Castle Super Beast - CSB298: Pee is Stored in the Funkopop

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

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["Sailor Moon Theme"] There we go. Hey, Willy. Good afternoon. How you doing, man? Okay. Not too bad. It's been a very busy week. Being attacked by ghosts, I hear.

Yeah, a lot's going on. Well, okay, I am currently being attacked in some ways. I've been waiting to, I'm going to probably talk about this much later because I'm in the process of, I've said like I'm getting a bunch of tattoos and my arms are, I can't pretend that my arms is not raw as fuck right now because I had an entire forearm done across 8.5 hours and it was very long and very, very, it was a lot. It was very intense. But you're a big boy and you're a big man. Yes, this is what you sign up for. And yeah, I've done, after the back, it's lighter work than that.

But I just can't pretend that my arm is not currently burning a little bit. The price you pay to feel cool. Yeah. Or rather cooler. Yeah. Or rather cooler. Yeah. Hell yeah. But no, I'm being attacked by ghosts that are tightening up the skin on my arm. By ghosts you mean a guy you went and hung out with and paid money to attack you?

Well, no. I mean now at this point, it's a wound is what it is. Oh yeah. It's your biology? My biology, exactly. The skin ghosts are healing the flesh and doing... They're mad at you. Exactly.

And every time you twist or flex a little bit, you feel it. That seems like a specifically rough tattoo like tattoo, like recovery process for somebody who spends all of their waking hours typing buttons, hitting buttons, and tweaking cables. Yeah. It's not much you can do. It's prime real estate. The sleeves, the sleeves are going to be felt every time I move my arm into mouse position. It's just, it's what it is. But I'm about halfway done the project. I still got some

more to go, but it's taking a while and I'm doing my full wrist to shoulder on both arms. Oh man. That's both arms at the same time? Yeah. Why not do one and let it heal and then the other? Because the designs are synchronized with each other. Okay. So it makes more sense to do it procedurally simultaneously. So, yeah. It's a whole thing. It's a whole

thing. And, you know, it's not done yet. So I don't want to like, get into it too much. Wully, are you becoming a pirate? No, I'm just becoming... No, no. I'm just becoming that that person that I've I've thought about for like 20 years now We're like I can wear like a t-shirt and have like some cool shit poking out Yeah, I when I wear a t-shirt the cool thing that pokes out is my tits. Yeah. Yeah, that's still there, but yeah That is still there, but coming right out the arm sleeve if I dip a certain way but but like the the move is to Rick Ross it right not not original Rick Ross but like the rapper Rick Ross like where you're so big and you've got your like

flopping man moves out but you're you're so inked up that it distracts from your shape yeah you go look at Rick Ross with his shirt off and it's look at that walking mural over there it's so cool you nobody gives a with his shirt off and it's looking at walking mural over there It's so cool. You nobody gives a fuck cuz he's just it's all ink. You don't the shape doesn't matter It's a secondary, you know Jelly roll does it a bit too like it works. It works. It's tech. So yeah slowly but surely, you know while and then hey if you happen to know. While and then hey, if you happen to lose some weight too, then that works as well, which I did say that this would be my reward for getting myself in shape.

And that's fantastic. Good job, buddy. That's what I'm doing. I said, Hey, my reward is to go get go get that ink. You've been thinking about your whole life. So yeah, yeah. How about you? Had a wonderful week. I took most the vast majority of the week off Me and Voluntary family. Yeah Absolutely. I had an involuntary week off. Yeah, you had an involuntary week, which we'll get to obviously Took a took a road trip Packed the baby in the car, got the wife.

We took a small trip down to Washington state, which is just a little bit across the line, through rural Washington and a little bit of Portland. Oh shit. Which is a weird fucking town. Shocker. Did any of it stick? Stick how? Did you properly inoculate yourself against the Portlandia vibes?

So like we were in, so before we get there, driving down through rural Washington. I have gone into the states at a number of different places. Like I've done it through Quebec, through the Ontario border, through Niagara Falls, and now through Washington State. And we traveled to Vancouver Island so we could go on the left side. We didn't want to go through the Seattle so we took a ferry across. It was cool. And the way that Canadians travel into the US is like distinctly unfair to the perception of the United States. And it's sad because when you do that, you're traveling through like the Monterey G like beautiful farmland in like Southern Quebec, right? Or Niagara Falls or Victoria,

which is a gorgeous city. It's the capital of BC into the rural shit hole outskirts of like Maine or New York State or Washington State in which I had to turn to my wife and go, hey, what's the deal with Americans and rusted out piece of shit cars in their yard? Like, what's up with that? Why is that in every single yard we go past? I mean, it is the same forest region across a border. But I guess you're going

from across a border but I guess you're going from like going from could have been the capital of a country to the furthest ranges away from Seattle in the state so like but like but basically across the border even though it's the same trees one side is like cabin country and the other side is haunted. Like haunted. Gotcha. We traveled through one Forks Washington. I think to answer your question if I think I can hazard a guess. I think it's because don't worry about it Danny's gonna come down when he's got it sometime and he's gonna he's gonna fix her up and she'll be good as new. I actually assume it's so you have just a shit ton

of random cars to pull replacement parts from. There's parts that we, yeah, there's always that. If it's on blocks, probably. But there's something to tinker with, you know? There's something, we can get it going. There was a... Okay, I feel like I did that with a PC years ago when I got a new one and we had our old one. And I had enough parts to just combine into another and you're like, yeah.

Woolie doesn't have rusted out cars in his driveway. He just has that pile of Dreamcasts right out of camera frame exactly exactly I mean you never know when someone's gonna want to play some emergency soul caliber we traveled through the scenic wonderful Forks Washington of note for one reason and one reason only, which Forks Washington is the setting of your favorite book and mine, Twilight. That's where it takes place. It takes place along the west coast of Washington state, and when you drive into town it says welcome Twilighters and let me tell you, let me tell you about Forks Washington. A bunch of Twilight actually makes way more sense if you

have seen what Forks Washington looks like because Bella going I can't believe I had to move to this nothing town with my dad blah blah blah from like Arizona. So the blue filter out in the Pacific Northwest, this includes BC, the blue filter is real. That is a, it just, it's blue out here. It's just blue all the time because the overcast. And then the second thing is that Forks Washington is a single street town, like the highway that goes through it and like the residential offshoot streets. It has a population of 3,000 and there's literally nothing there and everything's falling apart. And Page was like, oh, maybe we can go see the Twilight house only to discover that forks. Washington is too ugly and shitty to film in.

So Twilight, the film actually is filmed entirely east of Seattle in Olympia, and not a single frame of film was shot in forks Washington, which sucks. There you go. I Tell you now when you oh When you want to shoot New York, but you don't have New York money you shoot Toronto or you shoot Montreal. That's just the way it goes By any chance was this area also particularly Mormon

Was there a no what it was energy? Happened what it was was Bigfoot So like it's Bigfoot country and ever everywhere you go There's Bigfoot shit everywhere and on top of that we passed by the Bigfoot gun store Which had a gigantic six foot tall carved wooden Bigfoot holding like an assault rifle fucking Americans are so crazy I fucking love that sounds awesome that sounds super cool um uh yeah I I assume I assume that the that Stephanie Meyer set her story to a backdrop of quiet Mormon town,

you know? Nah, no, it's not particularly Mormon. But we get to Portland, right? And we're in Portland for like 10 minutes, and I'm like, why does Portland look so much like Montreal? Portland looks just like Montreal. Portland looks just like Montreal. It's hilly, it has a mountainous region to the north of the city where there's a bunch of residential things. It kind of looks like Westmount. It's got one-way streets everywhere. The buildings looks... It's super

weird. The urban planning itself is hipster. It's too cool for its area. And then we were passing by the noble homeless, which also reminded me of Montreal. And then I was like, hey, Paige, we've been in Portland for 10 minutes and look over there. There's that lesbian wearing a head to toe lime green sweatpants tracksuit juggling on the street corner. It's like, yes, okay, yes, we have correctly arrived in Portland. That is correct. Yeah. No, when you, when you roll past like a pack of Sarah squirms, if you know her, like just that outfit and like just you're like, you're,

you have arrived, you're here. This is Portland. Um, did you have, did you stop by a little bakery? Did you get some coffee? We did not. We did not actually ride a bicycle. We did not ride a bicycle. We did not actually spend all that much time in Portland. Like we were gone for four days and most of that was traveling, like staying at a cute little lakeside lodge, just chilling the fuck out and enjoying the drive. It's super scenic. The scenery down there is gorgeous.

And also acquiring, ugh, this! Oh! Ow! This way, way buddy this way How did you hide that shit that's crazy so I'm wearing so people who don't know I'm wearing a papoose which is a baby holder audio listeners a a pooch has been lifted into the frame out of nowhere Yo, so some bug fucker. Who's this bug fucker? What's going on first some background? So first of all? We've been thinking about getting another dog for months and months and months This was not a like oh no zangief is gone We have to get a new dog. This was in the works long before that. This little gentleman is a rescue. He used to be homeless. He lived with a homeless lady and then she died and then the family couldn't take care of him so he went down

to a place called Pacific Pug Rescue, which Paige has been following for like a full year. And then he got, let's see, he got all the mites and fleas cleaned off him. He got dental surgery, so his his mouth is missing a good deal of teeth. And he also got fitted for a wheelchair His mouth is missing a good deal of teeth. And he also got fitted for a wheelchair because his legs are all fucked up. Whoa. So if I can. So sorry, audio listeners only. So if I pull him up, you can see he's a sweet guy.

But you see these front legs? Yeah, they don't bend. Oh, he's he's permanently chicken winning winging. So he hops around like a bunny rabbit with his butt up. So we got it. We have Where's it? Where's it from? He's so we want him from we got him from Pacific Pug Rescue, and we are getting the wheelchair from Eddie's Wheels down in Portland who makes wheelchairs for disabled animals.

Holy shit. He is currently nameless. We have not locked in on the perfect name for him. Okay, but he's about to become a chariot Yes, is what you're saying to become a little baby chariot. Oh my god, and as you can see he's the sweetest guy He was just chilling on my lap in the Papoose for the first 20 minutes of the podcast Now now There's the...

Chroming him up seems to be the sentiment there. And of course, I don't think sequel names are sensitive and sensible. I think that's always not necessarily. But it is kind of funny that there is a Mecha Zangief that exists. Yes, I know. That is a funny concept. But that's not going to be his name because he's a totally different guy and we don't do sequels.

It's weird. I'm not my mom naming dogs Stella and Stella too. We literally did that bit here. Exactly. So that's great. So he is, let's see, he's a rescue, He's horribly disabled. He is super sweet. He just wants to hang out in laps and kiss all day. That's all this dog wants. Yeah, no, so far it is nothing but chill vibes.

Him and the baby love each other. They pet and he runs up and kisses baby. Him and the baby love each other they pet and he runs up and kisses baby him and the cat It's okay. He loves the cat the cat is Indifferent okay, okay, okay Very very indifferent doesn't give a shit unless he's chasing him at which point he hisses and gives him a little bop Giving a shit takes effort, you know? Yeah. So he's underweight so we gotta fatten him up. How old? He is two, two and a half. Okay. And? When I took him outside the first time in Portland, a gentleman who was rolling around in his garbage and getting high checked out this this fucked up dog taking a piss,

went, holy shit, look at that dog. And I'm like, yeah, thanks, man. Now, you looking to fatten him up or you trying to pork him up? So we gotta fatten him up, because you can't tell, but he's like poking me with every bone in his body. Okay, okay.

Because he was like formerly emaciated Okay, like he was he was doing bad. So he's got to get chunked. Yeah, so he's a he's our little rescue guy I'm trying to think if there's anything else that's important He has had airway surgery because he's a brachiocephalic pug dental surgery, and oh, he's had a talk with an orthopedic surgeon who says his elbows are fucked, that there's no hope. That he will always be chicken wings. That's for the wheezing and stuff, right?

Airway surgery is for, because pugs and bulldogs and shit their nose can be like their nostrils can be really small Mm-hmm, so they just like round them out and open them up. So they breathe gooder. Okay. Oh question from random internet surfer No, he does not have his balls. He also had a little he had his snip snip So he's he's done with his balls. Okay, and just mood is just exactly what we see here. Just just chillin Just laying just kissing Okay, he barks at people who come to the door because he gets scared Like he'll he'll like put his butt up while he actually he always has to put his butt up because he can't stand up Yeah, I mean back away and bark until he until you pet him and then he jumps in their arms

I mean to be fair like, you know off life on the streets, right? Like that Yeah, that's that's what you're adjusting from He's just a little guy. He is maybe the sweetest dog I've ever known in my life like every single night he we we go to bed and he just burrows under the covers and curls up next to somebody and goes to sleep and Halfway through the night. He decides he wants to curb bundle on their covers with the person on the other side and goes to sleep and halfway through the night he decides he wants to Bundle on their covers with the person on the other side and goes to sleep I mean the only question is are we riding on 22s with chrome are we throwing spinners on that shit like? Tend to look lame as shit

Because they all have to be custom fit to how fucked up your particular dog is if you're a power s plate and shit Get some fucking get some rims gets put some lights on that go nuts Yeah, okay But yeah, no we got this this this tiny baby, man And he is so we have two animals in the house that can't walk good Though Elmo looks like a Olympic sprinter by comparison to this guy like since today is primarily an audio podcast I'm not gonna like put him down on the floor and have you guys all laugh at him while he flops around Does he shuffle around and so he hops like a bunny and like like his his arms don't bend

So he's his elbows to his wrists like flat are always so his elbows to his wrists, like flat, are always on the floor. And his wrists are completely fucked up and ruined, and they bend in like a hundred fucked up directions. So they're just like, his paws are like useless little nubs. So he walks, he runs by like pushing with his front legs and kind of hopping a little bit and like Jamming his wrists and his hands go like fucked up in the bad direction um It's horrible. Okay, horrible So he doesn't care. He doesn't know any better. Is he like farting straight into the hardwood?

So yeah, he doesn't really fart actually weirdly enough. Okay All right. Fair enough. So yeah, this is, this is, this is, we went down there to get this guy and we had this like great like feeling where like, it's not like the stars told you, but like we, we had gone through the process far enough that we did like the phone interview and then we did the video chat interview with the charity, is that charity? Well, the rescue, where they have to look at your house. They have to be like, okay, well, we're giving you a really fucked up dog. Do you have a house that can support this fucked up dog or are you living in a shack in the woods with no power. Right? And we did that. And by the time we finished that

and we got the okay, we started doing the planning to actually go down to pick him up, that's when Vito the Pug won the dog of the year at the dog show. I don't know if you saw that. No. that. Big news in white people dog news is that a pug won the dog show. And we're like, yes, yes, this is a sign that we have made the perfect best decision. Gotcha. Is there any old name that he responds to at the moment? Yeah, but it sucks. and we're not gonna call him that okay but also he just responds to like

Camille Boy and clapping so but also I'm gonna be honest like this dog kind of lives under like under our arm on on top of our shoulder like most of the time cuz he's a lap dog through and through, which is why he's so chill to just sit here in my arms and not move. Okay, I'm getting permission from the wife to let you guys know about two of the possible names that we're thinking of. We're not 100%, We haven't changed his microchip data yet. Okay, once this goes out, it's out there. But number one and

two right now are either elbows or knuckles. and I smooth their elbows good job yeah I'm real sharp elbows nice because that's what he's got right that's great that there's a bunch of other ones but those like we the lady who was fostering him, um, accidentally called him both of those things in some of the videos she sent us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just the idea.

Just call it. Yeah. Also potential is, uh, let's see, you know, we're just going to hit, just hit them with it. Also possibilities are Wabi Biwi uncle baby and one we floated this morning, which is lemon Okay, okay I love the like yeah. Yeah, what up haircut? What up elbows? Hey good job, you know, good job, tiny That style of like nickname is always real funny. What have you just got up here? Elmo and elbows is also pretty fun.

That is like so we really loved elbows, but we were like, oh, is that like super close to the cat's name? But that's what's fun. That's what's fun. You know. And now the thing is, is if you want to go hey Sonic reference Then like yes, there's also Knuckles. You know certainly there's also a bunch of them like because there's Knuckles that you could call them Sonic You can call them turbo you can call you know like there's a I think I think I think elbows is a is more unique Than than Knuckles is personally, but like it a reference if you wanna throw the reference out.

