Castle Super Beast - CSB301: GATO, DON'T EAT THE 1 DAY BLINDING STEW!

Episode Date: January 1, 2025

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["Sailor Moon Theme"] With seconds to spare. Oh man, we're coming in this with such good energy. This is the best energy we've ever come into this podcast seconds to spare Your life was saved Thanks, Willie. I appreciate it. Damn Willie at the last second going. Oh, dude, you got peanut butter all over your face all over Was gross you almost die And and before that before that I was sitting in a chair looking at the ceiling going, uh,

and Wooly messaged me going, hey, I'll be ready in a couple minutes. And I had the audacity, the audacity to go for what? Yeah. See, see, usually the beard would have caught that peanut butter. And usually. And saved it for later. That's the thing, right? This is a demonstration in case in point of that's what the beard is for. It's to hide all those delicious little food crumbs. Alright.

So yeah, good energy today. Hey, what's up? What's up? Who needs sleep? Fuck that. That's stupid. How's your sleep? That's great We're almost out. We're almost out. We're almost out today's the last day of this year You know, I actually saw a meme earlier today That was saying I watched the matrix in 99 and it said that 1999 was the peak of human civilization, and I was like, haha, yeah, right,

and then the following years happened, and I'm like, ah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, we've already, on this podcast alone, turned 1998 into the summer of 69. Yeah, absolutely. It's just. For 69. Yeah, absolutely. It's just-

For gamers. Yeah, absolutely. We've jumped that shark already and it's been made clear. But I mean, again, like you could just go back to any of the segments and run down the list and go fuck, you know? It would be cool to have one of those again. It would be cool to have one of those again It would be cool and 2025 is the new

1998-99 let's go which which movies and or fiction Are based in 2025. I know that 13 Sentinels had a 2024 bit, so we just blew past that But which ones are we now? I can't even start passing. I know we've flown past, like, Mega Man 1. Oh, god. Fuck you. Absolutely. Ages ago. Yeah, and Back to the Future and all that, for sure.

Back to the Future 2 is now really fun. Pacific Rim. Was Pacific Rim in 25? Get the fuck out of here. No way. This is just a follow up to last week when I said said I think that Marvel 2099 was not placed far enough into the future Oh Yeah, and I saw some folks say but Pat it was like it came around and like, you know the 90s

So it'd be like a hundred years from now. I'm like, I think that's still not far enough in the future I don't think cyberpunk 2077 is far enough in the future. I don't think Cyberpunk 2077 is far enough in the fucking future. I mean, honestly, I think the sentiment is anyone that went to zero and then whatever number it's like, yeah, that's that's happening right around the corner. Actually, just throw one in there. I will say much beloved to my heart Star Trek in an episode released in like fucking 89 fucking shot for the goddamn moon and

Said that Ireland is going to reunify in 2024. Jesus Christ. So we got about fucking minutes 12 hours no less like six hours before data looks like a stupid idiot. Yeah, I think the... If you set it in 2-0 at 20xDx, but you end up with a kind of like loopery sort of shit future, then you're fine. Right? As long as you... I think Looper was like really... The best. Really believable. The best. really the best really believable the best you're just like hey it looks like your the world you live in but that car is recycling its own fumes into its gas

tank and everything is just kind of more garbage I am being informed that the tabletop of cyberpunk takes place in 2020 okay Oof. Okay. Yeah. So I guess CD Projekt agreed with me and they were like, that's, whoo. They should have fucking called, that game should have been called Cyberpunk 2021. Okay, so like, even, again, throwing the zero in there

is setting you up for failure. But I do have to say, if you think about the way it felt back then, 24 years ago, right? It felt as if the trajectory were on, right? Coming off of 97, 98, 99, if that was just life and the pace of life from then forward, the world would look like the one the movies and games depicted for 2099.

If we kept that pace up and didn't just fucking fart Peter out into the dirt, it actually could have gone that way if we're considering the exponential curve. I think about this a lot because in, especially I've been talking about it a lot because I've been playing through the old ass Metal Gear games. One of the funniest things in Solid Snake, Metal Gear 2, Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake,

is I did not remember this because I never played it. The opening text crawl states that nukes have been abolished and no longer exist, which is why Metal Gear is such a big deal. And I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? That is an insane thing to say, unless you wrote the game in 1989, at the start of the Cold War disarmament treaties where they said they

were going to disarm all the noobs. And then I'm like, oh, that's why in Metal Gear Solid Baker has like a five minute spiel about how dog shit the start to treaty is and how it didn't work at all because the future in 1998 or whatever the fuck it was gonna be, we were supposed to have no news by now. Yes, yes. And to go back in time and revisit that era with Phantom Pain, that whole big deal about they don't and nuclear disarmament across all the motherbases. You get to see the moment in Metal Gear 1 where Big Boss changes his codec and you start talking to Venom instead.

It's crazy how Kojima made the same game like six times in a row. Every single notable element from later games is actually in the really old ones to some degree. Like Zanzibar Land's layout looks like the Big Shell's layout. Right, yeah, that was one of the details I remember. But there's a moment where you actually can see a Venom switch? Big Boss to Venom, yep. Oh. About the 70% mark, you go from 140.85. And he goes, I'm switching frequencies. And you start calling 140.13.

OK. And you're not switching frequencies. Now you're talking to Venom. Straight up, yeah. Interesting. No, but that secret ending that never happened, that makes a lot more sense now for sure. Kojima's hopes and dreams.

But back to technology. Yes. Like when we grew up, we went from no video games to tons of video games. We went from no internet to holy shit, the internet's going to change the whole world. We went from all practical effects to now you can use computers to make movies. And then in 2007, when we were just out of high school, hey, did you know you have a fucking tricorder in your hand? You have a computer that could power the whole world in your fucking phone? And it makes, oh my God. Like technology seemed genuinely exponential.

Yeah, no, and this is peak boomer casting right now, like make no mistake. Yeah, but it's the new year, so get to boomer can we certainly do but but like it there is something really Profoundly strange about even now think going from yeah, no internet into it existing and then into social media but like the pre social media internet was like there was still a whole weird thing to that where like everyone was kind of going out on their own and Discovering their own corners and stumbling across it and you just didn't know what what the fuck was out there And now we're gonna cycle all the way back around because social media has decided to fill itself with robots That's really of course. That's how you save the failing business

Meta and and this is Facebook and Instagram. We're just gonna fill the fucking site with fake peoples that you can pretend are real Yeah, I don't understand who that is for but I but I there is a there is a it now when I when I think about The people who were naming things according to the future years, right? they were thinking the same thing we all were at the time, which is this speed and trajectory is insane. And also, I mean, our parents' generation too, you're talking about like, oh, like going from, you know, like, no-

Oh, a refrigerator, whoa! Color TV, like the moment, you can go back and see the times where it's like, hey, look, there's color now all of a sudden, right? And the moments that channels switched over and stuff. So yeah, the trajectory is so insanely fast that you're like, if it just keeps going at this speed, we will be in these skyscrapers

and surfing on laser boards and shit. Anyway, I think- To someone asking in the chat, I am not a Gen Xer. I was born in 86 that puts me as an old millennial Thank you. I do not want to count myself part of that Gen X. No, thank you Yeah, obviously when we say boomer we're talking about the meme online boomer term also boomer means baby boomer It doesn't mean Gen X though Gen X or boomer now It doesn't mean Gen X though Gen X or boomer now Okay, there are people that are under the impression or

Mistakingly thinking that boomer does not mean that or it's you know it's a joke right means old people Means you don't understand what the phantom taxes. Yes, okay? All right, so he res, Ohio children the greatest That's bad the greatest skippity generation. No that yeah Yeah, this is this is by default will they going to be the greatest skippity generation Because the next generation is going to look at that shit and be like that's lame and have even newer weirder shit No, no no no feel it no feel that feel the wrinkles feel the gray you're doing it, but like good But like you know

You know how like we always knew that, going back to the YouTube poop era and shit like that, you could always kind of tell sort of where it was going. You could kind of look over and go like, oh yeah, no, faster and higher stimulus. Faster, higher stimulus, louder, more deep fried, and et cetera. But like, what now? Because we're there. So what comes next?

Well, I don't mean to get too boomery or parenty-casty or whatever, but what now is that we are going to see in the next couple of years an entire generation of deep-fried gen alphas enter into the world as adults who have completely screwed up their dopamine receptors. Oh, for sure. And can't pay attention on our functionally disabled. Yeah, I was trying to keep it a little less depressing because that is absolutely a certainty for 100%. But you know what can be locked in on focused on for extended periods of time?

What's that? Dance routines. Dance routines are cool. If you've got a full on dance routine going, you know, you've got the whole thing set up and like you get what all the moves step by step, you can pay attention to that. Like you can actually let that go for a couple minutes. Those those those work out. Anyway, Don't give your kids iPads. Yeah. That's... Anyway. Just don't do it. Yeah. It's just... I remember... Every time

it comes up, then there's the like, hey, but you don't know. Then it's like, yes, no, not everybody has the... We get the struggles and it's difficult and, you know, and then it's like, yes, no, not everybody has the, we get the struggles and the, and it's difficult and it's, it's sometimes and yes and so on. But it's also just the outcomes are bad. So I don't know. Just let the kids stare at the wall. Yeah. I just, I just, you know, that is a bit, that is a better alternative. And nobody, and nobody wants to feel judged and nobody wants to feel like they're being shit on if they, if this is the decisions they've made. That is our generation's generation's curse. But like, no, but it's just because like the moment that that kind of comes up, anyone in the room who's like,

I'm in the process of handing the iPad to my kid looks and goes, oh, what the fuck, man? So what? You know, and it's like, Yes, yes, yes I am. Understand that like the outcomes are clearly demonstrating themselves now and we're seeing how bad it is.

It really is just terrible. No, well, our generation, the millennial curse is, what, you're judging me now? Yes, I am judging you like your parents judge you because you are doing a bad thing. And that's fine. I can judge you. You can judge me. It's fine. It's fine. I can judge you. You can judge me. It's fine. It's fine. Well, we are now in the phrase where my beautiful, wonderful

child is smart enough that I have had to child proof all the drawers because he has discovered the cool shit is in all those drawers. Right? However, that it coincides with being smart enough to run to his box of toys, pick up the book that he likes, run towards me, throw the book at me, go, buh, buh, buh, and do open wide thing

until I pick him up and read him his book. And is that adorable? Yes. Is that as adorable on our two of the same book? Not quite as much. Are me and Paige hiding some of the books in the couch cushions so that he varies it the fuck up sometimes? Absolutely. But that's what you're supposed to do! Yes. You are simply hearing the not as fun and entertaining but realistic...

When you have friends and family and people that are like, yeah, when I'm tired, I just hand it over, etc. That as hilarious and as great as that response is, and the what the fuck are you doing, depending on who you're talking to, that might actually make it worse because they're not doing a great job at realizing the dangers.

And so in some cases, you have to be like, hey, can I just show you some research on why this is bad? And for the sake of saving the kid's brain, you might have to eggshell the person who's currently doing a bad job by iPad-ing them. I think if somebody is already doing a bad job, I don't think there's a saving grace here. Because I'm just like, what the fuck is wrong with you

to that parent that's doing that approach that's like, yeah, well, it's like that kid to you, like if it takes softening your message to get the kid iPad out of the kid's hand, then that maybe that's the right way to do it. Because if the person gets spiteful and doubles down and goes, I'm bunkering down on this bad place, this bad stance because you've got your coming off that way. That kid's fucked and it sucks. It's like, so here's the thing, right? The big problem is that it's the type of person we're talking about is somebody who's probably not paying attention because I have played a video game. I'll start up a video. I'll start up Marvel Rivals is a really good example.

And the baby will walk into the room and look at me playing Marvel Rivals and I will look over and I will see the light leave his fucking eyes and he will go slack jawed and stand in place where he came into the room. And I go, you know what? I think that's frying his fucking brain. I should turn that off Right, but people who go hey have you seen have you watched Coco melon? No, have you seen Coco? No, I have it But I've so Coco melon is specifically designed to turn off the baby right pull it up for yourself right now Like just watch it for fucking I can I can I can imagine yeah, yeah it is it is drugs now. Just watch it for fucking 10 seconds. I can imagine.

It is drugs. It is cocaine for children. It is unbelievable. It has been scientifically engineered to turn your baby off. And you know what? It's really good at it. Because the baby just shut down when you give it the cocaine.

Emojis sliding around and and Editing paste for for maximum. Yeah, yeah lock it and the type of the music and shit like that But I guess it's just like Whatever I don't know just That like someone who said like hey like that kind of parrot will just tell you to fuck off. And I'm like, but it hasn't because I know people in real life where when they're people that are kind of stubborn that when they're doubling down and like bunkering in

and it's all based on the way that you come at them. And it's like, if it's just for you, then I'm like, okay, I don't give a fuck. But because you have a kid next to you and I care about the outcome there, I am going to do what's necessary to make sure you hear this message better. And if taking you aside and going, here's why this is a bad idea, now I get it,

but check this out and ooh, and we can kind of have a discussion about it. It doesn't have to make it seem like you're going to war with me or as coming at me in a way where I'm like, well, I have to attack back because I'm just an impatient fucking person. So, you know. So I have a. So you can affect the outcomes in that way, essentially. Because you're paying for it. Right. So like Pride is not being attacked when you come at it

in that way. Me and Paige, when we got the little baby and he's our first little baby, right? And we haven't done this before, so we got a little crib thing that's for zero to six months called a SNU, right? And you strap the baby in and the baby can't move and it rocks the baby if the baby cries, right?

So this thing, it lasts lasts for six six and a half months we got we got to keep him a little longer in it because he was he was like he's small he's just a little small but basically it means you strap the baby in you make sure he's good and he's fed and all that right you you turn that fucker on okay you can have a regular night's fucking sleep. Right? Now, there's all sorts of things about sleep training and all that shit. Nah, man, I had the robot rock the baby to sleep. And like we paid a pretty petty for it,

but it was super worth it. And then we sold it to a friend of ours and it was great. And then when we pulled him out of that fucking shit, oh, we paid for it. We paid for it because this baby had learned to be rocked to sleep within seconds of crying for seven months Oh, yeah, right, but you know what? That first couple of months when we were postpartum and Paige was recovering from a c-section and we were new parents That would that was the really crucial fucking hard months. Yeah were new parents that would that was the really

crucial fucking hard months. So you know what? That was a fair trade. Okay. When you give when you give Jimmy the iPad, sorry, when you give little Billy the iPad at what X amount of months, you know what? It's way easier to do the dishes. It's way every time I do the dishes, the baby crawls into the dishwasher every single time he reaches only for the biggest and sharpest knives that could cut him. Right. When I take the dishes, the baby crawls into the dishwasher. Every single time. He reaches only for the biggest and sharpest knives that could cut him. When I take the trash out, baby wants in the trash. When you do the laundry, baby runs into the back of the laundry room. Where the fuck is the baby?

