Castle Super Beast - CSB361: MILF Claire Redfield Is a Franchise Extinction Event

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

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Yo, yo. Hey, Wully. Yeah. As you can probably see, I'm holding in my arms a significantly deformed Chinese canine. And I would ask you if you could answer me a simple question. Shoot. Is this an Xbox? That is, in fact, an Xbox.

That is, are you an Xbox, caboose? Wow. That can be defined as an Xbox. Um, is an Xbox. And, and he is AI powered. Oh my God. So he is more Xbox than ever before. I'll tell you what.

I don't think that dog is powered by intelligence, artificial, or otherwise. Oh, boy. Satest ending. Xbox. Damn. Oh. That shit's over. That shit is over, man. Mega-64

Undefeated. Undefeated. Yeah. Okay. Well, I guess the writing on the wall for, you know, Microsoft struggles with Xbox has been there. And Phil Spencer stepping down this week was not something that surprised many people. No, because he has done a really bad job. But the thought was that Sarah Bond, who was the Xbox president, was going to step in to fill the shoes.

She's up and coming, right? She's got ideas. Like, this is an Xbox, and this too is an Xbox. Found that out yesterday that this is an Xbox ad campaign? That was her. It's totally Sarah Bond's baby. That was hers. Pushed?

obsessively against all internal criticism and widespread internal hatred of the messaging. People at the Microsoft, people down at the tribe were not happy with the messaging of this two is an Xbox. I think I saw it described as catastrophically brand damaging. Because the idea is of your just, it's just all your. trying to do is push mobile, right? You're just trying to push mobile, but in the process, you're making it so that the hardware is meaningless and does need to exist, and all the people working on the hardware are doing so ultimately for no reason. Did you read the whole article I sent you? I did. I did. I did. And there's the other stuff

going on. The funniest detail about that is like, this is an Xbox, is that that's supposed to push, like, the phone Xbox store experience that doesn't exist. That doesn't exist. That did not exist. It doesn't exist. It was early. They pushed the marketing early for a product that was not rolled out yet. So listen, this is like we've been watching this happen with Microsoft and it's been insanely flying off the rails for a long time now. Not just because of the future, but also just everything with Xbox related.

And it is really becoming clearly clearly more and more of a situation with video games in general as the whole, as the watch. are getting muddied across the board, as they do with any tech industry, right? The closer you are to putting out a thing that plays the video game, the more likely you are to just take the generation and exist and win. I remember. By just, just be the thing that plays the game. And that's, that's it. Just fucking, just land there.

And I think it'll be okay. while everybody else tries to fucking do cartwheels and do tricks on it. I remember back in like 2012 or 2013, Matt and I did a little

podcast for like a newspaper I think it was and I described the video game industry as an industry of failure and that every company in the game's business is constantly making catastrophic failures and the only thing you have to do is not have a failure that sinks your company and you get to have all the money

for like a four or five year period. Don't trip over your dick. Yep. I can't believe that like we just watched that happen like 15 times in a row over a 20 year period. Yeah. Genuinely unbelievable. Well, because the thing is you're also in an industry and you're when you're in a C suite of an industry where like the bullets that are whizzing by are people that are trying to rush to be like, I'm, I've got the future. I know how I can steer this ship. And I have a random-ass direction that nobody asked for that I think we're going to pivot into. Because up-and-coming tech startups always kind of have this disruptive quality about them. So if every generation of console can be disruptive in some way, then we can get all the money, you know?

So like, there's this massive long-term thing of like you'd see these C-suite people, but like, think about the disruption that. TV did to radio. And, you know, and the internet did to television, right? And you're like, yeah, that was absolutely like massive economic, like, inversions of existing paradigms, right? You know, the car versus the horse drone carriage, right? Mm-hmm.

The problem with that is that ever since the iPhone, and the iPhone was like the last, the smartphone was like the last big thing. Like, wow, wow, wow, wow. literally every single year, there is something that is coming out to be the disrupting, I'm the new big thing. And it's like, bro, between the internet and the television

was like 60 fucking years. Yeah. And between the advent of the popular use of the internet and the iPhone, decade minimum, I think it was maybe 15 years before the smartphone became totally ubiquitous. Right. Everybody's trying to get the new next big thing out every year, and they're always not the next big thing. And everybody needs to be the first there.

And I need to be first so I can own the monopoly. Like, iPhone. Yes. I don't say smartphone. Absolutely. I don't have an iPhone. And I said iPhone instead of smartphone first. Yep.

But not only do you have to be first, right? You have to be proprietary. And if possible, you have to corner the market in such a way where. like it's way harder to like make the new thing that doesn't exist and and solve the problem that people didn't know they were they were having. You need to solve the problem people don't know they have. Right. And so you have to, you have to put walls up and make things more annoying by forcing people to do things in a way that is like, well, you're offering the service to the problem that you actually created, right? Cutting things into pieces, restricting it in different ways, et cetera, as opposed to any one of those things.

that comes along and is like, oh yeah, this is just a analog replacement for that. You know, it is so Xbox to finish the story because we're like, yeah, we get distracted. What ended up happening was, so Sarah Bond, who people thought was going to step in to replace Phil Spencer, steps down as well. She's down. And basically left their, they left their notes saying that it seems that the direction things are going in is like terminal for Xbox, more or less.

and what Microsoft did was they have the new head of Xbox's Asha Sharma, who is an AI executive from Microsoft. So in her sort of opening terms, that- Used to work over at meta. We believe in creators and not just putting out AI slop, so she used the words AI slop, you know. But you have all that. But like, look, you know the department you're pulling the person. from. So that says everything you need to know, of course. And then there's the part of it where, like, messaging-wise, and this always happens with how messy it is, but it's like,

Sarah Bond's, like, letter or thing went up, like, hours after putting out promotional material. Like, there's a whole thing where it seemed like this was supposed to happen slowly. And then in the course of 24 hours, it exploded. And then IGN got the story early, so they just panicked and did all that shit on Friday. But then there were still, like, automated posts coming out that Friday. It was fucking messy. So all this to say, if you're just cutting through the CEO speaking bullshit and just getting to the brass tacks of it, it seems like Xbox is just going to pivot into some sort of extreme AI based brand, whether that comes down to some sort of full, because I don't know what you do with the existing services to. incorporate it, but you have to do something to make the shareholders happy. And I know that trying to have a game that is generated that people can play that just

formed out of absolutely nothing is currently being tested. We know that's a thing. Yeah, that shit is so fucking far away. It's like. But if you can convince people to pay money for it now, then it's not far away, is it, Pat? So I follow this AI stuff and someone regularly. And the baby, in fact, walked up to our babysitter and said, Mommy talk about the ghoul and dad-dad talk about AI,

which is like, all right. You don't have to read us to filth like that. That's, that is your, that's brutal. That's soul core. Yeah. But one of the things that's been kicking around for a little bit is that the transistor and microchip limit and energy draw requirements to hit the goals that AI requires for some of the generation that you're describing for like, say, a full-blown video game probably exceed the total energy output of like the sun. Like it's just like engineers, not, not computer engineers, but engineers are like just looking at like the computational like heat transfer math. And they're like, there's no way you could ever build this on earth.

But Pat, can I get your money out of your pocket? No. Before, okay, maybe not you. But if I can get the money out of someone's pocket, before the problem you described hits them in the face? Okay, what if instead of getting money out of their pocket, you get the confidence in increased valuation out of the magic space that the stock market uses to create fake money? Bitch, I'm pulling rugs.

What don't you understand here? We are a rug pulling corporation. and the latest rug is this entire fucking industry. And we are pulling it and we are running. Okay? If we can cash the fuck out before anyone has to pay the consequences that's like connected to what I'm doing here, then we get the money and bounce. It's, we've been doing this in crypto. We're going to do it here too.

I have been doing some refresher courses this morning on the history of Xbox. And I got to tell you, there's a lot of large-scale companies in the games business that have made, like, cataclysmic errors, right? I think the Wii U from, like, its core concept of this, this core concept of look up, look down, look up, look down, being like physically unpleasant. It actually has like memories of the virtual boy of like, this isn't a thing people actually want to physically do, right? I think of VR headsets making you sick. I think of the cell engine, right? And the over-importance of the Blu-ray player, yada, yada, right? I think Sony maybe not spending as much as they could have in network security at any point in the fucking console's lifecycle, right?

These are big mistakes. But Xbox management has been absolutely astonishingly terrible from day one of the one. of that entire thing. Almost every turning point that Xbox as a brand slash company could have made at any point that would have like really like done a big service to turn that ship around

was the wrong move. But because the 360 era existed and they were the default in that era, it feels fucking weird because instead of having this continuous failure, There was a moment where they had it. This is a shining beacon. And then dropped it immediately after and never picked it back up.

So there's a really good- Sony misstepped and there was a moment where they legitimately had it. So someone in the chat said, the 360 feels, oh, where is it? I just saw it. Well, it's gone. Anyway, the 360 feels like a miracle in hindsight. Like you were saying, like, oh my God, how'd they bang it out? But I think the important thing to look back at that is that the 360 era with Wii and PS3 was a fake miracle.

It was a sham. And that is the beginning. That is the second major failure of Xbox because they knew that those boxes had a 100% failure rate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They knew that it was going to happen and it was going to cost them crazy dollars to fix. But were they on the map by the time that problem happened? Were they making money and were they in your house by the time that problem happened? They were on the map and they were in your house and they said, you know what?

That was like a calculated plan where they're like these things are going to fail. but if they do well, we can cash out and they spend a billion dollars fixing people's red rings, but we'll still be in the house. You're there. And people will have, so we'll take the hit. And that was a cataclysmic mistake. They should have delayed a year and had the fucking thing not die. But it was at least on purpose, right?

Like that was a thing they did knowing. them denying console exclusivity for Grand Theft Auto and Resident Evil 4 at the very, very beginning of the Xbox lifecycle that could have we would be wearing Xbox shirts right now. It would be a different world. It would be a different world.

It's the FF7 on Nintendo moment. Yeah, always. What I will say, What I will say is like a lasting legacy is the shape of their controller persists and has become a norm, right? The PlayStation controller has been around for a long time now that's in there. But like the Xbox controller is still something that people fuck with and use as a thing you're connecting to your computer. And every time you're seeing other controllers, whether it be a Nintendo Switch Pro controller or other consoles coming out, they're basing it on that shape now, you know? Before I forget,

Genschen impact in every Hoyo game would have changed the course of every freemium title in the world if it had been on Xbox. You've got... So we had Bomber and Peter Moore. Bomber, who had a fucking team so intellectually bankrupt, they couldn't come up with a better name than the direct Xbox. Yeah.

And then they were afraid to have a number that was inferior to the PlayStation 3. So they had to put, they had to put 360 instead of Xbox 2. Yeah. Moore oversaw the creation and management of the Connect, which was just a complete boondoggle. Then we moved to Matrick,

which almost killed the whole fucking endeavor with the online DRM fucking nonsense. Moving over to Spencer and, And, oh, I forget her name. We just talked about it. It was, um, the late she just left. Bond.

Bond. Spencer and Bond were like, you know what we should do? We should tell people, oh, Kinek was Matrix. Oh, cool. We should tell people we don't need to buy an Xbox

and then put all of our games on other platforms. And that will break, oh yeah. You, like, like from you don't own the game you bought and you, the disc means,

nothing. To the console doesn't own the game that you want. And like, I said this before, but it feels a little bit. There's moments where it felt like, hey, guys, hey Sony Nintendo. Come on. Why don't we do this whole altogether thing? Come on. I'm going to move.

I'm going to start walking this way. Who's coming with me? Anyone? Come on. And it worked. Crossplay is a thing. Crossplay, sure, but beyond that idea, the thought that Xbox can become any console and hopefully if the competitors agree, then PlayStation and Nintendo's can be anything as well. And together we will all just become PCs.

I think it's, so this is a position from the guy who shups up to the key party with no wife. I'll still put my keys in and then everyone's like, get the fuck out of here, Phil. Yeah, look. I, it just, I guess the idea here is whatever direction swerves,

whatever ship steering we see from this, even if they, there's the direct quote says, no AI slop, even if it says this, that, whatever, it's like, no, no, no, the person you put there has a background coming from the thing in the process of forcing everyone at Microsoft to use AI constantly,

the thing that's firing the most people. Like, you can't just bark a couple of words out in a public statement and then pretend that, like, your resume doesn't say what it does. So I'm just, like, fixated on, like, the idea of, like, walking up to a Nintendo executive. And, like, how about, um, Mario on Xbox? And, like, just seeing, like, Yamouchy's ghost, just material. like a sword.

Like, Nintendo's actually been incredibly clear. Like a fucking Ghostbusters demon. Bankrupt. Yes. Put Nintendo games on other consoles. From years, from years ago, yeah. I can see a world where you go to the store and you buy an Xbox and what you're buying is a controller that, oh, are you frozen?

You might be frozen. Oh, boy. Well, there we are again. Thank you. Thanks, Peter Thiel. We appreciate it. Hold on a moment as we try to find our pat. Thank you, Palantir.

Thank you, Persona. Big fan of what you got going on over there. Uh-huh. Let's see. We're still struggling to connect over here. Not sure what's going on. I'm going to take a second. Yeah.

Yeah, persona. Taken over. Not the persona you like everybody. Apparently new Twitch partners are also being forced to use it, so that's a good time. Good stuff. Hey. Peter. Peter, are you...

Are you disrupting the call? That's not cool, Pete. Come on. Hmm. Hmm. Okay. Looks like we're having more than just a regular issue here. So one second.

I'm going to be right back. And we'll try to fix what's going on. Ah, damn it, Pete. There we are. Thanks, Peter. Yeah. God damn, Peter Titt. You talk shit about him and he immediately appeared.

Oh, yeah. Oh, no, he's there. I can't see you. Well, that's not good at all. I'm just looking at me now. Well, I see you. How come I can't see you? I don't know.

You're just a logo. Well, that doesn't seem right. You're just a talking logo now. Okay. Let me see what I can do about. I mean, actually being backlit by the orange. You are being backlit by the orange. That is odd.

Okay. Well, what's going on here? I love the internet. Oh, there you are. Okay. I see what happened. Yes. Okay.

Yeah? Okay. I think the call, I think your call was audio call and then you had your video and then it turned my video off. All right. There we are. We're good. All right. So, yes, Peter Thiel will be in the tubes disrupting us from here on out. I don't like that. His persona is truly the bane of our calls from here on out. However, I was in the middle of saying, I can see a future where you just go out and buy a controller that connects to Game Pass. Right? It's like you have an Xbox controller

and it has a subscription to Game Pass on it and that is where your money is going and just cut out every step in between because the earth you're standing on is already an Xbox. Oh. Is that true? Yeah, well.

Oh. Don't call it stadia. It's Xbox. Oh, my God. What a stupid fucking, what a bunch of stupid morons. What a bunch of idiots. Everyone in the C-Suite is a bunch of dumb idiots. What, what a predictable way for things to go.

It's just, yes, time marches forward. Why is it that? anyone not in the C-suite can be like, wow, that's a really bad idea. You guys seem like you're fucking cooked if you keep doing this. And we get to go through like three years of, no, man, no, man, it's working. And then a bunch of dick riders coming out,

like freshly, freshly dicked up. Oh, no, man. Just believe, believe in the tribe. As I said earlier, doing tricks on it. It's crazy, crazy style. building up fucking Tony Hawk special meter going with the type of drinks that you're doing on it. I would kill to get feelers the way I used to back in the day where you could kind of see what projects are going on internally at different studios. And like you can see, okay, what's your lead platform?

How are you treating your ports? Are you even talking about Xbox? What are you talking about with that? Is it coming later? What, how is, when you're planning a project right now, how are you treating the Xbox version of that? It says a lot. I don't know anything about that, but I can tell you that somebody who works at Microsoft hit me up in my DMs last Friday and was just like, I don't know what the fuck is going on.

I don't know who is staying. I don't know who is fired. I don't know if I kept my boss. I mean, they're still there, and that's kind of impressive. Yeah. They're also, that rant was being watched over by a floating little drone that was scanning them. Yeah. That's, um, that is, that is some fucking writing on the wall.

That is a, that is a doomed switchup. Um, not that... Hey, the real news for Xbox fans is get ready for Sony to go back to being completely insane. With no challenge. With no real competition. With no competition. Uh, again, the power of Kudoragi rises once again. You know what?

If I worked in the Sony C-suite and I was foreseeing the power. the public and gaming podcast and all this, just spending weeks, just shitting all over me for closing down BluPoint without ever having released a single game, I would be kissing my little Xbox shrine for managing to drown that out completely

with how badly they're running their fucking show. Oh my God, there's always, there's always another hand. And as much as you could just be like, okay Sony you can sit there and do your thing. No, no. Um, because the story is, is the, there's always an update. And of course, uh, upon hearing about Blue Point getting closed, I was like, wait, what? Um, and inside, you're like, we don't, it's not, it's, it's, it's, you know, you didn't know for sure, but you know for sure that Blue Point shutting down means the end

of Bloodbourne remake possibility, right? Like, that is just, that's just what that spells out. Well, the end of that was actually, what was his name? Ryan, Jim Ryan. Was that him? Yeah, it was. Jim Ryan saying, we need 14 live service games. Hey, Blue Point. I'm well aware that you guys do nothing but high-end remakes of beloved classics.

You guys are going to be making a God of War live service game. Just kidding. You're actually making the game called. resume filler. And I just, like, I asked the question to, you know, my stream the other day, but it's just like, how many examples of, of, like, single player AAA platform IP spun off into multiplayer exclusive thing, have fucking taken off and succeeded in any way, shape, or form, right? That's a great question.

Because it feels like that particular pipeline is off a cliff, 100. percent of the time. Is, is, is, is that, the fucking, the, the Nossgoth energy every single time. The Chinatown Wars energy, every single time. Is there even one? It's crazy. So now, uh, yeah, what happened is, is, is, you know, Blue Point, who made, uh, the great shadow of the closet remake and the excellent demon souls remake, um, you know, and there were just,

everyone was like, if anyone would, would take on blood. Bloods at 6th a FPS for PS5 or PS6, whatever you're going to do, that'd be the team to do it. And go fuck yourself. Nope. Shut him down because of God of War Live that nobody asked for. It's also like hand in hand with that was a, the dude who was working on the fan-made Bloodbourne remake project. Yeah. said that he got a cease and desist after talking about it.

He got a cease and desist from Sony in November 2024. And he thought, oh, that might mean they're actually doing something. Stop talking about Bloodborn. Well, yes. And, you know, this is separate entirely from Bunlith with Bloodborn PSX, mind you. But, and then he stopped working on it and started turning it into his own project. And then the thought was like, yeah, maybe they're actually getting Blue Point to do something. and just the most wasted fucking potential.

