Castle Super Beast - CSB 226: Listeners Are Now Allowed 600 Seconds of Podcast Per Day

Episode Date: July 4, 2023

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[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Hello everybody, welcome back. Hey, Wally, how you doing, man? Not too bad. Just want to let everyone know. We appreciate your patronage listening to the Castle Superbeast podcast and as you have been Loyally listening and enjoying the show for some time. I Would like to inform you of some changes so starting today there will be a limit of 600 seconds per day allowed when you listen to the podcast. And so what we're going to need to do is just

limit the amount of podcast everybody can listen to. Tomorrow you can listen to another 600 seconds. And you know, if you do some quick math on that, we're limiting the rates a little bit, but it's okay. And you should be able to put it all together. You'll eventually make it through an entire episode. But 600 seconds, I mean, what is that? That's a lot of time, right? I'll take you about 48 days to make it through an average episode.

You know. Now, if you're a subscriber, well, you might be entitled to something a little special. We can get you some, what, 6,000 minutes, seconds? 6,000 seconds. 6,000 seconds sounds pretty good. Now I don't know about you, but if I just, you know, carry the two, yeah, yeah, I mean, like you're getting, that's, you you could you could actually listen to the podcast in

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Yeah. You know, so that's it. I hope everyone is as able to enjoy this change. And if you don't like it, well, hey, man, go touch grass. You know, hey, will I, I heard. I saw people saying that you're not even actually rate limited to 600 seconds of the podcast that what's actually happened is that you personally screwed up the feed. Oh, we're just pleasure to offer everybody who would,

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Just, you know, a little bit of house cleaning. Well, Lee, did you spend $44 billion to get this podcast so that everyone would think you're cool and then wreck it? What? Huh? Shut up. Here's a doge. Shut up. It's fine. I think I think what what so every every ever since we're joking about Twitter. Let's just make that clear. Ever since the Musk started running things over

at thetwitter.com, I feel like every four to six weeks, there is a period in which I'm starting to add all my mutuals on different social media platforms because it looks like it's gonna go down by the end of the day. And those all seemed like, maybe everyone's jumping the gun, right? I got sent the absolute like, uh, maybe everyone's jumping the gun, right? I got sent the absolute like thumb

on the pulse, which was fucking drill going out and saying, hey, yeah, uh, you can follow me here on Insta, you can follow me here on Blue Sky. You can follow me here on that. It's like drills put in the life jacket on Yeah, it's I mean, I was I was literally just standing there in my pools looking at the just refreshing and I saw like You will be now limited to whatever I'm like. Oh my god like just the race to the bottom is pretty pretty rough I don't know that like it I think I think when you're this big of a Oh my God, like just the race to the bottom is pretty, pretty rough. I don't know that like, I think when you're this big of a platform, like my impression has always been

that you don't really die, you just enter a zombie state, you know? That's the usual way that a Facebook, Tumblr, you know, totally. Yeah. But yesterday for large portions of the day the site was functionally dead To the point where you couldn't even reach out to people to tell them that hey, here's a blue sky invite or whatever Yeah, man, I don't know speaking of do you want a blue sky invite?

I I sure I guess okay. I still got a couple yeah No, but that's the thing like there's a lot of things that just you know they never they never die They just they they they become undead if anything But yeah, so Good good Godspeed Godspeed to the to the bird out there go boy Okay Godspeed to the bird out. There you go, boy. Okay. Thank you. What I should probably do is kind of go look

at what that is and find out about it. Okay, do you want me to explain to you the new future of social media blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, jerk off motion? Go for it. Blue Sky is literally just Twitter. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah jerk off motion go for it um blue sky is literally just Twitter it's the same exact fucking it's the same exact fucking thing black jacket hookers

no no blackjack no hookers just like it's it's the same it's the same fucking thing no DMs Damn Well there goes the black Jack Alright fair enough cool. It's a Jack Dorsey co-founded it as oh, yeah the future Blah blah blah blah right right and it's like it's how's it Right, right, right. And it's like it's, how's the depth of the game of like two people? Yes, okay, no, no, no, yeah, that project he was working

on after he left. I think I heard about that. Right, right, right. Like, so it's a fucking... I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna leave and do it again. Mm-hmm. It's a fucking weird thing because you go to Blue Sky and you're like, yo, this tweets doing numbers.

And this tweets doing numbers means Casey Excellent and Gigapute's liked it because they're the only people that follow you on the fucking website because it's got like a total population of Oh man this tweets doing numbers Like I'm like, oh, yeah, I got like 80 followers. Holy shit Yeah, I always just like I read that that picture in that voice specifically the dude just like all man Yeah, okay Well anyways You know hey

Got some some stuff to To go over I had a big weekend. There's a lot of fun What did you do when I saw that you met a certain Yao Man. I met a Yao Man. And that he is a YouTuber too. He is in fact a YouTuber too. I did get to meet up and hang out with a Sir Yao music. My brain is completing his name to Hans Yaos me out man. I mean you can do that

Yeah, no, that was that was super cool. So we there was the there's a big tournament this weekend and It's so Billy and um This has been Brad came out and yeah got to hang out with them to find gentlemen just with them to find gentlemen just enjoyed the the the locals and the the the the environment of this turn. You know, you mad right? So you mad battle of Z. It was a it was a two for one. Basically, there was a a a cross major going on and yeah, ultimate Montreal air dashers uh... cross-paddly see they took uh... an awesome venue space that is literally a church and turned it into an fgc event

so like the pictures that uh... i i i posted a retweeted we're just like you have the giant fucking like where the aisle would be where the fucking tabernacle would be you know all that shit. It's just, it is, there's many churches that basically are on every fucking street corner, like gas stations in Montreal. 7,000 steeples, man. Yeah.

Back in the day, you know, they could not get enough of their churches. And now they can't get away from them fast enough, really. Would you like a condo that looks like a church? Yeah. So this is, I mean, there's every developer in the province. I mean, here's the thing, like the churches are like architecturally fucking awesome.

And they, you know, they're really great venue events. And so the way that they, I have stock it to the organizers and the way that they found this place was because they went there for beer fest. So they went in for a beer fest that's usually held in this church. And then they're like, oh, this would be a great place to shoot to hold an event. And I was like, oh, like, God is no longer in this house. Like, he's long gone, you know.

But wait, wait, wait. That just hit me. Like it took a second. Like this church would be a good place to hold an event. Yes. That's what it's for. It's for a fence. But like as a church, there's always that like,

you know, well, we're gonna decide what kind of event we'll hold. Is there degeneracy? Is there thuggery? Then no, no, no, we can't, you know, but yeah, they had a- But I mean, like a church is just a large scale in closed event space. Yes, but the type of event is usually discriminatory

is the problem. So because this event space has been freed from the shackles and because it's now just that space, there's the ability to have a cool thing like a fucking tournament there. So yeah, if we did something cool with this space, well, I'll tell you one thing, right? I walked in there and I did notice that the spirit of the Lord was absent, so I took it upon myself to do something about it. You best believe I entered DNF duel and I did my hammer loops and praise the Lord so that we can bring the spirit of the Lord back into this place. You know, so yeah, don't you worry, don't you worry.

We got some scripture in there. It was a good time. We, yeah, I mean, God, so I guess like for starters, walking in, I saw that in the basement there was a, there's a boxing gym, you know, and I was like, oh, that's interesting. That's cool. Let me, yeah, that's cool. So I went down to, I went to use the bathroom and then I could kind of walk to, and let me just stick my head in, you know, when I took a look and I saw this set up. And I was like, hold on a minute. I recognize a bunch of shit here. And holy fuck, there's my old coach who opened up a second gym over here and

has basically been teaching out of this place under a church now and like, like, I'm like, what the fuck? And so we just cop back up and I was like, yo, and like, literally just like the dude who I used to trade with, like all the time, you know, like a shout out Coach Lou opened up a second place over there, the performance center. And I was just like, we got a fucking under the fucking church boxing gym, like how fucking sick is that for a setting? And everyone's doing their their their grand in and out, they're doing their jobs, practicing the drills, you know, when he's teaching and yeah, man, it was just great to run into old faces and see what's up. You know? And it was a very like, I was like, OK, yeah, this feels good. This feels like Kismit.

You know? And he's like, yeah, if you ever want to just come back around, hit the mits a little bit, do some back work. Just come in even if you're scheduled, can't work in what it used to be. Come on, have a good time. You know? And I was like, yeah, I think I will.

So I'm going to see'm gonna see if I can, if I can make that happen, man, because like, there's, there was something like, I can say is probably spiritually fulfilling about just getting in there and like, and working the ring, doing the, doing all the good shit, you know? And when you, when you have the,

the right vibes to, and like, when you have a, especially like a good, a cool ass coach with just lots of fucking soul and just, you know, kick you, picking you up and then knocking you down and getting you into it. Like that attitude is all there. I fucking miss it. So yeah, man, that was, that was a good sign immediately. I'm like, oh my god, we got a, a, a fucking new venue. And what's cool too is that like, it's a, it's a bit of a, a bit of a smaller space where you can like work with like

people more personally because the class I was a part of was a much bigger one. So like you get quality time in but you don't get a few minutes because you have to go through like a giant class but now it's a much smaller group. So that was fucking dope. And then yeah, the venue itself, they had a really cool setup because basically as a FGC major, there was basically a giant street fighter. Six tournament and then there was a giant smash event as well. So they had a really smart thing where they set it up where there's two floors. There's the upper balcony to the church and that's where booze is allowed. You can bring your own.

You know, booze in a church. Right. Vremont québécois style, you know. You gotta fucking smoke, drink, and have a May West in the back of the church. And yeah, no, the, the, the, the, the so upstairs, they had the booze and they had all the side tournaments. And so that's where like, you could go up and drink and like, minors were only allowed on the downstairs area if you were coming to

enter and stuff. So that works. Yeah. Just, just, just split them. That's it. That's it. You know, and, um, yeah, the, there was a ton of side events as well. Like, it's always fun. Like, one of the cool things about you, Mad, is events as well. It's always fun. One of the cool things about UMED is that there's always the major games, but they will have a ton of like, a ton of T.O.s being like, yo, we're going to run a bracket for fucking cyber bots. Who wants in? And I'm like, yo, let's go. Run it.

I remember that shit. I learned one or two things. Let's do it. So there was, yeah, they ran all kinds of little side game brackets and I jumped into a bunch of them too because again, how often do you get the chances? You know, so for a cyber box bracket like once every four to in the yeah, you know, so I had to cyber bots, whatever I did it. I fought a little bit. I got fourth place. That's fine. You know, I did my one little thing that I learned from the from the Twitch rivals event and you know did some carrying there I

Guess that I entered DNF duel and that game has had like updates and there's a new character dropping and they've been teasing the character for a year I don't know what the fuck is going on with that But the NF dual thing might be the funniest fighting game trailer I've ever seen like here's the new character and it's like a two and a half minute Valtan not even two and a half minutes dropping combos and getting beat up I mean, it's like like they do they do like the 18 second thing, you know, which anyway whatever there They got their marketing plan, but there's all kinds of season changes that I was not aware of and keeping up with but I just pick Crusader went back in there did some fucking blessed hammer loops all the way to fourth So again, I'll take that you know not bad

I you had one would you have walked away going yeah, man this game is trash. I don't even play this game I don't even play this game. I don't even play it That's the it's the ultimate the ultimate OS the ultimate mixup I don't even play this game. I don't even play this game. I don't even play it. That's the ultimate the ultimate OS, the ultimate mixup. You can't even, you know, you can't, you can't, you can't destroy it. Um, yeah, no, I was, I was surprised by some of the bullshit, too, because I was watching like as, uh, some of the updates involved more or less. I don't if you remember, berserker, the character that looked more or less like a super say in with the bloody hand and the big blood. So the game is officially like a two-touch scenario. It kind of was that already for some characters, but you're watching him where he just literally

touches you twice and that's the round. If they don't fuck up everything, you know. But yeah, no. The hammer, the word of God is still good. And, you know, we rock that shit. We don't do any of the new season two shit. That's heresy. We keep it all testament.

And we do what the Lord bids us. And that carries us to higher in the bracket than we should be placing for a game that we don't play. But that was a lot of fun. And then they ran a lot of fun. And then they ran a Sam show bracket. So again, let's fucking go. Let's place them. So finally got to play Sam show for the first time in however long with like what appeared to be human game play human beings were there. And it made me just sad because I missed it so hard. After trying out the

the bad rollback that's currently underway and again I know that like they're working on it. They're they are taking the feedback. I have my fingers crossed but like playing it properly offline just getting good matches in was so like oh because I did a bunch of sick shit. You know, I had some nice reads. I had some nice deflects I had some nice moments of just remembering how to Darling that shit and I got second place, you know, and I'm like, okay, like play that game I don't even play this game bro. Yeah one plays that game. No Yeah, no And quite frankly as Jimmy bones rolled in later and he's like dude I wasn't there. You shouldn't want and I'm like yeah, for enough, you know, um, and quite frankly, as a Jimmy bones rolled in later and he's like, dude, I wasn't there. You should have wanted. I'm like, yeah, for

enough, you know, but anyways, it was still like, I fucking, I want this game so badly, dude. It's so much fun when it has no fucking hurdles between you and the fun that it's trying to give you. the fun that it's trying to give you. I that's the that's how you that's how you it really breaks down is just like this can be a fucking spectacular experience if the game itself is not getting in its own way, but if an opportunity presents itself, I'm always going to jump in, you know, uh, there's nothing that feels as good as just landing that like fucking heavy slash with Darley and I rip and through half your life bar with a good read. It's so sick. So yeah, did some of that, of course Street Fighter 6. Hey man, it is what it is. So I put to get, I definitely got the memo everyone

Blue my shit up to to let me know about the menna and like I said last time I'm like I know men is doing it. There's there's some real blank a shit out there shout out Wolfgang as well and the skin and a bunch of bunch of blank is doing doing work Insane tech all to I went back in I put together a blank. I do have a blank and now it's right. It's there. You know I feel as if I Mean that I've been a lot of people have been asking me about it and I feel like like there's a kind of a difference between Street Fighter 4 Blanca had a lot of gimmicky things and then when I

Test them on you and you know how to deal with them, then I have to stop doing them and then rely on down back, you know, just a defensive Honda style of like, all right, we're gonna get lame now and that's how Blanca could take matches in Street Fighter IV. You can't down back in this game anymore, right? Street Fighter VI is not about letting you do that. There's way too many ways to open it. I'm not gonna do that, but I mean, and Gile can do that. They can, but you got it, you know,

there's ways around it, it sucks, it's annoying to deal with, but, you know, there are things, but like down backing is way harder now. So, yeah, that is one of the things where you're like, okay, so what do you do then, if you can't run that old game plan, and the answer is his level two and his toy right you throw out the doll the stupidest shit I've ever And then you get fucking a solid maybe 15 seconds of absolute cracked out nonsense

You get to turn into a character from a different style of fighting game. Yes. Yes You get to turn into a character from a different style of fighting game. Yes. For the scene seconds. Yes. Which, you know, think about those install level twos. Like, that's what jury gets to turn into a Marvel character. You know, Jamie gets just maxed the fuck out. Like, it is absolutely like, yeah, there's some nice things that go with the transformation

into having a character that can install. But you get to do that, and then it's very real, and I better have my setups labbed. I better have all my tech put together, and you better know what's coming, because if I open you up, I'm gonna take that life. Yeah, Blanca's like a physical JP. But, his body is nonsense.