That's hilarious. Yeah, but we're not 100% on anything just yet. We have a bunch of time before we take him to the vet for his local checkup and update his chip and all that shit. Because he got that microchip. Pug Temkin, yeah. Also, we had a really fun experience where they give you all the papers

to get your dog across the border because he's from America. And then on the ferry back, the lady next to us is like, well, you know, the CDC has new requirements for bringing animals across the Canada US border that you have to have gotten permission and signed him up with a registry months in advance. And it's like, I don't want to hear that. I don't want to, I'm sweating. I'm sweating. And I'm like, wait, CDC, isn't that from taking dogs into the US? She's like, oh, I guess it is. Like the guy didn't like, help, help banks, help me. Awesome. I'm 30 minutes away from a border guard telling me to put my dog in the ocean. Like please, please do not freak me the fuck out like this.

Jesus Christ, man. Yeah, all right lady. I don't need it. That's cool. So there you go, no that's awesome. So now you gotta learn to have him balance on your shoulders so he can suppress your inner being. So what's been happening a lot is that we're just juggling babies now.

Because we've got the cat and the cat wants to be in a lap and then the baby wants to be in the same lap and then the dog wants to be in the same lap. And then the dog is trying to kiss the cat and the cat doesn't like that and the baby wants to pet both. You're just kind of covered in babies out here It's a good problem to have yeah, yeah, yeah No, it's cool. And and the the vibe check passing across the board is is also pretty pretty yeah So he did one of the things is yeah pages in the chat saying she has not peed by herself in days One of the things is, yeah, Paige is in the chat saying she has not peed by herself in days.

Because this guy just sprints, well, he doesn't sprint. He hobbles after you into every bathroom. And then the baby, now that he's walking good, also just follows you right into the bathroom. And then I need something from the kitchen, so I'll follow her into the bathroom and be like, where's the scissors okay yeah I'm picturing like a land shark sliding around the house you know almost yeah kinda it's uh tomorrow on my show I'll put them down on the ground ah screw it all right visual bit. All right.

TBD, potentially elbows, is being put down. And okay. Okay. Standing up. All right. And there we go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. So the hind legs are up and walking around, but the elbows arebling and it's uh ass is up in the

air at all times. Oh man. It looks like a military crawl. It looks like he's yeah absolutely. That is hilarious. Oh man. It's so cute. It's like he's military crawling. You know yeah, so he doesn't have he that doesn't hurt him at all It's cuz he's got a bunch of super fucking huge calluses on his elbow. Yeah, oh by now. It's normal for sure

Mm-hmm, but he's no he's 100% like solid snaking around on the ground getting through obstacles. Yeah, that's great That's as you can tell he's a sweet and quiet boy So he's probably gonna be on stream with me a lot in this Peppos Cuz one of the things is he does not like to be alone he really Really does not like to be alone cuz like He's all he's well, you never know, but he's probably all fucked up and traumatized and shit. Oh, yeah

Oh, yeah from being homeless that comes with rescue, right and we believe he his owner died like with him so like Not the best scenario Though we did confirm that he did not eat her. Okay. That was confirmed. But still there surely was a, probably an amount of time that passed afterwards. Like that's fucked. Yeah, that sucks.

Can you, can you feel when a piss might be coming from Papoose? Okay. So, uh, he is, he is really easy for that. He's a little guy and he's housebroken, but just in case we have a little dog diaper for him. Yeah, you do. That we got from the rescue. Yeah, you do. So the from the rescue. Yeah, you do

So the main thing is that like so he got his balls chopped off So he still got that wasn't too long ago. So he's still got the testosterone which means that My male dogs in there before like when they sell the testosterone can mark Right so they can be like this is my house now.'m going to pee on it. He hasn't done that. And actually he has only asked to go outside once. Instead what I do is I wake up and I take him out at eight o'clock and he pees and then I take him out at noon and then I take him out of five and then I take it out of 10 and he does his business every single time.

Okay. Man, just elbows down, diaper up, wheels spinned. I gotta say though, this dog going to the bathroom is a farce. Ordeal? Yeah. No, it's not an ordeal, it's a farce. Okay. Because he lifts his leg, but he's like crouched over and lifts his leg

and while hobbling around in the fucking grass, it's pathetic. It's it's the most pathetic disabled shit I've ever seen in my fucking life. Floppy. Yeah. All right. Oh, but that's what's going on with this dude. Oh, can you hold on a second? I need to scroll down on on this word, buddy

Oh, no, no, no, don't do that. No Mike is being a chewed. Hello. He's snooping it No, he doesn't chew anything Part of that is I think he can't Like, you know, you do the test when well, maybe not I don't know when the last time you got a brand new dog was but you do the test when well, maybe not I don't know when the last time you got a brand new dog was But you do the test really hey, what's his teeth like it's like put my finger in there, and I'm like ah He has teeth okay. He does have teeth

Well, I can see not all of them. Well. He certainly is chewing on your heart there Pat. Oh yeah Well, he it's just like he just wants to hang out all the time on the, on the, he's a sweet guy. Hey, guess what? So do you. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but he's a lap guy. So like, I'm like, you just tuck him into the,

you know when you sit on the couch and you have that spot between the armrest and your butt? Okay. Just jam him in there. He's happy as a clam. So now what you got to take note of is like what media or what particulars catches attention, you know? Yeah, you know, we were watching TV the other night and he didn't seem to give a shit about anything.

Because once he's on the lap for a long enough period of time, he just goes to sleep. Right? He just, he's just like, I'm done. I mean, he goes to sleep. He sleeps a lot. So like, for example, last night when we were cuddling up in bed and Paige was like, you should watch a movie for the podcast. I'm like, what movie do you want to watch for the podcast, said we should watch hot frosty the story of a Netflix Snowman that came to life and he was a hot man What if about that and the dog didn't give a shit about hot frosty? I

I'm glad that it's at the point where it's straight up like admitting for the podcast the podcast tomorrow You should really watch a movie. You should do you should do something Frosty yeah, okay starring a bunch of like B listers that I'm like fucking weirded out that they're wasting their time Like okay, I don't know the name of this guy, but you might know the name of this guy He's in hot tub time machine and he hangs out with Seth Rogen in a lot of his movies and he's a tall their time. Like, okay, I don't know the name of this guy, but you might know the name of this guy. He's in Hot Tub Time Machine, and he hangs out with Seth Rogen in a lot of his movies, and he's a tall, fat, black dude that talks with a soft voice. Oh, from The Office as well. The guy who took Patrice O'Neill's like roles, basically. Yes, that guy. Craig Robinson. That's it. So he's the antagonist of the movie because Frosty hates cops

And there's the the guy who plays the weird little goblin that hangs out with Andy Samberg on Brooklyn Nine-Nine Like that that tiny cop, okay and it's just it's just like It's just a fucking piece of shit. It's just like, Fro, what a Frosty the Snowman was like a really ripped hot guy who was like, had the brain of a child and went to live with a lady whose husband died of cancer. And she discovered love through this supermodel who can't read

Sounds like someone had like a three script deal and they were two scripts done. Yeah, they needed some shit Like there's a moment like there's there's a bunch of fucking stupid cringe shit in this movie But the part where this guy who's literally been alive for one day and like can barely like function as a human being goes into her basement and starts digging through her fucking husband's chemotherapy reports and then goes upstairs and goes, Kathy, what's cancer? And then the music all drops out. And it's like, what the fuck is this fucking bullshit? Is this that I knew it was gonna be bad, because Paige picked

it out. But I didn't know that it would be this bad. Is this is this Netflix? It's Netflix original. Okay. And is this the fuck it and I get and I is this like is page catching this through like, like TikTok vibes are no, no, we were scrolling through it. And she like oh look at that that looks like shit let's watch it gotcha okay this is birdemic woman this is Neil Breen woman this is this is give me every guard this is can we have a pet that is fully functional no right but

yeah no when we saw this guy wobbling around, we were like, we have to save him and kiss on him and pet him and hug him and put him, we got him a little sweater. Because it's cold outside, Wully, you got to put your dog in a little sweater. So now the cat has a Christmas sweater and the dog has a Christmas... I'm just thinking of her... Again, the sweater up front, elbows crawling, and then just like a V8 engine in the back just boosting. Hitting speed pads. Well no, because he's going to have front wheel... Wheelchair.

Ohhhhh, yeah, right. Because his back legs are fine. Right, true, true, true. Because like the dogs that need the back end wheelchairs, they usually are incontinent. They usually just, you know, they can't go bathroom. So you have to express the dog. And that's an ordeal.

Expressing the glands, I've heard. No, no, not the glands, the dick. You need to express the dick. You push on their bladder through their stomach So they pee Now that's that's a lot That's a lot. This guy just walks like shit and He's inbred and only can look at you with one eye because the other eye is definitely looking at something else

is definitely looking at something else. I don't know which eye is the good eye. I think it's his right eye, but I'm not sure. But he's definitely looking at something else when I'm talking to him. Someone says it's rocket science. Thank you, Y, for texting me. Oh my God god he has a lazy eye like you babe that's amazing thank you. Okay okay. But yeah this is what's going on with me I also played a bunch of games actually actually The two main ones are Marvel rivals, which I'm going to assume you and I are gonna talk about in a little second So I'll leave that for for your section

And the other oh you didn't I mean shit's been on fire. Yeah, I've been busy I've been busy, but I I know it's very good, and I have played it You know last demo so okay, so I've been surprised. It's still pretty good. I'm played it you know last demo so okay so I've been surprised it's still pretty good I'm sure I've been playing Marvel Rivals late at night with this guy on my lap so that's awesome things to discover did you know that Jeff the land sharks healing beam makes a noise that terrifies dogs oh Oh, wow. Huh.

There is a really high-pitched, like, ticking noise when Jeff the Landshark heals you that terrifies this thing. Hmm. So yeah, I thought the second beta opened up pretty wide and that a lot of people got in there. But I'm not sure what the final numbers were at the end or so. But in any case, it's not like a deadlock situation where it's just kind of like, oh, yeah, it's not had their chance.

Proper out. Right. But like a lot of people are lot of people are going through that thing we went through a while ago going like, ah, OK, let's see. Oh, fuck, this is really, really, really good. Like that specific late wave is like, I'm seeing that hit people going, damn,

I wasn't expecting or wanting even to be this into this. I got people like, literally, like FoxKate literally was just like, he just sent me, oh no. Oh yeah. You know? I was like, yeah, it's like that, you know? So there's a lot going on with Marvel Rivals,

even from the very short amount of time that I spent with it. Number one, I have seen the pornographers on my timeline fucking shouting from the heavens that this game's release is a new golden era according to over like similar to overwatch these characters have always been around but now they're in the overwatch style gate look yeah specific style that you can rip a 3D model out of? That one? The style where most of the work is just done for you? Psylocke's been around forever, y'all!

That's true, but did she have a high quality like Chinese 3D asset? No. How long until they phase out all the Overwatch characters in those porn ads and phase in? I bet that's yesterday. Damn. So second of which is getting into the game of Marvel Rivals.

I saw people saying that it feels like a jankier Overwatch, and they're completely right. It is a jankier Overwatch. It doesn't have Overwatch's polish. But the reason why that is is because rivals allows the characters to do what you think the characters should do which means like we talked about this when we played the beta Spider-man and venom and shit like that and like characters like Iron Man and storm just permanently flying like

that's gonna take a while to sand down, because like, a lot of these characters can do all sorts of stupid nonsense. It feels like this game can be referred to as Marvel, with all the context within. Because there's some busted fucking shit in that game. That's an interesting thought, and I'm gonna let you finish, but first I need to confirm. So you just take the analog, like, May model out and you drop Skrull Girl in.

Yeah, you're done. And then everything works, right? But I bet all the rigging still works just fine. Okay, all right. Who else? Who else goes where? I think the Overwatch cast goes in the trash is what happens. There's a whole lot of D.Va that needs to be replaced. Yeah.

So which way we go This is important The most interesting thing that happened when I started playing rivals was What I'm gonna call like the fortnight effect so overwatch eventually overwatch 2 is free to play right like eventually they did that. Mm-hmm. Or is that by to play? I Think they had enough free to play campaigns that any given moment might be going through a temporary Yeah, chat is overwatch 2 free by to play or free to play. I don't even know it was free It's free to play. Okay, but overwatch 2 did not have the the fucking push that overwatch did Okay, but overwatch 2 did not have the the fucking push that overwatch did

Marvel rivals is proper f2p and all the characters unlocked. It's only it's only costumes. It's ridiculous Yeah, yeah I saw that they talked about what the cosmetics were gonna be like and they had that full thing about the currency and everything They're good cosmetics, too. They look really really good They do look pretty fucking good and like sure enough you're, hey, you want that Wolverine that you want? Well, there he is. The good Wolverine? Yeah, they know. And Psylocke as well, of course, with all that.

It is funny though, because it's like, now people are talking about, hey, yo, you want to go play Marvel? Hey, yo, you want to go play Rivals? And you're not talking about Marvel or Rivals of Aether? No. Like, fuck. So what's going on? It's like this is a free to play game and it's the most popular characters in the world to some degree and all that. There's 10 million new players, right?

So I'll hit quick match and my very first quick match and I double checked to make sure that these were not bots. I asked around and I checked on their profiles. This is not bots. The very first quick match I ever played in Marvel Rivals was the most one-sided shooter match I have ever played in my entire life. Like I picked cap and went in and got and went 39 and four in quick match and I was like oh you know what this is? This is the children because it's free

and because it's got Iron Man on it. The children are here in the quick match. And you have some some experience from last time and All of anyone who is learning their way is just getting stomped in immediately right now That will continue to be the case for a while. I imagine and like doing versus quick matches and like man There's some wild man, there's some wild power imbalances between like there's a lot of stops in both directions. I imagine every single Spider-Man you encounter in quick match is terrible. Is dog shit. The worst player I've ever seen in my life. Like the youngest kid playing the hardest character. It's gotta be awful.

There is, I have seen a direct link. The less, the least famous and least popular characters that I see are going to kill me. And the more popular the character is, the better shot I have at beating them. Like Spider-Mans are so free, but nobody gives a fucking shit about Iron Fist, so Iron Fist is terrifying as fuck, because people playing Iron Fist are playing Iron Fist because they want to play the character that Iron Fist is. Also, like Overwatch and other games where the game came at the same time as the characters, you don't have that attachment, so people are probably a little more willing

to move around the roles that you need to fulfill. In this, the Iron Man main is there to be Iron Man and will only ever be- I'm here to be Iron Man now, please. Or I'm quitting, right? So you're probably going to have an extremely rough time getting on your favorites if they happen to be one of the poster people.

Oh crap. But yeah. Fucking trap. As long as we can, as long as we can. Oh fuck. Can you hear me? No? Okay, hold on. Sorry about that.

No worries, there we go. I thought I could just pop the headphone cable out in like a second and come back and then I got trapped because I'm holding this dog. I would like to propose that for the nomenclature that we have, like you said, this is Marvel, and that we just keep a distinguishing, we have Marvel and then we have Marvel.

Marvel. Marvel. I can do that. So that works. All right. Let's just keep the two separate and clear. It's important to establish this nice and early. You just had that. Yeah. Yeah, don't worry Anyway, you just happen to keep that right next to you. You never know when you're gonna need to

So did you how do you feel about the new characters? You know what my feeling about the new characters is? Christ, there's a lot of fucking characters in this game. I played like ten. I played for like two, three hours and I played like ten and I would do something where I would play a match of Cap and then on the next match I would see what his buttons actually fucking did and then I play two three more matches of cap and I'll try somebody else and then I'll play matches Hulk and then I'll be like

Okay, should probably look up with their fucking buttons because they all have full like MOBA kits They all have like a full thing and some of their passives are vital to how their character works, but they're never surfaced do MOBA characters have Different like movement options Hands because like for example like I know that's a really silly question but like I imagine a lot of characters are balanced around moving when you click from one space to the other

at a set speed or so. And in this kind of game, like a team shooter of this nature, everyone has to move towards the payload at a set pace, and you have to be able to retreat at a set pace. Oh, everybody has a different fucking movement speed and fucking movement option in Mirivals. But when you have characters that can triple jump and wall run and all that stuff, you start adding a whole lot to it that, yeah, the movement gets a lot more distinct without

necessarily being like Tracer's like blink ability, for example. Yeah, so I mean- Basic movement becomes really dynamic. Yeah, I mean there's a bunch of characters in MOBAs have like, you know, one of their Q or W or E is like a movement button. Or like a drag themselves forward or teleport forward or what have you. So I guess another way of asking it is like, are there characters that have movement options that are not an ability, but it's just a movement thing?

