Castle Super Beast - CSB 210: Kasparov vs Deep Blue, Carlsen vs Deep Pink

Episode Date: March 14, 2023

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Whistler I Have a question for you woolly. Mm-hmm In the incoming events dealing with guilty gear is It going to be absolutely mandatory as it should be That when people are talking about the new character's choice in the roster that they say bed man Every single time as if it were a question

Because that's the correct name for that character I'm gonna I'm gonna Say yes with a slight variation. My preference is bed man bed bed man bed man Just just just that upward inflection I guess versus bed man Maybe maybe I don't What would a strange Strange title for a character, but what an awesome callback in the way they're doing it lore wise

It's super cool. How they how they'd set that up because I So yeah, my the meme I've been I've been engaging with online has been the Let's go grab some ancient Classic Asherah or Shiva mounting up on their chariot riding down through the heavens to let you know that if you watched guilty gear lore You are like that enlightened Telling people about the the the things they don't understand when they go

I don't get what's going on and all you had to do was keep up on the lore, baby But I got your back Do you really need to know that much because I look at I look at bed man bed man and I go that's not bed man It's not that's a that's a totally different person. You therefore you see the bed Yes, and you see the not bed man. Yeah, and you go bed man so they they basically they telegraphed back in excerpt her existence and And more or less give you that his entire motivation as a character is around his sister so she's talked about heavily in in without seeing her in back in excerpt and

Then in the another story DLC that came out with The the characters that didn't get any spotlight in the original Strive story mode She's featured prominently as the you know main The main problem that needs to be dealt with And yeah, so they you don't like you're gonna be you're gonna not understand where she came from and why she's doing what she's doing Without knowing I guess or without watching the lore and under watching the the story But you know, I'm sure you can get the context clues up through win quotes and intros probably Also, you'll notice that the bed itself is fucking destroyed

Yeah, it looks like shit. Yeah, and you'll notice that like while bed man was asleep in the bed back in the day And it was like, you know fighting With according to his will in this case She's like hiding from this and like running and scared while it's attacking and protecting her It's a really so like there's your your car or clover or your you know your your puppet character that has the two people But this one's really strange. This is somebody who doesn't want to be there Mm-hmm, it's and a totally autonomous fight machine I mean, I love the fact that so far the two well like I'm not gonna

Gold Lewis is not a puppet character, but Gold Lewis fights with a weapon. That is another thing another person. Yeah, and The usage of that is like very It's very weird and and guilty gear asking how it's it's a it's like ABBA, right? how ABBA swings around Paracelsus as Like and that's that's a living creature. It's all but it's just it's also a weapon, you know In this case. Yeah, you have they're like, okay We have a puppet character so to speak, but it's a reluctant puppeteer and The the bed frame is just doing all the fighting despite whatever Delilah wants it. Yeah, you're playing as some form of

Bed man Mm-hmm, but there's also a little girl there that doesn't want to be there that happens to be hanging out with the Bed man, so she doesn't hate it because it does protect her and she does know that it's her brother's spirit but like it's definitely like I'm not in control of this thing and Hey bed frame, can you chill out? Can you just know, you know, I can't chill out because I'm some form of bed man. Yeah No, she knows she knows that it's it's she knows that it's it's it's her brother and That her her whole drive. It's actually like so I'm that kind of asshole

Yeah, okay, so spoilers if you if you haven't like caught up on or keeping up with guilty You can't spoil a fighting game. You absolutely can when they make six hour episode chunks for you to sit and watch Like and it's no gameplay. You just press play and watch the the movie that goes on for hours and on end Yeah, man, so Bed man is an asshole and was an asshole for sure Has his little his motives though that that you know, he reveals before he is destroyed by the bigger bad and The main thing is that why he looks like capito

From Naruto He's working under the big bad No, he's even dorkier than Kabuto Kabuto has like God Kabuto has like that kind of Style glasses and hair, but he still has a normal shaped hair cut to some degree Yeah, like bed man's is doing the full Foppish like young lord, you know the young Whatever you call that. It's like it's like not a bull cut, but it's that that like old Middle-ages prince, you know like that kid that guts fucked up

Like like that kind of haircut, you know Anyways, the point is ultimately that she's she's out for revenge because you know Even though bed man was it was a shit he His he was kind of he got he got fucked over essentially by the Sanctus Maximus who is then fucked over by

That man, but is not actually and the real that man is Fucking out there to be happy chaos and doing shit and yadda yadda yadda back and forth There's another that man and so Delilah's out for revenge like to eat meat Delilah's out for revenge and So is bichen, but Delilah's a 12 year old and Bikin's kind of learning that her revenge is way more complicated because back in the day when bichen was just a samurai Kenshin Replacement it was like gotta go kill the guy that killed everybody real simple

And then as the guilty-gear plot started to unfurl and become this this insane convoluted mess Where that man is this and that but he's not that and there's another version of him And we flip and fold and flip and fold and divide and split it apart and then sprinkle more garnish and divide those pieces as well The idea of just wanting to get revenge on that man Becomes kind of muddled and confusing But the ultimate like okay, who am I gonna kill who's to blame for it? There's still a person you can point to and she's like yeah, fuck that. I'm gonna go get happy chaos That's the reason and Delilah's like I also want revenge and

You know Bikin's like no, but revenge will kill you it'll destroy you don't do it Jam works at a restaurant so Now it's gonna be on Bikin to kind of like calm Delilah down and you know get her to Like be a normal happy 12 year old and not just Dedicate her whole life to revenge because she can see the same thing about to happen to this kid Yeah

Bridget likes yo-yos. Yeah Yeah, there you go. Also They still clearly haven't told sin what's going on with him in his eye because he thinks babies come from ice Are you serious? Yeah, there's a whole scene. That's fucking hilarious. There's a whole scene where where sin is like hey, man I'm gonna I'm gonna help you save your kid, you know, you got your eye patch I know that that's your daughter and Bikin's like what the fuck you talking about and he's like, yeah We all know that I'm old enough to know that babies fall out of your eye And everyone like fucking shits themselves

Yeah, so You know for a king his education mandate isn't very good Well the good thing he's not or will never be king I meant so Kai's education mandate for his bullshit is not very good. Oh well That's what happens when you leave it up to soul actually. Oh, really? Yeah, you go here Take this take this thing you figure it out. That's all souls doing actually So souls the kind of guy who you like can you watch the kids for a second and then you come back five minutes later in your Houses on fire. Yeah, no literally exactly that. That's that's the problem

You can't just bandit revolver all your problems away Fred except you actually can and when the kid is a year It's like, yeah, I don't know you figure this out man again his his The other previous moment was the description that his big happy treat when he when he has a good day is sugar water You know So god damn I don't want to talk to anybody about sugar water. Yeah It's like butter sandwiches, you know at least he's got the water Yeah, so anyway

Bedman is the new character announced for guilty-gear strife and Yeah, telegraphed of course from from the way the story has been playing out. That's cool It's also interesting because we get to see a character return. So the move list Bedman's fighting style gameplay wise is like They can preserve it while changing the gimmicks around. It's kind of interesting. Yeah, a lot of characters Because we're not playing as bedman. We're playing as bed man bed men So when you see the main

Bedframe moves like in place you're like, okay, that's all the stuff that it does But like you can get rid of the time rewind gimmick that it used to use or you can get rid of the You know the after yeah the after image ex moves and you can kind of just use it morose again Like a Delilah protector puppet character. So you can mix things up a little bit and seems like that's what they're going for So that's a cool way to like, you know, create a returning character, but it's not a returning character type of thing So I have to say one of the things you mentioned earlier is the bed is fucked up and it made me think about how Maybe this is just me, but I'm sure it's not. I'm sure there's other people who have this appeal like I feel like almost every Incredible design of a sleek

cool future Amazing thing. That's really nice But what if you fucked it up and made it like look barely working and totally busted? Now we're talking the dumb stupid looking bed frame that stands upright with the arms and legs and the goofy sphere head Looks cooler when it's falling apart Right, it really does when it's like held together with like little pieces of metal and string and it's busted and its eyes Fallen out especially when you know that the that

The reason why it looks that fucked up is partially due to Venom Slayer Gabriel Potemkin's commander All like doing damage and fucking that thing up Before the end, you know and Robo Kai as well like that bread frame took a fucking beating in the in the in the excerpt story and But it also is like almost a you know indestructible. That's how it like managed to survive all of that But yeah, is the bed of the bed man anyway But like my point is is that you want to talk about some of the biggest badasses and fucking guilty gear it it's up there

Taking hits the bed from the bed of the bed man the bed of bed man is up there took hits from From the those the all of the above, you know, so Don't don't sleep is the bed some kind of bed man. Don't sleep on the bed Don't the beds more powerful than you think That's terrible go to hell. You're right. Y'all been sleeping on that bed. Don't be don't sleep on it. It's way stronger than you think I Yeah, and then of course at the end We got another little tease which is obvious really we kind of

Expected this but I guess they're just saving it We're gonna fucking finally get ask our crews that man playable and I want him to be like happy chaos is gunman Right and it's actually like not it's not a cutesy. It's it's still a fighting game character like Noelle in in blaze blue is like I've got a gun, but I'm really still just fighting you and You know even Chris in Marvel is like I'm a gun fighting game character, you know and

Happy chaos is like no, I'm I'm huge. I'm shooting the gun and anything else I do is incidental To the genre, but really I just want to shoot a bang man I want to play call of duty on this 2d plane. Thank you. Absolutely. That's what he's trying to do at all times Happy chaos fucking hates the fact that he's in a fighting game But I want Asuka to just be a stupid wizard like maximum insane spellcasting nonsense

For max for maximum swag, of course because that's what he is. That's what he's he's supposed to be a Mage with an oath a giant spellbook next to him and the pages are flipping and he's just dropping Spells on you from a distance like fucking you up. That's what I want to see, you know And then like maybe like up close like one really YOLO all or nothing You know reversal super or something like that just for the just for the get-off of me and a teleport out and then fucking you up With spells from a distance again So basically you want a level 20 wizard in a game in which everybody else is a tenth level fighter But they're tenth level fighters with the ability to stop time and drift forward

Sure monks artificers fucking whatever, but you want you want the eye cast you get cancer and fall over and die I like I Want I want like Okay, I'm Nagoriyuki and my blood is at 50% but also I've been stacked with two frost I Have one to pip of poison on me and if I step forward into that detonator a wall will explode behind me so basically you want to go back to The nightmare gimmick characters that everybody was happy haven't shown up and strive yet dr. Strange No, I have Agamotto

No, you know what you should be if you pick fucking that man You get behind the shoulder and you start sending out fucking minions and you have to play a game of guilty gear too. No No Yeah, I'm hoping for maximum spell casting guilty gear style You know and then like I don't know maybe maybe like maybe the more spells you use the further through the pages you flip You know and then you get to the more your cat ears come back And then eventually you get to the end of the book and maybe when you close the book there's like a a big a Big payoff for that, you know. Oh

Gee you just want to what's his fucking name? There's a hunter hunter character that you're actually describing by accident. Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, there's a guy who fights with a big-ass book just in his hand. Yeah um, I remember seeing so back in the day when I was just like, you know trying to Get my my my art school chops going. I remember I was just like going heavy into Concept art inspiration and stuff and there's some really awesome concept artists and I remember this one that just drew like modern-day fantasy characters and like a modern-day spellcaster with like the book in like a kind of like Like like a leather binding

You know and like a bunch of like straps and kind of there's a whole cool thing to it That was just like really aesthetically sick and I've always been like man. You don't really see A ton of like spellbook usage In a stylish way in fighting games, you know, like it'd be really cool the future of the spellbook is an iphone Yeah, but the aesthetics of page is turning is awesome. You know, so it'd be great to see some sort of like Core mechanic around that and he's and he's and he's you know, he's using the tome Rips a page out and like some shit happens. You know, I don't know go fun with go have no go go nuts with it But um, anyways, we're getting him in may

And we'll see whatever that turns into And uh, yeah, that seems like it's gonna be the the round out of season two for guilty gear. So Good shit, you know That thing's that thing's coming along um And I feel like every piece of care I had in the world for guilty gear strive Evaporated when they said they were gonna bring roll back to dragon ball Well, they're like strive is still incredible and fantastic

But like I would oh they scratch different issues for me for me strive is the 1v1 fighter like slot and Uh, dragon ball and like marvel share the same space like a tag fighters hyper slot Is this is a different like so like I get that that makes perfect sense Except like I don't really care for marvel, but I really really enjoyed dbz. I think it was like the simpler like base for the characters well, um

I mean either way more is good more choice is good excellent games that you can jump back and forth on to and and Enjoy liberally. Um strive in particular. Um, yeah, I think let me just confirm it but Speaking of that game good timing with the um The reveal and such uh, we're gonna try this weekend to get A local strong player the

The best nago ryuki in in town happens to be known by the name test your luck He's not just the best nago ryuki in montreal. He's the best nago ryuki On ranked period. Okay, so Um, it's pretty much between him and hotashi. Uh, it's kind of fucking incredible Uh, that and lucky that he happens to live right here. So we're just gonna be like, yo come over to run some sets Teach me how to use this fucking guy. I don't know what I'm doing so, um, that should be going down, uh Next getting to fighting games on saturday. So come hang out should fantastic should be cool. Um

and uh Yeah, if uh Well, anyways, all this to say that uh, I hope that you know guilty gear Is is doing well enough that they can consider a third season or so, but um, I'm sure they will Yeah, I I imagine that like If you have the like if you have a uh, a dlc pack that consists of like, you know, four characters like they kind of went for four so A lot of times you'll have like five or six even, you know

I feel like they went with lower characters here, but they also made a uh the the story mode and then they had like, I guess three stages so I'm I don't mind the idea of like trading off a character for a giant like story mode edition. It's not yeah, makes sense Yeah, I like characters are definitely like cool and Good to have but like the effort they put in to the way they do their stories is is High enough that i'm like, yeah, no

I don't mind trading off a slot for that, you know, they they they put out like a again like their movies every time, you know, so yeah um inscrutable six hour long movies That only you and 22 other people understand and the people that watch your video, of course. Yeah, um Go go check that go check that shit out if you're still looking to catch up, but you'll you'll have time um Especially when you know, they just drop the first silhouette

and the first silhouette of season three is going to have a monocle because I mean come the fuck on right? What are we doing? We've are like the three characters. We know we're going to sell back to you Uh our dizzy bike in and slayer Yeah, it's it's actually Slayer is is living in the space that akuma apparently lives in now They they know kuma gets to be like we know you fucking gonna buy they they absolutely know You know, it's it's it's become planned at this point

Like who do we remove from the base roster to drop it to give it back to you, you know Um and we'll cheer every time Yeah I God damn. I really want to see what hakan would look like man. It would be so much fun. I would like to see hakan yeah It would be so much fun to imagine like his version of a drive impact plus oil Sliding across half the stage, you know

I feel like hakan would be a remarkably poor choice for street fighter six's new system Because like street fighter six has uh, are you in drive? Are you normal? Are you burnt out and then hakan would get to be Are you in drive with oil or without oil? Are you normal with oil or without oil? Are you burnt out with oil or without oil? And just the nonsense that that would be to try and remember for just just you It would it would it would start to get insane, but like some people love that So, you know, there are there are the

The lab monsters and the scientists as they say the people that just like love extrapolating the frame data someone like uh juicebox able would just fucking love to See more variants of frame data for characters. So yeah Um, I mean shit. There's anyone like like jamie with the drinks. You already got to consider all that anyway, right? So Uh, it'd be it'd be really great to see hakan come back though. Like yeah jamie honestly is like three of my Three characters that I like in street fighter combined into one exactly exactly. Yeah, like so I I like I I played hakan and four and he was my favorite

But like I look at jamie and I go, you know what that that that drink meter is is Is getting me by for my needs We seamlessly moved over to street fighter six, but they showed off the screenshot of the final roster there and uh Or the final launch roster that is to say and like I'm just looking at that bottom eight of like the world warriors And it's like yeah, we're never gonna get a street fighter game without them again Never That is never happening. Those eight boxes are actually a huge mistake To not have all of them present there

And not even like replacements type of thing Just like them themselves like li fen is being raised as a as a you're she's got an outfit now. She's got goggles she's got all that um What the fuck was his name konoha maru Right shit going on like the little girl from third strike that chun li is training Is now a character design and she's got her own style going and it doesn't matter We're gonna bring back chun li at 60 years old Make no mistake. Um street fighter three

That was stupid That they did that Not even after you and ken. I don't I that was dumb. I don't even I don't even mind it, but the world hated it I don't mind it. No. No. Hold on. Hold on I'm not saying I minded it either. Okay. I'm saying it was stupid. Okay. Fine. Yeah, fine. Fine fine um And then uh, you know, we get like anyone else that like goes into like the new challengers It's like, okay. Yeah, teahawk can get replaced with his daughter

um She's What's interesting can get replaced with hotter cam. There you go. Right? Uh, what's interesting is, um the, um concept art they showed off actually for uh, lily hawk on The artists twitter showed you like another original design for lily and

she's like older and much cooler and This would have been a fucking just killer design if she were you know about twice as old um I I I would have liked that as the grappler replacement For teahawk, but it's fine. You know, whatever I guess we're going with the idea that like teahawk had a kid right at the end of street fighter 4 or something like that, you know

Sure, why not? But yeah, yeah, the older version they showed is like, oh man, that would have been better You know, but anyways, uh, I mean, I also imagine they kind of went like we don't want to just make every like marissa Kind of fills in the slot of like the the buff new girl um and like Blanca exists people like zany More goofy weirdos

Well, they have tolerance for some They have tolerance for some zany weirdos some freak picks, but you can't but what I mean is like I would also want every single character to be fucking cool and hot, but also I recognize That I need my weird green electric monster That sells dolls in there. Yeah, and I think when you look you look at the row as well of newcomers and you kind of Uh, you look and they have like um

lily manon Marissa and kimberley, right? So you have like right a small little quick wind girl you've got like your you know Medium-sized ninja pushinry replacement You've got manon, which is a whole new style of like again thin long slender grappler and then big buffs So they just kind of went like yeah, and then you've got sagats

Style and body tape being replaced by marissa. Exactly. So they've got a lady. They've got all the silhouettes taken care of with that You know Understandably and then we've got another like ackee fang girl coming too, right? So What a what a glow up for that character archetype the ugliest character ever made in street fighter to this cool lady I just wish his head wasn't so long It's so it's all I want I have no problem with the swag purple Chinese oh the like

Decorative like trim the detail the hat the glasses all of that shit is on point I just wish his fucking face wasn't stretched out it's So for a for a story that contains non human characters Like fang looking the least human of the human cast is upsetting Yeah um I guess they just kind of wanted to you know, uh again a freak pic right

He could they didn't just want like iconic creepy scientists. They wanted uh Your your rufus, you know your your your extremo your 12 like I appreciated his existence as the most annoying motherfucker ever to play against I thought that was awesome but his actual Everything it's just Uh He's the anti-rufus

Yeah, it's just as bad. Yeah, he's the anti-rufus exactly. Um, she the saturday morning villain is gonna have two Sidekicks one of them is big old fat rufus and the other one is skinny fang, you know like like that's literally a diranjo from A yatter man, right like it's exactly that, you know, you just you take your take your archetypes Um, but anyways anyways fighting game characters drop in Um, and there are some stories that link to that of course, but but um, let's let's go through the the the weeks first Um, what has yours been like?

