Castle Super Beast - CSB 108: Pat's Engaged! Poopy Shocking Podcast Title

Episode Date: February 23, 2021

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Music Hello. Dude Daft Punk broke up. Yeah, so I wanted to start there because I don't know what to expect from you when it comes to bringing up a musical topic, but obviously that's a big deal and that sucks and I hope you're not just gonna be a shit. I hope you realize that Daft Punk broke up. They did good sounds. Good. Okay, good. Yes. They decided to stop being robots and that's lame. Yeah, they did it in that epilogue video, which is a clip from an older movie they did. That's a good way to send it off. I think if you're gonna have the bit be continuous, they ended it on the bit too. That was pretty good and it loves the answer. Kind

of echoing and I was like, man, damn. Now I can only think about all those amazing live performances my friend told me about that I missed when they came back to Montreal a couple times. I have gladly gone to see a Daft Punk show in concert. Me. I remember hearing about the pyramid and how the laser pyramid opened up and just revealed all kinds of robotic wonders and lights and sounds and just an amazing, incredible rotating shape that inverts itself and I mean, you know, having like Muse concerts are pretty fucking spectacular. They're pretty big spectacles in their own right, but like the city itself was talking about Daft Punk every time they came to they came to Montreal. You know, so yeah, sadly, that'll that'll never be but ripped to a good one, man. That's

fucking 28 years, you know, it's kind of weird because they they're like breaking up or retiring or however you want to call it. But like their last studio album was like 13 years ago. Possibly it's 13. No, wait. Are we 2013? Sorry. It's 2013. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And it's like, it's like, I wonder if they were I wonder if there's like albums that got made and then got thrown out that they just weren't happy with or they just didn't feel like it. They remixed. They remixed a lot of stuff for a while. And they did collaborate with Kanye for a bit there on Yeezus. But yeah, I think it I think it definitely was a case of like, okay, like when they do make things, it's a big deal. And they're in there at a point where I'm sure there's just so

much like business and like new artists finding and like just floating over music as opposed to like being in there nitty gritty, you know, you know, and then yeah, they didn't give any details on on as to what or why. But like, obviously, when you go 28 years, that's the kind of thing where it could have just been their lives, you know, it could have been like Jacques, I cannot stand your smell anymore. I am gone. Well, Guy. Au revoir. As you. Okay, good luck with the, the, the shit. No, that's to Quebec. Yeah, I can't help it. Good luck. I can't help the shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Yeah. I can't help it. But yeah, no, that's, that's, that's that, you know, I mean,

I saw some, I saw some weird, I mean, look, man, Twitter is humongous. Obviously, you're gonna just, there's such a massive amount of online this in society these days more than ever. But I had no idea. Society, right? But in looking at the story, I was immediately greeted with like Daft Punk hatred. I had no idea. I'm sorry. There was a, there was a, there was a like group of people that were like, yeah, good riddance. Fuck them. They didn't do anything for a long time. Who cares? And all this other stuff. And I'm like, that's just weird. Who? Who? Who the fuck? There are a bunch of silent robots that occasionally put out a tron music. Like, what is there to hate here? What's your, like, it's, it was weird. It was weird. But I'm like,

okay, this is just when I hit, yeah, you just hit a group of like, you know, terminally online individuals that are. They do the, they do the Alive album. I don't know. And then the Alive album, the, it ends with we are human after all. And you're like, oh, they were human after all. But no, then the final post epilogue song that for some reason is only available on album copy sold in Australia is like, no, we're robots. Actually, we tricked you. Well, random access memories remains random access memories. But I didn't care for it. I liked it a lot. I loved it. Like super duper loved it hard. Huge fan of that. But what I was saying is the people, the random shit talk, I don't know, like all I know is two or three of them

were talking shit while posting kpop stand videos. So I'm inclined to think that they don't, they don't do the, the sway. I'm inclined to, I'm inclined to just hand wave and dismiss it as a bunch of dumb 17 year olds or some, some shit like that. I feel like, but they're not pretty like my kpop because my kpop's are ironically enough more robots than these robot man's Stan, Stan, Luna, Stan, Kim, Juan. Let's do a comparison like Kim dong Juan does. So, you know, let's do a comparison between your favorite kpop star and one member of Daft Punk to see how much materials mined from the earth lives in their head. Yeah. The answer will surprise you. Those helmets are fucking glorious, man.

They're so cool. They're so, they're like 65,000 apparently. They're, that's, that's very, very fancy. They're so cool. They're, I want it. Aesthetic. Give it. And then there's a screen underneath it to display whatever. One of my things that I always hated about Daft Punk, and maybe this is like petty of me, but I hated that the helmet gimmick is not one they started with. So when they put out homework, right, there were just two French dudes and they gave interviews and it's like, hey, I'm so-and-so and I'm, and it's like really, really wanted that to just always be like, who are they, these guys? They're robots. No, but who are they? They're robots. But it is a good one. And then, you know, you put it on and then you wear the suit and the clothing or the

jacket or whatever the thing is. And then there's like the deadmauve style, which is like you put it on and take it off, you know, intermittently. You got to give credit to Gorillaz because from the first second they existed, they were cartoons. Yeah, they're not real. They showed up on Clint Eastwood and they were fucking cartoons the whole time. Dude, I feel so weird about Daft Punk now that I think about it because I'm looking at the discography, right? I don't like their early stuff. I don't like homework. I think Discovery might be the greatest album of all time. It's really good. I don't like Human After All. I don't like the Tron Legacy soundtrack as much, like it's a good album that's not the best. I wonder, let's see, what, what's,

if you don't like that much of them? I want, like, what is the sound? Is it just that, like, I don't know. Like, because I'm like Tron is full of, besides being Tron, it's full of their sound, you know, and that sound. I like Discovery and I like the Alive album. Yeah, that's a really weird and that's it. You know, dude, dude, I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. Like, if you enjoy some of it, I'll take that. I was coming in here expecting you to possibly just shit all over all of it. So I'll take what little you like there, but the ones you hate are good, too. So just, oh, I didn't say I hated them. I said I didn't like them. Okay. Well, like, it's, it's just like, I listened to homework and I was like, this is good. Right. This is like

fine. And I, and then I'm like, I would rather listen to Discovery literally 30 times in a row. Like, it's, it's kind of, it's kind of that. It's kind of like the high Stella is amazing. There's so much fucking quality. I mean, obviously, like the, yeah, that Tron soundtrack, I mean, it's the best thing about the movie, but like, I just, anyway, it's their sound, their sound is consistent, especially towards, like, there's a, there's a thing that happens with, well, it's consistent for the most part, but there's a thing that happens with like random access memories where like, they just kind of dial up and introduce funk into the equation. And who the fuck hates funk?

You know, so get lucky was great, but you mix funk with robot and you get fucking just like such easy listening, you know? So anyway, that's, that's happening today. That's what we're waking up to. And you know, so be it, man, that's how it goes. You can always go back and listen to it. I wonder if they're going to actually make things on their own with different projects, or if they're going to, that'd be weird. It would be, it would be, but it depends. Someone just has to do it, right? Which one gets to be daft and which one gets to be punk, right? I wonder if they like, like, I would expect they would, like the move would be like, oh, go on to be like, someone that like, I don't know, again, like has a, a, it's like a producer of some kind

or like, you know, finds talents and then like puts it out there or does something in the background in the music industry. That's kind of like, that's kind of where you expect to hear it go, but they could easily just not do anything. But, but I just realized something. Now the next season of the Eric Andre show, whenever that happens, will have a joke that is actually sad instead of funny because Kraft punk will show up and it'll be like all Kraft punk is still around. I saw there was an episode that was called the one where Hannibal leaves the show. Yeah. You know what he does in it? What?

He leaves the show. Damn. Wow. That last season is fucking weird. Like even by Andre standards. Yeah, he's, he's out, huh? I mean, it always felt like, and I always felt like he's like, always been like, well, look, man, I got a career like this is happening. But yeah, really, it's like, if it ever takes up more than the exact like 10 hours a month that I want it to, I'm fucking done.

Well, I mean, they only record 13 episodes every like two years. Yeah. Yeah. Hannibal's a landlord. Yeah. He not only is Hannibal a landlord, he's a squat. He was a squatter. He fucking, he's squatted in a house.

Both. He squatted in a house until the, and then the landlord took him to court and they went on Judge Judy to sort it out. And he was a fucking, he was like, he was a person on Judge Judy and he was just like, yeah, I'm not paying my rent. And then the squatter and then, and then the Latin judge Judy was like, fuck you, you got to pay your rent asshole. And he was like, yeah, you know, this is, this is like a reverse character arc.

It's so awful. I hate it. It's insane. Anyway, yeah, that's some crazy shit. What up? Oh, a lot this week, actually. I mean, well, I assume we're going to start by talking about guilty gear. Yeah, it's a humongous fighting game week.

And the news is a whole lot of fighting game news because there's a lot of big announcements. So I'm going to be going into a lot of that for a lot of this episode because big shit going down. Strive demo, it's been extended for another two days. Thank God. I think I've played more of that beta that I have like all the fighting games combined in my life over the past like two years. That makes sense. You were like, you were in a weird place.

So it's just, it's like, I think I had one mediocre match and it was from a guy with terrible internet in Australia. It's just good. The rollback is just great. It's great. I had the only bad matches I had were when Min was accidentally uploading videos affecting my shit. What the hell? And I had no idea.

So I was like, oh, well, that explains it. And then we stopped that and then everything went back to being fine. So yeah, it is flawless rollback. Everyone is feeling it. I've retweeted a couple of, you know, examples of people in two takes just like, what's the big deal with this rollback shit? Oh my God, it's so good. And like it works.

Everyone works kind of collectively having this big like, like fucking like, oh my God, orgasm moment with it where it's nice to have that like sort of vindication because you've talked to your, till you're fucking blue in the face about rollback and about netcode. And we go on and on and on and on and on about it on this podcast and on our other things. And, you know, now you get to see like some people go, oh my fucking God, holy shit, I can't believe it's this good. You know, and same goes for every like Sejam and Max are, are, you know, known for the crusading it more so than we are definitely.

But like that would probably just be because we float adjacent to fighting games as opposed to we're not living inside fighting games. Right. So there's no reason for that to be as well heard in this general space. But the point remains that a lot of people found out for themselves that like you can play a match of this game with anyone around the globe and it feels like they're sitting next to you. And that's just kind of magic, right? It's, it's turned, it's made netcode into how, how, what's the, what's the worst analogy I could use? It's made netcode into a good healer in that it, when it works, it's invisible.

You don't even think about it. You don't even think about it. Now you can just think about the game and what you're enjoying about it and focusing on being excited to play it and do things and learn it. And you're not even thinking about your match quality, which for every other game has been a plague of anxiety and annoyance, especially if you there were a couple actually like what's happening in the game, because like, yeah, don't get too attached. You might not be able to play it properly, you know? I, uh, out of the corner of my eye, like actually like out of the periphery, I was able to see

a couple actual rollbacks, but they were just in the health bars. They were not reflected on the character models. So I would do, I would do stuff like go for a Potemkin Buster and I would see the health go down for one frame and then go right back up because they jumped. I was playing, man, I, the first series of matches, I got a buddy of mine out in Toronto, right? And I think Montreal to Toronto or New York to Chicago or whatever, from one great urban center to the next one over is probably where most people's matches are going to live, right? And have necessarily lived in the past couple of years with online, right?

Like anything outside of a 500 mile radius, right? Kind of give up, right? So I'm playing my buddy out in TO and he's on Wi-Fi and the ping was 11 and it handled the drop packets, no problem. And he might as well have been sitting next to me. Probably the weirdest thing willy is like, it shows you the ping number and the ping is so much lower than the ping I have seen to other things in other locations. Like here from where I'm sitting to like TO, which is approximately the same distance as me to New York, is 11 to 15 MS. I don't get 11 to 15 MS connecting to servers in those areas.

Yeah. So something that needed to be explained a couple of times was that like the rollback delay number you see is not the same as, the rollback frame number you see is not the same as your delay frame count. So if you try to think about them analog, that's not, it's not going to be the same thing. It's not the same level of, it's not the same experience. I think the delay amount is the same in every match. And I think it's being hidden inside the game's natural input lag. Because I mean, I'm not the, I'm not the frame master I used to be in my youth, but I could detect no input lag at all. Like outside the game's normal like input lag of like three or four frames. I couldn't, I couldn't feel it. It felt like I was playing offline local.

So no, I mean, humongous shout outs and kudos to um, ArcSys, they worked with Xenac on that. So that, that helps a lot. Like Xenac did a lot of work helping them with the, their, their rollback. Uh, who was, he was also responsible for like skull girls programming and stuff like that too. And um, the, yeah, the fact that like, you know, at every event, everywhere where they're like, Hey, fill out these forms to tell us what feedback you'd like. And like a solid 10 out of 10 forms were like rollback or no buy, you know, like just, and, and the fact too, that the US branch shout outs to ArcSys US branch for being well aware of that. And for putting that in its own section for easily quantifiable, like data, uh,

gathering to pass on to the Japanese office, you know, the American, how much do you want rollback? Yeah. The, the, the, the American office was like, okay, let's just we'll, yep. Don't you, yep. On a scale of, you know, one to 10 is would you put your rollback importance at a 10, you know, like just getting it in there. And, uh, yes, they made it very clear. Um, although it's funny though, because, uh, as we can see, you know, uh, uh, the, the, the some of the people that are behind fighting games, uh, in, in Japan are still, uh, running on delay based thoughts because at one point during that stream that happened, they, uh, there was a brief moment where Guna, who was doing the translations said something to the effect of like, oh, well,

you know, we were not supposed to say the word rollback here, but, uh, someone did say it. So I guess we're just going to talk openly about it. And I'm like looking at that and I'm like, someone on this group of devs did not want the words rollback to be used, huh? I see, I see, I see. And it's, it's, it's very interesting because people are making like all these announcements, they're making the like dev life a living hell because they're making it so clear that they're just not going to have it anymore. Like it is, it's, it's, it's becoming extra bizarre because that situation felt almost ideological. Like, like we don't talk about that here. I'm like, you can't escape from it now because one of your major competitors has fully embraced it

and you will be compared to it. Yeah. Period. And, you know, like it's, and it's not like it's sacrificing a style that works in Japan for a style that doesn't work in Japan while prioritizing global or something like that. It's like, no, it's great for Japan too. And like, to the point where Akira Nishitani comes on and he's like, wow, I can't believe how good it felt. You guys did amazing work, ArcSys. Congratulations, you know. So whoever is not giving a fuck about this now is going to look like they're already the odd man out, but now it's going to get extra ridiculous. And we're going to get into that once we break down the, the actual discussion. But like guilty. It's interesting. Has made it mandatory.

Yeah. Because like, okay, Skullgirls gets rollback. Japan rolls the size of Skullgirls, right? Power Rangers gets Skull, Skullback. Oh my God. Rollback, whatever. Street Fighter 5 gets bad rollback. KI gets rollback. Mortal Kombat gets rollback. Well, that's different because those are either American or like, you know, they're not, you know, they're different types of fighting games, right? Or look at Capcom, they did the rollback and it's bad, right? Guilty Gear is totally a, it's a Japanese ass Japanese fighting game that's popular in Japan. Japanese players will now know what rollback is. And then we'll understand, hey, it's cool to be able to like, you know what I did for fun,

and I'm sure you did this too. Well, you just went and hung out in the Japanese lobby and played Japanese matches. Most of the time. Like, why not? Yeah. Why not? And that's, that's why Lil Bussey was hanging out. That's why Imagine Obama was, was being so toxic because he's like, what are you doing on the 10th floor of the Japanese tower? Who do you think you are? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, of course Japanese tower is much stronger than the English American speaking tower as you would. Although now it's much more intense over there. Nowadays, though, it's about, it's about the celestial floor. Yeah. So it's heaven, you know, it's heaven now. But yeah, so, so that's it. There's no reason not to, but I think it, you're like you said,

like it is a matter of not being concerned, but there's other parts to it, like we've discussed it a many times, but you're looking at like, there's a comfort to the fact that they've been doing it this way, and they feel comfortable with the delay based code that they've always used. There's the fact that you not only have you always used it, but in many cases, they're implementing it into their arcade version of the game. So when you look at a game that comes out in Japan these days for the last 10 years, they've made net play. They've implemented delay based because arcade cabinets are going to be using it because the cabinets will have like each machine seats a single player, then they'll be linked up with another one on a group of eight. And then there

will also be cross Japan net play. So if someone is sitting at a cabinet in a completely different arcade, if you have no one to play against here, you'll match up against them. And so it'll be, it'll already have this delay based system implemented and tested by the time they're ready for the console port. So it's, it's almost like they're like, well, fuck you. What do you mean? We have to like do this twice or change it from the get go or, you know what I mean? Yeah, do your job. Yeah. So it's this whole thing. It's, it's this extra level of resistance because they've already got arcade versions implemented in the way they do. And on top of that now they have to do things like, you know, consult with someone from another office. Like

in this case, yeah, they have to reach out to GGPL people, Xenac, all these like non-Japanese developers and work hand in hand with them. But, you know, again, as we see here, it's like, well, there's nothing more worth it than not having to think about the quality of your online matches, you know, ever again. So it's such an interesting situation because like Dengenki Bunko Fighting Climax, that weird anime game is getting unofficial rollback by a patch and the devs don't like it because it's an unofficial modification of the game. Sure. And it's like the game is currently basically unplayable. Same thing for multi-blocking, you know, like this is this is bordering on like a consumer law of like right to repair or something like that, you know, like, right, right, right.

I'm literally just taking the thing you sold me and making it work by sawing off this this table leg or, you know, whatever exactly you want to use. I mean, part like like parsec is not as invasive, but it's the same idea of just like, we're gonna do someone else will do it for you because your shit sucks, you know. No, stop it. Yeah. So I mean, that aside, which needed to be said, the game itself is fucking glorious. It is really. It's very fun. It's very fun. It feels very good. It's got just all these little details that are really like feel good. And I like that like not everyone. There's a lot of people that are still upset about what this has become. And to be fair, every new iteration of fighting game has had this. Every single new iteration of fighting

game series has been, okay, but here's why it's watered down and why that sucks. This game is a little watered down. Even I can see that like the air dashes are not the same air dashes as your own guilty gear. Gatling is heavily reduced and and you know, you can't combo as well as as openly across every button as you used to be able to do. It's it's this thing where there's a lot of longstanding guilty gear players or a technical fighting game peoples who look at the system changes in strife. And they see, I would say a reduced complexity, right, and different focus. And they say, it's watered down, all my options are gone. Yada, yada. And I look at it, it's like they've kind of toned guilty gear down to be a little bit more like Street Fighter, honestly.

Um, it feels more like Street Fighter to me. It feels more grounded, less, less zany in the air. So I saw those, those, those claims were there earlier. And now that we've seen more of it, it, it, it's, it's objectively slower and therefore more like it. But like, it's still a lot faster than Street Fighter is. Oh yeah. And the other thing is, is I like Street Fighter. Mm hmm. Like, right. So it's this thing of like, oh, I can get while you're upset. But all the things they changed, they changed it almost directly to my benefit personally. I like it. No, I like it a lot. I think, um, there's, there's, I think most people are falling into that window of like, yeah, the changes are our thing. Like the, the, the changes are not going to be ones

that are going to, uh, negatively affect what they want to do in the game so much that they can't have fun with what it is. Um, and there are, again, for those that are like, it's, it's, you know, I've seen a couple of folks on, on, on, you know, my, my group of friends and stuff that are like, yeah, I'm going to stick with plus R or, you know, like I'm going to go back to fighters and, and, and stuff like that. And, you know, that's, that's totally understandable. Um, going back to fighters after this is going to hurt the, because of the, the net play situation. Oh, it's going to be painful. Primarily. But, uh, you know, and, you know, there's, there's no like, oh, like, what are you talking about behind between that? Because it's like, I don't know.

Like, I can, I can see what they liked in the older game and I can see. Yeah. It's less hyper. I can see it not existing here. It makes perfect sense. Yeah. Absolutely. Um, but yeah, personally, but I happen to like this thing. I fucking play samurai showdown, dude. Like I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm dig, I'm more than fine, you know? Uh, so yeah, it is, you know, just stylish and, and, and, and, and, you know, visually over the top, all that stuff is really, really great. But I love the changes to Roman cancels. But the RC, uh, uh, system is, so I mean, like RCs over the, over the course of time, from game to game, from guilty gear to guilty gear have gotten progressively slower. The first

RCs were instantaneous blips of red. The first RCs were like execution stress test. There were instantaneous blips of red. And you just heard the word romantic to, and that was the only real way to know for sure that you did it. You know, um, and then they eventually had the bigger pops and the, and the, then there was eventually the, uh, in, in excerpt, you got the, the slowdown, you know, effect. And then here it's a big exaggerated drift or exaggerated pop. Like it is like, yes, there was slowdown and excerpt and, and so on. But I think the way that I described it was that the Roman cancels in strive are so extreme. It's like, did you, did you do something and then correctly get a Roman cancel that came now, like puts you into training mode for like two

seconds to do whatever baby combo you can baby out. And as a baby who'd never used Roman cancels prior to literally Saturday ever. No, sorry, not Saturday Friday. Not even ever used one prior. I, they were always accidents. You didn't do always hammerfall RC pop buster. Well, no, cause I want to save my meter. Okay. And I know I'm going to, I'm going to screw up the Roman cancel because I, my brain was like Roman cancels are in guilty gear XX and I will just, I'll just save my meter. And so I started using Roman cancels on like Thursday and Friday for the first time ever. And within a couple of days, I'm like, Oh, you can do all sorts of stupid shit. And it makes it really, really easy. Cause it does your, your huge baby slow down for babies

like me. Sure. Um, it also could thank you. It also conserves momentum, which is fun. I like, uh, it's weird stuff happening with that. Yeah. So you can do, um, for example, think there used to be something back in the days of alpha to where, uh, you would do these, I think they're like gachi cancels or so, but like these things where you would effectively start, um, moving in a direction and then cancel into your custom combo. And it would preserve the momentum and swing you way in the direction you were going for some ridiculous movement. Right. And, um, what you would end up seeing is like nonsense trajectory jumps. And in this particular case, you can do exactly that with some moves, some characters. Uh, Nagoriyuki has one

where when you do his, um, his, uh, sweeping low, uh, it's not low, but his sweeping blood like a quarter circle backwards H button attack. Uh, he jumps slightly before he slides along the ground. And if you Roman cancel right as the jump is happening, then it turns into a really low, but aerial hop that kind of travels super weird on a like a bendy flat rainbow kind of trajectory. It looks like a, like a, like a KOF character on, on drugs. Yes. I would say like two on four is the input, but I'm going to try to translate this to the thousands of people who don't know what the fuck I'm talking about by just saying quarter circle backwards. Um, the, uh, the, the way you get to get that going and like a chip has

some wild shit as well. Um, it's, it's, it's kind of like interesting to see that because it goes, it means that like when it comes down to the lab, when it comes to people figuring out how this is going to work, um, you're going to see some nonsense in, in, in the first couple weeks where like one move at one point has like an extreme jump or extreme like push in a certain direction. You're going to find that exact moment and see your characters just go flying. You know, we're all seeing a bunch of zany shit. Like, did you know that Kai on counter hit can just hit eight shore use in a row? Yes. Um, from the wrong corner. So, uh, I've tweeted this out many times. I'll, I'll mention it here again,

because it's going to need to be repeated often, but if you are jumping in, this is your, your, your, one of your first fighting games ever. And, uh, you're seeing people use numbers to discuss what like directional inputs they're doing or you're seeing people use like things like two, three, six K and all that shit. Um, I'll just break it down real quick. It's numpad notation. It's the right side of your keyboard. So when you see two, one, four or like six, three, two, one, four or things like that, all it is, is it's the right side of your keyboard, the numpad. So just imagine five is the neutral. It's the stick just sitting at rest. And all the numbers around it are the directions the stick can tilt in. And it's just so two, three, four punch is a

fireball. Exactly. It's down, down, forward, forward punch. That's all it is. And, uh, there's no math involved. You don't have to add or multiply the numbers. You just, you just do it in the number directions according to looking at your numpad. And the reasons for that is because when we have international conversations, someone from another country that speaks another language can type out a combo and you can understand it. So it's nice to not have language barriers be, uh, in the way of people discussing tech and fighting games. So that's all it's for. What's just happened? Two, three, six, and punch is a fireball, not two, three, four. Two, three, four is no input ever.