I wouldn't know enough, but I'm gonna say yeah, probably okay, okay Cuz like yeah you like when you have characters that like in in rivals that are like They're the way they jump double jump or fly or whatever can be yeah No iron fist has a fucking could quadruple jump at a wall run exactly and it's and it is pretty Locks on to people he's hitting so that he can keep mailing people as they try and run away including people like fucking Iron Man Yeah Ridiculous or like yeah the Iron Man and storm flying and stuff

It's like like this game really has multi it's not just Farah You got to deal with you know or occasionally someone jumping up like you got to have your aim up a lot of the time Depending on the team composition. There's quite a few characters that are like, spending a ton of time. The game is, it is a game that doesn't care how hard the counters can be. Like, there are, like, Black Panther versus anyone

who can fly will just die. He has absolutely no ability to get up to them at all in any way. I mean, unless magic helps you, right? But yeah, but that's once in one spot for one moment. Yeah. Yeah. No, it does. But it does also feel like as a result of them being that liberal with the flyers, you also have a sky battle, you know, where you have a couple characters just in the air going at it, which is a nice fun dynamic as well, where you've got like a storm chasing, or you've got like an Iron Man taking out a storm and then a Hela coming back for revenge, you know, against the Iron Man.

And then it's the difference between like most of the characters and rivals don't have hit scan, so the ones that do have hitscan eat up people who fly Because people who fly are in a gigantic wide open space and don't actually move very fast Scarlet witch just getting picked off Yeah, like hey, how do I how do I avoid scarlet which is alt shoot her? Mm-hmm. It takes a couple seconds, so kill her before the alt hits you What is she you see? Overwhelming I think you something

Yeah Awesome, but yeah, no rivals is fucking great. It's dripping with money and the That's it quick that's it It's awesome and Like it's a little jankier than overwatch But like they've already patched it a couple times and it you can feel it just like slowly improving There's one really annoying thing where there's like the Marvel Rivals storyline which is like unlocked by like specific character challenges. Some of those challenges are miserable to even attempt in a match.

Oh, I haven't seen that. Because there's one that's like, as Black Panther or Psylocke use the team up ability that magic gives you five times in a match. It's like, okay, well that's actually super easy. You just mash triangle, right? But the other one is as Cap or Storm, kill five enemies while underneath the buff you get from Thor. And you're like, that can't be too hard, except nobody ever wants to play as Thor. Okay. Thor is actually super unpopular in a quick way.

Yeah. I mean, again, do it against the AI or just take out the stomp on the kids. Storywise as well, I mean, so I'm curious to know, curious to see how this whole like doom doom things get set up. But I heard that the lore pages are like really, really good. They're super exhaustive and detailed. So I read a couple of them, not to completion though, like I remember checking them out a little bit in the demo. And it seemed pretty interesting, but like I'm hearing that like altogether there are these fantastic short stories about the characters that are great codex backstory and stuff and kind of like explaining how these unique worlds that are not necessarily like the same worlds from the comics that they come from are interesting

for different reasons and stuff you know. Also the. This is a unique reality. The battle pass shit and the weekly challenges and all that, it's super easy. It's super easy and it's super lenient. You blow through them super fast and then they... every when you go to the challenge screen there's like 10 challenges that are all like unlocks in one hour unlocks in three hours unlocks in six hours so it's constantly like rolling forward but they're fucking trivial

and they last forever. Do you think when they're designing a bunch of sprays for games like this they go to some of them and they go Hey, hey, hey, hey dial that one back. It's looking too cool Make that one a little more make that one a little more lame It's got to be a basic simple one You have to you have to feel like you though only the the ones you get later are cooler and you have to earn them And feel good about it. I don't know. I feel I feel like some sprays are just Nothings and some of them are pretty pretty interesting, you know

Yeah, who gives a fuck about sprays. Let's be honest. Yeah, it's about the MVP shit. It's about the costumes Well, you know Yeah, it's great it's it's a it's a slam dunk Yeah, it's great. It's a slam dunk. It is. Even if it was a full point worse than Overwatch, it not being Overwatch is a point in its favor because of how I feel about Overwatch after all of this nonsense. Yeah. But it still is tremendously embarrassing that Marvel rivals had the audacity to rip off

Widowmaker with this brand new character, Black Widow. You know? Embarrassing. Where's your shame? Yeah, Mike Yabara's a fucking stupid bitch. The funny part is that I feel like everyone's been saying for this entire time, oh my God, it's so blatant how much of ripoff this is. They're not pretending, they're not.

The sound effects on the menus and the font are literally just Overwatch, right? But throwing that one little Widowmaker thing in there just completely throws the whole thing off the set and everyone's like, ah, what the fuck are you talking about? And not, cause one, obviously April 1964, duh. And then second, like, yeah, but it's good.

So no one, so who cares? Like, yeah, it's blatant. It's super blatant. But you know what? It's fucking good. And it's a lot of fun. Also, no one gives a shit, dude. And I mean ever roll their eyes at characters that are only technically different After building their entire company's history off of games that were not technically Shit oh Shit Space Marines oh

Like I fuck off are you serious like come get out of my face cue the penny arcade comic Yeah, man. Yeah Marvel Rivals is great I'm gonna keep at it and I'll come back on like how fucked or or Totally defined the battle passes because you know, that's kind of make or break on a lot of these things I Do know that you get like it doesn't give you all the currency back inside it. I think it gives you like Like it costs five bucks and you get like four dollars back for the next one So if you're a consistent player the battle pass probably only costs like a buck fifty Okay, which if you play this game a lot, yeah, buck fifty a month is alright. Definitely. The costumes in there are really fucking nice. Yeah, I'm still, no, I'm honestly still kind of reeling at the

like on paper idea of this blatant ripoff game from NetEase that we would be aggressively mocking forever is just really fun to play, high quality, and also like, they did the thing where we're like, oh, how cool would it be if you could take like, look at all these Marvel characters, how could they look in this art style? You know, and they're like, yeah, no, exactly. They look great. They're doing the thing that people imagined, oh, that would be pretty cool if you did that, executed, and so far like fucking flawlessly.

You play it and you become a believer because it just, yeah, it grabs you. And again, you can see your fucking characters. It's like, man, also like not only can you see your character, but the way that it's been built around the third person perspective and the shit ton of melee characters I'm playing on the personal computer and it's cross play with everybody So like half or more of the populations using controllers, I don't feel fucked by that at all Like I'm gonna grab and like start, you know headshotting from across the map as black General character movement and the way a lot of your abilities work, the controller,

like presets, acceleration, etc. are excellent and it plays good. And it's not just, that's the other thing, it's not just that it's third person and that you can play with the controller and feel comfortable. There's enough archetypes that are also like melee based that are getting in close or like doing a little bit of both. So it's not just a shooter either, right? Someone like me who loves action and you know, getting up close and stuff. A lot of these characters feel like action game characters to the point where I will say something really insane now. Marvel Rivals is the closest we will ever get to a mass multiplayer versus action game

after Anarchy Reigns. It is the closest we will ever get to that ever again. Hmm. Hmm. If... Yeah, okay. Okay. If they add a mode for shits and giggles that's just like deathmatch, you know, like just you playing for yourself against everybody, you could get even closer. Not that it's balanced for that, of course, but Yeah, I see what you mean, and I think that yeah, you're looking at the roster of

Melee characters being you know like yeah, you've got you've got choices flyers You've got choices, or you just want a traditional match Is there I didn't even I didn't even know that I didn't even know that okay? Well, that's a really different style of game actually I don't think that was active in the beta yeah I don't think that was active in the beta if so it was only teams that's interesting I'm big is that crazy is it like team deathmatch or like solo deathmatch because solo deathmatch is a fucking that's just for psychos. Wow. Like one person getting like- Team, TDM, yeah, okay.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, okay, no, no, no, yes. That, sorry. You meant solo deathmatch. That's not what I meant. I meant solo deathmatch. Everybody's on their own team. You meant Rumble in Halo parlance. Yeah, well, Anarchy Reigns, right?

Just fucking go. I'm on my team and we're all in this and we're going at it, you know? Yeah, well, Anarchy Reigns, right? Just fucking go. I'm on my team and we're all in this and we're going at it, you know? Yeah, that's what I mean. Free for all. Cool. Holy shit! We got a breaking news about Marvel Rivals from EhonTan83 when the battle pass doesn't expire when the season ends. Yeah. Yeah, they announced they announced that you don't fucking shit They announced that once you get it you can keep it and everything you get with it You can still unlock even if the whatever time passes, bro Yeah, that's great. No FOMO. It's it's a really really fucking

Reasonable way to go about it The idea of buying the thing and then being like, ah, fuck time, sucks. That's great. So yeah, Marvel Rivals is fucking awesome. It's fucking great. These are my favorite visual designs on almost every character. Like not Bruce Banner, like I think he looks like a fucking pussy, but I get that. But like that Chinese anime tech superhero aesthetic is, oh I fucking love it. It's clean, it's clean.

I love it. And the sprites, hit sparks kind of coming off of their models as well. There that moment where I'm looking at Wolverine with the X-Men Evolution haircut and then he goes, ah, and then it pops out and I was like, ah, fuck, there he is. There he is. Yeah. OK, I got to use the bathroom. So enjoy.

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All right? There was a blip and now we're back and here we are. It's the episode, right? Quality of life. What you don't know can't hurt you. That's not true. That's never been true That's one of the most biggest lies that's ever been told to everyone everywhere all the time ever And I tell it to myself all the time Ignorance is bliss. Let's go. Yeah, like I dropped that on the floor. I didn't see it. Ah, it's still good. Num, num, num, num. Yes. But no, it seems that we're, it seems like we're good. So what I was going to say, so yeah, yesterday we got introduced to name pending. Oh yeah, he's here. He's asleep though. Okay. Chillin. He's asleep. I can't, he's here. He's asleep, though. Okay, chillin.

He's just asleep. I can't even get him out. He's so in there. He's just pouched. That is an accessory, by the way. He is so in there that I can't even get him out. You have equipped an accessory. It is in the fourth slot of your inventory.

I took him out today and everybody on the street petted on him because he's so cute and sweet Yeah, no, it is a kangaroo pouch but with less mucus I Was describing to punch mom. I was like, yeah And so like because he's like hobbling around they're gonna get wheels and she's like, ah, and I'm like in the front and she's like It was the double I was like Yeah, yeah, no you can see the moment that like the fucking the diabetes kicks in the level of sugar just wait just oh But yes, I was going to take the opportunity to describe some of my adventures over the last week.

Oh yeah, what's up, bro? So there has been lots of suggestions, lots of, I suppose, confusion as well as to what exactly happened with my setup and what exploded and why and where and how. All of it. Yeah. All at once. And a lot of misinformation. Not that any of this matters, of course.

So I have to be, I have to, from somebody, I mean, I talked to you a little bit about it, right? But you going to me right before the podcast that everyone's exaggerating the tech problems only for the podcast to straight up die an hour later was really funny. It was. It was. And to then have people go, oh my God, it extends to the internet. And it's like, God damn it. That was just a completely unrelated but random, unfortunately timed sequence of events, right? And that's actually kind of what this whole thing is, the sequence of events. So I understand the jump to the conclusion in a lot of cases though, because most of

the time if someone's talking about like, oh, a streaming setup or a PC or something, you go, oh, you assume it's all happening from the same thing. So if something's going wrong, it's going wrong across the board, right? But what I've learned over the... I mean, I'm going to... This is going to probably be repeated when I need to at some point in the future. But what I've learned over the course of recording from Best Friends was to compartmentalize everything as much as possible and have your fail state, like have a limit to how far and how bad it can destroy everything. I want to say, I think it's really funny that I took the complete opposite path on that. Yeah?

Because my lesson from that is to actually have as few moving parts as possible. Parts as possible, I see. Yes, yes. That is... So the only thing that can break here is this mixer and that computer. I have two pieces. That is one way to go about it, right? I was always preferable... I was always... I always had a preference for the redundancies. And I remember... Lots of this backup mixer over here. It's sitting right next to it. Yeah, I've got my backup mixer there too, but mind you, they do like, there's some stuff

with the potentiometer that the quality changes and you can get some flickering. You remember how we used to go through those, right? This one's lasted a while, but of course these specific types that I like and that I think we both still use are, they got really hard to buy after the pandemic because everyone and their stupid idiot brother started a fucking podcast. Yeah, I still have my good two, but then I did have to get different ones as well for the other setup. But I remember when I was like, yo guys, we need to start using these backup recorders for the audio. And you guys were like, yeah, okay.

And I was like, I was like, test it out and it worked and it's good. And I was like, yeah. And then every time it'd be like backup recorder and you guys would be like, man, fuck that shit. Right. I'd be like, it's your funeral. If the thing, you know, because the feeling of losing a day of recording and having it go into the ether ruin ether is so abysmal.

It's such- Well, that's one of the things that I've, one of my favorite things since we moved to streaming Damned Near Everything on Twitch is that there's a de facto backup recording. It's live. Unless- Unless- For unknown random reasons reasons there isn't so it's all part of the law I have lost one thing ever that's gone it's gone and it is an hour and a half of FF7 remake.

Okay. That the logo recording died and Twitch's VOD died. Yeah. Okay, that's crazy. And then I replayed it and rerecorded it like a solo thing and I finished FF7 remake before someone reached out to me to let me know that I didn't actually replay the whole section that was missing. So there's a gap in those YouTube archives.

It just teleports forward. Okay. I don't think, you know, from my memory, I don't think I've lost anything since Best Friends. I think I've had everything caught in some way, shape, or form because you just never know. Right? The important thing is that all of the stuff that we make is shit. So if it does get lost, it's not the end of the world.

It is not the end of the world. No, I suppose. But to this degree, it is, and I think there's an important distinction here too as well. You primarily are Twitch focused. I primarily am YouTube focused and that changes our goals and what we create and how, right? The secondary becomes deprioritized in that nature. So all this to say that it's wild how things just kind of lined up for like anti-Kismet, you know? Because it starts with the day that I streamed Phoenix Wright last Monday, I went, okay, I've been wanting to do a little refresh, right? Do a little 2025, right? Ahead of time, the little update to things.

So got a little, been working on obviously, you saw it, you've seen I've been improving the lighting setup over here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been working on trying to just bunker down on the layouts and the stream and other things as well. Even just bit rate if possible, connection things, et cetera, looking at all of that stuff. And shout outs to Jimmy Bones, who a good friend

was able to help me out with some suggestions for improving the stream layout and reducing some load from the CPU in Like kind of shifting some of the the way that I display animations around and stuff You can do some things that are like browser based to take away the load from the actual OBS But it was interesting because so I did that stream and introduced a new frame which has a little bit of an animation to it. Then I introduced the new loading screen which has the ability to play songs off of a much

off of Spotify which has a much larger screen. Yeah, yeah. I saw that the other day. It was cool. Yeah. Furthermore, it's not going to get copyright dinged because none of it hits the VOD, so it's isolated, right? So that's tech that people have known about for a while, just using that so that we can just get better music out there and have more fun while not worrying about the impact.

Plus, I'd rather do that than play the MP3s off my desktop, which can lighten some of the OBS load. That all works out except for, well, basically, even though that stream was totally fine, there was some hiccups we noticed on the next stream because the difference between loading in some animations where originally there were static images, it turns out, was creating just enough extra CPU load that things started to stutter. And a lot of the optimization that he was showing me and stuff that was good was good if you had most of your tasks being handled by the GPU, which I did not have my OBS set

to, I was doing it all on the CPU because I didn't have... Really? Yeah. My stream setup did not have a particularly... It wasn't a strong one. It was a gaming PC, but it didn't have a particularly crazy... It didn't have a new Nvidia card. Exactly. Right? So everything was going on X264,

which essentially just means that the CPU is what's handling it. So what happens there is you end up seeing the CPU spike go up while streaming, that leads to some stuttering, that leads to the video getting choppy and or the game and things like that and all these undesirable effects.

