Castle Super Beast - CSB 100: Christmas? Might Be A Satan

Episode Date: December 29, 2020

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Music Good day. Happy holidays. Welcome to Castle Super Beast. We are here. It is the week after Christmas and yeah. How are you doing? 100 episodes. It is indeed the 100th episode. We did it. Wow. I have got an obnoxious Christmas tree going on behind me here. The decision to get one was made when, you know, couldn't visit parents and such for the holidays. So then it was like, okay, let's go get a tree. And the tree that we got was one that featured some very simple settings like, you know, like all regular warm light mode, slightly multicolored mode and then full on blasting rock Americana Christmas carols as red, white

and blue glitter and come bombing down the tree mode. So that's good. Three options for three types of Christmas. That's like one of them prebuilt trees. Yeah, pretty much, you know, not one of God's trees. No, not quite. It's one of it's a tree of man. And that's, that's shameful. But yeah, you somebody who would know the better of all about baby Jesus climbing the first Christmas tree to put his star on it. Yeah, that's how it went. So anyway, that was quite a surprise. I didn't quite realize we were going to end up with a big patriotic Christmas. But here we are, you know, no, it's not patriotic. It's a patriotic American gamer tree. But the problem is that the word patriotic has come to just mean like

American or Americana, even though it is relative to the land you're standing on, right? Patriotic to us should be super pro beaver hockey, Mountie, red and white. But just due to osmosis and programming, that's not what we think of when we hear the words patriotic. When Canadians hear the words patriotic, we still think of American things. Americans are a lot more patriotic than we are. It's a part of the culture. It's true. Most of us can't even sing the national anthem. I can sing the national anthem, because I'm a badass. I remember when we had that like, I was walking through the Walmart in the States and saw the aisle of like, big stars and stripes, hats, flags, suits, ties and bowlers and all kinds of, you know, a themed

stuff. And it wasn't anywhere near the 4th of July, but it was an aisle. And I remember just being like, Oh, there's an aisle for patriotism. That's the difference between our countries. It's just a product like all the other, all the other products. It is, it is. But Hey, man, we don't know how to sell this, this shitty looking flag. Oh, just say it's the real flag. Got it. And then they tricked people into selling that flag for 300 plus years. Well, it's an aisle. What I'm saying is how that happened. Like an aisles are the things that people come in that they, aisles are the things that people most need. It's all their, their needs when they come into a shop and they kind of go like, I need to get me some hygiene products. I need to get me

some hardware or gardening products. And some people come in and I need to get me some Patriot products and I need them stat. I don't know. I disagree. I think most people coming into a store has nothing to do with what they need. It's all about what they want. And what that person wants is more America than America can be. That's, you know, I guess more America. I guess what I want to wear America. What the person needs is probably like the milk and the bread, which is all the way at the back. And then what they want is everything else in between. Yeah. The impulses. You know, it's weird because milk and bread is totally like the way you would describe like a staple. I hate the phrase milk and bread because it implies you're

dipping slices of bread into a glass of milk, even though it may not actually be implying that it does in my mind. I mean, so perhaps the real patriotic aisle is the bullet counter in the back. Maybe that's where the, that's the real needs back there for your, your celebrations and your feelings. But how am I going to celebrate, celebrate? That's right. Baby Jesus climbing up the first Christmas tree to put his star on it without my customary firing of the rifle at baby Jesus because he dodged all the, he dodged all of the wise man's bullets like the matrix. Right. Okay. Sir. And it was a miracle. So the, the mirror and time and then all the, all the spices and incense that were brought were actually forms of ammunition.

That's right. And they're like, get off our tree, baby Jesus. Kaplow. And Jesus was like, he managed to dodge and scale the tree like a colossus. Only to get this little, this little stigmata, baby. I like it. I like it. No, it's good. The true, the two, the celebration of the first Christmas extra grip on the fur tree. So it wasn't about the North Star per se. It was about, no, it was about planting the star at the top of the first tree. Yeah. We bought a star and weirdly it came, you know, with its like light up plug in thing. It's outlet, but the star itself had no, like this is the part you attach to the tree.

Like part to it. It was literally just the star of the cone. There was no cone. It was just a star that, that plugs into a wall. And I'm like, so am I supposed to just gingerly rest this on the top then? And you got a non-star topper. I think you just bought a star. Yeah. That's kind of what happened. Punch mom, I got it actually and we just opened it up and we're like, okay. So we just kind of like stuck it between the branches and, you know, or between, you know, the little nooks. And it's like, it's in place, but very, very strange that they just kind of assumed, you know, that there's a piece here that of course you have your Christmas tree star holder. Why wouldn't you? No one's going to be selling you one of those. What the fuck? You should already have that part.

You know, it was a little bit, there's a little bit odd. We got the skirt, of course. You got to get your Christmas tree skirt. Well, not really. The Christmas tree skirt is to like catch all the pine needles. Yeah. It looks nice. But you don't, you're, you're not, you're, you're, you're, your tree is bullshit. It's not when it's, it's not pissing and shitting tree goo on the floor. Well, I can tell you that the tree that my dad got when we were younger was so big that it couldn't fucking stand up properly. So the ceiling was bending it over type of bullshit. And that thing was dropping pine needle bombs like basil geese all over for the entire time it was there. And for years, for years,

we never, ever, ever quite got out the dead pine from the carpet, from the couches, from the entire basement where the tree was, because that fucker just literally permanently infested the house with pine. Well, pine's a good smell. So at least that's not that bad. No, it's not. If you're, it's not that, it's not that bad. You're right. It's a good smell. However, it is overpowering when it's a huge tree in a room. Like there is some, there are instances, especially like with the size of the tree that my dad got where it's like, this smells good. The, like from a distance and like at a certain point, it was like, Oh my God, it's super duper strong. Well, would you just like pass out in a forest?

Like, what do you? No, it's just, it, there's, there's the tree, man. The scent of pine is nice, but there is like a concentration that we had at the time from that tree that was like particularly intense. It was also like placed in an awkward corner because getting it in the house was an ordeal. And then once it was in the house, it kind of just basically had to lean up against the wall and that meant decorating it was bullshit because we couldn't get behind it because only two sides were, uh, two out of four corners were exposed. So it was like, it was just a humongous problem. I remember this, this fucking giant annoying tree. Um, and then yeah, for, for years, you're stepping on carpet or like sitting on the couch and you're,

you're picking out pine needles from everything. Oh man. It's like, you can think about the Lord all year round. Yeah. If you, if you ever, I don't know, have you ever had a real big ass pine in an enclosed space? I was just about to say that, uh, my family had the same shitty, like fake tree entire, entire time I live with my folks. Well, then you've never experienced the real thing. The real thing have been in a forest woolly, which is an open tree looks like an open area with no walls with wind blowing through it is very different from an enclosed room. Get that extra good pine smell. Yeah. So, um, anyway, there's no, there's no fucking, uh, you know,

free wind blowing through to keep that, that shit down. It gets very concentrated. It gets very strong. And, uh, it's like, I, well, I mean, again, it's not an unpleasant smell, but I hope you like it cranked up to maximum intensity. You know, I probably wouldn't be able to smell it at all to be honest. Um, long time and careful viewers and listeners would remember that I have a remarkably terrible sense of smell. Okay. Well, just to say that, uh, whatever one's complaining about smells, I'm like, I don't even know what you're talking about. Well, this is the styrofoam in these are some of the, these are some of the challenges that, uh, uh, a real ass tree bring to the equation. Um,

and of course, then there's just, again, I mentioned it, but it bears mentioning twice the like actual transportation of said tree. Um, and like the fact that like after, you know, the allotted period of, of, of like life that it, it has, some people get water systems to keep their tree alive for longer. That's a thing. No, you just throw that on the street. Well, that's, that's the thing, right? There's, there's some people do, some people don't, but if you do, uh, and you, if you're throwing it out while the pine needles are starting to age, then every little bump and step is dropping more and more of them all over the house. So you've got to be extra prepared for like the pathway of the, of the, the exit to be infested

as well. You should just burn the tree for heat. Yeah. I just saw that in the comments and was like, I saw, why didn't you just do that? Yeah, just do that. Just burn it. Okay. Well, um, is your desire to burn that tree? What started your late in pyromania? Woolly says, look at that and, and be like, woolly has given his factual statement. Uh, Pat has, uh, then rebutted with his nonfactual statement and then eventually found his absurd out. And that marks the end of the first conversation. I don't know if, I don't know if what if, what if you burned it is a nonfactual statement.

Okay. What if I burned it inside the house and then let the house on fire? Sounds good. Let's take it seriously then. Instead of, instead of gracefully exiting the absurd statement, let's stay here. Let's talk about burning the house down. It's, I mean, I, it's absurd that I wouldn't call it nonfactual. You've completed the day. The house wouldn't have burned down. Jesus would have saved you. You said the crazy thing that, that is all, that's all wild. And then we, you completed the house was filled with Jesus. Yes. All right. Protected you from the, from the tree that you would, you would smite it.

Um, I'm fucking shocked. You guys had a Christmas tree. Yeah. I guess is, is the, the background thought of this whole conversation? Well, this was my dad's house. All right. And, uh, that's not quite the same as my mom's house. I see. There's a difference there. I see. Also the, even, even on the mom's side of things, the whole like Christmas might be a Satan. The whole Christmas might be a Satan thing only came about. It only came about like way later after someone brought movies to the church to explain why Christmas might be a Satan. Oh, that's it. Well, cause the thing that you have to understand is, is that like,

you know, uh, you have to wait until someone comes along with a convincing sermon to tell you why you shouldn't do a certain thing. And then you kind of choose whether or not you are on board with that. Because, you know, you go along your merry way and then someone comes and says, Hey, watch this video. It's going to talk about how, uh, uh, this jolly saint Nick is actually the same as old Nick. And the whole thing is about pagan rituals where kids were sacrificed and you're like, Oh, okay. And then you watch that and it sounds made up. And then thing is like, nah, dude, Christmas is a Satan.

And you're like, damn, actually though. And it's like, well, probably not. But if you do do the history of it, December 25th was the original birthplace of what the, the Romans used to worship prior to Constantine switching over. So it was Yule. And before that it was the fight. It was just a couple of days off from solstice. Yeah. So, you know, all of that stays intact so that the December 25th can be honored. However, um, it's something that, you know, going from different church to church, different people, some people are like, Hey, it's no big deal. We just trade presents. And some people are like, no, no, absolutely not. No celebrations of that. Keep, keep the devil away and stuff. So it varied.

The phrase keep the devil away. Yeah. Basically. Cause you have to understand. You have to understand, right? Like you, like the devil's gonna see your bullshit. Better stay away from that. Well, everything, everything that's not of God is automatically of Satan, dude. It's binary. Yeah, but, but like you can, like the, the idea that you have like a sets of control over the number two being in your religious cannon. Well, so hilarious. The more, the more that, you know, you invite, uh, got into your heart and you keep them around you, the more the devil hates it and can't, doesn't want to be there, man. So then, you know, the whole thing goes down in a way where, uh, effectively, right? And this is,

this is the way you got to look at it is like, while my dad is, okay, you don't have to look at it at all, right? But there's the point is that there's a variety. So when you're like, I'm surprised you even had a tree. It's like, it's, it's not that surprising because everyone kind of goes up to the degree that they feel is a, excuse me, appropriate. And there's no such thing as being too far in there, right? If you go so far in there, which there were people who were like, um, you know what, just, I'm never turning a TV on. I don't want to see any of that. That's all probably full of bad. And, um, I mean, they're right. Yeah. But like, there's people who are like, no birthdays, no, no, no Christmas, no major holidays. Those are all pagan in origin,

no syncopated music, no drums in the music you listen to, pretty much nothing. I'm sorry. Back up. There's used to word I'm not familiar with syncopated music that aligns with the beat of your heart. There's a way that there's a, how would you even people enjoy a rhythm that's based on your heartbeat that makes it more, uh, uh, that make that, that draws you in more because it's like the rhythm of your body. And that rhythm is also what was used in, uh, rituals when, uh, you know, doing all kinds of devil worship. And so we don't go with that. We go with the non-rhythmic, uh, pure holy Judeo-Christian, uh, specifically, uh, Caucasian sounding choirs and that kind of holy music, you know, the kind without the rhythm in it.

Yeah. So that was introduced at some point where, um, a book was presented and it was like, Hey man, you know, this is the music you should be, uh, careful about because literally the entire drum set is, uh, a tool that could be used for this evil. And I'm like, motherfucker, I own a drum set, I practice and I play with it. What are you talking about? And it was just, well, you know, means you're a tool of the Satan. It means read this and see if it tickles your fancy. And if it does, then you can become this kind of person who's like, I don't know, man, it sounds like the people at your former congregation were in need of a bridge that I could possibly sell them. It's not my former congregation. It's many a congregation. It's many a belief. It's not specific in this way.

There's a lot out there that goes this way. You'd be surprised if you're surrounded by it. The more you see it, the more, you know, it's out there. I, I would like to say that I would be surprised and also not surprised because the, the, if I alter your statement somewhat to, there's a lot of stupid people out there. I am not surprised by that. That is for damn sure, because I'm stupid. But the point I'm, there's definitely people much stupider than me. There's an overall point, I guess I'm trying to get to though, which is that like, if you can frame that bridge sale in a way that implies that you will either dodge Satan or glorify the good book or God in some way, then that can be adopted, put into the hanger and built onto your custom belief, you know,

mark two, three, put some jets on it, tank legs, bridge for me every single year. You can stand on the bridge and Satan can't touch you. Yeah. So I drank a lot of wine that I stole from my, the Catholics and pissed into the mortar. So that means that the bridge is holy. Sure. You had to buy it every year. Sure. But woolly, aren't you just running away from Satan? Aren't you just running away? It's not about, no, it's not about, it's not about running away from Satan. It's about protecting your, your future in, in the afterlife in heaven, you want to protect your, your future heaven.

That's what it is. It's not about, it's not about running away. Anyway, I'll, it's so, it's so weird because you had such a non secular upbringing, let's say it. And like, I didn't even really know any really religious people when I was growing up until I like went to college really. Well, there was the one girl who had that Bible study and people kept rotating into the Bible study because she was really cute in high school and then rotating right out because she was actually for real and started a Bible study. Yes. And then that was it. That's, that sounds about right. That's how that goes. You know, you do end up, like I said, with a variety of people that have different degrees of

how much of this sticks or doesn't stick. And again, you're talking to like the, it was a kid generation of like, you know, whatever they were fed the entire time. So for me personally, I was in there and I had friends who were less in there. I had friends who brought their gameboys to church. And like I said, like that was a huge no-no if you were following the rules to that degree. And for those who does, does God hate Link's awakening? God does not allow you to play video games on his holy day because it's the day of rest. It's the day of rest, but it's meant to be contemplating him and what he did on the seventh day. It says, it says do no work, but doing any activity that is like not of his inspiration or at the very least in his,

you know, I guess countenance is wrong. So doesn't that just lead to the hyper tradition? I think there's a, see that was the common thing that was, there's a lot of common things that would come up. And like one of the most obvious ones that would like, that would come up when, when, uh, uh, based on translation and stuff like that would be like, okay, but the seventh day is a day of rest though. What's wrong with chilling out and having fun on the day of rest? And it was like, well, because it's not just a day of rest. It's a day of rest and it has to be about God. It has to be in celebration of God. So like, you know, you're taking that, I can't make a sandwich. You can make a sandwich.

There's nothing wrong with that. According to, according to, uh, uh, uh, the, the, the specific interpretation. No, it wasn't. You're eating food. You're fine. Um, but the, the idea of going off and like doing your own pleasures is, is not welcome. Right? That's not work. That's rest. So it's not the level of, uh, it's not the Shabbat with the elevator button stuff and, and, and, and, and the extreme. Yeah, it's not the, it wasn't that, but it was still in that vein where it's like there is a do's and don'ts list and the do's and don'ts lists basically includes do anything that has to do with God. Don't do anything that doesn't have to do with God. What if, what if, now follow me here. What if you were an intrepid young lad

and on Saturday or Sunday, depending on your particular denomination, seventh day, Saturday, Shabbat. Yeah, sure. I'm, I'm that, but I mean, that's not, not everyone agrees on that. That's why I made the distinction. Yeah. Well, then you can go listen to Constantine. You can do what he wanted. The Marvel, the DC character. Um, the comic? No, the, the, the emperor of Rome. He's been dead for like 1500 years. I know, but yet for some reason, we still listen to his list of changes. All right. His patch list remains. That's, I mean, all right. Anyway, I'm, I'm going to go, I'm going to go back in time because I literally have no idea what you're talking about. I'm talking about how before Constantine converted

Catholicism into Roman Catholicism, they were worshiping on the seventh day, the Saturday, and then like Christmas being preserved became December 25th in the Christian version, Saturday became Sunday to preserve previous non Christian traditions. So that Constantine didn't really have to do much. He's like, I want to worship on the same days and keep my holidays. And they're like, that's cool. Just say a different name on the days that you already did your shit. And the switch from Saturday to Sunday was to make sure Constantine didn't have to get out of bed too early or get too upset or forget what day he was supposed to do things. So they moved the whole system around because they're like, can you stop feeding us to the

lions? And he's like, fine, sell me on your thing. And they're like, okay, you do exactly what you do right now. But instead of saying the names of those gods and things you pray to, you say this list of names now. And he's like, that sounds like a good deal for Constantine. But for everyone else who are like, but wait, it was supposed to be God said Saturday. They're like, shut the fuck up. You switch to Sunday. We got the top guy to be on our team. And we're not going to get fed to the lions anymore. So you fucking you, you take Sunday from now on. And it's like, but God never said Sunday. And it's like, you shut the fuck up. And then that's how it went. Did God even say Saturday? He totally said Saturday. Isn't that, isn't that like, he totally said Saturday, dude.

Yeah, he did. Yep. And then, and then Constantine was like, nah, I legitimately can't tell if he being sarcastic. I'm dead serious. The problem with the only reason why Sunday exists is because they literally wanted to appease Constantine. So they changed what God said into what Constantine wanted it to be. Yeah, but that didn't, I mean, the seventh day didn't, didn't account for the work week, man. No, but it was the Sabbath day. It was, it was legitimately calendar. It was Saturday. Are you sure? 100%. That's why it's literally there. It is literally the existence. What were you there? No, I was not there. Oh, well, how could you tell? You know what? You're right. You're a dinosaur. I should not have been a dinosaur there. I should not have said 100%.

You're right. But you did definitely hit the button that still exists deep in here that is like, you're going to be having, because like I said, the, the, the, the, the, the debate or the fight or the convincing or the moment between someone who doesn't believe in someone who does can be a very soft, slow, friendly, passive thing. But the debate between someone who believes and believes in the seventh day versus someone who believes in like Catholicism and the pope and all that shit was brutal. It was vicious because it was like, I have a list of fucking shit that your stupid thing chooses to ignore and it's hypocritical. And this only makes sense as a religion. If you choose to basically not follow the rules that much and kind of passively be like, yeah, I'm Catholic.

