Yeah.

Yeah. You're just too, you're too, it's too burnt in for sure. It is great too, because I'm glad they're together because one plus two equals one generation, which is our age. And then three plus four was the first game to like 25 and under, you know, for a lot of people. So like, I would like it if they could add the courses from three as DLC later. I don't have a strong affiliation to four, but three is really, I have a stronger affiliation

with four threes. The one I played the least. Yeah. Cause I, I, I didn't buy three actually. I kind of borrowed it. I played it for a bit and then I bought four and like went in super hard on it. So I'm really, I'm really mostly about two than one. And then I know for the most, I'd say, well, two is the best one, two is the best one,

in my opinion, but it's, it's an age thing. It's, it's, it's an age thing. I just agree. I've never, wait, are there people who think that there's people that, there's a lot of people that think three is the best one. And it feels to me like the Mega Man or Sonic discussion, that's fine. Like I disagree, but that's fine. Mega Man, Sonic, Tony Hawk, you know, two or three, where, where are we going with this?

It's the same thing every time it's the same thing every time. So and a lot of the time it comes down to age or like where you started, you know? But yeah, looking good, looking good on that. Then we've got, oh yeah, little announcement dropping hot off the presses actually for those who might be interested, Mythic Games MG is dropping a Kickstarter for the darkest dungeon board game with little darkest dungeon minis, which look cool. They're the little characters, as you know, that's fun. And darkest dungeon is so compatible with a board game.

Yeah. It makes super compatible system. It just, it's like, of course, that's an obvious, that's a gimme, you know, a board game or a card game. It would lend itself so well to that. So yeah, that's a Mythic Games MG putting out the Kickstarter for darkest dungeon board game. Then we've got, yeah, so this is, I don't know, I bet I know, I bet I know what you can, what

you're going to talk about just from the tone of your voice. Where am I going? You're talking about the Avengers game. No, no, I'm not. Oh, no, I'm not. Oh, I'm talking about the Beyond Good and Evil Netflix adaptation. Oh, forgot about that. Paige mentioned it to me, but I think I was in a sleepy state and I'm like, I guess I

thought it wasn't real. Oh, like, make no mistake. Okay. Beyond Good and Evil love that game. Beyond Good and Evil 2 forever wait forever in limbo. We've seen it in weird forms multiple times and the last version they showed showed off some pretty cool looking characters, but ultimately we're like, where's, what is this game going to be?

Where is it? What's happening here? Getting a film announcement or an adaptation for, for, for, for Netflix and it's being handled by the Detective Pikachu guy, Rob Letterman. So I had, you know, Detective Pikachu was like, it was all right, it was fun, it was whatever. We saw the gameplay of BG&E 2 in that, in that, that like last little preview there, but like it still isn't this weird thing of like, like, it's like a persistent online experience and like I kind of was just looking for another game that was just some levels

and some story and some platforming and, you know, that was it. But okay, they're doing something else. But I guess it's just, it's so weird to have these announcements come out when the thing itself is not here. And we've been waiting so long for the thing that we're like, oh, could you, could you excuse me a moment? I got somebody at the door. Oh, oh, do what you gotta do.

I gotta, just a second. Okay. I swear to God, what the fuck is actually wrong with delivery people who want you to open the door and like, take it out of their hands. Yeah, I don't know what planet you're on. Still. Still. I'm about to lose my fucking mind.

That's crazy. Knock on the door. Bing ding ding ding ding. And get up there and I stand there and go, and he goes, can you, can you open, no! Why would I... What did you tell him to put it on the floor? Yeah! And what did you...

He gave me like a weird look and wandered off, like, like, okay, whatever. Did you yell the word pandemic? No. Like, what, I don't... What is... Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Jesus fucking Christ. Some people are just... Just because they touched it anyway, so what difference does it make? The difference that it makes is no one's wearing a mask and I don't really feel like standing two feet away from a guy and taking a parcel out of his hands with no mask, particularly somebody who travels to hundreds of people's homes a day, you dumb idiots. The difference is risk mitigation. How do you not understand that?

