Castle Super Beast - Csb351 Bungalow Super Beast Theres No Ambiguity With A Kidnapped Sister

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

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Right. We got ourselves a chunky one. Hey, Wully, would you like this week's episode of be careful of what you say around your children? Oh, fuck. Oh, boy. Okay. It's a doozy. It's a, it's a dozy for real. Oh, man. The words matter now. Okay. So, Paige is upstairs in the bathroom and she dropped like her phone or some makeup or whatever, right? And she went, ah, fuck, right? And you're like thinking, oh, obviously that's what the child is. repeated. No. I go, oh, what you do? You poop on the floor? Ha ha. And then hours went by. Hours. And then my little man walks up to his mommy and says, quote, mommy, do you poop on the floor in the bathroom like a dog? You are, you are also weird, yeah, you are weirdly desinked for some reason. Yeah, that's fine. The laughter brought me back.

I don't know what's going on. Oh, man. Oh, no. Oh, man. Yeah, so me, you be careful. You be careful. Because they're going to combine with other things. Huh.

Like, I guess, yeah. I mean, you know, are you, are you, is tone being carried as well? Or is it? No, it's like a genuine curiosity. Yeah, genuine. Yeah, okay. Yeah, is this what it is? Yeah, there's no.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. So that, that's, that's your update. That's your update. That's your update on be careful. Like, be fucking careful. And how do you answer that question? I don't, I don't, I don't, no.

No, no, no, sweetie. No, we poop in the potty. Okay. We poop in the toilet. Okay. Problems. And he goes, oh, okay. Problem solved.

Here, let's just close the call for a second and then reopen it just to see. Hold on if I just do that. All right. Oh, hello? Let's see. I don't know. Are you back? I can still see you.

Am I fixed? Yeah, you're fixed. Wow. Yeah, you're fixed. That's crazy. Okay. Okay, that's weird. All right, hey, so what's up with you, Woolz?

Let's just speed around this shit because it's nonstop. Yeah, stuff's going on. So you beat dispatch. How's that? I did not. But you streamed it twice. That's correct. I don't understand.

Well, you know, a chunk of that stream was actually spent just chatting with people and hanging out. Yeah, grabbing. Yep. And then by the numbers, I guess I had two hours on. each of those episodes. So some of that was just talking and making decisions. I don't know. Anyway, I wasn't going to start there. I was going to talk about other stuff, but... Oh, that's fine. Okay. There's nothing to talk about until you'd be dispatched. Yeah. You know, um... I like it. Hey, well, you know, so I'm, I'm enjoying it. It's very, it's very, very, very good.

Yeah Making Making decisions Some of them not very popular Some of them very upsetting My brain works the way it does And that's all I got for you You know

All right What else you got for me? I got the fact that Punch Kid Is now Grabbing onto dreads During feeding And that is the sickest development

Of all time That fucking rules and that's greater than any announcements, any game can make. That's awesome, dude. That's awesome. So here's my favorite part. I had the beard version of that because I had like a busier beard, right? And I don't know how, I don't know what hair feels like on the top of my head anymore. But that is absolutely the best development ever for a couple more months. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And then the arm strength is going to increase and it's going to go from this is adorable to, oh, how are you so strong? Yes, no. That is, it's currently just a little hand on the,

it's a little, it's a little this, you know? It's just a little ball. And very, yes, very quickly, there will come a problem and I'm quite aware of it. But for now, we'll enjoy it while it's cute. That dude pulled hair out of my beard as sub one-year-old. And, like, you get to have that moment of you can't even yell out in pain because that would scare them. So you just got to hit them with this. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Honey, no.

I also have noticed, and this is the whole scaring-them thing, that's also becoming an issue because, hey, guess what? Punch Mom is super jumpy. And now I'm straight up seeing just in the middle of everyone's having a good time and just, if you sneeze or if you cough or if you even just kind of go like, wah, there's just this little, you know, that she does. I'm like, oh, no, she's inherited some of that jumpiness. And it doesn't matter how safe the environment is. What if this sudden, what if this sudden movement of some kind is danger? You know? There's a lot of fun in seeing what extraordinarily strong behaviors are innate from one parent to the other in your kid.

Like where they just, they turn and they do something. And it's like looking at either a tiny yourself or a tiny your wife. And you just go, oh, oh, oh, wow. Oh, that's genetic? Mm-hmm. Really? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, hoping for the best on that one. You know, we will see. All the good parts. None of the icky parts. Um, I mean, I'll settle for all the funny parts. Oh, that's trouble. I'll also, yeah. Yeah. That's trouble, belief. The funny parts are. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. But anyway, um, that's going on. Um, there's, there is also a, uh, a, uh, a, a big. of a battle taking place where there is Christmas music that's starting to get played and some of that Christmas music was, you know, of the, like the choices that Punchball made were of the

ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, bha, bha, bha, bha, bha, bha, bha, bong, bha, bha, Bing Crosby variety. Oh, Kruner! The gra, yes, you know? And I'm like, you know, I'm like, you know, I'm like, I like, I like, to beat my kids.

Oh boy. I get Benson. So literally, I come down and I'm like, beat my kids, beat my kids, that I did, that I did, soon it will. You know, and then I'm like, all right, let me get up the Caribbean playlist over here and just get some of that going. And I'm like, listen, listen, baby,

you're going to have a choice to make, okay? inside of you there are two wolves and one wolf dances and claps on the ones and threes and the other one dances on the twos and fours. We need to harness the correct numbers here. We need to get you on the right wolf.

And then you'll find out if that's genetic. Yeah. Can it be taught? I think nurture. I think nurture can install the correct thing right here. Every new child is a new attempt at the age old battle. So we hit

We hit some of the Caribbean music playlist and we started we started moving to it. And I'm just like, we got to we got to instill it early. Instill it early, you know? So our guy loves Christmas music and he's old enough to like, you know, appreciate it and sing along. So we'll put on, what's it called? We'll put on something called like super simple Christmas songs. It's Christmas songs for babies.

It's like jingle bells, but it's like, you know, less loud and less extreme, right? And we turn, we turn the monitor off. We turn the TV off. Like, we turn the, the, the, the picture off. So it's just, it's just a radio, right? And that dude will just, like, sit there and be like, la, la, la, la, la, la, jingle back, like, for, like, a good half hour, which is the most adorable shit ever.

But then, all right, little man, it's time to go to bed. And you're like, you're like, everyone's, like, getting sleepy. Everybody's falling asleep. Jingle ball, jingle, like, just four, 25 minutes of the most, adorable rendition of jingle bells you've ever heard. Yeah. Full volume. And, you know, and there's a deep realization inside that it's like, okay, whether we like us,

okay, well, fuck obviously all the mall music and the shit that burns into your brain and the Mariah Carey, et cetera. But it's all she wants for Christmas. But, yeah, well, all I want for Christmas is a piece of corn because that's what I was raised done. I want a piece of corn for me Christmas. You don't want the manikoo. You can keep the Kalaloo. Me want a piece of corn for me Christmas.

That's how we did it. Okay. I like that. And so there soon is going to be a line that is drawn further back from the original line drawn here. And that's going to be all of this type of Christmas music

annoying and not annoying included versus the slop playlist that auto generates and, you know, is going to be play this for your kids and it'll be the AI Christmas music, infinite playlist go forever. And it's just various degrees of... Jesus doesn't approve of the AI Christmas music.

I mean, I think... The only thing he's generating is wine and fish and bread. Thank you. Well, yeah, but I think Jesus just signed a deal with Sora. Oh, man! I think Jesus just decided to deal with Sora to be the exclusive platform. So, you know, time to go take down all those others. But, hey, you got to invest heavy.

And Jesus knows. Damn it, Bob, Jesus. To get in on the ground floor. Billion dollar deal from the son of God. Kind of incredible exclusive rights. Oh, man, this week sucks. I realize that all these are rampant. I don't listen.

We don't have the time, wherewithal to bother, to be perfectly honest, because we can just talk fucking game awards announcements. Yeah, well, I mean, one of those is actually leads right into the game awards, unfortunately. Um, but, but, but okay, beyond that, a couple of things, I guess. Um, so, uh, I checked out a couple of small games as well. I've been, I've been, uh, poking at some stuff I've gotten, I've gotten suggestions for. And, uh, one of them that I saw for a while, but I never bothered, um, I didn't properly sit down and boot up, um, just shape. and beats old game showed up a lot at like that is that is a properly old man yeah yeah that's a

couple years old now but i remember seeing it at a lot of conventions i remember seeing it at magfast i remember seeing it at a bunch of booths and places and i was like yeah that looks really cool but i just never really sat and give at the time and it's like fuck that's just a great simple awesome thing and um and it's also like that's something where it's not it's not low stim But it's something where I'm like, I could show this to her in her early years of gaming to just kind of like enjoy a pixel moving through rhythm and music and you know what I mean? Just kind of having a musical time. Like I kind of, I'm looking for things that are, you know, once we graduate from low stim to like stem, but simple and kind of fun. And I kind of saw that as like a pretty cool game for that.

And a little story where you move your little pixel along and there's little tech in play where every time you get from one part of the stage to another where it's essentially you're just controlling a little pixel and the music is attacking you in waves, lines, shapes, and forms and you have to dodge bullets and all you have is a dash button that gives you a couple of invincibility frames and hit a target and then you've cleared that part of the stage.

But they do a cool thing where no matter when you hit the target there's a little stall and then it hits into the next the stage moves forward on the beat always, you know, but it does a thing where it can always correct for whatever you got to the target and get you right back on the beat, you know, little tricks like that

are always fun. And Danimal Cannon was a name that I've seen pop up a bunch at like Magfest and a couple other places as well and I was like, oh shit, okay, that's, this is where, this is where and I believe I'm like, yeah, met and you know, through mutuals, but

I didn't realize what the project was at the time and I'm playing this now going, fuck, what a great sick game from 2018. So just shapes and beats is the name of it. And it's like this could have also been a something from the era of luminous pat-upon, PSP, you know,

rhythm visuals and cool shit, keeping it simple. Did you try their new not pat-upon, rat-tat? I didn't try it, but I remember when that got announced. Yeah. Anything I wonder

I wonder yeah Because there was room in our hearts For Patapon And Patapon too But I don't know how the other one went What else happened I checked out another small game called It was a demo actually

It's called Raccoin And it is Sounds familiar It is So looking for these Rogue-like, Ballotrol-like You know Every stage you get a new

ability and you progress and you get different skills and blocks that have different things. Oh, God, this fucking thing. Oh my God. But it's a, it's a rogue like little, uh, game. The fucking coin pusher machine. So, oh my God. Whatever you used to go to the arcades and you saw that scam machine where it's like you drop a coin and then it pushes a few quarters to the edge and maybe one of those falls over and gets into your little basket. Now you get a free quarter. That thing was such a rip off. Every time. I saw it and you know they strategically placed them right on the edge to look like they're going to fall over but they never fucking fall over. And so they made a rogue like out of that.

And sure enough, it's cute and it's fun and it's got juice to it because the problem in real life is it takes a bunch of coins to make anything happen in those games. So it's always deeply unsatisfying. But what if in this game you're sitting down and you got like that? 50 coins to shoot in. And you can choose left, right, or middle. So you're, and then the physics are all pushing things over. So you don't have to worry about that bullshit of real life where the quarters are too expensive, you know?

And then furthermore, when you start to build up a good pattern, like a nice, like, tower, stack of coins comes up the middle and that all falls over and you collect them all. You start getting special coins where, um, if this coin, like a rabbit coin, if a rabbit coin hits a rabbit coin, they have a bunch of rabbit babies, baby coins. And then those coins all multiply and stuff, right? So you start aiming your coins to hit certain things

or a vacuum coin is going to just like swallow up everything in a tornado circle. And then, you know, and it's just, and it's, it's scratching an itch you have deep inside from every time you looked at one of these machines but were never able to

and you rightly never able to win anything because they fucking rip you off all the time. Every single time I saw one of this, I've never actually played any of these because I looked at them and I'm like, man, that looks like the scamiest part of this entire player. Such dirt. Like it even visually appears to be a bigger criminal scam than like a claw machine. At least the claw machine like hides the fact that it's not fully powered. This thing just looks fake as shit. Well, it's like it's using your money.

It's using the money to show you how much it's stolen from people. And that's part of what you're seeing. Because the few times I remember trying with the same thing happens. You drop a quarter, it lands like this, and then the pusher does this. And then the pusher just makes the quarter slide over the other quarter, and then nothing happens forever. Absolute criminal bullshit. And this is making it so that, you know, you can rectify these wrongs from childhood. And it's fun.

So a raccoon, you're playing a little raccoon who's shoving coins in. The coins have themes. And between each level, you get, you can spend your money to like level up different powers and abilities. and all that stuff. We can do this. We can use the power of balatrol-like, you know, rogue-like progression to go back to scams from our childhood

and scratch the itch. Can we point the children at scam... I don't know about this. The feel of scam without actual scam? Yeah. Can we get like... Can we follow like the gambling addiction, all of it.

opamine hit into fake scam like Ballotro and raccoigne and shit like that? Yep, yep. Scam likes. That's a great name for it, Jack Snows. Like, some of us saying, I think we're learning that Willie's bad at coin pushers. It's like,

bitch, you had the money to dump into that? Really? I'm sorry, we didn't all have a giant amount to go dump in and watch come to nothing. I can play street fighter or more combat or time crisis for like 40 minutes or I can play this for one second and lose fuck out of here um no that was

that was that was that was how the the the days were spent um speaking of using those quarters and uh making them last and uh when you fight somebody that doesn't risk you losing your quarter um it's free so that's why they're free uh a fact that you can learn from the latest core a gaming video, how to get started playing fighting games, and particularly to XKO. And it's really good. It's a really good video. Just sidebar because it's probably the most unassuming one I've seen in that it's, it's starting out with like, okay, so here's what happens when you start one of these games and you don't know what's going on. And from the very beginning of like, okay, blocking, what is that even, how does that even work? Right. And like, it takes a good approach to,

walking you through from button mashing to what each of these little belting blocks of understanding are and I'm it's kind of insane that by the end of it it's an 18 minute video and the concept of frame data is introduced but I'm like how are you going to do that in a video for beginners and sure enough

with good word usage and very clean visuals there's a there's a very simple way that that Corey uses to explain it so go check out their latest video on that. Very, very good. Gerald is doing it. Anyway, um, yep. So

that was Raccoin. That was shapes and beats. Um, played some dispatch. Going to continue. Um, going to wrap that up next time. We are on, we did five and six. Oh, no, four and five. So, um, saw that managed to put the proper precautions into place. And yeah, I can,

see how that intro, now I can see how it got flagged, but I also didn't know that YouTube cared about audio to begin with. So that's batching. So apparently the reason I got caught is because I was like silent. I was like, oh, instead of talking over it as much as possible to muddle it up. Okay. Well, you know, I just played it extra safe on that. But I kind of want to go back through and see the, I mean, there's a bunch of shit there, too. We're like just cheeks out fucking gags that are missing to that I'm like, oh, fuck. Like, did you go back and check out what like those gags were? No, no, I didn't.

