Castle Super Beast - CSB308: Bayonetta Equips The Doohickey

Episode Date: February 20, 2025

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["Sailor Moon Theme"] Hello. Hey. How you doing, man? Welcome to Wait, Wait, Late Nights. This is Castle Super Beast Night Rain. Oh, that's true. It is. man welcome to wait wait late night this is castle superbeast night rain oh that's true it is it is it has happened yeah yeah yeah that's it's what's up what's happening you know a couple things not too much you're back over there I'm back home even though I had my little dog with me the whole time.

Yeah, you you truly chose to drop in as the most ridiculous storm we've ever had. Historic once in a lifetime storm. Yeah, the amount of, so we got, I think they said it was five winters worth of snow in one night. It was 40% of the entire snow budget for the city in one, that three day period. Yeah, that Monday. 70 centimeters over 48 hours. If you're American, that's two and one third feet of snow over

48 hours. So you know that little like balcony thing I have right by the kitchen there? Like that thing was like the snow looking at it was almost like eye level. You know, and at a certain point, it's like, okay, what's the weight calculation? Is this going to collapse if we don't start clearing it? That would be cool. You know, turns out light snow, not too bad. You know, it spreads out kind of light, but it still is like just insane in terms of volume.

It was very fluffy kind snow. But I did have to essentially just go back there and just shove just a couple human beings worth off. It was kind of goofy. It had been a fairly regular ass Canadian winter. You get some bad days, some good days, but we're ready for it. Yeah, no, no one expects to see their entire,

the entire sidewalk just gone. At one point, Min just sent me a picture and was just like, try to find my car. And it's just like, there's nothing. There's just nothing there. There's buildings and there's nothing around This is one of those times where I'm so glad that my family is the way that it is

Cuz I'm like the plan was hey dad. Can you drive me to the airport? He's like, yeah I'm like dad. Can you still drive me to the airport? He's like, yeah I'm like but this shit he's like don't worry don't worry about it. And so we went to their condo and their condo, the driveway at the end of their little parking lot got completely snowed in by like three feet. I'm like, isn't that going to be a problem? He's like, nah, I got the truck. Then he showed up to the Airbnb, we were staring like an hour early. He's like, oh yeah, it's no problem. Whatever.

We'll take the back streets through fucking L machine. We'll avoid all the traffic. It's not gonna be a problem, man Yeah, no, it's it's like I feel like I've seen it I've seen people going like aren't you guys aren't you the most aren't you supposed to be the most ready for this isn't like Canada's supposed to be on time. We are You are yeah for this isn't like Canada supposed to be on time. We are sorry well you are. Yeah Quebec like literally we are it was that much though you know. Montreal's snow removal like business world renowned is a fucking industry in and of itself and it is professionals. It has invented the the three the three vehicle system I've talked about in the past, but literally there is the, like all three

simultaneously, you've got the big truck and the road, scooping it all up, you've got the snowplow up ahead of that truck, which is on the sidewalk, scooping it into the sidewalk, and then you've got the third truck on the side, just receiving it. So one is scooping it up and shooting it to the side and the others just catching it and all three are Going down the street in unison. It's a synchronized system, and it works for snow works really good We saw some of the airport stuff. It's like ten trucks in a row Just clearing out a whole runway all at once cool. We saved Maine in 1997 oh yeah, that's sick there you go right we we have Just clearing out a whole runway all at once. Cool. We saved Maine in 1997. Oh yeah? That's sick.

There you go. Right? We have the best... We could have used some of our own saving during that ice storm in fucking 98. In 90... A year later. Yeah. Oh man, that was brutal.

But in any case though, you know, that did happen. Hey, fortunately, how about that? How about that working from home? Working from home is awesome. I like that I have returned to a human pallor. I am no li- I saw myself described as a stick figure on a paper bag put over a bare light bulb. I should have sat you in this seat to see what would happen with the Vivec lighting as they're calling it. But yeah, no, you know, what could I say, man? You know, our lighting is tuned for black. At some point, at some day in the future, you're going to sit in this general area and I want to see if the fucking reverse happens. And it's just like, well, that's just the

kind of shit we got to deal with. Because you've got colored lighting on I do not have this is all just like sepia bright white light but yeah no that that that was that was that was a quite quite enjoyable watching you become minus one as the numbers go so hey you know? Let's backtrack a little bit. I recently visited Montreal to see Family and Wooly and Punch Mom. Let me tell you, if you want to travel with a little toddler, just fucking don't. And that's not to say that the little toddler was a problem. He is an incredible little angel and was a kick-ass little

dude on the flights and the travel and all of that. But holy fuck, do you have to bring a lot of luggage for a toddler, not a baby and not a child, but a toddler. You gotta get the books, you gotta get the toys, you gotta get the snacks, you gotta have the multiple bottles that you've been trying to keep cold. You gotta go home You gotta get the fucking car seat. You gotta get this now Oh my fucking god the way you were describing it was like he has discovered the concept of boredom

Yeah, which means he can become bored. Yeah, and he hates it Hates it and on both flights, my wonderful little guy thought, you know what? You know when's the good times to take a nap? Take off and landing. For just take off and just landing. The first 15 minutes and the last 15 minutes of the entire flight. And nothing in between. Yeah, the dog was a champ by the way. The dog was hung out in his little bag.

Yeah, no, I'm convinced that like, you know, Boozy's unflappable. There is nothing that will concern that. So I thought, like, the dog hangs out of my lap here or down there in his little Bed or in the bag, right and it's like yeah, but this is my empty office with just me, right? So I'm like well, it might be a little different one than in a bigger room with lots of people he doesn't know no Just gonna chill on my lap or in between me and Reggie for like six hours who gives a shit mm-hmm mm-hmm Yeah, no and I mean hey look and obviously it goes without saying but That kids that kids that those those charisma stats are like he's a he's a handsome little guy Oh those Christmas that's our

Cute little dude, and he's giving high fives. Yeah, no. Oh my God. You're getting replaced. Oh, I sure am. I sure am. Paige wanted to, Paige messaged me to remind me something that I forgot to mention on my stream the other day, which is on the way back. So first of all, man, hey, wooly, love you. Love punch mom. Your hospitality is incredible. You are amazing hosts. It was great to see you. Can't wait to see you again. Boy, I'm not coming out there for a while. Going to Montreal sucks. Being in Montreal fucking sucks. Like just the fucking vibes are shit.

Vibes are god awful and trash. Now this is storm aside. But but but as as the bonus on the way back on the back, the last things that happened in Montreal, pulling my luggage into the airport, my fucking belt busted, and my had to go all the way home with my pants almost falling down. Good. Good for you.

And then as me and Paige were getting off the plane, somebody dropped their overhead luggage onto her head. And it left a fucking wheel mark on her forehead like a bad one Yeah, damn, and we were like one final gift from the French get your ass out. That's what you fucking deserve Dude, I was carrying a baby and like four bags And I'm like duck walking because I don't want my pants to fall down in The airport and I was terrified Yeah, look, you know someone asked on one of the streams like yo

What like for all the shit of that you talk about Montreal or whatever tell us some actual good things And I think me and Reggie did oh, yeah, you guys But I'm just like I'm not I'm not gonna run the defense for why I live here and what I like about it every single No, I don't want you to I just want to run the offense. Okay, how great it is to be back in BC That's fine. That is awesome. I just I Definitely better. Yeah but the the the energy that unfortunately this brings is everybody that then takes this and comes to me going why are you living in a literal turd and And it's like you you just cuz he loves the smell. Yeah

Anyways, I'm just I've said my piece on it. But you guys are there so it's not all so bad Oh, well, that's that's quite and my mom and dad my sister and my mom I keep calling dude I'm so still not used to being an adult man that I keep calling my nephew my cousin What I Keep I keep going. Oh my cousin. No, that's not your cousin Pat. You're almost 40 years old. That is your nephew Yeah, stop yeah, I'm just I'm just a 40 year old little baby, okay? Something okay, okay. Well well how about this? How about this? Yeah? Yeah, did you enjoy the restaurant? Oh?

I sure did okay. Thank you for taking us out. That was fantastic. That was kind of cool It was super cool. It was incredible. I will have to I will have to return the favor at some point There are there are cool things. We're still discovering I'm not I don't want to I don't want to we got to take you down to the white spot Yeah, it's like it's like it's like a three-star but it's like it's like it's fun to sit in the white spot. Oh, yeah. I forgot. Yeah. Yeah. It's like it's like it's like a three star, but it's like it's like it's fun to sit in the white spot and be like, you know, why they call it that? No, but there's just some there's some cool places that I'm keeping close to the chest for now that I don't. Oh, absolutely. I don't want to blow up just yet.

That's one of them. But like, hey, like amen seeing you guys like one of the highlights of my year. I really mean it Yeah, you had such a great time. No, I'm so nice to see you guys absolutely absolutely And we got a good time playing some fun shit for example virtual fighter 5 Virtual fighter 5 is a fucking good game, and no one's playing it and that's fine Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, that's fine. Just it's it's six will come and, you know, there will be a another like little bit of an attention rush towards like learning the rhythm of what this all is for a little bit. And you know, it'll sit in its place where it's like, good, it's not dead, it exists,

it's not lighting the world on fire, but it's in the corner and at least the Yakas of people love it and are keeping it alive. And maybe that's all it needs, you know? I don't know about profitability. I don't know about... Oh, this definitely lost money. This definitely, this definitely lost money no definitely this definitely lost money that being said always oh yeah no always always fun

to like like as I'm going through something like oh shit there's like rhythms and systems to this that I'd like never really fully internalized because oh well that's the that's the problem is that like it's the Dunning Krueger Krueger shit in in fighting game form It's like you never feel like you're any good at the game ever right? At no point do you ever feel like you ever got good at? Virtual fighter five like there are there were like that first half set of matches before Reggie and you found your rhythm I was stomping you guys into the dirt and all I could see was that I was playing like trash It's right. I could see it was like, oh man. This is so I'm not even I'm not fuzzing. I'm not even evading

I mean, there's every game has so many things to think about and like this one just introduces its own set You know and on top of that like that's all before like you have to then Reggie goes and picks boring karate super hard man and It's like I'm gonna do the really hard on block string. I want Complexity, please This game's hard enough before you add that to it. You know I say as I pick a character. That's two characters in one so virtual fighter 5 Revo exists so that when virtualua Fighter 6 comes out and people start

to get into it, you will be able to point back at VF5 Revo and you know, pfft, Revo was better man. This new one, this new one's trash. You don't even, you guys don't even know. And people who were really into VF5 can go, pfft, this isn't nothing compared to VF4 Final Tune. Come on, Final Tune was where I was at back when Go and Brad were the new ones. Again, I said it during the actual stream and to reiterate, like the Option Select article, give every Virtua Fighter a 10 on 10 because the future of the franchise demands it no matter how much 100% it's like that

Hey, yeah, I gotta give Leo the Oscar for revenants cuz he deserves one, but maybe doesn't deserve one for this one Yeah, I mean, okay the Grammys do that the Oscars do that Yeah, I say listen if we don't give this guy a Grammy He'll fucking kill himself and won't get that good album next year. So come on the pity award the Oscars do that yeah. Listen if we don't give this guy a Grammy he'll fucking kill himself and won't get that good album next year so come on. The pity award. So there was a little bit of that and then there was some avowed. There was avowed which is a really strange game. So I played about six, seven more hours of it on my own show in first person.