It's hard. It's super hard. But if you iPad that kid every single day, guess what? You're going to pay for it really bad when he goes to school. Yeah, that lingers. Like really bad. That lingers far into the future, absolutely, for sure. No, I mean, even just the smallest anecdote from friends that we have that in one case, they lived in a place where the

baby had its own fairly large room and everything was quiet. As a result, it would sleep better. But if ever there were any disturbance of any kind, sleep was just interrupted and completely impossible. Versus the other baby I have that I know that is a cousin. It's like the loudest people could be talking at maximum Christmas volume and the kid is knocked out because it's just yeah noise is normal we're somewhere in the middle on that like my page and I is like low talking

like like not like now like podcast voice but like hey what's going on yeah right that's fine and like a loud crash will knock the guy out. But when he's out, man, he's out. On the Astro fucking plane. But like to any of you who are brand new parents or about to become new parents, this advice may be bad and someone can argue with me. But like, hey, you know what? You have the newborn, you might fall behind on laundry

and you might start eating like shit because it's hard to cook your meals and harder to clean up the house because there's just so much to do. It's fucking, okay, wear yesterday's fucking clothes and eat a piece of fucking bread out of the package. It's fine. You'll live. Yeah. Not giving the baby the iPad is actually more important. I mean, there's a lot of things too that I kind of like, I think from just a lot of friends and stuff anecdotally, I'm realizing like, yeah, there's a lot of things too that I kind of like, I think from just a lot of friends and stuff anecdotally I'm realizing like, yeah, there's a lot of like,

yeah, you'll make it, you'll live. It'll be, you know, you'll figure it out whatever the circumstances may be. But if you're currently listening to this and you're like, yeah, I've been just relying on this and it's what we do. And there's a bit of that pride thing and you're kind of sunk cost fallacy at this point. It's like, yes, but it doesn't like any, the best time was yesterday, but the second best time is now. Right?

Well, here's the second problem. You can just take it away and like, it'll be rough in the transition period. Right? If this kid's been on iPad shit for a year, oh man, good luck with that shit. That's the transition period right if you this kids been on iPad shit for a year Oh, man, good luck with that shit. That's gonna take months to detox them But but it's that versus years that we know are coming permanently down the line. That's the thing right? Yeah, I mean look you know I feel as if We've also been long overdue for a, Hey kids, play with mercury. It's a whole lot of fun kind of moment.

You know, no, you know that the tetra ethyl lead in the, in the gasoline really helps reduce engine knocking. Oh my God. Oh my God. The fucking like the, the, the curve of like the increase in lead and like... All crime. Crime?

And then was it IQ test scores or no? IQ test scores. Yeah, something like that. And it's just like, it's the same curve. You're like, oh. It's the same curve. Tetral ethyl lead by Thomas Midg Ridley Jr., I think that's his name is the single most damaging thing to society that has ever Happened in the history of the world yeah

So no question also we dodged that shit like barely yeah Oh, yeah, for sure with right out right out at the edge absolutely um but for a long time It was a certain understandably like yo our cell phones gonna be weird because of the shit That's getting to that turns out right we dodged it on cell phones. Plastic though! Wow! Bluetooth? You got Bluetooth coming through your head all the time? Is that gonna be, you know? And there's all these kind of like, we're... But it seems okay.

By the way, Willie, I'm being informed Baby is attempting to play peek-a-boo with you on the television. Oh shit. You wanna hit him with that? Just hit him with the eyes. Oh shit. Oh, oh, you want to hit him with that? Just get him with the eyes. Hit him with the. Ah, yeah. Yeah. So that is that is exactly it. Right. You have and you have a straight up like we've we've coasted way too long without something we've relied on going horribly wrong. And I feel like, um, with the exception of baby liked it. Nice. You thumbs up. Nice. Willie jumpscare microplastics in my balls was not one that I expect.

Plastics in all of our balls is truly horrifying, but we're, it's too late. We're there. Um, brand new one, the brand new one from this year lead your tampon. Oh, yeah also year about that one Let in the tampon guess what guess what tampons have led which tampons all tampons You know what else they have? arsenic Wow Yeah arsenic. Wow. Yeah. Okay. You noticed the millennial generation is a generation that

was defined by people going, it's really hard to have children when I want to have children. I have reproductive issues. It's possible that because we have plastic and lead all over our genitals, it might have an issue. Okay, so maybe the risk of toxic shock comes from the fact that they're taking a big syringe called Tock. No, that's actually a totally different thing. Okay, well. That's a totally different thing. No, but it just, anyway, it seems as if a lot of people have switched over to Diva Cups,

and I think I get it when that's the type of stories that are coming out. I think as well, the toys that were like, there's Chinese produced toys that had. Just lead. Yeah, and you're like. Just lead. Mouth toys as well that were just coming. Yeah, lead, lead mouth toys. So that shit's wild.

Dude, we bought, so when we had the baby, we had to stay somewhere else right after he was born, and we bought like a foldable crib that was just for like literally like two nights and then after we got home and Like put it in a storage. I got recalled from Amazon from safe for safety reasons and we were like Give me a fucking break. Come on this thing thing all it needs to do is not kill, baby

What one just simple real real clear objective assignment is straightforward But I feel like so there's there's there's definitely these types of little fucked up stories that have popped up But but like in a massive way, I think the iPad bit is like the first huge one that's like, oh shit, yeah, there's gonna be a whole lot of people going, we didn't know, you know?

So it's gonna take a while for that, that like full research and publicize new, until news starts talking about it going, hey everybody, actually stop right now. Until it's like a mainstream news item, this is gonna continue to kind of be like, ah. I think you are actually completely wrong about that. Really?

Yes, because I had parents who smoked. And I had parents who smoked two packs a day each well into the fucking aughts. And every family trip we ever went on that was cold, every window was rolled right up. We would take the 401 from Montreal to Toronto, and that'd be a six hour trip. And both parents would smoke a pack each

in that six hour car ride and wouldn't roll the windows down because it's cold. me, my brother and my sister would all go who were, by the way, at this age, 16, 12 and eight. So like the full spread go, please stop smoking in the car. It is terrible back here. And this was when my parents were like, well, I know it's going to give us cancer or heart disease, but the kids are just complaining. And then the secondhand smoke shit happened, but it was too hard to quit.

And so when you would bring that up to people or you bring it out to your parents, they'd be like, I know and feel bad and it would get tense. And then they would grab another cigarette. Mm-hmm. And that is what happens with the iPad people. They're like the... Yeah, okay. The soft cost is too in. But I do think they're... I don't think that describes everybody admittedly because I'm also thinking about how I currently don't know anyone that still smokes for example

like I know do you include vapes because I do vaping is certainly vaping is certainly a thing more than it's ever been and vaping is and there are people who are vaping in this chat right now and vaping is I think there's actually something recently that said that it can be worse because of how easy it is to just go in and out and you don't have to go through the ritual of ... Well, because vaping isn't as highly regulated. So if you have a bad vape, it'll just blow your shit up.

But also more just like you don't have to go outside and have a full cigarette thing. You can just quickly take a bit and put it back away. So it's easier to do, thus you're're gonna have more over the course of the Believe I watched the generation above me like nearly die or in some cases actually die from smoking Then my generation stopped that shit. Yeah to watch the next generation. Just pick it up in a different dispenser in a different I mean, yeah, like it's a pez Definitely not saying people don't smoke anymore, but I am saying that like People have traded off and it has changed over statistically. If you're gonna smoke, at least get high, fuckheads.

Jesus. All this to say. 420, come on. All this to say that I don't think every single iPad parent is being maliciously like, eh, fuck it. I think there's a bunch of people that are just like, somewhere, there's the people that are fully on that that don't give a fuck that are checked out. And then there's the ones that are just like,

I know better, but I'm exhausted. And then there are those who are just like, oh, I did not know. And I think that with everything, there's a large gamut of people. And I think that over time, as it becomes more and more clear, as the effects get worse and worse,

as the generations get older and the kids who started with the iPad get older and we see how it affects them in school and in life and everywhere else, it's going to become a much more clear and apparent thing. But for now, we're still in the relatively early years. I got a little baby right now and that little baby is already learning to count and is on the path to reading and all that shit. And do you know what that means? That means, hey you know what iPad kid yourselves to death fuckheads my kid knows how to read by the end of regular

human age. Illiteracy not for this one! She's gonna be a doctor and I said that in the chat the other day in my stream and chat was like, well, what if he doesn't want to be a doctor? To which I responded, he can be any kind of doctor he wants. He can be a plastic surgeon, he can be a dermatologist, he can be an oncologist, he could be a cardiac surgeon, he can be a bone doctor, he could be an astronaut doctor, he can be any kind of doctor. Well, my dad saying the same thing about me has led to a life of slingshotting myself violently in the opposite direction. So I'm going to tell you what I'm going to

tell you right now. You know, my son can grow up to be anything he wants except for on artists. No, no art in this house. That's cool. That's cool. But arts for doors telling me what I needed to do or what the limitations on what I could be were when I was younger was like, hey, cool. So yeah, the floor is me becoming a doctor and just like legs up on the wall, Spider-Manning. Anyway, yeah, I don't mean to go all crazy parent shit. Hey, you know what though? Oh man.

Oh, you need a man parent if social media when you're when you're a fucking when you're a parent becomes so awesome because you get to see everybody else's opinions about being a parent and you get to see the most dog shit thing you've ever seen your fucking life. You get to you scrolling up on that tick tock and you see this fucking bitch eight months pregnant having a full bottle wine going who's gonna stop me? And you're like, oh my God, why would you put that on the internet?

Are you fucking psycho? I've had four kids this way, they all turned out fine. Holy shit! Yeah. You know, like, access to the world and their cameras means people that are seconds away from jail will sometimes show up on your feet. Before it was just, oh, this person's gone.

Oh, they're in jail, okay. Well, now you get to see them right before it. Something in some cases filming the crime. Wow, okay. Cool. Anyway, having a kid's great. I'm really tired. That's the cell.

Yeah. I'm thinking of the one with the lady driving in the passenger seat with the kid with the window open or whatever and they're just cruising and you're just like, yeah. You didn't, you know, what you have to scroll past and see that shit before. My favorite one recent is like mom's, uh, being like,

can you believe this shit? And then people in the comments being like, that is much more serious than it looks. You need to fucking divorce your husband right now. Uh, like six month old infant and the dad couldn't figure out the car seat so he just put a blanket over it and the kid's not strapped in at all. And it's like, oh no, that's the end of that relationship. That is a guaranteed fatality on Offender Bender. That is, oh you can't do it Well the the slightly more entertaining Segway here is the montage of

When they introduced drinking and driving and seatbelt laws Seat belts? The hell? My fucking dad. My dad drove trucks for a living. And you know what? My dad fucking hates seat belt laws. God, I just wanted a road soda after work. I know for a fact that my father does not wear a seat belt when no one can see him,

because every single time we get into a car with my dad, my whole life, someone has to tell him to put on a seatbelt. He puts that seatbelt on two blocks from the house. Every single time. And every single time. No matter how much it beeps, no matter how much it fucking annoys you forever, because that's what they do now.

Well, it didn't used to. It didn't used to. It didn't used to do that shit. Right, right. Okay, well. Why do people hate seatbelts that much? Because my dad used to do that shit. Right, right. Okay, well. Why do people hate seat belts that much? Because my dad used to hang his arm out the side of the truck. Yeah.

Lean all the way out and yell at people. They never had to. Get the fuck out of the way, I'm delivering newspapers here. Because they never had to, and then it became a law, and then that law's encroaching on your freedoms, you know? And it doesn't matter how much it saves your life or doesn't, you know? Yeah, literally, like, like I mean there was a

a friend of a friend that in high school like was not wearing his seat belt in an accident On the road and passed away as a result of that and that kind of everyone took that needless outcome and tragedy lesson straight to heart there. Do you want to hear a great story? Sure. My father, while smoking like his 45th cigarette of the day,

looks at 15 year old Pat, because I mentioned that some of my friends smoked weed, and goes, don't you ever smoke weed, you will die. Oh yeah. And I go, what? Oh God, they got it. And he goes, you'll literally die. And I go, no, you won't. What are you talking about? And my mom's there. She's like, my mom is also blindsided. They did not talk about this before this happened. And he goes, I had a friend in, in high school and he smoked weed and he smoked weed and

he died. I'm like, what? No, he didn't. So yeah, he got high and he walked across Wellington and he got hit by a car and he died because he wasn't looking where he went. I'm like, that what? That's not that is not the, what? And my mom goes, I smoked weed in high school.

And my dad's just like, just immediately defeated. The reefer madness got him. And then they kept smoking. And then they kept smoking the cigarettes. There you go. Okay, well hey, while we're sharing weird, uncomfortable realities here, so with seat belts, there is one thing, there's one intrusive thought that I get.

And it kind of bugs me every now and then. And maybe if I share it to everybody listening, you'll start to get it too. Okay, let's hear it. Seat belts and airbags will save your life and are absolutely necessary And understandably mandatory But when I'm in the back seat and I have it

Strapped in and I know that there's a possibility going into an intersection that we might get t-boned and I know that's right Like you're you're pretty much done But no, but people survive all sorts of stupid shit But if there's a chance that the impact of where the door caves in is something that would launch you to the other side Of the back seat, but the seat belt stops you Wooly, then you're just getting no You have you have the kinetic math on this wrong, okay? so Something that would instantly kill you

if you stayed put with the seatbelt would obliterate you if you hit the side of the fucking, the other side of the car and much more likely some of you would eject out of the other side of that car. So that's my thought. Now here's the thing, I don't know what I'm talking about

and I fully will all put that forward so anyone who knows fucking better can illuminate. I definitely know that at a certain speed, trajectory and impact, it doesn't even matter. The seatbelt's just gonna contain some of the goo. So I'm not thinking about the impact level that would result in that,

because that's a non-starter. I'm thinking about the one that is just slow enough that everything gets rocked over to the side, but because of the way the crumble cars are built to safely crumble away and not be these iron steel death boxes, the side doors collapse into you where the bump would have shot you over to the other side. That speed, it's not the maximum speed, it's the speed that jostles you over to the side, but the seatbelt stops you from moving over you are ignoring a

Third factor here, okay, which is please once make me feel safer Once your butt no this doesn't make you feel safer. This is the other way, okay, sorry Once your body has left the vehicle as a projectile yeah Your likelihood of death increases by about a million times. Not talking about that. I'm talking about way slower than that. Way slower than that. OK, but you don't get to choose how hard the person

in the other car hits you, will you? No, you don't. You don't. I'm talking, but the intrusive thought that I'm describing, which is, again, it's not rational necessarily. That's why I'm sharing it here. It doesn't have to make sense. But I'm thinking about something that's not rational necessarily. That's why I'm sharing it here. It doesn't have to make sense.

