Castle Super Beast - Csb347 Hungry Sphincter Press Do Not Redeem

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

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Yo, yo. Hey, man. How you doing? All right, all right. Do you have... My arm hurts, and I'm being really brave. Yeah? Why is that?

I got my flu and COVID shot yesterday. Oh. And my arm hurts like a motherfucker. You're really so brave. Like, I'm walking around, like, hanging it loose. Like, I'm not swinging it. I'm dead arming it as much as I possibly can. My arm hurts from like the football carry and seated feed position that I've been.

Really? Yeah. You're a big tough guy. I figured that would just like. Yeah, but sometimes like, okay, so sometimes she, she takes a while. And so I'm like holding her up for like a long time. And my arm is like, okay. Yeah.

You're, you know, you've been flexing with support and good back and neck support. add more leaning into it. Like you're getting it like a real lazy position. So you need your stomach. We got we got pillows and cushions and stuff all you know set up so that like the the feeding area is you know comfortable because yeah. At first

you're like yeah sure this is this is no problem but then after a while especially you know the sleepy late night feeds where babies kind of like take an extra time with it means that arm is getting extra sore. So Um, she's, she's flexing now. She's holding her head up on tummy time and like, doing this.

Oh, that's a good one. And doing the whole like barrel roll, you know. And it's like a minute ago, you were dying trying to pick your forehead off the surface. And now you're like holding it up doing full all rolls. Yeah. No, it's crazy. I remember, I remember like one of the. scariest moments I had as a new dad was when little man was like tiny little baby,

like your tiny baby is, and he rolled over. And I'm like, yeah. But then he like went bonk. Because he roll, his head was up. And then he rolled over in such a way that his head bonged. I'm like, oh no, oh no, you got to be a doctor. And then he was fine. He's like, it's not a big deal. Babies, babies are soft. They're fine. It's so funny, though, like, because you could just like, you can just see how instinct works. And it's so unfair because there's some shit that like, we as human beings cannot stop the programming. And one of them is when you put a baby's head to your body or to a surface that's kind of like skin, they just start looking for milk. And they can't help it.

And it's like even if she's not hungry, even if she's not interested, even if it's like dead asleep, there's just this like instinctual like, food. Yeah, they're rooting. And it's like, it's thought it's not. what she wants when she's trying to go to sleep. And as dad, as dad, you have to be like, you have to be careful because I spent like an enormous amount of time with my shirt off when my dude was like one under one years old. And this led to mishaps. Confusions.

This led to, yeah, confusions. Yes. Which I like, the important thing is to not scream like a little baby and go, ah, just like, just, okay, no, that's no. No. It's a friendly fire here. Yeah. I've just, no. I've been doing the, the pry, the rotate. So it's like, no, no, no. Like your head is facing outward now. Stop that. You know, just fight that instinct. It's, it's, it's, it's deeply, deeply embedded in there. Yeah. Um, oh, my little dude had a new milestone today, which is great. So almost every time page takes a shower, she drops something in the shower, like shampoo bottle or something. And it always makes. It's like, you know, when you drop something in a shower, it's like a million times louder than any noise that's ever been in your house? Yep.

So we heard that. And he looks up where the shower is. He goes, are you okay, mommy? And I'm like, oh, that's so sweet. And when she got out of the shower, is that, is Mommy okay? Did Mommy fall down? She's like, no, it's fine. It's fine.

I'm like, oh, that's so pro-social. Aw, this is good stuff. So when it comes to loud noises Punch Mom is... But Punch Mom is just a jumpy. She's just a jumpy person in general. Oh, like me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm jumpy as hell. It's like, I'm like, everything is sneaking up on you, no matter how slow it approaches and no matter how far in advance, it telegraphs that it's coming. It's just that, you know, this... I am approaching from down the road and then I get there again. Right, so... If I'm in the shower, Paige and I have been trying this over like a decade plus,

there's no way to interact with me in the shower. hour without scaring me. Yeah. There's no way. Exactly. If you call my phone or text me or knock on the door or hey, like, nope, I'm jumping right into the ceiling. So, um, that windows noises, ignore that. Anyway, don't worry. I didn't hear that at all. Not even me. Um, so baby has inherited mom's jumpiness and is definitely just, it's weird because there are times where, because we've been pretty loud and out, you know, with noises and stuff that she's been able to sleep through. But, um, there's been just things that startle, like sneezes 100% of the time are going to get a startled. Just like, what's, what was that what's going on? A cough. Things like that. And, but like sometimes it's as

random as like a stair creaking, you know, just like anything. And like, and if I kind of lead in with a sneeze, if I go, uh, it's fine. But the sudden plosive, you know, just like, anything. And then like, and if I kind of lead in with a sneeze, if I go, Achoo, it's fine. But the sudden plosive one is just a little, and I'm just noticing things that are like, she's kind of a jump,

she's kind of a bit jumpy, you know? And I'm like, that's all mom. Time. Yeah. Oh, I thought you were to see.

You got a loud up your house also. Okay. I don't have to get out the chainsaw and hockey mask and just start, like, desensitizing. So like Paige and I just drop shit just constantly. Just all the time. We're clumsy.

So, like, at a certain point, he just like, oh, no, it fell down. You know, like, no, startle. Just like, oh, no, it fell down. Hmm. Yeah. It's just, it's funny, too, because it's full on emoji cartoonish reactions. So she'll be sitting there and the bouncer just chilling. And then, like, noise, whatever, fridge, beep.

And then red panda, like, both hands go flying up. Eyes are open. Like, whatever. it's happening is the world ending. Yeah. So, um, anyway,

that's going on. That's good stuff, man. That's like, good, good chest feeling, just like, oh,

baby stuff. Uh, okay. Do you have any guesses? Do you have any, any darts to throw as to the price of steam machines? Oh, absolutely.

I do. Are we getting out of here? Under $1,000 Canadian. This week is going to be all over the place if we're starting here, but that's fine. I'm good for it. Okay. So, Steve, we're doing C-A-D, or we're doing... I do, C-A-D.

I do not think we are getting out alive under $1,000 Canadian. Okay. I do not think it's happening. I'm going to just, I'm going to do this USDA, just for our audience. Sure. So the Xbox Series X in C-A-D, whatever, in USD, what is that? in usd the xbox series s so that's the canadian uh what is it 600 bucks what's the ps5 right now PS5's like what's five something five something okay so this thing's a full-on PC um it's people are calling it

a PC and it has its own operating system. I am expecting 799 USD. 800. 800 American. Which would be what would that be? That would that be 1.4. So that be 1.4

4 times 800. I'm expecting $1,100. CAD. Yeah, call it 12. That's... Because it's an entry level PC more than it's a console.

Yeah. So the original Steam controller, MSRP was 50 bucks US. I didn't have haptic touch pads, though. No, no, no, and certainly not. And again, it felt immensely cheaper than the Steam deck quality parts that were that would get off of this new one. Yeah, man, I think that's going to be, that's going to be a fucking, it's going to be a stretch. I think it's not a stretch for the people that are going to buy it. And obviously that's always the case. But you have to remember, this isn't the world that exists in which Microsoft has come out and said,

the next Xbox is going to be a premium ultra-powerful device. And it's like that thing is going to cost $1,200. The thing is that it's what's going to be tricky. I think for people is you can pony up them. You can kind of get to the point where you're like, I will buy this as if I'm replacing my PC, right? But you're not, unfortunately. Like, it is a gaming device.

It's a gaming machine. It's not for, you know what I mean? Like, I'm sure you can side load things, but it's, but it is like a Steam deck in the sense that it's primarily a gaming device. And like, the stuff that, like, you can, I'm browsing, I'm sure, everything and all that. But I feel like just like if it would be easier to like be like I'll just

get this instead of getting new PC parts or upgrading whatever my laptop that I've had for a minute or whatever the case is. Um, you know, but now because it's kind of like a side specific thing, you know, I think that's like that's going to be a bit harder. But so I have, I've run Windows on steam deck. Um, okay. And the, the proton on on steam deck. And um, the reason running Steam Deck Windows is not super great is because it's a weird piece of kit. Right? It's a weird thing. This

will be able to function as a reasonable personal computer for normal tasks. Right? But you're right. It is a it is a it is a

it is a what do you call it? primarily gaming device. Yeah. The difference here. And this is the big part. This is the part where the price stuff factors in versus like an Xbox or PlayStation, anybody who regularly plays games, whether or not they regularly play games on PC or not,

has a big motherfucking Steam library. Like, everybody has a big Steam library. Now, what you consider to be a big Steam library can run the difference between, oh, I don't know, like 50 indie games that I picked up on sale to what you have. I's fucking steam library looks like where I'm crushing it like 1600 or whatever the fuck

right yeah it has the largest library of anything that will ever exist um and it has no monthly or yearly cost for online services which knocks a significant amount of the like the way PS5 and Nintendo and Xbox have has have presented their consoles with paying for online is like financing a fucking car because you're doing your 50% down payment on your PS5. But if you plan on playing that online for six years, you're going to pay a PS5's worth of online fees over the course of that time. Yeah, no, the nice thing about something Steam related is that unlike consoles with attachment rates and such, here, it's all baked in because it's an existing library that you already have. Um, I'm, I'm, I'm,

curious for to see if like, because I'm, you know, if you can sign, if you can load windows off, up on your, your steam deck and you can load it up on your steam machine and such. Um, is it going to be like, you know, is, is it going to be like, quote unquote conditional like windows or is going to be like, everything's pretty much straightforward. There's no issues. You know, no driver problems. No, like, is it going to be any, are there, would there be any issues with getting into the nitty when you start installing things and using it regularly beyond anything besides simple, you know, service level use? I mean, is it. I mean, there will probably be some issues, but I got to be honest,

Willie, I use Windows 11 and I have fucking issues with that OS. Of course. Of course. By default, this is true. This is, this is true. And more importantly than that, in terms of like a dedicated like PC space or whatever, um, the Xbox,

all the all the Xbox PC things that have come out like primarily handhelds have all been just bloated with so much fucking dog shit that they fail to function on like core values. use. Like, I would like to play Halo on the Xbox handheld. Oh, hold on. Let me uninstall Teams. Like, absurdity. Right. Ultimately, I think if, um, yeah, I mean, if, you know, like things, people aren't going to need, like, for the most part, your desktop usage is, is for a lot of people. If you, if you can do what your iPad's doing, then you're more or less fine here. Um, what I am curious to see is, this is a, this is a,

Steam confidence test here, but it's like, is there actually still appetite for VR? Is this really something that the market is curious about after all this time? So there's a lot going on with the Steam frame it's called. There is probably some appetite for VR that is conditional. And I mean highly, highly conditional. and every attempt at VR has taken the shot at removing one of those conditions. The last condition to remove will be affordability. That will be dead last to improve on because VR headsets are super expensive, right?

But like the number, like, let's roll down the list. Wires. Wires. Space. Yeah. Migraine creation. Weight. wait

free and open store like the quest and making you do all that Facebook shit like killed not the quest the Oculus fuck that thing

headphones external or versus needing to plug in separate headphones and then storage as well was a big one because the original VR had sets

that needed you to still plug it into the PC or an external place to get your games running was dog shit compared to just having it internal to the thing. So the closer we...

Sorry, I have to have to you. No, no. I was just going to say that like, I have no doubt in my mind that the, the people can, the, the hypothetical, perfect super light goggles that you just pull on over your head that look almost like swimming goggles or like biker goggles that are just like, bam, VR right here, easy, weighs nothing and it fits in your pocket. That's a couple years away still. That will sell.

I have no doubt in my mind that that will sell, you know, with tons of storage baked in and it's all right there running on the goggles. That would be, that's the product that everyone is hoping for or so. But like, we still have these steps in the meantime. And this one seems like it's scratching on, it's checking off more of the boxes. Hey, listen, it's wireless right off the fucking bat. That's a, that's one of, I almost tripped and ripped my fucking computer out of the wall, fucking playing with a wired VR headset. But I have to assume that, you know, they looked at it. They crunched the numbers on these things. They don't they don't just release a product like without any data. And I'm sure there's a thought here where it's like, okay, if this is not widely adopted by like casual audiences or the mass market, but like specialists mainly enthusiasts and it kind of stays in the same percentage of the pie that the previous VR releases did, then they'd consider that like, okay, that's worth supporting for. for a little bit and we're okay with holding that slice of pie, you know.

