Castle Super Beast - CSB362: Looksmaxxers Shot On Sight, This House is Chock Full of Femboys

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

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Uh, yeah, exactly 10 minutes ago. Highguard shutting down. No, Highguard! As we were loading up. The secretly funded Tencent game. Our beloved indie game from Tencent. Highguard, no. I, uh, yeah, that, that just, just broke like right now.

Um, damn, okay. So, uh, I, they did try multiple things. things to like fix it slash make it more fun. I heard about besides the the 5V5. Besides the 5v5, I also heard that there was another mode that was no looting phase just straight into combat that they put out as well. So you know, kudos for the attempts, right? They tried running a couple of remixes on the gameplay to see if that would have done it. Of course, first impressions are lasting impressions, so you can't really fight a pill against that. It's, video games are so strange because when you have to, when you have to like pivot on like really short notice,

your only options are what can we remove that makes it better right now? You can't add. You can't add. You can't add. It's like that. Well, that's not, that applies to like movies as well, right? You're on the cutting room floor. They just delay the movie and reshoot it.

But the game's out. If you're right if it's out live I mean you can you again there's you there's edits you know or easier things to do but like as with anything and creating new assets creating new things is harder it takes more effort for sure but with video games too you can I guess look at other things that are similar in genre and go like maybe people would rather this maybe they'd rather that but you know at this point it was already it was already too late so um to actually click on the story because it was literally just like this exact second as we were sitting here shit talking blah blah blah and uh pre podcast bant yeah shutting down this month funding is stopping and

another 20 people got like oh so that's pretty much so has less than 500 current players and that is definitely like a death number of, because like there's a certain magic number that if I go to hit match and it doesn't get me a match in five minutes, the game is functionally off. Right? Like it has been turned off against my will. Yeah.

Okay. Here we go. Out of touch. Thoughts time. Let's hear it. Dude, I, bro,

I love your out of touch thoughts. I'm, I'm, I'm on the moon. I love them. I'm beyond the moon. I'm somewhere beyond the moon. Um,

if live service beatings continue, right? Morale will improve. Will there be a, a, a shift away from this? Or is the cash out potential so high because the slot machine number,

on when you cash out on live service, the amount you make is so tempting that we got to keep trying back again. And furthermore, if there is no pullback, is that is a pullback something that people listening to this would want? Or is it like, no, we like live service stuff enough that we want that to continue to be the focus, right? I think live service game should exist, but as far as everyone trying to make one because of the cash out ability, I think that's a fucking huge mistake and I hate that shit.

And hearing about God of War live service shit is like, what are we doing? Right? So are people in generally in a place now where they're like, no, I like life service enough that I want this to be a focus? Okay, so are you talking about the people making it or the people deciding to make it

or the people who want to play it? I'm asking because I think industry behaviors are very predictable. Those are different. Those are very different answers. I think company and industry behaviors are very predictable. Like it's crazy predictable. It is unbelievable. Yeah.

No, it is a pathing monster on the map. And you can see every turn which left and right it's going to make. And it's going to move towards the money on the board. If you throw money. My favorite one is? Yeah. My favorite one is when Dark Souls came out and blew up. And you saw like,

a hundred bad Dark Souls clones and they all failed until Liza P came out Right, right, right, right. And that was like way later, way later, right? And like, everybody just said, we don't know how to make them.

Now, from softs, the only people know how to make them giving up. Like, like, they're going to move towards... Oh, and Neo, and Neo. Yeah, Neo's great. Neos great. They're going to move towards the money on the board and there is a 5% chance

it'll work and a 95% chance it won't, but whatever. That 5%'s like a shit to Padillian double and I guess what I'm asking is is when I have this feeling of like this just seems to be a bad decision generally

but for for people that are playing great live service games that they're enjoying or live service games that they're enjoying begrudgingly like Overwatch right? People are enjoying Overwatch again but there's a bit a lot people are enjoying Overwatch a lot again

and there's definitely a feeling of like, God damn it, I'm having fun. Right? And I'm kind of wondering, for those and for the ones... I know she bad for me, man, but... She's a good eater, though. Listen, I'm trying to ask for people, for the one,

for any, because like, you know, rivals is a fun game and there's other, there's other fun, uh, uh, live service games that people are into. People are hitting up their siege and so on. So for those existing, and I'm someone who fucking loves Titanfall, obviously, Is there a part of this where it's like we, a movement away from that would be caught as a negative, you know, as a player? Or is it as a player?

As a player? Players already are all, all. Functionally, every live service player has already locked in. Yeah. We talked about this at long length when Rivals was coming out. and it was it, it, you need some

crazy fucking hook to pull people off of Fortnite and Overwatch and et cetera, right? And for rivals it was do you want to fucking have a video game where you can play as the fantasy of like literally a hundred

fucking Marvel characters? Right? Like that, wow! Right? Um, but like, If you don't have that, you need the name. Yeah.

And so, like, if from software said, we're coming out with a fucking live service game, which, like, um, like, Night Rain is like a tiny little toe dip. Yep. Yep. And like, little toe dead. And like, dustblads might be like a second toe in. Yeah, you can carry your name. But there's only so many names and there's only so many hooks.

And the big fucking spots are picked. Like the big, big, big, big fucking spots are picked. Like, Fortnite and FIFA by themselves represent like 60, 70% of like all live service players at any given day. Because I think that it's easy to look and say Like something that's original and well-planned out that is live service Should exist and there should be options You know as a genre that people can get into that don't feel like cash out You know like soulless fucking spin-offs, right? And then there's the brand recognition part of this that you're just describing

But we also go like every IP that that you know I was just talking about we just talked about talking last week about how IPs to try to spin off into this shit because the cash grab option of it, it feels like no one is asking for a live service god of war. If you're holding an IP and you're like, oh, live service fallout. Live service fucking, I'm sure, I'm sure there's a million IPs that would love to have a massive ongoing live service thing, right? And if it works out like a GTA situation, then okay, cool. But for all, for whenever it doesn't, it just feels like why do you even try this to begin with when? Because we wanted infinite money. and we believed.

So here, let me, when you could have done something that was spending this time and effort on a not live service thing, that could. Let me give you a wildly kind example that is overly kind

to everyone involved in everything. You know how you have a child? Yep. And your child is the smartest and cutest. And cutest. and all other children are shit and dumb. This is actually true. Okay.

That's how every single person feels about their game slash their property. Right. Slash their IP slash their shot at the golden ticket. This is the one that'll do it. This will work out. With the sole exception of, you know, you see like you'll be like scrolling social media and you see like that fucking three and a half year old. Ments a kid that's doing

like high school classes and speaks like four languages and you're like fuck that's Grand Theft Auto okay right and you go that's not fucking fair that that kid's a freak right

well I can the thing is but everybody in the house but I ask the question but I'm also like because it doesn't even apply here where like High Guard's not a spin-off it's an original new thing yeah completely original and that's why they tried to cash in on from the people who brought you Titanfall on apex.

But it just didn't fucking do it, you know? So anyway, anyway, I have a chart of industry trends, uh, for you that will add some data to this conversation. It is the percentage of time played per year per player on games by age of release. Oh, just, just all the way at the bottom. Like, yeah, I can, I can, I can imagine. excluding annual releases such as FIFA or Call of Duty, 70% of people are playing exclusively games over six years old. Yeah, 15% are 2 to 5 year old games.

6% are prior year and 7% are new releases. So you're coming out with your live service. your lives, because this is directly analogous to the MMO industry, right? You can use every lesson learned from the MMO business and apply it to the live service industry in general. Wow was the fucking king of the goddamn earth for like a decade. There was absolutely no competition. And the reason why there was no competition is bringing out a new Warhammer MMO. Okay, is your new Warhammer MMO?

Better than World of Warcraft? No. Is it better than World of Warcraft when Wow came out in 2000 and fucking four? No. Will it maybe one day? I don't know. Do you have a almost decade of social relationships and bought in time and expertise? No.

What fucking chance do you have? The only reason Final Fantasy got to crawl out of hell is because it says, Final Fantasy on the box. No one else could have ever done that. Side question, side, side, asterisk, uh, is your game on a phone that people are staring at every day while taking a dump randomly anyways? No, all right. We're on the train. Because you do,

there is a, if you're on my phone, it's a just, it's a sheer, it's in my face convenience, yad, yada thing, right? Um, which for live service, like, anyway, whatever. This, uh, Yeah, but even then, Mi Hoyo and Wuwa have like fucking snapped that shit up. Yeah, yeah. It's like, we're going to, we're going to dominate phones with the fucking adventure game, the RPG, and the action game. Now, now Mi Hoyo just needs to put out a fucking card game and they just own your fucking phone. Yeah, but and these are, and the thing is that you look at a game like Zenless and you're like, oh, that is a very, um,

comparable to like PS5 game budget release like that is there's a there's the cash that went into the have a card game Jesus Christ whatever it costs to make Zenlis is comparable to big releases on consoles you know that is a proper thing and it's free

you're not we're not looking at fucking homescapes you're type shit anymore you know um anyways well uh yeah the market is full uh you know what I have a better one has anyone

asked you, hey, Willey, how do I become a YouTuber slash podcaster slash influencer? And you say to them, start 15 years ago. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Right? Or get the luckiest break in the fucking world. Right?

It's like that. Or, like, rivals got to be grandfathered in because it has Tony Man and and the spider boy on it. Or you could just start hammering your face with a hammer and then, like, you'll skyrocket to fame out of nowhere. You can start, you can start breaking

your jawbones and that'll do it too. You never know. You never know. Yeah, you know. But like in an era in which good games get canceled for no reason, what chance does your mediocre expensive game have? I want, I want to put, I want to put the sign on the board to tap, and I want that to just be a copy of high-fi rush. Like, I just want to tap a copy of high-fi rush forever to be like, yeah, hey, don't forget. Sold well, low cost, every award, prestige title, lauded by its own publisher, X for spreadsheet for nothing error reasons. Great word of mouth, great gameplay, just everything about it, all solid. Every cylinder on every metric possible, cancel, canceled, dead, killed.

Couldn't possibly be considered more of a success for what it was and doesn't matter. So you tap that and you're like, yeah. This conversation couldn't be more perfect timing. I just fucking booted steam up. And do you know what I see? I see a live service game that's not doing that well going, look, look, Snake is in siege. Solid Snake is in Seeds right now.

You know who Snake is! Hey, Snake and Sam Fisher finally met. And they went, hey. You're cool. Kept you waiting. We're doing it. Snake is in, yeah. In order to compete with the big boys, you need to bring your own big boys.

You need that. And there's so many big boys to go around. Remember Xbox Ari? Remember? Fuck. This is premium Xbox Ari marketing. Xbox Ari and PlayStation Sam should have a baby. This is the peak of like, are you a gamer, capital G, ancient gamer, right?

Did you play your Xbox original release? Are you born in the early 80s? You're popping off for Solid Snake meeting Samfisher. It's embarrassing. I remember talking to those guys and be like, we're in our 20s. You're talking like a 10-year-old. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. I, um, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I think, though, just, if you're looking to come out of the gate with a brand new release and your first attempt, is a live service massive thing.

Like, like, just reject the 10 cent money and make a smaller project and establish yourself, you know, you know? So we don't, we don't, we don't, we don't, we don't. But I would hope that a former respawn team would make a sick, tight, good-feeling FPS that would just be like, let's just get ourselves on the board before you... I don't think that's how that happened at all. You think... I think they put out the call. We want another fucking shot at the apple. They put out the call.

Who can we get? And then they went around and grabbed people. That's a very, very likely version of the race. Do you want a job or not? And people generally go, yeah, I would like a job and money to feed myself. Because, yeah, no, every once in a while, Arc Raiders happens, right? Yeah. Or the Helldivers or whatever, you know, like, sure.

Like, something comes along and he goes, oh, no, that one, that one worked. That one broke through. You got the attention going. What's extra funny is that, like, games, like, quality, sales, etc., there are no guarantee. Even now, games are the only medium. They're the only, like, popular medium between television, music, film, books, games, etc., that has any positive correlation between critical reception and sales.

Like, with video games only, making a. better video game does translate to sell more to some degree with movies and with books and with TV no critical reception has no correlation

at all to sales I feel like word of mouth will with movies will break out sometimes and used to music used to in a you know a pre-streamer's world you know people would be like,

yo, go see this fucking thing. Yeah, in the pre-world. Yeah, in the pre-world. But even during and mid-after, there's a couple exceptions, right? Everything everywhere all at once, word of mouth spread on that. That movie's great.

Go check it out, right? But with games, there is a very clear line where like, and I think too as well, it's like, because games continue to, like, be active, you know? Like the, the, the,

the zeit guy, around an active population playing a thing or whatever persists a lot longer than it will for like other mediums right now. So that makes sense. Well, all right. So yeah. So the problem is that in order for the live service rush to happen, the golden goose has to like get some frayed feathers, right?

like the gold like like basically how like people chased after call of duty for like 15 straight years and battlefield never stopped and only in the last second after decades did battlefield go yeah and that was a particularly good year for battlefield and a particularly bad year for call of duty FIFA and Fortnite are just like exploding like crazy all the time. And like trying to tell some non-human CEO can't eat a McDonald's burger entity, you know, like people only have so many hours in the day. And he's like, well, what do you mean? I have like 22 hours in a day because of my blood transfusions and the orphans that I eat.

you can't explain to those people that like there's only so much fucking room in your life and money I noticed that you said food I did say food you should have said product I should have said product can't consume the product this is some delicious product right here

it just like it's crack like it's heroin you're divorced you're divorced from the flesh you are you are a fucking lizard person that is, anyway. Listen, when you have non-humans make decisions for humans, they will be constantly baffled by human responses. That, yeah, they're, put that on the board as well.

Tap that sign. And I'm including formerly human, non-humans, as well as originally non-human. Original non-human, yes, original non-human entities. Such as a robot. Yes. No, anyway, it just does feel like you're jumping on this track and you're running the, they're running the race

because, you know, the champ gets, like, the greatest fucking cash out of all time. But everyone behind second place, not even third. Second place just gets ran into a meat grinder and immediate, like, the door slams shut behind second place and everyone else behind it just turns into mulch. It's, it's,

the video game industry can just be properly, properly analogized by Mike Tyson's punchout. A bunch of fuck-ass loose. go on, I bet I could beat Mike Tyson. Fuck you. You can't. And then one little guy who's like, yeah, I can. And he can. Yeah, I can. Wow. Crazy. And that leads to generations and generations and generations of people going, man, I bet I could beat Mike Tyson.

You can't. Well, um, you know. Like that's one of the things you think about as you get older. Well, you're, you're about my age. We're like very close in age. you've become mature you have a baby and I have this moment where I realized I had really genuinely matured because I saw someone do a cool thing in a TikTok or whatever in my brain instead of going I bet I could do that if I wanted

went I can't fucking do that right now no no yeah yeah yeah no I'm at my back and you know not I mean you've got there's different versions of that certainly There's an age you go through where you're just like, oh, look at these stupid fucking kids at the mall, right? If someone started some shit, I'd stomp them out. Fuck you, right? And then now you're just looking at it. You're like, yo, these YNs would have my number in a minute, bro.

I bet these 15-year-olds could get my fucking ass if they wanted to, man. I got nothing. Anyways, how is your week? My week was great. I played a bunch of cool stuff. I have a baby story. A new level of sass has arrived from my boy. Okay, I got one too.

Let's go. All right. So we're walking down the street, right? Got Paige on one side. Got me on the other side. We're all holding hands. Very wholesome, very good time. We're walking on sidewalk, right?

And he's starting to go like, ah, I don't want to hold hands, ah, you know, because he gets a little onering. He wants to run around. And mom says to him, she says, hey, man. Hey bro, I think it was actually Hey bro. Hey bro. It's really important to hold mommy and daddy's hands when you're near the road or when you're in a parking lot because there are cars as dangerous. Right? And I say, that's right. And he goes, no,

no, mommy. It is not important to hold hands near the road. It is only important for mommy. And then we just both got like stunned. And like kind of like the second. Like the SaaS level is so high that you kind of react like the parent falls off. You know, no, it is important. This is. You don't get to tell us what's important.

We're adults. And he goes, no, it is not important. Only important for mommy and daddy. I'm like, no. This is the natural evolution of the previous stories you've been telling. Absolutely. And the key here is that the exact phrasing of the instruction is being repeated back to you. Yeah, no.

And it's like, but also I'm also like a little proud. I'm like, oh, you are correctly internalizing the different things matter to different people at different amounts. And you're basically telling me in your child frame, I don't give a fuck about that. I don't care about that shit. You give a, you give a shit. I don't give a fuck. I'm going to do what I want. I'll give no fucks about none of that shit.

Yeah. Yeah, correct. You know. Oh, again. Like, dude, like, it's so strange. And I'm really happy about this because like, like, I'll get like annoyed. and I'll, like, raise my voice. That kid has no fear of me at all.

No. It's no fear of his mother at all. Like, like, no, like, the only time I've ever raised my voice ever, like, for real is when I'm doing the dishes. And he picked up like a big knife out of the fucking dishwasher. And go, ah! Ah! Put that, right?

Right? Fuck. Yeah. But, like, so he'll be like, dad, don't say that to me. I'm like, I'll say, I'll, get defensive. Like, I'll say what I want. Yeah. I'm an adult.

Yeah. I'm your dad. You don't tell me what to do. He goes, I do. tell you what to do. Like, no, you don't. You don't tell me what to. No.

No fear at all. That whole discussion is very interesting because I was given a framework where there is a tool in your equipment that you have to reinforce that lack of fear. Yeah. You know? And we're learning now through various studies that that is a horrendous idea. that you should never, ever do. However, that was the only framework I knew. So now you're like, well, now what am I supposed to do with this gun?

Yeah, yeah. And the answer is, use your fucking words, idiot, be an adult, right? But it is, it is interesting because, like, as you say that, it's just kind of like, yeah, I, all I, I immediately go back to, oh, yeah, well, that's the part where, you know, if you can't hear, you're going to feel. is what I would hear from, you know, a parent. And then it would be like, yeah, we, like, and I wouldn't be surprised if at some point one of the grandparents on all sides, right, both maternal and paternity, on all sides. If some, at some point, someone goes, oh, why don't you just solve that problem, you know?

Why I don't like the tone of your voice, sir? So for us, if it escalates the point where I'm like, no, I don't. don't want to do that. Oh, and he starts to freak out. And he likes to, like, dramatically throw himself to the ground. Like, he'll go from a standing position to go, ah! And then, like, look back up and I don't know. Shit. Yeah, cool, man. Like, I'm, okay, I'm gonna go do dad show stuff on the computer. I have to upload thumbnails. Are you good? No, I'm sad. Oh, that's fine. Are you, are you, you, you're good? No. I want to be sad. That's a phrase. Oh You want you want a milk Oh Oh the human condition You do you man

You can't okay It doesn't affect me at all I turn this part of my brain right off The honesty of the human condition I want to be sad I get it Like I want to be upset Hmm

Man This is bullshit I can't believe I can't have A third cup of Cheerios I don't I don't think that's too many Cheerios. It's really interesting. So on this side, babies, babies got a little, little bit of sniffles.