I'm going to just pay attention when it suits me and otherwise not care too much about it, which is kind of what it is. So then it ends up being fine. I have, hey, but the more you pay attention to it, the more it becomes a huge problem. controversial say it's like, how could you hit Constantine? And of course it's all stupid. Of course it's not stupid. This is going to be a little controversial. Get ready for this. Hey, Constantine, how could you just make up a bunch of crap? So it'd be convenient for you on the weekends said person following the rules from a guy who invented a bunch of crap so that people would do what he said. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Nailed it. Anyway, so and that person who said that was Martin Luther and he stapled

he stapled that statement onto the door and he was like, I'm done. I'm going to get breakfast. Well, well, you know, I mean, to the point it's more like, hey, so you're telling me that that book right there says all this stuff that we should be doing and the way we should live our lives. And then totally dude. And it's like, can I read it? Well, can you? No, no one knows how to read it. No, no, no, but I want to read it though. No, don't worry about it. I'll just tell you what's in it. Okay, so so hold on. So what you're saying is is that every week, right? Yeah, I'm going to come and I'm going to confess what's going on in my life to you. And then everyone in town is going to confess what's going on in

their lives to you. And then you're going to get all that information. And then you're going to prepare a statement to talk about a subject matter. And then you'll be able to go, you know, we're hearing a lot about adultery this week. And you would not know because you're not allowed to read the good book, but I am someone who's allowed to read it. And right here it says, right here, the answers to adultery. And this is what it says you need to do. And then it can also be like, Oh, people are talking about being jealous or being whatever. And then you can basically take all that seated confession and use it to create a subject matter that makes everyone at the end of the week go, Oh my God, the book has the answer to everything. That's crazy. And then you're

like, Yes, it is. Pay me the tithes. Give me your, give me your, your cash and, and, and indulgences will be sold out the back as soon as the service is done. Marty, that's a good, it's a good thing. What's the problem? So, so, what's your problem? So Marty was like, fuck you. That's bullshit. I saw the grift. I want to know about that Pope. Marty said, yeah, this is what I'm going with. There you go. Complete this mental image in your head of the Pope is Rick and, and, and Marty is Marty. I mean, it's a pretty strong grift really. That's, that's, that's actually really dead on, isn't it? Sure. It's a pretty strong grift, but eventually he was like, nah, I want to read it myself though. And then he did, and then they invented the, the, the, you know, the protestant

version of things where it's like, Hey man, the person who reads the Bible and tells everybody what's going on in it, you can still have a family. You don't have to be all, you know, sitting up top there in your robes with your full balls, trying to decree what's going on. What a pack of full balls going on. Don't, don't decree it me with full balls. Don't you dare. Because we all know, we all know what's going on. And you're only going to listen to a man who has recently emptied himself into his wife. No, because, okay, we'll see. Yes, fine. That's fine. But the guy sitting up there is not allowed to not have full balls. That's the problem, but it's a problem that he has them, but it's also a problem that he's not allowed

to not have them. It's dangerous, dangerous. If you're walking around with the full balls, you know, all right. So with all this new wonderful context, let's bet that's time traveled back. Absolutely. I was getting too early. I was trying to get to what if we were, what if you were an intrepid young lad on a Saturday or Sunday, or maybe even certain Fridays, if you're Catholic, hanging out in your church and you're supposed to be chilling, thinking about God and stuff, right? And you were like, you know what would it be a really good way to honor my bro by getting out my PSP and fighting the devil? No, no, no, no, no, it's the Shin Megami Tensei. It's the same every time. It's literally like this is me in grade one,

two, three, like every single time it's the same stupid thing. It's like, I don't get it. Why is fighting the devil a problem? It's not about fighting the devil. It's about being of God. If you are someone who's depicted as you're going to go punch the devil in the face, but then you're going to be like the devil and embrace all devil things that doesn't make you like close to God. If you use demonic ways to fight against other demonic ways, you are not suddenly of God. For example, if one heathen, if one heathen religion fights another heathen religion, you know, and these are both not of God, then neither doesn't make them any, you know what I mean? It's it doesn't matter. It's sin is sin is sin. Sin fighting sin is still sin. So the punch

the devil seems so the punch the devil thing is such as it's the same answer every time it comes up. But doom though doom should be no, no, no. It's not the way it works. Well, I don't know, Willie, I have on good authority that in fact using your God given rifle to kill the devil is in fact highly religious. You see the three wise men brought their their their guns to shoot at the baby Jesus so that he would dodge it, proving that the the only only the Lord can dodge bullets like the Neo and that when you fire your gun at the devil and the devil fails to dodge your bullets, that's God's work, making sure that he don't. Well, you know, it all depends on what you're what you're fighting against, I suppose, right?

Can you can you shoot something and avoid violating thou shall not kill? Or do you go with the it's that shall not murder or do you go with the take on it that's thou shall not murder that was going to be the next thing I said, right? Wait, but but then you go original 10 commandments in context don't even mean thou shall not kill. Yeah, Jen decided like a bunch of people right after that part as exactly as but that was okay because that was the Old Testament God saying that it was okay at the time, you know, so as long as you get the clearance beforehand, it's all good. Don't they kill livestock? Like it's so oh yeah. Well, you basically sacrifice some kind of animal to put so that that takes on the sins because something has to die for the sins, you know.

Old Testament God, jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers unto the third and fourth generations of the children for infractions that basically were were committed by people that were distant from them. You know, I actually had a very brief, extraordinarily brief religious phase when I was in high school, where I was like, oh man, what if though, I basically got tricked by Pascal's wager. Okay. And I was like, what if though, and I started to read the Bible and my mom was like just started the New Testament. The Old Testament is not that important because she's like Anglican or some shit. I don't know what Anglican. Yeah, that's the fun one. That's the you can't get divorced. Fuck you. I'm gonna get divorced and make my own thing with blackjacket

hookers. That's that's correct. And so I start reading the Bible. I start reading the Old Testament. And first things first, man, that's a shitty read. Oh, yeah. Did you hit? Did you just did you get to the baguettes? Because the baguettes are not a fun read. I got to the baguettes. Okay. And it was like a way that that kicked me. So then I was like, I'll go back to the Old Testament later. I'll skip ahead to the good stuff. My mom says, okay, I'm gonna skip forward. And then I got to the part where Jesus is like, Hey, hey, man. And he starts saying all this crazy shit that did not jive with my popular pop culture conception of Jesus. And there was like one. Oh, God, what was it? It was the it was the fucking

it was the line about every single thing you do in your life has to have God in your heart. Like you sweep the floor, you take out the trash, whatever. And I went up to my mom and I'm like, wait, really? Are you really just thinking about Jesus all day? She's like, no, of course not. And I'm like, but it says right here. And she's like, oh, you can't take that so seriously. And I'm like, but be this is stupid. So you skipped parts. Did you? I did. Disgusting. Anyway, so did you get introduced to Pascal's wager on your own or did like someone

like, oh, yeah, in the church or something like that bring it to you. I was chilling on the internet. Okay, okay, crap. Because I hear that like, you know, if you're raised non-religious, that that makes you more susceptible in a way because you're like, well, I've never experienced this. What's this curiosity about? It's a it's a it's a pretty decent logical trick to people that don't understand what opportunity cost is because that's a much more complicated concept. Sure. Also, it there's no the wager doesn't account for infinite cowardice alongside infinite reward, you know, but so then I then I took my then I took my my burgeoning

young man need for the Lord and turn that into UFOs are totally real, dude. Well, the government circa this year, we're about to find out some shit. But they they confirmed that they are this year. They they they had there's fucking footage of it. They're literally setting us up. They're easing us into some shit that's going down for real. Actually, for real reels, it's going down. But we'll see where this goes. It's quite weird. It's quite weird. Yeah, where I was going to just go was that actually confirmed that seems like a thing that you read some of it and thought something was confirmed that was not actually.

OK, so most recently some guy that was like worked for 30 years as the Israeli space, whatever person came out and said, oh, that and that shit was wild. And it was like, OK, you can you can hold up with that wildness right there, please. Thank you. And yes, the Space Force did announce that the guardians are going to be the name of their units. However, no, pretty much just like the couple of people that were like I worked for the Air Force or I am a pilot. And one of the is like no, no history of weirdness or reason to lie. And here's some footage. It's been declassified. And I saw some weird shit. And I can't explain it. This is what it is. And there's I have to say, Wally, this sounds

dramatically less definitive than when you originally said, oh, yeah, it's been confirmed. Well, that's because we're jumping onto a topic and I'm like, oh, there's some weird shit going on. Unidentified things are unidentified. Wally, as somebody who spent like years of his life obsessed with UFO shit. Yeah, there is always weird shit going on. Yeah, but this is this is declassified footage with a dude sitting there going no look actually, though. And then the actual yeah, you know what that always ends up being? You know what? Actually, I don't know what that is. Okay. That's yes. That's true. Every time I just I don't remember. I have as someone who perhaps has not followed it in in depth. I don't remember the branches of the military

confirming it directly officially themselves, though. That's what I guess made this different. Oh, all that's what Project Blue Book was. Okay, it's all sorts of it's the American the American military is a bunch of fucking stupid marks for UFOs. Well, who knows, right? That's American military thought you could train psychics to blow up goats. Anyway, all I was going to say about it had George Clooney in it. All I was going to say was that there is no upper limit to how much you can believe in what you believe in. And if you happen to be someone who is like, fuck Christmas, fuck birthdays, fuck all of these beliefs, and then you put more and more restrictions upon yourself, no one in your congregation is going to step out and stop you

and go, Hey, you know, you're being a little bit too strict, or I think you're being a little bit too like stringent about how close to God you should be. There's no such thing, right? So as people get more and more strict and less reasonable about their like self inflicted, like religious, whatever restrictions, you find that like the people who fly way off the deep end with it end up not really having anyone to pull them out. So thus you end up with, you know, a group of people that are all varying degrees of like sinking in this bottomless ocean. And thinking don't you mean rising rising out of yes, totally, absolutely. You know, so that's why you're going to hear all kinds of weird inconsistencies. And that's why sometimes you'll see a Christmas tree,

but sometimes you won't. And sometimes you'll hear about like music and sometimes you won't and so on and so forth. Like there's always different levels and degrees and nobody's coming to check anybody else because it's always I gotta say thing as somebody with obsessive compulsive disorder looking at an organized religious group and seeing literally any variation at all of what is ostensibly a literally set in stone series of rules, lessons, teachings, etc. makes me go literally crazy. Yeah, that's why I left. Like yeah, that's literally why I left because it doesn't make any sense. Of course, like if we could if you if you're actually pulling if you're zooming out of the bit now, like yeah, it's fucking stupid. Yeah, it makes me it makes me like

everyone customizes their own shit. I can't handle it and just goes with what they want to go with. It's fucking it's absolutely absurd. Yeah, of course, wanted me to go to Sunday school. That's right. And dad was like that shit's stupid. But you're not supposed to fucking you know if we're doing if you're in the bit now you're not supposed to zoom out so we can see the whole map we're supposed to stay so that the bits are on the corners of the screen. Yeah, no, yeah, no, it's like mom wanted me to go to Sunday school dad's like that's stupid. And then I went and then I asked my mom a couple questions about the Bible. And she was like, Oh, don't worry about that part. And that was the nail in every coffin. Just like, Oh, that part's not important. Yeah,

this is the important part. Like, but it's all isn't it all important? Nah. No, it's exactly and and like, so there's some, some, some, you know, religions where it's like, the range of how serious this is is very, very short because very few people are going to actually agree to live their lives this way. But it's hard locked big deep red in its in its zone. And then there's things where the range is super high, massive, the whole map, everybody can get in. All you got to do is relatively casually believe. Yeah, just show up for mass every once in a while. Take a communion, maybe follow you this this one thing or this other thing. You know, say it all the Pope, I don't know if you saw this a couple weeks ago, the

Pope was just like, nah, good atheists get into. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And a lot of a lot of people are not happy with the fact that this current Pope is being so humane about things because it's like, that's conceding the church in a way. Listen, man, I bought I bought in. I'm 80 and I bought in my whole life so that I could go to heaven laughing at the dumb idiots who didn't do any of this shit. And now you're telling me that I wasted I opportunity costed my shit opportunity costs is like my favorite concept that nobody ever talks about sunk cost policy love. I love opportunity costs. I love I love some cost policy. Right. Yeah, it's it's it's it's there is a point at which yeah, effectively, the idea of, you know, this thing that you suffered through for an extended

period of time, and then someone comes along and doesn't have to deal with that feels so profoundly unfair to you that you would refuse to accept it. Yeah, that's going to happen. And to those of you who are listening at home who are unfamiliar with opportunity cost, because you didn't take a statistics class and in college or high school, opportunity cost is I don't feel like going to work today. Fuck it. What will that cost me? Literally nothing. It doesn't cost anything to not go to work. Except for the money that you would have made by going to work is now gone. You have now cost yourself the opportunity. It's when not doing something costs you would be things like, I don't know. I don't feel like showering today.

Damn, I'm gonna be lazy. And then the opportunity cost is that you actually smell horrible. Yeah. Um, also, you know, you can just, uh, well, anyway, there's there's all kinds of ways that like, there's natural human instincts and behaviors and, uh, senses of guilt and anxieties and things like that, that you can, you can, uh, kind of prey upon and use as motivators to further reinforce some of these beliefs and stuff. But, but, but, you know, the point remains is that, um, that I hope that I hope you understand why there's, you see inconsistency with that stupid. I mean, at the macro level, but if you zoom in a little bit, it's,

wait, is that not the micro level? No, the whole thing at a macro level is this is dumb. But if you go in a little bit further, it's like, it's because we can all, you know, equip our custom Gundam and put the parts we want on it. And then at the actual micro level, it's like, Oh, because you are dumb. I mean, like person, person that I'm pointing to. Yeah, but it's really hard. Like it's really hard to like think outside of a box that you're terrified to leave. Um, but you don't see the feeling as terror because you, you internalize it as what you want and sinful to even consider going outside of it. So, but you're not looking at, you're not looking at it as fear. You're looking at it as just like Satan and bad things and

external things that are not you. That's not your voice that's asking you these questions. That's the devil asking you those questions. That's not your sense of reason that's challenging what you're believing. That's the devil. Uh, it's, it's a separate entity from you. So it's very, very, very hard to learn how to parse those two things apart. So yes, you can just say it's dumb because it is. That's stupid, but it's also very difficult. How can you, what? I have, I have literally no context for this personally.

Like my entire history with this is looking at it and be like, that's fucking stupid. And then be like, what if it's not stupid? And then that lasting like literally three days and then going, wait, no, I was right. It is actually really stupid. How's your week? And then I played Diablo. Wasn't allowed. Wasn't Diablo the one for you? There's no, there's many, but that was one of them. That's the one I heard about at summer camp. And I was, and, and, and they're like, how cool talking about how cool it was. And it was like, but it has an actual pentagram on it. Like they're not even playing around. They're really

putting a symbol that in, that invites the devil in on the box. Yeah, that's rad. It's like, you can stab him. Yeah. And it's like, that was just like, you know, that was a bad one. But yeah, that was one of the, that was one of them. Um, all you guys out there, you just quit that shit. Just quit it. Just quit it. How's your week? You all quit it and how was your week instead? It was all right. All right. I took, I took most of the week off. Just chilling. Didn't do a whole lot. Didn't see the family. Didn't do anything because 2020 sucks. So that was fun. Did you do a little digital call? I did a little digital way. What did

digital? What family call? No, like, well, I used an analog device to call my family. Okay. And I was like, Hey mom, what's up? And she's like, nothing. Yep. Merry Christmas. Socked. Because yeah, we don't care for it. We did a little zoom thing with, uh, with some of the fam, uh, over here. So, um, you know, the, you know, the computers weren't invented by the devil. Sorry. Okay. Uh, let's see. Uh, terms of shit that I actually played or watched this past week. Nothing new at all. Okay. Uh, the only thing of note is that, uh, I started playing Bayonetta

on the stream and had two, two big feelings. One man after playing a lot of DMC five that, that series went in a dramatically different direction. Yeah. You can, like the similarities are felt when you don't have them back to back, but, um, when you actually put them down, they like, no, they're, they're very different. Um, the, the number one thing that I, I discovered or rediscovered rather was until my cry, you are, you know, dodging the enemies and then bouncing them around like pinballs and you are comboing themselves into, into dog shit. Um, and then with Bayo, like, uh,

it was kind of embarrassing on my stream because I kept getting hurt over and over again because I was so unused to how enemies in Bayonetta just don't hit stun at all. Like when they're winding up for an attack, dodge, yeah. Don't, don't break them out of it. Don't hit them out of it. Like they're, it's not going to happen. Uh, in Bayonetta, in Devil May Cry, um, going on offense is defense in Bayonetta, going on defense is offense. Yeah. There you go. You perfectly nailed it. You did it. You did it. And then I had a wonderful experience where during a bar scene,

the actual four real version of fly me to the moon starts playing in the background and I'm like, fuck and I can't mute it fast enough. And then I get to worry for multiple days whether or not I'm going to get a DMCA strike and that did not happen. But sick. Great. Awesome. I'm trying to remember if, um, it got flagged when the LP went up, uh, a while ago. And I don't think it did. I don't think that version of the, of the song ended up being an issue. But, um, you could always test, you know, you could always do a test upload, see what happens. Can't test it on Twitch? No, you can't. But you can see if it mutes what I, what I, um, no, you can't.

Well, I mean, but I'm saying automatically you will find out in your stream archive right away. Yeah. Along with your strike. Uh, I don't, I haven't seen, I, I haven't gotten one and I don't know if it's, if the mute, um, goes hand in hand with it, or if it continues to do what it used to do, which is mute what it can. And if it doesn't mute something, then a strike might occur. Like the way that it seems to work is that which, which robot gets to you first. Yes. That's what it seems to be. And up until now, the muting robot has been able to mute a thing. And then it's like, okay, well, there go that, then it's not your.

Yeah. But what I mean is the test is totally worthless. Um, but in terms of, uh, uh, the, in terms of what I personally was using as a guideline, I was using every YouTube flagged thing that, uh, popped up on the channel. I took, I had a list of everything that I had ever uploaded that was flagged and, uh, I told my Twitch manager, Hey, I'm going to use this list as my guideline for what infractions I'm going to be worried about on Twitch. And he said, yeah, that seems to make sense. So I said, okay, you got to talk to your Twitch manager. I've been trying to talk to mine for months and they won't, they won't get back to me. Well, that's what I, I act the person that,

you know, that I spoke to, like I basically said, this is my game plan. Does this make sense to you? Does this seem okay? And they said, obviously legally, I can't confirm 100% that this is, you know, guaranteed, but I can tell you that that seems like a functional idea. That sounds pretty good. I think you'll be okay. So I went, okay, I gotta, I gotta be blunt. The phrasing of that seems to be cool. It seems to be the most useless, like completely, absolutely worthless thing ever said to anyone by a manager. Okay. That's fine. Yeah, that's probably fine. The point is the point is I did what I can and I, and I have our discussion, you know, in writing about what? Oh, sure. But I'm just saying, like the mute thing, it doesn't, it doesn't do anything.

No, it's not about real, I'm not, I'm not talking about the mute thing anymore. I'm talking about just using what was flagged on, on YouTube as a guideline for what I should be worried about in my Twitch content. Well, I have bad news for you, because I used to fucking, well, dude, look, man, the YouTube thing for the best friends thing for a long time, talk to your people, figure your thing out your own way, do what you want to do. I did, I, you know, I listed what I wanted to do with this and no, but Willie, what I'm telling you is that if you are using YouTube content ID claims as a barometer, I have bad news for you. Every conceivable piece of content that we ever put up by anything ever was claimed in some way or another.

There's a difference between the manual claims, the automatic claim, like there are different types of claims though, like actually for Twitch, it's all automated. So no, no, no, I'm talking about YouTube on YouTube. There's people who can. Yes, I know. But if you're describing YouTube content, content manual claims, like all, all automated claims are going to be automated on Twitch. Yes, all I'm trying to say is when it came time to delete a bunch of stuff that was considered risky content, I had a guideline and that was, that's what I looked at as basically anything that included music that might get flagged or tracks or things that might get flagged. It's not 100% foolproof, but it was my risk aversion assessment. And then that's what I

put into practice. And that's what I checked with a Twitch representative on. They said, sounds okay. And I went, okay. And that's what I decided to do. You can go further with it. You can go less far with it. Some people decided to do nothing. Others went and cleared out their whole stock. Everyone makes a call according to what they're willing to do. I know you cleared out a lot of your stuff. I'm telling you what I was comfortable doing and where I wanted to keep it, and that's the decision, the decision I made. No, no, no, it's not, no, I'm not, the whole, this whole conversation started with you saying, oh, you can just test it. And like, no, you can't, you can't test it, and you can't use former guidelines to future

proof it in the future. All right. Like if the robot has been fed a music, it will get you. No, you are right. You are right in that it's not reliable and that there's no reliable tool at the moment to guarantee your safety on your Twitch content. That is true. And that sucks. What I am saying is with regards to like Bayonetta, for example, like I said, I don't remember if it got flagged. For me, taking a look at like things that did get flagged served as that barometer, but it is not a guarantee that you are correct in that. The Bayo thing was extra baffling because I was speaking to somebody who used to get that bit of

their stream muted every single time, only for my thing to not get muted at all. Yeah. Death Stranding. Death Stranding is another one where like you just don't know what, uh, what's going to happen when it comes around to those, you know, those church's songs. I should go and delete all my Death Stranding mods. Holy shit. Yeah. That's kind of what, uh, that's kind of what I went for. I basically looked at Death Stranding as a whole and went, nope, that's not worth it. It's just too risky. Cause you have to remember the scenes where the music started playing or, you know, just go for the clear on that. For me, I looked at it and went like, okay, like, yeah,

is this a game or a sequence where there's a specific moment I can recall where there was a problem? Then yeah, I'm going to go target that moment. But otherwise, um, if it's like Death Stranding and it's scattered all over the place, it's just too risky to, to, to left to let it live. But either way, um, again, at least for my setup, the, you know, the ability to YouTube archive it and such kind of keeps things mitigated. Exactly. So that's not too bad. Um, what a bunch of stupid crap this shit is, huh? Yeah, it's pretty annoying. Uh, Bayonetta, you mentioned. It's great. I only played it for 40 minutes because that fucking song kicked up and I immediately killed the fucking stream as a result because sitting

there going, Oh fuck is my channel going to die because of this literal 30 second sound clip in the background of the thing just completely killed my desire to keep playing that game that night. Yeah, that fucking sucks. Uh, anything of note? No, man, that's that, that was my week. I did that one stream where I also, I mean, I'll play Donkey Kong, but I mean, all I have to say about Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze is that it's great and it's also an OCD nightmare because much like Celeste, they have filled the levels with useless collectibles. Yeah, man. And I have to say, I really like platformers. I really like 3D platformers and 2D platformers. I, I absolutely hate useless collectibles. Yeah, I, I honestly feel bad for you

and I feel sad that like that bothers you because optional collectibles to me are a wonderful example of do it if you want the challenge, ignore it if you don't. And that presenting a hurdle for you is unfortunate. Like I got, I got maybe halfway through um, Tropical Freeze when it came out, uh, not one, uh, yeah, when it came out and just, I had to, I was playing through levels like five times in a row to find like every stupid shitty puzzle piece and knowing that they didn't do anything made it so much worse. Like, oh, they unlock a fucking concept art. It's like, I don't care about a concept art. I really don't. If you could only take that, if you, if you, if you could only take that, I don't care

step one, one layer back. If they, if they took the, the, the icon of you've completed all the puzzle pieces on this stage off the level select screen, it would be fine. But instead the level select has this big open gap where, hey, you could have collected all the puzzle pieces. I hear you on the specificity of what it is that makes you care, but it still is unfortunately that unfortunate that like you can't not care about it. I think, I think, I still think Celeste is the absolute worst one by far. I thought it was fantastic. I love the strawberries. You love, how, why? Well, like I said, I just, they're, they're a perfect self-imposed difficulty that you can choose to challenge yourself in the moment of the moment. So you can play through the

game, going through it easy, for example. And if you happen to see a strawberry where you're just like, you know what, I'm going to go for that one. You get to someone who doesn't want to play through the game with that extra challenge, can in the moment be like, I'll try for that one specifically. And you can create a little moment of like extra challenge if that, that you're, you can opt in and out of. And if you choose to be like, eh, I'll just continue past it, and you can do that, or you can get it and be like, oh yeah, cool. You know? My biggest problem with Celeste isn't even that, and isn't even that the strawberries essentially do nothing, like they change a minor thing in the ending. My, my issue is that they provide you the

first level with the, you know, with all the strawberries that I don't know how many, maybe 20, right? And I got all of them. And then when you start the second level, they go, don't worry, they don't do anything. And I'm like, I actually would have really appreciated that before I kind of got sick of Celeste by doing the first level over and over and over and over again. Like I understand the assumption is like people, all people just play through a bunch of levels, and then maybe they'll go back for the strawberries. But it's like, I don't know, maybe, maybe I'm wild. I see this complaint constantly. Maybe it's just people who follow me on Twitter are, are more OCD than the average population. But like, you remember that, that, that fucking tweet

that was going around that was like, this is a really important item. Use it only when you need to. And then somebody was like, got it, hoard it like a dragon forever. Good. Never use it. Like that got shit zillions of traction. That is not just me. It's not. No one said it was. No, that's not what I mean. I'm just like, I feel like at the very least telling you that those things are worthless right away would, would be appreciated. So the hoarding is something that I've, the reason why I relate to that, and I think the hoarding, for example, is not a one-to-one parallel because there are legitimate reasons someone can think of besides just like the OCD of it in a way. I think that like, for me, the hoarding thing that I do in RPGs comes from,