Well, you'll see why they got black part over. Okay. I'm assuming the worst because my brain auto fills the black with just like the most extreme. detail and like just you know like it's not it can't just be a censored doggar it's got to be giant and vascular it's got to be ridiculous

Dr. Manhattan and it's got to have sound effects as it flops around you know it can't just be cheeks off of grandpa they got to be like absolutely caked up and shiny you know anyway I guess we'll find out

um but that's cool And yeah, and I guess beyond that, I think there's a, there's a, definitely a part of me that is, the way my brain works is not baked for high pressure pattern, pattern recognition and like improvisation, I think. Do you mean video games? Yeah. I think, I guess so. but in this case it's it's the

the particular type of this genre I suppose um but you know whatever the case um I'm I'm like you just described like that was like wildly broad that was like an incredibly wide description

yeah no I for the same reasons that I'm also yeah games are fast pattern recognition decision making true but you get to but you get to make the patterns predictable because you can go see them again and again and again in advance, you know? So when it's the first time the moment's happening and you got to improvise and piece together the bit, I'm like, I got it. And it's the same skill.

They should have the timer be longer and not pause the time when you go into the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, they should make it, like, 15 seconds longer, like, on average, but, like, they shouldn't pause the timer at all. I mean, like, stat-wise, I think the, the way those missions went was, like, pretty good. Like, I only fucked up, like, maybe two on some of those shifts, like, I think at max. But, like, but there's things where I'm just like, okay, what does this word mean? And I got to take a second to, like, you know, think about work through, like, what I think that word would mean or so. And I, and I think, anyway, whatever. All this to say that it's just, it's, the game is just like, go with the vibes. Go with the flow. Fuck up. Don't fuck up. Go. Whatever. And I'm like trying to. trying to stop and and parse it. That's how my brain works. But the game's great. I don't want to, you whatever.

We'll see where the chances and where the things go. But I'm sure I'm right in the middle of potential spoiler territory. So I'm just going to leave it there. Yeah, you really are. Yeah, you're right. I'm just going to leave it there. Well, we'll just talk about that next week. Yep.

Beyond that, if you want to see me, tormenting one eye patch rule if I jumped over to his charity stream for a minute and had a good time forcing him to restart his play-through of Shenmu 3. So that was enjoyable. And then one Gianni Matra Grado happened to be in town. And I said, get the fuck over here. We're slapping. And Gianni came over with his lovely wife, Marika. And we slopped. it up. And, uh, it was pretty appropriate because like the scheduled plan for the weekend was going to be, uh, an activity that often involves one of his memes popping up at some point almost every single episode, you know? So I'm like, yeah, get in here. It's the time when we get exposed to your dumb shit on a regular basis. And, uh, And that was cool. Very, very chill.

Them voice people, you know? They can, they can just turn it on and off just like that. It's kind of incredible. I understand that. I know. I don't know how they do that. I know. And that's why you got to get rid of them and replace them with the robots, you know?

I can't even, I can't even change the voices in my own mind. I don't know how you're supposed to change the voices on the outside. That is true. And what I always love, what I always love is like when you meet, you meet somebody and then, you know, I mean, we obviously like chatted on, on this podcast like a couple years back. But when you meet somebody with their significant other and within seconds, it's just like, oh, this is a complete mess that's fallen apart without without the support structure that is the partner here. And he's just like, yep, yep, yep, she's, she's here to keep me in line. She's the one that I'm like, okay, understood. And then, and then it very quickly. just becomes the like, like kind of like with page, it's like, oh,

this is your biggest cheerleader and the one praying hardest for your downfall simultaneously. That energy is precious and it's great. It's great. So right away,

the bit was understood, you know, how can we collectively, you know, big up and expose balls at the same time? The term voice usy. was used more than once.

It's gone too far. It's gone too far. But is it not far? We need to go back in time and get the, get little bussy man or start with it. Little bussy man. Imagine Obama.

We need to stop them. I think, I think not far enough. I think, quite frankly. We can, we can use all the new variants of us. Like, we're just, look, we're stepping beyond. 151 Pokemon. That's all. All right? Just get ready for Gen 2. No, no. No, go back on that too. You just have to accept it. The Pocadussie has gone too far. There was no Salazel back in my day.

But now Salazel's there for everybody, unfortunately. Bro, I don't even know what you know which one Salazel is. You might as well have just made that the fuck up. You, you know, you know, deep in your heart. I legitimately don't know who the fuck that is. I'm, I don't know what that is. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's batting its eyelashes at you. What the fuck is a salazzle?

Is that the fucking Gen Z new type of, that's the one. That's, that's, that's the one. No, that's the one that's looking at you. This in the response of this conversation. It's looking at you. It's letting you know what's up. It's trying to figure you out. 58 society is over that's too many is that the number yeah that's the number it's okay 58

because i was like that can't be the rule 30-forth no okay cool i'm like that number is way too low i don't know where to go with that way too low for the 34thel um okay uh but yeah that was that's pretty much it. That was pretty much it. So, you know, I'm going to be jumping back in to Expedition 33, which had some fucking new content that just dropped. And this is going to be odd because I might be experiencing that new content with Reggie for the first time in the LP. That's going to be weird. I'm going to see if I can figure that out. Where are you guys at? Middle end of Act 2.

You got a ways to go, brother. So where... Do you know the name of the area? I know the name of it, but I... Okay, you know the other area with that name? Yep. Approximately the same. You got to be there.

Yeah. Second to last thing, maybe. Okay, okay. You don't get there for a minute then. No. Okay. Well, then I got time. You got time.

Okay. I was because, yeah, I didn't know where the door was to the new content, but if it's... I'll tell you where the door is. I'll tell you right now. But if you, but saying when the door is is actually more crucial here. So if we're talking right, right before the end, okay, great, great, great, cool. And it's, it's the highest level, um, content in the game. I feel

I haven't played the base game in quite a while it's either the highest or the second highest but I believe it might be the highest It's mandatory It is not mandatory Oh

Okay No no you miss You misunderstood what I said Okay You need to be in Act 3 Oh okay okay okay okay Okay it is um it it is it is it gives you so so i did it um it's really good uh it's fairly short uh it comes

alongside um so the so it's one of those things okay so like you go in some great quality of life updates and it's got lots of fun stuff also have some new weapons in it and you get the new weapons you're like wow this is insanely busted and then you get new uh pictos which I would describe as meta-annihilating pictos. Beyond the meta that's already in shards by this point. I will give you a taste of what one of the, I think, 15 pictos is, all right? There is a picto called frenzy, and the picto says, every hit in a skill does 10% more damage than the last one.

God. Oh, my God. okay. So, phantom stars. You're like, oh, was billions not enough? Yeah, like, Phantom stars to the end of time.

I see. Okay. And then, and then they send you up against a new super boss who is awesome, one of the best fights in the game. And then they go, hey, listen, you know,

you know that thing that was like the super boss, but you all trivialized that into dirt with your one shot, one kill, nonsense. Okay, here's four more of those. And we've built it for that guy on TikTok teaching you how to do the 1.4 trillion

damage build. No. Just, just the absolute like, you remember fighting the consort at the end of a fucking Shadow of the Urtree? Yeah. And being like, I think this is as far.

as this system can push a character. Yeah. Yes. The new post-patch super bosses are, I think, at the numerical and functional limit of how far that system can go. Okay. I have to imagine, as again, the, we're building a DLC to a thing that people were crushing that was meant to be challenging.

So we need to make the sweats as sweaty as possible. without making it impossible. Right. Okay, so there are four of the new super de super bosses. Super duper. I have not been able to make even a smidge of headway on the easiest of the four. Okay. And I was able to crush the last one in like a couple of days.

And I'm assuming. I made no progress. And I'm assuming that they have installed insurance against bullshittery. No. Okay. You're to use your bullshittery. But it's just the bullshittery makes it normal or even fair. Okay, remember how fucked up you could make your characters by the end of like the last area?

They have done that to their bosses in the other direction. Okay. The assumption is that you're going in here trying to break numbers. Because I'm just like when you break numbers to a certain degree, it just becomes hell or hell. yeah yes yes that is exactly how it is okay okay all right health values may as well not exist um interesting well yeah so there's some time so yeah i guess based on it being you know towards the the later uh i'll go be able to go back in and see what's going on there was a really excellent uh this thing where somebody on blue sky said hey bro you're not gonna fucking beat these

bosses and I went yeah okay I'll remember that uh and then I went and streamed it and then I was like oh yeah that dude was right mm that was super right how's about the quality of life how about the favorites the loadouts the pictos the luminos so the ability to save 50 luminous sets is awesome and absolutely great and you can name them and you can set per character you can yeah okay no No, they're not per character. They're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're anybody. Okay. So you can, you can save it on my L and then put it on Lune and it, if you have the PICTO's equipped,

it just won't equip those. Great, great, great, great, great. It's very useful. Uh, there's only one problem for them, and it's a really, really, really, really, really big problem. And that is, I have been given, uh, Pecto sets or Luminas sets or whatever you want to call them at the 99th percentile mark in the game after an eight-month break. Um, I don't remember what any. Memory, memory, memory, yeah.

I don't know what any of the fucking burn build I had was. I don't know. So I actually just kept the glass cannon for everyone build that I had at the end forever. And just kept adding more glass cannon stuff that I could find. Right, right, right. And just like, I'll just have to figure it out. And so if I ever want to, if I ever want to, what do you call it? Go back and fight those super bosses.

it'll have to actually be at the end of a new playthrough because I don't remember how to play. So fortunately, having done this recently for Reggie going through it, like me just looking at what the skills are, it's not that long to remember. Like, you just kind of look at the skill tree. I have a lot of Lumina. Yeah, yeah.

I know, I know. But like, you know, looking at the skill tree, and thankfully, this is where the wording of all the Picto, comes into play really, really well. Oh, that's actually something that's way better now, because you can now search via every stat, and you can now search by every type. Great, great.

So you can sort by the word burn. Exactly, because that's it. I'm like, if you just go for anything that says energizing, you're like, I want an AP build, here we go, and you find it like that, you know? The ability to, like, look at all these words repeat is fantastic. And ironically, as much as I love it and it's super cool, it makes names like in Media Res actually hurts in a giant pile, you know, sometimes because you're like, ah, the more

creative the name, like, the more difficult it is to find when you're looking at hundreds of them, you know? I've been thinking a lot about that game's difficulty curve. And if I go back through it again, I'm going to use, I'm going to completely evenly split everything across all the characters and I'm not going to farm any Lumina because I think even focusing

on three characters instead of the full team is what screwed up my difficulty progression because like... Oh, you didn't distribute evenly? No. I had... When I got to the end of Act 2, I had three characters who stole all

the juice. Oh, I distributed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That caused numbers to spiral out of fucking control. No, I kept even because I knew at any moment I could pick something up that would make this character fucking ridiculous, you know? Starting in your best mode is often the weapon

that is like, yep, time to put you up, you know, whether it's almighty or fucking, all versions of it. Also, the next time I go through it, I think I will not go into any red areas because you mentioned in Media Res. In Media Res fucks up the balance of the entire game more than anything else. Because you don't actually fight the dudes to get Immedia Res.

You cut them around and then you pick it up. Which is exactly what he did. Yeah. It massively fucks up the whole rest of the game. I watched Reggie just play football and run through and Barry Sanders his way out of there without the fight. You know, it was quite funny. Also, so it's not just that one too. It's when you do the frozen heart or the frozen flame, whatever, the mountain.

That area is poorly placed and will ruin the whole game. That will ruin everything. You go up that mountain, you come back down so huge and so jacked. Nothing you touch ever again. That it's fucked. And without doing the mountain, he went on to face the, you know, the, whatever, the cane man. the fucking the heart of Lumiere. Act two. Just say act two.

Act two. Right. And that was again a laughably low HP fight where you don't get to see anything cool without getting huge. So it was just kind of like, ah. I was worried. Completable even if you just go straight ahead. Straight ahead without any side paths, right? Straight ahead with a good sense of parry timing is still. too much for the critical path. So yeah, it's, it's, uh, there was also right after that was like,

okay, let's crank that difficulty up. Let's, you know, because, uh, we're playing on normal up until that point. And I was, I was shocked to see that, you know, with no upgrading whatsoever, you know? Anyway, um, that sounds good. The loadouts, super crucial. And, yeah, there is a part of this, too, that is, um, tricky about the let's play version of going through this game is there is very valuable hours or very valuable time spent staring at the luminous screen, the pictos screens and your skill tree and thinking about builds. Luckily enough, the time that this patch came out really like, like showed up right at the perfect time for that was when the, you're like act two end of act?

And towards the end of act two, yeah. Right. that's when that shit started to get really tiresome and like unmanageable but now you will have now you have like luminous set like it's useful just to have a luminous set even if it's not a complete set that's just like put every burn on put them all on so this happened and this happened in cyberpunk when I was playing it and I solved it by off camera staring at every upgrade branch and path and going to the Ripper Dock and see. seeing all their upgrades and going, okay, I'm going to just internalize and see what's possible and so on. But these are the moments where I, yeah, there's no way in a let's play to really get around it. Like, the game wants you to enjoy its depth by you internalizing these systems, but you have to stare at them and read and get into it in a way that is going to take way too long as you progress, you know? So, um, anyway, uh, going to be going to be, uh, doing that. And also like,

I told them to like, you know, come over a little bit and off camera. We'll kind of just take a look at some of these potential ideas and get the juices flowing. Cool stuff going on there. Yeah, so we're going to continue Expedition 33 tomorrow. And then, yeah, decided they get into fighting games. Come hang out. That's pretty much it. That's pretty much it.

What did I get up to? Oh, me and Paige beat Resident Evil 2 blind. Page beat it. Did it? Awesome. Good for her. That was fantastic. And did the guiding, did the blind guiding go all the way through up until the end? Or did you eventually let the bike go? Yep.