Babies got a little bit of, you know, that, that, that, that, that first one. And as a result, you know, kind of little, some little, little coughs and extensive cligginess, you know, being like, I just want to more. Yeah, that's cool. But I did not expect that we would see literally the happiest she has ever been in her entire life so far happened this week when we got a high chair. And we're looking at that like, okay, time to start experimenting with the solids, right? Start to start looking at that stuff. and she's in I put it together

and we put her in the high chair and for the first time she's sitting up with us at eye level and like that oh my god that moment like is just she's just like like

like just a solid like five 10 minutes of just like yeah just she's so pumped to just be sitting there and like She'll be like, she go back to normal for a second and then like just look around and be like, ha ha ha ha. Oh, I'm so hot.

Oh, this fucking rules. I have upies, but no one's holding me. Yes, yes. Independent upies were all eye level together. And I'm also exactly. And I'm, and I'm upright. And I feel like I belong. And, you know, I'm, I'm here with everybody.

And it was like, wow, that feeling is really baked in there, you know? Um, so. A good one. I like that. Yeah. Yeah. It's the most joy we've seen at all. Um, we had a.

Which then, I guess, means that before you even really know things or know the world, you know, the fact that you're always standing over a baby means it must bother them to some degree, you know. Well, they just want to be up high. They want to be up high. Yeah. Yeah. You see more stuff. Yeah. I wonder if that means anything as people get older.

We had a moment where I'm over here. I'm streaming and I get a blood. You know when your phone just explodes with text messages? Damn, my burn was too subtle. Oh, something's happening. Right? And so I looked out of the text and so Paige had just given the man a cup with no lid. Mm.

Right? Because we're trying to do that, right? Instead of just sippy cups and straws. And she goes to fix something and comes back and he's drinking out of it one-handed. And she's like, what? Since when can you do that? And then he looks at her and goes, I want a lid and a straw. And she's like, no, no.

Yeah. Yeah. No, you don't need one. You don't need that. Thus began a few days of intense battles. Oh. Because that's funny you said that. Just like intense battles of will, dude.

We were just talking about like how we heard that it's like if you see signs that like you don't need a sippy cup, then like you don't need a sippy cup, you know? So here's the problem. Here's the problem. Yeah. Yeah. Need and want are different to us. All right. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. That's the battle. There was one afternoon where it's just me versus him. And I'm like, do you want your milk? Yeah. But here it is. No! There's no lid!

Yeah. There's no lid. I don't care. It's just, I know you can do it. No, I can't do it. It's too tricky. Yeah. No, it's not.

I seen it. I seen you do it. Can the sippy cup get tired? You know? No. That's not, no. Okay. Man, I just saw one.

I mean, so there's a, there's a Reddit called Kids Are Fucking Stupid, and it's exactly what it sounds like. And it's just, it's that. They're new. They're new. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They are, but they are fucking stupid, you know. Yeah, I don't know.

And I'm looking at the, there's one. And they're like, hey, kids like, I don't want this burger. And it's like, you said you wanted a burger. That's why we went and got a burger. I don't want to talk about this. I don't want to talk about this. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going through it over here. Oh, man. And I'm watching it going, you said you wanted a hamburger. Oh, you're so. It's.

And now you're holding a hamburger. And it's the biggest problem on. planet earth. It's, it's, it's customer service for like the rudest patron that's ever in the dark. Just the, like, like,

I made him his plate and he had his chicken nuggies and he had his berries and he had his, his peas, he had cereal, and he had yogurt, and you're just sitting there going, I don't want it. I don't want this. And I'm like, you ask me

for the nuggies. You ask me for the people you ask for these and like we have like a stare down for like a good couple of minutes just to battle the wills and he's like I want some dip dip dada and I'm like are you kidding me so I get him his ketchup and I go psh um num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num you forgot the dip da you fucking bitch like like you fucking bitch bitch made uh da da is it truly is it truly the whims changing with the wind or is it I'm making you do some shit just to see if you'll do it it's tough it's tough to see it's tough to understand exact and control wherever you can yeah either way big big big high chair fucking like hype

that's awesome absolute like that's a good phase I like that phase the phase where they're excited to go in the high chair that's really awesome Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And like, even like playtime and stuff was like, you know, simplified by just having like, okay, well, you're up here and we can get your toys up here and we can practice clapping and doing all that stuff. And it's like, yeah, there's just a, a, I guess, I get the feeling of I'm doing it myself, you know? Yeah. I'm a big kid now. I am a big kid. Me too. I'm a big kid. I'm a big kid. I can do it. I can do it all by myself. I can take all the groceries in in one trip.

Even if it cuts into my fingers. Especially if it cuts into my fingers. And it means nothing to walk back outside for 20 seconds. But nah. No. I can, you see, the trick is you puncture a hole in the top of the toilet paper and you grab the plastic, right? So that's hanging off the claws. And then you got free armpits and extra digits.

Yeah, because the toilet paper is not heavy enough to tear its own packaging. That's it. And you know, and you're not getting the paper bags. You're getting the fucking the, the recyclables. So you're cutting the fuck into those fingers, but you're doing it in one. This is great. This is great. And then your wife always gives you the same look.

And you're like, I did it all in one trip. And they're like, I don't care. Oh, she's still, she's still looking. It's like, it's like, it's like, or I got like a sigh. And they're like, you didn't have to do that. And like, yeah, but I took it all in one trip. And she's like, yeah. You just got it.

you just got to make sure that when you drop it off, you give a life's big, like, ugh. You know what my favorite is? You know my favorite is? It's the stupidest fucking thing ever. Okay, I took in every grocery bag in one trip. I'm a big man,

but I couldn't actually close the trunk because I had so many groceries, so I got to go back out anyway and close a trunk. You fool. All right. So besides that. Besides that, Besides that, I played a couple of games.

Steam's Next Fest was still happening. So we talked about it a little bit last time. I can't believe there is more than one item on your docket. That's fucking crazy. There are multiple items on my docket. That's crazy, dude. It is, isn't it? I played a game called 1348 Xvoto, which is another game.

featuring Jennifer English takes place in 1348 and you play a bowl cut lady pretending to be a knight. Oh. It sucks. Oh. It does

not have good controls. It runs very bad. The story is there. There are so many video games. Not impressive showing. at all.

Okay. I see, R.E4 camera with sword play. It's, yeah. So, what was the,

what was the fucking Xbox one game there? Rise, son of Rome? Yeah. Are we doing, are we doing that? I wish.

Okay. That game had some juice on it. This game has no juice or sauce. Just nothing. Also ran really bad. Like, I have a 4090, and I turned it on.

and was like, you want to run this at 33% resolution, right? No. Who the fuck? Jesus Christ. Okay, so all that's got is the Jean Dark vibes on the main characters. Yeah, that's it. I played Parasite Mutant. Yeah!

Fine, I'll do it myself. It is the most fucking fine. I'll do it. Oh, I like unapologetic levels of fuck you. I'm making Parasite Eve with. without you bitch. It's crazy. You're playing as a blonde woman

whose name I didn't get by the end of the demo. I didn't play it all that much. She is wearing a trench coat with the thighs cut out so you can see the absolute territory which I'm gonna say yeah, all right, yeah, sure.

Is that Tyrioki? You have an ATP par fill up one or two bars and then you hit the button and then the fucking dome appears and you fight a mutant with it. And it is literally... Did you see?

There's... System just like 100%... There's artwork of her in the dress that... Yeah. Fucking... Now granted, you don't know what's... Guna-fied in that dress. Yeah.

But she wears... A little bit of some, some like, Photoshop, like, hourglass figure shit going on. Aya's opera dress. She's literally wearing the exact thing. Like, they're not even remotely pretending. And you know what?

It is... Fuck them. I had pretty decent music. It had a really excellent CRT filter. I did not play that much of it. But it was like, yes, this is doing exactly what it says on the box. I assume this will be pretty good when it comes out in the near future. Like good controls and all and slavish devotion.

The only thing is I didn't get to hear much of the music and the music in Parasite Eve was crazy because it was Yoko Shimonara Yeah So it seems So from what I've heard It seems like multiple people have taken up the mantle To be like fuck it I'm going to do my own Parasite Eve And the only difference is there's different levels of gooning

That are You know some people are like I want tasteful gooning And some others are like I'm making a game called Wicked Seed Oh yeah I remember Yeah, yeah, I think I saw that.

Hold on, let me double check. And you're just like, are you literally calling it that? I think Wicked Seed is really crazy because it's literally Claire Redfield on the fucking, on the fucking art. That is, that is a brunette girl. It is Claire Redfield and her, her costume in the very first beginning of the, the, the gameplay trailer is her outfit from Revelations 2. Like, it's, it's, it's very, it's, you, I can tell where this is, is coming from. Oh, there's an outfit selector including jammies. Oh, this one's for, this one's for the, this one's for the Goon Maxers.

Dead right games presents evil come. Satanic semen. Yeah, I mean, look, look, different audiences, you know, some people just want the mitochondria parts. Some people want the rest, you know. Overwhelmingly positive. thumbs up And then, I was going to say 45 Parabellum Bloodhound being the other one.

That's another, that's another, that's another, 45 Eve-like. 45 Parabalm Bloodhound. All right. Let's see what it looks like. More anime. Jesus Christ. More anime.

That is. Yeah. It's another anime. What if it was Signallis? Yes. Sure. Also. So there are multiple levels.

The last Next Fest game that I played during the demo thing was called Alabaster Dawn. Cool name. It is made by Radical Fish Games, who are the people who made Crosscode. Okay. Is you familiar with Cross Code? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The fakesst MMO video game of all time? Probably the most fully realized fake MMO of all time.

Crosscode is actually a long action RPG that takes place inside the fictional setting of an MMO. Okay, so I mean, there's the dot-hacking strange. Well, there's the dot-hack games, right, where like you're in a fake MMO, but that's the setting. Alabaster Dawn takes place in what looks like to be a standard fantasy world. You got gods and spirits and shit that gets just like blasted from space. by what appears to be the thing slash Genova and just takes over the whole goddamn planet.

And you are doing a top down Legend of Manna, Second Densensu kind of action game that looks incredible. Like the sprite art and the animation in it looks incredible, plays incredible, has a pretty unique hook,

has great music, just top to bottom, like super, super solid, like could be really, really, really great. And it is coming soon to early access where it will stay for a minimum of two fucking years. I mean, what you're describing is pretty much exactly like crosscode. Yeah, but it's the second one. Okay.

My brain had to filter out that you weren't talking about chaos code for a second. No, no, that's a different one. There's too many games that have the same title almost. I forget there was something called like Valerborn. that got fucking announced and everybody was clowning on it being like why do western game devs only know 10 words yeah i mean it's the we're doing the bit again to be fair about no and yeah it's still relevant it's yeah 2026 the bit still relevant valour doesn't come up as often you know but yes we're still rolling through the fucking slot machines ridiculous ridiculous

born valor guard high valor valour face um the last The last game that I played as a demo was a game that came out today. And Raw Fury was so excited to send me a code. Two different guys sent me three codes for it. It's called Esoteric Eb. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. So I'm going to just start off by saying, I'm pretty sure. that so the lead developer is Chris

Christopher Bodegaard I'm pretty sure he does not have the rights to Dungeons and Dragons however boy getting real standing right on that line

so esoteric Eb Disco and Dragons is a disco-like Disco Elysium-like, a CRPG where almost all of what you're doing is talking and running skill checks and failing in a Dungeons and Dragons style environment.

You play as The Cleric and the disco. The disco vibes are omnipresent, right? The very first thing that happens is you're being asked questions by an unknown source as you're falling through a black void, and it's very like ancient lizard brain kind of thing. Reptillion brain.

Yeah, the text on the side scrolling is almost the same font. It has the same sound effect when the thoughts pop in. It's the isometric view of the, it's like they're very clearly going. Yeah, no, it's, it's very interesting. Yeah, yeah. It's also very, very, it's also very attached to play. Plainscape Torment. Okay.

You wake up in the same place in like a mortuary. Okay. And there's a lot of plaincape like vibe and feel to it. It is, it, so unlike zero parades, which I played last week. And I think it was really interesting because I described myself playing zero parades as 40, 45 minutes. I saw some folks annoyed because I actually played it for 20. And that that means I didn't give it a fair shot. But what I actually means is that it felt.

like I fucking played it for 45. Even though I only play it for 20. Esoteric Ebb feels more like the successor of, hey, I'm doing something really interesting like Disco Elysium. Like the first one of those, genuinely. Okay. You start the game and the first thing it asks you is, what kind of cleric are you? And you choose your stats just like you would in Disco Elysium.

But instead of the 30 or 40 stats in disco that were conceptualization and logic and encyclopedia and maturics and hand-eye coordination and, you know, all these very, very like interesting, unique ones, you have the six classics. You have strength, decks, constitution, intelligence, wisdom, and charisma. Like the oldest stats in video games, the best known six stat spread that's ever been. And do those classic stats talk to you? They talk to you a lot. That's great. A lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot. So one of the things that showed up is that I rolled a strength wisdom cleric because that's what I would roll in D&D.

And the opening sequence that includes, you know, the types of things ancient reptilian brain asks you, other people who had played the demo. And we're like, this entire sequence is completely different based off of the fact that you put wisdom high. Okay. Okay. Like, it is, it is more variability than what disco has going on. It included little lines about what I should value in myself that was like color-coded according to my stat, which was wisdom. That was the highest one. It included calling me the dumbest cleric that ever lived.

because my lowest stat was six intelligence. What's the voice acting situation? None. Yeah, no, I literally was talking to somebody from Raw Fury, and I was like, you should give them more money to do voice acting. And they went, ah, that was the official response. Cool, cool, right. Press conference.

Ah, oh, I can't say anything, but ah. Yeah, yeah, okay. Gotcha. Right? Gotcha. So you start of your You're a little cleric Is you wake up at the morgue because you got blown up in a T-shop

And you're not investigating a murder You're investigating a terror attack You're investigating the bombing of a T-shop Right You wake up Can't remember your name You wake up And your helmet is attached

And you go to pull it off And you get a DC-20 strength check That you fail Dex check that you fail Con check that you fail Int check that you fail Wisdom check that you fail And a charisma check

That you guaranteed succeed The Ghost can't wait till it's off And so it's different But it is the expression It's clearly ascend up to the expression Okay Okay And very very very very very early

In the very beginning What I discovered was the stats have a secondary layer. So, you know, strength is all about macho showing off your strength and dexterity is all about being sneaky and fast and quick-witted, right? You would think these things. Constitution's about toughing it out. Like, it's very natural. The background of the story is that the fantasy setting that you're in is having the first election ever.

So it's about politics. Metaphor? And each of the stats has a political party that they like. Ah, that's cool. So macho dickhead strength loves the fascist party. Hell yeah. You know, dexterity loves the free republics. Constitution likes the agrarian farmer's party.

Wisdom likes the workers party. And charisma writes in your own. name on the voting box. Okay. Okay. Interesting. And on top of that, within the first five minutes, I learned dancing

lights and cure light wounds. And you can rest at any given shrine and in your encounters instead of using items or drugs, you're casting classic spells to heal yourself or mitigate damage or do damage. And I also

got into a fight, like a real Dungeons and Dragons fight with a zombie. Okay, so there is combat. The combat is still dialogue-based. So, like, it is the zombie did this, and it was a unique line. What do you do? And it's the two stats. And then pass or fail.

And instead of rolling box cars, you're rolling a D-20. Okay. Because a fucking course you can. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, yeah, I ended up knocking a zombie out and getting to a different part of the room. Um, it is incredibly impressive. It is super well written. There was a screenshot somebody put up on the subreddit where they were talking to a

teafling and this teafling lady was like, yeah, you know, the boys go crazy because I got that demon blood and charisma's like, you know what you should say. You should say a pussy. You should just say a pussy. Okay. That obis a bussy. Okay. So it's got a sense of humor as well.

It's got that juice, man. That's good. That's good. Because we were talking... Super impressive. When, we were talking about zero parades earlier and I was kind of, you know, saying like, okay, so expectation is you're going to see the mechanics, but maybe not the writing quality, right? And I think that Disco is going to farm in a whole new crop of games that are mechanically going to be following in its likeness.

Now, Disco is not... Absolutely. It's not the only, it's not the first RPG of its kind, but it's the first that I can think of where it had like the talking stats, for example, you know? Absolutely. And like the thought cabinet in that way. So, disco is in its core fundamentally unique from like a gameplay perspective. Just, just mechanical. Exactly.

And I think you're going to see a lot of people emulating that because it's easier to emulate that than it is to emulate the fucking raw Estonian, you know, like hyperpolitical. messaging in the world that Kervitz was fucking crafting, right? So I'm expecting that like a number of games will come in to play that'll be like pretty fun to play mechanically that are like

disco because everything we're describing here is like that sounds cool. I'm not expecting a D&D setting necessarily to hit like the same emotional notes. But if you're saying it does some good shit, then I'm like, okay. So I only played the demo

for half an hour an hour. Very impressive. I'm probably going to go back to it either on camera or off. But it's definitely worth checking out. It's really, really, really cool. Okay. Yeah.

It's doing, it's doing zany things. Also, it controls better than disco Elysium, which is kind of a weird thing to say. That's something you would focus on. Okay. Like,

it just has better button placement and better ability to, like, select things in the environment. I like, uh, disco likes or Elysium likes. So yeah, I like that.

Oh, it's definitely disco. Yeah. Are we getting the tone or are we getting the gameplay, you know? That's cool. Oh, we're getting, we're getting, I would say a somewhat similar tone, honestly. Tone as well. It's not as abjectly miserable because it's fantasy. Yeah.

But your character is an idiot and they are bad at their job. Choosing to go comedic inherently makes that pathway easier than going. It gives you a nice on-ramp to a bunch of stuff. Failing into fun. But writing comedy is hard. Yeah, if you're playing it dead serious and doing that, then, you know, and we'll have to see how the other games treat it as well. Are the other games going to be like whimsical, but like dark comedy as well, or are they going to treat it super serious? Yeah, so it's a really interesting thing because one of the biggest questions I see from a lot of people is how's the voice acting, right? And there's no voice acting. So not available out of 10. And then I compare that to zero parades, which is, fully voice acted and I didn't like it.

Interesting. Yeah. So, I don't know if you saw, but Triple X Night Shift is now called Tangerine Antarctic. I did not know that. So that has renamed itself as well. I'm sure they'll change their names many, many, many, many times.

Probably for marketing purposes. You know, Triple X Night Shift might not. Yeah, it reads like fucking point. Might not sit on the shelf as nicely as something else. However... Wouldn't be a disco game from the disco people if they didn't have to change the name.

I still think them changing No Truce with the Furies is one of the funniest stories in video games. It's also the context for the phrase no truce with the Furies is from sacred and terrible error. And the context it's used in

fucking rules. It's an awesome title drop. Every single person who saw the title of that game went no truce with the furries? What the hell is this game about? Right, right, right. It's awesome that had been cool, man. It's great. So yeah, esotericab is super cool.

I cannot wait to dig my toes more into it. It's funny because even in this like disco-like way, something like a name like Tangerine Antarctic, it follows the same style of two seemingly unrelated nouns slap together. I bet they won't feel that unrelated when you get to the end. Perhaps not. Perhaps

not. But if you grab whatever, you know, anything and anything. And you slap them together. Yeah. That was it for my way. No, I played R.E.9 came out. I have since beaten RE9 two and a half times.

