Castle Super Beast - CSB377: The Satan Shark Was Kidnapped By J6ers

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

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Yo. Hello. Caboose and I would like to congratulate you for your well-deserved and commanding win over the other teams in the last AJ Am Sllam. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Congratulations. I appreciate that. And I feel it is earnest. And yes, I scared myself. I'm so scared. Oh. I do know that no matter what words may fly via SMS

or live stream at the end of the day. Oh, I was just trying to throw you off, but it didn't work. Oh, for sure. I was considering calling your house with a fake emergency. Like, I was considering

I was sitting there and I'm like, what if I called Punch Mom on the phone with like a fake dire emergency so that she'd be like, Woolly, you have to come down here. And like, but no, that's probably too much. I mean, look, you know, when, look, we, we, you have your tactics.

You know, I, I, I try to, you know, I play it. But if I don't get that podcast file on time, I might need to let some people know what's going on, you know, it's just, it's just, it's just what it is. That was so good. It's just what it is. I was eating dinner and then I was taking a shit.

And I just keep getting messages like, where's the podcast file? And I'm like, there's, there's a log coming out of my body right now. Like, to be fair, after hours had passed and then an update text had went, and then I saw the odd line. Like, it was a one-to-one of just like the time passed, the text update, and then I saw the playing status update. And I'm like, hey, yo. I was logged in and I wandered away.

Yeah, you were actually. You sure were logged in. Yes. No, I would log out. Log out. Log out quickly. It takes really long to log out. Sometimes.

Now that we're older. Ooh. Okay. Look. I was very, I saw. That was good, by the way. I want to give you, like, I appreciated you snitching on me. Because I, because you snitched on me like three or four times.

And every time. I went to go somewhere, I would find a new one. Because you were like, you took a screenshot of the Say Jam chat and went like, let me post this rat shit, hold up. It's really fun. And I was like, already beat you to it. It's on blue sky.

Oh my God. Oh my God. You got me. I'm glad. I like this. I like this. Yeah. And Paige is like, I'm proud of you for snitching. I'm like, thank you, page. You know? I mean, I would be, I would be remiss, hypocrite as I were if I was like, you can't snitch on me.

that's terrible. I snitch on other people. See, it's different when it's when it's me. But it's different. But it is different though because you look at the response too and like even like Keats is like, yo, that's meta-gaming right there. That's, these are all tactics. I got to tell you, there's something really, there's something really like fascinating about getting somebody like that. And then I'm like, all right, let's look who like

responded. Everybody I know. Mm-hmm. like everybody everybody that knows anything about anything and is online right now is just like comment and like yeah get them the actual best reply being though

when Musashi pulled up to the shores where Kojiro awaited he was hours late he held a boat oar instead of a sword way too long and the sun was at his back you know Kojiro was affronted

at this insult but to Musashi it was strategy Is that from the newest Backy episode? Something like that. Something like that. Anyways, yeah, no. Obviously, if we're talking Seajamslam,

we're talking fucking Spex in Five, we're talking diaphone, Zane, Zizex, Frodan, and Dethy, like absolutely just incredible jobs, respectively, all across the board. And... You did not so bad. yourself, bud. I thank you. I mean, I feel like day one and two, I really like, I was not lifting my weight as much as I ought to have been, and I feel like on day three, I did do so.

And I, the thing that mainly kind of came together is like, Elowie is a support character, and she's one of the best in the, she's the best at supporting. And, What that means is in a game where people are like all up your ass and in neutral by either zoning you out and melting you like Thresh does or by, you know, basically being left, right and everything in between up in your face like Ari or Yassawa or Echo. She's way more tame and neutral and not able to win those exchanges in many a case. But she can't. So you're in the fucking corner. But she can support her team and guarantee you bring you to Bikini Bottom and that's what you do, right? So as a supporting character, I'm like, that's the role that she needs to play.

She needs to melt everybody like by supporting them. There's a concept that I try to explain to people who don't play fighting games or even MMOs, which is holding a controller and hitting up on the D-pad or hitting circle or whatever. and your body is just flooded with the feeling of I just killed myself. Like before like a mill, like actions haven't occurred. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, and you're just like, I just hit, I died.

Why'd I do that? Why'd I jump? Why'd I jump? Should have jumped. Elowie can cause that emotion. Five, ten seconds in advance. Mm-hmm. Like, I've reached the corner.

I'm still technically in neutral and I hold back without holding down back here have a crabby paddy. And I see frame one of Allowy's shoulder go up and I go I have just killed myself. Yeah. Yeah. So there is a you know and like if you're really sick like you know

Diaphone with Alawi and such like there's airtight like checkmates that you can run you know. But like that's the kind of stuff where I'm like I'm still try, I'm still getting the hang of those, but overall, that's her specialty. That's what she can do. And in exchange for that, you just have this like running around like a street fighter character in a world of Marvel gods, you know, going crazy. Yeah, it's really interesting that her movement and her range is like, she's going to run at you and she's going to hit you. It's not, it's not, she's going to flood the screen with bullshit or dash in and mix you up from the end.

air or the ground or have the hook, either hook. That being said, like, with Thresh in particular, it has, like, you know, the discussion has been like, okay, new character drops and it's an arm, arm's race to see if, like, the tech can outrace the shutdown

of the character, the ability to keep up with it. Usually it can't. In Thresh's case, what people are doing as of last night are, like, touch of deaths. Like, just full, you know, so you're going to put every resource I can and get this guy off the board. So I'm looking

at this going, oh yeah, post-evo Thresh is getting nerfed. Like this is a character that is fucking like overcooked right now. I picked him up under the assumption that within one day of the slam

I would know whether or not he's undercooked or overcooked and found out very quickly talking to K7 and Sage like, okay, that the lantern, the way he teleports the lantern and does the burst, that thing is broke. It's bug. Insanity.

It doesn't scale. The damage doesn't scale. It doesn't drop your damage in your combo for doing it. Like he throws out his hard punch or whatever you call it in heavy in 2XCO. From 80% gets a full ride the whole way through off of like a tag. Has built in air crossups through the teleport. Left right. It's crazy.

I described him as a DNF dual character, right? That's exactly it. So that feels like the way character swing buttons and DNF dual at you from full screen, he is that archetype here. And I'm looking forward to some very measured and reasonable nerves. For starters, damage scaling would be nice, right? That feels like a decent place to begin. I think people are going to be really upset because the history of 2XCO is,

wow, this character is crazy good. Maybe after 10 patches of nerfs, they'll be back down to a human level. Jesus Christ. I mean, I don't know what the Thresh League of Legends history is, you know. No, I'm talking about 2XCO specifically. Yeah, well, Echo and Yasuo took the whole lifetime of the game to get pared down to good. And even then I'm still annoyed, you know. but but yeah yeah all this all this to to ultimately say though that um no i i i think to as well

just like the you know going back to the the slam in particular and such like the i really thought the you know the format was just getting to to duo with a bunch of different people i thought that was a lot of fun i thought that was a very smart thing that was set up and um i feel too as well that something i didn't appreciate beforehand about it was that like because there were other events that happened simultaneously like I know like

so there was like a Capcom did like a new Challenger sort of event which is essentially like a say jamless slam you know and it was a one day event right and the thing with having this be a multiple day event is that it allows for so you have the big coaching week that happens

and people can get in and track their practice and so on but of course invariably because it's a lot of big names and a lot of small channels and a bunch of different people different sizes coming together, some creators are going to collaborate but ultimately

not really take it too seriously until they find themselves at the event and then they go, oh shit, oh man, I don't really know what I'm doing. Damn, I wish I could play better. I wish I could do better than that. This is kind of fun, but, you know, like they feel that the pressure of that first day and then there's like, you see, okay, good, now you have another chance

to come back and, you know, improve over this on the next run and then you have a third final day. And I think by putting it over that period of time, it gives you that wake-up call morning to be like, okay, wait, hold on a second, as opposed to just, I don't know what I'm doing, the events over,

who cares, who cares, you know? Thanks for the opportunity by everybody, you know? So that's a pretty smart thing about the format overall. And, yeah, no, the, the, fucking just, as a, it, the instant, like, lock in with, I like talking

to Gary for just a couple seconds and be like, oh like instant homie. We're on the same wavelength here. We fucking get it. We're in there. That shit is like locked. I hopped over to Gary's stream the other day

after, I think after day two. And I hopped over there to shit on you. And it's the first time I'd ever seen or heard him in my life and I show up and he's like PNG tubing pink Warwick and he's I can only describe him as like like gasp scream laughing like the whole time yeah and I'm like oh I like this I like this guy good energy this guy's all right good energy that that that clicked immediately and all that all that wet dog

howling shenanigans and stuff is just like nope this is someone we'd be we'd be rolling with and chilling after the tournament and fucking having a couple drinks playing some matches and running good sets in the hotel room, you know. Absolutely. So, you know, of the, of the, I know of the, of the, of the, of the, of the, of the, of the, of the the, of the, of the, of the, the, of the, the, of the, the, of the, uh, great name, by the way. Um, yeah, that's, that's a lock. Gary's, Gary's, I'm gonna make sure that, that, that dude is around.

Um, and again, like, you know, Dethy, who's from Montreal, that's super sick. going to try to make use of that as well. But I've put this out there on the stream during the slam. So it's not a really full announcement or so. But like, I want to get the team. As soon as Evo's done when there's a chance, I want to get the team on to just come on. The whole gang. Get the gang on and teach us about some deadlock and team fight tactics and everything else going on.

Frodan can get in there and tell us what's going on. This means I'm going to have to actually say, Diaphone's name correctly. You might actually. Or? Mm-hmm. Or, you know. I mean, really and truly, like, that's the say jam bit just running further.

But no, that was, that was a whole lot of fun. And, yeah, it fucking really happy with that run, final day, clean sweep all the way through. Yeah, no, that's a hell of a way to do it. like congratulations not just not just like taking it home but like in your bracket it was like undefeated like fuck off like there's no question here in five specs in five yeah i'm i'm i'm like i'm really happy with that and i like looking at the respective group so that in in each like discord um in the slam discord in each team's like group um chat there's a pay there's a separate tab for each person for you to like talk to the coaches, ask questions, whatever, notes, etc. And like,

that started just getting populated with like self-crit, VOD review, things to fix, notes, etc. And like, yeah, between day two and day three, I mean, I had like just dozens on dozens of notes and dozens on dozens of improvements and corrections and all those things going in. And then the rest of the team as well, and Gary started putting some down. And, you know, and the thing is, is like, Zane and Diaphone, again, just to give them like all the flowers in the world on it. Like they really put the time in coaching.

They put more time into coaching than, you know, into their own synergy, really. Well, that's smart. Because you can build up the people at the bottom faster and more effectively. Yeah. Yeah. Every step upwards from the bottom is a way bigger step than

at the top, you know? Like what it takes to fucking clutch out super new takes a lot more than it does to, you know, handle C1 and C2. That being said, I will take the pride of saying, yo, ran a perfect on Sonic Fox. I will take that. I will take that. If they bleed, you can kill them.

And like, I got, I got a match. Yeah, I got a bracket win on them on day two. I was like, oh, I'll just hold on to this. I can walk away with like full losses. That's it. That's it, you know. No, that's that. And again, like the, the nature of the format being that like, you know, hey, there's a coach carry going, you know, or there's an upwards pull.

There's an upwards momentum pull somewhere on the team. It felt nice when I had those moments of like, oh, fuck, okay, I'm sent out to die against the coach. and like my whole, and I'm like, Sonic Fox is coming in and they're just doing their thing. And I'm like, okay, just block. Just try to see it. And if you can successfully block,

like, that's half the battle right there. And I was able to block some of those mixes and be like, all right, I did my job. I didn't just die immediately first touch. Would you like to find, hey, you know what? You know that thing we, the XKCD comic we reference about people who are experts never understand

how little people actually know about a topic? I was playing 2XCO last night and discovered a fundamental property of how the game works that I had not picked up in the entire lifetime of the game that I believe everyone who plays the game thought was so obvious they just never thought to mention it

which is you can't block in the first couple of frames of your jump yes that is in fact the case if you look back at a bunch of footage I'm blocking and then I just stop blocking because you up back

yes to get away and I found that out yesterday at midnight just messing around with the game and I have never seen anyone discuss this ever because I guess

that's a thing in games that have air blocking it is It is an established thing. But I don't play games that have air blocking in them. I play Street Fighter and I play fucking Virtual Fighter and I play Tekken. So, I mean, pre-jump frames do, okay, admittedly, yeah, like you're not, you're blocking in anything besides like Street Fighter Alpha, right? Yeah. But pre-jump frames in like making you vulnerable are absolutely a thing in any of these or anime games or Marvel or Hyper Games or all of that stuff.

right and um you don't get a get out of jail free card by like just get taking to the air what you can do it's there's something called chicken blocking which is if you don't want to eat a high low mix you can just like in a specific moment jump up to start blocking the whole sequence in midair but like the risk of leaving the ground while getting hit is always there absolutely that's a really that's a big one so so it's like it's this combination of two things. One boy, I wish I had known that, particularly in the corner against you, because there are times, I, but I was holding, I was holding back. But I don't want to come off like a bitchy John. Okay. So every time that happens, instead of going, what the fuck? I was jumping,

I just go, I just go, yeah, okay, okay, okay. And so no one, no one corrects you. And what I, and And like what is happening is I know you're jumping. I'm doing a double back dash 2S2 to catch the pre-jump frames of Uhoop backing, right? And if I notice that, then I can, I change the timing to a different version of it. Like that's a specific callout for roll upback versus wake up neutral up back. So like, but it's totally a thing. If I had been saltier and whineer, I would have been better. I don't think so because in this case, the salty run, the.

Salty Johns also affect your teammate, you know? And if you get too locked out in your own brain, I think your teammate's going to be like, oh, no, oh, shit. You know, and you got to keep up spirits and stuff like that. No, what you have to do is like, hello team. I noticed that I got hit during that exchange, and I'm not certain what caused that. Does anyone have an academic answer as to why I got hit while holding back during that exchange? Because I'll tell you right now, you can go back to why.

watching like those, those sets where I was playing with the coaches, I was blue, where I'm playing with Diaphone and I, like, I eat some shit and I'm just like, I'm ass, I'm garbage. I fucking suck. Those are terrifying sets. Those are terrifying sets. And just making, making the, like, your whole thing is just don't fucking choke. And then you choke. And I'm just like, I'm the worst player in the world. Sorry, coach. I killed us both forever. By. I don't, walking into the ocean, BRB.

I like, I really love this AGM slam. And I think the format is great. I think there is one specific matchup that is kind of miserable. And it's the one four matchup, the top seed and bottom seed together. Because the bottom seeds feel like they've been thrown in with shark pit and are just trying not to instantly die. And my plan was to get to the seed four and kill them instantly as fast as possible. So I can only imagine how more insane a coach plus. seed four match must feel, right?

Oh man, that's, which was a, which is a thing. But what I will say in the matches I had with Deathy, because Deathy is so fucking hungry for the knowledge, and in 10 days, like, grind it out, like, 700 or so matches with Derrace. Deadlock player? Yeah, uh, yeah, just. Well, that's, that's what, yeah, okay. There's a lot to know in deadlock. I'd say there's more in Deadlock to know than 2XK. Like, Dethy and Frodan, performing the way they did, comes from

their like super analytical take on things and the willingness to just go like I don't know this genre but I'm going to dive the fuck in you know from TFT and from in this case I know well Frodoin has had some experience before mind you but for deathy first fighting game ever just being like all right

time to absorb everything I can in in two weeks time it was incredible you know whereas yeah Frodan coming in with some street fighter knowledge as well kind of just putting it over into this with a brand new character with Senna mind you a character that people had not been confident in kind of going like yeah she's ass compared to thrash and doesn't have it and then frodan like showing off this new character and and the sick shit that she can do like inventing it in front of people it's it's really cool i think it's unkind to have a double character drop and for people to go sennas trash and it's like no senna's just not thresh she's she's a little more normal she's she's there's something she her normal form is is a um a bit underwerex she's a um a bit underw

well make up by comparison to, of course, her Rexpector form. But, like, Thresh is insane. And, yeah, the comparison is nonsense. You know what? This ironically enough reminds me of. One of the things that people were excited about when the FF14 job thing got announced was they said, hey, Mr. Prime is going to be designing and overseeing the current gameplay run of all of these jobs, all of them.

