Castle Super Beast - SBFC 046: You Are Now Breathing Manually

Starting point is 00:00:00 We're really close to the Zontan. That's cool. Oh, that must have been it. It's like she wasn't following you, and then she was like, oh, I'm sorry, you should have been following Zontan for a lot longer. Oh. You know. Yeah, so fan.

Starting point is 00:00:29 So it's the true fans who remember. It's really weird because like the line between who's zone and who's Zontan is so blurry. It's like, how filthy are the tweets to be appropriate? They're probably fine. That was one of the worst sentences. You are falling apart. You're not the only one who hasn't been sleeping. And no, I have not slept.

Starting point is 00:00:52 It's a busy day. But we are here doing episode 46 of our podcast. Oh, you tricked me. You tricked me again. I got you. I didn't know. Despite the fact that the little things are moving up and down on my monitor. You didn't know.

Starting point is 00:01:05 It's the little things moving up and down on your monitor. That's why you're still scratching your dick. That's why it's... Oh, well, Liam's trying to bring it back. He's trying to bring it back. He's turning the beat back. Trying to bring it back. I had to start to have a talk.

Starting point is 00:01:17 I squirmed. I squirmed. I squirmed so hard around like eight dick joke titles last week to get the one I got. I love how we are listening out of the podcast game. Like, locally for two weeks, but he stepped right back into it. He's coming back in. He's coming back in. Get back in the ring.

Starting point is 00:01:34 It's like we're all working. You're not done yet. It's a weird sleepy podcast. I'm not sleepy at all. Bulley and I haven't been able to sleep at all. Nope. It's 3 in the morning for you right now, Liam. I woke up at 2 a.m. this morning, refreshed and awake.

Starting point is 00:01:47 And I've been... What time is it? It's 4. It's 4? I've been up for like 14 hours now. Sick. And I'm like... That's not too bad.

Starting point is 00:01:55 But you wake up at like what time? 2? Yeah. Like 5? Yeah. So like... Let's wait till later time and we'll see how Liam's holding up. Yeah, we'll see how Liam's holding up.

Starting point is 00:02:03 Hey, welcome back for Nippon, man. Thank you. Thank you. What was it? Glorious. It was very glorious. Much more glorious. Good job escaping the watch.

Starting point is 00:02:12 I'm happy to be brought back in glorious kind of. The grudge was scary. They tried to get you while you were getting on the plane. They don't want you to go. And the little girls there are all... I've said this before. It's weird. I think when we played the grudge game, the grudge was bullshit because it's the only

Starting point is 00:02:23 ghost that's like, I'm going with you. Yeah. Like if you're going to my house and you go to your apartment building as security, I'm getting in. I'm there. Well, what would you rather deal with on a plane? The grudge or the Tower of Grey? Tower of Grey.

Starting point is 00:02:37 Tower of Grey. Yeah. You're supposed to kill that guy. Not without a stand, you can't. Well, whatever. Tower of Grey will kill me like that. Instantly. The grudge will terrify me.

Starting point is 00:02:47 Oh. And they will kill me. Oh. Look at the course of many days. It's also like a 10 hour trip. So I would hate to be terrified for nine and a half hours and die again. It's also not clear. Where's Tower of Grey?

Starting point is 00:02:58 We'll just kill you. Yeah. And the grudge is two strikers. Yeah. It has the little boy and a cat too. Yeah. Like, strike guy. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:03:07 They jump in. I had a serious problem with the grudge rule set. Yeah. Like ghost rules state, I go into your house, your job is to get me out of your house. Or something bad will happen to me. But the grudge is just you came in my house. Fuck you forever. Well, you're fucked while you're in my house.

Starting point is 00:03:26 You're fucked if you're waiting for the bullet train. Guess what? It's a grudge. Yeah. Yeah. That's where they get you. No. Right there.

Starting point is 00:03:35 Oh yeah. I mean, wow, you learn super good over in Japan. He knows stuff now. I'd pick the grudge though because like, you're an idiot. Like long-haired, like Sadako types, don't scare me. I'm not terrified at all of them. It'll kill you. I guess.

Starting point is 00:03:48 Just not. You guess. I've seen every grudge with the plane window. They kill you. Like there's no sense or price. You know, but like a creepy fucking fly would just be like, ah. You can't see it. Your head just explodes instantaneously.

Starting point is 00:04:03 You don't know what's happening. Yeah, I guess. It just seems way less threatening. Yeah. You know. A bug, yeah. No. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:04:13 It's an invisible bug. Long-haired Sadako types. Anyway, anyway. Don't you mean Samara? Yeah. No, you're doing Sadako, which is the ring. I know. The grudge is high up.

Starting point is 00:04:26 No, that's why I said types. Yeah, you're fair enough. Fair enough. Because there's a whole family of girls that do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They hang out. They go on picnics. No, they do.

Starting point is 00:04:36 There's a lot of hair in the food though. They have long-haired ghost girl mixers. Yeah. And there's like spritzy drinks. Yeah. So who are you haunting this week? Tell me, tell me. Oh, boy.

Starting point is 00:04:48 There's a couple other kind of shit. I said I'm a video camera. It's hilarious. Then that douchebag invisible ghost from fucking paranormal activities comes in and they all just yell at him. It's a demon though. No one wants to hang out with that guy. It's a demon.

Starting point is 00:05:01 It's not a ghost. That's a demon. I thought for sure it was a ghost. I know. It looks like it's the behavior of the ghost in the movie. They're like, oh, it's a fucking demon. Oh, great. Step it in powder and shit.

Starting point is 00:05:10 What a loser. Anyway, I came back from Japan, bought you guys a bunch of gifts. You fucking brought the coolest shit. Liam brought me the Shik Mikasa set, which is like- It's a razor for your face. It's a razor for your face, but it's got like Mikasa doing a jumping slash and it's like she's going to shave your face too. Right.

Starting point is 00:05:32 Because that's what the ad was. All the little blade recharges came with a little chibi figure of each character. That's awesome. And in fact, I'm the only disappointing thing is that you can't stock the replacement blades in her 3D maneuver gear. Yeah. That would be the final blow. It's so pretty cute.

Starting point is 00:05:46 As well as these little like All You Need Is Kill slash Edge of Tomorrow book things. Sampler books for the manga. One of them is for Billy though. Is Edge of Tomorrow actually just called All You Need Is Kill in Japan? Yes, it is. Oh, that's awesome. I know. That's cool.

Starting point is 00:06:01 The marketing for it and it actually says it right there. Yeah. It just says like Japanese concept with Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise. You like that? Yeah. Yeah. I like it.

Starting point is 00:06:10 I like it. viral, viral, viral. Why would you write the character's name? There's some really some cool little like Jojo stuff here. The Jojo PS2 games. You want to tell what those games are? There's the Jojo. Okay.

Starting point is 00:06:23 Well, I mean, there's what's clearly the Jojo Phantom Blood PS2 game. It's even worse than CyberConnect. Yeah. You can't use. I doubt it. You'd be surprised. There is a Jojo Leon like pencil board it seems. Oh, it's a fucking sleeve thing.

Starting point is 00:06:42 Yeah. It's a sleeve for your dick. They're all the rage. Chicano. Dixie. Yeah. You put papers inside. You put paper holders.

Starting point is 00:06:50 Paper holders. What the fuck they're called. Okay. Okay. As well as a postcard with the Stardust Crusaders on it. And motherfucking PS1 classic underrated sleeper hit. What? Underrated sleeper hit.

Starting point is 00:07:07 Slap happy rhythm busters. The first 3D 2D fighting game. I thought that was Rumblefish. No. This was PS1. Countdown. This was the first fighting game that did 3D graphics on a 2D plane. And this game has like a kind of like a Jet Set Radio style character designs going on.