I'm super good at numpad notation. You can tell that I learned numpad rotation, sorry, notation relatively recently. I'm trying to save you here. Duh, there's no saving. Technically? I even said it's, no. You do go from, you do go from three to four when you're doing a raging demon, excuse me, um, um, um, a raging storm.

You do do the pretzel motion by going diagonal over from three to four, then you go one, two, three, six, then you go, uh, one or other way around. But yeah, you go, you can, you can actually do it there for the pretzel one, six, three, two, one, four, three. Man, you know what the best part about guilty gear strive is? We're finally back to the natural order of things where we sit down and play a fighting game and I win and you lose the natural order the way it was always meant to be right on. In which I get to make the, or I get to steal the joke from my YouTube comments from a gentleman named Mutang who suggests that you change the name of your Friday show to get back into training mode

with fighting games. Yes, I intend to spend a whole lot of time in training mode. Now that the trash talk is over and I'm sated, dude, now goes fucking blood shit is a suicide button. Yes, it is a suicide button. Like, holy shit, it appears to be, like you just die. It appears to be, um, a, like the fact that it does all that crazy damage if you manage to like land that big super and, and like, you know, hurt the guy, hit the guy with your sword button, it feels as if, um, that is kind of like, it's just a little compensation thing to be like, okay, you're not dead yet. If they fuck up really badly, then you can somehow bring this back.

But you can do zero to 100. But otherwise every single match I played against Nago, if his blood popped and he was anywhere but right next to me, he was dead. That's correct. Yes. Like every single time it was, it is, it's rare that I can think of a character having a state that might as well just kill them. Um, it's as if like there was a puppet character, but like, I don't know, you could kill the puppet,

you know, or like kill the puppet dead. Yeah, or like, you know, even like, like Ibuki has limited kunai, but she can look for more, you know. Yeah. Um, so yeah, there's that. There's, there's, there's definitely that the, and then, uh, something else too is, um, the, uh, there is a like, uh, from tuning into a bunch of streams, like there's some talk about how the, um, the battle designer of this game is a huge fan of grapplers and What is a humongous pot fan in particular? And, uh, what are you talking about?

Uh, and, uh, you know, I think, I think you're going to, uh, Fuck in. Well, if you haven't already, like you're going to see some insane, insane things that that character can do. Uh, what are you talking about? Have you, have you, have you been checking the clips? What are you, what are you, what are you, what are you talking about? He's a beast. He's dude, dude pot is like I learned to do his car a throw in like 30 minutes

And it's a really good car a throw. He's fantastic. It's really good. Yes. No, and it's an easy input And it's almost like his forward kick was built for this exact reason. Not that, not that I think it necessarily would have made a difference in, in, in, in our set. So no, Johns, I'm still No, it didn't because I didn't land one. I didn't know how to do it then, but, uh, Uh, yeah, I'm the, the, the stuff that I'm seeing, uh, because I had similar results. You know, I fought Octo Pimp and then I continued fighting a bunch of pot players, uh,

online and trying to figure it out and It seems like another So it's a, it's a similar situation to excerpt in that, like There might be no real answer here besides like, don't fight him Like do your, your play the fighting game in such a way where you're doing your best to not fight him Uh, yeah, uh, I, I had the issue of when When Chip and Melia were on me I, I just like

Like it, it felt like I was in some kind of goddamn anime in which I was like, I, I literally can't see What their character is doing Like I'm, I'm standing and I'm occasionally try, I'll burst out Or I'll try and do like a standing punch or, you know, or hammer fall for one hit depending But like getting, getting pushed in there is like, oh I remember, but when, when I feel like I get to play pot scheme Like I can't be stopped So even block strings are terrifying with the, with the his fucking

A lot of guard break move So I remember learning like throughout the years like different approaches to, you know, kind of grapplers and Like street fighter 2 You, you would still fight you would be wary of the, of the, the zone, the danger zone But you, you would still, you would still take the fight, you know Um, yeah Because a lot of that was about geese buttons, right? Um Uh, uh, in addition to the threat

so, uh It was when street fighter 4 came around that Like I remember we were doing Like I was doing so many sets with the, the montreal guys and I was fighting against the geese players there And I was having such a rough go of it and I like It's something kind of just like clicked one day when I did like a first to 20 or so With this player, uh pts 1 this really really really strong grab a geef player and I realized at one point like this dude was so godlike

He would uh, he would jump in the later versions of the game He would jump and like grab my up ball out of the air with Siberian blizzard Oh, right like that level of beastly like just in your head terrifying, right? um What I realized in those matches was that the The war games situation Was the only way to win you can't you just don't play and

It was like all right all Games that blanca or whoever you're playing that needs like if i'm playing a character That's usually in your face rushing you down a lot of the times. That's what i'm doing I'm playing a makoto or a blank or someone that's trying to mix you up or get something fast and and and You know get some shenanigans going none of that works because you're spinning and you're getting grabbed and that's the end of that Right, so then you just kind of realized the only game here is Keep you at arm's reach out of any distance where you can do anything about it and effect Which is hard because potemkin's distance is actually enormous

And then he has like the the tools right but but specifically just going in the street fighter sense like with blanca You had I had my big all right big long crouching fierce I had my slide when you were like, you know doing a lariat or something and um Add up all for your jumps and then every once in a while right when you're sleeping Hop in do a throw hop back out, but that's it right otherwise. It's like i'm just not even playing the game with you and that

Like that worked and it worked well enough that I was like, okay That's the matchup and gif players would like that the gif players are playing with her like man This is getting really annoying and I was like so it reverses it goes the other way with it because yeah Like the moment I stopped playing the game with you now you don't have a way to get your thing going But I want to get in and I want to hit my buttons Yes, yes, and it took it was such a like a it was it was a moment that I was like No other character in the game required me to actually think about stop to not about not playing the game You know so to speak because every other character you're having an exchange in neutral

That consists of you get you win some you lose some You know when you use this button, I can low profile it with that or there's little there's little rock paper scissors things happening But it was never a situation of like no no no no no no rock rock rock rock rock rock rock And your tools are gone right you know a beat you know it beats You know what beats you stand in there rock you know what beats you jumping Rock to the upright You know so I went oh fuck right so all this to say that like I'm getting a similar vibe and I got that vibe off of

Bikin versus Potemkin in excerpt as well where it was like okay Yep, that's the lesson the lesson really is Uh, you just can't treat him like the rest of the cast and play guilty gear with him You have to choose to not play You You know he has too much stuff that hurts too much that hurts way too much to afford to play guilty gear You just got you to choose to not the way the way that I would I would describe it as somebody who plays it Is every character has their their ranges in which they are dangerous right kai has a really nice

Diagonal that's really dangerous because of his his good sure you can You know certain people have better pokes and sweeps and you know Here's the mid-range that that someone can fuck you up and combo you or start their rush down With potemkin it feels like it is his body extended out About 50 percent again Like imagine potemkin was just 50 percent larger on the screen And that is just a it's not danger. It's death

If if you are in if you are within one character distance of potemkin you will probably die Now because even if you're even if he's in the corner And he can get you to block once Suddenly you're in the the fucking 50 50 of the guard crush versus the the car throw versus the Whatever now he's not the only scary character on the roster Uh ramblethal is getting played a whole lot because she's better than she ever was in excerpt and her big big girl buttons are

fucking Duffing everything that you put out there's a There's a great feeling because I was playing pot. I was fighting against a lot of ramblethal's And a lot of double counter hits A lot of we both have big almost full screen buttons That we want to hit at poke range and we're going to knock each other over. Yeah um So I and and a thing too is that like I'm looking at it and I'm like, okay like

Something that like they gave they gave naga ryuki a massive anti-air Swiping crouching heavy button right where he just like it's crazy It's humongous right because it's meant to be like if you're in the air. Fuck you But you don't get to jump in but If you have a double jump which everyone on the roster except him has You can 100 percent just hop over it safely and like get get a free punish, you know Um, so then I was like, oh shit. Okay. Like this is not uh, uh as

Like this can be predicted And they can nimbly move out of the way or dash out of the way in a lot of cases if I'm trying to catch where they were a second ago um And then I was like, maybe I can react to the the dash of the the the the the the the sigil the glowing sigil on the air dash But the button's too slow for that unfortunately Yeah, that's not gonna happen and plus what and once you're in like mega fist range. It's just you can't it's too slow mega fist comes out down too fast. Oh man, you know, it's a really hot hot top tier combo that I discovered It's really hot good combo with potemkin

so um mega fist mega fist somebody goes to If somebody goes to dust you or sweep you yeah, and you do mega fist counter and then You hit the counter hit which is a free mega fist And then they wall splat and then you do a third mega fist and that's that's 55 right there. Absolutely That's say faff near faff near faff near dolphin dolphin dolphins for sure um

But yeah ram lethal is is also really scary and if you go watch sonic fox's footage You can see they put some tech together where like uh You see ram do her big beam super roman cancel it and then jump over you so that you now have to block the beam backwards And it's quite disgusting By the way, since you mentioned that I am now going to in the other monitor out of the corner of my eye watch a sonic fox versus nagaruki

fucking uh match with ram lethal and I'm seeing stuff that people did to me Just crossing me up. Yes Don't like it. So, uh, you know, she is also Uh, quite a terror in the game right now um Yeah, man, like it's it's uh

It's there's there's we're gonna we're gonna see the way things shape up, but she's got She's got like a one frame activation just bomb the super Yeah, like yeah, it has no animation. No, it's it's just it you just die Yes, if you're doing if you're pressing buttons if you're applying pressure to her and she doesn't like it She can just do a super in between that says stop pressing those buttons, please She's a character with like a classic and it hurts like invincible Uh wake up super. Yeah, it's a little a bionic arm point blank a little like idea. Just whoop boom stop it and it's safe

Yeah Very very good. Her buttons are so big. Um, her buttons are so big axl is not as Scary as I thought he would be because the one vision time stop super is blockable So, yeah, it's a hit. Thankfully it has to hit you for you to stop You know, which is like, oh, thank fucking christ. Okay. Well. Yeah, sure. You know, let that let that be what it is it's not a matter of um You know just throwing it out there

Any time because he you know, you have to be caught sleeping or pressing a button and so and such, you know, um, but Still a really good I thought I thought like one or two really good axles that like just knew when to put a button out and like hold you In place and he's still it's very oh, he's always scary. You know, he's always an issue, you know It's funny because it's it's it's not every character Right, but um the anime games long-standing feeling of I'm gonna play this character is often I want to play a different fighting game that has its own rules that are only for me

And playing potemkin definitely feels that way. Yes playing against axl. Mm-hmm. Definitely feels that way Axl is not letting you play guilty gear no matter who you are You don't get to play guilty gear you get to play Is axl gonna go high low or that fucking diagonal? You're you're playing you're playing make it to axl You're playing a little uh, you know fucking schmup You know you're playing you're playing, um, uh Flappy duck sure with axl's chain shooting out at you uh milia rage is

Jumping like all over you and just Dancing left and right and I hope you've got a good anti air button because if it's not fast enough Uh, she's just gonna fucking check your shit Uh constantly but I noticed that uh You know, there's some ways to to kind of like there's some ways to handle it at least with nago So, you know, she she was Potentially scary, but like there were answers that I eventually found

um Leo is still pretty nuts But not no not as much as he used to be It took me a while to figure out that his dash was crossing me up. Yes Well, that's that's what he took me a lot longer. Did you to realize that that I am proud of did you fight him in excerpt at all? Never not once okay. He might as well be a completely new character to me So in excerpt he would do wreckas and then they would have different enders and sometimes they would cross you up Sometimes they wouldn't

You know here they've made it so that it's usually like Uh, you're going from regular buttons into a cross-up or non cross-up But he had way more options and and fake outs that he could do an excerpt They've simplified it into just that basic one But uh, and then there's the overhead once he's once he is crossed up and he's in uh, brunhilde stance, but um the uh Yeah, the the fact that like they kind of put him into that one Gorilla moment and you can throw it you can you can just train your eyes to okay

So leo is the person people are calling the gorilla boy. He always he always is this unga He's he is because it got the bunga and he's got a big because it's weird to me Because he's clearly supposed to be a lion. Yes, but but the the gorilla meme Doesn't refer to the animal that he represents as a character. Anyone can be a gorilla Anyone can be okay, uh a complete chimp. Anyone can be a complete fucking, uh, um Whatever, uh Analogy you want to use with it orangutan rush down filling. Yeah, the idea the idea is that you are Brainless rush down. I don't know what I'm doing next

I hope I don't know what you're doing next. I hope you don't block it, but I I'm just gonna I don't know what it's gonna be You know there it is that that that's the character in a nutshell. I hope you don't block it. Yeah And I'm gonna keep doing it. I'm just gonna keep trying until something happens You know no game plan. Just just raw return to monkey You know go on your instincts and see what happens And then he's got that command grab which not you know It seems like it's slow enough that you can call it out So you're not seeing it get mixed in but it might catch someone sleeping every once in a while and do a big old dunk

But uh, I played a set of like 30 40 matches with a leo And he threw that command grab out Like four times like on average like once every like eight or nine matches But it hit every time. Okay Yeah Now the thing the thing with leo two is you just you got to you got to know that the main thing to know is that like You can throw the cross up when it happens and Uh, he's got a flash kick

Right. That's what you go. You want to you want to look out for that too. So Uh, I have never been happier to learn safe jumps in a game than this game Because everyone's flash kick Like no one has a low flash kick Or sure you Okay, everyone's sure you or flash kick makes them go way up And come little slow down and it's like, oh man, true He does have a shorter version of it. He literally has a high one and a short one

And same then that short one is not that short Yeah, there's reversals that are uh Not quite massive in their upwards trajectory like that, but yeah, um This so that's the we're that's the cast we're looking at and then that's how it's shaping up so far with like the scarier members. Um Sol is the wild throw is still The scary thing you want to look out for I feel as if that's the main concern that uh

Uh, I had during the early version of the game during the the first versions They toned down the damage on it, but he still can just run up to you Do his, you know dragon punch kick Attack and just like grab you slam you to the ground and that does the 20 percent or so maybe even 25 um And and something that people also need to get used to with guilty gear that if you're not uh used to the game Is the concept of guts Which is

Your life bar Is not an even distribution of damage your life bar is a lie your life bar is a lie The last it's it's it's an aggressive lie the last half of your life bar is Is way more dense Than the first half Right, so yeah the the last 25 percent of your life bar is actually like half your life Mm-hmm. It's the guts system like you can just if you were to if you were familiar with like um,

um like like photoshop or video editing tools were like you would have a a 100 percent thing you'd go if you could go to the 50 percent mark and drag that 50 percent mark actually to be Somewhere around the 75 percent mark Then you'll be looking at a real more accurate description So the first couple hits you take are massive massive huge And then the last few end up being like it takes a while to like whittle it down You know

When you get hit with a super towards the end it might not even kill does nothing, you know, even though it looks like it should Yeah, um So it's it's it's meanwhile you hit a good super on first hit and you're like was that 60 percent Yeah, it's I think it's a decision made on Like the tension of of you almost being dead, but not quite dead yet Like I think they want to elicit that feeling earlier. It's very dramatic They want to increase that feeling of yeah, exactly tension And I think it's also that they can give um because different characters have different guts levels

So like they're the reduction on your damage or the increase in your defense Um, it it's character specific, you know potemkin has a higher one like chip Chip basically doesn't have this system at all. Yeah chip just dies He just he does very little defense up before he before his life bar goes away Whereas a lot of other characters, uh, you know, they get a sizable increase and um it again it's made to reflect how Like sturdy how big how strong the character is but also like Create a sense of tension in the matches, you know

um I think uh I I think I just prefer clean damage numbers because it makes it easier to calculate things You know, yeah, I like I get it Okay I'm just gonna mute this Yep, because baby is snoring directly into it big big baby big snores Baby why why you why you hamburger?

There we go the hamburger has been uh slightly de-emphasized Um, yeah so What needs obviously to be fixed about the strive uh open beta so far is Well one that lobby system is giving everyone a headache and

It's cute But the fact that it doesn't function Makes all the cuteness turn to frustration Uh, when you are running around with your little character dressed up and you stick your sword out at people like That is a charming thing on paper But because it leads to so many hiccups in Teleporting and placement and trying to rematch somebody that you just got to fight with It ends up and it ends up being so frustrating that the cuteness kind of like wears off

You know um All right step one to fix the lobby system one hit a rematch button just literally put a rematch button. Yep Or go for the uh step the street fighter and Ki style of like You can even have a default two out of three set You know, yep But like have the have the rematch button right there for sure

Okay step two, um Make it so that the option to challenge to a fight Even if it's grayed out is always the top option because if you click on somebody and they're not available and you Like tap it real fast and you decide to download their r-codes and it takes like 35 fucking minutes To download their fucking code that I don't give a shit about yeah Well, so that's not really step two should not be put the option there grayed out I would say fix the r-code system because right now it takes a full minute to download someone's r-code and It should take two seconds, right?

So the fact that accessing the r-code takes as long as it does is the real problem Uh as opposed to you know accidentally hitting the button, I would say Um It was it was really really annoying when you when you hit it and you're like well I'm stuck in this for a while. I guess I'm out of games now, you know I legit don't understand like the old-fashioned lobby of just your name in a like a series of boxes That rotates through yeah like

so that was fast and easy and it worked it worked and and Did you ever touch uh accent core plus our rollback? No, I don't think so okay because you just hit ranked and then it goes searching for a match match found Start and and that's all they said that will be a function in the Release game. Yes, uh, so This is this is where I go into the the solutions because the excerpt system of like having cabinets worked fine It did it was okay to sit at a cabinet and then like whoever was sitting there was pretty much like again

You're almost locked in and ready You're not readied up in this way But in this case the the the free movement and all that shit creates some confusion As opposed to like the idea of because like there's there seems to still be cabinet placements But they're invisible. You know, um, yeah but What I did to get around it and what I suggest everyone do is enter the floor

And the room you want to fight in and then use the weight in training mode option Because when you paw when you press start and you go to weight in training mode It'll automatically just feed you matches while you sit in training mode And it seems to grab the next available person who doesn't have a partner Yeah, so I was wondering about that because like it says it just readies you up But I can't just ready you up

Because then if everyone used that then no matches would happen No, what happens is it has to so it rats you somehow no So you can see the you can see the system at work When you're idling in the lobby So it readies you up you stand in a spot If no one walks up to you and challenges you If you and another person who is waiting for a match have not been matched in a couple of seconds A countdown from like 10 seconds begins or like 15 seconds

That's what that is and you'll see 15 14 13 and when that countdown hits zero Two people that have the matching number will then be paired off Okay, yeah So that's all it is right. It's like oh, you're searching. I'm searching. All right. Well, we're now I'm now gonna make Myself the host and you're gonna or not myself those But I'm gonna be player one. You're gonna come challenge me in my game. That's all that number is right So that made my matchmaking life a lot easier And you just yeah, you enter the room and then it's and it thankfully

Challenges people in the room that you're you're at or on the level that you're at The problem with quick match And I don't recommend it is that Um If you are undervalued on your recommended matches or you want to fight a particular level of skill of enemy It's gonna put you Only it's gonna quick match is gonna send you people recommended from your floor So I was trying I tried it out real briefly to see what happened and

um I accidentally like because uh because my my my starting recommended floor was like five or whatever Yeah, everybody says at the start. Yeah, then I ended up getting fed People from five and that means I was quick matched into floor five and It wasn't fair. I I was just Yeah, it was great wasn't it not really. Oh Because I felt I was sick. What are you talking about?

Because I'm like that's not my that's not where I'm supposed to be and like People would you know match and disconnect or match and leave and like fucking, you know, whatever um And and it was just like it was bad, right? It was it was like like this is not where I'm supposed to be because it's like Yeah, so so you know and and and someone even like Tweeted me about it going like dude, are you is this you on the fifth floor?