It is not, you know, but I'm thinking about something that's not knocking you so hard that you in the back seat go flying out the window or to the, I'm talking about like it's enough to crumple the side where you're sitting. I don't think this combination of forces exists. I don't think there's a force that can hit you and totally obliterate your seat that would not also launch you clear through the door.

Through the door. I hope so. And I don't even mean through the window. I hope so. And I'm not sure where I know where airbags are placed in the front. I don't know where they're placed in the back seats. They're placed in the front. So in the back seats, where, like, yeah, I don't know where the air. If they have them, they're in the chair in front of you. Okay. The driver's. So yeah, that's the thing, it's like, folks are saying, like, there's airbags. I'm like, yeah, I don't know where they would come from.

So I'm not, this is all based on not necessarily knowing that part of it. If they're side airbags. Yeah, there can be side airbags. That's cool, okay. I think you should focus on not becoming a projectile. Yeah. I think that is by far the grandest and smartest plan. Again, I started this saying there's a small thing.

It's a triny intrusive thought. Not necessarily rational, but I do just think about that getting pinned kind of outcome to getting tea bagged. So here's the thing. You can get ejected from a car not wearing a seatbelt pretty easily. I imagine too. And so I know people who have been in rollovers,

and if you flew out that window on the wrong side, which you would because of the way the math works, the car would roll over you. And that is definitely way worse than any damage you would have taken. Anyway, I can't explain any further than that. It's not necessarily, it doesn't make a ton of sense. And if the speed that I'm describing that could do that means that for sure the other way without it would be completely kaput, then yeah, then great. That's the laws of physics. But as far as just the intrusive thought goes, I go, ah, a little bit on that.

Not saying I'd never wear it, not saying any outcome would change, describing an intrusive, irrational thought, sharing it on a microphone in front of a podcast. Here we go. There was a doctor that injected patients at some fucking British hospital with a fucking mystery syringe. Also, he wasn't a doctor, he was a guy. There's an intrusive thought for you. I think about it every day ever since I saw that article.

Guy just walked in with a lab coat and just started injecting people with a fucking mystery fluid! Don't care for that! Don't like it! Don't like to see the phrase mystery fluid. How about that? I love when I You know you see you see like plane crash or accident news and you scroll past it and then like another one and you're Like yeah, I kind of I don't need and then I have three

You're like can I just not see this for a sec, please? Humans were not supposed to hang out with more than three hundred and fifty people So could I get news from only 150 of the people closest to me right now, please? Can I have that as a function of like my apps or whatever? Ever scroll past one of those while you're at the airport? You're just like, cool. Awesome. That's rad. Love that. I remember seeing, I remember seeing, so Paige is a terrifying fear of flying and I remember going to see Godzilla with her and when

Godzilla starts smashing up all the planes at the airport. She'd like nearly fainted Yeah, well anyway, um, oh Was really funny. So this week, Stuff and Things. Yeah, what's going on with you, man? What's going on? Hey. I took a look over at MVCI B,

Marvel versus Capcom, infinite and beyond. Maximillian's just flex project, the full on vanity of dropping 30k and just going, yo, make it good though and then they did and that was awesome. So yeah there is a if you go to mvcib.com I believe Marvel Infinite and Beyond is just taking Marvel and Marvel versus Capcom Infinite and they got a team of like 80 people or so I think just like a proper fucking development team modders and Korea and just they got Alex Mukala and little V to make some music artists to redo a lot of the art new modes new just a whole thing and just taking Infinite and just making it a better game You can polish a turd if you try hard enough Well, so the thing with infinite from the jump was that the gameplay was always good.

It was always really well built in terms of just the battle planning. It's the rest that sucks, you know? And fortunately, that's something that a modding team and some artists and some creative people can do. You can get some really talented people to make some new music, change some stages, get and like change the shaders so that it actually looks like a comic book now, you know, dot tone and like bright colors and just the things that you kind of wanted and expected Marvel versus Capcom to look

like. Um, I remember when Marvel three was shown and it was like, okay, like... This is awesome. This looks great. Also, but I did, I was like, yeah, I was like, you do lose a little something in 3D. You know, I remember feeling that, but I was like, yeah, but clearly there's things going on like look at Wolverine's Berserker Barrage slashing through the pages of the stage, right? Treating it like paper. That was an awesome effect. And I was like, I wish they did more of that, but at the end they- I think Marvel 3 was a better use of 3D

than Street Fighter did for a while. They were, they're being more creative and fun with like the particles and the effects on the characters and stuff in like the wind poses, you get up close and start to see some of the shading and thick lines as well, right? But all this to say that like, I mean, jumping into 3D from the old 2D games, you know,

like you're gonna, that first jump is always gonna have a little bit of awkwardness to it. Tatsunoko had some of that as well. But at the end, we were like, okay, well, you're not gonna get sprites anymore, and that's fine, we're in a different world now. But like, if we have like a real respect for the comic book art style and the stuff that's been colorful and iconic for years,

then you're not betraying that with the franchise. And then yeah, Marvel Infinite was like, nah, we're going realistic. Fuck you. Nah, we're going. And by realistic, I mean ugly. Hey, let's remove respect for the medium at the door and let's remove Respect for Marvel at the door. Let's just like focus on like how about respect for the looks of your own?

Characters character Lee is one of your most beloved characters ever. Why she look like that? Yeah, just of your most beloved characters ever. Why does she look like that? Yeah, it just doesn't. And even to now, when you look at the changes, it's like they did the best they could to fix the lighting and make it not as bad. But you can still see the weird eyes on her, because that's her model, right?

When I'm describing how the feeling of Marvel 3 is like, OK, that's still pretty cool, though. Now we're looking back at it going, like, yeah, that shit rocks because of what we got after the fact. But to me, I'm like, well, Children of the Atom is like the fucking peak in my brain of how awesome these characters and sprites and colors

and things can look. Children of the Atom looks pretty good. And everything since Children of the Atom has been going further down, right? Like they've been having, they've been, yeah, the animation has been getting choppier and the, you know, you've had to just make concessions overall. So that's what I'm kind of comparing it to is like this idyllic, super duper detailed and beautiful animation in the sprites.

All this to say that Infinite and Beyond kind of just found a really nice filter and especially when you see the characters doing their supers up close and just the change to the lighting effects just makes it look so much more fun and enjoyable and it's what you wanted from the jump. The announcers having a blast, the title screen, all the little options, all the little art you're seeing everywhere. Everything is just like, it's all the, yeah. And if you've heard Max talking about like, you know, the joy and the fun and the, you know, the feeling over the years, it's like, this is kind of just reinserting all of that into a game where the tag system was fun.

And they did make a couple balance changes too here. They're very minimal. Nothing to change the way the characters, nothing to take away tools that the characters had, but more just like scaling back damage on stuff that was too abusable. Let's say oppressive. Yeah. And yeah. And then also making it so that you had a couple more options and you can, some characters got new stuff entirely. Well, that's cool.

Yeah, Thanos has the full infinity gauntlet, for example. So you can- Oh, that makes sense. Right, because of course he's actually got it. But there are little things as well where like, you could hold the input for throw and grab someone first frame during a special flash before. But now you can do that with the jab button as well or other things. So holding during a super flash is now a bit of a more standardized bit.

Some other fine details in the game as well. But anyway, playing it, checking it out, it's awesome, man. It's super cool. It's the first thing I thought of when I saw those mods for Marvel 3 started popping up. And I'm so happy that, like, yeah, he just kind of got a team together and they made this full thing. And like they did exactly what I was hoping for, too, which is like, here it is. It's easy to install. It's a zip file.

You just grab it and you drop it in the folder that you install off of Steam. And yeah, like, and it pretty much tells you it's like if you have the extra costumes, you're going to get some bonus stuff there. If you don't, that's fine. You don't need it. You can play it online with other people that have it. But if people don't have that version, like that's okay. You could even just get one that doesn't change the visuals, that just changes the gameplay elements as well. So really well

thought out to just be simple and easy for people to grab it, drop it on top of their installation and go. And it's fun to go back and be like, damn, yo, Monster Hunter rules. I can finally like... Yeah, no, that character, oh man. She's so awesome. And I was so sad that she was stuck there. And it's so fun to be able to just go back and do all that crazy fucking shit with her. So yeah, that is just the like, it's the best mod package like in this genre that we've ever seen easily. And usually you've had like some shit posty stuff from back in the day, like the mysterious mods and the goofy Street Fighter IV broken editions and shit like that.

I can't think of anything this comprehensive. No, this is usually reserved for Souls games and or Skyrims, right? Yeah, like total conversion. That's it. Kind of thing. So just, yeah, if you haven't checked it out, do so. Absolute kudos.

And obviously, the game is popping back up, and it's online, and people are playing it. And hey, look at that. It's suddenly healthy again. And I don't know what kind of conversations happened behind the scenes or so, but one thing is clear is as much as this is not an official thing and has nothing to do with Oh Capcom's never gonna touch this no no no of course not right and and you know same for your project M style bits with

Nintendo and everything but you do have to go buy a copy of Marvel infinite Which is conveniently on sale right now to install the mod so that much is clear and I don't think you can be too upset about that if you're not touching this otherwise. But I'm sure business-wise, there's a like, why can't we? There's definitely a like money on the table bah humbug feeling to the situation. I bet you some people are having, but I bet you internally- Marvel might have an issue with it, but it's too late, dipshit. It's too late now.

Yeah. And again, you do have to go buy the thing. And I bet, I wouldn't be surprised if there might have been a little like, hey, as long as people got to go buy the thing. I have a suspicion that before Max did all this work and put money into it that he spoke to a guy who could give him certain Equiessences You know, but it's very cool. It's great It's nice to see that like this entry that is skipped over in discussion Now no longer has to be because when we talk about Marvel you just literally you just don't talk about Infinite it will continue to be skipped over in discussion and then someone will go. Hey, what about the what about that cool mod next?

May they'll go. Yeah, that was cool. Yeah, when's Marvel for though? Yeah. No, there's you know for some folks But I but it's it's you know, it's it's legitimately a really cool final thing to have for this game and I think It's legitimately a really cool final thing to have for this game. And I think, I saw like there's some discussion like some Japanese Twitter things where some folks were going like, hey, if this is not officially recognized, then it doesn't matter, who cares?

Was kind of the energy. Oh, fuck off. It was like, all right. Get your e-sports out of your ass. Well, I'm just like like I didn't think a bootlick approach would apply to fucking to fighting games but here we are trying to lick a boot oh oh it's not official then no I need Kevin Feige to tell me what video games I can enjoy it was It was a bit of a wild one

there, but there are some folks that are kind of have that feeling and it's like, okay, you can do that and we'll be having fun over here, dear Lord. And yeah, I guess the other idea too is like, it doesn't, I think it's, not that any, again, if Marvel's gonna get mad, they're gonna get mad regardless in a way. Anyone who doesn't like this won't like it. But it doesn't add new characters, so there's also a little bit of a like, it's keeping the integrity of the thing they released

just making it better. I know one needs to shit about that. I know, but it's just, it's a weird like, like it's a weird line almost where it's like, as a result of this, it's not, it's not, anyone who's been playing the game for the last seven or so years is still playing that game Yeah, you know I guess is they're sick Or they really like

If I was playing day of defeat right now you would say that I'm mentally ill now granted I am mentally ill, but that would be a different conversation or you really like tag crashing and You know the 2v2 dynamic and you know and can Be the ability to create your own assists, you know Anyway, so yeah infinite and beyond is awesome and and worth checking out. I will Urge everybody to you know, I feel super bad for You know, I feel super bad for Marvel Infinite's development, not just because of like Marvel, not because of like the slow stuff and they didn't have enough time and money, but like

there was a really incredibly clear MCU push behind that game and non-X-Man push. No Magneto, put Ultron, right? And like I compare that to the subsequent Marvel products that came out of Marvel Snap and Marvel Rivals in which they're like, you want to play as Jeff the Shark? Fuck it. So who needs that shit? But there's like a 50-50 in a way, right? Because even beforehand when Rocket Raccoon was included in Marvel 3, it was like, who?

Why? Right? And looking at rivals, you know, you could argue like, oh, well, Mantis probably would not have been an inclusion if not for Guardians. But that was a successful case of getting people to care about characters they didn't initially. The push towards promoting the character versus, well, now that they've arrived and people like them and we're going to include them, is still a thing. But you're gonna have Squirrel Girl and Jeff the Landshark

while you have Mantis and... I don't know, like, I feel like Scarlet Witch. Oh, I'm staring at the list in front of me right now. Well, I was gonna say, like, Scarlet Witch also feels like a character that is included and is much more of a big deal now because of MCU as opposed to prior to her inclusion there. It's kind of was like, yeah, she was around and she had a big impact on things like House of M and these events, but she might not have been in a roster of playable characters. Look, she wasn't in any

of the Marvel games as a playable character. Absolutely. And you're obviously, I'm looking at the leak list for upcoming Marvel Rivals characters. Oh, you have the Fantastic Four in there and you got Blade and Deadpool. People like those. They got movies. And then you get motherfucking Hit Monkey. Fucking Hit Monkey coming to fucking Marvel Rivals. I don't even know. Me either. Point taken. These are, they announced some new characters? No, they did not announce the new characters,

but people have been data mining shit out, like constantly. And including pulling out like the models for some of the Fantastic Four. Okay. But yeah, some McFarlane character called Angela Hit Monkey Deadpool Captain Marvel Emma Frost Phoenix Valkyrie Modok fantastic Angela is the Yeah, Angela if I'm not mistaken is basically the spawn character that like he just took and made again Outside of the image imprint and he just went like yeah, it's my character

I'm doing it. You know, we're getting weirdos like Angela and Hitmonkey alongside your movie characters, and I'm just like man Marvel infinite was like defined by a bunch of loser picks Okay, like Monster Hunter is the most interesting character on that whole roster and they're a Capcom character. Oh, she's in Thor's canon. Sorry. Okay. Yeah, I'm like, I don't know a ton about how that happened. Interesting. Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, you know, weird picks is good. That's cool. And, you know, now that, if you don't know a Jeff the Lanshark, then now you do. And you're like, hey, that's cool.