Yeah, his body is nonsense. His body is doing it, yeah. then once once the lightning beast wears off, you are back to, you know, gimmicks and whatever fundamentals you can put together. So, and of course, the thing is, I think right now the gimmicks are going to work for a lot of people that don't know or are not looking out for it. But this is my projection as to the strength of the character. He's really, really good if the person has not prepared and if they have, then you can create opportunities. Airball is always gonna be good,

but yeah, I put together a blanket, I'm rambling, whatever. Feel like, and this is from the other side of it, I feel like Blanca has more gimmicks this time Um, so you in Street Fighter 4 he has gimmicks. Yes, yes, and and I didn't really see much of him in five But I feel like he has like the same types of stupid to hop and around, you know screen space But I'm in a weird crossup with the ball shit, but I feel like he has more Yes, more of them to do and those are coming from Srivitar 5, right? So the command grab that hops at you, for example, is a what is that?

Yeah, exactly. It's a holdover from the last game. He you know as well as Yeah, well, no, there was one in between Yeah, well, no, there was one in between. Yeah, and that's where the different arcs of his upball as well became so drastically different. They held over a lot of his Street Fighter V design, as well as the Coward Crouch Hop stuff, as you know, all of those things came over. So the gimmicks are like, yeah, implementations into his new character design essentially as a set up lab trap character, yeah, deanna. But it's there, it's possible.

It's gonna take, like I said, someone's willing this to go in and make sure they know how to deal with this. And I think anyone that you get blown up by, you're kinda like, okay, yeah, fuck this, I gotta go figure it out, you know. There's something that's happening to me in ranked matches, which are still like fast and furious, which is incredible, which is, uh, character popularity is influencing the strength of matchups.

Like Dawesim and Blanca, I'm fighting one a day. Yes, that. Yes. This has, the unknown factor has always been real. I talk about it a bunch of times, I always say it, because it's simple. It's like Dawesim is the least popular character on the roster.

Yet yesterday, a Dawesim player, there were two Dawsims in Top 8, one of which made third place, and quite simply, they're good players, but if you also just don't have the experience fighting against them, you're not gonna know about the tech. You're not gonna, you know, you're not gonna know about all the wild shit that they've come up with, and if you're seeing juries every day, you're gonna get used to the sneaky shit jury can do. Yeah, like like jury and JP are excellent. And I see them as 40% of my total matches. And then another thing as well, which like, I, you know, this is, this is also Ken is all it's Ken is way the foot. Yeah. Yeah.

I learned that can match up. Yep. Yep a lot everyone is Ken and jury are Up there, right Ken and jury are doing really well right now compared it to the rest of the cast Now I always say that it's really you don't want to start talking about tears too early and stuff because it's really silly when the game is barely out of the gate But there is one actually very interesting discussion to be made about tears. I forget the gentleman's name. I retweeted it earlier this week. Mike Ross found it. So maybe I can find that.

But it's a Japanese player who has hit Master Rank with everybody. Every single character in the game and then put their tear list out. And it's like, that's not objective for the world for different players, but it's a decent start. Oh, it was high-tiny that did it. Okay, yeah, high-tiny. High-tiny's a fucking god. High-tiny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

Absolutely. That is credibility right there. And it's interesting too, because Japan has their feelings about things. Like Japan currently feels like Luke is way up there and he's interesting too because Japan has their feelings about things like Japan currently feels like Luke is like way up there And he look is amazing. I sent you the sent to me list Luke is amazing, but America is kind of like sleeping on it a little bit, you know here and there But we're seeing more and the results are coming in in anyway, but all this to say that like It is inevitable that people become obsessed with the

theorists because it's like one, the categorizer within us wants to put the labels up and stack everything. And two, we want answers to why we're struggling and where we're at and how things feel and how much the character is carrying me or how much I have to work harder against the character who's actually just better than mine, right? That recently had this feeling extraordinarily strongly. I did a stream on Canada today for a couple hours where I'm like, I should learn how to play Manon because Manon is clearly

just better than Geef. It's same basic archetype, but just much better. And what I discovered is that I have a long, long fucking way to go for my manol is any better than Mikey. No, you would. If she is like, you know, high A or whatever the fuck. Because you've got 30 years of Geef memory. Geef. Yeah.

And those fundamentals like cannot be quickly learned. The instance you have in how to move with them, went to grab, went to knee, went to approach, and how to space things out just a little bit. You tweak them between games, but that memory is core. Yeah, I discovered something very interesting doing that, like very interesting. And what I figured out is the reason why I feel so comfortable with Geef is because Geef's drive rush is terrible. Because Geef's drive rush is so awful, he actually has very few options and reasons to use it, which means my Geef game plan occasionally uses drive rush, but not a lot. Whereas with somebody else who is better, like,

Manon has a lot of good uses for her drive rush, but I don't know how to do them, because I barely use drive rush. Interesting. So I'll say that the strong Giefs I fight make generous use of drive rush, because as a mechanic, it is just great for the entire roster. Um, but some people get it better, better than others, right? Like, uh, I, we were talking about DJ the other day.

DJ gets, DJ gets the best drive rush in the game in exchange for the inability to do a crouching medium kick into a drive rush, right? Net because he also seems to have no real overhead. Which, um, yeah, well, it's, he has it out of just cool. It's it's it's baked into the mix That's like long that's a long overhead. Yeah, it's still big. It's big to the mix. There's a high load No, I mean is Ryu and Gael and Jamie are doing like overhead and and jury and Ken are doing like overheads into stuff whereas are doing like overheads into stuff, whereas fucking DJs overhead is a knockdown. So what you're, yeah, what you're often getting is the drive rush, yeah, drive rush into overhead

and then you get plus frames for doing a combo. You get to do stuff. But yeah, no, so you have this thing where the feeling of like, yeah, wanting to know where my character's at and how much, like, and there's even like, I like the four, there's the four D tier list where it's like, okay, it's not like A, it's not S through F, it's actually has faults, has less faults, and then requires effort or carries you, you know? Yeah, that's a nice, that's a nice thing. It's not only talking about Ken for that metric in which I was learning Menno or trying to learn Menno

and there's like, well, I'm like, she's top tier, right? And somebody responded, well, she can't be top tier because she needs to take risks at all. I'm like, Ken, who doesn't need to take risks? And I'm like, oh, yeah, that's true. And some of the strong players that we have let us, you know, like when watching this weekend, like this Rami, a really strong player from Montreal

who basically switched off of Menon to messing around to play with Ken for now, because like he's like, yeah, there's just too many things here that I don't like. She has to exactly, she has to put herself out there. And the process of being consistent at this game is minimizing how many risks you have to take, right? Like Manel excels at putting people in the 50-50s,

but what if you didn't need to have a 50-50? What if you had a 100-0? Yeah, the difference between the strongest players and kind of strong players and people that are a little bit of than average is how much they're able to eliminate the need for a guess, right? And to be perfectly honest, the strongest players that make it as far as they can go in brackets, there's barely ever a moment where they don't already know what they're about

to get going next. They have sequences, and then when you do something to change them, they shift into another lane of pressure. Right? So if you're kind of like, just if you want to, it's a lot to think about, certainly, if you're especially getting used to the ropes, but if you just want a difference between

how the mentality is working at high level versus at mid or low level, like a lot of mid and low level is like, hmm, let me try something. Okay, it didn't work. All right, what should I do? Okay, maybe this might work, right? And that's not happening at higher level, at higher level. It's like, no, we've got lanes and we're jumping between them. And then we go, like, you know what, fuck it.

I'm going to do a crazy one here that they haven't seen yet. We got an opening, run the sequence, you know? So what ends up happening too now as a result of all that is there are tier lists. However, there are tier lists that are massively different based on your skill level. Yeah. If you are a beginner, that is a different tier list compared to if you are a fucking master or an expert. I forgot to put it out, but somebody put out a tier list based on modern mode. And it was totally different from all the lists we're seeing. Like Geef,

like in that beginner levels, is unequivocally the best character in modern mode, because the ability to use a one-button SPD against beginners unbelievable is the right thing that's ever happened to anyone in fighting yes because here's the thing from level zero I've never played this video game before ever up until like I've gotten comfortable and I can do my stuff but I'm still kind of like taking guesses here and there. There's always going to be a moment where somewhere in pressing buttons, you are no longer safe. And when you create an opening, you're not looking for somebody to like, you're not expecting to be thrown.

So you're going to be getting tossed by someone mashing that one hit one button, SPD on you, you know. And there's a lot of characters who have things like that where like this is actually something that is a solvable problem, but when you don't know enough about the game, you don't know the answers, it feels unsolvable. So this character becomes higher in the tier list, right?

And this is where like, you know, your, like Gile is really nuts, like I said, he can do so much. And it takes a lot of work to like put him in his place. But as if the lower you are, the more of a beginner you are, the more impossible that feels. Geef similarly, because of the way command grabs force you to play around that. You have to change your play style

when you don't even have a play style yet. You know, a knowledge check character is asking you to like approach them the way they demand you fight them on their terms, and you're like, but I barely know what my own terms are. So this is all very important, you know, to kind of keep in mind when you're thinking about like, oh, this character's top tier or bottom tier,

and all of the character that I use has this or that advantage. It's like, the advantages that you might be thinking of are ones that don't even factor into your gameplay. So don't worry too hard about that, is I guess the end, the bottom line of what I'm trying to say. Don't get obsessed with the tier list too much, you know. Just pick a top tier, okay. You don't know why this person might be top tier.

So if you pick them, you might not get that carry that you're looking for, you know. And general and general, let the game cook. Let it simmer. Give it a second. See what happens. I guarantee you there's 15 things about every character that are critical that you don't know yet.

Oh, absolutely. I am in a strange place because I always play grapplers. And tier lists are obviously not, not mandatory, they're not set in stone, and just some degree they're not real. Um, but I have to admit, I do have a little feeling in my chest that is like, okay, I'm playing Jamie and Geef. Mm-hmm. And every fucking list I see puts the two characters that I want to play at or near the bottom. And just that little spark of like, oh, just give me a good character for once. Can I play, oh, like one top, the one game that I played in which Geat was really good, like really good, was vanilla streak fighter four,

except he had like a fucking one nine matchup against the best character. So I lost all the time, like, oh. You know, at the same time, it's like, there is, so there's always that and like welcome to the dice roll from me picking based on who I think looks cool You never know what's gonna happen, you know But there's always the heroes with the character that show you the way right? There's always people that are like yeah, and I'm just gonna defy those odds and do something insane

Because there's always that moment of like the idea where your character sucks until someone invents them and shows you that they don't, you know. There's always the Koji Kog who whips out Teahawk and everyone goes Teahawk is garbage and he's like, oh yeah, okay, hold this. Condor Spire. Condor Spire. What, you know, and like yeah, we always talk about gamer B, right? But like it's, it's the, it's that moment. So you don't, you don't have to like sweat that part of it too much. And if anything, thinking about that whole, like,

there are different skills, they're different tier lists for different skills. Right? Honda is fricking S tier if you're a beginner. If you're a beginner and you're playing Honda, you're gonna beat everybody. You're gonna, you know, like I bet you, like you're gonna go, like I'd say all the way up through gold, all the way up through, like, you know, like it's just, it's ridiculous. Like there's no way, you know, that anyone knows how to handle

that and is ready for it. And it just feels impossible to surround because of the particular way that he has this advantage. You can actually do things about it. You can parry, if you've got armor, you can break it, you can predict he's gonna do the splash, you can jump back and air throw him. There's a couple things you can do

and overall let him hang himself, but it takes a lot of work, you know? So once you start seeing people that are like, oh, I see the answer, I can implement it right away. Honda starts to not be as good, you know, but up until you get there, it's a whole fucking wall to climb. And, you know, hey, again, this is where it's like, do you want to hit that button that says train against my opponent's character, you know, because that's a really great button after your ranked matches, right? But yeah, so anyway though Street Fighter 6

That's the thing I saw I put together a blanket, but at the same time I worked harder on a Marissa and because I just I I'm really feeling it. I really like her and I should put more time in her I she's so cool, but for what I'm really cool and gel with me, but like I'm realizing Somebody made a comment that like mocked me in a way that actually opened up part of my brain but for whatever reason. She's so cool. She didn't gel with me, but like I'm realizing, somebody made a comment that like mocked me in a way that actually opened up part of my brain. Like I don't get it, man. I pick every character on the roster,

but nobody like speaks to me except for Jamie and Geef. And somebody made like some snide comment of like characters that feel like characters you've been playing for decades feel familiar. No, and I'm like, oh yeah. Yeah. characters that feel like characters you've been playing for decades feel familiar new Yeah, that's real that's real no listen continue to shang song this game is great for it continue to shang song You know Um, um at the very least if some if you play a character for a bit and they don't click you'll understand what you're fighting against next time You know, but that's a great point.

