Castle Super Beast - CSB 239: Scrunko Manlets Paid 9.99 To Bypass Your Height Filter

Episode Date: October 17, 2023

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[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Alright, there we are. One of those days. Good afternoon on this glorious, glorious Monday. how you doing, man? I, you know, I'm fine, I'm fine, just... Everything's... We're starting, you know, people listening to the audio version won't know this, but we're starting a little late today, and I'd like to apologize, because I told everyone that your butt fell off

in the toilet. I guess, technically, my, just, again, software and hardware, but fell off, and I had to recollect it and put it back together. So. Is it back in bandage, around your midsection? It is being held in place with duct tape, and I believe in duct tape,

so it should be fine. What is wrong with the fucking- What I was about to ask, what are you fighting off camera? So there is an air conditioner that's now just giving me an error for God knows what reason And will they pull your pants up man. Oh god damn it. Did I just crack? All right, it's fine That's fine. You know what? I'm almost 40 I get to do that now Oh, no

All right that now. Lemme alone. Oh no. Alright. It's one of those days. Okay. Oh boy is it one of those days. It's one of those fucking days. And I thought having to change the baby three times before coming over here was rough. It's fine. It's fine. You know what?

Hey, you're welcome. All right. Oh, I'm not thanking you Then you're all welcome. Jesus man. Um What's going on Well, okay. Oh, let's see what's going on. What's going on? Well, let's see. Let's see. Did you finish the one piece? Mm. Not yet, unfortunately.

I made designs to last night, but I did not. Did you? I did. OK. Yeah, I was kind of thinking the timing would be, it would be this week, but it just didn't happen. It would have meant a sense. Like, I was kind of like I could just

Fucking stay up and go nuts But no, I didn't unfortunately It's fucking great. It's fucking great Like me and me and me in page watched it and it had the it had the exact hey, let me before I continue Um, we're talking about a TV show adapted from a manga that came out when we were in high school. So it's the offense that I'm describing or are you going to not describe are all the shit. How familiar are you with you with Nami's storyline

in the one piece? I have remained exceptionally cold on everything one piece related with the exception of one time. One of my roommates who was very excited about a lot of things was like I have to show you this, how good this is and showed me a scene of what I assume was buggy the clown because it was a clown, and it but was as clean as, but- But he wasn't, he was bouncing off the walls, I think, instead of splitting into different body parts.

No, his name was Bellamy. Okay, so he was showing me this moment of like, oh my god, it's so crazy, the guy's bouncing everywhere, what's, what's Luffy gonna do? And then Luffy just punches him, and it's like, oh my god, it's so crazy. The glass bouncing everywhere, what's, what's Luffy gonna do? And then Luffy just punches him. And it's like, oh holy shit. And it was one of those moments. You know what, Wolley, that would have probably hit

a lot harder with 195 episodes of buildup. Yeah, I imagine. But this was one of those clear cut examples. Is that, and you know, that moment kicks ass. I know, I'm sure it does. And you know what? And I don't know, I'm sure it does. And you know what? And I don't even, I don't even fault the content there. It was a learning moment for me when I was like,

this is why you don't be that guy, right? This is why you don't try to force it out of context and try to pretend that somehow the emotions that you've built up with something are gonna translate cold onto someone else that has no idea what you're talking about. Well, do you remember when I went over to your apartment, I think we're gonna play fighting games or whatever,

and I looked at your monitor and I said, what the fuck stupid banana shit thing are you looking at? Right, right, right. And what he was watching was episode 14 of fucking Gern login. King. Kitan was on the screen.

Yeah. And I'm like, what stupid banana shitter you watching? But you asked the question, right? Your curiosity was was peaked by whatever the fuck was happening on the screen. Now, in this case, this was a like involuntary, no, you don't understand. You have to see it though. And I also told the story of when a man attempted to do this with

a Haruhi and just a lot of these formative moments I learned. I remember that. Yeah. A lot of these moments I learned, it doesn't even matter whether or not I would or would not have liked the material. But when you presented to someone in some way like this, you kill, you kill A lot most of the chances of them ever actually getting into it, you know, I I told you that like The friend I was in in high school with and art class was like bro You got to watch this ava shit. It's crazy. Dude's robot is his mom, right? The opening salvo. And I still loved it besides the fact that that was the opening salvo I heard on Ava.

Like, I remember, you told me that story really early and I remember like that hurt my soul. Like as the resident weirdo Ava scholar of the gang and I'm sitting there piecing together my future in psychology so I can understand its themes better and you're like, yes, some guy walks up to me, go dudes in his mom's uterus. I mean, if you need to die. If you need to piece together, like some of the moments that happened in my life that make me the way I am about like wanting media to be enjoyable.

That's a good start, you know. That's a good story. That's a good one. If you want to know, like for me, I'm like, okay, how do I enjoy media? When I don't know anything about it and when I want to recommend someone media, I want to be very careful with how I do that. I don't want to overshpload. It's because I've seen so many friends of mine Fuck this up try to get me into something not not understanding that they're you're rooting it the way you're doing

You know what it reminds me of it reminds me of MMO and monster hunter players They both do the same fucking thing They go oh man you got to get into monster hunter man. Oh, it's so cool. It's so cool. Hey, okay Let's let okay you're starting out. Okay, do the tutorial. Okay, we'll do a hunt Okay, don't worry about this monster. Okay, we'll just kill this monster 12 times We'll get to get you the gear so we can we can rank up your keyquest as you can get to the next one Cuz you gotta get to the cool stuff at the end right cuz all look at the cool big dragon at then

And then they drag someone all the way to the cool stuff at the end, right? Because, oh, look at the cool, oh, the big dragon at the end. And then they drag someone all the way to the cool part. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. And then the person's like, okay, yeah, it's cool. Yeah, yeah, because I don't. Yeah, now, I have no idea, but I assumed that one piece had a whole lot of pirate enemy of the week shown in problem solving. That was a lot more elaborate than just a single punch to the face.

Therefore, that single punch to the face was the unexpected straight punch, which creates a whole bunch of impact because of how simple the solution was compared to how they usually deal with elaborate bullshit. Right? Congratulations, you completely nailed it. Making for a hype moment. That whole chapter is starting up going, oh man, is this guy going to be a post? Yes, no. No, he's actually going to be not, he's a speed bump.

And then you use that as a means of gauging, oh shit, this is actually a statement on how powerful Luffy has become at this point in the story or whatever. Yeah, I can intuit that from this, and we, you know, but let's like, the way you just bring this slice out cold and just go nah though, experience what I did and the same way it was just, it was a completely,

just the worst way to do it. You know, we were watching that that then there one piece and pages going not so over it and we get to Nami's story. So Nami's storyline goes last. She's the you know the last person to get a character profile. And hers is the least clear upfront. Like, you know, Luffy is like, I want to be a pirate. So, or I was like, I want to be. Yeah, she just shows up and joins the crew and has a moment or two, but it's all like, mm-hmm. And we got the, we got the, the fucking, the, the correct parabolic arc of Nami storyline inside that thing of like, what the fuck is this?

This is bullshit to, and people who have read one piece or watched one piece or watched the TV show of the, I'm talking about, will know that in episode nine there's the big moment which hits the wife like oh oh oh god what I think one piece was about this um and then now I'm looking at my discord messages and I'm seeing I'm going to read one piece I think I'm gonna watch the show again before then though and I'm seeing I'm going to read one piece. I think I'm gonna watch the show again before then though. And I'm like, oh, this household is now in. This household is now in on one piece. Hmm.

Was it the proverbial, well, anyway, whatever. Is it a game changer moment. Yeah, absolutely. How far in in terms of manga or anime? Would that have taken? So anime, I don't know, I'd have to look up the anime. Okay. There's somebody in the chat telling me when our long park is in the anime.

But volume five. Okay. So yeah, you get you get you get you get there within a reasonable time. Really disappointed about so the show is fantastic and the soundtrack is actually better than you would think like you listen to it outside of the TV show and it's it's stellar. And some of the bits in the TV show are more accurate than the anime, like a significant amount to the manga. Yeah. So like, Saunji's backstory is more manga accurate than the anime was. So the anime, the anime was, was not playing for fun. The anime kinda like was like, maybe we don't wanna show that. And then the TV show was like, no, we're gonna show it.

Yeah, interesting. It's stellar, I can't recommend it enough. There's only one problem, and that is, and I was suspicious of this. I said when I originally looked at the episode list, it was eight episodes, I'm like, it's really weird that they would stop at our long park. That's really strange. If I was to do a first season, I would have done 10 episodes and I would stop in logtown and then I look up into the production of the show and find out they were going to have 10 episodes and they were going to stop the show in logtown. But and the Netflix in production was

like, no, no, you're going to get eight. And we're aware that you shot half of the log town episodes. Like half of that shit is already on film. And Captain Smoker has been cast and has a bunch of lines and a bunch of scenes. But you need to kick that to the next season. Goddamn. Goddamn. And it's, yeah.

And so that's why the ending is like weirdly abrupt because it's not, it's not the ending. Mm. Okay. When you consider how much like studios get involved with TV productions and things like that, it's kind of a miracle that any TV show ends up being good. Like the amount of books in the kitchen,

just fucking with everything on even the best shows that have come out, it's incredible. It's incredible that anything ends up ever being good. So I don't know if this is part of the news because the writers, they won their fight against the studios last week or week four. And it brought, when I was reading in through the things that they won,

they won everything. They got every single fucking thing they wanted. So good for them. But the number one thing that they got that I didn't know existed was no longer can you make a new show that is actually just the next season of your existing show and redo all the royalties as if it was season one of a new show? And I was thinking about,

oh, that's why Castlevania is not Castlevania season five. It's Castlevania, not time. Because then everybody gets reset back to season one bonuses. Because it's a brand new show, right? If you retitle, oh my God. Oh, that's more than just a branding move. Yeah, that's why you'll see shit.

It's like the bachelor and then the bachelor California and the bachelor, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that's a totally new show. It's been off, it's been off. It's a spin off. These are not sequels to the thing that can be called. And I'm like, oh gross.

Oh, nasty. Hate it. God damn. Yeah. Okay. Okay. That's why that happens. Hmm. Anyway, yeah. Yeah. One piece of stellar. We're gonna start reading one piece in this house. It's going to become a one piece house. And more than anything, I talked about it last week and I page agrees with me is like, we're watching the TV show of the one piece adaptation. And it cuts to a 16 by nine. You know, it was zoom in so hard that a character's forehead and chin are being cropped by the frame. As my ratio. Right.

As it stares into pretty good prosthetics that look dumb as fuck on a man going, you will be no match for my fish man karate. And that was the fucking lightning bolt that was like, oh, for a page, like, oh, I gotta watch this fucking stupid shit. I gotta read this. I gotta get in on this. Yeah.

Like a story that's like gonna look you in the eye and be like, it's time for Fish Man for a ride. I believe, I said it before, and I still, I believe that this show can hit huge with a group of people that have no idea what anime even is just because it's pirate drugs. Like, I feel like, you know, just present it as the fucking LSD Pirates of the Caribbean and see what happens.

Sparrow think he's watching during the pirate's caravan. And he is drunk and high. Straight up. I would like to know, I would like to see this experiment. Cool. But yeah, one piece, one piece good. And the little abruptly makes, it makes me sad. Cause I wanted to see Captain Smoker slash Chaser.

Which is funnier to me every day. But no, very good. Very excellent. What is like every show that we like if not like a history as well of like, oh, it ended shittily because the studio and or production company didn't get to do what they intended to do because you know like they have budget or time restrictions cut in or whatever the fuck there's always that right there's so many cases of that throughout the years it's just like okay well chalk it up to another one sometimes it's good though sometimes it's good

you're like man evang yelling it's real real cheap and fucked up near the end because You're like, man, Evang Lien, it's real, real cheap and fucked up near the end, cuz somebody stole all the studios' money. But that gives us Shinji sitting in a chair, disassociating, and those two bitches getting mad at each other in an elevator. I feel art from adversity. I feel like you should be able to put a little paragraph in the end credits just going, we wrote and filmed more, but they didn't let us so hey right just in case we never ever get to come back into the his offices and finish this off real just

so you know we were gonna do more but we're like it's not our fault. I mean we we saw that happen once that I can only think of one time where I saw that happen and that was with bleach. We're there. Our our our adventures will continue. Right, right. That's so fucking funny to me. All right. So what else do I do? I played a, I did a sponsor stream for Lords of the Fallen, a tributation 2023, not Lords of the Fallen from a couple years ago. Completely different games, identical title.

Say for the fact that the of and the are not capitalized in the new one. Not confusing at all. Extremely confusing. It's a Dark Souls game. It's good. I played a sponsor stream of it. If you want to check out my thoughts, go check out the VOD.

It's good. I like it. It's loose. It's probably the most interesting thing about it. It's like all the other Souls games are super, super tight and super rigid in their movement. Like the default run speed in this game is super high. Super super high.

People are pointing out that, man, I can't keep track. Everything feels like a million years ago. I beat Liza P. Liza P is stellar. Liza P is super great. LyzaP is one of the best of the Souls games. It is right up there. And strong. Yeah, and it's really strong. You know, at the like 90th percent mark where like the game starts to fall apart, we talked about this last time, yeah.

Sometimes, yeah. It just doesn't. And there's one detail that I forgot to mention about LyzaP system that I feel people should know about, which is like all these little things that they do to clean it up from like the Souls games, and one of which is when you're completely out of your Estus equivalent, you can earn another charge by parrying and hitting enemies. So if you're aggressive enough, you will earn another Estus back.

And as long as you have zero, you can keep earning them back. Okay. Okay. You can't go from one to two, but you can go from zero to one. No, you can go from zero to one. I'm assuming you hit that one, you drink it.

The tension moment. And you go, okay, time to earn another one. Damn, yeah, yeah, okay. It's great. That's a really great high-clench high-clench situation By design that's pretty good And I guess last but not least I finally beat vampire survivors Hmm, I went bat me and Paige's been playing it on and off on her on her on her account

Mm-hmm, and I decided to go back and I finally got all 190 achievements in Vampire survivors. I've never had it. It's since 1.0. I never had it at like 100% achievements That game start those DLCs start turning into different games. Yeah, I get the levels. Yeah, unlock conditions and bosses Pathways like the for like the fact that there were pathways in the DLC that you have to follow through go into this cave exit the cave Then branch at the fork like oh, this is a find the sit find the secret path This is a stage you're traveling through while the enemies are still coming at you at the same pace they ever did. But yeah, you have to treat it like an actual like adventure game more than just fucking, you know, run circles around this bullshit

map field. One day that game will add a vampire. There is still, there are still like even dialogue and like the enemy description is going, I really hope I meet a vampire one day. No one. No one that rises out of any of these coffins at any point ever. That's got to be the final update, right? It's just a vampire. I did try multiplayer actually this weekend.