Okay. No, no. The blind guiding went all the way up through the end. We, we, I took the blindfold off to do some of Leon B. Okay. Because I was like, I have, I have absolutely made my point. And saw some comments like, dude, the blindfold, did the functional. didn't do anything. Would have been exactly the same if the

blindfold was off. Woo. Did it. And watch the game awards. Oh, I also played the Pragmatta demo. Oh, yes. Yeah. So that, I mean, that's part of the docket.

Where a robot looks like my child jumps on your back and does hacking puzzles. That is, that game's a lot simpler than it appears. it is a Resident Evil 4 in space but in order to make enemies vulnerable to your attacks as they slowly walk towards you

you do a little hacking mini game on them and it's very enjoyable it's very enjoyable to be aiming and shooting and then having to take a second to do hacking and you know it has passed through these notes to do more damage or link enemies it's very cool I didn't yeah I was trying to the one thing I don't have

is a sense of like was it, are you going through loads of enemies and are you taking on like one big one at a time? No, you're going through like two at a time. Okay, okay. Because you still have to have to have time to do your little hacking game. Okay.

Right? Now granted, this is probably the very beginning of the game. Mm-hmm. And all signs point towards fresh brand new IP, no connections anywhere. Other than the fact that the little girl's wearing a blue bomber jacket. Yeah. Which is like, ah, I see what you did there. Okay, okay, but you know what, though? Like, still, good on Capcom for fucking trying in a very obvious way between this and the fucking dinosaurs.

Even when I'm laughing at exo primal, I'm laughing, but I'm like, hey, you're trying new shit. You know, I appreciate that. Hopefully, this is good. Because it seems like vanquished with the little mega girls is kind of a cool idea, you know? It's really slow compared to Vanquish. Yeah, the aesthetic. The aesthetic, and that's pretty much it. That's pretty much it.

Other than that, watched the Game Awards. Yes. So that is a big old list of stuff. Not all of which matters. So we'll get into some of it, and then take a quick break. But right off the bat, I'm just going to say that as far as the street fighter trailer is concerned,

I have a couple thoughts. And very much so. This is the most, I'm going to, I have zero expectation. And I know that I'm going in like, if this is a hilarious, absolute turd, great. And if this somehow becomes a self-aware turd, that's even funnier. Some of the choreography in that trailer looks kind of fucking sick.

That one-two back throw into the kick off the wall is like, oh, okay. So we'll see what happens. But I think potentially it can be, this is not, this doesn't look like it's going to land in the middle and be completely forgettable, right? This looks like it's going to be self-aware and terrible or completely unaware and terrible. And, um, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, I think, I think, I think, we're lucky that it's going to be in an entertaining way, as opposed to in a nothing way, based on the, it would be nice if the movie was trash in a way that was funny. Um, you know, there, there's, you're seeing the jackhammer. You're seeing a little Elforte in there. you're seeing the fucking Cody Rhodes wig. Fidia's ballrog is still a really good outfit. Like, the costuming there is incredible.

And the guy who's playing Dictator is, that's a good face for Dictator. That's such a weird guy for Dictator. I forget that guy's name. I think the face works. But then, like, yeah, getting claw, getting Vega because it's like, oh, yeah, that dude wears masks. all the time anyways. It's like, sure. Whatever. Fucking

Mamoa Blanca and Akuma Rains is the dumbest shit ever. That's such Minecraft Jumanji casting. It's such, we get the names, shut the fuck up. I have a piece of information about Bison's casting.

Yeah. There was a different actor who was supposed to play M. Bison, but they were busy with a different project. Mm-hmm. That person that could have been M. Bison in that movie would have been Walton Gawkins. Get the fuck out of here. Yeah.

And you know how I know that. He's got the jaw. He's busy. He's busy right now. He's got the jaw. Be able to gole. But, bro, that would have rocked, though. Seriously, he can camp that shit the fuck up for real.

Let me stare at this fucker. Let me stare. What does he actually? actually look like for real. Oh, he looks like a guy who enjoys a good apple. Okay, so if I cut this and put a big dictator hat. Are you just, I just like, just kind of image framing? So he's a good actor that can become anything.

That much is clear. But it just, it need, you need to cut a strong jaw line and I see it. I do see the jaw line here. Sure. But anyways, yeah, this trailer is just, again, it can be everything and nothing. And we need to, there needs to be a name for that kind of, yeah, the Minecraft, Jumanji, borderlands ass, like Roman Raines and MoMA cast pull, where you're like, do you're like, a horrible fit for this, but you are...

You're on the list, though. They need wrestlers. For game adaptation movie specifically, you gotta have one of these faces. Just go scoop up a couple wrestlers off the mat. Just pile them in and pour them out. Ugh. Um... And, uh, uh, oh, getting like popcorn out of the fucking tub.

Yeah. And they're like, we, Look, Eric Andre is attached. We don't know what role he's going to play, but he's attached. Go find something. The announcer. No, he's playing the guy with the megaphone in Street Fighter 4's Brog stage. They gave him a name.

Like, Don something. And it's like he's literally the guy with the big top hat going, ah, you know. And he's just like, he's, that's a role now with a name and everything. Don Savage. like what the fuck you know anyway whatever um and then they also i know i remember hearing like oh yeah they're looking for an excuse to to get a vulcan and so like now he's joe so um there there it is uh that was that what else is going on um there's again there were a lot there was like a good 50 things announced here but um obviously uh not all of it worth

talking about. So I bolded a couple things. How about fucking Gang of Dragon? How about T-hee? L-O-L-O-L-O-L. You can't do nothing to me. The name is different enough. The energy's different enough. Negoti Studio. I'm going to do what I want.

It's a pretty cool name. It's... It looks pretty fun. It's just wild that you're not even pretend. ending to give a fuck. What if I made the exact same game? Like literally. Like literally. But you're a non-secret Korean.

Yep. Overt. Overt Korean, actually. I saw a site that had it like in the news and like mistranslated the name of gang of dragons. And it made me so upset. Because it instantly became the least cool title in the world.

Like, it works because it's singular, unpluralized gang of dragon. It must be dragon. It cannot be dragons. No, I'm, I'm a whole gang of dragon in myself.

Yes. It's also a game made to impress his yakas of friends. So that when they play it, they go, Oh, Nagoshi. So of note, eat at all. Look at the screenshots they put out.

There's actually a little. like driving and shooting guns into people. So like this, this big Korean man will be a murderer. We're not playing games with the, yeah, yeah, which like, never killed. The idea of making like 10 games in a row of a noble Japanese gangster

that doesn't kill people, only to make one game in which you play a Korean gangster and going, oh, now he can kill people, yeah, is really funny. But you got to have the scenes. But then you got to have the scenes afterwards where he has a drink and it's just like sometimes you got to do what you got to do. You know, do you think this will then therefore lead to their being secret Japanese? Secret Japanese in Japan would be an awesome storyline.

That would be really fucking cool. Deep, deep in the Chinese gangs or the Korean gangs. That would be fucking so cool. Secretly Japanese. The secret Like One of the secret Koreans actually just

ended up being Japanese and be like I tricked you. That'd be wonderful. Gang of Dragon. Cool. Not only are we done with the Tomb Raider Survivor

trilogy, but we're doubling down and swerving back to original Lara, remaking Tomb Raider 1 and making a sequel to

eight was it or seven Tomb Raider Underworld Ain't darkness Under Anyway They're going They're going full hard back to the originals Okay so two things

One this is the second Full On remake of Tomb Raider 1 There was Tomb Raider anniversary Right but not reboot We are remaking but not rebooting Yeah this is the second Full on remake of Tomb Raider 1 And the weirdest actually made me feel stupid because I was watching.

I'm like, oh, this looks like it's going back to more like Tomb Raider One kind of stuff. Like, you know, old time. Oh, it is. It literally is. And then you see you're shooting the dinosaurs and you're like, well, of course that, we know what the fuck that is. Yeah. But no one was asking for a sequel to fucking Tomb Raider Underworld. No, they weren't.

But what got me and Min super confused was the faces because the face. Because the face in the new game, Catalyst, was a brand new Lara face that is like, oh, I guess they're just starting over again and doing a whole new thing. But then they showed the next game, which is Legacy of Atlantis, the remake of the first game. And her face looks like the one from the Survivor trilogy. right? So I was like Oh, you're What? These are both being made by different companies which is I don't know. It's fucking

Yeah, Crystal D is doing the You know, the main I think the main sequel one and then I think I didn't see the dev on the other But there was a bit there where I was like Their faces look different It didn't just look like she was a bit older to me But I, you know

Maybe yeah Look I can go back and get the side by side by but I feel like I was like this one looks like a brand new face and then this one looks like the sequel, the remake, the reboot face but then placed back on the remake.

Um, all right. Uh, that, that, that was the impression. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm seeing a lot of people disagree. Uh,

I found it kind of confusing that they were releasing two games back to back by different companies that are like of different, like the beginning and also that, also the end to like a series of like man the the tomb raider plot is just like there's a fucking artifact and she wants to steal it that's it yeah uh because there was the tomb raider like legend fucking timeline and then the it's so fuck stop it just stop and don't forget don't forget the um don't forget the lara croft like a platformer time line as well and,

uh, uh, to tech. To tech. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, that first game was a million times better than that second one. Um,

I'm looking at a screenshot of her face in the Survivor trilogy and in Legacy of Atlantis. And it looks pretty close to me. But, eh. Um, particularly,

I guess. Uh, this one. Like, I'm like, that's, that's, that's, that's kind of what I was thinking of. Yeah. But whatever, it doesn't matter. Um, then we saw, okay, and I have to, okay, I have to say, this is done its job and completely pulled me in the remedy trailer for control. uh, resident.

Fucking looks amazing. It looks so cool that they made DMC Devil May Cry too. It looks so cool that they did that. I love the, uh, before the character action, parts of that started happening. Um, just the direction and like the use of sound and visuals, were like really, really strong. Like I was already like, yo, this fucking looks really, really well done. So this is like, I really don't mean to sound condescending.

I don't have to say this otherwise. That's what remedy games look like. Yeah. And I put no. Games look super fucking cool. No, and again, I play, we played a few hours of control, you know. I didn't go super far. But like, I did see a lot of that, uh, the.

Yes, so strong sound, strong art design, lots of strong, you know, strong overall art direction. And like what was coming off of this with the way it was depicting this fucking insane, whatever setting. Then immediately going into like, there's a launcher, there's an air combo, there's a weapon switch. And I was like, ooh, ooh, you've got all that style and you're doing a genre that I think is cool. I'm very, very interested. Also, I guess like, I mean, I don't know about the Allen Weight games as much, but with control, you know, you were, again, the way it was described was like, by the end of that, you're just a Jedi, right? But like, making a sequel where the whole thing, where the genre changes up aggressively like this, like, how do people feel about that about it being less of a shooter and being more like of a stylish action? I feel very nervous.

Okay. Okay. They have made, um, Max Payne, Max Payne 1. Sorry, Max Payne 1, Max Guns. Guns. Guns. Guns. Alan Wake, Al Wake 2.

Um, Al Wake American Wasteland, Control 1. That's six shooters. Bo Bang. And they're really, really, really, really, really, really, really good at shooters. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. um how's oh quantum break I forgot about quantum break that's seven

do you ever get any melee weapons that are like elaborate at all or no not really okay no okay so I'm like I'm pulling my collar oh I hope I hope

I hope um the other thing is that when I made a joke about it looking like DMC devil may cry too I actually really really mean that. You have the eye for it. If you go back and look at that trailer again,

you'll see like a blue scythe air move and like a red punching air combo. And it looks like actually and like the transforming environment, it actually really does look very strongly inspired by DMC Devil May Cry. Well, I mean, this is something I think we've said in the past, but DMC Devil May Cry for all the things

that suffers from, a bold art style and isn't one of the flaws, right? It does some stuff that if it were not trying to be Devil May Cry would be like, oh shit, yeah, look at the city. Look at the way, you know, a lot of the direction of these scenes and a lot of the direction of the, we talk about the Fox area and all that stuff.

Like, it's visually, it's doing shit that's cool. It's just by comparison to what I wanted, you're fucking miles away, you know? but I'm yeah I'm just looking at this and going like as far as this trailer goes you know for what for what you were showing off like I was really

impressed and thought it would look super sick and it got my attention and also part of that helps knowing that you know for years you've been telling me about how fucking great the games this company makes are so dope as fuck so I'm like cool

there's also a pedigree that has worked for things they've made that have involved guns, I guess, so far. Let's see. Let's see. I am so interested. So if you play Control 2 at the release, sorry, Control Resonant at the release, I am so interested in either way that you play that game, be it, I'm just going to dive in, or I should catch up. Either of those is fascinating to me in a, in a wide variety of ways. Because if you're like, I want to catch up, I'll just tell you right now.

Not as much as you think, but you would want to catch up really hard. So my tease of Control 1, my tease of, of course, well, Max Payne 1-2, you know, I'm going to say like that. Goes back to fucking night. Yeah. Those games are great. But more so in the Allen Wake stuff, like, because a lot of what y'all have described has been, narrative-based and the whole

and the writing and the elements of how they the universe is wrapping together it seems like the lore here is interesting enough that I'm like yeah I don't think I would just dive in cold I think I would go back and try to

catch up on what's going on but not necessarily by like getting through the full games I'm thinking more just like you know checking out summaries of what happens and, you know, pulling a Clems, Draykingard style on what the previous games were about and what was connected. Because it seems like it's cool story. If it was like fucking whatever, just jump in and, you know, you'll figure it out as you go.

And it's dumb shit, then no. But it seems like it's cool. So I just know that, like, I realistically, I'm not going to have the time to go catch up on all of those previous remedy games. But there's only one that actually really matters to control resonant, and that's control. Right, okay. It's direct prequel. And look, like, at the end of the day, if the interest were stronger with the previous games they made, I would have already done it. That's the reality of it.

There's an invisible meter here, which is, yeah, you got to make me give a fuck enough to bother. And it needs to hit that point. I'm seeing something that looks cool here, so I want to see what's going on. I have to like kind of wrestle with this. I remember Chris Wolfheart on social media a long time ago. It was like when people ask, when people come to him and say, hey, I'm really interested in game 15 in this series. What should I go back and play to get ready for it?

