Castle Super Beast - CSB364: GROOMERANG RAID

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

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I'm starting to believe in, hello, hello. Hey, man. What's up? Hi. Those are the eyes of a good night. You know, last week when I, at the very end of the podcast, I was like, okay, I got to go real fast. Me and Page of streaming the end of Shadow of the Colossus because I think we're getting sick. Yes.

Hey, guess what? Yeah, okay. All right. Got sick as fuck. Yeah. Literally the following night. So by the math on that, you should be. either in the thick of it or cresting.

I'm on my way out, but. Okay. But I had a fun little experience. And I'll give you a preview of this experience, Willie. Okay. So you put your toddler started to get really grumpy, like super grumpy, like unreasonable, outside their personality grumpy. New silence.

Yeah. Right. Oh, I know what that is. They're sleepy. Mm-hmm. All right, buddy. I can see your eyes rolling back in your head. Come on.

It's nap time. So you put him down. It's 6.15, 6.30, right? And you're like, as you're doing it, you're thinking, this is pretty late. This might not be, but he's falling asleep. What are you going to do? So you go to wake him up at 8 o'clock because he's got to go to bed around 10, right? So he can't sleep.

You go, hey, buddy. wake up and you're like you're shaking them and they're like they're cooked fucking mega dreamland stage 4 REM

they're not going to come out of it and if you pull them out of it they're going to freak out all right it's probably one of those nights where they just go from like 5 p.m. to the next day what are you going to do

go about your night all right everyone's in bed, everyone's going to sleep. Everyone's asleep. Everyone's asleep. He just crushed it. 12.45am. What does bagel mean?

What is it? What a bagel? What is a bagel? Middle of the dark. These are the midnight questions. Yeah. What? I want to see it. Okay.

I want to go downstairs and tell what bagel mean. Okay. Down we go, bud. Yeah. We go. I just, every one of these where I'm like, oh,

man, I wish you could communicate. And like, you're basically, I'm like, what you're describing is worse. Oh, well,

it's awesome. Communication means nothing. You get no understanding. You get minus understanding. Because, because I go downstairs, and you're like, hey, man,

here's some milk. Do you want something you eat? You want to Odie chump? Okay, here you go. And then I show him the bagel. And I go, this is a bagel. It's like a circular piece of bread. I eat them in the morning.

And he goes, what's that? And he points at the bagel. I'm showing me. And I go, it's a bagel. And he goes, no. And then runs in the living room and one in the morning. And I'm like, oh. Yeah.

Oh, this is sick. Yeah, so I'm on, I'm on those midnight to 4 a.m. feeds. And when, like, there's times where she's waking up going just like, there's waking up hungry and then there's waking up like, like famished, you know. And you can hear when the cries are like, yo, hurry up. And when they turn into, I'm a kill everybody right now. So I've fully transitioned. because like when when you have the the 2 a.m. feed because I basically did that. Yeah.

I was up for two-ish hours. And you have the 2 a.m. feed and you have the potato and you feed the potato and the potato, you got to rock the potato back to sleep, right? But it takes maybe a bit. And the whole time you're like, don't fall asleep. Don't fall asleep. Don't fall asleep. Don't fall asleep.

Don't fall asleep. Don't fall asleep. Right. But now I'm sick, right? And so I'm watching the boy while Paige is running an errand. And I'm lying down on the couch and my head's on the couch. pillow and he's playing with his toys and I'm like okay I can just rest and he walks up to me and slaps my stomach and goes I don't like it when you lie down dead dad and I'm like what

oh you can't and I'm like no I'm just tired he's like I don't like that I'm so so something in terms of just getting across the the concept of like hey I get what you, I understand your needs, but also like life and time. And there are concepts that are happening around us, like the concept of milk needing to be heated a little bit before you drink it, for example, is one that is that the entirety of everything to do with, like, how the universe requires heat to be transferred into this bottle is the abane of her existence, right? And so what I'm hearing, like, shrieking, I'm hearing cries that are hitting new pitches of like, yeah, right?

Anger. So I've tried, I tried a couple different things and like the usual things and the and the rubbing the stomach, et cetera, that when that stops working, right? And something that actually is like throwing a wrench in is, okay, like the bottles and the bottle warmer and like, I pick her up and I point at it. And it's, you know what a bottle is now, right? So I pick her up and she's like, ugh. And she's like looking at me like, what are you doing?

And I'm like, look at it. it right there it's heating up and she looks and she's looking at my hand and following towards it and she kind of is like paused and there's a little bit of a like so I should stop crying for a moment yeah and I'm like you see you see right and she's like okay I'm like right and he's just like no I don't trust it man ah yeah yeah so you're just like that finale the finale of that scenario was I sat up and I went come on man yeah and he looks at me and goes don't say that to me don't say come on man I'm like it's not polite It's not polite.

You're right. I'm sorry. Oh, God. Yeah. So I'm sure you've gotten the version of this where, um, with the whole like, okay, I'm, if I'm trying to soothe or put her to sleep or something, so doing anything. And she's like in full on, nah, fuck you dad mode, right? Yeah. Like, um, and mom's indisposed.

and is unable to come at the moment. So then the escalation is going up. And you're like... Human being number two is here. Exactly, right? And there's a level of like, like hitting the new, again, hitting the peaks. And eventually there's a like, okay, I'm just putting you down right now. And like, we're going to see if you're going to be more upset by the put down or by the polled that's of a human being two.

Because there's two situations happening that you have to pick one. Do you want, like, to be held more than you hate? me right yes exactly exactly right and so there's a point where and it's like the answer is both I actually hate both of these things and I don't get it so there's a little bit of like what if I have put you down and uh uh right and um at one point at the point when mom comes over and it's like well here you go right and she's like she settles in and I'm kind of just staring and I'm just like blank face just going like and she and she actually has a look of like yeah, what do you want for me, man?

Like, it's an expression of just kind of like, yeah, I don't know, okay? But it's better now. Yeah, and then I'm turning this way. And I'm like, I'm looking at her and she's like, I don't want to look at you right now, you know? And I'm like, no, no, I'm over here. And she's like, no, I'm not looking.

I'm not, I'm not, no eye contact. And I'm like, okay, because you know, you know how you feel right now. I've, um, oh, man. There's a new word in my house. Mm-hmm. And the new word. is do da.

Do da. Do da. And I was like struggling to understand what doda was because it would sometimes be the answer to I would ask him something and he go no dad dad it's doda

and I'm like what the fuck does that mean because he's using it like it means something not like it's nonsense right so he's invented a word and I'm trying to piece together the language like a fucking scientist and I figured it out and now the word drives me the fuck it drives me fucking crazy okay dood origin yeah etymology do daw's origin is dadda I want some milk how do you ask for

milk smirk do da no say please no do da and I'm like doda means for Fuck you. Duda means rebellion. Duda means I don't want to do it. And I think it's funny that I'm answering you what like in this passive aggressive way. Do da means resist. Duda is rise up against authority. So.

Challenge. Challenge gods. Anytime he like does something and you're like, say sorry, buddy. He goes, no, do da. And I have, oh, my fucking, oh, my God. Oh, man. Wow. The placeholders for fuck you already in place.

Jesus Christ. Okay. That needs that emotion predates any language for, like, super early. It's so funny. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I mean, you know. This is the best shit ever.

Getting roasted by a small person who has no power but has all the power is of really fun experience. So what I was going to say before is that I feel like it doesn't happen often, but every once in a while there are weeks where, you know, we're like, oh, it's a doozy. We got a whole bunch to cover, right? But not all dozy weeks are built the same. Sometimes the dozy week's a doodaw. Sometimes the dozy week is a doodaw.

sometimes the news happens evenly distributed. Sometimes it happens immediately after we turn the lights off. Sometimes it happens literally all within 24 hours of the beginning of the podcast. And sometimes it happens. Exactly. Sometimes we enter into the Pucci made in heaven escalation of events where the week is like, yeah, it's pretty slow, you know, and it's like, oh, a couple things are going on. and then the 48 hours coming up to going live are just bang, bang, bang, up to the second, up to the very moment of starting where it's just like, oh my God, like eight things just happened in the last 10 minutes.

Yeah, it really like eventually when we, I don't remember why we moved the podcast to Tuesdays. I think it was for D&D. But like, that's paid out because Monday, Monday announcements, Monday news. Yeah, I mean, sometimes it's Tuesdays too. It's also just, you know, you never, you never know. One of them was this morning. Certainly. Many of them were this morning, you know.

So no, let's let's get to it. But, uh, I mean, look, there was, there was a week, uh, to cover a bit before. Um, I played Slay the Spire 2. I did a stream. It's good. It is good. Played some, uh, more and eventually on, locked the the necker binder as you know you were mentioning and try to run with that.

That character fucking rules, man. Super interesting. Very tricky, though. I got a bad initial, like, a set of cards to play with and died real early into the run because I just didn't get anything to make her survivability go up. The whole thing with like, yeah, having her, um, Oste be the, your defense and your offense and everything. you have to get a good amount of

summon cards to keep him alive and keep him doing good damage and yeah like just the first the initial run I did I was like oh no good hands right now this is just not going to work you know but what I didn't know was that the next character to unlock after that

was my boy right I was waiting the whole time and the redact is here and I'm like oh I forgot that once I got the redact in the first game, I just ran that like all the time. I love the redact. Busted robot with all this bullshit nonsense all over it.

Go. So good. So, excuse me, the defect, excuse me. And basically, uh, uh, uh, the run immediately just gets more manageable where you're like, okay, we're doing orbs, right? And we're, and like the different colored orbs are procking each turn. And you're kind of like going, this is this character. I actually am remembering I had more fun with this character than the rest of the game.

I like the version of the game that comes from the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, uh, the, uh, I'll, I'll, I'll, also say, too, that, um, doing that run and getting a bit further in, I was able to see some more of the, I guess, uh, there's a couple more things that are, um, and, I guess, uh, there's a couple more things that are that are distinct and different from the original, but they're definitely not as immediately obvious as we were discussing before. But I had a really fun build with just slamming everything with the, I forgot the name of the first character, but the default. Ironclad. Ironclad, yeah, yeah. So had a good run with that. Giving it, giving it more tries.

I'm warming up to it, and especially now that I've got the, you know, the defect back. very excited for that. Um, Austi build, I guess we'll just have to, you know, try a few more and see. But,

uh, I get it in concept. Uh, from my experience, I played a little bit more. And it's like the, the regent and the necrobinder are really cool. Uh,

all builds are not created equal. Like very early access. Like there are, there are some ones that are just like, to the fucking moon with this. Mm-hmm. And then there's a, like,

multiple others that I'm like, I can't make this shit fucking work at all. Like they just don't have the synergizing that I feel like it needs. I mean, that initial slam deck that I was talking about was basically just like, throw away all your strikes. I got a slam card, upgrade it, duplicate it, and just hit huge damage for free as often as possible. yeah, it was great. It was a build-up defense, and then your defense is now also

how much damage you're going to do by slamming, you know? Good stuff there. Get working through Verso's drafts. Yeah, fun new concepts. Some goofy fucking shit in there. Pa-papa-papa. You know? as a status is a really interesting one.

Like, it feels like some of these ideas were already cooking when the game was released, and some of them were like, we saw how you played. We saw how you freak beasts broke the game, and we designed this to stop you. There's definitely some of that. There's also the guy who fakes you out like 10 times in one attack. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is definitely having the piss. the final boss there is very, very for real,

even as somebody who beat up Simon. And then the freaks over at the tower, those freaks over the tower are built to deal with whatever you used to take out Simon. Yeah. And then you go into the drafts and go, okay, you need to use the busted, busted fucking shit in here to go back out to deal with the freaks.

And it's interesting because like, it's like, okay, have you built? built out a bill are you a freak that is one and done right do you have no stamina can you can you only get it out once and then you're out for the night or can you keep it up right and if so can you survive at least one volley of bullshit you know because that's the thing is like okay deplete a life bar now let's see you do it again and you're like I can't I used all my stand all of my pigtos and luminas were for that first hit to be really good. And it's like, well, then you

fucking die, you know? But the freaks at the tower, yeah, it was really cool to see some of the changes. Some of them like, you know, Clea, it's just like, okay, be perfect, right?

That's it. Be perfect. All we ask of you is perfection. And then in some other cases, you're like, let's take the most disappointing part of this game, which was how much of jober the duelist turned out to be and fucking fix it. And just go nuts.

Just go completely crazy. Way to fix the dualist. What a cool way to redeem that, you know? Because the energy and design of that and the buildup of the event are so much higher than the actual fight and its challenge. So have you gotten a bunch of those new pictos that have bizarre alternating effects? Timing is what matters. Every fifth hit.

600 damage. So the game, the base game pushed really hard towards it. You're going to want to build up into like one hit. And that hit's going to go to space. And now it's like, well, what about every time you get a crit, it'll double the damage of the next non-crit. So you actually want 50% crit. What if...

Do some math. What if the first four attacks don't. hit at all. Yeah. But the fifth one is really big. And so it's like it completely inverts it back to multi-attack. And then you're going and

you're looking at that move list going how many attacks here are hitting five times. How many attacks are doing the fifth hit being the most devastating? Oh look, burning canvas. Okay, perfect. But uh-oh, burning canvas costs five and I can only go up to four lumina points, uh, AP

points. Oh, no. Let's get a reducer going and now, you know, and so This whole little system that's like, yeah, they want you to sit down and, like, do the math on it. So clever stuff going on there. And also, it's fun to see the, at least lore-wise, the whole, like, it's a kids playground idea, you know? Like, very much so. It's cool to see, like, yeah, okay, even in this, like, even in this greater playground, you have a, just this fun stuff of, like, what would a kid's doodles of, like, family and everything? and, you know, those memories be like.

So very, very cool stuff there. Checked out a... There is the implication that one of the characters played, Xenoblade, and Persona 5. Is there? Yeah. So the shithead, the shithead who has the fucking gestural that does all sorts of fucking jukes on you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Like his, um, his fucking quotes are, I'm really feeling it, which is. Yes. Okay. What, what Shulk yells out and you'll never see it coming. Right. Right. And they, though, the other one is a test of your reflexes, which is, uh, from FF14. So that's, and in, in my mind that does a lot that like, oh, there's a character here that

fucking loves RPGs. Okay. specifically Japanese RPGs. I mean, yeah, that character is Guillaume. You know, like, I love it when you play a game and the creator, like, Hojima or Tarantino or Guillaume goes, I really like this band. I really like this other game. I also lost my shit promptly when it's like, you know,

the origins of all evil Osceo. Hey, it's him. Cuckoo! Some stupid French guy. And then, you know, and then, of course, there was the rematch, right? Boy!

Yeah. Boy, did they just go, all right, nerds. Show me what you've got. I like we went in and took a look and like it was like all right what is the actual deal with Simo at this point right and it's like let's if you think because the the the truth behind all difficulty in all video games is memorization beats everything you can never ever lose if you just lab it enough and internalize it. No, we're going to make a, we're going to make a character in this game that has guaranteed inconsistent timings on literally every single attack, every single time. You're going to have to just fucking wing it every time. The divergent star requires your attention on every single swing.

It's really funny to break the rules of your combat system at the dead last second. Oh, my God. You know, you've been coasting on memory so far. And even if you're at the top of your fucking game crushing this with billions or whatever the case is, your defense is all based on, I've seen it before I know the timing. Well, fuck you. Improvise. Only jazz will win this battle. Holy shit, man.

And the moment you fuck up once, like that was what it was. It was like learning, that was the rule. you're Ginejanjan that he activates is like on and off at different whims with each combo. Hey, hey, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, like, you're just like, what the fuck you have a second to react to the flash, and then you drop the ball once, get the fuck out of my canvas, bitch. So I, ho! I, that was a proper, bra, br-b-b-p-p-prop-pah-p-p-prew. I left those four bosses for when I go back and replay the game because I loaded into the DLC from six months later, right?