It's no longer going to be so-and-so designs barred. so-and-so designs Dark Knight and so-and-so designs White Mage, which would lead to like inconsistencies and stuff like that. I think 2XCO has that problem like crazy. I think some people design their characters like they're part of different games and other people design their characters like they're part of this game. I feel like when ComboFiend was revealing Warwick, you just kind of saw that light in his eyes where he's like, yeah, but what if I gave him a, I was. What if I gave him the Wolverine cross-up? What if I just did a bionic arm that came from the other side, though? You know, because yeah, fuck it. Let's go.

You know? And they get to Marlon Pie, and they're like, what if I gave this character everything under God's domain? Well, Marlon Pie is like, what players? This was for me. Yeah, I made it for me. Marlon Pie is like, I made this for me and you guys happened to be here. Crazy. It's hilarious, you know.

And speaking of that dog, I mean, you know, look obviously like Gary is fucking cracked and and is is super sick of it. Gary's super scary. The interesting thing about the the logic that of that that Sage Jam put out there pertaining to him in specific is that I was listening to his stream afterwards and he was basically saying that like he believes that like for Gary and his seed and such that was all a decision. where Warwick is a character that has counterplay, but people that don't, there was no Warwick's really in the bracket except for him. So people,

it was just him, right? So, yeah, so no one really knew what to do to solve the problems that he was proposing and that it could have looked more bad, it could have looked more fair if people did, but are you going to spend your time focusing on that or focusing on the fucking Darius's and the Threshes and the, you know,

jinxes you're going to be dealing with, you know? Like, you're going to focus more on the characters that are going to pop up a lot more often. A bunch of vise showing up, you know, all of that, it becomes more of your focal point. So you're not spending time on the dog, but, like, that was his logic to it, you know? And I get that because there's stuff

you definitely need to know about Warwick that requires, like, you've got to play differently from everyone else, but Gary's still cracked. You know? Yeah, Gary's really good. Um, in any case though, um, yeah, good event, good stuff, good memes. And, uh, more on that in the future. We'll see what the top eight of Evo ends up looking like.

And, um, spoiler alert. Really funny. There was like a two XCO. There was a two, there was a two XCO like official like meet the players thing for the all the players going to Evo. Like, man, this is a tech in Atlanta situation. Like every single one. one's a black guy. Every single one. Like, all right. A stereotype has been formed. And the, yeah, and just like, you know, I get spoiler alert for top eight. A skeleton on every team is coming.

So take a look at that. And yeah, I mean, look, also, like that being said, you know, yo, like sick job on your stats and on running that thresh and, you know, holding up that, holding up your team for the most of the event in second place. I mean, running insane new character and insane stuff aside, like, that's still a terrifying amount of knowledge that you picked up in a fairly short amount of time that you applied. It's probably the fastest I have ever learned any character in anything. You picked that shit up.

K7 and Sage are excellent coaches in that Sage. not say, sorry, 7 was just running, K7 was just running me on drills. He'd hop in, show me the combo until I could get it once. And he taught me to do the combo backwards,

which I had never practiced before. Interesting. Which is do the ender of the combo first, then do the medium, and then do the starter because of the way that going through the combo, like, because when you learn a combo,

you end up doing the beginning a thousand times more times in practice than the ender. right and so by that it kind of evens it out and it made it much more consistent that's a smart way to do it he'd show me something with thrash and he'd be like okay do it once okay now drill it now do the throw combo now do the range one now do the throw combo no do it i really like that unfortunately i only really really put it together like yesterday okay like where now now i have that you know when you're learning how to do combos and you're like you're at a range and your brain doesn't automatically switch to the right range, you just go with the thing that almost always works. Yes. Instead of the thing that's correct. Yes.

For where everybody is. I'm doing that now. Yes, because this character requires it, right? You can, so playing optimally in many cases in these games will be like, you hit somebody and then your brain quickly does a calculation and goes, I... How far away are they is? Is the corner? Am I close to the corner?

Will I be able to bring them there? Am I in the middle of the screen? and what's the resource situation, what's the life situation, what's my drive at, okay, or my meter, let me choose this particular sequence that's going to be the right move to continue, right? And I know Thresh requires a whole bunch of quick calculations for where you are on screen and where they are on screen. It's basically, are you in the corner or not? Are you medium or completely maxed out range?

Is the lantern ahead of you, behind you or not out? Mm-hmm. And every combination of those. Right, right. So, I mean, like, I, you know, the people that are doing, like, all cracked versions of, like, Thresh's combos, like, there's a lot of variation and a lot of quick recognition going into it. Mm-hmm. So the thing is, too, of course, I'm like, the thought that you're going to get anywhere near that proficiency without some lab been going on, sir. you know

some people in my chat were like they came in and they were like what's happening because I was like wordlessly running thrush combo drills for like an hour. Yep. And I'm like okay, yeah, I have a moral I have a moral

stance against training mode but I have to actually help my team win today. You have to help your team win. You must. This isn't me fucking around in rank on whatever. Yeah, yeah. People are depending on you. Absolutely. Um, so that, that's, that's it. And this is a character that also you need to know, why did that drop? I thought I was there in the corner or whatever, you know? Um, anyways, uh, good, good stuff all across the board. And again, shout out to say jam for, for running a sick event. Great event. Always, always really

impressed at how, like, I mean, we looked at that spreadsheet. It's very, very, complicated organization for this many people and this many teams. I am similarly wildly impressed at the organization on display. And I am similarly laughing that this is the second event that I've dealt with with SageJ. And I should know better. And which is like, all right, guys, we really, we've really cleaned it up. We should be able to get out of here in about maybe three hours as everybody is

their matches and I'm like, I'm looking at my clock on the, on the first day, and it's 9, 10 p.m. And I'm like, this didn't feel like three hours. Fighting game events. Curse of the bracket. Fighting game events just, they just go super long. And like the later into the bracket people get, the closer they get to that grand finals, the more like clutch they start playing, the more they tighten up, the more longer, the longer the matches go, because people get more squirly, you know?

There were a bunch of matches in which it happened to me, and I think I saw it happen to Dezia, but I'm not sure, where the set went on so long 1-1 that people thought they had finished their whole set. Because it had been like a 12-minute of two matches. I have to ask what the score is after every single game because I'm too locked in. I can't track anything outside of that last game. every single time, you know, that's a, that's a huge thing. It feels so long and intense. Something I put out there, too, is that I think it would be really funny.

Like, if there ever, if there is something, you know, in the future, I don't know, whatever it holds. But I was like, I think it would be really cool if Reggie applied and then we ran the same setup, but I was on Mike and then he was on the couch running the set, you know? I have had a highly similar idea. actually. Ah, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I had a highly, highly similar idea.

That sounds fun. I like that. So we'll see what the future holds. So beyond the slam. Okay. I'm just going to touch and go on this one as far as weak events go and things. Um, so

the fair huntress has replied apparently to the Catalica posts. What? That's crazy. And like, look, I, um... Internet's a big place. Internet's a big place. And no, no, no, no, don't here we go. Don't yeah, yeah. Don't buckle in. Don't, no, no, no. Don't strap in for the big, oh my God, here we care it comes.

Because this person's really unwell. and you can tell because the reply more or less begins with, I'm not racist, you're one of the good ones. You're not like the other bad ones. And it's like, oh, where do you,

where do you take that? Is that like a, is that like a, is that like a, just a deep exhale? Or is that, is there like a moment of like, well,

that is. That is, after all this time, It's quadrupling down because wherever you are, you have been in that place the whole time. And unfortunately, no help has reached you. And, you know, maybe that's what happens when you steal everybody's money. Maybe that's what happens when, I don't know, potentially alleged other criminal things have occurred. But regardless, I just, it's like, yeah, this is bad.

This is, this is somebody who's deeply unwell who really, probably needs anyone or anything in their life to help them out of where they're at. Because all the answers to the things we talked about are just further delusions down the pipeline of the Fair Huntress and the Pinks and so on. And you can feel the real world fading away with each bullet point answer. So there's not much to say, you know. It's just rough. And it's just rough. and it sucks

and I continue to feel bad for anyone who had their money stolen. That's about all there is to it. That's a really mature and measured response. Well, quite frankly, you know, when I'm told that anyone

who stands against the Fairhuntress will fall, I don't want to fall, you know, even though I'm one of the better darkers are one of, you know. Excited for Delta Rune.

the lightners and oh man anyways yeah that's just that's that's all there is to it um very big of you Willie

what are you supposed to fucking you know well what are you supposed to I would usually default to like yo get a load of this and that probably be it I because you don't want to engage

engagement sucks you into the world and now you're in there. That's it. I do not, this is too close for comfort. I do not like direct engagement. So, you know what's actually very strange? Page and I, my darling wife, Peach Saliva, love this shit. Yeah. Love it. Love it. Yeah. But only if it's somebody, we actually meet in person. Okay. Because, like, like, I once ran into the lady. And she was just telling me about how the aliens took her and, like, the whole thing. And I sat there and I listened to her for hours.

Because at the end of that experience, I just walked away. And never saw them again. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying is you don't want them on your front doorstep is what you don't want. So even, you know, being in the light of the fucking of the pink, being in the pink spotlight is not where I would like to be. But regardless, regardless. Um, uh, the, uh, shit, I was about to bring up another part of that. It's okay. It's fine. Um, that was apparently like a year ago or something and then it just, it just, it just popped up now. Oh, really? Oh, weird.

Yeah. Um, oh yeah. No. And for anyone who doesn't know what we're talking about, you can just go look up the previous, uh, CSB clips where we talk about the board game, the Kickstarter board game, Katalika. Um, and, and then you can get. all the summary you need from that. Beyond this, what else we got going on? I just saw somebody in the chat. Say, why do you guys enjoy making fun of a mentally ill person? That's the show we're on.

Don't stop doing it. What am I supposed to do? In this particular instance, the person in question did some shitty things. that suck besides the fact that they're clearly unwell and that they don't seem to have any remorse or willingness or ability to me. I mean, you can't have remorse if you're gone.

Yeah, I guess. I guess not. I guess not. I guess not. But, you know, it starts with where did everyone's money go? What the fuck are we talking about? And then now we're at, well, no, the sun is actually my allies. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know. Anyways, all that aside, the, hey, 14. Yeah. So I said it on the stream, but like, yeah, those other cities besides Ulda certainly are more to look at, aren't they? They are. There's also, like, so you can, like, get a player house in 14, right? And each major city has its housing district,

and nobody wants to live over at Ulda's Goblet. because it's, it's, it's, it's kind of brown and dry. Yep. Yep. Yeah. No, Grodania and Limza just have a better look to them. Just period. They also have more interesting, uh, city storylines. But you go where the class you pick brings you. This is a weird pull, but like there's a moment in, um, there's a moment in the reckoning where you walk into like a, like an elvish city and like all of a sudden, the environment like art design budget goes up and you're like oh shit you're actually trying here you know and everything up until that point was generic and completely forgettable um and uh you know not that this was that but i kind of when i saw those two cities i was like oh okay yeah yeah this is

cool to look at the night view and there's just more appealing like just straight up i didn't really care that much to to to run through um the crevices of old uh but like i did want to what was around the corners of Ligma and the other one. Oh, Lems is the best city in the game. Like, from a design perspective, from like a look perspective, from a music perspective, like, it's just got it all. It's where my character's like, like, it's when I have to teleport somewhere to go to the inn, that's the one I teleport to.

And yeah, I guess he's talking about Ligma Lomensa guys. And beyond that, um, I guess I'm just waiting to engage with this plot. We started to see some stuff moving a little bit. You know, not nothing. It's still too early to hit any beats. So I'm waiting for a beat. No, you've hit two beats.

You've hit Organization 14 arrives attempts to kill you. And you have your acquiring crystals. and seeing visions. Okay. Right. But you spent the first two sessions getting out of your primary introductory slash tutorial of regional politics plus, hey, do you know how to click a button? Do you know how to hit a guy?

Et cetera. Okay. Let me sharpen what I'm trying to say a little bit. In MMOs, do you meet, like, because I know there's a million NPCs you come across that are here and there for a few seconds. Okay, so like Hamon is an NPC that's all goofy and silly. And he's relegated to the Pugilist quest line. Right. So that's where he lives.

Yes. So MSQ, I've met a couple of main characters. No one that I have any feelings for yet at all. No, it's too early. what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. I'm waiting to care about somebody on the MSQ. I currently don't. So we give it a minute. So like you met Thancred who is a longstanding player in the game, but like you, you met him. Yeah, yeah, there's a dude. There's a dude. There's a princess. There's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, a night, um, a night

Lollafel and then there's a, there's the big, the upies man. Um, Robon. And then, and then, you know, and then there's the, the 1.0 crew. So one of the things that, uh, one of the things that, like, an MMO does over time that is, is lost on people coming in late, but it's just kind of the way that it works is that like, take, um, take, uh, Thankred, right? Thank red, because the game is extremely long, right, across all the expansions. Thank you. Thank you. A lot of things to do over the years.

Like, I have had more cut scenes and interactions with Thankred than like TIFA. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Like, for example. But on top of that, those have been spread out since 2015.

So, this is not the kind of... Like... Well, how often... You know what I mean? How often does... I get... No, but, like,

like, is this a kind of game where you wrap up with one of these main characters and then they're gone forever and like people hang around. No, you are acquiring an ever-increasing group of people. And then there is basically your A group and your B group. A group is the people that are always going to be there and that roster gets larger and larger. And then there's your B group,

which are people who are a big deal in a region or expansion, and you hope get added into the main roster and escape. Gotcha. So if you remember a while ago, when you were reading off like the End Walker thing, one of the things you read off on that big list that you had was that Estinian was going to be joining the group. Estinian is a character from one of the expansions that people were super crazy about that were thrilled to have him be included in the main cast going forward.

I see, okay. Yeah, the impression I got was that every expansion is like its own RPG and thus you're basically walking your character into a brand new cast of characters and, you know, rolling events. With the, so basically the, so you remember in the FF14 2.0 intro, you saw, you know the Bahamut thing there's the shot where you see Thancred and then a bunch of

other like characters get like kind of like a vignette treatment okay there's your starting roster and they function essentially as the Final Fantasy 14 party right right right right plus the gang because also that that gang will

follow you yeah from expansion to expansion okay because the ease admittedly to the easy thing to do is to treat it like you know a 90s anime where like your whole expansion is you wander into town you solve some new group of people's

problems by taking out their particular villain and then you wander out you know So it is it is essentially let's let's call it the new season of Naruto where they go to a new country but Saske and and Sakura

are also there because they're always there because that's the team right right right right okay Okay, okay. Unless. Unless. Unless. Unless.

Unless. Okay. Yeah. And then I also would just assume that any time a new job is introduced with an expansion, there's a character to represent that job that exists as an archetype. So basically it depends on whether or not those people end up on the main roster or not. So every single job has. the job trainer.

The person that you're going to be running into, like the Humon Holy Fist of that job, right? The main cast is not big enough to fit every job in the game. It's just not. There are 20 fucking three now,

and your main roster is like 8 to 10. Yeah, okay. So what you end up having on occasion is, for example, there's a character named Alize I expect her to change into a new job in this expansion. She's currently a Red Mage. I fully expect her to have a glow up and change into one of the new ones.

Right, right. Which, yeah, that makes sense if they're playing like a U.R and can change their jobs and such. Yeah, yeah, okay. Also, in marketing canon, your character is also changing jobs every expansion. Oh, um... John 14 is Meteor Meteor is always changing classes

Has gone from Archer to Warrior to Dragoon to monk to samurai to Dark Knight to Paladin to Reaper Okay Yeah And one of one of everybody's little moments every couple of years

is when you find Is my job going to be the one on the box? Is it my turn? So for me, I play Dark Knight and Shadowbringers the best the game ever was was Dark Knight's expansion which meant that I was like

ah yes it's all about this yeah like you know it's the feeling that Honda players will never have in their life until fucking Honda will never be the man Honda on the box art

brr yeah well I mean he was actually on Street Fighter 2's box art and that's the last time that'll ever happen ever again He absolutely was. Okay. Okay. Okay. I get it. I get it. Yeah. So, you know, we'll see what's going on with that. That'll continue.