And yeah, man, it's always like, I always have these moments of like, I'm definitely, it's not character doubt or anything because I can feel long-term when I'm like, I see the problems, but now I just see mostly potential. And what I see is my weakness is highlighted. And when I'm looking at my Marissa and where I choke and how I choke.

For example, I choked in pools, right? In this bracket, I drowned in pools at quarter finals. And, you know, I lost a Marissa mirror. And I was like, yep, that's happened to me at the last event too. I can see that with this. That's a useful thing to lose out to though. I like, you can take a look at what was

different about your play styles, but I generally don't like mere matches in this game, especially with her because they there's just a whole lot of nonsense, armor breaking bullshit going on. The Geath Mirror is really stupid because whoever hits the hard punch second wins the the footsie exchange. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know who I like in Marissa. It's like whoever let's go second wins, but in some cases not so because whoever's the lady is because in audience will put this is going to break the so sometimes it does, but sometimes it does. It doesn't depend on what you did. And it yeah, it's it's crazy, right? It's just a lot of glass breaking. It's wild. But and then I got J.P.D out pretty hard after that.

Um, but, uh, what I was going to say is at the same time as looking at that and going, all right, um, I got to figure the shit out. The same, the next day, there was the Red Bull Kumite and, uh, Big Bird just took his Marissa all the way through and ran a fucking train on everyone And you're like, oh my god, I have work to do, you know If you have the right fucking attitude if you have the right ability to to adapt and just do the big damage You know do the fucking 7k combos. You're gonna be like yeah, okay People have to be afraid of this no matter what.

It's all about being a bully. And in some cases too, like, it's interesting, because like, he really didn't whiff a lot, and I kind of see where I'm myself from. Like, I'm trying to play footsies with characters that have like great normals that just blow me the fuck out, punish walkbacks and things like that. And like, yeah, he's just confirming everything, you know, so I

Had a bit of Of a I didn't talk about it last week because it wasn't super on point for the topic but The the specifics of you describing your Marissa play does unfortunately make it relevant. So last week I was playing Street Fighter and my wife, wonderful wife, Peach Salave brought me a food.

So I was like, oh, you need a food. I'll watch something. Oh, watch a say jam video. Why not? People recommended me a say jam video called, you don't need good reflexes to whiff punish. Yes, because I was in the middle of playing sets complaining about I am a dog shit whiff punisher. Okay say jams say jam Street Fighter 6 content is impeccable. He's great. It's been doing such a good job explaining things that are like obvious concepts

for the last 20 years, but they're not necessarily communicated to every, and it's not super intuitive. If you're coming into this and you don't know about it, he's doing a really good job with it. Okay, so. I know the one you're talking about. And he, somebody in the chat goes,

what is all, his chat, it's an old video, says, my reactions aren't fast enough to whiff punish and he just looks right at the camera, goes stop, stop typing on your keyboard. And I'm like, oh, fuck, that's exactly what I've been saying for like an hour. And then he shows off like, oh, okay, whiff punishing isn't whiff punishing.

And I feel like that language has actually trapped me for decades. Amazing. Because he even goes so far as to like whiff punishing is not, I saw what you did and reacted with my perfect laser eyes. But what is it? What is it? It's doing something that looks unsafe, but it's not really unsafe and gives you good spacing And then just waiting for them to do anything at all see any movement and then tapping the good button and the one that killed me

As he shows off that the best way to whiff punish with Jamie is to do Jamie standing roundhouse Pop wait a wait a second Pop and do us another standing roundhouse. Absolutely. Punish counter. And Mark, oh no! Oh no! I've been stupid for 20 years! Isn't that amazing? I'm stupid.

Stupid for 20 years. And it's all because we'll won. Nobody explained the right way to me. But two, it's not with punishing. It's not what it actually is. So, so, so, let me, don't, don't go too hard now. Hold on a minute. So there is a large category called whiff punishing

and whiff punishing for those who don't know whiff, WHIF punishing is when somebody whiffs a button and then you hit that button on its recovery and then get your combo out, right? You're playing a game of like fishing for something, but What you saw there what he was describing how to do something when you how to get a Whiff punish without Required without really like having a reaction time for it. That's called a spacing trap. There's a term for that, right? a spacing trap

Like a frame trap, is automatic. So a frame trap is basically, I'm gonna hit a button and then that button is gonna let me act first so that if you try to do anything, the next button I hit will beat it, right? And you don't have to actually like think about whether or not something else is coming there. You just hit one into two and then sometimes you'll get that hit if they press the button.

Yes. For my personal experience, Zangief's forward headbutt if it hits, I'm going to win the exchange. Like, nothing is fast enough to beat the advantage I have off of that if it hits. Yes. So make no mistake. Nothing is fast enough to beat the advantage I have off of that if it hits. Yes, so Make no mistake top players good players people who are very strong when I'm fucking, you know playing anyone who's who's You know really good at this game. There's that thing where they're looking at the button that I'm pressing in front of them Seeing me with it and with their reactions hitting a button to blow it up, right?

There's a saying, there's a lot of little, like, fucking MTLSF sayings, one of which is don't test reactions, you know, because it's like, no, no, no. If we're standing here in neutral and I put something out there and you walked back in time, I have the speed to see it, call it out, and hit my best button and then get a big, big punish on it.

That is a clean with punish in the same way you thought of it for the last 20 years, that is based on pure reaction time. However, in addition to having that skill, I also have some pre-baked spacing traps. And what a spacing trap is is one, it's something that does not require me to even know or react to what you're doing because I'm going to hit you with a thing at the tip tip tip and the buttons that you usually would press to like exchange to come to take your turn afterwards

are actually going to fall short and I know they're going to fall short because I've practiced this exact tip distance. So I'm going to hit the button at the tip, then you're gonna do something, and that thing, I'm gonna wait a half second. Give it a second. And then automatically, I'm gonna hit the next button and punish the thing that you did, you know? That is, yeah, and that's all dependent on spacing,

not based on reaction time. And once you layer in all of these things into your gameplay, you start to turn the 5050s into 7525s into 100 zeros. You start going, okay, I know at this distance, I can do this and then this comes next, you know. And now you cannot go all the way. There's a limit to how far any given technique will take you. But you can't do that five times in a row. No. And you're going to fight people, you're going to fight people unless people don't adapt,

to right in which case you can just test them and see what's up. But you're going to fight people who do have the speed that you're afraid of, that you're like, I don't have that reaction time, and they do. That's going to be a problem. But they do have little tricks like this to make up for it.

And there's a lot of making up for it that goes into a solid game plan. You know? Yeah. So that's exactly a perfect, you know, thing about footsies and such. And the layering of how of getting good at footsies is like the same, the same information you have about how to play a good geef. People who have been playing Street Fighter since World Warrior forward and getting good at it, have that baked in information. Like Reggie's footsy, he gave him his incredible. It's fucking super strong. It's much, much better than mine.

He's been playing fucking, review for God damn the history of the thing. So it's all in there, you know? But you can make up for it with these little bits, you know? What I can do. He's a marching Big Bird, just beat the piss of JP. Yeah, this Comete, like, like, Holy Hell.

Right, so Gladius can call out some buttons as well. I can just, nope, I don't think so. But there's downsides, right? In this particular tournament, I was running some long casuals with a really good Kimberly player called Dimensional. Shout out to his really cool guy. And we basically like I was seeing myself whiffing Gladius, kind of like Big Bird does some big whiffs, right? And I was seeing myself whiffing it. And as soon as the fist was out from the maximum distance, he would

just blow my shit up, hit me with a standing medium kick, and then go into an insane full kairi combo. To all the way to the corner. And I was like, yep, there's a risk to everything you do here. You know? So anyway, not to get too long-winded on it, but there's little things you can do. You know, and these tricks will help you. And of of course things to go study. Like I gotta go look at the tapes. I've been following, uh, most of how, uh, uh, yeah, Big Bird's been, been rocking the Marissa, but like the fact that the proof is in the pudding there.

And then you see the men of Blanca. It's like, all right, man. Okay, Willie, you gotta do it. It's on you if you want to improve, you know, you gotta find those, those, those holes in your, in your play and fill them with pseudo defenses, right? At the same time, I also saw a bunch of stuff this weekend where it was like, a ton of characters have little tricks where in the corner, they'll do a combo

and then they'll do like a little reset, they'll tap you, you'll flip out, right into a drive impact and splat on the wall. So, I stole this from what I say, James, videos, but when he stole it from somebody else's match footage, it's tech. Like, Jamie has his level three that pops you up, and then you jump up in the air and do the heavy kick, there's pop pop, and then they land into light kick

into drive impact. Yep, we're in pop. And then they land into light kick, into drive impact. Yep, with Splat of the wall. Yep, and that's, so I lost to that at too many games. Oh, so cool. Right, and then I was watching a Wolfgang video where it was like straight up, it's like, oh, no. I got, like I've seen that before. And like pop kick flip out, counter drive impact right away. You know, it's like, I, no. I've seen that before. And like, pop, kick, flip out, counter drive impact right away.

You know, it's like, I've seen the setup before. I'm, you're not sneaking that in there. And a bunch of little character, a bunch of characters have that set up. So it's now on you who hears this to go, let me see what that setup is for these characters so that when it happens to me, I'm ready for it, you know? And this is independent of whoever you're playing as and your game plan.

It just doesn't hurt you to know that this little trick in the corner might happen to me. You know, anyway, moving on because yeah, we can, we can, we can go. But the, uh, yeah, Street Fighter 6 was a great time and, uh, shout us to Rami as well as a chunk brickson who I did a commentary with and top 8 A great name Yeah, that's a incredible name It was a very fun top 8 and Flux Waves took it again, you know, but like wased by a this this new kid Cycles from Ottawa with Spunk who basically showed up on the scene and was like hey nice to meet you guys run the set Money match me right away and like was was like straight up take it to go in for money matches and pools and just being a little

Little Gremlin in the bracket, you know like was like. Oh, don't he's like, I think you guys underseated me You know, I don't want to cause too many upsets and they're just like, okay, we'll then prove it and then he got to fucking grand finals So he proved it, you know kind of incredible Just watching that kind of attitude and the the young yeah young man reactions. He's got the moxie You know that kid is fucking these these these do it. He's he's putting in the work and he's got the moxie. You know, that kid is fucking, he's doing it. He's putting in the work and he's showing it off, but like, yeah, but FlexWaves is just too much of a wall.

My matches can be dangerous. You gotta be careful with that. Mm-hmm. I think we might have a new story about that this week. Oh, do you not? No, I do not. Are you not familiar with the past week's $10,000 money match? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, okay.

Is that not on? I didn't register it as a money match because to me, it was a furry, become a furry match. That's what I registered it as because there was no chance that money was because to me it was a furry, become a furry match. That's what I registered it as, because there was no chance that money was going to be exchanged. My bad, my brain didn't, didn't put together the stakes there. You wanna talk about that now? Are you gonna talk about that later?

So, so, as Sonic Fox put it, an NPC basically was talking shit and going off about how. You've been playing fighting games for 11 years, man. Going off about how fighting games for 11 years man going off about how he can beat sonic fox and how he's garbage and free and also Basically weirdly worshiping low-tier god like weirdly and it was a very odd Unstable seeming but whatever the case was you know sonic fox was like I I got 10 minutes run the set if you

He's like if you beat me in mortal combat if you beat me in mortal combat I will pay you ten thousand dollars and if you lose you have to become a furry And the guy took it took it and then jumped on stream and like before the stream even started like problems right away right away couldn't have didn't have a PSN I believe I know my credit card got declined when I tried to but oh man right has to get had to get PS plus set up and then also was like calling in from underwater and basically like as the game got closer and closer and the quality of the call got worse and worse They're on the character select screen and you're just hearing the game the dude that was talking emotions talking shit going

Oh my god, it's happening. Okay. Okay, okay, cancel the set man just cancel the set No, you know, stop the stream right now bro. Stop the stream. Stop the stream and you're just like yeah No, this is stop the stream right now, bro. Stop the stream. Stop the stream. And you're just like, yeah, no, this is what happens, guys. Like, sometimes words have consequences. And if someone calls you on your shit, like, you need to learn from this, right? So here, let this be a lesson to you. And then Sonic Fox just proceeds to Robocop the shit

out of this dude. Everlessly. Like, it's not like, like, you've never seen that much tea bagging. It's like literally, wasn't even looking at the screen. Shooting and tea bagging and shooting and tea bagging and just ran through them and he's like, oh man, I haven't even played this character in months and just every jaw and you can come up with and then I gotta do it for low tier God. I got to do it man. You got to get your account back man. Just get you know, we can't wait any longer

man, please. And it's so embarrassing. It's like the fucking cringe is seeping in and like I'm like I don't know what state this person is in. But like it seems unwell. Like the cracking you're hearing on the call is like, yeah, this person probably goes through life saying shit and never having to deal with the consequences of saying that shit. You know, and he lost and then Sonic Fox gave him a mercy, literally mercy him, gave him some health back. Aw, then beat him again. And then the part that kills me is like him casually hitting start during the health reality.

Goes to the fatality to find the one he likes because he knows exactly how much time there is. Like that's the bit, right? You have the time, you can. And like you go to it, or I mean, there's even the quick input or whatever, but regardless, you fucking, you get the mercy into the explosion fatality

and then like, yeah, that's it. And like again, the post-settered review is just like, you know, okay, question one, how does it feel to get your ass beat by a furry, you know? And just like, dude, just like, says his random shit and then like disconnects and runs out of there. And then Sonic Fox is like, all right, well, um, they're for now. Can any artist friends help out with getting our new furry friend acquainted, you know, or whatever, getting set out? So this is going on. This particular person is yelling on social media

that for some reason that it was an illegitimate wager that they weren't gonna abide by it, that they weren't gonna do it until Sonic Fox beat them in Apex Legends next. I did hear part two. Oh, okay. And then just says, I'm, no, no, no, I'm not gonna do it. At which point it becomes decided by Sonic and many others

that this gentleman is now a duck. And the commissions start to go out. For, uh, uh, like, John's the duck, basically. I mean, I remember when I was hearing, so I remember, there's a set, and then I remember seeing the artwork of the duck coming through, and not just any duck, a duck with its beak rotated around its face, daffy style, just getting completely annihilated.

