Castle Super Beast - CSB 104: Statshaming: Get Bullied By Your Own Data

Episode Date: January 26, 2021

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Welcome to the show. We begin this week asking you how you're feeling. Hey guys. If you're watching the live version of this live, you can't see me at all. Because I'm kind of lying down with a ice pack on my brain because my head has been exploding since Tuesday. Since fucking Tuesday.

Yeah, I did try to say that we don't have to do this, but it seems like it's... What's the state of you? What's up? I can do it now. I can do it now, right? But Wednesday I might not be able to. Okay. Right?

So like, I should do it now. Because my head... Yeah. My pills. No, I had a migraine on the left side of my head on Tuesday that was fucking me up for a couple of days. And then on Friday I got a migraine on the right side of my head.

And I'm still dealing with that from Friday. So the stream schedule is a suggestion? It's always... I did all those streams. They were just short and terrible. Okay. They were just bad. They were just bad streams. Well, the Kotor one was fun because I had a moment where

I was playing Kotor and I'm like, that's weird. I kept blinking and if you go back and look at the Kotor you can see me blinking and squinting. And it's because you know when you look at like black text on a really bright white screen too much and like it kind of burns in your eyes a little bit. So you blink it away.

Except that kept going for like 25 minutes. And I'm like, that's not weird. Nope. That's different. Yep, that's the head. And then my head exploded. Like someone stabbed me in the head. And then I was like, okay guys, stream over.

Gotta go. Bye. And then I kind of rolled onto the floor and started going and like trying not to throw up. If only I had my pills. Yeah. Yeah. For me, like migraines were,

there were always a sign of fatigue. And the only thing that I could do was sleep. Like nothing else would help. All I could do to make it go away is just try to sleep. That's literally it. Nothing ever did anything to lighten it. That's the solution. So to those of you who are going, oh my God dude,

go to the doctor. I actually have been to the doctor many, many years ago. And I described similar but not as extreme symptoms. And they asked me, does anyone in your family have migraines? And I said, well, my grandma and grandpa have them on my mom's side and my mom has them and my dad has them and my brother and sister have them. And they were like, oh, okay, well you're just going to have

migraines your whole life then. And I'm like, cool, sick. I'm like, can I get some pills? And they were like, yeah. And I took the pills and they were like, I'm like, these barely work at all. Yeah. These just don't work at all.

My mom had them for my whole life. And I remember wondering about like, okay, so is that something I'm going to deal with? And never did until QA days. And basically that's when shit got bad and that's when it came out and thankfully those days are behind me and that's gone away. So I had a very specific stimuli and trigger for it that I

identified. Yeah, for me, it's random. If I walk, I remember the most common trigger for me would be having to walk home facing the sun around dusk. And you know, like the sun's like blasting your eyes and you're like squinting and you're like, that'll do it. But all sorts of things can cause migraines including nothing, which is my favorite.

My favorite is when they're caused by nothing. And there's nothing to be done other than run my head under the shower, the hot shower until I run out of hot water and then go to sleep. Okay, that's it. That's yep. That's a thing. Yeah, it's interesting too.

Cause like of the different types of headaches, you know, like sinus and things like that, like there's again, like I feel like at least with me, there was always like there's a point where I feel almost like I wish I could like stab this area of my face to make it go away. You know, or I would like, I would like just kind of like, there's a, there's a specific point that I can like touch and go like, yeah, that's where I kind of want it to go.

And on those, on those fatigue days, it was just like it was, it was omnipresent. It was, it was weird. Yeah. Anyway, for me, it's the opposite. I want to push my head back in because it's trying to come out. Hmm. Like my eye feels like it's going to pop out of my head and my

temples are going to like literally explode off the side of my head. My main problem, unfortunately, my main symptom or whatever, I've never gotten the auras before, which is why I was, which is why I was confused. The, the, the visual impairment that I described is called a aura and it's incredibly uncommon in men. Uh, it's actually much more common in women.

So I guess I'm really taking after my mom cause she gets the auras, but the aura is your brain's warning system that parts of your nervous system are getting pinched by your blood vessels. Okay. Um, and it makes your eyes fire off all wrong. Uh, so as soon as I see those now, I will have to go and take whatever I'm doing and be like, I'm out of here. I'm going to go lay down and put my head in a dark pillow in a,

in a room with all the lights off. Okay. Well, and by its aura, a, you are a, like a, like a sparkling thing around something, not like a, not like a Jojo thing. You fucking dweebs. No, like the, like the attack that super shredder does in Ninja Turtles tournament fighters. All right.

Aura. Anyway, speaking of short and terrible streams, let's get this show on the road. Oh, sick, sick ass. Incredible. Uh, I'm going to pretend that I don't see a giant creepy face on the right side of my camera shot. That's freaking me out.

Uh, what's the creepy face? Cause that's a visual, but there's, there's just something that looks like a half face on, on the right side of my, my, my shot. And it's, it's, I can't unsee it. Uh, so I won't pay attention to that. But anyway, you can't see it either. You're not looking at, you don't have the same shot.

So you couldn't tell, but on the stream it's there. Anyway, it's really weird. It's, it's super, it's super weird. And if you look away at like, there's like a nose and eyes and it's, it's super fucking. It's anyway, let's, let's not pay attention to that creepy shit. Huh. Where's the face?

I'm trying to find it. It's, it's. Oh, I can't see it. I'm blind. All right. Well, anyway. I'm blind. Well, regardless, might as well get right into it.

Yep. So because this ice pack is only going to stay so cold for so long. That's fine. We'll try to have a normal length podcast. I played two things this week and that's all I want to talk about. One of them I can't even talk about a beat 13 sentinels. Yeah.

That's game of the year. 2020. Yeah. Somebody asked me, wouldn't Pat, but didn't you love Yakuza seven? Wouldn't Yakuza seven be your game of 2020? And I said, that's a good, that's a good point. But Yakuza seven and 13 sentinels both share the same place in my heart in terms of like they have the exact same enjoyment level

for me. Okay. So 13 sentinels is not the 17th game in a long running series from 2004. Yes. Right. True. Like 13 sentinels is a completely unique thing.

Whereas Yakuza seven is like a really, really, really great one of those. It's a refined version of a series. Right. Versus an original idea. Yeah. It was not being constantly blasted with newness. The, as I played Yakuza seven.

Mm hmm. Right. Mm hmm. Yeah. 13 sentinels. Really great. If you've beaten 13 sentinels, really, really make sure to scroll down to the end of that cutscene viewer after you beat the game.

Yep. That's what I've been told. Good game. Excellent game. I will like to have a spoiler talk with you later, but most of that's going to be like, oh man, that was so good. Yep. Because it actually wraps up in a nice neat little package.

Yeah. We'll do spoiler cast for that once I end up finishing it off. I also, you know, somebody mentioned to me that my, the game that I said the year for my 2019 was was Outer Wilds. Um, and it's like, yeah, man, I like discovering shit in space. Space sci-fi narrative shit. Huh. That's good stuff.

I also upon looking at everyone be mad over the hit man three epic game store stuff. I don't know if we covered that at all. Nope. It's been an actual fucking mess. I didn't. That has been the worst. I'm not too up on the story.

Um, I know that it came out and my friend told me that it's very good and that he has fun playing the hit man three. But beyond that, I don't really know what's going on. So the IO interactive does this thing where the games they make are incredible, but the, the stuff around how you actually play it is the worst ever. Hmm. So, um, they have this cool system where if you bought hit man one or hit man two, you can transfer your progress from hit man one to hit man two.

And then the hit man one levels become playable in the hit man two engine. So it becomes like a, like a super game. And then for hit man three, you can transfer your progress and your levels into hit man three and play them in the new engine, right? Okay. That seems really cool. Except now that it's epic game store exclusive and hit man two never came out on the epic game store, uh, they're like, well, your progress can transfer over, but you'll have

to re buy hit man two on EGS to have your levels transfer over. And every, and everyone's like, but you, you're using our account to sync our progress. Literally just see that we own the game and it's a complicated situation because I think they're self publishing the third one, but I think they had different publishers for the first one and the second one. So on top of all of that, steam players will have to wait till next year if they want to play it on steam. And if I transfer my save, if I bought hit man three and then did all that crap and then

transferred my shit to hit man three, I don't know if I can then transfer that hit man three save to the steam version of hit man three later. Okay. Like it's it. Oh, also if you're playing hit man three, because it's a, it's, it's constantly tracking your progress and your leaderboards. It's always online and the save files are split between online and not online. And the, the fucking servers are dying because they waited till the last moment to turn the

transfer on at all. Man, like the fact that the epic game store is still doing its thing and still just annoying the shit out of people is so weird because it's like, I think Hades is a perfect example of seeing a game come out for not steam and it sat there and then it people only gave a fuck once it left the EGS, like the entire success and virality of that game was dependent on its freedom. It's, it's kind of wild because the average, like, you know how people will go, um, oh, I'll just wait for the steam release or whatever, right?

Or, oh, so it'll really come out first for PC in a year. Like, I anticipated that that was like the die hard, super hard cores, right? Like the, the kind of people that you and I follow on Twitter that are just tapped in. Right? Yeah. But the Hades thing really shows like, no, like literally no one was talking about Hades until it hit steam. Nothing.

It's like the game didn't exist. Yeah. It gave me the weirdest feeling when fucking like, like everyone got really excited by it. Um, and like, I was like, but why is, but this has been here the whole time. What are we doing? You know, like it was so fucking just like, um, so IO interactive came out and they said, Hey guys, we realize this is a fucking wucky. We're going to fix it.

Don't worry. You'll never have to rebuy anything. They did this after people got very mad and were like, we'll never buy the game anywhere ever again kind of thing. And then they're like, don't worry, we'll have a solution. Well, the game's been out for over a week now and there's still no news on their solution. Right. Yeah.

Um, and I guess they have, again, they have so much money. They can afford to just keep doing this and keeping that all like alternate storefront alive and whatever. And again, I don't think anyone would be that we'd be talking shit about it if it fucking works properly, you know, but it, it, it just continues to game stores. Obviously a part of this and it's awful again, but like really IO interactive, like the first two hitman games also had similar problems because they decided to have this weird online infrastructure that no one cares about.

But like combining that with, with the Epic game store has led to an actual mess. Like it's a, it's a fucking mess. Um, so I actually decided I own hitman one and two, but I'd never played them. I just, it was one of those things where I'm like, oh, I never really got around to it, though these games are excellent. Right. So I've been playing hitman one in the hitman two engine and I spent literally all week playing one level because that's how good these hitman games are.

They are so, so good. And I know you have a history with hitman. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good ass franchise. I've played for the most part. I've played this. Yeah.

There's some band. Those games are either incredible or just complete trash. Unplayable shit. There's no in between. It's so wild. Like hitman one and two are classics, but one's a little old. Contracts is kind of trash. Blood money is one of the best games I've ever played.

Absolution is one of the worst games of that generation. Like no fucking, it's crazy. One or the other. And the sniper missions were great. Yeah. It's, it's wild. So this is some of the good ones. Um, but because they decided on the very first of the hitman

things to do like, uh, like an episodic thing where they'd only put out like one level a month or one level every two months or whatever. Um, they were, these are like the biggest, most complicated levels ever. Yeah. There's absolutely no question. So I remember early, early on when we first got, um, we finished

off testing, uh, absolution and then the next project started and it was the new hitman series and they did like, they were releasing it stage by stage, one by one type of thing. Yeah. And like each level, like the reason we were like, this sounds like a really bad idea for releasing this game. Why would you do it this way? And it's like, because each level is like a full fucking season

of development put into it, you know, and I was like, oh shit. Okay. I see how they're doing this now. Like the idea is just to make it more and more of a playground, you know, and build on that like replayability idea where there's like a pun, a million little things you can find and do. I mean, which makes sense. I did the tutorial, the two tutorial levels, right?

And like the, the, the Paris level, like to my level of completion, which was like 100% of the tutorials and get mastery 20 on the Paris one. And now I'm at 17 hours. Like that's a whole game off of what is essentially like their first release. Yeah. I mean, they, they fucking, they learned, that's one thing.

They learned how to make it, how to make the good thing, you know, and then like it seems like from those early ones, they just kind of went like, okay, keep doing this, keep, keep making playground missions, you know? Um, but I'm excited to eventually get three in a year at this current rate of progress. Uh, game's great. I feel like the online thing is a total blight.

Like it is a, like I understand what they're doing. They want to have like a leaderboard thing and they want to have their elusive target thing. Uh, do you know about the elusive targets? Elusive targets existed in the, in the one, what I worked on too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That was a thing. Yeah. So to those you don't know, they were like these fancy targets that assumed you would have total mastery of the level and they would just dump them into an existing level and you had like three days and you could only kill them once. Uh, and if you failed, you just failed. Um, and that's cool.

But, uh, like if, if, for example, people playing hit man three right now, uh, the game disconnects from its servers a lot and they never fully disconnect. They do that shit where they're like retry. So you get onto the server and we'll add like 30 second delays and cut scenes or shit like that. And it's, it has no value at all. Like there's no benefit at all other than I guess their metrics

or whatever. Um, and the reason I bring this up is normally it would just be like a downer, but like the pirated version of the game is dramatically superior. Oh, that sucks. The pirated version of hit man three has all the levels with all the unlocks and all the Lucid targets are available all the time.

Yeah. Yeah. And it, and it never, and it never breaks its connection to the server. Oh no. Oh boy. And it's like, it is a way better product to the point where if you bought all of it, like I wouldn't even bat an eyelash

if you said, yeah, I bought all of them on steam or whatever. And then I went and downloaded the pirated version. See, well, that's where, that's where like steam workshop should come into play, you know, like just allow people to fucking mod safely through the workshop and, and, and do that because otherwise they're going to find the way anyways and, you know, probably do it in a way like I like it. I looked at, um, I looked at, somebody sent me like this guy

who does a speed runs and I got a look into like what's speed running like in the hit man, new hit man series. And I'm like the speed run attempts can be ruined by the server because, wow, because of the extra time. Yeah. Right. Right. Right.

Okay. Also there, there also appears to be server side validation on updating whether or not you beat certain challenges. I mean, so yeah, like I, I, so they were, uh, absolution was a fucking super metric heavy game back when we were doing it, but I thought a lot of that was based on square interests, you know, um, because that's what they were rolling out with, um, most of the projects at the time, um,

now that they're on their own, uh, I guess they just, they liked the idea and just kept going in on it, you know. Yeah. It's, uh, like people, I saw people talking about how, like when hit man two came out, they wanted to transfer their progress over, but since they had used online save files, their progress didn't count. And it's like, and what's weird is like,

if they, if these games were like completely released separately as separate games and the, the ability to turn them into one big super game didn't exist, none of that would matter. So like they've given you enough value on these features to be hurt by them. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. It's, it's not at all the same thing, but it's similar.