I like that. It's like, what's that about? It's like, oh, Gwenpool. What? That's a thing? So this is all, yeah, it all works when the obscure inclusion is something people would like if they knew about it to begin with.

I know it's a fighting game adjacent, barely. But I have to actually begin with, you know? I know it's a fighting game adjacent, like barely, but I have to actually agree with say, Jam that playing Rivals feels like the Marvel 4 waiting room. It's a shooter, but it has all of the like bullshit juice fucked up garbage that Marvel feels like it has. Well, yeah, if you like, Eddie,

you get to feel good about, like for those characters at the very least, I mean, there's no, there's nothing Cap it has. Well, yeah, if you like, and you get to feel good about, like for those characters at the very least, I mean, there's no, there's nothing Capcom happening in there certainly, but you know, in terms of just enjoying a bunch of these Marvel mainline characters in a game, yeah, that feeling is there. I get that.

It's very indirect, but it is there. I did boot it up at least. I didn't have time to jump into any matches, but I did boot it up to just take a look at some of the costumes and cosmetics and whatever's on sale and stuff. And like, yeah, they populated that store fucking quick. They really went, yep, here's all your MCU outfits. Here's all your, here's your classics. Here's the stuff. Here's some space outfits. No, they did exactly what I was expecting there. And yeah, good shit.

Hey look, Magneto's old costume, except it's like not exactly his old costume. It's a cooler version. It's pretty close. Yeah, but I'm like, I wonder if it's like, is that so, because then it says like, oh, first appearance, like 1951 or so, Magneto. And I got, I'm wondering, I'm like I wonder if it's like is that so because then it says like oh first appearance like 1951 or so Magneto and I got I'm wondering like Are you doing this so that like you'll you can scratch this itch now?

But then you can make an even more super awkward Legit old Magneto outfit or you're just gonna kind of leave them all looking kind of cool I think there's gonna be a lot of costumes Yeah, because that is game is what I think because you know if the classic costume for the character still looks like that kind of cool Updated one. It's like you have room for an even more goofy looking old one I Think there will be many Many costumes in this game also seeing how I've been playing so much of it that I'm learning

how much I hate other teammates and for and shooters again. Oh, there you go. I'm feeling it. I'm like, Hey, man. Hey, wooly. We were playing. We're playing, you know, the three point thing or you have to win three matches in a row. All right, we destroyed the other team. We destroyed them. It was complete one sided. All right, we destroyed the other team. We destroyed them. It was complete one-sided. All right, we're going to the second round. Every single person change a character to a character you're bad with. Every single one of you.

Oh, we lost twice in a row. Fucking sick. Yeah, that's great. It's good that you all did that. There you go. That's the story. That's the feel. I mean, look, random queue is random queue

no matter what it is, you know? Though seeing how that character select screening is like three rows now and like, there's clearly a full semi-circle that can be completed if not more. They've purposely made a fuck ton of space in the- That style of rotating thing can go infinitely. Mm-hmm. So yeah, that's cool. Outside of that, hey, I finished Phoenix Wright 1.

I saw. Yes. That was a final super long sesh to push through. I think we were like seven hours or something by the end there. That feels like how I've beaten every single Phoenix Wright game where you're like have them you can they go. No you didn't no you didn't yeah You know you know you're gonna need to push through and there's gonna be an ending and all that stuff as well that last Case they added Really is like a sequel that is that is a

Shadow of the urn tree is a shadow of the urn tree. Fucking, to Phoenix Wright 1. It's crazy. It's three cases in one. It's half the length of the original game. I mean... Yeah, it's fucking bananas. Wild. And those characters will come back, but because of the way the game was developed, they can only come back from the fourth game onwards. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Phenomenal. Excellent. Amazing. Very good. Enjoyed it thoroughly. Looking forward to more. You know, not much else there. I mean, I've known for a long time that it's like, yeah, this is something that is beloved for a reason here and happy to finally get around to it and beat it. Phoenix Ray has a really specific benefit to discovering it at this point in time because it's a visual novel with classy, simple art and gameplay that doesn't require on any technology

whatsoever. So, like, those were were what Gameboy Advance games Originally GBA. Yep. Um, and now that you've discovered it you play through the first one and you're like wow that that shit's amazing Not only is it like readily ported to like everything you own including your phone there are like 15 fucking games. Mm-hmm. They're like that. You're like, Oh, I like this now. Oh, cool. I could play this shit for fucking years and never finish. Like, holy shit. It's like getting into Yakuza. It's like, yeah, there's, there's a infinite breadth I can see. And unlike Yakuza, this

has an incredibly clear straightforward through line. Yeah. So, you, so I'm going to need a minute before throwing in a full on voice chops game again. Oh yeah, no, that's bad on the mouth. Yeah, by the end of that last session, I felt it. I could feel my throat was pushed. So we're going to need a little bit on that. It's definitely coming back for sure. And yeah, I finally also can see the Edgeworth setup here where from that initial antagonist energy, right?

Where he's such a piece of shit absolutely how much of a piece of shit he is but like the fucking i the co-op like versus the truth is such a good setup that shit is awesome as hype as hell and that and like that's what if that's what it kind of i don't know what to say that's what it becomes from here on out but i will say that for at least this game, that direction felt incredible. It was super cool to just see both sides against the middle there. I forget if it's one or two, but at some point you run into a character who is like, Hey, aren't you actually a massive piece of fucking shit? Like, because they knew him as a prosecutor and is in his complete garbage lying criminal days.

Well, it's like one can one kid. It's debatable whether he lied or not, right? He can. You can. You can give him the benefit of the doubt. I knew he was guilty. I knew it it everyone around him is full of shit and Everyone that's handing him evidence is full of shit and all the crimes being committed around his crime aura field are bad But is he himself? knowingly doing wrong

Many times for over the course of many years dated the autopsy report to be covered in my piss. Here you go, Nick Take a good whiff. I think if we're gonna grief him this hard that judge needs his fucking comeuppance as well That goddamn I'm gonna tell you right now as Unlikely as it seems As unlikely as it seems, that judge will not only not get his comeuppance, but he will preside over every single case you will ever see. Absolutely. It's wild. It's the shittiest judge ever.

But that's important because he represents the system. He represents the thing we're trying to make fun of here. So we need him to be as incompetent and as stupid and as obsessed with lunch as possible. You know? Can we just jail this motherfucker? I'm hungry. Like that at the end of the day, you are the fucking, the whole point of what we're trying to rally against here. Good shit. And I continue to also have this like, yes, Nick knows what he's doing, and sometimes he's cool,

but not in the times where I want him to be. Yeah. Like, please be cool, and he's like, I don't know what I'm talking about, like, god damn it. But then other times he's like, If I only add some big titty ghosts to help me Come on. He will be anybody. He will be cool, but not where you want him to be

It was great it was great and then of course there's like I don't know where I'm going with this But I'm just gonna keep talking is what the game actually wants To do as long as I keep talking they can't kick me out the doors But we all know the rule of this is like we have to get through our snake pluskin arc to truly appreciate Oh, homie writes incredible That dude's great the main character becomes the greatest as soon as you lose control of them. This is the rule. It is the rule.

Yeah, so that's pretty much it. I also completed the final secret boss of Shogun Showdown. And that game's really fun and worth playing if you haven't. It's a sleeper. It's not much to say about it, but once you play it, like I said, it's just really addictive and really fun. I want to recommend it again. Day 7 is full of shit. The hardest difficulty that game gets to is absolute bullshit. Oh, just like patently unfair? Oh yeah, like you're getting, and you can go in with your weapons randomized

against you too as well. And you can build unfair builds, but the chances of getting the pieces to do it are really, really low. So yeah, no, hardest difficulty of that. Well again, into the breach though, right? Similar kind of concept of like, no, hardest difficulty of that. Well again, into the breach though, right? Similar kind of concept of like, okay, the computer is just like cheating and there are times,

there are moments on the hardest difficulty where you're on a seven tile stage, you're on tile one, and the next six tiles are all things are targeting you. And there's no empty space. Come on. So yeah, good stuff there. We're going to resume this week,

not on Wednesday, but on Thursday. We'll be popping back in to play some cyberpunk. And then I believe some more 1000 X resist on Friday as well. And yeah, we haven't played. Have you you dipped your toe in a thousand X resist, right? Just started it one session. Yeah. I don't know anything about that game other than what's on the Steam page. But everybody keeps like lavishing praise on it.

I've played three hours of it, and I couldn't tell you any more than you already know. Oh, cool. It's one of those. Got it. Big narrative, slow burn. It's gonna need some time to go places. But we don't know anything else about it yet. We're being informed with some fringe-ass Archie Comics Capcom information. The judge from Ace Attorney declared Dr. Wily innocent of his crimes. Amazing. Beautiful. The judge from Ace Attorney declared Dr. Wily innocent of his crimes. Amazing.

Beautiful. And I also now understand the tragedy of not having Edgeworth as a playable character in Marvel. That should have been a pair. Not that, like, it was already a wild, here's the thing. We were, it's so wild to get Phoenix as a character in that game to begin with and like such a surprising awesome pull Holy shit. Yay, you know, but like now if you're like, oh fuck it would have been great if they got them both, right? Yeah, Phoenix should have been in Marvel 3 and Edgeworth should have been the the rep in ultimate Marvel

I mean shit man. It's a it feels feels like a wasted opportunity there. But also once upon a time Dante was not in Marvel. And it was like, oh, what a stupid concept. And it was like, what an absolutely buffoonish concept. Once upon a time, it was like, oh my god, they finally added Dante to Marvel versus Capcom 3. And now we will feel the same way when they add Nero. So yeah, that's kind of the thing with Phoenix is looking back

with time if you feel like you wanted them both but it was holy shit to see him at all. So yeah, that's pretty much going to be it. And yeah, definitely something fighting games related this weekend. If not infinite and beyond some other stuff is going on. I know Corrupt came out. And if not infinite and beyond, some other stuff is going on. I know Corrupt came out. I'll let you know. So check the schedule. But Wooly versus on Twitch and on YouTube. WoolyWools on Blue Sky and Twitter.

Yeah, what's going on? I played Marvel Rivals. It's good. I hate my team. I hate my team so much. They're bad. I'm also bad, but they're worse I'm trapped in that elo hell and is that cope? Absolutely. 100% Are you able to cycle between roles?

Yeah, absolutely. I actually I tend to win more matches when I play support and I don't think that's because I'm better as support I think that's because other people are worse than I am at support because I'm better as support. I think that's because other people are worse than I am at support. I think that is a really, I think I'm actually much better as a tank, but I think other people are way, way, way worse as supports than I am. So I think that I'm stuck on support. Loki's fun though. Oh, you're doing yeah, going towards him. The Loki's a lot of fun. He's got he's got stupid shit. No, his his his clone teleport setup game is phenomenal. That's a

lot of fun. Let's see. I did a beat the backlog where I played a bunch of games of note of particular somebody I just saw somebody mentioned it. I played cook serve delicious for the first time Cook serve it is a game about food prep like kind of like overcooked but using like keyboard controls I Quit a

Couple minutes in because I was having a panic attack and I was gonna cry. I was going to burst into tears. Oh no this food looks realistic and delicious. Fuck. I never did food service in my time up to adulthood and I'm glad I didn't because food service is stressful. Oh working working on the line. Well because orders come in and you have to hit the right buttons to get the orders out correctly, but they have to be the correct orders and then you have to prep the orders along a certain thing as you're doing so more orders are coming in. Have you played like beer tap or like you know the fucking cake love or any of those? Well, I'm still here aren't I? Okay. I'm alive. This is a genre of game where you have to do things quickly while orders

are coming in and you're... No? Yeah, no, I'm good. I'm good. No, thank you. You have not done the... No. No, I'm good. Thank you. I'm all done. I'm all done with that. Also, I have a minor Jimmy update from last week. I would like to raise my hand and say, I was wrong about one thing. I should not have spent a portion of last week's podcast fantasizing about passive aggressive revenge shit with Jimmy because that is just bad for the game in general. Like the not healing or the playing a character that

specifically hates them. That was wrong to do. On the plus side, we spoke to the DM and are very hopeful for the future of D&D with the with the Jimmy group. I haven't played yet. We're gonna be playing in the next couple of days. So that'll be a next week update. Looking forward to it. What else? I just want to add an addendum earlier to what I was talking about with the kid. There's a really fun game you can play as parents when you're both tired and you're sitting on the couch and the baby picks up a book and starts waddling over to you and you're like, oh my God, oh my God, which one is it? Ah, it was mom's turn. Ah, I hate that book. I hate 10 Tiny Toes. I hate it.

Can I get Peach Plums? Can I get that one? No. You want to read me ten tiny toes next? again What's again? What's going on? Sometimes the baby wants to read Read the same book like a hundred times in a fucking. Oh, yeah, absolutely. That's that's that's the bit But like is ten tiny toes like a banger? Like is that the DMC5? It is a banger for the child. The child thinks it's great. He loves it. Yeah, well then of course you're popping that back in. Why the hell not?

Oh man. So eventually you hide 10 tiny toes so then you switch up to the dot one or the or what have you. Just switch it up. I love that baby so much. He's so great. There's something I learned about, like how novel experiences feel continuously novel up to a certain age.

Yeah, no, babies can see the same thing a hundred times in a row, and it's like, yeah, oh, it's a row and it's like, yeah, oh, it's sick. But like it's not. I mean, obviously, there's like a lot less life lived. So therefore, it's all fresh. But there's there's a there's another element that was like researched about like how it feels like this closer to being like the first time you experienced it up to a certain point and then that after a certain age and then it starts to kind of fade after that I

Don't know what I'm fully talking about. So I'm just gonna trail off there. Don't worry. Okay. Anyway, and also That's pretty I beat those metal. I beat Metal Gear 1 & 2 Metal Gear 2 is a million times harder than Metal Gear 1. A Metal Gear 1 was a single setting, Metal Gear 2 was three and a half. And it's way more complex and it introduced way longer to a lot. It's awesome. It is also like a direct remake of Metal Gear 1, which is then also remade in solid. Yes, like it's the it's the same goddamn game over

and over and over I Like him. I mean look he you know Kojima has made four games right? He's made metal gear. He's made police knots he's made Snatcher and he's made Death Stranding and I He's made Snatcher and he's made Death Stranding. And I think he picked the right one. Those are the four games. Yes, those are the four total games. And, you know, I think he picked the right one to keep remaking.