How do you literally... What do you not understand about that? The more of the human being there is in front of you, the higher the risk there is within that distance, and that the object is still there and it is still a risk you have to treat individually, but if that's the only thing as opposed to the... What a stupid question. That's insane. All right, moving on.

Don't even acknowledge that. Um... Oh geez, oh geez, coming out. Shout outs to the OGs. I'm gonna hug my cat. So, I was saying that I don't quite understand why they think that people will care about announcements for things related to or spinoffs of the main thing we are waiting for. And it's a humongous miss in terms of, like, getting excitement for something.

And they jump the gun by going, the spinoff to the thing you've been waiting on that's not in your hands yet is in the works. Please get excited for the product that we are used to because we've been staring at it in development for years, so we have a concrete version of it in our heads, but you're still in the dark and you don't know anything about it yet, really. But there's a spinoff. We're jumping into that and announcing it already. Beyond Good and Evil 2, it's extra crazy because, hey, everyone, get excited for the film spinoff

of the game that will totally come out for real, I promise. So, you know, when you bring that red-ash energy, which is exactly what it is, it's red-ash. Let's talk about the new thing when the old thing is still in fucking production. Like, ugh. It just bugs me. It's not to say that it won't be the time once we have it and we know it and it's great and everything's going, but this jumping of the fucking gun in terms of the announcement of it is so silly because we're just like, we just want to fucking get the game, guys.

Come on, man. I really wish- Oh, this place, we'd like to even see it. I wish that franchise belonged to anyone else. I really do. It fucking bugs me that it's stuck where it is. Eh, anyway. I mean, the good news is that it is my belief that that game is not even a real thing anymore, so it's functionally stuck with no one because it's dead.

I just- I went and checked while we were talking. I mean, that's not true, but sure. The old Game 2 trailer was 2017, three years ago. It's just- It's like- The next- You have to just understand. Again, I'm not Paul Marketing, but if I were, the move is not to say the word that people are like, yes, yes, Beyond Good and Evil 2, what about it? What's going on? And you're like, we got a movie coming to Netflix because Castlevania ruled and everyone

loved it, so it's our turn now. And you're just like, fuck off, man. Fuck off, please. That sucks. Such a dumb thing to do, anyway. That's happening. And you know what? The worst part about that is that it might even be good.

It might be fine. Who knows? It's just, this is not the order that you should be telling people about things in, you know? You know what I like to think actually occurs with this? Who's- Who's producing this? This is Netflix? Yep.

So they go to Netflix two years ago and they go, hey, we're planning to release this, you know, Beyond Good and Evil thing. Can you do a- You want to do a tie-in thing? And Netflix is like, sure. And then Netflix does their job and starts production and starts, you know, casting or whatever the fuck you got to do, right? And that trucks along. And meanwhile over at Ubisoft, and so now these two things that we're probably supposed

to release side by side or close together, it's now spin-off and maybe never, right? Like, listen, like, it clearly exists. It just feels like the most confused, like, follow-up to a franchise because it's going through that, like, people want more of this thing, but we want it to go in the most profitable way. So let's, you know, it's that, um, hey, you want more legacy of Cain? Yes? I will leave this podcast right now.

Correct. I will not engage. I- We're not doing this. You do. It appears that you do. Please tell me you would like more- NOSCOF! Right? It's what you- It's what you- Did you like sleeping dogs?

You're a big fan of sleeping dogs. You liked it. I am. It's good. Right? Wei Shen? Fuck yeah. Yeah.

Hey, you want- Mm? Chinatown Wars. Chinatown Wars. Yeah. Triad Wars? Yeah. That one. It's what you wanted, right?

It's what you wanted. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Big fan. It's what you wanted.

No. I'm a big fan of Dragon's Dogma. Did I watch a Japanese-only Dragon's Dogma online? No. Oh, it fucking shut down? I didn't even know that. That shit is gone. Jesus Christ.