And let me tell you, boy, boy, those animations are made for first person. You can tell. Yeah, yeah. It's extremely clear. I mean, I remember when I saw Mirror's Edge third person mods and it was like, oh. And you're like, no.

No, put it back. This wasn't built for this at all her torso Yeah, so avowed is really interesting because people keep comparing it to Skyrim which is a game that came out 25 years ago And every time I see that somebody goes Pat the Skyrim didn't come out 25 years ago to which I say Yeah, I know Didn't know Morrowind. Who cares? Um, but the point is, is that, um, about is really interesting because it's, uh, it looks like oblivion or skyrim.

It looks like a big open world RPG on your New Vegas or your, you know, that kind of thing or cyberpunk, right? But what they've done is that Obsidian has realized that they don't have infinite money to compete on that scale. And so what they've done is they've said, okay, what can we do? What can we cut? What matters kind of thing. And so you have a game like that where you go to swing your fucking axe at somebody in town and they're completely invincible and the entirety of suite of mechanics for what happens if you act badly in town just doesn't exist. Yeah, it seems there's no doing anything. And I can definitely agree with that because it's like, okay, yeah, you do that in town

once and then it goes bad for you and then you don't do it again. So save time, save budget, reduce this whole thing down and just don't even let you do it. Yeah. Somebody in the chat says it's not a scrolls-like, it's a Kotor-like just in first person, which I actually think that would be a much better example. Very good first person combat for this genre.

Okay. I really like it. I unlocked the parry. I unlocked bullet time for the guns and it feels really good. See, but when someone says a Kotor-like, I then go to like, oh so the the story and the RPGing and the conversations and all that are the compelling. Very much more like that. Yeah, okay talking to random character for 15 minutes. Yeah, get some exposition it is It's got a good parry. Let me just say that the parry is good. It has the right timing okay so I

didn't see anything that was my Jam yeah, yeah, I just it just it really wasn't my thing. However, Fish Man Garris is a very quick way to my heart. They're superb. That is a shortcut and it's almost cheating to put both of those things together. And I'm like, if you're gonna be hanging out with other versions of that, you know,

like voice actor you love and great character design and you just, you know, smash it together, you can do that. You can cheat me over to your side. It's bullshit, but it works. It kind of feels a little bit like Mass Effect in that you go to camp and then your boys stand around at their designated spot and then you go to

talk to them and you exhaust just every single fucking line of dialogue this person has. And then later after a big event, they'll refresh that dialogue and it does like the very similar shot reverse shot as Mass Effect, even though your character doesn't have voice acting because you're a fucking disgusting mushroom person. Overall, like, yeah, no, it's very solid. It's not going to set the world on fire. have voice acting because you're a fucking disgusting mushroom person. Overall like yeah, no, it's very solid. It's not going to set the world on fire. Like it is not ambitious or against the grain like something like Kingdom Come Deliverance

is. It's like a, it's a very well put together, reasonable, interesting RPG. This would be pure AA back in the day. So you've spent a ton of hours in Pillars. Does this feel like the same world and the same setting? Are the characters and overall vibe matching that? Absolutely. Yeah, okay.

100%. So this is one of those things. It's a spinoff. characters and overall vibe like absolutely that yeah okay 100% so like this is one of those things like it's a spin-off so hey this is you don't have to play pillars one or two you don't have to but if you do have two games worth of background on this setting literally every single thing that comes out of someone's mouth will get a little extra piece of context for you. That you'd be like, ah. So like Kai, Hot Fish Man, for example, is a former sailor in the Rauatai Navy,

which is like an imperial force of fishmen, very expansionist, which multiple party members in the past of the prior games have been, but he has a different take on it. And so his view of his country's army is now the third perspective you have received of party members throughout the series. Okay. That kind of thing. Okay. And the other thing is that I don't want to go into it here because the podcast

and this reaches very wide, but I described that the end of pillars of eternity to is such a ridiculous fiction annihilating calamity that feels like they really never intended to continue the setting at all. And this game starts up with, okay, so that thing is going to be the primary problem that you need to fix in this game because it is a dramatic cataclysm. But they don't go into how that happened. Oh, so far. Like the root cause of the problem. That's for pillars to

To go into okay, all that matters here is we have the problem and we must We're living in the and yeah, and the effects of pillars one, but we can't do anything that would fuck up the the proper Yeah, they do interesting things like they'll have characters that died in pillars to And be like oh, they're back and you'll be like what they're back. And yeah, they all really they are really fucked up. It's crazy It's wild they they survive that shit Like the character in particular that is back is a character that I atomized in pillars to like full jib like corpse explosion The character in particular that is back is a character that I atomized in Pillars 2. Like full jib like corpse explosion. And I guess they got better.

Okay. Did you, with extra hours, note that like, is it as the guess was like one, did you switch up party members from town to town? No, I didn't. The first big area is very meaty. So I was just doing that. Though what's interesting is that they have, at the end of your first big main quest, they have a big storyline moment, which asks you whether or not you want to accept powers

from a strange new source or not. And if you do, you get completely unique abilities associated with it. Something like a Jedi power or something like that. But if you don't, you get an extra generic skill point and you don't know what these powers are going to be before you get them. So despite the thematic thing going on there, there's like, do you want to get to the end of the game with like 12 extra skill points in the regular tree? Because that would be really strong. Or do you want a wide cavalcade of irregular abilities that you may not care about some?

I'll take any Eldritch power game offers me. So that was easy Is that is that kind of like in Baldur's Gate 3 when you go the I forgot the name of the run is but the Like that whole tap hole run. Yeah. Well, no, it's it's more like it's it's more like either or rather than yes or no, okay? But yeah about is a really interesting game. I like it. It was pretty solid for me, like stable-wise. I'll pick away at it in the background.

Definitely not going to keep streaming it. I hope that Garrus isn't the front-loaded strongest party member in the game in terms of just people you want to hang out with. I hope that they at least come. I don that they Don't know any other ones are I think one of the reasons that people are comparing about to very similar, but larger scope games is Because it costs the same Like damn, okay, like that like somebody in the chat pointed out hundred dollars in canada Yeah, and it's like if it's a100 in Canada, I should be getting a $100

in Canada game like Kingdom Come Deliverance or Baldur's Gate 3. And I talked about it a little bit on my stream. Or Hunter Hunter Nen Impact. For RPGs in the next 10 years, the phrase, why isn't this as big as Baldur's Gate three is going to be like a fucking death knell, like over and over and over and over and over. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Why? Why? Why not? Why not? Okay. Why didn't you guys patch multiple expansions worth of content in? Like Baldur's Gate 3 did.

Because that's the thing, literally as we speak there is a giant Baldur's Gate 3 patch that's like about to- Sit there and distress test. Coming through right now and apparently needed its own patch before the patch and whatever's going on. I saw a very similar tweet that was like, hey Outcome Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is cheaper and it didn't cost as much to make even though it's so big and it is quite a large game. And it's like, Oh, could it be because the fucking devs are in fucking

Eastern Europe and their dollar isn't the same value. So it's actually if you did the fucking local Europe to Euro or USD would actually cost like a billion fucking dollars. Is that why? Is that why maybe? But it is interesting because I'm like as I'm playing cyberpunk right now, it's like that game still getting touched and updated in quality of life and improvements and stuff, you know? Yeah. It's a nice feeling that it's like, oh yeah, there's a long tail of service on this game. And you know, they legit want it to be like the best quality of life version of itself. That's so crazy that they could keep supporting cyberpunk for so long, and that it has nothing to do with the fact that the

cyberpunk devs own the second largest PC game retailer, and they are paying their people in Polish dollars, which is like one fucking quarter of the CAD. And so they could spend a million hours on it and it's fine. Hey man, you got to put your blockbusters out so that you could fund your A24s or whatever, right? We got to fucking outsource these RPGs to Europe.

God damn it um it's not a fair comparison to go why is not everything like a larian game it is you're totally right unless you're paying with your money but I know what I was gonna say is it's not a fair comparison however personally I'm just going to say is it's not a fair comparison. However, personally, I'm just going to be less interested in the Knoth Baldur's Gate 3 one. So what's the... Again, full outsider, touching a couple hours of that game, I can't believe how fucking incredible. It's super nuts how far it goes. And watching Avowed just starting up its intro section

and going through that slice, I'm like, okay, I see what's going on here. I don't know that, yeah, the length, the hours, I don't know that I would need that much. To grab me, to grab me, like I would, I would, I would definitely need to see a bit more Baldur's great three ish things going on without putting that on every game. It would have worked if I saw more of it.