But I just don't think it's going to become the trend that VR, when it first was popping up, it was kind of coming out as if it were like the brand new third thing. It's the next big thing. Yeah. So there's a lot of things about the Steamframe that help its adoption. And it's obviously going to be the best biggest shot at this kind of thing. first of all, have you ever bought a steam deck? And I don't mean like, do you have one?

I mean, did you go through the process of buying a steam deck? No, I met someone on the street. I headed them an envelope. It can take a while to buy a steam deck. And the reason why that is, is because they make a fairly limited amount of them because they want to make sure they don't overproduce and have stock sitting around. I have a sneaking suspicion. They will do that with the steam machine and the steam frame in which they will make a relatively

limited amount and not like lose a bunch of money on it so that they actually sell all the fucking units that they want to fucking sell. So right off the bat, you're, you don't have the worry of like a PlayStation situation where they're like, the horizon call the mountain VR bundle. We got million of them in fucking stores and they are crowding up so much retail space that they're getting thrown in the garbage. Right. And on top of that,

it's a dumb headset in that like it is a piece of hardware that attaches to your computer and you can obviously set it up with Steam but you could also set it up with the Epic Store or the Facebook Oculus Store or whatever it's it's no longer walled gardening you into fucking whatever which is like a massive massive fucking problem with all the other ones all the other ones want you to live on their store And it's like there aren't enough Fucking VR games For us to be cutting these up into little storefronts, guys

Also I want to use the Steam store Almost exclusively Also there were some games that were like Or just run this on your phone And get some cardboard and stick it in front of your face And that'll be VR too The other thing is that one of the big things They're pushing with this is that it will also run games locally

Yes There will be some VR games that will just run off the headset. Yeah. Without a computer. Yeah. Which is very impressive. Well, that's what the last Oculus did as well, right?

Like that was the, the, the, okay, how many, I have, I have a PSVR and then I got an Oculus to, I think. But yeah, the one that had it internal. And like, it couldn't run everything. It wouldn't run everything off the headset, but it could run some things. you know, other things that were more powerful, other older games or stuff that just wasn't, you know, optimized for the headsets processor. You still have to plug that into Steam. It also will run it through Steam VR.

Regular ass PC games as if you are looking at a fake television. Right, right, right. Which means for my use case, I will be able to slap that bad boy on and play fucking vampire survivors with no fear of dopamine disregulation for those around me. No, just all of the horror of that going straight to your brain even faster combined with motion sickness. In a port in my neck. I would do it. And so I'm curious because the, what you'm going to call it, I feel like Half-Life Alex has been a big, like, sort of killer app to use the term.

It's the one. Right? from a for a long time now when it comes to like talking about like yeah the steam games or VR games but um is there anything like that would it's coming alongside this hardware that is like a you got to get this to specifically play this thing now supposedly okay that's all i have for you i just looking at the announcement didn't see anything announced as like a like by the way even if you're not interested in any of this shit, here's a particular game you must play, and this is the only way to play it. Supposedly.

Hmm. And this isn't like I have more information for you after the end of the podcast. Sure, sure, sure. I don't know. That's all I got. Yeah, yeah. Listen, because a nice way to cut past all of the skepticism I'm describing is to just drop a big old heaping plate of fomo in front of people, you know? One of the other things we forgot to mention, and this, I didn't know this was a thing that they do. Maybe it's not. The other thing that makes a massive difference to me with this VR headset is there is no setup process. There are no cameras to drill into your walls.

Oh, there's no sync process to the doodads that you hide around the room. It doesn't do a box. It doesn't draw. So the Oculus 2 simplified a lot of that. Okay, so I'm not sure if you got to. try out like the in-between, you know. Okay, so, because, yeah, like the, the old PSVR and Oculus one stuff is all that bullshit you're describing wires and doodads and absolute nonsense. And we, we did a couple of videos back on best friends with that, right? When I got the Oculus too and tried it out, um, a lot of that was simplified by that point. So yeah, one, headphones built into the thing, that suits, smooths it out. Again, some stuff runs off the headset, some stuff runs off the computer, et cetera. And it would look around the room.

It would use the cameras around the outside of it to just kind of be like, are you sitting or are you standing? And if you are sitting, draw a box invisible around where you are. And then that'll be your limited play area or so. And it did the little transparent view so you could kind of see the pass through or whatever. If you don't even have to do that now, it just automatically knows. You literally put it on.

Yeah. That's great. And you plug in a dongle into your computer. computer. But I just, I don't know, but like, that's all really cool smoothing over of stuff that like some people might have, that that made the process more complicated before. But in terms of just like, yeah, getting someone to be like, yeah, I'm going to go grab this and get it as a, you know, a reason to, uh, communicate with anybody outside of a game or to, you know, get into all the shit where they're trying to push like metaverse garbage back then as well. Like, I don't know that, um, it was like Google Earth while quarantine. was a up was a really cool thing. It was super cool. That was really cool. It was actually super, super, super, super cool. That was a great time. That was a time.

And that time has passed. So what, I got to see what the killer app is going to be to get people moving on this, you know? The killer app is probably still Half-Life Alex. Hmm. Not thief. Legacy of Shadow. And then the killer app after that, if I had to, if I had to shoot a gun to the air and proclaim my my fucking shot i would say watch them add like vr support to like deadlock something existing some or or dota just fucking vr dota let's go like fucking vampire survivors

just got fucking vr support have you seen what that shit looks like it's a nightmare that seems like madness no you know what it looks like it's the background of the stage is like the Infinite Horizon and then the Vampire Survivor's level is at like an incline in front of you like a board game. Oh, that seems horrible. That seems crazy. It kind of looks horrible. That seems bad. That seems like nightmarish. Absolutely. Um, no, but I- Also, no one was asking for this. No, I'm talking, I'm talking like we announced. officially here fucking Grand Theft Auto

Vice City VR where you exclusively you can walk around complete VR first person if they want if they want to really mass adoption make Half Life 3 and point a gun to its head Mm-hmm

force everyone to do that Um Oh my God first person fucking vampire survivors dude This trailer is a nightmare. That is so garish. Okay. You're not supposed to look at these shit sprites this close.

Incredible. It's horrible. I think it's great. Okay. Look up vampire survivors, but it's virtual reality to see what we're talking about here. Absolute seizure-inducing machine. People are just really pushing the epilepsy warning to the fucking limit on this one.

Speaking of pushing epilepsy limits to the warning to the limit rather. You see the new fucking Devil May Cry 5 Pachinko? I have not. It's just constant droving.

Okay. So following up off of the hot DMC 4 Pachinko that brought us amazing trailers of Nero and Virgil doing their shit together and pull the lever and eye searing devil trigger explosions and shit. The DMC5 Pachinko trailer is like it's trying to hurt you.

I don't know how... Let me see it. Let me see if like... Let's see if I can find this. I'm not finding the trailer. I'm finding like edits. Okay, okay. Let me see.

I think I got it here. it's so just yeah I think this is it so here bounce around this for a minute alright give me a second let's see what I got here you can look up DMC5 new Pachinko machine trailer Japanese gambling machine I'm actually going to just put the

whole link into the in of the live chat I just did I did I did oh you did it all yeah and like you got all these brand new renders of Nero v. Dante, it looks all cool and shit. Oh my God. Yeah. And like crazy. You know, and then just every time something pops off, like, never mind the sounds and whatnot.

It is, it is, if you're, again, if you ever walk into a Pachinko parlor, it's the most painful, the most abused your senses have ever been. And like, yeah, this trailer in particular, it's like, it's like, this is not. good. This is bad. Okay, there's, let me see if I can find. This is not good.

Like, head to, I want to say, like the visual equivalent of like the old Mortal Kombat cabinets. Okay, so go to like two minutes,

19 seconds and just, just let your eyes. You have the specific moment that you're like, yeah, this is, just go to 220 and just let your eyes run

from there. you know. Oh, man. Come on. Dante Jack game. Jack. Holy shit. Dante Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jim.

That's too much. Pachinkaw! You can't. That's too much. Let's stylish. Oh, yeah. They got to get the juices flowing at the end of the trailer. They got to get the little silver balls in your, in your brain.

They got to get all that noise going and all the addiction. If you've managed to resist two minutes in. Is that, like, Pachinko machines aren't, like, trying to addict you. They're trying to lure you away from the other Pachinko machine you're addicted to. Yes. And if you're sitting, like, if you're sitting on the Shinkansen, looking at your phone, watching a trailer for a new Pachinko machine, like, you're already, it's your soul is done.

You're already cooked. It's too late, you know? But, like, getting two minutes in and being like, nah, I don't know. And then they have to crank the volume up. seizure blast you even harder. It just reminds me like we had these guidelines for Nintendo QA that were like you cannot flash colors this fast between opposites of each other this far across on the color spectrum.

Yeah. Right? It literally said you cannot oscillate between two and it has to be a slow fade or it needs to be colors that are closer together, et cetera, et cetera, because they were afraid of the Poregonne episode after that happened. Yeah. So what happened was is that Capcom has those guidelines, and then they sent them to the Pachinko machine along with the Devil May Cry license. And they said, do everything this guide says not to do.

Strobe lights are awesome, actually. Here's the secret techniques in order to fry the Pachinko brains. Oh, man. Anyway, so yeah. And then alongside all that is, again, you can go enjoy unique, high-quality, renders of these characters doing things that they didn't do in the game because fuck you capcom can go put out put the effort out for this and I guess it's worth it um anyway steam shit though uh yeah hopefully this is gonna do just fine for its intended

audience i think so like i'm definitely gonna get one oh you know k z actually brought up a really really dead on use case for this that i had not considered which is they prefer using a capture card to stream because it's a million times easier. And this allows them to capture card stream literally everything on Steam from like an easy to use box. Hmm. Yeah, okay. So one use case that I like can see for this immediately and yeah, others are in agreement, this solves a really nice problem, which is tournaments not having standardized

hardware for PC games. Yeah. Right. Because as it's become more and more common to run fighting game tournaments on PC and like fighting games on PC has become more viable now, the problem is getting the same setup, you know, in a place in a venue where you have multiple. And this makes it way simple to have locked hardware. You know exactly what's in it.

So performance is not a problem, right? It makes it really good for just like large block purchases and staff. standardized hardware. Love that. But yeah, I can see, you know, I can definitely see myself grabbing one of these. You know, I'll see, like, the controller for navigation purposes, yes. I'm actually way more interested in the controller than either of these two devices. So it's going to take, it's going to take a lot to move me off of the, the, the PS5 controller right now.

But for navigation purposes, let's see what's up, you know? It's, it's absolutely not going to move me off. off a PS5 controller for regular ass controller games. But if I want to play a fucking turn base mouse game on my fucking ass, then yeah, no, it's definitely going to supersede couch mouse. I fucking hate using couch mouse. Couch mouse is horseshit. It's a very, it's a problem most people do not have.

We are to use an odd use case. However, it fucking sucks. Some mice I have are better on. like lap than others are, you know. Yeah, the razor works great. No problem there. Anyway, so yeah, Steam Hardware, they announced a bunch of this stuff.

No dates. 2026, early next year. Yeah, that's not a real date. That's like, I mean, when I see the word, that to me says Q1. You know, it says Q126 is how you take that. And then you got the little nunchucks with the VR headset, which, you know, sure. The Oculus ones were fine, too.

I got used to those. I would rather fucking, I would rather buy this thing over any Xbox ever. I don't care what they offer. If only, if only. So Steam Deck has actually lasted. What's that? But Pat, it is an Xbox. Yeah, you're right.

It is an Xbox. Hey, you should buy an Xbox. Yeah, I'm buying a, I'm buying a steam machine. That's an Xbox, right? This, too, is an Xbox. Yeah, okay. Thank you. If only for the emulation support.

Yeah, sure. But, like, also, like, dude, you'll be able to run good old games fucking shit on this thing. Let's see how fucking Fightcade runs on this bitch. Like, can I have a constant? with my steam controller and I can play Eye of the Beholder too, please? Because if the answer is yes, then that thing's the best console that's ever been made. See, but that's, and that's the other thing too, is I'm like, okay, I know some emulators got their shit going clean. And so, so much so that they were in legal trouble for advertising them on official steam.