It's just- It's just like- It's the most like- It's almost callous because you know exactly what you're doing when you do this. You know exactly what you're doing. You know what people want. You know what they're excited for. And you're just absolutely driving it off a cliff in the hopes that maybe we can strike some of that gas money, you know? BG&E is fucking ransomed for some reason.

And I hope whatever it is now is good. But dear God, like put the thing out first before you start telling us about what it's going to get adapted into. Please. No. Okay. Well, I tried. Because we need to have all the stuff cross media promotion all hit at the same time.

I feel like the games business has a very special relationship with games that get stuck in development hell compared to say film and most books. Like George R. R. Martin, right? That is an outlier, I feel, a very public outlier, right? I can't think of many movie franchises that they're like, we're going to make another one. And then like 20 years later, like nothing has come out. Yeah, so they make one, it's usually trash, but it comes out, it hits a theater.

I think like the fact that Trigger is working on that cyberpunk anime is definitely something where you're like, well, I like, I like that. I like Trigger. I like, I like what they have to do. But it still falls into the category of allow people to be excited for the thing by playing the thing before you fucking spin it off. No. Cross media promotion.

I'm not, I'm not Paul marketing. I can't, you know, you got to release the Dead Space animated comics to get people excited for Dead Space. You got to, you got to plan out the trilogy that is advent rising. And that's the one is not yeah, you got to let everyone know where this is going far in advance. You know, actually, I have one that might be a little better. You have to plan out the, the sequels for two human.

Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. It's supposed to be a trilogy as well. Shenmue part what? Yeah. Dude, I threw this idea out there the other day and the truth is, is I don't know if I'll

ever get the time or, or I don't know what it would be yet. But something just, I'm like, you know, like, I feel like I would love to just make some kind of, like maybe there's a video somewhere in there to just like gather, collect and talk about dead cinematic universes. Can we, you know, I just kind of want to like pull a collection of dead cinematic universes like like the, the, the, the dark universe. Yeah. Must be with the money.

All of it. Yep. Like that one was like the most dramatic failure ever. I want, I want to do something with that. That's cause it's like the fucking hubris to just set yourself up from step one as like we're coming for that Marvel money, baby. We're coming for that. See you.

And you're just, you're just a bunch of idiots with a lot of money thinking they understand what people like and they're just jumping in and, and, and as I say, Babe Ruthing it just pointing at the stands, pointing it at, calling up the homerun. I don't, I don't mean to put too close to a fine of a point on it, but do you know what you're actually talking about? A 10 year plan. Yeah. Actually, that is a 10, that is, that is, that is what it is.

You just described the movie equivalent of the 10 year plan. 100%. Right. It's the exact same internal reaction of this is going to be a big cinematic universe and you're like, no, it's not. Yes, it is. Please invest your money and you'll see big returns because everyone will come out to see cinematic universe is not going to pop off, man.

We are going to make seven movies in seven years and people will love all of them. Give us your money. All right. The first one came out and bombed. It's canceled. Oh, but what about all the marketing that made reference to the cinematic universe though? And what about, what about, what about the movies that were for year two and three that might have started production?

Cancel them, throw hundreds of millions of dollars into the toilet and then light the toilet on fire. Anyway, so that's happening. Um, now, I guess I didn't actually throw this on the docket, but yeah, we can talk about Senate speaking of cinematic universes. We can talk about the MCU and Sony's Spider-Man. So the Avengers game by Square Enix, which is going to be a live service game with a 10 year plan, I might add Spidey Man owned by Sony.

That's correct. It can only be playable on the Sony PlayStation. You know, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool that the, the Sony character Spider-Man has been in such, yeah, it has been such a cool working relationship over the years and they've gotten so close to Marvel that they're basically like sharing a universe. And like now he's not even a guest anymore, right? It's awesome.

It's like these two brands have come together, you know, Spider-Man cross Marvel. Like who the fuck would have thought? I never saw that coming. Spider-Man cross Marvel is like such a sick crossover. I couldn't. I would never have imagined in my life. And here we are. Remember when Spider-Man let Sony use his, his font for the PlayStation?