Starting point is 00:07:29 And when you land your super in it, you have to do a rhythm game. And for you get extra damage. Do you have to slap happy? You do have to slap happy. You have to bust all over it's rhythm. It's pretty sick. So slap happy rhythm busters is the thing that even if it didn't apply, Willie would always try to squeeze it in every fight or 2D episode.

Starting point is 00:07:45 I'm so, I know. I need to. I need to push it. I need to push it. I need to push it. I need to push it. I can get slap happy in there. Willie has like spoken to me about this game a handful of times since I like first met him.

Starting point is 00:07:58 But it's been one of those games where it's like it's impossible to get. It's so impossible. And then when I went to Japan, there was 3 games I was looking for. Zangekino Regenle. Thank you by the way. A lot of slap happy rhythm busters for you. And Pepsi Man for myself. Of course.

Starting point is 00:08:11 The only copy of Pepsi Man I found was 80 bucks. That's bullshit. Pepsi Man's a hero on a runner. Damn, damn, damn. He's a hero for thirst. He's a hero and he's surprisingly delicious and refreshing. I will say this. If any of you guys have an affinity towards bust a move,

Starting point is 00:08:26 then you'd probably like what's going on in slap happy rhythm busters. But yeah man, that's a pretty sweet haul there. And I noticed you got some special Kit Kats going on. Yeah, I brought us some Kit Kats. I tried a couple different types in Japan. And my favorite was the Strawberry Cheesecake Kit Kat. Okay. Which if I don't say so myself...

Starting point is 00:08:46 That's bullshit. It doesn't make any sense because how is it a Kit Kat at that point? It just looks like a slag with a flavor. It's just a Flavor. Yeah, with chocolate over it I guess. And uh... That's the sound of unwrapping things. That's the sound of cracking a box over it.

Starting point is 00:09:01 I bet that Japanese wrapping is really good. How many boss coffees did you try? A lot. I tried all the regular ones I could find here. Yeah, have some Kit Kats. Let's get the sound of eating into this microphone real good. That's what I'm trying to do. I tried all the varieties they had.

Starting point is 00:09:15 I can only take one bite of this though. Okay. Only one bite. Okay, well you didn't smell it first man. You're gonna smell it. I smell it. I'm gonna give it a bouquet. Smells weird.

Starting point is 00:09:29 Tastes like Pocky. A little bit. Tastes like Pocky. Tastes like Pocky, yeah. Wow. Not bad. Not bad. Not bad.

Starting point is 00:09:38 Interesting. That doesn't taste like a Kit Kat. Well... Ow! It's in Kit Kat 4. It just bounced off! Our Kit Kat net. Ow!

Starting point is 00:09:49 Okay, okay. They're not weapons. Eat more Kit Kats. You too, Matt. No! No, I don't want it. Oh my god. Hey!

Starting point is 00:09:57 I'm gonna dig those up later. Relax. A delicious battle of Kit Kats. You now have a bunch of strawberry cheesecake flavored Kit Kats behind your couches. And they'll soon be in someone's butt after they sit down in the couch. Yeah. I brought Pat back. I'll dig them up and give them to my brother.

Starting point is 00:10:13 You want to talk about what I brought you back? Yeah, so speaking behind the couch. Lane brought me back a couple things which are very nice. Thank you, Lane. You're welcome. I'll give you your present later. But I accidentally dropped one of the things he brought back, like, directly behind the least couch.

Starting point is 00:10:32 Where it will stay forever. And, like, we all had this moment of, like, oh. And then it was like, nah. Then no one did anything. Yeah, no. I mean, I was like, what'd you drop behind my couch? And I said, it's the Final Fantasy XIII interview novella, part one. And I said, oh.

Starting point is 00:10:46 Volume two. And then we continued conversing. So, Toriyama has decided that because they won't let him make more Final Fantasy XIII films, that he loves the cast, and you love the cast of Final Fantasy XIII so much. You do. You do. That he is just writing and canonizing fan fiction for Famitsu now. As fast as he can, yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:06 And there will be a three of these. And it's like, it's written interview style, which I think is the weirdest part. It's like, hey, Lightning, how do you feel about the Final Fantasy XIII series? I don't know. I don't know. I didn't read that. And it's, like, it's jarring. Why?

Starting point is 00:11:22 Stop. No. He tacked it up with one hand, basically. The greatest story of our time needs to be told and retold and then told again. The point where fucking FF X and Bravely Default separately outsold Lightning Returns is like the point where you're like, it's completely ignorable. Apparently, it's completely ignorable. You're right.

Starting point is 00:11:43 Yeah. What are we going to be looking at in the future where kids are growing up that don't know or never heard of Lightning? Like, what is going to be happening with the franchise at that point? It'll be a paradise. Oh, yeah. No, we haven't. Fair enough.

Starting point is 00:11:57 I think I made a similar joke like on last week's FOD. You did, you did, you did. It's an interesting observation because the problem is FF XIII was announced in 2006. These kids are almost 10 years old. We grew up with a bunch of different Final Fantasies. Yes. From zero to eight. If you're eight years old now and listening to this podcast.

Starting point is 00:12:19 If you were like even like nine at the time where you have that first cursory interest and maybe what Final Fantasy is, for the next eight years all you got was Lightning. You're like, that's what Final Fantasy is. Which is terrible and why Square Enix is in a shit situation. And this was that issue Nintendo had recently where kids aren't buying their games as much anymore. Right, right, right. And it's the same issue where the audience is growing up. Without training the kids to love Zelda.

Starting point is 00:12:43 Yeah. And now they're going to do it again. You got to get them young. I mean, like. Welcome. The industry growing is like. You're the hookshot. The industry growing is a reality that everyone's coming to terms with.

Starting point is 00:12:55 It's like there is a significant number of us that are just like we are the kids that grew up and we're still buying these games. Exactly. But the new kids want different shit. And you said how many handheld consoles you saw in Japan over the course of the trip. Over the entire trip I ended up seeing maybe 30. Which is. Not as much as you'd expect. Not as much as there should have been.

Starting point is 00:13:17 Zero on day one. Zero on day one to four. Yeah, so yeah. And like a billion gazillion, gazillion smartphones. And I always peered over everyone's shoulder. See what they're playing. See if they were playing and what they were playing. And it was always puzzle and drag.

Starting point is 00:13:31 The puzzle and drag. The online Pocopan which is the other really high. It looks like if you're in Japan and you want to make console games you better make them in English. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So brain thought. Did you catch anyone playing those fucking scam games that are all like paid to get their

Starting point is 00:13:49 returns and shit? Oh, like fucking Mabagi. Yeah, the services that you sign up for. I didn't really because. Okay. The most popular ones. Okay. Everyone's shoulder.

Starting point is 00:14:01 I'm sure some people would. I mean people buy Final Fantasy XIII Lightning returns. How much Mr. Sparkle did they sell in Japan? We got scammed by the scam game. How much Mr. Sparkle did they sell in Japan? And was it available in your home prefecture? Yeah, absolutely. Mr. Sparkle was the detergent of choice when I went to watch them.

Starting point is 00:14:20 Excellent. He boasts that he will banish dirt to the land of wind and both. I always think we get every line out of that and there's always one more. There's always one more. There's always one more. There's always one more. There's always one more. And you can do it.

Starting point is 00:14:35 They're all classic. Not a lot of death. That's for sure. Liam, how was your week? It was good. I'm going to talk about everything I did. I believe like it's all kind of a blur. How much did Geisha's cost?

Starting point is 00:14:47 It's the Tommy Jacob one of those things that she did. And how much do they charge to create your ears? I may have recorded a bit with the Tommy Jacob. I don't think you did because I would be viciously stealing that footage from you right now. Well, anyway, not the person, but a DVD maybe. Okay. The Q-Tip Geisha's are the ones that you really love to find. Oh, I saw.