That's cool. Now, the question is, is. The question is, I haven't played Snatcher. Is Pol is polis knots also a remake of snatcher easy That's the thing I don't I wouldn't say so but I would say that booktie is a is a death stranding Oh, yeah, book ties new book tie is a death stranding It no Is it? No. But, you know, there's...

Is that... Oh, okay, okay. Bulk tie is not a death stranding. Death stranding is a bulk tie. There you go. Go outside and connect with people. Yeah? Sunlight. Oh, you know what? You know what? I think you might actually be right. The beginning of the strand games.

I feel like missing the force for the trees, though, there, Cojumbo, because he's like, I don't like the kids play video games inside all the time. I'm going to make them go outside on a system that has no backlight so you can't see the fucking game at all and have them ask them to play it direct sunlight. It's where it's actually harder to play in the environment that you're asking me to play it in. Basically impossible. Basically totally impossible. Yes. Cool. All right. Let's see what else. So I'm on a Metal Gear Solid tomorrow in the afternoon because I mean it's New Year's Day. Most of

you guys have the time off. So go down to Pat's there. Twitch.tv Pat stares at tomorrow at noon Pacific for Metal Gear Solid. The big one. That's an important one. Tonight for New Year's Eve, I'll be joined by Peach Saliva, my darling wife, and we're going to be playing that weird British game called Thank Goodness You're Here. So that's also going to be over at twitch.tv slash Pat Stairsat, but that'll be like 8 PM Pacific, so just before the midnight on the East Coast.

We'll play right through the Pacific New Year. And apparently it's got a lot of gross British people in it. Oh yeah. And it's narrated by Matt Berry. Oh, this. Okay. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think making fun of British people is a really good way to start the new year. That's what I think. Because they talk weird. With this, um, this is, uh, is it regular show art style?

It feels like it. It's not associated though, eh? Or it's not the same artist? I don't think so. Is it? Okay. I don't think so. Uh, what else? Alright, later on this week, on Saturday, I'm going to be doing a stream where I will be, at some point, we haven't figured out the timing yet,

but I will be joined by one, Ashley Roboto, one of me and Paige's favorite content creators. Are you familiar with Ashley? Nope. Oh, she's so nice. She's just such a nice lady. She's got such good vibes and good energy. But I will be joined by Ashley Roboto

as I join her on her wow classic hardcore permadeath server. Okay. Wow. When's the last time you wowed? 2007? Wait, when did Catacom out? Wow. When did Catacom out? Wow. When did Cataclysm...

Are you going to be able to load up your old character? Oh, fuck no. Oh, okay. Dude, those characters got stolen by the Chinese decades ago. Like, actually decades ago! When you say stolen by the Chinese. I mean, I got emails from Blizzard going, are you fucking logging in from Beijing, China? And I went no. And then I logged in and my characters had all their shit stolen. Oh wow. Oh, for gold farming?

Yeah. Oh my god. No, no, the phrase was exactly as it appeared as I said it. Like very, very directly. That Jesus Christ. Okay. All right. So I got my account back, but yeah, that shit's all gone. Besides, if it's going to be a wow classic server, those characters couldn't have come forward. And if it's a permadeath server, it doesn't even fucking matter. I mean, there is something funny about talking about Marvel infinite earlier and like jumping into WoW Classic now.

Yeah. But all right. All right. Well, see, I saw like it was very simple. I saw Ashley playing on TikTok and I'm like, wow, she seems like having a really good time because there's a lot of like going back to wow classic with perma specifically, like hardcore characters. And a lot of that seems very miserable and, and dedicated around like the agony of defeat, gotcha. Okay. Rather than like just chilling and having a good time. So I reached out to

Ashley and I was like, Hey, Ashley, do you think that's cool? Will you hang out? And she's like, absolutely. I was like, oh, this is great. This is gonna be a really good experience. Okay, so yeah. You'll have to make a new tune and then. Yes, I will make a new tune.

And we'll see how that goes. And in my, like, oh, I'm installing WoW Classic, I'm installing, you know what? You know what, I might as well go back and install Guild Wars 2, because I love that game, and maybe they added an option that would not cripple my hands. I don't know, I've brought this up like two or three times,

but I used to play Guild Wars 2, but Guild Wars 2 wants you to constantly move the camera all the time. But the way to do it is to hold down a mouse button and move the camera. And I played that game at launch until I suffered like carpal tunnel. That was bad enough that it went all the way up into the top of my shoulder and get myself frozen shoulder and then went, well, that's the end of that shit. Yeah. Yeah. And have not touched it since. And I would like to have a statement for all the people who can hear me, who have played in between now and 2016. Why didn't you people tell me that the exact camera thing that I was complaining about for 10 years got added back in the game's first expansion? Heart

of Thorns and the action cam has been fine the whole time and people who say we did, we tried to tell you, you tried, you didn't try hard enough. Then it was fixed the whole time. You should've tried harder. Damn. Also, don't keep playing something that's physically hurting you.

Well, no, I stopped, I completely stopped. Yeah, okay. But then, like two months after, like literally two months after I stopped The expansion came out and it had free move Okay like like basically you hit a button and it just Controls like a like a third-person shooter with the mouse and so you don't have to ever hold down anything and it plays like a

Normal fucking video. Thank God. Okay, and if I just stuck it out to the point where my arm became crippled. I Mean look I'd be playing Guild Wars 2 to this day, you know, I I if I had just stuck it out to the point where my arm became crippled. I mean, look. I'd be playing Guild Wars 2 to this day. You know, I certainly played fucking Kid Icarus, a good bit and was cranking that difficulty up. And when I saw what would Liam experienced, it was like, nope, I am not going down this hallway. Fuck that.

That was an absolutely wild, like Scrooge in future vision I mean Sakurai is nuts because it's like yeah, it hurt me too, but release it right um and Release it to the children give them a plastic stand And then for fighting games when I was using pad and I you know Characters that were like high dexterity required on the D-pad Nagoriyuki shit. I'm like, okay, my thumb is just going to die. Even the callus that I've developed that's really able to use D-pad twitching

as quickly as possible for my inputs, it was starting to bubble up. And I'm like, yeah, no, fuck this. And the glove was my solution, you know? But you can't keep playing when through the pain, you know, don't do it. Don't do it. Like somebody reached out to me, I think was on stream just a couple months ago. It's like, hey, I play this game and I really love it. But after a couple hours, my arm starts to really hurt. Do you have any tips on what I

could do? And I said, stop playing video games entirely until your arm feels completely better and then never play that game again. And that was not the answer they wanted. That was very obviously not the answer they wanted at all. I mean, you can go see a physio and hear it from them if you'd like, I suppose. But yeah, you can go see a professional and see it and then they tell you the same thing Okay, I gotta use the bathroom. I also have to use the bathroom beer, but we're gonna pee I Started arcane, but I'll wait till I'm done to get it all shit now. I now I gotta actually go back to start arcane but I'll wait till I'm done to get it. Oh shit, now I gotta actually go back to start arcane. Yeah. Um, it's cool and I'm midway through so I don't wanna say much but I will say that just holy shit the villain

Ambesa is and continues to be One of the strongest greatest most awesome fucking character designs ever Like so they they agree with you because they they pushed and best a super hard in league. Is she playable? She's new. Ah, okay, okay. I was wondering, because I remember when I asked about her first season, Mel and Ambeso were not, they were new characters, right? So now they just dropped, okay, that would explain. Yeah, man.

I mean, she's got like so many outfits that she wears and shows up in and she looks incredible every time and as a character, just yeah, just an awesome character. Just love it. Love everything going on there. Fantastic. Very, very cool. I was impressed that like these characters that initially as well were, you know, like, wow, what an awesome character.

And it's like, oh yeah, that's not even something from the game. That's just original. I was like, holy fuck, kudos. You know? OK, OK. Does it make you want to play League of Legends? I didn't say that. I didn't say that.

But there are moments where I do see something being emphasized. And I wonder, I'm like, is that a thing in the game? I see the way certain, but I think a bunch of it isn't. I think a bunch of it is original, but there are little things where I'm like, I wonder if that's a reference to something. The camera will linger a little bit or you'll see something recur a bunch. For example, do you know anything about jinx's kit?

Yeah, okay. Does she have a defensive move that makes her kind of shift around and dodge things Is there something special about her that's defensive? No what she has is her alt is a gigantic rocket launch. Yeah, so there's that thing Okay, so there's a thing that she does in the show where she kind of like quickly almost like spider dodges She gets main character powers Okay Hmm, that's her passive passive. Oh, she does have it's her fat. She has a passive thing that makes her move fast Okay, okay. It looks like she's activating something and I'm like that's that feels like something game related, but I don't know Yeah, okay. Okay. She's she has shimmer and

She she can speed up. Got it, okay. Because it's a clear effect that only she has when dodging a big attack coming at her that the other characters don't necessarily get. Does Vi spend any time in that show jungling? Does Vi spend any time in that show jungling? Um, does that mean middle lane beating up monsters? No, that means wandering around the map beating up goons for XP.

Yes. Alright, hey, look at that. She actually does. She jungles. 100% confirmed. She does. Yeah. There's a, there's an, in fact, there's a music video or two associated because each episode kind of has like a music video up top as well.

So I would say so. Yeah, sure. Anyway, more, more on that afterwards, I suppose. You see fucking Dio in Dragon Ball? I did. I almost mentioned it earlier when we were talking about gigantic big old fighting game mods, but I was like, that's one character. That's not quite as big as a massive overhaul of the whole game.

Yeah. I definitely want to jump in and take a look at that in the future. But maybe there'll be other... If there's one or two other characters to fight against and see with that level of detail, that'd be fun. Because that's what I kind of look with Marvel 3, for example. I waited for a couple of characters to come out and then we did a modded version. But holy shit, man That's a really great do

implementation really really solid just And shows like proof of concept of what you can theoretically do with that game That you can just make your own fucking insane 3v3 tag fighter with whatever going on in it And I know That a lot of the cut well, you know what, actually, at first, the Marvel three characters that were custom were built on the bones of the existing assets, so you saw like,

taking- That makes perfect sense. Yeah, like Iron Fist stance and a couple of particle effects from Ghost Rider or whatever here and there. But with Dio, it looks completely original, you know? So I wonder if it's comparable or more effort for that system or engine to go as hard with a completely original character. But it'd be fun to see that trend kick off. Very cool. Very cool. Anyway, so one of the big things that just dropped this morning.

We've been talking a bit of for some time now about what's happening with Katakawa. Oh yeah, where Sony's trying to own all the anime. Right. So we brought that up before. So Katakawa were talking with Sony about a full acquisition. It seems as if, yeah, so that has been official and Sony Corporation Group is basically, they're acquiring Katakawa. At the very least, they're forming an alliance that involves them being the majority stakeholder. They own 10%. So it's not the full ownership, I should specify. But the reason why that's significant is because it turns out that this is actually a desperation

scenario, something that happened a while earlier. So I mean, there was this big hack, of course, I mentioned there, they got all their, you know, ransomed documents and shit leaked out and everything. They were taking a hit. There were also a lot of their stock value had been dropping earlier in the year. And something that was looming was the the company Cacao, which is a South Korean media company that owns a bunch of like, kpop stuff and is in that world was I think a 9% shareholder and was trying to go for a hostile takeover. That company in particular also has tons of criminal

business dealings. They've been accused of fraudulently doing alleged stock shit and a bunch of a bunch of bad business practices with them. And with them owning 9% and gunning for a hostile takeover, there was also a recent change in Japanese law which allowed non-Japanese companies to take over Japanese companies that originally that couldn't happen. Bro, you can't have let those Koreans own a Japanese company. That's how you get like a dragon plot lines. There you go. So there was a change in the law that basically says that yeah, any company in Japan can be

bought out by any other company from anywhere. And with that, the kind of Kiowa did not want a hostile takeover. So they went and approached Sony themselves as basically what was rumored about a month ago. And it seems as if this deal with them now owning exactly 10% is what Katakawa did as a like, you know, a second or last resort here to avoid cacao taking over and so that's-

God, this is hard to say. Mm-hmm. Obviously, you know, the super consolidation of all anime, manga, light novels, and multiple brands is not great for the future as things go. Karakawa has their hands in every single media pie. I mean, luckily, people can just stop watching anime.

Mm-hmm. That'll happen. That's a thing that people do sometimes. Or just leave it up to Adult Swim. Producers. But as far as it goes, it seems as if it's like while nobody's particularly thrilled to hear about this this Sony business alliance. It is the better of a second outcome, which is Kakao being much worse.

Is it? Is what I'm reading. Apparently, the shit they've done business-wise in South Korea has been pretty awful. Yeah, but then it wouldn't be under a Sony monopoly because they also own Crunchyroll and all that shit. There's that, but it's, I don't have the full details on the cacao story, but I know that in addition to bad business practices, it veers into the criminal. So I hear, okay.

So we have equal company versus I hear their company at home. I hear they're very, very bad is what it is. So I couldn't elaborate much more on it because I am not a news reporter. But you're reporting the news, Woolley. Yeah, so that's what apparently is going on. Well, I think we're going to go through that cycle of anime being a bunch of bullshit and being super restrictive. And then somehow sales go down for some reason. I don't know how people are watching these shows, followed by a new thing that says,

hey, we'll let you watch it easy and it's clean and we're not affiliated with these things. As it's popping up there, I'm like, yes, there was a sentiment I saw when looking at some of this up from the story, the original rumor a month ago and then the current announcement that cacao is worse than Sony is what a lot of people have said besides this just popping up here. That being said... By that anime with that craven money. Well, well, that being said, I would like to see what Cacao has to say when it comes

to assessing why Madame Webflopped. The critics hate it. The critics hate it, dude. And they're out to get Sony. And Venom, Venom, the critics hated it, but audiences love that shit, so we know we're actually making good movies. They're great movies, but the well is tainted now because critics have told everyone that they're bad, even though they're not.

So Craven came out early December and was the lowest debut for a Sony-released Marvel movie. Bro, people didn't know about it. You got to release it again. It'll make more billion dollars. These are catastrophic results coming off of also Venom, The Last Dance being the lowest grossing entry in the series. And yeah, while talking about how that's been going, the Sony Pictures CEO said,

Let's touch on Madame Web for a moment. It underperformed in theaters because the press just crucified it. It's not a bad film. It did great on Netflix. For some reason, the press decided they didn't want us making these films out of Craven and Madame Web, and the critics just destroyed them. They did it with Venom, but the audience loved Venom and made Venom a massive hit. These are not terrible films. They were just destroyed by critics and the

press for some reason. I'm going to hold up my hand for a second. It did well on Netflix. Are you talking about the same Netflix that is specifically making movies in which people announce their actions out loud so that people who are not actually watching the movie and are in a different room can follow it along because they're not paying attention? That would be the story that came out this week. Yep. That's the one Also remember Lawrence of Arabia on cell phones. Yeah that fucking I sure do I sure do But I'm also inclined to imagine that said Sony Pictures CEO here was

Probably the same individual or involved with the decision to re-release Morbius after the memes kicked in. Oh man. Yeah, no. So he has to be like, these movies are great. These movies are great. And all of the marketing decisions that went into Madame Webb, helicopter and all, were I'm sure signed off.