And now, right, just to have, because every shot needs its chaser, you get the post from PlayStation Germany going, hey guys, what games would you love to see remade on PlayStation? Oh, man, you got to be. You know what I can't believe. that out of all these things to get canceled and all these fucking things, that Horizon multiplayer game somehow made it through the fucking layoff circus and is actually going to come out.

Well, it's... What the fuck is it even called? Hunter's Gathering Horizon Mobile Dawn? Like, yeah, the phone thing. That game was like... Somebody. Premier for, Premier for phones, you know.

Who thinks Horizon's actually pretty cool. That game looks bad. Okay, but here's what I'll say about phone game shit, though. Did you see the thing, Overwatch Rush? I didn't know. So Overwatch Rush just got announced, which is a Overwatch mobile thing. And they actually did the smart thing, which is not try to run Overwatch on a phone. but they zoomed out to basically Heroes of the Storm angle,

like Mova angle, and then you're playing Overwatch 4V4 from that angle. And like, yeah, okay, that's a smarter way to do it. And they have one of those horrible little videos where they have people going, all right, great shield, yeah, oh no, here he comes and doing the shitty stupid fucking gamer, gamer trailer voice acting or whatever. You know, that's always been unrealistic,

but talking to like anti-social Gen Z multiplayer phone gamers and expecting them to talk to each other is just like no man I mean they're not going to do it

like sure you could you could open up the chat or you could just get mind conf on fucking voice and just have that start playing through your ear and you can get that you can get that that that experience there too if you'd like you know um in either case uh that is uh um yeah i think that you well i gotta be honest i don't know why

that completely stunlocked me i'm in a last for word the might loading up into a audio book minecamp in your ear audio book version of mind comf is just at Like, all I could think of is like, man, they're really going for it. Yeah. This isn't, this isn't that weak shit with the slurs. Like, if you're, if you're going to, if you're going to create the online gaming experience, then let's just start at the basics and build from there, you know? That's crazy. That's, I, I just saw something dire in the chat and I, there's no, I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to double check it.

League of Legends voice chat. Oh yeah. League of Legends is apparently getting voice chat now. So like I said, I'm sure if you jumped on Audible, if you just queued up the audiobook, you'd probably get, I don't know, maybe seven or eight hours worth. Maybe you can listen to it in German with angry intonation,

you know, and just right in, just right through the ears. and then, yeah, we can just cut right to the source on it, you know? That's pretty incredible. After all this time, after all this time, now you decide. Now you decide. Cancer decides to add AIDS DLC. Interesting. Well, anyway.

So, the league has had voice chat, but you had to pre-made group. Sure. Now. Sure. Now. Open. Open. No. Open.

You know, I bet whoever was behind this was looking at fucking TikTok compilations of valorant lobbies where everyone's an E-girl and an E-boy and going, I bet League of Legends would sound like that if we turned on the voice chat. And they're wrong. You know, if you'd like a preview of what the Xbox marketplace might look like. in a short period of time. You can go check out the Games Fest, the Next Fest lineup and scroll down to see how many Gen AI thumb title game, thumbnails you see for indie games popping up there.

It's a fair amount. And a bunch of them are labeled as a containing AI content, but a bunch of them are not because they know. So I have a faster thing. Instead of doing that, if you want to get a good look at what's coming to Xbox store marketplace, I'm going to need you to squat down and hold your hand underneath your asshole and push. Then I'm going to need you to stand up. Look at your hand.

I don't want to. No, I don't want to. I had enough of that, actually, for a bit there. here how is how is my week uh well swerve enough of our opening solvo story there uh we had our first midstream crisis we did oh you did I did oh my goodness um midstream

there was a there was a cry for help and uh I oh straight up ah help there was a gotta go see what's going and so we stopped and we went down to go see And so, you know, like, every moment that a baby is without a diaper is like a nuclear reactor uncovered, right? You want to have it contained. You want the control rods in place. It needs to stay cool because the moment that shit is open to the air, we're all suffering for it.

permanent damage. Our lives are shortening. So you're playing, we're playing fast and loose with your life. You're playing risky. And, uh, this means, of course, that, um, you know, bath time is just one big risky exercise. And boy, have we been lucky until this point. So, so, diaper Chernobyl has occurred it's so it is luck

but you can mitigate that luck right and the way that we have mitigated that luck very simply is to move

our daily schedule for bath time around this you know what's a really you know what's the safest time right now.

Because it was an unsafe time five minutes ago. Yeah, okay. Okay. Well, we had a version of that that worked. We had a schedule that worked where it's because it's a two-person operation between the keeping or warm and doing the full transfer. But recently as sleep times have been changing and moving back earlier and earlier and it's like, oh, like the windows where I would be there are getting closed closed off. That's, oh,

you're turning into a different Pokemon. Oh, we got to re-engineer the entire thing. Got to fucking rebuild it. And so right now that meant that, uh, a solo bath had to occur. And yeah,

just, uh, we're hitting, we're hitting, we're hitting those, those fun ones. Rolling the dice on that and, and it's,

it's not coming up. It's not coming up, millhouse. Um, how on, on the plus side, as long as, long as you're in a bathtub, there's only so much that can go wrong.

Yes. Yes. It is mitigated by the baby tub and the whole process. There is a perimeter of like, I'll accept almost anything happening in this. Yes. Yes. However, however, it is just like there is a time limit that is going down because temperature is dropping and like naked baby is starting to get a little bit colder and so

you have to keep warm. but you have to also manage the the contamination and you have to decide how to and oh you know yeah so it's like cooking eggs in the microwave you leave it in too long they explode sure man but i'm just it's just uh you know um shoutouts to uh to punch bomb for for you know uh being able to handle that i i ran in and and let the loan the assist and took care of us what i could in the in the initial emergency process but we've got to be prepared for these situations where, yeah, we're ready for blowouts, but a blowout in the water adds vectors to the situation that are unpleasant. What I can say is cool, however, is I, you know, as she's getting older, we're looking at,

you know, some of the milestones and things that are coming and going and changing. And some of that behavior certainly evolves like locking in hard on primary caregiver mama, you know. And you're in that phase. Oh, it's, it's here. That was, I'm going to tell you, Willie, that was by far the hardest part. Yes, it is easy. For you. Yep.

Like for mom, it's like, I mean, there's a lot of labor, but like also it's like, I'm, I'm this person's only person in the world. That feels pretty good. But like, for you, yeah, it is definitely the hardest part. And of course, not just your own, like, not just your own situation, but like, you know, when mom needs you to step in and take care of something in a particular moment or whatever. And it's like, this is extra hard because of that. And you're just like, fuck, that's the worst feeling ever. And I've been talking. I've talked to, yeah, and I've talked to people about it.

And they've said, like, sometimes it's months, sometimes it's years. They, they don't, but like there's a period of time that goes back and forth. And things can change. It all just, you know. never know what you're going to get with that. Right. We have a friend. My boy is two and a half. And last, this week, this week was the first time when he woke up from his nap and I went to get him. He did not say, no, not you. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Right. This week, mom went and got him and he said, no, I want dad dad. Right. So that can be up to like fucking three years. So I've got. So I've

got some, I've got some, uh, in-laws that, uh, you know, kind of, I was hearing about how they were in a situation very similar to what I'm describing. And then when, uh, their mother, like, got pregnant to second time. And like, while she's dealing with that most of the time, dad has to step in and basically become primary caregiver for the kid that is already there. And over that time, they bonded more. And then he was like, okay, now you're the person I want around. And now it's like, when a boo-boo happens and mom's like, oh, do you want me to kiss? it to make it better? And he's like, no.

Only dad I can kiss the boo-boo. You know? So like, it's fickle. It can swerve on a dime. We know this. You know, it is clear. Nonetheless, yeah, I, you've, you've come to this pod and described those moments of just. And they suck.

I was going to, I'm going to tell you what was told to me. Which is don't take it personal. Of course not. Of course not. However, that's, you know, when people give you good advice and your first thought is that's great advice. So I'm not going to take it. Can we move on to step two of the real advice? Because it's like, don't take it personally. However, I am going to take it personally. What is the next step on this? And the next step on this is it will. It will. violently invert at some point for a while. Right. Which, and then it will be like totally flipped and it can be, that one can be four out really long time where they suddenly only want the one that's not around. The one that's doing the nine to five. Yeah.

The process of pushing boundaries and switching things up as you grow and become more and more aware is that you're going to do things like that. Play with preferences. start playing with, yeah, exactly, knows and yeses and rejections. And so, you know, that I could, so I can see that being a thing. I also did, like, I did kind of discover a solution of sorts.

At least I brute forced. Tell me of a cardboard cut out of Punch Mom's face that you wear. I don't wear a cardboard cut out of Punch Mom's face, unfortunately. We're not there yet. But what I do have, is I got a dad concert that I can put on. Oh, yeah?

And when stimulation needs to occur, when mom's out for a bit or whatever the case is, you know, I would do some songs, mess around, et cetera, and I realize if I can have, like, we can go from playing with the toys and the, you know, the rattle and all that, to the mirror, having the mirror at the same time while singing songs and you just got so much going on,

you don't have time to be like, where's mom? because you're just like super stimulated and she's yanking on dreads and everything's happening and then eventually when she starts being like okay enough of this I'm like oh we're over here now and you're and then I'm playing music and I'm singing along to it

and we're moving and spin it and jingle the fucking keys man just and I'm non-stop I'm bloating up albums and I'm just going top to bottom and I'm doing them and I'm putting on a dad concert and getting and mixing it up with rhythm and chuckles and tickles and all that and there's so much

simulation happening that she can't even stop for a second to fret about what's going on. I'm going to tell you, I'm going to give you a pro tip, and you probably already know this pro tip when they're when they're in the crawl stage. You know what game they love, even when mom's not around? It's a game call, I call Climb on Dad, where Dad lies down on the fucking floor and pretends to be asleep. Oh, yeah. And then they just climb on Dad. And it's so fun for them and um no she's we're yeah no she's climbing the colossus and making her way up top and then holding on and then yanking some of these as hard as possible and it's like okay okay all right no to that um also loves grabbing beard just loves just yeah yeah page had to stop wearing her pearls yeah yeah

Yep, and earrings, and I, I trim my beard. Well, there was a time where I had this much shorter than I otherwise could because, yeah, no, hey, those tiny little fingies can really pull a follicle, huh? Yep, we are, yeah, we've already adapted, yeah, different chains and necklace things and all that exactly. I have, like, one that I keep that got to spin around and keep it safe. But no, she's grabbing and yankin. The dad concert works, it worked pretty well, going to keep that up. And, yeah, just, like, just overwhelm the senses, flood the zone with too much stimulation to get upset at until eventually the tiredness kicks in. And, like, I kind of start turning the volume down a bit and, like, slowing the dance a little bit.

And then you're starting to see the eyes kind of go, mm. And then if you go back to silence too quickly, you're hearing the... where's mom? No, no, no, no, no. You need to start hearing still something a little bit that you're not used to. And then eventually the pass out. I got to tell you, that is not my experience at all. Every time that child has fallen asleep,

it is because we put him to sleep. Like, like, if you did not, like, actively attack his ability to stay awake, he would just never sleep even once. With a few exceptions, in the car. Yeah, right? Like, that doesn't count. And then there have been some days where, like, you're running around to the park for four hours. And then you bring him home.

And then you go to do the dishes and you come back. And he's, like, fucking full out, full yam chit out on the living room floor. Just, ah. And you're like, all right. It is a battle nine times out of ten. Like, you can see the, like, the natural drifting off happening. And then she's going, no, I want to stay awake. You know?

Has she done the thing where she pulls her own hair to wake herself up? Um, the hands are going up and, and all over the place for sure. Yeah. Yeah. She's not, she's not pulling her, she's not pulling to wake herself up. She's not doing that. But she is like just doing this and, you know, like, like, like flailing and stuff. And it's, um, it's again, it's, it's little Mac about to go down in, in, in we punch out and then the foot stomp and get back up, you know, from the, like, she will like eyes open like, like Undertaker sit up almost. I remember sitting there with my little guy at like 1 a.m. and I'm like, man, why won't you go to sleep? And I'm like rocking in super hard. And then I finally got him to sleep. And Paige was like, oh, you're going to go to bed? I'm like, no, I want to stay awake and play with my toys.

Right. Don't know where you got it from. Don't worry. Right. Right. Yep. Yep. Um, I mean, the absolute like horror movie moment of like I said,

looking through the the baby monitor and getting your again undertaker eyes open almost sit-up moment and you're like and then they go right back to sleep you're just like what the fuck that's crazy so he's a lot easier to put down now he's a toddler he expends more energy but uh so our guy likes to sing himself to sleep oh wow he loves christmas songs so you we're now in this place of like we're all hanging out and he's like winding down and then he's like dead quiet for like 10 minutes. And then, you know, you turn your phone away and you text wife. And she's like, and you're like, oh, is he asleep?

I think so. And then just top of his lungs, jangle bells, jangle bells. Jingle bells. Just screaming it as loud as he can. Singing the whole damn song. That will surely put me to put me down. Yeah. Okay.

What happened to counting sheep? All right. Caliq Sheave is overrated. So that was cool. I, what else? Oh, you know, just saved the fighting games product design problem, you know, solved that. You did? How did you solve that?

Played a game called Crushing Force. Okay. So I'm going to stop you right here. Why? I think we need to start at something that really matters. The phrase crushing force for that game is maybe the most A-plus title I have ever heard for anything. Phenomenal. Like absolutely A-plus, incredible.

Shout-outs Cass a Cat. Couldn't be a more perfect name. Yep. It is a sick title. for exactly what you're getting, which is crushing force. Forces are crushing. Um, no, I, I, I, uh, I saw, um, a comment, uh, describing, uh, the stream as the rent lowering shots in response to Evo, Saudi Arabia. Yeah, the timing on that was pretty incredible. Yep. Yep. So, um, you know, in a way, world where we're reading articles about the FGC's product design problem and how to appeal issues.

And in a time when we're getting Evo announcements for tons of new territories, multiple new countries all over the world. All over the world. We're talking about that later. Obviously. All kinds of new Evo, et cetera, whatever. Fuck all that bullshit. The solution is right here.

before you. It's Kazay Katz crushing force. It is a fighting game made in Ekemen. It is pure. It is undistilled. And I had a great time. Pure and Undistilled of? It's a it's a fat fur fighting game. It is it is a fat fur fetish fighting game. How fat, how fur? Maximum. There's a stage that is

that is a character that you're fighting on top of. And it's excellent. Had a great time. The love put into the craft of every character, the artistry, the fact that you're just looking at

more characters in this game than 2XCO and Tokon announced. Come on. Right off the bat is, what am I supposed to say? Like, they're delivering and committing and doing an excellent job with it. It is, so Ekemen is a Mugan-based engine that, you know, stepped it up.

And so you can hear a lot and use a lot and feel a lot of the familiarity as you're playing it. And yeah, mechanically, characters have shit going on. There's sauce. There's combos. There's, you know, every character, you got a lot of big, heavy hitboxes and you got a lot of, like, you know, armor. That really stood out to me when I saw was like, man, the hitboxes in this game go crazy. because all the characters are huge. Big buttons, big impact, lots of ground bounces, wall bounces, you know, sometimes

Dimage Over Time mechanics, you know, in the form of flatulence. But you got to be aware of that. You got to watch out for it. And, you know, voice acting, I mean, just full commitment. And yeah, we had a great time running it. And I think that's what fighting game needs right now, you know. So I want to encourage everyone to check out Crushing Force.

And yeah, we're going to be popping that up on the channel. I mean, we ran the stream, of course, but the episode's going to come out very shortly. And it's just, you know, all this, all the, I'm just, it's all this yapping about fighting games and we're just, just too much, too much. Enough of that. Enough of that.

Finding games have gotten too respectable. You know, we need to just sit down. Get back to your roots. Get back to your roots. Get back to the purity. Get back to sprites. Beautiful. Some of these characters are legitimately like have to be a Mugan-style engine to fit on the screen. And just, and yeah, oh, like the, the Abigail head touching the life bar thing.

You've got a giraffe girl whose head is outside the frame, you know, incredible stuff. And, uh, yeah, just get back to pressing buttons, man, you know, don't get, we, we, we're, we're lost. We've lost our identity. We've lost our way. And this, this, this, this old last two weeks have been nothing but. just floating above the earth, you know, floating in the ethers, in the heavens and space and sky. And we need to be brought back down to earth.

And what better way to do that than with the force of gravity, with a crushing force? Well, I got to tell you, I set this on my stream and I'll say it here. Like, you may, in fact, be fighting games as strongest soldier. Because, like, I was, like, playing... At the exact moment that you were playing this, I was playing the new Zahum game. Oh, yes. And I was like, not only is Wully not playing this or that.

Wully is playing a fat-fur fighting game, fetish game, about a fetish that he doesn't even like. He loves it because he loves fighting games so much. Yeah, the tech's legit. The tech is legit. the move list is complete there's a lot of matchups to learn there what the fuck are we wasting our time on like who cares like there's good games

we got we got we got we got matchups to learn we got characters to live to the Saudi royal family now oh mbs could never mbs obliterated obliterated by the mere idea

of crushing force truly I um yeah no i it's it's straight up i'm like this is i got to find the main you know i'm i'm there's a couple of them in there there's the rhino girl that looks really sick uh there's there's the giraffe girl that looks really sick but then towards the end jiggly was really fun the bunny girl with the yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah she's got the rapid input moves you know um good times man good times it was it was it was really fun looking at a bunch of matches and i'm seeing like well i believe to be a huge amount of overlap

between body types, like genuinely. And then I'm like thinking and it's like, because I don't have the trained eye to tell the difference between Terry Bogard and Ken Masters of the fat for fighting game characters. Okay, I see, I see. Yeah, no. I don't have the training.

Yeah. And, you know, neither do I. I mean, I can take my guesses, but whatever. That's neither here nor there, you know? And, uh, and, uh, and look, you know, full credits like, you know, Reggie along for the ride, like came in, saw what was up. And it's like, yeah, let's go. Let's, let's fucking learn it. And, um, you know, I got to say that, uh, some chat was pretty, chat was pretty cowardly.

Uh, chat was pretty, uh, you know? Which chat was more cowardly? Oh, Twitch, definitely Twitch. Yeah, definitely Twitch. Yeah, YouTube chat is like a different planet. It is a different planet and their energy is kind of chaotic in a way that that loses the plot sometimes. But nah, man, you know, people were off in their own world saying whatever the fuck. And I'm like, yeah, I ain't got time for that shit.

We got a, we got a fucking lab right now. You know, we got to learn what's going on here. And that we did. So it was a good time. And I look forward to it. And again, just nothing but sincerely. fucking flowers to Cassie Cat and everyone

that worked on that game because the love is there. You know, it's committed 100% to its identity and knows exactly what it is unapologetically and that shit rules. We also... Is Lucario in this game? I mean, probably in a background.