What a time to be alive, bro. It's it's nuts. So he's going to be in the game now. Is that what's going on? Yeah, he's going to be in the game, but only on the Sony PlayStation. So there are, there are like three live service games that are currently being in the run-up. Right? One is the Gearbox one.

It's like all mythical looks like two human. I don't even mean that disparagingly. It's like mythical and like Valhalla kind of shit. It literally looks like two human. The Avengers game at which they just announced Hawkeye, who looks nothing like Jeremy Renner. You just shaved his head. Get away from that shit. And there's a third one, which I, I don't remember who's making it and I don't remember the name of it.

And I don't, it was, it looked like you were all fighting in a desert and the game only had one color. And I don't know if anyone's ever brought it up to me, but they were showing it was being shown off a couple of weeks ago. Outriders, holy shit. Do you even remember this game at all? Not even remotely. Who's making this? Square Enix and People Can Fly is making Outriders. Did you even see it?

I must have. I've got nothing. Like pull, pull up here. I'll fucking here's, here's scroll through this scroll. This doesn't even matter. Why, why bother? I'll look at it. Do I even have to?

Like, why bother? Like, yeah, OK, I get it. They all look terrible. They all look like garbage. Like they look worse than the fake shit Anthem was putting out that everyone said was a lie. Like they are trying really hard with Outriders and Avengers in particular. And fucking I, man. Wow.

So what I'm seeing here. Not too sure, but it seems like people are not very happy with Square Enix and Crystal D over this, this deal. No, why is that? Well, is it because Spider-Man is by far the world's most popular superhero? Well, you know, I never really realized that, like, Spider-Man really did just become a Sony exclusive character, didn't he? Yeah, he's in Marvel three, which is, which is on both consoles.

And, you know, those games, the I want to say like Web of Shadows and Shattered Dimensions and stuff from the 360 era era, like those games were still there. Marvel Ultimate Alliance, he's in that too, right? Yeah, OK, so no, he continues to exist. He continues to exist in in in a Marvel context in these other games. So what the fuck then? What the fuck at this weirdness? Is it because of the I think it's the branding a lot of like about Avengers

specifically and like the MCU kind of like connection, you know, I think it says a lot about Spider-Man, that the game that came out on Sony's PlayStation four that had Spider-Man in it was called Spider-Man. Like that's it. Like it's definitive. This is our boy, you know, like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Marvel's Marvel Spider-Man, right? Actually, wasn't it, I believe?

No, no, wasn't there a little? Anyway, literally just looking at the Wiki article, it is literally just Spider-Man Spider-Man. Yeah, I feel like I saw logos with it. But what the it is fucking weird, man, because I like I'm like, it must be that the game here particularly ties into MCU contract dealings. No, it's because Sony paid the money. Because Sony only owns the movie rights.

Yes, and this this thing doesn't tie into the MCU at all. Yes, in fact, they're trying to get it away from the MCU, which seems to be a massive stupid mistake, but it's pseudo still resembling MCU ish vibes. It's clearly kind of going. I think I think the worst thing about that game is that it's knockoff MCU with the wrong actors instead of its own thing. Like they're using the comics version of the characters, but they're trying to paint it like it's the MCU, but they all look like knockoffs.

It's super dumb. Yeah, so that's that's. Well, yeah, it's it's just another reason to just not buy that game, which looks terrible. And hey, like, you know, what doesn't look terrible? Mas Morales, right? I think I would like to see the number of times Sony's made a bid to permanently own to permanently own Spider-Man,

which to be perfectly honest, I don't think anyone can afford. I. So a lot of every time this comes up, everyone's like Mad at Sony. And I have to say that you should be a lot more mad at Marvel for making the actual stupidest deal in the history of the universe ever. Correct. The still their fault. The deal of you can keep it as long as you use it is the most short sighted shit that could ever be the split and the mess that comes from

the division of this entire universe is entirely based on Marvel not giving a fuck about films and not understanding what kind of insane contract they were doing. We all know they could have given that. It's the worst. It's the worst deal in history deal. Yeah, they could have given them a 20 year deal and they'd have it back by now. And 20 years is a long time. It is a lot of movies.