I got to tell you, I got to tell you, your treatment of the deer has done a lot to mitigate the deer problem. Interesting. You've done an excellent job on it. I'm just trying to have some fun. The only ways I know how. Unfortunately, Woolley. and this is kind of the genius your

disinterest slash under a non what it called what non integration of the appeal no yes and of hey hey look at me

you know that kind of thing has led you to the other side of fun social MMO interaction which is fucking with people oh no

I've become hostile to the world. You become the other side of that coin. Anti-R-Pier, the one who spoils the fun. Just the difference between, the difference between I'm going to cosplay a certain character and put myself in a specific position. The flip side of that is I'm going to lead this person on and then teleport away so that they go, oh. And here is where it's important to distinguish the line is I am not going out of my weight. to a troll or annoy anyone else's game, I am simply playing my own game.

And if me playing my own game is a disappointment for anyone for any reason at any time, that can be funny to me. Because at the end of the day, I'm like, I'm going back to my game now. And if that creates an awe, then it's like, yeah, well, I'm playing my game. Too bad. It's just, like, I think MMO, I think game culture, like microcultures are super. fascinating. Like, we talk about

fighting game culture essentially all the time, right? And that has its own social norms and its own rules and its own temples. MMO culture is so weird

because when you're like, I'm not part of this and I'm outside the box, that's a different box over there. Like, it's just a different subset of anti-culture culture.

You put yourself, you put yourself in another, yeah, anti-social club. club. It's so weird. Yeah, you're in another box. Yeah, I get it. I see that. I see that. But that box, it's just funny because

it's like, that is ultimately the, it's the non-participation in the setup, you know, as opposed to me joining the trolls, you know what I mean? As opposed to being actively annoying or hostile or whatever. It is, it is quite

simply me returning to playing my game. That, that, So back when I was streaming it a couple of years ago, I also had a swarm problem. And my solution of that problem would be to go to an unknown server and post myself with my character up against a nondescript wall. And then give it 40 minutes to see if anyone could find me. And then start teleporting around also so that people couldn't figure out what server I was on until I queued into something. That's a lot of work. Okay.

Right. And I vividly remember, and I won't name names, but one guy did find me, and they found me by just like, I was standing still, and they just like, they just snuck into the background of the shot. And I'm like, and I went to a different place. And then in the background, oh, here they come, just in the background. I'm like, I see you. I see you. named guy. I see you. Yeah, I mean, look, at this, like, we have definitely gone from, um, I cannot see my character

due to fireworks and, and UFOs to, there are five extinction events floating in the distance. I think, I think, I think them setting up to be a weird thing when you come out of cutscenes is much funnier than the massive explosive mob. I think you turning around and saying, seeing everyone in a semi-circle on Torgel going, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's actually like much more appealing than just flooding the screen with bullshit. It's, it's quite goofy and it's quite shenanigans. But yeah, no, anyway, uh, uh, yeah, we'll see where that's going. We'll see where that's going.

I have no idea. So I don't know who we're going to get, uh, probably Minel will be tagging along on the next session, because the next section, you're probably going to do two or three dungeons. And the important thing is for everyone to take it easy and make you do it. Okay. Because the worst thing I can imagine is like mechanic coming in and you go, what is that? And then somebody just does it and go, don't worry about it. No, no, no.

Right, right. What game. What game, yeah. And I guess the only other thing there is like for those who have reached out out of concern to say that Reggie has not spoken a word in, 55 minutes, is he okay? Now he's beating it. Yeah, and just, hey, if Reggie wants to... Secretly beating it.

If Reggie wants to get up and peace out, he can and will. By the way, I have officially asked Reggie, I believe twice now, that he's more than welcome to hop on as he would in any context that he wants. To which I believe the reply was, that's very kind of you. Thank you. Yeah. believe that was the um also ratch she's been showing up in my streams lately thanks reg he's a lurk he's out there yeah no he's not lurking no more oh hey pat we're gonna kiss do it do it like those stickers where you you're doing it like the mouths

are like this and it says like hop on 14 or like hop on teken oh have you seen those yeah i mean so i have uh uh uh shoutouts to audrey 2d uh uh uh uh who like does a bunch of them for every fighting game just like menaul and marissa making out like hop on six so like so they put out this feature a couple patches ago at 14 called the strategy board which is just like a like a like a plaster board where you can put stickers and draw lines and stuff like that so you can send it to people and go like hey here's how you resolve this mechanic here's that i have never once seen it for anything other than gay memes yeah yeah yeah yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like, like, literally 100%. Somebody would be like, so-and-so shared the strategy board. And it's like the blowdrawn brothers going, like 100%. It's so fucking funny that it's never relevant.

God, I love that like now, too. So, you know, you know the, you know the classic heartbreaking that, that, you know, that awesome lesbian fan art that you retweeted turned out to just be sole bad guy from Guilty Gear. I don't know if you've seen that, but that's a thing. I have not. Okay. There you go. That's been a thing for a minute.

And that has now been followed up with the sequel. Heartbreaking, that lesbian fan art that you retweeted turned out to just be Kai Kiske and Dizzy from Guilty Gear. Yeah, sir. And then they showed the. actual example. But like it's been, it's been like extremely clear to like not just the culture, but also Guilty Gear as a, as a general, that guilty gear just disagrees with the gender binary. So, uh, yeah, you could make your suggestions, but you, you, you can head canin it to whatever

the fuck you want. Um, anyway, so yeah, this week basically, um, that'll be that, you know, a little more 14, um, little more Phoenix Wright once we get around to it. Obviously, we were busy last week. Did a slop stream as well. It was a shorthy, but a goody. And that will be making its way over to the Woolly versus the Algorithm channel. Also where some shorts have been going up to.

So, yeah, be sure to go. That's going to stay active, and I'm still going to be getting the slop streams up over there. So be sure to go jump on Willie v. the Algorithm as well. And if we do other things this week, I will let you know. But for now, that's what the schedule is. I think this Saturday we are going to be going a little bit later. I've got a bit of family function. So we're going to be doing a bit of a night stream.

So, yeah, come hang out on Saturday night too. Just before we have to take a quick break, I'm just going to let you guys know for the Woolly Tour of the FGC FF14 show slash pat getting a get out of fighting games getting a 14 on Thursday if you are familiar and haven't been paying attention the plan for Thursday is going to be Satasha Tom Tara copperbell and Hall of the novice I believe we can knock those four out I have to take I thought those were people okay they are not okay all right no I have to take this dog he needs to eat you can see he is starving he is he is starving he needs to eat i will be right back how's your week oh my goodness that was all right let me first of all hey caboose you're doing hey oh you're fed don't don't touch me no okay bye all right so do you see what this is a hair comb now you might not think that i would have any use for this but i have a child who's

hair i regularly comb because he's got pretty hair So I don't know if you've noticed people at home, but I have a tendency to twirl this thing. This is a key cap remover. I also have a tendency to do this. You have since I've known you. Yes, always, always, always. So it's unclear as to whether or not the following story is genetic or taught. These are not just cutting it, huh?

Not good enough. It's just more fun. So the problem is is that when I do this, I'm an adult man. But even as an adult man, sometimes it slips off the finger and flies out. What if, instead of being an adult man, by the way, this is actually fairly heavy to do, I was a two-year-old child. And that happened.

And it flew away directly into the TV and smashed a big-ass spot. Dead center into the middle of the television. I sent you a picture. Man, it is right in the middle there. Right in the middle. Not fun. What are you going to do? You're going to get mad?

He was like way, he was like pretty far away from the TV too. Like he was not like, yeah. So, I mean, just in the day of me and my cousins and family, that was time for me to run away from home. Right. levels of fucking hell coming my way. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a child or children break some large amount thing. Um, but here's the thing. I think there is a huge difference between, hey, stop fucking playing catch with the baseball in the living room. Smash. Right. Or,

no, you can't have a candy. Yeah. Smack. Right. Right. But like, innocently playing with the thing in a cute way that happens to like legitimately fly off the child and damage something, there's no intent there. There isn't even a stop doing that you could hurt something there. So what are you going to do?

You're going to fucking mad at you? No, that's ridiculous. No. Instead, you just stand there and just go, Learned it from watching you, alright. Tom McCall warranty support. And hope this is under warranty, at which point they can, you know,

they connect your TV to the internet and they scan it remotely. Oh, wow. For damage now. Oh, wow. The smart TV era. Okay. Yeah, to which they go,

what happened? And your wife says, oh, you know, toddler through something and then the guy on the other end of the phone go or the you know the live chat goes well it's good since there's no physical damage you're definitely viable for a warranty and then your wife goes no but but the toddler threw something and the guy on the other end goes it's a good thing there's no physical damage yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and um then wife tells you that story confused and I'm like he is saying that so that when he writes it down because you were so nice to them during the chat that they're writing down

manufacturer defect or whatever. So we're currently waiting on, you know, some men to show up and grab the television and leave with the television and then warranty repair it and then return it to us because there's no physical damage. That's a good deal. That being said, if for some reason that doesn't work, probably just going to have to live with it for a while. Because the idea of replacing a slightly damaged television during the years where it's way more likely to happen again and again seems like an insanely stupid thing to do.

This is prime damaging your shit era starting now. So shout out to the hotline heroes like that. Yeah. You know, that is not all heroes wear capes. That is a, that's a real one. We appreciate that. Yeah, I mean, look, you can, you have two choices, I guess, right? You can either try to curb perhaps the twirling.

We did. We have curbed it on the child's side. That's why, you see, I'm doing it a lot today. Like today here? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, this is the office. No one's allowed in here. Everything in here is safe.

I'm safe to do my twirls. Either curb it on the child or get him started on a windmill shuriken so that he can get his fucking twirl game to maximum. This is the office for spinning thing. Yes, thank you. But that's life.

That's life. And I have I just have this moment of like, I'm like, what would have happened if this was me? Right. If I like teleport yourself. That's what I'm saying. And the answer is actually complicated.

Because if this was me, this shit would have bounced right off a CRT. No problem. That's true. That's true. Well, you know, you remember what you had to do to hurt a CRT? You'd have to throw a baseball bat through it. Well, no, according to my mom, just plugging in the Nintendo.

So like, nah Nah, man You're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right Just plugging in the fucking Nintendo was breaking the TV What's wrong with the computer? You got those games on there That's it, games are screwing at the computer Dad, you have bonsai buddy on your desktop Literally just you don't understand anything about how this works

But you're certain that playing the games is ruining it Okay, sure. All right. There's no talking or explaining out of this. I'm right because I say so. You know. Oh, yeah. The important thing is it's just a television.

It's not a big deal. You ever have these moments? Yeah, no, you're, you can feel like, oh, feel like a big, feel like a big boy. You just broke the cycle. Congratulations. You just broke the cycle. Good job. Right?

Yeah. One of these at a time. Because I'm, I'm packing that fucking. Bindle and stick and fucking, you know, putting my clothes in the thing and try to see if I can sneak out before anyone finds out. Because, again, the hell that's coming my way for breaking something like that, you know? Let me tell you, I got to, like, I got to be honest, maybe this is a bit too personal, but like, raising a child and doing your best, like really doing your best. Like, I know I am, I know Pages, I know Punch Mom is, I know you are, right? like we've talked about this a million times

you have this moment where you're like ooh I have all these emotions about what I want to do but I'm not going to do any of those things I'm going to do what I think is the best for this situation and your brain just explodes with the memory and you can see a parent not doing that for you and you get super

mad and then you get like kind of depressed for a little while why couldn't you just do that Why couldn't you just do that? It isn't that hard. To just, you know? And so, okay, okay, okay. I don't know what specific part you are getting mad at because, like, there's...

We could have a whole fucking show. Sure. But like, because there's the aspect of it of like, there's the aspect of it of like, like, the, what's being inflicted, right? Which is like, which is of raw, of course, in what it is. And then there's the part where it's like in those shoes in that moment going, you couldn't just calm your own feelings down for two seconds to like think about how that was going to reflect. You couldn't just take a second, take a breath.

And in the heat of everything, go no, wait, chill, right? Because you're somebody who's, because you're thinking back to like them in this shoes in this position now, they're in the middle of it and then they're going and this exploding volcano that I am right now is the only thing that matters in the world and I'm going to lean into it and just

scorch the earth. I don't care I'm too mad and I'm righteous in my anger about this. So here's the thing. That's a super good example because I'm talking about a damage TV right? Yeah. So I go over and I'm like this is a genuine like straight up accident. Like

this is not even the thing that you would even think to tell the kid to stop doing because they're 10 feet away from the television they're two years old and it's a comb right? Like what, like do you, would you fucking foresee that happening? No. So it's like, okay, accident from the point of a child, accident

from the point, because page was watching him, right? Accident from the point of the wife, there's no one to really blame here. Right? And I'm mad because the thing is broken, but no one's really at fault. And then there's the moment of your brain going there's two paths here

there's nobody at fall I guess I'm just gonna have to deal with my emotions or I'll find somebody who's at fall somebody's definitely a fault and it's not me that me you know that'll make me feel better

yeah yeah no even and like to be perfectly honest even before this step and this is like again we're sniffing farts and patting ourselves on the back and it's like fuck that but like hey hey I'm listening to a podcast with these two guys who work from home the whole day,

talk about how they're breaking the cycle. Exactly. Exactly. Like, just fuck off with our bullshit. But, like, the part where you're even stopping for a second to consider the intent that went into it and the difference between the tantrum, the ignoring of a previous warning, or the complete fluke,

like, that's already a level of consideration that never would have occurred. Oh, absolutely, yeah. Right? Because it's just, it was a consequence-based world at that point, and that's all that matters, you know? So even that step, even if the rest that follows is unhealthy, like, to begin with, that is on its own a cut above. As silly as that might sound. My big thing that I'm going to try and beat for the next generation is something I think you actually have some experience with.

and I could see it I called my mom and dad for Father's Day right happy Father's Day by the way Cheers happy Father's Day It's a good one It's a good holiday now I like it I didn't used to care all that much

And that was shame on me Right But now I had a long talk with my dad And I have this realization Every time I get off the phone with my parents I'm like They have literally never understood A single thing I've talked about to them

In my entire fucking life once. Not like the way I feel, the things I like, what my job is, who my friends are, like,

and fuck, nothing. Like, completely just like, oh, that's nice. Oh, explain that again.

And then you watch it go through the fucking ears out the other side. Bro, that sucks. Like, my kid's going to be into the shittiest

music you've ever heard. I'm going to try and remember the band. No, um, this might sound weird, but it's like,

depending on where, on the age we're talking about and like the gap from parent to current generation, what a child is to a parent changes, right? Yeah, it does. Like, if you go far back enough,

like a child is an accessory until it's a worker. The boomers thought kids were accessible. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like I wonder, and I'm never going to ask, and I'm never, I wonder how much of my existence is owed to the fact that I am the child of a second marriage that would have had no kids, even though dad already had kids, right? Right? Am I going to ask, hey, did you only have me because mom wanted to?

Like, what? No, don't ask that question. there's no No No Even a 1% chance It's like life ruining knowledge Can't have it

Yeah no Meanwhile I'm fucking I'm here Jojo Part 5 In a lineage You know Extending in both directions But it still is one where

It's like Okay Maybe this time we can reinvent the nuclear family. Maybe this time we can get it right. This'll be the shot that... I don't think the nuclear family was on the on the cards. No, if we try hard enough and go to church every weekend, it'll be, it'll all work out. You know. So, so...