And I remember I'm going, oh yeah, Apex though, see me that, or whatever. And it's just like, all right, this is, and I just like, lessened to everybody. This is the person on the other end of that mic in Call of Duty, talking shit and going off, right? This is the, this is the type of individual, someone who's just not there.

And you can't, I just, I can't understand the spirit of the person that's like I'm just gonna triple down. You know what I mean on my bullshit, but I guess the idea of the $10,000 is like, you have to take this opportunity. Why do you have to take it? What if you win $10,000? Why do you, if Sonic Fox had like a fucking heart attack by accident in the middle of the set, and you technically won?

I mean, you know, like it's crazy. So that's exactly it. So then part three is them escalating their, they weren't handling it well. I'm just gonna say they weren't handling it well. And I don't know what happened, but they're definitely suspended from Twitter because I went to go there.

Oh, well, there we Oh well there we go there we go Context but I'm gonna assume they escalated it to handling it more poorly. I mean so they have basically died They're they're their name was associated with their person People who play those games. I'm sure more remember this dude forever Yeah, and name was on there. Like at some point, at some point, right, you can just, you can look at the situation, assess it for what it is and pull the fuck out, right? And everyone could go, would go, yeah, no, just that's crazy.

Leave that alone. But when you don't, when Sonic Fox is like, non-nigger, let's go. Sit your ass down. You gonna learn today. I love it. It's beautiful. You know, sometimes you can arbitrarily choose who needs to be made an example of, and God bless.

Because it's like this new, this new, wonderful, open, shiny bridge that the FGC has provided via Street Fighter 6 for all the newcomers We we want that new hype we want that new excitement We want everyone to love and enjoy fighting games and we just want that reminder that if you keep going past the bridge It kind of closes off to a little street to an alleyway a cul de sac, and at the back of that cul de sac is a fucking table and $20 on it, and it says, run the set. Yeah.

And we're waiting. If you want to go in that alley, we're waiting. But we can enjoy the modern bridge in the meantime. This reminds me of a weird phenomenon that you can test for yourself with your group of friends. And it's people across different genders, ideologies, nations of origin, religions, and political affiliations will differ somewhat consistently about what animals they believe they can beat in a fight Right So like certain types of people will like more strongly overestimate what kind of people animals

They could defeat in hand to hand combat sure It's it's the equivalent of like this is the personality type of somebody who I yeah I could I could probably beat a bear with my bare hands and Then you just escalate it to okay here's the pit go fight the bear and then they cry as they enter into the pit to be malt and it's like you're not going to beat the bear sonic fox is the bear here ironically enough animal analogy but need I just quote the news story last words of man utters that alligator ate shit oh yeah as he gets killed by an alligator like what do you want more do you want the gander no you can't what more do you want? Okay, I don't know, you can't. What more do you want than that, right?

The human condition. In all of its glory. Yeah, so that was great. That was a fun little story for sure. My way of finding out about that story gave me so much joy because I found out about it from the first response by Sonic Fox, which was the challenge. And I showed it to Paige and I was like, man, that's really funny.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. And then forgot about it. And then two or three days later, I saw people saying, wow, that guy's not handling it well. And I got to have the emotion of like that dumbass took the fucking challenge! 10k! But what if I win 10k?! I'm not gonna! Ah, so like I was having the conversation about this with Mjom music, you know, about exactly all this shit going on. And the hilariousness of that, because it was also, um, you know, his, uh, first, like

major tournament, right? Like first big FGC event, um, uh, as well as that kid I was talking about with the Moxie that got second place, it was his first major tournament as well, unbelievable, um, fucking kudos. Uh, but, uh, yeah, we're talking about like just the, I get the fact that you can come in and just have a great time sitting down playing casuals watching the matches, making friends and, you know, overall getting to see some cool shit that you didn't know. And finding someone that can like maybe teach you a bit and finding someone you can teach a few things to and it's a great feeling. It's a great feeling. It's a cool vibe. You know, you have, and there's a three day event. So there a more than enough time to just like relax chill get some games in, you know But like what I was kind of what we were talking about essentially was just how like When it comes to the whole like when people are afraid of the the the old FGC thuggery era like the the disinviting

gameplay decisions the disinviting community decisions, the disinviting community things, the idea of the toxicity and all that stuff, right? It's like, these are all facets because it's a community made up of people and people come in all size of shapes and colors, creeds, whatever you want to, you know. So people, but what ultimately, but what people are complete pieces of fucking shit and what ends up happening in a lot of cases Which if you just only are like catching one side of this you won't necessarily be aware of is that you get back the energy You bring in right so if you're showing up looking for a chill vibe with trying to get some casual games trying to play have fun Meet people that are similar-minded,

and like, again, maybe learn something, or maybe just mess around with new games and stuff. That's what you get back. And there's tons of people looking for that exact same thing. And if you come in, kick indoors down, scream in, hold it up your controller, go in, Christopher Jesus, you challenged me right now. You ain't you ain't walking out water. I know you just won Marvel, but see me in the set. I'm the real final boss.

You get that energy back at you, you know from security. Yes. You get that you get all that if you're fucking throwing sticks if you're cake if you're, you know, throwing punches if you're going wild You're getting all that shit in there. you're gonna get that energy back at you. So like, all of that, like if you're someone who's new and you're like concerned about like that aspect of it, you know, I'm gonna get stabbed at the arcade stories type of thing. It's like, then that is, if you bring a knife in to stab someone who throws you, you know what I mean? There's a very, there's a, you, it's a mirror that is gonna shine back your experience. And if you want that heat, if you want that smoke, then there will be someone who's at

the door going, hold on sir, just a moment, we'll find you, you're appropriate. Like playmate. Here is a fucking monster who's gonna come in scream at you during the whole set stand up with this crew and yell get motivated white boy get motivated while you get overheaded into launchers into X-Factor loops that you can't handle you know like this is if you want that you're gonna get it but if you're looking for a chill time there's so much chill to be had you know um it's very important to let the people know about that uh but anyways so uh uh yeah again just a really really good time something

that was real fun as well I want to uh bring a there was a game that uh was announced uh I tweeted it out a couple times they showed up to the event checkmate showdown the fighting game chess game have you heard of this? Did you see this? Yes, yes, I did So I'm really I'm happy they showed up because I've been been like yo guys like let me get my hands on this I want to know I want to play it and It's chess and then when you get into a fight you get into a fighting game round, right? So cool as a concept.

So they've really cleared it. Like, I know that they went through a couple different iterations and they're making, they're working. They brought a couple versions to some earlier tournaments. They prototyped it with some fighting game players. And they're also working with some chess experts, you know, and chess.com is working with them as well. And they basically have this game set up where, okay, so you have a chess board, you have your pieces and they're cool looking, you know, like army pieces, right?

And when you move your pawns, pawns are still just are just normal ponds. They will eat and and get eaten in one move the way They wouldn't know any normal chess game They they because if they had ponds as like actual little fights There'd be too many of them it would take too long. Oh god damn game Right, so what ends up happening though is ponds because they don't get into fights They're real chess pieces, which means they delete any actual units from the board as well if you put them in a position of weakness. Oh, so like a, you know, a pawn could kill a queen without a fighting game fight.

Exactly. Oh, that's interesting. And that's interesting because now pawns are a whole other level of the meta where they're like, oh, a pawn is super dangerous. I don't have to fight. I can just beat you in the chessboard game, right? If you don't use a pawn and you get into a fight with a bishop, rook, a knight, a queen, or the king, you have to play a fighting game round, you know,

between each other. Or if it's a pawn, it just wins against the pawn in one hit. But that aspect of it really makes the gameplay a lot of fun. It's a real dynamic system to it. Now, the other thing about it is like, well, hold on a minute. If I'm moving my rook into your bishop and I want to kill it, I should be rewarded for setting that play up, right? And it's like, yes. So the reward is when the fighting game round starts, the rook is a character, the bishop is a character, they both have their own movesets, but as the attacker, I get access to a super that you don't have. Right, you don't have any super.

I have a full super to use against you. And if I positioned two units to be able to attack you and pincer you off, that second unit will be an assist for me as the attacker. Okay. So there's a real big advantage to being on the offense, then on the defense. And if you're good, you can still fight it back, but there are situations where the life at damage you take on that unit will persist. So even if you defend and beat off the attacker, you're going to have to hold onto that lower

life and then get attacked again, you know. It's a very interesting concept. Again, the game's called Checkmate Showdown. And yeah, when I saw the footage, I'm like, this is a brilliant concept. The number one concern I have that every other fighting game fan looking at this is concerned about is, is the fighting game good. And I can say, thankfully, that like, there's some fun

wild shit going on. There's the ability to air-dash and like, cross people up, real dirty, do some fun mix-ups, you know. wild shit going on. There's the ability to air dash and like cross people up real dirty, do some fun mixups, you know, if you challenge the king preemptively with a weaker unit, the king is a fucking beast with a giant hammer that can fight back, you know, and there's no checkmate until the king dies. Oh, the king has to die. Okay, the king has the king has to die for the game to end. So if you have a checkmate set up, you still have to fight and beat the king with one each of your units, you know.

Furthermore, if I just corner your king and immediately fight him and you don't win with all the advantage you would have, you lose the game immediately. You know, so that's a whole other tactic to it that's really interesting. So yeah, there's other little things they've thought of as well that work out really well. Castling is in the game, it's very important. Promotion is in the game.

You got a pawn to the end and you can promote it into another unit. A lot of that stuff is in there, but the whole thing is kind of set up in a way where the dev team is made up of a number of like competitive FGC fans and players and competitive chess players, you know, and like they're working together and kind of bringing this balance in of like, okay, if I'm a chess player, I can do this, but I don't have the fighting game strength, how far can I go?

And if I'm a fighting game player, but I don't have the chess strength, how far can I go? And you can get setups probably where like, a good chess player can use the pawns in the meta to like delete units on the board before the fighting game player gets a chance to use them, you know, and it's a whole fun setup. And yeah, they're planning some good stuff.

I'm looking forward to it. I want to like, when the game's going to drop at some point soon and, you know, going to take a look, but like, I know one of the ideas they're talking about is like having like a setup where you have a chess expert and a fighting game expert sitting together, playing as a team. And like, you know, you can kind of work both the board and the fights and see who overcomes, you know. So yeah, go check out a checkmate, showdown, wish list it and you know, there'll be more from that in the future. And yeah, shout out to the

team. They're from Montreal. They're working on a fun ass concept. And like I, from the little bit of time I got in touching the characters and match. I'm like, oh, the rook is a giant grappler with an SPD. That makes sense. That's perfect sense. Right. Big straight line tackle. Big grab. You know, um, uh, uh, uh, the, the bishop was kind of a quick and nimble and had the ability to slide around and hit those angles. The knight's got a bunch of weird like stand energy that it can send out and attack you with. Oh, because it's weird and it moves weird. And the queen is just a beast.

She can do everything. She has amazing mobility, amazing attacks, amazing utility overall. And the king is just a beast, she can do everything. She has amazing mobility, amazing attacks, amazing utility overall. And the King is just a wall as well, like a big hammer, just defender, and uses a pawn to do his bidding as little summons. So the archetypes are really fun and well thought out as well. Yeah. So that was pretty much that. So, you know, beyond that, yeah, World Tour played a little bit of that. That's going to continue.

And just to just to cap that off, I forgot to mention when we were talking about the whole putting switching over to FF16. And, you know, there were some people that has had further thoughts about like, will he put you should put World Tour on Paws and stuff? And I, I, something I forgot to mention in the discussion last week was that, uh, the Street Fighter 6 World Tour playthrough is sponsored by junk food. So this is all probably have mentioned that. So in addition to it, The vital importance you psycho! Well, I really want to play it regardless, and that all is very valid,

but in the heat of the moment, I also forgot about the part where that entire LP is a sponsored LP by junk food. Shout-outs to them, get your snack box micro, woollyversus design available today. Ha ha ha ha ha! Okay, not your snack box micro, woolly versus design available today. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Okay, not that it should matter.

That would have, that would have, completely not changed the tonality. Not that it should matter because I still stand by everything about this is fucking me playing the thing that I love, regardless, but in addition to that, you know, so yes, that is that is

going down. And yeah, F60 and you know, it's getting us, we just started, we're getting our gears in place, everything's coming together. Not much to say until we got a little bit further into the game. I have to say now that you're a little further in the game, but this is a nice little transition point. I walked I so what I'm going to be doing. Willie is that before I ever talk about 16, I actually skimmed through your VOD so that I know like exactly where you're at. Oh, cheers. Thank you. The last part you're at is where this is totally apropos of nothing. What's up with discount Ralph Fiennes as the fucking inkeeper?

What is up with that? Do you mean Ralph Fiennes? Ralph, is that how you say his name, Ralph Fiennes? Ralph Fiennes. What is up with discount Ralph Fiennes as the inkeeper? Because it's not Ralph Fiennes, but it's like, it's really close, it It's weirdly, weirdly close. I don't know, it weirds me out.

I was not expecting to be so charmed by all of the dry wit coming off of these NPCs. Everyone you're talking to is full of a bunch of moxie. There's just dry British wit. There's fucking Scottish moxie. You know, Irish cheekiness. There's a lotie, you know, irish cheekiness. There's a lot, a lot of that going on and I appreciate it. A lot of the way the child's just, just colorful, colorfulizing at you.

Not to include Ireland in that, but I do, I, I, I fucking love the, the fact that um, the energy you get to as well is like, you know, I was describing to Reggie how like you walk up to NPCs in an RPG from years ago, and they just say the thing that has to establish the town you're standing in. Yeah. Oh man, it sure is sucked ever since the guards took over. You know, but like no. Only the vineyards got lots of wasps on the groypes. But here, yeah, but like here you're getting you know lots of lots of fun little personality And you know if someone says hey woolly games of RPGs have been like this for the last couple years

Where have you been and the answer is unfortunately in the dark, but I fucking I like to think of one RPG that's Successful like this for me for sure Well, so I also I also I know that based on like From what I've heard about wow as well like MMOs like have a duty to make charming NPCs because everyone has to interact with them constantly. Yeah, that's that's a million of people are going to be talking to you. They better be interesting to talk to. They will judge you. They will remember that weird guy that is, they'll remember that that the conjurer's guild in Grudia is a pile of shit because there's a fucking mom outside going Please heal my child and they're going no the fucking forest spirits don't like your child too bad let them die And you're like wow good dyno is like fucking awful fucking place don't start there

But yeah Yes, 16 I have a couple things done by 16 first after Ralph finds not Ralph finds but Ralph finds The further I go into the game. I'm I keep running into I described the Pepsi man situation to you last week Yeah, to you and Jean in which the 14 influence is like obvious and hilarious, but confusing The 14 influence is like obvious and hilarious, but confusing. The further I go into it, the more structural I've discovered that it is.

