Castle Super Beast - Csb352 I Need The White Mans Money To Resurrect Jojo Fridays

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

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Yo, yo. Happy holidays, wolves. How are you doing, man? Merry Christmas, one and all. Merry Christmas to you and your house. Merry Christmas to everyone listening. Yeah, I think, well, we could have stalled this for maybe a little bit later in so that by the time people who let these podcasts last for the week get to it, they'll actually get it on Christmas Day. Yeah, doing, doing.

Locke has already started. The holidays are upon us. Harambi. Yes, right. Harambi. Harambi. Have you been singing some carols around the house, Wally? I have not been singing some carols. However, I can say that some new... Okay, so there's lessons that are being learned. There's new developments. There's all kinds of things going on here. And feelings are being had. There's feelings.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Oh, you go ahead and bop my camera. Give me a on off. I'm horribly desynced once again. Oh, actually, you had to do that last time. Is me? Yeah, yeah.

I have to do it. Okay. By you bopping. I did it. There you go. Did you bop? I bopped it. All right.

Now we're talking. There you are. Well, he tell me about your new feelings. Okay. So. Your father. So you're discovering brand new feelings every day. Well,

they're more, there are evolutions of previous feelings. But, but I'll start with the, with the, there's two things that come to mind. So one, there's a development and that is something that you did not experience. So what, okay, all right, all right. Okay. Okay. What? Before you left, you remember how, you know, a lot about how Montreal is.

Yeah. Do you remember what happens when Montreal winter begins to pick up steam? Yeah, life is over. Okay. And when the snow... I will do anything it takes to stay inside my cozy house. And when this, because when the snow starts falling, shit gets out of control, right? Cars decide the gravity doesn't apply to them.

It's nuts. There's so much snow here. But there's so much snow here that we have developed literally world leading tech on snow clearing and snow plowing. right? We have the three vehicle system in which that that was developed here where it's pretty ingenious stuff when you see it. The coordination is pretty impressive. A sidewalk clearing small snow, um, whatever, um, whatever, the one man things will go down and like push all the snow off the sidewalk right into where the, the edge of the sidewalks go, right? Yeah. And then right behind it becomes, comes a big snow sucker plow that sucks all that piled up snow and scooms it up for those of you are

unclear it is it sucks it up yeah so you have sidewalk scooper plow puts it off sidewalk onto the corner of the road then you have the one on the road that's pushing it off the road towards the same pile and then the scooper that sucks it and a second truck right behind it that is it's just shooting it all into the back of that truck. And then that truck gets full and then they replace it with a new truck. It's kind of incredible. I still, I admire the, the setup. It's great stuff.

Anybody who doesn't understand part of this system, the most important part of the system is you got to have a fucking crazy amount of trucks. Like, crazy amount of trucks. Because the, the main truck that's sucking and throwing it back, Like, um, will continue, but you got to have another, like, the catcher that has to pull up. Yeah. To get the, when one falls up, then the next one comes and, you know, it keeps going, right? So, uh, that is the big snow clearing system that we've got there.

And it works really well. Okay. Now, do you're, though, it has a big flaw. Okay, okay. What is the flaw? That's really big fucking flaw. What's the, what's the flaw? So a car and or pickup truck usually will roll down your street, blaring a horn.

All at the same time, by the way. Yes. It will be blaring a horn and or lights and or a recorded message or a guy on a megaphone or, you know, loud noises. And what that message will be, will be you have like one hour to be car or it will be fucking towed. And Montreal has the worst parking of any city in the. the country. So you go, well, where am I supposed to park my car to which the answer is, fuck off. I don't give a shit. So I describe this as a three vehicle system, right? But that's a lie. I lie. It's actually a four vehicle system. And the fourth vehicle is the truck that comes

up ahead. It's the fucking William Tell truck that's going down the street going at like what time in the morning? You know? Anytime. six maybe? Who knows? And it's going loud because if you're parked and you didn't check the schedule, right? You must. Because don't be an asshole that ruins the whole process for everybody because if you park your car and then you don't pay attention to when you're not supposed to be there. They just won't do it. So what they do actually, so they, it takes like extra long. I forgot what the extra amount of time is. It's like an hour or something insane. It's like a super crazy amount of time to work around your car to, to, to, and then continue the process, but the delay is bad. Right. On your windshield.

So if you're that asshole that kept your car parked and you didn't move it when the clearing process was happening, you're going to be also the one who they're blaring their horn at six in the morning or five, whatever the clock.

It's insane, right? And that has to be loud enough that everybody on the street can hear it and know that you're the asshole. Okay. So you left and had a child before these two experiences had to coalesce with each other. That's right.

Hey, Willie. Hey, let me, let me, let me ask you, you ask me a question. Ask me what I did so far this winter to deal with our cars and the snow. Pat, what have you done to deal with all the snow? this winter. Damn. Damn. Damn.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So maybe, maybe two days out of the year. Maybe. So I am full in like the routine is like to the second and millimeter at this point, right? I know exactly. She gets her night bottle and then she gets back in her little snoo swan, or, you know.

snoo swaddle puts her and put her in the burrito and then we let her get a little drowsy and then you know i mean mom's out so then we we go and uh what has been working miracles is just on a little bouncer you know just little little bounce ball and you get that gravity going and like we're talking the level of precision that is like like she wants to be in the crook of my elbow and like like literally bicep and forearm. She wants to be right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the football. She wants to be right there. And if it's a little bit not there, then it's like, it's not as, you're not getting as sleepy, you know? And you want to also, while bouncing, you want to get a little bit of that head bob going, because the liquid in between your ears bouncing is actually what helps put you to sleep as a baby, turns out. So you want to, you want to get a little bit like that's. That's so interesting because when my guy was your girl's age, that shit didn't work at all. I had to like grab him with, both arms and do like full on like 270 degrees up into the air like like march hard and

be like oh my god oh my god don't drop the middle throughout the window and like this is the only way he'll go to sleep this the only way i'll go to sleep you're doing sonic blades like fucking yeah okay so i'm new i'm doing that and the one and what she what she likes besides when the ball's around is um squats you can't just rock with your arms. You got to drop your knees. Right? That works out. Sitting down is for bitches, man. Don't you dare sit down, you lazy

break. She will not accept. She will not accept sitting down. What is the static imagery? What are you crazy? You're gonna fucking deal. It was like, okay, I got this. Okay, I'm just sit down for a second. Ah, I'm wasted all your progress.

I'm one awake again. You dare comfort me while the background is static, you fucking asshole. right so so so that's I'm just I'm bringing up this level of precision to say that that's what's going down as I'm like and then and then and like okay once the actual sleep is happening the tech like because mom has her own version and I've got mine but the tech of how you transfer from arm into snoo into crib is you got to you got to master this you know so it was crazy because I was pretty I was pretty I was pretty great at transferring into the snoo. But Page was a million times better at trans, once he got older, transferring him into a bed. Okay.

I've not nearly as good at that. So we both have our own versions and they both work really well because I was asking. But it's different levels of like time. Because basically the setup is like what I'll do is I'll use the ball and then she'll get drowsy. And then I'll go for head first. Right. Head first and then soft lay down and keep some elevation off body and butt so that you can slide your arm out. And if you fuck this part up, the head rotates and then the suss pops out and then you're fucked.

So you get that. It's very delicate. Right? Whereas what Punch Mom does is she goes like opposite where she goes back to front and like full leans over and then weights and slowly pulls both. arms out, right? I'm getting some nostalgia off of this. I'm playing a more dangerous game, but it's working, right? And then, of course, once you, once, and you let you, you pull one of these, you go hands off, you wait.

Yeah, hands off, and you see. You stand, and you stare. You don't breathe, right? Don't breathe. Don't breathe. And then you look for a little stir and then, uh. Yeah, every, every guy has a different thing. So for my guy, he has like a really specific, like, deep breath and then.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Out his nose. And I'm like, all right, we're good. We can talk as loud as to what. Everything, like this kid is in unconsciousness land. But so what I need to see is the eyes open and then, uh, right? It's that.

Yeah, yeah, that's a good one, too. Right? There's that. And so if you see that eyes open and then back to, okay, we're good. You grab the little hooks, you get them on, right? And you can even lightly pick up the arms to tuck them underneath. And she's, you know, she's four months now. So she's arms out.

by the way. Yeah. So that's comfort. That's good. She can comfort herself. She can put her hand in her mouth if she needs to, if the cyst falls out or whatever. But the arms out is a little bit more volatile because every once in a while, babies do a thing when they sleep is they do this. They throw their arms up and go.

And then they wake themselves up, right? So you want to be sure that you get those arms pointing downward if possible, but you put the little hooks to snap them safely safely in or underneath that. This is all what we're down to. It sounds like from what we've talked about that your girl is like a pretty good like sleeper and like going to sleep. So yes and no and maybe because she might be teething now and she's groaning. I'm going to tell you right now once teething starts, you're going to blame literally every single off day on teething for over a year. Sick, good to know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Everything goes. Is she teething? I don't know. Maybe and the answer is Is that half of the time you'll be right It's like as you'll have like teething for a month And then no teething for two weeks And then teething comes

It's back I stubbed my toe Must be the goddamn teething Yeah So you do all this And then you hear The fucking snow plow horn At 5 in the morning go

Bhaer Bhaer Bhaer And you're like wow Wow, my shit is fucked down. And the panic sets in. Yeah. And she sleeps through it.

Oh, yeah, no. Kids don't care about that type of noise. I mean, and I remember that moment of just being like, oh, I, when I was younger, and I used to hear this, because living here my whole life, it's always been the case of like, yeah, there would be these, the whole system, you'd hear it. And I'd be like, what is a newborn baby family? doing when this thing is going nuts outside because it's trying to it's telling you wake up and move your car fuck your family fuck your baby right so fuck whatever's going on and and you know what if your baby doesn't sleep because you didn't move your car that's your fault right like your baby is now your is your problem for not sleeping because you should have moved your car says the city

and you know what i get it i do get it right because you are holding us all back. But I remember thinking way back when, what the fuck? This is the most inconsiderate thing ever if you have a kid. But the streets get cleaned. And would you believe she actually tanked through it? That's really lucky. I couldn't believe it. She didn't make up. So my guy, a little bit older than what you're dealing with now, discovered that if he pulled his own hair and like bit his own fingies, he could stop himself from going to sleep. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So what's the deal actually? What's actually the deal with I'm tired? I am sleepy, but I fucking don't want to sleep right now.

Like, mm, no. It's the same thing as when your wife. Wander past you at the ass end of night and goes, you should really go to bed. And you're like, but right after this match. Okay, but this match, but it's not even like this match. It's literally that, Wully. One more once.

Don't, don't, don't you with your nightmare sleep fucking schedule, tell me I don't understand not wanting to go to bed. One more once. I will, I will like wake up in the, like, I will wake up early. And I'll be like, Wully is online playing fucking whatever. on Steam. So, so, so her, her, I'm up at stupid o'clock. I don't want to go to bed yet.

See, the thing is, I had that when I was doing shit or whatever playing games or whatever, but I guess for her, just like staring at you making stupid faces. Dude, looking at the ceiling is crazy. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, that's as, that's as running your 2XCO set. You know, sure. You're like just, yeah, okay. That's it.

That's it. It's called a Fomo baby. Some babies aren't like that. Oh, my God. Like the... I have a super FOMO baby. Like, the FOMOist. It's crazy.

And you know she's tired. You can see the islands drooping in her. She's passing the fuck out. And just like stopping herself, like fucking Little Mac in, uh, in we punch out before the knockout. The foot comes down like, no. So, okay. I refuse this sleep. So there are where, from where I'm at right now, there are multisprudely, there are multisprudely.

multiple more phases. The phase after what you're dealing with is if I pull my own hair, I'll wake up. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The stage after that is, um, the scariest one. And it's the most disruptive by far. And it's around a year, year and a half. And it's like, did they go down for a nap? No. Let's go put them down for a nap. They don't look sleepy. They're not. not. Okay, so they've just decided to skip naps at random. Oh, the regression. No, it's no, no, no, no, no, no, it's not a regression. I'm not talking about sleep regression. This is a totally different thing. At some point, your toddler will just go, I don't need a nap. And that means around seven o'clock, I'm going to turn into a monster. Nightmare. Now, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay. So we're here, we're getting a version of that. The version we're getting is, like, Like, if she fights the nap long enough, she'll just ride it through. Yeah, we have that. Yeah, they'll fight it like and scream.

Oh! And succeed. And then the next feed comes and she successfully skipped a whole nap. And you know that like the session after that is going to be nightmare. Absolutely nightmares. Right. Because yeah, now you're getting the compounded lack of sleep. Or, hey, hey, got him down at his regular nap time.

Two to four. crushed it, no problem. Why is he still up? It's 11.30 p.m. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What the fuck is this? Yeah, there's a four hour window where you don't know which one's the last one, you know?

And like when you're caught... It's now midnight and this kid is literally running circles around the bedroom. And like there's fussing. There's like super fussing. And then there's, you missed two plus naps today and it's all crashing at the end. It's all hitting the wall.

And you're getting this. the goat just like you're getting you're getting the goat and you're getting like the full arch and just and it's like oh man so I am now in what I would probably consider the final phase of this

sleep journey which is or at least the final phase so far which is um dude is literally like drooping his body into his plate of food falling asleep at 6 p.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey buddy. You tired? No. Like eyes fully closed. Yeah.