Bro, she leaves the movie She walks off the set of the movie to go to a different even worse movie It's wild so, you know this this logic is brought to you by this the same thought process as Fucking Pepsi You know what I love about social media? Mm hmm. Like genuinely love. You had to see shit like new Coke to understand that people running companies are dumb as shit.

You had to see disasters that were like the dumbest fucking thing you've ever seen in your entire life to be like, wow, people running this shit must be dumb as fuck. Now the people running companies just go and talk out loud and you're like wow this is a dumb bitch motherfucker here Holy shit you get to look at this dumb. You get to hear from the horse's mouth Shoutouts to this this skeet I'd like a Pepsi, please is Coco K I'd like a Pepsi, please. Is Coke okay? No. Pepsi was enjoyed by many tertiary Spider-Man characters in Madame Web 2024 and played a pivotal role in defeating Ezekiel Sims, ultimately doing what several automobile collisions could not. For that, Pepsi has my loyalty.

So me and Paige rewatched the Pepsi scene in Madame Web just like a week or two ago. Yeah, you did. Because we were blown away at how weird it is because someone hands her a Pepsi and she doesn't hold it right for it to be an ad and she doesn't open it and she doesn't drink it. She doesn't rotate it towards the camera? No, no. It's super weird. It's super weird. Kay? But like she doesn't drink it.

But maybe you can get away with just like showing part of the colors if the sign is then going to murder the villain, right? If it's going to have a much bigger one early on because lest we forget, for example, Snakes on a Plane, right? He presents the evidence in the beginning of a crushed up Red Bull can in a little Ziploc bag, right? But, and it's like, well, that's a crushed up can though. You can't really clearly, you know, I mean, it's not in its pristine condition. That doesn't matter because not too long afterwards, there's a wide shot of a camera with the TV,

surround with Red Bull sitting on top of it to the sides of the TV and then they zoom in and eventually close in on the frame. So, you know, if there's a better product shot coming later on then you don't have to worry about the incorrect one. So I have linked you a trailer for Madame Webb, the Pepsi trailer, in which somebody supercut all the times that Madame Webb is handed a Pepsi and then awkwardly struggles to open the Pepsi on camera before giving up and not

opening up the Pepsi and not drinking it. And it is fucking weird. It was so strange. It stood out to us so clearly that it looks like she doesn't know how to open a can of Pepsi. Shout outs to this trailer for zooming in on her hands the entire time. That's pretty that's pretty amazing Wow, there's so many We're on like seven now, oh my god does not know how to open up a Pepsi It's weird, right? Yeah, I'll put it in the chat weird It kind of reminds me of like It's weird right Yeah, I'll put it in the chat Super weird

It kind of reminds me of like um Like beer commercials at least in Canada. You're not allowed to drink it So everyone's just kind of holding it and smiling and talking but they pour the fucking beer you're allowed to pour it that is true But if you're holding a can or if you're holding something else that contains it, you cannot actually consume it. Yeah. Good stuff. Okay, well, you know what? Craven deserves a chance. He's right. No. You know, I learned something really genuinely insane about all these not Spider-Man movies. You know the deal with Marvel allows them to have Tom Holland in these movies?

Oh my God. And they just decided to not do that? Oh my God. It's gotta be the money though. It's gotta be a financial. It might be, but like. That feels prohibitively expensive, but they they they don't like they were definite. They were absolutely allowed to have Tom Holland

and Spider-Man in these movies. Well, it is a new deal because before Marvel couldn't use them. But once the homecoming thing started and they were like, okay, he's part of this now, I imagine they would have re-signed an agreement that, yeah. Oh, I'm being informed by chat that none of the Spider-Men want to work with Sony. So they would have had to get a new Spider-Man. Well, that's too many Spider-Man. I mean look, you know, the Fox Marvel universe had the decency to go out with a bang, and here they kept it going. They got a meme or two out of it.

They should have had Willem Dafoe play Spider-Man. Okay, cook. You can cook. have had Willem Dafoe play Spider-Man. Okay, cook. You can cook. But he's in high school. And nobody knows better. Nobody can tell. Just play it straight. Just play it completely clean. Got it. You got there. I think there's a possibility that william defoe would think that was super awesome and totally go for it. I Think there's a real is the possibility that he would have been like yeah, let's do it You don't have to wear any goblin makeup or outfit, but So someone in the chat says you would you'd not even de-age him with CGI

I don't know if you know this but william de faux only appeared in the new spider-man movie as green goblin Under the condition that he refused to be de-aged in any way by a makeup by CG anything and Alfred Molina is I am NOT getting up there as the doctor octopus unless you de-aged the shit CG and makeup. Yeah. Yeah, I remember hearing something about a condition for him. Yeah Fantastic Good good casting good casting good stuff. I like that high school just Nobody nope like no one's reacting to it at all that no one Nope, like no one's reacting to it at all that no one

It's like me and Peter talking about how much we love Casting 35 year old dudes and chicks as like high school students in old teen dramas and how fucking funny it is I mean well, it's so fucking funny. It was weird in catching that in Twin Peaks But like that's basically what I haven't seen it But like isn't that also like what euphoria is is people I don't know before I think I think it's like people in their 30s kind of like being high school kids That's fucking great, dude. I Love it Speaking of great casting. Mm-hmm

Jason Momoa to play Lobo in Supergirl. That's perfect. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It seems like a role that the actual person, Jason Momoa, would really, really enjoy doing. Perfect casting job right there. That is Professor Xavier level. Way better than fucking Aquaman. Yes, a million percent.

Yeah, I'd say like Xavier, Tony Stark, are like the standout absolute perfect casting jobs over the years, and this is right up there, this is great. I recently read a little story factoid about the casting process for Xavier with Patrick Stewart mm-hmm is when they went to him and they asked they went to him to be like can you please be Charles Xavier and they handed him an X-Men comic. He looked at them and said, why am I on the cover of this comic book? Oh shit. It's great. Yeah. And also the,

the second James Gunn movie is going to be Supergirl. And I guess this is going to be a Supergirl movie with Lobo in it. So fuck yeah, whatever the fuck that is I hope he's he's getting after Santa Claus and just doing all his stupid Lobo doing his stupid Lobo shit for the majority of the movie yes exactly solid do you know anything about reciteer? I know a bunch about reciteer! And the question is, do you pronounce it reciteer, which it is correctly pronounced by its spelling, or do you pronounce it reciteer, which makes sense because of racketeering, because that game's about capitalism ho! Yeah. sense because of racketeering because that game's about capitalism ho! yeah um okay well I'm gonna go with recetteer because I haven't heard it

spoken aloud dude whatever that game's awesome this was the original item shop girl game right there's absolutely there's a bunch of shit that came afterwards that that I believe like didn't that tried to ape it But this is the for the original one So yeah, absolutely tiny little anime girl running a fucking item store got a fucking make make money or be on the street Fucking go capitalism. So you're yeah, the HD edition has been announced and is gonna be coming out recits here an item shop and yeah you you basically follow around people in a dungeon and then get shit and bring it back and mark the prices up.

And the dungeon crawling is an incredibly minor part of that game. It is mainly about running that shop. And then you gouge the fuck out of people. Yeah, you gouge them. Out of heroes coming through. Yeah, fuck them. Yeah, yeah. I've seen the capital... How am I supposed to beat the Demon King with these prices? I don't give a shit. I've seen the capitalism ho.

Uh, uh, uh, kind of quote before that game rules. Um, this is good news. I mean, it's what it's, it's one of those like early, um, you know, you know, that genre of light novels that were like, what if it was Dragon Quest, but you're a slime and yeah You're stuck in whatever your little sisters. I got turned into a goddamn anime. I thought exactly etc That like it feels like this is this is like one of those original concepts

I was like what if you were the shopkeep in one of these games actually what if your potions were too strong for you? Everybody loves a good fucking asshole shopkeep. I can't sell you my strongest potions. They're much too strong for you. I'm gonna lose it. I'm gonna start laughing at like deep fried decade old memes. The game Chrono Trigger did not want you to buy the Demon Edge when you Went to the monster shop, but I fucking bought it

Because it was red and it looked cool It was way too expensive. It was a bad idea. Oh, I did it to myself. Oh fuck. Yeah, right If anybody wants to know why I'm losing my shit over like literally nothing You can go look at an old video from like 15 fucking years ago called potion seller. I need your strongest potions. I'm going into battle It's the it is oh, it's so stupid and I've like laughed myself to vomiting while watching it Hi It only hits if you played oblivion though. It's a lot harder. It hits a lot harder if you played oblivion. Like a lot harder.

Okay, well, that's a filter for me. You see fucking Gato? Hoi, hoi, hoi, hoi, hoi. That could be a lot of things. You could be asking me about a You see fucking Gato? Hoi hoi hoi hoi hoi! That could be a lot of things. You could be asking me about a cat. You could be asking me about the guy who gives you silver points in Chrono Trigger. Oh, you're talking about Gato? When I say Gato and I then go hoi hoi hoi hoi hoi? You mean Mark of the Wharves? There's only one Gato that goes hoi hoi hoi hoi hoi. I did not see Gato from City of the Wharves. You should go look at the trailer for Gato from-

I'm gonna go look at it. Oh, he looks great! He looks fucking awesome! So Gato is back, he does palms, he does strikes, he has a dark cloak now, and his story is pretty fucking sick. So after the last game He was blinded by his father's vicious attack. I remember his dad blinded him in his ending What a bummer and so now that he's been blinded He has started to regain his sight so he can see

But a little bit but relying on his sight limits him and he may slower, so he chooses to fight in darkness. So he's worked his style to be completely blind. And he's going back to join the tournament to get revenge on his dad. Oh, he's just got his eyes like closed. Yeah, cause like his shitty sight is worse than, using shitty sight is worse than just not using it at all. Crazy. That's stupid as shit. That's awesome, but I dig it. I want that blind Kenchi shit. I love it I love that. Oh, dude. You look so good. I'm closing my eyes. I'm using my ears. You can see me though. Yeah, shut up He had

David I'm fucking I have all this I'm so tired...I have all this...I'm so tired and I have all this deep fried shit in my fucking brain. So I saw somebody in the chat say he took...he ate that one day blinding stew. And now I'm...now I'm ruined.

And now I'm gonna curse you with it. Is that an item for sale? It is not. It is a completely different thing that I accidentally left up over my entire final part of Metaphor. I accidentally left this stupid meme image on the final six hours of my Metaphor stream. So it's just tainted with this nonsense. How to punish my daughter.

My daughter is biting her hair. I'm a single father. I don't have the maternal instinct calling all moms. Feed her a stew that makes her blind. Feed her a stew that makes her go blind for one day. Stew that blinds her for a day. Feed her a type of stew that makes her blind for one day. One day blinding stew

Yeah Yeah sure that'll do that works why got to eat a whole fucking of it Got to know got to eat the one day blinding stiff Fuck Oh Fuck Well, well, yeah, he's cool, oh I do wonder and and I'm probably alone in this but Gotts was a super badass character from mark of the wolves super badass character from Mark of the Wolves, but he was always, he has a pretty, you know, he has a move list that has like his big palm strikes, his big like heaven walk where he

like stomps on you and all goes. He's got a bunch of hops that go into different shits. So when they added him to King of Fighters as like a guest character proper, they added a bunch more moves to him. They gave him like a second series of hops that do a bunch of other stuff and He got he was one of the best characters in King of Fighters 11 because of all the new moves they gave him and I'm kind of wondering like Are those dream more hops? Well, are those dream match only moves or? They're pretty hyper because we're going back to the original game he came from, but if they gave him a bunch of bullshit for the KOF games,

are we gonna retain that or not, you know? That big air dash and the big air counter and stuff that he could, he got a whole bunch of crazy shit. It would be kind of wild to, if you got introduced to him in King of Fighters and then saw him in the original game with half the moves, you know? I don't know. I guess we didn't see anything. We saw one new thing in the trailer where he does like a kind of a... Well, no, he actually had a catch counter before. So yeah, we didn't see anything super new.

But anyway, got to... But now he's doing it with his eyes closed. Eyes closed. And you've never seen somebody, a character in these games, hate the trailer core music harder. Frowny, angry man just hates everything. Super angry. And it feels like the music that plays does not fit him.

It doesn't fit him at all I can't find can't wait for him to see his sister and then like just walk away and spit in Disgust I hate you sister. She loves them dad didn't blind you then you'd be stronger She loves him so much and he's just looking I Feel like Back in the day after, it was either with you or with Shmup God Pat, like after randomly playing sessions of this game, we just put your hands up and yell, Yabba Tashabay!

That was definitely not me. That was definitely you and Shmup God Pat. Yeah, I think so. Fuckin' Gato, you big angry dork. Anyway, along with that trailer, I guess SNK set a separate studio off for specifically working on KOF called KOF Studio. Well, that's good. So that's going to be the fighting game people, but they're also working on the Samurai Shodown RPG, whatever that means.

I'm sorry, what? There's a Samurai Shodown RPG that was announced at EVO. And that'll be coming, as well as a return to Art of Fighting, which who knows what the fuck that'll be. Man, I don't know if I'd literally even believe that. Yeah, it's crazy. It's insane.

It's like, why would you do Art of Fighting? And you combined all your fighting game franchises or nearly all of them into one big one called King of Fighters. Why would you split them back up? Well, so Mark Garrow and Fatal Fury have always been awesome, separate on its own yeah well fatal fury is way better than fucking art of fighting but nobody likes art of fighting

art of fighting is weird and awkward and goofy and no one likes it they're super not great so I'm very curious and I'm wondering if anything I'm suspecting that they're gonna bring those back as not fighting games as well you know cuz you don't bring back Rio Robert and fucking that whole thing Oh who gives a shit to be a competing franchise with the KOF games and Mark of the Wolf games you're about to announce, you know Super weird anyway We will find out more. And yeah, so then there's this week as Sonic 3 has been popping off and apparently Live

and Learn is all over it. Crush 40 songwriter Johnny Gol is suing Sega over the ownership of Live and Learn because apparently over the years he did not know that it had been used dozens and dozens of times in all these different games until he spoke to a fan who pointed out, hey, it's super cool that it's being, we hear it all the time. And he's like, what? What are you talking about? And he did not know that it had been used over 20 times over the last two decades.