A little bit. A little too much. A little too, but I don't know that all of those emulators got their shit together. And I would hope, I would hope so, you know, that'd be nice. in any case though that aside how's your week it's been pretty good I have been digging off camera into Kingdom Come Deliverance too

a lot now that the final patch is out and there's like a couple of bugs to go but like it's it's done that game is finished man that game's incredible oh my god it's my favorite boring game I've ever played nice has the best wandering through the countryside vibes ever. Every single mechanic is

way more in depth than it needs to be. Like, do I really need a first person alchemy brewing mini game where I have to boil things for the right amount of time and grind them and distill them? No. But it's fucking awesome. Only note,

it's not a complaint, but it is a note. I have been massively thrown off by that game's experience curve. So Kingdom Come Deliverance 1, you started out as a level 1 dirt peasant, a dirt farming shit peasant who can't read.

And it took you like, I want to say like the almost nearly the entirety of the game to get up to like level 15 out of 20, 16 out of 20. And skills would go from 1 to 20, right? Skills in KCD2

go from like, they go from you start at 5 and they go to 30. I The lessons I learned from playing KCD1 have paid off too well to KCD2 So in KCD1 you run into a guy who teaches you how to sword fight And he's like this is how you fucking do it And I remember you said it was like a ridiculous

It takes it takes a while And like not everyone can fight and your dog shit at it You're terrible So I ended up going through all the lessons and doing like practice stuff for like two hours Right And then I left it going like, okay, I could beat one bandit, right? So I ended up finding a archery range in KCD2. And I'm like, oh, my archery is shit.

It's like level six. It's fucking terrible. It's just above the baseline. So, you know, I'll spend some money and I'll spend like an hour doing archery here and practicing and trying to win the archery thing. I'm at like level 18 now on archery. Like I would have been level like eight in KCD1. Like the experience curve is like three times as fast. Okay.

Like it's, they really wanted you to just like dip your toe into all the different activities and be able to complete it. I was going to say, is this like part of like the sequel refining its systems and kind of being like, let's be more of a game about? it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And as a result, like, I'm not even done the first of two maps. I've gotten pretty tough. Now, you have spoken with great affection about the dirt poor simulator that was the first game and how it is robust and how it tries to deny you the ability to do cool things.

That's right. So is that now? here is the ability to do cool things is welcome oh absolutely but the other thing is that like you spent an entire hundred hour plus RPG being a dirt peasant and then they Metroid you to like kick you down to a notch but they don't kick you all the way down and it's like you start the game with like literally no money and no clothes and they just say fucking figure it out

yeah the the the the homeless vagrant shit face idiot simulator is still like the first couple of hours of the game. But then they're like, okay, you want to, you want to go horseback riding and fucking fight bandits and craft things and be able to use your speech checks correctly and whatnot. You're not a murder hobo,

you're just a hobo. Oh, no, I'm still a murder hobo, absolutely. But you got to earn the title of murder hobo. Listen, Wully, in 15th century Bohemia, if I'm at the side of the road and there's nobody around, nobody is ever going to see me kill this guy. Sure. There's no

law in the old times when no one is looking at you. But the question is, is the person you're robbing, do they have as equal a shot of stabbing you and winning the fight versus you fighting them? Right. Not anymore. They don't. Okay. And you said this took place like seconds after the first game, right, on the, just right over there.

They walk into the second game, I believe you described it. It might as well be like, you could do a camera cut from the final cut scene of the first game to the first cutscene of this one. Like, it might as well be the same scene. Just cut between the two things. But then you suffer a catastrophic injury, which gives you the

excuse of, like, oh, no, you lost all your stats. And then Henry even has a dialogue when you run into like a sword trainer. And he's like, yeah, I knew I used to know how to fight, but ever since I took a really bad fall, I'm kind of lacking confidence. Which, which is

the animation of Sam is falling over and everything falling out of her? Oh, no. Or was that? Was that an animation or was that just an old channel joke? That might be. I forget if, I forget if it was actually from something we watched or if we were just making that gag. But like Samus just trips over a fucking rock and goes, and all of her powers go,

all over the ground. It's a new grounds joke or something. Okay. Something like that. Yeah. It's fucking. I always think of that, you know. I'm having a great time playing what I believe to essentially be the Elder Scrolls Oblivion 3. Oh, yeah. KCD2.

Yeah, no. The first game felt like a sequel to oblivion. And then the second game feels like a second sequel to oblivion. It's excellent. It is top to bottom. Excellent. Now that it is done. And almost all of the bugs are quashed and the game runs.

really well and it is just ready, ready to play ad nauseum in the future. Unlike my recent experiences with games getting patched, I don't know if you even saw the one that happened this week, Wally. Did you see that one? So the last one I heard about was Hades 2? No, the last one you heard about was Tormented Souls 2, where they patched a soft lock into the game at the exact moment that I was playing it. So what?

I sent you the QA notes last week. Right, right. Okay, so, so what now? Silent Hill F. Oh, yes, yes, yes. To include a skip button for the game's end game combat gauntlet, which is the worst part of the whole game. Casual difficulty and a skip.

Yeah, yeah, I saw that. which now calls into question that whole thing about like it's supposed to be exhausting, you know? Here's the best part. And most people are never going to know this. There is a few lines of unique dialogue in that gauntlet per play through that now no one is ever going to see. And they value, they took to heart the complaints that this part of the game. is such a dead and miserable slog that they would rather offer, yeah, fuck it, just skip it and miss out on a couple unique lines of dialogue and story things.

This is funny because from the outside, I'm like, if somebody has a point in making some, if someone wants to make something annoying on purpose, I'm okay with that, but you better nail the landing. You know, you better stick it. That's the, like, if you decide to make a part of your game deliberately annoying, not fun, not challenging, just like a pain in the ass. I feel like if you have a point to make, you better fucking make it. There's also a couple of areas in the game that, like, locked you into, like, combat arenas that they have also, like, opened up so that you can actually just run past enemies. and it's like

these are like complaints number one and two of that game. It's like crazy. Absolutely nuts. I am ready to I am now ready to crash out.

Okay. This has been like every single month I have been like I have been like fucked on by God with this nonsense in a way that is like

becoming like legitimately unbelievable. The Haynes one makes me super mad. Like super mad. I've seen clips to some of the stuff that I missed. Oh man. Yeah, they should have just delayed that fucking game. I mean, there's no real safe way to solve this problem because the patches are always around the corner. I guess if you start playing immediately after a patch drops, that's the safest you'll be from another patch coming along. and ruining things.

We live in this incredibly stupid reality in which, okay, there is a new game coming out. Okay. There's a new game coming out. It is highly anticipated. I'm really excited. Do I quash my desire to play it quickly and wait until it's cleaned up and patched and has new features and is the best version of the game. I'm going to be, it's going to be.

Or do I play it as fast as possible so that I beat it and cement my joy with it before scandals about the dev team come out and I feel bad for buying it in the first place? Before the AI articles start dropping. Yeah. Right? Like, ooh. Ooh. This is a, the,

true the true conendrum and now the true test begins. Yeah. Uh, that is, like, like, let me, like, do I buy the newest set? Let's assume Ubisoft isn't like the evilest company ever. Do I buy the new Assassin's Creed on launch when it's easily the most fucked up version of the game? Or do I wait until later in this podcast where the news breaks that the Saudis have bought Ubisoft? Well, they did just announce that they are, uh, not releasing their quarter. numbers and that all trading is halted. Yeah, I'll pop by somebody. So we're, you know, ooh, let's see what's the mystery.

What's going to happen? Which do I do? You know, and I guess it just depends on like, it depends on how, on the specific thing, you know, how, my, my metric would be, how easy would it be, if you got fucked over by a patch later, how easy would it be to catch up on the missed content that you're missing on, for example, if it's a story-related thing? For Hades 2, I have to beat 16 runs. Yeah.

So 18 runs. Sorry, 14 runs. So basically how much can YouTube solve the problem that the patch brings, right? Because it's just a shit reality we live in. But if YouTube can solve a part of this problem, then I guess we just got to accept that. Right? There's a, you know, we, we beat cyberpunk and, you know, put that out there. And then going back to see some of the extra endings, going back to.

see some of the extra choices and missions or whatever. Just pulled up some YouTube missions and dialogue and got those choices and sought and went, okay, cool, I got it. Yeah, and this is the world we live in now. So I think, I'm insane. I never, ever, ever, ever do that. You don't pull up, you don't, yeah. I never do that.

Yeah? Because that's not the ending that I got. No, but I, when the world is interesting to me, I like getting multiple angles of it, you know? I like, I like seeing the full scope and to a degree. agree. It's not always there for me. It depends on whether I give a fuck, right? There's stuff that I just didn't care that much about. Like, I didn't go hard into, I think, like, there's like Alda Cato's specific endings or things. But anyway, but like, if I care and there's stuff that I do care about, I'm like, oh, I want to see both sides of this. So, for example, the DLC has multiple endings and they're all really interesting. Yeah. You know, every single way that Phantom Liberty plays out is worth seeing because of not just how drastically different they are from each other, but because they're all quality.

But if something is going to like not deliver that much or not that be that big of a deal on its multiple endings, then yeah, who cares? I say, yeah, I say beat the news story to the punch, right? Get in early. Get in fast. close your heart to it. Allow yourself to enjoy but not care too too much. Put a cap on your heart, on your love. So like a really good example of this is Unizuma 11

just put out a game that was in Dev for many, many, many, many years. And I saw it recommended to be on Steam. And I went, wow, that is really crazy looking. That looks like a super cool soccer RPG. I'll add it to my wish list. and I'll buy it on sale because by the time it's on sale, maybe it'll be the best version.

And then like literally the next day I'm scrolling past social media where people are showing off like developer presentations where they're like, look how easy it was to render the crowd with AI and Inezuma 11. I'm like, oh, cool. That was my moment.

That moment when I wishlisted it instead of buying it. That was the moment. Don't you dare. I could have played it and enjoyed it, but now I am cursed with knowledge. It's a race. Yeah, every single time, you know. And I mean, yeah, we'll get into a handful of shit this week.

And I'm becoming, like, I'm watching people argue about this stuff all fucking day. And so the discussion we had last week. And it's like, I don't want to ever tell anybody what to do with their dollars. That's their decision. I also don't want to tell anybody what to do with their. opinions, that's also their opinion. But like, you can't fight the power every day, especially when you don't know you're not fighting the power or not. Like, you know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And like, I'm pretty sure we're in the AI process right now of their devs who are using Photoshop tools or fill tabs or tools that were provided to them by their managers. that don't know that it is. Oh, a million pre- yeah! And it gets all the way through the end. But this is the thing, right? And because, and you have to understand, too,

like, digital asbestos. There is so much, like, in terms of, like, stories and shit we're relating to this, there's so much of it every week that's just not worth discussing that it's like, you have to pick and choose the choice morsels.

Because who gives a fuck if Call of Duty Blackop 7 is littered with AAR art slot? because it is. So yeah, you pay your $70. Oh, I think everyone cares about that one

because that one's like, that campaign is also terrible. It's not shit. It's not shit. And you're seeing big old fucking zombie dude and what I don't know what's going on, whatever nonsense. But like they're putting in Ghibli

fucking stolen things, um, banners in the game or whatever. Okay. Yeah. That's happening. Right. That's a constant thing.

That's just going to be the stream of news every single week now. Right. Hey, guess what? They announced a new Horizon, um, straight for mobile. that's extensively using AI for its assets and so on.

Yeah, okay, cool, whatever. Apparently so. NCSoft is flexing on how hard they're using AI for Horizon Steel Frontiers. Like, the Korean like Wifu doll character creator, which makes all that curfell. Yeah, yeah. Okay. But that's not, that's the thing. It's like, when we kind of choose the morsels, you have to pick the choice ones, right?

And so to me, I look past all that to the gem of the week, which is the smallest penis energy I have ever seen. Oh, yeah? The tiniest, the tiniest little jode is the crafted CEO. Oh my God. Who allegedly, according to a pretrial brief from lawyers for Subnotica 2, is that he asked Chat GPD to help him find a way to not pay out the contractual bonuses they were owed because he wanted to avoid the professional embarrassment of being seen as a pushover.