Well, okay, there's there's there's video game blah blah blah and then there's there's life Uh, so in terms of life Um, I went to a neighborhood barbecue last night with my wife and had a long Like I don't know three four hours hanging out with my neighbors and people in my community

and getting to know a bunch of people that live in my direct vicinity And it went really well and I did not horribly embarrass myself or make a spectacle Okay, now was it a barbecue or was it a cookout? So it was so uh, it's bc So it's fucking raining. Yeah It's fucking raining. So what it is is uh, like dinner slash like a whole you know whole table full of of food And the head of the household he's out in the you'd like cooking chicken on a smoker. Okay, and like an overhang. Okay

Um, I don't know where it it comes in on like the he I mean it was called a barbecue I'm a be extremely direct Was this organized and put on by white people or black people? What do you think man? It's bc people. Yeah, that's a barbecue Well, mostly white people but the the the head of the household that invited us is a white guy. Yeah, all right That's the that's the the difference is that that's if it were the other If we go the other way if the answer is black people then it's a cookout. That's just how that goes. Yeah. Yeah Uh, but yeah, no, it was really nice. I got to I got to actually it so it's it's

So first of all, it's very nice to have like a really great like Meet my neighbors and have like a really nice experience and and get to know people This is not something that I'm used to I'm used to not knowing who my neighbors are I'm used to just like Your neighbor goes into their house and you go And then and then that's that's what it is. Um, so this was like really pleasant and very very nice Uh, it was also the first time I have been indoors without a mask on

with other humans since One dinner in 2021 and prior to that like december of 2020 Okay, um which I am I have to start I am Oh, what do I call it? I am You know when you have a weird anxiety response, but you don't want to look like a freak. Yeah

So like people are like coming in for hugs And I'm like, hey pleased to meet you and I Calm my inner spirit. Oh, yeah. Hey nice to meet you and all that But I'm like my head is kind of like I'm really not used to people being within Mm-hmm 10 feet. Yeah me I have a friend I have a friend like that let alone let alone a series of handshakes and whatnot. Yeah, I have a friend who's uh she's like Just extra nervous, you know and has been

pretty much since 2020 um About like everything and is having a hard time getting Like past the point of like, okay I am down to Go see people and do things, but just has to get past that that wall internally of anxiety Um, yeah, that's that's a real thing for sure. I get it. It's it's like, um It's it's it's not like I'm I'm standing

It's just like I'm I'm not used to this anymore. I'm I'm just I'm uh, it's it's very strange And I don't want people to feel like I'm like Dude, like if somebody goes in for a handshake and you go no, thanks Like what the fuck just just go into the river and die Like you might as well just leave the earth Just awful awful situation, but no it went fantastic. I gapped my fucking mouth off for Three four hours. I ran into a couple people who ironically enough work in the games business

Um, and we shot the shit about that Did you get any recipes because that's the move right? That's how you Not as of yet because we but small talk and then you talk recipes and now now you're adulting Yeah, not not as of yet though the the direct neighbors were the hosts So there's a like we can just like now that now that the the ice has been fully broken and we've hung out for a couple hours There's the easy go back and forth and bug the neighbors for hey How do you how did you cook that chicken or where did you get that hot sauce? I think my favorite part of the evening was the host

Goes he brings in the chicken and it's got a sauce to the side and goes okay. Everybody here's chicken is great Um, but the sauce on the side is really spicy though. So be careful and I go I gotta take it just dollop dollop dollop Yeah, that's spicy. That's not too spicy though Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean you call that spicy and he goes oh And he goes to the cabinet. Mm-hmm established dominance brings out the Brings out the tiny bottle. Yeah, that was a test. This is

Yeah He goes oh, this is this this is the stuff that I use for This is the stuff that I use for you know when I really want the spice and you know You're only supposed to put like a little drop and of course he takes his plate and he goes While maintaining eye contact with you. Yeah. Yeah, and I go, you know what that that looks great. That looks great How about you give me one? Okay, great. He throws the big dollop on it And then I go Oh, yeah, maybe I'll put some on my chicken and I look at him and he takes his chicken wing and he just goes

Yeah Oh, yeah, okay. Yep Okay. Yeah, it's great. All right. Let's do that and then page not to be out done goes. Oh, yeah, sure me too And then we're all standing there And we're eating it and like all of us are just like Yeah Yeah, that's pretty spicy And the wife comes over and goes, yeah, I tried that but I you know

I always only want to get a couple drops, but it always gets too much I you know, and we're just standing there. I'm like, yeah Did you cough? I did not cough, but what I did was start to visibly sweat. Okay. No, that's fine. That's fine. That's an involuntary response Yeah, the tears and like the redness. That's all good. If you cough your bitch You can't let it out Yeah, and then it passed and then it passed and everything was fantastic But it's just like, oh, you can't I can't I can't

The guy the the the husband of the house is gonna bring out my direct neighbor the guy I'm gonna see every day for years. He's bringing out spice. What am I gonna do? I'm not gonna have the spiciest thing in his house I mean you you passed the test and you tanked the weak shit and he's like, oh Okay Tarnished I didn't know You know, yeah, okay. Good good stuff. All right

But yeah, it was it was very pleasant very very now now the thing it's nice to it's nice to know your neighbors Now just keep in mind that like you might have missed the prompt while you were sweating But a neighbor will remember that did pop up at the top which means from now on Every time there's like, oh, hey, we brought you something and you know what pat We know that this is probably a little too weak for you. So we made a special version That's just burning I don't think so on fire like the cause I hand it to you because the conversation actually

actually went to Like you got to be careful with this because like you don't want to become spice freak man 27 who's just importing California breeds that are numbered And then he's like, yeah, no, I mean this is about as spicy as I want it because otherwise after that It just hurts and then you there's no flavor. Yeah. Yeah, it's just it's just you know It's just flexible and that that's the thing is yeah

If if the neighbor was that was spice freak man, you know 642 then that little like oh, yeah I'd be in the hospital right now Like we brought you a special version pat and again. I contact maintained. Here you go. Yeah It might be a little weak though. I don't know you tell me. I don't know. I don't know Why don't you give it a try right now? Actually, let me know we can still add I brought a fork. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Oh, don't don't bother. Here we go. Got a fork right here. Yeah um There you go. All right. All right

Not bad. Did uh, did you cover the weather? We did cover the weather did you did you did you cover Fishing Or uh, no lawn care But lawn care did come up. There you go. There you go. Okay care did come up. All right Just just the app just hey man It's really pleasant to talk to a bunch of people about the banalities of living your life Oh, what do you guys do for work? Oh, we do this. That's always the that's always the tipping point because I always have the weird job

Did you talk? Did you talk about? Uh, the baby anyone's baby recently There were nine children in that house. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, and and and the Like oh just wait till the terrible twos I feel so bad because there was one of the guys who who had come with his wife And to meet all of his friends and hang out but he had been relegated to Hey, man There's there's like 10 kids running around

Can you wrangle them and he was wrangling and I feel for him and he was doing a good job All those kids were really well behaved and very kind and very nice Uh, though at one point, uh, one of them got into uh, uh Her her um her face painting supplies We were talking or it's like oh you have your you have your your face paint. It's like yeah, I love green We're like good for you. Green's great. And then the next time I saw her green Okay, and and this lasted till uh either

One shift of morning to evening or morning to afternoon afternoon, you know like a couple hours. No, this this was this was like Three to seven. Okay Yeah, dinner mainly. Yeah, that was uh, that was a fucking that was a neighborhood barbecue Classic fucking Family suburban. It's the most normal thing in the world for everyone but me. I guess boy Well, it was really nice. Everybody I ran into was was very nice It was very pleasant paper plates. Yay

I'm becoming a normal human that being said fun fact as the only person who's not from bc in that group I was the only person wearing this So it had this feeling of I was dressing up like a bc person to fit in one of one of the yes, exactly Yeah Rolled in with the cowboy hat. Yeah, look at me. I got I got my flannel on look. I'm just like you guys No, for real The cobec equivalent of just walking with a je me souviens A license plate just are you just holding a license plate? Yeah, don't we all

Just holding the license plate. Yeah, okay Cool good So that's that's what's going on in the in the oh and I also told the floor pie story too Naturally of the other guests Because what do you do? Oh, I do I do a podcast. What's the name of the podcast? Well fun fact the last time I did that Hi neighbors I also got confirmation from from the neighbor that it was in fact the youtube clip that you uploaded

That as the as the very first result. Yes, like don't tell neighbors about floor pie Oh, you'd be surprised if you haven't already realized it It's very easy to hide a lot of things in the mp3 file But the clip the clip is where things get exposed. Yes This at the mp3 section of this who the fuck no one's catching that go off the hip Say what you want. Listen to a five hour podcast. Who's gonna do the fuck is gonna catch that It's the clip. It's always the clip Yeah

Anyways, all right. There you go Yeah, fantastic. Uh as for as for interests games, what have you? Uh, it's uh, I actually have a lot this week Dead cells has returned to castlevania dlc came out. Uh, I played that It's fucking incredible Installed it haven't touched it yet. Yeah Yeah, the only problem I have with the return to castlevania dlc is that I like it a lot better than the rest of dead cells Uh-oh

Because it reminds you of castlevania stuff No, it's it's like It's I the level design and the bosses and the enemies in the castlevania levels and the music and the weapons associated with it I'm like, this is the best dead cells content. They've made. It's also the newest and I'm like I I I want I want them to make a castlevania game So like I'm at this point where in order to keep to get to the second batch of castlevania levels I need to get further in main dead cells, but I'm like, yeah, whatever whatever whatever

Yeah, uh castlevania though. Well, I mean considering like Bloodstained before this and such. I think it's clear that a lot of people are just like can anyone that's not mercury steam Please get their hands on this license Yeah, so Understandable, uh, but it's it's fantastic Especially if you are like, I'm not the biggest fan of dead cells and I thought this was stellar So if you actually do love dead cells, oh my goodness You're gonna be fucking thrilled. Nice

Uh, let's see, uh last of us finished up last night the tv show tv program Uh I have very little to say about it. It's uniformly pretty excellent. It's extremely faithful Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal do an a plus plus job Not just with their own acting, but like imitating the characters I really only have one problem and it's a really really big problem Is it a change or is it a Original it's a it's a translation issue of from game to to tv show. Okay, so

With the game you you must stop anything interesting happening Every 30 to 40 minutes so that you can have a huge amount of violent Uh murder gameplay gameplay, yeah, right? Uh, you don't have to have that you can you can adjust the pacing however you want because the tv show you're telling a story, right? They overdid it They overdid it by a lot um There is not

one um infected problem For more than half of the tv show's runtime Um And you go and and like in in the visuals of the narrative They go almost 2,000 miles across the united states

Without encountering one infected so i i feel as if i feel as if like The thought was i mean i have to watch it obviously but like i i kind of expected that in a way because it's just like well let's focus on The story because there's the story and then there's the gameplay and these are separate things, you know Um, totally i i completely understand There's also way less Raiders In in the narrative as well like aggressive human people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and like

The issue that occurs is like Huge huge portions of the united states appear to be completely safe And What with the core premise of like we must cure this horrible plague That you don't see for most of the shows one time It it really like it like evaporates some of the core stake Yeah, interesting because i've always thought that like anytime a video game has to drop in

Regular shootout gameplay with either infected or the raiders you You have a problem where you're like, okay a desolated area doesn't feel that desolate because it's just constantly this thing, right? It's the tomb raider problem of this This island that laura is stuck on is actually overflowing with Quit goons crazy goons 2,000 3000 goons crazy cultist goons that want to get you you know Non-stop everywhere massive population because you just need that much gameplay, right? yeah, so

If you kind of focus on the drama you pull away from that aspect of it But you definitely need to have like even if it's just like two people or like one bloater, you know Like you got to have a little bit of like oh the thread is always there We're still playing the game as we get to the the climax the thread is you know And even if you kind of like montage it or whatever like episode Episode six seven eight and nine in the modern story not in flashbacks Don't have a single infected Not one

They do flashbacks so that they can put an infected in there interesting interesting, but like The journey across like half of the us is seen as like mostly problem free and that Like part of the last of us is setting is not just like the world ended It's also that the people who remain are like Barely hanging on Because there's roaming groups of raiders. They're roaming packs of infected areas are just wildly biohazardous

Yeah, also, it's It's just not happening areas aren't getting attacked. They don't run into monsters It just seems safe. Also that makes the the mid-story breather That much important when they make it to the camp And it's actually like there's no fighting in the game for a while You have an actual breather and like it creates a a tension release You know and then it pulls it back up because it escalates, but like um, you kind of need to have the contrast from like

Walking in full of blood and guts, you know and then like getting to actually breathe for a minute if they were already Kind of able to do so. You might not feel that way interesting, uh, like they there's also a like so then you know, they changed it from spores to the tentacles And they basically have uh, you know groups of infected as like underground networks. Oh, did did they? Yeah, I did. I didn't know that. So instead of instead of the the mushroom like turning into a big old spore machine They have like underground little mushroom networks that connect most of the infected as they're just hanging out And then if you step on one of those tendrils, even if it's far away it alerts a group to come after you

Which is cool except part of the problem with that story is that Uh spores can be anywhere and also there are roaming Packs of these things just traversing Roads and wilderness. So your your isolated town could conceivably Encounter infected just wandering off the road Right with this spore. Sorry this this tendril thing

The groups of infected tend to literally just lie down And not move until disturbed Which means that like yeah, boston's completely ruined But if you get 50 kilometers away to an area that Just isn't infected You're not gonna deal with infected You're only gonna deal with maybe people got bit through the boston area coming out because they're not behaving like walkers type of thing Yeah, and it just it's like

It kind of removes a lot of the stakes from the the the core mission of or driving plot and it also Makes so I watched the final episode last night and let me tell you They have once again made a done a really really bad job of making a certain character's choice ambiguous Like I remember everyone arguing back in 2000 whatever when last of us came out about whether or not someone did or did not do The right thing It's even

Even worse here of like no no that they did the right thing. They they actually did do the correct thing Oh The the the the camera and the music in the world all support The the choice there there's a there's a really so Do you mind if we segue into spoiler talk for a second because I want to talk about the mechanics Well, I don't because I mean the last of us is something like I'm going off the game story from a million years ago. So yeah So you do or you sorry Spoilers if you don't want to hear anything spoiling last of us for anybody listening to the audio right now

Okay, so the main difference in the game ellie is rendered unconscious And then the fireflies are like well, we're gonna take her brain apart But she's unconscious. So we're not gonna wake her up So it'll be easier this way. Right in the show They attack them and knock them out And then they knock joe out and then they don't tell ellie that it will kill her And then put her under

Oh god, okay. Okay. That's huge because the part that's That's humongous the ethical like aspect of that Yeah Oh, they oh that I don't I don't like that And so then joe goes on his massive rampage and like the the music is like really dire and the sound effects are dropped out But they're evil scientists kidnapping her to kill her Yeah, as opposed to the like Yeah, yeah, he's really cold and brutal about it, but like

Oh man, okay. Okay. That was not the exact same in the game. They they specifically describe That she was unconscious from drowning and then they roll her into surgery Yeah, and that makes especially when you walk into the last room and it's not a bunch of Uh fireflies armed or whatever. It's just dudes in surgery Doctors and outfit that are just working and you're just like all of them got to go and that's a moment of like whoa like Yeah, but oh fuck right that little you know, they they that's really important. So what they do

It's really funny. They actually make like they have a person look to the camera and say hey listen We know that vaccination of Mushrooms doesn't work. So here's a new pseudoscience bullshit Um thing that we're gonna say that's not gonna be a vaccine. It's gonna be some chemical messaging thing So just sit to be like no the cure would have totally worked But then they roll it back with like yeah, so we told her she'd be fine and then we put her under and we're gonna take her Brain apart Interesting that they changed that. Uh, it's it's funny because like

Um, it's funny because like the so the issues that I have with last of us one in terms of a lack of conflict Like screwing up like some of the elements of the story We're actually work great for season two Because season twos game plot falls apart because there's too much conflict Season two like the the moral of revenge is bad makes no sense after you've killed 4000 people in gameplay But in a story where you don't have to do that The that will actually make way more sense But now they're saying that there will actually be much more violence and lot more infected in the second season

When it should have been the other way around Um Yeah, no my my favorite thing about Last of us originally part one was is That exact feeling of like that moment, right? Like the the ambiguity of Was that the right thing? You know like that exact feeling of of how that ending plays out was just like oh, yeah

The personal sacrifice, you know Um, it's it's it's the the core of what I really like with the with how that story goes plays out Last of us like the the story of last of us has one big problem One really only one and that is there's a horrible act that is meant to be morally ambiguous Ambiguous and that at every step of the of the the chain of the games release the games re-release the game sequel and now the show They have fumbled it and they have

They have made it it's like No, it's it's it's still the right decision. It was it was still like I I disagree I I disagree with your portrayal of this as morally ambiguous ambiguous strongly But some but there's like some people are gonna uh, uh in that setting are gonna be like Yeah, I don't care if I have to kill a kid. We're gonna solve this problem too bad. Right greater greater good sacrifices greater good. Yeah Uh That being said it's still worth seeing just for bella and and uh, and paedra pescals

Uh, uh, fucking acting like they do a plus job. Hmm fantastic job Like the the argument of like if it's so accurate Why does it need to be a tv show instead of a of a video game? And the answer is because the human face is better at being a human face than the cg man Of course. Yeah, right. Sure Uh, I I do want to say, um Uh, laura bailey, uh, troy baker and ashley johnson all make appearances As actors, okay