Starting point is 00:15:05 You found them? One of those. Oh, not going anywhere near this place. I can go for some Q-Tipping. Oh, I'm sure you could. Really deep. If you pay extra, you get your head on the lap. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:15:15 Looking to their eyes. No, I don't want to do that. No. No. Don't flinch yourself. See the lack of a soul. That's immoral. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:15:24 So it's all a blur, but I think I went and saw the Gundam this week. That may have been last week. That was really sick. It is huge and beautiful and super detailed. All the text is really nicely printed. Someone wanted to know if you ever made it out to the Ghibli Museum. Yeah. Last time.

Starting point is 00:15:40 Yeah. Last weekend. Yeah. It was the first time I went to Japan, so I didn't really feel the need to go again. Right. I went to a couple indoor amusement parks, played a bunch of arcade games. Gunslinger straight-ups. Fucking.

Starting point is 00:15:54 Fucking. Fucking. It is way better than you expect, and I'm not trying to rub it in, but it is way better than you expect. Rub it in real good. Defining game that is like, yeah, arcades still have a place. Here they are. You can't do that at home.

Starting point is 00:16:13 It would cost $200 for peripherals of that quality. Okay, so just walk me through it. You're dual-wielding. You're dual-wielding light guns. Changing the position. And they both got sticks on them, and they got a couple buttons for jump and dash. And then you can put the guns on top of each other. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:16:30 Or to the side of each other. And they have these magnets, so they click. They click together. They forcefully move into the right spots when they get near each other. Okay. And it feels really good and satisfying. Man, that is some Sentai shit. Well, what I'm thinking of in my head is like you're standing there doing Dante's million

Starting point is 00:16:46 bucks. Oh, it's good to say. That sounds like it's fucking doing it. You're just fucking doing it. Turning around, double-wielding, you know? You have to be cool enough, though. It's not just like railgunning. You run and jump in these arenas, and you move into that space and you look around and stuff.

Starting point is 00:17:02 And you have these sticks on the guns or controlling the camera. Because you want to rotate the camera. And you hold jump as high as you want. Yeah. If you were to go to Japan, we could have a Wuli versus Daigo round. Yeah, in Gunslinger. I know. I know.

Starting point is 00:17:17 Because the thing is, the jumping in that game reminds me of Legend of Kage. I haven't seen jumping like that since that fucking game. It was exactly the same. I didn't explore it too deeply, but it felt like it was exactly the same. You hold as high as you want to go. Motherfucker. It was great. I played Operation Ghost, which is the scene of the Ghost Squad.

Starting point is 00:17:34 Yeah, you did. Oh, man. That is way better than Ghost Squad. Does it have all the ladies with the kinis in it? No. Probably one of the best light gun games I've played. Really, like, high production values. You play the same, like, cheeseball characters from Ghost Squad.

Starting point is 00:17:48 The game just feels good. Now, Liam, do me a favor and don't tell me that... And so I was walking down, and I just saw that there was Virtual Cop 4. That was just new, and nobody knew about it. No one touched it. Well, I did play Virtual Cop 4, no, I didn't. Because I remember going to an arcade at my local arcade back where I used to live, and I just walked in, like, in, I want to say, in 2006.

Starting point is 00:18:12 And Virtual Cop 3 was just there. I was like, where did this come from? This is so amazing! When you told me about it, like, three years later, yeah, you lived in Virtual Cop 3, and I was like, yeah, yeah, as if they'd never make that. And you're like, no, they made it. I was like, yeah, right. I got the idea that Virtual Cop 4 exists somewhere, but I can't...

Starting point is 00:18:30 But you can't play it, yeah. It's like, it's your Gunslinger Stratos thing. Yeah. It's sitting right next to Time Crisis 7. Yeah. No, but Operation Ghost, I know who that existed, and that was awesome. I played a lot of Project Eva Arcades. Yeah, you did.

Starting point is 00:18:44 Like, you can't play that anywhere else. You jump out of any windows? No. Yeah, I'm off! That video gets me every time. It's the fucking best. But you got your Lifetimes fill of... Not Lifetimes, but a couple hours.

Starting point is 00:18:56 Alright, you're good for your good fill. I played the Puzzle Dragons Arcade game, played a couple odd other ones. Any of those big, like, card table games? Those, I love them, because you know I love card games. Yeah. I cannot rationalize buying a good enough amount of cards to play it for, like, a few days. Days tops, right. Because by the time I come back, you'll be the next one.

Starting point is 00:19:18 Otherwise, you'd have to get enough cards for, like, five people. Yeah. Like, here's the game, everyone! It would only cost me, like, $15 or $20, but it would still be like, I'm going to play this, like, three times while I'm here. I'm not... I'm going to have a hard time understanding, because there's so much. I'm going to be on a timer, because it's an arcade game.

Starting point is 00:19:35 Of course. And then I'm never going to get to use it ever again. But you spectated the shit out of that. I spectated for, like, a good, like, hour total. Super entertaining. Okay. Okay. What's the smoking level currently in Japanese arcades?

Starting point is 00:19:46 High. High. But some floors have, like, no smoking. Oh, fantastic. But not the fighting game floors. It's a part of the fucking culture. I played Guilty Gear Excerd. You played Excerd?

Starting point is 00:19:56 Yeah. My first 100 yen coin was the most vicious assault by a CPU I have ever experienced. I got fucking, like, massacred the first time. You were thinking of asking for a refund? It was... I felt almost... Because, like, it was doing, like, 14, like, to 20 hit combos on me. And you weren't bursting?

Starting point is 00:20:16 No, I was bursting. It was just better. And I didn't know my moves at all. It took me a few plays to, like, actually get into a groove. I was playing as Chip. Okay. And who fought you? Various.

Starting point is 00:20:29 Oh, okay. No other players. Guilty Gear's life. It's just a CPU. There was, like, three cabinets. It was just a CPU. It was just that good. How's the look, though?

Starting point is 00:20:37 It's beautiful. It's beautiful. Granted, the screen on the cabinet wasn't the best. It was a Guilty Gear Excerd screen. It was some other... That's pretty quick. But, like... You had to have already done that.

Starting point is 00:20:47 But Ed Boon, Gerst, everybody's just saying, like, you see this in person, and it's like, they're working magic with the Unreal Engine. Oh, it looks way better in person than it does in a video. I have to say, when you're playing it, because you don't even think about watching it, you're just playing it. And, like, so many people are even doing stuff, like, giving you instructions on how to watch Guilty Gear Excerd gameplay in 60 frames per second on YouTube. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:08 Like, you have to use a specific browser, and you have to put up the speed. And, when you watch it regularly, the game that they uploaded is, like, molasses slow. Yeah, you need to... So you have to zoom up the speed in another browser? The Internet is not working. You use Chrome, and you use the fast forward, and you record... Yeah. When you spit out your own footage, you record it at 30 frames a second at half speed.

Starting point is 00:21:32 At half speed. Oh, my God. And you have to double it. Yeah. And then you just make it twice as long. Exactly. I played a bit more Ultra, and, like, it was good. It was good.

Starting point is 00:21:42 There was a lot of back and forth. There was one, like, really God-like Ryu player who was not Daigo, but really good Ryu player. Yeah, no. There would be. And there was this one old man who had, like, gray white hair, who was at least in his 50s. Beyond salary, man. And he sat down, and I'm like, I don't know if this guy's going to be any good. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:22:02 Fucking kicked my ass. Of course he did. Oh, my God. He was amazing. Oh, no, his dad. He was playing Zangief. Awesome. Yeah, he was.

Starting point is 00:22:10 And I'm like, okay, I'll at least get some. But, like, he would draw combos early and back dash. So, like, yes, SPD to get him would whiff. And then he greenhand me and just come in. And I'd be like, who the fuck you? Dude sits down and he was like, who's this OG sign, you know? No, he was really good. Nice.