Like eight months later? And I struggled pretty good. And I didn't have the build ideas that I had that I even made. So I was like, fuck it. Just more damage, more damage. And I brute forced it. And then I went over to those guys and I'm like, this fucking nearly year long fucking break since I was in here.

I, I this, you, you guys get to be the top of the mountain for when I replay the game in the future. Like just you have broken the game. Congratulations. That's your entry ticket. You know, you are, you are barely, you are barely able to enter. show us what you got um so that was very cool um yeah should be wrapping that up a little bit later uh oh yeah you're you're there if you're talking about this indeed um i uh uh i i'm some people were wondering like oh should you do the dLC after you beat it or whatever i was like no no

no i like it's pretty clearly yes yes right the only thing you would want to do for reggie is mentally checklist how high you should juice the final boss. Yeah, exactly. That's, which is something I've been thinking about already, just to make it sure

that you can see how cool it is. You should have juiced it a lot after doing that shit. Mm-hmm, for sure. And, you know, some people were like, oh, why would you do it this one? No, no, no, no. Because narratively,

the coolest things are bookending, this whole journey, right? And it's flaccid. I hate when you have a, a moment in games where you walk back out after credits, go somewhere, do an interesting thing, and then go, all right, well, I'm sitting here on the overworld, and I guess that's done now. And it's like, that's so weird and unsatisfying. I want the final thing in the game to be rolling credits.

And the real DLC, the real thing that you do post game is the fucking... Well, no, I was going to say, is the conversation. So that is what you spend your fucking time on. I remember seeing an interview with Guillaume where they were asking him about how so many people got to the end of the game and like massively like fucked up act three. Like just took act three apart. And he's like, yeah, no, that was on purpose. We wanted we wanted you to be able to go and do anything and just go nuts and go crazy if you wanted. And maybe we let them go a little too far.

but like that was definitely intentional. And then they they somewhat rectified that by allowing you to be like, have your friend tell you, no, juice the boss's, juice the final boss's HP by, by a million. So you mean like a million?

No, I mean like one million. Give the boss one million times more HP. I'm so serious. Knowing where to go was with the challenge on. that because we put times 10 on Simon and on Simo and it was too much. And then it was like, should we go for times five? No, no, no, we needed to because the one shot, initial base Simon was not enough, right? And, and I, and I, and in my, my, my, I calculated wrong. I thought that his,

that Stondale against Simone would result in almost dead, but not quite dead. And then you get to fight a little bit to the end. And it, it, it wiped him, right? Because roulette, roulette, roulette, do it. So all this is... I don't understand math, so roulette's really good, I guess. So in the end, you know, I get that, that's the thought. But I'm always in preference of a, you know, like I said,

the cool book ending, with the exception of something like Citadel, where it's like, this is actually perfectly designed for posts, right? Where you have like your... Anyway, if the story is meant to be like an epilogue of sorts, right? Then that works out. Anyway, so that'll be going on this week.

All right. Also checked out a couple of them fighting games. So one, there's one that I've been keeping an eye out on. And I wanted to wait for a little bit more, but I've decided to just pull it now, pull the plug now. Hell versus is the Helltaker fan-made fighting game that looked really cool and I was like oh this looks like some fun shit to check out in a minute only two characters so far so it's just a little demo and I versus pardon hell and versus

unfortunately not hell and not versus um but uh for hal taker I mean they they they got they got Zara in there so like they know right off the bat who people want um and you know hell taker right? Yeah. So they're, this is a game that for the one hour that the game actually lasts, the effect it's had on just fandom and the impact of its character designs and overall general attitude are like the perfect, the amount that, the effect is so disproportionate for how long the source material is. Yeah, but it made people's dicks hard. It sure did. And like I said, we bring back the kink boosting. All right. Fuck a kink shame. We kink boost. So this game is like, pick what do you, what do you, what kind of harem are you looking for? And I mean, if your whole, if your baseline is everyone's wearing a suit, then like, got my fucking attention. Um, so anyway, the fighting game looks pretty sick. We tried out to, we tried out the little demo played that for a bit. Um, so far so good. You know, fun stuff. Cook cooking. Um, it's also funny because it's, it's also funny because it's,

It's Helltaker related. It's a two-character demo, and it has, like, one stage. The assets are, like, at the early... They're super early in the cycle. But they already have voice acting. They already have that stage with, like, little cameo, you know, Helltaker in the background doing stuff. That's a very different way of building a game than usual.

Because I think the game is all about the fan art and the characters and the lore and the love into, like, the girls in the harem. So you're kind of like, yeah, it's important to put all... that right away, you know? You can't build this up like a normal game. You have to put all the shit that fans are going to freak out and love immediately in your two-character demo and work like vertical slice down almost. Built from the goon up. That is, that is, that is exactly how it should be put. So yeah, that was, you know, that's coming along. Keep an eye out on that. And it's a, I I think it's, it seems like it's one of those like one person, uh, projects.

I also, uh, took the opportunity to, um, not only play it, but Min came over one day and just decided and just handed me a box and said, here you go, check this out. And I was like, what, what is this? And he hands me this. That's threatening. Oh. The arcad, it's called. that, dude. Why? It is a controller PlayStation style on one side and a button like arcade stick set up on the opposite side. Why would you do it? Because some games actually, like some are, some games I'm better on arcade stick, some games I'm better on pad. And sometimes the hybrid is actually ideal. So tech and fingers I talk about a lot of the time are when you're playing on a normal PlayStation controller and then you put your hand up, wrist up, and then you tap, right? A lot of players play Tekken that way because of the way you hit strings and stuff, it actually just, it flows better,

it feels better, it feels more accurate for how you gotta time things. And for me, I've, like, Third Strike is a good example of a game where I'm like, I've got more pad experience on Third Strike than Stick experience.

So I'm way more accurate and I drop things a lot less on pad. So let me try this out. Min just brought them up on it and just said, here you go, give it a shot. And you know what? For the weirdness of what you're looking at, it ain't bad.

For starters, you customize the D-PAD so that it can be PlayStation style if you'd like or Xbox style if you'd like. So there's a couple different options if you want this full circle or whatever. And then these buttons, I don't think you can replace with Sanoa, but it seems like there's another model that you potentially can. So if you have a good feeling D-pad on one side and good arcade stick buttons on the other side, that's solid man that ain't bad um i was i was like fully going oh my god is this are we going are we doing like abomination reviews and i was surprisingly uh pleased with this being quite a decent way to go you know so if you're somebody out there who's like you like the feeling of touching the buttons but the stick accuracy has been an issue or so or you just prefer your thumb and have gotten used to

playing on pads more maybe give it a shot You know? Woolly. I would love to sit here and discuss your crimes against God further. But I am required at the home. I will have to be right back. BRB. All righty.

That controller looks fucking terrible. I just want to finish with that thought. I walked over to help page with the baby and like, you see this fucking shit really had on the screen? And she's like, I know it looks awful. Look. some people are, if you've gotten experience with a pad and then if you got experience with a stick and you have that moment where you're like, fuck me, I dropped this one important moment and that feels bad. Sometimes, many times the answer is just like, yeah, if you practice more with any peripheral,

you'll get the hang of it. And that's true. But as someone with experience and both with preferences all over the place in that, sometimes I'm like, actually in this game, I kind of want this. You know, and someone thought the same thing, and they did it. I guarantee you, I know. I want my opponent to retch on the floor when they see me playing the game, and this will give me an advantage. Bitch, people are pulling up to tournaments with fucking pianos and DDR pads, okay?

Yeah, but see, that's cool and creative. You're just using some pile of shit off a bargain bin. It's custom built. It's pretty solid. The D pad, you built my fucking asshole. Shit on a butt. Okay. All right. Cool. Yep.

I'm still a little sick, so you're getting, you're getting a little bit of extra sass today. Good counterpoint. Ultimately, that's the kind of thing where I would look at it and be like, if what usually happens were to happen, which is it would feel terrible, right? If you grab this type of peripheral put out by like fucking Liang number one or some shit, you know, performance, and then you touch it. Oh, these are awful buttons. This is an awful pad. They had the idea, but this is terribly executed. That'd be one thing.

But the fact that it actually feels solid goes, oh, well, shit. Hey, let me ask you. Just off the top of the dome. The Uyapad or the original steam controller. They're both straight dog shit. They're crazy bad. Like, the steam controller feels bad in a way that. It is expensive.

It's just not the feeling I want from my control. Whereas the Uyapad feels like plastic from Kmart. I think my favorite part about the Uyapad is that you press like one of the buttons. And if you're moving to the side even a little bit, the fucking button goes under the shell and stays there. Yes. Which is what happens with the, with the Toys R Us controllers. Like that's the thing is it. It weighs nothing.

It has nothing in there. It's the cheapest plastic possible. Whereas the Steam controller was made using real parts. There were bad parts for fucking for gaming. They're just not what I want my controller to feel like, you know? Yeah. I just, there's, even if you have the mold of a controller I like and you build it out of the fucking Uya thing, it's dog shit every time. It's fucking crazy.

Anyways. So yeah, no, that's pretty much it. So, you know, this week going to, yeah, wrap up on E33 and Thursday going to be busy. And then Saturday probably we're going to check out Alex. So come hang out. It should be fun. Yeah. Oh, and don't forget that I believe Thursday is a steel ball run day.

It is steel ball run day. going to get that white turn yeah no I was just going to say going to get that white man's money on Thursday oh yeah don't forget dude do we know how it's going to get released god I hope it's a single episode dude

I'm expecting it to be part one as a drop of multiple I don't know we'll find out um what's going on uh me and page got sick this week mostly me page seemed to dodge most of it

um and so I've I've I canceled my whole week's worth of fucking streams which is quite rare for me even when I am sick um because I'd be like sitting there just leaking and then coughing my shit off and then like I streamed on Monday Sunday briefly and I was like I'm coming out of it I'm coming out of it and then I start the stream and like literally the first comment I saw was like Whoa, dude, you look like shit. Like friendly. You know, like, like the kind.

And I was like leaking all over myself. And I just ended up doing like a single beat the backlog game, which was heartworm, which is really cool. It's very classic style of 1998, like fixed camera horror game. Super cool. But then I'm like, oh, I'm still actively dying. And my voice is nasely and my throat hurts. I'm out of here. Yeah.

unfortunately, like, things that you would 100% stay home for if you were, like, punching into an office, you'll just, like, fight through and click live, go live anyway. Yeah, like, I've, like, hurt my hand or hurt my foot or whatever, and I'm like, whatever, I'm just sitting in a chair. But, like, oh, cool, it hurts to talk. Mm. Ooh, not a good one. Yeah. And then there's pushing it and then regretting it double hard a few days later.

when it's like, you should have been recovering, you stupid fucking idiot. So I didn't, I didn't play much. I played a little bit more of my Switch than I usually do. I've been playing Xenoblate X, which is the fakesest fake MMO game to ever exist. Like every single thing about Xenoblate Chronicles X

is an MMO, like a classic Japanese-style MMO. other than the fact that it's not an... You're not online. It's more MMO than like some of the fucking dot-hack games. That were also fake MMOs. Yeah, that's what I was brought up last time. It's fucking bizarre.

It's fucking strange. And I watched the first episode of that... Of that One Piece television show. Oh, yeah, season two. The second season came out. I had not followed it super closely in the lead up to the season two. They should give whoever is the casting director like an Emmy by default. This is the best casting for anything I have ever seen in my life.

Every single character is like a 1990, fan casting, not accounting for acting ability. Right. It's like, oh, it's them. It's them off the page in the war, in real life. And they're doing it. And they're all pretty good actor. Like, they do, they do a good job.

Like, even more so than the first season, because in season two, the first episode takes place in Logetown, which is like a very large scale city. And the amount of detail they went into, like, hey people who exist in the One Piece universe look like stupid Jagovs. Like even pedestrians all look like stupid cartoon freaks. Everybody in every shot, every extra, stupid ass cartoon freak in the background. Absolutely ridiculous. Yeah, I really like that first season.

And this is, it's unfortunate that the whole enjoyment that's coming from the casting being like, holy shit they nailed it. I don't have any of that. I'm just I'm just judging it on the merits of what it is, you know, for the first time. But enjoyable enough as that. There's also something that this has to be Oda's idea where, um, so Oda writes like real loose and like people will pulling out plot whole, like if you read, if you read the manga and you read like every, most chapters have like a letter to Oda where he answers like fan questions. And people will point out like massive plot holes that like a year later will become, oh, actually this happened because of this.

Uh-huh. I wasn't a plot hole. I had it in my head the whole time. And he actually takes the time to answer that shit. Yeah. Okay. Well, no, what he does, like people will like, hey, how come Luffy grew back his teeth after drinking milk?

And he'll be like, it's a. manga be quiet but then later me right okay um and one of the things that you see even in the first episode is characters from like 600 chapters later in the manga appearing crazy early like absolutely insanely early and you're like oh my what that got and the reason is is because upon those characters' introduction in the manga, they will flash back to that early chapter and be like, I was there, by the way. I was there off screen.

I saw that. But also, you have to take into consideration. There are not going to be 600 live action episodes. So the jump to wherever you're talking about is much closer. No. So if they wanted to adapt everything they did, I think I saw people say it would take like 14. seasons up until now.

Fuck. Oh, okay. And like, you're talking, and taking like a butcher's fucking knife to it, like. It's, and yeah, they're, they're, like, massaging it and like, they're cutting this and and what about, can you drop, like, two or three movies to like, you know, fucking rasei arc, you know what I mean? Just, just, just. Around halfway through one piece.

Oh, wow. there is a time skip. So you could do six, seven seasons with these guys and then end it. And then you could then have the... Six or seven live action sees. Yeah. Yeah. And then you could be like the one piece live action is returning. And you recast the whole group and be like, they're older now.

You get to wear fucking Seinfeld and friends. are at and you go, we are now halfway through the story. Well, I remember it was like around like in the one thing or whatever it was. Like we're a chapter like 1200. And Oda did an interview. He was like, I think we're starting to see

where the, where the final arc may start to have, or some shit like that. It was very, it was like 15 years in. He's like, I'm starting to think about the ending. Okay, so divorced from all of that, though, is the reality that... Oh, it's good. It's very fun.

But, no, I just, I don't have faith that, like, Netflix or any of the shits involved on production at some point won't fuck this up for that many seasons. Like, you get a number of competent seasons before someone somewhere fucks it up, you know? So, season three is confirmed already. They're already working on it. For sure. For sure. And season three would be Alabasta. And then

you could totally like their adventures continue after the end of the third season. And then if they did the fourth season, it would be the knock-up stream and Skypea.

And you could totally do their adventures continue after that. Look, it would be nice It would be nice that a good project could be long running successful in work and just be untouched by the way everything gets ruined these days. But I'm just how often does that happen? You know, it's so rare, man. And I don't know if you saw, but I mean, I'll pull a docket story out here so that we can relieve the back half of the podcast. Yeah, just let some of the steam out the butt.