I don't know if the challenge I'm facing next will require this, right? It is the unknown is creating the problem. I have a consumable. It's going to go, but I don't know what comes next. Therefore, right? There's a, there's a decent, I think it's Rasputin did a good video on items and games are kind of terrible because the way games are not even balanced around the items that they give you because you're always waiting for something that's too hard that you'll need the item, but the games are usually balanced along the idea that like, well, what if you already used up all your items? And back in the day, there was, it was kind of like a randomizing factor to the experience so that every time you played this RPG or whatever, it wouldn't be the exact same.

However, I do think that like looking at it now, Estes represents an incredible concept that didn't come around until way later in games. And I still don't see it often used, but the idea of the temporary consumable is beautiful. But the challenge of the unknown around the corner is different from the optional goal and whether or not you feel like a failure if you achieve that optional goal. I think one of the most interesting things is that I was playing like a dragon and like a dragon had no issue using items ever. And same thing with all the Yakuza games. I mean, you're playing through zero right now, right? Yep. Use that stamina in XX. Why? Because you could just go buy it. Yeah. You could just go buy it. It's not a big deal.

There might have been a moment somewhere that someone experienced where like, you know, you encountered a really tough fight back to back with another one. And then the first one where you used your stuff led to a situation where you wished you had it the next time. But yeah, anyway, but that aside though, again, the optional goal where you know this is just, you know, opt in or opt out whatever the case is ends up being something that I like that level of control over the difficulty. But we've been down this road before. We've had this conversation though. Like it would be different to me if the the tropical freeze puzzle pieces just did more than the concept art. Because like a lot of the frustration was that I was doing this for no value.

Right. And like, I don't know how you feel about it. Concept art is like a cool thing if you unlock it at the end of the game. But like having it be your collectible reward feels like a fucking cop out. Like congrats, you collected, you know, 10 items. Look, you can look at this concept art of the stage that you just beat that looks pretty much just like the way I see it is I can always think of a better reward than the one the game is giving me. So it's almost like, you know, like all of that is inferior to a new unlockable character. You know what I mean? Like, no matter what. So that doesn't think the only game that I that has collectibles or extra levels or whatever that I have had not had this problem was Super Meat Boy. Because Super Meat Boy solved

this problem by being so difficult that like some of those bonus stages early on were like literally the hardest shit I've ever had to do in a game and I get to them like I don't know how to I will have to come back. I have to come back. I can't do this. And then I never ended up beating Super Meat Boy, but it wasn't because like I got frustrated by the collectibles. It was because I hit a point in hell that I'm like, I literally can't beat this. Like that game is hard as shit. Yeah, just I suppose the thing to consider is that like some games and some designs are based on trying to give the player more control over what they opt in and opt out of. And for most that is a good thing because it's eat as much as you want. Stop eating when you're done.

That's really funny in that you use that analogy because I was taught very explicitly that if food hits your plate, you eat it because of the starving children in Africa. Right, of course, never forget them. They would eat it. So you would eat it too. Well, sometimes sometimes you go to sometimes you're you're you you go to a restaurant. Sometimes you go to a buffet, you know, so it's a little less helpful when you're at a buffet. Although I've heard stories of buffets that kick people out when they're they have too much. That's really funny. I've heard that likes that there are people that are like, yeah, that have gotten kicked out. We're just like, no, I'm sorry, it just no. Yes, it's L you can eat,

but no, you know, you know, it's a really great game to deal with this this this whole discussion is evil within to I think I brought it up with you once before where if you just spend all your time doing all the shooting missions and all the all the little side shit that's like almost out of out of universe and like clear it 100% like Sebastian will almost look at the camera and go like, oh, I guess I should go back to saving my daughter or whatever. Like the game actively like mocks you for sidestepping it's it's urgent plot. Okay, well, I guess I'll switch over. I just have a quick question because you're you're way more familiar with Donkey Kong than I am. Not the new ones, though.

Oh, not the new one. No, no, no, I know the older SNES game games because that's that's what I'm unfamiliar with. Yeah, I don't I didn't play the new ones. None at all. I saw you guys play them and oh wow. Okay, that was it. Because like I always look back at those old ones as just being like like horribly overrated. Like, I don't get it. I legitimately don't understand why people love the old Donkey Kong Country games. These new ones are fantastic. But like well, the old ones just felt so fucking stiff. I legitimately I can tell you a lot about like why I love Donkey Kong Country. DKC two and three. I remember playing and then dropping off as a kid. And then kind of coming back like later on. But at the time, you're talking about just

a really fun. Well, one, music incredible to visually unique because it was rare doing their 3D looking rendered sprites that, you know, Ki and DKC all kind of ended up looking like extra nice compared to other sprites at the time because of that style, dude. Was I literally the only person in 94 who saw that art style and went you? Yeah, probably. We all loved it because like I hated it. We loved it. No, it was great shitty. I much preferred pixel art. No, it ruled. And I look at it now and man, that aged like shit, dude. So anyway, correct. The those so they were really cool. And then third, the there's the tight, the controls felt tight. There's a tightness to them. That's particularly

unique. That is like the way you can roll off the edge and do those little edge jump and like the momentum of running and then like getting that jump, the little area, the aerial control, it feels tight in a good way that a fucking shitty platformer like the fucking, I don't know, remake of Sparkster of Rocket Knight would didn't have, for example. Oh, you know what? I have something to say about that. Then on another level, the barrel blasting was really fun and it was a Nintendo feeling to what Sonic was already doing. Right? Sonic makes sense. Kind of moving. Sonic flying around the edges of the screen. Nintendo games didn't have that, but this was a nice approximation of that momentum. So

in the end, it ended up being really satisfying. And then the fact that you get to another level where you're on a rail car, you get to another level where you're on a Ramby or you're on an animal, there was enough going on with the different types of gameplay that at the time, it was like, holy fuck, this game offers so much and so many different ways to play in addition to looking and sounding amazing. There's very little to not love about it. They're also pretty fast. Yeah. The whole thing kind of, I mean, maybe I'm being a nitpicky asshole. I hate the term. There's very little to not love about it, because I don't love any of the things. Well, well, what I'm describing is, okay,

so the list was essentially by comparison to, you know, something that didn't have these things, incredible music, incredible visuals, a hard, I disagree, high variety of gameplay. You know, I went down it, so that's kind of what it was. You know, if there's specifics behind what bothered you about those things, then you can say them and, you know, that's what it is. Yeah, why does everyone say the music is good? Because it's a fucking bop. It sounds like fucking dumb ass Looney Tunes shit. Okay, well, then we, there's no further to go with this. It's incredible. The music is incredible. Like so much of it has been legendary for so long. I mean, there's, I don't know how to describe to you that the music is good. There's literally no further.

What's the name of the rare composer? I don't know, but I mean, fucking, I can tell you that, you know, Jungle Japs is a banger. Because I hung out with them for a while. And he's cool. He's a nice old man, but like, uh, Kirk, Kirk, Grant Kirkhope. Yeah, yeah, I hung out with Grant Kirkhope for a while a couple years ago. And he's really nice. He was cool to hang out with. But like, I just, you know what, I'm gonna, I'm gonna take a big step back. Because I, because I've run into this with Donkey Kong country. I've run into this with the original killer instinct. I've run into this with Banjo Kazooie. Dude, I fucking can't stand rare. Like, they made two good games. Gold and I, and perfect art.

Like, I've literally never been able to understand for my whole life why everyone's like, oh, it's so sad, rare is gone. They're just one of the greatest ever. And it's like, all they made was trash. And then when they made ukulele, ukulele was apparently trash too. Hello? Hello? Did we drop? Did we? I don't know. You just, you were just remarkably quiet even for, I'm here. Uh, how do you feel about Gangplank Galleon? Well, I'll let you know in about 20 seconds.

Let's take a look. The Smash Bros. version? No, probably not the original, right? All right. Take your pick. That's fine, I guess. If it's coming out of a clown car. Cool. You done? I guess I'm done. All right. Working people tune in for more, for more sick takes. Like, are these really so universally beloved that I am like an insane person for not liking, like, say rare in general, further than you've ever been in anything you've said this year?

I don't think that's possible. You squeezed one in crazy with a couple days to go. Probably your hottest take of the year. And I say this dead serious of all the stupid shit you've said this year. That's probably the most extreme one. So what's up? I mean, perfect dark is, is pretty good. You can check out more of these incredible takes over at twitch.tv slash past stairs that I'm playing Link's Awakening this week, which is from that era, I believe. I never played Link's Awakening. Oh, yeah? That's that's one of the good ones.

Yeah, you're going to be, you're going to be, well, you know what? I don't know. We'll see. I think you'll be in for a good time. I enjoyed it. It is dated, but it's fucking charming and fun. Was Conker's Bad Fur Day made by Rare? Conker's Bad Fur Day is a rare game. And that explains why I don't like it. Because I saw somebody go, but Conker's Bad Fur Day. Good for you. No, man. Conker's Bad Fur Day is a bunch of clowns for babies pretending they're actually a PG-13 movie. I'm glad you found something new to ignite your passion. This is no, no, no. This is not new. If you, you want to go back through a decade of videos, you will find me complaining about

everyone's sucking Rare's dick all the way back. But you've now, you've now realized the lightning rod that it is, and you will use this for power. No, it has nothing to do with power. It has to do with, Paige keeps hassling me to play fucking Banjo-Kazooie, which might be my most hated Rare game. Everything about Banjo-Kazooie makes me want to fucking throw up. All right. Well, like, they're so fucking stupid looking. Then live in your garbage world of ignorance. Like, what do you mean ignorance? Like, I'm aware of the game. Okay. All right. Let's, God bless.

Um, all of that over at pat, uh, twitch.tv slash pat stairs at. Okay. I, uh, this week managed to get through all of Mandalorian season two with punch mom, and we finished it off last night. And, uh, if anyone has been watching, I can say that there's been a lot of hype around this season. And after finishing it, I can say that, oh boy, uh, that is quality. Uh, that is, uh, that's a good show. You getting ready for the new fortnight season?

Uh, not really. I'm a dodge that. That's, I assume that's why you binge through Mandalorian is so you could get, you get ready for that new fortnight. No, I binge through Mandalorian so that I could like, actually say that, Hey, I, uh, so I don't have to say, Hey, I'm partway through it. Please don't talk about anything or spoil anything. Cause I don't want to bring up things that I'm in the middle of, uh, publicly, lest they get ruined. So, uh, I can say that, uh, you know, of course I'm not going to spoil anything, but Mandalorian season two continues to be what's great about Mandalorian season one

in that it is a like self-contained story that is basically aware of its size, aware of its scope, and aware of the fact that simplicity works. Uh, it doesn't, you know, I, I, a lot of the things I was afraid of with the return is that like being aware of how much people love it and being aware of the fact that it's a big hit would make the powers that be want to try and, um, gussy it up too much and basically push it, you know what I mean? Like put a little bit too much fucking makeup on it, try fitting in a lot too many other things. Um, and there are like definitely things like that that have been inserted into this season. There have been tie ins and, uh, references to outside things that like become more and more prevalent.

Um, but I'm, I'm not, like the, I did not hate the way those things were handled and I was expecting to. I saw people talking about like, oh man, they brought in this thing, not nothing specific, just this overwhelming feeling of, I can't believe they brought that back kind of thing. So let me further, when that finale drop, it seemed there was like people, a lot of people going, yay. And some people going, uh, okay. So everyone seems to be freaking out over me saying the word self-contained and whatever. So allow me to refine what I'm trying to say here. The first season felt like it was a like small scale story within this larger, um, you know,

universe. Uh, and that, um, it was about these characters doing their thing and it wasn't necessarily about going forth to save the galaxy, right? So then in the second season, uh, that feeling of scope and scale continues to be, uh, that small, but then they start implementing these other things from the franchise, as I was, you know, saying, uh, and I was worried that like this could go a kind of like, uh, any other, any other thing that ends up getting too big for its britches almost or representing too much. Um, but I felt that it didn't happen this time, right? I felt like what was implemented was kind of done. It's not grandiose. Yes, exactly. It's not grandiose. It's a good way to put it. Um, what I am worried about is that like,

I feel the way I did after watching Daredevil season one on Netflix, where you're like, oh, that's cool. This is a, you know, this is a small scale problem being handled in this way. And it's getting more attention. And with that attention comes the desire to expand it into a lot of things and make it almost become its own answer to move the movies in a way. Maybe it can be the new Star Wars. So because fuck, did they, wow. So Daredevil season two drops and then Luke Cage and then Jessica Jones and then iron fist and then defenders. And before you know it, you've got a big old Netflix universe of seasons nobody watched. Don't forget about Punisher. Some of them were okay. Others were not. And the whole,

man, there was such a specific point where everyone just stopped watching and it was really funny. And then all the, yeah. And so then all of these like spinoffs kind of come and drop and it ends up being like, oh, you've oversaturated this one thing that was pretty solid. And now some of them are solid. Some of them are not. And it's just a mishmash of quality. You know, maybe this season of that show is, is good, but you know, yeah, so you get it. This is first season of Punisher is pretty good. So that's the, that's the worry about like what could happen, right? In, in Mando. But at the moment I can say that like I liked the second season a lot. And yeah, I feel, you know,

like there's, there's, there's, there's the potential to still go down that too thin route exists. But so far I like what they did with that second season a lot. I really like the characters. I really like the fact that they took the time to, you know, obviously there's references to lots of things from the past in there. There's lots of little moments and there's a silly question to ask, but it's just, just kind of, it's just background. When does this show take place between six and seven? Okay. Thank you. Yeah. So you get, you end up getting a pretty tight time frame as well for this season because there's moments in the pre in the first season where they kind of solve

the problem or do whatever they do and then fly off and then you can go some time passes and then this occurs. But here it feels like almost like each episode kind of starts on the heels of exactly where the last one left off. So I'm always a big fan of like the 10 minutes later. Yeah. Yeah. It like, it like, if you were to watch it all in one row, it'd be like, this is a continuous event. Exactly. Exactly. This has a very clear case of, yeah, 10 minutes later, the next episode started, you know? And yeah, it just, it does some really fun things that you kind of want to see expanded upon. I can just, I'm going to talk around in circles, but it's like, it does some things where you're like, you know, it's, it is nice to see,

excuse me, to see what people are like when there's no Jedi around and what's, what's going on over here in this little fucking area and how people are talking about, you know, just like touching on some of those, those political things that Kotor was good at, you know, it's, it's, it's nice to see like these little things come up and, and not get ignored, you know, there's, they, they don't spend time dwelling on each of the things that we like, but they do give a nod to a lot of them. Like they give a nod to the idea that no one gives a fuck about what these stupid space wizards are doing and why they're fighting with each other. We're just trying to live, you assholes. I love, I love that these stupid space wizards keep ruining it for everybody.

They give nod to that. They give nod to, you know what I mean? They give, they, they touch on a couple of these little things very briefly and you just go, oh yeah, there's that little sentiment. So anyway, there's, and it's not, it's not this thing to say that like it's completely absent of like all of that Star Wars trademark content because it's far from, it's definitely not. Star Wars trademark does exist and does get inserted and is a part of the story. There's, there's, I don't want to set this up so that you think that's not the case because it definitely is what I am saying. I would give, I would give like my pinky finger to re-institute Kyle Katarn. What I am saying, you want me to get all into Star Wars, bring Carl Katarn back from

the fucking cannon ghetto. And it's hard to talk about Star Wars without just getting inundated with everyone's takes and all the one guys and everything. So guys, I don't want to fight anybody on this. If you think I might take on this sucks, then that's okay. I just, I don't intend to go any further with it because it's Star Wars and it's, it's like talking about the fucking Undertale fate and at Star Wars all at the same time. So, you know, I have the most complicated relationship with Mandalorian as I have not watched it. And I was like really mad because I wanted to knock in a name any names here. I wanted to watch it

with a certain someone. And I was like, you want to watch it? And they were like, no, not right now. And I'm like, not right now. Or like, you don't want to watch it. And they're like, not right now. And that continued for the entirety of the first season. Okay. And then it continued through the beginning of the second season. Did you see any of it? None. Zero. It hooks you.

And, and then I was like, and then the second season ended and I'm like, and then a different person listens to me lament this problem. And then they were like, well, do you want to watch it with me? And I was like, not right now. I'm like, fuck. Okay. Fuck. Okay. Damn it.

Well, I'm sure through osmosis you've, you've, you know, seen pictures of baby Yoda. Yeah. And things like that. Apparently they gave a name and everyone's like, I don't care. Yeah. That's baby Yoda. Essentially. That's basically what, you know, and I mean, they can redirect all their products as aggressively as they want. People will not stop trying and be like, stop calling him baby Yoda.

What they know, what they did was they, they launched the line of products because it was popping off and all of their toys are all saying the child. And every time you search for baby Yoda, it redirects you to the child and it's aggressively trying to basically go, yes, yes, we know what you're talking about, but please be aware. It's the child. I don't know. The problem with Star Wars, like, all right, guys, I'm going to tell you, here's, here's, here's the problem with Star Wars is they're like, man, who's this cool character? And then you get the action figure and it's Glorp shit face.

You're like, oh, cool. That was way better before I knew the character's name at all. Um, well, what's so, so yeah, what, what ends up taking place though throughout this season is, uh, as they did insert the Star Wars TM. I know, I hate that. I know like the exact flavor that you're just describing. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's there. It ended up not being, uh, as bad as I was worried.

And in fact, you know, uh, I thought, I thought it more or less, it worked for what they were trying to do. Um, there's two points of contention. It's, they're kind of shared. It's, I have, I have a point of contention. Um, there's a bit of a moment where, uh, like to talk around it, there's a bit of a moment where it's just like, well, I suppose the journey should end here, but yeah. Um, how about I come, it's popular, but I, but how about I like throw you, uh, MacGuffin mountain to extend things a little bit. There's a little bit of that, uh, that goes like, Hey Goku, did you know that somebody even tougher than Piccolo?