The solution after streaming, well, yeah, I'm jumping all over the place a little bit, but I streamed Cyberpunk and then I tried to stream a thousand times resist and saw some stuttering and we kind of went like, okay, the stuttering is getting too bad, let's cancel and fix that. The solution would have been to either revert to a very simple flat image only layout or get a better system that actually has a proper GPU that can handle the load, right?

Because a newer Nvidia card, I've been using those for a while, makes OBSBS super simple because it's like a, I want to say it's like a 1% performance loss on a GPU task. The magic comes from, and this is the first good thing I can say about fucking Windows 11. Damn. But Windows 11 has GPU scheduling.

Yes. And that is a feature that was supposed to work in Windows 10 but did not work properly, but works properly in Windows 11. And what that does is just completely offloads the stress to your graphics card and leaves your CPU clean. So the irony is that since I moved to Windows 11, I've had some annoyances as a user. Yep, times.

But as doing podcast and stream stuff, it's actually been way smoother. The ability to hold up a window to the top of the screen and then it auto sorts all of them into clean little boxes. Yeah, saves me like 10 minutes a day. I kind of been doing I was doing that with 10 anyways. And I over time I do realize I'm like every time I get a windows and whatever this there's all this bloat and you have to spend a while

deep bloating it, right? But anyway, so 10 had this feature, but the feature wasn't working properly. So you know what? Let's go get a new system. So I bought a new laptop for streaming and this one in particular has its, it has its 32 gigs of RAM and it has its RTX 4080, right? Oh, you mean the bare minimum amount of RAM

to play stalker two? Sure, sure. What's, but what's important to note here and what I was kind of getting at earlier is that when something's happening with the computer that the game is running on, that has nothing to do with what's happening with my stream. They're completely separate computers from each other. It's just a video feed going from one to the other.

So the thought that like Cyberpunk blew the stream up or so, I was like, no, no, no, none of these setups are touching each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the stream PC died by itself. Yeah, so that was the improving the stream by putting the little extra doodads and doohickeys on it led to the oh shit the CPU problem therefore let's go get a better thing and now that I have the 4080 in place When I look at the CPU load and I have the scheduling on it's like 1% 0.1%

It's nothing it is it is Non-existent, right? Excellent. It's night and day difference. It's ridiculous. And that's all made so that you can run the game and stream from OBS without much worry on the same system. But the idea that I was seeing load stress while not running a game on the system, that's not great. That's bad.

That was a clear indicator that something's off there. So what I discovered in that process was that something I had looked out for and made my laptop, my previous streaming laptop options limited, was I always wanted one that had the ability to take an input in, line in, microphone and headset, right? They don't do that anymore. They just don't.

Even the best, even your highest end are all just going, yeah, and obviously line in is, I don't wanna go through USB if I can avoid it. You want your line in quality. And so, using an optical or having the port be like turning a headphone port into a mic in port. It's like there's problems with that setup because sometimes if I have a Discord call in, we need to be able to listen to ourselves. It's a sophisticated setup where basically I need to do a lot to make

it sure so that a call from a Discord can land on our mixer. We can hear it, the audience can hear it, but it doesn't get recorded with the game, which is also being recorded, you know? So all these hoops and nonsense to say that, thankfully the mixer that I, not the mixer, but I have a visualizing board that has a line in that I had to set up. So it took a day to figure out a lot of this stuff and I repositioned all of that.

So yes, new laptop is in place. Everything works with that. That's great. Shout outs to the streamline of people that are all so annoyed at Windows 11's fresh installations that they just have a bunch of command prompts, things you can run to delete. Turn that shit off. Yeah, just delete all this bullshit. And Windows 11 pushing things like, here's the gallery,

here's the home view, here's this or that, or here's the thing where we put the start menu in the middle and try to make, I'm like, fuck all that, leave me alone, classic shower. No, put my start menu in the middle and try to make it like fuck all that. Leave me alone. Classic shower. Start menu in the bottom left, please. Put it in the bottom corner. When I click it, pull up a fucking start menu.

I don't want any of that shit. And thankfully, yeah, everybody agrees as well and has like set it up so that you can get past most of that bullshit. So that is where the stream was at. Aside from that, Cyberpunk, which I did start. Well, I would like to raise my hand and I would like to tell you that you have a genuine gift. I have never seen it before and I doubt I'll see it since that like you got to make your character and then they're like, Hey, shit heads, the first patch in like over

a year coming at you now with more character creation. Two point two, baby. I hope you didn't make your character yesterday, you dumb bitch. Two point two. Unbelievable. It's like over and over and over and over. Oh yeah, I love it. I wait and it just happens. It's ridiculous.

Yeah, tons of new cosmetic options and I started early enough that you know what? Even though I didn't see some visual options or some character customization choices, I can go and see what they are now because. Like just, every game for you is an owl cat game. It's great. I ultimately went with Fem V because I didn't like the hair options on Guy V, you know?

But now we'll just go take a look. Yeah, why not? Fuck it. Sidebar, by the way, I noticed you can look in your mirror and update yourself, but you can't change your Chrome, right? Until you go to a reprodactor, I guess? It's been too long for Pat. Pat doesn't remember.

Okay. Because I noticed you can change all your features except your implants, which were part of the character customization options, but then were not in the mirror, right? So okay. So yeah, I guess go to a thing. Or now you can. Is it part of the update? Is that what folks are saying? Okay. So yeah, I guess go to a thing. Or now you can. Is it part of the update? Is that what folks are saying?

Okay. Well, I'll say that as of the not update, when you looked in the mirror, you could not change that aspect of you. I guess you have to go to a Ripper Doctor. So anyway, the... Oh, yes. And as far as the stream goes as well, because of all of that improved stuff, then yes, we can stream at 8,000 bitrate and be solid.

Absolute maximum quality on all of that output as well. Took the opportunity to redo all the lighting as well. The lighting that you're seeing over here on the podcast, I also have kind of going over there. And we have a bit more to consider because there's a screen in front of us. That new bit right is killer. Yes, it's very nice. I do like that. And also I know that we do have a little bit of extra leeway as partners because I have so if you go get that are you are you part of the twitch enhanced broadcaster beta I don't think

so okay because if you're in there and they flag your account I forget where you apply but we could find it really easily you can run that shit at 18,000 Kbps, like high, like high as fuck. Okay. And it will kick your shit out at 1440p. God damn. And I tested that for a couple days and it looks awesome with one very extreme problem, and that is that Firefox users caps out at 720p instead. Because Firefox doesn't support the codec that they're using. So does it just not show you or does it downscale?

So what it does is that if you're watching it on Chrome, you are able to watch 1440p60 and it looks really really good and if you're watching it on Firefox it's at regular 720p downscale 60 and it looks fine. And then if you try to export the Twitch VOD from Twitch to YouTube it breaks and YouTube goes I don't know what to do with this. Okay. Sorry, Flareon users. That sucks.

That's unfortunate. Why couldn't it be like Edge that it didn't work on? It works on Edge. Yeah, that sucks. Like, fuck that. Because Firefox doesn't have like some kind of codec support that is required. Okay. doesn't have like some kind of codec support that is required. Hmm, okay. Well, in any case, I do know that like regularly 6k is the cap, but like we like I think partner gets to go up to eight without perhaps that beta. So I mean, we're

talking about like quality that is approaching miniscule as we increase to that level, right? Like I don't know that outputting in 4K is going to be standard just yet, but... Oh, it's... No, 4K is going to take... Oh, it's going to be far away. Streaming in 4K, you know? Yeah. So most people still, the top resolution I think is 720p actually, because people watch...

Most people watch our shit on their phone. Of course. And the other bit is too is that like all of these technology Advances and stuff are built around the idea that like the landlines are not getting better Right. Yeah, you're bill you're finding more efficient ways to use garbage pipes Well, hey man, it's like gas mileage Like gas mileage used to be like complete garbage until like federal regulations in a bunch of countries came down and said, hey, you could fucking do better with the gas mileage on these cars.

And then as soon as that happened, all of a sudden, oh, hey, wow. Hey, look at that. Yeah. Yeah. Put a bunch of scientists on it and wow, gas mileage has doubled. Unless you're in Asia, in which case your internet is just fucking blinding you with its FPL. Yeah, but Asia's like small and compact. No, Asia's not small, but I mean like urban centers

are like very compact in that. Yeah, Japan and Korea. For infrastructure reasons. Exactly, yeah. So anyways, so yeah, that's all. Asia's big actually. That's all nice and improved. So Cyberpunk, which then yes, has just gotten this update.

Also improved. It certainly did. And starting that out, I did a bunch of... So I did some benchmark tests and set things up well in advance because when I announced that I was like, hey, I was going to get ready to do Cyberpunk at some point in the near future, I went and started looking into configuration options to see what would work best with the computer. And what I landed on seemed to be good, but then other opinions, you know, about what to try. Other opinions. I fucking hate those.

What to try and what not to try came in. And of course, we're talking about tweaking PC settings on a game here so that stuff can go heavy and go long and can end up taking up a whole lot of a stream where some people... You can turn that shit up You can. Real fucking high on cyberpunk And some people are super down and love that and some people hate that and I'm just like right, okay So like how do we how do we know, kind of split the difference here? And once crash starts to occur, you go, oh, okay.

This is not- Time to turn this shit down. Well, this is not a matter of let's make it pretty. This is a matter of can we fucking make it work, right? When I see- Oh, hey, I'm gonna. Yeah, when I see FPS you know negative a billion or whatever turned off yeah I'm like that's a bigger threat than should

we have ray tracing on or not or no what you should do is if you have an Nvidia card you should put on DLSS and turn off frame generation that's my that's my backseat that everyone everyone has said frame gen off and that has pretty sad sounded pretty convincing, etc. However, DLSS, guess what? No hates it doesn't like it doesn't work. No good bad. Really? Yep. Off. Nope. No wild. That's crazy. So here I can take a long time explaining this part, but I won't.

Let's just get to the nitty gritty of it. How cyberpunk? So I enjoyed that first stream. I thought that was very cool. I also, you know, I was describing how like, yeah, there's the mods and friends that have gotten together and like talked about like, hey, here's what you should probably take a look at and where's what you can avoid to not bloat the LP up too much. And that stuff is, yeah, pretty nice and useful to have. But even kind of with that, there's an element of it where I'm like, oh, I can

feel here that like, I'm looking at things and things are being said. And like things are moving and happening in a game in a way that I'm like, shit, I like have a lot of missable dialogue moments and flavor that are going to just kind of come and go in this game for me. I can feel that it's really dense. And instead of just pretending I don't see it and ignoring it, and then having people go, they just said that dude, what the fuck, how did you miss it? I'm saying in advance that I'm feeling like the information wall, right? I also think I saw someone mention that this is my first open world RPG.

Is it? And I'm like, what is that term then? Because it might be. Okay, did you play any Bethesda games? No. Any of those oblivions. Okay, did you play any Bethesda games, any Fallout games? Did you play anything by CD Projekt Red?

Is Elden Ring? No, is Elden Ring? No, absolutely not. No, that's not going to, okay. No, okay, I'm gonna break it down in the dumbest possible way. Have you played a game in which you are in a first person

perspective nearly entirely in which you are doing RPG quests in a gigantic open world and you have a skill tree? Doing compliance on Deus Ex, but was not the same. Okay, you played Deus Ex Human Revolution. That's an immersive sim, it's pretty close! But I have a line, I don't have the full game completion run. I have-

Oh, you never beat? No, I have a specific test case run that I have of that game. Oh, weird. Yeah, I didn't do the whole thing like that. We were weird. Oh, then yeah, no, this is definitely your first of this genre then.

Okay, cool. It's a good one. Now. All right, don't fucking scream at me for Saying don't call me crazy. I don't know I'm legit asking like I I don't know that I've played any of these types of games before um someone said hey it is and I guess so it is then I think That what I was about to say just left my brain, and now I look stupid okay, so we wouldn't count the from soft games because you are

doing Not like when you say RPG ing I guess we're talking about the like What the more like did you play kingdoms of omelette reckoning Yes, okay a bunch of that. Okay as well. Okay, that is by far the closest thing to Cyberpunk 2077. It's not that close, but it's the closest touchstone that you have. But just to finish the thought, the reason why you're saying that a Souls game doesn't count is because it's not as much character relationship and dialogue elements.

Yeah, basically your interaction with characters are bordering on nil. And its interaction with combat is... How do I put this? This is one of those vibe things that I don't really know how to get across. How do I put this? I don't it's this is this is like one of those vibe things So dialogue dialogue so dialoguing dialogue though Yeah, the amount of dialogue you have to deal with in an Elden Ring game is and going to shops more driving to stores And quest locations like okay All right Tsushima is an action game Tsushima is a

Did you ever play Far Cry 3? No game. Sushima is a... did you ever play Far Cry 3? No. Okay, so Far Cry 3 is the template for like every single open world game that came out after it. Like more so, more than Assassin's Creed. It's Far Cry 3, like specifically the way that you kill like little animals in the environment to upgrade your fucking ammo quivers and shit like that. Tsushima, all the first party horizon, like Sony shits, those are all just Far Cry 3 games. Spider-Man is like Far Cry 3. Okay, well then I guess this person's assessment is probably on point.

Cool. So yeah, this will be a new experience then you're you're also entering into the cyberpunk in in a very strange way Similar to the way that you entered into Mass Effect In by the time you got to cyberpunk and Mass Effect 3 they are Fundamentally completely different games than they were when they came out Okay, like the amount of massaging and extra development that those games had compared to their release is enormous. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah, I played some Baldur's Gate 3.

Didn't finish it, but I do have that. No one did. I do have that. Shut up, new millennium. Anyway, yeah, so that's cool. I like new things. That's fun. But yes, all I'm saying is that I can feel here that the pace at which characters and the world is happening and things are going on, I'm like, ooh, very, very dense.

Definitely the type of thing that I would be fine with off stream, but on stream, the attention divide makes it, it's gonna be a lot. So I, and like, yeah, no ability to quickly check the log of dialogue or so is also, you know, perhaps gonna come in handy. I'm not gonna have any. No, it's not like that. It's like hear it or don't, and that's it.

Yeah. So why haven't I finished Baldur's Gate 3? Well, with what time, my friend? It's a bit tricky. I would like to do it on stream if... I was about to restart Baldur's Gate 3 again and then the day that I did, they announced 12 new subclasses. So all this to say, yeah, the parts where things were working were awesome. And I really like the, I think I designed a cool character and I like the setup and I like going Corpo as an option there.

I also went Corpo. It is definitely the best start. It has the longest intro. It's the most interesting. That sounds like just of the three, that sounds like a fun, interesting perspective on the city to pick up. If we're all going to land in the same place, it's just sounded the most interesting. And I'm happy that people lost their bets on which I would pick.

And I'm happy that Reggie was like, blah, because I'm like, nah, of these three settings, starting in the fucking rat race in the tower absolutely sounds like a wild thing to then fall to the streets from, you know? Yeah, it just sounds like the most interesting. But we'll find out, I guess. I've also seen people making reference to the fact that it doesn't come back in nearly much of an impactful way. No, what happens once you get into the main game is 99% of the game is written as if you pick the street kid storyline and then you'll get a quest that is like, remember that you're a Corpo? And you're like, yeah.

Okay. So that's all cool. A bit of a... So, yeah. Those crashes, rough. Saw a couple of them. Everyone saw them while they were on stream. And it was like, okay, let's get into damage control mode and see what we can do here about this.

And again, fortunately, the stream could keep going while the gaming PC figured out what was happening there. So to that end, some initial kind of Mass Effect LP vibes in the sense that there is a number of people that are just like, so what's with the mods? Why even do that first time, et cetera? So I actually spoke to Asuna about that exact question and they told me the mods and they were really minor.

They're very, very quality of life convenience. Pretty much, and that's why I kind of wanted to show them up front because it was like, if you're, this is not that big of a thing, right? It should not be at the very least. If you are just on the outside going, oh, something is exploding, that must be it. If you don't know and you're just throwing a dart,

then you're going to jump to that conclusion. But it is fairly minor. And here's the thing, I can back that up because guess what? Turned mods off, booted that shit up, still crashed. Yeah, absolutely. OK, uninstalled mods, went back in, played with video settings, still crashed.

Nothing to do with them. So throw that entire theory out. That's founded in nothing. I continued tweaking within the settings to see what I could figure out and what would smooth it out. And ran into, yeah, some really ugly ones. In particular, for some reason, ray tracing off caused crashes sooner than being on.