Lawling and what's like, no, don't want to go bedroom. No. Right? Mm-hmm. And then just no, no nap time, right? And just passing out in the high chair. Just straight up just falling dead ass asleep in the high chair with like a Cheerios dug in his mouth. Right.

Or a wakeful, a live, alert child will walk up to you and go, I want to go upstairs to the bedroom now. And you go, okay. And you go upstairs, you hold his hand, and you go up to the top. And he goes, okay. And crawls into bed and pulls the cover up to his chin. It was,

Damn. Damn. There is no way to understand which verse. version of the child you're dealing with until they do it. Oh, man. I'd kill for that, you know, because we're past, you know, there were some phases of even just like, hey, yo, are you drinking this bottle? Are you drinking this? Hello? Are you there? Girl? You know, just done. But, um, when we're talking like middle of the nap and like active sleep is a term you start to learn, of course, right? Yeah, it's where they freak out and they're terrifying. They're, they're in half

I mean, that's it Right, so you read about active sleep And you're like, oh, okay, I stir I'm a Turner, you know, sure And you know, and you're like, you hear a couple noises You're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's not it. No, you look at the baby monitor

And you watch her like, like, full on exorcist possession Like eyes open and a kick and a And then back to sleep. Like nothing happened. Yeah, so you're just like, You just defeated some 1800 18th century ghost. Like something just happened.

And you went back down. Our Arloca has occasional some ambulism, like sleepwalking slash he's had some night terrors. And so like every now and then, you'll get up and he'll look at you. And you're like, that little dude is dead ass to sleep right now. Yeah.

And walking around. And then becomes the fun little game of like, all right, we must now transport him to an area with a locked, door in soft surfaces because he could just bolt into a wall or freak out or see ghosts that aren't there because he is unconscious.

No, it's crazy. I mean, literally, there's tech called dream feeding. I think we might have talked about it before. I believe it. Right, where it's where you just, you fuck it, you feed and baby can like eat while asleep. Oh yeah, totally, man. You know, like the reflexes are already in there.

They're super pro- Like a bulldog. Yeah. Or like a pug. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not. Um, it's, it's hilarious because like the instinct to like root into things. Like, like, even when not hungry, it's like a trick where it's just like, oh, you put their forehead against the surface and they're going, ah, where's the food? God damn.

You tricked me. Um, anyway, so like that's happening. Uh, and then beyond that is just like, uh, the evolution of essentially like, you know, remember, remember how I described in the beginning the like, where's the milk dad? Get the fuck off me. Yeah. Right. So that just deepens. So as time goes on.

Oh, yeah? You, yeah, you want to hear some fucking shit? You want to hear some fucking shit? Last night, that little man, that perfect angel, fell asleep at 6.45, which is the wrong time. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, that's a bad time. The bad time. He takes a two-hour nap so he can wake up at 8.45 for his 10 p.m. bedtime?

Fuck. So, fuck it. Just let it rock. Just let it rock. Put the baby monitor on. and pray, right? At 9.30 p.m., he starts to come out of it.

And we got him on the monitor, right? And we got the audio in the video. And what does he say? He goes, Mama, my mommy. You know, he wants his mommy. And then he's like, and we're like, oh, right? And we're getting ready to go upstairs and go get him. And then I hear, da, da, da.

And I'm like, oh, oh. And he goes, da, where's mommy? Dad, da, go get, Mommy. See, I don't, you see, it's bad enough that you can read the body language, but now you got the words confirming intent. There's words confirming the intent. Like, holy shit, bro. The deep fear.

The deep fear is now confirmed with language. Fuck language. Fuck English. Fuck the first person that grunted. to communicate a rock to somebody should have fucking croaked. What an asshole. Like this, unless he like gets up and opens his eyes, like this process of asking for mom, he's asleep.

So this is my child's the newest unconscious desire is dad. Go get mom. Oh my God. Yo. Just, yeah. Like I, that is as this escalates, you know. And then the term that, you know, people use this term a bunch is like essentially this default parent. Yeah.

That's one where you're like, it makes sense because you are both people and one of them provides food, you know, and you've got to fight against that. So default parenting doesn't really fit into this because default parenting is about like responsibility changing, right? it's like it's it's supposed to describe scenarios in which like you and I would not know their allergies or birthday okay no no no no that that that's that that's not the context uh that's that's not the context i i was referring to more so it's more just like the preference point for comfort you know and uh knowing that like trying to trying to comfort you know and in in when when during the worst of times doing your best and it's like there is a hard limit to how much comfort you can offer right there's a

threshold of just of like frustration where it just doesn't work anymore and those times it fucking sucks there's a there's a there's a point where page was playing a d and i was like i'm gonna i'm gonna handle the baby and you go play d and d so you can have your night out away from mom life once a week right because i i come over here and do the fucking show like five six fucking days a week, right? But, like, mom's doing mom stuff all the time. Like, you do that. And there are moments for like, you know what?

It's one of those nights. And you know what one of those nights is? Three hour walk around the kitchen island night. Right, right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This, dude. Kissed as fuck with me existing. Nah, fuck you, dad. I mean, here's the thing.

What are those boobs at? So, during a late night when, um, Um, when, during a late night bottle, when mom's knocked out, it's totally like, I get woke, it's like, I wake her up and I get smiles and I get, hey, you're the food guy, right? That's the correct association for this specific time of night. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, what's up? I haven't seen you since last night. Yo, how's it going? Hey, I'll give you, I'll flash you a smile. What's up? And then you change the diaper and then we go do the thing, right? Okay, cool. You're right on time, especially

because I had a chance to wake you up instead of the other way around, you know, because now that you're sleeping through the night a lot longer, we can, we can actually let the clock run. But like, during the day baby hours, it's like, yo, where them titties at, though? Right?

You know? This is bullshit. Yeah, it really is. It really is. And I mean, you know, there are times where it's like, okay, what can we do when you're entering tantrum territory, you know? And it's like, you can shake and you can bounce,

but like at maximum, you're just stalling for time until the boobs get here, effectively. You know, and yeah, it's just that, watching the increase in- Gently shake. Yeah, I'm talking about rocking.

No, Bart, just rattling them like Bart, right? Throttling. Getting your little squats going and doing all your best techniques, you know. In fact, one little trick I feel has been like burp position. She's associated with like comfort. You know,

so she will relax from crying and stuff if you put her in burp position just because she's like, oh yeah, this is when the good feeling thing happens and I go burp and then I feel, you know, tension release in my stomach or whatever. But no, so, you know, and then even when it's just like, hey, so this is, you know, when she had her, she was very. brave yesterday. Yeah. Right.

She had her big inoculation. And that's a... Was that the first one you guys did? Second. Second, second, second. They're not fun at that age. They're not. They're actually kind of the worst.

And, you know, I mean, the people that work there, I'm kind of like, yo, all you're hearing all day is the worst thing that's ever happened to this. That's crazy. Yeah, but they're doing a good thing. So, you know, they get to, they get to shoot their soul with that. And that's also where you learn about the most, insane levels of distraction tech I've ever seen because

the things that I immediately went home and bought were like I like first the first I saw like a ball that just went brrrr and the baby just locked in you know and then the second one was like one that whizzed with a little light on it like this jangle your fucking keys man and you're like holy shit like literally baby goes

so like our what the fuck yo did y'all see this shit? You see this shit look at that ball go like you know. Art Trek for those that age was, okay, we'd have, because, you know, the double, was this a double shot? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, the double shot's fucking crazy. Yeah. Because you have to pin their arms. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a two person job. It's a two person job. Right. And so, like, two nurses come in and they blast them. And the thing that we did is that mom would be on deck, locking eyes, singing a song and like literally in the process of taking a boob out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The first time around, the first time around, that was a proper distraction, you know, um, second time around, it was like, okay, hold on. Can I, like, can we do this so that, like, can, like, will it work? Can I comfort? Can we try this out? And, like, doing it. And, um, there's a level of like, oh, wait, hold on. What's she, is she going to associate the, the, the, the, the, the, the bad memory with, like, this random person or is there going to be any? Yeah, I know. I don't know. I don't know. I know. I don't know. I know. Too young. Yeah, but you're just, but you're just, but what if, you know, and everything. And, um, and no, and in the end like that's one of those things where it's like okay obviously this sucks and let's go

comfort and let's do the best we can but like it yeah it hits a point where it's like you can get a little bit of soothing done but there is you're now over we're at a nine we're at a 10 we're 11 and unfortunately at this age dad can only bring her down from a 7.5 you know and you're like oh that feels awful. That is... It's just the way it works. They gotta learn how to freak out and calm down. No, I know, I know. It just, but it just feels bad, you know. But... I had a situation this morning. Just this morning.

Little man wanted some more milk, but he wouldn't say please. Boy, boy, was he fucking pissed at the idea of saying please. Right? Impasse. And like, he says, please. he's 99% of the time. But every now and then, he's like, I don't want to. I'm like, well, then you're not getting it, bro.

I have taken a bow of silence. I will never say please for the next 99 years. Yeah. Right. And so it's like, he's having his shit. And it's like, yeah, it's good for him. He's got to freak out a little bit, learn how to calm down. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I won. I defeated him with my will because I'm an adult. That's important. It's good to establish that that was the result here. But, you know, and I... Inoculation is better than me now. I'm so serious. Okay.

I don't like needles. I don't like to get stabbed by needle. So I'm kind of like a big baby about them. And like, he doesn't like it getting stabbed. But then like, five minutes later, he's like totally chill. And I'm like, I'm so brave. And my wife's like, yeah, you were really brave, buddy. You do a good job.

I mean, we like, we do... I do have the material that is ripe for clowning, which is a punch mom once when she was younger passed out after, right? And it was like, was that from the like the worry and everything built up? And it was like, no, it was more like a, it was kind of just like, oh, that wasn't as bad as I thought. Everything's okay. And then, you know. I had some kind of muscle seizure once when I got blood drawn, which was not fun.

Okay, okay. I had to go, like, lie down in, like, on a bed and like my whole body had the 10. terrible shakes. And it was like, it's because one of those blood tests were like, you can eat for 12 hours beforehand. And I'm like 10. And I'm terrified of needles. And then they took like a lot of blood.

And so I just had a total anxiety attack. And then my body was, ah! Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. It's just, it's just one of those bits, though, where like, it's like to this day, it's been like fucking however many years later decades. And, you know, when they go, hey, so has anything ever happened? And you're saying, yeah, like a yes, once technically, and I still have to bring it up, you know, is what she does.

But anyways, all this to say that, again, extreme, extreme bravery and kudos on her part. What a beast. But also just, okay, I'm able to see exactly where the cutoff for comfort is right now. And I'm reading and I'm reading online and stuff and I'm seeing people describing how it's like, yeah, give it a minute. eventually like they just 180 on that preference and then shit just starts flying and then you don't know who you're going to get for each month

you know it's the whole process is like the whole process is like you're holding this dog and you're like yeah yeah I got this and then they're going to change the whole game up on you and all your shit sucks

and it no longer works And you have to learn an entirely new set of skills. Congrats. You've learned the matchup. It's worthless. You ain't shit. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

But that's, that's, that's, that's, what are you going to do? So I got to, I got to experience a super fun experience, which was in hindsight now, fun. But, um, it will be fun for you too, dad. So, you know, we got a lot of books. We got a lot of toys for the kids. So what do we do? We get shelves. We get like a rotating little bookcase and stuff like that.

Well, let's put it together. No, put that screw down. No, no, no, put that down. No, put that, no. And like, you're helping. You're helping turn the screw. Yeah. Thank you.

No, don't eat that. No, don't eat that. No, don't eat that. That's styrofoam. That's poison. Okay. Can you hand me that? No, no, no.

know that one. No, no, no, no, that one. No, no, no, that one. No, you're looking right at it. You're looking right at it. You're looking right at it. No, not that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. I'm hoping, like, Lego can clear some of this out, you know, fine motor skills and all that eventually, but, or rather, megablocks, I should say, right? You get there. You start, you start bigger and bolder. And like, it's so important that you remain rock solid and totally chill. But like, if this was an adult, I would have blown my top. But instead, it's like a little baby. He doesn't know not to eat a screw. That doesn't even, if you eat a screw, that doesn't even like show up as a problem until later.

I mean, hopefully you're catching it, right? But yes. So you have a fun little extra part where you count everything and then at every part of the process, you count everything again. Right. I mean, I will say that, like, right now I'm like, we're, I'm at the face of being proper impressed because it's like, yo, that, that teething thing that you have, the little teething pineapple is like, you can actually get both hands around it and coordinate to aim it into your mouth. And it's like, you got that? You have that skill now? When did you get that? That's crazy. It's like Figuring out what skills you take for granted Is really interesting

So like my dude can throw a ball And he can roll a ball pretty good, right? But then I'm like, all right, buddy, catch it And I underhand toss like a big old rainbow ball of him And he just stands there in an A pose And it bounces off his chest And I'm like, oh right He doesn't know what the fuck catch is

Yes, yes, yes. Right, let's do some pantomimes. Let's do, uh, Mm-hmm. And, you know, different skill. Right. Right, right.

And, you know, feeding a bottle, I got one hand, like, wrapped around it, you know, and it's one of the smaller ones. And, you know,

so it's kind of like, okay, we're starting to get there. Maybe we can get this going and then get the, you know, but, uh,

no, it is, it is cool to see that, that develop as well and kind of just be like, you just, you just pulled that out. You leveled up and it came to you. It's really weird how I've had this two and a half year old for only about six months.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, sure. Right. It's really strange how I've only been a dad for about six months, but the kids two and a half years old. I don't know. It's getting weird. That's crazy. Damn.

