Castle Super Beast - CSB 095: Should've Read The Epic Jim Crow EULA

Episode Date: November 24, 2020

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I It's going okay. Do I also count in the everybody state? Yes, it's there's only it's rhetorical except for one person. Okay, cool. I was I got a good night's sleep last night, which is great. Yeah, that's quite rare. I had a rough one. I think it had it's a combination of you know, obviously the staying up in addition to diet and what you eat right before you go to bed. If you eat before you go to bed, can fuck you up. I find I heard that if you drink a lot of booze right before you go to bed, it helps you go to sleep real good. Sure. I heard that I have not had booze in a very long time. You just you just you know, I

got to go to sleep and then you drink in bed until you're asleep. There is in light of lockdown there is a a restaurant that's like got some pretty cool drinks that they end up they sell you the mix without the booze in it to like make it at home basically. Okay. So it's interesting to get only the freshest nightcap for sleep reasons. Yeah, no, and I actually tried it and it was it was pretty good. They basically just sell you like a tang bag of all the mixed ingredients minus the booze and then they just go add the booze add this amount, you know, serve over ice and you're good to go or whatever the case is and you end up with some pretty good cocktails out of it. And then you go what if I just

mixed the drink and then had the booze and then put the drink next to me and then just drank just the booze and then when somebody said, Oh, what are you having? You're like, Oh, I'm having this mixed drink with no alcohol in it. See, I'm responsible as you booze breath all over the room. Just squirt your hand sanitizer right into the mix. Oh, yeah, did you see a bunch of people died out in fucking Russia? Sure did. Sure did parties getting crunk. Oh, no, we ran out of booze. What if we drank this industrial grade ethanol? No, it was not ethanol. It was methanol, because which is just poison. Because the thing is, is they they some of the early hand sanitizer we got over here was converted from a former booze place.

So they started putting ethanol as hand sanitizer in their bottles and shipping it out. But in this case, it was not methanol, which is just poison. Yeah, your liver is done. And ironically enough, one of the cures for out for methanol poisoning is is regular alcohol, which means that the drunkest ones at that party that got some of the methanol in them probably survived as a direct result of having so much regular alcohol in their in their stomachs. Yeah, what we're saying is that drink responsibly and getting drunk is not cool. That's right kids. Getting drunk is not cool. Hiding the fact that you're drunk is not cool. However, if you're talking to someone who's never gotten drunk and they don't know what it's like, the intense curiosity and

social pressure are almost impossible to strong arm. So they're going to do it. Thus, the main thing is to do it and discover where your limit is and then set that bar for the rest of your life and go, okay, I know where I'm at. Everyone's got to have that point where they go flying over the edge and then it ends embarrassingly. And once they do, they usually end up one knowing where that limit is and two, whatever the thing is that made them get sick or go over the edge, you hate that drink forever because that taste never goes away. Your brain has a really strong association with getting sick and the flavor of the thing you were consuming at the time. So just like how we talk about childhood memories of eating a thing that makes you vomit,

same thing for booze. I don't care for tequila and I have heard many, many others not care for tequila. For whatever reason, tequila is associated with many, many bad times. Yeah, tequila is an easy one that you can get cheap as a kid and it's very like it's high in percentage so you can get fucked up without with very little effort. Therefore, it's got the little ritual with the salt. Exactly. Therefore, all the circumstances end up coming together so that a lot of kids end up hating tequila because they get fucked on it way too early. And you know what? That's fine because tequila is terrible. I mean, if you have good tequila, then it's good, but a lot of the shit we get is pretty bad. My

understanding, according to someone who fucking pulled us out of their ass years ago, was that that's my favorite source. Yeah, like apparently in some places, what gets exported is the best shit and what stays behind is awful. I believe like LeBat and Molson are of that genre, whereas tequila is the kind where what gets exported is lower quality and what's originally there closest to the origin is the highest quality stuff. So the more south you go, and the closer you get to where it's actually made, the better chance you have of enjoying what you taste. And that's a huge difference. It's funny talking about drinking because I basically have been tea tolling for a long time because I gave myself the gout and it's bad for

your fingers. I don't miss it. I really don't. I'll occasionally have like a bloody Caesar with a certain type of meal, usually like a steak or something, but that's just because I like a bloody goddamn Caesar. That's like that's nothing to do with Alky Halls. Yeah. In my case, I'm just I'm a social drinker. So pretty much like I have it with people. So basically, you haven't had a drop in in a year. Pretty much, you know, that's that's it. Like the things that activate for me to, you know, want to grab a drink have not those circumstances have not been fulfilled. You know, I think I grabbed a cider at one point randomly and, you know, and I think Reggie brought over some cans one time as well. But for the most part, like, yeah,

you know, that's that's what it is. And I just otherwise don't really think about it that much. So yeah, but in any case, whatever, I guess I'll head it off. The the week was spent working on a couple things. On the the file transfer over to the new PC. Absolute unit one has arrived that you learned really early on during that process. What do I actually really need? Mm hmm. So I made I was preparing beforehand, right, in order to like be like, yeah, this is how we're going to do it. This is how it's going to go down and whatever. Right. And it's funny because, you know, I actually at one point I was like, you know what,

let me just try something unorthodox here and let me actually see if one drive is worth a shit. You know, that annoying thing that Microsoft pops up every time we used you and you fucking start up Windows and they're like, install, use your one drive. It's your cloud storage service for Microsoft and put up. Yeah, everyone does. Everyone does. And guess what, you're not missing shit. It's fucking garbage. It's absolutely terrible. But I was legit curious and I dropped a couple files in there just to see how this would even behave if I had to go and transfer them over and it's fucking trash. So just you don't even look at it. Incredible. Here's how you transfer your files. It's really

simple. Get a big external hard drive and just hit the button and then just wait. Yeah. It's kind of like annoying that like you because in order to you can also transfer through a local network and you know, you could even transfer with a transfer cable and shit like that. But it's sort of stupid how that's not more common slash like readily available because I've always had problems setting up a local network transfer and I've never gotten transfer cable shit working either. So you literally can't just plug like a, you know, tower into a tower and just go send the files like it or you can but it's just it's not as straightforward. But anyway, yeah, exactly. External hard drive, you know, drop a couple terabytes and then just so I can move it over.

So yeah, that's what I did. And and originally my plan was to move the entire system over and boy did that just whittle down to the files that I'm looking at right now. That's so pointless. Yeah, no. So like I have a I have a couple folders on my PC right now that I I have like mentally cataloged as I need to keep these backed up and up to date. And the number one is just my OBS settings. Yeah, like my the I have a million scenes with the devil. So I'm like, okay, those ones. God, it would be it would be days or weeks to recreate them and all the files associated with them. And that's pretty much it. In my case, only one. In my case, like I don't even need to to go that far because like

while it can stream and while it can obviously capture like this is mainly just here for its performance because my streaming is off is off set up. So this is going to be just like basically I ended up I'm like, I'm going to copy over whatever shows I'm watching my entire Guilty Gear project folder. And essentially, you know, my collection of installed games. And like, that's it. You know, like that's really the only active things I need right now. Also some video editing files here and there. But like, everything else that's not that or like, you know, even like my woolly versus branding and shit like that, like all of that can just move like whatever, we'll fucking, I'll grab you when I need you. But peace out for now. You know, and

it's really, really nice. I'm literally fucking exporting my shit right now. Because I'm just like, man, you know what, I just really back up these. I haven't fucking yeah, I haven't fixed that OBS thing. And it's nice to just look at an empty disc of nine terabytes and be like, Yup, clean. Yeah, that is nothing in there. Pretty, pretty goddamn incredible. I have to admit. Yeah. Like when I got this PC, it was mostly clean. And it was just it was right before you fuck it up with all your shit. Right. Like, because the solution that I've gone is like you described your shows like I have an external eight terabyte hard drive that I that I keep upgrading over the years.

That is all my media because like I need, I need lots of room for media, but also it helps a lot for, hey, do I want to just copy my documents folder onto something that I can keep or say these these OBS scenes can go into this backup file. So yeah, this thing is it's a fucking beast. It's also really, really quiet. And that is lovely. It's very nice how quiet it is. It is. I did, you know, like it obviously the guys had some some benchmarking software on there and I was some other stuff and you want to that's of course you want to just do that right away. What I didn't get and the results were quite nice. They were like, yeah, okay, that's that's

right. It is pretty much just underneath those those ridiculous. There's like the crazy new Ryzen's and like one other thing. But what I was what I was kind of like ball about is like the benchmark didn't give me a percentile because I remember the last time I got that I was like, oh, I want to know. I want to see that 0.01. You're in the you're in the top one percentile. I want to see that. I want to see that one percent about it. But you know it in your heart. It's there. It's there, you know. But yeah, you know, I fucking I booted up infinite warfare and just just cranked a shit up. But I was like, yep, looks good. Seems yep. Look at it go. It's doing it. There it is. And I'm like, right, that's about right. And then something

became clear. Also, as well, when I was booting up the the the XX was that I'm like, oh, well, here now this TV can output in 4K quite fine. But it can't do 122 Hertz. No. And for all these tricked out features, including stupid FPS, I need that ability. So well, no, but I want it. Yeah, see, see, see, was that much easier? So I bought that. So so the TV's on the way. I hope you I hope you enjoy playing DMC five special edition at 1080p because the game if it detects 120 Hertz monitor will may will force 120 Hertz and you can't change the resolution. Really? Yep. See, I thought it was dependent because like certain I thought like things like like, for example, like in LDK mode, it automatically

turns off some of the advanced settings and things like that. No, it is the way that that SC is put together. It feels a little slapdash, where if you have 120 Hertz monitor, it goes, cool, you have 120 Hertz and then kicks it down to 1080p. Apparently it got patched. Oh, that got patched. Great. Good. Excellent. So yeah, I'd like to see that. So the new things arriving sometime this week as well. I was also thinking about like because of the computer, thinking about like rewiring and changing the setup around a bit. I might still do that. That sounds fun. Yeah. Yeah. Big old studio tear down and rebuild. I might still do that. But for now, I'm just kind of like, you know, swapping things in and out.

It's also, yeah, it's going to be a 65 inch. So that big TV. So there's that. Be able to see it. Yeah. And when yeah, when whatever, obviously that that's all plugged in and nice, then we can, I can do some fucking crazy ass tests and watch the numbers go high. But so far, so good. And, you know, it was like, yeah, this thing is great. And again, I just like it's, it's remarkably, remarkably quiet. And I'm very happy about that. Yeah. When I, when I started getting custom built PCs off of like New Egg and NCAX a long time ago, I started to like, like gravitate very strongly towards like fractal cases, which is just like, just all internal, all internal padding, just quiet it the fuck down.

Because I used everybody. I mean, I'm sure your old PC was kind of loud. Yeah, it would get, well, it was quiet compared to my, the PC I had before that. But yeah, and so on and so forth, right? But like now by comparison, yeah, it's, it's very, you know, now the only time I hear the PC at all is when I'm, I'm pro gaming on the Mac settings at which point I a little were in the corner doesn't make any noise compared to my hardcore video games that I'm doing. So, uh, you know, there's some serious like tests outside of the like, like pushing it to the limit tests where it's going to be, are we going to get the coil wine? Are we going to get any kind of feedback from the fact, from the fact that like

your recording, uh, sensitivity is, is extremely high from this port on the computer, you know, like what, what's it going to be? Um, so we'll do a couple of tests like that. But, uh, yeah, in the end, I think it'll still just end up being like a, a non-recording machine. So you did, you did the, the, the fun part, which is like turning on a game you already know that ran a certain way and now it runs like, woo, look at it go millions, millions of frames, all the settings, right? Have you had any experience where you went back to a game that didn't run very well and you're like, wow, now I'll be able to play at it at, you know, a good frame rate and it still runs like complete shit. So I didn't do that yet,

but I have a theory that injustice too is going to fucking die. I have a feeling because what, because there's a certain like appreciable viscosity based smugness that radiates from your pores when you're like, no, I was right. This game is ass. I'm expecting injustice due to justice too, to absolutely just poop. That's the only thing of recent that I've had some, some problems with, you know, um, yeah, that we're just like, no, they, that's completely on them and they're a horrible port, but we will find out. Just want it to run well, please. So that is says warhammer too. Yeah, that's, that's nice. Um, also the colors are not as blinding as I was worried they would be. Oh, the, the, the LEDs,

the LEDs, they shine on all day, but you can't, they're not so bright that like they distract from what's happening in front of you. So it's not that bad. Um, and I don't get the LEDs. They're pretty. Yeah, but I find them to be distracting on any device that I own. Well, I get my laptop, rather than my laptop, yeah, the laptop's a keyboard, the fucking razor keyboard and the mouse all have their lights going anyway. So at this point, it's just another series of rainbow things going around the living room. Like I have this, I have this mouse here, uh, and I had a similar one prior that had the RGB lights and the first thing I did was to go into, uh, Logitech's app and just turn all that shit off. Yeah. Um, I'm, I'm, I'm a fan of, of color on dark aesthetic and it

just, it's pretty. There's not much else to say. And you're talking to somebody who used to go to all his consoles and black out all the fucking lights on them with electrical tape. Sure. That's, yeah, that's weird. Because I did not like the blinking light. I, I like knowing when something's on and, and I like seeing that it's, you know, not on by mistake. What I don't like, I don't like the generation. I don't remember, I think it was, it might have been the PS three. That was the first generation of console where when it was off, the red light was always on. That was definitely the PS three. Yeah. Because game consoles prior to that were just off off and there was no lights on them at all. And I remember when I would see that red light and I'd be like,

why is that red light always on? Right? What's the point of that? Tell you that it's off. What's to stop that? You know, it's like it's off, but it's plugged in. I don't need that. Just turned the whole thing off. But yeah, that was, that was what started it. PS two had a switch. The little yeah, okay, the right over where the power thing. Yeah. It's true. It's true. It did. Oh, it did have it. It did. Yeah, I see it like the old deal, the original PS two model. I ended up, I had the slim so, but yes, that red light always on thing. I remember when I was just like, can I, can I fucking get some, some darkness in here? So yeah, I get the tape thing. I wouldn't have gone that far. Well, I want the light on when it's on. There was a read,

there was a more reasonable reason for why I was taping up all my lights on my devices with electrical tape, because that's back when I lived in my first apartment, which was a studio apartment, which meant that when I went to sleep, I could see all of those devices. Right. Right. And when they all had their goddamn lights on, like, it was like a fucking, it was like looking at the night sky on one wall. Right. Fair enough. Anyway, it was something that I ended up like not really liking about that generation. And then like eventually the we had it and now everything has it. Xbox doesn't actually, the Xbox is still just off when it's off. The power supply when it was external would have a little light on it. The brick would have a little light to

show you it's plugged in, but PS five has no power brick. It's inside. Come to think of it. Yeah, well, it better be. Well, I mean, that's that's yeah, this would have to be that fucking piece of shit. So big. So like that's the thing. I mean, that's a design choice, right? Like they there are consoles that can shave some space to make themselves smaller by externalizing the power brick. Or you could just put it all in and make it a fat boy. And between the two, I think it's more, it's more a quote unquote, aesthetically pleasing to have it like internal, but it's easier to travel with if it's separated. I remember when I had to carry around three sixties and it was like, you know, you just,

you had the bricks over here, you had the console over there and, you know, the it was, it was, it was easier to separate the two versus if I had to travel with a stack of X sexes, which is not going to happen. But if you did, that would be really rough. Also, Jabali tweeted out a tournament organizers informative drop on the fact that PS5s do not stack neatly on top of each other. Their shapes are weird and they will fall over and fucking break if you try to stack them. And if you take off the side panels, it still doesn't stack. So you cannot put them together for easy, simple transport, you're going to need some sort of specialized casing, vertical only, that's, that sucks. That's talking about this makes me

look over at my soundbar and there's a tiny red light on my soundbar, which is obvious, which otherwise, you know, just no lights or anything like that. And the red icon is glowing red permanently to make sure to tell me that, Hey dude, you successfully turned off the Alexa function on your soundbar. If I allowed Alexa to live and thrive in my soundbar, that light would go away because I assume they think that's the default, but instead they want to give me a tiny red warning light to say, Hey dude, did you, did you, did you realize your soundbar has Alexa built in? Really? Wow. Yeah. Not anymore. It doesn't. Yeah. Okay. Turn that shit off within two seconds. Was it, um, or brand is it? It's a Bose. Okay. I think I got a sonos and

yeah, all right. Because it's pretty sure there's no Alexa anywhere in this house and I'm planning to keep it that way for the foreseeable. But yeah, that is, uh, that is the, the absolute unit zero one, uh, more information to come as, as the week goes on. But yeah, I think, um, was a, yeah, there was some, I got some, some, some folks were concerned about the, um, the wiring in the case and that the fact that the, um, the, uh, some of the, some of the cooling was going in the wrong direction of sorts, but the, these guys, artesian builds knows what they're doing. They, they fucking, they crushed it. I'm extremely happy with what's going on. And, uh, yeah, I, I do appreciate the gig guys. So thank you very much. And, uh, if you guys need

a computer, check out artesian builds. They, they fucking did an amazing job on this thing. So cheers to that. Um, the other thing I did this week was I got through and I beat, uh, LDK mode with Virgil in, uh, DMC five SE. Yeah. So, um, you know, minor spoilers. If you're going to, uh, not want to hear about anything that happens for this game's re-release. All right. There you go. So you tune out now. Uh, yeah. So you fucking play through that shit and it's great. And, uh, as I mentioned, your, your, some of your biggest challenges are getting your fucking perfect frame timing on, on your judgment cuts and everything, but the LDK challenges are, oh man, like there's some rooms

they throw at you that are just like, you know what? Fuck you. Like just here's a sea of enemies. You should be able to handle this by now. And for the most part, like, yeah, you can. You've got Virgil has some great crowd control abilities. I imagine it just takes a while. It just, it takes a while to work at it, but it's also like, um, there's points where like concentration requires you to stand still and be decisive and move properly. But there's a lot of opera. There's a lot of times when you're sort, you're like, you're in such a mob that there's no way to properly see or react to what is coming at you. Uh, so, you know, staying airborne is a pretty good way of like, of staying out of danger in many cases, but, um, yeah, there's a couple of rooms

where they just throw like, I think it was like a six riot room, maybe. And it's just like, man, if you thought two was rough, you know, just they're all, they're disappearing everywhere. They're fucking, oh, Furies, not riots, excuse me, Furies. Uh, they are just fucking like untouchable until they want to be. And if you stop to work on one, the others are maximum spidering your ass around the room. And it just takes patience. It takes fucking precision and patience. And you actually start having to use, um, the, um, the, the, some stat that they put on some of Virgil's moves is slow down, like a time stagger, right? Uh, there were, it came out in four SC with, um, the, like,

the rain, the blistering swords that rained down. And, uh, yeah, now he's also got it on that new big, slow, uh, horizontal slice where he like 180s and then puts this, puts the blade away. So you use these two, these abilities and the blistering swords to stop everything. And they literally, it does very little damage, but things are stuck in the frozen time as if you hit them with, um, a ragtime. And that ends up like being, uh, works wonders against, uh, a bunch of Furies at the same time and like things like that. So, you know, you got to spend your, your, your bar smartly, uh, in those crowd situations. Um, that, that, uh, that six Fury room,

uh, where is that? I, okay. I'm pretty sure if it's, it's, uh, it's one of the final Clifod levels where, um, do you remember the one, do you remember the level, uh, where you are, because they kind of blend together without the, I was just wondering because, uh, one of the funniest things that I'm thinking of when you're telling me this is the obvious overlap in thought process between the devs of five SC and hitchhiker because, uh, hitchhiker snuck in a, I think it's a secret encounter into one of the missions in which you have to fight, I think it's eight Furies okay in one room. Okay. But when I say a room, I mean it is a, it is a like 20 by 20 foot room. Okay. It is a, here, here is a tweet of somebody fucking like flying against it and it is just

absurd. Yeah. It's just, there's no, like those enemies were obviously never designed to be in more than a group of two tops because the game just starts to fly apart when there are more than that. So the thing with it, yeah, in this particular room here, uh, you're going to get it at its worst. You got more room to fight in the actual game proper when it's going down, but it's exactly, they're just, they're literally teleporting everywhere the entire time and good luck survive. You know, if you've got concentration and, and, and sin devil trigger meter full, spend it, just nullify the encounter, right? Like that's kind of what your, your, your goal is, is when you see theory start popping up, you just go, I'm not fighting this now. I'm just

going to not do it, you know, uh, want to hit the win button, please. And, uh, when, um, yeah, it's, I think it's, it's in the mission. It's in the last mission that leads up to the real Urizen fight. So I think it's 16. Um, and then you get a nice little rhythm of like, okay, so it takes full concentration and full SDT to do, uh, those final attacks. Um, but the, uh, but it, it takes it, but it doesn't drain your concentration when you do it. So once you're, once you're done with one of those moves, if need be, you can still do world of V and, uh, that'll drain your concentration and like theoretically finish off whatever's go, whatever's straggling, you know? So there's a nice little back and forth. Yeah, you can, you

can, you can do. It's fun using, uh, world of V in the actual fight against all three when, uh, you're, when you're going, when you're making your way through to, to, to the top of the Clifod. That doesn't make any sense. Makes no sense whatsoever, but sure I'll watch nightmare punch nightmare, you know, little, little mirror battle. That's pretty fun to let that happen. So Virgil plays through every single level. Yes. Okay. It does SC have the ability to play, uh, like Dante in Nero's missions or vice versa? Uh, does, uh, does Dante have the ability to play a character select on the other missions? I've only played Virgil. Okay. Cause I haven't touched the others.

You know, if they had two other characters in there, Virgil could swap between them for all the respective missions. So Virgil has the tools to handle each stage on his own as need be without assistance, but I don't know if the other characters have what's needed to get through the, like, I'm just saying if there was a character that had like a rocket launcher with like a grappling hook. Oh yeah. No, totally for sure. There was, there was a different character that had like, Sparta and some of those moves. Absolutely. You could, you totally just one to one them on they'd be able to go through the stages on their own. No problem. Yeah. That much is clear.