People are pointing out that Baldur's gate three is actually cheaper than about by about 10 bucks. Okay. And that is a lot. But it's, it's just the, I think the funniest thing by far is that we're in the era of how come this isn't as good as Baldur's gate three, which is going to last like a long time. And the reason it's funny is because from the year 2000 to like the year fucking 2009 when Mass Effect 2 came out I don't know if you remember because you might not have been into this particular sub-genre of RPG but of CRPGs the refrain was why isn't this as good as Baldur's Gate 2? Oh was was a thing for like a decade. I see, okay. Because Baldur's Gate 2 was like the largest

scale RPG of its era by orders of magnitude. I feel like, I feel like what I've always heard about is like Fallout in terms of like being able to do anything. Why aren't there more games like that was uh cuz it's hard a comparison point. Yeah. Yeah, cuz it's hard as fuck Understandable I Think Bethesda talked a lot about like hey How come you guys haven't fixed that bug where you pick up items and all the items fall down on the table because it Recalculated the physics and it's and they were like because we're calculating down on the table because it recalculated the physics and they were like, because we're calculating like 5,000 objects physics in a room and we have to keep them loaded into

the cell so that when you leave and then come back, all the items are still correctly tallied in the cell. It's fucking hard. It's really hard. What's funny about holding games up to unfair comparison points that are like really stand out good examples in the genre though is that with uh there was a time when we would touch an action game and be like I wish it was a bit more like Devil May Cry and yeah I think that's not that continues to this day but it's like anything but it's like oh that's not fair it's the peak of the fucking genre but yeah I do too and then fast forward to hey look everyone has high times

into aerial raves Everyone's doing a stinger. Everyone's doing you know, and you're just like, oh, it took a while But we have high time into aerial rave. Yeah, like it took a while, but we kind of got there You know, it's yeah, it's weird to see it happen after a period of time And it's not always gonna be good, but the but the bones are there you know Yeah, no if I do you remember ain't it cool news in there their movie review system which was a fucking Was it full price matinee and wait for home video I think it was Was it full price matinee and wait for home video? I think it was.

Angry Centaur Gaming ACG has an incredibly similar thing, which is buy it day one, wait for a sale or pass. Avowed is very much a wait for a sale kind of game. It's good and I really like it and I'm a huge mark for pillars, but for the average person, I would say that there's like a lot, a lot better place to use your full priced dollars. Yeah, okay. By the way, I got the game for free.

Yes, oh true. Just letting everybody know. Hashtag, yeah, code. yes oh true just letting everybody know yeah code and then we played some night rain we played some night rain where are we dropping boys so there were a lot of things I thought about about night rain but that I want to get into right before we get into night rain if that makes any fucking sense yeah and that night rain beta was limited it was highly limited it. It was limited in scope, in time, and in features. Four characters is definitely not the release count yet.

Yeah, but you also, you always dropped in at the same basic place in the full game. You're going to be dropping in at like the random fucking arcs. Different arcs and such. And the terrain regeneration, the terrain randomization is not in, or was not in that network test at all. So they said that there's going to be procedural effects to the world. I don't know that it's going to change the map in terms of locations of building structures and valleys and peaks. I think it's more about this is a poison area, this area's burning now,

this area has a storm going through it. So what they said was is that the physical geography of the map would not change. Hills, valleys, that kind of thing. But what would be physically placed on the map would change and that would be buildings. It wasn't clear if they meant castles or if they meant like small structures or camps.

But that swamps, storms, et cetera, would vary it up so you could not rely on your existing knowledge on every run. So I got a session in before we started. We did our session that we streamed. Did you get one afterward? And I got one afterwards. And that afterwards one was a really good one.

Oh yeah, did you get, so one of the interesting things that we got was that two of my guys disconnected in the last run that we did, and I got to actually play Night Rain in the solo mode. And it was very cool because we found out how they're going to do it. Multi-boss bosses will not spawn the fucking adds they have for the extra players, and the monster health will decrease accordingly to what it's like. Okay, that's exactly how we thought it was going to work. And that felt awesome. Did you get a run like that, or you're all like clean three people?

I didn't get a solo run. I got a two person, like extended run for a while, where that last time around, knowing how to play more, I got a lot further. I got to the end of day two on a two person run. And then I got a clean clear with three. Oh, you got a clear? I got a clear.

And I have learned quite a good bit since that first session. So I was gonna say- Tell me more. Yeah, so the session, so obviously we went through the different classes, got a feel for them. The overall feeling of holy fuck, go, go, go is not just the game design, but also

the fact that the demo is on the clock and you have your three hour window. It's a really, really specific clock. Yeah. And it takes like, again, like you can die quickly, but at least it's going to take about 20 minutes before the run is done, you know, like you're you're committing so The Wilder, you know the the kind of just your default sort of starting character very like solid safe choice with roles and Normal man, you know a generous ass buckler parry

Grapple out of the way and big fucking exploding punch alt, you know, very solid starting strength starting weapon as well. Overall distribution is kind of endurance and and and strength based or rather mainly or rather just balanced more than anything I'd say. Guardian is more strength and endurance based. Mm-hmm, right because he's a big boy and you've got the walk and poke You know with the with the shield and extra stance Believe he's the largest playable character in from software history Like in height, huh, I guess so if you're yeah if the custom characters can't he is enormous go beyond that there are thresholds

Yeah, if the custom characters can't he is enormous go beyond that there are their thresholds Yeah, and and in a game with tons of mobility and with the ability to fly up and slam down and shit like It really ends up just feeling like from soft. Well, I called it arcade mode, right? It feels like hi. Yeah, if this is a Marvel versus Capcom version of this game with a with a, if you've got an hour and you wanna get some souls in ya and you're not too concerned about lore, you just wanna get a run on some bosses. Kinda like what people do, essentially,

I feel like it's like FromSoft is like, the things that people mod the game to get quick enjoyment out of on multiple replays, they're like, why don't we put that out? Well, that is literally the exact phrase from this game's director was we were watching a lot of speed runs and randomizers and we were like, what if we did that? What if we had a version of the game that was like a really fast run but it was also randomized?

So the second character I started using and did the run with was the recluse, who is essentially Ranny the witch style character. Her whole thing is she's got shards, she's got the wave, casting spells, and then as you run out of FP, you're going to grab the damage out of the air and it'll stalk one pip of a certain ingredient, combine three to cast a spell, and then the randomized, not randomized, but the ingredients, you have to memorize all different types of combinations to know what that means. It's a really fun and interesting way to sit in the back and kind of like support. But what's interesting too about those builds is that like if you pick up a weapon that

you want to use, regardless of what your intended character is, you can still swing it around. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, use it. Levels are going to be like, hey, you got to get to at least level nine before you can use the special weapon. But if you pick up a greatsword as the recluse and you have the right level requirement, fuck it. You can use that.

So they're not doing any things where your build needs to have, it's like, oh, you can only use magic and light dex weapons or so. They're not they're not doing any things or like your build needs to have it's like oh you can only use magic And like deck dex weapons or so they're not restricting you out of that So you can change I think your game up a lot better than that is even like I picked up The fucking the bird poker. Yeah on my last run and it's like I couldn't use it for almost my whole run But it gave me 10% of my fucking life back when I killed anything Even when it was not in my fucking hand. Yeah.

And it's like, okay, yeah, no, that's worth it. Just keep that on the fucking character. It's a third accessory slot. Yeah, yeah. And so, and it turns out like some of the buffs that go on your weapons, even if they're in your pockets, they still apply, right? So that's a huge, huge deal for your build.

Even if you- So I would like it if they would put that forward in the next game, because I hate having multiple weapons equipped, but they all take the same equip load. Like, can I be the equip load of my shit when I switch to the fucking item that's on my hand, please? Yeah, yeah.

I mean, there's that, but then you also, of course, run the risk of turning every other weapon slot into a ring Essentially yeah good fucking sick. Just put five rings on it. Let's do it But What I didn't so what I got around to you know on the last run was the Duchess who run was the Duchess who glass cannon boy do you die you basically take one hit and you're done she has like no life to start with and you get that double dash right I I apologize for not taking that character seriously she's fucking

incredible and she's the double is it the double dodge that does it? No, it's the time rewind ability, the ghost, called. Oh yeah. Right? That thing is phenomenal. And we were just not seeing anyone using it properly. Right? And on top of that, I picked up a, I forgot what it's called, but those

boons that you equip before the run that are like per- Right, right. The trinkets or whatever the fuck you want to call them. So I put on a trinket that was at the end of a light combo, you get a free restage. Oh, that's, oh, that's, this is Marvel. Yeah, the last hit of the quick combo causes the ghost to just re-stage all that damage, whatever was going on. So I fucking put that thing on and just go to work and it's

unbelievable because like you get that going constantly and then you back off and you wait for your team to do anything like clutch and any really good play bomb like let's go double it up, you know Yeah, you so and you just you and you I also had another like trinket that was Plus to how fast my alt regains, you know So like there's a lot of moments where you're just getting mobbed by way too many and then going invisible Just to get a couple of backstabs in a row, you know, and then restaging them. She's so fucking good By the end feels like the game is going to be extra, extra, extra mean because they're going to give you this level of ability juice.

Yeah. Well, I didn't even... I switched to other weapons a couple of times and I was like, no, no, she works best with this fast deck stab and anything slower than that is like going against because she has to stick and move, you know? And so like I went back to the default dagger for the whole run, you know, at a certain point I picked up like another like rapier and I was like, okay, this is kind of fast. But that and the double, the iframes off of the double dodge, you know, are just fantastic, man. So yeah, like getting to day three. Did you get to see any footage of it? I am watching footage of day three right now while you're talking.

Because day one is, you know, it's that first environment. We all run through your, you know, your limb grave like area. Day two, same area, but like the bosses get harder, everything gets a bit more aggressive, takes more damage, et cetera. But day three, you just get teleported to a brand new final location. Which is a big old boss fight. Big old desert area. And that boss fight is the three-

Wow, that's a cool fucking- Okay. Yeah, you get that three-headed Cerberus, and you're fighting it together, and then it does its big tail whips and stuff, then splits into three and then each of you fights ahead before it eventually comes back together. It's a lot of fun to have those split bosses, boss fight moments because there's the heroes of, I forgot, of the fort area and such where you're like, there's a couple bosses where there's like,

oh, there's three of them here for you each to take one. It's a race almost, go, you know? The little dooders to the little doot spheres, each go fighting one. That's a lot of fun, you know? And like, yeah, I kinda was able to just piece together, like, yeah, those boons, those trinkets are massively game-changing,

hugely incredible abilities on those. The, some of the things that, some of the strategies involved, like, we were fighting against the three knights, for example, that were in the forest at the end of day two. Really, really tough. But one of the guys I was playing with hung back and it kept a bow specifically for when someone would die.