You know, I mean, you barely, you only have like 30 days on me, really, you know? Barely. Yeah, my child's just larger and talks more. And that's it. But no, like, like, when, when mine showed up, like, yours just reset. So, like, there's a whole new, like, it's just, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, anyway, anyway, um, that's, that's going on. And, um, yeah, obviously this week is going to be some, some big old Christmas stuff going on. So, uh, no streams till a little later on Friday, uh, for me, at which point I'll be picking back up with dispatch and, uh,

Claire obscure. Oh, okay. Sorry. Uh, I thought today was going to be the dispatch spoiler cast. Oh, no, we didn't play yesterday. Um, because aforementioned baby appointments. So. Okay. We're going to, I haven't, uh, played since the second session.

And, uh, we'll do that, uh, Yeah, well, obviously, Wednesday is... Speed. Well, this week, there would have been a chill stream on Monday, but instead, the baby had a very important appointment that I went to. Yeah, absolutely. Today is the podcast. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. Thursday is Christmas, therefore leaving Friday the first opportunity to record something.

So that's when we'll be doing it. And then Saturday, instead of doing a finding game thing, we'll be doing Claire Obscure, just so we can get. a little more progress in that. So that's the plan for this week. Speaking to me, I'm streaming later tonight around 11 p.m. Me and Paige are going to watch the Fallout TV show with you all again. And I am going to be streaming Christmas Day and Christmas Eve and Friday and Saturday and Sunday. So you can check my schedule out for that on Blue Sky.

The Christmas ones are going to be short, though. They're not going to be long. All right. Um, yeah. That's over Twitch.tv slash Pat Stairs at and YouTube.com slash Pat Stairs at. Yeah. Not much, uh, um, in terms of playing stuff this week. Because I mean, it's been pretty busy.

Um, that we didn't already cover except for, you know, uh, Claire Obscure is, is moving pretty quickly. Um, like the decision to kind of mainline and, and take big steps of progress and then save the wandering for afterwards is like been more effective. I've been thinking a lot about like how badly I fucked up the curve on that game. Every time every single time I was given free reign, I did every single thing I could. Yes. And I'm like, oh, that is the opposite path. What it wanted is for me to go to like an actual.

on and hit like a dead ass wall and then go do that shit until it was no longer a wall. But we've talked about this, right? You do what is fun and you're enjoying what's going on and then you save the meat, the main meal, the progression for the end after you've done the side bits, right? You play anything. You have side quests. You've got main quests. You know that the side quests are probably not as good. You don't know for sure, but in most cases you're treating it as such. So then you save the best for last And that's the kind of mentality You progress with

A3 is a little silly Because a lot of the side stuff That's like just a fight Is like a weird ass gimmick fight With like a really cool weird ass gimmick Mm-hmm Also there's a mod out on the Nexus For E33 that gives you the

Like it gives you a level range Like the internal level range Associated by the game with each area Interesting And support Hosedly, the, I'll just type it for you. That is the level range for the final area. I believe, you know what?

I believe that. Because again, by just avoiding everything but the critical path and watching as it's still been kind of a cakewalk in scenarios and certain fights just with good defense that Reggie's been doing, it's like, yeah, they're not taking it on you that hard. Like, it's fine. I'm going to go ahead and replay that game myself at some point. And I will institute a rule on myself, which is not allowed to go into red loading areas. Just not allowed. That's not enough. And also, if the main story area is anything but red, I have to go to it first.

Okay. Okay. Sure. Sure, yeah. Right. Again, I still doubt it'll be enough. And furthermore, like... And then in Act 3, I'm going to kick on the 20 times XP, the health.

Okay. For everything but the super bosses. Because there is a big crucial key here. It's just like, if you have defense, you're doing it, you know? And counters are building break and they're doing so much for you that it's like, it doesn't matter if you can't, you can't nerf that, you know? But yeah, yeah, yeah. I would like to ask you a question about a discussion we had last week that has done with video games.

We're talking about Christmas carols. And I tried to look up to listen to a piece of corn for Christmas. And failed. Oh. Because that song doesn't appear to exist. Okay. Instead, I found the YouTube. of a person professionally singing a piece of pork for Christmas

filled with comments about people from our podcast going there and wondering whether or not your parents fucking censored it to not include pork. So this did pop up because I saw some people saying pork a couple of times. And all I can say is my mom had a cassette tape. It had lots of Christmas music on it. And one of the tracks that would play was... Oh, yeah, it was an official real track.

It was a cassette. It was a cassette tape. She played a cassette. Not, I don't believe it was. Because the other song on it was, all I want for Christmas is my callie herb so I can smoke up the herb and red. I don't think that was a Adventist track. I can't find.

Piece of corn for Christmas. I cannot find it. It was a cassette tape. She played every holiday, every Christmas. And on that, you know, you got your only one for Christmas, callie herb, a cali herb, oh, my cali herb. You know, and I'm like, I don't know what a cali herb is,

but smoke up the herb and red, sure, whatever that might mean. Did your mom's, like, custom tape that she put together? I think it was... You think he had the technical ability to make her own Christmas tape? I think she definitely had her own like, she had her own like mix tapes

of various gospel music and stuff. But it sounded like this was just a Christmas mix that was recorded from someone else's official Christmas mix. And that was, that was the sound of my childhood. I have no further details on it. But fascinating.

But there was a very produced musical rendition of, I want a piece of corn for me Christmas, you know? That, that, that, I, I, that's as far as I can go. You know? And the mystery stops here. I can only tell you what sounds entered my ear holes as I sat there as a child. And, uh, yeah, I'm sure she still plays it.

I'm sure I can track it down, you know? Um, I can probably call her right after this and, and get, get the details. Um, In fact, let's find out. He's going to text his mom. Let's find out. No, don't call your mom on the show. It's fine.

It's fine. You don't know what swears she's going to say. It's fine. It's fine. We can find out. We can get to the bottom of this mystery right now, right here. If she's a good idea. It's okay.

I edit this. We're not live. We're live, buddy. I don't think I'm getting an answer. I would never call my name. mom on the phone. Hi. Never. Hey, I'm currently recording my podcast just so you know. Hi. I'm just talking to you. Hi, so you're not being heard right now, but I'm talking about, uh, I want a piece of corn

for me Christmas. That song. I want a piece of corn. I want a piece of corn. I want a piece of corn. We want a piece of corn from me Christmas. We don't want many coo. You can keep the Kalaloo. okay but the the version that you played was corn right and so

so where did that version come from because when people were looking it up they're saying that they were just seeing the pork

version and so it's it's unclear your version you were playing yesterday and okay

okay okay okay so the version that she was playing yesterday yesterday, it has pork? Okay, so I just misheard it all these years. Okay, all right, all right, there you go.

All right. You're playing it off a CD, but it's, I want a piece of pork. Okay. But when you were singing it, you were saying corn. Ah! Okay, that's all I wanted to know. All right, thank you. All right.

I'll see you. I'll see you on Christmas. All right. Bye. And. Fucked on you. And solved. Fuck it on you.

Ed solved. Holy shit. In one, in one fell swoop. She went, no, no, it's pork. And then, but when I was seeing it. like an insane person. And I was watching as you and everybody were going, and then immediately the next sentence.

But when I was singing and I was replacing it, I was saying something else like that or so. And then here we go. That's it. That's it. That's all it takes. Hey. You got sciopped by your mom as a child. For 40 years.

For 40 years. And guess what? People out there, all right? If you didn't, anyone out there who doesn't have a microphone in front of them and this type of situation to immediately fact check you, you will just go to your grave thinking what you think not knowing. Isn't that crazy? Dude, I was quite, quite too aged. That's crazy. My parents told me that brown cows and shotgun milk is a lie. Gaslit. Gaslit by the corn. I mean, but why? Because pork is, is, uh, is for, pork is, pork is against our religion. We can't,

who couldn't eat pork. Yeah. that's why you're not supposed to eat pork when you're when you're when you're when you're when you're following what the Bible says according to us yeah well now we know you know but I mean holy shit that's exactly there's your answer there's your beginning middle in mid middle and end I what am I supposed to do how am I supposed to fight against that okay so right thing right what a what defense could I possibly have had told me many things that I know now to be not only incorrect

but like legitimately completely divorced from reality and every time I'm like it is it literally does not go by like every two or three months I discover that something my parents told me they were just dead ass wrong about right right the way the fucking world works how something happened whatever

and like I kind of live in fear of like the amount like like like like good 18 years of like oh I'm listening to mom and dad about it And how many of those things are just hiding under the surface. And what's going to happen? I'm going to say something. And somebody's going to be like, fucking what?

I'm like, yeah, everybody knows that. In fact, not everyone knows that because it's fucking bullshit. And it's just something that my dad offhandedly mentioned to me when I was nine years old. And it's never come up again. Again, ever. Yep. Never got the patch notes. Fuck off on that.

It's just a fringe knowledge scenario that has just no reason to come up in normal conversation. In fact, in fact, dare I say that probably nine times out of ten, you and everyone else who heard that song last week would just go, I don't know, that's some weird Caribbean fucking shit. I don't know what that is, but that's crazy. Okay, and moving on. But because you heard it and were like, oh, I'm interested to hear more of what you were singing there. Oh, I can't find it. That's why this happens because of that interest. And if you didn't have that curious question mark, none's the wiser.

We stay in the dark. I never heard any Caribbean Christmas songs. I'm like, oh, I'll listen to some Caribbean Christmas. I'm like, because my house is a Christmas playlist like literally 20 hours a day right now, by the way. Okay. I'm being hit with the phrase, the well articulated phrase, dadda, what happened to the Christmas songs? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A whole, yeah, yeah, yeah, a second, I got you.

Right? So I'm like, oh, let's try to. I can't find it. Huh. Weird. I mean, it just, there's, and the thing is, it kind of like, the Christmas Soca goes into Christmas Calypso and the Christmas Calypso goes into, you know, eventually you start getting the Felis Navidad and you're going into the Spanish as well. Like, it's just, it's kind of like islands collective playlist type of thing is happening there. Um, I saw someone saying, but hold on, the New Testament said Jesus reset that so that everyone could eat porn.

And I said, no, because according to what we believe here, that verse you're describing, where he's describing the various types of things, eat ye all of it, is talking about how you can now go and preach to the Gentiles. And that it's more about teaching the gospel to people who are from all walks of life. And it's a metaphor describing that it wasn't literally about the food is the interpretation, you see. You have to look at the, you have to read the Aramaic and study the scriptures and go back to the original.

As somebody who's never been a part of any organized religion at any point, I got to say, if I'm going to be referred to as an out-group term, I'm a big fan of the term Gentile. Gentiles, yeah. It is, I'll take it. I like it. Okay. It's nice.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, I'll take that. There's certainly other out-group terms that are not. I've heard many, which we will not repeat here. There are, you know, although there's one in particular that we will repeat that is more like people who work in a profession that then refer to people who are not in that profession as civilians. Oh, it's fucking crazy. It's the most fucking, you know, like wrestlers talking about civilians or like.

Oh, do you mean non-carneys? Yeah, or like, yeah, podcasters talking about civis. You're like, oh, get the fucking. out of here, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's kind of incredible. Um, um, now I feel like I need to go back and verify the lyrics of all my Christmas music just to find out, you know?

That's what happens. When, when, when, when you find out some minor detail that doesn't matter was like, you actually got like, dead ass wrong. Now you're like, okay, wait. did that even like you go back to old memories like did that even happen and that's how your parents get you well you see the other but the other CD that played regularly was the African children's choir and you know they sing a bunch of songs that are like classic known Christmas carols but then then also sing some songs and you know um in an African language I'm not sure which one but you know

at that point you're like okay well yeah fair enough it's like it's like me reciting my favorite fucking anime OP at this point, right? I don't think it's like that at all. You're... I don't... I think that might be the biggest cope I've ever fucking heard out of your mouth.

You're doing your best to recite the language that you've been hearing for a long time and you're probably getting some of those pronunciations wrong, but you've heard it enough that some part of it is baked in there. specified narrow use case you've described. I don't think singing foreign Christmas songs is the same as you belting out like Naruto opening. Zan koku Watan Shino Yoni, you hear that in your brain, in the same brain that

hears Hasediga Iboi. Like it is what it is. It is what it is. You try your best. Who knows? Anyway, I'm going to need to go back and fucking do some lyric digging now. I'm questioning. I'm questioning everything I've ever heard.

Because it's now your job to pass it on to a new one. Right? Incorrectly at that. So like me and Paige keep having this thing where I'm about to open my mouth to explain to the kid. And then I have to think about, wait, who's the person who told me that that was the way it was? Was it my dad? Okay, hold up. Hold up.

Is that even true? Was it? So here's my favorite version of this. Was that even true then? Yeah. Did you have the the zeitgeist of ignorance to cover you? Well, because sometimes

it changes, right? My parents, both of my parents told me that they, when they smoked after having kids, they didn't know it was bad for you. And we are talking. about like 85, 86.

That's not true. That wasn't true. Something just occurred to me, and I need to know. I need to know. Okay. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Oh, my God.