So I saw that you did the little forest section where you fought like the ninja, right at the end of it, as the mini-bloss. Those are done, those like set piece sequences are like very, very discreet and you'll run into like, you know, I don't know what it does in, I've done like five, right? And it was like, oh, it's a big action set piece. This is where the money is happening, right? And you'll, you'll fight a bunch of guys and you'll fight a little mini boss and you'll fight a bunch of guys. And I'm like, I'm looking at them and I'm going through them like, wait a second.

I go through, I get the fly by of the area and then I fight a bunch of trash guys for two fights then I fight the mini boss then I fight two packs of trash and then the mini boss and then I fight two packs of trash and then the big boss that has bespoke music and I like, and I'm looking at the set pieces. And I'm like, Oh, I have actually already done these. All of them, like they all met one to one to existing dungeons. I'm, I'm surprised that upon beating the ninja, he didn't drop a one month free pass to Final Fantasy 14. You mean the ninja that's using the moveset that the 14 ninja uses? That's the ninja I'm talking about, yes.

He even has the same three hit combo. It's hilarious. You just get to see, this is where the Final Fantasy 14 guy did his thing. And this is where DMC five man added his thing into it. It's almost like the game is like is basically just like, hey, have you been paying attention to this big popular thing that's been happening recently? No, well, like four you go. Four mainline FF, you know, for your personal experience, you will have a actually pretty decent ballpark about how 14 feels as a game by the time you're done with this, all the way down to like the

way the height away functions. Okay, going back to the hub and doing all your cleanup shit and coming back out there. Yeah, I mean, that's like the idea of not going from town to town, which is the FF way. You still are, but you're going back to your main town. But the main, yeah, and that's not usually the way that goes, right? Like, you know, I mean, I guess you're pretty solid

progression, you're snaking through the world and going to places. Yeah. And in like, oh, driving and getting back to the cars is, you know, like the way that the last game went. But that's what the CBU3 knows how to do, I suppose. CBU3 also has like a, and you've seen just enough of it to start to feel it. They have a really, really, really strict way they design the flow of their game, which is setup, busy work, money, busy work, new setup.

Okay. Like that is the structure of every single thing in the entire game. Okay. Busy work related to the money and then busy work post money. So busy work post money. So busy work post money. So busy work post money.

The big money. Okay. And then the setup will be a, will be a minor money. Okay. And that just keeps happening over and over and it's like funnier and funnier every time it happens to me. Well, I mean, you know, as someone who, again,

is immune to most breadcrumb game designs, money is a very attractive incentive that will lead me to towards you. So yeah, sure. The other thing that I wanna talk about, and I don't know if you've started to feel it yet, because the iconic challenge wasn't super far in the game, but it did give you a lot of stuff

that would take a while to get in the game. Yes, it did. It takes a good long while before you get three icons. Mm-hmm. And I have been running into an issue. And as far as issues go, it's pretty minor. But I have none of the assists on, and I chose the action-focused difficulty.

And nothing is a threat in this game. Nothing. I have done one encounter in which I died and it was an optional super boss and then I beat it on my second try handily and it is causing like a really violent disconnect. And the only thing I compare to now for you is the battle with Phoenix. The battle with Phoenix is like Phoenix for Zifferet in the intro and then the second intro. Is this enormous, massive,

mega skeptical, sorry, it's technical. That is a pretty easy panzer's lagoon level. Sure. Right. And the complexity of the iconic battles is increasing linearly. Like each one gives you more stuff to do. So I recently fought Titan,

which you saw in a lot of the promotional material for the game, Titans the biggest one. It is the most epic confrontation I have ever seen. It is lavish beyond compare. And Titan couldn't hit me. I think Titan hit me four times and one of those was me jumping the gun on a QTE and hit the wrong QTE button. I used like one potion equivalent in that fight. Yeah. The whole time I'm like laughing and continuously saying like, Come on, what do you got for me? Come on. And then going through five phases, and being like, like not eat no pressure at all, like no pressure. And it's kind of bumming me out. I suspect that this is a very clear conscious decision since it's for a lot of people their

first time driving the supercar, right? It's percents. Yes, like they've been revving you up to this a little bit with, again, previous entries, but now it is you are behind the wheels of a fucking full-speed fucking thing, and they don't want to immediately fucking scare you away with it, right? So you can do anything, and you can go hard, but the challenge doesn't meet up to the difficulty expected of character action because it's so many people's first time going. Absolutely, that makes perfect sense. On the flip side to that, I'm going through like,

you know, I did like a section, I think was the section leading up to Titan and there's a mini-boss. I'm like, okay, I'll fight the mini-boss. I like no hit killed the mini-boss in like sub 300 seconds and like I didn't feel anything I treated it like a dummy Hmm, right?

Okay, I'm well aware of the reality that a lot of people haven't played a lot of character action games Or if at all and that this new action focus is like a really strong shift. But there are like a huge and impressive and appreciated wide variety of things that you can do to tone the game down. You have story difficulty and action difficulty. You have a wide variety of accessories that will just remove mechanics and automatically do them. There's the auto combo, there's the auto dodge. The auto dodge one is by far the most busted. There's the auto dog one. Which I'm tempted to kind of use sometimes

because it just frees up a button. But if you're, you can bring that game's difficulty from pretty easy down to a three year old could totally do it, bro. If you are like, I like Final Fantasy because I get to stop thinking, use the menus, you can put a lot of things on to help you breathe. You can drag it down.

Mm-hmm. But aside from, there's nothing that I can do to the game to make it any more difficult. And I really mean there's nothing I can do to it because you could say, well well Pat don't upgrade your gear right and or don't do this and it's like That doesn't make it any harder. It just makes it takes longer lightly longer to kill the enemies Mmm, this game has the most good dodge ever

It's yeah, It's incredible. And you get such great rewards for using it. And you say, more later, they actually, the dodge becomes improved in a later time. I totally can see how that's all set up. Counterpoint to some degree though. I know that 14 is a game where you're playing

the super hard challenges and you have to have a team of coordinated people. And if you don't have everyone doing their job, you fucking wipe. But when's the last time you played a single player RPG that really challenged you outside of the super bosses? Cause I think knowing how to play them well is a skill that you develop over time,

just like character action, and you kind of breeze through the average Final Fantasy games anyways. I have stuff that kick my ass on normal, and I had to do it at times. Yeah, but like there are definitely, there's little moments, little challenges that like might pop up here and there,

and I know that as for me, there's a lot of like RPG knowledge I pop up here and there. And I know that as for me, there's a lot of like RPG knowledge I don't have that I like, I'm like, oh, I'll hit a wall or something and be like, oh, whoa, that boss kicked my ass. Let me take a second, try at it. But overall, I feel like I haven't really struggled a ton as someone who is already missing a lot. If you are familiar with FF as a franchise,

and to mintly, you already kind of know like more or less what, how to handle the threats, going into the typical turn-based RPG, you're already kind of breezing through it and just experiencing the story to some degree. And the super bosses become the challenge, so it doesn't feel like this is super out of line

with how it usually is anyway. I disagree because in your regular S RPG, outside of games that have like misstatistics, like you are interacting with the enemy, right? Like the enemy takes their turn and they hit you and maybe you hit or whatever. The way 16 is functioning currently is that most enemies aren't interacting with me at all.

They're, they're, they're just like, like, like, random, like, they're attacking, they're attacking the party. You mean? No, I mean, they're dead before they get to interact with me. Like, the random random battles in, in 16, from the one third mark onwards become like, like combo trials trials they become vaporized like instantaneously And like I'm all used Titan as an example. They've showed a lot of Titan Titan Did not hit me with a single punch in the entire encounter that I fought him the the enemy was functionally not interacting with me at all. And when you hunt, which is the notorious monsters,

that's the optional like harder content. The way that that stuff is balanced and what killed me is me running into an enemy that I beat it and I got it down to 1% health only to find out that a low health move it does instantly kills you. And I did a little get right and it killed me instantly. And then my second attempt, I did the same thing again and beat it. So the way that difficulty seems to increase along a lot of the harder enemies in that game is to just juice their numbers. Yeah, but it's still really easy to avoid all their attacks.

So I would like in your skill level as someone who's like, yo, I'm looking for DMD, where is it? Right? Like you have the genre of character action in your blood. So someone who has RPGs to that degree as well is probably able to breeze through a lot of what the game is supposed to put in your way as a chat, like a plot challenge, you know. If you find broken builds and ways to protect your party, you know, float into the air and cause a quake or whatever you do with your blue mages, you know, I know people like find ways to game the system and do amazing things with it. Get builds going. I feel like mastery of RPGing, what's result in similar crushing of a traditional RPG in the same way that

you would crush a game that is not presenting you with devil, make cry level challenges, right? You're completely right. And that's why I appreciate for those people that persona, the Pathfinder games, Baldur's Gate, et cetera, have difficulty options for those people. And this is why the action game here would be better to go,

hey, if you happen to be coming into this and hey, you already know this genre, we can rise to that occasion and meet you there. And if it doesn't have that option, it should be able to. Yes. Persona already definitely has you go from one of, like you start out with like eight different difficulties to pick from, right? Like, you scale from absolutely just like walk through the story to go fuck yourself. Normal, hard, very hard, and then insane.

Extreme or whatever. Yeah. So like there's, yeah, the answer here is that the game should have the ability to catch up with anybody who's already familiar. I'm just fairly confused because you on, much like FF7 remake, you unlock a new difficulty on beating the game, which is remixed because you're coming in with every

skill that you've earned over the normal game. And talking to people that have played it is like, yeah, it's a little harder. And then it plate toes out because you get everything you need. And it's like, it's just kind of weird. The game has like from fairly easy to really easy. But really nothing, you can't raise it. Good question from Gazbang Gambling over there. How does it compare to strangers of Paradise? Strangers of Paradise is a really good example to

compare it to. Strangers of Paradise is I I would say the level of an average action game in terms of difficulty. I play through it with mainly auto equipping my stuff and looking at what skills I wanted to use. And there were some fights that I had to fight five to 10 times and like, oh, that was a tough boss fight and I beat it and good. But if I wanted to, I could turn that shit down.

I could turn it to baitie mode. I could also pump eating the game expanded out to forever infinity, difficulty like a psycho. And that's team ninja, right? That's team ninja doing what they do approaching games the way they do where they're coming from a legacy of like, no, no, no, we're trying to beat your ass, right? And then I think about how, you know, when near as another square game, right, but it's

like, here's platinum working with them to do the thing they do. And so like, near is not the most challenging of character action games, you know, by comparison, but there's like a lot you can do to make it harder if you really, really want to. I think the overall, this is final fantasy proper side of things is like resulting in them going, okay, we just were mainly focused on this landing in everybody's hands and keeping it inviting to them. But I think teams that are, well, no, but if 14 has the hard difficulty, then anyway. Okay. Incorporating extra.

Let me bring 14 into it for a second, right? Yeah. So, I actually talked about this very briefly before we started, where it's like a lot of the fights in 16 feel like what the normal encounter would feel like in 14 if you didn't have seven other people to babysit. Right. Okay. And I think it was Chris Wolfhard, aka Mr.

Fields, who responded with no, because the AOE's in 14 will actually hurt you. Or has the AOE's in 16 will just kind of tickle a little bit. And you're reliant on people to heal you from damage that you're going to be taking. Right. Regardless, right? It's, um, 14 has had like a really, really, really long history of not knowing how hard to make the main campaign, because skill levels can vary so wildly. There's been a lot of drama over. I remember when Stormblood came out, the final boss of Stormblood's campaign was actually like, it was like a challenge. Like you had to, you had to do stuff to fight it.

And their forums were just like a wash, a wash with furious complaints. Yo, why am I not allowed to play the rest of the game? I pay $15 a month for my subscription. Why are you keeping me out of the end game because of this boss? And in particular, the best quest in Endwalker, and I think the best quest in 14 is called

out from the cold, I think it's called, was kind of hard. And there were so many complaints about it being hard that they nerfed that encounter into the ground were so many complaints about it being hard that they nerfed that encounter into the ground and now it is no, so in from the cold is the name of the quest and they nerfed that encounter over and over and over until now it is no longer fun.

It is now a cool quest instead of the best thing in the entire game. There is definitely something that narratively, uh, uh, uh, yeah, breaks when you are into the story, but like the challenge isn't there on dramatic moments, and, you know, it's important to be able to make sure that people that have the skill to handle these things would be feeling the tension.

I feel like I'm fighting Frieza on NAMMAC as SSJ4 Gojita. Right, right, right. And that hasn't appeal. That definitely has like fucking like, oh yeah, I'm a beat his mother fucking ass. But like it's so dissonant. Dissonant, right. And the thing is, there was a moment I remember where both, we both realized as we're playing it that like, I was like, oh shit, you can use a potion

on the ground and it's done at any time. Oh, you can use it while you're being like knocked up into the air and chilling it. I annihilated. I annihilated. Yeah. In the middle of a combo, you can heal. So it's like, oh, like, there there's not even a like an estus risk

Stoppens, you know, so like that means that yeah, you can afford like way more room for error as well Yeah, that that makes sense. That's a that's a that's a unique situation to be in You know and and I to be in. You know, and I feel as if it's when a moment like this occurs where it's like, you just happen to be over-prepared for what is a new challenge for a lot of people. You know. I think the last thing I want to say, I don't think it's over-preparedness. I think it is that enemies are too slow. I think the average enemy in 16 is too slow on their wind up. Like, you know, everybody winds up to attack. They're like, they're like really slow. You did the iconic challenge, right?