He would drop a warming stone and then just bow and arrow your body from a distance. It's just- Oh, that's smart. Instead of going into the shit, you know? They just like, and you just like, oh yeah, you just bow an arrow from a distance, get you back up, and then use that warming stone opportunity to heal at the same time, you know. Little strats you kind of see coming together, working out really well like that.

And like, yeah, obviously, like looking for syncing up with people's alts and restaging them. It really was just a, it was a lot of fun to kind of see the full pace of that stretch out. Your ability to withstand the rain as well, like I did one run with some risky, crazy dude that was like, yeah, I'm going to run into the rain and like get the stuff. There's stuff there. I want it. That's worth it. Yeah, exactly. Right. And so by flying into the rain and like get the stuff there. I want it worth it. Yeah, exactly. Right. And so by flying into the rain a couple of times and I was like, okay, I'm just going

to follow like you seem to you've got it down. You go in and it's like, yeah, you know what? Almost dying, but getting an extra Estes sip is worth it. Hit that church. Yeah, no, that's definitely hit the second church up, you know, definitely super worth it And by the end we were like coordinated enough that like fighting a boss like and just like Ganking it from all sides and like staggering into staggering into staggering It's like oh no, we can take this boss out in about 15 seconds. If we just go hard, you know If you get those good items and all that good synergy Yeah, absolutely like that lightning thing that I got which is just hey roll and a lightning bolt fucking a we's the role zone

Roll and you get a lightning bolt zapping is one of them. Yep a slow walk to get right What was it? the the the arcane rain yeah rain going What was it? The arcane rain? Yeah, rain going. And one that I picked up and we saw it initially and didn't quite know what we were looking at. Whatchamacallit? Summon Swords.

Oh yeah? Summon Swords is actually a post-boss buff. That is every couple of seconds they'll regenerate. That's so good. You're not casting them. They just, right, carry in greatswords or what? Not greatswords, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Phalanx blades.

Or whatever the fuck. Yeah, they just resummon every couple seconds on their own. Those passives are the best I've ever seen. I saw one in, I just checked out somebody's footage of them fighting the final boss, and they had one where hitting dash causes a giant ice explosion that stays in place for like ten seconds and causes frostbite. That's so good.

Yeah I got that. You start sprinting and you get whore frost explosion right at the start That's so good You know Just these these we like I don't know That like they're gonna those are those are your run winners essentially you get one of those and you're like Oh, I have a fantastic fucking chance here to build around that that ability Because it's free extra damage that just it's like, you know what?

I mean, it's like another party member just hanging out in a lot of cases doing normal actions You would otherwise regularly be doing but they just cause extra damage to it to whatever's near you Hades buffs. Yeah, man. I Would like them to put this game out and for it to be good. And then I would like them to put an expansion out every year until there is a new Souls game. I mean, they can again, they don't have to treat it like that. They can treat it even they can update it even more frequently. You know, every couple of months they can drop us some some shit.

Give me more though. Like I didn't even get to the final boss of that that network test. I'm already being like, give me more though. Like I didn't even get to the final boss of that that network test and I'm already being like give me more though. Just put every single asset you've ever made into this. Hmm. I have free, easy, super easy to do. Affordable as well. They don't have to spend too much extra money on the implementation there, you know. Do what all the modders have been doing, including dropping characters from the wrong game. Just drop them in. And just letting it work. What was I going to say though? Yeah, the one thing though is just that

again, it's not, it's scratching an itch. It's not going to be the same itch as, fuck it, I want to do a run. Absolutely not. And be the same itch as fucking I want to do a run Absolutely not and the number one itch that doesn't scratches. I would like to explore an interesting new area in a from software game What it actually does is is like that. Hey, you know what? Let me load up some apex right now or What I you know what? I mean like one of those games like oh, absolutely It's that game that uses this system forever. Yeah, it's taking over the, it's taking over the where we drop in itch

more than anything Souls related. And yeah, and you know, for sure, the last day as well, like not the last day rather, but the Sunday, like a lot of people queuing in for those games as well were like, okay, we all know that. What I called happened where people were just pinging the same areas going like, yep, we're going to hit the church, we're going to drop in, we're going to open that chest, we're going to take out that crucible or the perfumer. We're going to go up, turn around, there's going to be some good shit inside the treasure chest

out there, hop up over the castle, make our way to the rise. Once you go to the rise, drop back down, go to the next church, get your sip, fight the dragon, you'll probably get a, by that point the rain's gonna come in, chase the rain back to the camp, jump over the camp, if you have time you can fight the misbegotten, if otherwise, go up to the top, take out that first boss, day one clear and you got some good shit for it. That's that optimization is important to ruin with

Randomizing the map just enough that that doesn't work anymore and instead it just becomes Do I have time to get to this next spot? Yes, go go go. Hopefully there is something we can deal with there And you know it would also be interesting to see characters get introduced that like really fucked with the system. For example, like someone that was like, actually I can survive on my own without helping you guys. You know? Oh, I have like an ability to create a bubble in the rain.

Or you know what I mean? Or some sort of like survivability where I'm going to go off and get things that you guys don't have or um I mean there's already like those trinkets I mentioned create unique goals for example uh getting a stone sword key and opening up a an evergeil gives you a huge buff but you have to accomplish that goal first. It's interesting because like you know obviously, obviously everybody's going to be way more effective if they team up to 3v1 on these bosses, but if everybody splits up, that means you are tripling the possibility that everybody gets the really good accessory that they want. That's it, right?

And or whatever the goals might be. I had a game as well where one of the, no, the game where we cleared it, one of the people I was playing with became essentially a support class that didn't exist. They became a perfumer that would shield us and would heal us and would work together and used shopping and abilities to do support group shit, you know, when none of the four classes are dedicated towards doing that right now, you know? There's passive abilities that kind of help

pick your friends up and oh, there's the things where you can get a trinket that says, every time you sip your Estus, if people are near you, they get a healing as well. Oh, that's good. Right? There's little things. Yeah, there's little things like that.

But like someone going I'm gonna buy stuff that that generally supports the group and buffs the group and you know Enchantments that do that as well. Like you have a whole other type of class you've built yourself into you know So yeah, the ability to have the freedom to turn to do that type of shit as well with the characters is awesome. I agree with chat. I think that either this game's final boss or maybe a hidden boss that you need to fulfill certain conditions with should be like white glint or rusty. Something AC just drops in? Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah. No. Do it. Fucking do it.

Suddenly just the the um, uh your computer's voice like I forgot her name but she just like that dialogue starts kicking in, you know? No, you know what it should be? It should be fucking laughing hyena. It should be fucking laughing hyena. It should be fucking patches.

I mean that's- that's free. Patches is going to be there. There's no chance it's not. The only question is this patch is going to be playable practically, you know, like- Yeah, that might be true. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM NPCs that are like, you know, beloved characters and make them playable. There's no reason why not. They have simplified movesets. You have three things each character can do. You can take anyone that was standing around as a main character in those games and go

for it, you know? That would be super sick. But yeah, no, or even like, I can see that being a sort of like, you know, DLC thing where it's like, you want to play patches, we have the patches. Here you go. Playable. I think it's absolutely insane that after all these years of saying when's Capcom going to come out with Capcom versus Capcom, that From Software came out with From Software versus From Software

first. Or Elden Ring versus Dark Souls or whatever the fuck you want to call it. We'll see how far they go with it for sure. But no, the idea that, okay, at the very minimum, maybe if you don't get a playable patches, you might be able to get a patches helmet. Or patches could be a unique event, something like Karen in Hades. Yeah, you know, maybe you're picking up a Fume Knight Greatsword, you know what I mean? Maybe you're picking up a fucking legendary weapon that you recognize from a thing and

then that's there too. Like there's a lot, like the Moonlight Greatsword is going to be there for sure, obviously. It's just, well, you know, but like I don't know. You should have to do something extra to get that fucking sword. Like that can't be dropping out of a chest. Like that must be like kill Seath. You know? Spend the entire day just getting that thing. Yeah. And then it's, and then it fulfills its usual promise. That'd be pretty cool. Oh yeah, no, the arcade rules that we can apply here mean anything's possible.

But it was a really fun test. That was great. Good taste for what's going on. You play a game in this and this is high but limited beta and I'm just like, I'm going to fucking stream a lot of this fucking shit. I never thought we'd be here playing Smash Brothers roster games in our head. Yeah. With the front-saw characters.

Cause they are on the first trailer. Oh my god, yo it's Nefeli. Like what? You know? Trailer is coming. Oh my god. Yo, it's in the belly like what you know in their very first trailer. They're like, okay, that's That's the fucking centipede demon and that's also the what was his name? Gwyn's kid the fuck and nameless nameless king the nameless king. You're like, alright. Well, those are Fucking dark souls characters that like he's riding the goddamn dragon in there So it's like okay could, it could be anybody.

It could be anybody. You want to fight three Gwyns at once? I would not. Would you purchase Havel DLC? Yeah, fuck it. Yeah. OK, sure. Give me that. I'll go be Havel. I'll have another fucking rematch with Artorias. Fuck it. Give me that. I'll go behavel. I'll have another fucking rematch with Artorias.

Fuck it, put me in. Artorias and Sif. Ornstein and Smoke, and you can each pick one of the two. Okay, okay, as a boss, certainly. But what if you played as one of each, and then you could fucking... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Solaire would be who you'd you did they'd give you the AP right? Yeah Yeah, in fact I would say

Probably any NPCs that were human like made within the game engine You know have a higher shot have the highest shot if anything anyone that's like a boss boss is a boss because Their logic already exists Well one of the things they said is that the name of the boss is not the name of the boss that you pick on the character select. So like the actual boss's name is like Gladius. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But the name of the boss when you select it in the level is Trismegius or some shit.