Um, you know, there's a little, there's a little bit of a like, yeah, a, just like it, it probably, you know, anyway, but, um, beyond that though, like I said, like everyone does a great job and, um, they, they, uh, yeah, they, they, they ended off and I was like, okay, cool, got it. Um, season three at some point. Sure. Let's take a look. Let's see what they do. Um, if they continue to insert more and more of the Star Wars TM, then, uh, this will surely not end well. Uh, and I think that, I think that like the people involved can continue to like have, uh, uh, a nice sense of control over it. But, and I think John Favreau is, you know, doing his best, but I do feel that like, um, this is, if Disney sees that people love this

more than anything else they've tried to do, that was more expensive and higher budget and higher profile, then they're going to start looking at this as if this is the big thing now and try to treat it that way and make it into fully Star Wars trademark, um, which would then be going the Daredevil route and kind of making it unfortunately suck at that point. I think Star Wars should be taught in classes about how the studio will ruin literally everything cool that you've ever made. Star Wars as a franchise is almost completely definitive in that was it made by the big company, then it sucks. Is it made by a bunch of smaller satellite companies? Then it's probably really good. Every time. Every single time.

The bloat is too large to fucking contra, there's no delicate touch when you have big old fat bloated grubby hands and you're, every time you turn, you have to knock over everything around you to see what's on your left or on your right. It's, it's just, it's too bloated to have that delicate touch. Your fingers are too fat to delicately type a nuanced script. Like every single thing made by Star Wars that wasn't like total trash, like, you know, the episode one game for PS1 or whatever, you know, like things of notable value that was not a big pushed license thing was great. Even a bunch of the stupid book shit that I would hear about in the context of your friend telling you about that stupid book shit.

A lot of that seemed cool in its stupid book shit way. You know what I mean? Like, oh, there's this blue guy and he's actually really smart. So he's the villain and he's literally just a smart person. So some of what both seasons of this show does is stupid book shit. Yeah. And they kind of went like, let's, let's put that on camera. Let's take some stupid book shit and let's put it on camera. And then you go like, Oh, yeah, it's the, it's that thing except in a completely different context. Okay. You know, it ends up coming back more than a couple times. But um, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what is, I don't know if the, if the, I heard a lot of people, you know, ended up liking, but like, I don't know if between then and now if the

consensus is, is the, I don't like, I don't know if I'm saying this and I'm, am I supposed to hate the season two? I don't know what, what the, what the world is opinion is supposed to be. I don't know what's supposed to be projected on me, but I'm saying that, yeah, I think, you know, if you check it out, you'll probably like it a lot more than other recent Star Wars media. And, uh, I, you know, for that alone, you should, uh, you should probably give it a shot. And then we'll see what ends up happening with, um, the future. I continue to be worried about the, the, you know, the, the, the big bloated eye that will catch note of what's happening behind it. And one of the fat roles of its giant girth, this nice little garden bloomed, and hopefully

they don't notice the garden for too long, but at the moment, check it out. I, I, I don't think, man, you know what act, you know what game, you know what's, what piece of media's fault this is? It's co-tor two fault. What is this feeling of misery looking at broader Star Wars, right? Where you're hoping for a Mandalorian as like a spinoff where they can, the studio can not ruin it. I know what you're, I think I know what you're going to say. And it's not just about the heights of what's possible. It's, it's the, you need, it's the, it's, you need the low points too. I agree. But there's, there's like, this isn't even a specific moment, but like, I remember playing through co-tor two and getting

to the point where Craya stops you and goes, what are you fucking stupid? What are you fucking dumb ass using your wizard shit like that? Like, what do you, what do you think you're doing, idiot? And I'm like, this is legitimately the most interesting thing that's ever happened in Star Wars is a character just being like, what are you fucking stupid free, free, free, free, free. And, and that game came out in 2005. 2005, I think I want to say maybe four. And just from then until maybe Mandalorian, I haven't seen it, but people are saying it's really good. Or maybe some offshoots in that Clone Wars stuff that people are saying is good. Just like from the big Star Wars shit, just like garbage, you are not allowed,

you are not allowed to deconstruct the franchise while it's paying attention to you. You have to hide, like, you have to circle strafe it and find a way into its blind spot and then deconstruct while it's not looking. And then it's eventually going to auto tracking overhead you. But in the meantime, you keep out of its line of sight to do that. And as long as you can do that, and people can run in and check out what you did, it's going to be fucking cool. Just it's, it's, it blows my fucking mind. Like, I think about when I was sitting there in, in the theater for last Jedi, and I can't remember the name of the last movie. Rise of Skywalker. Rise of Skywalker. Like all this fucking awful vapid force

dialogue about fucking nothing. It's about selling toys. It's dialogue about selling toys. Oh my God, this, this has no value at all. This is just total tripe. Yeah. Well, you know, the, the, the, the big old, like fucking epic fantasy is, is what needs to be the flagship at all times. So yeah, I think, I, well, I was just going to say that like, we'll see where things go, but there's no doubt that like they felt the, like they, they're still the market because you have to, but they definitely felt the pain of like releasing things like solo in between the episode years and realizing, oh God, like that watered it down and people fucking hated it and it lost a bunch of money, you know,

like maybe it should have been watered down further. They, they felt those things, you know, so we'll, we'll, we'll see what the, what the response is from, you know, whatever remains under the gaze, if you would. But yeah, that, all I got to say is just, you know, there's, this is one of the rare instances you have of like a, you know, depicted, uh, so this is one of the rare instances of like on-screen quality that you can go check out right now while, while the getting's good. Um, that's not necessarily animated or that's live action anyway, you know, so in this, in this rare instance, um, yeah, go, go see what's up while you can. I feel like live action has a kind of curse associated with it because

live action is always more popular than animation in any format and thus invites the bloated fingers faster. It's seen as more important. Like, like clone wars and all that stuff, they pretty much got to do their runs, right? Yeah. Like without, without the, the bloated finger. And then rebels even arrived. It's had a, had a, like they made a, basically they made a second, uh, uh, show after that, right? So. And then, and then Mando got through one season and then like, I don't, like the way you're describing it is the bloated finger has not touched them yet, but it hovers. Clone Wars has, um, and I'm still working on it, but Clone Wars has a lot of like, all right, no one needed to see that. There's a lot. There's, there's, there's, there's,

clone wars is a mixed batch. And then I believe it steers towards consistency as you go later into it. It took them a long ass time because it's many, many years of, of, of the series going, many seasons to figure it all out. But, um, yeah, whatever is live action is seen as peak importance, for sure. All right. Well, that's Mando two, uh, then, uh, something else was, Can I ask you a somewhat related question about Mando two? It has nothing to do with Mando two in and of itself, but it's like, do you, after Game of Thrones, do you just look at shows like this with just like a feeling of dread in your stomach?

That's what I was describing. Yeah, absolutely. It's like, oh yeah, just the, you know, the longer shoe is always being held up. Yeah. No, if, if you get, if the, the longer the carrot is held on the stick, the higher a chance it's all going to end in tears. Like it's, you know, we are, we're, we're good for now is what I keep saying. We're good for now. We'll see where it goes. But there's too many factors that there's too many, there's a whole lot of cooks trying to get into the currently single cook kitchen. There's a whole lot of cooks banging on the door and we have to see how long the door holds. They're trying to get in real hard. And the more people like what's coming out of the kitchen, the more cooks and chefs start punching and kicking and, and

flailing to get inside. Right now it's still going ding and a plate of something good comes out. But you're like, yeah, but the door can't hold forever. You know, it's true. So that was Mando to then another thing was Reggie versus demon soul started and I got to enjoy seeing Cherry Boy's first steps into that world. It's, it's a fucking unique experience, isn't it? Very much so. And I get it now. I get why it's so fun to watch someone fumble for the first time into whatever awaits them. I don't think I got it until I was in this seat and it's a lot of fun to see the, the problems solved in different degrees with different in various ways with different degrees of success. It is, it is really fun to watch.

There's this really, like even more than most genres, there's this real voyeuristic asshole aspect to it. Like, so I hopped into your stream when you were doing it, the very first one. And you were in one one and Reggie was just about to climb that staircase and I'm like, he's going to get hit by that fucking boulder. He's going to get hit by that fucking boulder. Oh, he saw it. Maybe he said, no, he did get hit by it. No, he did. Yes. And then I like clapped. And I'm like, yeah, like he's like, like the tool set that that he's got is such that I think he will continue to correctly assess the problem, but still fall for it. Because there's not knowing the problem exists and just eating it. Then there's assessing exactly

what it's trying to do and then succeeding and then there's assessing and failing, you know, and I think we're going to see a bunch of the latter. I also just, I also was sent a clip that made me like feel a joy in my heart that I have not felt for many years, which was you telling Reggie how to parry and going like no, dude, L2, L2. Sorry, R1 and R2 and watching him uselessly parry his shield and just being like, haha, now, now you will know. Now you will know the left and right funsies. Hooray. Hooray. Right. So it was a nice long sesh. And, you know, you can't really, it feels honestly like you can't stop until Phalanx is down because if you do on that first one, yeah, if you do stop before

Phalanx is down, then you're going to lose all your internalized lessons in progress. It feels like leaving. You're leaving them on the floor like your souls, you know. So getting to that point, cements it like you get it. You got it. It's in there now and it stays with you. And yeah, he left really hyped, really pumped up for this like, you know, still really nervous, especially since like, you know, this is also like his first time piloting a full thing. But he was very, very excited for it, you know, and as he said, he's going to review the tapes as if it were grand finals and like watch his footage back to see how to improve. So looking forward to continuing that tomorrow on Tuesday.

And I, I want to, yeah, just he, I want him to set up his, his, his sail or have his or whichever he picks and make his way through the ocean. And every once in a while, I might just blow a little gust of wind, but I intend to be very less say fair about, about the approach to this. And I think it will yield delicious fruit to stay hands off about most of it. I think for desk, probably the, the easiest thing in the world is just be like, is to be somebody who is like, dude, what does that stat even mean? Yeah. Yeah. The, the, the, this holy shit, it's not, it's cruel to you. I would be, I would like the only thing that keeps me like having to kind of like being more involved is the fact that they, the stats are still permanent

locks that go through, you have to go through all the leveling is all is a big effort time wasting stuff. Oh, it's a pain in the fucking ass. It's not a viable like respect. And I really, I kind of, it's, it's kind of sad that they didn't introduce with all the new stuff in remake, they didn't introduce a respecting item. Yeah, it's surprising weird that they didn't. And there was an interview where they specified that they would, but I think the language translation meant possibly they were talking about changing your appearance and not re-rolling your stats, you know? So if there is blue point out, where is blue point at? So a British team. So they announced taxes. They added all kinds of like

quality of life rings to the game and extra things. There's content. There's new content. Right? Yeah. They just didn't do that. If they did that, I would, I would just be like, all right, kid, have fun, you know, sky's the limit. But since they didn't, it's like, okay, I do have to kind of like present you with your options based on what you've picked so far, because you just, you have no way of knowing and demon souls does not let you experiment without committing. So my first run through deaths, like I made a terrible character, just like, like I had to start over. It was bad. Yeah. I was like, oh, I'll spread out my stats, because I want to do a little bit of everything. So I sure was able to do a little bit of everything,

a little bit of everything really badly. Yeah. Even like the fact, like the stuff where like killing an evil NPC still drops world tendency is just like, what, like, come the fuck on, man. Like I said, like, what is, you know, what is black world tendency about fucking killing Maralda, you know, or that or, or, um, fucking, um, what's his name, fucking, uh, Katana guy, you know, uh, Satsuki, you know, it's just like that, like, come on with that, you know, but anyway, um, great times, great times so far, uh, real fun sitting in that passenger seat. And, uh, yeah, the right level of naivete, the right level of, you know, not too many assumptions, but he's heard all the things everyone has, which is it's so fucking hard, dude, it's crazy impossible,

you're going to lose all your souls, all of them, kek, kek, kek, kek, you know, and, uh, and then just the realization that it's like, no, it's not that it's hard or impossible. It is a challenge. It is tough, but you just have to learn the rules. It's just needlessly obtuse about teaching you those rules. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like I, like I genuinely think the, the, like, so Dark Souls one is way harder mechanically and like, uh, just playing the video game than Demon Souls was. But it still feels easier because knowing how to fucking do a thing is so much less complex. Like I will, I will never stop shitting on how horrible the Demon Souls weapon upgrade system is. It's out of control. It's like they want, it, it feels like a game made by people who thought it

was cool that in order to play Monster Hunter, well, you had to go buy the 500 page guide. You know, it's the, it's obtuse and annoying, but I would even accept it if Meltstone gave you back your ore. Fuck no. If Meltstone gave you back your ore, I would accept the obtuseness because at least you're getting a refund. You could, you could fuck around and find out. That's it. Fuck around and find out, but it won't let you, you know? Um, so yeah. It's like, oh, you fucking, you melting down something that you spent colorless souls on? Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. So or you've, or like fucking Northern Regalia, right? Or it's like, oh, you want to go back to one of the two swords that you used to make this, like, and just lose the other one entirely,

you know? Uh, anyway, so I don't want to. So yes, that, that goes on. That has started and continues. And of course, shout outs to, uh, Mothman for whipping up some beautiful art as you do. Um, and, and having a glow. Mothman is kind of like the, the artistic representation of, of the Soul series. Has done a pretty awesome job of this, getting a Reggie and some fluted armor. So looks real cool to get the real fluted armor though. Not yet. No, there's no not yet. You can only get the real fluted helmet by beating Vanguard. Oh, isn't it? Don't you just pick up the fluted set off of the fucking prison corpse? So they changed the design of the fluted helmet when you pick the the night. Okay. And the only way to get the old design is by beating Vanguard the first time.

Yeah. Not the second time. No, you just get, you just get that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Interesting. And it's like, it's statistically identical. And honestly, I think the new one looks fine. Well, I mean, they fucking, there's also like red eye and blue eye sets. And it's like the helmet obviously changes, but the suit doesn't. It's the point of making two of this. You know, oh, there's a, there's a glow effect. That changes depending on which one. Yeah. Blue one doesn't and the red one does. Okay. Fair enough. They also have different stats. Yeah. There's another great moment where big old red boy is standing, you know, guarding, guarding, uh, the other, the guarding Doran and, um, Reggie stolen. Yep.

And, uh, and, uh, Reggie's like, yeah, you know what? Fuck it. I think I'm going to take this. I'm going to go, you know, like, and I'm like, Oh, you got like, yeah, sure you got that boxy. I like it. I like it. Right. I'm just, I'm just like, make a game plan, decide where you want to fight him. Let's do it. And walking over there, the spearman and, and crossbow combo fucks his world up so hard. I'm like, maybe you want to reconsider fighting red boy. You know, no, no plan survives contact with the enemy. I think is a old patent quote. Oh, just, just the journey to the challenge became the, became the challenge. It was great. It was great. So, uh, yes, I want to see the part where Reggie fights the red boy. Uh, yeah. I mean, there was, there was a walk over and a look

and I'm like, Oh, there he is. Okay. Well, let's go the other way. And as the camera is turning for him to 180 out of that pathway, the bread boy starts walking and he's like, yep. So anyway, and I'm like, by the way, I love that red. He's coming. Oh lord, he coming. And you're, he's like, what? They're like, make a plan. He's coming. Oh, so much fun. So much fun. Um, yes, Reggie versus Steven souls continues. Uh, and then you know what, you know what, dude? I love Shogi. Oh no, I like Shogi a lot. It's fun. Oh no. I'm enjoying it. I'm not very good at it. And I'm learning the ropes because I'm still coming off of chess as my introduction. But when I boot up Yakuza zero in between sessions on stream, I kind of just want to play Shogi.

So I'm trying to get, I'm trying to play through that and get better at it. Well, at least it's not Mahjong. It's not. I haven't tried Mahjong yet, but I know what Mahjong is. I've played it in real life. Oh really? I played, I played a bit of Mahjong in judgment like literally yesterday because I was looking through. I'm like, how come I don't have all the friends and judgments? Like, oh, one of them requires you to play Mahjong games. I'm like, okay. And then I hit the rules button on Mahjong and it's like, here's the 30 pages of rules on Mahjong. And I mean, I'm like, I like, I'm not going to do this. I like chess more than poker. So it stands to reason I'd like Shogi more than Mahjong. Shogi's fun, man. Yes. Is Mahjong

poker? Closer to. I can't make heads nor tails of Mahjong at all. In the sense that you have a number of cards that, you know, well, in this case tiles, but you're basically trying to build patterns based on winning combinations and playing those combinations. It's similar and Shogi is similar to chess for obvious reasons. You've got Kings, Bishops, Rooks, Pawns, all of the things, but they, you know, there's different core behaviors to the game that, that are huge, which is like, for example, the resurrection system changes a lot about how you play that. But yeah, the, the learning of the moves, the setting up of pieces and learning your opening gambits and things like that. A lot of that is, is pretty fun in Shogi. And I feel like it's like it's,

it's Shogi is chess combined with some checkers rules because crowning something for getting to the op, the opponent side of the board is a checkers thing. But in this case, you're doing it to chess pieces. And you can end up with, wait, what are you talking about? So in checkers, when you get your piece to the end, you get crowned, right? So that I actually don't know shit about checkers. What does that mean get crowned? Uh, you put a second checkers piece on top of the first piece. And then, okay, because, because when Pawns get to the end of the chess board, they can become anything they want. Okay. In Shogi, it's not just Pawns. In Shogi, it's other, other pieces can get that as well. So

you're, your pawn can get to the end of the board and, and, and, and get, get crowned. Get crowned or get updated, but like a bishop can do that. A silver general can do that. So like besides just Pawns, other units can get upgraded to, and you can also then place anything you've captured back on the board and use it. So you can actually like, if you have, if you're kind of stuck in a situation where you can, you have no way out, like, or you have like a bad set of circumstances, you can change it up by placing a dead piece back on the board and like changing it up, changing up the dynamic again. And same thing for them, you know? So it's quite interesting. I would like, I would like to hold up my hand and ask

the world a question, but Willie, you'll be the one who has to answer it. I am seeing some fucking disbelief that I don't know shit about checkers. I actually don't even know how to play checkers. Because when I was a small child, then like there was a checker board, there was also a chessboard and I went, that chessboard looks way better. And then was like, why would I learn the one that doesn't, why would I learn the one that has all the same pieces instead of the one that has all the cool different pieces? Is that truly that insane? I mean, it's, it's not about that because I had that too. And my, my mom kind of pushed my brother and I closer towards chess. But the fact that you would never once, not even once, ever consider

playing a different game is what's weird about it. Because I played checkers, but I don't know how to play checkers. Okay. Well, I think I've played a total of 10 games of checkers in my life. And every time I sat down, they had, I had to be re explained it because it never, because I only played the one game at a time, like sure there's a part. Yeah, sure. And they'd be like, you do this, and then I would go like this. And then they go, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop around my pieces. And I, and they go, you, you lose. And I go, okay. So I too massively prefer chess to checkers. In fact, like, that's us. That's a, when there's a lot of situations where people are trying to drop bars and they'll be like, you know, you're playing checkers, he's playing chess. As in,

it's a more advanced game. But like, I also played snakes and ladders as a kid, you know, I played fucking whatever dinky little board games. Snakes and ladders is fun. Like looking back on it, that game's bullshit. Yeah, there's a bunch of stupid games. But the point is, I played a buyer's game, I played a variety of games, and I learned how to play them and had fun playing them. But in the end, I prefer chess, you know, and when you're going to like, when there, when sometimes it'd be like sleepovers or like, you know, Christmas day, like board games and shit like that. And like, not everyone's playing chess with you. Not everyone's looking to get into the cerebral fucking battle. You know, some family members are just trying to fucking bounce black

and red pieces around the fucking around the checkerboard, you know. So for them, you play some checkers, you know, or you play some monopoly or whatever the fuck is going on. So anyway, shogi fun. Shogi good. I would like to how would you how would I what do you like it better than chess? No, but it's also not fair because I'm just getting introduced to this. And I've been I've been playing chess since I was a fucking, you know, taught a little baby. So it's it wouldn't be fair to compare the two. But right now, it's a refreshing take on it because it's like, oh shit, it's the thing I know with a lot of other factors that you have to consider, you know, the biggest one being that

whole fucking that resurrection game. It's like that on its own is is is a enough of a game changer. And of course, the fact to that like the the most basic AI in Yakuza zero still crushes you it does it slower, but it still crushes you. So you don't you don't have a grasp. And I also like that that that was my experience with the mahjong and judgment went to the baby table. And I'm like, I'm gonna play this tile. And then somebody goes, gee, and I go, what? Yeah, what is that? What does that mean? But you've got a super take back, though, you can use your super take back. I know I can't. You got three regular take backs and a super take back.