Yeah. It is, it is pretty smartly designed. I got to say, like, it works really well. You just, yeah, you divide your power into like two or three or four depending on the number of players. And then, yeah, cycling through your level ups is like, in theory, you should be able to handle what's coming at you, but about as much as you could as a one person. But definitely though, there are things that are like, okay, well, if all these spread out powers are all weaker levels than they would have been, then you're going to have

a harder time at the, you know, when you're approaching the half an hour mark, right? And similarly, if you have a character that's like, for example, I think I was playing as like Domagio and Punch-Mom picked the fake death, right? And the fake death is just flying around the screen at like insane speeds and like I'm the old man trudging along. And it's like, oh, you can dodge, but you can't travel because the slowest character is gonna hold you back. So you hit the edges of the fucking arena and it's just,

so in some ways it's actually kind of harder, you know? Cause your power spread is, it's like, the abilities are spread out, but they're weaker across the board, you don't get that same top off. And you also have to deal with the slowest of whoever your party is as your traveling speed. If you need to get away from the stronger enemies for a while before you want to take them on or if you want to like, because what I usually do in single players like build up a certain type of, you know, build to like

handle the bosses or the guardians or, you know, whatever's coming after you. But in this case, you can't really do that if you're not traveling at a speed to get them off you know off your back to begin with. But yeah still still still the best. The DLC still still just non-stop good chemicals. Did you did you you cleared the DLC as well or just the base game? Yeah yeah so I cleared and did both DLCs. I'm sure there's a character here there that I have an unlock because they're a secret and aren't in the unlisted characters.

Aren't in the achievements. I'll go check that out. But according to the Chivos, I have beaten vampire survivors for now. Always for now. Yeah. I always love showing that game to someone too that's just like like this seeing this for the first time. It's like what the fuck is this bullshit? What is this mid-ass garbage looking? Oh, okay, hold on a minute. You know, it happens within five minutes. Like it's like, you know, you like the first wave of like too many enemies flooding the screen happens and there's

a little just that moment of like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. You know, yeah, I was playing it and then I got up and I was like, oh, I got to change the baby. So I take the baby over to the table and I change him and sing him a little song. The wipe is, but then they go back and I I'm like I need to point the baby away from the TV and turn this thing off because it's now at like 37 minutes and it's

just been sitting there feeding itself for 15 minutes and it's just like a gigantic fucking seizure bomb going off in my living room. I see pupils are dilating. Yeah. Like I need to I need to I need to point the. Eyes or pupils are dilating. Yeah. I need to point the baby away and turn this thing off. But it is also just like uncut video game. You know what I mean? It is not stepped on in any way.

It is the purest form of just move your stupid thing around the screen and other things are gonna die. And you're gonna get stronger. You're gonna get stronger. You're gonna get stronger. In the lead up for today's podcast, and they were like, you should play a hollow cure. And I'm like, I have to aim in hollow cure. No thanks.

Yeah, I want to move my guy, and I want to pick the button. Aiming is sometimes I'm in the mood for aiming, in which case I'll play 20 minutes till dawn. You know, if I wanted to play aim, I'd play enter the gungeon. Or enter the gungeon, yeah, they feel very similar as well, exactly. But no, Vamp Survivors is a particular base flavor.

And also like, you know, it's not even like, like the feel and the theme of like the other games as well. Like hollowocares like, yeah, but I'm also into the Vtuber idols. And so I kind of like, you know, you're representing that and stuff. It like, like V serve is just when you go to the fucking code screen and it's playing spooky music. I had more of an emotional attachment. It's so dumb. I had more of an emotional attachment to it. It's so dumb. Eight-bit Italian vampire hunter that I've never seen before in my life than any

Vtuber. You know, and like some of those secret characters, right? Like you're seeing like, okay, there's the, the, the, the Castlevania, you know, protagonists. And then there's the like, uh, yeah, and shitty old man and then there's the like, yeah, and shitty old man, and then there's the old ghost. And then you just, you get ghosts that show up in the secret characters that are like, that's just the emoji ghost. Like the it is a mystery, boo!

Like it's just that with a fucking, you know, angel sigil around it. Like you just took an emoji and stamped it in the game and called it a character. Yeah. What are we doing? What is this fighter's mega mix ass design philosophy? That's great.

It's great. Yeah. But yeah, vampire survivors is the best. Oh, that's pretty much it. Oh, and no, and also just the watching, again, someone for the first time is enjoying, like the treasure box pops up, and it's like, oh, you're getting into the jingle,

and then like, oh, this one's a three, oh my God, it's a five! It's five, it's a five, oh three! And it only happened once, and then every other one was chasing that high, and it's like, oh, there you see, that's it. That's loot boxes in a nutshell, but this is not. Then you get deep enough, then you get deep enough

that you're running like minute 27 with fucking, Sugg, Queen, Sugg, my balls or whatever name is. And then you're maxed out and you can't see the screen. And the chests are turning into auto chickens. And then all of a sudden the animation pops back up. And you're like, but what could it be? It's the candy box.

Oh, the candy box. Take another weapon. Pick whatever the fuck. Yeah. Amazing, amazing. To that note, I don't know. Did you try the remix to music out? I don't know, did you try the Remix to Music out? I didn't even know there was any. You can go, so go to Options and go to Blast Processing

and turn it on. Oh, right. Does it just grunge it the fuck up? It's a Remix soundtrack, and the Blue Box music does not sound anywhere near as cool. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. Bummer.

Yeah. Put the hyper. Well, that's been, anyway, whatever. No, just, but that's been pretty much it for me this week. Big week for me this week coming up. I put up a fucking thing. I should look at it. I got Cyberpunk, Baldur's Gate, World of Horrors, finally out.

It's finally out this week. Spider-Man 2 unless there's a sag after strike and I will be feeding the baby early and then running over to the office at 2 a.m. on Saturday to do a stream of the FF 14 live letter which will probably include the new job information. Yikes. That's the timing, huh? Listen, man, I'm already up at one thirty two o'clock to feed the baby, so I might as well just let you get through it.

Okay. Okay. Um, uh, baby get hungy, man. Can I ask if, uh, what your, your cyberpunk intentions are? Uh, do you mean with my cyberpunk body or like my cyberpunk intentions are? Do you mean with my cyberpunk body or like my cyberpunk coverage? Yeah, just coverage.

Is it just, are we just, you just traips in through the flowers and seeing where it goes? So I have had to cancel twice due to once for a baby's vaccination day. And then the other was because I had a migraine so bad I was like trying not to vomit all over the floor So I'm gonna keep throwing it on my week until I decide not to okay If this was on the woolly versus channel, I would put the word quick look next to it. There you go for no matter how long

I'm gonna keep fucking yeah, I've been dancing I think I think I think I'm gonna go with the word shortplay for now on. Perhaps a lot of people see the word quick look and they go, okay, quick, quick part 24. It's a quick look that's four and a half hours long for the sixth week in a row. I'm just like, what's the word? What work do you want to use? What what do you want to use for? I'm gonna play this until we stop and not until it's done. You know, I don't want to you want to use for? I'm going to play this until we stop and not until it's done. You know, I don't want to, you want to use like free playing. No strings attached.

Yeah. Game with benefits. Short game. No commitment. You know, yeah, exactly like limited play. I went through a bunch of them and I think I'm just going to write short play or so. Yeah. Because yeah, there's just no way to convey.

Bet you that means something different. It might, it might, you know. I'm gonna type that into my search engine right now. Oh boy. Are you gonna get greeted with? You're good. Okay. You're good.

Yeah. I feel like there's a a the word play in general. Yeah, it's just it's just doomed. It's just doomed. Speaking of doomed short play, you see that fucking screenshot. Janet has set a minimum height requirement of six to looks like you don't quite measure up. What do you want to do? Accept and move on or override for $9.99. What is the fucking, I so first fall, yes, I didn't see that. Second of all, what the fuck is the plan when you pay the $10? Maybe I can confuse them with, whoo, Jedi my tricks.

Maybe I am five foot two inches. Maybe I'm going to pay. I can confuse them with, woo, Jedi mitrix, maybe like, I am five foot two inches. Maybe. So I'm gonna pay, I'm gonna pay Janet the $10 to bypass her no shorties thing so I can mess in her. Yes, so she can go like you. Yes, so she's an asshole and you're an asshole and let these assholes meet

and maybe you can do a fucking little Peacock dance, you know and just tracked away from your height. Maybe you can get some lifts You know and just and and Vincent adult man it and She'll be like oh actually this the other day and I feel like you're in the same boat Man just dodged that whole online dating nightmare. Just completely fucking just die never made a fucking dating profile. I never made a Tinder account.

I mean, I like, like I was, I was like when I showed that to a punchBob like yesterday, I was just like, could you imagine this environment, this type of fucking climate, it's insanity, it's God, it sucks. I would, I would, I would just give up is what I would do. I'd be like, I'm not, and I'm back to the hermit life for me, be ashamed by the application trying to get me money, get my money every day. Oh my goodness. And then the algorithm is also like the more you, the less discerning you are,

the more you just say yes to everything that pops up, the lower value you get. So you get you show up towards less people because it's effectively like, oh, you don't have any tastes whatsoever. You don't care. All right, well, you know. Hey, listen, listen.

Humble viewer slash listener that possibly uses a dating app. If you have $10 in order to bypass some, some girl or guys preferences on a dating app, what you need to do is not do that and respect yourself. And you take that $10 and you go down to woolly versus or Pat Starrisette or Peach Saliva on twitch.tv and you send in a subscription because at least someone will get something out of it. There you go. You'll get emotes. There you go. Thank you. Look at that. Right?

Just the Papa, Papa a tier two over this way. It's like genuinely more honest, which is super gross. Hey man, cuz that maybe will thank you! Hey, maybe I can play fucking the cupid, you know, for people and I'll be your mix matcher. I'm pretty good at that. Yeah, you're right. I'm not good at that. Yeah, you're right. I'm not bad at it. I'm not bad at it. I'm not bad at it.

Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh. Yeah. No, it is a- Seriously though. How do you not see that screen?

It's just fucking good. Just die. I think I saw that. So I'm pretty sure it's a joke though. I'm pretty sure it's just a gag screenshot. Like, I don't- I don't even know. I don't even care.

I don't care. The dystopia doesn't have to be real to feel real. But is there a, is there a, like there's a second thought to it, which is again, it's like if the app is like fuck you for your stupid shitty high standards and fuck you for wanting to bypass that filter, you deserve each other, you pieces of shit.

You know? I think, I think whenever, you know, every now and then, you know, every year or two, I think, I think it might be every year, but like the dating profiles, apps, and websites are like, hey, you wanna see some fucking user data? Let's show you how fucking dire it is out there. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, it's, oh man, you ever go through that fucking shit and you go through like okay here's the fucking here's the amount of people messaging this amount of people and here's the requirements and how much of the population that it's insanely impressive. It's insanely amazing. It makes it look like 99% of all humans are undatable and to be fair, they are. They are. It's true. Yeah. But like the other fucking thing that Scroll Pass

was just basically breaking down. It's like, oh, if you're like the percentage of dudes that are like making over a hundred K between six and six five or six foot above six foot of this age, because you this age like it's like you're talking like it's like a One percent margin or whatever. Yeah, no, and then you break it down and like okay, well there's 55 men that fit this country in your state and they all think you're awful. So congratulations Okay, but here's the bit though, right is Okay, but here's the bit though, right? Is, um, uh, hey Janet, uh, looks like some of these little scrunkos are getting through your filter.

Do you want to upgrade your block wall? Scrumming, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squint, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squinting, squint, squinting, squinting, squint got into like if we didn't have the baby it would have been a screaming match but it was a yelling match over the fact that like I would not define scrimbo bimblow to her to her satisfaction okay is every time she asked me what it meant I just said it means that there are loveable scrumbo and it just kept escalating and escalating for like an afternoon That is the definition of a scrim blow. That is what they are. They are a lovable scrunk. It's true Because The fucking we were on Twitter and fucking yellow couch put up the fucking Scrimbo bimbo fucking

Blorpo Tear list of Walters game characters Blu-blow fucking Blu-blow, dear list of Balder's game characters. And Paige is looking at a starry end as the scrimblest Blu-blow. And she's like, what does that mean? What does it mean? Yeah. So are there any, with JRPG guys in, in Balder's?

I don't know. I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think so. That doesn't mean they can't be a scrim above them Well will comes close, but he's not though. He's he's not So that's it and so anyway, so hey, Jenny hold on before that and then I hit her with a fucking Uh, I told her that she was gonna fucking derizz her phantom tax and she basically spontaneously combust it. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha it coming at you through your feed, or you'd be hearing it in the classroom in math class, right? Hey listen, we got about, we got about five years

before this becomes real bad. So do what you can to survive out there. It's a fucking knife fight. Get your, get your, keep your lexicon's updated. But regardless, charging, charging to re-block the little ones climbing through the filter is the next level of like again tripling down on the paying customer. And if you're an asshole, then pay the asshole tax. You know what, you know my favorite, my favorite dating internet data point is Do you remember there was a website called Ashley Madison? Oh my god

It was like do you want to yeah, yeah, that was a good one right that was a Nettling and then they got super fuck hacked and every single person's bullshit was out in the open and the actual detail that mattered Was that it was 99% men and 1% men catfishing other men for money And the like it was it was literally Like it was it was literally just a bunch of shitbag cheating married men scamming each other and you and the website That's facilitating that by just basically being like pay us for your bullshit. Yeah, absolutely and and you know Like the fact that it gets hacked and you're threatening to it's like of all the places you could hack that don't want their information out there

This is that's a pretty yeah That is how you nuke like a billion fucking Relationships with with ship bags anyway, but yeah incredible Incredible um the oh man the oh I do remember I remember when I first friend of mine was like hey, dude I made a plenty of fish Profile and like I got a date I got a date with a girl. And I'm like, wow, that seems like, that seems better than going down to the bar.