Willie, you should have just gone to church more. More church for you. That was the problem, actually. It was my fault for not believing hard enough, you know? So, so, uh, when you, yeah, that's heavy, man. That's heavy. When you, when you, when you, like, come across some of these moments, like, and you just, you have that little reflection. Yeah, the desire to not just like absolutely lose your shit at, at the ghost of a person,

of a previous generation that just was like, why was it so hard? Why couldn't you just grasp this one thing? And like, unfortunately, too, I'm like, and like, then I start going, like, is it because, like, you know, are we looking at a generation where, like, children are meant to be, you know, seen and not heard? Like, are you just going back to that accessory thing? And, like, where I'm now like, no, you're a person. I don't care that you're, you're not an extension of me or really a sequel. You're your own thing and we're giving that enough respect on its own to see what it is. Or just, you know, somewhere in between that where it was like, No, like, you're not just an accessory, but when my, but when I'm upset, nothing else matters. And what I say goes, you know, and that's all there is to it, you know. It's neither of those things, Wully, it's the lead. It's the goddamn fucking, like, the goddamn, everyone, ugh. At the end of the day, everyone's always responsible for the things they, they do or say, even if what culture they live in.

the times that they live in. But at the end of the day, you and me, like everybody our age has to look back and be like, man, my fucking parents are riddled with fucking lead. The more than any fucking population in the history of the fucking planet. That son of a bitch with his lead and his aerosols

just in one fell smooth. Midgley Jr. can go fucking burn in hell, that piece of shit. Like, created a hole in the ozone layer to cook everyone. then simultaneously made them all too stupid to fix the problem. Like, bro, the one two punch. Oh, my God. Yeah, all right.

Also, someone in our chat points out that, Stace McGa, thank you. Gen X has in fact gotten the most lead. Oh, boy. Which is probably why, I don't know if you've noticed, but Gen Xers are becoming like the sequel to boomers. Hmm. I mean. There were a generation raised to be like, well, the one,

the boomers are done, it'll be our turn to be the boomers. It's like, it's never going to be anyone's turn to be the fucking boomers ever again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, a million percent. No, that's, yeah, they're, like, they were, they were first on the, on the line of like, like, so we're inheriting like this and getting everything that, no, no, you're still holding on to it? Oh, okay, well, but when do I get my, no, I don't get my, okay. By the way, the, uh, the Gen Z and the alphas also back on the lead. because of the vapes. You know, I've been missing this lead in my life.

It's time to fucking, yeah. So like millennials and older Gen Z are actually going to be in a very strange position for the rest of our lives where we're sandwiched between like undeniably brain damaged generations on either end. And we're the only ones that know how to use a desktop computer? God. Yeah, man. I just, I'm, look, whatever it is, as soon as we find out

what all this plastic in our balls really means. I have such good news for you. I can tell you what all the plastic in your balls means. What does it mean? All those studies have to be thrown out and done over because the gloves that you, you use in a lab contaminate the sample. Oh!

There might not be plastic in my balls? No, there is. Probably way less. Okay. Yeah. No, that's a win. That's a win. Because one of the things that always

about the plastic in your body studies was you would hear it all the time. They could not find uncontaminated samples. everyone had a level of microplastic in their body, right? And it's like, well, if it's 100% of all samples, could it possibly be something in the testing or the lab? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we take those.

We take those. We take those. So microplastics still bad for you. Still in the balls. Definitely have. Yes. But all the studies have to be done over with new, I don't know, vinyl gloves or something.

100% because just touching the fucking dish in the samples with the gloves causes them to be contaminated with microplastics updated autopsy report yeah let's let's fucking get that on the file god damn it that rules wow okay it is that is a significant glow-up it's not the full run back but I love hearing that there is less plastic in my balls and I was I was except Also, the doomsday clock for climate change has been rolled back a little bit. Oh, that's quiet. We were looking at like a four degrees Celsius increase by 2100.

We're down to a 2.8 degree increase, which is still cataclysmic and awful. Well, now, hold on a minute, though, because the doomsday clock doesn't just measure climate change. It measures all sorts of. I use the term, doomsday clock as a, as just a term. I didn't use the mean the exact one. Okay, because the specific one, the projections are down. about a degree and so my guess is that's because of China

moving to green energy probably. Okay. Yeah. Like nearly exclusively. But hey, hey, hey, yeah. That's better than unavoidable catastrophe. Okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Moderate catastrophe. Yeah, because I'm just like, I've just been kind of

trying to walk around accepting the fact that like my nuts are made of Lego. And just but I'm kind of like but it's all of us though so we're all in this together to be fair

the one that didn't get rolled back I don't know we ever talked about this is did you hear about the tampon pad controversy this rings a bell so this is kind of a so I don't know if you've noticed but fertility amongst our generation is down

yes compared to older generations you've run into a lot more people that are like oh we're having try Or, you know, they take a couple of years to, you know, whatever. There's a strong possibility that that is because all tampons and pads are soaked with arsenic and lead. Okay. Which is something that you put into or inside your body. Yes, I remember.

Not good. No, I remember. I remember hearing about this, which is why the rise of diva cups and other alternative things was starting to pick up. Yeah. It's also the rise of the free bleak up. for Mother Earth. Well, you got that too. Not me to judge

because I don't... The fuck you know about interior semi-onics. I mean, some. Okay, well... I'm a dad. Okay. I'm on the... Like, I gained a significant

amount of knowledge, as I assume you did, during the pregnancy process because you're hanging out with a lot of doctors. Yeah, okay. And you're having a lot of discussions about, and you're asking a lot of, so what's going on in there anyway? It's a bunch of, when do the, when do the SpaghettiOs get involved? Or is that just, no, am I wrong on that? Okay. Well, yeah, maybe.

Okay, okay, good update, good update, good update. I like that, I like that. Plastic ones are good update. Oh, man. I'm very happy about it. Okay, shame about the- It's not a get out of jail free car. Let's all be very clear about that. Yeah, no, and shame about the fucking the lead huffers, but, uh, yeah, no, like, like, it's not going to save me from the, from the, PICA I had in fucking elementary school where I would just eat pens. I probably got a couple of fucking macro plastics floating around in there.

Pat, I have a very important question. Ask a way. You can be, and you have to be real. You have to be honest, okay? Yeah. Did you try the glue? No, I was never a glue guy. Okay.

No, I like the smell of gasoline. Okay. And when I was younger, when I was in like grade five or six, I'd get anxious. And then the only thing I could think to do would be just like eat my pencil or pen, just eat the whole thing. I never understood the glue. That shit was always crazy to me. It always seemed insane.

I remember somebody, hey, smell the glue. And I'm like, eh, it smells bad. Yeah, that never made any sense to me. When I sipped a juice box, like apple juice. I would chew on the straw. I would chew on the straw afterwards for a while. Yeah, it's good. It's good.

Get your nutrients. Particularly what I love to do, I love to freeze an apple juice. And then the first parts that de-frosted were sweeter. Because the sugary parts defrosted first. This is some fat kid shit. But like, I really, I used to freeze. No, that's good. Yeah, but then you would get those sweet things and then you'd crush the frozen thing to create a slush.

And then you get like a juice box slush, right? and then afterwards I chew on the straw for a while and that that was like not that great a habit but like yeah never did the glue shit none of that and really the only thing was just later on lighting that that rubber cement on fire

was a whole lot of fun I mean that's cool yeah that's just cool yeah but it wasn't it wasn't like you know fucking inhaling it directly or anything like that so you know yeah no I was not a I was not a huffer the kid who huffed a lot of stuff in elementary school,

ended up doing really well in my chemistry and physics classes. Wow. Because he downloaded the anarchist cookbook. Wow. Okay. Okay. And we'll just build... I don't think bombs. But I think he was building the prerequisite to bombs in his yard. Starting to enrich the uranium.

And he did excellent in those classes. And my chemistry professor asked him, oh, you know all this stuff. He's like, I made some. He's like, what do you mean you made some? I made some napalm. I looked at the Anarchist cookbook, and I got some styrofoam.

Hmm. I never got the Sharpie smell stuff. I still don't. That was never a thing. Like a lot of that smell stuff, it's like, no, anything that smelled too, like toxic, strong chemical,

I'm like, I don't, I'm not into that. That didn't do it for me. For me, no, not even. Then they made the smell markers. They made smellable markers that were like, you know, like, okay,

if you're going to smell them, smell something nice, I suppose. That's a bunch of bullshit. Which is crazy. But, yeah, I, I'm trying to think, but I guess no. No, I never, it was really just chewing on straws, was about as much as it got. And that was because of the apple flavor. So, anyway, okay, just checking. Just checking. Because, you know. Just checking.

I'm sure there's a, there's a percentage glue consumption to, you know, to year-to-date forward stat that can be tracked in some way, shape, or form, you know? By the time you reach adulthood, there's a fair amount of things that you've eaten that are not food. Some more than others, but they're not food. Yeah, but if you play grapplers, the likelihood of a percentage chance that you have consumed some glue. What else did you do?

I also competed in the Sejamslam, in which my team went from second to, fucking losers. I don't know what happened. We tried our best, but I guess everybody just improved slightly faster. Like, Noxas went from dead last to second. Yeah.

Yeah. Crazy. The point destroys us. Mm-hmm. Aside from that, I hung out with gals playing FF14. I'm back on Pragmatta. Oh, where are you at?

Not that far. I'm in the Terodrome. Okay. with the trees and shit. Yeah. It's one of those things. You described the challenge missions to me, but it didn't really lock in exactly what they were.

They're just like Metal Gear Solid VR missions. Oh, the cabin missions. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're VR missions completely. Pragata has such an excellent grasp of player empowerment and timing. And, like, it has such an incredible self-improvement. loop where you just

you go out, you fight some guys, you get some resources, you come back, you have bought upgrades, upgrade point upgrades, cabin point upgrades, Diana, REM upgrades,

then you reorient your stuff, then you go back out, do something, come back, do a challenge mission, upgrade yourself a bunch in all those directions. And it's like every time you go out and come back, you're adding a new thing to do with your character. It actually...

The pacing is so good on it. It actually brings you back to base more frequently than I would expect in a lot of cases. Like you do a quick loop. A lot. And it's like, and it gives you a chance to go get more shit at a pace that I'm like, oh, I kind of expected like a gun per person. level, un-upgrade per level, you know. And then they're also like, go hang out with the kid for a bit.

And yeah, they really want you to constantly be changing your build-up and trying out the new shit and giving it a shot. Because, like, there are a point- I've locked into a build I really like right away. Okay, that's what I was going to say, right? They want you to feel it out and then go, okay, lean this way. There'll be stuff to support that build coming soon.

I have locked in on multi-hack-confuse. uh yeah okay it's just like I would like this entire encounter to just kill itself right I'll fight the rest of the game normal but when I run into an encounter that is like

ooh it's a little juicy in here just spread it to everybody those those funnels are incredible those the funnel defense item is is amazing uh I didn't use it that much but it it does build heat it does build heat it's so I'm using the assault rifle, so I want to build heat.

I'm going for a heat critical shot build. Yes. I think it's just so fucking slick. And there's all these little, like, I guess you would call them quality of life. But to me, they're more like anti-bad quality of life than quality of life. So, like, I'll take like R.E.4 as an example, right? one of the things that happens in RE4 original is the best thing

you can possibly do is increase your damage on any given gun because that increases your ammo economy, right? Like you're always going to get this basic same amount of ammo so if you make each shot do more damage, you end up having more damage. And then after that, you're an RE4 original, you upgrade capacity because when

your gun has zero bullets in it and you upgrade capacity, you get a full clip. Right? In RE4 remake, they made it so that the the damage upgrades cost like five times as much. So, because they realize, like, okay, well, now maybe I actually do want rate of fire. Maybe I do want capacity or whatever.

Now, you don't care about running low on ammo because each shot matters more. In Pragmata, on top of that, you have like, hey, this is the maximum you can upgrade this thing right now. But then you have, when you're upgrading it in yellow, it'll go complete. Yes. And it goes, oh, I have actually finished maxing this thing out. Like hacks go up to three. So I know that if I want to, you know, have them good hacking, maybe boo, boo, boo, just this. And then I'll have these, you know, I have the one worded you regenerate more health.

Right. Depending on, right. And then it's like, well, it's not maxed out, but it's maxed out for now. But on top of that, I'm like, oh, I'll upgrade the shotgun three levels. Why only three levels? Because that's as much as I can upgrade it without you. using the special upgrade token that you only use for special upgrade. And so it's like, oh, well, it would be a better thing for me to even that out and even this out and even this out.

And then as I hit the moment where I was like, I think I have everything I want maxed out and upgraded on my character. It goes, hey, by the way, you can equip more weapons. So pick a secondary on either side. Yep, yeah. And I'm like, oh, it's perfect. The timing on it was so perfect. And then you don't... It's right when I thought I was done with the upgrade until I saw something I loved.

But now it's like, no. And then you start working on stuff you have. Yeah. And then you go like, okay, which of these do I eventually want to commit like a slab to, right? Yeah. But it really does allow you to just, again, like right, yeah, it lets you feel out the build, feel out what you want to upgrade a little bit. And then in some cases, you'll be like, you know what?

actually upgrade the child. Never mind this. Like, let's work on her stuff. Yeah, I was all upgrading all my guns and all of Hughes personal abilities. And then I was like, no, I need to upgrade these hacks. I need to upgrade like confuse

and multi-target and expose. And so now those are upgraded so that if I want... Podcast pause. It's that nigga Gary. What's good boy? Yeah, I see. It's me, Gary. Ah! This is like the third time

it's happened. I'm like, shut down the stream. What are we doing? Hey, yo, run the set. Yeah. What's good. What's good. How you doing? Yeah. We talked about, we talked about the, uh, the slab a bit earlier, a bit earlier, but it's, it's the fucking the Gary detour every time, every time. You're what's up? What's up? How are you doing? All right, anyway, sorry. You were saying. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, that's good. Also, um, so I don't know about you, but like, I did a lot of backtracking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Because, like, you unlock, like, you know, Hild L1 to get rid of the spikes. And I'm like, oh, I'm going to just go back and get every single goddamn item.

And you get a lot. Like a fucking crazy amount of upgrades. Okay. So have you done any red rooms yet? Oh, yeah, I've done them all. Okay. Red rooms are my favorite parts of the game. And personally, to me, I suspect you might be similar in that as soon as you get the opportunity to get a red card, always go for.

for it. Oh, absolutely. Every single time. I've done all of them as soon as I can possibly do them right away. That's exactly it. It's the funnest rooms with the best rewards, and they teach you things about your build and about crowd control and how to handle certain, you know. Not there yet. Okay. Not yet. Because let me tell you, so far, multi-target confused has been doing a lot. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. eventually more will enter, things will change.

Also, the problem you'll run into too is that's great for the encounter where you choose to use those. And then once you use them, you're back to picking up whatever the ground has to offer you. Yeah. Right. You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of Vanquish. Not just because it literally looks like Vanquish. But Vanquish has the system where if you don't use a gun and you pick it up, it upgrades, right?

So you're incentivized to, like, really hold your best weapon. this game like you're holding right now I'm still holding like four shotgun shells and then the fucking I throw the shotgun away and then I'm just left to the mercy

of whatever the fuck is on the ground now I've only upgraded the shotgun on the red weapon side so if they give me the charge gun I'm like well I guess I just have to make do with this piece of shit unupgraded charge gun maybe I should have upgraded it a little I know I basically

because I don't have control over what's in my inventory a lot of the time. I ran into that problem as well and I found myself just basically like almost like I when I pick up the charge gun in some cases I'm like I almost don't want to play right now because I'm just like I have to

My charge gun is really bad. I can't handle something in my face I can't you can't handle any point blank threats you can only deal with them from a distance with slow with time and you'll find the room yeah sometimes the room is giving you things you don't want or the little refrit the little vending machine outside of the room

will sometimes only offer up the same two choices. That you don't want. Both of the shit I don't want. Exactly. Exactly. Right? So, no, prepare for that. Prepare for that to happen.

And unfortunately, ammo capacity is like really... It's a late upgrade. Very. Very much so. It's a weird... It is a strange system

where they really want you just scraping everything off the ground. We're like, most of the game so far with the shotgun, it's like, damage up, rate of fire up, ammo? No, no, no, no. That's like the second to last upgrade on the fucking thing.