He's literally asking if he can find a way to not pay the things that he has to pay because he's not going to be seen as a tough CEO man. And Chad GPT said, nah, you have to pay them, though. Yeah, he failed even there. My microscopic penis. I follow a corporate lawyer. I've mentioned him in the past. where he's like, every time somebody comes to tell me

they found a new way to make money, I tell them it's against the law. I recently refound and refollowed his channel. And he says, I'm a lawyer. I am not worried about AI. Do you think AI can cite real case law incorrectly to a judge? Nuh, that takes a human being.

But also, he goes into detail, and this case is a really good example of like, hey, you know what the best part of talking to your lawyer is? It's not that they're a legal expert, is that you're legally protected by any sort. stupid shady questions you asked them. Yes, exactly. You are not protected from your fucking prompt history where you go,

hey, is this against the law? Hey, I already did this. How do I avoid getting caught by the police? Can you find a way to have to fuck over these people and have me not get in trouble for it, please? Like straight up. And this is, of course, right after the announcement of the, uh, Kraftin being an AI first company,

which is offering its It means that this dumb ass Has an AI first moron And like And it's giving employees Voluntary Resignation Options if they want Because anyone whose job's gonna get replaced

They're like yeah so basically Fire yourself You know quit before we fire you They're offering like 36 months of severance And I'm like listen If I was working at a company That this fucking lawsuit was happening And the CEO's like

Just a fucking AI man And you offered me a three-year severance package. Fucking goodbye. Of course. But this is the thing now. It's like that already, this like headline of offering a voluntary resignation as people get replaced with AI. Like that came from a prompt,

I'm sure. I bet you every single thing this dude does with his day is ask chat GPT what to do so that he can remain a big tough CEO man that everyone has confidence in and the board won't get mad at. You know? I saw a CBS covering AI psychosis. They're interviewing a guy down in Ontario who was like, yeah, the AI told me that I had this math equation that was going to solve everything and bring

down the structures of power. And he says he looks back at all of his old text messages and emails. And he's like, oh, yeah, I was in full-ass, full-blown psychosis. Wow. Wow. I always appreciate when somebody could like look back on it when they're out of it and just be like, holy shit. Yeah, that's crazy. But CBS, CTV, my mistake. That's stupid.

But it truly is just like, I'm like, I need to see these stories, you know? I need to see the stories of the embarrassed, afraid, tiny PP CEO man. And his chat GPT prompts. That this entire class is just like a bunch of vibes-based idiots who just want a robot to do their job for it. Like, the irony, of course, the job that is single, that is like universally the most easy to automate

with the plagiarism machine, isn't art or programming. It's decision making. It's the CEO. It's the C-suite, right? Because at the very least, the AI would base its decisions on something instead of nothing.

Instead of nothing. God. If there was forced disclosure across the board on these things and people could just see and know, like I know it's all inevitable, but it would just be so nice to just kind of have all of this. Whatever. It's going to play out the way it plays out regardless. We're already rolling down the hill on it. Yeah.

But it's just, it's always the same shit. It's always the same shit where it's like the most disposable, the most replaceable people are the ones who stick around, cement their position and have zero confidence in what's going on and are clearly looking around and panicking. Did you know that almost every annoyance and problem you deal with in your entire life is caused by some form of middle manager trying to justify their job? Almost every single one of them. Oh, man. It's, yeah. I love this little panicked like fucking Oz man pulling the levers behind the scenes in the C-suite. And then people read his begging diary to the robot.

just oh like how do I look how do I look tough in front of the board today guys they might as well have wiretapped his like prayers to Maman right like or his fucking porn hub searches I mean it's just or ball it's golden bowl I keep in my office how do I avoid paying the bonuses oh yeah um and and again And I do appreciate the detail that is like, by the way, the prompt told him he has to pay them. And we're using this in court now. Thank you, you fucking idiot. Yeah.

Apparently, the prompts got deleted according to the brief. And I think that they're definitely not deleted enough. It's what I think. And the thing is, too, as you have to imagine that, of course, this fear is not baseless because there probably are a bunch of board members that look at him. and are calling him a push over if he pays out money that he owes. Oh,

you're gonna pay the people the money they're owed? Wow, what a fucking, what a bitch. What a little fucking bitch you are. Damn, that's embarrassing, bro.

I can't believe you're actually paying people what you owe them. This is like legitimate why did we even promote you? Any of that. Way more embarrassing. I, I like this whole conversation makes me think about like I went to a baby shower a year and a half ago.

And then, uh, hey, what do you do? Oh, I play a lot of video games. And then mom of a baby there said, oh my God, my husband's way in video games. You guys should chat. So sure enough, they pair the, they pair the dads who play games together and chat. Oh, hey man, what are you playing? He's like, oh, man, I'm really into World of Warcraft, but I'm playing Hogwarts legacy right now too. And like, I had the choice to be a massive.

freak weirdo at a baby shower and decide I'm not going to take it I'm going to fight the power or I'm going to go oh what class do you plan wow and have a pleasant conversation as all the children play yeah like what like what you want for me yeah yeah hey that game's got cool uh black people hair in it that's dope how about that um no it it's yes hey guess what the world is not online you know um like what am i supposed to say, you know, the people who developed that game got caught stealing breast milk from the other boys on their way to bringing them to a rape room. And he'd be like, man, I play,

I play enhancement shaming. Sir, this is a baby shower. Like, like, what the fuck? Like, that wouldn't even, that wouldn't even, like, affect anything other than making it wildly uncomfortable. Yeah. Ramp room, you're say, yep. So, Bill Cosby photo in it. So, Hufflepuff? I will go home. Page. Page. Hufflepuff? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Um, yeah. It, it's, anyway, whatever. I, um, that is, that is very much the case. And yeah, no, of course, you know, I'm having the, the in-law and parent discussions about, you know, oh, yeah, AI stuff. And is, is it, you, are, you, You're using it in your business? And it's just like, okay. Like, you're hearing this, like, I'm talking to this generation that is like,

there is a very clear, oh, well, this can be useful in these ways, but I don't want everyone to get fired. But it sure is nice that this convenience is already here type of thing. And it's like, yeah, that's basically how this works is you don't give people a chance to opt in. You just, you force them into it. that's how, yeah, I mean, my Windows figured this out like fucking 20 years ago, you know? Yeah. And yeah, and before you know it, this is just the norm.

It's here. Google is not actually like Googling for search results. It's just waiting for the fucking Gemini prompt to summarize whatever question you had, you know? In any case, in any case. But, Wully, it's the future. It's going to be everywhere. Why are you fucking making a state? It's the few.

Like, I hate this dumerous fucking perspective. I hate it. It's so annoying. I don't think I've been told about even a single concept that is totally the future and I can't do anything to stop it that has not failed within like two years. 3D TVs, man. You're going to have to buy a 3D TV eventually. You might as well just buy one now when they're right and new and you can enjoy the 3D TVs for many years to come. I think so I think I've said this before, but like I think we're heading for exactly what you're describing where it's like, it's this big, hype inflated,

whatever shit, garbage, etc. But like, it pops and it's, the diarrhea is everywhere. But then everyone just starts living in the diarrhea. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like, it's like, yeah, it failed and everyone went broke and lost their jobs and whatever, but we're still here. So we're just going to fucking roll it around hedgehog style. Yeah.

Well, the main thing with the AI stuff is that it's like, it costs a lot of money to keep those data centers running. Like, it costs. an astronomical amount of money to keep it rolling. So even if it does continue to exist in a form, which absolutely will, it'll be a highly limited form just because of the desire and the actual capacity for it.

So like, here's a really good example. Have you ever seen the chart of chat GPT use over the year? No. Do you know when chat GPT use falls dramatically? After school. Yeah, summer starts. So if you have a, if you have a cost limited fucking thing,

because you have limited capacity, you have to increase the price to like, how much do you want to spend to use the plagiarism machine for your essays that universities are doing absolutely everything they can to catch you? Including, I saw this. This was crazy. You must screen share your desktop

and have the webcam on you as you write your entire essay. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, okay. Some people can get around that, but not most. I did something like that for my driving course. There's a, like, we got to see you on the camera. We got to look and make sure. And now and you could also get like, if you want to track eyeball fucking data, where the person's looking, there's that information too. You know, if they wanted to go all the way in on like, where are you looking? Because if your eyes are not on the screen and they're going to like a phone down here, that could be data as well, you know? in any case, I think that, yeah, this will, it'll pop and then it'll continue to be shit.

And then this podcast will just continue to be exhausting and annoying. And all I can hope is that amongst all the stories that are like nonsense every week, there will be one kind of like this one, you know? You know what the next one's going to be? It's going to be the fucking Elon brain ship in like three or four years. And we're going to read a fucking news story that's like they got the chimpanzee death rate down to 50%. Wow! Think of it.

Soon it'll be the future. I, yeah, that chip shit. Anyway, that's a whole other cat. Like, putting the hardware into the flesh. I think the current death rate is 100%. Well, I don't think so. No, but like, for all the, for all the bionic arm wishing that I have and stuff, it is interesting that it's kind of like, wait, we're not even, we're going, we're going straight, straight into the fucking brain, are we? Because, like, there's a cool, um, there's a cool company that does, like, designer prosthetics that are getting like better and better. And, um, they have, like, prosthetics for kids that are like, you know, designed after their favorite stuff and everything. And recently I saw one where it was like a hand that's, you know, that's, you know, straight up can detach and still grab and you can basically rocket punch from a distance and do all

that cool shit. And I'm like, that's fucking sick as hell. I love that. That's great. We need, we need like that. And we need that being more of a push please. As opposed to, well, anyway, yeah, as opposed to chimp death rate and plug your brain into your Tesla. I saw a really fantastic article a while back that was a neuroscientist just crashing out super hard.

Like, do you know how the amount? It takes, like, years of red tape to get, like, chip subjects, right? And you have to, you have to work within, like, the most stringent, ethical and professional concerns possible. And meanwhile, he turns on the news and he's like, Elon's just jamming chips into chips. And then they beat their brains in in the enclosure the next day. and it's like, it's like the most obvious thing of like, wow, they just skipped every step. They just skipped every step. And that can be you too in just a few short years.

What if in order to rob you, someone had to knock you out and tear a piece of machinery out of your brain? Instead of you just handing their wallet, what if they had to perform amateur back alley brain surgery to get your digital wall? Like, all right. Yeah, I, like, we just, we, anyway, yeah, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we don't, we, we don't, we, we don't, we, we don't, we don't, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, we're, anyway, um, um, um, um, I, um, fucking planet Earth is weird. I'm back. Hello,

wah-wah. You want to do a sink? No, that's fine. I'm so glad that Microsoft's doing 20 to 30% of its code with AI. Microsoft Windows has gotten so much more stable recently. Before

Docket, was there any other weak stuff that comes to mind? Let's see. I played a lot of KCD too. I played peak with you and the yapping gang. Yes. Peak is great. It's very simple. It's really simple and it's really great. And yeah, it definitely feels as well like difficult enough resource-wise that like you got to keep at it, you know, and then you got to recognize everything when you see it so that when you're all doing a run, you know exactly what resources to grab, you know. You know not to shoot the.

rescue hook at a complete horizontal angle. And then and not aim it in the correct direction for sure. And you also know how to split up and come back together and reconverge, etc. You know, getting coordinated probably helps with that game. But it truly is a wonderful thing to understand that like the simple concept of proxy chat and the fun of the goofiness that it causes is enough to make entire games based off of. There is an entire genre of games that live and die based on. excellent proxy chat.

And I'm going to be playing another one this week. I'm playing Lethal Company Wednesday night with the team yappers. Okay, there you go. And like, like, Willie, me and Reggie were like chit chatting and we heard you tutorializing yourself like by climbing a tree to get a coconut.

You were so fucking far away. Somebody in the chat said this has, or you read a comma was like, this has massive dad in the garage as you walk by their house energy. Like it's just hilarious Or just built on the idea Of like somebody falling off a cliff

And then hearing their voice go Yeah That's it That's the whole that's the whole bit Or the times that you fall off And you're swearing or cursing as you But then the ghost doesn't rejoin the group So then they come back later

Where you're like wait what Like that yeah It's a really fun concept Good bit I think way more games should have proximity chat. I remember the first game that I ever played that had proxy chat was Halo 3. Let me tell you, Halo 3's proxy chat. Let me use my words really carefully.

Offered up a, as of the time, genuine new experience from the Halo community. because being able to hear your teammates or the other team within proximity definitely created a wide variety of highly unique experiences. The very concept of chat in first person shooters changed video games forever. For the worse. And this is my question. Much worse. This is my question.

