Castle Super Beast - CSB 231: Your Parents Smoked Out Your Crib To Rep Vape Naysh

Episode Date: August 9, 2023

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МУЗЫКАЛЬНАЯ ЗАСТАВКА Alright, hey. We good. Oh hello, Willie. How are you? All right, my my throat is a little raspy and sore You must be pretty tired after winning Evo. Yeah, man. I didn't follow the the the grand finals, so I just assumed I assume that's what happened. It was a hell of a it was a hell of a grand finals that I was playing all day So I am super exhausted, but you know

It was it was it was worth it, but either way I'm gonna do it. Thank you very much You know, I switched to Ken and I made it do what it do Hey, I got a question All joking aside who actually fucking won evo I didn't angry bird the fucking be Angry bird. Yeah, who's the plan? Ken what so get the fuck out of what really Ken and Onei I can't believe it. What oh my god Yeah, man.

So the thing is, is like, that was one of those situations, though, where the character is like a current fucking hurdle and a bane on a constant level when I come across them. In fact, I lost to two kens in my bracket. And that's just been the story of it. But like, in particular, the way that it shaped up with that grand finals, I was happy either way because I was rooting for Angry Bird or Big Bird to make it all the way, right? Big Bird is like...

It was really, it was really Angry Bird versus Big Bird? No, no, no. So Angry Bird and Big Bird are like the birds. They're like basically the UAE players that I saw, they've been kind of killing it for a while now. And like, it's just, they're awesome to follow. I love the way they play. I love the way they're shit.

Big Bird has kind of like been killing it with Marissa and has been like, you know, pushing the tack and showing off like what that character can do. And Angry Bird, you know, who he plays with their training partners and such. And, you know, they've been just grinding it together and he does that with Ken. and they play on such a fucking super high level, they're incredible with it that like,

when they fight, it's kind of like, basically Big Bird, fought Angry Bird, round one of the Red Bull tournament that happened a while ago. And then they both were kind of like, well, if you win, you're gonna win the whole thing. If I win, I'm gonna win the whole thing. If I win, I'm going to win the whole thing. That's how this is going to go.

And so they fought each other round one and Big Bird beat him and then Big Bird won that. And so this time around now, Angry Bird went all the way in at EVO. So just like the story of the birds is fucking sick and the fact that they're able. Fighting Minard. He's fighting Menard. Menard. Yes. Menard? Uh, he's fighting Menard, Menard D, yes. Menard D? Yeah.

Oh, that fucks me up, because Menards are real name that people have. Right, but the R.D. is Dominican Republic, right? So, uh, that's... Wait, R.D. is Dominican Republic? So, the, I mean, I think it's like Republic, uh, Dominican, like in reverse based on how you say it. Oh, that makes much more sense.

But it's not minard. It's men are D. And yeah, the, but like the whole bit with like the the birds is like, they're also kind of like able to get that strong in an environment where it's like, it's there's it's pretty much just them right there's like not a ton There's like a there's a community as far as I understand but like there's not a ton of other known players from the UAE So you kind of have like a little bit of an arzol and ass situation of like they're getting that Good in a in a small environment on their own and then just kind of like being able to play other people when they can and the other haven't good online of course makes a huge difference but it's super sick to see that you know like out of a pocket comes that lover's skill.

I want to get. Yeah man I mean what a be like it just beasts you know so like like like go like Middle Eastern players on the fucking rise just killing it man and yeah so like even though he played Ken I was like I was I wanted like I had the birds as my picks like going through this because they're just they're super fun to watch play and they're they're great and yeah and and you know having um talk to a little bit on tour before but getting to meet in person as well and catch up and talk and be like oh what's up guys and everything was very chill But at the same time

Haven men are just rock blanket in grand finals is a spiritually satisfying thing That is so fucking sick to watch and and I love Watch I love the character play. I love the way Everyone reacts to it, and I love the look on everyone's face as they have to come to terms with something that they don't want to come to terms with. Right? The idea of what Blanca is and has been for the last couple decades, and now you have to face and swallow a really hard to swallow pill which is this is the most technical character in the game and whatever fucking memes you're going off on are bullshit at this point because before it was I could do whatever a blank a player can do fuck those guys we don't play we don't fuck with them and now it's like you can't do shit you cannot do any of those setups you cannot play this character right you have to acknowledge that shit. It's the most technical. It's it's not, you know, from being beneath.

Back to the nightmare that is CVS, too, where he is beneath me is the energy that everyone likes to fucking hold on to. Well, now what? Now what? Do that shit. Show me. I have to say, maybe, maybe I'm a like a salty baby stupid shit fuck, but the finals being Ken versus Blanca is like in my opinion the worst outcome for all humans. Like Ken was already like, like Ken is got like that sub zero thing going on where it's like Half-of-all people are playing Ken and it's gonna be even worse now and now like regular Non-free humans are gonna see that block a got to the grand finals and like go oh maybe I'll play block No, no, no, create more block but that's but that's not true. And that's the thing is when it comes to, it depends on the way the characters play. It depends on what's going on.

Menna also killed it with birdie back in Street Fighter 5. And that didn't make an explosion of birdie players really happen. Right. There are these things over time. Sometimes you'll have these moments where, so yeah, Makoto pops up on stream in like super street fighter and then you see a huge influx of people jumping into the Makoto boards on SureshoreUkand.com. Like, oh, whoa, what's going on with this character, right?

And there's always a moment where a character getting into top eight on stream is going to like increase the popularity of people checking them out, like just that's the nature of it. But by relative comparison for what you'd expect, like it didn't happen then and I don't suspect it's going to happen much more now. But there's definitely going to be people going to lab and figure out how to deal with that and want to know what's going on because obviously it's strong. And then character representation in general was kind of surprising because, you know, I was looking at like a chart of like the top 96 players and how many of each character made it

and like a despite what you would you would I mean can obviously a whole lot of them. despite what you'd you'd expect. I mean, Ken obviously a whole lot of them. Yeah. JP coming in second. A ton of JP's Also on on shocking and then but then like not as much jury as you'd expect, you know, I expected to see Cammy and jury like all over that and not not right and Luke as well who men are also was playing which is like Luke is the Japan considers Luke to be the best character in the game, right? You know, by their metric for like overall ability, but like, yeah, you just you didn't see as many in that situation as well.

It was really just a JP and kind of Ken game. So all this and even, you know, Marissa's as well. Like Marissa was, you know, not like there was a couple But here and there they just some place high of course chuto was a Japanese Marissa player that got pretty high as well But but all this to say that uh Yeah, it's I don't suspect people are gonna Suddenly just you know

Start rocking a pocket blanket that aggressively. I hope not. That would be just the, so you know what, you know what I actually shocked me the most? I saw that chart you were talking about. Okay. Zero Honda's. Hmm. Zero.

Yeah, I mean, like maybe I'm a scrub, but like when I mess with Honda, and I play with Honda's buttons, I'm like, there's just a lot of good things about this character. So it seemed to work really well. But it's just the difference between the high level competitive play and the things that work at a basic level. It just doesn't apply once you're dealing with people that have labbed solutions to what your gimmicks are.

have labbed solutions to what your gimmicks are, right? I don't know if I believe that, because Zenkif is assuredly worse than Honda. And there was a Zenkif in that top 96. You can, like, you can steal rounds with, like, making hard, hard reads, getting lucky. That's not a steal, they're doing a good job. They're doing a great job. They're doing a great job. Absolutely.

Absolutely. But overall, what determines things is bending the odds in your favor. A character like Lily, for example, has a very simple but good game plan, which is she can win clad and that makes her ability to get in on you, create a mix up of 50, 50 and it's just like, I make you block the spire and then you have to do something or you have to guess, right? And that seems like it would work right or all the way across

the board, but the better players get the more they find ways to just not have to deal with that. And the more they find ways to overall, even if you do get put into that situation, the rest of what the character is doing is not that scary anymore. So if your best thing is still a predictable thing, like if you don't have any other facets to mix it up with to create a more complex approach. A top player is going to beat you every time. And so that's what it comes down to is the best characters have a variety of things they can do to cover their approach.

And they have a widespread tool. Or they have one in sustainability. So the Marissa's damage is incredible. I saw a fantastic video that was, how come Marissa doesn't have any truly awful matchups? And it was because she is one hit away from doing this. And it was her hitting her back hard punch. Back heavy punch.

And doing 70%. Mm-hmm. Yep, up, down. And it was like, it was the back hard punch back every punch and and doing 70% yep up down it was like it was the back hard punch into a dash into the back hard punch into the back hard punch that's not even that's all over stupid shit that's a suboptimal combo as well that's like that's a weaker yeah it's also brain dead I can do it I've done it and it's like wow this brain dead is shit so what ends up happening is you play around trying to land that and then everyone's like all right I know you're trying to land that and

you have You have a character this is my game plan. I'm gonna try to land that if you Neutral jump a lot of the shit that she's doing. People are like, you're able to land on top or for a bunch of cases, you can jump in on her because her anti-airs are not fantastic compared to most of the cast. Anyway, I don't wanna go into in depth with it, but just, the point is kinda like,

that one touchability in the right situation will delete around and then take, and she'll spend her level three on it, you know? And then you're back to like, okay How do I how do I Contain her in the box and she has to kind of and she has to kind of make a wild guess to like get in on you And then make that happen and if that wild guess never happens then she gets deleted, right? So it's just like yeah, there's a there's a, there's like a, there's like a, it's sort of an even killed, you know,

tier list discussion at the moment of just like, yeah, she can always get that thing. But then there's, and she'll feast her famine in her results, you know. Yeah. When you die as her, you die hard. Oh, that good hit. Yay.

Oh, yeah. Didn't get that good hit. And then there's characters who are like the complete opposite of that, right? And you don't see them as much because they take more work, but like Chun Lee, for example, is a very well rounded character that has a lot of good shit. Also, doesn't have any real like bad matchups per say, but that's because she just has like, she has a gun for, she has a gun for every job. She has a tool for everything that she needs. It's a variety of

skills covering a wide base. And like the better the player, the better they can switch to all the things they can do to handle the situation. So it's kind of interesting, because you have the same results, but one is more volatile, one is less volatile. And so if you want less of a dice roll you pick a character like that, you know Yeah, man, evil was fucking wild. It was awesome very very cool Just exciting to see how you know the the the the scope and everything is as it is changed and increased and you know Shout-outs to Rick the had to for the ways running things and and such There's like a lot that's gotten better and there's some stuff where I'm like shoutouts to Rick the Hadoo for the ways running things and such. There's a lot that's gotten better and there's some stuff where I'm like,

okay, I want that fixed, but overall I had a really good time in person. And for a lot of people who came, it was their first time as well, excited because they're playing Street Fighter 6 and getting into it for the first time. And all of that has led to the convention side of the tournament being equal in size to the tournament itself. Right. There is so much you can do and spend your time fighting game lands. Fighting game con happening right next to the bracket is a three day thing that you can absolutely throw yourself into. And to the point where, the moment I have of just like, okay, player, content creator,

that's a fork in the road, so to speak, and that same decision I made to not, uh, you know, start playing it early in order to be able to compete. Same thing. So Friday, I couldn't check out any of that stuff. Uh, I had to come, I had to play my games. And then I was there with a bunch of other guys from Montreal, you know, uh, Snathouche, I Rithy, Flux Waves, Reggie, we were all there competing in like, so we, Gwach, you got to support, you got to, you know, roll with the crew together and everyone had some pretty

crazy matches. I mean, Reggie fought Fudo in his pool, like, as is like second game or so, you know, how do you do? Yeah, well, he got food out, you know, but, but it was still that that ends up taking up most of that Friday, you know, which means that would have been the time to go get hands on Project L. But like, that doesn't happen, you know, so then it's like, okay, maybe Saturday, but I have to decide between throwing half of Saturday at Project L or the all the other shit and people. There are that I've got to go see and stuff.

So it like unfortunately I didn't get a chance to touch Project L. You know? So, you know, I got to, I watched a bunch of it and I saw a lot of Yasuo who was announced as well. Very, very cool and like one of the best things there was an arcade that is a part of the event now that wasn't there before, where there's a magfest style, massive room of just machines for everything. They had a project, a arcade machine. There's the big line back in the dealers area. And then there was like one machine set up

with like four seats for two people to sit on each side. And there was a lineup for that one, of course, too. But watching it played in a cabinet environment was very, very cool. Do you get to touch more to combat? No, I didn't. Again, I kind of was like, I'm not going to line up. I'm not going to line up for anything, right?

I'm going to try. Yeah. Yeah, it'll happen. You remember project L is free. Don't line up for anything, right? I'm going to try. Yeah. Yeah. It'll happen. You remember. Project L is free. Don't line up for it. It'll come to your house.

You remember what it was like when it was like, you know, you're checking out like a pack. Exactly. And you're like, do I want to get four games that I really want to play out of this day based on lining up for each one for hours or do I want to, you know, touch more things, right? So, and the answer was no except for the Bloodborne booth over there.

So there you go. I mean, for me, I'm just like, that's all right. I'd rather see more things and do more and such. And, you know, plus, and again, like, it's fighting game con. So there's just, there's a ton of people that I'm recognizing vice versa. Like, what I got to like the indie row was wild because it was literally like Five games straight up right there that were all games

I've played on the channel and of like done like promotion and helped them out with this stuff And I just so I'm like seeing everyone like hey, oh, it's up. I just run it down the row You know, I'm like okay, I gotta get over to my pool because you know my boys about to fight Diago, but I'll be back, you know, and it's like literally the entire row is like, yeah, okay, you know stuff so That's awesome, you know, and then the junk food Setup was over there. They had the snack boxes. A lot of people talking a lot of good stuff about junk food Yeah, man. They're doing they're killing it, you know Saw them and and you know got, yeah, just like what,

like holy shit, I can't believe that sold out so quickly. That was amazing. The getting to fighting games in Oli versus a stack box is just fucking flu. And then a bunch of people were lining up around to get the evil ones that were then, we're like, to bring them to the signing later and stuff. So like, they sold some more like extras in that context as well.

And so I tried out the new thing they're working on the world, which is like a, it's like a, it's like a snack box, but it has like the keyboard sort of layout, the WASD button. And then it has like thumbsticks for like, if you want to play other types of games as well. So they've got like all kinds of cool stuff going, but it's super dope to see how that's coming along. And especially considering the,

I was telling them, it's really easy when the thing is good. When the stick is good, it's very easy to be like, yo, get this good stick. It's light travels easy, you can customize it. Advertising is incredibly easy when it's good. They paid me to play Double Dragon last week. And like, okay. That's it.

You know. Oh, sure. And then it's gonna stream it anyway. And like, and it doesn't, it doesn't help. Well, it doesn't hurt as well that like, I guess anyone who also knows about like, so the hitbox side of things, when hitbox tried to fucking sue them over like the layout of a leverless stick, it's like, what the fuck are you guys doing, man? This is a small community.

We're trying to fucking own this new game, bro. This is a small community. Copyrights. We all are trying to help each other and like the idea of just trying to uruburus any of that shit is so stupid considering how limited of a group we are. So that was just a bad look across the board so people were also like yeah fuck that that sucks you know. I have a bit of a strange question to ask you about evolution,

the fighting game tournament. How do you feel about the new trend or if not the new trend, but the more popular trend this year of players walking up to their matches and masturbating the entire time they're playing their sets. Oh, you didn't see this? Okay. So something very important to get across is when you're at EVO, you're in it and on the show floor and you're at that you're there's a lot that happens on stream that you are not aware of. So you guys at home are finding out more on a regular basis than the people that are there because you're getting the consolidation being being online. And we're just seeing what we're seeing in front of us and someone goes, oh my god, you'll check this tweet. What's up? But so what I'm referring to is there are a bunch of players that were like, I don't want anyone to see my stick. So they were walking up,

sitting down, throwing their stick down and throwing a blanket over there in Thailand. Oh, yeah, the box. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is how high. You're seriously beating it. Yeah, okay, Jesus Christ, man. I was like, what? It looks real bad on stream. Okay, okay, for a second, I was like, what the fucking smash brothers are we talking about?

What did we, why? No, okay, all right, yes, the stick hiding side. It looks real bad. Well, that's not new, first of all, because if you go back a couple of years, you'll see a Mad K-O-F, shout out to the Mad K-O-F player back in the day who would have an entire curtain set up for the stick that would be at the right height

for the seated chip play. And it was like, it had branding on it and everything. It was like detailed, but it was a curtain to hide stick inputs, right? And that's the hilarious thing about that is tons of people, especially people who grew up playing Western arcade style machines and not the Japanese style where you face each other,

are instinctively used to reacting to people pumping or churning butter or doing something on wake up. And it's like, sometimes people listen to inputs. Listening to inputs is a thing and we did, they talk about it and it's like, you shouldn't technically be doing that, but it's instinctual for some people. And at the same time, to counter that,

fake buttons became a part of the strategy. So people would do wake, wake up nothing, but they start pumping, right? Or they'll use the, there's new arcades, things like the, the crossup, where it's like you have a fake button, that's just a directional button. And you can do like, you know,

quarter circle forward, quarter circle forward, fake button, and then nothing comes up, but you can't stop people from being physically present next to the person They're playing. And I remember like when we had some of the arcade players from the old school Arcade I used to play at that came out to to play at some of the new locals They would do things like that. They would pump and do fake motions and people were like what the fuck is this tech? You know, it's just like yeah, that's old arcade tech. You want to keep your corner? You you make people react to nothing, right? So that's one way.

Or you hide your hands. And you style and butt run. And they're tournaments with the box. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's hilarious, man. I mean, even if you put headphones on, you can still hear taps here and put. And you can see that.