I'm pretty sure I saw a guard of war somewhere. You know? And look, if the rent comes next year or next month and it's a little bit cheaper, then that ain't bad either, right? Because we'll get to what's happening with Evo and the rest of this in a minute. I also took a look at

Romeo is a dead man, which I said correctly. That came overscreens fucking wild, isn't it? I haven't seen it yet. I didn't... Oh, yeah, hold on. Oh, no, wait. Hold on.

I did die. What do you think? I don't remember it. What was it? Oh, the melting face, the face. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The melting, yes, yes, yes. yes, yes, that's just crazy.

Honestly, the use of, the use of miniatures is incredible. Like, they're committed to that in such an awesome way. I really love how often they did. I turned that stream on and just, I didn't know what you were playing. And I caught it at a moment where I'm like, I don't. I don't know what the hell he's doing. What is this? What the fuck is this?

Because you were having an eight-bit tea party or some shit. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, just the most unrepresentative moment I could have walked in on. But yet the most suit a thing, right? Where it's just like, it's all over the place deliberately, and you know, and it's very clear. You save budget with style, you know? I don't at any point begrudge it for that.

And, yeah, I mean, from what it showed off so far with that intro trailer and everything, like, all you get is vibes. And then once the, and you're like, maybe the game will give me better context once I'm actually playing it. And no, no, it is raw vibes. Like title screen, Romeo must die. Romeo must die. It is Romeo must.

It's just, dude, I would play that. Yeah. Title screen is just J-Rap with like fish disappearing into voxels in a space tank. And once shit gets. up and running, you're like, wow, Suda really likes Rick and Morty. Like, Suda 51 fucking loves Rick and Morty, dude. Kind of nuts how much that is on its sleeve.

It is unapologetically. Like, there's a bunch of it that's like back to the future, but it's mostly Rick and Morty specifically. I had a thought when people are talking about Romeo as a dead man. And it's like, do you think Suda's doing it too much? Um, I don't know. He doesn't know, he doesn't know how to, he doesn't know how to do anything but be himself, though. Sure, but you, do you know what I mean?

Like, like, his style is based around being wacky and crazy and out there, but I feel like it's always wacky and crazy and out there in kind of the same way. Okay, okay. I know what you mean. and what I'll say is the thing that I want Is that silver case? Silver case is happening big time All over this game

All over this game Sorry I just saw like a text box I have a video playing And I'm like is that silver case Like dialogue boxes? Silver case shit is happening left and right And like people were pointing out That's a poll

Characters and dudes And literally there is a titular The titular silver case is on a table at one point. The sickest chapter reveals I've seen in video games maybe ever, I think my favorite,

just this insanely raw, awesome, like, Nolan-esque inception horn Blair alongside the untwisting of metal into a kanji form with a flower.

It's so fucking cool. But I think with the whole pseudo-weirdness thing as you're touching on, what you kind of want at the core of that, right, um, is gameplay that's really fun,

solid and unique each time. And I think, so with like Shadows of the Damned, for example, um, that was one where like, you know, wild big boner,

shit, etc. trailer gets your attention. You go, what the fuck is happening here? But then I think, um, you don't end up,

gameplay ends up being like more or less normal, right? It's fine. It's more, it ends up being more or less standard in that. way. And I kind of think that's where I would point out my critique here with Romeo as a dead man is the combat so far, I've played through like the first chapter. And it's normal action game combat. You know, you got a little, you got a couple, a little bit of variation on a melee swing. You got a

light button and a heavy button and you can, you know, light, light heavy or you can heavy, heavy, or light, light, light. You got a gun that you switch to. And, you know, you've got a very just, and then, and then it's really cool when you get the fists out, but you can get a big sword, a small sword, et cetera. And it's not like it's the purpose of the game or his games, but you do want like, you know, if not like a skill tree that kind of opens up into options or something, you do want combat to get a little bit more involved and have more going on with it, right?

What I started to get a glimpse of is these, uh, the bastard system where you plant a zombie seed in the ground. And then they get raised to be different types of assists. So, so one, one bastard zombie will be a shooter that just stands in the row and turrets. Another one will run and suicide bomb itself at,

at the enemies. Another one will heal you in an area or something. And like, you can, you can, you can, four of them to summon while you're fighting and they'll show up on the spot and help you and distract from the fight while it's happening, you know? So you have a little Pokemon system in the form of

these like, they're cybermen. Yeah, there's zombie cybermen and they have like like armor on them and little like flourish pieces and stuff. Goofy wild shit. So that's a little bit of a mechanic that is like, okay, that's a little bit more different. But overall and like the boss fights were, you know, so far I fought like two giant bosses where you kind of run in circles, avoid the floor patterns and drop them to the ground and then go melee. It does feel like the weirdness of this of the overall coat is a veneer and underneath you're going to have just an all right action game, you know? Yeah. And I would love to see the weirdness or something a little more extreme and out there in particular in terms of how you design your action game and what and why, right? Even if it's as

simple as, I mean, you can't reinvent the wheel every time or so, but like even something as silly as like when you're playing Godhand and you got a roulette wheel of finishing moves and shit like that, you know, just things like that to kind of like sparse it up or so, just whatever the case is. I don't need. Still trapped in Godhand shadow. Like, I don't want to just keep talking about character action game like routes for a game that's not going for that. I mean, he's kind of opening up that that conversation by making over the shoulder third

person action games for like 15 years. You do have that. And when you play an action game that's like a tie-in to, you know, some anime or something like that, or even like an arena fighter, right? You end up, it ends up, you end up feeling kind of like you're playing, yeah, almost like a My Hero One's Justice sort of game where you're like, yeah, I've got my dodge, I've got my quick attack, I got my heavy, you know, and then you can zone with this button over here. But my hope is after that first chapter that the combat opens up a bit more.

But so far, it's been pretty standard, you know? You have a giant super that you can do with each of your, each state you're in. You can do like a jumping super, a grounded super or a gun super, and it heals you. So like using that a little bit works into the gameplay. But combat, you want to see a little bit more wild and crazy for a suitor, wild and crazy. wild and crazy game, certainly. But it was cool. It was cool.

And you have to be down with the idea of, yeah, yeah, yeah, fuck the story. We're moving on, right? So, like, it's flipping through comic panels and just, it couldn't, like, dismiss the setup any faster, you know? Yeah, you used to be a cop. What was the setup?

Yeah, you were a cop in, in Twin Peaks vibe, kind of a small town sheriff dude, and you're Romeo, and then you fucking. died. Some wild shit ripped your face off and super killed you. And your grandpa is Rick. And so he walks through a time portal and he saves you by turning you into Dead Man, a superpowered zombie sword hero, Sentae, Toku fucker. And now as you're in your zombie Toku powered up fucker form, you join the spaceship because it turns out that in an alternate reality all like humanity and the earth explodes and is shattered across multiple dimensions and times and spaces and you are

traveling to go stop the you're being time you're the time police and you're going to stop the source of it which appears to be Juliet this girl that you liked as a multi-dimensional being that you have to fight over and over in multiple dimensions. And... Romeo and Grandpa together forever. Romeo. Million years. Million years, Romeo.

And it's not Pickle Rick. It's jacket Rick, because Rick is, he's a sticker, a decal on the back of your jacket. And he talks to you from the jacket. I'm a jacket, Mort. Yeah. So that's that. It's got style. It's got charm.

It's got cool shit going on. And again, turn your brain. off just embrace the vibes and let the fucking edibles do their thing um that's all cool it also it's having fun with mixed medium stuff and again comic books and animation and eight break 16 bit whatever

um that's all fun and dandy just uh I want to see what later game combat looks like because if you do end up seeing because I mean I was thinking of shadows of the damned and um you know I mean well killer seven you're kind of going through and like your you know target shooting and stuff but um

when he has a new idea for a game it you kind of you kind of do wonder like he's having all these like incredible visuals and you know styles for designs and aesthetics and characters but you I do wonder if he's like and then when it comes to the gameplay light attack heavy attack shoot dodge you know

I just wonder if he kind of like kind of because even to some degree like let it die is like you know fairly standard in that way but you're trying to It's the rest of the setup that you're trying to get creative. Am I weird that I look at like Romeo as a dead man? And I find it's like aesthetic to be like uniquely unappealing.

Oh yeah? Compared to all of Suda's stuff. Oh, maybe. I think it's appealing. I think it's cool. I like what it has going on. It looks like, it looks like a 360 game that would be in that pile that James would put down on a table and go,

these are the really good ones along with Bullet Witch and Knight and Damsel or whatever the So the funny part It looks just like that So the funny part is when I was describing the combat during the stream At one point I harkened back to the recent Game I played Wanted Dead Which had the sword button

The gun button over the shoulder and you'd mix and match the two. And that had a skill tree that you slowly, you know, unlocked and had its stuff going on there as jank as it fucking was. But yeah, that's it. I want gameplay to be as wild and out there as the rest of it is. But I think it's interesting so far. Beyond that, only other thing was I am getting my ass kicked.

in act two of meugenics. That shit is... I gotta go back to that. Stepping it up in a brutal way. I'm encountering... There's like... I fought a boss and then I went to go look up online afterwards. I'm like, does anyone...

I'm curious about... And like, literally, it's bosses that have not been logged yet because the game is too new. Shit, like, like content. Yeah, I tried to look something up and discovered that, like, the game has so many items and so many enemies that, like, all the wiki resources are just barren.

Yeah. It's just too much. I think I thought something that nobody has like made reference to. I haven't even seen it written down. I looked up the name of a boss and it like it did not appear anywhere online. So that's where we're at. And but I've also in getting my ass beat, I have discovered a, um, a, a couple of builds of like insane broken shit that, that happened to like steamroll some of the runs. I have seen a bunch of videos of people discovering interactions that just functionally act as automatic win buttons without even any player input.

Yeah, I haven't seen, so I haven't seen any videos of other people doing stuff, but I have just putting together, my last run, I got a sole jar, which was a jar that the person holding it when they die, a copy of them goes into it. and then the next cat holding that item can summon a copy ghost of that dead cat for one turn. So then I had a mind control machine that is a side quest item that specifically takes control of non-boss characters and makes them permanently charmed allies that join your team for the whole run. The whole run? Correct. Not that battle, the whole run. If they survive, they continue down the run with you. You are supposed to lose that item after the side quest, right?

You can get it back in a randomized way, very, you know, or so, but it's meant to just be like for this purpose. And then you lose, you use it, you lose it, it's gone. I gave it to a cat that died holding the soul jar. And like, I was playing and like someone was like, yo, what if that was that was, was a thing and I was like, let me investigate. And I did. And it died and the cat in the jar came back out with the mind control device in its hand permanently. So then I made sure that that cat had a teleport so that it could on turn one get anywhere on the map, shoot the mind control device, and then disappear turning something on the map into my ally for the whole run.

I run that build into the sewers and I come across Daddy Shark. Mm-hmm. Oh, okay. Yeah, okay. Okay. You mind control Daddy Shark and Daddy Shark is a giant enemy with like 25 HP that if it is within range of anything, it instantly dies. I take that Daddy Shark all the way up to the boss and watch it one shot the boss. and we're out.

Busted shit, right? And I'm like, ooh, that felt good to put those dominoes in place and watch them all drop in the way that the end of an Isaac run where you're just shooting lasers out of your asshole in 15 directions. Yeah, at the end of an ice run

when you've turned it into vampire survivors. Exactly. Watching that happen with like game start, fat shark eats everything, game over. run solved is phenomenal, you know? Um, so like seeing that as a possibility is like, okay, okay, I'm getting my ass beat, but also I'm getting access to ass beating tools if you, if you fucking tweak it and force it to happen.

So that, that was a lot of fun. Um, and beyond that, um, fuck the boss of, uh, the act to upper path is, is all I'll say. The act two upper path has an asshole of a fucking boss that I'm getting wrecked to, but the music is so good that you're not even that mad because you're like, fuck, you're humming the theme as you're losing and getting wiped out. It's one of these moments where a single turn doing the wrong action or like not thinking ahead, like slipping up one turn is critical failure. I've noticed this.

The whole... Yep. I'll be like, yeah, I got... Oh, fuck, I don't got this. Yeah. Yeah, no, not Feline Invader. That song is incredible, but the one that comes after that is... It's...

Anyway, so that's pretty much it. That's where I'm at. This week, you can tune in for a couple more streams. tomorrow going to be resuming Expedition 33 with Reggie getting towards the end. Going to wrap that up soon. What about the bonus shit?

Oh, true. I forgot. You never did. I guess I'll see it with Reggie on stream for the first time then. There's some bananas shit in there. Yeah. lore-wise? A little bit. But

it's not no big revelation. It's more context. right but get your fucking balls ready okay okay

yeah I wanted to I wanted to do it but I have not had the time unfortunately so gonna gonna just I guess if I if you still get the chance I'm gonna go back and do it on my own save but might end up seeing the the drafts for the first time with with him.

We're continuing that tomorrow, which is Wednesday. Thursday, we're going to return to Absalom, which is a really cool beat-em-up that I played a little bit ago, and I just felt like playing more of that. And then on Saturday, seeing as our fighting games have been, our quota has been full for the week. We're quite stuffed. You got it. Yeah.

We're quite stuffed. So for this Saturday, I'm going to be playing. no, I am not a human. Oh, that one. The other one. Yeah, the one that is the thing that I asked about the one you played. And everyone said, not that one, this one is what you're looking for. It's so funny how there's just a bunch of those that are like highly similar.

And it, yeah, it looks stylishly creepy. So I'm curious to see how that's going to go. So that's happening this week over on Woolley versus on Twitch and on YouTube. You want to go into my week or do you want to take a break? We can keep going. All right. I want to take a break, though. I got it.

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So you look into a letter your grandpa left you on his deathbed to open when you were tired with that dirty city living. And you open it up and turns you, he has gifted. you the land that his family owned in Star Doe Valley and you can go down there and start a farm and just give up on modern life and just return to homesteading. Oh, the plot. Okay. Which is the plot of Star Dew Valley. Hidden on the farmstead in one of the corners is a is grandpa's shrine. And grandpa's shrine states, I will return on spring one of the third year. and it turns out that as you go through the daily life of building up your

farmstead and becoming friends with the townspeople and exploring the mines you are in fact accumulating favor for grandpa's judgment which he will render upon you upon the first day of the third year

and on the first day of the third year and on the first day of the third year, his ghost returns to tell you how he thinks you have been doing. I received four candles out of four candles and earned

Grandpa's approval, which he then announces he will now rest. I thought Cult of the Lamb was last week. Yeah, I know right. Grandpa's approval is tracked

by, are you married? do you have a kid? Did you upgrade your house? How much money have you shipped? Oh my God. Even when in the grave, they're going to come back to bug you about grandkids. Oh, yeah. Jesus Christ, it never stops.

And if you get maybe two or three of the candles instead of all four candles, you can offer up a glorious diamond to grandpa's grave, and he will return the following day. judge you again. I, however, completed my grandpa evaluation with flying colors. I think I got 18 out of

21 possible grandpa points, which is a hidden system. At which point I moved my grain silos in front of his grave and sealed him into the deepest corner of my

farm. Never been seen Yeah, because I'm like, tell me you can fucking ghost vacuum this asshole. Well, he's, he's been laid to rest and then I literally, I literally put two grain silos in front of his grave so that he may never be seen again. Good. Good. It's where all the, the pigs graze. So they're, they're digging up truffles next to his corpse, I guess. Um, fucking coming back to push his bullshit on you is. fucking checklist. That's crazy. However, Grandpa does

gift you one final item. He gifts you a fancy purple cat statue that just generates the highest level ore in the game, which makes erridium farming like trivial because you just get a bunch of it every day now.

That is two years of Star Dew Valley and defeating Grandpa's judgment is your soft end goal, right? That is your like, your overriding goal. Yeah, defeating the corporation must surely be the main point. No, that's a step along grandpa's judgment. Okay.

So defeating the corp is one of the things that grandpa will judge you on. Right? Okay. Okay. I finished year two with a full greenhouse of ancient fruit, a full barn of pigs and cows, full, uh, coop of ducks and, uh, chickens. I got a void chicken. I got a fucking dinosaur. I have, uh, fucking nine, nine, sorry, three sets of nine plots running star fruits on Junimo huts.

I have essentially wrung out all cohesive value of what I would consider. Star Dew Valley 1.0. Okay. However, you can then go to a different island and there's like a fucking sequel to Starry Valley in there. And it's like there's straight up a new farm with new,

new crops and like a new end goal. Yeah, we're talking about this a little bit last week, but it's like the boat to the DLC that is either tropical or winter themed. Yeah. And I have like literally, literally zero desire to to engage with that at all. Okay.

What about what about tropical wife? Maybe. Wife too? It's mainly it's mainly just parents. Hey, if you're truly going to take in grandpa's footsteps, the final step is to fucking go over there and just pretend that you weren't the dude over here and just start for, start afresh and don't tell nobody but nothing. So that's how easy it was back then.

Starter Valley is kind of one of the best to ever do it. I did add a couple mods for convenience purposes, but at its core loop, it is just kind of exemplary with only one real weakness, in my opinion. And that is, Concerned Ape is not a particularly talented

writer. Sure. A significant part of the game is increasing your social relationships with people in town and they go up little hearts and you know there's a two heart event to four a heart event

a sex heart event etc right and it's like where you learn something about the character or that you go through like a goofy skit they're pretty fucking weak um as far as characters go um like the most

intensely I felt about a character was the shopkeeper Pierre um I hate him. I hate him so much. I want him to die. Like I would push him into a volcano if I could. And the only reason is because his shop's not open on Wednesdays. Okay. Like that. Is that like church day type of thing? No, the shop just doesn't open on Wednesdays. Sometimes you need to get seeds to plant on Wednesday. And he's like, it's closed. So how much of the game is, how much, how much of the personality of the characters that matters and it says how much animal crossing

is there to this or is it just it's about animal crossing level yeah yeah okay okay it's significant because I'm like it's are you just are you just like fucking can you just OCD the farm and like don't even fucking bother with it though one you when you get certain heart ratings with people they send you like recipes or like give you certain abilities to build certain things that's how you get them okay right by becoming friends with them they're like there's a the ability like dye your clothes is unlocked through like a social event. Right.

But more than that is that, um, like the, everybody has like one line of dialogue a day and it's pretty standard. It's pretty normal. Um, and what

ended up happening is that I had a bunch of cows, so I made lots of cheese and cheese is a high value gift item. So I would just make my cheese for the day, and then run into town with like 20 packages of Brie. And just every single person I saw on the fucking street, just handed them a cheese, hand you a cheese. And that's how I got like all of my good boy points. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Is there a, does it have one of those systems where high value things lower in value the more you sell them?

No. Okay. No. No. No. What it happened? as is certain people like certain things more. So lots of people like rabbits foot, but Penny doesn't like the rabbit's foot or lots of the girls like diamonds. Gus loves oranges, right? But everybody likes cheese except for the kids. So just go into town and just cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese.