And just fucking shooting your shot. And now we're at the point where I'm watching people just, in public, just, I'm just gonna scroll on my phone. I'm just gonna keep it in the fucking school. And maybe, maybe, maybe I'll get a swipe and then I'll look at it and go, you've done. Look, I know people that figured it out on Pilipinia Flesh, I know people that figured it out

on Tinder, you know, but when you see, yeah, I think there's that one video of like someone's filming someone from the back and it's just this girl that's just like swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, stop for one second on a dude with a yacht Swipe swipe swipe swipe swipe swipe swipe Swipe swipe swipe swipe It is like you have no chance you have no hope

It's a Dr. Doom you have no hope it's fucking done man You never did This is topia so real it's awesome now that we Hey we got our you got me mine cool now that now that we we're out. Yeah, we're out burn it on we don't have to go back in there Little young people laughing laughing at the Titanic as you float away on a fucking closet laughing at the Titanic as you float away on a fucking closet. Like going, ah! You fucks.

You got a profile picture and two lines of text to risen to the max. You narrowly floated out of that fucking boat and now let's laugh as it sinks everyone down in it. Uh-huh. Nicely done. Oh, come on. Somebody in the chat says I'm sending this clip to both your wives.

My wife is watching this right now! You don't think I can fucking... You think I'm coming on to my fucking podcast to get away with shit? Anyway. Um... Okay. Anyway, um Okay so I

Yeah, I had a week a couple things But you're too Yeah, there you go. So I Had a yeah a couple things I checked out, but I actually I Would like to take a moment and actually just applaud one of the coolest memes I've seen that popped up in the subreddit. Good memes. Yeah.

Let's see it. A, it was a thread that I saw that I'm like this. I'm like, you know what? I applaud you. I am going to, I am going to bring this up as content. This is a thread. Well, you know, I love up as content. This is a thread. Well, you know, I love a good meme. This is a thread that is a ranking of detectives

who could and could not solve the death note case. What a fucking great, great meme. The axis is, could solve the case, could figure out the way the death note works, could not solve the case, could figure out the way the death works, could not solve the case, could not figure out if the death, how the death know it. Unbelievably power emanating from this. It is a giant list of detectives from all fiction.

And in the top, top, top right of can into it, the mechanics of the death note, and can solve the cure case is fucking Colombo. The Colombo? At the absolute right most dead top corner. And the discussion that follows where it's like not only would he be able to piece together like the the circumstantial evidence and the vibe and everything

and read it but he'd also be able to piece together the psychological profile of Kira. And like at one point, be like, just one more thing. You know, this list of, he's he'd find a way to get the book and write Kira's name in it and have and then show it to him and have him freak out and then question him on why he freaked out. And he reveals that he actually just used a regular piece of paper to write his name down. I think the best of that is that there's some dichotomies in that list. But my favorite part of that list is that in the upper left of could solve it, could figure out the death note is your friend in mind, the detective Harry Dubois. Harry's in there. And in the bottom right of Kuhnnot Solvitt and Kuhnnot out of the death note,

is your friend in mine, Kim. Yes, yes. It's like Kim's a great detective, but Kim could never understand the death note. And death note is the reason why I love this meme so much is because it's the chart is the perfect case to compare all of these detectives to because death note is a very logical and like rational world that introduces some bullshit Into into its circumstances, right?

like the rules of heaven hell and the death note show up into an otherwise very sane setting and Like you have to have a touch of Insanity or believing in the unknown or like you know You have to have a little bit of just that that inland empire Right for it to be able to like conceptualize a book that can write down people's names and kill them. Yeah, and so, for example, in the quadrant of could figure out the death note but not solve the case, you have FBI special agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks, and you're like,

oh yeah, absolutely. He could absolutely figure out the mystical fucking mechanics, but he wouldn't solve it. Ghost Trick. Ghost Trick dudes in their sissles. Totally figure out the mystical fucking mechanics, but he wouldn't solve it. Ghost trick. Ghost trick dudes in there. Sizzle. And I don't know. Oh, Sizzle has it easy. Sizzle's dead.

You're already in the realm, right? Yeah. Is Tru Detective Mcconohay in there? I don't think it's, I don't think. Because Mcconohay Absolutely would whereas a fucking Woody would Absolutely not because that's that's Harry and Kim again, right? And then you one of my other favorites is you got you got fucking Phoenix right on could solve the case Would never

Would somehow solve it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, catch him without figuring out the death note at all Bumbled right to fucking with dojima definitely could not solve it could not intuit it Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, um, a Naruto, right? You get, um, uh, uh, a courage in there as like he, the courage would figure it out and panic and fucking, you know, problem and, and try to explain it to the old man or type it into the computer, you know, the courage could figure out what's going on, but couldn't solve the curacase. Like it's great, man. Um, yeah. No, this thing, this thing is fucking great. And then a big point of contention here

and you'd need to fill me in on this, but Francis York Morgan of deadly premonition is listed as could not do it, could not solve the case, could not figure out what was going on. And that's, I need to look at this case this a lot more closely because what's really important,

oh, I just saw that Nardwar is on the fuck of this all the year to care case and get into it. And there's fucking, is that the men in black? Yes. And seven backs of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Seven backs, yeah, the seven backs what it's like. So, they would like like like like a, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, know. So I would say that, yeah, I see Francis York Morgan would not be able to get shit done.

But perhaps, but perhaps Zach could. Francis Zach Morgan, I think, absolutely could. Yeah, it's, it's, and then it's, and then what's cool to the, there's a couple of Danganronpa characters in there that Are pretty accurate as well in terms of just like they're they're able to Peace to get they'd probably be able to piece together the mystical aspects of what's going on But could they lock down who it was and who was doing it? Maybe not, you know

fucking awesome, man, and then yeah, it's got everybody. Veronica Mars is on this fucking list. Hey, man, it's great. It's great. I love that Scoopy do is like right in there. I'm like, yeah, they got this. They do that shit all the time. It's not a problem.

Blues clues. And that's, you know what that is. I've been laughing about that for a day. I forgot about it when I sat down. No, powerful, powerful, very, very good. Excellent meme, Willie. Thank you for bringing this meme to our attention. Poor Max Gumshoe never had a chance.

I have to say, maybe it's because I have a child now or that I'm turning into a suburban mother. I have had my life taken over by a meme as well, but it is a horrible TikTok meme. Do you use the TikTok platform, will you? I do not use the TikTok platform. So the reason why I use the TikTok is very simple. I need memes and I need them fast. I need them faster. Like I need I need I need it faster as fast as a meme can hit me. And I've discovered my favorite. It's some some lady pounding out a piece of garlic. Go on man, you know, it's crazy. But I've never liked

store bought Pesto. And then the person making the video cuts her off to tell the craziest story you've ever heard in your whole damn life. Most of which are crimes. Most of which are stories about, hey, this is the time I committed many crimes against someone. And usually they're deserved. Usually they're like, wow, you really got them for cheating on you girl.

Wow, damn. But it is just the just non-stop crimes. So page and I'll be lying in bed and she's falling asleep and I'll be flipping through my tech talks and then she'll hear me gasp and she'll go, is it the Pesto Lady again? I'm like, it is! Do you want to watch the Pesto story? The crimes? Oh, I get so excited. Yeah. No, it is, it is working because when you bring concepts like Girl Dinner to the, to the pod, I'm getting a Girl Dinner t-shirt hot in the middle of, of their moment, right? In the middle of the zeitgeist. And yeah, that's the only way you could have gotten it at that speed. I, you know, I, I really need to say it

again. I really, really, really, really, really, really, really need to say it again. I really, really, really, really, really, really need to say it again. It's very important if we're gonna talk about Girl Dinner. I don't want, hey look, it's a Sharkootary board, Girl Dinner. I don't want, hey, it's three oranges, a banana, and some oatmeal, Girl Dinner. No, I want mentally ill Girl Dinner. I want like a glass of water, a piece of bread, and a fucking tub of ice cream.

Right? I want, I want, I can't be great since he's totally lost control of my life dinner. Yep. A single Reese's peanut butter cup. Yeah. Without the wrapper on the bottom either. I want uncooked pasta and a fucking forloco. You know, just just brain out gone. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And then the introduction, I guess, I suppose I've heard the evolution into boy, math and girl, math. Oh, there's a whole thing. Yeah. Oh, it's a whole thing. Yeah, it's a whole thing. You're okay. Do you ever need me to explain the new memes to you, Wully? I have some knowledge.

Well, so the funny part is that like punch mom is in there as well and has some knowledge. But you know, what we're getting, what I'm getting updated on is the fucking white girl memes culture speed. So, you know, that's, there's the. White girls can have good memes too, woolly. That's fine. That I didn't say they couldn't. That's okay. You know, and then every once in a while,

I'll explain what's happening on black Twitter or so. Okay, I mean, and we'll, we'll compare notes. We'll compare notes. We started today's show with you sticking out your ghat for the Rizzler. There you go. My ghat.

I don't think we can all judge. It was, it was in fact out. And I did get asked how often I think about the Roman Empire, which took a second. I hate that one. I don't like it. Took a second. And I was like, I know exactly what this is.

Without knowing anything about what was happening or where it was coming from, I'm like, no, that is again, that is specifically a bunch of like, that is, like, that is marketing back to whatever, like ancient times that like, oh, I want to, I want to return to a tradition shit. And that is also, again, like White Girl TikTok questioning

to probably, probably white boy ask fucking question thought process. And a lot of that case, I don't think there's a whole lot of black people that are like, yeah, I think about the Roman Empire, actually. So every single day. I take offense to the Roman Empire thing, because page hit me with it. I'm like, I don't know.

I'm like, once a week, once every two weeks, because to me, the real question is, and if like, maybe it was just the people that I knew growing up, but if you walked into that group and like, hey, how often do you think about the second world war? It would be every single fucking day. Every single day I have lived my life since I have heard about the second world war. I have thought about the second world war in some capacity. Oh my god. Wow. Literally every single day of my life. Wow. So the point where if I start talking about it in any way, I see my wife's brain just shut the fuck off and her eyes glaze and now I'm starting to see the baby's eyes glaze. And it's like I need I need to cut it out. I need to. Yeah, I just kibosh it. I don't there's no

there's no fucking epigenetic memory in there. That's this it's not it's not happening Jesus Christ okay well What was I gonna turn that into oh do you know that the browning automatic rifle despite being an excellent rifle was found In a ship by the German military. And they thought it was so awful that they sank it despite the fact that it was tens of thousands of rifles and would actually help the last ditch 1944 war defense. It's true! They didn't think they were good, but they were! Hey, Pat, have you played Hearts of Iron? No, no. You don't have no interest in that. Oh, okay. No, no, you don't have no interest in that. Oh, okay.

Feels like there's a rabbit hole you could go down if you felt like. Yeah, you would think, but actually I hate that shit. Okay. Okay. All right. Well, in any case, all right. So yeah, what did I do? So I saw online, Gikudo says an account Woodfrog basically came up with a script that they

applied to Mega Man X games that could show you the boss AI pattern as it was happening. Oh, that's interesting. It was pretty cool. You would see basically a clip of the boss in the room and then there's a range, and if you're standing in that range, there was three different attack options that it can roll through, and each has a percentage of the chances of happening. Does it show it in text or in the middle? In text. It shows you the range in a box form, in a hitbox form, almost.

And then it shows you the options beneath in text of like, do attack A, 30%, the attack B, 10%, and it kind of puts it all together. And then if you stand a little further back, it switches those options to a different configuration and a different series of options as well. And like you see, you can break down exactly how the AI is working. And so I saw that and I was like, that's pretty fucking cool.

That's interesting. And it reminded me that I was curious about and did by Mega Man X-Dive offline or Cross-Dive offline. And I wanted to know how that conversion worked because what basically was, you know, is a Mega Man Gatcha game that was... Steam says very positive. That was, yeah, out and from mobile and had, you know, of course, all the Gatcha mechanics

and things that you'd expect to build your pocket. They made an offline version where you could just play and then unlock everything normally. The first thing I found out right off the bat was the Devil May Cry collaborations were not available. Are you fucking serious? Immediately. So, because that's the main point of interest was like, okay, I wanna go, I feel like, let me go check out some Mega Man. This AI thing got me thinking about that.

And let me see if I can go see what that, zero Virgil and Dante Mega Man thing we're about. And yeah, you find out immediately that they were removed alongside Monster Hunter and a number of other collaborations. The next thing you find out immediately that they were removed alongside Monster Hunter and a number of other collaborations. The next thing you find out. Oh, no. They own every property together that you mentioned.

Why bother removing them? I have no idea. I don't know. Maybe there were collaborations that were not Capcom properties and then they just said, fuck it, we're taking it all out. But whatever the case is, that sucked, right? So right off the bat, it's like, okay. Then you find out scrolling down in your Google search

that game Nexus has modded them back in. So people are figuring out how to do that. And I think just the devil may cry ones right now, but not every aspect of them, but at the very least just having them show up on the character select list and having them playable does work if not some of the other things. So you can mod your shit and do it. So I was like, okay, so then I go down a little bit of a rabbit hole of trying to figure out

how that works because to get that in, you have to install something that has a series of instructions that requires you install something, that has a series of instructions that has you require to install something. And so you have to do like, you know, the mod container with the extra bits and the disk and the libraries and that. And you did it, and so you fuck around and get that going

and you install your Beppin X, which is a hilarious name for a mod manager because it's called Beppin X, which is a hilarious name for a mod manager, because it's called Beppin. But yeah, I got them back in and then I was like, all right, let's play this, you know, Mega Man game that is the only thing that the franchise is really going to get anytime soon, because this is the state of Mega Man. There is a ton of characters that are just like every version of X, you can imagine every version of like all of the Mega Man like you know this here's your star force, here's your EXE, you know, and there's here's here's

your full armor from X1 and then from X2. So specifically X1 has the version of the charge burst that does the big arc behind him with the dragon wave energy, but X2 has the gigacrash. And they're like, oh shit, I play, yeah, those are the differences between them, that's cool. And when you see a character select screen that is that big and has that much you can unlock and then this many weapons though. I'm like, okay, well I know it's gotcha, so it's also got, it's got to be about that variety. But there's

no way that like they can actually feel distinct, right? Because you don't, they just like you, the amount of effort it would take to actually make these characters Play and feel it like unique would be a lot They've got to be short cutting this and that's kind of the through line here which sucks Oh, right Every character is kind of in order to have this much variety every character is kind of emalgamated into a Mega man on the, that is. So for 35 different varieties of multi grain toast.