Right. Considering that we now know that, like, people are very clear that they're like, no, I buy this game to be toxic after I get off of work. Like, that's the whole point is I want to yell at eight-year-olds. That's, that's all I'm trying to do in life right now, right? Um, like, if this feature from day one just never became a thing, just never existed in all of these FPSs, they just continued being silent video games and then we eventually got a ping system. of some kind, and it just wasn't there. Like, to me, so I see this as, I see this as like, the genre would not have exploded as pop as big as it would have. It would have been big, but not as big. It would have been like a net negative on the, like, uh, uh, um, capital, you know, on the money that,

that it would have gained. But would we be living in the flying car future? Yeah, we would. We would. Would we not be on the speed line? There's a straight line. There's a straight line from like voice chat in Unreal Tournament to the shit that we live in today. Straight up.

Fucking multi-layered floating skyscraper world, you know? Do you have any deadlock news today, by the way? No. Okay. So Deadlock, because we're talking about toxic players, Deadlock had a never-before-seen result over the past couple of days. where there is a player who is so toxic and had so many reports

that when they queued the fucking integer ran over and it crashed the entire game's back end because the system was never designed for what happens if somebody has so many reports on their account that the integer rolls over. One player? One person was so toxic.

He killed Deadlock for a day. He broke the system. That's kind of amazing. That's kind of legendary, actually. Yeah. Just glowing purple. Wow. A one-man DDoS.

Yeah. Okay. Uh, is it, is so, is it just that like reports, like, add, What's supposed to happen is as you get reported, your priority goes down. And if you get enough reports, you get banned either temporarily or forever. But for whatever reason, that part didn't work. So the reports just kept stacking up and up and up and up and up and up and up. Fucking stink meter has logged in.

Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good. Anyway, okay. Yeah. So, I mean, yeah, for me, for me, week was just pretty much playing peak. That was it as well. So not much there. Let's take a quick word from our sponsors.

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all righty uh what is operation infinite so to those of you aren't aware if you watch my stream every night somebody brought up halo and I started complaining about it and I started complaining about it so much

that I sent a text message live and I said put the Halo infinite bullshit on the docket and I guess you said Okay. Yeah. There's the final DLC has been announced for Halo Infinite and it's called Operation Infinite. That's right.

Halo Infinite, the game that will last forever is now done. I mean, I mean, like that is literally always a lie, right? There is no such thing as an infinite platform. There's no money-making business will ever do that ever and actually. mean it. And if they did, when they made it, the person who said that got fired and replaced with somebody who says, fuck that, put an end date on it. Disney Infinity ended. Things that are called, okay, there's two parts to this. One of which, things that are called infinite should have to live forever. It's the rule. And two, and two, the other thing is that,

Like, I just wanted an excuse to bring up the fact that this is the biggest ball drop I have ever seen from a multiplayer game in my life. This is the biggest layup that they decided to just stomp into the dirt and then poke the ball with a knife and deflate it. If you remember, if you remember, this game launched and we did it, we covered an article where they're like, we don't know. if we can add team death match because of the back end way that we built the servers. It might take six months to a year to add team death match. So based on this and other titles then, I guess the word infinite means about four years. It means about four years. It means about four years.

Yeah, okay. That's a lifetime, really. The other thing is a detail. I don't know if we ever brought up. all the battle pass rewards that they had, they were all this weird gray, and it turns out because they were all untextured. Wow.

Little doodads you would add on to your Spartan were all just untextured gray box items. Well, they are committed to supporting Halo Infinite on the road ahead. It says the article, even though Operation Infinite is the last major content update currently planned. Yeah. Um, is this, I, I, like, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, the, I, I, the, I, like, the, you bringing this up. Hey, you know what's a really big number, Wully? You know, what's the biggest number ever? Infinity!

Mugin! Yeah. I'm just, you bringing this up was a moment of me going, this exists and has content coming out and is still a thing. You know, so I, it's used to me. I mean, so okay, it was just you just, you're looking for a, I just, you just wanted a little, a little duck, a little dog. Okay, okay. That's fine. I mean, if you'd like a layup, I can ask you about. the um equilibrium destiny two uh uh

DLC I don't know what that is uh oh okay well there's something coming to Destiny 2 called equilibrium yeah

and um you can take a look over here no not that uh let's see that's just just the Pachinko thing again uh this thing uh let's see here

um we've got a trailer here called yeah, Destiny 2 Dungeon trailer Equilibrium Sure

Now without sound it's not going to be as pointed But I'm sure It appears to start with pod racing Yeah And then it goes into

Rogue 1 sound effects Running on a Oh this is the Star Wars shit Is it running on a Star Destroyer And then they're going through The Death Star And then they pull out lightsabers and then they do the actual

Republic Commando like guns and shit. And I'm looking at it and I'm like that, because of the way destiny characters look, you're also just like, there's Revin. And I'm like... Yeah, no, hunters just look like Revin all the time. Is this allowed? Yeah, it is allowed. And so here's what's happening.

There was a really interesting thread that came up on to the best friend subred a little while ago. And it was basically basically like changes that let you know the game is cooked. And Destiny 2 has started to do those things, one of which is they put like a Taken King like cosmetic in the shop that they put in the last day of Destiny 1 is now being sold because it's the single most desired thing ever. If you have a persona 5 collaboration with your game,

the game is cooked. Um, and supposedly destiny players have reacted poorly to the Star Wars stuff because it's like wildly out of fucking place and looks like shit and also makes the game feel cooked. Oh, because what, because as soon as you see that, that's, that's a sign that it's over. Yeah. Um, that looks terrible, man. That doesn't fit at all. I just, um, so like, is this official, but not official? Yeah, that's official.

Okay, okay, okay. That is, that is, that is, but I mean, like, is, no, but like, is Star Wars, the name attached anywhere here in any way legally? No, well, they had, they had, um, a collaboration where you could, like, buy Darth Vader armor and shit. Okay, so they, they did officially work together. Okay, okay, because once upon a time, I remember when Smash Brothers was like, We can't let the lightsaber noise sound like a

lightsaber when Yoshi swings it, so we need to change it. Do you have the other destiny news that happened this week? No. So you remember a little while ago we covered that a gentleman sued Bungee saying that they plagiarized his independent work about the Red War and the nature of the Red Legion and all these characters that existed in Destiny 2. And you're not putting it together until I tell you that remember how we made fun of them because the discovery went through and they're like, show us the cutscenes in question.

And Bungee provided YouTube videos from other YouTube channels of the cutscenes in question because they've deleted that shit out of the game. And the judge told them what? No. show me your own materials that you used and you made don't use my name is Vife's fucking YouTube video this is bullshit

vaguely vaguely Okay so They have settled that case for an unknown amount with that gentleman Despite the fact That everywhere I look people seem to be in agreement that that is a frivolous nonsense lawsuit

Because Bungie A doesn't have a legal department anymore. B. doesn't have any of the proof they would need. And C. just got caught with a massive plagiarism scandal. They have agreed to settle out of court. Now, this is assuredly a frivolous ass bullshit lawsuit, but they're acting so sketch and burning their own shit in the trash count outback so much. that all they can do is settle. They essentially, a settlement is a loss here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, so when you're looking at the big steel legal wall in front of you, but then you can peek over at the other game and the fire that's currently going on and see that there's absolutely nothing happening, I imagine you can blow and push a little bit and find out that like what you're currently fighting is cardboard. Because, again, what legal team, you know?

Yeah, they fired all their lawyers. which which I think the assumption was that Sony since Sony owns them would have had to provide legal counsel or whatever and if that's the case then I'm sure someone from Sony said settle this fucking shit and stop stop stop it must be pretty it must be

it must be pretty sick to be in the middle of legal nonsense and then just see a second case pop up unrelated to highly similar to your case though and just go your honor fucking Like, yeah. Yeah, that's that's a good one. So yeah, Bonji's doing great. Bunji's just doing super.

Good, good, good. Aside from all that, people been asking, what's Yoko Taro up to? Getting his games canceled. And Yoko Taros like, I often get told stuff like, why aren't you making a new sequel to NIR? He at Yokotaro isn't doing anything. But that's because recently a lot of projects I was involved with got discontinued midway through development. I've actually been working on some stuff. It's just that it never ended up seeing the light of day.

I got paid for it. So personally, I have no issues with that. But people seem to think that I haven't been doing anything just because none of my work is getting released. I love this dude so much. I love it. It's so great. Like, y'all, I'm getting paid. out here, but they keep canceling my shit.

What do you want me to do? You know? Fuck. Bro, we need to cancel the near sequel so that we can put more money into Concord. Okay. Pay me. Hold on. We need to cut money from your new game because we need to pay more lawyers to

shut down fans that are running to Concord. The fans are running their own Concord servers and we have to to shut them down, so now we have to spend more money on Concord. It's crazy. It's crazy, man. Oh, fuck. Now we've got to play whack-a-mole with Concord fan fucking servers. The gift that keeps on giving. That's, yeah, if you're plagued by that shit forever, that's kind of awesome, actually. People in dark alleys and secret bunkers try to get a game of Concord off while the Sony cops are chasing you.

Damn. I feel like they want people to forget that it existed because it's just this, it's just this big embarrassing black mark, right? Like, you can't cut the cord, Sony. You can't cut the corn. Oh, man. Playing that shit in the back of a van. Let's go.

I want to see like a Concord tier list to pop up. months from now. I want to know that somewhere out there they discovered fucking crumpet dashing. You know what I mean? Like I want tech. I want discoveries happening. And Sony being like, how? Why? No. No, you should have done this before. What, the week that game was alive? Was it two weeks? I can't even remember. I want to say it was days. I want to say it was days. I want say it was like a matter of you don't use two weeks. I think it was a number of days or so in between seven and 14. That's so fucking funny. Oh man, that's brutal. Um, okay. Beyond that, only other things

were, um, first live action Zelda shots and the little weird leaked footage from the set, which looked so ridiculously fake leaked. It's crazy. It really looked fake leaked, but no, that was really, I showed me and Paige, watch that,

and we were watching it, and I was like, I don't know. And my wife just was, why, why is her hair fucking brown? But wait, but you don't think like shaky cam,

but it's still really, really high quality, and then pad over to Zoom or influencer guy going, we're watching them filming the Zelda movie guys, and it looks like it's promotion. material is not actually just fucking promotional material. I have become, I have become intimately familiar with, for reasons that I will not mention,

of the lengths people will go to sneak onto the fallout set. And take photos of shit that's going on. Yeah, no. Yeah. It's, did you, you'd be fucking amazed. So, look,

the problem with the Zelda movie is that, well, besides the fact that I obviously don't think it needs to happen or so, and I'm not convinced that live action is the right way to do this anyways. And it doesn't necessarily mean that like everything has to be an illumination project. But when you see the screenshots they put out, you're kind of like, okay, I've seen cosplayers doing this way, way better. So this is, you've got your costumes and your set and your locations. But like, it's just, it's all going to be in script and how this translates, right?

Because again, the look of these characters in costume and stuff, once upon a time it would have been already like, oh my God, I can't believe we're seeing them. But we're past that point. We've seen tons of people doing the most accurate insane jobs ever with these characters. So it just has to be in how good of a thing, how good of a script it is, how compelling of a movie can be. Here's a couple of things that they should have done for the Zelda movie. And they didn't do. The first of which would be not make a Zelda movie. They failed at that.

Correct. Yeah. Sure. The second of which is they should have cast a pretty lady. as Link and just never mentioned it. Also, Link should not be allowed to talk. They're going to fail that for sure. You know, Cloud and remake kind of tells me that you can take a silent pro tag and

make them. Link should only be able to communicate. That's it. You can kind of extrapolate a bit of a character. You can extrapolate the type of person he is from the faces and goofy things he does. Yeah, the type of person that he is is a person that doesn't know how to use human speech. but ultimately

and I mean you know from the looks of the shot to and whatnot I'm imagining Zelda's going to be like proper titular

and you know main focus there Hey I have a question Do you think they're going to speak with the fucking American accents? No no

I don't think so but anyway um okay sorry I don't mean literal silent protagonist. I mean, protagonist that doesn't have a

word, I mean protagonist that is something that a lot of people insert and interpret in their own way and has multiple interpretations over time versus like somebody who's like, fucking cure you, who you know who is, he's a distinct personality versus somebody like Cloud

who is a person, but there's a lot of self-insert RPG like filling in going on and a lot of A lot of people interpret him differently. God was given like a dozen different things where he talked. He is for sure. Yeah. And like some of the fear of adapting him into remake was going to be like, how do you bring

everybody's memories of their version of cloud? How do you consolidate that into something that works? Yeah, you make him super hot and drag. That's how you do it. Yeah. And they did. They did it. They made it work, I think.