Starting point is 00:22:28 I played, like, a bunch of... I lost a lot of money to him. It's 100 yen for loss, you know? At least it's three of five. What is that, like, $10? That's, like, $20. Okay. Stop.

Starting point is 00:22:39 I'm not good at it either, but you keep insisting that you know how to do this. He went home and he told his grandkids that he defended Japan's honor that day. Oh, he did. Yeah. No, he did a good job. It was good, though. I had a lot of fun in the arcades. I wish they existed here.

Starting point is 00:22:57 Nice. Okay, okay. Lost tears. I ate so much curry. I love Japanese curry. Like, after the bad place, you find some more good places? Oh, yeah. Tons of good places.

Starting point is 00:23:06 Like, there was one shit restaurant. And then there was a Chili's, Texas meal in the Calgary airport that made me want to fucking throw up halfway. Oh, of course. Would you go to America Town for dinner? No. Oh, why would you not go to America Town? You're in Japan.

Starting point is 00:23:20 Why didn't you go to cable to town? To eat Japanese food. Okay, I'm fascinated that at all the American restaurants, one of the menu items that they always put, like, in the front, because you know how they have, like, plastic food items in the front? Yeah. Is the burger tower. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:33 And I look at that and I'm like, who? Does that exist in the States? Like, do they sell that in the States? No. Do they sell that in the States? I don't think so. And then I look up and I realize that all the waiters are wearing cowboy hats and bandanas and I'm like, you know what?

Starting point is 00:23:43 Yeah. And they turn around and there's plastic guns littering the restaurant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what? I'm just going to leave that. Um, the curry places, is it spicy curry or is it just like... It's kind of spicy, yeah. Okay.

Starting point is 00:23:56 But the stuff that you were getting is usually like just flavored curry, right? Yeah, definitely. Okay. I love Japanese curry, though. It's great. I love curry in general. Sure. Oh, no.

Starting point is 00:24:05 It's so good. It's so good. Pour it all over. Matt. What's up? Matt, what'd you do? Uh, this weekend I shopped for a bunch of stuff that I don't normally would shop for. It sounds like...

Starting point is 00:24:17 Don't normally would shop. Don't normally would shop. This sounds like adult shit. No, it's sandals because sandals are for losers. You should be talking to the king over here. I didn't want to... William the Sandal God. William the Sandal God.

Starting point is 00:24:28 Hey, they're fucking comfy. No, they're not. They hurt your feet. Not my feet. My feet are... Not my normal adult-sized feet. Like, Liam walks around just like touching people's bare feet and sandals appear on them. He's like, go much higher.

Starting point is 00:24:41 No, he's like, he's not. He's the sandal Jesus. Yeah. I would never push that on anyone, but like, they're comfy. But sandals... What do you want me to say? Like, they're shit, but they're comfy. Sandals, water guns, and a bunch of swimming trunks because I'm taking my girlfriend to

Starting point is 00:24:58 Cuba for a week for her birthday because she hates... Does she know about this? Yes. Okay. So this is something interesting because Americans can't do this. Yeah. Americans cannot do this. We can go to Cuba.

Starting point is 00:25:11 Well, they can do it if they go to Barbados or something first. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Something like that. You can't go to Cuba directly from America. Because of the Cuban Missile Crisis. And the bad relations between the two. Americans are hated. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:25:24 So you have to go, what, to Cuba? If you go to another country first and then fly there. So you just... So if you're in Florida, you have to make a connecting flight to Cuba. And in general, there's... Can you just walk? Yes. But also...

Starting point is 00:25:40 Mask Mr. Alien. But also, like, there's like a, you know, anti-American sentiment down there as well. So it's like, hey, we're in Canada, we're not in America, they let us in, no problem, apparently. Trade embargo. So we have like an all-inclusive thing, so everything is included. Yeah. That makes sense.

Starting point is 00:25:57 Uh, July 31st, so... Time to fuck up the channel starting August 1st, everybody! The only thing that sucks is that I might miss something in Fantasia Film Festival. Possibly. They haven't announced dates for certain movies, but they're having, like, I talked a little bit about this, they're having the premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy. We're fucking getting in there. Really?

Starting point is 00:26:17 We're getting in. Yeah. Okay, I have money in my wallet. If I give you money in my wallet right now... That doesn't, that's not the way it works. You have to do your part too. No, I don't want to. No, well then, whatever.

Starting point is 00:26:27 Just how money it really happened. I'm probably going to be there on moment one of like the website opening. Yes, on the website opening, because that's the only way to do it anymore, because in person... The line-up is not, it doesn't work anymore. Just get me my thing. I think that might go for the full pass this time. No, don't. I wouldn't...

Starting point is 00:26:45 Oh, the thing I got last week? Yeah, exactly. Oh, really? Honestly, like, if you're not going to see 15, and if there's not at least 15 guaranteed, 10 guaranteed... Yeah, I thought it worked out to like 10, not 15. No, no, you get to see everything. Yeah, but I thought it worked out to be a equivalent of 10.

Starting point is 00:26:59 Why yourself? And you get 20 tickets for your friends. Yeah, yeah. So I spread them between my girlfriend and Woolly, because she only wanted to see like eight things, only wanted to see as many as he could. Yeah, but like, you gotta see the book first. Oh, no, no, I had sworn it was like only the equivalent of like 10 movies or something, so it wasn't so hard.

Starting point is 00:27:16 I think there's some other... Because even last year, we saw like 10 movies. We saw, yeah, well I usually see a ton of them. And the thing is, is that there was a 10 movie deal originally where it was like, you pay for 10 and you get like way more than that, but this is replacing that deal. Oh, okay. That's what's going on. Oh, okay.

Starting point is 00:27:34 Matt. I'll read the fine print. Matt, that's pretty romantic by the way. Yeah. A bunch of friends that went to Cuba, a couple of tips in general. Just stay away from Galvez. Stay at Mother Base if you can. Right, right, there you go.

Starting point is 00:27:48 My game also means peace. You're going to... At? You're at the resort places. Like you're going to be given like a friend that's like assigned to you. No, no, no, no, no. Right? Because my girlfriend knows about that shit.

Starting point is 00:28:06 And that there's also people that are hired to hang around with you. Yes, planners. Yeah, and then they're like, there's resorts that happen, there's resorts that don't. We're going to one that doesn't. Okay. That shit is the most annoying thing. I thought there was a hire. Matt, you would love this.

Starting point is 00:28:19 Someone that's hired to just hang around and say, hey, you having a good time? Having a good time? I'd stab that person. Well, unless they would sell me drugs. And then what they do... They can't. Well, then what are they good for? They take you around to different places to go dance.

Starting point is 00:28:33 Let's go dance in a cave. Let's go dance in a bar. Let's go dance on a beach. Let's dance in that cave. Okay. In that volcano, let's go. Yeah, and then they say at the end... How about I stab you?

Starting point is 00:28:42 How about I pay you $100 to leave me alone? And the other thing is that there's two currencies. There's tourist money and then there's real money. There's Crusty Land Fun Box. Exactly. So you're only going to get the tourist money because you're not allowed to use the real money. If you do go to any restaurant or bar place that you plan to go to again, if you tip

Starting point is 00:29:02 the guy like a 20, he's going to be fucking like all over like... You own his sister now. You cover his month's pay. He's going to be the happiest dude. I put all of his kids through Cuba College. Yeah. Cuba College for medicine is apparently pretty damn good. So like those guys will legit be like I will hook you up with whatever you need.

Starting point is 00:29:21 Do you want me to suck your dick? Well, maybe not then. I promise I won't let you get your dick. Yeah. Hey. Hey. It's a problem. He's going with his girlfriend.