So you get, so you get like two shoulder button unique abilities that are like the things that are distinct to this character, but the way you kind of run around jump shoot man stuff is basically a mixture of 0 x, axle and vial all in one. Because you have run jump shoot dash, air dash, double jump, etc. Then you kind of by default have a thing ability to switch between a buster or a sword. So then you can just if you want a zero style with any version of the character, you kind of can. And you're also on the directional aiming,

like Axel is able to aim in all directions. So you're doing that and it adds a lock on mechanic, which kind of makes it so that you don't really have to actually aim at anything, you just kind of run and hold to. Mm-hmm. You know, so it's like, ah, like, you know, it's funny, because Vampire Survivors, I mean, we talked about early, right? It kind of exposed the lie. You know, it's funny because Vampire Survivors, well, I mean, we talked about early, right?

It kinda exposed the lie. Like, you're describing something that I also had happened to me when I was playing Honkai Star Rail in which the goal is to have it kind of play itself. But like, then it's like, it'll play itself. Now give me more money so it can play itself more. Whereas when I go play the Vampire Survivors in the holocaure, it's like, why do I want it can play itself more. Whereas when I go play the vampire survivors on the hollow cure, it's like, why do I want it to play itself so that my TV flashes more colors

faster? Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Yeah. It does feel like you, you know, I mean, at least while the challenges are in the inviting you into the, to the Gacha world stage, you, you get this overpowered like run through and just blast everything in two seconds kind of feeling. Sure, you can disable the auto aim and all that stuff, but I feel like

the way it's set up is kind of the default character is meant to just run and hold button and kind of blast through the stage and then eventually things will come at you that have more HP. And then eventually those things will have so much HP that even with the lock on it will just kind of be like, well, the only way to get better here is to go and dump credits into your, make your buster stronger. Sounds like you're recommended power level. One of those auto scrolling zombie games where you shoot the balloons. Sure. And then you're like, okay, so power up the bust or level to fire stronger bullets or increase the rate of fire.

Every time you beat a boss, you can custom, like there's a million little add-ons, you can tweak it like a boss gives you a card that can make this weapon a little bit stronger by a percentage, but you can upgrade the card, or you can upgrade the base weapon. You can, you know, and like you do a lot of these little number tweaking

to kind of push your power level, which is like a number you can see that's to be strong enough to hit the recommended stage. But if it's underneath, then you can, well, again, I assume in the Gatcha version, pay more money to the ability to like, you know, make your power strong enough to handle the stage. In this case, it's playing more, but it is kind of interesting how it like, it hits the, there's like a two stage wrap up where you go from like being able to like kind of just run through a stage and clear it to like

you get hit in one shot and die. And then like then the reward behind that exact moment is Mega Man X command mission scarf like skin for air X. So it's like, it's very, very specifically designed to be like, you hit this wall and you're gonna, like, you're gonna want that reward. So you're like, ah, maybe I'll, I'm just right there, you know, it's very meticulous. And I feel as if like, between seeing that and then, you know, you kind of also see,

you see some stuff you want, right? And you see some fun ideas and it's like, oh, here's Sigma as a ban show. And he's got a bunch of wild specific things that like he's basically just a jotaro posing or whatever, here's some fun mega man X kind of like deep cut references and characters that were never playable being like playable and such.

But it does kind of feel like, man, if this weren't just kind of going for Gacha, like as it's game design, even if you take a Gacha game out of the Gacha world and put it into a place where you earn it step by step, just by playing, it still has that shitty kind of onboarding ramp up thing to it. It still has so many currencies that you don't really understand how to acquire them. It doesn't fully explain them. It still has a lot of work to turn that back

into a real video game. It does, right? It still has a menu that is essentially your joystick is moving a cursor around, because it's a touchscreen that has not been updated to be. Can I fight someone at Bungie, like in the street, for inventing that fucking style of interface? It's just annoying, man.

It's just annoying, man. And a Destiny 1 that was like, man, what if we didn't have to actually make interfaces? What if we just had the controller be the shittiest mouse cursor ever? And everything that pops up- Yeah, and everything that pops up is a window. So it has to be closed to get back to,

so it's just like, it's clunky when you're not touching it on a touch device. And then so I'm like the fastest way to do this is to actually have a mouse in one hand and have the controller over here and then use the mouse between missions and then do the missions themselves, right? Then it's like, all right, the game has to handle, I guess, loading stages into, it has

to handle loading content into the game in a way that I guess whatever, like assets probably can't have a giant insane stage size. So fine, some of the bigger crazier longer stages from other games that are not going to be there. But, but it cuts it up into like, it takes any given stage you remember from Mega Man X and cuts it into like three screens for and then ends and then you pick up from the next one. But every time you do so, you also have, you know, whatever, you have a wife who shows up and she's all like, oh, doing her wife who things to,

you know, be like, hey, go save the Mega Man, and I'm just like, oh, man, like, I guess I just, I wanted to know, I'm like, could you salvage what is effectively a Mega Man game out of something that's introduced in modern gacha fucking stylings? And it seems like you can't, unless you just completely remake up, remake it, you know? Because, yeah, obviously 20 XDX and 30 XDX are like, you know, the places to go if you want to get your, your, like, XDX and 30XDX are like, you know, the places to go if you want to get your, like, uh, uh, Mega Man-esque action, um, in, with new releases and shit.

But, but I'm just, I was just, I legitimately wanted to know, can it be done? You know, and it's like, yeah, you, you have the, the, the ability here to, like, if you wanted to take all this bullshit out, make a straight Mega Man-ass game, and even make it so that when you pick Vile, Vile has his cannon and he has a shot, so you have the specific things that he does, which when you play, if anyone remembers the PSP game, when you got to play as Vile, yeah, it was like, each character there has a different way that they play, but that's the fun of it. And it's not kind of just like Vile X, zero and axle are all kind of the same character except their specific shoulder button abilities are different, you know.

So, woolly. You're completely right about everything you said, but in order to make it a thing instead of eh, they would have to do more than just cut. Right? Like you were describing a game that cut out the gotcha, but then didn't replace it. Yes. They just literally cut out the buy money part. They got out, they, That's fast and it's easy.

They cut out the buy money part. They put a mouse cursor where your touchpad would be and they got rid of the collab events and kind of put the seasonal ones as like things you can optionally turn on yourself or whatever. But it's like, Exactly. We're done here boys. We're in and out.

We're in and out. We're in and out. Mm-hmm. It was a fucking absolute, just like, port job, you know, in and out. And like, it's just a bummer because I'm like, oh, the ingredients, if you wanted to make something here are there, but yeah, it would require more than just removal and replacement, you know. And like when you hit a stage that's like, okay, so you're not just buying the points to level up your strength or whatever, but you can, you, but like you can go back and grind if you want

to get that kind of, it's like, all right, I guess I felt it. I'm good. I'm done. You got, you know, I'm, and I, and I, and I went through I, and I, I went through the trouble of modding the, the back into the Dante and Virgil and like, I kind of, I don't know. I might go and see if I can just mod the currency to be like, hey, unlock these things already because like, right, because the moment they were available, it said, no, that that's no longer a crime. You then go and you're like, all right, click on them. How do I unlock uh, X Dante? And then it's like, you buy, you buy him with 30 of these tickets, right? And it's like, look a chip, but I'm like, all right, click on them. How do I unlock X Dante? And then it's like, you buy him with 30 of these tickets, right? And it's like, like a chip. And I'm like, okay, what is that? And you can't mouse over it to find out what it is.

It's just an icon. And I'm like, okay, but I don't know what that icon is. And then I'm like, okay, is it in the game FAQ? No, is it explained anywhere in one of the tutorials? Not quite. Let me go to the website, is it there? No, okay, all right. It's not in the game anywhere. Let me go to the website. Is it there? No, okay. All right.

It's not in the game anywhere. It doesn't label what that thing is, right? And you use it to buy a couple of other things that are events as well. I'm like, what could this currency be? Because the game currency has zenny. And then there's other rainbow tokens that are used for other stuff.

But there's so many different types of currency, right? And I'm like, okay, let me go to the wiki. Mm, no. Let me go to Reddit. Is there anyone talking about this? And it's like, okay, no. There are things called like elemental metals, I think. But I don't think that's what these are either.

And like, no one is actively discussing what this type of currency is that you need for these special unlocks, right? And I'm like, this is incredible. The obfuscation is like a wall to the context and every place that you select a character, there's always a, like, there's a little button that's like, how do I get them? And it'll be like, you can sell, use,

or acquisition requirements. And you click on that and then it'll show you, oh, either beat this stage or buy it off the shop and then in the shop you use this currency. But it doesn't tell you how to get it. So, I'm listening to you describe this. And what I'm hearing is a wide variety of seasonal currencies that exist for two reasons.

One, to offuscacape the real cost of literally anything by burying it so deep via 10 currencies that you can never figure out how much anything costs. And two, if you do want these things, you have to sit there and spend your attention on figuring it out instead of being able to watch 10 new girl dinner videos. Sure, exactly.

And so the way I eventually was able to watch 10 new girl dinner videos. Sure, exactly. You know, and so, like, the way I eventually was able to, to, to, into it was because I was just like, let me go back to like threads where people were discussing, um, these like collab events and like what goes on and, and, and so on. And people are basically in there. Someone made a reference to like, ah, should I spend my collab tickets on this? And in that one thing, it was a collab tickets. Okay, there is a, that's, is that the thing? Is that the specific type of, and that word is never used anywhere, right? Or whatever. And like, yeah, and like,

that's kind of it or, no, not a collab, because those are removed. Event, event tickets, I think, or something. And it's like, yeah, so it turns out that later on, if you do enough events and you level up the main thing, eventually they introduce a brand new currency to you when you get further enough into the game. But until then, it's never even mentioned, but it just shows you that there's a thing here and it's locked and you're like, oh my God, man.

I love everything about how this entire genre exists today. And I hate the fact that- Thank you so much, extra dopamine that could have in your head right now. That's like the fact that- If you had spent the time instead of explaining this to me, you would instead just sat there and played one round of vampires, your head would be fullors. Your head would be full of chemicals. You wanna be full of chemicals. It, it, it, fucking the most frustrating aspect is like

that, and I know this is not every game, but for the worst of the, the, the gacha shit, right, especially for stuff that you care about or whatever, if it's relating to a brand where, you know, like in this case, like the game, when the wife who pops up and goes, hey, do you have memories of like playing Mega Man X until it was too late and at 8 p.m.,

you had to go to bed because it was a school night. Those memories are all lost in the digital world and you have to go save them because they're being corrupted by a regular data. And like it's all that stuff and it's kind of like, yeah, I do remember having fun with Mega Man actually. And like if you took all that like, you know, gacha shit we talk about in the,

and even the little tingles of the loot box theme and the vampire survivors and all that stuff, if you took that all out, I was hoping that what was left would still be something vaguely resembling a Megamad X game, you know, and it does, but the power levels and pacing and generisization, if that's a word, of the character you play as in order to make everyone playable, just kills things that I didn't even necessarily know that I was gonna lack, because I never, like when Axel showed up, I was like, oh, well, he has a different

aiming style and, okay, I guess he can aim in all directions, if they design the game around that, that could be fine. But, you know, Megaman's here and Zero's there and they play like they do and that's, you know, he's a new character, whatever. But it wasn't like now X and zero are forced to play like Axel at the same time. And the whole thing is changing what they were, you know. I think the most depressing thing about this whole thing is that as I'm hearing you describe, like hoping that there'd be like a good core deep down. Is that my brain goes, well, if it had a good core deep down

and the monetization wasn't too crazy, then you wouldn't be playing the offline version that they fucking put out to recoup costs after they took down the online version. It would just be the online version because it would be good enough to actually pull people in and keep spending money without having to make a fucking offline version. Not to mention that there was an online version that was a steam game that was even a lazier about a lot of that stuff. And apparently from what reading angry Reddit posts, there was no, there was a refund for unspent currency, but there was no refund for spent currency. So anything

that you progress and unlocked on your profile was just lost, right? So I just, yeah. So I kind of wonder. I'm like, when I see these like the, the, the, the Hoyo stuff that I, you know, I'll see like, oh, look at that. It's endless. Zero. Then this super pretty animation and the, here's the Genshin Impact Judgment cut end. And here is the character that looks like a thing you know doing a really wild animation. Like, if you took all of the Gacha mechanics and like a dopamine fucking hooks out of that shit,

is there a video game in there that's like an action game that's really fun and would be recognizable as a simple, but cool. Yeah, the, the whole games are like that. Okay. Okay. That's, that's the, that's the danger. Is the deep down underneath them,

they're like fun, like RPGs or fun apps. I hope so. I hope so, you know, because it, it feels like you strip naked to reveal that like, oh, it was all about the shiny graphic when you click on X-dive zero and you see that he has wings that are glowing and shine your teenage brain is like, oh the buster is so cool now And he's yeah, and it's floating and it's doing that little flash animation thing where it keeps looping because this is a cell phone game, you know, like, like, it feels like it's like, right, it's all in that.

It's all in that little moment right there, like a shiny card out of your, your wrapping paper. And it's not in how does the dash jump shoot charge release feel because it's a Mega Man game. And when I dash jump, I want the shadows behind me. And then when I kick off the wall, I want the shadows to follow me as I'm charging and I release right before I come back onto the platform. Can I do that? And the answer is no, because it's much more stupid because the gameplay part of it feels less like the mega menu kind of remember, especially the ones that were really smooth. Fuck, man, that's the thing. Pull me in with that.