But yeah, when you're like, you know, you're going through that part where it's like, oh, this is where V is supposed to be stumbling emotionally until he can't walk anymore and he falls in the, in the purple goop, right? Yeah. And then you're just like, you're Virgil and you're just fucking like high timing and like you're doing the, the, the grappling summon sword to just fly right over it and collect a bunch of orbs and it's, it's, it's all a good time. You know, you're just like, oh yeah, this part was supposed to be sad. I wouldn't have to do the goop if I was real Virgil. Not even remotely, you know, you just grim grip over that bitch and it ain't nothing. Or remember the, remember the part where it's a room where the

spikes are coming from the walls and you have to go high or low to get to the secret like areas or the secret blue, a blurb and then you make, and then you kind of make your pathway out and you eventually get to the area where you can skateboard up and do the whole big Tony Hawk section. So when you're playing as Virgil and you get dropped into the room where there's just spikes up the ass on every single wall and surface, it's like, that's cool. I'll just trick forever and be fine and get style for doing so. Manual teleport at almost every direction. It's just do it, you know. And then, yeah, so that's all fun. Fighting, fighting Orizan up, up, up in his face and just beowulfing the shit out of him is great.

You get to melt everything. But then of course, the new content you get to Dante and Dante is fucking awesome, man. It is exactly what I was hoping it would be, which is basically an upgraded version of the Dante fight in 4SE. So you get to the end of Bloody Palace in 4SE and the man is up there waiting for you and you're going to have a bad time. And in this case, it's exactly that. And just, you know, the patterns are all there, but he's got the new move set and he's got the new move list and he's switching between them. And he's going to do shit. He's going to fuck you up. He's going to switch styles and you're going to fight and do their best. And you're going to have relatively a similar exchange to the rhythm of fighting Virgil, where it's like,

okay, this is what he's going to come in with. And he's got a couple of preset patterns and a couple of times he modifies them or switches into something else. Sometimes he'll extend a string, but for the most part, yeah, once you tag him, you can combo him for a little bit and then you break off, right? And then you can get at your taunt in there, you know, and then they reengage. However, every once in a while, he'll be doing his gun trick sword gun trick and doing his things and you're like, yep, let's fight. And then he goes royal guard and you fucking stop. You stop. You wait. Don't look at him. You walk. You look at the ground. You stare at your shoes. And he walks up to you. And then he goes trickster and you're like, all right, let's fight.

But you 1000% treat that shit like a timeout because he goes royal. Are you just no, no, no, he just like parry everything you send to him. You fucking die. He will return it. If if you're lucky, you will get a royal release. That's not a perfect timed fucking just frame Melter version. If you're trying to get cheeky and do some big attack on him or whatever, absolutely go fuck yourself. Just don't do it. And the PTSD kicks in because anyone who watched my run on Bloody Palace for four SE remembers, I got to the final floor. I got him down to maybe 15, 10% and a royal release just annihilated my anus. And that was the end of that. That was it was a healthy run. It's the furthest I've ever gotten.

And boy, did I fucking make the mistake of swinging on him when you shouldn't have. So do not do not play the game when he says royal. You just you stare at your shoes and you walk around slowly and then wait for it to wait for it to go away. Which what about what about Dante now Dante to same idea except he's also going to SDT on your ass and come in with some SDT moves, which you should be familiar with and know like, okay, well, get just get the fuck away from it. You can answer with your own and just have a big old fucking like we're not flinching kind of battle, you know what I mean? Like we're just going to fucking go on each other and just like your life bar versus mine. But you know,

it's a boss so he has more. Generally speaking, it's not that elegant or nice to just sit in there and tank the hits and go at it. You want to back the fuck up, right? You want to you want to sit there and watch to see what he's going to do because he comes he PSDT's flies in at you and then he'll do a couple things, right? He's got the the the wing projectiles, which you can evade, you know, he's got the psycho crushers. And he does and then he actually goes into his the the final attack. I forgot its name, but the big combo, you know, yeah, the huge combo that hits everywhere with a million swords, except it doesn't hit everywhere. It's a zone around him just like judgment cut end. Okay, it just felt like that when you used it. When you use it, it feels

like it goes everywhere. When he does it to you, it has a circle and you can get away from it. And you actually see the circle when he activates it like judgment cut end. So it's it's one to one. It's the exact same type of answer. Just get the fuck out of the circle and then be ready to answer with your own shit. What's, um, what's interesting is the cutscenes that play out. You guys have that first Dante one fight, and then you have the little back off and then he's like, Oh, so you, uh, you fucking got your dick wet sometime ago, huh? And Virgil's like, yeah, you know, and then they line up and then they fly to each other. And then Nero never stops them. Yeah, the fight just keeps going. So they just clashed into each other and then passed each

other and you go into phase two and the music kicks in and it's the fucking acapella version of bury the light. And you're just like, Oh, it's so good because it's giving you the silver bullet answer, except in, in bury the light form. So it just, it kicks right back in and it's right back in. And it's powerful. Um, I believe Susie posted a little clip of exactly that moment, you know, and it just like, yes, man, absolutely. Final cutscene. There is. Yes, there is. So those, those things, those initial scenes that you get up to are pretty much the same. The fight you have in bed, the banter you have in battle is, is new. There's not a ton of it, but it is there. And of course, losing to Dante means Dante is shit talking you on the, on the

game over screen. So there's that. But once you, once you get past him, once you beat him, then yeah, you get, you get a new ending sequence, which is a mixture of old scenes and then some new stuff. So, um, it weirdly kind of cuts cause Dante loses that he just kind of gets up and goes, all right, well, see you. I'm watching it. He just literally jumps off and goes, okay, bye. Yeah. He does the thing where he says, buy to Nero, except it's not to Nero, right? He just kind of walks off from to you and then Virgil gets up and then turns and says his final words to Nero, whose arm you can see from the side. So it's kind of like Nero showed up at the end, but he was just too late, I guess, or whatever. It was weirdly edited, weirdly edited, but whatever,

there it is, right? Then you get them in hell and then you get further conversation between them in hell. So they end up talking about, uh, so they end up so, um, Dante calls out Virgil for crying in the corner every time mommy got mad and then Virgil calls out Dante for running away every time father raised his voice. So they both have their isms with opposite members of their parental lineage, right? And clearly there's a little thing there that's, uh, you know, like, uh, whatever. They, they both, it's mother and father. Dante was a mama's boy and Virgil was a daddy's boy and they, and they were terrified of the opposite parent, you know? Uh, so I'm watching this ending cut scene and the way that it's cut implies that,

like Nero's entire speech and hero moment at the end of that game was completely pointless. It implies not have killed each other. It implies that if they won or lost, they would have both got up and have known instinctually, well, time to go kill the Clifond and they would have jumped down to hell and done it anyway. So Nero shows up to get in the emotional way of what's going on, but he kind of didn't have to. If Virgil won, if Virgil won, if Dante won, who's to say, right? Cause Dante was, you know, being all nice and cheeky, but it's possible he might've been like, cause he was all like, let's finish this once and for all or whatever Virgil. But yeah, it plays out in such a way where if Virgil wins, they just go, all right,

let's go beat it now, you know? Um, so yes, shin dead weight. It's funny. So then, yeah, you get that conversation, then you get the fight, they do the counts. Uh, and then you, and you do the, the, uh, the credit battle. And then you get the, don't you dare say it jackpot, but then it pulls on and continues, but it pulls back. And instead of, it's not a reverse angle of the jackpot shot, but it goes further away and it continues. And then Dante's like, Hey, didn't you used to love saying jackpot all the time? That was your thing. You know, and, and Virgil's just like, nah, so shut up though. You know, and, uh, and like extra stupid cause you know, he actually does it. You know that he does it because if you perfectly time your four judgment cuts, the last

one has him saying jackpot. He loves saying jackpot. He's the most sundary fucking little bitch ever. He can't, he can't not love it, but he just doesn't want anyone to know, you know, and he still says it. Have you seen, uh, have you seen his goddamn super taunt? Yes. Oh, how drool his inner super taunt with his stand doing a fucking like caramel dance and like techno remix. His, his fucking, uh, his DT ghost is cutting a rug and he hates it. So yeah, doppelganger cutting the rug. Like you would see in like a Nico, Nico, Doga fucking like caramel dancing or like get done fucking dance video in someone's apartment. I thought they were just going to give him the animation of Dante's, uh, MJ scene, but yeah, no, not quite. And then the other thing, of course,

being that I was hoping the whole time that like you would get to taunt and then the, uh, the doppelganger would taunt with you, but it doesn't. But the reason why is because that's your fucking ex provocation, you know? So that's great. Um, apparently it's sooner did the dance in a video. What? Okay. Well, anyway, oh, the left, right, left, right. Yes. Yes. It's the left, right, left, right. He did that. It's true. Um, and, uh, yeah. So the, the, you just got a little extension on the ending type of thing. Uh, it's not the reverse angle with that. Like would have been cool, but it still is just a little bit of extra context and whatever. And then they run on to go fight more demons, fight forever, cha-cha-cha. It's, it's kind of interesting because the way

you're describing it in front of what I just saw, it's like it's the new content is compatible with the existing story. It still does work. Like, like it's not, it's not some alternate universe since like I killed Dante and now I'm going to be king of hell. Yeah. No, they end up down there fighting forever anyway. The only difference is Nero was too slow and, and, uh, didn't stop them. You know, I, I, I would have accepted an alternate take where Nero got in between them, but just got blown over because they were too strong and he just gets fucking, he just eats shit. But, uh, yeah, in this instance, you know, they, again, the, the conclusion ends up being the same. So it's, it's compatible. Um, all in all, you know, gotta go back through it.

And, uh, and I started, uh, I started a, uh, a bloody palace run just, uh, you know, just to start warming up and just for funsies. Well, that's the real test. Um, because to me, like LDK is like, you know, in four as well, that was your like, this is your familiarizer and this is how you're going to learn to deal with every type of enemy appropriately, maximize your tool, your tools and like, you're not going to get through LDK. Well, you're not going to get through LDK without, uh, understanding how to fight everything properly, unless you use items and shit, which that's what I'm saying, like with, you know, not doing that. Um, so, uh, yeah, now the goal is to, uh, make the run through bloody palace honest. And, uh,

when I have a nice feeling about that, I'm going to take a crack at it. I'm going to stream it. So we'll see. Cause I think I can beat it. I think I can beat it just like I think I can beat four, but it just, uh, you know, it'll come down to those final, final rooms, but it'll be a, it'll be a nice little run. So we'll see how it goes. But right now, Virgil feels, uh, feels comfortable. I've, I've gotten used to the new abilities and I've gotten used to, you know, like you can, you can definitely play him like four. You can just rely on old habits. Um, to a degree like three, but really, you know, four is the template. Um, but like the new shit is like, it would make your life so much harder to not use his new tools.

So that's, that's the main thing about it is just like, you have to keep them in mind. Uh, whereas, uh, Dante and Nero are like fucking completely different from the way they used to be in those in, in, in four, you know, so you can go off of a basis of an understanding with them, but for the most part it's a new character. I can't wait to play it in two and a half, three weeks. I don't know. Oh, I'm the 15th. Uh, what are you waiting on? Well, Virgil only comes out on PC and like the PC version. Right. Okay. Yeah.

Uh, three weeks, three weeks. So that is what's happening there. And of course, now that, uh, you unlock the EX color, which is the blue coat, I'll be wearing the blue coat. Oh, thank goodness. I like the black coat makes sense because of V and I understand that like you don't want to create visual confusion with Nero. So I understand the decision, but I just don't like the look as much because, uh, you know, the blue and yellow trim, uh, are not, they're not just what I'm used to, but I like it as the opposite of Dante, you know, I really appreciate that. And the black just doesn't hit the same way. So yeah.

Um, so that's five S E and then, uh, yeah, a couple of the things real quick, decided to get into fighting games this week. We took our last week. Oh, you finally decided to start playing fighting finally decided to get into fighting games. Our fighting games good. Well, we got into one, uh, that was a single player fighting game. You were just talking about Delta may cry five S E. Yeah. But this one is actually a single player fighting game though. Uh, because that we got into Red Earth, AKA war Zard. Oh, do you know anything? What you, what, what the fuck, you know about war Zard? Pat, I'll tell you what I know about war Zard. You ready?

There's a lion man in it. Yeah. That was in Capcom fighting evolution. And that it is the last. Sorry. It is the only other fighting game Capcom made on the CPS three board. It is not. That's not true. It is the first game Capcom made on the CPS three board. The other game besides third strike and the street fighter three series was Jojo heritage for the future is CPS three futures on CPS three. Totally was weird. So, uh, they made three games on this board and then the board itself committed Sudoku and ended forever because their confidence game looks like trash. Red Earth, Red Earth dude is, is a weird piece of fighting game history. And we went down that road to find out what was going on. What they

were going for is it was the first game on the system and they essentially were trying to create a sort of new version of street fighter one. So there's four characters and you pick them and you can play against each other, but you have super bare bones, like, you know, choices where you basically have these, you have these four characters to fight each other with, including, uh, uh, excluding mirror matches and they have like one or two moves, one or two supers and that's about it. Really bare bones. Uh, but then when you play single player and you continue the adventure mode has all these other bosses that are not playable and they go into a story mode. There's little cut scenes before and after each fight during the fight. You collect, uh, spells. You level up,

you collect money and experience and in between fights you unlock moves and you unlock specials and abilities that like you just didn't have. So you can get your character all the way up to level 32 with a humongous move list where they have like shit on every single quarter circle input, shit on every single DP input, uh, and a bunch of other specials. So like it's, it's this crazy thing where they just, they put all the work into this single player progression and wanted it to be like Street Fighter one. Um, I don't know why they thought returning to Street Fighter one. Why would you ever make a game based off Street Fighter one? Yeah, I don't know why they thought that would be a super great idea, but that's what Red Earth did and it makes sense why it ends

like that. When you know that that's what they were going for, then you kind of go like, okay, now I can see how this plays out. Um, what's sad is of course that like this was clear to no one at the time in 1996 and everyone was just confused by it. So you just kind of played for a bit and went, all right, well, let's play the other thing because Street Fighter three is right over there. You know, but the sprites were gorgeous. The characters are incredible. Uh, Art Eater on Twitter, shout outs, uh, has an, has a really cool thread that, uh, he posted where they're comparing, uh, the Virgin Strider, hear you to the Chad Mukuro or Kenji, the ninja from Red Earth, who's so much like sicker. He's crazy. Well animated. Um, the smoothness in him and his scarf

and, and every little thing he does looks wonderful. And he's, and there's the game has fatalities in it. So he has a move where he fucking rips your goddamn heart out. You know, um, there's like all this little details that all these little added little details that go into the game that just make it look really, really gorgeous. Uh, Tessa, the witch who showed up in SVC chaos has some really baggy bouncy clothes and like you see how, how like the weight of that movement affects like, uh, everything she does. And one of her, one of her buttons, her like, a roundhouse kick is just her summoning like a, a dove that like flies out at you. And I, I'm watching a long play right this. I'm skipping through it as you're talking,

and I'm seeing all a lot of the characters you're describing and a lot of these bosses that I know you can't play as because I've never seen them ever. Exactly. And they're, they're immaculately well animated. Like there's a robot that has like a lance that has interlocking like spinning parts. There's like a flexile century. Like, yeah, that guy looks nuts. And all I can think of is if I had played this game for any length of time, only to discover that none of these characters are playable, I would have put it down and just went to something else. So by default. So the, the, so here's where you get the fact that years later, right? So we end up seeing Leo as a guest character in Capcom Fighting Jam, aka Capcom Fighting Evolution. We also see Tessa and SVC

Chaos and in Pocket Fighter. And then Capcom Fighting Jam also lets you play as a Houser, the T-Rex, and Newell, the fish thing, right, the squid. Exactly. So they made the bosses playable in that game, but nowhere else. And then you kind of just look at it and go, it sucks. But like if they ever really wanted to, they could have made a second version of this game using the existing sprites to just make a real fighter with all the bosses playable. And then you would at least have a 12 character fighter. You know, the really weird roster too. Like, yeah, it'd be a bunch of monsters, but like whatever, right? Like that's what's wrong with a monster fighter. Look at Darkstalkers. Even a bunch of them have like these super

immaculate like transform animations that I can't. Yeah, they could have, they clearly look like bosses compared to the four heroic heroes that you play as. But I think people would have played and still liked it, you know, and it just, it's one of those things where you're like, man, you already did the art, you know, it's, the sprites exist. It's just such a shame that like, yeah, CPS three died. This game is so fucking baffling and stupid. And really a red earth two warzards, as I called it, would have been the perfect way to get a whole new franchise that people would love out of the thing. I'm pretty sure I can confirm that there's no red earth two on the horizon for Capcom. It would have been by the horizon, I mean, ever. Yeah. Yeah.

It's, it's a bunch of sprites sitting there that could have been used to basically put a game together, but it never happened. But what do you think about it? Like they've thrown out like more work than that. I mean, Capcom fighting all stars represents an entire 3d fighting game that was thrown out. Oh, um, there's, I don't think there's anything that compares to the, the, the like almost mythical, uh, Resident Evil two development. Or they, they junked a 90% complete game to start the entire thing over without any assets being reused. Final fight seventh son, I believe was completed and then canceled. They, well, then they turned it into the, into street wise. It just became something else entirely. They

canceled that and they, and they rebuilt it from the ground up as street wise. Um, but like, yeah, that was a whole other game. Um, they've not, uh, there are no strangers to throwing all the work out, you know? So it's, it's a bit weird because sometimes you'll see them be like, do that anymore though. No, but, but like in the years when sprite recycling was a thing, you know, and it went in the years when they were like, yeah, fuck it. We drew Ingrid just shover in this game, shove Ingrid into Alpha three. Why not? We did the work. Mackie and we did the work, shove them into Alpha three, just remove, uh, you know, this, this frame and this frame. So it hits the animation budget on the character and you do, you do it. It's done.

CVS two characters showing up, you know, like they did the fucking thing. So yeah, I feel like, uh, in this, in that, in that era, it would have been really, uh, cool to just get a weird monster fighter and, and you know, sit in the background and, uh, anyway, so that was, that was a, a, an interesting little trip that memory lane. And it's like, at the end of the day, it's like, remember man, like the Capcom is still, you know, like the, the second best collection of, of characters next to Nintendo. Um, these are, this a cool ass lion man. It's a cool witch. It's a cool little, uh, um, like little monkey lady and a cool little fucking ninja. And, uh, yeah, you never have to see them again, but they just, they should throw that shit in the trash.

And you won't. You will never see them again. Christ. You'll never even see them again on your own channel. I bet you Tessa will show up in some fan service form because she seems to be the, the fave of the, of the, the old roster. No one, no one really gives Lionel too much play. But, uh, wait, is that his name? No, it's Leo, but it might as well be Lionel, like fuck off. What his name is Leo? It's like, it's like, it's lion. Let's call him Lionel. Shut up. Oh no. Yeah. Um, I would not be surprised. And in fact, like, I'm trying to think, I'm pretty sure they have Tepin cards. I think they have Tepin cards. Oh, holy, I mean,

there's a Tepin card of you and I. Yeah, no, I, I, you know, I, I believe they do, but, but I'm waiting for the Tepin card for the valve handle from RE2. There you go. Like, but, uh, they absolutely, uh, have been playing Tessa more than the others. A bit like the Morgan, uh, of sorts. So yeah, red earth two war zards. Let them know you want it. Let them know you want it. Oh boy. Don't do that. Don't talk about that. It's also super weird because like there's multiple endings and the better you play, the worse your ending gets. So if you play like when you play as we played as Kenji and when you beat it, like there's a couple, there's a couple of choices. So when you play, you see your, your, your show gun and your subordinates betraying you as they talk

to you. They're like, they're bullshitting you. And then at the end it asks, they, they set you up for a trap and the game asks you, do you trust him? Yes or no. And if you say no, then, uh, you get an, then you go, uh, uh, to back to the, the fucking whatever the place. And then, uh, yeah, you get this series of endings where depending on whether you had more than 20 continues or less than 20 continues, you either see, uh, you go back and then they're like, moi, he doesn't know, he's a fool. We'll, we'll, we'll dispose of him yet. And then you continue to, uh, work for them, even though you know that you're being used and you just, you're just depressed ninja forever or you go in and then you kill them, but then knowing that you have no honor because you killed

them, you kill yourself. And then there's a third, even more like non ending of just like, but he didn't know anything. So he just continued doing his missions. And it's just like what, like getting closer to the truth leads to the worst outcome ever where you, you know, you just fucking off yourself and you're like, what, what this is like real life. Shit's grim. Shit's grim. So anyway, red earth, good times. Uh, that should be dropping. I'm talking about red earth right now on the channel. Well, yin, there had to come a time. There had to come a time in your life when war Zard was going to be discussed. You evaded it for all these years, but you could evade it no longer. It's like the last time I talked about red earth was when we were playing capcom fighting

evolution and I went, ha, what's this dumb dinosaur? And he went, well, you see, Pat, that's from red earth. I'm like, I don't care. Ha, ha, dumb. Well, now everybody knows about war Zard and they're not going to stop thinking about the name war Zard because it's called war Zard. So yeah, um, and then just for good old, good old posterity, popped in some Gundam wing endless duel. Oh, that's a good one. And not nothing. What is there to say, right? It's a fucking solid good ass game. Super Nintendo Gundam wing fighting game. Brilliant. Fun to play. Simple. Uh, clean. Well thought out. Just, just a fun design. Um, not balanced at all, but that doesn't matter. It's one of those games that fits in right with like Ninja Turtles tournament fighters where

it's just, um, it's like, it's a fun street fighter. It's like fighting game on super Nintendo, uh, that, you know, they, this, they put it together really well, you know. So, uh, yeah, got to talking about Gundam wing got to reminiscing on the complicated feeling there is that comes to this entire franchise and that comes to this particular, uh, flavoring of it. Because while it deserves to be made fun of for every stupid thing it does, you also have to respect it for introducing like half of you to the world of Gundam to begin with. There's also a lot of cool shit. Yeah. Gundam wing. Yeah. I, I still like Zach's Marquis. I still like Tallgeese, Tres Couchernada. I still like heavy arms. You know, this is all rad shit. I loved, I loved the,

the show's bizarre obsession with numerical characters. Like I genuinely don't understand. I think they thought it was funny. Everyone's a number. Lady on like duo, Troa, Catro, Quatro, you know, et cetera. Come on. You get, you get it. Do you get it? Um, you get it? So yeah, uh, or a number. It's a number. It was, it was, it was pretty, it was pretty good. It was pretty fun. And then we're playing, uh, on fightcade and some people joined in, showed us how to play for real reels. So I got to experience like the true, the true Gundam, uh, uh, endless dual experience. And by the end, like we had learned by the end, we were playing and having real matches. Like the tech was established. There's a movement

to the, to the game that is unlike anything else where, well, it's, it's similar to, it's similar to like the way you kind of play, uh, certain floaty characters in smash or like, playing as Blanca and in some cases where you just kind of like a really high jump, but like the boosting in that game creates air, airfoot season, a really fun way. And, uh, yeah, you can just kind of melt people and there's, and because the system is such that like everyone has a gun from full screen that you could just shoot at each other. But if you block, then you just feed the person meter, then you have to kind of like not just sit back and, and, and zone because when you zone somebody, they'll have a million resources while you have none.