And I was like- That is dating back to the game's original release. It is super weird. I don't get it. But yeah, I've had, the game is more stable with ray tracing on So then folks were Like also talking about how they're like, oh, yeah

I remember in the less stable version of this game those same crash points as well Like these are some things that people had talked about like saying Yeah, the tutorial has a tendency in the VR sections to just fall apart Yep And so that's where I loaded my safe in for a lot of these tests and that's where I was testing and seeing it fall apart the worst, right? Okay. So in that, it's like, all right, well, to be fair now, I'm thinking about how like mouthwashing had that weird crash in it the other day.

Yeah, which was awesome as fuck. It was awesome. It was a pretty good value add, but nonetheless, it's like, okay, is it the computer? Is there something going on here that I need to and it's like, you know the game has been Notoriously launched in a shitty shape, but it should be fine now people have not seen issues on their end So let's let's look into it So Here's what I do I update of course all the Nvidia settings

and all the latest drivers and everything to just go full overhaul of that. Setting Nvidia to optimize creates the worst working version. Yeah, don't do that. Ever, by the way. So immediately, just on test, I'm like, oh, let me click on the optimize and run, no, fuck that, doesn't even get to the goddamn title screen.

So unoptimized let's go back to the settings I had to okay driver updates etc all that fine we're good to go let's see how the computer is doing so benchmark I benchmark with prime 95 I use 3d mark and to get a bunch of extended tests and get results from that mem testtest86, I run Furmark, I run CrystalDiskMark. I do... You're running fucking Furmark over here? You are very serious. Every single possible test on every component

of my computer to see if there are any identifiable problems that would be creating consistent issues across me, let's play. Everything passes, not a single issue to be found. No problems. I'm not overclocking, my temperature is not flying off the handle into the 90s or even really 80s. Everything's showing up green, under control, no problems.

I think overclocking might be the least worthwhile thing you can ever do to your computer and before you guys with your ice rigs freak out It's because so much over the past like it used to be super easy Like you want half-life to to run better and you have the cooling for it fucking kick it up Just fucking go in there and tweak the voltage, right? But now you've got these these direct X and all that shit where it's like hey, my game is crashing constantly Well, did you overclock it? Yeah, don't overclock it. Right.

The game is being built with the assumption that it's running on factory defaults and it will just go crazy if it's running at weird fucking numbers. Now you've watched me sit there and spite fix like emulators that aren't working properly. Yeah, it was weird. I'm just used to that.

I'm just used to sitting and tinkering with getting a thing working like that when it's not. But because I don't PC game very often, I haven't really done this much and I'm just very used to being like, ah, just fucking load up the console, keep it simple, right? But I do have that and I have done this for other things.

And like to turn a PC into a console I will tinker aggressively he'll do it but not for the PC to like specific software right hilariously but anyway all these tests show that everything is actually quite fine and that there are no issues to be detected there. So, um, that means it's Cyberpunk's fault! I mean... Or it's your QA field. Well, look, as a final bit, I went and I uploaded my cross save shit to the, you know, the account, and I got Cyberpunk for PS5 anyways. Yeah.

And I booted it up. Yeah. And I loaded my save. And guess what happened? What happened? The fucking console version of Cyberpunk crashed. Well, that's, okay, well that's rock solid then. That's that.

So I will not be gaslit. I will not be told otherwise. This game is built on twicks. It's built on string and leaves. And as far as I can tell, that's just going to be the state of it. It's like- Well, could you just return the slab, please?

Could you just return the slab, please? Could you just fucking... ...like, re-dairy those bones you dug up, and fucking say the prayer, and just... The game is fixed. Is it Idris? Is it though? Is it really though? I mean look man, I gave you the thoroughest breakdown I could of this system, this game and everything. I have QA'd it. You talk about the QA field, right? I took a couple days here and I ran QA.

The game is not fucking solid. It is not reliable. It has its problems, and there's nothing I can do about those. That's Poland, brother. All right, okay. I hope everyone that hears this fucking gets it. So with that said, here is where, here is where now,

stability is found when for some reason, motion blur turns off. Okay. I turn motion blur off and suddenly I'm able to make it further and smoother than any other time. That's weird. Not the more intense features, mind you. Right? No idea.

So while I was playing it, some folks were like, I hate that shit, turn it off. I'm like, I don't even know how I feel about it yet. I have never seen anything more contentious than me saying, I think I'm going to leave the motion blur off and a good 30% of the chat just starts vomiting into their own fucking floors. Yeah. And I'm like, I don't understand what the problem is. Yeah.

No, I'm not going to be... I'm... Okay. When it's not being responsible for fucking the game not moving or issues happening or so I don't even know how I feel about it yet So I'm like, let me leave it on and see and then if I feel what people's hatred is and I agree with it Then I'll turn it off But I'm not just gonna turn it off out of for no reason just if it's not doing anything

But it turns out that for some reason now no reason just if it's not doing anything, but it turns out that for some reason now, the game has been able to go smoothly with that. Am I going to sit here and swear on that and say that that is the linchpin that's going to hold this whole fucking house of cards together? No, I don't think so. But for some reason, I have not had a crash ever since I've left it off. Right? Oh, I'm seeing people say that motion blur makes them sick.

Well, just get better stomachs, guys. Come on. Gotcha. Okay. Got him. So, the plan is to run it with that off, proceed as I have managed to do so. I'm also gonna do a full, I got a suggestion to completely uninstall video card drivers and completely reinstall in case there's some residue.

Yeah, driver cleaner is the one to go for for that. In case there's some residue, right? There is often actually some residue. Okay, so we'll see about that. And yeah, I'm just going to run it this way and see how that goes. And at all times, I will have the PS it this way and see how that goes. And at all times, I will have the PS5 version sitting there in the background, just ready to go. And that's an option as well. And that's it. That's the game plan. That's the solution I came to. And Cyberpunk is...

I mean, of all the games to fucking test it, right? The game where you're in a shitty fucking tech world and Things are exploding regularly like it does feel a pretty how about you? How about you go through this level of tech support with your arms and legs wouldn't that be fun, right? And yeah, what it just and like a lot of this then you know Goes on to What happened to the VOD. Well, it just so happens, completely separate from the stream issues,

completely separate from the game issues, Twitch just didn't VOD the game. Oh, that's super funny. It just didn't VOD the game when it was playing. That's funny as shit. I was like, oh, I've heard, yes, so Paige apparently had her option get turned off automatically on things or so. Yeah, Paige was playing New Vegas with a new radio station added and her account's not in trouble or anything like that.

There are so many DMCA notices on these that we're going to just not publish your VODs at all. Right. Okay. It's auto-published off now. So that did not happen. My publishing was still on. Everything was still set to put out VODs.

And in fact, I recorded the next day and it was going fine. The beginning of my 1000 times resist stream was being archived properly. So I'm like, oh, it's not that setting. Is it the copyright music thing? And it's like, nope, because that was going to a different... No, sometimes that just happens. Yeah. Right?

So I get in touch with Twitch support and I'm like, hey, can you help me? What's going on here? And then the person on the other line is just like, oh, make sure that your settings are set correctly. Make sure that you've turned I'm like fucking goddamn it right no no that's gone So they're not pulling that out of the fucking ether that's done. I contact a I go through the more direct helpline and they

Go oh like yeah, it seems like it seems here that we can see that there was either an encoding or network issue. That's why it didn't get archived. And I was like, okay, I'm currently with the same settings and setup with nothing changed because overnight I went, I'm not going to touch it. I clicked the button again, and I'm currently successfully putting a VOD out. So how do you explain that? And then they oh shit. Okay, so it turns out that yeah, there's a an encoded a feed issue that we are currently dealing with that's a known issue and That's why it didn't archive that's on our end and I was like, okay, but people did make clips so something existed right and

Can I is there anything I can do? And they kind of were just like, we can't recover a VOD that never existed to begin with. Bold. Yeah, so that's a long way around to say, they went, oopsie, whoopsie. It went a fucky wucky. And then, fucky-wocky and then fan that happens to work at twitch sends me a DM and goes hey I work in the back here I found it here it is can can can I make friends

with this person also, please? Sure. That seems like a very helpful person to be able to talk to. And so the plan was to just be like, okay, well, the initial thing, oh, I forgot to say, when the VOD didn't go up, I was like, well, I still recorded the entire thing in audio format and separate from the stream, and I still recorded all the video directly, so this has, even though the stream broke or whatever,

I still have my own local shit. The only thing I'm missing is our cameras, so we'll just put it up, old school style, no cameras, and that'll be that. Yeah, that'll be fine. And then someone got in touch and went, yo, actually, here you go, I've got it, I found it in the archives know in the archives or whatever behind the scenes So it's like oh my god. It did exist. It's just yeah, we're not gonna be bothered

It's hard to find right so hey, let me let me tell you as somebody who works somewhere that there were items in the back And people asked if it's in the back No, it's not and there's nothing in the back. Yeah, there's nothing in the back. You know what, man? Sometimes there is something in the back, but I'm going to go back there and fucking piss and just take a non-sanctioned break and then come back and say I couldn't find it. Also, thanks to Arasaka Corp, I've managed to get, we got our hands on that and yeah, that's why the video exists in the episodes that are going up and it's normal. Completely just on its own unrelated random issue. So then the day after when I streamed A Thousand Times Resist and I saw the quality issue and

stuff we took it down and this is where I figured out all of the things I just told you and here we are today where as far as I can tell everything is good to go quality is higher than it's ever been lighting is more dynamic than it's ever been and that game is set to fall apart at the gust of wind that comes from the east. So hopefully it'll just remain westward. When's your next cyberpunk stream? Well, so this is the problem because of yesterday's internet stuff. We're streaming now.

And then as soon as we're done here, I'm going to take a break and then Reggie's gonna come over late and then we're gonna start an LP for a thousand times resist because I don't wanna, I feel bad having to delay that shit twice. So this is a big boy day for you. Big boy double day.

And then tomorrow is going to then be, I think it was Phoenix Wright or was it Cyberpunk? I forget, but it was gonna be one into I think it's Phoenix, right into Then game award shit. So I was so I'm basically doing like quadruple shifts For the next two days, I would highly suggest to you. So how far are you in cyberpunk right now? I got to I got back to my apartment. Okay, I would highly recommend, so what's the version of that save you're running? Does it have the mods on or off?

Oh, the mods don't affect the save. Okay, they don't, you can load the save. Yes, with or without. Without them, oh okay, great. Yeah. Okay, then nevermind, I was about to say like, you might want to make a clean file if this shit's just fucky-wocky.

Oh, I'm gonna go check out the 2.2 shit regardless, right? And at this point, I've run that tutorial and that initial rescue mission enough in this testing. Oh, you can go fast. That I'm just gonna roll through it. So I'm gonna go check out 2.2 and see what's going on. And yeah, who knows, right? We, where we'll roll through it. So I'm gonna go check out 2.2 and see what's going on. And yeah, who knows, right? We, where we'll land on it.

But, mods definitely do affect saves, okay. If you can, if that's confirmed and locked and that's a fact and a sourced back up thing you can confirm, then cool. But it's from, as far as I've been told and as far as I've seen, when you turn them off, you can still load and it seems to be okay.

The minimal mods we're using that are not heavy mod at save affecting things, don't do it. So please back up what you're saying and confirm that you know what you're talking about. All right? I don't fucking, da, da, da. Anyways, all right, so that's what you're talking about. All right? I don't fucking, da da da. Anyways, all right, so that's what we're doing. It's gonna be a busy two days.

And I appreciate everyone's continued steadfast patience as I proceed to lose my fucking mind. So. I'm glad you had fun. Game's great. Game's very cool. I like the part where we pulled up and watched Max Tack, and it was like, oh fuck, it's Max Tack.

And then it's, yeah. And then you see a trauma team, and you're like, oh fuck, it's trauma team. And I'm like, oh yeah, Edge Runners really did hit those bullet points right away It absolutely did. Yeah, I like the two things that fucking terrify you immediately you see like nice and early in that anime So like right away you're like, oh, hey, this is a cool. Oh, no, this society sucks. It's terrible It's like the worst thing ever. Oh fuck. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And while I was doing this, I also had the

moment to read the lore books that you pick up the first two or so. And fuck, those are good lore drops that I don't know if I can ever read them while we're on stream because it's going to slow things down a lot, but they're really good. To a fucking crawl probably, yeah. They're really good. I're really good, you know? I don't feel like, outside of walking around the initial Arasaka base, I don't feel like I lingered too badly on anything, but it was still like,

bro, fucking the tutorial with the guns and shit is supposed to take 10 minutes, how did it become 40? And I'm like, I don't know, you saw me do them. I don't know what you want me to say. And I also hate sprinting and running past dialogue and shit. I'd like to experience the video game. So I will say one thing, and I don't know how this will affect your particular LP, but when I was playing

cyberpunk, I played for a while, I didn't get that far. But it's the only game I have ever played in my entire life that I would get out of my car and just walk to my waypoint because they did a really incredible fucking job just making a realized urban location. I feel like I want to, and I feel like I'm going to have to do that off stream perhaps. Yeah, no, the distances are enormous. Yeah.

I don't want my desire to, okay, I don't want things to take forever, but I don't want my desire to please people who are impatient ruined my first experience with this game that I really enjoy and I think is cool so far. There's a degree to which it's like, yeah, fucking too bad. I want to enjoy my experience. You can delay nothing for like a minute, guy. I'm getting one here, right? That's kind of the idea behind like, why put in more respex? The game is only supposed to give you one. I'm getting one here, right? And that's kind of the idea behind, why put in more respecs?

The game is only supposed to give you one. And I'm like, yeah, but I'm only getting one run at this. And I really want to enjoy it. So I'd like the ability to do more than one at a time. The one respec is super weird too. Right? Like one? Like really?

That's so strange that they would allow it, but only once. Yeah, it is very weird. Cause if you balanced for no respecing whatsoever, I'd understand, but it's like you balanced for no respect whatsoever, I'd understand but it's like you balanced to allow it but you just don't want it to be more than one time. Okay, I don't know.

What I can say is that fortunately and Reggie and I have like kind of talked about this and stuff but this is just one of those it's highly anticipated and therefore it's one of these like lightning rod LPs, right? Every once in a while we'll start out playing a game that's very, very highly anticipated and very liked and it'll bring around a lot of people who have a lot of very strong opinions and a lot of those people are folks that are also coming back that haven't been around in a very long time, slash are tuning in for the first time, slash don't give a fuck about what's regularly going on. Yeah. This thing because you're like starting it.

You're like hell yeah my numbers are super good and then you're like oh no it's filled with shitheads. Detecting those is something that I was not able to do the first couple times I did this. I feel like I've gotten a good bit better at that. And that's where something that is like in the background, I think you, I mean, we all have this, I don't know how much the audience kind of knows this as well, but like, there's a lot of names we recognize. We kind of know the regular people. We kind of know. I'm looking at a ton of names I recognize right now.

Yeah. And so as I scroll and I see names and opinions coming in Memory weight attached to those names is going to carry a little bit here where I'm like, oh, I know you you're regularly around You're not an asshole. Okay. Yeah, I'll take your Guy why are you talking shit? I think my favorite is Person who's polite persons who's's nice, and you're like, oh hey, so and so, and then in the back of your head, I'm like, this person has the worst taste of any human being I've ever encountered in my entire life.

Literally every single statement they ever make about I wish it was like this, you're like, who the fuck would ever want it like that? What the hell, are you a non-human? What is going on? This feels like the worst possible Parasocial statement and enabling thing to give out there. But yes, I do actually recognize a lot of your names and vibes

To the point where I've said to people in person Why did you close with your tag instead of opening with it? Of course, know who you are. Like, yeah, I've seen that name pop up. I've read it aloud multiple times. What's up? How you doing? I've seen this name 93 months in a row in some cases. Yes. Even right now, there's like 30.

There's like, yeah, three, four, four of you guys. I know you. I know you. I know you. I don't know who the fuck y'all are. But you're cool. Get in. You're cool. You're cool. you're cool, you're not.

You know, so that comes into premium when we start a game like this, because if you're somebody who's like, if you just don't give a fuck otherwise, but you're tuning in here and you have a lot of strong negative opinions, I kinda don't care what you have to say because you're making things worse as an experience. Just FYI, I'm going to be putting that little filter up. It's the only way to survive this

level of unexpected tidal wave, you know? But I'm really, really like impressed. Sorry. I think my favorite part of that is that you just look at somebody and you're like, I know not to listen to that comment. Oh, I can see the person who I don't know whose comment I don't give a fuck about right now going by. There you are.