You know? No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck man, that's the thing. Pull me in with that, you know? No, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a guy opening up his fucking sketchy jacket going, hey do you kids like a man, man, man? Yeah, you know, so anyway, and then you scroll through the things that's like, hey, but look,

like if you get to stage like 17, 5, you can unlock Magma Jirgun. Remember Magma Jirgun? Wasn't he awesome? Magma Jirgun is the shit. Magma Jirgun, you sure do. It's crazy. In fact, yeah, one of the flue playable bosses

because we know you want him, and we know you want fucking, yeah, you want the ability to do your sure you can, you want your Hadoken. Here's your light doing the same thing. Here's your fucking storm eagle, you know to do your sure you can, you want your Hadooken. Here's your light doing the same thing. Here's your fucking store megal, you know what I mean? Like, we know which ones you love. So yeah, yeah, it's anyway.

Look, that was, I feel like the latest chapter of like, I'm checking out these, I'm checking out something new and trying to see if like the gameplay can stand or pull me in aside from the, you know, hand waving Jedi mind tricks you're trying to do to me. And you know, I talked about fate a little bit where it's like, okay, yeah. It's strikers, it's not, it's less than Musso,

but if you are Musso, then you're down with this. Okay, that's fine. But I just, yeah, I always, I kinda wanna hope that you have a good game and then you put a bunch of bullshit mechanics into it. And if you took them out, you could salvage it, you know? Especially when they added things like the ability to, you know, connect a, an Xbox controller to your phone and play a normal game. So when I played World of Demons, you know, connect a, and an Xbox controller to your phone and play a normal game.

So when I played World of Demons, you know, though the platinum game with all the Yokai in it. And I was like, oh, this is cool. There's fun dodging and slashing and shit or, you know, like I kind of, I'm like, this is a fun game. And playing it with a controller, I can get past that, like, gatchification wall that disgusts me when I see it, you know?

I have to say, despite your like litany of issues here, which seem extremely justified. At the end of the day, like it still got you, in that this is the most stacked year of games like in 20 years. And because it has Mega Man in it, you played some fucking offline gotcha knock off. I so that funny part is I didn't grab the original right like when it was it's it up and doing its thing and selling its points, but when they ported it to an offline version and said hey we took out all the extra currency shit now you can just play a game and unlock it normally I went right so like you're you're like limit is like a lot stronger than most people but like literally just slapping mega-man on what sounds like a piece of shit was enough to get you to go

Yeah, I like Mega Man If look at it if the way the gameplay felt didn't have those issues if when I grabbed you know each of those respective characters they actually felt like unique characters that sure but Wully if this if this was the exact same game but it was fucking Rock robots 25 Well extra edition you would never give it a second look ever ever well I mean you say that but I also did just grab a fucking fake game and take a look at it right like that's true I'm but fate is also a big gigantic mega super property.

Yeah, but like, do you own 30XX on steam? I'm pretty sure I do. Okay, have you played it? I did play 30XX and I did, yeah, and I played more of 20XX. But, but this was a, this was a, this was a point of, a point of curiosity. And then it was one that I remember making a bookmark in my head about, especially this was a, this was a, this was a point of, a point of curiosity. And then it was one that I remember making a bookmark

in my head about, especially. And then you see the fucking Dante and Virgil thing, and you're like, okay, you know, you'll pull me in with some of that as well. You know what I'm saying? And I also have a, what's it called? Fucking, it's fucking, what is it called? Something of combat, devil of my cry,

oh, pinnacle of combat Pinnacle of combat. Yeah, right. Yeah, mm-hmm. I Want to give in that game of fucking glance. I wouldn't have moved my eyes One millimeter, but then they added I didn't have Nero in it No, but then they added PVP and then it's soon. Oh said I am overseeing this game carefully and it's like, okay They're the D even the DMC mobile game. That's true. Yeah, yeah.

I think that's accurate. So that's exactly it, right? I just, no, and I mean, if you wanna fucking, you know, like if I'm examining every aspect of my curiosity here, part of this is like, hey, I'm checking out new things, I'm curious about, I'm also down to bring up on the podcast to discuss What might you know, I mean like this is a this is a there's that there's and what if I what if I put my dick in this would it be

Weird enough to talk about on the podcast that sort of line out, you know And then there's also the aspect of Like me knowing that with any of these like new You know fate be it grand blue or you know any of these Nick new franchises where I fate be it Grand Blue or any of these new franchises where I'm just kind of like looking at it from the outside. If they ever were like to probably drop like a Hoyo, like, you know, here's just a normal Hoyo game without any of the gacha shit and it's kind of just like whatever like a straight, you know, character action game or some shit. I might bump that up in my curiosity playlist

and I might jump into that a little sooner just to see, like, oh, how does this feel? How does it play? Because I'm super duper interested in like whether the mechanics hold up despite all the fucking glitz and glam. So yeah, anyway. This whole part of the discussion reminds me

of a few days ago, maybe five or six days ago I think was after the last week's podcast Somebody added both of us on Twitter.com sorry x.com With a trailer of spawn In college duty. Yeah, it was at Wolley Wolls and at past there's that holy shit guys look It's like I don't even like spawn Why the fuck would you fucking give it why would I give a shit? I like spawn, but that that's a hilarious fucking tie in more than that was

fucking Helsing in Call of Duty right or? Or Alucard is just weirdly got this, he looks like someone wearing one of those anime furry outfits, where it's not a furry, but it's like, it's a full costume with the anime head that's too big. And it looks like someone's wearing an Alucard mascot outfit.

It's terrifying. And then he's spinning the guns and doing these little like elaborate Executions like shooting the person in the head on the ground and you're like all of the guest people and called duty look like Terrible yeah, it looks like an alukard kegerumi, and it's just like it's like alukard doesn't behave this way He doesn't like fucking do these elaborate. Oh Pop pop by shotio now you're dead. And that sneak away like sneak king, you know? Like it's so fucking like what?

What is this tie in and like why doesn't an expensive ass franchise have someone to just look at the character or tie in and go like, oh yeah, you need to like actually animate him and move him and make him do things that are faithful to the character. Like this is crazy, you know. But Fortnite, oh man. Yeah. Yeah, it's a Fortnite Goku in there.

Sure. Does Goku look sound and act like Goku in Fortnite? Yeah. Great. You know, and when it's not faithful, it's only because they're like, no, we actually made Chun Lee's ass bigger. Listen, go to Fortnite is the most accurate portrayal of Goku I have personally encountered since that night,

a couple of years ago, when me and my buddies were up too late on Discord watching live videos of Goku breaking in your house, ASMR. If you heard Goku breaks in your house, ASMR. I have not. It's just like increasingly loud knocking on your door noises with the sound clip of, Hey, it's me Goku. Um, getting closer. I have seen Naruto grabbing Sakura, dumping her in the dumpster,

turning around and posing with Hinata, putting her right where she belongs. Yeah, that's good. For a selfie pose. So, you know, Fortnite's out there. Anyways, that's it, that's it. You know, I definitely, I definitely feel like, yeah, this is if anything a good excuse to be like, yo, go check out 30 XTX. Go check out 20 XTX,

right? Those are some fun ways you can play something resembling aggressively resembling aggressively resembling Mega Man X in co-op even in multiplayer. Although it does zoom the screen out a bit too far for my liking in some instances. Yeah, all right. So you know what? You went to a thought connects to another thought and you just get in the cascade of stupid shit in your mind. And then your mind just runs away with it.

Hey, if you guys wanna, if folks at home wanna find out what I'm laughing at, I hope you were part of the movement at the time, but you can go watch a YouTube video called Fighting Gold, but you're playing it louder so that you don't hear your parents fighting in the pan. And it's just like a... Yeah, fighting louder. And the fighter!

You better get in the fight! In the fight! Oh my god, dude. It's... Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is good. That is good. That...

Oh. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I never run my life! Oh my god, dude. It's, yeah, yeah, yeah. That is good, that is good. That, oh. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. There's a couple of those. The creativity of people just grabbing one bit

and like, let's see how many remixes we can make of this. Every possible variation, that's just the exact same thing with a different title. I saw a video somebody post on the subreddit yesterday, which was Mortal Kombat 9 Fatalities, where it skips to the next one when I die or get a boner. And it just skips at completely random periods. Like, sub zero grabs your throat

and it just skips to the next. Oh, God damn it. Yeah. Yeah, no, there's, I just, I heard about in the conquest mode equivalent, I think it's invasions in MK1. Like there's a bunch of wild ass random things your character can get afflicted with. Some of which include literally coughing. And so you can be in the middle of playing

and sometimes your character will just start coughing and it'll drop, it'll interrupt. It's like a sacchariselyb. Jesus Christ. And then another one is like a big fart debuff or a big fart attack or whatever, which your character can just fucking rinse the screen out, Wario style.

And I'm just like, oh no, can everyone on the cast do this? Oh fuck. Oh god damn it. Then it's already, then it's too late. It's too late. It's too late. I didn't know what it was doing. Yeah, someone out there is already enjoying themselves way too much.

It's too fucking late. It's, yeah, yeah. See, the power of Smash Brothers is that only Wario Farts, right? It's not like you can get an item. Sack-Ryme and dates it. It's not like an item that you can get makes every possible character on that cast fart because if so, yes. So anyways, um, get your fucking snoofs out of here, bro. Um, yeah. Um, that's that's and, and you know, um, quick note. I'm continuing

with FF 16 and, um, hey, yeah, where are you at right now? Uh, so, yeah, FF16 again spoiler warning if you don't want to hear anything about late game. Uh, I just beat, uh, I beat Barney and I'm at the gate that seems like I went and I went through the, um, the castle town in, yeah, in, um, Wallowood. And we're about to, uh, with the whole gang, charge Ultima, it seems like. And I gotta say- You messed up with Odin's shit. So two things. One, I don't, yeah, I feel like it was a lot of the energy of, hey, it's all downhill

after Dion. I think I get that plot-wise, I feel that, but I gotta say, for carrying what's left, I do appreciate Barnabas a lot. I think really, I think there was a solid, because the bit of him being just like I am a religious azzelot and there's nothing else to this right and I got some sick ass judgment cuts but you know and I'm kind of like what yeah okay you know let's see where this is going and then you get little bits of him

that are like creepier like the bit with the mom anything about that no not really slept near what are we doing? You know? But I think like, you know, and they have their battle of the wills, and it's like, hey, you're a walking hypocrite because you think free will sucks, but yet here you are choosing to do these things. And burr. But you get the yelling match between him and Clive,

and you know, that's always fine. But the moment he just cracks and starts laughing in the middle of the fight. And it's like one of those like, okay, all right, no, this is awesome. You know, like there's a little bit of a like, yeah. You need free will to enjoy that as to enjoy yourself as much as you are right now.

But like that little bit of like the real personality shining through is a really fun thing that I enjoyed in the middle of an awesome sequence. And I also really appreciated that they went, hey, we just did the radish shit you could ever do in icon battle form in space. The biggest. So what the fuck are we gonna come down off of that with? And it's like, we're gonna stay in human form. I know, let's go up to Icon. Fuck that. Get back down to human form. Round three.

I was like, oh, that's sick. I like that. You know, I appreciate that they like, they stuck it out in human for that battle. Cause it was really fun. For me, my big problem with Barney, I had trouble like vocalizing it or putting my thoughts in order and I saw last week on the podcast, right, somebody summed up really well for me. Um, and it was like he's going on and on about his

religious shit and the future and the free will stuff. But like you've already talked to Altima enough that you know, he's wrong. Like not even that like his belief is part of a larger plan that you don't understand. Just like, you are actively being tricked. Yes. And like, so all of his speeches,

are you just a single guy like jerk off? Yes. Like a bunch of nonsense. And I guess, well, so I guess what you're kind of waiting for because you know he's brainwashed and fully in, right? But like what you're kind of wondering or waiting for is like, you know, is there a bit to this where like Hugo or Ben Addicta, like there's a,

there's a self interest or a moment that kind of explains something about them that's a different facet, you know, of like why and how they they're just so committed to the cause or whatever, is it like what's the selfish motivator here? Um, and, uh, yeah, I don't know that like, so that's kind of what I was kind of waiting to see if there was anything. And, and I feel like there, it wasn't fully necessarily that there was no last minute,

you know, a swerve on it that was like an aggressive, um, just a fire for him. He was just a dumb hypocrite. That was like, you know, following along and it was probably the path of least resistance. You're also a fucking dominant. And then of course, there's a, wait, I mean, and I still don't know, we're still we're learning about the, you know, I guess the Akashic and the bit of like retrying as a host. Yeah, so there's a little bit of a world twist there, but, Yeah, so there's a little bit of a world twist there, but But yeah, I do like that like you know in the in the middle of your

Your your your Sam fight so to speak, you know, it's just he's like he's getting so into it This like almost wanting to like hold him's like he's getting so into it that like he breaks his fucking bullshit zealous stoic form, you know, and kind of lets that out. And, and, you know, and to the end, you ultimately know as well that you're like, you're not really, like he doesn't really care about the outcome being one where he's lost

because technically, still you're a container anyways and gadiata, we're just, you know, so you're going through those motions as well. But I did, I did, I expected nothing of Barney and I was like, oh, that's fun, I enjoy just, you know. So you're going through those motions as well. But I did, I did, I expected nothing of Barney and I was like, oh, that's fun. I enjoy that, you know. So we're writing it out. I have two follow up questions.

One is, this is actually slightly broader than 16. 15 actually does the exact same thing. I don't know if this is just my personal taste or more people are like this like this. I don't like it when I'm built up like guys. We're gonna go to the big scary country and it's gonna be crazy and we're gonna go in there and we're gonna have to figure out oh every single person in this nation is dead. Mmm. Um, actually, um,

the whole country is like a level. Yeah, it, I kind of like, when that went down, actually the whole country is like a level. Yeah, I kind of, like, when that went down, I kind of didn't find it that surprising in the sense that it's like, right, we're wrapping up here, right? We're not gonna actually introduce a level of density in setting in game that rivals what you just did. If anything, this is a elevated, it's a glorified corridor.

That is continent shaped. Holy fucking shit. He gives you a Roman castle. Yeah, does he? So why? You know what? Further in the game, you're like, well, the Hamids thing is really busted

because it's constant AOE damage. And then you get game, you're like, well, the Hamids thing is really busted because it's constant AOE damage. And then you get Shiva and you're like, this is a dog, so I don't know if you remember like eight weeks ago or 10 weeks ago, I said that like some of the shit you get in FF16 would make Dante blush. Like Shiva's dodge is so stupid, it's so busted.

And then you get Zantetsuken. Yeah. And Roman counseling in the Zantetsuken, and you're like, you're doing that big fight to get to the fucking crystal, and you're loading into zones with like 100 enemies, and you're just going like, no! It's no fighting here.