His response is the one you just told me. Because if you try and go back and do that, you will burn out immediately because you don't care about any of those games. and you'll never get to the thing you're interested in. And like that had, now that I'm an adult, that has totally started to happen to me. I look at trails and I've tried, oh man, trails through daybreak or whatever the fuck looks cool. But I obviously have to go back and play the 19 prerequisite games in the trail series before I play the new one so that I know what the fuck is going on. And then I get like six hours into trails in the sky and I go,

it's pretty good, and then don't touch it again for months. Somewhere out there, and I say this as somebody who regularly am like, yo, don't skip Jojo parts, that shit's great. Somewhere out there is somebody who's dying on the hill

that you must play Zone of the Enders 1 in order to enjoy Zona the Enders 2. Someone is out there fighting for that half an hour. Not even Cojumbo. believes that. That's why I put a little movie at the beginning of Zone of the Enders 2

that's like here's what happened on. Oh, I bet we can find one. It's like, no, the movie doesn't include this feeling. It doesn't. Or go watch one of those. Zoe 1's crazy because like there's really little in Zoe 1. It's a really bareboats game.

Dude, I watched one of those animations and I don't remember which one it was. I think I also did and I don't remember a single detail. It's crazy. Just right through Okay Total Warhammer 40K This is the

So hey So when that happened I texted your friend and mine Bricky Over at Bricky And I asked him if his penis was okay And he said no Oh

Okay So okay But but Was this not Super telegraphed So This is one of those things Feels kind of like

Yeah they have had the Warhammer fantasy license for like a really long time right like the total warhammer thing has been going on for like eight years now and like every time they're like hey you're gonna do 40k they go I don't know seems like it'd be pretty hard we don't know if we'd ever do it and like every time new stuff would come out you're just everybody be staring like you think they're using this as like a fucking test to do like 40Ks. I don't know. And the other thing is that 40K is broadly more popular than the fantasy one.

And there's always been this worry that games workshop doesn't want 40K to be a massively popular video game strategy game because it would actually interfere with their toys. With the toy sales. So it was always like, I don't know, I don't know. But it's the most popular thing they own, right? Yeah. So this is the thing. that like we everybody wanted and now they're going to do it and now we've calmly said calmly

segued into oh man i hope total warhammer 40k is one of the good total war games because that is like a coin flip oh no okay okay because i just knowing that total warhammer existed and the cowards didn't call it Total Warhammer because I guess branding is important. I saw the interview where they were asked that and they're like, I understand why you call it Total Warhammer. People in the office also call it Total Warhammer. But here and now, I am telling you the official title of the game is Total War Warhammer.

Yeah. Maybe it's one of those things where like from the outside, I'm like, oh, this is popular and this is one of those things. for the bigger name, they'd probably do that eventually. But I also remember a time when it was like, so World of Starcraft, any day now, right? Any day now. So if it's one of those situations, then I get it. I would really like that game to be cool.

I would really like that. That'd be great. Do you think it was real when they zoomed in from the ground level to the space level? No, I don't think anything in that thing was real. Okay. because it's like Total War A total war

Gameplay demo isn't real Unless it runs like shit Dude And they go We're gonna clean that up later And it's just chugging But they're like Look how many little dudes there are

Oh you gotta get the fucking Is it home world? Just Space chug in Yeah okay All right Yeah yeah Um

Hey Mega Man dual override Mega Man's back from the dead. Inafune's stink has finally come out of the couch. And they're long sending it 2027. Not even going to

try for next year. Sure. Looks pretty simple. Looks pretty basic. He's jumping. He's shooting. And there's a part of me that when I see this and I'm like, I know they were, you know, they made the classics of

like in retro style, you know, going on with like 1011. and so on. He's been dead for so long that you kind of understand the need to just bring back a simple Mega Man game and just make sure it does what people want it to do.

But there's that little bit at the end of the trailer where you see the little like, it opens up, you know, and then of course there's the recent secret level like shorts and stuff. And you're kind of like, I hope there's a, you know, there's something in here that's like new and kind of a fresh take on whatever's

it's going to be while also reintroducing the Blue Bomber. Do you know what I want? I want the same take. I don't want a fresh take. Okay. I want the same take as ever. I think the understanding of when you're coming back

from the dead, you need to just reestablish what the fuck this is. So it's probably going to be just that. I can't, I hope I'm attributing this correctly. I think I saw mom say this, but I'm not 100% sure, but it might be like the most cataclysmically pessimistic take I've ever seen about anything, which is like Capcom has to put out a new Mega Man game because there aren't enough, like the 35 to 45 year old male demographic that buys Mega Man hoodies is starting to dry up.

Because there hasn't been a game in so long. And it's just like, oh, everyone, God damn it. Every one of those kids that was in the commercial for Mega Man Anniversary collection from the fucking early aught back in the day going, Mega Man, Mega Man, they all have mortgages now. Think of that trailer where they're showing kids way too young to play those super hard games. But what the GameCube collections came out, they're all fucking taking their taking out their 30 to 40, possibly even 50 year mortgages. I yeah no I what I'm thinking to as well is like um you know don't don't don't don't fuck with it don't go too nuts with it but something that would be something is something kind of like um when kirby 64 came out for example and it was like yo it's kirby it's fucking kirby um you can you can use two powers together to make a uh a third power yeah you know

like something or make just make some great like level designs, make some great music, um, and run like one extra little depth bit on like the powers or whatever you're doing in the game. Something, something like that, you know, um, but basically just reestablish, run, jump, shoot, et cetera. Um, another thought I had, and I mentioned this while we were watching it was like, I remember the me that specifically back in the day was like, what if Mega Man X is Mega Man 10? And the timeline of the old Mega Man games branches into the new ones because Mega Man had to kill Wiley and he didn't want to do it.

And this is, and X is, there's a branch to how we get from one to the other. And are we, and are we ever going to see it, you know? And then we moved way past that point. and I like, do I still kind of want that little branch game to exist though? You know? I'm like, I understand that that was the me, that was the young, edgier version of me that was super like, no, it's all got to be connected and a part of me still kind of wants to see it. I'm not going to lie.

It's in there. I can accept a world where we go X is X, Mega Man's Mega Man zero, et cetera, and so on. you know, trigger's trigger. But, mm. What if blood-borne demon-dez dark? Yeah, yeah. It's dumb.

What if, dude? What if Ronnie makes a blood-borne? Think about it. Do you remember that? Well, now with night rain... Who the fuck knows? None of that shit matters. Like, that shit doesn't matter.

I'll tell you what fucking does matter. What's that? The most excited I got, I think watching, like, well, this into, well, watching the TJs in general, coming in pretty dead and tired and, you know, overall trying to keep my optimism from, from crusting over. You show me a fucking Cotor 3 something, and I'm going to raise all my eyebrows up. fate of the old republic I'm I just want the optimism I just want I just want it

maybe maybe this is going to be super sick though because Cotor was sick they didn't show anything though and they just today were like like Jason Schreier was like yeah you might not see this shit till 2030 and then Casey Hudson Casey Hudson was like no

you're good it offered nothing it offered nothing like Yeah, he said, he said, hey guys. He said, hey guys, I'm getting old. We're pretty, I feel like we're going to see it before 2030. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. But I just, for the optimism to not just fucking husk out, the idea of a really cool Cotor 3 is very exciting, given how awesome Cotor 1 and 2 were. End of thought. End of thought. That's it. It's just. that simple. I know that he only did one and then the Mass Effect games, but I'm just looking and going, man, fuck, I loved Cotor and I didn't think that was like Cotor 2 in particular was some of my favorite shit in Star Wars. I hope this is fucking awesome. You know what I would really like for Casey Hudson to come out and say. I would really, really like for C. Husson to come out and say, I would really, really like for Casey Hudson to come out and say, hey, we're working on FOTOR.

FOTOR is going to be a game. Maybe if it does crazy well or whatever, we can make some afterwards. But we are not writing or planning this as a trilogy. Right, right, right, right, right. Because speculation about Mass Effect's writing caused Casey Hudson and the other guy, Mark Walts, something waters to ruin miseffectry sending

to change it up to separate expectations. So let's all just not speculate about this at all. Let's just Mac Walters. Yeah, let's just all let them right with the who I didn't guess it. Ooh, it promise.

Ooh, it's a big secret. I could never figure it out. And yeah, if the name is what it implies here, you know, I don't know how far the tour timeline goes into the old republic time

you know into the... I don't know if that even matters. But I'm... The old republic is actually like way after I think. Yeah, so that's the thing. Like I, my understanding is that you get the Cotor games and then you get the old republic and then

you get thousands of years and then high republic starts, right? So if this is named Fated of the old republic, then I think the assumption is going to be like this will be the end of the transition into whatever, you know, high republic stuff stuff is going to be because I mean, I can also see the interest in being like, hey, we created a new arc and we're filling it in with content. We probably want to set the pieces in motion to show you what that's going to be.

So yeah, it would be nice if this wasn't a trilogy or anything like that. just make one for one and let it be a solid game like the previous ones were unfettered by unburdened by what has come before and and maybe just maybe in its wake a little a little floating ducky of Quantic Dream will get drowned and drop to the bottom of the ocean and be forgotten shit, we still haven't heard zero nothings about that Star Wars game, huh? Just let the light of this blow quantum shit

out of the fucking water. Well, I mean, it'll be easy to blow them out of the water if they never surface. Skeleton rotting at the bottom. Whatever happened to that? That's been announced for like three years. We've seen zero. Like, nothing. I want to say there have been

the most recent announcements have been, hey, it's not canceled announcements, and we're hiring announcements. not more than actual content and or anything tangible. But they promise it's happening, though. And you know what? I mean, shits, hey, over here in Montreal, I should put some feelers out and see what stinks, you know,

see if I could sniff around a little bit. Anyway There was a couple other things Do you I don't know if you felt If you were interested in an on toast at all But soma people Creepy stuff

What's that Soma creepy visuals Rat trap Brain Yeah that look cool Yeah Proper

There's some horror stuff happening there I gotta be honest I was like Oh it looks cool And then I was like From people who made Soma I'm like oh okay Like that that was what

got my brain activated. Yeah. Where I was like, I like Soma. Soma was really, really good. It's the best game they ever made. There was some creepy-ass visuals in that trailer that were like, oh yeah, you got some good brain horror going on here. And then I, what was the next one?

Order of the Sinking Star. I'm curious to find out. That's the Jonathan Blow. Oh, yeah. See, yeah, I know. I know. I don't have anywhere. near the venom. I've, because I'm like, I liked Braid and I never finished a witness,

but like, it's, it's easy to not have the venom if you've never heard Jonathan Blow speak over the past five years, but if you have, you would be like, oh, I hope this game wasn't made with vaccines or seed oils. Oh, damn it, man. Yeah, okay, I'm just going off of, I'm going off of Braide. Make sure to keep the game away from your food. phone so the 5G doesn't make it okay. No. You can't retroactively make Soldier Boy the protagonist, man.

You can't do that. I know, right? You can't do that. That's not okay. But I'm curious to see what the twist or the bits going to be, because obviously whatever you see with the front of the thing is not actually the thing. And then whatever he does too, I'm imagining there is a, 10 years in the making long, you know, the secret and or thought that's being explored

with a very simple at first appearing game. But secretly, you're learning some other shit. You know what I really like about guys like Phil Fish and Jonathan Blow? I really like that they pioneered this kind of like, look, you know, there's like a big secret. And the secret is that I've taken a pretty decent idea for a game and I've layered it onto a pretty mediocre idea for a game. And when you find that mediocre idea, you'll be so surprised that you won't notice that it's kind of mid. I need a game industry where there are pretentious creators trying to do shit and just throwing it out there and seeing what happens. and seeing if it crosses the line.

I need that. That's, that's an industry that I'm, I, I want to exist. I want, I want people throwing shit at the wall and seeing if it sticks. Just, um, maybe not their opinions on,

on, uh, vaccination, perhaps, uh, fucking Christ. Um, and then I had to use the bathroom so I, I ran out,

uh, but then I watched after the fact, Bradley the Badger. because I didn't... That game looks really cool. Yeah, I didn't know. I saw a Badger mascot and I was like, okay, whatever, I'll fucking, you know,

we'll whatever this is. And then I came back and then people were like, actually, that was pretty interesting. So I went back and I was like, oh, shit, okay, yeah. Yeah, it actually does look pretty interesting. I like the idea of, like, just a parody platformer. I haven't had one of those in ages. Fourth wall breaking, talking to the viewer,

pulling out texture tests. and switching genres, Badgerborn, Last of Us, all that shit. So yeah, parody, probably going to have tons of mechanics, you know, for just a second to make the bit and then switching it up. And then I don't know what that live action segment was meant to imply, but like, I was like, are you going to do a actual first person realistic segment? And it's like, no, no, no, this is live action. That'd be cool. And then it's like, are we going to become a furry simulator? because that's new tech, that's a new world we haven't explored through the eyes of the mask, you know.

If you're going to become a badger in real life, we already, we, we, this is a- Badger in real life, Willie. Well, this is explored territory, you know, and guess what? Doesn't give a shit to Badger are going to be a badger. If we're jumping into real life here, there's a very clear framework for how to be an IRL Badger. let's see if they explore it. What the fuck was stupid never dies? Stupid never dies?

I saw that and I was like, oh, is this lollipop chainsaw too? Everybody thought that. It has the aesthetics. It absolutely does. The high school, the boyfriend and girlfriend, the cheerleader bit, the bubblegum pop. And it's like, nah, this is from former Devil May Cry people. and yeah, Capcom staff.

And it's just something else. But here's a zombie boyfriend doing action game shit. So let's see what it is. I would like to see more of that game. They didn't show actually a whole lot of it. I would like to see more.

Yeah, I mean, I feel the way about it. I feel almost like seeing the control stuff where I'm just like, oh, cool. That's the genre I like. Um, this aesthetic is, you know, looking pretty, pretty cool. Let's see what's going on. Um, what was the team name? Did we get a team name on that too for this?

I don't think we did. I'm looking at like a web page. I don't have any team name here either. Yeah, because it just said, um, you know, former developer is GP Track 50 Inc. Right. Okay. Who are making stupid never dies. Uh, devil may cry devs resident evil devs.

Resident Evil Devs, Dragon Dogma Devs. Yeah. Former Capcom staff all around. Then there was, what else was interesting? Orbitals looks fucking cool. That was the one that had the 80s anime aesthetic in 3D. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That looked really cool.