And they said that's intentional, which to me says that you're gonna be picking like Wolf swordsmen and you're like, whoa, who could have And then the day threes are gonna change and then there's gonna be like the big final final progression points. So very cool Yeah, that's that's night rain And you know that's that. And that's about that. Yeah, I had a good time chilling. Very good time.

Thank you very much for having us. It was great to see you guys. Seriously. Yeah, absolutely. I want to gush with my appreciation. You made it a really great visit. Thank you It was a really great time seeing and seeing you all and the baby really likes all you guys. Yeah Yeah, Reggie got a pound yeah Reggie got a little fist bump it was so good that up oh man

So Just while we're talking Montreal, just through this out there, I don't know if you saw, but apparently they announced today that we're finally getting the Quebec to Montreal to Toronto Shinkansen. So hey man. So you know when you graduate from your college or your university and you still have somebody that you know that goes there and in the very next semester after you've graduated they're like, hey you know that thing you complained about every single

fucking day? Yeah they're fixing it. That's very much what's happening and it's like, man that fucking thing well granted it's six years from now Yes, but the 300 kilometer per hour high-speed rail train is finally getting built and it's gonna do three hours Ottawa Three hours Montreal to Toronto. Yeah, it's gonna be to Ottawa Montreal Laval 12 yeah in Quebec CityOuvert, and Quebec City. Holy shit.

Our entire lifespan, been waiting for that. The 401 can go fuck itself! Fuck that piece of shit! I mean, but just also, like in Japan, riding that fucking Super Train and just, you're like, why can't anywhere else on the planet figure this out? Why just? The reason is really simple, because the time it takes to build the train is longer than

the election cycle. That's the reason. Oh, yeah. That's the reason To your dear god that sucks. So so this is no this is cool. This is fucking that's a big deal And like it doesn't benefit me directly at all because I'm on the west side of the country and the west side of the country Yeah, let's say they did like fucking Edmonton all the way out to alifax, right? It's like they're not gonna put this through the Rockies for like fucking 20, 30 years. It's the Rockies, right? But let me tell you, as somebody who just took a very arduous trip with dog, baby, wife and me from the Vancouver airport to the Montreal airport, hey man, do you know what's like

the easiest airport in this country to reach? Fucking Toronto. It's like the, like- YYZ. To go on direct flight to Toronto and then hop on a train for a couple hours, that's a million times easier. It would be really nice if train alternative. Obviously we have a rail system, but high speed to get places?

The train from fucking Toronto to Montreal takes a a day and is like super expensive. No, like getting a, being able to do Toronto as a day trip is an insane thought, but- But you know what? You know what, Wully? I think that I am going to keep my ass out of an airplane for a little while. Perhaps. for a little while Perhaps I think that maybe now is the time to plant my butt. Mm-hmm and chill the fuck out. Mm-hmm Mm-hmm Yeah

Yeah, kind of wild how both of our last trips were immediately Followed by wild shit. I gotta tell you and this is obviously like this is all easily personal and we're I'm talking about the Delta crash and in in Toronto which fucking thank God nobody died. Hey, that's great So I'm you know what's you know, it's the worst place to read about a plane crashes is fucking taxiing onto the runway is I'm like, huh? What's new in new in the world oh shit and then I made the mistake the big mistake of going hey wife who's terrified of flying check

this out yeah so there was some hand gripping there's that hand gripping that's a bad call yeah yeah I told her I loved her and that everything was gonna be fine you know there's also as I shuffled in my seat with my broken belt in my falling down pants there's a reason why Final Destination is not selectable on the movies you can watch list but we arrived safe and sound no problems I tell you what though you oh man I don't know if you saw this because Paige transcribed it on social media, but we were standing waiting for the plane to board, right?

And we happened to be at one of those gates in Montreal where you can look out the window and just see straight in the cockpit. And I looked over there and went, oh hey, and this is like the packed gate where everybody's just waiting for that last 10 minutes. Hey, you can see the pilots through the glass and page went. Yeah, really? and oh, yeah, you can see them jarking each other off a little bit and I get hit with the good ass like one of my favorite emotions in this world is your wife going. Oh my god shut up and then right before right before that becomes like

and then right before right before that becomes like and the The two old guys directly behind me sitting down start going Like into their coughing hands I go what Why it's fine got him. It's fine mission accomplished Yeah, so that's that's that's pretty much that Mission accomplished. Yeah, so that's that's that's pretty much that just those pre-flight jitters man you gotta Gotta take care of that Anything else you're gonna throw on top of the week there Yeah for people who didn't for people who didn't know it, because I talked about it briefly on my stream, but there's four child behaviors that are normal and you'll get two and you don't want them,

but you'll have to deal with them. Biting, hitting, running and climbing we knew that my boy was a climber and we've discovered that the second behavior is Running Yeah, isn't that just human beings we use our feet You know learn how to run and then you're like I can do that I can get faster and this was discovered in the airport Fuck okay, okay, okay? Okay, the kid clicked our three for the first time in the body. I'm gonna put you down while I get the oh shit

Roadie run camera shaking So luckily he's he's a little baby So he's not that fast But he's just fast enough that at one point I had to like run and you know do the scoop like under the arms like Scoop because he was gonna like was gonna fucking run into the back kitchen of a Tim Horton's in the car. Oh my God. And I'm like, no, not for you, baby!

So we're probably gonna get one of those fucking little backpacks for the baby that conveniently has a dad or mom tether onto the backpack to make sure that you can't lose the backpack. And the fact that it happens to be securely attached to the child is just a nice little bonus. The kid leash. Oh, fuck yeah, dude. Absolutely. Okay. It's like oh yes the leash is very demeaning for the child and you know what is also demeaning for a child? Trucks. Yeah. Booking it mid-diaper change. Just going I'm done with this. So we're talking to my mom right? Because now that you have the baby you talk to your mom and the baby and the mom tells

You all this shit. That's new despite the fact that it's old and She's like oh, yeah, you know I had one of those for Patrick. I'm like you did I was a leash Damn You got astral chains, that's great You got astral chained. That's great. Wow. She also told me that like back in the day she had you know those little tiny plastic strollers that you can fold up real easy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was my stroller and she said that before she used like the little backpack leash thing that I would attempt to escape the stroller and fucking go. And like, that's why strollers now, you staple the children in like it's a car seat. I guess the thought process is like, okay, how many times does that leash get maxed out?

If the answer is frequently, then that is a- If the answer is once, then you've made the right decision. The justification has occurred. Right? Because I'm sure you have lived in the world, you've seen a fucking five-year-old just fucking sprint out into traffic, and even if you saw it walking by, you went, oh, oh, oh, oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The hope is that you're like, everyone can move faster than the kids little legs can carry. But yeah, you look away for a second, I'm sure. So like, you know, I had him, I had his hand and my dad and baby are walking and people are smiling. And then he went, no, and yanked his fucking hand out. And like so fast, I was like, ah. And like like okay now we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna restrain this child from his own dangerous impulses okay and then and then apparently just never mention it again mom how did I not know I was a least child until like three days ago? How

did that never come up one time? Well clearly it was stopped early enough that the memory never formed, so that's good. I guess. You don't want to get old enough to remember. But yeah, hey, so that's pretty much it for me Visiting you was great visiting my mom and dad was great So glad I don't live in Montreal anymore. We'll never go back to live Might visit maybe later one day probably not

Love it great super cool awesome Can't wait for the train Yeah, no that trains gonna be good can't wait for the shinny Maybe I'll take its trip on a little train cuz I like the train If you want to see more of my stupid crap go down to twitch.tv slash Pat stares at Fucking pirate yaksa comes out tomorrow oh wow that was fast it sure is it's almost like they released them more than once a year I was almost huh when did eight come out or is it early fucking two months ago

months ago. Hold on, let me check it out. Infinite wealth release date was January of last year. So 10 and a half months later. Yeah, they actually, they turned it around in just about a year. Cool. Or sorry, no, 13 months later.

Yeah, so over on my end. So yeah, Reggie's off for the week. And with that, I'm taking the opportunity to have some shit to do. So no normal stream. So no normal stream, potentially something Friday, but I will post it up on my socials. So yeah, WoolyWools on Blue Sky and such, and Woolyversus on Twitter, and not Twitter, on YouTube and Twitch. Let's take a quick bathroom break.

I'm gonna do it. BRB. Alrighty. Yes, I forgot to mention on Sunday there is the Regime Royale City of the Wolves exhibition. I'm sorry? One commentator for the FGC jumps on a lot of SNK games is holding the Regime Royale, which is a City of the Wharves exhibition. Thank you. Excuse me. And a bunch of different creators and players and I believe I saw an EVO champ in there as well. So shits wild

there's gonna be some exhibition matches and Yeah, me and Reggie are scheduled to jump on and get some games there so fantastic Yeah, take a look there It'll be on Sunday. I don't know the full details as to when but that's going on and It'll be on Sunday. I don't know the full details as to when but that's going on and Potentially Friday I might jump on if I can figure out the schedule figure it out. We'll figure it out. Wait a second That's when I'm gonna try and jump on Yeah, go figure it out wow, yeah

So we'll take a look. It's not a tournament, by the way. I believe it's an exhibition with people playing each other. So just FYI. Cool. Yeah, shout outs to Rome. Good stuff. Shout outs to an open beta that is open to everybody

for the entire duration of the days that it's running. So that's wild, but at the same time, like the night rain thing was like I bet you anything They ran those three hour tests, and then they they turned some dials, and they're like was this Because that shit was fucked on day one Yeah, that is that is what a network stress test is supposed to do after all The thing that's most fun for the players would be least helpful for the devs. So, yeah. It sucks, but I get it.