What the fuck are you doing? You know and I was like, oh shit. It's the fucking quick match system. You know, I I think I think the So I think the lobby system if they make it more reliable Is not as bad as Everybody's saying it however That's mainly because The feature of not being able to go to a floor below your rank. Did that sound like I'm sorry. Did that sound like a brag? Did that at all? I know

No, if it was me what it would be a brag if it was you you're actually trying to get good matches And I'm legitimately confused about how that sounded like give them to you Like it was it was a bad thing where people that were like, no, you're on the wrong floor We shouldn't be fighting and they were legitimately not having fun and like leaving and running away and it was like like that's not I'm not implying Anyway, all right. Um, it's a killer plan with children They should go back to school. So by going into the floor manually you can just Uh, uh, you can just avoid

Having the recommended floor get pushed at you, you know, which is a bad thing The uh We'll see so we'll see how that works in the final version I hope um They keep saying that like we need to have this lobby because we have all these cool features that need this lobby and I'm like what features Like literally what so what it was is uh The fact that you can do little gestures you can wave you can swipe your sword

Uh, you can press r2 for quick shortcut buttons to say hey gg's and thank you and all the little things that you could do in the in the other arxist games, right and in bb tag and in excerpts you could walk around in the little and in um Grandblue you just walk around with your little cute avatar and interact with people, you know Again, it's like it's not it's like on paper as long as you can get matches when you want them asap I don't I I like these little cute fun features but They have to not be in the way of actually getting matches going, you know, I I really hope the game just has a

Not even training mode just like ranked match button. I can say ranked. Yes Yes, and it'll sit and wait for 10 seconds or 15 seconds or whatever happens That's that's ultimately what their last games had their last games had like Go go put on your avatar and walk around the cute fun world or just hit the cue me up for a match button And then it would just throw you a match and that was the end of it, you know Or or again wait in training mode. So Yeah, uh It'd be weird. They've they had they they figured that out in the past

So I assume they'll they'll have that here now Um, and again quick match as long as you can specify What floor that's what the quick match will likely be, you know um The uh So yeah, that there was that Training options were pretty robust. I was quite happy with them. Yeah, they're pretty good You had I kept running into this issue where I would be training mode

And then the game would decide that now I want to start in the corner Oh That's your reset button settings. So if you hold The re if you press the reset button and you hold a direction Holding left restarts you in the left corner. Right is the right corner. Oh Down is dead center and up is swap positions I did not know that that's been a feature of fighting games for like Five years now, maybe 10

It's been a while. Yeah, but I didn't know it. So it's new. It's super old It's super new. It's uh It's a Fucking you tell how much attention I played to fighting games in the past couple years. I I want to say street fighter 4 I want to say street fighter 4 But yes, you hit the reset position reset the training button and then you hold your direction To choose where you want to reset from And up again swaps your positions. So it's good

Um If 4 didn't have it like marvel 3 had it like it it was It's of it's not a new it's not a new invention. Definitely. Definitely, uh, at least marvel 3 Um So there's that there's reversal options. There's you know, like, uh Quick quick change of character and stage is a is a is a nice thing to have to Not have to go back to the character. It's also It's also nice that uh, this is obviously unique to the ps5 version

But uh, man, those load times are fucking zero that bird just takes off and vanishes I remember like yeah, yeah the The feature of going in and out of training mode is a lot better on ps5 than it's ever been in a different game because Like going back and forth from training mode is not like, okay. Well, we're gonna load the We're gonna load the new stage and wait five ten seconds. It's like no You're there. So i'm done on the ps4 version when when I was playing it. Um back at the Uh at arc rivo and then and then when it was at uh frosty frost things like I remember that like the bird would be flowing flying in the air long enough

That you would hear more than the first two riffs Of sky should be high the song would start playing And then now it's gone that's that's generally about how long it takes to load now But back then you could hear a lot more of it, you know, um Yeah, that that makes it Very nice that takes away some pain that would otherwise be there between matches Man kind round what ready? Man kind kind I uh, I got to see one full character intro

The whole time due to your own Choices nope I would let it I would let it go most of the time Oh, because uh, I think the heaven or hell shit is cool Damn, that sucks But uh, I would almost never get past Mankind knew they could not change society and so round one

You or whatever the fuck it you should go into um versus cpu and check out some of those because like pot has some cool ones Yeah, and they're unique. They're proper it's like pre-match intros Axel probably has the best Because he just straight up time slips into reality and music stops So you the like straight up is like za worldo style like the world grays out The portal opens he jumps out touches a butterfly and it all resumes You know and then you get to see it happen from the second player perspective where Um

Nothing ever stops, but a butterfly suddenly flies by and then he just appears next to it like it's super stylish You know, uh, check some of those out. Yeah, they're they're fantastic I mean, what am I like? They're the best fighting game intros we've ever had Hey, I mean they're probably never gonna We're probably never gonna talk about him again today I just want to say eddie looks really cool and that His voice actor combined with the straight up d.o. Colors

Is appreciated Unfortunately, no one's picking those colors. Are they? No They're picking the the 2p colors. Yep, which need to change. They They're not milk It's not milk. Um, that there there's one color that eddie can pick. Sorry zato can pick That turns eddie from black to white And it looks like he's attacking you with a sperm monster

But also it's legitimately harder to see Than the black one in the snow stage. I imagine It is bad. Hmm It is actually really bad Yeah, so it like zato with that white and purple color scheme is a slightly better fighter than the other color schemes I'm getting flashbacks to um Hakan color 12

Hakan 12. Oh man Is he oiled up? I don't know. I just straight up don't know they didn't plan for this Uh, shit, let's patch the game and make him glow white. That'll do it Yeah Hmm, I I think um Try to think what else was there to it pretty basic Uh front end and ux to it like single player network and uh

Uh You know just kind of divided into and story so just divided into like the three big things people are going to care about You know what? I do have a a legit complaint about strife And that is uh, I don't know if it was viable if this was something in excerpt But I do know that they switched to primarily vocal tracks in excerpt Right, so the vocals are coming through and society, right um

Those songs are all really long And you will only hear the first 70 seconds of them Ever Like Like I listen to the full version of smell of the game like It it like they drop out the fucking

instruments near the end And like do just a pure vocal version And it's like wow, it's really great. That's three and a half minute in Well, you will never hear it. Uh, so Excerpt has had all this vocal music selectable for fighting as well And alongside all the instrumental stuff and alongside all the regular uh tracks I'm I'd be very surprised if you weren't handed a robust list of stage music

And a mixture health a healthy mixture of instrumental tracks vocal tracks and and um And then possibly even like karaoke versions as well. So If you're just on the the the the mix of things you can definitely just like listen to instrumentals only You know, uh, it's it's it's it's this weird combination of it's just like The round the game needs to go to two out of three matches like overall

Like virtual fighter did that a long time ago where the virtual fighter standard just became two out of three matches And I think this guilty gear should as well because fuck it is they are Most of my matches did not last 50 seconds the whole thing. Uh, yeah I mentioned it a little earlier. It would be great if they figured out how to do not figured out But it would be great if they they implemented sets into ranked play because k. I and street fighter already do that Um, they could do three out of five. We would have to see I think It seems like like looking at the timing of it. They like three out of five Mike guys guys. Hold on. I need to clarify something. I didn't mean two out of three rounds

I meant two out of three matches Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It could be and and of two out of three rounds. Yeah, but it could be Wait Now I'm getting confused What's what what what? Like you could do three out of five rounds, but I'm just saying like I would I would prefer Like like an auto rematch Like two out of three games. Best of three games. Yeah. Oh, yeah, best of three games

Okay. Yeah. No no three out of five rounds would be weird and like also not like The meter carryover situation would get really weird like no don't don't fuck with the rounds Don't do that. Just play longer sets um I was his first person to win two matches. I think we're gonna see I think what we're gonna see is a um We're gonna see a system of like two out of three sets for the first tournaments And if things go really really fast

Then they'll put they'll they'll bring it they'll bring it to three out of five um when you get um Not meter carryover burst carries over from first guys. Anyway, when you um when you make a um A Tournament where like skull girls for example was like oh fuck the high level skull girls play Made the game Go twice as fast as it used to we got to do three out of five now

Like these sets are go are like nonsense. You're getting touched and getting blown the fuck up. You know So uh when you have uh When you have when you have like games like that where they realize that it's things speed up Then they eventually are like, okay. Yeah, we got to make they make it last, you know marvel needed it. Um, but uh This feels this feels like three out of five might be a nice place to land because people are gonna optimize They're gonna get there are combos where it'll be about three touches. You know

Yeah, I I'm doing bullshit with potemkin out of my ass and it's like two touches three touches like If if I guess right Two and a half times let's say Like the shit's over in 12 seconds. Like it's just done Yeah, it's crazy But yeah, um, you know pretty phenomenal. Um, I think

They the new standard gatling is like replaced with um Uh shh, right? Uh Or ssh rather that's the that's the the new Close s s h was is a is a universal string for for the entire cast or so There's There's enough Going on where like I feel like when I'm looking at like people lapping of like I was just watching people's streams and shit

There's a there's a moment where you can go and you link into this or you lead into that and then this is where the sauce starts As they say, you know, this is where you get to You're now in a in a juggle state. You're right next to them and you can do what you want and You do all sorts of stupid zany shit Yeah, and like I found some for example potemkin specific nago combos where uh, you get like Some wall bounces involved and like launchers into like, um Just nice damage that doesn't take blood

You know, yeah, and so like I'm like, okay, and they're and potemkin's nice and big so you can get some of them on him Yeah, he's he yeah, there's absolutely character specific and size specific things Which is like brutal to remember in the long run It's annoying as shit, dude. Mm-hmm a lot of people at first Like honestly the easiest thing to do is like At start with your universals You know start with things that work on everybody and then eventually start implementing like

character specific knowledge But then focus on character specific knowledge for the characters you hate the most right exactly um But yeah, no, I mentioned it last time and uh, I'm definitely Feeling it for sure now nago ryuki is going to be 100 percent Effective based on your knowledge of the of the game as a whole um because

his like lack of mobility and lack of like, uh his his lack of like Like getting out of trouble tools um, yeah is Meant to be made up for by his ridiculous damage on hit confirm But you have to know when to hit And if you and in order to know when to hit you have to know

When somebody does anything they can to you Do you have is it your turn or is it still or is it still their turn? And and oh no, I thought it was my turn, but it was still their turn The entire roster is gonna do like their entire move list to you and you're gonna need to know When it's your turn and when it is you have to take that moment and take the half their life off Or you will not win So that that's that's that's the the the character that's gonna be like this is for Knowledge you're gonna you're gonna pick this guy because he's a cool looking vampire samurai

but to stick through And work work and work out his problems your the answers lie in the heart of battle literally they lie in Probably getting into some frame data It relies on looking at somebody like chipper milia or eddie and being like Where in this nonsense? Do I get to hit up after the second string of the wrecker? He does too and then if he goes for that third little hopping fucking chip kick

Right there Uh and then he just dies because it's chip and chip just dies So yeah, that's guilty good strive. Um and playing chip feels like playing russian roulette It just feels like any random Out of out of control button could just kill you so It's not just that they did it. They they that that he dies as fast as ever because he always did But the fact that gamma blade

Takes damage too And if you hit them both He takes double damage I had a moment where I did the ross my raw potemkin super like the the shield on chip And I I thought it was gonna do a hundred percent Because it hit his gamma blade too if um if I do nagos Blood rage super on him and his gamma blade. It is a hundred percent

Yeah, apparently ramlethul can do it too with her super He just he eats the full damage twice You know so Be careful with that move. Yeah I feel bad. I feel bad, you know, uh, we'll see what they balance and how they tweak things. So, um We'll talk about the other things in the announcements when we get to the news uh But beyond strife

Um, I did do something else What's that I watched the first couple of episodes of wandavision Oh, did you? Yeah How's wandavision, you know what it's pretty fun. I like it. That's what I heard. Yeah It's a uh, it's a really like There's a bit that they're going with and

you're like all right We're doing the bit And the show's like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. No. No. We're actually doing the the whole bit like It's here. We're we're gonna be spending time with the bit and um

It's not going to be over by the end of the episode and we're going to move on to the more normal plot We're going to be doing a thing here and and I I I think it's I think it's rather cool You know, it's a it's a fun concept to be like, all right Like let's make a show about the bit You know, um gonna keep going To see where things go because obviously this is the type of story that will uh You know probably go places and do things heavily related to the mcu and um, you know, it's meant to be

um like it's meant to Unlike the the uh Agent of shield thing where it kind of became its own tv universe This is meant to be no. This is firmly in the movie. Yeah, like shit. This this will work. This will carry this happened right next to all those Thanos memes Yeah, and like and then and then Wanda's gonna go some more mutants, please Oh boy, then Hugh Jackman will show up on the set Um, and and then they'll be like Kevin Feige. He'll be like did it

It's fucking nailed it. Now admittedly I was able to take one guess at what was happening and immediately nailed it Uh, so it wasn't exactly a fucking It there. It wasn't exactly the basement. You know what I mean, but um, yeah It wasn't exactly the basement, but it was like Oh Oh, I I'm gonna I'm my first guess is that this is what's up And uh, yeah, you know, I was able to I'm like, oh, hey look at that

but it still is enjoyable and You know, we'll see where it ends or where it goes But at the very least like I feel like it's a fun a fun watch for like You know just the the the the mcu expanded tie-in thing and I if they if the tv shows are going to be Like at least this quality This is a step up above agents of shield and it's a step up above um The netflix verse

So, yeah Bodeswell I saw like images of uh, Wanda and vision hanging out in their shitty looking halloween costumes. I thought that was very charming There's also, um, I think Loki's coming and then they're gonna get into the the, um, um, Loki But that doesn't make any sense. Yeah, well, you know, you saw it happen Right, you saw the you saw the the exact moment where it's like and Loki exits to the tv show Right there eggsy walks off stage onto the disney plus set out of right out of endgame

um Yeah, and then they're doing the one with the You know where the the black guy and the white guy fight over who gets to be capped I don't think that's what it's actually about that movie looks like shit. It's a show That's a show pretty I think it's a show pretty sure it's a third it's that looks like shit I haven't seen the trailer for it that show looks like crap, but I hope that it's about them fighting over who gets to be capped Fighting over the shield would be would be would be good Um, well again, anthony mackey and whoever the fuck plays bucky

Are not replacements for The other guy rolls good pat good That was good evans Yeah, evans Christoffer for evans Man Yeah, I don't seriously I don't care for either them. Oh, well, we'll see how it goes I what I'm so what I'm saying though is that like at least as far as wandavision is concerned

I'm like, yeah so far. That's pretty good pretty all right. We'll see if the uh, If the show ends up, uh If the the shows plural end up, you know doing a decent job I remember when I when they announced the next phase as a series of shows I kind of rolled my eyes and went all right. All right, you know sure But This first start is is going well

Loki is A pretty charming character It's not very hard to put him in a bunch of You know charming adventures. I'm assuming he's going to be showing up in a suit And he'll be saying witty little things and winking at the camera So that'll probably and they'll reverse a couple movies worth of character development so that he's still evil But but but not no, maybe they'll make it like you know So that he's like he's just mischievous as opposed to fully evil

You know, I mean they want to do a Loki series That's about Loki going to a suburban neighborhood and stealing pies and like painting the fucking town pig of weird color Yeah Fucking do it Yeah Well like the fucking episode of archie Just Loki happens to be there I mean look, I don't know if you like I feel as if it's it's gonna be similar to um

You know, you know remember the Sherlock show With Benedict Benedict cucumber man, yes So the whole point of that show Was he's really smart and he figures it. Oh, you mean with dr. Strange with dr. Strange, correct Yeah, yeah, so um He would the whole point of that show was that he would be a um

You know, uh, he'd be solving these these Mysteries and these really in smart ways and he's all genius and stuff But really it's just about like the quirky behaviors of this charming British man, you know, and I and I assume that that Loki will be going for the same thing Just the the charming adventures of this charming British man and um It's it's basically to get a bunch of people to make gifts on twitter and hard eyes

Of tolin helst and doing a little face exactly So if they do that then mission accomplished, right? That's true And then you know then you just got to find something for fucking The two caps to do Kiss I mean sure

although there was a moment where it was like oh is Is bucky gonna have a thing with like um What should we call it in Wakanda? Well, yeah, what is this bucky gonna have a moment with um, I forgot her name, but whatever This is great black panther black black black panther girl, you know

So Shuri The sister or the or the or the lieutenant shuri shuri shuri Yeah, so You know Oh, no, no, you know what they shouldn't kiss each other. They should have the they should have the shield And they should be like, you know, there's enough shield here for both of us and then just start going In shield

And start smooching on the shield They should do that that'd be that would that would work sure That would be and then his drone film. Oh, that would be the That would be the best like ending to the first episode Where it's all normal marvel movie and then like somebody catches them and they're just like in their suits No, they're both in captain america suit. Yes One once classic like from the war ones ones darker and grittier Mm-hmm

And then the little the little falcon drone can just can film it Yeah, yeah, yeah caught you in 4k Hey, what did he caught you? That's his drone. I know it's just that's what they say This is that's what that's what they say they say caught is he saying it to himself The kids say caught you in 4k. All right So the kids are talking to the falcon I hope the show is good, but I don't know we'll see We will see

Um, but yeah, that's pretty much it Okay All right, so what I do my week. Oh man Oh, it's been a big one so, uh I would take a tv show about mbaku That'd be cool. I don't know. He seems kind of limited I dig it. He seems kind of limited

All right, so things I did with my week. I actually had like a relatively big week Um, so I'm gonna skim over it and we can talk about whichever you guys find the most interesting Play for some of five strikers Watch the mandalorian or some of it Watch some of the mandalorian beat Bowser's fury

About halfway through and then I asked page to marry me So any of those you want to go into first Why don't you start at the end there, buddy? Why don't I start the end? Yeah Oh, okay. Hey, honey, can we have a second? She yeah, this side she just happens to be standing right here She said yes though, right? You said yes, I said fuck yeah I love you. Congratulations. So it was time. Thanks buddy appreciate it. Hey Look at that. I'm a big man now

I would love more soda fiance. Thank you Look at that Yeah, you get to use that word now We've been thinking about all week about the look on your face when we when we drop this on you Oh, thanks, honey. Don't worry. I'll live Hey, so yeah that happened Hey, dude. Mm-hmm. Congratulations. Yeah Thanks, man. I appreciate it

Thanks, man I waited till the quarantine was happening so she couldn't say no escape No escape what's she gonna do? What's she gonna do say no it'd be so awkward Doors bolted No, she actually reminded me of something that I told to her a couple years ago Where when we were on our first date, maybe I got a little drunk and asked her to marry me on the first day Yeah, kind of maybe a little bit. Maybe I was a little smitten little bit. Maybe I was a little bit madly in love

You did that like right away. You did that and then that was uh, that was like an ongoing joke where I'd be like I would like nudge her in the ribs And uh, he asked me every date page. I'm telling my story and trying to be cool. This is true I'm trying to be cool. I can vouch for this. This this is this is true. And then after a certain point I stopped making that joke That stopped happening and she caught on to it and said hey, how come you don't uh How come you don't ask me to marry you anymore? What's up with that? And I remember saying That I didn't do that anymore because the next time I asked she would say yes

And she was like oh, and I was right I was right nailed it Did you touch your nose when it happened? I did not okay um so How did it go down?

Well, uh, I got a ring and then I asked her That's that's mainly what happened now I got a fancy ring that did you go that she would look at and be distracted by the shininess Now did you go old school? like So we doing this or what did did we get no? in fact I was explicitly warned as early as two or three years ago

That if and when I was to propose I was forbidden From pulling a pat's dad and go on so we're gonna get married or what do you do it here? Because if I had done that I would have gotten a no Okay back at back of the cab style It's like you want to fucking doing this. What are we doing here? No Criteria were For me anyway, I had to I had to somehow get out of her frame of vision to kneel without her noticing Which I can't believe I did I literally just said hey look over there and she looked okay step one

Super easy mine games. I was like, hey, what's that on your computer? And she went huh and then I just got into the position um And I asked her but before that I called her folks and got her her her country folks's permission For uh for for the matron old school Um, which is the first time I've talked to her dad Actually, okay, which was a little nerve-wracking. Okay

Uh He's like 88. Okay And his hearing sucks so I'm like yelling and it into so like it probably wasn't as much of a surprise As it could have been as I'm upstairs clearly yelling at her father on the phone as to whether or not I can marry her in the near future I see But it was important that I you didn't no seriously Oh, you just thought me and your mom were talking shit Yeah, that's right because I then talked shit about her with her mother for an hour. Gotcha, which

Gotta get that in-law shit strong. Okay Now what if the 88 year old man goes fuck you? No What if so, uh, then I guess we'll have to deal with that When it occurs Luckily it did not uh Luckily I got the full blessing And then uh, and then I got passed back to mom in which me and my future in-law

Uh, mother-in-law talked shit about page and her losing things in the house for like an hour um and then uh Like here's the thing right I already made my bed long ago because page's mom watches my stream regularly, okay Occasionally watches this stream. Okay. Hello. So there was no escape like there was no scenario in which I could be like

All right, I'm gonna put it on real brave and pull in nice and clean and polite because if I wasn't actually a nice boy for her daughter It would be so obvious. Yeah There'd be so much fucking damning footage because your career is literally this So yeah, they have to basically what you're saying is I'm gonna call you up and I'm gonna read out a list of podcast titles and if there are any issues Raise them now we can uh, we can we can figure it out from there. Gotcha. Okay All right, but yeah, no got got the permission Got the ring then got I should have done it in the other order. I got the ring got the permission

Got the yes and and you said the second and you said these were your list of of Necessary or at least the the besides the I knew it was important to page that her her dad signed off on it Which was weird because when I talked to her dad her dad was confused as to why I was asking him He was like what he just married her. It's good But what is but she was the one who was all old fashioned and shit Okay, gotcha He's he was trying to be cool. He's he's not trying to be cool. He's 90

Doesn't even swear So he's not trying to be cool. So when you so when you asked did he reply with like god, I hope so Yes Yes, actually very close to that Get her out of here already go It was something I forget the exact words, but it was something along lines of it. She's your responsibility to take care of now To ha you deal with that shit Oh, yeah, that's great. That's great

No, but I can't tell you I mean you obviously know The feeling you knew it long before me of the feeling of like man better make a good impression With these people do it because Because they're gonna be around whether they like me or not gotta you know gotta gotta turn it on but not like Just be you know Yeah, make a good impression and and uh

Be the most charming version of yourself possible You know, mm-hmm And uh, so yeah, that's a that's a pretty big deal That is for me a humongous deal I told somebody early. I told somebody earlier today And their response was I'm so happy for you pat And I sat there before I went Hey, wait a second

What does that mean? Come on You know what it means. Come on. You know what the fucking know what it meant. Don't pretend you don't know what it means You know exactly what it means, bitch Uh Damn son so hooray Uh, yeah, so I I'm actually I feel very um It's funny. I wasn't nervous before spilling the beans, but now I'm like

Shaky now. I told everybody because it's like big deal or whatever and now I'm all I'm embarrassed. Okay. Hey, hey Hey Hey It actually worked Yeah, it did work You're fucking You shot your shot from the base of Mount Everest And you hit the summit not not the base

We're gonna move We're gonna move on he says I shot my shot from the base of Mount Everest And I'm like it's not It's not the base dude. There is a distance between you two Oh, you are such an asshole and you fucking nailed it, bro. The distance is about two inches Yeah Get out of here. Get out of here Love you sweetheart

Uh, okay, can I can I relay can I relay a direct congrats to her too, please? Oh, yeah here. Hold on sick Oh for me. Yeah, put that on You're good. Hello. Hey Congratulations I can't hear anything Uh-oh, you can't hear anything. I can't hear a single thing. Uh-oh. Did you turn it off? Did you turn it off? Uh-oh I I think I turned it off

I'm sorry in my excitement Okay That's the girl I'm marrying everybody. Hey Congratulations Thank you. Well, actually hold on. Hold on one second. Hold on What's happening actually woolly and so glad I can talk to you for one second I just want to say thank you Uh to you specifically because you introduced me and pat and that's true because of you

I have a wonderful incredible Soon-to-be husband And I am so very very grateful to you. Thank you so much Uh, you're very welcome and also page Thank you Thank you Thank you. Thank me. What do you mean? Fuck you. Why me?