Loved how well realized that was. And they definitely seamlessly switched to like actual you know, animation, like 2D animation that was like a retro anime style and then cell shaded 3D animation that was low frame rate but still kept the aesthetic.

What a fucking awesome visual. So yeah, 3D platformer doing doing what my... Okay, so the first time I saw Oni, you know, or Shogo, like the old PC anime games

I that's this is what I thought I was looking at you know or fear I mean fear effect even right years later like it gets closer but it's not quite exactly there but this is as close as I've seen it this is really really well done because it's it's almost got the same vibe that um that Sonic game I played a Sonic Blast uh Sonic Robo Blast uh 2 you know where you're you're you're rotating the camera, but the 3D model is like only updating on the cardinal directions, you know? Because like 2D, it's like a sprite. It's great. All right. Then there was the Divinity trailer. Mm-hmm.

And... Very cool, extraordinarily graphic. That trailer was fucked up. I was, like, for a non-gameplay thing, you know, I was like paying attention to the narrative and how dark that was. I don't know anything about the setting of divinity, but... There's lizard people. Okay.

And skeletons. But like you're seeing this dude burning at the stake, you know, so to speak. And then you're like, oh, this is a fucked up, like, society of like celebrating, you know, the torture of people and so on. And then you see the goop coming off of him and you're like, oh, no, wait. I think they're right to burn him, though. That was a really cool trailer that made everyone real excited. And I have a suspicion that Sven over at Larian wishes that that was the only news we had about Larian this week. Well, perhaps the excitement for that trailer was a little too high.

And perhaps we needed to cool the jets down a little bit by opening our mouths when we didn't even have to open them. We'll get to that in a minute. I guess so. Let's finish up the roundup. Saros, aka Son Returnal. Returnal to. Returnal to the sun.

What if the sun was evil? I really hope. So like Returnal's a great shooter. It is a very bad rogue like. I would like this to be a. similarly good shooter and a better rogue-like. Yeah. That is my hope.

Yep, that'll work. Also, you know, as people that make fun of terrible names for games, this is not at all in that category. But when Saros, I'm seeing a trailer for that at the same show that I'm seeing one for Ontos. Yeah. And I want to say there was a third game that was kind of. of in that naming space. Um,

there was, I feel like there was a third thing in there. I kind of was like, uh, which one was which again. So the longer that names go on, the less good names will get. And that's how we get Bryden. That's how we get little baby Bryden. Oh, okay. I was like, was that announced? Was Bryden announced at the TGA?

I'm making, I'm making fun of the, the, the glut of Sloth names for the children. Okay. So, no, the third game I was thinking of, so there was Antos, and then there was Saros, and then there was Solasta 2. Okay, so Solasta actually already exists. No, I know. It's a sequel to an existing thing, yes. But not something that I knew. Extremely strange game, because Solasta was not Baldersgate 3.

Boy, did it look like not... D&D game? Boy, it looks like not Baldersgate. And so Lasta 2 is not Baldersgate 3, but also includes like Tevereaux while in it. So it's so not Baldur's Gate that like even the character faces look like they're from the same engine. It's really crazy. That's what was what I was impressed by. I'm like, no wait, your actual faces look like they're coming out of it. Oh, that's Ben Star also, yeah.

Oh, God, Ben Star will do anything for money. I recently saw a little interview with Ben Starr In which they're like, what is your long-term goal as an actor? And he's like, I want to be the spokesperson for Terry's chocolate oranges. And I'm like, Yeah, man!

Fuck yeah! I fucking love a chocolate orange! So chatting with Gianni about being one of the voice actors that just yucks it up with their character and becomes the meme and endears the character even more than the source material does. He had a very astute observation, which is, because I was pointing out how awesome that is

and how Alex Lay saved Luke, how Ben Starr is absolutely crushing it in every role he's taking, and how Gianni's doing wonders with all of his memes and everything. And it's, I want that for everything. And then he's like, yeah, well, maybe not all the time Should the developer let any voice actor do what they want and have fun with it? That's true. And he's like, you're a Devil May Cry fan, aren't you?

I was like, oh! And then you're like, yeah. Okay, well, just, you know, can we have nice things sometimes, though? Can we be, can we like, can we establish that they, you know, the bit will be solid and then take the limitors off and let the voice actors go? Um, yeah, it's a, it's a dangerous game we play. And sometimes some devs are like, nah, you cannot speak as our characters officially. You get like, fuck off. You do what we tell you to and that's it. And it's like, yeah, okay, fair enough. Um, so there was that. There's Lenny Kravitz for some reason. Um, he's a famous person. Yeah. He's in the, the hitman game. Yep. And it's like, move over. Where's your daughter? She's cool. She's cool.

She was in Batman. I don't know. Oh, Zoe Kravitz. She's great. Is that the cat woman? Yeah. I got to say, I got to say, Willie, the phrase move over, where's your daughter? Not great.

I, I, um. Someone say that to you one day. Oh, boy. You'll be ready to throw hands. Oh, boy. See, but also. but also Lenny Kravitz

is like literally the walking fucking giga chad face like he actually has the giga chad face and um yeah he kind of does

yeah and it's kind of ridiculous anyway um hey it was it was Leon he is back RE 9 this might be

the least shocked I have ever been about anything to do with Resident Evil and that is a lot of things I've been unshooked by. Well, isn't the real reveal, him pulling the fucking chainsaw out? You know?

Okay. No, because he's taking it from a chainsaw man during the kill animation. Okay. Well, he's got... The real reveal is if Sherry's his new contact on the phone. Ah, aged up. Yeah. Who knows?

The, uh, uh, uh, the little, the little, Dante stubble. It's good to see that Leon, despite being over 50 years old, has not suffered from twink death. I am enjoying watching these pretty boy characters going unk. You know, I like that. I want that on more of these characters over time as Capcom throws a little bit of fucking little stubble. I got to say, there's like an absolutely wild amount of sex.

in the Resident Evil for this purpose. How old's Leon and Chris? I don't know. Their 50s or whatever? Get a new girl. Get a new girl for the character. Well, no. What you got to do is you got to bring Ada back and have her like Chun Lee with just

brighter amounts of like little details on the makeup. It just gets a little stronger, but her face is pristine. You know? That's all. Ada's looking as great as she always has. Do you know why that is? Do you remember that interview? No. Okay, so in Resident Evil 6, Leon looks kind of bad and Ada looks like immaculate,

like not a single day has passed since Resident Evil too. Nothing. And there was an interview in which they were asked like, hey, so how come Ada looks like she hasn't aged today? And the response from, I think it was the director, one of the producers, was like, we thought about making her look her age, but instead we decided to make her attractive. Oh, okay, I was wondering, but yeah, no, that checks out. Yep.

There was a discussion and... There was a discussion and we decided actually instead of, yeah. Oh, man. Fuck, dude. That's so brutal. I would rather hear that than some littledy-ditty dance around. Oh, the bones, the CG, the 3D bones are too hard. to animate, you know.

Like, he couldn't even just say she's aging really well. Listen, listen, listen, all right. As someone who, like, thinks that you could have some fucking sick older characters that are dope as hell. Ambessa, for example, is crushing it. Yeah. They said it with their full chest, and there's nothing I can do about that. I think.

I think. And like, so people who haven't beaten all four Resident Evil Six campaigns wouldn't know this because why would you? That game sucks. Resident Evil Six's core storyline is about a guy simping over Ada Wong so hard he blows up the earth. Like that is, and that, I'm serious. That is like actually not a joke really for real Z, the plot. So she needed to be pristine.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And also remember Jill got infected with the T virus and then got mind control by Wesker, so she's not aging. Oh, yeah. Okay. Which is why Jill gets to come back and Claire and Rebecca don't.

So just being Asian defeats the T virus, just straight up. Perfect condition. No, I would like to see if they're going to show any other character. aged up at any point, you know? Nah, it's gonna be those two. They might show like... On comm. You said on comms, right?

On comms. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. Oh, man. Um... All right. What else was there?

Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, there was, of course, the Expedition 33 stuff and the Swithreep. The sweet. The Swithreep. Um, I appreciate picking the whole fucking gang up, putting them all in the baguette outfit and taking over the, the, the... the two rows of that audience. Very sweet.

Awesome. Very, very cool. It was nice to see Lorien test on stage and getting to just from SoundCloud to hear, you know, enjoy it. Really interesting to see the level of confidence from L'Oriand on stage playing his guitar compared to the level of confidence of him reading his speech. It was absolutely fascinating to see him jamming out and Bob, yeah. Yeah. And him reading his speech, like, clearly terrified of public speaking.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. No, it was charming. You know, he's just like, he's in his element when he's got the instrument in his hands. Pragmata, again, yeah. You can show the demo out April 24th. That's good. It's a good demo.

How long? When you meet the demo, it actually unlocks new features in the demo to be like, oh, yeah, go through it again once or twice. Nice. How long was it? it? 20 minutes, tops. Oh, oh. And then my second run was eight minutes.

Oh, like a demo demo. Yeah, no, it's a demo. Okay. I guess we've gotten spoiled on a couple of like, chunk of the game previews. Yeah, no, no. That's not, that can't be the standard. No, but you really get a feel for

if you're going to spend the money or not, you know? Oh, I did. Like, I mean, the core gameplay is solid. And, you know... And the game looks good. And then there was like Dragon's Dogma where it was like, go fucking play a bunch of that shit, you know? Keep your save even.

I tricked you. It's the best part of the game. No, me spreading disease to your save file is the best part of the game. Yeah, no, that is. That's pretty good. And I like that. And then we got to see the new Warframe trailer with Warner fucking Herzog. I don't.

I'm a big fan. I don't know. Seeing a trailer or something. And you just go, is that fucking blank? Like, like they're just a weird pick. I cannot understand for the life of me why the tenor are not excited for the inauguration of Barack Obama. Well, that's a pretty solid Werner-Horzog impression. That was way better than I thought was going to come out of your mouth.

It's, why are you here, sir? What is going on? How did they get you? You should reach out to Reb and see if you can do some pickup lines for Werner. If in case he can't, sure thing. Yeah. The most depressing fucking war frames I've ever seen in my life. It's way better than I'm fucking saying.

What the fuck? Uh, um, and then they showed off some more soul frame. Oh, I actually missed that because I was peeing, but that's fine. It was the Founders teaser.

Oh, we're, whoa, I missed, okay, we're doing that now. I don't know. I don't know what it means.

So founders is what you get, uh, for, you know, these types of games in which they'll be like, hey, this is a free to play game. But do you want to buy it so that you get something that no

one will ever be able to get but... Oh, okay. Truly a founder of... Yes, yes, early adopted. So like founders people for Warframe got access to Excalibur Prime, which was the... That's the poster boy, isn't it?

Scott Tenow? Yeah, that's the fucking box. Yeah, except you can't get Excalibur prime ever ever. No one can get Excalibur prime. And there's no reopening that that crypts. Okay. So what they did is like

six, seven years later they released Excalibur Umbra which was not Excalibur prime. Right, right, right, right. Because you can't take away the benefit of the people who did show up for it

yeah you gotta get it in there yeah you gotta get the hand you gotta do it yep let him know i saw i saw the most dire six seven of all i saw a lady asking her toddler what jesus was doing and it was a photo of jesus like this and the baby goes jesus is doing six seven and i'm like this is the best actually like i didn't get it i didn't get it at all and then i saw that and i'm like this the funniest shit ever. They're like... Full circle. All right. All right, culture.

All right, humanity. We're going to be okay. We're going to make it. We're doing good. So, does this mean, then, that it's like, no matter how this game actually turns out, you got to fucking get in there on the founder's shit in case it's super good and you have the extreme fomo later when you're never going to get a shot at it? And it's extra smart because right at the beginning of these games is by far the worst time to get in. Like the best time to get in is like 18 months.

Oh, there's no exclusives in Soul Frame Founders? Am I just completely going off of the Warframe? I was going to say the reward for having faith in the unfinished product is you get access to that exclusive shit. You trusted. $130. You trusted us when no one else did. Oh yeah. Access to founder merch store.

Weird? Very strange. Okay. Now, again, these are, everything that they make is free and thus relies on these types of purchases, right? Yeah, yeah.

Okay. So, you know, that changes the framing a little bit. Like you're not, you're not coming in full price off through the rip and looking for your content. Yeah.

I would not suggest anyone try that. I would suggest people will just download Soulframe and play it and see if they like it. That's my advice. Sounds like someone that doesn't have Excalibur Prime. I don't. I don't, man. Sounds like fucking, sounds like bitch.

fucking yeah yeah yeah scaliber prime isn't even that good anymore Excalibur umbra objectively better oh okay okay and also fuck that shit it's all about Inaros can you um can you um glamour in in

it bro oh you mean like make you look like a different frame no no because yeah it's part of the whole point right is like you get the frame and do the thing so it trivializes it too much imagine. Okay. Um, then, uh, last little bits, Invincible versus revealed fucking an avatar.

Ambessa. No, revealed Kora. You know, like, I, like, Hey, you- Something mean about that game when that character got unveiled. What? Um, and the, the mean thing that I said is that I think you might have chosen the wrong franchise to make your fighting game license out of if you have had to resort to making original characters before the game is even out. So, arxis disagrees, but arxis usually does an OC that blends in nicely fits the world and

complements things, whereas Ella Mental over here is coming in as the character that probably has the most unique kit because she's not a flying brick, she's got element bounding essentially and they need something like that because they're desperate for power diversity. I don't blame, you know, I guess Amazon Prime or whoever, I guess they're holding the invincible license. Like I get the idea of wanting to do something invincible related like this, but yeah, maybe a fighting game wasn't it, man. You know, maybe the answer was dispatch, you know?

Maybe, maybe it really was. But yeah, look, we'll wait for... That dispatch is pretty good, man. It's fucking good. Look, let's wait for the... And look, you already had Aaron Paul lined up, you know? Dude, I can't... I can't wait for, like, the top team to be, like, three vtramites.

Like, like, hey, do you know what... Hey, what's the top tier team? Is it 3V3 or 2V2? It's 3v3. Okay, okay, it's going to be Mark and VIII. invincible um omneman and the old bitch with the knife hair and uh that's that's gonna be top eight and fucking whatever no i'm gonna say it's gonna be angstrom levi and two b and nine s oh that's good that's good that's gonna be the top tier team actually super good yeah yeah yeah

And as for why they showed up, I just explained it in the team. Yeah. Yeah, okay. I don't go. But okay. Right? Right? Um, he opens portals.