And out of the corner of your eye, you see the person next to you doing things, right? Pat, like, oh, snake, oh, snake eyes, place controller, never mind. But the sanghi for the Alex Ryan is just churning butter real bad. And it's and it like, it's something that like, it's a bad habit if you do it, you shouldn't. But like, it is ingrainedined your brain will absolutely just like Instinctually sometimes just like recognize a motion that someone's body language is giving away, you know

So yeah, no hiding the the the tech or so I It's I think it's hilarious. I think obviously most players just deal with it and are just like yeah Well, you know if that's that shouldn't be a determining factor and whether you win or lose but What it's evil? I mean everything is a determining factor, right? The talking to a lot of players about this, like one of the things you'll hear often is a tournament like this is not a it doesn't determine who the best player is. It determines who's the best on that day, right? There's your best of like that you're consistently at, but the way you feel, the amount of jet lag you have, how you, like there's a million factors that can choose how your play is going to go, how well-wrested

and so on you are. And then there's just like the part where, you know, it's not a round robin, 7,000 person tournament. You don't fight everybody and see what happens. You know, you kind of, there's randomness to it. So, yeah, it's the best of how you feel that day. You're completely right about that part, but I feel like that is ingrained and somewhat obvious for every competition that's ever existed in the history of anything.

You can't control the events for Joey, Joey, Joey New Jersey's mom died last night. Of course. Right. You know, or Chris Teterians, Scargott Stolen, the morning of, you know, or a whole bunch of Japanese players or had a flight where the engine needed to be fixed before they could take off. So they had to like fucking scramble to get there just in time for their pool to start because delaying a flight from Japan is obviously insane.

Like a million crazy factors that you just can't possibly account for. What often happens though is then the reason why this comes up is because when somebody, when you play and you're like, oh shit, I knew I should have had that match or whatever, you're like, I know I can do better than that. I know how to fight that character or that person.

There's like, yeah, there is. When you're thinking about yourself at optimum play at your best, and it's like, the external factors are a part of this. When you're like, I shit, I just, I wasn't feeling it. I was off. I was in my head. One of the things that happens, I mean, one thing for me for sure was over focusing on like, basically, I played some sets before leaving.

And I was like, okay, here are the holes in my game plan, here are the problems and the things that I lose to that I shouldn't be losing to. So I'm gonna study up on the plane. And I spent the entire flight just looking up information on like how to fix the stuff that I was weak at. And then holding too much new information in my head, going into these matches instead of just letting your muscle memory and instincts and just playing your game the way you would.

Because yeah, thinking of new things while you're going into this high stressful environment type of thing is just like, eh, that's not a great idea. Adapt something slight if you know, stressful environment type of thing is just like, eh, that's not a great idea, you know? Um, adapt something slight if you can, but otherwise you should mostly have your muscle memory and game plan just kind of going. So, I mean, and some people don't do any of that shit. So people just show up.

Sometimes they do, but a lot of the time, the people that just show up, like, there is a, there's a, there's a point you'll get to where your raw skills and like experience will carry you, you know, pretty decently far into the bracket, but you hit a wall where now the people who have been practicing grinding and even looking up other people that they would run into in the bracket and to prepare, you're just not going to pass that, you? There's the, like, you're a godlike player, but you didn't practice or look up anything, and you're a godlike player you did,

and like, there's a hard wall where you can see that. Top 96 going upwards, you know, you're like, the people who are going beyond this are the ones who like, spent their time looking at each of these names and taking a moment to consider, you know? What it would mean. And to consider, you know, what it would mean. And also too, as well, like sponsored players as a part of that where,

you know, if your sponsor is, it depends on what the nature of whether they're just kind of like, Hey, we fly you out or whether they're like, we're going to cover your approach for the whole strategy, the whole tournament. Like sometimes the sponsors, like, I got your hotel room paid for where this shirt. Sometimes the sponsor is, here's your water bottle. Do you need anything? Did you eat? Okay, let me go get some breakfast. Okay, you also go practice for a bit, warm up, you know, the sticks are working, everything's good.

Like, there's that level of it where you're like making sure that you're the player is like ready to go to just money behind this player. We want this player to perform with their peaks so that our sponsorship looks good and gets on the front page. Exactly. Exactly. So and I know that's much more normal for FPS and RTS eSports. They'll be like, oh, there's like an exercise trainer that comes and has you jogging the morning, you know, I saw the most absolute toxic fucking hilarious Post the other day about like hey, don't be sad about drowning in pools as most of you will Instead, you know get to know the person who eliminated you, you know become friendly and then get invited back to their hotel room and while they're busy You know playing steal all their Fiji waters.

Get hit with the fucking charge. Open up the fridge and take shit out of the fridge. Blow up the credit card. That's so evil. So you know, we're talking about getting ready for the thing and you know, you said the top 96 is just like the impossible thing. Like only real people are getting into that part of the bracket. And in the back of my mind, I'm like,

or, or you could have your uncle just put you into the grand finals and embarrass your whole country. Oh, yes, yes, exactly. Or you can just hit the fucking starting block and have all the sprinters run by. And you kind of, I saw that clip, but I was like, was this? I had to wait a moment because I'm like, hold on, is this like... Is someone...

Is this like a special needs thing or a charity moment? Is there some sort of part of this where Is this like a special needs thing or a charity moment? Is there some sort of part of this where there's someone being involved that is like kind of like, no, we are to represent something? The most of you who do not know, we're talking about the recent track and field section of the world university games in China,

in which the Somali delegate or athlete, I guess, is the niece of the Somali athletics director for the country and has never run a day in her life and looks like me competing at the world level track and field. It's like amazing. So you see it's a track and field meet where they the sprinter sprint. And then this lady just just jogging it down. Just jogging, just doing what she can, you know, posted the link in the live chat if you want to. If you don't want to, amazing, you're not listening to this live. You can go to

just Google Somali runner takes over 20 seconds to complete the slowest ever 100 meter dash. Break a record. Shout out, shout out to Nepotism. Um, amazing. Yeah, that was pretty awesome. It's funny because this has been like a thing the people have been joking about for years. Is that like for every Olympic event, they should have an average person competing next

to comparison. Yeah, to show you would make it, it would make it look so much more person. Yes, you need a margin of a margin line. You need you need to get absolutely, you know, the little, the little humans that stands next to the T rex for scale. But yeah, I know. So that was, so that was a fun thing. And in the end, I, as per you, I make it to the end of my pools and I die before I can get out, because that's just what I am.

And I honestly, and I also had like, I had like just one of the worst starting matches ever. And it's interesting, because the metric that we're kind of looking at now is like, they siege you according to your placement in other events and where they expect you to go and the adiata, so you can hit project it and see where EVO thinks you're gonna end up.

There's a button on the bracket to see where you're expected to land. Oh, yes. And so it's like, some people are just like, I don't click that shit. I don't even want to know. You know, I gotta see it. I gotta see it.

Yeah, and I'm like, oh, get me in there. Let me see it. And they're like, oh, they do, and like, they, they, they, they, they, super, they project that, make it out in losers, you know. And I'm like, okay, so the goal then is to treat this, like golf rules and see if you can hit above par or below par, you know, and

uh, beat the robot beat the robot. So the robot that I was better than it thought I was exactly exactly, you know, but, um, no, I just it's, it's, it's at that. It's, it's the same. It's the same result as always. Like good enough to get to that, that deciding point, not good enough to make it to break through. Um, and the, the, the drops that And the drops that you make where you're like,

I wouldn't drop this normally in any regular circumstance, but the evo environment situation is making you play more like worse than you usually would. That applies to everybody. We're all doing that. So you're like dropping shit, you're like, what the fuck? And then you're trying to not get in your head about the fact that you dropped something that you never usually

dropped. But I saw people in the chat just earlier saying it was nice to see that even the world champion drops Ken combos in the middle of their matches. Everyone gets hit by drive impact. We are all human. This the most important thing to learn from watching this bracket this weekend is no matter how good you are, even Angry Bird and Mena and Sonic Fox, all the everyone that like literally that you look at all your top player like top 96 player people, everyone's getting hit by drive impact at some point. You can think that you're like you've got the perfect reactions for it on a perfect day, but there's gonna be situations

where you cannot. I forget. Yeah. Once it was ruffle longer, but I'm not sure. Hmm. But they were streaming and they were talking about fucking DJ's jump scare. A fucking dr...

Oh, a drive rush. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they were loading into a match with DJ. And they're like, okay, okay, I know it's coming. I know it's coming, just react. Just react. Yep. And immediately got drive rust jabbed. Yep, exactly.

In frame one of the bike, he's discussing how it is going to happen to him. And yet. And it's still so fast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It happens. Shout out to Rufelmager, he was on the flight back. So we. It happens. Shout out to Rufalmager. He was on the flight back.

So we got this. I think it was Rufalmager. I'm not sure. Yeah, we got to chill and talk for a while and stuff. Yeah. It's amazing to know exactly what's coming and still have no ability to really hand a little deal with it. Those are the craziest and most frustrating moments.

And that's why the joke is, oh, Honda's easy, just perfect parry, bro. Just PP it, bro, has become a meme because it's like if you want to deal with head, but two frame, perfect parry, drive Russian, blow him up, what's the problem, you know? And it's like, yeah, you have, you, you, you had, it's hard. This is it. It's hard, right? I forgot, like wherever it was, I don't know if you remember me screaming,

because it's hard, Pat. Yeah, I remember playing Guilty Gear. Yeah, I played Drive, and like Potemkin's, like, you know, that little crouch clap he does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That beats Dolphin, like every time and so like when I was playing people were like yeah just just do uh just do for uh just do fucking six p like on reaction to the dolphin the dolphins fucking instantaneous right and this is and so this exact thing is, but it's fucking hard is why modern competitively is a thing and why as predicted a modern player made it to top eight

I'm like I was like what is the representation we're gonna see and how high is modern gonna get and I'm like I bet you were gonna see modern and top eight I bet you like looking at the way it's happening right now online, Japanese players using it and the way they're using it, I don't think you're gonna see a ton of them, but you're going to see it, you know? And yeah, I mean, so top six now is the format that we go with for Sundays, but either way, there's, you know, high-tunny and chuto, showing you that like the sacrifice for your know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know,

you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, for example, he went out to a modern Ken player in the bracket that was just the moment you do anything that looks open for a second. Hit the button. I don't care. I'm not going to... I'm not dropping combos because these are modern combos. But they can because you still have to do... Yeah, I know, but they're not the same.

They're not doing the assist combos necessarily. They're a different world. You're not using the, like in competition, you're not using the assist combos to do your stuff because in some situations, you might do it quickly for like a particular exchange, but you will still want to do good damage, which means you have to do it manually.

But you're using the modern buttons for the fast anti-airs for instant level threes, you know And just anything that is a reaction check should no longer be that But he did some cool shit where like there was a moment where Henry was like, okay a chyrathy It was like, okay every time Cammy's jumping in or doing anything like airborne You know kid modern can sure you can button. No, you don't, right? So he did a shallow dive kick and then made Ken with a sure you can. And I was like, oh, fuck yeah, there we go, right?

Then, I mean, this is classic Street Fighter and Rantics or so, but you just have to be even tighter because of the modern reaction. So then that guy gets a little more hesitant to do that in the future. So then the next jump in, he kinda just waits for the dive kick that never comes. It's a normal jump in and it works and we're like, yeah, let's go.

And now we're playing the game, you know, but then the third time he just presses it and goes all the way in and blows it up. It is also interesting because modern versions of the characters, they lose some pretty crucial tools in some cases, right? Luke is the one who's got the most going for him in modern, whereas Marissa in modern, I find it's crazy, but there is, again, Chuto is a great Japanese player that uses it.

She loses the sparta kick entirely. She completely, it doesn't have that move in modern mode, and to me, I'm like, that's nuts. I don't wanna play without that. You know, that's weird. I don't want to play without that. That's weird. But makes up for it by using just a one button gladius. But in any case, not to get to the depth of that. We, yeah, we got overall.

That was my bracket. Reggie got out of pools and then won his next three matches. So he did really well. And then he would not that he would say it, right? Because the match he went on on was one where he played like badly, you know. But the match right before that was one of the cleanest he ever played.

And it is interesting because like we got to watch and see we're like, okay, so Reggie's direct strength is when he fights somebody who's playing properly, honestly, and he can outfoot see and play that game really, really well. And when he plays against someone that's going insane, that's the weakness because it's like he's trying to control the chaos, so to speak, you know. That's so re-you. It is, isn't it?

Even when he's not playing for you. So that's kind of what happens there. Yeah, and then, you know, the rest of the crew as well, you know, they made it further in, but unfortunately, you know, didn't, didn't quite make it all the way. It's a first street fighter tournament. It's also a first street fighter, a Evo two months out or whatever. And there's a point to where you have to think to yourself, hold on a minute, how many tournaments have I participated in? For me, the answer is,

this is, Evo is my third, right? Fureji was the second. And then for a number of people, you're like, yeah, it's like, you know, single digit or so. But for some of the people that go hard There's been a online bracket every week. There's nearly one every day in some cases and like players like fluxwaves are competing in a tournament bracket every single day like online somewhere

Someone's got a thing going. Yeah, I'll join, you know, and like when you think about that level of grind You're like of course you're gonna get all the most Match-up knowledge you can you're gonna get of course, you're going to get all the most, uh, uh, matchup knowledge you can. You're going to get everything out of, you know, your dedication at that point. Um, and I'm like, and I'm just kind of like, I don't, I know for a fact, I don't have that ability to grind it out. And I'm a player who needs to spend my time kicking the tree, Rockley style. I, I note my intuition only goes so so far raw seeing the information and making up for it with Experiences how I actually get better things so

You know you got to just go all right. How much time can I put into this? What's my what's my schedule gonna be? but good times with that As I mentioned There was a couple other things going on as well. A Project L, the fucking, um, the amount of fun that's gonna come from Duos, talking shit together, elbowing, you know, like tag me in, bro, you should just burst all that shit we were talking about.

Like it's absolutely gonna be a humongousous fun thing that is going to make competitive project L very different from anything we've seen in fighting games up to this point. And I think that on its own will be like a huge factor in it being a hit. It's going to be different from what Street Fighter 6 and every other fighting game has been doing up to this point just to watch it competitively with two people interacting with each other. It might even be fun to have them mic'd up for stream so you can hear what each team is saying to each other and stuff. I want it.

I want just mental breakdowns. I want screaming matches. I want friendships destroyed. I want the winner. I want no, you know what I want? I want to go and watch the finals of Project L and have that SBO shit where one person just wins the whole thing and then the second person just sits there and never never played on the champion. Yeah, so that's exactly it. I mean literally so a couple of months ago, Chirathy and another player from Montreal, PTSD, went to France for a third strike

tournament and they won the team tournament and it's a 3v3, their third player, Eunice, a dude from here, didn't go, he couldn't make it and they still entered as just the two of them and won without having their third player and they're like, Physically even there. And they never got, they never got to the point

where they needed him and then he got back to Montreal handed him his throw his prize His trophy and one here you go, you know The best third strike player that didn't enter a tournament. It was incredible That is a thing absolutely there will be people that beast hard But at the same time the games combo system kind of encourages the tagging. So I think you're not going to be able to go too hard without a tag coming out of the launch button switch, you know, system. But that was a lot of fun.

Over in the Indie row, yeah, shout outs to, you know, drag her was there the fighting game. There was a kickstarter for a while ago, but it was a fighting game. There was a Kickstarter for a while ago, but there's a fighting game based on the drag community. And that thing's coming along. There's new characters in that. It's wild and like just all about, you're learning how to spill the tea, so to speak.

They gave up, I got a fan for it as well. Like fun to see how that's coming along. We tried out, we saw next to them was corruption as well. I've been tweeting out every once in a while, just like combo videos of like tech characters in a sort of mass effect kind of setting, just doing air combos and Virgil shit. Nice to see how that's coming along as well. More characters and they've kind of reimagined the game from the ground up.

It's to no longer be like an arena fighter. So plays a lot better and I'm really looks cool. Then there was head to head, the game that has my head in it as from arc forged. Super fun with that. They added more characters to that as well. Lots of what these games have in common is like the Marvel sauce and the ability to just blow shit up and dirty cross ups, things that make you go, ah, you know, and because ArcForge is working on multiple of them. So you get that five force fighters, which is the game where I describe it as essentially Huey and Riley Freeman, Dragon Balling all over the screen.

And if you might have that, you probably, if you're thinking of the what you probably seen it, you know, but it's just like yeah like like straight up the like Really stylish game of just like a boondocks fight scene playing out with the superpowers going. It was tons of fun That thing is great and got to yeah meeting the creator there was was very cool. Arcus Kroma The the from gx-grains son who made a hyper hit boxing Roma, from GX Green Sun who made a hyper hit boxing, that thing was awesome as well. Like, I'm super happy to see that coming along and just got to chat.