Um, troy baker and ashley johnson do fantastic fantastic jobs Though it is really really strange hearing ashley johnson and troy baker Because their voices are so similar to the characters. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah That like it throws me is it because like i'm used to tv joe now and then I hear troy baker I'm like, oh, oh right right. Is it uh, here they come there. They go cameo or is it like no here they are You know, they play they play significant characters. Oh interesting. Wow. Okay. Okay. They don't play their characters, obviously But they but they um, yeah, okay

Though I though I do feel bad because Like I can just imagine the swarps of people He plays joe in the video game just right, um, and uh ashley johnson I'm not even gonna go into it. Ashley johnson does a great job But like I'm so used to hearing bella ramsey as ellie that ashley johnson still sounds exactly

like ellie That it's like, oh, oh, right, right. Okay Uh Mentally place the characters back Into into their correct slots into the next scene Yeah, good show cool cool uh Uh, and then the re4 demo came out

Yes, have you played the re4 demo? Have you seen the re4 demo? Uh, I have seen it. I haven't played it But uh, I've been looking at some of the impressions that have come in and um There's a lot of well, there's a new I have a story about that later as well because um the the stuff that is Most interesting I find is not just all these little changes details and whatnot

But the the part where you can see how it performs on last gen And how that's been going Yeah, there's a lot of really interesting stuff going on. So we'll get into that. So Um I have not I have not seen much of how it performs on last gen. I assume the answer is bad. Yes Not good ps4 pro can handle it. It's it struggles, but it kind of can Get that it can get to like 45 at times for you know, um ps4 original

Barely can barely get to 30 It's it like tops out at 25 fps regularly And the interesting thing about what that what everything that you're looking at that is like Here's how a current gen made for ps5 era a game plays going backwards Is this is likely what we're getting with street fighter 6 as well as capcom's efforts are also going on ps4 for that too Um, we don't we haven't seen any demos or any visuals of what that's going to be like or how it's going to play But there's no way it's going to be able to keep up if this is what re4 is looking like, you know, mm-hmm so

Resident evil 4 remake which somebody pointed out to me on twitter when you acronize it Becomes a rear Sure, because the four looks like an a four four Um, so i've also been playing res evil 4 on the channel. Just be like one last time. Let's see. Let's get it fresh in the memory um This is a fucking lavish adoration Of a of a of a game. Just like obsessively

exhaustive Detailed go into every single little piece Expand like I don't know how long this game's going to be or if they're going to cut something But they like expanded the first, you know the first room in re4. Hey, man. Have you seen this girl the guy attacks you with an axe That's been extended out into like a 10 minute sequence Oh, they changed levels completely No, it's just bigger

And more lavish and more So in the original you would go in you go. Hey, man. Is there a girl here? He'd tell you to fuck off in in in south american or mexican spanish which was weird because you're in europe And it was one room and you try and kill you and you blow him away And then you walk up the stairs and throw yourself out the window Right in this you walk up You have to explore a full-sized house to find the guy You have a longer cutscene

In the cutscene uh leon kicks him against the wall and breaks his neck You then explore his basement Upon leaving the basement you are attacked by the same guy still alive with a horribly broken neck um And uh in the game's new equivalent of what a crimson head is um Kill him call honigan Sneak out of the house because it's now filled with guys

And then jump out the window Like just this this tiny little sequence has been expanded into An event. Yeah. Yeah Um leon attempts to speak spanish, which is great Oh, really? He can he can because it was really strange in the original that he was just talking english. You are rural spain Yeah, you're in the iberian peninsula. You better fucking learn a thing or two government man. Sure. Um It it also like it there's there's so I could they're okay. I don't know where to start on this They've added a crouch button for stealthing

It's good. It's it's light stealth It's i'm crouched. So I move slower and people that I shouldn't expect to see me shouldn't probably see me But i'm not going to stealth through this whole goddamn Area i'm going to stealth until I murder someone or two and then it's going to pop off Uh leon controls the fastest he has ever controlled outside of re6 He has this like looseness to him. Yeah, so I saw video shoutouts to tabs mvc Who on twitter makes some of the awesome marvel 3 mods?

But also had a great video of just like the parry into melee sequence going through town And it's like a lot going on. Oh, what do you what is what game are you making here? Is this a round of mercenaries? Because parry roundhouse kick dodge Sweeping under the melee into another pair like what the fuck is happening? All right, so I got to go down the list of enemy interactions in original resneval 4 Here are your enemy interactions You can stab someone with a knife by holding your knife and stabbing them Or you can shoot them if you shoot them in the face or the leg

They can become staggered then you run up to them hit a button and you do a kick or a suplex, right? That's your enemy interactions in the original re4, right? In re4 remake your your interactions are Stab them with the knife without aiming horizontal slashes stab them with the knife while aiming Pinpoint accurate stabs that hit weak points If you get behind somebody You can stealth kill them And it will take out some of your knife durability if you knock somebody into uh a a a a uh a

Staggered animation you can Use three different kinds of kicks depending on their particular state. You can Also shoot them in the leg go around their back So that you can do a suplex You can stab people in the knife to get them into the staggered state Then run around their back to do the stab move to instantly kill them If you knock a guy down and he would trigger the death effect But they start twitching horribly if you do not run up on them and stab them with your knife

Immediately they will get up and be extraordinarily durable. They become essentially plaga style crimson heads So you have to be aware of the people you knock down. You also have Two parries You have a regular parry that will block the attack be it a punch a uh stab with any melee weapon or a thrown item And you also have a perfect parry Which will knock them backwards

And leave no durability off of your knife when you do it and will immediately set them up for a follow-up melee attack Now I have to imagine That a parry has to be like a ridiculously tight window With the perfect parry being one frame So the parry is really wide like the regular parry it is wide. It's generous. Yeah, it is wow. Okay The the the regular parry is listen The guy's going to hit me I'm gonna hit l1 because I know he's gonna hit me leon will block it

Like it's it's reliable, but it takes resources It takes knife durability. Yeah. Okay. Okay. The perfect parry is tight The perfect parry is tight like a royal guard timing. It is it is a tight move But it knocks them back it knocks everybody around you back It puts them into a a Uh a melee able state and it it basically it's basically free on your knife No, no cost on that Or extremely minimal it might have a cost, but it's extremely small. Okay. Um, and then there's other parry interactions

So if you parry, uh, uh Salvador's chainsaw Right, it it will usually break your knife like it. It's it's a lot doesn't necessarily but it takes like 60 70 percent of your knife But it also turns off his chainsaw Oh Which means he has to Means he has to spend time turning it back on starting it and if you just keep putting ammunition into him He's unable to turn his chainsaw back. Wow. Okay sacrifice the knife for extra time on the clock interesting right and um

It goes all the way to sorry. What's that grabs too? I think I saw yeah So grabs have a high hitbox like what so For most so the the the broken neck guys have a stronger grab But most people have a a grab where they run forward and then their hands drop down Um, that has a high hitbox. So you crouch tech them you duck them and you move because they do have a vacuum on them Right, but if you see somebody coming at you with a grab and you hit like circle and then you back up or you go to the right Yeah, you're gonna dodge the grab It's harder to dodge the the broken neck guys, but it is totally possible

I saw I I saw a dodge on a grab going low coming back up into a roundhouse kick and it was fucking it was sick It was super clean So if you are so It is this great situation a one-on-one confrontation with a ganados Is a fucking joke There is Nothing they can do to you one-on-one

But as a as a result They have so in in old, you know a lot of games of that era if you can't see an enemy they become less aggressive right And the enemies will run at you and then kind of stop and then do their thing enemies are First of all, there's there's like twice as many Like like that village scene has like twice as many coming at you at any given time And they are way matter

They are way Way more aggressive They're a lot more confident throwing shit at you because you can just go Deflect them They can put down bear traps to get you And they will circle around behind you way more often So like you've been given all these extra tools that make them a joke But boy, there's a lot of them

And they are mad the impression I got just again seeing a bit of footage and such it's like So old re was survival Horror you're you know limited and your ability to move much less shoot stab And survive and then you take that franchise forward and then you get to four where it's like holy fuck I'm an action. I'm a superman, right? Yeah Now you go back to the old games You remake them so that that super madness is now the norm In what you can do in the first games

So that same jump is now applied to the remake of four so that you're a style beast So More or less in original resident evil one and two, right? I'm gonna stand here. I'm gonna aim I'm gonna lock my feet and I can and my aiming is generalized. It's Toward gun toward enemy, right? Then you get to re3 and re3 introduces the dodge mechanic, right? So if you hit the you hit aim at the right time, you can dodge out of a zombie's way, but it's hard It's a little unreliable

Right, then re4 rolls around and now you have the ability to aim for real you can aim You can blow people's heads away. You can knock them down with their legs Etc, right? But you're still you know a tank, right? You're just a tank with a camera behind your back Like you said we go back to re2, right? the ability to Aim remains and you're actually a little more mobile in re2 than you are in original re4, but everything's kind of Corridors everything's kind of tight. Yeah, your ability to get around things is limited Um, and then re3 the remake institutes a dodge, but the dodge is now reliable in re3

so Jill can get out of situations that re2 leon would not be able to And now we're now we're john wick now the jump from that is you're playing as john wick All the way down to if you aim at somebody who's too close to you He will access lock and tilt the the handgun Because he's in close quarters. Interesting. Okay. Yeah, I guess the jump needs to be proportional to what it was Going into for the first time it came out And it's it's this thing where I was worried because the first two three four enemies. I'm like

Man, there's nothing they can do to you. Like you are you are so strong And then you get to the village and the village is about as aggressive as aggressive as any group of enemies has ever attacked me in a game Just this this unending Like throng of psychos. Just just like putting all of your new buttons to the test Uh, it's fucking incredible Interesting. It's fucking incredible Yeah, I mean it definitely couldn't they couldn't just put four through The filter that two and three got and called it a day, right? Like it was gonna need a lot more extra attention

Um That's that's pretty cool. The knife is now the star. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. The and and like there is a little gameplay A dock they put out a little while ago or one of the devs was like, yeah, I upgrade the durability on the knife first thing every time Always knife durability I'm like, yeah, I'm pretty sure a lot of people are gonna upgrade the knife's durability so that they can defend themselves against everything and they can stab everyone Because it's great The knife is so so it sounds like the mechanic really. Yeah. Yeah

Interesting, I don't I don't want to talk about yellow tape. I don't care about yellow tape There's some folks that are bummed out that That that fucking yellow paint. There's yellow tape on windows and boxes that you have to break and it's like it's a Necessary contrivance because otherwise you wouldn't know what buttons or boxes you could do I mean the at the like at the end of the day I saw that thread and it's like, yes You can make it more immersive by putting the stickers on them or so or whatever like Hi-Fi rush has boxes with x's on them for the ones that break

And the ones that don't don't have them or whatever you can do things that are like design You know more immersive or whatever, but um I think the language of like what surfaces to climb and all that is at this point Like you said with the red barrels thing. It's like you just need to make sure nobody's gonna make that mistake You need to make sure it makes it as clear as possible last of us Uh last of us also uses yellow the same shade of yellow to denote You can climb this or you can fuck with this It also uses the what I think is way worse of like huge shiny glowing object

Which I mean like people would complain about this for risen evil But in like your classic risen evil games like you know how you know you could pick something up because it was a 3d model on a 2d picture You'd be like, well, oh, yeah that those bullets. That's a 3d model of bullets Yeah, I'm just going get those like I'm not gonna say that like the the the paint x's is like the best and only way to do it I'm sure there are other ways as well But as long as you can test them and make sure that people don't You know misunderstand what they're supposed to do people are saying. Oh have them be partially damaged have them show off Some of the you know, uh, uh, they look very similar to the yeah, whatever whatever your choice is

There's a lot of ways that you can indicate to people Hey, this stands out from the others and just make sure that you play test it and you know It doesn't confuse anyone like there's a lot of solutions to that problem But I don't find that you just beat hi-fi rush. How long did it take for you to start smashing the green barrels? Uh, I mean the moment I knew barrels were breakable Uh, yeah, I was almost to the end of the game with my chat telling me pat the barrels I don't even see the green barrels and hi-fi rush interesting No, I I don't even see I I for I played through most of the the first stage. I think

Uh, not recognizing it and then I think like halfway through reggie pointed out He's like, oh, yo, the barrels also have gift you stuff and I was like, oh, shit. And then I was just like, yeah targeting them after that Uh, but yeah, uh re4, uh, wow Big wow like much much better than even my high expectations Uh and also like There was a little clip of fighting krauser that they put out a little while ago in which when krauser rushes rushes at you

It says duck and you're also parrying him and it's like it is bordering on like resident evil god hand Which makes me think that re5 is going to be They're gonna I think they're gonna remake re5 and I think it's going to be the next jump in terms of Like player capability Yeah Oh, no, well, uh, rather I'm thinking is six is the one that actually adds like a ton of player character playable characters Yeah, but it's also in a terrible game that that feels bad. Hmm

Um Yeah, is there I guess it's I wouldn't be able to pull it off. I don't know them as intimately but four to five um What more can you do? Um, mechanically Uh, originally. Yeah, besides the main thing was co-op. Well, that's the bit I'm like the the the the co-op mechanic is the main deal But like in terms of just like combat is there like very much. Yeah, it's kind of the same, right?

But originally it was supposed to have the ability to duck attacks Okay, but that got cut out for co-op Okay Yeah, no our hey re4 is gonna be really good everybody big surprise Uh, the demo also has a bunch of secrets Uh, the demo has a hidden tmp that you can only get by discarding all of your items before getting to the village Which is uh laughably overpowered and then stays in your inventory every time you play the demo

Uh, it also has a secret difficulty That uh called mad chainsaw mode Which is fucking unhinged Like you read it and go and it says this will not be in the final release And then you play it and you're like fucking. I hope not Because mad chainsaw mode is not fair What is it it is absurd What is it um

In the very very first time you fight a broken neck and auto there's three instead Which is more than you could even possibly kill with ammunition Enemies do okay, uh almost your entire life bar in a single hit Uh salvador is replaced with super salvador. Okay. Fuck you. Um, their their aggression is turned up to the maximum It's it's enemies don't stagger when you shoot them It is it is absurd. It's technically doable But they have they have testers that made it through Yeah, it is a demo. It is a demo thing for funsies. There's there's no fucking way

The the real game could have something like this and be comparable. Okay interesting Well, um, that's pretty much it for me, uh re4 is great Yeah, I mean you got the thing is though is anytime you put something like that in though It's like look how much people play this game. Look how much they fucking rip it apart and open like some people will absolutely You know Breeze through this at a certain point when you get perfect parry timing down to a consistent thing um, yeah, I like if that's not if that's just for the demo then so be it but like

This game is so beloved and is going to be so like Played and ripped apart that whatever they decide to do they're going to have a bunch of difficulty options Yeah for the main game. I just don't expect this one Because this one is fucky Oh, there's also a drawer you can't unlock that people of datamined that apparently the key does exist somewhere But people can't find it yet. So it continues the trend of resident evil demos coming out with a bunch of Hidden nonsense for people to poke away at for weeks interesting All right

Oh, also leon is constantly constantly saying stupid shit Like the the the fear that oh man, it's it looks so much more serious and dark I hope the goofiness isn't gone. It's like Oh, oh, don't worry He's constantly saying stupid shit and asking if people are all going to bingo And not taking it very seriously. Uh, I saw that say the line leon Say the line leon Yeah, like that a resident evil game being played deadly serious is like sometimes funny, but not this one. This one's a cartoon

Where's everyone going bingo? All right, um Bathroom break number one. Oh, okay, let's do it Okay So, um Where'd my water go? I gotta go get my water. Excuse me. I screwed up Uh-oh hydration very important. It's the name of the game. That's what we do. That's what we do folks

I've been hydrating like a motherfucker for uh, the last little bit and um I think i'm getting a bit better at it. Hopefully the next break won't be in like 15 minutes, but Hydration important. In fact, I gotta refill my hydration Oh, no word will it go is he also getting water? By the way piss isn't sterile stop telling people that piss is sterile if any if anyone out there Thinks that piss is sterile. It's not I got my water. I'm watered up your water watered up Um

okay, so I too have completed a show actually Um, but it's not the last of us. I I Uh, we'll get around to that eventually, but I want to talk about the first season of house of the dragon Okay, that's that incest thing right that's the incest thing So the british people uh Yeah

more or less there's a there's a bunch of There's some people that are not exactly Uh, there's there's like there's low incest. There's high incest There's like turbo incest. There's different levels of it going on um But no, um, it is the game of thrones uh prequel But it's really just another georgia or martin story and I

initially so I guess um I'm going to talk In You know loose not too specific spoilers, but I'm just gonna talk about the you know Kind of the way we talked about last of us just now, you know, um But yeah, I I was worried about it Going um, so that is to say if you really want to watch this maybe don't listen to this conversation uh, okay

but um, yeah, so the uh Going into it. I was mainly Kind of concerned that it's like I know that it's another book that was written by grim and I know that it's like Source material is is not just being you know, fucking jerked off and written out by like random hbo writers or whatever so Like that's good But I still was like I wonder if this material is going to just come across as like Hey guys

Remember game of thrones Remember though remember the game and the thrones. This is this. This is the spin-off. It's more of the spin It's a prequel and make no miss soft sea boots and make no mistake. They do do that They do do that. They have a they have a couple of little things of like Remember the song of fire and ice. Did you remember? And then you've got the like and like little bits and pieces that are like put in there to make you go It's like a new baby shows up and they're like, what is his name? And they're like this baby's name is joffrey and everyone's like

Ah No, don't name the kid joffrey. That's the worst name, you know, but dash that child upon the rocks you shall Um, you know, it's it's one of those. It's one of those things. So you're looking at friend But thankfully I can say overall no this thing. It's a good show and um, the quality It stands on is its own. It's fun. Um They do a good job, I guess like establishing this fucking incest family You know and and I have to say that like I especially Know to that like one

I was worried. I was like, I don't want to just be like, oh, it's the prequel. Look look look and two I didn't want the focus to be I don't like to me I'm like the magical blonde dragon family that wins all the time and has everything forever Is kind of the least interesting part, right the people that are kind of suffering and and Struggling over in the cold Seem like a better story to tell for the most part to have children with people. They aren't even related to I mean wild Really disgusting, but like yo, we're we're long-haired We're not elves, but we might as well be the equivalent

of Qualanesty, you know in this world and also we're fireproof. There's a fucking pole. Yeah. Yeah um Qualanesty and silvanesty all the way And and you gotta you gotta get them fireproof and you gotta get them the ability to ride the dragons They're the special ones look at them the chosen. They are And it's kind of like man like are we just gonna focus on a saiyan family of chosen ones? because