Okay. He's a portal guy? He's a portal guy. Oh, okay. That's cool. Is that the guy who looks like Yakub? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Oh, man. It's so weird that there's a guy that looks like Yakub, man. Anyway Hey Looks like Marvel Rivals is like Pulling out the stops and going for all the faves So you're hitting Gambit, Rogue, and going straight to Deadpool

Great Yep Smart move I wish that game's spell had not been broken for me I really do That game's spell was smashed to bits. By.

I didn't finish one of the fucking seasonal Chinese battle passes and I went, oh, I can't get everything now. I'm done. And I deleted it and I have yet to boot it ever again. Sorry. It's just, there's a lot of, there's a lot of, um, invincible nation of Islam memes. Oh, are there? Oh, yeah. Okay.

So it's, so it's not. Okay. Anyway. Anyway. Yeah. So anyway, no. The, the, you, what broke the spell? Sorry? I missed out on some costume from the Chinese New Year of that. And that was it. And then I'm like, oh, I can't get everything. So it's ruined. But what if, but they just announced they're bringing some of them back. Like if you missed the vampire hunter Wolverine, you can go get it. And like a couple of other things are cycling back in now. Can I get all of them forever? I think they're doing a bunch of them for like Christmas season. Yeah, maybe. I don't know.

The other thing is that I actually really dis... This is a pat problem. Like that is not... I know I'm not the only person who feels that way. This one is purely a pat problem. I want to play Marvel Rivals on my PC with a controller, but I don't want to have to deal with mouse and keyboard players whipping my fucking hand.

So, like, I should actually just be playing it on console. all my consoles are in the office. So there's, when I was playing a bunch of it, I would remember watching, there's tutorials on like getting good enough at movement to like, with a controller to really compete and be solid and, you know,

like things about how to use cursor tracing and aim and all that stuff. But it takes effort. It takes time. You got to put work in beyond just like inherent twin stick aiming, you know? But, um, the, yeah, but I think,

no, they're doing a round of bringing back old costumes now and bringing out Deadpool and stuff. And like, yeah, to be fair, it's like, it's season six, right? Like, this is something where it's like, the game, the game's been around for a minute now when, you know, they're still doing pretty solid cosmetics across the board. Oh, absolutely. I'm looking at a, I'm not Daredevil Halloween costume. Sorry, Christmas costume for Daredevil, which is awesome. So, yeah, I think the fact that they're just pulling out all the stops and bringing out the big faves at this point makes a lot of sense. I know they'd never get Ryan to actually voice Deadpool in this type of situation, but, you know, he does a good job of it.

So it would have been fun, but it's fine. Actually, let's take our break. All right, BRB. We got half giggles, but not full-on laugh. We're getting half giggles. That's as far as we can go right now. Okay. That's a milestone.

Okay. So, you know, as soon as you get anything like it, I have, it's, it's, I know punch mom's working hard to try to get a full one going, but, uh, it's, it's work. You got to, you got to hit those minds to see if you can get a full one. Why are you confused? You look perturbed. What? are you talking about? I'm talking about my daughter.

Okay, because we were segueing when we left from, then we got a lady on hat on stage, and then we took a break. And so now you go, we got half giggles. And I'm like, what did the lady giggle about at the, I went,

I went out, I went in the bathroom break. I went downstairs and I smelled some baby. Yeah. And in the process, um, the update is that, uh,

the, We're getting close to a full giggle, but we don't have full giggles yet. Oh, okay. So, but I did when I was looking up milestones, see that, like, getting the beginnings of a giggle is in and of itself a milestone. Oh, yeah, dude. So you got to be careful with that milestone stuff. You've got to be really, really, really, really, really, really careful with that milestone stuff because they're all approximate. It's not a checklist.

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We're going to put a little timer in the corner so you all can follow along. Capcom tech. With your live watch. Yeah. We're going to do the Capcom tech, the Street Fighter Live, Street Fighter's leave. Yeah, yeah. Just this. Just this.

Just me and page here and the little timer. And the timer. You can sync it up. It's good tech. It's good tech. Okay. So you can see our eyes go go googly-moogly when DeGoole takes his dick out. There you go.

It looks all weird. Okay. So to that extent, you know, we're going to get a move on over. here. That is pretty much as we're arriving to the end of the show, there's a couple announcements left. I said a lady with a top hat

showed up and just pulled the brakes on this parade. And I have to say this is, I think, the single funniest promotional tweet for a new character I've ever seen. Oh yeah. It's really funny. It's the best.

Caitlin. You're talking about Caitlin Kieran or whatever, fuck name. Caitlin, the sniper top hat lady, um, vise girlfriend from the league of legends from the league has, has to no one's surprise, been confirmed to be the next character in 2XCO. And immediately after announcing this and the console release of 2XCO was the tweet going,

hey guys, we know, you know, and this is the last arcane character for now. Like that field. That feels like mandated. I... It has to be half archaic... So I'm going to put that on the team. No, like kind of, you know,

having gotten a chance to chat with a few of those folks and, you know, gotten the vibe for the situation, I think the team straight up knows the deal and is like, okay, here we go. This was always the plan. We know. And Uncockable pretty much confirmed it

in a little video today that this is always the plan. But... Caitlin was up next and here she is. now let's just get past it. It's kind of like when they announced the name the Nintendo Wii. And then like, I think it was like

Perrin Kaplan who came out and was like, now get it all out of your system. We know it's super funny, but get used to it. You know what helped get us out of our system if they showed what the character looked like and they did cool things because now we're sitting in the...

So I hate Caitlin. I hate Caitlin in league. I don't like Caitlin in arcane. I so like I don't like Caitlin Kieraman. I don't I hate Caitlin simply

based on her arcane depiction. I have no idea what her league representation is like. Timo but with no charm. Okay. So when I'm sitting there, I'm literally sitting there going literally

there's like 300 fucking characters they but I'm like literally any character, but Caitlin. And then, oh, it's Caitlin. I'm like, oh, I'm so depressed. And, but, um, they should show us how she plays because this is the third trap slash zoner long range character in a roster of 12. That is three doll zims in the world warriors. So that is too many.

So they, um, yeah, the, the, the, the video today said something to the effect of, like, like, you know, get your head shots and you'll be, you'll be excited to see how she learns how to play or so. And I, I, maybe I was reading a post, or maybe he said something. I might be misremembering, but like, I thought I saw something that implied she'd play different from what we've already established, you know, knowing. I would fucking hope so. So what I will say is that, again, and this is from just chatting with them in person,

they were describing like the minimizing overlap you know is a priority that they have for some of these characters and what's going forward

so you can expect if you're seeing something like this I imagine there's going to be a system she has that's pretty different from Jinks and Timo I wouldn't be surprised like so I don't know what her kit is though in league you want to know what her kit is

but is it bullets is it reloading her kit is shoot a gun throw down a trap throw down a net and shoot a gun grush by the way

you know the jinks traps on the ground yeah like that like that you know shoot a gun you know like Timo and Jinks like that maybe again maybe we'll get a cursor like happy chaos or alfelt you know um i i just she's so boring she has no juice she's so boring dude it's crazy and i thought and i and here's the thing she's a lamer version of two characters that already exist in the but like i already didn't like

her just as a character moving through the show and i didn't even know about the top hat. Like, like, it's so wild. Like, everything is just way worse going to the source material now because I'm like, oh, you're destined to be garbage. It's just such an uninteresting

supercar. Like, it, in arcane, like, the arcane look for like Echo and Jinks and, um, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, it's pretty cool. But their defaults are cool, too. like, Caitlin's, regular look, God awful.

God awful. When they put her in Arcane, they took away her most recognizable thing, which was her big stupid top hat, and replaced it with a beret and just massively improve the character. The reason why Caitlin is going to be a fighter in 2XCO? Because you got to have the couple. Increase sales of a mandatory costume.

You got to have the couple in there as a team as well. You can have the sister. You fucking don't. You don't give the shit! Like, I'm like, as, as we're looking at this like, please no more arcade character's energy, I said it before, but I'm like, me aside, I think if you had to pull from that well, Ambeza would go over infinitely better. No. No. No.

Amessa is the actual worst. Because she's too new. Because she's too new. Because she skips the line. She skips the line. line. Yeah. Okay. She, no, not because she's new. She is from Arcane. She did not exist in League of Legends until Arcane came out. I think the idea, okay, so that is the idea, but like the fact that

you have, it's like, you're going to get a character from the big franchise that everyone is watching on Netflix because shut the fuck up too bad. Yes, okay. Right? We're shoving it down your throat. There are problems with all remaining characters. We're shoving it down your throat. Jace is boring. Jase is just boring. Heimer Dinger would be a nice. nightmare in a fighting game. And if they put Victor in, nobody wants Arcane Victor and nobody wants post-Arcane rework Victor. They want old robot Victor. League. Um, was, was his hammer shit interesting? No. Jace is boring. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Uh, I, I, there's no, there's not much win in here, you know? And I just, but the fact that they're immediately heading it off

at the pass and going, we know, we know, we know, we know, we know, we know. I think someone pointed out that like in, like he said, like, hey, not many announcements to this, but if you're going to be sleuthing, you know, maybe you can pull your magnifying glass out. But like behind, um, unconcable in the video, there's two. Yeah, there's a luck statue. There's a luck statue and a little like, You know why there's a Lux statue? Because she's the most popular girl in league. Okay. So, yeah.

Like, that doesn't mean much. It's like going into the Capcom offices and going, do you know there's a Chun Lee statue over there? Could that mean that Chun Lee is going to be the street by and six? Also, based on the leak list, we already heard, you know. Yeah, but I could have told you Lux would be in, and TXCO within the first year. Like, she's going to be.

Yeah, it's just, it's the order of operations is all we're missing, you know. You know what would be great? If Lux was in the game and her brother, Garen, came in during her super. And we can never, ever have to worry about Garen ever arriving ever. Okay, okay, okay. So who's going to be the May that has the jellyfish pirates at the end where you just get like 30 league characters deconfirmed immediately? All the losers.

All the losers. Right? Just can we get one screen deconfirm? of everybody with a taunt. Yeah. There's got to be someone. There's got to be someone, you know? That would be who are them?

Who can, is anyone can like, zillion? Portals or, you know, just ghosts of people. Just a proper deconfirmer. You know, your, your, um, your, um, your, um, your,

your, um, your, um, your, your, ermac. That would be great. That would be great. So here's the thing. Even before the leak list, it's good to see that like people, just inherently know

in their stomach who's going to be in this game. Like, even before the leak list, I could have told you these fucking people would be here and I would have been miserable. But could you imagine like a character that like, let's say, I don't know, someone that could be possessed by the spirits of others or something.

I don't know what the mechanic is. But someone who's like, as soon as you see one of their moves show up on this character, you're like ah! Deconfirmed my fave. If they wanted to do that. what they would do is they would have Viego the ruined king come out

and he would have the ability to summon other characters from the sunken aisles to attack. So Viego would like have a hook move but instead it would be thresh that would come out. Or they'd have a charge move but it would be heckerim that comes out. And then no thrash for you. Yeah, projectile and Callista would shoot the projectile. And I hope that doesn't happen because all those characters

are awesome enough to be in the fucking game by themselves. I mean, I think Thresh, we pretty much fucking, like, everybody's, yeah. Thresh is one of the boys. Like, he's one of the world warriors in this fucking thing. I saw, I heard a grunt audio file. I heard a grunt. So, um, and then that, that wouldn't be thrush. Thresh.

Fash can talk. Okay. Well, there's that. There was a, there was a, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, you know. Yeah, she's going to be. The rest of the year is going to be Akali, Thresh, Riven The only thing worse

Lux. The only thing worse Than announcing Caitlin Right now Is announcing Caitlin And then her being really good. That would be worse. She will be really good. Can you imagine that shit

Now you're new and you're dominating and you're like, I'm getting beat by this bullshit. I think it would be in, I'm so serious, unlike usually where I like, you know, new fighting game characters have to be like a certain level of strength. I think they need to take real steps because a game in which you're running up against, instead of Echo Yasuo, it's Jinks Caitlin. So, get zones forever. Oh my God, that sounds miserable.

Die in the zone. you will die on the other side of the map on the corner. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, okay. Uh, and then, yeah, consoles come in as well, January, 2026. And then from the makers of Titanfall, I'm going to say the word Titanfall a couple more times. Titanfall.

And Apex Legends comes fucking horseback hero shooter. Now, what's it called? High guard High guard Do you mean Overwatch Horsefall Do you mean

Wait Do you mean like high Like over And guard like watch Or do you like Well now hold on a minute Is that a skill in Xcom or No that

Overwatch is a skill in Xcom Oh okay well Hi guard Listen listen listen Okay Okay Horseback first person All right

What's going on don't see that too often. You get it to make that a gameplay mechanic or whatever? Sure. And then the guns come out and you're like, it's the former response like this is what they do. But did you feel that thing where you're like, what if there were no guns in this game?

So you know what I felt? You know what I felt? I felt like I'm watching somebody. I know it's a food analogy, but bear with me. I'm like, I feel like I'm watching somebody make a nice big plate of mac and cheese. And I go, man, I could really go for a plate of mac and cheese. And they go, what if? Hey, you guys like chocolate, right?

And they just jam a chocolate bar into it. It feels like every element was chosen separately as a cool thing. And then jammed together without any thought at all as to whether or not people who like fancy, fantasy horsey riding like techno guns and frenetic action like not wall running or hero shooters like super fast Titan fall like if I were to fight every other element seems to fight every other element if I were to tell you that X Apex and Titan Fall Devs left to do their own thing and then you were to look at the timeline of dickery on that franchise would you not assume that they would literally just go do their version with blackjacket hookers and go, fuck this, we're doing it ourselves and doing what people have wanted.

The real version of that announcement is some X Titanfall and Apex Legends. People have decided that they want to make Valerent with horsies. Like, you know how strung along and fucking dick teased this. bullshaded we've been for so long now and then you leave and you get together and you announce nothing that is anything that that

that group was looking for. When you trade in on a studio name and be like we've made games like this before, it should look like the games you've made before. I, yeah. So, um, I forget again and I'm going to keep forgetting, but what was

what was that FPS where you shot unicorns and fantasy creatures coming out of the portal or whatever. Legendary. That sounds that. Did you test that? No, I didn't test it. But that could be it.

That could be it. Legendary? Yeah. Yep. The Griffin. Yep. I think you did test that. No.