You see it? That one? I see it, I see it right now. I don't know who you are, you see that one. I see You don't matter right, but you right underneath right there. Oh, you're a champion right underneath it you rule It was right there. I saw I saw it so so I love The like little moment that the game took as well to roll back to the apartment while gang, gang, gang, gang, right, plays.

And I'm like, it's gonna take moments to be like, you can fast forward this, but let the city build up as a character in your brain. Awesome, fucking love that that's a thing and I hope that continues to be a thing. In an open world RPG type situation, I fucking love that that's a thing and I hope that continues to be a thing. In an open world RPG type situation, I can also know that a lot of games will be front loaded with their juice and then back loaded and mid loaded

now with Phantom Liberty, but you can have an empty middle. I hope we don't have that here. I don't think we do because a lot of people like it, but you know what I'm talking about, right? Yeah, yeah, that's the hope, that's the hope, you know? But just chilling in the car, laying in the cut, watching MaxTac do their thing, city of dreams, city of gang, gang, gang, gang. Very cool. Love and cyberpunk so far. That's my adventure.

far. That's my adventure. And aside from a multitude of technical nonsense, like separate technical nonsenses, unrelated cyberpunk. Anything else going on? Oh, no, that's pretty much it. So, you know, I'm going to pick back up with a thousand times resist. I'm going to do cyberpunk. I'm going to do the TGA, the TGA game awards.

I saw someone actually write the TGA Awards yesterday. Hell yeah. I laughed. I mean, that's what I named the video. It was unironic. It was real. It was so good. And yeah, Phoenix, right?

Phoenix Punk and Cyber, right? Continue. And so obviously that means No Marvel rivals time or time for anything else at the moment and Yeah, the only other thing is I'm going to be at holiday Matsuri End of next week. So the 20th to the 22nd Friday Saturday Sunday oh that's Christmas time in Florida Reggie and I will be down there and we will be

yeah guests in the game rooms it's also CEO Taku at the same time so if you're in the area in Florida My apologies, but also come hang out Yeah, we'll leave versus on twitch and on YouTube Before we go into the news there actually was lat yesterday One last thing I wanted to talk about before we went into the sponsors. Is that cool that I talk about that now? Well, we already did go into the sponsors. No, you know what I mean, right? Like basically I want to talk about Path of Exile 2 that

came out. Yeah! Okay, so Path of Exile 2 came out. Yet another game that is not Diablo 2 saying, Hey man, do you remember Diablo 2? And I say, yes, I do remember Diablo 2. I liked Diablo 2 quite a lot. How is Path of Exile 2? Path of Exile 2 has maybe my favorite community reaction of anything I've ever seen in my entire life where they're going keep going with path of exile 1 oh Yeah, have the vex out too is also going to keep going forward like these games are not like it is not replacing the first That is unsustainable that doesn't like how skeleton crew. Well. I'll tell you how they're very different

They're very different. They're very different. And they have confirmed that all of your cosmetics and all of your account upgrades from Path of Exile 1 are going to apply to Path of Exile 2. It's like not all the cosmetics have been ported into Path of Exile 2, but like all of it Which is nuts? That's a really cool commitment for anybody who plans to stick around the first game. That's that's awesome Monetarily so you usually go like now. We're moving. Yeah. No, it's it's ridiculous so The the fan reaction to it is super nuts the fan reaction to it is super nuts because it depends on what subreddit you go to. The Path of Exile 1 subreddit is like, oh, this new game is shit. I'm going to stick with Path of Exile 1. And the Path of Exile 2 subreddit is like, this is so amazing. I

bounced off Path of Exile 1 like a hundred times and I was never able to get into it, but Path of Exile 2 is the fucking shit. Oh, and it's like, it's because they're different. They look like from a visual per like if I showed you two screenshots, like they look like bordering identical. They are dramatically fucking different games. You're describing the darkest dungeon community by the way. Yeah, I totally am. And the basic gist of it is that Path of Exile 1 is a very, very classic click mouse to move Diablo game. And the way that it works is Diablo but more.

The original devs that left, correct? I believe so. Yeah, okay and path of exile to is And I saw someone say this and I think they might actually be dead on for once it is the dark souls of path of exile because Your so controller support is out the gate. Unironically saying it. Unironically.

Okay. Controller support is out the gate, unlike Path of Exile 1, where it was added years, years, years later. And your primary attack is R1 and your secondary attack is R2 and blocking with your shield is L1 and your tertiary attack is L2 and then you have your your face buttons for things but except for circle, which is your dodge roll Because Instead of having Diablo style enemies it has action game slash soul style enemies

You're not that have telegraphed attacks and combos and shit. You're not cursoring No, and even on keyboard. It's WASD to move. It's not mouse clicking. And that dramatically changes how the game works. Because now it is not like they can expect you to dodge shit. Is there a counter argument for why games are not just automatically better with that? Is it because like if there's other goals in mind, like like RTSing, for example, or so you're like, OK, we can't be bothered. You can't be getting into like action gaming every unit, obviously.

You need to you need to be more zoomed out but it's just a design decision coming from like June 2 but when you're controlling one 90 something when you're controlling one character Is it not just is it not easier is it not just better objectively? It's just the way things used to work, and that's how games got made and then games got made that way and that's that to work and that's how games got made and then games got made that way and that's that. Like I'm not saying it's worse or better, I'm just saying like that's just the nature of that control scheme and then that control scheme expanded around it. That sounds fucking phenomenal.

So you'd be like W-E-R-T and Q and shit, that would be your buttons. So you have your hand on active abilities at all times. I can feel the powering up stupid take fucking energy inside of me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. But I'm like, there are games, and this is just a matter of preferences, right? But there are games where even if all assets and everything setting wise and everything going on is the same, there are games where they land and this one lands more like a card game with a couple extra steps and this one lands more like a video game that you control moment to moment.

And I always, always lean towards that second one. It's just way more fun for me. So this one's this one's's slightly out of your real house, but less so because you played a bunch of Baldur's Gate 3. So this was a huge back and forth for like decades over how a computer RPG should play. Because classically they played real time with pause, which is the characters will all auto attack unless you paused it with space

and then told them where to cast and who to attack and all that. And it would be based off a six second round, a la D and D, right? And pillars and one and two were real time with pause because Baldur's Gate one and two were real time with pause. And then when Divinity Originals Sin 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 came out, hey, turns out turn based is like the most accessible, easy to understand system for an RPG ever for everyone. Overwhelmingly so. Oh yeah, people point out Kotor was real-time with pause, right? Everyone would do their shit unless you stop them. True. Yeah, okay.

And it's like originally real-time with pause was supposed to emulate D&D because the characters are all acting along six second rounds and you could just say that if a spell cast two rounds to cast, it would just shoot, you know, it would take 12 seconds, you know, what have you. And just like, just the overwhelming popular consensus was turn based, please and I feel like that's the case with like Like click to move slash WASD games like you please let me control my character with directional inputs Yeah, I mean Baldur's Gate like when the fights get extremely complicated Seeing that really long list of like who's acting when and

Seeing that really long list of who's acting when and sanely planning out your moves and stuff, it helps a lot in that circumstance. As opposed to just, I don't fucking know, it's all going, do something, right? One of the things that- Interrupt the timeline that is just playing. One of the things that Josh Sawyer talked about during his Pillars of Eternity 2 post-mortem is that real-time with pause didn't work as well in the new games as they did in the old ones. And the reason for that is really simple.

It's because the old games, you actually had really limited control of your characters. If you were a melee fighter in Baldur's Gate 1, your options were move and hit. And that was it. That was your whole kit. The only characters you actually had to really control were like wizards and maybe a cleric. Side note, the only thing worse than deciding is the worst of both worlds where during your turn, you have a limited amount of time. ATBing it is just abysmal anyway.

I think the best of both worlds is the way that Pathfinder Kingmaker does it and Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous where it's both. It's the only game series I can think of that actually has turn-based and real-time with pause. So basically you roll real-time with pause over trash and then when you run up against something that's going to be super fucking for real,

you switch to turn-based. OK. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, to some light degree, metaphor is doing that too, right? Like, that's different.

It is. That's different. It is. It is. But I was surprised that some enemies that were like trash enemies would still take hits and come back at you and like make it like oh, you've got a roll past that swing and Fight this little thing on the overworld for more than just one hit, you know, yeah Anyway, okay

Would you say that but yeah, so path of exileile 2 is like a Diablo, the Dark Souls game. It's fucking cool. It feels really good to play. It is so much more appealing to me than Path of Exile 1 was. And number one on that list of things that makes it cool is you can pause the game. Killer feature. Previously you were stuck in real time. Well yeah, because it was an online game and people could jump in and out, so you could pause.

Yes, yes. But now, Path of Exile 2, you can pause the game, which means it's baby-proofed. God, I remember when Souls was first being explained to me and I remember the idea of well, it's online so you don't pause it, but also it's because it's extra hard. There's no breaks. Yeah, and then it's actually like, well you can actually pause super fast in a Souls game if you get really good at exiting the game

the main menu in like one second. Or you could always just pull out the camera mode in the PS5 version of the- Yeah, that's a goofy one. That's a goofy. Like, oops, bruh-bruh. Ruh-ruh. Like, oops, bro bro. Ruh roh. Interesting, okay.

Would you say, I'm curious, would you say most people agree with the change? I would say Path of Exile 2's new controls are definitely more palatable to a much wider variety of people overall, but in the Path of Exile community that is a bunch of mouse click freakazoids who love that shit and live and breathe it, it's divided. Okay. Okay. That's how it seems to be playing out. You're fighting tradition. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, that's a good way to phrase that Okay Well, that's it for this past week this coming week Tomorrow Thursday the December 12th that is going to be the game awards where I will be joined by my darling wife peach saliva So come on in and and watch that shit and then Friday. I'll do some Marvel rivals and then Saturday

I'm gonna go back to the backlog and spin the wheel and all that all that shit and then Friday I'll do some Marvel rivals and then Saturday I'm gonna go back to the backlog and spin the wheel and all that all that shit okay um yeah let me grab a guru give me a second yeah here be I have one last piece of dog-based information oh yes there yes. He's up. There is a current battle in the household because Paige wants to call this dog the ghoul. And I'm like, I don't think we should call him the ghoul. I mean,

to his face? Right in front of his meal? Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I think I think while your re- while name relearning is occurring you probably want to get consistent Yeah, probably Yeah, she wants the first name to be The and the last name to be ghoul You see I don't like the implications Yeah, yeah Because we know what energy comes with yeah, and that doesn't need

so All right with that, and that doesn't need... So... All right. You know what, Willy, I don't like the way you're talking about my dog's new name. You know what I'm gonna do? Asshole, I'm gonna call your mom and tell her that you were mean to me. I mean, wow. So this is also, I'm super happy.

This story is particularly fun because itch.io is kind of just a person that just talks on their account. I did not know that. Yeah, that's the fun part, is that when something like this goes down, if it were between a particularly big site and then another big site, it was like, Oh, put a look,

fuck that shit. It's not IO literally just writes. I kid you not. It's not IO has been taken down by original Funko because they use some trash AI powered brand protection software called branch shield limited that created some bogus fishing report to our registrar. I want my name who ignored our response and just disabled the domain. So just awesome all the way around. Just great. Fantastic. So I mean, it's all all the details are right there. But yes, Funko uses a service called BrandShield and BrandShield does automatic takedowns for people that try to do phishing attempts or fraudulent websites, but another thing that they include is brand protection.

The AI detected that someone uploaded something to itch.io and that was going after or infringing on Funko brand and just automatically sent a take down request to the registrar. The stupid obvious step here being skipped, which is using the regular method of contacting the domain themselves and telling itch.io, hey, can you take down this thing that a user on this page is using because there's many third parties involved in a site like that, but not when

you have a fucking stupid automated process go through. And so yeah, that obviously- It's a bunch of fucking stupid bullshit. So that obviously leads to them complaining about it, understandably so, because the domain registrar, the service provider doesn't give a fuck. They're like, okay, whatever, complaint, yeah, kill it. And a ton of people that are using the site obviously lose all their shit. And he then, or the itch.io then goes, this is not a joke, Funko just called my mom, and which we see a message

coming from the itch.io person from mom going, got a strange call from a company about accusatory statements from your social media account, call me. Guys, I tried to warn you. I tried to warn you about fucking Funko Pops. Did I not? Have I not been on this shit? Was I not on this shit from day zero? You were.

Stood on business. And like, so, well, I don't know. So you and Paige both have a long-standing violent hatred of Funko pops pages in the chat right now telling everyone that every Funko pop is filled with piss Which Wooly is based off a real story that I don't know if you've heard so I'll let her tell you that That to you at some point in the future

oh there is so much story in the head quote these Funko pops are filled with piss there's so much room in the head to store piss this is stored in the head in the Funko head But yeah, no so pop have gone from piss-filled annoyances to like actively harmful to a bunch of like really important devs Fuck them Please tell me that there's some sort of the factories using ammonia in the plastics style. No, Wooly. When I say that Paige's story about Funko Pops or filled with piss is literal and has no allegorical content, I mean it. Urine. Stack them up, y'all. Put them on your work desk. Make sure everybody knows that you're into Tony Stark slash Dr. Strange slash clerks

Dante. Yeah. Of all the things to take down itch.io, which by the way, if anyone happens to be listening to this and don't know, itch.io is a website that developers register and put their indie games on. And yeah, you want some fucking indie ass indie games. Is an incredibly massive useful place to basically store all the indies. And store all the indies and that's that's basically it's a the place um yeah of all the things right like way to just be the most hateable this is like you know this is like Funko pop cease and desist the cans film festival like absolutely Absolutely absurd. You're coming after the indies bro?

God damn it. Funko Pop burns down A24. I mean yeah. No, it's why, and then, and then. No, no, it's why and then and then no, no, no, it's Funko pops is here to to send a cease and desist over brand infringement to ICP champion shit wrestling champion shit wrestling. True, true.

Big money rustlers. That's very important. They're still wrestling. Don't you think for a second that they stopped? You kind of love that an extremely hateable brand did the stupid thing. It's always fun. I love to play the mental gymnastic of saying, yeah, the same people that thought that they should make these things and that that would be a good idea also thought that

running this stupid thing would be a good idea too. So that's why, right? The reason why they look so shitty and stupid and ugly is the same reason why this dumb thing happened. It's the same people who think those are good ideas. Hey, can we just take a second? We need to focus in on this. A lot of people enjoy Funko Pops. Is it wrong of us to judge people as stupid and not having any taste for liking Funko Pops? Let's take a moment. No, no, it's fine actually. Fuck those people. Those people

are stupid and they have terrible tastes. Well that god fucking shitty stupid ass person dropping that take is also saying that while sitting on a throne of Funko Pops, right? They're cheap and affordable. Leave me alone, you say, as you have eight of them. They're not cheap and affordable when you have 400. Just fuck off with that. That bullshit disinj yeah anyways, you know, and I'm not even going I'm not even naming

The the alternative that's infinitely better. We're not even going down that road just for what it is This fucking piss-filled piece of shit. Let me ask you you remember when Rose was being insane and irrational And was like crying about how riding didn't have anything in his room. Yeah Disturbing if all he had in his room was Funko Pops. It depended on who though what character? What character did Raiden have in that empty room? The one Funko in the room that would shock her to her core. It's very important. It depends on who.

Oh my God. All right. The Joker. It would have been infinitely more scary because it's not an absence of personality. It shows a decision, right? It shows that a decision was made. You know, fuck it, I said I wouldn't,

but it doesn't matter. Would nendoroids call your mom and complain that you're being mean? Would nendo get on the phone with your fucking, call up your goddamn house, talk to your parents, find out your government? The fuck are we talking about? This whole story is, I think I brought this up

like relatively recently, I think we talked about maybe even last week where I was like, you know those guys guys that start a fight and lose and they go, I'll never forgive you. I'll get you for this. And then they, they bring their guys to avenge their honor over the fight that they started. This is, Hey, we, the, a robot that we own fucked with you. And then you did, you then you didn't allow yourself to be fucked with and now I have no more options? But how dare you? I'm going to call your mommy and make you scared or whatever the fuck.