And I mean, that game is like, it's one of my favorites because it's just like, it's a fighting game with no jumping and everyone's got a dodge button. So I'm in love with it mechanically. It's so much fun. Yeah, and just all of the Indies doing a checkmate. Showdown was there, Pocket Bravery was there,

Tough Love Arena, all of them, you know, cool to see. Susie was around killing it as Menon, you know. And just kind of like created a, an impromptu photo like booth area at the Capcom booth and just kind of like they're like you know can you just stick around and be the booth men on to like take photos with so yeah she did that and that was great and then yeah we caught up in what was it like hanging out with like Thero I didn't I didn't meet light arrow. Yeah, you did. Oh, I did I did in fact meet light arrow. Yes, no He showed up and no like yeah his his his his plushy showed up and I was asked to sign his face

So so assigning of the face. I did do. The person who brought that to you was in my stream last night. Yeah. And they described to me that the exact reaction they were looking for was, ah, yeah. And that they got it. Well, because that was engineered engineered so so cat and Paul driver

Esporation it's okay, so cat and power driver came over and like was like yo Do you you want me to go get life arrow? And I was like oh is he around yeah, yeah, okay cool No, we haven't met him yet. That's all that'd be awesome and he's like yeah Okay, and then he kind of turns around and and then reaches in his bag and pulls the plan, I'm like, what the fuck in? You know, because like we're at EVO, it's legitimately a possibility. It's a perfect time to hit you.

That he could be standing right over there. You know, so yeah, that happened. The meetup was a bit like odd as well. Cause last time we did a meetup, we usually we'd go to the arcade at Freeman Went Street, but it's like an hour away, and I didn't wanna have that, people asked people to leave the venue to do that and stuff.

So I was like, let me just find somewhere at EVO to do this, and luckily we found that bar. And then when we went to it, we just kinda found a table, sat down, and then people kind of started sort of just creating a semi-circle instead of a line. And I was like, oh, then it became like, now I'm holding court doing a panel.

I was like, I don't have material, guys, I don't know. And then Susie came over and just saw that. And I was like, what the fuck are you doing? And I was like, I don't know. And she's like, OK, well, I'm out. But actually, she just went over and went, OK. And then thankfully, Maguma was like, okay, well, I'm out, but I got catch up. And she just went over and like, okay, and then thankfully, Magima was like, okay, everyone line up.

You guys this way. You that way. You that way. Circle sucks because then the people in the edge of the semi-circle don't want to leave the semi-circle. You know, so we figured it out and it was fine. But like, it was, yeah, I'm like, I got nothing for you. I brought what are you, hi, you know, but that was cool.

We figured that out as well. And of course, you know, that by that point, you're like, okay, my throat is just gonna be gone. Like I'm not gonna be able to talk on Sunday, much less cheer. And I was for everyone that I spoke to and you know, everyone that like, again, like thanks to everybody that's like, yeah,

you got me back into fighting games and all that I'm like, that's the job mission accomplished. So many people were there and just that capacity and as spectators had a great time. And I asked some folks, I'm like, hey, did you get your Sunday tickets? And some people were like, nah, they were sold out, unfortunately. I was like, okay, well, maybe next sold out unfortunately. You know, it's like, ah, okay. Well, you know, maybe next time or so, but if the answer was yes, then you got, I was like, mm, you know, you're in then. Like, I don't want anyone to feel bad.

So yeah, right. So I'm not gonna tell you to your face like, you know, like, sorry, you're missing out on the best part of the weekend, but if you got in there, it's the best part of the weekend. But if you got in there, it's the best part of the fucking weekend. And it's still great without it. But the floor itself and all the cool shit going on,

like capping it off with that giant arena is the fucking best, man. And yeah, for those who were there, you got you side, you know, I put some of that out there again They're the room full of people going yeah Yeah, you know whenever they didn't skip it of course Tons of fun man and like yeah, that's that's the level where they're like okay So where are we at with EVO we're at the level where the governor of Nevada is coming out to

award We're at the level where the governor of Nevada is coming out to award Evo day on August 8th in in Nevada and to give the and then the key to Las Vegas to the city being given to the canons and the idea of this is the biggest offline eSports tournament ever that they're have then you know and so like breaking all all those records and yadda yadda, like okay, we're just, we're there. It's officially at that scale where the government is rolling in going,

hey, what's going on over here, gamers? And you kids like them video games and the mic Ross and the cannons are in their fucking forties going dude. I'm like, I got gray hairs. games and the mic mic Ross and the cannons are in their fucking forties going dude Like I got gray hairs. Hey, man. I saw Mike. He's got some gray hair. He looks great. Yeah He looks great with the gray hair. Mike's cool. I love Yeah, he's been just he's been streaming and

You know playing and unlike the His street like his stream title is just it's the most mic Ross title ever which is his streams are just called am I ass That's tough and it's like I might be or I might be a god, you know, I don't know I love like he lives in this weird, weird nexus of like, he's way better than me. He's amazing. But he's way worse than the people in time, I think. But the spirit of the statement is true in when you say it. So the moment you go, I'm ass.

You are ass, even if that's grand finals. And then when you say it. So the moment you go, I'm ass. You are ass, even if that's grand finals. And then when you make a hard read or turn a drop into a conversion, you're a God. You're a God. That's the only way. Yeah, I meant to drop that. That was to fuck with them immediately every time. Both can be true. Yeah, yeah. Tons of fun there. And the, let me just take a look here. What else is going on? Oh, yeah, then there's just the part where you can, you know, Vegas is around. So at some point, I'm like, okay, I, I, you know, I go play the games a little bit. I've had fun in the past. And it's just just like it's an evil thing to just do a little

bit of blackjack, do a little bit of, you know, like the only things I ever did is like a little bit of roulette, chill a blackjack for a bit and then I learned about crops and crops is fun. Obviously you just, you take the number that you're willing to lose and that's it. You roll it and you you only fuck around with that. But apparently since the last, since COVID, Vegas has cracked up its prices on the minimum tables. So what used to be like a $10 table is now a $25 table.

So the time it would take you to, you know, set there and lose a hundred bucks, you could, or make it, is now massively increased. So it's like, okay, maybe a little less playing this time around. But at the very least, uh, yeah, I showed, I showed everybody the Montreal crew how to play some craps. And that's a fun game because it's a team activity, you win and you lose together. And, uh, you know, there's that you got to know and to hold them when to fold them type of bit. And I can see that like when it comes to fighting games, Reggie's a clean, responsible player. I'll go yellow with some bullshit.

And then when it comes to gambling, it's the complete opposite. I'll be like, all right, I'm up, I'm out. That's good. Right? And Reggie will be like, I'm playing the field a little bit. Here, let's jump in, let's do, and he'll just make these things as he's just, because he's like, I'm pleased like I got the amount that I'm willing to lose, so I'd rather be up or down than just even, you know? And I'm like, oh no, I'm very happy being even and above.

In fact, the tradition is put a hundred on black as soon as we land, and that sets the tone. That sets the tone. That sets the tone. So did it, brought everybody down, picked the table, we all want a hundred, took that first hundred, put that away, this is what I'm playing with now. Yeah.

My mom and dad would go to the casino when I was a kid, and I didn't quite understand the method that they used because I was like a child. I now look back at the same explanation and understand it is like okay, we go and we have $200 that we're willing to spend the casino right and this is like 94 right so it's like like $500. And the way that it would work is that they would split up and Mom would lose her $200 and Dad would make about 190 and then they would come home Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, and that's how that system worked. Amazing. And then get dinner.

So that's it. Like in conclusion, Reggie plays fighting games like Chester, but he gambles like Red Shepherd. Ah, I see. That's what that was. So yeah, you know, that was cool. There's some other stuff we'll get into. You've related in terms of announcements and so on.

But overall, stuff that was, not great was hearing about the melting PS5s. That's a while. There was like some, only there's a couple of stations where like people pulled out the USB and then the fucking connector came with it. And furthermore, Snafu lost his match in the most bullshit way possible because he had a not even like a second controller

connected from elsewhere. The connection to the internet dropped, which caused the pop-up that paused the game, that then led to, and it was around, he was winning. And then the judge call was to restart it, but it's like, but that sucks, because he was winning the round, and the guy was burnt out, you know, and like what about, like the circumstance, and it's like, yeah, no, that's the ruling,

and the ruling, and that's based on, again, the whole like if someone doesn't disconnect their PS4 controller interrupts it, it's neither players fault, just restart the set. And I'm like, that's you're stealing someone's progress in that situation. That's garbage. So then yeah, of course, they run it back and it doesn't, he doesn't recreate the situation and it doesn't go the same way, you know, now I know what to avoid to cause me to not lose that round. Fucking sucks, man, you know, but that's how we went out. And like when we saw that, like, what can you say? The rules just robbed you.

It's to go out like that is a fucking bummer, man. What he should do is they should just fucking fight for real afterwards. So I, in the moment I saw it pause the game. Wow. All of my instincts were, the moment I saw it pause the game. Wow. All of my instincts were, okay, just hold it on that screen. Don't quit, wait. And then once the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the guy, the pool runner was like, oh, like we just like restarted

or so this like, hold on, what about the life lead? What about the disadvantage? What about the round? And there was like, oh, um, uh, he's like, okay, well, I would have to call for a ref, which he then never did. But I was like, I should have told him stay on that screen, you know, but anyway, they already went back to character select at that point. But that makes it all the more fucking impressive where in grand finals, when

men and angry bird are fighting and, uh, men as controller disconnects, right? And that's an immediate round loss. And the rules even specify that the players don't even get to deny that because they don't want to make anyone the bad guy or whatever. So it's supposed to happen that way. And I think somewhere else in the bracket, someone had to come back and fight a match that they won,

again, because of the rulings, there's some crazy shit that happens, right? That's what that somebody on hand for anything within a certain state, within a certain right of the tournament, you have to have somebody there to be available for this kind of nonsense. So, but Angry Bird is such a fucking beast

that he just leans over, he's like, yo, run it, run it, run it, run it, let's just keep playing. Like, what a sport, you know, sportsmen just fucking, like, yo, run it, run it, unpause. Let's just keep playing. What a sport, you know, sportsmen, just fucking, like, I written infinite respect on that. And not only did like, the men I was like, yeah, and he's like, yeah, run, let's continue.

And they just continue. But right after that, the, he drive rushes in and then men it does a driver reversal on it and then spends the drive so that they're both back down from the moment that it refilled while they're away and just see what was happening. So, like, they even resume and he spends some of his drive

and then they continue the fight. And it's like, what a fucking awesome way, you know, like to go about that if both players are good with it. Incredible, like, the type of player that was probably just like, yeah, um, everyone, everyone would take the round, you know, and it's like, yeah, I want to, I want to continue where we were and win that, and I want to win this way. So just amazing with that.

Um, the switching back and forth between black and luke was a wild strategy. I've never seen before. Let's try to confuse the matchup by making it left and right. Super normal. Now I'm going to play super stupid. Exactly. The most responsible versus the most irresponsible play. up by making it left and right. Super normal. Now I'm going to play super stupid. Exactly. The most responsible versus the most irresponsible play.

And that's what it looks like. Most people have a main and then a secondary, like menna has two mains. And that's what it looks like when you have two mains and you can alternate back and forth, you know, didn't, didn't work at the end. But yeah, that was just a great time all around the, The PS5 problems are the main issue, I would say, and it sucks that Sony would sponsor an event or like, want to have evil be a major thing, but not do something like disconnect all controllers. Tournament settings to help with that.

Or why is it online anyways? It doesn't need to be online for an offline tournament. Why is a connection message popping up? Those are different departments is what my gut says. You know? It's the department that is involved in actually making that kind of interface change, has nothing to do with the marketing nerds

that are sending out PS5s. Only one person can save us now. Pokey main. Oh yeah, Pokey main, yeah. From the heavens, she's got a, yeah, you know, come, she's already she's already picked The whole thing out of the off the ground and cradled it like Marissa and now she's got a defend us on behalf of of Sony's Just inability to get this shit right

So anyway that that's that's how it went down and I still wish we could get top eight instead of top six I must feel bad to be like seventh or eighth place, but you didn't get to the main stage, whereas every other year you would. I know that that's because Rick wants things to run on a much tighter ship for scheduling, but for those players, you know, you always kind of look at, it's always been eight.

So anyway, besides that, I guess just a quick other thing. I saw Oppenheimer, it was fucking awesome. There was a big explosion, there was, Besides that, I guess just a quick other thing. I saw Oppenheimer. It was fucking awesome. There was a big explosion. There was, and you know what? That explosion was like, you're like, oh, so that's the story. And it's like, no, that's like midpoint. There's a whole bunch after that to go through

as you're going through his life. And yeah, that's a... Almond Heimer was victim to the same grand illusion that World War I caused, which is like, this great war or the great bomb will be so horrible that the average person will go, oh no, we can never do a bomb or a war or a bad again. And then everyone just starts going,

what if we had a bigger war? What if we had a bigger bomb? Right. And so it is, it was really, really well done and Nolan directing what is essentially a documentary as if it were an action movie, where like verbal boss battles are happening constantly and they're being scored and shot and like filmed like action scenes, you know, really just excellent, really, really good. And I guess happy that I did the Dan Carlin's Hardcore history, supernova in the East podcast series, that covered extensively the war, basically the Japan side of World

War II and how things went. And 20 hours or so of like detailed podcast breakdowns of the history of it from every single aspect, from every island, Iwo Jima, to the main, like the whole build up all the way to the main island. And all that context really adds a lot. It adds a lot to this movie, you know, and there's a lot of stuff that they kind of, for time, they're not getting into conversations and throw away lines that have much bigger historical implications and ramifications.

But as a primer, it's a lot to ask to be like, hey, you want to listen to 20 hours of podcasting, but it gives you just the most aerial view of the situation, I guess. Would you like to learn about one of the most important and well documented events that has ever occurred in the history of humans? I highly recommend it, especially because like, you know, when it comes to just the framing of it and like, there's, he's really good at like talking about just if you are the decision maker and this is what you know at the time because when we look back, we have what we have,

we have the perfect, you know, hindsight. When you're in the moment, what do you know? How do you make these decisions? And he kind of breaks down what people knew when what in the time they were in the rooms they were in. And then the, the, the, the bullshit that we, you know, the times also the, the era that they believed in, the way war was perceived. Like there's a million little pieces that all these things go down. I feel bad for the guy because while they're building the bomb, they're like, you know, the Germans are also working on the one fucking atom bomb right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then there's the Russians and the fucking they know and then the communism and it's like, like man,

like what? What is the biggest threat to you again? Like what's the fucking, yeah, anyway, it's crazy, but- Nintendo, I'm not, wait, no, that's, I'm letter. But all this to say that it's, I think it's really important to look at that with as much information as you can because like I know that prior to, like if I were to see this movie without I think some of that context and kind of just going off of what I remember from some Wikipedia articles, a couple of movies and then like a history lesson in high school. There's a it would be there's a lot that is kind of like hand-wavable that I would say you you you really want to hear the details on, you know.

So Oppenheimer, I guess better than 10th is what everyone seems to be saying. I haven't seen 10th, but they're saying that it's like not a great no. Every single thing I've ever seen from 10th makes me go. Yeah, I don't know. I'm like the same movie backwards and forwards. That sounds stupid.

I'm curious to watch it. I'm curious to see what's up. But either way, this was a great one. My throat is hurting and eat some water. How? Was? Baby. I need some water. How was baby? So baby time, baby time now.

And it will be baby time for many years. So I will try and keep baby time, discussions quick. Boy, you get super fast at dealing with diapers. You get, you get like just tons of practice. Like just, oh, you shit yourself, okay. One hand, I got you. But it ended up not one hand. Cause you need the second hand

to grab their little leg and be like, nah. And you're like, okay, you shit yourself, buddy. Ah, okay, I'd be mad too. Okay. Great. All right. I'll clean you up Don't worry buddy, and then you snap that diaper on and you pick them up and you get hit with the All right Cool All right back down we go all right. There you go all good now. Okay. okay good. Okay great. All right fantastic pick them up Rock them a little bit wait next to the changing table

You chill you chill you Sleeping you you sleep in now. Okay great walk away Like it, it's, it's, it's wild because, it's so loud. Ha ha ha ha. Like, you think of somebody shitting their pants and then you think of it as being like quiet

with a baby, it's, it's so loud. It sounds like a whoopie cushion going off. Well, you're gonna know. It's a small baby, but it's also a person farting and shitting with the force of a person. But it's loud, it's loud. It's crazy. It's about it. It's with a D though, right? Farding and shitting. Yes, that's that's correct. Good. Uh, he's a chill little guy.

We had a duel over the other day. And she remarked that we got really lucky and that our newborn is actually super chill, just like the nurses at the hospital said. So fucking double thumbs up on that one. Awesome. He's, we're taking shifts in the evening, you know, on and off, on and off, so we can get the good sleeps. I think it's actually worked really well. But yeah, most of the time, that newborn, that newborn phase is,

baby just sleeps and sleeps and sleeps, and then poops himself and then wakes up and demands food and then poops himself again and goes back to sleep and that's it. That's kind of it. Swaddling is a fun skill to learn. I'm jealous. Because you have to get over your own internal bias to, oh he always just a tiny little baby made out of glass. I have to be, I have to be, and then after a few days, you're like wrapping the baby

and you're like looping the blanket underneath, and I'm putting my right hand on the baby's right shoulder and then grabbing the swaddle on the underneath and going to like tighten the swaddle on the baby because he wants those arms out and I'm like don't get your arms out you're gonna punch yourself in the eyes again because I don't know why you want to do that. That's a weird thing to do. But yeah, I know just really just lock them in there. Like cankerow. Just fucking. Yep. Yeah, it's great. The cat, we got the cat back, cat's back, Elmo's back, and we were very worried because

sometimes cats can be jealous of baby, territorial towards baby, or whatever. The cat regards the human child in my home with as much regard as he does my cell phone. He smelled the baby once and when the baby makes like a big noise, Elmo will occasionally look at him, but other than that does nothing. Neutral. Might as well not exist in each other's periphery.