Starting point is 00:29:30 This is not the time to discuss sex tourism. I'll suck both your dick. I don't know, man. You ever look at Cuban in the eyes? No. They're pretty. I've never met a Cuban person. Oh.

Starting point is 00:29:38 Well. There you go. I saw Bad Boys 2 though. Yeah. You know what it does? It does. That movie had the stupidly hottest background women in the Cuban scene. Oh, Michael Bay.

Starting point is 00:29:51 Because on the eye chart at the top you've got Sillian Murphy and then you have Cubans. Then you got Liam. Then you get Liam with the baby blues. You know, then like Russian chicks. That hitler's clone. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Starting point is 00:30:08 Other than that, I saw Edge of Tomorrow. Fucking awesome. There you go. I really, really enjoyed it. My girlfriend hates Tom Cruise. And then she's like, I'll go see this for you. Thanks for inviting me. I guess.

Starting point is 00:30:19 Well, we all know that all of us win with our girlfriends. Why do you keep wanting to go in with us? Because I was there. Yeah. We were there. I'm going to go see that tonight. I'm just teasing you, okay? I know, but I like teasing back in that way.

Starting point is 00:30:35 I was like, this narrative that like, Pat's always like, thanks for inviting me to your mom's like. I know, but that's one of my favorite things ever because it's never not in really awkward. Because no matter how many times I do this, you're never going to be certain if I'm joking. Yeah, definitely. Usually you're not doing it well. You can always laugh midway, but like, yeah, the first initial time. Now, was she able to deal with Tom Cruise?

Starting point is 00:31:02 So at the end of the movie, like then I was just watching the movie because I was like, oh, this is fucking great. I'm not sure if you agree, but once Tom Cruise kind of loses his thing that he's got in the movie, it kind of, it kind of was like not. Does he lose his way? His mind? I was kind of not. He loses his way.

Starting point is 00:31:19 He's loses his way a little bit. He loses his ability in the movie. You shouldn't lose it. That's where I was kind of like, oh, I was used to this fast cutting and editing and the style. And then when it kind of slows down, I kind of felt that it slowed down, but still not bad. Like I loved it.

Starting point is 00:31:33 I always agree. I felt the tension rose because everything was that much more like, oh my God, the stakes rise high. I was thinking that too, but like, I just mean the pace of the movie just felt a little strange after that fast pace in the middle. Sure. But I wish there was an Angel of Verdun game now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:31:55 I really do. That has been sick. Because the thing for me is, I mean, you're still going to see it. You're going to see the way they handle it. See it tonight. I talked with Matt a lot about the differences earlier and like, there's some fucking differences. One thing though, like I definitely, I came out of there going like, fuck, I would have done that, that like ending sequence differently.

Starting point is 00:32:18 Because like without going into too much detail, the thing that's awesome is anytime you have something that plays with time, you go to a place where you don't follow the main characters, like vision through time, you have the camera focus on an area so that you see his attempts, one after the other in the same spot. So like when you finish the level in Meat Boy and you see the Meat Boy spread, that, I would have fucking loved something like that. That would have been cool. But I think it's like for any, like maybe a potential sequel, they'll put that stuff

Starting point is 00:32:51 in there. But that seems like awesome. But that's what I mean. A sequel for which? Yeah, yeah, I know. I know. I know. They can just spin it off.

Starting point is 00:32:59 Fuck you. Yeah. But that's exactly it. Time Force and Meat Boy, they do that thing where they're like, now the camera shows you all the attempts. And the kaizo hack. I fucking, I live for that shit. But how was the, what was the result?

Starting point is 00:33:13 She was like, that was pretty fucking awesome. Nice. She enjoyed it. Good, good, good. And I finished Hannibal season two, not gonna go too much, but since I'm like, I've read all the books and watched all the movies, this now that that show has kind of been like, whatever, we're stomping all over everything now. Because it was lead, I heard it was leading into Red Dragon and then they just swerve.

Starting point is 00:33:37 Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So for those that don't know Red Dragon, then Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon and then Hannibal. And Silence of the Lambs. Yeah. Hannibal's in prison, both movies. And in this, it's like the start of Red Dragon, but then they're like, Hannibal leaves the

Starting point is 00:33:54 US or something and he goes somewhere else and they're like, what, what does that fit into anything? Shut up though. Just grab the wheel, spin it. Still really good, still really good. And the last thing is that, I think it probably might, and the last thing is that there was a whole bunch of episodes of Portlandia I'd never seen, like the mayor just quits because he threw his printer out in the ocean and everyone like, you're not a green mayor.

Starting point is 00:34:23 And he's like, oh, quit and join a farm. So Roseanne Barr is then, is then put in as the mayor because the city hall of Portland just called a temp agency to fill in the mayor and Roseanne Barr comes in and she goes, this city doesn't work like a regular city. Where's the pee smell? So now she's got guys just throwing hot buckets of pee on the streets and saying there needs to be less dog stores because everywhere she goes, like those are some cute glasses and Carrie or Fred goes, oh no, that's, that's like glasses store for dogs and the dog always

Starting point is 00:35:06 walks out with like a huge pair of glasses and they keep playing this damn sound effect of like the most generic dog wolves ever, like it was like an amazing episode and I just like, I was like, I didn't, I must have added some more. Yes, the new season is being advertised. They threw it up there. They were fantastic. I was like, gotta get back up. Anyone again, you've not seen Portlandia.

Starting point is 00:35:25 Finish the wire before you continue. No. Okay. Why? Because there is an, there is a skit in Portlandia that I've discussed all of August. It's called Spoiler Alert. It's called Spoilers and they just go, wow, wasn't it nuts when blank character from the wire gets shot in blank?

Starting point is 00:35:44 Right, you mentioned this before and I like forgot about it. It's called Spoiler Alert. Okay, all right. And it's like, it's out of nowhere and you don't have time to stop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's too late. It's also, I forgot, Liam got the GunCon 2 so we can see if that works on any of our TVs.

Starting point is 00:36:01 No, you didn't get the GunCon 2. And the shooting. What, what was it? I brought him a GunCon 2 and some vampire arcade shooter. So then what's the name of the GunCon used for Gunslinger Stratos? No, this is the Namco gun that Namco made to work for TimeCrites. Yes. This guy doesn't know the GunCon.

Starting point is 00:36:19 But the GunCon... The Gun... It uses the, it's called the GunCon 2. No, it can't be because the GunCon 2 is by Namco. No, it's all fact check. Stop fact checking. The GunCon, of which I believe there are three of them. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:36:32 Namco thing. Yeah, it's a Namco purple. It might use the same technology. It uses, it uses it. I know it uses it. But I bought him a GunCon 2. Look at him, so cool. I'm not lying to him.

Starting point is 00:36:40 Oh, yeah, I bought him that and I got a bunch of games, like the simple 1500 series, Va Shooting. The shooting. The shooting. Which is sure to be special. That's such a good name. And a bunch of games, like Damn Damn Stompland. I don't know what that is, but we're going to look at it.

Starting point is 00:36:54 What is it though? I don't know, we're going to look at it. Will he stop checking fucking facts? Yeah. It's fine. No, it's not. The facts. Did you expose your wrongness?

Starting point is 00:37:05 No. I think it's... Oh, this is hot time. I think it's, I think it's like a GunCon 3. The GunCon 3. Yeah. Almost done it. Great.

Starting point is 00:37:14 GunCon 3. There we go. So, you were wrong. That's weird, because Square Enix publishes... Well, I guess when it comes to arcade hardware, it's like... We need a gun. In the way of that. Who made a gun?

Starting point is 00:37:25 Who made a gun? The tech from Namco. Dude, the Taito Type X2 engine was used for all 3D 2D fighters. SNK, fucking... What? SNK? Yeah, they used it on... Don't say fucking fail theory while ambition.