It's a petty, like the robot was the first thing, but this is a petty individual. How dare they not shut down their website when we told them just because of the law? Why are you upset that my security bot shot you in the knee? My N209 shot you in the leg. Why are you mad about that? That's unfair. You should be ashamed of yourself. I'm calling your mom.

I'm calling your mother and she will know. I mean that's's, yeah. So, and you know what? The same brain that thinks a Funko Pop is a good idea, also thinks the stupid AI brand service is a good idea, also thinks, you know what, let's call his mom, right? Like, it's the same thing. It's the same decision making prowess at work here.

Every step of the way. I bet the Itch.io guy has a legal remedy here because unless the mom works for Itch.io, why would Funko call them as a personal citizen? Well because I'm guessing that the house was the registered domain list. I'm guessing that that was something where they found it as the person in charge or where the address is. Nah man, Funko Pop was totally Facebook snooping. And they went in and then went like, we're going to call these people directly and go,

no, stop. And it just leads to, why is my mom messaging me about this? Yeah, a complete fucking buffoon of an idiot is making every one of these decisions. And the best part is, is that every subsequent one will continue to be as hilarious because they've been great so far. Right? It's, it's, it's a Drake in action type shit. It's just like, yeah, this story, this story went from like tragic to hilarious in a couple hours because there was like Funko Pop killed Ichio.

Like what? Oh, it's back. Okay. But you know, stupid fucking bullshit and annoying is that the registrar obviously is kind of just like, what's going on? Not a good registrar. Don't even look into it. We don't care.

Shut it down. Right? You're like, it's a giant third party service, man. What the fuck are we talking about? Yeah. So anyway, good, good times. Shout outs to itch.io and the Cannes Film Festival. Man. Well, speaking of indie and amateur artists on a related note, Capcom announced a Capcom games competition. This is cool. Yeah, this is really unusual because you hear about things like this from time to time.

I have friends who are in education and they've all been, I mean, well, okay, one, you've talked about the collegiate Street Fighter that you're doing streams with. And then I have friends that are getting into, there's curriculum updates where like, hey, game development and broadcasting and all these things are becoming more and more a part of it and stuff. So Capcom announced this and I was like, oh shit, okay, what's going on here? Now the moment you hear a contest, of course, you raise an eyebrow because a lot of the times like specifically you'll hear contest as another word for free labor for people that are desperate

for a shot. And they'll just be like, thanks for working for free. We own this now and we're going to do whatever. But it's important to note that that is not what this is. This is a competition that will basically have a bunch of students being provided with the RE engine and a cloud environment and some other game dev tools. They'll be able to form teams of up to 20, where they'll all work in different roles on a dev team. And they'll have, yes, six months to basically work on whatever type of project they want to and create a game.

In that half year, they'll get support from Capcom's game production and they'll get support from other resources and game dev people associated with the program. The winners will have the opportunity to commercialize their product or sell or do whatever they want with it. Each respective team retains ownership and copyright of everything they make. This is super cool and super forward thinking. Yup. They literally...

Go ahead. thinking yep they and they literally go ahead then with only one rule which is guys guys you can make anything you want except for a new dark stalkers game don't do it oh huh interesting who's that older looking student that doesn't seem? There's an older looking student that seems kind of familiar wearing a Groucho Marx mask. Where'd you come from? You're not part of this team. He's stealing the game. He's running for it. Get him. Oh, no You know my favorite thing, you know my favorite fucking thing about dark stalkers is is that every time dark stalkers comes up You and I laugh way too hard and then do nothing Because like dark stalkers being dead is not that funny by itself

So it doesn't really like Like like why are they laughing so hard about dark stalkers? Like like why are they laughing so hard about dark stalkers? Listen and the answer is there's no reason. There's no reason. There's no reason. There's nothing funny about that There's nothing funny. We're just really silly Good stuff. Yeah, it's just it's just a silly. It's go. Yeah. So. Good stuff. Yeah. It's just a silly, it's silly. It's a silly.

It's a fun. And it is forward thinking, you know, because they said that they want to help raise a new generation of game developers and stuff. So that's great. Sometimes there are words that when you say them, for no reason. Yeah, for no reason. They're just kind of funny, right? Yeah, they're just kind of funny by themselves.

Yeah. Hey, Pat. Yeah. Hey, Pat. Hey, right? Yeah, there's just kind of funny by themselves. Yeah. Hey Pat. Yeah. Hey Pat. Hey, hey Yeah, well Ubisoft Oh Boy well I'm sorry, but I woke up the dog with that. Oh, sorry, dude. Listen, you know There's a bit of a dispute over The buyout that is

underway and it's not much of a surprise that that's going on. But essentially Tencent and the Gimo brothers are disputing over the amount of leadership that will be maintained by... Zero. And so on. And they can't quite work out the dotted line on the deal. Yeah, is that because Tencent wants the leadership to be zero? And the leadership of Ubisoft that is about to be zero is like, it should not be zero?

Well, Tencent has the ability to increase its stake and has been doing so. But it seems as if there is a discussion being had so that it's not a hostile takeover. It's going to be a hostile takeover. But the option to make it a hostile takeover is absolutely possible. It is going to be a hostile takeover. And it seems like it is a discussion that is becoming a tense discussion and it might become a hostile discussion before anything else.

So we'll see. I cannot possibly imagine a situation in which the discussion is anything other than, well, let's have this be amicable and Tencent's response is the amicable solution is that we want to fire your entire C-suite. All the way from middle management up. Okay, now hold on, now hold on there. Now why would you say, now why would we need that? I have, we have nothing but the most competent management here doing the best job on all of these working games.

In fact, let me show you right here how competent doing the best job on all of these working games. In fact, let me show you right here how competent our management is. Why would you wanna get rid of them? Behold, Beyond Good and Evil 2. It's an empty box. It's an empty box. There's nothing, there's nothing in there. It's an empty box. There's nothing in there.

Michel Ancel claims, beyond Good and Evil 2 development hindered by problems between managers, SQL team didn't know who was in charge. Management conflicts shed more light on development issues, et cetera, et cetera. So alongside all of this, you have this interview with Super Pouvoir where Michel Ancel talked about what went wrong. And basically, the quote is, is on some projects we set ourselves huge challenges and take on teams with passion, but without knowing how long and complex the road will be. Passion is fabulous energy, but it can lead to clashes between enthusiasts on BG&E2.

There were too many problems between managers. The art director wanted to redo everything over and over again. The game director wanted to make a generated dungeon game. I was dreaming of a space adventure. We simply couldn't agree. The game director took the project in other directions. The team gets thrown around in this type of situation and they don't know who's in charge and who's making decisions. The producer is supposed to bring order to the situation, but that didn't happen. Yves Guimot had to go down to Montpellier to get things back on track, but it wasn't enough. The game director continued in his stubbornness and so on and so forth.

This is embarrassing. And it just goes on. And it's like, at the end of the day, it's a case of passionate managers not getting along. I believe that some time ago, these people were dismissed at the project and the project found a certain balance with new managers. These management problems are very damaging to the teams. All this goes to show it's not an easy debt. It literally, literally just spelling out that they can't manage their own teams and this is how you get a forever game. And all of this is bookended with with a final... Um, yeah. Ubisoft says that their commitment to the franchise continues, and the game is still in development.

It's not a franchise! It's still in development, guys! It's not a franchise! It's still in development! Ba Sing Se. The new location, Ubisoft Ba Sing Se, the new location, Ubisoft Ba Sing Se, will be opening up any day now. The economics of big companies are obtuse and invisible to a lot of average people. But like the average person has been able to clearly see and hear Ubi run their own shit directly into the ground. Like over and over and over.

Like a decade of releasing games fucked up and then shit like Skull and Bones and Beyond Good and Evil 2 that are just like, we're doing so good with Assassin's Creed, we can just waste as much money as we want. We never have to fix any of these problems. I appreciate the candid look at the obvious shit show that we all expected was happening behind the scenes.

It turns out it's exactly what you thought it was. And like, word to word, this is what development thought it was. And word to word, this is what development hell sounds like. When no one can agree on what the thing is, when there's too many cooks, et cetera, but also no structure for solving that or fixing that, and the team of people that are also confused between everybody involved on a project.

That's it. So it's extra weird for Ubisoft, like genuinely, because like, you know, Ten Cents looking to buy up Stake and get in there, right? And it's like, hey, what was Ubisoft's like biggest, most successful quality? And it was the ability to ship games. Oh, okay. As an overall. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Like, Hey Ubisoft, what are you doing for the Wii launch? We're shipping 12 games. What do you, what are you doing every holiday quarter? Five games, every like ship, ship, ship, ship. And now we're in the process of maybe if I, maybe if the president of the company goes down to the team and

yells at them they can make a level no I mean we watched it go down from from the Prince of Persia rebirth series to the yeah through the ask read franchise we watched the scale up to the point where they're like, yeah We've got a conveyor belt going with our development But Yeah, it well anyway, that's just one story of ongoing development Inside and I'm sure there are many others. Who knows what they might be. But I feel I don't know.

You kind of have to wonder if Tencent just kind of like walks in, looks at the newspaper and goes, actually, we're going to cancel the meeting today. We'll talk to you guys next week. We'll be back in about six days and we'll see what's up. Hey, this is unrelated, but you know what's hit its three year anniversary this week? The trailer for Star Wars Eclipse by Quantic Dream. Oh, shit. Wow. I believe the last story I talked about was when that

that had the head of the project left. Yeah. And the one before that was them complaining after their court case that it was actually getting really hard to staff up because no one wanted to work for them. All right. Well, I just recovered my back injury, so I don't need any more. So we don't need to linger too long on Quantic Dream. Let's talk about something cool. Like those secret level trailers. Those look pretty cool. I heard that the secret level's out now, right?

It's out as of yesterday. Okay, so I've heard that there's a wide variety of qualities available. So I saw the three previews from yesterday, which was Sifu, and hey, guess what? It's exactly the... it looks like a run with cooler visuals and like um what's awesome in that just in that preview at the very least is you kind of get to see after see the after he goes down before the breaking of the coin, there's that ghost aging that occurs, but you see him up and fighting

the experience over time in a way. So the thought is like, oh, did you spend a lifetime in the void between each death fighting, and then you come back up as soon as that time period is done, because that's fucking crazy if that's what's going on each time you know it looks really cool but yeah that was just a trailer then there was the armored corps locked in trailer which looks fucking sick as well. That's is that the first human being ever shown?

I think I think Keanu Reeves may in fact be the first human being to ever be depicted in Armored Corps. OK, no game ever showed a person, right? I cannot remember one. Awesome. Very cool that it's also called locked in. I don't know if that was decided well ahead of time or if it's just kismet or coincidence, but they're on point. He's the second or third. Okay, so I guess if you go dig in there. Yeah, because I don't know that I've ever seen of a human being or heard of anything like that. Cool. Get to see the cockpit and pilots and stuff. Yeah. And then obviously just like the speed of an

armored core battle and the way it moves is I love that certain types of mecha franchises, you can tell by the way the fight happens Which what it is, you know what a Gundam fight looks like, you know Absolutely has a look to it and the speed to it and an arbor course their missile bloom. That's Macross, right? And then in the case of armored core, you've got like the the spinning roll up on roller skates slash blast Boost-off type thing that like it's got a momentum to it looks rad as shit. And then yeah, a tano circus can go actually for a lot of different ones,

but usually starts with macros of course. And then there's the unreal tournament one which seemed to be it's unreal, you know, people shooting a rocket jump occurs. I don't know the story of Unreal Tournament Well, I don't know if it has one it looked like an audience was watching a floating like Fortress of some kind and people were shooting each other I mean, that's what I remember of Unreal Tournament Yeah, I don't I didn't get much from the trailer for that I don't know what you like it, I guess I haven't, we'd have to watch and see, but I feel like that's a,

kind of like, hey, look, it's the rocket. Hey, look, it's the announcer going headshots, you know? And that's cool. That's it. I will say that Unreal Tournament 2004 is maybe one of the best games that's ever been released ever. That's it, that's all I wanna say that Unreal Tournament 2004 is maybe one of the best games that's ever been released ever That's it that's all I want to say you teach you K4 is incredible

Yeah, and then you get that pac-man shit where you're just yeah, man Like well, that's like what the fuck do you want us to fucking exactly? No, no, no that no that's Namco going literally do Whatever you want. Oh, right. That's them going like like DMC Dino like no, no, no, that's Namco going, literally do whatever you want, right? That's them going like DMC Dino, like no, no, no, no, make it weirder. Invent your own lore, like we don't give a fuck, make it as weird as possible. So there's that.

What the fuck is happening with Dauntless? Fucking Dauntless. So Dauntless is a game that got fucked over super hard by time so there was a period in which Monster Hunter games came out exclusively on the 3ds or the PSP or whatever the fuck right and The developers of Dauntless were like, you know what? There's a room there's room for a Monster Hunter game on PC and consoles because monster hunters never coming back so they started to make Dauntless and like early access and beta and shit like that and As soon as that came out monster hunter world got announced and Their shit just got fucking eaten. Just fucking eaten. Just fucked that's ruthless. And then I was like, well, you know what?

I'll try out Dauntless anyway. It's a piece of shit It's fucking terrible Like right off the bat. It's like bad It's like way worse than even the worst Monster Hunter sidebar So the Monster Hunter like clones besides that there's like wild hearts which dropped the other day Yeah, and then there was wasn wasn't there like that Vita one? There was Freedom Wars, there was God Eater, there were three God Eaters. Yes. Whereas Tokedan one and two. Right. They're all decent to some degree. All the Vita stuff.

Dauntless was like the worst one. Okay. It was the worst one. Okay. It had like no weapon combos. It had nothing. And while it's been trucking along, and I think it finally got a Steam release, and they're like, hey, look, it's the awakening update. Where we totally retrofit the game to be better. And what they did was they're like, you know what? Crafting for weapons in this game is stupid, because they're all just stat sticks.

So they just made it so you can't craft weapons anymore. Stat sticks. At all. But if you do want a new type of weapon So they just made it so you can't craft weapons anymore at all But if you do want a new type of weapon or a new type of damage you can buy it in the cash shop So like the game went from being like why would I ever bother to play this to abjectly ruined and not just new things but old things that were previously available they went from 220 something weapons down to 16 I'm seeing

this the the story 40% of the game's content has been locked behind a premium battle plot pass yeah apparently I don't have a confirmation for this, but I was talking to somebody who told me that last year, their company got bought by a bunch of crypto bros. Oh, well, there you go. All right, yeah, one to one. All right, this is logical. We follow through.

Yeah. Also, because I was going to say, I was going to guess, ooh, things must be going downhill, like financially, and it must be a rough, like, damn, cut and run and get all the money you can get. No, man, it's my apes. But it's actually much simpler than that. My apes. Cool. All right. Got it. Yeah, that'll do her. It's like a bad game got super ruined further. It's a weird story. That would explain why the developers on the Reddit are banning players who openly criticize

the Awakening update. I didn't know that. Fuck off. And the Reddit are banning players who openly criticize the Awakening update. I didn't know that! Fuck off! Oh, that's good stuff. Apparently anybody who was not happy with that was getting fucking hit. Oh, this is awesome. Good shit.

Good stuff. Yeah, there was that Overwatch bit, the community note, God bless. Oh, well, after that Overwatch bit, a little bit of an update because we talked about Marvel Rivals. So while the bathroom break between yesterday and today was occurring, the Marvel Rivals director gives his opinion on why he thinks Concord flopped. So I read that article this morning and I have two real strong feelings.

One is it's brutal for the people who worked on Concord to have to read this from the director of the game that is blowing up super hard in the same exact genre right after your game died. That is like super vicious. And it's not that he's being mean or anything like that. Where is being very candid Where is the fucking lie dude? That's the thing So Thaddeus Sasser Cool name yeah was interviewed and he basically said

Regarding Concord there's a switching cost. I've already invested invested in Overwatch. I've got 15 skins in Pharah. I'm not going anywhere. As a developer, you're always worried until the game audience has responded. I don't think anyone can accurately predict this or the game industry would be radically different today. Just the idea that you're coming out to play a live service shooter, spending $40 or more depending on where you live or whatever, to switch over from something that, yeah, not only is there the free bit, but there's the collection you already have.