Everyone can hear this but me this kid just You know Oh Well, let me cry. Of course. Are you you and you and punch mom come to the wedding. Okay? All right. All right. All right. Cool All right. Hold on. I'm gonna hand this back to pet. What what happened. Hold on. What happened? Here you go. That seemed important Oh So sweet

Hey, what's hey? What's going on? Shut up. Okay You know, I'm gonna just go back and look at this later Like I could just do that how if I fucking delete it. What are you doing the whole podcast now? Anyway, all right So, uh, you might have noticed you might have noticed in the past week guys Watching my my stream That I have remarked on

like Huh busy week this week. Yeah So when when when exactly are we talking like? Like how long you've been sitting on that? a while Okay, uh I've been sitting. Well, I've been sitting on the question Like like the knowledge that the question's gonna happen

For like a really long while and then it becomes well, I don't have the ring yet Right. Okay. So I gotta get the ring and then it becomes Like what's what's the perfect time? What's the you've made it painfully obvious to me that you've been waiting on the question For fucking years now That's You knew before she knew what then I was gonna pop the question. Oh, yeah a long time ago Like it's been a goddamn minute if anything it was it was uh, just you know, that's that's been a Bruin But I mean with actual steps and functions occurring

A couple months, okay uh In which it's like What am I waiting for? What am I waiting for the perfect time? the Fuck that I want to put the ring on um and then

Uh, you know, it's you know when you're when your girlfriend is a heavy sleeper It's really easy to find out their ring size When she's like, I don't care. I'm gonna. I got hives. I'm gonna get some Benadryl And I'm gonna go pass out and they're just like Dead to the earth and you could just fucking no. No, that's not that's that's not true pat The first time I slept over He was like sizing up my ring finger Wow

So that's a different version of the story you forget everything I didn't forget that That's a very different version of events Anyway, okay I just I just went I just went into the jewelry and grabbed A comparable ring Yeah, but I'm sure fucking playing with the the sleeping body To get what you need is also a way of doing it. You you got to do that. You got you got But regardless I did it's all me the story's all about me

No, oh by the way page now that we've dropped the beans feel free to do your your lady social media hit On the unmarried women's Take that your old maids you could have this Just just napalm the situation, huh? Yeah, all right Okay Well, yeah, it's it's been a it's been a uh, uh, uh fucking It's a bit of a trip to get to this bit, but now the ring's on So there's no escape no escape

They can't escape There's like there's a car involved. There's kids Committed That I tell you what I told her this I don't think I've told it to you guys because marriage, uh The instant we got that dog. I knew she was gonna say yes for sure 100% That Getting that fat piece of shit that disgusting

mongrel That is sleeping and snoring into this podcast As soon as that guy came into the house. I'm like, oh, she's gonna say yes no matter what Yeah, because we got steak together for the kids and that's and that's that's exactly That's exactly the mindset, right? That's what you know going in But like I was listening to a podcast or some comedians were talking about this and it's just a thought of like But how fucked up would it would it be if she said no though? I mean, you know, it's you know, it's just sure thing

But how fucked up Like listen, I think what if just what if I think I had about as much Confidence that she was gonna say yes as anyone has ever had and even then There was a moment where I'm on the knee and I'm like, what if she just panics and goes no and runs away What if that just happens What took a breath like make you wait Like the the the what if Is always there and that

It like You it is physical it is a physical object inside your body in that moment It's impossible, but is it yeah, it's 99 percent. It's 99 percent But what if though what if yeah, yeah, you guys wouldn't hear about it. That's for sure. Oh man Yeah Yeah, all right, all right So you're rocking a rock there Am I rocking a rock? No, did you did you did you rock a rock?

I don't know what that I don't know what that means Something nice some nice ice. Oh, yeah, that's pretty nice. Do you want to see it? All right. Yeah hit it on the camera, babe Kind of embarrassed, okay Can you see it? I can't see Yeah, that's big Can you see it? Yeah, that's big. That's that's a big one That's a big that's a big big size

There's a lot going on there. Yeah. Yeah, he's he is his exact words are that's a big one It's heavy She cut me with it yesterday. It's big and round like my hubbin Oh Seriously though, she cuts me with it. I'm sorry Okay, okay, okay Like we'll be hugging and she'll like draw her arm away and like it will leave a slash so for like

For the next couple months low-key yeah, just observe and as like At random you will notice her just staring at it. Oh I don't need to be low-key That was of like 45 minute process

yesterday Okay, because you see just the the flashlight on the phone out just just constantly Yeah, it just it just starts becoming a constant thing And you're just like yeah, all right. All right. Yeah Good shit Good shit What you doing honey? Nothing. Just looking at shiny sparkles Just just reacting to the trick that

the human brain plays on on You know the The ones that you try to keep by the same same trick that works on crows and squirrels. Yep Works for girls too shiny shiny sparkly So fucking video games white, huh? Yeah, sure. I'm gonna get a I'm gonna get a gold band I'm not sure if I'm gonna wear it right away or okay Just post because like I kind of want to wear the band and that would be kind of on you're okay

I could wear the band right away because I think it's cool to wear the band that goes. Yeah Yeah, I got I got one Is is in and of the moment right but You can just go with your own Um For engagement purposes now too. Like there's like people are rocking at you either way

You can you can kind of make it. I'll just take it off and then put it back on at the Sure Yeah man looking at men's rings like There's a lot of just Fucking like looking at the ladies rings. They're all pretty nice

They're all pretty classy to a degree There are some trashy rings for dudes, man Just like I want it to look like Like a like the the fucking Uh wedding ring equivalent of a tribal tattoo of a culture. I'm a part of Yes It's like And that's why that's why you want to use manly bands dot com slash super beast for you. That's true

Boy was I trying real hard not to lose my fucking mind when we read that had last week Uh-huh, uh-huh Yeah, how about that timing? I'd literally I literally had a ring like locked in a safe upstairs There you go like just going ha ha, but yeah when I do get the band it will be a completely unadorned Unsegmented unspecialized simple gold band Yep Yep

I think um You know you just uh, you you you don't You find the one that suits your personality and the idea that you want pretty much, you know like the the the the the the for the dude Side like ring they kind of just go with like it just represents that like you did some shit, you know, yeah For for me. I'm looking all these designs and aside from the simple gold band. I'm like I like I want zero confusion that it is a wedding band Okay, right because some wedding bands don't look like wedding bands They don't they don't have a traditional metal or they don't have a traditional shape

I want people to see it on my hand and go Oh That guy's married that means he don't want it to be a ring of power that you can blow into and go Oh my god Or summon captain planet All right Well, um Enjoy updating your insurance

Yeah, that's gonna that's gonna because you literally have to you got to do that You got to go. Hey, so that's That that person walking around has uh an increased value on them. Yeah Oh, that's a now to take out the life insurance policy Give me the biggest plan you got She's very frail I'll take the lupus plan Yeah

Damn. All right. All right Oh, okay. It's good. Got shit got got that off my chest. That was burning a hole There you go. Huh That was like much earlier in the week like But I wanted to save it for this podcast Because I think it would be because we both thought it would be the funniest thing to just drop it on y'all Like the same way I dropped the house

Like just like yeah Well at this point at this point, that's the expectation to be honest Considering how house and car came about in the exact same manner. Oh and and dog too Yes, so it is to be expected that that is the manner in which all major life changing decisions will be dropped In a in a in a very casual podcast segment Hmm Now don't lose it

You lose that we're gonna lose you Yeah, we're getting insured you got her mom her mom told me to get it insured. Oh my god So I bring it up because that was the next step immediately That I was I was told is like you that's the next you got right You know The the the fucking the the mr. Shakedown number floating above her head Just cranked up a little it's real. It's just cranked up

You know so Yeah page mom's cool She's the exact same kind of humor. So like It's it's it's weird Talking to the in-law and seeing like the reflection of your so back at you is bizarre Because it's there, but it's not quite the same Oh page mom's nice. I like her

Hmm. Anyway I don't like her dad too. I just barely know him because he's he's old and he can't hear so good on the phone All right, so I It's interesting because I'm like With punch mom you like I her parents are very different people from her Yes, you know, uh, it it the similarities are like

Visual only personality wise. It's not a thing. Um, but then like You can see where like deliberate deviations were taken. So for example, yeah um Punch mom is pretty laid back as a result of like her mom being really really overbearing about stuff Yeah, okay And and she has like two siblings. So like she had to kind of play The the chill parental role at times to opposite what was going on there. You know, yeah, meanwhile over on my end I'm thinking about uh page's parents anniversary of like what how many years?

Oh god, like almost 30 30 plus 40 years, right? Uh, she was texting her mother and said can you believe that? Oh, I tell your father What was it your father's the luckiest guy in the world or so I tell him anyway Right, it's like the exact same kind of thing. The only the primary difference talking to them on the phone is that Unlike page they sound like the voice that I use to make fun of southern people but for real

but for real like Like like fucking yee-haw Like not even joking Well, fucking practice it and here you want if you want easy ass points Just find uh, just find yourself a real like local Damn, that's more crazy than a fucking Whatever would I you know find a nice little local idiom and drop that shit out of nowhere and watch them explode

Like this is a family that actually unironically says me ma And peep-aw A nice little local reference And and and they'll be like Look at that. Look at you. Well, that's more fun than a dance barn Is the actual reference You leave the dance barn out of it. She was on her phone with her mother a couple years ago

And like they were almost in tears Because fred or joes or whoever the hell's dance barn burnt down. It was that was really sad Oh, no, I love that dance barn the dance barn. Yeah, the dance barn the barn where the dance happens Right, right. Yeah, okay Yeah, a city folk just don't understand just don't understand All right That's enough on that. There'll be plenty of time to gloat over these unmarried simpletons in the future What?

It's part of the benefits I get to be a married man now. That makes me better than these people And much better than the divorced Much better Uh 50% of you hear that dad 50% am I right Took two shots for you to find the right one. I got the right one right away

He totally watches this shit. What am I doing? I'm going to get a phone call I'm totally gonna get a phone call later today. Yeah. Oh shit Yep Yep Good job though. Good on you mom. You found the right one right away Oh, shit, that's oh, that's gonna come back on me real bad. All right Hey, dude, fucking nothing but nothing but botches on this end too Yeah, you know, yeah

They know it ain't no secret. You know, everyone's well aware Oh All right, so we're doing a podcast here, right Uh Mando's pretty good, I guess I was sitting here watching it with my good friend, uh, elie plague of gripes and my fiancé Uh, who finally deigned to let me watch the mandalorian I had to I had to I had to give her a ring before she let me watch mandalorian

And kill daft punk How much did you watch about five episodes? Yeah, yeah, it's good Makes me hate those new movies a lot it like should the simplicity of the story And this and the simplicity of the story allows the world of star wars to just breathe Oh, yeah, it's interesting enough on its own without having to

Get too convoluted and put expectations through the roof You can just keep it simple and the world itself in the background this is interesting enough it's just like Thinking about like you're watching this and it's just like you were watching the second episode It's like there was no dialogue for like 10 15 minutes or something like that And just like oh, what a pleasant nice watch and it's like oh, that's a cool shot. No, and it was just like, oh, yeah, it wasn't this giant stupid mess And you know what and and and and you know what fucking like when it's time to throw in the fan service

You catch the fucking you catch them pulling out the pearl Yeah at the end there and it's just like It's a fucking crate dragon They pull out the pearl just like yeah, and that's it and it's like hey look they made reference to the pearl That's that's crazy. They still they they they kept they look we're gonna land in most eyes Lee and it's gonna be the bar And then we're gonna leave the bar And that was it we went in and then we walked away from it

A little bit and the the bar was quiet no music um I forget which episode the fifth one is but I I don't want to say too much until you're actually done Um, the fifth was the gunslinger was about the the jackass Other bounty hunter It was a stupid stupid guy Uh that guy looked like he was a friend's extra that fell into star wars Uh

Too long like you can't remember Uh Oh Boy are you there? Hello? I am I'm I'm I'm I'm trying Are you talking about season one? Yeah, dude Oh my god. Oh jesus christ. Okay Oh fuck. All right. Whoa. Uh, whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Sorry. I thought we were talking about season two this whole time

I thought you saw season one Oh shit Okay well, then um my reference to uh A cotor doesn't really work then

um, so never mind that but I thought you were described. I thought you were I thought we were talking about season two and that you already watched Okay, no, so you're you're starting to wasn't allowed Gotcha, okay was not allowed and it was the age old Not actually forbidden. It's like, oh, I really want to watch that with you, honey. Okay. Cool. When you want to watch it. I'm tired Okay, we'll watch it uh tomorrow or a day or two from now repeat

Okay, well, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was it was a while. It was definitely a while ago some of the there was there was uh Uh Like there was uh, I don't remember like some of the ebbs of the first season But all in all the yeah the setup the introduction The you see what the the modern-day Mandalorian clan is looking like, you know, um I thought all that was pretty cool. You don't get to find out like What that's all about in the movies, you know, but you see some helmets a couple times

So here they actually Like I'm explore explored a little bit and you get like, you know, they're they're mannerisms And this is the way and all that stuff, you know, so I'm playing this weird game with this show in that like I have so many bits and pieces of Mandalorian shit stuck in my head from 10 different sources And I'm like which of those Which of those were real So honestly, honestly, like considering the like

Don't even worry about it What you Do what will eventually be relevant is like the other like stuff that is current canon Which I mean goes into like clone wars and rebels and stuff like that but I think

Everything else you're concerned about It's like it's not really a big deal It's it's part of it But overall they kind of are like, eh, even if you didn't know what any of this was This is you'll you'll will explain enough to you that it'll be fine And then when you eventually do need to know a bit more It's only gonna pull from the um from like Like the rebels and and cloning or stuff

so Yeah All right, but yeah, enjoying it. Nothing all that much to say other than Yeah Uh, it I it makes me hate the new movies more than I like the show if that makes any sense I like mean like it's such a clean like Clearly focused thing

Mm-hmm, and I look back to the fucking mess and I go why couldn't you just not be a fucking mess I I don't feel that that way, but uh the contrast is is quite high It definitely makes you just look back and go like man. Like yeah, you could have taken lessons from here. Um because like in the end I'm like There are still parts of the movies there are ingredients to the movies that um

Were more than fine that were good that were interesting that like could have been used in better ways I think that's I think that's kind of the takeaway because like uh, I liked force awakens and I liked the pieces and the characters that were introduced in it and uh That sort of like new group of of kids. I was like, yeah, this kid go places. This is interesting It was in the end. It was ultimately how they were used, you know that like it that ended up being disappointing But like the characters themselves as they're established are like, you know, uh, finpo and ray like I I like those I like those characters, you know like it's just uh

It's just implementation that sucks I like the part when Kylo got kissed by ray or whatever And then the lady in our theater went And then they fucking died and she was like I That was my last week I love it

It's my favorite I don't care You can you can tell me I said that one last week and I'll remind you of the amount of times that you and I were rendered near tears by you Hahaha Uh That's old internet that doesn't exist anymore Older than people listening to this

Dude, if you want to experience some type of fucking weirdness in your chest Go follow the twitter account ancient memes I follow that twitter account. Oh Boy is that hard to to fucking follow sometimes It's ancient they post some stuff where you're like damn People were super unfunny Just a couple years ago

Like the whole joke. I don't know the majority of these are like 10 plus Years years ago, but like there's some of them where it's like the whole joke was I used a nine gag face Yeah, that's the joke I pasted the funny joke face Then then there's some classics like those dogs with sunglasses saying mom the plural is anime Which i'm retweeting right now sure because it's a classic Because I want I'm like early demotivators for example were like there was a demotivational sentence that that was like

Oh, there's a funny there's a funny sentence that is on this picture You know and then at some point I want to say low quality demotivator memes started popping up where It was just a picture of something goofy And then the person writing the text had nothing clever to say So it was just a frame and then the text was just like yep It's that it's what it is And that's that's the that's the humor that's the funny, you know, and you're like all right

So here we go and then you just head down. Oh, I scrolled past that that goth guy in a hula hoop Because he loves hula hoops even though he's goth um and I want to and I want to say that uh You know advice animals came and went and some of them again were like Funny in premise you proposed a hypothetical and you wrote something that was worth the sensible chuckle But then around the time of the nine gag faces It just became like Yeah, it's it's it's the obama face. It's yao ming. It's the fuck. Yeah face

Totally It's the derpina Filosa raptor was the best one Mm-hmm And the new version is just wojak like Oh, it's literally it's lyas Just wojak if you don't necessarily got That's just literally exactly what that is, isn't it? Mm-hmm

Copy paste face for for easy joke And if you're funny, then you use it in a way that's still really funny If you're if you're a funny person you can still use it in a way that's hilarious, but For the most part you end up with 99 percent garbage, you know But looking back on it in that account some of them are just like like chest cringe You know like oh, yeah Oh, I feel it Wow

We got a new story that's like chest cringe later, which is like my favorite new story in a million years I'm super excited. I'm super excited Uh But before we get to that I also played p5 strikers Which I I don't see anybody talking about Probably because nobody knows whether or not it's cool to stream it because atlas usa says it's cool to stream it But atlas japan threatens you

So gene posted clips and I assume it's because he has clearance Being all checkmarked and official working as a real journalist Oh, well, there's a difference between clips and like, uh, you know, let's play covering it, right? But even then it's like It's like I I went over and found the japanese restrictions which were insane Which were like don't use a capture card. I'm going to assume they didn't provide you with it Oh, no, I just bought the digital version And then like you get it early if you got the digital version. Okay

That is an omega force muso ish team people making a persona game And It is by far The most amount of work they have put into any of these spin-off titles in terms of like honoring its source material Like the hyrule warriors was a step age of calamity was a step. This is like a giant leap I genuinely was baffled by what the game actually is Have you had like have you actually looked up what how you actually play that game?

Compared to like say just hyrule warriors I just saw I just saw the the trailers and I saw that clip that uh, he put the gene posted So I thought It was Moves hyrule warriors. Yeah, but persona Okay, is it not beat the crowd up? No No No, it's not okay

It is persona five two with action combat instead of RPG combat There is the daily life shit It's not day to day But you can still go to young ganjaya and go to all the shops. You can still go down to shibuya And check that shit out. You still fuse personas to get new skills

you go in as a party and it is not The calendar is is forced Like the one like, uh, I think june 20 July 28 seventh or something. So I am now and that will only move forward when I beat the dungeon Okay, but like It's a dungeon also. It's not it is not Uh

A field and it's not a series of battles It is literally we're dropping you into a persona five-style palace that's got slightly wider streets for your party and you will encounter random battles That you can sneak up on and pull the mask off And then you get into the random battle and instead of using turn-based combat for your moves You're holding a button down to cast your weakness spells so that you can hit all out attacks And then you beat the random battle and you get money and experience

And occasionally they're gigantic style Like muso battles, but those are treated like mini bosses And is your party on the field with you and you're switching between yes, and you hit the the d-pad to switch between them, huh? Whoa, okay It's it's crazy Well, that's nice to know that it's like not just a cut and paste It's also all the cast came back And the story is a direct sequel

Okay, and its presentation is just as good Like yeah, I mean it's identical Right. I know it's not identical. It is It is just as good and it is different all the menu shit is all brand new Okay, it's it yeah, I'm seeing people in the chat it is reverse yakuza 7 Where they went from action game to RPG this went from RPG to action follow and It's it's so so so More it's it's closer to persona 5 than it is to a muso game. I guess is the way I would say it

Um, is it picking up royal? Or is it picking up original? So they made it during the development of royal So The new characters from royal are not there Apparently it does at some point go. Yeah royal totally happened. Okay But but like whatever just pretend It's it's

You know 99% of it play royal. You won't be lost. Yeah, okay And it shows a lot about like that shit because in royal and in Strikers the first thing that happens is you meet a new character that's a redhead Like literally the first thing that happens in both games is like here's the new redheaded girl In in in um ultimax also Christ here's the new redheaded girl right there. She's got two swords. She's cute. She's got a scar. Look at that Redheads are saved for the extras Redheads are the virgals of persona only in the special editions. Sure

That's cool. Okay. I mean, um it it Looking at the the trailer it was just like stylists jumping around all out attack style shenanigans So, you know, it could have ultimately have been anything and Um, my brain just assumes that you know, we're gonna get Every time Somebody asks Is there a capture these areas thing like in a musou game like it they drop you on a map and it's you know Go capture this and it's like no it is

Functionally identical to a persona 5 dungeon. The only difference is is the the make the fights are action instead of Uh instead of a turn based so you're going around the party's already formed and uh You like you have to manage them and jumping out and out of the dungeon Dude, I have to leave the dungeon to regenerate my sp Okay. Yeah, there you go. There you go. Like and and you know, maybe I'll go down to the vending machine Next to the hot spread hot bath so you can get some sp items Like it's it's on point

It is it is nuts. How good's the pc port? It's pretty good I have a very fancy video card, but unlike The other koai tecmo games I've played. Uh, it runs great feels good Um the music Hey, guess what do you want more persona 5 soundtrack? How much of it is new? A lot Okay, the the parts that the parts that need to be old like hanging out in the blah Or the

They're the same But the battle tracks are new like there's a new version of last surprise There's various new music for new scenes Interesting. It's wow. It's they just fucking secretly stealth released p5 too Damn Yeah, what about that? It's good It's real good

I'm I'm shocked why I wish I could stream the whole thing. Why do they have to be so fucking dumb about this? God, what a what and to those of you who who probably say hey pat But atlas usa said all you have to do is say Don't put the spoilers. Sorry put a spoiler tag in your stream and don't show the final boss I will tell you that I spoke to atlas usa last year And when asking them about Hey

Can I get confirmation that atlas japan will not go after my royal stream? The response was an emphatic. It should be fine Which is not what I want to hear I don't want to hear Like it's probably okay But the problem is hearing that and i'm at the same time as i'm always hearing something like About someone whose youtube account got fucking deleted That was putting up uh strikers footage catherine shit or you know, like what literally literally this week