Starting point is 00:37:40 No, no, no, no, no, no. They used it on... Don't check facts. Whatever. Anyway, it's the basis for all the new arcade fighting games we get now. Street Fighter. And it all started with Battle Fantasia. Well, what I meant is like hardware in terms of like...

Starting point is 00:37:57 Periffs, right? Yeah, no, like they'll build it. They'll use it. They'll use another company's thing sometimes. It's expensive these days. Unreal Engine. We'll just use it. It's there.

Starting point is 00:38:08 It's expensive these days, kids. But yeah. Cool. That was my week. Pat? Yo, I read part 4 JoJo. Yeah. I read it really good.

Starting point is 00:38:16 Yeah, you read it in one sitting. I was talking to you on Wednesday night. And I was like, how did you read this? Where? How did you do this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like where? I had to describe my exact reading techniques.

Starting point is 00:38:29 Well, because he's like, I used the Wii U gamepad. I'm like, I have the Wii U gamepad. I'm like, ah, shit, fuck it. I'm gonna need to figure out something different. And then I read it for maybe an hour. I was like, wow, this goes. Yeah. I think it's like, wow, it moves in the early.

Starting point is 00:38:43 Just like dead, dead, alive, dead. FYI, just as a heads up, reading on the Wii U gamepad is the most comfy thing. I disagree. D-pad moves forward and backwards on the pages, on Betoto, and you just slide your finger and go. It's great. I disagree. I ended up using my PC and my keyboard with left and right on the arrows.

Starting point is 00:39:01 Yeah. But, and then I, when I woke up the next day, I just said, ah, I'll just read it. I like to imagine you fell asleep with your hands still on the keys and you woke up. No, I went to bed. I went to bed. I was reading time. I didn't say you weren't in bed. I was like, I don't know, like 14 hours.

Starting point is 00:39:20 Sure. Yep. Man, that's really good. Yeah. Man, that's really bizarre. Yeah. That's like. There you go.

Starting point is 00:39:28 Why didn't it venture? It's very clearly the first one after stands were created. Yeah. Because. That's not the one with gyro, is it? No. No. That's gyros eight.

Starting point is 00:39:38 Eight? I come away from that just like. No, seven, seven, seven. Yeah. It revolves around the fact that most of the stands are worthless. It's a story line that it takes full advantage of dumb, stupid stands that should suck. But if the situation is right. But if the situation is just right, they're amazing.

Starting point is 00:39:58 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like crazy diamond like as is the most plot, plot created item ever in that like it exists so we can fuck up all the characters and and heal them back to full in one panel. Okay. So crazy diamonds power is imagine like that's Josuke, right? It's the main main character stand. Its deal is it can heal. No, it reverts things back to their original state.

Starting point is 00:40:28 There you go. Yeah. That's a better way of putting it, right? Because if it damages you and beats the shit out of you, he can touch you and put you back to perfect health. But then you have to get smart with it and does shit like while we're fighting, I'm going to grab this this rock that was out on the sidewalk or whatever or like this chunk of whatever it was and we move over here and then I heal this and it's now a projectile

Starting point is 00:40:52 flying back to where it was and shit like that. And it gets it gets really, really so that you can have a panel in which Joe Joe's leg is melting off and you just go bam, he's done now. Yeah. Fantastic. Probably the weirdest thing was the relatively high involvement of older characters. Yeah. Like Joseph is Joseph from part two is in part three all the time.

Starting point is 00:41:21 But he's not the focus. We're in part four. It's very bizarre that several of the villains don't care about Josuke at all. They're just like, oh, that Joe Taro can fuck that guy because they know I super tough because they know it's really weird all the way to the end. It's like the final thing is not done by the story's own main character. It's done by Joe Taro. That's weird.

Starting point is 00:41:49 That's not entirely well, no, the last thing is done by the ghost. But because whatever, like it's a combination of things, but the most effective important parts were done by Josuke. Yeah, it's weird. Also creating a villain that like is so broken in like you're like, how do you, okay, the world was busted. How do we make it more busted in time? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:42:14 Yeah. Okay. Let's have a guy and just give him a stand that's completely automated. The stand has like three different things going on and it has three different separate versions. And one of them is just Groundhog Day. It's fucked, man. And yeah.

Starting point is 00:42:31 But it's a great like, there's a panel in that where they're explaining how it works and every main character's head is exploding in the frame. Like their brains are flying out. Because of the explanation. Yes. Okay. Like really? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:42:49 Really? That's what the stand does? That's bullshit. It does anything. It's not anything. It's a very specific set of things, but man, is it complicated. But that is nothing. I cannot imagine reading that with poor translation.

Starting point is 00:43:00 That is nothing, nothing compared to the part five. I know. I know. I've heard of her. There is a meme about- It just works. How does it work? It just works.

Starting point is 00:43:10 But you'll get there. But a lot of people are saying Pat that you need to go back and redo Wang because it's not gonna do it. It's a rite of passage. It's a rite of passage. You have to experience it. I read the Duang stuff just because I was like, how bad? And I haven't even read them in the answers real bad.

Starting point is 00:43:23 Because when you get to that panel where Yoshikage Kira is just like, ah, what a beautiful Duang. You feel it. You're like, yeah. I made it to that page. It feels good. No. You know?

Starting point is 00:43:36 You got that. You got that. What a beautiful Duang. No. Terrible, terrible. Amazing. Fantastic. I'm gonna look at a plate of spaghetti the same again.

Starting point is 00:43:47 Okay. That was the impetus. That was the moment that got me off my ass and just like, I need to read this right the fuck now. This second is when somebody sent me, I think it was on Twitter, it's like, have you read part four yet? And it, Jojo punches a plate of spaghetti because he thinks it's suspicious. Just to get it out there because the question is gonna flow in.

Starting point is 00:44:14 Favorite character from part four. From part four? And favorite stand. Character? Yeah. Not too much. Maybe Rohan. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:44:27 Probably Rohan. Okay. Rohan is pretty cool. He's an asshole but he's the best kind of asshole. Favorite stand? That's super tough. They went really, really weird on some of them. Probably Hamada's.

Starting point is 00:44:39 The lock. Because the lock is the most useless stand ever in that all it does is it puts a physical lock on your chest when you feel guilty. Yes, the guilt lock. Right. Right. And the scenario in which it plays out is that he tricks the dude's mom into feeling bad because of his like dirty shoes or something and then he stabs himself and throws the knife

Starting point is 00:45:04 into the hand of the son and the mom sees it and it's like, oh no, my son, how could he stab someone and she like falls over because the lock is so heavy and it's the most useless stand conceivable except in these narrow slice of circumstance which is really, really, really good. Okay. Cool. Cool. Part four is great.

Starting point is 00:45:29 I'm surprised you didn't say the electric tower. The fucking. I was going to say that. Yeah. So it's only the electric towers in part four. It is. It ended up being kind of like it wasn't as cool as I thought it was going to be. I thought, man, I liked it because of like how the guy learned how to like live in that

Starting point is 00:45:47 thing. Yeah, sure. But it's like, I don't know why, but I expected more of that situation and also full fledged acknowledgement of ghosts slash aliens. Yeah. Like no more because we have vampires. What the fuck's the problem? Here's ghosts.

Starting point is 00:46:02 Yeah. Ghosts are done. So many of them are real aliens and one of my favorite recreations of a dice game ever. Yeah. Yeah. There's nothing like seeing a pair of dice vomit on two hands. Anyway, it's bizarre as fuck, but cool. Honourable mention to Rock Paper Scissors kid.

Starting point is 00:46:21 There we go. Who's... Told you. Stupid, stupid gimmick stands. That's great. I love those gimmick stands. It's great. There's five out of a lot of gimmick stands.