Wow. Okay. Which is great. Yeah. That's what you want, right? Because we got the bassinet, right? And we have a mosquito net on the bassinet, right? And the reason why we have the mosquito net on the bassinet

is because not for mosquitoes, right, all of our doors and windows are closed But cats that really love your baby Mm-hmm. We'll want to jump into the bass and that with the baby And lie on the baby and kill your baby So we don't want that okay So mosquito net it is in difference good Wild in difference But yeah, so I from that it's just like it's just like hanging out with like a little guy who gets like really frustrated when I'm slow like heating up his food

Like like a like a like a like a old man getting pissed off that like his waiters taking four minutes. Bro, what's that? That's it. It's it's um, I ordered this four minutes ago. Aside from the the the near constant sleep deprivation, the newborn phase, yeah, no, just just don't drop them, feed them, get the newborn phase. Yeah, no, just, just don't drop them, feed them, get the poop out. Though I will say, I cleaned so many diapers yesterday that when I went to sleep at night, and you know, like you lie down on your side

and like your, your, your, your light balls get tucked into your legs or something, so you gotta like adjust yourself, right? And then you pull your balls out and I thought to myself, God, I hope I don't have shit under my balls. Okay, yeah, sure, I mean, you're not, it's not, it's not, you would be awkward. No, it's not your balls that are shitty.

It's, you got it, there's, it's not your balls that are shitty. It's See you got it. There's a difference How did that get there who put the shit in my balls? Yeah, who put that there? Who could have done this damn? Yeah, love baby baby good being a good baby page doing great good everything's great good Temperament aside from that temperament good is is a fucking awesome. I don't know. Like I don't know how My wife and I somehow got a chill baby because we are not chill Like me and Paige are just like

Blah blah blah blah blah at like our no I'd like this volume with like Shit on in the background and the cat running around screaming. And baby don't care, baby just sleepin' and have a good time. I mean, everyone's got their like, you know, everyone's got the hilarious version of this where it's just like, it's the fusion character that has all the wildest traits. But here I'm thinking the best outcome would be just the straight man that is not putting up with either of your bullshit. To chill for that.

Like a totally serious child. Just like what the fuck you, okay. All right. And like we can't, you know what's like a really awkward moment when you're talking to like a nurse or something and they're like and they're like, oh, you know, he's sleeping kindly and like pleasant. I'm like, oh, I don oh, you know, he's sleeping kindly and pleasantly. I'm like, oh, it's weird. What, I was a little baby.

I was really fussy. I was a good toddler and up, but I was like a terrible infant. I was like screaming all the time, blah, blah, blah. She's like, well, why was that? Like, well, mom told me I had terrible collic. And she goes, well, did you know any costume? Nope, she just said it was terrible, call it.

And I then like put the pieces together and I'm like, you know what? Living in a household in 1987, in which there were a total of five packs of cigarettes being smoked a day between two periods. May have exacerbated my baby colloc. It might have been an option. Or a possibility.

Just that, I just, I have this thought. And it's this weird thing where I love my mom and dad so much, but like I look at the baby that I'm dealing with right now, and I'm like, well now I know I'm a dad, and I'm like, what would I feel like if I just was holding the baby with a fucking Lucy. Yeah, exactly. Just right there. Directly in my mind. My week. Well, just you would just vape nationing. Vape nation, your fucking baby just getting the o's around the baby head. You know, you remember I was a six beat. And and she was like, listen, you know, she's trying to be kind of actually listen. It was a different time. They didn't know.

And I'm like, no, I'm talking about 1987. They did know that was known. And then of course, like you take, you take the baby out and then head over to a restaurant or a diner and you sit in the smoking section. And then you get on a plane in the smoking area and, you know, and you just like, yeah, there was, of course, going to be these fucking outcomes. I've talked about it before. And I think we talked about it before on this podcast.

I think the single biggest thing that got people to quit smoking on mass was going to McDonald's and seeing the fucking plastic divider down the middle For the smoking section to the nose the smoking section and you just saw the haze and the stains on the plastic and People would walk out and you would like choke on it because it was like a fucking like it was like a flashbang went off in there and it was like, oh my God, that is awful. But I don't know if you ever dealt with this, but you're driving somewhere as a family and it's minus 20.

The kids in the back are like, please roll down a window and they're like fine. And then they please roll down a window. And they're like fine. And then they roll it down the thumbnail. Yeah. Level down. Like see the smoke's going right outside. And now you're freezing cold and like just, ah, gross.

Yeah, like no. There's the two attitudes, right? There's the like yeah I know this sucks. It smells. It's awful. I'm addicted. I'm sorry and then there's the fuck you Like it too bad deal with it type of attitude. It's just like I didn't do either of those huh My parents were in the like it's not that big of a deal Like stop complaining like thing. Not like angry. Just like, ah, you kids of being babies. Yada yada. I had a teacher at school. Like, like, like, ask me to stay in high school.

And he was like, listen, are you smoking? Because it's bad for you and wow, it was my French class and it was like my second period of the day. And I'm like, is it in my clothes that much? I mean, I would describe, I would say that like, yeah, the get used to it, it's not that bad is kind of in the ladder category. It, you know, it does fit into of the of the do there. But I mean, for me, it just meant like, oh, you know, I went to the arcade is what that meant. Right? Oh, yeah. You know what you should, you should start smoking in general. And then they wouldn't have hide it went to the arcade. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. I mean, I know that I know that smokers can hide,

like we're back in the day using cigarette smoke to hide like the smell of weed was like a, that was a big thing. That was a good plan, because cigarettes, okay, it's stronger at least in my opinion. But yeah, no, I am not smoking cigarettes in my human child's face.

I can absolutely promise that. Also, man, like our parents in many ways did their best, but I told this before, but I'm telling it again because it's such a great example where, like don't listen, don't listen to your parents about like most of it because like the very first thing, like we're like, oh, we're getting the best net, we're getting the nursery blah, blah, blah, right?

And my mom goes, oh, you make sure you make sure to get crib bumpers for your crib so that the baby can't, you know, hit their head on the, on the crib bars. And we go, mom, crib bumpers kill babies. It's, it was like one of the leading causes of SIDS ever. Yeah. So the move there is to go, okay, let's see, check, let's Google and see what's new in crib bumper technology. Oh, look.

Hey, would you look at that? The Wikipedia has updated. Let's read this together, shall we? Like, we need to learn how to update shit that was normal back when it was, you know, from their memory. I want some baby powder? How much asbestos? Do you want me putting on your baby?

God, yes. Wait for the Mercury salesman to come around and knock on the door and sell us some Mercury for the child, of course. Yeah, man. Let them know to, yeah, you gotta look at this shit sometimes. Yeah, yeah, oh boy. But at the same time too, I feel like there's also the stuff that like There's just as many that are that are not real as well, right? There's like with all the there's tips that are just like literally like

Anyway, whatever I don't I don't know where I'm making sure to I can't think of anything that's like my head. There I know. Make sure to do this thing that doesn't matter. That doesn't make any difference whatsoever. Yes, exactly. Like you'll see things like make sure to, make sure to talk to your baby. Great, okay. Make sure to smile and repeat their stuff back to them and pay them attention.

Great, fantastic. Try and show your infant child how to learn to read words. I'm like, an infant child has the eyesight capability of like a slug, like they can see like light and dark and basic shapes. Like that's it. That's all they got.

shapes like that's it that's all they got. Make sure to take a picture with skin-to-skin contact as the dad for clout to steal credit from the mom's hard work. I have the, I pop my shirt off and baby hangs out. Luckily like with my body type, like you've lost a bunch of weight, so you're approaching like a character creator level of my body type, like shape here.

I am not, I'm still in my orb thing, in my a cups. And the orb and the a cups are just great for popping a baby right there in the middle, and baby can just chill because everything just is perfect to hold a baby. Contained. Yeah, and that's, and you know what? Like, more skin contact equals more bonding, equals all of these good beneficial things.

So just having the full and full, right? Yeah. Yeah. Optimal. Oh, truly a dad bod indeed. I talked about this on my stream, but like, you know, when people are like, you've talked to parents and you're like 20 or whatever

and they're like, oh my God, Jesus, having a baby, my whole life is completely different. It's the most incredible, magical thing to happen and all of a sudden, you could never understand how much I love this baby. And then you go and say, well, like, I love my dog a lot or I love my cat, they're my baby, right?

And then they go, oh, how could you compare such a thing? It's so ridiculous. How it's so effective, it's exactly the same. It's the same exact type of emotion. It's just stronger. Because you made it. Exactly. And because I'm a selfish, shassel piece of shit, that makes it make it a big enough

deal so that I can dismiss anybody else, right? That's the difference. It's the same emotion. It's just stronger, right? And also, you get to have all sorts of fun things where like, who, what's baby gonna grow up to be? Are they gonna be a vet or a doctor or a baby is gonna grow up to be whatever my lost dreams were, starting now, start continuing my dreams now, get into baby pageant and fucking like,

you know, maybe we'll be taller than me, so done. Already ahead of the curve, right? But just like same mentality of, oh, you could never imagine is also, baby will be me part two, you know? Well, I mean, to some degree, baby will be me part two. Yes, yes, yes, but of your own design in a, in a fucking trying to,

what you're gonna call it, in a fucking trying to... What you're gonna call it? Hugo style manner, you know, create the outcomes and design. We had like a whole conversation that was like what sport or interest can the kid get into that we'd be like, oh Jesus, oh yeah, I'll go to the fucking soccer game.

Yeah, we'll kick the ball, fucking soccer. Why did it have to be this? You're doing great. Oh my God, I'm so... Yeah, just there's a lot of people that spent a lot of time treating their kids as like object extensions of their, like like you know um possessions as opposed to a person that just doesn't know things yet. I can't do that personally. Yeah. Because like when I was a kid I was like you can beat anything you want like what anything? I'm like give me

Something to go on your mom would you like anything like give me give me a crumb of suggestion here Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I got yeah, I like I said it before but I got hey Doctor lawyer pick one I'm like, uh-huh. I'll get back to you on that one and you went artist and they went god It's too late father. I've seen everything. Oh, no not art Yeah, yeah anyway, that's it. I got to take a quick break. All right Break time BRB all right Quick word for our sponsors

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Obviously, I'm here now, but for the recording and stuff, we're going to be taking a break for the rest of the week. So we could use the rest. We're certainly pretty burnt out. And my throat could use the rest as well. I enjoy your chill time, bro, in need of a log in. So yes, what up, Susie? I did talk about Evo and I did talk about how you walked out holding court.

Yeah, and holding court. I did. Yes. I told them about how you walked up and I got blown the fuck out and it was all good. And then we had to yell over the sound of an Irish pub performer whose job it was to damage your ears through decibels, it seemed. So I was kind of, we were like trying to have a nice conversation, but apparently mid-valley the horn freak was on stage doing his best to assassinate everyone in the bar. So I also lost my voice due to that. Not great,

but anyway. You know, this is apropos of nothing, but I was just scrolling through X and saw a fantastic little story from friend of the show, one Jean Park, who was responding to a question of, you ever have a racist experience, but it was funny. Oh, yeah, it describes that the cops at his campus caught him stealing chairs from the Starbucks. And when they're like, what are you doing? He said, I need this for the math meat. And then they just let him go. And he just stole a bunch of chairs from Starbucks to put on his balcony and his apartment. That's fucking insane. Jesus Christ. So yes that that thread in particular has been going around on black Twitter and all kinds of all kinds of responses I've been coming through.

Sometimes it can work in your favor. Yeah, someone who was working in retail, some lady described how a lady walked up to them and they just, and like the worker went, I don't, for some reason just went, how can I help you Rebecca? And to which the lady replied, worker what I don't for some reason just went how could I help you Rebecca and um and to to which the lady replied um oh thanks Tyrone well I then went into

her question to just just like ah you got a whole that shit you started it yeah that's great yeah Yeah. Indeed, indeed. Yeah, I feel like the quote tweets for that are a bunch of like just grand terino level interactions. Yeah. All right. Anyway, so I'm going to be, yeah, so I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be, yeah, so I'm gonna be off of the rest. Gonna be coming back next week.

And before jumping right back immediately into the scheduled world tour in FF 16, which we're gonna do, gonna check out Baldur's Gate. Would you happen to know a thing or two about Baldur's Gate? I might have to know a thing or two. Good thing you're gonna be taking that week off because you'll definitely need it to figure out what the fuck you actually wanna play as in that game.

Probably a look, that sounds cool. It is, it is cool. This is, so it's the most jacked. It's a quick look by the way, just in case anyone doesn't know and didn't hear before. Yeah, this is the most stacked game of the year, like, like year in many years. But it's this one though. Like I have to playing through remake and 16 and going through a bunch of tears of the kingdom and all. It's this one.

The best thing that I can say about it is that this is the type. This is the, I don't know. This is what I thought an RPG was like before I played one as a child. It's one of those things where people who are totally unfamiliar with the genre will go into it and go, yeah, of course that's how it works. And then people who are very familiar with genre go, no, you don't understand.

Nothing's ever actually done it, ever, ever. Everything is always way more linear than you think, but when you're outside, like when I was explaining RPGs to punch mom and she was playing them for the first time, she was like, oh, so you can make every decision and those change the world, right? And it's like, no, you're actually very, very much on a path

and you can affect between path one, two, and three, but you're going in the same direction. Yeah. How you think games work beforehand, that sounds pretty cool, yeah. It also does something really smart. I'm gonna kind of ping pong around on this because there's a lot to talk about.

It does something really smart. So one of the things that Zelda does really well in terms of looking them into a lesser degree breadth. While, is there's an internal physics engine in that game, and then things happen the way you think they're supposed to happen. Right? So, you know, burning something will make hot air and then you use that to, or you can connect things with metal and then that will, well, electricity put in, you know, whatever. And that is how you would expect those things to occur using your own existing knowledge of the way

the real world works. For Baldur's Gate 3, you're dealing with Dungeons and Dragons, specifically the Forgon Rome setting, which is lots of magic, lots of weirdo monsters, lots of zany shit, right? And so you can't just go on common sense for that kind of thing. And so what they do is that every single permutation of every action in the game is extremely clearly explained as to what it actually does and how it actually works. And then within its own context of barring any minor bugs you encounter, it will work the way that you expect it to work.

For example, you have a generalized set of actions. Hide, dash, dip your weapon into a flaming or a volatile surface, use an improvised weapon, throw, etc. These things work how you would expect. So when you pick up a barbarian and you unlock the ability to use improvised weapons as a bonus action and you have a really high strength and you go, okay, improvised weapon as a bonus action and you have a really high strength and you go, okay, improvised weapon, click on it. This says pick up an item or object in your vicinity and use it to hit something with.

Then you pick up a child because a child is an object in the game with mass and then you use the child To hit the next child Okay, there's a shove command. It is the boss standing kind of close to an edge Hey, which is a very which is a very tabletop dungeons and dragons things to do, which is find a hilarious solution to a problem. So like the silence spell, right? There's a spell that creates a little circle of silence in which there is no sound, right? And you go, okay, great. This is to stop spellcasters from doing spells, right? No, it creates a zone of silence where it is. You want to put it on a wall that you're planning to blow up with explosives?

silent You cast it on people that have like alarm setup so that they can call reinforcements into the room silent Okay you early on get, speak to dead, speak to corpses, right? You can ask a corpse three or four questions, right? So you find a corpse out in the wild and you go, hey, you're a dead body, talk to me and it cobbens as all green and glowing and shit and it goes, hey, and you go, um, who are you?

And, um, so it's supposed to be five questions, but you don't always get all five. Um, who are you? You have any valuables? Where were you going? You know, typical. Sometimes there are narrative, you know, associated, right? But if you kill someone and then try and talk to their corpse, they won't talk to you because the corpse, the spirit, recognizes that you killed them. You're the killer. So what you do is you get a spell cast of disguise self

and you race change into a different person and then they'll talk to you. Damn, that's pretty sad. Because they don't recognize you as the person that killed them It has that much complexity contemplated into the system. That's really cool Matt Mercer was showing off that he was carrying around 45 barrels and crates in his inventory and used it to just stack up a giant death tower and then leap over a castle wall that he wasn't supposed to be able to.

Like yeah. And then all the rules are there on the page. Like you like there's no confusion over interactions. And that sounds way more like the type of shit again. You'd say in a paper and pen kind of context instead of like video game systeming to solve the problem, right? You'd come up with something based on the environment and go, what's around? And the DM would be like, oh, there's some praids over there, you know, like nice. That's very cool.

Yeah, it's, uh, no playing actually for the, you know, stuff like, hey, there's this massive early on in the game There's this massive trap that has like grease on the floor barrels. It's got a fucking fire shooting everywhere And you can try and run past it you can try and disarm the trap or You can use mage hand to just hit the button about a hundred feet away that turns it off without risking anyone's lives. If you look at a room full of skeletons and you wonder, hey, are these skeletons going to attack me when I open up the vault or whatever, walk up to the skeletons and loot them of their armor and their weapons. And then when they get up, they will have no armor and weapons

because you took them. That's really awesome. Just in terms of like think outside of game. Think outside of linear game logic and use the system for what it allows you to do. Yeah. Almost like a point and click, right? Like a point and click is designed in a way where someone had to sit there and think of what the game should say when you do

tries to use the open or push prompt on the object that you wouldn't need to push, you know. Yeah. So I did something I had a moment of like, like, I'm rarely like this, but I had like an inspired moment in which, Wully, you have talked up, and I know you love this bit, in Cotor 2, when you're on Dantuan, and the mercenaries are getting ready to raid the farm stat. You can do a wide variety of situations such as, tell the mercenaries, getting ready to raid the farmstead. You can do a wide variety of situations such as tell the mercenaries you're gonna work with them and trick them into knowing that they're on their side.