I saw someone tweeting about how someone lost their channel Because they decided to cover some some uh strikers You know, yeah, it's it's like I don't like yeah That mean man and and people always say like oh, but so and so streamed it no problem Like i'm sure they did and i'm sure i'd be able to too, but I have A fiance and a dog and a cat and a house to take care of I can't just be losing my channel Can't do it It's it's same thing with every time, you know, like some something comes up with uh

twitch regulations on music or the fucking the flags or whatever these things are where it's like Hey, you're probably fine, but there might be a risk. It's like Yeah, no, that's not that's not smart. It's like we can just as easily Not do the thing that would be great content By picking something that would not be endangering You know and it just in the end it just sucks But oh well why take the risk and then feel really really really stupid when something actually goes down I've gotten flagged

For dragon ball footage That I reported at the official dragon ball event when I was invited to fucking record that footage and put it out like They they they invited me to come in get footage of the game and then upload it And I did and that shit got flagged and I was like hey, can you help me out here? And they're like yeah, sorry. It's just it's the process to a automatic thing You know how it is Yeah, reminds me of uh when I got dbc fighters

I was really excited to play and actually stream a bunch of dbc fighters, which I did Though stupid me. I bought the dbc fighters special edition that includes the anime soundtrack that fucks your stream up Of course, there you go. Yeah There you go. Oh sick sick What should we call it? I Jonathan blow

Getting flagged for his own fucking game Yeah, you know like You just can't you just there's no reason to take the risk, you know So I won't be covering percent of five strikers on the channel, but hey, it's cool. So Cool, I guess Uh And what else? Oh, and then I I beat Uh bowser's fury

Uh that game's really good got the 50 shines Uh There's 50 more that the game gives like open like there's a hundred total And when you beat the at the first time with the 50 it then pings the location of the remaining 50 all over the map So that you can go clean it up That's great super great Good week. Good week for video games and media and me

and peaches And if you want to check out more video games of this brand new fiance man And hanging out and crap You can go to twitch.tv slash pat stairs at

Is that all you played this week? Mario Persona guilty gear You didn't play anything am I missing anything? Am I missing anything? I don't know. I thought I thought maybe there was other games in there Hold on I thought maybe you uh

Mario you got a little got a little swinging Done Christ I completely forgot I literally completely forgot Um So I was on the capcom usa stream the other day. Where are you now? Yeah, they asked me to be on there and said hey pick out one of these great arcade games To play on the capcom stream. I'm like man. I love capcom arcade games

I'm a huge fan of capcom arcade games Oh, man. Okay, cool. All right. You know what? You know, I think it'll be funny if I really like biotic commando And it'll be funny if I go. Hey woolly. I'm playing biotic commando on the stream. Ha ha ha Uh, but also like I that that biotic commando is a great game. So I uh, you're playing You're playing biotic commando. I'm playing like a dragon Yeah, so I have a question to ask you about that later. Um And uh, they sent me the code for the capcom arcade stadium and uh, download that and I'm setting it up

I'm getting the custom overlay from the capcom man And uh, set it all up and I'm starting to play and turn on the the biotic commando And uh, I'm like I'm I'm set to go in about 20 minutes and I'm like, what the fuck is this? What the fuck is this? This isn't by there's an arcade version of biotic commando. Oh shit fucking pleb You did not know that the original biotic commando was the arcade version. That's super hard And that is what they talk about when they're doing arcade classics. And that's the game Before rad Spencer shows up. That's the one about super joe

And then rad Spencer has to save super joe. That's the guy you're saving In the in the later biotic commando. So So I load in and I tell that story and everybody And then I look down to the chat the like the private capcom discord And I see a couple people in there one of which is the person who was just on before me Who was proton john? And goes, oh, he didn't know it was the arcade version. Oh, man

He's he's screwed And they're talking like, oh, no, they got the rewind function. He might be okay. And I'm like Okay, so I got to Test out the rewind function on the capcom arcade stadium It's really powerful because I beat biotic commando with zero lives lost Or maybe one life lost due to time. It's basically safe five minutes It's stronger than a safe state. It's a it's a full blown rewind. It's really powerful. Okay. Um, I beat it. Yeah Oh, super good. Oh, man. Oh

and then Upon beating it and having like 12 minutes to go. I was challenged by the capcom staff to beat it again without using the rewind Which I totally did Ah Because I discovered That there's a secret To buy on a commando for the arcade And that secret is

Being wealthy because when you put a new coin in after you die The character starts at the top of the screen coming down on a parachute And you just mash it out and now all of a sudden you're a full screen up. So actually Wow The speed runniest way to beat biocom on the arcade is to pump dogs in Put a quarter in and jump right to the top of the screen. Wow, and I beat that shit in like 11 minutes. Wow Okay, like a rich kid any percent Damn, hey, it's what works. What's it? What works?

I felt very stupid. Yeah, I tell you Fool Everyone had a good laugh at my expense That is the original biotic commando And then the nest game comes later on which is as I'm sure you're now aware Uh quite a refined version of that gameplay They they cleaned it up a little bit

And you can hear little pieces of the music. Yeah, that became like the famous theme. Yes But it's your early versions similar to um Street fighter almost like you can go back to street fighter and hear like messy early versions of the themes that then become the classics, you know Okay, well fortunately for you uh You have you have Established to the public

I mean quite frankly, I'd say that we have established to the public that Uh shitting our pants openly live on stream Is actually peak performance I made it work And I made it work I used the embarrassment to to fuel my my my power other streamers would actually choke and die in places where

They are taking I suppose themselves too seriously about things But you've managed to create an impenetrable fortress of uh pant shitting Dude, the like I the the capcom stream turns on and I'm like, hey everyone Uh, I thought this was the nest version. Um, this arcade version seems really hard Oh, let's see how we go They did like you did see the name arcade classics though, right? I did I saw biocom

1987, okay, which I thought was the nest game. Okay. All right. I thought it I was wrong And even then like but you you but you're mainly off of rearmed Right. Yeah, but I mean the nest version and rear. I mean rearms a one-to-one, isn't it? Yeah Yeah, well ish one-to-one ish. Yeah Okay So, yeah, there you go. That's that's that's what you forgot A poop on my pants in front of everybody, but it's okay It's okay. That's some it's something also

Like the funny what what's always funny to see because like everyone who comes over knowing you Is tuning in for the pants poop, but it's the people who are regular capcom stream viewers That don't know about that That was the part that that really gave me the power was the shame the real shame Because like there are people like going lol pat like oh, I know you Right, and then there were people like who the fuck is this guy? Why doesn't he know what he's doing? I'm like, um, that's what I'm talking about right there. That's what Ah

Why is he in fishnets? I don't know Did you influence I I might have influenced a little bit It's good You know, I actually it's funny I chose not to influence this week I was I was in the I was in a long series of influence-based talks with, um

Let's say Let's say the game is called Uh pillage dark tales And I actually turned it down Just I thought I would want to do it, but I didn't want to do it Too complicated And now we can talk about your influence woolly

Why is there a clip of little v like yelling at you to just do it in regards to like a dragon Uh, what is what is the issue with you doing like a dragon? Oh Yeah, yeah, yeah, no no no and then and then hitchhiker jumped on to fucking yell as well No, no, no. So yeah What I was trying to figure out right is Like one does this make any sense in the midst of

zero to um like Can it be scheduled in such a way that like People would be okay with that Because effectively what it's going to mean is I'm going to have to put zero on hold And then temporarily go into like a dragon and then come back to zero

Uh-huh, uh-huh, which I wasn't sure if people who are following The current story would be upset with that or not So I just wanted to make sure that that was copacetic Uh And then of course there's also the like and whatever comes down the line later That is clearly a reference to stuff from you know zero to six Um, yeah, just I just want to make sure it's not like a complete nonsense jump in To the middle of a thing, you know

I mean, it's kind of nonsense, but the game is coming out soon Thankfully most people if not almost everyone has been like it doesn't fucking matter It's just funny just fucking do it shut up It it really doesn't matter and like the anything related to the old games is like at the 80 90 mark I just like ultimately of all those things The the the the the biggest one is is everybody cool with the current lp going on hiatus Oh, yeah The answer is yes, because it's going on hiatus for the bigger newer shinier version of the current thing

You know, you know who's cool with it. You know who's cool with the hiatus. Yeah Yeah, yeah, I'm doing the thing with my fingers. I'm doing the money thing. Yep The finger thing means taxes. No, it doesn't but still So that's that's pretty much that's pretty much the deal, you know is just um The the the weirdness of like taking a break to fucking Uh jump into the the future and then jump back out So to speak which I also haven't really done But I can't do

Like you can't just do a quick look at at yak is like you gotta you got to get in there You got to get your it's got to be a day You got to get your knees You know like deep In in the in the muck so um I want you to see that if you do that video when you do that video take a look at those bread physics, man Those high-end bread physics, you'll see what I talk about. Yeah, it's gonna be more than a video It's gonna be like sessions

Oh, yeah, not the whole thing. I don't imagine. No, that's a big fucking game. It is a big fucking game But it's gonna be the first like While the first little okay, cool Yeah so Indeed um that of course will be happening over at woolly versus on twitch and woolly versus on youtube Where you can also tune in to catch The latest of reggie versus demon souls

Uh, he's firmly halfway through the game right now. He's doing pretty well I think uh, he's found his way and he struggles where he's expected, but he's overcoming. So, you know, he's growing up Yeah, because zero of course as just discussed is gonna continue for a bit before we switch over Uh, get into fighting games. We just did our guilty gear strive episode And we all I also put up my first day of messing around with naga ryuki. So, um Pretty much like there's like a five hour stream dump of like the tuesday that I just like jumped into the game and started pressing buttons Uh, so yeah, you can check that out for like a little uh extra strive action if you want to see Um, a lot has been learned since then, you know, but it's it's it's definitely like our little

a little like I guess introduction to what I like to do when I first get my hands on a game and I already Know kind of what character I like and what I want to find out You know, so I wrote down a couple of like Combos from seeing footage of the character And so I just decided to go into training mode and test out a couple of those combos I wrote down Just based on seeing, um You know a little bit of tech here and there in previous videos and testing the hypothesis

Finding out if you've got a reversal finding out if you've got, you know A decent spoke and and and just kind of you know putting together The basics if you would um and then going online and getting crushed for all for a while. So, um Tune in to that if you'd like to see some extended Hands-on first time stuff Well, hey, what's the deal with peanut butter? You tell me

Why I've been why have I been asked to ask you about peanut butter? It's what's up with that. I I think it's pretty straightforward But what did you do? I didn't do anything. Do you have peanut butter in your house? I do have peanut butter in my house. Is it is it nearby? Uh Hey, babe, do we got peanut butter nearby? Yeah, can you get it for me? Yeah, okay. Yeah I would just I would just like to take a look at your peanut butter All right

It's pretty tasty right you spread it on toast peanut butter is a peanut butter is good. I think peanut butter is a is a friendly Oh, no, just the just the thing will be fine. Don't need to eat it. Yeah. What kind of what kind of what kind of jelly do you like? Jelly, I mean I like strawberry or blueberry or Yeah, we got we got some crafts green smooth peanut butter Yeah, would you could you hold on a moment? Would you would you identify what you're holding is peanut butter? Yeah, this is peanut butter. I'm holding craft smooth primer Peanut butter. It's got little bears on it So

I was surprised Yeah To find out That uh, because this is mine. Here's the visual. This is my peanut butter. Look, it's it's the same might as might as well Be the same jar it is it is literally the same big thing So it turns out that a lot of americans didn't know that craft makes peanut butter up here. Um, yeah craft makes the peanut butter Yeah, that's that's what most people were reacting to which was not the the major point um

I had the audacity Uh, it would seem to point out that um Are you familiar with the other kind of peanut butter the the shit that has the oil in jiff? No, no, no, no the shit that has the oil in it that you have to mix and turn upside down and put in your fridge That's fucking stupid. Yeah so At the end of the day, I was like shit peanut butter So at the end of the day, I was like look man

You say what you and he's like and basically v was arguing that that's the real shit and that this shit is nothing in this nonsense and i'm like When you google peanut butter This stuff is what you get It is now what comes up This is what you get you get this or the crunchy version of this And that's all there is to it and then the old school oil based mix upside down peanut butter stuff Um is not really what peanut butter It's what it used to be

But it also tastes gross Because I had it and it was nasty So I didn't like it No, I like my peanut butter comes in the comes in the green Green bottle So I was called out for pointing out that the peanut butter that is stocked on the shelves when you ask someone to get you peanut butter That's what they point you to For pointing out that that's peanut butter

As opposed to the the mixy oily upside down in your fridge. I don't think this went the way people thought it was gonna go Because i'm right there with you Like get the green peanut butter if you're if you're being fancy you get the craft yellow peanut butter So right the extra smooth It went here's like so he took a picture of his his peanut butter in the fridge And then tweeted out and went like woolly doesn't know what peanut butter is or whatever And people saw that and thought that he took a picture of my fridge And they saw the weird upside down stuff and it went ew. What the fuck is wrong with woolly? What is that gross shit?

And i'm like And then all I did was google the word peanut butter And then a picture of the green thing that we are both holding came up And then when I went to Your any like grocery flyer and you go to the peanut butter section and it shows you a picture It is a picture of this regular peanut butter And that's what peanut butter is now And then that for for some reason was considered a ridiculous food opinion

And i'm like, okay So when you let me let me ask you a question. Yeah, how do you feel about crunchy peanut butter? I I don't mind it I like it. Okay. I'm on a no thanks. I'm on a no thanks on that. I prefer smooth the crunchy's fine Like all I can think of when I eat crunchy peanut butter is that you didn't finish the job Like uh, it's you didn't finish mixing this guys. I like it. I I I like it. It's it's it's a different style But it works just fine Um, sometimes I want an oatmeal cookie. Sometimes I want chocolate chip, you know, that's true Um, how do you feel about oatmeal chocolate chip cookies?

Hmm I don't like both You know, I don't like oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I don't like them Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are fine except except They condition you for a later treachery

In that treachery is raisins raisins It teaches you that oatmeal cookie with dots in it can be safe Safe, but that causes you to eat the oatmeal raisin cookie, which is the trap cookie Congress with old nick. We don't do it. We don't do raisins Nope, what's funny is I'll just eat raisins Raisins are fine. Yeah box of the uh, but not Not in food man

Get out Get out. I was turned around on Um, raisins in in ingredients because if you go to a good afghani place and they make afghani um lamb shank and rice There will be raisins as an ingredient and they're delicious They make a nice lamb shank with a nice sauce And different rice and they mix

Raisins in with it and it's very good. I didn't and a coconut as well. It's fantastic You know what that sounds pretty all right. I guess what you're saying is That you're that that lamb shank gives raisins In food a real raisin detra I didn't hate it I didn't hate it I The problem is that the raisin process applied to um

To make prunes is where we take a a steer for the steer for the awful Mm-hmm, uh, but but yeah, so no, but it's just all that to say that um I can I can just point out that the thing that we all acknowledge is peanut butter is peanut butter And I can be you know called out for that apparently And I'll just all I have to say is the next time you go to a diner For breakfast and they set down a little tray with your coffee creamer your milk your jellies jams and peanut butter Grab that little peanut butter and see if you have to shake it mix in the oil and turn it upside down or not

No, thanks. Yeah, I want my food to be finished when it arrives to me, please Uh, not necessarily as a food item, but as an ingredient. Yeah So, you know, this is all it is that's that's simply it and and and I mean Whatever I feel as if um Anybody who's yelling about that is also probably like a skim milk defender. So I'm just I'm not here for any of that I don't I don't have to listen to any of this nonsense Why aren't you just drinking water? Like why are you even like bothering to pick up an item that says skim milk on it

Just eat just drink water just drink shit like I I've told you guys about Me growing up and my my my mom would go get the fucking healthy um milk powder And just be like no you mix the powder with the milk and it's a healthier version of milk And I'm like mom you need to stop and get this evil away from me And that's exactly the same deal with skim milk. It's a watery Non-milk it's just it's just anyway. I don't have to sell skim milk Literally why bother just have a big glass of water and a small glass of two percent

And That's better than drinking a big glass of skim milk. The look the world has already decided skim milk is gross I'm I don't have to this is not a point. I have to make but that is The same energy as these oily peanut butter fuckers coming in going. It's not real peanut better It's this fake shit. It's prize. It's a sweet fake project. It's what the world has accepted as peanut butter You lost I used to work in a grocery store Never, you know, you know how popular that that

You know who likes those oily peanut butters Assholes That's who People that would come in and go. Hey, where's the peanut butter and you'd be like it's an aisle too But you'd walk by and let no I want the real peanut butter, please. Yeah. Yeah. Oh you can go to the Overpriced aisle for assholes. I mean over there. It's like you can take this fight up with me with me Or you can just start swinging at the world because I'll do it too late Reality has set it settled and you are on the side that you are on

Like I don't reality has settled much like real peanut butter Settles without oil on the top oil on the top You don't have to mix it in and fucking turn it upside down and stick it in the fridge Now let's get real controversial woolly orange juice Pulp or no pulp Pulp or no pulp I can take both. I prefer without

But I don't hate it when it's there I can do both. I prefer it with it in but I won't like turn away non pulpy orange juice It's exactly like peanut butter in that both variations are delicious You know, but um my old roommate um Used to be all about the pulp and Like back when I was in that, um, they're the area near shatigy

Yeah, uh That dude Was like I need extra pulp And if I don't get extra pulp, I'm gonna yell at whoever did the groceries like It was it was it was rough. Listen. Yeah, if you can't get extra pulp I want you to pour out half of this orange juice and just crush an orange into there I kind of was like dude. Why don't you just make your own at this point?

You know just skin it and toss it in the blender Then the the the seeds won't be a problem. You know, but I don't want to yeah Um, I don't mind it. I don't mind it. I'll take pulp if it's there, but like my preference is without Yeah Anyway Um, it's always interesting to me like the level of intensity behind trivial food discussions It's always like it's it's it might as well be a like a religious argument

In terms of intensity. So if you want to round it out, there's a third one here and it is all right um Clear golden oasis style apple juice or the dark shit I Go out of the way As far as I'm concerned, they're like different drinks The dark shit is the good shit That that almost cider shit. It's too good. I grew up like and here's the thing

You can you can ask my mom I was addicted to apple juice as a kid and the shit that you get in the box the clear golden drink You know, um, you're your standard oasis I I I would be all about that. I would be like I need that every day. Like it was my only fucking It was my fat obsession um Then one day I had the dark shit And there was no turning back

Oh, no, it ruined you. There was no turning back. It was so much more just Everything I wanted just intensified So much more of what I wanted God You're making me want to drink some apple juice the fucking the real like coming from the farm You know what the and it's like it's got that that it's mixed in there's probably skin in there, you know Ah That near cider shit so fucking good

Yeah And I'd rather drink orange juice than eat an orange But I'd rather eat an apple than drink apple juice Hmm No, I'd say the juice is tastier in both cases, but sometimes you're craving the different thing Well, because for me the apple the biggest thing about the apple is the texture and the crunch Not a big fan of the texture of a of an orange I like a tangerine better

Or a or a a mandarin I think those are a little more Pleasant in most cases than an oranges um I did grow up with like my mom used to serve up like grapefruit for for at breakfast and like Like It was like it was doable, but like she would the way you going in straight is pretty brutal

um But like she would basically like Give it she would she would like put sugar with it So she'd cut she'd she'd uh peel the peel the or the grapefruit cut it into pieces and then like put like a little sugar Like flatten on the on the on the plate and like that would like Kind of make it good um So

Yeah grapefruit with sugar works. Don't don't care for grapefruit. Just don't care for it It can go Mangoes overrated too Yeah, I said it. Yeah, see that's just not gonna work here Islands, all right. It's not gonna fly. That's not gonna fly. I mean mangoes have islands. I'm aware. Wait. That's not what that no Islands have mangoes. That's true I mean that shit grew up. I like that. It was in my it was in my backyard like we fucking we lived on we lived on mangoes like it's just That's that's lifeblood, you know

That's like kiwis. All right though kiwis. All right You think I would hate a kiwi because it's like a weird furry thing But yeah, it's all right Pineapple is too incredible Pineapple is contentious It's acidic as fuck, but it's damn tasty You believe you do you remember the pineapple story? Did I ever tell that on this podcast? I don't remember it

So this woman now my fiance the woman I'll spend the rest of my life with Gets a big old pineapple from the store because she's like man. Pineapple is good for you I should eat more pineapple so she chops up Like the top of the pineapple, you know the sides and gets like the fucking the whole core, you know the pineapple, right? Start picking away at it with a spoon and she's like three quarters

through that pineapple before she starts to complain of a horribly burning mouth And she's starting to swell At which she goes. Oh, no, I forgot I'm allergic to pineapple Yes, I remember this now. Yes Correct correct. And oh, no, right pineapple juice dissolves you. Yes. It's got a meat tenderizing thing. Correct

And I had to take care of her that night because she was all swollen up from from pineapple allergy I hope it was worth it I Yeah, it's good Um, the real shit though, unfortunately is the the shit that is not readily available in north america There's something called skin up or guinep, which is one of the best fruits ever and none of y'all know what the fucking is And and nami apples used to be my favorite fruits growing up in in in granada

Um skin skin up or guinep guinep Is is how they would call it um Gwynep, it's malak meli kakus Bougie goddess and it was just that's that's some island shit and like if you're lucky The west indian store nearby might have some but that shit had to travel across the ocean to get to you So it ain't gonna be as fresh as it was off the trees

Like god damn that flavor is unbelievable. I have never seen this Looks cool. I like the orange. It's so good um It's like a better like They're like 50 names for this fucking thing. Yeah. Yeah, it's every everyone had a different name for it Everyone had a different name for it. It's like a better lychee honestly fantastic and um

Mami apple mami apple was also a thing in granada and um that one was like Like I was actually like obsessed like Like when we'd get they were rare, but when mom would bring one home like I would freak the fuck out It was the it was like the best tasting fruit to me as a kid But yeah um Anyway, if you see some in your local your local west indian store, try it

But again, I can't I can't attest to how much flavor is gonna be You know, uh In the in the export You know, but it's good shit Um, all right I think that's our weeks. There you go. That's our fruit segment. That's that's the castle's super fruits Corner next week. We'll discuss which diet sodas are better than the regular soda Spoiler, it's coke zero diet soda is much better than coke

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Get assists Thanks, man I'll be honest my brain's a little fried Is it now Yeah, well not just because all this stuff, but I was also on the adeptus ridiculous podcast this morning Which one Adeptus ridiculous It's a warhammer podcast the quiet shy runs. Okay

Did you did you did you talk about warhammer? We talked about an urgal So I'm doing like eight hours of podcasting today. Wow and announcing my marriage. Yeah Okay, well we we can we can get going with it. Um Oh, but there's there's some some stories here That we can't sweep. All right. So to me This there's two major segments that the docket breaks down into and one of them Yeah is the fighting games and the other one is the nintendo direct. So what's your story?