I just think that what games should do is think about your first time touching it as give players more and then you can almost have a first thing where it's more about people are going to be experiencing this for the first time, first impressions matter, and then the more technical things can follow. Although admittedly in a network type situation you don't know what you're getting. If it's a botch the whole time and they have to shut the servers down for the entire first day anyway anyway then it ends up being a wash regardless. You know what man I think they did the right thing because the network test showed us that from software's biggest fucking weakness is

network connectivity and it still is. fucking fucking fix that shit a lot of drops that were not necessarily Salty drops you know Yeah Anyway, so we're gonna work it up a bit there I don't know if you saw what I was putting up with like yeah like you charge characters are fucking dead man. They're dead It's over. I totally agree with you that it fucking sucks Like one put a if ball-rog comes to Street Fighter 6 Fucking God is my witness. He must be charged

It's it's you know I mean the legacy characters like the new character showing up and not being charged is almost like to be expected Because that's that's fine. They're going Gile can't fucking quarter circle off sonic boom there. He's not allowed Yeah, now now buttons did point out and very very fair point counterpoint is that like in a game with Just defense guard canceling which is essentially you just you just defend and then immediately do a special move or In a move in a game with the rev system where you go from one special into another into another, not having the charge, right,

to cancel from one into the other puts that character at a disadvantage. Oh, absolutely, but when we talk about fighting games, we're obviously talking about Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter. Well, so the interesting thing is that like in terms of doing one charge move into another, there's like two ways to go about that, right? There's one that is like, well, think of,

well think of Balrog with the full on charge down forward, right? Or no, rather a charge down back and then keeping it. You're going, let me get down back and then keeping, you're going, let me get this right, because yeah, you played it, but you're going from down back to down forward. And then up to, down forward to up forward. Yeah, and then holding the down

and then going up for the headbutt afterwards, exactly. Yeah. So you're going, and that's such a unique, crazy, awesome thing. It's fun, it's fun to do. It's such a cool, specific thing where like, oh, you're doing a charge move from back to front, holding the down and then using it later.

It's like a unique, really interesting scenario to have that be possible. And then the other thing is, Blanka in six with his Ultra 2 and with his Level 2 and Ash Crimson in KOF both have these installs that let them just do no charge, back forward, up down, you know, whatever, down up, just go right into the input. And then it lets you string one into the other, you know. So I was like thinking like, I was like hypoth hypothetically if you just defend guard cancel and just go down up

You know or whatever the case and you don't need you don't have the charge because you didn't expect You weren't holding a charge when you did a perfect just defend there you can you know, you can potentially get away with having it be like, okay a chargeless scenario, but Whatever the case is, you know You know, yeah But whatever the case is, it's the type of thing that even if you're... It's weird because people that go like, I have a hard time with them, I don't get how to use them. I'm like, it's weird because they're easier to use. No, they're not.

You get the hang of doing charge inputs in a lot of cases faster than doing- That's not the issue. The issue isn't doing a charge motion in a vacuum. It's in the fight, right? It's how to mask it. It's how to use it unexpectedly. It's a different thing, right? But in terms of just getting the move out period, that initial thing is like a simpler basic input. So someone in the chat says, Zawa Emma says they require too much forethought. And that's basically the thing. Because when those people are learning, they're just putting, they're smashing buttons.

Learning to use it in the fight. Yeah, learning to use it in the fight. Exactly. Learning to like to calm down and be patient and hold is antithetical to like if you're just learning to just press buttons right away. sure totally totally get that but um No, I think that it does elicit like a different fun unique style of play that you know You don't if everything just I love charge care motion over over the years then like yeah a lot of a lot of emergent Kind of design elements to these characters wouldn't be the same you know so yeah I hope that we just we don't see them going fully fucking extinct. But anyway, um,

Guile will live on. And if Balrog ever comes back, he will he will have his shit. When a legacy character gets changed into motion, it hurts a bit more than a new character just all is is and here's where his car came from Gero. Is he a legacy character? He's fucking been in one game Yeah, that counts man that counts. Yes. Yes, absolutely If you existed then that's it, you know, like yeah I

Never in my life thought I would see Kane ever again in anything. I Think I thought he would show I thought that like if Grow wasn't happening that he'd show up in KOF. I felt like those characters would show up eventually in that line. Pianoing being gone makes sense. That you just don't need. I get it. And this is someone who learned how to piano. Mashing input things absolutely

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of them Well, how about this when you When you are Trying to dethrone Overwatch, that's right. You've gotta learn how to think like Overwatch. That's right. You've gotta become the Overwatch. Fuck yeah.

And to become the Overwatch, you have to master the art of the sandwich. Oh, what's that? The Blizzard. What sandwich is that? The Blizzard sandwich. Oh yeah. Mm-hmm What if we hit you with a little bit of? human torch

Yeah massive layoffs What and the thing? Oh, I like the thing. Oh, he's got a big punch and a big sandwich All together. It's almost like I didn't notice the filling what okay, so the massive layoff started. It is like seven people it's like the Seattle team that was like to help out the entire the entire US support team in the US support team and like nor you know You know hey, this is Chinese game. This is China. You know they were there this is a Chinese game.

This is China, you know, they're out in China. Like, what do they need Americans for? I mean, they're only working on Marvel Comics properties. I apologize, I didn't know that it was seven people total. I thought it was a much larger studio. Okay, that being said, okay, so I apologize for the use of the word massive That was an incorrect state a word to use Sometimes sevens really massive dude come on

So yeah, this was a bit confusing initially because the first reports were Marvel rivals director laid off and yeah And it was like what is going on here? And then it was like, oh, okay, it's the US team. And there was confusion and none of the people knew what was happening or why. And so further clarification, it seems as if basically they had a research and development and level design team in the US and NetEase seems to just be pulling out of America and just go and basically being like, I guess the plan is to do everything in China going in future

except for community management. I mean, that makes sense, honestly, genuinely. But they did totally time it right between the two fucking reveals, didn't they? So the weirdness of it being the director into not the director I support US team is that's certainly not the same story. It is dogshit to announce that randomly or to not announce it for the people themselves to discover it and publish that and post that in the middle of the day where you're announcing the latest patch updates and the two character trailers. That reads as a very clear, let's bury the story

or bury the news by just putting this shit out there. You see the thing? He's got pants. And that's horse shit, right? Small team, large team, support team, not team. Like that's just, don't do that shit. That feels fucking bad. That sucks.

Why do that? Super lame. And I would also say too that like, the game is an insanely successful hit. It is crushing it. Yeah, so I think the lead on this is, hey, you know what, we did a really bad job on Concord. You're fired!

Oh, okay. But you told me to do that. Waaah, suck it. Hey, we did a really good job helping out with Marvel Rivals. Hey, you're fired, but we did a good job. You're fucking fired. It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter. Doing a good job doesn't matter, yeah. I've also seen, and then some discourse is like, well, the research and development phase is done. They don't need them. It's like, that's not the way that works. It's an ongoing. No, well, that's what I'm saying is

like that is a dishonest thing.. It's an ongoing, no, well that's what I'm saying, is like that is a dishonest thing. Like it is an ongoing live service game. There will always be new content coming. There will always be new modes. Like these games more than any other genre constantly have new types of content and new things going on with them. The ongoing need for that could support a team of people

that are in charge of working on those things. Americans like girls with big butts. We figured it out. Yeah. So fire them. We don't need them anymore. You know, so so before like like in as much as it it is not that initial story that was confusing about the way it was reported. We don't need anyone dive again going stay away from the corporation Don't oh man who you want to defend fucking one of the largest Chinese gaming companies in the world They're so dizzy to dive in front of the fucking net ease. But listen listen China and Mickey Mouse off are they've got this you it's good man. Don't worry about it Don't you dare attack my corporation?

Back off I'll cut you Yeah, no um You know it just it's just why why sandwich that shit on the same day man come on. Oh guys. I mean You go to fucking Marvel rivalsivals channel and they're talking about the Thing and the Human Torch breakdown. And that's the thing that'll get more views. Yeah. No. Guan Guan is going into the details on the character. And you know what? You see that Thing costume and he's wearing the suit and he's got the hat on and it's like I look so cool and he said I love the thing and he says it's clobber in time if that character did not say it's clobbering time and

Johnny didn't say flame on that would be the most fucking ridiculous fucking miss. You know what? You know have been really great if they're like we don't need the American R&D team anymore. And then the thing came out and he said, it's time to smash. And you're like, oh my God. The smashing begins now. Oh, Jesus Christ. Holy fuck. Yeah.

Yeah. See, here's one of these times though where I am curious because like, so being online, being, you know, getting cutting edge industry news and updates and such, it feels, I'm like, oh, this feels like you've poured water on whatever you're announcing because you've done the stupid Blizzard sandwich thing,

right, and everybody hates that shit and it adds a bad, you lose a good will that people have been enjoying with the game by doing this shit. Oh no. My brain just auto-completed the stupidest series of thoughts possible because I just remember when Blizzard announced that you are gay. Do you remember that? What was it again? You the player, you the player. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And then I, my, my brain just fired up this fucking random skeet from like weeks ago. That was the phrase I became Chinese in prison What is that? It's what a Yakuza villain would say okay? It's what it is and then I'm just like hey guys the lunar festival is almost over, but don't worry you were Chinese all along Don't worry about it

Secretly revealed you didn't know it. Yup. You were secretly, you secretly were. Oh, that's right! Shenmue! Years ago I was Chinese. Yeah, I remember that. That's a real quote. That's real. Shenmue... I don't even remember. What a pile of fucking shit that game is. That's real. Shenmue... I don't even remember.

What a pile of fucking shit that game is. Oh my god. I'm glad we got 25 Yakuza games instead. Um, what was I even... I was in the middle of saying? I was saying something. Anyway. Wait, did that happen? Oh, no. Um...

That did happen! That did happen! Oh No, um, yeah Anyway, don't worry about it what? Day there it did happen that characters became Chinese in prison Okay, gotcha, okay understood No, I was just gonna say that like I Feel like sometimes because of like the way we get information. It's hard to Step back zoom out and see like what it the act the feeling is at large And so a game this this big like there's no way that like this type of story or news

Or whatever would ever like be more than a flicker of a dent of any so ever in the larger announcement of like the big new content update but it does certainly feel like at least from the the weird front-facing from the weird front-facing industry bubble that we are in that a lot of people are like, well that fucking sucks, Neddies, right? That's a bad feeling thing to associate with this new update.