Let the steam out. But tomorrow studios now with their with their, you know, reinvigorated, you know,

egos are like, yo, how about, how about that Champlu though, right? And after the success of One Piece, it's like,

yeah, let's see it, right? But don't forget, they also did Cowboy Bebop. And so the difference they said in the interview when they're talking about this is we realized that having the

creator there in the process was very important so they reached out to shinichiro watenabe and he is going to be involved with sham samurai champlain so that's not what's important what's important is that the creator has a kill clause in the fucking contract that that's that's why the one piece live action is good. Yeah, because Oda's walking around with the gun. Oda's like getting daily updates and if he thinks something sucks shit, he's like, no, I'll

cancel the whole season. I don't even care. So that's it. Like, okay, can the people that did that, they did this and it worked, can we trust them to go into us? Because you've already botched, you know, this previous franchise from the same

creator. Welcome to the out, motherfucker. Can you fix this? Can you save it. And it's like, yes, by having the creator on board to kick everyone's ass and actually do what he thinks would make it make sense. You know, you provide the, um, the, you know, ability, the production, the talent that did that da, da, da, da, da, da, et cetera. And have the person whose vision actually created the fucking thing show up and make the decisions. Maybe it has some, yeah. Um, I, though, though sometimes that's not true. Um, you should, you should. You should. You should. You, you, it's some, yeah. Um, yeah. Um, I, though, though, though, though, though, should not have, for example, had Stephen King consult on The Shining.

Well, made that movie awful. Well, well, thankfully, we have the TV miniseries shining to look at. What an incredible, like, compare and contrast. Like, no, this is my vision. And it's like, Steve, you're not a good director. You're bad. Like, there are some things about that miniseries that are interesting, right?

There are some twists and overall, like, Stephen King universe pulls that work that are cool, but you have fucking nothing on that movie. Like, it's, it's just not your baby anymore. It's done. It's cooked. It's over. Anyways, anyways, all that to say that, um, I, I, yeah, with, with the proper guidance, I am looking forward to seeing what they do with Champlain.

Yeah. I believe it can be done. And casting is fucking paramount for that too. You know? So. I could fuck that up. Fuck that up like two seconds. Like,

Luffy is a very, very specific person you got a nail. And Mugan is, I'd say, as precise. You know? Oda had like super detailed notes and ex- expectations of what these characters would look like in real life if they were real people,

down to like what countries they would be from in the real world. Yeah, that's, that's, that's, that's good detail. Maybe if like fucking, what would be really sick is if a live action Champleu could even, like, fix some of the pacing of the original show, which is not perfect. It's fucking cool, but it ain't a perfect show. Towards the end, it does kind of get a bit... Five more baseball episodes. I mean, just, you know what?

We've decided to delete the sunflower-smelling samurai, and we are spending an entire arc on a world series of Japan. You know, baseball. I have a complaint about samurai Champlain that, um, that I think I've never surfaced to you ever. Mm-hmm. And this complaint, might suck. Like, I might be completely wrong. But I actually really strongly

disliked the final episode matchups. Like, each character has their final confrontation. No, I don't think that's, this is not, this is not a wild take. This is not extreme. I thought that in the lead up to that episode, that the matchups that we got would have actually been switched because instead of fire, fire, fire, and ice, ice, I thought it was going to be fire and ice and fire and ice. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I get it. I get it. Ultimately, I do feel like, considering a cowboy bebop, I do, I felt like the first half of shampoo is just way stronger than the second, you know, overall. And, and, uh, you get a couple of, you get your baseball episode in there. You get your beatbox bandits, you know, you get your fucking best of Nugib's tracks dropped in. And

like, you enjoy a couple of episodes. But a lot of that fun was like the beginning of the journey. And I, yeah, I just remember the back half of it kind of unfortunately being not as strong and a bit more forgettable in a lot of ways and Foo's story and arc. I feel like it's the total opposite of B-Bop where all the bottle episodes in the second half of B-Bop are like the best parts of the fucking show. Yeah. And so that's the last thing I was going to say is with live action Champlu, like, I wonder, what do you do on that music? Because there is now an army of post-Newjabest disciples that exist, you know? There are so many people that like have taken up that style and are killing it. You know, you got your Marcus D's and you got, I mean, mellow doing that type of shit is crushing it. There's so much like low. sick post-New-Jabest stuff that is uh i wonder if you kind of just like get people to come in and kind of homage it you know like i i'm not too sure is new jabez still alive new jibs is not alive

anymore no unfortunately oh really i kind of asked that facetiously no no no he it's actually a this is a big deal this is like he passed away and it was tragic and it sucked well then oh shit and then i actually have like locked into what you're talking about because it's like oh yeah that is actually very difficult and possibly very disrespectful. Yeah. So Fat John was a part of that. You know, there's a couple people you can put you can 100% pull back in. But, you know, either way, the music choices for this are going to be very, very important.

Because the legacy of how anyone came to no new jabass was because of shit. I know what they're going to do. Somebody in the chat was right. Shadow Lily's right. They're going to use AI to replicate the feel of the music in honor. Ah. Yeah. Anyway, I would, I would like to believe that you can get Shingo too to like choose who he thinks would be the best fucking lineup, you know, to handle that.

that would be the probably the most appropriate thing, I think. Anyway, anyway. That's tough. Tall order. Tall fucking order. Yeah. Rest in peace, Jinseba. Anyway, so One Piece, got to go check that out.

It's good. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. What else is going on? There's a character in there that people are mad that they made them look a certain way. And all I could think of is that they're stupid, that they're stupid idiots. idiots and didn't read one piece. Anytime anything has a successful series on Netflix, it's just like you can take bets on

how many seasons you're getting. It's two. You're getting two. And then the bet starts at three. Yeah. I mean, okay. So I will say that after I brought up Castlevania, I did see, it turns out it's not as much as a Castlevania dropped off consensus as much as it is.

it is mixed and there's a lot of people that were saying no no no it was actually quite good you know so there's debate as to the drop off discussion I haven't gotten to it but I can tell you for a fact that the animation is out of fucking control on the fifth and six seasons okay okay I mean I just I know that it first the first two like it was universally just like this is fucking fire you know and then afterwards there started to be some some noise but I again I haven't seen it myself so I'd have to go find out. Anyway, what else was going on?

Watched One Piece did that. Honestly, just been just napping. All right. That's fair. Me and Paige, we're nap trading. Because someone alive has to watch the child. I'll tell you what, though. Taking care of a toddler can sometimes be tough,

but it's a wonderful experience. But you know what? is tough when your kid every now and then goes, and it's like, they're fine. Like they're not in, they don't have a fever. They don't. But all the places that you would usually go that have other children are now off limits because you can't have your probably still infectious child cough all over

the other children. And then you get to feel, Wully, you get to. to feel a hatred in your chest. Let's go. So deep. Talk about it. Speak on it. Speak on it.

Because what? Because what did you just do? What I did was I acted like a responsible. Oh. Oh. And then the kids. Mm-hmm. I should stay home with the child and just work extra hard to entertain them.

And it's almost like the fucking sick kids at the daycare that are being brought there by their parents should probably be doing the same thing. Because every time your child gets sick, you usually get to see it happen. You see a child that is obviously ill in the public space touching things and coughing on people. And you go, so good. So like, I, there is a, there is a reality where you're like, okay, is this something where your work or your, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you. have an inability. Oh, yeah. Okay. I'll just run down the thing because I see some people already doing it in the thing,

which is like sometimes people can't do that. No, because my child doesn't go to gay, doesn't go to gay care. No. Don't go to gay care. Okay. That's for, that's for gay baby jail, actually. No, we had a gay baby jail briefly. It was a, uh, it was like a big, big play pen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's important. he doesn't go to daycare because he's not

reason to put him in daycare, right? They're sending the kids to gay care. What is going on? What I'm talking about is the library. Mommy and me style play places that are open for a couple hours a day for the kids

to interact with other children and stuff like that. Not child care. Optional child enriched activities. So when you are at the optional child enrichment activity and a kid comes in and is literally leaking fucking green and you're like, you don't have to be here. You don't have to be here. You don't have to be here. It is immoral for you to be here. There are, there are places that are, I mean, depending on where you're set up and stuff,

I know for, we know for a fact that there's places that are free that you take, that you can take your kids and such. But, uh, no, I would say that if you have serious, uh,

or emergencies or you have, there's lots of situations where you got to be able to like, gotta go deal with that, right? Part of being a parent is you don't have the, uh, full control, you don't have autonomy over your full schedule anymore.

Because you got to step in for anything going on. And, um, Yeah, it feels really, really annoying to know that like for every moment that that same thing that crossed her mind, because we had that as well, oh, she's a little bit sick. Looks like we're not going to take her anywhere where other kids are going to be. Got to keep her hair until that's over with. Just walk around outside in the open air. And you're just kind of like, like, please also do this other parents.

that you don't make it worse. It's just... But at the same time, Wally, I don't think you've... She's not old enough that you've encountered this type of person. But at the same time, you'll be, like, at this community service, and you'll be, like, looking at the sick child, and you'll overhear their mom be like, oh, they couldn't have it. I definitely never got them vaccinated. So there's no...

There's no worry. And then you look back at the child. stacking like 400 cars in a circle. Yeah. And you're like, ma'am. So, I was about to say, I was about to say that like there is,

like, you can, you, there is a particular, um, situation you can imagine where somebody is like, like I literally have to, like every single,

I can't take any time off of work to deal with this and or if any emergencies happen. I also am shit out of luck, right? Yeah, no, that happens. That's what I'm saying, right? There are circumstances you can, you can envision here where there's like, I literally, I cannot do anything if my kid gets sick, right?

Your back is against the wall. You can't believe somebody sent their sick kid to daycare. And then the response is, if I don't go to work today, I won't have the food to pay rent and- Type shit, right? What the fuck are they supposed to do? And I don't want to sound like a fucking asshole describing that type of scenario here, right? But then you describe what you just said, which is the, like, actually... Actually.

I'm being intentionally neglectful. We are, we are, we are, we are getting our kid to, like, eat more fucking buffs of getting. We're getting our kid sicker on purpose in the swamps to increase their own natural immunities, you see. And you'll thank me by getting your kid sick, too. We've sent our child to the bat caves. actually to just go play in there. It's crazy. It's crazy. Yeah, yeah. Um, so yeah, I've, I've been sick. That's, that's what's up. Gotcha. Okay. Okay. Well, I'm playing a lot of, I've been playing, I've played more Switch 2 in handheld mode this week. Yeah? Then I played Switch 1 at all.

You hitting that copier? Because that and Zeno Blaine X. And it's like, Like, hey, you're playing with your sensory bin? All right, I can I can build a little house and put Pocopia before you get distracted from your sensory bin. Can't put it on the TV because you'll just lock on and get all overstimulated and shit. But I can hide over here in this chair. Make sure you don't eat any sensory bin rice. But I got it. It really is nuts how aware they are of the fact that your phone like exists.

something interesting simply because of the fact that they know they see you around the house looking at it. And like it's it's not just any other random object. It is an object that is worth reaching out to and seeing what is that thing you're looking at over there. You know? And you're like, no, no, no, this is not, don't ignore this. I'm here. I'm looking at them. We're, we're engaging. And it's like yeah, yeah. But I seen you over there looking at this thing. I want to know what's going on. So I feel like we. And it is, it is glowing like fucking Pulp Fiction. I feel like we've threaded the needle on this because the boy will walk up to Page's phone, pick Page's phone up, and then walk over to her and go, here, Mommy, I found Siri. Oh. And gives her the phone because when, and he'll do that with me and he'll be like, Dad, I found Google and he hands me my phone. Because when we lose our phones in the house constantly, so we walk around the house saying the activation word and going, where are you? and then the phone goes, oh, I'm over here.

Okay. Oh, you can do that, huh? Yeah, no, it's very useful. I haven't done that. Like mine where the phones just appear everywhere. I'm still silently listening for a vibrate. But the other thing is that he has, so Paige will be like doing an errand or should be at the doctor or something. And he'll be like, where's mommy?

I'm like, mommy's at the doctor. And he says, call mommy on the phone and tell her to come home. And he'll pick up my phone and hand it to me. And what he starts to do is he starts to like do this. Tell mommy to come home. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I go, okay.

And then I text her. And it's like, the little man is telling you to come home now. I was like, I told her. He's like, okay. And look, to be further to these. He knows it's a communications device. To be fair to these kids, if we were growing up and your parents had the Pulp Fiction briefcase and every once in a while you'd catch them looking inside of it and you'd go,

hey, what is that? And they'd shut it and go nothing. You would become obsessed with the briefcase. I understand. You want to hear something absolutely crazy? Yeah. This child has never seen a Mario game in his life. Ever.

Not on the TV, not on a video, nothing. I load up the switch too on the television to like check out the weekly deals. And he looks at the TV, he goes, I want to see Mario, please. I want Mario. Mario, please. Because Mario's on the fucking. It's in the air. It's in the air, bro.

There's like, no, there's a Mario book we read to him, like a cute little baby book. Like 18 months ago. Oh, man. Right? Yeah. And like the Mario blue and red little guy design is like and the name is so strong. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean that like Mario, uh, Optimus, you know, old Superman, Gundam. Nintendo will always win. Red white, blue. Console race. Red, white, blue and yellow are like super attractive designs for kids. Like one million percent every time. time. This is studied and known. And the, uh, uh, uh, uh, what you call it? Um, the, we have a, one of her teethers that, uh, um, and brother-in-law got was a super Nintendo controller. It's pretty

cute, you know, it's a nice teetheer and it's, it's pretty useful. And a lot of the ones, the ones she have don't fit properly in her mouth. So like that one actually does. But like, you know, the like, the whole like, ah, getting them started early. And it's just like, well, it, it's a gift and it's a it's an opportune one and it happens to be the right size but you know everything in due time where there's no rush i'm sure i'm sure by simple virtue of the fact that in the house there is a glowing room with sounds coming out of it and she's going to be around and be like what's happening in dad's workroom with the purple and green lights and the sounds and all the the curiosity is going to be baked in there i'm sure at some point and maybe she's

She'll be like, oh, that shit's lame. Get it away for me. Forbidden glowing box of mystery. It's a big room for dorks. It sucks. I'm out of here. It's dad show is what it is. You know, we'll see.

But now I'm in the moment where he goes, I want to go to the office and I want to do dad show. No more dad show. It's my show. He said, no more dad show. It's my show. And then climbed to this chair and said, this is my chair. It's for me. And I'm like, no, uh, not for you.

you're going to grow up mentally well. There you go. So that's what your week is. Yeah, pretty much. Okay. I am coming back this week. Not tomorrow. Tomorrow I'm busy all day.

But Thursday, I'm going to start the RE9 insanity difficulty play-through. And then after that, I'm going to play a bunch of Crimson Desert this week. Because that game still looks fake, even though I have confirmation that it is real. Have you seen any of Crimson Desert? Um, I was excited based on, you know, being, like, I thought Black Desert was cool. And then seeing what they were doing going on, it was like, oh, cool, building off of that. But, um, the more I learned about Black Desert and stuff, the more I kind of learned that it was, like, not what it was advertised to be. No, it's definitely not.

Crimson Desert is what Black Desert was advertised to be. Right. Right. Maybe. It seems fake. It seems really fake. just at the end of the day like it taught me that um i i will hit stop will stop me in my tracks i will i will look i will look twice at anything with hit stop you know um cool all right uh yeah

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So I mean look Do you just Do we start on questioning what the fuck Is happening with Digital Foundry Right now Do we just

Do we run the filter? Do we do it? I've gotten... I can straight up tell you what's happening to Digital Foundry. I've gotten messages from lots of people being like, can't wait to hear y'all talk about this type shit, you know? I can tell you what's happening to... Sure, sure, sure.

Before we talk about what's happening to Digital Foundry, we have to talk about why we should talk about what's happening to Digital Foundry, which is DLSS-5. has been announced from Nvidia. They showed a demo off and... It is supposed to be a more realistic lighting pass added after the fact via AI... Generative. Yeah, exactly.