And then accidentally walk into somebody's house at 8 p.m. and go through like four social events in a row that all suck and are all really weird. But as for the farming and progression and, uh, dungeon crawling gameplay, fucking A plus, like absolutely incredible game. Now, as you feel satiated, uh, and don't feel the need to go check out new island expansion. Um, do you also get drawn towards one of the clones? Yes.

Okay. So that's the one with the one with the fighting? The one that, so one of the reasons that I'm not pulled super closely to something called Ginger Island, which is the expansion content of Stardu, is that I'm actually being pulled towards an early access title called Fields of Mistria. I've described it to you before. It's Stardu with like a 90s shojo anime aesthetic.

And it has the same kind of vibe. of clearly made by StarDoo super freaks base features in Mystria are basically

all the things that I modded into Star Do like the way that thought bubbles appear above people's heads when you can talk to them and stuff like that.

The biggest difference is that it looks better, it controls better, it has a million little conveniences things but also unlike Star Do the people

writing, Mistria are significantly more talented. Characters will talk to you four, five, six times a day, depending on when you catch them, where they are, what they're doing, what day is it, what festival, is it? Where are you on quests, et cetera? And there's just a lot of like very well-written dialogue, which includes stuff like, this morning, I was playing it before everybody woke up. And on Friday nights, they're really. running a poker game and a D&D session at the inn.

Cool. And you go down there and you talk to them and they will run through maybe 15 to 20 lines of dialogue of you like checking in and be like, oh, what are you guys doing with the thing? As opposed to when you go into Stardu and you go to the inn and everybody has their one line. One day of dialogue and then you give them a piece of cheese and they go, thanks. and as a result the first of all they have like way super more detailed like portraits

but and they have like they have the animated like 90s style anime portraits where they do the mouth flaps and then the expression but also way more writing and way better writing um that shit matters man

it's very endearing. Yeah like I like I mentioned that I know I'm in the minority but I truly I enjoyed running around P3, P4, and P5, talking to the different people in town. And if they had unique dialogue and stuff, it was always fun to see, like, what was changing, you know, in each location and stuff. There was, there's a lot of missable dialogue based on what day or what season or what's

going on. So it's fun to just catch little things. And sometimes it's like little plots that progress with some of the characters in the background, you know? Yeah, somebody in the chat basically described it as Hades II levels of dialogue, but with the farmland. Wow. Wow, that's a big.

Like just tons and tons and tons and tons of dialogue. Yeah, Hades is the king of the mountain on that. It's excellent. It's an early access, which is actually fairly unlike me to play an early access game, except these cozy games are early access until they start working on the next game. Like 1.0 isn't 1.0. it's just another step in the chain. Right, right, right, right.

So I've been absolutely adoring that. You mentioned that the start of the game is you find an envelope from Grandpa. Yeah, that's in Star Doe. Yeah, you're sitting, grandpa dies and he gives you an envelope and says, don't open this until you're sick of modern life. And then you open it at your desk at an Amazon warehouse. And it says, hey, man, come to Star Doe Valley. There's a farm there for you.

And what if you just never open it, Grandpa? Are you tethered to this mortal coil forever? Absolutely. And then you don't pass it off to your next of kids, so that ghost is trapped forever. What was your plan? Like, okay, so do you know the game Risk Legacy? Okay, so Risk is Risk, and there's a version of it called Risk Legacy, which is crazy because it has all kinds of rules that you can pass down that permanently affect the game

as each time you play. So if you play with the same people, you can update things and permanently change the way that the rules work and runs work and stuff. And it has envelopes in it. And there's one envelope that just says, do not open ever. What do you do?

It's an envelope that says the instructions on it, do not open ever. I would open it right away. Right? Because my brain's going to go, well, I'm eventually going to open it. So I might as well just... Why as well just catch it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I would sit there and let it rot until an extreme moment of duress. And then I'd threaten to open it with everybody going, no! Yeah, but that's just our personalities, right? If you tell me never, I mean, what, like, what I actually hear is right now. Right. To me, I'm like... It reminds me of my mental process of like, should I get a Wii U? and I'm using the Wii you specifically.

And the answer was, I'm going to buy one before the fucking price goes down, so I might as well go fucking stand in line. Okay, okay. I'm like, oh, so you gave me a nuke. Okay, good. I have this in the pocket and it'll sit there, you know? And yeah, it's hidden under the box as well.

So it's like, you know, that is truly, that is an experiment right there, you know, and that's a personality test. Um, okay. Yeah, just, sure. Um, what else is going on? What else is going on is that I hit another week of the backlog, uh, which has some overlap with you. I played Atlas, A-T-L-Y-S-S. Have you heard of Atlas? Uh, now I have. All right. You're going to punch that in? Here, I'll get you...

I saw the moments that mattered. Oh, you saw it, yeah. So Atlas is a fantasy star online-ish, World of Warcraft emulated dungeon crawling pseudo-MMO, which controls excellently, runs incredibly well, and apparently has tons of content. It is also made by an absolute, like,

sexual deviant pervert who's just like Midna didn't go far enough. I need to have a full cadre of short stack furries available and I need a slider for these

tities and this ass and these thighs and they got to go go go. I need to be able to turn every furry little character into a goddamn African fertility statue. They were, okay.

Short stacked, what a capital stack. Mm-hmm. Okay. Really aggressive first impression. Like, very aggressive. And also, you run into, like, Torial slash Rawlsie but sexy as, like,

the first talking character in the game. Okay. And you're like, okay. And then if you smack or butt, you get an achievement. because okay. Oh, that's a mechanic. It's a mechanic. Yeah.

Okay. No, no. And game plays great. Sounds great. Looks great. Of course. They wouldn't have it any other way. And it becomes like,

is this adding to your experience, detracting, or are you just ignoring, you know, the anthro- Goon. I mean, again, it's when you see what is not for you but has an insane attention to detail for someone else, you have to...

It's not for me, but I can tell that it is for many. And you have to appreciate it. And that it's doing a good job for that many. Exactly. That's it. And to that, I will give it a golf clap. Like, if you know that this is a 10 on 10. for the target, then its accomplishments have been achieved.

It set out what it did what it set out to do. Like good for them and also good for the people that this is obviously for. Because they eat and good buying this one. Yo, furries don't fuck around, Pat. They don't play. They come correct. I appreciate. Furries come serious with this shit.

They stand all business. They've been here. I appreciate it because like it's bald-facedness like shows off that the people making it are like really, really passionate about what they're making. And you can like kind of feel that coming through the screen. And that's a million times better than even something that should appeal to me, but is made soullessly. Yep. Yep. It's it's loud and proud said with the fullest.

chest, you know, to quote Sonic Fox and don't you ever forget it. I also played something called Project Warlock 2. I feel like I know what that is. It's a very solid boomer shooter that has classes and levels. And that's, it gives a really strong first impression and it's got the juice. I don't think there's much more to say. Okay. It's an old-fashioned doom-style boomer shooter, and it's got the juice.

Oh, yeah, that's a boomer shooter, all right. Speaking of boomer shooters, do we, apparently, I saw something about, um, uh, ultra-kill, uh, fraud. Fraud's out there. Fraud, yeah, yeah. What was that, level eight of nine? Is it? Treachery is the last one. Okay.

Now, now, I. does everyone going through ultra kill and keeping up with it? Because I coming back in these super distant waves. I mean, okay. But I just like, does. Story and dashes.

Sure. And those guys. But Hekita must know. I'm assuming that everyone, even those who are keeping up, like, are, is everyone coming back and just the rust is weighing you,

you are unable to keep up and survive? And you must relearn every single time. Because I assume so. Right. When it came out. And then I played it when I think the, the, whatever level was the, the ocean level. I forget, was that wrath? I can't even remember.

And like, if I had not restarted, I would never been able to beat like layer three. Like, it is, it is, that game demands you to just go. Oh, cyber grind. Is that, that's the, um, the lab, basically the big environment where you just fucking go and go and deal with the waves. Yeah. I, I wonder if that. game has gotten less viable on controller. Because it was when I played it.

I mean, if... But like, every time I see it, it's more crazy and more intense. If so, it would be out of spite because, again, Hakita knows that we both want a controller supported world. And that's just not the way these games are intended. I would say, Nikita is a lot more friendly to that world than one day of Oshery. Has he been hostile

online about it? He's been hostile to me, personally. I don't know if you remember, but when I was playing dusk, I was playing a controller and he came in to shit on me and I'm like, there are bugs in here because you didn't test it with a controller. He's like, yeah, why would you?

I'm like, Dave! I have to say that, like, at first, I didn't really get it, but now I've become more and more comfortable. When a game boots up and goes, recommended we're a controller, I go, ah, yes, cool, thank you. Real Yaku's a controller. Yeah, it's nice to see and to not have to worry about that part of it. Yeah, Project Warlocks, too, is good.

I played Rhapsody, a musical adventure at Page's insistence. This is a PlayStation one game I just completely fucking missed. And it is awesome. It is from the 90s. Boy, is it. It was Nippon Ichi's first games. Okay. Yeah, here we go.

Isometric. You can, you can, like there's a chest that we found that had, that literally sang a Nipon Ich software. like jingle. Yeah. It has full-blown musical sequences with voice acting, which are very good. It features you playing as a young girl

pining after a prince and her shitty little fairy sidekick. And as we're playing it, the dialogue and the general thrust of the story is super funny, super crass, very... I don't know how to describe it. Somebody in the chat was like, did this get re-translated by whatever? I'm like, no, this is just how the 90s were. It's very like Darian and Serena at the ice cream parlor,

and he won't stop calling her meatball head. Right, right. Direct transliterations as opposed to translation. No, no, I mean, in the tone of like, oh, I want to kiss every boy. Oh, okay, okay. And like the fairy goes, just show the prince a little bit of leg. No guy can resist a little bit of leg. Well, I see here there was a DS re-release.

So, you know, maybe something got changed there. But, uh, wow. But yeah, no, very blast from past. Super impressive. Very charming. One of the best CRT filters I've ever used. Nice. Okay.

Like very, very, very appreciated. I think, uh. And then the last game I did on Backlog was Xenoblade Cross. Chronicles X definitive because they finally put that fucking patch out for the Switch 2. Where'd you stop on that? I played, Zeno played Chronicles X on the Wii U for 90 minutes. There was a video made for Best Friends video, and then I went and played it at home, and it then said use the Wii U game pad to use the map.

and I said, no, I will wait until they port this off this fucking system. This is the third Wii U stab at a grave that you've done today. Yeah, I don't know what's going on with you and this Wii U. I are like, sure, it was a misstep, the Wii was a hit, the Wii was a fuck, and then the switch was a hit, you know. But like, this is, I don't, these are strays that are A, I'm named at dirt, man. I don't care for the Wii.

You're emptying the clip into the earth. So I don't know if you remember specifically that era of like where my Iire for the Wii you came from, but it was like I had a line in the sand after buying the console and it was I will never use this game pad ever. Okay. I used it for Zombie You. Mm-hmm. And nothing in the whole history of that.

fucking thing, like made a point to use it as well as zombie you. And every time a game said, you now switch to the Wii U game pad. I said, how about I turn this thing off? I will always, I will always raise my finger and go, Splatoon convinced me. Splatoon's gyro made it make sense, even though very few else, little else did. So that patch is weird because it makes the game

run way better on the switch two in docked mode and look way better. It makes the game run better, but look way worse in handheld mode. There's some kind of FSR resolution scaling situation happening that

sucks. Not really sure what's up with that. But as for the actual game, weird game. Fucking strange game. in the Xenoblade canon.

First of all, it's localized by Nintendo of America and not Nintendo of Europe, like all the other ones. So whereas Xenoblade 1, 2, and 3 are just maximum British Isles with Shulk and Fiora and Roin and

Oi, you get to X, Zeno Blade Chronicles X, and it's taking place in space, but in New Los Angeles, with such characters as Doug and James and Sarah. Wow, okay.

And all American voice actors and all American English. Is that the first time it's not British? Yeah, it's the only one that's not British. Okay. And it's fucking super fucking strange. It's so bizarre. And this was before two. Yeah, yeah.

This is actually the second one. Okay. this is a fake MMO this game is a fake MMO everything about it is a fake MMO the way that your city hub is divided into the districts

like a World of Warcraft settlement the way that every single spot on the map has some kind of collectible on it the fact that the game to fully complete takes somewhere between 200 and 400 or 100 hours the fact that it has multiplayer missions like

Monster Hunter for for high-end content for four players it is a it is a weird fucking super gigantic single player RPG pseudo-m-mo but like I guess that's but that pseudo-mMO thing

like I'm thinking of relink also had that like strange multiplayer RELink is pretending to be like like monster hunter to some degree where you're going out on a mission you do a level with a little group and there's a boss and then it becomes like big boss fights this game has like a hard to the horizon level map you know like just like epic distances yeah kind of thing yeah okay um it also has a really nice twist on the xenoblake uh like how do you know when you load up a game and you get a look at

like the class tree or like the skill list and you just go oh this is is a big boy. Yeah. Because there's just like the menu has just too much room. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It's a big boy. There's a lot.

Like you go to the party list and there's, you're like, oh, pick your four-man party. There's 28 slots on the reserve list for party members. Okay. Yeah. And you're like, oh. The first time I booted up Baldur's, Gate 3, they looked at the character creator, I was getting stressed out.

Like, I was not streaming that part. Exactly, exactly. I just needed to take a look to see what I was getting into, and I was getting stressed the fuck out, man. Yeah, okay. It has of note, so it's a really cool RPG. I'm going to dig into it. And, um, it's

the anti-Beline game. People said, hey, man, you have to beeline. You try a B-line. It's, I'll pee it. It's like, The game requires like map percentage completion to continue story events. Oh. Like it will be like, get out there, do more stuff, kind of thing. But of note, I need to get his full name because I always feel bad. Attack on Titan had a person do the music named...

Hiroyuki Suwano You're familiar with Suwano, right? Composer of all the theme Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. So they're the composer and Kill a Kill as well. Hell yeah. Oh my God, oh my God, oh God, I hear it.

I hear it, yes. The same high pitch, the thing, yeah. Okay, the battle theme. Yeah, exactly, the vocals kicking in and the Shiga, the battle of, yes, absolutely. Vocals kicking in on both of them are the same kind. Oh, fuck. You got that in your mind?

That connection's crazy. Holy shit, yes, okay. X has a lot of like minor story events that are being absolutely carried by Suano deciding to just drop this gigantic, epic fucking track over like panning shots of like the cool environment. And it's really interesting because it's really like a thing that's more. more than the sum of its parts. Because you have a little tutorial sequence where it's raining and you get on top of a little mountain and the game goes, look, look at these places as the, as the sun comes out.

And there's decent panning shots and they show you new L.A. and then the person is giving you like some boilerplate inspiring speech about making a way for humanity's future in space. And then the music comes in. And it actually becomes like this really, really like epic fucking thing. And I'm like, I'm looking at panning. shots of a Wii U environment. Is there like a drum buildup that cuts off and then comes back in sharp with the drop?

Yes, there is. Yeah. But on top of that, Suwano, I don't know if this is in his regular repertoire. The New Los Angeles town music at night features the lowest-endous. the lowest energy out of place rapping since Iwatodai Dorm. Okay. Now, I remember back when you guys played it on the old channel, there was a punchline about the bad rap. Yes.

And that gave me the impression that this game had terrible music in it because all I knew was that there was this bad rap song and it was the punchline of the video. Well, okay, so here's the problem. Here's the problem. Do you like Iwitodai Dorm? I have had legacy problems with Iwitoy Dorm. So when you go to New L.A. at night, there is a track that's pretty good playing in the background. But the primary vocals of it are a guy just going, uh, uh, yeah, yeah, like non-stop. Lotus juice in it.

And there's a lot, there's a, in the battle theme, uh, has a sequence in which it's pretty fine. And then the guy just bust out on a whole different planet. Planet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's super fucking cringe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

There we go. So, okay. It's, it's, it's this. It's the, it's this. Stuck on a different planet. It's kind of an incredible soundtrack from what I could hear with occasional like This is going to be I'm going to go for it occasional Um

Yoko Ono screaming Oh Oh no Oh my god I'm trying to enjoy the music I'm gonna kill this bitch Yep Yep, yep, yep

It's not that bad But it's the only thing I can get the emotional context I understand I understand That game's fucking cool That game's so cool I'm so glad you can play it Without the Wii U game pad

Very happy about it salvaged. Okay. All right. And people are unhappy about the patch changing the way it looks in handheld mode and you can get a refund for it on the Nintendo e-shop if you ask for it actually. I would prefer they fix it. But I don't play that shit on handheld mode anyway. So so are refunds now available on all platforms as a functioning thing? Sony tells you they'll only do it once and that's a lie.

Interesting. Nintendo will do it. I had to get a refund for Monster Hunter Generations X on the Wii on Switch because I bought it

and then Capcom out of nowhere sent me a code and I'm like, well, I don't need to fucking buy it and I called them on the phone and they're like, what's the problem? I have a review code but I already bought it.

And the guy was like, that is the first time I've had to figure this out in the system. Interesting. It's actually very, very clear. He's like, I don't know how, where,

how to file this, but I'll talk to my boss. And then they pulled it off my account and then I use the code. Okay. Nintendo will do it when there's a genuine reason, and not just I don't like the game. Okay. It's like,

for example, and this is none of our current sponsors, and I won't use the, the sponsor's name. But I've gotten a phone call from a sponsor that I have done in the past on my stream. And they're like, hey, would you like to come back to our service? And I'm like, and I will go like, bro, no, that's me. That's my job.

And he's like, what? It's like, it's my job to get people to come back to your service. He's like, I don't understand. He's like, you guys paid me to get people to come back to your service. So when you're asking me to come back to your service, I actually talk to your boss in marketing. Should send me. And he's like, I don't understand. I'm like, just, just hang up the phone, buddy. Okay. I'm the ad. Don't add me.

Sure, sure, sure. So, very strange situation. Mm-hmm. I also started a new, I hope you didn't see this. I started a new series on my show this week. It's called premature epitulation. I did scroll by a logo. People hate the title.

I'm very happy with that. Okay. That was on purpose. Okay. So I say, as I recall, I just named a series down the woolly hole. Yes. So upsetting your viewers-based titling is clearly high in stonks. It worked super well, too, because all, the whole stream, people kept coming in going,

ugh. And they had the little green, they had the green highlight that's like first time chatter. There you go. That's it. What is this? There you go. That's it. I'm glad you're here.

Yep. Yep. It works. Gotcha. So premature appatulation is for games that are either demos or in early access because they're not finished. Right. I'm going to play them even though they're not finished. And you might go, no wait, Pat, it's not finished.

I'm like, it's time. You can't hold yourself back. Mm-hmm. Okay. Which coincidentally lined up with Steam Next Fest. So there were some demos for a bunch of upcoming stuff that I played yesterday.