You've done it twice. Two and a half. okay two of those have been all on stream okay uh the first was uh by the way it's people saying no spoilers don't worry about it like genuinely don't worry about it not a spoiler cast i have i have my thoughts all good up into my brain uh so uh i beat it on classic which is the hardest difficulty you can pick from the beginning and classic is basically it's a little it's a little tougher like enemies are a little more resilient. Ammo's a little more scarce. But the main thing is that you have to use ink ribbons to save. You don't get a real auto save for most sections.

And you have to use a consumable item to save. Back to that. The first time through, the game took me 21 hours to stream. But the in-game clock said 11, which is fun. Cuts scenes don't count. Cutscines don't count. Restarts don't count. loads don't count okay right um

that kind of thing so uh if you have been living under a rock uh Resident Evil 9 takes place uh in 2020 2020 I think it's 2026 maybe it's 2020 but it's modern day

um and you are playing you are ping ponging between one Grace Ashford the Ash is it Ashcroft Grace Ashcroft uh And one Leon Kennedy. Grace is the daughter of Alyssa Ashcroft,

the reporter from Resident Evil Outbreak. And Leon, I don't need to fucking tell anybody listening to his fucking podcast, who the fuck Leon Kennedy is. And you are basically ping ponging between very, very, very, very classic, limited inventory, survival horror,

limited ammunition, limited inventory, limited health, going all over an environment, solving puzzles that are obtuse as shit, and have the dumbest architecture known to man. And then Leon fucking walks in and goes, who wants to play a fucking action game? Yeah.

All the memes, et cetera. She's running from the monster. The monster's running from Leon. Yeah, 100%. So the game has a really interesting structure in that regards. And that is the game is like very lopsided in who you actually control. I don't mean you play as Leon Moore. I'm just saying like the the you flip back and forth like four or five times, but you definitely get a lot more classic survival horror in the first half.

Did you play a lot more? Did you play her sections in first person? Yes, it did. Okay. I played her sections in first person and on my first playthrough and Leon's in third person on my first play through. And then I switched to her on third person on the second playthrough. Okay. I would say it's actually fairly important to play your first run through in first person.

Grace's sections are clearly designed for you to be peeking around corners and have certain sight lines and certain really, really, really, really up close personal moments. And it also helps really, really strongly separate how the sections feel when, oh, it's all claustrophobic and I'm really in here. And then you switch to Leon and you can fucking see Leon. and Leon's like, I'm going to shoot these fuckers and do Brownhouse kicks and all sorts of crazy nonsense. What's weird is that I switched to third person on the second playthrough and Grace gets a lighter for her light source in the beginning. And the visual effect of the light from the lighter going through her hair is like the best looking hair I have ever seen in a game. And it's only if you change the fucking camera off the default. Interesting.

And it's like, wow, you guys spent, oh, you tried really hard. to make this part that's optional look really, really, really, really good. It's very, very silly. Grace's sections are fucking great. Grace's sections are like pitch perfect. It's not the mansion and it's not the RPD. It's the care center. It looks suspiciously like the Resident Evil One mansion.

it has a similar baffling nonsense layout with too many rooms and too many hallways and stupid places and not a bathrooms you are going around and doing just

nonsense puzzles fucking stupid nonsense sticking shapes into walls you need an octagonal red gem to get into the parlor of course you fucking do jamming shit into shit you know I need to

oh you need to figure out the sun and moon puzzle What's the combination to the sun and moon statue so I can get the quartz to open up the stets? Is there always a sun and moon statue or am I just thinking of like other games? I feel like that's a common. It's not every single time, but it's pretty common. The story takes place in current year and deals with the fallout from Raccoon City again because Raccoon City being annihilated by not a nuclear attack.

A lot of people forget that it was retconed about 10 years ago into a thermobaric attack, a crater, aka a fire bomb. Oh, okay. All right. So it's not like radiated. Well, Moab. It's something like that. All right.

A retcon bomb. Yeah. So somebody says an RE3 nemesis. No, an RE3 remake. That's different. So no fallout. No fallout. Yeah.

So it takes place in two main sections. both of which were shown in the trailer. One is the Care Center, which is your mansion equivalent, and the other is a return to Raccoon City, which looks like shit. It's fucked up over there. Grace has a really interesting gimmick

to her gameplay in which she starts with a pistol and a magnum. Like she starts off with a dinky-ass little pea-shooter. And the strongest thing. That is really only good for stunning a zombie and then pushing them over and the biggest fucking magnum ever called the

Requiem. And when are you going to use that? Yes, because the ammo for the Requiem is extraordinarily scarce. And is hidden behind a bunch of, you know, oh, did you find a locked drawer? Oh, guess what? That was the materials you could use to make

one magnum bullet. Right. Right. And the reason why this matters is because if Grace or Leon killed a regular zombie and leaves them alone for a really, really long time, there is a fairly significant chance that when you pass them by,

they will turn into a much uglier, much stronger, much faster zombie, like Crimsonheads from Resident Evil remake. So putting enemies down becomes a factor of, it's not just, hey, I'm going to be using this hallway all the time. I need to clear it. It's like, well, if I clear it in a certain way, then am I going to have a bigger problem later? As such, Grace gets a fairly complicated crafting system.

She's picking up scrap. She's sucking a blood off the ground. And she's making things like Maltau cocktails. She's making something called a hemelitic agent, which is basically a free stealth kill. Like, if you spread the reason, resources to make a little purple vial and sneak up on a zombie and jam it into them. They won't just die.

They'll literally burst. Okay. Like 100% vaporized burst. And it's like you will not have to worry about that fucking guy ever again. They will not get back up. They are goo. Is the, I don't know how much overlap in sections there are with the characters where like you're creating a problem for one or the, other, but I'm assuming Leon is not strapped for ammo at any point.

So, Grace has to deal with ammo like an old Resident Evil game. Ammo exists in places, and that's where it lives. You could also craft some ammo, but blood is used to, blood and scrap, the two materials that used to make almost everything, are used to make bullets, magnum bullets, hemeletic, injectors, which is the instant kills, as well as health upgrades and aim upgrades. So, like, and if you're playing on classic, you also use them to make increbons to save the game.

So that's how she gets her ammo. She finds it or she has to make it. Enemies literally drop fucking ammo when Leon shoots them. Okay, okay. Like, Leon's sections have. the adaptive ammo system of of Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 4 remake in RE5 I was like, you're running low on handgun ammo?

Blow this dude's head off. Hey, guess what? He dropped 20 bullets. Crazy. Is it representative of the fact that he's such a survivor that he's just automatically turning it into it in the process of taking someone out right away? Kind of.

You can walk up to some of Grace's like puzzle items and he goes, I don't need to do this. And like instead of dealing with like locked door, doors, he just pulls out his hatchet and just busts it and just walks in. Nice. Like, Leon's a freak. Nice. It, it, it definitely feels like playing like, like, I'm a scared little baby versus I'm

Jason Vorhees out to kill all these motherfuckers. And I think a ping pongs fairly well. Grace's sections are more in the first half and Leon's sections are more in the back half. And the reason for that is because it's easier to have a big, fucking cool bombastic boss fight with Leon Kennedy doing action game shit that it is like slow limited weapon

like limited health grace that being said her the path thing in her sections is really excellent the item placement in her sections is really excellent I did a speed run on the easier difficulty that was my second run on camera and discovered wow you can

just fucking skip like 99% of this fucking game like the only thing you need is this item this item and this If you know where to go. And just you don't even need fucking ammo because all you need to do is shoot a zombie in the face and push them over and run past them. Okay.

The zombie, your primary antagonist in this is your standard zombie, but they're T-virus mutation zombies, so they're better than your average zombie. They retain some element of humanity, which means there's a lot of zombies that have fancy gimmicks. There's zombies that are obsessed

with keeping the lights off. So if you go into a room and turn a light switch on, they'll go, oh, the lights and wander out of where they're placed to turn the lights off. Interesting. Okay. There's zombies that hate noise. There's zombies that hate mess, which is one of the more interesting ones. If there's blood somewhere, they'll freak out and clean it and they'll move around. That's cool, because some of the, some of my favorite zombies are the ones from I Am a Hero.

It's the mega where the virus in that game, in that setting, makes people do the thing as a zombie that they were obsessed with in life. Yeah, that's kind of what's going on. Yeah. So like one of the biggest threats, one of the bosses of that is there's an athlete that became a zombie and he was a high jumper. So he eventually becomes obsessed with just the zombies running around and high jumps up onto a roof where people are surviving, you know? I like that idea of like the obsession. So that, Grace's sections are uniformly excellent.

Leon's section has one part that drags pretty long. It's like by far the longest part of the whole game. It's like two, like it's one level that's like two hours. Okay. And it is, it is like exploring a huge wide open area. Like by far,

the largest wide open area that's ever been in Resident Evil game for like a bunch of key items and just having a bunch of encounters along the way. And then you have a series of fucking crazy boss fights. Probably the most interesting thing about it

is that I've seen some folks call it like, I saw somebody describe it as fan service slop, which is a really fucking weird way to describe a game. that put things into the game because people would like them. So, well, it's actually a fucking strange complaint. So my impression from the outside, looking at the trailer and everything, was that this is your

Metal Gear Solid 4 of RE or your DMC 5 or your, you know, it is your big all together now, like, send up, right? It is. That is exactly. MGS4 is by far the most adequate appraisal. So one of the things that they showed off in one of the trailers was that some of the survivors of Raccoon City have developed something called Rackland City syndrome, which is basically very, very, very long-term latent exposure to the T-virus means that Leon is sick. Leon is extremely sick. He is quite ill during the events of this game. And who knows what's going to happen? Someone in the chat. says he has geostigma, honestly, my...

Honestly, man. Honestly, as well. Might as well. Is the titular Requiem truly the gun? It is the gun. Okay.

Is there a nine in the spelling on it? Yeah. Nice. So the, so that that complaint feels very strange to me. So first of all, it's the 30th anniversary game.

This, is now 30 years of Resident Evil from 96 to 2006. And the story, which I will go into very little, definitely has, hey, we've been doing this for a long time vibes. There's definitely a lot of Leon is very tired, very old going on. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Sorry, I'm at 2026, 2006.

there is a very concerted effort to take a, I would say, shockingly far range of stupid Resident Evil details into account and try and bring them all up under one umbrella. But basically just encapsulate just a wide variety of the stupidest details of the franchises history and try and tie most of them up into a neat little package and then leave one loose thread for the future. So franchises don't end. However, there are ending games, right? RE6, with everyone being in it, it felt like, I'm assuming, an ending game because you put everyone in it. No? Didn't feel like that at all. Nope, not even a little. The fact that they put

everyone in it didn't make it feel that way? Continuing adventures of Resident Evil gang. I would have assumed that it was like we're making the one with everybody and that'll feel like some sort of big finale. No, not even close. Not even a little bit. Wow. Strange. Okay. No, that's you're fucking right.

That was weird. Because usually if you grab everybody that would be the move. Okay. Well, in this case, does this feel This one feels like that. Okay. This feels like unending, even though we know there is no ending. If you wanted to be, if you wanted to be like an asshole and you were writing like one piece or some shit, you could say Resident Evil 9 is the end of the 30 year umbrella arc. And you're like, that is an insane idea that like decades of this has been arc one of.

Right? A cinematic universe. It's a cinematic universe. In season one. Yes, yes, yes. Avengers changed everything, man. And so the second half of the game gets. So, I mean, you're going back to, like, they showed it off in the trailers.

You're going back to the Recru City. You're going back to the RPD. They fucking milk that shit for every drop they can. Shadow Moses. There is a, there is a very, there is a very, very definitive feel of you are net like first of all there's a there's a there's a rotating cast of hey i know in some of the remakes or some of the recent games you haven't seen this one for a while or this one for a while you know what we're going to do we're going to give you all of the ones that you've

been missing for a while and a couple of ones from shit, shit side games that you never thought would show up in a main game ever, ever, ever, ever and ends up being like one of the best moments of that whole thing. There's one particular boss fight in the last chapter of the game

that I, you know what, hold on. I'm assuming that like a lot of going through the police department is go playing with your memory and then using that against you. A fair amount. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a puzzle regarding that fucking creepy photo of Rebecca that Wesker keeps in his fucking desk.

Right, right, right. You know, just stuff like that. They go, they go like super, super nuts on the fan service in the RPD section, which is appropriate. Correct. To the point where you, like, it goes so deep that you find out that the RPD in 1998 preferred playing street fighter on the Saturn. Wow. Okay. As a as a franchise, does it feel weird, though, that like the big celebration sort of sendoff is about the breakout's famous sequel and not the mansion that started at all? So this is a really good point. And it goes further into like my talking about like the, you know, the fan service aspect.

Because the second half gets pretty strong on it, right? And it gets mainly Resident Evil 2. Resident Evil 3, you know, fan service. And I feel like an asshole, and I also feel like a freak because one of the things that I noticed playing through the game is that this is like actually like Final Fantasy 9 levels of fan service throughout like every single section of the entire game. So it's something that people who aren't complete psycho freaks would not pick up on because they don't remember every single fucking room in Resident Evil. But for example, the very first level of the game, a hotel,

where you're investigating something about Alyssa Ashcroft, the reason why you're investigating a hotel is because in the pre-release screenshots for Resident Evil outbreak, Alyssa Ashcroft was closely associated with the hotel because her red jacket looked good on the red background of the fire in the hotel room in outbreak. So the hotel is Alyssa's level.

We're on this level of detail I see. Okay. Right. There is the same the same fuckass first to second floor staircase rotating hallway that has a

cubby hole in it that every single fucking building in Resident Evil has. There is a long hallway fairly early in the game with like a drape blowing that is the same layout and furniture placement of the RE1 dog hallway to make you worried that dogs are going to jump through the fucking window. There are RE4 sequences directly transplanted, even though it doesn't make any fucking sense. There are like this room and that room and this puzzle and this puzzles, the architecture or the sense. sound effect or the scenario.

Like there's there's like a you know what you would call like a pass through area that only exists for drama or like the characters literally just run through a series of little liminal corner. Yeah. There's a section about middle of the game where me and like

10 guys in the chat were like this is literally a room from Resident Evil Revelations 2 to those of you who aren't aware. It's an underground like sewer section with like a staircase where you run up and go left and it's like a sewer. Looks I identical to a specific room from one game from like 10 years ago.

So like it is an obsessive beloved love letter to every possible minor detail. From multiple games. They've readd sequences from bad games. Right. There's a boss fight that's a redo of an RE6 boss fight in a chapel. Okay. It's the same fucking fight. But it's better now.

Okay. Because they're like, no, no, no. we're going to do it again. There's enemies that were god-awful in RE5 that reappear, and they're all right now. They're like, they redesigned the way that they work. Yeah, all right. So it doesn't feel like the police station is getting too lifted away from things because everything is getting its flowers. Yeah, no.

And the main thing is that the flowers in the RPD are like a full bouquet just jammed. your fucking face. Yeah, yeah. To the point where characters are even remarking about how they remember the way that things used to be. Like, out loud. Okay. But the whole game cohesively

is like little bits and pieces and ideas and themes and and background details and like this detail from one of the outbreak epilogues made it in and then here's a photo on the wall of the special forces enacting the quarantine outside Raccoon

City that was referenced in fucking orc and hit like just fucking just it's an anniversary game it is anniversary game yes yes absolutely um and i and it's great yeah i love those i really like even in even the stupidity of like talking about m gs four after the fact i talk about jojo about any like the big celebration parts are so enjoyable in many cases when they do it when they do it well so that's that's very cool um i i the level you're describing of like fucking granularity as well i'm like i am not a resident evil fan so i don't think anyone thinks i am or would expect me to call myself that or i don't keep up or play the games I am, however, an enjoyer of your explanations

of Resident Evil I think I'm an enjoyer of it in the way that we discuss Kojima shit where that is my that is where I'm at on this franchise

is what you're describing sounds ridiculous and amazing there are multiple parts of this game's story that read like hack shit. You know what I mean? Like what the fuck?

Who the fuck is this? This is nonsense. But if you know enough, you actually discover that it's even hacker shit than you thought it was.

Like there's a good element of who the fuck is this guy that stupid. And then underneath is I know who that guy is. That's really fucking stupid. Okay. And there's at least two of those story elements where you're like, what the fuck?

This is bullshit. You're like, no, no. This is bullshit. You don't understand. This is fucking dumb. I caught a clip of a cameo of a character running by the background. Yeah. That's not even.

given any like unreality at all. Is there? And that's just there. And that's canon's play through story. With the sound effects and everything. Right.

There's, there is no moment to stop and explain. Absolutely not. Okay. Yeah. Right. Right.

That shit's just real. Don't worry about it. Keep moving. Yeah, no. Like, it's, it's,

uh, uh, there's, there's, also a completely genuinely new enemy type in this game that I never would have thought I would ever see in a Resident Evil game that was so good I restarted the encounter like 10 times because I wanted to do it again. Nice. Oh wow. Okay. A genuinely brand new type of enemy. Everything else's remixes and or familiar approach. I mean, there's a lot of fucking monsters you can put in this game, right?

You got old monsters, you got some new guys, you got some new bosses, you got some old bosses, you know? RE9 is a good game. RE9 is an excellent game. It also runs really well. It has a great set of bonuses. and it has a fucked up difficulty for freaks

once you've beaten the game. So, I beat the game on Classic and you unlocked like the bonus shot, right? The bonus shop, sorry, where you can be like, ah, get more costumes or get bonus weapons, like a submachine gun, stuff like that,

right? That you unlock with achievement points, right? And then one of those is infinite ammo. And you're like, that would be pretty fucking good. And one of that is like infinite hatchet durability because Leon's traded in his knife for cool ass hatchet. Shit, they'll break.

Still does lots of paris and stuff like that. And then you unlock a mode called Insanity. And I started to play insanity after beating the game on a speed run. So I did a speed run on Easy where I did no crafting,

no healing items, and under four hours. I beat the game in three hours. And that allows you to get enough points to buy all the subweapons and infinite ammo. So like fucking killer. Awesome. Great. Great.

Started insanity died immediately with infinite ammo. With your shit, your new game plus stuff. Yes. Oh, wow. Like the second enemy in the game. And the loading screen tip

says, hey, insanity mode's pretty crazy. You might want to replay the game on a different difficulty and unlock some of the bonus weapons to beat it. It's balanced against the craziest, the strongest weapons in the game. It is intentional

to like, no, you want to come in with this with infinite ammo and every fucking subweapon and infinite durability hatchet. Wow. Okay. Okay. Because it's fucking crazy. It's fucking nuts. Sick. So I'm going to, I'm going

through it on my own time and I'm going to get all the files and then I'm going to go all the collectibles and then I'm going to hit an insane run and I fully expect it to be fucking ridiculous. Did it answer every question remaining? No, fuck no. No, no. It's not one of those. Okay.

So, because it has its own questions. Okay. So what it does is it answers questions again, which is if you, if you, if you, if you, if you like there are there are parts of that game that you're like i know what happened and the game's like no you didn't actually this is what happened that earlier thing lie that was a lie okay um and it it it opens up a couple questions that aren't fully 100% answered that um i bet you mean susy and jean figured out but um but like it's never stated in the game okay sure there's a very, there's a, there's a very mysterious character in the game that has absolutely no details about them at all.

But I could ballpark it. Okay. Yeah. Like, like, I mean, when we talk about, like, another Capcom franchise DMC, like, there's stuff where you're like, oh, if you're following this, you know the deal off camera. But it's making it more overt on camera. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Um, game ends with, uh, a stinger for future, future shenanings. Yeah. Probably DLC. It also ends. Once you beat the game, you earn a report called The Truth About the Raccoon City incident, which is a 60-page document.