Um, so, uh, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it was, it was fun. It was fun to revisit and to dunk on hero Yui for fucking being a weirdo that loves blowing himself up. Hero Yui is one of the most baffling protagonists. I can think. Shut up. I'll commit suicide for the mission. Like I'll kill you. I watched all of Gundam wing and the movie multiple times and I still don't understand his character at all. Well, um, a friend of mine from college who was a massive stan would, as soon as anyone implied that hero Yui is a boring character with not enough personality, she would lose her shit and she would teleport into the room and she would start yelling at you

about how he had tons of personality, but a lot of that was erased due to his past and due to the, the, the, the memories he had of that little girl on the colony and that he had to eventually kind of create a different hero that he put forward on his missions. So, you know, eventually, uh, the hero you see is not the true inner hero. Yeah, whatever. I don't think, I like, I don't think he's boring at all. I think he is totally baffling. He's just, he's just, he's like, none of his, like, why is he doing anything that he's doing ever? Here's the thing. He's attractive and he's got the top billing and that's all that matters. So why does he keep saying he's going to kill that chick? But then he never kills that chick.

That's the weirdest part by far because the mission by far, the mission, he's got to do it. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you so bad. Okay. So pull out your piece and just cap her right here in the school, hero. Yeah, you could do it. You could do it right now. Yeah. I mean, to be fair, they're all kind of weirdos, you know, um, like I'll give you that much. Like I feel like, um, the, uh, I forgot his name, but the, the, the main character of iron-blooded orphans is also got that sort of just like, I'm a soldier kid. I'm straightforward. I'm a soldier. I'm going to do the soldiery thing, but then he makes some decisions and does some stuff that's like,

okay, no, you're pretty fucking real about it. Whereas I feel like hero is just, I don't, he's just kind of like, he likes the idea of it almost, but then he has these memories and flashbacks that fucking stop him and eh, whatever. It's fucking Gundam wing. I'm not getting into goddamn, you know, hey, yeah, he act, Mika actually shoots people, right? Hero threatens to shoot people and then Mika actually does it. He fucking caps. Hey, here's, here's something for you about Gundam wing. You think, think about it. Do you remember Endless Walls, that movie where they're fighting the robots at the end? Maramea Barton. Do you remember that part where the guy shot all the missiles at

Troa and then Troa put the guns up and then he shot all the missiles and you saw the side shot of him shooting the missiles and the missiles all blew up. It's pretty sick. I remember that. That's my, that's my defining memory of that movie. Yo, Heavy Arms custom, the mass produced version, the colors drop out. It goes from being yellow and orange to being like a military green, dark blue and gray and black. It's got the four extra guns on the shoulders, the four extra. That was always the thing I was always baffled by, which is why didn't he get more guns like that? They gave him more. It was great. You know what? It's, we're not talking about Gundam wing until I get to talk about the fucking unbelievable nonsense that was the way Gundam wing aired

on Cartoon Network, I think it was not or whatever. Everywhere as far as I'm concerned, they've aired the first four episodes and then they aired Endless Waltz and then they aired the remaining episodes. Yeah. That was so confusing. I mean, the other thing too is that like, I feel like based on the, based on one, our understanding of what like Power Rangers was at the time, and then two, the intro with two mix and with two mix in the background, dropping wild beat communication on us, you'd see all these characters, you see the boy band hanging out and posing and you're like, oh, look at all the Gundams. They all have their own man. Wow. Look at the team and then you watch the fucking show

and what team they're like, they never meet up. There's never a team. They just, Roa and Katra are hanging out for a while and I'm going to assume doing it behind the scenes because those dudes were totally into each other. I mean, everyone was, but, but aside from that, yeah, you kind of, you're waiting for these like, for your big like title shot moment. You're like, fuck off. This is not a Sentai team. They're not going to hang out. They never get together. They fucking, they want to, like who phase trying to kill everybody and yell about the yell about Nataku. And then just you're like, man, not even once, huh? And when they, and when they're, and even when they're working together, they're doing so from like completely different

fucking sides, you know, I think it says a lot about Gundam wing that as a obvious anime in the series of Gundam, which is about the, the, the ongoing battles between the colonies and the earth that switches all sorts of perspectives that's about the nature of war and how war is bad. Even if we go to space war will still be bad. Well, let me ask you a question. Because I can't answer it. And I think it's really funny that I can't answer it. What is the reason that they go to earth to start shooting it up with mobile suits in the first place? If I remember, God, it's been so long. I think it's because the scientists created, they conspired on behalf of the colonies to go fuck shit up on earth because earth was being

mean to the colonies. And was it Oz was basically fighting to be like, fuck you earth, you can't tell us what to do. Stop killing our people. We want freedom. Like I did, like I genuinely can't remember it all. I'm pretty sure it was the same fight as the Xeon space independence thing, except in this context, it was just, we're sending in these five idiots and they'll do, they'll do all the dirty work on earth. They'll use their orbital frames to, to fuck that shit up. But also, you know what that reminds me of? We've got mobile dolls though. So I loaded up a fucking zone of the unders two on the PS five to see how it ran. Guess what, Iran runs great. It looks great. But I watched that intro cutscene and like the first like

half hour of the game that came as translation is so bad as to be like nonsensical. Like, I don't know what the characters are talking about. Really? Like what's the last time you played zone of the unders two on the channel? I did a full LP of it, probably 2018. There's, there's the, the, the first discussion Dingo has with Ken. Every line read feels like they've lost their minds because it's Kojima line reading. Like it's, well, no, but it's, it's even more confusing than that. Cause it's like, give me that frame. Even if you're baron, that's too rough. It sure is. Like what? What does that mean? Do you know how many of my men died back there?

Yeah. Yeah, no, the, the line reads it's inexplicable. But yeah, yeah, Gundam, Gundam wing, Gundam wing, never forget, you know, endless, endless duel, Verlina, peacecraft, all of that amazing music in that game, amazing, like overall sprite quality back on the super Nintendo. And, um, you know, just like a, a, a, I would definitely say forgotten Chemp gem and one that really upset me when I found out about it, because I was like, how is one of the best fighting games for the super Nintendo not translated into English? They never bothered. And well, that's insane to me because think about like Gundam wing is the most popular Gundam in the West, you know, it's crazy. And they made an amazing fighting game

with that brand. It's the right one. It's the most like West worthy thing they could have fucking had. And they just never bothered, you know? Um, so yeah, uh, uh, that was a good time. I was pretty fine in particular. Cause when I jumped into the fightcade for it, uh, like one of the dude, like there was someone in there, like there was a group of people already in there, just hanging out in the Gundam wing, uh, uh, fucking section. And like one of them jumped on and played some matches with us. There always will be. Yeah. Yeah. So that's, that's how you, I know you're legit. If I pick a game for the week and then I go in and you guys are already there when I get there before I even announced what game it's going to be. I'm like,

I trust what you have to say about this game. Um, so that was a really good time as well. And if you're one of those people out there, that's just going, but when's battle assault to though, listen, listen, all right. Just because it has big Xam doesn't mean you want to play it. Here's, I love big Xam trash. It's fucking shit, man. That game, it has more fan service, but the game itself is bad. And it's like, if you just ignore the gameplay, you want to, if you just want, you can look at the character select screen and go, Hey, look, look, it's, it's G. It's big Xam. It's act guy. And then after you get done marking out at the character select screen, you just stop playing it. You can do that, you know, but this fucking thing of like,

no, played, played battle assault too. It's like, why would you like wing is so much better as a game? You know, and it's like the compare, like I was comparing it to, um, heritage for the future versus all star battle with Jojo, you know, like one's got more fan service, but the other is a funner game to play, you know? Oh my God. I'm watching footage of gun and battle assault too. Like gun. Yeah. Oh man. Battle a cell that. Oh man. This game is terrible. Everyone's got a little air dodge though. I like the air dodge. That's, I always liked that thing where you could just like, deacon to the background, you know, um, anyway, I think, uh, I think it's, it's, it's pretty clear. It's like you get to, you pop, it's, it's, you get to pop it in. You get to see

the, the fucking fan service. You get to see the cast of spanning multiple games instead of multiple gun and franchises. So that's cool to see all those things, but then the moment you have to start playing it, it's just, it's just awful. What might as well just pop in fucking X versus again, you know? All right. Well, anyway, I hate it. The battle, the battle of fan service versus like, like actual fun gameplay. Oh, there's no arguing with it. Like the fucking jump force. People talk about it. Xeno verse truck tournaments, dude. Xeno verse tournaments. There's no, there's no arguing with anyone. You can't. I'm sure there's somebody out there who says DMC two is the best game because you can play in diesel genes and they really like diesel genes.

Like, you believe somebody had the audacity to ask me the other week, like, dude, did you know that there's like a weird crossover in DMC? Yeah, it was a tweet. Yeah, I know because I beat the game once with those costumes on. Yeah. Yeah. It was horrible. I mean, look, it's, it's, you know, if the person in question is not sure of the difference between like what makes a, what makes the game feel good versus what doesn't, then, you know, there's not much you can say. It's like, it's all right. You just, you might not be aware of this, but like, yeah, like the fan service in a thing at the end of the day is going to be the difference between me wanting to come back to this after years versus not wanting to touch it at all. You know, thank God, fucking M bond

is a really good game to play because now that can be your, it has every franchise in it. It has more fan service than any other and it's also really fun and it's called M bond. Can I, can I really, there's really a problem with many of these types of games and that is that you just called it M bond and it took me maybe the whole time you've finished that sentence to even realize what game you're talking about. And I still won't be, can't tell you what the actual title of the game is. I don't know. I literally don't know what it is. Like mobile suit Gundam extreme versus maxi boost on like they need to have titles that people can say so that you can talk to people about them. I mean, sort of you under night. I'm looking at you. But then again, last play twos

Japanese title is just a haiku. So, so I know, you know, you mentioned it every time last play I love it. Shout outs to swery. You'll all be, I'll be looking, I will be looking in my goddamn cutlery drawer and I will say, oh man, I think I'm down to my last blade in here for my steak and you will stick your head through the window and go, did you know that last play twos title is actually a haiku? It's great. And I will say, yes, woolly, please go. Unist, uniclear, uniel. We're already here. We've proven that these legitimately all sound like face care products.

It doesn't matter how weird a naming convention is. It will eventually become normal over the course of a couple months. Normal to its own audience. No, no one will ever tell you that the that doesn't play those games that the under night in birth series is a normal titling scheme. I would say that people at large in terms of like the video game following, you know, like people because there's video game not following people but still play and then there's video game news following people. I would say that people even people that have never played it are still used to the fact that the game is called

Blazblue and not Blazblue or blue blazes for that matter. You know, the game is called Blazblue and not blue blaze. And I think everyone has completely stopped thinking about that, even though it's like you're staring at it and it still makes no sense. But we're here. What's an in birth in birth is it is actually I believe it's it's referring to the vanishment of void. No, it's referring to the whatever the special like creatures or people are in that world. It's referring to like the creation of them. But it's also a pun because if you say it with B and V being the same letter and Japanese, then it's also saying inverse at the same time. So it's in boss discord call. I'm going to leave in boss is in boss. Inverse is in

birth. Under night inverse in birth. Get it? You see, I, the Somnium files, it's also AI, but it's also the eyeball. But it's also an eyeball, but the AI is in the eyeball and her name is I because I is a name, but I also means love. Get it? That that one is out of control. Like even get it even like I played that game for a couple hours and even in universe, they're like tripping over themselves over the multiple meanings AI like I love name eyeball. Yeah, you know, Shakespeare thought puns were really funny. And he died.

Who Billy shakes? He liked puns. Yeah, well, Bill Shakespeare. Damn. He's dead now. I really do wish I could see I wish for a moment I could see what it is about English puns and dual meanings that like make so appealing that Japanese people love so much and writers in particular. And I want, I feel like if I had to take a guess, it's because of the how kanji has multiple readings to it. And I feel like because you can take something like a character's name with different kanji and then if you read it a different way, it has a completely different feeling to it, which then can create an alternate character or a secret truth about them. And it's a way of hiding something right under your nose without ever making it obvious. I feel like because

of that existing convention in the language, when English accidentally does it, then it's like, oh, cool. It's like that thing that happens with kanji, except now it's happening with strand. So there's there's a really good. Did you ever watch Let's Mosey, which is Tim Rogers' breakdown of the translation in FF seven? I didn't. So there's one bit that stands out to me about this that I'm like, wow, that game's actually way better than I had, than I thought it was. Like the way better written that is. And that is, uh, in English, uh, Sephiroth calls cloud a trader pretty consistently, right? Uh, it's like yada yada, your trader, whatever. But in Japanese, the word for trader more specifically means, uh, like backstabber. So he calls him a backstabber.

Okay. And he does that before you actually see the flashback in which cloud literally stabs him through the back. Hmm. Okay. Okay. Oh, there's like, is it, is it? Oh, wow. Uragiri mono. Dude, I don't know. Okay. Okay. It's because that's a pretty fucking good one for that specific purpose. That's, that's excellent. Yeah. Uh, I don't know these words. Also shout outs to someone translating it and then like making sure that it's the perfect fit for the context and not just like phoning it in. It's, I mean, the translator for FF seven totally phoned it in. He didn't have time, but um, uh, yeah, like with a language that has all these kind of funny little hidden meanings and ways you can combine them, I can understand why people would be into puns. But

English feels a lot more like a blunt instrument. So these, these ideas just become, I mean, even among other fucking Roman languages, like it is, uh, it is, yeah, the simplest and, and, and dumbest because, you know, it drops off a lot of the other shit you get from not Roman, sorry, like, well, Latin, um, based, it drops off a lot of the things like, um, you know, other languages like French and Spanish and other languages that have like, wait, hold on. English is not a Latin language. Not Latin, not Latin, sorry. Um, blah. English is Germanic. Thank you. I'm, my brain is fucking being stupid. The, the, the, of, of all the languages that share that kind of core, um, it does, English doesn't have like the

gendering of objects. It doesn't have a lot of the same, uh, pluralist, pluralizing that like you catch in, in some of the other languages as well. Um, it cuts a lot of shit out, um, that other languages have. So even by comparison to our, to its own peers, it's kind of caveman, you know? Yeah. English is a fucking weird ass language. Like, because it's German based, but now it's absorbed so much from other languages now that it's kind of like the fucking weird ear language. It's a fucking homunculus is what I'm saying. English is the homunculus of languages. And modern, modern English is also like borrowing a fuck ton of words every couple of fucking sentences. You know, but yeah, a lot of things are, um, that's just a result of, uh, global culture.

Um, but yeah, I'm, I'm going to go ahead and say what I'm saying is that the puns are terrible. That's what I'm saying. But I think that's why they like them. I think that's why Japanese writers like English puns so much and are willing to base an entire story's plot twist around a pun because of the multiple reading kanji thing. I think that might be why, but I don't have any proof to back that up. You know, uh, it's, it's fucking, it's, it's going to continue to be a thing and you're going to have these moments where it's going to, you're going to eye roll and you're just going to be like, oh my God, yes, we know, we get it. All right, we're going to, we're going to take a second.

Let's all have a moment of retching for death stranding's plot, almost being straight up ruined by its own dedication to the worst pun I have ever heard in my life, because it combines multiple languages in a way that no one would ever into it. Which one? Because there's a bunch of them. The character's name being in French and English and that being the big twist is the worst. I think we fucking blew all of them out when we did the, when we talked about it. If there's someone out there that still hasn't beaten or still is avoiding the ending of death stranding, then, you know, let's, let's not fucking spoil it for them. But like what you're

describing, like that, there's that one, but like, I don't know if that one is any particularly worse than like the five others that are the theme of the game. I bring, I bring that one on because it is also associated with the character that almost ruins the game as well. Like death stranding is so crazy because every character's name is some kind of weird ha ha Kojima pun thing and it has the worst one I've ever seen to the point where it almost destroys the game's story, but it also has the best one I've ever seen that dramatically improves a already great character in Die Hard Man. That's great. Like his is, yep, his is the best.

His is fantastic. Um, you know what, there's another, there's another one I really like, which is Mads. I really like his as well. That, that was a, that was to me, but to me, that represents about where it should be without fucking rubbing your goddamn face in it. You know, that's where it should be. There is a part in death stranding where Sam Bridges looks at the camera and goes all according to Keikaku and another character looks at the camera and goes Keikaku means plan. Pupon, pupon, pun. That happened. That's a weird thing. They got him to sing a Japanese bath song, man. He doesn't know what the fuck. Anyway, yes. Thank you. I, the Somnium files when I was riding on my motorcycle with Norman

Reedus, which is me. And you got to appreciate to when a franchise just decides, you know what, fuck it. We're not going to try the name of this game is Danganronpa too bad. Learn how to say it. Like they just completely give up on even trying. It's like, oh, well, it kind of vaguely refers. It's the truth bullet, but just no, no, it's just, it's Danganronpa. That's it. Fucking that too bad. You know, like we're not, we're giving no effort towards this whatsoever. You want to learn this weeb shit. You want to play this weeb shit. You're probably into it anyway. You're going to do the weeb thing now. Yeah. Not even giving it a chance. Tangentapa Gurin Lagann. You see, it kind of means break through the heavens, crimson eye, but it, but what?

But it also really doesn't. Like, you know, yeah. Just straight up Japanese title. Yeah. I mean, I respect it there too. I don't, I don't not respect it when they just go, you know what, there's no, we can't come up with anything to make this work. We're just going to fucking stick with it. Which actually we'll talk about a little bit later today, but in this same titling vein of discussion, you know, you kind of have to bring up something like the world ends with you, which is an incredible title and translation that has nothing to do with Subarashiki, which is just basically brave new world, you know, like a splendid, splendid world, whatever. And in this case, Shin Subarashiki, which they're translating as Neo, the world ends with you. And it's like,

in both cases, really cool titles, but the English title, which has, is not a direct translation, is still a fucking great title. So it's also way better. It's just way better. It's, it's, it's an excellent, like, you know, outcome that you don't often see when it comes to these things. But we'll talk about that when we drop the news. If you would like to tune into the adventures of Woolly versus Red Earth Warzard and Endless Duel. Yeah, check out again to Finding Games this week. It's going to be coming out. We also are, we're just about ready to wrap up with Call of Duty. Call of Duty is, is Infinite Warfare's campaign is excellent. It's so good. Not much else to say besides, I've, I've enjoyed it thoroughly and I, I, you know,

I feel that like the fan base at large, there's, there's an awareness where like the Call of Duty news Twitter had a tweet where they were like, Infinite Warfare has the best campaign story. And then it has a little attachment that just says, this news is not disputed with the little Twitter, you know, thing. Yeah, it's a really good time. And so right around this week, I believe we should be hitting the final stretch. Mario as well, we're going to be working through it. And then, you know, making our way over to the next slate of games. And then of course, 13 Sentinels continues as well. And I can't, I just, I don't even have enough noises left in me to describe the fucking train.