And the demo they showed off was running on 2,5090s and 1,200 watt power supply. It's apparently supposed to be of something that's coming this year. All right. So in order to talk about that, we need to talk about the existence of DLSS. So DLSS was invented back in, I want to say, the fucking 2000 series, maybe 3,000 series. But the idea behind deep learning super sampling is the idea that by feeding a bunch of a game's footage at super high resolutions into the robot. it can teach your video card via drivers how to ballpark what a lower resolution image would look like at a higher resolution. This is used so that what you can do is have the game look like it's 4K and output it 4K, but its internal render is it like 1080P or something, which frees up a lot of resources. And DLSS has gone through multiple transformer models. We're up to DLSS4.

and DLSSS4 is really great. It creates like high resolution images that are, in a lot of cases, superior to traditional anti-aliasing techniques. It's an existing... At much faster frame rates. So the core of it of DLSS and AMD's FSR is we are using this technology to create better looking results at a.m. looking results at a much, much faster performance. So when they say, hey, guys, we invented DLSS-S-5 to improve lighting, by the way it takes two 50-90s, right away, the plot is lost. Immediately, it's like, no, no, no, this is not what this is for. So they're saying that they're going to get it running on one,

again, later in this year is what they're saying. But, the demo that they showed off was using to and a 1,200 watt power supply. Second of which is the important thing of Nvidia has been pushing ray tracing and path tracing for a while, which is basically reconstructing light rays to more accurately do something in the scene. The problem with ray tracing and path tracing, despite the fact that if there's a lot of water or reflective surfaces, it can look very nice. It's like the most expensive computational setting on your computer. It's like 20% of your computer's energy is going into something that's like 1% visually better.

It's a massive waste. It is the easiest setting to turn off and go, oh, cool, now the game runs good. So with all with all. that setup. The way that this was revealed is they had Digital Foundry, check it out, and they got hands-on to demo the tech, and they took a look at it over a couple different games, and the, you know, flagship one was RE9. Yeah, it's RE9, it's Oblivion remastered. It's, there's a couple others. And right off the bat, what you end up seeing when they're looking at the tech is you're seeing they turn it on, they turn it off,

and you see the change in lighting to the environments. You see the change in lighting to the characters, and then you see the faces on the characters become completely different faces that look exactly like every shitty Gen. I.I. filter that you've been seeing all over the place for the last year. So what's happening here is,

they say it's not a filter. They see, yeah. I know. Displayed it as a filter. That's what I'm saying. This is what everyone sees, right? So they, they, the feedback was properly negative because everyone has been getting conditioned into this bullshit for a long time and is getting kind of sick of it.

And what you see when the filter goes on essentially, which they're saying it's not, but when you see what, when they turn it on, is it effectively acts as a fuck your art direction button. So what happens is they yassify. If you want, sure, within their purview.

Sure, you can go with that. You can go with that or the ads for, um, uh, what is it? We're under fucking attack. Play now for free. Right.

So. And a lot of people kind of went, no thanks, in video. I don't feel like designing my own AI slut right now, actually. I think I'd rather not. It looks exactly like that.

Shit. So there's more going on here. So like DLSS's biggest thing is that there are some artifacts, but it's being based off of like the game's own footage. So what ends up happening is that you'll have minor artifacts, typically shimmering or may some interface elements when you go too fast, get a little goofy. But nothing crazy. When you look at the DLSS 5 thing, Grace is like the best example, but they also have a screenshot of Leon that shows a similar problem. The filter or whatever the fuck they want to call it, is a adding things that aren't there. And when it adds things that aren't there, it adds all the same things that aren't there every time. So the race image looks like a porn actress. And that's because these AI models have been trained on porn. But more than that, you take it look at Leon. Leon's chin gets slightly bigger in the shot that they showed.

And what this means is that per frame, the characters are going to look slightly differently per frame. So like there will be like that morphing fucking shit going on at a little over thing. And you know what? There might not even be like that sounds like based on the way we see Gen AI stuff look right now,

that frame by frame it's going to look like a weird different person thing, totally possible. But again, NVIDIA is saying that it is not a filter and they specifically went into the comments to talk about how the developers are going to have control to maintain the aesthetic, da-da-da-da, whatever. So when you see the video in particular... It literally has to be a filter. It's a frame buffer going into the model and then having changes applied to it.

So as Digital Fondry is reviewing the tech and they're getting very excited about it and they're kind of going, well, I mean, between having it off and having it on, I think it's a no-brainer. which game I'd rather play and stuff. And you're kind of looking at the, they're zooming in on like, Grayson, you're seeing the details of the close up and such. And it's like, okay, so like, it doesn't matter whether the artist and the art direction was specifically going for a particular look, a particular shading, particular face,

etc. Every eye must be glassy. Every lip must be rougeed in the same sort of way. Cheeks are suddenly, they must be shiny, the same sort of just erase, whatever the artist did filter drops on like it feels like it drops into place and you see that effect on everything else they do when they showed it off with FIFA and every other game you're just seeing like whatever the artist did absolutely out of the picture go fuck yourself here's something that people are going to glance at and be like oh look it's that pretty um

instagram fucking snapchat filter that you're dropping on top of things and people are so conditioned at this point to seeing that exact type of thing and being like ugh at this point that it doesn't get the reaction they thought they were going to have which is people going, wow, it looks like we're skipping two or three gens ahead. You know, it feels like we're on PS9. Holy shit. So there's a lot to break down. So first of all, I don't believe for a second that the DLSS-Five announcement video is for anyone

that's ever going to buy a video card or play a video game. this screams shareholder slop keep investing in Nvidia look how real it looks I mean

Nvidia is like one of the most important companies on the planet but it has to keep going up or else it'll crash right

and this has this and the fact that it requires like whatever they're going to say it requires 5090s

guess what nobody owns a 4090 right like nobody like most people are playing old games games, most people are playing on old hardware. This is for no one. Like on a on a practical like people actually using this in their games level. This is actually for no one the same way

that path tracing is for no one. They have a streaming thing called G-Force now that they could probably turn it on and show it off, but whatever. Bad ideas have never stopped them from ramming forward by the way. Nothing in this industry has ever been. There's just like a computational like hard line to what is actually. possible to what you can sell to the consumer actually never mind that selling to the consumer actually matters anymore, mind you. Well, they're also like downgrading projections

for selling video cards in the future anyway. So like there's this shit is for no one. Well, hey, poor boy, why don't you just stream the game? If you can't afford 250s, if you can't afford two video cards, just say so. No, no interest. You can't afford 25090s, then just stream it.

We talked about this last. Poor boy. The video game industry has a problem that the movie industry doesn't even have, which is like there's so many good video games that you can get readily available access to with current technology. The average person could easily just play games that have already come out forever. There's absolute like the ability to go, fuck it, I'm out. Is totally viable for almost every single person. Right. I, when I was talking last week about the new Helix box and the angles that they're going to approach this from and how you're going to market the console that can also play Steam.

And, you know, this is going to challenge not just a PlayStation, but also Steambox, etc. All the AI features describing that, you know, are surely going to get rolled out, I guess I was not really thinking about the one that would just erase the entire artistic intent of the game you're playing. You know, I know that we've seen, um, I know that we've seen like. Like, again, filter shit dropped in over classic games. And we've seen the whole, like, we're smoothing over the pixels of a game you love. And everyone's like, we fucking hate this. It looks like dog shit. You know, play Chrono Trigger with this blur fucking vomit filter on it.

Why don't you? But yeah, I guess it's just like, of all the filters, the things that are going to be in your face, I can easily see this being one of those things that it's like, no matter what you play. Look, it just looks better on healing. or whatever, or like the individual AI offerings becoming part of the bullet points they're trying to sell you on. So the DLSS-S-5 thing, before I forget, because there's a point that it's important in my head anyway,

is like everybody's focusing on Grace's face and the Starfield lady's face and how they're being yassified for their own protection. I mean, it's kind of hard not to when it looks like the Twitter, the Twitter guy post that says, this is how she should have looked. No, well, no, you can choose that. Like what's actually like even like worse is something that happens with AI generated imagery.

So are you familiar with the yellow tint in AI imagery? No. Okay. So AI has an issue with its output. And that is a weirdly disproportionate amount of all images ever have more yellow in them than other colors. There just happens to be a crazy amount of yellow. images. DASX Pist filters.

Okay. As a result, some AI models are skewed yellow compared to whatever their source would be. Interesting. Over and over and over, right? And what you're seeing with the DLSS-5 thing is every single compare and contrast image made the scene like twice as bright.

Yeah, the Assassin's Creed shadows forest. was in particular. A dark forest, a dark street under rain, and a dark room underground in the Starfield one, all of them are just super brightly, saturatedly lit. And that's even a bigger problem than the fucking AI face shit. A Resident Evil's a fucking horror game that takes place mostly in the dark.

And I think, I think the yeah, the fact that the faces just came across that fucking like immediately revolted for anyone who's gotten conditioned to this shit was like, like you, if it was just something

where they only showed environments and or just and such like it probably wouldn't have hit and been as like oh my God, please fucking stop. But seeing their face look exactly like the you won't last 10 minutes playing this game. You know?

And you're just like, guys, how did you think this was going to go over well? So the digital fan, like the video and such, like, I mean, yeah, it's everyone is, is, is rightfully upset, dislikes through the fucking roof. And the, the, the, yeah, the examples they, that they gave, they can't, the comment they said was, where was it? Yeah, that basically that the developers will choose what to toggle on and what to toggle off and such. And it I don't I don't I don't it I don't I don't I don't believe for a second that These types of things are kind of like when you have to go to your your parents house and turn the TV Fucking blurs move moathe motion off right or the fact that YouTube shorts automatically run a filter on everybody's face now as soon as it goes on and it makes it look different It's bad on me too it accentuates all the hairs and

lines. And you have no say in the matter. There is zero precedent for any of us to believe that this shit is not going to be on by default and pushing its way into your face and you're going to have to opt out of it more than anything, right? It's, it's a hundred percent going to be the way that this goes. And yeah, I mean, fucking the, I feel stupid to keep saying the word art as if it matters, as if it means anything? Because it doesn't fucking mean anything, right? This is where we get into what's going on with Digital Foundry. And I feel like people haven't been paying attention and literally have never paid attention

to Digital Foundry in the history of their thing. Everyone is going, I don't understand how Digital Foundry can find this impressive when it screws up the art design. Digital Foundry does not do fucking exhaustive technical treaties. on art design. They're engineering nerds and tech freaks. That's what everyone always went to them for. They're like, I want to know why this thing runs.

I want to know what technique this is. I want to know how all this shit works. If it's bump mapping or fucking ray tracing or whatever the fuck, right? They're technologists. Right? At its core, Digital Foundry is like a technologist like organization. So you're biting into this big old product right now, this tasty product.

So there's a post that I'm going to directly quote from Chris Wolfheart, who I think summed it up really perfectly. He took a screenshot from a res, two screenshots from Resident Evil games in which Digital Foundry was like Dick riding the path tracing in it, where it's a fucking. It's a fucking typewriter with like slightly better shadows on one than the other. I'll send it to you. Okay. And it's like the most nothing shit ever. It's like who gives a fuck? And they say serial killers often fixate on minute improvements to methodology in the desperate hope of mastering their method of choice will make the rush of their first kill return.

and I think technical guys are rapidly getting to that point. Right? We have seen technical guys in the games business go from like

the fucking Super Nintendo to like the 360 era and just be completely losing their mind at all the technology advancements. But now we're at the point where we're talking about the fucking reflected resolution

of a path traced puddle in the fucking ground and it doesn't matter. It doesn't fucking matter. It is the ultimate in fucking splitting hairs now. But as technologists who also rely on industry support to send them direct footage and devices to test, yeah, of course they're going to dick ride any new technical like development because that's what they do. And these are, this is a place that you turn to this trustworthy for the like the level of granularity is all.

always going to be to the extremes because it's going to be more granular than you would ever go. To find, and for certain levels of, for example, for finding out, like, which version of something is dropping more frames, which, you know, or to the point where with the games we play that are higher responsiveness, like certain versions dropping more frames actually feels worse to play and such. These are, these are things that, you know, your way, you're, like, the amount that we're looking for is way in the weeds compared to where the average consumer wants to go. and then you live in that space and then you take it to the nth degree

with these types of moments. So yeah, what I will say is in the video, right? There's moments where you hear them say something to the effect of I think it's like the the artistic vision is a question or it's a concern. You know, they're like, they're going, wow, this looks phenomenal.

This tech is really great. Now, the artistic vision, you know, the changes that might have, to it. That is a bit of a concern or that is a question to be answered. You know, they kind of like, I forgot the exact phrasing of it, right? That gets posed. But overall, it's like, yeah, but- Like, you be a breadcrumb of plausible to know. To say that, like, ultimately, yes, this is wiping out what the art direction and intention was for all of the things you're looking at here. But ultimately, it looks like we're skipping a generation or four ahead. So, wow, right?

Yeah, except it turns every white woman into Aubrey Plaza, Scarlett Johansson. Like it everything it looks like every everyone has to look the same like at that the same trained faces same trained features and again like if you deliberately did something like made someone's eyes not reflective in a you know in a moment or whatever fuck all that right so i think i think it's it's crazy because like photorealism as an art style is also an art style it's a choice but more than that different interpretations of photo realism look different. RE9 is going for photo realism. It doesn't look anything like fucking arc raiders or fucking call a duty. One of the first things, bringing up art, whatever,

one of the first things in art school, you learn about where you're like, wow, look at the photo realistic, incredible work here. And then it's like, yeah, people learn how to do that so that they then break the rules,

right? Like you get competent at basically becoming a photographer. You are a photographer. or with your hands with certain mediums with Conte or charcoal or whatever and then you diverge from it after that point and you develop a style that essentially is something that knows what the rules are so that you can break them in a way that still it conveys something right i don't know what this what this this this looks like when it runs over anything that's not meant to be realistic none of the demos they showed oh it probably freaks the fuck out and it's not suitable right

they didn't drop we're not seeing this running over hi-fi rush right we're not seeing it running over that is going not photorealistic and like that's an extra element of this two where it's like this particular AAA homogenized like oh now they're all going to look even more

homogenized. It gets worse. It gets worse because you made the thing that pushes it even further together. It all looks like the fucking Twitter threads, you know? I want to say it was a Japanese developer that basically talked about how like all the growth in the game's business is

like games between like 20 and 40 dollars because expensive games are so expensive that they represent multiples of that and that their point was not even that their point was like hey if you localize your game into a different region remember that it has to hit this range in other regions also when you convert the prices like if you just raw convert things into Brazil dollars. Hey, guess what? No one's going to buy it because it's like a house. I find it particularly funny that R.E. 9 is the chosen example because it's a current hit game that looks great and is doing very well and is, you know, it's topical, right? You know what's a great point in those screenshots? They don't show an enemy. That's what I was

about to say, Pat. What happens if you show a monster that's supposed to be fucked up and disgusting, or anything that's designed to be weirdly sort of human but not human, right? What does it do to a zombie or a creature that's meant to be dead or anything that has any kind of feature? Like, what does it do for that? I would love to know because the only thing it understands, obviously, is the distilled beauty filter that we've trained, you know, every girl to look like and every guy to look like. How do you drop that onto a realistic art style that is?

is also being inhuman on purpose. Show us what a monster looks like. I want to know. Does it get rosy cheeks and glossy eyes? We're not even going to spend much time on it because it's obvious every time we talk about AI. But now that we're past training the model on the game itself and now it's showing us realism-looking AI humans,

oh, okay, where did that training data come from? Did it come from the same slot? Oh, oh, oh. And assets and videos like everything else? You can't even get into the training data part of this. Like, yeah, you have to just take that and sidestep it entirely. Oh, it looks like a real person. Okay, that means you stole the real person's photo or probably billions.