I had an experience because I popped back in dragon ball fighters, uh, last week and was just messing around and, you know, um, just go into training mode, trying out new characters, seeing what's going on. And like the decision to break the, the user interface into, or not user interface, but the main menu, the first decision that you make after pressing start is online or offline. And then you go through the same game, but one of them is

loads and just plays normally. And the other constantly has to do server checks every time you do something and just takes a while to, to move places and do things. And it's like all of this just so that you can walk around the, the little, uh, fucking, you know, uh, um, lobby, persistent lobby with other people and go to, like go to training mode or go to arcade mode or go to whatever mode while having all

these people around you where you can just kind of pick fights and stuff. But like this gating, not, but like gating that off to a place where people can go specifically for that doesn't reduce the experience at all. You know, it just makes it worse for people who are not interested in that who have to go, you know, like, uh, uh, who have to go online because there's like, there's things where

like you have to be online to use a certain shop, for example, or whatever. So it's just, it's just weird to make it all in or all out as opposed to put the features over here and go there when you're ready. You know, there's, there's clearly like an entire genre of developer and I mean, like the individual inside a studio that is like obsessed with every form of online integration

connectivity. Um, and like, I don't, did you see the guilty gear trailer that came out like this morning or last night? Yeah, it's on the docket. The, uh, the modes feature this mode. Okay. Cause I feel like mentioning it now cause it dovetails right in like they show off this massive explanation of the lobby

and like, look at all these cool new features and I'm staring at it. I'm like, this looks like the worst shit I have ever seen. Well, and then at that, at the end they go, well, if you really want to just get into a match, we have normal human being matchmaking where you hit the button and wait for a match. And I'm like, oh my thank someone, someone, someone on the

team was trying to play something internally and got so mad. Yeah. That they like screamed at somebody until they put the fucking just match make me button and I bet you into the fucking game. I bet you I know who that individual was, but regardless, um, I also, but no, part of it is actually the fact that,

um, the features as advertised, um, would be fine. But when they were in the playable demo, they weren't working at all. The little avatar walking around picking fights thing wasn't fucking working, you know? Um, and, and so it's just like this is like, this would be like an extra step, but ultimately fine, providing it, it does what you, you, it says it does, but like all of

that ends up being completely extra, like extra frustrating when it's obfuscated and then doesn't function, which is what happened in the demo, you know? Um, it's like a guy pulling up to your house with like a fancy car, uh, and like fancy rims and like a low rider and it's like, man, check out my car. Isn't it crazy?

You're like, cool. Okay. Let's go somewhere. He's like, it doesn't drive. I got to get a truck to tow me to where I just leave the car. So what's weird is that these, it's similar to, to Dragon Ball in that, like when Dragon Ball first rolled

out the like ring challenge things where again, you can walk up to anybody standing on the platform and pick a fight with them. Like, um, you, you kind of, you ran into a bunch of problems where like you'd try to start a round or try to start a match, but then it wouldn't work. And like, um, and it just seemed like, like this next level of the usual ArcSys Lobby, which traditionally

works great when you sit at a cabinet. For some reason, the games where you sit at a cabinet like, uh, BlazBlue and Guilty Gear and, um, and Ultimax, Grandblue, Ultimax, all of those games where you walk up to a room and you sit at a cabinet, like it all, it, it just didn't have that issue. But in Dragon Ball's case, and at least initially, and then in the biotics case, first, uh, first drive picking

fights and out of the blue with random people you're walking by, just, it didn't know what, what to do, you know? Um, yeah, thankfully you can just go through menus and ignore all of that shit and just go like find match play, you know, so. Or just play in training mode and hit search. It's just, yep. It's, it's crazy.

I'm playing this game and I'm having a great time and I personally haven't run into a single problem with it, but the online thing is always there hovering, just waiting to break, just waiting to break and like steal a win from me. Right? Like I've had moments where even a hitman one, which seems to be running on a different, you know, server

thing than the new one where I'll shoot a guy and then I'll be like, yeah, and I'm about to leave and it goes reconnecting to server and I'll wait for 30 seconds. It's only happened twice, but each time I'm like, oh, don't, don't you motherfucker. Don't you fucking dare. I, that, that was such a fucking pain in the ass mission to do.

I did it so good. The particular time of the season when for Honor host migration would occur in the middle of a match and it would just be like, what's happening? Oh, the host dropped. It's my, it's picking another host. The whole game has to try to carry you over. Oh my God.

Oh God, we're just stuck. Okay. Now someone got tired and just quit. It's fucked. The whole match is fucked. Nothing happened. Waste of time. Sorry folks.

I think that might be the second worst integration of host stuff. They fixed it because everybody did fix it. You know, but everybody remembers like, here's a war. Right. Here's a war. Like host advantage was extreme. It was like, it was unbelievable.

Like the host had like bullets that would travel twice as fast as non-hosts. It was out of control. And that, that would be like the, here's a war. One would be my third worst integration of host thing. Number two would be. Did they ever fix that for a one or did they just, did they just become server-side?

Oh fuck. No, no. They put it server-side for three. Oh my God. Okay. Yeah. I was never, I was never able to play a single match of Gears of War two multiplayer once.

Wow. Their online was so fucked up that I was not able to connect to a single person ever. Despite playing hundreds of hours of Gears of War one multiplayer. Pissed me off so bad. The worst ever, the absolute worst ever host migration I have ever played is Warframes.

There is no comparison. There is absolutely no comparison ever. Still or? Because. For our before. Ever. Still. Oh my God.

To this day. Okay. When the host, so it's a four player, you know, loot game, multiplayer, you know, you're grinding. So you'll be doing, you know, say, woolly, you'll be the host and I'll play and there'll be two other people with us, right? We're going to do the all the way Warframe doles out

its loot is you essentially get like a chest that you can open later. It's called a relic and the rewards go as such a B C C. So the way that works is the first five waves will reward you the a loot pool. The second five waves will give you the B loot pool then C C for 10 for 15 and 20, right? Or is it A A B C?

Sure, whatever. Oh, it's A A B C. My bad. So you're doing 20 waves of defense to do to get a drop in the C loot pool, right? 20 waves and on wave 19 will you disconnect? Okay. Well, you were the host.

It'll host migrate. There is a 50% chance that the host migration will fail. As always. And we won't even keep the items we already dropped. Oh, you remember you got you remember you got the relics from the five waves, the 10 waves and the 15 waves.

Oh boy. Well, the host migration failed. You're just kicked back to the orbiter and you got zero for that mission. Yeah, yeah. So that people will people will run way longer than 25 20 waves, by the way, people will run 40. Oh, yeah.

60 80 100. I can imagine. So that is so bad that like I'm just thinking categorization wise, like you like there's something you would always bump up anything when you're flagging a bug that like are an issue that results in loss of progress. Loss of progress is fucking golden.

It's a humongous thing because it's it's detrimental to the game experience and that would 100% be considered loss of progress. If 20 minutes later, you didn't get the thing you got. Oh my God. In in some cases, in some cases, you'll be opening a relic, right?

So you'll use the relic and you'll go to a mission that opens the relic so that you can get the weapon part inside. And when the host migrates, the game will have registered that you opened the relic, but not registered that you got the item. So you'll lose both. So you'll actually be worse than when you start it.

Wow. It'll be it'll be negative progress. And for all the bump iterating that they do, they never made it a service. Service costs money. Yeah. Yeah, they do. Dedicated servers cost money.

They do. They really, really do. It's it's it's one of those things. It has. This is the worst case scenario, right? This doesn't. This has only happened to me about five times. Wow.

Someone said this is why I quit. Jesus in a whole bunch in a whole bunch of warframe time. This is the the having to be a five times. People are pointing out. Yes. It also resets all the enemy spawns, which means you can sometimes load back in and just instantly die.

Swindler of progress. Yeah. Okay. But when that happens, game is done for the day at least at least the day. Right. Like just fucking fuck this. I'm out.

Is there any any other like pseudo MMO out there that doesn't use dedicated servers? Ah, because that sounds like a really, really bad combination. I'm surprised to hear about this. I didn't know that that was a thing. Destiny. Destiny does do that.

Okay. But Destiny does not have these issues. If an item drops in your inventory, you pick it up and it's in your inventory. It's for it's forever. Oh man. Okay. It's a yeah, it sucks.

The host migration is the bane of everyone's existence. Please wait. Don't do it. Don't. Just don't. Don't. Don't. Yeah.

Well, again, I feel like that was that's the last game I ever played that had that, you know, for honor was so. Oh, for honors. Wow. That your game would be over if you if a host migrated. And again, that was the end of that. But like, you know, to you to abuse credit, like with the with the team, they made it and then they went, yep.

Okay. This, this, this sucks. And then they just switched the dedicated servers and then like continued making it, you know, I feel like every time I go back to play for honor, it's a different game. Yeah, it is because so I'm friends with someone who who's a dev on it and like, they kind of just really leaned into like, yo, the people that are still around that are

playing this the most are like having competitive fun. And let's just make it fun for those people. Let's, let's, you know, let's build like they kind of just iterate it around like the people that stuck around essentially. I have a way, I have a way more like snide way to phrase that, which is like, hey, the people stuck around for the good parts.

Why don't we make the game good? All the whole game good. Fine. Why don't we take the good parts of the game and use those good parts to make a good game? You know, another way, another way of phrasing it is like at first they weren't listening to anybody, but then later on they waited and then they did.

Like this world can be framed through multiple lenses. Yeah, it can be. So it's funny because I keep, I always see people complain about for honor, like always, and it's always about character balance. It all. Yeah, for sure. It, it's never, it's no longer about this fucking piece of

shit game is so broken, which is nice. Yeah. And, and the conversations I've had like with that friend have been like, cool, I guess wonders describing like, yeah, so this was a problem. And then, you know, this was being used in this way. So we said, okay, well, how could we do this, but keep that and stuff.

And it was like, okay, they're, they, they, they went about it with like the, the right mentality, you know, like that, that, that, that the patch, the patch mentality that I kind of discussed with like Rising Thunder and shit like that. And I was like, okay, that's cool. Like I haven't touched this game in a while, but I mean, it's, it's, it's a living game, you know, you, you do have to like keep up with it if you're going and like whatever you

don't like might get adjusted at some point, you know, I think, I don't think they're touching it like monthly, but I do know that like it's a pretty regular like balancing season. So anyway, that sucks about it. That's it for me. Okay. Hitman games incredible. Wow.

What an incredible game. It's got an Albatross hanging around its neck every second of the minute that you play it. What's the coolest assassination you've set up? You pop the fireworks in the Paris level and then everybody goes out to watch the fireworks and then you sneak up behind one target on the fourth floor and throw her off the balcony and she lands on the second target who's on the ground floor

and kills her. Okay. And it's labeled as an accident. Right. And I have to look at that and be like, what motherfucker looks at this and goes, Oh, what an accident. That's pretty good. I'm still, I'm still so fond of the, the, the dude playing

the cello on the villa and you just like as he's playing, you just wait for that moment right in between the, the concerto and like when he goes silent, that's when you do it and then you just look out at the fucking view. It's great. My favorite hitman kill ever by far is I think it's in blood money as well, but I can't quite remember is the opera house where you just replace the prop gun with a real gun.

That's it. That's it. That's the whole mission. It's such a, it's such an obvious, classy solution. Yeah. Now the way back is you get to watch the path backstage is very convoluted, but once you do, all you got to do is just swap the prop gun out.

That's a good one. I love it. I forgot, but I should also talk about a game I played the other day called mutant year zero. Oh, I've heard of that. It's that weird game that looks like XCOM and you play as a duck man and a pig man. Sure.

Um, it's really fantastic. It's like they put you in like an XCOM map, but you freely explore and the game plays 100% XCOM. It's just blatantly like top to bottom 100% with a couple changes. One, your two characters or three characters are walking around with the health and items that they have after every fight. So if you botch a fight really bad, you're going into the next

one with like two health. Big Howard the duck finds. Oh yeah. 100%. Ducks. His name is ducks. It's ducks and boreman, the bore. Um, and like he replaces the word fuck with ducks.

Like shut the duck up. It's terrible. Uh, but, um, what was I saying, uh, uh, the, the primary like gameplay loop isn't like you walk into a fight. It's you realize there's a bunch of guys and you stealthily walk around them as you try and pick away the stragglers with stealth weapons. Okay.

So you're, you're bringing a fight down from like eight people down to two. And then you go and fight the two and you barely win. Like it is, it really feels like you are like guerrilla war fairing, like a bunch of a dramatically superior force now in every fight. If you're saying XCOM clone, then that comes with percentage memes.

Are there percentage memes? Yes. I know. There are four percentages in mutant year zero. Okay. 25, 50, 75% and 100%. And that's it. Okay.

That's literally it. So none of that, uh, you have a 99.5% chance of, of, of landing the shot and then just like XCOM players with the sweating, uh, a key and P. Oh yeah. I talked about it when I was streaming it and I realized that that was what was going on. And I looked at it and it's like 75% is the perfect number because it's probably going to hit, but it's honest enough

to go, there's a pretty good chance it's not going to hit. I'm not going to lose my mind over missing a 75% chance shot. Right. Where, uh, where you'll get a 98% chance to hit and it'll miss and it's, fuck this game, fuck this piece of shit. This game lies. How would you feel about 92% bullshit?

No, this is how it should be done. Well, then I can, this is, this is, we can safely throw a doke upon on that list. Uh, but yeah, games great. It's kind of, it's, it's like 20 hours. It's, it's like a single player adventure with XCOM combat. It's terrible. It's really fantastic.

You can't recommend it enough. Okay. Uh, over yonder, uh, actually, well, um, for more of that, tune into. Oh, uh, twitch.tv slash Pat stairs that I'm going to be playing Cyber Shadow this week, which is that New Yacht Club published game as well as the medium that is that game. Cyber Shadow is right.

I've played it. Uh, I tried the demo out. Oh yeah. It's really cool. It's very classic and it's absolutely a, oh man, this would have been great on the SNES, except for all the parts where this cheats because the SNES could not handle this. Yeah.

Yeah. It's, it's faux authentic, but it's great. Uh, so I'm doing Cyber Shadow and I'm also doing the medium, uh, this week, which is the made by the layers of fear and observer people, um, and scored by Akira Yamaoka. Yeah. And it is straight up. No one's going to make another new Silent Hill game.

We are going to just make a new Silent Hill game. Like it's about a lady who can talk to ghosts navigating through the real world and the nightmare world with Akira Akira Yamaoka in the background. It's very, very overt. Well, so I got to check it out. I have to check it out. So the theme of the week in, in every story has been that one

meme of Capcom proposing to, uh, Resident Evil. Have you seen that? I have seen it. It Konami looking at Silent Hill in the background going, and no, Silent Hill is looking at the proposal going, oh my God, I'm so happy for her. And then silent. And then Konami's as the boyfriend of silent, of silent Hill is

just like, oh, motherfucker, we're making us all look bad. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I'm going to be checking that out. I hope it's good. And I, dude, I forgot I played the, the Maiden demo for Resident Evil eight. Sorry, Resident Evil village.