Starting point is 00:46:30 Bullets. When's the guy at the bus? Mista. That's part five. He's my favorite from part five. He's the sickest. And I know you like Jiro as well. Jiro, steal ball run.

Starting point is 00:46:40 Yeah. He's fucking sick. You're gonna get that. Also, I should point out about part four, particularly with the way that I watch Phantom Blood and going through the anime, and I know enough about Stardust Crusaders, but part four is the time when, not Mura, God, Erickie, just decided, you know what, fuck it, I'm gonna have the guy with the electric guitar and he's just gonna say, my stand's name is Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Starting point is 00:47:04 This fucking rockstar, he uses his guitar and the stand goes into electrical things. Yeah, but it's... And his name is Red Hot Chili Peppers. But no, it's like, he's just fucking, it's a band name, like, here's my stand, Pearl Jam. Straight up. Straight up, doesn't care. Like, come on.

Starting point is 00:47:20 It's really good. It's ridiculous. Fantastic. I love it. Everybody who wants to should read it. It's done now. There you go. And the one thing you don't know about, there's a character I know you're gonna love called

Starting point is 00:47:31 Weather Report in part six as well. Oh, good. When you eventually... Yeah, that's Storm, right? It's the Storm guy. Yeah. That's so much better. Anyway.

Starting point is 00:47:40 Let's get into some news. Well, I can talk about what I did to him. No, fuck you. I forgot. I didn't do nothing. I've been waiting on Breaking News for, like, 20 minutes now. Yeah. Anything happened.

Starting point is 00:47:48 Breaking News. David Hader has just tweeted, guys, for the millionth time, I am not in Metal Gear Solid 5. I can't tell if you're... Oh, no, wait. He says, I am not in Metal Gear 5. Oh. It can be a trick.

Starting point is 00:47:59 It can be a trick. Wow. Wow. Is it? Confirm. Confirm. Confirm. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:48:07 No joke. Just not true story. No joke. Just not true story. Yeah. Fuck. Sorry, Willie. What did you do with your week?

Starting point is 00:48:15 Well, not much. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I know. We founded the Black Otaku Council on Twitter. You founded... Wait. Did you get the third guy? We got the third and fourth guy.

Starting point is 00:48:23 All right. Because here's what's up. So, it's you, Brendan Williams. Me and Brendan Williams. Okay. We need to extend it, the official nomination over to Richie Branson. Yeah, of course. Who does the Gundam rap and then the Granada rap and stuff.

Starting point is 00:48:36 And Richie replies and is like, yeah, I'm down, but only if we bring on MVP. The wrestler. Wrestler. Wrestler. Yeah. And MVP replies like, hell yeah, I'm in. So what are you guys going to be voting on? We're going to talk about important shit.

Starting point is 00:48:54 We're going to figure it out. What is important to Black Otaku? Well, like I said, the first order of business was... No, we are not that guy from Tenjo Tenge. Tenjo Tenge, yeah. Like I said, the first order of business was who's the OTP and kill the kill. And then the second order of business was can Black cosplayers wear straight wigs. And so we're going to work on it.

Starting point is 00:49:17 We're going to get to the point where we have motion. We're going to do the fucking... We're going to have a little we do. We do song. It's a lot of saying what exactly you're doing. It sounds like a plot. It's Obama. It depends on how he feels about JoJo.

Starting point is 00:49:36 I guess. But if anything, I'm just kind of blown away with like the one thing about Twitter I knew of but forgot was how instantly you connect to random other like people that are famous and shit. You connect to one guy, that's all it takes. That guy is connected to everyone else. Not just that, but like when I said like, oh, I really liked that She-Hulk comic. Someone just tweeted, hey, at Willy Wolves really likes the comic being written by dude.

Starting point is 00:50:05 And dude's like, who's this? Oh, where is the podcast? I'm sure he's very flattered. Thanks for the mention. Yeah. And I was just like, wait, what the fuck? And like suddenly we're talking. Hey, let's not forget what we were talking about right before this podcast went up.

Starting point is 00:50:19 Like in the earlier, earlier bits is the fact that somebody did that and now Zontan is following all of us on Twitter. Exactly, exactly. Yeah. I also forgot to mention last time. The important shit there, okay. That She-Hulk comic, by the way, one of the key factors is that the writer is a lawyer himself.

Starting point is 00:50:36 Is a lawyer? Yes. That makes sense, doesn't it? The reason you got into this whole comic because of the girl 19. Yeah. Absolutely. Because I was watching that video for her Godzilla review and she was like, Godzilla was great. And I was like, okay, I'm about to turn off the video because I thought that was the point

Starting point is 00:50:53 of the video. And she's talking about the She-Hulk comic. And I'm like, well, I just want this thing. I totally. But then I went to my comic book store and I was like, do you have this? And they were like, you might as well just wait for the trade. It's got like one more issue left. It's on, it's on sixes coming out soon.

Starting point is 00:51:06 Yeah, yeah, so. But no, like Dr. Doom's son gets, he comes over to America and goes like, I want a defect from Latveria. Like, I need you to defend me and get me papers to make me a full-fledged American. And Doom shows up in court like, fuck you. No. You know. Why does Doom need to show up to court?

Starting point is 00:51:25 Yeah, no, that's it. It's great. It's great. Sending a bunch of Doom bots just to grab your son and bring him back. That's literally what happens. I call that. And then She-Hulk's like, well, fuck, that's my client. You know.

Starting point is 00:51:39 I can't eat spaghetti tonight. Don't eat that spaghetti. So the other thing as well this week was besides like getting adjusted to the Twitters and stuff. I watched, obviously some more camera writer double. Yes. And there's a movie for it called Begins Night. Which is... On birth.

Starting point is 00:52:01 Because I was like, I thought God's God to Speed of Love was like the worst. And it's like, no, Begins Night is the worst. It's so dumb. But the movie itself is great. Because basically, you know how I kind of told you about the main characters? Like a detective and all that stuff. You get to watch the guy that he looks up to. That's like the Kamina of the series.

Starting point is 00:52:28 And this is now officially my favorite Kamen Rider so far that I've seen of all time. Kamen Rider Skull is... Did you say it's your double favorite? Yeah. No, totally. Kamen Rider Skull is the coolest fucking thing I've ever seen. Because that's a Kamen Rider named... Skull.

Starting point is 00:52:44 Skull. Yeah. And it's just like, take like... Right in my belly button. The design is picture like, don't whip it please. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.

Starting point is 00:52:54 Please. What did it mean first? Okay, we stopped. I loved it. See? Take Scolomania. Make it a mecca kind of costume. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:53:03 You know? And then put like the white scarf and like detective hang. Okay, well that's all you need. And you're fucking in there. You know? I really want to watch Gaim. Like, I really want to watch Gaim. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:53:13 Yeah. I mean, like I said, just realize it's ongoing, but... Oh, I don't care. Yeah. No. I want to watch it. Ever since I found out who was writing it, I'm super interested. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:53:24 No, totally. Having a good time with that. And I also, because it's a movie that links the double and the series that ended before that, which was Decade, I watched the end of this big, crazy story that I didn't follow. And it's, and it's Kamen Rider Decade, so it's literally the Kamen Rider that has all the other Kamen Riders from the previous decade coming in. Yeah. I saw Capitone.

Starting point is 00:53:47 I'm like, I know that guy, but oh God, what's going on here? It was, it was a big war. It was nuts. It was nuts, but it was, it was fun either way, you know? So that's going great. And yes, I have started P4. I am in the middle of... He did it.

Starting point is 00:54:02 The golden... In the middle of the golden... How's that full party control? Dude, if you didn't put that screen protector on, you might... Yeah, because I like the worst. In the answer, you feel it the hardest where... Hey! I beat the answer!