Right? And like, I upgraded the the funnels, and they're like, double capacity. But it shoots out two more, so it's actually the same capacity. It's just more damage. Now, something you might have, it might be a little early for this, but like, um,

right now with the, I guess just like the mental stack of what to hack when what's open, when to shoot, when to reopen something, when to disengage, etc. Like, how are you

finding that? Excellent. Okay. Okay. And like, because I found that like as soon as like certain enemies got introduced, as soon as you started to see, like the samurai kind of changed things up a little bit. but overall, like, you'll notice with modes that the way the game wants you to like essentially open up something and then if you're not paying attention to how long it's open for, you might, you know, get distracted by a threat that's over here and then continue working that on because you're like, oh, this is closer to death. But then now this bigger enemy that you had open is a bigger problem for you because you didn't immobilize it or whatever the case is.

use the riot buster to knock it down or something. So my current plan is that if it's too many enemies to handle, I hack them to stop to give myself some breathing room. But the general gist of it, the plan that I've actually locked in on,

which is actually very unlike me in other games, is that I will go, okay, what is the maximum amount of these enemies I could remove immediately? So I will go like, you know, because a lot of the, encounter says like a very large enemy with a bunch of annoying little shitheads associated with it. So I will be like, okay, hack the flying little annoying piece of shit, the one that's an obstacle in my mind,

and use the resources I have to kill it as fast as possible. I don't want to be handling this enemy while dodging the big one. I want this one to be done. And that includes using three shotgun rounds, five seconds into the encounter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's what I'm going to do. I'm just trying to get the amount of enemies down as fast as possible, because I would much rather fight a large enemy or two with no resources

than fight five of them and, like, have some stuff. Be taking them all as they come. So what I learned from the VR missions and from the Red Rooms was the order of priority. and there's a point that I basically remember getting to towards the end of the game where it more or less just became like these are the things that have to die first no matter what and then in between focusing on the thing that must die

like avoid dodge play defense and if you get a second while the thing that needs to die is like currently delayed or whatever, hack this heat, heat, heat, heat, heat, heat, heat, heat, drop heat on everything you can while like more or less being locked in on one enemy. And that eventually builds up to the heat overload where you can then capitalize and do the melee and stuff like that, you know? Yeah. So a, like a primary target and then like systems for handling the distractions. There's essentially there is a, there's a boss and then there are ads.

And then when that thing's down, something else becomes the boss and the other things become the ads. Yeah, so the current priority for me is anything that leaves a ground-targeted AOE on the ground is number one, because it inhibits dodging out of attacks on reaction. Number two is any enemy that can shoot at you from range because they can always hit you. The zone. Number three is any enemy that is fast or as long melee range, so the samurai. and then becomes enemies that are none of those

but are easy to kill, like the standard Walker enemies. And then dead last is enemies that can turn off your hack or shield themselves in some way because I will need all of my focus on them. I can't be trying to bust out the red shields on somebody

while I'm being shot at from three other directions. Right, right. And then I think the last thing you're going to take notice to of as well is kind of like we're describing to me in 14 the off rotation cool down things so you know like what to do when you're dodging and there's nothing else going on right now like what to do what to hack or what to go pick up sometimes it's not hacking sometimes it's resource gathering right what you're what's

happening while your bullets are empty you're reloading and you're currently empty handed for red guns. What is your plan? What are you doing right now? Because you can hack something, but then, okay, it's open now, but you don't have anything to do damage with. So now what? Do you distract it? Do you lock it in place? So there's a, there's a, there's a moment in the fight where you're, you're empty and you've got to go figure out what else to do. And those are the moments where I'm like, I guess that's not really a Resident Evil thing. The game, you know, is its own bit, but there's moments where it's like, you're in a hallway, you have no space and you have to deal with this very quickly, but then

going to pick up whatever the room gave you and then re-engage once you have more ammo is like the next phase of it. Biggest difference to a Resident Evil is the Resident Evil, you are starting an encounter in every Resident Evil with what you have in your pocket, and that's

what you're going to just fucking make do. And hopefully at the end of the encounter, you can find something to replenish. I am running out of every single fucking thing of ammunition in every large scale. encounter and Pragata and then having a moment mid-fight going what do you guys got over here you got you got some fucking oh you got a decoy fuck it oh you got the decoy fuck that's it oh you got the you got the charge rifle

okay i guess we're using charge rifle now walk out of the fight empty if you have to but you're alive yeah yeah uh i and that's why and i think that's why they send you back to base so often because that's the only way to just replenish your whole stock pile of shit no this is a really good example of a game that's like, it's not actually breaking new ground in a ton of ways. It's just doing simple things that everybody has seen and done and or experience before, but it's just doing it really well thought out. It's doing it super slow. It's just doing it tight, you know.

Oh, what I was trying to say earlier about the backtracking. Fucking A plus backtracking, shit ton of functional added dialogue. for any given room between Hugh and Diana over and over and over and over. I was trying to find, I was trying to find, like, a hidden chest that was in one of the, in one of the, one of the, one of the first areas, like the, like literally first level. And I was passing back and forth the area that you get the globe from. You know, like very early on.

Yeah. Every time I walked into the room, Diana had a different question to Hugh about his family or the way dinners worked or whatever. So like as I'm going backtracking a bunch, there's still tons of back and forth all the time between them. Yeah, I got a bit of that. I didn't backtrack that aggressively. I mainly went back.

I went back for red rooms and red cards primarily. But I didn't go back to clear out every single, every, every thing. Backtracking in this game is crazy rewarding because the upgrade cadence. is really fast. Like, you get, like, when you clear out an older area, you come back to base with just a shit ton. Like, that first time when they unlock the challenge missions,

and you do all available challenge missions, you're like, I guess I'm just going to upgrade myself to the moon. Oh, shit. Yeah, I felt, I felt like, I mean, even just, even just the way I was going forward at it, like, I was getting a good amount of stuff between runs and a good

a good amount of like do I have over a grand you know and like one of the big upgrades all right fuck it let's go back to base and dump into something you know I think the game knows how well it nailed the upgrade cadence because when you walk up to the little ladder that brings you to the shelter in the upper

right corner and goes hey here's all the stuff you earned since the last time you went to the shelter right okay okay and you like hey you know you earned like 2000 yeah exactly five upgrade tokens you want to go back because you can go back and get a bunch of stuff. Or the other thing you can do is if you feel like spending, not backtracking time, but time on the cabin missions, you can get some cabin coins, and those cabin coins unlock

bingoes, and bingoes unlock weapons and guns and tech and upgrades. And secret reports. That are, yeah, yeah, and lore, you know, but there's actual, there's upgrade paths in the cabin bingo games, you know, if you feel like doing it that way too. So that's rewarding as well. No, great fucking game. Yeah, a game's super solid. It's super, super slick. I'm kind of loving it. It started on Father's Day, which was my master plan. It was not my master plan. Naturally.

It was not my master plan at all. What else have I been up to? Aside from the slam, that's kind of it. Yeah, that's kind of it. As for what's coming up for the Patent Page show, tomorrow, sorry, tonight, over at Twitch.com slash Pat Stairs at and YouTube.com slash Pat Stairs at slash live.

I'm going to be hanging out with Ecto and Hina and Mint. We're going to be playing some 14 later tonight. That's going to be 7 p.m. Pacific. Tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. Pacific, we're going to be playing Delta Rune on Page's channel over at Twitch.tv slash Peach Saliva and YouTube.com slash Pete Saliva. Now, do we want to do Delta Rune?

at 8 a.m. in the fucking morning. No, of course not. However. But unfortunately, you people are singularly irresponsible with this shit specifically. I saw like half of the people who are going to stream Delta Rune on my timeline yesterday talking about how I really don't want to have to stream it to me. tomorrow, but people are so, so crazy about spoilers and content with this stuff, that it kind of

has to be the minute it comes out. Like, the equivalent of calling you on the phone and being like, so you're going to be really happy with that thing that you wanted. I mean, like, I might have gotten lucky, but I, I've been chilling. I've been chilling. Well, that's because you never streamed it. I did.

You did? Yeah, I did one and two with Punch Mom. You did? Oh, when was that? A while ago and when they came out. Oh, okay. Well, you haven't been up to date. No.

You've been up to date. Then you lock into the nightmare. It's, it's, I don't know what it is. It's like the, the, there are certain audiences. Like, I have gotten, like, really lax on, like, my own internal spoiler culture. Like, it no longer is like a massive bummer. I'm mad and I don't

want people to spoil me because you're, it's inconsiderate. Right? But like, I've really relaxed. Like, there's a bunch of weird things that, like, especially doing this, where the only thing I know about a game is like the ending. I don't know anything else

other than kind of how it ends. Which is a very fucking weird way to interact with media. But like certain certain audiences are just way, way worse about spoilers than others. So like Delta Rune and like JJK, I think are probably the worst. I remember when people were like getting like real like chapters of JJK and they were being spoiled by people on the internet who stole like the chapters. out of like convenience stores in Japan

to upload them faster than the official release. Oh my God. Like. Yeah, that's insane. Just crazy. Just insane people. I, so I. Yeah, Gary even says, Gary's saying the same thing. Playing Delta Road immediately can't trust the community.

And like part of it is like artists. And like artists love to do great art. But like I bet by the time me and pay. finish the Delta Run stream tomorrow, there will be sick, nasty art of like the final boss that will have been uploaded hours before we finished it. How?

Yeah. How did you get through it so fast? And then draw the big painting. It's my relationship with all of that based on the channel and this show and everything has just become really, really weird. And I've gotten to a place where I'm, I think it's, I'm, I'm okay and it's fine. But ultimately, it's one of like, I'm still, I still know that I enjoy media most as cold as possible.

But I know that I'm not in a position where that's really possible because a lot of the time, you know, due to negligence or excitement or one reason or another, people just bring it and they hit and whatever, right? I also, you know, having gotten griefed over it, you know, many times over the years, have just kind of been like, okay, I'm not going to mention it ever as an issue. I'm never going to bring it up again, whatever, all the stuff from beforehand when people would be like, you know, or or even the things where it's like, you know, when I would be told it like, you know, sometimes you, we unintentionally or don't care about the things that we're willing to spoil or talk about. things in a way that is to open or such. I'm kind of like, okay, the only winning move here is, I still really care a lot in my head, I'm just not going to say anything about it anymore, and if it happens,

that's just what it is, and I'll just have to experience the media in a suboptimal way. It's a complicated thing where, like, bringing it up causes, like, a kind of a target to be painted on you on top of that. Yeah, that's it. It's... There's just, the only winning move is not to play. I still care deeply, and I care a lot,

but I've decided to stop talking about anything about that, because there's just no other way to win that. It just sucks. For me, I'm a person of breaking points where if something like smashes my worldview into bits, like I must change. So for example, and I bring this up often, my view of my emotional takeaway from, let's say, YouTube comments, fundamentally broke in 2016 when we put up that fucking. Dark Souls 3 episode. Right?

That shit just snapped me the fuck out of it and it's been the same ever since. Similarly, for spoiler stuff, I, like, when FF7 Rebirth came out,

I went on it super hard and tried to stay away from everything as hard as I could, but then Dragon's Dogman came out and I pivoted to that and then I came back and then when I came back, I was like, oh, I'm behind, but it was a long game,

so I got to go as fast as possible because I don't want to get the ending spoiled for me. And I spent all this effort and speed and like and and like, you know, long hours and like getting super, super far as fast as I can. And then playing the game in the evening like after the stream so I could do all the side content. So I'd be ready for the stream tomorrow. And then I got to the ending and I was like, that's it. Fuck. I worked super hard to not get spoiled by this. This ending sucks. Right. Right. Not even worth the struggle. Mm-hmm. Right. And so now it's just like, oh. Yeah. Well, I, I, I, I, I would rather I'd rather see a screenshot of a final boss two or three months later and go, huh, I wonder what that is. Then rush my shit off.

Even? And go, oh, I'm so glad I fucking busted my ass to get. Yeah, fuck you, Simsie fart. By the way, Simsy fart in the chat. He was at the FF14. He was the potato.

He's a artist that I follow because he did some art of us a while ago. I'm like, fucking a month or two in. And then he posts a fucking screenshot of like the point of no return and FF7 rebirth. But it had no text on it. It was just the screenshot. So all the filters that block out all the words I had banned didn't work. Okay.

Because it was just a raw screenshot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm like, well, I guess I know the exact moment the game ends. It wasn't a big deal. It really wasn't a big deal at all. It's just fun. It's just more fun to. Tell them to go fuck himself.

The way that I LP in particular is also really funny for this because, and by funny, I mean it, like, fucking frustrating. Or like funny. Funny like, God fucking damn it. Oh, your life is ruined. Not funny at all, but just all this is saying. Emote mode, right, is not going to save you because the way I talk about things is sometimes I go, I wonder if this, this, that whatever, plot gun, right? Yes, yes, yes, yes, right? Yes, yes, yes, yes.

No, no, no, no, no, no. right and or or or um gray face gray face alien i've banned that shit yeah only it is the only banned word in my foot well no okay there's a couple of very obvious band words sure but is it is the only emote that is banned from my chat it became so disruptive like it was the most disruptive thing because i'm constantly going everyone thinks they're being coy, everyone thinks they're being like, t-hee, and it's like, actually, there's a hundred of you that just said,

what you just said is correct. Good job. You're a bitch. You have correctly guessed the thing, and I'm putting a wave of these faces to confirm your guess is correct. Or close. I'm not going to name names because I think they've been shamed enough.

But during Dawn Trail, in the final area of Dawn Trail, you know, I was doing one area a day, so I was behind the really crazy people. There was a mod in my chat that was afraid I was going to get spoiled so they put it into emote mode

and then they got excited and spoiled me. So it was a sea of emotes and the only thing I could read was the spoiler.

Oh boy, that's fucking great. Oh, the excitement. Yep, yep, yep, yep. So I had a little, little baby crash out. Yep, yep, yeah. And they got unmotted. Yep, because no, no like vindictiveness and hatred.

That's a wild sequence of events. You have to. But you can't be in control of emo-mote mode anymore. If emote mode wasn't on, I wouldn't have even seen it. I wouldn't have seen it. Yeah. And now, right, with the way that the fucking dual stream is set up, when a mod writes a DM message in the chat, it's a big red glowing box that warns you what's happening. You know, so even more, that's a really funny kind of crazy sequence of it.

I can't believe that. But yes. Yeah. So, you know, hey, listen, media is more important than it's end resolution. but at the same time. Like, hey, I want to, hey, Delta Rune slash Undertale and JJK fans, F minus for etiquette.

F minus, okay? Outer Wilds people, Warframe people, A plus. Yep. A plus. I know it's, I know it's,

I know it's called the second dream. I couldn't tell you even remotely, one thing about it. A big spoiler in Warframe is like 10 years old now and no one ever talks about it. And to be fair, I think this is something we addressed when we talked about like Persona 4 and other games where the whole point of the journey is a, is this reveal to some degree or at the very least a major, major payoff, right? So you're like, even if it's old, it's such a big incentive. that I understand respecting that well beyond the statute of limitations.

I want to give a shout out to Persona 4 fans for B plus with Atlas themselves being a double F minus. Yeah, culprit was a, you know. Genuinely, never seen it before. Probably we'll never see it again. Just fucking right out there,

spoil it who gives a shit. A plus to 13 Sentinels as well. Yes, all four of them. Everyone, yep. Me, you and probably a couple other people. The dozens of us out there talking about that game just like no one is talking in detail, just you point people towards it. And I put out that video of the spoiler-free reaction video, which is just, yeah, the highlight reel of me and Reggie reacting to the reveals without telling you at all what the reveals are on camera. But there's just enough context in a little bit of the audio and maybe one or two things, that if you know, then you know, you know. But there's nothing you can say for that game.

You just have to experience it. Hey, by the way, I want to give another shout out since I mentioned Warframe. I forgot to say it. I want to give another shout out to your friend and mine, Rebecca Ford, over at Warframe. I was streaming Pragmata yesterday and people were asking me if I was ever going to get back in a Warframe to which I said,

I don't know, I'm kind of intimidated. It's like a live service game that I haven't played for like five or six fucking years. Right? And it's also like a free-to-play currency game. So it also has just like an explosion. So I reached out to Rebecca like, hey, what do I do?