Yeah, you know at a certain point the like the the pretty long blonde hair dragon writing imagery is gonna kind of wear off on me Because it's like you're so special and so above everyone else. We get it, you know, but um They it's better than that. Thankfully they do have A whole lot of cg dragon writing and there's a couple moments where you definitely are like, okay, this this is Like this entire moment is is a a cg dragon battle and Like it's you know, it's convincing It's doing its job. It's not you know, but like

There's just a just little little moments of just like Like okay now we cut to the rider on the back and then we cut back to the the battle and it's like I Don't know man. I just kind of I just love like when you fucking get practical effects wherever you can And then they go get a real dragon bro. It would be so cool if you could make a fucking real like, you know animatronic dragon that That's silly and expensive for I know that's ridiculous. I know I know um

anyways The incest is is is funny because like they actually Introduce it or like early not only is it incest by the way It's it's that plus the whole like oh, how old are you? Have you had your first blood? It is time to be betrothed then you know Oh good. Yeah, there's that that that in the original show that joffery line Mother says when you've had your first blood I'm to put the sun in you and it's just like

Ah That's the era everything about that line is this fucking world, you know in in one goddamn peace and uh You just say exactly you take that and you go back to the times that they were talking about when the legendary Targaryens would marry their cousins and their sisters and sometimes they'd have double sister marriages And then they'd ride their dragons and roast anyone who thought they were weird or made fun of them So what if shelbyville had dragons? I guess we're all gonna fucking

Bend the knee to shelbyville. What if shelbyville had dragons? They'd all be blonde fireproof Upermench like with No, they'd be creepy ancestors that are marrying their cousins, but they would have the ability to fucking nuke you You know, okay And they they actually kind of have it like The initial like the the the protagonists, you know as it's uh as as it goes are like No incest. No, that's weird. That's gross. Stop it. And then they're like, okay, but like What if it's this one though, you know the hot one and it's like

No, no, no, no, no, no, let's go stop it stop it Time skip time skip Maybe this one though Like they actually have them like grossed out by the prospect of it and then they slowly Sprinkle it back in and and get you back around to it where you're just like, well, I guess we're just watching this scene go down Right and then the other and then like you're like, okay. Yes, it's weird. Yep. That's that's They're there that is uncle and Nice it's going down. Um

But we're gonna slow the music down and we're gonna film it in a little bit of a romantic way because it's still A main character and a love interest having a moment Don't don't get so caught up in the passion. They think it's romantic You know like they could have definitely like had a um Uh, okay. Have you seen? Um, Zach and Mary make a porno I have not okay so like

There's a there's a really funny moment in that where Uh, the the titular Zach and Mary are like they start fucking and like it's there It's like a really slow Close zoomed in romantic moment and like the hazy camera is going and the music is playing and like They're having the rom-com finale type moment But then it just cuts back To the open wide shot and the room full of people and it's just a slow Like hip gyration and a cold fucking shot and it's it's just the weirdest creepiest moment ever, right?

And it's one of those just contrast bits when you take all the movie magic away And just this is what we're staring at. It's just seth rogan's fucking like pasty ass just like thrusting real slow And and weird like with the sound effects of the squeaky squeaky squeaky, you know Um, so I feel like you could have had those moments if you wanted to really go like no, but there's still cousins slash Brother and sister slash. This is still weird incest and the kind and the show is kind of like Just get lost in the magic of it. It's fine. You know it's magical Um, also dragon said it was okay. The dragon did say it was okay

and Clearly if we cut through Years later and look at like the the results of this incest and we get Daenerys Targaryen Stormborn Who's you know, she seems to be doing all right. I guess I would expect a lot worse for You know that many generations of inbreeding The system works

I don't know man like Hey, listen game of thrones ended the way it did because somebody disagreed with the system working and they were wrong Like I want to say uh There was there, you know, like uh, what what the fuck was it called? not the wilds And whites of of west virginia. There was like, oh fuck. Oh god I want to say it is actually the whites of something county. So there's there's them. I watched I watched that with page at one point

Yeah, but there's them, but then there's an even more inbred family um that that uh Came up a wild and wonderful whites of west virginia That's the one and then there's the whitakers the whitaker family the most inbred family in america and it's like man if you want to see Like just a poster board for don't do it

stay away so Would you believe that like environmental damage and uh doubling up uh on your genes Uh could give you some deleterious effects fast Yeah, like there's it's fast. It's real fast. There's there's like the kid in the family like there's this one Well, he's not a kid. He's like in his 20s or whatever, but like one of the he just barks He just doesn't he doesn't talk. He just communicates in barking and it's like

that took three generations tops To get to the guy the the guy that he just communicates in dog barks you know, um It you're not gonna ride a dragon anytime soon You're not gonna have a fireproof baby. This is the future that delbert wants. Oh, man Um

It's kind of amazing too when in mass effect you have like the the asari that are like no We got to keep it purebred and then every other asari is like you're fucking gross get away from me. What do you mean? We got to go fuck some aliens to diversify the blood pool the blood line better man Yeah, we need strengthen numbers by by reaching out as far as possible Get your creepy add like oh you want to fuck another asari gross You're weird. You know, sometimes your kids turn into vampire sex freaks, right? If you fuck around you might get an r.yakshi. Is that what you want? Is that what you want? Then go ahead stick to this planet

If you stick to the same planet you're being gross Um, yeah, so so anyways all that kind of goes down in a way where The show kind of gives up on trying to pretend it's weird and just lets it happen, you know And um But it's like, you know, you got a lot of you got a lot of characters that are like, you know fun to follow and It does something that um game of thrones originally couldn't do which was it allows the story to skip Huge chunks of time As you're following the lives of the characters. Oh, yeah. How how long we talking childhood to adulthood?

Oh, wow. All right It gets to shippuden and then shippuden again You know hate that that's the example that I understand. Well Hate it. I mean, you know, if if the original the original game of thrones is hikaru no go You get to watch the characters slowly age on camera And uh, this is uh, we get to double shippuden um and

You always kind of like You I I like that you can do that because you can just be like, all right What comes next where does this go and it feels as if like you skip past seasons of content almost And then you get caught back up on it, you know um There's a part in like the middle episodes that is like An era so to speak that is like two episodes long and then we're out You know

Um And that's actually pretty interesting. Yeah, and and like the main reasons why I think too besides like oh the next And then nothing interesting happened until this point is also because the fucking theme of this show House of the dragon over and over is hey man Did you know that childbirth sucks? Especially when there were no epidurals Did you know childbirth sucks because here it is look check it out. This is childbirth Here's you mean back in the olden days the old yet is a midwife and a doctor was a joke

And and bite down on like this fucking wooden piece if you'd like maybe I don't know but go for it um, and then of course Uh a Depending on how super villainous the father is standing nearby you can be like Well, we have to make a choice and then the father has to be like oh My my love or my lineage or you know what I mean, and it's just all that shit. Um We're just like hey asshole. Just fucking try again idiot But anyway, no, there's like

ridiculous there's like Six if not seven Detailed horrible pregnancy Uh, uh scenes gone episodes are there. It's a 10 episode Dude every second episode there's a just oh my god childbirth is fucking brutal Like it's so so so many um

And and like they they get less ceremonious over time too. You know if that makes any sense, but like, um It just won't stop like underlining that point if there's any takeaway. It's not even the incest It's that it's just how painful and and fucking rough it was uh And so every time you have one of those scenes You then got to skip forward a couple years to be like well now that kid's a little bit older And then they try it again and here's how here's how rough that one goes Yeah

Um, is it possible that the incest is complicating the situation? It's not impossible. All right, that's works for me Um Yeah, and then in the meantime, you know who else is having babies these dragons who Yeah, dragon. Well, they have an easier time of it. Yeah, they're just clutching some eggs out In no problem there that works um And uh, you get to watch a bunch of like so in game of thrones original

You kind of had like there's the adults having their story and then the kids are having their story Yeah, and in this like the kids are having their story and they're being like shit kids But like two seconds later the shit kids have dragons So their ability to be shits increases drastically Oh, I see I see what you're talking about, you know um Yeah, so but all in all it and it's and it's it comes up it sets the everything up

It's a setup season for sure introducing everything and it feels as if this could go I don't know how long the book is or how much further into the story it goes Wait really because like the way you're describing time skips like it feels like they had one or two here And then that's going to be that well Yeah, like You know, you haven't seen gungrave have you? Okay, not to the stupid all right because there's there's the young dogs arc an era

And then you watch them grow up to become the mafia And then once they become the mafia There's a whole lot of shit that pops off and then you get your zombie cowboys Um, yeah, but your zombie revenge cowboy is there's still some tale on that story you can tell right and kind of like here It's like you can establish these characters as kids and then how their Adolescence is troubled and then how their adulthood Sets up and then once the troubles and adulthood start popping off You're talking about like a full blown war that can go episode by episode, you know

um And it's all about the succession of the crown and bada da da da um, so Yeah, when you're getting into the the the like I guess larger political uh machinations you're getting into um Things that where the story can slow down now because

big moves are being made on on territory and Families and allegiances and so on and we don't have to skip another 10 years, you know I I don't think there could be anything worse that this show could do then go on long enough to be like And what's your name little my I'm Ned stock So no they don't because the opening paragraph as I described last time Is just like yadda yadda yadda Blah blah blah and then it just it just fades out all that text

And then it just leaves the only two words that the dumb audience needs which is hundreds of years Before Daenerys Targaryen hundreds. Okay. Okay, you know So they really do they really do just kind of go like you idiots. This is the only thing you need to remember um But they at the same time though like they have like you know plot plot story things are going and then it's like Okay, it's your job now to go take a message To the Starks in Winterfell

And the Baratheons in the north You know and like yeah, and everyone's like And you're like yeah, no just but we're name dropping because you remember them I do remember that I remember those You know and and so you get you get little bits and like sprinkles of that like oh, who's that? It's fucking Uh a douchebag lannister. Is he a huge ginormous asshole douchebag? He sure is Wow, it's genetic, huh? Everything's genetic

And then you got to clap when you see it that's one of those weird things that like Stories that deal with lineages always is it's like listen this person It's eight generations back But weirdly enough they act just like the character you know from the present day story In a best case scenario You get a JoJo who's got all the integrity of jonathan five generations later In a worst-case scenario you get the rest of d.o.'s kids

God fuck those kids um Anyway, yeah, no, it's always it's always uh interesting when you get like the spitting image, you know but um Like I would laugh really hard. What's The when I did watch game of thrones. My favorite character was um, I forget his name, but the old lannister the sirsie's dad Oh the the patriarch of the family uh tywin Tywin charles dance and like the best. Yeah charles

He's he's he's the best that I ever saw in that show. He is the best thinking about like I'm I'm I'm tywin the first and it's just it's just him. Yep That's me no changes Yep, just exact. He's still just as old. It's charles. It's the same actor charles dance again, and he's and you know what don't care He's cutting up a bore When you walk in it's different this time Unbelievable, um

Easily the fucking best And and yeah, but but but they do do things though where it's like the uh the main the protagonist is raniera targaryen And you know when you see her as a young like uh girl, she's kind of she's got a little bit of that like Fuck you that danny has you know She's got a little she's got the same kind of eyes. She's got the same kind of like I want to I want to be a knight and everyone's like oh, but you're a girl and she's like i'ma show you That's crazy shut up. I'm gonna kick you in the balls and like oh you have to die in childbirth You dumb little bastard exactly well. No don't say that don't call anyone a bastard

Okay, you dumb little shithead. Yeah. Yeah, yeah um, and then there's and then there's uh the black people with the with the whites the silver golden hair uh dreadlocks uh the valerians and I'm just like they're still around at this point. Well, uh, not for much longer because clearly Oh Yeah, if you cut to the you cut to the the modern day and you're like We're only one of those guys. Yeah, we're only only talking about the targaryens now, huh? That's yeah

And no, this is really like it is about that. It's like yo check out the seafaring White dreaded like valerians that were like right up there with the targaryen family and uh what the fuck happened to them and why we don't hear about them anymore But in the meantime like in the in the when I was watching and reading game of thrones I always got the feeling that like despite them being in a long summer Which is like a golden age like overall society in westeros is like at the lowest point It's been for hundreds of hundreds of years. Oh it like it's Dude, it sucks it consistently sucks and

um There's like a there's little little moments where they kind of like go into the city to see like how bad you know things are and it's usually like, okay, are you like a uh A slovenly womanizing You know spoiled prince then you're gonna go find yourself in the brothels But then when the brothels aren't cutting it, you're gonna go down to like the darker brothels

You know and when the dark oh and when the darker brothels aren't cutting it You're gonna go down to like we've you're just leaving behind the sex part and like we kind of wind up in a here is a Child gladiator coliseum Where the orphans Are forced to fight and we yell and and bet on them That sounds awesome go kids go

um Yeah, it it gets fucking dark, you know when it like in those times and it's like well Yeah, because if their property or twist would have been much more interesting with this development Like please sir, can I have some more only if you kill your opponent in the pit? I was referring to weapons. Can I have some more ammo for my fucking? For the Glock No, it's it's it's kind of yeah, it gets it gets fucking, you know wild in that

regard as well, but um Yeah, overall they set up things in a way where I'm like, yeah, I could see this going at least three seasons Um, don't overstay your welcome learn from the past. Don't fuck it up You've set up something interesting and you've crammed Enough into the first season that it feels like we're on say season two Of game of thrones, you know This has been like a like a again childhood into adulthood is a lot of time passing So I want to see three

tops four Do not go beyond four Um, and if anyone's read the book, no, you're gonna get 10, bro You're gonna get 10 So if anyone knows the book and they know where we're at right now Like I'd that'd be I'd be curious to see if we were like 50 percent through the book or 25 percent or so um But uh, I would really really hope we've we we lock it off at like three

um And and with this pacing as well um Yeah, and then of course the well I just I wasn't I think it's obvious, but you kind of get to watch the actors change as they You know get casted up Um and they are they okay, so like it's like matt smith isn't I know that right? He does a great job. Is he is he being replaced by an older matt smith? No aging him up

No, he's just himself the entire time and he's he's an elf In that like he's got his long golden hair and he and time does not affect him um I never watched this season of dr. Who so i'm I know his face, but I've been I'm otherwise unfamiliar with him and anything else But in this case, yeah, he's doing it Um barely barely aged a cover a couple of push off his hot role in morbius Um, oh, yeah, there's that too

um, there's a couple of other uh, uh, uh, you know like kids obviously have to go from You know being like little shit age to being like big shit age Uh, so they like that's the thing is like you see kids go get recast like Maybe three times in some cases and then they just kind of land on the adult Um it I get like in some cases it it's it works better than others But they overall they kind of try to match the facial features, but it worked it didn't bother me that much I had a moment you just have a moment where the the actress which is initially where you're like, wait, is that And then they say it and you're like, okay, and then they walk into a room and they go. Hello character name precisely precisely

Uh, but yeah, um all that all that to say that I expect and hope that like, you know You can stop that now that the the we've slowed it down and yeah get the fuck out on three seasons guys You know plus you've got more grim to adapt if you really want to and he ain't finishing wins a winter anytime soon I don't know if you saw that picture. He's not finishing wins a winter period Like there's a picture I retweeted Which is him just surrounded by like just a like just he's at the club Right and he's got just like like basically like black girls night out kind of crossed Oh, yeah, I saw that photo crossed paths with grim and they're like hey, let's take a picture and he's just in it like

And the picture is just tweeted out and the the the tweet is just like man, we got played We ain't never getting them books man. Never game recognized game Dude is living it up. Yeah Yeah Game recognized game man. He played us all for fools Yeah, yeah Indeed winter is coming They're gonna have to have security at batman's funeral. Yeah, grim's like a yo call me winter. What's up the girls are like, ah

You stupid Ah All right So, uh house of the dragon. Hey, I'm a I'm in I'ma keep it up Um And yeah, uh, if they if they're real Fuck if they're not too greedy about it, which they always are Um, they'll end it when it needs to end and then be like, let's just go grab another grim story because there's a bunch of them

And you know, we can we don't have to write it ourselves And we can only we got these actors and they're they're already doing it There you go. We have the costumes Dunkin egg right dunkin egg coming at some point Uh So yeah, what if we ran it all the way up to the Then we could do 40 seasons It what's your name lad? It's me. I'm young tywin lannister

And I like money And crossbows. Oh, yeah Yes, that's crazy And then and then he meets like a dwarf on the road and he goes, I hate you I would never have a child like you Now excuse me. I've got to go to the privy Yeah, yeah, there you go Um, anyway, oh

Oh man somebody in the chat just like yeah, it's just charles dance pretending to be a 10 year old with with full facial hair Yeah There you go. Um Yeah, yeah, yeah The hbo has a cash cow on their hands and it's all of grim's books For sure. Um, anyways, so Uh, a thumbs up on that a recommend Uh, for sure

And yeah, we beat hi-fi rush got to finally got to that. Um I said at the beginning that this is a perfect game until proven otherwise And it did not prove otherwise This is a perfect game Yep, and I want to stress the whole way through just yep. It's not just a perfect game. It's a perfect video game It reminds you about video games, you know, it remember good ass video games I I I kept bringing it up because it just it would don on it would just keep I kept sinking in that it's like like

The gameplay is firing on all cylinders. The music is unbelievable and this is in streamer mode It can be switched over to non streamer mode for the licensed music, which I imagine is also incredible um It visually Better questionably debate that people are willing to have It's not objective. It's to taste. Absolutely, right? That's exactly what you want to hear. The love was put in on all those levels. Yes, it's got the references But ultimately visually it's doing like just awesome cell shading

You're getting that, you know jet set that future rama like vibe to things all that, you know colorful bright full of just joy um and When all these things are happening you're like, okay, well um how's the actual like Story and like writing and whatever and it's like the jokes are funny. It's hilarious. It actually lands like they're they're, you know, and

I'm just happy that it's not like neon white but um And then and then, you know, like all that Fucking personal Like if you've ever worked in an office you feel this fucking just The office space level of dread that comes from the different departments The heads the ceo's all that bullshit, you know