Well, as long as the repactory period is long enough. Repattery period. As long as the repattery period is long enough, then it'll be. be fine. Yeah. There shouldn't be any issues. Yeah. Well, if it's early access games, it can be anywhere from two weeks to forever. True. Okay. Well, yeah. All right. Um, uh, so I played vampire crawlers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Hey, did you ever play Slay the Spire? Yeah. Did you wish the Slay the Spire was about like 50 times faster?

Yeah. you should play fucking vampire crawlers because all yeah and I also wish it like looked like had more visuals going on so yeah yeah yeah um sick uh it it joins vampire survivors as game most likely to give your child brain damage

if they see you playing it um I beat the demo and uh in the course of the demo I went from having two mana and two cards per poll to having four manna and like six cards per poll, including cards that drew more cards.

So all your moves are to be played, and you just look at it, go, but, blah, bu, blah, here's a turn. Deal, blah, blah, blah, deal, but, blah, blah, deal, but, but, like, that's how fast it is. And from what I can gather at a glance, the sprites are the exact same.

They're the exact same. Just you're looking at them way close. closer. The very beginning of the game in the title screen is Antonio in like the Green Hills area. And then the camera like scrolls down and then zooms to the ground and then tilts up. And that's it. Oh my God. It's the same sprites. It's the same characters. The characters have fucking voice acting. Wow. Which is so weird. Wow. Okay. So automatically that means Janie's on it. it. Yeah.

It's got it's got polygons here and there. Ooh. Because, you know, yeah, it's great.

It's great. There's, of note, and it's not super useful at the very beginning, but there's a, if you hit square

or X on your Xbox controller, it plays all your cards from right to left. And that, is for when you have some kind of synergy

or some kind of. And you're like, I don't even care. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is very vampire survivors. You've set up the, the, the Rube Goldbergh, whatever, the Rube Goldberg. And just your order is set, play. Or it doesn't even matter if you get your,

combo. You're just like, no, I'm just going to win. Really great. Super cool. I played Zero Parades, the new Zahum game. Yes. Very interesting streaming that game. To an audience that is uncharacteristically aware of the reality of the company. There's an energy that.

they will never be able to defeat no matter what the game is or how good it is, which is the situation and the vibes being permanently rancid as a result. Yeah. But I wanted to know. I'm curious. I'm very curious. Yeah. I might check that out. I wanted to know.

It is a demo. It has much more voice acting than Disco Elysium had when you, when that game originally came out. Mm-hmm. It is overwhelmingly the feeling of trying to bake a cake with most of the recipe and the head baker gone. But it desperately, desperately wants to be disco elysium 2. And every little piece, it just does. It doesn't fit quite right. But the cake that the head chef that is now gone made is still on the table and you can look at it and dissect it.

And you're, no, no, but they are able to look at what that, what was made before. Right. Right. Okay. It's just. Okay. Interesting. Not there.

And this isn't being colored by awareness. No, I, I, I. can remove that. Okay. So like one of the things that really stands out is that when you go and make your character, you have three choices of agents and they're the same three choices that they were in disco, which is intelligent, physical, or emotional. And then you go into your faculties and there's 15 skills. And those skills are coordination, doppelgang, instinct, sensor, shadow play, blueprint,

cold, read, nerve, etc., etc., and you snap your points, and then you go into your dialogue, and then different parts of your thought bubbles will talk to you based on what scores you roll and behind the scenes things, and then you roll two dice in order to do a skill check. Like it is overwhelmingly, like,

this is Disco Elysium 2 in all but name. And it's interesting to hear that because, like, I remember the breakdown for that video that leaked of the Kingdom of Locust's proposition. And that did sound interesting in a way that was not just echoing the same thing, right? It was like legitimately, the little Kuno story was something that sounded like, okay, this is actually taking place within the world, you know, with the characters, you know. But there was enough there that seemed like it was doing its own interesting thing. But yeah, here the pressure is high to not only not fuck it up, but to capture lightning in a bottle a second time. Right.

And so the very first thing the talks is a gentleman named pseudopod narrates to you in a fairly suspicious way compared to the ancient reptilian brain in which you don't know who your character is. and you work through that through a series of dialogue choices. And then you load into what is pretty much the same room in the whirling in rags. And you start examining a pair of pants in the bathroom and go through all these dialogues. And your health is fatigue, anxiety, and delirium. And as they get high enough, you can't do certain checks.

And it's just, it's just not. Interesting. Interesting. Interesting. There. It feels like I asked for a Coke and I got a Pepsi. That, okay. It, you're not without, because that could, that could have been a much harsher analog. No, let me try it again. I asked for a Coke. R.C. Cola. Is New Coke okay? And I went.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So what's interesting, what's interesting is that the passage of time means that there are always going to be people who will only have heard about Disco Elysium as we talk about it after the fact, because we're now years from it. And there will be folks that are going to play this as the first time they're playing a game like this. And their experience with it will be phenomenal. This will be incredible. It'll be mind-blowing because it'll be the first to go at this type of game. yeah uh the the script is also um this is going to sound really weird to say it's too verbose it's it's trying to be too metaphorical and too like the the same conversation it takes twice

as long in zero parades okay um also i'm going to send you a screenshot from my stream to really hammer home the first room that you'll load into is like the same. Like it's really, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, that's the same room. Holy fuck, you're not even trying to pretend. Oh my God. Okay.

It insists upon itself. Wow. I, yeah. Okay, my expectation, is that this and games like, you know, what was the other one? Was it last night or last, the one with the, I think it's like the sex worker and like the leg under the sheets. Well, in any case, my expectation is that like you would get a game that was like, you know, functionally similar and ultimately fine. but it would have,

it would lack the, I guess, the depth and like messaging and the, you know, what the boldness of what the fuck disco was getting at,

right? That would be completely gone, but it would just be a video game that is a functional RPG that has cool characters and, you know, a story that you move through the motions and go through.

That would be completely fine and you'd actually probably be like happy with coming out of nowhere, coming out of left field, but it would not have the depths that Disco gets to. So like Disco has this overwhelming feeling of, I'm going to tell you my manifesto, and I put into a video game and now no one can stop me.

Yep. Triple X night shift was what I was trying to remember. Yes. And Zero Parades feels like, I would like to tell you that I want to make Disco Elysium 2, which is a very different. place. And I am the license holder. I own the IP. Okay. Interesting. So very interesting. Very interesting. I'm going to hold off. Also, I

played it for like 40 minutes and didn't get out of the first room. Like, that's what I mean by like, there might be too much dialogue. Also, this is a, this is a really bad sign. I don't like the main character's voice. Oh, that's not good. That narrates every single line of dialogue. That's not good. Too British, too raspy, just doesn't have the right. I mean, comparing it to the disco narrator is not.

Yeah, no. But, yeah. What else do we got? We play, I play Densha attack. Okay. The train jet set radio. One last question, just about the disco game. Was that the project that had,

Lenvar Brown, the narrator, attached? Or was he on a different one? I don't know. Did you hear the disco narrator at all at any point? No, no, no. It was a different thing. All right. All right. Train attack. Densha attack. This is train jet set radio. What if you were playing jet set radio, but you were a train?

You are a person on a train or you are a train? You're playing a train. Sick. You do flips in the air and change tracks and then skid around the corner. Fuck yeah. Multi-track drifting. Yeah, absolutely multi-track drifting.

Cool aesthetic, cool visuals, minimal story, really cool. I'm sure you would like it. I had the same exact issue with it that I had with JetSet Radio and Jet Set Radio Future and Bomb Rush Cyberpon.

or cyber funk or punk? Cyber funk. Cyber funk. Which is, don't like how it controls at all. It controls like those games. Okay. Put on a track.

Oh yeah. I'm seeing this. This is, yep, absolutely. Did you like how, no, you didn't like how Sonic

skated on rails either, did you? No, I don't. That is kind of a line in the sand for me. Like for me, like every time someone's like man I love modern Sonic I'm like I also like to to play with like my toddler's loop to loops and see oh wow it's going around crazy I jumped on a pad and Sonic went fast in a circle you fucking morons um someone didn't like RC racing and yak is a zero I did not um uh I also played the

pocket circuit for life, bitch. I played the Eternal Life of Goldman. Which is in the running to D-thrown Cuphead as game most obsessed with 2D animation.

The Eternal Life of Goldman is the best looking 2D game I have ever played full stop. It is absolutely gorgeous. Every single individual element has more work put into it. It is like the 2D side scrolling equivalent of like a persona interface. Yeah, okay.

But for literally every single detail, every menu, every character interaction, every background element. How many years? How many years? Frame by frame. But a while. Okay. It's ridiculously gorgeous. It is not what I thought it was going to be at all in terms of narrative or gameplay.

So straight off the bat, the core jumping around gameplay is, hey, bro, do you remember that Ducktails game? This is Ducktails as fuck. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to do you want a modern ducktail where you play like an 80-year-old, invincible Jewish guy named Goldman? Here you go. defeat the deity. I don't know what the story's about,

but it's ridiculously gorgeous, and I want to play as this old man running through this incredible environment. As for the actual narrative, this is using the princess bride as as, okay.

As it's like narrative focus. So there's Goldman's Goldman's story, which is him going through the island and going on adventures. But underneath Goldman's story is that

you are following, the story of Goldman is a mother telling their child about the eternal life of Goldman, right? So it's being narrated like the princess bride.

And the kid is extraordinarily ill and they're in the hospital with what don't know probably cancer it's probably cancer um and uh that's that's your like narrative setup right when that will include things like Goldman jumping off a cliff and just fucking dying and just like hitting the ground and splatting with like a sickening thud which will you'll get a little bit of a prince of persia like

no hey that didn't happen you told me Goldman was a and then like gold no that's not how it happens his body but there was like a little turn in the narrative

that right when I stopped then I'm like okay there's definitely more going on here than I thought there was so you find a sorry

Goldman finds a documentation about sterilization to which the kid cuts in and says, hey, what's that word mean? I heard that the nurses in the hallway laughing about it. And they get into a very awkward conversation about whether or not some people do or do not want kids, uh, at which the kid goes, well, why wouldn't anyone want kids? What? Because they'd ruin their life. And then mom snaps and says, you promised me you wouldn't bring that up. Didn't you promise me? We're not going to talk about that. And it gets really tense.

and it gets really weird and then they drop it. Interesting. Like, I've never heard like a parent in a game snap at a child and refer to like an earlier fight. Interesting.

It's very, very, very, very interesting. So there's a lot going on with that game. Okay. And that's all you see. in the taste. Okay. Super cool. Narrative.

You, like, I mean, the art on its own is like, yeah, that's fucking, the attention is pulling me in for the artistry of it, but, uh, that's a, that's a fucking breadcrumb right there. Yeah. Huh. I also played a game called Holston out of Poland. Well, I assume it's out of Poland because it takes place in Poland and everyone in the game speaks Polish.

I don't actually know where the developer is, but I think Poland's a pretty good shot on that. Turns out Brazil. Yeah, it's possible. It's called Holson, H-O-L-S-T-I-N. It is an isometric survival horror with an old-timey pixel art aesthetic. Kind of think of like a Polish...

I can't remember the name of it. You played it. The doll game, hair, amusement park. Oh, um, um, Crow country, Co-Crunchy.

Like a Polish crow country. Uh, or like Signalis. Yep. Um, big old bio goo infested a town causing biogu problems. Um,

its main hook is that it's like isometric like a signalis. Uh, but when you aim the camera, the, sorry, when you aim your gun, the camera zooms in.

to behind your main character's shoulder like he's in R.E.4. And it becomes a third person action game. I like that. Okay. Okay. Only for those moments. And then you fight enemies like you're playing R.E.4. Nice.

Super cool. Like really, really cool gimmick. I can never remember Crow Country's name. That's so strange. My brain always goes Crow County for some reason. I played a game called Wild Blue Skies, which is Star Fox again, but not Star Fox.

Until... And doesn't feel as good to play as Star Fox. Damn. Because until Star Fox returns, there's room for Star Fox. Yeah. I've played many games that are like, hey, remember Star Fox? And I go, I remember Star Fox playing better than this, actually. Okay.

And then the last one that I played on Prematement. sure epatulation is called Hark the ghoul which is another one of those fake ass PlayStation 1 Kingsfield games um

where is a first person wander about with your melee in your souls like environment that is very depressing and sad and pick up items and wander around and find a useless shield kind of thing

Um, did Eldon? I'm like, did Eldon Ring scratch the souls like itch so hard that we're now... Yeah, we're returning to Kingsfield, right? Like, that's what it is. Um, when you start the game, there is a visual customization, uh, toggle that they want you to go for, which, uh, dramatically changed the look of the game. You can make it look like a PlayStation one game with texture wobble and more pixelation. You can make it look like an N64 game with overly smoothed textures and slightly more visual clarity.

Or you can make it look like the emulated version of that PlayStation 1 game on your PC monitor in 1997 with just the CRT filter. Hell yeah. All three of them are pitch perfect. I played it in all three modes. and man, it really looks like a PlayStation 1 game or an N64 game or a PC game from 97. This trailer just ended on a character called Scat Sage. Oh, I didn't meet Scat Sage on the demo. What was the...

It's really good. Okay, okay. Scat Sage aside. What was the Star Fox like? Wild Blue Skies. Okay. it's really good it's also really strange

it does do some things very differently when you sit down on your bonfire equivalent which is a tree and save and heal enemies don't come back to life oh like they stay dead

okay and the leveling in this game is not more damage more health more whatever it is run faster

jump higher swing faster. More attacks, not stronger attacks. I got the run upgrade. Sorry, I got the first run upgrade and it made the difference between because in the first person comment you're like shimmying back and forward. It made the difference between getting hit by 50 or 60% of an enemy's attacks to getting hit by zero.

And getting the jump upgrade, let me jump so much higher that I was able to get onto the rooftops in the hub and find parts of the level that were inaccessible to me. Okay. So your footsies get better. It feels like upgrading your physical stats and DeusX1, if that works for you. It doesn't. But okay, okay.

Yeah, your improvements are literally your physical, it's not your number going up. It's like you're physically able to do more. Playing as your character feels better. Yeah, cool. Okay. Super cool. Demo was really long. And it is also in a more blood-borne aesthetic. So you get a gun. You get a whip.

Like, I got a whip, and it'll work like a Castlevania whip. You can pull items to yourself. It's fucking awesome. And that's it for me this week. Sorry, last week. This coming week, I'm not doing shit all tomorrow on Wednesday. Wednesdays are busy. um however thursday the 26th i will play a couple more of those next fest demos but more importantly than that

resident evil nine comes out on thursday at nine p.m pacific oh that's suit so i'm gonna fucking do that shit um and then on saturday i'm sorry friday this is resident evil nine and then on saturday and then on Saturday, it's Resident Evil 9. And then on Monday, it's Resident Evil 9. And next Tuesday, we'll do the podcast. And if I haven't beaten Resident Evil 9 by then, it's

more Resident Evil 9 after the podcast. And so on and so forth. It's kind of like a thing for me to play these Resident Evil games. Yes. It's a religious event. Well, as one of the guys who's been covering this for like the longest,

and like actually like people were asking me all sorts of questions about Resident Evil storyline and I was like it's stupid it's dumb and bad actually there's a great threat I saw

on the subreddit which like what Resident Evil games should I play to get ready for Resident Evil 9 and my response was don't worry about it like there will be nothing in this game

that will confuse you for even one second if you haven't played any of them. You have the full wiki in your head and you hate that shit and it's dumb as hell, but nonetheless, it is in there. It's in there and like every time I think about it, I'm like, oh, I'm wasted so much time learning any of these details. They're so pointless and they matter so little. And they fucking, they retcon that shit like it's like for funzies.

don't give a fuck. I'm like sometimes there's some fun details like R.E4 remake. Sorry, no, R.E3 remake, you can find a photo of the umbrella team that developed the nemesis, right? And it's like a bunch of morons and lab coats going, yeah, we made the nemesis in the Europe lab. And if you look carefully, you can see one Luis Sarah in that photo. which then makes you understand more as to what Lewis is talking about when he's like,

yeah, I've done a bunch of stupid shit when you meet him in R.A.4. Because he built nemesis, which then changes his character. Because when he dies, you're like, okay, well, you invented the nemesis. You can get yours. You fucking asshole. And as a proof positive of me wasting my time, I said Lewis, Sarah, and your face didn't move at all. Correct. Because you forget who that is.

And that's fine. That's who fucking cares. Sure. In fact, my brain went to the next question, which was, do you think the remakes stop at a point? And if so, where would that be? Or do you just stagger them long enough that they can continue to exist? Okay. So they're not going to go back to

RE1. That moment is past. They did RE2, they did RE3, they did RE4. The next one would be Code Veronica, actually. Ah. And Dusk Golem says that Code Veronica is the next one to come back.

I imagine up to six is the place to do it. I don't think six is remakeable. It's too big. I also think they would run into a slight issue with is remaking Resident Evil 5 for the year

2027, 28, 29. And every time this comes up, I just start to workshop. Like, there are so, like, because we had the discussion last week about, like, what they're, they're going to, they're going to make Cratos into like a pussy that loves women in the God of War remake. And it's going to, and it's going to actually

screw up the storyline of God of War. 18, right? But remaking 5. Five is like legit the most racist video game I've ever played my life. Unless you count like Custer's Revenge, right? Five is crazy. Five is absolutely out of control. It's also like really good.

And I was like, I was like workshopping it. And I'm like, I think the, they can either put like a big old like this game was made in the, but that doesn't work because it was crazy back then. It was crazy back in 2009. Magini's in 4K, Pat. It's the only way. Mijini's in 4K.

You can't hide from it. You can't run from it. I think there's a way around it. And I think all they need to do, all they need to do is change like two lines in one note. So one of the things that's crazy is when you find the hut people and they've degenerated into subhumanated. human monsters throwing spears at you, you're like, okay, right?

Like, oh, wow. Literally through the spares, yep. And then you find the note, and the note says. I remember this note. That they were a peaceful village, and they were like, poor, but relatively modern. But then when they got sick, they started to grab their ancestral weaponry. implements and it dissolve them into a feral state.

There you go. That's the one where you're like, oh, they did think about this and then they chose like the wrong. And you know what? Yeah, that little text you add, that context, that totally flies. And everybody, it made it worse. It made it worse. Everybody takes the moment to stop and learn contexts.

So here's what you do. Here's what you do, right? you write that these were actually so what the people who worked for Tricel did when they arrived is they displaced the native residents and took their land and lived in their area because they had to work at the local Tricel facility and some of those employees got tested on

without their knowledge and those white European tricell employees upon being infected with the Magini parasite sought out nearby mud and clay and primitive weapons and the Magini virus made them blackface themselves

I see. And now when you go to the marsh, what you're actually doing is shooting hordes of white people in blackface. Zombies that are black-faced up. Yes. Right, right, right, right. Correct.