I mean, look, yesterday, like, I was describing just, you see this type of shit. Somebody posted it. Somebody posted what it would look like. Here, Willie, I'll show it to you. Yeah, okay. So the yassified creatures that look like, all right, great. I mean, it's just, I'm, I, I, the wording I used, uh, talking to people yesterday about this was that, like, I'm trying my hardest to not give in to industry crash accelerationism. And it's, it's fucking, it's coming up on my neck like Saske's cursed seal.

Like, I got a fucking, like, I got a. I got a Oh. So last week, Woolley, I think this is a decent segue. Last week we talked about you put your fingers in your ears

and you were like, no, no, no, no, AI stuff for Microsoft. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Did we, or no, the new console or whatever, but there wasn't anything

actually announced? Did the co-pilot stuff get announced in between last week and now? it must have okay so Xbox having seen you

they said well he's right and they said you know here's what the AI shit coming to Xbox is going to be

and they've announced what it is it's co-pilot co-pilot is coming to all your Xbox games of course it is of course so this means

that an AI robot will be hiding in the background of your processes sucking up frames so that you can ask it a question. And if the question is about the most popular game of all time that you could have

solved with a one second Google search, it'll maybe give you the right answer. But if it's about, if it's about fucking Icaruga or some fucking fighting game, it'll tell you some bullshit. And then you'll never use it again. Then you'll, like this type of thing for video games, you'll ask it a question and it has one chance to tell you the right answer. And if it gives you the wrong answer once, you'll never use it again. There's no other place this could have gone because you're having, you're coming up with a way to sell an expensive piece of hardware to people in an unaffordable industry and an unaffordable economy.

And you're also giving something that you're telling them they can play it elsewhere, that they can play it on their existing platforms, etc. And so you have to come up with a feature to pull people over. And if it's not going to be exclusives, all you have to have. to go on is what is the current bubble based on? What is everything leaning towards? How do we get people to come in and build that and get the investment machine going? You tell them that the box has a unique AI thing that they can't get anywhere else. That's all it is.

You can ask the robot that's always wrong how to beat this boss. What? So, look, I don't know the full deal with the folks over a digital foundation and everything like that. but I do know that... I'm sure they're all nice people, but I think their heads too deep in the beast. I see people, not quoting,

but people are mentioning one person in particular, John Linnaman who just wrote dot, dot, dot, on Twitter. And I guess... That could mean a lot, though. It can mean a lot. So nobody... I don't know what any,

I don't know what any of that is. But like, one thing's clear is like, yeah, I don't... Maybe not everybody's on the same page, you know, with, with whatever, whatever's happening. It's possible. It's definitely possible sometimes.

He's an anti-AI person who has written about that. Ah, there is. I see. I see. Okay. Okay. That's got to be awkward at work. That's got to be awkward.

Yeah. Okay. Well, um... Well, the other thing is that if, like, so even from a, like, a technologist's perspective, the AI stuff is kind of self-defeating because, like, The entire onus of image generation is just like next neighbor's, like, imagining an image. Like, essentially at some point, there's no graphical technology in it at all.

It's just copying existing images. It's like a completely different discipline. And if this were to replace image generation, then the whole thing that those guys are into would just disappear. And make no mistake. right if this is not a filter but we're seeing this these effects and this is the and video is putting out who are again the most important company on the fucking planet at this point right um what do all competing companies that are not invidia start running to to compete with this tech to do anything if they like they're

going there are going there of course but they they are going to be the ones running filters and running the same shit that you see on everything that's awful now on top of these games as a standard feature. Like, if they can't do this, they're going to just drop back to that. And hey, guess what? Will your cousin be able to, will my cousin be able to tell the difference or care? Or will it just be like, oh, wow, cool, the latest Assassin's Creed looks fucking sicker than ever. End of story.

I don't have time to ask my cousin that. I'm too busy getting them. Pregnant, Alex! What are you doing? What are you doing, Alex? Stop it! You see, Samoa Joe, usually when you bang your adoptive step-sister, you got a 0% chance of incest. But then you see me, Alex, and I'm the genetic freak, right?

So suddenly your chances go up by 33 and a third percent. And then you had Tom, whose Patricia's dad, and my mom's cousin, so that increases the chances by 8%, 8 and the third percent. So you see, Samoa Joe, when you bang your second cousin, it's sacrificed? the numbers don't lie this was literally the first thing that I saw when I woke up I'm like

I go downstairs I'm making myself a bagel and I got him some milk and he wanted charios in a teacup and I set him up with his cherios in a teacup and I'm having my bagel I fucking hop on the internet

and I'm like what are people what are people and then like like, I'm like, oh, Alex and Patricia got married and I have a baby in the streetfighter thing. I'm like, that's weird. Steps. It's fucking weird because they big brother and sister. He's adopted by Tom.

So that's the, it's a strange choice. That's pretty like step sister incesty shit. But typical for anime, right? And then I'm like, then I scroll it in. And you could have left it there. You could have left it there. Out of nowhere. He's like, by the way, my parents and Tom are related.

You could like. And my brain. It's so crazy. I'm like Googling. Yeah. Okay. And it's like share a grandparent. That's second cousin.

Like, okay. They could have just left it at he was the adopted. Okay. You know, so they grew up together and it's the stepsister dynamic or so. And you're like, yeah,

that's not like everything so far. So everything's... Now they're related. It's bad now. Everything was platonic about the energy so far projected into these two characters throughout every other game. And then I see the fucking image. And it's part of his arcade mode ending.

And on the right side of the screen is him and Patricia getting married. And on the left side of the screen is him as a five-year-old holding her as an infant. and then in the upper left is her as like a smiling adorable infant baby it is just like it's it's it's specifically

the like we grew up together like all my my little cute you know childhood friend sister whatever it's specifically going for that and it's not even and it's not even that and the other thing too

is that like, it's also like, we're, it's not like, oh, look, there they are and they're grownups and like, now they're like making out or something. It's like, nah, she's already preggers, bro. She's seven months long or so shit. Right. So click the fucking mugetics chain on that to see what kind of Lannister shit is happening. I, I mean, I, I, I, I, I busted out a fucking chart. So this is the problem. And I fucking, I know, you, everyone did. Wiki. Everyone did. We're going to break down all the factors here.

Second cousin is the answer. Second cousin. Share a grandparent. Like, it sucks that we have to start doing fucking genealogy tracing on a street fighter character. And also... It's all factors here.

And it's also burying, like, well, no, this is the lead, but like it's burying the other story, which is that he has a last name. And like, nobody cares. Winger. Alex Winger apparently. Weird last name. Whatever. Okay. So they are... Hold on. Hold on. Pause.

Alex has come out in Street Fighter 6. He's available. And the game updated with him and there's patch notes for other stuff. Just that is the story. Oh. Oh. And everyone's pretty happy with this version of Street Fighter 6. Meanwhile, the Tekken players, I know. Somehow, somehow even more on fire. TechN is really going through it. Because they said we're going back to basics. And it sounds like they did. and do that, so everyone's losing it. Great. But, hey, Lily can do a double

condor spire, right? So anyway. All right, so, okay, so their second cousins because they share a grandparent. All right. This means that they are one 30 second genetically similar,

right? We're talking a couple percent. Let's do some Steiner Math, baby. What this means, what this means is that for future genealogical progress, progress, right?

They are at the furthest limit that society would accept. It is like your second cousin is official. You are in the line. Clear. You are technically

medically clear, but the social reality is not the same. Do we enjoy living on the line? Is the line really where we want to build our house? Do we want to Is this structure sound?

Is this genetic perspective This is On the It's a maybe Right All right Let's move on

To family situation Okay Step siblings Raised Raised together Not illegal Right on the line. And there's two types of step siblings, too. There's a parent married in,

or like I'm 10 and I'm now part of a family and there's a, there's my 10 year old sister, right? That's one. But this is not that. This is, I'm there from day one. I can't believe they went for a double whammy on this and either one of those on its own would have. No, we're not. No, no, a triple whammy. You're not, you're not, you're not thinking with portals enough. Okay. So, whammy two is family relationship, right? Functionally identical to real siblings. But not technically. I think this is over the line. This is, and people would be like, that's no good, right? Number three, ratchet vibes. Age gap. Five years?

There's a five-year age gap, which as adults is super normal, right? A 25 and a 30-year-old? Yeah. Or I think they're, I think they're like, yeah, I think they're 25 and 30 in when they're in the Street Fighter's six story. It's like, that's normal. Yeah. Right? 30, 35, whatever.

However, that's not the reality of that age gap. the reality of the age. Because everybody goes, oh, Leonardo DiCaprio's dating a 25 year old. That means he was 14 when she was zero or whatever shit. It's like, well, he didn't know her when she was fucking zero. He's a creep and he met this person when they were 20,

but he was their adults, right? No. It's the growing up together part. I met this person when they were zero. Okay. It's the growing up. It's the growing up together part. I met them when they were zero.

The zero and five is real for this situation. that did happen The So you get the This isn't like Oh you look so cute In your baby pictures This is I remember when I changed my wife's diapers

As a child So that's fucking weird It feels like every checkbox Of the emoto Like Childhood friend thing You know It feels like

every checkbox like needed to be hit here in one person. And it's almost like they couldn't decide on one or the other or the other. So they just went all of it actually. All of all of on the line on every single one of them. And it could have just been any one of those. And everyone would have been like, ha, they seemed to just be siblings.

That's a weird pull. But okay, what are we doing? And you're just like, nah, if you got past. any one of those there was another fucking wall behind it man i will i i wow at that i have the the mental thought that that sums up how we how fucking strange it wasn't the second impact it was the third

strike all along so this Alex and patricia's relationship is the type of relationship that when they have grandkids they're going to be explaining it to their grandkids and they're grandkids are going, uh, what? What? Like the way we see our grandparents and they're like, how'd you and grandpa get together? And they're like, well, grandpa was a 25 year old man and he would hang out outside the high school waiting for me to get out for two years. And eventually my dad said he could take him on a day.

He kept asking and I kept saying no and eventually I gave in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So is going to be with his, with Patric. Prisha, helping their daughter take their first steps, right? And his one-year-old. How I met your mother. How I met your mother. And it'll be like I, and he'll look over it in his life.

And be like, I remember when I helped you take your first steps. Oh, man. Okay. All right. That's weird. So this is where I remember when I used to hold your mother like this. fucking weird. Can?

Are we in a world where patch notes on the story are possible? We are, but it's too late. Can we get a ballage past on the script? I... Because this is not what they wanted... This is... Everyone talking about on day one of Alex. generational character slander.

This is... I mean... It's like... It's almost... never been done. And they're not even going to be, he's not even sitting on the Iron Throne to make up for it.

Like if this were Westeros, that'd be one thing. You know? I just, I'm watching like the most violent, like, anti-takes on this. Just like sucker punch me. I have a mutual whose response to this

was, I guess people will stop making fun of me as much for playing the gay pedophile in Blaze Blue because they're going to play the racist incest guy in Street Fighter and I'm like, what? He's racist? And then I get linked to the Street Fighter

5 story mode where he runs into Dahls him in New York and Dalsam floats over to him to ask him and he goes, oh what are you a mugger? And then they fight. And it's like, why? And of course he's based off of

Hulk Hogan. Okay, I have, I, I need to see what the fuck that's about. Um, it's fucking weird. That don't sound good. Hey, Alex, Alex is, is from the mean streets of Metro City, okay? It's, I, um, yeah, I don't think, I don't think this is what, uh, they wanted day one of Alex to be about. and I'm I'm

I want I feel like we've entered the realm of you can just you can just change that script because there was no problem up until right now it's too late like Willie I was talking to Erie this morning

and Erie tells me that they're in the fucking Portland FGC chat in Discord and they just hear somebody scream out groomerang raid it's too fucking late. It's too late.

We can, no. No, we could put it back in the bottle. We can put it back in. We can do this. Like, you, we can,

it's not too late. People haven't even updated their copies of the game yet. It's, it's fucking crazy. Like, oh, it was Giuna.

And it was like, Kai married a four-year-old. And G- and, and that chick from Blaisbleu married a cat but at least none of them fucked their cousins

and it's like it's crazy well because the um actually on on the gears is their mental growth is the here's where it goes here's where it goes okay

you talk about Kai Kiske and Dizzy and you go um actually and go oh she's a gear it's different okay that's one um actually you talk about fucking the blaze blue shit and you're like um actually it's like oh they're a regular person they just have the body of a cat or whatever you talk about Alex

you have to do three um actually you you have to do three um actually um actually they're not that different in age um actually they only grew up together they're not they're not brother and sister um actually they're only second cousins

I just I need to know like why it had to be every box ticked on that. It's nuts. It's it's not even consistent with existing depictions of the characters. The two characters in every comic and every that's what I'm, everything, everything, of course. And, and like they were going for the heartwarming twist that Alex is walking around trying to figure out his identity and so on. But really back home, he's already grown and his life has advanced and whatever, you know, they were going for this sweet heartwarming moment and just leaned into the the emoto shit and now you're like...

I think the person who... There was never an ounce of that energy. I think the person who storyboarded or commissioned the storyboarding for the image of her holding her, him holding her as a baby on the left and them getting married on the right, it should be investigated. That shit is so nuts. It is... It is...

Within the same screenshot, there is a visceral reaction that is, you can't, um, actually, because we're stopping you with it all being here in one. Yeah, man, we can patch. We can patch the plot. Just like, come on. Come on, guys. There has to be, they can't just no sell this response. It's the only thing people are talking about.

What part of it are you going to fucking change? Change one thing. The one thing. The cousin line. The cousin line. Okay. So it's like. Still fucking weird.

Yes, yes, but now there's no blood. You just remove the blood from the situation. Dude, the cousin one's so nuts because it's like, oh, by the way, we're actually related after all. That's what I'm saying, right? Why? Like, you didn't have to do that. It was, like, it was, people are already going, like, I would, if you, I'm, you edit out the cousin line and then you remove the blood from the equation and then you're just stuck with the other two. But now we're doing a little bit less Steiner math.

Bro, this dude turned heel like a fucking motherfucker. Like, wow, dude. Wow, that's heel. That's he. That's, whoa. Whoa. Can we ask what Kenny Omega thinks about this? Because I bet Kenny's fun.

Jam project. Morning, dude. Jam project on the theme of incest, bro. I think I'm a saki Ando on the fucking incest track, man. All right. Well, this. Hey, I was so excited to play Alex. And guess what?

I'm still excited to play Alex. I'm going to play Alex later today. This is, this is. This is, I can't think people, I want you to reach out to me with characters that have been fucked on this hard. Well, it's, I mean. Absolutely insane. I know that there's generational fucking ball drops.

Oh, yeah, but this is the only one I can think of right now. The fact that it's like the Street Fighter's story, the thing that matters the least in the world, and it's the only thing we can talk about right now. Oh, by the way. Yeah, Blanca got nerfed, sure. Yeah. His World Tour and Story Mode, and they found the one mention of Street Fighter 3 from Alex. is one time I traveled around the world and some of the guys I thought were real weirdos.

That's it. That's the end of the Gill storyline. You know, look, Aya, Aya got it pretty bad and Typhlosin got it pretty bad in the lore drops. What was... Pokemon? Yeah, but the, what, but I know we talked about this, but what was it? Typhlosions in the files, bro. Oh, yeah, Typhlosions in the files. That's right.

Typhlosions in the files. Yeah. There's a cave. Don't go there. Bad things. Bad things in the cave. Um, it's,

uh, yeah. That's, I can't believe, just. That's how I started my fucking day. This is the first thing I fucking see. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Um, you excited to play Alex? Here you go. Uh-huh. Pat. Isn't his new move the predator stance? Yes, it is.

He learned it. Oh, no, sorry. It's the, no, no, no, it's a prowler stance. Prouler, prowler stance. It's the prowler stance, bro. I'm prowling. Where are you prowling? My own house.