Um, it just takes the piss out of all of that to the perfect extreme degree And you've got abusable robots that are being kicked around the entire time It's they're they're charming as fuck oscar is the greatest You know Was there from the start it all comes back to oscar? Hell, yeah, and like one of the best things is like and when they establish each character and what their bits are and In their department like with kale. He's just he's that asshole He's literally like he says like, uh, you know, I started at the top and I worked to move sideways

You know what it's just like that's perfect, right? And like the only thing you really need to know is his last fucking line Just the greatest that like the bit that is Uh, this is too much work It's too much. I don't care. Done like So good, of course it is, you know Uh, yeah, they they took that whole like office Like motif to the extremes and like it paid off in spades. Um

The crew is great. I love everybody on the crew. They're all fun I like their gameplay functions as well. There are all lots of fun Comboing with them on the battlefield feels great as well I don't here is the thing and you know what I just realized this now. I didn't even It just occurred to me The usage of them as strikers in the fight is so good dynamic varied And frequent that I never even thought damn, I'd love to play as them

Yeah, because you're always playing as them. I never even had that thought of four You know and in other games whenever you're you're stuck on a protagonist I and you're looking at other cool characters. I always kind of go I wonder what it would be like to you know And I'm like, no, I never even wondered about that because you get them and you get a couple moves with them And they're always out there, you know Um so

Yeah, that feels wonderful um and uh, yeah, the like it is kind of interesting that like I was saying like all the accents are like at 50% strength You know the british accents is kind of muted the the scottish accents as well um, the indian accent like everything's just like At about 50% on the slider which to me is harder to do than the full blown Like because i'm like if i'm gonna do corsica, you just got to go shrek. Ah, yes

Corsica's accents hilarious, you know, it doesn't seem on point Just you know, I just I can't I can't Imagine the mental slider of taking it to shrek and then dialing it 50% back um But anyway, uh I I'm Yeah, the synchronized like moments where you have the music kicking in for the final combos as well Kicking over to the rhythm game. The one thing i'll say is like during that like friendship beam moment

Um, yeah, it's not a rhythm note chart and then you see the outcome. It's happening simultaneously owen dan style So whenever it's like whenever it's a note chart you get to put in the inputs and then watch the outcome But when it's a wen dan style, I can't Watch what's happening on screen and press and synchronize the buttons at the same time, you know So i'm like whatever's happening right now. I hope it's cool, but I can't watch it you know, um I have I have more uh

Like guitar heroine experience than I do um elite beat agents or or os Hmm But yeah, all of those are fucking unbelievable the the final like Two hours or so like the final stretch Is just a really fun sequence of rooms And and challenges and then a boss fight with some fun

Like like like phase two of kale slows it down admittedly You kind of have to stop and start baiting out the the the counters, you know, you can't go in It's where I got I started to get really good at the dodge into uh teammate Yeah, you need to um or parry into teammate, right? Like you get some some great Abilities there as well. And yeah, overall just yeah, I can't gush hard enough, you know I was overjoyed to finally be able to unlock the ability to customize the character At the end. Oh, you mean the ability to create viola the ability to create viola Unwittingly to which I then discovered that just about everybody goes through

And makes a version of that character because the purple and black is the sickest looking outfit postgame. So um somebody sent me that clip and The only thing that was different between the character you made and the character that I made Was that I used the shorts the black shorts instead of the pants And I went for the hat instead of the white hair dude like like like It I went on like a really really long diatribe on my stream about it

When you beat it because I was talking about it and it's like This is like the proof positive that like viola had all the elements To be great never had beef just mixed with her look either wrong. Yes Aesthetically it was fine. It's everything she does If you know, but even then the the way her aesthetics fit together Are bad the scarf I don't the scarf Glasses look like shit. I don't like her. I don't like her glasses

But I don't mind viola's overall design with the plaid pants. I think she's fine. I have no problems with it I think viola's design doesn't work well in the art style that that game has I think it works well in the art style that hi-fi rush has Hmm I'd like to see her cell shaded That could be I actually um somebody made a joke about it and I was like, you know what? Let's pull the clip up because nobody recognized it And I pulled up a clip of the Homer

Yeah, the car did it at that did it at that And as I'm watching The Homer clip. I'm like, oh my god viola is the Homer I want this I want this I want this And then at the end of the day, it's a fucking monstrosity So when I again, I feel like I don't mind her design, especially when you see like, uh, I forgot the artist's name, but like, um, uh, uh God I tip of my tongue. Is it uh, she

Yeah, anyway, the she does an amazing job with all these Bayo outfits that we never got cutting floor designs and like you can see the like like fashion Inspired aesthetic shimazaki. I wanted to say kuma zaki. No, no shimazaki. Exactly. Yes, and um she, uh, viola pops off the page in concept art and looks exactly like one of those style Um, really fashionable characters with just like the punk edge to it The thing that I like I don't like the lipstick As much and the hair purple highlights

Um, I think could be placed in cooler places as admittedly the lipstick is it could be a bit more subtle But all things considered overall Uh, I think her her her her look like works and and is fine I I I'm looking at the art that you're describing. Yeah And uh, if I were to look at this concept art I'd be like that character looks cool And then I see the model and I'm like that did not translate the way the other characters translated from their concept art Yeah, so there's there's a particular picture. I'm gonna I'm gonna grab here

um That I feel like it has an attitude to it That I like that works for What viola's potential is um And let me see if I can pull it up on screen as well I just think it's so unfortunate because I'm like I'm gonna try and talk about hi-fi rush without and unnecessarily comparing it to bayonetta 3

Game in its own genre that just came out And then I get to the end and like accidentally recreate a more Like visually appealing version of one of the main characters and just go. Oh Yeah So and then to find out that we all kind of did because those are the best options you get at the time So, yeah, like like I feel like when you go to the concept art You see what viola kind of was set up to be I'm like, oh, yeah, that works right and the con and this this picture in particular like the the the the

The the lipstick isn't is standing out as as is extreme and it doesn't create as much of a insane contrast on her um The the eyeliner and mascara is sharpening their eyes and she just looks like the new kid on the scene Who's kind of scruffy and ready to do her best, but I don't know we'll see Maybe she's gonna fuck it up, you know Um, this attitude was lost in the 3d for sure, but I I really feel I really feel like I feel like in the in the bayonetta 3 ending Like when she looks at you and she's got all the extra bullshit on her

She's gonna tell me that like she knows how I feel because she's an empath Like that's that's that's the that's the energy coming off of her and I'm just like I had someone say that unironically to me in real life. It was uh, oh you really I got one of those it was pretty It was pretty good Did you fucking shit? Uh, I just I just went I No, I I mean, I'm just like hey man. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool Cool cool for sure for sure for sure no doubt no doubt no doubt

uh-huh bet Um But anyways, yeah, I I think all this to say that like it was it was uh, viola's actions that that uh That brought us to to to where we're at now. I'm glad chai remains stupid the whole story. He's dumb But he's good dumb and he has he's got the he's got the right heart His heart is a shitty iPod When he and and you know when kale is like you're nothing without my tech and it's like damn he's kind of right And it's like yeah, but I can throw the guitar away and have a little moment

But then I'm gonna get the guitar back because it's cooler shut up Like absolutely, you know and more importantly as well There's a really one of my favorite parts is when they're getting ready for the point of no return And chai's like okay everybody vibe check how we doing Like yeah, absolutely That's a great thing to ask the the the final party right before you approach kefka's tower Hey, let me ask you. You know how you unlock the ability to have the cat charm all the enemies like very near the end of the game Yeah, did you try it against kale? I sure did

Oh, it's great. Oh, it's incredible. You thought that would work on me. I'm a dog person dog person. Oh, perfect Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's great fun waste of two bars for sure Um like have the wrong super for the whole fucking fight You switch to your other one, but still so I kind of immediately after I I still lament the fact that I wish I could have bought outfits and Unlocked more stuff during the journey But I understood right away as soon as we got to the end that like the outfits are purchased with the same currency You buy your moves with I would have been

Fucking styling swag and broke I would have had no moves because I would have been fucking the aesthetically excellent ballin out The the post game the the is incredible. Oh, yeah, tower is is great. It's exactly what it needs to be And rhythm master is awesome However, rhythm master is not nearly hard enough interesting um Rhythm master has the the I don't know. You probably unlocked if it didn't go into it. Exactly. Yeah

Uh, if you hit D on your rhythm, you just die Uh, and otherwise it's the very hard difficulty Uh, the problem is is that in order to beat the very hard difficulty You're probably on point with 90 plus rhythm regardless So it actually doesn't make much the the the rhythm killing you really doesn't make that much of a difference whatsoever okay yeah, I I just um For to even approach any of that or so like I also needed the ability

To replay to get better to improve and fight different waves of enemies and stuff because that's how I play Dmc and bao, you know is like I I gotta go back in and try that that that verse again. So I Yeah, I again, I just Would have been nice, but I get it and furthermore the needs that I have for that are also like Besides being my preference. It's also like this helps an LP, but LP is not the normal way to play this game therefore Yeah, content creation is a secondary concern. I get it. But aesthetics aesthetics. I always want aesthetics, you know I I would love that to have been a secondary currency and just be like, yeah, man dress up. Have fun. Go nuts, you know, like that's just

that's um That's a lot of fun playing through, you know, um Yeah, a game like dark souls or neo or you know any of that like you dress and you shut you shut up putting on new shit Like that's always fun, you know Anyways, hi-fi rush unbelievable impeccable um a plus game of the year in january and um I Hope that they drop perhaps like a dlc

Content they put out a photo mode Yep, they did they did we got that uh, that was cool to go through the final areas with because we could zoom in on the posters and see the details But uh, I would hope for like, yeah, just you know a little a little extra some something And then don't ask them for shit Uh until it's ready whenever they want to they've earned their their ability to Surprise us, but fucking tango on the on the map with not just The I get well with a completely different style of game from evil within

Well, the next game is probably evil within On one of the computer monitors near the end of the game There's a news ticker that goes new game in in long-standing horror franchise announced Okay, and How does that make you feel? Because I don't know Excited evil within two is excellent. Okay, cool. Evil in two was fantastic. Wasn't it bad and then the dlc was good No evil thin one was just bad

And then evil within two was stellar. Okay, cool Um, yeah, yeah, yeah Uh I also so just a brief like it's not enough to talk about but I I booted up woe long for like 20 minutes Yeah, um just to kind of See the character creator and like touch it for a second. Yeah, that's good That character creator is fucking phenomenal man. God damn character creator. Yeah. Yeah the neo neo two creator or whatever, right? Like

Also, it's funny because like, um Neoman himself engine William is right there as one of the the templates too if you just want to make those the neo three Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, so the guy the guy to the right of william in that character. Yeah is the neo two guy That's that's funny. Okay, so you can just pretend. This is your neo three. Yeah. Yeah, okay. No, fuck it in china um And something I just I guess Uh, I didn't I didn't go far enough to hit a boss or anything. So, you know, I it's it's very limited but

One thing that's very clear is that this is Yeah, I the term neo like is way more apt because neo has a very, uh Like the the feel of neo is very much not like so it's souls is is is uh Talking about the the corpse run the difficulty the way bosses and stages are kind of you know Placed where you you get through a hard stage you get to that boss and then you die You have to go all the way back all you know, all of that works its way in you're leveling up The way you pick your stats the way a lot of that in structure is very similar, right?

But yeah, running around on foot in in neo is really not like running around on foot on dark souls or demon Nothing doesn't feel anything like it the same the speed Built the same the jumping around all of that has its own Thing to it and yeah, woe long is locked into that neo like way of doing things has different mechanics But it's clearly a cousin. Yeah um between the two I prefer the souls way. It's a little bit slower, but

Fights have more impact to them um The weapons that are big heavy hitters and neo like they will they will feel like that But like a lot of the medium things come across as like almost like light, you know in the way they hit and swing and The speed of like The some of them big the big attacks will be like it's like just a really quick flash and slash and it's like oh no No fanfare, right? No giant

Artorias fucking car, you know, it's actually just a little what bam, you know, I cut you now. You're cut um But like then if you get a combo out of that you can you know, let's do a whole sequence and stuff then Neo kind of expands and allows you to do a bunch of shit to it's where it's splitting the difference with the the ninja Gaiden history. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, right ninja Gaiden Is kind of definitely because those are the same roots, right? You see the the pacing of the combat is coming closer to that um Whereas and then like other character action games are are slower paced and

Free combo system go in type of thing. Absolutely the ninja Gaiden route roots are are showing in that in that regard um but um Yeah, I didn't mind what I felt of it. I don't think it bothered me Per se. I didn't see as much for sure. Um but like the It is it is just a you have to like if you I you almost have to think of the parry as a dodge more, you know

I guess, um If you're not understand what I meant by the parry is a slide It doesn't it's not a royal guard No, it's you're not deflecting and you're not stopping you're you're Off of it. I kind of like yeah, I kind of do I kind of do get get get get what you mean. Um Like it's a it's a good feeling in and of itself. It's it's not what I think of as a as a parry at all Um, and it does yeah, you're right. It feels like a really good dodge. It's a good. It's a it's a tight dodge. Um the

And it's interesting too because like I also you also look at the the comparison point is in wild hearts the umbrella parry and that is like it's A parry that knocks you back But then you your move less lets you come flying back in for a riposte You know So it feels as if like instead of you being the rock that the world crashes against with a It's you're getting blown the fuck back

You take no damage from it But thank you for heating up my weapon to max heat and also here comes a flying riposte, you know So it turns that moment of weakness into a like a really sick follow through that like makes it feel good That shit's fun Yeah, anyway I I might I might I might you know peep peep a bit more but I did kind of get get get what you're talking about with that But uh all this to say, um

You know high fire rush done gonna continue with mass effect So for now, um, tune in as as we continue Over on woolly versus, uh, we're gonna do that. We're gonna have our Get into fighting games. Uh, hopefully with test your luck later on this week and then, um, Yeah, uh, we'll we'll be moving into As previously announced ff9 As soon as as soon as that's a good game. We can and yes, I have installed the Um, the moguri mod, which is is that for the nice the nice visuals nice backgrounds?

better like redone music widescreen Up to 4k in visuals and you can even make the game 60 fps if you want to but I don't want to because it gets It looks does that not fuck with it a little it seems like it just looks wrong I just don't I don't I don't think it it looks better in 60. It just feels weird Um, so I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna keep that at at at the original But everything else is gonna look really really pretty on it. So yeah, I'm looking at the side by sides on the moguri mod website and That's a big difference. Yeah, some people basically took the moguri mod basis and then kept adding extra shit to it

Which is yeah, where I'm like, all right. We don't need to get in the weeds that hard I don't I'm just down for an experience that is like a pretty looking version of the original But I don't I don't want to have something so divorced from You want like pseudo vanilla like it's the it's the same game. It's just a little Little nicer a little sprucer. Yeah sugar on it. And then the other thing I guess what I guess once it rolls out like we'll we'll see um, I'm sure people have opinions on it, but um the combat options are turn-based or

ATB, you know There's a turn-based system and ff9 You there's an option to switch between The two you can you can turn you can turn it into just like turn or um Or typical atb. So uh atb with weight. Yeah, okay so, um active or not active or wait, I don't know, um, oh wait, okay Wait just stops time when you're in the fucking item or magic menu. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's what you mean, right?

So, uh, my preference is is weight because uh, yeah, I'm not a Fucking skilled menu scroller ATB you pussy do it And uh, as you as anyone who watched six came to know it took me a while to get Comfortable with the with the fast And I I still selected wrong things as well. So I'm probably gonna play on weight um That's that's my rpg. You got dude

You got to play it on atb so that you can prepare for the action combat of final fantasy 16 It's the same thing. It's the same thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah um If if I pressed my button to attack and then pressed my button to jump I might consider it But because it's just how fast can you menu scroll? I think I can just I can just take my my turn if that's all right um speed menus is not like my idea of like

Riveting fucking panics all gameplay like I still remember people laughing like Out loud when I would go play an old Resident Evil game and I would go to like reload my gun and I'm just like Don't even see the inventory screen because I'm just flying through it. So fucking fast. Sure. Sure I also I've talked about it in the past like I've always enjoyed uh Blah, sorry RTS always enjoyed the blah our rts was always rough

rougher for me than um Tactical games or turn-based strategy, you know, uh for those reasons as well like base building and and a unit producing and expansion and all of that just Blah, you know what rts games have started to do lately and I'm like I'm super here for it Hey, man. Are you playing single player? Hit that fucking space bar and just Stop oh, yeah

Oh, that's great I like that uh fucking uh Total war hammer does that A company of heroes the new one does that Age of the new age of empires does that Mm-hmm. It's like listen I want to build my little base and I want to make my little guys and I want to send my little guys over there

But I don't want to have hard micro So just let me hit the the space And then I'll then I'll micro my boys no if space again if the gameplay is menus Then judge me on my actions and decisions if the gameplay is real time active and input and such then Uh sure speed can be a factor, you know real time strategy with pause

It's the same basic system that like your your boulders gate through pillars of attorney uses It's like everyone's gonna do their their bullshit. But if you're like no, no, no, no, no, no I want fireball here. Yeah in this spot now You just take a little second makes makes the biggest difference in the world. I think total war has been doing it the longest Okay, or if you want maximum swag and I'm super down for this too Don't stop time. Just slow it down while cloud is in mid air Just slow it down a lot and then like what do you want to do with barrett? Okay, and boom You know like that's yeah, that's the that's the best of both worlds

um God God that fucking system I loved it so much It was yeah, it was against the hojo It was the the hojo fights where like it all just came together and I had like the music swelling while the characters were Jumping through the air and like tifa was fucking doing a combo and like the flames. It was just I was like, oh, this is everything I want like the action and then the and then you get your

Menus if you want and then you can the menus are made cooler because you're slowed down on a sick action moment You know and as gene said wonderfully on twitter that like the the promise of advent children You know has been chased Uh, did you play integrate? I didn't Okay, so intergrade uh expands on that system dramatically. Nice So you should so first of all you should definitely play integrate. It's really good Uh, but the second is that yufi and that other guy whose name I can't remember

Uh, who is stick man your party member for the the whole for the whole uh dlc Um, you can hit a button and they turn into one character So you will attack and like it's him him like him like holding the stick up so that yufi jumps off it And she bounces off the enemy while he goes in for a strike They become one combined character. Okay, you're basically fighting as a continuous dual tech mission 18 versus A bit with uh Dante and Virgil No, but like no like together. It's not like you're they're separated I mean they are literally they have a combined unified moveset as if they were one they're they they move as a unit