Yes. Yeah. And the Maiden demo, somebody asked me what I thought of it earlier today and looks pretty. That's it. There's nothing in that demo. It's just like, do you want to look at our pretty locations? Yes, they are very pretty.

Okay. That is it. Well, also, yes, big mommy, milky vampire lady, milky. Who said milky? Yeah, everybody. Everybody's saying milky. You said milky. Everybody says, I mean, I ain't going to turn it down, but

you brought that into the conversation, my friend. I did. So I want to point out, I did not bring that into the conversation. People are constantly telling me. Damn. What to say. And they put it in the conversation.

That ain't bad. That's all right. Ain't nothing wrong with that. Yeah. Actually, you know what? Nanners put it into the conversation. Okay. The first time I ever remember seeing anyone talk about

big, fat, titty mommy milky was definite. I would think it was like Nanners is like your American truck simulator stream. Okay. Like it was just ranting about it. I seen the screaming crow that interrupts the pigeon. Like step on me, mommy. The one, the, the one that had absolutely killed me was

Jesse and, and what's his name? Breaking bad men. Walter White. Yeah. Jesse and Walter White sitting at breakfast and Jesse just says need tall vampire mommy and he goes and fucking Walt goes what? And he goes big, big mommy mommy milkies.

And he goes, Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about? Yeah. Yeah. Hey, man. That's what the internet, that's, that's what the internet has been for the past week. It has. That's literally all it's been.

And here's the fun part is that like multiple friends. I know that don't give a shit about Resident Evil are like super on board and in with this, just, just based on those clips. You know, like a couple of, a couple of different friends I have are all just like way on board, diving into the memes, taking part, you know, and they're just like, and have like probably never even bothered looking twice at the franchise.

So smart move on, on, on Capcom's part. They know what they're doing there. I will say one thing and I do want it to be on the record for the, the podcast is that they, they talked a while ago how that weird fetus symbol with the, the branches behind it was so important to the story that they didn't feel like they should show it. And it's like, it's the umbrella logo.

And in this demo and some of the promotional material, you see that there's an old version of the umbrella logo all over the place. Yeah. And the more I look at the more I look at, uh, Alcina Demetrescu Demetrescu, which is, which is this lady's name. I didn't get the first name.

I realize. Yeah. It's, it's mentioned in one of the, uh, what do you call it? The, the, uh, the files in village is demo. I think Lady D is, is good enough. I think we're good. Yeah. Lady D works, works perfectly.

Yeah. So Lady D, um, is, uh, eight feet tall, almost exactly. It's 96 inches tall. She is Ashen gray, extremely physically able and has big claws on her right hand, as well as a gigantic red rose on her upper left collar. And if you turn that into a silhouette, that would be a fucking tyrant.

That's interesting. That, that bitch is a tyrant that they're going to do this thing where it's, this is the origin of all the umbrella shit. And this is the ideal. Could it just be a thematic reference as opposed to like a literal point? It could be, but nothing, nothing in, or as an evil is

ever subtle. Okay. It's always directly related and on the nose. Like this, this lady might as well be like, you remember where people were like, what if Mr X was a big tall titted lady? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I think that is literally what this actually is. Okay. I think this is actually Ms X or Mrs X. So some sort of eyeball shoulder brooch. I don't, I don't know what, what you do there. Oh, she's going to become goop. Very she probably, you know what, I don't, everyone's

like, oh man, people are going to, the horny will go away once she becomes a big goop monster with the tentacles. I don't think that. So I don't even think that's going to happen. I think she will become like maimed and scorched. Yes. I was about to say what would be way cooler would be just battle damaged and not giving a fuck.

Yeah. But, but I don't think we'll see a transformation on that one. If you just start seeing like the, the fucking, the damage is like, you know, the game goes on and by the end it's like, yeah, ripped and scorched and all fucked up and just like still coming for you. That's pretty, that's pretty good. That's strong.

Oh no, don't chase my penis. Said the internet. Yeah. A million, a million little, little jokes and memes and fucking TikToks running to the door, but when she's behind you and then locking it and turning around to face her, you know, so. Yeah. Cool.

Cool. Yeah. Everything's, yeah, it's good. That's me. That's me for the week. All right. Off to you. What's up?

Not much, pretty short, but a couple of things worth noting. Obviously the, the, the LPs continue, but yeah, of note would be hyper DBZ went back to check that out. That is the fan made Mugen Dragon Ball game that we played a couple years back that had really incredible sprites and they were made to look as if they were CPS two era. I don't know if you recall this, but I think upon seeing it, you might, might jot your memory.

It was essentially a just this, yeah, this really amazing fan project that had talented ass artists, you know, or artists singular, maybe I'm not sure, but like they made a fucking really cool Dragon Ball game that has a lot of love put into it. So they kept working on it. I'm looking at it right now and yeah, it looks really cool. It's great.

It's great. It's one of the, one of the few, the proud, the original Mugen games, you know, I always tell of the, the days when you had the Mugen community and there was like the chaff, which was people who, well, actually no, there was three groups. There were the creators that were just grabbing sprites and trying to recreate their favorite characters from their favorite games so that you can put your Terry Bogard into

your CVS three crazy match, match mix up with, with a bunch of Mortal Kombat and Ninja Turtles characters in it. Right. That was a whole lot, if not the majority of the creative section. There were the people that only downloaded and played games and didn't create stuff that were just like the mashup people. And then there were the few that were making original games,

designing their own stages, sprites and custom things to basically do all the work that an original game would require, but use Mugen as the engine to put it all together. And those were the people that garnered fucking respect because they were doing it. You know, they were using the engine to make their original game as opposed to just the, the all stars crossover, you know, what Mugen comes to mean when you think of the word, you know,

the salty bet type of world. And yeah, this firmly fits into that. Like it's a really awesome, well done original game. And like the fact that they're still updating it after all this time and they're just putting up new current super DBZ references. I know they're working on Jiren and every character has like, there's multiple transformations and let's like, you know, different levels of final super you can go through.

Like you can get regular, you can get like Goku to go ultra instinct and then depending on like how much hope charge meter you have to build up your, your Genki Dama, you actually do different levels of final super that you have like four different levels that you can, it's wild. The whole point is just lots of variation, lots of fun stuff. And they're equally paying attention to all the accurate material and making sure that like characters are doing things

straight out of the manga pages, straight out of the anime, you know. And yeah, it's a whole lot of fun. One of the coolest things is like everyone kind of has a instinct mode, you know, as you'd put it in KI, but I think it's actually called that. And like for Goku, it's hope mode where you can, you know, have everyone lend you their power as you charge up the spirit bomb. For Krillin, it's a confidence mode where he can, you know, go from being a coward to being confident for just a little bit.

And that's when Krillin does the badass stuff that we all know, you know. Yeah, exactly. Frieza has sadistic mode. Piccolo goes into like demon mode, you know, all this great stuff. I miss Krillin. Krillin rules. That's a weird thing to say because Krillin is like around and will always be around. I miss Krillin's ability to do anything.

He's probably my favorite character in the game. Like I think if I had to pick a main, I'd go with Krillin in this. He was a whole lot of fun to just like fly around the screen with and shoot out Destructo discs and shit. Yeah, so Reggie and I took a look at it and just kind of went around. And like it's one of those games where flying through the move list would take forever because each character has like pathways to go through, you know, and that's what you want to see, you know,

and like they didn't avoid the trap of making multiple copies because there is two Goku's and three Vegeta's somehow. There's more Vegeta's for once. That's kind of wild. But, you know, to their credit, each of them has transformations, you know, and one would hope that like as they continue to update the game, they kind of make things more so based on that idea and not just like, you know, creating new slots as it were.

You know, regular, like Super Saiyan can go Super Saiyan 3. Regular can go Ultra Instinct. You know, they can go, Vegeta can go from regular to blue and all that shit. So the transformations exist within the same forms, you know. Yeah, really fun game. Check it out. There's a video going to come up for that soon for getting to fighting games. And that was a good time.

I also am like always like there's always a part of me that's like I can, it's been a long time and people have figured out how to do things with Mugen that like are that weren't around back in my day. Like back in my day, there was no wind poses or not wind poses, wind screens. Okay, old man. Right. Calm down. No, no, no, I'm just pointing out that like people found tricks to do things.

So if you wanted a character with a win quote, the win quote had to appear in game over the whole fight after your win pose was done. And it was not its own separate thing, you know. So the timing always felt a little bit weird, but people figured out ways to do it. And now they've since like put in a lot and figured out how to get intros in there and all kinds of fun stuff. But there's always something that feels like Mugen. When you see an air combo and then someone drops to the ground, you can recognize instantly.

There's a feel and exact weight and people can fuck with the numbers and change it, but they often don't. They often don't tweak these little interactions that much. They'll tweak jump heights and speed and other little things, but the feeling of a character dropping out of an air combo onto the ground will always be instantly recognizable from Mugen. It's just a little thing to it, you know. And the moment I see someone fall with a different sort of like physics or something like that,

suddenly you can kind of question like, oh, what is this? This is a different engine. Something else is going on here, you know. And like those trademarks still exist here in HyperGBZ. So check that game out. And yeah, other thing this week was I tweeted it out, but for a long time I've talked about my favorite manga, Vagabond. It is fucking work of art is an infinite understatement.

It is a story of Miyamoto Musashi and basically it covers, you know, like his life and his journey from being a child to growing up into the legend, so to speak, and how like that's not obviously as glamorous as it might sound, but it's really just a Zen story that focuses a lot on interesting like concepts in Buddhist philosophy and like overall just like it's way more peaceful than any violent ass samurai story deserves to be. It's fucking, it's great. And I have, I don't, the only thing I know about Vagabond is you basically talking it up and how great it is. I don't talk about it often.

I'm kind of loathe, yeah, but you have in the past and I remember each time that you have. It's been like very like high praise. But I'm kind of loathe to get into it what with situations like the Game of Thrones. So does it end well? So this is what I'm the story is about, right, because for the longest while it was on hiatus and we got 37 books in to the journey and you could see that like from book one, the Takahiko Inoue has been putting like his fucking soul onto the page. Like I know you hate that type of talk, but like you...

No, not necessarily. You open up some of these pages where the dude's just standing in a forest and I've described it where every, fuck every blade of grass. Every blade of grass has a division and a texture to show you the little streaks on the blade of grass. Every bark of tree has a pattern and texture on it individualized to make up the full root. Nothing is unlabored and it goes a long way to conveying beauty in nature when they want you to fucking feel that. When they want you to feel something where like the world is more important than whatever these characters are doing. He's a master of that, right?

And oftentimes like the words that the characters are exchanging will be understated, muted. Sometimes there'll be like no words for a while. It's just a very like, you know, it's a very, it's a vibe of a manga. So it was on hiatus for a while basically as of like, I want to say is 2015 is where it kind of stopped and we weren't getting new books anymore. So even then before that, he took previous breaks from it. But he did keep working on another series called Real, which is a basketball manga, which he's very passionate about. It's kind of a joke. He's always been passionate about it, you know?

It's been there. Well, anyway, there have been hints and clues over the years as to what was happening and why, but we never quite got a final confirmation. But excuse me, but this last month, finally, we have some answers and some closure. So in 2008, when he first kind of hit this initial hiatus point, he had, there was a vernisage. There was like an exhibition called The Last and it included lots of never before seen artwork that he had. And there was a chapter that was basically the vagabond, the epilogue, the end of the story. And this could theoretically be the wherever the journey goes. This is where it would end.

It never got released outside of that exhibition. It was only there. And the story, he continued to make new chapters after that, but eventually hit that point again where he took a break. And now we finally got scans of this final epilogue and a message explaining what happened and why he stopped. And so what happened? Well, I mean, his words explain it the best. But effectively, the summary I can give you is that he kind of hit a point where like when the story is beautiful, it's like I said, it's unbelievable. He pours everything into it.

And when it's violent, it's the same thing. It is crazy how brutal it gets at times. And he effectively was hitting a point where he was trying to make a message about like beauty and things, but he's a very sensitive person. And like working on it and like going down like some of the darker paths that it has to like go through was actually like hurting him and causing him stress and anxiety. And on top of that, he puts everything into every page. As I mentioned, the last couple of books were like way more detailed than the ones he did earlier in his career. You could see that. So he kind of started to feel like that just kind of like the depictions of like murder were like starting to really get to him, you know?

And the story is one that requires these characters to build up to a legendary fight that, you know, creates this this legend that we know. And you could see the parts where he starts the story starts taking a turn away from like a lot of the glory of the violence because it's not because it's basically just showing you how like shit it is to kind of like be the best swordsman in a way. And he goes through this like kind of these mental like changes in these revelations. But historically, it still has to go back to this dark place. And it sounds like he tried to stop and figure it out and then come back to it. But then the second time he just couldn't bring himself to come back to it, you know, it just it affected him that heavily. And the epilogue we get explains that. And then the characters themselves and then the the actual chapter itself is just a beautiful send off to everything that happened along the way.

And it's finally some closure to the story. It serves as a kind of like a fast forward through time, you know, to the end of the journey of some of the characters that we've seen. And you get a feeling of like really warm closure from reading it. And if I had access to this story back when these high this this first, you know, what's happening, it wouldn't have hurt as much because I just didn't because none of us knew what was going on. But now that I've read this, I feel OK to let it go, close the book and just be like, and that's vagabond. And the reasons he gives he gives for stepping away from it are super personal and respectable. And like, yeah, man, you took us on a really great journey. Thank you so much for what you've done.

And I'm OK to let it go. You know, I'm a little confused as to why if this is such a piece of closure, why when this exhibition came out, he didn't just tell everyone what the reason. Yeah, I so I like why why like you're treating this like it's a hidden like a like a piece of archaeology. Like, look, we found the reason why didn't you just fucking hop on Twitter and just tell. So we don't know. But I haven't I haven't I guess my guess is that because remember after this came out, he continued working on it. My guess is that he didn't want to stop. But he went after that because like basically that thing came out.

He took another hiatus and then he returned to it again and then stopped again. So I feel as if he made that but didn't want to go. This is the final marker for sure for sure. He just kind of wanted to put down on paper what he was feeling. And then if he could get back to it, then he would. But then in the end, he couldn't, you know. So it was it's a way of kind of like putting down where he was at the time. And then he kind of, you know, and he and he does say he's like, yeah, like, yeah, I'm not sure.