Absolutely. And you're not being floored by the look, design, aesthetic, appeal, like brand, attraction, whatever the case is How the fuck could that possibly stand a chance, right? Interestingly, it kind of goes on to talk he goes on to talk about how like You know the appeal and why Marvel rivals is is doing really well is because it you know It has the superhero and people are like, oh my god I want to be storm in the game or or I wanna go be Doctor Strange or something, and so that appeals to a lot of people.

And that's very true, right? The fact that you're like, what you're pulling away from Overwatch on is for these existing characters that you like and know and care about, and that's a huge part of it, especially the like, hey, look, you can actually swing as Spider-Man or as Venom and do all those things.

But I think that does a disservice to how fucking fun and the actual game is, with its functions, running around in a gray box, you know? So I think, like, let's just take it, let's assume Concord and Marvel Rivals were functionally identical. Like, they were appealing in all the same ways to everyone everyone right?

Marvel Rivals gets to leap over cost. It's free It's free and then Let's assume that there's Farah like let's say a fair equivalent. That's cool and people like Do you want to play as this cool new character or do you want to play as fucking Iron Man? Yeah. Oh shit. No, no. I'm like... It's like, even if Rivals was worse than Concord, it being free and having Iron Man and Squirrel

Girl and Thor and Moon Knight in it? And fucking green weirdo is not going to pull you away at a premium price from being Soldier 76 But you know who fucking might? the Punisher Yeah, you know So yeah It is a it is it is a hand-in-hand of like it is the brand and it is a lot of that appeal and a lot Of that we're talking about the art style and all those things carrying a lot

But the fucking game is good, man. It really is. It really just, those two things come together and do quite well. And yeah, I think your description of how it might feel to hear this as someone working on Concord, maybe unless you were one of the people whose opinions

couldn't be shared because of the toxic positivity. Oh yeah, so a lot of smart people worked on Concord. You know. Game development is hard. And so there are probably a good amount of people on Concord going, oh, we're so fucking fucked when Marvel Rivals comes out, dude. We're so fucking boned.

Yeah, a portion of that team is probably feeling what you're describing and the other portion are just doing the fucking hitch JPEG like I fucking told you The whole time and you didn't want to hear it and you actually made it so that you didn't you couldn't he possibly hear it You know so anyway That is a like he's completely right that's that's exactly it make the game good and make it something that people care about and it doesn't hurt that it's free right doesn't hurt net so one of the things we didn't talk about yesterday is that netEase's track record is shit.

Like they by large don't make good games. Well, I did say that I had zero expectations coming from them with this going in. That's yeah, but I want to be more blunt. Like NetEase's games tend to be bad. There's no reason to expect that this would have been anything but a joke, especially that it's a ripoff in a ton of ways of overwatch it's shocking that it just it was like oh fuck this is actually really fun and well done and I'm enjoying and so like okay like you

know like pick three you know fast cheap good quality pick two like here we have okay it's a licensed property okay that's a win that's in the wind column it's a good license is a hot license okay it's free that's in the wind column so immediately I'm thinking of like Marvel Strike Force or some other piece of fucking shit right yeah okay as I always like a shooter free did some dog yeah sure um, now, the approach though that they're taking, clearly this is similar with Snap though as well, right? Like they're kind of approaching things.

I remember to, back when Infinite happened, and there was that discussion about like how Marvel games is going to think about things going forward. And so I guess this is kind of the long tail of that initial, ooh, we got to really think about what we're doing with our games discussion. Because obviously, you've got the old reliable is like, hey, Spider-Man 2 is going to be made because that company has been doing that for a while and they know what to do. Spider-Man also. But brand new shit, right? That's riskier. I think, yes, Snap is another example of a free Marvel game that was very good and took

everyone's attention, you know? This is overall, I would say, yeah, this would be the second. I mean, you talked about Midnight Suns, but I don't know that that's like... So Midnight Suns bombs super fucking hard. in anything that anyone's crazy bombs So I think Jake Solomon and his guys left the company Like fucking bombed and I'm of the belief that that is the That is the the publishers fault because that game got marketed like shit. Like shit. Like I was playing it. I was playing it for an hour and I was like, oh my God, I didn't know any of

this shit was here at all. I didn't know. I thought it was a fucking card game, like a pure card game. It's not. It's like a whole fucking thing. It's weird. Well, either way, it also wasn't like hitting up the free space, right? Like, no, no, it was exactly. Yeah. So there's that too. You're trying to win over kids without credit cards. And yeah, I guess the only other bit is, well one, Nintendo now owns a hundred percent of Monolithsoft, so that's now officially just first party through and through. Sick. They used to do this. That seems like a single sheet of paperwork Beat like oh, yeah, cuz monolith saw was out there making a bunch of hot non Nintendo games Yeah, I mean well, it's because this used to happen all the time back in the day

But I feel like they've slowed that shit down and they've been way more like you're still just permanently contracted You know, but, you know, fiscally for whatever, you know, but yeah, so that's done, even though it kind of was spiritually there anyway. But more hilariously so, Satisfye is a company that sells accessories for consoles and the Zen Grip 2 trailer released and it just straight up shows the Switch 2 in it. Wait, what? Really? Yes.

It just shows the back of the Switch 2. And the trailer was then deleted, but they have it in the shadows out there. And... Fucking whoops. And we're kind of now just at the point where, you know when something comes out and you're like, ah, they already kind of know, whatever, the surprise is ruined, the next big thing to do as PR is just push it just reveal

it right take the momentum not nintendo that's happened so many times with the switch too the thunder has been stolen we're past the sudden reveal point and now they're gonna announce it tomorrow at the game awards yeah well then i guess, I guess- Yeah, I just like- Oh! Cause that means they had to send out the fucking bullshit to the third party fucking accessory people. That would line up. That would add up. Because yeah, like, it was just from the back and it was blurred a bit, but it was like, that's- you was blurred a bit But it was like that's you just that's it

You just you ditched you showed it and then they went off shit and they pulled it down, you know So it's it's like what the fuck are they waiting on? Anyway, um that that's likely it Was it look like I didn't see it You look like a fucking electronic device. It looks like a handheld electronic device. It is black. It's crazy. It's black That's bananas There are shoulder buttons and oh my god Yep, I can't believe it. Can you believe it?

He's a dog he'll believe anything All right, let's take some letters Hey, if you want to send him a letter send it to castle super beast mail at gmail.com That's castle super beast mail at gmail.com make your email short and also good Don't forget to make it good. Oh you see 28 years later got a Yeah, it looks awesome. That's fucking crazy that like that's becoming a trilogy There is a yeah, it looks awesome. That's fucking crazy that like that's becoming a trilogy So they wanted to do 28 months and 28 years But like due to like 10 years of scheduling conflicts they were never able to get past months. Yeah

Yeah, well cuz it's they're like it's too long. It's too long since but also it wouldn't be exciting at this point That's it like you go from days to weeks and you're like, okay months would have had that time frame But years you're like, oh fuck, this is a complete giant step towards whatever, yeah, that world looks like. Which I guess is interesting in the sense that of all these movie franchises, well, no, I don't know, there's probably more out there,

but like jumping that far forward into the future and having like whatever functioning humanity exists and stuff you know interesting and also like how's stuff going bad and the 28 franchise is always the one where it's like god damn it they sprint at full speed yeah and they don't have to even hurt you. Like that's that like that movie did a lot to like increase terror like, Oh, are you afraid of being viciously eaten by a bunch of cannibals? Like a single drop of blood on your face and you're done. That's so fucked. AIDS, scary AIDS. Is Killian Murphy on the cast list? I don't know. I like Killian Murphy.

He's cool. Is he too much of a Peaky Blinder now? He's a big Peaky Blinder. You know what's awesome about Peaky Blinder and Killian Murphy? Scrolling through like social media, TikTok or Instagram and seeing a bunch of guys who think they can pull off that haircut and fucking can't. Really can't. I don't know anything about it because I've never watched it but all I know is people yelling, by order of the Peaky Blinders Yeah, it seems pretty cool cool. All right. Oh

He is in the okay, I'd miss okay I didn't catch that he was in the trailer that I didn't realize what what I was Looking at. Oh That's cool. That's cool All right We got one coming in from Matt who says, Dear Zangief Enjoyer and Marissa Apostle, thanks to the both of you, mostly Wooly, I have gotten into fighting games, specifically Tekken 8. Congrats. Awesome.

That's really cool. Tekken 8. Gonna win tomorrow. I have no life to the game since the weekend it launched and I've gotten pretty good, so I've started going to locals to compete in money matches. Cool! Doing it! At our last monthly... Drill! Ahhhhh! There he goes!

There he is! Hahaha! Don't look at it! Ahhhh! I know! Don't look at his puck, butthole. Don't do it. You can't stop me. It's an ex there he goes And our last month's meetup During the

You're hiding the animation. How dare you there you go. Yeah, all right Shuffle. Oh my god. Do you actually just out of the yeah. Yeah. Oh my god, dude Email her wait he lied down He's in the bed. I can't believe it. He never did You know, I didn't think he would ever want to lie down in the dog bed behind me because it's too far away from me It's happening. Oh man No, my stream just got way better

yo get in there get the fuck in there you getting in he's in you comfy yeah I think he's gonna suck on his blanket okay oh he's sucking okay okay I thought he sucks on a blanket I thought he was a little baby stress response okay what the fuck do you want, dude? Huh? What? Tekken? What?

You're playing Tekken? Okay. Okay. So at the monthly, during stage select, between matches, in a set, I was up one zero. Got it. My opponent asked me if a setup I was using was guaranteed. I said something like, that's classified.

Before we loaded in, he gave me kind of a dirty look. After the set, I walked him through the setup I was using and how to counter it, but the vibe he was giving off still made me feel like a bit of a dick in the moment. So my question is, see for y'all, am I the asshole? I know it's just a local, but we all came to compete and I feel like it's in your best interest To not help your opponent beat you that is some fucking embarrassing behavior Tell me how to beat that

Okay, no, okay You are not wrong at all you are completely in the right you what you ought to, which is you're in the middle of the set, that's crazy. Asking for advice in the middle of the set is ridiculous and silly. And like, Like it was you and me, and we're doing like a huge string of matches, and like, is that safe?

You'd be like, nah, it's not safe. You're playing, you're whatever, it's all casual, you're improving, et cetera, you know. But if you're doing a set or a tournament or a money match or something otherwise like- Ridiculous! Yeah, that's insane, that's super dumb and the person who asked should feel ashamed for that.

That's not the time. It's afterwards when you're more than like, yo, welcome to talk and exchange and all that stuff. But like, think about any other, imagine at halftime, fucking on the court going up to the other team and going like, yo, are you guys running? Like what kind of pick is that? You know?

You're not obligated even by the most tenuous or kind social contract to speak To your opponent and so you deciding to in the moment be like nah And then afterwards do it is the normal good thing to do you are completely in the right there and furthermore the the perceived like Fucking shit you were getting is just salt because he lost. Yeah, it's just bitch. It's just bitch salt. Right? Person lost and is upset about that and so you're getting that salt and they're now being told about whatever the counter is to that and you're experiencing residual sodium. But you have nothing to feel bad about. You did nothing wrong. That person should not have asked at that point in time that's that's insane that's super super you should piss on that dude um like

anyone who does throw that out throw out advice or shit like that in the middle of the set or something is being magnanimous or war or is trolling or or or, so there's the three. There's magnanimous, there's trolling, or they're like, it's disrespect. Okay, so I remember at EVO, one of my, or I was going through my pool and I was otherwise having a normal time, and then I had to fight D.R. Ray, and D.R. Ray is a very strong D.R. player.

And I remember when, yeah, so he, like, I picked Blanka, and I was looking at the two ultras, because I wasn't sure which was the best for the matchup, because he played Fei Long. And I picked Ultra 2. I went to Ultra 2, and this is Evo, and we sit, and we're playing the first set, and I go to Ultra 2 and he goes hey Because he doesn't he didn't speak English too. Well, but he got no no no. Yeah one and I was like what he's like one one Ultra one ultra one I was like

You're telling me the like I'm like that's why I like I is not taking I appreciate it, but I'm gonna pick out to you cuz that's what I've been playing with and training on and and yeah He's like he did it you got okay, and he fucking washed my ass Yeah, you know, but it was like I tried to tell you for this matchup You that's you this is not the one you want, you know, and it's like damn dude in advance in pools The man was like, hey, let me help you out in advance in pools the man was like hey let me help you out dude. So you know what the worst thing about this story that Matt wrote in with is like the version of this story that would be less awkward is if he if the person he was playing said

hey is that setup guaranteed? He went, absolutely. Totally guaranteed. And one and then left. Yeah? Because it would take like weeks for that to come back on them, if ever. I mean, there's also that part where whatever, there's sometimes you learn something

but you don't have it internalized or whatever the case is, but. Or just, or you go, no, it it's not actually and then they hit a button again, and then they get blown up Yeah, it's like actually it is guaranteed set up you That's what you get for asking in the middle of the set idiot And let me show you how to do it just lie you have no obligation to tell your opponent the truth So yeah the truth so yeah um all right like fuck it next time just start lying without prompting hey did you know this setups actually totally that's plus that's

plus that's plus yeah you can't do anything about this so plus it's crazy It's crazy Yeah So, you know, it's weird but like even though it looks plus it's actually minus you can counter that okay, okay So so like you're saying that but there is that tech but it exists not in the player But like in the homies behind talking shit, right? Yeah not in the player, but like in the homies behind talking shit, right? Yeah, so while you're the sets going and they're talking shit and you're like ignoring because you're playing and they'll be like oh They don't know they don't know about that setup and there's like all he's got to do is backdash He doesn't know it's like no don't backdash. Don't listen to what I

But they're talking shit out loud and seeing if you fall for it, you know That's a really good specific poll because like there's a wide variety of situations in tons of fighting games that if someone told me just backdash and I did it, I've died. I've died because I've decided to backdash. Oh my god, man. Yeah, no, the homies cannot be trusted. Make no mistake, they're out for your worst interests. All right. Here's one coming in from Soge Snake who says, Dear DreadlockWooly and The

Angry Pat. What's up, man? Every podcast for the last few months, Pat at some point makes reference to One Piece in some way or form, but it's been so long. It's real. Since we've gotten an update, so I'm going to be gonna be blunt Hey Pat, how's one piece going? I'm stuck at Skype. Yeah, it's a question that people ask me every two streams For like the past six months and every single time I answer I'm stuck at Skype here because I fucking hate the Skype here arc Stuck on that's it that sucks

Okay, I don't like it. And I think Enel sucks. And I think Enel's stupid shithead losers are awful. Okay. That's it. All right. And lastly, let's take one from Joe who says, hello survivor of Mariah Carey and the guy who missed out on a few holidays.

I think Mariah Carey posting like photos of herself encased in ice with the ice cracking might be the funniest thing in the world. It's coming soon. I mean she knows the damage inflicted on retail workers and is powered up by it. What genres are the fucking worst when it comes to preview footage with no UI? My vote is strategy games because a lot of gameplay comes from interacting with the UI. So when a game like Menace has gameplay revealed in a trailer but shows no user interface, it tells me fucking nothing about how the game plays,

just that it has animations for things like infantry squads and shooting at things. That's a really good question. I think anything that's menu heavy. Yeah. It tells you. There's a Baldur's Gate 3 tone trailer that came out a while ago that was,

it had a bunch of different characters in different scenes pulling a weapon out from behind their head and it was very dramatic and it showed a bunch of environments from behind the back and it's like, it's a cool trailer, shows literally nothing in the game because you never ever interact with that game from behind your character's back

and there was not a single menu or piece of text on the screen at all and not a single line of dialogue and it's like, this is a wildly unrepresentative trailer. Like when it's in game engine, but the camera is at all the fakest places in the world and you're baking it, basically trying to make it look like a movie in your engine. Fuck off with that. Like, please, please be real. I'm going to go ahead and say rhythm games. Could you fucking imagine the audacity of just playing a music video with no arrows or HUD or lines anywhere? It's the whole game. The whole game is user interface. What are we doing?

I really think that Netflix's like 15 episode League of Legends trailer series is super weird because it doesn't show any laning or any feeding at all. It never shows the UI! It's so weird. It just keeps showing all these characters kiss and and whatnot and I don't understand why there's no scoreboard at any point. Arcane is just an expensive bullshot, you know? Enough with the pre-rendered FMVs, guys, we're looking for gameplay!