The deal that they have is also one where he says it's not super clear that they own, they do not own the entire song. They own the lyrics, but he believes that the master recording and musical compositions is a split joint ownership and is basically taking it to court to try and outline exactly what legally he's owed. And he's super boned. He's not gonna get shit. And he's seeking. Yeah, like 500k damages 500k restitution, and says that the composition is likely joint owned, but with them over the years

having used it multiple times, he's basically pointing out that, or at least claiming that, yeah, he needed to also be signing off on each of those uses. Okay, so I'm not a lawyer, but the fact that he let this go for decades is not in his favor. No, that is pretty not great. However, it depends on what what if the ink dried, right? What does the actual contract say from back in the day? If it says we can't use this without your express permission. Hey, maybe the amount of time combined with it's up to interpretation. Not great. But if it's pretty cut and dry on it's the lyrics,

and not the rest of it, then there's something to it. He also kind of told the story of how he recorded all of it on his own and used his own home instruments for the full composition and his own home instruments for the full composition and everything that ended up being submitted was produced by him entirely and was not part of what the contracted ownership that Sega was supposed to have. It was not contracted for them to own all of that all of the the musical arrangements and producing and recording as well So here's what his shot is Here's here's what I believe his shot is I've been thinking about this because of the Witcher right so remember Andre. I never forget his name right, but

Yes, right he sold the rights to a CD project read for a pittance and he said y'all are pussies video game saying shit. Take that shit forever. Like I give a fuck. Yep. Right. And it's Sapkowski and then they managed $1 billion with the Witcher and he's like, yeah, give me some of that shit. You fucked me and they were like, no, we didn't. Then they were going to fight over it and then they settled you remember how they settled super fast Before the show they were like 100% in the right mm-hmm And then a couple years later hey look what your force coming

And you're like okay clearly they didn't want to fucking be developing that while fighting a lawsuit with the author of the fucking books and all that shit right I think this gentleman's shot is man they probably want to use live and learn a lot in the future so the best time for him to have filed this lawsuit is about eight months ago when the movie's coming out so no actually because it turns out that the use of it in the movie was a separate deal signed with Paramount that was totally okay, apart from its usage in the games. Oh, then he's super dumb. Everything about its usage with the movies has been cleared with Paramount as a completely

separate thing. Oh, man, he is super dumb. This is just for the games over the last 20 years. There might be some sort of settlement offer or so, who knows. Admittedly, it is like 500k is surprisingly low for this type of lawsuit. I feel like you usually hear, you know, like bigger numbers float around with with infractions being in the dozens. But yeah, it literally until the the actual contract that was signed 20 years ago is presented, who the fuck knows. But clearly, it's kind of wild to have a fan go up

and be like, yo, love that, love you, it's so great. It's been awesome hearing you all this time over the years and Tim just being like, what the fuck are you talking about, huh? And not knowing. And you're like, yeah, Live and Learn's been, that's been a thing. It's been a thing, man.

It's in Smash Brothers, you know? Did you not know it was in Smash Brothers? That's kind a thing. It's been a thing, man. It's in Smash Brothers, you know? Did you not know it was in Smash Brothers? Did you not Google the title of your own song once in like 18 years? So I wasn't there for it, but they did perform a couple times at too many games. I think one time they were like super, I think one time they were late or something like that. But it, I had heard from people or so that there is a like, damn, I wish we weren't just the Sonic people kind of energy to the thing. But then that kind of turned around and became like, nah, it's cool. We love doing this, right? So I don't know where it's cool. We love doing this, right? So I don't know where it's at now.

And this could be completely baseless. I'm just talking about what someone told me that was up. But like some of that, like I wanna do other stuff might've contributed to not necessarily paying attention to the use of what was going on over the last 20 years or so, Who knows? Anyway, well, I'm sure we'll find out more. But I also imagine, because there's also a bit of a like, he says, oh, we don't want to ruin, sour the mood for any of the fans or anybody that has good memories of the song and stuff. But it's like, yeah, I think though that overall a lawsuit will sour the company from ever wanting to make a Crush 40 song a part of Sonic ever

again. You know? So. What's up with this trend of people suing people and then going, I'd love to work with you? I mean, that, like this, that's that made the career and they were not crushed. He was not or they were not crushed 40 until that until live and learn so

It clearly would be their best shot at a continued lucrative career if they wanted to work together But they don't want to sour that but they do want to have the lawsuit and it's just it doesn't really work that way So I want you to give me all the money from the lawsuit And then I want you to work with me even though we worked a while ago And then I sued you for all the money that you gave me and Sega's like sorry can't hear you playing unbeatable or undefeatable way too loud That's one such a fucking bop. Anyway.

Speaking- Man, that... Late, man. You're late. Speaking of being late. 2025 is the year of lost soul aside. It's finally coming out. Or so they say. I don't even remember what that is. That's the one that's Devil May Noctis. Noctis May Cry. China. One man.

Man, that's actually not narrowing it down. Wow, that is just knocked as holy shit. Okay. Okay. Okay. So for nine years there have been footage and there's been trailers on Twitter of a character that looks kind of like knocked us doing devil may cry shit and It was One dude in China yang being on his own one dude in China, Yang Bing, on his own. Oh, that's such a good name. Oh my god. Yeah. And he'd been working by himself on this cool looking thing. And it got more recognition.

It got shared around. And it looked like a pretty high octane action game. And then eventually, I believe that led to some funding. And he got a studio built out of it as well. I don't believe he's working alone anymore. Certainly. It seems like it's a part of a larger It doesn't look like that's possible. Wow 17 minutes of gameplay from three years ago. Holy shit. So I think there's a larger funding push behind it and But like it had been in development for nine years. Now I think while we're talking silk song type numbers and shit, this has gotten the benefit of the doubt over the years based on the fact that it was one dude.

The one guy benefit applied, but I think at least two or three years ago was when it started to like ramp up and Become a bigger thing though. So it's can I be incredibly unfair for a second? Sure. I hope this game is nine years good. Yeah Yeah, I mean like when you look at you see the back The main character looks like noctis because at the time noctis that's where we're at man you suck well the main character looks like noctis because at the time noctis was was not yet out but he was inspired by the versus 13 footage and began this project so like the you're seeing the fucking echoes of Versus 13 in this game, is how old it is. It's got air combos and dodges and parries and shit, so we'll see.

We'll see what happens, you know? But yeah, nine years is a fucking long time. So we'll see. But yeah, I just, it's one of those to me. I'm kind of like a game that I've been watching developed on Twitter for the last decade. Finally cracking the surface. If it if it does come out, it's like, okay, hey, remember this thing because there's a bunch of them, you know, and I've referred to them before. I'm like, there's that there's this game.

I mean, for a while, Bloodborne Cart and Bloodborne PXXD Make was one of those things. But the stop sign game, we all know the stop sign action game, you know, doing cool shit. There's the nuke parry one. There's the one with the tank where you're literally doing action game stuff with a tank that like, melees and does stuff. There's the musical one where like you're you're or conducting an orchestra while you're doing attacks and sliding around and all the beats are happening To the beat there's a whole bunch of them and you see them all the time and you're like, oh, that's the that one And that's the that one but you're looking for one of these

Looks at the game to happen in not a test environment, you know so Yeah. Yeah, if you've seen these or retweeted them, you know which ones I'm talking about. But yeah, Jamfibian, is that the one with the frog and the, yeah, the frog one? Absolutely, that's another. So anyway, Lost Solicide was just one of those

early, early ones. And there's a little bit of that where I'm like, okay, I'd like these Twitter games to make it into reality. So I am in its corner, I'm hoping. Hoping it happens. All right, so after this comes Silksong, and after that comes the coup de grace Yandere Sim. It's coming right at us.

It's gonna be like 12-13 years good. I mean, didn't that already unofficially drop anyway? I gotta be honest, I'm on the Wikipedia page to make this joke and I actually have no idea. It's super unclear. I believe it already came out unofficially. Yeah. Yeah. Um, because of the, the Wiki article lists it as upcoming. And the release date is TBA. Hmm.

Is team cherry two people? Three. Okay. Plus music, I think Okay And they're Australian so I Guess so technically I you don't get the one guy benefit of the doubt then It's like a couple guy benefit of the doubt though. Yeah, I thought oh wait hold on Let me check to see if they're Kiwi or Australian

I think they're from Australia see if they're Kiwi or Australia. I think they're from Australia. Adelaide, South Australia. So they were founded in 2014. Three years later, they put out Hollow Knight and since that they have been working on Silksong. So more than half of their company's life has been spent developed on Silksong. So it better be half a company good or more. I got a hypothetical, Pat. Yeah. Okay, you've got your game. Okay, you've got your game that is in development hell

for the better part of a decade. And then Goodwill gets burnt away. Or. Or. The moment it starts to slip through the cracks about three years in, you announce it's cancellation. But then you keep working on it. Shhh.

I don't think there's a way not to. And then out of nowhere nine years later. Ha ha ha. Is there a perception, Is there a perception change that hits a little differently if you cancel it and then drop it out of nowhere just for the fucking hustle of the game? Even though it's not financially viable whatsoever, especially if you're if you need people to invest or work from invest or contribute from the outside. So we're old now, and with going into the new year, I think we can leverage our oldness

for some perspective. So there was a recent Civvie video that came out talking about Half-Life 2, right, going into the development of Half-Life 2. And one of the things that people remembered as a result of watching that video is what used to be called Valve Time. You must remember Valve Time. Valve always takes everything.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bring out everything. Right. And Blizzard had something similar, and that's the era of when it's done. Half-Life 2 came out six years after Half-life 1 and they had that game stolen out from under them like stolen right and We got Half-life 2 out of that shit

Regular games do six years and we get shit like fucking suicide squad now like do six years and we get shit like fucking suicide squad now like the context of lengths of time and and reasonability has like completely fallen away and unlike like Hollow Knight is a small indie project so like you better be dropping like fucking Undertale or some shit on us with this kind of buildup. But if nobody knows, if it's out of nowhere because it's already been cancelled, and then you just bust the doors open. The gall.

There's something about the gall of doing that that's kind of respectable. However, as I'm saying this, I just realized what would likely happen is you announce it's cancellation and then people that are really excited about it might make their own spiritual successor and you get a PT-like situation. You mean Cro-Sorn? Or, Cro-Oi was the other one?

Shit. There's another Hollow Knight that's not Hollow Knight. Or Silksong before Silksong. I'm thinking about Crowsworn. Okay. I- I feel like there's another one that did the- anyway. Um, uh, Nine Souls. Is Nine Souls something like that? Nine Souls is- is- is Hollow Knight-ish. It's very good. It's out. Nine Souls is the one I was thinking of, art style and energy. Yeah. So...

It's very good. So then you run into that problem of like, your thunder might get stolen and then if you do do the big drop later, it might just be like, yeah, well, we've been chilling here with the other shit, so who cares, you know? Remember? Can I... Remember that... I'd like to go...

Just gonna... After... No, I'm just gonna gonna lastly say remember that at some point on this very podcast We both realized that ghost song came out Yeah, that was weird. It was released Playable very strange in this world I want to go to one of my favorite videos on the internet. It's Hollow Knight Silksong gameplay from Nintendo Treehouse Live E3 2019. I know the one. So this E3 2019 was five years ago and my favorite thing about this video is that the most recent comment is from three years ago going, just checking back in to make sure this was

a dream. Like all the comments are from like six months, three years, four years ago going, Oh, I hope this game comes out soon. Anyway, fuck dude. So yeah, let's see what comes of Lost Soul Aside then. And by extension, I'm- It's got Silksong in it. Inside the game! Yeah, Lost Soul Aside is the glitter mitten grove of Silksong. You just have to find it. Damn. Okay.

Silksong getting, uh, Chino Hero project funding. Holy shit. Well, beyond that, there's a bunch of like, switch to, I'm not gonna fucking get into it. I mean, yeah, they're gonna announce it after the holiday season, because they don't want to fuck up Switch sales. But it's like, yeah, we'll get into that when they actually do something. What are you thinking, like February maybe?

Within the next three months is the story. But there was that trailer that did show you a pretty good look at some of the new features. Fuck. I can't find it now, but it goes through some of the, like, you know, it's got the U-Haul effect on the joysticks. It's got the better image quality, stronger processor, et cetera, and then sniff-a-vision on the Joy-Cons, you know?

And then it just, in the middle of a very normal presentation, Princess Peach is like, ooh, I've worked up a big sweat. And you see the little particles going out of the TV, into the joy cons and then into the players nose. Sniff. Good stuff. good stuff here solid hate it take some letters if you want to send in a letter send it to castle super beast mail at gmail.com that's castle super beast mail Brett says, Dear F2P Woolly and SSR Pat, I'm crawling with Gacha caves. I'm crawling from the Gacha caves to share this recent kerfuffle from Fate Grand Order

that you might find hilarious. The Japanese server for FGO just had its Christmas event, and there was an exploit that people discovered where they could cash in a reward for St. Quartz, the gacha currency, repeatedly. This was caught within an hour, and the server was put into emergency maintenance for almost the full day.

They came back online, and the company running the game said they were gonna take away, they weren't gonna take away anything that people rolled with the exploited courts, but they did take back the amount of courts generated by the exploit. Now, if you didn't spend anything, you're fine, and it's just a quick reset back to the amount

you had before, but if you did use anything to roll the gacha, then the amount was deducted from your existing courts as punishment. If you had less than what you cheated, then you are now minus on Saint Courts. One of the main artists on the game posted a screenshot on Twitter of them being 90 courts negative. That's about three months of login bonuses and weekly missions. You can't even buy your way out of Gacha debt either. Free courts and paid courts are tracked separately. Oh man, that's really funny.

So if you use real money to buy more, you'll get what you paid for, but you won't get any more of the dailies until your debt is paid. Hope the five star was worth it because they won't be getting a new one for a long time. Let this be a lesson, don't try to cheat the Gacha. The house always wins. So I don't know what the legality of that is, but. Free to play game? Fucking no money spent, I don't know.

Do you remember the door dash hack? Do you remember the DoorDash hack? Do you remember that? Which one was this now? This was about two years ago where people figured out a way to order things off DoorDash and fuck up their credit card information in such a way that it would never actually be debited from their card. And so they just got DoorDash for free. It's similar to the Chase Money Glitch. Yeah, I was gonna say, I didn't hear about that, but I heard about the Chase Money Glitch, which is holy shit.