The train, it's no, it's not a train anymore. Like there are no tracks. And like saying that it's going to space is, is not doing it justice. You're just, you're leaving all concepts of, of reality behind with the, with the headfuckery in this game. And I, I'm amazed. I have to say this far in that again, and no details here. I'm amazed at 13 Sentinels just from the, you called it out as being one of the most ambitious games ever. And the fact that it's delivering on that in a way where people can choose how they want to experience the story by just randomly going in all directions until they uncover enough. When I was playing it, I decided to randomly go in all directions and

it's, it's a lot and it seems to be trying to make your brain overload is it seems to be what it wants to do. I, I, I randomly started to go in all directions. And while that is insanely confusing, it does provide these incredible moments. Yes. I know exactly what you're going to say. I'm going to use a non-spoilery example. Yeah. Right. So there's a character who is staying at Carabe's house and he's like, I hate that you're staying at my house. And then you just like, well, why are you staying at my house? It's like, Oh, cause my next door neighbor, like, I owe the her a favor and she brought you to my house and now you're staying at my house. Right. And so I'm like, why, why is that character just,

it's this weird little side thing. Like, why is he staying at that particular location? Right. And then I'm playing as the girl and meet that character for the first time in a wildly different set of circumstances and then go, how do we get from this where everything is literally on fire to, Oh yeah. Hey, can you stay at my, can you let my friends stay your place? And, and you get to see these disparate points and you get to go, but how does this park it's very similar to a weird habit that I used to have that a lot of apparently is relatively common where I would get new, I would read a lot of books or read a lot of novels. And the first thing that I would do before reading my, my new novel is I would always read the last page. You talked about

that. Yeah. I'd always read the last page and you'd be shocked at how not descriptive of an ending the last page of most novels are. They would often be like almost thematic more than event wise. Yeah. And then you get to, then you start it and you go, but how to, how to, like I said, I, and your brain starts to, to fill in those places. If I'm excited for the, for the work, I would never do that. But like, if I didn't give a fuck, I could see myself doing it. But like, yeah, it depends on the medium, honestly. And like 13 sentinels is a really good example, because the ending of that game I'm going to assume is something along the lines of we beat up the robot. Who knows who knows, right? But what I want to applaud and what I was, what I want to applaud

is the fact that like, so what you just described is, is something that happens constantly. And your random scatter shot attempt to get through this game will inadvertently sometimes lead to scenes that are meant to be insanely crazy, mind fuck confusing, having a ton of context where you actually go, Oh fuck, I know exactly what's happening here. Right. So sometimes you don't know, and you get your brain cracks open and you get the noises that we made. And then sometimes you do know, and then you're just like, wow, this thing had to be play tested to a point where they realized exactly where the game needs to gate you to say, no, you can't go further until you see this event. The really the first battle gate in the game is probably the best example I

can think of, where it's like, you may not see anything past this, unless you have seen this one cut scene of these two characters talking about sports, essentially. And, and, and so it masterfully weaves through in this thing where it's like, you can explore to your heart's content until you discover the edge of the wall. And then you start making your way out from the wall and find out exactly where the limits are. And then you get through it and then you experience it again. And it's, it's so intricately built that you're like, yes, it is ambitious, but it's succeeding at it. And so I love how fucking the attention to detail. I have not played the game in about a month. I've been falling off with a lot of streams and a lot of other stuff. So I plan on going back

to it this week. I bet I will actually have no problem catching up and remembering what was going on because every single character storyline is so fucking ridiculously striking. But there are fine points that are easy to forget. Remembering what events occurred in what character storyline? I mean, that's, you know, whatever. I will, I'll let you know next week how, how it is jumping back in. Yeah, I will say one thing. Why have one complaint about the game and its level of confusion? Because there is one point which started confusing and has only become more difficult to follow over time. And I will try and talk around this, but there is one character

in that story that I think scene to scene is dramatically overused in which you'll talk to them and then you'll have to leave the room and talk to them again and then leave the room and talk to them again and again and again and again and they're everywhere. There's just too much of this character in almost every part of the game to the point where I don't know. I barely know who the fuck I'm talking to half the time. Okay, well, I'm not going to say anything about that, but I will say that the, the, there are youth right now, you, I'm telling you, you're going to hit up against little, little details that are very important in these scenes that are very like if you blink

and you'll miss it, for example, you know, you'll catch a, you'll see a, a dream of some, of something or you'll see something in some way and it won't be, and you will have no context for what you're staring at. And then people will not look or sound the way you expect. And then suddenly a little thing, one line exchange between two characters will make you go, wait, what? And then like you might miss the next thing. So believe me when I say that those mystery files section and the event file section are really needed to refresh your, your, your memory and catch you back up to speed with things, you know? And yeah, that level of you will eat when the food is ready. You are not fucking ready for this meal is there is a character that you unlock

of the, of the cast that you play as and everyone's got their prologues and more. There is someone where you play their prologue and then the game goes, yeah, now you're done. Get the fuck out. Yeah, yeah, you're done. That was the credit because their prologue is literally the craziest thing in the game and they go, no, it's over now. You're like, no, I really need to find out what's the important. Shut up. You're not allowed. That one's really important. So it's, it's really, it's basically, well, it's not, it's because that character actually knows what's going on in the plot. So you can't really, you're not allowed to see too much of that. Listen, listen, right now, 13 Sentinels, uh, Aegis Rim is in ghost game of the year position for me.

Yeah, it's got the gray life. It's, it's pretty, it's pretty nuts. Yeah. It's, it's in ghost gaudy right now. And all it's got to do is continue on its path. And if it doesn't botch any cornering, and if it doesn't fucking crash at any point, it's got it. It's where I'm putting it right now. So that is a good game. Yeah. Yeah. It is. It is unbelievably worth your time and effort. And, and, and I love that I can talk about how good a vanilla where game is and how engaged in the story I am and not even have to mention that it continues to be the most gorgeous thing in every single scene. Well, everybody knows that now. It's vanilla where we don't even have to call

attention to it, but it's the thing that you would be stuck with in a way where you're like, well, God, this game is so gorgeous, but it has other problems with their other games. And here you're so wrapped in what's going on that it's like, it's not even on the tongue, you know. So yeah, 13 Sentinels continues. After which, of course, like I said, we'll be moving on to the Yakuza series very quickly. Yakuza Zero coming up and Reggie versus Demon Souls soon. So please look forward to it. When I went through the, when I went through the, because I went through all the side quests, I gave you the side quest guide of like the absolute must haves on camera. There is a lot less of those requirements than I expected. Like that, like I there's a

lot of good stuff in that game, but the stuff that I can think of that it's like, no, that God, God do that one. There was less than I expected. But what I'm very interested in is seeing how you bounce off the cabaret game. Because that is the most Yakuza series long for mini game of all, which is managed managing your hostesses. Because it starts off as, I don't, this is a weird social thing. I don't understand hosting or hosting. It seems weird. I don't get it. This is really bizarre. And then you think about it and you're like, well, in order to get Majima's final upgrades, you need to do it. By the way, if you want to get the final upgrades for Majima, you need to do it. The final upgrades are those cool moves, right? Are the styles from Yakuza one? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah. Okay. It's like, do you want to play as Kiryu the Dragon of Dojima or Mad Dog Shimano Majima? Well, you got to do it. And then a couple hours in, this is weird. I don't want to play this management waifu game has disappeared. And you're like, do you think if I asked this guy about work and get the bonus time, he'll order the gold? Oh, my quotas. Do I need a new ashtray? Get this guy a new ashtray. It's great. Okay. Yeah. And with with that, I'd like to segue into talking about Yakuza seven, please. If I may do, check out all that on Willy versus on Twitch and Twitter. Excuse me on YouTube. I wanted to, you know, whatever, I just want to let people know that

the process of DC DMCA clean cleansing will start happening. In fact, it's already started. So some Twitch content will be going away. Nothing on Twitch that's gone is not already on YouTube, however. So everything that's going to be cleared out has a YouTube video. And for other segments, I'm downloading and having them archived. But yeah, because of the Twitch shit, we're just going to start clearing out anything that's at risk. So just had quick heads up that anything is, uh, anything might go, anything might go on the Twitch archives. Anyway, Cousins. So Yakuza seven, I got so whatever that game's incredible. I don't want to talk about too much about the generic, like how incredible the game is because it's incredible.

That's probably going to be my game of the year. That game's nuts. But, uh, there's a, at some point in the series, they decided that every character or every game, if you're only playing as one character needs to get one massively expanded mini game. So in the first couple, there was always like, well, you go to the batting cages or you could go to, uh, you know, you could do this or you could go golfing or maybe fishing or you could play shoji, you know, whatever, all the, all the millions of mini games that they always have, right? But I think was Yakuza four where they started, it's like, no, everyone will have their own event. Like Sajima will have construction in the sewers. And then in Yakuza five, it's like, no, Sajima will now fucking

go bear hunting and you will have a hunting game inside your Yakuza and Kira will be racetrack, drifting with taxi cabs, et cetera. And in Yakuza zero, they did business, right? You got real estate for Kiryu and they got, uh, running a hostess club for Majima. And now for seven with cute with Ichiban, they have dude, you are going to become the CEO of a cracker company. Ichiban Senbei, they sell Senbei crackers and you are going to take that company to number one in Yokohama. And it is a business employee sales management simulator in which you are, you are investing the company funds into various properties, gaining loans, you're, you're shuffling around employee rosters, deciding who gets a raise. It's championship manager. Really?

It, yeah, absolutely. It is very in depth. It works off a fake a gotcha system where employees will be SSRs or SRs or layers or, oh dude, I got the rare employee from the sandwich shop. His stats are evenly divided. Nice. But it's also combined with the humor of the series. So like, for example, one of your first, you start the game with three employees. One is the grandma that runs the, the, the Senbei shop. One is the part timer old lady who also helps run the Senbei shop. And the other is omelette, the chicken. Oh yes, the chicken upon being upgraded can run the shop by herself. And in, in Japanese, the character's name is not omelette. It's in fact actually nugget junior directly continuing on. And in storyline meetings, omelette sits at the table

and the camera will zoom in on her going bogawk as she engages in the conversation. So because of course she does, she's a valued member of the staff. So when this is the canon world that the game takes place in, like, what is even the point of your main character hallucinating his dragon quest adventures? I think the, the, the, I think the idea is that in, in the world of Yakuza, a guy hallucinating dragon quest adventures is not that outlandish after all, right? Like it, like you, it doesn't need to go that far. So that's why everyone can just kind of hang with it. So you do all this and then the, you go through your business periods, which culminate in shareholder meetings, which require you to meet shareholder arguments and then blast them with

counter arguments until they are happy and giant hearts fly out of them. And if you're doing poorly in your shareholder meeting, a meter is building up and it can go from one, two to three, which are progressive levels of you groveling at the shareholders feet with the ultimate move being the full bow down and going, we are very sorry for your inconvenience. Dude, just, I'm just like, oh, I can't ever escape those Iwata versus the shareholder transcripts, man. Oh yeah. No, that's what it is. That's what it is. Fucking deal. And you know what you're doing, woolly? People are saying, I don't think you're doing enough to push this business forward. And then you get your chicken, which is a blue type to counter their argument with bug off.

And the shareholder goes, oh, that's, oh, that's great. I love, yeah, that's good, good meeting. That's incredible. Okay. Beautiful. That whole storylines really funny. It's really good. The business game is actually a lot of fun. I played through the whole thing, almost all the whole thing on stream. It's, it's just a really great mini game. But the most interesting thing about it is that all of these like, you know, business games or however you would call them in these take place in what I'm calling the business dimension because engaging with them once is mandatory. Engaging with them ever again is not. And Yakuza 7 has by far the weirdest problem because for much of the early game in Yakuza 7, you are homeless or just barely not homeless.

And when you go and completely max out this mini game, you go from a story cut scene in which you are sitting in a $100 million company building with a view of downtown Yokohama's Ferris wheel, and you're dealing with hundreds of billions of yen a day, you're getting a 3 million yen bonus per shareholder meeting. And then at the end of the day, you look at Namba who is covered in piss rags and go, all right, dude, let's go back to our one room shack above the whorehouse and eat ramen. And this is all a side quest. Oh yeah, it's a side quest. And none of that shit matters. Okay. Because it takes place in the business dimension. And yeah, you're, you're not, it's not the main story. So whatever, yeah, because it could have not happened. All right. And on top of

this, it gets extra crazy because that business side game upon completion gives you a character, a party member, a really, really good party member. She's an office clerk, which in the Yakuza 7 mentality translates into ninja. Okay. Because she throws office thumbtacks like throwing stars and hits people with Senbei crackers as if they were shuriken, etc. And I am working on upgrading her ruler to a super high frequency ruler. That is the name of the item. Oh, man, like HF, like any object is just like is so it's so it's so specific to you because it's a straight pole. That's that's fantastic. That's great. That's so okay. And here's where here's where it gets really wild. So airy is a great party member. I really like her character.

I did all of her, her, you know, s-link stuff. She's probably the strongest party member. And she hangs out with my party. And she even has like those little conversations where you walk you walk next to a camera store and then your party members talk yada yada. But because she was acquired from the business dimension, as soon as a real cutscene starts up, she disappears. And is not part of the story at all. And it's so weird. There's a part of the story where my guys were all kidnapped by the Chinese and we're all being hung up by chains and we're like, oh man, are we going to get tortured to death? And all I can think of is like, well,

good thing airy's not here. She can, she can call the cracker company and get, oh no, wait, that character's not real. That character doesn't exist. Are I mean, clearly this is not every side quest, but like, are there other full on enterprise side? No, this is the one. Okay. And every, and every game, and you're, and you were saying before that every game has one, that is like a side gig. Now, because this is an RPG, you get a party member out of it, where otherwise you would get money or moves or a gun, right? Guns, really? Okay. Yeah. Whereas this, it's, it's so baffling. It's so weird. Like I, I literally went from the cutscene of like Ichiban, we're the number one company in Yokohama, we're rich immediately

into a comp into a cutscene in which party members were complaining that the mattresses they were using were still wet from the day's work before in the whorehouse. Oh my God. Oh my God. Okay. All right. That game's great. Good game. That game's great. That game's great. Cracker factory. I've been playing a bunch of demons. Well, it's the Senbei shop, but it, you know, it is a cracker. Senbei's a rice cracker. Is it a cracker for entertaining people? Do you use them for entertaining purposes? No, you usually use them as like melee weapons. Okay. There's a cracker move. You take two giant Senbei and you just smack them. Okay. You also get, you also get omelette as a healing summon.

Where I think I've seen that cutscene actually. Yeah. And sprint an infinity symbol on the floor and then fire an egg at you that you will then eat to heal the party. It's a bit fucked up naming a chicken after food in both circumstances, but yeah, it's a little fucking, but clearly like they're like, if they're not going with nugget, we're going with some other version of, well, I mean, remember this is a culture that has a rice bowl called the mother and daughter. Yeah. Yeah. We talked about it like a week ago. Which is a nightmare. Which is a horrible, horrible nightmare food. Yeah. The chicken omelette. I brassed, we asked, we ended on a chicken omelette a week or two ago. Yeah. I don't want it.

Excuse me in one second. What are you eating? Oh boy. What are you eating? Oh boy. What are you eating? Are you eating hair? Well, anyway. Yeah. You know, what came first, the chicken or the egg? How about both? You can put them together and conceptually realize what you're actually consuming and think about it for a second. Damn. What are you eating? Yeah. Absolute mastery of an animal. So, yeah, I'm also playing a bunch of demon souls, which guess what, it's demon souls. Yep. I was able to confirm that there is a very big change they made to the game that they haven't told anybody about. I don't know why they didn't, but the original demon souls had the world tendency system. You still throw yourself off at the Nexus. Yeah. You throw yourself off

the Nexus so that you don't fuck up a world's tendency because you want to push it towards pure white or alternate towards pure black, yada yada. You don't actually even need to know how that system works to appreciate the change. The difference is, is that the problem in the original demon souls is that when you loaded your save game, it would sync up your tendencies from each world to a server average, which would always, always neutralize whatever progress you made. So you'd be doing this thing where you would beat multiple bosses and throw yourself to death in the Nexus so that, oh, I made sure to get pure white so I can get that item, but if you turned the game off and reloaded it, the server would average it out to neutral.

And then it would be inferior. As soon as you went online around this, the only way around this was to play the game offline, which sucked ass because playing the game online is the shit, right? I can confirm with the remake, they have removed the online server sync. Your world tendency changes are your own. The only thing that affects them are your own actions. You can play the game online without having to worry about missing out on pure black tendency because this, this, this, that it's a big improvement. So when you, yeah, okay. Because again, I'm just, I'm remembering all that shit that you guys were explaining at the time and it's like, you, you leave an air, if you leave an Archstone near white and you leave it

while you have your humanity, then it moves it to pure white upon leaving. And then in the Nexus, if you die there, it doesn't affect the next Archstone and you just, and you don't get admitted. I could give you a fucking breakdown on this. It's very annoying, but the basic deal is that pure white, basically worlds have seven states from pure white to neutral to pure black and they affect a number of stats. They affect a number of world state changes. Enemies showing up, et cetera. Yeah. I remember all that. Enemies showing up how many health items get dropped versus upgrade materials. The reason why everybody wants to try and get their world pure white is because there's only two ways

to push the meter up, killing bosses of which there's only three per goddamn world or killing invaders while you're human. But if you're human and the invader kills you, you actually move it towards black. So that, that's the most, the least reliable way possible. So it was always so infuriating that you're trying to get like the, the number one frustration was there's a weapon you can only get from the second world if you're pure white tendency, which requires you to kill both bosses in that world without dying in human form once. So, and also don't go online because it'll screw up your, it sucked. It absolutely sucked. So now that you've put a little time into it, some of the stuff that is like based on,

because the, the, the time that just didn't exist, they haven't modified gameplay in any way, right? Like you don't, for example, they have modified game way in just a tiny little bit. Can you do drop attacks? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. When I say tiny little bit, I mean tiny little bit. Okay. Um, so I can give you the list of total changes like right now. Number one, the graphics are very nice. They're very good graphics. Number two, drop rates on the rarest items have been significantly increased. So instead of farming a pure bladestone for maybe 10 hours, you could maybe farm it for maybe 45 minutes. Okay. They've added a new feature in the game to ask forgiveness. Yeah. I was going to ask about pardoning. Yes. Okay. Because I, there's, there is now a, yeah.

NPCs in that game, once you made them hostile, they were forever, right? Yeah. Okay. So you can ask for forgiveness. You can change the look of your character without having to make a new character. Is it a new NPC? No, it's a statue. Okay. And the third one is you can enter into something called fractured world. And fractured world is literally mirroring the image on the screen from left to right is a horizontal invert of the image. So your main hand, your right hand. So say I have a sword in my right hand, shield my left hand. They've big in reverse, I have a sword in my left hand, just for character preference, just for player preference rather. No, turns out just mirroring the goddamn world is wildly disorienting.

Because when you hit R one, your character swings with their left hand. And when you hit like L one, your character blocks with their right hand shield. Okay, it doesn't actually mirror the controls then. No, it only mirrors the image. Okay, it is actually a significant difficulty modifier because it is very confusing. In that fractured mode, there are items that only show up in it that you need a bunch of which to open a secret door that was actually added with the remake, which I did see about the secret door and I did speak I saw people talking about what's behind it as well. So they've added a couple miscellaneous new items, they've added a couple new rings.

The only one of which I think is worth mentioning is they have added a ring you can get that removes the movement penalty in the swamp. Okay, just very significant. That is a huge, huge, huge improvement. But like, I assume you're still just rocking Kling and Thief for the entire game. So what are we doing here? Who cares? When you use soul items from the menu, there's no animation at all anymore. It just literally gives you the souls and just asks you how many. There is also... I mean, the low times are improved, but I mean, obviously, I don't know if I'm forgetting. I feel like there's omnidirectional rolling little changes. Oh, yes, omnidirectional rolling. Oh, and

the online play with your pals has actually changed in two ways. One, they've changed it to be like Dark Souls 2, you can now like have six people in an online session, which means you can have two invaders and I think three blue phantoms to help you. And in addition, you can now create passworded games. Right, so we can play online without getting sniped. Yeah, you can play, you can play passworded games and you can also have the passworded game. What do you call it? Ignore level changes. So if you actually just want to run a bunch of versus sets, you can totally do it by finding a nice secluded place

and just invading each other back and forth with the password. Ignore level changes. Yeah, because there's always a soul level thing of like, you can only invade people plus or minus your level, your level plus or minus 10 percent. Yeah, okay, okay. But so what you can do is say you're level 30 and I'm level 80, you could still have like a little versus match with me when you just turn that feature off instead of password. So password setting then is really just anti scraping spear mode. Yes. Okay, wonderful. Play with your pals mode. Wonderful. Have you played without that? Oh yeah, I've been, I've been, I've been playing the true online experience.

Has anyone scraping speared? No, I don't play in human mode very often. I'm usually invading people. I usually invade people and then if I win and turn human, I immediately throw myself off the nearest cliff because I just want to invade somebody again. Okay. Dude, Dark Souls PVP, sorry, Demon Souls PVP is so incredibly improved by these fast load times because it, it is not, it used to be, I would like to invade and then it would take 30 seconds to decide whether or not to invade, then you would get maybe a minute long load screen and then you would load in and for the person to go, oh crap and disconnect

so that they didn't have to deal with an invasion. Now from press the button to in the world is like 15 seconds and if you kill them or they lose or you die, whatever, just get, just do another one. Just do another one. What's the, it's great. What's the storage quality of life feature? Oh man. So in Demon Souls, you could go to pick up a goddamn item and it would say that shit's too heavy to be put in your inventory and get fucked. And I, I don't, I can't remember, but I think if you left the world, those items might despawn. Now, when you go into your items, there's literally a button that just says send to storage and it goes to Stockpile Thomas and it goes to Stockpile Thomas and on top of that,

when you send things to storage and you move down to the next item in the inventory, the game keeps the icon on send to storage. So you can literally just pop up, pop up, pop up, pop up, pop up, pop up, pop up, pop up, pop up. X ax down, X ax down, X ax down. Nice. Nice. You don't have to like mash down every time. Beautiful. Yeah. Just sanding off the weirdest, roughest edges of this game. Make all the world of difference. No combat like adjustment outside of that role thing though, huh? Like making backstab better directional. Well, the game servers and overall latency have been improved. So it's a better experience overall. But no actual real changes to combat other than healing items now do have weight. Whereas they used to they didn't have

weight so you could carry they have weight and a maximum amount you can carry with you. Okay. So full heals, which I want to say are dark moon grass. I think you might be able to carry like 20 of them. It's still way too many. It's still way, way, way, way too many. Way too many. Okay. But damage in Demon's Souls PVP is often so high that you'll never get to heal anyway. New animations. Wasn't there the thing where like some weapons would result in a kick, some weapons would result in a push for the riposte or some would be like if you're unarmed, you got like a headbutt or something like that. Absolutely. And that's maintained. The only difference is that now they have fancier nicer animations. The frame data on shit is the same

as it always was. It's just now there's a fancier animation associated with it. I think I saw Mr. Fields talking about chasing down a fucking, what should we call it, a lizard and it just melting into the ground and that's the other change. That was the important one that I wanted to mention. In the original Demon's Souls, there were the crystal lizards, the other lizards, the runaway from you and you kill them for upgrade materials. It was probably the worst part of the entire game because what they would always do is they would run off of cliffs and die. Yep. And the way that it worked is that a crystal lizard in Demon's Souls works on charges, whereas in the first level before you've killed any bosses, there's one life that the lizard has.