And she actually got back to me and said that, hey, by the way, there's a golden path that you can follow that gives all the things in order. And then she also sent me a bunch of screenshots of an update tracker where every major update the game's ever had is now listed linearly in a menu with all the things that it added. So you can go and go, okay, when did I stop? I stopped here. This is the update that I should go do.

This is the update I should go do. This is the update that I should go do. But isn't that game like an online PVE straight line? Really? No. I thought, because every time, and even when we took a look at it a billion years ago, I kind of was under the impression. It is so complicated

looking now. Interesting, okay. So I'm going to send you an image. This is an image of the galaxy map. Right? Mm-hmm. Every single one of those has like five to ten locations on them.

Mm-hmm. And some of those locations were added eight or nine years afterwards. So you start on Earth and then go to Mars. But don't go to Demos because Demos was added

three years ago and is like an end game open world. So you go from Earth to Mars to Ceres to Jupiter, but not the part of Jupiter that's the open world. And basically, it's supposed to be a spiral.

But that spiral was made back in like 2016 or 2015. And then pieces get bolted on to individual planets at different times. But you pick which direction to go in at any given moment, then you don't have...

It's blah. There's not a like, you're at this level. Here is a planet to go to for being at this level. No, no, it's like a line, but then it's been a while since I've played it. But yes, no, you can log in and be like, I don't know which one is to go to

now. Okay. Okay. which is why they added the golden path, which I now know is based off of the Final Fantasy 14 MSQ. You know the ticker that you have, the Quest ticker on NFF 14? No. There's in the upper left corner of your screen when you're playing 14. Oh, literally the text that pops. Yes, yes, yes.

Sorry, okay. It's in a nice little box. That is the impetus for the Golden Path because Reb plays 14. It didn't exist before. No. It used to be the MSQ would lead you to the next MSQ quest, but sometimes you would wander away and then you'd be like, where the fuck is the

what the fuck? Or a patch would start and you're like, well, where do I start the where do I start? Like I remember when Heaven's Word came out. It's like, wait, where do you start Heaven's Word? And now he goes, okay, you're going to go over here. But as always, Rev is the most helpful and kind of.

game developer. Thanks, Rob. So me and Paige are going to be doing Delta Rune. Then on Thursday, I'm going to be doing a sponsored stream and then of something called Void Reaver. And then afterwards, we'll be doing getting a 14 with Woolley. Then on Friday, I'm going to be doing a happy Pride month 24-hour stream where I will be playing Life is Strange for DeGays.

Mm-hmm. Good for them. Good for them. That's the name of the stream. It's a 24-hour stream for the homosexuals. All day. Open bracket. All-day.

For them. End bracket. Life is strange. All day, all gay. Good stuff. So here's a really good example. I don't know anything about life is strange other than you complaining about the ending. Really?

That is the only part of it. Because I remember you and Liam played through? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is the only part that has maintained. in my memory. Oh, you don't know any of the content. Yeah. Interesting. Wow. And the world is so different now because like, like at the time it was like, oh man, this, this game and it's hella and it's everything about the game was in this weird like alt, telltale place. But after being like this really like, um, um, goofy indie, you know, uh, um, um,

whatever, after this, after being this hipster-ass thing, um, other versions and other sequels and things and spin-offs all came out and were not as good so that people were yearning for that first one. So like the making fun of the first one has turned into, man,

that first one was actually pretty all right, wasn't it? And you're, and you're now experiencing it all after all the fact. So like this is a wild, um, thing that you, especially knowing nothing about it.

That's crazy. Okay. Okay. Interesting. And on top, so it'll be that. And then so people are asking, just that one, I'm like, it's 16 hours long. And during a 24-hour stream, you take breaks. So that 16-hour game is probably going to take me about 18, 19 hours. And so when I finish that, I'll probably hop on Pragata to finish out the remainder of the stream. Single Dad game.

Tangentially homosexual. Yeah, I mean, for what it's worth, Life of Strange 1 is like, it's not even that gay. It's like, it's a big gay. I know it's gay. It is a big gay. The thumbnail I picked is the girls holding hands on a train track. It's not as gay as you think. Like, that's the thing.

I don't know. I don't know. I remember that time. There is, does, could be gay. But there is, does could be gay, but could be gayer. It do. do be gayer yeah

and then is that it for me this week I don't know I have a lot going on and then I'm gonna crash

on Saturday and then on the 28th all more pragmata okay that'll be over Twitch.tv slash Pat Stairs at

and YouTube.com slash Pat Stairs at and the Delta Rune one will be over on Pages channel at

Twitch.tv slash peach saliva and YouTube. com slash peach saliva I think she might also be It's up in the air But Paige might be collabing with

Some of the girls On Thursday evening to do that Mecca chameleon game But that's still in the works I don't think that's confirmed Okay stay tuned Have you seen that? No, but sounds cool

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So, like, my, I've been, I've been walking the child around for errands for a while. Like, hey, buddy, we're going to go to the grocery store. You know what? We're going to walk to the grocery store, right? We're going to get our steps in. And I recently found out that I have absolutely been, like, marathon training my two-year-old. By accident? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You mentioned getting some steps in. Mm-hmm. Yeah, so I aim for 10,000, usually hit about 8,000, right? Maybe 9,000, maybe 4 or 5 days a week. And I'm holding hands with my little guy. He's doing a great job. And then we go to the park and all that. And me and Paige are, like, running the math on that.

And I may have been walking our son like three to five miles a day, five days a week, where the average for a two-year-old is like 600 meters. That's fucking crazy. Fucking whops. Okay. And he's, he's killing. it. Yeah, but like, oops. I mean,

you got the body into conditioning for that. Like, absolutely. Now's the time. I mean, that's nuts. I remember. Because, like, the babysitter came by and was like, wow, he can run really fast. And and behavior's like, oh, well, you know, Pat takes him on walks every day. She's like, oh, how long? And she said,

oh, like five miles. And the babysitter was like, damn. Shit. Yeah, I, I've, you know, talked about how when I, went to when I was growing up in Grenada, the regular every day involved sprinting over gravel. And my feet became Ryu-style just calloused over, felt nothing.

Could walk outside, no problem, stepping on any kind of texture, road, whatever. And that stayed at least for a couple years, but then completely softened out. you know, um, as did my accent and everything else, as the islands slowly washed away out of me up here in, in Canada. But, when you're a kid, that shit fucking absolutely takes. Your body is fully adapting to its environment. That's cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, now my feet are all, uh, soft boy feet. Mm-hmm. Good. Good. I don't know which is more valuable. I don't know what the fucking, I mean, are you living a soft boy life? Yeah, I can't pretend I'm not.

Then that's what you need. Anyone who's doing a influencer-ass YouTube Twitch job is a soft boy life. That's, don't pretend, you know, so. What's going on? Hey, if you're hearing my voice and it is, it has been 48 hours since this podcast has been released, it is now too late to try and get yourself a steam machine because that shit has announced it has dropped its price

alongside the various configurations and as Yoko Taro said while I was getting an endoscopy it got released in Japan and sold out they finally released the spec of the four skews for it. The options you're getting are steam machine 512 gigs for 1049 US, which is 1509 Canadian.

You've got the 512 plus steam controller, which is 1128 US or 1628 Canadian. 2 terabytes, no controller, for 1349 or 1919 Canadian, and 2 terabytes plus controller for 1428 or 2038 Canadian. Times 14%. So if I wanted to buy a steam machine, it would cost me $2,300, $23. and 32 cents. That's where we're looking.

You described it as, you described it as if it's been 48 hours, it would be too late to buy the steam machine. You'll be dropping onto a wait list. You hop on to the wait list and then they're going to randomly send that out, yada, yada. I would say it is too late to sell the steam machine. Hmm.

The time for this literally came and went a couple years ago. So, funny enough, the story that came out alongside this, I definitely wanted to see, because I was, for a while there, I was like, okay, my PC's overdue for an upgrade, my video card's overdue for an upgrade. Would it make more sense to- No. Well, so there's a couple things with this. They also announced that like if you want to, you can make your own Steam machine, right?

With the Steam OS 3.8 release, they basically have the ability to put together using your own PC parts and whatever, so you can create your own box. Yeah. And the other thing that came alongside this was them saying that they wanted to, this is, the price is significantly more than they originally envisaged. And it is, the quantity at launch is less than they wanted to make. And they basically pointed out that in 2023, when they're putting together the plan for it, this was all prior to the explosion of the fucking crisis on all parts that's been happening and everything, of course, that AI has ruined in the meantime, making, yeah, this very predictable outcome of them not being. able to offer the amounts or the or the pricing that they wanted to with it.

So this is what they're looking at. It's weaker than a PS5. Let me see here. God damn it. It's if Davis, why must you fucking pollute everything? Yeah, that's what they're doing. Is he, where's the full, where's the full stat breakdown on it? Hold up.

I also I'm curious about the controller Steam machine Yeah it's weaker than a base level PS5 But you'll be able to control your settings But like they described

Certain games Having to be dropped to like 1600p In order to maintain parity With like PS5 versions I feel like The size of AAA things means 512 is like

absurd. That's insanely small. That's just not going to be able to do anything. I mean I guess it's like just to offer a you know a different price point but like you're basically handling a two three major games at a time maybe even one big game and then a bunch of indies you know. Yeah. It's it's underpower

it's overpriced and like let's be super clear when Sony if Sony were to put out a new console it would be wildly overpriced right now it'd be insanely overpriced

and they'd sell it a loss to make up some of the difference right the steam the steam machines like terrible pricing and stats is a factor of the hardware market not valve

but it's still fucked up right I was talking at length about this yesterday on my stream of like I'm so excited

for Xbox and Sony to put out machines that are going to cost like 1500 USD

and then be like that's crazy the attach rate to these systems is terrible yeah because it's too expensive

the fucking switch 2 is too expensive everything like that you're Yeah, everything from the love, basically since

2023 and at least until 2029. I remember when the 360 was king of the world and then the new consoles came out and people were like, when are they going to stop upporting 360 games? You remember that?

When are we going to get a real advantage to this next gen hardware? I would say that the current level of game that you're seeing right now, at the upper tier is as good as it's going to be for like 10 more years outside of first party Sony. I was going to say first party Microsoft, but that implies that a first party Microsoft game

will ever come out again? Well, I guess we'll see. I mean, apparently OD is, you know, being published by Microsoft. Yeah, personally, I'm fine. And I have a strong PC over to my right that I guess. I'm not going to be upgrading any time soon. So mine is, I haven't touched it in a minute. Mine is a bit overdue and I'm like, what's the card in there?

Fucking. I'd have to go. I'd have to go. I bet you it's a 30-80. I think it is. I think it is. That'll probably do you for a while. But there's, turn.

And there's, but like some of the things where like, you know, when I was getting kickups in like Street Fighter 6th, for example, and a couple of, other things where I'm just like, after hours and hours of trying to, anyway, I got, I definitely am at a point where I'm like, there's some stuff that this is, that's happening with the setup that is, I'm not running into it like every single time,

but I'm running into enough issues that I'm like, yeah, I, I, it's, it's been, it's overdue for, for an update, right? But, yes, I do know what DXI, I guess, but, I was hoping to like get a steam machine and have that, the thing I stream games on and have this PC turn into like a recording PC that was a fucking stupid idea that I had in my head

what a stupid fucking idea I think because this thing runs Linux I know it won't be able to be a fucking stream machine because it won't be compatible with fucking anything yeah I'm I'm gonna take a crack I'll see what it what ends up happening but I think like

the the updates that rather the if the new video card plus a couple other things I would want to do with my setup would unfortunately also run very, very expensive. But I imagine if I can end up in a situation where some of the shit that I'm seeing, the problems I'm seeing happening right now with my setup doesn't happen anymore. Then that'd be a net positive overall for at least how I'm LPing things.

But yeah, I think the... By the way, I just want to take a second. Every time I complain about Linux not being compatible with something, we see the same, we see the same like progression of statements. Always, every single time. I'm frustrated with the way Linux handles compatibility. Someone yells out Proton. Someone yells out wine.

Someone goes, you'd be surprised. A lot works. followed by somebody going OBS fucking sucks on Linux. It's such a piece of shit. And it's like, every time you talk to somebody about Linux, you go, man, I don't know about compatibility. And they go, everything on it works perfectly,

except for the only thing that you would actually want to use it for. The only thing that you want to use it for, that's the one that sucks, actually. Like I just, I know and I respect that there's so much you can do here if you're willing to fight for it. I'm just, I'm not willing to fight for it. I've also like, and I'm, this is things too, I'm coming from a place where like,

I don't, I've spent a lot of time back in the day opening up my fucking computer and getting in there and replacing parts and tweaking and didda-da-da and all that stuff. And I kind of just don't want to do it anymore. I really, I also don't want to do it anymore. I've spent a good couple decades of my life in there. And I'm, oh, I'm kind of. of over it. I kind of just want

thing that work for job. I would very much like thing that work. So this is my attempt at seeing a work for job. And it, yeah, it's just like when I, when I, the last time or no,

maybe two PC breaks ago, it mentally broke me to and I kind of went, nope, nope, I'm not, I'm not sitting here spending the day with just everything strewn out and I just didn't have the patience or the time and I'm like I'm over this you know oh by the way can you hear me right now wolves because you are frozen and I am also frozen

sorry uh yes that was the the fucking case and point I'm not it's not the same PC setup the ghost in the shell is angry it is it is as I'm describing the problems of my other PC setup and then this PC setup is also not not happy about me talking shit about the other PC setup. But regardless, the, yeah, I basically was just like, okay, I'm going to either end up replacing, you know, CPU, Mobo, fucking video card and, you know, do something about my RAM or whatever, or grab one of these and see if it played the game and do the thing. And I'm, I'm super torn as to like the purpose. of the Steam machine and who it's supposed to be for work.

Like it's dead ass right in the middle of the console versus PC price point, but doesn't do anything that much better than either in either direction. Yeah, I think the idea of, hey, it's like your Steam deck, but you plug it in at home. And it replaced, did you just, yeah, there went the comb. We didn't hear like a, with a cat or anything afterwards. No. Yeah, all right. No, there was a time in place, like you said,

and I think a couple years ago would have been ideal for exactly that. Like, for the, like, hey, this can be a, if you want to be a PC master race gamer, here you go. This is your all in one solution. You don't have it to think about the word console ever. In fact, here's a brand new controller for you. And this is all going to be, and this is, look, hey, it's an affordable or at least competitive for the console pricing

that we're seeing box for you to pick up but you know PCs cost more so you're okay with that and then like that is not the way things have turned out certainly that being said I know too that I didn't think it was going to cost this much but then also be underpowered

I think that's that's the part where I'm like actually just falling on it which is like what the fuck why would I pay double the cost of PlayStation 5 for something that's not doesn't run games as well as PlayStation 5 well, I'll let you know, um, beyond that, um, and the make your own 3.8 release as well, uh, we got some weird

shit with Halo Campaign Evolved split screen on PS5 where apparently it was announced that you would need... Oh man. If you wanted to play split screen on Halo Campaign Evolved on your PlayStation 5, you would need both accounts to have a PlayStation Plus

account and be linked to a Microsoft account and having the subscriptions would also provide access to online co-op play. Then they corrected this. Then they came out. out and said, no, no, no. Actually, you don't need a PlayStation Plus account for local co-op split screen. You just require a regular PlayStation account, but each player still, each player does not require a plus account, but you still do need to have it connected to your Microsoft account as well.

And holy fucking shit, I just missed the days of pressing start. What? I miss the days of pressing start. Like, for co-op? for just local couch fucking co-op? Well, no. So this is,

this is Microsoft just needs you to have a Microsoft account. They need it. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. They need it. Sign into everything

under the sun to fucking... You know what my favorite thing about this is? So games, games have this problem worse than movies, even though movies have been around for so much longer.

There is enough modern-ish games now to play forever. Mm. like forever. My Steam Library, if I just sat down and I'm never allowed

to buy a new game, I could just fucking play that literally until the day I die, right? So you're competing against everything forever. And so Microsoft goes, man,

this is fucking Halo. They'll do whatever the fuck they want. We want, man. It's the Halo. It's the fucking shit. Let's farm some accounts. It's a remake of the first one, but still.