I don't he's like, he's like, I'm learning things about myself as we as I go here, you know. So like, I think it was just this is what he's feeling at the moment. He's going to try. But we know how the future plays out looking back on it. And if the future played out differently and he didn't end up stopping again indefinitely, then we wouldn't be looking at this that specially. You know, it would just have been a little like omake some years back. But now it's not.

It's a complicated situation. And I'm talking all the way on the outside. I'm not and obviously I can see people talking in the chat. I don't necessarily mean Twitter. I could mean the magazine he's writing for or a newspaper, whatever. I just mean public statement. I just say Twitter because you could just do it in two seconds. It's it's complicated because I'm not going to sit here and say that.

Well, because he started it, he's got to finish it or else to burn him. Right. He's not grim. It hasn't been what is it fucking 40 years or whatever the fuck it is for Game of Thrones. And there hasn't been live footage of this gentleman not writing his manga for decades. Right. Graham is a whole different fucking game. I felt it.

And I can absolutely I can't personally empathize, but I can sympathize with if you're writing like from the heart, I guess it would be and you are putting it all. Putting it all out there and it's going into topics that are like essentially damaging you, why you would want to stop or why it would be best for you to stop. But one of the things that I'm more confused about is not necessarily talking about. Like, why wouldn't he make this even pseudo public or even like not necessarily right away, but later or earlier than now, not just because of like a vague responsibility to the audience, because that's I mean, you could you could go for against that.

But because he was working on something else with the with the total lack like say, but prior to you finding out about this exhibition, it was just a big, big fat question mark. Right. It was a big fat question mark, but he had hinted at like anxiety being an issue. Okay. Because without any details, if the writer of my favorite thing just immediately stopped writing my favorite thing and started writing something completely different, no problem. I'd be furious.

He didn't stop. He'd been doing he'd been doing real the the like the whole time. They were simultaneous. The difference was just this. Okay. He didn't switch over to it. They were both going. But okay, that that that makes it probably easier, but I legitimately wonder, I understand

this is a pseudo like internal struggle, but I wonder if it would. I don't know how fans. I don't know how Japanese manga finds on social media act. I imagine they act about as appropriately as social media fans of anything out here. I can only imagine it might have been legitimately easier for his mental well-being to just come out straight with it, then deal with the fucking brigade of you, motherfucker, why you write the basketball? Well, first of all, the vagabond, first of all, fortunately, due to the subject matter

of vagabond, people that are fans of it tend to be a little more chill. I get the impression because I haven't seen anger or hatred directed towards him over this. I've seen confusion. How's your Japanese? Yeah, that's the thing. I can't speak for the the the other side of the world. I can only speak for the English speaking fans.

But it has not been the the the level that, you know, we see from other mangaka going on hiatus when things get bad, fortunately. But it's a yeah, it's a chill story. So maybe people are a bit more chill about it. But beyond that, though, the hunter hunter hiatuses are weird because like it's always tinged with like, hurry up and finish it versus well, but don't die also. Yeah. If you die, you won't finish it.

You see, that's the thing, too, is that it's not a chill. It's not it's not a shounen series in a way, right? It's not like a shounen jump fucking thing out there. It's like it's this. It's this other thing. But I think the answer to all the questions as to like, hey, why didn't you why wasn't you could have the things could have been more straightforward? Why weren't they is ultimately the the the question.

And I think the answer is again, just because he was working it out. I think he just didn't know himself and, you know, we got updates when there were updates and this looking back on it was like almost a like this might be it maybe. And then he continued working through it. And now we can say, yeah, that was it. He didn't know at the time he but it he was thinking maybe, but now we can look back and go. Yeah, that was it.

You know, I have a I have an it helps that it's a good ass epilogue. If it wasn't, then it would be, you know, a lot harder to. Does it still feel like there's like a massive time like skip? Or does it feel like it could actually be like that was an end? Oh, no, there's a massive skip. There's definitely a massive okay. I have an idea that will make everyone happy. No more stories that take more than two years to write.

Yeah, there you go. Your story has to end so that if you get tired, you can just bang it out. Or what have you? I mean, honestly, like, dude, there's nothing. Like this, this is an honest, this is a this is a journey that like seeing again, seeing the the other side of it, seeing the reasons why, like I hold no ill will frustration, you know, malice about how we got here and why. Just getting that closure feels good.

And like, I there's no, I feel no reason to like look back on this and go, damn, dude, you should have done this differently, you know, because I also think, and this is the key to me, at least, I think that the same passions and like attributes that allow him to make this as good as it is, are also what make him so sensitive to the work. You do that goes hand in hand, you know, the quality we got came from the same thing that's making it so hard for him to continue right now. That makes sense.

I have to, I want to, I want to point something out. I'm seeing like 10, 100 people go, Pat, shut the fuck up. You play Final Fantasy 14. That's an MMO and that's been around forever. No, uh, no, uh, uh, every, every part of Final Fantasy 14 story is a self-enclosed narrative that takes exactly two years and it's where I came up with the number that I just said and bonus, the game that came out prior, which was FF 11 has a definitive ending, which was quite rare for ongoing still, uh, being produced,

uh, MMOs. So fuck off, everyone. I win. So I, if you're, um, if you're a fan of vagabond, then you've been waiting, uh, you know, go to mangadex.org and, uh, check out, uh, vagabond, the final. Um, and you can also just Google vagabond, the final, and it'll be the top link and it'll just be, you know, the epilogue chapter. Um, and you'll know it's the right one because the cover is a picture of the

main character with some age on him. And, uh, when, you know, if you've been through this series, take a moment, sit down, you know, grab a drink and just chill, turn your music off and just fucking vibe, just get back right into the mentality of vagabond and like finish it off. You know, send say goodbye to the, to the story. Uh, it's a great one. I have a question. Yeah, I have a question for you.

Yeah. And this, this might, this might sound absurd, but I actually, this is a real question if like, like, say this epilogue didn't happen and your choice was literally nothing or the author going, you know what, that shit was very stressful. It's, I'm trying to turn over a new, you know, emotional place in my life. Here's the new epilogue and the epilogue is everybody just starts to do it and it's a super graphic like dojin and he's like, that's the end.

That's how I always meant for the story to end. Would you prefer that or nothing? So sort out online. I don't know, but I don't, I actually don't know. Is that, is that what ends? Is that how that goes? I thought something like some, something glops. I don't know.

That's a different thing. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Oh my God, that's totally how Sausage Party ends. I just realized that. All right. That's totally the end of a real movie. Okay. Perfect.

Two years worth. Uh, I'm going to, I'm going to, uh, I'm dumping all my hiatus into the vagabond. Is that, is that what the story would be? I'm going to go read the whole thing again from top to bottom and, um, unfortunately my OCD, uh, towards like the collection is, it's, I have a severe like fucking problem where my book collection is actually volumes two to 37. And the person I loaned volume one, I loaned it to someone who never gave it back. You should kill that purse.

So I went to go after, I went to go rebuy it, right? But rebuying vagabond, the only version you can get now is the big tank a bond collection, which is the first three together. Yeah. So I no longer have a version of a one that fits on my shelf. So I have to have the big gathering. It's like, it's like, imagine if you have all the regular JoJo's and then you lose JoJo one, volume one, so you have to go get a, uh, uh, to replace it.

Yeah. Just go kill that person and get your thing. So it's gone. That's the better solution. That's the, that's, uh, yeah, I've got to, I've got to use the up. So here, here's, here's, here's the question. Well, you described it as OCD and here's the question because this is here. Here's the solution.

Here's the, what an actual OCD person's brain goes and does is the solution to throw out all the books you already have and replace them with the big one. So that that makes, yeah, I don't know, because that's, that's what that would actually be. It's maybe, maybe that might, that might make it go away. But the problem is that I prefer the older books because they have more beautiful art on them. The, the, the collections have to like put it all together into like three and one, but like the individual ones have like really beautiful covers. Well, I guess it's time to kill them.

Maybe. Uh, anyway, I can't believe you just nonchalantly was like, yeah, I lent it to somebody and they didn't give it back. Like I would have expected more like just seething fury. Well, the problem was like for a while, I, I loaned it, I loaned it to a couple people that did give it back. So for a while, I couldn't keep track of who I loaned it to. Yeah, that's rough.

You know, because most people were cool about it, but then one person wasn't and I couldn't even remember who it was. You know, oh, that's, oh, so you don't even know who to kill. Yeah. That's unfortunate. Yeah. It's only one solution to that. Yeah.

Uh-huh. Get a list. There you go. Anyway, um, you'll get that book eventually, buddy. That's, uh, that's what I recommend everybody do. And if you haven't, but you're interested, uh, you can read Vagabond. It's going to be super worth it no matter what. And just know that the story will end at volume 37.

And then you'll have to read the epilogue and that's what you'll get. I just realized, you know, Willie, if you decided that getting that book was really important and decided to kill your way down the lending list and then got like six people in and we're like, I am tired of death. I cannot go any further than, than that you'd have your own ending to Vagabond. Yeah. Time for me to just go and start sculpting shit in a cave. Yep.

And there you go. Perfect. Perfect. That's it. One day I'll find that book, but if I don't, that's okay. I've accepted this fate. Actually, I've always considered that I might be able to track it down if I like abated or like, I don't know, searched for an original volume or something, but we'll see.

Anyway, man, yeah, yeah, like this shit for me was like, I don't know. When I was first reading it was while I was in art school and it set such, um, it wasn't even about setting a bar. It was the first time I remember like, I opened it up and I read it and I was like, oh, there's no hope. It's not, this is how good it can be and how you can see this bar and it's up to you to fucking surpass. No, there's no surpassing it.

It was a, it was the most beautifully futile moment I ever felt. So it's not Sakura getting to fight Ryu for real and Ryu kicking her ass in. It's Sakura fighting Ryu for real and Ryu kicking her ass in and then watching as Akuma fucking double-perfects Ryu into the floor and then kind of looking at your fist and going, what, what am I doing? What am I even doing here? You know, um, um, yeah, it is, it is truly like, you know, Mount Stupid.

You know, uh, that's, it's, it's your Dunning Kruger Mount Stupid. It lifts you to Everest and just shows you how absolutely far you are from ever even thinking about maybe acquiring a modicum of his skill, you know. Well, that's because you should internalize your own value by your own growth and not the comparison to others says people that are more confident than you or I comparison is in fact the theft of joy. However, well, not always, however, if you're at the locker room and your dick is twice the size of the guys next to yours, I mean, you're, I mean, you stole his joy, I guess.

Let's wag it around a bit. Take that idiot. Yeah, I, you know, again, I just, uh, his, it like it, it broke something inside of me while I was learning how to art and, uh, I kind of just never put it back together because it felt better that way. You know, I just, it felt better broken. Anyway, um, that is vagabond, um, and I will probably not mention it again for a very long time because I prefer it that way until he gets back and really, really finishes it.

Maybe, but secret goat in my opinion. I got to say, I am happy for everybody that followed that manga because at least at least having something and, and like the, the more than the epilogue itself, the fact that the epilogue got released in any form, like putting the kibosh on the daily hope of maybe he'll go back to me, right? Is cause like if Murrah just quit making Berserk chapters right now and said, I am, I am retiring, I would probably be happier than I will be in the 10 years when he dies and Griffith continues to live.

Right. Like so that, and to, to, you know, reiterate that, that, that feeling of like this being a, a, a successful way to do it or at the very least like a good feeling way to go is you get that epilogue and then the last page of the epilogue is a letter from the guy explaining his mind, his, what happened, you know, so it's the combination of both of those things where you're like, wow, what a great send off and then you read the reasons and you go fucking have a good time, have a good day, you know, all the best. Thank you so much.

I hear really good things about the basketball manga though. So people have said, hey, check out, go read real. It's really, really good. And I'm like, yeah, okay. Well, oh, I see what you did there. I mean, unintentionally, but it's really good. How really good is it?

Real good. And so that is what is up with my week. And the rest of it is going to be spent working on guilty gear lore. So yeah, gotta take another week to put it all, to put it all together. It's about that time as you know, you guys might recall. So the third episode, I'm working on it right now. Excuse me. It's a doozy.

It's going to cover a lot. There's some fucking, we got to move in this episode. We got to fucking move. We got some ground to cover. So this is going to be a whole lot of shit going down, you know, and it needs a lot of my time. I gotta say, Wolves, I think your guilty gear project is quite cool,

but I was not aware until earlier today when I saw the new guilty gear trailer that you are working on a very, very discreet specific time limit as they are putting that guilty gear world feature into it, which is just going to hit people up with the date and time of all events in the guilty gear history series. Do you mean the feature that's been there since sign? Yeah, but I didn't know. I'd said that I, I couched this, this whole thing within I did not know until I saw.

No, dude, excerpt version one had GG world in it, and this is just GG world getting updated again. Okay, well, that's nice. So anyway, we're going through it. We're making moves and yeah, it's going to be, it's going to be a doozy, but I'm going to need some time for it. So I'm going to be taking the week off of streaming. I know it's right on the cusp of fucking 13 Sentinels wrap up.

So that's a that timing is pretty awful. I have to admit, I've been waiting to talk to you about 13 Sentinels from like, yeah, maybe I can, maybe I can do it on Saturday, you know, but like these episodes, I wanted Lore to be once a month and the work effort was just too high and too dense for that to be made possible, but I still have to get to a finish line. So, you know, I have no choice. I got to just, I got to get it done and something's got to give. And in this case, it's going to be a little bit of time on the,

the things without deadlines are LPs after all, right? So I hear you, but you know, this is, this is how I have to balance my time. So why don't you just do it worse, but fast? Yeah, that's the easiest way to do it. That'd be great. Just read out the script and fucking do a shitty acapella of all the music. Society, okay, listen, listen. A shitty acapella of all the music would actually be way more work and people would really dig.

2181 AD, soul bad guy is actually soul good guy. Yeah, the end. Have wife, think about wife, fight wife, kill wife. Think about wife, kill wife. Kai, think about Kai. Why girl, why girl ice? My girl now wings King me. What?

The backyard. Society, it's over. Woolly versus. Yeah. Back yard. Oh, we're going to talk about the backyard this time. We're going to break it all down. It's going to be fun.

I love how just because of that first time when I intro it, you have a permanent distaste for the entire concept because of the one time I intro it on that one video. I would, I would. That was the moment you decided the bit is damn. Woolly's talking about this. Fuck the backyard. It's not, it's not a bit like everything I ever heard about the backyard. I'm like, this is a stain.

I don't like it. Don't like it. All right. Well, but that's fine. I will explain it in detail and you, the listener can decide. Anyway, that's going to be my week. You gotta, you gotta finish 13 sentinels so you can get on all these 13 sentinels memes. Oh yeah.

Come on. I'm already getting the safe ones and I also got my. Oh, they're good. I got my key chains, bro. I got my fucking Yuki. I got my Ogata and I got my Miwako. So I'm sorted. That's those are those are the picks.