Oh, please. Please. He deserves so much better. You know, this was meant to be the new spotlight. Luke took the spotlight and Alex never got that shine. Alex deserves better, but we need to remember that Alex and storylines do not mix because Alex has maybe the worst storyline ever in Street Fighter. He has to take revenge over, over Gil, winning a match against. Fair against Tom.

Tom doesn't even die. And he tells him, you don't have to do this. I'm fine, actually. And Alex is like, no, I gotta get revenge. Insane storyline. Totally weird. And Gil is like, you're a fine specimen. Join my cult, you know?

But, oh, I just, I mean, it's just, yeah, a torch pass. You know, I just wanted a nice, clean torch pass. And now we're doing fucking cleanest. Don't get any of that fucking outside the family DNA on this torch. It's all in here. Now we're doing 23 and me on fucking Alex, man. There's a song for this. I posted it earlier, which is like if they're in your family tree, you have got to let them be.

And yeah, don't do it. It's not good. It's not good to do. Ancestry.com is not a dating website. Back HP, bro. Get over here. Flash top. Flash chop to turn you around first.

I just, um, hey man, he's got a one-winged angel. And, um, he's got a bunch of really cool, uh,

extensions on his command grabs and, um, Rufelmonger thinks he's probably pretty good. So that's cool. I could see that possible. Yeah. It's not too late.

It's not too late. It's not too late. He's doing some cool stuff for them. Okay. Well, look. How about, I mean, if it were,

I don't know what bearing this has on the situation. However, I can say that, um, I opened up my percentage tracker this week. And I did some quick maths. when I saw that an additional 5% of Capcom had been acquired by Saudi Arabia,

specifically the MISC Foundation. Apparently enough, a different part of Saudi Arabia. Yeah, well, because the MISC foundation is specifically the Muhammad bin Salman group, and then the PIF is a public investment fund. So there's different sources for where the money comes from. And there's different, whatever, organizations, ultimately do the investments. But what we're looking at is basically 5% on top of 5%. So 10% now, right? So yeah, that's a 10%. And we're talking another however many billion because I believe previously it was

somewhere, I think it might have been around 7 or 8 billion or so. But it's still like, you know, that is multiple SNKs in its entirety because the SNK deal, I believe, was a 600 million in costs. So we are probably 10 to 12 SNKs deep worth of investment at this point for anyone who's playing the long at home. So that's fun. Now here's the thing. Your transition was legendary. And that's a segue that that can't be beat, much like Scott Steiner at sacrifice. However, I was going to go with one, I was originally going to go with the one piece of somewhat yay AI news that happened. And it was simply that the Supreme Court declined a dispute over copyrights for AI generated material. You know what that is? You know what the genesis of that

precedent is. Well, so the case that was specifically brought up by a computer scientist who was denied a copyright for a piece of visual art made with his AI system. And so they declined to take up the issue on whether it was generated, whether AI generated art can be copyrighted under U.S. law. What did you? So, um... Back in the tens, a monkey took a selfie of itself.

A macaque monkey grabbed a camera off some British guy and took some photos of itself. Like legitimate, like this monkey made it. And in the attempt to copyright it, the legal decision came down that only human-created works can file for copyright. Not monkeys. Monkeys and birds, dogs and cats are not eligible for copyright. Only human beings. Uh-oh. That also applies to robots.

And so the Supreme Court declining to take up the issue, why that matters is because the case in particular that was escalated through the lower Cates, the lower courts, rather, it got to a point where the, yeah, the lower courts decided that it's, and anything that's not human created is ineligible for copyright protection. So that's, so that's where the case remains. It also makes sense from the original purpose of copyright, which is defend the desire to create works in the public sphere.

Yeah. And so to quote Owen Dennis on this, actually, which is a pretty good thing to keep in mind. With the precedent here is that now companies, this is a huge win because companies would never in their right minds pressure you to use AI if you get to say, we can do that as long as you don't want to own the stuff you make and anyone can use it for any reason without paying you for it. They're not going to like that. a problem in hey we made AI to make this TV show. Oops. Every character in this TV show is now what do you what do you own domain? What likeness do you own? Oh now that we popularize the use of AI you can use AI to take these characters and make them do whatever the fuck you want. Especially things that copyright owners would not like which and this is hilarious because we were just

talking about not long ago how Disney was like against all of it and then it was like why are they against it because they're investing in and buying into their own platform where you can generate Disney characters in different AI scenarios or whatever, right? So, like, how does, how is this all going to apply at large? Now, of course, I think one individual like this is, you have a case of precedent here, which is great and can be relied on until it's not, or until bigger, larger, more fucking money from the mouse, for example, decides to step in and have something to say

about it, at which point this win no longer is a win that's guaranteed anymore, right? But at the very least, in the meantime, until that happens, this is pretty good for the basis of the idea that you cannot copyright anything that you

generate. Yeah, legal obstacles for these freaks is always nice. Okay, a couple other things going on. I guess there's the, yeah, so we talked about what's going on with Alex and Street Fighter. Tekken, on fire, as we mentioned, you know, and just other fighting game stuff going on. The Tokon account yet, what's going on?

A couple hours ago, or yesterday, I didn't see this, but Todd Howard did a second. special little announcement going how excited Bethesda is to work with DLSS S5 going forward working on Starfield and onwards and like that's what they're going to do for fucking elder scrolls so it doesn't look like shit they're going to just AI slop filter the whole fucking thing oh man that's awesome oh fuck them oh geez re-releases where you just drop a filter on it and put it back out. Yeah.

Good. Uh, good. Thanks for sending me that, dad ass, and I appreciate it. And it's literally, again, what old,

what old pixel re-releases were, like 15 years ago, you know? Did you see, like, the, the oblivion remastered

characters have this thing applied to them? They look fucking bad. I didn't. Oh, because they have non-human fucking features.

Features, yeah, yeah. It looks fucking terrible. Um, excuse me so the other things I was going on so yeah tech it is on fire but tocon is actually listening to feedback and I don't know if you heard about any of the changes I did they added a huge variety of changes a lot too many to get into so it's like everything that you and me

and everyone has complained about they're like it's either gone or been I can summarize, really. They basically made it so that you can use your assists in more freestyle-ish ways. You're not locked into the same repetitive routes. You can pick any version of the assist to use it in any way at any route. You're not stuck using air assists when you want them to come out on the ground. You can only use them at a certain height. When you mash jab, you don't get the auto combo coming out.

when you whiff. So now it's only when you confirm. It's a massive big deal. They added, and in terms of combos being sort of stagnant, they added a style system effectively, which rewards you with better scaling on combos that are more stylish. So you get more damage, actually, for being less repetitive and for doing more unique setups and such. A lot of, and then they also sped up the tagging system itself.

they made it so that wall breaking doesn't happen anywhere near as often. You don't get wall break every time you do a super. And when you do get a wall break, it leads to like a hard knockdown, which means you can go get like a nice advantage situation. So they basically are just listening to like everything that everyone was complaining about with that, which is great because thank God, you know, this is a fucking cool looking game and it would suck to have, you know, that feeling be there on an arxis game, no less, mind you. So they went into a ton of it. But like 10 big check. they basically put out in this one video. And yeah, you can see, you know, you can see the demo of what they're going for and how. And they're like legit going, okay, this wasn't it. You know, we're going to make it so that the building blocks of a good game are here. But let's reinvent a bunch of these systems from the ground up. And so I hope that we get another chance to get hands on it to see what it's like now. You know, it's very interesting to me.

And we'll see how it goes. but one of the thoughts that I had looking over this enormous list of like very fundamental changes was that there is a sequence of events in here in which I should apologize to the 2XCO developers which is one of the things that the devs of 2XCO talked about is that a lot of the reason the game took so long to come out was that it's their first fighting game that they've made and like they would do like a change and then they would do like exhaustive testing to see how that worked

and then I look over at ArcSystemWorks who've been making fighting games for 100 years and they see the complaints and the people who've done it forever just go okay change this change this add that add that what do you set it to set it to this this this and that

from experience because they know because they made Guilty Gear and Guilty Gear and Gildoom and Blaze Blue and Blaze Blue and Blaze Boo. Yeah, experience matters. It matters. It does matter.

I was looking at the amount of changes that they were making and I was like, I'm fucking bedazzled at the level of they've turned it into a fairly different game with these changes. And the thing is too, as well as, you know, something is,

I said like there is, because Tokon, it's a mixture of like Western and Japan teams, but of course, Arxas, you know, doing most of the work on that. We know that,

yeah, there's a lot of folks in Japan, too, a lot of the players that are joining the devs and people that have been in that, in the business of making fighting games and designing combat, etc.

For literally half their lives are at this point. You know what I mean? Like, it's been forever. In North America, you have like, fucking less than three or two.

The K-I guys. You get the skull girl guys. It's a very small amount, you know? It's so, yeah, it does make a difference. Really happy with that. Very, very cool to see. And, you know,

the fact that, like, I can see them doing things like, you don't want to make a change where you've deleted the assets we made, like wall breaking from the game entirely. So how do we make it so that it's actually more rare

and doesn't affect the game as much the pacing doesn't get as fucked up. I don't think there's ever going to be an arc system works fighting game that doesn't have a fucking wall break in it ever again. They love that shit. I wonder. I mean, I like dust combos turning into these cool things where you land in a different stage.

That shit looks dope as hell, you know? But, and again, I think the idea to play with the wall is an interesting one. But I do love that you can live in a world where for everything that Strive says, which is, okay, you got the corner, here's a big reward. Now the person who's in the corner gets to keep playing.

You can have a street fighter that says, die in the corner, bitch. Sit and die in this corner. Do you want to know? Both can exist and should. Do you want to know something about me that just happened that has shown me up to be the biggest fucking scrub shit bitch ever? Mm-hmm. I was recently watching a Rufelmonger video

about fucked up overheads in history overheads that are just fucking lies there's a lot of K-O-F shit in there that it's like it's a low kick and you're like what the fuck that's an overhead and one of the examples he uses it's a great video you should check it out is Testaments Dust

in Guilty Gear XX where the fucking red hands come out of the fucking ground. Yeah, yeah. And see, I played a lot of Testament when I first started playing Guilty Gear and this led to the thought in my mind going,

dusts are overheads? It's just a lie. And like every but like every Guilty Gear match I've ever played flashing in my fucking eyes at fast forward like dusts,

are overheads? Every time the yellow flash went off that was meant to be a moment to stand up. This is why I've eaten every dust. Oh my God. Okay. Yeah. That's the, that's a basic universal overhead that everyone has. It never says this is an overhead or this

and I just never, oh my God. Because I was always like, why does this launch or take so long to come out? I can never hit them. I believe the command list does say it. No, but you need to go to a part of the game that is forbidden in order to discover that. Play Potemkin, you don't need overhead. I will die before I enter the lab, he says. Yeah, there's a couple blind spots. I'll be honest.

Yeah, no, that's okay. And you know what? You take those and you accept them to follow through on this philosophy. It's, you know, that's what it is. Hey, I can, I can get to the top of the mountain without fucking doing training mode. I'll, I, yeah, I'm a dumb guy. Well, we all know that Street Fighter 6 doesn't start until you reach high master. This is insane.

The goalposts are now. Excuse me while I grab these goalposts and go on my way. The real game doesn't begin. until at least, at least 1900 MR. There was a great video by Seyam about how ranked isn't real, talking about the mental headspace and how fucked up you get. And then Pat the Flip put out a great article. Counter to the discussion about the...

He basically runs down how he gets frustrated that... Fighting game products design. He wants to make gourmet fighting game food, but he's forced to turn it into dog food, and the dog food is ranked. and how bad ranked is for for fucking like everything to do but it's absolutely mandatory because people just want to hop on and hit matches um and i originally like kind of disagreed with that a little bit because i'm like i just want ranked i just won't rank right now i don't want to practice and then i went

to two x-go and i played some player matches and i actually had a better time than i usually do playing ranked and i was like maybe there's something here And then I remembered, wait a second, the reason I'm having a better time in player matches, it's because I'm winning more. Ah. And then I realized that I am learning a dog food here that he describes in that article. Hey, man, guess. No, I have more fun in a fighting game when I fucking win more.

And whatever mode is going to give you that is going to feel good and leave a good memory, and then that'll be the end of it. Hey, guess what? There are a lot of great ways to enjoy this dish and a good place should offer up many so that you can enjoy this game online, ranked, offline, casual, whatever. You need a lot of different ways. Single, you know, it's a great, it's a great thing. You can enjoy in many different ways. I actually saw a fantastic tweet about this earlier today, which was me losing, well, let me see if I can find the person.

But it was me losing a set in person, zero to 30. Oh, you know what? Good game. I guess I have a lot to learn. Me losing a single match and ranked. Oh, I didn't know they let illiterate pedophiles play this game. Yeah, dude, like the last month has been me basically saying different versions of exactly that. It's like insane.

My whole thing, my whole thing with the local couch playing of fighting games being so much better than anything. And that energy not being captured by the version that people get into nowadays is that feeling is fucking lost immediately. immediately and one match online where you lose and you want to fucking burn your house down. It sucks. It sucks. There's there's we need to make sure that feeling can be captured, man. It's such an important part of why we love the thing. Um, but anyway, like, uh, uh, I've already solved this. I believe crushing force was presented as the answer to all our problems. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, anyway, um, only other things I was going to touch on there. So, um, I mean, there was a bit of a fun way.

seconds before we went live. So Jeff Kaplan exited Blizzard and... There's a lot of interesting fucking things to say. One, announced his new game Legend of California. Two, talked about the biggest fuck you moment of his career, which was walking into a meeting at Blizzard and basically hearing the exact, you know, the thing we say. Every single week. We will pantomime a straw man that we've created out of our perception of CEOs and rich people.

And it's an unrealistic depiction of a non-human evil entity. We're closer than you'd think. What ultimately broke me in my Blizzard career was when I got called into the CFO's office. And he sits me down and he says, he gives me a date at the time, which is 2020. And he was going to slip into 2021. And he says, Overwatch has to make this amount of money by 20. 2020 and in every year then needs a recurring revenue of this amount. And then he says to me, if we don't do this amount, we're going to lay off a thousand people

and that's going to be on you. And that was the biggest fuck you moment I've ever had in my career. It felt surreal to be in that condition. As someone who's worked on a lot of games, made a lot of games, you get in these meetings where they're going, Fortnite has 1,400 people working on it. So if we hire 1,400 people and make it free to play, we'll make that money, right? I've heard this. I've heard that version of almost everyone I've ever spoken to in the industry, including you, who I think heard it in person.

We have made this quote. Like, we have said quotes exactly like this on this show constantly. Do you not hear like some financial nerd literally say that out loud? I need more specifics on the particular one. The Tomb Raider shit with the multiplayer. Maybe not that project. I mean, but there are, there's been so much over the years of just the simple basics of, yeah, these guys are doing this. They've got this all going on on the project. Can't we just emulate that? And in many cases, it's the investors going. Why don't

you just copy what the competition's doing, right? It's investors in a lot of cases going. You guys, when are you going to start doing what these guys are doing over here? Clearly it works for them, right? It doesn't matter who's doing anything or what they're doing. or who you hired. Shotgang 86 in the chat reminds us of the perfect engineers conundrum, which is the phrase, nine pregnant women can make a baby in one month. Like, that's how these people fucking think. So it's just, yeah, like, you're talking, and I mean, I don't know what the fucking, the through line, the plot line of this fucking podcast, it feels like, over the,

years now has been that the people making these decisions, the brain rot that comes from the greed that makes no fucking sense. Every time you get someone like this who's in a position that can come and describe it behind the scenes or whatever, you're only going to find out 10 years later, six years later about these insane decisions, but they're as bad, if not worse, than you imagine them to be. No matter how hyperbolic you get, it always appears to be like even worse than that, you know? And there's a businessman's sociopathy like sci op that's gone on in, in fucking society where,

oh, dude. Hold on. Let me get there. Where rich people are portrayed as heartless, logical automatons. And they go, I don't care what we have to do. The line's got to go up. And they're looking at spreadsheets and they're figuring out costs. and they're doing all this shit.