Okay, okay. Yeah and It's incredible and it looks great and it has its own gameplay thing and i'm looking at that and then going Tifa and cloud and barrett and erith are going to have this system. Oh ice climbers Oh, fuck like like this. This is going to be the expansion Of the system. I mean if they're moving and attacking in like constant dual tech

Synchronized formation that is the hype as shit. I can possibly imagine Do I want to suffer off with zack or do I want to fight sephiroth as cloud and zack simultaneously? And everything you do is is fucking teamwork Yeah, level 10. Yeah. Oh man Yeah, you should get on integrate. It's good. Yeah. No, um So I originally when um punch mom was going through it. I was going to recommend that actually but like It was I didn't that's when I realized. Oh integrate is not on all platforms and and it is not that that that was the Well, now it is but at the time it wasn't

Um, yeah, no looking forward looking forward that oh fuck that sounds great. Like what if x cut was just a Hold on. Let me pull up a a whole style or um The two maids in in in melty blood That's good shit Let me see if I can pull this up. Uh, no, I don't want all the cut scenes All right, this is actually going to be impossible to sure. I I get it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I get it. Um, cool So, yeah, that'll all continue. Um, also, of course, woolly versus the algorithm. Go check it out. We've got

Uh, some shorts dropping Uh, if you haven't subscribed to the second channel, go do it. You can watch things like tier four simping for princess peach shoutouts to paper maria um And I mean it's it's worth a fucking mention, but uh, yo so like They took the building out of fortnight and then added movement and now it's just Like

This thing that occasionally lets you be Uh, erin jaeger or a midair sword slasher or a jet set radio grinding chute thing and um Fucking I wish that that was moment to moment gameplay You know That version of that game Well, because like those are seasonal items, right? Like you have to so it's

Literally this moment to a couple more moments You gotta wait and it'll be gone. Yeah And the thing that all that the little clip had in mind that I was like, okay, this is actually really interesting Was that like none of them were shooting guns. They were killing people that were shooting at them By closing the distance with melee. Actually, no, they were the rail was but the sword and the and the Um, 3d maneuver gear was like yep I'm dodging around the bullet and coming in for a melee kill and I was like that in third person Is always gonna be uh my shit. So

Yeah, so uh, who needs Like I'm sure they will they will add so they they do this and they add a basic mechanic and then it'll go away for A month or two and then it gets added back in at some variations generic version They they had like excellent spider-man swinging For a while. Mm-hmm. Like the whole season. It was absolutely excellent. And now we have 3d maneuver gear, which is it looks like it's kind of using some of the same guts um And the the the whole thing is like man

You should just play fortnite every season because it's always a different cool ass shooting video game But will there ever be all of them available? No shut up Buy the battle pass We will never have spider-man swinging while your rail skating shooting while someone else is 3d maneuver gearing behind you Maybe Yeah, if you buy enough of the battle pass Because the secret and the truth of the matter is is like that's what the the tweet was like It it dropped the towers and became a movement game, you know, and it's like, yeah

Movement, especially in third person is really fun and cool and feels good like It's it's so honestly Fortnite seems to be what you would want a live service game to be which is it's updated every two three months Into a different kind of game That is interesting and has all of its stuff And it's not and it's just doing it over and over and over and over and over Like I can easily understand why if there is a person who likes first person shooters They're good with just this

Because every three months they get a slightly different sequel To the game. They're already playing and it's time limited Yeah, and they have build a non-build now Yeah, yeah, but apparently build is more popular and and gets more players I've heard argument about that. I personally prefer non-build someone someone said the non-build The giveaway was that what was it that like they give the ability for everyone to vote on what items they want to come out each season And the voting has always been for non-build related items By a large margin. So that shows that it's weighted towards more popular

Non-build being the more popular mode now Yeah, no, um I don't know anybody who plays build anymore Everybody I talked to I'm like, what are you playing playing the fortnight? I'm like, yeah, zero build Because they just want They want to play like apex or titanfall. Yeah call of duty, but they don't want to they don't want to shoot someone and have them gentrify neighborhood mm-hmm um

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there were uh Basically some people that were looking at this as the best are the most like this is an example of capcom's current gen reach for the moon engine uh, uh efforts being backwards ported to, uh ps4 and yeah, it's not getting the love

That you would hope for Seems like just putting all the options in setting them to low and hoping it runs. Well is not enough because uh, It's good enough. Yeah, so here's the thing. It's not the worst version of the game The worst version of the game is of course if you run it on minimum pc spec, right? um So, uh, there's an event hubs article that did some comparisons Uh, oh perfect. I was just wondering where I could go see these Yeah, uh here and it just kind of like there's no xbox one version of the game

No um But they were running Uh, a yeah pc spec on a rise in 5 3500 or a g4 1650 super Um, just to see how it would look and yeah, it obviously just not great. It just it falls apart. Um um But uh ps4 base as we were touching on earlier

Uh averages at 25 frames per second struggles to reach 30 average textures, um Looking muddy and fuzzy of course um You know, it might be better optimized uh later on but for now This is the only clue of what street fighter 6 might look like because there is a ps4 version and it's all going to be cross compatible

Which is kind of like well the thing with the fighting game is is that like because you have a really limited view You can just keep turning it down, right? Yeah, and people on pc used to do that when the pc ports were terrible thing is though I don't know if you know this but A lot of people don't have ps5s pat I'm aware a lot of people have ps4s I don't wear a lot of people that want to play

These games are going to be only jumping in on the console that they have Yeah, so the it's up to the devs to just turn it down And you just kind of it's like you always understand that like there's going to be the There's the lead platform and this is in qa. You know, you favor nice and early the lead platform and then everything else is A port everything else is another team or another group of people Handling taking what the devs themselves are touching and converting it over in some cases you have Expertise where someone will be able to be a multi-platform A porter themselves and they'll they'll be handling it all them in one

But a lot of cases you'll have a company that just steps in to do the porting for you or It'll just be an afterthought it won't be the priority It won't be the focus of bugs and polish and so on and so forth. So ps4 is not going to be the focus, you know You don't want a version of this game that runs worse being A problem because then you have cross compatibility on multiplayer Where now all my matches against people on an old on ps4 suck because that happened with excerpt for example when they had a ps3 to ps4

Um, and then you're like well fuck. I don't want to put um The I want my matchmaking to cut out cross play then because any cross play matches I get feel bad, you know, and that's if you even know about that if some people are just playing and they don't know Why they they get bad feeling matches because of that issue without knowing you can turn that off or so and you just you created You're right woolly where there doesn't need to be should Cancel the street fighter six for playstation 4 actually I was thinking we could make it good

So anyway, this is all just there's only so much that could be done if there is for the higher spec and you roll it down There is uh, what is nice though is that like, um people that investigated the demo uh The beta and looking at all those pc options. You saw a whole lot. There's a lot. It's crazy a lot right, um so finding the right balance of those is

A possibility that I hope we you know like they land on something nice just turn them all off But framerate fuckery is always the issue right you want to make sure framerate can be prioritized for fighting games in this type of situations um over any of the the performance options so Um, we'll see we'll see what happens, but this is just anticipating it possibly based on The the way re4 is being treated. I don't think you have to worry about any framerate problems for Play for street fighter 6 on playstation 4 I think you have to worry about the game looking really ugly on playstation 4

I Think you have to worry about it looking significantly worse than street fighter 5 On ps4 so What are the options we're clicking right? What are we turning on what are we turning off we fucking around resolution is the first one we drop in Aliasing like what do we you know, where do you take the hit? The okay, so the very first thing you do is you drop the little resolution to the minimum mandated

Resolution that the the platform holder will do shadow texture qualities Uh shadow is the second to go 720p every single effect Uh, then is model quality That is textures Yeah, um So here's the thing about ps4, right? Okay street fighter 6 is going to have great net code. We know this we've played it, right? One of the things about net code is that takes resources right

If street fighter 6 has more intensive net code in terms of resources and is running on the same Uh shit that street fighter 5 was Unless the reach for the moon engine is way more optimized It's probably going to look worse than street fighter 5 does on ps4. It very well, but it'll play good um The silver lining I suppose is the ps4 pro version Was all right

Yeah, um, so if you happen to have a pro Um, you are likely going to run into less issues. It was the main concern is the base model ps4s at this point um But it was able to lock 60 lock 30 Um Couldn't get 60 but hit 45 again. It was that was the the notes. So so here's the thing, right? Um Normally this wouldn't be a problem ps5 supply with the pandemic and the semiconductor shit and blah blah blah blah ps5 supply would be normal, but um

like The console the ps4 was released in november 15th of 2013 The game's gonna be the the console is gonna be nine and a half years old Right sure like what when I went when when I was playing fourth year PlayStation 2 games the conversation wasn't about how they were gonna look on ps1 Hmm Like yeah, and I think everyone kind of understands that and I think it's reasonable

That everyone's like, yeah, okay. It's getting close to a decade old. The problem is just the availability of Getting a fucking new you know like but at the same time like how does metal gear solid to look on the n64? Sure, like it looks like shit Yes, but if the but if you can't get a fucking ps2 You know what I mean like it just it's a shitty conversation because you're like well How many people are stuck with the n64 version? Not through there not because they wouldn't want the better version, but because that's all you can fucking get You know, so you're completely right, but it's like

It's still a massive massive improvement from the old day of like I don't have a ps2 Well, you can't play these games then yes shut up But you know a lot of people are gonna basically judge it on that version that they can get and that'll be that you know Yeah, just before we started Sorry, it's up to capcom to make sure that it runs. Well, yes, but I mean Earlier someone someone was talking about the 13 sentinel support you know and

Like yeah, if the switch version is the only one you can get of a game then It's understandable. You play what's available to you, but Man do those games run worse on that compared to everything else, you know Yeah, you should never play a multi-platform game on the switch So it just kind of if you can get around it. You shouldn't play nintendo games on it either well God yeah, but that but it just it just that comes to mind, you know anyways, um So we talked about that we talked about bedman bed man bed man bedman

um uh but We while we were discussing a little bit of the from soft and woe long and neo Uh, we didn't make room For bleak faith Have you heard of bleak faith I heard that they stole some of the animations from dark souls so bleak faith is a souls like that is uh

That's come out that is showing off some of uh the cyber goth take on on from soft stuff and people noticed That some of the animations Are just fucking identical to the one seen in elden ring

And we're like well, that's weird And it's not just one instance. It's multiple um Yeah, when uh, uh, uh the just the fucking whirlwinds sort of attack and and like a bunch of just a bunch of the weapon arts type moves you're seeing Are like straight up lifted, you know um

And so people are like what's up with that? Well they uh, the the devs came back and basically explained that It's not that they lifted the animations directly from uh elden ring. It's actually waste Simpler it's just they bought canned animations off of the epic game store Marketplace and the whoever put them up on the epic game store just took them from dark souls and elden ring

And they basically filled in asset flip Like moves with whatever was on the shop Uh, it wasn't just of course the moves there's a bunch of stuff for just uh, uh, you know, whatever art direction You want a rock? You want a tree? You don't want any little asset to throw in you just buy it off The marketplace and you can fill in your game

With all of that a lot of games that are asset flip games come out every day actually giant wastes of money and time for those who Who recognize the same fucking? assets everywhere But this is just a case of um buying canned animations, right? so it's interesting because It it's like instead of the game being like oh you stole from someone else's art It's actually just

You didn't care enough to make your own And or we're trying to cut corners in time so you just so Dropped in whatever you could buy Which is a whole other thing because it just to me it's like just no there's nothing like you can do that You can make a game full of pre sold assets and they all those assets do have the licensing so that you can You're allowed to reuse them wherever you want to as long as you've purchased them But it just it just says to me that like oh you're like your art direction is an afterthought

If this is kind of how you treat that actually it's a very small studio and it does well I've watched some footage. It does not come off like an asset flip. It comes off as people who bought some some items off the marketplace in order to shore up some of their development like weaknesses um The the the obvious fault on this goes to epic and the people selling Animations that aren't there see but here's the thing though, right some people then kind of looked At another aspect of this and we're pointing out that That's not the only place where it corners were cut

they have a number of um perk illustrations in the game for all of your abilities and those were all generated with um AI they basically Instead of having you know artists create those perk things they kind of just jumped on um a mid-journey And generated a bunch of icons as well and it's kind of just like well Again, you can it just

It just kind of it's like yeah It just if you're if your limitations are there or whatever sure But I just it kind of tells me you like your priorities are are less about having like a an artist sit here and actually fucking Work on a consistent thing That top you know is is going to be a style that you have that it's not like just Let's grab this sword animation because we need that let's just generate this art for this perk because we need that Let's fill for time. Let's go go go. You know like I these are all things where an artist An artist's touch is fucking better. So I I always prefer to see that, you know

Yeah, yeah, I don't know like it it's like It doesn't it doesn't scream like asset flip, but it does it does It does give off a genuine aura of like It don't mean to be rude, but like We're trying but maybe we don't know exactly how to do this very good I hope so because you know, I I also i'm talking from seeing just the clips of what's what's uh, um

the the side by side like copied and I'm not coming off of this having played the game and gone through it and seen what's there and what level of Asset quote-unquote flippery it feels like because some games that are asset flips do just feel hollow top to bottom But I do just like every time I see that it's just like, ah, that's a you know, like fuck man Like I I anytime I see some place where an artist can have done something and I know it's not always possible but it just This is what it is, right? It's just it's a bummer when you kind of fill in the artist gaps with

um Assets ai whatever you can just smooth it over. Let's just get there. You know, so so the main thing that that really stands out is like The asset flip thing's been going on for a million years now. Yeah, um, but like when you get the assets in like raw You have to alter them to some degree because Even if even if they're completely unique, you know bespoke assets for this asset pack or animation pack Like you really don't want your animation set to look exactly the same as other people who use This asset pack or animation pack off of the storefront

Right. You you need to customize them to some degree So that they're yours Or they're they're notably yours, but you see the whole thing is the point this conversation is but you don't have to Right You can just you don't have to use a toilet when you shit either You don't have to do anything. That's that's what i'm saying is like like there because like, um I'm seeing some people are going so what woolly and it's like well so nothing they can do this That's that's fine. It's just when people when you see a comparison like this and you go

Ah, well that looks bad, you know, and it's like well why well because because exactly what it is They didn't they didn't take the time You know where they could have and there's corners where they cut them to just generate fill By whatever, you know what I mean like they could have it didn't have to be mid-journey generated It could have been stock art, you know, it could have been we got a we got an update Okay For the game this is an animation or asset update from the devs as promised Here's the escalation issue with epic quote from epic games

Pursuant to marketplace distribution agreement each marketplace seller represents and warrants to epic They have appropriate rights to upload their content as with any store that hosts third party content However, epic is not in a position to independently verify that and epic makes no guarantee to purchasers of the content and quote So essentially they state they cannot verify the copyright of animation packages that you purchase through their store Yeah, which is fucking nonsense. Well, because it's it's so it's a classic giant marketplace We're not liable for what gets uploaded to our marketplace disclaimer. You're selling stolen shit tim sweeney Yeah, um the dev goes on to say this is not satisfactory. So we've taken the decision to replace the assets purchased over the store Some changes we included more coming. Certainly. This has been a huge lesson and other indie creators out there

To the assets on these storefronts seemingly cannot be purchased in good faith. Yeah It's understandable again if it's a small team and a small game trying to make something that There's only so much that a person Uh, or that one artist can do if that's the only artist on the team if it's not, you know, and so on like it's not Anyone reasonable can understand that there's a limitation to that, right? It's just Things like this just like and and you know, if you if it's not a big deal to you Then that's fine, too But it just every time it gets pointed out

Certainly it does kind of go look it just looks like ah that's that that's shitty if that looks like it's coming straight off of you know The store or whatever an epic of course uploading the fucking shit like epic uh uploading or rather like Being less diligent about that stuff That's not surprising because it's again like if they're just like whatever it's like youtube videos How much shit gets uploaded whatever goes on, you know, like if their verification process is yeah, but like One of the things about the dmca that is that actually makes sense is you go. Hey youtube. There's pirated shit

All over your website. It's here here here and here and that gives youtube the demand like Take it down. So they take it down now. Is this horribly abused? Yeah, totally. Absolutely But like this is the exact scenario That that ip law was supposed to prevent which is hey someone stole my shit And is selling it through your store. Can you take down my stolen shit? I mean, it's not really our job We just want to make the money off of it yeah, so um

The actual copyright law is fucking bullshit It's interesting because of course this is all happening before from soft Has a take on the matter which they may or may not it might even be small I don't think small enough that they would even bother or whatever, you know um but definitely like the the the old days of There's okay, go if you want to go back far enough

And if you want me to pull a fucking classic wooly card, right go for it What happened after the breakout success that was street fighter 2? Well a lot of games went Fighting games Ah Guy in a gi with a fireball Oh And then we got all the clones, right? Yeah now not all clones are made equal because hell no Sometimes you get rio and uh and robert in art of fighting

Who then street fighter references and makes fun of in the future or whatever And then you get You know kof and it's like oh, here's these two Japanese students that throw fireballs and uppercuts, but other stuff's going on whatever Uh fighters history world history all that stuff and then you get super fighter where They just traced over sprites of chun li Like there's no ambiguity in the oh we took the

Karate man in a gi doing a fireball cue. We actually just drew over your work and recolored it um And there's a whole other level where like oh capcom's not gonna Make fun of that and put a clown mask on you and say look at my dan character. You're such a goofy ripoff They're gonna sue you actually You know, so there's just that kind of level of like yeah um There's there the when you're when you're looking at that that era

The games that went that route were just like oh, that's actually a legal problem at this point This response they're having here is good um And you know all the best again, I don't know how the game plays or looks or feels otherwise outside of this news about it but um The more asset flip usage that gets put into anything no matter how small your indie game is no matter what's going on um, you know the more that's gonna I guess like I

show uh and and I the more that feeling of like Ah, okay. This has what percentage asset flip in it is gonna feel bad because it's like yeah, all right That tree is a stock tree. I recognize it. I remember where they bought that rock I remember where that building came from that background that sunset that field that forest I think I think there's we're we're kind of skipping over something which is

There's a certain point where this like This blends into like absurdity Which is the stock pot sound effect. Oh for sure Uh public domain noise It like makes me laugh Every single time because it's almost never used like well It's almost always like the wrong noise for the situation and you're like jesus christ Please god. Hmm anything

yeah, so you know, I guess I'm I'm I'm and it's just funny too because it's like you could have a game like vampire survivors where it's like these are Like this is barely even trying to make Why is it not a Sprite that you don't recognize and that's a tree because it is the abstract like clip art pixel art tree um but

I guess might my old my you know the on to some degree. It's like okay. Well if you Don't necessarily give a fuck about this and you're kind of like yeah Who cares you just the whole thing can be acid flip or or not or whatever. Yeah, I'm like in a Like what you know, like acid flip games that play and look like shit and feel like shit and are our shit um Are like infinite hilarious youtube content, of course they sure are uh You know god bless

Blitz netcode and and everything that era gave us because we would never get Let's netcode Goku versus iron man without it Um, but like, you know, I guess I'm just like if you're one of the people here that's like, yo Who cares woolly or whatever it's like well What percentage of asset flip this is acceptable to you versus like what's the cutoff point? You know amen. I don't know. I don't know when I see it Is it 20? You know if half of the assets of the game were bought. Is that the amount? What's the amount?