And then once you kill a boss, it will have a second life, right? Or it will repopulate. So the way that it'll work is you would have to kill the lizard and then kill the boss and then the lizard would come back and you'd have to kill it. But it killing itself counted. So they would like run off cliffs and die or run away from you and disappear and they'd be gone. Now the way it works is it's almost like stocks and smash brothers where and they only count if you kill them. So you load in, you load into one and there's a lizard and you kill it. Good. It'll come back when you kill the next boss. But what if you just kill the next three bosses, right? And without killing it, you load in and you kill it and then you load in again and it's still there and you

kill it and you load in again and you still kill it until you run out of like, I guess you would call it lizard charges. Okay. So the boss beating is no longer a factor in its respawn. There are just a number of lizards until it goes away. Yeah. It will just, when you kill the boss, it will stock another lizard for you in that spot. But if you don't kill the boss, so that instead of killing it once, you would then be able to kill it twice. If you don't kill the boss, it won't restock. That's right. Okay. So the thing with the lizard change is actually kind of wild, because while it is a convenience change and for older players, it makes no difference. For newer players, it makes the game significantly easier because your upgrade materials don't just run away

from you and die. You'll be able to actually get them. And I mean, and in addition, like it was a game that I remember you, your whole thing was like, man, this was so hard, but it was really just based on it being the first thing you played. So the memory of like, not having any knowledge of how to play souls games was a huge difficulty thing. It's not just that. It's just, it is so obtuse. It is so obtuse. But at this point, playing as someone who knows how soul games should work, you're going to have not that rough of a time anyway. Well, I mean, I'm going to go take a look at it, but most bosses in demon souls are actually puzzles. The vast majority.

Phalanx is a puzzle. Use fire. Tower Knight is a power. Well, I was going to say, I was going to say, well, hold on, because Vanguard is a real boss. You just got to do it, right? But Phalanx, Tower Knight, Armor Spider, Dragon God, Fools Idol, Storm Ruler, Adjudicator, the old hero, Storm King, Leechmonger, Dirty Colossus, and Maiden Astra are all puzzle bosses. Yeah. And for one, two, three of those, the puzzle is use fire. Right, right. And for one, two, three, four of them, the puzzle is use magic or ranged attacks. Spider is less puzzle, more gimmick, you know? But still, it's not like, it's not the same as here's a hard fucking badass standing in the middle of a ring. Fucking do it.

That is of like, hey, you want to have a fucking boss fight and fucking fight in demon souls? There is one, two, three, four of those total. Like it is crazy. But for that exact reason, though, like, stuff like Phalanx is a fun fight with ads versus shitty ads in other games. Yeah, the demon souls is weird because your ability to break the game genuinely makes the game more fun because it means the different builds feel different. It's playing this game with the new graphics and the rough sanded off edges makes me go, man, is this the best one? Because when you play through demon souls, and I'm sure you had this

feeling, or at least you can look back on it now that you played more of those games or saw more of them, is that it's like, man, value of defilement, huh? They just keep making that stage over and over and over again in different forms. I think it's hard to call it best when you don't have as many combat options, but the combat options are applied to some fun stages and bosses that, I don't know, man, the combat options in a lot of the other games, like all the weapons and desks feel different because they are. They're literally different, like because the game only has like 30, 40 weapons total. When you get to Dark Souls 3 and there's like 150, there's some obvious unique ones, but like there's a lot of very similar ones that just end up being like, well, this

straight sword is terrible compared to this straight store. But man, this is going to sound, this is going to be probably the most infuriating discussion about video games for like a year. And that is, but man, those other games don't have these haptics. Really? And that shit really, really helps. That's, that's, I was okay. Okay. Like when you're in the, when you're in three, two, you can feel the old monk's heart beating through the controller. Nice. When you're close. Nice. Okay. And it's, it's just like, it's very soft and subtle and it's like, yeah. Yeah. To me, I mean, I'm no fucking, you know, I'm the least qualified person I feel to talk on a lot of this shit,

but it would, it would take a lot for me to feel like I like a soul game better than Bloodborne. Um, because on that level of like, you know, mechanics and, and theme, obviously, it's just so fucking strong. I agree that it's, you gotta enter with some shit that is equally as, you know, striking for the, for, for, for this, because it, it, Bloodborne didn't have to work up to Victorian era horror, you know, like they didn't have to build like two or three things to get to where that landed. That was their first try at it and it was incredible. It was super cool. That was not their first try. No, but at, at that era, I mean, and that style. No, it's not. Really? It's absolutely not. Well, what am I missing? Tower of Latria, the third world in Demon

Souls is absolutely Victorian era horror. Okay. Okay. Okay. That is especially in the remake. Okay. Like that you get to three, two, and it looks like Bloodborne, but it looks like Bloodborne with super graphics running at a decent frame rate. That being said, though, you didn't, they didn't like the world of that setting didn't require transforming weapons yet here we are. It did not. Yeah. You know, I will, I will say, I feel, I, I, God, I hope they do something to Bloodborne because anything literally just a single patch because it has aged the worst out of all of them over time as being the only one that is stuck on a console that performs badly. I loaded up Bloodborne on my PS5 to see if it had, you know, a better frame rate. It does not, it does not even

have a stable 30. It feels bad, especially now that you can play all the other ones at 60. I can't believe it doesn't perform better. I can't like that makes so little sense, especially after that gentleman put together a patch that makes it perform good. Yeah, which there's no reason to not fucking, you know, use I suppose, but like I just, and Bloodborne has some flaws. Bloodborne has some big flaws. Oh yeah, Plague will let us know. No, not, no, not those ones. The weapon selection and the placement of those weapons and Bloodborne is terrible, is really terrible. Like all the cool weapons in that game are halfway or deeper

into the game. I think there's some, there's some like obscurity to like quest lines as well that I find like super baffling, if not like impossible to figure out if you're not part of the community telling you what to do. Like stuff with like the somebody like the pig and the, and the family, the pig, the, you know what I mean? The daughters, the, and even just the umbilical cord, like some of that stuff is obscure beyond belief. I, I, as somebody who has done every quest in all the Souls games, let me tell you, they're all pretty fucking bad in Obtuse. Like I remember us getting to blood, to Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 and being like, wow, this shit is,

this shit is Obtuse's hell. Oh my god. And now I'm back in Demon's Souls in which character quest lines require both certain world and character tendencies. Yeah, there was a whole thing that was like, you guys were on about fighting King Allent and I, I don't even get the requirement or alternate pathways to it or whatever, but it was like, I remember it was just like, don't even bother, you're not going to hit the requirements for it. Unless maybe you can do it this other way, but I don't fucking know. And this is like, what, like what? Also remember, remember how to save Solaire, give 20 fucking humanity to this random NPC to open a door you don't need to open up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then have him, like they're,

they're all like that. They, they all, oh my god, they, they all, it's so ridiculous. What was the, what was the right name of the optional boss? I said the wrong name there. Uh, Dolan. Dolan, Dolan, Dolan, Dolan. No, Dolan, no, Dolan, Dolan, I literally just say Dolan every time, Dolan, no. Oh, old old king Doren is the one Yeah, okay, okay. It's it's just really nice to have this classic game that I guess the way that I would describe it is as a work of like a like a like a classic car that when it came out new was covered in rust. Like the day it came out in 2008

it was covered in rust and grind and you'd be like man this car is incredible and it runs so good but god damn is it filthy for some reason and this remake has just like scraped off all the rust and it's rebuffed it but they had to replace the bumper and you're not a big fan of the design of the new bumper but overall it's a massive improvement. But the thing about is that like just the way the AI moves the way things work in these in this game I feel like even if you've repainted the whole thing it still feels like you're playing an old ass game though, right? Oh yeah dude, it has to watching Flame Lurker get caught behind some dragon bones and just unable to escape or um and you just pelt him with arrows or magic as the boss literally can't move.

What's the what's the NPC that you have to like help walking around a starva where he's just fucking doing these loops nowhere and you know and you're just like this is this is an odds game like pathing doesn't look this way anymore. Okay I I wish I wish they gave this same treatment to the others but I understand it's a massive undertaking and Demon's Souls needed it the worst by far. Well here's what's up right now think about how long the cry has been for a desk remake it's done it's here it exists we got it and it you know what uh 10 years is that right 10 years yeah so just about you know here it is um that leaves one thing that people want and it's fucking disgusting

it's beautiful you know and and that might even be a product for later on down the line they they might be you know like like waiting on that or that's right armored core for answer correct get in here nine breaker please get get get yeah um and then and then uh once that's done you're like okay well now now what new shit right LDL LDL LDL Elden Ring I gotta say we haven't seen any Elden Ring obviously deflated deflated a little bit except for Phil Spencer apparently um this this Demon's Souls remake right remake is immaculately gorgeous and I am you remember when I made the joke before came out of like oh man what if like the Elden Ring comes out and it's like janky looking by compare I'm kind of worried that

Elden Ring is going to look bad by comparison which will be super weird I mean Blue Point's another company right it's this is not yeah soft or another group of people it's not the same people no um but we were just talking about the the misses that Blue Point made too on some of those character designs so you know um it's it's up in the yeah it's it's really weird because they're the most immaculately highly detailed version of this character it's just why they make it look like that I'm expecting Elden Ring to not feel like a Souls game though in terms of not not gameplay but in terms of like just the amount of story and conversation and NPC like you know um um NPCs

that'll be a part of this thing I expect that as uh George R R Martin story it will probably have like towns with people in them you know I'm on the assumption that the I don't think I don't think there's any basis for this at all other than the fact that the game has been in development for so long and is uh you know we haven't seen anything I'm under the assumption that Elden Ring will be a a more free roaming type of this game where yes there will be towns that you can explore there's nothing less the least Souls thing is in the world is a town with people living in it I can't think of anything more foreign that aren't all mad and and and screaming at you from their roofs with treasure in them yeah no like and I and I expect that uh that will be

what the Elden Ring world is like you know I foresee a a breath of the wildification of a Souls game oh dungeons okay and or what have you will represent your classic Souls levels but the I can see you getting on a horse and riding around yeah and and Grimm's gonna want you to talk to people and you know have character exposition so that'll probably happen pretty often there'll probably be a big uh oh intro cutscene that is not just hey man look how the world is check out these five badasses go find their shit you know so you know what I you know what I really want for Elden Ring right is like in all the Souls games and Bloodborne the even Souls and and Bloodborne a little less but it is either implied or directly stated dude it's really bad here it's almost as

bad everywhere else it's just it's just bad all around right like society is completely falling apart mm-hmm it'd be nice to get to see that the fall just of bullet area slash what is it what is a town that is not being currently overrun by the undead right this second look like look like when the town won over is uh something really expensive yeah really really expensive yeah like I want to see a in-universe map of this is where the problem has expanded from and go to the town like just on the other edge of that line okay yeah there is there is you know like I like you know in Breath of the Wild the the center

high was just a wasteland yeah yeah yeah there is one fallen area where the last boss is waiting and there is a a a line you can cross where they're expanding out from here and you can find the town that currently has people running out of it just sitting on that line yeah mm-hmm and and you know the town that you thought was fine but now they're all horrible dick mutants or the one that is fine except that one guy that came to visit from far away brought some problems with him mm-hmm mm-hmm I would just like to see Elden Ring I feel like at the time we'll see it uh we'll see like a 10 minute like little you know gameplay slice of it blood after all this time Bloodborne is a weird one because it feels like the town is still alive and everyone is there they're just

indoors like leave me alone bloodborne is actually really confusing like it's just the hunt is happening so we're not outside depending on the the ending you get it's unclear to me whether or not any of those events are actually even occurring I don't even what well because you know you get the dream ending in which you wake from the dream and then you walk out into the what is looks like the real world there there is some dimensionality going on with that okay but I thought that was just what you were and what you would become but I still thought that on the whole the the town and all the various locations were still what they were do you know what woolly it is not very clear it's not it's not and it is not clear by intention because it's about it's about not knowing things

that's that's what bloodborne's plot is about yeah and bloodborne's about not knowing stuff and you and you can hide you can hide the the details and obscurity which is you can hide all sorts of nonsense plot elements in a game in which you're not supposed to understand it yeah okay well like that's the ultimate setting for the way they tell their stories where all these plot threads that go nowhere and you get to go whoa but it's unknowable because it's like I see but but I just like and what I never internalized yarnum as like fully fallen because it seemed like people were just kind of in their houses for this night and if you woke up this night that lasts forever and if you woke up the next morning whenever that might be there would be old ladies emptying

their buckets of flop and slop into the streets and and children grabbing some nasty ass fruit you know it's not clear okay um where can people find more of this unclear dream well I'll be playing demon souls and yakuza 7 this week over twitch.tv slash pat stairs that that's what I'll be doing that's over twitch.tv slash pat stairs at yeah uh so let's take a quick word from our sponsors let's do it this week the podcast is sponsored by Raycon you know the deal get yourself some wireless earbuds I mean look I'm not saying that I knew this person but I'm saying that I heard a story about a person who had wired headphones and they just wrapped around them and one day that was it just broke

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i mean this when i say that i truly had no dog in this race i had no stance in the war between apple and epic because i didn't give a fuck because they were too giant and also they're both horrible so it's you know two giant awful megacorps duking it out and i'm just like yeah do it do the thing let them fight see how this goes whatever you know um and and and sweeney has been easier tim sweeney has been easier to dunk on over these weeks to months because of the overall smugness from the fortnight side of things because epic went as far as to making videos and little FMVs celebrating their legal challenge um and talking about how they're like we're going to resist and and so on and all that dumb shit we saw um so you know when they

got their court mandated like now we're gonna take this off the the ios store and it might not ever come back but it doesn't apply to other games that use um the unreal engine it was like yeah that makes sense because you guys kind of fucking deserve it for you know just getting all uppity about your shit so the point i'm trying to make here is that i didn't really care either way but tim sweeney talking and saying dumb things has led to me going you know what fuck that i hope they lose right i hope they lose right okay so fast forward to earlier last week november 18th where an update came out about the battle between epic and apple as it continues and sweeney said the following it's everybody's duty to fight it's not just an option that someone's

lawyers might decide but it's actually our duty to fight that if we adhere to all of apple's terms and you know take in their 30 payment processing fees and pass the cost along to the customers then that would be epic colluding with apple to restrain competition on ios and inflate prices for consumers so going along with apple's agreement is what's wrong and that's why epic mounted a challenge to this and you know you can hear excuse me and you know you can hear of any and inaudible to civil rights fights where there was actual laws on the books where the laws were wrong and people disobeyed them and it was not wrong to disobey them because to go along with them would be collusion to make them status quo he then clarified no no guys i'm not comparing

fortnight lawsuit to civil rights just that fighting against obviously unjust laws is unjust rights and and and yeah and you know well i've seen the pictures of the apple dogs being sicked on the epic employees i don't know about you but it was pretty disturbing to see the water hose just blasting all of those epic employees down the street you know i i have to say like the i feel like there there's there's two ways you can look at this the first of which is dude you just wanted a lower cut on your fucking fortnight it's not the same as slavery you fucking piece of shit that's easy that's easy that's the easy

way to go about it if you want to go a different way a slightly more in-depth way of just how fucking stupid tim sweeney is he's not talking about fighting unjust laws or colluding with apple he's talking about why they voluntarily broke a contract that they had already signed and the comparison of that to civil rights implies that slavery was a deal that was made hold on that black folks actually decided was not a good deal anymore everything it's actually way worse than it hits the ear and it's bad it's actually way worse than that remember when mark luther king stood up and said i have a dream that the contract we entered into with the slave owners of the united states will no longer be valid and we can just

stop using that contract that we all signed in the big slavery agreement i remember when he said that blind but now i see uh apple this is just just the just the epic employees tim sweeney waking up in the middle of the night because he sets his kids to bed but there's a little orange hue coming through the window and he hears some some ruckus and some some some commotion and then a little some you know a little bit and then like is this of horses horses in the distance and then you you peer out the window and a giant apple logo is burning burning on your lawn you know and i mean what's what's what's he supposed to do how's he supposed to feel about that clearly hey clearly he's well within his rights to be a little upset

do you remember when tim sweeney it was like we made the fort night in 1984 ad and it was like oh that's cheeky because like apple did that ad in 1984 do you remember that and now it's like wait do they actually believe that they're fighting against apple in like a 1984 style whatever with this fucking stupid shit do they actually really believe that because i think they actually believe that i mean frankly i don't think they've gone far enough and i don't think the point will be made until the fort night account officially posts a picture of fountains that are labeled fortnight players and everyone else and the other i i i i feel you know that that that meme of the dude with the glasses looking at the butterfly

yep on is this a butterfly sure like i feel like you can just like the text on the dude should be rich people and then the the butterfly should be any minor inconvenience and then the text should be is this literally slavery i mean we're just it's you know tim's tim's got a point and i don't think it's right for us to just sit here and pretend that this outrage should go on any longer and i think we need to go further with it and i think we need to actually start pushing this message out there and getting people to know about the injustice that has been wronged upon them with this apple premium you know and you the customer are the one in the end that suffers so yeah absolutely let's keep it going

let's get the march you know can we get can we get one million flossers flossing down the road for for for civil rights for change can we get one million flossers flossing for change i think this is what i think this is what we got to do we got to push it you know i can't you can't floss you can learn you can you can march with we'll show you the way we got to make a statement so you know um i have now created the meme i just described

i've created it i have done it what have you done i fucking hate tim sweeney so much dude you are just hating on a revolutionary oh wait are we holding a we holding a moment of silence now what is happening hold on a moment did you i think obs just we actually just go down yeah obs let's just blew up

were you holding a moment of silence and then we went down yeah that's really funny that's really really funny that's really funny oh man all right it happened i did not have control over that i assume it will come back at some point i want to stop it and then turn it on again oh boy there we go looks like it's back that's really funny i i you know that's look um um apparently tim doesn't like what's going on right now so hey uh my meme killed the stream i'm sorry i'm sorry just uh i what i what i need to know right what we need to see is we need to see

the cavernix dm's as tim reaches out and goes hey man you know just just just a picture of the top of his dms on twitter and it's just it's calling cavernix dms and it just says tim sweeney checkmark and the text just says hey man comma um i i'm always a big fan of my own mental fantasy of people at companies that are not tim sweeney the the ones that are just normal human beings possibly those in the marketing division to turn on like have their phone just start going and then go all right what is it oh no no no no no no

you know yeah yep yep yep yeah everyone else on ship on the ship yeah oh i love it just reach for the fucking flask well so uh the epic battle continues you know by the way there's been a new wrinkle in that battle which i think it might be the funniest thing ever um apple recently did change their their terms of service and their agreement okay that if you don't clear a million i think it's a million per quarter a million per year i forget which one it is um apple will take less of a cut off of your earnings how about that i think it's i think it's 15 down from 30 percent um and that applies to 98 percent of apps on the app

store you know you know tim maybe you shouldn't have clicked i agree on the jim crow terms of service maybe you should have read the fine print instead of scrolling all the way down on the jim crow to us and just going except and you know what sure yes you can you can read and use my data to find out what user preferences are that yula you should have read it should have read it too bad you scrolled past it you know what a dumb bitch it even has that thing when you scroll to the bottom where it waits for the accept button to appear for a couple seconds just to make sure you know and you're like yadda yadda yadda and if you don't sign it you're just not allowed to use the product

and you just stay in the womb that's correct you just stay in there but you just you agreed you signed up for it what more can we say you know you should have just declined it like i saw the tweet the second it happened like it popped up within like one minute and i sat there for 15 minutes trying to think up something witty to say and i just ended up saying enough and just retweeted it with it's just like fuck off fuck off tim well i happen to be like not but a week out from the last version of the tweet which was i believe the wi-fi warrior struggle has now reached civil rights oh so people complaining about the fact that they're on wi-fi and no one on techend wants to play with them anymore we're talking about there is

literally complaints and to the level of it's like segregating black people and i'm like yep so you know what thanks random internet you know what the best part of the wi-fi thing is it's it's been a thing in techend lately because they they put the indicator right but there's there's a there's the i can't play any games anymore because you know people don't want to play with me on because i'm on wi-fi there's a hidden inference to that which really shows off what the wi-fi ethernet thing is actually about and i have good wi-fi you don't know whole thing because some of these people are legitimately not being able to get into matches and that's because even though wi-fi players represent 30 40 50 percent the hidden secret is that other wi-fi players also don't want to play

wi-fi players that is they only want to play ethernet play this is the brilliance of what's happening it is extremely satisfying because that indignation comes wrapped in a blanket of i don't want to play against myself either a hundred percent oh i i have the good wi-fi it's everyone else's wi-fi that's the bad wi-fi so i can play with ethernet players no problem so you know how when you go to play soccer with your with your friends and then you see there's that guy on the team that has boxing gloves on and he's just going to start swinging at you while you're playing the match yeah right well if you have somebody that comes on your team with boxing gloves then they don't want to play anymore they can only play their game swinging punches at you while you

play soccer if no one else is doing so it's kind of it's kind of amazing because you get to watch how every argument that they make about it's not a big deal fall apart when clearly two people with horrible packet consistency cannot play i think anything resembling a normal game and it starts to bother them too you know it's their fault they're ruining it with their bad internet but they feel confident as long as one of you has decent connections so they're leaching off of that and just bringing their own shit to the show and that's and you know and like and you're expected to just deal with it and take it it all comes back to the the fact that the all what we ever everybody always knew the argument was which was the real argument here is but

me but me though and so i'll say it here wi-fi players that won't play other wi-fi players but want to keep playing wi-fi are the type of person that would hide a zombie bite from the group or go to your grandma's funeral and say oh i just have allergies and then cough on everyone in your extended family and give them the covid they should not be trusted i mean quite frankly you know that guy was right in that it is exactly like segregation and civil rights and wi-fi players are the are like yeah it's like with black people except instead of not wanting to be a slave the black person was like i want to run the plantation me i want to run it keep doing that you're all gonna keep picking the boss but i'm the one in charge

and this is bullshit because i'm not running the plantation emancipate me just me only me it's you know i you know how everybody like older people are more wise or whatever and all that crap and this i mean it's weird to apply to this but um as i've gotten older i have discovered that a huge part of wisdom is do you remember all those little things that people would do that weren't the biggest deal in the world just these little annoying things that people would do yeah but they would irk you and people would you'd be you'd be like really annoyed but people would tell you it's not that big of a deal man and you be like i don't know i don't like that guy right