Jesus Christ, that's a fucking heavy title. Which is more than anything, proof that this is the end of the umbrella arc of Resident Evil, because Grace just goes, okay, here's my official report. here's the timeline of events Here's who was involved Here's who did what, etc

That okay In scrolling down that fucking MGS timeline Was so satisfying back in the day So that would feel pretty good And basically it ends with there being Like two big questions One of which is Hey whatever happened to that mind transfer

shit from Revelations 2 where the villain totally got away and transplanted their brain into a little girl. That doesn't come out even once in this game and yes that is real. Don't make that fucking face. Don't make that fucking face. No, I'm just, I'm going like, did I already hear about this six years ago? Probably. Probably.

But yes, one of the villains totally got away with it and transferred their mind into a psychic, a little girl. Yeah, okay. And that has not come up since. So they're still out there. Okay. And then the second... If I don't actually play it for myself, guys, it's not going to lock in. Why would it?

Then the second one is, what is the nature of the new problem going forward? Yes. Who could, you know, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, uh, it, it provides a lot of emotional closure for like Leon, uh, and, uh, characters that didn't deserve it. in the old series okay it provides a fairly significant amount of closure

for characters that did not deserve it in the old series including one which is fake so there are people who are going to play RE9 and have an emotional reaction to one of the characters within without the knowledge that that emotional manipulation

is actually in universe fake because RE9 presents it as real but I know for a fact that it's it's fake. Wait, what? There is a face turn in this game that is presented as sincere, right? Okay. But previous knowledge. It's not.

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. But it's not, and I know for a fact that it's not, I could send you documents describing that it is not. And this was planted in earlier games. Yes. Gotcha. Okay. Okay. Which is really funny. And it's the type of thing of like regular person playing the game. Oh, that's a cool story bit. Ari Fanatic playing the game? That's fucking hilarious that they're trying to trick me. Like I don't know better. But I do know better. Yeah, games great.

also like RE2 has a fucking god awful scripted section dead ass in the center of the game that is going to be the worst thing to watch ever in speed runs Oh just like a set piece minute sequence that's like very cinematic

That you just can't make it go any fucking faster Okay Okay And it sucks And boy it sucks on replay too But yeah RE9 is a great game. It is a great

Resident Evil game. It is the best one in a while. I put it right up there with RE2 and RE2 remake and RE4 and RE4 remake. It's one of the really, really great ones. And to answer your earlier question about how it feels like it kind of started with RE2,

which is the sequel, even though the mansion incident is where it really started. In universe contextualization, the city becoming so nightmarishly infected that it has to be missile attacked to clean it up is a bigger deal story-wise than this one mansion got good up by zombies and there was a secret conspiracy. Right? Like the Spencer estate, RE1, is really just part one of the Raccoon City like story. Yeah, no, hey, look, Gecky is not in Street Fighter 6. We know what it means. Yeah, Street Fighter starts at two.

Of course. Duh. Yes. But I just, I do, like, when it's such a story-heavy sort of moment, I kind of wonder, I'm like, is there a feeling of like, I know in my heart that it begins with this? The second reason is because the timeline we're working on is the assumed, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the. The RE9 exists on the assumption that players played. RE2 remake, RE3 remake, RE4 remake, nine. Yeah, okay.

All right, right. Raccoon City, Raccoon City, Leon and Raccoon City. If I was guessing from, yeah, if I was guessing from the outside without seeing what the game was about before it was announced, I would have thought that this would have been like a, the end. of a first person trilogy, you know, of games. Yeah, I can see that. But instead, it's just the full thing you're saying, the whole franchise up to this point.

So there's somebody in the chat that says, so RE0 doesn't exist. Characters from RE0 are mentioned in Resident Evil 9's documents. And there is a send up to a Resident Evil Zero boss fight. There is a boss fight in this game that is just like, hey, remember this cool boss fight from Ari Zero? We're going to just redo it. Are there...

Just completely redo it. Are there references to Caliban Cove? No, because that was written by S.D. Perry and is non-official. There are references to fucking umbrella core and Operation Raccoon City. Okay. Games. So they go fucking deep. Games. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. I mean, if it's a released video game, I'm going to assume so. but a book is fucking... The CG movies are not explicitly referenced in any way other than the fact that there are sequences from this game that are highly reminiscent of some of those CG movies. Like, you know, thematically.

Also, I haven't watched all of them, but I think the last one that came out has Leon and Chris in it should be noted that the zombies in that movie can be cured, but Leon and Chris just mow down hundreds of them like they're nothing like who gives

a fuck because they're in our way. Wait, what does cured mean? I mean fully returned to humanity. Not like normal person. Even if they're dead. Back to being normal people. Yeah. What? Wait.

But then. Yeah. They're in my way, Leon. I got to do John Wick stuff. that's horrifying cursed knowledge that should never exist. It really, it's really interesting because if you... That is franchise annihilating knowledge. 99% of them are like cooked in the instant that they get infected, right?

Yeah. Minus the like Plagus type shit and so on. One of the things that stands out to me, I'm thinking about Leon and as I often do. And everybody's crazy for Leon. Leon is like the most popular fucking character that I think Kackal might have ever fucking made. Well, duh. Everybody loves him. Yeah, look at him.

They want to kiss on him. They want to be his pal. Leon's sex Kennedy. And like, you look at him in Reserville 9 and he's like, damn near 50 years old. I think he's 51 years old. He's hot as shit. He's super big. He's a John Wick fucking roundhouse kicking 80s fucking.

fucking character, one-liner, witty dude, pathos, all this shit. And, like, he has been grandfathered into that character spot. Like, he gets to do that because he's had games since

like 98. But, like, if you made, like, the same guy that's just new Leon Kennedy, he'd be cringe as fuck. Sure. Yes. It's, no, it's all, it's all grandfathered in and, yes, on his, on his, Like the fact that like, yeah, no, we've seen it.

We've been seeing it for decades. We saw how he went from sweet little cinnamon bun man in R2 and R2 to this fucking old wisecracking hot uncle. You can't, like actual people in their 50s can't pull off trunk's hair. What are we fucking talking about? That's insanity. You're not allowed. You're not allowed to do trunk's hair in your 50s.

Only Leon can do it. And on the flip side, Grace is fantastic. I don't know. Hold on. Drew Grace Ashcroft voice actor. I don't know who her actor is. Angela Sant Albano. She's great.

Okay. She has an incredible performance. She does. I am terrified for my fucking life like almost nobody else I've ever heard voice acting. Like the, the,

like the fear, not stutter, but stammer. You know that like I'm gonna fucking choke and die any second during my dialogue? She's really good. I agree with that assna. She might be too good for Resident Evil's voice acting.

Okay. Like this is a general. genuinely great performance for what is at the end of the day this total hack shit that I'm crazy about. Okay. It's interesting how on paper, even the description of how the game splits up here, it's like, I don't know if it's too far to say it, but like what RE4's Ashley sections like probably could have or should have been. maybe like something where you could play and do a bit more or something a little more engaging. This has been a longstanding thing going back to RE1. So like switching between characters has always been a thing.

Even in RE1 in 96 when Chris gets poisoned in the snake boss fight, you switch to Rebecca, who kind of sucks, and she goes and makes the anti-venom. And that's a really short section. Same thing if Chris gets grabbed by the plant, you switch to Rebecca and she makes V-Jolt. And then in RE2, you could play as little girl Sherry, who was totally helpless, right? Or badass Ada, who's actually a better, stronger character than Leon or Claire. Like, she shoots her handgun faster.

And so, like, Carlos in 3, and then in Code Veronica, you switch between Claire and Chris. And then in 4, you switch between Leon and Ashley, right? Like, it's been a constant thing of, like, switching from your capable, strong character to your less capable character. You can't do roundhouse kicks and show on. Now we have the formula for first person Resident Evil and third person Resident Evil. And now they exist within the same game. It's basically half of Resident Evil 2 remake and half of RE4. Right, right.

And it works really, really, really well. Well, the contrast between Roundhouse Kick Mercenary and like barely surviving nor gameplay is strong enough that you can put the character who's struggling in that role. You know? Yeah. So, like, there's a sequence in the game where Grace has to sneak and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, you know, just really fucking, like, finesse her way through a sequence. And then it cuts to Leon with his arsenal and he kills three times his enemies as Grace even saw. Right. Right.

Right. Yeah. Just, ah! That's a difficult, the switch between to a depowered character as well is super. difficult because like I feel like I can think of more examples of that failing than not, you know, where you take the fun away. I've obviously talked recently about the Oni Musha situation, but like I'm also thinking of even like zero suit Sammis and stuff like that, you know, like there's times where you're like, you did the, the, the hindrance should not

be less fun. It should just be a different game loop, a different thing, a different way you have to overcome, you know? Stealthing and sneaking can be fine in and of its own, but what else can you do? What else is going on with it? So Dust Golem has revealed. Dust Golem is the guy who always knows everything about Resident Evil way before it comes out for like going on 20 years now. I don't know how where the fuck they are or how old they are. But anyway, Dust Golem says Code Veronica is the next one. And Code Veronica is interesting because it sucks.

So one of the questions the people ask is like, when are they going to remake bad games instead of all these good ones? You remember that email? Well, guess what? Code Veronica? Kind of sucks. And they're going to do it. And in that game, you play as Claire and you play as Chris Redfield.

And Chris Redfield will be probably retrofit into his fucking freak creatine monster form that he was from 5 and 8, where he's just the Leon sections in third person where he's just punching motherfuckers. And Claire is probably going to play more like a standard survival horror. I significantly expect that old style horror in maybe first person and let's do some roundhouse kicks and uppercuts in third person is going to be the formula for this series for a while. Survival horror fans are eating good these days. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. Also, I will say there are some moments in this game that are really confusing because sometimes they can't. keep the voice actors the same between games.

Oh. Oh. Like really fucking confusing. So there are moments that are meant to be like tense things where you're like, who the fuck is talking? Yeah. Yeah. And there's other moments where voice actors have actually kept very consistent, but because other voice actors haven't been kept consistent,

you're like, who the fuck? Is that really who the fuck I think it is? I don't know. And last but not least, Resident Evil 9 has been the focus of something called the final puzzle, which is a achievement in the game just labeled the final puzzle, which has an obtuse clue that says let the sweet pair hear the voice and no other details at all that people have been, I'm going to say schizo posting about for a solid week, doing all sorts. of zany nonsense and what if I spin around and three times and recite

the national anthem and my microphone kind of like insanity gaster shit gaster posting yeah and depending on who you ask this is either a relief or a massive bummer um

two things happened uh some gentleman who was streaming the game went to go take a shit it on stream and left the game running for like 20 minutes and came back only to discover that letting the game run in a certain room for like 20 minutes is the first part of the puzzle. Was there some sort of confirmation of that? Yes.

Okay. And after that, the full solution was data mined out. I see. Okay. And I have looked at this solution This is fucking stupid Like The leaps of logic And steps required

To solve this puzzle Are for Absolutely It's to cause like schizophrenic outbreaks In the Resident Evil population It's impossible to solve on your own However community altogether did because this is the world we live in now.

It would never be able to be solved on its own. Yeah. And this is a discussion, right? We are beyond the level of games that you play in a cabin in the woods. You are now at Braidsars where it's like this has, this is a community effort. And we made it this way because that's absurd. And it was intended to be a community effort, but like this, this, this, if this had not been data, mind and accidentally found, I would have put this on like, this will never be discovered.

It is, like any, any secret that requires you, hey, stand in this place for this amount of time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. With no external feedback that that's what you should do is fucking absurd. And it's solved now. And I'm going to do it on my playthrough because fine, fuck it on the insanity playthrough. Got to get your plan.

So yeah, R-E-9, very good. I fully expect two pieces of DLC. I expect a little bonus D-L-C coming in the next year that's like another scenario. And I expect a mercenaries mode to be added for Leon and Grace. There are a lot of characters in this game that could have a really good time in a mercenaries mode. Okay.

Okay. In particular, I would like a dual mercenaries mode where you play as one and then switch to the other. That's what I was like. The concept of end of act one is kind of crazy. End of act one, dude. It's really, it's really nuts. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's actually super nuts. Also, apparently Dusk Golem confirmed today that RE1 is getting another remake. That is not shocking at all. I mean, how long do you, before you getting, how long before, has it been, are we further away from remake? than we are from our re our remake was from r e1 okay you want you want you want you want you want your mind blown at dev times so Resident Evil 1 came out in 1996 okay right

Resident Evil remake came out in fucking 2000 2002 oh wow yeah okay yeah yeah right all right all right yeah all right yeah yeah all right yeah yeah and for years You had been saying remake is a perfect RE1 remake, therefore you don't need to. Oh, it's the gold standard that will never, ever, ever, ever, ever be topped. There is no game that was better changed, modernized, and improved, than Resident Evil 1 to Resident Evil remake. Now, Resident Evil 1 is an awesome game.

If you can put your brain back into its 1996 and there's been nothing like this ever. Yes. However. However. However, you still... Our RE1 remake is like a perfect game. It's absolutely unbelievably immaculate. But there hits a certain time where, okay, it still would be on the table simply because of time, not because of flaws or corrections necessary. Yeah, so they said a long time ago when they were doing Resident Evil 2 remake when they did it in the third person, like, we could do an R&Eval 2 remake. We could do an R3rd person. Like, we can do an RE1 remake. It would be different enough because of this camera. And I interpreted that as that will eventually happen.

And what will happen with the RE1 remake is that there will be a fucking two lines of new dialogue there from a certain special character that actually has to do with the Resident Evil 10 plots. Right. Worst case scenario, I think I could imagine, would. be like a remake that's worse than remake, you know. Um, but if you're, if you do anything to set up phase two. Phase two has been set up. Yeah. There's like there's a, there's a, there's a shot in the stands. There's even there's even a new name of like this is the name of a problem going forward. Time to watch. Time to watch Wanda Vision and Captain America TV shows, you know, and quantum mania.

So what that will be, genuinely, is they're going. So if you want to use the Marvel analogy, hey, they're going to re-release. They're going to, hey, we've recut Bucky in the, what was it, Falcon in the Winter Soldier? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's a scene at the end of it now. that, uh, then hanging out talking about Dr.

Doom. Sure. Yeah. Right. Uh, because that's what's going to happen with, um, Code Veronica.

Code Veronica is like a weird side bullshit. That features a bunch of characters that never came back. And all you got to do is just, so for example, so Resident Evil has this long history of, you play Resident Evil 5, right? And you find a document.

And the document's like, we set up a lab in this other country. Oh, wonder what happened to it. And you're like, oh, that's going to be a later game. right it happens over and over and over

right and they will probably do that in the code Veronica remake I'd be like we actually sent a sample of T Veronica to Africa

right and then you'll be like oh no right right right and now we get to engage in the really funny discussion for like five six years

of like how what the fuck are they gonna do with Resident Eagle 5 man I don't fucking know that's getting crazy R-E-10, R-E-X. It's just Dino Crisis. We just, we just-

You know there is a Resident Evil game that is Dino Crisis? It's called Gun Survivor 3, Dino Crisis. Let's go. Sure. Yep. Just swerve right into it. R-E-10. Yeah, it's a different franchise, actually.

It already existed. So, would you believe me, Wully? Would you believe me if there is a Resident Evil boss fight that is literally against a dinosaur? No, of course. Yeah. There's a T-Rex monster. Sure, man. Giant alligators, like fucking whatever.

Yeah, snakes. Yon. And it uses a monster hunter rig. That's fun. That's fun. That's pretty cool. Isn't that fun? Nice, nice, nice.

Okay. It's like the worst fucking fight in the series. It's god-awful. All right. But yeah, all right. That Resident Evil 9 is pretty good. Pretty good. that shit's an event

like you know when you go you know when you go to to like put a you know I am changing my game on Twitch to such as a he tells you how many people are playing it I went to turn it the other day and I was like 230,000

holy fucking shit wow that's a popular game wow yeah okay hey I gotta take a quick break I'm being told by the rat behind me that it's time to eat.

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S-H-O-P-I-F-Y dot com slash superbeast. Thank you, Shopify. Thanks, Shopify. All right, so... Before I leave, there is one other thing that I played. I played about an hour of Marvel Rivals this week after not playing it for a year. Oh, yeah, I jumped back in.

Yeah, no, they paid me. Oh, okay. And I was like, yeah, I'll fucking play Marvel Rives for a while. Yeah, all right, let's do it. Tried any of the new characters? I tried a bunch of the new characters, and let me tell you, I don't know when the last time you loaded up Marvel Rivals was, but you hit that main menu now.

Yeah. And it's just like, like every single, a couple weeks ago. And flashing light that could ever exist in the human visual spectrum. Yeah. It just attacks you all at once. I pulled it up a couple weeks ago to look at the costumes while we were talking about that.

It's fucking nuts, dude. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's along it's doing its thing i have i have not seen a game hit me with that many like i did a match and i got so many pop-ups with so many icons i'm like i don't know what the fuck i'm doing oh man this is great rog's a lot of fun so's daredevil mm-hmm mm-hmm that so in the live service conversation we had earlier man rivals has done everything it can do to be like why would you play another game other than Marvel rivals? And you know what?

It really is just kind of, it'll always be there. Well, it won't always be there. That's not true. It's a live service game. However, it... I mean, they can be there for a while. It exists as a thing that can be pointed to to just say, art is everything.

Recognition is important, but art is everything. People looking at those characters and being like, those are cool. I enjoy looking at them and playing as them and watching them do their taunts and rotating my toys. Like, it's such a huge deal. Like, East Asian Marvel aesthetic, be it rivals or toke on. Shit's hot. It's fucking so good. Shit's hot. Like, it's really, really simple in that you make cool characters that people enjoy playing as and looking at and the rest falls into place as long as it's not garbage.

Why'd you make a third person? So you can stare at their asses. Yeah. We made an ass costume to show the ass off. Did you see it? Every character, bigger. Every single one. I mean, twerking venom, man.

Yeah, that's... And then there's that special event where there was giant venom who was like 50 feet tall. And then somebody got the biggest update, a size upgrade. for the Ant-Man thing and then just made giant torquing venom stit there and the lobby just stood underneath. So you know what the most nefarious thing Marvel rivals has done? I'm playing Marvel rivals and I'm like, man, this is a lot of fun. I can get back into this.

But I missed out on those old battle passes, right? Because they come once and then they're gone and those costumes are gone forever. To which people say, actually. Yeah, they came back. Sometimes they come back. They came back. And I'm like, oh, you.

Dirty fucks. Oh, the carrot never leaves. Yeah. In fact, it's it's the FOMO system that everything should be doing. Yeah, which is, hey, it'll come back eventually.

As opposed to the garbage we've gotten used to. Yeah. You know what's a really good example? For 2XCO? You know what they, so they got to have one season of this where they're like, the only, way you can ever get this Arcane Warwick costume is by buying this battle pass until it shows up in the store next season. It's rotating in the store.

In fact. And I saw that and I'm like, oh, you. Oh, you motherfuckers. Yeah, I didn't know. I hadn't, I don't think, that's the first game I've ever played with a random store rotation thing like that. It sucks. Is it? It might not be.