Wait, is this a real rule? And, you know, but in Yakuza zero, you can use you can press the button to take back a move three times. And then the super take and then the super take back. Hey, uh, yeah, I guess it would, I mean, in mahjong, it would make less sense because you're drawing fairly random tiles, right? You're drawing random tiles in that game, and you're using them like poker. So if you were to do a take back in poker, it would re randomize so that wouldn't work as well. Whereas chess, it's set pieces set movements. So you can undo those more simply. And then a super take back lets you move back multiple moves, you know, so helps for learning. But yeah, it's fun. I bet. I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be,

I'm gonna be trying to get myself into shoji. I beat Yakuza seven without playing shoji, shoji once. Well, there you go. Shoji. I want to, I want like the when, when I play the beginner level of a game and it destroys me. I'm intrigued. You get my interests very easily like that. So I'm here to try and beat that first 10th then and see if I can make our 10th Q rather and see if I can make my way up. You know what this reminds me of? There's a fucking bit in Hunter Hunter that's really bizarre that has to do with shoji. Sorry, shoji. Fuck. I said it wrong once and now I'm pronouncing it that way on purpose. In which they want to, they want to build up how smart a character is.

So the character like beats the world shoji champ in like a second. And then they beat the world mahjong champ and then they beat the world. I think, I think it's like backgammon or like go. Sure. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Like, and then, then I'm reading it and I'm like, I, they, they introduce a completely new in universe game for the character to play. And all I can think of is this person who writing it doesn't actually know how to play any of these games, but they want to write like a, like a go manga. So they're just going to make their own with their own bullshit that they don't have to actually attribute to real life at all. Invent a board game and you can do whatever you want.

I mean, you fucking Yu-Gi-Oh, like did sell a product, but weren't there moments in Yu-Gi-Oh where like the thing in the show made no sense with the actual product that they would sell? So I never watched Yu-Gi-Oh nor played it, but I am familiar with tons of people complaining forever. It doesn't work like that. Yeah. Yeah. I remember hearing about it. Like the one of the longest, the one of the biggest ones was, I want to say in, what should I call it in Pokemon, right? Doesn't Charizard like get fucked up by a battle that he should have won or something like that. I feel like there's a, there's a moment in Pokemon where there's a Charizard stupid and should lose every battle he's ever in because he's the loser

Pokemon for idiots. I seem to remember there was a, there was a huge moment of like that is, oh Pikachu was it? Okay. Well anyway, yeah, there's a huge problem. There was a huge, like that's not how the types work. Fuck off moment. And then I hear that Yu-Gi-Oh is filled with infuriating. This is not how the cards work moments. So yeah, you can just do whatever you want. If you make your own story, no one can stop you. Yeah. Don't disagree. Hey, Willie. Blastoise is pretty cool. Yeah. I would like, I would say that people who pick Blastoise is are all right. I think Venusaur is cooler. Blastoise is pretty cool. All right. That's facts. People who pick Charizard

shit their pants for fun. It's true. Wow, it's a dragon. Wow. Yeah. When I was, when I was in, in, you know, when I was in fucking school, that's kind of what I thought. I looked at it and I went, it's, it's a dragon. That's it. Even I'm going to take the tortoise with the giant cannon sticking out because it's more interesting than a dragon. Yeah. I want to pick the giant dinosaur that has a plant on its back that can shoot a laser beam. That's not how that works, but okay. It's a dragon. It breathes fire. Yeah. Wow. No. Well, it's as a Blastoise person has anything ever topped that part of Pokemon the

origin where Charizard punches Blastoise and Blastoise just looks like bitch rules the whole way through. Never been topped. The sickest shit that's ever happened. Fucking just the absolute best. But, you know, it was just a matter of like, okay, that's fine. The flagship design is the, is the lesser creative one. And that's all right. Not every kid needs to be, you know, not as some kids just like the fucking generic thing they've been served. That's fine. It's no problem. You can have that. I like the one that's a little bit more interesting because I've never seen that before. That one, I've seen that before. Not the same thing, but close enough. So fuck that one. Do something else. I gotta say, it's like that one as I live, I live with and I'm quite close

to and in fact share many affectations for a Charizard lover. And it's tough. It's tough. You know what though? It could have been a Dragonite on the box. Dragonite fucking suck. It could have been a Dragonite versus the fucking Blastoise on the box. Oh man. Yeah. What, what would have been a legitimately like good alt pick for the red cover? Okay, well it would have to be fire. Not magmar. Fuck not magmar. That it came and went. Those bubbles on the forehead. You're too weird. Okay. What do we got? It would have to be Arcanine. I think it would have to be Arcanine. Yeah. Moltres is fine, but then you're getting, but then the birds come along with the next ones,

right? So nine tails is pretty dank. Nine tails is pretty good. Yeah. That's true too. But Arcanine is like, that's your, that's like a boy. That's your buddy, you know, like you want to show off like, holy shit. You want to show off gen one. This is going to be a pocket monster that you can, you know, be friends with. You go Arcanine. Only only 12 fire types in the original. Holy shit. What about Rapidash? Um, a little, still a little too typical. Rapidash is cool though, but still a little too typical. I think a flaming horse would be a lot cooler than a shitty looking dragon for idiots. Yeah. It would be an upgrade. It would be an upgrade, but it wouldn't be better than an Arcanine. An Arcanine would be a great pick. I'm,

I'm scrolling down this list. The, the fire type life is the life between cool ones and total losers. Just no in between at all. Also to someone on the outside, like nine tails is beautiful, but doesn't say fire loudly enough for the kids. Eh, you're right. It doesn't say it loud enough. So yeah. See, the reason why Blastoise was even I, I like Venusaur the best, but I'll admit Blastoise has the best design is the coolest one is because it's a big animal with one goofy design element on it. That's cool. It's got cannons. It shoots water. Okay, great. Venusaur is less successful by being a, you know, having the bulb, but like it's fine. Charizard's just the base design.

It doesn't have a thing on it. It needs a thing. It needs like a knife or like a sunglasses or fuck off fire tail. Get the hell out of my face with that. That's basic shit. Needs more. Needs more. Needs more. Yeah. Like, you know what I needed? It needed sunglasses made out of fire. There. You see, no, no, no, here's the thing, right? Think fire tail, little small detail, Cyndaquil, whole back is on fire. Yes, he's Cyndaquil's better. So that's a more extreme take on it. Amp it up a little bit. Amp it up. That fire should be a lot more present. But even then you still want to go a little bit less predictable on it. So Cyndaquil is a great version of that fuckers on fire. Look at him go.

You know, so that's what I'm saying. Take your pick. That's a good one too. Man, this whole discussion may had a really weird emotional impact on me where I'm like, man, I should play a Pokemon game followed immediately less than one second later in my mind with, I don't really want to play a Pokemon game. Just get Temtem on your PS5. I'm so much more interested in the fantasy of playing a Pokemon game than I am in actually playing a Pokemon game. Like the marketing and all that shit portrayed a type of video game that literally doesn't exist. That the games have never managed to actually like convey, deliver on. Yeah, totally. It's my number one complaint. And it's the weirdest

thing that after all this time, they just haven't leaned into, you know, really just delivering that experience. They've got, I mean, it's an RPG series that continues on. And like for those that are in on squarely the RPG mechanics, like that continues to be, you know, successful. That's fine. But the absolute sense of adventure and like, you know, pet training and you know, little all that, all that stuff that just isn't really, you know, leaned into. Hey, you know what, I'm going to say something crazy, but you're going to, you're going to, you're going to understand what I'm talking about. All right. You know what, it's going to be a question to the world because you don't have any experience

with the game. But is Witcher with with the three is Witcher three with the Gwent combat mod, the best Pokemon game? I played Gwent. I played a bunch of Gwent on its own. I liked Gwent. Yeah. Because like you're going around and getting Gwent cards. And you're battling with, with your cards, but it's also a big adventure story. Well, I don't know anything about that, but I mean, the cards were kind of fun. But also, this is very important to me, at least when we talk about like that, that appeal of like the adventure and the, and the, and the buddy and the thing,

and the buddy and the thing, the combat also needs to be direct fighting with your monster. I don't want an indirect system like cards to get in between that. I want it to actually be, no, no, no, you're fighting with your monster. You know, if your, if your monster is getting represented through cards, it's not the same thing. Actually, no, I'll change it. Raidou Kuzunoha 2, Raidou Kuzunoha versus King Abaddon is the best Pokemon game. That's the best one. That game's incredible. So thanks. I can't stop thinking about something you said after we saw the, the Pokemon movie, sorry, the Pikachu movie, which was you talking about walking into like

the villain's lair and having like the fucking giant statues of like the God Pokemon and being like, why have we literally still not seen something like that cool? Yeah. Uh, that shit was rad. Like ever. Yep. It was so cool. Thanks to 13 Cent and why has, why has Ditto being a human fucking with people not been a plot point in a Pokemon game? That'd be awesome. Um, ah, shit, something I was going to say. Oh yeah. You just, you mentioning Raidou just reminds me that like, side note, 13 Sentinels has some great little details you unlock. Keep that thought. I gotta check. Okay. 13 Sentinels had a really cool thing where you,

like they introduced some facts about like students of different eras in Japan and they talk about the archetype that is the national school student from the, you know, the era of the war. And you kind of find out that like, yeah, that, that the uniform that like Raidou is wearing is kind of like, uh, there's a, there's a whole, there's a whole class and category for that where it's like students that we're learning about like how to be like ideal warriors for the emperor kind of thing. Like you kind of like learn about like that style and what that calls back to and the hat and the, and all of that shit. Uh, bankara is what it was called. And like, I was like, oh, yeah, there's a hole. There's a hole. I didn't even know that was a class, but it is a

class. Yeah, I didn't, I did. That was something that, uh, you know, because you, because like sukeban is a thing and bancho, obviously, and, uh, all that, uh, but like the, the, the, the, the origins of these words coming from like the mixture of like bancho and haikara and haikara was literally high collar. So people, people that were high collar were those that were integrating Western aesthetics into their, uh, Japanese-ness-ness, you know, um, it's a whole fucking interesting mishmash. And I was like, oh fuck, that's how the language got to where it was. I had no idea. So, uh, thank you 13 sentinels for the history lesson on bankara, bancho, sukeban, and haikara. Cause let's face it, man. Some of those uniforms are fucking rad. And when you see,

you're really cool, you see Raido with the fucking, that's all suited up. And you're like, damn, Raido is the coolest. However, the problem with Raido being the coolest is the, the background on that is a little, there's some, there's some shit to it, to that outfit. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Kind of sucks. That's what I was saying. It's like from, from the national schools, from the schools that are the national school of warriors. Yep. What are we going to do guys? Kill Korea. Oh no. Yeah. It, you know, it comes from, it comes from, oh shit. And in retrospect, there was a, there was a, by association, uh, Naoto gets cooler because of

Raido. Yeah. Uh, there, there was a kerfuffle and Final Fantasy 14 a little while ago, where they brought out like, Hey, you want to spend $14 on a special fancy costume? Here you go. You can play as an old timey student with a cool hat. And people that played the game in China and Korea were like, what the fuck dude? And they were like, huh? Yeah. Yeah. It's a little, yeah. Like, what if the, Raido's got such a cool hat. What if pointy hoods was part of the curriculum? What if pointy hoods were really cool? That's the problem. No, no, that's the real. Well, the problem, the real problem. I want to, I want to take that back that I said that so bad.

The real problem, as you just said, is not what they do and what they believe. It's that their uniform sucked, right? Yeah, that's the problem right there. Never mind the small issues. The problem is that the uniform was lame. If the, if the pointy hat and mask looked cooler, then it wouldn't be that bad. But they looked shitty doing it, right? That's what you're saying. That's what you're saying. As fun, as fun as this thought exercise is, I have to say, it's probably a really good thing that the outfit looks bad because I bet there would totally be the unironic people of like, oh man, I want to get hold of that uniform. That uniform is really cool. I mean, they should have got Hugo Boss on the job. As far as I could tell, he had free time.

Wait, did he? Hasn't he been dead for like? His company was available. Oh yeah. Because yeah, sometimes there's people that just say, hey man, fuck all that belief shit. Snazzy dressers, am I right? You're not catching me in this crap again. No, but you know who I am catching? Lemmy. Lemmy rules. Lemmy. Lemmy. God lemmy. The only lemmy that fucking matters. All right, the dead basis? Yes. He was awesome and he loved the snazzy uniforms. He was a bit of a collector. If you couldn't tell by the aesthetics and the hat and the styles.

I don't know much about Motorhead myself. All I know, honestly, all I know about Lemmy is that he doesn't know the lyrics to Triple H's theme song. That's my number one fact about Lemmy. More like the lyrics are what he decides they are after a bottle of JD. And then if he changes them, then the lyrics officially change. All right. For for a bit for a time, whatever comes out of Lemmy's mouth is the lyrics. This is reality. Oh man. It's great. Reality can fucking catch up. Anyway, more woolly versus yak is a zero more Reggie versus demon souls coming up this week on woolly versus. You can check us out over on twitch.tv slash woolly versus and on YouTube

at youtube.com slash woolly versus. We're also going to be we're going to be off for the new years, but you know, we're at least going to get those two sessions in this week. And other things that have been dropping recently include the best of Death Stranding, which shout outs to Civ. That's a fat boy. That is a humongous best of possibly too long, but it is all the moments of this enormous LP um paired down to a collection. Um, the first video was four hours. And that was part one of three. So in the end, it's going to be three long videos to get all of Death Stranding in. And um, I trust the the the judgment of Civ on that that like what's in there needed to be there.

But it I have a silly question here. It feels how long was your total LP of Death Stranding? I don't remember because he is 12 hours half of it. No, it's not. I do feel that, um, also it blends together with the time I spent off camera trucking. Ah, now, so I'm going to, we're going to try this out. We're going to put some fat boys out there and see, uh, what people think. Personally, I feel that if people want to check out a best of they're looking for brevity. So I feel this might defeat that purpose, but I we're, but we'll see complicated. A lot of people just want a big long video. Yeah. Some people just want to click on a long thing and let it go. So in that case, this, this, you know, we'll see. This is a very

experimental release for a very experimental last game. Um, I think it's longer than my desires, but we'll try it once and see how it goes. Um, and then, uh, you know, keep an eye on the response from here going forward. Um, 75 parts. Okay. In all honesty, if it was too, it was too long and you're like, I told you so, you can be like, cut the best of down to its best. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. You know, because again, to me, there's a, there's, there's different audience. Some people want that long video. Some people want to not spend that time and they're looking for the highlights and some people are looking to keep the narrative and have it make sense. So if somebody's looking for the narrative to make

sense, um, they're going to want to have the parts that need to be there versus if someone just wants, they already know the game and they just want those high, you know, different, different audience, different, want different things. It's, it's, it's hard. So, uh, anyway, this is all to just let you know that these are coming out. Uh, part two should be coming soon and then they're, uh, the third one, it's, it's, it's a chunky, but you know, let me know how you feel about it. And then, uh, there's that on the brevity side of things, we're also caught up on our best of Twitch videos right now. So those are also dropping regularly and I, from now on, we're going to be doing one for each month, but everything from

January up until now has been released in the little best willy best of willy versus Twitch clips. And those are all about like, you know, five to 10 minutes tops, uh, quick little glimpses into some fun little on camera shenanigans. So take a peep, see if you enjoy. Uh, that's all good. And, uh, yeah, obligatory, obligatory mention of guilty gear, lower episode two also available now. If you haven't seen it or checked it out, jump in there. It's a great excuse to start learning about what the fuck is going on in guilty gear. Hey, walls, do you mind if we swing it back over here? I remembered a bunch of shit during my week. I don't want to make some quick notes on. Yeah. Uh, so I had a Christmas mystery game thing

going on and I decided on Donkey Kong tropical freeze because of the 10 year anniversary of my time in the business, but then Bayonetta because Bayonetta too is a Christmas game. But originally I was going to play rocket night adventure because I love that game. And it's a game I never actually played in a video content form. Um, and I discovered a feeling that it's the first time this has happened to me in a while, but it hit me the hardest it's ever hit me in my life, which was I loaded it up and it ran great and retro arch is easy to use. I'm playing rocket night adventure. It's like, oh, it's great. And oh my God, how did I beat this as a child? Like, dear Lord, not that easy. How did I, it's brutal, not that easy at all.

It's brutal right away. Uh, the answer is through sheer repetition because the old and hard was your was your replay value. Your longevity was based on that difficulty because I, I just, I just played it like for like 40 days in a row. Nothing bad, nothing, but same thing. Mega Man two, you know, I just, I remember like, I'm fucking a kid getting through that game and it's like, how do you do this? And it's like, by sheer memorization of everything coming up. And then I'm like, I like, I accidentally did the dash into like a guy at a weird diagonal. And then if you do it at the right angle, you start spinning and you do a million hits instead of bouncing off. And I'm like, oh,

I remember how to do that against every enemy because I was bored and now I'm old. This is how video games fucking sold you, man. But I was, I was like of the opinion of like, oh, I used to beat that game all the time. I'll just load it up on stream. We'll do a quick run through. It'll be great. And like in the testing process, I struggled to get even halfway through the first level. I was like, oh, man, that's brutal. The other thing that I would like to discuss is that I actually went back to League of Legends. Ah, why? Well, so I actually very much enjoyed my time of League of Legends with League of Legends

a few last year. And I got into a very bizarre mood in which, do you remember last week where in the email part, maybe it was two weeks ago, we both remarked on like, man, RTS games are cool. Shit at them. And then I'm like, maybe there's some RTS games I can be shit at. No, not really. And I'm like, oh, League is a RTS, but you only control one character, so I could be less shit at it. But then I'm like, well, what stopped me from playing League back in the day? What stopped me from playing League back in the day is that I play on a weird TV setup that meant that when I'm trying to learn these items, which is a long and convoluted process, I actually can't read the item descriptions because the text is too small in the shop.

Like they are minuscule, tiny text. Even on a monitor, they're small, but they're readable because you're on a monitor, right? And I took to Twitter and I'm like, darn it. I would really like to play League right now, but I'm on a TV and my text is too small. I can't read it. And then some guy was like, you know, they just changed the shop interface like last week, right? And I was like, no. So I redownloaded it and open it up. And sure enough, the text has been enlarged by like 400%. And they completely redid all the interface around all the problems that I personally had a problem with. Nice. And the game is now totally playable in my setup. And I'm like, well, okay, then. So I've been playing it. And overall, it's been as much as people say League

is the most toxic thing ever. When the toxicity makes you laugh, you can have a really positive experience. There are some frustrations. And I'm not playing ranked games. So I'm sure that's a part of it. But yeah, I really like it. It's fun. It's a fun thing to do. I blew like a whole night last week, the other day, just doing game after game. The only problem I'm having for real is that I got okay at it last year. And I'm pretty sure my hidden skill rating did not decay over that time. Because I am way worse at it now. And the game is not taking that into account. So League over Dota. Oh, well, I mean, I actually, I actually went and checked out Dota before I knew they changed the League shop thing. And Dota has a bunch of, I like its overall interface design

better, except it also has the same problem. All the text is way too small. These games are made for monitors in front of your nose, right? They're not made for TVs in your couch. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Yeah, we know lots of games I run into this issue. Almost every game, honestly, has some kind of issue with this. Dota seems, how do I put this? Everything about everything about MOBAs is like it's the most incestuous genre ever. Because like, okay, where did it start to start with Dota, right? Well, that would mean the Dota 2 is the the the originator, right? It was like, no, Dota 2 is made by Valve and League is made from people who left Blizzard, apparently. Some of who and also League looks more like Blizzard

than modern Blizzard does now. It's weird. League designs do look like they came from the same fork that Blizzard designs branched off of. I can see those similarities, but they just go into a whole other degree of like shiny blitz. People who left the original Dota team, okay, that's confusing. Right, because Blizzard didn't make Dota, a bunch of modders did. I can see the connection between Blizzard character designs and then League of Legends character designs. There's a through line in that style of fantasy. Probably the weirdest thing about all these MOBAs is that they're all still based off of Dota, like the first one. And so you load them up. And if you want, you can go and just find the character that is this character. Like, how do I put this?

Like, do you ever played Diablo in upseat Leoric, the Skeleton King? Nope, nope, nope, nope. Okay. Well, let me just say, there's a big guy in Diablo named Leoric. He's a tall Skeleton and he's a King, right? Well, in Dota, he's Skeleton King. And then Dota 2, he was Skeleton King for a while. But then they made him into Wraith King to be legally distinct. And then in League of Legends, there's a guy named Mordekaiser, who is a tall ghost in armor that shares the same color palette as Wraith King, but has the same general shape as Skeleton King with the weapon that that character was then given in Diablo 3. Like, they're all the same character. But do they function the same in terms of gameplay? No, over time, they actually became different. I think Dota 2 is

probably the funniest one, because Dota 2, I think I did the tutorial and was given a character named Sven. And I'm like, that is literally just an orc model turned blue. That is like a Warcraft 3 model made to be blue. Oh, also, as somebody correctly mentions, and then Leoric showed up in Heroes of the Storm after Mordekaiser did and he has the same weapon and many of the same mechanics. And even though he's the original character, he is now a copy of a copy of a copy. It's so fucking weird. It's so fucking weird. Those games are all the same. That's a rabbit hole that will keep giving as long as you keep digging. So as much time as you want to dump. Do you want to hear about the final thing I have to talk about, which was the rabbit

hole that keeps digging? That's right. I decided for funsies to load up Fortnite. Actually. Yes. So when you were asking me if I was preparing for Fortnite, you were talking about yourself. No, actually, I just downloaded it and loaded it up just to see it for like literally one match, which I didn't even finish. And what was the impetus? I just so one of the things that I came away from playing League again was like it's really nice playing a game that has just has like tons of support. Just like constant new shit all the time. I feel like you go through a phase every once in a while where you just go, hey, mainstream, what's up? Why am I not playing? Yeah, I would want to understand.