Fuck you larzel rick. Oh the metallica twitch Fuck you james headfield. So what you mother fucking old bastards What what happened there because I got an update about there was a footage of metallica playing on Uh twitch that was old footage from years ago But they had to cover it with Game music not what happened. Okay blizzcon happened And by the way, there's no blizzcon in the in the docket because who gives a shit. What are you talking about?

We talked about blizzcon last week Well, I mean blizzcon happened this week But last week we talked about how excited Everyone was right Very excited. Yes. What for each new game. Yeah All right. Anyway moving on from that. They were playing at blizzcon digitally they're playing a show digital virtual con sort con con Concert concert. That's what those are called not this year though. And like there was an old it was old footage, wasn't it?

No, it was this year. What the fuck you talking about? I have no idea. All right It was live. Okay It was live. It was just the other day min sent me the story and then he sent me a correction on the story And then I was like what what is what is happening? And and he said something about it being old. Okay. No So Woolly Metallica did a live concert virtual thing

At this year's blizzcon. Okay All right, and immediately When it would showed up on twitch's front page The twitch front page admins fucking panicked And just played fucking public domain garbage Ah Because they didn't want to get goddamn fucking dmca'd on their own shit

because Of metallica's music. Okay, so Implying thus that they have no control over The system affecting even them So how could they possibly have good news for anyone else? Yeah, and also the the icing on the cake. So it's the footage is hilarious Because it's these old dudes rocking out Yeah, I see it here slasher's twitter with this eight-bit folk tune music in the background

And it's just like congrats metallica. This is the future you wanted. Okay Well, this is what you lars specifically Or this is exactly what you wanted where you can't even play your own goddamn live show Well without being muted as I started the fucking dmca shit as I started the process of escorting min under the bus I would like to continue Because the message I received was Holy shit. This is an intense disrespect to metallica. They performed at blizzcon on official twitch gaming

During their performance their own fucking song got muted and replaced linked to tweet Okay, I did a bit of research and it turns out it wasn't a live performance It was just blizzcon going on a nostalgia trip showing us the first live performance at blizzcon from 2014 And out of fear of getting dmca. They replaced the music. Okay. No wait It was actually metallica saying they performed in 2014 and would love to do it again But can't do to the pandemic. So then there's a recording for this year's blizzcon So it's not live quote unquote, but it's still a shitty thing to do. Okay. So there you go. All right You brought you brought it back around you brought it back around you got it there. That's all right. Oh man. What a mess

All right, but yeah, no, it's just like metallica is like the band most directly responsible for ruining the state of music today It's so I hear get fucking treated like clowns on this is just sweet It sounds to me like you're a fan of saint anger I think it was actually saint anger that they were playing nice Fuck those guys also fuck james hatfield for not knowing where to stand in his pyro and ruining wrestling in this town How did he get lit on fire? He still he was that they were doing a 1992 show

And he stepped into his own pyro and he gave him second and third degree burns And that's why fucking montreal has the goddamn indoor pyrotechnic band Which made all the wrestling shows in montreal look like shit and why we eventually got kicked down to house shows forever following survivor series Well, they eventually brought raw back to the um to the the um It wasn't the stadium. They went they went to the um

Plasp on a venture But uh, you know to be fair I will never forget even though the world seems to have treated this as if it doesn't exist I will never forget there was an episode of raw Where the undertaker summoned lightning down And lightning struck somebody in a live auditorium full of people and whatever the fuck that shit was They did not want people

To see it again And it does not get used in replays or anywhere And it was a fucking just a random insane moment That I never saw emphasized on any replays or used anywhere again because it was probably super illegal But undertaker summoned lightning down and struck somebody And it was probably not okay And they probably were protecting their legal asses on it But it's fucking nuts because that tech exists

And that the moment I saw that I'm like we have the ability to strike lightning down From somewhere above. All right and hit somebody I I found I found what must be What must be much later where he tries to do the same gimmick And it is a clip of him destroying the ring with current angle in it and they are Having the the the the ring posts shoot pyros off, but they're having like fucking

2002 era lightning graphics extending from the ceiling being photoshopped onto the live feed. It is so ugly I will send you this clip. I don't think it's what you're thinking of but you should watch this anyway It's time stamped in 205 It's really stupid. It's called the undertaker Uses his powers to destroy the ring while current angle is in it royal rumble 2006 No, no, that is not that is not it. That is not that is not it And the ring blows up. No, this is not it No, the the clip i'm specifically talking about there's a bolt of lightning

That hits someone at the top of the ramp Oh Like a regular ass person there's someone at the top of the ramp who gets hit. It's not the ring It's it's the it's the it's the walkway to the ring that gets struck And uh, it was some fucking or was it cane? It might have been cane that did it It might have been cane But anyway, there was some fucking lightning technology that vince was Vince was harnessing zeo dine at some point

And then and then we just pretended it never happened Yeah Anyway, shouldn't do that shit probably not Not if the bolt can I mean, there's there might be a way That like You can ensure the safety by using your tesla coils and everything but who i don't know man What if someone gets zapped, you know

Anyway, then it's a big Yeah, work it into the story Yeah lightning powers use it Anywho, all right fighting game news and nintendo news. Let's hit all right. So big fighting game news starting with the uh The the first thing that happened actually Before all the announcements was the mortal combat movie trailer Looks great it looks all right

Doesn't it look good doesn't it look pretty okay? There's only one thing that has to happen in a mortal combat movie and that's people need to be viciously viciously murdered Which the trailer shows you that they are They are being viciously viciously murdered It looks like it's gonna be a fucking action movie and it'll do its thing You know, it'll probably be like corny wear deliberate And otherwise, you know just self-aware is is what i'm expecting But we'll see I was but I I was like i got good news for you

Somebody in the chat just found your moment. Oh, it's kane in fact kane And kane kane is shooting lightning all over the place And totally hit somebody on the ramp and then the person gets set on fire. Yes. Yeah, the dude is on fire and they have to spray him out That's the one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay Cain this is a really extreme stuff. Yes Cain zaps someone with lightning on the ramp and I was like, how the fuck did that happen? And then he gotta go put this on my tweet and the dude is burning And then he's rolling around and then they spray him out. That's 1000 exactly what i'm talking about this and I was like

When the fuck did vince get this power? When did he get access? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. That's the clip He didn't student's canes powers the power of the burnt face. Duh That's right, which wasn't all that burnt actually Um Mortal Kombat, let's not worry about too much. Mortal Kombat's gonna probably be just a fucking a dumb romp and I I I saw the trailer and I was like, hey, all right. That's fine

It's it's not it's like It's about as much as you as good as you can expect Mortal Kombat to be because any better and it's not Mortal Kombat Right like if it actually were being super duper serious and like I don't know Like maybe you could go for like a high concept reboot that is Way more advanced than the actual material is But considering the way the stories in the games have played out, which is also like comical and goofy It it's like, yeah, sure stick some new kid named Cole in there

whatever Jack's gets his arms frozen. There's one part of that There's one part of that That's really bizarre What is that? It's a birthmark. What does that mean? It means he was born with it Those are cut those are cut together clips from different scenes for sure But like yeah, people know what a birthmark is man. Why are you acting like that's a That's weird

also like Ed Boon I believe has An influence on this movie because even in the trailer Like it is obvious that fucking sub zero is going to job to scorpion Like sub zero is being built up as like the coolest dude in this He will job to scorpion again

Because scorpion is the coolest and the strongest and he doesn't afraid of nothing Because he's my favorite character said Ed Boon That's that's the reason why Uh, yeah It's it's it is what it is, you know, I think uh I think it'll be fine And I think there's a high likelihood that Cole will get dropped into a game Yeah, probably that's a point for the tie-in

You're gonna tie in all these other movies and not tie in your own hell no So that's in there I I I anxiously await the Kenny cameo That is bound to happen eventually because from what I can tell according to twitter legally or not From what I can tell Kenny is

Just getting in there. He's getting in there more and more when we were at the reveal event He got the tattoo Because they were just tattooing anybody who wanted a dragon logo and he got it there and I was like Kenny You're fucking nuts and he's like hell. Yeah Um, and he regularly like I know he hangs out with the cast And shit at like cons and stuff So I feel like Kenny's one step away from just getting his cameo straight in the movie You know if he's lucky he can get fatality

That'd be cool I I feel like I feel like Kenny will be In the background of the film being chased by security in a shot Like a stunt shot that they couldn't cut out of the movie And in the director's commentary, they're like

So who's that guy in the background? I don't know. He's crazy Kept yelling about more combat. We couldn't keep him out of the set. He'd always find his way in I would I would much sooner imagine Him getting a proper, you know, sanctioned cameo and included And getting getting fatality, but he's just way too happy to be there the whole time His corpse head has a fucking smile on it and he's just loving it with the with the shades on, you know Yeah Anyway, um

I mean fuck it. What else what are what other fighting game movies are going on, right? Nothing, so there you go And no we don't need to acknowledge fish bait we can just ignore the hook and move on What fish bait what there are some stupid bait stories That came associated with that story But anyway Ryu has a gun Ryu has a gun and Chun Lee has a gun Chun Lee taught him how to shoot a gun Chun Lee having a gun is super normal Akuma having a gun is very normal, but the most normal of all is Sagat having a gun

Sagat would Sagat would like a gun Yeah Talk about that dumb story where they're like, where's Chun Lee in the Mortal Kombat movie? It was dumb. Oh, I I auto deleted that from my brain because it was just it was the most obvious like It's this is not a real this is not a real this is obvious. Anyway, whatever It's like, yes, we want to get let's get some nerd rage to get get our clicks on good job. Jezebel The the the fortnight crossover Who haven't they crossed over with at this point they've done marvel they've done

Star Wars they've done family guy really damn Didn't they do John wicket something that's that's that's who they haven't crossed over with but family guy is probably coming Yeah, so um Really the story is less about The actual crossover and it's more about seeing these characters canonically doing the goofiest shit We've ever seen them do Including the same thing as Master Chief and Kratos doing them dances including a picture of jaw of of Shin Kiro's

render Of Ryu looking super happy Having a big old shit eating grin. He's having the time of his life in this cameo and you know what? um That is a Ryu personality That like we've seen in some artwork before He's pretty easy goings in in in some of the artwork other times he's staring down a laundry machine Like he wants to fucking shin sure you can it

But sometimes when it's not about the fight, he's just chill, you know I think if he uh I don't know in the end if if he can be convinced to like take a quick break from from the fight um Which they must have fucking I don't know. I don't know how you convince him that this is a good vacation But either way he's yucking it up. He's doing um the the fucking dances He's doing the sacks man

All of that shit and the memes of street. I think the best part street fighter characters with guns are flying Is the tweet I saw from dan hibiki this morning Which was a Ryu in fortnite and he said oh cool Ryu learning to use a gun another thing that he can Drop without having mastered like wearing shoes and martial arts It's like jeez dan Uh, what seriously Ryu? Or some shoes he's got so he's he's got a taunt sure you can so you know it's in there

There there hey fortnite so fortnite acknowledges street fighter two. Yay. How about that? And all the kids go what? like that clip with um Master chief or whatever and it's like Oh, it's the guy from fortnite Yeah I'll fight children that's okay. I'll fight it. I'll fight a child I I bet I could win too what I always wonder about though

It's cure. Um, I always wonder about like Will does cap is capcom ever gonna like give into the like, um How do I describe this? like, you know how to anybody who like just remember street fighter two as a kid and then Never thought about it again until today They always go like oh, yeah, remember men like oh you get And just the the the the noises the sure you kid and hit okay. No, it's weird the weird Onamon appears. Yeah, I'm like will there ever be an official like recognition of that in some way?

Where they like or do they just go like hard line? Ha doh ken trademark You know, this is this is we're going to teach you the correct way to say it You know, yeah No, they'll never do it because you all but you know that if you have a celebrity come on to talk about their street fighter memories That's the first thing you're getting like check the big and go card off For all you can and duck duck token It's it's a hundred percent guaranteed every single time

With the with the hurricane kick noises were always like just complete gibberish I don't even really blame people because like Mortal Kombat came out really really close by and the people in there are actually yelling gibberish Yeah, yeah And then later on they were not gibberish. They were just saying it really fast like no, I'm going to throw you over there Like literally these you know, but um Yeah, no Everyone got tiger though. Everyone heard tiger loud and clear Yeah

He's gonna I swear to god it has it has literally been When it when did alpha alpha 3 come out like 98 99 It's been more than 20 years original. I think it might have been 98. Yeah Mm-hmm and every single time I hear it. I start to laugh at fucking tiger genocide. Yep He's gonna do a jump kick it's gonna drill in and he's gonna get those tigers He's gonna get him And and what and and what about gets me and what about the yoga catastrophe?

Yoga that's much newer But Just it all went wrong man. They were doing downward dog and it all went wrong Anyway It's a yoga catastrophe See a fortnight happened movies happened all that shit And then the fighting game round table occurred and the fighting game The japanese fighting game publisher round table the second one the first one was last year

When we had no events, okay Oh, no, I'm sorry I just saw that people appointed people I made the wedding announcement like the marriage the announcement But I I before that I had put up the Cain ghost nuts and sets things on fire tweet. So those tweets are sitting right next to each other It's good because I was like

So it looks like I'm like guys check out cane lighting things on fire also getting married lol Rolling around on the ground burning getting sprayed with fire extinguishers Ah It's good Oh, yeah context. Anyway Huh, all right. So they had the second uh, japanese fighting game publisher round table discussion and the first one was Last year when we had no events

So we had no places tournaments to reveal things at and everyone that had announcements decided hey Why don't we pool together and have a talk about the The state of affairs if you would the state of the union Of fighting games in japan Um and while we're at it. Let's show off some new shit Uh, this is uh, overall a trend that I'm happy to see continuing because Ain't an open dialogue That is, you know public and streamed is is it's nice to see it

It's nice to see that like yeah, this is the kind of thing that's happening because otherwise, you know This conversation happens anyway, but it happens behind closed doors And it's with different groups of people at a time. So not everyone is there We one can only hope we continue so that again more people get invited, but They covered a couple of things um, essentially Harada did start talking about the wi-fi connections versus The wired connections and how the change in season

Had led to some more white people wiring up You know in the end. Yeah And uh, he kind of focused on that side of things um and I I think Based on the way he he pulled a lot of data out right on on that and It feels as if like, you know, he's very passionate about the um He's very passionate about the the the wi-fi players

Like hearing about like hey guys, we want to try and Have people not use wi-fi as much. It's it's a worse experience and so on But there's something else about the wired versus wireless thing I think It's a polite way Of allowing a developer Who does not want to acknowledge rollback To talk about net code and net play

Without directly acknowledging the actual elephant in the room But side-skirting it Hey, I know you guys really want good connections in your fighting games So that's why we're going to yell at everyone to not use wi-fi anymore And that will solve the problem moving on no questions and and it really is interesting because It starts out where you see like arika

Aki run to nishi tani from arika going yo your strive net play is amazing. The code was so good Wow, how did you guys do it and they're like, thank you. Thank you. Yes, we worked in conjunction with um People who are familiar with ggpo and we were and we kind of got it and we're happy to see that It's it's going successfully and stuff, you know, and then that was that was like hot out of the gates and then Then when uh, harata started going into the wi-fi stuff And then it kind of opened up and it went around a little bit more And it's it's like if there's people here that are like basically like well We have nothing to say regarding rollback because we're not fucking moving on that

They can still chime in and go. Oh, yes. Well wi-fi is an issue and we hope that we can you know Do better things to make sure that wi-fi players are, you know, not feeling Uh, uh discriminated against but also to have find out the but at it at it at whatever, right? So it definitely feels like a secondary topic That again just it politely gives Uh an escape as opposed to a confrontation in a way it feels like it Um It's so it's so

It's it's it's funny because we had with the rollback thing. There were people who were stubborn But not unreasonable, right? So I would I would consider the guilty gear team to be that in that it was like pulling teeth But they did do it and they are like no look at this. This is actually very good, right? Now that some of those diehards have finally caught up like I I'm certain the next street fighter game will have excellent net code, right? Marvel infinite had good net code, right? It's capcom and arcsys are on board it now makes It now makes like namco look like petulant children When they just pretend like they're literally pretending that rollback isn't there

Because they just don't want to do it. So namco Herata says that rollback is already in tecant I don't believe him a lot of folks are uncertain about Like if and how that works if that is the case But he says that it's already there now

Again, it doesn't seem like it functions the same way it would if it did have rollback because There are still people are still right having constant connection problems and hiccups and you're not seeing bad rollback in the same way that like street fighter had it, but tecant has like these these freezes these stutters that certainly resemble Delay-based issues the possibility of course is that

There's always hybridized net. There's hybridized systems as well And I want to say I always mix up code masters and code mystics so I might be getting it wrong, but They they showed us an example of how they have a mixture of delay base and a mixture of rollback that like will shift back and forth according to What might what it assumes might feel the best and we might be looking at something like this where it's like It has a mixture of both systems. I don't know but a lot of people are are like If you do have it, it's

not Doing what it should because we're not having it's not good. We're not having super smooth matches tecant's Okay Okay, herata fine. You have rollback. Okay when people ask for rollback what they're asking for Is good rollback. So this brings it is that is that of specific enough and and and for this and He did say that like and the new season Did introduce better net better net code. They they they did talk about how they were, you know, working on making it better But like yeah, street fighter is an example of having rollback, but poorly implemented equals

Bad online The other example Would be um Fexel right so fighting ex lair also made their own rollback and It kind of works But it has some issues, you know, it's not great great. It it it's better than Like garbage delay

Like it's it's an implemented functioning rollback system that opens up how many players you can play with but it's not fantastic, you know, um And again and he explained that yeah, they kind of did their own thing with that so It feels as if like, you know, like maybe I don't know if it's a cost issue or what but like doing it on your own leads to um questionable results And working with the pros working with the people who know how to implement it Leads to the good shit that we know and and are currently enjoying

um So we had that come up a little bit in the discussion um and uh We had some announcements for things but From the way it sounds before we even get into everybody's announcements It feels as if the odd man out at the table is snk

because snk is currently announcing all their games and people are waiting With bated breath to find out what the state of rollback is going to be with their games going forward Uh with ko f15. Oh, I will I will I will tell all of you to exhale and realize That ko f15's online is going to be dog shit Uh the fact that they just just relax guys Well, the fact that they didn't come out and say anything about it

And the fact that jiyuna was apparently told not to say the word rollback Makes me in the translation makes me think that uh, yeah It's probably not going to be there There's always a chance that like guilty gear They're having the discussion and they're trying to make it work And they don't want to talk about it until they can announce it until it works or something But that's only if you believe like the the fucking most optimistic world, you know series of events It in all likelihood they just dodged it entirely despite the fact that everyone was was

Asking for it in fact hashtag snk rollback is currently a thing Um And uh, I hope that vf Virtual fighter e-sports. We haven't seen much about it because they found out After they announced that the people what we just wanted rollback and so they delayed the virtual fighter game So they would have really good rollback and we're gonna get virtual fighter 6 and it's gonna have the best online ever and and and People will play virtual fighter

I'm literally almost crying at this fake thing. I just invented I miss virtual fighter so bad Did you did you did you watch the the round table? I did not Did you then you didn't hear The part where they said next time we're gonna try to bring on our friends from sega who Might have some things to talk about

at that time Yay so Those were the words that were exchanged You know they said we can't talk about anything on anyone's behalf But maybe next time we can maybe bring on our friends from sega so You know

Now i'll be extra disappointed next year. Yeah, they didn't they didn't specify what that meant You know whoa Apologies, that's a loud toy. Yeah Um, so so Uh Yeah, so it seems like they're dodging seems like they're dodging the topic and again, you know, like I I'm seeing lots of Friends that I have that are pretty much just reiterating, you know being an snk fan is pain

And and just the suffering of all that dead on arrival stuff You know, so uh, who fucking knows? um And and just in case anyone's wondering, uh I I from what I can gather there's some mild updates in the form of the

Saudi arabia deal being delayed So we don't know So that that apparently was not 100 confirmed, but it's being it's being offset for a period of time until Some date and we'll see what happens then And apparently it's also based on them acquiring Not the company directly, but the chinese company that owns that 33 stocks So it's getting a little bit harder to follow what's happening here

But i'm trying to keep up to date on it or just but there's not as much reporting going on So anyway, just to just to let anybody know what I what I what I even their buyouts are delay based Uh I stole that I stole that from the chat. Thanks cool kevin ater. That's there you go. That's a fun Cool kevin ater made that good joke not me. That's a fun Oh my god zengief must you play with your squeaky toy right the second Yep Well, I love him

Well, um, so with those announcements, uh, yeah s and k stepped up first they announced chizuru Who is then going to complete the sacred treasures team? So she's in and there's like, yeah Uh all that jazz Uh, they then Showed off sacred treasures team. It's been a bit. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm plot wise Was that 2003 the orochi right and then she came back for a guest spot in the dream match. Yeah and then uh

her twin sister And that was it. She got she got her shit took He's like ash like reaching all up inside and you know doing the Yeah doing that shit thing um It reminds me of uh when Like star platinum had to pump jotaro's heart

Mm-hmm Or something else something else in anime involved like a creepy hand melting into someone's body Maybe it was papri You think about albedo putting his arm into that lolly chicken zeno saga one not thinking of that Look at that that scene got censored. Nope. Not thinking of that. I think I'm thinking of um paprika there might be a part in paprika Where like someone's hand

Goes inside of someone and then it like stretches out and like Pulls out the top of their body and it's like whoo Creepy shit. Yeah Hmm or was oh no ava Could have been anyway Something Oh, you're thinking of gendo's hand gendo's hand. Sure. Sure Well, um, we got that going and then they announced uh, well, so

I mean she was already pretty much shown off like fucking a long time ago Like they already announced this one. I don't I think it was like almost over a year ago, but cham cham for sam show Um, oh god, that's being re announced. So they're showing is that well her her gameplay is showing off now Yeah, they they originally announced like all these characters from like fucking well over a year ago And now the now her gameplay is is revealed as well as a guilty gear collaboration For season three That's gotta be naggo, right possible

Oh biking. Yeah, naggo biking could be The samurai picks to fit in with the world Or they can just go with because it has to if they go if they want if they just go with the brand Then it'll just be soul, you know That's so but that would be not that would be the least interesting pick because the thematic pick is more fun You know it's just like A guilty gear going to sam show is going to lose just so much