Yes. Are they zombies? They are Magini. Well. So quote, they are not zombies. They are parasitized. Well, And some of them might not even be parasitized, you know, but, okay, I see what you're saying.

I see what you're putting down there. I understand. In all honesty, I legitimately don't know what they could possibly do with RE5. It's, in all honesty, I remember, it's only more racist. I remember a time where there was a moment where we were looking at Capcom's output, and there was a real chance that this company was committing to the world. tour of what culture and race do we go to to make the scary monsters next? There was a moment where you go four, five, are we seriously just picking a new country and

culture to go fucking do this to every time? Um, you, you, you, you, you, you forget, because you're not super, super into it, right? Because the world tour continued for many years. Well, so they've hit it. They've hit every continent up at this point almost, right? Six was Eastern Europe and China. China's in six. I didn't know that.

Okay, let me, let me go check. When did I, in 2020, when I was doing, oh, wow. When did Resident Evil 8 come out? I didn't know that. Interesting. Resident Evil, like came out in 2021. So in 2020 or 2021. It's, bro, it's not called the,

sea virus. It's the sea virus. It's not called the C virus, dude. Let me tell you in 2020 and 2021, when I was doing the Resident Evil marathon on my channel, I got to Resident Evil 6 in which China is ravaged by the sea virus. And I'm just like

hands on my fucking top of my forehead just like, oh, like the whole time. Like the whole time. Because it's it's non-stop. Like you see, you see, you see, the like canisters of the virus like explode through like fake Beijing and turn everybody

into sea virus monsters. Oh boy. And there's a lot of dialogue about how we have to stop the sea virus from hitting China. Okay. Does someone on the creative team decide to make monsters and zombies that are

culturally themed? Yes. Okay. There are I forget. But there are some parasitized goons that are supposed to be formerly working for the triad. And they have like the face changing masks that Chinese magicians use. Okay. And they're goons.

Okay. And they turn into books. They turn into locusts, which is more appropriate for that era. So you did China? in RE6. Then R. A. She was the name

I was trying to remember if they, yeah, if they used that at some point. R.A.7 goes to the far off nightmare country

of Louisiana. Yes. Of course. Where mold is. So you know if mold is the big enemy in R.E.7? Is it?

Okay. Yeah. It's no longer viruses. It's mold. It's mold. Okay. And one of the reasons they put it in Louisiana

is that mold is a regional problem to Louisiana because of the moisture. I remember seven was like, now we go down south. And then we go to Eastern Europe for Resident Evil 8 Village in which you fight.

Well, what would you fight in Eastern Europe? Oh, that's right. Vampires, werewolves, fish people. Okay. Innsmouth. All right. And now Resident Evil 9

is back to America. specifically back to Raccoon City. Okay. But there's more places we could be going. There are more places. Australia. Australia. South America.

South America's been done. South America did happen. Oh, okay. Yeah. Didn't really, it was not a big deal. They didn't really go crazy on anything, South American.

Okay. You can hit up, you know, native areas. You can go, I mean. So, uh, Western Europe has been untouched. India hasn't happened. South America has been mostly ignored. Caribbean.

Yeah. Antarctica has been done. Antarctica, really? Okay. All right. Yeah. Okay. But, um, yeah. World tour.

We need Russia. Russia has happened. There is a Brazilian game that takes place in Russia. Um. But yeah, no, the whirlwind tour continues. Okay, okay. Because you have to build up to a village people boss fight of just all of them at once coming at you. Like a door has to open. Oh, I forgot that Spain is in Western Europe.

A door has to open like the street fighter cartoon and just the whole world comes at you. And Leon has to... If you can believe it. Okay. After RE5, the ethnic considerations of various regions was handled slightly more intelligently. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, right? Because you got to make different kinds of zombies. You have to, like, you can't keep, you can't just do like zombies on me.

You got to keep it. and interesting by adding different flavors to it. Yeah, so like the R.E9 zombies are kind of like

rage virus kind of thing going on along with your big monster. There's many going to be there's going to be a couple big monsters

in that game. Okay. Because yeah, you got to add different flavors to it, but it, you know,

it seems like for a while those flavors were particular types of spice and, you know, you can find

better ways to go about that. So that's interesting. So like, we're going to go back to Resident Evil records.

City, which if I had to guess, and I put it in the emo mode because there's actually spoilers everywhere, that means that there will be some very, very old monsters from 20 years ago that will make a reappearance in this game. Oh, yeah, yeah, true, true. Why else would you go all the way back to the fucking police station and Raccoon City? But also monsters plus time means who knows what happened. Yeah, probably a bunch of goo. there's one particular big pile of goo that I actually expect to have managed to exist in some kind of goo form for like 20 plus years.

Well, whatever you're talking about, Capcom has felt it urgent enough to put out a thing saying, hey, please don't fucking spoil people. So, yeah, it's, I guess it's significant and or, um, where you're getting your Shadow Moses chapter of them Gs 4. They also did you know this all the spoiler stuff so first of all I as the guy who knows a lot about Resident Evil and you could fucking tell me

anything and be like yeah sure whatever like the propensity to the propensity to like say something and it be a lie or true or for me to go yeah that figures unsurprising. On the plus side of the streaming embargo has been moved up. So that's

very helpful, actually. Okay. If I had to guess, I would have mentioned that, like, monsters are not really a spoiler as much as, like... Oh, someone's going to die in this game. Well, I was going to say, like, a returning character

or obscure pull from this massive timeline showing up would be... So, I mean, I could shoot my shot, but, like, there's going to be a long-standing character that fucking dies in this game, for sure. And people are going to lose their mind, which means that if you don't want it,

spoiled by it, go off the internet and play the game as fast as possible. And it will be all the middle-aged woman off camera. You know, Wully. I would like to tell you something. Now,

now I have pulled, I'm going to pull something out and you're going to get, okay, we're going to, we're going to, fuck the rest of the news. We're going to deep dive on this, okay? Because you got to, you got to know about this. So one of the things that has been very strange about the Resident Evil franchise is that girls don't tend to come back per game outside of rare scenarios, right? Tend to have a new girl, but the guys will come back a little bit more often. Chris has more games than Cheva.

Leon has more games than Claire. Right? Ada. Ada is a staple, though, right? Ada is a staple. And Ada has really kept that shit online. lock, right? Mm-hmm.

So over the years, they've had to get super creative with what the fuck is going on here, right? So here's the following. Well, Jill was infected by the T virus, then cured in Resident Evil 3, then later experimented on by Wesker for multiple years with urboros and various other things.

She's blonde, yes. She's blonde, which means that Jill will no longer age. At the same rate. Yes, right. She's been preserved in time. Claire, uh, was the main character in, uh, with Leon in Resident Evil 2, which takes place in 1998. Um, and thus she would be, you know, 20 years older now.

Uh, she was the main character of Resident Evil Revelations 2 along with Barry's daughter. Barry's daughter is 10-ish years old in R.E.1. So, hey, how come R.E. Revelations 2 takes place and Claire looks so young and Moira's only like 18. Oh, because it doesn't

take place in modern day. Unlike almost every Resident Evil game that takes place in modern day, Resident Evil Revelations 2 came out and it actually took place a couple years ago so you could be like, well, Claire's still in her 20s. Okay. Same thing with Code Veronica X. for Resident Evil 4. Ada's still there. She's hot.

For Resident Evil 5, Sheva will never ever come back and Jill's a mutant. For Resident Evil 6. Hey, look, Ada's back again. And she looks better than ever. And there's two Edas because one of those Edas is actually an experimented on woman that was dating the villain. and he was so obsessed with how bad he wanted to fuck Ada Wong that he invented the C virus to turn his girlfriend into Ada Wong. Oh my God.

It was... And red Ada. The one that blew up in China was made to turn people into Ada Wong. Yes. Okay. That's right. Okay. And you take care of her.

Yep. And then you have R. Preserved. Which place you play Chris in first person and his head looks weird. And then you play eight, which you're playing as Ethan. But Chris is also there again. And he looks the same as he did. And Sherry was in six, but she's 20 something because it was that many years after Raccoon City.

Right. But you see, Sherry also ages slightly more slowly because of the G virus. The virus. There's a virus that you didn't know about. There's always... Yeah. Okay, okay, it's the embryo, but still. Okay, there's virus.

And that's why she has the healing powers. You got to slow down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. Now, even though Jake Mueller has... Jake, yep, has powers from Wesker being his dad. Weskerson. Weskerson.

He still ages at a normal rate and scars because he's a man. Yeah, dudes, absolutely. Tiger uppercut. So, this is all the setup. So, Reson. A portal opens up and young Claire walks out. Really? Okay.

A fucking wormhole. Willie. Okay. So, Sherry Birkin was about 12 or 13 in Resident Evil 2, which is 20 years ago. Perfect. Sherry Birkin, therefore, should be in her early 30s. She is portrayed in the new RE9 trailer from the back, so you can't see her face, you can't tell how old she is.

But she appears to be younger than her 30s. Sure. Leon also you saw looks killer Kill it Leon looks awesome Yep And so one of the details in the R-A-9 trailer That if you are a freak like me

Or Dusk Golem or Susie or whoever Would frame by frame the trailer And then read emails off people's computers In the background You Because you've completely wasted parts of your life Finding out about Resident Evil You find out that the reason why Leon is covered

in a black rash and the reason why he wears gloves in RE9 is because he is suffering from something called Raccoon City Syndrome. Raccoon City Syndrome Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Raccoon City Syndrome. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

It's a disease that affects survivors of the raccoon's incident, such as Leon and... Ada Wong, Claire Redfield, Sherry Burkin, Albert Wesker, as well as at least Alyssa Ashcroft from Outbreak, right? Who is Grace's mom, the new character, right?

So, Raccoon City Syndrome, you can actually look at the symptom list. Yep. Basically covers your body with a black rash. You get sick and then you just pop, right? Raccoon City syndrome is caused by long-term side effects of incidental exposure to aerosolized T virus. Let's go. Which means the reason why your characters in Resident Evil managed to get all the way through it without turning into a zombie is they are somewhat naturally immune to the virus in the first place.

Because there is so much virus going around that they are literally breathing it in instead of just getting bites. Right. Kind of make some of those characters less heroic. Mm-hmm. Because your circumstance. Like they were able to shrug off a bite or a cut or whatever, but regardless. They are going to use Raccoon City Syndrome to explain why Alyssa Ashford looks like she's 30, even though she's like 55 fucking years old. Why Claire has never aged.

Why Leon has barely aged. why Ada has barely aged. Well, because you see, the T and T virus stands for tight. It stands for tyrant. You got to keep it tight. It stands for tyrant. It's the tight virus.

Oh my God. The fucking backflips we will do to get away from a middle-aged woman. We are terrified. We have one fear. One fear in life. And it is a woman that is 31 years old. I.

My night. nightmares are haunted, says Capcom by a 31-year-old. Every time I can't. Because they let it slip once. They let it slip once. They were asked. So everyone saw that Ada was, like, first of all, she looked great in R.A6, and she had a much bigger ass and bigger boobs.

And she, like, it was ridiculous. The real, the real one or the C virus. Okay. The C virus one actually, I believe, had like a smaller ass and a small. That's funny. That's pretty funny. Okay. So the director was asked

Because everyone was joking in like Resident Evil freaks Everyone was joking was like well just Chinese women just age better Like like that's it like like the Chinese equivalent of black don't crack right? Yep yep yep um it that goes for a while and then there's a sudden If Sheva comes back I expect her to look exactly the same Yeah around like 70 it goes what you go into granny mode turn into the goblin you go into the goblin You go into Granny mode, but like up until that point, you're pristine. Right.

So that's what that was people joking around. And then the interview with the director for Resident Evil Six came out in which the interviewer asked, Hey, what's going on with Ada Wong? She looks great, especially compared to Leon who looks pretty old in that game. Leon and R.E.9 looks younger than he does in six, which is really funny because it's like 10 years later. And the response from, why does Ada look so young in R.E.6? was we originally considered making her look her age, but instead we decided to make her beautiful.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. So just, yep. So these are the kinds of joys you can get if you just waste tons of your time. I mean, that that's all. I mean, when you're honest, when you're honest, when you say it, you say it, and especially when you don't think about what you're not saying, you know, those are the moments. So I'll go one step further. Resident Evil is a bizarrely, aromantic, sexless game franchise.

Hold on a minute, hold on a minute. But I was made to learn that Wesker had the hots for, what's her face? Rebecca? Yeah. Yeah, because she was 18. and he purved on her at her high school fucking volleyball. That's our basketball events. Okay.

Okay. That's how that happened. And in Resident Evil Zero, you can unlock a mode in which you play as Wesker, who wasn't there, and dark Rebecca in which she wears a short skirt and a mind control collar. Wow. Okay. Now, sidebar, do any of those CGs,

movies show you older women? No. Not even in the movies. Okay. Okay. This can't be the only. Yeah, here here's the fucking, here you go. Here's Wesker's fucking goon fantasy.

Yeah, okay. Okay. Yeah. And she's crouched over doing the Jill thing. That is a fetish outfit. Gotcha. Okay. So yeah, Wesker's a crepe. Okay. But this is a sexless universe. Yeah. So it is a bizarrely sexless universe,

and which no one ever gets together. Ever. Everything's always left in, maybe later, right? Yeah. Et cetera, right? No way, friend. And the reason for that being,

after you go through all of this, is that it's working on idle universe rules. Characters and girls in Resident Evil have to stay young forever and they have to stay single forever. Yes, yes. Availability. Availability. True. Even though they're not real. Okay. Okay. Okay. Unless they're evil though. Unless they're evil. So in the CG movies. Evil woman get pregnant. In, in the CG movies. Wait, who are you referring to? I don't know. I'm just, I'm asking. Is that a thing? Okay. There's one girl who gets pregnant in Resident Evil. Yeah. And she's very bad.

Yeah, okay, there you go. She's a bad person. I was just, I was feeling, I was feeling my way through this, this dark cave, you know. That's, that's a, that's a whole, that's a mess. Let me tell you, that one, that one's a mess. There's a lot of, that's, of course. It's a mold baby situation. Of course, yeah, but I'm like, it's Resident Evil, there's monsters, just human, so somebody

somewhere is going to be fucking around with someone pregnant to make a baby that's all fucking orphan of costs. No, it's actually just a totally normal pregnancy, except for the mold. It's, it's, it's complicated. Okay. Anyway. The only woman who ever looked her age in the entire Residential's story ever was Annette Berkin, Sherry's mom, and she dies. What about, well, Lady D?

She does not look her age. Oh, she's like, she's billions. Okay, okay, okay, never mind. So she's middle-aged. When you turn like 800, you finally look 45. Yeah, okay. All right. So, yeah, no, it works on like, it works on like idol rules.

Like the girls got to stay young. Oh, right. In less you get graduated. In one of the CG movies, which are not nearly as gripped by Nintendo, by Capcom's departments, there is a single phrase from Leon in which he talks about, he's talking to Ada and he makes reference. to that night we spent in, I want to say, Istanbul. And that's it. That's all you get.

Interesting. The whole series. Okay. Okay. So if anything canon ever occurs, someone will have to come out, shave their head, and offer a tearful apology. And people will have to graduate out of the story. Something like that.

Yeah. Okay. So yeah, Resident Evil Canon is the worst. It's the worst. It's the least consistent, shittiest. And all I did was ask where the remakes were going up to. And now we're locked in... We're locked into...

And CDX features the... You know, they're kind of fucked on this. I gotta tell you. I gotta tell you. Because... Well, because I just, as a parallel with Capcom Beauty standards, I appreciate the joke that is Chun Lee's makeup is getting... more defined.

Yeah. And that's it. That's it. So because like R.E5 is like attack of the of the black people and that's that's bad. I specifically, I remember showing you that trailer because you hadn't seen it and I was like, you got to see this. And more importantly, I got to see you see this. And the phrase that came out of your mouth was scary black people.

Oh no. They're the worst. Because it was that shot of like the skinny guy like, like, leers. That was exactly how it was framed. And then later, when I discovered that that trailer was making the rounds in church and parental emails. Dude, that first trailer looks like Black Hawk Down. Exactly. And they're going, look at what the video games are doing.

Look at what they're trying to do. Look at what's happening. They're training the kids. And this is what it is. Do you remember me going to bat for that game and being like, no, it's like Spain. how they made fun of Spain. And then I played it. And then that fucking marsh level happened.

And then I went on Twitter and it was like, fuck you, Capcom. You've made me look like the stupidest fuck. What I think I remember is the day that like the trailer came out again from a newer event. And that mob scene was the same except at the front of the mob was a light skin dude. It was Saddam Hussein and Eminem. there was a white guy and a light skin dude at the front of the pack and then there was the rest and it's like okay all right there we've done it we took the slider we got one to four randomly generated across the crowd and go so yeah they're kind of fuck so we're you know they don't know what to do with r e5 because that's crazy but code veronica x doesn't save you either because code veronica x's villains are two uh blonde blue-eyed uh

white British shitheads that are a brother-sister twin duo that are incestuous and cross-dressing. So it wasn't handled with a lot of class back then.

Okay. I can't imagine the level of class it would be handled with now. I mean, that sounds like big evil, big rich evil. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I get it. that fucking laugh literally

fucking god damn Alfred you're the fucking worst okay anyway yeah Resident Evil is terrible it's my favorite and the scariest

virus to Capcom of all menopause can we squeeze in a news story or two yeah okay so we did cover Xbox and we did cover BluePoint we did cover

oh we didn't touch on it but another shutdown was the fire access ex-employees were working on something so there was a yeah yeah there was a team that was working on what was it called midsummer studios they're working on a project called Burbank

former sieve excom and midnight suns devs yeah, that got shut down before their first project, saw the light of day. So the timeline of crash is now just like, it's just accelerating. We're getting faster and faster as we get closer to Made in Heaven.

And what I will say is I can't believe I'm unabashedly, ridiculously hyped for Ava directed by Yoko Taro That is the sickest fucking thing

I can't believe I never would have seen coming and simply seeing that name alongside Kei-Ocabe on the fucking music and then just that little shot with the instruments with the K on them

and I'm like this is the this is the most perfect pairing I can't believe like I have immediate faith in whatever the fuck he's doing. That sounds incredible. What a good idea. If we're going to franchise forever, a million years, never stop.

Okay. Give it to someone who's got something to say. There's so much about the way that event went down. Written. So genius and so genuinely incredible. So there was the 30th anniversary of Evangelian event. And at the 30th anniversary of, wow, we're just going all in on my hyperfixations today.

Things happen. The 30th anniversary of Angelian event. They showed off, you know, art and music, blah, blah, blah. But they also showed off a little animated piece featuring Oscar. Yeah, yeah, okay. Let's hear it. Let me smell the room. Let me smell the room.