It is, you know, you know, they were they were desperate for money. They signed in and there was just this, you know, the concept of a non-shit superhero movie just didn't exist. Just it could it could never be done. Except for except for pretty much just Batman. But it's like just the idea of talented people making a thing that doesn't suck is it is it's just an unfathomable. It's possible.

Yeah. No, no, no. Yes. But if you want to know why that idea was so crazy, go watch Kevin Smith talk about trying to write the fucking Superman movie. Yeah. No, no, it's it's we know about the bankruptcy. It's very clear that they were having their money problems.

It was still an insanely stupid deal. So that happened. And. Random weird little bit. There's a King of Fighters Awaken movie. Oh, dude, this thing looks bad. Holy shit. You know what it is?

It might as well just be called King of Fighters Degeneration. Like it's the it's the Resident Evil movies. But it's KOF and being made by what is it? I think it's the Chinese CG company. It's Chinese CG company. Yeah. Joy Pictures. So this is it's actually being a released in China first in 2022.

The trailer itself was. Yeah, it was it was in Chinese and. Yeah, that's a King of Fighters is huge. It's huge there. So that there's going to be a King of Fighters CG movie. Hey, I'll never I'll never forget that in fucking Shapo Lang. A fucking.

KOF 2002 cabinet is like the center of the movie's emotional arc. Do you remember that? Yeah, sure. It is a really, really popular franchise over there that like lived on in the form of like this of the online game King of Combat even like it was it was a big deal, you know, in addition to being a big deal in Mexico as well. I want to say.

Yeah, like whatever this is, it'll be competing with King of Fighters the movie. Never forget. Rest. Never forget. Rest in peace, Ray Park. Don't know what you're doing out there, man, but. You know, I hope.

Don't look. I hope it all works out. Don't don't. Nope. Don't look into that. Nope. You know. Darth Maul died and that's all there is to it.

And then you'll be good. The great thing about Darth Maul is. He got the his bottom part of his torso cut off so that he couldn't accidentally. Not bad. Not bad. Thank you. Thank you.

So there's King of Fighters another day, which was the the mini anime series that was coming out alongside Maximum Impact. And then I want to say there was another one that I didn't bother with, but hey. You know, at some point in the trailer, Keel puts his hand up and then he does the Arochi Nagi and he goes into the pose of the sprite and I'm like, well, hey, I like that.

I like that. He's going to get a bonus with it. It really, really bugs me when characters from things like fighting games or other things have very clear signature moves and move lists, but they don't do them or use them in whatever adaptation that bothers the shit out of me on a level you can never understand deep down. When are we going to get a Tekken anime where we see

Kazooia do like four Earthwind Godfists in a row? Like when it's just a bunch of martial artists just doing martial arts and choreographing their own shit and doing nothing faithful. I fucking can't stand it. Dear God. Why even have these characters? Why even bother?

Yeah, so we'll see. Hey, Wolves, I hate to be rude. My headphones are dying, so we only got about 10 more minutes on this. Okay. And I may randomly not be able to hear you because it tells me that my headphones are dying. Okay.

Apologies. Usually I charge it beforehand, but I'm a little low on sleep lately with running and taking care of baby. No, it's pretty annoying how sometimes you'll get the connecting to, I'm going to mute off whatever you were listening to while I say this, disconnecting from whatever the fuck you didn't want me to connect to. So I hear you.

Now that's fine because we had two more stories. One of them was a, was a, was a minor thing. And again, two weeks of, of, of, of catch up. One, a nuclear disarmament was achieved in Metal Gear Solid Five and then on the PS three on the, and then it was investigated as potentially fraudulent. They're looking into it. It might not be real.