No, I didn't. I didn't. But yes, there's a Griffin and a dude shooting the Griffin with the gun. And some people are going, is that a hallucination? No, you forgot, but I remember. Because I was like, oh, guns and fantasy, right. Are you thinking of Immortals of Avium? No, but that's another one.

That is another one. I can just straight up cratered on impact. I don't know if you saw that, but it just died instantly. I'm thinking of the one that was from fucking 2008. Yes, legendary. Yeah, that game's bad. So that's the first time we did. We tried this out.

But anyway. You know what have been a way more interesting version of this? If it was just sci-fi and also fantasy, if characters just were split fully down the middle instead of them being integrated? That takes a bold vision. That takes, yes, yes, and that takes a bold vision. But here, instead of a bold vision, we have Highguard.

So, okay. Cool. Also, while watching it, I was kind of like, so are we going to see the, is the circle going to start closing? Are we pushing the payload? No, man, that's an old-timey first-person shooter. You shoot guns on the other team. Well, I mean, there was a big boss-like thing that popped out of a door at some point. Oh, yeah, it'll be B-V-P-V-E.

You know, there's stuff happening. happening there. Like Titanfall, yeah. Anyway, just, yeah. Like, and to close the show with it, you know, yeah. Um, and then there was Ace Combat 8. It's so sincere. That's it.

It's so sincere. So Brickie asked me, hey, what's your favorite trailer of the whole thing? And I'm like, Ace Combat, no question. He's like, isn't that just like Metal Gear with planes? And then I sent him the intro to Ace Combat 7, where does the, color of the sky mean anything to you it does to me a hell of a lot and he's like i did not expect you what what what i got to play ace come let's go so i my my my my burning question was this is like it's like for the amount of fucking hype i get for the music from this series i'm like i need to know the

name there has to be somebody i can glaze up here wings of the his name is keiki kobayashi Oh, right. Okay. You mean the name of the composer. The composer. And he's the Ace Combat Musicman. And this is the name we have to thank for fucking Historia. Bah, pa, pa, pa, pa. Kicks ass, dude. So good. Everyone should play Ace Combat. Yeah, I don't, like, it's, whatever it is, it's like, I feel like the music I've heard from

that franchise is easy top 10 all of video game music I've ever heard easy easy top 10 um and yeah there you go that's our round up all right so fucking a i bullet point roundtable bullshit here because you just all right you want me to just go for it because i got it all in my head just hit just hit the hit the fucking notes all right so Sven Vicky or when Swen Vicky over at Larian

does a bunch of interviews today or he probably did them a couple days ago in which talks about divinity and how it'll be turned based and the usual fluff piece and then at some point just goes oh yeah

we're using AI a bunch for concept art and stuff like that but we're definitely going to always employ real humans and there's not going to be any AI stuff in front of it we're just using AI

to workshop ideas and uses the basis for concept art for our game, to which people then immediately point out, if concept art is being made by fucking AI, doesn't that mean you're using that as the, doesn't that mean those designs? To which I was talking to page, I'm like, oh, I can't wait for the next interview that Sven does

in which he gets really mad that everyone won't stop talking about the AI use and won't stop, won't glaze his game or his announcement. And he gets mad that all anyone's talking about is the AI, So I thought that was going to be in a couple of months. Apparently it was going to be 90 minutes later after the Bloomberg article went out. Correct. At which point he then clarifies, no, no, no, no, no.

Guys, the concept artists are obviously drawing all the concept art. We're just using AI for PowerPoints and for reference material. So like, and this is my paraphrase. So like, instead of Googling something, the concept artists are using AI to do reference art. And yeah, there was some pushback internally, but I'm pretty sure everyone's on board with it now. Now, that sentence, that's a quote, I screwed it up, but like the sentence of, yeah, there's some back and forth, there's some pushback. But I'm pretty sure everyone's more or less okay with it from the CEO definitely sounds like a man who told the team that they were okay with it and is super annoyed that this is the only thing anyone is talking about today. And at that point, we have a very, what was a Cromwell,

the PR man for Larian, uh, come out and basically just do a shit ton of damage control about how they examine their workflow and they told everyone they were going to do this and how, uh, AI just speeds it up and all this shit. But we're not, we're barely using AI and it doesn't go any faster, but also we're using it for this, this and it's fine. To which point people were able to find, in like two seconds, old Cromwell tweets of him making fun of AI users and saying, hey, the worst person in the world comes up to you and goes, this is how I can improve this with AI. And my takeaway is not that you're a lying asshole because you're a PR person.

That's literally your job. That's all you do all day. I am offended that you didn't have the foresight to just type the word. into your posts and search to see if someone could so readily mock you with your own opinion in like a minute? Come on. Get good. That's your job. Your job is to lie.

Lie better. To be lied too bad. I hate it. Right. You need a tight lie job. I hate it You need a tight lie job You think I'm stupid

You think I can't type a word Into the internet Um You know there's always the The fucking chaser That comes after this type of thing And I mean in this case I saw something to the effect of people

That were ex-Larian employees going Yeah Did there's yeah Hated that Not a fan of that Didn't enjoy that So quit when they started using AI So I suppose the

So I suppose the So I guess the idea of the team being on board with it is conditional to them. And so, okay, so here's a bullet points. We've got staff that are saying that they literally quit when they started using AI. Then we have people explain that Larian doesn't believe in work from home. So if you want to work at the studio, you have to move to Belgium, which means if you lose your job at Lerium, you will have to immigrate from the country if you're from out of the country, which means you have to have to say you're okay with it. Otherwise, get the fuck out.

Get the fuck out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go. On top of that, the hiring is supposedly like Labyrinthin and insane. I saw people describing how they did 12 interviews not to get the job or that Larian requires huge amounts of unpaid labor through test writing phases. And so basically we're at the period in which we discover beloved independently owned video game company Larian is a company period.

What confuses me? And that the desire to foist good feelings on upper management because they made a good game for you is probably mistaken because you don't know anyone that you don't know. And the follow-up to this, which

has straight up ruined my day in the past three hours, is that someone sent me a English translated article from a French newspaper in July of this year talking to one of

the artists, or I think it's Guillaume Brush on Expedition 33, where they actually do ask him about the AI use and the texture that was removed from Expedition 33, to which point he says, oh yeah, we use AI during the process, but like we make sure to go

over it and take it out. So the game that I've been glazing, like a motherfucker, for like a year, and just won every single game award in which I predicted it should win every single game award is part of the problem. And what's worse than that, it absolutely is game of the year. And quality isn't the point.

But now I'm emotionally attached to something that makes me upset. So I'm kind of upset about it. Yep. I'm kind of devastated and disappointed. Yep. So in fact, I do believe however many episodes ago, part of the conversation I was having was there will be a time where you're not going to know or something will come along and you'll find out after the fact and this will be what it is. Right. With Larian in particular, it's pretty strange in the sense that because they, you know, there was the whole like speech about like, you know,

supporting the independent creator team and then the fact and so on. but that same speech also is what confuses me is like if the details of how you use it are so minuscule towards the actual end result and end product why are you using it? Well, why even bring this up, right? Why even Mitch at this point? Like, why even go here? He says we're not actually saving any time. It's, it makes no sense, right?

Really weird. So like by bringing it up, it's talking, it's immediately downplaying the role that it plays and how useful it is and what it can or cannot do. And you're saying, okay, it's not being used to, to, you know, end result, generate anything creative, but then it's just this insanely minor thing. So it's like, yeah, why even bother? And then I, then you go, is it because there's somebody who wants to hear that word because of investment reasons? But then you go, but no, that might be, no, no, no, they're independently owned, but they still have investments from 10. Right. And so, and now I'm thinking back to when they said, okay, so the trick is to be independently owned and to have investors,

but to not be beholden to those investors because that's how you make the game go bad, right? So basically the whole thing about we do have outside investors, but we are the ones who decide how we're making our games and where we're going and what we're doing and we don't have the investors pushing us in any direction and controlling shit like that.

It feels like this is actually genuinely like the CEO's like, I love it. Because I can't understand why you'd make that point about the independence of, you know, the power of your independence and then go this way, which is the clear, say the word, get the cash, trend movement, you know? So it's really strange because there's been like, I think there's been like two sets of

clarifications about how AI's not going to be in the game. We just use it to build the scaffolding essentially. And like the total inability to understand. Like they're talking about it like it's a legal liability issue. and like no everyone's being like no the tech itself is like inherently immoral and we don't want it to be used and it's not as interesting and like there's like a really intense disconnect and no matter how hard you yell or how loud you are there is a there is a massive hilarious upside to this and i really mean this is going to be the funniest shit ever so CEO and PR man come out within an hour of that article coming out to run damage control all day and I get the feeling that that is very annoying to them that this is now the topic about divinity like this is what people are going to be talking about divinity for a while

well divinity is going to go into early access and part of Larian's early access plan is to sift through user feedback and if they're annoyed by this feedback they're going to get really fucking frustrated going through pay

after page after page after page of take this shit out, start it over, fuck off to try and get to any legitimate feedback about the game whatsoever. Oh, Sven also says that the game will actually take it'll be way bigger than Baldersgate 3 and it will take two years less because of AI and which I say, I don't think that's going to happen.

That sounds like this kind of shit. The CD Project used to say. cyberpunk's going to be bigger than ever and we're going to make it less time with our own edge. Yeah, I think the conversation is going to, I mean, as it continues, because this is literally just everything every week for as long as we fucking can stand it. I think what's probably going to happen is, you know, more and more, especially like devs of stuff that are, that we know, devs of stinking, games we like, things like that. Like the discussion is going to basically start bringing out the nuances of it where I think right now there's a lot of folks that are, you know, kind of like minded here where we're like, okay, fuck the bullshit, fuck this bullshit on a generative stealing first like a general, first layer of what you're seeing is the direct output of SORA, a fucking, what you're gonna call it, mid-journey, um, any, of that shit, right? Where you're just replacing the entire creative process. Um, and then you, you go further into it. And then there's going to be people who are like, okay, well, fuck that top layer, but it's okay for

programming, for using it to simplify code or for using it to replace Google or searching or whatever. And then there's different, there's, you're going to see different layers of that nuance. And then that's going to start to essentially, it's going to make the conversation much more complicated as we go forward. But I know. The lie is actually really simple. Is the machine you're using based off of stuff that you fed into it exclusively? Or is it based off of stuff that came from the database that it stole from other people?

That's like, that's the dividing line. Nobody is mad at DLSS, the anti-aliasing resolution technique. Because everybody signs up to put their fucking footage into DLSS because it gives you better frame rates. That's it. And the version of that that you get is, for example, okay, texture artist who is used to using texture, not necessarily from photos that they went out and took, but from existing resources elsewhere, from existing photos, from places that were, from Googling, from using stock footage, whatever the case is, people that would go and get those, they basically go out and get those resources elsewhere and use those in. their final assets, but replacing the process of retrieving them. Can I hold up my hand first? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm seeing a lot of people saying, I hate DLSS. No, I'm not, I'm saying you can hate DLSS because you don't like it as an anti-aliasing technique. I'm saying you don't hate DLSS because it is an inherently immoral technology. It blurs things and it can act goofy at higher frame rates. But like, that's the, you all know what I mean. Everybody knows what I fucking mean. And then, yeah, from here, the inherent, and then you get into this even further discussion of, well, I'm sure this will come up.

Like, what is reference and how do artists use reference and how does that, how does that work? Because I can, I can't, I can't wait for a fucking in-game horse to be drawn on the fucking chat GPT image of what a fucking horse looks like. Because I can tell you, I remember being in college when, um, the, the, when we were in class and it was like literally one of the classes was here's how you go and get reference and here's how you use that reference when you're rendering and you're going to go out and you're going to find photos or you know you take them yourself if you can but otherwise you're going to find magazines you're going to Google you're going to do whatever and you're going to get a list of things of horse of robot of whatever and you're going to put these all up on the board and then you're going to use your brain to synthesize that information and create a brand new final product. Man, at least Bungy had the decency to steal from a fucking human being. And then they got caught. And then they had to pay out. So the x-ray behind this process of going out and retrieving all that and retrieving this information,

if the discussion even goes this far, it's going to get very weird and dicey real quick as to how many artists are literally just pulling everything from their brain versus how many people are using reference in this way and then using this as a shortcut necessarily, you know? Who knows? I'm really sick of being a foodie who turns out to be vegetarian at the cookout. I'm getting super fucking sick of this.

I think... I'm getting fucking depressed. Yeah. About how many times I find bacon in my fucking quinoa salad. and go, oh, fuck, come on. And everyone around me is just chowing down going, man, have you had the veal like I give a shit? I'm getting depressed. So for me, as someone who was like a fucking artist attemptor, attempted artist back in the day and all that, I have a...

No, you're not an attempted artist. You've, I've seen it. You done some arts. There's a real... That's your take is what you said there. For me, it's straightforward. very simple. Remember the kid back in school who traced and then said it was his? Yeah, I remember that kid. Yeah, that's who gets to win right now. That's who gets to that. That's who gets to take the tracers and people that are using tracer mentality

get to fucking run the show and be like, yeah, yeah, no, I'm the best. I'm the greatest. Fuck you. Tracers win. That's all that's happening. It's that exact kid. Fast forward 20 years. I'm becoming highly discouraged and kind of a little depressed as, like, every single week,

the pie of stuff that I can feel good about gets smaller, be it, like, people, somebody pointed out like a really good point. Like, I wish you guys would stop talking about 2XCO because Riot's evil. Ryan is evil. And I picked my battle in that I'm like, oh, I'm like, oh, I'm just. supporting the team that makes 2XCO and not right in general. And that's cope. That's cope.

We say, but that's okay. I can have a little bit of cope, right? I can have a little bit of cope as a treat because I'm only human. But now, well, this is cope and this is cope and this and this and this and this. And the Saudis are investing. We, and this director's an asshole. Thank you. Thank you.

And Mike Z made fucking skull girls and came on this podcast. podcast and blue smoke up our fucking ass for an hour and then signed off to be a complete piece of shit. And it's just like every single fucking day. I'm a little frustrated. I can see that you're a little frustrated. It's pretty fucking frustrating. We say as we speak into our podcast on Twitch.com.

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I feel like me giving a shit about anything does nothing but actively harm me. I am at that point now. Like, I'm at the point where like I might at like a fucking supervillain divergence where I'm like, everyone is just stupid and evil. and only I have

Or, or Why give us shit at all? Why not just eat it? Like, like, I've got, fucking Lex Luthor fucking crossroads. I got no

sage advice here because we're all fucking in it, not knowing where we go. But I can say, do what you need to do to protect your sanity. Well, my sanity's never been good.