That might be a lie. but I can't remember caring. If I ever played a different game that had that, I didn't give a shit about it. No, Helldivers had it and maybe something prior. Okay, okay. Hell divers took it out because they realized everybody hated that shit. Okay.

Apex does it? Yeah, I just really hate. So Helldivers was really funny because it's my understanding slash impression, which is a fancy way of saying I can't confirm this, that the reason they took it out is that the rotating shotguns, is to foster urgency, but then the thing you would want would come back around and then people would be like, I don't know if it's worth it. And then it would leave before the decision was made to buy it. Right, right, right, right. Yeah, cool. Good stuff. Um, I, I, this week on the show,

on the Pat show, I'm going to be playing. What am I doing? I don't know. Um, also, I just want to say that the existence of, of rivals being healthy keeps overwatch in line. And I think that's important. Yeah, and Overwatch is now better. It needs to... You need another to exist to fucking keep your shit straight. Can't let them do whatever they want with no competition.

Also, I loaded into rivals, and the first question I asked my chat, it's like, hey, is this game's ranked mode still the worst thing made by a human? And the answer was absolutely. Something about, though, these hero shooters is ranked modes

just is the most miserable experience. known to man. Yeah, it's called solo queuing. Yeah. So then I ran a bunch of casual matches, and I had a good time doing cool moves with Daredevil. There you go. There you go.

Hey, guess what? Every single video game ever made is better when you're playing with people you know than with strangers. What? What? Single player included. What?

Are you telling me that human connection? is more important than boobs or graphics or special moves? Remember when the days when like Humble Bundle and stuff would be like or not, no, it was like steam packs where it'd be like, here's a gift for a friend,

give a second copy to someone you know. I bought Borderlands one and I bought a four pack because it was like it was like 50% off per copy. Go give it to friends to play with you. It's right there in the deal.

you know all right speaking of human connections on Thursday I'm going to be playing I don't know if I've ever even said this to you but I'm going to be going back

to my series premature epitulation with Slay the Spire 2 is out yes that has fucking four player co-op which I don't understand interesting interesting

I don't know how the fuck you can do four player co-op in a fucking card like rogue like game weird You know what? I'll never find out. Your schedule this week is scratching up against a bunch of shit that I was looking at myself actually.

So this is cute. Oh, is it? Yeah. Are you going to be taking a look at Slay the Spire? I'm thinking about it. There's a couple of things I wanted to, but I play. That seems more up your alley than mine. Yeah, I played a bunch of Slay the Spire for myself off one off camera.

And yeah, I'm super. curious to see how the sequel goes. It'll be really interesting to me if all these years later, I can finally internalize that more cards does not equal better. Nope. It's so hard to, it's so hard to break that. Predictability is better. Yeah, but when I win a match and they go, here's a card.

My brain goes, ooh, yeah, reward. Yeah, you've earned the right to delete a card. Isn't that great? Yeah One more card And then And then And then?

And then on Friday Me and Paige are going To play Shout of the Colossus Blind leading the Blind So that'll be fun And then on Saturday and Sunday I'm going to take a look at

Pocopia Yeah The Pokemon Stardu game So what What? Are you that confident To Shadow the Colossus?

No Oh okay I was like I was like You know It has a It has a laser beam. It does.

It does. It does. I just need to... The Sun Life page is having a really hard time. I'll just scream. Do it better. Okay. Yeah.

So I think I said it when we first saw the trailer drop, but the moment it zoomed out and I was like, oh, you're building a town from like red and blue or gold and silver. I was like, this is interesting. I'm super curious to try Bocopoeia. So what's interesting is to me, the cell wasn't, because this was pre-star do Pat, right? Yeah, yeah. I didn't know I liked this shit. To me, it was like you are finally capitalizing

on what a nightmare Ditto is. Okay. Like Ditto is a freak in Pokemon. Oh, yeah. They're the creepiest one. Absolutely. And, you know, the artists of our generation have explored that, most certainly. But I want to say that the idea of the Pokemon game that has a, the farming bit to it,

but like, again, you just, you have the framework and the setup of building out a town that looks like one of the towns you would have visited, you know, back in the day. I find that super appealing and really cool and I want to try that. And also a magic carp's going to come up to you and be like, I need a bigger pond and a charmander's going to be like, it's too wet around here. Can you fix that shit? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Managing their little animal crossing desires. But instead of some fucking stupid little cat boy with hipster glasses that everyone's goons shitting all over themselves for, it's Hitmon Chan or Charmander. And I've already said as well, but Pokemon concierge is just fucking 10 on 10, just excellent, excellent.

excellent short, sweet. Let's go hang out and take care of the Pokemon and that's it. We're just taking care of them. It says a lot that I have been actively shitting on Pokemon games for like 10 to 15 years, like

an angry old man. But I'll go, oh yeah, it's Squirtle and Balbazore. Oh, I love those guys. Like the brand power is so strong. It's unbelievable. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I mean, I sat there and I watched the waves and wind trailer reveal and it was like, that looks pretty cool. Sure.

Sure. Okay. You know, we're doing new things. Stuff's going out. Whatever. But yeah, no, give me that gen one shit. Forever. Forever and ever and ever.

Don't you understand? Yeah. I had to explain to Reggie recently the concept of like gen oneers and that idea, you know, learning about that back during the Nuzlock where I. you know, the longer Pokemon goes, the more anyone who's like, nah, just the 150 is like going to be depreciated

and be like an asshole because you're like, there's so much more out there to the franchise, but you're fucking stuck in the first one. But it's, it's a, it's the aspect of, of the, the group that you discovered first. Yes. And 150 is a perfect amount for you to remember all of them.

And that's why each game's first decks is like 150 to 200. It's like, it's about that. But then when you open it up to the much larger one, you know, it gets a little... So as a product and everything expanding and everyone starting at, you know, also kids grow up in their first game

that came out is not one. It's going to be like, whatever, like Gen 5 or something. So that happens. And then it gets confusing when it's actually brilliant diamond. But I have explained in that same moment that for me, the justification has nothing. It's not about

any of that. It's real simple. There was a goal set from the beginning. There was a command, and it was got to catch them all. And I spent a lot of time and effort doing that in high school. I got together with my friends who had read and we traded and we all did our fucking plans. And we got, and we did, we collected and completed the decks. And when the time came, even for Mew, it wasn't just a missing no like fake GameShark Mew or whatever. They came to the mall near me.

Nintendo did this setup and I went and waited in line and got a real Mew. I completed the pokey decks. I got 151. And I was like, well, now I'm done. I did it. I did the thing you said. I've completed the collection that feels good. I'm satisfied.

And I didn't. And I'm like, like, I get that there's more things to buy and do and whatever. But that collective collection completion feeling was all I needed at the time for a very long time. This is, this is so good. because as soon as you start so i've had the exact same conversation as you have had like yeah like word for word and what's funny is that as you started in i kind of like always opening up this can of worms because when i start talking about this

everybody hates it so much to the point where there was a guy in here that just went oh would you just shut up and i'm like no you shut up so he's gone now but um regardless i don't care what i mean if you people want i don't like everyone do you do you do no first of all I did what the thing wanted me to do, and I got my enjoyment, and I really was happy with that collection. And I was like, yeah, I'm satisfied. And to double down on that, the second piece of Pokemon anything that I purchased was Stadium. Because Stadium allowed me to play with my collection that I already had. it was a way to enjoy my existing completion that I did so I was like awesome thank you I'm down for this

what of note is that it's like they have not used that tagline in a long time no is the usual is the usual response yeah they haven't used it in like a really like really fucking long time and what I think people who say that and are correct are missing is just how ridiculously hard they pushed got to catch them all in the 90s. It was a song. Every single piece of merch. Every day after school at 3.30, I heard the song. Like, what do you want me to say?

You're depreciating the thing you baked in. Yeah. It's like, here's the thing. The marketing and the propagandizing of this ideology, worked super hard. It's in my chest since I was a child. Collection. You can't, you can't, you can't pull that out of my heart.

You can't do it. Like, dude, that even applied to Pokemon fucking snap. And it was got to snap them all. Right, right. No, and I would say, too, that like anything that didn't limit it, like, at the time, well, whatever, we're getting into the extension where, like, you know, infinite magic cards, infinite Yu-Gi-o, et cetera, and so on. But I think that seeing an end, seeing a number, a completion really worked well on me. You know, that was a big, big deal for being like,

you can do this. It is possible. You're never going to get past the cultural cachet of a brand brand statement so well known and so ever present that almost everyone I know at some point used it to make fun of somebody practicing unsafe sex. Right. I think everyone I've known in my life at one point went, oh, got to catch them all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like, it is probably something to be studied in marketing where you go, that was a bad idea. It worked so, because it was too good at making people feel satisfied with that.

Yeah, it's got to be in, you can't let them get the carrot. That's crazy. What are you doing? Yeah, and now people, I know, I have a friend of mine who's super into Pokemon, and he's got every Pokemon in the the living bank and every couple of years there's some kind of fuck-ass nonsense about transferring them from this

one to this one and you can't transfer them back and then there's this bank and that bank and it's fucking ridiculous. It's fucking ridiculous. But yeah, so Pocopio seems cool. Curious to try that out.

Yo, if Deno can just do everybody's moves why isn't Ditto the strongest Pokemon? why isn't ditto the strongest Pokemon? Is it because because ditto's level still affects how strong the move is. Yeah, but you have jam, 100 candies in that bitch.

But the EVs and ivies are... Worst thing never be in the series. Not, are not. But the midichlorians are not strong enough, Pat. The pokeychlorians.

I will fight everyone forever about EVs and IVs. It's where the depth is. Is that what the depth that causes everyone who competes to hack their Pokemon to the ideal stats? You know, it's funny, too, is like, I'm squinting at EVs and IVs in Mugenics right now. I'm looking and going, like, do you have a natural seven in your base stats? No. Into the trash it goes. So, yeah, yeah. I would like it for wind and waves to be a good one. I've never streamed a Pokemon game.

That would be fun. That would be cool. All right. I just worry I would have to do a NuzLock because they're like a child's game for babies, for real, actually. I suggest grabbing some 8-bit music and rapper names, and you're good to go. I'll believe in that.

well so what I did when I was playing Stardu is I named my livestock around chat members oh yeah I guess there's that which led to like a lot of just really negative talk about certain people on my chat

because they wouldn't lay eggs or allow me to milk them yeah but then you can get rid of people and then like that feels really satisfying I did I got rid of one yeah yeah that's satisfied I got rid of Cincinnati I sold him that's good that's good that's good that's good. Didn't like it. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I like that. Okay, over on my side, a couple of things.

I have played through, no, I'm not a human. Oh, yeah? Yeah. So, took a look at that and, yeah, went through and beat it. So that's going to be an LP popping up on the channel, full LP. the, um, when you were playing a quarantine zone. Yeah. We talked about, you know, like the idea of letting people through and the, the, there are like three games that came out like right next to each other.

They're all the same basic idea. Right. And I was curious about like the emotional weight of like letting someone in, if you're like at a last of a style gate and you have to check for infections and like, uh-oh, it's a family that's together and what if someone's bit type of shit, you know? and you kind of went, oh, it's not that serious. It's kind of like goofy, like, uh, oh, yeah, quarantine zone is not that serious. It's goofy ragdalling.

And I was like, oh, okay. Because, yeah, I'm like, the premise of what I thought of seemed seemed really interesting and heavier than that to which everyone said, oh, what you're looking for is a game called, no, I'm not human. Um, the one that has much better art also. So I went. Oh my God. So I went and, uh, popped that in. and step one the first thing you need to know

this game is Russian as fuck Steam is so cooked dude is it Steam is so cooked what's happening I'm like hey I want to go I want to go check out the Steam page of no I'm not a human

and then the fucking search bar it's not working oh it's working real well it's working real well it's working real well Ah, okay, so there's multiple products for sale here. No, I'm Not a Human is the top of your search results.

But no, I'm not a Femboy, might also be a confusing click. By the way, that game, that game, that's the same game. Okay. It's the same fucking, like, mechanics. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay, yeah, yeah, right, right. So you want to, you want to, there's multiple, this is a franchise.

that has multiple entries. It's got mixed reviews. I see. I see. Okay. I see. Well, it's an AI slop game and the game has no way of discerning if you let in a fend boy or not. Ah.

Okay. Well, I can see how the mechanics would apply themselves, you know, sure. If you want to extrapolate that. Steam, I mean, holy shit, man. It's either that or the workshop gets busy, right? It's the community workshop or someone just puts out another thing. On sale for 64 cents. Jesus Christ.

Well, anyways. I can't speak to the, to know I'm not a femme boy. But no, I'm not a human is a Russian ass game. And I feel like you can tell that from the vibe. The vibe, the art, all that stuff. And like I didn't know it. I didn't know until it didn't get it confirmed until. like, yeah, after we were done.

But it's like... Developer is Troskias. It makes perfect sense afterwards. Yeah. Um, so the, uh, the deal is, uh, you are the hermit and you are in your house and you don't like leaving your house. And that's fine because it turns out leaving the house is becoming more and more of a problem.

Because of the fam boys. Not because of the fam boys. but actually... Of course not. Because of the sun. The Fembois are a great reason to leave the house, actually. The problem... Really the only reason to get up in the morning. It's all that keeps you going.

Really? The problem is the sun is something's wrong with it. And it's fucked. And so you're reading, you're checking out the TV news reports and there's some sort of condition that's making it essentially like it's, a death sentence to go outside during the day. You will be cooked to a crisp. It's just ridiculous. It's impossible. Everybody stay the fucking doors until nighttime, right? Nighttime, however, when it is safe, quote unquote, to go out, starts getting real sketch because

there is some sort of outbreak going on. There's weirdness happening, and there are people that are getting disappeared. And it turns out there's these things called visitors, which are from God knows where, but they're coming up through the dirt and they're spreading whatever they are to other people. And you have no idea, long story short, who is human and who has been taken and replaced with a visitor.

You know what I love about the art in this game? every single fucking person in this art looks non-human. Everyone. Everyone that shows up looks fucked up. And you have no idea. So you're the hermit. You're in your house. And the deal is that there are non-humans and every and like people that have what I'm

going to call attack on Titan proportions. Right. Their faces and the deformities and the weirdness going on with them look just as off as titans do. you know just a little too much teeth a little too weird in the eyebrow the jaw you're kind of melting a little bit you're like one of those mutants from Lisa the painful you know no I'm fine and um and so you you have your neighbor who you can look out your window at night time to see too bright during the day but you can look outside and see the whole you're in like farm country and uh your neighbor's got his own farm and then down the street you can see the the apartment complex is where the city is and everything. And FEMA's getting involved and starting to like help with the, with the efforts and everything.

But the humans and the non-humans, the deal is this. If you are alone in your house, the non-humans can just fucking come get you. But they will not attack if you are not alone. So you need to be. You have to have people in you have. You have to have people to get with you. You need survivals and strength in numbers. So you are someone that has a safe house and people are stranded without a place to go.

The city's burning. The apocalypse is happening. People are trying to get in. And your place seems like a stop on the road that might be safe. So people are knocking on your door every night asking to be let in. And you have to let them in. No, no, that's not true. You have to let some in or you're fucking dead.

Right. But you don't like people very much. So you have to pick and choose who you're letting in based on the vibes. And all you have to go off of is the people through your door and a conversation at the people. You know? Um, so every night, couple people knock and you go, uh, yeah, you're okay. Get in. Or nah, I don't know. And everyone shows up with questionable to rancid vibes. every single person, you know, the feeling is, is, is, again, rife with just doom. And as, as, as, as, bad vibes. And as you're in an apocalypse type situation, you're not expecting someone clean cut and normal to show up, you know, people are getting more and more fucked up out there. Um, when you let someone into your house, however, it's not just the past fail of like, uh-oh, they got in because they stay in the house. And, um, simply having one person in does not.

mean the game is over necessarily if they're a visitor. What happens is over time people start getting killed. Other humans that you have in the house start fucking getting took. So they would take people out when they're alone in any given room. Or if so there are metrics around how and why killings happen that you have to kind of figure out. But for different, for reasons that you may or may not figure out or whatever, You let people in and sometimes someone that you let in is a visitor or not. And if you go to sleep at night, you might find yourself with one person dead in the morning, you know? Oh, no.

Well, they were cool, I guess. What you do is during the day, you go around. You can talk to everybody who's a survivor that you've let in. And you have enough energy to examine a couple of sims. And then based on whether or not those symptoms seem suspicious to you, you can pull out your fucking shotgun and deal with the problem right here right now. Or you can be like, I'm not convinced yet and let them chill. But it takes energy and you only have a couple of energy pips per day, a couple of actions

per day to do the full replicate test. So I'm looking down into the chat. and what I'm discovering is from based on your LP mistakes will be made it's impossible to not make a mistake I was not making mistakes for a very long time until I did

and and it turns out that like part of what makes this this really really great as a game is as you're questioning you're getting different symptoms to check you're not sure what they mean

outright Excuse me, and you don't know how reliable they are, but you look at different things. Like, let's check your eyes. Let's check your teeth. Let's see what's going on at different parts of you. And if you see something that seems off or suspicious, again, you make a call or you don't. But you can order a couple items from like a kind of like a delivery service, right? So you can get more energy, for example, that can give you more time to go check and investigate.

things. But the stuff that you're looking for, for example, one of them, one symptom might be really red eyes, right? Yeah. So you can go take a look and see how people's eyes are doing. And if you're not sure, well, it's no problem. Just go drink a coffee or order an energy drink and drink that. And you'll have the ability to go investigate and see if that person has red eyes. And the more coffee you drink or caffeine you drink and, hey, guess what? Your eyes are red, fucker. Right? And there are things where it's like, oh, is that person just red-eyed because they're a fucking visitor? Or is that a child who's crying because they just lost their parent and they've been sobbing uncontrollably all day? So of course their eyes are red. Right? So you have a lot of

things like that where you're basically judging the symptom based on the situation the person's in. is this somebody who'd have fucked up teeth or would they have clean teeth? And what does it mean if they have one or the other? What would you expect and what call should you make? And all that's great. There's another fastback to it where you can make a hard save by drinking kombucha. And even after the game ends, that save persists, right? And when you load up your save and go back and play and visitors come visit you,

the same visitor might not be a human or not a human based on reloading. There is an RNG aspect to things. That makes it so that you never know what is happening. That would ruin the game if they were decided at the door. It is like there are there are some hard guaranteed predetermined humans and some predetermined visitors. But a vast majority of people coming through are completely R&M. and G, and you just have to do your best investigation and guess into what. And based on how you proceed over the course of a number of days, there's 10 different endings

you can get according to how you handle, you know, like who you let in, who you don't let in, etc. Right. And if you, and here's the thing. There's these little wrinkles and things that happen where letting people in is like, okay, you're doing a good job of discerning who's human and who's not or whatever. fine do you care no problem but every once in a while like something like FEMA will show up at your door and be like hey we got to take a few people into quarantine for testing um so we're just grabbing some of those people behind you and you fucking have no say in the matter so uh uh you pony up some people or too fucking bad and now you're like uh oh those were people that i knew i could trust so now what do i do because you need again you can't be alone and you can't, you know, so you're in a desperate situation.

Now you've got to let in more people and you let in the extra sketchy people. And it's great. So you're balancing all of these things together. Like, oh, I'm feeling pretty good about this group. I could ride it out with this group. Oh, they're gone. And it does a fantastic job of, again, you look through the people and the vibes are rancid immediately and you go, all right, fuck it.