right as i've gotten older i've discovered those things themselves aren't a big deal but boy do they show off they are the symptoms of a way bigger deal inside the cut the the dumb ass friend of yours that would uh uh like throw a tantrum every time they lost at golden eye yeah right i mean that's not the biggest deal in the world but it shows off that they feel entitled to win even in a group of people that's a terrible attitude the person who rage quits will only get worse from here the person who rage quits live in person in front of you you know yeah at a local like really yeah mm-hmm you seem to be a child with a child's emotions this bodes poorly for the rest of your personality i i think uh

that's one great thing about ltg that like we got is an insight into what it sounds like when somebody goes through the the the mental hoops to just be like i'm rage quitting and here's why i still feel justified in doing so because you don't deserve to get my points you don't deserve that win you don't deserve to get uh uh uh a higher ranking because of this i'm taking that away from you because i disapprove of the way you played the game right that's how you actually have to process the circumstance that just occurred as opposed to you just sucking and losing it you have to internalize it as there is a bar of merit that you have not accomplished outside of the competition and i am in the right to leave and be as toxic as possible

because you have not hit that merit bar it actually you know what i i just realized like well i'm not talking about wisdom all i'm talking about is like well as you get older it's easier and easier to spot narcissists it's easier and easier to spot people that are actually literally me me though and being like nah i'm good i'm good it's easier to spot them but doesn't stop them from rising to positions of power now does it well no no and some people never get good at spotting them ever and that's sad or you know use use uh use it to their advantage but uh here's what's going on you should never trust anybody that never makes jokes at their own expense

self-deprecation is an important part of humility and humility is a vital part of living a wholesome and moral lifestyle you know it's really fun when i hear comedians that i listen to they talk about um how over the years you see people that start and and get into the the open mic scene and they try to like kind of you know get what they try to crack the audience right and um something that pops up a lot is there's always people who go everyone has the same origin point my friend said i was pretty funny i used to make people laugh a lot in school i i should take a crack at this you know and that's extraordinarily very very common and and what you would end up seeing though that is that some people would get up and find a way to tell

a story in an entertaining fashion and have it work out whatever the case is and other people would just you know just rely on their antics and just you know a crowd work right but something that was consistently common is the people that would come up and tell a story from the point of view of how awesome they were and how like a fight happened or someone got up at or some crazy shit went down i was i beat that dude's ass i can't oh man it was so crazy and how instantaneously the crowd stops laughing and nobody's interested in what you have to say anymore because the punch line was yeah so i beat the fuck out of that guy and that's the end of the story and it's like oh okay what or yeah you know and so is that she was so fucking hot so anyway she came back to

my place and that was it like crushed it let me bone 10 times 10 times you know and it's just like yeah this doesn't this doesn't work at all so like people just it's not entertaining or interesting to listen to so there's a bunch of times when um fucking uh uh like football players and and and uh uh Jersey Shore dudes are trying to do stand-up comedy and again like the premise or or like even just like um vine v2 people v2 youtube people uh uh tiktok people like people tiktok gang right super young super hot i got a huge following because everyone wants to bang me and i'm going to go up and try my hand at comedy and making people laugh is going to rely on me just telling stories about how awesome i am and how lame everyone else was and it's the least funny

thing in the world it never fucking works because yeah if you're not being self-deprecating or at the very least understanding that making yourself sound cool is super lame like you have no you have no rumor business in this industry at all you know i see somebody in the chat actually bring up a fairly interesting point where uh we say this but Chappelle does well bragging about how rich he is in a set and that's different one it's Chappelle Chappelle could probably make anything funny and two Chappelle talks about how rich he is he doesn't it doesn't come off like bragging it comes off like he is describing the unreality of being a rich person in a humorous way also he is a multi-year veteran where we saw his earliest work before he was rich where he was

describing shitty situations the same way anyone else has the difference is is that he continues to be a fucking brilliant comedian but also has these other life experiences to put on top of it and talk about that shit now but someone who steps up to the mic bragging from day one has no chance no chance unless they're going for like you know absurdist goofy shit like you know Gilbert Godfrey could probably go up there and brag about how many women he slept with yeah sure it's Gilbert fucking Godfrey but like this is why like this is why like rappers like in hip hop anyone who's taken themselves super seriously and being braggadocious with their style will have to bring on a comedian to make the jokes because the because the rapper themselves can't

also be funny while still being cool because they got to be cool and being the coolest has an energy that shouldn't be broken so let me hang out with my funny friend and my funny friend will do the skit and then i'll just be getting credit for the comedy on the skit when it's really the comedian buddy i brought in but i'm still cool though i i can't be the butt of the joke you know so a really a really good example of this is i remember a while ago 50 cent made a series of hilarious tweets and they were really really funny because it was 50 cent the tough man rapper super millionaire bitching about his grandma doesn't give a fuck he still got to take out the garbage to take out her yes right and because it it it he's not bragging he's just

like i can't believe this i am factually a millionaire i'm famous whatever you know multi million and my grandma doesn't give a shit you find a way to self-deprecate within that realm but like that that's that's what it is you know like if you're uh and again like you said with chappell in both cases you factually are aware of their circumstances being they have tons of fucking money it's less of a bragging more of a just it's reality you know um yeah yeah it's it's it's it's an interesting observation you know but um you definitely can smell a narcissist quite easily uh i feel these days are not even sometimes it's not even that sometimes it's just like

you know it's less severe but just lack of self-awareness you know what i'll you know what i'll say though i knew a guy and woolly i think you might have known this guy that actually damaged my ability to see other narcissists because he was the worst one yeah yeah yeah i i i i led me to the belief that man is this what this what people this what narcissists are like wow and it's like no they're easy they're not always that obvious so a lot oh man sometimes they get because he was one that never got good at pretending to be a human being because like he he just he just had the fucking the sickness and then didn't know how to mask it but there's the ones that do know how to mask it you know and you get your patrick bateman's right

every single thing that came out of this guy's man oh man it made me laugh well i don't know what my favorite one was you know what no you know what my favorite one was do you remember that do you remember that video of that uh that cute girl playing we with her pants off facebook profile came to school and said yeah that's my girlfriend and we went no it's not we've met your girlfriend that's not her no no that's her he's just is the angle that's me driving the hatchy roku drifting down the corner this magazine cover that's me i mean you can't see me but i it's me i've edited out the face but i'm not posting it on facebook to say it's me meanwhile it's clearly my other friend who owns this car who is who is that's he said that's

his photo it's right there but no it's you though every time every single oh my god front page of i'll think anyone front page of montreal racing that's me right there and it's clearly not you well i mean i went down and i did it but they had to take my uh my face out because i'm not licensed to drive those kind of fancy man woolly's so garbage it's street fighter i came over i thought he was supposed to be good and then we just played a few matches and it's like jeez like i what that wow i can't believe he talks about fighting games so much and it was so easy lean over i'll i peek down the hallway never i have never seen a look on your face and i will likely never see that look again when we could hear him telling your roommate how bad he beat you like just and i might might

i like my mouth was just like getting wider and wider and wider and i'm just like oh i don't even know how to describe the look on your fucking face like shmup god pat just leans down the hallway and sees one half of the television with the score on it and it's just like what world where you exit a room too big or fast and a hallway is enough for you to fabricate a reality and then hope that it never gets vetted well again so he was so bad at it he was so bad at it that yeah excuse what you think this type of person is gonna be like it's the best thing ever because that was that was the moment where enough was enough and you called him out for a money match in a big public setting and to my knowledge that ended that money

match challenge that you would not drop and would not stop bringing up essentially ejected him from an entire group of people because he couldn't escape yes and he never ever ever it would it would come up every time and he would never go for it and everyone like well why not and so his only his only solution was to just leave and that ended his existence in our lives and he never returned he never accepted my money match he disappeared into the night and for whatever saving face purposes whatever the case might be he literally was banned to the shadow realm yeah now if i remember correctly you never rescinded that money i never did it remained open which and it was this was it work like come sit down let's play and he never accepted it he just disappeared

because that was easier than facing reality which is what a narcissist goes through on a regular basis it's also why he is hated by entire communities across montreal because every time that's true he would dive into a different shall we say asian country to get a girlfriend and then do some horrible shit and then ruin his reputation amongst that community in montreal everyone would talk and be like fuck this guy so after trying and making his way across multiple different countries it's like uh-oh uh montreal chinese community ain't happy oh vietnam no they ain't happy either how about the Cambodians scorched earth all right what else we got going on and um the legacy of i don't think you've ruined your shot with the koreans yet but they're talking

the legacy of running away from burning fires as people are chasing you with their names with your name being screamed um is not something foreign to them so you know what it's it's actually small potatoes when you consider the pettiness of like yeah i'll just not accept this money match but at the very least you know that served as the reason for him to never show up ever again so that that would always so i mean we obviously lost contact with him after the the money match and thank god good riddance but all i can think of is like that's just obviously not viable long term but like this the just like but the narcissist doesn't plan long term that's the thing i know that and then i'm like well what what what are the what is the what is the plan now

like now 10 years later i mean wait longer 15 years later christ well it's just wake up eat food survive and continue to exploit the the pieces around me for my gain what pieces do i have around me today okay these people they're still around all right i will exploit them and that's all it is you don't there's no long term to it it's just absolutely maximize the amount of pleasure you can get out of people on a day-to-day basis and and concede nothing you know it's it's fucking fascinating because yeah you you don't you do need i think everybody should have an experience like this in their lives to find out that what you assume are normal people around you in many cases it turns out no that's not and here's somebody that would probably go

through um unreasonable extremes to you know get what they want out of a situation but you would never know because you know the times are never pushing them to a place where that is revealed so the zombie bite as you described you know you never get pushed to the point where you see who would hide the zombie bite you know so they can blend in nicely but this guy was so fucking long story short this is the type of person who plays wi-fi but doesn't want to play other wi-fi people sure this type of person that we are describing i will even say that there is a group of people that only that that know nothing about like uh the nature of of wi-fi and fighting games and other types of games that come into it just with no knowledge whatsoever and they might say something

like hey i run a fort and i run a minecraft server trust me wi-fi is fine and then someone goes no that doesn't work in fighting games and they go oh i didn't know because i thought it was the same and then you're like oh yeah okay you just didn't know you know and then you go hey what's your minecraft server we'll create a little bridge together i don't want people doing minecraft i still don't know i don't get it yeah i kind of forgot that that's what ended it i didn't remember what it was i i oh yeah did you killed him i didn't remember murdering that dude i thought i really just said because you tagged every person we knew on facebook that was your entire facebook was like 80 to 100 people

including people that didn't know him i tagged everybody you tagged everyone you forgot that oh fuck yeah yeah i got yeah everyone yeah no i brought family in on that shit i got we tagged the whole crew everybody got an alert he had to leave everyone got an alert i forgot about that and the only person who stuck by him that he brought out of that group with him was another friend of ours from back in the day who had a bad habit of kicking the ps2 off when your super went through that would win the match i vividly remembered the day that i went this person's probably an asshole when i hit them

with k's sunglasses in king of fighters 11 and it was gonna win the match and he kicked the ps2 off so that i wouldn't actually get to see the win and i went what are you doing he's like well you know you want anyway like yeah that's when you guys were if i'm not mistaken uh that was uh you were arguing a and they were arguing b and then when a was proven correct then he's that was the funniest thing ever oh my god yeah i was arguing with them and i was arguing let's say blue and they were arguing red and then i clearly won the argument and then they told you the story as if the positions were reversed and how stupid i was and then you asked me about it that day afterwards and i was like what the actual fuck it's just a simple it's just it's the easiest

fact check in the world you know because i remember you asked me because the positions didn't make sense when they were reversed because you knew that i thought this and he thought that that day if our positions were switched would you have my life and i yours well he did switch the positions it's pretty embarrassing yeah oh no man you what you what you want to do in those situations is not do that don't don't shit your ass in front of everybody don't do it don't by don't by saying something that's silly don't shit your ass yeah don't hey listen listen real careful listen real careful with the words that i'm saying because everyone will know when that's when it's all i gotta do when that when that happens when that happens

don't shit your pants and when people try and help you out of the situation after you've shit your pants don't try and fight them to the point where you slash your hands on the broken bathroom mirror that you punched it in your drunken tirade metaphorically don't metaphor don't metaphorically metaphorically don't do that because just and then all i have to do is call and be like hey did you actually say that and then you'd be like no i said the other thing and then it's like oh shit okay and definitely definitely don't metaphorically do all that at the party of the girl you likes house metaphorically definitely don't don't do that

so you know what else is you know what else is a metaphor you shouldn't do you don't actively pretend that you're gay so that your friend will let you get away with shit because you she doesn't think you're looking at her or hitting on her metaphorically bad metaphor to do let's talk about smash brothers hey what's up with smash brothers so what happened this week was pretty fucked uh here's where's what's going down there is a tournament known as big house 10 that was supposed to go down the big house is a major that's been running for smash for at least a decade now um obviously covid big house 10 yes obviously covid brings with it the challenges of

the scene being closed off no one can do tournaments anymore so now we have to go online well fortunately this smash event where melee was primarily uh played and it was known for having like big pots and you know being a pretty uh large premiere uh was perfectly um ready for this type of event because slippy which we talked about which i did the uh the special on and i you know we had fizzy on to talk about it the melee rollback edition of the game that you can you can play uh was going to be used so that everyone can play online and instead have an online version safely yes um now eventually uh they had to announce that they received a cease and desist from nintendo of america to cancel the upcoming online event and they were told they

don't have permission to host a broadcast the event due to the use of slippy which is a user-modded version of melee uh that allows online rollback play to happen um so uh they with that came everyone's obvious like frustration and the hashtag um save free melee uh where it was pretty clear that from the perspective of the players melee has been a game that's you know been long abandoned by nintendo and in many cases all people really want that our fans of the game is an opportunity to play it with each other and that they created their own opportunity where nintendo wouldn't and nintendo kind of just came at it and said nah fuck that the detail here uh that i think is worth mentioning and it's important is the fact that uh according to at least the article on polygon

uh nintendo's statement specified that uh they contacted them and asked them not to do it before sending the cease and desist essentially they they made an initial point of discussion and then uh big house just apparently decided to ignore that discussion point or at least that's what they're implying with the statement i don't know how verified i mean the the the discussion was don't do it they nintendo asked them not to do it and then they didn't do it they didn't and then and then they continued rather so then the cease and desist came as a secondary action um i think that if this were in that first step where the cease and desist didn't come you could almost imagine a a hashtag that was like hey nintendo here's a copy of the melee

that i own and in fact here's a copy of ultimate that i also own i'm more than willing to buy this video game because i like it i'm just doing this because there's no other way for us to play right now we would love for you to give us that opportunity but you haven't done so but we're not taking any money out of your pocket here's my copy you know i imagine that hypothetical could have existed but that's not the world right so you're gonna say a couple background details one you're totally allowed in the united states by law to make backups of your own discs for your own personal use this includes the iso this also applies to certain hardware things which is why when you go to an emulator website for the ps2 they say make sure to have ripped the

ps2 bios out of your own ps2 wink wink because that way it's legal to run an emulator now over the years by the way wink wink has come to mean a lot less than i originally thought it does a lot of judges don't give a fuck about wink wink mind you but go on yeah however this has never actually come up to my knowledge nobody nobody cares and there's a reason why the colloquial term abandonware was created now abandonware is not a legal term abandonware literally means this game isn't sold isn't supported or the company that owns it doesn't exist or there's no but you know there's whatever right um it's the kind of thing that would you would technically lose in court but because it's so trivial and pointless it would never go to court ever it's not even

worth the dollars for the lawyer to sue you right so then we get to melee melee is not supported melee is unbiable nintendo doesn't make melee anymore it's the only place you can get melee is from third party resellers that have still been sitting on used copy because it's an obsolete product it's the photoshop 7 or the cs2 yeah it's we don't want you to buy that version anymore nintendo also likes to pretend that emulation is illegal emulation is not illegal it's totally legal there are some minor foibles in terms of this particular type of emulation which nintendo doesn't care to make the distinction you could have had gone through the process and actually had melee players show off their melee copies and if they really wanted to even show off that they

themselves dumped their copies themselves at which point nintendo still wouldn't care because nintendo views emulation is a threat to their brand because they like to repackage their old shit and eventually sell it later and uh i mean we're not lawyers so i'm not going to go ahead and 100% cosine or what you're saying here with the like certainty that that would hold up emulation is not illegal um you don't need to be a lawyer to to say that emulation is not illegal okay right but in many cases there's a difference legally between the emulator the rom and the bios that you know and whether or not you dump them yourself um right but but however in the real world no no one cares it doesn't matter they're not losing anything they're not losing anything

it's always been there's no loss to a game that you can't buy i think i think and then remember i'm the i'm the shut the fuck up guy right um i think that like you can approach it from that direction you can approach it from the technical legal distinction direction but i don't think that's the right way to approach the conversation i think what's more obvious and plain as day is that there are many circumstances where a company legally has the right to do whatever they want with their thing and can at the very least if they don't have that right pursue it in such a way where the person who is defending cannot afford a defense so they get they get they get bullied into a situation where you don't really get your your vindication because you can't fucking keep up with what they're

charging you of right but what is clear is there is a understood thing in the cases where hey you know what sega knows that fan games for sonic exist and they help promote sonic so overall we're not going to make any problems with it in fact we're going to encourage them because this is something that fans do as an expression of the fact that they like sonic uh capcom also like officialized certain fan games like street fighter once that one time that one time once yeah they're a little less cool about it on the regular but nonetheless sega has also shut down your channel if you had shining force on it because uh it was screwing up their youtube certainly they're all yeah i mean uh rock star was all about grand theft tendo but then uh were

really unhappy about i believe red dead redemption five right so uh or v anyway um the the the nintendo's always been the absolute worst yeah and and so so you know overall you just have an over a thing where you're just like look there's a bunch of players here they're doing this pretty much because they love this game and they'd like to play it it's unsupported just nothing they can do and the bottom line is if they were given an opportunity to actually like give you money for this experience so that they could play it with each other they would happily do so in a heartbeat but it's just not what you're doing and you do have doesn't want the right you do have the right to say no that version of smash brothers is not what we're making anymore

and we want you to buy the new version with the new characters and the inferior online experience on our platform they're also not going to support like a pc version of something when they want you to play it on their own systems that they're trying to push right but they 100% could do melee on switch with good netcode i mean it's still fucking no other net proper for most people so no we don't want we don't want to and we don't want you to yeah so now you just get this blowback that is gonna be really rough for them to shake because even though they theoretically could be within their rights to do this to people you're shitting on someone on a group of people that are otherwise like doing what they're doing out of love and that just makes you look fucking

garbage the whole way through um well here's one for you nintendo's problem is with the the use of roms and the slippy the slippy uh programming which they name by name mind you yeah um project m was always a problem but like they would talk around it in a way and then they would not sponsor tournaments that involved project m officially but i don't remember project m getting c indeed at those events i remember nintendo just not officially supporting it ever since that uh evo kerfuffle nintendo has allowed melee tournaments to go on on right uh if this tournament was not using emulators therefore it stands to reason that the tournament would go on which means according to nintendo they would rather an in-person

tournament occur in which players have to risk their lives and possibly die from coveted okay happens all right listen dude like no no i will i know i will get to finish this rather than you use a game they don't sell anymore in an unauthorized manner the it is acceptable to nintendo for you to die rather than you to press a couple buttons on their game in a way they don't like that is a ridiculous false equivalence equivalency in my end to me there because i think it's quite clear why they're being this shitty about it um the to turn it into literally know their pro covid as a result is no no no no no i'm saying they're indifferent to your

death but they're not indifferent to the unauthorized use of their product which is absolutely accurate i cannot believe you would even argue that they're indifferent nintendo doesn't care about whether or not you live or die okay as long as you don't use melee in a bad way okay okay you're not saying that they're encouraging you to go do this in person no okay but they'd be fine with an in-person melee tournament all right as well as could you all right this is this is if the tournament said we can't run it online anymore because of nintendo's problem with the piracy so we'll be having it in person and people died there i seriously doubt nintendo would say a word

therefore endorsing those deaths by directly causing them so basically nintendo is a murderer you see like this and now and now i'm just and now we're back to pat all right all right pat nintendo isn't just done trying to kill melee they now want to kill you the melee player directly yeah i'm just gonna i'm just gonna i'm just gonna pull the parachute on this one because there's no there's no there's no win here there's no reality there's no point there's just the there's just the punchline and i'm not going to be the guy sitting here fighting against the punchline because uh that doesn't win so why would i hear so we're just we're just gonna i'm out taking off taking off my punchline cap and my insanity uh exaggeration here no point for a

moment um why do people like nintendo is clearly being unreasonable i would say like i wouldn't they're not really obviously murderers it's just fun to say uh this is unreasonable this is the kind of thing that hurts no one yep it's completely unaffensive when a when a big corporation staffed by uh potential humans but maybe not um business people uh is being a dick why the fuck would anyone care about being fair like i'm gonna hurt nintendo it's fucking feelings yeah i who gives a shit so the fuck so i read the thing that like i think is unsaid so far here that is the reason why is also because i think there's a part of it where they're anti melee because it's the old thing and they want you to play the new thing like oh that's

that's like literally that's the energy right it's not it's not even like an alt a version of ultimate in some context or whatever it you know that requires you to have it and then monitor so it is that you're playing something they have replaced as a product and they do not want that old product to still get used because as far as they're concerned each sequel to smash brothers completely replaces the existence of the last one smash brothers is not a series of sequels with a legacy it is a single thing that gets replaced every single time a new one comes out so um yeah the depreciation for anyone that wants to play an older version of it is the motivator behind why they would even start to be this shitty and then the rest of it is just spite

for the towards what should be indifference you know every player clearly again is asking you for something that you don't want to deliver because of other feelings or other reasons you have if people are again like i think people asking for a pc release of a of a game when nintendo's is doesn't play oh that's just that's that's a ridiculous exactly that's a fabrication that they've never been you know a part of like that won't happen but um asking them for a previous version of a game when they've gone back to give you old mario games they've gone back to give you old zelda games they have no problem with other genres being respected in their legacy forms and like even doesn't didn't um uh mario party didn't older mario parties get dropped as well at some