Yeah, you know like it if honestly like if it were likes again, um, um johnny or answer Someone that fits in thematically like it doesn't have to be the two samurais that I love It can be anyone that would fit better than actually soul or kai wood, you know, I hope so I hope so but justice I mean dude like the fucking uh The warden is in as is that that like, um, gacha game character. So Who knows I've literally said justice as the next guilty gear character. I think every time

I think justice is really justice is fucking fantastic Justice is one of the sickest fighting game character designs of all time free It's got that j-hu tea energy Um cliff would be a fucking fun pick too that could that could that could be a thing But no, I think I think picking one of the samurais would be the right way to go um You know No, shut up idiot. It'll be it'll be abba. Yeah

With her key mechanics. It can even become kum. Hey, you know Old robot, man I I doubt it would be nago I mean it would be the modern tie. It would be the recent tie-in But it also feels like it would not like scream guilty gear to the guest effect, you know It feels like that the person you want to go for needs to like represent the franchise And usually they need a little bit more staying power

so I would not roll out dizzy Just because of popularity that'd be super very But I would not rule it out, uh, you know They've already got a bunch of Um, they've got rimuru in there and you know Similar elk so

Anyway, that's a tie-in Happening with season three. So how about that man for? Uh Up next the announcement of eno and she Looks sick She looks really cool. Yeah, she does She looks cool. Yeah, not not who I wanted but ain't nothing wrong with it, man. She's she's cool. She's fucking cool

um Turn I was hoping for a new character myself I was hoping for a new character that Exists in the lore But that's that's a lot to ask. Yeah, you know um We got and it looks like uh, Giovanna didn't snub, you know, after all with the haircut, right? So The hat gets bigger

more power But we gotta we gotta put a shirt on her because that that that vest is getting a little bit Rambunctious and 3d in 3d. It's gonna be a little there's a lot of there's a lot of camera ankles You know But uh, they did it in an excerpt. They figured it out, right? They had her do all her wind poses and everything that you know Just turning away from the camera Um, but yeah cool new jacket Um, just marlene looks fantastic. The design is great. She's wearing the shades

She wears throughout the excerpt story. That's pretty cool, too Because uh in in the story mode. She was rocking those those those shades in the last game So they they they implemented it officially into the design And uh, I mean, what can I say? It's perfect timing because as soon as episode 3 drops, guess what? Uh, we're gonna spend a lot of time talking about her because that like it's almost as if it's like all fucking lying for it She got to live in the main antagonist role for a while A big chunk of uh, and she's definitely Ah major antagonists a big chunk a big chunk of um guilty gear lore episode 3 is focused on eno. So

Uh, I might check that out mainly because I played a lot of guilty gear games And I still don't actually even understand what her deal is at all Uh You don't get the answer Immediately you you get you get the deal But you don't get the whole deal until a little bit later. So well, which we're gonna be visiting Soon Um, but we do find out her deal. We do know what's up with her and know what's going on

Um, and sir hat controlling your mind, right? Yeah and uh, if I can take a moment And just uh, maybe put this down there. I think Our friend Susie sphere hunter has gotten the message. Oh, I saw I I uh, I think she got the picture guys. I think she knows I got a urgent Uh request from Susie the other day And it was a photo of a steam library with every

Every fucking guilty gear game you can get on steam Going what order are these in? Yeah, um I think I think I got tagged in like no fewer than 50 or so replies to her uh, newfound interests in guilty gear because um, eno looks rad rightfully so And she's like time to go through them and it's like hell. Yeah get in there. That'd be great And a lot of people were like, you know, helpfully like hey, there's a lore series you can check out

And that's she's like, yes, but I do also want to play them, you know, but like it uh, I I you know, I think she did get Get the heads up on it. So we'll we'll find out but um the how'd she miss that? You know, it's been around forever. I don't I mean, I don't know. We all miss things, right? It's a fighting game franchise. Like I don't know if she you know one cares about those Well, I mean she's from my my impression is that Susie's super into Uh capcom stuff But not as much the fighting game stuff

Mm-hmm. So she's probably one of the biggest marks. I know for the non fighting game division capcom stuff, you know Um, oh god damn it He found the other squeaky toy. Yeah Also, there's a there's a devil may cry event combo off Thing going down that I saw she's taking part in so that looks pretty cool Oh geez that's heavy and uh

Anyway shout outs. Um, so they uh, yeah, they showed off, you know um And yeah, still no instant kills. Unfortunately Uh another glimpse at the arcade mode where you saw the striker system Or Kai jumps in and you see a little bit of a dramatic battle going on Uh, that's pretty cool. I I In that footage, you know is kicking the shit out of Sol and Kai seems about right Like just absolutely fucking wrecking their asses

Uh, I really hope they they find a way because so megalomania got uh used to be her big boss mode only super And then in excerpt Turned it into a schmuck for a little bit. Yeah If three patterns you recognize them and you you find the way to avoid it Um, but I always remember it represented like a ridiculous like boss wall thing Early on in in those games when you didn't know what to do or how to deal with it Like megalomania was a like almost like an early meme of like go fuck yourself snk boss syndrome moment Um

You would just die until you learned the very specific places you had to be for each And you know, uh, if you see the curve going upwards back all the way to the And to the back of the screen and crouch if you see it doing a a Parabola walk forward under the curve And if you see it doing an array get point just huge wide open get point blank and jump over them And then you'll be fine. So but anyway, uh megalomania attack, uh, then got relegated to her instant kill Um, so I was like, hey cool. They got it in there, you know Now that the game doesn't seem to have ik's I hope they find a way to work it in as a super

Because it just I I fucking love the look of like the speakers with wings Just like creating. Oh, it's great. Like pattern of x's You know, like it just it looks super cool. I would I would love to To see that and then the sound effect of it firing off is is really Um, do we miss instant kills? I like them as a Function in the game. I don't care about how practical they are to use But it's a cool cinematic thing. That's just if it's there for fluff. It's there for fluff

But I would love to see them Because they've been they've been a tradition at this point. It would be like fatalities being gone, you know At a tournament level, you don't care about the fatalities, but fucking put them in Let's have some fun with it guys, you know Brutalities people are saying that are a nice mix of both instant kills are confirmed They're just not in there now Uh, I haven't heard any I I didn't see any Any interviews where that was mentioned or any of the the developers

Backyard things where they mentioned it But it'd be cool Personally my favorite implementation of it. I've said in the past is The way order soul combos into it Um, yeah, I like you deserve. I like that. I like that system, you know I also like, uh Like you know and in in excerpt in rev 2 you could Combo into certain ones off of like really particular moments and setups like the game would let it happen

So I like that that's sort of like Um Ultra combo style The conditions are right. You're about to lose and now you botched it. So you're going to lose in style You know, I'd be very down for that I really like dramatic finishes from dbc. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I thought that was a really good implementation and just on a like, um, just casual spectacle level

They're so fucking cool Like there's just some of the yeah, they're the coolest things, you know, like they they you see Some of them the more elaborate ones and you're like, what the fuck is hap that's so fucking red You know may sticks you in the cannon And you and there's unique dialogue and then you get launched out um soul just like fucking Add uh

Unlocks the junkyard dog and goes to town on you You know Kai does his big hope thing Fast hitting you with a nuclear bomb um dizzy shoots a nuke at you and it misses because

uh Necro is about to nuke you with a giant gamma ray and dizzy pushes him aside at the last second And it whiffs your head and a nuke goes off behind you and the character turns around and just surrenders because it's like, okay I give up. Yeah, let's give up. Yeah, I don't want to do the same No other fighting game does that so it would be I think that sad if this one lost it That it cracks me up dizzy has one of my favorite like non cannon fighting game like storylines of all time In the xx story mode

Where she falls out of the ship. Yeah the jellyfish and is knocked unconscious and spends an entire story mode unconsciously kicking the shit out of most of the cast Yeah, that's like man. This character is literally beating all of you and her fucking sleep You know it goes up there and pushes her off and stirs up some shit You know although it's the one of those like it's all non cannon But it's canon in a way, but it's pretty much not canon Hey, do you know what the deal with Faust is? Why he looks so weird? I think it's it's I don't know why for sure, but I think it's likely due to

um an experiment with zappa's um Experiment with researching into zappa going wrong I yeah a friend of mine Told me that he thought it was He has stitched some of zappa's skin to his body to try and cure him of his ghost But now Faust is Fucking ghosted up as well. It might which is why he looks like it might be related to that

And if it's if it's not that then it might be like dr. Baldhead coming back You know Well, because he's not acting like no, he's not he's not he's still got his head is a very particular Attitude and he's not acting like bald head. So it seems much likely like it's the former. Yeah Man what a glow up on a character dr. Faust dr. Bald head to Faust Is dr. Baldhead is fucking lame very much so But you give him a new suit of clothes and a different attitude and now it's all fucking cool But

He still murdered the shit out of a lot of innocent people Oh, yeah, no matter how you feel about Faust He killed the fuck out of a lot of innocent people For what effectively appeared to be no good reason Especially when it turned out he was framed For the first thing he he uh, he was evil by the way So That's the reason the reason he's he's evil. Well, he thought he's he because he was so sure that he has his like

Resurrection techniques were like working and then he was using them on this patient this girl, but then secretly um Zato actually kills her and the Uh The the the conclave makes it look like he failed because they wanted his resurrection tech And as a result he then thinks he failed and him thinking that he failed leads to him Going crazy and thinking that like oh when I when I fix people They die therefore if I go and try to kill everybody

I'll be actually helping them And if he just completely snaps because he he has he seems like he has so much confidence in his skills that like he just doesn't Accept or get why that happened and then like goes on a fucking rampage and then Then he stops And then he tries to undo the harm he has caused yes Which good luck with that shit. I'll put a bag on my head. So you won't know who I am Also, I'll stop crouching down somehow so you can see how tall I am

Also may Somehow knows that he's bald in there. She has bald sense. She can feel it Man May is so much better Now her design she's great Like it's a million times better Yeah, uh, I like everyone's clothing glow up I think everyone's fashion is fucking

Stepped it up gone through the roof axel is like absolutely Super cool grunge you know um Kai and sol are are are are fucking looking great mace hats looking great. It's my favorite version of soul ever I just wish that like there would be a dlc costume for old pot That

It'd be really cool. I I get that I prefer new potemkin But just barely slave potemkin like I really Really like old potemkin too And canonically there is a reason why he has all that the suit on like the reason why he gets more clothing Besides the fact that he actually is like becoming an official In the zap army and getting higher up there because you know, he freed The the nation and shit is because like the gigantism in his body that makes it grow so fucking nuts

Has to be contained And like they're putting shit on him to help him Contain his body's crazy muscle growth problem Oh Because it's it's out of control and what you saw Would be what in the first game would be much worse if he didn't have it, you know I assume uh, I assume that's what the metal restraints in the original guilty gear about no No, the original metal restraints. He has are a explosive collar that all slaves of zep wear

So that if oh so he doesn't have that if they ever disobey they get uh battle royale So when gabriel uh frees him he takes the collar off of him, that's what that big red thing was originally Yeah, that sucks Uh, yeah, anyway a little I wish I could just change his shoes dude honestly Little little fucking shoes are terrible lore tangent there, but um They announced eno and then uh fighting ex lair announced the switch version another dash Which introduced uh some new defensive mechanics that look really weird Really really weird

Uh looks like you can just kind of like jump out of get it's like almost like you can just jump out of getting comboed in the corner um And Just some some weird some weird ex action shit um Yeah, I I don't quite know what to make of it, but Okay, it was it was uh, but they they showed off like three new wacky defensive features

And yes the gogi is uh is different Um Then Harada showed off a new tekken character The prime minister of poland Joins the battle Yeah, that's a weird one We don't have a name yet, but apparently they took a heavy reference from real life and

Consulted the polish embassy in japan to make sure that everything was copacetic But uh a hint of like The prime minister getting out of her car and taking a call saying we have to fight For our country or something So looks like we're getting some some fucking Badass prime minister energy I'm down with leaders of nations being playable in video games

Works for me Hey woolly, I got some breaking news Okay I'm gonna send the breaking news to you and then summarize it for you breaking news Journey to the savage planet on the stadia Has a crippling bug where the main menu freezes However, it can't be fixed because

The publisher of that title on stadia is google stadia Games or whatever what's it called? And that company no longer exists So the game is just fucked There's a screenshot here Of someone officially replying from stadia Saying hey luigi. Sorry about that. We're aware of this and we're working with our partner publisher to fix it We appreciate your patience

but The studio Has fired all the devs So there's no one left to fix it It's been broken for weeks Whoo Yeah, I mean listen like I wish I could go get the exact phrasing but I've I've been getting updates and know about the

Some interesting unique changes to um, for example a bb tag and uh Unist on or uniclear on stadia that have been ported, but apparently Strange strange bug where the entire net play Section of the game has been removed Talking about the luna oh the luna luna scarring excuse me not stadia luna. Yes. Yeah, I was talking to a yodo corp And uh, yeah stadia. Sorry luna games often like really often just don't have any online multiplayer just rip it right out They just turn it off. They just cut it out like what's the what's so are you vague? Are you supposed to like

Play multiplayer by having a second person connect to your instance No, you're just not there's nothing Okay. Yeah, there's just nothing It's almost like since it's running on amazon servers. They don't want to Stress it too much with online whatever and so just Just don't do it Just just don't do it. Hey man. It's a fighting game. Why would you want another person anyway? I

Want to I want to give amazon a big old clap for looking at the rollback discussion and spiting the earth with No online No online, I mean

When you put it that way, it's like damn delay based was a blessing. I suppose Oh, sure was Oh, man, you know, I was watching the streams and like kizzy k shout outs, dude He has such a great stream Was like going nuts and he's like, well the servers are down. We can't play any strive Time to make a tier list And then he just made some fucking nonsense ass tier list And then like through angie meadow with his eggs with his uh his accent core portrait on it

and then threw it up there And just it was the just some bullshit and then like Everyone's like man. This is what happens when you don't have net play and when you don't when you don't have This is what happens because the servers are down and if we were on still on delay based We could still be playing The game and then justin wong just replies give us back delay based net code Everyone's like justin stop no no stop it justin come on don't do it

I fucking died And I was like I was tempted to retweet it and I was like no There are too many people who will not get the joke And this will just hurt the efforts It is funny, but too many people will not get it Oh, fuck very It's like yeah, if we had delay based we'd still be playing fuck your stupid roll back give us back delay based net count Oh

Shit sucks dog send us back Anyway, um You know this is this a little bit on a of a sidetrack, but I do want to say the strive beta um So you know how every time we talk about a fighting game I would bitch and complain how it doesn't have rollback and that's why i'm not gonna play it And it at some point hit a period of you kind of rolling your eyes and not just you of like sure pat That's why you're not going to play the fighting games because the and to a degree

I was almost afraid that I myself was not telling the truth anymore like I thought that that was the read um No, it was I played a lot of strive matches I'm really excited to play a lot more strive matches when it comes out And I'm and it kind of makes me sad. It's like man. I would have played so many goddamn fighting games over the years If I could have had good matches Like it bums me out

Yeah, I probably would have played a shit ton sf5 if playing sf5 online wasn't such a frustrating experience Right and once upon a time I would be like, you know consider coming to a local to get some games and it's really it's pretty fun uh And and instead of me just going I don't like going to locals. I don't know any ability there. I hate it The answer now is I'll die I'll die Yeah So, uh, anyway

Uh, polish prime minister coming to tecum Then The beta was extended to the 23rd. That's pretty cool Two extra days. That is pretty cool. And it it reminds me of how they kind of like they were uh, they extended the um The guilty gear plus our rollback beta And then they extended it a second time indefinitely They just went hey, it works. So

It's here now And that was that Um So, yeah, maybe you know, I think this is uh I don't know whether it was planned or not, but the fact that they had downtime for Most of the uh, a couple days there It's nice to have some time to make up for it that being said I expected outages because

stress testing and network testing Usually involves periods of up and down so that they can Regress bugs and then fix them and then try to implement changes and then go live again, you know For The amount of people hitting this I'm pretty impressed with how stable it's been Well, it ain't all roses people are hitting it. I mean there's been quite a few like

All right, I'm just gonna hit this menu for 20 minutes until it works You know And then there was like well, I guess what I mean is when it when it's been up. It's been up for long periods and it's been solid Yes, and um also the like If you can find a way you can exploit to get yourself through the main menu into training mode offline But you have to like Either get rid of your data or make a new account and figure that out once the servers are down or whatever

Which you know, I mean personally dude, like I want a lab forever Like I want to lab so much more than I want to um Get sets in because that's what helps me so uh True, but at the same time you have to you have to be aware that anything you lab now could just Not exist. This is true. Yes

So but it's not about but to me it's like but 90 percent of what this is is going to stay relevant right So learning how to do stuff with nikali In the beta in the end they took a bunch of that shit out But the character was still the character, you know So, um Like yeah, that makes sense like I mean I learned how to do car throws with pot. I learned how to do roman cancels Even if I can't do those specific

things Like those are good pieces of very good pieces of knowledge Man, I spent like literally 90 minutes last night talking to somebody trying to understand how a hitbox even works Oh, then and like watching videos and like are you talking about the new one or the you talk you're talking the cross-up Straight up Cross-up is what sparked the conversation regular hitboxes thing. Um, by the way, uh, you you can do, um Cara backwards mega fist And it'll move it. Yeah, I know

Oh boy, do I know you forward. It's super good you forward and it'll be plus as fuck It moves you like a little bit like one foot forward way safer, but it's super plus Enjoy And it's it's not that hard to have either fun Yeah, crazy shit, dude, uh, anyway, um, so the, uh Hitbox is a arcade stick That replaces the actual joystick With four buttons

So that you can tap them for extra precision If you if you like like better even better than keyboard precision, I'd say based on its placement and, um It allows for like faster like Like almost like there's no travel time between Like say you're doing a sonic boom back for two seconds forward punch Like you can go straight from back to forward without having the neutral input

Which allows you to be a little bit quicker on some of those things But mate, let me ask you mainly If i'm whole it's been beneficial to my friends who have had wrist pain So, uh, my friend my friend Pedro for example, uh has had a lot of wrist pain playing, um anime fighters And so this is a way of dealing with that Because If i'm holding back on a hitbox And tap forward with while still holding back and punch

Well sonic boom come out If you i have to let go of that if you are holding two opposing directions The input becomes neutral Okay, so i just i would just feather it i would just yeah Okay And in the same vein if you press down And then you press forward While still holding down and then you release down like you piano them

That's a that's a hadoken Right it's a keyboard and to do it's a keyboard it's think if you've ever played fighting games on your WASD or your arrows I've never done that A bunch of people have So it's just that like yeah for real I was I was this whole conversation was on my phone And now that i'm sitting at a keyboard and I go

Right like I can get no Yep SPDs are no problem Now the only thing that strikes that might strike you is weird Is that the button that is like the the three directional buttons are back down and forward And then the the up button is where your thumb is exactly So it might be a little wise up over there. It's like it's exactly. It's where your resting thumb goes, right? So that's what a normal hitbox is

Now there's a stick that that hitbox company just put out called the cross-up And what that is is a regular joystick So you have the stick in your the regular, you know arcade stick in your hand with your your eight buttons And then it takes that directional Those those extra four buttons that are d-pad buttons and it puts them above and below your punches and kicks So that you can have extra precision on really hard inputs

Most of the time you're you're going to be fine But there's moments of really high execution in certain games where having that there Might make it more reliable and one of the best examples I can think of is they show you the electric wind godfist in tec-en Right to consistently get the electric wind godfists With the with the mishimas you have to do Your input has to end on down forward

And you have to press it at the same time as the punch button It can't be Like one into the other or slightly piano. It has to be the exact same time So to make that happen You're doing You're doing forward down and then you have Punch and another forward digital button right next to each other and you just have exactly and you're consistent or down forward

And you're consistent, you know same thing for air dashing in Dragonball fighters if you want to do like a really low air dash It helps you with that really quickly Um, there's a lot of little like minutiae That are like, you know higher level things That require like very particular precise inputs and that's where the cross-up comes into play it

Is it true that uh hitboxes don't work on ps5? I don't know but if it's ps4 compatible I don't think it should be a problem. It would be a problem But I can't confirm 100% I do know that ps4 sticks though Do generally work but but confirm online. Yeah the canba. I've been using Can confirm online make sure because every because different different companies might have different results. Um You know hard to say Apparently it has something to do with brooks. Oh if it's if you're using a converter the converter might not work

Because the the converters are often uh spoofing firmware To get the controller uh connected and to stay connected for like over 10 minutes or whatever Um, and yeah, if it's spoofing firmware on us on a the wrong console It's not going to treat it like a regular controller. It's going to treat it like something else And oh, okay, so if you're using a converter people in chat are saying that Their hitboxes don't work on. Oh, they don't okay. Okay I

Got um, so I got a company sent me something called a mixbox Which is a hitbox where the um The the instead of the hitbox buttons. I it's like four keyboard buttons Which was interesting because it's just like if you grew up playing fighting games on pc for insane Some people no yo check it out a generation of people grew up playing fighting games only on pc with a keyboard Yeah, you heard they're rare, but they do they do exist, you know um

and Whether it was like oh a pc port of this or just whatever was emulated. They were just only using their keyboards You know a lot of mugun people even were like just using their keyboards to play So they would show up at events and you'd see some people going like yeah, I'm most comfortable with the keyboard So the mixbox basically meant for that But um in the end it's like it is true that if you have wrist pain It's better than it's it's better for your wrists than um the actual joysticks, you know Maybe one hitbox

Makes a ps5 stick I'll give it a shot. I've messed around with them I've did I've played some dragon ball With one just to you know try and get the the swing of things and like by the it took it took some getting used to But like by the end of one night. I was able to You know, I'd say comfortably play I couldn't play as good as I I would with the muscle memory of how I used to play But I could functionally do what I wanted to It just took a second for my brain to go like uh your thumb is jump

Uh your middle finger is down, you know, like it took a bit for that to happen Did you see um The hitbox shit in strife. I don't know how people got it working But the wave dashing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you can do that You can wave dash with a controller. You don't need a hitbox for that because all you need is um You need a controller that has two sources of directional input And so on a controller you can use the left analog stick and the d-pad simultaneously

While holding punch and pressing and un and kick And then you can you can kind of do like a goofy ass wave dash. Yeah Uh That's not intentional. No, it is not and we'll see if they patch it out So that was that Overall The round table was Slightly more productive this time than last time. There was a besides the snafu with the english translation issues

Which were fucked for a while and they like also played a uh What was being called the anti-foreigner alarm Where the headphones burst out with a like a really loud annoying noise At a certain point when they're trying to fix the commentary. So Um, not too sure what the fuck the deal that was But great We got overall a discussion And yes, I want it to continue. I want it to happen more often. I want it to be more open

And I want it to include more people In the in the in the in the chat, you know, I want to get more and more people involved that can just like Get get these games up to standard because quite frankly, you know, fans of fighting games will Jump from one to the other in many cases like if you like what's going on here Chances are you might like what's going on over there with a similar character or style or whatever the case is So working together to standardize Is uh, absolutely crucial. I think going forward and uh can only help the genre. So Yeah

Uh And then, uh, we got the trailer for Pyrrha and Mithra Mithra. There we go. Yeah from, uh, xeno blade two Those are the new smash characters They're the same smash character. Is it Pyrrha or Pyra? I don't know Pyra Pyrrha is Pyrrha is the soul caliber character, right?