What's genius about them putting this out. Yeah, uh-huh. Yeah. Let me. Is that all that got out to most countries was the screenshots. of this. Nuclear. Nuclear screenshot. It was.

So there's a 4chan post about Ray Best Girl, Oscar Best Girl, No, and a guy with Gendo's Avatar goes, you fucks have been arguing about this for 20 years. That post is now 10 years old. Of course. So it's now 30 years.

And I see people in the chat going, Oscar fucking one. And that's because they don't pay attention. So, Immediately the counter argument began. You think you could fool me with this. What happened was is those screens got out. And those screens are Aska and Shinji on a date.

Oscar and Shinji being married. Aska and Shinji holding their new child. Happily ever after. And you're like, whoa my God. But what actually is the video that those are taken from? that is during human instrumentality when oska sees a version of her life of what could have been a happily ever after that's very simple and clean and she rejects as not appropriate for her future correct so seeing that screenshot and going oh my god and then immediately right underneath it. It's like context, you assholes. This is a revision she rejects. And while people were sifting through that, that's when they announced there was a 30th anniversary

Evangelian project featuring Yataro and Okabe. And I'm sorry, I forget the name of the director. But I mean, we are, we are approaching Nauru Saku levels. of denial. Hey, have you heard of the, um, the, the, the,

the, the, the, the, the, the, the, soccer was made

more intolerable in the anime compared to the actual manga pages. Like little things herein there, where instead of asking about the team, she asks only about Saske and shit like that. I did not hear. about that and I read pretty far in and I did I felt they were pretty much the same character. Is that true? Yeah, there are little bits and pieces in the official like anime and the filler that makes her more intolerable because the anime studio is biased against her. I would, I'd be curious to see the scene because there is the moment that is the clearest

you belong to the streets. You know? And I'm wondering if that's treated any differently because that's the ultimate in fucking dust off, hit the old trail, kick rocks. And that's, I can buy into that conspiracy. I can buy into that. Sure.

So yeah, there's going to be an Evanglian thing. And it's being handed to the person who I would be. most interested in seeing tackle Evangelian. I have a suspicion and that suspicion will be that it

will barely or not at all feature even one character from Evangelian. It's so exciting. It's so exciting to think about something Eva that is just fucking

way out there that has nothing, right? It might be, or it might not. I don't know. But what interests me is the simple idea that, like, this creator actually went, I've got something to say. I have an idea for this. And I'm like, you do? Like, you're, of the things that you'd pick up and want to, like, move forward, that's a big step. It's, you know, like, I'm sure he's got ideas and games and all kinds of stuff. But to be like, I have a chapter of Ava that I think is interesting and worth telling and to do that. Like that is in and of itself reason for me to be like, yep, I want to know what you

want to do with this. Like there are three places that I can see Taro thinking it would be fun to place an Evangelion new project, one of which is in episode one of Ava in which Shinji doesn't get injured. He just gets fucking killed by the angel and dies. like a retake situation. The second is following no currently existing named characters in the 13-year gap between 2.22 and 3.0. And the other is in the sea of human instrumentality from 26.

So here's the question. instrumentality is that the coward's way out for every single story because it feels like that's your one-year war for Gundam parlance. Alternatively, what you can do you can make any story told in the instrumentality for any alternate reality. Alternatively, what you can do if you're really balsy is you can have a unnamed character from the background of the train station from 3.0 plus 1.0 and have. have the first scene, have them see Shinji and Mari walk away and then follow this new character through a 26 episode story that doesn't feature an Evangelion at all. Well, we know there's a robot screaming at the end of that trailer. There is a robot screaming at the end of it, right?

That's the last shot of the final episode. I he yoko can also just shoot us many years past any of that right you can just fucking well there's overgrowth on the instruments right there's actually seen it oh okay so there's a shot of a piano and a violin and a cello and they're all overgrowth with with leaves and shit um in a destroyed environment which is it's nearest in that like time has passed over tech and then Then, after, you know, the text goes by, the last thing you see is a fucking Ava going off. So, I mean, I'm fully committed to the idea of just jumping someplace, some time, somewhere. What's the name of this? I'll just watch it to write the fuck now. It's a minute long, right? Yeah, I mean, Neva teaser PV.

Yeah, because, so I don't know if you remember, but I made like a thread based off of like the three 0.1.0 like a poster which was shingi standing on a train uh track okay and i made like a like a 40 50 tweet like rant that basically described the entire plot of the movie from start to end and i was completely right 100% okay because i'm obsessed okay and i'm inside anno's brain uh so yeah let's just sound of water dripping there's a lot of grave here's song of misfortune don't i don't i don't have the translated text on the, I didn't see the translated text for what the statements are in the trailer. So there's some Japanese. Destroyed violin, destroyed piano. Time has passed. Building. Destroyed cello. Destroyed school.

All the instruments from, um, death and rebirth. Circular area, concert hall. Completely original anime series. move the timeline forward in a in a draken guard to nearest way. Fuck it. Sure. Why not? I can see that.

So I'm down. That is a black Ava, which either means it is a new one or it's unit four. And it says completely original, which to me says we are going to have some point of divergence that will be around. first impact. Sorry, second impact. Something about second impact will be different and therefore not focus on Gendo and Ui Ikari. Divergence point versus moving what exists forward is less interesting because

it's just another version of instrumentality in a way of like all what ifs. and I'd be down for less of a what-if and more of a like, here's this is, this happened. I also feel like showing the overgrowth on the instruments that the kids played is kind of showing that time passes from that the concerto, death and rebirth, with all of them playing. So I'm going to. Summer vacation. Paradise, Grave. What you hear is a song of misfortune. And the question, how do you move past the end of Ava, though?

I have no fucking idea, but I'm curious to see if Yoko has an answer to it. Because that's a really interesting question. I'm very excited for this. It sounds like it's talking about second impact, because that's when the climate change hit the planet in that show. Again, I think if you alternate timeline, it's, the same level of like, not cop out, but instrumentality is a cop out. So it's like that where you're like, okay, it's just an alternate story, right? But you could- Well, I mean, the end of Ava leads to multiple loops of identical stories with changes. So you can just be like, this is one of,

this is, this is attempt four of Ed and of Evangelian with Karoo calling out of that fucking box. I mean, again, if you want to move past the train station, you can, right? You can. You can choose that and go, we're locking into this. We're locking into Shikunami timeline. And just go, the camera stays here. Yeah. And just run, run the clock on it. And again, I'm like, I don't figure Yoko Taro picks up the pen on something like this without some profound thought. So I fully expect this to be an alternate history, which will feature Shinji in the first episode, and then he will fucking die. Like, not like not as the guy who gets in the robot. Just like, Shinji, where are you going? I'm going to go this way.

And like a car falls on him and he's like pulverized into fucking goo. And one, because it's Taro and he thinks that's funny. and two, because that will cause the fucking thing to explode across the internet. It would. Also, prepare yourselves for your to be in plug suit, crossover, merchandise, and artwork. I've got to be honest, I'm kind of shocked. I haven't seen a piece of art of that today. It is happening as we speak.

It is literally... I think people are jerking on. too hard to get their hand steady. No, you deny, you are underestimating the power of the artist with one hand. The artist with one hand has an arm free and the reference material is already pulled up. I think it's happening as we speak, sir. This is very exciting. I'm very, very, very, very jazz for...

It's a square owns to be, so it could be 3C. We just saw a trailer. We just saw a trailer. that is like the near timeline recap. Here's all the things that happened. And then also all of these guest cameos. Don't forget those to be continued. So near Vangelian,

I am watching with great interest. I'm studying its career with great interest. And yeah, Okabe is fucking goaded on the music. Done and done. Beyond that, I touched on it a little bit, but effectively, Evo has announced their plan for 2026 through 2020, 2030. The idea is they're going to be expanding into nine tournaments a year in five new countries, and it's going to be all over the place. And people have been wondering, where's Evo going to be taking place next?

And, you know, they announced, of course, there was Vegas, and then they eventually announced Japan, been in the past. And then they kind of said, oh, we're going to France. And people were like, oh, there's some mystery country countries. Is it going to be? Where is it going to be? And they were playing very coy. And then they didn't announce Saudi Arabia back last time when they were doing the new list of locations, right? And everyone went, huh. But in the back of your mind, you're like, okay. But it's coming, though. Let's not mince words. You don't buy your toys to not play with them. And so with yesterday's story, they then announced Evo, nine tournaments, and you're getting Vegas, Japan, Europe, Singapore, Morocco, Brazil, China, Middle East, Mexico. Where's it going to be in the Middle East, well? It says Middle East. Oh, that's crazy.

I mean, there's a flag, but it says Middle East, so who knows? It could be anywhere. And it's kind of just like, it's interesting to watch, because when you see that type of reveal, and I mean, it was France before, but it said you're up on the thing here. It is interesting because, like, you go, oh, so you know how people feel about this. You're well aware. You didn't just buy this a not know. And everyone's been pretty vocally, you know, uncomfortable with Saudi Arabia's purchasing of half of EVO. And you know,

Finding game people have been uncomfortable. I know at least a couple that are like, hell yeah. And so knowing that everyone's got their eye waiting to see, waiting for the inevitable, because there's been events that have been happening around the Evo timeline as well and invitationals and so on. It's like, here is the scattershot announcement. It's international.

It's going all over the place. So why wouldn't it come here? And it's like, right. The distraction method by being everywhere is how you don't focus on the one. And why would you? Because it's worldwide. It's everywhere now, you know? And it's interesting because it's in terms of marketing, right?

Your strategy gets to be like, you announce the thing you've always wanted to. But you make it exciting for people that have wanted access to a big event. So people in Singapore, Morocco and Brazil and, you know, China. are like on Mexico are popping off. They're obviously like, yeah, that's awesome. We get a tournament that we didn't have before. That's super cool. But all of that is like you're willing to spend the money where if you really could get what you wanted,

you would just go Vegas, Japan, Saudi Arabia. But to soften the blow and to continue the washing, you have to put more out there, right? I think there's more going on than just. Of course. Well, there's more than that. Yeah, of course. On a second layer, I would say, this is all me just speculating and thinking about what my impression is of it. But I would say that like the second layer of it is, you know, when Bobby Codick buys the name Guitar Hero, you got to put out a whole lot of guitar hero to make as much money back on what you spent your money on.

Otherwise, it's a bum investment. So you don't buy the thing to keep it the same. You got to do more. You got to spend more. You got to potentially spread it thin to. to blow it up and do what you think is going to expand it. And the effect that likely has is you make, I guess, a lot of less significant smaller events

that probably don't mean as much to the scene in the sense that you can't really center it around a main one. People are not going to be able to certainly travel to multiple. It's like what this does is create a series of less important things, you know. And again, you don't want to, the benefit, and you have this as a side effect as well, while, again, people in these different territories are having access to an event that they never had before. So that's a positive, right? But I also know that if you look at Evo, Japan and either way and like Evo, like, and in Europe and stuff like that with like France,

it's like, it's like, it's not Vegas size of an event. It's a much smaller, more, you know, transmittable transferable ballroom based major so that's probably going to be the way things look going forward every year and the idea of nine events nine evos a year means almost one a month um it's just a weird it's never going to not be happening thing to to do for what used to be like a major event. And then you also have the like, and we're getting involved with the, you know, smaller things as well. My end statement is, as always, support your locals because when they're done playing with their toys, that's all you got left.

So I had two questions right when this happened. The first of which is like, oh, they just want to kill every event that they don't own by flooding. They're basically having a super bowl in every, in every town. It depends on whether Arc Revo, Arc Tour and Tech End World Tour and Capcom Pro Tour like attached to those events or continue to do their own thing. But like they want to be the show in town every day. Yes. And the second of which.

You spend a lot of money. You want to, yeah. Was my, I think it's the most important thing because we're talking about Evo, which is the biggest event. And it's once a year is, which is the real one because one of them is going to be the real one with the real winners of the real biggest tournament

and why I'm a sneaking suspicion where that one's going to be the one that will have the most money and the one that it's most centrally located on the world map so so as I described evil Japan

smaller. Evo France, Nice, bit smaller. A lot of these events bit smaller. Vegas has a contract, right? Whenever they do these deals for a tournament, you don't just go, hey, can we come back next year? Sure thing.

Here you go. Sign the paper. No, you agree to a major event for a extended period of time so that you can guarantee this weekend is going to be safe for you going forward. Until we back out, essentially. Exactly. So, so, So Ivo's probably, you know, they left the Mandalay Bay.

They were in Caesar's Palace, you know, before that. They're probably going to be locked into the Vegas Convention Center, yeah, for however many years. And that's the biggest venue you can get in Vegas and in the city. So that seems like it would be the place that has the most standing to be the big one unless you own a country. and you're willing to fly everybody out just to do it there is probably discussion of an

Evo arena built into the line I think what we're going to see is that the Saudi Arabia Evo is going to in actuality be the most moneyed invitational ever in which they will just grab hundreds

of good competitors and offer them to go out. You are correct in that it will be the most moneyed. And it will be, it'll walk in and it'll attempt to become the capital, the finals, right? The world finals. There's a thing at the bottom of the graphic that says like World Finals event or whatever

that's just kind of listed on the timeline. Yeah. But I don't think it's going to be invitational because if you look at the Riyadh comedy festival and the other stuff they're doing, they want tourists. They want people coming through. so it's likely going to be the open event as it always is,

but there's going to be a definite like incentive behind the scenes, I'm sure, and tons of cash to get as many people. It's a lot easier for a lot of American competitors to drive to Vegas than it is to fly in Saudi Arabia. So there will be the facilitation of competitors who are known, I'm sure, to be able to make it out there to make it a competitive event. I wouldn't be surprised. This is all just random speculation.

guessing as things go. So this is the thing. It's like Evo is coming out to try and kill all non-Saudi-Arabian own fighting game events. Just straight up. They're trying to Walmart their way into

fighting game events, which is like, this seems like a, no offense to anybody who works on this. This seems like a massive fucking waste of money. Um, because if it gets too bad and it gets too bullshit, then people will just go back to their fucking local town meetups. Shit.

Right. I mean, but that's same for golf, same for wrestling, same for, you know. Hey, Willie, I have a question. Say you're going to have Evo in Saudi Arabia, right? Now, Saudi Arabia is not the most progressive country in the world, right? It's not. How are you going to have a Guilty Gear tournament or Tekken tournament? in that country at all.

No, no, no, no, that's easy. That's easy. If you're visiting, if you're outside, it's the same way that comedians, for example, Jessica Kierston, who's gay, went to the re-ed comedy festival and was able to perform and make jokes about her identity and so on and not get flack for it. It's like, no, if you're a part of the thing that is helping the image. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you're a part of the wash, then you're good. That's that much of clear.

So you get a little piece of paper that says you're one of the good ones. Yeah, yeah. You're part of the wash. You're part of the wash. It's all good. So that's totally fine. The content to so on, et cetera. Yeah, yeah.

That's all fun, you know. I hope the competitors that take money to fly out there get paid big for the shit they're going to deservely receive after they go. Well, they do. And, you know, there's, I mean, so there's that there's that discussion that always happens, is like, yeah, there's a lot that they are getting. And when you have like the comedians that are already fucking multi-millioners going out to the React Comedy Festival, you know, it's like, yeah, you guys have what you have. And there's a difference between that and some random FGC person

who has life-changing money they're going to get from this or whatever. So everyone make your own decisions and do what you want to do. Like it's, it's, you know, you know, you do. Where I saw. There is a difference, I would say, between the two. I don't remember where I saw it, but I remember when people were talking about, like, I think it was Burr going out there, which was the comment, like, it's crazy how being a millionaire can make you such a whore. Like, you already have millions. Suddenly you become desperate for more millions. And Burr was the was the crazy one because it was like, you are previously specifically called this out directly. So what the hell, you know?

But anyway, I mean, look, again, it's, it's everyone, you do your thing. I'm, you, I, you, uh, you make your decisions. You, you go as you are comfortable and as you see fit. It's, it's obviously as well, like, for people that I know that are like, fucking spent the lifetime trying to like get, you know, that working with fighting games and get it and get into, you know, the peak of it, which is like, again, Evo the big thing and then kind of just having it all sort of turn into this and stuff. It just sucks because everything is out of everyone's control.

And there's just, you're kind of like, well, I don't know how this happened, but here we are. And I don't know how long this is going to last, but potentially forever or until they get bored. And this is just how we deal with it in the meantime. And, you know, I think that like, I think that, well, just the difference between. something being owned by individuals versus being owned by a nation, by a government, by a country. Sure. We can, there's also like a different thing. Like, we can remove the Saudi Arabian, like, the ethical dilemma here. Like, let's say this was just a company. Let's just say this was like, that'd be, I wouldn't give a shit. That would be completely different. Let me stop. Let me just

finish this. Okay. Let's say, um, I don't know, some e-sports company you never heard bought Evo and just started flooding the channel with Evo's, right? That's all so, bad because it's trying to muscle out other events and have a monopoly on events. And the effect that it has on evil. Yeah, that's also materially poor regardless of any other ethical consideration. Yes. Yes. There is a difference.

But regardless of that, but yes, there is too much of that is just not great. Which again, hey, guitar hero fucking four times a year until you realize, uh-oh, this brand is going to die. time to make more guitar hero to get as much money out of it as possible before it completely dries up. I foresee this massive back and forth between people who take massive payouts to go down there. And good for them saying, why are you hating on me? I just wanted the money. And I was like, but the money is to insulate your heart from people hating you. That's the purpose of the money.

like you can't have both of the things like be an adult and if you're going to take your money take your hate with it that's the deal that you're making people like I'm just everybody is going to do

what they feel comfortable with and if you are drawing a line or not drawing a line I'm not going to it's the same we did this a month ago I'm not going to sit in the tower and yell at anybody about players going and doing their thing.

It's like if you do it, you do it, that's fine. I know people that are going to do it, whatever. And I know people that already did it. And it's like, yeah, okay, do your thing. I speak for no one but myself and proclaim no high and mightiness. And I'm not talking about me. I'm saying that it's so embarrassing when you see somebody take money for something that's morally questionable and go, why are you guys hate me? You can't hate me.

Right, right. I can hate you for any reason. I want. Yeah, I think You can't tell me not to hate. I think the the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the comedian stuff, like, the response there, you can see how that's gone.

And, um, it, it's really rough, especially for him. And, like, the, what's the big deal? And everyone being like, dude, come on. You opt, you, you, you, you know. Yeah, no, it's, it's embarrassing. That's what I mean. Like, like, be an adult and take your. lumps. Like, it's embarrassing.

Yeah. Like, I'm not going to, like, okay, let's say, let's say, the difference. Let's say Jimmy Fighting Games, right, that I know has been offered a million dollars. Cash, no taxes, whatever, to go down and compete in the Saudi Arabian Evo, right? And he goes, man, I got to take the money. And like, I go, I'm not going to tell you what to do because that's your own decision and that's a lot of money. I would never tell you what to do. But when you come back and do shit on you for it every day of the rest of your life and you say stop that, I'll say, I didn't tell you what to do.