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or you use it to fucking link one thing into you, and they're like, oh my God, yeah, no, that's it. That's, you can. There's a reason, like the part after I got that, I named the title of my stream Zent had suck on these nuts Right cuz it's just And it's a deleted. Yeah, you can you can rock it's a game with just Odin. Yeah

It clear it's clear that like when you level five it and unleash it's like okay screen clear move on next Congrats you built it up you found your way and you know into that I can see it's like, okay, screen cleared, move on. Next, congrats, you built it up, you found your way. And, you know, and to that, I can see it's like, okay, how can I still want to, like, I'm gonna keep the RC on and build up the level five, but you want, as long as you can still continue to just like, let me just fight, let me at least earn some of that, that that shatter, you know.

I think they actually timed some of the the end game like normal enemy groups to a Zantetskens cool down. Because if you have like the accessory on and you use the alt, you get four and a half of the five bars you need. Okay. Right. Okay. And if, so you do that, like that's literally second one of it. Yeah. And then you hit a guy like two, three times or maybe you used like the lightning charge, right? And then you do Zantasik and then the fight is over.

It's like it's gone. And I found that by the time I got to the next fight, that shit had come back off cool down. Running through the city. So I did like that whole sequence. It was just like delete. Exactly. Delete, right?

Yeah, yeah. Delete, delete. And you know, and like Josh is like, God, how many of them are there? And he's like, oh, you know, and they're dial tired. But you're like, no, no, you can just one, you can nuke every one of their ways as they come in. Infinite amount of enemies in this room, Gav.

Mm-hmm. Doesn't matter. Yeah. I basically, exactly, I can see how the full investment in all of that, like,ed out, all the supers effectively, the animation is lasting long enough to let that let your cool down come right back up. I'm going to probably continue with the three and three setup, just so I can still swing it things.

But yeah, it's insane. A fucking Roman cancel as the It is it is a it is a move set that would make like Nero embarrassed Like why does she was dodged better than Bayo's like that's crazy. It's super nuts. I mean Canceling is like always the like last level of style when it comes to anything DMC related anyways like fucking all the shit in four where you're fly cancelling and dodge canceling and you know what I mean like all the shit it's just yeah the ability to start something then turn it into something else and recover some of that

time to recover some of that cool down yeah the enemy never gets a chance and furthermore if you have a lightning rod out, it's just melting, you know. It's funny because like, we, you know, Odin's so much flashier, it's so zany. But I actually think that Shiva is more insane. Like the ability to freeze any enemy for like 10 straight seconds at will.

Mm-hmm. Is so fucking force multiplier on all the other skills. And like the bad dodge is a freeze. It's not good, it's not bad. The perfect dodge is a, all right, like training dummy. What do you want to do? You know, yeah, incredible, absolutely incredible. So yeah, we'll see what's up.

And with that, I'm gonna hammer on. So we're gonna do another two sessions of that this week, probably finish it off this week. I want to get it out of the way. And then we will move on to the other things. So this week, two sessions of FF and try to wrap it up Wednesday or so and then Thursday. Min's gonna pop over. We're gonna do a little birthday stream. He's got some

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No, but like it's a spooky game. It's a it's a it's a tour or Halloween. Uh, yeah, I mean, I guess, I'm just, all I think of is when you get your submission date and then you're waiting to hear back from, you know, whatever company to like, okay, here's the soonest you can release it. Here's your target, whatever. It's not necessarily like marketing date determining the outcome. It's like a bunch of technical bullshit behind the scenes, you know. Hmm. So, yeah. determining the outcome, it's like a bunch of technical bullshit behind the scenes. You know? So, yeah.

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Thank you, Dordash. Thanks, Dordash. Okay. So... Where do you want to fucking start on this shit? Hey, so. Where do you wanna fucking start on this shit? I'll start with this. I don't know that I've ever felt, I felt a new feeling this week.

A brand new feeling, a new emotion. Dude, like we're older now, right? We're in our mid 30s. You still run into like brand new emotions, and you're like, oh, oh, there were a couple left to go. A brand. A brand new emotion was felt when I watched a trailer for the merger of Activision Blizzard and King

in an emotional, what the, what the, an emotional tone trailer was released celebrating the merger that has completed as all of these megath corpse came together and and and are now one and they grabbed every little bit that they could they've got a little bit of high fire Russian there going yeah they got your starcraft, it's about time. Welcome home says the orcs home and big old brand trailer moment and it's like what the fuck like what is this and why would you think oh this is a good idea because of all the bad press they've gotten over this we need to like fight back against it and let's leave making a positive and show you

the fucking candy crush character is joining up with Crash Bandicoot. It's all one plus you. Don't forget about you. It's fucking gross and weird and I hate that there's a trailer for the Burgess. This appeals to the absolutely most brain dead fucking morons. Who I do you remember like, man, Microsoft's gonna have every other gonna do everything we want. They're gonna bring back Tony Hawk is the oh, yeah, sure,

whatever. Microsoft that somehow allowed the halo to be fucking terrible for 10 plus years. I heard the latest season put red fall out. I heard the latest season is starting to turn it around apparently or something like. Dude, I don't, I don't know. The, the, no, you know what? You don't need any more information than what you just said. Because the idea that a halo game needs to be turned around is, is like my point. Like they had the golden goose. They just managed it into the dirt. You should be playing halo every day because there's

a free halo you can play, but you're not because it sucks. Yeah, I have not heard head nor hair of anything relating to Halo in, I feel like a year now, probably. Yeah. Except to just catch that. Just like, oh, season five dropped and people are starting to enjoy it. It's like, that's rough, man,

because Halo's usually a part of the conversation. You know? Not that it's not that I expect the vent diagram of overlapping circles I run into to hit it, but there's always some shit on the periphery that I can see or hear about. And like, yeah, no one knows. You know what this is?

Anyway, this tone trailer that some executive wanted told someone to make so that they could feel good was they jerked off another on logo comes along really perfectly alongside Diablo 4's new season trailer did you see this shit I didn't't. So Diablo IV has, hey, the season of blood is coming along. Here you go. Here's all the updates that are coming along in the season of blood. And they post like, here's the old map. This is shit. Here's the new map.

It's much more detailed except they have them reversed. So they're showing the improvement is actually old Oh no. Okay. Wait, wait, wait, wait, are they showing you the wrong one or is that the before and after are literally switched? Okay. And then they're like, and we've increased the speed of mounts and they show two horses on two different screens running at exactly the same speed on exactly the same stretch of road, but then my personal favorite, they're like, and we've changed how XP works. Usually you'd get a thousand XP, but with a 40% bonus, you'll earn 1,040 XP. And ever, and then they're like, wait, but in the season of blood, you'll earn 1,000 XP and that's 1.2 times and 1.2 times again,

and you would earn 1,400 XP, when these numbers should actually be 1,400 and 1,400. 414. And then the people who made the trailer literally can't even do basics multiplication by 40% did they mean four? And then they took the trailer down. Oh god.

Because YouTubers and Twitch streamers were making fun of them. Okay. Oh, and it's like boy, I hope you weren't excited for the new season of Diablo because that makes you, that is dire. Oh fuck, Steiner Math comes to Diablo. Yeah, that is the before and after swap is probably the most embarrassing possible way you can introduce something. It's the first one that happens. That's like, that's crazy.

That's crazy. That's so insane. Look how good everything looks. Wait, what do you mean it's worse? What? Oh crazy. That's crazy. That's so insane. Look how good everything looks. Wait, what do you mean it's worse? What? Oh, man. It's crazy. OK, well, in any case, yeah, the weird, just like,

discomfort of this fucking tone trailer of characters fusing to come together in this one big mega-corp blob home. And really, if you're going gonna release a trailer for a merger, what they should have done was cut together everyone waving, perhaps singing na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye, and then just cut to a black and white photo of Bobbi Kodak fading into darkness. He's only gonna stay out the rest of the year

until he stays. January 1st, I'm out that door, I'm telling ya. Until they rehire him. You can't stop me, I'm leaving. January 1st. No, I bet you he has to. I bet you he's contractually obligated to leave or whatever, but just expect the parachute

to end all parachutes. Now what will happen? A golden escalator will come up from the ground to meet him in the air and have him step down slowly until he reaches. Yeah, and then they're gonna, they're gonna promote somebody from within the company or hire from some other shithole. And Bobby will be like, you don't understand.

I was the one holding the worst of the decisions back. And the new guy will be even more evil and even more devil-like. Oh boy. The true villain has yet to be revealed perhaps. They're gonna come out instead of no. I don't know. I love it when you Photoshop me and the pictures of the deaf.

That's my favorite. Okay, but like the new villain has to come out and announcing that and releasing the worst of the NFT mini-buy microtransaction price hikes. And like on the way to the stage has to like grow up like five asses before he gets to the microphone. Like you have to, we have to compress it. And we don't have a lot of time to get a lot of bullshit done. You know? you know, man

I bet I bet they can do it. I bet hey, they're really hustle Just like can do it like Terry Bogard in that one weird SNK ad just drives by slap-solving And then gets the stage it goes yeah What's up? Hmm and just like you just like, you know, gets a little, gets a little, just rubs it into the gums a little bit. Whoa. I have to say, there is one thing I really appreciate about all this stuff.

I'm almost 40 and I play video games and talk to people about video games. So it has been an incredible help by stuff like this, has been an incredible help by stuff like this, allowing me to find out within one second whether not the person I'm talking to has a brain. Because if the reaction to this is, yeah, good for Microsoft, I was going to be great. I'm like, oh, wow, I should just not even bother to talk to you because you are excited that the green man got a new toy to play with. I mean, you're team. You know, look forward to Halo Overwatch crossovers with candy crush.

Like, like, yeah yeah yeah yeah um again again the the I I I haven't looked but I'm sure if you click on the trailer and scroll down I'm I'm sure the comments are uh fucking a bit great let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me let me the companies in fall made that game. I love Microsoft. Remember Crash Band Acute in Spyro. Please make franchises. Great again. Props to the team that edited this trailer. I rarely get goose bumps from any very trailer, but this thing was patched together perfectly. There you go. Yeah. Good feelings. Look, it's all the things you remember. Brand. It's all the things you remember.

Brand. I mean, I never forget the fucking call of, call it, I honestly call it the Tony Hawk 3 plus 4 was gonna happen and the Bobby was like, Nah, call the duty minds. Hey. The funny Tony Hawk 1 plus 2 did really well. The part where they cut to high-fi rush for just a second of the character's just snapping for like a half, it's for a single beat. And like I saw that and I went, you put that in there so that people like me will be like, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go I do not attribute fucking yeah anyway. It's yes you the end of it and it had the opposite effect it was like oh fuck right that wasn't just tango. It was part of Bethesda so as part of the then it's pulled all in there and yep okay there's chains on its feet got

it. Well anyway yeah. I still think the funniest thing about everything to do with Tango Game Works is that Shijima Kami had made like RE4 and left to make his own company. And then it was underneath Bethesda and he's like, all right, I'm going to make a new type of game and they're like, make Resident Evil 4 again. And he's like, I really don't want to. Like he, he described this process in an interview, and was like, I would really rather not. Can I not, and they're like, no, you're gonna.

Oh yeah, oh no, again, like, never forget that, that callus this, it will be, like, that will not always be there, whether it, and if it's not happening behind closed doors, it's happening live on stage, like announcing a new Smash Brothers, while Sakurai is sitting in the fucking crowd, right? Like, it's like, what the fuck you think this is? Like, why do you think you have that seat? We're making Smash Brothers, bro.

You're either in or you're out, you know? Anyway, um, Redji getting a hammer and pointing at his wrists and then pointing at Sakurai. Reggie getting a hammer and pointing at his wrists and then pointing at Sakurai. Yeah, no. Do you want that blood on your hands of the franchise that you created? Do you want it sacrificed and rubbed on your door like fucking blood like Passover? What are you doing here? Get the fuck in and you do it. Otherwise, you know what happens. The

The parachute will be 400 mil so nearly half a billion. Oh nice good catch Bobby. Nice nice hustle. Well earned. Fuck you. Good job. Anyway, speaking of exits, Hadecki Kamiya has exited platinum and he started his new YouTube channel and the first video is a little bit of him literally walking out of the office, sitting down and kind of answering some questions. And yeah, he basically feels weird.

I mean, basically he's just like, eh, obviously can't really say anything. So, you know, I left because I felt it was the right thing to do, and he wants to keep making games. No, I'm not retiring. But he basically is like, almost an antithesis of a saccharized channel. He's like, I'm banned from the industry for a year due to contractual reasons.

So why the fuck does platinum games have a one year anti-compete clause? So that, like, Kimia can't, Kimia any other studios into... Do you remember direct competition with what they wanna do? Could you have had a two month anti-compete clause? And that was like hilarious, because he just took time off. And that's what he said, he's what Kamiya's doing ultimately anyway. Yeah, no, I mean, I guess it's just like,

it gives them time to get away from whatever things that he could threaten them, not threaten, but anything that he makes of their style, you know, that they want to go in a different direction with our whatever, it's all that. So yeah, you know, it's, you know, they put that compete clause in because he's sitting there going like, you know, all these character action sections are really dragging down my side scrolling shooters. Oh, this part we have to control Bayonetta is really getting in the way of the space areas. Okay, so the

contract at the non-complete is actually you can work in the industry, but you cannot make a schmup level in any of the games you're fucking working on. You can do a space hairier section and you're not allowed to do a 3D world runner section for one year. And then Hadecki Kamea lunged over the table and had to be physically restrained. I can't think, you know, we make this joke literally every single time the man's name comes up, but like I, I can't think of any dev ever that every single fucking game they even work on must have the thing they want to put in there every time.

But, but yet they, but that's the things those are the authors, those are the ones we love the most, that's the Kojima being Kojima. Okay. Talking about his movies and his gores Yeah, it's hockey and swaps of course, right and and and that's fucking David Cage and being garbage like it's just yeah, you know, listen I was gonna make it good, but then I felt in my heart It's it's absolutely it's absolutely just it's a stubborn, it's a stubborn fixation, and that stubborn fixation

is probably the same thing that made something's good, and it's gonna make some things fucking dog shit, and you're gonna have to deal with it because it comes from the same mind, you know. Yeah, I don't know, man. Yoko and his asses. It's always. It's always.