You're so nuts. It's not working. It's not working. I would be filled with terror to call my mother on the phone. I was not. calling my, I was not calling my mother. I was calling my brother. I would definitely, I don't have my brother's phone numbers. I was, I want to know if he was in the exact same boat as me just now, up to a second to go. I wanted to know if we were both there, right? But yeah, okay. The idea that I would

call my mom on either of the stream or the podcast is so terrifying to me because I'm pretty sure. In fact, I am certain She still Does not understand What this is Right, all Right, right, right Like even

Even my description of It's like a radio show Somehow doesn't punch through I mean, look, all I know is We got there eventually With the internet radio show bit That did that that did work

and it kind of resets every once in a while. But the most recent one was, hey, here's a, I got a plushy, check it out. And that was a, whoa. Oh, this is a big deal, huh? It was one of those kind of, like, to that effect, to that effect, that energy. Wow. You deserved a bigger pop for that. It was, no, no, no, it was a big, you know, it was a big pop.

It was a big pop. I'm not, I don't want to, I don't want to understand it. I know, but you know what I mean. You know, but it was one of those bits, you know. Oh my God. Well, I mean, again, there's always the, there's this energy of like, they don't understand it. And then there's the, the Reggie energy of, yeah, I don't really even want to tell her. And then I think, and then he did, but I forgot how it went, but it was just like, just, it was like, oh, aren't you still?

weren't you going to talk about going back to school? Or it was one of those just like, like, oh, my God, what is he doing? Type of responses where he's like, yep, okay, fair enough. So I think the one that like got me is like, so, okay, so I have moved away to British Columbia and I have married my darling wife from America and I have a baby. And I send my mom a photo. I sent my mom that photo of me coming out of the hair appointment with my shit all purple. And she was like, oh. Why?

And I'm like, oh, you actually think that I just do this now. That's actually, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, again, I do feel that like... It's in the water, Ma.

Don't you get it? To be fair, as my tattoos appeared on my arm, I want to say there was a large, like, she pretends she does not see it. Is that a non-seventh-day Adventist cool thing? No, no, no, you're not supposed to be like staining your skin with stuff like that, marking your skin. It is difficult to ignore how much tattoo is on you. You're not, that's a no-no.

That's a big no-no. I mean, yeah, but you know what? So is like wearing your hair along and wearing pants if you're a girl if you want to get technical on it. So, I mean, shit's fucking, you know. But that's one of those ones where only that one elder at the church was like, I don't know about those pants, you know, years later. I always find it fascinating when there's like a, you know, like a fairly intense religious group. And then there's a couple of the stated rules that even in the diehards are like, oh, that one's hard. Yeah.

Yeah. Like, I don't want to do that one. But like, and it was, but it's just, the thing is too is that everyone was just like, okay, whatever. Even the most like die hard. But there was that one old dude. who like you could just live in that life. Like he's the old guy at the church that did this. A bunch, right?

Picture that guy. You know? He got mouth shit. I don't know what's up with that. With the big and just, and he was not fond of the wrong attire being worn by the wrong person. You know, to the point where, again,

my older brother who was preaching would be like, bro, relax. I'm preaching and I'm preaching and I'm telling you to relax, like actually chill, though, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyways. A lot of fun detour. Yeah, sure.

What's up, wolves? What's going on? You want to talk about this week? I mean, I hit the points and then, you know, I'm going to be, yeah, like I said, wrapping up dispatch and E33. other stuff that I'm thinking about throwing up on deck but you know

I'll talk about whatever else I'm going to play when the time comes but yeah you know Willie versus tune in YouTube and Twitch for more I played more routine um

that game has a middle of the game remit mix to its content. Interesting. That is really, really strong, like really strong.

And that's all I want to talk about it. Cool. Routine is very good. Cool. Very, very good. I also started and played and beat Lisa the joyful. Okay.

Okay. Interesting. I have like relatively complex thoughts about it. Okay. I think that its own story about Buddy is really, really strong. And it is also like an incredibly direct response to the events of Lisa the painful. Like it is like it is it is a lot. of people do a lot of crazy things in The Joyful. And it is like eminently reasonable that they would act in that manner.

No matter how insane they may appear, you go, well, yeah, that makes sense, though. I cannot possibly blame someone for acting in this way. This is a, this is so the Lisa, okay, so it's been a while so a lot of the details are fuzzy, but I remember the broad strokes. Yeah. And what I remember is the character arcs in the full. trilogy or what i mean whatever barely the first one but yeah exactly and to be fair um also like there's a lot of stuff where uh dingling um literally goes yeah i was a dumb edge lord being edgy you know um straight

and see that yeah and he goes yeah i wish i wasn't so edgy about some of the stuff even answering questions about the painful he was like yeah i was being edgy um wish i just to do it Wish I wish I could have wrote that with more nuance, you know, later on. So I'm like, interesting. Even hearing that after the fact. But yeah, with the broad strokes, what I recall is this is definitely a setting where you're looking at. Everyone going, yep, here are the dominoes. Here are the dominoes that lead to these outcomes.

And everyone who's making these fucked up decisions and actions are doing so basically on the backs of a giant trauma domino piece that knocked them in their direction. And it's a little bit, it kind of reminds me of like, well, I don't know much about Fear and Hunger 2 at all. But Fear and Hunger has a little bit of this two where the creator was like doing an edgy thing being younger. And then, you know, it evolved into something more than that. Fair Hunger 2 is a lot, there's a lot more craft. Yeah. Even from the little that I watched page play of it.

It's, it's, it's, there's, they spent a lot more time putting the pieces together. But there's so little nuance, you know, to a lot of what's going on in the first game. and in the case of Lisa, I feel like the joyful, like as a DLC continuation of that story, you can see this like, oh, we can improve,

we can do a bit better, we can write a bit better, we can make things stronger. The gameplay is really weird. It is a really fascinating switchup. Like in the painful, you are drowning in like dozens of party members, right?

And they are disposable. and their disposability is thematic. In Lisa the Joyful, you don't have nothing. It's just you. And that works as a really, really, really, really, really, really strong thematic kick. Very thematic. And I think it works out. I think it's overall really solid.

I think it's pretty simple, but it's also very short. I feel like it's kind of like its existence. is fine. It's good. And I am, I'm glad to have played it. And I like what it was doing. I think that its existence harms the painful's ending more than it is good. Interesting. I think Lisa, the painful's ending is fucking perfect. Interesting. Okay. And anything that comes after that kind of steals some of its thunder.

And the additions are good. Like, Lisa the Joyful is really good. But I miss the ambiguity and the terror and the awfulness of Lisa the Painful's ending. And I actually lament that I didn't get that ending back before Lisa the Joyful even existed. Because there would have been a point in time in which the Painful's ending was definitively, well, You don't know. Okay. So, so, uh, this is interesting because again, I'm, it's going back some time.

So I'm not remembering everything. But I do remember feeling like the, for me, it was I had the exact opposite feeling. I had a feeling where after playing the joyful, I thought, oh, this is a great closer to the story, to, to the journey that went through the painful. And I liked the, so it is. The epilogue. And I thought that it was a stronger finish. Now, the question, I guess is like. Like, what endings did you get?

You know, how did yours play out? And this is going to have to go into some detail. In the painful, I took a lot of joy. I took zero. Yeah. I took zero joy in the painful. It's hard. Right?

So I took drugs. Yeah. I, you know, and so I had, so that was one thing. I also, I mean, again, so spoilers for Lisa, if you're listening to this and you don't want to get spoiled on things. I remember choosing to lose an arm instead. I lost all my arms and all my boys. Okay. I chose every possible harm Brad option.

Yeah. Okay, right. Harm anyone else. Harm anyone else, yeah. Don't you dare harm buddy, right? Go fuck yourself, right? I remember that. And a lot of that was kind of like, to me,

I remember that as well with something where you're like, yeah, this is the way that not only is it like something where you're like, I don't want to in-game lose my shit or whatever, right? Like your party members, all these things, et cetera, life. But there's also the part where you're like,

this guy. I'll take all your items or kill your boys. Oh, um, yeah, here's my items. And based on what we know about Brad, guess who would be willing to punish himself that hard?

Yeah. Right? Given the circumstances of what we're talking about with his past. and I think that leans into those choices a bit and then you kind of wonder the whole time what kind of person is buddy gonna be and I kind of felt like you find out and it makes sense

I remember being like direct results of the unavoidable reality that she lives in that's it I remember looking at that going oh if you're gonna do a children of man slash why the last man type scenario and then you have to like actually play it out to this chosen one what type of person would they become in this kind of setting.

And, you know, kind of crazy warlord shit aside, you're like, this is somebody who would absolutely fucking hate the idea of, I was just trying to protect you. I was just trying to keep you safe. I will fucking kill you if you say those words to me, you know? So one of the things that I kind of expected us to split lines on this is that as I'm getting older, my tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity is increasingly. decreasing dramatically. And Lisa is kind of a perfect example of this because, like, there's super bosses I could

fight and alternate paths I could go on and little Easter eggs I could find where, and, you know, chat tells you about it as you're going through something like this about, what is joy? How did it happen? And it's like, I don't care. I don't give a fuck. What joy actually is? It doesn't matter. All that matters is Brad and Buddy's relationship with George.

Yes. And I would say as well, in the same effect, too, like, Brad and the relationship with like Marty and all that shit is the, that's the point. And when you start to get those details about like Buddy's actual past and the fucking. I actively don't care about that. So it's there and it's like it's nowhere, it's not the point, but it's all, and it's also something where you're like, oh, there's just, you know when you can have like just raw evil and then you just kind of have like this unn nuanced like Satan for Satan's sake in a way? Um, there's, yeah, you're looking at these situations where the people that come in with with like buddies past and everything where you're like, oh, there's no ambiguity to this. These are just people that are like, again, just the, the extreme ends of the, the, the extreme ends of the. slider with fuck the dominoes. You don't even have to describe a domino that knocked these people into where they are.

And I think you, like, there's, there's, there's stuff you can discover in, in either the painful or in the joyful I forget about like, Buddy's mom and stuff where it's just like. Yeah, if you play in pain, a painful mode in the painful, you can find Buddy's mom. Right, right. There you go. There you go. I don't care. So, like, I, I, I, I actually.

because the relationship want to encounter it even yeah the relationship between these two is what matters right like running into Yato in the joyful yeah

I don't give a fuck about this dude for me it was like for me it was like okay cool to know that's there but this is but like well just again hearty fuck you

and all that and the trumpet shit and everything you know um and they're you know the bit of like where he's like

chilling out with the trumpet and everything is like a little just weird thematic thing that that continues. That's like nicely done. Um, but yeah, what matters is this relationship? And hey, guess what? Jesus Joel? It's that's for the exact same reasons. For the exact same reasons. For the exact same reasons. People arguing for like hours about the viability of a vaccine and last of us. I'm like that the fucking vaccine doesn't have shit to do with that. It's Joel and Ellie. It's Joel and

Ellie. That's all that matters. Yep. Yep. So I'm curious now, um, with the Well, basically, I think it's like the three big choices, right, in Joyful are... I only had two, but as somebody in the chat points out, we actually played different versions of the game because I played them quite late. And so I played the definitive of versions, which changed parts of the game. Okay, so I don't know what those changes are, but... I also don't know what changed those changes are. Okay, what was buddies in your play-through? What was Buddy's relationship with Rando?

Uh, positive and then highly not positive. Trust and then reveal. Yeah. Okay. And what did you do about it after? I mean, I trust it until I could trust no longer. Okay. And there was no extra after.

I do. Okay. Okay. Basically, there's a... There was a very definitive ending to that story. Okay. Because essentially, you can get like a third afterwards, what's going on, you know? After that trust moment occurs, that is like another super fucking crazy, you know,

thing that goes into your endings. But, okay, and then the ending you got... I didn't take any joy. Sorry, I did take the drugs. Yeah. What was your, what, what happened with Buddy? Let me just see you there, because I'm curious, because. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You got that. Okay, you got that ending. Okay. Okay. Cool. But yeah, all in all, it's very strong. I really like it. I kind of wish I lived in a world in which Lisa the joyful didn't exist at all,

and it was just the painful. Yeah, I just disagree. I just disagree. But I, I, knowing, again, knowing that the relationship, between Buddy and Brad is the focal point there. This is a little, this isn't as an epilogue to the story and like developing Buddy more and sort of showing, you know, some of her agency. I didn't feel it detracted in that way.

I know what you mean, though, but like I enjoyed seeing that growth and seeing the fact that it's like, this is not who you were hoping she would become, but you have to acknowledge that it makes sense that she became this person. Okay, so here's how I feel about, here's a movie adaptation way of explaining how I feel about Lisa the Joyful. So I'm watching The Thing. And at the end, McCready and John House, Marky, are about to reach each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you don't know if either of them or both of them or one of them is the thing.

And they just say, I guess we'll just wait it out. And then the movie just ends and leaves you going, I don't fucking know. And then the sequel to The Thing came out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was McCrini was the thing, and Giles is the new main character. And the movie's really, really excellent. But all the ambiguity of the first movie is now gone. I will say the difference, I guess for me there, is that I don't know how John Carpenter feels about it, but like we feel that the thing is a fucking perfect film. Yeah, so that happens.

The situation I'm describing actually did literally occur. No, I remember. The game. Yeah, the game, exactly. and you get answers where you're not supposed to get them. Yeah, the answer is they, neither of them were the thing. And then we also get the fucking, and we talk about the Sopranos ending every time we go into this conversation. But the difference to me, I guess, perspective here is that Lisa the painful is not the thing because like the thing is fucking perfect.