Like, do what you need to do, put, put the cage up and draw the lines and protect your fucking brain in whatever way you need to. I think I mentioned like a while ago running into somebody who was like way in the World of Warcraft and like Harry Potter. And I was like, you can't fight the power every day. And I'm like, yeah, I guess that applies to me also. I have usually been blessed by not getting into things that were made by the worst people in the world.

I've actually been really lucky about that for most of my life. there is that, but there's also the understanding that I think we both got years ago that the purity test never fucking comes clean. Oh, never, never. The purity test doesn't work. Oh, absolutely. You can't live your life like that.

It's impossible. It's fucking impossible. Did you ever read the sort of truth? No. No. So somebody pointed out on a thread somewhere like, oh man, that guy was like an insane fascist libertarian. And I'm like, what? And then I sat there for a second. And I was like, oh, yeah, he totally is. Oh, wow. And it was like really on the nose, too.

Like, I remember those books and be like, oh, yeah, that guy's evil. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Like, you have that where it's like something as a kid and you have to, like, you just think about it for the first time in as adult. And you're like, oh, well, I mean, well, there's a whole lot of concepts that, I'm still fucking learning about to this day, you know, on a bunch of shit that you,

you digest as a kid. Um, but, you know, it, it just, yeah, you need to just keep your sanity in check however you can. And,

and, and, and, and being well aware that the, the purity test shit just is completely untenable. It doesn't work in that way. Um, you don't also want to,

like, I don't know, how high is the tower you, like, I, I hate the thing that happens where because we talk about shit that we hate and that sucks a lot, there's a- There's a feeling of like, thus, this podcast is like holier than thou and sitting on a tower of morality and is- So I actually go really far out of my way to be like, I never tell anybody what they should,

I hate this weird thing that comes when... Yeah, and it's just... It fucking sucks because it just... Like, everybody that has their different lines on where they're gonna draw them, like, people that went in a fucking, like, are like, you know what, I want to play Hogwarts Legacy too fucking bad.

I'm like, okay, do your thing. Do your thing. I mean, I'm not interested. But that's my... I'm not... Right, but like, but the problem, the problem... You can do whatever you want, and I'm gonna just think my fucking thought.

over here. But the problem about like saying your personal bit in this way is that some people are going to interpret that as a prescription, as a doctrine that you are putting out for everyone else to follow. And not only that, but that you're on your soapbox, you're in your tower saying that everyone else needs to be, again, do this purity test and come up clean, right? Hey, you know what, man? I do want to take issue. Somebody linked me a long time ago to some smarmy ass fucking tweet about all that Harry Potter nonsense that was like, hey, just because you're never into Harry Potter doesn't make you better than those of us who are like struggling to deal with blah blah blah blah blah and all I could think of when I saw that is like yeah it does it means

I have better fucking taste because those books suck ass dummy. I'm sorry my taste is way better than your taste. have learned that if you're a kid and you get exposed to whatever magical world you do first you like before you had a chance to even discern you know what magical world we got fucking exposed to dragon lance has anyone said a fucking mean thing about richard a canette or margaret we wise or tracy hickman no they were great those books are awesome they just they fucking dropped them and disappeared as far as i know don't i don't know but don't look into it who knows like fucking, I don't know. I don't know. Um, but, but it's just, this is persistent. It's, it's, it's, it's, you know, and it, and it, it doesn't get any better as time goes on. And, and, and, right? Um, and then you get, you get this, it's, it's, it's the combination of like, I don't know, just trying to have your own opinions and be normal. And so we're talking about shit that we think sucks, right? I never have tried that. You have, you're talking about what you, you're talking about what you, you're talking about what you, you're talking about what you. You're talking about what you.

thing sucks and you get that right and then you and then on the other side of this at the same time you get this the bit where it's like oh remember we're looking at the hilarious insanity of the blizzard diversity chart points or whatever yeah that is the funniest fucking shit in the world right and then you get the people who are pulling that oh we're laughing for the wrong reasons bit you get the people who are like oh no that was great right because fuck all that shit right because you're on you're on my team with that right and you're like oh oh oh no no no, no, no, we hate this for the wrong reasons. We are not the same.

We are not the same. Compared to your side of the camera is I can guarantee you, I definitely get a lot more people who think I'm on their team. Right, right. I'm sure. I don't want to be hungry, bro. And so you get that weird thing, right? So you get on the one side with the like, you know, sit in your tower and then you get the other side with the fucking like, oh, I see what you're saying. I see what you're putting down there.

and you're like, can you be fucking normal? Can you just be normal? No, no, you can't. You can't. So I actually want to make an apology to anyone who watches my stuff or follows me on social media. I was talking about the Game Awards. And it was like, I don't understand where all this anger about the Game Awards is coming from, to which people pointed out that Jeff Keely is like a scumbag and uses diversity,

like women and black people as like props to make the Game Awards look more legitimate. And every single thing he says up there is a complete fucking pile of shit. to which I say, what are you all fucking stupid? Of course he's like, are you, have you not been paying attention? To which somebody pointed out the Dorito Pope shit, that was like 13 years ago. Somebody pointed out to me that like,

they were like, bro, I was like six years old when that Dorito Pope stuff happened. Like I don't, yeah, that was, that was a lifetime. Right? And I did the same thing talking about the like a dragon developers where they're like, can you believe they hired like a sex abuser to replace one of the actors in the Yakuza Kiwami 3 remake? I'm like, yeah.

Have you like played one of their games? Are you like, really? And I'm like, oh, right, that's not necessarily institutional common knowledge. Because now it's happened to me and now I feel how it feels. And it actually feels really bad and I don't like it. So I'd like to apologize to everybody who I implied was stupid for not having some interior gaming knowledge that only a complete freak like me would have. But yeah.

Do what you got to do to protect your sanity, right? Take your steps, draw your lines. Well, my wife doesn't let me eat a whole chocolate orange to feel better anymore, will they? Okay, well. So what am I supposed to do with my sanity? I don't know, but mine is I have a list of... I got this. Okay.

I have... There you go. That's yours. That'll do it. Mm-hmm. Oh, this dog's so ugly. Mm-mm-mm. I've got a list of Saudi percentages right here.

Quick access. Pop-pop. Yeah, you're talking about it. No, I'm not even. Did you tell anybody about that list? Not really, but it's there. I'm just like, oh, what's going on? Do you want to tell people what that list is?

Because it's really funny. It's just a list of percentages. It's a list of companies and percentages, and then the dollars next to that number. That's all. It's a very simple list. I think I sent you some of it. You sent me the list, and I got really, bummed out. Oh, yeah, there we go. Yep. And a bunch of those are unupdated because

some of those, some of that reporting stops. You can keep track of the stock market. Yep. But it's just, I just have it right here. And it's just like, you know, anytime anyone, any conversation comes up, I'm like, oh, what do you want? Here we are. You feel this way about this? How do you what? Okay, what, brip, you know? We can all sit in the poop together. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know? But I don't want to be in the... Wully? I don't want to be in the poop.

I want to be on my high horse. What's... Away from all the poop! What's worse? 96% of $600 million or 7% that equals multiple billions. I don't know.

I legit couldn't tell you. I don't fucking know. But 96% is a higher number by percent. But what about cash dollars because fucking Nintendo and Capcom and a billion others

yeah we can't we're now at the point where you're just going to get the like straight up like the red string yeah and the fucking cork board out yeah but it's like it's real which which number bothers you more does 96% of a cheap ass fucking

SNK nothing like you know I don't know I don't know I can't answer that I'm not equipped Aaron Moten and Walton Gagans to kiss on the Fallout show today. Can they have a... Yeah.

Yeah. Did someone just say Nintendo untouched by some shit by shit somehow? Oh my God. Nintendo used to be run by criminals! Are you out of your mind? Are you out of your mind? Bitch! Bitch? Bitch?

What do you want to know? 8.58%? Does that work for you? 3.8 billion dollars? Nintendo and Sega you just send coons to each other's offices to threaten to kill people. Does four entire SNK's worth of investment in Nintendo do it for you? Bitch? What the fuck are you talking about?

I really love how you brought that up. And your brain went to the numerical money thing. And I went to like the historical building of that company was just straight up criminal. Are you at... Like the two-prong attack... So this is how I keep my sanity. Is I just go where are we... Okay, there we are.

Okay, cool. Just want to know. Boot up Metroid Prime. Have a good time. You know. All right. Shall we take a letter or two? Yeah, let's take a letter.

Sending a letter to Castle Super Beastmail at Gmail.com. That's Castle Superbeastmail at Gmail.com. If you want to tell us your reasons for fucking not... not giving up. Doesn't Nintendo have like slaves now, like for real? Um, did they like enslave that hacker? So they instituted their anti-Karoshi law rules where they're forcing people to take breaks, which was good. No, no, no, not that.

The guy that they, they sued for piracy and now he like owes them part of his salary for the rest of the... Oh, oh, okay. Oh, hmm. Like, isn't that just indentured servitude to Nintendo? Possibly. I, you know. I don't remember the details on that one. I mean, there was no kidnapped sisters involved in the...

No, that would be second. In the recent decades. So, you know, there's something... I think it's so... But like, a kidnapped sister is so clear on the chart of ethics and morality. You know, some gestures are like, there's no ambiguity in a kidnapped sister. Yeah. It's, it's, it's very clear.

I think, I think, I think, I think there's like a really, because Sega's going to come out and if they haven't already, they're going to come out and say that they're going to use AI and people are going to lose their minds. And I'm going to be like, guys, I can tell you with 100% certainty that the company organization Sega has killed people. I, I, like, like for surezies, allegedly. I appreciate. Allegedly for jerseys. I appreciate.

Allegedly for surezies. I appreciate a kidnapped sister for the same. I appreciate a kidnapped sister for the same reasons. I appreciate overt racism. Yeah. Think about it. Because it's funny? Wait, no.

No. That was the wrong answer. No. It's clear. It's clear. There's no gray here We're in a very Pun intended black and white world and situation

It is as clear as day We don't have to fucking We don't have to There's no parsing It's like Sega kidnapped that dude's sister That's fucking crazy You put on brown face and went to a party That's fucking crazy

I wish I wish I wish that the CEO of Larry and I mispronounce his name every time so I'm not going to try anyone just did that interview and went yeah we use AI for for whatever

but you fucking little piggy's don't care who gives a shit you'll be able to fuck two bears this time oh well that would be so much more honest and straight I would appreciate that so much but that's the Kraftin CEO and we are laughing at

Oh my God. I'm gonna make Lords of the Fall of 2 that'll have attractive females in revealing clothing. Like you're a fucking robot, dude. Oh my God. Like we just, like, like, as much as we can say that, we just threw that craft and CEO under the bus because he finds it comfortable there where he can watch from the darkness of under the bus. As, you know, like, it's just, it's really funny though, like, for real. Like, like, if you're gonna, if can I, like, if you're gonna, if can I like, if. If you're going to try and piss on me, can you give me some razzle so that I can at least think for one second?

Maybe it is raining. Can I have that or is that too much to ask? Yeah. Where's the showmanship? Like, come on. All right. I think we aired out a lot just now. We aired out a lot.

I had some emotions. Some of that I've been building for most of the day. Some of that had been building for quite, maybe perhaps more than a day or two. I don't want to just sit in the corner and eat quinoa. This castle is not a fancy castle up on the hills like Castlevania. It's actually more of a bungalow. It's a bungalow super beast. Yeah. I'm not 100% sure what a what a bungalow is. It's a one, it's a house with one floor. It's a single story.

It's a single story home. Just typed the word bungalow into my search bar, and it stopped Google search because malware bites detected a Trojan. I'm so fucking done. I can't, I can't even search on fucking Google. Can't look out bungalow on my computer. Um, all right. Let's just, let's just take one over here.

Hey From Night King of Tuesday Night Dear normal parent And French parent This week Marks the 10 year anniversary That's so much

You cut off a bit But I'm pretty sure you said that's so much funnier That's so much funnier than they think it is I'm pretty sure there's more French house French in your household than there is in mine There is literal French in my house Right now as we speak Oh.

Yeah. Yeah. No, we've had the language discussion and, you know, yeah. Yeah. You know, it's a thing. Dear Normal Parent and French Parrot, this week marks the 10-year anniversary of Silent Hills Wiki admin going on a massive edit spree to push an agenda about circumcision as genital mutilation. What are your favorite admin freakouts you've seen? I mean, if you ask me, that would be the one.

You can look at a great... Why can't I remember his name? He did a great video on it. I can't remember his name. He's super in a metal. He's got super long hair. He's really handsome. Justin Wang?

Justin Wang! Okay, yeah. He's really handsome. He did a great video on the Silent Hill. circumcision I mean that that's a list that's a bullet point list of priorities when trying bringing someone up I'll tell you what he is very handsome

he's very handsome he's very handsome he had one of the best tweets I've ever seen in my life which is I'm fighting racism by fucking white girl yeah yeah yeah

so I have a shirt and there's an Instagram post of me wearing it some time ago. That shirt says, I am my ancestor's wildest dreams. Oh, that's good. It's a really cool shirt. I really like it. I'm not. There are times when...

You're my ancestors. There are times when wearing that shirt is especially fucking sick. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There are contexts to wear that shirt in that are extra good. Get a little timer buff out of that one. All right. The answer for me remains the Catalica dev.

That's the... Who's that? That's the sun girl. That's the pinks and the greens. Oh, yeah, the sun girl. That's the Kickstarter board game. That is the greatest freak out of all time. You know, Wully, that is like a strangely vivid memory for me.

Like us in the back of that shuttle from the airport going down to fucking, um, to, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Con Bravo where we, like, we were looking that up and like laughing ourselves stupid about it. So, no, I, I didn't know about the, about that Kickstarter thing. You will, you told me about that after the fact. I remember, I, I remember learning about that after the fact from, from, at when the Kickstarter shut down and like it was like this big buildup. Yeah. Did I combine two different memories into one?

Ruh. Uh-oh. No, that was us making fun of the Yogs cast game that fucking just petered out and just died. I was like, did you speak to another black person and maybe that was the...

Why the fuck would I do that? I do it every week, bro. Come on. I filled my quota. Maybe twice a week. And we'll see you next week. Have a good week, everybody.