Let's find out what your deal is. I'll have a minute to figure it out, right? But that first night, you can't talk to them. It's only the morning after. So if something happens overnight, too fucking bad. And so many examples of that person that showed up with the corpse on their shoulder actually was a reasonable person in a fucked situation. And I just needed to talk to them and figure out what was going on.

So like, you really just don't know what the deal is, you know. great game, great game. Really enjoyed it. How long is it? It's very short. It's like two hours? So playing through and talking out, voice acting all the lines, it took us two sessions. Okay.

So, yeah, you know, five hours healthy. If you're not reading everything out loud and just reading in your head and going through text speed, four hours quick, I'm sure, you know. I just scrolled past your video, paint-mogging these Nevron goons. What the hell? I mean, it's important to keep up with World War Mug, Pat. It's important to keep up with World War Mug. If you don't know where you're at on the Chad listings, then who the fuck are you? And the last thing you need is to get your wig snatched, because wig snatching was originally reserved for.

you know, for serving and for for for for for burlesque and for fucking drag. But now you can get your wig snatched while you're jester gooning and the last and then you're dropping down those chat rankings and who the fuck knows where you are after that. I just want to hold on my hand for a second. Yep. All the jester variations by far the worst out of all of all of all the new slang. Mm-hmm. Jester maxing and jester gooning.

Mm-hmm. God awful. Some of the worst I've ever heard. Well, you see, the problem right now is that your cortisol is spiking and you shouldn't let your cortisol spike. You got to avoid that. My cortisol is actually not spiking. Okay. And, you know, you get your wig snatched.

I would say it's actually decreasing. Okay. This has a depressive effect on my nervous system. I'm slowing down. Okay. Okay. Well, look, you know, if you're not jester gooting for the foids, then I don't know what else you're up to. but like that's pretty much how you stay up on those chat rankings.

And if you just, if you get so depressed that you drop the fuck off, then wait, you're jester gooning for the foids? You're just, yeah, you gesture at the foids. Yeah,

yeah, you're just gesturing, you know, that's, that's it. Um, it's important to, you know,

to do that. Uh, because it's gesturing is all you can do when you get frame mogged. If you get frame mugged, then you're cooked, right? Like, if the frat leader frame mocks you, then you just got to resort to gesturing because your, your, um, SMV is just going to drop way too low. So you got to use, you know, your words because you're, you're clearly not going to do it physically.

You should be arrested for this. You asked. You asked. I didn't volunteer. You know what? You're right, but also don't care. Take them away, boys. This is some criminal shit.

This is an affront to society. You don't give a fuck about the outside world. This is offensive. You got to stay on top of it, baby. You got to know what's going on out there. So I actually disagree very strongly. You can't let these people that shit on us for not watching Bionicle. You can't let these fucking kids talk their shit.

All right? you got to stay up on the you got to stay on the up and up that even beyond what they know so that when they come with their shit you go yeah i don't know anything about benton but i know what the fuck is going on with the as you frat leader so i'll tell you what willie i actually disagree uh my my form of resistance against the kids is not to actually understand or internalize even a single word so that when I do repeat it back to them, they all just take like horrible damage from my old man vibe. Oh yeah. No, no. If you fucking, if you, uh, boomer six, seven, you know, on somebody, like they'll just melt. I mean, that works. Sure, for sure. No doubt. But we've already. Oh,

yeah, dude. We were at the Costco. We're moving beyond at this point. We were at the Costco. and our bill ended in 6-7 and the lady was there went ha-ha 6-7 and you want to bet what fucking happened the baby yeah yeah said 6-7 and laughed yeah

and then I looked at him and I couldn't help it yeah and I did this there you go there you go and then the baby did 6-7 like this yep and then Paige turned and saw it. It was too late. Yep.

And she went, oh my God, stop it. And the baby goes six, seven. And she was like, no. And then, and then, and then the hammer of dawn

just struck the supermarket. Here's the fun thing. So here's the thing that I do understand the kids at their core level, right? Because in that moment, when I was doing six seven with my toddler and my wife hated it,

I was like, this is what 6-7 is. It's I'm doing it, you're doing it, and the person next to us fucking hates it. Yes. Now that's an emotion

I can understand. Absolutely. Before 6-7, you were flossing to make people die. Don't. Well, you could. Don't put that on me. You could floss to make someone die,

you know? That was an easy one. Um, anyways, all this to say, don't ask if you don't want to know, all right? It's real simple. What was it? I had a teacher that said this. It was play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Win stupid prizes.

Oh, it's my shop teacher. And you can imagine why he would say that. Yeah. Every single. Did he have all his limbs? Did he have all his? did. All his toes and fingers. All of them. Okay. And every

single year, he would always give the same speech, and he would always say the same things. And it always boiled down to don't touch that when it's on. And every single year, I was at my high school

the first week of class, there'd be some kind of fucking emergency. Because Jimmy or Billy thought, well, the soldering iron can't be that hot. or hurt or whatever the fuck. No, man. It's like when your chemistry teacher tells you, hey, don't drink from the beakers.

I don't care that you just rinsed it out. Don't drink from the beakers. Yeah. Or just, oh my God, the amount of fucking chemistry glabs with like insane substandard chemical treatment because schools that have that shit sitting there for years are not up to standards. you know my favorite my favorite ever you know gallium

the metal that melts in your hand uh no but sure okay so gallium is a is a metal that melts at room temperature so at body temp at like 98 degrees so it's like a solid and then you put it in your hand it melts into a liquid and then the instant it falls off your hand it turns back into a solid right

it's a cool little party trick hey look you're holding it it's fucking toxic right right right right like playing with fucking mercury back in the day exactly yeah yeah not well not not not as much as mercury but yeah it's bad for you you're not supposed to touch it yeah no you just it's just anyways you got you got to know you got to know what's going on so that when you when you discover that you know you're like what are them their kids up to oh they're doing meth and going sterile because the steroids are are helping them become chads but they're now fucking completely shriveled

and have like no ability to procreate as of teenage years okay cool good now I know kind of solves itself I mean it's you just you got to know what's going on you got to be aware you know all right um where was I so yeah the game's fucking cool man um check out check it out really really uh uh high recommend for a short sweet you know imagine opening up the door and you're there like bro you gotta let me in I'm Jester Maxing right over these voids out here

bang bang bang oh was he a visitor what you say with a house full of femboys we have no room

no vacancy yeah all right Good game. Very strong. And the other thing we did real quick was I swerved back around to check out a little more of Absalom. They just had a big update, right? They did. There was a big patch for a bunch of stuff that is content we haven't gotten to.

So who the fuck knows? There's like, tweaked this and updated that and fixed this. in them like, we're like, yeah. I love it. I love it when you read through a patch note and you're like, I don't know any of this. The mechanics of this fucking thing you've never heard of. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Um, and so by, uh, playing a little bit more, we got a good run going and we're able to make it like past that, that first big boss, uh, the under king. And then you get your, uh, you get your fourth character. You get Brum. You know, that's, I got to him when I did my sponsor's stream and I was like this dude fucking kicked ass dude. Bro,

is so cool. Just the mage beat-em-up character. Yeah. Frog magician. Yeah. Awesome. Floats around does this thing. And once you have those four and like the game is like opened up and running, you get the four and then you get the next thing you get is combination booms. Right. And I'm like, oh now we're doing co-op Hades like real serious synergy shit going. You have the ability to make builds and, and you're doing it together and, you know, picking your specials according to, to, um, what works best with your, your, your, you know, your build. And it's like, okay, the one I leave behind, you know, that'll work for your, for Reggie or whatever the case is. You, you choose accordingly.

And, um, even going down to an area where it's like, like, spend some money to like get a trinket for sure, to then, like, aim your build in a specific direction if you're willing to spend it. And it's like, yeah, this game is really well done. Um, I think beat them ups, you know, we've talked about many times, but they have to evolve and they have to do things beyond just like the old final fight days. And we've seen a couple different variants of what that might mean. But having it be roguelike with like the co-op elements in play and the fact that you could have super drastically different builds from each other, but like still like have the fun of a beatem up and defensive mechanics and all that are playing well off of each other. But this time around

every time you dodge, you're leaving fire, which is igniting. And then every time you strike, you're building up static, which is then shocking. and it's fucking cool, man. Really, really fun game. And then juggling the bodies builds up meter so that your next encounter is better off as well. Like, yeah, I love it. It's a great beat them up. It might enjoy that another time.

Every now and then, might pop that back in and just to take a crack at it. It's an easy one for, you know, a random weekday. And then, yeah, the only other thing. the Avatar Legends, uh, playable alpha, the second round, uh,

was this weekend as well. So Toph was playable in that. And from the initial peak I saw and then that trailer releasing, I was like, yep, this is an incredibly interesting fighting game character. And now in hand, she's awesome.

Really fun, really well designed. Super unique and exactly what it seems like. The game, is all about movement, speed, and using firebending, air bending, and water bending to fly around the screen and, and, you know, fight and do combo, et cetera. But earth bending is I'm fucking sitting right here and I'm using armor to bring you to me. You know, her, one of her moves. A little baby Aginos. Yeah, like she puts the wall down behind you because fuck you, you're in the corner because I said so, you know, and like again, I'm not dashing to you. I'm pulling you and the wall. to me. The ability to launch that platform up and extend your ground combos and shit, she's really fun, really well designed.

Great, great. Just way to imagine earthbending as a, you know, for a fighting game. And like, what's fun about that? Armoring through things, big hard hits. And if you set things up by putting the wall behind them and trapping them with your pillar, you do a big combo, you hit them into the wall, they pop up. then you can extend that into other shit. As a big armored heavy hitter,

Toff has a command grab level three. The metal bending special that she does is like a grab. And if it whiffs, she punches a door at you that still does decent damage so you can combo with it too for utility. You know? Yeah, a lot, a lot of fun and just a great feel for her. The references and everything are on point.

Her round one, I am the melon lord. And she grabs the belt and starts vibrating the screen and everything. Like she talks so much shit and mechanically, some part of her, part of her shit. I told you about like the redemption meter with Zucco and the hubris and like being hotheaded with Cora are like part of her kit. So something you can do with Toff is you can hold down the flow button to taunt and talk shit. And she has a custom insult for everyone on the cast, you know. Oh, perfect.

Yeah, she's fighting Zuko. Like, you want to see what real bending is like, sad boy? You know? She has a custom insults for everyone on the cast. And when you pull, and when she completes it, she strips away their cheat. She takes two pips of chi away from them. And it's very difficult to stand there in a fighting game and do a taunt because what the fuck? You have to.

It's a little rough. Unless I put a wall in between us. And stand and talk shit from behind the wall, and you're busy breaking the wall down to come at me. Right? So it's actually potentially practical for some situations. That's pretty good. Yeah. And I can just say that to reiterate a previous thing I've said, I love defensive mechanics.

I love all that. And there's a big reason why, besides the fact that it feels cool, is that when you're having fun on defense, you don't have this, when is it my turn feeling that a lot of people struggle with because I didn't pay $60 to block, right? Getting hit and then having to watch a movie, et cetera, as much as like I use that to talk shit,

a lot of people are like, this sucks. I hate this feeling I don't like being put in hit stun or I don't like having to just sit here and block all day or whatever, right? Even though it's a crucial part of the game, it's not the funest part of the game. So if you make defense fun by having it be like, no, you dodge and evade and move and you can do stuff. And while you're getting swung at, you can pick how to move and evade and then counter. That makes it so much fun because the action movie that we're having a sequence for, I'm dodging and getting ready to swing back at you.

You know? So, yeah, defense is fun in this game. And in this case, with Toff, she's not just dodging, but she's also armoring through. and it's great. It's great. So, good stuff so far. And, yeah, I hope that we get an open beta with maybe one or two more characters. Next, you know, I'm sure there's some obvious. What's the total roster list? I think, I don't know who's confirmed. I don't know what the total number is or I'm not sure if that's confirmed to say yet.

but what I can say is publicly, I believe they have confirmed, we know that Azula and Saka are both coming. So, oh, they said- Gotta be there. Gotta be there. Okay, if they said 12 publicly, then yes, it's 12. Yeah. 12's all right.

12's fine. And the game's great. The game's for the way it plays out as a 1V1. It's pretty solid. Yes. So you can imagine what they're about. And, yeah, Saka coming in with his boomerang shit. We'll see in a minute.

So good stuff on that. Yeah, this week we're going to be continuing. So finished off, no, I'm not a human yesterday. Tomorrow, again, the closing parts of Expedition 33. And I'm going to take a look and see. I might do a couple of multi-streams because there's multiple things I want to check out. mentioned I want to check out Slay the Spire or two. Want to check out Pocopia.

I'm interested in taking a peek at Neo3. That game's great. It's also fucking huge. That's why I'm saying just wildly intimidatingly gigantic. That's why I'm saying just a peak, you know. I don't know that I'm going to have the time to fully do some of those demos that came out during Next Fest or the, um, oh, that shit's over. Oh, no, no, I know.

But I'm just, just the, I was talking about like, I was thinking about doing the, the the, the Zahum thing or so. I'm still, you know, I'm not sure. And then there's one thing that I probably going to throw on the list called Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator. Oh, dude, I feel like that name hit my brain, but I didn't actually look at it. I'm definitely going to at least be checking that out later this week. Oh, stonks go up for babies. Sucked into a tornado.

Got it. Short that baby. Short that baby. Short that fucking baby. Short it. Make money. Trade baby. Yeah.

Short it short the baby for cash. So we are going to be doing that. That's Willie Versus on Twitch and YouTube. Swing by, check it out. Okay. Wow, you're not kidding. It's just a gigantic text on the screen that just says short that baby. Short the fucking baby.

Short it. Buy high. Sell low. Alien warlords together strong I don't I don't know All right All right

Look you got to choose which nomenclature to keep up on And your choices are either Fucking Wall Street bets Or fucking mocking Short that baby Short that baby now Buy the dip.

Buy the dip. By the baby. Buy the dip. Uh, okay. So. I'm Kramer minimizing. Thank you. Oh, good, good, good. Um, deep fucking value,

even out here in space. We, uh, have a couple of new stories. We already touched on High Guard as we walked in. So, more like Bygarde. Am I right? Ha! Yeah. Suck it. Pour one out.

It was there. It was low hanging fruit. It was there. Yeah. You picked it. All right. So we got one here that just says, the Pope urged priests to not write sermons using chat GPT.

That just feels God all. is fucking terrible. During a meeting with clergy of the Diocese of Rome, Pope Leo, warned about the temptation to entrust homilies to artificial intelligence. According to him, if one does not train one's mind, it will atrophy. AI will never be able to preach the faith, he stressed. The pontiff added that Christianity is not about formal recitation of prayers, but about a living relationship with God. Okay, hold on. Hold on, motherfucker.

The Catholic Pope saying that Christianity is not about the formal recitation of prayers is fucking hilarious, man. Well, yeah. That's funny as shit. Well, it's also about the indulgences that you can pick up on the way, certainly. Now go do 15 Hellmaries. That being said, that's got to be like an idolatry thing or something. I don't like that's that's got that's against the rules well well the problem is the problem is is that like while the Pope is saying that um you know Peter over here is saying that actually that is the new rules right as far as Peter's concerned you're building God through AI and therefore if you remember the Antichrist speeches we're saying that anyone who fights against AI being the are the new overlord is the Antichrist because we're building God.

So, if the Pope says nah, don't make me back up the Pope on this. You, I'm sorry? I'm sorry, Pat, but you're on the Pope's side on this one. Broken clocks, etc. You are officially on the side of the Vatican.

Don't. Because it's that or Skynet, you know? Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah. Choose. how Dune happened. Unironically, how Dune happened. Kind of

just insane that it's at that point where it's enough of a problem that he has to reach out and not like a cardinal or somewhere like an official memorandum. Like the dukeur himself with the hat on the throne has to go guys stop using chat gpt stop it's fucking weird um and you have to imagine if it was your job to come up with a speech every seven days that you just fucking crank that shit in you know what well

it was my job to come up with a speech every seven days and that was like 99% of my job I think I could manage it yeah what if it was your job to come up with what if it was your job to come up with What if it was your job to come up with a speech every 24 hours? Absolute bitch made shit, man. You know? And on top of that, right? If you're not, if you're just using chat GPT to write your sermons, that means that you're not taking confessionals and using the things that the people tell you in the confessional

to weaponize the back at them. You're right. to deepen their faith. Some people may think that's inappropriate, but I think talking to Jimmy Cheats on his wife and then having an hour-long sermon about adultery on your wife. Yeah. That's A plus shit.

That is a valuable service. That is the whole point of confession. You just got to scan the room evenly. You can't linger too long or else it gets a little suspicious. Definitely. But you got to get enough dirt on everybody so that they can feel like when they open up, when you opened up the Bible,

it was talking to them. They're also not allowed to read it themselves, of course. So it works extra effectively because it's like, no, I just opened to a random page. And it happened to be about being a huge fucking cheater. You know, now I don't know who amongst the congregation, you know, would know anything about that. But I just happened to turn to a random page.

It says, don't do it unless, you know. I urge everyone in this congregation that if you are living with sin and hiding your credit card receipts from your wife because there's porno tapes on it. To stop doing that and definitely wives, trust your husbands, don't look up their credit card receipts

to see if the Femboy game is on their Steam profile. I mean, they're very, I'm pretty sure the letter to the Corinthians was quite explicit about how to handle only fan subscriptions. We've been over this. It's all new testament.

It's probably in there somewhere. It's all New Testament. Come on. Um, okay. Um, and alongside this, uh, both PlayStation and Microsoft have now filed patents for an AI helper that'll play games for you. This is the craziest thing ever. This is the most pathetic fucking loser shit. Okay. So, so, so check this out, right? Check this out. Glass half full woolly. Here we go. All right? Let me steal, man it.

Okay. I want a world where accessibility for people that are, is there for players that are impaired is an option. That's not accessibility. Why we, we, we want more accessibility for people, right? This is a good thing. Yeah. Why would you not leave that up to the developer of the game

through the game's own options to offer that? because the accessibility is part of the main reasons why this is being brought up, right? The whole like AI studying the game and then playing it for you, et cetera, it's being pitched as an accessibility thing, right? Now, is that going to be the actual use case when reality, when it comes on to it?

No, but to use that discussion point, right? I think that like anything that increases accessibility for impaired gamers or whatever over time is good. and we should be, you know, leaning into that. But let the developer choose how to implement those systems themselves, whether they want difficulty via sliders, different options. We've seen a bunch of different situations that games handle.

Sometimes they go as far as making it temporary God mode to deal with whatever, you know? Like you can do a lot of different things to handle it. But the people making the game should be putting those features in. And that should be up to how the game wants to handle it. handle it. What it looks like we're heading for, of course, is a generation that is like infested with this shit. Like it's going to be top to bottom. Every game you're going to play is have these things. And probably while they're at it, making trained profiles that auto set settings and difficulty modes and preferences and maybe even create a character

for you when you first boot the game up or whatever the case is. Like, I bet you next gen is going to be just like top to bottom unavoidable, all of this stuff. But if you're focusing on accessibility, give the developer the power to do that the way they want to, not a hit the button and then it just plays on the hardware side. So every time this comes up every couple of, it feels like every couple of months. There are two forms of accessibility conversations in the gaming space. One is legitimate and the other is wildly condescending and is. not headed up by disabled people or anybody who knows disabled people.