And Lisa, the painful to me is flawed, you know? And by the creator's own words, there's things where he's like, yeah, I wish I didn't do that. And I'm like, I can see that. I can understand that in the same way that, like, um, talking about the flaws of fear and hunger one while ultimately I'm like, this is a cool game. This is a cool thing. But there's flaws here where I can understand the creator wanting to add more to elaborate on and to, you know, perhaps build out some scaffolding to support some of the weaker parts of what came, what was happening in the main entry, you know.

I also think that the painful could have been a really full long thing. They could have made the mistake of stretching it out too long. Yeah. But they didn't. I got to say, Lisa, both games, completely fucked on me. It's the maybe the... That's... You're on kudo terms now, aren't you?

You're on full fucking... Like, you've been using that. With how long to beat. How long to beat? And, you know, when you look up like... I don't know if you do this. But what I'll do is I'll look up like game I'm playing full playthrough and then I'll skim until the spot that I'm at. And then I will see how long is left on the bar as like a fucking like, okay, okay, I'm 60% right.

How long to be can't be trusted with Lisa the painful and Lisa the joyful. And neither can the in-game fucking clock. I'm imagining the branches are wildly variant. Well, it also doesn't, it doesn't, um, accommodate for the times you fall off cliffs. Uh, okay. Game overs against bosses, right? Uh, it took me like twice as long to beat the painful. Yeah, that game's not, yeah, that game's willing to let you just fucking die. Yeah. Yeah. There were a lot, there were like two or I think maybe three streams where I just threw up my hands and went, okay, it streams over because I fell off a cliff after like a, a cliff.

45 minute sequence with no saves. I'm just like, no. Okay. Not doing it. Fuck it. Also, just Lisa in general, like proper what, like one person's

weird vision of things that I can see, kind of like looking at Toby Fox, I can see where the, the, the earthbound started and where their own vision, you know, took over. And the version you get in, in the,

the undertail in Delta Rune is like, you know, it's a, it's a large fantasy departure, but still you can see the bones of earthbound in there and mother, you know, and here you're going into horrible mutant freak territory. Um,

but when you see those mutations and the, then the absolute nightmare of shit going on, it's doing so in a way where you're like, I can see that in an earthbound sprite. You know? It's interesting. Um, I should probably play Earthbound to completion at some point.

Like I played maybe three or four hours of Earthbound at a friend's house and like, man, it did not do a thing for me at all. So here's what I'll say is playing it now, it might be a little bit like RE4, Gears of War, you know, going back in time, seeing the thing that inspired everything else. Sure. You, I don't think you, I don't think you are immune to the charm. I think you can still appreciate the vibes it puts out. Yeah, it's all vibes though, right? It's all vibes at this point. And like the vibes are going to have to make up for some, it's old gameplay and you're

going to be struggling with some bits. But the vibes can carry you because they're fucking immaculate. Didn't appeal to me at all. That's, that's the problem. Okay. What I, what I will say is for the maximum impact to enjoy earthbound. Today, especially, without any knowledge of what's going on, you'd have to go mother right into mother three. Right.

You'd want to play both games. And I'd say the combined strength of both games doing what they do and the effect that has on everything it inspired afterwards is like unavoidably, you're going to get hit by it, you know? Maybe. I don't know. Because like some of some of the problems I have with Earthbound. are problems I maintain now and don't like in all the games that do them. I don't like it when you can't see your party on the screen.

Yeah, that's a feeling. I really, really don't like it when you can't see your party on the screen. I hated that before I even knew what RPGs were, bro. Because one of the first games I got on the Ness was Dragon Warrior, you know, fucking DQ1. when it was called Dragon Warrior on the physical cartridge, and a slime appears, command?

And I'm like, where's me? Oh, I'm on the map and I can get Elric's armor, but I can't see me attacking the slime. That's not like the other Nintendo games. Someone in the chat says, Pat, but you love Undertale. Yeah, the little heart that you use in the gameplay sections, that's your character, and they're on the screen. There are you.

And in Delta ruin, you got your party on screen doing shit, you know? yeah it's it's no it one it's it's it's the same thing as me playing fpses and then overwatch versus marvel rivals etc i want to see my ever since i was a kid i fucking want to see my characters doing things and dragon quest immediately i was like i don't like that you just see the slime shake you know what about what about eye of the beholder pat don't you love eye of the beholder yeah you mean i have the beholder where your entire party is on the right side of the screen where you can see all their weapons and their portrait and you click on them and then it gets translated to the left side of the screen where the gameplay is.

That one? Yes, that one. So what I remember being charmed by with Earthbound was the things like crack of the bad as it smashes against, you know, the rat or whatever. And you see a big comic book like style text speech bubble, you know? Shit like that's really cool. Like I think it's really cool in a first person shooter when you point your fucking camera down and you see your character's legs.

That's not a deal breaker, but I'm not a deal breaker. I like it. Shout out to the trespasser, Jurassic Park. Right? But, but the, the, the feeling of your spell

being cast and you can't see it properly, you know, like, even back then, I'm just like, I don't want to just see the screen turn orange and do like a little shake. Give me some fucking pizzazz on that shit,

you know? Cast fucking flame, you know? Maybe I'll play Earthbound like once, and then when everyone just like, just, screams at me on all my social media platforms that I didn't enjoy it enough. I'll be like, well, that's enough of that.

I mean, I'll just say this. Like, again, the writing is hilarious. The vibes are immaculate. And, like, for maximum power, you tag team it with Mother 3. And you get, like, you understand why and where everything else said. I'm inspired by this, right? You know what? You know what it reminds me of?

It reminds me of back in the best friend's era when there was supposed to be a fucking Psychonauts LP and like It got started and like no one wanted to do it because no one no one in that whole group wanted to fucking play Psychonauts like on the controller because it fucking sucks We uh it's like this beloved wonderful game yeah until you have to play it Didn't get off the ground there um and and you know as someone who like has extolled love and virtues of fucking jet set radio and shit over the years. You know that's me. Like, I'm

down to praise a game's bold aesthetic while being like yep, this gameplay has some massive problems and you gotta go in knowing that's an issue. With, uh, uh, it's, so there's been games where

I'm trying to think of, there's been games where like I went back and kind of saw. Oh my God. I got a phone call from the vet. Hold on a second. I'm just going to tell my wife to call the vet. Okay. Yeah, it's what I will say is that, like, what you're describing, this is not one of those cases, though, where, like,

the gameplay is so rough and bad that you're, like, um, fuck this, like, entirely. When, when Earthbound gets annoying, it gets really annoying, though. I will say that. And the combat and the difficult, the spike of it and, like, the persistence and the, It gets really rough in some dungeons, and they slow down to a fucking crawl. You know what?

I should tell you, I just remembered, this is really stupid that I'm only bringing this up now. I just remembered what one of the core reasons for me never even bothering to play Earthbound was. Not that it was on the Super Nintendo. I could have borrowed one from a friend, right? it's because I knew that friend

who had a Super Nintendo I didn't and would play all these RPGs and we go to hang out of his house and he was like hey man check this shit out it's the final dungeon and boss Oh isn't that?

Oh you had no chance oh you had no chance you had no there was not a no You had zero chance. So that was the first. Oh my God. The whole fight. That I ever saw of Earthbound was,

yo, look how this guy named Jeff and Pooh can jam a bunch of bottle rockets into this swirling vortex. Oh, my God. Dude. Yeah. And then after that, I grabbed it on an emulator and was like, what?

This is like a, you're like a school child. Did he show you the whole? fight? The whole thing. Oh my God. It's, yeah, you're cooked. You're cooked. It's done. It's done. Like, you're just stomping on the emotional journey. Oh, that's incredible.

That guy also did that to me with Final Fantasy 6 with Kepka's Tower. And that was the first thing I ever saw of FF6, which has led to the scenario of why I've never actually personally beaten FF6 because I've gotten up to Kepka's Tower three times. And I go, oh, well. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, Woolly, there's this new sick anime you should check out, Ava. Dude's robot is his mom. Oh, that's my favorite one ever.

There's nothing that's going to top that. So we're like, yeah, that's really, really rough. That's a big vibe killer, I'm well, I will say. Doesn't weaken Mother 3 though? Doesn't weaken Mother 3? Yeah But anyway Anyway

That is The Lisa series though Is Yeah you're playing it after all this time I'm glad that you still liked it though Because it's great Because it's been so long That I'm just like

I don't know how much of this still stands up or holds up But I remember really liking I think the parts that That don't hold up now Didn't hold up the day the game came out Exactly Exactly Yeah

Yeah I'm going to say most of the stuff like surrounding, not most of, but a bunch of the stuff surrounding like the titular character, you know? Just never mentioned once in either game. By name, ever?

Yeah. Which is really funny. And so, I gotta ask you, because I was streaming it, you were just playing it, right? It was, it took until the last 25 minutes of the game for me to stop calling.

buddy Lisa. Oh, no, I didn't have that. Because I went to check out the original, the first. Oh, well, but follow me here. The buddy is like an informal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the name of the game is Lisa. So like, I would just constantly, constantly, constantly. Oh, man, Lisa's sword attack is really cool. Oh, my God. Yeah, okay. And I'd be like, right, right, buddy, it's buddy. Link is Zelda. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the thing is buddy has an actual name, but it is not Lisa, you know, so yeah. Anyway, um, that's cool. Also, I don't know. I feel like there was a stupid, like, there's the big wrestling energy going on in, in, in, yeah, pro wrestling was like a big was all over it. That was exactly. That was a part of like the enjoyment of fighting wolfman, big Lincoln. Oh man.

That's cool. Big, yeah, dusty, you know. I gotta say probably probably my favorite cool guy moment ever that I've ever seen in anything is finding one of your targets Sidney Gallows

hung and shot to death with arrows and then you defeat the archers that killed him only to walk away and him go hey I didn't get to be number two by being a fucking pussy and his corpse while still being lynched and shot with arrows

fights you and it's like the toughest boss in the game. God damn. Yeah, yeah. It's awesome. Oh, man. Yeah. It's fucking awesome.

Buzzo is just a fucking Legion of Doom member, you know? Well, I mean, obviously, but, you know. Well, yeah, Domino's. He's a bad guy. Yeah, he's not a good guy. He's not a good guy. And I would say, I would say,

would say to as well that the um you kind of know what era you're coming from with the um the the the the the the the the the fight the the the marty finale right you cut you're like you're like okay i see where this is coming from i know what's up i know i know you know you know you know you know you know you know um interesting well you know um glad you you check that out because uh yeah it's it's it's narratively one of the weird one's worth talking about and the music is weird and the writing is weird and the names are weird. The music is penis music

to the max. To the max. Sometimes that fucking fart trumpet is plot fart trumpet. Yeah, sometimes. Sometimes. What else did I do this week? Me and Paige watched the first episode of that Fallout TV show the second season.

How that's doing? They really, they're taking advantage of the New Vegas area quite strongly. You see a lot of places, a lot of people. They're using cut content from New Vegas as new locations

to effortlessly weave it in. Are we cranking up that rule 34 number as we speak? Am I becoming more and more wrong by the episode? Not yet. Okay. They are exploring a bunch. So they do this interesting thing

where they introduce us to Mr. House as a character in the second season of fallout and he is a significantly different character than the one you encounter in new Vegas um in terms of like his personality and um it's really smart that they can do a lot with him because there's no reason that anything he has to tell you in new Vegas is the truth because the only source for anything mr house tells you in new Vegas is him and you just have to take his word for it. Okay. And that's it. Like, he acts a certain way and he tells you that things happened a certain way and you just have to take his word for it. So they actually have plenty of room to play around with his character in the second season. Um, and still accommodate what actually

occurs in New Vegas. Um, is this the kind of adaptation where they've got to like bend over backwards to fit what's currently happening into that setting. They have to bend over backwards because New Vegas doesn't have a canonical ending. So they have to like just juke and weave around all the permutations of what could have happened at the end of New Vegas. Okay. And the other thing, it really looks like the second season of Fallout is going to have a fairly huge incest arc, which.

was not on my bingo card for this TV show. Okay. All right. Like, and you go back and look at the trailers and you look at some of the posters, and you're like, oh, this is going to be like a whole season, spanishan storyline. Okay.

Not a whole lot of genetic diversity in the vault. Yes, that is, that is, there's a poster on the wall in one of the trailers that's efficiency at its finest, keep it within the family. And it's like, oh, boy. Okay, okay. Aside from that, I did a sponsor stream for Skate Story, but it was not by Skate Story or the publisher. It was about their music company. They sponsored me to play Skate Story for an hour and talk about the Skate Story. Skate Story soundtrack being good, which was really easy.

What a weird... Because the skate story soundtrack is good. That's a weird premise for a sponsor's stream, but also... It is the only music company that's ever reached out to me. But if more games with killer-ass soundtracks want me to tell you that the soundtrack is good, then yeah, hit me up. This LP is sponsored by The Maniac Agenda. Well, it's literally like, yeah.

Like Blood Cultures is the band that does almost all the music in Skate Story, and they have all four of their albums in the game. So I just listened to all four of their albums and went, yeah, it's good. Sick. It's good music. Good for skateboarding. I think the way that I described it is a great soundtrack to get shot at by Judge Dread. Okay. Okay.

Right. So you're smoking cyber drugs and then Judge Dredd rolls up in the squad car and then you skate away. So is the call to action then to get the soundtrack bundle with the game? No call to action. Okay. Play it and fucking listen up. Yeah, all right. Yeah, all right.