Those are good picks. Anyway, more to come on that next week. But for now, that's going to be it. So if you would like to see more of 13 sentinels, which is, you know, getting to that finishing line as well as Yakuza zero and Reggie versus demon souls, please tune into woolly versus on YouTube and woolly versus on Twitch. We're also going to. Yeah, like once 13 sentinels wraps up, there's going to be, you know,

an opportunity to get some other fun stuff in there, at least for a little bit or, or even get some more demon soul sessions in. So should be good. I'm looking forward to making some progress there. And yeah, I get into fighting games as well, which is currently rescheduled to Saturdays due to quarantine. So we're doing fighting games on Saturdays at 3pm. So keep an eye out on the schedule on my Twitter.

We're locking it down out here in Quebec. Yep. Sucks. All right. So let's take a quick word from our sponsors. And, and I will also ask if we could take a quick word so that I may use the washroom and re ice. Okay.

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Is that what birds birds do? No, you do it too, man. Chewing your food is the first part of your digestive process. But I just thought it was called the baby bird. Anyway, no, but anyway, so chime, you eat your chime. Guess what? Chimes not pretty. It's just goo.

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fucking look at the dumpster outside of grocery store and try and ballpark how many fucking people you could feed with that shit. It makes you want to kill someone. It is so outrageous. It is so disgusting. What about the, um, it's the worst that what about the tainting and poisoning so that the homeless can't eat it? No, they don't do that.

It's trash. They don't care. Also, if you taint and if you taint the food and the homeless eat it and they get sick, you're responsible for that. Exactly. Yeah. But I remember, I remember hearing rumors about how places have to chain it up and put a sign out.

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Well, yeah. So, uh, bunch of, bunch of wacky shit this week, but let's just get right to it and through it. We talked about Resident Evil and, uh, the demo and the village, uh, announcements. So we kind of covered on lady D and all that shit. You played the demo. It was what it was. There's no content at all, but it's very pretty. There you go.

Main thing launches May 7th. We also touched on the Guilty Gear Strive announcement trailer with the features and the modes. In that, uh, we, there was the online stuff, but beyond that, they also touched on some of the other features, which include, um, they showed off a picture where in arcade mode, it seemed like you could get like 2v1 moments or like strikers to like assist you. Um, waiting for more elaboration there, but the trailer kind of mentions that like, occasionally so you can team up with someone while you're playing through it in arcade mode. And you see like, Saul is fighting and like Kai jumps in and does like a little assist.

So there's something there. I don't know if it's full 2v1 or just like a assist button, but seems interesting, but it's not the full on tag battle mode that I was kind of wondering about. Um, you skipped something. Talking about the Rezeval 8 stuff. Oh, the, of the, the rumors? No. You forgot to talk about the announcement of reverse.

Oh, yes. Yes, true. I thought, oh no, that wasn't last week. Right. Damn. It was so, there was so much discussion about it that I for a second thought it was already talked about. REverse is a pretty hilarious pun name. Good on them for getting that.

Did you see the trailer? Yeah, it looked like online resident evil. This looks like the, like one of the worst things Capcom has ever put out. Is it, is it not just like online RE, like basically the equivalent of Bioshock multiplayer? Yeah, but it looks way, way worse than Bioshock multiplayer did. It, it legit looks like a steam unity game. Like it looks so bad. I saw a Leon shooting a, a Jill and I was like, okay, I guess you can do that.

The characters are all weird sizes. I don't know if you picked that up from the trailer. No, I certainly didn't. But they're being put in the maps, but the maps are too small. So the characters have been small and so that there's room to do fights in the maps. And it's weird. It's super weird. I guess that police room, the police station, like the one where Leon's desk is that did seem a little

bigger than usual. So yeah, you pointed out. I can only expect that there must be some people in Capcom that are just like desperate to make like Resident Evil, uh, e-sport or some shit. Because this is like the fifth of these things to come out. Yep. Like every because if it works, it's fucking cash money, cash money millionaires. Yeah, but they always give it like $40 and 10 guys.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. None of which the idea that it might work, you know. But also like, yeah, it's even one of those trailers where it like the frame rate is terrible and all the footage and there's like a mouse cursor just sitting on the screen at one point. That's just like, man, this is like sea level effort. It gets the investors to shut up about when are you going to make your own whatever though? It'll, it'll fucking do that.

Hey, well, why can't we get some of that Fortnite money? Oh, we can. We're making our own. Like it's, it's just, it's just wild when you're watching the Resident Evil Village event and they're showing off the stuff and it has so much care being put into everything about it. And it shows like, man, Capcom really cares about this game. And what about this though? And you're like, oh, you guys don't give a shit, huh?

Wow, it's, it's, it's hay. It's hay for the quarterly meetings to just stuff in front of the cows and let them chew. That's wild. I've been, I've been following Capcom's spin off online things since they made them. And they have literally gotten worse with every game. Have any of them been any good at all? Outbreak one and two for the PS2 were weird, but kind of solid. And every single thing that came after that was worse than the one before.

Was it like the mercenaries games kind of just like wild arcadey action anyway? They sure were and they were great. Why didn't they just do that? Why didn't they just do that? There's a 3DS game that's that and it sold pretty well. Curious. It's wild. It's absolutely wild.

You've never played. I can't even remember the operation raccoon city is pretty motherfucking bad. But have you even seen umbrella core? With your eyes, I don't. I can't promise that I have. It's astonishing. It was, it was bad enough that when we did the video of it, we made sure that we didn't record for longer than an hour and a half so that we could use the steam refund to return it.

Oh my god. Oh, Jesus Christ. Like we were sitting there and we're like, holy shit. Hey, check out the laptop. Make sure it doesn't go over an hour 30 because we're going to fucking refund this. The instant this video is over. Wow. I feel like there was a game I got that didn't fucking work and I refunded it live.

But I don't remember what it was anyway. I could do just yeah, you know what queue up the next news story and while you're doing that, go fucking look at 30 seconds of footage from the IGN video review that I just sent you. Just look at it. Look at it with your fucking eyes. It is the worst. It is the worst. The fact that they keep trying though means something.

It really does. Like they're desperate to get into that world and get a foothold in it. And I feel like every, every time they reach in, they're pulling that foot out of fighting games to get closer to the eSports world they want. I was told many years ago. By somebody at Capcom that this result. This is because of a yeah. Yeah.

Keep watching motherfucker. Yeah. Yeah. No steam steam unity. Vibes like huge. Oh man. There's a part where the guy's running around with a fucking axe that is just the most worstest. It's like I can just 30.

It's at one minute 30. Go to that part. I'm watching the IGN video review of Umbrella core review. I mean, so I'm looking this to me. Yeah. Okay. Like this I'm hearing Jimquisition music playing behind it as he's talking about some other issue entirely and you just have to stare at this footage.

So what a point makes this point. This umbrella court shared superficial elements with mercenaries and I think internally this was oh we'll make a mercenaries game like this and they made this fucking garbage. But I was told many years ago that the reason why these Resident Evil games come out like this is because there are internal disagreements as to what is the real Resident Evil. Like what Resident Evil is really about. Hmm. Is it an action series like four five and six.

Is it survival horror. Is it an online fucking. I don't know what who over there fucking thinks that. Like and or why because it's literally never been an online series ever. But like there are like three or four groups that are just always fighting over. No, our resident evil is the real resident evil. Now hopefully those people have got their mouths shut the fuck up now that the resident evil two remake and and seven have done really well.

But like holy shit. I mean it is interesting to see because they like like Capcom knows this is one thing people currently fucking love and it's super hot and you know if they're going to take these swings and misses I'd rather they do it with this than double may cry. So I already can catch all that double may cry is already had its swings and misses. It's like I mean multiplayer fucking not foible nonsense. But wouldn't you kill for a good double may cry multiplayer game though a good one I would apps I would murder for yes absolutely because they keep doing this with resident evil and

people go I would love a good resident evil multiplayer game and every time they make it people go no not like that like outbreak and then they pretend that they don't know what outbreak is. Meanwhile devil may cry and dragons dogma like. Like there are levels in those games where you're playing with AI partners constantly. Just let them be player controlled for God's sake. Yep. Like just let the player control the existing AI partner please.

Popping your DT already functions as a burst when you're getting comboed. It already kicks you out of boss grabs. Yeah anyway shout outs to hitchhiker. So yes there was that there was reverse. There is a rumor that Capcom Division one is taking over and there might be an RE4 overhaul. Did you hear about this. I did hear but yeah I heard about it.

Let me read let me let me. Can you ask me that question again so I can answer more succinctly. Have you heard about the RE4 remake. Yeah I heard about it. Okay. Apparently Capcom is not happy with M2's handling of resident evil 3 remake. Uh and wants to put Capcom Division one back on the RE4 remake which would be the people who made RE7 and resident evil 2 remake.

And that's a rumor going around and I could say yeah yeah yeah I could say I heard about that. Mm-hmm. I would also say that if Capcom were to be making a RE4 remake the people inside that company would be well aware. Oh man can we not fuck this one up. If we fuck this one up we will be a fucking joke forever. Do whatever it takes do literally whatever it takes to make this a good one. I remember uh god I think it was the stories would always be whenever you heard a story

that came out in the news like 10 15 years ago where it was like Capcom Division one or Capcom Division four were working on something and it was always a reason to get excited. Yep it's uh nobody it's it's it's this thing it's this thing where you don't want to diminish people's work on a game and the the Dark Souls franchise was the one that had at the worst with the A team and the B team right but it's unfortunate and it's like where games are games are the product of huge amounts of individuals it can't be understated just how much influence the right or wrong person can have on an entire project it can make a world of difference to have somebody who knows what they're

doing go that's fucking stupid don't do that versus somebody who really doesn't know what they're doing go yeah that seems like a cool idea let's blow six months on that so yeah when you hear about the right team I'm doing big air quotes being on something yeah yeah um I do feel bad for M2 apparently they wanted to do a much more accurate Resident Evil 3 remake and Capcom wanted big changes which sounds like the kind of management decision that Capcom literally keeps making over and over again like over and over and over hey let's make a new one of these make it crazy different I don't know if people want crazy different it's gotta be crazy different

oh people didn't like it as much as the one that wasn't crazy different you're fired um yes okay so Dante needs to smoke in this fucking trailer come on just don't call them Dante just make it an original IP could you imagine how how different history would have been to that game if it lived the word Dante and devil were not in that game at all mm-hmm mm-hmm it would have been viewed like a slam dunk look at this cool new IP from Capcom I hope it has a future well ninja theory yeah whatever people would have liked it I would have

liked it I would have been so much more fair to it I've been like holy shit after enslaved this is a fucking slam dunk holy shit they stepped it up yeah and then and then Hellblade and then like hey look at that their last two games fucking there it is illegitimate like what whenever you hear about Capcom kind of dipping their toes it always makes me wonder like how much of that that fucking version of DMC was Capcom going no different or different or mm-hmm yeah uh so there's that and then we were to be swerved swerved away from the strive features which included uh the yeah I mentioned the little assist thing story mode coming back

uh there it looks like it's there something about the trailer implied like so the final decision that soul chooses or something so this might be something to wrap up and quite frankly the way things are at the moment there are only a few questions left to answer uh they're big ones but there's there's only a few questions left so the story of guilty gear could theoretically wrap up here and it would be okay because yeah I believe that they've gotten they've gotten stuff out of the way uh what else did they mention the gallery oh yeah gg world with the relationship chart so you can now click on a character and see all the lines and that's actually hello amazing because some of that's really complex very much so you

know so yeah you can go fucking click on justice and just see 80 lines pop out of her and see where they go so that's gonna be interesting uh the gallery rollback online netcode uh lobbies what was it there was a picture I saw uh that was showing you okay well okay it's not here but there is a screenshot I saw of the um there's training mode tutorials and then I saw a matchup learning screen that had a text that says like learn the chip matchup yeah in the training mode they they described that no sorry not training in mission mode or one of them one of the single player they they described that they will teach you how to deal with real situations yes and and now seeing that yeah that's like the idea of a matchup is a real crucial piece of

information that is emergent like the you learn it by playing the games anyway but straight up handing you that information is absolutely crucial and critical and um it's a piece of tech that I've talked with uh people that are like actually like working on fighting games and stuff I've we've had discussions about like how to implement these types of things and like I kind of had an idea in mind which was like if you have a replay system and you have ghost learning which exists in a bunch of fighting games now but the ghost replay data is not really that there's not much to do with it besides like hey look it plays a lot like me and creates an AI shadow mode and ki is a little more advanced than like the version in samurai showdown but they both kind of amount to like yep it's a

it's an AI version of me they they had it in virtual fighter for final showdown I remember as well in the arcade tour mode or maybe it was for evo actually um but why not use that same learning system to recognize mistakes point them out and let someone know that like hey um in the future right like you let's say you had a you had two or three moments where you blocked a big old fireball and then you didn't hurt the opponent afterwards it can just straight up let you know that like that was an opening that you missed a couple times right let's practice how to do that I would like a situation where I'm looking over replay data and I'm in the corner and potemkin jumps in and I fail to hit my anti air and a little text box comes in and goes 84 of players

that miss the anti air against potemkin in the quarter die within 15 seconds it's it's vital to hit your anti airs if potemkin has pushed you into the corner oh did you get mega fisted and without doing your 6p yeah 84 percent of player yep that's good that's good the data fear data I like it um yeah Tekken Tekken has been putting a bunch of features out I know Tekken includes um punishing a school so Tekken has specifically like blocking this move by this character that they do often here's your here's a good punish for it right so it gets you um part of the way there which is good I'm not just talking about punishing I'm also talking about like other scenarios that you

can capitalize on that the game will just straight up teach you like oh this um when Gile does his sweep he's swinging his feet swing around twice so you have extra long to to to you know challenge that all I can think of all I could think of is the system just at like naturally ending up becoming like a shaming system instead of a teaching tool that's like only only three percent of all players have managed to lose the round with this kind of life lead at this stage in the round yeah two percent of players keep getting hit by ground viper after the first five interesting stand round viper interesting stat just so you know that was the incredible

oh boy man you know you know what's funny believe by data I actually have offline by data I have scrub quotes is just gonna be a fucking pie chart it's just gonna be a pie chart and someone getting really mad at it I have experience dealing with this kind of system I don't use it quite often but I have in the past used something called Final Fantasy Logs which you use a parser to record your raid data when you go into a Final Fantasy 14 raid and it just it it it maps out the encounter and then records all of your movement and it will tell you it'll it'll hit you up like you have a gray a gray green blue or purple parse which is what percentile do you rank in per of damage per second and then it will then it will break down listen you missed four cooldowns during burst