And they don't live in the real world, but the rest of us, they're only looking at a spreadsheet. And what most people have to realize is they're not looking at the spreadsheet at all. They're just going off of vibes. It's based off of nothing. So we sit talking about video games

almost in an insular way where you kind of sometimes think it's its own separate space, separate from the rest of what's happening in the market. Quote unquote. The same, you know, remember, remember the same shot calls all the time. Bro, wrong all the time. But we have some hits.

You remember the same dudes who were giving out subprime mortgages that faced zero consequences? Except for that one, yeah. Right? You remember, remember those people? From rich people. Okay. Remember how motherfuckers were suing United Health Care for not denying enough claims? I do remember that.

Right? In the wake of like literally it was you're not denying enough claims from people, right? Remember how in the fucking Epstein files, he sent Peter Thiel an email that was saying zero percent interest rates are too high? Do you remember that? I didn't know that. I don't even know what that means. Epstein says to Peter Thiel in the emails paying them if they were to be given zero percent interest rates, that's too high. high. Hi.

You should be paying us to exist and to make money. Interest should be reversed, right? Remember these people? Remember this thought? These are the same people making decisions in the industry. They're the same people sitting in these suites making every one of these video game fucking decisions, dude. Why the fuck for a second would you think they weren't?

You know what the funnest thing about Kaplan's quote from the CFO is? Hmm. He goes out of his way to know. name this person, but says it's the CFO of Blizzard in 2020. And then goes, thankfully, they're no longer there. And it's this very strange thing of like, I just don't want to say their name. I'll just include the position. Yeah.

Super weird. Also, I'll give Jeff Kaplan some up, some uppies. Because they announced Legend of California. And then he streamed it for 10 hours. Oh, wow. Okay. And it's super early. It's super early. And I'm like, that's pretty fucking ballsy. Okay. And then the second thing he said was, if you're complaining about games that you don't play, shut up. Shut the fuck up. No one cares. It's interesting that it took this long to hear that from not Nintendo. Do you remember Super Paper Mario? Mm-hmm.

In which one of the noises... ...go on message boards online and complain about games you don't play? Oh, fuck. I mean... Now, listen. We are currently speaking into microphones recorded on the Castle Super Beast podcast. That's true. We are. It's true.

I have at times complained about games I haven't played on this podcast. An opinion may have been shared about a game that you have not played. it's possible. Perhaps more than once. I would never, I would never slander you to hold you to that, but I think it might be possible. I think it's a likely reality.

What I will say is, is that I definitely, I mean, you've described, I believe you said you're like, Woolley, the thing is, is that you're not a natural born hater. Yeah, you're not. You're not a natural born hater.

And, but there's times where you're like, ooh, that heroin, you know, ooh, that's a little tingle in my arm that's, ooh, hey, how about that, right? But realistically, I know that shit that means nothing to me, I don't, I'm not hating on shit that means nothing to me because I'm not even bringing it up, right? Most of the time, I feel like when opinions are had, it's often for something where I care about the thing if it's a studio that I buy games from and they're going downhill, or if it's a horrible trend in an industry, that I care about, that I spend money in,

I'm going to have opinions on that thing, right? And I think that, like, there's, you know, I'm sure he's talking about, like, he's announcing his new game and the specifics of, you're working on Overwatch. It's the fucking dead center, middle of, of the bullseye target. But, um, I think that the,

the opinions you can have about the things you do care about are extraordinarily valid. And if you are somebody who knows and, or cares about that thing and therefore represents the consumer base that they're probably trying to appeal to, what you're saying about that thing is extraordinarily valid and underlined and makes a ton of sense. You know, so if you're talking about it and it's like completely out of your range wheelhouse and interest, that's a separate thing from something that is within your wheelhouse of interest and maybe you have, And if you have not played it or sorry, you're talking about it, it's coming from a place of, I care about what this overall through line is, be it a trend or a studio or whatever the case. Does that make sense?

Mm-hmm. Okay. So, you know, I think that that's an important distinction. That is not maybe what he was getting at in that quote. But I read it and I was like, okay, true asterisk. No, what he's what he's talking about is what I look at a fucking Resident Evil 9 video on TikTok and I click comments because I want to see what people thought about it and the top comment is Red Dead Redemption 2 is more realistic. Sure. Okay, sure. He's talking about the full on full on yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And there is nothing in life.

I mean, I mean, admittedly, I just like I can't think of times where maybe have Having a microphone in front of me gets my opinion out there often enough that I just don't leave comments. Really anywhere on things that I'm going through or media I'm watching. Oh, that's my most. I was talking to my chat about that for a really long period. And I was talking about the self-selection process of personalities that leave comments. Hmm. But like what I'm getting at here is if I feel like indifference towards something, like you couldn't pay me to drop a comment on that.

because it's it I mean you picked the wrong idiom sure I'm just saying that like it's so nothing to me I don't engage

I don't engage I barely I barely engage with things that are relevant to me at times you know so that's it that's where I'm out on it

is that like you can be very very much somebody who is not playing the thing but care a lot about what thing is pointing at where thing represents, what thing is where thing is going, et cetera, et cetera. Anyways, beyond that, there was a trailer for the Sekiro anime.

Sure. Saw some screenshots initially and it had a very bright style that was like, I was confused by, but seeing it in motion, it looks fantastic. I think it looks cool. I like what it looks like in motion. The screenshots were not conveying it as well, but like what they're going for is not dark. It's just it's a bright kind of, not pastely, but there's a quality to it that is very unique, I would say. And it also feels like just watching the characters and trailer and everything going on.

I'm like, oh, I pop this right on after watching Ninja Scroll back in the day as a kid. Like it feels like the kind of. a story that'll lend itself strongly to just yeah a you know a tight short story with some you know some cool fights and there's enough dialogue in it compared to um there's enough there's enough guiding of the plot compared to the average from soft story that they have more beats to go off of right so yeah i'm i'm super interested to see how they're going to do an anime based off of a game in which the main character doesn't talk and nothing happens. I mean,

like it's, it's very, it's very weird of a pick. There's, I mean, the other, there's the kid and the, the,

the owl and there's a bunch of other characters that are going to do all the talking, you know, but he's around there and, and he had, they have conversations. Talks? I can't.

He's not a silent protagonist. No, he does talk. He does talk. But the game has more of a linear story than the other from Soft games do, for sure. But there's enough it's there's enough to go off of that I think this anime can work in

They should make an anime out of the fucking Elgin Ring manga Full gags and all full yeah absolutely hell yeah expensive expensive gag anime Um yeah no um there's there's there's you hear him in the trailer you know going back and forth and stuff so looks cool um and then in other adaptations uh There's some extended cast info about the Mario Galaxy movie, including Louise Guzman as Wart, Issa Ray as Honey Queen, and Yoshi is Donald Glover. Is Yoshi going to do a rap, Wully? I mean, listen, much like Knuckles, Yoshi now has the pass. so who knows he might sing he might start acting he might

Yoshi might start doing stand-up comedy yeah he's he's multifaceted stay woke Yoshi's creeping shy guy's gonna find you get you sleeping have you do you have the crafting shit on the docket so if you remember the craft and Krafton, so Crafton had their kerfuffle with Subnotica, where they thought that Subnotica 2 was going to have a $191 million sale, whatever, but they owed them $250 million for the bonus.

So, see, you typed into chat GPT. Hey, how do I get out of paying this $250 million bonus? Because they'll make me look like a bitch-ass pushover. So they've been going at it in court. Oh, my God. The judge was like, hey, you have to rehire the CEO that you fired. The guy you fired. We can actually see when you, like, decided to fire him to fuck up this deal and then started going back through employee information to try and find something to fire him with. And then you found it. And then you fired him for some bullshit.

it, but like, we can see the timeline of events. That's a no-no. That's not good to do. Surely this will lead to a very awkward stand-up meeting. And the crux of it is that Subnotica 2's devs, whose names I can't remember, are like, you know, the game's good to go. It's good to go, which the... Unknown Worlds. ...is like, no, it's not good to go.

that's why we had to delay it and the bonus and all this shit and all this nonsense back and forward like the game exists in an early exa state right now but has yet to hit because of the stupid fucking lawsuit um you even then they have to hit certain sales targets to get the bonus so the whole reason the guy's afraid is he's afraid they're going to hit the targets to get the bonus but not make anything more than that so fucking stupid it. You must rehire someone is kind of fucking crazy work, though. It's crazy. Because, like, now you work under hostile terms.

It's very. Like, what, what does that working professional relationship look like? It sucks. You know? How about this? Are you still? Are you rehire someone while you're actively suing each other? Still.

You know, are you writing emails going, can you, can we double back on? that thanks you know like the court says you must get back together with your ex-girlfriend sorry it's absolutely mandatory oh man you must find a better reason for breaking up or else and you know I mean nine times like in most cases you imagine someone wants to work somewhere that's enjoyable and professionally fulfilling and hopefully you know like the vibes are are good enough that you can see a future

Um, you know, that you, you, you, you built, you know, or, or you look to go elsewhere or so, but like a fucking gunpoint, I'm taking my job back. And now we have to, I don't know, I've just, how long would you, can you stay there? And what, how far can you push it? You know? I don't know. That's crazy. Some malicious compliance in coming.

Oh, Wells. I, uh, need to take a break. I just realized this guy is too. hours late for his food. I'm sorry, buddy. I'm so sorry. All right. Oh, I don't have any video from you, by the way.

What the? Okay. You're just a... Well, we are... Well, we're live. What is happening? Okay. Oh, I did that.

That was me. Can you still not see me? No, I can see you. Huh. What about now? No. All right. Hold on.

You're just your own logo. Oh, boy. Okay. Did it, how about now? There you are. I found you. Great. Wonderful.

I found you. Two buzzer beaders. Oh, fucker. Are you serious? Literally, as you're on break, two things here. One, apparently there's a Firefly animated series and the return to the cast is coming back. it's called fucking Outlaw Star. Well, that happened first in the timeline, actually.

So technically, Outlaw Star is the beginning and then came part two. Interesting. I'm curious to see what's up with that. Man, this took way to the fuck long. This fucking, whoa. I liked Firefly when I watched it. And I enjoyed, you know, the movie and stuff. And a lot of time and life has happened since back then.

Things have happened since then. But, yeah, Josh Sweden's not involved as well. What? Why not? Apparently, people didn't enjoy working with him. Oh, is he busy? I don't think he is. I just sounds like he treated people kind of shitty, and they don't want to work with him anymore. Get at what?

But, yeah, you know, it's been a while, and I'm curious to see. from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Flydance here. Yeah. What? And this joke is good every time. It's awesome. I love it.

That said, I liked Firefly, and I'm like, oh, shit, more is that. Let's see what, what's going on there. Animated is a format I wouldn't have expected, if anything. I would because they want to keep it going right after, but everybody's old now. It's been a while. It's been a while. But yeah, cool. Let's see what's up, man.

I'm seeing some, it doesn't hold up well. And I'm like, I haven't revisited. I don't know. There's like a couple parts of it that just hold up like dog turd. I've got positive. I've got positive memories in the brain. And I'm curious to see how this is going to work. And if it follows through on, you know, yeah.

I mean, hey, if it doesn't hold up well, like, maybe this new thing can. You know, like, I don't, I don't know. But, yeah, cool. And I guess the other thing in terms of shit that ain't coming back. So, D. Slug's is a fucking awesome artist. Really fucking amazing dude that's done a bunch of cool shit for fighting game art and everything. I kind of marked out when I saw him at a convention.

And he's also the person who has been. Literally all the art on the back of my laptop, like, it's all just, this is all D. Slugs. All of it. Amazing. So he makes amazing fucking cool shit. He was working on a Alien versus Predator game, beat him up game pitch that was apparently going for some time. And it never got greenlit. however, the art from it is fucking dope as hell.

Here's a thread. And you go check it out and it's kind of like, okay, his style applied to the old beat-em-up idea. And they don't have the Capcom license necessarily, but what you can see of this character select screen is Old Man Dutch, Naroo from Prey, and we can't get Lynn Kurosawa, so how about Ripley? Just Gertie Weaver in there.

Just Ripley right there. And then the three playable predators as well of different styles. And, oh, God damn it. We don't live in a world where this is getting made. Yeah, that's not going to get. No, I'm, I was fucking never. But fuck me, man. And, like, his style in particular is perfect for capturing kind of the old arcade game art style as well.

He still wants it to happen. And if anyone can fucking do it, I mean, again, his, his art's incredible. But, uh, the, the, that trio of playable characters, like Dutch, Nauru and Ripley is, come on, man. Even if it's just an arcade game, random thing to happen. Like, the, the predator license and the alien license has gone out to dumber shit, you know? Please, guys.

Please. Every time I feel like one of these posts goes up, it's almost like a flare for like, fat attention to be like, hey, maybe we can pressure it into happening through everyone marking the fuck out. You know what? You could also pressure everybody happening. Mm-hmm. You know what?

Screams confidence when you put something out and everyone's like, this sucks. And then you come out the next day going, no, you guys are wrong about how it sucks. I have some quotes from Jensen Huang about DLSS-5 from a couple hours ago. Oh, my God. We are, dude, the poochy maiden heaven cast just continues. Okay, as we're live going. Okay, what's going on? Also, who is that?

Jensen Huang is the CEO of Nvidia. Okay. The man with the leather jacket. Gotcha. What did he say? Well, first of all, gamers are completely wrong. These are slightly paraphrased quotes for clarity. Huang said in response to a question from Tom's hardware editor-in-chief,

The reason of that is because, as I have explained very carefully, DLSS-S-5 fuses controllability of the geometry and textures and everything about the game with generative AI. He adds to the Belvers can still fine-tune the Gen AI to next to their style. The thing they said it wasn't is it actually is. Hold on. This is where he gets offended. It's not post-processing, aka a filter. It's not post-processing at the frame level. It's generative control at the geometry level.

I also said that developers can try the tool and see if they want to use it, suggesting it's up to a developer to make a tune shader or see if the game should be made of glass. Quote, all of that is in the control, direct control of the game developer. This is very different than Gen AI. It's content control Gen AI That's why we call neural rendering See

It's not the thing It's the thing I said before In earlier in the same interview Where I said that it was It's not that It's that with a new word Hi there Woolly Castle Superbeats podcast

I have a question Are you full of shit? Yes Oh okay cool Just checking thank you gamers, completely wrong. Customers, you're all wrong. It's actually awesome.

Well, I'll tell you what. It is awesome because I am looking forward to playing Cult of the Lamb with this new DLSS filter on. And I don't know if you've seen what Cult of the Lamb looks like with the filter on. Don't put it in the newspaper that I got mad. Okay, can you know? Oh.

Oh. You put it in the newspaper. I'm not mad, though. You know the funny part is that like Path B is NVIDIA can just completely give up on doing anything video game related and just like fuck out of here. They're on their way. They can just take the money and fuck off.

They're aware of the bubble will eventually burst and when it does they need to have a business that still exists. But you see if you like invidia's game business now is Konami's non-Pachinko divisions that. Right, right, right. But, but, but, but this bag, I'm currently holding it.