Skate story is also really good. It's like, that's a non-sponsored opinion. It's also a really fucking good game about eating the moon in hell with your skateboard. What a weird scenario. Is there anything else that I did? I can't even remember. Not really. I don't think so.

This week, this weekend, rather, I'm going to go back to beat the backlog. There are 100 new submissions. I have to install all of them on this computer this week. So that'll be fun. I might not be, I might have to cut it into two batches of 50 because I don't think I actually literally can install all of them on this computer. There's, it's a hundred games. And that's it. Okay.

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Well, there's actually a bunch of stories going on. Let's hit all the... Let's try to hit... Exactly. Let's be efficient with our time here. Let's yam. But, like, as far as... Like, there's a bunch of AI follow-up stories.

A ton! Like, a weirdly enormous amount of them. There's stuff that I find infinitely more interesting. going on as well besides all that. But if you want to just lump them all together in the big in the big bunch, what do we got? Okay, so Larian's going to do an AMA to clarify what's going on with the general of AI. Not good. Not a good idea.

Swenvink is going to be doing that. I mean, I guess if the option is that and then the other option is just say nothing. And I am 100% convinced they will say something worse than nothing in that AMA. Well, effectively, what I was saying last time is that, like, this conversation is going to have to get very nuanced very quickly to figure out where devs are willing to draw the line. I don't think anyone you will ask about any of these questions will give you a good answer in any way. I think they're all going to just look like kind of dumb. Well, ultimately, the idea of burning through the, you know, favor that people feel from everything that they delivered with Baldr's Gate 3 is something that is like probably not going to be fixed unless they basically just back down from what they're doing. No, they're not going to do that.

Yeah, so here we are. They might back down on the next project. In fact, I probably bet they will. We'll see. I have an internal list in my brain. Over the past week, Larry End did its thing. as well as level five came out

and was like, we fucking love AI Professor Layton. I brought them up. I brought up level five before because they showed off the Captain Subasa stuff and then they showed off

the Megaton Musashi stuff and basically were like, yeah, we're using it for more and more and more. And this time, and like they've went from initially showing some of those things to going,

no, we're going 80 to 90% AI. Which doesn't actually, like that actually doesn't make any sense at all. Like, I think they're glazing.

I think they're actually glazing themselves. It's, well, it's all, it's basically saying, hey, if you want to come work for us, you got to be comfortable and ready to do this and also be ready to be a proctor more than anything. So we got that. But you can also see, and it's one of those things where you kind of indicate how much of a true believer the,

the given CEOs are, right? So that's what they're doing. Sanfall got their indie award rescinded. So that, that I need to talk about slightly more at length. So I watch the Indie Game Award. And the Indie Game Awards was very, very anti-AI. And then they had Expedition 33 up for a game of the year and then one game of the year. And then they had a speech afterwards thanking the winner of the game of the year for not using generative AI and for championing human-made content.

Which my mouth dropped because I'm like, there was a whole scandal about the outcome you guys didn't know about that. The host of the Indie Game Awards did that? Yes, the host of the Indie Game Awards. Oh, I didn't see that. I'm just like, what the fuck? Well, that's a bad one too. And then, like, a day or two later, they're like, okay, so here's what happened. They did the clarifier.

We asked Sanfall, does your game have any AI in it? And they said, no, because right now it doesn't. But it did. So they say that Sanfault lied, and Sanfault's like, no, we told them the answer that was true at the time. And then they got disqualified. and then the follow-up question is, hey, indie games people who ran this thing, do you have brains?

Do you not read about video games that are included in your awards? And then they gave the subsequent awards that E33 had won to Blueprints and Sorry, were closed, which are great games and totally deserve their awards. And my issue with this is that I think

they should have done their due diligence and I think they should have awarded Blueprints game of the year on their show and not like basically put Blue Prince's win in like the retractions column of an obituary in a newspaper where no one will see it. But then over at the

escapist, someone over there decided to make a big old article about how Blueprints uses AI too. Oh wait, there's no sources. That's completely made up. We have to pull that story within like an hour, but guess what? People read it.

And now in articles on Blueprint, and my YouTube videos that are talking about the E33 AI stuff, there are comments of people who read that and didn't see the retraction. Well, Blueprints used AI. That is materially damaging to Blueprints and Raw Fury. And they are probably going to sue the escapist. Wasn't there?

Didn't I just see a thing where it was like the escape is that? It was like zero punctuation stuff or whatever. Absolutely. And then now it's like. I see and every single person on the content team left and formed a website called second win. And now what the Escapist does, it takes videos of XQC and other big streamer streams where they play gambling mini games and they super cut them into some series. It's crazy. I saw a lineup of like five articles that were all like how to get max win gamble wins and then pros tips for fruit fucker.

you know, like, fucking just, I was like, what happened? That site with the, with the cursive E? Not that I ever went there outside of, you know, for years, but... And then we got a follow up from Sanfall about the E33 AI stuff in which they said that in 2022, a couple of our guys messed around with it and then decided not to go forward and they should have been taken out, which is interesting because I still think that game should have been disqualified on, it's on like numerical basis. and the rules. However, back in 2022 was when everyone was laughing about the Domey da-de-me face cam morphs

and people were playing that AI fucking story generator because there was no environmental labor catastrophe occurring. So it's complicated. Yep. Yep. I mean, there was certainly a time where shit was just like, oh, it's a meme generator. Yeah, it's a meme machine. I remember that. And yeah, I think the, for what Sand Falls bit is on it, it's like the accidental texture thing was like it was not intended to be front facing, but it ended up being. So whether or not you want to talk about it on the usage of it being used not front facing or whether it's on a technicality, there was one used at, and so that that does discount it. And then they can recend it. we fucking die.

Yadda, yada, yada, yada, yada, yeah, yeah, exactly, right. So in addition, we got level five, we got Sega, Capcom, Square Inix, Warhorse, who make Kingdom Come Deliverance. Their CEO was like, oh, yeah, I fucking love AI. I got to use it on the next one. It came out that Falcom used it a bunch on Trails in the Sky remake, which everyone I know has been playing.

And they just said it like three days ago. So that, so. So. So. So. So. But, but, but it, but it, it, it, it comes down to just exactly what I was saying before, I believe, which is the line that, um, people have. Well, it depends.

Because there's, I guess there's us as individuals. There's people that listen to this. There's the game industry in general, in different bubbles. But the line that a lot of studios have is we're using it, but not for front facing. And that's what we're comfortable with. And the line that others have, uh, that game. that players have, that people have, consumers is actually we don't want it anywhere near it.

And then some others are more gray and in between. But this clarifies also CD Project Red and Bethesda. So this line is different for what people thought versus where these studios actually are at. That's what's happening. I think Chris Wolfheart on that internet pretty much summed it up well.

We are in a time period in which over the next three to five years, every single company that you like to buy games from is going to use it to some degree and then be like, man, that didn't pay out how it was supposed to let's not use it again without any ethical or moral consideration whatsoever. And so we are essentially in the AI for development era

of the online pass right now. You remember the era of the online pass? Oh, as in like Mortal Kombat. combat and shit like that of yeah right right right okay yeah um no and you know i mean i i i feel like uh uh in in you know the the the titular castle super beast clip uh in the the great crash out um this is one of those things where i'm like i this is why i always i'm like god i wish i could fucking my brain worked faster because there's there's points that that was by and go and like one of the large ones that i only

thought about after the discussion was fully... Well, that's how it always is, right? You always think of the best stuff. Long past. Something that... Something that... Something that... 20 years later.

Right. So something that would have... That should have come up there is, like, one of the big ones, while we're describing all the things that are bad feels or whatever, is for... TikTok. One of the obvious. One of the big ones. The one that I'm still...

I personally am just like, yeah, I still don't fuck with it. Because I remember, it was it 2019 or so, where it was just like, did you see that the, that bite dance uses facial data from people using TikTok to make it so that the surveillance that the Uighur Muslims are forced to use is extra effective at tracking them everywhere their go. And everyone using it is directly making that. And it's like, that was one where I was like, okay, yeah, that fucking dog shit, right? Well, you and I upload videos to YouTube, which uses the data out of our YouTube. two videos to do it anywhere. A million percent. Right. But I just

and so I'm just like I that that was the, that was one thing. I'm like, I wish I could like crowbar that back into the clip, you know? You're right. That's what, that's the phase we're in and then we're going to see these other companies coming up to speak about. I went to a little circle over the past week of like, oh man, and I just went into the place of like, oh, I can't escape nothing. And then I eventually, I went

into the place of like, I had a moment of like, I should stop eating meat. Like that's, that's where my, like, that's where the fucking spiral went. Pat. Pat. Pat. I already answered this. Hug that dog. Hug that dog. Do it right now. Hug him. Do it. I'm telling you to do it. He's squishy. There you go. Solved. All right. Yeah. You fucking squish that dog. All right. What else is going on? So, like, the first game I cover that uses AI on my channel will probably be Trails in the Sky, the remake, because I bought it like months ago for backlog purposes. Oh, you pre, you bought it a while ago.

I bought it the first time it went on sale. Oh, yeah, that's interesting. Because I was going to put it in the thing so I could do a trails video. Speaking of how about this. And I'm going to start the video going, hey, this shit has AI. If you want to poop on it, poop on it from a great height, but I already. fucking bought it. Speaking of buying things and not getting what

you wanted out of them, there has been an update to the Cotor 2 switch of the Cotor 2 switch lawsuit. So if anyone has been following the story

at home. Okay so to recap for everybody, Aspire announced Cotor 2 for the switch. And in the trailer, at the end of it, they teased restored content mod, DLC coming. Yeah, I remember this. And everybody that is a fan that was like, holy shit, the official, an official restored content mod that makes the game the better version?

What the fuck? And the answer is, ha ha ha, ha, no? And so a lot of, so people went out and bought it immediately going, yeah, fucking let's go. And then they said, actually, never mind, lull, JK. And then there was no restored content. mod. It says it on the back of the box. And that led to a lot of people who were like, okay, I cannot even get a refund for the purchase I made here. I never even booted the game, but I bought the switch game and you're not giving me the thing that you advertised. So thus began the lawsuit

against the spire for false advertising. And that has been going on in the background. So that case has been continuing and the legal battle has had some updates where the arguments being made by a spire's lawyer are some of them are coming out. One of which is the claim that the restored content would be in the game has no economic value. And the reason why it has no economic value is because many YouTube viewers skip after the first five seconds of watching a video anyways. So barely anyone would have seen it. Thus, there was no real,

no big deal to saying that the content mod was coming at the end of the trailer because it was the last part of the video. Yeah. So, you know, we got good legal defense coming in, uh, against,

lying about what's going to be in your, in your game. Just refund the fucking, No. These could we possibly be talking about. Nope. Never. Die on the hill.

Also, there's some other dumb shit in there. Like, there's a redaction in the, of an email in one of the, that they're like, oh, whose email was this? And they're like, it's a special contact at Lucasfilm. And they're like, we want to, you know, why is this redaction here? We want to question it. And then they're like, well, no, because this is a special contact. And it took us years and years of schmutzen to get to the right person who can approve green lighting Star Wars licensed games. And that's a trade secret that if we allowed other people to know about this email or who it was that was reached out to, it would damage us as a company.

So it was like, literally, we fucking schmutzed and elbowed and, you know, and we played it. We played the right networking game to get this email, and this email now has monetary damaging value if other people find out who they can ask about an official licensed Star Wars game. Anyway, so that was funny. And that is related. Okay, okay, moving along. Moving along. What if I told you that you could enjoy all the classic retro games you wanted on a Game Boy made of attack drone metal? Would you be excited about that?

So when you say attack drone metal, you obviously mean the metal that would otherwise go into a predator drone or something of that nature because there's a partnership with the game company manufacturing the Game Boy like object when a defense company that actually makes drones. I'm not talking about like, you know, like an Xbox with like Army Fatigues on it or like a gun metal. Defense company manufactured retro gaming. Yeah, yeah, no, not like a PS5 with a plate on it that's like gun metal colored or just like a bunch of little like things like that. I mean one that has the emblazoned logo of the actual defense contractor company.

Like like a blackwater controller kind of. I was, I was about to say Blackwater. Yeah. Like, it's not the, it's not the Xbox with the armor fatigues on it that, like, I got from Ari back in the day or whatever. It's the one with the Blackwater logo emblazoned by the company officially. That's correct. Mm-hmm. So, yeah, a Palmer Lucky is a retro gaming company.

Hey, isn't that that guy who's like a fucking asshole? Am I crazy? According to a mutual of ours doesn't wash his hands after he uses the bathroom? That's crazy. Am I insane or did we not call him Lucky Palmer for a billion years?

I don't know what I called him. I feel like... I know what I could call him right now, but we should... I feel like for years, maybe it was just a Liam thing, but the name Lucky Palmer is in my brain. And now I'm reading Palmer Lucky,

and I'm like, is that backwards? Are they doing like a like a surname first kind of thing? That's Palmer lucky in Japan. Yeah, well that's that's what I'm trying to figure out because I just remember for years on Friendcast it was Lucky Palmer. Anyways. Yeah, you got some fucking attack drone metal being used on a fucking like, just like, that is so grim. It's flagrantly disgusting.