I think that's what it is into the big popular. Yeah, it happened. This has happened many times before. So this is the latest incarnation of it. Gotcha. Okay. I feel like I check in once a year. Mm hmm. So I load up the Fortnite and dude, that that part where you turn the game on for the first time is disgusting. Like you get you get like the story chapter cut scene. And then you get hit with a barrage of ads that you have to click through. Like you don't even hit the main menu until you click through multiple ads. Is there an a paid ad version of the game ad free version of the game? The game is free. So I guess it is technically a free ad for supported version of the game.

But all the ads are for itself. And like it's it's like do you like the but there's no there's no like pass you can buy that'll get rid of all that. Well, no, the past you can buy is what they're advertising. And that's what gets you more stuffs. Hmm. Like you loaded it up and like literally the first choice the game wanted me to make was like, Hey, dude, do you want to buy a monthly subscription? You could get Mandalore. Well, that is how you become the number one fucking game on the planet, though, is it not? Yeah. It's just that's how you become stupid money rich. It was very extreme. This is how it this is how it happens. Also. So like, yeah, the first thing is a story cut scene. But the story cut scene is also an ad

because the end of the story cut scene, they're like, we got all the coolest heroes like Boba Fett. I don't know who that character is. I just I the Mandalorian guy and this anime character and shit like that, right? And then they hit you with the actual subscription ad, which is like a full full page. And it's and then I played the game and landed on a fishing hole and could fish and I got a fish and I don't know what that meant. And I was astonished that the game ran like shit. Like I turned everything up to maximum because the game looks like a World of Warcraft shooter and I could not believe my frame drops. Really? Yeah, it doesn't run immaculately.

That I feel like there must be a setting that Okay, I'm not crazy. I was like, I think there must be a setting that I'm doing wrong with my rig or whatever like actually how I don't know like I would turn the camera and it would stutter like horribly like it runs like shit. That's probably the most confusing thing you've said about this entire game. How does the biggest thing and ever not just automatically run flawlessly or at the very least have the settings to run flawlessly? I don't know. Okay. Wow.

Like I'm running it with an i7 8,732 gigs of RAM on an SSD, an M2 SSD with a 3080. And I was like, I was like clearing shit tons of FPS, but then I turned the camera and run and it would like just die to like 20 FPS for like multiple seconds. I mean, yeah, PUBG looked like trash, but like that was kind of like. PUBG still looks like trash. Let's be very clear. I feel like PUBG almost marketed itself on how fucking trash it looked, you know, whereas Fortnite comes along and it's like, no, but we're the expensive solution to all these alternatives, you know. So I thought their whole thing was look how smooth this is. I get the,

I get the impression that the game is better optimized on its mobile form, as that is its primary audience now. Well, then I suppose I'm not playing, you're not playing on the on the lead platform. That's your fault. Do you mean the lead platform it's currently banned banned from? Yeah, unless you're on iOS, right? Or rather only if you're on iOS. Well, you know what, man, we gotta, hey, let's call up our buddy Greg and get, get our free Fortnite hashtags out.

Oh, my God. Oh, that, that was a, I viscerally reacted to seeing that because it was just, it was the surreal nature. We're talking about hashtag. Yeah. And other people got free Fortnite branded clothing and with a big old phones, their phones in those boxes with a big old like clean fancy box and a whole like support the struggle thing. And it looked like a press kit, basically, you know, for this whole Apple versus Fortnite thing going on. But Apple for sepik. But the fact that it was so like you're using free Fortnite, like it's a struggle, like it's a major, like almost like a grassroots style protest. And you're all about doing, you know, about pushing it

like a movement, but you're printing it with your neat little perfectly typed letterhead and folding it into a box and shipping this expensive phone and shirt out to people of the press so that they'll join your struggle. You're perfectly printed, organized corporate struggle. It's fucking vomit, dude. It's it's like the game business and the influencer business now has always been like super rotten. Right. The one that always stuck out to me was GameSpot. What was his name? Was Brian Eckberg? I think they had a sports guy over at GameSpot back in like the aughts. He was a cool, he was a nice looking guy, handsome dude with the beard. I think his name was Brian. And he described what the review process

was for game reviews. Brian Eckberg, that was that was his name. Okay. He described the review process for I think a preview event for Forza in which Microsoft fucking flew them out to Germany to fucking race F1 cars on the ring. Right. Right. Yes. Yes. Yes. And then after that, they're like, well, now you can compare it to the game and you'd play Forza in like a posh hotel room. And he'd be and flight. It is it is the like that is the most manipulative possible experience. That is that is so at like Capcom used to hold its offense out in Hawaii and they would say it so that they could split the time difference between the US and Japan, but they'd also put everybody up into these fancy hotels in Hawaii on the beach. Yeah. Right. Hey, man.

As long as doctors are being invited to huge dinners by pharmaceutical corporations, video games are not going to fucking not have that. So it always makes me think about this because I was contacted by you and I both spoke to the same person about this. We were talking to them about covering a game for Atlas and they asked if we wanted to cover a game for Atlas and they offered us like a flight and like at a show and like all this access to a preview build. And then they asked, hey, you want us to your address will send you a big thing of merch. Right. And I think you just respectfully declined. But I was like, yeah, I don't care.

Just tell me if I can stream it. And they're like, haha, we'll get back to you. And then they never got back to me. And there's another of those influencer websites, the beg for codes that I recently just joined, where one of the things is here, put your address in so that we can they can send you merch as part of their offer. And I just wrote in, I don't care. I don't care. Just give me a code. Like any merch item that is ever sent to me for this shit is probably going straight in the trash. I remember a giant bomb again, when Skyrim came out and they got the review codes for Skyrim, they sent along this like four foot tall statue of the Dovah King.

And the guys are just sitting around looking at it going like, how are we going to get it into the trash? Because who cares? Do you remember? Oh man, this is the weirdest one. Do you remember when the Nintendo DS or was the DS light came out and they sent pretty ladies with DSs attached to them to fucking press outlets? And you could only play the DS when it was attached to the pretty lady? Yep. Was it 3DS? 3DS. They had the 3DS girls with the 3DS in front and you basically that's how you played it. All that shit is wild, right? And your own personal resistance to that is going to be specific. Merch, like I mean you could argue that I'm a chill for whatever,

but dude you could send me all the merch in the world. I don't care, right? But at least there's like an actual process happening. We've got people selling out before they're even given anything. And then they get rewarded for selling out early. Come on. What is that? You're going to sell out first before they even offer you anything? Well anyway, what kind of plan is that? Excuse me, I am more than willing to go somewhere to play a game that I care about if I want to get hands on it and I've done that and I'm down to do that. The thing with the shirts and stuff in

particular is interesting because I remember when we first started talking about Epic versus Apple and it was like, eh, I haven't picked a cider their way. Who cares? Let them fight. Whoever loses, we win, right? And like over the course of time, the flavor has made it such that you're like, oh god, the pettiness coming out of Epic makes it really like easy to want them to lose. And you kind of watch as like from somewhere between a fucking punk rock. Yeah, we're the revolution attitude through to a civil rights analogy. You go, oh my god, bury these idiots, please, please bury them hard. And I, you know, like regardless, I don't care how this goes, but what the fuck as we go on in time.

It's just like you come in with no bias either way and you just see the attitudes of the plaintiff and the defendant and you fucking go, oh god, okay, no, fuck that guy. I've made up my mind. It becomes quite clear that, um, is it Tim and then and over in Epic and whatnot. It's just like your attitudes make you extremely hateable here and the existence of thinking that the existence of this shirt and this box and this letter and all of this together is exactly the problem. Hey, let's, hey, let's all work together to free us from our bad mistakes because we're an evil corporate entity. And oh my god, we're so soulless. It's, I want to vomit. The idea that you would get that in the mail and not vomit yourself, but instead blush with, oh, they know,

they noticed me. Now I noticed that I'm fighting the good fight for them. Um, now, uh, FYI, you took back the week, but, uh, there was two things I wanted to, uh, address before we served right into the news because that's where all right, back, back to you. You take it back from me, taking it back. I just quickly wanted to ask you a question. One, uh, does anyone in the Yakuza franchise get a better introduction than Magima in the Yakuza Zero at any point? Better? I don't know. On par. Yeah. Tons of characters. Really? Oh yeah. Okay. That bodes well because that was probably that. It's probably the best one. I saw that and I'm like, you can't top that. I don't feel like you can top that. I'm trying to

think of how you can top that. And I'm like, man, you're really going to have a hard time topping that. I mean, you can actually argue that Magima's appearance in Yakuza one might actually be up there. We'll see. But, and I really like Akiyama and all the two of the characters that get introduced in four get really, really good introductions. Really? That was that left a very strong impression and it has raised my esteem of what's going on here quite highly. So yeah, fucking incredible debut of this character, which is weird because it's not supposed to be the debut of the character. No, it's supposed to be something that people who've already seen him are going, what? It's actually a vicious swerve. But to me, it was that because

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Yeah. Well, anyway, something, they'll tell you you. Not that much, just a couple of stories this week, one off the top, New Arxis, Neopole and aiding fighting game, DNF duel, dungeon and fighter duel. That's weird. I can't believe that's happening. I did not see it coming. I know Min has been a longtime dungeon fighter online player. So that's a series he's been hyping up and he's been telling me to try it out for a long time. And then when it got the beat them up version that was offline,

he's like, yo, check out dungeon fighter offline. So that thing kept going. And I had no idea that it was still going as a thing. But yeah, the newest big fancy Arxis anime fighter is dungeon fighter online. Although the I do not trust Japan to create the correct acronym for their work, because they're barely to be trusted with the title itself. Yeah, I agree. So unfortunately, they've tried to go immediately to know though it's DNF for dungeon and fighter. And it's like, that's not the way this works. Stop it. Stop it. Don't tell us what to abbreviate it to. This would have very clearly been called DFD is what it would have been. But instead now, because of their forcing of it, it's met it overlaps with Duke Nukem forever.

Yeah, man. Totally. So it looks like, you know, it looks like a Grand Blue and Dragon Ball and all the recent stuff they've been crushing it with and that like anime to 3D art style. But I don't know why. I do know why. But when this got announced, I was like, Oh, that looks cool. And then my heart sank a little bit because Persona 5 Ultimax just got a little bit more dead. Oh, yeah. With every new announcement, P5U gets a little more dead. So you know what the nail in my heart was for Persona 5 Ultimax?

It was Persona 5 scramble. The sequel game to the main story. They gave it to Tecmo Koei instead of ArcSys. Yeah, true. That was the major effort. Also, though I've been looking up P5 scramble stuff, there's something really funny about it. It has the exact same problem Arena and Ultimax did, which is they don't take into account anything that came in the expanded re-release. So like the events that are specific to royal did not happen, according to scramble. Wait, did the answer happen according to...

Yes. The P3 spin-offs? Colbin didn't. That's confusing. It sure is. Okay. Well, it sure is. I remember once upon a time we used to look at ArcSys and just go,

all right, there's Team Red and there's Team Blue. Oh, wait, no, Marie happened. Okay, never mind. Wait, but then... Doesn't the anime decide what's canon? I don't know anymore. I just kind of thought the anime decided what was canon. Well, no, because if the anime decided what was canon, then that girl that gave you the beef bowl would be in the game.

All right, I don't know. I can't believe she never made it into Golden. I don't know. And you know what? Not only do I not know, but it doesn't matter. That's all canon. Who cares? It doesn't matter. None of this matters. So the, uh, yeah.

Only nothing matters. Exactly. Exactly. We're on a pop culture video game podcast. Couldn't be pointless. Absolutely. 100%. That's my point. So when I think back to the older days, I remember when it was like, okay, there's ArcSys, there's Team Red,

and there's Team Blue. And that's all we need to know. And then, uh, things started getting a little more complicated as they became the go-to fighting game anime franchise company. And now I don't know who's working on what. I know that Team Blue was working on, uh, tag. And Red is obviously busy with Strive, but there must be, uh, many more teams at this point

because Dragon Ball still has its content. And, you know, uh, uh, Grand Blue still has its content. They don't need anybody to actually make that content. All they need to do is just change the colors around on a Goku. And then they don't. Sure. But actually there are still people working on that content. And then there's people working on stuff for, um, uh, uh, Grand Blue.

So yeah, uh, I guess at some point we just, we're looking at more teams, you know? Aiding, of course, is been, uh, the solid backbone of a lot of fighting games over the years. Uh, so this is not just only ArcSys. This is like, they put that name out there. I don't know who Neopol is, but I assume that must be the DFO company

since it's the first time I'm seeing it. I also don't know how to pronounce it properly. Neepol? Cause people is people. So is Neepol is Neepol or is it Neopol? I don't know. Anyway, um, it's looks pretty. Looks like a new fucking ArcSys fighter.

Oh, I didn't realize footage of it came out. Oh yeah. There's a trailer and it looks, it looks all right. You know, looks there's some characters doing some moves. I just saw the, I just saw like the logo like tweet that kind of thing. Not a fan of that logo. It's not the fan, not the fanciest logo. Yeah, it's terrible.

It's kind of just like a font thrown out there. Okay. Maybe it's because I'm not personally familiar with dungeon fighter online, but are these existing characters or are these like classes that have been? I could not tell you, but my guess would be their classes cause that's kind of how Min was describing the game to me last time he talked about it. Cause this straight up looks like ArcSystem works the fighting game. Yep.

They're classes. So there you go. Okay. Like that's, like I don't know how to describe it other than like, this looks like what my mind's eye creates when I think of ArcSystem works. Hmm, but it's not, but it's not, it's there. It's designs from dungeon fighter online.

Sure. You know, but like I look at the screenshot and if I unfocus my eyes, I'm like, that's blaze blue, right? No, the 3d, the 3d era of stuff is, is distinct from the 2d era of stuff. I would say, uh, but yeah, I'm refer. Oh, that's jam. That's just jam. What the, that's weird.

If someone does a big old dragon kick, then yes, that's, uh, uh, jam satanaka certainly. Okay. But whatever, um, the point, the point is that, uh, I think it's the word has gotten out there that if you've got a franchise that you want to fighting game made for, and you want to beat league of legends to the punch, get ArcSys on the case. Let's get them in there. Now how long they will be able to support four or five live games? We don't know.

Oh, don't worry. I'm sure they'll drop support for, for one of them soon enough. Dragon ball is active. This will be active. Strive will be active. Grandblue will be active. Uh, there will be four at a time. I imagine if they're making money, they have the ability to staff up a main team

and then leave a skeleton crew on maintenance. Absolutely. A hundred percent. That's how that would like just grow over time. The biggest question, of course, that everyone who lives, uh, on this side of the earth wants to know is, does it have rollback? And that has not yet been answered, but they've made their feedback clear because I want to say like a huge chunk, a sizable chunk of, of replies, comments, and overall

just feedback has been roll, rollback or, or, or get the fuck out, you know, show rollback or I don't care. No rollback, no buy and every variant thereof. So it's, we're in that age. We're there by people talking about grandblue versus and be like, wow, this game is great. It is completely unplayable for me. Even in the, in the, but like even in that time when people wanted it, it was never as

concentrated as it is now that this is the first major game announcement where immediately upon first footage of the game, people are like, yeah, that's nice. Looks pretty. Don't care. Can I play it online? You still can't safely go to locals. You probably won't for like a year or maybe more. So this is, this is the voices have been loud enough and loud and clear.

This is, this is the response. You kind of, you love to see it. You love to see it. You love to see, hey, confirm it. Let us know. That's all we care about. I know it's pretty. I know you know how to make the games look good.

I know how, you know, you know how to make the fucking fan service play good too. I bet it'll be pretty good. There will probably be some titty, some waifus will be there. There will be, you know, there might even be some move. Can I play it though? Let me know. Like really can I will be able to play it? Let me on the internet.

So that's dungeon and fighter duel. I don't want to say DNF God, you're not allowed. The deal we have here is you make a weird English name using this language and then we get to abbreviate it to something that is like, utterable. This is the deal. This is the deal. Like the, the really bizarre thing is that it doesn't even follow actual English language acronym.

No, no, it doesn't like you're, you were right when you mentioned it earlier. It, it literally is D F D people are going to call it D F D. You know, you don't, you don't get to decide because you don't understand how this fucking works and as a preposition, it's not a verb or a noun. It doesn't get capitalized in your sentence. Therefore it doesn't get a capital when you acronymize it. And if I make a Western, if I'm a Western developer and I make a game with a Japanese title, then you get to an asshole and you should feel bad, but you also get to fucking

decide how that should be listed when the time comes. You know, uh, uh, uh, Cacuto Choujin. That's cringe, man. Nah, dude, it's based. No, that is not based. That is cringe. Cacto Choujin is based. No, no.

Based as fuck. Did you see that edit? A fucking Huey getting thrown off the boat? No. He's yelling I'm based as fuck. I'm based in Red Pilled as fuck. Fuck you, snake. Can somebody send me that on Twitter so I can send it to Willie?

I can't remember where I saw it. Get on the fucking boat. Get out of here, Huey. You fucking asshole. You jerk. Man. Oh, that's strong. Huey is yelling that out over the sound of the waves as you get drifted away.

Oh, strong. Strong. All right, somebody just hit me with it. I can send it to you, Wolves. You can enjoy this. Make sure you don't play it on the stream because it has a bad word in it that Twitch doesn't like. Okay, isn't that fun? Big ups to Dakota McDoodle, also a talented artist.

Yes, indeed. Twit who made my profile picture. A fantastic artist. Actually, you don't even need the sound. You can just look at the subtitles. It's okay to laugh. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, it should be you.

It's okay to laugh. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, it should be you on this boat that's based in red pilled. The like that it might top my prior favorite, which was like no snake. It was you that posted cringe. It should be you that is on this boat losing subscribers. Like Huey is just such a Huey getting thrown into that fucking boat. Is

is a perfect thing that you can just slap any just terrible garbage ass. Oh no, someone's going to make it of me with the rare shit. Yeah. It should be you on this boat. Gangplank Galleon is terrible voice. Then And everyone's just staring at him. Yeah.

Oh man. Enjoy. Hey, if you want to scrape together. Five billion dollars. Okay. We can buy Studio MGM. Metro Goldwyn mayor is up for sale. Wait, I don't mean to sound bougie or whatever, but that's it.

That's a legendary movie studio that's made like 39 million James Bond movies. They have and it's worth five billion on the for that's it's up for sale for five billion. Yeah, that's everything. Wow, they're they're falling apart. I think I think it might be like after people have gotten in and gotten out and taken their share. I also think that probably there's a lot of movies that were made in association with that were not them exclusively, right? So James Bond films, yes.

But there's a lot of movies that are MGM partially funded where they don't own what's going on. The list of things they do own as a franchise includes 21 drum street, the Adams family, all dogs go to heaven, Bill and Ted, Barbershop, Carrie, Clash of the Titans. Oh, I misunderstood old numbers. That's not as low as I thought. The Dragon Tattoo Series, The Hobbit, Legally Blonde, Pink Panther, Poltergeist, Robocop, Rocky, Species and Teen Wolf.

Good old Teen Wolf. In addition to, of course, James Bond. Oh, did I just say Team Wolf? I think I did. You sure did. Well, I mean, yeah. So, yeah, all-star lineup. You get the James Bond license.

You get the James Bond license. You get your James Bond out of that. You do what you can. Yeah. I mean, hey, look, we also, like, I'm not, I'm not surprised because it's like, how many studios are suffering enough this year that they're just like, we're out. Fuck the sale. You know, just dissolve and grab what you can.

Hollywood's got to, everything's got to change permanently. The weird part being- Hopefully Hollywood just goes away. That would actually be the best for everyone. The weird part is that there is literally the last Bond movie with Daniel Craig. Sean just not sold to anyone yet. They have it, and they're trying to find a buyer, but, you know, it's just sitting there. So, like, there's some stuff, and obviously Bill and Ted, right, was coming back.

So, there's stuff that's shot sitting there right now, but I think the last news on the last Bond movie was they're looking to find an outlet. Yep. Yep. So, that's big. And what a weird situation. A little bit, but if we can take a little slight detour from the MGM franchise world into the McFarland verse, we can stop and see what's going on with good old Todd.

Because there was an interview that Michael Jai White- I thought you were going to talk about Seth. No. No. Todd McFarland. I don't think Seth McFarland has a universe just yet. He does. Well, yeah, of course.