point oh right so other genres now we can we can resell those to you in a compilation that's time limited on a terrible emulator time limited like mario sunshine so the idea of going back in for you know is not a thing that they fucking shirk from they just released a color game and watch nostalgia product with the like 100th version of mario one that you could buy on it and you know it's it's there and it's a collector's item so selling the nostalgia is not something they're afraid of it's just in the specific case of melee they don't want to go down that road and in if i want to say hold on hold on i think that's ridiculous they would be just as big of a bunch of assholes about this uh online pie of fucking emulation is piracy shit for anything else nintendo has always had the

biggest stick up their fucking ass with emulation it's so ridiculous if they like they killed all the fucking rom sites over nothing if um well again it's it's like it's looking at perception of lost sales right and if you are um what was i going to say i was going to say ah i was going to say something it's gone fuck what was i in the middle of saying right perception of lost sales feels like a a nonsense word when like they don't sell it yeah but for the ones they do sell right for the ones they that's all that they're gonna focus on um oh thank you no uh thank you to myself for remembering um when when uh if you were to

look at a game with guest characters in it and go legally there might be some issues here like dante and nocturne um and and say hey uh this version of smash had a guest character that didn't show up in future games because legally there was issues with that there would be some sort of thing but melee had no other character guest characters from other companies right so you don't even get the benefit of the doubt and say of saying like oh they'd or they'd have to re-up the license with this or that or whatever it's just the spite of it um yeah no it's it's literally um you know that dog with the ball in its mouth and it goes would you like to play ball and the person goes to get the ball and says no play

in this sorry no give only play like nintendo is like that hey you remember these old games no don't play them just remember them yeah so you know um this is this is a place that just they can't possibly look good in despite having the ability to do this despite and it's the same thing we say when it comes to um you know like atlas flagging persona videos and things like that like these these are cases where legally you can go to court and through a very expensive and long annoying process determine whether or not they're within their rights to say you can't do that with our product but uh on a country to country basis mind you but um for the most part everyone can understand when something is

not only not harming the business in any way but actively helping it because they are the only people that care about this product and about supporting it and would happily take the opportunity to buy if you allowed them to you know i i i really actually want to give and this is going to be rare for me but i would like to give kotaku a little golf clap because uh their article on the timeline showed up and the article they have decided to go with for this topic is nintendo cancels smash tournament over stupid bullshit which is pretty perfect and it's stupid bullshit it's totally pointless uh the way i see this is like at least like from the audacity of how it's going down right now and and and and you know uh fizzy has talked on it as well and

you know pretty much explained that yeah this is all just coming from a place of love uh the opportunity to capitalize on people's melee love has come and gone so many times that like it's quite clear at this point that nothing you never say never but as far as nintendo stands with the people in charge right now that they appear to not even remotely be interested in entertaining the idea right there's not even a half-assed e-shop release of it with no online or something like that they really really really just don't want to lean in to a community that exists and will continue to exist because hey you can't unrelease the game people bought their game cubes and they and they bought their copies and they fucking got it to a point where putting

in a memory card is required to play a standardized version of the game that actually mods it hot on a working game cube but you still have to use a copy i will say one thing in terms of nintendo leaving the melee community in the dirt they may have their reasons for not wanting to associate with the super smash brothers melee community at large either way names and competitive streamers and and and top eight aside there are a lot of players that are smash melee fans that would totally want to just buy the fucking thing and i guarantee you that just like with recently with king of fighters 2002 or with guilty gear axing core plus rollback you would see if people could get the fucking thing a lot of new players interested in finding out what the big deal

is about melee and then a lot of melee veterans being willing to come and be like yeah let's fucking play and get into it and show the whole thing off and it could have a whole big resurgence it could be a really cool thing that brings nothing but positivity and anyone who's not interested can continue to play ultimate and ultimate would still be the biggest you know product the biggest one ever because of the fucking roster and the fact that you know joker and bayonetta and terry bogart or and etc are all coming out and minecraft steve just dropped and they got more characters coming out like that is not going to take the heat away from that product you know they could just add something no but instead

instead of doing all that positive shit nintendo's message is just die losers die mad yeah yeah no pay pay capcom to use daunte to have a trailer with daunte in it just so that he gets completely destroyed and dumped on as they release the pig from minecraft story mode as the next playable character two slots anyway nintendo's trying to kill you you already took the mask off i got you to take the mask off so oh i i mean i feel like i actually had to on this one yeah because like the mask the fun thing of

nintendo is trying to kill you i was gonna kill them i was gonna kill the bit before it had a chance to grow so it's actually like like no it's like nintendo is it's it's a perfect encapsulation of this nonsensical detail of a property right of a game that is no longer available for purchase is more important than your ability to like just have a community event safely i mean i rather no event like it's so stupid it's so yeah it's it's to look at it from the opposite direction the big house tournament and every other tournament scene is currently suffering as a result of the shit that we're all going through and nintendo is not going to have the compassion to at least be cool with people who are

in a situation that they can't help because obviously no one's going to take any risks to play fucking smash and other games like that in a in a in a in a fucking pandemic are rather some people will but we won't talk about that um but because we're in a situation that you know you're everyone's doing their best to deal with it they're not just gonna be cool about it that's what it is right um yeah yeah if ever you thought maybe nintendo will be cool about this yeah the answer is god hell no they will not be cool they will never be cool but you know what is cool what's cool willy the world ends with you

you know what as a game that i played on the ds and fucking hate yeah that game is super cool uh yeah i've i've uh i've made my opinions what a cool game that i hate to play yeah i've made my opinions honest clear man i love everything about the world ends with you except for that that battle system i just which then got fixed by the re-release with one screen um but even then still like you know but whatever this is a losing battle it's it's it's most people loved it and were fine with it so this is just this is they're well aware that this is a problem which is why they're making an anime so that you can get all that cool stuff without having to play that terrible terrible game um i'm yeah i've tried to have the the fast

just whatever glance so gloss over it version of the conversation it didn't work i've had the slow version of it it didn't work i've had the i've had multiple versions of this conversation and um the game is unfortunately too cool for people to want to really uh entertain the idea that the gameplay had problems and in most cases it's as simple as it wasn't great but it's fine everything else was so good that just shut up though you know and it's a little bit of that evil zone issue it's a little it's a little bit of play battle assault too just a little bit but in this case they're right about the fact that the music is amazing the characters are amazing the map is amazing the system is amazing the

fucking world and the setting and everything is absolutely my fucking jam but holy fuck do i not want to pass the puck and and waggle a little bit of conversation everybody who loves the world ends with you is right because that's a great game however it's a terrible it's the worst game to play there's nothing else like it really it's a it's incredibly incredibly specific in this type of feeling and i feel excitement and happy whenever i see it come up whenever i see it recognized the fact that it's actually getting a sequel is exciting to me i i cheer on its growth i cheer on its growth while absolutely i'm excited for its expansion while loathing the core gameplay i can't never hated anything more than trying to pass that puck literally recoiled

in disgust playing and i mean and you know and it's not it's just and it's like even when you're not passing the puck the stylus-based spell casting move i will reenact i will reenact my uh experience you know it just playing the world ends with you the first time ever for you here i will hear you are are you all ready okay so i have my phone in my hands and i have a pen that i this will be the the thing of the stylus oh man that's a really cool title screen oh man this music's great oh death game oh that's crazy oh man all right oh man that's that's incredible and then if you can hear this is the noise of the pen hitting the screen do

that is what happened that is how it went the power is yet unknown the power is yet unknown and you're just like god it's so fucking good and then the cake for me i was just going like this as the screen filled up as you're moving your dude around and then you're de-padding with the and yeah yeah and and here's what's up right like the solution is right there in the form of the de-pad the stick and the buttons it's right there you just had no you just had to run no it's got a style you had to do was run around the screen and press the buttons to cast your spells and combo the shit out of everything and switch to your partner with perhaps a trigger button and then fight on both screens at the same time if you want but just trigger back and forth with

your normal controls that's it i think you know i think my favorite version of this cut hey do you want to hey you want a let's segue let's say and i say this as someone that like i played through fucking kid icarus uprising to completion and beat it feeling how intense that got knowing that wrist based stylus based gameplay is a thing i say this is someone who fucking played that game i know how this goes it yeah yeah i want okay i want to segue somewhere else into a slight variation of this exact argument as we see people going no no it's supposed to have the two planes and it's supposed to feel different between each characters because that's the losing battle it's a losing battle when i read that i all i see is people saying no no this burgers

supposed to taste like shit that's the delicacy of it you see but moving over to a game people are going to be much less willing to defend but i argued with people long into many evenings about how much i fucking hate the controls in skyward sword and it was a very similar feel to that conversation of no man you don't get it it's we motion plus with the thing it's the only way you could spin the sword and and track the sword in all the different directions and then i remember sitting there holding what was at the time an xbox 360 controller and realizing that there was uh no right analog stick in zelda so all camera control was by hitting the left button on the on the joy con and realizing no that's a lie you could easily do this entire game just having

the sword controls being the right analog stick right and in fact i'm pretty sure metal gear too when riding gets the sword yeah that was variation of the exact control scheme i'm talking about yeah sense of liberty and then revengence came out yeah which used the exact control scheme i was talking right stick to slash the only difference was is they used they used the analog stick for camera and then you would hit a button to shift into aim in every direction and man skyward sword is terrible i didn't beat it but i also didn't mind uh what the skyward sword controls were at the time but it's clear that button versus waggle would have been more than fine and i will not i will will not contest that point i was not bothered by what you're describing up to the point that i

played to but it would have been fine to just put it to just make it a button and the same goes to just about every other game where a forced mechanic fucks it up star fox zero we're looking at you right but in this case i'm telling you dude there's no winning this because no one agrees everyone really really liked the way that world's ends with you felt and like you're just that's not it just this all this is doing is pissing off the world it there's no win here there's not even an ounce of i kind of know what you're talking about we're in the fucking dark on it you know what the best part of the playstation 5's haptic rumble thing is it doesn't change the way you control the game into crappy controls that's the best part about it stylus controls

for everything that wasn't a fucking master placement in like a adventure game was a big mistake yeah yeah in most cases um it really is it's a step backwards right it's it's like the survival horror thing we talked about where the difficulty of uh doing things that would be easy with normal controls gets raised because it's more obtuse in a way putting waggle putting motion putting stylus putting a lot of that stuff in a situation where sticking buttons do fine or you know d-pad and buttons do fine um creates a situation that you are going to not have as easy of a time or it's not going to feel as good you know i will say the stylus kicked ass in trauma center though that was that was dope it was incredible that was great this kittakris worked

but it also kind of breaks your wrist you know yeah kittakris was i worked but that game like made it past prototype when every single person testing it must have been like ow like i i like i genuinely yeah well yeah i can confirm one thing in the time that we've been talking i put up a little twitter oh did you and can and can in fact at the very least confirm that not everyone in the world has met at you it's pretty it's uh it's it's about 50 it's no come on no every time i've talked about this with uh a comments or chat or an audience involved it's been it's been 9010 it's been 9010 of course it's because the people who are dedicated to defending this terrible control

scheme can no longer do anything they can't play games they can't cook for themselves they can't even dress themselves because of their gnarled mangled hands so all they can do is complain at people who don't like the thing that crippled them got it okay i'll admit that was really fun that was really fun to say like sure like that felt really good that felt like good when i was saying it mm-hmm well um that felt good i feel really good have you have you seen have you seen the new uh the new game have you seen it yeah looks cool looks just like persona you saw you saw it you saw that right you saw the trend oh yeah persona five persona five this fucking trending dude because everyone's like wow persona and it's like wow you guys are morons

and i think back to last i think back to last week when uh after i compared um yakuza seven to persona there are a lot of people who are very mad about that i couldn't understand why and now i actually understand a little bit better which is uh persona is not the only rpg in the world everybody but i was comparing them because they're both sega rpg but this one's not a sega rpg is it and in fact it predates modern persona people really um actually like came in with the energy seeing the game the trailer for neo the world ends with you and said wow looks like they ripped off persona slash looks like it was inspired by persona slash i am a child who's never seen anything but p5 and and this is what my reference is

you know and it's like yeah kids are people are like i mean look like when you know how do i when you see somebody with a fucking like k-pop avatar you're like yeah you're 14 like why you you know you you just no no no you just block that person you just block that person well they should probably are not allowed on twitter due to the terms of service but yeah you know so that's what it is right um but yeah the world ends with you as a fucking ancient ds game and and it was i like how they maintained obviously like all the locations the music is great um the the crowds are still there because it's not just like shibuya shinjuku etc it's crowded shibuya crowded shinjuku you know and uh we saw the gameplay lost with people that don't know the monsters have the

same aesthetics and the same design and everything looks street the new characters look cool um and the gameplay is yet unknown the gameplay is yet unknown we don't well it's a ps4 and a switch yes but what if um all of that is relegated to the touchpad what if you got to use your finger on the goddamn touchpad the whole time anyway we'll see but looks fucking i will applaud them i will applaud them big time pass the puck for their dedication and use to such a terrible game use the gyro when you pass the puck as you press the buttons and the touchpad so stick in one hand stick in your in in your left hand finger on your touchpad for main gameplay and then when you pass the puck you gyro and blow on the microphone

uh calling i hear you calling hey you know what you know what i will give the world ends with you uh one piece of credit and it is it is a what's the word for a compliment that's like a bad compliment uh backwards back back and compliment thank you honey uh i will give it a backhanded compliment as its use of the stylus was not the worst control situation i ran into on the ds the single worst control situation i ran to into on the ds was in resident evil deadly silence in the remix mode that had new mechanics there was a puzzle in which you could blow out a candle that would add that would cause the blow out the candle thing to activate based on noise

and i played that puzzle on the bus which made it incompletable like like 100 incomplete yep there's uh never so at the very least world's ends with you was better than that don't forget the cooking mama you know shut the lid blow it cool it off all that stuff yeah we can do this neku and play it at home it was a handheld you were supposed to play on the bus focus god so many cool things also those zelda games on the ds are trash they are terrible that part in the first one where you have to close the map by closing the ds that part was cool the rest of it complete garbage i here's how much i fucking liked this game and what was going on

in it out despite what was going on in it the fucking i remember when um our friends made they got a pin button maker and they made all the buttons from the game and they were selling them at all they're cool i remember and they were these cool pins that you would buy that were you know they were great they were the the fucking yeah exactly the equipment that you could get in the game and like when our friends made those i was happy to buy a bunch of their pins and wear some of the cool ones on my shit because they were fucking great man they were they were so cool really great you know well anyway uh this looks fantastic i cannot wait for more and then every time every time you look at those pins your hands would curl up and go

and you would start to vomit but the vomit that would come out of you would do so in a pleasing and hip rhythm with the crazy scratch noises it was great it was great that's that's that right there that sound effect is the experience of playing the world ends with you in one second you did it you you boiled it down to its purest essence woolly oh boy well anyway um so check out the trailer for that we got to get a move on because uh we got some news yeah um by the word next bit is by the way next bit is banned in the chat officially there we go all right so yeah you can't say yep i've banned it um you've overdone it

what's going on now well you want to explain what the fuck is happening with the x bonus okay excuse me so get this x this is a plot x x best x bones no it's not a bone there's no one sorry the x x best x best x best all right here here's what's going on with the x best all right so this does apply to the x but sex as well but it's more important for the x best because it's cheaper so here's what you do here's what you do you get your new x box and you turn it on and you do all your crap right then you go to this website which is docs.microsoft.com slash en slash us windows uwp xbox x dev kit activation because one of the things that uh you can do with the new x box is that you can turn any particular box into a dev

kit which is great for indie develop mother fuckers are like fuck this i'm going to parlor sorry anyway you read about how to activate dev mode all right so the long story story short you start your console you search for an app you download the app you set up the app you make a dev account you sign up for the dev program the dev program is apparently 19 dollars for personal use instead of like uh company use so you pay the 19 dollars and you get certified with your account as an xbox developer right this allows you to switch the xbox series whatever from retail mode to developer mode side note and fyi um one of the major uh selling points for the original xbox one when it first came out was that there were no dev kits every xbox one console was a

dev kit it simply had to unlock developer mode and when we were working internally with the hardware that we had retail units with dev mode unlocked yeah so now you can just do that at home it's they've opened up that you know developer thing to anybody who wants to do it the fun thing about developer mode however is that in developer mode you can put anything the fuck you want on that box including just installing retro arch and a shit ton of roms and turning this thing into a bad ass emulation machine runs gamecube games no problem wouldn't be the first time remember arie i don't oh yes now our xbox buddy it was just like bro i got your fucking xbox i got you the best games i got my dog and i know i know you said you didn't want it

but i'm telling you bro mlb the show i'm telling you bro just just try it bro just try mlb oh i really wanted us to fucking play mlb okay yo i put on mortal combat deception bro it's gonna be so fucking sick i know you didn't want it but i'm telling you just try it bro just try it he was really he was great he was super cool i love that energy so yeah um xbox accidentally released a 300 dollar trivially easy to set up like super emulation machine now you're not supposed to put your shit into dev mode because but but but but but but but but yeah um and this is only on the s the x doesn't have this uh no i believe it's both but the reason why the s is getting so much more news is because the s is one widely available

and two three hundred dollars instead of a hundred bucks cheaper the x costs for right what are the chances it gets patched this isn't a like it's a it's a dev kit you can do whatever the fuck you want with the dev they might make it so that accessing dev mode is harder to do they can straight up do that that's not difficult um you know it would make it need to prove that you're actually going to make a game or something well as testers you know we would we would just do it all the time but yeah they could make it so that you have to go through some more hoops to activate a kit and put it into dev mode and switch it out there's times when switching back and forth is required for tests so it couldn't be something too obtuse but they can make it

definitely so that the average consumer is not available not allowed to do it so that's not available to them so um yeah so that's going on i would be very fascinated to see how well this runs dolphin uh in it's like we you version i mean they've gotten fucking yeah like they've gotten just about everything running um uh they've gotten dull they've gotten dolphin running on them because they are let's play let's pray they've gotten VR fucking emulation going let's play with cj and big smoke and breath of the wild on the xbox sure uh so update to the story i had to follow the train link update to the story uh from last week where we were talking about what the fuck atlas is doing about persona five scramble

you reported that there was no uh news of a localized version of the game well during the week that story got updated there is an english version of the game but it is specifically for hk english so um asian retailers only it's not a north american version but you can import it therefore you can play persona five scramble if you jump through a couple hoops and get that version um anyone who was on twitter going what the fuck i thought you said this wasn't happening why'd you lie uh should realize the difference between a hk localized lie i reported the new and hk localized version of the story of the of the game versus like what is actually being released here and also of course that happened after uh you mentioned the story i didn't

say they were never going to localize it i said that they did their goddamn shareholder thing and there was no mention of it at all which is weird because it used to be on their fucking sheet but yeah um i can say that getting access to um those imports is not as hard as it used to be i had to import some shit back in the day and uh now you can if you want to go through the trouble make an account download the hong kong version off of the hong kong um psn and uh like grandblue for example came out there first so you could just grab that and get it in english but you have to then buy uh hk um psn cards and and and get the currency so still a little bit of trouble but it's doable

yeah whenever that happens not out yet but there's listings only there you go uh okay so that's that this dog smells great you were just complaining about the smell like not a but not but a fucking i like to i well there's two dog smells there's the average dog smell which he actually smells very nice and then there's one the dog is stinky which is up to his own power if you get what i mean sure awesome news this today actually uh this is a fucking you know when something comes together like um like metal gear rising in platinum and you just go oh yeah oh yeah you know man that's gonna be the shit right okay so catch this right io interactive and 007 oh that's just isn't that amazing

oh that's just literally perfect it's crazy i was like i saw this title today and the story is io interactive announces project 007 and i was like oh yeah yeah that makes perfect fucking sense you could you could literally just photo like mod in a fucking Sean Connery fucking jpeg on the 47s face in most of the existing hitman levels and it would just just just be a james one and you just add the suave the debonair the the tools the gadgets the you know the the brand and the feel of having q and and and m and the branch on your side but you just you hit man it fuck yeah that works yeah done you know you throw in like a one driving part and like one shootout mission where you you know and you're done you're fucking

done didn't didn't ever think about it but like that is a brand match that fucking like yep give them the 007 license absolutely so it's true that once in a while stars aligned in our industry and they announced a press release that uh yeah they're working uh to drop this when just a teaser trailer for now it's an origin story and um yeah modern platforms it'll be on this channel so so mr james bond game needs to have one thing in it and there needs to be a mission in which there is a hit man with a barcode on his head that is the antagonist of the level that you can defeat but not kill and who always somehow escapes i think i would be down i think mgm would not

i don't think mgm would allow them to play around with that because 47 is totally a bond villain or the number two the number two guy easy easy the number two guy who just solves every problem and and is the one that fist fights bond throughout most of the movie yeah and and they run into each other in precarious locations bond walks into the casino and sees 47 way over on the other end you know and he's like shit that dude's gonna be a problem but we can't rise a stink up because we're in public right now 100 but he's the number two and uh i don't know if mgm would let it rock i think they would actually uh you know you remember you remember in god uh is it is it quantum of uh no not quantum solace um casino real uh fucking no skyfall one afterwards

skyfall and skyfall when he's in hong kong and he goes into the skyscraper to check out somebody and there's already a different guy already there to assassinate the best cinematography that dude is 47 that dude is age and 47 the fight in the glass where you're doing a mission and your mission is to take some guy out and you in through your sniper scope see a different guy also getting ready to snipe your target the uh the glass floor with the neon signs lighting the background amazing amazing yeah this is just fucking awesome yeah they could do any easter egg like that or he's just in the background around i mean more likely not him but the an object of some sort you know maybe a tie or a suit a red tie a tie a red tie that you could put on