windows hey you got hit by x percent of AOEs if you got if you wouldn't you would not have died here if you would not etc right um and like you'll you'll do it and you're not good and it will just it will just rain shame upon you it'll be like you missed your rotation here you missed the burst window here you died here your uptime was down here dude okay yo you you you it appears you've started the last 10 rounds by jumping forward hmm you have lost the last 10 rounds interesting you've started the last 10 matches by holding up forward every single time and here's your loss ratio interesting correlation here here's what you fucking do you take that that ai learning fucking uh system that can create ghosts of your playstyle but instead of making a ghost you just

create a fucking flow chart and show you your flow chart because you can do that you can literally create the round one fight super dash we going in did it hit no mass jab did it did it hit yes mass jab auto combo i think do i have meter you know i think the natural end result of the situation after you play like soul for a while and you switch to chip and the system will tell you listen you've lost every match you have ever played as chip and then it locks chip out from you and when you go to click on it it just puts you into training mode try the basics yeah yeah just encouraging you to just hey let's go over to this mode are you sure you want to back out of this online match no i just want to play i just want to picture are you

sure you want to leave the game you have you're in training mode let's try some beginner combos and then if you really if the system is really good it can get real condescending like you do like a basic jab two and one wow great job you're really getting up to the big leagues now oh my god you have done a wake up dp every time you hit the ground for the last five matches every single time you've woken up you've done a dp it has hit four percent of the time legitimately any system that could serve even like really baby versions of this data would be incredible like like really simple stuff like yeah no how many throws did you tech yeah yeah or you're like you're in neutral right like the game nothing's happening right now you're not losing

damage you're just actively in neutral but you're kind of just like standing there or just just doing the same thing like you have no movement and it'll just go hey what what are you doing right now what's your plan right now are you are you thinking of anything do you have anything in mind right now like it's there's a lot of like easily surface data that i think you could totally actually show people that would help them like for me personally i just saw somebody mention it and it yeah snatched me to life which is tell me how many bars of meter i created and were lost because i was sitting on a whole bar okay so yeah the thing is there that it doesn't mean always use your meter it's not always use it or lose it in a hundred percent of the cases because sometimes

it tells me that i could have had three supers yeah sure sure are you you had conversions that you didn't take here is you here's a jab you landed but you didn't convert anything damage on the table here's everything you didn't get out of that moment oh here's all your dropped combos we noticed your bread and butter is here because you do it all the time but here's how often you drop it oh man you know what would be the ultimate but it would not apply to us if you're playing and you drop combos all the time it backs you up the menu and then and you look up and it goes are you sure you live in this region as it changes the flag to canada it appears that you see the tutorial updates canadian combos a canadian it was a canadian

canadian resets canadian resets drop combo reopen it up with the mash canadian where you invented that who became the canadian someone on commentary someone on commentary i don't know who it was and at one of our events just look we had a guest uh they came up and they just yep they're like oh there we go the canadian reset he dropped it but he picked it back up and we won the round it's all good mm-hmm mm-hmm how can they how can they plan around a reset that i don't know is gonna happen okay when you eat when you eat like the tenth overhead the game just pauses and just goes dude listen you know what listen we have we have a decent comment from the peanut gallery we have somebody claiming to be a data scientist says almost nobody would take advantage

of this data because most people tend to disbelieve data that they don't agree with and while that does ring true if you go to the trouble of clicking on the help me get better data button you are within the percentage of people that actually care what it wants to tell you there's that there's also the part where even if you don't believe it it doesn't matter you can watch a replay that just shows it back to you so it's objective like no you really did a dp every single time you woke up here's the replay one two three four five how many people will ignore objective evidence oh that's that's fine but it's still there they're allowed to be stupid and crazy that's okay uh wow yeah that is dude like a fucking mean ass game that just says

fuck you what are you doing here that's not the feature i was trying to design or that i was thinking of i was legitimately discussing a feature that was like find a lesson that applies from the man have a bunch of match up lessons and then find the one or three that would apply to that round or that game you know so that you can go like yo literally here's how to get better in that exact match right away and immediately start covering those mistakes i will say frustration goes to right to a place where you can go fuck it run it back i'm about to learn how to do it there is a there is a feature that i did not mention in the final fantasy equivalent of this that if it were introduced into fighting games it would be

stellar and when you do your parse for your ff log or your ff 14 analysis whichever you know it's it's a whole process right you're not just parsing yourself you're parsing the entire eight man group you can see everything and everyone's data so uh there was mom's girlfriend that put up they found the worst dancer ever and they put up the log and the person literally was hitting a single button over the entire raid with one minute and 40 seconds in between button presses right you could see that you can you can look at the data and see oh my god this motherfucker is just like absentmindedly clicking on a button just da da da but do like trying to get carried right the fighting game equivalent of that would be fantastic because it would be like let's go look

at the replay of the guy you just lost to and you look at their data and the computer's like i don't know how you lost to this guy this guy's trash this guy can't convert never hits their anti-airs always wakes up super how they perform in every other match yeah yeah okay like did the player you just lost to loses 99 percent of their matches we just noticed 85 stick inputs within two seconds are you all right data is beautiful data is beautiful i would love to just see global data data like did you know that in in street fighter 5 60 percent of supers don't land sure you know like like that's

a made up number but like wouldn't that be crazy to think about it would it would be really interesting percent of throws go un-teched so here's what i want uh to um on on again on back to like a real note here when i see a matchup number it's nice to know that this is a 7-3 matchup but i want to know like how much life you have on average do you win by or lose by are these close rounds are or are they domination you know what are we looking at with the life remaining life bar on the on the winner it'd be curious i just i just thought of my very first my very favorite is data point you could find which is you're loading into the match and says 15 percent of players who have lost to this player have not played since

achievement unlocked like like send them home yeah achievement unlocked you have bullied 20 percent of your matches out of playing the game you're hurting our business if someone doesn't log in like for another x weeks you gain some form of fucking so you gain something from their profile you you claim their soul i love it wow wow brutal that's where that's where i like league does that as well like the blitz dot gg thing it'll tell me hey dude you totally died in these types of skirmishes most people don't you should focus on that also after x amount of weeks even without adding them to your list if that bitch goes online again the game's like yo this bitch just got online fucking fight him right now would you like

matchmaking priority this bitch just logged in you want it you want some first tips fuck him up fuck him up one of the one of my this is the best fighting game in the world this is the great yeah the one we just created in our minds yeah one of my favorite experiences in fighting games when clems was over at my house when he was visiting and i gave him the basic like some real basics for dbfz and he played a couple online matches and he played one uh against uh like a teen gohan player that uh he trounced like he was dominating and he was dominating because the person didn't look like they knew how to play the game at all and might have been a child and i just like he was

having lots of fun and i just started to yell like make sure that kid never plays again like ruin their day uh and like he won and we were like high fiving and we were like yeah we bullied that kid out of their dragon ball game fuck yeah uh yeah this is uh imagine if you could like voluntarily turn the feature on though in a way so like when someone starts to play them playing the match where like i have a bad habit i'm trying to get rid of it so i this is on and as soon as i match up against you you're getting the game for both of us like the screen just says round one he's gonna jump fight you know like and you have to you have to stop your moment your habits it's like when you used to put your hand to your mouth after landing a throw it's like yeah you call it out and the

right before they do it and they have to go oh damn it fuck and stop what they're doing and change their habits make you a better player you know just like giant increasing large large screens during all the intros like don't jump don't jump and then you jump and get hit by something and then it slowly fades in i told you uh yep yep i just realized like fighting game players want to create an entire community out of sasuke's they want every child that gets their life destroyed to be like no i'm gonna get so strong and get them foolish little one run hate get stronger and kind of fight me when you're when you're older and then of course someone fight some red yes why aren't fighting games more popular quote

unquote woolly stupid assholes tend to use that as if that's a quote i've actually ever said my discussion woolly is the leading world scientist on why fighting games aren't more popular when the fuck has your stupid brain ever heard me say why aren't fighting games more popular as if i don't have the discussion about all the problems and try to go the other way with it no the the difference is woolly has said why aren't fighting games more popular as on esport which is a different thing the the but even then we know why there's a million clear reasons why it's because they're bad it's because they're bad games it's a terrible job it's the most obvious fucking thing in the world there's no mystery to it it's how do you make it better it's where

do you go from here we know why we know about the problem of of the uninviting game and the unintuitive they made good games they'd be popular it's just it's like it's the dumbest oversimplification but anyway i would actually i i want to grab ahold of that because i played day of defeat i played counter strike i've played starcraft and i've played league if you think the mentality of holy shit we're gonna bully these fucking losers out of the game because they're new is unique to fighting games you're fucking crazy it's a rush in every game gatekeeping new players by ruining their session by stomping them into tar is fun in everything everything you probably shouldn't do it if you want your thing to grow but fuck them fuck them dead

yeah yeah yep so that's it uh that's a good ass that's a that's fucking that's gold that's gold in the in the bank jerry um you know yes and if you and and and like i do have to say that like if your conclusion is anyway whatever why even bother it's like because if you're if you just kind of look at that and go like well this entire discussion is wide it's like we're obviously joking and having fun but if you if you wanted to draw that conclusion but you didn't like hear us talking about like i don't know tough love arena three weeks ago and about how awesome and friendly and and engaging and fun that is and how simple and easy it is to step into it and if your brain just went blah and ignored that conversation because you go

onto this one and just this is where you latch on to then i can't help you you know there's nothing to say you you edit your world and your reality to be what you want you know what when i was when i was 14 years old i played day of defeat almost every day with a clan that was made entirely out of cops from a fucking southern us state that hated me and wanted me to quit and they were assholes they were as they were as bunch of assholes as you could fucking expect and i got really good on that server until they banned me for calling them a bunch of shit but i was better than them at the time so it was okay but that's the kind of formative experience just rise up through the dirt and the hatred of your betters quote unquote until you

can tell them that they are losers uh someone just said woolly i saw your positive your positive conversation and i skipped past it and i appreciate you sir i appreciate that that's that's the honesty i'm looking for i was banned from the cop server for being too toxic nice it's good it's good have you heard about the uh the military twitch oh yeah it's not as fun don't post certain things there that's the that's the server i got the snapshot king uh the nickname from from uh the the one guy who was really nice to me who happened to be the best guy on the server as it usually ends up being can i ask how you ended up on a cop server to begin with it was a stable server that ran a good rotation of maps uh and i didn't understand

what cpd meant when i joined it and i had been hanging out with those guys for four months before i realized that it was cops play day of defeat because they all kept bitching about work and i never really asked them what work was damn that's good that's good because day of defeat i always had all those shitty servers that would run like avalanche 24 seven the only fucking map is avalanche it's like no i want to play jagged i want to play k i want to play saints etc so this was a really good thing and then i didn't talk to people online when i first started playing day to feed i only got the can't the you know the headset later and then your baby voice didn't give you away my baby voice did give me away which they thought was

hilarious right up until the shit talk rose and rose and rose and rose and rose and rose to eclipse their shit talk a lot of formative mental experiences in speech in that in that shitty server you make a 40 year old man with a real job and a badge so pissed off he can barely speak was the word doughnut typed into your chat box at any point in time oh my oh no there's no okay it was all voice it was all just okay oh was there with were there utterances perhaps oh yeah anyway okay all right i remember trying that and the the comeback was like yeah doughnuts are good who doesn't like doughnuts and i was like deflated i was like i was like i was like really really really deflated that's a good point yeah you

yeah toxic uh day to feed cop server moves on to um toxic halo three and then uh just started i remember that then that was replaced with going over to your house and playing third strike all night right like that that was the path strange departure most people don't go that way yeah and then you get then you get older and you're like ah you shouldn't you shouldn't be toxic it's bad but try telling that to a 12 year old i don't know if you know this but children are toxic as shit i mean they have to be molded at it but they get they get taste if you if you poison them early they will eventually get plague resistance i'll tell you yay here's the problem with that you're completely right kids have to be learned to be toxic guess where they learn to be toxic at

fucking school yeah yeah school is toxic how are you supposed to tell kids not to be toxic online and then send them to school what kind of message is that and now that school is online or in certain places you're right fucking yeah let's roll it all in oh man um speaking of toxic uh we can go two ways here actually there's different let's let's go to the first one Japanese government discussing stricter copyright laws on cosplay fuck off to hell cosplay uh new rules may regulate social media photos and profit made from cosplay so an ongoing debate within the government according to online news site Nikan sports

is that they're moving forward to create laws to alleviate ambiguities in the current copyright laws so while cosplay that is not for profit is unaffected cosplay photos posted to social media and cosplayers who make money from events may become liable for infringement so before we go any further what we all need to set the stage japan is crazy for copyright like if you think you're you living in the united states or canada or europe and shit is bad out here fucking thank the lord you don't live in japan because they are bananas for copyright infringement like there's no fucking comparison and this is just like step 35 i guess um somebody in chat says dojin is fine but cosplay isn't they actually just started to crack down super hard on dojin and there are a lot

of japanese pornography artists that are very nervous about drawing their pornography because the copyright shit is very nebulous now and carries criminal infringement so uh this is uh of course uh insane but i'm i'm thinking about how uh one japan has for the longest while had like the craziest most talented amazing cosplayers that are professionals that do that as their jobs full time um you don't put out shit like you don't put out quality like omi gibson and not be doing that like your job it's a fucking it's a career and so a bunch of professional cosplayers it's the ones that you can imagine with the most elaborate outfits costumes and crazy shit are now potentially in trouble for literally making a living off of the fruits of their super

hard labor because greed is fucking rampant um and it reminds me of like the esports jesu controversy with like competitions and fighting games and shit that was happening down there oh that's always so fucking sad it's just the grossest shit ever because like essentially a private organization just calls themselves the official organization and pushes their way in and and and like even without uh uh full government involvement as long as they get those companies that support the that make the games to like oh nope gotta go through this private organization now then money exchange hands behind behind closed doors and you have to deal with this bullshit um like in this particular case they're saying nothing has been rolled out yet

but it's been in discussion for a long time and uh professional cosplayers have been discussing it like on it's on the way to rolling out uh it they're saying okay so uh enaco is the person they kind of quote here uh cosplay that is not for profit will not infringe copyright but submitting photos to membership based exchange sites sns such as instagram or receiving renumeration at events may violate copyright if you go to an event and sell photos of your shit you might get flagged i have good news for everyone unfortunately japanese people have never found a way around laws such as this and pachinko is definitely not gambling right of course

there's definitely this if there was ever a society that would be unable to find some ridiculous work around to get around this shit while technically being legal it would never be japan oh no see at the same time though like if a bunch of assholes in suits start walking down the artist alley there's very little you can do you know really i swear to god this is literally the plot of yakuza 7 oh okay there is a movement in that game called bleach japan which is about purging the gray zones of morality in the country like it is a like it is a it is dead on wow exact thing wow okay well um yeah there's like if you look at like a fucking comic cat you know and you just have someone walking around handing out fucking tickets to cosplayers