What am I talking about? You're super. Okay, totally. You're right. I was thinking of the wrong set. Okay, I was thinking of the wrong person for a second there. You're thinking of Seth Green? Yeah.

Yeah. Okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I did the fucking- He also has a universe with robot chicken. He does have his robot chicken. Yes. I did the fucking Seth-

Back to spawn. Back to spawn, man. Yeah. So, Todd McFarland. Was the subject of recent interviews with Michael Jai White, who we all know and love. Black dynamite himself. Spawn man. Mr. Never Back Down.

Mr. Always Back Down. I like Mr. Jai White. Mr. Spawn. He's, yeah. And so Todd McFarland. So, he apparently has quote unquote been trying to get a new movie up and going for 23 years. And Michael Jai White says, yeah, he's been up and trying to get a new movie for 23 years. So I don't know.

The last time I saw him, he was telling me about his idea of spawn being ethereal fog that you don't see like jaws. He strikes you and you never see him. And I'm like, okay, good luck with that. Personally, I wish him well. That would be a major investment. What is up with creative and Hollywood people and the fog? What is up with that?

Why is it always like a mist and a fog monster? What every fucking time? Michael Jai White is like, what? And then the rumors about him possibly taking charge as the writer and director to which Michael Jai White replies, I don't know Todd to be a director at all. It's kind of like Stan Lee. He created the character, but he doesn't direct him. And I guess somebody would have to pony up a lot of money for Todd to direct for his first time

movie idea he has. I've heard about Jamie Fox starring in it. I wish them well. I don't know. Maybe it continues because this is what people like to hear from Todd McFarland. He can get attention by promising another spawn. I don't get it. So, yep, that's the state of spawn.

And I can appreciate the tone and the what's being the, you know, the call out. I can appreciate it because really I feel similar when he, whenever you hear about something and people go, hey, what's the latest on this thing that doesn't exist? Like the Metal Gear movie or reboot or whatever. And they're like, you know this thing or affiliated with this thing. What's the fucking, you know, and you're like, I don't fucking know. It doesn't exist.

What do you want? So he's just like, yeah, fuck this, like something about some mists, whatever. Who knows? I mean, for fuck's sake, we live in a universe in which there are movies like Chaos Walking that have been completely shot, then completely re-shot top to bottom and been done for multiple years and just not released. What is that? Chaos Walking is a little fun movie that I like to keep tabs on.

It was shot many years ago with Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley. Oh, and was apparently the first cut of the movie was completely unwatchable. Like even the studio execs were like, this may be the worst movie we've ever made. And then they reshot the whole thing. And that was like in 2019 and it's still not out. Wow, okay. Like they just keep tweaking it and fucking with it behind the scenes and trying to find a time they can release it.

Hey man, they got paid. God bless. Yeah. But yeah, there is definitely like currency in drumming up like fake hype for nothing by just talking about things and like it really sucks when you can get people continuously for over the course of years because they weren't paying attention the last time you talked about it. Dude.

You could just get a new group of people to be like, oh, did you hear they're bringing back whatever? And anyone who heard it last time is like, yeah, I guess whatever or they forgot. But you just, you have nothing to say for like 10 fucking years. I feel like we brought it up like two weeks ago when we talked about it. But I feel like it's actually impossible to fully get people, a lot of people listening to this to appreciate the way we say this. I have literally been told every year of my life for 20 years that the Metal Gear Solid

Movie is just around the corner, dude. They option the rights. They're looking at casting. They're going to, they're going to start filming it soon. And poor David gets hit up every time there's a story as well because people hearing for the first time or people with fucking Beetle memory are going, are you going to be in it? And it's just like, at what point does the human use pattern recognition to see the same story leading to nothing?

At what point does pattern recognition turn a light on in your brain so that you realize this subject has no ending and it's the same thing over and over again? When does it happen? Will it be the next time? I don't know. I don't know, but I'm like, it's, it's weird to me that people aren't catching on. It's weird to me that I have to point out that fucking the next time the Def Jam Twitter account posts some pictures about what they should be doing for the upcoming fucking game,

that it doesn't mean anything. Is no one paying attention? How many do you need? How many false starts do you need? The Def Jam Twitter one feels like, like somebody like fucking with people on purpose. It's crazy. That's the worst one. Is it just a fresh batch of people every time?

I don't know. Yes, it's two things. One is the fresh people and the second one is people that don't pay as much attention to it because they don't care as much. Right? People that go, oh cool, I heard I saw on Twitter there's a new Def Jam coming, cool. And that, and that's it. That's, that's the extent of the, you know, association.

Like people who are like, oh yeah, the Uncharted movies coming out. Don't remember back when it was being reported that the Uncharted movie was about a family of international art thieves, antique thieves. Yep, yep, yep. I think they wanted Joe Pesci to play the dad. And it was like, oh was that the Spy Kids era? Was that in response to the Spy Kids fucking phenomenon? It's like, yeah, people who think that movie's coming out don't remember that entire year

of being told that that was totally gonna come out. I remember, I literally, I remember reading about that at work. Making this up. Like, how many times guys? How many fucking times? Fucking Eurogamer.net articles 2010, 1201 Uncharted movie wanders off the map. Director David O'Russell recently divulged plot details. Expands on Naughty Dog's narrative, recasting Drake as a member of a family of

globetrotting antique dealers. This idea really turns me on that there's a family that's a force to be reckoned with in the world of international art and antiquities. A family that deals with heads of state and heads of museums, and meets out justice. Yeah, you know, at least me- I was right! It was Mark Wahlberg was gonna be Drake, DeNiro, and Joe Pesci were gonna play the dad and uncle. I can't believe I remembered the Joe Pesci thing correctly.

Sick. It's great. That's something you read and you go, that is not going to happen. Yeah. You know, at least the Neil Blancamp Halo stuff actually went somewhere. The stuff that you record and put out looked cool. Because that was on that list of like, how long are we gonna be hearing about this for? You know?

Man, Bungie tanked that. You know that? Like, Microsoft was all good to go and- That's what I heard. That's what I heard. It was really simple. Neil was working on it and he had all this cool shit he wanted to do. And Bungie would walk-

Bungie was like telling Microsoft that you had to walk into every meeting with this giant bible that was like, like 2,000 pages. And it has to, it can't contradict any of this shit. And they'd be like, okay. And then they would just shoot whatever they wanted anyway. And then somebody would come over and be like, well, actually, you know, this doesn't work because- And just fucking completely fell apart. They got to put out the landfall shit though, right?

Yeah. The couple of shorts to, you know, you got something out of it. But yeah, it just, it's exhausting that these stories come and go and come and go and come and go. And like anyone who is paying even remotely close attention just goes, wait, didn't I hear about this last time? Didn't it fucking go nowhere? You know, anyway. Yes. So enough of that.

Is it in your reboot video where you describe the process of being told that reboot is coming back? From the day the series ended until the modern day that, until the day the video was released, the timeline of how many times the reboot reboot was announced. Yes. Because that's probably the best description. Like if you guys want to know more about this nonsense of like, no, it's totally coming, bro. When it's a massive lie. That is a perfect microcosm slash timeline slash explanation of the process

where you went into exhaustive detail of like, no, it's totally happening. Well, there's no other way to present that to what was thousands of people contacting me to ask if I knew about the reboot reboot once a year, every single year. Like I needed to make a definitive answer to thousands of people asking me if I knew about this stupid thing. It was, it was, it was ridiculous. It was absolutely absurd. How many people had no idea how many times this thing would fucking come back, you know? So, yeah.

So that's just fucking happening over there. God bless Spawn, hopefully. Oh, and his smoke, yeah. The ethereal smoke that is Spawn. That's the whole movie. I love it. I love it. Yeah, that's, that's what I think of when I think of Spawn.

What might be the edgiest mainstream comic book hero? Spikes and chains and shit. Ah, but what if it was smoke? Find a way to make a McFarland toy out of it. Fun, God, that'd be terrible. Speaking of old shit coming back, um, someone has put together a resurrection of the X-band server. Get out.

Do you remember X-band? Of course I do. It was at the end of EGM. Hey man, you want to do your X-band shit? Okay, well, I guarantee you most of the people listening to this probably do not know what it is. I've never seen an X-band. It's a pretty interesting thing to behold. It's a, it's an interesting site.

It's a cartridge with a modem in it. X-band was the original way to play net play for a couple of games on the Genesis and the Sega and the Super Nintendo. And it was basically a cartridge that you'd plug in your dial up to and then plug your lock on top section cartridge to like Street Fighter or Mario Kart or Weapon Lord. And then you would play online with other people. The problem, of course, is that it sucked and it was trash. It wasn't very good.

But like, yes, but this is crazy. You can play Genesis games online. That is wild. You could actually send emails through like X-mail or whatever. It was called, there were like, there was a home server website that you'd connect to and that you could find other users and your data was stored locally on your X-band, which has a battery that does die. And when it dies, you lose all that data.

But like, you absolutely could create like what was effectively an email account on this thing back in the day, you know, it was crazy. It was great. So, yes, the channel on YouTube is agrisan has taken it upon themselves to bring these servers back online and actually allow you to connect to them using voiceover IP landlines or a Raspberry Pi. And you can actually use, you can use the X-mail cross play between Genesis and SNES. You can use the player lists.

You can, you can actually connect and find people and friends and stuff like that. The actual gameplay is still super rough in perfect conditions with a voiceover IP adapter. You can get a smooth game of Mario Kart running. But right now it's still extremely spotty and busted up and just like X-band. Yes. But if you're a retro enthusiast that wants to actually try playing games legitimately off of your cartridge on multiplayer, you can do it like this. So, hey man, like resurrecting old tech and giving you an option to at the very least

archive what this was is great. History needs archives, you know? Why the fuck not? There's a full detail on like getting a battery to replace the dead one that you probably have inside your X-band and the supported games for this NES right now are Mario Kart and Super Street Fighter 2. Weapon Lord is currently not supported, I believe. But yeah, this is one of those fucking just fascinating little digs, you know?

And I'm always a fan of seeing things like Metal Gear 3 online coming back or, you know, other games that are otherwise dead, getting hosted by fan-made servers. So this is just another one of those, you know? X-band. I missed Metal Gear Solid 3 online, man. That was a good game. It's great to see people get that shit going. There's a lot of people that want to play things with the actual original hardware

and, you know, if this can be set up to get like perfect net play, that'd be fucking cool. Wouldn't that be non-accurate? Yeah, but it'd be cool to be able to do it on the hardware nonetheless. I don't know, this is complicated. It is, but to people who care to that degree, the option should be available. If you give enough of a fuck that you want that absolutely perfect, unemulated experience with your SNES hardware or your Genesis hardware, you should have that. Then if they can get this running, it's great.

I mean, there's a lot of, there's games that are not, there's games that are not perfectly emulated in a lot of cases, too. Or there's like slight differences to sound or slight differences to, you know, different ways that things run. So yeah, fun little project out there. X-band coming back. Punch Planet has a new character, Arnoid. It's a big old robot.

Oh, I remember when that was just a shadow on the screen. So now you can see it. I believe it's available on the Apple Store builds for now on the Apple Arcade. Oh no, Steam as well, there you go. Yeah, Arnoid, it's a robot and it moves like a robot and it attacks basically by like sticking its limbs out and sort of like, it's, the style looks great for the game. It's basically almost like a cooler version of Rob the Robot. It has full aerial control with a little like flight mode, little lasers, hammer addons.

How could any robot be cooler than Rob the Robot? How could you say that? By having slightly bigger proportions. No, by doing anything, Rob the Robot sucks. I was being facetious. You're right. It's great. Arnoid looks cool.

Arnoid, is that like R, just the word the letter R? No, ARN-01D. I'm just calling him Arnoid because that's what it looks like. Wouldn't that be Arnold? Could be. The one could be an L or an I. I saw, I, my brain turned it into an I. Oh wow, that's a robot.

It's a robot. That's just a robot. That's like your printer attacking you. It looks like a printer up top with, with a big old like add 209 legs below or metal gear racks legs below. Yeah, yeah, punch planet looking strong. Near, near reincarnation coming out in February 18th. So that's the, that's the mobile. Oh, they're going to have a crossover event with a near-automata in which 9S,

2B, and it seems like A2 will be playable in that game at launch. So, check that out. And I want to, like, seeing the trailer, I kind of want to go, okay, well, this is a fun little non-canonical thing. And then you go, wait, no, you can't say that until you know for sure. Oh man, if you want, oh, this is totally non-canon, isn't it, followed by wait, what? Oh man, that FF 14 quest line went in like, so they put, they have the big part on the odd numbered ones, and then they have a little side quest that takes like half an hour,

like on the even numbered ones. And the last one is, it's, it's literally crazier than anything that happens in Automata. My friend was screaming at me, she was telling me, like, dude, like, holy fuck, what they're doing with this stuff. And I'm like, okay, okay, okay. Like, it's, it's going to be that the 14 quest line is the Rosetta stone to the series. Yoko, you fucking son of a bitch.

Like, it's so out there. God, like, Yoko knows, he knows that you don't have to make everything matter. You can make some things not matter and just be little cool nods to stuff that people know and like. But nah, though, none of, none of it's irrelevant, it all has to matter. So fuck, yeah. You see, he said, interview of him recently where he's getting super pissed off that people call the protagonist of near and near. No, he's like, that's not his name. His name is protagonist. You name him yourself.

But everyone calls him near. I hate it. Yeah. And, and then the interviewer is like, didn't you call him near in some of the visual in some of the drama CDs? Yeah. And he's like, yeah, the publisher made me. So wait, who's near? But near is nothing.

Near is the name of the game. He doesn't have a can of name. It's whatever you name him. Because I was always on about how it was kind of weird that the franchise is named after this main protagonist from this game, but in the end, they had to go with it because people know what it is. So the sequels have nothing to do with this character, but we're still in the game. We're still calling the games these near because that's the name that was already out there. No.

What? Because it came off because in the trailer, like it was like Kine and then and Emil, right? And then it was protagonist. And then the interviewer goes, why is this why do you call him protagonist and not near? It's like, because his name isn't near. It's like, Yoko, are you insane? Oh my God, I think he's actually insane. And then he goes like, well, we made sure that no one ever calls him by his name in the game ever.

Yeah, it has an RPG insert your name thing. Sure. And then and then people are like, wait, isn't like the interviewer points out. But what about all those parts where like characters saying near this or near that? And he's like, well, that's because you named him that way. Oh my God, that's like, it's like, this is like getting mad that anyone dare call him Krono or or are you Narukami? You know, like it's one thing to put in the insert your main character name trope system

in your game, whatever. But usually for the sake of understanding a coherent story, we assume that there's a canon name. And in this case, it's all the fuck. It's always really funny to me because whenever they're like the main character has no name. The first thing that the community of that game does is fight to discover what they're going to call the character Minato Arisato. Yeah. And then the movies changed it, but that's still the one that I have in my head.

Right. And then like the fallout games, like what is the name of the fallout characters? They all actually have names, right? There's the vault dweller, the chosen one, the lone wanderer, the courier. And I forget what the guy in four is called. But like they all they all have titles, right? What's the name character's name in Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne? Demi Fiend.

Demi Fiend. That's not his name. But yeah, bad. Now it's his name. His name is Demi Fiend. Joker gets to fly by Joker in Smash Brothers. That was their solution. That was a Kira solution to that.

His name is a Kira, but they get to fly by Joker. Because like there's so much like, dude, playing through Persona 4, it is so awkward how they have to dance around the fact that your character can have any name. Like there are some parts where where Yosuke goes, all right, let's do it. Leader leader fucking. You try saying that to this guy. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, buddy. But then again, Byleth is just Byleth, right? Yeah. And that's fine. Like just do the thing where they ask you what the name of the character is and it says cloud and then you can choose to delete it. But if you press okay, it's cloud. And then the voice acting is there for cloud.

Oh boy. Well, now you're asking a lot. Oh man, when I was playing Shining Force 2, it asked you to fucking name your character, right? I would name him whatever. I'd usually name him Pat because of course I did. And then like many years into playing that game, I decided to make another run. Like I wonder what happens if you just hit end with nothing on it, right?

And it goes, did you pick Bowie? I'm like, what? What? What? That name sucks. And I was so mad because I felt like the game like changed my character's name to a shittier name. That's good. Oh, it's the last name.

I think it's a terrible first name. I've given up on it. And Shining Force 1 is the worst because the main character's name is just Max. Like if the world is such that it calls for me to make a self-insert, then so be it, right? If I'm playing Monster Hunter or a Souls game, then so be it. But if at all there is a story that exists without a self-insert, I want that 10 times out of 10. Yeah. And I mean, there's obvious ways around it.

And Monster Hunter, they easily get around it by just calling you Hunter. Right? If you want the character's name to be whatever they want and aggressively whatever they want, right, then make it so that there is a title or job or something, right, that they call you. Like imagine if you could choose your character's name in Ghost of Tsushima, right? Then it would work fine as long as they always called you Ghost. Ghost, yeah. Or by your title before that.

Right, yeah. Yeah. Hey, you know how you were like, oh, whatever that fucking Mando guy is? Yeah. He's the Mandalorian. Yeah, there you go. Bam it. I actually confused myself on that more because I know more about that than I should because I

called him Mandalore first and then my brain went, wait, no, is he Mandalore? I don't even know. I didn't watch the show. He's probably not actually Mandalore. Hmm. You're getting yourself all wired up in a bunch of weird wires. Am I? I don't know.

He's the Mandalorian. Okay. That's it. Okay. That's it. Anyway, that upsets me to know that Yoko is mad at that and it also upsets me extra hard because it's not like Nir has an actual definition then. You're yelling about people calling him Nir, but then you won't say what Nir actually is.

Fuck you. Yeah, Nir's a made up word. That sucks. I guess it made sense to everyone that it would be the character's name because it's a made up word. That's so fucking frustrating. Like define the thing then because you have an undefined thing that is the title of the franchise and then you have this unnamed character. So people put two and two together and you say A is not A and B is not B.

So then okay, then tell us what A is. Yeah. People are saying it means curse. I don't know what language that is. And if it's a made up language, it doesn't count. Nir means Japanese sword. Okay. It does.

You're right. Yeah. So we'll see if that collaboration event is or is not canon, but playable to be in 9S. Coming to the mobile in February when it launches. Bloodstained Ritual of the Night is getting something called classic mode where the game basically is rearranged to resemble old Castlevania with the stairways and the candles and the screen scrolls. So you can check that out.

I think it's like, yeah, it's just like five levels and a couple of bosses, but in January it's getting an update for that. So yeah, that's fun. It's nice that bloodstained is kind of continuously getting support. I like that franchise continues to be a thing. It's good. Man. You beat it?

No. Did anyone? No. It seems pretty cool. Never finished it, but. It just kind of, everybody just kind of, I feel like that game just like came out and I was like, you know, just, yeah, a little bit, a little bit, but it seems good though. Like nothing about it, you know, seemed to be.

I have a really, I have a really stupid problem with Bloodstained and it really shows off, I don't know, either a personality flaw with me or the power of brand. And I'm playing it and I'm playing it and I'm like, man, I can't fucking wait to kill Dracula. And then the shitty villain that's like a nerd showed up and I'm like, oh, oh, you're not Dracula at all. No, not even. That's not, no, not even. And really, that's how you felt, huh?

Yeah. Interesting. It's weird because that's one of the only series that I'm like that. Like, yeah, no, dude. I, when I played Shovel Knight and I saw a fucking Shield Knight and Black Knight, I was like, yeah, I want to fucking fight those guys. That's cool. I want to fight with Shield Knight.

I want to fight against Shield Knight. I want to fight against Black Knight. I'm like, I'm in. Really cool. Yeah. I was in with the world that was introduced. Yeah. But this, this one felt weird to me because this was a world that this is the off brand world.

Like, I'm not Shanoa. Did you just, so, so what you're saying is you never accepted bloodstained as not Castlevania. Oh, it's, it, it, it, we're talking about how it's introducing a classic mode despite the fact that it's a brand new game. Yeah. So how is it classic? It's classic in that it's, it's a Castlevania game. It doesn't, it's not trying particularly.

It even portrays itself as a Castlevania spinoff. Yeah. No, it's not trying to like say that it's not referencing all of Castlevania because it clearly is like this, a spiritual successor. But I mean, it still gets to be its own thing though within that. No, it doesn't. It absolutely, everything about that game is Castlevania is shit. It is absolutely supposed to be, I don't have the rights to Castlevania.

Here's a new Castlevania. It doesn't get to be its own thing when it's that similar to the old thing. So it has to have a Dracula fight? No, that's my own personal thing. But the idea of saying that bloodstained is totally its own unique thing is absurd. No, I'm completely ridiculous. I get what you're saying. I'm what I'm trying to like.