So the legitimate one is discussions about color blindness, low visual aptitude, color blocking, black and white modes, button tapping versus button holding, control options, remapping controls, in some cases, slowing down game term, game like speed certain phobias the raccophobia the flashing brightness support for non-standard controllers which also goes into

controller remapping but like number one with the bullet is like colorblindness followed by like POV it's our FOV followed by like tap to hold versus just hold like those are like right off the bat right

mashing in general. Dyslexia, appropriate text. Yep. Text size options. Just a huge variety of these things. Trigger poles. Yeah.

That's like there is a physical impediment, be it usually it's eyesight. Sometimes it's hearing. Sometimes it's physical, physicality control, etc. That is just creating a hard stop on on ability. Just like I,

like I, Like I, you know, I'm colorblind. There's a million fucking puzzles in a million games that somebody with even red-green, just they're fucked on. You can't do it, right? And then there's the second discussion about accessibility. And accessibility, right? Where it's every time a fucking from software game comes out. I'm not disabled.

this game's so hard, they should have an easy mode made for disabled people, because disabled people can't beat hard games. And every time that happens, people with motor control difficulties or visual difficulties or hearing difficulties

come out and just start screaming. Fuck you, you bitches. Like, Paige has, like, wrist problems and brain damage and memory problems. And she fucking blasted through dark souls and blood-worn. That shit's hard as fuck

Bitch Rest in peace broly legs Mead up tons of people at street Rest in priest broly legs Run the fucking set against him And see if you can fucking stand a chance See if you get around Absolutely

Absolutely My wife is disabled She fucking loses her mind When this shit comes up She goes crazy And this is a discussion Of the second type Where it's like

Oh Poor poor woman wheelchair babies need their need the game to play itself like it's fucking awful well because it's just it's just i want to put the AI in the thing i want to sneak it in there and you know what get the get the leg disabled's in here and we'll use them as the excuse to to put the the robot that kills your brain in here well what always happens of course is just that like yeah it just becomes a thing that like you if if there's any um if there's any looseness to this it'll be like okay cool you've allowed me to use the hardware to create an aim bot. You know what I mean? You've allowed me to find

ways to cheat multiplayer to whatever degree I would like to because you've made that possible. It's definitely not the use case that you're, that's being pitched there of 100%. And again, I think that the developer of the game reserves the right to put the features to for that, for the experience they'd like to offer in what in the ways that they'd like to. Well, I mean, reserve the right if they're putting it out on like on the platform sure and you know what there's things like um sometimes there's things that that that that are beyond the game like um game defaults for example back in the days with xbox you could like uh permanently replace buttons placements on and switch them to different things or whatever uh steam control settings

also do things like that or so but there's a difference obviously between that and the what we're describing here which is we'll analyze gameplay and then potentially um take control of the game and play it or give tips or text, et cetera, describing what to do or what's going on or what happening, et cetera, and so on and so forth. Like, like, there's different layers of it being, being more or less pitched. But what's funny? But it's going to be a baked in feature on, on whatever Sony and Microsoft do next. Either way.

I was doing, um, a no heel run on Resident Evil 9, right? and R1 in that game heals you. It automatically jabs you with a fucking healing item. And what I see in my mind is, oh man, I really can't beat this part in Resident Evil 9. Hey, Siri, can you do that shit? Yeah. And Siri's like, got it. And then just goes, you need to heal up and then uses every healing item in your inventory back to back.

and then fucking walks forward and waits all your ammo when the boss is is fucking invincible I mean it's the equipment I mean it's just like turn the button on and let it play itself

or whatever or you just like it's level skip without skipping the level you know. I gotta be honest I think video games in general

are way complicated to actually manage a lot of those inputs and a robot is going to have a hard time intuiting how to do it. You think the AI is going to roll, is not going to get roll catch by markets overheads? I think.

Yeah. I, um, more, more than anything, uh, whatever, whatever the, whatever the case ends up being.

I just, I, I, this fucking, this fucking AI can't get over the fucking jump in the tutorial for Cuphead. I don't who trained this thing. I don't, I don't like the solution being outside of the developers, you know, design.

Like I don't, I don't think that's, that's, that's good. Also, I'll take, I'll take a step forward on this where it's, even further, where it's like, you know, you cheated the game, you cheated. You cheated. Single player, multiplayer, whatever. We've done this. But this isn't like the, A, this isn't like the robot, I need the robot to like jerk me off. This is like I want the robot to jerk me off and also come for me. Like, the cheats or whatever, the fucking a single player or game versus multiplayer,

we've talked about this many times. It's a different thing. You're not ruining someone else's experience. But regardless, like, yeah, if you're doing this in the name of accessibility, it's like, I'm not buying that. What I think we're going to end up seeing, likely, I would not be surprised. You know, I don't know if I'm strong enough on this to say, mark my words but what if we end up in a situation where the fucking game front the store you look at is different from my store because it's been algorithmic and the algorithms oh i mean i'm sure i'm pretty sure we're there right now you what i'm going to my nintendo switch and hit recommendations the the box art for the game might be different based on you and your tastes and my tastes and that Netflix stuff I'm kind of shocked we're not there already after we had all those years of like you can't put a girl in a fucking

yeah exactly exactly right Netflix does that with its thumbnails for the shows you watch. And, you know, the A-B testing on thumbnails on YouTube is already a thing. I'm not going to be surprised if we go into the next generation of Game Store, where the products showing up and the art for said products are all based on shit you've clicked on before and not actually what the game's official anything is, you know. In addition to what I just said about trained profiles and auto settings and, you know, going in and creating a character for you, et cetera, and so on.

So, you know, who knows? Yeah, I don't, I don't see a lot of value in this. And I don't even mean like I'm an anti-AI hater, yada, yada. I actually just genuinely don't see a lot of value in it for nearly anyone. I can see, I can see fucking, you know, Call of Duty Bro just being like, whatever, just do the thing. I don't care. Run the game for me. Call of Duty Bro doesn't play anything but multiplayer.

Play FIFA for me, Siri. play FIFA for me. I can see that. No, turn off, fuck off. Stop it, shut up. I think you can, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a,

there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, just do it. You know, so. Recently came upon on somebody talking about gun and ball gamers. Snoop Dog. Oh, yeah? Yeah, you're right. Yeah, snoop dog. Yeah, you're right.

And basically they are putting forth this idea that like people who exclusively play multiplayer games don't actually like video games at all. They just happen to be the most convenient social output that they can get a hold up. Oh, that's elitist gatekeeping shit. What? I can see it in my time. It's not right for me to agree with this. Because if you, basically the idea is that if you allowed, if you offered up these people a way to have like, like a sports league in their. Yeah. You actually play soccer that was just as convenient that they would probably rather do that.

Because it's the inverse of any game is better with friends. It's like, because the friends is the appeal. And I'm specifically talking about the people who exclusively play multiplayer. games that are essentially sports, be they shooters or sports. God. Also, you know what? Gatekeeping fucking kicks ass. Gatekeeping should be done more.

Controversial, brave. I just, um, that's, that is, that is, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The problem with gatekeeping has always been that we kept the wrong people out. You're like, oh, we got to make sure there's no blacks or women. No! You need to keep out people who fucking smell! That's the gate! That's what it's for!

My preferred method of gatekeeping is gatekeeping the companies out of buying their way into the things I like. So one good crushing force will be unmarketable, unpurchasable, uncooptible. I saw a guy trying to get in contact with you to change the thumbnail because it's showing up on like his work computer or crushing force. And I saw that. And I was like, he's never going to change that thumbnail, bro. Never a million fucking years. Oh, you're, I'm sorry, but welcome to Woolley, Ver. versus, my friend. You're here. You're here. You're here. You're here now. And and and and and and and full full

credit to solidus on that pick because that's a perfect encapsulation. Right. With the, with the with the with the with the skunk tour. Yeah. Um, no, gatekeeping rules actually. So we we should gate keep more. I I like again if I think if we if we gate kept like, the Saudis out of the FGC with games like crushing force. That's not gatekeeping. That is, that is. That's not money. Gatekeeping is not the fucking pushing out.

The rent lowering shots. The rent lowering shots. Unless you're the government, you don't have the ability to gatekeep the Saudis out. Money. Actually, in fact, one person. Who owned Evo? I mean, a couple different companies. And then RTS.

Okay, was there. Who was there? Who was you know? I mean, the cannons. Okay, it was their job to gatekeeping. And then double perfect or triple perfect. Now, to be fair. Before Pokeyman. I'm going to assume they were given a big old bag of money. Yeah.

So they opened the gate a little bit. And you know what? I would have probably made the same decision. I'd like a big bag of money for Evo. I mean, everybody who does anything is, you know, you get the big bag of money and then you leave it and you go like, I don't know, we'll see what happens. But anyways, anyways, anyways. So that is one of the things that came up this week.

Something else that got interesting. So last week we were talking about Sony shutting down Blue Point and how that spells pretty much the death of a Bloodbored remake. Well, there's more. There is more, right? So follow-up, interview. Here we go. Bloomberg had an article where they had an article where they broke it down a little bit more.

And speaking to Yoshida, he says, though he's not directly involved, he doesn't know for sure. He has a theory, quote unquote. And the exact wording is, my theory is, because I remember Miyazaki-san really loved Bloodborn, what he created, I think he's interested in remaking the game. But he's so successful and so busy that he cannot do it himself, but he doesn't want anyone else to touch it. So that's my theory and PlayStation would respect his wishes. Right. So that is from someone who was originally in a position in the no, not currently there, but putting that out there as a, it's specifically from Soft saying they don't want Blue Point to make

a remake Blood Board because it's a something that they want to do themselves, right? Believable as a thought, if you're like, yeah, this is a, this is a property they love and care enough about. And maybe there's even the thing that they did, maybe you can even go like, they didn't like the Blue Point remake of Demon Souls for various reasons. Maybe they didn't like the artwork, the art changes or some of the other things. there was a couple things that they took liberties on that were not one to one, right? But the problem is, Frumsoft is not in charge of what happens to that license. Sony is.

That's true. So it might just be a matter of like, okay, well, PlayStation is just simply deferring to the wishes of Miyazaki and Frumsoft. If I was doing Sony stuff, I wouldn't want Game of the Year hit me. from software to be mad at me for remaking a game against their wishes. But this is the question, because some people are challenging this statement and saying that I think that might not be true because it's not up to FromSoft. But the question is, it is up to Sony. We know that they own Bloodborn.

But is Sony simply going, we could force a Bloodborn remake and at Frumsoft's ire. And we are choosing not to do so so that we don't piss them off. and thus we're leaving all that money on the table. There's a little progress that I feel like I haven't seen anyone bringing up. But like this statement by Yoshida reads weird to me because it's not being contextualized properly

because it's like former PlayStation head YoshiP says this. But what it actually should say is guy who tried to kill demon souls has idea as to why no blood-borne remake. It reads the way we talk about things that we might have heard at the water cooler. Sping, I have a theory about something. Is us sitting here going, oh, no!

That's what I'm hearing. Oh, you have a theory, do you? You know what I bet they should do? you know what they should do, Wully? They should do something about 90% similar to what I'm about to say,

but just different enough so it doesn't look like I knew beforehand. I just look really smart. That's what they should do. That's what they should do. Look, it is believable if you, some people were trying to put together

like string and corkboards to talk about there's evidence that the Demon Souls remake was disliked by Frumsoft and that they've talked a roundabout in a roundabout way about it or I forgot what the exact examples were you know but there was like two or three things where they're like oh here in the promotion here it seems like whatever the case is you know but I don't think there's any smoking gun there to to push that theory 100%. I do know that that that Demon Souls diehards are not upset were not happy with some of the changes that seemed point line needless.

And it is believable that as Bloods, Bloodbord is such a fucking special incredible game in the Soul series that I can believe that you're like, no, we want to do it ourselves and make sure that nothing changes. We want to change things that we believe should get updated, but not let someone else take that effort away. And we're so busy right now with all our projects that it's just not on the table, right? but I just don't know at what point Sony doesn't strong arm or goes like

you have to confirm this within this time window or we're going to try to make money on this you know because I gotta be blunt this entire discussion is so weird because like literally all anyone actually wants is a fucking patch that makes the frame timing better yeah yeah I mean enough time has passed that it's become more than that at this point yeah right it's like yeah no literally just just fucking fix the frame timing so it doesn't like jutter like shit when you turn the camera. That's it. Um, and then the last little bit here. And again,

this is come, this is all speculative in the, in the, in the, in the, the, the fucking weeds here. But, uh, Lance McDonald, uh, who did the 60 frame per second, um, mod, uh, had, and has, and has talked about a bunch of stuff with this. He said, uh, that, um, yeah, he, basically he's like, it's not from, he doesn't believe it. It's not from software that rejected blue, uh, BluePoint's pitch for a Bloodbourne remake. It's the PlayStation told Blue Point that from Software rejected the pitch, which is extremely unlikely to have actually been true, considering how many other things PlayStation lied to Blue Point about.

There was a point here where he describes them, like, basically like Sony reps kind of making shit up while he was speaking to them. Oh, yeah. I've had PlayStation studio staff literally tell me, we are working on Bloodbourne 2, quote, unquote, before. sometimes these people just say shit because they take random words of their colleagues as gospel when they're actually just morons so they're just back that up they're like people who should know better will will say crazy nonsense so people just working at sony you're just lying about shit and

this and in that in this case this could straight up be like blue point was lied to as a convenient excuse for why this is getting a turned down right Um, I mean, I will say that like, if you had to apply Occam's Razor, right, you have a property that would make a lot of money that if you put it out would be humongous, one of the biggest, um, generational releases. And you're not putting it out, right? It is easier to believe that the creator of its wishes are being respected than it is to be like they just don't want. the money that would be free. You know? I can't think of a reason why they would be so against what is such a slam dunk.

So there is a, there's like a, this is like a logical fallacy that I've run into many times in, in the game's business, which is, oh, that would make so much money. They should do it. And like, that assumes that everyone has our expected perspective. Oh, we're a bubble. No, no, no, we're in a bubble. Make no mistake. We're in this weird Resident Evil, Capcom fucking fighting game, devil may cry, survival, horror, best friends ass bubble.

This bubble kicks ass, by the way. We are locked into this fucking best friends bubble. Like, that's where we're at. I'm super smart about it, though. It's a psychotic echo chamber that is sometimes reflective of the industry at large and other times the most alien bat shit crazy things ever. you know, I saw something, I saw a clip about where Max was talking about the ending of

of Bioshock Infinite and it was like, oh yeah, no, we're here, we're in a place. And then the rest of the world at large is a different space. But, but, but I feel like blood-borne being a thing everybody wants.

You can have these moments where just looking at the fucking chat spam at a random fucking Keeley Award show and to be the amount, like, that is general gaming audience going crazy for it. That's not just this little fucking echo chamber, you know? Mm-hmm. I believe that even though other Souls games sold better, I don't know how those stacked up, did they? Yeah.

Yeah. Exclusive versus non-exclusive. Yeah. So, so even though other games, sole games sold better. Um, that of the things that Sony would want to fucking like, again, cash in on of the, of recent generations, last of us, Spider-Man fucking pushing God of War, pushing, uh, horizon, all these things. Like, it feels like if they had the ability to do so and maximize on it, they would throw blood, blubber on that list.

It's, again, like it feels like it's a free fucking cash out. Maybe that's not an accurate assessment. Maybe there are things going on behind the scenes. know about but I like like there is because it's actually kind of strange the game hasn't received any patch whatsoever not even in like a like a tweak or like a it unlocks the ability to use but PS5s extra resources like nothing but it's like yeah but it's like it's not like we're talking about gravity rush you know what I mean oh yeah hey there's others do you have the Sony news about the PC ports no so there's there's rumblings that Sony is uh not happy with their PC ports

strategy. Oh. And that like Ghost of Yote may for example never come to PC. It's not, be stopping that going forward. It's not promoting the new release enough. So, so on it. So here's the thing. I love the Sony games releasing on my personal computer. I played Ghost of Sashima on my PC and I thought that was awesome. I think that they actually came out and said, this is why we're doing this. And it might be the stupidest fucking plan. I I've ever heard. Their idea is basically when Spider-Man 2 comes out, we'll put Spider-Man 1 on the PC and it'll be so fucking hyped up to play Spider-Man, you'll go out and buy a PS5 to play Spider-Man 2. But Pat- With what fucking money, dude? But Pat, but Pat, what if I'm patient?

What if- As we established earlier, most people, like 80% of people are playing games from last year to six plus years ago? What if I'm down to wait? Knowing that it might come. All of Sony's releases have been staggered according to their original releases, so they're releasing at the same rate on PC. It's not,

the lag is not a so many years lag. It is a when the sequel is about to drop lag, right? But that, yeah, I guess that. I'm waiting on Yote for PC. I'm happy to wait. It's not like they're, It's not literally, I have like 40 games installed on my computer right now. And I'm just rerunning RE9 at night.

Like, I'm not fucking hurting for choice here. I'd be curious to know, I'd be curious to, yo, yo, yo, weight maxing. Weight maxing, baby. Weight maxing, let's go. It's all about weight maxing. I would be curious to know, like, if there's a way to track adoption rates for, like, how many people that bought, um, or, in Zero Dawn on PC, then immediately went, oh my God, I must go get Forbidden West right now.

Wully, there used to be a way to do that to Sony. And that was to force you to sign in with your PlayStation Network account. True, true, true, true. But PC gamers have violently resisted that, which means they no longer have the ability to find out who actually went from PC to PlayStation. So without that information, they're based off of vibes. And vibes don't play at the shareholder meeting.

That data is not getting shared. Yeah, it's so weird too, because, like, I originally made my Steam account by logging in with my PlayStation data. Yeah, that's actually super nuts that it actually has, like, done a full loop-to-loop. It allowed me to do that

a million years ago, and it actually worked, you know? bro, do you know why I made my Steam account? It's the stupidest thing. I was playing Day of Defeat on the W-A-O-N system through Half-Life 1. And it came a day where they're like, no, it has to be through Steam. You have to move it to Steam. And I went, man, I'm going to fuck about this fucking Steam service.

This piece of shit. I just want to play my Day Defeet. And I went, fuck, whatever. I fucking made a Steam account. And it was like, fine. Now I'm going to get back. And now you can do it. There you go.

That's it. A mild inconvenience at the time. That's all it was an afterthought. Yeah. Anyway, we'll see. We'll see what to make of this. And, yeah, just one or two other things. I don't know if you saw, but we got some match footage and behind the scenes motion capture for Alex in Street Fighter 6 now with Kenny Omega doing all his moves and yucking it up.

And shit's dope as hell. He's fucking killing it. And he's doing all the little things that, like, wrestlers do in the ring, the little, like, lining up for the hands in all. No, I know what I'm doing. Like, little wrestler mannerisms that make him super legit. And it's great. And all of that is a fucking fluke because apparently, according to Kenny Omega, he was talking to Capcom and they asked him, hey, would you be okay if we gave Alex like one of your moves as an homage, like the one winged angel.

I would be honored, man. And he's like, yeah, that sounds great. The only problem is my schedule's pretty busy, so I'm not sure when I can come in for the mocap. And they're like, what, what? No, we just meant we were going to do it. You're down to do mocap? And he's like, oh, you didn't mean you wanted me to come in?