Starting point is 00:54:22 I beat the answer! You're sick! Yeah! Wasn't that not worth it? Complete. Not a complete waste of time, but fuck, it got really disappointing really slowly. Yeah, it did. And then...

Starting point is 00:54:33 That's the worst. Slow disappointment. Carrie just straight up turns into a huge bitch and you're like, is she heel turning? And then you're like, maybe? And then it's like, no, she just really was being an ass. Okay, sure. Yeah. Um, wow.

Starting point is 00:54:48 You feel that fucking not controlling your party system thing so hard there. Because Metis is exactly like Mitsuru and... Hey! Maren fucking Maren! Kill me! And then what's the fucking, like, like death? Maren... Death is not a hunter on notes to its prey.

Starting point is 00:55:06 Fucking game over, you're done. Because you can't tell them to heal you. Or you set it to, like, knock down. Or you set it to heal and it just goes, no, I'm not gonna listen to you. I'm not gonna do that. Exactly. Fuck that! That's what it's like hanging out with your friends in the dungeon.

Starting point is 00:55:21 So, yeah, P4G. You look hurt. You know, loving that. Loving that. Here's a question I want to know. Really beautiful. Just assets and music and everything. So that's overwhelmingly beautiful.

Starting point is 00:55:34 So that's what I wanted to ask you about. Because I have known for a while that you once heard pieces of the P3 soundtrack, like five years ago. And immediately went, yeah, this soundtrack! And when I told you that the P4 soundtrack is considerably more, like, rock, pop, jazz-focused, you were, like, kind of disappointed, like, right off the bat, that it wasn't, like, hip-hop or electronic-like P3. So how do you feel about that now that you've immersed yourself in the soundtrack? Well, I've gotten used to the P4A soundtrack, so I'm totally in there anyways.

Starting point is 00:56:06 I know it. If anything, the only thing I'm, like, I'm a bit disappointed that, like, because I haven't gone through P4 original, I'm not hearing Battle Hymn. Sure. What's the full name of the theme? The battle theme. Reach out to the truth? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:56:20 I'm not hearing it as often because you'll hold out, you'll face out, you'll reach out to the truth of your life. There you go. Because I guess P4G just mixes in the other songs more often. No, here's the deal. Reach out to the truth. What is a fantastic song? It is slightly too repetitive.

Starting point is 00:56:37 You kind of get a bit too used to it. Oh, okay. Reach out to the truth. It had a weird shelf life where it's like, hour one to ten, this is pretty good. Hour to ten to twenty, getting a little old. Hour twenty to forty. Hour forty to hundred. Y'all, this song is the best ever.

Starting point is 00:56:58 Hour thirty to forty, when you're fed up of it, you are singing along to the first words and you hate it. Yeah. So they decided, okay, we may have, it's a little too poppy catchy, so then they have the new one, which is Time to Make History. Yeah. Which is considerably, it's a little blander, a little better as a basic battle theme. But it brings them up.

Starting point is 00:57:19 You hear, reach out to the truth when you get a sneak attack. Oh, okay. Because I noticed I got it a couple of times, but it wasn't consistent. So that's cool. And they also added a bunch of more boss themes in it. Nice. But I didn't. They're also Marie, if you didn't notice.

Starting point is 00:57:33 Right. There are just as many custom boss themes in that game as the regular boss theme is used. Yeah. Mass Destruction didn't wear out on me. No, it didn't. Mass Destruction is a more consistent song than Reach Out to the Truth. Yeah. No.

Starting point is 00:57:51 It's like, this is good. This is good. This is good. This is great. Whereas Reach Out to the Truth, Reach Out to the Truth, I feel like its job was to show how different it was. And the other thing too is I'm looking through the game, like with a fine tooth comb, trying to pick out what was an improvement for Golden and what wasn't.

Starting point is 00:58:07 It's too much. You'll never find it. Sure. Because you're going from FES. You're not even going from P3P. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:58:15 So the jumps are like, you don't even have to walk anywhere if you don't want to. Just fucking press the square button, you know? Yeah. And just press the square button. Like everything. Okay, here's one that wasn't in P4. People now have little icons above their heads when they have quests. Ah.

Starting point is 00:58:30 Which they did not have. Okay, cool. One that they, the biggest one that they didn't have in P4 is skill selection upon fusion. Yes. Oh, once again, dude screen protector. Like, oh my god. I can just put that. I can just, I can just, I can just make whatever OP monster I want.

Starting point is 00:58:49 You don't have to mass circle, circle, X down, down, X circle, circle, X down, down, X looking for the right combination of fuck. See, you're lucky. You got on the SMT bandwagon at the right time because now all games going forward are not, are going to be like this. Yeah. Like people, people who play an old, people who started the series went through like 20 years or less, depending when you started, of you don't get to choose your skills. And when that main character dies, go fuck yourself. Game over.

Starting point is 00:59:15 So that's the, the main character thing still in P4, but for in SMT4 onwards, they decided, you know what? Maybe you shouldn't die when the main character just takes a bad hammer skill to the face. Yeah. And the, and the only other thing I'm noticing is man, that lower camera in dungeons and like enemy increased vision cone, it's way harder to sneak up on people. Yeah. And also there's a lot more, it's a lot more straight corridors rather than like open rooms. Open rooms.

Starting point is 00:59:43 Yeah. And the door, oh, there's a chest. But like I saw a gold thing and I'm like, I can't sneak up on it. No, you have to chase it. It won't turn around. You have to chase it and then eventually we'll hit a wall and fall over. Okay. Then you get it.

Starting point is 00:59:56 Okay. Yeah. No, good times. That intro, like I, How far are you in there? I'm in Yukiko's castle. Okay. Good.

Starting point is 01:00:04 Yeah. That's the hardest boss in the game. Cool. The first boss, the hardest boss in that game. I'd say arguably so. All right. I'm going to call it, like my girlfriend's eyes glazed over at that intro because that's just

Starting point is 01:00:15 It's so beautiful. And that like harmonica. Everything. Yeah. Yeah. Colors. Colors. Colors.

Starting point is 01:00:23 Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors.

Starting point is 01:00:55 Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. He's so kind of musical. To. To.

Starting point is 01:01:03 To. To. To. To. To. To. To. To.

Starting point is 01:01:11 To. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors.

Starting point is 01:02:08 Colors. Colors. Colors. Caut gaining some people's rights. Caut gaining some people's rights. Colors. Colors. Colors.

Starting point is 01:02:24 authoritarian. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors.

Starting point is 01:03:12 centers. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors. Colors.

Starting point is 01:05:20 Colors. Colors. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours.

Starting point is 01:05:28 Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours.

Starting point is 01:06:24 Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours .

Starting point is 01:06:40 Colours. Colours . Colours. Colours . Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours.

Starting point is 01:06:48 Colours . Colours. Colours . Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours .

Starting point is 01:06:56 Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours. Colours. Colours . Colours .

Starting point is 01:07:04 Colours . Colours . Horses . Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours.

Starting point is 01:07:20 Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours. Colours . Colours .

Starting point is 01:07:28 Colours. Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours. Colours . Colours. Colours .

Starting point is 01:07:36 Colours . Colours. Colours. Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours. Colours .

Starting point is 01:07:44 Colours. Colours . Colours . Colours. Colours . Colours. Colours. Colours .

Starting point is 01:07:52 Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours .

Starting point is 01:10:01 Colours . Colours . Colours . colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours .

Starting point is 01:54:14 Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours , Colours . Colours . Colours .

Starting point is 02:03:41 Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . running.

Starting point is 02:39:33 Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colours . Colour .

Starting point is 02:45:07 Colours . Colours . Colours .

Castle Super Beast - SBFC 046: You Are Now Breathing Manually

We get into some Jojo talk, Persona talk, Kamen rider talk, and the troubled times of Ubisoft and Nintendo. Also, hooray for irrational fears!...

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.