that are again like doing their jobs or people that are sitting at their tables selling their shit like um that's a pretty healthy way to kill the concept of fandom right quick that's also a really good way to create an incredibly easily abused government position looks like i'm gonna have to shut down your your shit because there's too many titties here unless that being said japan don't do this do you know what happens when you shut down a thriving industry like this in your home nation you cause outsourcing this only allows the foreign titty cosplayers to steal your goddamn lunch of which there are many and they're ready here's the thing because it's very clear and obvious how these stories always work uh right underneath this particular one

i'm reading the number one related story is japan's number one cosplayer reveals her staggering earnings at this year's comic head mm-hmm so one story like this is all it takes to get a bunch of fucking dudes tightening their ties sweating real hard grubbing those hands together you know dudes who look like you know the you know the the fucking um the you know the the the the the thug that uh oh oh gata gets into fights with in 13 cents jama yeah you know the fat guy on his crew yeah with the glasses yeah that kid people who have that face wide with the fucking round glasses that greed face people that look like that are reading this article about the cosplayer earnings and just getting fucking hard thinking

about all the cash they can they can scrap scavenge from the situation i i have a i have a i have a mental image of how this this bill was um was enacted are you are you ready for my we're gonna role play the japanese government all right the diet the the yeah the yeah sure whatever i don't know how you know over what they are but hey that joke sucked oh man but all right so gentlemen who drafted this bill whatever sitting down in the morning open up the newspaper reading his newspaper folds it looks up a fold you know gives a little little eyebrow nichi shimbun yep read turn turns to his friend on the diet diet goes whores huh the other guy goes yeah huh whores

they both stand up and go wash their hands off to work we'll fix that yep yep it's literally the same thing everywhere in every country every time some guy goes ah these whores ah we'll fix that yep hope mr. isn't too mad at me i should call it later rewind 20 years to when they were younger and uh doing low angle cameras on people unsuspectingly wherever they could yep yep yep yep yep um that sucks man that is super shit and i really uh hope that there's a way to fucking dodge what seems to be undodgeable because every time you know something like this happens um they win the the corp wins as far as japan and the laws go

it just you can't fight that get ready for the news article of suspicious amount of attractive japanese people are leaving the country for abroad you know i mean they seem to be going to an island and most people are not willing to deal with the shit um most people are not willing to you know be isolated and and and uh you know made a an example of um shout outs to people like momo chi for example who fought back for as long as he feasibly could against a principled issue um but it it ultimately is just it results in nothing like you know um yeah this is this is most likely going to just steamroll the entire community but now obviously i want to point out to everybody if you're uh uh woolly and i live in montreal

what i would call the capital of whore island uh the prostitutes have or the sex workers rather because it comes as more thing have a union here and they go yell at the mayor it's a very different culture i was well i was gonna say like before you put that label down there are a lot of places on planet earth that have more sex work than montreal does yes i don't know how many of them have their unions though that's true fair enough i mean does thailand have a union uh probably not gonna go ahead and take the the no over under on that one um but anyway so uh that's happening and not too far over in fact uh a short flight away

news reports are saying that tencent is raising billions to potentially buy out ea take two or others this this is literally the part in the jrpg when you're about to fight like golbez and xeramus knocks him aside i mean in case you haven't heard hostile takeovers are still a thing that can happen in the business world we talked about a couple not too long ago and yeah um they're saying right now that tencent might be trying to raise billions on a debt offer to like fucking buy out video games like this is that like while this is obviously a gigantic story in terms of like business and impact i could not think of anything that would actually affect any of us or anybody listening

this podcast less as like ea Activision and take two kings of scum in the industry might get bought out by a similarly scumbag but foreign investor right like what is like literally what is the worst that could happen to these already awful companies they're also potentially targeting net marble and nexon uh so that's like dungeon fighter and shit like that as well um yeah they're trying to make some big moves and i think like it's been clear for a while and it's been the subject of many stories and in fact a pretty good episode of of south park too but like um the game plan economically from companies like tencent and and and uh china

is to sort of like get embedded in an um undeniable way in the market yeah so that whatever problems you might have with the the party uh fuck you were the market mm-hmm you know feels like a pretty solid uh strategy and of course uh business can and often uh does always win out in the battle uh versus like other horrible shit going on so yeah it's kind of nuts to see it playing out and if if we and if we saw this the thing is is that even though you're you're pointing out that like the companies listed in this story are ones that we've known have done some some garbage shit uh there's no reason to believe it stops there it just feeds the beast and then it keeps going out from that point forward but this is this i'm

talking specifically about this right yeah um but part two of the story always becomes like it'll and then it just grabs whatever else is nearest to that you know oh there's very little i can actually do about that if the company has infinity money and wants hostile takeovers of everything you can get a hands on i can't stop them yeah i can only complain when that does in fact go through however when we're talking about like let's say activision right like activision just absorbed vicarious visions so that they can be sent to the wow content minds it's fuck

hmm like yep so you never know uh what's gonna happen if someone comes along with enough buying power for example if you had a stock in a speculative mom and pop or not mom and pop in a speculative brick and mortar uh video game shop that everyone expected to die within days if not weeks and then a bunch of dank memers on reddit got together oh man this is i i love this because i do talk i have talked to people and they have like hit me with the line of like all the the market and all the stocks are important and the valuable function of the economy and i have responded with stocks and the stock market are bullshit it is a confidence game

it is magical thinking for rich assholes it's gambling sure enough it's it's definitely um it is definitely uh a casino game and like there are analysts and people who can like break it down on a level where uh you can do the equivalent of card counting to get sure bets in what you do but as the name implies wall street bets are just that and as somebody who keeps an eye on that subreddit on a regular basis uh seeing the way the action plays out was fucking hilarious in this particular instance because the story we're talking about of course is one where game stop stock was uh ever ever since last year everyone expected and we're betting on game stop going out of business so it's stock dropped to like four bucks or something like

that um and then it blew up 125 percent due to uh the wall street bets subreddit kind of getting together and basically uh going against uh short sellers who were expecting and basically investing in the price getting worse over time until eventually it goes out of business so um it's it's again it's interesting because like i like again i follow like following the subreddit and we talked about the story last week because uh it was brought up on on on letter time and then um you kind of going into it there's a lot of complicated shit that goes into figuring out what's going to happen and why but what the key points are are that um uh game stop had while it was cheap while it was low and cheap and on its way to dying as everyone kind of expected

um also you know not forgetting about the uh ridiculously immoral things they did that uh we had uh people who working there people working there writing in to tell us about at the start of the pandemic killed people by the way crazy level shit while they um quarantine safely from their homes on conference calls telling people to get out there on the front lines and lines and shit so um my understanding is uh some guy and a team of like um investors and um like business restructure people some some guy and his friends kind of saw this and then decided to come in and basically take over the board of directors and turn the company into some other shit is is is what i heard the story starts with someone came in and decided to shake things up

um ryan cohen is that the name yeah okay and then from that uh people were like well right now this is what happened and there's a change in the the board of directors here and then there's going to be um people who people are still holding on to purchases that are effectively expecting this price to drop lower and then uh they are the the short selling market is based on betting that something is going to get worse over time not better you know um so everyone gets together on wall street bets which is basically just fucking like i don't know it's it's like it's tanking your life savings for the lulls man force for chan wall street you know ideology and uh they all kind of got together and went like let's do the opposite and push it in a different

direction and if enough people push the cost upwards then people who are holding on to uh the short sell stocks have to immediately buy them otherwise they keep losing money so they have to buy at whatever the increase is right so they kind of create a chain reaction of that happening which then of course increases it more um and and and all of this was apparently exacerbated by the fact that the original like of all the all the shares for game stop are that are that are for sale are not actual shares anymore the people who have the shares are not really selling them so everything is kind of just options in a weird way so uh that factors into the volatility of this situation as well and the end result is um stonks to the moon overnight thing of of like

let's all pretend this thing has value hey look at that it has value we created money out of nothing but like it's a fucking joke but the money but the money was based on other people that came bigger firms that bought a whole bunch of nothing that wanted to profit on it becoming more nothing oh yeah but it's the whole fuck it's a confidence game like i use that term specifically like it's literally if you can convince people it's good it becomes good right um it's fucking nonsense so to the moon you know and uh people were straight up posting like i'm paying off my credit card bills i'm fucking dude dude was dude was like i can go see my kids you know the chat just said that pat like pat money isn't real and it's like oh no

oh no it's true but he's not real we printed more we printed more we just print more i'm sorry did you miss the part where the federal reserve was a private company i don't know i did miss that part i don't know anything about that can i did you miss the the part where the people printing the money was a private company that works contracted to the government and that it's not the actual government i failed macroeconomics well welcome to the fed son they literally just print money dude wait can can they print out money and give me more money can they just they could if they wanted to all you got to do is fucking get out wall street oh okay choose to be a bear or a bull

what those are terms for people that invest on rising or lowering stocks that's a i hope that wall street realizes how deeply hilariously homosexual that sounds i mean it certainly could be um now pat just to check that sounds like a sex thing just to check it actually i mean it is but uh uh uh you do know that like uh having money is not actually uh a guarantee of gold right yes i don't wear the there's the standard yada yada yada wrong call be quiet all right all right all right you don't want to audit the fed son you don't want to fucking i don't want to no all right listen um it's it's a fucking hilarious insane

thing that i don't think any of we were we were sitting there talking about like wow uh this piece of shit company can't go out of business fast enough uh hope the employees you know can get what they can can fucking safely find a way to get a job somewhere that's not trying to kill them um and then the internet gets involved and now you've got uh you know you know uh mad money jim kramer guy yeah like you got him you got him arguing with fucking trolls on twitter oh so good who made more money by going against the the machine's shit on this and fucking cashed out and he's like nah uh shut up you're missing the point wait it's it's it's a wild ass story uh gme games game stop man what the fuck anyway

uh god bless god bless what a mess stocks only go up friends they only go up yeah the company's got to increase in value forever except for the part where um as of a couple hours ago uh it then went down by uh it went from 150 to 78 bucks so you know there's that part but hey you want to hey you guys want to hear a really fun thing about the companies activision just made like a record year like they made the most money they've ever made ever uh they just bought vicarious visions which employed 200 extra people watch them fire more than 200 people so that they can get the extra extra bonuses and better stonks watch it it'll be within two weeks it's good

hey man i much prefer this kind of wall street than the regular one give me a second give me a second there it is all right yeah you know what that is an improvement is what it is hey wait a second if i started calling the stock market and everyone just bet against literally every single thing i said would we be all become millionaires if you could manifest crazy talk into actual investment plans yes you could be a head reverse manager you can be a hedge fund manager if you can if you could uh monetize crazy talk yeah just like hey everybody i'd be a hedge fund manager and like try and be really good at my job

and partner up with somebody who just did literally the opposite of every single thing that i ever said just start talking up tesla and how fucking awesome and how much you can't wait to invest in tesla and then even let let the stand do the work fucking started let the stand do the work you too can be rich if your family is wealthy conflict gem mine owners fuck mother fucking elon musk piece of shit what else we got here there is is fucking up their kids life by making them a rich person with a horrible robot name i i have to i wanted like do they just go 12 for short or is it ash or is it x i don't

i don't i don't know whatever anyway i don't know they probably make a series of bizarre clicking and beeping noises at each other because they're fucking aliens rhymes is from montreal good he can keep her then get that shit out of here i i love that whenever somebody points out did you know that this embarrassing thing like i don't know good charlotte is from your area i'm like fucking good keep them get get them the fuck out of here make sure they never come back fuck off good charlotte your fucking weird black glove shit and the rhinestones oh my god apparently every fucking

person i went to high school was like i love good charlotte as you fucking get out of my face all right well uh yeah i don't know you can you can go down your road on that one i don't know where i'm going i don't i have no i i let i was i was i was i did i was gone from the start of the fucking departure i was i abandoned ship nice and early on that one but uh uh anyway uh beep boop boop boop boop boop my your electric car was made with the money from dead orphans mining emeralds beep boop hey i'm not a driver but i do want to own an electric car at some point if i do get on the road i don't uh i would i would i would not want to have to

fucking deal with gas and bullshit in this city that i know that's fair it's it's fucking up it's an apocalypse out here so if i ever if i if and when i do get something i'm going i'm going electric like a hundred percent um we got a weird confusing story that then i guess got clarified konami was restructuring and uh that led to some confusion as to whether or not it seemed like they were shutting down their gaming division no they're putting all of their gaming divisions in a one big blobbing homunculus of a gaming division correct so um it turns out it's not that just in case because

there's people that were looking at the list and the like to be fair it's a it's a page on konami's website that just has a bunch of names and just says this is where these people go now so people were like is that it are they are they just closing down their uh their game production vid divisions one two and three and uh it says they're dissolving them and then yes exactly they're they're restructuring and put putting them into other into a single larger group but it's not shutting down the gaming division i mean everybody picked up the story but i mean it's not like it matters to anyone they're all being held in those rooms at gunpoint being threatened to not make games well i was gonna say i was gonna say that like

it doesn't matter whether you make one big division out of three or make nine divisions out of three or one if there's no output if there's no output it's still equal zero dollars they're being held in front of their computers and there's the guards pointing guns at them saying you can't leave because you'll make games for other people but don't you dare touch that keyboard which company should buy solid snake i'll coach human productions obviously but no one if you had if you had to get a little more fun with the answer sega really interesting okay i would say sony i trust negoshi and the team i would say sony i feel like sony would be the right place for that to wind up

yeah i guess that being said like that's not going to happen they'll never sell anything never in a million but i can you know what i just see in my mind's eye a situation that didn't happen and isn't real but it's funny to me which is a gentleman at his konami office under the watchful eye realizes oh no the guard is coming closer the guard yells i don't care who tim rogers is that's a god damn video game on it you get you fucking shut that down and he goes but it's tokameki memorial we made that only to be pistol whipped and the computer shot but if no games but if you follow the right guard that's wiggling their ass you can find a friend

to help you get out of the mines you watch that shit you watch that tokameki thing not yet it's a fucking emotional roller coaster i watched the snatcher part of it and i was very entertained by it i've never played tokameki memorial and i think now the tokameki memorial might be one of the greatest games of all time i got a really good um snatcher summary and review uh or just situation description in the middle of that video so i was i was pleased with that discussion about snatcher uh yeah so um the hostage situation continues over at konami and uh we'll see what happens you know we'll see if anyone manages to escape and tell us about the conditions on the inside yeah yeah seems