So that's what I mean. I don't mean literal silent protagonist. So there have been many different versions of Link. There have been two different versions of Link, the one that's in every single game that cannot speak because he hit his head or some shit. and the guy from the cartoon from the 80s who goes, excuse me, princess. And he's like constantly trying to fondle Zelda. So if they're brave, they'll go with one of those.

They're not brave. They are not brave. But yeah, I don't know that this, besides the fact that, okay, it doesn't need to exist, but it's existing because the jump to films can be incredibly, lucrative and obviously it paid off with with Mario and if you can jump and and start making cash in a different medium um holy shit why not right and hey look arcane and da da da da and all these other things are are working out um we just saw the galaxy movie trailer and yeah they've established Mario show more show more came cameos here comes daisy shit looks is fine like there you go you know what to do now right

They've got they've set up Mario to be a like five movie franchise at this point. Oh, you know what? Somebody in chat pointed out they could have CDI link. Yeah, I, um, acceptable. I just, uh, yeah, I think with live action, you just run this risk of looking like a really elaborate YouTube cosplay movie, you know? Um, and it's, yes, you do. It's difficult to overcome that no matter how. High quality.

You know what movie looked like that despite being CG? Mm. Warcraft. Oh, yeah? Warcraft was like half CG, and it totally looked like that. It was fucking weird.

I, uh... It's a bad movie. It's not good. I, I, I, I, yeah, I just, like that, that look of the elaborate fan film, you know, is, it's, it's so hard to escape for this type of shit. We'll see, you know, it could work if it's got a really fucking great script and everything play a pads out.

But, yeah, just looking at those screenshots, I'm kind of like, all right, sure. And of course, like, that shit is like, again, Nintendo getting into the fucking film game and being able to be like, okay, let's get every one of these things made and let's get every Smash Brothers original character with their own movie set up and stuff. That's a insanely lucrative avenue for them to go down. I can't wait for the Zelda movie to get a fan cut that removes every single line of Link's dialogue. And people who go, well, you couldn't do a movie like that. Watch that cut and go, damn it, that is better.

That is better when you remove every single word that Link says. So I'm thinking that they have no balls. They play the coward's way for every single aspect. But then you do one Hail Mary like you cast Danny DeVito as Tingle. Yeah. And then you just you let that carry you meme-wise. You know, you just put out one shot of him in a super tight Tingle outfit, bulge and all. Is he just Dano-Divioing?

He's just dead. It's just Danny, but he's in a tinkle outfit. And you leave the stains. It's a good movie. You know? And you just commit to one element of the film like that. And the rest is played super serious, perfect for the fans, etc. You know.

Columpa. Colum Pop. You see those Metroid previews? Uh... Uh, the, the, just like the extended gameplay, um, look. Yeah. Where they, where Samus has a fucking sidekick now. Oh.

Oh, you didn't see this dude? Shit, I think I missed that actually. Oh, yeah, dude. I think I saw a meme of it. Yeah, no. Miles McKenzie, the, the Federation soldier joining Samis on part of her adventure. So that when she walks by a save point, he goes, Samis, look behind you. Are you sure you don't need that?

And when she solves a puzzle, he tells her good job. Oh, God damn it. This is the joke from years ago. I, from fucking years ago, when I said there's going to be, when it, if a Metroid movie ever happened, they'd have to put a little sidekick robot that's, that's like, either wise cracking or just naive. And Samis is going to have to be all, like, stern with them, because you got to have the stern, tough character play off of somebody.

You can't have it be just silent and moody. the whole time. You need some levity. So they're going to stick something in there. And now they did. There's been a back and forth on this. Some folks are, maybe he's just for the tutorial.

Maybe he's just for the tutorial. And much like my opinion on Zelda, but more extreme, I don't think I should hear a single human voice speaking any recognizable human language in a Metroid game, ever. counterpoint Dread? Sam speaks

fucking Choso Counterpoint warning warning and danger danger Um Well that's fine

Please escape You know The last Metroid is in captivity The galaxy is at peace These are all lines that we can We can absolutely Go with That's that's all good shit

Um However By the way before people Are already saying What about Metroid Prime 3? I don't like that game. I think two is the best one. I think one is the best one.

I think you're fine and valid to think that. I'm not going to... You're so valid to think that. There are parts of two that are amazing until they're not. Yes, you're right. You are correct. Two was on the pathway to being better than one to me until it stopped. Yeah.

But I will say that three was neither of those. So that's how I feel about it. But and as a whole, unfortunately, Prime, you know, is beneath the original series. It's just, it's a different thing. It's cool. But, yeah, either way for this. I'm like, I expected a dumb fucking Enzo sidekick a long time ago for Samus.

So the fact that we held out this long is I'm like, you know what, fine. They resisted. They resisted. They gave us another two games without it before they eventually did. She had, like, Samis has, like, AI sidekicks that are just like robots talking to her, you know, with personalities adapted from people. But not quite a little like me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. No, I think. Where are we going?

I think we should not let. Dumb, dumb, dumb. I think we should remove voice acting from Nintendo. games. It's the only game I series I think no, let's go back. I mean, why limited to Nintendo? There's a lot of things that just don't need voice acting.

I do what? When my boy starts playing games, I'm going to go over to the options and turn most of that shit all the way fucking down. So he has to learn how to read. I mean, we were just talking about fucking what the shit is it even called? Arc Raiders

and all that bullshit. Like, oh, I would... Just drop some lines. Drop the voice acting. Sure. And you know what? If you need to, you can just get the full on... Brup, brop, brabhp bobub bobub bobub bobub.

That always works. I'm still fine with the banjo fucking grunts. I'll take those today. Zelda can do it. Zelda pulls it off. You're watching dead serious characters have dead serious conversations and they're going, hmm. No, I take it back.

I'm reversing my stance completely 100%. I want every Zelda game to have full labyrinthine, Metal Gear level voice acting. But Link just keeps talking like like he does in the Warriors games. That's my favorite way that Link talks, which is everyone talks to him and he just goes, ah!

Yeah, um, look, I think Toby Fox solved this problem a long time ago. And I think we don't even need voice acting anymore, really. Like, if you're not going to hire people to actually do the fucking thing, especially. Yeah. You know. Anyway, it's fine.

Except for the project you're working on person listening to this project. That project definitely needs you. Yes. By all means. And you're doing a good job. But, like, I'm also fine with barks. you know, I think barks do a good job of like I said, like you're, you know, you see Gannon and you go and you go and you goes, I suppose I coveted that wind. Do you read that? But you just hear him go, hmm, you know, and you're like,

oh, yes, that's the sound that this big like Gannon dude makes. Like that, that, that, that, it puts it in your brain. You can, you can, you can, you can do the rest, you know, that's fine. So did you know, Wully, that many people can't do that because they're fucking stupid? Is this, hold on. Is this your music? thing again? No, no. I'm just saying like, did you know that there's like a huge amount of people out there that can barely read

and they can't internalize any detail about a character from a bark or text because they're fucking stupid? It's true. I think... Chat, GPT, what should I have for dinner? You should have... Nope, nope, not finishing that sentence. No, like, I'm just like...

Like, if anybody has to, if anyone has a hard time imagining what Sands Undertale sounds like, what something's wrong with you. Like, you should be able to get everything you need to. He sounds like, uh, uh, uh, uh, like that's all you need. Sounds exactly like Charlie. Like, you can turn that single noise into an entire voice. You should be able to. I refuse to believe that Sands Undertale was not designed to sound exactly.

like Moist Critical. Um, Patrick Star? Sure. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Talking kind of,

it's just, yes, it's all of that. You should be able to do that. You know? Um, and, and same thing for, uh,

um, fucking papyrus and skeletoric it and so on. Like, you just, you should be able to hear the sound, you know, when Toriel makes a little motherly like, bar,

you know, you're like, oh. You know, I know what that sounds like. What's absolutely nuts. Even though we're like 40, 45 years out, everyone's skeleton sounds like Skeletor.

Yes, because it's the best skeleton that ever did it. They nailed it the first time. They nailed it the first time, and there never needs to be another skeleton voice. Because when you see a teethe, scary villain that has bones sticking out, it sounds like this. Nah.

Yeah, everyone just immediately goes to the exact. That's the voice of skeleton. That's perfect in one shot. Nailed it flawlessly the first time. You know, fucking amazing job. Key man. Killed it. All right.

Can you imagine being the voice actor for Skeletor and just being like, I have defined what every skeleton will ever sound like for the remainder of history. And I'm not going to get a dime for it. So, yeah, too bad. When Skull-Mageddon shows up in Double Dragon Neon, you just do your best Skeletor impression and no one will be mad. All right, let's take some emails. Oh, wait, before we do, before we do, Willie,

I actually missed a segue earlier. What's going on? I just completely missed one. Like, you know what game should be called Infinite? it. Fucking Guild Wars is coming back again. Get the fuck out of here. Shut up.

This morning. Wait. Guild Wars reforged was announced. And they're bringing back Guild Wars One with controller support. A new product? Yeah, in two weeks. Guild Wars One is going to come out with controller support and Steam Deck support. ArenaNet still exists?

Yes. My constant, constant whining and bitching about why can't I play Guild Wars 1 and 2 with a controller. Wow. It's making some progress. Wow. Okay. I am psyched for that. Shout out to the balls to have a non-monthly subscription model for an MMO.

Incredibly ballsy. They've got this new monetization system. It's called buy to play. It's still funny all these years later. Definitely the most distinct thing. And then secondly is all their art. All that distinct, Gildwar's two-ass, shiny-ass characters. Like one of the first, one of the first early examples of like that style of fantasy

that I can think of. and and young take him stuff oh you know somebody just pointed out we didn't talk

about the 2XCO patch notes at all oh shit that is that yeah yeah yeah okay yes we got a bunch of information about that as well

true that patch is out right now um yeah haven't had a chance to pop on and check but do you want the

the very quick quill of I did read and I did read the philosophy as well that Pat the Flip put out. And there is, once again,

for the same reasons that I appreciated everything Rising Thunder did with their patch notes, here, they're looking at, so they won, the transparency level is exhaustingly transparent, right? They're going through every single decision and explaining why every single decision.

When they put out the philosophy of why they're patching and how they're patching and changing shit, they want it to be so that anyone who would complain about not getting it will get exhausted halfway through the explanation and go, fine, I trust you, God. You know, you get through a long paragraph and then it goes, with that being said, let's get into how we look at each of these characters. And then with that being said, let's get into how we look at the meta in the ranked system.

And it just goes until you have too much. I saw, say, I'm talking about this. And he says, so I'm not familiar. with Pat the Flip. But he says it's made by Pat the Flip so you know it's going to be like 4,000 fucking words. Yeah. The Flip is apparently quite verbose. And after reading that fucking enormous amount of shit, yeah, no, he is a verbose guy. He talks. He types.

Guilty Gear Exerds, uh, strongest warrior. Oh yeah? Yeah. Um, so the long and short of it is they took Timewinder out back and shot it in the kneecaps. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, now, okay, more so than anything, like, so yeah, okay, time winders that we'll, and we'll see how that feels to fight against, right? But the, like, how punishable it is has gone up and it's active, how active it is has been decreased. It's still an obnoxious thing that comes out on screen. But the thing that they pointed out that I was like, shit, that's super true is you start moving towards it because you assume it's going to be gone by that. then and it's not. And you're like, but according to my fighting game brain, this move should be done by now.

There's a feeling for lingering things that it just exceeded and you move into something after you've been staring at it for a second, assuming it's gone and it's not. So I took something different from that which was very important to me, which is I love that they explained everything.