you know yeah no you know what it is you're going into your closet and you're picking out your bond outfit and they're one of the is a red tie suit big bright red tie and he he brings out the tie and he goes i don't know man what am i some kind of assassin and then puts it back no no no no no he pulls out the suit and he looks at the tie and then he looks at the mirror and goes not in a million years and he puts it back on the rack and then at the end you unlock it so that you can play as it anyway this is great this is great uh couple other quick oh man i just saw the best i saw the best suggestion

from someone in chat which is just replace one random npc in every level as 47 i mean just just just replace one digit of the number well you already fight 46 in uh hitman no i i mean just 007 versus 47 oh my god you know it's it's fucking it's there you know i didn't even realize the numbers yeah mason uh well anyway um that's that's awesome we'll watch that with great interest see where that goes a couple other things uh yeah new studio in cobec city um from dragon age creator mike laidlaw and ubisoft vets called yellow brick games yeah laidlaw yeah is mike laidlaw knows how to make a game yeah and i respect

mike laidlaw's like attempt to make a good game because mike laidlaw is the guy who when they started up pre-production of dragon age two before dragon age one was done he was like oh man i can't get out of here fast enough so that's that's the thing right so and fucking super quick um um so uh fucking kudos on on that looking forward to that i also see yeah some other some other uh there they mentioned some ubisoft veterans maybe a name or two that i recognize on the list of people here that are gonna be working uh at this company in cobec city so that's pretty cool it's it's a small world but uh yeah yellow brick games is just announced founded and uh let's see what they do we'll follow their careers with great interests good luck good luck

i'm interested in whatever they have to make i imagine it would be a very fun video game with good writing probably uh there's also a kickstarter campaign for something called fraymakers so uh again with kick starters like i like to say investigate see for yourself how you feel and if it looks like it's something you want to support jump in there currently it is over pledged because it's made its goal uh twice over how do i spell this frame maker f r a y m a k e r s it is a a fraymaker exactly it is an indie platform fighter oh wow it's a it's a fighting game of course so it's a smash clone that uh has indie characters in it and you can actually customize and put your own characters in as well it's got a whole system

it's a fighting game nintendo won't try to murder you how's about it um um so yeah you can check this out it's got uh right on the front right on the front they're showing you octodad and uh the orca from um uh arrivals of aether and uh uh the fucking the buff fish thing from uh slap city the fuck is the watcher what are they from so orcane that's it so um and then when you go into the trailer you see just tons of cameos tons and tons and tons and tons of cameos oh my god they have the pot man from getting over it slip with benet faughty slay the spire everyone's in there it's crazy it's a fucking extreme list uh downfall and and hey look and the thing is is that yeah you can actually um make and they have a really

easy system for adding characters to this so uh that looks pretty fucking sick other things include is it one of those character creators where they give you the character creator and then they go don't create any copyrighted characters welcome to city of heroes design a hero not that one not that one heroes was the was was the the craziest one design a hero come on not that fucking not that god damn it not that one try again you know and file a fancy for you know in file a fancy 14 you can't name your character any final fancy character of course not you can't name your character why not of course not like you what if they show up in a quest you know which has yeah to be fair that's actually literally fucking here's because the city of heroes

we've resurrected it you can play it now on on uh fucking phoenix servers you know but but oh like you hand everyone the keys and a hero character creator and you just like you're like what the fuck do you think is gonna happen who's buying this game who are you selling it to people are gonna make their own cool characters uh well anyway the top of the list of features is rollback netcode so they know they know where and to who this game is being released you know it's become extra bizarre over time as the rollback netcode thing has become a you know a larger point of discussion in that there are now two tiers of fighting games expensive triple a fighting games that more often than not play like complete garbage online

and indy in some cases parody fighting games that play great because they don't have the bloat of big teams and lots of people to answer to every time a feature needs to be implemented so they don't have to fucking get uh uh rounds and rounds and rounds of convincing they can just hear what the people say when they go we want good netcode please and go yeah sure you got it um also in many cases it's uh western developed which has overall been pretty good about getting that rollback into their games as a whole because remember like even like the the larger fighting games and from the west still have it too you know it's it's really just a stubborn japanese game thing um so yeah uh they have that right front and center on the list and

the kickstarter is currently at 142 of 60k canadian so they're more than healthy with 24 days to go but check it out anyway see what you think um they've got some some cool stretch goals i see family jewels in there for an alternate ost oc remix alternate ost additional characters etc but yeah eyes on it eyes on it i have a new news story that i forgot to mention even commander video what story is that oh my god that gorilla last ape out last week i described a story that i saw on the internet about a gentleman who worked at fraud prevention at a bank describing a situation in which a other gentleman

ruined his financials with genshin impact purchases only to call them up angrily demanding that they unlock his account only to then watch as this gentleman's account had more money fly out of it i was argued with by chat saying that it was fake that that was a fake ass story i was then contacted by the guy who posted it on his blog to be like no dude that story is totally real it was me that is a real story well can we get a btfo oh fuck all y'all one letter at a time thank you you wouldn't think a bank would call you on your day off to go back to the office

because a guy two thousand dollars from ps5 scams oh sounds like video games are fun at the bank well that sounds like video games are super fun the reconfirming of that story has made me re sad at the idea that he just had to sit there and be like okay as you would you know do your thing yeah you gotta you gotta deaden yourself inside a little bit to do that job i imagine so we got those things going down we got a confusing announcement and this is not so much a new story as it is a fucking gist there is a new playstation vr bundle including astro bot everybody's gulf and moss as well as blood and truth and playstation worlds all the greatest hits not really but all the hits ready bundled in with the psvr that they will be selling

in november so that's this month the psvr sounds like clearing mega pack that feels like clearing inventory read my mind now what am i reading what the fuck are you doing not making it supported on ps5 like wait it's not no no you cannot use your psvr on ps5 wow that's hilarious that was a whole thing why why wait wasn't that wasn't hold on wasn't there a whole thing

about the fact that you couldn't you couldn't use it let me let me fact check this right away okay let me fact check this oh you need you need an adapter you need an adapter it does work ps5 psvr and the new bundle comes with the adapt psvr too hinted at the adapter is free they will mail it to you yes it to oh thank god okay okay glad to be wrong glad to be wrong on that oh no you hear that zangief woolly was super okay i saw an angry twitter thread with a lot of a lot of retweets and likes and i thought it was real i saw i saw an angry twitter thread and i went really damn and then i and i didn't look into it

so that's my fault okay good good good good good good every time woolly is wrong i hug the dog pet you're always hugging the dog that's my secret because i was fucking putting that thing away and i was getting ready to just like punt it into the sun you know just like what what is the point of this why would you do this oh i i mean i i might as well do that because i'm so done with vr i i am out on vr until it's like a paris on glasses well my my journey is just beginning um okay so there's that good good good good and capcom put out a a little arcade retro mini station thing because excuse me that's the move now you know a lot of a lot of collectible retro mini things and in this case it's an arcade

stick uh with a little capcom screen and it's blue and yellow and it's got a little cute design it's almost like a little crt canty head you know and it's gonna have um mega man power battles x soccer uh and rockman and base and then it's gonna have sf2 to s to st as well as puzzle as well as puzzle fighter so sure sure cool hey do you think cyberpunk's gonna get delayed again uh no but i do think they're gonna crack this system open and find a way to run some sick crazy fucking roms on this shit like i mean that's always like instantly so if you want a rom machine with a dedicated arcade stick built into it i can give it a second uh but yeah the what's up what's up cyberpunk

yeah i just no reason to just like i bet that game's gonna get delayed again more importantly do you care no not really i also discovered something looking over at the cyberpunk uh uh uh fucking what do you call it release date so it's supposed to come out december 10th oh copies are out okay guess it's too late to delay it supposed to come out december 10th which is uh the same day as the game awards oh wow okay which makes me think that that date was picked as the dead last day to qualify for some of those awards cyberpunk is definitely gonna go down in history or should go down in history at least in this pre-release mentality of the game because remember once the game drops and people are playing it a lot of these thoughts feelings and vibes go away right this energy is

often times evaporated depending on how the game goes if the game ends up being a travesty in many cases you see this kind of like like like the like everything about like say anthem from lead-in to release and then it just triples down and then the whole thing ends up being a dumpster fire but while we're not playing it and while this is currently the mood where people are kind of like all right you know but still like yeah you're gonna want to write down how not to release and tease a game how not to do announcements how not to pre-market how not to do anything it has never been made more clear that when you're a studio like CD Projekt where you have pretty much infinite time you have no pressure from outside to get anything done on deadlines you

can just do it as you would you have to announce things very carefully and choose when very carefully because fucking that up kills hype and so you know what's fun people people are levels characters people are legitimately saying i don't actually care anymore and that's sad because we were all super excited for this game from the first drop and i still think it's one of the raddest things ever just conceptually looking at the art i want to see where this goes but all of that spirit has dried up due to everything that's happened since so i have a i have a so game development changes levels get cut features get cut characters get cut actors get changed all sorts of things changed nothing's ever perfect right but if you want a

really really incredible example of how you can absolutely kill excitement for your game release long-form gameplay trailers in which you explain cool features and then six months later have to put out articles saying just how many of those features got cut and then do that twice i don't know what's in the game anymore because every cool ass feature that i remember thinking of from the trailers and stuff like that got cut the arm blades are cut the climbing on walls is cut and like all sorts of fucking shit wall running would wasn't working right you know like now again the caveat here is um there's still you know tons of general excitement from people who have not been following necessarily as tightly and when the shit drops

if it's good and it's fun then all of this evaporates and everyone's just now in good game is out mode go play it and that's all there is arm blades aren't cut but if they don't if they weren't cut then how are you supposed to kill enemies with your arm blades because they're knives i saved it um so uh yeah just just just you know keep in mind that like this really what's up i was laughing has to okay but yeah that's it that's it it a lot of the time we we see this completely get erased once people once the thing is out and then you're everyone's getting hands on it and you know as someone just pointed out it's like yeah the trailer has like 20 million views it's still a huge thing that everyone that a lot of people

are excited about but there is a chilling effect that is i guess being seen from i don't know at least the the people that i see talking about it around me and i assume the like i don't know what to call it when i'm talking about like not casual video game audience and not necessarily the die hards but the people that are like hey i buy the consoles and i follow releases normal normal human beings but more no it's a bit more than that because like other people that you like i don't know you or your family hang out with might not necessarily know what's going on with cyberpunk but they'll catch wind of it when it drops maybe from someone else you know hear about that cyberpunk sounds cool just that that in between thing that in between thing the people that are like

i pay attention to what's relatively going on with video games um yeah that's that's kind of what what i'm describing i think but we'll see we'll see uh let's take some letters oh cool there's a clip up of us reenacting how to play world ends with you up so and now people that listen to the audio podcast can check out the subreddit and uh or or this twitch channel and take a look at the clip of our our visual reenactment when dude how to play i think i'm win it when you know how i know i'm winning because i'm not fucking playing world sense right now that's a win every day all right

if you got a letter you can send it in to castle super beast mail a gmail.com let's castle super beast mail at gmail.com uh let's take a quick one over here jellybean slayer says dear new 3,800 owners recently bought my first gaming pc um was wondering if you had any recommended downloads that you would install on your computers uh thanks for the great content uh don't stop talking about teppen i hope it keeps going love you both thank you jellybean slayer uh well that's easy i can look at my taskbar right now and tell you exactly what i download every time i get a new pc yeah uh for me urfan view uh notepad plus plus what's urfan view urfan view for image viewing it's it's fucking and it's incredible i have used it for decades

at this point uh gold wave uh notepad plus plus uh handbrake and freemake video converter generally audacity of course oh that's not gonna that's not gonna to general people yeah fine fine um uh flux for for dimming of the the the screen and making your eyes comfortable tree size or winder stat oh man okay i want to really also say tree size and flux because man those things are treats oh man tree size is the best winder stats also pretty good but both ways you get your your size measured big size measuring is important um vlc associations go to that media player classic you never sometimes you might need it shit that doesn't work in vlc goes to that uh yeah and i used to i used to go grab the

combined community codec pack um no it's not really necessary these these days you don't really need it as much and then grab yourself uh yeah winrar or seven zip both are pretty good yeah uh i also just would add to that i have um a borderless gaming and a revetuna revetuner statistics server yep borderless gaming is good i use rtss to limit to 60 and i use borderless gaming to borderless games that don't like to be borderless uh and also i would legitimately no joke also recommend express vpn and last yes both of those absolutely i prefer bit tornado to utor it but i know that magnet links only work with the ladder so i get it um what am i using right now i think i use q torrent myself or q bit torrent those are those are those are

pretty solid uh yeah i think that that kind of gets most of it done you know everything else is as needed but that does that does most of it regular ass bit torrent has been taken over by fucking adware and nonsense bullshit so you know can't really trust that shit anymore or at the very least not without like a bunch of garbage stuffed stuffed in downloads um i hate garb oh and don't forget microsoft edge i mean i was i remember there was a point in time it's it doesn't seem to be the case anymore but to download certain windows drivers from uh their like a resource site there was a because they usually they want you to use the updating tool i saw i was looking up some some shit for

the current computer i'm setting up and i saw some tips that were literally like go to this site get these drivers it's the it's the windows um resource site and you have to browse it with edge you cannot use other browsers and i was like that is so spiteful that is so fucking spiteful dude that they're at that point you know but whatever um i wish i could push it off the edge thank you thank you everyone you know what they what they do too on fresh installs that i've noticed the thing because it's like this is the second or third time it's happened where you're you're install of windows 10 even currently will include internet explorer it doesn't include edge but there will be an update that then brings edge into the equation and shows you a big like by the way

here's edge check it out go through this force tutorial and it's a whole separate step because it's not they want you to notice the change and sell the features it's deliberately not in the default installation so it's hey man internet explorer that's crap but hey man edge that's the shit no die edge die uh let's take another quick one here from uh from what do you want to go by let's say allison says uh hi hopefully woolly and pat recently watched popular gaming youtuber jacksepticeye's playthrough of spider-man malzmer alice highly expected uh triple a game that turned out to be better than its precedent predecessor he mentioned how happy he was with people enjoying the series and in the end briefly talked about how glad he

was to sometimes have a series everyone enjoys uh in the podcast sometimes i've heard woolly reflect on let's plays in the recent past talking about what it was like during the filming and how he felt afterwards connected the dots and came up on the question what makes a good lp is it the commentary is it uh what is it that makes it that good is it the game uh on a similar note how much does the quality of an lp depend on the commentator how much does it depend on the game itself is there cap um can you be a fine commentator but if the game is great the series will do well regardless uh whether so the someone or it's better that you at commentating or so anyway it goes on to that sort of thing and it keeps going but uh that's the gist of the question

all right well i mean if the commentary sucks and the game's good it's that that shit still sucks like the commentary has to be on point it has to be on point yep now if the goal like go ahead go ahead good commentary plus good game is is good good commentary with mediocre game is fine i guess good commentary with abomination can be bad or literally the best thing you'll ever do in your life could be legendary i have a simple i i agreed with all of that i have a simpler way of saying it i would say that what the it depends on the person who's doing commentary the commentator's ability to resonate with the content whether the game yeah the interplay between what's happening and the

and the talk that's what it comes down to it's your ability to resonate with it if the game is amazing but you have no connection to it and not much to say about it it doesn't matter because yeah that becomes not that interesting if the game is terrible but you know the source material super well or have a lot to say about it you have a connection to it then you can absolutely make an incredible uh let's play out of that um if you have insight like for example if if for example you're playing a classic game that is well regarded like i don't know majority's mask but you have no personal attachment to it and in fact have somehow convinced yourself that it's quite terrible even the most talented let's player in the world that has the greatest skills can create

something almost unwatchable that's going over my head but uh what i would say is if you have a game for example where you are um let like if it's a game like you've q8 are tested which is more permanent an example for me then it's like oh yeah this is a thing that i know i can talk about these this side of it i can talk about this experience right um it doesn't necessarily have to be funny it doesn't necessarily have to be you know humorous it can be dead serious it can be entertaining it can be a completely different style of of approach yeah i think um you talk about like research indicates and the trespasser lp where it's not necessarily funny oh man i love that lp it's not necessarily funny yeah there's no humor but it's just interesting to watch um you know and

what's being said is interesting i think that like yeah it depends on how you resonate with the content and if it has anything that you are personally connected to or provide something that you can find a connection with so uh a lot of the time if i'm playing something blind i'm hoping that i'll find a connection with it in some way and uh if i can then i feel like that helps significantly you know and this is where the like pre the research into what exactly you're getting into uh goes a long way because um if you're hitting something where you're like oh yeah this is going right into my alley with fucking you know um you know mecca and and vanilla where and a bunch of shit i love then like this is gonna be great we can talk about that all day

versus if you're playing something that you're like well i've never touched this ever ever ever at all i have no expectations of what's coming but also like i've never seen the show or source material it's coming from so i got nothing to really talk about then like yeah that'll just end up being rough all the way around even if the game is incredible you know yeah i have to really agree like the the like you know what i could probably do like a fucking LP of uh i don't know what's what's a fucking space channel five right love it like beautiful game i don't have i don't have the the the love and background and shit for either that game or the dreamcast in general so it would not hit the same way that it would if say um you were to do

right because you have a much much like closer relationship with the dreamcast and like yeah i mean you fucking repaired the goddamn things um meanwhile like if it's something that you know those games that you just completely miss and you just never dodged a good example it would actually be your LP a thousand-year door right where that's a gamecube game and it's mind blowing now and all i can think of is when you play a game like that that you got to like a decade or more late and it's blowing your mind now is the feeling of oh my fucking god this must have blown people away when it came yeah that's currently like you you time travel to what what you know the era that it was so that's what i've been doing for the last year is time traveling

back to an era and going okay this must have been fucking yeah i get it half life spec ops you know uh all of this like halo half life is the one because like you can never go back to the period of like sitting there in 98 and going oh my god the character is talking the same way that like when metal gear came out um like holy shit and i really can't overstate how much halo two just fucking hits man like it just i just you just i just felt it i just got it i'm like this rules it was so much fun you know i was i was surprised how much i had fun with halo at the end of that you know something that i ultimately just went like yeah it's halo i know what halo is about you know um incredible so so yeah i think i think that's a perfect example of you know like

i'm i'm hoping to resonate with something i don't know what it's going to be but i expect it will probably work because if people that are watching my stuff have the same general interests they're probably likely all liking something that i think i would probably also like right and the same goes for yakuza right now chances are because the people who watch what i want what i do like this thing we probably share tastes and probably i'm going to end up enjoying it you know so it feels like a pretty safe bet um i think i hope that answers your question oh i do i do have something to mention about um yakuza walls uh you mentioned that you were going to go through zero because you want to kind of educate yourself on the series i will mention because i was thinking

about it uh this is might be depending on any particular person's schedule actually impossible because they come out every year now like that is a that is a bafflingly annual series um and unless you're playing two possibly to four a year you will not catch up anytime soon i'm okay i'm not committing to any sort of um length of what this is i'm not committing to any you know uh screams about needing to catch up for any particular date or purpose i'm going at it for now i'm playing zero and we'll see where it goes after that and uh that's fine by me i know that um i know that there's times when this is a uh let's say algorithmically bad decision

and i know that oh man that's a good i like you know i i'm very extremely aware of every time woolly gets in the way of uh possibilities based on just wanting to take things in his own time at his own pace but all i can say is i either do it my way or i don't do it at all so it wouldn't have even been on the table if i didn't want to go about it in the way i'm going about it so that being said man zero is a banger yeah seriously zero's the zero's the best of all the classic ones i think good good introduction by by classic i mean like all the action ones mm-hmm um and and zero is probably the best one yeah um i i that's what i keep hearing so but but um and to just finish the thought a little bit there to say that like um i say i say this

and i do this while for the least the last 12 months never not having at least one of the lps i'm playing be something brand fucking new right or at least something that was started on you gotta you gotta do both of them all the time so i am playing classics and a new release at the same time and i have had had at least one of the lps be something current uh for the entire of of the last fucking 12 months or so um you know if if a couple if if some time goes by and it's like well hey susheema's old now because eight weeks have gone by then i'm like yeah i don't know what to tell you i mean i guess i could just drop it and do something else but you know um we're going about it this way now this dog smells all right um

that's a good place to leave it are you gonna 100 the shogi achievements shogi shogi the board game do you have to play the board game you don't have to is it the real board game is it really shogi oh you don't even know oh my god yeah dude i want to learn i there are there are there are dedicated sega style arcade games or like homestyle version games of shogi mahjong a bunch of pachinko that's awesome it's as someone it's in there as someone who loves go who loved uh dead mans morris and who knows about shogi from its constant use in anime and video games and about the pieces and the kings and the the formations and the all that shit uh i've always wanted to learn about how shogi works but i have no idea how to play because uh you know it's i've

never had i've never taken the opportunity but yeah i've heard about shogi for so long in every fucking manga anime and game that i'm super down to learn how shogi works hell yeah i will i will i will break down uh in zero how much they have going on you have in the arcade fantasy zone outrun space harrier super hang on and ufo games we have darts and pool the pool game is for real that's like a fucking real ass pool sick you have bakarot blackjack silo cho han koi koi mahjong oichi it's a oh oi cho kabu poker roulette and shogi batting cages battle royale bowling the bowling ones for real your cabaret club your cat fighting club which is actually women fighting your dancing and disco rhythm mini game your fishing which is just like sega bass fishing your karaoke which is

rhythm game pocket circuit racing and telephone club i would love to learn mahjong again because i learned mahjong before and i forgot it entirely and if i learned mahjong i'm pretty sure i could go and just fucking crush it against those japanese fgc players that are also super good at mahjong and win a ton of money and it'll be sick i'll do the now some of them have golf mini games that have real courses this one does not i'll yell out ino shikacho as i do the formation it'll be great yeah i also love pazak and fucking triple triad so well everybody i'm the fucking mini game kid i fuck i go down that rabbit hole of mini game you know you give it to me so you hear that guys i'm in there police yakuza zero lp he will do all of the pocket racer side quests that i refuse to

do that's right all the pocket racers mother fuckers hear ino shikacho as if it's a Naruto reference and not what genjuro shouts when he does his triple wreck across up attack fuck out of here talking to nobody you know you don't get to save yourself from that be fuck out of here yeah so oh I

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