like uh they're just you know they're they're handing some of the hostages guns and now those hostages are becoming uh the the the purpose you ever see a comment that is so ridiculous that you have to like i just saw somebody because we're talking about who would buy what and make what somebody says get negoshi to make a snatcher game negoshi literally already made a snatcher game it's called binary domain binary domain yeah it is like the same plot as snatcher guy who said that if you want to play that dude that game exists you can literally go play it right now but is that a weird feeling when something exists when when you go hey they should do that and someone goes they did do that you go why oh yeah true like oh man i wish i wish

kajima made like a card game he did he did make a card game he made two actually what really okay they should make an anime for zone of the enders should they did yeah um the uh the the the the yeah but it's like if we lived in the just world that would be a koji pro luden's acquisition of the metal gear solid brand anyway i actually want koji pro to do all weird shit from now on i'd way prefer another flawed game like death stranding than another metal gear i mean it is true that if he reacquired it he would then feel pressured to make more of them and uh that's not what we want him to feel but yeah weird shit's good but it would be nice for them to

basically just reacquire it just so that uh yoji could keep painting and making some art books you know yeah that's true here's another fucking glorious piece that you've never seen of me painting fucking riding and snake hanging out doing cool things okay yep that works good chip it okay so there's that news uh neo director no current plans for neo three but hopes to return to the series in the future ninja guided news coming soon i'd go for a new ninja god i weirdly never got into the ninja guided the first ones

like stellar like like absolutely incredible like absolute like it came around i came out around the time of dmc three and it's absolutely it's direct contemporary yeah i remember how i remember how big of an impact it was because it was all because it was super hard i remember everyone talked about the difficulty a lot uh the second one's pretty good but it's not as good the third one's really not as good as the second one obviously we're not talking about the nintendo franchise to anybody who is like sleeping um but the 3d hayabusa remakes our sequels and ninja guide in black is like incredible i tested sigma black for like two days i i had to do i just jumped on a team to help out something real quick and i did some qa on sigma

black um but uh what was it it was like a weird port man it was like not we i don't know it was getting ported to something and i was like i was i remember touching that um yeah i always thought i always thought it seemed it seemed interesting but like yeah i don't know i i just never sat down and really got in i think at first i just didn't have the console and then after i just i don't know like i never was compelled but i remember watching um my uh uh shmup god pat play a play a bunch of it and uh getting getting a vibe for like how hard and fast it was um so yeah it hasn't been anything in years so uh more of that coming what would be cool is if they take the lessons learned from neo in terms of just quality of life and apply them to everything they do from now on that'd be

fucking amazing for uh um team ninja uh not team ninja who the fuck omega force i don't know who would be making it you know whatever tecmo no team ninja team ninja i'm right i am no i am right yeah what am i team ninja just science oatmeal you know what happened we were talking about ninja theory earlier and my brain fucking just mish mushed into ninja team ninja theory uh okay terrible studio not great now my idea of the situation is that um neo2 is such a fucking complete package that i think people are okay chewing their plate for now uh without a neo3 but yeah we'll see then we had uh the hilarious story i always love when the by the time we get to it here

there's an update or two updates to it but the first version of the story was the xbox live gold free games for february price increase yeah that sucked and xbox live like the fact that like free to play games on that service needed xbox live gold to work has always really sucked ass and then they were like we're gonna kick up the fucking price so we've talked we've talked very positively about the game pass for a while because the game pass has been an incredible offer that has been continuously doing uh the the hypothetical um netflix for video games thing uh at a really good value because you're getting it on your xbox and on pc so it's just sign up and then you got a fucking bunch of games to pick from there you go that's it it's done um so we've we've you know

that's that's probably their best move um their worst move would be uh announcing a price increase at a time when people can't fucking afford groceries like how about you you stay that for a second buddy um they announced a lineup of free games for gold subscribers in february and a price increase going forward the new prices will be uh 1099 one month 30 for three months 60 for six months um with a price with the increase of one dollar five dollars and 20 dollars respectively so uh yeah not a good time to throw that down and the internet let them know and then uh as of uh i think a day or two later microsoft reversed the decision and announced that uh their free to play games will no longer require gold membership to play online

and put out a statement saying we messed up and you let us know we're sorry man the here's what's up response to this was just crazy negative like universal like vicious spitting hatred it was it was kind of a what the fuck do you think you're doing the response really um and then yeah so they back down on that one and you know i mean folks some folks were right were you understandably like hey thanks for listening to people but also like really the the the fucking the gall of the the decision you know it's like price hikes do happen it's it's not an unheard of irregular thing it's just like yeah the particular timing is is pretty rough um i want to give a shout out to the person internally who was like don't

fucking do this and got shouted down by their boss before they went ahead with the price hike now you know um rest assured that you know business is business capitalism is capitalism you got to make your money and you're going to see this at some point roll out to do whatever they wanted it to do um you know down the line uh but they're probably gonna let it sit for a while and and and perhaps introduce it in a in a stealthier way or maybe even rejigger the like savings per long term commitment versus short term commitment i don't know what their fucking plan with game pass is they can't possibly make any fucking money off that shit the amount of money they have to pay out to devs to like subsidize the the fucking copies that they're phantom selling

with that shit must be so crazy maybe it's like attach rates where um there's something about the service that's not the service itself that is worth it yeah but it also works on pc yeah that's what i'm saying i don't know there might be something like i don't know what they're doing yeah um that went down uh yeah and then i guess just saying that money isn't real guys it's not should i burn all my money how it's it's on fucking paypal you don't even have it i don't even have most of my own money it's a number oh god wait it's a number it's a number on your phone wait wait you're telling me that there isn't like a little pat envelope at the bank that has all of my dollars

in it dude um i mean look safety deposit box that has all my thousand dollar bills that the bank gave me so as someone who has in their life owned a safety deposit box uh i can tell you that i remember uh walking on down there to the branch to be like oh let's go in and then open up that box and then seeing a sign that was just like hey this physical building is like closed for probably a few months so whatever's in here is in here so yeah hope the fucking you know the great collapse doesn't occur between now and then because that's the end of that friend you know you don't fucking own anything but i watched a wonderful life and at the the they all went to the bank to get their money out and the bank had their money and he gave the money

and then the bank went under because they didn't have any money anymore under the mattress son under the mattress that's the only real place take your phone open up paypal and put your phone under the mattress and now it's open a paypal and then put it on the way does that even make any difference now it's safe now your money's safe okay hold on i'm gonna put it under my butt cushion okay that's good that's good i did it am i safe now okay now let's talk about bitcoin money's fake i don't want i don't want to talk about bitcoin money's fake pat okay it's not even remotely close to real wait

hold on what else is fake um i was gonna say you can take some solace in the fact that the canadian dollar is slightly less fake than the american dollar but um i don't know i don't have a segue for that i'm glad that the chat has as universally replied with birds birds are birds aren't real birds are not real that's my favorite one that has yet to be topped for me i remember when it started being real it started with birds are weird because of

oh yeah that was the i think penny arcade had a book they put out with that i mean birds are weird yeah that's true and then then it just became birds are birds are fake words are fake it is true words aren't real you know it's not real time isn't real 2021 2020 all that shit that ain't real we can't start a fire you can turn up the thermostat but we were not we're not we're not doing a caveman thing with woologs and shit just go over to the thermostat and turn it up just turn up just turn up the thermostat okay so on that note uh girls are not real girls aren't real have you ever seen a girl

i have seen a girl i'm i'm looking at one right now okay but counterpoint have you counterpoint yeah have you have you really yeah are you sure i'm pretty sure i got some hands on okay but real what if you're wrong cool then i have a really good imagination didn't feel like sand at all they're not real it turns out you are going your own way all along oh get the fuck out of here oh is that a thing

you thought you you thought you were walking in the opposite direction but their girls aren't real so it's always been your own way oh this sounds super depressing this sounds real viciously depressing oh yeah man it's good shit though it's good shit talking about you talking about those femoids i've told i've already i told the story i i told the story where me and reggie went to fucking evo and we were in a cab going from one hotel to the other and we just happened to get the

right cab driver that was just like hey what's up boys what's going on y'all y'all hitting up the clubs tonight what you doing having a good time seeing any ladies what's what's up you know we're like i don't know we're just gonna go back to you know the video games and have some video game fun that's what we're here to do and uh he's like yeah man uh vegas is crazy y'all can have some crazy ass parties tonight you know and i mean really like shit the way my fucking x wife is i say you just you should party it up because man just tired of these bitches you know like anyways y'all heard about that mig towel oh man and i'm like excuse me it is like yeah man that mig towel you know the um they um the go in their own way you know and i was like yeah i

have and i'm like oh we got a good one you know and that's where like that's where like reggie tries to basically escape the cab through the through the glass window that is up it's really really funny because there's two types of personalities right you described reggie trying to escape but when me or you or page i'll i'll get her into this discover somebody who says this crazy shit we fucking latch our asses into the seat and lean the fuck forward i do the rotation with my hands just keep it going keep it going oh yeah well what's up with that what's up with that you know where you think that's going what do you hmm hmm and and um i gotta give a shout out to there's a channel on youtube called all gas no breaks because they have they have it's a

for it's a it's a great it's a great channel they just go out to fucking wild ass places and interview people in uh insane precarious situations and um there is a patented tactic that i have learned from that channel that is 100 incorporated into my strategies these days oh yeah yeah um you go through the talk and it's like what's going on right what do you guys got right and you'd be like yeah man you know like my fucking ex just this this dad put a da da da so we just we just tired of these bitches we go in our own way with it you know like i'm living my life for me and but it and like anytime you encounter somebody where you're like this is going to be a fantastic 10 minutes of my life as long as i have an exit strategy um you as long as

i can leave quickly when need be you need so you you let the the story go to its natural like uh climax and then you need the golden finale and that is the the final question and who do you think is responsible for that and who's behind all of that who's behind all of that huh what do you think my my uh it's funny every every time i have had this happen they look around look over both shoulders well let me tell you them yeah it's them but who's them them uh little wink little little nudge it's the best fucking closer i gotta say the times it's happened to me it's crazy i shit you not i've had two of these experiences both times you know who it was

the one hazard to guess uber driver no no one was one was uber driver one was massage therapist but i mean who them was oh well there's the obvious the the uh quote unquote unquote unquote globalists yes nope not them okay it wasn't the globalists it wasn't you guys it wasn't even the you guys it wasn't even the lizards both lolly lolly lolly aliens oh wow straight up that's refreshing wait up hey that's refreshing they came and they took me okay and that's when i learned about the lay lines that was the massage therapist the uber driver just didn't elaborate very much more but okay that's a that's a swerve on it didn't see that coming i'll take it if you if you had sat there for three hours you would have totally seen that coming

fair enough but like it's just it's like it's the type of thing where like talking to like flat earthers you know or just um uh uh uh uh like fucking or dome people or you know all of that fear anti-vaxxers and shit and did just have you seen the ice sphere i mean yeah probably like i've seen the ice wall you know like and you just you go down all these fucking places and then at the end of the day you know just to just to like just to see if this truly is the same spaces that that we all inhabit here and you're just like and who's behind and they always all it's like fucking rabbit sniffs the bait what's that over there the the the hey man is the defining the defining trait of a conspiracy theory

the what at like as somebody who used to be a conspiracy head like back in my youth and i'm totally fascinated by them to this day the defining trait of a conspiracy theory is you need someone to blame oh yeah if you don't have somebody to blame yeah your shit's gonna go nowhere it will go fucking nowhere no one will give a shit yeah and the person you're blaming has to simultaneously be um incompetent but extremely competent at the same time yeah they have to be incompetent enough that the person you're talking to can convince you that they've seen through it but they also have to control the whole world the whole world it's pretty incredible um anyway last uh i'm winding down we got we got 10 minutes to go before that's fine let's

let's leave people on this um svc match of the millennium has been rated for switch in korea so that's the one that was on the neo geopocket color pretty fun one pretty pretty fun capcom versus snk game that a lot of people didn't uh didn't get their hand a chance to play it's it's good it's fucking fun and having just played pocket rumble great time so that's going to be a cool one to see and uh second is just a tweet but it's a fun tweet uh lizard cube the folks behind the new uh streets of rage four and that's a good game uh uh which which are with a really cool art style as you can recall decided to make a mark of the wolves to mock up for funsies and it's a screenshot it's a hud it's hd i've i've uh tweeted it out but i'm gonna retweet it again

just because it's glorious and it shows their style their take on a new sequel to mark of the wolves it's just a mock-up screenshot but um the thing's about it is one it's a company putting this out so it's cool that it's like almost like a hey let's let's get that interest going for our take on this almost like um uh uh double helix with strider you know um and then uh two they used a character specifically like they have they call them boss fur but they use this black guy with an open jacket and like a big fuzzy coat and that character is not a random original dude they made he's a remake of a sprite that came from a leaked screenshot of mark of the wolves two when it existed so that is a designed character that actually um there's a screenshot

that came out and showed you the roster of mark of the wolves two there's a prototype build that never leaked or came out but they they had it and it was it was gaaro plus another six characters and um this is one of them so fucking that's the level of kudos that i appreciate is like oh you drew a dude from a prototype artwork that like most people missed and you fucking did it you know it's like um it's like bringing in like king cobra for example you know uh so that's super cool and then they actually got um uh the producer on sam show um uh uh shit what's his name uh uh yeah uh yasuyuki oda who i fucking had a nice conversation with that's very rude of me to forget but um he replies uh not very good with a smiley face with shades on why would he do this

and everyone's like oh no why would you do this what happened um and i want to say uh high fight uh found the translation error where if you put the the word if you type in japanese wow it's pretty good isn't it into google translate but don't put a question mark at the end it turns into not very good what the fuck so in all likelihood he google translated but didn't include the question mark which translated the entire thing very very differently thanks for nothing yeah so it's uh that's that's good it's good stuff um like i want to i want to say that if we look back in time in history we can say that this moment of miscommunication is why mark of the wolves two will never happen it's true that's the only reason okay um take some letters and get out

of here do you want to send in a letter you can send it to castle super beast mail gmail.com that's castle super beast mail gmail.com will he usually read these letters i will listen to him read at least one letter all right um we got one coming in from dr bunnie saying uh you've both played the 13 sentinels and frog fractions which game is harder to talk about without ruining what makes them special frog fractions no question easy you can i refuse to elaborate further yep we can still tell you what's structurally cool about 13 sentinels there's nothing further to be said about frog fractions or i can even show you parts of 13 sentinels there you go yep that answers that um cool we'll leave it there i'll save the rest for next week

play frog rax is good that's a good one um yep so just in case you missed it folks taking the week off personally to do the next guilty gear lore video so uh i will be back probably on saturday with a session of 13 sentinels since we're so close to the to the end so we'll uh that'll be my schedule coming up um and you i'm streaming i'm streaming shit he's doing hang out i'm streaming in the afternoon now because i'm waking up at 6am damn the fatty pig dog needs to pee so i gotta be up all right that's how it is everyone have a good week take care god bless you

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