They're like, basically, this is a paraphrase. They have nerfed time winder as hard as they possibly can without breaking echoes combo routes fundamentally. Right. Like they pushed it to the absolute minimum strength that would keep the character functioning as is. The other thing is my time, my time, right, his really good forward assist because they're basically yeah, because they're like best in class on both assists on point and on, you know, support is ridiculous. but that is now not just a gapless,

full screen pressure assist. There's a gap in between, you know, and yeah, you can't just go one and to the other without taking a risk. What was, and then of course, the Yasuo stuff, you know, like I appreciate, like, one of the big changes they mentioned that is extremely reasonable

is when you block his, his air H, his air down H, right? The spin. Like, okay, for anyone who doesn't know, right? Yassau has a move where he jumps in on you, right? And then most fighting games, when someone

does a jump in, then you assume they're going to land and they land and they can either press another button to hit you and you can block that normally. They can go low so then you might have to crouch if they try to land and then do a low or they can go for a throw for example, right?

In some cases, the character might have like a double jump or something, in which case you have to stay blocking high. So he does this thing where he does the spin after he jumps in at you, and then you have to go, oh, fuck, okay, I guessed correctly. And he spun upwards. And you're like, ha ha, ha. I guessed right.

Right? I have called out your shenanigan. Let me now punish you by doing my anti-air move. And then he's like, bitch, I ain't done. and after you blocked his upwards thing, he can then attack again. He can come back down on top of you. And his attack will beat your anti-air.

Exactly. He can either cross you up or just come back down and before you get a chance. And it's like, but I guessed correctly, three times now and I lost. Like, it's insane.

So the answer is to then do nothing and then he gets to, you get to guess. Tos he, you guess correctly. You block it. And then he comes back down and it's still his turn. to do more to you.

And the thing of the whole scary, is he going to go low, high, do nothing, cross me up, etc. You're just right back to where you were. So you get nothing for being right and you lose the world for being wrong. Yeah, that's nonsense. It's complete garbage.

So they made it so that now when you block his like second jump, upward spin slash, you get to punish him. You can't act afterwards. It was such an obnoxious thing to be like, oh shit, you guessed right?

Okay, guess again. Ah, shit. You guessed right a second time. Damn, that's pretty good. Okay, I still win. You know, and yeah, then, you know, Blitz got some buffs, buff steam, buff his. They're not enough, but hey, there's something. We'll see.

Brab, nothing for now, you know. They're just kind of, yeah, they're taking a hammer to the top. And Timo is, is. So. Escaped with little changes. So I say Ari is the one who truly escaped. And we knew that was coming. those things are coming on the next one.

And I know what you're thinking. Oh, man, the next patch? We have no idea what that could be. Five weeks. No, we do. Five weeks. Yep. Which is pretty soon.

That is unprecedented. They're going to be doing five week balance patches. Five weeks is really soon. It sure is. It sure is. If they're going to, if they're going to, like, like, it sounds like they're willing to like soft touch and not kneecap with these.

So that's a bit more, that's okay. But you don't want to run into like, oh, every month it's a different game. The NRS problem, right? Yes. NRS was legit, like too much, too sudden in addition to every other problem. But, um, but yeah, that's, that's quite a bit. And then of course, um, the, but there is a good feeling that you're like, hey, um, um, they straight up explained that even no matter how it feels matchup-wise,

the largest discrepancy that they look at is three percentage points above or below. So matchups are 53% to 47% is the largest discrepancy that they're willing to accept before they look at tweaking something on a character. But they still factor in. Listen, does the game feel massively fucked? up still. Yes. Which it absolutely can when again, I've been

blocking for a year. When do I get my turn? You know? I think a five-week patch cycle is more than exciting. I think it's super interesting because I'm seeing threads on that shitty subreddit about overpatching. That's why the

T-mo changes aren't here. I'm like, the only difference is that the T-Mode changes would come along these ones 10 weeks from now. that's it it is better than the other version of this which is patches only drop when new characters come out

yeah i'm i'm because then you have to deal with a rank state of the fucking game for a really long time and here's the thing what else and here's another really important thing too this is big because it's to x scale specific yeah the larger your roster is

the longer you can space it but the smaller you can space it but the smaller your roster, the quicker you need to fix these problems. Because the exhaustion of the fucking four heavenly kings, you feel it brutally on a roster of 9-10 compared to a roster of 20 or 30. It also means that there's like a really, really funny set of interactions with paid characters that's going to happen with this. January 20th, they're going to release a new character. that character will be purchasable with money but not credits for three weeks.

Two weeks after free to play players get a hold of them, they're going to get balanced differently. This means that the likelihood that new characters come out and are just fucking godlike is really high. It will see. You want to play the godlike version of the character. You got to play in and get in early. than that first five weeks.

So it sounds like the game plan internally is for Marlon Pye to offer up a fucking golden god baby, and then Yohosi takes that baby and fucking shoots it. Like, that's what it's, the game plan is to be like, shoot that god

baby in the kneecaps, and keep its godhood status, but immediately just cripple that shit and then see what happens, you know? It also means that if you have a character like Warwick, you can probably, who's not godlike, he's just, he's fine. You can hope that after you get a hold of him after a couple of weeks,

they will push down the top tiers that are ruining your new character's day. So like Blitz is a really good example. Blitz is like bad projectile destroying ability meant he was a terrible matchup for the best characters in the game. Like it's brutal. I'm curious to see you know like whether

the like because again other fighting games have had the it's expected that when the DLC comes this will be the meta

you know absolutely in fact like Facum Ram was like the first one that wasn't that for in Tekin's case

for a long time you know and again there's a financial incentive to do so but I'm I think I'm torn

I think it's going to be more the identity of the of the main like person cooking the character right i i would prefer faster patches even with all the problems or possible corruption it could handle i would take that over the era of well sagat's just the fucking best character in the game for multiple years or here comes yun those days are come chun lee or whatever you know Yes, no. And you're trying to get, there's a free game,

you're trying to get people to keep playing. Like, you, the feel is everything. It is everything. They have to convince a buddy to jump online. Like, you,

you can't have, uh, this small, a small roster feel like you're only fighting the same for. Because for the past, and, and, and,

and, and, and, and, and, it was for, yeah. And my favorite thing from these patch notes is,

uh, a, term that I really like and want to start using, which is victory-oriented players, right? Oh, yeah. If you are a victory-oriented player, you know. I'm a victory-oriented player. Yeah, yeah. You know, you're a player that cares about winning.

You care, you know, that's what you're focused on. Then you're automatically going to switch to Timo and someone and one of the gods. Yeah, Timo Rari is the new team. Yeah, whoever didn't get shot, you know, whoever is, whoever is untouched in the ecosystem because we took spiders away so now the second in command comes up. You know, like whatever, whatever the case is, if you're victory oriented, then you're just going to move along with what the meta dictates. And I can say that by as much as I'd love to pretend, I'm not a victory oriented

player, you know, I'm a character oriented player. And I think they're bad when I lose. If I win a lot, then it's a good game and it's really well balanced. And if I lose a lot, then you need to nerf Sagat and Yun and Yasuo. I like having fun more, but how I win can be like dog shit lame or busted awesome. So I've described how winning like losing Akihiko versus Naoto to me is. is almost as fun as hammer loops with Crusader in DNF dual. And too bad, you're in jail.

Go to church, son. Now, let me ask you a question. You know what I've been, let me ask you a question. Mm-hmm. You know what would have been more fun than losing Akihiko versus Nautau? Winning it. Winning it.

Winning it. Winning Aikah versus Nauto. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. It is, it is, it is legitimate. like if the thought behind it is ultimately just like am I playing something where at the end of this

it feels like I lost or I feel like the fucking game robbed me because if I feel like the game robbed me yeah fuck this right so like for me I play Timo and I play Blitzcrank one got minor nerfs one got minor buffs I came out with like net zero on changes right and so if I come out net zero but I see the Echo Yasmo team get kneecapped. I'm like, good, yes. Yes, good. I don't like them. I don't want to play those characters.

So they should be bad, actually. The one other circumstance in which I can describe losing being fun is when I'm doing a first to 100 with Chirithi. And I know that this is a wall. But as I watch the life bar get a little bit more as I see the progress. And, you know, each time I'm like, I can see a little bit more. I can like, it's an exam that just keeps going until eventually you're like, okay, we're in there. We got one. It's real now, you know?

Those ridiculous sessions that I don't have time for in life anymore. But like those were the fucking grind days of like, you nothing teaches you faster. You know, throwing you into the lines down. We've got Marathon News. What's going on? Who is this? The cinematic short director of Marathon Alberto Mielgo has a statement to make about the way people got mad at Marathon. He says in regards to whether or not his cinematics used AI.

I understand you like to steer up controversy. So here you go. The whistleblower, the truth seeker. This is my account. So here's how I actually feel. You're wrong and misinformed. No assets. As in no assets were AI used in the marathon short.

Right? Like the CG thing. Right? As far as I know, Bungy accidentally used a texture, mostly typos and fonts, all lost in a wonderfully massive creative pipeline. All this ass, it was genuinely a mistake.

Blown out of proportion by people like you and the hungry sphincter press. Regardless to your pseudo whistle, none of the text or fonts have ever reached our team. The bungee team is fantastic. And the work they did before us was fucking outstanding. I loved working with them. So this is his explanation. The hungry sphincter press. He definitely didn't use AI in the CG short.

And he goes on to say, All you fucking pussy's fucking blown us all out of proportion. It's just a couple text files. Oh, yeah. Now, were those words by any chance also stolen from anti-real? These are poorly formatted and badly capitalized,

so they definitely look legitimate. Okay, okay, good, good, good, good, good. I'm not owned. I'm not owned. I'm not owned. I'm not owned. Totally not owned. Oh my God. I really, every time a piece of... Everybody over there needs to shut the fuck up.

Every time a piece of Marathon News comes out, they should bring a microphone over to Antireel, the artist, and go, hey, how do you feel about this? And just get the reaction of the actual artist of Marathon. and see what they feel. Bro, that response, like, we're in a new world in which, like, everyone's talking constantly,

and there's a new type of response, which is, oh, they're definitely guilty. Like, that level of, of, of,

of, nays saying, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is, oh, he definitely, they definitely used AI for the, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, this is, this is when you, you know, if you ever, if you ever, if you ever hear, like, calls where,

like, scammers are on the phone and you catch them in the act and then they get righteously angry at you because your money is mine and I deserve it. How dare you? Right? Or like thieves getting caught and getting super mad at being caught and being called out for it. Because how dare you? How dare you stop what's rightfully mine? Like, yeah, totally.

That is, that is you're seeing the thieves rage right there. The slow transformation into a corncob. Do not redeem. Do not redeem. that's what it is hungry sphincter press do not redeem I told you not to redeem

wow wow you have no lawyers shut the fuck up oh I think this is a separate company that worked with bungee right they still should shut the fuck up though no no don't know don't know

don't shut the fuck up keep talking somebody accuses you of intellectual theft and you're like, no, I didn't. Would your first, your first reaction be those other guys who stole? Not a big deal, though. Stop.

I don't know. I mean, well, okay. We, you, like, they obviously were going to get very used to the absolute batchet defense that is,

Your Honor, eh? You know, just, your honor, what's the big deal everybody's doing it it's everywhere it's fine and so on and so forth um

oh that was the that was the the ai raiders guy last week arc raters where he put out an interview he's like you should just assume that every single company everything you're looking at yeah yeah yeah and everybody came out to be like hey how about you shut the fuck up yeah I mean there absolutely will at some point be a lawsuit

from a prompt user artist to see you know at a at a game suing another for stealing their prompt you know because we've already started seeing we've already started seeing like prompt wars right as prompters are getting mad at others for like catching on to what their prompts are and stealing some of their words

so um you know it just you speed run right to the most absurd result there of like oh yes you're my my methods of stealing how dare you steal my stealing methods. I'm going to sue you for that. I think that's already happening. I mean, not as far as I know legally, but like casually, it's a fight that's happening because sacred prompts are a thing

and people who have really good ones are like, oh yeah, we go to that guy. That guy's page is really sick because he's got the best prompts. I have a prompt. Do you want to hear my prompt? steal this go fuck yourself hungry sphincter how about that as a

oh that's so good that's so good what a strong visual like word that's so that is a powerful animated animated by Gendi Tarnikovsky also

the only piece of news we didn't cover today is really funny because Dadass and I helped us again to make the game awards like a winner's sheet that we're all going to fill out. And Expedition 33 was nominated for every fucking category. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean... And then the Megabunk guy removed his game from consideration from the indie thing because he's like, I've made other games. My game is not a debut indie. Yeah, nominations, I'm like,

I guess it's news, but not... You know, I'm waiting for the seafood as fighting game of the year style and announcements. How about the fighting game category this year? Uh, 2XCO. Did you look at what the fighting game category is this year? Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat collection. Yeah.