And so they're like, yeah, you know, if they want to play a Halo, they'll just do this. Or else they don't have to do this on our system. And the end result is any amount of inertia to me hopping on and playing it pain free goes,

I'm just going to skip it. Yeah, well, it's like every time something, it's like any time something gets put on steam where it's like, oh yeah, you want it on Steam, okay, here you go. Let's just farm your account while you're at it and you'll have to sign into the stupid side thing where it's actually going to run worse and make everything more annoying. then you're like, well, if you don't want it annoying, then come over to our platform. And it's just like, yeah. No, I'm just going to, I'm going to go play something else.

No. Like, we're at the point where, like, you'll look in Steam reviews and you'll see, like, a not insignificant amount of people be like, can't disable the launcher, pass. Like, for anything. Yeah. For any given fucking game. Like, the slightest dumb resistance is even more. of a disincentive because you know it doesn't have to be this way. You know it doesn't have to be this annoying.

It's just an add-on to bother you. So you know Alcat, right? They make the Pathfinder games. They also make Rogue Trader. They put out a launcher for Rogue Trader a couple of days ago. And the only reason I have a launcher is to have like an account or whatever. And it was, people were so fucking mad and bombed the reviews so bad. They've already walked it back this morning.

Incredible. Incredible. Because it's, it is like literally the difference for that grognard ass PC fucking RPG crowd of like, I will just not buy it. I just won't. I don't go to fuck. Man, when we fucking were working on Tomb Raider. Oh, yeah, dude. It's like, sign into your fuck shit, bullfuck shit, fuck squawks, squeenix account.

and just like the fat that shit like that stupid that stupid menu and that's and the prompt and everything that was like breaking compliance at points but like had to be in there and it's just like this would go so much smoother this would simplify so much it would be really really compliant if you didn't have this stupid fucking check

in the beginning of the game where after the person has signed in but before they've created a save file, you're asking them for an email that it's going to check off the servers and you're just like... So, Wully, this is tangentially related. You know what the biggest reason people don't play FF11 is?

Getting an account is actually wildly difficult. Amazing. You probably dealt with a little bit of frustration with the way FF14 handles its accounts through the Square Innix system. Yep. The playoff thing is like a hundred times worse. It's so bad.

I have known people who have bought FF11 and then had so much frustration getting their shit going. They're like, fuck it. Don't even care. And like, it's so, like, I'm surprised at this point with how popular it is that I didn't see a button that just says, log into Facebook to log into FF14, you know? Yeah. Because that shit, that lazy, that they got to do it their way. They got to do it their way.

That fucking annoying process, like the absolute just like, or just click this Facebook button or whatever. And I'm like, you know what? Fine. Fuck. God damn it. Now you see my whole life and all my pro. And you're still,

now you got everything. But I'm so annoyed at this stupid process that I'm just like, yeah, okay. Log in as me in this or login as me in fucking Google or whatever it is. You know? Incredible. Anyway. Yeah. the update on that is just only slightly less annoying than we thought.

It's crazy how badly Microsoft has like driven Halo into the dirt since Bungy left. Just, just wild. Well, we'll see what happens with, again, apparently we're finding it. So Microsoft is publishing OD and that could be that, maybe that could be the new thing. Gojima said that nobody wanted OD because it was too weird and everyone thought he was crazy and they didn't want to publish it and Microsoft said, you know what, we'll take it. I... Okay. Yeah, sure.

Sure. I'll wait for the PlayStation 6 port after Microsoft exits the console race. I can't wait to hit it on Steam. Yeah. Um, while we're talking about PCs and, and, uh, you know, master racing and so on and so forth, uh, just a side PSA. But apparently, um, hackers have started distributing malware through anime girl wallpapers on the wallpaper engine for, of Steam Workshop. Yeah, that's why when you go to wallpaper and,

and it asks you, do you want anime wallpapers or not? And you go, no, I don't want them. Anime wallpapers specifically are a liability. You know why, right? Why is that? Because anime fans are just going, oh, that's go, Sataru Gojo. Yeah, yeah.

I need to download it. Like, got to get Gojo. Yeah. Got to get that gojo. Get a, get all. Yeah. I mean, damn, have you seen those eyes? Like, shit.

No, I haven't. he's wearing a blindfold or is this a thing? No, well, when you see them eyes, though, you'll understand and then you will download the malware. Dude, I gotta say, being all the way out on something that's really popular has such, like, hilarious, weird side effects.

Like, the only thing I know about Satoru Gojo, like literally is a TikTok talk from a guy who was laughing because his nephew was arguing with his grandfather at Christmas as to whether or not Jesus could handle Gojures infinite, whatever. His domain expansion. And scrolling past on social media and be like, oh, that's a really hot cosplayer. Who is this gray lady with sunglasses? They're cosplaying.

And it's like, oh, they're doing a cross. cosplay of Satoru Gojo and I'm like I guess that's what he looks like let me tell you right now for the record I saw that first I saw that yeah yeah for what he looks like for the record Jesus Christ of Nazareth would get fucking cooked by Gocho bro fucking low diff like bruh not even not even I got I gotta say well Christ has no chance. Nah, I'd win. As a 40-year-old man who used to watch a lot of battle anime, I'm going to say,

the new language around this shit actually kicks ass. I love low, negative, medium, diff. I love it. But I also love feats in the verse. like they don't even have any feats to their name or in the setting or in the in the logic of the setting or whatever god damn it is he back hold on hold on i'm moving in super speed because you're back domain domain domain expansion feats to their name yeah yes no no it just there's just there's just

There's no way around it. Like, the terminology has gotten better. I do agree with that. Yeah. Because, like, quite simply, you would watch Jesus Christ get folded. Like, there's no question in my mind whatsoever. Gojo takes it free. Not even.

Next. I, uh, yeah, I want in on that kid's debate, actually. I'd love to get in on that one. I mean, while we're at it, you want to start talking about which of the Mangakio Sharan Gans is the most effective and the strongest. Oh, man. You know? Because

Is it the Reneggan? No, that, no, no, no, the different manifestations of the Mangakio Sharan Gans there's different for each individual eye and each individual use case. So, bro, I got out. I got out of Naruto when the

going was good. One, three, four. I'm out. Goodbye. Now, technically, Madara has one that was unnamed. And if you played the games, you'd find out that one makes time go backwards and the other makes it copy whatever he sees. But I'm going to say Camui, because really and truly, the ability to just pull yourself to an alternate dimension, come on.

That's busted as fuck. And then you want to put a Susan-O on top of that? Hey. How does that scaling compare to cosmic Superman? Whatever. dude i don't know I don't think about dude i get just trapped in just the trashiest garbage on tech talk i fucking love it

i love how shit it is oh yeah if you like if you can build an empire on just making shorts about that shit by the way like all day you need some good fonk in the background but there's plenty of good to choose from but I say all this, right? We mock, we mock, but in my brain, I'm still just like, okay, but the Shibuya incident is fucking sick, though. Like, unironically, straight up, no jokes. The Shibuya incident goes fucking nuts.

It goes hard as shit. And that's real. You know, I will sit here and laugh. And then in my brain just play, you are my special. special. So, all right. What else is going on? Listen, talking about anime, power scaling, talking about aura, talking about who would beat who. Ken Shiro. Fist of the North Star Kenchiro, the subject of many a power scaling argument. He would win. He would win, except that's, that's a, that's a, that's, that's a, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's a, that's a, that's a correct he would win. He would win. And then we can talk about other, like, it becomes like a line.

Who would beat Ken Chiro kind of thing? Except that the competition we're talking about today is the, who has the worst character reveal trailer I have ever seen in a fighting game. Oh, yeah. Congratulations. Ken Chiro is the winner. They just revealed him for City of the Wolves. It is the single worst trailer I have ever seen. For days ago?

For a fighting game character being revealed. It is fucking cheeks, bro. It's crazy. Name me one thing you would like to see in a fighting game character trailer reveal. Them doing moves? Okay. Fighting. Okay.

Well, unfortunately, fighting, I'm going to have to take that one off the table. Moves. Are you serious? Yeah, we can show you a move or two. Oh my God, I can't see it. The text is... I can show you a move or two, but you might have to squit between all the, like, reference like, because all the pop-ups.

up like, you know, hocto, show-mo, show, like hugged crack first. And it's doing all the style stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Would you like to see, I don't know, survey says, a combo? Would you, per chance, like. I would like to see, like, five seconds of match. Of match? Yeah, can't do that.

Well, that's straight dog. Can't do that for you. Can't do that. That's wild. It is a trailer that shows you a single move of like, hey, look, it's like in the show. And then he does another move. And it's like, hey, look, it's that one move like in the show. And then it shows you a very, as you could imagine,

like that, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Like, you know, cutscene moment. And then the trailer's over. And you're like, are you, what are you? And this is the Tifa drop of your season. Like, what, what are you doing, guys? This feels like a trailer made by somebody who not only doesn't understand fighting games fundamentally, but as somebody who doesn't understand media in general and chose this character

or made the deal for this character based off of fame and, you know, and I'm a CEO, the idea of whatever. I'm like trying to picture the idea of like, you know, maybe the Fist of the North Star's license holders being like, we don't care about the combo. we want to show the identity of Ken Shiro or whatever. They gave Ken Shiro to RG to do a full game. And the insane sauce that he has in that game amongst everything else is now,

and everyone's heads is like, this fucking shit goes crazy, right? So I can tell at the very least that whoever was in charge of that definitely was at odds with, I guess, the developers because immediately after that ass fucking trailer dropped, a bunch of dev matches started showing up of just like, okay, okay, but here's how he actually plays someone. Like, here's the gameplay and here's the moves and here's a bunch of crazy.

And they put up a bunch of matches to just be like, okay, no, no, but please watch these other things. But just, I just thought it was kind of insane that like the big reveal character for the season had, it's the worst I've seen. It's the worst trailer I've ever seen for a fucking character. Absolutely nothing of interest. And the one thing that you're kind of like, okay, well, he's going to do the 100, crap and it's like yeah no absolutely nothing special to it there um man that's like that's a

anyway whatever wild wild fucking uh uh that's a big get and it just what man when they showed off yasman like the whole jasmine trailer is just like look at all this stupid shit you're gonna be able to do with this character for like multiple minutes yeah yeah no it's just flaccid in a in a way that like again i think it's just like you're going to be like oh my god it's the legacy of the character, I don't care what game this is I'm looking at, you know, almost is what the people making it were thinking. Very weird. Beyond that, also in fighting game news, there was, yeah, I guess just some more info about

like what Virtue Fighter Crossroads is going for. It's going for complete global domination. It wants to saturate, it wants complete saturation, it does, it wants to take over the fighting game world, but it wants to do so using the, power of, like, not fighting games, you know, and it's going to trick you with a story mode. That's the smart. That's the smartest thing anyone in fighting games has ever done. Oh, shit.

The devil's greatest trick was trying to convince you he wasn't real. Yep. They also are specifically saying we don't want people to think that this is just RGG cross-Vitrofighter. So there's... Fucking insane thing to say. But quite frankly, describing the world, the pseudo open world and the side quests you'll be doing and how those are going to affect things and your character will grow and then you're going to have main quests and get into those. It's like, but you are, you're building mini yakuza. Like just, it's just what it is.

Insane thing to say. Insane thing to say. Yeah. And the other thing too is that they basically were saying like, we had to have a decision inside to go, do we? You know, as we want to approach with this new story mode and everything, do we want to respect the previous series and everything that they were building with their story? Um, while we take a bold new direction. And what about the legacy fans of, and it's like, are you out of your fucking mind?

Burn it all to the ground. You assholes. Shut the fuck up. Nothing that has ever happened before the second matters. Start from scratch. No one cares. It's fine. So I have a little bit of info from, uh, Rufel Munger's story.

channel on this. It's never been more fine to throw everything out. The implication is that one of the four character stories will basically tie up the J6 stuff. Probably Stella. The evil corporation. Stella is probably Doral. I'm imagining. I'm imagining, yeah, you're not, you're not a, 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 a clone, your age is too wrong to be a child of Sarah. So you're a Dural clone that doesn't know it yet. I could see that, easy. Now, that being said,

Stella Bridge. This is what Bruful Monker brought out of the interview, which was somebody asked one of the leads about the Satan shark. Yes. And if we were going to see a resolution. And I think the quote is that there are some. some things in the virtual fighter story that we feel we should put a rest to or an end to after all this time. So I think they're implying that they're going to have like maybe Jeffrey's side quests.

It would be, it would be awesome if Jeffrey was just chilling with his best friend, the fucking shark. That would be great if they just came to a truce. They would be great if they came to some sort of understanding. Because like the last part of Jeffrey and the shark's story was that he was going to use the money to get an even bigger super boat to get the shark. But then Judgment 6 kidnapped the Satan shark in order to have its abilities rolled into Doral. Makes sense. And so I think where we left it is that the. Satan shark was under lock and key by judgment six.

So then Jeffrey freeze it and then becomes friends with it, you know, and then we have almost like a ballrog ed situation. We got Jeffrey hanging out with the with the shark. Now, for those for the uninitiated who are out here going, y'all talking about J6, what the fuck? The evil. The evil corporation. From virtual fighter five. In virtual fighter. Well, no, virtual fighter one, two, three, four.

The unresolved plot of the, of, yes, J6. of course. The creators of Durrell, the ultimate fighting template. A hundred percent, you know, and people who work for the Ebel Corporation are absolutely known as the J-Sixers, and they have to be stopped. Yeah. They keep trying to clone Sarah over and over. And the funny part is, is that the... They stole Vanessa's melanin. That one was weird. That was really weird. I have to say.

I think more than anything, that... That's why we're never going to see Vanessa ever again. I think they want to bury that nonsense. You think MMA Boy is the Vanessa replacement. Oh, Cielo has her. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the same animation. They also said that story-wise,

some characters might not be seen again because they'll have moveset replacements. They did straight up admit that. There will be inheritors of the style. Lowe and Sean are dead. They're just dead. They're old men dead, gone. Yeah.

Unless... Low was suffering from lung cancer for like 20 years. Unless it would be hilarious to make him still alive. That'd be so fucking funny. But yeah, no, that's all there. And the funniest part about this stupid Durall clone virtual fighter fucking story and shit is that now more than ever the AI stealing the fighters data to comprise one big robot that fights. It's very actually appropriate.

It's the most prescient it's ever been. Now is the time for Dural. Dural was the dumbest ever for every year. year until right now when we're throwing it all out. God damn it. I would like to shoot my shot on the

resolution of the Satan Shark storyline. Please. I I we saw Jeffrey's name and he's got side quests in fucking VF crossroads. So Jeffrey will be there.

I think Jeffrey's new design will be a cool older guy, like older as you would expect, wearing like a kind of like open linen beach shirt. And he will have the largest most expansive shark necklace. Yeah, the teeth. Shark tooth necklace. Like his whole chest is shark teeth.

That's the other way to do it. And you will be like, I guess he fucking got him. But, you know, there's something, there's something, there's something nice to the, uh, he rescued him. And, uh, and now they're living together, you know? Why would he work with the Satan shark? He fucking hates the Satan shark. But that's the twist. That's the unexpected, you know?

It's not quite the, it's not quite your Moby Dick tale. It, it changes. It shifts at the last second. You know, Rufel Mager made a really great point that, um, the, the story of Virtual Fighter is so direly empty that the Satan shark. is actually the most interesting thing in the series. It is the only storyline

in the entire series that has like any meat to it at all. I can't think of a single, I can't think of anything else. Cagay's mom gets kidnapped by Judgment 6 and turns into Dural in Virtual Fighter 3. They want to clone Sarah and Sarah was evil in Virtual Fighter 1 and 2?

What made Akira put the hat on? This will be a question. He got old. That's it. Like, he just, yeah. But then he's also. By the way, Akira's. But he's super famous.