Absolutely. And it's just like, does that fall off happen, does that end like five minutes after? Oh, wooly, most people aren't even gonna get this news Yeah, I guess so the people listening to this are hyper enthusiasts So that that's that's all I wonder is just like I'm like Oh is the the people that are kind of all sort of being like yeah that felt shitty is that just even? Care no no video game now of course they don't I. I'm just saying that when Blizzard does this shit,

then it's like, the level that they fuck up at, you torpedo goodwill. Well, the difference is is that Blizzard will stop that goodwill over decades. Netis doesn't have the same cultural cachet. And on top of this, after all of that, there's an intermediate little general zeitgeist within type of people who look at this news, which is like, hey, you should join a

union, which is then followed up by so that the company can leave your country forever like Amazon. Burn it all down. Shut it all down. Yeah. I mean, what there were I did see the the Montreal Amazon workers protesting and doing doing their thing like couple days ago. So that is cool. But like, boy, is that an instantaneous like, press the button to fold an entire company into a box and have it prime delivered back to America. So the trick is is that if we want to get unions working for Amazon in Canada, it's up to our American brothers and sisters down south for y'all Amazon workers to start a

union. Go for it boys! We're right behind you! Good luck. Yeah. Anyway, so there's a little bit of that going on. You know, there are theories of course, that perhaps some of that R&D that was just laid off, you know, well maybe you can pick up the Slack with Microsoft's Muse Generative AI model that's capable of creating gameplay ideation videos that was just announced.

And then the video got delisted I think and then part of it was hey did you watch these videos the people talking about it I could not handle so no but I watched okay so I watched some of the I watched the gameplay ones yeah I watched the gameplay ones I'm talking can I just reiterate my earlier statement from social media which is hey let's put all ethical and practical considerations aside, yo, this stuff looks like shit, bro! It looks pretty bad. Who the fuck is this for?

This looks like garbage! So the idea is basically that it is trained on a, what is it? Trained on,, what is it? Trained on, what was the game here? Let me pull it up. It's, it's the one. Kill, what was the game? Ninja Theory's.

Bleeding Edge. Bleeding Edge. There we go. Ninja Theory's... Bleeding Edge. Bleeding Edge. There we go. Bleeding Edge by Ninja Theory. And yeah, so basically you feed in a little bit of gameplay and then it goes on to sort of generate what it predicts would be more gameplay. So if you were, you know, trying to not level design

So if you were trying to not level design and not come up with gameplay ideas, it could just throw a couple out there. Hey man, the real purpose of this man is for game preservation. So that you can be like, hey, I would like to play a toki and it will give you what your friends description through Google translate of what a togi might look like that has horrible input delay and is constantly visually shifting in a fucking nightmare form. I have watched multiple people on YouTube go into this gameplay AI shit and they all suffer from the same problem Have you noticed these clips are always really short? Like really short

Well, they're generated right it's because they they completely fail integrity after like a minute they completely slop out after like literally 60 seconds. And then you know, you wait a little bit of time and then they throw more into it and crank the juice up and you know, and it goes on and on. But the overall thing is like, okay, so I guess it's to not have level designers and. It is to appease shareholders who want to see something with GenApp.

It has no realistic reality function for anyone ever. Take a screenshot and then turn it into the equivalent of a vertical slice. Without being a vertical slice, it's a vertical bite. This is a fucking investment scam. This has absolutely no value in any context whatsoever. Well, this will never be used. Well, thank you Microsoft Research Blog. Good stuff. Can I point out that this is so ethically

and creatively bankrupt that not even the name is unique? Unity's gen AI pile of shit is called Unity Muse. How about that? I didn't know. It's literally not even the first gen-eye muse. Well, they stole even the name. Like, come on. It just, the flavor is extra strong with this with this set with layoffs and and such going Rampant, but hey, there you go

I I This is so Microsoft so fucking cooked man like this. This is like a fucking death fucking rattle Speaking of cooked. Yeah. Headline Funko Fusion is deemed a complete commercial and critical failure. Is the part where I look up what Funko Fusion is. That would be the Funko Pop game that came out last year. What the fuck is this?

Yeah, exactly. Precisely. Right. Now, now here's the thing. Um, you know me, I keep a bottle of champagne ready to pop every time a story like this happens. And it just it just you know, it's a little bit of like, okay, good, good. Let's start correcting, right? Let's start, let nature start healing again. However, this story is also hand in hand delivered with,

and thus the studio that made it laid off 20 people that worked on the game. Which obviously fucking sucks, and it's kind of like How about firing the execs involved in the dogshit idea of a project instead of the people that got assigned to just working on it? No man, shit rolls downhill. You know? How about the people who thought this idea

was worth executing on fucking just just what he yeah shit rolls downhill it doesn't work like that yeah the people who made the bad decision are also in charge of the firing well hey you should form a fucking union anyway Just just you know as Said exec is boxing their things up just to give them a Funko of themselves. Yeah In memory, I'm just thinking of a Funko pop burning and effigy. Oh How funny that is in my own mind.

And then there's piss inside. Do you even know that story? No, I just know you keep talking about Funko Pops full of piss and now that's the default contents of a Funko Pop to me. Well, what do you think is in that story? What do you think pieces of that story contain? Okay, nowadays when something comes up and I have no idea what's going on, I assume it's happening on TikTok. No, this is a page story. Okay. This is a real life story from my wife and Funko Pops and piss. Okay, so because I assume usually that's the case and that if this is happening in real life.

Real life! Okay, well it can't be like I was like okay maybe like some weird shit from years ago in childhood, but no because Funko Pops are from adulthood. No, that's to be relatively recent. Yeah, Funko Pops are from adulthood. That has to be relatively recent. Yeah, Funko Pops are from adulthood, so it can't be that far back. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh.

Uh, hopefully, was it the dog? Did the dog? No! Oh, brother, no. So I don't even remember all the details. It's the head, though. The big head is where it's stored. The long and't even remember all the details. It's the head though. The big head.

The long and short of it is the page. You know you end up in somebody's house and it's a friend of a friend and on the way to and from the bathroom you discover that there is a line of Funko Pops that reek with ten feet piss smell. And you're like what the fuck is going on here, and you run away

Okay, okay They're in the splash zone. Yeah, no no they're not in the bathroom. They're in there. They're elsewhere. They're on the Funko pop piss shelf oh They're just in the bathroom. They're in there. They're elsewhere. They're on the Funko pop piss shelf. Oh They're just getting wafted No, that's what they're for You know what you go ahead and ask her to tell you the full story because I don't remember it very vividly because I wasn't there Okay, somebody in the chat remembers page went to someone's house their house smelled funny room full of Funkos whole room smells of human piss page bails

Okay, okay, okay? I thought you're I thought it was that they were lined up in the splash zone No, no sir the splash zone was the bedroom Funkos were the targets And so ever since then, I'm just like, Funkos are just filled with piss. Right, right, yes. Well, you know, that's why the game didn't stand a chance. That's why, because everyone remembered that story and they're like, wow, those little pistols. Cause I'm like, I'm thinking about the fluid dynamics

of how a head could store some inside. Are those heads empty? Hollow enough, yes, that's what I'm assuming, right? That there's like enough room to, you know. Oh my God, okay dude, I am at the Funko Piss Power Oh my god. OK, dude, I am at the Funko Piss Power Steam page. And I did not know that this feature on Steam exists. There are positive reviews on this game.

And I did not know that developers could respond to individual reviews on the Steam store page. There are multiple pause. Oh my god. There's so many develop. There's a developer response Okay, every single one of these top reviews Let's find out buggy game crashes it is horrible. Thank you for leaving a review We really appreciate you taking the time since your review We have made a bunch of updates to improve gameplay and performance,

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That is, ooh. Okay. So, when you go to the Netherlands, if you ever go to Amsterdam, when you fly over there, they give you a little collectible model house. Is that to piss on? The model house has a little bit of booze in it? Oh, yeah, right? It's a little it's a little house-shaped booze bottle as a collectible thing you know

That's what I'm in bad You can fill that bottle with I'm imagining something constructed in the same way with a similar delivery system Yeah, you know and the head and you can just you swirl it around and you hear the Inside and you're just like and then as you see but then after the first couple shakes it stops swirling Because it froths up. Yeah, and it gets a little bubbly so you can't shake it as much yeah that's when the smell is that it's richest Oh

Fermentation oh yeah, Funko Funko fermentation is Jesus Christ Stuff hey, that's my advice for the day is dad don't piss on things This is a toilet. Mm-hmm. That's that that's a good Yeah, that's a good advice for everybody. Oh, I mean like or on the Funko pops like quite. Yeah, sure Whatever I can't stop if a fuck and I'm Funko pop was outside. I piss on it. I'll tell I'll be honest Please look forward to the limited edition jankum fucko pops That's good, that's good. Um, mmm everyone's a fan of something All right, look

Hollow Knight got delisted on the, Silksong got delisted on the USC shop on Nintendo and it's still up in the other places but- It got put back. Did it? Okay, well then it's not a story. Well you know what, they were changing it to add Switch 2 to its thing. I thought it was a, it's coming down to go back up. No, it was really funny though.

What happened? It was like, give me a fucking break. All right. Well, then nothing and never mind. Cool new games. Check out this game called class 07. Oh, you said you got set that too, huh? Yeah, I just saw the footage of it.

So it's up on Steam. It just looks like a really cool cell shaded high school thing. And you're a student kicking lawn chairs and benches around off of walls and it's ricocheting at people. Shit looks rad. They put up a fucking, they put up a blue skeet

of that girl using a fucking plastic virtual chair to take people out. Animation looks cool, style is good. Just the high school beat-em-up brawler bit and physics takedowns, good animation. This is about as wooly-olly coded as anything has ever been. Oh yeah, I'm all about that. So, you know, add to your wishlist. That's the thing that's happening. Looks cool.

Looks cool. And another and similar in terms of like cell shaded, cell shaded action game as well. So this is more so in the vein of a Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm like. There's a game called The Hidden Ones that is just put out some footage and looks really nice. It's definitely got that, you're seeing the CyberConnect Naruto game style influence in the camera movement, when the gameplay starts. Every time you go into a super and it just becomes like fully detailed anime cutscenes and shit like that. camera movement when the gameplay starts. Every time you go into a super and it just becomes like

fully detailed anime cutscenes and shit like that. Yeah, people that played a lot of Naruto are making their arena fighter that overall visually, definitely, definitely notably impressive. But does it play? Like Naruto? Probably. Good, though.