There's like a half, there's like a half truth here where I'm trying to say, like I'm trying to say that it's clearly meant to be a spiritual successor. But I guess it within that it can have its own identity. Like there can be a little bit of that at the same time. Like it can have a unique identity as bloodstained while still being in that thing. I totally disagree when it follows the formula. So exactly like blasphemous if it was made by Ega while also being very similar to Castlevania and a Metroidvania and all that could totally maintain its own identity

because blasphemous has tons of shit going on that's different. You know, part of this is straight up a new Castlevania game that doesn't have the rights to Castlevania. So I definitely don't know enough to be able to say whether it's trying to be one or not because I haven't beaten it, right? I haven't played it through to enough beyond the first couple, the first hour or so. If I played it and like felt like it was trying to do that, then that would be more valid.

But I yeah, I don't know enough to know that I can say for sure. I mean, I'm a lot more familiar with Castlevania series. All the systems and the way you move and all the attacks and the shape of all the rooms is 100% a symphony unite slash a fucking aria of sorrow. I guess what it kind of comes down to is like if something is trying to evoke the spirit of something else to whatever degree that it's trying, right? But it then doesn't incorporate some of that thing that you're looking for. No, this is the part that I'm like, this is the sticking point.

It does incorporate literally everything. It's just not the named character. Okay. Like you could actually visual like like palette swap the game into a Castlevania game. And it would be a pretty good Castlevania game. It's just that OD is not Dracula. Like that's my problem with it. But the idea that like that like Bloodstain is like meaningfully different from Castlevania

is complete nonsense. No, again, I'm like, I don't know enough about whether or not it's trying to do that or so. And it clearly is meant to be like, again, the Egavania thing is what they branded it on. It's what they pitched the Kickstarter on. So yeah, I'm not at all saying that it's not part of that like clear spiritual successor lineage. That's what that's what it is. That's what it's pitching. That's what it's you're there for.

What I'm trying to say is what I was in the middle of saying is like, if something is a spiritual successor or something else and it's evoking a lot of these things from a thing that you know, but there's some of those things it doesn't evoke. If it doesn't grab all of the things or if there's something that happens to be missing, is the named characters. But what I'm what the end of my sentence is, is it allowed to do that slash? Is that okay? Absolutely.

That's why I keep saying over and over like it is a personal thing for me that I just want to fight Dracula. It's the name swap. So what if what if the game allowed I have like a weird romantic idea of fighting Dracula. So what if the game allowed you to rename every character as you met them like FF7 did and or FF games do and then you just renamed them to whatever you want. Oh, maybe, maybe, maybe. What if you could rename every character to whatever the fuck you want in your own save file?

How do you feel about that? Oh man. I don't know. I might know. Okay, okay. All right. This might make a little more sense where when I think there are certain video game villains or whatever and this context may not make sense to a lot of people but

that I have literally been beating up since I was a child. Right. So like and so have many of you like there's Ganon, right? How many times will they have you put Ganon in the dirt? Many times. I imagine. Many times. So when a new Zelda comes out with the exception of Twilight Princess because I actually really

don't like Ganon in that game and Brother Wilde shows up and fucking defeat Ganon shows up on screen. Right. I'm gonna fucking kill Ganon. Fuck you Ganon. Right. We got to do this again. Fuck you Ganon. For people who've spent a lot of time in the Metroid series even I only played really the

Prime games and Ridley showing up all over and over and over. Right. Like fuck you Ridley. Right. I feel very strongly about that with Dracula and I'm aware people that may be screaming at their TV right now that there is a character incredibly similar to Dracula that may in fact even have Alucard's voice actor in the game. But that just feels like off-brand Dracula.

The same way that a giant lizard that's not a turtle in a Mario spinoff game that doesn't feature Mario would be an off-brand Bowser. I feel very strongly that something that comes after something that resembles the thing that came before can still be its own unique thing if that's what it wants to be. It doesn't try and be in its own unique thing. Like there's literally an alternate Dracula in that game that's every it's it's Dracula but it's but it's non-Dracula.

Which is what frustrates me so much. Zooming out from the subject matter. I happen to feel that things that come that resemble things from before can be their own thing in general. What are you talking about? Oh like woolly versus. Like do you have another example or yeah woolly versus. That's that's the that's the that's the haha.

I mean it's it's clearly its own thing but your channel is clearly the closest to the old channel. It is it is with the intention of by a by a country mile. Certainly and the difference is is whether or not I'm held to the standard of the old thing of the old channel and whether or not I have the freedom to do what I want with it. And whether or not you have the you have the freedom to do whatever you want to do whatever you want. Yeah the different but like will the will the response to like being tethered or not be acceptable or not.

There's a whole difference between what I there's a whole there's a difference between you know I'm going to do what I want which is what's always going to be the case and what the reception will be. So anyway I was a thing you do if anything you do has a superficial or higher similarity to anything that came before their direct comparable things and too bad. It is the it is the law of of people's opinions and it sucks shit. Yeah. No I just as we were talking I thought it was a funny parallel within bloodstained in

Castlevania and I was like haha maybe I can pull I can bring this up. But yeah in general it's like OK with this woolly want it's like if I start basically going god damn it Pat bloodstained doesn't have to be Castlevania. It's allowed to be what it wants. Fuck you. Fuck you. Well yeah and it just and you're like dude what is wrong with you. I'm like why do you have to put your shit on bloodstained.

If bloodstained didn't want to be Castlevania then why did it's fucking create everything in its format to be exactly the same as Castlevania down to the amount of videos. I to say. Oh fuck yeah. What are we talking about bloodstains ritual of the night. I am like you got a whip in that game. You know that. Yeah.

Hey you hear about a new update on PS5 now when you boot a PS4 game on it with a PS5 version it'll be like are you sure. Oh good because man. That shit's actually really confusing for some games. I actually ended up downloading like half of like Assassin's Creed Valhalla PS4 on my PS5 because of this weird shit. Exactly. So I converted my shit over and then like some stuff you know whatever becomes obsolete.

It's like it can be there but if you boot it it'll just be like hey are you sure this is what you want and then unless you switch over to the other version if you haven't gotten it yet then you go get it but like yep yep helpful little quality of life message so yay good on them. Let's take some letters. Before we do I have a news story that I want to talk about two actually they're very quick. One last week we talked about how CD Projekt might be getting sued by their investors. They are now being sued by their investors.

Yes they also said they will fight whatever to the death or whatever their statement was. We're not going to go down quietly or something. So that'll be fun. Yep. The second. I look forward to the inappropriate invoking of civil rights at some point during this battle. Well we'll get to see the Polish version of that nonsense. I don't know if it'll be any different.

And also my heart goes out to many of you Dragon Ball fans who might have had their super rare Goku fall into the ocean. What? I don't know if you saw that Woolly. Is this the Gacha Dragon Ball thing? No no this is this is like super expensive made to order like you know numbered rare ultra addition ultra instinct Goku's literally tipped off the boat and fell into the ocean. Toys?

That sucks. Oh man what a bummer. Like the shipping containers literally fell off the boat. Oh dude. And they are just sitting at the bottom of the ocean now. There's footage of that? No no but I sent you an article from Screen Rant rare Dragon Ball super Goku's may have been lost at sea.

Oh no oh that sucks. Because the shipping freighter like lost a shit zillion of its cargo containers and people got updates on their Goku saying there may be a shipping delay with your Goku indefinitely. And then when people looked they figured out that the shipping boat that had all the containers fall off was the one with the Goku's. God that's a bummer. Deep in the Pacific on some random island every like 120 years from now there will be a beach just a wash in Goku's.

Guess you'll have to pick a more interesting character or you don't get your money back. That sucks. That happened like minutes after last week's podcast where we were complaining about the Dragon Ball roster and it felt like God was on our side and said Goku's to the ocean. Ocean the Goku's. Just Android 16 is controlling the ship. Yeah it's just 16 just smiling with the captain's hat on. Time to dunk them into the water.

Hmm. Beautiful. All right if you've got a letter do the thing. Yeah set it into Castle Super Beast mail at gmail.com that's castle super beast mail at gmail.com. All right we got one coming in from. Mike says hey Souls coach and holiday streamer browsing the subreddit over the weekend. I found the thread that talks about bizarrely specific story tropes that are absurdly prevalent. And I was wondering what have you found that applies to multiple works.

For example no matter what seemingly competent and effective Yakuza bosses will not kill subordinates who are causing problems before shit gets real bad even when the problem causing subordinates are being super obvious about it and characters loyal to the boss are ready to kill the people causing problems. Um I I don't I don't want to say that this is a spoiler really this is literally a plot element in every single Yakuza game I have ever played so I assume that's what the person was talking about because I'm like otherwise I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. There is literally every organization in every game has a star screen.

Okay but fine I get that understood but for this to make sense to say something is absurdly prevalent across multiple franchises it has to exist outside of more than just Yakuza. And okay well it also exists in Transformers. Also though but like Megatron watch Scar Star Scream dead very often. Yes but he doesn't because he's useful. In Yakuza or rather if we're talking about a situation where it's like I don't know close to something where the consequences matter I would assume that you don't want to kill someone on your team that's causing you problems until you absolutely have no choice because a body is

the ultimate problem and even just going on like Sopranos rules it's like yeah if one of your subordinates is an issue and you got to get rid of them you do it but like you don't just do it willy-nilly if they're not like if it's not a super super super serious problem you know. So I just imagine that the nature and gravity of the situation has to be worth the trouble of offing somebody and covering your tracks up. They really should have offed all those people though they're all they they you know like I should have killed you when I had the chance. Yeah every variation of that sentence has always been true. Sure just are we are we in a world where killing people is as hard to do as it should be you know. I don't know man I never killed anybody.

So that's it if the fictional world has consequences to doing that then I can believe that someone would want to hold off on willy-nilly wiping out their own people because it's gonna be a fucking problem otherwise you know. So I will I will say one thing however is that while you are correct the characters in the stories you're describing just create bodies all over without a second thought. You mean in some cases randomly. You mean like in terms of like just random battles. No. Heat moves. I mean there are parts no I mean there are parts in the yakuza storyline I won't say which game but they'll just like this this random person on the street is bothering me bang.

Okay well like yeah I can't you know just disappear that person. And again the person who makes those decisions can be the type of person who shows you that like hey they don't give a fuck about the consequences right. If you establish that someone doesn't give a shit about the consequences of their actions then you can you can have them do whatever the fuck they want. But if you're trying to have somebody or a group or an organization that wants to minimize the amount of fucking problems it's dealing with then you know my brain says yeah they don't want to fucking have to hide a body and deal with everything that comes with it you know until it's absolutely necessary because that's how it works. I will say like

if I have to take one absurd trope it's the one that you and I bring up every time so I'm not going to go too deep into it. He was the coolest guy man. Sure. At like like getting to the end of your story and then you the story expecting you to have literally been so long since the bad person did the bad thing that you forgot. Cultural penchant for forgiveness or flashback to traumatic childhood makes everything okay. We got one coming in here. It's the it's the it's the it's the worst it's the worst every time. Jin says hey will you and Pat I've been listening for you talking to you talking about control options for a couple different games now for shooting games in particular but I don't recall

you talking about gyro aiming too much. I've been only using it a little bit to play Splatoon 2 and Ninjala but I'm getting more interested in the topic after watching a few videos by a youtuber named Nerrell. It seems like they like there's a decree of increased accuracy that leans towards your mileage may vary overall but the combination of both analog stick for quick fire flick aiming and gyro for smaller adjustments led to greater accuracy across the majority of players willing to give it a go. Have you either tried it and have you considered it before so I can say that in the case of Splatoon it was something that like it didn't bother me because the goal of the game is to cover a bunch of the area like accuracy in Splatoon is kind of

you're just trying to speed paint a lot of the time and you can like if you want to very quickly just like ah get this whole area fuck it you turn the thing around that is that works out. I think if I were playing a game like fucking Titanfall 2 and I had to use gyro to help tighten some moments I would just fucking die every time. That's me personally. I understand its advantages because it does give you my more fine-tuned control faster but every single time I've dealt with something that had gyro aiming while there were times where I could get something more accurately than if I were just using analog sticks it was way way more common like 10 times more common that I would actually aim way off because I forgot the fucking thing had gyro

and I would be moving my hands in any way other than keeping them completely still and so when I played Splatoon 2 it led to a situation where I had the controller and I had to like put my arms down in a really specific way to hold the controller rigidly for what I didn't mean to use the gyro because like naturally I just kind of whatever and I may occasionally move the controller up or down as I'm pressing buttons and it ended up like while the the skill ceiling on it was higher I guess is that like it made the controls like unreliable in general for me I like I guess it felt good in Splatoon it obviously didn't feel good in Star Fox and Ninjala I played a bit and you know I'd noticed

it was fine there but I'm not sure I have to I have to experience it more with things that are more precise requirements that are that have more precise aiming as a part of like living or dying and thriving in the game but for what Splatoon asks you to do it works people are saying Resident Evil 4 on the Wii but that wasn't gyro that was a that was a pointer it's completely different it's not the same thing yeah I mean it does have a gyro in it but that's not how you aimed yeah it's not what it's using it's using the pointer yeah no the equivalent here would need to be holding a controller in your hand and tilting the controller to fine tune your aim so all right let's take one over here hey I just want to point out that Skyward Sword

is a bad game good for you just gonna do that James says Power Rangers continues to do it right normally I wouldn't bug you with oh my god this character got in stuff but after listening to another more Goku's segment Power Rangers battle for the grid continues to do a good job in this case picking a roster Scorpina was just added and a lot of people were like who but the thing is Scorpina is from Mighty Morphin she just happens to be one of the more obscure characters that is one of Rita's minions and she didn't do much but it is an example of well of course they're gonna pick from the most obvious season that people know but still managed to get someone obscure enough to not be a super safe

choice so I was very happy with the choice that's nice I like that good I will say there is one thing that that that is a downside to when you go for like weirder or more obscure characters but it really only applies to something like Street Fighter that you assume will continue on in the future like I love Hakan dearly Hakan's great but I saw Hakan come out and was like oh man I better play him now because he's you'll never see him again out like he will never come back same thing with the with the fang in five like he is gone I was pleasantly I was pleasantly surprised that viper and jury got to continue existing but yeah the new girls is gonna show up way more than the freak pic the freak pic is a one and done the new girl oh man is gonna get her

fucking play can't wait for 12 just come back yeah or necro no if you if you make you know who's fucking coming back uh uh monot is coming back hard yeah monot's gonna you will see monot again it's it's it's gonna happen you might not smile but monot will come back you can just see it it's like oh did you get a new waifu and everyone likes it well then you're gonna see them again but no freak pics funny because i'm trying to think and it's like even the most popular freak character that street fighter ever had in queue right came back but he didn't even get to come back as himself he got to come back as a different freak character mm-hmm mm-hmm meanwhile you will see laura again it's just it's so obviously gonna happen in the same way you saw viper and and jury

again you know um turns out making cute girls is a good way to get people to look at your game it turns people like cute girls they do and turns out making cute boys is a good way to get people to spend a shit zillion dollars on your game looking at you get an impact this is true viper is not in five viper's in marvel uh and let's take one here so yeah gun enthusiast levi says on the latest podcast pat mentioned the 21 foot rule it did however uh that supposedly states that if a blade wielder is within 21 feet of a gunman the blade wielder can just cut them down and win i actually went back to watch all the segments

about this after that segment actually to see where it came from yeah it's interesting so but here the instant i heard him say tony won this set off my alarm because it's one of the most misunderstood concepts in self-defense let me provide my credentials i've been passionately studying self-defense gunmanship and gunmanship for nine years since i was 17 i'm an nra certified pistol and refused to be a victim instructor i served three years in the us army infantry and used to compete in international defensive pistol association i don't feel qualified enough to call myself an expert but i certainly am knowledgeable i would call this gentleman an expert the supposed 21 foot rule is actually a misunderstanding of what is known as the tweler drill the tweler drill is

an exercise to show that a grown adult possibly one armed with a knife or a melee weapon can close a distance of 21 feet from a standstill in roughly 1.5 seconds uh this number surprisingly consistent across genders fitness levels and even with injuries 1.5 seconds is also sort of a par time that trained concealed carriers are expected to be able to draw and shoot from concealment at a target 21 feet away easy to see how this misconstrued this can this is misconstrued to mean that knives are better than guns within 21 feet but it's not accurate uh first of all assuming that the knife wielder has his weapon down the gunman does not second it assumes that the gunman is standing perfectly still uh when he can gain some extra time by backpedaling while drawing it also assumes

the gunman is not using their off hand to defend themselves from the attack that the gunman is incapable of firing uh at contact distances and one stab of a knife is all it takes to incapacitate the gunman if any of these assumption assumptions proven to be false then the idea that the knife is better at 21 feet is immediately incorrect i know you don't care about much about guns in whatnot but i hope you found this information interesting that all sounds incredibly reasonable and well detailed but i'm watching a video of a guy cutting apart cardboard figures in his backyard with a curved samurai sword and he got to those cardboard cutouts pretty fast now in uh in truth in his defense uh watching the myth busters episode about this shows you that they have the

knife men starting from 21 feet knife out ready to go and the gunman is starting with gun holstered and also uh with an empty one in the chamber so he has to rack to get a shot off uh and then they show you the police versions of these drills where the where the officer is starting gun holstered safety on and uh knife victim our knife uh holder is starting with the knife like concealed but then pulls up while running forward you know that there you know that the police man's gonna walk up chambered safety off gun unholstered so like we should just change this to the 10 foot rule in that scenario um there's also video of the officer like having time to backpedal a little bit as he mentioned and with more success uh dude i think anti donna even made fun of this

fucking shit in one of their recent videos where they're like oh i could stab you and it's like waterfall just back up what if you just walk backwards well backpedaling seems like a good idea yeah but you see the the real problem is that no one is talking about the two foot witch time rule in which the knife stabber puts the knife where you were but then the cop backflips in a big sexy manner and goes can't touch me and then the clock initiates this is a big argument in the in the i mean i i hit it in into the youtube and there's tons of videos on this like all from sort of like embarrassing shit baby sources to myth busters to like official drills to tv shows and that's all well and good

but many years ago when i was when i saw this in the giant bomb cast uh a way more interesting argument was formed and that was woolly in front of you you can have a baseball bat or a knife and you have to fight the guy with the other one which one do you grab baseball bat i would grab the knife in a second baseball bat free yeah mm-hmm free go knife 100 if you if uh okay this can go a lot of ways range this can go a lot of ways way rather be hit with a bat than get stabbed but if you are being hit with a bat anywhere on your body being stabbed with a knife anywhere on your body sucks being hit with a

bat full swing anywhere on your body um it's also sucks you all sucks enough that i don't think you're gonna flinch it off now i have been hit with a bat and let me tell you fucking sucks yeah other thing if you take that full swing home run charge and release and you aim not for the obvious center mass but let's set for the fucking knees in motion that's the that's the end of movement so here head is head is murder head is murder legs is a mobility done and done here's here's the question is the water or metal back so wood bats can be way heavier but also way slower but like a metal bat like i could totally take a metal bat i feel extraordinarily confident in my ability to

strength weapon versus dex weapon then a metal bat strength weapon versus i don't have any confidence in my ability to be stabbed neither do i but if i have i don't have confidence in my ability to do the stabbing better than the person swinging the bat at me i just get it in there man no i'm i'm i do not want to fight a person with a bat under any circumstances um the bat needs some clearance to get the full fucking usage of it going uh but i feel like if you get a little bit creative with it you can also like you can you know use that extra distance to your advantage you can try to make contact earlier you can try

to you know basically use what little extra space you have on that to like make the but here's a question what if i'm running up with my knife right and you're ready to stop me with the bat but then i just throw the knife at you yeah yeah so that's very possible now you're stabbed from a distance yes but now you have nothing yeah but you're stabbed yes but i'm also running with i i have my bat i'm stabbed but depending on where i'm stabbed am i going down or not are you good enough to throw a knife how good are you at throwing a knife you better be amazing terrible i'm awful yeah i've never thrown a knife in my life if that doesn't hit me in the neck or eye i'm still coming for you all right here here's the final variation

do you get to keep both of these on the table but the third option is a mystery syringe now here's the thing okay even though it may cost me my life i'm picking up that mystery syringe okay because i will not i don't want to fight somebody with a mystery syringe clearly clearly that's just for you that's your own there's a possibility that if you threaten somebody with the mystery syringe and they have like a bat or something they could just be like fuck it i'm out of here i'm not doing this yeah um dude if there was a skateboard on that table i'm taking the skateboard really is that for the movement or just for the the beaten both one i'm ha i happen

to be lucky enough to know how to balance on a skateboard so i can use that distance and then when it comes to those pick up and swing the trucks are fucking metal the skateboard is wood the trucks are metal that is lethal anyway there's little toy trucks on skateboards yes that's exactly what they are is that how they roll you see the problem is your dumb smile gives you away and put people in the audio version you can't hear the dumb you can't hear the dumb smile what's coming up what's going on why you gotta ruin it for everybody what's going on

uh i'm gonna be playing links awakening a bandit on the channel this week over twitch.tv slash pat stairs that i'll also be joining peach saliva on her new year's eve stream but i don't know what that'll be i don't know she's even decided it okay uh yeah because of zero and demon souls tune in it's good times bye everybody so so you