So you fought like human Benedicta. I think that is the fastest enemy I have fought in the entire game. I see. And as a result, I'm just like watching them wind up. And the only times I feel like I get hit are when I'm having the guitar hero on easy problem in which I'm dodging so early that I'm getting hit at the end of my dodge. I mean, the situation you just described in 14 where the willingness to nerf it down and kind of like make it less fun based on the average person feeling it was not fun

for them as it was too hard. Is it, yeah, it's an interesting problem to have, I guess, and I suppose like the idea here is new game plus brings your to have, I guess, and I suppose like the idea here is new game plus brings your ability to, you know, you said like you keep your shit, you go back in every single ability. And then everyone gets new moves and the ability to go harder as well. And they remakes the enemy placement, so you're going to get like mid game and end game

stuff in like in the beginning. But like the first run through, there's a limit to how hard the game can get. And, you know, which, again, DMC like in that regard. But I guess the question is, is what is New Game Plus gonna look like when you do everything you can to make it its hardest? And will that potentially be satisfying or not?

I think my issue, I guess my biggest issue is you can't make the game harder, you can only make it take longer. Take longer. Right. I can tone down my damage. You're trying to figure out how to do the most damage during stagger windows or whatever. But bosses that aren't hitting me now are not gonna hit me later. Incoming damage is going up is usually what would be a factor,

but if the speed and the ability to react in parry, it is just all negated then. Like you messed around with Titans block in the iconic challenge, right? It's fucking hype. Yeah, it's really good and it's really reliable. Hmm. Like the windows on that parry are wide. And that's kind of, yeah, that's where the remix

to the boss patterns and the enemy patterns becomes really important. And you don't wanna just throw a blitz in there and go fuck you, you know? Yeah. Interesting. So overall, like I'm loving the game and I'm very much enjoying its narrative. I think it's game and I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm very much enjoying its narrative

I think it's fantastic and I think it's interesting and I think Clive's tits are huge I think I think Clive is about as like Skanky as a male main character as we have ever seen in anything Um, you don't so you don't have the. Eventually he'll get the box art Dracula outfit. You know, the one where he looks like a Dracula with the red shirt. Like his heaving tits are out. His, his, the, his tight ass leather pants make noise when you run past the camera. There are some aggressively slutdy dudes in Grand Blue,

but they're not main characters. Right. No like, Clive is like, like look at my tits, look at them. I can feed you with these, and you're like, whoa, Clive. Calm down. I did see artwork of them standing there and then I believe Jill was just watching and just kind of like

They're so big. Yeah from the side like he is definitely the main character of a final fantasy game Hmm it's impressive. Okay, okay Yeah Unshockingly I'm going to continue to play many many More final fantasy 16s this week so go down to twitch.tv slash Pat stares at willy Don't you look at those titles because they're minor spoilers on Okay, fair enough I yeah, that's, with the titles in general and, and, and thumbs,

I, I try to keep that in mind overall for anyone who's like just scrolling past on the feed, you know, I, I'll usually, that's why sometimes I know, like, some people have said like, I'll do it, I hate it when you make the title a joke instead of, like, something that helps me locate where you are. Yeah. And I'm like, I get that, but I also don't want to spoil things if I can avoid it, you know, if people are kind of trying to dodge that.

So I try to, I try to find like, like usually, but perhaps like it might be a joke about a character you're only going to meet in like this later chapter. Therefore, it doesn't spoil what happens, but you know, oh, you met this person already fair enough, you know, there's a little balance between that So also I'm going to be playing a game that one Casey explosion recommended a while ago called a Bone Stasis. Wait, is that right? Is that no stasis bone totem? It is basically

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Don't, it's, you know, it's a good time to not go into the ocean. Fair. I mean, there never was a good time to go into the ocean. But it's still a good time to not go into the ocean. Yeah. No, the combo counter has not yet decreased. It's still there.

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Well, look, can I take 30 seconds to turn my AC on? I'm getting the sweats out here. The soup sweats. Yeah, that'll happen. Do what you got to do. I'm not even going to turn it off. Yeah. You need soup, soup.

We'll bring the soup sweats. I like a good soup. Soups are all right. All right, here we go. Top tier soups. Top tier soups. Here we go. All right. All right, here we go. Top tier soups, top tier soups, here we go. All right.

Full, Tonkines. Full, power gap. And then we got some other stuff in there. I'm gonna say we got ramens, we got clam chowder as a pretty good, I'll throw in some classic chicken noodle. What kind of color do you want your clam chowder is a pretty good I'll throw in some classic chicken noodle. What kind of what kind of color do you want your clam chowder to be? I mean, I don't you know what I think I've only tasted like the white sort of kind I've also only tasted the white and it was good So I don't know what the red is like but I'd be curious. I would like I do prefer

I prefer white like when it like I prefer the curious. I do prefer white, like when, I prefer the white sauce pastas and things like that. I wouldn't like it if we could, you know, apply the Gatorade mentality to other foods and I could like look at like red clam chowder and be like, I bet it tastes red. Mm-hmm. I probably does, though.

Yeah, it probably does, because you can do that with pasta can do that with pastis sauce You know like you know you're getting the the fucking you're getting that tomato-y goodness, so um Yeah, faux is busted tier. It really is Faw if I pronounced correctly, but There's some there's some fucking there's some choices out there. I'm not really honest There's some fucking there's some choices out there. I'm really honest I'm like I've had some decent fun. I'm like yeah, that's alright, but I'm never have you had it

Have you had it on the coldest winter day? From like one of the best places in the city no Okay, cuz I don't think that's a fair. I really think that is like a wildly unfair standard to judge food against. I'm just saying that the best I've had has been like, I remember, well, it wasn't under those conditions, but that made it amazing. I remember in the middle of winter, a big bowl of fall was so fucking good and kept you warm and was tasty and was great. But the best I had was actually in Alberta When I went out to Canada cup and they took me to a place where they have like the bone broth and like they put in some of the extra like Be fat into the mix with the with the broth and it was like

Taste and palettes that like I didn't have the levels to understand yet, you know I honestly think it's one of those foods where if you are in, if you get the right preparation, like the quality can shoot so far up or down that like, maybe if you're like, I don't understand it, I bet you the best version of it. If you got a chance at it, you'd be like, I get it now, you know? Oh, sure.

Even if it's not. I don't think my personal taste of anything is any actual indicator of quality. Fair enough, like that. But I think that's the, I think the single, largest aspect of my personal maturation as a person, and one that I fail to see in others that are much older than me,

is I don't like it. Therefore, it is bad. Mm hmm. Is not true. Mm hmm. That's growth right there. Look at that. I think cilantro is a massive fucking goof that everyone is playing on the world. But like, I love cilantro.

Yeah. I don't, it doesn't taste like soap to me, but I do get that bitterness to it, that hints at soap, so I understand where that comes from. Like, I can understand both sides of it, because there's enough of a little bitterness to it that is like, I'm like, oh yeah, if you have a very heightened version of this flavor

that I'm tasting, then this, if you have a very heightened version of this flavor that I'm tasting, then this would be really bad for you. Thankfully, it's not that heightened for me, so it ends up being good. I feel as if when it comes to fall though, that was something that I enjoyed as a kid and growing up and you get to appreciate bitter things and all that more of it and like I feel like it's like that stayed good and consistent the entire time and in some cases got even better you know but like the quality of the broth you get and where you go is the difference between like it's honestly it's not even on a 1 to 10. It's on a minus 5 to 20.

Because there's so many different aspects to it. I've had amazing broth and bad noodles. I've had amazing beef and the broth ain't great, but the noodles are the right consistency. There's a fucking million things in the world. And you also gotta remember, I have a pretty terrible sense of smell, so my food opinions are going to be slanted incredibly heavily towards primary tastes and texture. Mmm. And I will say this too, the other thing that you don't usually account for is like,

you know how there's some foodery, like that taste is good, but I feel like absolute garbage after I eat it. Yeah. Like, yes. Fall is, yes. And that foodery, like that tastes good, but I feel like absolute garbage after I eat it. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Fall is, yes. And usually that doesn't factor in, you know, the regret. Fall is heavy, and it sits inside of you. But it doesn't make you feel like shit. It just makes you feel full, but not bad.

You don't get that, oh, carb-tired, like I don't get that way afterwards. You know, I feel like it keeps me feeling stuffed, but like I, some for some reason, perhaps it's the amount of liquid going on. It doesn't make you feel as bad as like some other dishes can, you know. Yeah, I've had four. Three times and the three different places in Montreal. And were they were all in situations where the people I was

I was like, hey, let's go get it. Well, let's go grab feeding me food my And I go there might that's fine. I'll feel strongly one way or the other. Oh, no. Hello, why? Here's soup bowl. Thank you, darling Do you want the do you want the paper towels? Sure. Okay. Oh, thank you. It's good. That's my, that's my, that's my, that's my tearless.

Like I would prefer that soup that my wife made over any, any fah that I've encountered. Yeah, well, is there a secret ingredient in that soup? Beef? It's got beef. Is there a secret ingredient in that suit? Beef It's got beef. Wow, that was been screwing with this thing Yeah All right What's going on you like drugs? Antifreeze.

You know, antifreeze doesn't taste good anymore. Do you know that? Hasn't it been established that they put in bad tasting stuff to antifreeze? Yeah, can you leave it? Yeah, can you leave it? For years. The time to be an adult and be like,

I wonder what the good antifreeze tastes like. Just a little is gone. They figured it out. You know what else they figured out? What's that? If we go into the news, I am appreciating, even from a distance, the advances in anti-cheat technology. Oh, this is a good one, I like this.

And every time we take steps to the future, I just wanna take a moment to spotlight it, highlight it, point it out, let people know where we're going because any new ways that we come up with to make cheaters look like fools, just feels good and warm in the cockles of the heart. So usually you say that and you're like, look like fools because they get caught, but this time slightly more literal.

So the newest Call of Duty anti-cheat method was introduced basically up until now they had been using. There's been a couple over the years, but one of the most recent ones was a quicksand, which is effectively something that makes people who are confirmed cheaters, move slower and are thus easier to kill. And that was, you know, effective at making them look like idiots, but the problem was that people having a normal, call-a-duty experience would see people moving weirdly and get really confused by it and be like, ah, what is happening

Why is that guy look all fucked up and not really know that it's a punishment for cheating and go and think that it's actually the game just like freaking out So they're like, oh, we should probably not make it so that like our punishment makes our game look worse to someone who doesn't know what's going on Yeah, it's actually fairly so do you remember way back in day, Arkham asylum, like disabled, like a bunch of grappling hook stuff on the entire version. So that like the game was incompletable. That was like really funny, but it had the horrible backfire of tons of people flooding discussion about the game. Sing was broken and buggy and awful. Mm hmm. Before the word reaches out, that it's like these people are actually just playing a cracked version. So it is what it is right When they rolled out the newest method of antichete It's being called hallucinations and essentially

In modern warfare season four they're putting in a system where you will have people who are suspected of using hacks will basically have invisible hallucinatory decoy enemies or player characters around them that no regular player can see, but if you're using sheet detection or any other type of like assisted aim bot or whatever You will notice these players and if you start aiming at them and shooting at them You will expose yourself as a confirmed cheater at which point you will just stand there and shoot at the nothing in reality Effectively making you just look like a crazy ass bad player.

That is awesome. Love it. It's great. Feeds into the paranoia and creates a nice little personal hell for them. You can't, you don't know what's going on. Yeah, PTSD mechanic. You know, whatever you want to call it, the hallucination system is basically just like, if you're not cheating,

you shouldn't be paying attention to these things that are not behind you. And I like the idea as well that it's like, if there's a trigger, or it's like, ooh, you're a little bit suspicious. Let's make it so that, like, there's little characters behind you in the way, and you know what I mean?

Let's make it so that little ghosts are in your blind spots, but if you happen to be able to see in your blind spots We know you're fucking cheating. Hey, did this guy turn 270 degrees in order to headshot something that wasn't there? That's suspicious Awesome So yes, get fucking haunted, get cursed. And apparently they, with that update, they've been talking about, uh, and overall, uh, yeah, massive reduction in the percentage of

detected cheaters and so on and so forth. So, cool. I'm always a fan of seeing what's next on the anti-cheat front. And if there are circumvented downsides and such, then it's okay. Just keep the cold war going, you know, escalate and find new ways to clown on them and make them feel crazy. And then of course, the most important part is get in those forums, screen cap, all of the complaints of the unsatisfied customers who paid money for those cheats and be sure to post everywhere. The reasons why they bought the cheats and how upset they are that they got their brothers account band. They just wanted to feel like,

they just wanted to feel what it was like to win for us. Yeah, as my brother's account, it wasn't my account. I'm mad because I is my cousin. I mean, my brother. I mean, shut up. Beautiful. Other stuff going on here, not, you know, I'm not going to lie, a little bit of a non-story, but just for anyone curious, there was a couple of interviews with some former rare devs because they were talking, they were basically trying to talk about Banjo

3E, where it's at, what are the possibilities of it ever happening? Is the answer that it's at nowhere? So it seems like, you know, basically it comes down to the person, the rare creative director, Greg males is the main person who would be the custodian of the franchise to decide how that's going. But in a couple interviews, they spoke to Grant Kirk, Grant Kirkhoap, who more or less was saying that like, I would like to think Rare would be open if somebody found the right team, but I don't feel like that team exists. Also, I'm not convinced the audiences there either, which folks were a bit like raising an eyebrow at,

cause that's kind of a wild thing to say when your character makes it into Smash Brothers. Oh man, I think there's a, ever- There's a decent audience for bad games. There's a decent amount of people that care about your game if your character makes it into Smash Brothers. I will say it doesn't mean it's a sure fire fucking home run,

but it certainly is a uh indicator of your status of more than just a scrim below, right? Yeah, yes It is it is you are you are you've made it into the video game Oscars and you've you won You get something there, but um in any case the uh something there, but in any case, the, there then, yeah, and, you know, a number of other rare people are more or less kind of

like interested, but just like, yeah, we don't know. It would be nice though. It would be cool. I feel like the Microsoft's still owns Banjo, right? Pardon me? Microsoft's still owns Banjo, right? Yeah, that would make as fairly complicated by default. It becomes the next box property if that's what they're looking to resurrect exactly.