And then mine the whole area, or then play both sides, and then reverse it at the last second. There's a lot of that going on. So I went to, you know, the big bad fortress and just told the evil character where the good guys were hiding. I just told them, just, but here they are. I then stole every explosive I could get my hands on in the entire game, and then went to where I thought they would show up and place them, and then activated the sequence at which point the entire fucking like enemy force just crowded around like 10 bombs. And then I used one of my characters,

Can Trip of Firebolt, to kill like 40 enemies in a single strike. Damn. Instead of fighting them in the fortress. Nice, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just the amount of conceivable narrative interactions is also astonishing. I will describe one encounter in somewhat detail, it's fairly early, but in which you are breaking into somewhere, you're not supposed to be,

you're probably smoothing your way in, right? So that people talk to you and they're not aggro. And you discover someone trying to raise a mind flair from the dead to talk to it, right? That's no good. You then realize that you killed that mind flair in the in the game's tutorial. And what they are going to ask it is who killed you because they want whoever killed it to steal something from them. So the game starts to present to you, you have to stop them from asking this Mind Flayer corpse

who killed you because then they will all turn on you and you're literally surrounded by like 100 enemies. Okay, here's your options. Try and talk your way out of it and make up an excuse to leave. Right? Failed. I failed that deception check. Great. Okay, now I'm stuck here. All right, he cast the spell. What are my options? Okay, well, one of my options is to use my mind-flare bullshit on him and start asking questions with his voice through his body to the corpse so that I ask the wrong questions. I then ask the two wrong question and he goes, what the fuck, I would never ask that and almost instantly snaps out of it.

And then get through the entire thing by just managing to not ask who killed you and then the number of questions runs out and he gets fucking super pissed. And then everything's fine and I've bypassed that encounter. And I bet you for a fucking I am with a certainty is that if I had disguise self-on When that mind-flair was asked they would not have recognized my character anyway

Because I was looking different from my fucking character Like it is just so Like I even did things so I story in goofy orders. Yeah, then the game accounted for it. So I get like what I, because like again, I have no idea how the flow of things go. So what you're describing like it sounds like in the middle of conversations, you can still do game actions.

Yes, anything that could be potentially relevant whatsoever will show up inside the, as a dialogue choice. So, they'll, so here's a really, say you want to talk to an animal, right? And there's an animal over there, put talk to animals on yourself, and then an animal just going, honk honk, I'm a fucking geese or whatever, will suddenly become a fully realized character with their own dialogue and you can ask them to do something or not or tell you where the fuck anything is. But once the conversation has started, are you in a conversation tree that,

yeah, you're in a conversation tree. And then your actions will be limited to what would be associated with that. So using your mind control shit or using appropriate skills or deciding to take roles. And then inside the role, like it shows role the dice, at the bottom it will be like,

do you wanna add anything you have on your person to this role? So if you have potions of strength and you're doing a strength check, the potion will be at the bottom of the screen and you can go, I would like to drink it right before I do my check. Okay. Because yeah, for example, when you describe like using the silence thing, if it's a moment inside of a conversation where I'm like, oh, I want that on right now actually, but you're locked in. No, you would be, you would be living within.

You should have used it beforehand. Yeah, yeah, okay. Okay. It is just astonishing. Like I went to an enemy hideout in which a bunch of goblins were having a party. I'm like, oh, that's cool. And discovered that there are like 150 named goblins that all have multiple, like, you know, when you talk to a character in RPG and they say the one thing,

every single one of these goddamn goblins has at least two. And there's like hundreds of them in this fucking light. Just, just fucking ridiculous. And I was talking to somebody else, all right, oh yeah, I didn't talk to anybody. I snuck in the back and then hung out on the rafters and just fired at Fireball to everyone from the roof. Never talked to a single person.

That's really exciting that like, this is designed as a, yeah, well again, not just an RPG, but like you're describing just D&D campaign antics, you know, like that's, that's, yeah. I assume though, maybe incorrectly, that if you were uncreative and just playing it,

like I swung my sword to solve the problem, and then I spoke to them. You fight a lot. And you just can just, you can just, you can just video game your way through it. You can just human fight or your way through and just solve every problem with your sword. Mm-mm, okay.

Or you could try a unique situation on occasion. So I was told, I was, I found a, a captured albera being like beat up and like teased by assholes. And they were like, well, why don't you chase the chicken? We'll play chicken chasing. And there's a whole fucking obstacle course to chase the chicken. And what the game wants you to do is like, you know, like, do that thing where you run behind an NPC and then it tries to go away from you and like kind of push it through the thing and you're timed.

And I said no. And so I drank a potion of talking to animals and then I was like, hey run through those posts over there. And then they did and then they beat the time. Okay. Hmm. Yeah. Okay. Hmm. Yeah. So it sounds like the personality of your character or how you play them is much more meaningful than just like what your glout gear and equipment are and how you swing your sword. Oh yeah, there's a there's a like a huge huge variation in race and class options available to you in most conversations. And that is on top of the fact that I am playing as the dark urge custom character,

which is the horrific serial murderer that's probably trying to do good or whatever, which has altered nearly every major conversation in the entire game. I was talking to a friend of mine. There is a sequence in which a small child is being threatened by a snake, a evil venomous snake that will kill it if the kid moves.

I did not realize that this dialogue option was unique to the dark urge character, but the narrator starts telling you about how like hot and bothered you'd be if the kid died. And the first dialogue option that you have available is for you to flick your eyes from the kid to the exit to try and get the kid to run for it so that the snake bites them. Jesus Christ, okay, okay. Which they would. And they would die.

They talked about how the dark urge is like really violent and extremely dark and is not for beginners. And the dark urge is extremely, extremely violent and dark and not for beginners. Like there is like a, there is like a mortal combat level of gaur associated with just this archetype. In your fantasies and moments that happen like that.

No, in the reality. Okay, but doesn't that mean that if you don't pick it, you have to pick a pre-canned character? No, no, you make your own guy. Or pre-canned. Wasn't Darkeridge the answer to? The default is a completely custom character, would you would pick your race, your class, your sub race, and then your background,

which would be something like criminal or acolyte or charlatan or soldier or a couple. What was the part that was how Dark Age urges a new thing for your original background, versus there's a pre-settlest of backgrounds that you had? The party members that you get early in the game you can you can choose to play them As they are So if you were the the the elf guy on the box a staring on

If you want to you can just play as him Right, and then he will have his own story beats that are unique To everyone else's. Right. You have to do with more like a personal quest. Dark Urge is another pre-canned character. The difference is that you can customize their class and how they look and stuff like that. And so I guess the, because when we were talking about this the first time, I think from the

way it used to be an older games, I guess it would be that you could still do that with all these other characters, but the main custom character did not have their own associated back story. Yeah. So in, in, in this, the, your custom guy will have their own back story that is partially in your own head, but it is going to be on part of your, your background, which is like, are you a criminal or a career soldier or what have you? And then the game will play into that by offering you rewards and story beats for that background. So for example, if you pick Urchin, love which is like beggar as your background,

when a bunch of shit-headed kids try and steal from you, you can have advantages to not being pick up pocketed and instead talk to them in like thieves can't and try and get in on their racket, which is available only to people with that background. Okay, so it used to be that then your OC was just like a passive observer and these other main character stories in what up to the end of the in in previous Baldur Gates, Baldur's Gates. Okay, well Baldur Gate one and two those games came out in in 98 and 2000. Okay. Because I your care like that those games are old they worked like old games.

You had okay what you would expect of a typical series of choices, but your character in Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 was like a set character with a set backstory. Okay. Then I think I misunderstood the first conversation about like, I guess, Darkeridge existing versus before it existed and what that fully means. No, yeah. Darkeridge is a character with its own story and its own background and its own like quests, but You can customize the way it looks and you can customize if it's a lady or a man or you can customize

You can customize this or that Whereas like you want to play as Karlaq. She's always going to be a tiefling. She's always gonna have the same voice actor She's always gonna be a lady. She's always gonna be red God, I'm stupid. So just my last question here. Yeah. That character you described is someone your custom character is gonna meet

and then you switch to control them and then you do their story. No, no. Okay. So everyone you don't play as you will eventually encounter in the game. Okay. So on the character select, at the top it's custom.

And then underneath it lists origin characters that have like defined story lines. Okay. And then there's a Stereon, Carlack, Will, Shadowheart, et cetera. And then the last one on that list is Dark Urge. Okay, okay. Okay. If you pick Dark Urge, they come with their own predefined story.

Right, right, right. But you can choose how the character looks and you can change their class and you can change this. Got, yeah, okay. Yeah, I didn't understand whether it was like, you pick this character's NPC, you pick one of these from the outset versus you meet them later and they join you

and then you're doing the story that way. The difference with Dark Ur dark urge is the dark urge will not be in your party. Right, right Be probably because there are psychotic serial murderer Okay, they are probably in the last act of the game. There was a preview storyline called blood and boulders gate that I think they're in the in the city doing evil shit But yeah, no that I think they're in the city doing evil shit. But yeah, no. I'm playing as Dark Urge and it's, it is a blast. You run into people and the narration is like, why don't you pull their arms off?

And then sometimes you pull their arms off and then you feel better. Yeah, this would explain why the character creator like what I was talking about at house like oh it feels like it like no body types and things like that like all the things that you would associate with making your I mean I guess MMO or even other kind of action-oriented game character design would give you like which one of these action-oriented spells and stats do you want to kind of want to roll with? And here there's like I noticed from just looking at them that

there's like there's some action-oriented things but there's a whole lot of like completely non-action oriented. What you would expect would be superfluous details. Exactly, conversational things and yeah observational things and passive things and disco-alisium style, stats and things like that. Yeah, so that being a part of it means like, okay, it's because the complex way in which you have all these interactions layered on top of each other has to have a limit somehow to hear that's focused more on those things instead. I would personally recommend that for everybody who is starting the game off

or not super familiar with the genre or not streaming it to not play the dark urge first as there are super violent murders that you cannot stop your character from doing. You just have to mitigate when you give in, was I believe this? There are some that are just gonna happen. And there are some that appear to be like,

you can do this or you can do that, which would not be an issue for a, so I have a sneaking suspicion that playing dark urge is going to give me situations like kill everybody in this whole town or else. Okay, now the thing is, as you're saying, you're saying I recommend this is for people who've played or experienced. You're also describing the coolest part about this narrative

and how different it is from other game narratives and it sounds incredibly interesting. So what you need to do is, are the other backstories equally as compelling in different ways? Because that's because that shit sounds rad and you're like, don't do it. All of the origin characters are trading player choice for authored content. Right. So dealing with your evil goblin but butler, who tells you that he loves murder and you should keep doing murder, is obviously only for dark urge, right? However, dealing with that character, necessarily pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl-pl- that precludes talking to the character that you had to murder to talk to him.

Because the character that you horribly viciously murder outside of player control is a character you can hang out with and talk to for much of the game. Right, okay, okay. So it adds this, yeah, it's a chaotic element. You're trading things. Right. Essentially. Right. You are trading.

I would like less ability to choose. And instead, you're saying I would like slightly more authored content. However, the baseline character with custom is basically going to have the widest player choice of any situation. OK. Now, the other thing too is that the lens of playing this game, you know, for the entirety of its super long duration and on your own and such.

And it's a very different thing versus what we do as content creators. But, but I know that one thing I said early on from the jump is not getting too caught up in the conclusions of the actions that you decide or roll with. However, the game rolls the dice, you roll with the punches. That's the only way to go through something like this, especially if I'm just trying it out and seeing what it's like. So I guess all that is to say that the things that you would be worried about as a first timer and a general normal context, me personally, I'm not because I'm rolling with whatever happens.

You know? Yeah, that's how I feel. Like if I'm open to whatever because like the whole thing is to woolly overthink about how to do the perfect, yeah, I can can't so I'm not going to do that I'm just gonna let the game take it take me where it's gonna you know. Like if I'm in a situation in which the the narrative takes me to a place where I have to kill every single person I know in that game. I'm streaming it so fuck it let's go Though I cannot possibly say enough that for anybody who doesn't like being railroaded

into choices and missing out on things, you should really, really play a fully custom character right away and not do this because the game will take control away from you and do things for you that you may not want to do, which is kind of the storyline of the whole character, which is you may or may not want to actually do anything, but then oopsie murder. Like does that make sense? So fully custom.

Like does that make sense? So fully custom. It just, it completely lets go of the rails and it's just a style. Yeah, no, you, yeah. So you would have a wider variety of things to do. Okay, so that, and that sounds I guess the most D and D-ish, you know, does it, I guess, my question is like, when you kind of do it that way,

do things, are you kind of yes-ending in the sense that if the game asks you something and you answer it, is it assuming that that's, are you answering in a way that is like inventing what you are? What? What am I? What am I?

I mean, if you have a custom character that's not real rooting you into any of these decisions that you're describing, what replaces that narrative? I'm, I'm, okay. I don't, what, I'm trying, I don't, what? I think I just need to, never mind. I just need to play it and see what it is. Because I'm, we're talking about things I literally never.

You would have chosen, you would have chosen your race, you would have chosen your class, you would have chosen your background. Yeah, the role-playing aspect. You would be an elf sorcerer, charlatan. And so this means that when you go into certain dialogues, it would activate the charlatan tag or the elf tag or the sorcerer tag

and then accommodate you thus. So your background would be, oh, I'm a charlatan. So you would get dialogue options that deal with tricking people or being an asshole in your former career. Let me phrase this another way. I think I think I have it, but again, I'm an idiot, so fuck me. Every interaction you can have in this game, is it that there is a generic version and then a special backstory associated version that might be applicable if you are in that mode.

So you pick a character that's a part of, like you said, a band of thieves or so and so you associate with that group in a unique way because you have passed with them versus if you're not and you're just doing a generic interaction, then it becomes the default across the board? Yes and no.

Okay, so there's a, there's a, if that makes sense. There's a point in which a Satan tries to offer you a deal, right? Literal devil horn man, fucking whatever, right? If you are playing a completely custom character, you will have the slate of options to talk to him to

maybe accept his deal, ask him questions whatsoever, right? If you are a dark urge, you have some of your options have been swapped out for, dude, can you maybe cure me of this horrible murder freak shit? If you are playing as Will, who is a Warlock, you would have dialogue associated with the fact that you are this player character that is as a Warlock associated with that. So, like the custom character is a blank slate. Therefore, every action becomes the first version of what you described, whereas specific characters

would get the second or third for the specific groups of people that they have that with. Right, that's okay. That's the best. And so then that's where your background or your race, your class comes in where the conversation will activate and go, oh, this person is a pre-acolight. Okay.

Right. And so then you will load into the acolyte version of the conversation. Right. Now, are there characters who literally will exist or not exist at all depending on what you've chosen? Like for example, there's at least one, the evil butler for the dark urge is only talks to dark urge. Okay. Great.

Okay, got it. Honestly, more than the background is your race and your class show up much more often. One of the first interactions you can have is pulling a wizard out of a portal. He got stuck in. And if you're a sorcerer, you can make fun of wizards because they're nerds and they can't just do it by themselves. Okay, got it. What I was poorly asking before was, because I didn't understand that there's a, there's two layers to every character. There's the I don't know you version and the I do know you version, right? And then and essentially like like no. And so that clarifies the rest of it.

It's like, okay, you can just play. I have to say no one knows you version. And that's your custom thing. Yeah, I have to say it's actually like very frustrating talking to people because they made the dark urge character that has, you know, a custom race and a custom look and all that because most people go, oh, well, that's the version that you can customize that's more content. It's like, no, it's not more content. It's different content. In fact, we'll take away little pieces of the game because it is authored. Right?

Similarly, if you play as a Stereon, or you play as Carlac, like you play as Carlac, yeah, you'll get more details about her devil bullshit and the engine, interchest, and all that stuff. But that removes some of the base options from the game that you wouldn't be able to deal with because you have that backstory. So like when you pick Dark Urge, you get a custom background that is haunted one, right? And it's like listed in your character sheet. When you pick a Stereon, he has a custom, he has the Charlotteson background. When you play his Shadowheart, you get the A acolyte background, something like that.

I would say most, I would say the vast majority of this game's content can't be seen on trip one. Like there are just too many permutations of events and events done in specific orders and whatnot. What do you do actually start a fight? What, I guess, does the combat look like or? Oh, have you not seen it? OK, so I know nothing. Everybody rolls initiative.

And then the turn order pops up at the top of the screen. And then you'll grab a character's turn and then you will be able to, like, you move either the mouse cursor or the... Oh, fuck it, it's XCOM, it's just XCOM. XCOM? Okay. It's just XCOM with free movement instead of a grid. Gotcha. Okay. Cool.

Yeah, that's way faster. It's just XCOM. I remember that. I remember that. Yes. Okay. Cool. Yeah, that's way faster. It's just ex-com. I Remember that. I remember that. Yes, okay It's absolutely fucking stellar it is it is absolutely surprising and amazing and I think one of the people in my chat said it yesterday was like it is the first game in a while that I'm like kind of like excited the whole time like over and over and over and over every single thing I encounter I'm like ooh like just the massive, massive wide variety of just interesting situations that you are constantly dealing with. Yeah, something I did see someone say somewhere was that like it really rewards you for me andering in the directions and just and like inquiring and seeing what's going on instead of trying to hit your checkpoints and push the train forward and that sounds fucking awesome for the way I love to play games.