I think so Yeah, I think Pyrrha is soul caliber Right. Anyway, uh xeno blade I think it's really funny that rex doesn't get in because rex like is so lame He gets a cameo in this in this final smash That's all he deserves Yeah, you know, I like How long how long are we gonna play this game of

You know smash announcements like it's you know, it's yeah, that's fine. Hey guys They added big fat anime titties and asses just to smash Look, they did it dropped sephiroth and terry bulgard is still cool. I ain't complaining about nothing That's a really cool that that roster's got some good picks The fact that they're still adding people is kind of nuts all things considered Like how is this game still fucking going? Let's be real But yeah, uh, many are left too. Uh, was it two in the season? I don't know Just that being said like

Oh Wow, this sword character thing is like actually like It is pretty funny to look at how much it's yeah, it's kind of a thing and I think it's quite clear at this point that sakurai just thinks it's the coolest shit Well, it is I actually like I actually like the sword character Well, here's the problem, but even I know I'm like we all did back when there was only three of them Back when there was marthroy and link we all thought the swords were cool

And then that number kept going up and now there are probably more that do than those that don't No, that's not true at all, but uh, let's Fucking pull it up 17 at it that and counts now by the way All right fine smash ultimate We're doing it

I don't care It's not is it like shodos and svc chaos No, it's not Okay The goku should have been All right should have had goku so Banjo kazooie. No bayonetta. No bowser. No jr. No

Byleth yes Uh No falcon no charizard. Yes crom yes cloud corn is technically a This corn really is that a so is that is the kind of just magic? I genuinely don't know This might take a while Yeah, I'm like, what are you doing? You're gonna read out the 80 names Ah

Whatever point being This is not the hot pick people wanted though zena blade 2 fans are happy and uh I noticed they're using the quote-unquote censored or toned-down versions of

pyra and mithra's designs which Were so popular that they got added to zena blade 2 Like i'm not the only one who thinks that mithra's design is way better with the tights Like they literally added that to zena blade 2 afterwards All right, I currently got about 21 on a soft quick God soft count. Holy just stop. I got about 21 on a on a really rushed count might be wrong

Anyway Uh So with that announcement we transition from The fight games over to the nintendo direct so they basically got uh This smash announcement followed by

Uh what looks like a post apocalyptic splatoon 3 That's because chaos one dude Did did um Fucking what's her name? I was gonna say marina, but No pearl destroy destroy everything was that literally it yes, she did damn Damn because remember the final splatfest of one was uh mary and kelly chaos And that's those order versus chaos Well there goes france

And they specifically showed you frant france being okay in splatoon one right There's a shot of them posing at the eiffel tower Like being totally fine. There's something about The level of disaster that is the eiffel tower inverted Not broken not smashed up not bent inverted. Yeah Like whoa, that's Some real crazy happen here. That was a cool reveal um

And then they seem to be in what are what are people calling it? Um Clamu rocho or whatever or Boo, I didn't invent it There's a bunch of bunch of people on twitter or we're fucking i'm booing you you're getting a boo Boo They announced triangle The triangle strategy project from the makers of octopath traveler

Plears to be the same visual style of octopath applied to a uh rp turn based strategy rpg and Tactics, yeah, or tech with uh, yeah with an isometric view instead of uh, like Old final fantasy 2d view applied the applied the demo. It's uh The demo drops you in a really bizarre place like like like a third through the game But uh, it's pretty good

It really feels like a sequel to tactics ogre or tactics. It's cool. I like the the this octopath style of like Here's a demo. It's up right now. Go play the thing and see if you like it. Tell us what you think We don't even have a game name yet Yeah, the the fact that it literally doesn't even have A name a real name is hilarious because I think triangle strategy is actually a really good name Yeah, I do why Because it's unique it's unique I can't

I literally cannot remember the last game ever that had the word triangle It is unique, but it sounds weird Okay, so Full disclosure, I think triangles are one of the coolest shapes Triceratops is my favorite dinosaur. I mean this doesn't really have to be an exclamation. There's nothing wrong with triangles I don't really have a bias towards shapes You do you just haven't found the shape that you love the most circles are pleasing when they're it might It might be a hexagon hexagons are pretty cool hexagons are fine. Nothing wrong with that either

Shape triangles are pretty cool shapes are fine. They're sharp on one side I'll hit up a tetrahedron. I got no problem with that Anyway, um not a big fan of anything over an octagon. It's too much. It's too much like a circle. Just do a circle Anyway Yeah, that game seems pretty interesting It looks really they also dropped skyward sword hd And they immediately announced that you can use it without swing controls With regular controller controls did and I was like did a clip of me watching that stream

get to you Okay, so the skyward sword announcement. I'm happy because I Wanted to finish that off. I I wanted to get back to that so works for me Skyward sword hd announcement was pretty crazy for three reasons one Skyward sword is kind of bad

So the fact they're charging full price like they did for twilight princess and win waker is kind of actually much worse Yeah, no, I know every time it kits come up recently or for the last forever it's all of it's I've been it's been immediately followed by how bad it is so Yeah, ah It's not I would call it kind of bad like it's still a zelda game, right? But that's kind of that's that's the thing is like if it if it does what it did for the parts that I played it For the rest of the game That's not going to go down in my head as bad It's it's going to do literally exactly those bits over and over is the reason why it's kind of bad

The button controls I've never felt more vindicated Because well, I I hope you remember this But I used to argue with people over and over About how the motion controls in that game were not necessary And how you could just replicate The exact same gameplay with an analog stick

Like in mgs 2 at least and then mgs Raiden rising came out and i'm like you could just literally do Exactly that with an analog stick and I was told over and over no you can't do that because The the motion controls really and it's like oh, yeah, nintendo says you told me if they only need like um What is it uh Eight possible cut directions or swing directions Which which they do actually uh, yeah that ends up being not a problem

But the only reason why they did it was not because they went back on their motion control feelings What was what but because the switch light exists If the switch light didn't exist, yeah, they would not have bothered Yeah, I know they wouldn't have bothered but it's the proof that I was totally right Like you can easily do that exact control scheme With just an analog stick and I bet it will be way more reliable Yep, I I intend to play it with a normal controller That being said like

I got to admit i'm like i'm like okay. It's another zelda themed Like uh, uh, you know merch thing or whatever and i'm like i'm like damn though those joycons do look really nice The highly ensured and shields the master sword in the highly ensured set Thing i was like that's a fucking I like those blues. Those are some nice blues Um, but anyway, uh, that's cool. I'm down to to uh Start that again and and See where it goes Uh, they also announced. Oh

Before we go on I do have to go into the third one Which I really wanted to talk to you about and I wanted to grab the paul marketing in your mind Um What the fuck were they doing grabbing a gionuma Putting him in front of a camera And going oh wait, they're gonna think he's gonna talk about breath of the wild too. Aren't they? Okay, make make sure that he tells them no I won't talk about that instead. There's this at which point I go

Then why are you putting him there in the fucking first place? Why aren't you just pulling a fucking trailer? like It really felt like I bet you guys are really excited about breath of the wild, huh? Well anyway I don't know man. The fuck are they doing? They're building up direct time Which doesn't need to be filled out because it's digital Yeah, it's totally baffling That being said though, you know what though? No, no, no, no, no. No, they they showed he showed up in order to say

Hey Forget about breath of the wild for a really long time Forget about breath of the wild for a really long time. That's why He specifically showed up to to remind you not to give a fuck about breath of the wild Hey, how many how many um Days are we since bayo 3? There is no news. I think we're at like 11 71 the news desk Jean bayo sitting at the desk. There is no news

There is no news Kimia said stop stop counting Duh, yeah? Yeah Fucking make me More importantly Fucking make me stop counting or rather, uh, uh Something that doesn't come up as often is project gg How's that going?

Don't talk to us at all It's the end of the superhero trilogy Fuck When whatever it is arrives, it's gonna be a banger in the meantime. We it better be wait Oh That's what we yeah, you're right cyberpunk was super good. Hey, I didn't say shit about fucking the CD project Fuck off um

Mario golf are you a mario golf fan? Dude mario golf games are good. They're great. They're really fun Um, the mario sports games are all pretty good Generally, they do a good job making the fun out of you know out of the game that They're like, yeah, let's let's put some fucking mushrooms and fireflowers in that Although the one where it's like, um, you're all sprinting at the same time to race to the fucking Final hole that's all right goofy shit. That looks fun. Yeah turbo golf Um

I like I like seeing that come back Though I wouldn't mind if they like expanded Mario art into some mario out into some other sports too What is he not done yet? He hasn't done squash There's no football Fuck squash cosmic smash though. He's not gonna do football cosmic smash is fun He's I would I would kill for mario hockey game. I would legitimate mario hockey would be wild

That'd be great mario hockey would be legitimate because I because man hockey like arcade style hockey games are really fun And I literally don't even know when the last one was. Yeah, I don't know how they would like mario fi american football because it's it's too technical in nature You I think like the system of like pauses downs plays and stuff would just never really land In a in a kid friendly way But hockey you can kind of just like you kind of just throw the players out there and say go

Go get I want to see like bows or like shoulder check and goon on mario And like knock him through the boards and then oh, no, there's lava underneath the rink Or just like while luigi cheating because his long mangley limbs are really good at blocking the puck Oh Fucking hard drive The fucking hard drive article has ruined my life Because as soon as you said while luigi's long mangley, I thought you were gonna say uncircumcised penis Something something something

Mm-hmm Oh man And then they did not show this in the american direct, but the japanese direct Got a trailer for crayon shin-chan. Have you seen this? Yeah, it looks great. Why don't we get it? It looks so fucking cool. I was like that's dumb Like if they don't translate that this game is so it's one of the most beautiful looking switch games It's it's just a like fucking colorful like the company is literally called wholesome games Or wait no, hold on a second. Oh, that's sweet. Is that

No, that's just the people that tweeted this out nevermind. Sorry. All right, uh That yeah, there's a twitter a twitter called wholesome games that tweeted out The the the trailer to it, but it's a fucking crayon shin-chan game and it looks incredible And they just I like crayon shin-chan. He's cool. They just fucking, you know Like really you're not even gonna bother Just translate the thing not even gonna bother do it. It looks great Like on it like it's got like um Such incredible fucking just backgrounds and colors and you know, like the style of like making

Like a cell shaded shin-chan kind of look, you know, like appropriate to that art Like it it's really cool Why why why why the japanese directs always show thing? That we don't get to see but then also later The a game that is being published by nincendo Nintendo or whatever they also show off thing and every time it's like why wasn't this in the fucking direct Probably because they're like I don't I don't know I don't understand nincendo nincendo

Look crayon shin-chan might actually not sell that much But it would see it would it's a it's a thing it might Like people some people know what it is I fucking heard of it I know what it is. It looks cute I know what stuff it would sell more than a lot of shit currently going up on the store right now For the effort it was the effort they're putting in Compared to the shit that goes up and sells way less right now

There's no there's no reason to not just translate it There's no reason not to do it so just do it Do it because I want it to do it Do it for me they again they do they do more for less so Um We need adult swim behind it. Yeah, good good And lastly, um, this is more of an unofficial But something got, uh, announced

Called the nds tv out and That's it's pretty cool. There's a video of them figuring this out uh a nintendo ds light with a tv out function on it a hidden feature by nintendo now brought to light and uh They basically have

like a ds light bottom hooked up to video outputs for the top screen So like the the top screen is all Uh On your tv and the bottom screen is in your hand Um looks like right now it's a mod and

uh, they're gonna be Putting out repo information so that you can do it on on a github page but like the video of them, uh Using it right now and and playing pokemon is pretty fucking sick and I'm I'm all for like this type of shit like stuff where you can like Play a classic on your tv. They have like a diamond You know playing on on a tv is like that's just really really cool

so Fuck yeah Uh All right, let's take some letters and get out of here. I just wish they would have the tv out normally It's it's uh, you know, sony figured it out They they put tv out on their psp and then they just made a vita that you plug into the fucking hdmi slot You know like they killed that thing. Oh It still gets used in this house

You know, yeah, like It's a it's a it's a nice and easy portable thing to just fucking like pop in over there and All right, let's get an email in here set it to castle super beast mail gmail.com We got one coming in from Uh What do you want to be known by here friend brass fist says brass fist Dear nago ryuki's long ass taunt and potemkin's hammer fall

I wanted to yeah, that taunt is ridiculous. Bring your attention. He's not the only one actually, um uh Ramblethal has one too and giovanna has a long one Cheese I wanted to bring your attention to one of my favorite cases of absolutely blatant theft in video game adjacent format I've seen the world of darkness chronicles of darkness um Known for the vampire the masquerade series among others one of my favorite, uh game lines over time um in the first edition of hunter the vigil the wheels come off

as Some blatant art thievery It's been posted to the subreddit Check this out in case you haven't seen it the artist just copy pasted dante into the book Uh as character art and made the most minor changes possible And yeah, it's dante, but he's holding a shotgun instead of Okay, uh, let me see if I can get you uh a link to the I want to see this That's pretty good

Um, if I post it in the chat will you see it? Let me see if I can All right, maybe I'll put it there It's currently. Okay. Here we go. That yeah, there's the thread. It's currently on the subreddit Holy that's really bad That's really really bad You trace dante and then you made it black and white and then you put a gun in his hand It was just funny because it's one of the only photos of dante without a actual gun already in his hand true

Um if you are uh If you are listening on mp3 just head over to the subreddit and like it's it's it's the side-by-side with dante's awakening dante Uh, even the skull is in the same spot Also, there's a second image of uh the same per artists Uh Turning little wane into a mage Shit, uh, here's a link to that. I love it. Yeah, that's good. I like that. It's good. So, um Oh, wow, that's not even come on

That one's so bad This one's posted on the reddit slash white wolf rpg Called lol little wane is a mage Uh, what is some of the most ridiculous plagiarism and thievery you've seen? I mean honestly like It's been a minute since we've brought it up and every time we repeat a story. It's new to somebody But if you haven't heard us talk about diesel then

It's time to hear the story of diesel because basically that's going to be the winner diesel is uh, uh, what happens when an american comic book company Sees jojo's bizarre adventure But isn't sees it's not being translated and decides that apparently the story is so good That it needed to be brought to america Even if it meant just lifting and fucking copying the entire concept and replacing the characters with western ones So there is a comic called diesel where a stand user Fights other stand users

And literally I want to say geb and in dual Are like amongst the first ones. Yeah that get fought by Because the because they're copying the they're copying the animated the anime movies from early on and the first guy they fight is in dual So they fucking just do it and then like it's just the most blatant dumb shit lifted garbage ever and the art is also life eldian Oh, it's terrible to make matters, you know even better because if the art was great It would be less funny of a story, but the shit looks like trash So yes, they just completely ripped off araki and then when they asked the guy what the fuck he's like, yeah

I didn't think it would ever get translated. So I would I didn't want people to miss out and it's like but you were stealing the creative credit for these ideas And it looks like trash You don't like if you hear a catchy song in another country, you don't get to go Oh man, america needs to hear this, but they never will time for me to come back home and redo it Like you don't get to fucking do that asshole you find a way to like license it or Work with the creator or do something

But you can't just decide on your own. We need to share the story of jojo with the world unofficially Um It's the only way there's no other way. There's no other way. That's a pretty bad one runner-up goes to uh fucking The what's his name whose son was it that did the bleach copy? Oh somebody just mentioned someone someone's kid it was some musicians kid copied bleach Simmons nick Simmons Jean's jean Simmons's kid the kiss guy's kid

Uh fucking just just traced over bleach and copied bleach and made his own bleach And then pretended it wasn't bleach. So then there's that um And third Hey I would give Played Jerusalem sped to And this one like say what you fucking will but the evidence has been presented

um icky tosen for straight up straight up Flipping pages of tenjo tenge And drawing over them with their own characters It happens numerous times once or twice you draw the same angle from the same anime fight idea Sure

But it literally happens multiple times with multiple page spreads and The fucking name of the thing icky tosen Is another way of saying the same kind of thing tenjo tenge when you put the word it's a basically a way of saying um heaven and earth You know, it's a spiritual kind of way of putting those words together mind and body So uh our body and soul And it's like it's like this it's a spiritual thing and it's like a pun on the same literal title

So the titles of the things are related anyway, and then it just traces pages of it. It's fucking So sending them for the same title and you copy the pages The plagiarism on that shit is so out of control that I thought those were related series And the names are so similar that they might as well be because again the names are synonyms of each other You know and like I remember when there were icky tosen fans that were coming into the to argue the defense on it And they're like no no, it's just it's just a it's just a similarity Similar things happen to artists all the time and they're like look here's an example of two unique art artists in manga that have done Okay, sure, and then people found more and more and more

And you're like well, what the fuck do you have to say now that it's happened for the nth time? You know You know I was watching a video of a trailer of a ios Uh soul's like game That's name. I forget that is coming to steam It's called Pascal's wager. Yeah and it looks like a kind of mediocre

rogue No, we're a fucking what do you call it mediocre souls like I guess And but it looks okay, and then like in the new trailer that just came out I Was watching it and like a minute or two in The guy hits an enemy and plays the I fucking shit you not Exact same sound effect that happens when you backstab somebody in dark souls

Like that Like noise And I and I'm like oh, yeah Well, that's the problem got it good I'm inclined to say mobile games don't even count because the entire fucking storefront is based on The idea of this plagiarism. I mean I think I saw a screenshot of a of a game called murder around us Where a

blocky A blocky spaceman made of squares With a little visor. Oh, yeah, I mean video game players. I mean, you know, I mean, it doesn't You don't even bring it up gold like genius co jumbo. Yeah Skull girls to deadly airport Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, so Uh, there you go. We got another one coming in

From Stephanie says Dear patent bully been watching your LP of yakuza and it reminded me of the biggest peeve of The game when bowling curio can use a six pound ball In fact, it rewards you by making it easier to aim I worked for many years in a bowling alley and we hated it when grown-ass adults use the lighter than 10 pound balls Because what happens is the people Throw whip them down the lane at full strength and they slam against the wall on the other side

And fuck up the machinery that we then have to fix Not to mention if you're using a light ball in full power You're just going to end up getting splits over and over so it's not even a good technique Ideally someone should use a ball that's 10 of their weight so that someone who's 200 pounds should use a 20 pound ball TLDR don't use super light balls unless you want to fuck up your lane and get everyone who works there mad at you good advice Now luckily curio would never Fuck up the lane

He would treat the lane with respect see I uh Was wondering about the viability of the bowling technique That involved picking the light ball and swinging it diagonally between pins one and two for optimal strikes Uh, but now I won't do that And the bowling fucking shit in deadly pee was so fucking out of control difficult I couldn't believe it and it's super not worth it at all

10 of your weight is an interesting thing to I'll keep that in mind from now on I didn't I didn't know there was a uh an actual ratio to keep in mind there Uh and uh, hey similar energy, um Someone comes in from Matthew saying uh dear castle super sandwich chiefs I recently started it's a replaying okami for the fifth time and found myself falling into the same habit A fishing way too much after grinding out fish for an hour or so Like so I could get the piss attack. I realized so much. I love fishing as a mini game type

Don't care for the actual fishing in real life. I only the only game fishing game I like is sega bass bass fishing, but fishing is a mini game Yeah Is in other games is amazing to me favorites are heydeez okami ff 15 And deadly premonition. What are your favorite types of mini games? Uh fishing is pretty good. I actually also like fishing mini games, but hate fishing real games And I've been real fishing and it's fine. It's not the best. Yeah real fishing sucks for me fishing mini games are fun

Did you know that that fishing in heydeez has framed in it? That's insane. Wow the the the the For a while I was like, why am I not getting any of the rarer fish and it's because you have to fucking hit the button Well, then a certain amount of frames of the pop looks full disclosure fishing didn't exist when I last played the game Okay, so So you never you didn't play 1.0. Uh, I I didn't get back to it yet. No, I do want to You should you should beat heydeez. It has a really I I know I know I just I played a lot of it When it was early on the epic game store and I really enjoyed it

I do want to get back to it now that everyone's there, but I I will What uh, I found recently is I love darts games Thanks to uh, yakuza. Thanks to ff7 Uh and real life when I went up to that that cabinet and stuff and you know, like I like dart mini games darts are darts are fucking fun, man Darts are fun. I really like darts Except for when that asshole feeds you a shot and makes you get drunk Fuck that guy. Yeah, it happens

Just trying to think Like the the mini games in you yakuza 7 the unique ones are particularly excellent Like the can quest which is basically pac-man And the uh the racing game dragon cart are excellent Bowling mini games are usually pretty fucking fun too to be honest Like I I I don't think I can't think of any like particularly awful bowling mini games Um and golf golf rules neoturf masters is passive basically become an fgc staple Yeah

We're playing neoturf man. It's uh, it's a neo geo golf game and uh it originally used a track ball to play Yeah, anyway, uh that's I'm gonna I'm gonna go with darts as my standout for sure Uh right now I'd probably go my recent beloved would be can quest can quest in uh, I don't know if that's I don't know if it's can quest. What's it called in yakuza 7 It's basically pac-man Uh yakuza 7 can well, what's it called? It's called uh can it's called can quest. Yeah, it's called can quest

Okay You gotta get those cans, dude Uh, all right. All right, whatever podcast. Yes. Yes, we did it We defeated the podcast Anything to to note for this week Uh, I'm gonna be playing that wait. Hold on. What week is it? It's this week. I'm gonna be playing the outriders Uh demo later this week That game looks cool

Okay, that's the square annex joint that they're pushing really really really hard to make up for the total failure that is avengers Yeah, okay. Uh, yeah, and you know, we're gonna be we're gonna be continuing our demon souls and yakuza is zero and I'm gonna pick a fighting game. I don't know. I have I have a couple things planned out. So we'll be doing it All right, that's a long one. We are outie. Congratulations once again Hooray Oh All the time they Erode and destroy hearts of good souls

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