Yeah Um and obviously asset flips are different when uh, it's the same company using their own assets So like uh resident evil 4 remake Dude, there's a lot of re7 and re8 pots and crates and shit around but like yeah, no capcom made those they're gonna use them You can go record your own foley, but why? No, man. Listen just take take The fucking artorias flip

And just make it spin a little bit backwards and off off angle And then he kind of lands slightly diagonally instead And and then it's yours I don't think that's how that works Just rotate so that he jumps in the air and then he turns sideways and he spins horizontally Instead, I don't think that's how that works. That's all you got to do. It takes two seconds in in in any 3d program Or a genshin impact I think there's no winning here um because i'm just thinking about like you know what was a officially sanctioned

like regular deal between companies for asset reuse Was babelon's fall using final fantasy 14 equipment And it looked like dog shit and everyone was like this looks like dog shit and it seems stupid And that was official Right Like I don't think I don't think there's any amount of reusing assets that that most people Like are care for if they if they notice they go Gross

Yep, so anyway, that's the story um And you know if you can not use mid-journey where You can an artist can can do something That that'd be nice too. So well, here's the thing right the ai art thing Has really been blowing up and then we're talking about asset flips and stuff like that and and we keep talking about artists and the problem is Is that non artists

don't like artists Because artists use their time to learn a skill that the non artist doesn't have And the non artist sees that as generally unfair Sure, um and resent them for that. It's not fair that they took the time to master it. It is not fair It's not fair Listen, you can you can you can fucking Sing a song or play that instrument I can't what just so you because you spent

Every weekend for your entire childhood learning how to play the trombone. You think you're better than me Damn at trombone. Yeah. So what if you are? ass blown out Fuck you. Fuck you. You loser. You should fuck you for fucking doing what I can't do You know what it is. You know what it genuinely is like this entire argument of like we're democratizing art It is a it is a salty xbox live message of just because you play the game all day doesn't make you better than me You didn't win. You didn't win just because you're better I had a moment

When I was reading vagabond for the first time and I got to like The middle of it when I can't understand How much detail is going into these pages? And I remember thinking I had a point where and this is right, you know, again art school yadda yadda And I was trying to draw my own shit And I hated it so much Yeah, and I just stared at this book and I was like

I Think I would sacrifice an arm And years off my life To be able to fucking do what this dude can do Well, I have good news for you. All you need to do is sacrifice the years off your life So it turns out evidently Dear god every time a mangaka has to come out and explain

How much damage the process has done to them? It's it's fucking depressing Like that's that's the most tragic thing because you look at art and like let's say learning an instrument to some extreme level Or learning how to draw to to some extreme proficiency, right? And you hear people go man, I would do anything to You know be able to do that and the artist responds with would you do this and they describe the elements of working on it for decades And the answer is no, I don't want to do that I just want to I want to give you a toe or and you give me the ability to do it

I want to pay you ten dollars and then I can do it Like 10,000 hours to mastery my fucking ass Lull at your 10,000 hours Like it's it's it's like me going god. I would do anything to be ripped and shredded like that guy Except for work out actually work out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. No. I know the thing is is that I just remember that feeling because I was like I was doing it, right I was in the process of trying to learn How to do that and like I was putting everything I could into it

And I was learning about it from like my I was taking classes and just looking at my output And then I just fucking looked over here and just like I just hate It just I just hate my everything of my I hate my life I hate everything about the fact that I can't see and then brain convert and then output ink brushstroke into this level of mastery and to not have it like To get in the weeds a little bit like You can just be a photocopier

If you want to be and that's a skill you can take your Conte and your and your your um, you know needed eraser and just Do a grid and fill in the grid square by square until you have a photo that you see someone post on reddit To say hey, look, I made a perfect charcoal drawing of somebody and it looks photo realistic You can't tell the difference. It's Michael Jordan. That's incredible. Holy shit, right? Also, make sure to take a photo of you standing next to it Because if it's just the art nobody cares, but if they see you the artist smiling next to it It's a human connection and they go. Oh, you're a person that did this and now I care more. All right. No one thinks that

Uh, that's a real thing on the internet No one's gonna think an artist is a real person. No, but the post will do better objectively drawing gremlins that make my tv show The the the the post will objectively do better if you post yourself smiling next to your piece But regardless, uh, you can do that, right? The thing that like crushes me about takahiko in a way is that When I felt that way reading vagabond It wasn't just that it was the gridded Realistic insane detail. It was that it was also full of life. Like it had character to it. It has soul to it You know, like it's not just the blade of grass looking realistic. It's it's it's

The emotion of the scene is still there despite how mechanical you're being and that level of like mastery which is I'm I'm beyond the human photocopier. I'm also able to do extreme abstract and then find the perfect middle ground of both Is just it fucking I can't I can't It hurts You know So I just like Yeah

Fuck it insert well insert in a way vagabond comma um art germ stanley lao comma uh You know big buxom Uh, you know and just press enter and now my prompt will do all the work and that feeling goes away hands

Immediately because you stole everyone's art comma murah comma Listen listen Just Just do these three things Work incredibly hard consistently for your whole life um Be somewhat naturally talented And start younger than you are right now

Just go back in time go back in time and and start earlier Go back in fucking time Yeah, yeah, that's zero. You know the deal. I've fucking like just How many years sacrificed off the light like if you could if you could death note Your your fucking life bar that see the time that was sacrificed to get as good as you are at art What would that what would that number be? You know Was it no, okay. Hey 30 years off there How many years down there

Or not quite old artists out there working on your art I have the me the non-artist has the path to success for you All right get really good at anthropomorphism Get really good at realistic stretching of the skin inflation And other weird ass shit and you go find yourself a wealthy furry patron and they will they will fucking Take care of you forever

over the course of the pandemic a friend of mine went from being pretty Unskilled at art to being pretty fucking solid and is now good and Is absolutely just sitting there in the ff 14 rp draw my oc Bang in somebody world and is like that's where you sit and fucking rake it in

just Find your corner or find the corner that wants that Desperately and is willing to pay for it And and you got yourself a stew going right there You talk I think I also have An acquaintance of mine that is in that exact Same situation are we talking about the same? I don't think so probably not but it is a lucrative corner to sit in You know

People did that back in the wow days too so No, no, no. Yeah, okay. That's funny. That's hilarious But this is it because one of the one of the people that has done art for my stream One day was like what if I just started drawing a bunch of final fantasy 14 characters getting fucking stupid And here comes the cash. Yep. Oh, it's my oc. I can yeah, just get in there get in there you know um And then when you draw

See your final fantasy 14 character get fucking stupid and are willing to pay for you and hit up magboy manuel on twitter. There you go and uh Depending and I remember too back in in college. There's a couple of people that like this This is one girl that like drew loot stuff and then wanted to have a clean career as well and it's like Oh, someone's gonna recognize your style and that's you're gonna see that face You're gonna see that proportion and you're gonna be like

Wait a minute Jimmy what the fuck you I know you I know this style Hold on. What is this alternate? I know that blush shading underneath the eyeballs. What is this all alternate tag? You've been no, what are your pose? Okay Yeah, yeah, uh-huh subject matter tends to be the same Okay, okay Whatever you say

Yeah, yeah, yeah good times good times. God bless, man um I say I say fuck it. Just keep it freaky on the main timeline, you know Let everybody know what you're about dude when I when I fucking occasionally watch a video on twitter Like you know for stream purposes I'm like fucking terrified. I like I set the viddie. I said I do the window capture and then I like Stare Stare is any of the freaks on my timeline visible on this thing. No, okay good. Oh, thank god

there are times when Uh shit gets exposed and you just got to roll with it you know You just gotta you can you can take the hit and you can you can hide it and shame Or you can name the episode free use podcast. All right moving on By the way, if you have trouble finding the artist I shouted out earlier I just retweeted their uh their commission tweet so you can find them on my twitter at pet stairs at There you go

Next story Check this out After all this time the olympics Is finally having an esports event It just turns out of course that You know, well, hey esports event the game they've been teasing right? I remember when the input the olympics came sniffing around street fighter

And they were like, oh, maybe we can do something and they were kind of investigating the situation. I there was a whole deal, right? And you're like, okay, cool. So What a perfect opportunity to have a lineup of games, you know Like for example mario and sonic at the olympic games The fucking actual official thing do some track and field whatever you want to you know, or even just esports games people recognize Or or or You can get just dance gran teresmo chess.com

and Every other game on that list could just be a mobile game Most of them are and call it a day Oh, you mean like virtual taekwondo. Do you know what virtual taekwondo is? I don't It's a it's a training program for taekwondo where you just stand in front of a camera and it asks you to kick certain Certain targets sure it's break the targets tic-tac bow tennis clash

fucking e-baseball power pro like Literally, there's again does chess.com which gay guess what yeah everyone that plays chess uses chess fine Just dance point of an esport variation gran teresmo. Those are titles everyone knows but Whatever okay, and then just literally mobile game trash for every other category And you're like what why why would this happen? And then you remember because you're already aware of how the olympic commission is On the same level of if not more corrupt than fifa

And how it comes to town how it steps on the neighborhoods it moves into how they go through insane corruption scandals people like being unpaid like slave workers at times to put shit together to get the the the Ceremonies together in time the briberies the the absolute fucking grift that is the entire olympic setup That then leaves town and leaves a smoking crater behind And you go. Oh, yeah. Well, of course. This is what they're doing How much is the mobile game company paying to be on that list? Well, it's funny because all the mobile games are from singapore The country in which the olympics is set to take place. Are they? Yep. Yeah, they are

Interesting so Weird Well, anyway That's a welcome to another reason. However There is a secondary reason and it's the funniest thing in the world The olympics Absolutely categorically refuse to consider any game for the esports category that features any depiction of violence Yes, true true true true true

Violence is no good Boxing Jiu-jitsu taekwondo No, no, no, no, no Fucking shooting clay pigeons, which used to be real pigeons. No, no, no, no, no, come on now That that's the sport shooting It's the famous olympic sport of the pancretion in which the only rules were no gouging and no biting How about the sport of stabbing each other with swords?

You have fencing I mentioned it Biathlon has a gun there's No, no depictions. It's cool even though Once again before this official rollout They were Working with and trying to run online street fighter four brackets or so or five brackets whatever it was a couple years ago You know, they were trying to see if they could get in so

Yeah, look man, um, it's a fucking joke and everything they do is corrupt and wildly wildly Unethical in some cases and you're just like of course the games shit they're gonna get into is equally as stupid It's here's the thing, right? Here's the thing for the olympics People got to watch the olympics to some degree for the olympics to keep running their their racket, right? Like ads viewership, etc And it's like esports Like the kids people are age and down Yeah, some people love football and baseball and the and the hockey, right? But like no no child

No adult is sitting there like oh man. I can't wait for the fucking shot Oh, I wonder how far he's gonna throw that fucking rock. No, everyone's like, hey, I wonder um wonder fruit merchant or whatever is going to come back to legal legends or You know, whatever For what it's worth I think pole vaulting is rad as shit and I love watching replays of people crushing pole vaults By crushing pole vaults, you mean getting their dicks annihilated by the the the pole hitting them on the way down No, I mean just doing the perfect like like

Perfect vault because the idea of running with a spear That is three four times your length and landing it in a perfect notch and then bending it Like it's such an insanely skillful thing to do and then at the top it looks so graceful and then you kick over it looks It's just it's an athletic marvel every time and I'm like man That's fucking wild that you know how to do that. I'm gonna tell you right now. I I'm gonna tell you what right now what I think The real reason for this esports Contagion sealing off is about Um

They don't want league of legends and street fighter players at the olympic orgy Oh, no Okay, but hold on though, but they already made the beds that self collapse Right the cardboard beds What are they gonna do fucking throw caltrops on every floor? That's that's athletes You can't stop them Once the cardboard bed collapses, you think they're gonna not hold the pose It just makes it more interesting

Now somebody at the olympic committee watched top eight of evo and was like ew gross no band I Fuck me, um, I had a I had a funny but it's gone. Well, anyway um Yeah, no, I just uh Ah I don't expect this to be anything but continuously embarrassing as the years goes on and um

Yeah, whatever man. It's up to esports to make their own olympics Even more corrupt than the regular olympics I think they can do it Uh fuck i'm trying to remember what I was gonna say, but it's gone. It doesn't matter. We're we're Yeah Where dosing is mandatory You show up to the e olympics and you get a choice of Adderall or cocaine Okay, and you must take it here's the thing though like

I understand that they want to avoid Violence and depictions of violence under any and all circumstances But what about the depictions Of lewd sexual themes when it comes to chess.com I don't know if you are aware of what's been happening in the chess world recently But the chess world is the butt stuff. This is the butt stuff Oh, yeah

What are we gonna do when it comes to challenging magnus carlson on chess.com? live on the esports olympics and we need To get a signal of the best move to play through our wi-fi enabled um butt plug Well, obviously what this means is that a full

Penetrative cavity search will have to be done to every chess participant immediately prior to their match live on camera, of course yes I just I just I just think that the olympics commission might run into some issues if uh, you know lewd le vicious sexual themes Are are to be avoided, but we have you know what i'm loving I'm watching at the chat and like there are people that don't know about the the the ongoing

Like suspicions of butt plug based cheating in in chess Well and are just losing their mind as to what the fuck we're talking about audience I it's my pleasure to inform you that butt plug based cheating is in fact the entire story That's you just heard it. There it is There are suspicions of um of uh chess players shoving vibrators up their asses well one in specific Having specific moves vibrated at them But the problem is that win chess matches and and he played against magnus carlson and and he's so good normally

That it's not outside the realm of plausibility because it's like well He's definitely a skilled enough player to be fighting others at a grand master level, but But is he putting in a vibrating butt plug that communicates the best moves to him for that little extra edge and um You know the the uh masters. He's played field. Yeah, possibly because that's an unusual uh That sequence of events seemed suspicious. You could yeah, so the only uh solution is he must have cheated with his ass

And this is the only possible explanation I mean, there's no nothing else on the table. Nothing else is exposed, you know So, uh, yeah, this is uh, this is the world of chess right now. It's quite exciting really I mean For the longest while it's just been you know can Can can can kasparov beat deep blue and and here we are go and

go and Can carlson beat deep pink All right, we got there Um What else is going on? I gotta take a piss. I'm yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm not holding it in after that brb. It's too exciting Too exciting. Excuse me Um

When I say Hard-hitting fast-paced jrpg action your mental association is Hard-hitting fast-paced jrpg action, uh, I would think of uh Uh, I don't know. I either think of like persona or I would think of elden ring technically Well, that was in the hearts

Hmm interesting, but that's the wrong answer yet The correct answer is golden girls Damn it. You knew this. I should I did I did actually know this More specifically the golden girls take manhattan dx A hard-hating fast-paced jrpg action game coming to you soon They're making literally a persona style golden girls game, uh music in that trailer is fantastic

Uh, so this is uh tggt mdx Uh On twitter, which is the acronym for the golden girls take manhattan dx, of course Um, yeah, we got a trailer showing off Uh, the gameplay which is of course 100 canon as specified um all the golden gold golden girls are there and they're in miami And uh, they're running around town. They're building up s links. They're unlocking personas

They're hanging out at the arcade your your main character that you're playing as in the overworld is sophia Of course the oldest of the golden girls and uh, uh, you got blanche you got you got everybody and um You got a bunch of clowns to fuck up And I just It seems like they're putting a whole lot of effort Into a golden girl's shitpost Because it's really a full 3d game here

There's there's there's a lot of little clips There's you know, there's a shot of like they're talking to sophia and just remember sicily 1922 just like she starts every fucking story But there's there's the the the blanche about to do an attack and the the the the fucking character profile of blanche comes up And then the text box shows up and just says all lowercase suffer That just

I can't uh, I mean I can't I really really hope that someone Uh, that is as talented on the music that you've been hearing is gonna put together just the ultimate battle theme Would that just kicks in full-on? shogi mega row lotus juice style Fucking baby baby baby baby baby baby, you know, but just get the thank you for being a friend Travel down the road and back and then it just goes into like a fucking huge solo, right? Oh man This is gonna be great just like massive choir vocals like the fog kicking in orchestral

And if you threw a party When I when we saw this and I hit the video and it started up me and page were like jumping up and down just like Yeah, yeah um, no that's um Oh, how's this is this a thing that's been in the works for a while? Okay, apparently years ago. This was uh announced Well a trailer just dropped Um and uh, yeah coming out this year On pc and mac so

Somebody in the chat asks who would even be the final boss and the answer is obvious. It would be fucking stan Come on I got it together I gotta brush up on my on my my golden girls dorothy's ex-husband stanley's stanley dvorak Yeah Oh, look at that shit. Look at that fucking shithead Yeah, right? This is bald ass creeping around looking in the window. Fuck him terrible terrible

Fuck stan stands the worst. It's hilarious how he is the worst He is the urr ex-husband He had an affair with a flight attendant named Chrissy Yeah, and then they got married and stayed together. Oh, what a fuck. Oh, that that's the part like when somebody leaves you And you're and you're like, oh my god Oh, they left me for some younger woman and you're like, well, hopefully that'll fall apart But then it doesn't and then they stayed together. Oh, no Damn, and then it doesn't no that calls for an all-out attack, man

Fuck that Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, this is good. This is good strong I know she left eventually but that was like two three seasons in Um, I gotta get back to watching all of the golden girls Me and Pedro about two three seasons in that that shit is fucking shit hot to this day I mean, I think that the important thing to gameplay wise is that no one can ever die They just have to hit zero