Okay, I have a perfect interaction to explain to you how the background thing works. Right? I encountered a magic mirror that I did not know how to get through because it was blocking my way in, right? It was like one of those magic mirrors that talks to you. Because I'm playing a half orc, I had the option to just threaten it, um, style and be like, if you do not let me in, I will smash you to bits. This is an intimidation check, explicit to orcs only. So only if I'm running a half orc with high charisma

and intimidation proficiency is this a good idea, right? I do it, the mirror goes, yeah, okay, fine. And that's me through. And that's a, that's a, like a, that's not a dark or a job, that's, that's an, or that's a that's a like a that's not a dark or a job And that's you know that's an or that's a race based that's a race option, right? Yeah, yeah when I did that Estarian

Got an inspiration point for defeating the mirror and I realized that if a Starian had been the one to try and deal with the mirror It would have been a completely different interaction because he's a fucking vampire and he can't see him. Okay. And you can control them and you can lead that and so you can make that happen. Yeah, right. So who does what also is a huge difference as well, yeah? Okay. Yeah, okay.

Yeah, you can swap over to a different party member. Like, you know, you swap to whoever picks locks. And if you need to look at some magic bullshit, you can switch to the wizard, whoever has high intelligence. And then I guess besides those two, there's just, hey, I'm some rando looking at this mirror. And that's a, that's a series in normal options right there. Yeah, okay Very cool You could also talk to people and then switch to a different party member who would not be locked into the conversation

and then do things in that area While the NPC is locked in the conversation So one of the the easier tricks is that if you can't get an NPC to look away from something, go talk to them and then they will lock in and then you can pick pocketed them when they're looking in the weird direction. Okay.

Yeah, no, a million. I would like to clarify, somebody in the chat made a great point. It's not a random person. It's the main character They just have your authored backstory the OC the OC that you've put into this world. Yes. Yes, not a random right Yeah, a million other questions and should I have or just like answered simply by fucking like Create it to playing the thing so I'll just wait I'll wait for that.

It is the first game that I have streamed in a long time that I am like sitting here going like, I should just start a second save. That's just mine. And just so I'm playing it all the time. And then I'm looking over at my wife and I'm like, hey, when the babies asleep, we should start a co-op campaign. And then I played FF 14 with my buds on Sunday

and then as soon as we were done, four of them jumped into their own co-op campaign. And I was watching that for 45 minutes as they got their ass rocked by an albare. And I guess the last thing I was wondering is like, going doing this and then going back to the early access version that you played a while ago, did you see any of that content?

So, when I played the Early Access version, I played it the day came out, and like the next day and the next day. And I played for about 10 hours total, and then I hit like level three or four or something, and it went, wow, this thing is huge. And then I checked and saw that the Early Access version was like the entirety of the first act of the game and went, wow. And then I'm like, I'm going to stop here because I want to play this game when it is out. And so I did see some of that. Some of it's significantly different like the whole tutorial got completely redone.

But it is basically just really improved and a lot more polished. It's still not perfect. I mean, they put out the second hot fix while we were talking, which fixed like a wide variety of bugs, including penis C and penis D clipping through your pants if you're a gift. So there's a streamer mode option then on the settings. Yes, there is. Wonderful. You turn off, you can turn off nudity and you can turn off explicit sexual content. Fantastic. explicit sexual content.

Fantastic. And the game's got a memory leak. So if you run it for more than six hours, you should restart the game. And like, there's a bug where you can't multi-class rogue after two range or low. You know, it's a video game that's coming out on the year of our Lord 2023. But they've already made extraordinary progress

on tuning it up. There's a couple minor bugs that I've encountered and written up and sent to Larian on the controller support. But that's to be expected, because the real controller support doesn't need to be there until one, two, three, four weeks from now when the console version comes out. Yeah, I got to see how the controller works as well. So here's the fun thing about the controller support.

It does some things much worse than mouse and keyboard and it does some things much, much better than mouse and keyboard, and it does something much, much better than mouse and keyboard. It is weirdly easier to manage your inventory on a controller. That's something I didn't expect. And it's a lot better to move your character with a controller. It is more annoying to pick your skills on a controller. Okay. Like it's really a coin flip depending on your preference. Well, picking things like time doesn't really matter, right? It's all turns, so... Oh yeah. In fact, not only is it all turns, when you're playing the game, it's taking place in real time, so people are walking.

But if you have to do something really fine tune and specific, you can go into your deep, you can hit a button and turn it into turn based mode, like just out and about. So if you want to do some complicated interaction, like, I don't know, pick a lock when no guards are looking, you can turn it into turn-based mode where turns take six seconds and Make sure that you're not being rushed In when you're outside of combat you mean yeah, so let's say you're not in combat and you want to you want to

You want to throw down a barrel in front of a merchant, have your character run away and have a third character shoot it with fire to blow them up, right? That is a complicated series of actions to do in real time. So what you do is you turn it to turn base mode and then you put the barrel down, then you have that character move their max distance, then you move to your next character and do it and it all happens functionally instantaneously. And like you're so you set up your moves what in like stopped time and then yeah basically yeah and then the when it's and then. Okay. Yeah, and then the when it's and then Okay Okay, so yeah more like that in more like a time stop instead of switching over to the opponents turn or whatever

Yeah, okay, yeah, and like usually that like you can ambush anybody in that thing because they're not even gonna have turns until Yeah, like the word turn implies now. It's you, but it not. It's a stop time resume time actually. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. All right. Cool. That's incredible. It's absolutely incredible. And most of your questions would be like experientially explained by doing rather than explaining because like there's only so far I can get away with like the explaining because like there's only so far I can get away with like the the implicit understanding from having played. You say you you dodged like not just like games of this genre like I don't think you

played like Skyrim or no, no, a whole whole lot of things and and and those the the gaps in my knowledge it tend to infuriate a lot of people as I try to figure out and get my bearings here and I can only do what I ask the questions to the best of my ability. But regardless, I'm like, okay, anything else I wanna know, we'll just, I'll just play it and we'll find it out. There's no need to. I would say that the best thing about this is that

it requires less abstraction for people unfamiliar with the genre. Right? That's cool. Like CRPGs have had this problem for a long time where you're like, ooh, I'll use the silent spell. I have a silent spell. What can I, what weird zany situations can I get up to this? And the answer is you can use it in combat to turn off casters.

Right, because the game is still like fairly rigidly defined. This one, this is like the breath of the wild of the CRPG where it's like, does it seem like it should work? It's probably gonna work the way you think it is. probably gonna work the way you think it is. Sick. I expect to think of some creative solutions which will not work, but a variation of that idea kind of will work

and then we'll go with that instead. That's what I'm kind of expecting. You know, and I saw somebody do something that I had never anticipated, which was, you can pick up the corpses of enemies and put them in your backpack. And so they were carrying around a bunch of dead imps in their barbarians backpack,

so that the Necromancer would have corpses on hand to cast their Necromancy spells. That's fantastic. Oh yeah. I guess the only other thing is like I'm like how much of that is you pulled that idea out of the blue versus the HUD suggested it to you, you know? Well, the main thing is that like when the the spell descriptions are where you're going to get most of your zany effects. And they're very clear, right? They will say something like removes fall damage, feather fall, the very classic spell removes fall damage.

So if there's no fall damage and you see what appears to be a infinite pit. Maybe it's not an infinite pit and you won't get hurt jumping down with featherfall. So go see what's down there. I like the idea of putting a corpse in your backpack, I guess implies that like a corpse on the ground to begin with has a button that you can click that says put it in your item space which why you know why would that ever be a fair or X and it gives you the the list and yeah that's open examine

pick up etc. here that's what I you know because I'm like in any video game that's just a corpse on the ground like why would there even be anything remotely resembling put that in your right? Yeah, so yeah, okay cool cool cool I don't know if you can blow people up by putting like grenades in their inventory Someone in the chat could probably let me know because that that's a thing that you can do in some games Where you can put poison or like bombs in people's inventories and it the game goes okay? Did you pick pocket a bomb into this person's inventory? No reverse pick pocketing bummer bummer Okay, all right

Anything else of note no What's what's the sky that's the game? That's the one I'll be playing this until January of next year I do have one piece of advice for people though Actually, no, I do have more to talk about One piece of advice so Paladins have an oath system in this game in which your your class part of your class selection It is two types I saw. There's three.

There's a devotion, which is goody two shoes paladins, ancients, which is nature, hippie, that hippie-dippy paladins, and then there's vengeance paladins who are about the greater good, right? And the greater good under this context means that if a bad guy is getting away, you are well within the

realm of your oath to jam the wheels of their wagon with a child's body because it'll help you serve out justice. Right? Gotcha. If you break your oath, you lose your powers and then transition into the oath-breaker class, which is a separate version of Paladin. I wanted to play oath-breaker, but I wanted to play vengeance first. If you want to play oath-breaker, don't pick the vengeance Paladin. I tried for multiple days to break my oath and found it extremely difficult

Extremely difficult to break like very tough Vengeance paladins get away with all sorts of shit So if you want that oath breaker you want to pick one of the one of the goody two shoes ones and then just stab one person knowing that Knowing that so much of this game is going to be like The how you do things and not just like again, which style which spice of combat flavor? You want to sprinkle something like when I talk about like wanting to do like a like hand-to-hand and like monk is like good for that and stuff It kind of makes me like I guess I'd have to I'll like a like hand-to-hand and like monk is like good for that and stuff, it kind of makes me Like I guess I'd have to I'll take a look at again to see what the launch version of these things are gonna be like

But if there's you know more interesting things to do that are not combat related coming from other classes at things It makes those more appealing in some cases because If the if you want to like I in some cases because if you want to, like I, punching things is really cool, but also if you're not gonna solve things that way most of the time or if you're gonna try to solve things in more interesting ways and have more fun with that system, why not lean into that?

Oh yeah, so like, I'll give you an example of Barbarian. It's the easiest one. I think I described it to you last week where there's a puzzle in which you have to figure out the runes to open a door and Nobody everyone has to do the puzzle But the barbarian because they're maximum hunger just gets the choice to go What if I just tried to pull the door right the fuck off right right all classes get shit like that that is appropriate to the class fantasy Okay, right All classes get shit like that that is appropriate to the class fantasy.

Okay. Right. Um, I also like there's so many fucking goofy interactions in this game. Say you have a potion of haste, right? You drink a potion of haste. I'm sorry, I pushed a speed. All right. Good. You now have haste for 10 turns, which is incredible. By the way, amazing. Right? You're like, amazing, right? You're like, wow, that's really great. I wonder if there's anything else I can do. Well, if you drop the potion of haste on the ground and group your party member around it and attack it with a weapon, you'll smash the bottle

and the potion will splash on everyone next to it and they will all get haste. That's what we're talking about. Okay. Jesus Christ. There's like 15 things there that are not what video games do. Wow. You can use the throw command like a Final Fantasy Ninja to throw like bullshit you don't want to hurt enemies. You can, if your strength is high, you can throw with a high degree of accuracy if your athletics is high. You can throw potions at people.

So if you're like, oh man, Gale is fucked up. He's at like one HP. I'm playing a very physically strong athletic character, so I just whip potions at his head, and here's the kicker. The fucking potion does a hit of damage first before the heel kicks in. Or right.

Because you're smashing the glass into their face. Okay. That's, so that's an interesting detail of the world that you have to, I guess, know or discover that people don't have to drink things for them to be affected by them. They just need to touch them. That I would have, potions I assume need to be drunk, you know. I saw a video of somebody who couldn't figure out how to get on top of a building And they didn't have teleport so what they did is they had the druid turning to a cat and then the barbarian picked them up and whipped them over the time

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely hell yeah, that's it. That's a D&D right there. Mm-hmm Like fastball special. It's just tons and tons of cool little interactions that just do things. It's a cool game. Nice. You should play it. I'm going to. It's like the sixth month, month, play a game on theme ever.

Why am I doing that? What happens? All right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, absolutely. We're going to plug that shit in and we do it. And obviously, I mean, I've said it like multiple times at this point, but yeah, it supports co-op. We're going to fucking play co-op obviously. It does support co-op. Oh, oh, for sure. That's also if you do play co-op, I would recommend to everyone that you play multi fully custom characters because a custom player character. So a player character

cannot talk to another human person. Like the whoever the people are controlling cannot interact with dogs each other. Because there would be one billion variations of every interaction conceivable. So, both you and you. But we can still switch. Yeah, you can still switch. But whoever you're playing as can't talk to whoever they're playing as, right?

So, play as customs so that both of you can talk to all of the party members. Oh yeah, for sure. And it would also kill the fun of us getting to the only thing you're really, really missing out on is the banter of you guys wandering around. So like you'll be, when I have three people in my party, they're complaining about demons or they're talking about goblins or you know, whatever. Oh, but there aren't gonna be besides the What the NPCs that are following around oh, they'll still talk. They'll just have the two person version of the conversations of the three person said of the three Okay, cool

Yeah, sick. Yeah cool game What else is going on? Nothing. Okay. I clean poop off of my baby, and I feed the baby, and then I play baller-skate, and then think about baller-skate. Sorry, you said you had something else to talk about, so I was, yeah. It was more baller-skate. It was more rose, but it was.

Okay. Whoops. It was the potion thing. Gotcha. All right. Stay tuned for baller-skate three. Okay, whoops, it was the potion thing gotcha all right Stay tuned for Baldur's Gate 3 What's going on in the news couple things we got a Couple of announcements

and Yeah, I guess I'll get to some of the evo stuff a little bit later one Guess I'll get to some of the evo stuff a little bit later. Um, one A fan game called Twin Peaks into the night has just released a trailer and And uh, yeah, and it appears to be a Like retro, but better than retro fake retro style PS1 adventure game sort of set up and it looks pretty cool it's a demo I think that's also playable now but yeah just take a look at this if you're a Twin Peaks fan which I know all of you are looks very very cool. That's funny, because when you type in Twin Peaks

into the night, what comes up is the song into the night from Twin Peaks, which is the really spooky, creepy noise that plays when they're doing, you know, spooky, creepy shit. Hmm. Yeah, I don't know that it's a full ass, well, it's a demo for now. I don't know if there's intentions to like, I guess over time do a full thing, but yeah, that seems dope.

Check the trailer out. Wow, this looks super cool. Mm-hmm. It also like, Jank is fuck. It's so, I mean, you're seeing like, old like, a load in the dark style, like camera angles and stuff, but you're then you're seeing these detailed photo,

like, scan faces. Oh man, they've created the sets. That's weird. Like, the low poly models with human faces is a very strange but interesting art style. Yeah. Oh, that's so cool. Check it out.

Um, other things going on. Uh, I, I mean, I was just like, I caught this on the way back home, but, uh, apparently the armored core six demo in Japan has some fucking rad shit happening in if you're waiting in line to play it, cause the only way to get your hands on the game right now is to play the demo at Hakata, where people are lining up from like 7.30 in the morning to get a chance to play the game at noon. And you-

Yes, just robots, man. And so on and so forth. So people are lining up and of course because everyone there is super in and like minded we're getting a tweet thread reply reporting that apparently so it started with yeah a guy who came from overseas just to play the armored Corsix demo, earned the title, the migrating raven of Hakata, while another was drinking in the waiting line and here in the title, the Super Dry of Hakata, which is Super Dry's booze. Right. Every demo play session seems to spawn legends such as the chicken-weight walker of Umeda or the quad legs of Akihabara.

One guy clearing it with an injured arm was called the Sekiro of Hiroshima. Three people in a row were clearing it were called the Tri-stars of Negoia. These are not fabricated. People who are waiting in line witness their skills and naturally came up with these titles. This is how legends are born. Amazing. board. Amazing. Damn. The energy of like Arbord Corphans doing this all together and while waiting in line is so fucking sick. Yeah. And you're waiting in line for hours and hours and hours for a high speed robot game. You're going to get up to this exact shit. Yeah. And just exactly the X of Y as a naming convention is always going to sound awesome. So yeah, I don't know. I'm just like that. That's that's powerful right there. Shout out to. Let me pull it up real quick.

Steel ball runner on Twitter reporting this story coming in. Fun, fun stuff, man. Good, good, good fans coming together to do some good shit. That's the type of shit where like you would hope the final game would hear about it and put it like a little like title or you know, a little like nod some you know a little like nod some way in a small way to some of that stuff. So yeah you got that you got Twin Peaks and also small announcement but if you are a fan of Radiant Silver Gun, it's coming to PC August 18th. That really? Yeah, so... Radiant Silver Gun is actually coming out on like something.

Like a real thing. Cop that shit because it's cool. It's the same team G-Rav that made Icaruga. It's the game they made right before it. And it's very good. It's a goodch-mup. So, I feel so bad for the the dudes who's like high grade pristine copies of that game are about to become super worthless. Well, I mean, I think the collectors are still going to want their Sega Saturn copies and you know, like a re-release of like Metroid Prime

trilogy, for example, or any of the Metroid Primes, in terms of access, yeah, people can now play the thing. But if you're a collector of the fucking briefcase for elemental gear bolts, that's still an insane collector's item regardless of availability, you know? and regardless of availability, you know. So there's that. Now a bigger story, but it's not even that big because it's really just a repeat

of what tends to be the cases. Square Enix has said they're gonna focus on less mid-sized titles and more on triple A's going forward. The focus strategy will take several years to impact. And this is really just, you know, this is, I, it's a common, it's, we're going to see this every time, right? We're going to see it with the, the Capcom test into the sales projections on devil make cry for. And, honestly, it's, we've been around, we've been doing this for so long that I'm like, okay, who cares, whatever, fine.