The team that the team anti-news. The team anti-nuke might have bullshitted it, but we don't know how. So I'll tell you what, if we ever achieve nuclear disarmament in the real world, it will be assuredly fraudulent. There you go. And certainly not least, three words, bomb, rush, cyber

funk. Just let it, let it sit in. It's just, it's sure, sure you can use the word just, but I'll tell you what it is. It's a long time coming. It's, uh, in the hands of Hideki Naganuma. So the music is already secured, funding secured. And it is being done by Team Reptile, AKA the Lethal League

Blaze people. So. Perfect. Dear God Almighty. All right. Well, that's done. Hey, Sega, never mind. They're going to fucking do it.

Yeah. And it's just the most, you don't want this. You don't want it. Dude, last, last chance. Dude, like, yo, it's the last nugget. You don't want the nugget. I saved the sauce for you right there. You don't, I'm taking the fucking nugget.

They're doing it. They're doing it. I'll do it my fucking self. They showed off what, 10 seconds with a little bit of a track from Hideki Naganuma, AKA Skank Funk himself. And you're like, sounds amazing. Looks amazing. Has the skating.

Has the fucking tagging. Perfect cell shading because they already had that down. Looks like the character from Lethal League is going to be in it as well. And it's just the name rules and it's like fucking done and done and done and done and done. Like every single thing you wanted to see in 10 seconds is done.

And you go to the steam page and just read the description and they're like, yeah, no, we're doing whatever. We're doing it. That's it. And then they're like, they put a tweet out and they go, by the way, what else do you want to see? Like obviously you want to see some skating, some grinding and some, some tagging.

Get the graffiti down. But what else do you want to see? Can't fucking wait. Beautiful. And I feel like happy for Hideki Naganuma because he's been like literally jumping on board everything that even remotely resembles Jetset Radio and helping them out. He's like, I'll make music for hover.

I'll make music for this other game that was kind of like Jetset. I'll jump in on whatever projects and he's like, he's just like, I will do this for free. I'm practically paying, begging to pay Sega to do this. You know, and he's like, nah, he's been dying to work on more of this. And now bomb rush cyber funk.

That's the name bomb rush cyber funk. That's the name one more time. B C R bomb. Excuse me. Bomb. Did I fuck it up? No, I fucked it up. Bomb rush cyber funk.

Yes. All right. It's in there. It's great. And, and, and he's in there and he's fucking finally getting a chance. And he's so happy that he's retweeting his BRC. Thank you.

He's retweeting a bunch of like everything, including like Sega, you had a chance. You didn't take it. Know what? Like, you know, wow, like, hey, sit, like just straight up being like, Sega, why would, you know, we don't know why you took so long, but whatever the case is, whatever this is happening with or without you.

And that's it, you know, so franchise fucking just a forced baton pass. They ripped the baton in the relay race from the cold dead hands. Something very similar to that with Ayuden in Suicoden where that Kickstarter got announced a little bit ago. Are you familiar with it? Which one?

Ayuden is not Suicoden seven. Okay. Okay. It's made by all the, all the regular people and it's, it's a really adorable Kickstarter video where they're all like middle-aged kind of shlubby Japanese like old time game developers hanging out under a bridge cause playing with cardboard and be like, and then they beat up Igarashi who I

think is supposed to symbolize Konami. That thing crushed its Kickstarter goals. And it's really a thing. As you do. Konami's not going to make anything ever again. Yeah. I mean, look, I think honestly Jet Set Sona was like almost like the final rallying cry.

Right? I talked about it. It was when my avatar was had like a red X over my face or like a white X over my red. Like that whole thing was a Sega. Listen, everybody has a lot of love for Jet Set Radio and we want to give you a lot of money. Please.

Can you at least acknowledge the anniversary of the thing? No. Just say happy birthday to Jet Set Radio. No. And I can't think of a company that listens less than Sega except maybe Konami. You know, so the Jet Set Sona like, like campaign, which again, two mellow got in there and made a sick track for it was

just like for the, we're just for the last time. We're going to try one more, one more. Are you out? Can you hear us? I don't know what I'm looking at. What's that? Who? No.