Anyway, like I said, not much to it, just a thought. It feels like you would click video games thing. Like, is banjo three coming exactly exactly it's not It is is more of a it's more of an idea of just like is banjo a popular character that has an audience for it It's like I think well, that's okay. So even even on my sarcasm aside like that's a fairly tough question because the last game that banjo had to himself was like 10-15 years ago, right? game that Banjo had to himself was like 10, 15 years ago, right? A while ago, certainly.

And again, you know that saccharized preference for things is going to like push it, like Terry Bogart and Kazooia making it in as well as like that's legacy fighting game love, uh, uh, uh, in addition to like influence and popularity. Um, but yeah, I mean, you know, with, with, I, I feel like with the likes of like ukulele didn't quite do it as far as the, the scratching the itch goes for Bejo Kazooie fans. But like I feel as if over the years there's been certainly enough of a just like, there's a, there'd be an excitement there, especially if the team would want to do it as well. You know, I feel like they'd be able to it doesn't have to be a giant fucking blowout return, but it certainly could be something.

Anyway, again, whatever minor thing. There was, however, a couple of announcements, especially seeing as the anime expo 2023 was on. So we got a couple of cool things in regards to that trigger had a panel where they described essentially that they got back, they bought back the rights to Pany and Stocking with Garter Belt from GuyNax. So, They bought back the rights to Panion Stocking with Garter Belt from GuyNax. Great. So,

and so they're just gonna be doing new shit with that. And they're also going to be re-releasing the even higher res versions of the Guerin Lagann movies with revival screenings. Right. So just fucking hype all around with that. Always love it when, you know, a studio is basically just like, yeah, we made this thing. And then the publisher wasn't

doing much. So we just said, fuck it. So we took all this edge rudder's money. And we just bought the rights to the thing we made. Like, that is awesome. I really like that. So fun news there and Yeah, the I You know, I would like to imagine that like the success of edge runners is just letting them fucking flex a little bit right now So that was that was a cool announcement Guren and fucking 4k is Like your eyes aren't fucking ready for it. I would like to see that particular nice shade of green a lot. Thank you. Mmm.

Those explosions that are like better animated than entire seasons of some shows. You know, this, this five seconds, it has more keyframes going on than fucking life. Hell yeah. Super cool on that. Also from anime expo was the reveal of the suicide squad Isakai Whit studio is working on a suicide squad anime Harley Quinn Joker, all of that. And you know, this is a, they ain't no slouches.

I mean, you attack on Titan seasons one to three Vinland saga spy X family. It's it is it is a wild announcement. Um, and I believe we've I don't know man. I mean it it feels it feels like I'm remembering the era of like Marvel manga. I'm remembering the era of like Marvel manga You know and and all that shit so Why the fuck not there's some screenshots and again with studios, you know, they there that's how they're talented right? They've done some good shit. We'll see what the fuck happens, but

Yeah, there's there's a picture of Joker looking like fucking RUKE from Death Note, like hard looking like RUKE. You know, and then a couple of other weird like it just like Amanda Waller anime mode and I don't know what the fuck is it's gonna be but we'll see. Let's see, right? Yeah, that man ninja Batman was a thing Let's let's see how it how it when it drops Why the fuck not

Well the only reason I can think of why the fuck not is the DC properties have had a weird bad run of luck lately Flash is now. Oh, whoa, whoa, hold on. What's going on? You just look like you're about to kill yourself So I said that Because there's a third piece in use, but you can you can finish. Oh, you're gonna say It's now coming out that Flash is now wonderfully guilty of having made less money than had they thrown it away. Like had they actually just deleted the movie? This is a pretty weak segue, but I want to get there. Because the marketing budget is not going to get made back.

So they should have probably just deleted it. And they would have made more money, or lost less money, rather. Also, Hideo Kojima really likes it. Yeah, I'm kind of taking Kojima's word right now as just, okay, good old let listen some would use words to describe Kojima that are not so fond when it comes to his attitude towards Hollywood. I have seen the term star fucker get thrown around in regards to the man who sits down next to two iconic actors and pretends to smoke while holding

no cigarettes just for the funniest things ever seen online. You know, but at the end of the day, like I think it's clear that Kojima's film reviews on Twitter are for the purposes of, you know, being more a part of that scene, bringing and like hopeful, hope I'm guessing in some cases, he'd like to make connections with the people who make some of these movies and he'd like to be in that world and a positive review will definitely reach out

and get around to the right people in some cases, but maybe he really just enjoys the simple things in life. Maybe that's what you know, maybe it's, I don't need to, maybe you don't need to overthink it. Maybe it's like, hey man, as someone who's a fan of pop culture, who's put pop culture all over his, his insane master works, he just likes the simple things and can appreciate uh film for what it is. There's no doubt for taste. There is none whatsoever. Uh I feel like every time I've seen a Kojima review on Twitter, it's always positive no matter what the movie is, no matter what the circumstances. There's only one that stands out to me ever. And that was when he tweeted the phrase,

saw Captain Marvel, period. Oh, interesting. And it was like, man, nothing to say at all. Ooh, like no. That speaks volumes. It makes sense though, because like, Captain Marvel was like so mid it was like so like Normal ass movie that like I can understand a guy like him that wants the zaniest shit in the world all

All the time was like profoundly bored. You did that to Indiana Jones too. Oh Okay, and then a couple of pictures of like the ticket or the premiere or whatever. Yeah, saw this movie. Yeah. Okay. Fair enough. Yeah, that's hilarious. Um, well, speaking of deleting things, I, I certainly wish we could keep that same energy and redirect it to other places, such as the next announcement from anime expo, which confirmed trailer for the existence of Gundam Seed Freedom. Oh hell yeah dude. The movie coming out in 2024.

I, it really is. It's a special kind of franchise that gets me to like years can pass and then I'm like where the fuck did I put that hate arrayed like I'm a reach in the back shelf like I forgot about where I put it and mix it up and just pull it right back in and click play and watch this fucking thing and see Kira and and Lackas blocks fucking staring at each other and be like this piece of shit garbage still won't go away and now they've given it even more money and a higher budget. I will be a hater till I die.

I'm going to ask this is like the continuing stories of Gundam seed or what? It appears to be a direct sequel continuing the stories of Gundam seed and Gundam seed destiny. Yes. So it would seem. Absolutely. And you know, the themes of destiny versus freedom have been a long standing part of the conflict in that series So if we had a Gundam seed destiny it stands to reason that we would then have a Gundam seed freedom because fucking Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow Like it's it's just it's just Aaaaaaahhh! Like, it's just...

It's just... Anyways. It's funny because I don't know anything about because Gundam Seed other than... Eeeeh! Eeeeh! Eeeeh! Eeeeh! Like, crying in the window. But that's correct. So, that is...

That's it. That's it right there. That's all of it. That's everything you need to know. I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true at all. It's... It's... A wh whiny shitty character who can't solve problems being given like this this spotlight. It's a it's a bad weird art at some points. It's just anyway. It is

overall a very annoying thing to see Gundam focus on. When there's so much cooler shit in Gundam, but regardless, that was, you've, and there's been enough energy throughout the years. I've gone on the rant, it's been clipped, yaddy-addy. Gundam seed has its appeal. It has a group of people they're targeting, and those people are gonna get more Gundam seed,

and that's great. Does it have a full robot? It has a robot. I would struggle to describe it as cool. Really? Even? Why? I mean, there were, again, there were reworks of it because there was, okay, there's the original designs which were rushed for the weekly show that was coming out at the time which had, like,, a fucking like two-second turnaround on some of the art. So like the cool robots in some cases were just like colored, chitole, weird lines that go nowhere that mean nothing. Then there would be like a competent mecha artist that like take a step in and go, let me try to salvage this.

Let me try to fix this and you'll get like a Hajime Kato ki version of something. And you'll be like, okay, I see what you're doing here, but that's not the version you're gonna get moment to moment when you're watching the fucking thing. You're getting the bullshit. Anyways, once and again, Star Gaser's the only good part of that thing.

Don't you wanna know what happens to Lachas Klein? Yeah, or Rao Le Cruze, that's a fucking Rolly Pants company. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what about Mooda Fraga? You want to throw some, yeah, yeah, all those names. Yeah, Stargazer and go get yourself, yeah, the Astrays, right? There's there's a Red astray and shit, that's just true too. But, fucking, we're going back to this well again. Because sometimes you need to just, I thought I was out of the game.

I thought I thought, you know, I thought it was out of me, but somewhere deep down, there was an ember of hate that needed to be hammered back to full flame. The existence of Gundam seed represents the non-existence of something else of something else. Rad! Like fucking crossbow or some shit. Like, it was your hatred like of Gundam scene like based off of like primarily opportunity cost or is it mainly like time wasted as you probably watch like the whole thing back in the day. All of it, all of it. It is, it is, it is a,

it is a thing that I spent way more time watching week to week following alongside of it with a, again, other fans of mecca that were just going alongside hoping for like something decent out of it and it was also a like a weird attempt to like kind of retell the original story and it was just like the modern appeal thing is not the problem because as we've seen like wing is fucking goofy but in a charming way that everyone's like, ah, Gundam wings, got to know. Yeah, no. People like wing, I like wing. Yeah, exactly.

You're like, it's that new shit with the new childishness. With the goofy kids, exactly. And that's the thing I want to feel. I want to look at the new Gundam shit and see where it appeals to like the kids, you know, with the designs and the music and everything. And I want to be able to be like, ah, you know, it's that new shit. Um, you know, even like when I come when it comes to going

into like our in blended orphans, I was like, okay, no, I saw enough of that there to be like, yeah, I see, I see like how this is, I see how where this gets set pretty sick. And, you know, um, and the Barbados and all that shit, right? But like, it's just, this thing is just, it has so few redeeming qualities of Eddie and all. And then as time goes on, every subsequent entry just gets worse and worse

and makes the characters worse and worse. And the writing is awful and the art is awful and the story is awful. Everything on all fucking, yes. Is it really bad or is wing just as bad, but wing is the one you saw when you were a child? I would love it if that were the case and I were just as biased,

but no, I legitimately think considering the fact that there has been good and bad since. That it's no, this is a pretty fucking terrible one, man. There's standout examples, some things don't hit, some things do, and it's not like a consistent from the oldest is the best, and as we go forward, it's always gonna get worse. It's not that.

There's been ups and downs. It's just that for all the things that, when you look at wing at the time and you're trying to compare it to like the fucking the the good shit or whatever, then you're like, oh my god, what is this goofy shit? Yeah, yeah, but we were young at the time and seeing this all for the first time. It's just now with the entirety of the fucking franchise to compare it to you're like, oh no, that one's remarkably bad. By comparison. Anyway, um, I gotta say, we gotta, yeah, I can't, I can't think about Gundam Wing objectively because whenever I think about Gundam Wing, all I can hear is Pat Benatar because of the

absolutely weirdly gigantic amount of anime music videos that were like 2 pet benatar songs Which huh fucking rule? I mean two mixes good shit. So that you know that that's catchy as fuck. I'm not gonna You could make an officially MV if you need to with with the Gundam wing stuff, but Yeah, no once again watch Thunderbolt move on Let's just get it's just you know let's get out of here. It's a it's a stun lock Let's get to more exciting things like the new avatar game. Oh my

Shit speaking of it's exciting the mid Speaking of the mid-auts, boy! Um... The new Avatar game. It- it's- it's- I haven't seen a trailer like this for a while, because it's a trailer for a game that's trying to hide itself from you. Like, you could tell By the way things cut and by the way they show off like it's that character you like doing unanimation So yeah, they showed off

What's it called is it the quest for balance? I don't fucking know. The quest for animations. I mean, just it really does look like an Xbox live arcade game. Just we're just we're going right back to that era. And yeah. It just again, I feel I feel I feel like I'm looking at you. The trailer for it looks like it's just you're seeing the the animation of a game that has like maybe 10 unique things each character is gonna do and we have time to show you like one Half-second of each one jump jump jump play the music throw a tray throw a logo out if please don't stare too hard at it. If this did not have the last airbender IP on it, it would look like that shit in my steam queue that I look at for four seconds and go, and then click past. So, with all the stuff going, the stuff Avatar related going on, that's, yeah, not quite

selling it with that trailer, friends. But whatever, alongside that, there was another announcement for a fucking dope-looking game that I, with a name I fucking trust, K-D-Takahashi is back with Anna Perna Interactive and Yuvila to announce to a T, which is the story of a child who appears to be born and stuck with a condition that forces him to teepose for his entire life. It must overcome the struggles of being a teeposing child. And you're in this little cute art style world. And Katedaka Hachi is the Katamari Dameshi guy. That is an incredible fucking idea that is so actually weirdly similar to we love Katamari, you know, and Wattam and stuff.

And so you're just a little character and you know what his name is, his teen, the kid's name is Tee's teen and he's stuck doing a T pose and he's struggling every day to put his clothes on and he's got a little dog that helps him out and you would struggle if I had to like how and and it's a journey. This is range of movement. It's not very good but it's a journey to learn how to assert dominance right. What's the what's the exact title? To a T. To a T. And he's just learning, he's learning how to do it.

And before you know it, it looks like he might even have some special powers that are afforded to him as a T posing dominant that has not yet learned the truth of his abilities. Wow, well, you know what I've discovered is that that title is insanely difficult to search for. Unfortunately so, it's also lowercase except for the T. But maybe if you use quotation marks

or the word Ketataka Hachi, you'll be able to find it. But yes, That is! T-Posing team! Adventure! The struggles of being stuck with your arms out. Cute little dog to help you. Trying to live a normal life. One more look at this game, but boy! There you go.

Oh yeah, okay, with quotes. Jesus! Jesus Christ. It's great, very difficult. Hello, I love some Kada, Takahatchee. I like his, the idea that he's like, I fucked off out of this industry to go make like playgrounds for kids.