You're gonna leave space for other smaller studios that wanna make mid-size titles to come in and do cool shit, then fine, that's no problem. There's no shortage of awesome indie things doing stuff in that smaller size. And you look at what Square's been doing. And you imagine they're looking at it and going, yeah, it's cool when triangle strategy and octopath traveler get a street cred and people are happy, but that's not going to pay the bills for us. We need to make

bigger investment appeasing deals and whatever. So everything's got to hit like an FF7R or an FF16. But then maybe not even because FF16 apparently they're like, oh, we wanted it to sell even more than it did. And you know, it's wild, right? But the AAA barrier here, it's like, okay, so near, right? Replicant didn't sell automatic numbers, but it still sold really well for a remake of an old game, which I think Yoko Tarou was saying, like, oh, this is not gonna sell at all because it's just an old game, but then it went on to sell like 1.5 right away.

And so it was like, yeah, there's things that hit like that, but then you're gonna have your Babylon's falls, your first spokeings, your outwriters, your guardians of the galaxy, your avengers, and they're just going to look, they're just kind of, they're doing that thing they always do, which is investors are upset, how do we appease them? We've got to say some things to calm them down, and this is the bullshit that you get. It's so weird because like... They sent out like a dozen small-scale games to die.

They released them all right next to each other with no marketing. Do you remember that? It was like, oh God, what month was it? I feel like it was last year in like September, October and November where like just it was like all these like lower budget games just came out like within weeks of each other over and over. Tactics, over was like right next to something else.

Yeah. It's, it's, we've been saying it for 10 fucking years now, but just this, this, like, doormark system of, like, you know, measuring height in a way where, okay, so, FF15 was the fastest selling entry in the series because it shipped and sold the five million in the first day, right? Holy shit, incredible. FF16 doesn't do that.

It still sells 3.5 million in the first week. But I'll rather not hold out. Yeah, no, 3.03 million, FF7R, 3.5 million in the first week. Amazing, like really good numbers, but they didn't hit that mark we did we hit for FF15, therefore this is below expectations. Motherfucker, that was across multiple platforms, right?

I still think the... 16, you're talking about exclusive and or at least time, whatever, but they're still treating it the same as like, nope, doesn't matter, didn't hit the number, it's considered a failure, even though it's like a massive success by any other metric.

I've brought this up a lot, and it's really strange because marketing people and investor people in video games very specifically, this only really applies to video games. Don't understand the single best piece of marketing you can do for your game is the last mouth. The last one was really good. But it's too late because the last one came out years ago and you can't undo that.

So I use Resident Evil. RE4 sold a lot of copies. As a result, RE5, which is not as good as RE4, sold even more copies, especially because it was on multiple platforms. And then RE6, which is terrible, was coming off the back of RE4 and 5. And so RE6 was the best selling, receivable game of all time for years. And then when RE7 came out and was actually really good, it didn't sell shit compared to RE6.

And Kakao was like, we're going back to horror. How could this be? It's because people bought RE6 a couple of years ago and they were like,, Resident Evil sucks. I'm gonna be more careful with my purchasing decisions. There was also a power gap in time. Because 7 was good, 8 sold really well, and so did RE2 remake. Whoa!

Because people had consumer confidence in the logo you put on the game. It's why Nintendo games always sell one 100-zillion copies cuz you go hey, it's a new Mario Kart. You know what was good? The last Mario Kart and what if the last Mario Kart wasn't good? It was Dude, it's just it's tired and I'm tired and so I just go, all right, great. Focus on triple A's. Check out, do your thing, you know, make the investors happy and lay in the cut, we'll catch you in five' time. In the meantime, please allow space for things like a dredge and stasis bone totem and to signal us to just come along and fill these spaces that are like,

yep, doesn't have to be triple A, still a great use of your money in time. You know, just fuck it, who cares? If they don't want to do that, then whatever, they'll adjust, they'll do it, someone will come along somewhere and disrupt what their current strategy is with a really big success,

and then they'll fucking shift gears again because they're fickle like that. The moment you kind of realize how these things are linked to appeasing investors, the the more it's like, yeah, this is what they believe until they don't, you know. Anyway, chalk it up to the same commitment to NFTs and fucking and and oh fucking all the other shit right so anyway oh yeah you can fool me fucking coming back from the dead to fucking chill more NFTs uh we got so yeah a bunch of stuff was announced at uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh Alongside some big system changes as well

That like basically just watching it. I was like that's Johnny Here he is looks cool all matches must now take place more than 100 meters away from your local school the the system update also came with everyone's getting new moves and there's two new systems. One of them is Blitz Shields, which is from Exord essentially. The other one is Drive Rush. We've added Drive Rush to the game. That's pretty funny. There you go. You want to get in? Here's your get in button. I don't think of guilty gear characters as characters that have trouble getting in.

Well, they're going in. They're going in. The game's offense is pretty solid, but let's fuck it up even harder. And let's give you a defensive option that'll cover most of your, it's almost like, like, parry and then it covers mixups, but you just have to time it properly. So if you do the new defensive option, uh, high low overheads and such will all be, um, counterable, but it's all in your timing. Um, yeah. will all be counter-able, but it's all in your timing. Yeah, certainly exactly, Potemkin's and characters that otherwise are slower on that horizontal movement are gonna benefit heavily.

Should be interesting. Then finally, we got to see an original character in Tekken. Asusena, the Peruvian coffee queen, and man, that's fucking cool. So right off the bat, Os looks awesome. Won't stop talking about coffee. His advertising coffee in the middle of her fights, turning to the camera. Holy shit, she will not stop talking about coffee.

And her colorful outfit and style and everything she's doing is just oozing personality, exploding with it. Very, very fun. Coffee is for. And it turns out that representing Peru, this is likely a character that's based around, uh, what is it? Takana, Kui, Takana Kui is a true person. No, a tradition in the mountain villages of Peru, where on December 25th, everyone dresses up, drinks, and settles their beefs in public. and settles their beef in public. And you see people all dressed colorfully and swinging,

like feats of strength for festivists, that it's amazing. That sounds like the kind of cultural tradition that would come from a place where it is mandatory to pound stimulants all day. I've uh, it, that sounds like a bunch of coffee drinkers invented that. So fucking good. I retweeted it.

Um, check out the pictures and you're just seeing like, yep, everyone's surrounding in a circle and two, two ladies and brightly dressed outfits or two dudes and brightly dressed outfits are just fucking swinging to settle their beef. If you got someone to call out, you call them the fuck out, let's get loaded up and do it on Christmas. It's so cool. That's great. Yeah, man. So if that's what she's based on, that is awesome. And then just to add to the sickness of the design, you have finally another character

that has Dodges baked into her moveset. She's doing, like she has these moments where she kinda, you swing at her and then she'll lean back, Steve Fox style or she'll jump over lows as well. It's not just a top upper body, it's like full high low stuff, but it seems like it's not,

like in Steve Fox's case, you have to press the dodge button to manually time it. For her, it looks like she goes into a counter stance. And then there's like a pop when someone swings on her. The description that was on the Japanese suite was kind of saying that, yeah, you go into a counter stance

and then if someone swings, then she does it one of those proper dodges, which looks so dynamic and fun. I remember even before like a, besides the Fox, I've talked about loving all the time. There's the idea of in the way Shikamaru would block in that early Naruto game on GameCube, where instead of blocking your attacks, he dodged each one because he was like outsmarting you in a way. As you send a ducking under your grabs and then like side-stepping and she's dancing around how wrong kicks, you know, and like, it just looks so fun and dynamic and then eventually like dodge, dodge,ged into a counter,

jumps on, flips off of you. She looks really, really great right off the bat. So I'm like, fuck yeah, man, thank God, it's not just all returning again. Show off some new shit that's exciting. This is for me, this is it. She looks great. Yes, and how wrong is the

how is wrongest way to pronounce that name except for when the announcer in the game says how wrong wins. I hate it. That's what he says. They're like, I guess it's how wrong from now on. I guess that's how it is. Yeah. So also from what I understand, there was a leak list that had Peruvian coffee lady on it. Yeah, I saw that. So I guess that is confirmed. There's another there's another newcomer coming. And then Harado also confirmed that like they're like how many children does hey Hachi have and he's like at round 18 to 25 illegitimate children. I will of course I will confirm nine

So like once wifey died Hey Hachi's been fucking Yeah, so it's it's it's like It was always gonna happen. Hey, I have that if hey Hachi died died for realsies then a Character that is highly similar to hey Hachi must be added to the game damn That is That is like like a true Jama. Hey, Achees out there. Just spread in it. Yeah, real world warrior.

We will see. We will see of the nine confirmed. Nonetheless, that wasn't all because there was also, before Evo, there was a, the tech and demo came out. And one streamer, TL Joe Crush, was a tournament player in tech and was streaming. And so people managed to hack tech in and they've been finding ways to continue to play the demo, which of course the NAMCops are not very happy about. So if you are out there just like with the Street Fighter, you're not supposed to be accessing outside of the limited period of time. And uh, so it's legal. Dude streaming. And then Harada himself shows up in the chat. Oh, fuck. And sees that Joe crush is still playing.

And he's like, he's the first thing he says is hello cracker to which everyone's like, did, did her, I just call him a cracker, which of course he's referring to like using a crack to play the game, but you know, here we are. And then everyone's like, okay, whatever, Rando is pretending to be herada. And then he's like, no. And then he continues to play, and he's the dude's training or whatever. And then he goes, he's like, oh, basically there's a whole thing where he's like,

you should stop playing for, Basically, there's a whole thing where he's like, you should stop playing to not confuse anybody or anything. Like, you should stop playing immediately. And then he's like, all right, let me just do one more combo, hold on, hold on. Let me just keep playing, let me just go, whatever. And then people are like, it's a fake herada, dude, it's not really him. And he's like, oh, you don't believe it's me.

You wanna see, I find that I will show you my power and then he jumps on Twitter and her out of tweets out from his account T L Joe crush check this tweet stop it or ban forever and then dudes like oh shit oh fuck okay, I was just messing around, I was just playing around, and then he quits out, right? And he leaves. And then it turns out that he was not a cracker. He was playing on PS5 and he was just in a training room that didn't get kicked out from the servers when the servers went down. So that happens in a couple of demos.

Sometimes you get to stay inside of it because the message didn't pop for you. And so he had that and it was not a cracked situation at all. But regardless, misunderstanding aside, like Harado was basically just like, to avoid confusion regardless, good get out of the game now, but like it was completely not a cracked situation.

I love the feeling that you never get to get, which is just like, I see you. I it's like he's and he sees me. He's right there. He's he's looking. Exactly. And put the hilariousness of also being like, yeah okay man, hold on, one more combo. Let me just work this shit out because he's playing Jack and he's trying to lab some shit. But that's fucking just like, oh my God dude, it's not his fault that the servers didn't kick you out. You know, if you're on PS5

and it just happens to work that way, then fucking, that's the game, that's the game's fault. That's the demos fault for not working properly you know yeah her on it was your fault you're the cracker well you can say it it was him oh speaking of which remember earlier you were talking about uh uh uh the the the funny racist moments good times with racism, yes. Yes, there was one that I read as well. That was like a brown dude was like,

was, was, was it, I think he was like arguing with someone or like, yeah, like with a teacher or something like that. And he's just like, okay, whatever cracker. And then the dude replied, okay, whatever, Graham crackacker. He's like, ah, got him. Got him. What are you gonna say? You gotta hold that.

You gotta hold that shit. The teachers within their faculties, these are people who are dealing with, like, just sass every day of their damn lives. The people with the proclivity are gonna get the practiced. If you come at me and I'm prepared with the rebuttal, you got a whole bad shit, man.

Ha ha ha ha ha. Tit for tat. Yeah, anyway, so that happened and then neither the guy pulled the stream down. Other things that were going down, killer instinct announced a free 10th anniversary update this year, including a balance patch, improved matchmaking, and 4K support for the Xbox.

So that's crazy. Fuckin' awesome. Considering the world we live in is not one where a brand new K.I is going to be announced anytime soon. That's true. That's a really cool way to do it is to just be like, yeah, let's just make sure the old one still works. Let's make sure you can still play it. It's a good-ass game.

I'm still just amazed that like they're not the servers are up, you know, they didn't just pull it like, sorry, sorry, let's get to the end of this game's life cycle, like they're still letting it happen. So fuck yeah, as long as I feel like K.I. is like extra intimidating to get into, like, you know, a lot of characters, like, you know, a lot of fighting games, like you just, you just don't get to play somebody stomps on you Mm-hmm like somebody trying to play AI right now. It's just gonna get rocked into like fucking infinite combo like Like it's not really infinite, but if you really understand how to get out of it

You're you're fucking done on hit one over over if you fight somebody who's been beasting on this game for years, but if you get matched up with someone else who's new, you'll have a fairly normal experience with it. What ends up happening in most cases with beginners is like, somebody learns how to recognize which button combo breaks a certain attack, and then you just wait to see that one and then you break out of it. You know, it play and like you kind of like you'll have normal like street fighter like matches going on, but like you just you learn you in your head like to recognize one thing and break it and then you start playing around combo breaking that that one thing or counter breaking it, you know, so yeah, K.I. coming back. I mean, in this instance, I again, I wouldn't expect a new one. I feel like they're not going to throw the money for that out there.

But to just keep it alive and keep it touched, you know, and worked on is a super awesome announcement for it. So fuck yeah. Good news there. Everyone, please get excited for Under Night in Birth to CIS Celeste which I'm gonna go ahead and try to call Unisys. We've had Unib, we've had Unis, we had Uniclear so I guess Unisys is where we're at. It's got rollback and it's coming out next year. So I guess Unisys is where we're at. It's got rollback and it's coming out next year.

I have a beef to pick with this game. I have like this game hurt my feelings. Okay. Because the tweet that I saw announcing it was the finale of the Hollow Knight is upon us. And I went, oh, fuck! Bullshit in-birth. In-boss. Whatever, I don't care.

Yeah, you're in birth. I got a fucking mixed up by a fucking announcement. Get your mixed idiot. That's great. I super did, man. Well, um, somewhere else around the world, uh, in fact, in Vegas, uh, to counter that energy was a cheering Reggie who fucking loves Undernite. Super pop off for that. So I look forward to whatever new English will be dropping on that character select

screen and whatever new insane French bread round call we're gonna get. Hopefully, some of the thing referencing Michigan. And yeah, Project L, obviously Yasuo, the unforgiven, which is one of those ones where I'm like, I was like, I wanna see Yasuo from early on and it's like, yeah, so does fucking everybody with eyeballs. He's a samurai. He's a Sam samurai. Of course, they're going to put the fucking samurai in it. He's the, he's the fighting game fucking thing. Where's Timo? I don't know, but I have to assume soon. They have to come up with enough annoying things for him to do.

What? What? He's got. What's the most money? Right. No, I know. But you have to convert those annoying things into fighting game logic. Yeah. No. That character already exists called guilty gear XX testament. Okay. Screen pollution. Teleports like now toe. Like that zoning pollution nightmare shit. Yeah, that's that's Timo's thing all over

Zoning teleport screen pollution and I know that he's bomb-based right? He puts a bunch of bombs on shit So yeah tagging you with explosives and forcing yep all of that. They got them. They got to make it maximum annoying soon Aracune was what I was actually gonna say. Yeah, I was thinking that's another. But in the meantime, Yasuo is cutting up the moon. And the game is gorgeous in personal life. It's super pretty. And his slashes are all really just like like the animation is put into the particle effects on his slashes. His like is smoother in animation than the characters are. In some cases, it's kind of incredible.

And to that degree, we got to see some stuff we missed in the footage as well, like echo hitting his super. The super is really pretty, man. They're fucking gorgeous. So like when you hit a level one, it's kind of just a quick in game thing But when you hit a level two it it's like yeah, you spent all your resources you get a nice reward here cut the fucking mood in half you know and Yeah, seeing it in person as well just the the philosophy as as we were talking about last time is in fact here it is you can play the game and do everything you want with the ease of one button

therefore The game itself is going to be fast and brutal You know, they're not easing up on that in any way shape or form as we see, like now that I'm seeing more of the team of people testing it, excuse me, the names that I'm seeing that are part of the crew are all these like high level players that are super all about that grimy mix-up system.

Not just your clockwork, apology man, Jehoshy, nerd Josh, That grimy mix-up system not just your clockwork's apology man. You're Hoshi Nerd-josh just people who are in there to make sure the game is Grimy on offense, you know, and I'm like I understand now I can see the people that are in the ears of You know whispering this is what you need to do are the people who like are responsible for some of the dirtiest mix-ups in fighting game history you know and they're all there. Marlon Pie. It's genius because the game is gonna be

free so people will play it so they can make it as fucked up as they want. Yeah, well, it's going to be the biggest, freest fighting game. Yes. And there's probably going to be some riot cash dropped in on that as well. It's going to be fun with the duos in bit. But there's also something that we do have to, it matters here. and it is that like with this like level of like basic control, but also like low floor high ceiling, right? Low floor high ceiling. I still believe in the rule of cool. Yeah, I still believe that like people who see cool shit are gonna be like I want to do that cool shit

and Even if you're not able to do a Dunguri fucking a combo mad in devil may cry You're gonna want to start doing it a little bit. You're gonna want to fuck around You're gonna want to feel good and you're gonna hit that first stylish combo and be like yeah, that was awesome Fuck yeah, don't take it do some wild shit You know if you if you ignore the rule of cool, that's how you get fucking fantasy strike.