That's so grim. That is insanely grim with the fucking, with the, yeah, all right. You got that going on. Get this Tom Clancy statue of a Marine made out of the ruins of a hotel in Kosovo. Like, oh, stop it. We got the, we got the brick dust. We got the brick dust from Kosovo shipped right over. You can smell it.

You can smell the sadness. Get it now. Um, all right. That's so many, last hazard typing in W-O-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-Tilda exclamation point. It's like, I don't know why that's like. the funniest way. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Um, other crazy shit going on. Um, for anyone that's interested, uh, there is, there is a project called Daytona USA VR, which is a full

recreation of Daytona USA in VR chat by Zone Archive. I was. I was. would never, and I really mean never, want to exist in a VR headset version of Daytona USA. That sounds like it would make you so sick. But here's the thing. I played the Jet Set Radio Festival, which was

a Jet Set Radio VR chat world, and it worked because of the third person. The fact that you could look at yourself in third person makes all the difference. Playing Daytona first person is an absolute barf simulator. But seeing the car, zones on it. Zones on the case. I can't believe this is what Zona's been up to for all this time.

That's kind of nuts. I feel like Daytona USA is a really, and I mean really incredible encapsulation of like a certain era of video games. Oh yeah. Not just because of it's like vibe or its sound or even the way it looks, but like, man, I used to spend so much money playing this game that had three racetracks and two cars. Yeah, but the song, though. But the song. And one of those race tracks? Was a oval.

You just want to hear the song forever. Daytona. All right, we got that. Remember that? Remember Horizon at home? I do remember Horizon Home. Tencent presents Horizon at Home. presents

Resheram Horizon Light of Moratam Moratam They have reached A confidential agreement The game is no longer Listed anywhere So now you gotta wonder

Is this the grift Is this the hustle Run Hey Hey can you just run a game That looks so blatant That you gotta sign a deal Behind the scenes

To just be like I'm gonna pay you A couple thousand $100,000 to fuck off right how about you not here's a million dollars fuck off with this game 10 cent they definitely they definitely lost a bunch of money developing that game for sure to have to pull it i can't believe sony just think they got a deal going well hey man you got to make way for horizon steel dawn the upcoming horizon game coming to not the playstation right

i think too as well they kind of just pointed at pal world and when we Like, you know, do you really want this to be us, Nintendo and fucking Powell World right now? No, here's what happened. I don't know if you remember this. But this was 10 cent was like, hey, Sony, we want to do a Horizon game. Can we do a Horizon game? And Sony said, fuck off. Then they started making this game anyway.

They did. And then Sony found out and was like, hey, what the fuck? And then went, do you guys want, can we buy the Horizon license off you? And they went, no. Why would we say yes now? No, you may not. And then they sued them. No fuck's given.

Super bummer news, but Vince Zampella, co-creator of Call of Duty and Respon Entertainment, died in a car crash. Particularly like gnarly car crash, like the passenger also was like launched out of the car. Oh, Jesus. I didn't catch the details there. Fucking sucks. that you just literally never know what life's going to have in store, obviously. And yeah, that's one of those things

where when you line up everything that he did, it's like, oh my God, first person shooters were just literally, were never the same from all the projects he's worked on over the years. Yeah, Kajima put out a statement talking about how when he was going independent, he ran into him and helped him get on his feet and figure out the reality of independent game publishing.

According to everybody that I've seen that has known him, he was like this really stand-up guy and did a lot of stuff, both for like the industry as a whole, but also to like protect his team from layoffs and stuff like that. That's amazing. Yeah. No. I mean, obviously modern warfare too is the fucking titan of everything of the genre of state took over the industry. But speaking of Titans, obviously Titan fall and everything that responded afterwards, especially that's where I'm more familiar. Yeah. just did incredible things with first person shooters and um you know folks are saying that like yeah he

had more ideas and more things he wanted to work on specifically in that that that that realm you know it's like when you know what when you know that that that that that uh genre inside out you know um there's a few other people that uh had this type of accomplishment so um that is shitty news to uh wake up and read um other stuff going on this week the legend of Ang, the last Airbender movie skipping theaters going straight to Paramount Plus.

Crazy. Yeah, so it begins. And it's like, I don't know that this would have been a massive like get everyone to go watch out to the theaters type of film, but it's just like, you're right.

It would be. Yeah. Yeah. But it's the kind of thing where I'm like, it's, that's, that's a bummer, man. The idea that things are fucking straight to the streamers from now on, you know. I don't know, man. That first movie was not good either. It didn't do well either. Oh, no, but this is the animation of adult Ang.

I believe this is the animated movie. Oh, this is the, this is the animated movie of like Ang and the gang as adults that was announced some time ago. Oh, this was never going to hit a movie theater. Anybody who thought this animated avatar thing was going to go to a theater, even when they said it's going to a theater? They said it was going to a theater. They lied. They were lying big time right there.

Yeah. So that was literally what they announced. Wully, why would you put an animated movie in a theater? Now, let's ignore the fact that James Cameron gets super mad when you say that Avatar is an animated movie. super fucking mad. Like he gets fucking pissed. I just read a headline. These Avatar movies animated.

I just read a headline that's like, that's like, stop asking me about Avatar 4. I just gave birth to, I just went through labor and gave birth to Avatar 3. And you're just like, you're the one that said

you're making Avatar 2 through 7. That was you. You did that. Like 20 years ago. What the fuck, man? I feel like Avatar might be the thing that has the most money being made and seen by the most people that I'm seeing the least of. I'm, you know, like, yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. I know what you mean. Like the normal person's culture is like just not reaching me at all on Avatar.

So the way the world felt back then with Avatar 1, it felt like the clout could allow him. to coast for the rest of our lives on projects like this and let them be just the biggest lost leaders of all time. And we're finding out, I feel that that is not in fact the case. And also a lot of legendary directors and people who were putting out shit that we always thought was amazing are starting to fucking flub it and fuck it up. As discussed with the goop the other day. And Ridley, I can't stop goopin, Scott. Um Fuck.

That's that's the shittiest name ever. Yeah, well. That's what they call him? That's what they're calling him these days, you know? Um, did you see? I mean, the, the, the, the alternative, uh, could be, um, did you, I don't know if you saw the trailer for the Odyssey? I did. Like, the idea of making an Odyssey film is obviously pretty straightforward and cool.

That could be a thing. It's kind of an old good story. But Chris Gray-Bois Nolan, who is like, ostensibly a good director and has made some fucking amazing shit. Hey, let me ask you. Doing future tech armor and like black, super dark gray tones. And you're kind of like, why not just, if you take the actual historical shit and use it, you can do some cool stuff with that too, man. It doesn't have to be fucking Magneto helmet. Chris Nolan.

Chris Nolan feels like one of two things. Either somebody who desperately misses 7th gen video games really bad or somebody whose parents were killed by a color wheel. Like, I don't know what his problem is. Anything outside of like six shades of earth tones. Chris used light. Chris Nolan used lighting on a movie challenge.

Difficulty impossible. I just, I just wanted like just him just, beating down a DP, just beating down a director of photography on his set for daring to turn a light on. Anyway, anyway, yeah, there's a trailer for that.

Did you see, though, the trailer for fucking Steel Ball Run? I did! Yeah! And it looks like we're going to get sequential weekly releases. I didn't see that confirmation. What's that first part on such and such a day?

Yeah, I think that's, no, It's an extended episode one that's 45 minutes long. I don't know that we have confirmation of it not being binge drops. I still, I legitimately still have not watched all of Part 6. Okay. Because specifically because of the way they released it. Because they released it in too much to watch in one day.

And then I said, oh, I'll get back to it. But then it was also too much to watch in. It sucks. It sucks. Like so much amazing detail and cool shit going on with, like heaven's falling down like the second op to part six which is a great part but it's all binge dropped and you just you took away jojo fridays from us just give us back jojo fridays netflix that's it that's all the world will heal the joe the world will heal if you give us back jojo

fridays we can have it again just i was finishing work in qa and i would go to get the to the beer fridge they'd open it up and then fucking sit down and watch press play and then holy shit this end of the world week is the one where the time stop happens and nine seconds of slow walking. Like, what's the likelihood that I'm going to walk the end of the world? It's so good. The 12 episodes come out in one batch. Like, zero.

Like, seriously. Like, I think it's, it's just they're trained on the model of like, hey, we binge drop making a murderer and everyone went crazy. We binge drop Tiger King and everyone goes crazy. We binge is how. Binge is how. Holy shit. binge is how we are our model works and they experimented with like live stuff like live talk show things and whatever and it's like it's weird not quite people don't want to do appointment that

much but like the anime drops have just been a different world man yeah yeah it's not doing the batch shit so every single week we get like we get like a fallout episode we get to you know jibber jabber about it and then we can add things to the report and revise our projections it's important to take the time to digest you know i want want everyone collectively marking out over the stuff that's going to happen in this part. I want that to have the time for people to chew on it for a week. Two or three days to go, man, how the fuck are they going to get out of this one, Batman? Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. You know, I want to, I want them to get introduced to some of these characters and go, what the fuck? Like back when I was a

child, you know, long ago in 80s, I would watch the Batman TV show from the 60s with Adam West and Bert Ward. And then there would be an episode. episode in which Robin got eaten by a giant clam that the Joker set in a room for him. And then Robin's eaten by a giant clam. You can see his feet sticking out. Oh, no, Robin's cooked. And then I'd have to watch five minutes of commercials. And during that five minutes of commercials, I'd be like, oh, my God, what could possibly

happen right? And then they come back in Batman would just give the clam some fucking AIDS or something and you'd spit at Robin right out. And then it would be completely fine. And with Jojo, the every single fucking episode of that show for like 10 seasons is a cliphanger. I want everyone. I'll just watch it right now. I want everyone who's listening

to my voice right now to go, is that a fucking dinosaur? And to not get the answer to that question until seven days later. I want you to hang on to that question for a week. The answer is, yes, it is. Maybe. It's complicated. What the fuck is that?

Oh, man, there's some cool shit I cannot wait for. I hope they do the right thing when it comes to a lot of things. And I can say watching that trailer, I'm already happy that I heard a little more Western-sounding music, right? It didn't just give way to big band. It was going until like some guitar twang was happening. I'm like, that's what I want to hear.

Give me that fucking cowboy music. And we got to see my boy. We got to see the fucking Sandman where, like, because Reggie's like, is that dude running with just his two feet? And I'm like, he's only using white money. He, I'm going to use these two feet to win the race. All I need is the white man's money.

I need the white man's money. Let's go, sad man. Oh, I swear to God, I'm, I'm such a fucking easy mark. You show me the gunfight. Is that guy holding a sword? I'm on that guy. You show me the sword fight. Is that guy just got his fists?

I'm on that guy. I'm always on that guy. All right, guys. I line up of horses. I got the keys that say woolly on them, get ready to jangle them in front of him. Oh, here he goes. You show me the lineup of horses, and this guy's like, yo, fuck a horse. I'm a run with my feet.

Yeah, I'm like, ah. You have an innate, like, almost, it feels like genetic imperative to root for the guy who says, fuck you, I don't need that. Gearless Joe. Whatever that is. Gearless Joe. I don't need a call. I don't need a horse.

I don't need a gun. I don't need a sword. I don't even need my fists. I'll just kick. Like, whatever the fuck it is. I, like, I believe the moment it started, the moment it happened for the first time in my life was I was watching Escaflone. And in the first episode, you see a bunch of Gaimilefs that are all these mecks going to fight the enemy mecks.

And then the commander Vargas just has no mech. He just pulls out a giant long sword. and fucking fights the mex. I'm going to fight you with my sword. Fuck you. And he's doing it. I'm like, oh my God. That's the coolest thing my child brain has ever seen.

Like, that was it. That was the moment I want. I want the guy that's doing the other thing, though. Escaflone, changed it. Soon, soon you'll get to experience that for real. As your little girl is like, I want this, or I'm going to climb on you, or whatever the fuck. and they're using every tiny muscle in their body to do like some trivial baby shit and you're like,

I don't even need both arms to pick up this cup. Whatever. I'm so strong. I'm so strong compared to you. Like my guy said, Daddy, I'm so fast. You'll never catch me. And I was like, I will all the ways catch you. I would like.

And like I felt it in my chest. Yep, yeah, yeah. For a second, I was a Kirayuki, and I'm like, it will be like 15 years before you can outrun me. Allow them to feel the accomplishment for a moment, and then I will teach you the power of gearless dad. That's it. Yeah, so anyways, I thought that shit was dope as hell. I love, I love it. Steel ball run is going to be fucking great.

And, what you might call it? David production just at the peak of their abilities too, man. They're crushing it. Those horses are a mixture of CG and 2D. So let's go. Let's go. Okay, this is a wild story that is very quiet and I don't think a lot of people have heard about it.

But what do you got? Apparently, a couple years back, there was, in 2021, there was an animated FF9 series that got announced. I remember that. And a French studio has apparently had the rights to FF9 and was working on an animated series, but we haven't heard anything about it. There's an update to that today where Final Fantasy 9 animated series

is, yeah, it's being worked on by a new French studio, and there's details on what they're going for and what it's about. So it's being worked on at a new studio in France. They're looking for a 2028 release date, and it's not. an animated ff9 series it's an animated

ff9 sequel the there was a an extract they got from a French magazine that covers the business

side of film and TV and there's a summary on this new show it's aimed it's aimed at a younger audience

it's aiming for 2028 it's going to be about 11 episodes and the summary apparently is where is it right here

Mel, Colm, Lucilola, Lucilleola, Thea, Fala, and Doc are children of the hero Vivi, and they're the last black mages on the four continents. Today they live happily in the city of Alexandria, guarded by its rather friendly, though sometimes very curious inhabitants. Unfortunately, this peaceful existence was not to last. One day, Coln discovers Mel, frozen like a statue in the inn where he works. Could this be the tragic legacy of their father catching up to them? I will have a thought on this when I am watching it. We'll find out. We'll find out.