Yeah, not every game. That's, I don't, I mean, there's a good number of asses, but not every single time I don't think. All right, well in any case, he then goes on to basically explain that like, yeah, he can't super go into it, but you know, it sounds like creative differences in so many words. You know, it sounds like creative differences in so many words. You know, it sounds like

he probably just had a fork in the road with what a project and then like, disagreed with with the company direction in Yadayana. I want to continue making games. And then he's like, all right, well, I'm off to the unemployment office. And then he gets in his fucking Lambo. Lambo. And like, right, this is not the Sakurai YouTube channel whatsoever got it I will not help you make games. I'm gonna spend half the video talking about cooking I Would fucking kill To find out what the fuck is going on of for platinum right now Excuse me if you are out there and you could hear the sound of my voice and you know what the fuck is going on for platinum right now. Excuse me. If you are out there and you can hear the sound of my voice

and you know what the fuck is going on in platinum, my DMs are always open on Twitter. I mean, probably not from the work account or anything, but yeah, yeah, it is curious. I assume, as with any studio that is is also like, you know, kind of hurting for cash. You don't want to spend a lot of time developing a new project like GG and then just fucking scrap it because the lead leaves, they're probably refitting that and working it into one of the directions that they said they would, which is the owning their own brand and

sustainability in Yadiyada, you know, so they're probably turning that into something else as we speak and in fact that probably could have been the reason that led to the falling out to begin with You know as possible. He camea has consulted on a lot of projects over the last ten years He hasn't directed and written a whole lot of them over the last 10 years, he hasn't directed and written a whole lot of them. You know, a beautiful Joe Okami, like Beo, and then he kind of sits back for pretty much everything else at that point. So as him returning to it with this one, I can see them being like, yeah, but like look at the fucking bank account, and then they fucking butt heads over where they're going to go with it. So, hey, hey, come here, son, can you please make a game that makes money? No. Please leave. Ask your mom. All right. A couple of the things real quick, not too much, but they announced a new PS5 slim model.

It's going to launch in November. And I mean, look, I got my usage out of mine. But boy, I sure do wish they would have sold the ability to add on a disc slot to the digital only version of first model because that's a really good design change that this you can now do. It's apparently 30% lighter, a little bit smaller. It's no where near compared to PS2 slim to the original. Yeah, it's slightly smaller. I feel like this is like a non-announcement because back when we were young, and they were like, the slim console's coming out.

It went from the size of your computer to the size of a laptop. Yeah, no. The PS2 tiny fucking micro mini pocket is still kind of an insanely conveniently sized console. The first time I saw that, I was freaking out. Like, what? And now it's like, it's gonna take up the same amount of fucking space

in your entertainment console that it doesn't make it. It doesn't have any changes to the guts. But this giant fucker over here is really big and I'll take any size reduction you can get, right? Furthermore, I have the digital version. So it's nice that I got like some collectors boxes for PS5 games, but like again, like the ability to add on a slot optionally if you want to later on for any reason is a nice afterthought that we have now. It would have been great before.

I tell you what though, well I've been herring rumors of a new PS PlayStation 5, skew for a while, for like over a year. And the kept saying like, PS5 Pro, I'm like, I don't wanna fucking PS5 to come out, cause then I got a fight, the fucking world to get one. And now it's like, no, it was just a slim, it was just a slim.

It was just a slim. Whew, okay, safe. And it begins a new arm race, arms race on video cards as well. You know, every time there's like a performance jump in something like this, it becomes a new fucking, yeah. So, well, you know what, Wally? I have good news for you. If you don't want to be part of the video card arms race,

and you want better performance in your games, have you heard about the AMD anti-lag plus feature? AI AMD, radion, anti-lag, and anti-lag plus. Yeah. So it's designed to reduce input lag in GPU limited cases and get faster click to response times. Okay. Now I want to play some counter strike too though. You do want to play some counter strike too. I love me some counter strike. Well, I have good news for you. It works in Counter Strike 2. It does work in Counter Strike 2 and you will get a couple more frames. It's going to

ride up until the game automatically vacbands you because straight from at Counter Strike, AMD's latest drivers made their anti-lag plus feature available, which is implemented by detouring engine DIL functions. If you're an AMD customer and play CS2, do not enable it. It's any tampering with CS code will result in a VAC band. VAC band you say. Yeah, that's right. Can I define that?

What's that would be, all of Valve's VAC games. Well, that's not so bad. I mean, it's just Counter-Strike and, you know, it's not the end of the world. It's not as if it also has that effect in Call of Duty and apex legends. And looks like some other games too. Modern warfare to make it look easy.

Anti-cheat also war zone. Because it just it it fucks with the engine directly like a cheap program. I appreciate. Um, I appreciate that the story was broken by video cards with a Z. So um, um, the purpose of this was so that because AMD is always losing the video card battle between video and video and they're like listen pro gamers big competitive gamers We're gonna give you an edge that Nvidia can't give you and then they made certain that if you were thinking about getting an AMD card And you were like maybe I should get an AMD card to remind you to never ever get an AMD card ever.

I got an AMD card once was a piece of shit. Was a fucking terrible. The driver's support was awful. And that was like 15 years ago. And they never got any better. Yeah, I also feel like, there's always a bunch of, well, again, as someone who, I don't go too hard into optimizing

by video card performance and shit, but I feel like every time I go to look at the latest updates, there's like a million little side installs and software things that like have nothing to do with anything that are also put out by Nvidia or also put out, you know what I mean, like there's always these support things that are just kind of like like why was Nvidia the ones behind the like noise auto ducking filter, for example, right? Because they're so fucking far ahead of AMD that they have them all the money in the world

I say fuck see round with new features. I see well in any case Yeah, that is a humongous fuck up that is crazy and that is also like To roll that out and have the issue be across the three biggest fucking FPS is Wow across the three biggest fucking FPS is, that's a lot. It's funny because like, I just made the thing of like, I haven't used AMD in 15 years and they haven't gotten any better because I'm referring to me actually having AMD card

for Witcher 2 and it crashing non-stop in the final area of the game. I thought my computer was broken, but no, it was actually AMD's terrible driver support to which people are saying it did get better, but you know what? 15 years ago, I was not worried about my AMD 9600XT Fucking getting me banned from Counter-Strike, which now Apparently you do have to worry about so if anything they call worse

Some they managed to survive somehow the survive the war is right because I remember when I was going out to buy the latest ATI rage card, you know, and they're between that and shopping for Voodoo and a bunch of the shit. Like, there was a number of other competitors it felt like. It didn't just kind of shore up into AMD versus Nvidia. that shore up into AMD versus Nvidia. The last good ATI card was the 9800 Pro. In like 97. Okay, now most importantly, who was the cool, made up stupid character on the cover? I don't know.

What dumb fake 3d render you know Like character did they use because that's how you really sell me is you put a dumb fucking the 9800 pro a dumb reboot character looking Fucker on that box. Oh, maybe this one Yeah, some robotic angel or some fucking weird like dragon scale thing. Depending on your box, it could have been crisis, man. Okay. Gargoyle. Okay.

Gargoyle. Yeah, I see the gargoyle right next to the GeForce with the native angel lady. She's got wings, angelic wings and a native headdress Right on and then there's ula-la with a gun That's good stuff right there fucking discount sofitia Ork man There's a Joker Oh my god

Yeah video cards man. I love it. I fucking love it. Ah, shit. These are some fighting game characters right here. Dude, if I got shit banned from Counter Strike and I was big in a Counter Strike, I'd be so... I'd be like... unreasonably pissed off. I mean, the question is is like, so obviously they're undoing this if you file your report and immediately like rectifying the problem. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. Are they? maybe I don't know are they like you would hope but like yeah I mean under the banner port I assume it says DLL injection which looks pretty bad especially since like the games you'll probably says yet don't do that. No, thanks for the money, Loll. Bye.

Anyways, speaking of thanks for the money, we gotta look at the first Omni-Man trailer in MK1. And much to everyone's disappointment, at no point does he stick his knee up lean forward towards a character and go think, sub zero, think. So you don't know that actually. He does do the part where he's one of the,

like his x-ray is he's punching you into like the, into the pole. And I believe it is that scene. Oh, man, it does cut away. It does cut away. They just didn't they just, if it's in there, they didn't show it. He might do it.

And yes, he does drop into a subway. And yes, he does also just grab a skull and just, and there's something about that one in particular where you're like, you know, like the elaborate fatality where you're juggling someone's like meat torso around is all fun and Fine and dandy, but there's something just simple and visceral about the the regular crush with a lot of detail to it And the pooling up of the blood and then the eyeball and it's like fuck me Fatality doesn't have to be I've shish kabobbed your legs, arms, and head into a line and

spotted around in a circle and then burnt it all. You know what I mean? Like it can just be, fucking murder. You know, that thing is really gruesome. Every time I think about fatalities now, all I can think of is a single comment I saw on a photo combat trailer, which was, I wish Netherrealm had their artists look at people throwing punches rather than watching people get to capitated. Where is the lie? Also, here's your fucking side switch button, because I swear to God there's no confirmation of it, but I bet you Ed Boone just hates when he sees a character's back. And he's so stupid that he's so stupid. And he's so stupid that he's so stupid that he's so stupid.

I can feel it in my bones. Just force the characters to face the camera then. No one else wants it, no one else cares. But I feel like he's just, he's like every time we make a new game, we're dedicating an entire button towards turning around. Also, if you accidentally press it, you're stuck in that animation and you good luck you're getting hit for it because you need it for some moves.

Yeah, I don't know. But in any case, so he does a couple other things. He does the, he has a counter stance and then he kind of rushes past the scorpion spear. And if he's doing all of these like flash around the world style, punch you in the face, rush down Superman things. It feels as if perhaps then you split Superman from injustice into two styles of character. Omni Man is the punchy, rush down type, and then Homelander will be the Ibeams and all that. Both of them. One's got dumpster combos. I imagine home, hopefully I'm hoping that. Homelander would have the dumpster combos.

I'm hoping Homelander has a breast milk meter that he can fill up. And then when you spend it all, he has to go off screen and recharge it. That'd be cool, you know? Anyways, yeah, I forgot to mention earlier. I'm just, I'm rehashing some bits that I used yesterday. I was on a podcast called Convict.

I'm coming into this show with rehashed bits. Yeah. I, I, I, I, I, I, some Refried jokes. Some Refried jokes that I used on the Combat Kings podcast, talking about Mortal Kombat stuff. So look forward to that sometime this week as well, I suppose. Anyway, though. I imagine hopefully to the costumes you get will be like at home.

Omni-Man, Asshole button up, suit. One of the costumes could just be Mark. Could it be? I, you see, like I was wondering if like you're going to, you know, for the combat pack also get like invincible as a cameo or whatever, right? Or if you get, if you buy buying homeland or do you get the deep as a cameo that just fucking rolls in and does some gross shit, you know, but there's no, there's no guest cameos confirmed just yet. So in any case, cameo is a really good name for that feature.

With the capital K. Yeah, other thing was the confirmation that the live action you, you Hacker show series is coming in Netflix starting this December. And I scrolled and scrolled and browsed and searched, and I could not find any confirmation that Togashi is actually involved with the production. So there might not be a gun to the head of the creators. So what about the hunter hunter adaptation? Yeah.

I don't know. Hey, it gives me more time. I'll figure it out. Yeah, all I want to see is, okay, new Netflix light of live adaptation is, is, is being worked on. Is the creator standing in the room armed? Now I don't know what to believe because the, the one piece was so excellent. But also, Oda, is it Oda?

I want to say it's Oda. Oda was there the whole time in the room, the whole time. That's it. She need your robot Nabe could not get further away from the Netflix offices. That's true. Oda had a good. That's true.

I just, you know, this is what, alongside the press conference, you need a photo of your favorite mangaka, just loading the bullets in, lighting up the sights conference you need a photo of your favorite mangaka just loading the bullets in Lighting up the sights, you know, you're like, okay, okay, no, no, it's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine. Yeah, I believe In any case, yeah, that's pretty much it. Oh, hey, remember when I mentioned Bancam last week and how Epic bought it to leverage it in their Apple lawsuit? Well, they're selling it and they fired half of everyone there. Yes. In fact, I think the correction on that story was in fact that it was about the news was about them selling it, not buying it.

No, the old, old news was them buying it back in 2022. Yes, and then when it brought up last week, it was like, wait, no, they're selling it. They're selling it. That's what it was. Yeah, because it didn't help them. And on the way out there, there's firing one out of every two people. Yeah, that was, that was, that was, that hence the spiked by and really. The 50% being fired is that's the new part.

50% being fired. Yes, it. Okay. That's the new part right Okay, Dauke well Thanks Tim What a great business man Hey got it. Hey just just go watch that Actablizard King Xbox trailer man. It's all video games You know they for they've remembered Spyro they remembered It's good feelings

Man them using that for for like good feelings when like they act like everyone in management Actively fought against that for the whole time they were there. It's so nasty. It's even got the fucking crash bandicoot. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You know, it's got a little screenshot of that moment as well. So they're just,

they're trying to bring about good feelings, you know? Anyways, okay. So I can ask all. We are in a Titanfall 3 straight jacket room and as I've said before, I will not care to acknowledge anything until something official is acknowledged. So has anything official been acknowledged? Is there anything official?

Not my knowledge. Okay, well then we keep it moving. Because you can peppy Sylvia, all you want, I will not give a fuck. Sometimes I do like to peppy Sylvia a little bit. I will not give a fuck about anything any of you have to say. I want to hear it from respond themselves. Yeah, and there's all, like even, let's say they put out a Titanfall 3 trailer right now, and it's like, this, this, this spring, Titanfall 3, we're going to do it.

Like, you still got to have that little part in your chest. It's like they could cancel it. Of course. It's, yeah, don't come at me with your fucking all caps messages about any, but I don't care, I don't care. Wully, Wully, yeah. Spawn is in call of duty.

Okay, okay. Holy shit. I care less than ever now that I can jump on Titanfall 2 and continue playing it. Yeah. And enjoying myself every single fucking night, which I have been like, yeah, yeah. What do you want me to say? Like, what do you want me to say? All right.