One hp and then they just they got they get tired and they have to go for a nap Yeah Um, that's fun Uh, we've also got another more detailed gameplay look at robocop rogue city Which was announced uh, oh some time ago. We talked about there's a robocop game coming And is this a fake game? It's a real game. It just looks like it was from two generations ago Uh, it's a robocop game. You're gonna be him walking around town scanning telling creeps to drop it It just looks two gens old. Uh, unfortunately also

It should be third person and it's not Um, and that's unfortunate because you want to see robocop But also the robocop vision makes sense because it's first person when he's scanning i'm watching gameplay And like robocop is just mowing down like a bunch of like like punks in their hideout I'm like, what threat did these people post to robocop? So this is the thing when you watch the footage this looks like the genre is an anti cover shooter Because there's no cover you walk slowly into a room You pull the gun out and you fucking blast everyone away as they just open fire on you

And you don't cover at all because you're robocop You're made out of metal you plant your fucking feet And you just you all of them you just fucking light them up anti cover Game looks silly as fuck it does And again, you can see that it's not exactly cutting edge in visuals But if it gets all its references in there then so be it

Um big ed 209 boss battle get uh Get get at least the likeness Of of red foreman if you can you know He's alive. He's doing that 90s show so you could get him in there Uh, yeah, yeah, there's a there's a there's a lot you can shove in but uh They're they're they're doing what they can what the budget they have I suppose But if this were

End of 360 that's sort of an hype as fuck So I really want to point out that in in media robocop Is one of the worst adaptable characters ever For any media that's not his own film um the guy has a top speed that is Approximately that of sofia from the golden girls

Like I don't know if you watch the robocop tv show But like a huge amount of those episodes revolved in like trapping robocop in a building And then leaving the building faster than robocop could chase you Uh, yeah, I remember the the I don't know if it was the tv show But I remember these the the three tv movies that were made for sci-fi network um And yes his his tech is already outdated. It tends to be the main deal Every single time

um Here's the thing though, right? Then you can have How about this how about this? You got the writing of the game be 2014 robocop Yeah, who runs in and he can move faster And he can do all the the quicker things less durable But he's less durable

but If he gets blown apart on the battlefield, they can just drop him into a new chassis And he's good to go because body horror You need to show the body, you know, I remember I've said it every time it's come up But like we're watching the robocop 2014 movie and you're like this has no need to exist And then you get to the one good part of that movie and you're like this movie has absolutely justified its existence That is the scariest thing I've ever seen in any film incredible incredible You know, what if I said ridin as

As in the secondary but also there's the part where ridin gets to enjoy life from the jaw down, you know Yeah, so the mandible down actually sure His jaw is robot Lastly the For this game to do its job We need an achievement for shooting 100 creeps in the dick That's right Don't even make it an in-game thing

No, just let the chivo drop when you shoot the hundredth dick And you know what it should be called our robocop achievement Perfect bow ready to go Um All right Last quick little heads up here. Um, if you haven't seen the trailer for Uh, a film called he daddy that's coming out Um, it is a Kickstarter campaign that dropped

it is a stop motion samurai feature film by masashi kawamura using wooden carved puppets by The or inspired by the legendary sculptor jingoro hidari and well this looks hot it looks unbelievably fucking sick It is stop motion puppet action And it's awesome

And there's like the puppets. Yep. They show off a quick tweet of the fight scene There's a five minute thing and then they're going for the full thing Um, holy fucking shit, man Does this look unbelievable and you want to talk about art that takes time off the artist's life? Yeah, this is how you do it This is absolutely because it's not an end like you're like stop motion You can do the you know like two key frame up up punch, right? If you want to but if you want to get that smooth slash

You've got to tell the wife and kids to fuck off for a couple weeks because you're in the lab moving it Moving it taking a picture moving it, you know Um, you're you're ignoring you want to destroy the maximum amount of your own life force Into art you just pick up this stop motion shit right here Right when the phone rings you pick you pick answer it and you go shut up You yell at your family and you hang up Because you're doing stop motion the most insane form of creativity and the hardest form of animation ever Um, these are they're doing it and it looks really really hot

So who are we to let this the the sacrifice on uh, this director's life go to waste Go check it out and uh support if you think it's cool. Um Because no matter what happens one way or another, uh That time's burnt. Those years are gone. Those family members are never coming back Those nerves in your hands aren't going to come back But that fight scene is going to look sick Go look it's called Hidari Um, which I believe is also right

In uh, japanese, yeah, I mean maybe I don't I don't I don't I don't I think it's yeah Hidari and Mugi Um, let's take some letters Hey, if you want to send in a letter send it to castle super beast mail at gmail.com That's castle super beast mail at gmail.com All right, Mugi is right. Hidari is left. Thank you. Wow, Wally Even in other languages you're confusing your left and right embarrassing Ah That's good, that's good

Uh, we got one coming in From Spencer says hey Punch dad and grab uncle Long time listener. Thanks for decade plus of entertaining of thoughtful and enjoyable content The grab uncle sounds insanely nefarious. Yeah Not good. Yeah. Well, what do you think about taking too long to say the word punch mom? Funny or or punch wife, you know punch. Um punch wife. There's a good one got to say it real quick

punch wife Question mark No, you see it's it's because Because the That there used to be a punch wife, but now it's gone and now the question is because we're not sure if the the new version of punch Um

I when I play cvs2 with my buddy We use custom grooves to give us all tech and custom combos We want a maximum style and anime moments and uh, we're not good enough to abuse it anyway Playing smash melee is more fun when you mix in the modded turbo mode for wacky on hit cancels and extremely fun Surprisingly competitive volleyball. Yeah, sure Played hundreds of I've unfortunately played hundreds of hours of league of legends But all of it in our am the faster single lane mode where I pretend that mode is fucked up I pretend it's 5v5 nidhog

Yeah, okay, I see it So, uh, my question is are there games where you swear the side modes bonus or Modded rules like the house rules are more fun than the main game itself um Yeah, I mean obviously Fortnite became that embodied. Yeah, actually that is fortnight fortnight is house rules every day It's just and then now there's house rules to the house rules because Single player is not even a thing you have the fucking battle royale and now battle royale

No tower is is is the real real No slappers Okay, so fucking golden eye For me. I was gonna say golden eye, but not no slappers for me. The house rule was licensed to kill I don't want to play other versions of that game licensed to kill is my fucking favorite Which one is that I'm not familiar one shot death Oh one shot death. Okay. So you want to play fucking counter strike on the n64 It was so much fun, dude

Like you straight it's like you had to play so much tighter You know um That was great I think a lot of card games that have the fuck it everything ever released for this format is viable unlimited a lot of fun because Uh, you're not playing a card game. You're playing dice Sure, and you're just hoping that your nonsense comes out is unbeatable in its own era can

Start rolling faster than theirs um, one of the classic ones is uh, Kirby air ride City trial the city trial is better than the main game Where you grab your four players run around grab the resources you can to build the fastest piece of shit cart you can build And then you have to race them together um Tons of fun in that obviously, um

Triple triad stands Head high Amongst all mini games Triple triad is we can talk about ff8 if we want but really We're talking about triple triad Have you played funnel fancy nine before no? Hey, you're gonna be really excited. They have a version of triple triad in there called tetramaster

But i've never heard of it before now, so it can't be that great. Can it no, it's great. Don't worry about it Hmm see because i heard about pizak and i heard about gwent and i heard about triple triad But i've never heard anyone talk about the the game from ff9 though Yeah, the the main thing is the tetramaster people just call triple triad for ff9. Don't worry. Don't think too much about it Don't in fact don't look this up. You know the surprise no no I i would have heard loving things about it up till now if there were anything you're hearing it for me I love tetramaster tetramaster is super great Okay, I will just ignore the scrolling text who can read anyways whatever is happening to the side over there

I don't know. What are these people going on about? I can't read it Anyways to continue reading Yeah, the what are some of the options that are that are funner to customize yourself. Um, I always so Geometry wars is a really good game. I enjoyed the shit out of it when it came out I very quickly learned to have more fun playing pacifist than I did playing It's so cool, it's so interesting you the way Geometry wars phases start to shift when you're not killing anything It's nuts man

Um, it's almost like Icarus go on on dot eater mode right when you don't when you just try to survive don't shoot It's it's different and it's a whole lot of fun um yeah and Um, a lot of people swear by it. I can barely fucking. I don't think I ever really bothered but the chow garden in sonic adventure A lot of people are like chow garden was better than the game

Go to hell everyone Everyone is straight to hell With your chow garden All right, um One coming in from name not given. Hello, willy and pat. Please excuse the lack of honorific Um, I'm good with that more people can send those in that's fine You're both fans of elden ring like Many other people so I come to you with a question about balancing or more so the fan reception to balancing

I see people complain about certain builds like spellcasters That trivialize the entire game. I'm not here to say that they're wrong I do see how spellcasters have advantages over melee at times However, I think many of these complaints fall under the well the game is easy enough that if you open the wiki You can find out where all the op stuff is variety Elden ring is an open world game made by people who absolutely plan for people not going full hundred percent on their first playthrough Comet azer with the cerulean tier gets a lot of flak for both of the but both of these are tucked away in optional areas Selin doesn't does point you in the direction of comet azer, but selen herself is an npc that you can miss

Simply put it just comes off as really disingenuous to see people complain about the balance of what are in essence perfected or near perfected builds in a game that has Some capacity to accommodate people who take routes of least resistance and do little to no side shit What do you think it's I think that complaint is Uh, not the email person's complaint, but the complaint of like this shit's so broken. It's like yeah, you you You you scoured an entire game world using a series of pieces of information You didn't originally have in order to like math out the best possible like combination of button like it's absurd like

The elden rings and dark souls balancing has been always the case of like they kind of don't want you to pick up and use something And for it to be abjectly useless they want the game completable by the reasonable Player getting reasonable stuff If you combine a sequence of weapons in an unorthodox way with your stats with a certain accessory in such and such a way That you're doing

You know double whip bleed builds with that chain whip that does a double bleed on top of itself And you're icing out bosses in two seconds. Yeah. Hey, guess what? That's your reward for thinking really hard about it and optimizing your character and finding this cool stuff good for you I was a Explicit reward. I would say furthermore As when we're not talking about pvp, but pve is what is what we're talking about the

fact that there is a Summon sign on the floor to call for help to demolish anything in your way option allows a lot of arguments to be mitigated because the player is given the power To annihilate the game at any given point. It's their discretion stopping it I cannot imagine anyone could ever sit there and complain about I think that this things is too strong or whatever when we're playing a game in which Mimic tier and tish exist as summonable NPCs

Yeah, right It's entirely up to player discretion how much they want to crush so Um, I would say that like it's also kind of silly to Design a game where you're going to pretend the internet doesn't exist in this day and age Souls games being the craziest example of that um You know if they went around and did things in a way where they're like, let's just continue to not account for the internet and Facts and wikis and peak communities and discussions and shit

Um, you're just you're just pretending the world isn't what it is, right? Yeah, so that level of obtuseness that They get to in some cases allows them to well not the breaking wall in in fucking Jedi in sith manner or whatever like that was obviously like a bug But some of the obtuse things they kind of get to are like Yeah, we are willing to go this hard because the internet is working together to ARG this game, you know You might as well acknowledge that and allow The the game to be more interesting with the internet Yeah, it's it's silly like on my second playthrough

I wanted to play a magic user because I had gone a jesus person on my first run So i'm like, okay So I started up the game and then I went and got the morning star and then I went and got That I went to I teleported to caled and got the meteor staff and then I went to the dragon and I used a gold Pickle foul foot and killed the dragon with the morning star and immediately went to level 34 Then I went and got radigan's sore seal from the thing Then I drove my ass out to goddamn Learnea and picked up this spell this bell this bell this bell then be lined Ronnie went through Ronnie's quest got the dark moon great sword

Then I went to the fucking crow spot with the mow blood thing leveled myself up to level 120 got the spell I wanted from this location and now i'm good to go to play the rest of the game And I don't care if I made it easy for myself because I already beat elton ring the fucking week it came out I don't need to prove to anybody. I just want to hang out and hit the button and kill the thing In dark souls 2 if you go to bright zone cove saldora And drop down and you deal with the spiders you find a bunch of fucking villagers and attacking ambush people And some pigs and one of those pigs if you lead it across the fucking bridge past the miners Go into the place deal with all the enemies and spiders and bullshit and allow it to survive the entire pathway

treacherously through and guide it When it gets inside the building it will dig up a fucking Uh Scythe pickaxe or a pickaxe Which is a garbage pickaxe Which is one of the worst items in the game, but that's one of the only ways to get it Yep Like if that was not there for the internet to collectively figure out, I don't know what the fuck is

You know It's not even a good weapon. It's a terrible weapon in fact Um, yeah, uh, I can understand people complaining about uh from software balancing and like Certain miracles you're like I I'm winding up for 10 seconds and this miracle does like the damage of one swing Yeah, okay, that's lame But but but everything should be pushed up Rather than than things necessarily pulled down And and the the idea that you need to balance around well, you can't make it too easy. So fucking who cares? Why not?

Why not? Why so people who try cool shit don't get to have cool shit happen Stupid So i'll just i'll keep it I'll keep it hard Nothing cool is there and then i'm gonna summon five friends and they're gonna just demolish The boss and hey look, uh, it's millennia phase what phase two over um

Yeah, no straight up that being said Uh, if you yourself want to feel The game at whatever level you want to play it at you self impose it, you know, I loved Uh, uh my build in that game. I had a lot of fun with the way I set things up and you know Anytime you kind of walk past a summon sign and don't use it to walk into a boss You're already self imposing rules. You know anytime you try to Achieve a stylish rank in a game that says hey, don't use items or whatever you're self imposing rules You know, so you just there's no point in pretending that we're not already doing that put the cool shit in why not?

Fuck it Like like there is a game for that explicit type of personality And it's sicker oh Sekiro has taken that approach and it's like there's no way you're making this easier You can only make it harder Because you can only use these tools But there's no pvp to worry about in that game either, right? Yeah, but who cares? Yeah, nobody cares about pvp

Uh last one coming in um Chatterbox says dear woolly the liar madden and uh pat red faced boivé Believe it or not. These are actually pretty good classic gangster names Pie stealer doesn't seem to have the same bite for some strange reason. Anyways One of the mario puzo original books that served as a prequel to the events of the godfather has a chapter where Don Corleone survives an assassination attempt where he gets shot in the face leaving the lower half of his job partially paralyzed People don't realize this but this aspect of the character was incorporated into the film adaptation

Which is the legendary performance of marlon brando who read the books and famously went so far as to stuff cotton balls in his mouth To restrict his mouth movement to simulate veto's facial paralysis. That's that's pretty fucking cool I didn't know that was the reason I bring this up because this fascinating tidbit is one of hollywood's most iconically famous acting roles But it's never referenced or explained at all in the actual movie You'd only get this if you read the books or went behind the scenes So it similarly doesn't take away from the movie, but it begs the question Can you think of something iconic or beloved by fans in the realm of games that's never explained in the story's context? Oh

I can't think of anything right off the top of my head. I mean that's a really cool back story space is what's that? Oh, I was gonna say that's a really cool detail about the backstory. Um I mean, I've got Something that comes to mind They're just roommates Yeah That was the game people are in the chat are pointing out a near

In that yes near is about 9 11 Oh like like like full stop but um But is there not reference in the game in the form of like if you use The drunken guard ending if you use ending e If you have the like there's enough

loose shit Even the fact that the yoraha stage plays were like in some in text form like There is and there is loose threads in there to to to refer to those things, right? um Something like that like don corleone's getting shot Yeah

Completely outside of the game. Yeah, no well, you know what you know what? I just thought of a different one page We were doing devil may cry 3 and the phrase tony redgrave came up. Oh Yeah, yeah, and she's just sitting there going tony redgrave sure. Why the fuck Was his name tony redgrave to which somebody correctly pointed out the reason why his name was tony redgrave at some point Was because he used to be a fucking resident evil character And um, I mean shit like we the photo of the twin White-haired babies with the umbrella logo shining through on them

Just shows you an alternate reality of what the fuck could have happened. You know um Dante and virgil as umbrella test babies Would have been fucking nuts Um, like I feel like we still kind of got there with with jake Um and the whisker children sure sure Uh, yeah, I don't know if there's any there's definitely stuff like that though Like yeah, like gaster in undertale for sure as well. Mm-hmm

Oh man, by the way, I really want to point out. This is way out of Context, but do you remember woolly when the re4 People when journos were getting ahold of re4 Remakes demo and they're like we found the dog dead in the bear trap and All the resident evil heads were like, I don't think that's every dog. That's fucking I think I think that's bullshit. Maybe and then the demo comes out and it's some fucking like dark gray black wolf That's an enemy that's caught in one of the bear traps. Every dog is that dog though. Shut up. It's not it's literally not that dog

Like when I saw it I say hey, it's not that dog Uh Come on. Yeah Hey, you ever see what a dog it's a wolf You ever see what happens when you when you Uh, when a corgi gets bred with a knot corgi Yeah, they become a corgi with the other animal's head on top of it. Isn't isn't it amazing? It's the funniest thing. It's and it's like every time you would think that there'd be some variation. No, it's a texture swap

It's just it's crazy. It's corgi plus Plus breed it's wild That that yeah, it just literally like look up husky corgi or look up look up a look up corgi Any animal any other type of dog mix corgi husky Corgi doberman labrador corgi retriever all of it and you see all you'll see is dog Of normal like recognition that you know the breed and then it's corgi proportioned. It has corgi legs It's super wild

Where did this come from? Uh punch mom showed it to me the other day and I'd never seen it before hilarious. It's incredible. It's hilarious. It's nuts Um, I forgot how we even oh, yeah, tiny. Yeah, it's just it's just it just take the legs and corgi them Just go schmush and then keep the same head unbelievable all right We were talking about the products of incest and breeding and uh That was that was post game is that if you if you

That's how we got there. Oh my god. So if you're saying that if you grab a incest batch of freaks that all look exactly the same and then you mix them with A regular dog aka Ned Stark. They come out looking Like a weird version of the Ned Stark. Is that what you're saying? You can have the same head, but who knows what's happening with the body So Let's go find the Targaryen

And then and the mountain and let's see what happens Isn't he a zombie? Uh, yeah, yeah, but whatever. I mean you can still you know, okay science Whatever Just just get just get some cool Clegane Targaryen Mixes going No, I'm not gonna do that. All right. Well And with that I'm going to leave

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