You're like, look, it's good for beginners. And beginners go, I don't want to play that. That shit looks lame. You gotta, you gotta, like, you don't have to. But when people see something that looks like really complicated but is also really impressive, it can't, it absolutely sells the game. The Di- uh, Di- uh, Di-go full-power-y, even moment 37, for people that like are like,

that's- that I can't ever imagine doing that, but holy fuck, I kind of want to play that game now, because that's possible, you know, that's a thing. Um, so this feels like what they're doing. They're- they're making it easy to get into, and they're setting a bar here that's a thing. So this feels like what they're doing. They're making it easy to get into and they're setting a bar here that's like, and you're gonna see the best people at this game doing shit that's gonna absolutely wipe the floor with you. But hopefully, the system will be such that you probably won't run into that

if you're playing online in a normal situation. Unless you are in a random tournament environment environment and you just get unfairly, or un-luckily, up paired up with that, around water or something. The skill gaps are gonna be insane, but the journey is gonna be the same for everybody, right? Looking good, looking real good. Can't wait to get my heads on it.

Yeah, all right. Let's take some letters because my throat is starting to hurt. No worries, man. Hey, if you want to send a letter, send it one into castle super beast mail at gmail.com. That's castle super beast mail at gmail.com. Ah, yes. Reptile got announced for Murnal Combat 1. He's young and all the ninjas are looking like these young kind of like Malibu hot boys now except for Urmac who's a creepy old fucking dead face. I think the story context of like Mortal Kombat being like, Luke Kang made a better universe, and then some characters, back stories,

or like situations being still massively horrible and fucked up is like, Luke Kang, what are you doing? Yeah, well, the twist is Luke Kang's an asshole. Luke Kang, you seem like an idiot. Spoiler alert, Luke Kang might be an asshole. Oh damn. What's going on bro? Yeah. Then Aki we got to see our first look at her not gameplay wise but just a little introduction cutscene for her world tour mode and in and it just shows her being crazy and poisoning the main character and freaking the fuck out.

So from what we can tell obsessed with poison, femme-pital style, doing it wild. She looks like a mushroom, her hair's like a mushroom. She's kind of crazy. She loves murder, big murder. I wish that she was an evil lady with a little more distinguishing crazy lady energy from jury There is there is a little bit of overlapping that yeah, it's just you just kind of like if it's more of it Like it doesn't have to be the same same kind of flavor. It can be evil in a different demeanor, you know, but either way, as Sage Am said correctly,

no, you can't fix her. Don't, don't, don't do it. You deserve better. It was just great. That's exactly verbatim what I said about Benedicta mind you. So you just y'all need to stop. And you didn't fix her at all.

No, no, you didn't. and you didn't fix her at all. No, no, you didn't. And yeah, the comics also that they gave out, there's a Street Fighter 6 comic that introduced her and showed off a couple things. So one, she also has the Poison Slowball that travels through Midair. So it seems like the Fong techniques are gonna be in place.

So even if she's not completely a redo of Fong, she's gonna do the flappy bird shit. I don't know if she's gonna do the flappy bird, but she's at least gonna do the poisoning. Maybe there'll be a drive gauge poison, which is an insane thing. I don't know what's gonna happen, but in two, she's obsessed with master, so I don't think it would be unreasonable to assume that she's also like obsessed with Fong Who probably taught her directly to be that way We'll find out soon more game play needs to be shown They showed off the Ninja Turtle costumes which at the moment I saw that we heard the song playing and I'm like you're not

This is not injustice. There's zero chance. Like we're gonna see guest character dropping in between Rashid and Aki. And like, yes, it's world tour costumes. So there they go. Great, insanely overpriced costumes. Do whatever you want with the cosmetics. But yeah, yeah, they cost more than the cat then Rashid actually, that's a bit unnecessary.

But like when the game is not free, you know, Yeah, they cost more than the cat then Rashid actually that's a bit that's a bit that's unnecessary, but Like when the game is is not free, you know when the game is free I get it if that's how you make your money, but when the game is not free then it's like let's be reasonable guys come on The not to mention you have to buy them individually um And then there was What was the other thing right after that turtles ackee oh yes the costumes the awesome fucking outfits that are coming so DJ looking like a proper dance hall star the Marissa wedding dress is finally confirmed holy shit like you can't show that artwork

and not make that available. Like that would be insane. It's such a good design in the first, when you get her to 100, you see the wedding dress and they're like, this is, there's no way you're not making working on this and thankfully they are. So hard confirm, that's the only outfit to ever choose from now on.

Plus there was the the Kigurumi with jury. How to defeat the evil. Grab the zipper and close it. Just like that. You like that. That jury PJ costume smells like shit. That jury PJ costume smells like shit. Oh God, the worst. Like it is never been washed. Her room is fucking disgusting. Damn bitch, you live like this. And then Gile, as he is getting his, the artwork of him getting shaved with the with the hair down now

He has yeah, he has the guy'll hair in a ponytail Looks cool as well, so yeah nice outfits coming to a street fighter, so very cool there as well Granblue fantasy versus rising was a thing um, Grand Boufantasy versus Rising was a thing. And a fact to emails. If you've got a letter, you can send it to castlesuperbestmailatgmail.com. That's castlesuperbestmailatgmail.com.

In fact, I would describe it as a thing that happened. Mark of the wolves to city of the wolves. We saw through seconds of it. City of the warves city of the warves confirmed looks cool looks beautiful. I want to see more. It was the teasest teas. But you know, when they're ready, I'm hoping for good things because uh, yeah, between KOF 15 systems and the way Sam Show was, I would like to see them having fun with a game that's not KOF and putting some attention to detail and you know, the, the, the,

the, Garo was the third strike for SNK. So, uh, if that's what we get this time around, this should be a fucking awesome just side fighter. Really, really looking forward to it. And you know, whatever continuing the the fatal fury story, whatever that's that's going to be. Yeah. All right. Yeah, I got a copy of the guilty gearboard game. They were given out free boxes. Got to check that out as well. There's a card game board game thing. They're working on looks cool. A thing that happened from Jack stands as one says dear once in future kings of maddened town, it's probably most obviously a statement to save in some forms of media be video games movies or anime. When there's things that are, some things are good and some things are bad, personal

taste and a million variables can determine whether something is good or bad, but me and my friends have started labeling certain bits of media as a thing that happened. Meaning it wasn't really good or bad. It just left no lasting impact on anyone or anything. In our opinion, some examples, the Street Fighter EX series. Now, EX plus Alpha and EX2 had some good shit in it. But EX, there were some fun. But then you have to take in the was some fun to the average person, but then yeah, but then you have to you have to take in The rest of it as the whole franchise if you're gonna grab you're gonna grab one and you're gonna grab three So then you just flatten it out. I would absolutely describe the ex series as a thing that just occurred live-action Disney remix

Yeah, haven't seen any oh, they're. Are they, are they terrible or are they mid? They're terrible with a lot of production. Okay. So, um, I'm just up to mid. Mm-hmm. I mean, I'm just, I'm just telling you like, like, there's, there's EX plus alpha fans out there that like, fucking, yeah, sure. There's an error. All right. I'm sure one of them one of them is is is here to talk to us right now. What do you say, ex Alpha fan? Wow, that's great. Da rune, huh? He is cool. Da rune, Mr. Area. Yeah. Doctrine dark.

Most smash clones, PlayStation All-Star's, Multiverse, et cetera. So you have to kind of, yeah, I guess when you're averaging out, right? Because Slap City was great. Multiverse was one of the better ones. PlayStation All-Star's maybe not so much. I know there's people that go hard on it, but no. And then there was a couple of them.

I mean, there was the Ninja Turtle smash up where you're like, okay, you did some stuff here. But then there's Rivals of Aether, which is amazing. And then there's icons, which was not so much. And then there's that other one that I always forget that was on Switch, and then there's the Brawl Hala, and you're just like, all right, yeah, I guess, when you're just looking at them as a whole.

Most Castlevania games passed four. I should shut the fuck up. I throw this email in the fucking garbage. That's not what I hear. Don't get it. Don't leave it now. A lot of people have a lot of good things to say about games that are after that one. So, all right. This is a fake email. Street Fighter V, this is actually a fierce debate whether or not this belongs here. Again, if you're averaging, right, because the state it ended in is the best version of it, but does that take the average of the way it launched and most of its life cycle above mid?

No, it doesn't. It means that they took a bad game and made it better. The Overwatch 2 porn debacle, when Blizzard tried to prevent Overwatch porn from happening by locking their models in the game and then fans made their own models from scratch within the week. Um, did not know that. That's really funny. That's actually aggressively awesome.

So no, fuck you on that one. That's the best shit ever. You can't stop that. Anyway, and many more. Yeah, those examples are made in and of themselves, I think. Had us in the first half, not gonna lie. I'm actually pretty miffed about that Castlevania thing. I usually don't get upset when people have a bad opinions

But that's such a stupid fake opinion that no one would have Because that basically means any of the games that Kojima art was applied to right like all any like Any like blank of the blank games Just get deleted if you delete everything after four. Am I am I correct? I can't even hear you. I'm just sitting here thinking about it like like what kind of what kind of stupid liar would look at someone and say they didn't like any gasoline game after four. someone and say they didn't like any Castlevania game after four. Like I say, I even imagine someone having that opinion.

I it must be someone lying to to make people mad. I said like are like any Castlevania game with an of in the title gets the lead gets deleted by that that lists. Okay. Here's the one coming in from George who says dear Han and shittas as a fellow mid to late 30s person raised on movies and basic cable. I remember substitution swears on TV at its being a source spot for me, but as I've gotten older I've got grown to appreciate the ridiculousness of them. Like Nero, sorry, like Nio, getting the probe removed from him in the matrix and yelling jeepers, creepers, and an obvious overdub.

There are even rare occasions where I- Oh, that's shit. I feel like it adds to the scene. My favorite is Big Lebowski. When the cabbie driving the dude, loses his shit at the dude, saying he doesn't like the scene. My favorite is Big Lebowski. When the cabbie driving the dude loses his shit at the dude, saying he doesn't like the Eagles, every instance of the word fucking, the driver has replaced with Peaceful, so you end up with a guy furiously yelling at a hungover man yelling, get the hell out of my Peaceful cab. What all he did was calmly ask to change the music. This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.

It's all I have. It's all from Big Lebowski. I am sick and tired with these... Uh... But no, God. Was it Monday to Friday snakes? No. Oh my God. I forgot what the first one was. One day to Friday snakes. No. Oh my God.

I forgot what the first one was. It was something on this Monday to Friday plane. Yeah. I take my whole time. I'm sick of these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane. I think my favorite of all time is Yippee Kaie, Mr. Falcon, from Die Hard 2. And it's like, how do you, like it doesn't even, like there's no one named Mr. Falcon

in the fucking movie, like it's just, it's just a fake thing. There is something to be appreciated about this and it'll never happen again because why sensor movies for TV that no one's watching so unless they start doing Netflix edits of movies to be the TV version of it. I also remember when they would do things like visually, like in Mrs. Doubtfire, when he flips the bird after the new husband comes in and they take the kids and leave. And it's just like, he's like waving, you know, whatever.

And then it just cuts to a close-up of him just going, mm, and it gets grainyer too. And then he just kind of turns and walks away. And you're like, so he was just waving and then he just went, hmm, like, what? And it's like because they, they, they cut, they cropped out the middle finger, you know? So yeah, that shit was, like,

we got to figure out a way to get this goddamn feature film from five years ago on at one p.m. On a Sunday on Fox Buffalo Dude, you just cut whatever the fuck you need to cut Have some fucking guy double it over. I don't give a shit All right, let's take one last one over here Remember how fucking nefarious those candies that look like cigarettes were? Oh, yeah. In fact, I used to buy a box of chocolate cigarettes.

What the fuck was that? It was a box of chocolate cigarettes for children to practice their smoking so that they could then get in on the habit as soon as they were allowed to, or even earlier than that, if they had the money and the right person to convince. But you're 12-year- old standing outside of the dep, go and, hey, mister, go in there, get us a pack, you can keep the change. Right?

And then you just see like, is he, does he look scummy enough? I'd fuck it. Or kid guy goes in, buys the pack and keeps the change. And it's like, well, what are you gonna do? Or guy goes in and just keeps the money and doesn't give them the pack or whatever because what are you gonna do? Yeah, but yeah Which then Flavored vapes is all the shit now, but

Anyways Last one coming in from relum 80 Oh Greetings punch priest and goblin Wrangler in the last podcast will he describe to his friend completely ruined his understanding of wisdom versus intelligence That is wild your friend is a stupid asshole in that story. It's crazy. I also kind of remember, whatever, I vaguely recall him being like, intelligence is almost like intuition in sorts in some ways, but it's like it's not at all, whatever.

Years ago, I saw the tomato-based explanation. Strength is being able to crush a tomato. Dexterity is being able to dodge a tomato. Constitution is being able to eat a bad tomato. Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad and charisma is being able to sell a tomato-based fruit salad. I learned the difference between wisdom and int with the old man is wise because of his life experiences. The student is intelligent because he studies. I hope everyone is having

an amazing trip through Fair Run, poor one out, a little need for us with a beefy PC or PS5 as we live I carelessly through you both. So I think for what it's worth the reason why that my my first D&D campaign understanding, well the reason why that stuck with me is because it is closer to real life than the game mechanic version of things, right? Like I get it that it's like what a backwards stupid way to understand the rules set of D&D, but the thing is when you like I saw lots of people discussing debating this back and forth this week and I there's a whole thing, but it's like at the end of the day it's like

in real life wisdom is accumulated knowledge. You've lived long. So you've seen it before is kind of the idea. Whereas in D&D, it's more intuitive and it's governing things like perception, right? Awareness. So there was someone was pointing out, it's like wise old men that are wise, then gain perception and awareness as they get older, right? Like, you know, so it's like, it's a bit of a like, right, okay, that's your understanding is a little different there. And then in real life intelligence, the way we use it casually tends to be like, you refer to someone as intelligent in terms of like their natural intuition and inherent problem

solving ability, you know, whereas here, I can't understand a fucking thing you're saying. I'm so baffled by this entire conversation. I don't get what are you talking about. All right, let me back it up. When someone outside of D&D refers to wisdom, they usually talk, you talk about like a wise old man. When someone outside of D&D refers to wisdom,

they usually talk, you talk about like a wise old man. And so the thought is that like that wise old man grew wise through his years through like, he's learned things, he's acquired knowledge over time and that's where the wisdom comes from from the years of experience that he's had. And when you think about someone as being intelligent, you often refer to that as like, oh, that's a smart intelligent person

who's able to kind of intuit things and that it's not. And so it's more of a, it's an inherent trait to that person, is how we casually refer to these two words. I always interpret it as intelligence as the ability to acquire knowledge quickly and wisdom as the ability to apply existing knowledge correctly.

Huh, okay. And in most of my life, I feel like I haven't heard it use that way. I feel like people refer to people as intelligent when you're talking about almost like just, you know, again, there are the, their ability to, into it, things correctly, sub problem solve because they have that skill that is a part of their traits. And then wisdom is what you acquire over time,

hence wise old people having lots of wisdom, sage old wisdom that comes from being learned, but it turns out it's the other way around in a D&D context. That's sort of why that stuck with me. Incorrect though, as it was, right? That's essentially all I'm trying to get at. I can kind of see it. Yeah, but it doesn't gel with my personal perception that I've had since I was a kid, so

I'm having like a really hard time. I get that. And for most people who know D&D inside out, and this is just the way it's always been, I get that it's like, that sound super off, but I just, I'm just like, if you just think about it outside of a D&D context, this is what it's been like for casual usage of these words for me. So that's why I thought, I spent, anyway, yeah, whatever. All right, you get it. Um, was that intelligence is knowing every optimal combo? Wisdom is knowing when it's better to go for the reset instead.

Ah, love it. Nice. And then charisma is convincing everyone you intended to go for the reset and you didn't actually just drop your cup. No, I meant to do that. That was on purpose. Yeah.

I am curious if you're somebody who thinks that none of that makes sense. Does the determined wise old man have a different interpretation? I'm curious how you parse that and not get the Learned Old Wise Sage wisdom thing together. But I do like the tomato explanation of stats that works out pretty well. And does do any different systems where like you know how there's like the different universes of dragon lance and forgotten realms and stuff. Do they all have the same core stats or do they ever like that?

The best majority even even stats, even stat blocks that exist outside of that realm still are like heavily informed by the D&D stat block. I remember when I think it was third edition, it was what my friend was playing with and like the character sheet had the main stats and then it had all the extra numbers, you know, so it was like the the greater numbers for specific sub things to roll. And even fallout which uses the GERP system uses special. Right. But special is just strength perception endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility, and luck. Right? It has more. But like most of those just go one to one on the existing D&D stat sheet.

Hmm. Right. And I also remember when there was like before, I guess they officially simplified all the numbers into something simpler, shorter. There's like these side campaigns cause I bought a book for Tri-Gun that was a Tri-Gun like Besim system, big eyes, small mouth, anime, tabletop, you know, and shit like that. And there's all these variations but there were variations that were trying to remix the D&D rules to be easier to do

so that you'd have a sort of a smaller character sheet that was more universally applicable, you know. Interesting. Yeah, like I'm looking at pillars now, which was like explicitly built off the bones of the old one, and you still have might, constitution decks, perception intellect, and resolve.

They wanted to have might as its own category so that player damage was disassociated from any of the other stats, but like, it's all variations on a theme. Interesting. Now let's design a system where all of these stats talk to you because you're fucking crazy. Yeah, that's all that's never gonna happen ever again. So great. Oh, it's just the best thing in the world. All right, we're out of here. All right, y'all have a good night.

It was weak, whatever. Go to bed. I'll see you next week. you