I don't see anything. What do you want me to look at? Doesn't look like anything to me. Can't what? Weegers. Huh? I can't. What?

Okay. So Team Reptile just came in. I feel like if you actually grabbed somebody like physically and been like, dude, what the fuck, the answer would be like, well, we ported it to the Xbox back in 2006. What do you guys want? Yeah. So fuck it.

Fuck it. They're doing it. Team Reptile, best possible hands. This could be handed to. I never would have. I've like, it's not, it's a perfect match, but I just didn't know if they were like interested in doing that genre. And it turns out they are and it's like fucking go take it and

skate off into the horizon with that baton. I should point out that people said that Sega did listen about Yakuza in particular, Yakuza five coming to the west and that is not true. Sony listened. And then Sony made that happen and then that sold well enough for Sega to start re-releasing them in the future. Okay.

Well, maybe they just got really. Sega, don't listen. Maybe Sega just got really scared and thought, you know, graffiti is a crime and we should not be encouraging that or this nasty rap music. And they and they decided to never go down that road ever again. You know, yeah, maybe maybe Sega released that game when they

were more south on the political compass and then they took a trip north. Who knows? I think it's way more likely that it didn't make waves at the company monetarily and thus people who work there literally don't know what it is. But I mean, at the same time, like people at least in the west have been very vocal about loving this thing for a while.

And the Sega. I can't hear that. And the guy running the guy running the Sega account knows certainly. Yeah, those guys have no power. And the guy who made the soundtrack has been yelling at them for his entire life. They don't know who he is.

Of course. Of course. He's just some guy in their office. So bomb rush cyber funk. All right. Listen, let's let's let's hurry this up. Quick emails. Speed round.

I got time for like one email to tops, man. My thing is yelling at me that is dying. All right. Goatmeal says, uh, I once had a friend tell me he watches anime and fast forward so he can get through more episodes proceeding. In my opinion, this is absolutely insane. What are the worst ways you've heard of people consuming media? People watch us and fast forward.

They certainly do. But I understand that. That's very sane. Anime and fast forward is stand 1.25 and 1.5 but two or three like what the hell to the point where you can't really hear what's happening anymore. You're that's lunacy. Yeah.

That's, that's, that's some, that's very aren't supposed to take that shit so literally imagine trying to have a conversation with somebody who watched something like that as if they understood what they were seeing. Yeah. That's very frustrating. Maybe the kids are just faster than us. I hate your friend.

That sucks. All right. Your friends, your friend sucks. Hey, what's going on? Me. You this week. I'm going to be streaming the end of Katana zero, the blasphemous DLC fall guys and probably horizon this week

over twitch.tv slash Pat stairs at don't know what time I'm going to be starting need to figure that out with the, with the, with page because we got to figure out who's going to be awake at what times to take care of baby and whatnot. And I can't take care, take care of the baby while streaming, but you can check that out at twitch.tv slash Pat stairs at hopefully we'll be able to get baby on camera this week, depends on one their Elmo is in a good mood or not.

Cool. Over on Willy versus. I will announce the schedule later on tonight. I have to confirm what days I can stream. It's going to be a light week again because I'm working on some shit. So it is what it is, but I'll try to get some stuff in there. Definitely on the channel, you can check out the smash melee

with rollback and the guy who put it rollback into melee is, is on the channel and get into fighting games. Halo three started. That's going to be going on. GSP has joined the, the team of compilation makers on the channel. So that's awesome. So we put up the first, which is the halo CE compilation has a lot of fun stuff going on in that.

Check it out for a nice little one hour run through of my halo journey in a halo one and paper Mario thousand year door continues as well. So keep an eye out for some of that stuff. We're going places. Things are popping off. It's pretty great. I'll let you know.

Check my Twitter for the, for the schedule this week and then yeah, you'll find the schedule when I make it on my Twitter. There you go. That's Pat stairs out on Twitter. And that's Willy versus podcast is over. We did it. Goodbye. Goodbye, everyone.

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