I thought that's what you meant. And so they're like, yeah, no, get the fuck in here. Do it. That's right. Crossed wires for good. Yeah. And so he came in and then he did the mocap for the one winged angel. And then he's like, yeah, I'm going to just do this move set.

And so he's doing all the suplexes and bombs and fucking all the taunts and the walkouts and the yeah and everything to add that extra flavor to make him like a real wrestler. But that was so he became the full mocap performer for Alex. but he was originally just like saying yes to, yeah, you can put my move in, sure, you know, yeah,

great stuff, man. I got a fucking quote that just came out. Oh, no, it's from February. It's from Brandon Sheffield.

Mm-hmm. He's worked on some PlayStation games. I remember. I can find you 10 companies that have pitched a Bloodborn sequel, spin-off or remake, including mine. it's just not going to happen unless from soft decides they want to do it.

Okay. Okay. So there's creedings to that side. All right. Well, that's that then. Yeah. I, like, it's easy to be, to believe that Miyazaki is like, nope, no one's touching it but me. That's an easy answer.

There was a quote. I do remember where he's like, oh, man, I'd like to do it someday, but I'm just so busy. And it can also simultaneously be true that Sony can say, uh, Fuck you. We're doing it anyway. And sour the relationship. Yeah. That's it. Okay. And let's see.

Oh, I guess there's, there's, like, rumors going on now that, like, the next God of War game is going to not be about Cretus. It will, it will, there's a, there's leaks about a different protagonist taking over. Any details about who that would be? She. Who that would be? Yeah. So, Faye.

Uh-huh. Is likely. And they also just had, considering Blue Point just shut down for a canceled God of War game that was going to be a spin-off starring Atreus. I guess it makes sense that that was going to be the deal. So, Mom of War. I don't know if, I don't know. Like, I'm sure that Sony Santa Monica makes really good action-adventure games. But, like, Cratos's interest is that he's like the worst person in the world.

And Faye seems chill. So I... Little bits you get of her. So I haven't played Ragnarok, so I have no idea what she's like or what any of the... Oh, okay. Well, well, the fact that there's a little bit of her. is any existing anything of her at all there's there's a there's a moment in ragnerock where you go to um norse africa um and you find like what is basically a nuke crater like this massive crater and you're like

wow this is where fay fought thor to a standstill she's such a badass and that's it okay well clearly there's something more than nothing because the first game was just literally a spectral figure in the background, right? But, yeah, the, the, I don't know if there's any idea of or value in what's possible with the switch up there. But if, if they're like, we're done with his story and there's something else to do over here, then like, yeah, sure, I guess. I just, you'd have to imagine the franchise becoming something completely different at that point

again, right? So, um, but that's basically like a, a leak from a trusted, No, man, I want the character I play as in God of War to be a toxic piece of shit. On a redemption arc or just all in? Either on the way to needing redemption or needing redemption. Like, one or the other. I saw someone point out that after we were talking about the fucked up scene with the doorstop lady in the original trilogy, they pointed out that by the way, that scene happened right after you bang, percent.

Oh yeah, dude. Do you mean Aphrodite? Excuse me, excuse me, Aphrodite, yeah. So, you know. Bros before hose. All right. And the one other thing is... What does that trophy even mean?

I didn't do it, but I wish I did. Just let your brain wander. It's really fascinating, watching Jaffe completely crash out like a giant man child about the live action about Cratos not being a giant man child about the live action

a screenshot it's crazy it's like he's taking a dump in the woods screenshots actually like super bad I actually think it looks terrible I think I don't know who this Ryan Hurst guy is and I think like build and like body type wise I think he's fine I don't think they should have gotten a guy

who refused to shave his fucking head I think that's a really stupid idea, and I think the bald cap looks goddamn awful. I want to see it in motion, but this might be a live-action Zelda sitch. Or Silent Hill new movie porn D-Make. It should have been Chris Judge and Whiteface. That's fine. We can run that. And he would have done it.

Chris Judge is also fucking huge. Like Chris Judge really like it bodies a lot of Cretus. I bet you there's audition tapes. Cretus is in white face. He's like a really tan Greek guy. He has ash. It's ash face. It's ashy face.

It's canonically ash face. There's no problem here. Yeah. We know that Cretos is, you know, he's got the olive skin. He's a lot more tan than that. It's the ash on him that that makes him look that pale. It's his actual skin tone is totally, it's quite, it's darker.

Casting a white guy's like a waist. All right, now I'm pushing it. You are back in off. Or, or we can keep going. To see how far this goes. I'm good for the...

No, no, no, no, no. Why, wait, whoa, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Don't stop here. Hey, no, no, no, no. Hold on. Listen, hey, I see green lights all the way through. And I think...

You always see green lights. You're a toxic enabler. I think we should hit those green lights and see where they take us. So last little bit here. The One Piece is real. Literally, literally, part of the celebration

that they just had for One Piece involved Oda writing down what the actual secret of the One Piece treasure is on a piece of page. paper and then they put it in a little treasure box and they put that treasure box in the middle of the ocean and dropped it to the bottom and showed that hey if some psycho fucking fan is willing to risk their life they can dive to the bottom of the ocean floor somewhere off

the coast of japan and pull up a treasure box that'll tell them the secret of what the one piece is so there's one thing i really don't like about this and i would like I'm sure someone can reach out to me or just tell us right now in chat. Did he confirm to anyone that he actually wrote something at all on that piece of paper? Like he could have just drawn fucking dick butt. L.O.L. LaMow. And just throw it out of the ocean. The video shows him writing and writing down a thing and then folding it up.

It showed it filmed him writing down. writing down the one piece is and then folding it and doing it, right? Oh, it should have been dick butt. Oh, man. Yeah. And it seems like it's in some sort of container that has like the ability to like, I guess GPS track it

and like release it back to the surface whenever they want to. But that thing should be rigged with an explosive so if anybody gets to close, it blows up. Like either that or some fucking submersibles are going to go down there and just coke canned themselves, Titanic style, like to fucking get to the One Piece. There might be bodies. One Piece might create a few bodies in the search to find out what it is. That's okay.

You know? Or you can just wait for chapter. Anybody? I don't know. Someone? All right. 2000? 2000.

Okay. Yeah. Wild shit. The audacity of it. That's kind of crazy. Also, there's the part of me that also kind of hears about that and goes like, to be this far in to this thing that is universally beloved and the titular thing, they don't even know what it is?

What the fuck is this franchise, dude? What are we talking about? That's insanity. That's the craziest shit I've ever heard. Oh, yeah. We're going to get to see Smoker, dude. Weren't we having conversations where people were going, oh, we start, we're starting to see the ending from here. Weren't people saying six years ago?

Three, four years ago. A couple years, pre-COVID, people were starting to say, oh, I think we can see the ending from here. You don't even know what the One Piece is. All right. More importantly, we know that the One Piece is not the friends we made along the way. There have been many interviews in which he describes it being anything but a tangible piece of treasure would be outrageous. It is an item. It is a thing.

It is a photo of the full cast altogether with people that couldn't have possibly have been there at the time. So like attack on Titan had like Could you imagine Could you imagine? No wait And attack on Titan completely nailed it right It fucking sucks If it just oh it's a piece of gold

Or like it's a pack of cigarettes Or like I don't know I mean I'm I'm satisfied with the basement But a photo of the current cast Of if everybody that showed up, including people on the way to getting the treasure, would be some fucking wild shit. All right. Let's take some letters.

Hey, if you want to send in a letter, send it to Castle Superbeast at gmail.com. That's Castle Superbeast at Gmail.com. Right. We got one from Sam who says, hello, man to the left of my screen and man to the right. Greetings from Mexico. So you guys have talked about retcons and sequels that. ruin a story by adding or explaining unnecessary things like the alien black goo. Wait, that's not the email?

What I say? Was it Castle Superbeast? Castle Superbeast mail at gmail.com. What did you say? That's Castle, I said Castle Superbeast. Oh, yeah, just stop it. Castle Superbeast mail at gmail.com. Okay.

All right. You guys talked about the retcons and sequels that ruin a story by adding or explaining unnecessary things like Alien Black. that goo or the mass effect answers. But what about the opposite? Recently, I played Alan Wake 1, control and Alan Wake 2, and I walked away with the best impression from Alan Wake 1. It wasn't bad or anything.

I didn't walk away with the best impression from Alan Wake 1. It wasn't bad or anything, but other than some fun characters, I wasn't particularly captivated. Then I went 100% blind into control and immediately fell in love with everything about it. The introduction of oops and power utilitarians retroactive. actively made Alan Wake 1 way cooler and in return made me more excited to play Allen Wake 2. So do you have any examples of other media where the retcon actually improves or fixes the

franchise? Alan Wake 1, Control and Alan Wake 2 are the peak of this because each game recontextualizes earlier stuff and adds a lot. Allen Wake, so Control adds a much wider scope to Alan Wake 1. And then Alan Wake 2 adds a much. smaller scope to control. To control, okay. Because it's unclear as to whether or not

Alan writes the events of control or not. Or vice versa. So like which is what is feeding into what? And whichever game you're playing, that's the one that spawns. The surface level. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The top level game is the one you're currently playing

and the other is a sub-universe. I like that idea. And I've only played control there, but like the idea of the container thing is dope. But you, those are the types of things that can be done horribly wrong and ruin everything. See Midichlorians, et cetera. We talked earlier today. I have mine.

And I've said quite a few times that, you know, however folks feel about it, I fucking love the ending of the Phantom Pain. I love the reveal with Venom Snake. And I think it makes a lot of the shit in that franchise better to me because the stuff pertaining to Big Boss and his legend and his fuckassery in not only in multiple locations at the same time, but also how he's larger than life and such a fucking hypocrite. I adore how much the Phantom Pain breaks his legacy apart and go and rips it open. It's great. I never expected that to be a thing. And after watching, like, his buildup throughout the franchise and then you go see it in person and go, oh, it wasn't like that at all. But while they're breaking down his, they're building up the boss.

And then you watch the turmoil from people trying to fucking follow that through. The best thing they could have done at the end of that story was go, yeah, that dude's an asshole. Fuck him. That was all. That was bullshit. Like, I love it. I felt that was a great cap off, you know? I didn't care for it all.

I think Phantom Pain is like completely vestigial. It's like a mole. You just pop it off and not notice a difference at all. You can. You can. But I think that the idea of the legend being real, fuck that.

I much more prefer the work. Because look how much of a work with people like Osloat and pay everything in the background. I much prefer the idea of like, no, no, no. This was crafted. And everything that people believe in in the games later on is just K-Fabe. It works so much better to me, you know, and you have Venom being like,

fuck this piece of shit, you know? And of course, the best part about why it's perfectly hypocritical is because the thing you just did to Venom is exactly what happened to the boss. And your whole raison d'etre, you are now a hypocrite doing it to another. because you're above the game. You don't see the players in it because you're too high above it and you just did the same shit

that set you on your path. I love that. So this is kind of glazing it a lot because I recently played through Metal Gear 1 and 2 and Big Boss's motivation is I love war, war forever, woohoo! And that's it.

Like like a shit. Gust plate those last year. Yeah, yeah. And like all this build up to a guy who goes, I love war, soldiers forever, we, woo, woo. It's like, yeah, no. Yeah, yeah, you got to give Kojima some leeway to make that ghost hand actually be mental gymnastics, you know? You got to give leeway.

You got to give leeway for the sequels to fucking do some cartwheels. And, and Kojima is running away from you going, as you chase after her. I got enough out of the, out of big boss to be like, this is a guy who is completely fucking full of shit top to bottom and has been for like 50 fucking years. Like every single fucking thing he says is complete bullshit. Really? Really. That's interesting. Because given what you, because what you mentioned about.

What he believes it. What you mentioned about RE9 just now, I remember having that thought literally with this is good, isn't it? Like, he believes it. He's true. Yeah, he believes it. He's fucking wrong. He's the problem. But he's standing earnest in it and you're like, oh, this is mistake theory, not malice, right?

This is him doing what he thought was the right thing. And here we go. It's not actually a nefarious actor. Yeah, but it's what an amoral person thinks the right thing is. And it's somebody who's, again, willing to look at human beings as disposable, right? That's ultimately the thing. So, no, I just, I think it's a great cap off, you know, as far as the retcon that makes it better. I enjoyed that one.

No, no, fuck MGS 5. We have ghosts that don't realize you're chasing the wrong person. That's fucking stupid. That's, that's, that's the line for me. That's absolutely brain dead as fuck. Because the implication of Big Boss being a fuck with MGS4 is not explicit in that way. You pulling that out of the ending is something that you can read, but the ending intends for you to take, or at the very least, it frames it to take him sincerely in that moment. Cutting on, cutting to black on, this is good, isn't it?

Right. And here you are left unambiguously forced to look at Big Boss as an asshole. You cannot live in denial anymore. Because I burned him with the fucking lighter. I think, I think what he was like, muha. ha ha, ha, I'm gonna get you, Snake. Yeah, I think there's value. I think there's value in forcing the player

to look at him as an asshole. Yeah. All right. It's just an interesting juxtaposition because like most people didn't play Metal Gear 1 and 2, right? And most people start with Metal Gear Solid 1 and like all of its ancient history

and big bosses just lionized. But in one, and two. He's a fucking cartoon villain with Sean Connery's fucking face. I burned with a lighter. Like, yeah, and we're, and we're literally just grabbing Snake Plisket, we're grabbing names and faces of characters from movies that he liked. Like, what the fuck, man? He was, he was like, I like. Boss, the greatest that was a, yeah, I burn that motherfucker with bug spray. He's a bitch. I like military jargon and, and, you know, action movies. I'm going to put them all together, you know, sure. But then as time goes on, it gets a little. more sophisticated and he starts fucking spitting and then next thing you know he's predicting 9-11 and fast forward to death stranding and and COVID you know and you just you let Kojima cook and it goes too far but here we are you know but here we are but here we are and you got to you got to go look back on it and go okay what the fuck was that actually about you

know and I enjoyed the ride and uh I I feel like that was one last stop that like like seeing that I was like, mm, okay, now I'm good to put this down. I've played a lot of Cojumbo. I've played like multiple more than you have at this point. And I'm going to say,

like, he's got some fucking misses in there. I mean, the shit that we laugh at and fucking mock, like, and mercilessly for the last 20, 30 years, absolutely,

you know? But yeah, but yeah, that's, um, that's, that's my, that's my,

my, my, my, my, my, my, That's what I enjoyed. Okay.

And I guess, let's take one more over here. Hello, Dad's, Marcus here. Short and simple. What is your favorite non-Star Wars glupp shito? Not important, nothing background characters that you have a soft spot for. For me, I love the orc middle manager who follows Sauraman throughout the two towers an extended edition and argues with him about the realities of industrial expansion. Oh, I do love that guy.

That guy's great. I don't remember. Sarman's like, we've got to do it. He's like, where are we going to get the wood, man? You need wood to build things. Is that the guy who looks out at the army and has a tear drop? I don't think so. Like, he has a lackey.

I remember that looks on the size of the full army and, like, cries. And is it that, is that dude? no it's not that dude okay I don't know that's grima okay okay my mistake I'm not sure glupp shito huh um okay I'm not really a glup shito guy

in the same way that I'm not like an OC guy mm-hmm there's there's um there's not sorry the guy who the fucking farmer who shoots rats with a gun okay yeah

CBZ. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. He's, I mean, he's not around like a Glob Shitto, but he's a, he's a nothing background character that fucking, that elevates it. I think if they're recurring, maybe that might be the part of the. That kind of never comes back.

Yes. Ork. For me, I feel like a Glob Shitto needs to be kind of recurring a bit. You know, really? Because I mean even the person's own No they said they said background character Nothing that does that you have a soft spot for Not important so that's a wide that's a wide net

I'm gonna say In fucking in Gurin lagan Every time shit's popping off and you just cut over to Attenboro Just going Slamming the buttons and launching more missiles and fucking Joghan and Barimbo just being like yeah, yeah.

Those guys are great. And especially to the point where they're glup shittowing the whole time. And when it comes down to it, they get their moments because everybody gets a moment. Everybody's got to get a moment. Even glup, right? So I appreciate Gur and Lagan for giving the glup shittos

their own transformations and hype-ass fucking special moves. I don't look this up. Glob. Glub Shitto. I'm going to get an urban dictionary page for sure. No, I don't. Glob Shito is a character. Basically, unpopular, unnamed character.

That's it. Minor character. Yeah, as minor as it gets. Okay, sure. All right. It can be a nothing. Yeah. But yeah, that's mine.

that's somebody people in the chat is like saying i have i must have a resident evil glubbshit i'm like not really resident evil characters are named or dead that's there's like almost no in between overlap i just know like i was when i was dropping some tep end card names out like like you you you you fucking twisted your head upside out a few times no a little bit yeah yeah Um, all right. Isn't? Yeah. No, I was, I was going to say, um, like, any, any single serving alien that people just go,

who the fuck is that? Yeah. That's it. Right? That's all. Like, I would have said like, because they say non-Star Wars, but like, I actually like how IG 88 is just this weird fucking robot in the background of that one scene with Bobafet. But then they turned that.

But then they made him into a character later. Yeah. Shadows of the Empire. He's big. He's a huge part of that. No, he's also in the Mandalorian. It's not him specifically, but it's a similar robot. Oh, season one? Yeah. But it's his model.

Yeah. It's not, actually, IG. Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. Yeah. Sure, sure, sure. Yeah. Anyway. Uh, uh, uh, uh, that. You know, you cut out. Say it again. Star Trek. Oh.

There's too many. There's way too many. Like every one-off nonsense episode. Yeah. Every episode. Every single fucking episode. Is Star Trek not just Glub Shito the series? The Adventures of Glob Shito?

It really is. It's all Star Trek is. If it's minor character that nobody who is into the series would know about, but who I really like, I would go with Morn. Who is a cheers reference. Norm? No. Morn.

Do they say it like that when he walks into... They do say it like that. Is it in whatever the Ferenghis bar? It's in Deep Space 9. He's an alien with no lines. Oh, my God. He is sitting at the bar, damn near every single episode.

Never speaks, but whenever somebody refers to hanging out with more, they're like, oh, my God, he never shuts up. Okay. Every time he's about to speak, he gets cut off or something happens or an alarm goes off. That's pretty good. That's not bad. It's really good. It's a great fucking bit. At the buzzer?

He even dies and then walks into his own funeral to sit at his spot. That's pretty good. That's great. Okay, solid bit. one day you're going to watch Star Trek And it is it is It is the Greatest writing exercise

Of all time It's a setting in which What you could write Any goddamn story you want With absolutely no limits On time, budget or quality Do you want to make The shittiest episode of TV

You've ever seen in your fucking life? Go for it We'll have a good one next week Don't worry about it. And I would argue that the fact that you're talking about it 30 years later means it succeeded. It's pretty good. Me and Paige and Eli used to play a game, which is this happened in Star Trek. And she would go, fuck, no, it did.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fucking did. Yeah. At the buzzer, I'm going to throw out Avatar, Foaming Mouth Guy, and Cabbage's Guy. Avatar, probably, Mark Guy. So in Avatar, there's the cabbages guy who has a cabbage cart, and it keeps getting busted open. Who's foaming mouth guy? Foaming mouth guy, like, freaks out when Ang does his air bending tricks, and he goes, oh, my God! And falls over.

Oh, yeah, I remember him. He just literally foams out the mouth and freaks out and passes out on the ground. That's a good glub shito right there. All right. Have a good one, everybody.