What do you suggest I do with it? I don't know. I just, it's so heavy. My arms are getting tired. I genuinely, my arms are getting tired holding this bag. I can't even imagine. CEO of the most valuable company in the world

going on an interview a day later going, no! it's everybody's wrong it's great like to be fair you got me you got me you're right to be fair I feel like most of the flack that nvydia has gotten has been post market shit and not directly at them over the years right it has been in the distribution and the fucking scalping process and the insanity of the prices and the fucking again the the market going towards you know what I don't get it has never been this direct and lightning targeted specifically on a feature that represents everything we fucking hate right now in this moment. It is the most zeitgeist lightning feature you could have dropped that everyone hates, but you're glazing it up to be a prediction for this is where games are going inevitably.

You know what I don't get about this arguing about this is how it works. this no it's this is like in a month or two maybe longer people are going to start working with this at the technical level places that aren't in video and someone even like a like a glaze post is going to describe how it actually fucking works and it'll not it's be a fucking filter yeah no um like well going off the comment they dropped

in the video earlier it's probably going to be like there's going to be an artist on a team that's going to be like okay so can we take the feature and make it not apply to the faces but have it apply to other stuff and then they're going to get into a fight with the with the you know the higher ups that are going to be like no this feature needs to run this way and it's like okay so can we just run it on everything below the neck or you know you're going to get into these weird like what will be okay and what will not be okay to apply it to and how that's going to look or or or you just just go the Skyrim road of what you were talking about and just be like, do whatever you want.

We don't care. It's all getting dropped on top of it anyways. He can't even keep his language consistent because he says that it's up to developers to try and make something like a tune shader. It's like, you mean like a fucking filter? Because it's a fucking filter. I don't like, like, this is like Orwellian. Remember when we used to go in and have, remember the discussions about how, like amazing the artwork in Castlevania was that Kojima would do the other Kojima and how I found out relatively recently that they're actually all big paintings.

They're glorious paintings. One of the best wall scrolls I ever got was from the PS2 game. Super nice. They're amazing. And how much the translation into 3D, it's like, ah, they didn't capture the same energy of that, but how could you? It's an amazing painting. and da-da-da-da-da-da-da, like, we're so far beyond the pale at this point of, like, how much of that model captures the original concept art.

And we're just full-on, like, fuck the concept art and artist and everyone at all entirely. Your protagonist can be a blank-faced fucking low-poly insert, and you can just run this over it. and to say in to be to claim that hey no it's not jennie it's not jennie it's not a filter etc and then come out and clarify this after the fact and like you're this is getting forced you're not going to have the ability to like it doesn't matter that you could that they're saying developers are going to have the option to do or to be used this as much as they want to or whatever the cases because we know that people making decisions are going to force them to use it and it's going to be part of the product and it's going to be a sticker on the back of the box and it's

going to be included with each each hardware's i think major bullet point list of I think she's going to move the console. The remasters are going to be the poster childs for this new tech. Because I think Bethesda games would actually benefit massively from it because their characters always look like shit.

Now here's the real question, of course, is when this gets running beyond the echo chamber, whatever, the instantly, whatever the, when you take the part where we're here, we think this sucks. A lot of people that we talk to thinks it sucks.

Most of our audience thinks that shit sucks. You go online. I'm seeing Susie going what the fuck. I'm seeing Max going what the fuck. I'm seeing just about everybody that is... Pretty universal from the content creator space. And people that are paying attention to the industry in general that give a shit about the art of whatever the thing is are like this is dog shit, right? Okay.

So where does that fade off? How quickly will that fade off into... Yeah, we don't care. right, ball and gun, whatever, et cetera? And how, and will the money, will the profitability line like elapse, you know? Like when the sand runs out and you start hitting water?

You know what I mean? Does the money... So you've jumped, you've jumped to the horse changing midstream on the river. Uh-huh. Which is, no console's going to run this shit. Well, run it.

It's too intensive. Requires two 40, 5090s. Let's say they cut that, They cut that fucking computational need in half. It requires $150.90. But that's on top of path tracing, which is no console. Like this shit, this shit is high in the sky nonsense for insane PC people. And insane PC people are fucking crazy about their hardware.

And, and want, like, they don't even like a fucking frame generation because it's not real frames. But what I mentioned earlier is it's not about the ability to have an actual NVIDIA 5090 running this shit. I think it also is emblematic of this is what Microsoft is going to try to emulate. This is now. Yes, this is now what you're going to see as a. We've like, all the discussions you and I had about Stadia are the same. It is. It doesn't change.

It doesn't change. Nothing changes, right? But I just mean to say that like with this reveal, intent has been placed. on the board and anyone that is trying to again compete to keep up with this bubble to keep it to keep inflating it etc are going to go we have to lean our games our products our hardware into this or emulating this tech and if you're not actually doing dLSS 5 but you can do a simple stupid porn AI filter on your shit and pitch that instead as a more affordable way to go I don't think it's going to hit because it has to be adopted and has to work on hardware that people have.

Like, this whole thing feels like shareholder slop. And someone just said, GTA6 with this shit. Oh, GTS6 is like violently. The, the people over at Rockstar actually did an interview today talking. about how they're on SV files. If GTA 6... In which they are very anti-AI. If any part of them leans towards any of this, that's a tectonic plate fucking shifting on the ground underneath us. No question. That is the market right there.

Motherfuckers are diving off the bridge to do everything they can, hoping that GTA6 sets all the trends. I have to say, I am actually kind of... glad that we've we've moved from a world in which everyone's like we have to be just like gta six to a world in which it's we have to get away from g you need to get away get away get the fuck away from it's genuinely a much smarter way and it's funny because like we see everybody trying to copy everybody everywhere except for grand theft auto everyone's like fuck it no they have that get away from it yeah no i just every single one of these stories every time we talk about something like this one of these subjects. Yeah, I need to just go, okay, what about people who are not online? What about

people who are like, like, at what point does, um, the integrity argument slash any of the shit we're saying eventually hit a, um, you can lie and make and get money. Yeah, but what about, what about guys who don't know shit, Ball and Hung gamers, right? Right. And, and what you're describing is a technical argument for why it won't even get to that point. Sure. Uh, ball, ball and gun gamers buy their ball and gun game every year and none of no discussion matters at all because that's the game that they buy to play their ball and or gun game uh whereas and that represents an enormous proportion of yearly sales but those ball and gun games are already picked like fortnight adding AI or removing AI or whatever the fuck doesn't matter because it's fortnight and it's the fortnight's the fucking game now that's it yeah um yeah yeah no and and and And as we just established with Overwatch, like, the expectation of the profitability you're hitting, it's like you need to hit this every year. We know we expect ball and gun money to be this high and how do we get to this?

And it's like Gatch is doing well. You know what? Gatch is super vulnerable to this nonsense. But they'll do anything. And then you have like the growth, the fucking the trends are for games like fucking Mugenics and Slay the Spire, which do crazy fucking. numbers and look like a fucking toddler trism. It doesn't matter because they're fucking cheap.

Yeah. You know, like, I was talking to Fage about this or going somewhere. And I was just like, it's so fucking frustrating. Almost every discussion we have about video games to some degree is always ignoring the elephant in the room, which is they're too fucking expensive. I mean, I'm watching, I'm watching like guys who in the restaurant business talking about how the restaurant industry's in trouble. You want to fucking hazard to guess why the

restaurant industry is in trouble? Because it's not fucking cheap enough. Because food's too expensive. Like, it's fucking so stupid. The whole fucking thing is so stupid. Tap the sign. Tap the sign. Shorter games, worse graphics, etc. Hey.

Hey. You know what? We're going to fucking AI slop filter your shit all over the place. The game's going to cost half as much. That's an argument to be made. But no, it's not. instead it's we're going to AI slot filter this shit all over the place by the way we've made PC parts

cost 600% more because fuck you Oh no the energy The energy is being displaced From the yeah the people The cost etc. The man hours into The fucking render farm Yeah you want to fucking feed me slop

Okay I'll pay slot prices Oh no I'm paying fucking top shelf For some fuck you Anyways Uh shout out to Atlas for raising salaries and reducing fixed overtime. Nice. Based on crunch shit going on.

That's very cool. That fucking quote from Awada is so perfect all the time where he's like, you know, if profits are down, you might be tempted to cut staff, but I don't think people who are afraid of being laid off will have the energy and like inspiration to make, you know, world-class software. Yeah. People who are doing just enough to not get fired don't do great work.

What about employees who are reinstated at gunpoint? Dude, this makes me so interested in Subnotica 2, man. All right. Even though that game makes me vomit. Oh, the movement? No, Subnotica 1 was a game I played on a goof. and I had such an intense panic attack that it's why I came up with the Mind Goblin series.

Do you have philosophobia? A little, but it was also the infinite expanse of like non-linear resources. Okay. That I was like, but what do I do? No, what do I do next? No, but what would do? Ah, the ocean.

Like, it was very intense. What if your decision is wrong? Yeah. Yeah. You can do anything. Oh, I'm going to vomit. Emails. Hey, if you want to send in an email, send it to Castle Super Beastmail at Gmail.com.

That's Castle Superbeastmail at gmail.com. Dear Sigma Woolie and Epsilon, Pat, I write to you a question because I'm not sure whether it's right or what the response is. At my work, one of the men's bathroom stalls is, fuck. up. The door is misaligned and in order to properly lock it, you got to lift the door a bit. Customers don't know that. So anytime I'm on a bathroom break, a customer will always pick that stall. Instead of giving up after a few tries, I hear banging and slamming like they're trying to fight the thing. Do I tell them about how the door works despite their rage or do I just wait and see how it plays out? Because nine times out of ten, they'll wrestle with the door for a

minute and then either give up or just hold the door closed. At what point would you just admit defeat and try another stall? Um, I, okay, so there's two questions here. One is, should I help them? No, fuck them. No, this is really funny. Um, this is insane. This is, this is so insane. I don't, go ahead. Two, if I'm going to shit in a public restroom, it's, we're past the point of dignity. I'll just, if the door doesn't close, I'll just shit open. If I need to take a dump in a public restroom, it's over for me. Okay. I mean, you've got your

own criteria, but I think it's... It's specific. It's called a piece of fucking paper with words on it. No. Just put a sign on the door. Holy shit. This is not a difficult thing. Wully, you have

just outed yourself as having never worked in a store. Do you think customers read sign. Oh, no, I get that part. But if you're at the point of fighting with the door, at that

point. No. No. Never. Well, never. Willie, like, I understand your desire to roll your eyes and think this is... Never. I have never in my life

seen a customer read a sign. Okay. Even if it would prevent their injury. Well, I mean, I get, if it's, if, if actually calling someone in to fix the door is completely out of the question and like, no, leave them in there trapped.

If the world will end before we fix that door. No. Um, no, enjoy their struggle. Okay. I, I, I, say put a fucking thing on, on the, on the door to the bathroom or the door to the stall. Whatever.

Pick one. I mean, shit. I've seen. Well, like, you're talking. So once a customer enters a store, they turn into the customer. Right. You're talking about people who would walk into the back of the store while you're taking a shit in the break room bathroom and start banging on the door and trying to open it. And when you open it, they're shocked and embarrassed that there was someone in there.

Yeah. No, again, I've seen, I've seen signs in, in, I've seen, I've walked into a bathroom's with signs that were like, hey, don't, don't squat on top the toilet and use it or whatever, like, I know that there is a large, vast, you are not going to communicate anything to anybody by doing this. But I imagine there is a trimming off of the, of the numbers for the few that do. right there might be zero customers will read the sign i can't even i can't even get across to you how it's like actually no one literally no one not a single soul yeah it defies me i remember mopping a floor and setting up three so it was like it was like a little intersection three signs yellow paint like walk around the sign to get in like five people three things like five people

fell. Put yellow paint on the bathroom door. You could be mopping a floor and they would have to walk around you and fall on the floor that you're actively mopping that they had to go around you. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. And I will say, again, the more you've got to go, the worse your decision making slash, you know, you see a sign that says bathrooms closed and then you hate it because you're

like, maybe it's not, you know? or whatever the case, but, um, I don't think anything tops like in, in, in a, a standard public bathroom, somebody trying the door after you say, hey, I'm in here. And they continue to try the door. Yeah. Yeah. And like their, their, their brain isn't the front part of their brain isn't activating. It's all gorilla.

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, it's, into the fucking toilet. I mean, I can imagine it being like, at normal circumstances, it's already brutal. And then you're adding, like, bathroom urge go, you know, to the, to the situation. So, okay. So bad guy wants to sit on your lap and shit between your legs. Think about toilet. Think about wife.

Toilet fight back. Toilet dead. Miss toilet. And let's take one over here. From Not the Emperor's Finest says, Dear Shake and Bake. A few weeks ago, a co-worker lost her mom at my office. Everyone wrote a card and their condolences and passed it through each station, reaching me in the middle of my workflow.

I'm already a poor writer when it comes to random birthday cards, let alone having words of comfort for those under going heavy turmoil. To add to this, I listen to audio books, usually Warhammer-related, as I work to keep me focused. With these factors in play, I decided to trust my gut and let my heart do the talking. It wrote, The Emperor Protects. What are your fumbles that keep you up at night? I don't mean to cast too broad a, paint with too broad a brush. But when you, when you started this email from not the emperor's finest. And then they described a scenario at work.

I'm going to be like, this motherfucking Warhammer dork is going to do weird shit. I just fucking know it. I just know it. P.S. The lady doesn't speak English and doesn't care much what was written. It was the rest of my team that got mad at me. Okay. Well, dodged half a bullet there. I. That's a red check right.

There. That's a red check. Oh, that is a disco. That is a click and fame. Like, yeah. Like, there's a version of this where it's like maybe if you and the person had some sort of Warhammer rapport. And even then it would not be appropriate, but it would be, it wouldn't be a one on the D20. Right. I'm sorry. My brain is failing me. What was the turmoil this person was going through? What, um, no, they said that they are not good at having words of comfort for people undergoing turmoil. Yeah, so what's, what's the, what's the, uh, a, uh, a parent died. The, the mother, her mother died. The emperor protects. Sidebar. Should have just written, happy birthday, smiley face. Sidebar.

Not fully caught up on my Warhammer lore. Um, that's like indoctrination speak that's meant to be taken ironically, right? Because the emperor of mankind is not actually protecting shit. No, the emperor of mankind is actively protecting shit constantly. Oh, really? Okay. So, yeah, no, he's, his ghost is doing all sorts of crazy psychic shit all the time. Is a force for good that would be?

That's, that part is debatable. Sorry, that's what I'm kind of, I never heard anyone describing the emperor of mankind as a force for good because I didn't think there was a force for good anywhere in this world. So the idea. Okay. So I guess what I'm saying is like evoking this idea in this context, is this even contextually correct given that the emperor is not somebody or that force is not. It's like devil protect you kind of like thing.

It's weird. It's not good to say. It is a force and it protects a particular fact. here. Yeah, it's this But is that the right sentiment to go for from this setting? It's not even good in that, no. That's what I'm, that's what I'm trying to say.

Right? It's not saying, it's not the same as may the force be with you. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's not. It's, it's shit. It's, it's bad. It's bad in its own context. It's, it's, is it not more akin to hurrah? I'm doing my part. I don't know. I don't, I don't know.

It's like It's like make King Charles. bless you. Yeah. I was like, yeah. You know, do you want it?

No. It's ZigZion. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Got it. Because I just, I'm just,

it's like, let's look past the, you know, just take that energy, hold on to it and, and compress it. But I'm like, even within the context of quoting Warhammer,

is this not the wrong energy to be using in this moment? You know? Damn. that's rough buddy which would have been a better quote to drop if the person was maybe into avatar that you could write on the condolences card you could have you could have gone for a that's rough buddy yeah no this is a this is a there's a there's a bach all the way around it's not good and that's the energy i like to end a podcast on