You know, if it plays like an arena fighter, then it plays like an arena fighter. But I'd like to call attention to it because it looks really fucking visually impressive, I find. It does look pretty cool. Yeah. That's called the hidden ones. And yeah, I mean, you know, that's pretty much the deal. You know, the only other thing is just if anybody wants to pick up the Canadian GameStop franchise

or France GameStop franchise is you can purchase them. Yeah, you can. They're now for sale. Yeah? Who thinks it's going to be stupid enough to buy that shit? It says, uh, uh, uh, comes included with wokeness and DEI. Is that true? Is that true?

Yeah. Yeah. Comes included, apparently. So, oh boy. The Canadian and French operations of GameStop Corp are for sale. And according to CEO Ryan Cohen, comes with high taxes, liberalism, socialism, progesterism with this.

Oh, are you fucking serious? DEI included at no additional cost if you buy today. Hey, how about this? How about the fact that every time I've gone to an EB Games or GameStop in literally the past 10 years, it has been the worst shopping experience for that entire year. But that doesn't, but you see that you're applying a thing that doesn't even matter because this is the fucking idiot that bought it during the, for the meme with the squeeze bid.

This is the guy that got it in like the last two or three years for the whole GME bid. So it's like, it's just been whatever. It's been a history of stupid shit. It's not like this is anything notable but I can't believe this company has not gone straight up bankrupt yet the memes dude I can't I can't believe it this the big squeeze into the the huge short against all the the corporations that there were the edge and against it and then means And and and To fucking go full circle a wall of Funko pops

in a brick-and-mortar store They can like a game nah man by these figurines alright I'm getting the fuck out of here and going to fucking Best Buy like the zerg creep You know a wall of Funko showing up in your brick and mortar is A fucking kiss of death. That's what it is and the more they take over. It's like. Oh, it's taking over two walls Oh, man, it grows shit is done It grows Anyway is done. It grows. Um anyway. Alrighty. Uh let's take some

letters. Hey, if you wanna send in a letter, send it to Castle Super Beast Mail at Gmail dot com. That's Castle Super Beast Mail at Gmail dot com. Please send in good emails. So, before you hit send, reread your email and ask is this shit Like actually maybe

All right, let's see here Hey Pooley and Dooley There's some criticisms about night rain from the network test saying it's a cash grab mod made by FromSoftware and it doesn't deserve to be 40 bucks. I find it interesting since mods have become so robust they're the equivalent of having Scholar of the First Sin overhaul on each PC Soulsborne game. Additionally, some mods turn it into a different game. What are your thoughts on this criticism? I think the amount of game you're getting

from FromSoft in each one of their releases is absurd. And to call anything you're doing a cash grab is like they're well within their rights to make more money on the franchise they've built with the amount of insane fucking, the sheer volume of the gameplay you've been getting. I think I Think and it's a reduced price at that I think one of the most ridiculous sentiments that you can encounter for like a wide variety of situations in life is I don't think this is worth the money This looks really easy

Okay, so do it then well Well, I want you to do it though. Like, hey listen, if mods for from software games are so robust and so feature rich that you feel that Night Rain is not a good value, then fucking don't buy it. The only time that this anger comes in when you're like, oh, I actually want the stuff in night rain, but I do. Even at reduced price at that.

And look, you know, in terms of like also Rainbow Edition and all that shit back in the day in Street Fighter 2 getting incorporated into ST eventually. Like, I think overall, these are good things to have them officially like acknowledge and like work into the actual IP. But yeah, Elden Ring and FromSoft is one of those things where you're getting so much more bang for your buck with all the shit they make that I'm absolutely happy to support what this is for its limited scope if it is But the idea is that this is also something that could go on For super long with tons and tons of content over time regardless anyway

Literally like chill it's 40 bucks. I cannot possibly imagine looking at Elden Ring and going I Can't believe, it's the largest fucking games ever made. It is a shitty entitled take. That's a dogshit take. Fuck that. Let's take one over here from Rad who says, hey, Willie and Pat, I was catching up on the podcast a couple weeks ago and you were talking about how all the directors have left platinum

Uh and the company's a shell of its former self with that in mind Does the plot to baio 3 seem better in a weird shit way now like there was a vibe foreshadowing its structure No, no, no No, no, it was dog shit and that's it. No, no bad was bad. No Dude, you know what? They made it bad on purpose because and that's it. No, it was bad. No, bad was bad. No. Dude, you know what? They made it bad on purpose because they were gonna quit. No, they fucking didn't.

I'm taking Jaune with me, god damn it. No one can have her. That's insane. That's completely stupid. Furthermore, we've seen other franchises where the brains get handed off to someone else and they can still do a great job with it Kamiya did not make devil may cry after one The shit we love the most didn't come from the first you know, like yeah you don't like that's dumb

I disagree completely it is not it is still it is still bad So bad it's so fucking bad it sours me on that game so fucking bad Also that game came out unfinished. They changed the way violas gameplay worked in a patch to work Like I well I just I'm just thinking about how like the the job bit was like such an explosive what the fuck but then like What followed immediately after?

Like you like you didn't feel angry enough You know you didn't like that you only had half of the context of that moment You know and and seeing why it was necessary to just completely of make so I saw people talking about this And I don't know how I don't know how legitimate it is But I saw folks talking about how Bayo 3 was supposed to let you pick any world in any order Which is why they all have entirely self-contained storylines, but then they just decided to make it linear near the end of development, which makes the story just fucking play like shit.

Okay, okay. I thought you were gonna talk about I thought it was the the the conspiracy that Bayo 3 is is a legacy of Shinzo Abe product. That's all about that's all about Reversing the birthing crisis and that's why But then Bayo showed up with the doohickey That's what I mean. But then Bayo showed up with the doohickey. And that's why, you know, yeah. You have to fix the birthing crisis. That's the conspiracy. see um

I can't handle I cannot handle the doohickey. It's I can't Is the hit is the least serious thing that has ever been. You're just losing it. You're scaring me. Holy shit. You fucking fucked my fucking microphone. I can't hear my cell anymore. I'm that's the first time I've heard that word That's really good. All right. Okay. All right. All right. We got this.

We got this. All right. We got this. We got this. Alright. Oh my god. Okay, we got it. Alright, we got it. No, no, come on, come on, come on. We got another email in there. We got another email in there. Oh, come on. Come on, you can do it.

You can push past the thingamabob. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. We got another email in there. Oh, come on. Come on, you can do it. You can push past the thing of a bob. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Oh shit, okay, come on. See, cause you keep laughing and that keeps cracking me up I just I just I've never heard that word before that's insane That's insane. Why would you use that word? That's so insane that's fucked up

Insane that's fucked up I Okay, all right. Yeah, we're good Okay It's the end! Fuck off! Every time you... Alright. Okay. Okay. Quick, uh... Hello, Doped Pat. And Enhanced Woolly. Yeah, what's up? Big updates in regards to the enhanced games.

Yeah, what up? A.K.A. the steroid Olympics, the dark Olympics. Oh, the thing that's never gonna happen because that would make me happy? All right. So the dark Olympics is what Willie called it back in 2023. So it seems to be going forward. All right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Letting athletes take as many performance enhancing drugs as they want to see what happens is a classic dumb idea that you hear from your friends when you're drunk. However, over the years, the amount of funding and people interested in turning this event into a reality has been increasing dramatically. Last year, the enhanced games received a multi-million dollar investment from various parties and so there's a full press release afterwards here talking about how they're trying to make this happen by having athletes that will rank

get rank-based prize money for competing. And they will also be giving million dollar bonuses to athletes who can break records, world records. Yeah, OK, OK. While doing this. And yeah, and so far, the only athlete that has on board is an Australian Olympic swimmer. Yeah. But, yeah, there's tons of quotes and it looks like it might be happening or at the very least there's renewed interest and money pushing forward. I want I want everyone, every single competitor to look like

Maximum Flex Pickle from fucking Grappler Backy. Grappler Backy characters is just just just guys and girls that look like they're about to burst like balloons. And then I want one of them to burst like a balloon like it's scanners. Okay, okay. Just a bunch of Abigail's on the starting deck. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, I gotcha. So early 2026 is what they're hoping to be able to announce a host city at the very least, but yeah. Keep an eye out for the dark. What city is gonna host this bullshit? The Dark Olympus. Fucking cool city, that's who. I mean, shit, man.

You throw money on that shit. I could see that happening in the sphere in Vegas. I could see that happening on fucking asteroid M I could certainly see that happening in Saudi Arabia I could I could see that happening yeah why not Detroit why not yeah yeah Detroit doesn't give a fuck anyway yeah all right. More Dark Olympics updates. We'll keep an eye out.

Hell yeah, brother. We'll keep an eye out as we get closer to the fucking, the Abigail run. Oh man. Just that Yoshi's Island commercial, you know Which one's that? Oh with the with the eating the feeding guy. Oh, right. Oh, I hated that thing yeah, I know and nobody liked it actually because like I Mean I like because even if you're like one of those weirdos. That's like, oh, yeah, or it's like, okay But nobody actually wants the person to hey, that's our audience. yeah, Vore. It's like, okay, but nobody actually wants the person to explode. Hey, that's our audience you're talking about.

Hey, calm down. Yeah, but the actual exploding traumatized everybody, man. That shit fucked everybody up. It was like, Nintendo, you could've just said Yoshi's Island, you know, we didn't need that. There's a famous tweet that goes around that's like, video game ads in the fucking 90s were the worst thing ever.

It would just be a full page ad of guys screaming at you going are you fucking stupid? And it would be the logo for Yoshi's Island in the corner. I Mean there's an exact font of like though with like the old nest ads. It was like white page Giant like text with like a single image and maybe a kid in a fish eye lens staring at you You know calling you an arse lure Yeah, like what are you like? It was just like Jesus Christ. Yeah, play Yoshi's Island. It's a good game Calm the fuck down guys All right, I gotta go. Alright, have a good night everybody.