The long and short of it is that the UI on the DoorDash app on your phone just had like a minor bug. That if you exploited it, would not charge your card. DoorDash then fixed that bug at some point, like 18, 19 months into the process. So you got to go online and like scroll on TikTok and people go, oh my God, they fixed the hack.

I owe like $35,000 in DoorDash. Cause it would negative out your account Or then it would attempt to charge it or the chase bank glitch, which is not a fucking glitch It's a stupid thing that puts you in Insane debt as soon as they correct it. Yeah, you know don't do that, but now though. It's a hack you guys get in on Oh, don't do it God Don't don't do that. There. Don't do that.

There was one. Don't commit bank fraud. Hey, how about that? Hey, here's a thumbs up. There was one dude who discovered something, who discovered something with his account. Was this Australia or so? It was years ago and it was just

for him. And he noticed on his ATM that like whenever he would whenever he went to take out, I think tens, he would get hundreds or something like that. And it was just crazy thing where he spent 15 years or so living large before it all collapsed on him. But he literally, yeah, he started taking incredible vacations,

changed his whole life, but his wife found out and then eventually left and he kind of kept going and went further into it. And they eventually did catch up and they did get there. And his main thing at the end was like, it super wasn't worth it by the by after after a couple years Because you get so paranoid about when they're coming around the corner that like which they will that you that you can't really enjoy yourself Like you just start stressing about it all collapsing because it's built on fucking a house of cards, you know

So somebody asks a good question. question, why would the wife leave? Well you see, if you're married to somebody who's spending all of their income out of bank fraud and you know about that and you enjoy the proceeds of that, you are now complicit in bank fraud. You are married, you are sharing your assets assets you too are fucking going to jail Yeah, so it's time to leave and be like I didn't know about any of that stuff And when I did know about that stuff I left and I didn't touch it blah blah blah So that was that was a particularly nutty one, but anyway all this to say that as if the gacha FOMO addiction

Triggers are not enough we now have debt Real dad in your in your dailies. You know what I'm gonna do, man? I'm gonna pull one over on people that have my address and credit card number that I sent them. They'll never know. They'll never know it's me. They'll never know. Get out to chase right now, y'all.

Free money. Go get it. Teach your kids how to read. Don't give them the iPad. If they give them the iPad, then they end up doing the chase money glitch. Come on. Well, I mean, the chase money glitch also requires,

I suppose, like an understanding that like like yeah, they're gonna find out That's just you know who I blame for this. You got to live a little life on that one You know who I blame for this mm-hmm two people one the monopoly man, okay? Monopoly man teaches you that a bank error in your favor just gives you two hundred dollars, and that's that error in your favor just gives you $200 and that's that. Piece of shit monopoly man. That's wrong. Second of all is the influencers who in order to make viral videos about the chase money glitch went to the bank, pulled out their own money, threw it up in the air, made videos about the chase money glitch, then picked up their money off the fucking sidewalk and then put it back into the bank.

Now I'll have you know that when I learned how to play Monopoly in my house, I was taught the game with house rules and house rules included fucking if you can grab money from the bank without anyone noticing, then tough shit. If you could stuff it under the board then stuff it under the board that was a that was not a house rule in my household what it was was that my dad held on to the bank and he watched the kids like hawks because we would try and steal and guess what that was actually more in line with the original games principles oh you mean the

landlord's game yes so in fact, you mean the Landlord's Game? Yes. So, in fact, if you were cheating at Monopoly, you're playing it correctly. Let's see. Dude, the fact that it's like a wholesome family board game and by the end of Monopoly everyone's miserable and pissed off and mad and that's the point and no one gets it. Grandma, you cheating whore. It's like, like the game of Monopoly is this amazing subversive piece of art and it's been so subsumed by capital that people are like, oh yeah, let's play Monopoly with the kids.

It's like you're supposed to use Monopoly to teach the kids how the system doesn't work, brother. Because let's say that the responsible parents are like, yeah, and then at the end we're going to sit everybody down and have a little lesson and go, so what did you learn? But those same parents get so caught up in the game. Yeah, that's the problem. That you're like, give me park place, you fucking... You know, like, little shit does the same thing like you ever play a game of risk you know what happens people get entrenched and the game goes super long and

Everyone gets tired of it because the rules of risk are built to create trench warfare Situations where it just becomes this miserable slog that everyone wants to quit Nobody nobody learns any of the lessons at the end because you just you get pulled into that shit. It's too it's too real. Um, all right, let's take one over here from Chris. Hey, greetings, Hermoso and Bello. Fadlo Fadderpedia here. What's up? Thank you, Chris. Last year I was fortunate enough to get tickets to the Nier Automata, the end of data orchestra. It was super duper awesome but what I did not expect was for the concert to be a canon sequel to Nier Automata as in the concert itself is an immediate continuation

after the credits. You should have actually expected that. I'm not even joking. It also had footage of missions that were in the Nier remake, but not the original. And I had to avert my eye since I didn't finish the remake. When is a cross media empire too much for a franchise? I think Nier is way over the line. That's, you've named it.

I remember Mr. Clem's video describing him hunting down the stage play footage, boot like Fran translations of drama CDs, manga, several games across different consoles, God help anyone trying to get the complete story. Especially now that they took all that shit down. The only other game that's so disjointed I can think of is Kingdom Hearts, maybe. Yeah, but Kingdom Hearts, those are video games. All that shit.

Like, it's video game over here, video game over here, but they're still games. Thank you for your time treatment like the national treasure he is. Will do. Now, yes, I don't think anything will ever beat Yoko Taro's bullshit. That is the peak because until another

Game franchise asks you to go catch a stage play Limited only to Japan to get the full story only to this city Then no, no, I I don't I will not say anyone approaches that at all I will not say anyone approaches that at all. It's wild how much of Nier Automata's characters, stories exist purely in supplemental material that no one was ever supposed to see. Now, if we are establishing that nothing will touch Nier in the obtuse bullshit level, I will then go and say, guilty gear requiring you to play a pachinko game to find out about the next chapter of the story

and where things were going with Sin and Soul. Vast Edge is some bullshit as well, but I feel as if that's almost like Daisuke not wanting to just give in and making a pachinko nothing game. He's like, if I'm gonna make an entry, it's gonna matter. So just like Overture mattered, this is gonna matter. But then the strikers and judgment, shut up, who cares?

Don't talk about it. So I have a property that went about this in reverse and has the worst watch read order of anything ever. But there's nothing that could be done because of the way they made it. So The Witcher is a book series that came out but was not translated into English until extremely recently. CD Projekt Red gets the rights to the Witcher series for video games, however they have to deal with the fact back in 2014 that like these books

basically don't exist outside of Poland so they have to make a story that can't assume working knowledge of the books. So they give Geralt amnesia in Witcher 1 and they kind of redo something here there and there's some minor inconsistencies, whatever. Then when Witcher 2 starts getting made some of those books are being translated. So now people all over the world have read some of the Witcher books so they go with their plan and in Witcher 2 Geralt starts to regain his memory. Here's where it gets stupid. The optimal reading order for the Witcher series if you're playing the games is play through

the entirety of Witcher 1. Then play up to the end of chapter 1 of Witcher 2 and read a couple of the books. Then finish Witcher 2 but before the game's final boss fight, read the remainder of the books except for Season of Storms. Then play Witcher 3 and all of its DLC, then play Thronebreaker, then read the sixth Witcher book, Season of Storms, and now you're ready for Witcher 4. It spoils the shit. Oh, that sucks. No, it's not.

It's not that it spoils it. It's that Geralt doesn't know the events of the books and the game assumes you don't either until Geralt regains his memory. Okay. And he regains his memory over the course of Witcher 2. Okay, so I guess there's a different category here, but like, are those books, well no, because they're what the adaptation is based off of, but you know how like, for example, in Halo, it's like, you can go read the Cole protocol, right?

You could, you could do that. You don't have to, but if you do, you got some context that makes the whole thing more coherent. Is there a bit of that going on? Which of three assumes you have read everything? Now, it does it, so I didn't. I didn't read any of it.

And there was nothing that I didn't understand, and there's nothing that I was like, oh, that's crazy. There are like very, very minor things that you would get out of it. But the biggest one is that Geralt's long-term romantic love interest, Yennefer, her entire storyline is exclusively in the books. And when you start Witcher 3 and his memory is back, he's like, oh my God, I remembered the love of my life that I've now finally started to talk to. That only existed out in these off-game things. Yeah, okay.

Now, there is like some fun little things where there's a character you run into in Blood and Wine who Geralt remarks, how are you alive? Because he died in the books But he actually explains and it's funny because the character is like atomized into jelly Like like straight-up gufied into jam and they're like how they how'd you fucking get over that? He's like I got over it So right so it's a shepherd they I got better play a little loose with it at times Okay, I do feel as well that like there's just a persistent like this is many franchises kind of suffer from the book translation time problem

You know shit where it just takes forever to come over For a long time there were but I mean again Guilty Gear, because obviously I did the big deep dive on it. While I was making that, there was a Guilty Gear novel that came out, but just was not translated. And so there's shit where a lot of times there's supplemental material here, but only fan translations are what we have to go off of. I mean, shit, if we're talking about sacred and terrible error, that's not an official translation. That's a fan translation. And then there's one after the one that I read, there was a better one that came out after.

Oh man, that sucks. I hate that. Yeah. Anytime we're talking about that shit, it's like that's literally if they didn't officially bother to release the thing in North America or in English speaking countries or whatever, that's the whole that's all that's not obtuse because the creators being obtuse, it's just shitty fucking translation problems, you know, or they're not they don't consider the supplemental material important enough to bother. All right, let's take one last one here from NEP war. Hello, New Year, Wooly

and Patrick's Eve. My apartment currently looks like something that would show up in r slash male living space. Sick as a fashionista for gamers. Do you have any poster or decorative recommendations? So it doesn't look so depressing in here? Much love from the network. Look at the fucking space behind me. I don't have nothing back there. I've got a progression chart for this, I suppose. I don't know if this applies to everybody or whatever, but this is what I did.

I bought a bunch of game posters and shit and anime posters and stuff back in the day that I would. Get a cute dog to put in your room. Okay. What I did was I kind of had those up for a while. I would get like some, you know, shit from the, the Chinatown shop that had like these bootleg anime posters or whatever. I'd get. I got a couple of those. And then I kind of like, when I started filling up the space in my old room,

which is where we used to record, I eventually started also putting up like Nintendo Power, like, are things I had clipped and like, you know, shit that came with the games I bought physically or whatever. And I just, I had a bunch of those built up, artist alley prints. And so I eventually just made a punk room wall that was like, oh, my wallpaper is just all shit stacked on top of each other. It was cool. Yeah, I liked that effect.

That was fun for a while when I just didn't know what else to fill the space with. Then I got one or two of those Mondoo posters and it was like, ah, shit, like I got to figure out how to make this nice. Uh, so I started getting like, I got rid of the, those posters and then I got like one or two wall scrolls, you know, and then like at Chinatown, I got, you get your Advent children wall scroll, you get your try gun, you get your samurai Champloo and you put those some bitches up all across the room and you get basically samurai champloo, and you put those sumbitches up

all across the room and you get basically like, you know, it's not that enough for a... not as expensive, you get like your walls covered with three or four wall scrolls that, you know, fill the space up and start to create some good negative space. So you can, you know, I got my vash and my knives with a little gap filling up the wall. You know, and then eventually, I would say at some point when moving in with Punch Mom and kind of going like, okay, well, this is a joint living space. How do we, you know, come together on this, the compromise is let me pick out a couple of my absolute favorite game and movie posters, frame them, and just put them up on the walls clean in isolation. And yeah, no more than like, you know, four or so, three or four. And that becomes the entirety of my, you know, fandom expression, if you

will. So yeah, I think you can kind of do it that way and the wall scrolls are nice inexpensive in between step, you know But you got to get out of children I Brought this up recently. I remember in 2001. I was playing a game called Metal Gear Solid 2 and in that game, Raiden or Jack's girlfriend Rose calls him and starts crying her ass off about how he doesn't have any posters or shit

in his fucking room. And he's like, I just sleep in that room. And at the time I was sitting in a room that looked exactly like that, because it had shit all other than like my bed and my fucking PlayStation 2. And I remember being like, wow, she's fucking nuts. She is being such a dramatic little baby right now. Holy fuck. Why are you causing a fight out of nothing,

Rose? Holy shit. male bachelor room yep it's real it's super real like our slash male living space like I haven't been there but I know what that is in my soul already you know I've been there I've lived just like just put up whatever your wife tells you to put up on the walls see just just to have to tell your wife she can have anything she wants on the walls and then just let her pick it out and just put it up. See, but that's the thing though is like when it came to like working that out with Punch Bomber, it wasn't so much like, no, don't put your shit up or whatever because she was

like, it wasn't like that. It was more just like, I have a lot of stuff that I have to express that I put up that I'm a fan of. She didn't have as many things. There was a couple of things that she was into that she would have stuff for, but there just wasn't as many. So it would just be like, oh, my shit just overtakes by sheer volume of it. And I kind of was like, I would rather, I think it's kind of elegant to pare it down to a couple of things, and then I'd started doing the record collection bits and stuff and, you know, kind of like having these sort of,

yeah, I don't know, more of a gallery type vibe to the shit that you like, you know, and also I have a friend who worked at a print shop who was able to print out some fucking super clean movie posters that I didn't have otherwise and so I was able to like use that as well and got a good hookup. Anyway, um, I think I think that's your- Just listen to your wife. Well, I think- That's my advice. Wait, no, wait, our male living spaces? The whole point of this was that they were saying that that's what they have going. My apartment looks like our male living space. Wall scrolls.

Wall scrolls take up a lot of space. You can space them out and it'll look okay. Okay, so what you need to do is you need to find a female friend that you trust their opinion and is willing to tell you, shoot straight with you. And you need to show them the place and be like, okay, what can I do here that makes you less worried about being murdered if you were to come into this apartment? There you go. There you go. That's crucial. That is pretty big. And if she's- Because you want to get away from the American psycho like like like vibes That being said if they suggest a Funko pop end it and walk away fill it up fill it up with piss get going

And then yes, that's what they're for and the final step is bisexual streamer lighting Yeah, as we all know or apparently Vivec lighting Seeing a lot of people compare you to the Elder Scrolls character Vivec. Because of the blue on one side and the, okay, yeah. I don't know what that means or why. I also don't know what it means. But sure. I'll take it. That's cool. That'll do. Happy New Year everybody. Happy New Year.