I just wanna make toys and things that are fun for kids to play with. And it's like, yeah for kids. I just want to make toys and things that are fun for kids to play with. And it's like, yeah, man, there's a purity to that. And then if he's coming back in to do something, it's because he's like, I got a wild wacky thing that nobody's thought of that I would that I think kids would have fun playing. And yes, and it just happens to be a T-Posing kid kid. You know, like, a posing is fun. Well, because you can see the exact like through line where he was watching someone making his game and he saw characters being set up in a T-Pose or an A-Pose and then he started having daydreams

about what it would be like to be born stuck in a T-Pose and have to live that way. Because he's like, looking at this character, he's like, oh, it's the character I designed designed come to life. And his first gesture is this. So, huh, what would that, you know, and you could just see him sitting there drinking his coffee, staring out the window, thinking about a T-posing child and how difficult life would be. So, um, yay, yay for 2 a T. Never forget that you're the perfect shape Not not me. Okay, well you know

Bodies body positivity unless you don't want it in which case body shame Yeah, yeah, that's fine. You get the energy you want. What about, can we get an in-between on body positivity and body shame and just have body like this is fine? Like this is okay. Like it's not good, but it's worse. I guess that's like what do the numbers say, right? That's what it is. The answer to that, the answer to body this is fine.

Not okay, not not not great, not okay. Like a like Chernobyl. Um, is what are the numbers say? Body apathy? Yeah, body apathy. Not quite acceptance, not quite a difference. Body apathy. Last time I got a checkup, my doctor was like stopping fat. And I was like, what? She's like, eat less. I'm like, well, okay. Sounds like I appreciate the hard-hitting straight to the point. Nature of that. Yeah. It was hilarious. It was so funny. I couldn't even have hurt feelings.

Yeah. I approve. I couldn't even have hurt feelings. Yeah I I approve I Don't disagree, you know, I get it, but It's yeah What you feel and get some look at some numbers because there's some shit in there that's hidden and you're like oh fuck I felt good, but that stat was way bad. Yeah I felt good, but that's that was way bad. Yeah.

Um, so we got that announcement as well. Um, Baldur's Gate 3 release date getting moved around. This is like kind of astonishing. This does not happen anymore. It has been a long time since I've seen a release date get moved up by four weeks. PC version moved up to August 3rd, PS5 version delayed to September 6th. So they were pretty straight forward with this. They said that the PS5 version needed like an extra week or two for optimization,

but the PC version is like ready to go and they didn't want PC players to have to wait on a combined delay. So fuck it. It'll be out August 3rd. Sick? Yeah. The move up is a weird one, but I hope that the game, I hope that the game is solid because if it comes out four weeks early and you're playing it, you're like, this needs a fucking patch. Well, so they're going to look stupid as hell. So from the trenches, if a game moves up, but it doesn't have to, there are certainly a number of QA team managers that are like, why don't we use that time to polish things up a little bit more?

And the answer, of course, is, well, because we need to publish the, we need to have the gold master ready to go, but we can at least get the first day patch or whatever downloads we come up with to patch it later on and you can continue working on that or whatever. But, um, yeah, uh, that, that, you know, you can, you, you will always have that day zero patch continuing regardless, but this is a, you don't, you don't see a, a, a, a fucking release date move up ever because people will take all the time they can the quote is Reaching a technical bar that matches our design ambitions felt like the right move for the ps5 while holding back the pc Version when we knew we'd be ready felt like the wrong move in such a busy launch period, which they are of course referring to the fact that Starfield is coming out in September.

Trying to clear some space. I would. Rare. I just put out a bunch of other updates about like all the classes that'll be there and all the races and it's a good list Okay, I was gonna grab it for ps5, but I mean If you've got a good PC, there's no reason to have the console version because that it'll have controller support as well Yeah, I just There's again like there's a couple things with because I'm playing Street Fighter on both PS5 and on PC and there's a couple things like I keep tweaking the PC options to try to get a little bit more out of it, because it's like it's smooth, but I'm running to these things and so I'm like, it's more convenient on PC. You're a shader compilation on?

I did all of it. Oh yeah, I'm intimately familiar at this point with how to, you know, tweak the things and I'm still tweaking to get like the maximum out of it. And at the end of the day, it's like, yeah, the console really is just like the simplest situation. You just get, you just fucking, you know, booted up and go. But the main thing for a game like Baldur's Gate is that on the personal computer, you will have the easy operation,

easy choice of mouse and keyboard or controller. Yeah, it's console, you're gonna pretty much have controller. And like this is the type of game that even I who play everything with the controller is like you want a fucking mouse and keyboard. It is it is and my new couch set up can do mouse and keyboard, you know, like I just that's the thing is is yeah it's a possibility. So um but yeah, I guess so you know I'll take a look and see. But yeah, I guess so you know, I'll take a look and see Play it to play it with better options first on PC and you know probably stick by that

Okay So I think said hey maybe you'll play great on a controller and I'll just play the whole fucking game with control with fuck knows Yeah Okay That's pretty much all I grabbed. I mean I saw there was a new Naruto and Gigi's two guys in game, but I didn't imagine there'd be we'd have much to say so I kind of just you know Not now if those are low. There's a new cyber connect Naruto, Boruto, generational, pretty cutscene, OC character story thing happening. And I'm just like, when do the guns

and aliens show up? Yeah, later, you're the end of the game. Sick. There's another piece of news that I want to bring up, but it's forgotten So I had well, I couldn't have been that good. Okay, um, they did Suki-Hima is getting you know re-released so if you're want to play the original visual novel you can do that and Yeah, I mean Gran Grand Blue Fantasy versus Stay Announced a, uh, near, I believe, uh, not actually near, but another near a character that happened to be named near.

A character that happens to be named near. That's what I wanted to talk about. Are you familiar with a YouTuber named Yong Ye? No. Okay. So, um, I'm not. Maybe rings it, but I think maybe ever, I don't know.

So, I'm not familiar with his work at all. And it has been asked that he is going to be voicing Kier Yu in RGG, the man with no name. Okay. And people were like kind of like, I don't know about this and you know he was like, hey man I put my time in I'm I did voice actors well I trust me I'm gonna do a good job and then a clip of it came out today and he voices poochie and oh shit yeah okay let's go yeah yeah a clip of his his English career you came out today and I'm sure he's trying really hard but no no it is it is a bad pick was there was there a dub

cure you back in the early first mark Hamill Jack as a day's right game had a Yeah. And he was okay. And then they brought that guy back for Yuck as a seven. Like the guy from like 20 years ago, and he voice care you there. But I guess he's old or he doesn't want to do it anymore, so he's not going to be doing like full, full blown voice acting. And the clip that I saw today is just,

it's not, it's not what I expected. Okay. I'd say, mm, that's the emotion. Okay. Mm. I feel like in my head, Kieru just needs to be kind of deep and badass, but with a little bit of softness. You would think, huh?

With a little bit of softness, you know, like a kind of, you gotta hit some, mm, not the basiness of like a Steve Bloom, but maybe like some edge on it. I would say all of those things are fine. Hmm. Like I would, like I would, like I would, like I would,

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from. So they're. Okay. Ah, is that a L L in a manetta? It probably is. I say there you go. Okay. Since I know woolly loves his dumb and pointless but still interesting trivia about media he'll never watch or play. So he has something to say whenever they come up. Jesus Christ! You picked the email out of a list! Okay, okay, listen. I might still play and enjoy fire Emblem in the future, okay? My bad short look at that does not mean that I'm completely and utterly Writing the franchise off for eternity. I'm well aware of my own shortcomings there

I'm you know her emblems like learning how to change the tire on a car. You got to know something I might I'm you know I might do that in my own time. I might do it sometime in the future on the channel who knows But I'm not like against the idea internally forever. Well, this is so good. I'm a big fan of the email Okay, yeah, you know you won't know you won't yes, you can spite yeah, there you go come on Yes, despite it into happening guys. That's gonna be yeah, it's good very good and fight. Like the Sailor Moon unicorn, let me tell you what happened to Shozokaga, the creator of Fire Umblam. Shozokaga was an ambitious man. He pushed the snest to its limits, clearly wanted to push the series even further, both narratively and mechanically. He talked about his ideas often in interviews about how he'd need a stronger system to implement all his ideas and players were answered

within Nintendo 64. Now as good friends at SquareSo soft will tell you, then the N64 was an excellent system for making RPGs with large memory storage needs. Yeah. For some reason though, he quickly grew unsatisfied with the early development of Fire Emblem 64 and equit the company and started his own. He basically just continued where he left off but changed the names and hair colors. So if you're interested in the adventures of Prince Blarth from the hit series, Schmeier Schmemblem, be sure to check out the PlayStation Classic, Tier Ring Sagga, formerly known

as Emblem Sagga, before he was forced to change the name during a lawsuit by Nintendo. That's really funny. That's really blatant. In addition to the name, other arguments brought up in court were how he used the same font and placement of the word emblem on the English logo or how he waited until-

Oh my God, this fucking box art is hilarious. Or how he waited until pre-orders were done before announcing the name change. Ha ha ha ha. Oh my God, that's so shit. I just sent it to you. Like that's just Prince Blarf. Oh, though.

Yeah. God, that's so funny. Oh, man. funny oh man duh duh duh duh duh yeah okay so so um waited until the pre-order is before a changing the name um uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh Fire Emblem lore, like how the game took place during the events of the first and third Fire Emblem games. I'm convinced some of those interviews didn't realize he was literally talking about Fire Emblem because his company later had to issue corrections to some magazines for legal reasons

due to the misleading information they ended up publishing. There was also evidence presented that he refused development assets from the now cancelled Fire Emblem 64. So in case you're curious, Tearing Saga has actually outsold the next mainline Fire Emblem got a sequel on the PS2. Then the company went bankrupt and he stopped making games for over a decade. In 2015 after Awakening made Fire Emblem the new hotness, he came out of retirement with a brand new Fire Emblem clone, with a much smaller team and a budget using SRPG maker called Visteria Saga, not to be confused with Tales of Vesperia. Its sequel was released as recently as last year.

TLDR, the Fire Emblem creator quit the company so he could make Fire Emblem knockoffs and said, and it's a wild ride. That is amazing. Oh, well-menged massive shitbag. That is so strong. That is a powerful energy emanating. Like sitting there, not chate going to court. If you know what that is, that is holding the microphone in your hand, looking out at your employees, who look up to you, Mr. Belfort, and you're just like, I'm not leaving. You know what it reminds me of?

I'm not fucking leaving. It reminds me of just not going anywhere. It reminds me of a legal variation of Mel Brooks' best piece of advice for burgeoning filmmakers, which is when the producer brings you in and Says something like fire Gene Wilder. I hate him or change this part of the script or whatever. Just say yeah So on blazing saddles Mel Brooks gets gets pulled into the office by his by his He goes, you need to fire Gene Water.

I hate that guy. That guy's trash. And Mel goes, absolutely, he's gone. And then he goes, you need to take out these jokes and you need to make this more serious. And he goes, right away, immediately. And then just not doing it. Yep, yep, yep.

And then no one ever checked on him once, ever. And this feels like the legal equivalent of like, he says, yes, I promise, I will not call it fire emblem in the court. And then it turns around and then pulls out his phone and goes, okay, so fire emblem six, right? Yeah, fans of fire emblem, please look forward to the next game in the series.

Just directly after the court, after the lawsuit, after the Dave change. I'm still gonna keep it going Yeah, okay. Oh, that's great. That's a good email good email and then going into hyper nation and waking up when fire Reblep comes back I made fire on them. It's mine Fantastic all right here. Let's take one. Uh, no tag given. So I'm not gonna dox your email. Um, pal world needs to be a 9-11 for die hard Pokemon fans. Yes. Hello, Pat and Willie. I need to preface this with two things. I am a Pokemon fan myself

I'll be it I am no longer an active player due to not owning a switch to right I am under zero illusions the power world will realistically compete with Pokemon. Oh that games can be trash That out of the way There's a very specific kind of Pokemon fan that I want to see suffer. The kind of Pokemon fan that goes, this is a ripoff at anything close to Pokemon in execution. The kind of fan that has such an insane view of what copyright should be that they're genuinely wondering why cassette beasts is not being sued by Nintendo. I saw a comment recently, confidently asserting that the reason games like this have been coming out in indie scenes is that Pokemon actually had patents on the concept of monster catching games, but then

recently ran out. That's nonsense. I feel obligated to point out that Digimon, Dragon Quest monsters and Yokai Watch still have at least one or more mainline games that have never been localized compared to Pokemon's only the rinky dink spin-offs possibly staying in Japan. There's other, there's other should I should say about how insane it is to have this view while being a video game fan because of how stealing ideas from each other is what makes games actively better, but I digress.

It's important, yes, deal. My main point is that I want Powell world to at least be functional enough, at least more than SV to get a pass, to get press and and fun enough that I keep, that it keeps press going. I want to get Hello Neighbor and General mascot horror tied together with kids. I want to see the type of Pokemon fan that I mentioned having a fucking mega meltdown at the game that does in fact have designs that blatantly rip off Pokemon, making fat stacks of cash because it runs better because that would be so fucking funny. Yeah, I think I think power is like lives on the line because like you look at some

of those designs and you're like, that is like a door. It's not like a a a fucking. Oh, this reminds me of what a Pokemon looks like. It's like this reminds me of what that Pokemon looks like. I do, I have to respect the spite energy being worked for good. I like it. It's not good. It's powerful. It's not the power. It's not like, how do you defeat the Satsui no Hado? It's like, it's not the power of good defeating the power of evil. It's the power of nothingness. You're taking a source and you're just redirecting the force. The spite for a positive outcome. This is good.

Good energy. I think this is good. Yes. Also, I know the type of person they're describing and they're insufferable. Like, you know, we look at Pal World and we're like, how the fuck are they getting away with that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just the emotional content on that, like, how dare they? How do they get away with that? It's like, what do you give a shit? You know, own stock and Pokemon?

You're not that cool guy who bought Nintendo stock to gate crash their investor meeting and complain about Splatoon shit. That guy's cool. Like, I feel like if Power World ever found itself Under the attention of let's say I don't know guard of war fans for example They might have a very different reaction to that kind of spotlight, you know what I mean? I unfortunately know what you mean.

Hmm. Alright, well, let's leave it there. Yeah. Nice little tone fucking shift. No. Alright, everybody. Have a good week! you