Um, when Titanfall 2 was so busted that you weren't allowed to play it, yeah, no, it hurt. It hurt bad. But now, oh, yeah, I'm so sad about Titanfall. I'll go play some Titanfall. I dropped Legion on a motherfucker last night. The fuck you want, man. Good. Let's take some letters. Hey man, if you want to send in a letter, please keep it short so that we can answer it properly and send it to castle super beast mail at gmail.com. That's castle super beast mail at gmail.com. All right, here's one coming in from HDMex. How you doing?

Oh, hey, man, what's up? Oh, hey Trudeau's before and after pick. Pfft. Oh, that's one of the best ones! That's one of the best ones! Hunter, you motherfucker! That's great! Hunter?

Excellent. Excellent job. Oh, you get a little clap for that. That's good. Oh, I like that. I know Willie Soft Spot for dumb race humor is effective as a clostomy bag after seeing Django and Chained and the client bag scene and gets me thinking in any media, what is the best? This is such an out of pocket dumb hatred that it's that it's

funny. Like you look so stupid hating that much level of funny. I got one, but it's a little obscure. In binary domain, a game made by the dragon devs, it's like Blade Runner in which there's robot people that are secret, you know, it's secret robot. And then it comes out that there are robots that had human children, like biological human children, and they're walking around. And your team is like, well, we have to kill them.

They're robots, and you're like, they're literally just normal people. And like the whole game's finale hinges on this, and it makes no sense. It makes no sense at all. What the fuck is happening in this game? A lot. Oh my God. A lot happening in binary domain. But will it?

Hey, okay. But everyone says you, everyone says it's good. You guys are all saying how much you love it. Yeah. I love it. It's great. You guys are watching how much you love it. Yeah, I love it. It's great Okay, you know you played like dragon right? Oh, whoa, it's aini now imagine if that zany was Put in a gears of war shell And exactly the same

Okay, okay, I guess I Okay, okay, I guess I there's a okay, what am I missing here? Is this meant to be taken seriously? Is it intended? Deadly, deadly. Okay, it's like, okay. It's, it's, it's, and, and, people that chat who've played by a very different man, or watched the,

like, yeah, deadly serious. Okay, step two, are you taking it seriously? Am I doing it seriously? Personally, no, because I'm like, this is nonsense. Okay, all right, great, we're all caught up. Wonderful. And here's the genius part, here's the genius, okay? The main character, the one you play as,

also thinks it's nonsense. Okay. Okay. No one else in the game agrees. Because all, okay. Now, the degree to which that actually is incorporated is the most interesting thing I've heard about it. Um, because all anyone ever says it's, it's amazing amazing you have to play it. But I don't so that's incongruous with what my eyeballs are seeing me. It is just as twist and turnie and exciting as your fucking yawk is again.

It is like it is it's one of those things where you're like they literally can't help themselves. It came out after God won the fuck I want to say 2009 when the binary domain come out. Binary domain came out in fucking 2012. Okay which Yaka's a game came out in 2011. Four three. was like not even, it was not even five years away from secret Koreans. It is. Okay. Last question.

That's what a robot it will be. Hold on. That's what a robot is. Is it a secret Korean? Okay. Okay. Hold on. Last question.

Who's cheating at baseball? Is it the game or is it your LP? No, no, it's, no, okay. Hand on my heart, hand to God, people in the chat. Did you make good content out of this? Okay. It is the game that is like, no, it like, it is absolutely the game. Okay.

It is so nuts. Binary domain is so nuts. Uh-huh. Cause at the end of the day, like, you know, all stupid like big bow eye popping meme bullshit aside. To death. I also just like that shit. I was just like, that looks, the first time I saw that,

we all remember, from a million years ago, it's like, what the fuck is that? But that aside, like I'm just like, what the fuck am I looking at? Like this doesn't, like I just, I didn't, there's nothing I saw that was like, yo, get in here now, you gotta fucking, it's incredible, right?

It is, it is, binary domain is the sleeper is hit like it is in a coma hit right because everyone who has like a social link system with your buddies using the in-game voice commands. Because everyone who yells it rules never yells the quiet part in bracket, which is it's the fucking dumbest, it's the worst, it's the best, right? They never, like you never get that, you never see the slash S, you just see the all caps. No, no, no, there is no slash S. People aren't saying that ironically. But it rules.

Okay. It's the fucking rule. But Yakuza knows what it's doing and does it, right? Yeah. Yakuza knows exactly what it's doing. When you show that P.P. it's because someone spent time doing the show that P.P. When you the winery domain doesn't have any side quests, so it's all main line and Hey, man big bows gonna check out that girl's ass and you got to use your voice commands

Tell me if you think it's nice or not and depending on what you answer Friendship with big bow go up or down and that will affect the games ending. Hahaha. Hahaha. Oh, it just, it just, it's like, yeah, okay. All right. All right. Yeah. Yeah, okay, all right, all right, all right. Yeah Like are is this is this is this is this in a museum and everyone is in a circle pointing at it should be it should be in a museum

Or are we in a lecture hall and The professor is is breaking it open and and explaining the literary themes, you know. Okay. All right. Let me just get a fucking screenshot from this fucking game and it looks like a fucking yuck as a cyclist because I can and and have given impassioned speeches to people about why they should play Detroit become human here. I'm sending you this screenshot. I'm gonna put it in the chat for people

who see that talk. Okay, yeah. Sure. Sure, man. Like it, dude, robot skeleton person head. Oh, it's so incredible, lady. Dude, it's so incredible, dude. Like, oh, my God. Like, I think like I have I have given

and passion speeches about why someone actually should play a Detroit. But you know, um, because no, but, but, bully, I don't recommend binary domain. The way I recommend Detroit become human or heavy rain. I recommend binary domain if you like Yakuza 3, 4 or 5. Okay, okay. And also like a Gears of War shooting, it's really excellent. Okay, because, okay, Wully, here's the stage.

You did a Gears of War level against a really actually mechanically impressive gigantic spider robot. And then you go into the underground, you know the gambling area in Yakuza games where all the crime happens.

But then you do the Yakuza cutscene of, oh wow, a lot of talking, oh, it's serious. And then you turn around and a man pulls his whole face off because he's a robot It's the only difference. It's the same. It's the same Was the path to that moment one of enjoyable fun and gameplay? Do the game like the game party rules. It's the best cover shooter I can think of.

Okay, the gameplay, it better than vanquish. Okay, the gameplay itself is very fun. Yes. Okay, this also needs to be stated here. No, the part where you actually shoot is actually incredible because all the robots like fly apart into tiny little bits, it's really technically impressive,

and it feels good. Okay, that's an important thing to mention. By the way, I said something controversial right now, technically impressive and it feels good. Okay. That's an important thing to mention. By the way, I said something controversial right now, which is I like it better than vanquish. I need to explain that. Everything in vanquish feels great, except for the part where it actively punishes you

for using any of the weapons you like because it has the worst upgrade system of any game I have ever played. Every time I go to back to vanquish, I go, all right, the only way to level up my gun is to never use it and pick up the gun again with full ammunition. Yeah.

Drives me crazy. Yep, yep. That's the worst part. And it also means that like when you want to jump into if you want it like it's if it didn't have that if you could just grab certain loadouts Before the mission go out and then like you know a deal with it leveling up your gunning and externally from the levels entirely You could just focus on doing stylish fun cool shit and tightening up your runs But yes a, a million percent. Like, I think that game would actually be way better

if the weapons had no upgrade at all. If it was like a standard- So that's your action game? Yeah, that's fine too. So some of the examples listed inside email, the species selected rockets and mass effect, I think that's probably the best answer really. The rocket launcher that automatically detects the enemies.

You just fire it and then it'll know where the bad guys are and target them for you. Yeah, how Gimli treats elves and Lord of the Rings. Yeah, he's super racist. But then they have a moment. They have a moment together. And then he's like, ah, they're not all so bad. And Clint Eastwood, being Clint Eastwood and Gran Torino. Gran Torino Clint Eastwood is a great portrayal of racism. He's a humongous racist asshole the entire time,

but then he's like, all right, you could have my car. Yeah. That'll fix that'll fix it. So Wally, you want to hear something funny? The, the, there was a really interesting detail that I found out about Gran Torino is that Clint Eastwood didn't know they were making a movie. Incredible. That's the Hollywood trivia for you right there. Yeah, good stuff. Look at stuff.

That's a great email, thank you very much. Good job Hunter. All right, here's one. No name, tagged, sub guys. Oh, never mind, crownless chief here, long time fan. Not a long one, what are your favorite uses of motion controls slash gyro? Um, anytime you need to move the controller in a game. I like in K and Pokemon

where it evolves. If you level it up and then you turn the 3DS or switch upside down. Hmm, I still have to say my favorite use of motion controls ever to date is we sports. We sports is incredible. It's an incredible introduction to the concept. When I think about the like Wii U screen, I think Splatoon was like the first and only time that I really actually enjoyed what it was doing. I liked Luigi's Mansion mini game in the Nintendo land thing. That was a phone asymmetrical bit too. But like all of that we moat waggle shit like waggle was like so sports was incredible. And then immediately you went to waggle and you're like, oh, this concept is dead now because you've just replaced a button with a shitty motion. So I feel like for every single Nintendo-innovated accessory or whatever controller or device,

the probably the best implementation is WarioWare every time. Yeah. WarioWare figures out how to do the coolest shit with it, but no other game is committing to that at length, you know? Mm-hmm. Um, yeah, I still haven't played it, but I remember hearing a lot of good about Red Steel 2. And how it's so- I remember waking up in the morning and going downstairs

and finding my dad having spent all night rolling fucking perfect games in Wii Sports bowling. And I'm like, okay, yeah, there's something here definitely. Yeah. No, I, I, um, sin in punishment is a pretty good one too because that is just a straight up improvement over the style of game that the first one was, but, um, based on the, the ability to aim certainly. If you are going to look for the best example

of what this can do, though, yeah, always, I'd say go check out the Oreoware. You know, someone mentioned in the chat earlier, I would like to give a thumbs up to jerking off your Wii remote to charge your sword, no more heroes. Sure, but besides that was actually slashing in a, in, oh no, it's so terrible like I don't don't drop No more heroes in there. It's just a jerk off motion. That was funny. That's it. Yeah. Well, then that's why I mentioned just the jerking off part. Yeah And the same goes for a lot of you know sword combat shit that had to use that sword combat doesn't work when there's nothing to clash against

Was there ever what was okay there was like Skyward sword and that that Star Wars game and then like red steel. Yeah And also we motion plus came later than, you know, and like, it should have been that from the jump in the controller. The controller should have had, it has a memory on it. It should have been a memory card at the same time. Should we have our memory card saved to it?

I remember getting Skyward Sword with WeMo, I went out and got the WeMotion Plus, you know, the old edition. And it's like, what, hey man, this is gonna make the Wii Remote like super accurate. It's gonna be so accurate and sore play is gonna be cool and then I load into it and I'm like, I'm having to re-center the cursor on the screen like every four minutes. Oh, this is the future, huh?

The fucking re-center and god damn it. Like I could go on and on and on about Skyward Sword, but really the actual thing was like the future is resetting your controls every couple of minutes because the fucking drift on it is out of control because of the way it's you know, it's tabulating where the thing is. There you go. Here's aological dead end for sure. I got tired of Metroid Prime shooting that way. I did not want that. In fact, it's why I like three less than like, for me, one was my best experience with

Metroid. Yeah, it goes one, two, three. Yeah, I love Metro Prime one. I love it a lot. I hate the we-mo use of that game playing it on GameCube controller was more than fine. Well, see, the thing is with Metroid is that like man, the shooting in Metroid is going to be so good. I'm like, I don't care about the shooting in that room. And I care about running around cool rooms. And two, as I said, was fine until it wasn't because it shits the bed at the end and right at the end with the fucking triforce pieces on you. So, um, I, you know, for anyone who loves two more than one, I guess you so I love two more than one. However, and this is really important that ending they said go get the rest of the whatever the fuck it was fucking sucked.

It's been listen, this is important when I got to the part where it's like go get everything hidden in the environment. I already had like all of them, but two or three. So like that part of the game that fucks up everybody didn't happen. I'm envious of that. So my opinion is totally different. Yeah, I'm envious of that. The light suit fucks, but I just like that part, like it made me stop and come back and fuck it like in frustration. You know, it was it was, it was a bit of a water temple moment back then.

Boy, sure I'm excited for that Metroid Prime for any day now. You know, and I just, you can't let that go. One, I had a smooth fucking ride from top to bottom and, uh, and then yeah, three, I just the interface, the, I hated playing it with the controller. That was the only way to play it, you know. Also, you know, to the people in our audience that we're not alive when the GameCube came out, you have to remember, when you loaded up the Metroid Prime 1 and there was a bomb or a flash,

and you saw a Samus' face in the reflection, you were like, oh, it was a huge deal. I'm kidding, woo! Yeah, Samus' and the water condensation, when you came out of of the pool and you'd see the fog in the top of the helmet It was the biggest deal in the world Furthermore those main menus were God tier unstoppable. Are they sure were compared to other main menus at the time? So just you know anyway

All right, yeah, that's that. And here, a quick one. What's up? Hey, Wully, asking the real questions. Was last time you got a retwist on a lineup. I know a lot of people from the West Indies keep their locks natural, but I think it looks dope. Would you ever consider?

I mean, if you're counting, I had an edge up last month. And a lineup, yeah, maybe like three or so weeks ago. So I do that actually. You know, it's strange I'm actually on brand for this one. I'm gonna haircut tomorrow. The insane pat will be leaving tomorrow afternoon. There you go. I mean, are you aiming for any particular dad vibe or just maintenance?

I just buzzed my head, dude. What kind of style of massive comb over? Yeah. You know what I'm excited for? You know what I'm really excited for? In like two or three years, I'm going to shave my fucking beard. And that kid's going to free. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Face shape changes. You are now a stranger. All the danger noises are going off.

Crying. I still nonstop. I still remember when my dad would shave his mustache and like everyone in the family would freak out like my mom with Violence violence to the child. Yeah Yeah, and something cool to his Punch mom over the years has learned how to do some dread retwisting and Has learned and is, um, yeah, I've been basically like learning how to deal with black hair, you know, so that is a, uh, a handy skill to

have at home. Uh, anyway, all right, leave it there. All right, you guys all have good week. Stay safe out there. Bye-bye. you