Akira Yuki is in the trailer for Crossroads. He's in the background of the restaurant. Oh, sick. When they're having that scene. Interesting. Pie and him are chit-chatting and she's taking his order. Okay, okay. Yeah, I could see him just being like he's the world champion and then now he's got to lay low and he's like he doesn't like the fame and all that shit. You know, it could be. And like it's really funny because they're like, Pai Chan is a character with no story. She is a Jackie.

Daughter of Lao. A send up. She's Lao's daughter and he wants to teach her his style and she's like, no, you suck dad. You're an abusive piece of shit. I'm, I don't, I'm not going to learn your style. Right. And so he's searching to find. in VF Crossroads, she is running a restaurant just like her hated father, who was a chef, and she does not use his style.

Like, she never learned it, and Lau totally died without passing it on to his only daughter. Go fuck yourself. Where she took after him as a chef. And like that factoid is more storyline than you got in virtual. Fighter 1, 2, 3, 8, 4, and 5.

Like, it's crazy how there's nothing. Do you know what? Why do what Wolf's, like, reason for entering virtual fighters tournaments are? Well, I know that we saw his story in the introduction of him where they said, like, he's, you know, been washed up since the wrestling of 10 years ago. Yeah, but you know why he's in VF, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5? Because Akira beat him in Virtual Fighter 1,

And he's like, fuck that. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. Isn't that also Go's story? No, Go was a judgment six operative sent in to take out Akira during the tournament. Oh, I thought he had beef from losing to him. No, no, he's a, he's a murderer. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

What the fuck is? That's why he has piercings, even though he's Japanese. What the fuck is Brad Wong up to? What is he even? Is that a person? Did you invent that character? Um, the kickboxing fucking dude? You mean Brad Burns?

Excuse me, Brad Burns. Brad Burns, excuse me. Um, he needs money so he can date beautiful women. Okay. What's Jean Coup Joe up to? He's also a judgment six. Oh, no! Oh, fuck all this bullshit.

Throw it out! What are you asking should we save this shit for? Are you out of your minds? Throw this shit in the garbage. Fucking windmill it into the trash. Have Stella being a clone of Doral being the final, like, little loose end tie-up of this nothing. That's crazy. What's Al-what's Aoi up to?

Showing off the glory of Tiki-o to the world. Sure, fair. All right. This is like below four-year-old playing with their toys-level narrative. Like three or four-year-old with their dolls. We debated very hard. We debated very hard about whether we should keep the old narrative or whether we should start from scratch. You know, we just wanted to, we want to honor what was there before.

and we want to make sure we don't trample on what was established. Now, Gatorra fan in the chat points out an interesting idea, which is what if Judgment 6 was actually just the Jingwan mafia from Korea?

What if it was the Koreans again? What if we find out that 10 years later lion made allowances for old men? You know what? man, I got to tell you. I got to tell you. I don't care if no one laughs.

I laugh at my own shit. I don't tell you, Lion is the character that I most want to see in Crossroads. Yeah. Because he's a character whose whole identity was that he was like a young teenager who was like a piece of shit. So he'd be an adult man. Yeah. At this point. He'd be the most different of any character.

He would be. And he might even be on his way to be. becoming an old man. That's crazy. Yeah, let's see. Let's see what's going on here. And just... The Satan Shark did not take part in the J6 incident. The Satan shark was

a victim of J6. This is true. It's true. This is canonically true. Yeah, true. Yeah. That's true. They were there. They were there? They were there. A victim. Um, I fucking love virtual fighter so god.

You really do. You really do. I love it. It lives in my fucking heart, dude. Uh, yeah. If, if, if there's a virtual fighter slam, put me in as a fucking coach at this point, because how many people are you going to be able to get to? There are three teams.

There is team Rufelmonger, team Pat Starrisat, and team Goichi. Or Fudo, excuse me. me. I don't want to, no, fuck that. I quit. There you go. I'm fighting fucking, Fudo. Fuck you. Oh, shit. All right, let's take some letters. Hey, if you want to send a letter, send it to Castle Super Beastmail at gmail.com.

That's Castle Superbeastmail at gmail.com. By the way, forgot to tell everybody, but I should, because it's the podcast. On June 29th at 10 a.m. Pacific, I am going to be guesting on the grinding gear podcast with Garrett and Kyle. So make sure to check that out. They also have a busted dog. Oh, what kind of busted? Me and Garrett were chit-chating

about how both of our dogs have busted legs. I got to say, I've seen this party trick unfold many a time in many a discord. You have the strongest opening play talking to a room full

of strangers going, hey, y'all want to see my insanely broken ass dog. Look at this picture. And it's always, it's a picture of him in like a field of flower. His legs don't work and everyone's like oh! And then they all start posting their dogs

and cats. A pretty, pretty good trick. Ice broken. Ice broken works every time. Pretty good trick. Undefeated. Okay. Wait, wouldn't Max be the third team? Doesn't Max love virtual fighter? I suppose. I suppose.

There's only 10 or 50 people who love virtual fighter. This can't be that hard. But have I seen Max ever play it? There surely must be there surely must be footage. Because I was chit-chatting. That's being deleted as we speak. After the slam and we were like,

has Seajam ever played Virtual Fighter even once? And we were like, don't know. That's the question is like I'm like, I'm sure Max knows Virtual Fighter and loves it. Hold on. Okay. But like, is he? In there.

In there. In there. Like, Max, a million dude, Virtual Fighter. It auto completes to Virtual Fighter 3,

Virtual Fighter 5, Revo, 5, 6, 4, legacy tournament. Yeah. Yeah. But every fighting game. Like, this is, like,

like, I mean, look, I, you know, like, the other day is someone was talking to me about like,

like rival schools. And they're like, really, you love rival schools. I'm like, yeah, I love rival schools. You know, I was like,

yeah, rival schools is a place in my heart. Right. And if you ask me, like, do you play rival schools. I'm like, no, no, no. The word play in decades. The word play, you know, I know every character and I know every move that every character does. That does not mean, that does not, that's not what play means. You know, love this game to death. Fucking would take it,

you know, I mean, would take it with me. But play means like, are you in there, though? And the answer is an unequivocal. No, I can't pretend that I am. So there you go. Anyway, Anyways, yeah, I'm sure we can drum up a hearty list of virtual fighter coaches who would be coaching the one other member of their respective teams when the time came. No, you can, yeah, Virtual Fighter Crossroads is going to blow up the whole world, man. Yep, both the whole earth. I hope that the throw teching does not change in the slightest. Oh, no, the throw teching in Virtual Fighter is better than other games. It's more complex, but it's made up for it by the.

fact that you can hold it the whole time. So that it's like, you know, it's easier to, like, it's, it's harder to do. It's easier to do. It's easier to do, but it's harder to know what version they're going for, essentially. Now, to be fair, they changed that in, in five or one of the revisions where now there's only neutral forward and back. Okay. So you're not, and you can only pick one.

Sure. But the idea being, if I hard read you, I need no execution, I can just hold this down and I'll break it immediately. And then you're going to lose. And like, that's, that's good. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. There's only three buttons, man. There's only three fucking buttons.

That's it. It's all you fucking need. All right. We got one over here coming in from Joe who says, Dear Connington and Pate. Ooh. These are Game of Thrones book references that you'll, neither of you will get. This is the once per decade Game of Thrones update. A Game of Thrones update.

The first book in the series was released on the 1st of August 1996. The last book was released on the 12th of July 2011. The time between these was 5,458 days. On Sunday, the 21st of June, 2026, it will have been 500, sorry, 5,458 days since a Dance of Dragons. The time between the latest book and now will be greater than the time between the first book and the last one. Since dance, Girm has written Fire and Blood

and In the Universe history on the basis of House of Dragon and its first two volumes still waiting on the second one. Fortunately, part one completed the story that the show is telling. A new show,

A Night in the Southern Kingdoms, based on the series of three novellas, latest published in 2010, yeah, Duncan, I've heard, has plans for more, he says. DeNaris has been in Marine

since the Clinton administration. So, yeah, I guess we're hitting that point. where the hiatus time has eclipsed or is about to surpass the actual timeline of all. It's interesting because, like, I don't know that there is any other franchise like this. I was tempted... I can't think of any. I was tempted to say Jojo, right?

I'm tempted to say Jojo, but Jojo Part 1, released in 1987. And then finished and was complete. Jojo Part 2 released in 1988 and part 3 was finished and complete and so on and so forth. Part 3, 1989. Believe it or not, 1, 2, 3, all one year apart from each other. Crazy, right? This is like the fucking insane arcade days almost, right? Part 4 started in 1992. Part 5 started in 1996. Part 6 started in 2000, 7 in 04. and then Jojo Leon in 11.

And it took from 2011 to 2023 for part 8 to wrap up and for Jojo Lanz to start. But that is, and that is an insane

and long amount of time by comparison to the rest of the franchise. But it is not grim level. Now, the only thing I could think of that comes anywhere close

is Hunter Hunter which had multiple years of hiatus followed by a couple of smatterings of chapters followed by multiple years of hiatus however I believe Hunter Hunter's author is in like consistently poor health

yes I believe that was a result of the health issue so like what are you going to do yep right like he's doing the best he can if if grim was really sick I'd like him more

I think that Grim is hitting the thing that happens to all of these manga all of these mangaka though there is a thing that is like a big successful franchise gets slower and harder to make as time goes on and the success is absolutely part of that and sometimes uncertainty of what's going on is absolutely part of that

or sometimes just fear of your work is part of that. And with Grimm, it feels as if he's super happy to jump on board any other project at any other time. Like you're rescuing him from the typewriter to go work on Eldon Ring

or any of the spinoffs, you know? I think that he has hit the end of whatever his long-term plan was back when he first started writing it, you know, the guts of it. And he's like, oh, I'll figure out where I'm going to go. And he's kind of run out of steam and has to actually figure out where he has to go. But he's stuck on, you know, just not writing it. So I think what Grimm should do is take a page off of, you know, your standard Mungaka and just have a fucking tournament arc for a couple of years. And then figure it the fuck out from there and see which characters people really love after the tournament are. I mean, the god of many faces is too O.P. Like, Aria's taking it top to bottom. No questions asked. Thing is, I think, realistically, if there was any scrap of motivation that could have pushed Wins of Winter to get finished, the show ending on such a dog.

shit wet fart. Yeah, it's a lot of pressure. Robbed all of what was left. It just, it took the air out in a way that it would, it will never enter again. And any similarities that he was planning to what happened in that show can't be what actually occur, but then again, they're so different at this point, whatever. But I just, I think that at that moment and that conclusion being as bad as it was just fucking stun locked forever.

Yeah. We have someone in the chat who has an explanation. It's hate fish in the chat. He says he's been actually super open about it. He's got the rest of the plot ready to go. But getting from where he's written himself to and the next major plot beat isn't something he can figure out to a level he's satisfied with.

This is a concept that many of you may be familiar with if not having named it. It's called Perfect being the enemy of good. Do not allow Perfect be the enemy of good. allow perfect be the enemy of good. It is better to have made it and it not be up to your standards than for it to be nothing.

It's better to shit your pants a little in the bathroom than in the middle of the living room because you're afraid you're going to shit yourself. And this is really, really important, relevant advice for people who are starting out their creative journeys. But when

you're at the fucking apex of it already a multi-millionaire successful fucking dominating your craft space. Like I, you're allowed to just not do shit again, I guess, but like, I don't know. I, so like from a non-fan perspective,

from like a non-readers perspective, whatever, I cannot possibly imagine being satisfied, leaving it unfinished from a personal perspective. Oh, well, of course. Like, that would make me nuts. Yeah. Yeah.

Like, the things with, um, it's interesting because like the version of this with vagabond that I, you know, you know, bring up from time to time, like, the more you know about like the original story, the original historical figure, the adaptation of Musashi's tale, the version that, in a way, was creating and then, um, where he took that. for interpretation through vagabond. There's stuff about where he was going that it's interesting, that's interesting in that, like, it kind of elevates some of the character and the original adaptation

beyond its own scope, I should say, because in a way does some stuff that's way more introspective and I think personally, philosophically interesting, that, like, the adaptation of Musashi's story doesn't necessarily go for. And then the Book of Five Rings itself is like, there's a whole other thing to that where you're like, that's a dude living in a cave telling you that like, yo, don't get a boner because that's going to distract you from victory in battle.

You know, there's a whole, there's a whole world like apart from that that's insane. But essentially this world that he created where these characters undergo these insane transformational moments knowing that historically this fucker's got to beat that fucker over the head and just like almost regress in the lessons he's been learning, you know, is this this weird thing? So he kind of talked about like almost feeling sick about like where to bring the story and how to get there and all these things. And there's a whole thing to it that's kind of like, I get it because we can look at the

history books and the adaptations and know what's coming and see, and see you go like, yeah, you're struggling. I mean, what's coming is that he's going to eventually die of old age and then. Tokugawa is going to have a shaman resurrect him with cloning and then he's he's he's going to go out and he's going to cut Ujuro with his invisible sword but it's not going to work I want to tell you that I I have been watching Grappler Bakke exclusively through out of order out of context

45 second TikTok clips sick and I think that is the best way to watch that show. That's awesome. Because I don't know what's going on at all. That rules. No, that's great. I mean, look, I did see the clip where they finally animated like Obama warning Trump about Yujiro, right? I did see that moment. But as far as I understand, apparently the Musashi in Bakke's storyline

is this large tale about Japan needing to move forward and not obsessing. No, it's nonsense. It's about invisible swords and demon brains. According to the creator, apparently, this is meant to be, this is meant to be something about Japan getting over its past and not obsessing with the era of samurai too much and needing to look towards the future and some other shit.

Yeah, whatever. Anyway, good times. Good stuff with that. Listen, how are you going to escape? Now that you've run out of piss. how are you going to escape this tetrahedron? Like, that's real. That's what Grapplerbecky's about.

Apparently, the voice actor doing that scene with Obama and Trump wanted to go for an accent, but they said no accents, no impersonations allowed whatsoever. You must play it straight. Yeah, that would probably end up being more legally dubious. All right. Let's see. Let's take one over here. Dear Black Goku and Super Widows Peak,

Vigida. Oh, man. True liar. Yeah, this Widows Peak just never stopped. True liar asks, I recently played Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, again, on hard mode. Made sure to time limit myself.

And I made sure to limit myself from weaker weapons using Pebbles the horse as my default horse and surprise, surprise. If you find him and use him for dozens of hours, the devs evolve Pebbles into one of the strongest mounts in the game. Yeah, Pebbles changes from Pebbles to good old pebbles and becomes the best horse in the game. It reminds me of Pixie from SMT3,

a super strong partner who if you choose to invest into becomes an elite tier. My question to you is, can you think of any other game we're keeping the low-level weakling until the end produces a super strong character. Just recently, we're playing dispatch, and Project Giridose, right? Waterboy, you hang out with Waterboy, you keep him around, and he goes from being this really, like, weak, annoying character

that assigns himself to missions that you don't want him on, and you can't remove him, except for, like, just the first time or whatever, and then eventually that shit grows to being a dude that adds stats to the highest stat on the call and heals everybody else that he's out there with and becomes an incredible partner. But it's fucking water boy. Yeah. He rules. Someone said the plasma cutter from Dead Space One.

That's ridiculous. It's the best gun right when you start. It's got to suck first. I'm thinking about dragons dogma. I'm thinking about rusted weapons. and rusted weapons have like terrible stats, but they do eventually unlock bleed. But more than that,

they inflect a status called torpor, which makes whatever enemy you hit with it move at 50% speed. So they move in fucking super slow motion. So it's fucking incredible to put on one of your pawns because a fucking boss that just moves in fucking permanent slow motion

is fucking unbelievable. But wait, how does this suck at first? It has terrible stats. No damage. Okay. Okay. And then over time you, okay, I see. Yeah.

They inflict poison and bleed and torpor. And it's just like, wow, the boss has just been turned off. It's fucking great. Not exactly the same answer, but like, I mean, that fucking X-Buster and Mega Man X is that's the shit. Like, it's another one of those. Yeah, it's good stuff, man. Rock that the whole time. Yeah.

Okay. There you go. That'll do it. I'm tired. Oh, my goodness. Oh, boy. Old man, go take a nap. I might take a nap. I might. Have a good day, everybody. But also remember, Delta Room tomorrow morning.