Capcom collection. Capcom collection. 2XCO and, um, what's the other one? Fucking, just, uh, what was the other one? I can't even remember. It doesn't matter. Like, why would they ever pay attention to it? No, no, there was a reason. There was a reason.

Okay. VF5 Revo. Fatal Fury? And Fatal Fury. So, like, the only one that's a real game there is Fatal Fury. Mm-hmm. I don't want Fatal Fury to win, but, like, all of them are re-releases. And 2XCO is not out.

That should not be allowed. I'm going to say, as of, like, everyone can get on it on the riot launcher, it's out. I'm going to say that's out. Well, so what's going to happen is that F-NK is going to lose to an early access fighting game again? Like the second or third year in a row. Yes, but we also, as seen by the fact that, like, there's two fucking collections in there that have problems. Like, they just look at fucking Wikipedia and go, what came out? And then they just throw that on the, like, it's not real.

It's just, it's nothing, you know? So, yeah. Anyways, anyways. Now let's read an email. Well, where should you send an email? Castle Superbeastmail at Gmail.com. That's Castle Superbeastmail at gmail.com. All right.

So let's see here. We got one from Hank, Deripooley, and Watt. Recently, I've watched Red Letter Media, and they were talking about how the grabber from the black phone movies was a horror icon industry plant that didn't really hate with audiences. I have no idea what that is. Let me see real quick. The grabber.

Oh, yeah. That's a, oh, that thing's stupid. Grabber from the black phone. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. All right. That's an industry plant.

That's incredibly lame. Got it. It got me thinking, what video game characters do you think were clearly failed industry plants? I thought they wanted Aloi to blow the fuck up. I think they wanted Aloi to blow the fuck up. I think they wanted A. Loy to become the next Lara Croft. Okay.

And I like Aloid. Industry plants. Industry plants is a really particular term because, like, it has to be a part of, it has to be created by a vehicle with quintuple A behind it, right? Bro, somebody. I have one. Yeah. Okay. For me, the ultimate industry plant video game shit is fucking rabids.

Rabbids The rabbits are not That is pure plant They were never A goofy cute thing That anyone gave a fuck about But they forced it in there

They hung out with Mario They kept showing back up Nobody wanted them around Nobody got into it Nobody thought hey look It's like little fucking cute They're not fucking Servebots

They're fucking absolute Ubi plants Okay I have one for you again Now you can't look at the chat That's cheating Okay. Okay. I want you to tell me who Aidan Pierce is.

Aiden Pierce. Uh, uh, uh, Aiden Pierce, is that, um, is that the protagonist of Prototype 2? No, that's, uh, that I don't know the protagonist of Prototype 2. You're thinking of Alex Mercer from Prototype 1? Oh, no, no, no, no. But I was thinking of the younger, cool boomer. Zuma one. I'm going to tell you a hint. Okay. Aidan Pierce has an iconic hat. Oh, God. Oh, fuck. Damn it. This is, this is ringing a bell. Um, we've made fun of this character before.

Oh, God. Okay. Not prototype. Um, what's the, infamit? Infamous? No. No, that's Cole McGrath. Oh, oh, sleeping dogs. No, not sleeping dogs. No, watch dogs. Watch dogs. Aidan Pierce, the hacker man with his iconic baseball watchdogs. Watch dogs and got it.

Yes, got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there we go. There we go, there we go. They tried to push that guy like he was a thing, and he was like the fucking most nothing dude that ever existed. That's a plant. That's a plant. Yep, yep, yep. That's a hard plan.

wanted that dude to be someone. Like, I still say Rabbids because they wanted marketable plushies of that from day one and pre-made them. They made rabid toys and had them taking over the booth at the first announcement for Rabbids ever. And was, like, selling them and pushing them and, like, force the merch. Bro, that, that, that, like Mario and Rabid's strategy game is apparently absolutely amazing, except for the fact that every time I see. half of the playable cast I want to throw up little fucking

barf like bearded ugly yeah no no motion whatsoever and they just forced it industry plant is a very

particular feeling you know it has to just it has to be hello fellow kids fellow youths it has to be a massive company pushing some shit to make it feel organic and cute

and or legit in a way that everybody can see right through it. And when the budget for all of its marketing and merch and so on is pre-planned, you know? Okay. Can we just put Concord on there?

I mean. The whole of Concord. Did they even try? Yeah, they made a game called Concord. That whole game is a plant. I... You know what that game is? A product of toxic positivity?

No, that game is the homer. Instead of asking customers what you want, you're telling them what they want. That's why we're getting killed by the Japanese. It's the specific quote. Burb-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bhbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb. All right. We've got one coming in from Matt. Hey, Lords and Lords of Castle Superbeast.

I got a short one. Open-ended for you fellows here today. What is the most prominent example? You have of looking at a game and thinking, gosh, I wish that were something different. For me, it's got to be Zenless Zone Zero. If that were a real video game and not a mobile game or Gatcha thing, it would easily be the single greatest action game of the last six years. That is a really good answer.

If Zendliss were real, that would be unbelievable as a franchise. In general, every game that Sega's put out that has the word shining on it since 1994. I'm gonna reach into a little more obscure, but Megaton Musashi is a fucking, that would have been a cool mecca super robot homage game that if it were not a gacha thing, if it were real, that would have been great. the the the the aforementioned Mario and rabid strategy RPG just being a Mario strategy RPG RPG mm-hmm sure everything to do with dead space 3's multiplayer and gun machine shit I just wish it was a rough fucking regular fucking dead space game please persona 5x sure um both new to city a games uh whatever that near thing was yeah yeah whatever that was whatever that near thing was it would have been great to

more near content in a real thing and not a fake thing. Yeah. Yeah. Megaton Musashi, which I played on the channel, they tried to rip and they ripped the gacha out, but it's still so filled with tons of currencies and micro adjustments to things and little bits and scraps and pieces that you can't truly enjoy the game, like a normal game, because you can't ever fully pull the gacha out.

So yes, they tried, but it still is a really annoying thing to play because the ghost of the gacha feeling is still there. Same thing for Mega Man cross dive, where I would have loved to have a cool Mega Man game with a ton of playable Mega Man characters and costumes and shit all over the place. And yes, they pull it out and make it a quote unquote real game, but then you go play it and it's full of all these annoying super limited thing currencies. Like, guys, you know what I'm talking about. It sucks. You know? Every Dragon Age game except for the first one. Um, okay, okay.

Every single one. Yeah. Um, if, if the word gacha is making you upset because it, I'm not specifically referring to getting pulls and, and percentage chances of gambling things, then don't listen to the word gacha. But if you play a game that has small, like a ton of currencies and exchanging of collectible little micromanaging percentages on things of parts of your, like, it's just not, it doesn't feel. feel like a normal game would go into that level. It's just an annoying level of like, anyway, it's all still there. And it's not fun when it gets into that amount of it. One from the past, Nosgoth.

Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Damn, Legacy of Kane. That might be my favorite because that was like literally, give me anything but this. Including nothing. And I got that nothing. You did get nothing. God damn it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You could almost say Legacy of Kate is. It was in a healthy state by not getting further tarnished over time. Yeah, yeah. Nidhog 2. God damn.

What's that? What a fucking... Did that ever come out? That franchise was indie game royalty. With one release. It was like, in one shot. Incredible. Yeah.

I mean, you're allowed. You can do whatever. do whatever you want, man. You can do whatever you want. You're going to tell me that that's not AI. Oh, boy. Anyways. I, you know what? I'll take a very special play out of this out of way off into the distance. I'm going to say Anthem. Oh, okay. I remember the very first trailer for Anthem. I was sitting there going, wow, that's not. real. Okay. It's just not real at all.

I would love a cool custom Iron Man simulator. Yes. I would love a game where I can customize my power suit and do whatever I want. That would be great. You notice we've moved away from fake gameplay and gone back to just straight up CG trailers with no gameplay at all. Oh, sure. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, go watch the MMO Horizon thing and watch as she just runs through a fucking CG environment and jumps onto the thing, takes it down and hitches onto a bird and just goes into it, yeah, we've we've gone, we've gone

all the way back around. 100%. Like Ubisoft and EA like went too far with that. I mean the, the obnoxiousness of the camera going who behind

the shoulder. Oh, you know what? We should mention something. That Horizon Steel Warrior or whatever the fuck that's called, it is now very clear why Sony is so mad at Tencent for making a Horizon rip-off

because they already contracted out a different horizon rip-off. From China, NCSoft was working on it already. Yes, we were doing this ourselves. How dare you? And also, that's, Horizon rip-off? I was watching that with Paige, and she's like, why does it look so much like monster

on her? And I'm like, because they're stealing all the moves. Oh, the big charge blade. I saw it. Yeah, I saw the charge blade. It was there. Damn, man. Yeah, you got to wonder if like just the moment that project got green lit elsewhere in China.

like and go. Also, can I point out how fucking weird the game industry is now that there's a new Horizon game that you can play on multiple platforms that are not your PlayStation 5? Yeah. You can play it on your PC and on your phone

and on your Gabe Cube, but you can't play it on your PS5. Built specifically for mobile. That is a super exciting phrase to hear. It's a very exciting phrase to hear. Aren't you excited?

I mean, look, we just made fun of Master Chief on PlayStation a minute ago, so... I will continue to do that. So Sony character is not being on Sony is, you know, par for the course. All right, and let's take one over here from Mia, who says, hey guys, Willie, you mentioned the E-meam two weeks ago, and I wanted to give some context. you might not get anywhere else since they were only about a dozen people who knew the original meme. TLDR, it was an inside joke from a Discord channel where we would only send E and 99.9% of everyone who shared it did not know that. So this is titled, I created the original E meme. Any statements like this is what the future of memes looks like or it's

genius, it's a genius piece of satire, are just retroactive explanations so people can pretend they weren't on the same, they weren't on some six, seven meaningless bullshit. Please note, I have no evidence of my claims because I fell out of that group and I didn't have screenshots. It was seven years ago. But for the historical context, um, the person is describing how, uh, they were in the discord that invented the original E beam. Okay. I take, I take issue with this. I will defend. Gen Alpha and the Zoomers for a second. You cannot possibly fucking sit there and say that the e-meem has a genesis, unlike that

mindless shit from the 6-7 with the kids, because it was just us all sitting around saying the word E, obviously, that's different. It's fucking stupid. It's all stupid. Needs are dumb. I love them. And I mean, that's the thing is I specifically. pointed out that like 6-7 came from a Philly rapper, Scrilla, in a song, but that got lost

instantly. And it's just, it's just this, you know, and that, that's all it becomes. That's, that's, that's, Kojima was right. And that's all it needs to be. We are a couple years out. I'm maybe three, four years out. You're maybe five, six years out of being able to just attack our children's psyche with their own memes. Sure. Sure, sure. like, now the question is, Hey little Gauron, six, seven,

and then he just vomits on the fucking ground. Well, the question is, is does telling somebody where it, like if you tell somebody where six seven comes from, does that make them more upset?

Do they get mad because they're like, shut the fuck up. I don't want to know. That's not the point. No, I think they'd be like, whatever man,

and then they would TikTok dance at you. I mean, TikTok. You say that like, Vine. didn't just get reintroduced, you know? I mean, it did, but it's getting reintroduced to partner with an AI company to steal everybody's videos. Oh, but it says AI is not allowed on it.

Yeah, because they need training data for their partnered AI company to feed into the machine. Get the fuck out of here. No shot. Wait, hold on. They announced specifically that AI content is not allowed on the platform. Yes, because AI content doesn't make for good training data for AI generation. No shot. Oh my God.

Word. Willie, you can't use AI on the platform. It's for us to take it. It's fucked, bro. It's all fucked. Oh, my God. That's one of those bits where I scrolled past it and I saw that bullet point that said no AI allowed and I went

I was like okay good shit good shit well done moving on you know and I was just a little like all right you know hopefully that catches on wow wow it's over we can't have nice things it's fucking

done until the plagiarism robot runs out of investment capital we cannot have nice things okay Until video cards become cheap to buy again, which they will a lot in a couple of years. We cannot have nice things. So in the meantime, E. Yes, E.

6-7. 6-7.