There are so many projects that you see and part of your body just goes, I don't think that's going to come out. Yeah. So I'm just like, I, it's also surprising that, like F, they would go with like, I guess, like a French studio as opposed to like an anime studio from Japan, you know, but... Well, you know, anime, it means the French. Oh, la bade. Oh, bro, there...

You did a great Werner-Herzog impression last week. Well, thank you. Like, genuinely fantastic. You still thinking about that? Yeah, well, no, no, hold on. And as a result, somebody sent me a clip of Werner Herzog talking about speaking French. Oh. I know how to speak French, but I will never do it.

And in fact, you should never do it either. The only time I would ever get speak French is if I'm at gunpoint, which totally happened once in Africa, wherever a bunch of soldiers were screaming at me in French and they were going to shoot me. So I had to speak French to them. And I regret it. I regret speaking French. It's an absolutely incredible story. What a fucking beast. Oh, wow. That's, I mean, holy shit. Where's the lie? I don't know, man. I don't know. I don't know. All right. What else is going on? Hey, here's this new story for for Woolly and Woolly only. Tepin announces end of live service. I saw this. What a bummer. So, okay, but, and here's the thing. This is for the.

the second time it is a live service mobile game that has announced that with the end of service, they're creating the offline version, which you can continue to play and keep everything and so on indefinitely. And it's not just shutting down and going away forever. So the cards, the games, and whatever, you can't still play against, you can't play against other players, which sucks. But at least there is an offline version that you get to keep, which the only other game that did this was Capcom's Mega, Mega Man Crossdive. So they appear to be the only ones that give a fuck about giving you an offline version.

But but that offline version will be available for one month. One month, one month. And you will have to use a program to transfer your existing owned cards into the offline version. Which is? Preparations for data transfer.

Yeah, there's a PC and or the phone version and there's a data transfer. If you download the offline version but you never played TEPA and you will be using your starter decks for. Okay. So you can do the data transfer from Christmas of this year until March 31st of next year. And then as of April next year, March to April is when the offline update is going to occur. So basically from now until March, you do all your data transfer to get it to

where you want to be. And then from March to April, you update the final time and then it turns it into the offline version. Yeah. So the very important note here, this is not, hey, there's an offline version of TEPIN that everyone can play as like a real video game. This is so that the TEPN super freaks that have tons of cards can continue to play with their TEPN cards. And I have... I appreciate the effort. I don't know that like they're, I'm imagining it'll just say,

fuck it, fuck you, I don't give a shit, we're done. I imagine they deal, exactly, and like you do list it off the shop and you just can't get it anymore.

Fuck you. Thanks for the money. Buy. Cross dive did come out and sell the offline version as a separate thing, you know, after. But yeah,

again, for someone who I enjoy a bunch of this game and I haven't played it in quite a while, you know, it's, I appreciate that they're not just saying, fuck you buy. I appreciate that I can still go and get some of that stuff.

Better than literally nothing. Yeah. And Capcom's the only one that seems to give a fuck about turning the mobile game into the offline version. So there you go. If there's a downloadable version that's offline, the possibility that somebody figures out how to flip some zeros to ones is probable. Yeah, that's what I would hope. Because, yes, allowing you to continue fighting against the CPU and doing everything else in the game is nice. But if you could play against other people locally,

and slam dunk, we're done. You know. Yeah. So that's cool. All right. And let's just get the last couple bits out there. There was the... A 92-year-old woman in Japan won a Tekken 8 e-sports tournament,

becoming one of the oldest e-sports winners ever. Hell yeah. Hisakosakai won the e-club, the event setup. So there's a seniors tech end tournament that took place. Yeah, 65 plus and over. But 65 to 100 is a pretty fucking wide range. So at 92 shoutouts to her, Hisako Sakai. But then I saw that she's a Claudio main.

And I said, yo, fuck this bad lax. Get her out of here. Wheel her out of here. You can't stand them, Claudio. Fucking Claudio players. Fuck Claudio players. At some point in the nursing home. Fuck Claudio players.

Get out. never mind I have this vision of you in a nursing home like on your oxygen like having to be held back from somebody who says tech throws are cheap in the ward like just like just this shit will never end like like Hector Salamanca

just fucking shaking oh man good stuff I don't know much. I've been, I've been slowly catching up with Hunter Hunter, I guess,

but there's a trailer for a character named Fink's. And in the Fink's trailer, just, I just want, just tell me one thing. As someone who knows what happens at Hunter Hunter,

this Fink's character. Yeah. All he appears to do is do an arm crank and then like eight moves, but he just, he just does this. He just does an arm cram.

Does he do anything besides cranking? his arm at all. I literally, literally don't even remember who this guy is. I had to look him up. That's how of a exciting character he is. It's crazy. From the Phantom Troop. Like, I feel like, back when I played those great ninja clash games for Naruto, and they had to take a character who showed up like, um, um, Mizuki, the fucking teacher from the first episode that's like evil. And they had to give him a full move list. And you're like, he didn't do a. Do a enough. to gain a move list?

I'm gonna be so real for you, man. As much as we dogged, as much as we dogged on 2XCO's roster, Nen Impact has like the worst roster for like an anime fighter I have ever seen. It like, not only is it super tiny, there's a bunch of straight dog shit picks.

Like, bad picks. I could not make out any moves besides the one arm animation crank. and maybe it's just because they rant or running out a budget on it, I don't know, but it's a fucking Mugan-esque weird trailer for a character that, unless this is all canon and he does this

and it means something based on his official appearance or whatever, shit's weird. Yeah, yeah, that's about it. That's about it. That'll do. Hey, you got any emails in there? Yeah, let's take some letters.

If you want to send in a letter, type it in your electronic mail client of choice. It's edited to Castle Superbeastmail at gmail.gmail.com. That's Castle Superbeastmail at gmail.com. All right. Zeke asks, Happy holidays.

What's the hardest you've ever been absolutely rinsed and dog walked in a competitive game? For me, it was the first time fighting add-on in SF4 when I was just starting out at my first match, an elite smashed against an ultimate against Forrest, one of the best game and watches in the world.

Okay. I'm going to have more than one answer. So I'm going to give one answer and then I want to cycle back after yours. I walked up to a killer instinct cabinet in like 1990 something. And next to I was a child and the person standing next to me was a teenager. And I picked Saber Wolf, I think. And the guy picked Idol and the boss. And then he comboed me into the corner and then hit me up. in a way that would launch me to the other corner

and then did that again and again and again and again and again until the timer ran out. Yup. Um, I mean, uh, my answer is, comes in the form of a song.

Bap, boop, bo, bo, boop. That was pretty rinsed. The big band into the that's all for. folks was quite rinsed.

Back in the day, I played Project Justice, and there's a bug in that where you can float in the air and grab your opponent and they can't do anything about it. And someone just took my quarter. And as I sat there and just got thrown and couldn't fight back because they're floating off screen throwing me. And I just, yep, quarter stolen. That's all you're going to learn today. That's it.

Yeah. And yeah, those are the correct answers. I see people saying Daigo. Not no, not really. Again, I had a match with him. You lost, but there was a match that got played. That is not the answer. It is absolutely getting

fucking big band into the theme song. The other one is when I started playing Day of Defeet. That was in the era of the proper server browser. So the skill differential between you as a 12 year old and it will be 99. So I would have

and a proper adult playing the fucking mouse and keyboard ass video games on their weekend. The skill differential could be infinite. And I remember starting up day of defeat and like my first match, I physically could not leave the spawn area without getting headshot in. Like it was literally like poke my head up over the spawn pop. Like immediately. And I was like, holy fucking God damn it.

That's crazy. Let's take one over here. Let's see. Okay. So we got one from Mr. Soyboon. Mr. Soybean says their command grab and dodge button. Sakara and Dan are my favorite street fighter characters. The fact that they used fucked up wacky or just playing bad versions of Shoto moves,

make them super fun to play. Some of Sakura's moves are better than the movie. moves their paste off her tatsu is ridiculous and she can do a lot with it or the shh, sure, shaw, shaw, shah, shah, shah, sure, yeah. Yeah, depending on the game. Be careful. Naturally, you wouldn't have to texture without the, this texture without the familiarity of Ryu and Ken. I'm thankful for them too. What's your favorite of I'm you but weaker? Oh yeah, I'm you but bad. Um, so, so it's, it's more of a parallel because I think it could be argued power-wise, but there is a character, there's an alternate universe, a dude named

Spiders Man. Oh, I love the Spiders Man. And Spiders Man is just, what if you fell, what if you didn't get bitten by a radioactive spider, but fell into a colony of spiders and they devoured you, but your consciousness lives on within them, and you are just a walking colony of spiders. You have all the powers. You have all the powers of a living colony of spiders. That's spiders, man.

That's great. Call them fucking spiders, jorg. I don't know much about grappler, Backey. I don't. I only know bits and pieces. But I do like that we have Backey the perfect, like, you know, follow up to Yujiro. And then over here, we have not as good brother. Jack who's like, I'll just do tons of drugs and have tons of surgeries to cheat to become stronger.

That rules. I like that. There you go. And let's see here. You remember fucking Spider's Jorg? Spiders Jorg? Spiders Jorg. We learned about Spiders Jorg a couple years ago.

many years ago. That's early. That's deep internet. You know how the average person eats three spiders a year? Is the stat? That's not true, but okay. That's not, no, it's not true. The average person eats zero spiders a year. Spiders Jorg, who lives in a cave, eats 10,000 spiders a day, and he's an outlier that should not have been counted. Oh, you know what? I know exactly who my favorite, like you, but bad character is. That would be caboose the dog. like a regular pug, but much worse.

Much weaker. You're doing a good job, buddy. All right. And let's take one last one here. Spooky Giuseppe, the Ghost of Christmas Past, says, Dear Castle Super Dads, been listening a long time. One of those freaks that goes back to the old episodes sometimes. Couldn't help but take some choice. Morsels coming out of Pat's mouth with regards to having kids.

Willie didn't have strong enough opinions on it for me to take note of not to be shitty, just thought it'd be funny in hindsight. Oh, no. How are you both treating Christmas in your household now with kids? There's a number of excerpts, but the main one appear is Pat said he'd handle it by going, why would you tell your kids about Santa? I have kids. I want the credit.

That's me, not magical bullshit. I spent that money on your transformer or whatever the fuck. Yeah, no, we're going to go see Santa later today. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, all right. I think it's pretty clear. I can't do the long podcast today because we got to go hang out with Santa Claus.

So literally, I think the mission becomes what, no matter how you feel about Santa, you cannot have your kid be the shit kid that ruins it for every other kid. But more than that, it's like, there's like a magical joy that comes out of the kid. And I'm like, oh, I don't want to take that from him. I'll just, you know, he'll figure it out later.

We got to wrap the presents. We still haven't fucking wrapped the presents. That's going to be fun. The irony of like literally how. having to end the podcast right now because this this exact questions answer sannie claus has completely one-aided is all the character development you need dude my boy is crazy obsessed with christmas music there you go like he don't no no no like this house is it going to be playing christmas music until like probably like April March yeah yeah there we go so have a happy back down and to all a good

night oh my god I just realized at some point we're going to have to put the Christmas tree away and he's going to fucking go nuts oh no oh he's going to lose it Are you a late tree holder? In my family, we take it down by the end of January. Okay. Let it linger. Yeah. I guess this is the first year he's appreciating it.

Yeah. Well, last year he was like a go-go-gag-ga baby, right? Yeah. This year, he's like, yay, Santa'm going to bring me presents. Right? Like, literally out of his mouth. April. April, bro.

If I'm lucky. If I'm lucky. You know what's like this page is like. like going nuts because of all the Christmas music. And she's like, oh my God, it never ends. I'm like, oh, yeah, well, I used to work in the store. Retail. I do like a 10-hour shift of fucking the same six French Christmas songs.

So this shit's cake by comparison. Just get the fucking Mariah. I don't even hear it. I don't even hear it anymore. I have a switch in my brain that just goes to ambient music. I actually feel sad and empathetic, extra hard for everyone working retail during the season. because I went to a fucking pharmacy and heard all I want for and it was like yeah it's I feel I feel sadness for them like yeah if you can develop the immunity then great but put her back in the glass put her in the ice and she leans into it because she's getting fucking paid every time you know all right somebody asks like how much do you make and she said whatever you think I make off that song every year at a zero yeah yeah yeah no like stop whatever you're doing and just make basic celebration of holiday albums that get played forever or make a

move make a Christmas movie that gets played forever how many you want to know I can't even begin to imagine like Will Ferrell's money before Elf and after like like just the it must be a pie that's like everything he's ever done in his entire career is is a fraction lots of people are like that you like you think about like the life that anybody who worked on like a good episode of Star Trek and before and after they got their royalties right

like fucking Patrick Stewart was like a broke ass Shakespearean actor and then he did a couple seasons of Star Trek and now he can do whatever the fuck that guy wants. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

all right everybody Merry Christmas Happy holidays everybody have a good one be safe at there Rambi take care Harambi