You don't tell me what to do either. And what I'd say too as well is that the difference, like Bill Byrne particular got more of it than say like Pete Davidson who, uh, I think his statement, because people were like, Pete, didn't your father die in 9-11? Isn't that something? And he said, yeah, I saw the numbers. And I went, that's crazy. I'll do that. And everyone was like, oh.

That's so much more honest. He just literally said that so much more. He straight up just said, I saw the number and went, holy shit, I'll do that. Yeah, no, absolutely, but I want the money. And like, end of discussion. Okay. End of discussion. There's nothing else to say there.

You know? I'm going to judge you in my heart, but at least we don't have to do a dance. That's it. That's it. Like, I got, I'm like, I got nothing like, you see you. There you are. That's what it is. And it's, it's that simple, you know?

The dance is so annoying. It's so annoying. So, um, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We don't, uh, you know me. I don't, I don't like the ambiguities to the point, you know. Uh, but yes. I feel like the effect on the smaller events and the effect on the tours and all that stuff. I think the effect on those is obviously poor. It's not. Generally, I think the effect on the community will be significantly negative because the conversation we're having now is going to be made writ large. and you are going to have

Yeah. Like, let's just say from a competition standpoint, you're going to have competitors that might have one, not go for moral reasons. And then you have to go, well, was it a legit event

because these people didn't go? No. The legit event is the one with the most high-level competitors. That is a, that is not a coming conversation. It is active. It is happening right now. So like, yeah. the community is going through that right now.

Absolutely. Let's say, um, world's best street fighter six player by most metrics doesn't go. But he does go to CEO. Guess what? CEO is now the new Evo. Because the winner of that street fighter six tournament is probably the best one.

Or Capcom Cup or, you know, whatever. But, but, but the, the strategy and the, like this,

this really, like this thing that the, the conversation we're having, the word like this sucks and you care about the, if you care about the games in the genre and whatever's going on, then you know the impact it has is negative. But on the higher level of it, it's just like, yeah, but you ignore it and too bad, and we just move on, right?

That's been the strategy so far, and that continues to be the strategy. So ultimately it'll be like, oh, yeah, well, that player didn't go, so fuck them. And then this person's the champ. And then they'll just, and like, whatever that thing you're describing is of like we know in our hearts or whatever, it's like, yeah, but your heart has no value, right?

What does have value is the goal that this person is standing on as they won first place. And that's it. The 10 events thing is crazy because I've been running the math in my head. It's like the Olympics coming out and saying, by the way, Olympics are going to be happening every six months. Yeah. In a different country forever. And you go, uh, fuck that. I don't give shit about that.

Like, yeah. Ridicrous. No, you can just like, if you just want to talk about the fact that there's that many of them, you know. But, but really like, you, the, far as like the marketing goes, the brilliance of the move that is bringing more events to people in places that didn't have access to them. Large scale events. And giving those people a reason to be like, nah, I'm super happy about this and I support it.

It's like, that's a brilliant move. You know what it reminds me. Because it is a, you, you have that benefit you're bringing clearly for people internationally. That is like, yeah, unquestionable. You know what it reminds me of. It reminds me of, and this is kind of a global political situation. right um so like let's say Brazil Brazil doesn't have an equivalent evo so you would go hey brazilians don't get excited for the gigantic event that's coming to your country is a never

before seen event that's that's unique and is fine right that's ridiculous right that's a fucking ridiculous thing to say that's too much pressure to put on any individual person do you have any idea how insane kof grand finals and evo mexico is going to go yeah right and similarly it reminds me of when the G8 went to China a couple decades back and said, hey, you got to get your pollution shit under control. And the official Chinese response was, all your countries got to have their industrial revolutions and go crazy with it and become the G8.

But now that it's China's turn, no, no China. Climate's a problem. That's not fair. And they're kind of right. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Like,

that's not fair. And you can go, well, Canada says the climate is really bad right now and we have to change it now. And China gets to go, we don't care, actually. But my hypocrisy is special, Pat. So. Pist us on green energy anyway.

So, ha ha. In conclusion, play Christ, crushing force. Yeah, crushing force. Shut the fuck up.

Is the new you cowards. And play crushing force. You know what? They're never going to play at fucking Saudi Arabia, Evo. They're never going to have a full-blown tournament

of that fucking Sailor Moon game from hell. Uh, uh, the, oh, um, yes,

yeah, uh, fighters S or whatever, Sailor Moon S or yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Dog dong, dong ain't, Dong dong ain't making it.

That ain't running. You know? Yeah. Solved. We have, I solved this entire. Well, you actually kind of solved it before. Solved it yesterday. Before you knew.

You're thinking ahead. Um, okay. And just a couple other things. uh, Toby Fox might have something to do with Toy Story 5. He might be fucking with you though. That like, that's a definitely, like, it's Toby Fox, so the possibility is always there. Uh, hold on a second, BRB. Mm-hmm.

Excuse me. Uh, yes. Toby Fox might have something to do with Toy Story 5. And we don't know what the fuck that is. But he tweeted out, uh, the trailer and quote, uh, above it. said let me just get the exact wording super excited for this finally being announced

can't wait for you guys to see what we have in store for you this time yeah he sounds like he sounds like he's he's fucking around sounds like a troll but I don't know I don't know what the fuck that means that being said even though toy story could have easily ended at three and would have been fine I do I don't know if you saw the trailer but I do have to say that I was like okay why are we coming back again

and then oh Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was like, fucking Toy Story. Are we doing another one? And then the kid pulls out a iPad and locks in on a tablet. And I go, oh. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, no, no, no, no, no. Most evil. Willie, I will say this and I'll be saying this every time it comes up for years and years and years. I genuinely believe that iPad children are the, like, smoking hazard of our generation. generation. Yeah, we already know the studies. These kids are fucking cooked, man. If you're not, if you're not making an attempt to minimize or at least control the amount, like it has an effect. We know this. The data's there for sure. Um, watching the eyes fucking dilate when the kid picks up the iPad in the trailer too as well and like drop all toys. You're like, that is a villain that the toy story crew has to defeat. It is. It is my, oh my God, somebody in the chat just said, led to asbestos to microplastics to screen time. Man. Oh, man.

I'm curious, because I'm imagining it's not just like, like if you're going to pull Toby in for some reason, I'd imagine it's the software running on the iPad, right? Like the little frog tablet has got to have some games on it and you're going to need Roblox. I have a nightmare image in my mind of scrolling through TikTok and seeing Toy Story 5 clips with motherfucking subway surfer. Oh, fuck. The message of the movie. my God. We're totally heading there. Oh, Jesus Christ. Joyce is right forever, man. By the way, Willie, you're doing a great job. You're doing excellent with your baby. And sometimes it's going to be hard, like with the almost no screen time kind of thing. But then, you know what's going to happen? You're going to bring that baby out and they're going to hang out with other babies and you're going to look at those other babies and you'll be able to tell from a distance which kids of those are. Fucked.

Yep. Like you can see it. It's crazy. No, the tight rope. The tight rope is you want to minimize, but not to the point where they're so outside the norms and ostracized that you don't want to have the kid. You don't want to have your child be the only kid in class that hadn't watched the Simpsons that week.

Unable to make friends and exactly. Right. So you have to keep it within the lane. That's the trick, you know, for sure. Like I was playing, I was playing blocks. We were at a family event, like, you know, like an early learning thing for the babies at our local elementary school. And my boy was going through the shapes. And he was like, is this a pentagon?

And I'm like, nobody, it's an octagon because it has eight sides. And we're going through that, right? And then a five-year-old next to him picked one up and said, is this a Pentagon? And it was a fucking square, dude. And I was just like, man. you're in kindergarten this is dire but the other thing I've had though a couple you know days ago

I was talking about this exact thing and I was like but you know what else though here's the other problem me woolly I fucking love screens dude screens rule they're my whole life I have built a fucking

career and house and family on screen screens are awesome. So we've had the discussion, right? Me and Paige are constantly going over this. We're like, okay, how much screen time is appropriate? For what age?

For blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? What type of screen time? Like, you know, I'm not going to let my kid play Resident Evil 9 at age 10 like my parents would have. You know why? That's not appropriate for children. I should not have been allowed to play

Resident Evil 2 at 11. That's fucked up. You got to check it. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, right? And it's like, how much? Okay, if your tours are done and your homework's done and you had dinner with the family,

half hour hour, like we'll figure it out, right? But Hey dad, how come I can only get an hour But every single night after I go to bed I know you're playing like MMOs for three hours Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Smoking cigarette parent, do as I say and not as I do? And the answer, the answer

Is going to have to be No, I wasn't That's... Ooh, ooh, the house of cards you build. Ooh, the house you build on the sand, sir, and the tide is coming. No. The tide is coming in. That's dangerous, right?

That's really dangerous, right? And the answer will actually probably be, it's for work. Yes, yes. Now you're fucking cooking. Now you're thinking with portals. It's for work. It is for work. Correct.

And you go, I, me and your Uncle Wully got one in a million shots and we got really lucky. And so we got to turn this into a profession. But you probably won't get that lucky because I raised you better and you're not nearly as traumatized. Therefore, you're not as funny. And you're going to be a doctor. So get back to your medical textbooks. Okay. Well, now you're not, now you're losing me.

Now you're turning into my dad. Now you're losing me. I don't like that last part. We don't need that. Okay. So me and parents have talked about this. He doesn't have to be a doctor. Okay.

He doesn't have. But if he's not a doctor, you can marry a doctor. When you tell your kid, they've got to be a doctor or a lawyer, you turn out like me. That's not true. No, but sometimes. A lot of doctors and lawyers got told by their parents. that they were going to be doctors and lawyers. And then they just, they did it.

They just did it. No. I, I, okay. Like, when my dad did that and I was like, with what authority? Like, you know, it was like, okay. Yeah. Uh-huh.

Word. Cool. Gotcha. Love and support your children so that they trust you when you tell them they should become doctors. I, uh, I have my, I have my particulars. And they're my, there are my own. hang-ups on that, but it's the same as, um, what are you doing, cut your hair? You'll never get a job

that way. Yeah, right. You know, and it's like, motherfucker, I'm not working anywhere that has an issue with my haircut. No, for a lot. Like, I'm not getting that job, you know? And yeah, unfortunately, in a million other realities, I would have to fucking suck it up and eat shit, and then eventually go, damn, I guess they were right. But in this one, in this one, I'm kind of fucking crushing it. So I'm going to stand on it right now and be like, yeah, how about not? You know? I fucking hated that QA life I was stuck in for a while and that shit was torturous at times.

It was a job, however. But one thing they did get right was the slogan, your parents were wrong. They were rolling with that for a while for game testing. It was the idea that I don't like, oh. I mean, that doesn't really fit for the guy who's just not getting promoted and testing for like 10 and 15 years because that's no no no I suppose not but the idea like for you it was true it that's it my timeline for you it was for my timeline it worked out bro my mom still does not understand even this podcast internet radio show I keep telling her

it's a it's a radio show and then she goes like on the radio I'm like no on the internet like the radio like god damn it like god damn it Um, okay. I wanted to, uh, briefly mention, uh, two cool things. One, the folks that made, um, the fighting game, uh, checkmate showdown, which was that chess and fighting game at the same time thing, bad res games. They're based in Montreal. Nice folks.

Um, they had announced their next project, which is called a fighters nova, um, Mindara and it is an RPG that is like almost like running around a world sake and densetsu style getting into fighting game fights as with the back system I'll send the trailer over here uh there's a Kickstarter they're running yeah as always giant like check it out see if you're interested but whatever uh I I I I leave it up to your discretion um but yeah it is a tag based uh you and a partner and your team going in into fighting game fights, which is almost like, you know, tails games you get into like side view action juggling sort of systems.

But yeah, they decided to go from Checkmate Showdown as a like prototype for fighting game mixed with chess into now... Very interesting concept. Open RPG. Yep. Virtual Quest tried it and failed. Let's see if they can manage. Yeah, again, they're, I believe, you know.

They have some fun ideas. And the character designs that they're showing off so far are. pretty cool. They got some nice art going for it, so I'm hoping for good things. Wanted to give that a shout out. And we don't have the time

to get into it this time, maybe, so maybe for next time. But the trailer for the follow-up to RRR has been released. And it's called Varanasi

to the world. So we can talk about that I'm gonna click to a random moment and hopefully something cool is happening oh yeah you you're gonna see some shit oh that's cool you're gonna see some shit this thing is the most ambitious

film I have ever seen a trailer for in my life like RRR was like kicking dust putting together fucking a hut making cave it's it's working in caves compared to what's going on here.

Varanasi is so insanely ambitious. I can't believe it. That looks very crazy. I don't know what the fuck is going on. You can't possibly. So you're going to need to take it in. There's wild shit happening in this trailer. And I'm, I can't wait.

The establishing, if RRR started up an MCU of sorts with like the way that ended and the characters that like had their awakening moments, this is taking. that and trying to tell the everywhere all things, all times story. It is the, it is the Omni movie. Wild shit. All right. Let's take some letters. If you want to send a letter, send it to Castle Super Beastmail at gmail.com.

That's Castle Superbeastmail at gmail.com. There is one over here coming in from name not given. But hello Papa Chui and Father Fuckface. The analog balladro from a couple episodes ago reminded me of some of the goofy names people use for DPS meters in FF14. The game does by default log every instance of incoming and outgoing damage in the chat window under a dedicated tab. It's not a DPS meter, though. It's just a chronological list of the actions taking place.

Yeah, it's just an event log. Scrolls too fast for human eyes to interpret. So instead, people use third-party plugins to see the average DPS. And it's against TOS to speak of them. So people jokingly refer to such plug-ins as my abacus or my cousin. Excuse me, since theoretically you could be doing the math yourself really fast in your head, but you're obviously not. Are there other examples of dumb cover words for things that aren't explicitly said? I felt really stupid.

I was talking to, God, who was it? It was Max and Kenny and Steve a million years ago on their stream. And I was... Abacus. Abacus. And Kenny was telling a story for like... Fucking 15 minutes about a day that he was trying to find the ice cream man. And he was like really deep into the story.

And I was like, Kenny, what the fuck? Why do you want ice cream so bad? And everybody was just like... He's talking about drugs, Pat. He's trying to buy drugs. Oh, yes. Drugs. I am hip with it.

I am. Yes. Okay. So this is before I moved out to British Columbia, before I started doing drugs. Right? I would like one weed, please. Willie,

I have gone to the store and bought one weed. But I want it to be an illegal weed. No, no, I want weed in a can. Weed in a can is the best. Had weeding a can? It's great. It's like a Coca-Cola that just makes you feel real good. We got them.

Yeah. See, that's funny because, like, just ask Reggie a question and see what kind of answer you get. Yeah. I refer to Because At this point it's at this point it's whatever But when I

I'm focusing on YouTube on Let's Play stuff and I don't want to have Conversations with chat logs people can't see Because people would get annoyed about like a one-wake thing And I don't want to have the chat then rolling through the Vod as much And again, it's fine if you do it or whatever I just I like the clean LP thing and I think other people

don't want that. Want that? Therefore I'm like, time to times I refer to the universe or shivers, you know, as a thing. And ultimately, you know, you want to repeat the question back, if anything, and so that it doesn't detract because you don't want to have the one way conversation and have it feel too weird. Yeah, that's why I put that shit

up on the fucking side so I don't have to do that. It's so annoying. That is the easy way to do it. That is the easy way to do it. And you know what? YouTube doesn't show up there because of Twitch rules. So I will, when I respond to YouTube, I just don't include the question because YouTube questions are terrible. They're awful. Twitch does not like the idea of displaying both chats.

YouTube chat. They don't like that. Oh, they're not happy about that. Those rules changed today. They just changed that. Literally today. Literally just crazy talk is undefeatable. Get the fuck out.

Get the fuck out. You can do mixed chats now? That's crazy. Oh, my God. See, now I've got to figure out. out how to do that. Fuck. I don't know how to do that. Oh, my God.

All right. And let's take one over here. Hello, Vagabond Wully and Monster Pat. Normally, all four creators branching out and trying new things. That said, are there any creatives who you actually want to be typecasted or pigeonholed into a specific type of creative output? For me, the answer most of my life has been Guy Ritchie. I think he should only make movies about London gangsters and intersecting plot threads.

I know Sherlock Holmes have some shooters, but I'd rather watch Snatch Lockstock and two smoking barrels and the gentleman basically any day of the week. Yeah, that is a great answer. You could have said Yoko Taro up until today, but that doesn't apply anymore. But yeah, I think Guy Ritchie is a great answer. I think that one Dyske Ishiwatari should never be allowed to make anything but a fighting game for as long as he lives. It doesn't have to be guilty gear, but it must be a fighting game? Yes. But are you lying?

I'm not lying. Okay. It has to be guilty gear, doesn't it? It does have to be guilty gear. I would prefer it if it were guilty gear, personally. Dyskays Blasbleu? Fuck it. Blasbleu's got some stuff.

Demon and baby. Yeah. All right. Last one. Dylan says, Dear Australis, Pat and Regulus Woolley. Dylan here, I feel a strange obligation to mention this, given that Wully didn't know Dino Crisis 3 existed,

as is the case for many. Pat neglected to mention, but Dino Crisis 3 takes place in the far future, 2548, and it takes place in space. As a result, all dinosaurs are weird, mutant, alien freak versions of popular dinosaur species, which in itself is cool as fuck. This makes it all the more depressing the game is complete ass, given what they were willing to do with the setting up the setting of the enemies. What are your examples of a cool as fuck concept or something like that that fall fell flat for unrelated reasons?

Bing Brack Dino Crisis. I didn't know that. That's cool. That's crazy. They fucking Jason and spaced it. I think. That Xenobledc chronicles X is a really cool take on the Xenobled idea, but they put it on the Wii U and therefore it was bad.

So I'm glad that we can see that take now off of that piece of shit shooting a grave, and I don't care. Reminds me that guy who goes and dances on Lyndon B. Johnson's grave every day. So once upon a time, there was a game. game named Chrono Cross. They should have just made it its own thing. Tie it in. Like, really.

And Chrono Cross was brave enough to try a couple of things. And some of them worked and some of them didn't. But I like remembering the things that did. And then there was Radical Dreamers, which was only available on a hotel TV super Nintendo. So, you know, that happened too, I suppose. Crono Cross deserves justice, man. No, it doesn't. It could have been. It could have been. It wasn't, but it could have been. Oh, by the way, we didn't talk about this, but they were re-released Final Fantasy 7 today on

on Steam, and it's a new version by Dot Emu. It's a completely busted piece of fucking shit. So I can continue pretending I didn't hear that news and we can just live our lives. Yeah, absolutely. Perfect. All right. See you next week.